| “ | Sir, we have a serious problem: Capitaine Chantel DuBois, Monaco Animal Control: perfect case record. | „ |
| ~ Kowalski to Skipper on Dubois' background. |
| “ | 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. |
| “ | If I'm going down, your head is coming with me! | „ |
| ~ Dubois' last words before she tries to kill Alex again, only to be defeated by the lion and then locked up with her men by Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. |
Capitaine 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. When DuBois first meets Alex, she became his arch-nemesis.
She was voiced by Frances McDormand. In the video-game adaptation of the film, she was voiced by Alanna Ubach.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Make Her Close to Being Pure Evil[]
In General[]
- She is very much aware that the animals she is hunting down are sentient:
- She witnesses them perform several acts which display their sentience. She sees the main characters driving a car while they are trying to get away from her, she sees monkeys driving a plane, she sees a monkey being able to operate weapons which shoot bananas at her and she sees King Julien and Sonya driving a motorcycle. She doesn't seem particularly surprised by any of these occurrences which indicates she was aware of the animals' sentience even before the events of the film.
- It is also shown on several occasions that she is aware about how intelligent the animals she is chasing are. For example, she correctly deduces that the animals are trying to get away from her by joining a circus, so they could blend in and hide from her. She also sets up an ambush in front of the New York Zoo because she correctly predicts that Alex and his friends are trying to return there because that's where they grew up. These instances further show that she is aware the animals are sentient and can strategise.
- She doesn't care about her henchmen and only keeps them around because they are useful. When they get taken out during the chase throughout Monaco, she doesn't seem concerned about their well-being, calling them "stupid bozos". While she later goes into their hospital room and heals them by singing to them, it's only done because they are useful to her and she needs them to capture the animals. Her tearing up by the end of the song doesn't prove she cares for them either because she only tears up due to how beautiful her song is and not because she is sad about what happened to them.
- Although she has many comedic moments, she is not too comedic to be NPE because her crimes are still treated seriously and none of the other characters in the film perceive her as a joke. Her being a sadistic serial killer of animals who collects their body parts as trophies is never played for laughs, she is presented as competent and dangerous, none of the other characters within the film find her funny and they are terrified of her and even some of her comedic moments are used to further establish her as a threat even though they are funny like the scenes where she crawls on four legs to smell the scent of the animals she is chasing are used to show that she has the unique skill of being able to track the animals from a great distance which further establishes her as a threat and makes her appear more dangerous even though the scenes are portrayed as funny.
- While Dave is way more heinous, Dubois has less resources than him, allowing her to stand out.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted[]
- Even as a young girl she has displayed sociopathic tendencies. She explains with pride to her henchmen how when she was 7 she has strangled her first parrot, flushed her first goldfish and punched her first snake. The body of her snake is even shown on-screen and she uses it to put pencils inside its mouth.
- Ever since then, she has killed many animals for fun and has taken their body parts for her collection. Her sadism has led her to start a career as an animal control officer for the chance of legally killing more animals. She keeps a collection of dozens of animal heads and other body parts hanging on the wall in her office.
- She wants to add a lion head to her collection because she believes this would be the pinnacle of her career. When she hears about Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and their friends causing trouble in Monaco, she is delighted because Alex is a lion and she could cut off his head and add it to her collection. She takes her henchmen and chases after the animals with the intention of killing them all.
- Even after the animals go outside her jurisdiction in Monaco, DuBois continues to look after them and try to kill them because she is obsessed with the idea of acquiring a lion head.
- When she realises that the animal gang hides with a circus, DuBois decides to get to them. When she sees King Julien and the bear Sonya driving a motorcycle, she goes after them because she believes they would lead her to the circus and steals a police motorcycle.
- After this backfires on her and she is ambushed by police officers, she shoots darts at them which causes all of them to pass out except for one who got lucky because DuBois ran out of darts.
- Inside her prison cell she digs a hole and tricks the guards into jumping inside and then she traps them and escapes.
- She gets her henchmen back and goes after the circus where the gang hides, trying to get to Alex and cut off his head.
- When Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria reach the gates of the New York Zoo, DuBois ambushes them and shoots darts which cause them to pass out. She tries to saw off Alex's head and only stops when other people arrive and they think DuBois has returned Alex with DuBois deciding to play along.
- During the ceremony to celebrate Alex's return, she tries to kill Alex by shooting a poisoned dart at his direction.
- When all the animals managed to get away from her except the sea lion Stefano, she captured Stefano and tried to kill him out of frustration.
- When Alex returns to save Stefano, DuBois makes one final attempt on his life by trying to take his head off.
What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?[]
- While her crimes are taken seriously in-universe, she still has several detracting comedic moments throughout the film which include her crawling on four legs to smell the ground for the animals or licking their footsteps, her slapping the hotel manager because he was preventing her from smelling the direction in which the animals had gone, her shooting with darts at several police officers with each of them standing in line in front of her only for her to run out of darts for the last officer and get arrested, her healing her henchmen by singing Edith Piaf, her being fired away from a cannon, her being crushed between the butts of two elephants, her being hit by a dart and Alex commanding her to roll over and her final defeat where she and her henchmen are sent to Madagascar in crates which mirrors what happened to the gang in the first film. However, this is a minor prevention since it doesn't offset how dangerous she is to the animals.
Trivia[]
- She, alongside Bone-Fossa and Dave, are currently the three Madagascar villains to be Near Pure Evil. She's also so far the only one from the series who's human and female.
- She is also the only Near Pure Evil Madagascar villain to be in the Madagascar film trilogy.
External Links[]
- Chantel DuBois on the Villains Wiki
- Chantel DuBois on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Chantel DuBois on the Madagascar Wiki
- Chantel DuBois on the Shonen Villains Wiki
- Chantel DuBois on the VS Battles Wiki
- Chantel DuBois on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
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