Marty the Zebra is the deuteragonist of the Madagascar franchise, he is the deuteragonist of Madagascar and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and the tritagonist of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Marty also appears as a minor character Penguins of Madagascarmovie and a central protagonist in the online prequel series Madagascar: A Little Wild.
He is a zebra who lived at the Central Park Zoo, and a best friend of Alex. 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.
He is voiced by Thomas Stanley (in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa) and Amir O'Neil as a child (in Madagascar: A Little Wild) and Chris Rock as an adult.