Princess fiona

Fiona is the only daughter of King Harold and Queen Lillian, the rulers of the Far Far Away Kingdom. As a child, a curse was imposed on her, because of which her parents were forced to take her out of the kingdom and lock her in an isolated castle, guarded by a huge dragon. According to the canons, she had to be rescued from there by the Beautiful Prince.

In the first film, Lord Farquad sends an ogre named Shrek to save Fiona in order to marry her without risking his own life. At the first appearance, she is very upset that she was saved not by the Prince Charming, but by the ogre and the fact that the one who wants to marry her did not save her himself.

At first, she even refuses to go to Farquad Castle, but in the end she becomes more friendly with the Donkey and even gradually begins to feel feelings for Shrek, as they find out that they have more in common than they first thought, because both seem and are trying to be who are not. Fiona begins to doubt whether Lord Farquad is her true love. The donkey and the Dragon that guarded Fiona later also fall in love.

In the course of the film, the essence of the curse of Fiona is revealed: at night it turns into an ogre. It is likely that the God Fairy herself did this for the sake of fulfilling her plan to capture the throne, but nothing concrete is said about this in the films. Nevertheless, Fiona is in a hurry to marry Farquhad because of a curse, ready to sacrifice her feelings for Shrek for his destruction.

The donkey, checking Fiona at night, discovers her in the form of an ogre, and she tells him about the curse. Shrek, overhearing part of the conversation, when Fiona says: “Is it possible to love such a terrible monster?”, I thought that she was talking about him. Holding a grudge, Shrek hands Fion to Lord Farquhad, and Fiona agrees to go with him, as she is upset by Shrek's behavior, although she does not at all think she likes Farquad.

Later, when the Donkey tells Shrek that she was not talking about him, but “about someone else,” Shrek bursts into the wedding and stops her. Not having time to get a Farquad kiss before sunset, Fiona turns into an ogre. Shrek kisses her and she turns into an ogre forever. Expecting to become a man, Fiona is upset, but Shrek reassures her, saying that she is so beautiful, and the happy ogres get married. In the end, they have a big party, after which Fiona and Shrek go on their honeymoon, from which the second film begins.

In the second part, Fiona tries to convince Shrek to meet her parents, who are the king and queen in the Far Far Away, similar to Hollywood. The meeting does not turn out in the best way, since it is disgusting for King Harold to have an ogre as a son-in-law, and Shrek despises his father-in-law for locking his own daughter in a castle with a dragon.

The suddenly-revealed godmother who Fiona had not known before, when she sees her goddaughter, decides that she is still under the spell, but soon with horror discovers that Fiona married an ogre. She comes up with a plan to kill Shrek so that her son, Prince Chaming, can marry her.

It turns out that she had a plan, according to which Prince Chaming was to save Fiona and marry her. It was the king’s gratitude for the service she had once given him. Fiona temporarily becomes a man after Shrek drank the drug “Long and Happily,” which acts not only on the one who drank, but also on his true love, making them more beautiful. So that the effect will remain forever, Fiona must kiss her love before midnight.

The Fairy Godmother forces Harold to give her daughter a potion, after drinking which, she will fall in love with the first whom she kisses. Her plan fails, because Harold, seeing how much Fiona loves Shrek, and how disgusted to her by her snobbery Chaming, does not give her a potion. As a result, when Shrek wants to kiss Fiona, she stops him and says that she wants to live happily ever after with the huge man she married, after which they both return to their former state.

In part 3, Fiona has to take on the role of queen while her father is ill. When he dies, Shrek has to look for her cousin Arthur (or just Artie). She also tells Shrek that she is pregnant, which she hinted at from the start of the film. Meanwhile, Chaming organizes an uprising to declare himself king.

Fiona organizes resistance with her friends Cinderella , Snow White , Sleeping Beauty , Rapunzel and Doris, a terrible half-sister, but Rapunzel betrays them to marry Prince the Beautiful. Thanks to mother Fiona, who, it turns out, fights well, they organize an escape. Artie calls on the people to fight. In the end, Fiona gives birth to triplets: sons Fergus and Farkl and daughter Felicia.

This is the first part of the series, where Fiona was not shown in the image of a man.

In the fourth part, Fiona at first enjoys family life with Shrek, not noticing his growing discontent with the routine. As a result, at the triplets' birthday celebration, Shrek breaks down and even tells Fiona that he’d better never save her, than offends her very much.

In an alternative reality, in which Shrek never existed, Fiona did not wait for salvation for years in the tower and as a result she escaped. Her parents were destroyed by the magic of Rumplestiltskin, and the kingdom under his rule turned into hell. Therefore, in this reality, Fiona appears a little cynical and disappointed in love, as well as still damned (although her ogre subordinates consider the human form to be a curse). Puss in boots became her pet and became so overwhelmed by her courtship that he looked like a ball.

Shrek gradually conquers her again, and in the last moments before disappearing, she finally gets her a kiss of love, restoring reality.

In human form, Fiona is shown here, but only sporadically, in a scene demonstrating the essence of her curse.

This character is an analogue of the main characters of such fairy tales as Sleeping Beauty , Snow White , Cinderella , Beauty and the Beast (also known as classic Disney cartoons), exactly the opposite, parodies the image of the classic “ Disney princess ” ^[1] . The image of Fiona largely redefines gender stereotypes. A princess who turns into a “monster” - a giantess - is a clear rejection of the girl’s socialization scheme as a passive, dependent being awaiting her “prince”, in particular, described in Colette Dowling. The Cinderella Complex of 1981 ^[2] . This has much in common with the struggle of the feminist movement against the cult of beauty ^[3] .

In a vote held in 2009 by Komsomolskaya Pravda for the sexiest cartoon of beauty (similar to the British one), Princess Fiona took 7th place (giving way to Lila from Futurama , but ahead of Disney's Snow White ), gaining 4.67% of the vote ^[4] . Mikhail Popov in the comic rating of fantastic couples in love in “ Fantasy World ” put Princess Fiona and Shrek in first place for “honest relations of the funniest and most romantic heroes of the most famous animation project” ^[5] .

On November 29, 2010, Princess Fiona was declared the godmother of the Allure of the Seas cruise ship (as part of a partnership between the owners of the ship, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., and the DreamWorks film studio) ^[6] .

• Princess Fiona on the Internet Movie Database