Shrek

"Shrek is a big, green, ugly, smelly ogre. Perfectly content just living alone in his swamp. He enjoys taking mud showers, eating forest critters, and scaring the spit out of anyone who crosses his path. It takes a princess that packs a punch to finally soften his heart."

- The official character description

Shrek is the main protagonist in the Shrek franchise and is a big lumbering ogre who goes on adventures with Donkey and his friends. He rescued Princess Fiona and married her, then he met her parents, King Harold and Queen Lilian. Then he met Puss in Boots out in the forest with Donkey. After King Harold's death, Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots must go to Worcestershire to get Arthur Pendragon and take him to Far Far Away to be the next king. Shrek later meets Rumpelstiltskin and signs his contract, then his world is turned upside-down. Shrek meets a whole bunch of other ogres and must save the day to stop Rumpel and his witch slaves. Shrek has 3 children in the third movie.

Why He's Ugly, Dirty, but Good

 * 1) He is a pretty awesome and kind ogre who cares about himself, his family and his friends.
 * 2) He rescued Princess Fiona from the Dragon's Keep.
 * 3) He is so popular that he spawned so many memes on Source Filmmaker (SFM) such as Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life.
 * 4) He is one of the best DreamWorks characters ever! As well as being the best movie character along with Woody.
 * 5) His roar.
 * 6) Even in Shrek Forever After, many ogre hunters become fans of Shrek.
 * 7) The intro in his first movie All-Star he was legendary for.
 * 8) He has so many friends.
 * 9) The way to keep unwelcome guests out of his swamp.
 * 10) His "WHAT ARE YOU DOIN' IN MAH SWAMP?!?!?" catchphrase, as well as "Better out than in I always say!".
 * 11) He has so many video games based on his franchise.
 * 12) Luigifan00001's version of him is so hilariously great as a villain in one of his videos
 * 13) Mike Myers voiced him well.
 * 14) He did redeem himself in Shrek Forever After after being flanderized in Shrek the Third:
 * 15) *Shrek's behavior in this film is explained by the opening montage of what his life had become up until his children's first birthday. If you had to go through the same tiring routine every day that you too would be very sick of it. And as for Shrek yelling at Fiona, yes that was a real mean thing for him to do but remember that Shrek was becoming less satisfied with how monotonous his life was becoming and people can say things they end up regretting when they let powerful emotions like anger take over.
 * 16) Shrek's character development is really shown in the fourth film; when arguing with the alternate Fiona, he insists that true love will solve everything and it does exist, a big contrast to how he dismissed the notion in the first film and Fiona insisted on the power of true love. In the end, he has fully accepted everything he has and became a better person because of it, realizing how much Fiona meant to him ("It was you who rescued me...").

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Sometimes, his fart jokes aren't that good.
 * 2) In Shrek the Third, he was badly flanderized. Though, he did thankfully recover from bad flanderization and got his character back in shape in the final film.
 * 3) He was out of character at the beginning of the final film, by hurting his own wife Fiona's feelings by saying he wished he never rescued her from the Dragons castle. Though he fully regretted that later on into the film.