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This article is officially part of both the movies' and the series' timelines

Private is a main character in the Madagascar franchise.

He is the youngest member of the four Penguins.

Private is voiced by Christopher Knights in the film and James Patrick Stuart in the TV series

Early life

Baby private

Private as a baby shortly after his birth in the movie.

Before he was born, Private as an egg was presumably abandoned by his parents. According to Operation Penguin, Private's father's name is Sam Fishy; however, his mother's name is unknown. His egg was eventually buried in a snowbank and began rolling down a hill, knocking down three penguin children, Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico. Skipper, not willing to let a defenseless egg get smashed goes to save it but ends up making it fall down a cliff.

The penguins, growing worried when they see the penguin egg endangered by a group of leopard seals, all fall down the cliff and enter the danger zone on the ship. Rico swallows the egg whole and carries it to safety with the rest of his brothers.

Shortly after they escape the leopard seals, Skipper accidentally slaps the egg's shell, which activates Private being hatched. Private greets them and inquires if they are his family. Before Skipper responds, child Kowalski answers that Private has no family and that they are all going to die. However, Skipper instead slaps Kowalski and tells baby Private that they're all the family the baby penguin has. They adopt him as their baby brother and name him Private.

Personality

Out of all the penguins, Private is a down-to-earth person and tries to get out the non-violent way of things, unlike his fellow penguins. Sometimes he can get impatient i. e. in one episode, Private starts to inhabit cabin fever while stuck with Mort but does get out of it when Mort eats all of the food and they can escape.

He mostly starts picking up several of the older penguins' habits, especially from Skipper, as he becomes more aggressive as the series goes on. Still, though, Private cares and loves his family until the end of the earth, choosing his friends over love and having full faith in his brothers when Private is held captive by Dave. He also seems more friendly than the others and has harbored paternal instincts toward younger life forms. Mostly this was shown in "Paternal Egg Stinct" when his brothers had threatened the unhatched Eggy with "pushing too hard."

Most of the penguins are protective over Private, despite being a valued member of their group. However, it was most likely because Private had been endangered as an egg. They usually tend to cover his eyes from something they deem inappropriate, or cover his ears when Skipper uses his "angry words".

Appearance

Private is a short, young penguin. He is about nine later ten years old (revealed in the film) and younger than all his other brothers. He has blue eyes yellow webbed feet, and a orange beak. Private has black wings that cover his whole front down to his feet.

Appearances

TV series

Film

  • Madagascar
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
  • Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie

The Penguins of Madagascar

Season 1

Season 2

Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie

During the battle at the Aquarium in Shanghai, China, Dave kidnapped Private along with the other penguins. After witnessing Dave the full power of the Medusa serum, he accidentally alerted Dave of his presence by yelling "crikey," a term Private used earlier when he and the other penguins were initially captured by their one time. Though discovered, Private swears to Dave that when his brothers come, they'll bring about disaster to his operation. Dave realizes that Private's brothers are coming to them and decides to use it to his advantage. When Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico are captured as well. However, Private escapes before using the paperclip that he swallowed earlier

Centered episodes

Season 1

  • Mask of the Raccoon
  • Untouchable
  • The Penguin Stays In the Picture
  • Truth Ache
  • Skorca

Season 2

  • The Red Squirrel
  • Stop Bugging Me
  • Mr. Tux
  • Love Hurts
  • A Visit From Uncle Nigel
  • Arch-Enemy

Season 3

  • Operation: Lunacorn Apocalypse
  • Antics on Ice
  • Showdown on Fairway 18
  • A Kipper for Skipper-
  • High Moltage
  • Private and the Winky Factory

Other centric episodes

  • Danger Wears A Cape (shared with Kowalksi, Rico
  • Paternal Egg-Stinct (shared with Julien,
  • Tangled in the Web (shared with Julien and Marlene
  • Concrete Jungle Survival (shared with the lemurs)
  • Stop Bugging Me- (shared with Rico)
  • Badger Pride (shared with Marlene)
  • Night and Dazed (shared with Leonard)
  • Wishful Thinking- (shared with Julien)
  • The Officer X Factor (shared with Rico, Skipper, and Kowalski)
  • Operation: Break Speare (shared with Julien and Skipper,)
  • Cute-Astrophe (shared with Skipper)
  • The Hoboken Surprise (shared with Rico, Skipper, and Kowalski)
  • The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole (shared with Skipper, King Julien, Kowalski, Mort, Maurice, Rico)
  • Operation: Good Deed (shared with Rico, Skipper, Kowalski)
  • When the Chips are Down (shared with Mort)
  • Our Man in Grrfurjiclestan (shared with Rico, Skipper, and Kowalski)
  • Operation: Antarctica (shared with Skipper, Julien)
  • Operation: Big Blue Marble Kowalski, Skipper, King Julien, Rico)
  • Smotherly Love (shared with Rico, Skipper, and Kowalski)
  • Street Smarts (shared with Mort and King Julien)
  • Goodnight and Good Chuck (shared with Rico, Skipper, and Kowalski)

Relationships

Main article: Private/Relationships

Girlfriends/Dates/Crushes

Cupid

(Love interest in Merry Madagascar) A female reindeer whom Private immediately falls in love with upon seeing her. This is a forbidden romance because Christmas reindeer and penguins are natural enemies because of Santa's choice to move to the North Pole instead of the South Pole. Both their families despise the relationship, particularly Private's oldest brother Skipper, who even slapped him out of a daze for Cupid. Before an actual romance, Private and Cupid depart, but not before saying goodbye to each other. Their relationship somewhat resembled that of Romeo and Juliet.

Shawna

(Love interest in season 2) Private later falls in love with a human intern named Shawna. He gets himself injured every time he just to go visit her. Eventually, the others find out and Private later asks if they have ever been in love, and they respond to how it felt like. However, seeing he is an animal and she is a human, this would never have been seen through. Private later chooses his brothers over love.

Gallery/Images

Main article: Private/Gallery

Trivia

  • More emotional than other penguins
  • His name is Private, as are his rank, and secret shame (Wishful Thinking)
  • Afraid of badgers, and distrusts them
  • Loves watching the show, Lunacorns, a parody of My Little Pony.
  • Attended community college.
  • Hero and protagonist of the film, Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie. because it focuses on his feelings and his story and saves all the other penguins.
  • As of the episode, "Concrete Jungle," Private is now 'Private, First Class'
  • He is the only penguin to speak in a British accent

References

Main Characters
SkipperKowalskiPrivateRicoKing JulienMauricePhilMasonMortMarleneClassifiedEvaDaveShort FuseCorporal
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