Donkey (Shrek)

Donkey is a fictional talking donkey from the Shrek series of films, voiced by Eddie Murphy.

Donkey enjoys singing and idle chatter — usually to the annoyance of everyone else. He has an enormous sweet tooth, as well. He loves parfaits, cakes, and waffles and is known to “go weak in the knees for an upside-down coconut soufflé with mango chutney sauce” . He sees nothing more or less than a Dutch fudge torte with cinnamon swirls in the enchanted smoke of the wizard Merlin's bonfire.

Some of Donkey's foibles include acrophobia, colorblindness, hypochondria, cowardice. It also doesnt help being colourblind in an emergency situation. He has a rather short attention span and is extremely impatient. He is rather naïve, and is at times oblivious to the use of tact in some delicate situations. Like real donkeys, he has incredibly powerful legs which are often used in fight scenes.

Also, Donkey is a tad dimwitted. This is proved in the third movie where when Puss explains how you get children and is interrupted, Donkey asks, "How does it happen?" When clearly he has children with Dragon.

By his own oral accounts, Donkey had suffered a life of abuse and ridicule before (literally) running into Shrek, a grouchy, reclusive ogre in Shrek. When Shrek defends the donkey from a pursuing group of armed guardsmen, Donkey expresses profound gratitude and takes a liking to Shrek immediately, despite the reclusive ogre's best attempts to fend him off.