Spent eight years in the Jungles of Mexico.Talented singer, dancer, and in combat.Hates it when people call him "pudgy."(Fit to Print).Mistaken for "Joe Penguin" for the first Madagascar film.Believes that Private's accent is fake and adorable at the same time.He married his bride doll, Lola in Escape to Africa, but she was missing in the series and the movies, suggesting Skipper finally realized she was just a doll or because she "died".He also fears that if Rico goes through stunts too much, then he'll over react with it. However, in "Kaboom and Kabust" Skipper's love for destruction is not as strong as Rico's. They both have a love of destruction in the series, while it lacks in the films. Skipper believes that Private is dead after he fails to call them through the upper level.Īs children, Rico helps Skipper come up with their signature flipper slapping called the "high one." Because of his useful storage, Skipper comments that Rico is a "valued member of team. Skipper later becomes determined to save him from Dave, and becomes very distraught when the medusa serum seemingly kills Private. He then endangers Private when he has him as the distraction to stop Dave and ends up getting Private kidnapped by the mad scientist. During the film, Skipper continues treating him like a tagalong. In "When the Chips Areĭown", Skipper thought they truly lost Private and began grieving for him, but immediately cried and later hugged Private, telling him to never scare Skipper like that ever again. " Private? You're alive! Don't EVER scare me like that again, do ya hear me? Do ya hear me? Do ya hear me? Do ya hear me?" -Skipper to Private upon seeing him alive Įver since Private was a child, Skipper has loved him and called him adorable (which got annoying to Private after ten years of hearing it come from Skipper's mouth.) Even though Skipper is hard at times, he has a soft spot for Private. An example is in "I Was A Penguin Zombie" where everyone believed Skipper was dead and Kowalski took over temporarily until he was revealed alive in the end of the episode). Kowalski is usually a replacement as leader for Skipper whenever their leader is unavailable. The few times he doesn't ask for Kowalski's ideas was when he refused to hear options from Kowalski because he got them in the situation in the first place. However, there are times when Skipper gets irritated with Kowalski's ideas, finding them sometimes ridiculous. Skipper always looks to Kowalski for options and usually follows it. Kowalski is Skipper's second in command, friend and brother figure. Overall, Skipper is a proud, stubborn leader who cares underneath all that hard-boild egg persona and inspires the Penguins by being both a leader and a friend. For example, in the television series, one of the episodes has Skipper worry over Private excessively while the other Penguins and the lemurs were looking for Private and Mort. He does see them as friends., for he immedately began telling the other Penguins in rescuing Marty, Melman, and Gloria from the Fossa.Īpart from his strange behavior, Skipper has a soft spot for his penguin comrades, especially towards Private. He sometimes doesn't think highly of other mammals however, he does value their opinions once in a while. He sometimes believes women are weak and need protecting, but finds Marlene strong and his one -time girlfriend, Kitka, very brave. He also has a dislike towards hippies, especially wanting to go back in time using Kowalski's time machine to slap a couple of them. He can be paranoid at times and believes the unthinkable, like believing space squids could come down and invade Earth or the possibility of an apocalyptic future. Skipper does not know how to read and according to Private, Skipper has a fragile ego (which is true in Truth Ache). He is somewhat deluded, as he married his "girlfriend," Lola the Hula Girl, even though she is an inanimate object. saving Private from Dave and refusing to abandon an egg and also wanting to save Marty, knowing he may have been in danger when looking for Alex when he was feral. According to Private, Skipper would never leave a man behind no matter who they were, even with fancy equipment and a plan or not (i.e. Born to be leader and is often hard at times, Skipper truly is a complex character.
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