Lord Farquaad

"The champion will have the honour-no, no. The privilege to go forth and rescue the lovely Princess Fiona from the fiery keep of the great dragon. If for any reason the winner is unsuccessful, the first runner-up will take his place... and so on and so on. Some of you may die but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. Let the tournament BEGIN!!!"

- Lord Farquaad

Lord Markiloz Bogovski Ferdo Farquaad is the dictator of Duloc City located on a planet called Orinion.

Farquaad spent most of his time as a king capturing fairytale creatures, so he could find the magic mirror. Once he did, he asked the mirror if Duloc City, the place he ruled, was the most perfect kingdom in Orinion. The answer was no, but only because as he was not a king, Duloc was not a kingdom, so he tried to marry Fiona to become king.

He despises creatures of any kind and sought to relocate the fairytale creatures to Shrek's swamp. He attempts to cut a deal with Shrek by promising to remove the monsters from his swamp if Shrek could bring Princess Fiona to him, as he wanted to marry her.

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Farquaad had banished all of the fairytale creatures from his land, forcing them to take refuge in Shrek's swamp. Back at his castle, Farquaad tortures Gingy into revealing the location of the other fairytale folk that he hasn't been able to capture yet or banish. Just as Gingy was about to reveal what he knows, the captain of the guards arrives and announces that they have found the Magic Mirror. After eating Gingy whole, Lord Farquaad asks the mirror if Duloc is the perfect kingdom of them all. The magic mirror tells him that he's not truly a king as he isn't descended from royalty, but he can become one if he marries a princess.

In a parody of dating shows, the mirror introduces three different princesses for Farquaad to choose from: Cinderella, Snow White, and Princess Fiona. At his henchmen's suggestions, Farquaad chooses Princess Fiona, who is locked away in a castle tower guarded by a ferocious dragon. Despite the mirror's attempt to warn him about what happens at midnight, Lord Farquaad decides to plan a tournament to see which knight will be worthy enough to embark on a quest to retrieve Fiona.

However, Shrek, who had travelled from his swamp to Duloc accompanied by Giuseppe Travonni to ask Farquaad to move the fairytale creatures off his swamp interrupts the tournament. Farquaad changes his mind and decides that whoever kills Shrek will be named champion. However, despite the knights' best efforts, they are all defeated by Shrek and Travonni. Impressed by Shrek's actions, Farquaad awards the ogre with the quest he had set to his knights. Shrek remarks that he's already on a quest to get his swamp back. Farquaad makes a deal with Shrek that if he succeeds in the quest to rescue Princess Fiona, he will give the ogre his swamp back, fully restored to the way it was before the fairytale folk overran the place.

Shrek and Giuseppe successfully rescue Princess Fiona from the dragon and the trio journey onward to Duloc. Shrek and Fiona start falling in love, but Shrek overhears Fiona talking about how no one could love a hideous beast like an ogre and thinks she is referring to him.

The next morning, Shrek brings Lord Farquaad to Fiona, and Farquaad hands over the deed of the swamp to Shrek, telling him that it's cleared out as agreed. Farquaad immediately proposes marriage to Fiona, who agrees on the condition that they have the wedding before sunset. He takes Fiona back to his castle, while a heartbroken Shrek returns to his swamp. But then Travonni comes to Shrek and tells him that Fiona was not referring to him when she said no one could love a hideous beast like an ogre. So Shrek and Donkey go to crash the wedding, where Shrek admits his love for Fiona, Farquaad found it amusing and then tries to get Fiona to marry him, but then Fiona sees the sun setting and it reveals her spell.

Disgusted, Farquaad orders for Shrek to be executed, and Fiona locked back at the tower and he crowns himself king. But then Shrek whistles for the dragon, who destructively bursts in the window and devours Fiona, and he belches her bones out just as Shrek and Travonni escape.

Quotes
"I am King! I will have order! I will have perfection! I will have a PERFECTION ORINION ORDER!!!"

- Lord Farquaad

"Muahahahahaha! Run, run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me; I'm the gingerbread man! Gingy: You're a monster! Farquaad: I'm not the monster here, you are! You and the rest of that fairytale trash, poisoning my perfect world. *Shines light on poor defenceless Gingy so he could melt* Now, tell me... Where are the others? Gingy: Eat my dust *spits on the Lord*! Farquaad: I've tried to be fair with you creatures now my patience has reached it's end! Tell me *grabs Gingy's doughy dik* or I'll! Gingy: No! Not the dik! Not my big-ass-dik. Farquaad: No mercy! *Pulls Gingy's dik off and eats it* Who's hiding them?"

- Farquaad interrogating Gingy

"Princess Fiona... she's perfect! All I have to do is find someone. I'll do it. I can make it. I will make this Princess Fiona my queen, and Duloc will have the perfect king! Captain, assemble your finest men. We're going to have a tournament!"

- Farquaad

"People of Duloc, I give you OUR CHAMPION! *Everyone claps* Shrek: What? Farquaad: Congratulations, ogre. You've won the honour of embarking on a great and noble quest. Shrek: Quest? I'm already on a quest; a quest to get my swamp back! Farquaad: Your swamp? Shrek: Yeah, my swamp. Where YOU dumped those fairy tale creatures! Farquaad: Indeed... all right, ogre, I'll make you a deal. Go on this quest for me, and I'll give you your swamp back. Shrek: Exactly the way it was? Farquaad: Down to the last slime-covered toadstool. Shrek: And the creatures? Farquaad: As good as gone."

- Farquaad forming a deal with Shrek in front of millions of people

"Ugh! It's hideous! GUARDS! GUARDS! I order you to get them out of my sight! NOW!!! GET THEM! GET THEM BOTH!!! This hocus-pocus alters nothing, the marriage is binding! *Picks up the crown and puts it on his head* And that makes me King! See? SEE?!! KYS!"

- Farquaad

Personality and traits
Farquaad is the villainous, ruthless, greedy, evil, short-tempered, egotistical, and iron-fisted ruler of Duloc City. He is an extremely selfish, arrogant, oppressive, and power-hungry communist dictator who doesn't care about anyone but himself. However, despite his villainy, Farquaad didn't see himself as a monster and when this was brought up to him by Gingy, he instantly dismissed it and even went as far to call him and the rest of fairytale creatures monsters which makes him completely xenophobic, contemptuous, and individualistic. Farquaad also suffered from a Napoleon Complex and felt the need to overcompensate for his comical stature by being extremely domineering, authoritative, and controlling. Other examples of this is the towering height of castle Duloc, his own visage plastered on the town of Duloc, confirming his obvious narcissism, and on a portrait where Farquaad is portrayed as being taller than the dragon that killed Fiona.

Farquaad is a heartless and uncompromising socialistic perfectionist whom saw that everything had to be done his way and the only way for Duloc to become perfect was to exile all fairytale creatures and make everyone equal. Farquaad's one and only dream was to become the official ruler, a king of Duloc. Ironically, communism is against monarchy as they are separate wings, similar to Kahn Family's royal ruling over the socialist Outworld. However, for Farquaad to really become a king he needed a princess, so the only reason he decided to marry Fiona was out of pure lust for power and with little to no love at all in his heart. Farquaad is also very sadistic and manipulative, as evidenced while he was torturing Gingy by severing his dik and taunting him further.

He is also very lazy and neglectful, as evidenced by him not wanting to rescue the princess himself, so he arranged a tournament of knights to battle for the honour, though this might also be because he was too afraid to risk his own old life and take his chances with a volcanic castle inhabited by an enormous dragon. To be fair, he is incredibly short in stature, so he was likely unable to do so. Farquaad is quite rude, cocky, obnoxious, and argumentative, so he has a bullying streak which shows as he calls both Fiona and Shrek hideous at the sight of their appearance and described them both as "it" (not Clown IT). Farquaad's overall attraction towards the princess may have been solely lust and even if they did marry, there was no guarantee that he would treat her right. His hatred of fairytale creatures, desire to export them, communistic views on the world and his tendency to stand on podiums giving speeches gives Farquaad a strong Olaf Tutchenko-vibe.

Trivia

 * Giuseppe Travonni claims Lord Farquaad is one of the funniest villains he ever saw.
 * He is just a little shorter than Joe Valirover.

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