Shrek Forever After

Corrected entry: In the 4th Shrek film. Shrek and Gingy are talking about Fiona's curse and the curse that Shrek says (By day one way, by night another...) is different to the curse that Fiona says in the 1st film (By night one way, by day another). (00:57:00)

Correction: Telephone effect. These are different people saying this phrase at two different times. It's very easy to just say it or remember it differently.

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Corrected entry: Rumpelstiltskin stated his wish was that the King and Queen never existed, which should result in Fiona never existing.

Correction: Rumpelstiltskin didn't wish for the Queen and King to never exist. The Queen and King signed a contract where they wished for all their problems disappear, which ironically makes them disappear. This doesn't mean that they were erased from the timeline.

Corrected entry: In the first film it takes Shrek and Donkey several days to get to Fiona and then several days to get back to Duloc. In this film, Shrek only has one day as an ogre, yet he still manages to get to and from the castle that Fiona was locked in.

Correction: The first film they are traveling from Duloc, in this film they are going to FarFarAway.

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Plot hole: In the second Shrek movie, we find out that Fairy Godmother and the King had a deal that Prince Charming would save Princess Fiona from the keep, hence becoming her true love and breaking the curse. In the fourth movie, we start with Rumple monologuing about how he almost had the Kingdom by signing a deal with the King. Why would the King be so desperate to try and reverse the curse by signing a deal when he knows he has a prior attempt through Prince Charming, assuming it would take the same time for the messenger to return with news about Charming and Fiona either way?

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Suggested correction: It is stated in the intro that when "days turned into years" of waiting for a Prince to rescue Princess Fiona, the king and queen resorted to more desperate measures - enter Rumpelstiltskin.

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Trivia: The flute solos played by the Pied Piper were played by Jeremy Steig, a well-known jazz flutist. He is also the son of William Steig, the author of the original Shrek books.

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Question: What happened then to Prince Charming or Fairy Godmother? In Shrek 2, they did mention that it was the Fairy Godmother who cursed Fiona. So how come Prince Charming never rescued her instead of Shrek (since he was never born in Rumpelstiltskin's timeline)? The King and Queen may have disappeared but at least Prince Charming could have still saved her.

Answer: It is not known why it took Charming so long to rescue Fiona. She was in the tower for several years. Shrek 2 picked up after she was rescued and it was too late for Charming. Since Shrek was never born and Charming was so late, I would think there was nothing from stopping the King and Queen from signing the deal with Rumplestiltskin. The deal was for Fiona to be rescued from the tower in exchange for the Kingdom. He never said "who" rescued her. She rescued herself. It was a trick from the beginning. Not sure of their whereabouts after the deal. Fairy Godmother probably could not change the alternate reality if she did not know what happened to everyone.

Answer: Although they never say explicitly what happened, my guess is in the alternate reality where Shrek never came to rescue Fiona Prince Charming was killed by the dragon (like all the other knights who tried to save her) and then Fiona escaped on her own shortly afterwards.

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