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| “ | What does the Hole get out of it? Well, you know those fish that nibble dead skin off your feet? Yeah-- the Hole's kinda like that. It eats fear. You win. It wins. Have fun, and enjoy the Hole! | „ |
| ~ Fear Hole Guy's summary of the "Fear Hole" |
| “ | Morty: So what. He‘s scared of love?
Morty: Dump. Fear Hole Guy: You‘re dumb. That‘s why you‘re not scared to be happy. The smarter you are, the more you know. Happiness is a trap. It can‘t last forever. Let‘s say you meet the love of your life. Well … it still gonna end. It‘s inevitable. Whether by the slow pull of a disease or the shock of loose footing on a hiking trail. Whether it be the corrosion of two personalities that reshape each other until they‘re incompatible. Or maybe it is the old stranger in a bar who says the things that need to be said to THAT person … THAT night! The point is: Happiness. Always. ENDS! Best case scenario. Think about this. BEST case … is that you die … at the same time. Yikes. |
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| ~ Fear Hole Guy‘s speech to Morty about the fear of happiness, also his most famous quote. |
| “ | Thank you for visiting the Fear Hole, Morty. Your fear of relying on Rick has been... delicious. | „ |
| ~ Fear Hole Guy applauding Morty for overcoming his fear |
Fear Hole is a minor antagonist in Rick and Morty Season 7, serving as titular main antagonist of the season finale episode, Fear No Mort.
He is an implied demon who feeds off of the fear of his victims. Introduced when Rick and Morty get skeptical of an inter-galactic scare park, the challenges them to experience the Fear Hole in the restroom at Denny's.
He is voiced by Liev Schreiber, who also played Stu Wargle in Phantoms, the younger Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ted Winter in Salt, Ray Donovan in the series of the same name, as well as Kingpin in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Brendan Flynn in Doubt: A Parable, Storm King in My Little Pony: The Movie and Lipa Drucker in Caught Stealing.
Personality[]
He introduces himself as a "connoisseur of fear" to Rick and Morty in a calm, pleasing tone, offering them a chance to experience good old fashioned fears when he eavesdrops in their conversation. Despite his insistence in pleasuring their needs, Morty points out that his business attire makes it difficult to determine whether he truly belongs anywhere. He encourages the viewers to enter the Hole in his commercial, explaining that the Fear Hole benefits both them and the Hole itself by removing your fear entirely.
Behind his pleasant demeanor, however, also reveals his sadism. When Morty confronts him again, he tries to remain mysterious by asking whether "is there a hole here" in the first place, but it's short-lived when Morty continues to ask him for straight answers. He's also shown to share similar traits of nihilism like Rick does, or at least understands that being terrified of happiness is what makes Rick so "delicious" to him; He rants to Morty about how the reason people aren't afraid of expressing love is because they're dumb, and everyone smarter than them is afraid of it. He explains that powerful beings are terrified of happiness itself because they recognize it as "a trap," about how it inevitably ends by either the personalities of both parties degrading overtime or death, both of which are known to occur unexpectedly, believing that the only best outcome from a marriage and/or couple is both of them dying at the same time. He also reveals to Morty that he'll chase him around with clowns as soon as Rick dies from his own fears.
And for all his talk about the Hole benefiting them and the person, he's shown to be extremely petty. He deliberately calls Morty (a child) names and taunts him for trying to leave the Hole because it seemed like he "didn't matter", expressing satisfaction to his face("yummy, yummy") and with a horrid laugh that his grandfather will die. He still offers Morty some of Denny's pancake puppies.
Appearance[]
In his normal appearance, the Fear Hole Guy appears as a middle-aged gaunt man with greying hair and dark bags under the eyes, as well as wearing a dark suit. But in his true appearance as a demon, his eyes occasionally flash black.
Biography[]
The Fear Hole Guy created the Fear Hole sometime in the 90's in a local Denny's store. Despite only 3 of them having their photos on the wall, it's heavily implied many of them underwent the experience at the Fear Hole.
Events of Rick and Morty[]
In the present day, the Fear Hole Guy appears to pose a challenge to Rick and Morty in order to truly be scared. Rick and Morty, thinking this would be another disappointing adventure, decide to humor him as they arrive at Denny's, which Morty enters. Due to the possibility of conflicting fears, Rick stays behind waiting for his turn as Morty undergoes the experience.
Meanwhile, Morty is led to think that Rick is in the Fear Hole as well. The Fear Hole Guy goes to the Denny's inside the Fear Hole to talk to Morty and find out more about him. He explains how Rick not being afraid of dying is what makes him "extra delicious", and that Rick will die if Morty doesn't learn to conquer his fear of not being accepted, shortly before laughing to himself.
He, or rather his voice, returns near the end of the episode to say how Morty's fear of relying on others was "delicious", further implying that he's also the Hole itself. Morty wakes up covered in sewage with the real Rick calling to him.
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Trivia[]
- Fear Hole Guy's physical appearance and debut episode shares similarity to Rod Sterling and his most famous creation, "The Twilight Zone."
- It's easily concluded that Fear Hole Guy is not human as the episode progresses.
- He meets Rick and Morty from another planet, though he states that he's as human as they are. However, how he ended up there is never elaborated on, and Morty concludes that his offer to them was likely just a trick to hitchhike a ride back to earth (how was he going to get back to earth in the first place isn't elaborated either).
- His exact age is also ambiguous; its shown that the Hole has been around at least when VHS tapes were relevant, and the exact man is presented in one of the tapes, but Fear Hole Guy can be described as a middle aged man in his 30s or 40s and hasn't aged since.
- He can enter the Fear Hole without becoming influenced by the effects.
- The end reveals that he was the Rick that we've been following for the majority of the episode, or at least can take control of the Hole itself and its inhabitants. He taunts Morty through Rick's own mouth without needing to physically appear as his usual form.
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