| “ | Bachelorette number two is a cape wearing girl from the land of fancy. Although she lives with seven other men, she's not easy. Just kiss her dead, frozen lips and find out what a live wire she is. Come on, give it up for Snow White! | ” |
—Magic Mirror introducing Lord Farquaad to Snow White | ||
Snow White is one of Princess Fiona's friends. She has a talent for singing, which she uses to charm animals and make them follow her orders. She is shown to be very proud and vain, even boasting how she won Fairest In The Land from the Wicked Queen.
Biography[]
Shrek[]
In the first film, Snow White cameos as one of the fairytale creatures to be banished to Shrek's swamp. She is shown sleeping inside her coffin and being handled by her seven dwarfs. Shrek, yells at the dwarfs, "Dead broad, off the table!" When Lord Farquaad is forced to choose a wife, Snow White, seen sleeping in the glass coffin, is his second choice. She later appears at the end of the film, attending Shrek and Fiona's wedding. When Fiona throws the bouquet, Snow, tries to get it, but is slapped by Cinderella. It eventually gets caught by Dragon.
Shrek 2[]
When the Fairy Godmother tells Shrek that ogres do not live happily ever after, she uses Snow White as an example. Snow White makes a physical appearance in the Shrek 2 video game, where the player has to rescue her from the Fairy Godmother during Shrek and Donkey's Hero Time. Her coffin can also be found in the mine section in the original PC version.
Shrek The Third[]
Snow White appears more prominently in Shrek the Third,. She becomes friends with Princess Fiona, Queen Lillian, Doris, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty before the events of the film. She is first seen attending King Harold's funeral with the other citizens. At Fiona's baby shower, she gives Fiona a dwarf as a gift to babysit the triplets, saying that she has six more at home. She escapes from Charming with Fiona, Queen Lillian, Doris and the other princesses. She's later betrayed by Rapunzel and imprisoned in a dungeon.
Fiona encourages her and the others to show some initiative, and they manage to escape and head towards the castle. She sings (a lá Adriana Caselotti, who voiced Snow White in the Disney film of 1937) to summon the animals of the forest and commands them to attack the guards. Her plan works and they enter the castle grounds, avoiding the knights guarding it. Snow White, along with the other princesses, Doris and Queen Lillian, arrives just in time to stop Prince Charming from killing Shrek. When the fairy-tale villains change their ways, she is seen talking to her stepmother, the Evil Queen. After Charming is defeated, she's seen in the background, talking to the other princesses, Doris ,Queen Lillian and the new King, Artie.
Swamp Talk[]
Snow White was a major subject in the episode "Team Cinderella or Team Snow White?". It was revealed that she had been seeing Prince Charming after his break-up with Cinderella. She even went as far to have woodland critters make her a wedding dress for Charming (even though he never proposed to her). Shrek endorses #teamsnow saying that Snow at least "keeps her shoes on".
Abilities[]
Snow White can summon animals and communicate with them through song, and sometimes does so unintentionally. When the princesses carry out their plan to rescue Shrek, she summons a horde of animals by singing, and orders them to attack the Evil Trees at the front gate.
Personality[]
Snow White, unlike her traditional characterization, is portrayed as being vain, sarcastic, and prudish. At Fiona's baby shower, Snow brags that her gift is the biggest because she loves Fiona the most. As the princesses escape through the sewers, she complains that their situation isn't "working" for her, causing Beauty to accuse her for always making things about herself. Snow dismisses Beauty as just being jealous of the fact she was voted the "Fairest in the Land". Rapunzel mentions the rumor that the voting was rigged, and so in turn Snow makes fun of her long hair for just being hair extensions.
After being jailed, Snow complains that they could have just stayed put and carried on with their normal routines (having tea parties and similarly stereotypical "princess" behavior), claiming to not care who's in charge. At first she is content just to wait to be rescued, as normal for fairytale princesses. She belittles Doris' looks, calls Puss and Donkey "circus freaks", and dismisses Lillian as just an "old lady". Despite this, she’s loyal to her friends and joins the other princesses in the effort to stop Prince Charming and save Shrek.
According to other Shrek the Third media, Snow White was voted "Fairest in the Land" three times in a row.
Physical appearance[]
Snow White has short black hair (blonde in the Shrek 2 video game) with a yellow ribbon, white skin, red nails, red lips and cheeks and light blue eyes, and is seen wearing the same dress throughout her movie appearances. An exception is that in the first Shrek movie, her dress has white sleeves, while in the third movie, her dress sports purple sleeves to match her skirt. She has a heart tattoo on her arm with Dopey's name inside it, which can be seen when she and Sleeping Beauty tear off their sleeves and skirts respectively.
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Trivia[]
- In a faux interview with Fiona in 2001, she was said to have been working with Fiona on a remake of Thelma & Louise.
- In promotional images and merchandise for Shrek The Third, Snow White has long hair, a tiara and a pink/rose dress.
- This was most likely done to avoid copyright issues with Disney as they were the ones who established the iconic puffy striped sleeves, short bob-cut hair and ribbon.
- In several spin-off media, she is seen with blonde hair. This is especially noticeable in Shrek: Hassle at the Castle, the Shrek 2 video games and her McFarlane Toys figure.
- This was likely done before the first Shrek film was screened to Disney lawyers, which had been done to make sure DreamWorks wasn't violating copyright and could get away with parody law.
- In the queue for Shrek 4-D, Snow White has a personal ad saying "Single Princess seeks prince or better. Seven little men can't be wrong! You've had the rest, now try the fairest of them all.".
- Her name was also spotted in Shrek and Fiona's scrapbook. She wrote "You're right Fiona, quality is better than quantity......" as her best wish to the newly weds, and gave them a "Questionable apple" as a gift.