He told Shrek that he must prove his love to her, by telling her "something hat only her true love would know.(He casts his speech away behind him.)But I am gonna tell you a story.It""s a funny story so get ready to laugh....Get ready to bust your sides laughin"", ""cause it""s sure a funny story.It""s about a hick.A hick like you, if you please.Yeah, like you.He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm.He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse.His character changed when he confronted both Eddie Brock and then Marko after a bank robbery in an underground subway station - he left believing the Sandman was dead after he disintegrated in a flood of water.[Flashback: While 13 year-old Clark Kent (Dylan Sprayberry) was riding on a schoolbus and being bullied by teenaged classmate Pete Ross (Joseph Cranford), the bus had a flat tire as it was crossing a bridge, and it careened over the side into a deep body of water.