Alex (Madagascar)

**Alex** is a straight character of *Madagascar*.

## Appearance

Alex has brown and yellow fur and blue eyes with a dark brown-blackish nose and black and yellow-brown ears and also seems to have white whiskers. He has feet and large paws that are yellow and brown and has bushy brown hair/mane.

## Personality

Alex has the personality very similar to that of a celebrity because he became the star of the zoo at a very young age.

Alex loves the zoo and was surprised when he heard Marty's wish to leave and live in the wild. As the main attraction of the zoo, he is featured heavily on merchandise and gives an "Alex the Lion" snow globe and other merchandise to Marty for his birthday. He also shows an infatuation with steak, though later remarks that sushi tastes better.

In the first film, he was very scared when he discovered his predatory nature and did his best to isolate himself from others to protect them. Despite his pride and selfishness, Alex is very loyal to his other Zooster friends, especially Marty. Alex never loses the opportunity to show off and boast that he is a star, but sometimes some situations make him nervous, like when he tries to deal with the penguins or his attempts to flirt with Gia in the circus. He is also determined to fix things when he knows he spoiled them, like when he fights with Marty, or his attempt to re-fit into the lion's pride or to convince the Zoosters to return to the circus and apologize to everyone.

Alex is also very energetic, he is able to raise morale to everyone around him and also has good leadership skills, especially in the third film, when he even manages to lead a complete circus.

## Relationships

### Gia

It has been expressed quite obviously that Alex has romantic feelings for Gia, although his beginnings are somewhat conflicting.

When Alex sees her for the first time, he was impressed. Gia, believing that they are from the circus lets them climb into the train when they were in danger. Inside the train, Gia is impressed when Alex says he knew how to do a trapeze.

After the Penguins bought the circus, the animals prepared to give their show. Alex quietly decides to listen to Gia while she rehearsed alone, before falling down through the partition as it was made of paper. Alex denies that he was spying on her when she asks him, and tries to flirt with her but fails. Gia finds it rather clumsy and says that no one has spoken of him since they arrived, assuring that everyone felt sorry for the new circus boss.

Both collide heads accidentally but then Alex sincerely thanked her for letting him get on the train, she seemed happy. However, when she saw how he imitated Vitaly , she warned him not to do anything that would endanger the circus, because it meant everything for them.

Alex gets nervous and accidentally places his paw on one of the ropes of the circus tent that is untied and pulls it to the ceiling, then falls right into Gia's arms causing the other fabrics that kept them hidden to fall and both are shamefully discovered in front of the rest of the circus.

When the circus takes a break to recover from their last shameful act, Gia supports Alex in the idea of improving the circus, later asking him personally to teach him how to use the trapeze. He refuses at the beginning but then gives in.

Later they were both on a high platform, ready to practice trapeze. Alex says many things while nervously preparing to jump, Gia gives him a push and he ends up accidentally doing some tricks, in which Gia then copies, thinking it was part of the act. When Alex makes an erratic leap and was about to fall, Gia grabs him and both return to the platform where Alex holds her before she falls, staying close together while being surprised by the act he had practiced. They were later hit by Marty who was shot from his cannon, as they fell into a net. Alex and Gia look at each other, laughing as they bounced off the net.

In the next circus performance, Alex and Gia used pink paints combined. During the presentation, both give different jumps and tricks in the trapeze, many of them where one caught the other. Finally, both closed the presentation lacing together.

After the show, Gia throws herself to hug him excitedly and Alex holds her spinning, then takes her hand and turns her around, Gia expresses how excited she is that they are both trapeze cats and can travel all over the world. Alex is sad because his plans to return to the zoo seem to change and he sees himself divided between the circus and back home. He tries to tell Gia that he might leave but they were interrupted by DuBois who reveals that Alex belongs to a zoo and that he was coming to take him away.

The penguins are responsible for throwing it out but Gia finds Alex's note and discovers in anguish that he never went to the circus, discovering with the others that everything was a lie. Alex tries to explain and Gia looks hurt when she learns that the Trapeze Americano was never real. The Zoosters were sad but Alex was still trying to talk to Gia but she said they had trusted him, then she walks away with the other circus animals.

Despite the deception, Gia and Stefano refused to go on stage without their partners. When they were informed that the Zoosters were captured, Gia was among the first to express that they should help them because they were their friends.

When DuBois shot Alex, Gia saved him just in time, and he was excited to see her. Both used the trapeze to reach the flying platform of the circus. When Stefano was in danger, Alex and Gia used the trapeze to save him, but Alex grabbed DuBois and left Gia holding Stefano, she worried when she saw them fly so high. Alex defeats DuBois and uses the thrusters to take Gia and reach the balloons, there they both share a loving look as they celebrate for having achieved it. Alex and his friends eventually join the circus as permanent members.