Dave (Penguins of Madagascar)

**Dave** (also known as Dr. Octavious Brane in his human disguise) is the main antagonist of the 2014 Dreamworks Animation film Penguins of Madagascar. He is an octopus seeking revenge thanks to his popularity declining and being shuffled away from zoo to zoo after the Penguins arrive at the Central Park Zoo. He is also Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private's arch-nemesis in the Madagascar movie canon and the Octopuses' leader and boss.

He was voiced by John Malkovich.

## Penguins of Madagascar

When the penguins first arrive at the Fort Knox just to give a Cheezy Dibbles to Private as a birthday present to him, Dave captures the penguins by having them trapped inside the Cheezy Dibbles machine as well as having his helicopter of his minions helping him escape. He then escorted the penguins to hos submarine in Venice, Italy. When Skipper and the others tries to prevent Private from touching another button, Dave introduces himself and remove his human disguise, hoping that they would recognize them (which they do not). Dave then explains his past where he was originally a zoo animal at the Central Park Zoo which is before getting kicked out thanks to the Penguins and feeling ignored, shunned and neglected as well as also explaining his evil plan which is using the serum on the penguins as revenge for taking the population away from him. After that, Dave orders his minions to cage the penguins again, but the penguins escape with a vial of Medusa Serum by using Cheezy Dibbles toward the octopuses. Dave then orders his minions to go after the penguins although they were thwarted by the North Wind, an animal organization who were planning to save the penguin species and stopping Dave's plans.

At the North Wind HQ, Dave hacks their communications (although at first having trouble with the sound), revealing that the revenge is not just about the four penguins but all the penguin species as well as having more Medusa Serum. He and his minions then began kidnapping penguins from every zoo he has been in. The Penguins manage to intercept him, as he goes after the Shanghai Zoo penguins, but he prevails in taking them along with Private thanks to him using a pipe as a shortcut. Skipper, Kowalski and Rico try to save Private by using the North Wind's ship although the North Wind prevented them from saving Private from Dave.

In his submarine/lair, he shows off his Medusa Serum to every penguin by testing it on a cricket in which turns him into a monster. When Dave heard some penguin saying something, he finds out that he captures Private during his time to capture the Shanghai Zoo penguins and anticipates an attempt rescue. The Penguins and North Wind begrudgingly work together in order to rescue Private and the other penguins but are then captured. Dave and his minions then leave and prepares to turn Private into a monster in front of the other three as well also revealing that he will have a mutant penguin invasion in Matthan, New York, but Private manages to escape by using a paper clip similar to Rico, making Dave believe that he had been killed off.

Later, in his human disguise, he announces to the world lying to them that he found the lost penguins and is bringing them to New York. He then orders his minion to turn the penguins (expect Private) into hideous mutants with the ray, causing the humans to hate and be scared of them. When that was done, Dave then has the humans to call the exterminators on the penguins in order to get rid of them. Then, when Dave is happy that he got his revenge on the penguin and human races, he had a moment of self-reflection which cause him to have more revenge which is on kittens, puppies, panadas and other animals tomorrow. Dave then notices that the Penguins about to stop his plans. Dave at first was afraid that the penguins are going to ruin his plan but later found out that the remote's batteries are almost dead. Thanks to that, Dave and the other octopuses still plan to attack the penguins, but the North Wind came back by having an ice truck which knocks out the octopuses (expect Dave) and destroy the submarine and Rico came back with new batteries and Private punch Dave with his fist and Skipper use the last Cheezy Dibble to press the remote, turning every penguin back to normal (at cost Private's appearance looks different and growing moose antlers).

As everyone celebrates their victory, Daves returns, seemingly transformed into a giant Kraken at first tries to attack everyone but realizes that he has been shrunk and stuck inside a snow globe. He then swears revenge against the penguins and is angry that they ruined his plan. Just then, when a little girl takes interest in him, making him feel the joy of acceptance he had longed craved for again. But then it turns out that the girl in more interested in the snow than Dave and began shaking the globe and him violently.

It's unknown what happened to him after this but it's possible that one of his minions might find him and turn him back to normal. he could have died if the girl keeps shaking the snow globe too much, or the girl stopped shaking it and Dave has finally found the love and acceptance he wanted.

## Personality

Before the events of the film, Dave was originally a child friendly zoo animal at the Central Park Zoo. However, when the Penguins arrived, Dave was kicked out and transferred to another zoo/aquarium. The same thing happened again and again and again; penguins getting all the love while Dave feels sad, shunned, ignored and neglected.

Ever since that, Dave grew hateful toward penguins and plotted revenge against the entire species. He then constructed a submarine lair. enlisted dozens of octopuses as his minions and created a mutative chemical called "Medusa Serum" which turns animals into monsters.

## Appearance

Dave is a large male octopus with red eyes, purple skin, and long tentacles with lighter undersides. He has a few hairs on top on his head.

When disguising himself as a human, Dave changes his skin to a typical pale white color. He wears a red wig, a white lab coat, teal gloves and black trousers.

## Trivia

* Dave's direct orders to his octopus minions incorporate a celebrity's name. An example of this is when Dave says "Nicolas, cage them."
* Despite being an octopus, he and henchmen only has six visible tentacles despite that octopuses has eight tentacles in real life.
* A running gag in the film is that Skipper keeps getting Dave's name wrong. Some of the names Skipper calls him include Derick, Dennis, Doris, and Rameriz.