

He knows when he is being screwed over and can formulate sophisticated plans to deal with problems. Despite seeming like an animal, Shrek is actually very intelligent, sophisticated, and harbors a deep insight into other people's mindsets. He also claimed to eat human eyeball juice on toast. He also eats cobwebs and apparently his own snot, although he doesn't know why with the latter. Like humans, he can drink beer and eats eggs.

Shrek's diet appears to be largely insectivorous, although he occasionally supplements it with vertebrate animals, such as rats and the aforementioned fish.
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To prevent sunburn, he coats his skin in mud, similarly to a pig or rhino, uses caterpillar entrails to add a green colour to his teeth(gross by human standards but perhaps attractive among ogre culture), farts in a body of water to catch fish for a meal, and intentionally allows earwax to form so he can create candles to light his home. Given he is a separate species to humans, a lot of his natural and normal ogre behaviors appear disgusting but are actually practical and perfectly normal for an ogre. He is very devoted, caring, and loving towards his wife and is protective of his friends (counting Donkey) and kids. Despite usually being cranky, sardonic, prideful, pompous, mean, and sometimes stubborn, he is a very lovable character. This all has become less so since the end of the first movie. He shuts everyone out and isolates himself as he knows how judgmental the world is towards ogres and how people judge him on his appearance alone.

He has been the scorn of multiple prejudices and revulsion because of his ogre background and generally appears thick-skinned to others but behind his terrifying demeanor, he possesses his own insecurities and fears. Towards others, he can be grouchy, arrogant, discourteous and hostile. It has been shown on multiple occasions that he possesses great physical strength, and he has the ability to sound a horn-like noise by blowing air through his ears. He appears as a big, green ogre, with rather cheap and crudely made clothes. As an ogre, Shrek has the typical appearance one would expect from his specie.
