Our Ogres Are Hungrier

Comic Books

TheBlack Moon Chronicles' ogres are gigantic fur covered humanoids who raid isolated villages, one such raid resulting in the birth of Ghorghor Bey, a half-ogre warlord.

InGarulfo, the ogre is an enormous giant withNo Indoor Voice... Unless he's aroundhis collection of fine crystals, woe to you if youbreak one.

Fairy Tales

MostFairy Tale ogres are the stupid and brutal kind.

InPuss-in-Boots, the ogre is a shape-shifting brute, who owns a large amount of land. In order to get his poor master some land to trick a king into thinking he is royal, the eponymous cat tricks him to turn into a mouse so he can eat him.

A notable exception to the typical use of the trope is in the famousJack and the Beanstalk story, where the giant's wife, who is usually portrayed as nice enough to try to get Jack to leave without harming him, is often described as an ogress.

InSleeping Beauty, the prince's mother is an evil ogress who tries to eat her own grandchildren.

In oneArabian Nights story, a prince (whose vizier is actually using anUriah Gambit on him) encounters an "ogress" who appears at first as a beautiful woman, but then shapeshifts into a monster who tries to feed the prince to her children. The magical powers and ability to deceive seem incongruous for an ogre, but very much in keeping witha ghul, so ogress might just be a translation.

Film

Shrek: The eponymous hero is a green, seven-foot-tall humanoid who is actually well educated and merely wants to be left alone.

In the movieTime Bandits, the protagonists are found by an ogre and his wife on the ogre's ship. The ogre is outwitted and left at sea after the protagonists commandeer the ship.

The film version of theSpiderwick Chronicles has the ogre Mulgarath. He's actually quite clever and menacing, but is tricked into turning into a bird near an otherwise harmless small creature that loves to eat them.

Literature

Ogres ofXanth. Magic makes them strong, and also makes them rhyme. They were originally portrayed as stupid brutes, but this was later shown to vary with the individual (and several fake it for cultural reasons).

In theSpiderwick Chronicles (the fifth book), Mulgarath, the primary antagonist, is an evil ogre who wants to enslave the world, ridding it of all humans.

Mulgarath actually dosn't fit into any of the archetypes listed above. He's very smart, very cunning, and knows when to change forms, even if the new form is weaker. A better fit to the above archetype are the trolls, who are supposedlyafflicted with never ending hunger.
- Mulgarath does fit some of those tropes. He certainly is the largest faerie in the first series, and that "oven big enough to roast Jared in" probably isn't used for making pizzas....

InTamora Pierce's books that revolve around theTortall Universe, there are two kinds of ogres: peaceful farmers and warlike monsters. Both types are extremely tall and often seem menacing. In her bookWolf-Speaker, the peaceful "breed" are slaves who mine black opals.

Master vampires in Nancy A. Collins'sSonja Blue Trilogy often employ ogres, both as dumb muscle and as walking garbage disposals, consuming drained corpses when the master doesn't want to add to his/her brood. In reference to their WesternFairy Tale origins, they have a tendency to bechild molesters.

Ogres and ogre/human hybrids are fairly common in theGarrett P.I. series, appearing repeatedly as Mooks for the villains, and taking a major role inBitter Gold Hearts.

Live Action Television

In the British science-fiction seriesDoctor Who, aliens called Ogri, which resemble large rocks and feed on blood appear in The Stones of Blood. The Doctor suggests that Gog, Magog, and Ogre could derive from this.

Also inDoctor Who, the evil Daleks use a race of large, unintelligent humanoid brutes called Ogrons as warrior-slaves. The Ogrons are featured in the stories "Day of the Daleks", "Frontier in Space", and very briefly in "Carnival of Monsters".

Special Unit 2 featuredJack the Ripper as an ogre who was compelled to devour humans. He tried to limit himself to hookers and prostitutes and developed a serum to control his instincts, but was losing control when SU2 tracked down and killed him.

Tabletop RPG

Ubiquitous inDungeons & Dragons.

Ogres have simple minds, ugly tempers, and voracious appetites. They are at least 9 feet tall, and depending on the edition, their body parts were a rainbow of disgusting colors (in 3E, they were mostly orange-yellow; in 4E, pink-gray). They wear skins and furs and keep captured prisoners as slaves (and/or snacks). They're not very bright and are often the firstReally Heavy Hitter enemy PCs come across. Ogres (as well as trolls) traditionally worship the evil god Vaprak.
Ogre magi are similar to ogres, except that they are much cleverer (more intelligent than most humans), have magical powers, unnaturally-colored skin (red and blue being the most common), horns, and Japanese-style attire. An ogre mage is often found leading an ogre tribe. In 4E andPathfinder, they're actuallyoni, spirit creatures that merely resemble ogres (and may still associate with them). According to the 3E article "Ecology of the Ogre Mage" inDragon magazine #349, ogre magi are descended from one of the demigod sons of Vaprak.
InForgotten Realms, the origin story of the ogres is that they are the cursed progeny of the giant goddess Othea, who was raped by Vaprak.
Ogres inAl-Qadim mostly are peaceful and productive members of Enlightened society like most other creatures. Ogres are clannish, some more brutish than others, and some more fashionable; they take variety of occupations, up to and including an occasional barber, though most prefer to exploit their advantages as porters or warriors. The Caliph's palace guard is made up entirely of ogres. However, savage ogre tribes are very common in the wild southern islands. There are also ogre magi (whom common ogres dislike) and related ogre giants with elephant ears and often cyclopean single eye - mostly savage and brutish, but some joined the Enlightened society or even became missionaries to their own kind.
The ogres ofPathfinder are basically giant hillbilly rapists.
Ogres are a very common race inDragonlance and are even more inclined toward evil thangoblins. They're an offshoot of the beautiful, human-shaped irda race, whose civilization descended into depravity ages ago and most of whom were cursed by the gods. The ogre race actually includes not just common ogres and irda, but also ogre magi, hags, and giants. After the Summer of Chaos, some savage ogres underwent magic rituals to transform themselves into the massive, beautiful, and wholly evil titans.
Merrows are an aquatic offshoot of ogres. They breathe underwater, have scaly blue skin, and use spears instead of clubs, but are otherwise similar to normal ogres. (Note that in real-world Irish folklore, merrows were actually a kind of (generally good-natured)merfolk.
Ogrun in theIron Kingdoms setting are more likeBlizzard-style orcs, being a shamanistProud Warrior Race Guy PC race. Being a people who holdloyalty and service as the highest ideal,their sworn lord's alignment probably shapes much of their own behaviour.

Warhammer Fantasy Battle Ogres have a society influenced by the Mongols, and wield a strange form of Gut Magic, which depends on what the caster ate. They literally worship the concept of hunger and practice rampant cannibalism, eating both other sentient races and their own kind; aKlingon Promotion generally entails the usurper devouring its predecessor. Some are captured by the Skaven to be turned into Rat Ogres.

InWarhammer 40,000, Ogryns are big, stupid mutant humans that live in stone-aged tribal societies. They look likeWarhammer Fantasy Ogres, but arerather friendly by 40K standards: They're basically large, mischievous children who like clubbing things and having cleverer people tell them what to club. They are alsocapable of acting civilized (even if most don't).

Specifically they become mostly capable of acting civilized after being upgraded tomerely stupid with neural implants.

Hungarian tabletop RPG/book series "World of Chaos" (like Tolkien except all the elves and dwarves are missing -imagine aWoW where the Horde has won - with the half-orc Skandar Graun acting as the main protagonist). Ogres are a major race and are given even more mutations (extra horns, heads, limbs etc.) to pick from.

RuneQuest ogres look like attractive human beings, but have a genetic predisposition to anthropophagy. They deliberately spread disinformation to the effect that all ogres are hideously deformed and unsanitary.

The Ogres ofGURPS: Banestorm are among the Elder Folk of Yrth but by far the least advanced of everyone, even the orcs are cultured and intelligent compared to them. Their only saving grace is that they're stronger and tougher than every other species.

InChangeling: The Lost Ogres are those abductees who were warped by abusive behaviour into tough, violent and large monsters, often with a penchant for human flesh. Their stereotypical view of humans is "You're beautiful. On the other hand, you taste like chicken." Overlaps withAll Trolls Are Different, as some trolls are water-themed ogres.

In the olderChangeling: The Dreaming, "ogre" was often used to refer to Unseelie Trolls, but Ogres proper were a separate race of fae associated exclusively with the Unseelie Court. They're typically extremely strong and resilient, but dumber than lobotomized rocks.

Ogres are a staple creature type for red and black inMagic: The Gathering. Those that have special abilities tend to be able to harm their controller or other friendly creatures.

Ogres inShadowrun are a variant of Orc who are actually rather short. Also hairless, with protruding jaws.

Video Games

Warcraft's ogres are large, dim-witted humanoids that either attack with a club or their fists. In the first game, they were a random neutral threat, but the second one promoted them to underlings ofThe Horde. WC2 also presented the ogre-magi (inspired byDungeons & Dragons Ogre Magi, which in turn are based on Japanese oni), which were even turned blue-skinned in the second sequel. Notably, the two-headed variants are freaks of nature magically created by an orc warlock to boost their intelligence.

Also, in a small subversion, inWorld of Warcraft there's a quest where you run into a two-headed ogre who's quite intelligent, and heckles you for thinking all Ogres speak in aYou No Take Candle fashion.
Actually, one Alliance questgiver advised the player to never consider them to be the idiots that they appear to be, because that's when they usually strike.

Arcanum has playable half-ogres, and one subplot involves finding a half-ogrebirthing factory, which then turns out to be fake.

Dragon Age ogres are a type of darkspawn created from qunari. They have horns and look like wingless demons but are otherwise typical examples of The Ogre.

Final Fantasy X had an Ogre asthe first in a series of hairy muscular humanoids that use physical attacks and counters.

InEverQuest, ogres are large, muscular, stupid humanoids whonot speak too good. The stupidity came about as a result of being cursed by the Gods of good. In EverQuest 2, the Gods had all left, and one of the effects was that the ogre's curse was lifted, turning them into a race ofGenius Bruisers.

Enemy ogres inDungeon Crawl areGlass Cannons who can't take damage quite as well as they can deal it due to lack of armor, and playable ogres are much the same. Of note, however, is that ogres make surprisingly good mages; anogre mage is a fearsome foe, and a legitimate character build in theMagic Knight vein.

The Super Mutants seem to fill this role in the post-apocalyptic setting ofFallout 3. Super mutants from the other games are more akin to "Blizzard" orcs than ogres.

Ogres have appeared in many of theHeroes of Might and Magic games.

HoMM2's ogres were mid-tier (4 of 7) big, fairly slow moving axe-wielders with a lot of hitpoints for their level. They upgraded into tougher and faster "ogre lords", and were aligned with the barbarians.
HoMM3's ogres were also tier 4 of 7 big, strong humanoids, although they used clubs. They upgraded to ogre mages, who wore vaguely oriental armor and exchanged their clubs for totem staffs. Again aligned with the barbarians.
HoMM4 units didn't upgrade. The The Ogre Magi appear as the Tier3 monsters for the Might faction, as an alternetive to the Cyclops. Interestingly, they bear some resemblence to elderly Native American shamans.

In theGuild Wars universe there are two definitions of Ogres. In the first game, Ogre acts as a classification for large humanoids that do not qualify as a giants; this covered Jottuns, Ettins, and Yetis. In the second game, a race identified as Ogres have invaded the Blazeridge Mountains. Their culture revolves around beasts and all members of their society tame beasts for use in battle.

The Oni inTouhou are somewhere between this and Orcs, with a heavy dose ofBlood Knight. They would challenge everyone that will accept their challenge, usually of drinking and fighting (or drunken-fighting, natch). Too bad modern people refuse to acknowledge the existence of the supernaturals, so they retreated underground since they don't have anything fun to do with humans anymore.

RuneScape ogres are large dim-witted humanoids. They have a fairly human, yellowish skin colour and prominent bellies. They speak in a primitive manner. Some are aggressive, but most are not, and are in fact capable of holding a city with merchants. They also have something like a dozen varieties - actually green-skinned jungle ogres (Jogres), blue-skinned amphibious marine ogres (Mogres) and so on, even having zombie and skeletal varieties, aptly named. The now nearly extinct species known as Ourg, even larger than actual giants and more intelligent, might be a relative. Ogres also form a gender-separated society, with the ogresses living further south in an Australia-themed land.

Puzzle Quest has the hungriest ogre of all, Drong. He has a series of side quests, all revolving around getting him different things to eat. Things such aspoisonous spiders,another ogre,diamonds and LAVA andthe body of a slain god.

InDwarf Fortress, ogres are huge, powerful brutes that live in certain evil plains. They're highly aggressive, very powerful and tough, andwill path to any building laying outside, wreck them, then proceed to find their way to the inside of the fortress. If you see a pack of ogres at the very beginning, you're better off restarting the game. Goblins sometimes bring them in sieges.

Western Animation

InDisney'sAdventures of the Gummi Bears, there is an army of villainous ogres residing in Castle Drekmore and led by Duke Igthorn, who attempt to conquer King Gregor and Dunwyn Castle. They are almost all hulking morons, with the exception of Igthorn's majordomo Toadwart (who is as tall as a human child and of average intelligence) and Toadwart's cousin Tadpole (who is a genius—and shorter still).

InThe Smurfs animated series, an ogre named Bigmouth occasionally befriended the title characters while making life for the evil wizard Gargamel difficult.

Family Guy had that episode where a salesman tries to sell beach front property terrorized by an ogre.

"Beautiful beach front property! No city noise!No flesh-eating ogres! No pollution!"

There was an episode ofRen and Stimpy about an ogre and a new pair of sneakers.

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