Shrek

Shrek is the titular protagonist of the Shrek franchise.

Shrek is Fiona's husband, Donkey and Puss' best friend, the ogre triplets' father, and the son in law of Queen Lillian and King Harold.

Appearance
Shrek is green ogre with brown eyes. He wears a white long sleeved tunic within his brown turtle designed mini vest, brown pinstriped pants and dark short boots with a rip folded design in each side. While rescuing Fiona from the tower, he wears pieces of knight armor.

In Shrek 2, when he was transformed into a human after drinking the Happily Ever After Potion, Shrek became a tall and muscular man with short dark brown hair with a single fringe sprouted on the left side. He also gained a cleanly shaved beard.

While a human, Shrek disregarded his now-baggy clothes for a brown, sleeveless armor shirt with an olive green trim and markings of leaves, along with a white long sleeved tunic. He also wears olive green pants and brown short boots with a light brown, folded design in each side.

Personality
Before meeting Donkey and Fiona, Shrek lived a solitary life, preferring not to associate himself with others due to people's fear of him, while occasionally playing on their fear to frighten away intruders. During his quest to save Fiona and his swamp, however, Shrek slowly begins to open up to his companions, revealing his insecurities about how others perceive him. With help from Donkey, Shrek finally realizes his feelings for Fiona and confesses his love for her. He is fiercely protective of Fiona and his allies and will go to great lengths to help them in any way.

Since marrying Fiona, Shrek had been deathly afraid of the prospect of having children, possibly due to his own upbringing as an ogre. By the end of Shrek the Third, however, he overcomes this fear and proves to be a loving father.

Abilities

 * Superhuman Strength: As an ogre, Shrek has immense physical strength far superior to ordinary humans. He has been shown lifting an adult man in armor above his head and throwing him like a rag doll, carrying both Donkey and Fiona at once, breaking through a wooden door with little difficulty, and moving a large rock all by himself. One of his most impressive feats was grabbing Dragon by her tail, temporarily stopping her.
 * Enhanced Durability: Due to his ogre physiology, Shrek can travel on foot for miles without tiring. He also survived being burned alive by Dragon and shot with an arrow in his butt.
 * Unarmed Combatant: Despite having no formal training, Shrek is a capable hand-to-hand fighter and can often hold his own against multiple opponents at once without tiring.
 * Survivalist: Living in the middle of a swamp for most of his life, Shrek has learned to live off the land to support himself and later his family. He is an excellent hunter, forager and cook, creating improvised dishes such as weed rat stew.
 * Strategist: At times, Shrek displays a high degree of cunning and cleverness, using a broken sword and chains to ensnare Dragon, as well as getting the idea to create Mongo by seeing Gingerbread Man standing next to Far Far Away Castle.
 * Storytelling: Shrek has adept knowledge of fairy tales and ogre lore, such as the stories of Throwback and Bloodnut the Flatulent.

Trivia

 * Originally, Shrek was supposed to be voiced by Chris Farley, but he died in December 1997. He had done 80% / 90% (or 95% according to his brother Tom) of finishing the project. In 1991, Steven Spielberg brought rights for Bill Murray to voice him, but it was scrapped for an unknown reason. Finally, the role went to Mike Myers.
 * Shrek and Donkey appear in a Kung Fu Panda 3 commercial that spoofs the Snickers advertisements. In it, Monkey and Po aren't just themselves when they are hungry, and are shown to become Donkey and Shrek respectively.
 * Shrek can be spotted as General Monger's medal of order on his right chest in one of the scenes in Monsters vs. Aliens.


 * From all the characters, Shrek has been injured in the groin more than any other character, with four onscreen, and is also one of the only two that have been kicked there (the second one is Thelonious, but he had been kicked just once).
 * Shrek makes a cameo as a plush in the 2014 direct-to-video CGI animated short Rocky and Bullwinkle.