All Hail King Julien

***All Hail King Julien*** is the second TV series in the *Madagascar* franchise that debuted on Netflix on December 19, 2014.

The series is a prequel to the franchise, taking place before the events of the first film. The cliffhanger at the end of Season 4 which was released on November 11, 2016, and continued with the fifth season named All Hail King Julien: Exiled, which premiered on May 12, 2017. The series is then continued as All Hail King Julien again, in their fifth (sixth if Exiled is included) and final season, with the episode "The End is Here", wrapping things up with Alex crash landing on the island after he lost his gang and the Penguins are using the ship to set sail for Antarctica.

## Plot

All Hail King Julien follows the adventures of the illustrious King Julien XIII, before the events of *Madagascar*, as he rules his great kingdom after being crowned as king by his own uncle. His uncle, whose purpose is to actually kill King Julien and reclaim his throne, causes a big threat to the kingdom; and even beyond that King Julien bumps into a lot of other enemies including the evil fanaloka genius, Karl, another lemur king in disguise named Koto, the leader of the fossa pack known as Mary Ann and a lot other foes with intentions to bring him down, even from inside his own kingdom. But with the help of his loyal crew, Maurice, Clover and Mort, he rules as possibly kingdom's greatest king in their entire history, bringing the kingdom together in times of pleasure and times of pain, such as the War of the Beasts.

### Main Characters

* **King Julien**: Formerly known as Prince Julien, King Julien XIII is a young and charismatic king of an effervescent kingdom. Crowned by his uncle in an attempt to kill his nephew, King Julien always looks forward to being the centre of attention and loved by all. He started poorly on his coronation night and caused half of the kingdom to go missing and the other half captured by fossa attack. But the day after that, he bravely faced the foosa in their territory itself, and rescued his kingdom with his smooth dance moves. He is known for bringing peace and joy back to the kingdom after it was forbidden by his uncle. However, he gradually becomes a better king, showing how much he loves his kingdom, and values his kingdom like his life. His Royal Circle assisted him at any time, and loyally guided him down the right path. The key to his success was his loyal and kind friends in the kingdom.
* **Maurice**: Formerly Prince Julien's caretaker, Maurice is the royal advisor of King Julien, and does most of the king's duties and is one of the most responsible lemurs in the kingdom. According to Masikura, he and Julien met when they were babies during Prince Barty and Princess Julienne's camp near the Aye-Aye Kingdom. Maurice usually takes charge of serious situations or is forced to by King Julien and Clover, and despite his serious appearance, he is known to be soft inside and very emotional, as almost all of the kingdom teases him about it.
* **Clover**: As the King's personal bodyguard and Captain of the Ringtail Guard, Clover is a very strict and serious lemur, making sure everything runs smoothly and according to the law. She started out as a paranoid and unapproachable person, not knowing how to have fun and always in the mood to punch someone. But after months of working for King Julien, she began to unlock her inner sense of fun, and she no longer minded the kingdom's endless parties. Aside from being her work, she also spends her time writing fantasy novels. She later becomes the Mountain Lemur Queen after her husband Sage becomes the king.
* **Mort**: King Julien's self-proclaimed best friend, Mort is the oldest lemur in the kingdom, despite his childish appearance. He is a big fan of King Julien and is in love with the king's feet, after his feet saved Mort's life in King Me. According to Mort, he spends most of his time in his own world and barely notices his surroundings. He is also known for being creepy, and he always talks to the multiple versions of himself inside his mind. The primary example of this is Smart Mort, an extremely intelligent version of Mort who lives in Mort’s head. He reveals himself when Mort drinks coffee.

### Recurring Characters

* **Masikura**: A physic chameleon who appears upon summoning. She sticks her tongue on anyone's head to analyze them for predictions or readings. She had been the king's psychic advisor for generations, and also has the ability to communicate with gods, and is very partial to Frank (the god of the sky).
* **Xixi**: The kingdom's reporter who usually focuses mostly on gossip. She is a trustworthy toucan in the news who informs the lemur kingdom on current events. She covers a lot of major events including King Julien's coronation, and King Julien and Crimson's royal wedding.
* **Timo:** Known as the Royal Scizard (Science Wizard) of King Julien, Timo is a nervous and talkative scientist tenrec who introduced the kingdom to modern-day technology. According to himself, he laughs when he's nervous, and also when he is sleepy.
* **Ted**: A soft, dramatic, and tidy lemur, Ted, together with his wife, Dorothy, enjoys his life doing whatever he likes, collecting sparkly things, and also doing some underground and even illegal projects.
* **Willie:** If the kingdom panics, it is usually because of Willie. Willie is a scared, timid, and exciting lemur who later in the series shows more of his bravery and confidence. He was the captain of the kingdom's first navy ship, Old Porcelainsides (later renamed the S.S. Pee Pee Pants).
* **Horst:** Horst is a loner, fears change, and is often seen holding a beverage. He is one of the serious lemurs in the kingdom, but inside with his friends, he can be playful too. He is married to Mary Ann, a foosa.
* **Pancho:** Pancho is one of the kingdom's criminals, usually seen working with his friend Andy, a bat. He used to be Uncle King Julien's sleeper agent during his Footstool Program. However, his helpful side is seen during All Hail King Julien: Exiled, when he helps Julien regain his throne.
* **Hector**: Hector is an incredibly moody lemur who hates everything. He is the second oldest lemur in the kingdom after Mort and was the "Prime Minister of Mangoes".
* **Dorothy**: Dorothy is a very sweet, hospitable, and sometimes panicky lemur. She's a good friend and will always help anyone in need. She is Ted's wife.
* **Abner**: Abner is a rebellious and dim-witted hillbilly lemur, who, with Becca, repeatedly tries to overthrow King Julien with their "LALA" alliance. He is Becca's husband.
* **Becca:** Becca is a cunning, smart hillbilly lemur who is the unofficial leader in her and Abner's two-lemur anti-King Julien alliance, the Lemur Alliance Liberation Army (LALA).
* **Todd**: Todd is a cute child lemur strives to make his mother, Tammy happy by being an over-achiever and winning competitions. He listens to almost every of his mother's orders and is also known for his war-face, which is quite ferocious and scary.
* **Tammy:** A selfish, loud, and arrogant lemur. She is also very commanding, even to her husband and son, using her son, Todd, for her personal gain and to win competitions for her.
* **Butterfish:** He is lazy, fat, and always looking for food. Butterfish is always seen either going to work or looking for chimichangas. Despite being usually apathetic, he actually cares about his family and even the kingdom.
* **Rob McTodd/Nurse Phantom:** He was Julien's best friend back when he was the prince. When Club Moist was converted into a hospital, he was appointed as Dr. S's nurse with the name of Nurse Phantom.
* **Doctor S:** Doctor S is the only doctor at Club Moist, and a very enthusiastic one too. He is known for doing surgeries or any sort of thing without properly knowing how. He always screams "OUT OF A CAVE!!!".
* **Andy Fairfax:** Andy is a sneaky criminal in Madagascar, who often runs illegal business and operations. He is Pancho's partner in crime, and they do crime together across the island, often ending with a chase from Clover.
* **Hans:** Hans was a successful national athlete of the Kingdom of Madagascar, known for being good during the every-so-often Jungle Games. He later died but was brought back to life as a zombie by Doctor S.
* **Prince Barty** and **Princess Julienne:** King Julien's snobby, rich, and spoiled parents, who are very egotistical. People have thought them dead, eaten by the foosa. However, they care about their only son a lot and even stood in the way between him and the pirates who wanted to kill him.
* **Sage Moondancer:** A poetic nature enthusiast. He is a mountain lemur, who as a child wanted to be a color or a sound. He was the son of the late Mountain Lemur King before his younger brother, Koto, took the throne. He later becomes the King of the Mountain Lemurs after Koto's death. Also, the husband of Clover.
* **Maggie the Unwashed:** A physic chameleon just that is a little more gassy than Masikura, who often says the line "not sorry" after farting.
* **Zora:** She was one of Koto's soldiers until she fell in love with Mort. But, after they got married, they divorced and she fell in love with Uncle King Julien.
* **Mom-Bot:** One of Timo's inventions, that is like a mother figure to him. She also helped Mort reach Smart Mort in his head.

### Foreign Allies

* **King Joey:** A straightforward, stupid, but very thoughtful king, who has ruled the Rat Kingdom since its foundation. He and his people are known to be fans of mazes.
* **Crocodile Ambassador:** A proud and elegant leader of the Crocodiles. He is also known to be very sensitive and once cried when he was called a crybaby.
* **Prince Brodney:** Prince Brodney was a normal commoner aye-aye, before Prince Barty and Princess Julienne adopted him. He became the King of Madagascar for a moment, before marrying a commoner and losing the throne, only keeping the title Prince.
* **Stanislav/Станислав:** A Russian space monkey who was set to space during one of Soviet Union's space programs, before ending up in Madagascar. Stanislav speaks Russian and a little bit of English.
* **Mary Ann:** A female fossa who was caught in one of Clover's traps. She was an average savage fossa before King Julien captured her and "lemurised" her. She later became the fossa's leader and is also Horst's wife.

### Villains

* **Uncle King Julien**: As King Julien's uncle and predecessor, Uncle King Julien XII is a ring-tailed lemur who kept the lemurs in soul-crushing silence in order to avoid Fossa attacks. He placed his nephew in his place as king to kill him, but his plan ended up backfiring him.
* **Karl**: An evil fanaloka genius always equipped with a grand plan to defeat King Julien. He always has backup plans which save him whenever his plans are stopped by King Julien and his crew. However, he does become Julien's ally for a short while during All Hail King Julien: Exiled, where he works with Julien to destroy Koto.
* **Chauncey:** Karl's hissing cockroach right-hand man and friend since Lemur School. He always helps Karl spy on the kingdom, and always follows Karl, sitting on his hand.
* **Koto**: The former king of the Mountain Lemurs who ruled with an iron fist, conquering every other kingdom he can find. He is the main antagonist of All Hail King Julien: Exiled.
* **Crimson:** Clover's twin sister who wanted to marry King Julien, although he didn't like having to be with her forever and broke up with her on their wedding day. She later teamed up with Uncle King Julien to kill King Julien.
* **King Julien the Terrible:** An old ring-tailed lemur who was once the king of the lemurs. During his reign, he was trapped in a cave with his tail stuck under a rock by his people. He was later freed by King Julien who knew nothing of him, and he tried to take over.
* **Magic Steve:** A ring-tailed lemur magician who looks exactly like King Julien. He has a fascination over magic and illusions and always makes shows, as multiple lemurs mistook him for King Julien, much to his dismay.

* **Karen:** Karen is Julien's ex-girlfriend that Julien fought. She held a prom to call all the lemurs from lemur school back, but she did so to call out king Julien for everyone letting him win everything and even Maurice getting payed. After that, Karen tried to feed king Julien to fossas, but she eventually got eaten herself.
* **Wigman Wildebeest:** He was a warrior that killed Grandma Rose, and after that, Uncle King Julien employed him to kill Clover. However, he failed and Clover won the tournament.
* **Thrax:** The best foosa gladiator, who is known for killing his opponents. He is the favorite of Uncle King Julien.
* **Bruce:** Karl's older brother, who owns the company "Brüs by Bruce". He wants his poo coffee to be the most popular drink, so to make happen that he buys out other bevreage companies and destroyes them.

## Cast

* Danny Jacobs as King Julien XIII, Pancho
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Maurice, Chauncey, Todd, Butterfish, Pineapple
* India de Beaufort as Clover, Crimson
* Andy Richter as Mort, Ted
* Debra Wilson as Masikura, Mary Ann, Tammy,Amy
* Betsy Sodaro as Xixi
* David Krumholtz as Timo
* Henry Winkler as Uncle King Julien

### Additional voices

* Diedrich Bader as Abner
* Jeff Bennett as Willie, Horst, Hector, Doctor S, Stanislav,Magic Steve
* Dwight Schultz as Karl
* Sarah Thyre as Dorothy, Becca
* Bill Fagerbakke as King Joey

## Crew

* Christo Stamboliev - Director
* Matt Engstrom - Director
* James ‘Wootie’ Wooton - Unit Director
* Mitch Watson - Executive Producer
* Frederick Wiedmann - Music Composer
* Andy Gaskill - Storyboard
* Stephen Heneveld - Storyboard
* Emmanuel Deligiannis - Storyboard
* Sharon Flynn - Script Coordinator
* Elliot Owen - Script Coordinator
* Lisa Schaffer - Voice Director
* Collette Sunderman - Voice Director

## Reception

This series has received an Emmy for Outstanding Program. Unlike the previous Madagascar series, it is praised and adored by the Madagascar fanbase for being closer to the source material, the spectacular writing, the animation and how King Julien is portrayed.

All Hail King Julien also led the 45th Daytime Emmy Award - Animated Program Nominees list, with the most nominations that year, being nominated 7 times combined with the Exiled addendum. This caught the attention of a lot of entertainment magazines and news portals.

They later brought home 2 awards, Outstanding Sound Editing - Animation, and Outstanding Sound Mixing - Animation, which were both won by All Hail King Julien: Exiled.