Shrek’s Lord Farquaad Was More Evil Than You Remember 

That was one of my favorite parts of the character.

It’s so hilariously petty

Who's ex-boss was markiplier?

Wait, WHAT?!

I prefer fartwad.

Yeah :(

But, but, but... what about puss in boots: the last wish?

Wait a second. How does that work continually with Puss in Boots and the last wish?

@@razortheonethelight7303 papa bear remarried

OMG, he killed Mama Bear?!

One of the few times alternate casting worked out for the best.

thanks for sharing

As much as I love Alan Rickman, I can’t see him playing this character. John Lithgow was the right choice.

Fun fact: This is the case for a lot of roles in movies in history. who cares

@@dundercontrol at least three other people who aren't actively being a party pooper.

Fitting really

Facebook definitely saw the symbol and remembered it meant evil. 'shit well in for a penny'

Me too, this movie was like 4 or 5 years before Facebook was even a thing though.

The real enemy was mark Zuckerberg the whole time

I always think about Facebook too

Its not just the torture part, think of it like taking away a person's prosthetic needs or further disabling somebody much smaller who didn't do anything to him as it is, and still making fun of them... This is indeed incredibly focked on so many levels. You could say that... Farquad is the REAL irredeemable monster underneath an unseeming guise too, ironically enough a human and not a mythical creature like the one's he assumes has no complexities/feelings (meanwhile Shrek for all of his gruff exterior, only spooked people into leaving him alone, not outright mercilessly attacking unless left as a last resort... And Shrek at least let Donkey stay outside of his home. Shrek is my mood tbh xD).

@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 so who would you say is worse: Farquad or Big Jack Horner?

@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 Take this with a grain of salt, but I believe in the musical it is revealed Farquad is actually the son of Grumpy Dwarf "from Snow White" and The Princess from "the Princess and the Pea" making him a "Fairy Tale creature" or at the very least half fairy tale creature since the princess was human. This adds a layer of self loathing to his character. His mother was disinherited for marrying Grumpy, but since Farquad was her son it gave him claim to the throne. My theory is that he hates "fairy tale creatures" because he hates that his mother married one and because of that he had to work to get what should have been his birthright. Considering this is from the musical only however it's canonicity to the movies are unclear.

Should've eaten them in front of him. I always thought that was a missed opportunity.

​@@hashkangarooI think the fact that he crushed the legs into crumbs without even bothering to take a bite is more evil. He wasn't even getting anything from it, just being a total asshole

It's a masonic symbol

​@@royXax ???? It's a letter f.

@@royXax meds no it isnt

​@GameyRaccoon I think he's joking?

so menacing lol he's mocking him but he's like screaming it

That’s where animation is at its peak imo.

Exactly! Just because a movie is devoid of sex doesn’t mean it’s for kids. And the same for blood, violence, and foul language. Those are not what makes a movie aimed at adults. So why, then, is every time an animated film comes out that doesn’t have blood, cursing, or sex, is it immediately called “only for children?” -by some people. It’s like they don’t understand the themes are what make the film, not the rating.

Good animation is made for adults and suitable for kids.

Thank you! So sick of people calling animated movies "for kids" when that's not true at all.

??? i watched it as a kid and i loved it. it's for everyone.

YUP

In one of the Karaoke videos they made, he was still alive in the stomach of Dragon (pleading to stay alive even), we still see his ghost regardless... So he died of starvation or eventual acidic consumption.

@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 wich is far more brutal than being chewed lol

Because animation is exclusively for kids of course. Christ

That debetable​@@eclogitetack

Lots of animated movies have brutal deaths dude

This confused me into thinking Napoleon had a short member after I figured it out

I feel like it’s the other way around tbh

@@YourFriendlyOfficeAssistanthe had a short…finishing time, though

Also, like many Shrek villains that are based on folklore, he is a 180 of what he came from originally. He was once considered a "good boy," but now he is more than a "bad boy."

"He huffed! And he puffed! And then he... Signed an eviction notice"

@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398also a fun fact in middle school my drama class did a parody of “ Shrek” as a play

​@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 i still say this in their voice a TON hahahahaha

I was incredibly confused for a good bit until I realized you were referring to 2007, not 1907...

@@flameofthephoenix8395 lol you figured out my secret I’m actually 117 years old 😂😂😂

You must've not paid attention then because most people noticed right away and that made it even funnier :P

I mean I was 10 or 11 when it came out after all. I recognized the common Disney tropes and characters but didn't' realize how deep it went. @@RedRoseSeptember22

@@RedRoseSeptember22or the OP was a child like most of us that grew up with this, so we wouldn’t have noticed that

It’s even more obvious by the third movie lmao, it’s just remixed Disney princesses 💀

mocking old Disney, before the woke took over, this was the beginning of the rot

They already did a better job with Kuzco, why Magnifico had to exist at all confuses me.

Killer declaration.

Yes.

this video makes it sound like it was a planed masterpiece, do you think? something doesn't seem right @@powerpuff_avenger

@@BlackSkorpion0 No. It can happen. Disney focused on Pocahontas and sent people to The Lion Ling for punishment, and the latter ended up exploding at the box office...

@@powerpuff_avenger It's kind of like being punished by having to sit in the corner in timeout and you're bored and notice a crack in the wall, you look inside and find a coin, after timeout is over you make an implement to get the coin out and after research it turns out to be a 14th century gold coin. You don't tell anyone but end up getting the coin appraised, selling it on eBay, and you get two coin collectors in a bidding war and end up making 8 million dollars.

@@SnowPrincessSally Where'd you get that analogy that's pretty ridiculous.

Not to mention this is basically the comparison of skinning humans as the bear is very much sapient like us (though apparently she's fine somewhere, probably another bear he de-masculated further). Come to think of it, it's all the more disturbing he shows no sympathy to these beings despite more then likely not doing anything implicating to him, he even handicapped a living being and he laughs at it (Gingie was seen with a cane to support himself and afterwards is seen fine, yet it's still pretty scarring if you were in his doughs though).

@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 For comparasion the worst of the nazi skinned humans in concentration camps, and even other nazis found that kinda disgusting.

that means momma bear in the last wish is a stepmother

​@@karstenschoenberg9736Pretty sure that's a completely different family of bears.

​@@genera1013Yea, The Last Wish took place in a different land far away from where shrek is from. It is definately a seperate bear family.

Yes, Shrek and Faarquad's lives parallel each other, both want what is in their eyes their "perfect" little worlds to keep rolling, so is not too surprising that they reached some level of subconscious empathy with each other initially and reached a deal, and Shrek with that received his character development that he fully deserved because he was just very lonely and bitter.

He’s like a satirical version of Grimmel

Yes, agreed 100%. Magnifico seems like a good guy who had a nervous breakdown like Ned Flanders did after the hurricane on The Simpsons and not an evil man and all the evil he did was when he was brainwashed by the evil book, so he was basically the Green Ranger from the original Power Rangers that my mom watched when she was a kid. Wish is a frustrating movie. So much missed potential, Disney did everything wrong but not in the way the protagonists of The Producers did, it was just sad.

*jack horner entered the chat

Arguably, he's worse. He's got the mentality of Hitler, with the ideals of Himmler and Goering, and minus the warped as fuck visions of utopia. Like, he's doing all this messed up stuff, for himself, for his own happily ever after. Like, the Reich was, despite being despotic, cruel and all-round the worst, operating on a 'these ends justified our means, we are building a new and better world.' Which, I reiterate, they were going to just create an authoritarian hellscape if they had somehow succeeded. I guess the question here is, is it more evil to do bad things for selfish reasons, or do bad things for perceived good reasons?

oh.

You're not the only one to think like so. That whole thing has "Holocaust" written all over it, "trains" and all.

😮

Bruh

The fact that Farquaad is a take that to Disney is even funnier in the Neutral Spanish dub where he is voiced by Humberto Velez, who is famous for being the official voice of Winnie the Pooh since the late 90s, though he's also famous for voicing Homer Simpson

I think kids movies can and should have adult jokes. Not themes, unless it ends in a good ending and isn’t too much, but a healthy amount of mature material.

And then Shrek 4 happened and introduced a bunch of them.

@@darksideofevil13 Shrek 4 is a alternate timeline of sorts, so it no doubt caused a butterfly effect, probably because Fiona escaped and changed fates of others no doubt

The vibe of PB2 is so different from the Shrek movies. It's hard to believe the two movies are in the same universe.

​​@@darksideofevil13 That honestly makes me like them both more. It makes for a more authentic feeling for a world. This real world you and I both live in functions just the same; various different areas with impossibly contrasted settings somehow still coexist.

@@Alizudo Agreed, not complaining, it's just funny to think about. I often find myself laughing and thinking: Oh yeah, this is in the same world as the wisecracking, farting, Scottish ogre.

Guantanamo Bay is older than Shrek...

He even fucks a dragon 💀💀💀

And he literally banged a dragon

I also think we need shrek 12, and an animated series, and a movie just about the gingerbread man. We need movies for each of the princesses that further mock disney.

I think that playing some of the best bits straight (like villains getting to have humour while still being menacing and evil) just makes sense. Taking something like that and making it your own is sometimes better than parodying it, and having Farquad have literal little man syndrome allows him to fit into a villainous niche (evil mastermind intent on "world" domination) that's usually occupied by far more "serious" villains - in essence, playing the "villain is both evil and humorous" theme straight let them parody the more overtly-threatening evil masterminds Disney loves so much.

I don't know how canon that is to the films, but that is the case in the stage musical.

So you're about 36+

You can sprint with sheer velocity, but you can't capture him. Of course, it's the gingerbread man.

THE MUFFIN MAN?

You’re a monster!

@@zanemartin6699 I’m not the monster here, you are! You and the rest of that fairy tale trash poisoning my perfect world… Now tell me!! Where are the others?!

It's comments like this that make people think kids only deserve garbage content. Just because it's good doesn't mean it's not for kids and being for kids isn't an insult.

Oh that's not...

@@velmad3894 It's another layer to the parody. Naming your entire company, theme parks and all after yourself. I mean, he isn't alone in it, but it's not as common as it was when Disney was alive, and even then, their initial was rarely the logo.