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Three! Pick number three, my lord!
~ Thelonious to Lord Farquaad, holding up the incorrect number of fingers.

Thelonious is a major antagonist in DreamWorks' 5th full-length animated feature film Shrek, the first installment of the Shrek film series, and one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside the Stone Dragon) of its 2003 4D short sequel Shrek 4-D. He is the dimwitted executioner and minion of Lord Farquaad.

He was voiced by Christopher Knights.

Personality[]

Thelonious seems to be not as smart as Farquaad's other henchmen, he cannot count and needs help with simple problems. Despite his loyalty to Farquaad, Thelonious is overall pleasant when his boss is not around such as; clapping at Shrek and Fiona's reunion, singing with Gingerbread Man at the party. He is also shown to be remorseful when he apologizes to Fiona while he was kidnapping her under Farquaad's order.

Overall, his behavior suggests that he works for Farquaad more out of loyalty and fear than malice. In return, Farquaad is more attentive to him than he is to many of his other henchmen, as Thelonious was the one who convinced him to choose Fiona over Snow White and Cinderella.

Biography[]

Movies[]

In the beginning, he was torturing Gingy (also known as the Gingerbread Man). When Lord Farquaad tried to decide which princess to find and marry, Thelonious told him to pick #3 (even though his fingers say 2). During the wedding, Thelonious held the wedding rings and then cue cards for the audience to react to. When Farquaad was eaten and Shrek and Fiona confessed their feelings, Thelonious was touched, raising a cue card saying "Aawww" for the audience. He later appeared at Shrek's karaoke dance party.

Thelonious also made an appearance in Shrek 4-D. In this movie, the spirit of Lord Farquaad enlisted Thelonious to kidnap Princess Fiona. At the waterfall scene, Fiona kicks Thelonious off her raft and Farquaad abandons him to his fate. When Shrek and his friends go over the waterfall, they survive by grabbing Thelonious, who was in turn hanging from a branch.

Donkey then summons Dragon, who rescues them all including Thelonious and burns Farquaad, thus banishing the evil spirit back to the underworld.

Thelonious is never seen again afterwards, but it is safe to assume without Farquaad's ghost he simply parted amiably with the group and it is unknown where he went after Duloc was abandoned. He can be seen, however, in the cinema of Far Far Away at the end of the short Thriller Night, sitting among other reformed villains and minions, like the Cyclops, Prince Charming, the witches, Captain Hook and Cinderella's stepsisters, and it seems he made a career as an actor starring in a movie series parody of Terminator simply entitled Thelonious.

He also appears in Shrek: The Musical in a silent role, again as torturer and executioner and other minor and more degrading "tasks" for Lord Farquaad. He's still incapable to count, since he suggests Lord Farquaad with his finger to choose the princess number 4, with Farquaad reminding him there's no fourth option.

While clearly strong, as seen especially in Shrek 4-D or The Ghost of Lord Farquaad when he saved Fiona, Shrek and Donkey by grabbing them at one time when these three were falling off a waterfall (although it may be because he doesn't know or feel the pain unless under the belt), Thelonious doesn't seem to be a fighter or capable to fight, that may be the reason Lord Farquaad limits his job and tasks to torturer, executioner, kidnapper and even as a servant with various minor roles. Even as "forced witness" at his wedding with Fiona. In fact, at the climax of the film, when he sentenced Shrek to death after Fiona's secret was exposed, Farquaad called his numerous guards to arrest and drag Shrek away, instead of Thelonious.

Thelonious is presumed not to be human, it may be a zombie or some sort a monstrous freak, and is never seen without his yellow-eyed hood, unless that same hood is actually his head and face.

Video games[]

Thelonious, despite being just the torturer and executioner and shockingly dimwitted and despite being generally not hostile if not even being friendly towards Shrek and Fiona, is the penultimate boss of the GBA beat 'em up game, Shrek: Hassle in the Castle, battling Shrek at Farquaad's wedding. After Thelonious's defeat, even Farquaad battles Shrek but notably he is significantly weaker than his henchman, having less then half the health of Thelonious.

Thelonious appears in Shrek Super Party as a playable character.

Thelonious appears in Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown as an opponent and unlockable champion. His attacks include throwing hand axes, charging at his opponent and punching.

He also appears in the Nintendo DS version of Shrek Super Slam as a playable character.

Trivia[]

  • Since Lord Farquaad sentenced Shrek to death after finding out of Fiona's curse, stating that he would have seen him "drawn and quartered" and would have made Shrek "beg for death" to save him, Thelonious would have been the torturer and executioner of Shrek by the orders of Farquaad.
  • Thelonious is the First Shrek Villain to be Redeemed before the residents of the Poison Apple in Shrek the Third.

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Rumpelstiltksin | Witches (Griselda & Baba) | Pied Piper | Alternate Universe Dragon

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See Also
Puss in Boots Villains

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