Farquaad callously tells Shrek to take the deed and leave before he changes his mind. The next morning, Shrek brings Lord Farquaad along with a host of guards to exchange Fiona for the deed to his swamp. Shrek and Fiona begin falling in love, but the day before they are set to return to Duloc, they have a falling out over a misunderstanding. At one point, Farquaad is shown to be forcing the Magic Mirror to show him an image of Fiona as he lies in bed, waiting for her to be delivered. Shrek and Donkey successfully rescue Fiona and the trio journey back to Duloc. Farquaad offers a proposition to him: if he rescues Princess Fiona, Farquaad will rid Shrek's swamp of the unwanted fairytale creatures. Farquaad's guards take aim at Shrek, but Farquaad, seizing a golden opportunity, declares Shrek the champion of the tournament. Despite the knights' best efforts, they are all defeated with relative ease by both Shrek and Donkey. Disgusted by Shrek, Farquaad declares that the knight who kills him will be named champion. Just as he announces the beginning of the tournament it is disrupted by Shrek and Donkey, who have come to demand that the fairytale creatures be removed from Shrek's swamp. He adds that should the winner fail, the next runner up with take his place and so on until one of them is successful. The tournament is held in an arena with the citizens of Duloc watching on as Farquaad announces his plan: the winner of the tournament will be sent to rescue Fiona for him. Having come up with a plan, Farquaad orders his captain to round up the finest Duloc Knights for a tournament. Lord Farquaad begins devising a plan to rescue his future queen, and when the Mirror attempts to warn him about what happens at sunset Farquaad silences him. Won over by her beauty (and Thelonius's suggestion), Farquaad chooses Princess Fiona, who happens to be locked away in a castle guarded by a ferocious dragon. In a parody of dating shows, the Mirror introduces three eligible princesses for Lord Farquaad to choose from: Cinderella, Snow White, and Princess Fiona. Farquaad takes this is an insult and threatens the Mirror, causing him to elaborate that Farquaad can become a king if he marries a princess. Farquaad boasts that Duloc is the "most perfect kingdom of them all", only for the Mirror to inform him that he is not actually a king. The Captain of the Guards interrupts the interrogation to announce that they have found the Magic Mirror, much to Farquaad's excitement. They are forcibly relocated out of Duloc and into a swamp, which unbeknownst to Farquaad, is the home of an ogre.īack in the dungeon of his castle, Farquaad and his henchman Thelonious torture the Gingerbread Man into revealing the location of other fairytale folk in hiding. He rewards citizens for turning them in to his Duloc Guards, who then put the creatures into cages and wagons. Because they don't fit in with his idea of a "perfect world", he exiles all fairytale creatures from Duloc.
Lord Farquaad is the sole ruler of Duloc. He has a big chin, a pageboy haircut, and is quite short.įarquaad taunting Gingerbread Man with his torn-off legs. Farquaad wears an outfit of mainly red, with a red hat and red cape to match his red tunic.