| “ | Poacher 1: "That's it. Here, kitty, kitty." Poacher 2: "Ah, this one's a beauty. He'll be worth a few bucks." |
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| ~ The poachers capturing Alex. |
The Poachers are the overarching antagonists of DreamWorks' 17th full-length animated feature film, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the second installment of the Madagascar franchise.
Despite their short screentime, they were primarily behind Alex/Alakay's separation from his biological family in an African jungle. This happened years before the franchise's main events happened.
They were voiced by Fred Tatasciore (who also voiced Teetsi and an elephant in the same film, the Fossas in the first film, and King Fossa in the video game adaptation) and Eric Darnell (who also voiced Joe the Witch Doctor in the same film).
Biography[]
One day, in an animal reserve in Africa, Zuba the lion was teaching his son, Alakay, how to fight by tackling Makunga when he attempts to become the Alpha Lion. Alakay was too busy watching a butterfly, and soon discovers the end of a rope tied in a ball knot. Curious, Alakay approaches it, only for the rope to back away when he approaches. Alakay ends up chasing the rope until he gets to the fence boundary of the reserve. Once outside of the fence, Alakay realizes too late that the rope led to two poachers who were using it to bait him outside of the reserve. Remarking that he would be worth a few bucks, they seal the lion cub within a wooden crate and drive off in their truck.
Hearing his son's cries for help, Zuba chases after the truck into a jungle beyond the reserve, eventually catching up by leaping at the truck from a hill. As Zuba tries to free Alakay, the poachers see him through the truck mirror and shoot him with a shotgun. A bullet strikes Zuba in the ear, causing him to fall off the truck. When the truck makes a sharp turn, the now unstrapped crate containing Alakay falls and lands in a river below. Once his blurred vision clears up, Zuba resumes chasing the truck, unaware that his son's crate was flowing down the river to the ocean. Eventually, the crate led Alakay to New York City. When the zookeepers found Alakay, they renamed him Alex the Lion, and raised him in the Central Park Zoo. While Zuba soon gave up the chase, what happens to the poachers remains unknown. However, they do have an immense disappointment ahead of them, as Alex was never in their haulage.
After Alex returned to the reserve and was alive to his parents, the poachers were mentioned by them, and Zuba still held great grief of Alex's capture when he was asked what happened, despite the fact that his son was still alive and with him.
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