#he just looks and acts like rico from penguins from madagascar

[stylera]

just watched the 2018 tabaluga movie and saw james...

[sarnai4]

Expectation Subversion

Penguins of Madagascar has some of my favorite examples of subverting expectations for personalities. They also gave me something that I try to use when creating my own characters. It seems like the characters can easily fit into a one-dimensional stereotype, but then there's more. Let's start off with Rico.

At first glance, Rico is just a loose cannon. In lesser shows, he might have been. After all, he just needs to be the silly one who spits up weapons and sure, he is, but that's not all. Rico is also fiercely loyal. He's the same one who was terrified of a "haunted" car and still braved it head-on when it had hurt Skipper. Comically enough, he can just as easily turn on the others when Ms. Perky wants him to do something else (cue Rico attacking them because of that darn voice box). An underrated skill of Rico's is how resourceful he is. He always knows exactly what weapon is necessary for the moment. With these skills, his loyalty, and his fun/unhinged flair, he really comes to life as a character.

Private is seemingly just the nice guy of the group. He's the young one who's innocent. Again, this is a part of him. He is very nice, not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings like when he was supposed to win a rude-off against Clemson. He's also pretty naive with a lot of things, being unsuspecting about Hans actually being bad. Despite this, there's more to Private than niceness. He's got the most common sense of the group, being the only one to see that grabbing the plant needed to save Maurice's life would be easier than continuing to use the jaws of life AND realizing how unlikely it was that Santa was spending Christmas Eve in a random building. I also love how he's got a backstory of being this almost ruthless mini golf player. His underrated skill is that he's the second best fighter of the group. Solely looking at fin-to-fin combat, Private is the only one who's been on par with Skipper.

Kowalski could have just been the "science nerd." He definitely has this as a core part of him, but he's also such a drama queen. I love it. He's the poster boy for book smarts because this penguin has a score of 0 for practical reasoning. Heck, he had to figure out which instincts to use. His struggles with this leads to him continuously making inventions that almost kill everybody. Kowalski is always an invention away from turning into a mad scientist. I'm convinced this actually has happened before and then he just snaps back to his senses (thinking about times like Jiggles and more). Something else which adds an interesting layer to him is how much he wants to be in charge. He's technically the second-in-command and has made it clear that he'd like to replace Skipper when the time comes. "Kowalski's log...too soon?"

Skipper seems like he's just the tough boss. In a comedy like this, he easily could've been an incompetent leader. Rather than that, he's honestly a very good leader who is clever with his plans. Seriously, his escape plans shown in Pets Peeved and more episodes really demonstrate how thoroughly he can think out a strategy even when he's on the spot. Along with this, Skipper tries to act hard and rough, but he makes it clear that he cares about his team more than anything. He even faced his fear of needles (this show singlehandedly taught me what trypanophobia was) for Private when he learned that the soldier would've been hurt otherwise. It even stretches beyond them. Skipper really cares about everyone in the zoo, going so far as to look out for Julien who is probably one of his least favorite zoo mates. I also really like how much being a leader means to Skipper. When he thought he couldn't be in charge anymore, he was having a meltdown. He even put Private as leader just so that he could make it clear who actually deserves the position. It's so petty, that it's almost beautiful.

[cloudhayato]

Okay.

I think you could see Butch Hartman’s style as almost an antithesis to Akira Amano’s. Amano’s style tries for striking detail, diverse outfits, and dynamic, fluid combat. To the contrary, Butch Hartman’s character design is simple through and through. This can be chalked up to the difference between manga and animation, but I’ve seen his illustrations as well and honestly, I’m not very impressed.

An AU’s purpose is to stray from the source material, hence the name “alternate universe.” The intensity of differences are not set in stone, and can simply be slightly altering some scenes, or completely altering the world, setting and story. These are all valid forms of AUs. I don’t know if artstyles could possibly count as AU since everyone has own unique to them, and it’s their visual rendering of the character’s but I would dare call this a visual AU because of the iconicness of the style you’re emulating and also because it makes me feel rage.

Penguins of Madagascar, from what I can remember of the TV show, is deeper hijinks linked to criminal organizations, similar to khr. You could probably put the Kokuyo gang in that world as penguins and have it fit, though you’d have to change the motivations and also there aren’t enough penguins for each character. The penguins, committing some morally gray actions, ultimately see themselves as the hero. In the movie’s they act a lot more in self-interest, while in the show, there is a genuine desire to keep peace and stop evil from succeeding. Like when they stopped their nemesis, Dr. Blowhole the dolphin, from melting the polar ice caps or whatever the fuck he was doing I’m not looking it up. They’ve also faced against a walrus who I don’t remember if they did anything evil but they were some kind of spy or something.

So would the kokuyo penguins be evil? How do you translate their goals to the PoM universe? Are we adding all the characters to this universe and assigning them roles? Like, Reborn would be King Julien and I don’t know the devil would be Mort. Or are we just taking account their self-contained hijinks among the group and the small missions and heists they go on. There was something would a toy factory and all I remember is that Private got left behind to die, so, that fucking sucks for him.

I think Fran would be that egg they took care of and then hatched into a very powerful duckling with all their abilities. I think his name was Ducky? Yeah that’s Fran. Kowalski would be Chikusa, Rico is Ken, and Private would be Chrome. Skipper is obviously Mukuro, and that’s all the penguins + duckling so M.M. is Marlene the otter. God is dead and we have killed them.

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