History Fridge / Shrek

* In truth, the whole first movie is a very lighthearted take on some very serious situations. Let's look at our main cast: Fiona, alone in a tower, and in reality would be completely insane from solitary confinement. Shrek, living, you guessed it, ''alone'', because his only view of the world is that it hates him. Donkey, friendless, but a hopeless optimist. Farquaad, ruling, yet again, ''alone'', with a Napolean complex and no one but a magic mirror to keep him company. Hell, the ''whole cast'' is just lonely, before anything else.

* In Shrek 2, Lillian brings up the subject of Shrek and Fiona's children and Shrek is so horrified by it that he swallows his spoon. In Shrek the third, he again expresses his fear of fatherhood by saying he is afraid of being a bad father. Based on what Shrek says about his father to Artie, we can guess that Shrek had a very abusive childhood. It isn't uncommon for there to be a cycle of abuse. We never see or hear of Shrek's parents besides that so we can assume either they are dead or Shrek never spoke to them again. That was Shrek's fear, that he would repeat what he endured as a child and abuse his own children and his children would disown him, like he had with his parents.

* In ''Forever After'''s alternate universe, Donkey says that he needs his job pulling the witches' carriage because he doesn't want to go back to Old McDonald. Considering his ragged appearance and the way the witches whip him when they want him to sing different songs, just how bad must his old job have been?

* Shrek compares Ogres to onions might not make sense at first, but if you know anything about onions you know that despite you might think they are easily bruised. In other words Shrek is trying to that Ogres have feelings too.

* it may seem odd that Little Red Riding Hood has a cameo as a villain in Shrek 3, but then remember that her enemy the Big Bad Wolf is one of the good guys.
** Or she might be getting revenge on Shrek and Fiona...because they scared her off during their honeymoon in the second film.

** And forshadowed, when he talks about the sunflower. He doesn't like it, but since Fiona is "pretty", she might. He thinks Fiona is unattractive, and says so!

** This may double as Fridge Horror: He is literally sending all of the annoying cartoony animals to live with a sociopathic Ogre that is well known for butchering people. He may have just been hoping Shrek would eat/kill/maim them all!

* ''{{Shrek}}'' has a pretty good one. In the beginning of the movie, the 3 bears (Papa, Mama, and Baby) are arrested by Farquaad's men. In the middle of the movie, you can see a bear skin rug with a pink bow on its head on the floor of Farquaad's bedroom. At the end, when all the fairy tale characters are freed and dancing, only Papa Bear and Baby Bear are seen. That means that Mama Bear has been killed and skinned.

* In Shrek 2, Lillian brings up the subject of Shrek and Fiona's children and Shrek is so horrified by it that he swallows his spoon. In Shrek the third, he again expresses his fear of fatherhood by saying he is afraid of being a loving father. Based on what Shrek says about his father to Artie, we can guess that Shrek had a very abusive childhood. It isn't uncommon for there to be a cycle of abuse. We never see or hear of Shrek's parents besides that so we can assume either they are dead or Shrek never spoke to them again. That was Shrek's fear, that he would repeat what he endured as a child and abuse his own children and his children would disown him, like he had with his parents.

* In ''Forever After'' it is implied that only one timeline can exist at a time- the original timeline is replaced by the alternate timeline, and then replaced again by the original timeline when Rumple's deal is broken. When this happens all of the alternate timeline characters are "poofed" out of existence as their reality crumbles. They are then replaced by their original counterparts- yet Shrek is the only one who retains any memories of the alternate reality. This means that the original timeline characters and alternate reality characters were seperate beings. [[InferredHolocaust ''And all of the alternate timeline characters' existences were erased completely.'']] Alternate Fiona never got to experience having children with Shrek or living in a tyranny-free world because she disappeared from existence 10 seconds later.

* In ''Forever After'' it is implied that only one timeline can exist at a time- the original timeline is replaced by the alternate timeline, and then replaced again by the original timeline when Rumple's deal is broken. When this happens all of the alternate timeline characters are "poofed" out of existence as their reality crumbles. They are then replaced by their original counterparts- yet Shrek is the only one who retains any memories of the alternate reality. This means that the original timeline characters and alternate reality characters were seperate beings. ''And all of the alternate timeline characters' existences were erased completely.'' Alternate Fiona never got to experience having children with Shrek or living in a tyranny-free world because she disappeared from existence 10 seconds later.

* In ''Forever After'' it is implied that only one timeline can exist at a time- the original timeline is replaced by the alternate timeline, and then replaced again by the original timeline when Rumple's deal is broken. When this happens all of the alternate timeline characters are "poofed" out of existence as their reality crumbles. They are then replaced by their original counterparts- yet Shrek is the only one who retains any memories of the alternate reality. ''This means that the original timeline characters and alternate reality characters were seperate beings. And all of the alternate timeline characters' existences were erased completely.'' Alternate Fiona never got to experience having children with Shrek or living in a tyranny-free world because she disappeared from existence 10 seconds later.

* In ''Forever After'' it is implied that only one timeline can exist at a time- the original timeline is replaced by the alternate timeline, and then replaced again by the original timeline when Rumple's deal is broken. When this happens all of the alternate timeline characters are "poofed" out of existence as their reality crumbles. They are then replaced by their original counterparts- yet Shrek is the only one who retains any memories of the alternate reality. ''This means that the original timeline characters and alternate reality characters were seperate beings. ''All of these characters' existences were erased entirely.'' Alternate Fiona never got to experience having children with Shrek or living in a tyranny-free world because she disappeared from existence 10 seconds later.

* In the second movie, Shrek reads Fiona's childhood diary where she has written about how she looks forward to marrying a young, handsome Prince Charming. While reading, he gets startled by the King knocking on the door and lets out a yelp. Later when he confronts the king about it he says that he was just reading a horror story. I didn't think of this moment much until my brother pointed out that it basically ''is'' a horror story to ''him''; Fiona's childhood dreams are pretty much crushed because she never married Prince Charming she wished to as a child, since she married Shrek, an ogre, ergo he lives in fear that she ''still lives with these dreams deep down and will never be truly happy with Shrek.''

* In the second movie, Shrek reads Fiona's childhood diary where she has written about how she looks forward to marrying a young, handsome Prince Charming. While reading, he gets startled by the King knocking on the door and lets out a yelp. Later when he confronts the king about it he says that he was just reading a horror story. I didn't think of this moment much until my brother pointed out that it basically ''is'' a horror story to ''him''; Fiona's childhood dreams are pretty much crushed because she never married Prince Charming she wished to as a child, since she married Shrek, an ogre, ergo he lives in fear that she ''still lives with these dreams deep down and will never be happy with Shrek.''