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The Adventures of Puss in Boots

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For the antagonists in the Puss in Boots films, see here.

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In General (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

This folder lists tropes that apply to all the villains.

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• Bad Boss: Most of them treat their workers like trash.
• Beauty Is Bad: Most of them are attractive but mostly evil on the inside, often in contrast to Shrek who's seen as ugly but is actually friendly.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of classic fairy tale characters who are usually seen as good or at the very least neutral to contrast Shrek, who is an ogre, a creature usually seen as monstrous.
• Faux Affably Evil: They put on a niceness façade to manipulate people into doing something for them (usually Shrek) but drop the act really quickly later on. Though they may be genuinely affable towards someone.
• Gambit Pileup: Each successive villain added to the franchise brings with them a new layer of retroactive scheming. By the final film we've learned that not only did Shrek's rescue of Fiona ruin Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming's plan to marry into Far Far Away royalty, it also screwed up Rumpelstiltskin's plan to con the king and queen out of their kingdom. And that's not even mentioning the fact that Shrek's role in all this was instigated by Lord Farquaad's plan to become a king by marrying Fiona himself.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • The majority of them pull this in third movie, thanks to Artie's speech.
  • Goldilocks And The Three Bears get this in the second Puss in Boots film.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Being villains, they always end up getting defeated by their own actions:
  • Lord Farquaad vowed to lock up Fiona in a tower after learning her Dark Secret and is killed by the dragon that had kept the princess prior.
  • Fairy Godmother is turned into bubbles when Harold (whom she mistreated throughout the movie) uses his armor to deflect her magic.
  • Prince Charming couldn't control his temper with Shrek and his friends, and ends up getting crushed.
  • Rumpelstiltiskin gets two of these:
    • He took advantage of Shrek's dissatisfaction with his new, mundane life to warp reality, only to have it undone after Shrek uses his dying breath to tell the alternate Fiona of the beautiful, mundane life they could have had.
    • In the Bad Future, he imprisoned hundreds of ogres. In the end, he's imprisoned during Shrek's house party, which is attended by multiple ogres.
  • Jack and Jill get crushed after backstabbing Humpty Dumpty, a breakable egg.
  • Jack Horner's wish to have absolute power over everything magical leads to his demise when he falls into the collapsing Wishing Star, which is made of raw power.
  • Death and the Crime Bear Family both avert this, as Puss faces the Wolf bravely accepting his mortality, forcing him to quit his hunt for the time being, while Goldilocks accepts the Bears as her family and they all head out for new endeavors scot-free.
• Motifs: Most of them are reverted, either being power-hungry tyrants (Lord Farquaad, Rumpel, Jack and Jill), unable to move on from the past (Charming, Rumpel again, Goldilocks) or unable to move beyond their glory days (Fairy Godmother, Jack Horner). This serves as a counterpart to Shrek and eventually Puss, who evolve and learn to appreciate his life and those around them. The Wolf averts this; he isn't a tyrant or obsessed with the past, just a natural force of reality that has gotten tired of Puss treating him as a joke.
• Never My Fault: Most of them never change or see they have flaws, unlike Shrek and Puss who do.
• Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: Often the good-looking villain to Shrek's ugly hero.
• Villainous Breakdown: They usually have this at the end before getting defeated.

Introduced in Shrek

Lord Farquaad

Lord Farquaad

Voiced by: John Lithgow (movie), André Sogliuzzo (Shrek Smash N'Crash Racing), Piotr Michael (DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing) ^{Foreign VAs} Philippe Catoire (European French), Humberto Vélez (Latin American Spanish dub), Fu Shuang (TW Mandarin)

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, is this not the most perfect kingdom of them all?"

Lord Farquaad is the comically short, ruthless ruler of the huge castle of Duloc and the Big Bad of the first film.

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• Adaptational Badass: His manga self is equally as weak as his movie self but he also has a mecha suit that allows him to take Shrek on his palms that he didn't have in the movie.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: While still comical in the movie, he was still a despicable antagonist that had enough power to be a problem to Shrek and the Fairly Tales creatures, in the manga one-shot he's an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who lacks most of his nastier or more serious aspects.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He's not a particulary great guy in the manga, but he never does anything particulary terrible in comparison to his movie self. His list of crimes limits to trying to arrest Shrek and refusing to let him rest on his castle after his long journey.
• Adaptation Species Change: While he's just a short human in the original film, his musical counterpart is revealed to be half-dwarf.
• Ambition Is Evil: Why does he want to marry Fiona? So he can become royalty by marriage and proclaim himself a king.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Everyone attending his wedding laughs and cheers when Dragon crashes through the window and eats him alive.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: He banished all fairy tale creatures in Duloc to a swamp, and is heavily implied to be an authoritarian.
• Asshole Victim: He dies at the end of the first film.
• Bad Boss: Him wanting Fiona for himself? He'll just toss scores of knights at the dragon guarding her. Some of them may die, but that is a risk he's willing to take.
• Basement-Dweller: Keeps complaining in the musical about his father abandoning him but his dad says he threw him out because he was 28 and living in the basement.
• Big Bad: He is the direct instigator of all story conflicts through sending fairy-tale creatures to the swamp, sending Shrek out to bring back Fiona with the deal of getting the creatures out of his swamp, and then trying to forcibly marry Fiona after she falls for Shrek.
• Boomerang Bigot: In Shrek: The Musical, it's revealed that his father was Grumpy of the Seven Dwarves. Considering dwarves are a type of fairy tale creature that was moved to Shrek's swamp, it is pretty clear that Farquaad isn't proud of this fact and is just as racist to his full-blooded dwarves as he is to every other magical creature.
• Canon Foreigner: He was created just for the movie. The musical tries to give him a connection to fairy tales — there it turns out he's the son of one of the Seven Dwarves.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicts it on Gingy.
• Compensating for Something: Shrek suspects this when he sees his huge castle. Though considering he hadn't yet seen him, it's implied he believes it to be compensation for something other than his height...
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He's shown to still be alive inside Dragon's stomach at the end of the movie, but the 4D ride makes it fairly obvious that he was digested to death soon after.
• Deader than Dead: In the 4D ride, Farquaad's ghost is vaporized by Dragon's fire breath at the end.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments, especially towards Shrek.
  Farquaad: [upon first seeing Shrek] What is that?! It's hideous!
  Shrek: Ah, that's not very nice. It's just a donkey. [Donkey looks incredulous]
  Farquaad: Indeed.
• Depraved Dwarf: He's very short and a terrible man. Taken further in the musical where he literally is half-dwarf.
• Dirty Coward: This is the clear reason why he wouldn't personally rescue Fiona from the dragon guarded castle and tries to get someone else to do it for him.
• Does Not Like Magic: He orders all of the fairy-tale creatures in his land to be rounded up and imprisoned in Shrek's swamp, seeing them as a blight on his "perfect world".
• Eaten Alive: Farquaad gets what he deserves at the wedding and gets eaten by Dragon. Dragon belches out his crown a few seconds later.
• Egopolis: Duloc is one for him.
• Evil Is Hammy: He really brings the ham as you'd expect from a fairy tale villain. Of course, being played John Lithgow makes it unavoidable.
• Evil Overlord: Though comparatively minor (ha!) in the grand scheme of things compared to the villains of the next three movies, he still fits the archetype in the ways that truly matter.
• Evil Sounds Deep: John Lithgow's voice is pretty deep, even though Lord Farquaad is rather short.
• Facepalm: Has this reaction when his men are getting trashed by Shrek and Donkey in the arena brawl.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Being Eaten Alive is a bit extreme. The karaoke segment implies he survived in Dragon's belly for some time before he was eventually digested.
• Fantastic Racism: He hates all fairy tale creatures, including human ones such as witches and the Pied Piper. For him, the perfect world is one without fairy tale creatures.
• Faux Affably Evil: Presents himself as polite and cordial, if smug. But he's an authoritative, ruthless, sadistic, and selfish ruler who wants to cleanse his "perfect world" of all fairy tale creatures.
  Farquaad: [to Fiona, after she states she was saying goodbye to Shrek] That is so precious. You don't need to waste good manners on the ogre! [chuckling, then glaring at Shrek] It's not like it has feelings.
• Feudal Overlord: One who wants to climb the social ladder and become a king.
• For the Evulz: While his torture of Gingy is for purposes of interrogation, he takes altogether too much pleasure in it to say it's just a means to an end.
• Ghastly Ghost: He returns in the 4D ride as a ghost with the goal to kill Fiona and make her his queen.
• Glorious Leader: Pretends to care about his subjects when in reality he only wants the princess so he can be a king. Needless to say, the people of Duloc do not mourn his death.
• A God Am I: Implied, as Duloc's chapel features his image in every stained-glass window (as opposed to those of deities, saints or angels).
• Gold Digger: He only wanted Fiona's title. He instantly turns on her the moment he discovers her secret.
• Half-Human Hybrid: In the musical, he's half-human, half-dwarf.
• Hate Sink: While Farquaad has some hilarious qualities, it doesn't exempt the fact that he's still a despicable human being. He's a bigot who goes out of his way to exile fairy tale characters for what they are, he has a spiteful and haughty ego, cowardly tries to exploit his troops to rescue Fiona from the fiery castle (which undoubtedly would've resulted in most if not all of them dying) and takes credit for their work before they even go, tries to exploit Fiona for the title he'd get from marrying her (and then cruelly tries to separate her from Shrek and imprison her for life after he discovers her ogress form), doesn't thank Shrek and Donkey for the rescue and it's implied that he had an innocent mother (one of the three bears) killed just to make her hide into a throwrug. When he meets his death at the maw of the dragon, he gets absolutely no sympathy from the audience... even in-universe at his own wedding.
• Height Angst: Is much shorter than other characters in his realm, for which he takes ridiculous measures to compensate.
• Hypocrite: Despite his self-professed hatred towards fairy tale creatures, Farquaad seemingly has no problems with keeping the Magic Mirror in his castle and deferring to him for advice. This shows that Farquaad only has issues with fairy tale creatures if they don’t benefit him in a way.
• I Gave My Word: While he's an evil creep, he's at least a man of his word. As soon as Shrek completes the quest to bring Fiona to Duloc, Farquaad immediately gives Shrek the deed to his swamp back, and has his men clear out the fairy tale creatures for him, just as promised. Farquaad would have been quite happy to leave Shrek alone to his lonesome, because he got what he wanted.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Heavily implied: his every action in the film serves to puff himself up as more powerful and grand than he actually is. Banishing fairytale creatures and wedding Fiona were solely so he could title himself the actual king of a "perfect" kingdom.
• In Love with Looks: While he also wants to marry Fiona in order to become king, he chose her out of the other options because of her beauty. When he learns about her curse, he plans to lock her back in the tower while still being legally married to her in order to be king without actually having to be around Fiona.
• It's All About Me: Everything he does is about satisfying his own whims and furthering his own ambitions.
• Jerkass: As vile of a person as he is, he at least treats Fiona well when he meets her, even agreeing to wed on the same day they met at her request — but of course, this is only because it'll make him king, and he only has a lustful crush on her instead of genuine love. Once he got wed to Fiona and found out about her ogress form, he immediately drops the charade, calls her hideous (and an "It" as well), sics his guards on her and holds a dagger to her throat, making his intentions to imprison her clear. Even if Fiona wasn’t cursed, there’s no guarantee he would’ve treated her right.
  Farquaad: And as for you, my "wife", I'll have you locked back in that tower for the rest of your days!
• Just Desserts: Dragon devours him after he orders Shrek and Fiona to be imprisoned.
• Karmic Death: He is eaten by the very dragon who had been guarding the princess he wanted to marry.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Mocking Gingy's inability to run anymore and then crushing his left leg right in front of him while making racist remarks at him and the other fairy tale characters.
  • When Shrek brings Fiona as promised, while he does hand over the deed to his swamp as agreed he doesn’t thank Shrek and tells him to take it before he changes his mind.
  • When he realizes Shrek is in love with Fiona, he not only laughs at him in disbelief, but gets the entire church to laugh at Shrek along with him.
  • And the final cherry on the sundae? As soon as he finds out Fiona is an ogress, he calls her an "It" and orders her imprisoned back in the tower for the rest of her life while Shrek, her real true love, will be tortured to death.
• Large Ham: It more than compensates!
• Laughably Evil: Despite being a Hate Sink, he still provides a few of the film's many humorous moments due to John Lithgow bringing his usual theatricality.
• Meaningful Name: His name sounds an awful lot like what the "F" in G.I.F.T. stands for. Word of God confirms this as intentional, saying it was the closest they could get.
• Missing Mom: His mother, Princess Pea, while sleeping, fell 25 mattresses high to her death, meaning that Grumpy raised Farquaad alone.
• Mister Big: About three feet tall and the evil head of a racist kingdom.
• Named by the Adaptation: The musical gives his first name as Maximus. Which is ironic, as the meanings of Maximus are "largest" and "greatest", both of which he certainly isn't, unless, of course, it instead refers to how much of an "F" he is...
• The Napoleon: Farquaad is so short that some posters have Fiona tower over him even when she's sitting and he's standing.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Duloc (and the surrounding territories it seems to occupy) was designed to be a Muggle ethnostate, taking anyone or anything magical (except for the Magic Mirror which he uses for ego-boosting) and having them forcibly relocated away into Shrek's swamp.
  Farquaad: I'm not the monster here, you are. You and the rest of that fairy tale trash poisoning my perfect world.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Quite by accident, he screws up the plans of all three other Big Bads from the other main Shrek films.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Believed to be a parody of Michael Eisner, due to DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg's well-known disgust for the former Disney CEO. His rounding up and imprisoning of all of the fairy tale creatures could be seen as a dig at Disney for monopolizing the market for animated and/or fairy tale films.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Farquaad seems to be based on the French noble Duke Charles, the Bold of Burgundy, who, just like Farquaad, ruled a powerful Duchy but got killed because of his arrogance and expansionist policies, which led his realm and dynasty to ruin.
• Non-Action Big Bad: The most violent thing he does in the movie is grab Fiona and hold a knife to her towards the end, which leads directly to his death.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: When he wants to justify his actions, he frames what he does as trying to make his realm a "perfect world," but it's clear that he just wants power and for his dominion to conform to his standards.
• Parental Abandonment: Claims this in the musical, but was actually thrown out for being a Basement-Dweller.
• The Perfectionist: He was obsessed with making Duloc perfect. This is why he expelled all the fairy tale creatures as he viewed them as ruining his perfect image. He intended to marry Princess Fiona, viewing her as perfect, to officially have the title of king and make Duloc a kingdom.
• Pet the Dog: While he had some Jerk with a Heart of Jerk moments, he was willing to give Shrek his swamp if he rescues Princess Fiona in return and keeps his word once he does with no strings attached.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Loathes fairy tale creatures and has them all deported to Shrek's swamp.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Shrek may have entered into the tournament at the last minute, but Farquaad clearly sees a way to get what he wants through Shrek once he wins. After Shrek brings Fiona to Duloc as promised, Farquaad keeps his word and gives Shrek the deed to his swamp while clearing out all the fairy tale creatures, just as promised. In fact, Farquaad would have been perfectly content to leave Shrek alone after that, because he had no further reason to antagonize Shrek.
• Promoted to Love Interest: He's the one Dragon ends up falling in love in the manga instead of Donkey.
• Punny Name: An obvious Minced Oath for "Fuckwad", which suits his vile personality. Also counts as a Meaningful Name.
• Red and Black Totalitarianism: His outfit is mostly red and black (with some gold) and as the rest of this page can tell you, he is not a good ruler, adopting a muggle-supremacist policy.
• Related in the Adaptation: In the musical, his parents are Princess Pea and Grumpy.
• Shadow Archetype: He represents what Shrek could have become had he never met Donkey or Fiona and continued to isolate himself from others. Both of them start off as selfish landowners who kicked people off of their property that they didn't like (fairytale creatures in Farquaad's case and any visitor in Shrek's case). Both of them also wanted Fiona rescued from her tower for selfish reasons. Farquaad wanted her rescued so that he could marry her and become king, while Shrek wanted her rescued so Farquaad would remove the fairytale creatures from his swamp. While Shrek developed feelings for Fiona and became a more selfless person, Farquaad never changed his ways.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only appearing in the first movie, his desire to have Fiona as his bride and sending Shrek out to bring him to her ended up setting the stage for the remainder of the franchise, not just in shaping Shrek's future life, but causing a ripple effect in the schemes of the villains in the following movies.
• Smug Snake: Though he has pretensions towards being a great king, it's blatantly obvious he's an idiotic, childish, self-centered prat who commands no respect from anyone.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • If he hadn't decided to pursue Princess Fiona and sent Shrek after her, the Fairy Godmother's deal would have gone through without a hitch.
  • Hell, he manages to be this to all three of the other movies' villains: He screwed over Prince Charming by extension of ruining Fairy Godmother's plan. Rumpelstiltskin was about to successfully convince Fiona's parents to sign a contract to save her and get their kingdom, but they then get the news that Shrek had rescued Fiona.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He doesn't get eated in the manga by Dragon, instead he accidentally kisses her and she falls in love with him.
• Starter Villain: Serves as this for the Shrek series, but is probably the most impactful of them all as well as seen above.
• Swallowed Whole: He is swallowed whole by Dragon, and if the karaoke dance party segment is to be believed, he stayed alive in her stomach for some time before eventually being digested by her before the events of the sequel.
• Teeny Weenie: It's a Running Gag that Donkey and Shrek think he has this, but it's kept subtle enough that you could mistake it for cracks about his height. That said, it's at least large enough to make a noticeable bulge against his bedsheets...
  Shrek: [seeing Lord Farquaad's large castle] Do you think he's Compensating for Something?
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Tiny guy to Fiona's huge girl, before she marries Shrek.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Farquaad from the first movie was still as cruel as ever, but he also was willing to negotiate with Shrek to get his swamp back and even clears it out as per their agreement. In Shrek 4D, he doesn't seem to show any similar redeeming qualities whatsoever. He also wasn't quite as malicious/capable of murder as he was in the attraction.
• Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: Even with his exceptionally short stature, Lord Farquaad is rather handsome, with stylish black hair, a deep voice, and a square chin. Shrek, on the other hand, is bald, fat, and has ears like little snail's eye-stalks.
• Ungrateful Bastard: When Shrek brings Fiona, Farquaad doesn’t thank Shrek or Donkey and completely takes credit for the rescue, even telling Fiona she shouldn’t say goodbye to Shrek. Downplayed in that he actually does fulfill his end of the bargain by giving Shrek the deed to his swamp and relocating the "sanctuary".
• Utopia Justifies the Means: It's a "utopia" only for him, though.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one when Shrek storms his wedding and Fiona reveals her nature as an ogress. He orders his knights to seize them both and starts shouting for order and ranting about how he's king. And then he spends his final moments screaming in fear as Dragon eats him alive.
• Villainous Crush: Has a very creepy one on Fiona... until he discovers her secret.
• Villains Never Lie: The one and only redeeming trait he has to his name is actually giving Shrek his swamp back as promised. It doesn’t make him less ungrateful, though.
  Farquaad: Very well, ogre. The deed to your swamp, cleared out, as agreed. Take it and go, Before I Change My Mind.
• Vocal Dissonance: He's a very small man with John Lithgow's powerful, dramatic voice.
• We Have Reserves: He views his knights as expendable and ready to sacrifice them to rescue Princess Fiona.
  Farquaad: Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
• Xanatos Gambit: When Shrek defeats the knights he gathered for The Tourney, he promises to give him ownership of the swamp in which he lives and put the detained fairy tale creatures somewhere else... if he comes back to Duloc with Princess Fiona. He can claim victory whether Shrek succeeds or fails: if Shrek succeeds, he has Fiona, hasn't risked the lives of any of his men, and only has to give up a bit of swampland; if Shrek fails, he'll have one less nuisance to deal with and can always send someone else to do the job.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: His initial plan is to hold a tournament to determine who the first knight he'll send for Fiona will be. When Shrek shows up, he decides to name the knight who can kill Shrek his champion and send him to go and save Fiona. When Shrek beats them all, he simply declares Shrek the champion and cuts a deal with him.
• You Are What You Hate: The musical reveals that he's half-dwarf, meaning that he's one of the fairytale weirdos he's trying to ban from Duloc.

Thelonious

Thelonious

Voiced by: Christopher Knights ^{Foreign VAs} Raúl de la Fuente (Latin American Spanish dub)

Lord Farquaad's right-hand man, torturer and executioner.

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• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After 4D, he is neither seen nor mentioned again aside from a few video game appearances.
• The Ditz: Shows signs of this. He told Lord Farquaad to pick number three: Princess Fiona... while holding up two fingers.
• The Dragon: To Farquaad.
• Dumb Muscle: He doesn't have much in the way of smarts, but he's strong enough to smash a mirror effortlessly.
• Disney Villain Death: In the comic book adaption of 4D he falls to his death from a cliff and is seen as a ghost later. This isn't the case in the film, but he is still never seen again.
• The Faceless: His face, or any part of his body, is never seen due to his long uniform.
• Heel–Face Turn: Hinted at after Shrek confesses his love to Fiona, at which point he instructs the castle audience to "awww" and is later shown clapping at their wedding. In 4D at the very end, he's shown standing behind Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey right before the Dragon destroys Farquaad's ghost and doesn't make any move to stop his demise.
• Implied Death Threat: He breaks a mirror when the Magic Mirror tells Farquaad he technically is not a king.
• Meaningful Name: Sounds an awful lot like felonious, appropriate for his (initial) role as a servant to the evil Big Bad.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Both the original movie and 4D indicate he only works for Farquaad out of obligation.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Thelonious doesn't do much in the first movie and vanishes afterwards, but he was the one who convinced Lord Farquaad to pick Fiona as his bride. Had he not been around, Farquaad might have chosen Snow White or Cinderella instead, which in turn would have resulted in Rumpelstiltskin's deal with Harold and Lillian going ahead as planned and allowing Rumpel to reign over Far Far Away.
• Too Dumb to Live: In 4D, he sets Fiona's raft adrift in order to kill her on Farquaad's orders... but forgets to step off it first.
• Torture Technician: He's shown torturing the Gingerbread Man by dunking him in milk.
• Villainous Rescue: While "Villainous" may be too strong a word, he's a Punch-Clock Villain who momentarily rescues the heroes in 4D when he grabs onto them while they're falling.

Monsieur Hood

Monsieur Robin Hood

Voiced by: Vincent Cassel ^{Foreign VAs} Enrique Mederos (Latin American Spanish dub)

"Monsieur Robin Hood" is a French-accented version of Robin Hood who appears in the first Shrek film. Believing Shrek to be kidnapping Princess Fiona, he tries to save her with the aid of his Merry Men. They are defeated by Princess Fiona, who uses her kung-fu skills. Hood is portrayed as more of a misunderstanding nuisance than a threatening villain, as he genuinely believed that Shrek was going to harm Fiona. He and the Merry Men later attend Shrek and Fiona's wedding, proving that there was no malice.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Fiona is clearly shown feeling a mixture of disgust and annoyance towards him kissing her arm and his attempt to "rescue" her.
• Adaptational Nationality: Unlike just about every other version of Robin Hood, he's French.
• Adaptational Jerkass: He isn't actually evil, but was willing to kill Shrek, though it was because he thought the ogre was going to harm Fiona. He's also portrayed as a Casanova Wannabe that performs an Unwanted Rescue on Fiona, subtext implying that he expects her to "compensate" him in some manner, a sharp contrast to other versions who portray him as solely dedicated to Maid Marian. In his "I Am" Song, it's also implied that he keeps some of the profits of his Robin Hooding for himself.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • In the Shrek 2 game, he and the Merry Men serve as a Wolfpack Boss at the start of the game, showing that he and Shrek didn't bury the hatchet.
• Boisterous Weakling: Monsieur Hood goes into a brief musical number where he grandiosely threatens to knife Shrek for seemingly abducting Fiona. Not long after he finishes, he's instantly knocked out by Fiona's flying kick to the head.
• Casanova Wannabe: He swoops down and gets Fiona to a tree during the song called, "Hey, Princess."
• Chivalrous Pervert: Subverted. "I like a little spice on a saucy little maid".
• French Jerk: Not only is he an Adaptational Jerkass, he has a French accent.
• Heel–Face Turn: Implied. Monsieur Hood appears at Shrek and Fiona's wedding, which indicates he now sees Shrek as a friend. It's possible he honestly thought Fiona was in danger, only to later realize that he was wrong.
• Just Like Robin Hood: Though he admits to keeping a percentage of the take for himself and his Merry Men.
• Kiss Up the Arm: He kisses up Fiona's arm, disgusting and annoying her.
• Unwanted Rescue: He tries to rescue Fiona from Shrek despite her annoyed objections.

The Witch

The Witch

The witch who cursed Fiona by turning her into an ogre before the events of the first movie.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's commonly theorized that she may be the Fairy Godmother after all, but there's evidence that proves the contrary.
• The Ghost: She never actually appears onscreen.
• Karma Houdini: As far as we know, she faced no consequences for cursing Fiona.
• No Name Given: Her name is never given.
• Riddle for the Ages: Her motive for cursing Fiona is never explained.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She is only mentioned sporadically in the first movie, but she was the one who gave Fiona her ogre curse, in turn necessitating her being locked away in a tower and inadvertently setting the plot for the entire series in motion.
• Wicked Witch: Considering she cursed Fiona to turn into an ogre at night, it's safe to say she's not a very friendly witch.

Introduced in Shrek 2

Fairy Godmother

Fairy Godmother

Voiced by: Jennifer Saunders ^{Foreign VAs} Claire Guyot (French dub), Simone Brook (Latin American Spanish dub), Wei Jinqi (TW Mandarin)

"Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away..."

The Fairy Godmother is a scheming, conniving opportunist, loosely based on the fairy-tale Cinderella's "Fairy Godmother" and the fortune teller from the Shrek! book by William Steig. She seeks to get the best for herself and her son Prince Charming, rather than others. She often resorts to blackmail and trickery through magic to get her way. She acts as the Big Bad of Shrek 2.

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• Adaptational Heroism:
  • When Shrek 2 was new, there was an online flash game, simply titled Shrek 2 Magic Potion Maker, on the official website that had her as an ally. Your goal was to find all of the ingredients for the potion to turn Donkey into a horse. Possibly done as a way to hide her true role as the movie's Big Bad.
  • In Shrek the Musical, she's just another one of the well-meaning and displaced Fairy Tale Creatures.
• Adaptational Ugliness: The console games make her a frumpy, wrinkled old hag.
• Adaptational Villainy: Usually when you think "Fairy Godmother", the image is that she's a kind and loving being, who doesn't judge anyone based on appearance. However, this Fairy Godmother is the opposite of that traditional outlook in every way.
• Age Lift: She appears a good deal older in the console games.
• Arranged Marriage:
  • She and King Harold arranged this for Fiona and Charming in exchange for turning Harold into a human and undoing her ogre curse.
  • Implied to have done the same with Harold and Lillian.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: After Shrek and his friends steal the beauty potion from her potion factory, as soon as she hears from one of the workers what potion was stolen, she immediately puts together what Shrek plans to do with it, and also formulates a counter plan.
• Batman Gambit: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When Shrek steals her happily ever after potion to make himself a handsome human in an attempt to be a better suited husband for Fiona, she decides to take advantage of this and pass Charming off as the transformed Shrek to get him and Fiona together.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: A firm believer of this. She believes only beautiful people can get happy endings, whereas ugly people don't even deserve to get happy endings.
• Big Bad: Of the second movie, though she can also be seen as this for the series, since she dictated who can have a happily ever after, and how it'd go down, the two primary sentiments the films rebel against. Additionally, she set up Prince Charming to be Fiona's husband so that she can inherit the throne and rule Far Far Away, a plot point that'd continue into the Third movie via Charming's revenge, and to some extent even in the first film, where Fiona mentions this having to be the case when Shrek rescues her.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Is on the heavy side, but in the best possible way.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Comes off as sweet and kind during her first appearance, but is later revealed to be quite cruel.
• Black-and-White Insanity: She holds firm to the classic fairytale stereotypes with the good guys being the beautiful and the bad guys are the ugly ones. That she doesn't want Shrek to be Fiona's husband isn't just because it interferes with her plan to secure power over Far Far Away, but also because she is unable to fanthom that even hideous creatures like Shrek can live happily ever after, which plays a part in causing her Villainous Breakdown.
• Blackmail: How she keeps Harold under her thumb. Until the ending that is...
• Card-Carrying Villain: She's not ashamed to admit to the king that she uses tricks up her sleeve to manipulate people's feelings and make them fall in love, as she plans to do with Prince Charming and Fiona.
• The Chessmaster: Her "Happily Ever Afters" are actually her way of currying favor with the nobility, and she spends most of the film making use of those favors to manipulate her son into the path of the throne.
• 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. When he doesn't, she really does turn him back into a frog which probably contributes to his death in the next movie. So his fears were completely founded.
• Comfort Food: She enjoys eating junk food to relieve stress. Her first scene with King Harold has her stopping at a fast-food restaurant to take out a combo meal, exclaiming that her diet is ruined. Later, after seeing the mess her workshop was left in, she orders one of her workers to bring her something deep fried and covered in chocolate.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Lord Farquaad was widely despised even by his own citizens and fairly normal compared to the various fairy tale creatures he was exiling. The Fairy Godmother is herself a fairy tale creature, with the magical powers that come with it, and is originally well-loved by the populace. Also, while Farquaad was basically an Upper-Class Twit whose only real strengths were his wealth and political influence, the Fairy Godmother is genuinely manipulative and clever, and quite possibly the most powerful character in the series.
• Control Freak: She demands whatever she wills to go her way, by hook or crook.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She's a conniving businesswoman who is only out to use others to benefit herself and her son Prince Charming.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The only one the Fairy Godmother loves truly is her son Prince Charming, whom she dotes on and wants to make king by marrying him to Fiona. At the same time though, she wants power for herself, and uses Charming as a way to get it.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She has no qualms about using those around her to get her own way, including her supposedly beloved son. She does not understand why Harold even cares if Fiona actually loves her son and threatens him to give Fiona a love potion, much to his horror.
• Evil Counterpart: To King Harold, as it turns out. She coddles and controls Charming, effectively making him a degenerate manchild, while Harold learns to respect Fiona and allow her to find her own partner and happiness.
• Evil Sorceress: She has access to powerful magic.
• The Fair Folk: She is a fairy and presents herself as the modern benevolent version, but she's as petty and cruel as any folkloric fairy.
• Fairy Devilmother: While the Fairy Godmother lives up to her title, she also acts as this in her methods, threatening to undo Happy Endings for favors.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • An interesting example. Her prejudice seems to be against people's level of physical attractiveness — sort of an extreme form of Beauty Equals Goodness. In her eyes, only beautiful people (or people who have been made beautiful) get happy endings. If they're ugly, then not only do they not get happy endings — but in her eyes, they don't even deserve happy endings. Noticeably, when she rattles off the list of famous fairy tale "happy endings" to Shrek, the one prominent fairy tale she does not include is Beauty and the Beast.
  • It's possible she also looks down on humans, as implied when she yells at Harold after finding out their deal didn't go as planned, and threatened Harold just for merely pointing out her son was too late to rescue Fiona.
• Faux Affably Evil: She pretends to gently and kindly convince Shrek to "stop living in a fairytale," but once she's seen for what she really is, she's ruthless, vengeful, evil, cruel, selfish and will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in her way.
• Genre Blind:
  • For some insane reason, she thought it was a good idea to sing an epic hero ballad in the climax of the final act.
  • In all honesty, her entire plan to put Charming on the throne is this. She intended to have Charming be the one to rescue Fiona and break her curse, but as shown in Forever After, he would've never been able to break it because he wasn't her One True Love and would've never been able to make Fiona fall in love with him like Shrek did when they first met. And that's not counting the presence of a dragon, that have easily killed dozens of knights, and against which Shrek and Donkey were only successful into rescuing Fiona because they ran from and outsmarted her instead of trying to fight her. You'd think a Fairy Godmother would realize that you can't fake true love like that, especially when it has something like breaking a magical curse. There was no point in sending Charming without definitive proof he was Fiona's true love, otherwise she might very well have gotten him killed. Of course with her magic she might have been able to break the curse herself.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: She gets her dream of being Queen of Far Far Away in Rumplestilskin’s AU in the Shrek Forever After video game, albeit only for a week.
• Gold Digger: Wishes for her son to marry Fiona so that she may become all-powerful as queen mother and has no regard for Fiona herself, nor anyone else really including her (supposedly) beloved son.
• Graceful Loser: She takes her defeat in the video game adaptation (the console versions at least) somewhat well ("Well, what do you know? I can be beaten.")
• Greater-Scope Villain: Of the first Shrek film; It's implied she struck a bargain with Fiona's parents to lock her up in the tower in the first place to orchestrate Fiona's imprisonment so that her son, Prince Charming, could rescue her and inherit the throne. Too bad Lord Farquaad got to her first before Charming could rescue her.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: She gets hit by her own magic, which turns her into bubbles, sparkles... and most tellingly... a shower of tears.
• Hypocrite:
  • When Shrek intervenes Charming's second kiss at the ball, Godmother comes in and accuses him of not leaving well enough alone. She's the one who's doing her best to interfere in true love, to begin with.
  • She hates ogres and she doesn’t believe that they should get happily ever afters, but she has no problem with her son marrying and getting a happily ever after with a princess who is technically part ogre. This just proves that she’s okay with ogres only if it benefits her in a way.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: When she first sees Fiona, she thought that Prince Charming’s kiss didn’t work to keep her human, so she sings the “Fairy Godmother Song” to manipulate her into staying with him.
• It's All About Me: In the end, everything she does is for her own sake, and her son is nothing more than just another pawn in her plans, as demonstrated by her lack of care towards Fiona headbutting him due to her anger over Harold not giving Fiona the Love Potion.
• Jerkass: The Fairy Godmother in this version isn't like her classic benevolent counterpart who uses her magic for the right reasons.
• Kick the Dog: She has many unpleasant moments, but her mocking Shrek's desperate screams as he is helplessly forced to watch Fiona in the arms of Prince Charming is definitely the most cruel one on a personal level.
• Light Is Not Good: Despite her name, appearance and White Magic, she is not a hero.
• Karmic Death: In contrast to all arrangements and glitz she operates on, her death by her own lightning blast rebounding on her is simple and abrupt and comes unexpectedly, right down to her thinking she survived the blast and dies in mid-rebound. She also has a pretty large connection with bubbles and tears, and guess was the blast turns her into?
• Madame Fortune: Her name is Dama Fortuna and she is based on a fortune teller.
• Manipulative Bitch: She uses any and every underhanded trick, some that make her appear more benevolent and kinder than she really is. Noticeably she's able of manipulating Shrek into renouncing to reunite with Fiona and maintaining the charade of Prince Charming being him transformed by her potion, by playing on his insecurities and love for Fiona to make him believe that Fiona will happier with Charming than with him.
• Mean Boss: She is shown to be downright snippy towards her employees, not even giving them a dental plan.
• Mother Makes You King: Intended to have her son rescue and marry Fiona to put him on the throne and reign as queen mother. This doesn't go according to plan as Fiona fell in love with Shrek, thus the Fairy Godmother attempts to get rid of him, either by blackmailing Harold into getting rid of Shrek or by using Shrek's own feelings to manipulate him into thinking Fiona doesn't really want to be with him. Unfortunately for her, her plans there fail as well.
• Ms. Fanservice: Is very buxom, shows off her cleavage, and acts and moves quite seductively. During the climax, she changes into a red, sparkly dress that highlights her curves and features a leg slit.
• Nepotism: The person she wants Fiona to actually marry? Charming, her own son.
• Never My Fault: When King Harold rightly points out how it was Prince Charming's own fault for not rescuing Princess Fiona on time, the Fairy Godmother got upset. She even goes as far as to blame Harold for ruining her diet when she orders from a restaurant.
• Nice to the Waiter: Very surprisingly given how cruel and selfish she normally is. In the second film as irate as she is with Harold when she orders fast food she's pleasant and courteous to the drive through worker.
• No Body Left Behind: After getting hit with her own magic, she dissolves into bubbles and water, leaving only her wand and her shattered glasses on the floor.
• Obliviously Evil: Fairy Godmother is hardly the virtuous woman she claims to be. She's spent her whole life matchmaking and managing romances that she doesn't understand or care if one goes well enough without her involvement. The King calls her out on using love potions, to which she points out that they're part of her work.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: "Ogres don't live happily ever after!" Also, her characterization of the cross-dressing Big Bad Wolf as "gender-confused".
• Precision F-Strike: For added emphasis on her son's pointless journey: "He climbs to the highest bloody room of the tallest bloody tower!"
• Red Is Violent: In the climax, she switches over to wearing a red dress, and it is what she is wearing when she enters her Villainous Breakdown and goes on a murder spree against Shrek.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: She has no qualms about resorting to trickery and extortion to get what she wants: in this case, the crown of Far Far Away. When Fiona didn't fall in love with Charming on her own, she decided to drug her with a potion so that she would marry Charming. This is what finally crosses the line for Harold and gives him the courage to stand up to her.
• Showing Off Your Powers: The Fairy Godmother introduces herself to Fiona with a display of falling bubbles and an over-the-top song animating all of the furniture in her room, making fancy items like cars and puppy dogs appear. Fiona is more overwhelmed than impressed, saying she doesn't need all this stuff.
• Silver Vixen: She is middle-aged, has gray hair and obvious wrinkles. Despite that, she is rather attractive and flaunts it like crazy during the "Holding Out for a Hero" sequence.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: She doesn't appear in the first trailer for Shrek 2, but appears in other promotional material for the film.
• Smug Snake: Though arguably the most competent one in the series.
• The Sociopath: Sees Fiona as nothing more than a means to power and has no concern for her feelings nor forcing her to fall in love with Charming. One popular theory was that she was the witch who cast the original spell on Fiona.
• Terminal Transformation: In the finale, the Fairy Godmother attempts to kill Shrek once and for all, only for King Harold to throw himself in the way of her spell, his polished armour immediately deflecting it back on her. The Fairy Godmother is immediately reduced to a mass of bubbles and water - her wand and smashed glasses being the only part of her left unchanged. Since she's never seen in any of the sequels, it can be assumed that the transformation killed her.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Until the climax, no one is aware of the Fairy Godmother's real personality.
• 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.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: After she hears from one of the workers at the potion factory what kind of potion Shrek and his friends stole, she quickly made her own plan around it. Prince Charming would pretend to be Shrek's new form to Fiona while Fairy Godmother would play into Shrek's Insecure Love Interest feelings and convince him to give up for Fiona's sake. For added measure, she also gave King Harold a potion to make Fiona drink that would make her fall in love with the first man she kisses.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: A villainous example in Shrek the Third and also a posthumous one.
  "Don't Stop Believing! Mommy's little Angel"

Prince Charming

Prince Charming

Voiced by: Rupert Everett, James Arnold Taylor (games), Keith Ferguson (Shreks Carnival Craze), Sean Bishop (Scared Shrekless) ^{Foreign VAs} Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese dub) Ricardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish dub), Fu Shuang (TW Mandarin)

"Where is he, Mum? I shall rend his head from his shoulders — I will smite him where he stands — HE WILL RUE THE VERY DAY HE STOLE MY KINGDOM FROM ME!"

Prince Charming is the son of the Fairy Godmother. He is very handsome, and was supposed to rescue Princess Fiona from her dragon-guarded tower. He starts off as the secondary antagonist in Shrek 2 and becomes the Big Bad of Shrek the Third.

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• Adaptation Species Change: Most iterations of Prince Charming are human. Here, due to being the son of the Fairy Godmother, this Prince Charming's at least part-fairy.
• Adaptational Villainy: This version isn't really very "charming" at all. Well, in terms of personality anyways.
• Altar Diplomacy: Intended to marry Fiona solely so he could become king of Far Far Away and had no regard for her feelings.
• Ambiguously Bi: Not only does he come off as rather effeminate, it's implied he only wants to marry Fiona so he can become king of Far Far Away. 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 does seem romantically interested in Rapunzel in the third movie, but there's nothing precluding him from being bisexual.
• Arranged Marriage: Was intended to marry Fiona as a way for her father to pay back his mother for turning him into a human. Unfortunately for him, she falls in love with and marries Shrek by the time he arrives to get her.
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed. Charming was already a prominent antagonist in Shrek 2 but shifted to the Big Bad in Shrek the Third.
• Beauty Is Bad: He may fit the textbook definition of the Handsome Prince archetype, but there's absolutely nothing good about him.
• Big Bad: In Shrek the Third. Charming unites the villains together in taking over Far Far Away and intends to murder Shrek for the events of Shrek 2.
• Blue Is Heroic: Inverted. His outfit is mostly blue with a few gold patterns in it, but he's an antagonist.
• Breakout Villain: He went from the Fairy Godmother's dragon in Shrek 2 to the Big Bad of Shrek the Third. In addition, he's made several appearances in spin-off games such as Shrek SuperSlam and Shrek Smash N'Crash Racing, in part due to being the only major villain still alive at that point in the series.
• Butt-Monkey: He's frequently treated like a joke, and is subject to comedic misfortune in Shrek 2, such as being too late to rescue Fiona and encountering the Big Bad Wolf instead, having a bird poop on his shoulder, and getting headbutted by Fiona in the climax. By the third movie, he's been reduced to a low-rent dinner theater actor who gets repeatedly heckled during one of his plays.
• The Caligula: Far Far Away becomes a Wretched Hive under his rulership.
• Camp Straight: Although there has been speculation...
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: He has a terrible habit of doing this. He's actually rather competent at both scheming and fighting, but almost always ends up stepping in only after he's already lost. In fact, the whole overarching plot of the films happens because he showed up far too late to rescue Fiona.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: Once he takes over, he turns Far Far Away into a Wretched Hive. On top of that, the only thing Charming really does is force everybody to watch a musical he wrote and starred in about what a great person he thought he was. Though to be fair, he only ruled it for a week at the absolute most. Perhaps if his mother was still around (and/or Shrek, Fiona, and their fairy-tale friends weren't around to depose him), he would have been able to come up with some kind of government policy.
• Disappeared Dad: His father is unnamed, never mentioned, and is most likely dead (he was probably a normal human like his son seems to be).
• The Ditz: As a result of his mother handling everything for him. Hell, in Shrek 2, when impersonating Shrek, he doesn't even try to copy his mannerisms.
• The Dragon: In Shrek 2, he is his mother's right hand.
• Dragon Ascendant: In Shrek the Third he plans to finish where his mother started.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: At the start of Shrek The Third Charming has been reduced to a complete laughing stock following his mother's death, and the constant ridicule he faces pushes him into his villainous plot. He plots to take the throne by force and kill Shrek in front of the whole kingdom to restore the dignity he's lost, but Shrek still manages to belittle and humiliate him.
• Entitled Bastard: He thinks that since he is called Prince Charming that he is entitled to be king of Far Far Away.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: It is shown he genuinely loves his mother and he mourns her death in Shrek the Third. Besides his goal of taking over the kingdom, he also wishes to avenge his mother's demise by killing Shrek.
• Evil Counterpart: He's essentially Fiona prior to her Character Development — stuck up, rude, and determined to achieve the typical fairy tale happy ending. Unlike Fiona, of course, he doesn't get better.
• Evil Overlord: Briefly becomes one in Shrek the Third when he conquers Far Far Away.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Invoked with the theatrical performance he builds around Shrek's public execution, where he portrays himself as the dashing hero rescuing a beautiful princess and forces Shrek into the role of the villain.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: One interpretation of his Uncertain Doom. Dragon crushes him with a prop tower, this time made of actual masonry, averting By Wall That Is Holey.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: After his mother's defeat in the second film, he's reduced to working as a low-rent dinner theater actor who is but a shell of his former self. He is considered a laughingstock, even by other villains. Later on, he's forced to partake into obvious villainy, appeals to the villains' deepest desire for a happily ever after of their own, and becomes a serious threat after taking over Far Far Away.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: He participates in the Far Far Away Idol in a DVD extra for Shrek 2, his animosity with Shrek and Fiona apparently forgotten or he just wanted an opportunity to be a big shot.
• Gold Digger: He only wants to marry Fiona to become king and has no regard for the fact that she's in love with someone else nor using a love potion to ensure she falls in love with him.
• Hair Flip: Constantly ("...with soft and bouncy haaaaaairrr!").
• Half-Human Hybrid: His mother is a fairy, and his father is presumably human given his appearance.
• Hated by All: In the beginning of the third film, at least. The heroes and even the villains didn't seem to like Prince Charming that much.
• Ironic Nickname: He's called Prince Charming, but he's far from it. This is most likely intentional.
• The Irredeemable Exception: In Shrek the Third, all the villains he recruited would end up reforming thanks to Artie's speech. Charming himself, however, still tries to kill Shrek, leading to his own demise.
• It Must Be Mine!: He refuses to have any other Princess but Fiona, largely out of spite at having been beaten by Shrek (never mind if it wasn't intentional).
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Shrek's existence repulses him, to the point that he refers to him as an "it".
• Jerkass: He may look very handsome and dress in fine clothing, but he is really a snobby, evil, power-hungry, psychopathic, and narcissistic villain.
• Karmic Death: Charming dies by his own stage prop falling on him, representing his dream being nothing more than an artificial and impermanent fantasy.
• Large Ham: As befits a role by Rupert Everett.
• Legion of Doom: Leads one in the third movie, made up of fairy tale villains. They, except for Charming himself, pull a Heel–Face Turn at the end, though.
• The Load: He does very little to aid the Fairy Godmother during the climax except to throw her wand to her, which almost immediately backfires for her.
• Never My Fault: Charming and his mother rant about all the things he had to endure to get to the tower where Fiona was imprisoned, but Harold points out that he also didn't get there in time; the number of knights who died trying to reach Fiona implies that Charming had an enormous window of opportunity to rescue her and claim the kingdom, but left it far too late.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Everett said that Terry-Thomas was his "vocal role-model" when playing the role.
• Not Quite Dead: Possibly. He is apparently crushed to death by a tower at the end of Shrek the Third. However, he can be seen alive and well in the theater at the end of Thriller Night, implying he went through the window and survived the incident, though said short is likely non-canon.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: It's clear Shrek and company view him as more of a joke than anything, with him being shunted off to slum away as a stage actor in a tavern after his mother's death instead of being arrested. However, in Shrek the Third, he instigates a bold coup of Far Far Away and proves he inherited his mother's villainous guile.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Prince Charming" may not be his true name, and it belies who he really is, but it's the only name he's gone by for as long as he can remember.
• Pretty Boy: Easily the prettiest male character in the series. Most likely invoked. Shrek even calls him this a few times.
• Prince Charmless: He doesn't look it, but that's his personality: quite the opposite of what his name suggests. He certainly thinks he's charming though.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Implied in Shrek 2 when he ordered what was suggested to be the fantasy equivalent of a Happy Meal, which comes with a toy battle axe and a paper crown. His attempt at defending himself when Harold talks to him and his mother about how Fiona isn't falling in love with Charming sounds like a child whining. This is explored further in Shrek the Third.
• Redemption Rejection: After the big pep talk from Arthur, all the villains have a Heel–Face Turn — except Charming, who tries to slash Arthur.
• Royal Brat: Underneath his pretenses, he's pretty much an overgrown, spoiled child.
• Sissy Villain: Charming is rather effeminate in personality, and he's not a good person.
• Smug Snake: In both the movies he appears in, he's very full of himself and condescending to those he believes are less worthy than him. Suffice to say, he's not as clever or charming as he thinks he is.
• Spoiled Brat: It's pretty obvious from his behavior that he's been coddled by his mother his whole life.
• Uncertain Doom: He is defeated in Shrek the Third by having Dragon use her tail to knock a tower onto him, but the tower lands on him with an open window in the space where he is—in a similar style to the cardboard tower that fell on him at the beginning—leaving it ambiguous if he was killed or just trapped. If this is anything to go by, Shrek's dialogue about that he would still have to find his "Happily Ever After" for himself may be an indicator that they weren't going to kill him and thus they just used the tower to retain him, which means he may have survived, as he is also seen alive and well on the theater of Thriller Night after Shrek awakes from his nightmare (though its canonicity is disputed).
• Villain Song: In Shrek the Third, although it's more of a musical.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He's not seen nor mentioned at all in the alternate timeline of Shrek Forever After, even though the Fairy Godmother had originally arranged for him to save Fiona instead of Shrek, and Shrek didn't rescue Fiona in said timeline. It's simply said that no one came to save her at all, so it's possible that like all the other knights, he was killed by Dragon.
• Would Hurt a Child: In Shrek The Third, he has the Dronkeys locked up in a zoo, presumably to be horribly abused an ridiculed as freaks. He also has no qualms about threatening Artie's life, an innocent teenager.
• You Killed My Mother: After the events of Shrek 2, he develops a vendetta against Shrek and his friends for his mother's death.

Introduced in Shrek the Third

Rapunzel

Rapunzel

Voiced by: Maya Rudolph

"Jealous much?"

Rapunzel is Fiona's friend-turned-enemy and Charming's love interest. She is the secondary antagonist of Shrek the Third.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Rapunzel wasn't evil in the original fairy tale.
• Ascended Extra: Went from having her hair show up in a cameo during the second movie to a secondary antagonist of the third movie.
• Bald of Evil: She's bald under her wig and a villain secretly working for Charming.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be friendly towards Fiona and the other princesses, but is secretly working for Prince Charming.
• The Dragon: Prince Charming's second-in-command during his takeover of Far Far Away, she acts as Fiona's main antagonist during the latter's castle escape.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Her hair shows up for a quick sight gag during Shrek and Fiona's trip to Far Far Away in Shrek 2 before she herself shows up in the third movie.
• Et Tu, Brute?: When she betrays Fiona and the others.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While an accomplice of Prince Charming, her dialogue with him implies that she had asked him to spare the princesses from being punished under his rule.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: "Let me introduce you, ladies, to the new Queen of Far Far Away."
• Hairstyle Malfunction: When Gingy pulls on her wig.
• Laser-Guided Karma: For betraying her friends, she ends up suffering public humiliation by being revealed to be bald.
• The Mole: Is secretly working for Prince Charming - she directly gets the other princesses captured by leading them straight to him.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Leaves Charming's stage performance after her wig is pulled off and doesn't come back.

Lancelot

Lancelot

Voiced by: John Krasinski ^{Foreign VAs} Irwin Daayán (Latin American Spanish dub)

Sir Lancelot is one of Arthur's classmates in high school. He's handsome and muscular, but also an obnoxious bully.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: A close ally and friend of King Arthur in Arthurian Legend. Here, he is an archetypal bully toward Artie and he mocks Shrek.
• The Bully: An archetype example; he's a bully to Arthur.
• Jerk Jock: A very typical jock-bully archetype, we see him picking on the unfortunate Frollo's Horse during his brief appearance in the third Shrek film, laughing when Frollo's Horse rides on Ms. Hamrack.
• Popular Is Dumb: Not high in the brains department.
• Teens Are Monsters: He's a bully towards Arthur.

Shrek’s Father

The father of Shrek, father-in-law of Princess Fiona and grandfather of the Ogre Triplets, who tried to eat his son.

• Abusive Parents: He tried to eat Shrek when he was a child.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Of the Shrek franchise, along with the witch who cursed Fiona.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Him trying to eat Shrek was what led to him doubting his abilities as a father himself.

Prince Pendragon

The father of Artie, who abandoned him at Worcestershire Academy and mysteriously vanished.

• Abusive Parents: He dumps Artie at Worcestershire, without giving him a second thought.
• Ambiguous Situation: It is theorised by some that he is the Disappeared Dad of Prince Charming.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Him dumping his own son at the private school led to him doubting his abilities as the next king of Far Far Away. Also, if the theories about him being Prince Charming’s father is true, he may been one of the entire Shrek franchise.
• Unnamed Parent: Artie doesn’t mention his name or his relation to the Far Far Away royal family. Because of this, it is unknown whether he is Queen Lillian’s brother or brother-in-law. In Arthurian legend, however, his name was Uther Pendragon.

Poison Apple villains

In General

• Adaptational Heroism: They are only “villains” because they gave in to what their stories made them out to be.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Their main goal. They eventually earn it, when they turn good after Artie convinces them to stop being villains.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: “Hero” may be stretching it, but, like Shrek, society had made them out to be the villains of their respective stories.

Ugly Stepsisters

Dorris and Mabel

Dorris

Mabel

Voiced by: Larry King / Jonathan Ross in the UK (Dorris), Regis Philbin (Mabel)

Cinderella's evil (until their Heel–Face Turn), ugly stepsisters.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Dorris has strong feelings for Prince Charming (at least in terms of lust). Unfortunately, Charming isn't too thrilled about her pursuit. This seems to have changed after the second movie, though she says that even though Charming’s a jerk, he “gets her hotter than July”.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Dorris specifically: she is modeled like a drag queen, has a deep voice, and looks particularly masculine. Even Fiona seems to doubt her gender when she sings "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" in Far Far Away Idol. The DVD extras of Shrek 2 include two portraits in the Fairy Godmother's factory; one of a man who looks like Dorris and another with Dorris, suggesting that Dorris was born male but was turned into a woman with magic.
• Badass Normal: Doris is strong enough to break a metal lock with a punch and knock out two armored knights with a single kick.
• Cain and Abel: After becoming friends with Shrek and Fiona, Dorris was no longer welcomed to the Poison Apple as noted by Mabel. They're on different sides of the main conflict in the third film with Dorris on the heroes' side and Mabel on the villains'. They make up with each other in the end, though.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Both women are voiced by male actors.
• Gonk: Both of them are unusually ugly women, with some doubting their gender.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Possibly Dorris; while her introduction in the second film depicts her as the barkeep at a Bad Guy Bar, she's shown to be friends with Fiona in the third film. Though it may be a subversion as it's ambiguous as to whether or not she was evil to begin with and not just ugly.
  • Mabel does a more clear-cut one at the end of the third film, even reconciling with Dorris in the process.
• Innocently Insensitive: In the fourth film. When the birthday cake for Shrek’s kids is unveiled with a cartoony overly cutesy ogre on it, Doris loves the ogre design and says it looks just like Shrek. While Doris was trying to be sweet, this negatively affects Shrek because he was in a bad state-of mind thinking he has been turned into a softened-up joke of an ogre over the years.
• The Lad-ette: Neither of them is particularly feminine, appearance or behavior-wise.
• Nice Girl: In the third film, Dorris is the most supportive and encouraging friend to Fiona about her pregnancy, compared to the others’ pessimism.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Possibly Dorris, if her situation wasn't a Heel–Face Turn. She's friends with Fiona and even seems to be on good terms with Cinderella.
• Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: Mabel is introduced this way but spits into the glass
• Show Some Leg: This is one of the ways Dorris distracts the guards in Shrek the Third. She was concealed behind a wall, and it could've been any of the princesses.

Captain Hook

Captian Hook

Voiced by: Ian McShane

The Poison Apple's pianist and Prince Charming's right-hand, serving as the tertiary antagonist of Shrek the Third.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: When Shrek makes a joke at Charming’s expense, he laughs along with the audience and admits how funny that remark was.
• Ascended Extra: He appears in Shrek 2 a few times singing while playing the piano, but gains a more important role in Shrek the Third as one of Charming’s main supporters.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Hook admitted that he and the rest of the Fairy Tale villains are (of course) villains right before each and every one of them have a Heel–Face Turn.
• The Dragon: To Prince Charming during their invasion.
• Hidden Depths: He secretly grows daffodils and thinks they're beautiful.
• Hook Hand: He is Captain Hook after all.
• The Piano Player: The Poison Apple's head pianist. Even when he was assigned to hunt Shrek alongside his crew, he stuck to playing the piano while his men did the dirty work.

Evil Queen

Evil Queen

Voiced by: Susanne Blakeslee

A former queen who once upon a time tried to kill her stepdaughter.

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• Counterpart Combat Coordination: In the film's climax, she holds Queen Lilian at knifepoint.
• Easily Forgiven: After Artie's Rousing Speech, she and her stepdaughter Snow are shown embracing each other.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: She IS the Evil QUEEN after all.
• Hidden Depths: She wanted to open a French spa.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Once a powerful woman with her own kingdom, now a down-on-her-luck bar patron who has to hustle pool to get her next meal.

Headless Horseman

Headless Horseman

Voiced by: Conrad Vernon (Shrek the Third), Bobby Kimball (Thriller Night)

• The Blank: An extreme version. He doesn’t have a head, so naturally he doesn’t have a face. He is somehow able to speak though and is shown drinking by pouring his beverage down the opening in his neck.
• Headless Horseman: Obviously.
• Hidden Depths: He has always wanted to play the flute.

Stromboli

Stromboli

Voiced by: Chris Miller

• Named by the Adaptation: Is called Stromboli (like in the Disney version) in the video game.

Witches

Witches

Voiced by: Nancy Wilson (Singing Witch)The witches of the Poison Apple.

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• Wicked Witch: Until their Heel–Face Turn.

Introduced in Shrek Forever After

Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin

"Nobody's smart but me!"

Voiced by: Conrad Vernon (Shrek the Third), Walt Dohrn (Shrek Forever After) ^{Foreign VAs} Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza (Shrek the Third), German Ortega (Shrek Forever After)(Latin American Spanish dub), Wei Boqin (Shrek Forever After) (TW Mandarin)

"Just sign it, and all your problems will disappear."

Rumpelstiltskin is a short man who makes magical deals (complete with contracts). He is a scheming and devious trickster whose plot to take over the kingdom of Far Far Away was accidentally ruined thanks to Shrek rescuing Princess Fiona from the Dragon's Keep. When the opportunity arises, Rumpel decides to trick a vulnerable Shrek into signing a contract that ends up altering history. He is the Big Bad of Shrek Forever After.

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• Actually a Good Idea: He threatens to throw water on the witches unless they can come up with a way to capture Shrek. He then carries out his threat on one unfortunate witch despite the conditions being met.
• Ambiguously Gay: Whereas Charming is just flat-out effeminate, Rumple has extremely flamboyant mannerisms and is obsessed with wigs.^note While not in the film itself, however, Rumpel was mostly paired with the members of his witch army in merchandising, and Rumpel makes the Fairy Godmother his "Queen for a Week" in the video game. This may suggest that he is Camp Straight or bisexual/pansexual.
• Animal Motifs: Geese. He has a pet goose, the mural behind him when he first appears in the alternate timeline has his pet goose on it, his palace has a couple of tiny golden sculptures of his head on the body of a goose, and he wears a goose-shaped wig in the climax.
• Anime Hair: His wigs, all of which are as tall as he is and come in wacky styles and colors that go beyond their already silly Rococo origins. He even has one styled to look like a goose - not to make him look like a goose, as in the hair resembles an entire goose on his head!
• Arch-Enemy: He is the closest to this role to Shrek of all villains. While other villains carried a certain threat to Shrek but not one of them went so far as to erase the very existence of Shrek, devaluing the whole path that he has come to this moment (keep in mind that in the event of the absolute victory of Rumpel, Shrek loses not only his life, but the life of his children who will not be born, and also dooms the entire kingdom to existence under tyranny). When Rumpel explains to Shrek what their deal will lead to in the end, Shrek falls into a rage and tries to tear him to pieces.
• Ax-Crazy: He's obviously not right in the head. The scene with him murdering one of his own witch minions is mere icing on the cake, as he angrily kills her for offering an idea, right before deciding it was actually a good idea and using it.
• Bad Boss: He seems like a Benevolent Boss at first, letting his witches having a rave in his castle and all that. After Shrek escapes however, he drops all the niceness and starts threatening their lives, never mind that he was the one that pushed Shrek too far. Specifically: the scene where he summons a council of witches where he first starts out as a loving patron, scolds them about letting Shrek escape and finally snaps into rage, killing one of them on screen by pouring water onto her. That just doesn't mark him as evil, but Ax-Crazy to boot.
• Big Bad: Of Forever After, and far more convincingly than the previous Big Bads, who were halfway-sympathetic or part-ineffectual.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His aforementioned obsession with wigs doesn't make him any less dangerous and effective.
• The Caligula: Far Far Away is a decaying ruin under his rule, with the city itself falling to pieces while he lives a life of extravagance in his palace.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Farquaad. Despite the fact that they are both short people with delusions of grandeur, Lord Farquaad is an ordinary person without any magical powers, not penchant for cunning plans, always keeping his word and not posing a sufficient degree of danger despite all his ambitions. Rumpel on the other hand is smart, manipulative, and a long-term planner who makes magical deals with others, deceiving them in the process and achieving his goals more than Farquaad could ever have hoped.
• Curse Escape Clause:
  • All of Rumpelstiltskin's contracts have one of these, but he's smart enough to hide it by making it so that you have to fold the contract a certain way in order to read it. In Shrek's case, it's a True Love's Kiss.
  • Mention is made of the original "guess my real name" clause from the original fairy tale, but Rumpelstiltskin had to abandon it after his name became too wide spread.
• Deadpan Snarker: Rivals Shrek at this.
• Deal with the Devil: His job description.
• Depraved Dwarf: He compensates his tiny stature with his highly dangerous persona.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: In the Alternate Universe, the Far Far Away he rules is derelict and rotting, while he uses the ogre population and Shrek's pals for slave labor. He doesn't seem to care that things have gone to pot under his reign.
• Dirty Coward: He gleefully rubs in Shrek's face how he's going to cease to exist once his 24 hours are up and that his children no longer exist as a consequence of their contract, and the minute Shrek snaps and struggles against his restraints to attack him, Rumple immediately hides behind his hourglass and orders his witches to attack.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Most notably the scene with the glass of water...
• Early-Bird Cameo: He first appears in the third film as part of Prince Charming's army and returns in the fourth film with a redesign.
• Establishing Character Moment: Everything from the start to the part where Rumpelstiltskin gets kicked out of Pinocchio's bookstore and wishes Shrek was never born is both this and backstory for him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He reacts with horror when his goose Fifi disappears in the alternate timeline, and again when she's blown up by Fiona in the present timeline.
• Evil Gloating: This proves to be his undoing, as Shrek will cease to exist once his 24 hours are up anyway. No further evil scheming required. But he feels the constant need "to plunge the knife in" and prove his superiority over his enemies. This allows Shrek to connect the dots and realize the consequences of his deal and reunite with his love to null and void it. Even then, when Rumple is aware of the risk he's in, he still later insists on imprisoning them both together to 'twist the knife'.
• Evil Overlord: Achieves his goals more than Farquaad could ever have hoped.
• Evil Redhead: Rumple is actually a redhead, but his "angry wig" symbolizes this trope.
• Face Death with Despair: When the alternate timeline gets erased after Shrek successfully kisses Fiona before his death, Rumple is heard repeating Rapid Fire Nos and how he isn't ready to go.
• Faux Affably Evil: Initially seems to be Affably Evil... until things fail to go his way.
• Fauxdian Slip: Rumpel to Shrek after he asked which day he'd have to give up.
  Rumpelstiltskin: Oh, I don't know, any day; a day from your past. How about a day you had the flu? A day you lost a pet? A day some meddling oaf stuck his big nose where it didn't belong, destroying your business and RUINING YOUR LIFE?! ... Just for an example.
• Fisher King: Rumpelstiltskin's luxurious palace surrounded by the barren fields and run-down city. This is likely due to simple greed as opposed to a magical connection between the king and the land though.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He starts out as a short man living in a trailer park and rooting through a dumpster looking for something to eat, and he goes on to become the evil dictator of Far Far Away with an army of witches.
• Gonk: Rumple’s not exactly handsome with his huge eyes, weirdly-shaped nose, giant buckteeth, and giant chin.
• Hate Sink: Though Laughably Evil, he's also an incredibly selfish, smug prick and easily one of the most insane villains in the main series. His liberal Loophole Abuse only makes him more intentionally frustrating.
• The Hedonist: His true motivation. After successfully completing his plan to become the ruler of the kingdom he lives a life of extravagance in his palace while Far Far Away is a decaying ruin under his rule.
• Hidden Depths: In Shrek the Third, it's shown that he's genuinely saddened over not getting the firstborn baby that the miller's daughter promised him, to the point of getting a tattoo of a pacifier on his arm. This suggests he has some deep-seated desire to have a child.
• It's All About Me: He didn't care that Shrek's actions helped bring peace to Far Far Away, only that the ogre had ruined his business.
• Jackass Genie: While not a genie, the fact that he grants wishes with frequent amounts of Loophole Abuse in his favor is his M.O.
• Karma Houdini: If the movie's soundtrack is taken as canon, he has started hosting a popular radio show after Shrek defeated him, which may suggest he escaped from his cage at some point afterwards.
• Knight of Cerebus: While he's very over-the-top and Laughably Evil, the movie doesn't gloss over the fact that he's a vicious Manipulative Bastard who tricks Shrek into a Deal with the Devil that will end up with him being erased from existence at the end of the day, and consequently becomes a vicious dictator who destroys the Kingdom of Far Far Away, presumably killing and imprisoning hundreds of people in the process.
• Kryptonite Factor: The exit clause is hidden inside the contract, revealed not in the small print — which at least some people would be smart enough to read, but by refolding the paper to reveal the hidden words (knowing Rumpelstiltskin's name as per the legend isn't enough, as everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin, so he had to get clever).
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: An evil example. His chin is huge.
• Large Ham: Ironically, given his height - he has a penchant for over-the-top mannerisms and costumes. Possibly the biggest in the series.
• Laughably Evil: Callous and cruel as he may be, there's no denying that he's a good source of humor.
• Literal Metaphor: He loves them:
  • He promised the king and queen "all your problems will disappear." That was true. Rumpel makes their problems disappear by making them disappear.
  • Rumpelstiltskin makes a remark about how it's "time to pay the piper". Nothing happens. He then explains to one of the witches that he means literally pay, as he's a bounty hunter.
• Loophole Abuse: Rumpelstiltskin's specialty:
  • His contract with Shrek is to trade a day from his life he won't remember - a day when he was a baby, for instance - in exchange for a consequence free day in an alternate timeline where he will be feared again so he can have fun terrorizing people and afterwards everything will go back to normal. The day in question turns out to be the day Shrek was born, and the alternate timeline is one where Shrek was never born; so instead of reverting back to the original timeline when the day ends, the timeline where Shrek was never born will become the real timeline and Shrek will cease to exist instead.
  • In the opening it is revealed that in desperation, the king and queen had turned to Rumpelstiltskin to save Fiona from her curse. His deal to "make all their problems go away" in exchange for the crown to Far Far Away is interrupted by Shrek's actions in the first film. In the Shrek-less timeline they agree to the deal and Rumpelstiltskin makes their problems disappear by making them disappear.
  • Both Shrek and Rumpelstiltskin pull this near the end of the film. Rumpelstiltskin places a bounty on Shrek, offering a wish to the one who brings him Shrek. Shrek decides to turn himself in, with the wish being for Rumpelstiltskin to free all ogres. Rumpelstiltskin agrees, but reveals that Fiona isn't freed due to the fact that, due to her only being an ogre during the night time, she isn't "all ogre".
• Manipulative Bastard: His essential function when he's not being a Smug Snake. He easily manipulates Shrek into making a deal with him by preying on the ogre's dissatisfaction with his life, and later convinces all of Far Far Away to hunt him down afterwards by promising a wish to whoever caught him.
• The Napoleon: Short, full of himself, and completely Ax-Crazy.
• Near-Villain Victory: What makes him stand out among Shrek villains is that he actually succeeds in his plan, to the extent that the goal of the movie is to undo Rumpel's victory! He tricked Shrek into signing the contract to remove the day the ogre was born, which allows him to take over Far Far Away.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Despite the fact that he is the main culprit of all bad events of Shrek Forever After, he himself is not a fighter and prefers to hide behind the backs of his army of witches.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Compared to the other human conditions characters who look more realistic, Rumpelstiltskin really stands out with his pointy ears and freakishly exaggerated facial features. Even the Rimpelstiltskin from Shrek The Third looked properly humanoid.
• Pet the Dog: As much as a terrible boss he is, he still allowed the witches to throw a party in his castle. Also when he becomes king of Far Far Away, he makes sure Fifi lives in luxury.
• Reality Warper: If signed, Rumpelstiltskin's contracts allow him to warp reality to his and the signer's whims. When he successfully manipulated Shrek into giving up the day he was born, Rumple essentially replaced the current reality with a new one where he reigned as king of Far Far Away.
• Redemption Rejection: If he and the Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek the Third are one and the same, then unlike the other fairy tales villains he decided to not change his ways after Artie's speech.
• Ret-Gone: His fate in the alternate timeline, being wiped from existence like everything else. The Rumple in Shrek's timeline then gets apprehended and caged before he can even start his plan up.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: After Shrek signs his magic contract creating a new timeline where he was never born, Rumpel is the one person besides Shrek who remembers him and the old timeline.
• Same Character, But Different: His appearances in the third and fourth movies directly contradict each other in appearance, motivations, and personality.
• Satanic Archetype: He has a tendency to make bargains with people, claiming he will help them but planning to screw the other person over for his benefit. On the sign in his trailer park, it says "abandon all hope ye who enter here" which is a reference to supposed inscription at the gate to Hell from The Divine Comedy. He also he has a pronounced inhuman appearance with his pointy ears and freakishly exaggerated facial features.
• Smug Snake: While taking a break from manipulation. This proves to be a mistake.
• Suicidal "Gotcha!"!: Villainous version. In the climax Rumpel is cornered by the ogre warriors and jumps backward off the balcony, causing them all to gasp. He then appears riding Fifi, his giant pet goose and says "So long!".
• Time Master: As part of his magic contracts, he has the ability to nullify the effect of a day in the past in order to grant a "free" day in the present, which is what he does with Shrek. In the ogre's case, Rumpel nullifies the day Shrek was born.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He seems to be fond of cupcakes. He's almost always seen eating them.
• Trashy Trailer Home: Rumpelstiltskin is introduced living in a hackneyed fantasy equivalent, a "carriage park" populated primarily by witches acting out various redneck stereotypes. The queen locks the doors when they ride through.
• Trrrilling Rrrs: Introduces himself as "Rrrumpelstiltskin" during his speeches.
• Villain Ball: If he hadn't told Shrek exactly what the contract had done (removing the day of Shrek's birth), Shrek would never have been able to figure out his plan and would have disintegrated by the end of the day, leaving Rumpel to rule Far Far Away without opposition.
• Villainous Breakdown: Determined not to let Shrek reclaim Fiona's love for him and nullify Rumpel's contract, Rumpel becomes more and more enraged in his determination to keep the alternate timeline the dystopia it is. When Shrek finally succeeds in reclaiming Fiona's true love's kiss, nullifying the contract, Rumpel starts begging for more time like a hysterical baby as his whole alternate reality falls apart before his very eyes.
• Villain Has a Point: While he did manipulate Shrek in signing the contract to be an Ogre for a day and made it so Shrek was never born, when Shrek blames him for what he did to his family, Rumpel makes a valid point that Shrek willingly let him take any day from his past that he wanted and signed the contract of his own free will.
  Shrek: You took the day I was born...
  Rumpel: No, Shrek. You gave it to me.
• Villainous Underdog: Unlike every other Big Bad in the series, Rumpelstiltskin (in the normal reality) commands no armies and is not royalty, just one supremely conniving Manipulative Bastard living alone in a trailer park who engineers his plans through lethally weaponized Loophole Abuse.
• Would Hurt a Child: By making a deal with Shrek and taking away the day he was born, Rumple technically commits the murder of a newly born child, as well as erasing Shrek’s three babies from history along with him.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He uses that gambit to meet Shrek. He's trapped under his carriage à la Wicked Witch of the East, with one of the front wheels off.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Rumpel thinks Shrek surrendered to get the loophole free wish and save himself, but Shrek had a much different idea in mind.
• You Don't Look Like You: He looks much different from his appearance in Shrek the Third. It's possible this is a different Rumpelstiltskin altogether, given that the one seen the previous film gave up on being evil.

Fifi

Fifi

Voiced by: Frank Welker

Fifi is Rumpelstiltskin's pet goose. She is also his bodyguard and carriage puller.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: As cranky and abusive she was, it can be argued that Fifi didn't do anything evil enough to be blown up by Fiona's singing, with her owner reacting with horror to it.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She is blown up by Fiona's singing, leaving nothing but her feathers and legs.
• Fluffy the Terrible: In the present, she's a giant, angry goose with sharp teeth, who’s even bigger than Shrek.
• Inflating Body Gag: Fifi inflates like a balloon and pops, when Fiona sings a high note.
• Jerkass: Fifi is a cranky and bitter character.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Rumpelstiltskin calls Fifi her and Fifi doesn't get annoyed by this, meaning he couldn't have been mistaken.
• Morality Pet: Fifi is the only living thing Rumpel even remotely cares about, besides himself. When he becomes king of Far Far Away, he makes sure Fifi lives in luxury.
• Non-Human Sidekick: To Rumpelstiltskin.
• Perpetual Frowner: She is almost never seen smiling. Even at Rumpelstiltskin’s party when she's got the Three Little Pigs serving her lots of food, her expression remains the same. She only smiles once, at Rumpelstiltskin after the pigs have finished grooming her.
• Toothy Bird: Has prominent sharp teeth.

The Witches

Baba, Griselda, and More

Voiced by: Mike Mitchell (Baba), Kathy Griffin (Griselda), Kristen Schaal (extras)

Rumpelstiltskin's loyal servants and prime members of his army. Their main objective is hunting any ogre from the rebellion they can find and bringing them back to their boss.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Griselda pleas the Pied Piper to stop when he has her at the mercy of his magic flute.
• Amazon Brigade: Rumpelstiltskin's army which is all-female, and all-witch.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's never really specified why Rumple decided to make witches his prime enforcers in the Bad Future.
• Ascended Extra: Many other witches were seen in the Shrek universe (in the Poison Apple from the second movie and Charming's army of villains in the third), but they have a larger role as Rumpelstitskin's henchwomen.
• Asshole Victim: One of the witches get dissolved by Rumpelsliltskin, despite the fact she gave an actual good idea to capture the ogres.
• The Cameo: In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, one witch is shown waiting to see Del Mar's doctor (who also happens to be the town's witchfinder). Jack Horner also has their poison apple grenades in his arsenal of magic artifacts.
• The Chew Toy: Most of them are on the receiving hand of slapstick, mostly by their own boss.
• Creator Cameo: Baba, the presumed leader of the witches, is voiced by the movie's director Mike Mitchell.
• Evil Laugh: They are wicked witches after all. They are first seen laughing maniacally at Shrek when they find him at his swamp and capture him.
• Evil Wears Black: Part of the typical Wicked Witch attire, they wear black dresses, boots and pointy hats to match.
• Expy: Their green-skinned appearance along with their weakness to water is a clear nod to the Wicked Witch of The West from The Wizard of Oz.
• Fantastic Racism: They share their boss' prejudice of ogres. One scene even shows one witch whipping captured ogres like slaves.
• Flying Broomstick: Their main mean of transportation. Shrek steals one in order to escape Rumpelstitskin's castle with Donkey.
• Green and Mean: While they are wicked witches, the tone of green depends on the witch.
• Heel–Face Turn: Like a majority of fairy tale villains in the third movie, they turn over a new leaf and partake in the new era of peace and revolution. Several of them even participate in Shrek's Dance Party Ending in Forever After.
• I'm Melting!: Contact with water proves to be lethal for them, not unlike The Wicked Witch of The West.
• Jerkass: They're not only villains, they have open prejudice of ogres and they mock Shrek along with Rumpelstiltskin when he points out his children don't exist anymore.
• Kill It with Water: They get dissolved if they come in contact to water. During one of Rumpelstiltskin's tantrums, he fills a glass of water which scares his henchwomen half to death, and one has the bad luck of being on the receiving end.
• Knockout Gas: Their explosive pumpkins can count as such, as one witch uses it to put Shrek to sleep while he's being captured.
• Meaningful Name: The leader of the witches is called Baba, in reference to the Russian tale of the Baba Yaga witch.
• Smoke Out: Their have apple grenades as part of their arsenal, which create smoke in order to take the ogres they capture by surprise. They also own explosive pumpkins, whose smoke can knock out anyone who gets one thrown at their face.
• Tempting Fate: Griselda mocks the Pied Piper's use of his flute and doesn't call him a real bounty hunter. It results into the latter (on her boss' order) forcing her and two of her fellow witches to breakdance on their heads, pleeing her to stop.
• Undying Loyalty: To Rumpelstiltskin, no matter how bad he treats them.
• Villains Out Shopping: Many witches are seen throwing a party inside Rumpelstiltskin's castle when Shrek gets taken to their boss.
• Wicked Witch: Green skin? Check. Pointy noses? Check? Occasional wart? Check. Black clothing and pointy hat? Check. Flying Broomsticks? Check.

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

Voiced by: N/A

The Pied Piper appears briefly in the first film, among the fairy tale creatures exiled in Shrek's swamp, where he rallies many rats with his enchanted flute.

In Shrek Forever After, he is hired by Rumpelstiltskin to capture the ogres by forcing them to dance and follow him with his enchanted flute. He can handle different species (rats, ogres, witches...) or even objects (Rumpelstiltskin's socks) by setting the "target" dial of his flute. He never speaks and instead uses his flute to communicate. The Piper has no voice, but the flute performance was done by Jeremy Steig (original author William Steig's son).

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• Alliterative Name: Pied Piper.
• Ambiguous Situation: He's a bounty hunter in the alternate timeline, but it's unknown of his current whereabouts in the main timeline of the Shrek franchise (although he is seen forcing Rumpelstiltskin to dance during the credits).
• Bounty Hunter: His profession in the alternate timeline.
• The Bus Came Back: He comes back in Shrek: Thriller, where he makes all the zombies along Shrek dance to the titular song using his flute (until Shrek manages to snap out of his control and breaks his flute).
• Dark Is Evil: His costume in Forever After.
• The Dragon: Serves as one to Rumpelstiltskin.
• The Dreaded: Fiona is terrified at the sight of him. Rumpelstiltskin himself is scared of the Piper, and pays him in advance so he won't think he's trying to stifle him.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: He made a brief cameo in the first Shrek and appears as a Zero-Effort Boss in the Shrek 2 video game. He had his appearance redesigned for Forever After.
• Good Costume Switch: He wears white in the main (good) timeline.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: He only communicates by playing his flute, though Stiltskin can understand him, supposedly.
• Involuntary Dance: The main power of his flute, as anyone (that he chooses) who listens to the melody is forced to dance to it.
• Magic Music: His signature flute, forcing any creature he has it set to dance.
• Magical Flutist: So magical that he can control anyone.
• Musical Assassin: Rather "Musical Bounty Hunter", but his magic flute makes him a very dangerous opponent, as he can control pratically any magical creature with it (though he mostly uses his flute to make them dance).
• Psycho for Hire: In the alternate timeline, he's a bounty hunter who can capture anyone with the use of his magic flute.
• Silent Antagonist: He doesn't seem to be capable of speech, instead using his magic flute to communicate with Rumpelstiltskin who seems perfectly able to understand him this way.

Other

Merlin

Merlin

This version of Merlin is the main antagonist of the first Shrek video game.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Far from the benevolent sorcerer he's usually depicted as, this Merlin is an Evil Sorcerer who kidnaps Fiona.
• Evil Sorcerer: He kidnaps Fiona and holds her hostage!
• Evil vs. Evil: With the Wicked Ice Queen in Extra Large.

The Wicked Ice Queen

The Wicked Ice Queen

The secondary antagonist of the first Shrek game.

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• Evil vs. Evil: With Merlin in Extra Large.
• Greater-Scope Villain: She is the reason Merlin kidnapped Fiona in the first place.

Luna

Luna / Lil' Witch

Voiced by: Tara Strong

A witch who appears as an unlockable playable character in Shrek SuperSlam.

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• Bewitched Amphibians: Implied with her pet frog, which she seems to have primarily to reference the stereotype of witches turning people into frogs.
• Blow You Away: One of Luna's combos involves her summoning a multi-hitting tornado above her opponent's head.
• Cute Witch: Unlike every other witch in the Shrek series, Luna looks like an average teenage girl and lacks any notable Gonk features. However, she does have a love for Evil Laughs and many of her combos end with a Sneeze of Doom.
• Evil Laugh: Has a tendency to laugh evilly whenever she's attacking an opponent.
• Flat Character: Since she appears in SuperSlam with no plot significance or background information and is completely absent from the Story Mode, she has little characterization.
• Flying Broomstick: Luna's main weapon is her broomstick, which she can use as a blunt melee weapon or fly on to reach higher places.
• Grapple Move: One of her combo finishers has her use her frog's tongue to yank herself towards the opponent before kicking them away.
• Secret Character: In SuperSlam, Luna is unlocked by completing Mega Challenge Clusters 26-30.
• Sneeze of Doom: Many of her combos end with a sneeze that launches both her and her opponents away.

Jiminy Cricket

Jiminy Cricket

Voiced by: Sean Bishop

The main antagonist in Shrek’s scary story, The Exorcist, who possesses Pinocchio to act as his “conscience”.

• Adaptational Villainy: Far from the good-natured cricket he is in the Disney film.
• Same Character, But Different: There is the Ethical Bug in Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Understandable, as this version of Pinocchio’s conscience was made up by Shrek to scare Pinocchio.
• Shout-Out: Pinocchio squashing Jiminy to death is a reference to the original fairytale, where he kills the cricket with a hammer.

Wicked Witch of the West

The Wicked Witch of the West

A supporting character in Shrek the Musical and a minor antagonist in Puss in Boots.

• Adaptational Heroism: She appears in Shrek the Musical as a fairytale character banished to Shrek’s swamp.

Deleted villains

King and Queen of Duloc

King and Queen of Duloc

Princess Fiona’s original parents and the rulers of Duloc before Lord Farquaad in the original treatment of the first Shrek film.

• Blatant Lies: After locking Fiona in the tower, they told their subjects that she was stolen because she was “such a rare beauty”.
• Fantastic Racism: They were ashamed of their newly-born daughter, Fiona, simply because of her appearance.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: They were ashamed of the daughter being born a ogre and had her locked her away because of it.
• Small Role, Big Impact: They locked their own daughter in a tower because of her appearance, thus setting the plot into motion.
• Unnamed Parent: They were just called “The King and Queen”.

Queen of Hearts

Queen of Hearts

A deleted villain from Shrek the Third.

• Adaptational Heroism: She appears in some versions of Shrek the Musical as a fairy-Tale character banished from Duloc.

• Earn Your Happy Ending: Her goal in Shrek the Third.

• God Save Us from the Queen!: She isn’t the QUEEN of Hearts for nothing.

• Heel–Face Turn: In Shrek the Third, maybe.

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