“ | The humans know me as Dr. Octavius Brine: renowned geneticist, cheese enthusiast, and frequent donor to NPR pledge drives. But you know me by a different, much older name. A name perhaps you'd hoped you'd never hear again. A phantom! A shadow of a former life! I... am... DAVE!!! | „ |
~ Dave introducing himself to the penguins.
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“ | I’m happyyyy-and yet, now…that I had my revenge, I feel…empty…as if, what I needed all along was… MORE REVENGE! In fact, Robin, write this down. Tomorrow, we move onto KITTENS! Then puppies! Bunnies! PANDAS- | „ |
~ Dave planning to do what he did to the penguins to other animals just to have “more revenge”. |
Dr. David Styroker "Dave" Brine, also known as Dr. Octavius Brine, is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 30th full-length animated feature film Penguins of Madagascar, which is also the 4th movie in the Madagascar franchise.
He is a vengeful giant Pacific octopus who seeks revenge on the penguin species for taking away all the attention from him and causing him to get abandoned in the dark by any means necessary, even if it means getting them exterminated by humans.
He was voiced by John Malkovich, who also voiced Cyrus Grissom in Con Air.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He kidnapped all of the penguins under the guise of a human scientist named Dr. Octavius Brine and imprisoned them in cages in his submarine.
- He kidnapped the penguins to reveal his plan to them, using a vending machine to do so, and after they escaped, he ordered his octopi to get them.
- He sadistically turned a random cricket into a monster just for an experiment, taking joy in the results.
- He sadistically revealed to the penguins that he planned to turn them into monsters, explicitly telling them that he found it to be much, much worse than simply killing them.
- After capturing Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico, he sadistically attempted to turn Private into a monster in front of them, even pointlessly stalling the attempt just for kicks.
- When he seemingly disintegrated Private, he showed no remorse over how he might had killed the penguin, simply telling his octopi that that was why they test things in a happy voice.
- He had one of his octopi try to brutally kill the four North Wind Agents by sending them through his weaponized roller coaster.
- He admitted that he while he was aware that making penguins uglier wouldn't make anyone like him, it would make everyone despise the penguins and he would love to see that.
- He had his octopi turn all of the penguins into mutant monsters upon arriving at New York City and unleashed them, causing havoc throughout the city before tricking the humans into calling the exterminators in order to get all the penguins exterminated.
- Upon realizing that he still did not feel satisfied even after getting his revenge on the penguins and humans, he decided to take things further by attempting to get revenge on other animals like kittens, puppies, bunnies, and pandas, indicating that he intended to do the same thing he did to the penguins to them despite them playing absolutely no role in his backstory.
- When he saw the penguins trying to reverse the effects, he threw Skipper, Rico, and Kowalski into the exterminator trucks before trying to sadistically attack Private himself.
- He tried to attack the penguins one more time only to realize that the Medusa Ray had turned him small and adorable and gotten him trapped inside a snow globe.
- He was problably the most heinous villain of the franchise for the following reasons:
- He and Bone-Fossa were the rare villains of the franchise who try to commit a genocide. Unlike this latter, Dave's intentions concerned several species.
- He wanted to continue to commit new heinous crimes, that none other Madagacar villain had planned to do.
- Despite the penguins stealing his spotlight and being shunned, forgotten, unwanted and alone causing him to go down a path of villainy with Private even tearing up after hearing it, it didn't excuse his actions as he mutated all of the penguins, even though most of them were innocents and they never did anything wrong to him intentionally, and even after he got revenge on them, he decided to go on to mutate other animals that didn't even do anything to him just because he could.
- While one could argue he was affable towards his fellow Octopi as he never abused them, it isn't confirmed if he actually cares for them.
- Even though he was permanently trapped inside of a snow globe, it was more karmatic then sympathetic as he kidnapped and mutated innocent penguins and then unleashed them on New York to be exterminated.
- While he did seem to have a connection with the girl who got his snow globe, it was only because he thought someone finally liked him.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- While his crimes were played seriously enough for NPE, he was sometimes played for laughs, such as:
- Him awkwardly trying to make the Penguins remember who he was.
- Him being shown in his backstory to had been in a small tank in one aquarium that briefly emptied every time someone flushed the toilet.
- There being a running gag of the orders he gave to his minions sounding like him naming famous actors.
- Him video calling the North Wind only for his mic to be muted before unmuting and accidentally turning his video camera off.
- Him trying to make a dramatic exit through his call only to fail and require assistance from his octopi to hang it up.
- His defeat of getting shrunken down and put in a snow globe (after a bait-and-switch gag where he was seemingly enlarged to an enormous size) before being shaken by a girl who seemed to connect with him at first.
Trivia[]
- He, alongside Bone-Fossa, are currently the only two Madagascar villains to be Near Pure Evil.
- For a while he was Inconsistently Heinous as it was thought he was too comedic, before he was proposed and approved as Near Pure Evil, as it was decided he was taken seriously enough to be NPE.
External Links[]
- Dave on the Villains Wiki
- Dave on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Dave on the DreamWorks Wiki
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