Shrek/Characters

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Characters from Shrek include:

Shrek

Voiced by: Mike Myers

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Tropes exhibited by Shrek include:

Donkey

Voiced by: Eddie Murphy

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by Donkey include:

Donkey: I'm sorry, the position of Annoying Talking Animal has already been taken!

Princess Fiona

Voiced by: Cameron Diaz

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by Fiona include:

Puss In Boots

Voiced by: Antonio Banderas

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Gingy

Voiced by: Conrad Vernon

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Chew Toy: Narrowly escapes becoming a literal example... most of the time.
  • Those Two Guys: With Pinocchio.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In Forever After, AU!Gingy is a Badass Adorable gladiator who fights animal crackers with a lollipop. Of course, it doesn't actually make a difference against Shrek or anyone else.

Pinocchio

Voiced by: Cody Cameron

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Perverse Puppet
  • Running Gag: He always seems to come close to becoming a real boy, only for those plans to fall short, like in Shrek 2, when he does become a boy, only to immediately be turned back by accident, and in Forever After, when he's about to sign a contract to be turned into a real boy, only for the interaction to be interrupted.
  • Those Two Guys: With Gingy.

Dragon

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • The Dragon: AU!Dragon to Rumpelstiltskin (in a literal sense, too).
  • Abhorrent Admirer:She was this type of character in the first film towards Donkey.
  • Babies Ever After: Before Shrek and Fiona, natch.
  • Gentle Giant: Believe it or not, she is one.
  • Happily Married: Yes. But the mechanics are mind-boggling!
  • Heel Face Turn: A rather quick turn—all it takes is for a fast-talking donkey to woo her...
  • Improbable Species Compatibility:Her relationship with donkey.
  • Literal Ass Kissing: Unintentionally invoked. She was preparing to kiss Donkey (with the latter being somewhat unwilling). Shrek knocks Donkey off her, only to end up being kissed himself, right on the place that you'd expect. As soon as she found out what happened, she wasn't happy.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: Initially appears to be your average guardian fire-breather. Turns out she's sapient and much more developed than classic fairytale dragons, although she doesn't speak, and she can interact with society to an extent. Also, has a thing for talking donkeys.
  • Samus Is a Girl: Donkey didn't realize this till he starts fast talking her. Really improved his survival chances afterward.
  • Tsundere: Type A in Shrek. Ditched in all following installments.
  • The Speechless: Expresses herself mostly in grunts. Donkey does enough speaking for both of them.
  • The Worf Effect: Used in Shrek the Third.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Though no beauty queen, definitely more attractive than Donkey (and she's "hot", geddit?)

The Dronkeys.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Aerith and Bob: Their names are Peanut, Cocoa, Bananas, Parfeit, and Debbie.
  • All There in the Manual: Merchandise for the Dronkeys reveals most of them (With the exception of "Debbie") are named after foods.
    • What about Little Debbie snack cakes?
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: They're half dragon and half donkey.
  • Gender Equals Breed: Averted. They have traits of both their parents.
  • Portmanteau: Of "Dragon" and "Donkey".
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: The ending of Shrek 2 showed six Dronkeys including a red-colored one - named "Eclair" according to merchandise. Though, for some reason she never shows up in the third movie.

Big Bad Wolf

Voiced by: Aaron Warner

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Lord Farquaad

Voiced by: John Lithgow

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Fairy Godmother

Voiced by: Jennifer Saunders

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Affably Evil: Arguably, depending on how much of it is an act.
  • Arranged Marriage: She and King Harold arranged this for Fiona and Charming in exchange for undoing the ogre transformation
    • Implied to have done the same with Harold and Lillian.
  • Big Bad: Of the second movie.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Comes off as sweet and kind but is really quite nasty.
  • Blackmail / Cold-Blooded Torture: Subverted only to be played straight later on: When she first appears to Harold, she implies that she is going to torture him when shouting at him for Fiona marrying Shrek. However, it immediately shows that the thing she was gonna do that she didn't want to if he didn't tell her was breaking her diet (apparently, she overindulges on junk food when irritated). Played straight, however, when she threatens Harold with what is heavily implied to be turning him back into a frog if he didn't spike Fiona's tea with a love potion.
  • Go Out with a Smile: She takes her defeat in the video game version somewhat well ("Oh well, I guess a Fairy Godmother can't win everything."
  • Hoist By Her Own Petard
  • Jerkass
  • Knight Templar: She acts in the name of her idea of a "happily ever after", and if something occurs contrary to how she wanted it to be, she is not pleased.
  • Light Is Not Good: Despite her name, she's evil.
  • Manipulative Bitch
  • Never Found the Body: She got one of her spells reflected back at her and just...turns into bubbles.
  • Never My Fault: She threw a fit when Harold said Charming was too late to rescue Fiona from the tower.
  • Politically-Incorrect Villain: "Ogres don't get happy endings!"
  • Smug Snake: Though arguably the most competent one in the series.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Though it's short-lived, her final act to try and blast Fiona and Shrek shows all pretense of goodness and loving are off the table, even with the entire kingdom watching.
  • Villain with Good Publicity

Prince Charming

Voiced by: Rupert Everett

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Ambiguously Gay: Being voiced by the openly gay Rupert Everett doesn't help. There is a huge Parental Bonus in the scene where he talks to his mother about his reluctance to marry Fiona—apparently, he is not interested in women at all...
    • He has, however, shown revulsion towards the wolf when he sees him in what is supposed to be Fiona's bed, and it is also implied that he has some reciprocation of romantic feelings for Rapunzel.
  • Bishonen: Easily the prettiest male character in the series. Most likely invoked.
  • Big Bad: In Shrek the Third.
  • Blond Guys Are Evil: Since he not that Charming.
  • Camp Straight: Although there has been speculation...
  • Distaff Counterpart: He's essentially Fiona prior to her Character Development—stuck up, rude, and determined to achieve the typical fairy tale happy ending.
  • The Dragon: In Shrek 2.
    • Dragon Their Feet: Does very little to aid the Fairy Godmother during the climax except to throw her her wand, which almost immediately backfires for her.
    • Dragon Ascendant: In Shrek the Third.
  • Hair Flip: Constantly ("...with soft and bouncy haaaaaairrr!").
  • Large Ham: Rupert Everett, 'nuff said.
  • Prince Charmless: Doesn't look like one, but that's his inner layer.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Hinted at in Shrek 2 (For one thing, when Fairy Godmother is forced to break her diet, he wanted and got a kids meal, shown to be a toy battle axe), and explicitly shown in Shrek the Third.
  • Smug Snake: In both his movies.
  • Shout-Out: His overall appearance, and to a lesser extent, his voice, is somewhat similar to Liquid Snake in renaissance clothing.
  • Villain Song In Shrek the Third.
  • What Could Have Been: Could have been in Shrek Forever After, but was scrapped.

Rumpelstiltskin

Voiced by: Walt Dohrn

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Harold

Voiced by: John Cleese

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He didn't die, but he took a magical blast from Fairy Godmother that turned him back into a frog, a form he previously had that he hid from everyone.
  • Killed Off for Real
  • Overprotective Dad: He loves Fiona, but he doesn't seem to understand her, thinking she'd be better off with Prince Charming than an ogre like Shrek. He comes around at the last minute and accepts that Shrek is right for her.
  • Pinocchio Syndrome: His apparent backstory. Fairy Godmother turned him from a frog to a human so he could fall in love with his future wife.
  • Taking the Bullet: How he ends up becoming a frog again... and defeating Godmother.

Kitty Softpaws

Appears in Puss in Boots. A feline femme fatale cat burglar (literally) who catches Puss' eye.

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