Marty is a zebra and the deuteragonist of the Madagascar franchise. He is the main protagonist of the original film, the tritagonist of Escape 2 Africa and the deuteragonist of Europe's Most Wanted, and cameo character in Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie. In the beginning, Marty lived a life of comfort in the zoo, but comfort led to boredom and Marty soon saw that his tenth birthday came and went and with that, his life was halfway in. Marty decided, then, that he must travel to the wild, for at least a short time, never having seen the wild. At one point in the movie, Alex says he's black with white stripes, as he has 30 black, and only 29 white, but this was partly due to the fact that Alex had to give an explanation as to why he was licking Marty, as he thought he was the steak in his dream
