Lars Fillmore (August 14, 1974 - January 1, 3008) was a time paradox-duplicate of Philip J. Fry in the Futurama series living under an assumed name. He worked as a technician at the Head Museum, where he met Leela and briefly dated her, prior to his true identity being revealed.
Personality[]
His personality was initially the same as Fry's before he became Lars. While living as Fry, he readjusted to life in the past and enjoyed time with his family and pet dog Seymour. However, a part of him still missed the future, such as when he missed Morbo being on the news and Leela.
After returning to the future as Lars, he gained some maturity and intelligence, which were notable in impressing Leela.
Bender's Big Score[]
Fry, while being chased by Nudar, exclaims he hates the future, and reading the time travel code on his buttocks with a magnifying glass is sent back to the year 2000. He encounters Bender's time duplicate, and pushes him into the Cryogenic tube before leaving and heading to Panucci's Pizza where he asks for a slice, but lacking money (from that era), he returns to the cryogenic lab to eat I.C. Weiner's pizza from earlier in the night. The pizza was ice cold, so he goes back in time to get it while it was warm, thus creating the time-duplicate of himself who would eventually become Lars. Fry watched as his duplicate shoved Bender in the cryogenic tube, before approaching his duplicate and complimenting his act. The dupe thanked him and would ask the original why he was there, as the original explained why he used the code. After arguing for a while, which unknowingly prevents the duplicate from seeing the pizza being thrown away, the dupe Fry left as the original Fry stayed and would accidentally return to the future after falling into a cryogenic tube with his past self. Duplicate Fry then headed back to Panucci's, where instead of using the Time Code again, decided to rent the upstairs storage above Panucci's. During this time, the time-duplicate Fry reintegrated into 21st-century life, spending time with his family, delivering pizzas, using his Seven Leaf Clover in Basketball games against his brother Yancy Fry, Jr. and hanging out with his dog Seymour Asses. However, it is clear he misses Leela who when he left the future was with a man named Lars.
By 2003, after three years of pining after a not yet existent Leela, the time-duplicate Fry decides to move on from his past (his past anyway, as it was the future) and after seeing a commercial gets a job as a whale caretaker with a disoriented narwhal named Leelu at the Old New York Aquarium after seeing a special interest story on the evening news. He stays with her until 2010, when he had to release her into the sea. The Fry dupe decides to try and go after her on a small ship owned by Leroy (Mr. Panucci's cousin). After two years of searching, he finally manages to catch her and bring her aboard the ship.
But like Leela, Leelu wanted to be with another male, a narwhal, instead of the Fry duplicate. A now emotionally broken and visibly aging duplicate Fry hesitantly releases the narwhal, crying as he bids her farewell and returns to Old New York. He parts ways with the crew and enters a taxi, while spotted by Bender (who was being controlled by Nudar and forced to go back in time to kill Fry) and pursues him. Before entering his building, he gives a now aged but happy Seymour a final fuss before departing to his apartment. He enters his apartment above a now closed and run down Panucci's Pizza, where he remarks it was closure to know Leelu was happy and Leela was happy with Lars. Bender caught up to Fry and destroys the building and inadvertently flash fossilizes an aged Seymour in the process.
Bender's attack causes the inside of the apartment to be engulfed in flames, catching Fry off-guard while burning off Fry's hair as well as damaging his larynx: causing his voice to deepen. Duplicate Fry then discovers he was Lars Filmore all along after seeing both his newly altered appearance in a mirror and an old picture of Lars and Leela, meaning he gets to be with her after all. This compels him to escape the burning building, before its collapse. He shouts for Leela to wait for him, as he runs to Applied Cryogenics to be frozen for another thousand years by hitching a ride in his former girlfriend Michelle's tube, freezing himself to be with Leela, further correcting the paradox.
When he awakens in the 31st Century, he gets a job at the Head Museum and waits for years until he eventually meets Leela, during which Hermes was decapitated and his body was crushed. After a short courtship they decide to get married, but during the wedding, Hermes, who had a time paradox duplicate body made to win back LaBarbara, was decapitated again by causality. After Farnsworth said that time paradox dupes of living things are predestined to always meet their doom prematurely, a horrified Lars realized what he'd be putting Leela through if he died and called off the wedding.
Lars was later evacuated from Earth because of the Scammers and took part in the battle of Earth, prior he questioned Zapp Brannigan on his strategy, owing to his former knowledge from his life as Fry. Zapp briefly pondered on putting Lars in danger, as revenge for being with Leela and was secretly supported by the latter but it never came to be. Lars survived the battle and the scammers were defeated.
After the big battle for Earth, Lars reattaches Hermes to his original body, before sharing glances with Leela. Fry tries to get Lars and Leela back together, by tricking Lars into a talk before he sees Leela in the room and she realizes Fry's act but Lars says that it is impossible, something Fry questioned. Just before Lars could tell Fry and Leela the whole truth, Nudar shows up, having survived Farnsworth's doomsday device through the use of a doom-proof vest, demands the time code from Lars, threatening to murder him. This was surprising because Lars was never supposed to have it. However, Nudar reveals the time code is in the room and threatens Lars who is unafraid and dares him to shoot, but Nudar threatens to kill Leela instead. Lars tricks Nudar by pulling out one self-destructing Bender time-dupe out of the freezer, holds him down over Nudar, and sacrifices himself by letting the Bender dupe explode, also slaying Nudar once and for all. The explosion then revealed the time tattoo on Lars' buttocks, to Leela's shock.
At his funeral, Lars' living will video is played and it's officially revealed to all that Lars Filmore was indeed the time paradox duplicate of Philip J. Fry all along. He revealed his reason for ending the wedding was because Hermes' act caused him to find out, he was doomed to die too and didn't want Leela to endure his death. Leela understood his reason while Fry called Lars a good man.
He died on January 1, 3008, depending on how you look at it.
Legacy[]
In July 3011, Fry works as a feeder at the Head Museum and Dr. Cahill mistakes him for Lars ("All the Presidents' Heads").
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He must be approximately eighteen years older than the original Philip J. Fry (Biological) as he manages to live twelve years in the past between New Years Day 2000 and 2012, and managing to live five more years (3002-3007) until his death on New Year's Eve in 3007.
- He apparently worked at a casino.
- It is unknown if he was the one who gave his nephew Philip J. Fry II the seven leaf clover in the new timeline.
- He is responsible for his ex-girlfriend Michelle Jenkins being unfrozen in the future.
- Before he was revealed as Philip J. Fry's time dupe, there were subtle hints to Lars' true identity.
- Duplicate Philip J. Fry had grown slightly older in the past and grew a beard (which would get thinner as Lars due to most of his hair being torched by Bender after a ray blast caught his apartment on fire).
- Upon first meeting Leela at the head museum, Leela asks him if she knows him, his response was "Apparently, not". This was because Lars (Fry) of course did know her but she didn't recognize him.
- Multiple times, Fry called Lars handsome despite his jealously.
- During his many dates with Leela there were several instances where they nearly died, due to time travel duplicates always being doomed to die.
- At the museum, he mentioned to Leela that she was the woman who he was waiting for his life, which he really did.
- After the time-code was erased from Fry's backside, Nudar and the scammers still detected the code as it was still on Lars.
- During the song, Fry unknowingly hinted at it, when he states he bets Leela would love him if he were bald.
- The pen Fry had placed that was out of ink is the exact same one Lars took out of his own pocket.
- At Leela and Lars' wedding, when Professor Farnsworth stated Time Duplicates were always doomed after Hermes duplicate body was killed, Lars quickly replied, "What?!" and immediately called off the wedding.
- He knew Bender's time-dupe was frozen and ready to self-destruct even though nobody told him.
- Since he took the place of his counterpart, Fry's disappearance and his family searching for him never occurred.
Appearances[]
Episodes[]
- "All the Presidents' Heads" (mentioned only)