In 2001, the cartoon "Shrek" was released on world screens, which won the hearts of millions of viewers of different ages. The audience was especially sympathetic to his characters: Shrek, Princess Fiona and their friends are described with a fair amount of humor and satire. So, who are they - the heroes of the famous cartoon?
Ogre shrek
In the series of cartoons about the cannibal Shrek, mostly non-original characters are involved. Shrek and his friends came to us from the plots of well-known fairy tales, just their images were slightly corrected and presented in a postmodern light.
The main character named Shrek is a typical ogre from Western folklore. This image was first used under the same name by the writer William Steig in his children's book “Shrek!”. Based on this work, an entire animated franchise was then filmed.
The hero of the same cartoon has green skin and elongated ears in the form of a tube. Shrek is tall, his stomach sticks out a little. The ogre wears a beige canvas shirt, vest and dark brown pants.
Shrek is unsociable and prefers to live exclusively in swamps. He is not very fond of guests and most often gloomy. The only one who agrees to tolerate this behavior is the sociable Donkey and Princess Fiona, who sincerely loves the good-natured giant.
Cartoon Shrek Princess Fiona
At the beginning of the first part of the Fiona franchise, we are presented with a beautiful princess in human form. She lives in an abandoned castle and waits for her charming prince to save. But instead of the prince comes a rude and ugly Shrek. He was sent for the princess by a certain Lord Farquad, promising in return to free the house of the ogre from fabulous creatures. Fiona has no choice but to submit and follow the green liberator to the castle of her future fiancé Farquad. This is how the main cartoon characters get to know each other.
Shrek is not very friendly with the princess. And yet, during their journey, they managed to imbue each other with feelings. Then it turns out that the curse prevails over Fiona: at night she becomes as green and ugly as Shrek. After much deliberation, Fiona gives up her beauty, kisses the unattractive, but devoted and good-natured Shrek, and then turns into an ogre forever.
In subsequent cartoons, Fiona and Shrek got married and had three children.
A donkey
The cartoon is filled with interesting characters, but there are simply unforgettable characters. Shrek sets off to rescue Fiona from the tower in a pair with the annoying Donkey. The donkey talks a lot and may seem silly, but in fact he is just a companionable and good-natured animal.
His habit of saying aloud everything he thinks, Donkey annoys the ogre. But it is precisely this hero who succeeds in convincing Shrek that for the sake of his love he must take a chance, go to the wedding ceremony of Fiona and Lord Farquhad, and confess to the princess her feelings.
Subsequently, the Donkey will become a friend of the family and will compete for the title of best friend with Puss in Boots. Another juicy fact: the Donkey will have an affair with the Dragon, who guarded Fiona in the castle, the characters will get married and their children will be born hybrids.
Puss in Boots
The colorful hero in the animated series is considered not only ogre Shrek. Characters whose names did not leave the mouth of enthusiastic children are Puss in Boots, Robin Hood, and the Fairy Godmother.
Puss in boots appears in the second part of the franchise and becomes a full member of the ensemble of the main characters of the cartoon. He wears a tiny sharp saber on his belt, and also often uses a distracting maneuver in battle: he makes big sad eyes, but as soon as the enemy regrets him, he beats him in the most vulnerable spot.
According to the plot, Puss in boots worked as a hit man before he met the ogre. Fiona's father hired Kot to remove the uncomfortable groom. But during the attack on the ogre, the Cat choked on his coat, and Shrek did not take advantage of the enemy’s weakness and saved his life. After that, the hot Spanish Cat announced that Shrek had become his friend forever.
The donkey did not like the news: he was jealous of Shrek for Cat, so for a long time he tried to survive the red purr from their friendly company.
Fairy godmother
The characters of the cartoon Shrek found a new life in this project. So the kind Fairy-godmother from the tale of Cinderella suddenly turned into the main antagonist in the second part of the franchise.
In "Shrek" the Fairy appears before the viewer as a calculating business woman. She has compromising evidence on the first persons of a fairy-tale state, including the king. By force, she makes Fiona’s father interfere in her daughter’s family relationships and make her recognize her husband as Prince the Beautiful (the son of the Fairy-godmother). However, the intrigues of this heroine go to pieces: Shrek still found a way to avoid death and arrived at the ball to free Fiona from evil spells with a kiss. From anger, the Fairy-godmother burst and turned into soap bubbles.
Prince Charming
The fairy-tale characters Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots for two cartoons confront the insidious Prince Charming.
The handsome prince in ordinary fairy tales is a goodie. But in "Shrek" this character is the son of the hypocritical Fairy-godmother, and by nature represents a narcissistic, self-confident villain.
In the second part of the franchise, Prince Charming tries to convince Fiona that he is her husband Shrek. Allegedly, Shrek drank the potion and turned into a man especially for her. But this lie is exposed at the end of the animated film. Prince Charming returns to the screens in the third issue: this time he is trying to take the throne from Fiona and Shrek. The villain manages to realize his cunning plan: Fiona and other fairy-tale heroines go underground, and Shrek at this time tries to convince Prince Arthur that the young man is worthy to rule the Kingdom of Far Away.
In the finale of Charming's third film, they win again and King Arthur ascends the throne.
Dragon
The most comic couple in the cartoon can be called Dragon and Donkey. They met when the Donkey came to rescue Fiona along with Shrek. Being incredibly charming, he immediately won the heart of a large and fiery lady. It was the Dragon on her back who brought Shrek and the Donkey to the church so that they would upset the marriage of Fiona and Lord Farquhad.
Then, in each film, the Dragon helped the main characters defend their interests. In one of the series Donkey and Dragon, they get married and they have "dragonflies".
Shrek Characters: List of Minor Heroes
What other famous fairy-tale characters can be seen in the cartoon about the cannibal giant?
1. Merlin. The famous magician and wizard of British folklore appears in the third part of the franchise.
2. King Arthur. Although King Arthur, the knight of Camelot, is a real historical character, in the cartoon the biography of the famous ruler was interpreted in a slightly different way.
3. Rapunzel. The long-haired princess turned out to be a traitor and in the third franchise film helped Charming carry out a coup d'etat.
And also Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin and many other fairy tale characters appear briefly in Shrek.