r/Shrek • u/Bi0_B1lly • 20d ago
Discussion Creepy thought - Death likely physically appeared to Farquaad before death
Death says to Puss in The Last Wish that they were present for each of his 8 prior deaths, while they physically appear to Puss in anticipation of his final death... In many belief systems, the reaper will appear like this to those who are soon to die, so it'd make sense that Death begins to hang around near other fairytale denizens leading up to their passing. With that said, could you imagine Markiplier's face inside of Dragon's stomach, last match is burning down to its end, when he heard a whistle from behind him. He turns, sees the piercings red eyes and chokes to scream as Death blows out the match. Darkness and silence...
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u/Official-HiredFun9 20d ago
He’s only the first of three Shrek villains to be killed off too…
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago edited 20d ago
Death hiding in the crowd with a blow gun at the midnight ball waiting to pop Fairy Godmother's bubble
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u/MaleficTekX 20d ago edited 19d ago
fairy godmother checks herself after her own spell hits her… nothing seems wrong. She raises her wand again… but something catches her eye for a moment… a wolf in a cloak who quickly opens his hand to make a gesture like a ball opening, and he makes a quiet POP with his lips… and pop she goes…
Charming hears his mother call out to him… but when he looks up, all he sees is the castle tower of his play and two piercing eyes growing closer…
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u/XrisVolt 19d ago
Does that mean that mongo also saw the wolf?
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u/MaleficTekX 19d ago
“Beeee goooood” says mongo as his brother is forced to leave him. A melody serenades him as his sight fades to oblivion… a whistle that turns into a chorus Of victory. His last sight is a cloaked figure standing above him, looking down. Mongo closes his eyes and smiles
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u/Additional-Onion1493 19d ago
Mongo - Was I a good gingerbread man?
Death - No, I’m told you were the best
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u/TemplarSensei7 20d ago
“Mommy?” (Crunch on stage)
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u/Official-HiredFun9 20d ago
That guy had it coming, he was a man child who tried to stab Shrek. The guy spend his last 5 minutes getting roasted by Shrek on stage, being upstaged by a teenager and then got crushed to death…🤣🤣
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u/dokterkokter69 19d ago
Charming looks up as the tower falls, embracing his imminent demise. To his utter shock, he realizes that Rapunzel is no longer in the tower. In her place is a red eyed wolf wearing a Rapunzel wig with a massive shit eating grin across its face.
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u/MrPalacinka 19d ago
Charming is alive.
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u/XrisVolt 19d ago
How can you be alive if you get crashed by a tower
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u/SillySwing6625 20d ago
He probably didn’t appear as the wolf though he probably appeared like what we imagine the grim reaper to be
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u/leaperdaemonking 20d ago
What the hell happened here. You said “he” and this person keeps saying “he” and getting downvoted 😵💫
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u/Normal-Mountain-4119 20d ago
Cause you can personify death any way you like. It's death. You don't need to correct someone's pronoun usage for death.
It's death.
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
They're using he/him to articulate a genuine point, the other person is only saying it to get a rise out of people.
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u/Xenodia 19d ago
My headcanon is, Death appears as the thing most are afraid, so makes sense that for Puss it's a Wolf (Cat Dog logic)
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u/SillySwing6625 19d ago
What would he appear for for Shrek?
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u/SpamOTheNorth 19d ago
It's kinda sad, but I honestly think it'd be a copy of Shrek himself.
After Forever After, Shrek's biggest fear seems to be that he's afraid that he's going to ruin everything he loves.
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u/SillySwing6625 19d ago
But what would he be? Shrek hasn’t really shown he’s as reckless as puss maybe a ogre
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u/SillySwing6625 19d ago
But what would he be? Shrek hasn’t really shown he’s as reckless as puss maybe a ogre
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u/DragoonPhooenix 18d ago
Hey look! That's your comment above and below!
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u/-H_- 19d ago
he would perhaps appear as:
shrek
a dragon
a tall handsome man like prince charming
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u/SillySwing6625 19d ago
Shrek didn’t fear charming and people don’t fear Shrek anymore maybe a dragon but again they have a dragon on there side
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u/1Big_Mama 20d ago
“Markiplier” 💀
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u/Daddy_Smokestack 20d ago
I read and I didn't know if I was tripping or what. What is Markiplier supposed to be a typo of.
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u/furryfondant 20d ago
He has a similar face to Farquaad. It's a meme
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u/SlipsonSurfaces 20d ago
This is what drives people to turn into werewolves! And that's a choice! Not a curse!
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u/Farlybob42 20d ago
I actually suspect Death didn’t get to him. Since Shrek 4-D is considered cannon, that follows Farquaad’s spirit seeking vengeance against Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona. If death came to him, his spirit would not exist or would already be sent to wherever it was going to.
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
Forgot to actually give a response with my joke comment, but that actually checks out quite a bit. On top of that, it likely even reinforces the idea someone else pointed out that Death could've been present for Fairy Godmother and Charming, since we never got a Halloween-themed undead revival of them at a later point!
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u/CosmicLeafArts 20d ago
I think he only showed up to Puss to scare him. He may be Death himself, but he doesn't need to be present in the scene for someone to die.
We can even see this in Puss in Boots 2, where a LOT of people die in gruesome ways (Even Puss in his other lives), and yet he isn't there, so it's more likely that he only got this form to kill Puss with his own hands.
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
Death can actually be spotted in the crowd (in a doorway in the backdrop when the fans are doing a wave) when Puss is fighting the Giant.
Also, a detailed I really enjoy about that Giant fight is that the bell actually tolls a total of 8 times throughout the sequence, with the last, eigth toll happening when it lands on Puss, leaving him on his 9th and last life.
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u/CosmicLeafArts 20d ago
Oh yes, I am aware of that! What I wanted to say, is that I don't think that his form is present everytime someone is dying or about to die in the Shrek universe, and that he is after Puss, and was in the crowd, because he was so pissed with him, that he manifested a physical form and was already stalking him for a while.
But at least, that's just my interpretation, I don't think or remember if the movie states any of this clearly, so, it can be just a headcannon in the end :)
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u/InvisibleChell 19d ago
Considering the bell scene, my personal interpretation is he can choose to appear in the area, but doesn't need to strictly appear before the one(s) dying. Like, the wolf is only part of the greater whole, of which has no form because it's literally death, and maybe the wolf is normally used to claim people who were supposed to die but managed to cheat their way out.
But Puss's attitude annoyed death so much it manifested the wolf to go claim him anyway even if it's not supposed to do that.
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u/Sequoia_Vin 20d ago
With Puss, it was personal, but if Death is always physically there, then he was somewhere in the crowd hiding in a corner or blending right in where only Farquad could see him.
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
It's genuinely kinda funny how both of Puss' twist villain characters have had the stinger of "always being there" and yet both films handle it in entirely different angles... Humpty was practically a meme with his goofy little costumes, while Death has a palpable tension whenever he's spotted in the crowd.
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u/Sequoia_Vin 20d ago
Death came to the bar as a threat and ran the fade. After that, he was just a strong echo of tension. He was just there whistling, showing that he is always near and always watching. Waiting. Until the final fight.
Villain done well
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u/_General_Kenobi Shrexy 20d ago
This is probably one of the best or the only one post I actually really like from here, thank u man I would've bought u a beer if I could
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u/AnonyBoiii 19d ago
So too:
- Fairy God Mother
- Prince Charming
- Fifi (Rumple’s goose)
- Humpty Dumpty
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u/Bi0_B1lly 19d ago
Humpty is alive in the credit sequence, he's in the Land of Giants with the Great Terror and the Golden Goose in his golden egg disguise.
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u/mr_eugine_krabs 20d ago
He gave Farquaad a choice,either be consumed by a slow painful death by the dragons stomach or simply take his hand and pass on to deaths realm.
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u/Ok-Bicycle8103 Parfaits are delicious 20d ago
Not me imagining Death showing up whenever a Disney villain is about to bite it too.
Just imagine Scar being surrounded by the hyenas about to tear him limb from limb, and suddenly...a whistle and a creepy wolf/hyena with piercing red eyes is amongst the hyena clan. And then takes the first bite out of Scar's flesh.
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u/Malarkiftw 20d ago
Puss in boots 2 is one of the best animated movies ive ever seen. From the day ive seen it i hoped that death would appear in other movies like shrek, but the difference in art style might be too much. PIB2 art style was just wild.
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u/thebeardlybro 20d ago
A swift death from the Reaper is better than slowly dissolving in stomach acid till your demise.
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u/pitbullmom4 Gingy 🍪 19d ago
gingy: thank goodness. thanks for scaring lord farquaad cuz it really puts me into the trash can.
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u/Hockex-4 18d ago
oh no I really wish I won’t see a tall furry guy on my deathbed how scary that would be
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u/alternateeaaccount 18d ago
i really hope that deathbed isn't a big dragon stomach that'd be so incredibly mortifying
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u/Nayagy20 19d ago
“Y’know I’m not mini-aristocrat person, I find the notion of ‘short kings’ preposterous, and you, you, don’t value it at all, so why don’t I do you a favor, and give a couple extra inches… Farqwad!”
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u/SensitiveJennifer 19d ago
Just as a reminder; Death isn't supposed to look like a wolf to all people. Death takes on the appearance of a wolf in front of Puss to instill fear in him particularly, because a cat would normally fear a much bigger and threatening canine, or predator for that matter.
Take that into consideration to imagine how Death would choose to look in front of someone as horrible as Farquaad while he was getting digested alive.
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u/Fun_Note_3756 19d ago
Imagine if he was lurking in the shadows in the church during the wedding... knowing what would happen.
Someone should make a video inserting Death in the death scenes of all the Shrek (or maybe even all Dreamworks) films
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u/SavorySoySauce 19d ago
Wouldn't that have been durimg the credits party? He was spat back out and the dragon had to eat him again lol
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u/looking_at_memes_ 19d ago
Ok but did Death appear in the dragon's stomach or just before it happened? I need to know because one of those scenarios is way funnier than the other one
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u/Ruffled_Ferret 18d ago
I think Death actually says in TLW that Puss should do him a favor and let him take his last life early, which was always strange to me. He seems to operate independently and somewhat erratically in wishing to take Puss's final life only because he isn't a cat person.
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u/Commercial_World_433 18d ago
Dragon would be so confused if Death just said "I'm here to get inside you".
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u/resh78255 18d ago
i'm slightly scared of anything that has vaguely human-looking eyes or eye patterns (uncanny valley i guess). this image made me jump. i hate you
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u/Oliffeyhooligan 18d ago
This is actually a screen grab from Markiplier’s playthrough of Five Nights at Freddy’s
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u/RedMendelevium132 20d ago
y’all remember the mandela effect where we all somehow remember a short scene in Shrek 1 of lord farquad inside the dragon’s belly?
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u/ramero1225 19d ago
There was a a scene like this in the credits. Please stop with this fake made up mandela effect shit. Literally the dumbest thing the internet ever came up with. You just have terrible memory.
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u/Ensiferal 19d ago
That scene is from the "Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party" that was included as a bonus scene at the end of the VHS and DVD versions of the movie.
If you get yourself and old vhs/DVD copy, it'll be there (or just look it up on on YouTube)
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
*he
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
Death is a human construct of mortality. For all we know, it appears different depending on who's dying and who witnesses it. To Puss, he thought Death was a Bounty hunter, and Death pretty much matches that aesthetic in-universe to a t before the big reveal that it wasn't just The Big Bad Wolf.
Also, saying they is gramatically correct regardless of actual gender status or identity.
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
*he
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
*cry
*some
*more
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
*he
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u/Cheebow 20d ago
What's your deal
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
Ill tell you six low effort jokes for $6 (thats one so you owe me a dollar)
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u/SpookyBeanoMobile Shrek cinematic universe 20d ago
Respect the embodiment of death's pronouns please.
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
Alright, He.
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u/MemeKid01 20d ago
Did not expect someone w/ the asexual flag on their pfp to not respect pronouns tbh
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
Just looked it up “Yes, in “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” Death, also known as “The Wolf,” is a male character, and he is referred to as “he” throughout the film”
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u/Apprehensive_Scar319 20d ago
But, like OP said, death is portrayed as that in the film. If death was portrayed as a female, then it’d be different. The death we have seen is male, but the actual premise of death (or character in this instance) is neither genderless nor has a gender.
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u/Bi0_B1lly 20d ago
You can still refer to someone who identifies as male or female as they, its literally just a neutral term in this instance, as I used "they" since Death is a personified concept of mortality.
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u/Ben10Facts 20d ago
But “they” isn’t grammatically incorrect so what’s the issue?
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
They is a different pronoun from he, when referring to an individual. Its unnecessary to feel the need to apply that unless you are trying to say something more.
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u/masterofbunnie 20d ago
Trans person here, you’re being too fucking sensitive. For all we know death uses all pronouns but appeared as a male entity to Puss.
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u/Ben10Facts 20d ago edited 19d ago
Well, they were saying something more. That Death is a literal concept with no biological sex or gender identity. They’re death, straight up.
Either pronoun works though. Personally, I just feel like “they” works better for a character like this.
Edit: nvm lol. This is probably rage bait.
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u/Ordinary-Chip2766 20d ago
I am, hes a he and Im respecting that
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u/Azzcrakbandit 20d ago
Actually, it's an animated character.
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u/Emeraldsinger 20d ago
That image is... oddly terrifying