I always assumed, like Harold, Fairy Godmother also turned back into what she was originally/her method of appearing in the first place: Tears of a princess.
I thought that as well. It wasn't a spell to kill someone - it was a spell to revert someone to their original form. The Fairy Godmother thought that if Shrek would go back to his original form and Fiona didn't, Fiona wouldn't love him anymore. Harold selflessly jumped in front because he thought it was a killing spell, but he probably would've done it anyway even if he knew so that his daughter would get a choice.
xTwilightWolvesx That doesn’t add up. She would have transformed like normal if she didn’t kiss him before midnight. Therefore goving her no reason not to want to be with him, or at least because he’s a Ogre. She’s a evil, terrible, homophobic woman. However she’s not stupid. I don’t think that was her reasoning behind it. I think she just wanted a chance to ruin his happily ever after. She doesn’t understand the fact he likes his ogre life style. She thinks he wants for him and Fiona a human lifestyle. All she knows is her luxurious style she can’t comprehend any but it.
You know the *saddest* past (according to TV Tropes): It is subtly implied that the Fairy Godmother was once the all-loving well-meaning granter of wishes and happiness that she is marketed to be. But many years of popularity and power along with the commercialization and mass production of her "product" have changed her into a remorseless manipulator.
I have the idea that she turned into what she was through heartbreak and that's why charming dad isnt around and why shes such an over protective mother and why she doesnt believe in true love
That’s probably the case. There’s a giant billboard of her when Shrek and Fiona pass by it and she owns this frigging huge factory of potions and workers. She’s really famous! Pride can be the downfall of a lot of people, corrupting them internally and only resulting the thirst for more of how they get it.
Very strong possibility, fairy godmother didn't need to take the throne to be a powerful person, she's a FAIRY GODMOTHER who is a god in her own right and don't actually need a regular human throne to rule, people loved and admired her
The spell was to take away the "happily ever after." The armor reflected back, but still managed to hit him somehow, thus reverting him back to a frog.
I think the reason she became bubbles, is that the first time we meet the Fairy Godmother is in Cinderella. Cinderella is cleaning the floor, singing, wishing everything was better. Bubbles galore! Maybe the FG was created in that moment. Maybe that's her origin story! So when she died, she returned to bubbles.
Fairy Godmother does also have a bubble motif, she shows up with a swarm of them, and there’s a large amount of bubbles in the spell factory. Maybe the bolt would revert magical transformation, turning Harold back into a frog and turning her back into bubbles.
Simple answer: True love by Fairy Tale Law breaks and/or reverses acts of malicious intent. So when Harold took the hit from Fairy Godmother it was out of True Love though he absorbed part of the spell the magic couldn't completely harm him, just the part of him that was given in malice by Fairy Godmother while she on the other hand was killed because she had malice in her heart
By the end of the movie Harold saw that Shrek and Fiona really did love each other and decided to save Shrek as an act of true love for his daughter which could be why the spell only partially affected him. The rest of the spell then reflected back to the malicious intent origin, the fairy godmother, and destroyed her.
Aladdin reference whole new world "I can show you the world , shinning, shimmering, splendid, now tell me princess when did you last let your heart decide. " (Preech)
@@dreamshade8123 I was meaning maybe the armor did save him but the spell still slowly took his life later on. So I agree with you on the armor did save him.
@@klenstdp1737 there was probably a side effect that made him a frog then when he was a frog he was really really REALLY old so that's probably why he died
Raven of the night yes and that’s why she flips out when someone attempts to make their own dream come true , so she turns their dreams into nightmares because she’s insecure and selfish due to the fact that most of her dreams have became nightmares , sad asf 😴
I think it's also worth noting how Fairy Godmother reacts when she gets hit with her own spell. She panics. Followed by her frantically checking her body, not for wounds, but to see if she still exists. And there is a brief moment where she thinks the spell was a dud, before she disappears from existence
He was a frog and he fell in love with the queen when she was younger so the fairy godmother made a deal to make him a human as well as making her fall in love. The deal was he'd owe her something in return, that of which being the marriage of their children willingly or unwillingly. He broke the deal by not giving Fiona the love potion and when he jumped in the way the lightning bolt only reversed her spell on him
Before this, I assumed the zap was to make whoever turn into their original state. So if the fairy-god mother’s origin is bubbles somehow than okay? The armor was in short a shield.
Musically Disney AMV's i always thought the same. But instead, I think when it hit her, she was already in her original state so instead she vanished into nothing. Like the spell is telling her body turn back into what you were before, but because she was nothing else other than a fairy before, she turned into nothing.
That reminds me of one of my favorite parts of any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. Masquerade. The witch Granny Weatherwax stops a steel sword swinging at her with her bare hand, when everyone KNOWS that witches cannot bewitch steel. She explains that she COULD, but to do so, would go against the laws of magic that everybody knows(believes) and that would make her a Black witch and evil. But it couldn't be helped, because she just didn't have time to bleed right then. Near the end of the book, she sets out a needle, thread and bandages, looks down at her hand and says, "Ok. I reckon I have time now." And she is described as having a heavy bandage on her hand after that. Really good book in an even greater series. I recommend them to everyone.
I know this is a very far fetched theory but I’ve had it on my mind since I’ve been a kid. I believe the magic that the Fairy Godmother used in this epic confrontation was a spell that creates the target’s biggest fear or undo their happily ever after. Throughout the film, Harold’s biggest fear was turning back into a frog which the fairy godmother kept using against him throughout movie. As revealed by the film, Harold’s happily ever after was being turned into a human so either one of the two explanations from this theory are valid. The fairy godmother’s final line before disappearing is “Ogres don’t live happily ever after!” insinuating that whatever the spell was would undo Shrek’s happily ever after. When the fairy godmother disintegrates into the air, we can theorize that the fairy godmother’s biggest fear was to disappear from the land because as Isaac explained in his video, the fairy godmother always found ways to put herself first and she would eliminate people that would be a threat to her. In a sense, her existence and successful life as the fairy godmother was her happily ever after. Shrek would most likely have not disappeared like the fairy godmother if the spell would have come into contact with him but as shown in the film, Shrek’s biggest fear was to lose Fiona forever. It would be understandable as well to say that Shrek’s happily ever after was to have met and marry his soul mate Fiona. Fairy godmother’s intentions weren’t necessarily to end Shrek’s life but instead to take away what he most cared about which is what both Harold and the fairy godmother lost by the spell. Thanks for reading this! Leave a like if you’ve made it this far! 😄
That’s what I always thought, that she wanted to take away his happily ever after. The theory, in my opinion, is supported by her last words “I told you, ogres don’t live happily ever after!”
I always assumed the spell was made to undo a "Happily ever after", Harold's armor reflected *MOST* of the attack, but not all of it, rendering him a frog (which he was before given he was the frog prince) and it undoed her happy ending by... well... ending her.
I don't think that's quite it. Think about it for a minute: she was originally directing her magic at Shrek; if her intent was to use it to take away his "happily ever after", then she would've likely opted to try to get him to drink a potion or something instead. She's manipulative, and is mostly prone to putting her magic into potions to achieve the desired effect, and will break someone mentally if she's able to do so; but before she fires her magical blast, she is clearly quite enraged with Shrek, enough so that her prejudice towards ogres would cause her to want to erase him from existence. Having said that, she was unable to break their bond with her magic, and was furious about this, enough so to want Shrek dead; she's also clearly upset that Fiona was turned into an ogre (again, she's clearly prejudiced against their kind), and I don't think she was thinking clearly, being blinded by rage. This would cause her to become unhinged enough to want to kill Shrek; so when Harold took the blast instead, why did it bounce off his armor, leaving him as a frog? The answer is actually very simple: she's a fairy, and his breastplate is made of steel, of which fairy magic is ineffective against. Although he was still affected by the blast, his breastplate shielded him enough to survive the attack, even if he was reverted back to his original form afterwards.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 The way you worded it, she sounds like an even more crappy version of Maleficent than the one Disney did in the "Remake". As for My assumption, I thought it up when i first saw the movie as a kid, so there are bound to be more flaws than one of GT's old theories.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 I read somewhere in the comments that what she wanted to do with Shrek was return him back to his previous state, and by that means he becoming the mere ogre he was at the very beginning of the first movie, forgetting about Fiona, Donkey, everyone and everything he’s ever achieved when he stepped outside of his swamp, effectively putting him back to where he belongs to the story, as the ogre, and not the hero who rescued the princess. So the spell very much would revert everything and everyone it touches into its previous state of their stories in order to undo the Happily Ever Afters, so when it hit Harold, he reverted back into a talking frog (maybe keeping his memories because the armor softened the blow) and when she got hit, she may’ve ended up vanishing as she had nothing to go back to, or she became tears and bubbles as that may’ve counted as her “previous state” before she got her happy ending (if she had one at all really)
@@dustymcwari4468 That's an interesting theory, truthfully. It could very well have been the effect she intended it to have, but it's hard to say for certain, I think. Having said that, I think both interpretations are valid in their own rights; I was just giving my take on the whole thing. Having said that, it is curious as to why she was turned into bubbles when she was hit by her magic blast, but I think your interpretation explains why Harold was turned into a frog by her magic
@@matthewkuscienko4616 yeah, they’re all theories, and I’m not 100% sure about the effect on the Fairy Godmother, that’s the one I wonder a lot, her spells can only do good things, so she may have to think outside the box in order to make that light magic do her evil intends, as she showed by turning Pinocho into a real boy in order to stop him from attacking, rather than killing him downright, and in a way, returning Shrek back to his old ogre self isn’t really a bad thing, but why did she turn to bubbles? Is it like Tinkerbell where fairies are born from some specific emotion? Except here from princess tears instead of baby laughter
I think Harold wasn’t killed by the magic blast was because his armor was IRON. It’s a common weakness for fairy creatures in folklore (Maleficent, the Leprechaun movie series, etc), and could be why her spell was reflected; Iron REPELS fairy magic. I still think the spell was meant to return Shrek to his original form, as it turned Harold into a frog, but since Fairy Godmother was already in her original form, she became formless.
I think what happened is that his breastplate was made of iron. All creatures of the fey can't affect iron easily or not at all. She's a powerful fairy so some of the magic must have rubbed off on harold but most rebounded to fairy godmother
My theory on this; the spell turns the recepient into what they fear most. Herald feared his true identity being shown. Fairy godmother feared losing her power/ control, she feared being erased. When the spell was only used in a weaker form on Pinocchio it kind of just acted as though an on and off switch to his curse. Or my other theory is that it shows the truest form of one's beauty; Herald is most comfortable and most like himself when he is in his original form (when he felt true love for the strongest time in his life; for the fact that he was willing to change his physical form to be with the one he loved). Where as fairy godmother had no true inner beauty. This would explain how she dissipated into nothing, and how pinnochio was shown in his most purest form as a real boy.
Great idea, Fairy Godmother from Shrek was a true villain. I always had the theory that Merryweather and Maleficent had a personal grudge against each other before the Sleeping Beauty movie.
Various metals, usually iron and silver, have been said to work against fairies and their magic. That's likely what happened. The breast plate was the specific metal that reflects magic.
Harold's breastplate was likely silver-plated iron, since as king and attending a royal ball, he would be expected to wear his nicest/most expensive armor.
Also it was a mirrored surface, in many mythologies including Greek, Chinese and Celtic mirrors have certain properties, including reflecting hostile magic. A great example is when Perseus kills medusa using a mirrored shield. The Scots-Irish practice of skrying (mirror magic) is another example. So if you have silver (very potent metal) possibly amalgamated with cinnabar or coredeorite to make it plate better (mercury ore) with iron (which is classically used against seally and unseally faerie folk) then you have a powerful antimagic device. Harold may well have known that and that's why he wore actual armor to what was essentially a royal ball. He might have been expecting trouble with the fairy godmother, particularly after we learn that he didn't give Fiona the tea with the love potion. He would have known that would cause trouble, even if nothing else did, and planned accordingly.
*Theory* The spell makes the person go out of existence BUT the spell has to peel back the layers of other spells and potions. It only hit Harold for like half a second and that took the human spell off of him almost instantly. But then it got reflected back, so the spell couldn’t take full effect. Then when the spell hits fairy godmother it takes a second to work since the spell is weaker from when it Harold and since fairy godmother doesn’t have any spells on her self. So if the spell did hit Shrek it would turn him into a ogre then into bubble.
I always remembered Fairy Godmother saying "Ogres don't live happily ever after!" before casting her final spell. I had a feeling her spell was intended to kill Shrek because that would take away Fiona's happily ever after so it would make sense why Harold turned into a frog since being a human was his. I never understood why the backfire had killed her instead but I think it erased the possibility of her living happily ever after with her business and having her son become the new king of Far, Far Away.
She was also a loving mother to Charming, so part of her happy ending may have something to do with wanting to help her son with whatever she can so he can triumph (she also being benefitted by that of course), so what can you do in order to prevent that happy ending? Get rid of the mother so the son is left all alone on his own! >:3
I'd always just assumed that fairy godmother just had some sort of magical contract in place so that If the king ever crossed her he'd be returned to his frog form
I think that the fact that Harold acted out of true love, to protect his daughter and her husband, also acted as a layer of protection in addition to the breastplate, allowing him to survive.
If you ask me, I think there's a fine line between spells that are being cast and potions that are taken as the magic they both possess comes from two different sources. For potions like the HEA Shrek had taken the power that kept the spell in play even after FGM was beaten came from the ingredients that were used to make it as they held the magical properties and NOT the caster. Spells on the other hand are used by individuals skilled in magic like FGM and are held in place by their casters own power. It's also worth noting that across multiple forms of media like games, books and movies with stories that feature magic have often stated that powerful spells that are cast on an individual can only be lifted if either the caster removes it themselves or if they are killed. That means that when FGM's spell was reflected back at her by Harold's armor and was killed, Harold's HEA was undone because she never gave him a potion, she did it herself and Shrek's was still in play because he used the power of a potion that was MADE by FGM and not CASTED on him BY her own power. But these are my opinions on this theory based on what I've seen across other forms of fantasy media that have magic.
She aimed to get rid of the magic Shrek used from HER storage but Harold got in the way causing the zap to attack him and the godmother. His magic from HER wore off making him into his true form, a frog. It also zapped her and I’m guessing since she is all magical it took away all of her magic and spells, meaning her full form, and she disappeared.
I think it’s more of a “undo magic” spell. Meaning, she was trying to take whatever magic is holding someone together. I.e. how it made Pinocchio into a real boy instead of a magical wooden puppet. Taking the magic out of shrek of both human form and ogre form since both require magic thus making him nothing. Instead, it took the magic out the King which turns him back into a frog, and taking all the magic out of herself which turns her into bubbles. At least that’s my guess.
My theory is that the blast wasnt aimed at shrek alone. It was shrek and fiona. The spell wasnt yo destroy him but take away their happily ever after. This could have a multitude of effects on their relationship. The spell hit harold instead, setting him back to the beginning of his story, and when it bounced back on fairy god mother, she was so self absorbed, that to take away her own happily ever after, she had to disapear
So glad to see you again Issac! You know I recently came up with a few new Little Mermaid theories Why was Ariel so fascinated by the human world? How Ariel met Flounder and Scuttle Where did Ursula learn her magic? Eric’s full story-who were and what happened to Eric’s parents and how he fell in love with Ariel
My theory is that she was using a spell to take away his "magic" (therefore, turning him back into an ogre), but as she (like any fairy) is magic personified, she just disappeared. Because a fairy without magic is nothing
As for my take on how King Harold's breastplate reflected Fairy GodMother's spell, we're gonna have to go to Pokemon for this one. Fairies are said to be allergic to iron because it's a manmade product
@@davideostudio2664 Fairies being weak to iron stretches back WAAAY before Pokemon, haha. That trait is as old as the myths behind fairies themselves, and shows up in D&D, even.
Last spell put on Harold was love potion. He drank it instead of Fiona. :) I rather think that the bubbles was the Godmother's true form as frog was true form of Harold's. My theory is that the wand returns an object to a default form when it backfires. If the spell was casted consciously, it takes whatever form the caster demands.
Shrek4 showed independence in women, I mean look at what Fiona did. She made her own path in life, without Shrek. She was tired of waiting, & became independent👏😊
*before watching* Harold was turned back into his original form. A frog. Stands to reason she was turned back into her original form. Tear drops. When connected with her cards calling her through tear drops it makes perfect sense.
I always thought that the reason that Harold turned back into a frog wasn't necessarily because of the spell hitting him and reflecting off, but because it hit the fairy godmother erasing her and breaking a contract she had with Harold, such as he'd remain in his human form as long as the fairy godmother was still alive... Just a thought
If this theory is true, it might also explain why Harold is in such dire straits by the events of Shrek the Third; he wasn't just old, he was suffering lingering effects from Fairy Godmother's curse.
My answer for this, while sappy 😅, is the only thing that has constantly been the thing stronger than magic : true love. If the fairy godmother's spell was meant to kill Shrek then maybe it did momentarily work on king Harold but what if he was brought back by doing something as selfless as taking a hit out of love for his daughter. It might not be too far out there since true Love's kiss was enough to work in the 4th film after time had just run out for Shrek.
The spell takes away the happily ever after, there are no stories where the fairy godmother has a happily ever after. So without a happily ever after, she ceased to exist.
Silver, the whole reason even part of spell was reflected was that the breast plate the king is wearing is made of or coated in silver. In royal events any armor worn by anyone other then guards is purely ceremonial, and thus traditionally made from or coated in silver and sometimes accented in gold. Silver, as far as magic and fairy tales go, is a magical conduit and if polished to a mirror shine it is capable of absorbing and redirecting spells back at the castor. Depending on the fairy tale, the person holding or in contact with the silver is still effected by the spell, though the effect is reduced as most the spell is absorbed then reflected back. This is different from cold iron (better known as cast iron), where magic is completely absorbed and absolutely nothing happens to anyone, ore pure gold where the magic is absorbed and then can be redirected by the wielder's will. It is evident that the creators of Shrek know the traditional magical properties of metals in fair tales, otherwise there would be nothing to stop a witch from just using magic to remove the shackles in the first movie when all the fairy tale creatures are rounded up, shackles are traditionally made by cast and not forged and tempered like swords and armor.
@Wotso_Videos Hearing your theory about Fairy Godmother, I think the spell she was using was nullify all enchantments/spells and revert them back to their original form. Harold was reverted back as a frog while Fairy Godmother may have suffer a much crueler fate. With that spell, it became her undoing and revert back to almost nothing. The breastplate was a conductor/mirror as it rebound back to Fairy Godmother. But as all sentient beings exist, they have both light and dark side. Just like a coin, it's a part of each other.
Here's my interpretation. She said "I'm going to take away your happily ever after!" and shoots her magic at Shrek. The king Defects is and it hits her, killing her. Let's take a closer look at this. She wanted to take away Shrek's happily ever after, which was him marrying and living with Fiona, as seen in the last movie, but the king jumps in the way, so his happily ever after (him being turned into a human) was undone. The chestplate (which probably deflected the magic due to fairies being weak to iron) sends the magic back to fairy godmother, but she hadn't reached her happily ever after. She would have reached it if charming and Fiona had married, so the spell made sure she could never get her happily ever after, it killed her
Maybe someone expressing disbelief in fairies did it.. -- A baby laughed at bubbles and thus the fairy came to be; Baby grows up and stops believing. The moment the baby says that aloud that fairy dies.
I think she isn't immune to her powers which is why she has to manipulate others around her. She cant use her magic on herself, and we see why at the end. To everyone else, it either gives them a happily ever after or takes it away - and to the fairy godmother, it just kills her.
I never really thought about this before but it did just hit me that Harold was based off the Princess and the Frog fairy tale. I think that Fairy Godmother was the one who granted the Frog the power to turn into a prince when kissed. I think she used a spell that undoes happily ever afters as when she had launched the spell she had said "I told you that Ogres dont live happily ever after" therefore when Harold got hit. It undid his own spell but when it bounced back and hit fairy godmother. I think the spell didnt know what to do and I think thats why Fairy Godmother was so confused on what was going to happen to her. Then the spell took affect when it realized her own life was her happiness and Poofed her or Her wand grants you your deepest wish or erases it. As we do see that Pinocio(cant spell) gets hit with it and becomes a real boy and then later gets hit again and becomes a puppet again. It might be just that. Harold's deepest desire was to be loved and human and the wand took away his human form again. The wand granted Pinnocio his deepest desire to become Human and it granted that and then it took it away. Fairy Godmother realized that Shrek's deepest desire was to be with Fiona and she tried to take that away from him but instead. Fairy Godmother's deepest desire was herself. She never even really seemed to care about Prince Charming through the entire movie. She seemed more interested in having the Kingdom to herself once Charming became king and thus when her wand magic hit her. It took away her deepest desire. Herself. And reduced her to nothing but bubbles. Granted the Wand can do more but that makes the most sense
I mean, without a Lord the castle staff was unemployed and would have left to find more work. No guards or government means no one to protect the common folk who would have then packed up and left. Then with the city abandoned everything just runs down and goes to crap.
Eh, Dulock ended up doing alright. In my head-canon, after Farquad got eaten, the Kingdom was now under the management of lord "Isspant". Under Isspant's rule, he decided to increase Dulock's lucrative worth and spending power, by buying-up various properties and housing them under the Dulock brand. It began with their acquisition of "Wonder" - a publishing company known for their long history of children's visual pamphlets involving larger than life, super-powered beings, acting as Heroes or Villains. Isspant parlayed that acquisition into a profit-machine by adapting those stories into a series of stage-plays, starring well-known actors in the Heroic Titular Roles and creating a kind of "universe" in which all the stories tied into each other...Their quality dipped after a while, but the grand finale involving a Purple-Colored Ogre wanting to destroy the universe with a magic glove was well-received. Dulock only became stronger under Isspant's rule, when he acquired another property, "Look-This Film" a play-production studio, founded by a retiring Lord Georg Lookthis - and with it, gained control of its popular property - a series of stories which involves magical sword-wielding wizards fighting against an evil empire in outer-space. They produced a new trilogy of plays to continue the initial story where Georg left-off...that so far have not been well-received. As for now, Dulock is still incredibly powerful despite their various setbacks, to the point where they will be soon attempting to corner the market on the entertainment industry and create a complete monopoly. Unfortunately for them, their monopoly will become so large, that the lack of competition will cause the industry itself to collapse upon itself.
I think it’s like Harry Potter With Harolds fatherly love and diving in front of Fiona, the curse rebounded on Fairy Godmother - destroying her, but a part of the curse must have latched itself onto Harold
I love the idea that Fairy Godmother dosent believe in true love. Because ofcourse she would, if she gives people their happy endings and make people fall in love "all the time" then it's easy to see how she would begin to believe that no one can truly love anyone without the interference of magic.
I think that when he jumped to save shrek and Fiona if you remember earlier how fairy god mother said if he didn’t keep his promise to her the spell she put on him is null and void meaning when he got hit in the armour the spell breaks making him turn back into a frog
i was thinking that the fairy godmother’s spell she was aiming at shrek and fiona was just to undo the happily ever after potion. and the reason she turned into bubbles is that she is originally a bunch of bubbles that were hit with magic at one point and she turned into a fairy. or maybe it was cause harold’s breastplate was made of iron. and iron burns and could probably kill faries. and with how powerful she was she was still able to hit harold with the spell but it also reflected off his breastplate too.
Hey Wotso, do you think Sofia the First can continue from where it left off? I think there should be another crossover where Sofia, being accompanied by Cedric, goes to the kingdom of Avalor to learn more about her amulet. And she would have everything from the last time we saw her, from her magical capabilities to her full fledged guardian status. That would be super interesting and we can finally get more info on the amulet other than it might be an ancient artifact.
When you think about it, she was targeting Shrek because Prince Charming is her son. If the Fairy Godmother's son was married to Fiona, she would be tied into the royal bloodline.
I thought that the spell was exactly what she told Harold that she'd do: take away his happily ever after. Fairy godmother intended to take away shreks happily ever after (maybe that would make him an ogre maybe it would have destroyed him 🤷🏽♀️) but that's why Harold turns back into a frog, and when it hits fairy godmother it takes away hers i.e. the image she's built of herself and her "all powerfulness" but the idea that it undoes the spell make so much more sense... And also I feel really really dumb bc I literally never understood that Harold WAS the frog Prince. And all the imagery of frog like things in the background of the bedroom... I know I watch Shrek when I was a little kid but still 😂🤦🏽♀️ how did I never get that lol
The spell was obviously a dispelling charm. Thats why he became frog and the armor didnt protect anything just deflected it back and as a being of pure magic she disintegated.
Simple. It was an anti-magic blast. Harold, being a mostly-normal frog who was shielded, was turned back to a frog but kept his ability to talk. FG, being a purely magical being, was completely destroyed.
The armor was basically a bulletproof vest hence, when hit at it doesn’t puncture but the area where it was hit is still affected in a more minimalized way.
Ehy Wotso, can you do a video about how Shrek never borning led to the alternate reality we see in the fourth movie? I mean, it'd be interesting to find an explanation as to why Puss became fat or as to why the Muffin Man now organizes gladiator fights, as well as answering questions like where did characters like the Fairy Godmother and Lord Farquaad go? My personal theory is that it's not just the disappearance of Shrek that led to that future, but also the fact that Rumpelstiltskin retains his memories, inclining him to hate all the ogres or to ruin Shrek's old friends' lifes somehow. But I'd like to hear your ideas in a video too.
If the breastplate was made of iron this could have played a role in her destruction..."Cold iron" is historically believed to repel, contain, or harm ghosts, fairies, witches, and other malevolent supernatural creatures
I believe that harold's breastplate was made of or had iron in it, which harms or deteriorates fae/faeries, so possibly it could have deteriorated the magic that got through to harold, while reflecting magic back at the faerie godmother due to magic containing plenty of light
as a kid I thought the armor was just acting like a mirror because cartoon logic. Now I know that steel actually rejects magic so it reflected back to her
Harold's armor-plate was anti magic and therefor acted as a layer of protection from the spell, but only his torso was covered so he still got some of it. Fairy-godmother had no protection at all and got a full blast of it
I always thought Harold’s breastplate was silver since it seemed more decorative. Since sliver has a long associated history of repelling curses and the like.
well in a way its like a mirror reflecting it which caused it to backfire. Plus as its wraped around than flat or used in a curved way to reflect it back can be a reason some of the magic touched him while the rest rebounded back at her as it hit the middle of the breastplate
Acts of True Love; in fairy tale context. Is capable of breaking curses, changing spells, and protecting people from greater acts of malice or harm. Harold demonstrates a true act of love for his daughter and her husband by leaping in the way of the blast. But in tandem; the spell that he had applied to him years ago was undone. My belief that Fairy Godmother’s attempt to destroy the Happily Ever After was indeed an attempt to kill Shrek. It’s the tale that most ogres in fairy tales always have. Their demise by the “hero”. Thinking in logic of fairy tale stories and how Fairy Godmother emphasizes “ogres don’t have happily ever afters”. She was trying to kill Shrek to make her words become reality. To take away his happily ever after. But Harold kept in the way. Harold’s spell that kept him a human is removed. But his love for Vivian remains unchanged. While Fairy Godmother’s spell reversed. Destroying her by returning her the way she was introduced. Bursting into bubbles.
In old fairytale lore, the fae creatures were weak to silver to the point it burns them. Harold’s breastplate looks to be silver. It’s entirely possible that if she was trying to revert Shrek’s appearance that by the spell touching the silver, it could alter it into an anti-fairy blast. Also, the real question is, why isn’t Charming fairy looking or anything? He’s still technically half fairy.
Shrek is magic, godmother is magic, harolds human form is magic, but the frog is natural, she used an anti magic force that would kill an ogre, but its killed herolds human form and herself since both was magic, and harold can live as a frog since that is not magical.
Idk why but I’ve always wondered who Charming’s father is and why isn’t he fair like? I’m guessing that there’s a possibility that he’s adopted but I’m not sure
there's a theory that charming is actually harold and lillian's son and harold gave him away the day he was born to the fairy godmother as that was the prize for the happily ever after potion
I'm gonna offer my opinion...I use to think when the Fairy Godmother fired the spell it was to undo the happily ever after she did say "I told you Ogres don't live Happily ever after!", it could be possible that when she fired the spell she intended for the spell to undo whatever connection Fiona had with Shrek and when Harold got in the way, the connection for his happily ever after was undone, changing him back to a frog but when the spell fired back...what was there to work with? Nothing. So she was hit with raw energy, the energy looks like lightening, maybe if the spell had no effect it's raw power fried the fairy Godmother like a marshmallow and killed her or made her body disappear. Or maybe she had her happily ever after and all she needed to maintain it was her body...eliminate that, her happy ever after goes too. Maybe if the spell hit Shrek it would have changed his feelings for Fiona but the spell was directed at both Fiona and Shrek maybe it would have removed the love the two had for each other...thus no happy ever after and Harold well we saw what happened he needed his human body for his happy ever after but by that point Lillian knew him and loved him no matter his looks(Besides it's likely Lillian by this point in her life had her happily ever after so the spell didn't hit her thus no effect to stop her loving Harold) I'm probably wrong...I am about most things.
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Wotso Videos I really want see a video about dr faciler
Do The Full Backstory of Gru from Despicable Me.
Do a video on Why Candace is obsess with Busting Phineas and Ferb.
Was Prince Charming adopted?
Who is Phineas and Candace’s father?
I always assumed, like Harold, Fairy Godmother also turned back into what she was originally/her method of appearing in the first place: Tears of a princess.
I thought that as well. It wasn't a spell to kill someone - it was a spell to revert someone to their original form. The Fairy Godmother thought that if Shrek would go back to his original form and Fiona didn't, Fiona wouldn't love him anymore. Harold selflessly jumped in front because he thought it was a killing spell, but he probably would've done it anyway even if he knew so that his daughter would get a choice.
xTwilightWolvesx That doesn’t add up. She would have transformed like normal if she didn’t kiss him before midnight. Therefore goving her no reason not to want to be with him, or at least because he’s a Ogre. She’s a evil, terrible, homophobic woman. However she’s not stupid. I don’t think that was her reasoning behind it. I think she just wanted a chance to ruin his happily ever after. She doesn’t understand the fact he likes his ogre life style. She thinks he wants for him and Fiona a human lifestyle. All she knows is her luxurious style she can’t comprehend any but it.
Same here.
Oh heck you're right
Ravenclaw Fairy oh heck. OH HECK. YOUVE CONNECTED THE DOTS
You know the *saddest* past (according to TV Tropes):
It is subtly implied that the Fairy Godmother was once the all-loving well-meaning granter of wishes and happiness that she is marketed to be. But many years of popularity and power along with the commercialization and mass production of her "product" have changed her into a remorseless manipulator.
She is fairy from cindirella
I have the idea that she turned into what she was through heartbreak and that's why charming dad isnt around and why shes such an over protective mother and why she doesnt believe in true love
That’s probably the case. There’s a giant billboard of her when Shrek and Fiona pass by it and she owns this frigging huge factory of potions and workers. She’s really famous! Pride can be the downfall of a lot of people, corrupting them internally and only resulting the thirst for more of how they get it.
Capitalism is to blame
Very strong possibility, fairy godmother didn't need to take the throne to be a powerful person, she's a FAIRY GODMOTHER who is a god in her own right and don't actually need a regular human throne to rule, people loved and admired her
The spell was to take away the "happily ever after."
The armor reflected back, but still managed to hit him somehow, thus reverting him back to a frog.
videohistory722 well it’s like shielding a dragon’s fire breath, sure you don’t get scorched, but the shield will heat up a lot and burn you
No, because in the movie, it is revealed that Harold was originally a frog, but the FGM gave him his wish and turned him into a human.
@@iplayRowblawks Exactly. That's why it's taking away the happily ever after, because that was their deal.
So just to recap when Harold reflected FGM's magic it killed her and then as a result reverted him back to a frog, correct?
I think because she died her powera of having him human vaniahed so he became frog again
I think the reason she became bubbles, is that the first time we meet the Fairy Godmother is in Cinderella.
Cinderella is cleaning the floor, singing, wishing everything was better. Bubbles galore! Maybe the FG was created in that moment. Maybe that's her origin story! So when she died, she returned to bubbles.
That makes so much sense :O
Whiskey Williams OMG EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!!
Wow. Never thought about it like that
@@marisapink9 oh yea
Fairy Godmother does also have a bubble motif, she shows up with a swarm of them, and there’s a large amount of bubbles in the spell factory. Maybe the bolt would revert magical transformation, turning Harold back into a frog and turning her back into bubbles.
Simple answer: True love by Fairy Tale Law breaks and/or reverses acts of malicious intent. So when Harold took the hit from Fairy Godmother it was out of True Love though he absorbed part of the spell the magic couldn't completely harm him, just the part of him that was given in malice by Fairy Godmother while she on the other hand was killed because she had malice in her heart
By the end of the movie Harold saw that Shrek and Fiona really did love each other and decided to save Shrek as an act of true love for his daughter which could be why the spell only partially affected him. The rest of the spell then reflected back to the malicious intent origin, the fairy godmother, and destroyed her.
Aww. I like that.
Oh, that’s actually really smart. I’ll take it!
@@DragonGrace4 I was in awe when I saw that.
"She can't interact with anything shining, shimmering, and splendid." I see what you did there. 😏
Yup Little mermaid reference
Aladdin reference whole new world "I can show you the world , shinning, shimmering, splendid, now tell me princess when did you last let your heart decide. " (Preech)
@@fantasticnerd7978 Close but its Aladdin actually
Oh yeah your right my bad
@@fantasticnerd7978 Hey its fine no worrys hope you have a good 2020
The reason Harold didn’t die in this movie is because the armor acted as a layer of protection from the spell
But didn't the king die in later movies. Maybe the magic kill him but slowly?
Gem Rock I was referring to him not dying in this movie
@@dreamshade8123 I was meaning maybe the armor did save him but the spell still slowly took his life later on. So I agree with you on the armor did save him.
Maybe the armour was iron because it’s a common belief in magic that magic doesn’t work on iron
@@klenstdp1737 there was probably a side effect that made him a frog then when he was a frog he was really really REALLY old so that's probably why he died
She can make peoples dreams come true but she can't make her own dream come true.
IRONIC.
@Mert Yilmaz In all fairness, her son was an idiot.
Raven of the night yes and that’s why she flips out when someone attempts to make their own dream come true , so she turns their dreams into nightmares because she’s insecure and selfish due to the fact that most of her dreams have became nightmares , sad asf 😴
Is there a way to learn this power?
@@chaneldoll4803 Sounds like Pitch Black from Rise of the Guardians.
Whenever I think of Shrek 2, Funkytown plays in my head
I thought I was alone
It happens to You guys to?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
nice
SAME
SAME! I thought I was the only one!!
I think it's also worth noting how Fairy Godmother reacts when she gets hit with her own spell. She panics.
Followed by her frantically checking her body, not for wounds, but to see if she still exists.
And there is a brief moment where she thinks the spell was a dud, before she disappears from existence
He was a frog and he fell in love with the queen when she was younger so the fairy godmother made a deal to make him a human as well as making her fall in love. The deal was he'd owe her something in return, that of which being the marriage of their children willingly or unwillingly. He broke the deal by not giving Fiona the love potion and when he jumped in the way the lightning bolt only reversed her spell on him
Yeah very true!
Before this, I assumed the zap was to make whoever turn into their original state. So if the fairy-god mother’s origin is bubbles somehow than okay? The armor was in short a shield.
Musically Disney AMV's i always thought the same. But instead, I think when it hit her, she was already in her original state so instead she vanished into nothing.
Like the spell is telling her body turn back into what you were before, but because she was nothing else other than a fairy before, she turned into nothing.
B E hmm fair enough. The bubble part is a good video subject on its own.
I never thought of that but also how when one cries it brings the fairy so maybe since the was up in the air it turned into bubbles
Yep
@@WTKB82 no it took away there happily ever after and she was the happily ever after therefore
See everyone this is why Steel is SUPER EFFECTIVE against Fairy type.
Ribotto Studios That’s very true actually
That sounded like a Pokemon reference to me! 😂
thank you for that laugh
That reminds me of one of my favorite parts of any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. Masquerade. The witch Granny Weatherwax stops a steel sword swinging at her with her bare hand, when everyone KNOWS that witches cannot bewitch steel. She explains that she COULD, but to do so, would go against the laws of magic that everybody knows(believes) and that would make her a Black witch and evil. But it couldn't be helped, because she just didn't have time to bleed right then. Near the end of the book, she sets out a needle, thread and bandages, looks down at her hand and says, "Ok. I reckon I have time now." And she is described as having a heavy bandage on her hand after that. Really good book in an even greater series. I recommend them to everyone.
Well, it is a more useful variant of the better fae killer: Cold Iron.
I know this is a very far fetched theory but I’ve had it on my mind since I’ve been a kid.
I believe the magic that the Fairy Godmother used in this epic confrontation was a spell that creates the target’s biggest fear or undo their happily ever after. Throughout the film, Harold’s biggest fear was turning back into a frog which the fairy godmother kept using against him throughout movie. As revealed by the film, Harold’s happily ever after was being turned into a human so either one of the two explanations from this theory are valid. The fairy godmother’s final line before disappearing is “Ogres don’t live happily ever after!” insinuating that whatever the spell was would undo Shrek’s happily ever after. When the fairy godmother disintegrates into the air, we can theorize that the fairy godmother’s biggest fear was to disappear from the land because as Isaac explained in his video, the fairy godmother always found ways to put herself first and she would eliminate people that would be a threat to her. In a sense, her existence and successful life as the fairy godmother was her happily ever after. Shrek would most likely have not disappeared like the fairy godmother if the spell would have come into contact with him but as shown in the film, Shrek’s biggest fear was to lose Fiona forever. It would be understandable as well to say that Shrek’s happily ever after was to have met and marry his soul mate Fiona. Fairy godmother’s intentions weren’t necessarily to end Shrek’s life but instead to take away what he most cared about which is what both Harold and the fairy godmother lost by the spell.
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that's a very intesting theory
Its reasonable also the long comments are common in theories
This can be a good theory. Hmm, fear tactics.
I like this idea
That’s what I always thought, that she wanted to take away his happily ever after. The theory, in my opinion, is supported by her last words “I told you, ogres don’t live happily ever after!”
I always assumed the spell was made to undo a "Happily ever after", Harold's armor reflected *MOST* of the attack, but not all of it, rendering him a frog (which he was before given he was the frog prince) and it undoed her happy ending by... well... ending her.
I don't think that's quite it. Think about it for a minute: she was originally directing her magic at Shrek; if her intent was to use it to take away his "happily ever after", then she would've likely opted to try to get him to drink a potion or something instead. She's manipulative, and is mostly prone to putting her magic into potions to achieve the desired effect, and will break someone mentally if she's able to do so; but before she fires her magical blast, she is clearly quite enraged with Shrek, enough so that her prejudice towards ogres would cause her to want to erase him from existence. Having said that, she was unable to break their bond with her magic, and was furious about this, enough so to want Shrek dead; she's also clearly upset that Fiona was turned into an ogre (again, she's clearly prejudiced against their kind), and I don't think she was thinking clearly, being blinded by rage. This would cause her to become unhinged enough to want to kill Shrek; so when Harold took the blast instead, why did it bounce off his armor, leaving him as a frog? The answer is actually very simple: she's a fairy, and his breastplate is made of steel, of which fairy magic is ineffective against. Although he was still affected by the blast, his breastplate shielded him enough to survive the attack, even if he was reverted back to his original form afterwards.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 The way you worded it, she sounds like an even more crappy version of Maleficent than the one Disney did in the "Remake". As for My assumption, I thought it up when i first saw the movie as a kid, so there are bound to be more flaws than one of GT's old theories.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 I read somewhere in the comments that what she wanted to do with Shrek was return him back to his previous state, and by that means he becoming the mere ogre he was at the very beginning of the first movie, forgetting about Fiona, Donkey, everyone and everything he’s ever achieved when he stepped outside of his swamp, effectively putting him back to where he belongs to the story, as the ogre, and not the hero who rescued the princess.
So the spell very much would revert everything and everyone it touches into its previous state of their stories in order to undo the Happily Ever Afters, so when it hit Harold, he reverted back into a talking frog (maybe keeping his memories because the armor softened the blow) and when she got hit, she may’ve ended up vanishing as she had nothing to go back to, or she became tears and bubbles as that may’ve counted as her “previous state” before she got her happy ending (if she had one at all really)
@@dustymcwari4468 That's an interesting theory, truthfully. It could very well have been the effect she intended it to have, but it's hard to say for certain, I think. Having said that, I think both interpretations are valid in their own rights; I was just giving my take on the whole thing. Having said that, it is curious as to why she was turned into bubbles when she was hit by her magic blast, but I think your interpretation explains why Harold was turned into a frog by her magic
@@matthewkuscienko4616 yeah, they’re all theories, and I’m not 100% sure about the effect on the Fairy Godmother, that’s the one I wonder a lot, her spells can only do good things, so she may have to think outside the box in order to make that light magic do her evil intends, as she showed by turning Pinocho into a real boy in order to stop him from attacking, rather than killing him downright, and in a way, returning Shrek back to his old ogre self isn’t really a bad thing, but why did she turn to bubbles? Is it like Tinkerbell where fairies are born from some specific emotion? Except here from princess tears instead of baby laughter
"All magic comes at a price, dearie" - Rumpelstiltskin
Damian Fry I read that in his voice and even did the little giggle 😂😂
I could actually... HEAR this quote🤔😕
@@jackiesanchez6851 same
I think Harold wasn’t killed by the magic blast was because his armor was IRON. It’s a common weakness for fairy creatures in folklore (Maleficent, the Leprechaun movie series, etc), and could be why her spell was reflected; Iron REPELS fairy magic. I still think the spell was meant to return Shrek to his original form, as it turned Harold into a frog, but since Fairy Godmother was already in her original form, she became formless.
I think what happened is that his breastplate was made of iron. All creatures of the fey can't affect iron easily or not at all. She's a powerful fairy so some of the magic must have rubbed off on harold but most rebounded to fairy godmother
yeah after all iron burns faries (or at least it does in meleificent)
@@saklee1777 and gargoyles, dnd, pathfinder, most RPGs, mythologies, etc.
@@saklee1777 i just realised this is why steel is super effective against fairy types in pokemon.
@@robertharris6092 poison is the same way. Fey can be poisoned easily with certain plants. Ironically enough they manipulate alot of them
i was just thinking the same thing. maybe it was an alloy, so it didn't reflect 100% of the spell? or a combination of that and the power behind it.
My theory on this; the spell turns the recepient into what they fear most. Herald feared his true identity being shown. Fairy godmother feared losing her power/ control, she feared being erased.
When the spell was only used in a weaker form on Pinocchio it kind of just acted as though an on and off switch to his curse.
Or my other theory is that it shows the truest form of one's beauty; Herald is most comfortable and most like himself when he is in his original form (when he felt true love for the strongest time in his life; for the fact that he was willing to change his physical form to be with the one he loved). Where as fairy godmother had no true inner beauty. This would explain how she dissipated into nothing, and how pinnochio was shown in his most purest form as a real boy.
I like this theory
That’s interesting.
Great idea, Fairy Godmother from Shrek was a true villain. I always had the theory that Merryweather and Maleficent had a personal grudge against each other before the Sleeping Beauty movie.
Various metals, usually iron and silver, have been said to work against fairies and their magic. That's likely what happened. The breast plate was the specific metal that reflects magic.
Copper or more specifically copper enchanted by the sea also works
Harold's breastplate was likely silver-plated iron, since as king and attending a royal ball, he would be expected to wear his nicest/most expensive armor.
Also it was a mirrored surface, in many mythologies including Greek, Chinese and Celtic mirrors have certain properties, including reflecting hostile magic. A great example is when Perseus kills medusa using a mirrored shield. The Scots-Irish practice of skrying (mirror magic) is another example. So if you have silver (very potent metal) possibly amalgamated with cinnabar or coredeorite to make it plate better (mercury ore) with iron (which is classically used against seally and unseally faerie folk) then you have a powerful antimagic device. Harold may well have known that and that's why he wore actual armor to what was essentially a royal ball. He might have been expecting trouble with the fairy godmother, particularly after we learn that he didn't give Fiona the tea with the love potion. He would have known that would cause trouble, even if nothing else did, and planned accordingly.
*Theory*
The spell makes the person go out of existence BUT the spell has to peel back the layers of other spells and potions.
It only hit Harold for like half a second and that took the human spell off of him almost instantly. But then it got reflected back, so the spell couldn’t take full effect.
Then when the spell hits fairy godmother it takes a second to work since the spell is weaker from when it Harold and since fairy godmother doesn’t have any spells on her self.
So if the spell did hit Shrek it would turn him into a ogre then into bubble.
I always remembered Fairy Godmother saying "Ogres don't live happily ever after!" before casting her final spell. I had a feeling her spell was intended to kill Shrek because that would take away Fiona's happily ever after so it would make sense why Harold turned into a frog since being a human was his. I never understood why the backfire had killed her instead but I think it erased the possibility of her living happily ever after with her business and having her son become the new king of Far, Far Away.
She was also a loving mother to Charming, so part of her happy ending may have something to do with wanting to help her son with whatever she can so he can triumph (she also being benefitted by that of course), so what can you do in order to prevent that happy ending? Get rid of the mother so the son is left all alone on his own! >:3
I'd always just assumed that fairy godmother just had some sort of magical contract in place so that If the king ever crossed her he'd be returned to his frog form
I think that the fact that Harold acted out of true love, to protect his daughter and her husband, also acted as a layer of protection in addition to the breastplate, allowing him to survive.
Same.
If you ask me, I think there's a fine line between spells that are being cast and potions that are taken as the magic they both possess comes from two different sources.
For potions like the HEA Shrek had taken the power that kept the spell in play even after FGM was beaten came from the ingredients that were used to make it as they held the magical properties and NOT the caster.
Spells on the other hand are used by individuals skilled in magic like FGM and are held in place by their casters own power.
It's also worth noting that across multiple forms of media like games, books and movies with stories that feature magic have often stated that powerful spells that are cast on an individual can only be lifted if either the caster removes it themselves or if they are killed.
That means that when FGM's spell was reflected back at her by Harold's armor and was killed, Harold's HEA was undone because she never gave him a potion, she did it herself and Shrek's was still in play because he used the power of a potion that was MADE by FGM and not CASTED on him BY her own power.
But these are my opinions on this theory based on what I've seen across other forms of fantasy media that have magic.
She aimed to get rid of the magic Shrek used from HER storage but Harold got in the way causing the zap to attack him and the godmother. His magic from HER wore off making him into his true form, a frog. It also zapped her and I’m guessing since she is all magical it took away all of her magic and spells, meaning her full form, and she disappeared.
It's possible. Because since she is a fairy, her attempt to get rid of the magic Shrek used became her doom.
"I mean she'll damage them emotionally all day but never kill anyone."
I relate to that so well...
Edit: thank you for all the likes, Wow!
It's like he's describing my family 😐
Probably fairy law idk
@@taniajennifer4717 mine too sister
Why does everyone have bad families?
At least some villain has some morality other than just being evil and murderous
I think it’s more of a “undo magic” spell. Meaning, she was trying to take whatever magic is holding someone together. I.e. how it made Pinocchio into a real boy instead of a magical wooden puppet. Taking the magic out of shrek of both human form and ogre form since both require magic thus making him nothing. Instead, it took the magic out the King which turns him back into a frog, and taking all the magic out of herself which turns her into bubbles. At least that’s my guess.
My theory is that the blast wasnt aimed at shrek alone. It was shrek and fiona. The spell wasnt yo destroy him but take away their happily ever after. This could have a multitude of effects on their relationship. The spell hit harold instead, setting him back to the beginning of his story, and when it bounced back on fairy god mother, she was so self absorbed, that to take away her own happily ever after, she had to disapear
So glad to see you again Issac! You know I recently came up with a few new Little Mermaid theories
Why was Ariel so fascinated by the human world?
How Ariel met Flounder and Scuttle
Where did Ursula learn her magic?
Eric’s full story-who were and what happened to Eric’s parents and how he fell in love with Ariel
My theory is that she was using a spell to take away his "magic" (therefore, turning him back into an ogre), but as she (like any fairy) is magic personified, she just disappeared. Because a fairy without magic is nothing
As for my take on how King Harold's breastplate reflected Fairy GodMother's spell, we're gonna have to go to Pokemon for this one. Fairies are said to be allergic to iron because it's a manmade product
Iron burns fairies
Not allergic to it
Well yeah but same idea nonetheless
@@davideostudio2664 Fairies being weak to iron stretches back WAAAY before Pokemon, haha. That trait is as old as the myths behind fairies themselves, and shows up in D&D, even.
thats not just a Pokemon thing but a thing u find in fantasy and mythology
luna Fairywolf Guys, I know that fairies being weak to iron came from the original myths and not just Pokémon. I was just using Pokémon as a reference
Last spell put on Harold was love potion. He drank it instead of Fiona. :) I rather think that the bubbles was the Godmother's true form as frog was true form of Harold's. My theory is that the wand returns an object to a default form when it backfires. If the spell was casted consciously, it takes whatever form the caster demands.
Who loves Shrek 2 as the best, funniest and emotional movie of all the movies ? 💛
Shrek4 showed independence in women, I mean look at what Fiona did. She made her own path in life, without Shrek. She was tired of waiting, & became independent👏😊
Meeee
@@rielly02 yeah 2 and 4 are the best 🙌
I feel like 1 was more emotional maybe haha and funnier
Rielly fiona was always a strong woman
I mean with that hair...idk she kinda had it coming...
Notice it looks very similar to Jimmy Neutrons hair style
Oliver Renberg and Syndrome
😂😂
*before watching*
Harold was turned back into his original form. A frog. Stands to reason she was turned back into her original form. Tear drops. When connected with her cards calling her through tear drops it makes perfect sense.
I always thought that the reason that Harold turned back into a frog wasn't necessarily because of the spell hitting him and reflecting off, but because it hit the fairy godmother erasing her and breaking a contract she had with Harold, such as he'd remain in his human form as long as the fairy godmother was still alive... Just a thought
If this theory is true, it might also explain why Harold is in such dire straits by the events of Shrek the Third; he wasn't just old, he was suffering lingering effects from Fairy Godmother's curse.
My answer for this, while sappy 😅, is the only thing that has constantly been the thing stronger than magic : true love. If the fairy godmother's spell was meant to kill Shrek then maybe it did momentarily work on king Harold but what if he was brought back by doing something as selfless as taking a hit out of love for his daughter. It might not be too far out there since true Love's kiss was enough to work in the 4th film after time had just run out for Shrek.
"Love" as magic seems to be something very popular in other franchises too. I could see this being probable.
When the fairy god mother died Harold’s spell that made him human must have disappeared and turned him back into a frog
The spell takes away the happily ever after, there are no stories where the fairy godmother has a happily ever after. So without a happily ever after, she ceased to exist.
Omg, a video on one of the most iconic villains ever that I among many other people majorly love and stan?!
Yaaaasssssss!
Silver, the whole reason even part of spell was reflected was that the breast plate the king is wearing is made of or coated in silver. In royal events any armor worn by anyone other then guards is purely ceremonial, and thus traditionally made from or coated in silver and sometimes accented in gold. Silver, as far as magic and fairy tales go, is a magical conduit and if polished to a mirror shine it is capable of absorbing and redirecting spells back at the castor. Depending on the fairy tale, the person holding or in contact with the silver is still effected by the spell, though the effect is reduced as most the spell is absorbed then reflected back. This is different from cold iron (better known as cast iron), where magic is completely absorbed and absolutely nothing happens to anyone, ore pure gold where the magic is absorbed and then can be redirected by the wielder's will. It is evident that the creators of Shrek know the traditional magical properties of metals in fair tales, otherwise there would be nothing to stop a witch from just using magic to remove the shackles in the first movie when all the fairy tale creatures are rounded up, shackles are traditionally made by cast and not forged and tempered like swords and armor.
@Wotso_Videos Hearing your theory about Fairy Godmother, I think the spell she was using was nullify all enchantments/spells and revert them back to their original form. Harold was reverted back as a frog while Fairy Godmother may have suffer a much crueler fate. With that spell, it became her undoing and revert back to almost nothing. The breastplate was a conductor/mirror as it rebound back to Fairy Godmother. But as all sentient beings exist, they have both light and dark side. Just like a coin, it's a part of each other.
KuroYuugo i think that too.
Here's my interpretation.
She said "I'm going to take away your happily ever after!" and shoots her magic at Shrek.
The king Defects is and it hits her, killing her.
Let's take a closer look at this.
She wanted to take away Shrek's happily ever after, which was him marrying and living with Fiona, as seen in the last movie, but the king jumps in the way, so his happily ever after (him being turned into a human) was undone. The chestplate (which probably deflected the magic due to fairies being weak to iron) sends the magic back to fairy godmother, but she hadn't reached her happily ever after. She would have reached it if charming and Fiona had married, so the spell made sure she could never get her happily ever after, it killed her
This is actually a better interpretation.
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Maybe someone expressing disbelief in fairies did it..
-- A baby laughed at bubbles and thus the fairy came to be; Baby grows up and stops believing. The moment the baby says that aloud that fairy dies.
Was that from Return to Neverland where Tinkerbell almost died when Jane (i think that's her name, she's Wendy Darling's daughter) stops believing???
I must admit I did laugh when you said 'shining shimmering splendid.' Well done, Isaac :).
I think she isn't immune to her powers which is why she has to manipulate others around her. She cant use her magic on herself, and we see why at the end. To everyone else, it either gives them a happily ever after or takes it away - and to the fairy godmother, it just kills her.
Fairy God Mother is the best Shrek villain ever ! So sad she never came back after Shrek 2
Just a very short cameo with her picture displayed on Prince Charming's vanity
@@stylishemerald3181 don't forget she made an appearance in the forever after credits
@@ButtersMiiCharacter she did?
@@thogdog8917 yeah
she’s one of the reasons why i like shrek 2 so much
I never really thought about this before but it did just hit me that Harold was based off the Princess and the Frog fairy tale. I think that Fairy Godmother was the one who granted the Frog the power to turn into a prince when kissed. I think she used a spell that undoes happily ever afters as when she had launched the spell she had said "I told you that Ogres dont live happily ever after" therefore when Harold got hit. It undid his own spell but when it bounced back and hit fairy godmother. I think the spell didnt know what to do and I think thats why Fairy Godmother was so confused on what was going to happen to her. Then the spell took affect when it realized her own life was her happiness and Poofed her or Her wand grants you your deepest wish or erases it. As we do see that Pinocio(cant spell) gets hit with it and becomes a real boy and then later gets hit again and becomes a puppet again. It might be just that.
Harold's deepest desire was to be loved and human and the wand took away his human form again.
The wand granted Pinnocio his deepest desire to become Human and it granted that and then it took it away.
Fairy Godmother realized that Shrek's deepest desire was to be with Fiona and she tried to take that away from him but instead. Fairy Godmother's deepest desire was herself. She never even really seemed to care about Prince Charming through the entire movie. She seemed more interested in having the Kingdom to herself once Charming became king and thus when her wand magic hit her. It took away her deepest desire. Herself. And reduced her to nothing but bubbles.
Granted the Wand can do more but that makes the most sense
Wonder why Dulock turned out so bad after Farquad
I mean, without a Lord the castle staff was unemployed and would have left to find more work. No guards or government means no one to protect the common folk who would have then packed up and left. Then with the city abandoned everything just runs down and goes to crap.
Eh, Dulock ended up doing alright. In my head-canon, after Farquad got eaten, the Kingdom was now under the management of lord "Isspant". Under Isspant's rule, he decided to increase Dulock's lucrative worth and spending power, by buying-up various properties and housing them under the Dulock brand. It began with their acquisition of "Wonder" - a publishing company known for their long history of children's visual pamphlets involving larger than life, super-powered beings, acting as Heroes or Villains. Isspant parlayed that acquisition into a profit-machine by adapting those stories into a series of stage-plays, starring well-known actors in the Heroic Titular Roles and creating a kind of "universe" in which all the stories tied into each other...Their quality dipped after a while, but the grand finale involving a Purple-Colored Ogre wanting to destroy the universe with a magic glove was well-received.
Dulock only became stronger under Isspant's rule, when he acquired another property, "Look-This Film" a play-production studio, founded by a retiring Lord Georg Lookthis - and with it, gained control of its popular property - a series of stories which involves magical sword-wielding wizards fighting against an evil empire in outer-space. They produced a new trilogy of plays to continue the initial story where Georg left-off...that so far have not been well-received.
As for now, Dulock is still incredibly powerful despite their various setbacks, to the point where they will be soon attempting to corner the market on the entertainment industry and create a complete monopoly. Unfortunately for them, their monopoly will become so large, that the lack of competition will cause the industry itself to collapse upon itself.
@@GanonGhidorah I think I see what you did there...
The chest plate if i know my mid evil garments, was most likely made of iron and that's why it deflected the magic as well as took the hit from it
I think it’s like Harry Potter
With Harolds fatherly love and diving in front of Fiona, the curse rebounded on Fairy Godmother - destroying her, but a part of the curse must have latched itself onto Harold
I love the idea that Fairy Godmother dosent believe in true love. Because ofcourse she would, if she gives people their happy endings and make people fall in love "all the time" then it's easy to see how she would begin to believe that no one can truly love anyone without the interference of magic.
I always thought it was an “unhappily ever after” spell or an “undo” spell
Just think: Fiona is part frog cursed into being an ogre. That gene could explain some stuff about her😂
I think that when he jumped to save shrek and Fiona if you remember earlier how fairy god mother said if he didn’t keep his promise to her the spell she put on him is null and void meaning when he got hit in the armour the spell breaks making him turn back into a frog
One fan theory that I heard was that Fairy Godmother was the one who put the Ogre curse on Fiona in the first place
i was thinking that the fairy godmother’s spell she was aiming at shrek and fiona was just to undo the happily ever after potion. and the reason she turned into bubbles is that she is originally a bunch of bubbles that were hit with magic at one point and she turned into a fairy. or maybe it was cause harold’s breastplate was made of iron. and iron burns and could probably kill faries. and with how powerful she was she was still able to hit harold with the spell but it also reflected off his breastplate too.
Another possibility I see is that Harold's breastplate was partially made from iron, which is a direct counter to any fey creatures.
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Hey Wotso, do you think Sofia the First can continue from where it left off? I think there should be another crossover where Sofia, being accompanied by Cedric, goes to the kingdom of Avalor to learn more about her amulet. And she would have everything from the last time we saw her, from her magical capabilities to her full fledged guardian status. That would be super interesting and we can finally get more info on the amulet other than it might be an ancient artifact.
When you think about it, she was targeting Shrek because Prince Charming is her son. If the Fairy Godmother's son was married to Fiona, she would be tied into the royal bloodline.
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I thought that the spell was exactly what she told Harold that she'd do: take away his happily ever after. Fairy godmother intended to take away shreks happily ever after (maybe that would make him an ogre maybe it would have destroyed him 🤷🏽♀️) but that's why Harold turns back into a frog, and when it hits fairy godmother it takes away hers i.e. the image she's built of herself and her "all powerfulness" but the idea that it undoes the spell make so much more sense... And also I feel really really dumb bc I literally never understood that Harold WAS the frog Prince. And all the imagery of frog like things in the background of the bedroom... I know I watch Shrek when I was a little kid but still 😂🤦🏽♀️ how did I never get that lol
Faeries are weakto/poisoned by cast iron, it only makes sense that Harold's iron armor destabilized her sepell.
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The spell was obviously a dispelling charm. Thats why he became frog and the armor didnt protect anything just deflected it back and as a being of pure magic she disintegated.
Why cant prince charming use magic like his mom ? Was she even born a fairy or made into one ...🧐
Simple. It was an anti-magic blast. Harold, being a mostly-normal frog who was shielded, was turned back to a frog but kept his ability to talk. FG, being a purely magical being, was completely destroyed.
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The armor was basically a bulletproof vest hence, when hit at it doesn’t puncture but the area where it was hit is still affected in a more minimalized way.
Ehy Wotso, can you do a video about how Shrek never borning led to the alternate reality we see in the fourth movie?
I mean, it'd be interesting to find an explanation as to why Puss became fat or as to why the Muffin Man now organizes gladiator fights, as well as answering questions like where did characters like the Fairy Godmother and Lord Farquaad go?
My personal theory is that it's not just the disappearance of Shrek that led to that future, but also the fact that Rumpelstiltskin retains his memories, inclining him to hate all the ogres or to ruin Shrek's old friends' lifes somehow. But I'd like to hear your ideas in a video too.
If the breastplate was made of iron this could have played a role in her destruction..."Cold iron" is historically believed to repel, contain, or harm ghosts, fairies, witches, and other malevolent supernatural creatures
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I believe that harold's breastplate was made of or had iron in it, which harms or deteriorates fae/faeries, so possibly it could have deteriorated the magic that got through to harold, while reflecting magic back at the faerie godmother due to magic containing plenty of light
And he dies...wait frogs don’t live that long apparently
as a kid I thought the armor was just acting like a mirror because cartoon logic. Now I know that steel actually rejects magic so it reflected back to her
At one point I was thinking could Harold have been the frog prince before he kissed Lillian
Harold's armor-plate was anti magic and therefor acted as a layer of protection from the spell, but only his torso was covered so he still got some of it. Fairy-godmother had no protection at all and got a full blast of it
I always thought Harold’s breastplate was silver since it seemed more decorative. Since sliver has a long associated history of repelling curses and the like.
well in a way its like a mirror reflecting it which caused it to backfire. Plus as its wraped around than flat or used in a curved way to reflect it back can be a reason some of the magic touched him while the rest rebounded back at her as it hit the middle of the breastplate
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Acts of True Love; in fairy tale context. Is capable of breaking curses, changing spells, and protecting people from greater acts of malice or harm.
Harold demonstrates a true act of love for his daughter and her husband by leaping in the way of the blast. But in tandem; the spell that he had applied to him years ago was undone.
My belief that Fairy Godmother’s attempt to destroy the Happily Ever After was indeed an attempt to kill Shrek. It’s the tale that most ogres in fairy tales always have. Their demise by the “hero”.
Thinking in logic of fairy tale stories and how Fairy Godmother emphasizes “ogres don’t have happily ever afters”. She was trying to kill Shrek to make her words become reality. To take away his happily ever after. But Harold kept in the way.
Harold’s spell that kept him a human is removed. But his love for Vivian remains unchanged. While Fairy Godmother’s spell reversed. Destroying her by returning her the way she was introduced. Bursting into bubbles.
Maybe the spell turned you back into your true form.
In old fairytale lore, the fae creatures were weak to silver to the point it burns them. Harold’s breastplate looks to be silver. It’s entirely possible that if she was trying to revert Shrek’s appearance that by the spell touching the silver, it could alter it into an anti-fairy blast.
Also, the real question is, why isn’t Charming fairy looking or anything? He’s still technically half fairy.
Who else that also watched that masterpiece called “shrek the musical”❤️ think that they should do a “Shrek 2 the musical” on Broadway too?!
Shrek is magic, godmother is magic, harolds human form is magic, but the frog is natural, she used an anti magic force that would kill an ogre, but its killed herolds human form and herself since both was magic, and harold can live as a frog since that is not magical.
Idk why but I’ve always wondered who Charming’s father is and why isn’t he fair like? I’m guessing that there’s a possibility that he’s adopted but I’m not sure
there's a theory that charming is actually harold and lillian's son and harold gave him away the day he was born to the fairy godmother as that was the prize for the happily ever after potion
The Cryptic L i think they wouldnt do that also, i dont think they would want their daughter to marry her brother
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Tbh, we know the armor reflected the spell the spell, just turned Harold into a frog b/c that could have possibly been his origin.
I've wondered for years about who charming's father from Shrek
I'm gonna offer my opinion...I use to think when the Fairy Godmother fired the spell it was to undo the happily ever after she did say "I told you Ogres don't live Happily ever after!", it could be possible that when she fired the spell she intended for the spell to undo whatever connection Fiona had with Shrek and when Harold got in the way, the connection for his happily ever after was undone, changing him back to a frog but when the spell fired back...what was there to work with? Nothing. So she was hit with raw energy, the energy looks like lightening, maybe if the spell had no effect it's raw power fried the fairy Godmother like a marshmallow and killed her or made her body disappear. Or maybe she had her happily ever after and all she needed to maintain it was her body...eliminate that, her happy ever after goes too. Maybe if the spell hit Shrek it would have changed his feelings for Fiona but the spell was directed at both Fiona and Shrek maybe it would have removed the love the two had for each other...thus no happy ever after and Harold well we saw what happened he needed his human body for his happy ever after but by that point Lillian knew him and loved him no matter his looks(Besides it's likely Lillian by this point in her life had her happily ever after so the spell didn't hit her thus no effect to stop her loving Harold)
I'm probably wrong...I am about most things.
Do a video explaining what to happen to dragon prior to donkey and shrek transform into human and a horse.
This is nice that you talk about animated ones too not just disney
Who controlled more powerful magic?
Fairy Godmother or Rumplestilskin?
Rumpleforeskin lol