Mongo was a gingerbread giant that helped Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots, and others to invade Far Far Away Castle to stop the Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming from bewitching Fiona.

Appearances

Shrek 2

Gingy and Shrek hatch a plan to try to break into the Far Far Away Castle. Still knowing him, Gingy directs Shrek to the Muffin Man, who creates Mongo (the giant gingerbread man) in order to help the crew. Mongo is first seen crushing an ice cream cart under his foot. He then destroys the billboard sign with Fairy Godmother. He quickly gets distracted by a giant Farbucks Coffee cup for display on top of the Farbucks building before he realizes there is nothing in it. After discarding it, Donkey (as a horse) convinces Mongo to follow him to the castle. Mongo and the team begin to storm the castle. Mongo is angered when a catapult's flaming shot hits his upper gumdrop button, knocking it off of him- to which he kicks the burning gumdrop, destroying the catapult. When he tries to bring down the bridge, the guards attempt to break him and get rid of him for good by soaking him with hot foamy milk. Mongo is able to resist one soak, but his arms break on the second soak, causing him to fall in the moat. Gingy (who was with Shrek on Mongo's shoulder) jumps down onto him, while Mongo's severed arms keep the bridge open long enough for Shrek to successfully enter the castle. The latter takes out the guards and lowers the bridge as Puss lifts Gingy with his sword and is caught by Pinocchio, who bawls over leaving Mongo to sink in the moat. Mongo's last words were (to Gingy) smiling, "Be good".

While Donkey and Puss are singing (after Shrek and Fiona turn back into ogres and after Fairy Godmother died), Mongo also sung "Livin' la Vida Loca" along with the rest of the gang. It is unknown what happened to him after this, but he is last seen laying in the bottom of the moat. It's possible he could've gotten soggy, but would've eventually torn apart beyond repair, but it is also possible he could have survived long enough for the Muffin Man to find and repair him.

Thriller Night

Mongo reappears in Thriller Night rising from the graveyard as a zombie during Shrek's dream. He begins to dance with the other zombies in the film until Shrek wakes up.

Personality

Unlike his much smaller counterpart Gingy, Mongo is shown to be childish, slow-witted and unintelligent, as he thought he could drink from the giant Farbucks Coffee cup replica. This is due to the fact that he had just been created and acts like a newborn because of that. However, he is good-hearted, sacrificing himself to help Shrek and his friends enter the castle and save Fiona.

Skills and Abilities

• Enormous size and strength - Mongo's tremendous size easily makes him one of the biggest characters in the series, on par with Dragon, making him a powerful ally to Shrek like her. Because of his size, he is strong enough to destroy a Fairy Godmother billboard, lift a giant cup, kick his burnt gumdrop button towards the catapult and force open the castle gate.

Video Game Appearances

Mongo appears in Shrek Super Slam as a stage. Battles are fought on a giant birthday cake he carries. Mongo makes a cameo on the Suburbs of Far Far Away track from Shrek Smash n' Crash Racing. He walks around the track and if any careless racer makes contact with him, their kart will spin out. Mongo also appeared in Shrek Pinball in the Shrek plug and play TV game. His latest video game appearance was in DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing on the Far Far Away track. He is seen on the meadows happily waving to the drivers.

Trivia

• Like Gingy, Mongo has lost his limbs, albeit the difference being his arms.
• In the Movie Storybook adaptation, Mongo has red eyes and white lips instead of vice versa.
• Mongo is named after the brutish Blazing Saddles character of the same name, but his character is mainly based on the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.

Gallery

Human Shrek, Stallion Donkey, and Gingy travel to the Far Far Away castle up ahead.

Mongo loses his upper gumdrop button with the fire rock thrown by a darknut guard's catapult to protect the castle.

Mongo gets angry after losing one of his gumdrop buttons.

Mongo kicks the flaming gumdrop in the air, which gets smashed to smithereens when it hits the ground like a ball by the sound of bowling pins getting knocked down to attack the darknut guards.

A darknut guard alerts the other guards to dump the milk on Mongo after their powers weren't strong enough. The foam cloud is shaped like Beethoven hair.

The darknut guards dump a bucket of milk on Mongo which causes his arms to break apart.

Mongo sinks in the water after the body fell due to the arms that broke off from the gate.

Mongo sings during "Livin' La Vida Loca".