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* Most [[Fairy Tale]] ogres are the stupid and brutal kind.

* In ''Puss-in-Boots'', the ogre is a shape-shifting brute, who owns a large amount of land. In order to get his poor master some land to trick a king into thinking he is royal, the eponymous cat tricks him to turn into a mouse so he can eat him.

* In ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'', the prince's mother is an evil ogress who tries to eat her own grandchildren.

 

== [[Film]] ==

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the ''[[Spiderwick Chronicles]]'' (the fifth book), Mulgarath, the primary antagonist, is an evil ogre who wants to enslave the world, ridding it of all humans.

** Mulgarath actually dosn't fit into any of the archetypes listed above. He's very smart, very cunning, and knows when to change forms, even if the new form is weaker. A better fit to the above archetype are the trolls, who are supposedly [[Big Eater|afflicted with never ending hunger]].

* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s books that revolve around the [[Tortall Universe]], there are two kinds of ogres: peaceful farmers and warlike monsters. Both types are extremely tall and often seem menacing. In her book ''Wolf-Speaker'', the peaceful "breed" are slaves who mine black opals.

* Master vampires in Nancy A. Collins's ''Sonja Blue Trilogy'' often employ ogres, both as dumb muscle and as walking garbage disposals, consuming drained corpses when the master doesn't want to add to his/her brood. In reference to their Western [[Fairy Tale]] origins, they have a tendency to be [[Nightmare Fuel|child molesters]].

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* In the British science-fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', aliens called Ogri, which resemble large rocks and feed on blood appear in The Stones of Blood. The Doctor suggests that Gog, Magog, and Ogre could derive from this.

** Also in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the evil Daleks use a race of large, unintelligent humanoid brutes called Ogrons as warrior-slaves. The Ogrons are featured in the stories "Day of the Daleks", "Frontier in Space", and very briefly in "Carnival of Monsters".

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

** Ogres are a very common race in ''[[Dragonlance]]'' and are even more inclined toward evil than [[Our Goblins Are Different|goblins]]. They're an offshoot of the beautiful, human-shaped irda race, whose civilization descended into depravity ages ago and most of whom were cursed by the gods. The ogre race actually includes not just common ogres and irda, but also ogre magi, hags, and giants. After the Summer of Chaos, some savage ogres underwent magic rituals to transform themselves into the massive, beautiful, and wholly evil titans.

** 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]].

* ''[[Warhammer]]'' Ogres have a society influenced by the Mongols, and wield a strange form of Gut Magic, which depends on what the caster ate. They literally worship the concept of hunger and practice rampant cannibalism, eating both other sentient races and their own kind; a [[Klingon Promotion]] generally entails the usurper devouring its predecessor. Some are captured by the Skaven to be turned into Rat Ogres.

** 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.

* ''[[Rune Quest]]'' ogres look like attractive human beings, but have a genetic predisposition to anthropophagy. They deliberately spread disinformation to the effect that all ogres are hideously deformed and unsanitary.

* 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 the older ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming]]'', "ogre" was often used to refer to Unseelie Trolls, but Ogres proper were a separate race of fae associated exclusively with the Unseelie Court. They're typically extremely strong and resilient, but dumber than lobotomized rocks.

* 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.