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Shrek

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Shrek	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Shrek is a 2001 DreamWorks Animation CGI film very loosely based on the 1990 William Steig book of the same name. It was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, with a script by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman. The film features Shrek (Mike Myers), a grumpy ogre living happily alone in his swamp, where he regularly frightens off villagers and lives the lazily luxurious life of an ogre. However, his perfect world is rocked when his loving home is invaded by fairy tale creatures simply seeking refuge after being cast into exile by the cruel-hearted Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). When Shrek confronts Farquaad, he agrees to let the ogre live in peace if he can rescue the Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from a dragon guarded castle so that Farquaad can marry her and become a true king. With the aid of his new and obnoxiously garrulous self-proclaimed best friend, a talking Donkey named Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Shrek sets off on his quest to restore balance to the delicate fairy tale world he's living in.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Notorious for its modern twist on the Fairy Tale genre, Shrek was a smashing success at the time of its release. The film became the first installment of the Shrek franchise, receiving three theatrical sequels and two spinoffs. It ushered in a new era of computer animated films to DreamWorks Animation, and the titular Shrek became the company's unofficial mascot.Shrek also was the winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. And it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry, making it the first and thus far only animated feature not from Disney and Pixar in the registry. As it was from 2001, it also became the first piece of animation from the 21st century to have that honor as well.
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Shrek / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Shrek / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: On the second night with Fiona, Donkey says he knows what's going on when Fiona says it's late and she has to go inside, before saying that he thinks Fiona's scared of the dark. She decides to go with it.
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Shrek / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Shrek / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Shrek, Donkey, Dragon, and Fionanote The princess in the book, while drastically different, still serves as the basis for Fiona's character are the only characters who appeared in the original book. Lord Farquaad and the numerous fairy tale creatures were introduced specifically for the film.
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Shrek / int_128e7526	type	Mistaken for Own Murderer
Shrek / int_128e7526	comment	Mistaken for Own Murderer: Donkey, unaware of Fiona's curse, thinks that an ogre ate her when he finds one in her room. She manages to calm him enough to explain.
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Shrek / int_1317c2e1	type	Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue
Shrek / int_1317c2e1	comment	Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue: Definitely tips the scale in favor of dialogue. 90% of the movie is non-stop chatting between characters, even when they're not hitting a story beat.
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Shrek / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Shrek / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Played straight during the tournament with all the injuries the knights sustain, possibly justified since they're all wearing armor. Averted in the arrow scene, as Donkey believes he's seeing blood on the arrow after Fiona rips it out of Shrek's butt, causing him to faint.
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Shrek / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Shrek / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: Fiona in the first film, upon seeing her ogre reflection in a bucket of water.
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Shrek / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Shrek / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Shrek rescues Fiona from the tower. It was originally for Farquaad to marry her and become king of Duloc. However, Shrek and Fiona end up falling in love with each other.
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Shrek / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Shrek / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Farquaad's "perfect world" of Duloc means getting rid of all fairytale creatures and banishing them to Shrek's swamp. With this mindset, it makes Farquaad all the worse.
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Shrek / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Shrek / int_16ad6f7f	comment	Farquaad does this to Shrek when he realizes Shrek is in love with Fiona, laughing at him and getting the whole congregation to laugh at him too. And before that, there was this line: "Really, it's rude enough being alive when no one wants you!" Shrek cuts him off shortly after. And then, when he sees Fiona in her ogress form, what does he say? "Ugh, it's disgusting!"
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Shrek / int_16f94772	type	Sliding Scale of Animation Elaborateness
Shrek / int_16f94772	comment	Sliding Scale of Animation Elaborateness: Lands at the top of the scale, even if the animation is kind of showing its age these days.
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Shrek / int_176d8028	type	Humanizing Tears
Shrek / int_176d8028	comment	Humanizing Tears: Possibly the only instance of this trope being applied to a gigantic fire-breathing dragon. A few sobs in front of a lakeshore while pining for Donkey are pretty much all it takes to make the dragon a sympathetic character.
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Shrek / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Shrek / int_1777836c	comment	True Love's Kiss: The film plays it straight as part of a larger subversion. The female lead has a curse which turns her into an ogre by night, which can only be broken by True Love's Kiss. However, when said love, the ogre Shrek, kisses her, she becomes an ogre permanently — which she preferred. Of course, there is the opening monologue, which mocks this trope lightly; you can see how seriously Shrek takes it.
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Shrek / int_181c8a41	type	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Shrek / int_181c8a41	comment	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Spoofed. Shrek goes to interrupt the wedding of Fiona and Farquaad, but Donkey insists that he wait for the priest to say this line before barging in and shouting "I object!". On further investigation, they realise they missed that part, so Shrek barges in anyway.
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Shrek / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Shrek / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Shrek and Fiona yell each other's names a few times when Farquaad orders his guards to get rid of them.
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Shrek / int_1aa0df93	type	Gibberish of Love
Shrek / int_1aa0df93	comment	Gibberish of Love: Shrek slips into this when he tells Fiona that Farquaad isn't her true love, and she asks Shrek what he knows about true love. He stumbles over his words and Farquaad realizes Shrek has feelings for Fiona, much to his amusement.
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Shrek / int_1af4728b	type	Floorboard Failure
Shrek / int_1af4728b	comment	Floorboard Failure: Fiona falls through the upper floor of the mill while trying to hide her ogress form from Donkey when he goes in to check on her.
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Shrek / int_1cbde068	type	Oblivious to His Own Description
Shrek / int_1cbde068	comment	Oblivious to His Own Description: Donkey, when he follows Shrek back to his hovel in the swamp, pestering and annoying him the entire way, and finds the hovel surrounded by "No Trespassers" signs:
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Shrek / int_1ceb3fab	type	Mirror-Cracking Ugly
Shrek / int_1ceb3fab	comment	Mirror-Cracking Ugly: Shrek's mirror can't withstand his smile.
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Shrek / int_1e60c6a8	type	Flippant Forgiveness
Shrek / int_1e60c6a8	comment	Flippant Forgiveness:
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Shrek / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Shrek / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: A brief moment of this happens at the end. Shrek goes in to kiss Fiona after the curse is broken, but stops, notices the camera, and covers it with his hand.
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Shrek / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Shrek / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Shrek swigs some ale before he throws down with the knights. He and Donkey also use the barrels as a weapon.
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Shrek / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Shrek / int_1fc8335e	comment	Lord Farquaad turned out to do this on a series spanning level. He sent Shrek to rescue Fiona, which messes up his own plan by allowing Fiona to meet her true love that would break the curse and allow Donkey to meet Dragon, who helps Shrek and Donkey stop his wedding and eats Farquaad. In the second movie, Prince Charming's goal to rescue Fiona and thus Fairy Godmother's intention to rule Far Far Away through him are foiled because Farquaad sent Shrek to rescue her already. Most importantly, it foiled Rumpelstiltskin's attempt to get Fiona's parents to sign a Deal with the Devil with him, letting him erase them from existence and conquer Far Far Away because Shrek rescued Fiona and rendered the deal pointless. Even further back, the only reason Shrek interfered at all in any of this was because Farquaad's deporting all the fairy tale creatures to his swamp ticked him off. Really Nice Job Fixing It, Villain.
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Shrek / int_20ffc19a	type	Famous for Being First
Shrek / int_20ffc19a	comment	Famous for Being First: While Shrek and Donkey are stargazing, Shrek points at some stars that represent Throwback, "the only ogre to ever spit over three wheat fields".
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Shrek / int_215f0830	type	Big Shadow, Little Creature
Shrek / int_215f0830	comment	Big Shadow, Little Creature: The shadows of the Three Blind Mice when Shrek first sees them on his table (and first sees that they're there) make them appear much bigger than they actually are.
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Shrek / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Shrek / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Fiona doesn't notice the green skin of Shrek's face and neck until he removes his helmet.
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Shrek / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Shrek / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The mill that Shrek and Donkey approach on the hill after the "ogres are like onions" scene is where they stop at with Fiona on the way back, where we find out about Fiona's curse, where Shrek misinterprets Fiona's words and comes to think she hates him, and where Farquaad meets Fiona to bring her back to Duloc. Fiona's enchantment. Described first by Fiona when she's first seen as an ogress in the mill, then comes back again during the wedding when it's revealed to Shrek and Farquaad. Farquaad's reaction leads almost directly to his own death. Donkey tells Dragon he'll whistle if he needs her. During the fight with Farquaad, when all seems lost, Shrek remembers this and breaks free enough to whistle for Dragon, who promptly breaks in and eats Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Shrek / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Adapted from a children's book approximately 500 words long; almost nothing in the movie other than the characters of Shrek, Donkey, an ogre princess and a dragon actually came from the book.
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Shrek / int_23ca8dff	type	Fantastic Nature Reserve
Shrek / int_23ca8dff	comment	Fantastic Nature Reserve: Shrek's swamp, very much against his wishes.
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Shrek / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Shrek / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The film takes a potshot at the fairytale idea of knights slaying dragons. Shrek himself points out that every knight who tried to take Dragon on in a fight just got burnt to death, as the idea of defeating a giant, fire-breathing monster with nothing but a sword and armor is very unfeasible. Indeed, Shrek and Donkey save Fiona and escape from Dragon not through strength, but through a combination of Shrek's cunning and Donkey serving as a convenient distraction.
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Shrek / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Shrek / int_23ff95fb	comment	Donkey mentioning to Shrek early on that only a true friend would use Brutal Honesty towards him. By the end of the film, and after a bit of arguing, they make up and reaffirm a friendship.
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Shrek / int_24e5adb9	type	Beast and Beauty
Shrek / int_24e5adb9	comment	Beast and Beauty: Shrek and Fiona, though it's subverted when Fiona becomes an ogre full-time.
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Shrek / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Shrek / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: Invoked; Fiona explains to Donkey that with her martial arts skills she could have escaped the tower and Dragon at any time. In fact, she does that in the fourth movie's Alternate Timeline when Shrek never appears to rescue her. The problem is that it wouldn't solve her actual problem, that she is cursed to become an ogress at night. Only True Love's Kiss can do that, and those tend to come from princes or knights. Hence, she stayed in the hopes of breaking the curse.
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Shrek / int_253f0265	type	Thriving Ghost Town
Shrek / int_253f0265	comment	Thriving Ghost Town: Duloc is clearly a large kingdom, but it doesn't seem to host that big of a population in comparison, about enough to crowd an arena and church and that's it. This was due to technical limitations (the studios' crowd animation system was specifically designed for indoor settings) and to save on expensive and valuable rendering time for the film.
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Shrek / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Shrek / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: A big source of the film's humor. While the medieval fairy tale setting is generally consistent with how low tech it is, there are pop culture anomalies inserted that fly in the face of it for laughs. These include the Magic Mirror hosting a Dating Show (and Farquaad later using him like a TV with a VCR), Disney World-style parking lots and loudspeakers at Duloc, Shrek making offhand comments like "Hold the phone!", Shrek's outhouse having modern plumbing, and Fiona being skilled in Eastern Martial Arts, right down to performing a parody of The Matrix, and the use of a modern drumset and microphone in the Dance Party Ending. The heavy use of popular music in the soundtrack also gave the film a very contemporary feel (for the early 2000s, at least).
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Shrek / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
Shrek / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends: Donkey says at the beginning that he doesn't have any friends and is very persistent to become friends with Shrek. Shrek is implied to be like this. Though he likes his solitude, he really only does because he's tired of being judged and treated badly for being an ogre. He does eventually open up by befriending Donkey and falling in love with Fiona.
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Shrek / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Shrek / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The opening sequence has Shrek burp into a lit match to produce a flame in such a way that looks like he's breathing it, presumably as a nod to the book where he had the power to breath fire.
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Shrek / int_26e7f210	type	This Is My Side
Shrek / int_26e7f210	comment	This Is My Side: Shrek and Donkey, at one point.
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Shrek / int_275773bd	type	Curse Escape Clause
Shrek / int_275773bd	comment	Curse Escape Clause: Fiona was cursed to be an ogre at night and a human during the day. The curse was broken by True Love's Kiss. Good thing it wasn't just any true love... The second implies it was supposed to make her permanently human. The phrasing is "love's true form".
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Shrek / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Shrek / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To the Discworld book Witches Abroad, another Fractured Fairy Tale about an oppressive regime where everything in a fairytale land must go a certain way or else.
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Shrek / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Shrek / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The entire plot seems to take place in the span of at least five days.
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Shrek / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Shrek / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Shrek is a male example. When he and Donkey first meet, he is clearly annoyed and irritated by him and wants nothing more than to get rid of him. Of course, that changes after they spend a bit of time together, and then when he rescues Fiona... Fiona too. She's not happy that Shrek rescued her, nor that he rescued her for someone else, but she soon starts warming up to him.
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Shrek / int_29039706	type	Musical Number Annoyance
Shrek / int_29039706	comment	Musical Number Annoyance: When they first meet, Donkey offers Shrek his friendship by singing "(You Gotta Have) Friends", which quickly bugs Shrek.
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Shrek / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Shrek / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Dragon before her Heel–Face Turn. Even Shrek, a grown ogre who can send entire mobs fleeing and can take on a dozen soldiers at once attempts to avoid the Dragon when rescuing Fiona.
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Shrek / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Shrek / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: The "ogres are like onions" discussion. Shrek is trying to say that, though ogres are smelly and generally considered repellent, they have Hidden Depths. Donkey completely misses the point about the repellent part and starts suggesting popular desserts such as cake and parfait that everyone loves that also has layers, infuriating Shrek, as he was also trying to imply to Donkey that not everybody liking onions is another thing they have in common with Ogres.
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Shrek / int_2cb56134	type	Sliding Scale of Endings
Shrek / int_2cb56134	comment	Sliding Scale of Endings: Falls on the Happily Ever After end of it, albeit a variation of the trope.
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Shrek / int_2d6c0bce	type	Talking in Your Sleep
Shrek / int_2d6c0bce	comment	Talking in Your Sleep: When Fiona is cooking eggs for breakfast, Donkey is muttering to himself in his sleep before Shrek wakes him up.
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Shrek / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Shrek / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Shrek does one when he first sees his swamp is filled with fairy tale creatures. He does two more after that, each getting louder than the one before, before it becomes a Big "NO!".
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Shrek / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
Shrek / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Although in most retellings, Robin Hood is an English Saxon fighting the tyranny of French-descended Normans; in Shrek he inexplicably has a French accent. And is a jerk to boot.
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Shrek / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Shrek / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: All throughout the wrestling match in Duloc, Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" kicks in, and both Shrek AND Donkey start to kick ass and take names.
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Shrek / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Shrek / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: As you might expect, Shrek is this due to being an ogre. In his words, people judge him before they properly know him and assume him to be a monster, whereas he is a nice guy once you get to know him, as Donkey and Fiona find out.
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Shrek / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Shrek / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Donkey to Shrek and Fiona.
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Shrek / int_329a97a0	type	Apology Gift
Shrek / int_329a97a0	comment	Apology Gift: Fiona makes breakfast for Donkey and Shrek as an apology for being an Ungrateful Bastard the day before. She tells Shrek that she made a bad first impression and that he deserves a thank-you for rescuing her.
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Shrek / int_33a32e68	type	Turn Your Head and Cough
Shrek / int_33a32e68	comment	Turn Your Head and Cough: When Donkey learns that Shrek has been hit by an arrow, Donkey panics at the thought of Shrek dying from it and shouts irrelevant medical advice, including "keep your feet elevated", a plea for somebody to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, and "turn your head and cough."
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Shrek / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Shrek / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Farquaad does this to the Gingerbread Man by taunting him with his own rhyme and his dismembered legs, before crumbling one to powder right in front of him. Farquaad does this to Shrek when he realizes Shrek is in love with Fiona, laughing at him and getting the whole congregation to laugh at him too. And before that, there was this line: "Really, it's rude enough being alive when no one wants you!" Shrek cuts him off shortly after. And then, when he sees Fiona in her ogress form, what does he say? "Ugh, it's disgusting!"
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Shrek / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Shrek / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: A fanon interpretation of Donkey is that waffles are his favorite food. In the Swamp Talk videos on the DreamWorks TV YouTube channel, he does say stuff that allude to that being canon. Not to mention, in Universal Studios Hollywood, he has a Waffle Wagon.
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Shrek / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Shrek / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Works in both ways. The film is cynical in its comedy, but idealistic in its true message.
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Shrek / int_3767d6f9	type	Ruder and Cruder
Shrek / int_3767d6f9	comment	Ruder and Cruder: Shrek uses mild profanity, whereas the children's book upon which it's very loosely based had none. Oddly subverted, however, in that the titular character was uglier, meaner, and cruder in the book than in the film.
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Shrek / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Shrek / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: On the way to the castle, during the Travel Montage, Shrek hurts his foot trying to stamp out what's left of the campfire, forcing Donkey to put it out by urinating on it.
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Shrek / int_39b7a7cd	type	Amazon Chaser
Shrek / int_39b7a7cd	comment	Amazon Chaser: After watching her beat up Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Shrek starts to fall in love with Fiona.
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Shrek / int_39e12021	type	Induced Hypochondria
Shrek / int_39e12021	comment	Induced Hypochondria: Shrek and Fiona psych Donkey into feeling ill so they can spend one more day together. Since he's so paranoid anyways, he falls for it.
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Shrek / int_3ac8ba6a	type	Ignorant About Fire
Shrek / int_3ac8ba6a	comment	Ignorant About Fire: In one of the bonus features, Donkey and Dragon sing a cover of "Burn, Baby, Burn", and Donkey's tail catches fire but he doesn't notice.
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Shrek / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Shrek / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Played straight to some degree with Duloc, although we see what's wrong with it before we even learn its name, as opposed to learning what's wrong with it after its introduction as this trope normally works. Farquaad is obsessed with his idea of a perfect world, which means banishing anyone who doesn't meet his standards of perfection, namely fairy tale creatures, who end up in Shrek's swamp. See Does This Remind You of Anything? and Fridge Horror to see why this is worse than it sounds here.
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Shrek / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Shrek / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: When going into hero worship mode of Shrek shortly after Shrek unwittingly saved Donkey's butt from Farquaad's men, Donkey mentions another time before meeting Shrek that he nearly had his nosehairs burned off. However, Shrek tried to muffle his mouth, to no avail. The only thing that was revealed was that it had something to do with eating rotten berries and his undergoing indigestion.
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Shrek / int_3c2eef1	type	Wants Versus Needs
Shrek / int_3c2eef1	comment	Wants Versus Needs: Shrek agrees to rescue Fiona from her tower and bring her to Lord Farquaad in exchange for having his Swamplands to himself again, having lived feared and alone for so long that all he wants is privacy. Having been raised as a fairy tale princess, all Fiona wants is to be rescued by her own Prince Charming and to live Happily Ever After free of her curse. By the end, the both of them get what they want, but in a way that they both needed: while Shrek gets his swamp back, he learns to open himself up, marrying Fiona and finding friends among a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits he originally wanted out. While Fiona's curse is technically broken and she does live Happily Ever After with a charming man she married, it's as an ogre with a non-royal ogre for a husband in a swamp. Not that either of them mind.
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Shrek / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Shrek / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Farquaad has a moment of this during the climax, as he calls his guards morons at one point. He also shows a blatant disregard to the knights volunteering to go rescue Fiona for him, saying some might die trying but "it's a sacrifice [he's] willing to make."
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Shrek / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Shrek / int_3d699462	comment	Shrek comes to Duloc to demand his swamp back from Lord Farquaad, right when the guy is testing knights to go rescue Fiona. Lord Farquaad orders the knights instead to "kill the ogre" to win the honor. The audience is at first on the side of the knights...until some of them start to cheat and Shrek defeats them all in a Curb-Stomp Battle anyway. Then Shrek gains the adoration of the crowd, reveling in the attention as he knocks out the knights one by one. Lord Farquaad is forced to go with a new plan so as to quell a potential riot: bargain with Shrek to rescue the princess and in return he'll give him the swamp.
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Shrek / int_3eca7ea6	type	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
Shrek / int_3eca7ea6	comment	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?:
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Shrek / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Shrek / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: This film deconstructs the old fairy tale story of knights fighting dragons by showing what actually happens when a human goes up against a giant, fire-breathing monster: they get burnt to death, as the array of burnt skeletons in the castle confirm. Shrek and Donkey ultimately escape from Dragon not by defeating her in a straight fight, but by outsmarting her. Shrek and Fiona are badasses, but in the finale, they are near helpless when a pissed off Farquaad sics entire droves of knights on them, causing the two to become overwhelmed by the massive army, not helping that they're in a crowded church making it easier for the knights to trap the ogres.
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Shrek / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Shrek / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Shrek in the original book was a Villain Protagonist who enjoyed making other people miserable with his ugliness and powers, all for his amusement. Shrek here starts out much more neutral, who only scares people away so he can be left alone. He then later becomes a hero as he bonds with Donkey and Fiona.
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Shrek / int_4061b99	type	Water Torture
Shrek / int_4061b99	comment	Water Torture: Or milk torture, rather, used by Thelonius against the Gingerbread Man at Lord Farquaad's behest.
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Shrek / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Shrek / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Shrek heads away from the mill after Fiona goes inside, and when Donkey asks where he's going, he replies, "To get... more firewood." Donkey knows he's lying because there's still a huge stack of firewood next to the fire.
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Shrek / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Shrek / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Parodied; the film ends with a storybook closing, with the last pages saying "And they lived ugly ever after. The End."
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Shrek / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Shrek / int_41dd77d	comment	Shrek and Fiona are badasses, but in the finale, they are near helpless when a pissed off Farquaad sics entire droves of knights on them, causing the two to become overwhelmed by the massive army, not helping that they're in a crowded church making it easier for the knights to trap the ogres.
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Shrek / int_420e223e	type	Girl in the Tower
Shrek / int_420e223e	comment	Girl in the Tower: Princess Fiona has been kept in the tallest tower of the Keep. The film provides the page's quote.
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Shrek / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
Shrek / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: Happens at the beginning after Shrek closes the book. "Like that's ever going to happen. What a load of—" [toilet flushes]
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Shrek / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Shrek / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed. Shrek is by no means handsome in the film, but he's certainly not as gruesome looking as he was in the William Steig book.
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Shrek / int_43285966	type	"Too Young to Die" Lamentation
Shrek / int_43285966	comment	"Too Young to Die" Lamentation: When Fiona points out Shrek having an arrow stuck in his butt, to which Donkey begins to panic, and even exclaims, "I'm too young for you to die!"
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Shrek / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Shrek / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Shrek simply intended to rescue Fiona and deliver her to Farquaad to get back his home, never wanting to have a romantic relationship. He ends up falling in love with her anyways.
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Shrek / int_469be060	type	Immune to Jump Scares
Shrek / int_469be060	comment	Immune to Jump Scares: Not even a minute after meeting Donkey for the first time, Shrek attempts to scare him away by roaring right in his face. Donkey isn't fazed by the ogre's grimace and complains only about his unpleasant breath.
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Shrek / int_47002c8f	type	Mistaken for Flatulence
Shrek / int_47002c8f	comment	Mistaken for Flatulence: When Shrek and Donkey are nearing the dragon's keep, Donkey smells brimstone and thinks that Shrek just cut one. Shrek responds "If it was me, you'd be dead."
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Shrek / int_470d3d7f	type	Radial Ass Kicking
Shrek / int_470d3d7f	comment	Radial Ass Kicking: Happens with Fiona and the Merry Men as well as the wrestling scene in the arena.
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Shrek / int_475b8ac0	type	Rope Bridge
Shrek / int_475b8ac0	comment	Rope Bridge: A thin rickety one leads to the castle where Fiona is imprisoned. Donkey naturally is quite terrified to walk across it over "a boiling lake of lava!"
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Shrek / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Shrek / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Shrek. All he wants is to be left alone, is quite moody and callous at times, and occasionally falls into It's All About Me territory, as Donkey points out during his "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Despite all that, part of the reason why Shrek is the way he is is because he hates that people judge him before they properly know him, and that he is a good guy inside, as people would find out if they gave him a chance. For example, he allows Donkey to stay with him for one night despite how annoying (at first) he finds him, agrees to get the fairy tale refugees back where they came from (even if only to get them off his own land), and despite how irritating he finds Donkey, he still saves him in the face of danger and eventually properly befriends him.
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Shrek / int_48373d9a	type	Silence of Sadness
Shrek / int_48373d9a	comment	Silence of Sadness: During the Sad-Times Montage set to "Hallelujah" by John Cale, Shrek, Fiona and Donkey don't say a word, devastated about the misunderstandings that have happened between each other. Donkey, however, finds some solace upon finding Dragon, and goes to console her.
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Shrek / int_48a166eb	type	Stopped Reading Too Soon
Shrek / int_48a166eb	comment	Stopped Reading Too Soon: The title character accidentally eavesdrops on Fiona talking to Donkey, and hears the part about how "'princess' and 'ugly' don't go together." Thinking that she secretly hated him and was only pretending to like him, he promptly storms away, when her very next sentence would have clued him in that she was talking about her own shapeshifting curse. Farquaad while the mirror attempts to tell him what happens to Fiona after sunset. He's so into the idea of marrying her, he simply tells the mirror to silence. Because of this, he doesn't find out about her curse till it's too late, causing the rest of the franchise to happen.
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Shrek / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Shrek / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Shrek's knight disguise may look convincing, but it still has some blatant flaws: with the visor of the helmet open, it clearly shows his green forehead. He's also wearing fingerless gloves that expose his green fingers. Yet Fiona doesn't realize he's an ogre until after he takes the helmet off.
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Shrek / int_48f7eeb2	type	Heir-In-Law
Shrek / int_48f7eeb2	comment	Heir-In-Law: Lord Farquaad is already in charge, but still wants to be able to call himself a King, which he can achieve by marrying a Princess.
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Shrek / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Shrek / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Fiona complains that Shrek is this when he helps bust her out from the tower before slaying the dragon and tells her to find a safe hiding place while he goes to save Donkey. Shrek points out the other knights who did that got burned to a crisp. His method at least lets them escape with their lives, if a bit singed.
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Shrek / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Shrek / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Shrek and Fiona making nearby animals into balloons for each other and then letting them float away, and allowing a tree Donkey is walking on to snap back and fling him away. In addition to the balloon animals, Fiona also causes a bird to spontaneously combust when it tries to hold a note as long and loud as the one Fiona sings... then, she cooks the bird's eggs. Notice at the end of the movie, only two of the three bears - Papa Bear, and Baby Bear, specifically - are freed with the other fairy tale creatures. If you look closely, Farquaad made a rug out of Mama Bear.
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Shrek / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Shrek / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters:
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Shrek / int_4ce37dd1	type	Snipe Hunt
Shrek / int_4ce37dd1	comment	Snipe Hunt: Donkey is sent off to find a blue flower with red thorns to keep him from distracting Fiona and Shrek while they dealt with the arrow in Shrek's behind. Taken further as Donkey turns out to be colorblind. Donkey actually finds the flower, too.
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Shrek / int_4e7bdeff	type	Loves Me Not
Shrek / int_4e7bdeff	comment	Loves Me Not: Variation. Fiona does this with a sunflower Shrek left at her doorstep to decide whether she should tell Shrek her deep, dark secret: "I tell him, I tell him not..." She plucks the last petal on a "I tell him!" but the sun rises just then and she returns to human form before she can find Shrek. Naturally, he appears seconds later, and because of his eavesdropping on her the night before and offended by some comments she made to Donkey that seemed at least very insensitive towards him (Shrek), he's not happy.
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Shrek / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Shrek / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In Universe, given what the audience knows at this point. When Shrek continues to believe that Fiona called him "ugly", Donkey sets the record straight right then and there:
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Shrek / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Shrek / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Towards the climax, Donkey nervously goes to spend the night in the mill where Fiona is because he's scared of the dark. He calls for her, only to see a green figure stumbling in the dark wearing Fiona's dress. Donkey screams in alarm, until the ogress reveals she is Fiona, just bigger... and greener. Donkey needs a few minutes until he realizes that Fiona is cursed, and he's seeing what happens after the sun goes down.
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Shrek / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Shrek / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Seeing how Puss In Boots isn’t introduced until the sequel, this is the only film that doesn’t feature him. In addition, this film puts more emphasis on satire than the other ones and has the most adult humor. It is also the only one not to have any scenes set in Far Far Away, as it is also introduced in the sequel. This is the only movie in the series that doesn't introduce the Big Bad of the next film as a minor antagonist, i.e. Prince Charming and Rumpelstiltskin. There is a Fairy Godmother in the first film, but she's clearly different from the one in Shrek 2, and is a background character, not an antagonist.
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Shrek / int_50f17484	type	Fake-Out Opening
Shrek / int_50f17484	comment	Fake-Out Opening: The first minute of the film starts with a straightforward fairy tale storybook opening. And then Shrek rips out a page of the book to use it as toilet paper.
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Shrek / int_51be8071	type	Forced from Their Home
Shrek / int_51be8071	comment	Forced from Their Home: The ogre protagonist's Call to Adventure comes in the form of a large number of fairy tale creatures squatting in his swamp because Lord Farquaad has forced them from their homes in his territory.
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Shrek / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Shrek / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When Donkey returns from finding the flowers, he sees Fiona on top of Shrek (who accidentally rolled on him when trying to pull out the arrow). Shrek very quickly tries to explain it isn't what it looks like. Fiona uses Shrek's distraction to finally rip out the arrow.
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Shrek / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Shrek / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Done with actual books. The storybook opening kicks off the film, and finishes with the last page of another book (the first book does not have the title on it like the second one does) before it closes, seconds before cutting to the credits.
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Shrek / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Shrek / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Dragon when she meets Donkey.
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Shrek / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
Shrek / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: The Gingerbread Man to Farquaad as he's being tortured. Farquaad shoots back with this:
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Shrek / int_53e36b34	type	Shades of Conflict
Shrek / int_53e36b34	comment	Shades of Conflict: The film's morality is largely Black-and-White Morality. Shrek is in a gray area at the start, but gradually becomes the real hero of the film.
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Shrek / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Shrek / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: At the end of the DreamWorks logo, the S in "DreamWorks" and "SKG" turn green and grow ogre ears.
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Shrek / int_553c27bb	type	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
Shrek / int_553c27bb	comment	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: The film zigzags between both ends of the scale. The bulk of the film is a silly comedy that pokes fun at fairy tale clichés. The romance and drama scenes, however, are mostly treated very seriously in stark contrast.
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Shrek / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Shrek / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed. Shrek is by no means handsome in the film, but he's certainly not as gruesome looking as he was in the William Steig book. Fiona is a more interesting example. In the book, the princess is a hideous, pointy-nosed ogre. Here, she's a beautiful human being who's cursed to become an ugly ogre every night. Regardless, her ogre form is still more attractive than her book counterpart.
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Shrek / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Shrek / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Fiona uses this early in the movie, especially just after the escape from the dragon's castle. It doesn't last. She does this later when Shrek is carrying her on her shoulder. He pretends to try and drop her to get her to stop. She does it again later after her falling out with Shrek.
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Shrek / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Shrek / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Shrek tries to mollify the knights during the tournament by settling it over drinks. It doesn't work, so Shrek decides to do this.
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Shrek / int_564caaae	type	Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure
Shrek / int_564caaae	comment	Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Shrek, Fiona and Donkey all have a nasty falling out with each other due to Shrek only hearing part of Fiona and Donkey's conversation and assuming that Fiona thought he was an ugly beast (when she was actually referring to herself). When Shrek confronts her about it (repeating her words exactly), Fiona thought Shrek finds her hideous even for him. Donkey at least tries to make amends by trailing Shrek back to his swamp and, after a heated argument, clears up that Fiona was not talking about him. Shrek apologizes and reconciles his friendship with Donkey, just in time to fly off to stop Farquaad and Fiona's wedding (where Shrek also manages to reconcile with Fiona).
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Shrek / int_56ade6eb	type	Sapient Eat Sapient
Shrek / int_56ade6eb	comment	Sapient Eat Sapient: It's gradually revealed how Dragon has a considerable level of intelligence, but, still being a dragon, she barely needs any prompting to gobble up Farquaad. This is also what humans are afraid Shrek will do to them, to the point he tells them he will, just to scare them away.
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Shrek / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Shrek / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Farquaad. The trope's name has never been so appropriate: Farquaad hates all "fairy tale creatures" and has them evicted and forced into Shrek's swamp. His "perfect kingdom" would have nobody but (non-magical) humans.
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Shrek / int_582f5a70	type	This Is the Part Where...
Shrek / int_582f5a70	comment	This Is the Part Where...: When the angry mob comes to drive him out of his hut, Shrek scares them off using his Monster Façade but the mob gets so paralyzed by fear that Shrek has to prompt them to leave.
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Shrek / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
Shrek / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: Princess Fiona seems to like birds and donkeys. She's afraid of dragons, but that's understandable since she was locked in the keep of a dragon since childhood.
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Shrek / int_5a1912af	type	The Hermit
Shrek / int_5a1912af	comment	The Hermit: Shrek is firmly this for much of the film. He hates that people tend to judge him before they properly know him, which is why he feels he's better off being on his own. Of course, this attitude is dropped by the end of the film when he befriends Donkey and realizes he's in love with Fiona.
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Shrek / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
Shrek / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: The film lands on both the Type 1 (In Name Only) and Type 3 (Pragmatic Adaptation) ends of the scale. Its story borrows very few elements from the original William Steig book save for Shrek himself and Donkey (who only appeared on one page), but the original story was only 500 words long to begin with, so some major Adaptation Expansion was needed to make the book's story viable for a feature length film.
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Shrek / int_5adf099a	type	Fictional Constellations
Shrek / int_5adf099a	comment	Fictional Constellations: Shrek tells Donkey the names the ogres give to several constellations.
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Shrek / int_5c1e750e	type	Mouthscreen
Shrek / int_5c1e750e	comment	Mouth Screen: During the iconic bird song, the camera focuses on Fiona's wide open mouth and quivering uvula.
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Shrek / int_5ca04734	type	The Legend of Chekhov
Shrek / int_5ca04734	comment	The Legend of Chekhov: Everything in the storybook opening turns out to be true, and comes back during the castle sequence when Shrek and Donkey have to find Fiona and rescue her. Shrek, in particular, guesses where in the castle she is thanks to the book (the highest room in the tallest tower), and he's right.
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Shrek / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Shrek / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Rather than have Shrek executed by his archers, Farquaad decides to make him his champion and sends him to rescue Princess Fiona. If he succeeds, Farquaad has the princess he was looking for without having to risk any of his men; if he fails, the world will have one less ogre in it. Farquaad wins either way. He even keeps his work about returning Shrek's swamp to him in exchange, when he could easily have backstabbed him over it.
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Shrek / int_5ccead6e	type	Cake Toppers
Shrek / int_5ccead6e	comment	Cake Toppers: This film provides the trope image. Fiona looks at her wedding cake with figurines of herself and Farquaad on the top, and she pushes his figurine down into the cake to more accurately show his height (originally the two figurines were the same height). Gingy is later seen at the end of the movie attempting to completely jam Farquaad's figurine into the cake by hitting it with his cane.
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Shrek / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Shrek / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Princess Fiona is the only female main character. All the rest - Shrek, Donkey and Farquaad - are male.
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Shrek / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Shrek / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Didn't know Fiona was turned into an ogress? Then don't look at the covers of any of the sequels.
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Shrek / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Shrek / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: If it wasn't for Farquaad's actions, nothing in the rest of the franchise would have happened and the plans of the other three villains would have been successful.
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Shrek / int_60af5e4	type	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard
Shrek / int_60af5e4	comment	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: Shrek and Donkey both have a hearty laugh when Fiona says that Shrek is her true love. Farquaad laughs at Shrek for being in love with the princess, and the fact that an ogre can fall in love at all.
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Shrek / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Shrek / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Shrek and Donkey joke about Lord Farquaad's height, after having only seen him when he was sitting down with his legs hidden. It's possible that Donkey had seen him before, but Shrek is the first one to crack a joke. Though there was intended to be a scene where they meet Farquaad face-to-face as he tells them about their quest.
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Shrek / int_6344aa1a	type	All-Natural Fire Extinguisher
Shrek / int_6344aa1a	comment	All-Natural Fire Extinguisher: It's easy to miss, but when Shrek's shoe is set alight thanks to a campfire, Donkey puts it out by peeing on it.
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Shrek / int_6404635	type	Dramatic Shattering
Shrek / int_6404635	comment	Dramatic Shattering: Combined with Dynamic Entry. Dragon does this when she bursts through the stained glass window in the church, right before eating Farquaad alive. Also happens when the rest of the windows smash when the curse is broken. Played for Laughs when Dragon breaks the only intact pane left by punching it.
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Shrek / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Shrek / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: When Shrek is yelling at Donkey after he supposedly heard Donkey and Fiona talking bad about him behind his back, he looks (and sounds) like he's about to cry.
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Shrek / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Shrek / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Pretty much everybody who is given a name.
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Shrek / int_66faa669	type	Silence, You Fool!
Shrek / int_66faa669	comment	Silence, You Fool!: Lord Farquaad silences the magic mirror, complete with raised hand. Too bad for Farquaad that the mirror was about to reveal what happens to Fiona after sunset.
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Shrek / int_68df9a56	type	OverCrank
Shrek / int_68df9a56	comment	Over Crank: When Shrek and co. are escaping Dragon, the film briefly goes into slow motion before they reach the bridge, complete with Shrek bellowing a very drawn out "RUN!"
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Shrek / int_69655022	type	Gigantic Moon
Shrek / int_69655022	comment	Gigantic Moon: When Shrek and Donkey look at the night sky at their makeshift camp, the moon appears to be larger than both put together.
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Shrek / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Shrek / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Shrek comes from the German word "Schreck", which means "scare", and scaring away the villagers is one of Shrek's favorite pastimes.
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Shrek / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Shrek / int_6c4ed101	comment	This film deconstructs the old fairy tale story of knights fighting dragons by showing what actually happens when a human goes up against a giant, fire-breathing monster: they get burnt to death, as the array of burnt skeletons in the castle confirm. Shrek and Donkey ultimately escape from Dragon not by defeating her in a straight fight, but by outsmarting her.
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Shrek / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Shrek / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Implied as much as possible in a PG-rated movie, as Lord Farquaad is lying in bed ordering a disgusted Magic Mirror to show images of his wife-to-be Princess Fiona, with the implication being that he's doing it to masturbate.
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Shrek / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
Shrek / int_6cf80934	comment	Donkey when he sees Dragon for the first time in the castle. Cue Big Word Shout and running like hell.
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Shrek / int_6d5ab39e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
Shrek / int_6d5ab39e	comment	Fractured Fairy Tale: A definitive example, and proud of it.
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Shrek / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
Shrek / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: Implied. Shrek at some point during the fight with Robin Hood's Merry Men.
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Shrek / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
Shrek / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: Donkey is this to Shrek. He depends on, if not even feels entitled to Shrek for companionship plus shelter, aggravating Shrek even further.
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Shrek / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Shrek / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Donkey pulls this on Shrek when they first meet. When Shrek turns around to ask if Donkey is talking to him, Donkey has disappeared, then suddenly is in front of Shrek when he turns around again. The crowd of fairy tale creatures does this when they appear in Shrek's swamp, having somehow appeared in the swamp and in Shrek's house without Shrek noticing until he hears his door creak open.
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Shrek / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Shrek / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: As well as Shrek and Fiona marrying at the end, Donkey and Dragon get together too, and are shown to have mutant dragon-donkey babies in the sequels.
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Shrek / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Shrek / int_71152dd	comment	This conversation is skillfully crafted to become two separate scenes based on whether or not you know the piece of information; the audience is aware of it at the time.
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Shrek / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Shrek / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Lord Farquaad wants to marry Fiona purely so he can become king.
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Shrek / int_732baf0b	type	Spit Out a Shoe
Shrek / int_732baf0b	comment	Spit Out a Shoe: Dragon burps up Farquaad's crown after she eats him.
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Shrek / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Shrek / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Donkey becomes obsessed with breaking through Shrek's cold exterior and befriending him after the ogre stops Farquaad's knights from capturing him. He succeeds. Dragon becomes smitten with Donkey because he's the only castle visitor that has showered her with compliments. Later, he starts returning her feelings.
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Shrek / int_73f0c42a	type	I Just Want to Be Free
Shrek / int_73f0c42a	comment	I Just Want to Be Free: Donkey is implied to be this at the start of the film, when he breaks free from the guards and runs for it, and in his later line to Shrek: "Man, it's good to be free".
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Shrek / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Shrek / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Really really! Also, "perfect", or some variant. Said almost every time by Farquaad regarding himself or Duloc.
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Shrek / int_7553a0d4	type	Nature Tinkling
Shrek / int_7553a0d4	comment	Nature Tinkling: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, seen from afar, Donkey urinates on a campfire.
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Shrek / int_75898be8	type	Tomboy Princess
Shrek / int_75898be8	comment	Tomboy Princess: Fiona in human form.
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Shrek / int_7636678a	type	Tree Buchet
Shrek / int_7636678a	comment	Tree Buchet: Shrek does this to Donkey as Comedic Sociopathy.
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Shrek / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Shrek / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: From the Robin Hood song: The Disney-esque "Welcome to Duloc" song. At the very beginning, while Shrek was using his outhouse. "What a load of—" (flushes)
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Shrek / int_782fdff	type	Storybook Opening
Shrek / int_782fdff	comment	Storybook Opening: The film starts with one, setting up the film as if it's going to be a typical fairy tale cartoon... until Shrek scoffs at the story and uses a page from it as toilet paper.
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Shrek / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Shrek / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Subverted. Donkey runs from the knights after the fairy dust wears off, only to run right into Shrek, who turns around and glares at him. After being scared for a moment, Donkey takes his chance and hides behind Shrek.
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Shrek / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Shrek / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Farquaad refusing to listen to the mirror when the mirror tries to warn him about Fiona. If he had, the rest of the film would have turned out quite differently, as Fiona wouldn't have actually appeared, Shrek would still be alone, and the rest of the films in the series would also not have happened. Shrek as well. Shrek agrees to this journey simply because he wants his swamp back. He meets the love of his life and marries her and the events of the rest of the series happen because of this.
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Shrek / int_7a784175	type	So Hideous, It's Terrifying
Shrek / int_7a784175	comment	So Hideous, It's Terrifying: Provides the trope image. Shrek exploits this trope at the beginning of the first movie to scare off ogre hunters and protect his privacy. The All Star Smash Mouth sequence has him having a bath in a quagmire, having a shower with mud (with a clear shot of his buttocks) brushing his teeth with bug guts (the latter scene ending with his mirror cracking) and, finally, roaring at the villagers who wanted to kill him (with a close-up of his teeth and saliva). However, the trope is downplayed later in the movie and sequels because he finds a love interest with An Aesop about inner beauty, his best friends get along with him without any trace of fear (well, as long as Shrek doesn't lose it) and his ugliness is lampshaded only in gags and scenes where either his ogre physique or lifestyle are put in contrast with those of more attractive characters.
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Shrek / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Shrek / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: While Shrek is in a gray area at the start, the film unambiguously paints Farquaad's treatment of the fairy tale characters as being in the wrong, and Shrek eventually comes around to being the hero in the end.
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Shrek / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Shrek / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Shrek becomes completely disarmed, which is about as good as confessing himself. If it isn't already obvious enough that Shrek is trying to stop the wedding.
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Shrek / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Shrek / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: In the DVD Commentary, the creators noted this for Farquaad. He hates fairy tale creatures for being different, not realizing that his height (or lack thereof) qualifies him as a "freak" by his own standards. Shrek: The Musical makes it even more explicit: he's half dwarf.
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Shrek / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Shrek / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: Happened in the Norwegian dub. In Norwegian, there is no direct equivalent to the word "ogre", thus Shrek became a "troll" instead, a famous mythological creature in Norway.
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Shrek / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Shrek / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Donkey calls out Shrek for his behavior and for screwing him over throughout their whole adventure.
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Shrek / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
Shrek / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: Shrek saved Fiona from a castle situated over a smoldering volcano. She was okay with marrying him until finding out he was an ogre, and he was just working as a champion for Lord Farquaad. In keeping with the whole theme of subverting fairy tales in the movies, she turns into an ogre as well and marries Shrek anyway. On top of that, the (female) dragon who was guarding the princess ends up with Shrek's sidekick Donkey.
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Shrek / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Shrek / int_7eb49b31	comment	Fiona again when Donkey remarks on the fact the sunset (being romantic) and she realized she was too distracted by a romantic moment with Shrek that lead to an Almost Kiss to notice.
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Shrek / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Shrek / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Shrek shows how powerful he is many times, yet guards and knights and angry mobs still attempt to murder him.
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Shrek / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
Shrek / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: At one point during the fight against Farquaad's knights, an old woman yells, "Give him the chair!" Shrek promptly uses a folding chair to take out one of the knights.
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Shrek / int_7fe29ba6	type	Symbolism
Shrek / int_7fe29ba6	comment	Symbolism: During the "Hallelujah" scene, there's a couple of symbolism to reflect Shrek and Fiona's respective conflicts. When Shrek returns to his swamp and steps on a mirror, its broken image reflects how he's alone and feels heart-broken. We fade to Fiona's lovely (but unhappy) visage captured in the pristine crystals of a chandelier, showing she be surrounded by people and may soon have the "perfect" life, but she feels trapped by it, and feels just as alone as Shrek. Later in the same scene, we have shot of Shrek sitting alone in his house fade in and out to Fiona sitting alone at the palace dining table, both on opposite ends of the table like a mirror image, both of them having their face burried in their hands. Despite being from different walks of life, Shrek and Fiona are feeling mutual regret for having turned away from a potentially happy relationship with each other.
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Shrek / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Shrek / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The movie opens with a panning to a storybook, which opens and tells us a tale about a princess waiting to break her curse with a true love's first kiss. Shrek comes in, tears the page off and uses it as toilet paper. The rest of the opening scene shows his daily routine, while "All-Star" plays in the background. This not only sets up Shrek's role in the story, but also shows that the movie isn't going to be your standard fairy tale.
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Shrek / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Shrek / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Farquaad appears in only a handful of scenes and has very little interaction with the main characters. However, by sending the Fairytale creatures to Shrek's swamp as a resettlement facility, he causes Shrek to seek him out. Farquaad then decides to send Shrek to rescue Princess Fiona (who he picked to be his new queen). Fiona is rescued by Shrek and later falls in love with him and marries him, foiling the plans of every subsequent villain in the series. Farquaad permanently changes the fates of two kingdoms, Duloc and Far Far Away.
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Shrek / int_8084141a	type	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
Shrek / int_8084141a	comment	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: As mentioned under One Side of the Story, Shrek is about to confess his love to Fiona, when he overhears Fiona talking to Donkey, saying that no-one could love a monster like an ogre. Of course, he is unaware that she is talking about the curse that turns her into an ogre, which she conveniently doesn't explicitly mention again until just after Shrek gets disgusted and leaves.
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Shrek / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Shrek / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Given the source, one of the lines from one of the Three Little Pigs about Lord Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_80d2d71c	type	Air Quotes
Shrek / int_80d2d71c	comment	Air Quotes: Fiona asks Shrek and Donkey about Lord Farquaad; after the two crack some jokes about Farquaad's short stature, Fiona tells them that they are just jealous because they cannot measure up to a great ruler like Farquaad. Shrek responds to this while doing the air quotes that she may do the "measuring" when she meets him tomorrow.
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Shrek / int_8269c61	type	TheLadysFavor
Shrek / int_8269c61	comment	The Lady's Favor: Fiona gives Shrek (disguised as a knight) a handkerchief in gratitude for rescuing her. But Shrek, ignorant of chivalry, uses the handkerchief to wipe ash off his face and hands it back to her. She then holds it in disgust and prompted drops it in horror when she hears the dragon's roar.
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Shrek / int_8319aaea	type	Compensating for Something
Shrek / int_8319aaea	comment	Compensating for Something: Included as a Parental Bonus joke. When they first see Lord Farquaad's huge castle, Shrek asks Donkey "Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?". Kids take away the meaning of compensating for being short, and adults take away the other. With all the other jokes in the movie specifically directed at Farquaad's height, viewers might reasonably have dismissed it as Accidental Innuendo were it not for this reprise:
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Shrek / int_842b615e	type	I've Got an X, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It!
Shrek / int_842b615e	comment	I've Got an X, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It!: "I'm a donkey on the edge!"
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Shrek / int_85d27cfe	type	You and What Army?
Shrek / int_85d27cfe	comment	You and What Army?: Inverted. Shrek says this to the leader of a group of soldiers, who turns around and sees that the rest of his troops had run away, leaving a lot of their weapons behind. The leader does the same.
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Shrek / int_85f8dc9d	type	It's All Upstairs From Here
Shrek / int_85f8dc9d	comment	It's All Upstairs From Here: Lampshaded, Shrek points out that Fiona will be at the top of the highest tower. Donkey asks how he knows and Shrek says he "read it in a book".
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Shrek / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Shrek / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The fate of Duloc after its ruler is eaten by a giant dragon is never elaborated on, and the kingdom itself never appears in any of the subsequent sequels. This is answered in the Halloween special "Scared Shrekless", revealing Duloc has been completely abandoned and is now a ghost town.
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Shrek / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Shrek / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Farquaad is a caricature of Disney CEO Michael Eisner.
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Shrek / int_88d6a202	type	Lava Pot Volcano
Shrek / int_88d6a202	comment	Lava Pot Volcano: The castle where Princess Fiona is imprisoned is located on an island in the middle of a clearly volcanic crater that's filled with a giant lake of lava.
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Shrek / int_891aa66d	type	Formula with a Twist
Shrek / int_891aa66d	comment	Formula with a Twist: The film takes the typical fairy-tale kingdom that you would find in a Disney work and instead casts the ogre as the hero. Most other twists in the plot center around that singular idea, although the sequels flesh out many others.
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Shrek / int_894f7465	type	Finger Extinguisher
Shrek / int_894f7465	comment	Finger Extinguisher: Shrek puts out a torch with his bare hand. This is used to show how strong he is.
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Shrek / int_89e55922	type	Friendlessness Insult
Shrek / int_89e55922	comment	Friendlessness Insult: Shrek's attempts to scare Donkey away only make Donkey want to stick by him more.
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Shrek / int_8ac8045	type	Burp of Finality
Shrek / int_8ac8045	comment	Burp of Finality: Combined with Spit Out a Shoe (crown) after the Dragon eats Lord Farquaad alive, she burps up his crown.
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Shrek / int_8c99369f	type	Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic
Shrek / int_8c99369f	comment	Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic: Falls on the "Fantastic" end of the scale.
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Shrek / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
Shrek / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed
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Shrek / int_8e47b1f5	type	Kissing Discretion Shot
Shrek / int_8e47b1f5	comment	Kissing Discretion Shot: Done at the end of the movie, combined with Breaking the Fourth Wall. Also subverted, as Shrek covering up the camera leads to an Idiosyncratic Wipe to Shrek and Fiona kissing in their own wedding.
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Shrek / int_8ff34ea2	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Shrek / int_8ff34ea2	comment	Nonhuman Sidekick: Donkey to Shrek. Overlaps with Cowardly Sidekick a bit, too.
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Shrek / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Shrek / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Farquaad gets eaten alive by the very dragon that was guarding Fiona so that he can marry the princess.
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Shrek / int_91183950	type	Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
Shrek / int_91183950	comment	Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Donkey falls on the Talking Animal end of the scale.
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Shrek / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Shrek / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction:
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Shrek / int_91d3ab1e	type	Ominous Pipe Organ
Shrek / int_91d3ab1e	comment	Ominous Pipe Organ: A short, but scary pipe organ tune plays in the background during Big Bad Lord Farquaad's first scene.
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Shrek / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
Shrek / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quiet… Too Quiet: Shrek says this when he and Donkey first enter DuLoc.
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Shrek / int_93c7525e	type	Cue Card
Shrek / int_93c7525e	comment	Cue Card: Attendants at Fiona and Farquaad's wedding hold up cards telling the congregation how to react to proceedings. When Fiona's curse is broken, Thelonious quickly scribbles "Awww" on the back of one of his cards for the audience to react properly.
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Shrek / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Shrek / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Shrek and Fiona have two. The first breaks Fiona's enchantment after Farquaad is killed by the dragon. The second is during their wedding in the final scene. After Shrek's Break the Fourth Wall moment, we cut to them at their own wedding during the kiss.
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Shrek / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Shrek / int_970c790a	comment	This is the only movie in the series that doesn't introduce the Big Bad of the next film as a minor antagonist, i.e. Prince Charming and Rumpelstiltskin. There is a Fairy Godmother in the first film, but she's clearly different from the one in Shrek 2, and is a background character, not an antagonist.
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Shrek / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
Shrek / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: After emerging from the cave in the morning, Fiona looks over at Shrek and Donkey, who are both still asleep like this.
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Shrek / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Shrek / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Donkey does this when he and Shrek are walking through the sunflowers on the way to the castle.
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Shrek / int_9a072432	type	Royal Decree
Shrek / int_9a072432	comment	Royal Decree: When Shrek first encounters the soldiers, they try to read him the prince's decree outlawing all fairy-tale creatures, but get intimidated by him looming over them.
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Shrek / int_9ad9c666	type	Eating the Enemy
Shrek / int_9ad9c666	comment	Eating the Enemy: Done by proxy to prevent Princess Fiona from being locked into a loveless marriage to the villain Lord Farquaad. Donkey arrives at the cathedral with his dragon fiance, and the dragon swallows Farquaad. This leaves Fiona free to marry Shrek.
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Shrek / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Shrek / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Played with at the beginning: One member of the angry mob waves a torch in Shrek's face, hoping to scare him. Shrek snuffs the flame out with his fingers.
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Shrek / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Shrek / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The opening storybook sets up the appearance of Fiona, as well as where she is being held, and her curse, as well as, in a Freeze-Frame Bonus after Shrek tears the page out, the wedding at the end. Both of them, actually — Fiona and Farquaad's, then Shrek and Fiona's. After the mob flees Shrek's swamp, he picks up a poster for fairy tale creatures that he then tosses away. The fairy tale creatures end up in Shrek's swamp the following night. Donkey mentioning to Shrek early on that only a true friend would use Brutal Honesty towards him. By the end of the film, and after a bit of arguing, they make up and reaffirm a friendship. When they first meet, Donkey says that he likes that Shrek looks like he doesn't care what people think about him. Later on, he (and the audience) find out why Shrek shuts people out; because it does bother him that people judge him. The mirror tries to warn Farquaad of something that happens to Fiona after the sun goes down, but Farquaad cuts him off. As he discovers later due to his refusal to listen, it is her curse that turns her into an ogre at night. Shrek finds out at the same time, but has quite a different reaction to Farquaad's. We also get a brief shot of one of Fiona's eyes at night as she listens to Shrek revealing his Freudian Excuse to Donkey. After Shrek manages to rescue Fiona from the castle, Donkey asks Fiona if she thinks Shrek is her true love. Turns out he is, and their kiss at the end of the film breaks her curse. The film also foreshadows Fiona's identity as something other than a normal human princess; for instance, at one point the trio walk through a bug-infested field, and Fiona uses a cobweb stretched between two branches to ensnare the bugs. She wraps the web up into a candyfloss-esque snack, which she passes to Shrek to eat. After she does this, she licks her fingers, hinting she shares Shrek's appetite for gross food not usually edible for humans. Later, she says his weed rat recipe is delicious and digs into it. Fiona refers to Donkey as Shrek's "noble steed," which he transforms into for a good part of the sequel. Shrek sarcastically asked Fiona if she was expecting Prince Charming to come rescue her. She bluntly replies that yes, she was. It is revealed in the sequel, that Prince Charming is real and was in fact meant to rescue her. Before they reach the cave at sunset, Fiona tries to make up an excuse to Shrek and Donkey by saying "There's robbers in the woods!" She turns out to be correct the next day, for Robin Hood and the Merry Men show up.
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Shrek / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Shrek / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Donkey falls from a great height three times (see Rule of Three below), and appears to sustain no injuries whatsoever. Without this trope he'd either probably be dead or have sustained some broken bones.
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Shrek / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Shrek / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Twice, both cases justified. Farquaad and Fiona, and Dragon and Donkey. Farquaad is just naturally short, Fiona is average height but obviously taller than he is. Dragon is a... well, dragon, and so is naturally much bigger than Donkey.
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Shrek / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Shrek / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Ogres. Are not. Like cakes!" "I live alone! My swamp! Me! Nobody else, understand?! Nobody! Especially useless! Pathetic! Annoying! Talking DONKEYS!!!"
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Shrek / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Shrek / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: The Travel Montage of Shrek and Donkey making their way to the castle is accompanied by The Proclaimers' "I'm On My Way", which works both for the Travel Montage itself but also references Shrek's character arc nicely.
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Shrek / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
Shrek / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: When Fiona sees that Shrek is an ogre, he asks her if she was expecting Prince Charming.
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Shrek / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Shrek / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: When Donkey asks Shrek where he's going to sleep, Shrek yells "Outside!", so Donkey exits. As soon as he's out the door, Shrek slams it shut. When fairy tale creatures take refuge in Shrek's swamp, he tries to evict them. It fails, and the seven dwarves flee into his house and lock him out.
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Shrek / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Shrek / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: After Donkey accidentally finds out that Fiona turns into an ogre at night, she makes him promise not to tell Shrek. He reluctantly agrees, but points out that she should - indeed, she does.
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Shrek / int_9fa2cfd1	type	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters
Shrek / int_9fa2cfd1	comment	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters: Less plot than characters. The story is a basic fairy tale parody—the real meat of the film is the characters and how they interact with each other, particularly the chemistry between Shrek and Donkey.
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Shrek / int_a00e695b	type	Wilting Odor
Shrek / int_a00e695b	comment	Wilting Odor: In the opening of the film, Shrek is seen relaxing in a pond, he farts and various fish float to the surface, one such fish he keeps for dinner. When Shrek and Donkey approach the castle where Fiona is, Donkey asks if the brimstone he was smelling came from him.
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Shrek / int_a195310a	type	Red Is Heroic
Shrek / int_a195310a	comment	Red Is Heroic: Inverted with Farquaad. His outfit is mostly red, but he is a Jerkass and the film's Big Bad.
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Shrek / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Shrek / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Farquaad. "I will have order! I will have perfection! I will have—"Dragon bursts in and eats Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_a3026af9	type	Wedding Smashers
Shrek / int_a3026af9	comment	Wedding Smashers: After the above, Farquaad sends in the guards to hold Shrek back. And then the Dragon smashes through the window and eats him in one bite.
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Shrek / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Shrek / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Played straight, though somewhat out of place in a movie that took the mickey out of tropes popularized by the Disney Animated Canon, with It Is You (I Have Loved) by Dana Glover, the only non-instrumental song on the soundtrack written specifically for the movie.
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Shrek / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Shrek / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Fiona has one when she hears she won't see Farquaad until the next day, meaning the sun will set and she'll turn into an ogress. She has another during a Mood Whiplash moment during the second sunset, for exactly the same reason.
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Shrek / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Shrek / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Farquaad's death is met by the people of Duloc with roaring approval and relief that they are finally freed from their tyrannical ruler. They then watch Shrek confess his love to Fiona and go "awww" when they kiss, at the imploring of the executioner, no less. Some are later seen at Fiona's wedding to Shrek (it's even the same minister as was preparing to marry her to Farquaad).
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Shrek / int_a5e2d3fc	type	Mutilation Interrogation
Shrek / int_a5e2d3fc	comment	Mutilation Interrogation: Played for laughs when the Gingerbread Man gets both of his legs broken off and his head dipped into a glass of milk. Lord Farquaad then crushes one of the legs in his hands, but the other leg is later reattached with frosting, making it necessary for Gingy to walk with a candy cane. (He gets the other leg reattached by the sequel.)
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Shrek / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Shrek / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Donkey falls from a great height three times. The first is during his first scene, thanks to the pixie dust, which briefly causes him to fly until it wears off after about a minute. The second is much later, during the Tree Buchet moment courtesy of a seemingly oblivious Shrek. The third is near the end when Shrek is trying to see what's going on in the cathedral by throwing Donkey up to see through a window. When Donkey tells him the Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace line has already been said, Shrek barges into the cathedral, thus failing to catch Donkey. Fiona is the third princess the mirror presents to Farquaad, and she is the one he chooses.
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Shrek / int_a773d226	type	Misplaced-Names Poster
Shrek / int_a773d226	comment	Misplaced-Names Poster: Only John Lithgow/Lord Farquaad are positioned just right.
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Shrek / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Shrek / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: In the beginning, Donkey attempts to evade being sold by his owner by refusing to talk, with the intention of making his owner look crazy in the eyes of Lord Farquaad's guards and deny her from selling him. It doesn't last.
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Shrek / int_a7e2f332	type	Female Monster Surprise
Shrek / int_a7e2f332	comment	Female Monster Surprise: Donkey realizes as Dragon moves out of the shadows that she's a female dragon, thanks to her eyelashes and lipstick. He's surprised for a moment, but uses this to keep flattering her so she won't kill him. Dragon also provides the trope image.
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Shrek / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Shrek / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Played with, with regard to Dragon towards Donkey. As you would expect, he's terrified when he first sees her, but when he first realises she's female, she blows him a heart-shaped smoke ring, having known he existed for barely five minutes. The next time we see them both, Donkey is trying to tell Dragon he doesn't want to rush things.
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Shrek / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Shrek / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Donkey. He may be an oddball, a Motor Mouth and a Cowardly Sidekick to Shrek, but he readily helps Shrek out in delivering a Curb-Stomp Battle to Farquaad's knights and, in the climax, threatens the knights with Dragon once Farquaad is eaten alive.
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Shrek / int_a9f8a98b	type	Licked by the Dog
Shrek / int_a9f8a98b	comment	Licked by the Dog: A non-child example with Donkey's love for Shrek, completely oblivious to Shrek's annoyance at him.
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Shrek / int_abca5a20	type	The Dinnermobile
Shrek / int_abca5a20	comment	The Dinnermobile: In a parody of/homage to Cinderella's pumpkin carriage, the end of the movie sees Shrek and Fiona ride away in a carriage that was very obviously an onion prior to transformation.
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Shrek / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Shrek / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: Played with;Farquaad’s final comeuppance sees him get swallowed whole by Dragon, who Dragon burps out his crown a few seconds later. However, the Karaoke Dance Party short reveals that he miraculously survived and is merely trapped in her stomach. The digestion eventually does kill him, and he appears as a ghost in the Shrek 3-D short.
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Shrek / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
Shrek / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: Shrek and Fiona share one by the campfire after Fiona says how she'd like to visit Shrek in his swamp. Shrek attempts to confess his feelings for her but fails and instead asks her for the other rat. They then have an Almost Kiss, which is promptly interrupted by Donkey.
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Shrek / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Shrek / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: When Donkey refuses to leave Shrek alone, Shrek first tries to scare him away and then when that fails, points out that he's an ogre. Donkey's response leaves Shrek stunned for a moment.
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Shrek / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Shrek / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Shrek comes to Duloc to demand his swamp back from Lord Farquaad, right when the guy is testing knights to go rescue Fiona. Lord Farquaad orders the knights instead to "kill the ogre" to win the honor. The audience is at first on the side of the knights...until some of them start to cheat and Shrek defeats them all in a Curb-Stomp Battle anyway. Then Shrek gains the adoration of the crowd, reveling in the attention as he knocks out the knights one by one. Lord Farquaad is forced to go with a new plan so as to quell a potential riot: bargain with Shrek to rescue the princess and in return he'll give him the swamp. Lord Farquaad turned out to do this on a series spanning level. He sent Shrek to rescue Fiona, which messes up his own plan by allowing Fiona to meet her true love that would break the curse and allow Donkey to meet Dragon, who helps Shrek and Donkey stop his wedding and eats Farquaad. In the second movie, Prince Charming's goal to rescue Fiona and thus Fairy Godmother's intention to rule Far Far Away through him are foiled because Farquaad sent Shrek to rescue her already. Most importantly, it foiled Rumpelstiltskin's attempt to get Fiona's parents to sign a Deal with the Devil with him, letting him erase them from existence and conquer Far Far Away because Shrek rescued Fiona and rendered the deal pointless. Even further back, the only reason Shrek interfered at all in any of this was because Farquaad's deporting all the fairy tale creatures to his swamp ticked him off. Really Nice Job Fixing It, Villain.
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Shrek / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Shrek / int_ad1db87c	comment	Shrek has a minor one of these during the tournament scene, upon hearing Farquaad say, "The one who kills the ogre— (Oh, Crap!) will be named champion! Have at him!" Though, to be honest, it diminishes pretty quickly when he sees the knights aren't going to back down and pulls a Let's Get Dangerous!.
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Shrek / int_aed187cc	type	Underwater Fart Gag
Shrek / int_aed187cc	comment	Underwater Fart Gag: Shrek once farts in the bath, and the smell is so bad it actually kills a fish.
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Shrek / int_aedf28fe	type	Falling-in-Love Montage
Shrek / int_aedf28fe	comment	Falling-in-Love Montage: Shrek and Fiona fall in love on the journey back to Duloc. Set to the song "My Beloved Monster". The song "You Belong to Me" cements that they have indeed fallen in love.
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Shrek / int_af7aa10	type	Takes Ten to Hold
Shrek / int_af7aa10	comment	Takes Ten to Hold: When Fiona finally reveals to Shrek her transformation into an ogre every night (courtesy of a witch's curse) after he objects to her marriage to Lord Farquaad, Lord Farquaad has both arrested. Shrek, attempting to reach Fiona, starts being dragged off by dozens of guards, several of which he manages to fight off, before Dragon smashes through the church's windows, eats Lord Farquaad and forces the remaining guards to back down.
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Shrek / int_af8dad6b	type	Beautiful Singing Voice
Shrek / int_af8dad6b	comment	Beautiful Singing Voice: In a rather vicious parody of Disney Princess conventions, Princess Fiona displays one in a duet with a random songbird...at least until her ability to hold a note causes the bird to explode. She then takes its orphaned eggs and cooks them for breakfast.
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Shrek / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Shrek / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: Shrek and Donkey walk across a rickety bridge over a boiling lake of lava to reach a castle on the other side, without seeming to feel any heat. And a castle built on a pier of rock rising out the lava, which wouldn't even be stable in such conditions, as lava can erode, corrode, and often outright melt such piers. However, the bridge is eventually burnt up when Dragon breathes fire on it, trying to capture Shrek, Fiona and Donkey.
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Shrek / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
Shrek / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: When Shrek finds himself in a roped-off pen surrounded by Farquaad's knights, he busts out the pro wrestling maneuvers, even hitting one of the knights with a folding chair. Not too surprising if you realize Shrek was designed after 1940/50s wrestler "The World's Ugliest Man" The French Angel.
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Shrek / int_b10d73ea	type	Why Waste a Wedding?
Shrek / int_b10d73ea	comment	Why Waste a Wedding?: After Farquaad is eaten, Fiona marries Shrek, in his swamp but still in her dress and even with the same cake. The same minister who performed her wedding with Farquaad also marries Shrek and Fiona.
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Shrek / int_b2099693	type	Stargazing Scene
Shrek / int_b2099693	comment	Stargazing Scene: While stopping for the night as they escort Fiona to Duloc, Shrek and Donkey stare at the night sky, as Shrek points out the constellations, all of which are about famous ogres.
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Shrek / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Shrek / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: Shrek and Donkey each get this when Fiona and Farquaad go back to Duloc to get married. Shrek blows up at Donkey and leaves him, going back to his swamp, which has been cleared out. He gets there but keeps thinking about Fiona and is otherwise at a loss for what to do until Donkey returns later in the day. Donkey, on the other hand, is left to just Walk the Earth, having nothing else to do and no one to go back to... until he sees Dragon on the same riverbank, crying because she misses him.
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Shrek / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
Shrek / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: There are plenty of grossout gags in the film. The very first gag in the film is Shrek using a storybook page as toilet paper in an outhouse. Heck, the entire opening is a magnificent cavalcade of scenes showing off just how gross Shrek is!
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Shrek / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Shrek / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Apparently some architect thought it was a brilliant idea to put the castle Fiona is locked up at smack in the middle of an active volcano! Lampshaded by Shrek upon seeing it.
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Shrek / int_b4b2a42a	type	Widowed at the Wedding
Shrek / int_b4b2a42a	comment	Widowed at the Wedding: Fiona when Farquaad is eaten by Dragon. Given Farquaad was going to imprison her forever for her Ogre curse, and his death leaves her free to be with Shrek, she isn't complaining.
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Shrek / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Shrek / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The film, made by several former Disney employees, was made as a gigantic middle-finger to the company, and more specifically then-CEO Michael Eisner (whose personality and mannerisms are reflected in the villain, Farquaad). It's not an accident that the movie itself is a Deconstructor Fleet of the classic instalments of the Disney Animated Canon as well as the Disney Renaissance films.
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Shrek / int_b5bd58a3	type	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
Shrek / int_b5bd58a3	comment	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Though Fiona was intended to marry the wealthy lord of Duloc Farquaad, she falls in love with the common ogre Shrek. At first, she accepts Farquaad's proposal but only after a falling out with Shrek. However, after Farquaad is eaten by Dragon at the wedding, she marries Shrek.
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Shrek / int_b6287eff	type	Briar Patching
Shrek / int_b6287eff	comment	Briar Patching: Shrek grabs Dragon by the tail, and she angrily flicks him away and sends him flying into Fiona's tower, where he wanted to go in the first place.
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Shrek / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
Shrek / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: Shrek is mad at Fiona and Donkey for seemingly calling him an ugly ogre behind his back, treating both of them nastily. This lead to all three of them being angry and hurt at each other. Donkey makes Shrek undergo a Jerkass Realization when Donkey explains they weren't insulting him and Fiona was talking about "someone else". After Shrek apologizes sincerely, Donkey forgives him and helps him get to the wedding. Shrek then confesses his love for Fiona before she can kiss Farquaad, right when she's being cold and standoffish about Shrek's boorish behavior earlier (thinking even Shrek finds her hideous). She realizes that Shrek really loves her, and willingly reveals her curse. This leads to him understanding who she called ugly, and they apologize to each other silently with gentle smiles.
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Shrek / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
Shrek / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence: Shrek is an ogre; he wouldn't grind your bones for his bread.
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Shrek / int_ba7747ed	type	Literal Ass-Kissing
Shrek / int_ba7747ed	comment	Literal Ass-Kissing: As Shrek goes to rescue Donkey from Dragon, he ends up stuck right above Donkey, and just as Dragon is going in to kiss Donkey, the chain Shrek is holding on to comes loose and Shrek falls on top of Donkey, resulting in this trope. Unfortunately, Dragon is not happy about it.
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Shrek / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Shrek / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Shrek, for much of the film. Justified in that he wants to be left alone because of how people don't tend to give him a chance and judge him before they know him. Both Fiona and Farquaad have rather selfish motives for wanting to marry the other. Fiona is only doing it out of desperation to end her curse, thinking that kissing Farquaad would break the spell. Farquaad, as Shrek points out, is only doing it so he can become king. He even says afterwards that Fiona becoming an ogress changes nothing as the marriage still makes him king.
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Shrek / int_bb36c953	type	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast
Shrek / int_bb36c953	comment	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast: Falls on a level 5 (Equally Human and Animal Cast) due to humans and fairytale creatures (who are made up of a variety of both human-like and animal like beings) alike getting equal screentime with each other.
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Shrek / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Shrek / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: Donkey ends up saving the movie by charming a dragon. He realizes that the dragon about to eat him is a lady, and most castle visitors aren't nice to her. Flattered, Dragon changes course and cuddles with him instead, crying out in pain and sadness when he makes his getaway. Later, they reconcile when encountering each other by a river, and Donkey grows to like her as a romantic partner despite his initial reluctance. Donkey convinces her to help Shrek reconcile with Fiona, and she delivers the coup de grace to Farquaad when he overpowers Shrek and Fiona.
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Shrek / int_be977433	type	Good-Times Montage
Shrek / int_be977433	comment	Good-Times Montage: Shrek in his introduction as he is spending time in his swamp.
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Shrek / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Shrek / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: At the start, Shrek is by no means a paragon of virtue. He's selfish, antisocial and an all around cynical person who only goes to rescue Fiona so he can continue living alone in his swamp—but the fact that he's a social outcast to begin with due to normal people judging him by his appearance sure gives him plenty of reasons to. It takes his love of Fiona and Donkey's friendship to bring out the best in him.
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Shrek / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Shrek / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Fiona has this response after Shrek reveals his face to her.
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Shrek / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Shrek / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: A lady in the audience faints when Fiona reveals to Shrek that she turns into an ogre at sunset.
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Shrek / int_c1219c95	type	Romantic Ribbing
Shrek / int_c1219c95	comment	Romantic Ribbing: Shrek and Princess Fiona are literally ribbing each other playfully at the end of the "My Beloved Monster" sequence. They are in love.
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Shrek / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Shrek / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona use this trope as they reach the bridge leading away from the dragon's castle, and the dragon takes one last shot at them with her fiery breath. They're also shown doing this on the film poster.
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Shrek / int_c222dde4	type	TakingAThirdOption
Shrek / int_c222dde4	comment	Taking a Third Option: When Donkey is cut off on a small bridge segment by Dragon, he has two apparent options, neither of them good: He can jump (or fall) off into the lava, or be eaten alive. Instead, he seduces the dragon, which actually works, since the dragon is female.
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Shrek / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Shrek / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Shrek, a couple of times when he's angered by Donkey, such as twice during the "Ogres are like onions" scene. He also does one after three Little Nos when he sees the crowd of fairy tale creatures in his swamp.
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Shrek / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Shrek / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The Merry Men are violently protective of their man Hood.
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Shrek / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Shrek / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Just the opening where Shrek chuckles off the fairytale he was reading about a princess locked in a tower and guarded by a dragon to be saved by her true love. However, this would actually happen to him near the second act.
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Shrek / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Shrek / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: Lord Farquaad does this in his first scene:
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Shrek / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
Shrek / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: Dragon swoops in to take out Lord Farquaad just in time to rescue Fiona.
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Shrek / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Shrek / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Twice involving Dragon. First is when she shows up at the swamp just before the climax, with no explanation for how she broke her chain. The second time she arrives at Duloc, and Donkey lets her run off to have some fun attacking the knights while he and Shrek sort out the main plot.
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Shrek / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Shrek / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Rather subtle because the distances involved were so small, but in the scene where Donkey and Shrek are arguing underneath the moon, Donkey demonstrates an unusual knack for getting in Shrek's face no matter which way the ogre turns.
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Shrek / int_c6d8af73	type	One Side of the Story
Shrek / int_c6d8af73	comment	One Side of the Story: The movie pulled off a two-sided version of this. Shrek half-overhears a conversation between Fiona and Donkey, but misses the most significant part: that Fiona turns into an ogre at night. The next day Shrek and Fiona both assume that Shrek heard the whole conversation and each jump to a false conclusion: Shrek jumps to the conclusion that Fiona was talking about him when she said "who could love a beast so hideous and ugly", and "ugly and princess don't go together", and when Shrek confronts her about this the next morning, Fiona jumps to the conclusion that Shrek is disgusted with the fact that she becomes an ugly ogre at night. This crushes both their romantic feelings for each other, and Fiona goes to Duloc with Farquaad and Shrek goes back to his swamp. This conversation is skillfully crafted to become two separate scenes based on whether or not you know the piece of information; the audience is aware of it at the time.
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Shrek / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Shrek / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Definitely inverted with Farquaad, who's possibly about a foot shorter than everyone else. The novelisation and screenplay reveal he's four and a half feet tall.
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Shrek / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Shrek / int_c819533b	comment	Rage-Breaking Point: When Shrek misunderstands what Fiona and Donkey were talking about (thinking Fiona was calling him a hideous beast behind his back and Donkey was going along with it, when she was actually referring to herself), he immediately brings Farquaad to her and calls off their friendship after a brief spate. Donkey is shocked at this turn of events and begs Shrek to change his mind, only for Shrek, thinking his one friend had stabbed him in the back, to emotionally snap at Donkey. Making it even more tragic is that Shrek isn't just angry—he looks genuinely hurt the whole time.
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Shrek / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Shrek / int_c868a42a	comment	We also get a brief shot of one of Fiona's eyes at night as she listens to Shrek revealing his Freudian Excuse to Donkey.
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Shrek / int_c8f5c41d	type	Supermodel Strut
Shrek / int_c8f5c41d	comment	Supermodel Strut: Fiona has this on occasion, most notably when crossing the tree bridge, she shakes those Hartman Hips much more than usual, showing she's taken a liking to Shrek.
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Shrek / int_c9e20e01	type	Unexpected Kindness
Shrek / int_c9e20e01	comment	Unexpected Kindness: Donkey is terrified when he sees Shrek for the first time, expecting to be killed and eaten, but Shrek instead saves him from the guards who were chasing him. This causes Donkey himself to give Shrek unexpected kindness for the first time in the ogre's life of being an outcast from society and being reviled by everyone, as his lack of fear towards Shrek and attempts to befriend the ogre cause Shrek to open himself and turn nicer out of a deep-seated want of friendship despite how annoyed he gets with Donkey.
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Shrek / int_ca72702e	type	Hammered into the Ground
Shrek / int_ca72702e	comment	Hammered into the Ground: Played with at the end, in that the gingerbread man uses his cane to hammer the figurine of Farquaad deep into the wedding cake.
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Shrek / int_cc396ff2	type	Rescue Introduction
Shrek / int_cc396ff2	comment	Rescue Introduction: Shrek and Donkey meet Fiona when rescuing her from the tower. Though unintentional, Shrek also manages to scare off the knights and save Donkey when they first met.
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Shrek / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Shrek / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: "Please keep off of the grass,/shine your shoes, wipe your.../...Face!" Which technically does rhyme with the line that follows: "Duloc is, Duloc is, Duloc is a perfect place!"
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Shrek / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Shrek / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To The Prince of Egypt, which are both DreamWorks Animation films that deal with prejudice. The 1998 Moses film is more serious and realistic, while this film is more humorous and fantasy-oriented.
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Shrek / int_cf083392	type	Defensive "What?"
Shrek / int_cf083392	comment	Defensive "What?": The Big Bad Wolf when Shrek finds him in his bed.
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Shrek / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Shrek / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Lord Farquaad is pretty short in height.
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Shrek / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Shrek / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The word "ass" is played with throughout the movie; it gets several uses when it is literally referring to Donkey, like "I have to save my ass", but is dodged when it couldn't be referring to him, like "Shine your shoes, wipe your--face!"
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Shrek / int_d1e3ca2b	type	True Love is Exceptional
Shrek / int_d1e3ca2b	comment	True Love is Exceptional: Fiona had expected to be rescued by a knight in shining armor and have the stereotypical fairy tale ending. However, during the journey back to Duloc, she ends up falling in love with Shrek, an ogre. After Farquaad is eaten by Dragon, she marries Shrek. This would end up having serious consequences in the sequels though.
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Shrek / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
Shrek / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": Donkey has enough of Shrek putting him down and gives him one of these in the middle of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
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Shrek / int_d1fd14db	type	SilentBob
Shrek / int_d1fd14db	comment	It's gradually revealed how Dragon has a considerable level of intelligence, but, still being a dragon, she barely needs any prompting to gobble up Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_d2e5d85d	type	Dragons Versus Knights
Shrek / int_d2e5d85d	comment	Dragons Versus Knights: Deconstructed. Shrek and Donkey are tasked with saving Fiona by Farquaad in a deal for the former to get his swamp back from the fairytale creatures Farquaad dumped into it. They reach the castle but naturally Shrek doesn't bother going by tradition despite donning a knight helmet, instead going straight for Fiona and just opting to run for it when the dragon catches on. When Fiona protests about doing it the usual way, Shrek points out that others who tried that ended up as scorched hunks of metal and bones. The dragon turns out to be an asset later on when Donkey finds out she's a female and ends up charming her.
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Shrek / int_d320bbd5	type	Insult Friendly Fire
Shrek / int_d320bbd5	comment	Insult Friendly Fire: Shrek overhears Fiona asking Donkey, "Who could love a hideous beast?" Shrek assumes she's talking about him and is hurt, when in fact she was talking about herself, leading him to act angry toward her. Thankfully, it's cleared up pretty quickly when he sees the hideous beast she was talking about.
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Shrek / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Shrek / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Believe it or not, Shrek actually has the ability to breathe fire, swallow lightning, and shoot Eye Beams in the original book. In the film, none of these powers are present.
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Shrek / int_d6653787	type	Sudden Musical Ending
Shrek / int_d6653787	comment	Sudden Musical Ending
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Shrek / int_d704434f	type	Monster FaÃ§ade
Shrek / int_d704434f	comment	Monster Façade: Shrek puts on one in the beginning of the movie. He grew tired of people screaming at his sight and attacking him with Torches and Pitchforks, so he chases them away from his swamp. Donkey sees through his act and befriends him.
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Shrek / int_d7531233	type	You Need a Breath Mint
Shrek / int_d7531233	comment	You Need a Breath Mint: The infamous scene where Shrek roars at Donkey to try and scare him off, only for Donkey to say that his breath is more terrifying.
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Shrek / int_d7a92919	type	Indecisive Parody
Shrek / int_d7a92919	comment	Indecisive Parody: The film is rather at odds with itself in tone. For the first two acts, it's a straight up fairy tale parody with some Satire of Disney thrown in. Come the third act, and while there are still gags, it almost becomes a melodrama mixed with a straight fairy tale story. And there's still room for a happy ending and a dance party at the end. The later films would follow this example and gradually dialed down on the parody and satire aspects (or at least intertwined them more consistently with the films stories), since Dreamworks knew they couldn't just rely on in-jokes about Disney forever.
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Shrek / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Shrek / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Shrek and Donkey.
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Shrek / int_d904a7fd	type	Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them
Shrek / int_d904a7fd	comment	Can't Live with Them, Can't Live without Them: Shrek has this happen after he rescues Fiona, when he believes she can't care for him because he's an ogre. He receives the deed to his swamp and returns to it, but feels very empty inside. Eventually, Donkey makes him realize he does love Fiona. Cue a rush to beat her Wedding Deadline to Lord Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_da2b1604	type	Foe-Tossing Charge
Shrek / int_da2b1604	comment	Foe-Tossing Charge: Makes an appearance during the wedding scene. The eponymous ogre and Fiona find themselves beset by Mooks; Shrek starts 'wading' through them, throwing them off as necessary. They manage to slow him, but we never get to find out the ending thanks to a Gunship Rescue moment.
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Shrek / int_da7be47b	type	Height Insult
Shrek / int_da7be47b	comment	Height Insult: When Princess Fiona asks about Lord Farquaad, Shrek and Donkey respond with a series of cracks about how ridiculously short he is.
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Shrek / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Shrek / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Donkey just happens to feel morose at the same shore Dragon is crying at. It's a Small World, After All!
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Shrek / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Shrek / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The dragon. Chekhov's Gunwoman, in fact, making it two spoilers in one.
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Shrek / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Shrek / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: How Lord Farquaad meets his end at the jaws of Dragon.
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Shrek / int_e01c3d03	type	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty
Shrek / int_e01c3d03	comment	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: During their Falling-in-Love Montage, Shrek and Fiona catch a frog and a snake, and inflate them with their breath to turn them into floating balloons.
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Shrek / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Shrek / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Parodied in Farquaad's intro scene, where he "tortures" Gingy by dunking him in a glass of milknote Which could be mistaken for a commentary on waterboarding, except this came out in May 2001, and gets him to crack by threatening to rip off his gumdrop buttons...except Gingy's answers (something about a woman and "the muffin man (who lives on Drury Lane", who are married) are completely nonsensical and never brought up again.
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Shrek / int_e192c0a7	type	Standard Female Grab Area
Shrek / int_e192c0a7	comment	Standard Female Grab Area: After showing impeccable fighting skills early in the movie, Fiona can only call helplessly for Shrek when grabbed this way at her wedding via Zerg Rush. Granted, Farquaad does eventually put a knife to her throat but only after 20 seconds or so of her doing nothing while Shrek, who is also grabbed, actually fights back.
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Shrek / int_e22831c9	type	Nighttime Transformation
Shrek / int_e22831c9	comment	Nighttime Transformation: Fiona is cursed to turn into an ogre every night until she finds True Love's Kiss.
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Shrek / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
Shrek / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted. The dragon seems evil and ferocious at first, but then she falls for Donkey and it's shown she has a softer side.
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Shrek / int_e4cd6f47	type	Wedding Deadline
Shrek / int_e4cd6f47	comment	Wedding Deadline: Subverted. Shrek bursts in as Fiona and Farquaad are about to kiss.
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Shrek / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Shrek / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: While most of the fairy tale characters are lawyer friendly takes on them that are distinct from Disney's interpretations of the fairy tales, the Magic Mirror's appearance is clearly inspired by the one from Disney's adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In personality, however, he's a total 180 from the grim apparition that inspired him. There's a rumor Farquaad is a Take That! to Michael Eisner, especially considering who the "K" in Dreamworks SKG is.note Jeffrey Katzenberg
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Shrek / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Shrek / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Donkey is determined to break through Shrek's shell and become his friend. After rather annoying Shrek through his persistence, he is successful.
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Shrek / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Shrek / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: See Altar Diplomacy below. When Shrek has to come up with a reason as to why Fiona can't marry Farquaad when Fiona asks him during the ceremony, Shrek blurts out that Farquaad is only marrying her so he can be king. As it turns out, he's rightnote A deleted scene had Farquaad explaining his plans to Shrek, most likely including his reasons to marry Fiona. Whether it is canon or not is unknown..
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Shrek / int_e9d5a39	type	Nice Kitty...
Shrek / int_e9d5a39	comment	Nice Kitty...: When cornered by the dragon, Donkey starts laying on the compliments. It works a little too well.
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Shrek / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Shrek / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Fiona's curse states that she will "take love's true form" when she finds her true love. She takes this to mean that she will become a human full time, but it actually causes her to permanently assume the form that her true love — Shrek — finds beautiful, i.e. her ogre form.
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Shrek / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Shrek / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Shrek has another one when sliding down the stone column in the castle and, seeing a bit of rock sticking up in just the wrong place, realises he's about to receive a Groin Attack.
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Shrek / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Shrek / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Dragon and Donkey save Shrek and Fiona from being captured by Farquaad's guards upon hearing Shrek whistle, Dragon even eating Farquaad for good measure.
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Shrek / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Shrek / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Lord Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_ebb3c390	type	Crash-Into Hello
Shrek / int_ebb3c390	comment	Crash-Into Hello: Downplayed. Donkey, in running away from the guards, ends up running straight into Shrek as he puts up another "Keep Out" sign. They end up becoming friends (through Donkey's persistence) by the end of the film. Shrek later meets Fiona when he crashes through the roof of her tower after being flung by Dragon's tail.
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Shrek / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Shrek / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: At the mill, it seems like Shrek and Fiona will have an Almost Kiss, before Donkey pops up between them and remarks on how romantic the atmosphere is.
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Shrek / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Shrek / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Several of them during the "Hallelujah" montage whenever the camera cuts back and forth between Shrek in his swamp and Fiona in Farquaad's castle.
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Shrek / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Shrek / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Fiona is this trope for a lot of the time. Shrek didn't slay the dragon first. Shrek can't recite a poem. Shrek needs to save his ass. Shrek won't take off his helmet. And the worst part, to Fiona: Shrek was sent to rescue her for someone else.
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Shrek / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Shrek / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": A donkey called Donkey and a dragon named Dragon.
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Shrek / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Shrek / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: After Fiona runs her hand across Shrek's back while he's holding a tree down for her and Donkey, he follows her, completely forgetting about Donkey, who is flung backwards. Fiona was distracted by a romantic moment with Shrek and forgot the sun was setting until Donkey remarked on it.
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Shrek / int_f1d13e39	type	Insult Misfire
Shrek / int_f1d13e39	comment	Insult Misfire: Upon seeing Shrek for the first time...
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Shrek / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Shrek / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: The accent part is played with due to Mike Myers' ad-libbing while being deconstructed throughout the movie: During the scene where the villagers raid his cottage. However, people frequently tend to misjudge Shrek.
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Shrek / int_f5b7b990	type	Verbal Backspace
Shrek / int_f5b7b990	comment	Verbal Backspace: The Magic Mirror does this in his first and second lines, saying that Farquaad isn't a king, and then, after Thelonious smashes a hand mirror as a threat, he quickly says, "What I mean is, you're not a king yet." If the trailer is anything to go by, it was originally supposed to be a different one: "Well, technically, it's not perfect", with the implication being that the Mirror would then clarify that a kingdom isn't a kingdom without a king. Farqauaad does this later when addressing the knights at the tournament, where he says the champion shall have the honour— no, no, the privilege— of going to rescue Fiona.
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Shrek / int_f61d4485	type	Waking Non Sequitur
Shrek / int_f61d4485	comment	Waking Non Sequitur: When Farquaad and his soldiers arrive at the mill, Donkey wakes up and says "What'd I miss? What'd I miss?" Seeing the soldiers walking past, he tries to throw his voice and make it appear like he didn't speak.
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Shrek / int_f65cce93	type	I Just Want to Be Beautiful
Shrek / int_f65cce93	comment	I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Fiona's motivation throughout the movie is to quit switching between human and ogre; naturally, she assumes that she'll be human when she "takes love's true form." So she is rather taken aback when she is permanently fixed in ogre form.
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Shrek / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Shrek / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: When Shrek remarks Donkey's Friendless Background.
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Shrek / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Shrek / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: Farquaad when he sees Shrek beating his knights.
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Shrek / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Shrek / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Subverted; Donkey doesn't follow Shrek into the church, but he does appear again on Dragon's back when she crashes into the church to devour Farquaad.
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Shrek / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Shrek / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Shrek calls his donkey an "ass" even though it now refers to a butt or a foolish person.
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Shrek / int_fa779d17	type	Ascetic Aesthetic
Shrek / int_fa779d17	comment	Ascetic Aesthetic: Duloc.
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Shrek / int_fa8e599c	type	Eyelash Fluttering
Shrek / int_fa8e599c	comment	Eyelash Fluttering: Dragon does this to Donkey when she is flirting with him. Missing the point, Donkey says "What's the matter, you got something in your eye?".
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Shrek / int_fae64ace	type	Heroic Neutral
Shrek / int_fae64ace	comment	Heroic Neutral: Shrek at first - he just wants his swamp back!
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Shrek / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
Shrek / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: And villains, too, in the case of Fiona, as Farquaad solely wants her so he can become king of DuLoc, and while bringing her back to Farquaad, Shrek starts falling for her too, and Donkey tells him not to hide from his own feelings. In the middle of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, no less.
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Shrek / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Shrek / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: When Donkey is giving Fiona a pep talk after he discovers her ogress form, he does rather tactlessly admit that she's ugly, but tries to soften the blow by pointing out that it only happens at night, whereas Shrek is ugly 24/7. It doesn't really help Fiona feel any better.
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