content: 
  ===Season 6===
  Bran learns through visions of the past that, as a boy, Hodor was named Wylis and possessed normal abilities of speech. When the cave is overrun by White Walkers and wights while Bran is viewing the past, Bran wargs into Hodor to induce him to carry Bran to safety. Once they exit through a passageway, Meera orders Hodor to "hold the door" against the wights; in the past, before Bran was born, Wyllis is shown to have collapsed and repeated this phrase until it slurred into "Hodor." In the present, Hodor holds the door until he is killed as the wights eventually tear through the door, but he buys sufficient time for Meera to escape with Bran. 