The book.
The Shrek Forever After storybook is the book seen in the opening and ending to the film of the same name. The Narrator of this storybook is Rumpelstiltskin in the opening, and later Shrek in the end of the film.
Story[]
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a King and a Queen had a beautiful daughter named Fiona. But she was possessed by a terrible curse: by day, a lovely princess; by night, a hideous ogre. Only True Love’s Kiss could lift her curse, and so Fiona waited in a tower, guarded by a Dragon, until the day when her true love would arrive. But as the days turned into years, the King and Queen were forced to resort to more desperate measures.
No one would have guessed that an ogre named Shrek, whose roar was feared throughout the land, would save the beautiful princess Fiona. True Love's Kiss led to marriage and ogre babies. And the Kingdom of Far Far Away was finally at peace. And they lived happily ever after.
Trivia[]
- This book omits the events of Shrek, as it only tells part of the story. The details that it leaves out are:
- Shrek rescues Fiona from Lord Farquaad in order to give him his swamp back as a deed to liberate all fairy tale creatures back to their homes for their rights.
- Shrek falls in love with Fiona on the way to Duloc.
- Shrek interrupts the Duloc wedding and proclaims his love to Fiona.
- Lord Farquaad commands his guards to kill Shrek and have Fiona locked her back in the tower of the Dragon's Keep again after her transformation for the rest of her days.
- Dragon swallows Farquaad.
- Furthermore, Shrek likely never told Far Far Away the events about defeating the evil Prince Charming, Rapunzel and Fairy Godmother, and helping Arthur Pendragon become the king, and not being afraid as the aftermath of King Harold's death as a frog.
- However, an illustration featuring one of the evil trees, two witches, the cyclops, and Captain Hook reveals that the events of The Third movie did happen.
- Furthermore, Shrek likely never told Far Far Away the events about defeating the evil Prince Charming, Rapunzel and Fairy Godmother, and helping Arthur Pendragon become the king, and not being afraid as the aftermath of King Harold's death as a frog.
- Despite Shrek normally wearing shoes, he's depicted as being barefoot in the illustrations.
- Similarly to the opening of the first film, Rumpelstiltskin is shown ripping out several pages from the book in the opening of the fourth film. However, while Shrek only ripped out one page from the Storybook, Rumpel ripped out a total of 5 pages from the Shrek Forever After book.
- The iOS app of Shrek Forever After at the time used this as a cutscene at the start of the app. However, the following pages were cut:
- But as the days turned into years, the King and Queen were forced to resort to more desperate measures.
- True Love's Kiss led to marriage and ogre babies.
- And the Kingdom of Far Far Away was finally at peace.
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