Ren Hoek

Ren Hoek, also known as Marland Hoek, Commander Hoek, Three-Fingered Hoek, Mad Dog Hoek, Robin Hoek, Renwaldo, The Unlucky Beast, Champy and Abraham, is one of the titular main protagonists from The Ren & Stimpy Show series.
== Charactah Account ==
An asthma hound chihuahua prone to psychotic breakdowns and acts of violence. Whatever he does, expect for it to be somehow materially motivated.
Unlike the jolly dim-witted Stimpy, Ren is rather smart. Ren is smart in his own mind, but deep down he is a lot dumber than Stimpy. However, he often seems to be a hot-tempered, scrawny, mean, dyspeptic, very hyperactive, emotionally unstable, greedy, spoiled, and violently psychotic chihuahua. He has stated once in "Stimpy's Invention" that he "loves" being angry. He is extremely selfish and childish, and at tense times mentally unstable. He also is shown to have several mood swings.
Ren's personality is best explained in the episode "Ren's Bitter Half", where Stimpy used his genetic chemistry set to create a substance called xB-49. Ren accidentally splashed the chemical onto himself, causing him to split into his evil personality, Evil Ren and his indifferent personality, Indifferent Ren. According to this episode, Ren being indifferent keeps him from going too far or losing control, as Evil Ren soon became corrupted and villainous without Indifferent Ren's influence, destroying many of Stimpy's possessions, especially his first by throwing them into a vat of acid, plotting world domination with an army of his clones, beating up his Indifferent counterpart, and replicating himself into the female Hideously Evil Ren, whom he married. 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon
* The Ren & Stimpy Show
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Season 2
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Season 3
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Season 4
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Season 5
=== Comics ===
* Nickelodeon Magazine
* Nintendo Power
* Ren & Stimpy Show Radio Daze
* Ren & Stimpy Show Special Powdered Toastman
* The Ren & Stimpy Show
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Holiday Special
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Special: Four Swerks
* The Ren & Stimpy Show Special: Powdered Toastman's Cereal Serial
=== Video Games ===
* Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker
* Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
* Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix
* Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway
* Nicktoons MLB
* Nicktoons Racing
* Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoek & Stimpy
* SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Fire Dogs
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Stimpy's Invention
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Time Warp
* The Ren & Stimpy Show: Veediots!
== Trivia ==
* Kricfalusi received inspiration, used when drawing the first drawings of Ren, from a Elliott Erwitt black and white photograph of a growling chihuahua in a sweater next to a woman's feet, which he found very amusing.
* Ren was named after John Kricfalusi's landlord.
* Brian Cummings, Joe Alaskey, Frank Welker, Carlos Alazraqui, Jack Angel, Hal Rayle, Patrick Pinney, Townsend Coleman, and Enrique Renaldo auditioned for the voice of Ren.
* Billy West also auditioned to play Ren but the creators of the series believed that having West voice both Ren and Stimpy would give him too large of a workload, as he also voiced the titular character of Doug. So, Kricfalusi voiced him instead.
* It is implied several times that Ren may be older than Stimpy, perhaps by a large margin. This is supported by how in Ren's Retirement, Ren is stated to be ten - 53 in dog years - while Stimpy is said in "Stimpy's Big Day" to be three - 28 in cat years. In "I Was a Teenage Stimpy" Stimpy was shown to go through puberty, with Ren taking on the role of a conservative father to him, being happy that once Stimpy 'grew up' he'd have somebody to take care of him.
** In Adult Party Cartoon, Ren's voice is deeper in an attempt to make him sound older.
** In "Ren's Retirement", Stimpy states that Ren is 70 in dog years when he turned ten, but this is inaccurate since chihuahuas, like Siamese cats, live way longer and age slowly than other dog breeds. This could be a goof about how Stimpy is too dumb to know how to count.
* The origin of the gag of Ren being referred to as a 'mosquito' could've been inspired by how many of the cast and crew members had, at first, believed him to be a fly or a mosquito after seeing his concept art.
* Doctor N. Gin from the Crash Bandicoot franchise is very similar to Ren, especially in the Radical Entertainment games where his voice sounds extremely similar to Ren's and may have even been influenced by him.
* He and Stimpy were going to be the pets of Donny Chicken Child, the son of George Liquor, but Donny was cut from the show.
* Mr Höek was voiced by Mike Kricfalusi, John Kricfalusi's dad.
* Ren is similar to Moe Howard from the three stooges who always smacks Larry and Curly when they do something stupid, like what Ren does to Stimpy. Ren is also similar to Oliver Hardy who has to put up Stan Laurel who is also similar to Stimpy.
* Stimpy only puts up with Ren because he felt sorry for him and Ren has no friends. He doesn’t exactly admit that he gets very lonely since everybody does not like Ren,
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ren Höek at Ren & Stimpy Wiki
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