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Ogres are a staple of fantasy and fairy tales, and so appear in many forms. Most have the following traits in common:

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

** Ogres have simple minds, ugly tempers, and voracious appetites. They are at least 9 feet tall, and depending on the edition, their body parts were a rainbow of disgusting colors (in 3E, they were mostly orange-yellow; in 4E, pink-gray). They wear skins and furs and keep captured prisoners as slaves (and/or snacks). They're not very bright and are often the first [[The Brute|Really Heavy Hitter]] enemy PCs come across. Ogres (as well as trolls) traditionally worship the evil god Vaprak.

** In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', the origin story of the ogres is that they are the cursed progeny of the giant goddess Othea, who was raped by Vaprak.

** Ogres in ''Al-Qadim'' mostly are peaceful and productive members of Enlightened society like most other creatures. Ogres are clannish, some more brutish than others, and some more fashionable; they take variety of occupations, up to and including an occasional barber, though most prefer to exploit their advantages as porters or warriors. The Caliph's palace guard is made up entirely of ogres. However, savage ogre tribes are very common in the wild southern islands. There are also ogre magi (whom common ogres dislike) and related ogre giants with elephant ears and often cyclopean single eye - mostly savage and brutish, but some joined the Enlightened society or even became missionaries to their own kind.

** The ogres of ''[[Pathfinder]]'' are basically giant hillbilly rapists.

** Merrows are an aquatic offshoot of ogres. They breathe underwater, have scaly blue skin, and use spears instead of clubs, but are otherwise similar to normal ogres. (Note that in real-world Irish folklore, merrows were actually a kind of (generally good-natured) [[Our Mermaids Are Different|merfolk]].

** Specifically they become mostly capable of acting civilized after being upgraded to ''merely stupid'' with neural implants.

* Hungarian tabletop RPG/book series "World of Chaos" (like Tolkien except all the elves and dwarves are missing -imagine a [[WoW]] where the Horde has won - with the half-orc Skandar Graun acting as the main protagonist). Ogres are a major race and are given even more mutations (extra horns, heads, limbs etc.) to pick from.

* The Ogres of ''[[GURPS]]: Banestorm'' are among the Elder Folk of Yrth but by far the least advanced of everyone, even the orcs are cultured and intelligent compared to them. Their only saving grace is that they're stronger and tougher than every other species.

* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' Ogres are those abductees who were warped by abusive behaviour into tough, violent and large monsters, often with a penchant for human flesh. Their stereotypical view of humans is "''You're beautiful. On the other hand, you taste like chicken.''" Overlaps with [[All Trolls Are Different]], as some trolls are water-themed ogres.

* Ogres are a staple creature type for red and black in [[Magic: The Gathering]]. Those that have special abilities tend to be able to harm their controller or other friendly creatures.

* Ogres in [[Shadowrun]] are a variant of Orc who are actually rather short. Also hairless, with protruding jaws.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Also, in a small subversion, in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' there's a quest where you run into a two-headed ogre who's quite intelligent, and heckles you for thinking all Ogres speak in a [[You No Take Candle]] fashion.

** Actually, one Alliance questgiver advised the player to never consider them to be the idiots that they appear to be, because that's when they usually strike.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' ogres are a type of darkspawn created from qunari. They have horns and look like wingless demons but are otherwise typical examples of The Ogre.

* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' had an Ogre as [[Underground Monkey|the first in a series of hairy muscular humanoids]] that use physical attacks and counters.

* The Super Mutants seem to fill this role in the post-apocalyptic setting of [[Fallout 3]]. Super mutants from the other games are more akin to "Blizzard" orcs than ogres.

* Ogres have appeared in many of the [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] games.

* In the ''[[Guild Wars]]'' universe there are two definitions of Ogres. In the first game, Ogre acts as a classification for large humanoids that do not qualify as a giants; this covered Jottuns, Ettins, and Yetis. In the second game, a race identified as Ogres have invaded the Blazeridge Mountains. Their culture revolves around beasts and all members of their society tame beasts for use in battle.

* The Oni in ''[[Touhou]]'' are somewhere between this and Orcs, with a heavy dose of [[Blood Knight]]. They would challenge everyone that will accept their challenge, usually of drinking and fighting (or drunken-fighting, natch). Too bad modern people refuse to acknowledge the existence of the supernaturals, so they retreated underground since they don't have anything fun to do with humans anymore.

* ''[[Puzzle Quest]]'' has the hungriest ogre of all, Drong. He has a series of side quests, all revolving around getting him different things to eat. Things such as [[Masochist's Meal|poisonous spiders]], [[I'm a Humanitarian|another ogre]], [[Extreme Omnivore|diamonds and LAVA]] and [[Serial Escalation|the body of a slain god]].

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', ogres are huge, powerful brutes that live in certain evil plains. They're highly aggressive, very powerful and tough, and ''will'' path to any building laying outside, wreck them, then proceed to find their way to the inside of the fortress. If you see a pack of ogres at the very beginning, you're better off restarting the game. Goblins sometimes bring them in sieges.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[The Smurfs]]'' animated series, an ogre named Bigmouth occasionally befriended the title characters while making life for the evil wizard Gargamel difficult.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' had that episode where a salesman tries to sell beach front property terrorized by an ogre.

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