History Characters / ThePenguinsOfMadagascar

* AliensAreBastards: Kowalski makes it a point to explain it.
* GreenAndMean
* TentacledTerror

* AliensAreBastards

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Thanks to the {{Flanderization}}, Skipper is now an extremely paranoid leader who has [[FantasticRacism prejudiced thoughts about mammmals]], Kowalski is a nerdy InsufferableGenius, Rico is their psychotic DumbMuscle who lives to blow things up and while Private may be the most normal of them, he is still prone to making silly and naive mistakes and is a CloudCuckooLander.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the movies, Maurice wasn't fond of Mort just like King Julien. In the show, he's a much kinder lemur to the guy and is often the one who disuades King Julien from going too far against him. He's only annoyed when his YesMan antincs get in the way of him trying to repose.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "Gone in a Flash", he's legitimate terrified of being in the middle of the penguins operations and can barely keep up with them. Later episodes would portray him as very competent and not only completely calm when he has to help the Penguins but often delighted to have a chance to participate in the Penguins missions.

* TheGoodChancellor: Despite being annoyed by Julien and his antics, he's still loyal to him. In "Kingdom Come" he's even reluctant to temporarily become king while Julien is away, only agreeing to do it when Skipper points out that it's either him or [[CloudCuckooLander Mort]] - and even then, he manages to avoid becoming DrunkWithPower until he eats a few rotten lychee nuts, which result in him becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy into a power-hungry tyrant (and when he's snapped out of it, he's pretty embarrassed).

A mouse lemur who is also Julien's biggest fanboy. He has a massive fetish for Julien's feet. He is pretty much there to be the victim of physical comedy, although Marlene in particular seems to care for him.

* ButtMonkey: He is usually at the receiving end of the slapstick in the show, be it Julien kicking him for touching his feet or all the times he gets beaten up

* TeamPet: He's either TagalongKid, this or both.

* {{Flanderization}}: A bit more of a JerkAss than in the movies, but he still has his moments (such as saving [[spoiler:Skipper]]'s life in one episode). His dialect is also noticeably stronger (though that could be chalked up to Creator/DannyJacobs [[TheOtherDarrin replacing]] Creator/SachaBaronCohen).

A mouse lemur who is also Julien's biggest fanboy He is pretty much there to be the victim of physical comedy, although Marlene in particular seems to care for him.

* ButtMonkey: He is usually at the receiving end of the slapstick in the show

* {{Flanderization}}: In the first movie, the royal feet get merely a passing reference when Julien misinterprets Mort cowering in fear next to him. Here, Mort has a full blown fetish for Julien's feet.

A mouse lemur who is also part of Julien's companions. He is pretty much there to be the victim of physical comedy, although Marlene in particular seems to care for him.

* BadassAdorable: Although small, dumb and pathetic, he's shown to be capable of beating Skipper at arm wrestling. Another episode has him ''uprooting trees''.

%%* ButtMonkey:

* DisabilitySuperpower: In "Sting Operation", it's revealed that he's literally too ignorant to feel pain because he doesn't understand it.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In "Misfortune Cookie", Julien has him run over Rico ''1000'' times in order to lift Rico´s "curse". The reason being that the zoo only has one rhino, and thus needed Roy to repeat the process 1000 times.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appeared in the video game adaptation of the first ''Madagascar'' film, before being properly introduced in the series. In the series itself, we first see his stampeding legs crushing Rico before he makes his full proper debut in "Skorca".

* ScareEmStraight: [[spoiler: As revealed at the end of "April Fools", him chasing Julien and apparently trying to kill him was meant to help teach him a lesson about going too far with pranks]].

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mort is generally liked by the rest of the zoo animals, but he basically seems to be this to Julien. While Julien is annoyed by Mort's obsession with his feet, he is actually miserable when Mort isn't available for him to kick, regarding the opportunity to reject Mort as a symbol of his power. When Mort was accidentally shipped off with various Mort dolls, Julien explicitly stated that he missed "having that annoying Mort around so that [he could] hate him!"

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Most of the time, Marlene is friendly and doesn't engage in physical violence. However, at the end of "Crow Fools", she has Rico spit out a crowbar for her, which she uses to chase Julien with when he reveals he had a spare crown the whole time. Not only was she mad he kept his spare a secret, but his actions also led to Skipper getting hurt while trying to retrieve the original crown.

Although they only had around [[OneSceneWonder around 10 minutes of screentime]] in the first movie, the penguins have proven to be {{Ensemble Dark Horse}}s to the point that their part in the movies escalated and then they received their own show, ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' and a solo movie that (debatably) tied the Madagascar canon to the series canon.