Corrected entry: When Donkey first meets Shrek, he calls him a "mean green fighting machine". How would he know Shrek is green? We later find out he is colour blind.
jimba
1st Feb 2005
Shrek (2001)
Correction: Just throwing in that there are different kinds of color blindness. The term means difficulty telling some colors apart, not necessarily the inability to see color at all (though that is one of the kinds of color blindness). It is possible Donkey can see green but not red and/or blue, hence his trouble finding a blue flower with red thorns.
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Correction: Donkey knows that ogres are green.
Tailkinker ★
How? Shrek is the only ogre around. Before you tell me about the others we learn about in Shrek : Forever After, shrek didn't know about them, and Donkey belonged to an old lady so he couldn't have known.
It's made clear that Donkey knows about ogres, as proved by what he says when they're walking through the vegetable field: "Why don't you just pull some of that ogre stuff on him? Throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, grind his bones to make your bread, the whole ogre trip." Donkey has heard about ogres before, or at least stories of what they can do, so why couldn't he know they're green? And how does being owned by an old lady negate his ability to know about ogres?