Ren Höek

*- Ren's psychotic breakdown as he attempts to murder Stimpy.*

*- Ren chaotically lashing out at Sven Hoek and Stimpy.*

*- Ren during his daydream as president.*

*- Ren's famous first quote.*

## Evil-Doer

**Ren Marland T. Höek**, mainly simply known as **Ren Höek**, is one of the two titular protagonists of *The Ren & Stimpy Show*. However, Ren is also portrayed as the main antagonist of several episodes, along with being an occasional anti-villain/anti-hero.

He's a chaotic, sadistic, manipulative, abusive, vane, and mentally unstable anthropomorphic chihuahua, who often goes on crazed violent outburst that involve trying to murder his "friend" Stimpson J. Cat or others, usually being very vengeful or angered towards others as well usually committing to it. His incredible ego and emotions can sometimes get the best of him as he, once angered or tempered with, will strictly goes in to a sadistic murderous rant usually, unless it's Stimpy, try to slaughter and homicidally abuse against those who wrong him.

He was voiced by the show's creator John Kricfalusi in the first 2 seasons of *The Ren & Stimpy Show* before being fired, and later being voiced over by Billy West in the later seasons of 3-5.

## Appearance:

Ren is a scrawny, semi-short, 50-70-year old, creepy-looking, Hungarian asthma-hound chihuahua with a fairly long, rat-like, pink tail (which disappears constantly to the point of it not being seen in the later episodes of the series). Due to the ideas that had been thrown around in the show's studio, the animation style is very whacky, wonderous, zany, and creative. Usually involving most characters (Like Ren as such) being put into crazy and whacky animation designs, which usually proport Ren's design and appearance as he can easily contort with skilled agility.

## Personality:

Ren's violent behavior and foul attitude is heavily played upon in many episodes of the series, though he does have a softer side he rarely shows and can be remorseful when he goes too far. Most of the time, however, Ren is a lunatic with extremely volatile and disturbing behavior as well as a bullying nature. Ren is greedy, delusional and (as mentioned above) murderously insane, all traits which make him an antagonist, though he does genuinely care for Stimpy in his own bizarre way and treats him well whenever the two share a common goal.

His abusive nature is further empathized in the Adult Party version of Ren and Stimpy, which due to being geared directly at an adult audience was free to re-envision Ren as an even more psychotic and cruel (yet still somewhat anti-heroic) figure, despite being later confirmed canon. Ren is a bad-tempered, aggressive, greedy, delusional, and murderously psychotic chihuahua. He has stated once in "Stimpy's Invention" that he "loves" being angry. He is also extremely selfish and childish, and at tense times mentally unstable. He is also shown at times to have many mood swings as he can be somewhat affable at one moment and murderously angry the next.

Ren is famous for his habitual slapping of Stimpy whenever he becomes enraged, his fist often growing comically large before he attacked - his favorite expression is "you idiot!" spoken in a heavy accent: despite the obvious abuse he receives, Stimpy is often quite happy to allow Ren to do so, being too stupid and/or gentle to think of fighting back. Ren also has a habit of breaking down into psychotic babbling that turns violent, with nightmarish imagery often being shown as Ren drifts into what can only be described as madness, sometimes instead of becoming violent Ren would instead break down into tears (suggesting he has no real control over his emotions, a fact later confirmed in the *Adult Party* version of the show).

## Biography/Background:

Most of his family background is a mystery, though it's implied that he grew up with his cousin, Sven Hoek, his father, and occasionally met up with his uncle. Though it's unknown if any mishaps with his family caused any sort of trauma for Ren, or if he simply chose to be egotistical.

In the original *Ren & Stimpy*, Ren is depicted as the rude, psychotic, and violent "friend" of Stimpy, to the point they often live together in the same house, and although Ren cares for Stimpy, he is also extremely selfish, lazy, and intolerant. This coupled with the stupidity of Stimpy often causes Ren to become abusive towards his friend, usually in exaggerated and graphic ways. It's unknown when Stimpy started to live together with Ren, though it's implied in the *Adult Party* version of the show that they started to live together for a much long period of time, somewhere around when they were young. It's also implied they might have been childhood friends, though this is unconfirmed.

It's also unknown, when or if Ren ever was adopted into another different family with humans (Aside from George Liquor of course), and if he ever got along, though this is also another unconfirmed implication.

## Villainous Acts:

* He constantly abuses Stimpy by hitting and assaulting him on the regularly. On top of this, he often verbally abuses him, sometimes for no reason.
* In ***Space Madness***, He becomes crazed and encourages Stimpy into pushing The History Eraser Button which erases certain people/characters from existence, basically killing millions of people in the end.
* In ***Sven Hoek***, he nearly beats Stimpy with a bat, and how later he details how he will torture and murder both Stimpy and Sven (his cousin who came to visit), after they destroy his prized possessions.
* In ***Stimpy's Fan Club***, He gets incredibly jealous of Stimpy's fame while he receives no mail and almost crosses the Moral Event Horizon, as he tries to kill Stimpy in his sleep by snapping his neck, but due to the anger and stress of his situation, he aggravates in pain which stops him causing him to fall unconscious, then in the morning when he receives a positive fan letter from Stimpy he breaks down and upsettingly feels terrible about his wrong doing.
	+ Ren also has a daydream during this episode, in where he daydreams about being president, assumingly for the US, Ren angrily yells at an unknown caller (Presumably the Australian world leader) about him not agreeing with his ways, in which he pushes a simple button on his desk which blows up part of the earth and all of Australia in the process. Though this technically does not count for an actual villainous act.
* In ***The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball***, He brutally abused and made Stimpy suffer as he forced him into wharfing hairballs for money which he almost dies from, since he nearly chokes many different times.
* In ***Man's Best Friend***, When George Liquor encourages Ren to attack him, Ren takes the opportunity to retaliate, bludgeoning him madly paddling with an oar until he's unconscious (this is easily one of the show's most controversial scenes of all time and continues to be censored to this day, only available via internet video-sharing sites).
* In ***An Abe Divided***, Ren convinces Stimpy to help him remove the Abraham Lincoln statue's head after hearing there's treasure inside. They accidentally break the head and the treasure turns out to be caramel corn, so the duo try to crudely rebuild the head with each attempt being worse than the last, Ren continuously abuses Stimpy throughout this episode.
* In ***Jimminy Lummox***, He does cruel things including prank phone calls, contaminating the tap water, torturing baby birds, and killing a fly by ripping one of it's wings off, which leads to Stimpy naming his conscience, Jiminy Lummox. Which angers Ren even more, as he feels insulted by this name, which the latter causes Ren to abuse Stimpy more.
* In ***Cheese Rush Days***, He crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he leaves Stimpy in a cave to die for his own money gain which leads to his defeat in the where he gets run over by Stimpy after getting booted from a place where he sells a tiny nugget to a guy which he rejects.
* In ***Double Header***, He attempts to send Stimpy away to the furthest planet known to earth, this is a clear sign of Ren not supposedly liking him, along with his attempted murder and abuse.
* In ***Bell Hops***, He attempts to take a picture of his boss Mr. Noggin for $1,000,000, despite not caring about his backstory or history, despite it having many different abuse and torture related parts. Ren later quits after killing Mr. Noggin quite after he find's out about Ren's photography.

## Trivia:

* The origin of the gag of Ren being referred to as a "mosquito" could have 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.
* It is implied several times throughout the show 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 - 70 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.
	+ Furthermore, his voice is deeper in an attempt to make him sound older in the Adult Party Cartoon version, this also implies they both have aged in this vast amount of time.