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** I'm sure he had low-light vision and resistance to sleep spells and some such.
** <s>Similar to Arwen from Lord of the Rings</s>, I imagine embracing heterosexuality means surrendering your fairy heritage and becoming fully human.
*** Struck out common mistake. [[The Lord of the Rings|Arwen]] is a completely different case as a member of a half-breed family who for cosmic reasons at some time must choose to which kind she wants to be counted. Normal Tolkien-Elves cannot ever become mortal.
*** Then again, for all we know Charming's dad ''was'' human-- Or something else. That said, why are we assuming Shrek fairy-logic works anything like Tolkien's elven-logic? They're not even the same kind of magical being... Or maybe Charming had the ''potential'' to manifest hereditary powers, but his INT just wasn't high enough for him to learn spells.
**** Thanks. Now I'm going to spend the whole afternoon making stats for Shrek characters just to amuse myself.
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** Ugh, seconded. The first movie was made of awesome. It was such a great subversion of fairy tales and it stood so well alone...
*** The director of the first film said that ''Shrek'' was going to be stand alone, until the money started rolling in. So now it's a [[Cash Cow Franchise]].
*** For public consideration, Shrek's franchise status was predicted back in 2001 by, of all people, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716150531/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
** In regards to the second film, This Troper disagress, as he thought ''Shrek 2'' was a huge improvement over the first film.
*** [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. I thought the second film wasn't bad, either, but I definitely felt it wasn't better than the first one; at best, I think they are equals. Now, about the third film, on the other hand...
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