Movies: Shrek | Shrek 2 | Shrek the Third | Shrek Forever After | Puss in Boots | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Other media: Shrek 4D | Shrek the Halls | Scared Shrekless | The Adventures of Puss in Boots | Shrek: The Musical
- Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Shrek: The Final Chapter is not the official title for the movie, and said title doesn't appear in the film proper. To help clear confusion from the promotional campaign, the home video release was given the title Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter, though the actual film still has the original title.
- Deleted Scene: In the DVD release of the film, there are three deleted scenes:
- After failing to get a True Love's Kiss from Fiona but before surrendering to Rumpelstilstkin, Shrek goes to an abandoned house, where he gets ambushed by Gingy with his cookie animals, the Three Little Pigs, the Three Blind Mice, Pinocchio and the Big Bad Wolf, who capture him along with Donkey and Puss to bring them to Rumpel. Despite being almost fully animated, the scene was dropped and in the finished film, Gingy is killed by Puss, the Three Blind Mice don't appear in the alternate universe and the rest unsuccessfuly try to trick Rumpel by passing the Wolf and Gepetto as Shrek.
- Shrek sees a crowd of leprechauns watching one of Gingy's gladiator spectacles, but upon approaching them to meet with Gingy, Gingy attacks him and the leprechauns tie him to the ground in a similar fashion to how the Lilliputians restrain the titular character of Gulliver's Travels. After Gingy threats Shrek with his lollipop weapon, Shrek breaks free from his restrains and runs away.
- Rumpelstiltskin tricks the Emperor from The Emperor's New Clothes to sign a contract so he can get respect in exchange of everything he is wearing, as the Emperor is actually naked and doesn't realize that the deal included his crown. Upon signing the contract, the Emperor loses his crown and Rumpel assures him that people will respect him as an individual as the witches take the Emperor away.
- Descended Creator: Walt Dohrn, head of story, was cast as Rumplestilskin after everyone fell in love with the voice he came up for him when doing the readbacks on the recording sessions.
- DVD Commentary: The previous Shrek film didn't included a commentary, luckly, this one does. With director Mike Mitchell, head of story/actor Walt Dohrn and producers Gina Shay and Teresa Cheng.
- Flip-Flop of God: Director Mike Mitchell stated
that Cookie the Ogre is female although sounds like a male to keep the franchise's tradition to have men playing women (like the Wicked Stepsisters), despite having a beard. However, Craig Robinson has stated that he got conflicting reports about Cookie's Ambiguous Gender and was told that he was definitely male. - Kids' Meal Toy: McDonald's released a set of eight talking action figures in their Happy Meals in the US; Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, Puss in Boots, Gingy, Pinocchio, the Three Little Pigs, and Rumpelstiltskin. Most countries outside of the US had different toys, such as Dragon and Brogan, but some countries had an additional promotion for the home video release that featured the US toys.
- Permanent Placeholder: Walt Dohrn did a scratch track for Rumplestilskin, and a celebrity was going to voice him as mentioned below. However, Walt ended up with the role after everyone loved his performance.
- Torch the Franchise and Run: The reason why the film was made was so that DreamWorks Animation could prevent the Shrek franchise from decaying any further after the middling reception to Shrek the Third. Even the title was changed from Shrek Goes Fourth to Shrek Forever After to cement the idea that it was a Grand Finale. Since then, the only new entries have been the Puss in Boots spin-off films and their associated Sequel Series made for Netflix. A fifth film (sources conflicted on it being another sequel or a Continuity Reboot) was announced, but entered Development Hell; Puss in Boots: The Last Wish presents itself as a direct sequel to the original Shrek films and ends on a Sequel Hook; the fifth film was confirmed to still be in production in 2023.
- What Could Have Been: Shares a page.
- Word of God: In regards to where Artie was in-universe during the events of the film, director Mike Mitchell and the crew imagined that Artie went on a quest for a grail and Queen Lillian took over in the meantime.
