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saw a redraw of a scene from the penguins movie so i had to rush and prepare a humanization of. mr wolf

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rewatched the movie again and despite the fact that it was meant to highlight skipper and private's relationship, i still love the fact that it showed kowalski and rico also love private. the fact that they had the two have the same amount of panic and level of distraught private was kidnapped, protectiveness when private was being threatened and absolute terror and pain when they thought private was dead as skipper did

they're a family your honor

#also the fact that kowalski gave him a bear hug while rico gave him a gentle one?#i love that detail #i know it's cuz rico has wing arms and can't really do much in terms of a hug #BUT IT'S RICO hes never NOT gentle (unless it's his dolly)#they make me all happy and fuzzy uwu #penguins of madagascar #pom #pom movie #penguins of madagascar movie #the penguins of madagascar #tpom #tpom skipper #tpom kowalski #tpom rico #tpom private #pom skipper #pom kowalski #pom rico #pom private

Meet the character!

Part 4: Private

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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⚡Los Pingüinos me la van a Mascar⚡

⚡Kawazaki⚡

⚡Cago⚡

⚡Krico⚡

⚡Estriper⚡

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I made my husband watch Penguins of Madagascar lol

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another post with the penguins as The Plastics cause Skipper is the embodiment of Regina George. to me <3

also Kowalski's outburst in Whispers and Coups is just like Gretchen's Caesar speech, it all just fits so well

close ups under cut!

#did I watch the entire movie again just for this? no comment #for anyone curious I assigned the characters the following:#Skipper is Regina George #Kowalski is Gretchen #Rico is Karen #and Private is Cady #the penguins of madagascar #tpom #tpom skipper #tpom kowalski #tpom rico #tpom private #mean girls #madagascar #pom skipper #pom kowalski #pom rico #pom private #kowalski-art

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.