The Fairy GodMother of Shrek Media Franchise

> **Fairy Godmother**: It's time to stop living in a fairy tale, Shrek. She's a princess, and you're an ogre. That's something no amount of potion is ever going to change.
> **Shrek**: But I love her.
> **Fairy Godmother**: If you really love her... you'll let her go.
>
> Fairy Godmother to Shrek.noicon

> **Fairy Godmother**: Harold! You were supposed to give her the potion!
> **Harold**: Well I guess I gave her the wrong tea!
>  \*Charming grabs FGM's wand from Puss and throws to her\*
> **Charming**: Mummy!
>  **Fiona**: Mummy?
> \*FGM catches the wand and glares at Shrek\*
> **Fairy Godmother**: I told you, ogres **DON'T** live happily ever AFTER!
>
> The Fairy Godmother's last and most famous words.noicon

**Fairy Godmother** (also known as **Dama Fortuna**) is a recurring antagonist of the *Shrek* franchise, serving as the main antagonist of S*hrek 2*, the posthumous overarching antagonist of *Shrek the Third*, and an unseen antagonist of *Shrek Forever After*.

She was a fairy that has built a business around granting wishes. She’s voiced by Jennifer Saunders.

## Relationships

### The Biological Family

Prince Charming (son)Rapunzel (daughter-in-law)Princess Fiona (godchild)

### Arch-Allies With Greatest-Partners Plus Best-Friends

King Harold (formally), Princess Fiona (formally), Prince Charming, Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots, Princess Fiona, King Harold, Queen Lillian, Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, Three Little Pigs, Three Blind Mice, Big Bad Wolf, Elves, Guards

## Loves And Hates

### Likes

Prince Charming (her son), things going her way, herself, power, happiness, potions

### DisLikes

Ogres (especially Shrek), villains, danger, ugliness, selfishness, rudeness, cruelty, humor

## Counterparts

### The Evil Counterpart

to The Fairy GodMother from Disney's Cinderella (1950)

## Naming Info Details

### Aliases

The Fairy GodmotherMommyMomMother (all three by Prince Charming)Mrs. GodmotherMary (both by Shrek)

## Biographical Description Information

### Cause Of Deceased

She gets blasted by her own magic and vanishes into thin air, leaving nothing but her wand and glasses

## Physical Appearance Description

### Occupation

Wish Granter
Celebrity
Fairy
Fairy of Fiona's family (formally)
Businesswoman

### Powers With Abilities / Skills And Talents \ InBorns Plus InNates

Flight, potion making, teleportation, telekinesis, electrokinetic powers, spellcasting, wish granting, magic, blackmail
MagicTeleportationMagic wandCharismaPotion creationCunningManipulationHigh intelligenceIntimidation

### Hobbys And Interests

Managing her company.
Creating a portfolio of potions.
Eating junk food.

### Goals, Plans/Plots, Missions

Have Shrek break up with Fiona or kill him.
Compel Fiona to marry her son Prince Charming to make him king in order to become all-powerful over Far Far Away and become the wealthiest woman in the world.
Prove that Ogres do not live happily ever after (all failed).

To have her son marry Princess Fiona (failed)

Have Shrek break up with Fiona or kill him.
Compel Fiona to marry her son Prince Charming to make him king in order to become all-powerful over Far Far Away.
Prove that Ogres do not live happily ever after (all failed).

Get her son to marry Princess Fiona (failed), Have Shrek break up with his love (also failed)

## Personality & Traits

She is loosely based on the fairy-tale Cinderella's "Fairy Godmother," the stock character from Sleeping Beauty and the fortune teller from the original *Shrek* book by William Steig. She seeks to get the best for herself and her son Prince Charming, rather than others. She often resorts to blackmail and trickery through magic to get her way. She loves to eat whenever she is distressed ("someone get me something deep fried and smothered in chocolate", when Shrek makes a mess of her potion factory, and during her talk with Harold in the carriage about Shrek, it is shown that Harold ruined her diet, so she orders food from Friar's Fat Boy).

The Fairy Godmother isn't like her classic benevolent counterpart who uses her magic for the heroic reasons. Instead, she is a conniving businesswoman who is only out to use others to benefit herself and her son Prince Charming. The equivalent of a crime boss, The Fairy Godmother isn't above blackmail; not only did she threaten Harold by taking away his happily ever after, but she proudly admits that she forces others to fall in love all the time. The Fairy Godmother is also very close to some of her previous clients (like King Harold) who she uses to her own advantage many times during the film.

She has no qualms about using her magic to get what she wants, and is spiteful to those who interfere with her plans or business. The Fairy Godmother is no fool; she uses any and every underhanded trick, some that make her appear more benevolent and kinder than she really is. She pretends to be gentle and kindly when the moment calls for it (her first appearance to Fiona, for example), but if there is any interference with her plans she shows her true colors. She is ruthless, unreasonable, vengeful, evil, cruel, selfish, and will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in her way. Like many human characters in the *Shrek* universe, she has a deep-seated prejudice toward ogres. Unlike Lord Farquaad, however, her bigotry comes from experience, claiming that ogres "don't live happily ever after," and cites several examples of other fairy tales just to prove her point. Ironically, she arranges for her son to marry Princess Fiona, despite her curse.

The only one the Fairy Godmother seems to love truly is her son, Prince Charming, whom she frequently dotes on and wants to become king. That said, however, she didn't seem concerned for her son when he got knocked out by Fiona outside of anger at her plans being foiled, leaving it ambiguous as to whether she did indeed love her son.

The Fairy Godmother isn't like her classic benevolent counterpart who uses her magic for the heroic reasons and to give princesses their happily ever after. Instead, she is a conniving, persuasive, perfidious, prejudiced, and corrupt businesswoman with her own agenda who is only out to use others to benefit herself and her son Prince Charming. The Fairy Godmother isn't above blackmail, as she threatened Harold by taking away his happily ever after, and proudly admits that she forces others to fall in love all the time. The Fairy Godmother is also very close to some of her previous clients, like King Harold, who she uses to her own advantage many times during the film.

She has no qualms about using her magic to get what she wants, and is extremely spiteful and acrimonious to those who interfere with her plans or business, but the Fairy Godmother is no fool. She uses any and every manipulative and underhanded trick, some that make her appear more compassionate and kinder than she really is. She also has no qualms playing mind games with Shrek, trying to ruin his and Fiona’s marriage since she firmly believes that ogres can’t live happily ever after. An example being where she pretends to gently and kindly convince Shrek to "stop living in a fairytale", but once she is seen for what she really is, she is ruthless, mean, wrathful, acquisitive, greedy, evil, cruel, pompous, arrogant, and selfish, so she will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in her way.

Despite her manipulative nature, the Fairy Godmother is not without redeeming traits as she truly loves and cares for her son Charming, whom she dotes on, and wants to make king by marrying him to Fiona so that he can rule over the kingdom of Far Far Away.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Magic:** As a magical being, The Fairy Godmother has many powers or abilities.
	+ **Wish Granting:** She posses the power of Projection, which she uses to grant the people wishes, or whatever she wants.
	+ **Teleportation:** Her method of teleportation is Smoke-Sparkling, which is channeled by her wand, like her other powers.
	+ **Spell Casting:** As The Fairy Godmother, with her magic wand. She can cast powerful spells and hexes. she posses two basic abilities, Spell Casting, and obviously (because of the many potions that she sell) Potion making.
	+ **Electrokinesis:** she demonstrated the power of Electrokinesis, combined with the ability of Spell Casting, when She throws to Shrek and Fiona a blast of electricity, and Harold gets in the firing line, causing to the blast to reverse the Happily Ever After potion or spell.
	+ **Telekinesis:** The Fairy Godmother has the ability to move all the objects around her. She also posses the power of Telekinesis, which she also channels by her wand, to trap Shrek in Fiona's bedroom, and Animation to give inanimate objects a life of their own.
	+ **Animation:** She can make objects talk, move, and live. She can create animation objects by using magic.
	+ **Winged Flight:** She can levitate and hover thanks to a pair of hummingbird wings on her back. This is one of the only magical abilities she can do without her wand.
		- **Cloth Manipulation:** She can manipulate her clothes, meaning that she can shapeshift her clothes to any design, shape, or form.
	+ **Fortune Telling:** Her original character from Shrek, the fortune teller, has the ability to tell others their futures, as she has tarot cards, which she used to narrate Fiona's past.

* **Magic**: As a magical being, The Fairy Godmother has many powers or abilities. Also, as mentioned before, she posses two basic abilities, Spell Casting, and obviously (because of the many potions that she sell) potion-making.
	+ **Teleportation**: Her method of teleportation is smoke-sparkling, which is channeled by her wand, like her other powers.
	+ **Projection**: She possesses the power of projection, which she uses to grant the people wishes, or whatever she wants.
	+ **Electrokinesis**: In her final scene in *Shrek 2*, she demonstrated the power of electrokinesis, combined with the ability of Spell Casting, when she throws to Shrek and Fiona a blast of electricity, and Harold gets in the firing line, causing to the blast to reverse the Happily Ever After potion or spell.
	+ **Telekinesis**: She also possesses the power of telekinesis, which she also channels by her wand, to trap Shrek in Fiona's bedroom, and Animation to give inanimate objects a life of their own.
	+ **Animation**: She can make objects talk, move, and live. She can also create animation objects by using magic.
	+ **Flight**: She can levitate and hover.
	+ **Cloth Manipulation**: She can manipulate her clothes, mean that she can transform other clothes and any design, shape, and form.
* **Singing**: Though it is not one of her powers, Fairy Godmother is also a good singer, as she can sing with a good voice.

## Trivia

* It’s quite possible that she’s actually the one that had cursed Fiona as part of her plan. However, (if this was the case) it would have gone horribly wrong since Shrek saved Fiona and not Prince Charming.
* The Fairy Godmother is the first DreamWorks villain to use the term "bloody".
* She’s the only main antagonist in the franchise to be female.
* She’s a spoof of the Fairy Godmother from the fairytale *Cinderella*.
* She was originally slated to appear as the main antagonist in *Shrek*, but she was cut for unknown reasons and used later in the film's sequel.
* The Fairy Godmother is the third DreamWorks Animation character to be a female antagonist, following Mrs. Tweedy from *Chicken Run* and Eris from *Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.*
* Dama Fortuna has similarities with Ursula from Disney's *The Little Mermaid*:
	+ They have a similar hairstyle, they were both voiced by Jennifer Saunders at some point (Saunders auditioned for Ursula and this was how she earned the role of Dama Fortuna), and their respective spell making sequences are similar.
	+ Coincidentally, both Fairy Godmother and Ursula met similar ends where they were obliterated, at least in part, by a backfired spell in an attempt to kill the heroes (Ursula attempted to use the Trident on Ariel in a final attempt to kill her, only for her to be impaled by one of the sunken ships by Eric, causing the Trident's built up energies to backfire on her and disintegrate her off-screen, while Fairy Godmother attempted an anti-Happily Ever After spell on Shrek after Harold admits he swapped the love potion-laced tea deliberately, only for the spell to be redirected back towards her thanks to Harold's armor redirecting it, causing her to explode). Both also were involved in an attempt at sabotaging the protagonist ensuring the success of a spell to be fully human by having a duplicate act in the protagonists' stead (Ursula directly interfered by posing as a woman named Vanessa to trick, and ultimately brainwash Prince Eric into thinking she saved him instead of Ariel, while Fairy Godmother had Prince Charming pose as Shrek's human form to both prevent Shrek from returning to Fiona and also ensure he actually took over Far Far Away).
* Her name, Dama Fortuna, means "Dame Fortune" or "Lady Luck."
* She’s the only known main antagonist to have been killed nearly instantly from the cause, Lord Farquaad was still alive in the dragons stomach only to die later, Prince Charming was implied in Scared Shrekless to have ultimately survived the tower falling on him, and Rumpel Stiltskin is currently still alive.

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