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| “ | Fairy Godmother: It's time you stop living in a fairy tale, Shrek. She's a princess, and you're an ogre. That's something no amount of potion is ever going to change. Shrek: But I love her. Fairy Godmother: If you really love her... you'll let her go. |
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| ~ Fairy Godmother manipulating Shrek. |
| “ | I need a hero! | „ |
| ~ Fairy Godmother's famous song |
| “ | I told you, ogres don't live HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!! | „ |
| ~ The Fairy Godmother's last words, villainous breakdown and most famous quote, right before she attempts to kill Shrek. |
The Fairy Godmother is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' Shrek franchise.
She is, just like in her origin story, a magical fairy who grants the wishes of all those who need her help, but her personality is different from her classic counterpart's personality. The Fairy Godmother originally made a deal with King Harold of Far Far Away to have her son Prince Charming rescue Harold's daughter Princess Fiona from the Dragon's Keep and free her from the curse, which makes her turn into an ogress by night, but her plans were foiled when Shrek and Donkey rescued Fiona before Charming could arrive.
In the film, she was voiced by Jennifer Saunders, who also voiced Other Spink in Coraline and Max in 200% Wolf. In the video-game, she was voiced by Claudia Christian, who also voiced Helga Katrina Sinclair in Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Biography[]
Past[]
Years before the events of Shrek 2, Fairy Godmother used her magic to turn King Harold from a frog into a human, so he could marry Queen Lillian. Years later, they asked her to help their cursed daughter Princess Fiona get rid of her curse. Fiona was cursed by a witch, causing her to turn into an ogre every night and return to human form at sunrise. The Fairy Godmother told them to lock her away in a dragon-guarded castle where she would be rescued by her son, Prince Charming, who was supposed to kiss Fiona and break her curse.
Shrek 2[]
Years later, during the events of Shrek 2, the Fairy Godmother is first seen physically when Fiona goes to her bedroom balcony and cries because her father King Harold was not pleased that her new husband Shrek was an ogre, her tears supposedly calling to the Fairy Godmother. Arriving, the Fairy Godmother is surprised to learn that Fiona matured. She decides to show her powers to make her pretty, but Fiona refuses kindly, much to the shock of her furniture. When Shrek and Donkey enter, Fairy Godmother discovers that Shrek is Fiona's husband much to her confusion. Before she could leave, she reminds Fiona that if she should ever need her, happiness is just a tear drop away, handing her a card Shrek swipes from her angrily, replying that they have all the “happiness” they need. To learn more, she picks up her son and goes to take Harold for a ride in a carriage. They both confront the king, revealing that Charming traveled a long distance by horse to the Dragon's Keep to rescue Fiona. To his shock, he finds the Big Bad Wolf in her bed instead who tells him that Fiona has already been rescued and is on her honeymoon. The trio stop by Friar’s Fat Boy where Fairy Godmother (having decided that her diet is ruined) is seen ordering two Renaissance Wraps, no mayo, and chili rings, while also asking King Harold if he wants anything and suggests curly fries or a sourdough soft taco, both of which he refuses. Prince Charming requests a Medieval Meal, which comes with a paper king's crown and a free battle-axe. The Fairy Godmother states that Fiona and Charming will be together which is what’s best best for both his daughter and his kingdom. After they drop king Harold back to the castle, he asks what he should do about it. The battle-axe is later given to him. The Fairy Godmother demands him to use his imagination and returns to her cottage.
Fairy Godmother is later seen again when Shrek, who had a fight with Fiona after Fairy Godmother left the Far Far Away castle, visits her cottage with Donkey and their new friend Puss-In-Boots, which to their surprise is actually a large factory where she manufactures spells and potions. They walk in on her while she's brewing a love potion singing her same song, which included "a drop of desire, a pinch of passion and just a hint of lust". Then Shrek comes in to ask the Fairy Godmother for help, but she refuses: "You see, ogres don't live happily ever after". Still wanting to become a prince, Shrek has Puss and Donkey help him steal a potion from the factory, in a mess-making way to fight off the Fairy Godmother's guards. the potion was the Happily Ever After potion to be specific. After Fairy Godmother learns that Shrek stole the Happily Ever After potion, she realizes that she could use it to her advantage.
The following day, after Shrek and Donkey have drunken the potion, they transform into a handsome human man and stallion respectively while Fiona turns into a human once again. Fairy Godmother and Charming set their plan in motion and go to the castle where Charming poses as a transformed Shrek while the Fairy Godmother prevents the real Shrek from finding Fiona and then makes him witness a "moment" between Charming and Fiona, making him believe she's fallen for Charming. She uses his grief to seemingly gently convince him to stop living in a fairy tale and that if he truly loves Fiona that he'll let her go. The plan works at first and a depressed Shrek, Donkey and Puss drown their sorrows at the Poisoned Apple tavern.
Harold heads there too to meet with Fairy Godmother and Charming. When Charming complains that Fiona is not warming up to him, Harold wants to call the whole thing off, declaring that you can't force someone to fall in love. Undeterred, the Fairy Godmother gives Harold a love potion she was working on earlier and orders him to have Fiona drink some of it, saying it will make her fall in love with the first man she kisses, and to make sure it is Charming. At first, Harold refuses, but Fairy Godmother then blackmails him by reminding him that she helped him with his happily ever after and that she can take it away just as easily, making Harold give in. Then, when Charming calls her his mother, they hear Donkey shout, "Mother?!" and look outside to see him with Shrek and Puss, the three of them having heard the whole plan. Realizing the jig is up, the Fairy Godmother calls the trio "Thieves", bumps into the Headless Horseman and has them arrested and imprisoned while she and Charming attend the royal ball.
She then notices Fiona is not going for Charming (who's still under the impression that he is Shrek) because of his behavior. She then declares to dedicate a song to Fiona and "Prince Shrek" and sings "Holding Out for a Hero," causing Fiona and Charming to dance. The plan almost works until Donkey, Puss, and the real Shrek arrive, after being rescued by Shrek's fairytale friends so he could crash The Fairy Godmother's party; "Hey, you! back away from my wife!". With a shocked reaction, Fiona finally realizes that Prince Charming wasn't Shrek at all. An end comes to the fairy godmother's mendacity with prince charming being Shrek, she and gets mad and Shrek, donkey, puss, and Shrek's fairytale friends fight her to grab her wand; just as Puss claims it, The Fairy Godmother quickly orders her son to kiss Fiona, telling him she's already taken the potion. But after Charming kisses Fiona, she headbutts him, much to Fairy Godmother's shock, revealing Harold didn't give Fiona the potion after all. Charming manages to recover, then grabs his mother's wand out of Puss's paw and throws it to her.
Enraged about how Shrek ruined her evil plan, The Fairy Godmother turns to Shrek and Fiona, exclaiming a final foolish belief message directed at Shrek, "I told you: Ogres don't live happily ever after!" She then unleashes a purple death ray from her wand, but as soon as the ray is about to hit Shrek, King Harold jumps in the crossfire and the spell reflects off his armor, causing the spell to literally backfire and hit the Fairy Godmother instead. At first, she seems unharmed, but as she prepares to attack again, she suddenly bursts bubbles and sparkles, leaving only her damaged glasses and wand, The wand dims out confirming her death, and proving it is actually villains like her who truly don't live a happily ever after at all. The fairy Godmother's magic gets undone, and it turns out that King Harold was actually The Frog prince
It's unknown what happened to The Fairy Godmother's factory after her demise; it could be that it was shut down, sold, or magically eradicated.
It's also unknown whether or not the workers that turned into birds ever changed back.
Shrek the Third[]
The Fairy Godmother doesn't appear in the third film because she faced her demise in the previous film. But she is mentioned throughout the film by her son Prince Charming, who plans to avenge her death by taking over Far Far Away and killing Shrek. Though this all ended in failure as Prince Charming seemingly ends up crushed to death by a falling tower, perpetually ending The Fairy Godmother's evil legacy.
Shrek Forever After[]
The Fairy Godmother is mentioned at the beginning of the fourth film. At the beginning of the movie, before Shrek and Donkey rescued Fiona like in the first film, Harold and Lillian go to make a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to end Fiona's curse. Harold reminds Lillian that Fairy Godmother insisted only True Love's Kiss would break the curse. Lillian then stated she does not trust the Fairy Godmother, a possible hint at the Fairy Godmother's true role in the second film.
Plus, the Fairy Godmother also appears in the film during its end credits.
Other Media[]
Shrek 2: Video Game[]
The Fairy Godmother appears when Shrek and his friends go to her potion shop. Shrek asks the Fairy Godmother for a potion and turn into a human to please Fiona but she refused and tells him and his friends to leave. She later fights Little Red Riding Hood in her potion shop and loses. She later captures Snow White and escapes. Shrek and Donkey then catch up to her and successfully get Snow White. She later fights Shrek and his friends at the ball and turns King Harold into a frog. The Fairy Godmother then unleashes trolls to fight Shrek and his friends. When Shrek and his friends defeat the trolls, they fight against the Fairy Godmother, then after a long fight, she was finally defeated and vanished away.
Shrek Forever After: The Game[]
The Fairy Godmother appears as a boss in the video game, being one of Rumpelstiltskin's candidates for his "Queen for a Week" contract in the alternate universe. Given that Shrek was never born in this universe, the Fairy Godmother never met him and she never died. However, Shrek and his friends manage to defeat her, leading the Fairy Godmother to fly away and allowing Shrek and his friends to proceed.
Thriller Night[]
The Fairy Godmother also appears as a zombie in Thriller Night. In the Halloween film Scared Shrekless, the Fairy Godmother appeared as one of the zombies who danced with each other in a parody of Michael Jackson's well-known song "Thriller". The whole ordeal turns out being a nightmare Shrek had while sleeping during the trailers' showcase at a movie theater in Far Far Away, which makes sense if you take into account that it would have been impossible for the Fairy Godmother to become a zombie as she exploded at the end of Shrek 2.
Personality[]
The Fairy Godmother isn't like her classic benevolent counterpart who uses her magic for the heroic reasons and to give princesses their happily ever after. Instead, she is a conniving, persuasive, perfidious, prejudiced, and corrupt businesswoman with her own agenda who is only out to use others to benefit herself and her son Prince Charming. The Fairy Godmother isn't above blackmail, as she threatened Harold by taking away his happily ever after, and proudly admits that she forces others to fall in love all the time. The Fairy Godmother is also very close to some of her previous clients, like King Harold, who she uses to her own advantage many times during the film.
She has no qualms about using her magic to get what she wants, and is extremely spiteful and acrimonious to those who interfere with her plans or business, but the Fairy Godmother is no fool. She uses any and every manipulative and underhanded trick, some that make her appear more compassionate and kinder than she really is. She also has no qualms playing mind games with Shrek, trying to ruin his and Fiona’s marriage since she firmly believes that ogres can’t live happily ever after. An example being where she pretends to gently and kindly convince Shrek to "stop living in a fairytale", but once she is seen for what she really is, she is ruthless, mean, wrathful, acquisitive, greedy, evil, cruel, pompous, arrogant, and selfish, so she will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in her way.
Despite her manipulative nature, the Fairy Godmother is not without redeeming traits as she truly loves and cares for her son Charming, whom she dotes on, and wants to make king by marrying him to Fiona so that he can rule over the kingdom of Far Far Away.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Magic: As a magical being, The Fairy Godmother has many powers or abilities. Also, as mentioned before, she posses two basic abilities, Spell Casting, and obviously (because of the many potions that she sell) potion-making.
- Teleportation: Her method of teleportation is smoke-sparkling, which is channeled by her wand, like her other powers.
- Projection: She possesses the power of projection, which she uses to grant the people wishes, or whatever she wants.
- Electrokinesis: In her final scene in Shrek 2, she demonstrated the power of electrokinesis, combined with the ability of Spell Casting, when she throws to Shrek and Fiona a blast of electricity, and Harold gets in the firing line, causing to the blast to reverse the Happily Ever After potion or spell.
- Telekinesis: She also possesses the power of telekinesis, which she also channels by her wand, to trap Shrek in Fiona's bedroom, and Animation to give inanimate objects a life of their own.
- Animation: She can make objects talk, move, and live. She can also create animation objects by using magic.
- Flight: She can levitate and hover.
- Cloth Manipulation: She can manipulate her clothes, mean that she can transform other clothes and any design, shape, and form.
- Singing: Though it is not one of her powers, Fairy Godmother is also a good singer, as she can sing with a good voice.
Quotes[]
| “ | Fairy Godmother: Oh my dear! Oh look at you, you're all uhm... grown up. Fiona: Uhm, who are you? Fairy Godmother: Oh, sweet pea! I'm your fairy godmother. Fiona: I have a Fairy Godmother? Fairy Godmother: Shush, shush, shush, shush, shush... now don't worry; I'm here to make it all better! |
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| ~ Fairy Godmother introducing herself to Princess Fiona. |
| “ | King Harold: I’d like to know how it could get any worse! Fairy Godmother: Hello, Harold. Queen Lillian: What happened? King Harold: Uh, nothing! Nothing, dear! Just the old hunting wound playing up a bit! I’ll... just stretch it out here for a while! Fairy Godmother: You better get in. We need to talk. King Harold: Actually, Fairy Godmother, just off to bed. Already taken my pills, and they tend to make me a bit drowsy. So, um how about…uh, we, we make this a quick visit. What? What? Oh, hello. Ha-ha-ha! So, what’s new? Fairy Godmother: You remember my son, Prince Charming? King Harold: Charming! Oh! Is that you? My gosh! It's been years! How--when...when, when, when did you get back? Prince Charming: Oh, about 5 minutes ago, actually... after I endured blistering winds! Scorching desert! I climbed to the highest room in the tallest tower–- Fairy Godmother: Mommy can handle this. He endures blistering winds and scorching desert! He climbs to the highest bloody room of the tallest bloody tower, and what does he find?! Some gender-confused wolf telling him that his princess is already married! King Harold: I mean, It wasn’t my fault. He didn’t get there in time. Fairy Godmother: STOP THE CAR!!!!! Harold... You force me to do something I really don’t want to do. King Harold: (gasps) Where are we? Employee: Well, hi there! Welcome to Friar’s Fat Boy, may I take your order? Fairy Godmother: MY DIET IS RUINED!! I hope you’re happy. (turns to the employee) Er… okay. Two Renaissance Wraps, no mayo… chili ring... Prince Charming: I’ll have the Medieval Meal. Fairy Godmother: Yeah, one Medieval Meal and Harold, curly fries? King Harold: No, thank you. Fairy Godmother: Sourdough soft taco, then? What do you want? King Harold: No, really, I’m fine. Employee: Your order, Fairy Godmother. Employee: And this comes with the Medieval Meal. Fairy Godmother: (to Charming) There you are, dear. (To Harold) You see, we made a deal, Harold, and I assume you don’t want me to go back on my part. King Harold: Indeed not. Fairy Godmother: So Fiona and Charming will be together. King Harold: Yes. Fairy Godmother: Oh, believe me, Harold. It’s what’s best. Not only for your daughter…but for your Kingdom. King Harold: Well, what am I supposed to do about it? Fairy Godmother: Use your imagination. |
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| ~ Fairy Godmther's full conversation with Harold in a car. |
| “ | Fairy Godmother: You see, we made a deal, Harold. And I assume you don't want me to go back on my part. Harold: Indeed not. Fairy Godmother: So Fiona and Charming WILL be together! Harold: Yes. |
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| ~ Fairy Godmother gives King Harold a warning. |
| “ | Oh, yes you will. If you remember, I helped you with your Happily Ever After, and I can take it away just as easily. Is that what you want? Is it? | „ |
| ~ Fairy Godmother threatening to turn Harold back into a frog if Fiona doesn't marry Prince Charming. |
| “ | Ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to dedicate this song to Princess Fiona. And Prince Shrek. | „ |
| ~ Fairy Godmother as she prepares to sing "I Need A Hero". |
Trivia[]
- She is a parody of the real Fairy Godmother from the classic fairy tales. However, while the Fairy Godmother of classic fairy tales is kind and benevolent, the Fairy Godmother of the Shrek universe is evil and greedy.
- In the Shrek 2 video game, the Fairy Godmother's clothes were pink instead of blue (like they were in the movie).
- The Fairy Godmother was originally supposed to be featured in the first Shrek film under the name of Dama Fortuna. In those versions, Dama Fortuna was intended to be a fortune teller who was approached by Fiona, who had been born an ogre, to provide her with a love potion which would switch her into an ogre and a human until she could find true love. She was also intended to give Shrek a potion to defeat Dragon. Rather than Jennifer Saunders, Dama Fortuna was going to be voiced by Linda Hunt. However, this version of the story was scrapped and the Fairy Godmother was shelved until the second film.
- The song "Holding Out For a Hero", which the Fairy Godmother sings during the climax, was originally sung by Bonnie Tyler for the 1984 movie Footloose. A rap version of the song was featured in the credits and soundtrack of Shrek 2, sung by Frou Frou.
- In Shrek the Third, she is never referred to by name, only as "Mommy" by Charming, despite her posthumous influence over the plot.
- The Fairy Godmother is the only known main antagonist to have been killed nearly instantly from the cause. Lord Farquaad was still alive in Dragon's stomach, only to die later, Prince Charming possibly died instantly from the tower slam, and Rumpelstiltskin is currently still alive, but imprisoned.
- The Fairy Godmother serves as a dark parallel to King Harold. Both are obsessed with perfection and tradition and think they’re doing what is best for their children. However, while King Harold learns that his daughter loves Shrek for who he is and already has what is best for her, and gives them his blessing, the Fairy Godmother thinks that only princes and princesses can be together and tries to make Fiona marry her son so they can rule the kingdom. If King Harold hadn't accepted Shrek and Fiona’s love and gave them his blessing, he would’ve ended up like the Fairy Godmother.
- Shrek: The Musical has a character that resembles the Fairy Godmother called "Flutterbell the Fairy Godmother". There, she was one of the fairy tale creatures that Lord Farquaad had exiled to Shrek's swamp. Whether or not these were intended to be the same character is dubious, as this would have entailed that she'd have known who Shrek was when they first met in the second film.
- It's often believed that she was the one who cursed Fiona, since it was her idea to lock her in a tower so her son Charming could kiss her and end the curse, so she and her son could rule Far Far Away. If this were confirmed, it would make her even worse.
- She is so far the only main antagonist in the Shrek franchise to be female.
External Links[]
- Fairy Godmother on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Fairy Godmother on the Shrek Wiki
- Fairy Godmother on the Universal Studios Wiki
- Fairy Godmother on the Wikipedia
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