Captain Chantel DuBois

**Capitaine Chantel DuBois** (simply known as **Chantel DuBois**) is the main antagonist of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. She was a Monaco animal control officer that was known for her relentless tracking of a runaway or stray animals.

## Personality and Traits

A cold, calculating woman, DuBois was staunch in her ways, having no sense of mercy for her quarry when assigned to catch animals. DuBois was not without her pride, as she kept trophies of her successful assignments in catching animals on her walls: dog, cat and bird heads, taxidermy butterflies, mounted fish and lizards, and even the rear end of a large rat adorned her office, which sat close to the animal cages of the pound that she worked in. These trophies, however, paled next to her most coveted trophy of the hunt: a lion head, which she stood adamant to obtain in catching the “king of the beasts”. DuBois was strict to her men, but cared about their condition, if only to aid her in her hunts, and cared little for either humans or animals in general, having no regard for laws either, as she tangled with the Italian police in Rome.

A red-haired French woman, DuBois is thickset and compact with thin limbs and has a flat, short face with a long, pointed nose. DuBois keeps her appearances well, with an immaculate uniform, makeup and hair are always done, most notably her tendency to refresh her lipstick upon making a discovery. DuBois sports unusual strength, being able to break through concrete walls by charging at them, perform acrobatic feats of stealth, move with agility on all fours and track down animals just by their scent, being able to pinpoint exact details about them from just one bit of tracking.

## History

### Early life

DuBois is the best animal control officer in Monaco with a perfect success record. She claims to have strangled her first parrot, flushed her first goldfish, and punched her first snake when she was 7 years old.

### Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

DuBois first appears near the beginning being called by hotel security about the animals; including the lion named Alex, the zebra named Marty, the giraffe named Melman, and the hippopotamus named Gloria. She and her henchmen pursue them to catch the animals, and mount their heads on the wall as trophies. She mainly prefers to hunt Alex because he's the one animal that will complete her collection, a lion. She sniffs for them in the same manner as a dog, and upon picking up Alex's scent, follows them in a long chase scene that ends when the animals try to escape on their plane. DuBois lassos Melman's neck, only for the rope to be cut by Alex, and she falls into the pool. As they fly away, she resurfaces, saying "Well-played, lion. Game on.".

She was later seen at the railroad that the animals were just at and uses her smell and a puddle of water to find out they have joined the circus heading for Rome and London and promptly jumps aboard the next train heading for the same place. She is briefly arrested in Rome but escapes by hiding in the bed while creating several other escape routes to trick the police. They jump down a hole that they have believed that DuBois went down, and she cuts out from the bed, locks the police in the jail cell, and uses the computer to search up Alex and realizes his origins as a lion from Central Park Zoo.

She uses her singing voice to appeal to the patriotism of her henchmen (who had been injured during the chase at the beginning) and rouse them up, seemingly healing them instantly. They follow the animals once more, forcing them to retreat. She catches up to them with a paper of Alex, only to be catapulted away, though the circus animals see the paper and feel used and betrayed.

When the animals finally arrive in New York, DuBois finally intercepts them and tranquilizes them. The zoo staff thanks her, incorrectly believing that she tried to return Alex. DuBois attends a celebration for Alex's return, concealing a poison dart inside a foam finger and almost fires it at him, but the circus animals, being alerted by King Julien, arrive and rescue him and his friends. After a long fight between the animals and DuBois and her henchmen, DuBois sees that Alex and his friends are successfully escaping with the circus animals while her henchmen are knocked out. As revenge, DuBois tries to kill Stefano, but Alex and Gia perform "Trapeze Americano" to save him before Alex and DuBois are thrown into the mid-air where they battle. Deciding to teach her a lesson, Alex dumps DuBois in his animal cage where she starts acting like an animal with his commands after she is tranquilized by Mort. DuBois is last seen trapped in a crate by the penguins, being shipped to Madagascar along with her henchmen as punishment for their threats, much to Dubois' shock and horror.

Whether she and her henchmen survive in Madagascar is completely unknown, but it is likely that the humans released them after being discovered in their boxes, and later returned to Monaco, but with a sad DuBois for not killing Alex and also gets fired from the animal control office for her crimes.

## Trivia

* DuBois become Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's enemy in *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted*.
* DuBois returns in *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle Meets Madeline* where she, along with The Devious Claw of Evil, Robbie Rotten, Zach Varmitech, Donita Donata, Dabio, Gourmand, Paisley Paver and Rex (Wild Kratts) work with Leopold to get revenge on Thomas, Twilight, Alex and their friends and faced The North Wind and Stuart Little for the first time.
* Chantel DuBois is so far Frances McDormand's first and only villainous role.
* Chantel DuBois is, by far, the most evil main antagonist of the Madagascar trilogy. While the Fossas and Makunga, the main antagonists of the first two films, were a group of predators and a pompous jerk respectively, DuBois is more sadistic and competent than them. Unlike them, DuBois was willing to kill any animal who crossed on her way to achieve her goals and even formed an obsessive rivalry with Alex the Lion to the point of tracking him down to the Central Park Zoo even though Alex belonged there.
* Additionally, DuBois is the second human in the Madagascar film series to be an antagonist after Nana (who was a minor antagonist in Madagascar and the secondary antagonist of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa). They are both women, are formidable opponents and also happen to be archenemies of Alex the Lion, but DuBois is a lot worse while Nana is the best.
* DuBois could be schizophrenic due to her ability to see multiple time frames at once in the form of hallucinations, a known symptom of schizophrenia.
* It should be noted that had DuBois succeeded in killing Alex at the end, she would have been most likely arrested for murdering as she had spoken to the crowd in a sinister tone, barely hinting what she was going to do with Alex. Likely, DuBois did not realize this as her obsession to kill the lion was her top priority above all.

## Gallery

Chantel DuBois in the crate after her defeat.