History TearJerker / Shrek

*** It really does. Just think how Shrek feels. He truly thought he had finally someone he could open his heart to, having a romantic moment with Fiona around the campfire and opening himself up to Donkey. Now, the only time he let his vulnerabilities out, he is seemingly betrayed by them and is absolutely heartbroken and probably feeling stupid for allowing himself to feel that way. This is later seen again when Shrek is at his home and sees a sunflower. He briefly smiles at it, remembering his love, and then recalling what she seemingly felt about him and angrily throws it into the fire.

* The TwistEnding --

-->'''Shrek:''' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments But you are beautiful.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah...]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Fiona:''' (''In her ogre form'') I'm supposed to be beautiful...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Shrek:''' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments But you are beautiful.]]]]

* "Ugh! It's disgusting!" Farquaad, at the end of his wits upon discovering Fiona's curse, lets his racism truly ignite and attempts to both banish Shrek to prison and not only marry Fiona to become king, but afterward ''put her back in that tower for the rest of her days!'' That's how he plans to spend their marriage! He would rather leave her out of the picture for the sake of control than put the task ''he requested of Shrek'' to good use! He even puts the crown on himself before they even kiss! If the dragon didn't respond to Shrek's beckoning, it would've been the Bad End for everyone.

* "Ugh! It's disgusting!" Farquaad, at the end of his wits, lets his racism truly ignite and attempts to both banish Shrek to prison and not only marry Fiona to become king, but afterward ''put her back in that tower for the rest of her days!'' That's how he plans to spend their marriage! He would rather leave her out of the picture for the sake of control than put the task ''he requested of Shrek'' to good use! He even puts the crown on himself before they even kiss! If the dragon didn't respond to Shrek's beckoning, it would've been the Bad End for everyone.

* "Ugh! It's disgusting!" Farquaad, at the end of his wits, lets his racism truly ignite and attempts to both banish Shrek to prison and not only marry Fiona to become king, but afterward ''put her back in that tower for the rest of her days!'' That's how he plans to spend their marriage! He would rather leave her out of the picture for the sake of control than put the task ''he requested of Shrek'' to good use! If the dragon didn't respond to Shrek's beckoning, it would've been the Bad End for everyone.

* The misunderstanding where Shrek overhears Fiona saying, "Who could ever love a beast so hideous and ugly?" is painfully hard to watch. Extra points for being depressing both from Fiona's side ''and'' Shrek's side of the conversation.

* "Ugh! It's disgusting!"

** After Fiona pushes Farquaad's wedding cake topper down to reach his realistic height, she turns to the knight's armor, showing how much she resents the fact that she is going to marry this egotistical lord and that can't be with Shrek.

* Lord Farquaad's attempt at a breaking speech towards Shrek begins with "It's rude enough being ''alive'' when ''no one wants you!''" Evil or not, that was [[KickTheDog just uncalled for]]. Fortunately Shrek cuts him off to talk to Fiona.

* And don't forget the scene after Shrek and Fiona split up, and everything's going as planned for Fiona and [[BigBad Lord Farquaad's]] wedding, but both the ogre and the princess are completely miserable. What really pushes it into tearjerker territory is the heartbreaking ''Hallelujah'' by John Cale playing in the background.

-->[[spoiler:'''Shrek:''' [[HeartwarmingMoments But you are beautiful.]]]]

* Lord Farquaad's attempt at a breaking speech towards Shrek begins with "It's rude enough being ''alive'' when ''no one wants you!''" Evil or not, that was [[KickTheDog just uncalled for]].

-->'''Shrek:''' Look, I'm not the one with the problem, okay? It's the world that seems to have the problem with ''me!'' People take one look at me and go, "Ahh! Help! Run! A big, stupid, ugly ogre..." (''depressed'') They judge me before they even know me. That's why I'm better off alone.

-->[[spoiler:'''Shrek:''' [[HeartwarmingMoments But you]] ''[[HeartwarmingMoments are]]'' [[HeartwarmingMoments beautiful.]]]]

* You might not notice it the first time, but when we first see the three bears, they're in cages. Then later on, we see the father and baby bears looking utterly miserable when at Shrek's swamp with the rest of the fairy tale creatures. You see exactly why in Lord Farquaad's castle, where the mother bear is shown as ''a skin rug.'' To summarise -- mother bear didn't make it out of the cage, was evidently killed, and her husband and son lost their wife/mother. A heart-wrenching story [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent told entirely within the background.]]

* ''"I live alone! My swamp! Me! Nobody else, understand?! Nobody! Especially useless, pathetic, annoying'' '''''talking donkeys!"''''' Just... that. During the whole line, he's obviously trying not to cry. For once in his life, he's let himself have a friend, let himself fall in love but he thinks it can't be as he thought they were bad talking him behind his back and is trying to shove Donkey out of his life. To make it worse, there's Donkey's clearly-hurt expression and

-->'''Donkey:''' But... I thought--

*** Sad as well to think what would have happened if Donkey hadn't been so persistent with Shrek. Shrek and Fiona would have never seen each other again. Based on how Farquaad acted when he found out about Fiona's curse, Fiona would have had no one to protect her this time.

-->[[spoiler:'''Fiona:''' ''[In her ogre form]'' I'm supposed to be beautiful...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Shrek:''' But you ''are'' beautiful.]]

* ''"I live alone! My swamp! Me! Nobody else, understand?! Nobody! Especially useless, pathetic, annoying'' '''''talking donkeys!"''''' Just... that. During the whole line, he's obviously trying not to cry. For once in his life, he's let himself have a friend, let himself fall in love, and he thinks it can't be and is trying to shove Donkey out of his life. To make it worse, there's Donkey's clearly-hurt expression and

* ''"I live alone! My swamp! Me! Nobody else, understand?! Nobody! Especially useless, pathetic, annoying'' '''''talking donkeys!"''''' Just... that. During the whole line, he's obviously trying not to cry, and for once in his life he's let himself have a friend, let himself fall in love, and he thinks it can't be and is trying to shove Donkey out of his life. To make it worse, there's Donkey's clearly-hurt expression and

** It comes right back around the following scene when Donkey confronts Shrek about this.

* The scene when Shrek once again sees his reflection after he returned to the swamp. In the beginning of the film, Shrek seemed proud of his appearance -- but after being seemingly rejected by his love Fiona, he is utterly disgusted with himself.

-->'''Shrek:''' It's the world that seems to have the problem with ''me!'' People take one look at me and go, "Ahh! Help! Run! A big, stupid, ugly ogre..." (''depressed'') They judge me before they even know me. That's why I'm better off alone.

-->'''Shrek:''' It's the world that seems to have the problem with ''me!'' People take one look at me and go, "Ahh! Help! Run! A big, stupid, ugly ogre..." ''[depressed]'' They judge me before they even know me. That's why I'm better off alone.

* ''"I live alone! My swamp! Me! Nobody else, understand?! Nobody! Especially useless, pathetic, annoying'' '''''talking donkeys!"''''' Just...that. During the whole line, he's obviously trying not to cry, and for once in his life he's let himself have a friend, let himself fall in love, and he thinks it can't be and is trying to shove Donkey out of his life. To make it worse, there's Donkey's clearly-hurt expression and
-->'''Donkey:''' But...I thought--
-->'''Shrek:''' Yeah, well you know what? You thought wrong!

-->'''Donkey:''' ''[furious]'' Because that's what friends do! '''''THEY FORGIVE EACH OTHER!'''''
* The scene when Shrek once again sees his reflection after he returned to the swamp. In the beginning of the film, Shrek seemed proud of his appearance but after being seemingly rejected by his love Fiona, he is utterly disgusted with himself.

* The TwistEnding-

%% you might not notice it the first time, but we see the three bears in cages at first, then we see the dad and baby bear looking very sad later in the movie when at shreks swamp, then when we see Lord Farquaad's castle where the we see the mamma bear as a rug. to summarize: the momma didn't make it out of the cage with the rest of the fairy tale creatures and got killed, and her husband and son lost her.