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Capitaine Chantel Shannon DuBois, or simply known as DuBois, is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 24th full-length animated feature film, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, the third installment of the Madagascar franchise.

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 met Alex, she became his arch-nemesis.

She was voiced by Frances McDormand in her first villainous role, who also played 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 Monaco 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, going 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. She even boasted of killing animals ever since she was a child, having strangled a parrot, punched a snake, and flushed a goldfish all by the time she was only seven years old. These remorseless recounts of animal cruelty indicate DuBois to be a sadistic psychopath.

In her zeal to capture the escaped zoo animals DuBois reveals herself 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, breaks out of a jail in Italy, and continued to hunt Alex even though he had left her jurisdiction in Monaco, arrogantly demand that the King of Versailles (Phil and Mason in disguise) surrender Alex to her custody despite not having the legal authority to do so, and attempted to assassinate Alex even after he was returned to the Central Park Zoo. Near the end, DuBois is revealed 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 a very vengeful woman, as she tries to kill Stefano simply out of vengeance for helping Alex to escape. All of DuBois's crimes result in her downfall where she gets thrown into the animal cage by Alex and tranquilized with her own dart from Mort before the penguins arrange for DuBois and her men to be shipped in crates to Madagascar.

Biography[]

Early life (Mentioned)[]

DuBois is the best animal control officer in Monaco with a perfect success record. She makes all of the animal head statues in walls as her collection followed by golden snakes. She mentions strangling her first parrot, flushing her first goldfish, and punching 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 and dangled over the city after Mort got kicked off the plane by Julien, Mort lands on DuBois's face and climb into her clothes long for Alex to cut the rope and she falls into a rooftop pool. As they fly away, she resurfaces, and says, "Well played, lion. Game on."

She is 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 believe DuBois went down, and she cuts out from the bed, closes the cell door, and uses the computer to search for Alex and realizes his origins as a lion from the Central Park Zoo.

She sets out to rescue her henchmen (who had been injured during the chase at the beginning) to help her capture Alex by using the power of her singing voice to appeal to heal them instantly. They follow the animals once more, forcing them to retreat. She catches up to them with a flyer of Alex, only to be catapulted away, though the circus animals see the flyer 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 but rips the check concealing a poison dart inside a foam finger and secretly fires it at him. Before the dart almost reaches Alex, Gia appears and pulls him away causing a dart to hit the light instead where 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 nabs and tries to kill Stefano, but Alex and Gia foil this by performing "Trapeze Americano" to save him until Alex and DuBois are both thrown into mid-air and battle. DuBois rants that if she comes down that Alex would also come down with her as they plummets downward to the former penguin exhibit filled with aquatic cobras, but two of the dancing dogs fly their rocket skates to save him while DuBois attempted to bite at him in vain. Having enough of DuBois' behaviors and deciding to teach her a lesson about the meaning of animals' lifestyle, Alex furiously dumps DuBois in his former cage where she starts acting like an actual lion, to which Alex states that it's where animals like her belong and then gives her the command to sit before she is tranquilized by Mort with her own dart that Alex uses this opportunity to give her few of his commands and leaves her in paralyzed statement. In the pre-credit scene, DuBois is last seen being trapped in a crate by the Penguins and shipped to Madagascar along with her henchmen in separate crates as punishment for their crimes, much to DuBois' shock and horror.

What happens to them afterward is very likely, but it's very common that upon arriving at Madagascar, DuBois and her henchmen are caught and arrested by the authorities and sent back to Monaco under maximum security with a sad and humiliated DuBois for not getting Alex's head for her collection. After DuBois' crimes against animals are finally exposed to the public, she is likely to be dismissed from her job and sent to prison while the authorities confiscates all of her taxidermy collection of animal heads (without Alex and his friends) with the Monaco Animal Control reforms into Monaco Animal Control and Rescue Service to prevent any more animal cruelty due to her heinous crimes, leaving Dubois' plan in vain and ending her reign of terror towards animals once and for all.

Powers and Abilities[]

• Agility: DuBois has excellent agility for a woman of her girth. She can pass through a large slick of fish oil with her feet and a car with ease and catch up to the animals' plane on foot.
• Flexibility: DuBois is extremely agile despite her size, being able to dodge incoming objects with ease. She managed to duck underneath a moving train without batting an eye.
• Durability: DuBois is very durable, being able to go straight through solid walls.
• Gunmanship: 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: 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. Her voice is tenor like male opera singers.

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Trivia[]

• Chantel DuBois is the only animated villain that was voiced by Frances McDormand.
• DuBois' last name comes from the French words "du bois", meaning "of (the) wood".
• Fitting with the film's circus theme, DuBois's plump 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."
• She is currently the only main antagonist in the film series to be a human being, as her predecessors, the Fossas and Makunga, are animals. Even though Nana is also a human, she was only a minor antagonist in the first film, and was just upgraded as one of the main antagonists of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. As for Dave from the spinoff film, Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie, he's really an octopus who only disguises himself as a human being named Dr. Octavius Brine.
• DuBois could be considered as a foil to Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria, representing what they would've become if they decided to stay in the Central Park Zoo instead of the circus.

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