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Not to be confused with trolls. Even though they can often be indistinguishable in fairy tales (when English/French tales reached Scandinavia, "ogre" would usually be translated as "troll"), trolls are generally a type of fae rather than a generic evil monster.

 

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* Ubiquitous in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''. 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'' are actually peaceful and productive members of society. The Caliph's bodyguard is actually made up entirely of ogres. However, savage ogre tribes are very common in the wild southern islands.

* 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.

* [[Runescape]] ogres are large dim-witted humanoids. They have a fairly human, yellowish skin colour and prominent bellies. They speak in a primitive manner. Some are aggressive, but most are not, and are in fact capable of holding a city with merchants. They also have something like a dozen varieties - actually green-skinned jungle ogres (Jogres), blue-skinned amphibious marine ogres (Mogres) and so on, even having zombie and skeletal varieties, aptly named. The now nearly extinct species known as Ourg, even larger than actual giants and more intelligent, might be a relative. Ogres also form a gender-separated society, with the ogresses living further south in an Australia-themed land.

* 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.