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Although they [[One -Scene Wonder|only appear as comic relief]] in the movies, the penguins have proven to be [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkhorses]] to the point that they received their own show, ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' and a recently announced solo movie. After all, [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Penguins]].
 
Note that this character sheet applies only to the TV series canon. For tropes related to the characters in the movie franchises, go [[Madagascar (Animation)/Characters|here]].
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Tropes associated with Skipper:
* [[Afraid of Needles]]: In "Needle Point," he goes well out of his way to avoid getting a shot.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type III]]. A lethal [[Anti -Hero]].
* [[Badass]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Okay, so he doesn't go berserk, per se, but Skipper really doesn't like it when you call him fat, or any of its synonyms. He likes to claim it's muscle.
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* [[Dope Slap]]: Used often on his comrades. Sometimes all three in one swing.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: He occasionally makes less-than-complimentary remarks towards mammals. He especially dislikes humans.
* [[Four -Temperament Ensemble]]: The Choleric.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Technically the penguins are the heroes of the series. ''Technically.''
* [[The Hero]]: Occasionally, though, he and the others ''do'' come off as [[Jerkass|jerks]], but they almost always save the day in the end.
* [[ItsIt's All My Fault]]: Done twice. The first time was when he poked a hole in Julien's bouncy house causing him to lose his crown; the other, when one of the chimps causes him and the penguins to spin out and loss a race to the lemurs. In the latter episode, also he accepts full responsibility despite the fact he did nothing that caused it. He even said they would have his resignation in the morning because of his shame and guilt.
** [[Never My Fault]]: The one time it was his fault, he pinned the blame on Private.
* [[Large Ham]]: Lots of dramatic closeups and exaggerated gestures accompany his powerful paranoia and give the impression that Skipper has trained at the [[William Shatner]] school of acting. His tendency to clutch a flipper to his chest when upset gives one the permanent suspicion that he's suffering from some sort of heart condition.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He has his moments of this.
* [[Foot Focus]]: In one episode, he makes particular notice of Marlene's right foot being white… while examining it with a magnifying glass.
* [[For Science!]]: He ''is'' this trope incarnate.
* [[Four -Temperament Ensemble]]: The Melancholic.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: The team's primary source of [[Homemade Inventions]].
* [[Homemade Inventions]]: His specialty.
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* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Arguably, he's the one with the most fans.
* [[Never Learned to Read]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The things he does [[For Science!]] sometimes result in this, such as his [[Kick the Dog]] moment in "Friend-in-a-Box" (taking the circuit board from Mort's video game) that earns him a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from the others.
* [[Number Two]]: With the rank of Lieutenant, when Skipper goes AWOL, Kowalski does his best to take charge.
** Subverted; he feels terribly lost without Skipper around, and even had to ask once if the remaining wanted to hear his options.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: In early episodes, Skipper would often say "Kowalski, options." or "Kowalski, report." to him. This catch phrase has cropped up again halfway through season 2.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to Rico's red.
* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Inverted, as he's the tallest of the four.
* [[The Smart Guy]]
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Tropes associated with Rico:
* [[Allergic to Love]]: In one episode, it's stated that he has "mushy love sensitivity."
* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type III]]. Lethal, like Skipper.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Rico ''really'' loves [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and anything else that's destructive.
** Taken to the extreme in "Kaboom and Kabust"; the other three penguins have to '''constantly''' keep him under control (which is why they almost never let Rico explode things,) otherwise Rico loses it completely and destroys everything he can find.
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** Admittedly in the second movie Rico does start pulling other things - like a switchblade, for example - out of nowhere, and then putting them away again, and regurgitation is as good a reason as any. But nothing particuarly lol-worthy comes up - it's still majorly flanderised.
*** A recent promo for the third movie has him smoothly vomiting up a match. Maybe they are starting to take cues from the show?
* [[Four -Temperament Ensemble]]: The Sanguine.
* [[Ho Yay]]: "Kaboom and Kabust" very blatantly ships him with King Julien.
* [[Intelligible Unintelligible]]: At times, his speech can be understood fairly easily, especially in later episodes. Either way, if what he's saying is important to the plot, the other penguins will usually [[Repeating So the Audience Can Hear|provide some sort of translation]].
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* [[Overly Long Tongue]]: Possibly concealed within the [[Stomach of Holding]] most of the time.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: So very much.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]; The red to Kowalski's blue.
* [[Stomach of Holding]]: Exaggerated; he can spit up almost ''anything'' he or the other penguins need. In one episode, Mort requires an ''elevator'' to get to the bottom of his stomach to remove a bomb.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: In "Needle Point", after Rico gets his shot, he actually doesn't seem to mind the pain too much, scooching his butt around on the floor. Or perhaps he just likes comforting the pain. Either way he looks really kinky.
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]/[[The Gunslinger]]: Parodied when Private's [[Backstory]] is revealed in "Mr. Tux". He used to be a hardcore miniature golf player in Florida.
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: The cause of his crush on student nurse Shawna.
* [[Four -Temperament Ensemble]]: The Supine.
* [[The Heart]]: Spelled out in "Command Crisis."
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: His crush on [[Hospital Hottie]] Shawna in "[[Love Hurts]]" led him to deliberately injure himself. When the others threaten to come between them, he improvises a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|Wounded Penguin Gambit]].
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* [[Sweet Tooth]]: See below.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Peanut butter winky. Also butterscotch lollipops.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: He's afraid of badgers, and not fond of cockroaches.
 
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{{quote| '''Julien''': Ah, look at them Maurice. Why can't we play affectionately like that?}}
* [[Animal Gender Bender]]: [[Real Life]] lemur groups are ruled by females. Then again, now he's in a zoo with only two other lemurs, both of which are male, and he's probably the nearest thing they've got. Also, when he claims Eggy is his, Kowalski says mammals can't lay eggs and asks if he's part platypus, without mentioning that males don't lay eggs either. (Then again, see above.)
* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type IV or Type V]]. The closest thing the show has to a recurring antagonist - but he also repeatedly helps out the penguins when it benefits him.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Forget [[Ambiguously Gay]] or [[Bi the Way]], it's easier to believe that Julien just loves to be admired, and doesn't care whether that admiration is sexual or otherwise.
* [[Attention Whore]]
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** "Friend-in-a-Box" suggests that a [[Freudian Excuse]] may be involved. After Mort becomes obsessed with a portable video game, Julien goes out of his way to try and force Mort upon his feet, claiming that he wants to experience the joy of kicking Mort off. Eventually, he even goes so far as to beg Maurice and the penguins to pay attention to the royal feet.
** He freaks out when no one does what he tells them on King Julien Day.
* [[Buffy -Speak]]: A normal part of his speech pattern, along with Malaproping; he frequently makes comments like "What is up with the unbig tiny-littleness of my royal estate?"
* [[The Caligula]]: Parodied by his existence.
* [[Casting Gag]]: When the celebrity voice actors were replaced in the transition from the ''[[Madagascar]]'' films to the series, celebrity voice actor Sacha Baron Cohen (the voice of King Julien) was replaced by Danny Jacobs. Jacobs previously played an impersonation of Cohen's [[Borat]] character in ''[[Epic Movie]]''.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous King]]: Thanks to his believing that [[ItsIt's All About Me|It's All About Him]], he quickly gets jealous when somebody/something else is getting the attention he thinks he deserves.
** He also doesn't like that Marlene is crushing on Fred rather than him. He doesn't give a reason ''why'' this makes him so upset, other than that Marlene was "in love with Julian" the whole time before... which was another lie.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Part of King Julien's regular speech pattern.
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* [[Incidental Villain]]: Being a spoiled ego-maniacal control freak, he's the most common antagonist on the show, with his schemes often being the catalyst for larger plots or being the main threat of the episode. But, despite being something of a [[Jerkass]], he is only casually disliked by the rest of the cast. The other characters tolerate him when he's not doing anything antagonistic, since he's not generally a bad guy, just a spoiled jerk who occasionally screws with people to get his own way.
* [[In -Series Nickname]]: "Ringtail."
* [[ItsIt's All About Me]]: He is the King, and so ''obviously'' is more important than any non-kingly animals, right?
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: He has his moments of being... less mean to the others.
* [[Large Ham]]: With a side of [[Keet]]
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* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]
* [[Upperclass Twit]]
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: The same general quasi-African accent in the movie, only (as mentioned above) more exaggerated.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: He dressed as a cheerleader in the episode "Miracle On Ice" and was jealous of Skipper's "pretty pink bow" in "Miss Understanding". The "wholesome" is debateable, but his un-wholesome characteristics are not related directly ''to'' the crossdressing.
 
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* [[The Big Guy]]: See [[Fat and Skinny]], above.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: He is easily the sanest of the three lemurs.
* [[Four -Fingered Hands]]: A strange aversion. Maurice has five fingers/toes, yet Julien and Mort each have four.
* [[Funny Animal Anatomy]]: [http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4ACAW_enGB342GB344&biw=1345&bih=481&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=aye+aye&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq= This is what a real aye-aye looks like.] Eek.
* [[Puss in Boots]]: Has shades of this. At times, it seems that he ''really'' doesn't want to be part of Julien's world, but for some reason he stays faithful.
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* [[Feel No Pain]]: Also see above.
* [[Foot Focus]]: Mort is ''crazy'' over King Julien's feet. One could argue that he just likes feet in general; when Julien and Skipper trade places for one episode, Mort glomps Skipper's feet and is fascinated by their webbing.
* [[In -Series Nickname]]: "Sad Eyes".
* [[Older Than They Look]]: [[Word of God]] is that he's actually the lemur equivalent of a thirty-five-year-old. Mouse lemurs simply [http://www.google.co.uk/images?rlz=1T4ACAW_enGB342GB344&q=mouse+lemur&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1345&bih=481 look like babies their whole lives].
* [[Paste Eater]]:
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* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Quite often.
* [[Team Pet]]: He's either [[Tagalong Kid]], this or both.
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: A completely unidentifiable one. It usually comes across as heavily warped [[Baby Talk]].
* [[Yandere]]: Mort is quite devoted to King Julien, and not just to the royal feet.
 
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Tropes associated with Mason and Phil:
* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]: Thanks to greater focus on them (compared to their [[One -Scene Wonder]] status in the original movies), Mason's [[Neat Freak]] nature and Phil's relaxed and slovenly behavior have been revealed and developed.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Mason's VA is American, and according to Private, Mason himself is secretly Canadian.
* [[Four -Fingered Hands]]: Averted for the sake of Phil's sign language.
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: Mason is illiterate. Phil, on the other hand, is the penguin's go-to translator, with Mason translating his signing.
* [[Odd Couple]]: Phil is a total slob, much to [[Neat Freak]] Mason's chagrin.
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* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: Has lobster henchmen, and also made Crome Claw, a giant lobster with a metal claw.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: He's smart enough to know to NOT leave his enemies in a [[Death Trap]] and then leave the room, he stays to watch unless it'd kill him as well.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Has a scar over his right eye that's just barely visable under the metal plate covering it.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Ultimately has his memory erased by his own machine.}}
* [[Large Ham]]
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* [[Villain Song]]: Get's a few in "Doctor Blowhole Strikes Back" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). It's actually a ''plot point'' that he gets the best songs. Most noteable being "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67O9qr8NXA&feature=related Brand New Plan]", which is a pretty straight up [[Villain Song]]. Helps he's voiced by [[Neil Patrick Harris]].
* [[We Have Reserves]]
* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: Kowalski [[Running Gag|complains about]] [[Green -Eyed Monster|bad guys]] ''[[Green -Eyed Monster|always]]'' [[Green -Eyed Monster|getting the coolest stuff]], but it's never explained where he gets the resources required for them.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: He normally has a plan to begin with, but is far from incapable of improvising on the fly. Refrenced in "[[Villain Song|Brand New Plan]]", where he points out that, despite things having not gone as he planned, it'll work out perfectly for him and makes up a new plan on the fly.
 
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* [[Australian Accent]]: He shares a voice actor with British-accented Private.
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: Inverted - he's a maniac who makes things worse.
* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: He'll beat up other animals just for being in his habitat... and deliberately keep them there so that he can beat them up some more if they try to escape.
* [[Stupid Evil]]: When fighting the "skorca", he beats off the penguins first because he doesn't want ''them'' to win against it. Skipper calls him out on it, but Joey dismisses him on the grounds that "Joey doesn't share".
* [[Third Person Person]]: Lampshaded in "Kanga Management".
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Tropes associated with Max:
* [[The Cameo]]: He appears for about two seconds in "The Helmet".
* [[In -Series Nickname]]: "Moon Cat".
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: One is green and one is blue.
 
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* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: His exterminator uniform is pink.
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]: He could give Skipper lessons in this.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Because of the penguins, of course!
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Pulls one on Rico and one on Joey.
 
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Tropes associated with Rat King:
* [[Dumb Muscle]]
* [[Gullible Lemmings]]: In "Rat Fink", he blindly follows what he believes to be the true rat king, despite the [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]. He only becomes confused when the invasion plan is put into action.
* [[Mook|Mooks]]: The other sewer rats who follow him.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: He and the rats pretend not to know the rules of ice hockey before the penguins challenge him to a game. It turns out they were hustling the penguins, and the rats curb-stomp them.
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* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]: When he's in a confined space with the penguins, he becomes a menace simply by turning around.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: He has to undergo a mind-swap with Rico at one point because he's simply not aggressive, which makes him an easy target for the sewer rats.
* [[Out -of -Character Moment]]: He seems genuinely annoyed at Julien's pranking in the "April Fools" episode.
* [[Reluctant Monster]]
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Averted quite extremely; see above.
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Tropes associated with Eggy:
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: Thanks to being cared and trained by the penguins while still an egg. At the end, Julien teaches him how to dance, resulting in Eggy talking like Julien (see [[Buffy -Speak]] above).
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[Buffy -Speak]]: He copies Julien's idiosyncratic speech patterns.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: With King Julien.
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour]]: How Mama Duck views his obsession with combat and commando operations.
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