Princess Fiona

Template:Shrek character Princess Fiona is the Princess in the films Shrek, Shrek 4-D, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and the upcoming Shrek 4. Actress Cameron Diaz provides her voice and her singing voice is provided by Renee Sands of Kids Incorporated and Wild Orchid fame.

History

In Shrek, Lord Farquaad sends the ogre Shrek to retrieve her to be his bride. When she first appears, she is angered to learn that her rescuer is not her Prince Charming, but an ogre, and that the man who wants to marry her wouldn't come himself. At first, she refuses to travel to Farquaad, but eventually befriends Donkey and develops a bond with Shrek. Her dragon guardian later falls in love with Donkey. Through the course of the film, the audience discovers that she is cursed and while she is a human by day, she becomes an ogress at sunset. The spell was placed upon her when she was a child by a Witch. (It is not known whether the Fairy Godmother placed this curse as part of her plan) The spell is lifted at the end, when she is kissed by Shrek and becomes an ogress permanently.

In Shrek 4-D, she is kidnapped by the ghost of Lord Farquaad, who intends to kill her, marry her ghost, and become king of the Underworld. He is later 're-killed' by the Dragon which comes to their rescue. The Dragon then swallows his remains and rubs her full belly until he's fully digested. This was also featured in the CD-ROM that was distributed widely during the showing of Shrek 2 in theatres.

Shrek 2 features her trying to convince Shrek to meet her parents in the kingdom of Far Far Away (resembling the shallowness of Hollywood). They go, and her Fairy Godmother, who had her locked away in the tower to begin with, plots to kill her husband so her son, Prince Charming, can marry her. It turns out that there was a semi-complex plan where the Prince Charming, not Shrek, was supposed to rescue Fiona and marry her. It was the King's way of repaying the Fairy Godmother for a favor she had done him while courting Fiona's mother.

In Shrek 3, she has to act as the queen of Far, Far Away while her father is ill. When the latter passes away, Shrek sets out to find her cousin Arthur Pendragon, and she tells him that she is pregnant (something that she has been hinting at him since the start of the film). While she is having a baby shower, Prince Charming (Shrek) stages a coup d'etat so that he can proclaim himself king of Far Far Away. Fiona organises the resistance with her friends Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Doris the Ugly Stepsister, Dragon (Shrek) and her mother, Queen Lillian, but Rapunzel betrays them to marry Prince Charming. Thanks to the abilities of her mother, they get out of prison and manage to escape so that they can save Shrek from being killed by Prince Charming. In the end, she has triplets with Shrek.

Personality

Princess Fiona is initially portrayed as the archetypal princess from fairy tales, speaking formally in matters of courtship and presenting high expectations of how she is to be rescued, who is to rescue her, and so forth. Later, Princess Fiona's true self emerges, as she's really a very down-to-earth and independent woman who is a match for Shrek at burping, is a loyal friend, and unlike princesses of fairy tales, expertly fights in hand-to-hand combat with martial arts skills (perhaps to display a much more feminist version of the traditional fairy tale princess). She also does not have very good manners (she burps and passes wind), since she is an ogre.

When asked if Princess Fiona resembled her, Cameron Diaz remarked how she thought Fiona looked more like her sister than her.