Chantel DuBois

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“	Poor, poor animals. You should never have left the forest. Now you deal with me!	„
	~ Chantel DuBois

Captain Chantel Shannon DuBois is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 24th full-length animated feature film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.

She is a French animal control officer from Monaco who relentlessly pursues the animal protagonists, along with her men, so that she can mount their heads as trophies, particularly Alex the Lion. She is also Alex's second archenemy, after Nana.

She was voiced by Frances McDormand in her first villanous role, who later also portray Lady Macbeth in The Tragedy of Macbeth. In the videogame adaptation of the film, she was voiced by Alanna Ubach, who also voiced El Tigre in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, and Dr. Gidry in The Mentalist.

Personality[]

DuBois is the head of animal control. While she is doing her job to capture escaped animals, DuBois goes above the law and is utterly ruthless, aggressive, prejudicial, determined, and relentless in her goals. She is incredibly vituperative and cruel towards animals, which goes from mercilessly hunting them down and then using their decapitated heads as trophies. Her only goal was to catch a lion for one of her trophies.

In her zeal to capture the escaped zoo animals DuBois reveals to be somewhat calculating, psychopathic, schizophrenic, and manipulative, holding the law in an extremely low regard, as she puts innocent bystanders in harm's way, broke out of a jail in Italy, and still tried to kill Alex even though he had been returned to the Central Park Zoo. Near the end, DuBois reveals to be extremely inattentive and reckless, as she tries to kill Alex in front of a crowd, but is smart enough to mask the poison dart gun with a foam finger. She also proves herself to be very a vengeful woman, as she tries to kill Stefano simply out of vengeance for helping Alex escape her.

Biography[]

Early life[]

DuBois is the best animal control officer in Monaco with a perfect success record. She claims to have strangled her first parrot, flushed her first goldfish, and punched her first snake when she was seven years old.

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted[]

DuBois first appears near the beginning being called by hotel security about the animals; including the lion named Alex, the zebra named Marty, the giraffe named Melman, and the hippopotamus named Gloria. She and her henchmen pursue them to catch the animals, and mount their heads on the wall as trophies. She mainly prefers to hunt Alex because he's the one animal that will complete her collection, a lion. She sniffs for them in the same manner as a dog, and upon picking up Alex's scent, follows them in a long chase scene that ends when the animals try to escape on their plane. DuBois lassos Melman's neck, only for the rope to be cut by Alex, and she falls into the pool. As they fly away, she resurfaces, saying "Well-played, lion. Game on.".

She was later seen at the railroad that the animals were just at and uses her smell and a puddle of water to find out they have joined the circus heading for Rome and London and promptly jumps aboard the next train heading for the same place. She is briefly arrested in Rome but escapes by hiding in the bed while creating several other escape routes to fool the guards. They jump down a hole that they have believed that DuBois went down, and she cuts out from the bed, closes the cell door, and uses the computer to search up Alex and realizes his origins as a lion from Central Park Zoo.

She uses her singing voice to appeal to the patriotism of her henchmen (who had been injured during the chase at the beginning) and rouse them up, seemingly healing them instantly. They follow the animals once more, forcing them to retreat. She catches up to them with a paper of Alex, only to be catapulted away, though the circus animals see the paper and feel used and betrayed.

When the animals finally arrive in New York, DuBois finally intercepts them and tranquilizes them. The zoo staff thanks her, incorrectly believing that she tried to return Alex. DuBois attends a celebration for Alex's return, concealing a poison dart inside a foam finger and almost fires it at him, but the circus animals, being alerted by King Julien, arrive and rescue him and his friends.

After a long fight between the animals and DuBois and her henchmen, DuBois sees that Alex and his friends are successfully escaping with the circus animals while her henchmen are knocked out. As revenge, DuBois tries to kill Stefano, but Alex and Gia perform "Trapeze Americano" to save him before Alex and DuBois are thrown into the mid-air where they battle. Deciding to teach her a lesson, Alex dumps DuBois in his animal cage where she starts acting like an animal with his commands after she is tranquilized by Mort. DuBois is last seen trapped in a crate by the penguins, being shipped to Madagascar along with her henchmen as punishment for their threats, much to DuBois' shock and horror.

Powers and Abilities[]

Flexibility: DuBois is extremely agile, being able to dodge incoming objects with ease. She managed to duck underneath a moving train without batting an eyelash.
Durability: Dubois is very durable, being able to go straight through solid walls.
Gun: Like the rest of her henchmen, DuBois is equipped with a tranquilizer gun which she can also load with deadly poison darts, but does not have particularly great aim.
Tracking: DuBois' behavior when it comes to tracking is much like that of a dog's; she can sniff the ground and follow the scent of an animal that is miles away even if they had departed from the scene hours before she tracks them.
Singing: Chantel DuBois has a bizarre singing talent. She can arouse people with her singing by appealing to their patriotism. Her voice can also shatter objects, such as her henchmen's casts, and heal wounds.

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Allies[]

Enemies[]

Alex the Lion - Archenemy - Attempted Victim.
Marty the Zebra - Attempted Victim.
Gloria the Hippo - Attempted Victim.
Melman the Giraffe - Attempted Victim.
Penguins (Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private) - Attempted Victims and Captors.
Mason and Phil - Attempted Victims.
King Julien - Attempted Victim.
Maurice - Attempted Victim.
Mort - Attempted Victim.
Gia - Attempted Victim.
Stefano - Attempted Victim.
Vitaly - Attempted Victim.
Sonya - Attempted Victim.
The Dancing Dogs - Attempted Victims.
Esmeralda, Esperanza and Ernestina - Attempted Victims.
Rome Police officers - Attempted Victims and Captors.

Quotes[]

“	Hmm? Speak. Oui? A zebra, a hippo, a giraffe, a lion!?	„
	~ DuBois' first lines.

“	BAH! Stupid bozos!	„
	~ Chantel DuBois mocking the cops.

“	Volia! Giraffe at 12:00!	„
	~ DuBois spotting Melman and the rest of the gang.

“	Well played, lion. Game on.	„
	~ DuBois after Alex and the Gang escapes her.

“	When I was seven, I strangled my first parrot, flushed my first goldfish and punched my first snake. Now, I have finally reached the moment that I've been preparing my entire life, the pinnacle of my career, to hunt the king of the beasts!	„
	~ Chantel DuBois going on the hunt.

“	So you ran away with the circus? What a cliche.	„
	~ DuBois learning that Alex is hiding with the circus.

“	When in Rome, Viva La France!	„
	~ DuBois stealing Roman Police bikes.

“	Voila!	„
	~ DuBois learning that Alex is a missing lion from a zoo.

“	Attention! I have found the lion! He is hiding with the circus!	„
	~ DuBois regrouping with her men.

“	Bravo, bravo! What a heart warming performance, Monsieur Antoinette. It brought tears to my eyes. Laughs No, not really. Monsieur, we both know the lion does not belong to you. He is a fugitive from justice. You will turn the lion over to me so that I may put him where he belongs... On my wall.	„
	~ DuBois after the London performance.

“	Wait!	„
	~ DuBois, before being shot out of the cannon.

“	Surprise!	„
	~ DuBois capturing the Four zoosters near the zoo.

“	It was never about the money. It was about... the lion!	„
	~ DuBois preparing to kill Alex.

“	Noooooooooo!!!!!	„
	~ DuBois, after failing to kill Alex.

“	I will have your head!	„
	~ DuBois Trying to kill Stefano after having Alex taken away from her.

“	If I'm going down, your head is coming with me!	„
	~ DuBois' last words in the film.

Trivia[]

Chantel DuBois is so far Frances McDormand's first and only villainous role.
Chantel DuBois is, by far, the most evil main antagonist of the Madagascar trilogy. While the Fossas and Makunga, the main antagonists of the first two films, were a group of predators and a pompous jerk respectively, DuBois is more sadistic and competent than them. Unlike them, DuBois was willing to kill any animal who crossed on her way to achieve her goals and even formed an obsessive rivalry with Alex the Lion to the point of tracking him down to the Central Park Zoo even though Alex belonged there.
- Additionally, DuBois is the second human in the Madagascar film series to be an antagonist after Nana (who was a minor antagonist in Madagascar and the secondary antagonist of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa). They are both women, are formidable opponents, and also happen to be archenemies of Alex, but DuBois is a lot worse than Nana, as she kills animals for enjoyment, whereas Nana only tried to kill Alex for food.
DuBois could be schizophrenic due to her ability to see multiple timeframes at once in the form of hallucinations, a known symptom of schizophrenia.
It should be noted that had DuBois succeeded in killing Alex at the end, she would have been most likely arrested for animal murder, as she had spoken to the crowd in a sinister tone, vaguely hinting what she was going to do with Alex. DuBois likely didn't realize this, as her obsession to kill the lion was her top priority above all.
The late Carrie Fisher and Bette Midler were both considered for the role of Chantel DuBois before Frances McDormand was cast.
DuBois' last name comes from the French words "du bois", meaning "of (the) wood".
DuBois is the fourth animated character in a DreamWorks Animation film to be a female main antagonist after Mrs. Tweedy from Chicken Run, Eris from Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and the Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2. She is followed by Ms. Grunion from Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Chef from Trolls, and Dr. Zara from Abominable.
Fitting with the film's circus theme, DuBois's figure, pale facial make-up, and even her hair, along with her wicked nature, makes her resemble an evil clown. This is further explored in the Madagascar 3 novelization, in which Stefano flat-out calls her an "evil clown."

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Chantel DuBois

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Biography[]

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