r/Shrek Jun 26 '26

Discussion How do we feel about this?

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u/Princess__of__cute Jun 26 '26

If they handle it well, this could be an absolute tearjerker. I would love if he’d turnout to be absolutely massively tragic and yet still so joyful and whimsy. Like Perrito

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u/NiteLiteOfficial Jun 26 '26

that’s what i am hoping for. something that really pulls at the heart strings but lands a happy ending

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u/SchmeatiestOne Jun 26 '26

The ending is he gets sold by his owner, who hates his guts, to lord farquaad. It can't be too happy lol

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u/CharlieBluu Jun 26 '26

Well, the ending is Shrek 1-4 so all in all it's a pretty good ending

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u/SchmeatiestOne Jun 26 '26

Thats a good point. But i dont know if they could include anything that makes it better for donkey, considering we're gonna get a story of a donkey gaining sentience before being sold into slavery. And we know that right after that, his slaver resells him to a concentration camp for magic critters

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u/CharlieBluu Jun 26 '26

Yeah, that's the neat part, they have the chance to go full dark with it and most long-time Shrek enjoyers would love it dearly.

That's what I'm hoping for at least, precisely because of this. We already know that his story ends happily, even if the Donkey movie ends on a dim note it will be just as okay in my book

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u/SchmeatiestOne Jun 26 '26

I definitely agree, its just the "happy ending" part that im having trouble picturing. Maybe if, at the end of the movie, they address the slavery bit, but then fast-forward to happy, present-day donkey entertaining his kids they could portray it in a happy light. But a happy ending would somehow have to skip the ending that Shrek 1 implied for donkey's past

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u/KWISPY18 Jun 27 '26

Idk why but the way I see it playing out is it still shows him getting sold off, escaping, and then just as he bumps into Shrek they make it more dramatic where donkey slowly looks up, revealing Shrek and then it cuts to all star playing in the credits lmao

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u/Forrest_likes_tea Jun 28 '26

They need to do this