Skipper

### Likes

Fish, coffee with fish, his brothers, cuteness, Marlene, Kitka (formerly), danger

### Dislikes

Some mammals, the "crazy lady" Captain Chantel DuBois, Dave, needles, doctors, any one of his friends or team members in danger

## Family

### Other relatives

Rico and Kowalski (brothers)
Private (adoptive brother)

### Friends

Private, Kowalski, Rico, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien XIII, Mort, Maurice, Vitaly, Gia, Stefano, Manu and Maya, the Andalusian Triplets, the Dancing Dogs, Zuba, Florrie,Mason and Phil, Classified, Corporal, Eva, Short Fuse

### Enemies

The Fossa, Phil and Mason (briefly), Nana, Mr Chew, Dr. Blowhole, Hunter (formerly), Captain Chantel Dubois, Dave the Octopus, North Wind (briefly)

**Skipper** is a major character in the 2005 DreamWorks Pictures film *Madagascar* and its sequels *Escape 2 Africa* and *Europe's Most Wanted* and the deuteragonist of it's spin-off *Penguins of Madagascar*. He is the brother of Kowalski, Rico and Private, becoming the leader of the four penguins.

He is voiced by the series' creator Tom McGrath

## Background

Skipper is a leader of three other penguins consisting of Kowalski, Rico, and Private. As a kid, Skipper, Kowalski and Rico were revealed to be each others' best friends since childhood and live in Antarctica. They apparently have no parents, as they were neither seen nor mentioned in the series at this point. He once noticed an egg was rolling down the frozen tundras of Madagascar and Skipper defied nature by attempting to save the Egg. However, they accidentally put it in danger by accidentally having it roll down to an abandoned ship. The penguin children were able to rescue the Egg from the Leopard seals. Skipper, Kowalski and Rico watched as the egg hatched, revealing it to be a baby Private. The group was put in the New York Central Park Zoo and built a secret base within their habitat.

### Personality

Born to be leader and is often hard at times, Skipper truly is a complex character. He often calls mammals by nicknames (Marty: monochromatic friend; Julien "ringtail", Mort "Sad Eyes." According to Private, Skipper would never leave a man behind no matter who they were, even with fancy equipment and a plan or not (i.e. saving Private as an abandoned egg and from Dave. In the first film, he noticed Marty was missing and, after hearing Gloria mention Alex was acting feral, decided to go looking for Marty because their "monochromatic friend" was missing.

However, Skipper is somewhat deluded, as he married his "girlfriend," Lola the Hula Girl, even though she is an inanimate object. Skipper does not know how to read and according to Private, Skipper has a fragile ego (which is true in Truth Ache). He can be paranoid at times and believes the unthinkable, like beling space squids could come down and invade Earth or the possiblity of an apoctolypic future. He also has a dislike towards hippies, especially wanting to go back in time using Kowalski's time machine to slap a couple of them.

He sometimes believes women are weak and need protecting, but finds Marlene strong and his one -time girlfriend, Kitka, very brave. He sometimes doesn't think highly of other mammals; however, he does value their opinions once in a while.  He does see them as friends., for he immedately began telling the other Penguins in rescuing Marty, Melman, and Gloria from the Fossa.

Apart from his strange behavior, Skipper has a soft spot for his penguin comrades and inspired them by being both their leader and their friend. He congratulated Kowalski for listening to his instincts and Rico for most of his loose cannon ways. However, he does have his limitations, as he knows Kowalski grows to extremes when creating his inventions, which usually ends in disaster. In the end, he admires Kowalski for his intelligence, often asking him for options. Skipper also doesn't allow Rico to go overboard with the explosives. During the *Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper*, while they were rescuing Private, Skipper constantly turns down Rico's idea to use a stick of dynamite as an alternative. However, he lets him use the dynamite when they were leaving Nana's apartment after defeating Mr. Chew. However, Skipper notably treats Private differently than Rico or Kowalski, mostly as a child and not giving him enough credit. This changes after Private uses his cuteness to cure the mutant penguins. Skipper finally calls him a valuable member of their team, something Private always wanted to hear. However it didn't

## *Madagascar* franchise

### *Madagascar*

In the first film, Skipper and his friends, Kowalski, Rico and Private, plan to leave New York City and return to Antarctica. However, when they appear to Antartica, the group realize that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. They appear at Madagascar, where Gloria and Melman are waiting (with Marty going back into the woods to find Alex). Skipper realizes that Marty may be in danger and decides to go rescue Marty. Just at that moment, the foosa are attacking Marty.

### *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa*

When the animals' plane crash-lands in Africa, Skipper oversees the reconstruction of their destroyed plane. He has his brothers steal Jeeps from tourists for them to scrap for parts and Phil and Mason assist them by bringing a "few extra thumbs" to help with the plane. Later, Marty Marty, Melman, and Gloria approach the construction site where they need the plane to rescue Alex. However they find that Skipper and Kowalski are trying to negotiate with the other chimpanzees who have gone on strike. He give in to the chimps' demands when Mason and Phil blackmail him with pictures of Skipper making out with his bubblehead girlfriend, much to Kowalski's amusement and Gloria, Melman, and Marty's confusion and shock.

Skipper helps rescue Alex and his father but they lose Alex and Zuba who are able to redirect the water crisis to them.

### *Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie*

In a flashback to the Penguins, Skipper is first seen as a child with his two brothers, Rico and Kowalski. (Their parents are never seen in the film.) Together, they rescue an egg, defying the laws of nature. The egg then hatches into Private in front of Skipper and his brothers whom they also adopt into their family.

Ten years later, Skipper, Kowalski and Rico take Private to fort Knox where their favorite snack: the last of the Cheesy Dibbles.

## Television appearances

### *The Penguins of Madagascar*

Skipper appears as one of the four titular protagonists in the Nickelodeon television series, *The Penguins of Madagascar*, voiced by Tom McGrath again. He is the only one of the Penguins to have his original voice actor from the original film.

Throughout the series, Skipper often leads his teammates into battle and sometimes, comes into conflict with King Julien and his antics.

a running gag on the show is that he always mentions how two of his members, Manfredi and Johnson and how they died multiple times. However, it is unclear if he tells these stories to his men to scare him or if any of it ever happened, as the two made a cameo appearance in The Penguins of Madagascar.

He often comes into contact with multiple villains, with Dr. Blowhole or Hans the puffin as his recurring enemies.

## Trivia

* He married his bride doll, Lola in Escape to Africa, but she was missing in the series and the movies, suggesting Skipper finally realized she was just a doll or because she "died"
* Believes that Private's accent is fake and adorable at the same time.
* Likes a hard pillow ("Eclipsed")
* Mistaken for "Joe Penguin" for the first Madagascar film.
* Hates it when people call him "pudgy."(Fit to Print)
* Follows the Penguin credo
* More physical than the other Penguins.
* Values order above all else.
* According to Private, Skipper has a fragile ego.
* Has no sisters (in Hans and Puffin).
* Is extremely ticklish
* Talented singer, dancer, and in combat.
* Received one metal of Honor.
* Has a soft spot for Private.
* Swears in Korean
* Spent eight years in the Jungles of Mexico.
* Was the public Enemy number one in Denmark, but his cirminal record was destroyed.
	+ It is an unknown reason why Skipper is Denmark's public enemy #1 but what was known that it involved Hans, Fish, and so many twists and turns, you wouldn't be interested.
* Voiced by Tom McGrath, who is the creator of the Madagascar franchise and creative consultant in the TV series
* Revealed in "Needle Point", Skipper has trypanophobia, a fear of needles.
* after he said, "I'd like to kiss you Monkey Man", Mason said, "All right but you're so darn ugly" before kissing Skipper " is a reference to *Planet of the Apes*.
* Skipper and the other penguins are probably so protective over Private due to the incident with his egg being nearly eaten by leopard seals