Later, after seeing King Harold's funeral, Prince Charming goes to The Poison Apple and organizes an army of villains who don't trust him at first due to him being presented as a hero - Captain Hook, Stromboli, Headless Horseman, Evil Queen Evil Trees and Witches - all upset that they haven't gotten their "Happily Ever After" and encourages them to help him in his plans of revenge. There, Charming vows to his mother (whom he has a picture of) that he will become the king of Far Far Away and kill Shrek to avenge her death. Charming leaves the theater upset and goes to his "dressing room" (in reality, the back alley behind the bar) and starts sobbing at his misfortune. Finally (in a version of a Buster Keaton gag), a prop tower falls on Charming, but he escapes injury as the window passes around him. However, despite being the hero in his own play (which appears to be a spoof on the classic fairytale, Rapunzel), the audience cheers when the "Shrek" mascot comes onstage, along with Shrek's friends, who are there watching the show. In Far Far Away Idol, Charming sang, "I'm Too Sexy", by Right Said Fred, although, during the song, Shrek and Fiona press a button, opening a trapdoor below him, due to his horrible singing.Ĭharming with a sword at the start of Shrek the ThirdĬharming is first seen in a theater, playing himself due to his name. Charming wakes up to throw Fairy Godmother's wand back to her, and is later seen being forced to dance by Doris. However, Fiona headbutts him unconscious, and Harold reveals that he never gave Fiona the love potion. In the ensuing confusion Charming forces a kiss on Fiona, believing that she has now fallen in love with him. At numerous points he attempts to seduce Fiona into kissing him, nearly succeeding until Shrek and Donkey interrupt the dance. Fiona remains highly suspicious of Charming as he acts nothing like Shrek, forcing Fairy Godmother to have Harold give Fiona a love potion that will make her fall in love with the first man she kisses.Īt "Shrek" and Fiona's wedding ball, Charming pressures Fiona into dancing with him.
Later, Charming deceives Fiona into believing that he is Shrek having been turned human by a "Happily Ever After" potion. However Fairy Godmother talks him out of it, stating he'll still be king. Charming then demands to know where Shrek is so he can kill him with a sword. Later in the movie, after Shrek, Donkey and their new friend Puss-In-Boots steal Fairy Godmother's Happily Ever After potion and trash her factory, Charming enters, notices the mess and asks what happened, and she tells him Shrek was there. In contrast to his fairytale namesake, this version of Prince Charming plays a more villainous role. It can be reasoned that after having Fiona locked away it was always her plan to have Charming rescue her, Shrek being an unforeseen problem. It is later revealed that Charming is, in fact, the son of the Fairy Godmother and that she wants her son to marry Fiona so that Charming can become king of Far Far Away (similar to Lord Farquaad's intentions from the first film). To his shock, he finds the Big Bad Wolf in her bed instead who tells him that Fiona has already been rescued and is on her honeymoon. Charming travels a long distance by horse to the Dragon's Keep to rescue Fiona. Charming's narration explains Fiona's childhood, and reveals that she was locked away at the advice of Fairy Godmother. In Shrek 2, he is more of a comic relief character.
Charming was raised to believe that he would be the one to rescue Fiona and break her curse.Īlthough Charming doesn't appear physically in the film, he is mentioned when Fiona reveals that she thought that she would be rescued by Prince Charming, possibly having been told so by her parents. When he was a little boy he was betrothed to Princess Fiona, who was later cursed to turn into an ogre at night and locked away in a tower of a dragon-guarded castle. Prince Charming was born to The Fairy Godmother and his unnamed and deceased father in the kingdom of Far Far Away.