Thelonious is the secondary antagonist in the DreamWorks film, Shrek. He was Lord Farquaad's former henchman.
Background[]
Personality[]
He seems to be not as smart as the others of Farquaad's men. This was first shown when he tells Farquaad to choose princess number 3, but only holds up two fingers. While not very smart, he has been shown to have a sort of "persuasive" side as a torturer, breaking a small mirror to intimidate the Magic Mirror into sharing information about how to become king with Lord Farquaad. However, he does have a compassionate side when he betrayed Farquaad's ghost, saved Shrek, Fiona and Donkey from falling into Fairy Falls and gestured the crowd to 'Aawww' during Fiona's wedding.
Physical Appearance[]
He is tall, slender, and muscular, he has glowing green eyes, he wears a gray suit with a darker grey vest, gloves and shoes, and a black hood. His true face is never seen.
Appearances[]
Shrek[]
In Shrek, Thelonious was first seen getting out a glass and pouring milk into it and was then torturing Gingy by dunking him into the glass of milk and breaking his legs, but Lord Farquaad tells Thelonious "that's enough" and that Gingy is "ready to talk", so Thelonious takes the Gingerbread Man out of the glass of milk and puts him on a tray for Farquaad to interrogate him into telling him where the rest of the fairytale creatures are.
Then, as the Magic Mirror was brought in, Thelonious, along with the Duloc Guards, Gingy and Farquaad were interested and surprised after seeing what it looks like. As Farquaad was about to talk to the mirror, Gingy tells him not to tell the mirror anything, causing Farquaad and Thelonious to stare at him and Farquaad to push him into a trash can.
After the mirror told Farquaad that he is technically not a king, the lord had Thelonious threaten the mirror by grabbing out a smaller mirror and smashing it with his fist, making the mirror tell Farquaad that he's not a king yet, but can become one by being married to a princess. As Farquaad was deciding which princess to choose, Thelonious convinces him to pick number 3, but holds up 2 fingers instead of 3 (showing his lack of intelligence). Farquaad then decided to pick number 3 and the Magic Mirror states that he has chosen Princess Fiona, causing Thelonious and the Guards to applaud their lord for his choice.
He is later seen at Fiona's wedding, writing the word 'Aawww' on one of the gesture signs. After Farquaad was defeated by the Dragon eating him, Thelonious, despite working for Farquaad, was invited by Shrek and Fiona to their wedding (implying that he reformed and was forgiven for being the lord's accomplice), as he was seen playing the organ pipe and then waving at Shrek and Fiona as they leave for their honeymoon.
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party[]
In the short, he sings with Gingy.
Shrek 4-D[]
In the short, Thelonious appeared, riding his horse, to kidnap Princess Fiona on the Ghost of Lord Farquaad's behalf. Fiona tries to fight Thelonious, but she fails and Thelonious succeeded in kidnapping her. Then, as Fiona was tied up onto a raft and Farquaad talks to her about his plans to make her his wife, he tells Thelonious to let her fall into a waterfall called Fairy Falls. When Thelonious attempts to proceed in letting Fiona fall, Farquaad calls him a nitwit and tells him not to do it with himself on it. Fiona manages to untie herself and starts punching Thelonious, with Thelonious himself admitting that he deserves it and Farquaad calling him a numskull. She then kicked Thelonious, causing him to fall off the raft and into the waterfall. Fiona apologizes to Thelonious afterwards, but Farquaad didn't care and decided to leave him to potentially drown.
In the near end, he redeems himself by betraying Farquaad's ghost and rescuing Shrek, Fiona and Donkey from Fairy Falls (but the branch he was holding onto snapped, which caused all four of them to fall into the waterfall until they were all rescued by Dragon). Thelonious was never seen again, making it unknown what happened to him after Dragon defeated Farquaad's ghost, but it is possible that he lived a new life since Duloc got abandoned.
Thriller Night[]
Thelonious returned in the short as he (despite not being deceased) appeared as one of many zombies, dancing to the Michael Jackson song Thriller and later trying to attack Shrek. In the end, however, it turned out that Shrek was actually having a nightmare as he was asleep at the Far Far Away cinema, and as Shrek woke up, screaming and hoping that the incident was over, Thelonious was one of many audience members of the cinema seen in the background, as he can be seen sitting in between Doris and Prince Charming.
