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** She gradually becomes this in the show proper after she starts going on adventures with Rick [[spoiler: to avoid dealing with the stress caused by her parents' divorce. This is taken to the extreme when she joins a tribe of cannibalistic marauders and easily adapts to their dangerous lifestyle]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In the pilot, she has a crush on [[TheBully Frank Palicky]]. Too bad he got frozen to death by Rick.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In the pilot, she has a crush on [[TheBully Frank Palicky]]. Too bad he got frozen to death by Rick. Later, she starts a relationship with the leader of a tribe of cannibalistic marauders. [[spoiler: It doesn't last]].
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** She also demonstrates an impressive knowledge of vehicles in [[Recap.RickAndMortyS3E2RickmancingTheStone "Rickmancing The Stone"]], using Rick's flask as an impromptu nitro booster and causing an enemy dune buggy to flip over and explode with one well-placed shot.
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* StrawNihilist: Becomes one due to the trauma from [[spoiler: Beth and Jerry's divorce]] and joins a tribe of cannibals in a desert wasteland dimension. This is played for laughs when Rick gives the tribe the technology to live comfortably and Summer is the ''only'' one still committed to their nihilistic philosophy. By the end of the episode she makes her peace with Jerry and starts to show shades of TheAntiNihilist.
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** [[spoiler:After the divorce, his ButtMonkey status seems to have grown. The wind keeps calling him a loser and a coyote ate his welfare check over a bag of chips just to make him suffer.]]
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* AbsurdPhobia: Up until "The Rickshank Redemption", he apparently used to have a fear of wicker furniture.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Up until "The Rickshank Redemption", Rickdemption", he apparently used to have a fear of wicker furniture.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Up until the Rickshank Redemption, he apparently used to have a fear of wicker furniture.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Up until the "The Rickshank Redemption, Redemption", he apparently used to have a fear of wicker furniture.
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* BrainBleach: When returning to her house after forgetting concert tickets, Summer accidentally walked in on Morty masturbating in the kitchen. This bad memory convinces her that Morty isn't a parasite.
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* TheAlcoholic: While not to the extent of Rick, she can really put away wine when things get down. In "Rixty Minutes", she goes through several boxes of wine while lamenting her lost opportunities. In "Total Rickall", Summer has at least one memory of Beth getting wasted and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle, which is followed by her rushing to fill a wineglass after she shoots Mr. Poopybutthole under the mistaken belief that he's a shapeshifting alien parasite]].
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* TheAlcoholic: While not to the extent of Rick, she can really put away wine when things get down. In "Rixty Minutes", she goes through several boxes of wine while lamenting her lost opportunities. In "Total Rickall", Summer has at least one memory of Beth getting wasted and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle, which is followed by her rushing to fill a wineglass after she shoots [[spoiler:shoots Mr. Poopybutthole under the mistaken belief that he's a shapeshifting alien parasite]].
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** While trying to reconnect with Summer, complementing her on all that she's achieved, the conversation suddenly veers off the moment he mentions she's got a job and he doesn't, leading to him pleading her for some money to borrow.
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** Rick doesn't like the man so much that [[spoiler:he apparently plotted a long complicated plan that involved causing a lot of galactic political chaos just so his daughter could be convinced to leave the man from the family]].
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** She is made to wear a [[Film/{{Barbarella}}]]-style outfit in the comics after she teams up with Peacock Jones.
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* GroinAttack: She once kicked Morty in the nuts because he once went into her room to masturbate.
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* GroinAttack: She once kicked Morty in the nuts because he once went into her room room, even though he tries to masturbate.tell her he didn't.
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* StrawNihilist: While Rick does find things to do and reasons to keep going on, at the same time he has a very jaded view of existance. Interestingly his Nihilism and Anti-Nihilism are just two sides to the same coin as while he finds freedom in there being no purpose to existence, he also values nothing (except maybe his family bit even this is contextual) and doesn't seem to care about almost anything.
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* StrawNihilist: While Rick does find things to do and reasons to keep going on, at the same time he has a very jaded view of existance. Interestingly his Nihilism and Anti-Nihilism are just two sides to the same coin coin, as while he finds freedom in there being no purpose to existence, he also values nothing (except maybe his family bit but even this is contextual) and doesn't seem to care about almost anything.contextual).
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* TheLastDJ: Proudly states to be the Rickest Rick for not joining the Council of Ricks. It's implied that this is the reason he still cares so much for his Morty, as unlike them he's not surrounded by them.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the trailer for Alien: Covenant, Rick's liver proves to be more powerful than the entirety of a facehugger's immune system when said facehugger dies of poisoning from all the drugs and alcohol in Rick's system mere seconds after latching onto him.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the trailer for Alien: Covenant, Rick's liver proves to be more powerful than the entirety of a facehugger's immune system when said facehugger dies of poisoning from all the drugs and alcohol in Rick's system mere seconds after latching onto him.
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* TheLastDJ: Proudly states to be the Rickest Rick for not joining the Council of Ricks. It's implied that this is the reason he still cares so much for his Morty, as unlike them he's not surrounded by them.Morty.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the trailer for Alien: Covenant, Rick's liver proves to be more powerful than the entirety of a facehugger's immune system when said facehugger dies of poisoning from all the drugs and alcohol in Rick'ssystem body mere seconds after latching onto him.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the trailer for Alien: Covenant, Rick's liver proves to be more powerful than the entirety of a facehugger's immune system when said facehugger dies of poisoning from all the drugs and alcohol in Rick's
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* KavorkaMan: Invoked; while describing an alternate, technologically-advanced dimension where everyone was forever young, he mentions that his elderly nature made him the planet's biggest celebrity, and he "had a lot of fun with a lot of young ladies". He also had a past relationship with Unity, an entire hivemind. In a flashback in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" He is seen having sex with a beautiful blond woman, who turns into a monster. Rick also had a wife who he had Beth with.
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* KavorkaMan: Invoked; while describing an alternate, technologically-advanced dimension where everyone was forever young, he mentions that his elderly nature made him the planet's biggest celebrity, and he "had a lot of fun with a lot of young ladies". He also had a past relationship with Unity, an entire hivemind. In a flashback in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" He he is seen having sex with a beautiful blond woman, who turns into a monster. Rick also had a wife who he had Beth with.
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** He is, in general, a very morally-questionable man, but there are still lines he won't stand being crossed. For example, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mr. Jellybean's attempt to rape Morty clearly shocked him so much]], and in the post-credits stinger of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", we see him that he loathes neo-Nazis, animal abusers, Westboro Baptists, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking school bullies]].
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** He is, in general, a very morally-questionable man, but there are still lines he won't stand being crossed. For example, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mr. Jellybean's attempt to rape Morty clearly shocked him so much]], him]], and in the post-credits stinger of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", we see him that he loathes neo-Nazis, animal abusers, Westboro Baptists, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking school bullies]].
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* BrokenPedestal: Morty slowly loses his respect for Rick as the series goes on. Rick is family and Morty loves him, but he slowly understands that Rick is a selfish asshole that hardly cares about anyone but himself, and he doesn't even fully care about himself either, no matter how people might feel about him. By season 3, Morty has given up on Rick, feeling that he'll never change and will just keep bailing when things get bad for him.
-->'''Morty''': (after Summer says he's bailing on Rick) He bails on everybody! He bailed on Mom when she was a kid! He -- He bailed on tiny planet! And in case I never made this clear to you, Summer, he bailed on you. He left you to rot in a world that he ruined because he doesn't care! Because nobody's special to him, Summer, not even himself. So, if you really want your grandpa back, grab a shovel. The one that won't let you down is buried in your backyard!\\
'''Morty''': (after showing Summer dimension C-137) These are the parts of Rick's adventures you don't get to see, the parts he leaves behind.
-->'''Morty''': (after Summer says he's bailing on Rick) He bails on everybody! He bailed on Mom when she was a kid! He -- He bailed on tiny planet! And in case I never made this clear to you, Summer, he bailed on you. He left you to rot in a world that he ruined because he doesn't care! Because nobody's special to him, Summer, not even himself. So, if you really want your grandpa back, grab a shovel. The one that won't let you down is buried in your backyard!\\
'''Morty''': (after showing Summer dimension C-137) These are the parts of Rick's adventures you don't get to see, the parts he leaves behind.
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* GenerationXerox: In contrast to Beth and Summer's Rick worship, Morty has inherited Jerry's healthy skepticism of Rick, going son far as to outright state that he is an asshole that doesn't care about anyone but himself.
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* GenerationXerox: In contrast to Beth and Summer's Rick worship, Morty has inherited Jerry's healthy skepticism of Rick, going son so far as to outright state that he is an asshole that doesn't care about anyone but himself.
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* GenerationXerox: Roiland has stated he believes an adult Morty will look like Jerry but have Rick's abilities.
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* GenerationXerox: In contrast to Beth and Summer's Rick worship, Morty has inherited Jerry's healthy skepticism of Rick, going son far as to outright state that he is an asshole that doesn't care about anyone but himself.
** Roiland has stated he believes an adult Morty will look like Jerry but have Rick's abilities.
** Roiland has stated he believes an adult Morty will look like Jerry but have Rick's abilities.
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* VirtrolicBestBuds: To say Rick and Morty's relationship is virtolic would be an understatement, but Rick is the only one that hangs out with Morty on a regular basis and he felt lonely when Rick went away during the season 2 finale. Morty has a better relationship with his sister though they tend to [[SiblingRivalry grind on each other nerves on occasion.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: She's normally always siding with her father, but Rick will still do things she clearly doesn't approve of, like attempting to shoot Morty Jr. or hold a baby-eating alien hostage under the house.
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* GenerationXerox: She has inherited some of Rick's creativeness, jadedness and love of adventure, and Beth's hero-worship of Rick.
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* GenerationXerox: She has inherited some of Rick's creativeness, jadedness and love of adventure, and Beth's hero-worship of Rick.Rick, and Jerry's facial features.
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-->'''Fourth-Dimensional Being:''' You don't mess with time, motherf[beep]er! ''(leaves)''\\
'''Einstein:''' ''(gets up)'' I ''vill'' mess vith time!\\
'''Einstein:''' ''(gets up)'' I ''vill'' mess vith time!\\
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-->'''Fourth-Dimensional Being:''' Being''': You don't mess with time, motherf[beep]er! ''(leaves)''\\
'''Einstein:''' '''Einstein''': ''(gets up)'' I ''vill'' mess vith time!\\
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-->'''Morty:''' Well, he's not a villain, Summer, but he shouldn't be your hero. He's more like a demon, or a super fucked up God.
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** In later episodes, he tries to make "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" his catch phrase. According to Birdperson, it means "[[JerkassFacade I am in great pain,]] [[StepfordSmiler please help me.]]" in his language.
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** In later episodes, he tries to make "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" his catch phrase. According to Birdperson, it means "[[JerkassFacade I am in great pain,]] pain]], [[StepfordSmiler please help me.]]" me]]." in his language.
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* TheChessmaster: It turns out [[spoiler:Rick's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the season two finale was all part of a bigger scheme to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking topple the intergalactic federation, get Jerry and Beth to divorce and to get the promotional Mulan dipping sauce.]]]]
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* TheChessmaster: It turns out [[spoiler:Rick's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the season two finale was all part of a bigger scheme to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking topple the intergalactic federation, get Jerry and Beth to divorce and to get the promotional Mulan dipping sauce.]]]]sauce]].]]
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** In "A Rickle in Time," he gives up his waveform collar so Morty can return home, [[HeroicSacrifice dooming himself to certain death in a quantum void]].
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--->''"[[GetItOverWith ...so why don't you do us both a favor and]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith pull the trigger!?!]]''''' ''[[GetItOverWith Do it! DO IT,]]'' IT]],'' '''''[[GetItOverWith MOTHERFUCKER]]'''''!! ''[[GetItOverWith PULL THE]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith FUCKING]]''''' ''[[GetItOverWith TRIGGER!!!]]"''
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** He is, in general, a very morally-questionable man, but there are still lines he won't stand being crossed. For example, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mr. Jellybean's attempt to rape Morty clearly shocked him so much]], and in the post-credits stinger of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", we see him that he loathes neo-Nazis, animal abusers, Westboro Baptists, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking school bullies.]]
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** He is, in general, a very morally-questionable man, but there are still lines he won't stand being crossed. For example, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mr. Jellybean's attempt to rape Morty clearly shocked him so much]], and in the post-credits stinger of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", we see him that he loathes neo-Nazis, animal abusers, Westboro Baptists, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking school bullies.]]bullies]].
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** "A Rickle In Time" has him [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 2 of 64 instantiations of him)]] [[SubvertedTrope pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die]], [[DoubleSubvertedTrope only to go back to mocking his existence]] [[UngratefulBastard when he is saved.]]]]
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** "A Rickle In Time" has him [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 2 of 64 instantiations of him)]] [[SubvertedTrope pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die]], [[DoubleSubvertedTrope only to go back to mocking his existence]] [[UngratefulBastard when he is saved.]]]]saved]].]]
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** "A Rick-Le In Time" has him [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 1 of 64 instantiations of him)]] pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die, [[UngratefulBastard only to go back to mocking his existence when he is saved.]]]]saved]].]]
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-->'''Morty:''' "Okay, yeah, but I don't think it's about logic, Rick. I-I think the word has become a symbolic issue for [[MoralGuardians powerful groups that feel like they're doing the right thing]]."
-->'''Rick:''' "Well, ''that's'' [[DoubleSubversion retarded]]."
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'''Rick''': "Well, ''that's'' [[DoubleSubversion retarded]]."
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--> '''Morty:''' '''Morty''': You have to get us the f**k ''outta'' here! These people are backwards savages! They [[InsaneTrollLogic eat every third baby because they think it makes fruit grow bigger]]. Everyone's gross and they all smell like piss all the time! I-I-I miss my family, I miss my laptop... I masturbated to an extra-curvy piece of driftwood the other day!
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* FanBoy: Of the movie [[Film/Titanic1997 Titanic,]] to the point of dragging his wife to a lame reenactment cruise.
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* FanBoy: Of the movie [[Film/Titanic1997 Titanic,]] Titanic]], to the point of dragging his wife to a lame reenactment cruise.
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* TheUnfavorite: In the second universe it's shown that Jerry and Beth are very resentful of the sacrifices they had to make because Summer was born. It takes Morty's twisted consolation to make her stay. It's not long until where an alternate universe closely similar to theirs [[{{Subverted}} regret the abortion and has caused both parents terrible lives as the current universe watches it unfold.]]
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* LesCollaborateurs: The Galactic Federation gives him a job at the end of Season Two. The first episode of Season Three has him working in a government office, wearing a government uniform with three metals and a federation armband. In an alternative dimension from the comics in which Morty is a universal dictator, he's TheMole in Summer's resistance group.
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* LesCollaborateurs: The Galactic Federation gives him a job at the end of Season Two. The first episode of Season Three has him working in a government office, wearing a government uniform with three metals and a federation armband. In an alternative dimension from the comics in which Morty is a universal dictator, he's Jerry is TheMole in Summer's resistance group.
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* LesCollaborateurs: The Galactic Federation gives him a job at the end of Season Two. The first episode of Season Three has him working in a government office, wearing a government uniform with three metals and a federation armband.
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* LesCollaborateurs: The Galactic Federation gives him a job at the end of Season Two. The first episode of Season Three has him working in a government office, wearing a government uniform with three metals and a federation armband. In an alternative dimension from the comics in which Morty is a universal dictator, he's TheMole in Summer's resistance group.
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* VirtrolicBestBuds: To say Rick and Morty's relationship is virtolic would be an understatement, but Rick is the only one that hangs out with Morty on a regular basis and he felt lonely when Rick went away during the season 2 finale. Morty has a better relationship with his sister though they tend to [[SiblingRivalry grind on each other nerves on occasion.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Becomes this to Rick and Morty whenever she's taken along on their adventures due to her brother's growing cynicism making him unfit for the role.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Morty "gay" despite being openly [[ExtremeOmnisexual pansexual]].
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** Calls Morty "gay" despite being openly [[ExtremeOmnisexualpansexual]].pansexual]].
** Rick really can't stand having to comply with others' wishes, but expects everyone around him to defer to his authority and whims at all times. Even Morty has pointed out Rick's seemingly bottomless selfishness.
** Calls Morty "gay" despite being openly [[ExtremeOmnisexual
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: According to the Season 3 trailer, there is an episode concerning Summer becoming giant due to one of Rick's inventions.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Justin Roiland
A [[SociopathicHero cold-hearted]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer yet brilliant elderly scientist and inventor]] living with his daughter's family, and Summer and Morty's maternal grandfather. Rick constantly drags his grandchildren Morty and Summer along on adventures that serve purposes rarely expressed. He has access to all sorts of technology he's supposedly invented all on his own, or gained from alien species, and he is (in)famous among aliens as one of the most intelligent beings in existence. Despite that, [[TheAlcoholic he drinks]] and behaves like a {{Jerkass}} most of the time, and finds that his technology is really cut out for bigger problems than found everyday in the family, though when the two combine the result is never a pretty sight.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Up until the Rickshank Redemption, he apparently used to have a fear of wicker furniture.
* AgentMulder: In contrast to [[ArbitrarySkepticism what you'd]] [[FlatEarthAtheist expect from a TV scientist]] he's surprisingly open to the supernatural things like vampires or {{Satan}} although he ultimately believes [[JerkassHasAPoint (correctly for the most part)]] that he can outdo them all with science.
* TheAlcoholic: He's either drunk, chugging down whiskey from his flask or acting like a know-it-all asshole.
* AlcoholicParent: And his daughter Beth is shown to have inherited some of the traits.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: "Sanchez" is a Latin American name and he has a ''very'' slightly different skin tone from the other characters, but that's about it. [[https://youtu.be/ANE1Bz7Qk0c?t=15m45s When asked about this]], Roiland stated that [[ShrugOfGod he considers it irrelevant]]. In the commentary of "Auto-Erotic Assimilation", Rick was confirmed to be of Hispanic descent.
* AndIMustScream: In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", he puts his mind in a clone of a younger version of himself, which takes complete control and shoves our Rick to the back of the mind. While in this state, he can only communicate to the outside world through the clone's angst. This gets fixed at the end of the episode, of course.
* AnimeHair: You could have sworn that a blue, spikey up-do would have better suited an anime character, [[EinsteinHair but then again]], he is a MadScientist.
* AntiHero: He has a few good moments that just barely stop him from being a VillainProtagonist.
* TheAntiNihilist: It didn't just take a lot of intelligence to get where he is supposed to be for someone who swam across the vast ocean of realities that make [[AnAesop purpose of humanity very insignificant or even irrelevant by default]], all the while not driving himself to commit SeenItAllSuicide after realizing this in his lifetime; as his grandson Morty learned in "Rick Potion #9".
* AwfulWeddedLife: Rick's marriage to Beth's mother started out with them being very much in love but over time, the love faded and their marriage failed and Rick left her. Beth even states that her mom fought with Rick about his willingness to risk his family's safety for his experiments.
* AxCrazy: "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" has Rick killing several inactive clones of himself with an actual ax before realizing he has to get Jerry and Beth and getting one more hit in before cheerfully declaring "one for the road!" He isn't like this most of the time but the right trigger could send him off the deep end as seen in "A Rickle in Time."
* BadassBookworm: He is the most intelligent human alive on Earth, a [[HollywoodScience prodigious scientist]] and he is ''very'' able to kick ass despite his age; see below.
* BadassCape: [[spoiler:When he beats the Council of Ricks (or really, 5/6ths of them and Mysterious Rick) in ''Pocket Mortys'', he takes Mysterious Rick's cape as a prize.]]
* BadassGrandpa: He's ''unnaturally'' strong and agile for a 60-year old man, and can deliver an ass-kicking when needed. Also has access to many dangerous weapons he built himself. In "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" he takes on several massive, alien beasts in melee combat and wins.
* BatmanGambit: He manipulated Morty's repressed rage in "The Rickshank Rickdemption" to [[spoiler:get a clear shot at the last Council of Rick leader.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Whenever someone asks him to fix a problem, Rick generally uses one of his inventions to fix it. While these inventions do function properly, they often have unforeseen consequences that often endanger the user or make situations worse.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: In "A Rickle in Time", Rick beats a fourth-dimensional being to unconsciousness. As a result, said being tries to beat Rick up in retaliation. Instead they accidentally mistake Albert Einstein for Rick (due to them have a similar haircut), prompting him to develop e=mc[[superscript:2]]. This means Rick inadvertently caused Einstein's most important discovery.
-->'''Fourth-Dimensional Being:''' You don't mess with time, motherf[beep]er! ''(leaves)''\\
'''Einstein:''' ''(gets up)'' I ''vill'' mess vith time!\\
''(begins to write "E=mc[--[[superscript:2]]--]]][[spoiler:" on his chalkboard)''\\
'''Einstein:''' ...I vill mess vith time.
* BerserkButton: Having his [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Pancreas]] idea criticized.
** And on a more serious note, crossing him. Gearhead wound up with his gearsticles shoved into his mouth, and [[spoiler:Jerry was manipulated into divorcing Beth for proposing turning him in to the Galactic Government.]]
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Justin Roiland stated himself that Rick is "well hung."
* BigNo: Immediately after Tammy guns down Birdperson.
* BigOlUnibrow: Borders between both Type I & II.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Morty describes him as somewhere around this or ChaoticNeutral during [[spoiler: his and Summer's trial at the Citadel of Ricks]].
-->'''Morty:''' Well, he's not a villain, Summer, but he shouldn't be your hero. He's more like a demon, or a super fucked up God.
* BodySurf: [[spoiler: How Rick escapes the Galactic Prison (by switching with his interrogator). He then travels through multiple alternate reality versions of himself to bring down the Council of Ricks.]]
* BoomerangBigot: Generally sees humans as annoying and needy, and has briefly forgotten the word for humans more than once.
* BrilliantButLazy: Rick refuses to spend any serious effort on things he sees as being beneath his talents, which is a lot of things, and quite a few plotlines are started by him being faced with a problem he finds inconsequential and whipping up a quick and easy solution in response. Said quick and easy solution then inevitably turn out to have some sort of disastrous side-effects attached to it. It's also possible Rick dropped out of school when he was younger and that's why Rick thinks school is a waste of time.
* BrokenAce: Rick is a genius scientist and inventor who builds robots for fun and invented inter-dimensional travel. He's also a [[TheAlcoholic raging alcoholic]] (being drunk almost all of the time) and snorts crystals (in a thinly veiled reference to crystal meth and cocaine) while being neglectful (if not abusive) to his family. His catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" translates to "I am in great pain, please help me" which is why he tries to numb his emotions with substances. Nevertheless he almost always is able to save the day (even if it was mostly his fault to begin with).
* BungledSuicide: Rick attempts to disintegrate himself after Unity leaves him due to Rick's negative influence on everyone around him. Rick is only saved after passing out, missing the heat ray by a hair.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: In spades. He's a massive drunk, has borderline BlueAndOrangeMorality, and has a habit of dragging his grandson along on dangerous adventures, but the guy is a very talented and accomplished MadScientist... even if a lot of his experiments are odd.
* ByronicHero: Minor hints here and there, that Rick has a pretty troubled past. He is also moody, cynical, and very passionate about his science. However, while his scientific habits may not be self-destructive as much as they are outwardly destructive, his drug habits most certainly are, and he occasionally shows cracks in his narcissism that betray a strong self-loathing.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Don't think about it!"
** In later episodes, he tries to make "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" his catch phrase. According to Birdperson, it means "[[JerkassFacade I am in great pain,]] [[StepfordSmiler please help me.]]" in his language.
** From the same episode he states that "I Don't Give a Fuck" is his new catchphrase.
** "Run, Morty!"
** "Total Rickall" shows that "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" is apparently one of many nonsensical catchphrases he frequently utters, including (but not limited to) "And that's the way the news goes," "Grass tastes bad," "VideoGame/BurgerTime," "AIDS," and last but not least, "Lick-lick-lick my balls!"
** "And awaaaaaaaaaayyy we go!"
* CharacterDevelopment: Seen towards the end of season one and even more so in season two. Rick goes from being vaguely concerned about his grandchildren to actually enjoying their company and obviously trying to look out for them (even though he tries to hide it). He even begins caring about what they think of him, as he tells creatures like the assassin to not mention some of his darker deeds while they are around. Taken UpToEleven when he is willing to sacrifice himself to save Morty.
** Sadly not all development is positive for him; he's also shown hints of an abysmally lonely and broken side, as well as indications he really just [[DrivenToSuicide wants it all to end]].
** However, some positive character development has taken place over time, because in "Get Schwifty" he tells Ice T that he can't just "float around space forever, not caring". Since Rick was the one to proclaim how little he cared for everything all the time in Season One (particularly in "Something Ricked This Way Comes"), that's nice to hear coming from him.
* TheChessmaster: It turns out [[spoiler:Rick's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the season two finale was all part of a bigger scheme to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking topple the intergalactic federation, get Jerry and Beth to divorce and to get the promotional Mulan dipping sauce.]]]]
* ComedicSociopath: Certainly comes across as one, but it's implied to be a defense mechanism fostered over decades -- if he ever stopped to empathize with those he's wronged over the years or consider the full consequences of his actions, he just might go completely insane.
* CoolOldGuy: When he's not being drunk, or a dick, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or a drunk dick]], which is rare. Ironically, when he's being these things, he's much more likely to be this to anyone ''except'' his own grandchildren.
* CynicalMentor: To Morty, naturally. There actually is well meaning behind some of it such as him advising Morty to not get involved with love and instead focus on science, wanting to spare Morty heartache.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rick has been through a lot in his life, to the point where he is numb to pretty much everything. It's also hinted that he had a troubled relationship with his parents who were unsupportive of him. He also had a marriage that failed, resulting in his disappearance.
* DeadpanSnarker: Does this a lot around Jerry or the inhabitants of any world he travels to.
* DeathSeeker: In Season 2 especially, Rick is more or less waiting for the end to find him. However, he's also shown a fear of dying and has sought ways to cheat death such as his attempted BodyBackupDrive in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez". He seems okay with the idea of dying if he has absolutely no way out of it but will quickly jump on any possibility of avoiding his demise.
** In "A Rickle in Time," he gives up his waveform collar so Morty can return home, [[HeroicSacrifice dooming himself to certain death in a quantum void]].
--> ''"I'm okay with this. Be good, Morty. Be better than me."''
** In "Auto-Erotic Assimilation," he attempts suicide by disintegration ray (see BungledSuicide above) after his breakup with Unity.
** In "Total Rickall," he angrily demands that Morty execute him while he's being held down by two memory parasites.
--->''"[[GetItOverWith ...so why don't you do us both a favor and]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith pull the trigger!?!]]''''' ''[[GetItOverWith Do it! DO IT,]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith MOTHERFUCKER]]'''''!! ''[[GetItOverWith PULL THE]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith FUCKING]]''''' ''[[GetItOverWith TRIGGER!!!]]"''
* DefrostingIceKing: While still a snarky MadScientist, Rick has ''slowly'' mellowed out over the course of the series, and the season 2 finale even has him making a speech about opening up to people for the first time. [[spoiler:Even when the frost comes back after everything goes to hell, he turns himself into the Galactic Federation so his family can live on Earth in peace.]][[spoiler: Averted when it turns out he only turned himself in so he could topple the Galactic Federation (changes in plan also allowing him to kill the Council of Ricks) and get Beth to divorce Jerry for crossing him.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits it in ''Wedding Squanchers''. He'd managed to [[CharacterDevelopment give a beautiful speech]] (Though it didn't seem that way at first) about emotionally opening himself up and enjoying himself and his friend's happiness... Only for it not to work out later. He refers to this as "letting his guard down", and says he'll never do that again.
* {{Determinator}}: Nothing stops Rick once he sets his mind to it.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: In "Something Ricked This Way Comes", he starts a business in which he removes the curses from the cursed items of Mr. Needful's store solely to {{troll}} him. He manages to drive the devil into attempting suicide.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After Mr. Needful "[[PersonAsVerb Zuckerbergs]]" Summer, the two work out heavily and proceed to kick the shit out of him.
* DimensionalTraveler: His portal gun lets him hop between dimensions, universes, and timelines at will.
* DirtyOldMan: Rick is seen in BDSM gear, having wild sexual requests with Unity and in one of Morty's bad memories is hitting on some hot alien babes as Morty is being dragged away by a giant lobster.
* DisappearedDad: He ran out on Beth and her mother when she was a child after growing bored with his marriage. There are vaguest hints that very deep down, Rick is actually deeply ashamed at this, and realizes he is a terrible father and grandfather, and this is one of the root causes of his alcoholism and self-loathing.
** Moreover, some episodes (most visibly "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind" and "Get Schwifty") show Rick with an infant and a young child Morty, strongly suggesting Rick had been keeping tabs on his grandson well before his official return to his daughter's life.
* DiscardAndDraw: His love for his daughter isn't nearly substantial enough to make him not abandon her so he can go to another parallel dimension that he didn't mutate to live with a near-identical Beth. Probably not the first time he has done this either.
** A bit of FridgeHorror here, in that Rick, being able to travel across alternate dimensions, must be aware that infinite different versions of his daughter (and other loved ones) exist all the time, and an infinite subset of them must be dying fairly horrible deaths at any given time. It's fundamentally impossible to change this, so he seems to have made a conscious decision "not to think about it". Dealing with this kind of horrifying awareness may be a contributor to his substance abuse problem.
* DitzyGenius: Can easily qualify when it comes to his drunkenness and sociopathy.
* DotingParent: The one person (at least in the Smith family) Rick is never seen disrespecting is his daughter Beth. He even calls her "sweetie" sometimes. He also doesn't think someone like Jerry is worthy of his daughter and isn't shy about expressing that.
* DrivenToSuicide: He attempts to commit suicide after Unity breaks up with him. He also tries to goad Morty into killing him when Morty accuses him of being a parasite. Both attempts fail.
* DrowningMySorrows: He evidently uses drugs and alcohol to dull his pain.
* EinsteinHair: Comes with being a Dr. Brown parody. There's even a moment where a pair of vengeful Time Cops mistake Einstein for Rick.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the pilot, Rick drags Morty out of his bedroom in an attempt to drunkenly nuke the world in order to start everything over, but tries to pass it off as a SecretTestOfCharacter when it fails.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He is, in general, a very morally-questionable man, but there are still lines he won't stand being crossed. For example, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mr. Jellybean's attempt to rape Morty clearly shocked him so much]], and in the post-credits stinger of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", we see him that he loathes neo-Nazis, animal abusers, Westboro Baptists, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking school bullies.]]
** He calls out Morty for using a LovePotion to get Jessica to like him, calling him a "creep" at one point. During his WhatTheHellHero speech to his grandson, Rick compares the LovePotion to drugs used to commit rape. (Though as Morty correctly points out, Rick still made said LovePotion for Morty when he asked, so the point is kinda downplayed).
** In "Auto Erotic Assimilation", he was horrified when Unity blew up a city to prove that it can "let go".
** In the Council of Ricks episode, among the multiple Ricks, Rick is shown to be the only one who cares about his Morty beyond the kid being a resource for cloaking himself.
** He is horrified upon witnessing his despised son-in-law get shot brutally on TV.
** "Look Who's Purging Now" has Rick eagerly awaiting the violence of a purge night on the planet they're on, but he quickly becomes disgusted a few seconds into it, and is clearly worried when Morty starts getting involved in it.
** He has an absolute breakdown when Tammy kills Bird Person.
** When we see his memory of where he was on 9/11, we see Rick standing in front of a television with a distraught look on his face.
* EvilCounterpart: A different Rick from another timeline was killing other Ricks and subjecting their Mortys to a FateWorseThanDeath to hide himself, before he and Morty put an end to him. [[spoiler:This is ultimately subverted, as it reveals that that Rick's Morty was controlling the rogue Rick the entire time.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Rick has been doing his thing long before the show began. He's explored TheMultiverse extensively, knows all the ins and outs about existence itself, is often familiar with the antagonists that appear, and just has a storied past in general.
* {{Expy}}:
** He's basically [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Dr. Emmett L. Brown]] if he were an alcoholic sociopath. And/or combined with [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros Dr. Thaddeus S. Venture]].
** He shares very similar aspects with [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] in his fantastic use of science, inter-dimensional and space travel and being considered a renegade among his peers; that is, if The Doctor were constantly intoxicated.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: According to WordOfGod, he is pansexual. Roiland even confirms it. Comes up in "[[http://40.media.tumblr.com/5a825d7ba07b98e92435d57a4aadd265/tumblr_inline_nvq99xMjfQ1qmzzvf_500.png Auto Erotic Assimilation]]", where among the things he ends up having an orgy with are a group of (presumably male) miners and a giraffe.
* FanDisservice: Rick in after changing to blend in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUoIgWSY4jU the pleasure chamber, a scene which also features fanservice from Summer.]] Him and Morty walking naked through a Zygerian simulation counts as well.
* FantasticRacism: Rick does not like [[WhatMeasureIsAMook Gromflomites]]. Mostly for being bureaucrats.
* FatalFlaw: Rick's destructive tendencies (and his unwillingness to change) tend to put the lives of his family in danger and strain his relationships with them. Even [[MoralityPet Morty]] has his limits with Rick.
** Tying into the above is that Rick is very prone to DidntThinkThisThrough often causing problems by using his science for quick fixes and never giving forethought to trouble down the line, forcing him to solve things as they happen.
* FirstNameBasis: While Summer calls him grandpa and Beth calls him dad, Morty only calls him Rick. It's an indicator of their relationship as they are more like [[VitriolicBestBuds friends]] than family.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Which is strange, considering that he once lectured the family about the importance of Jesus during Christmas, and that he and Morty have encountered vampires, demons, and all sorts of other supernatural phenomena. Not to mention he's flat-out scammed the Devil himself.
** It probably goes along with his ego and thinking he is above all that.
** "A Rickle In Time" has him [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 2 of 64 instantiations of him)]] [[SubvertedTrope pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die]], [[DoubleSubvertedTrope only to go back to mocking his existence]] [[UngratefulBastard when he is saved.]]]]
* FourthWallObserver: There's some evidence that Rick is at least partially aware that he's in a TV show, usually in the form of saying goodbye to the audience at the end of an episode, even going so far as to celebrate the season 1 finale.
* FullFrontalAssault: In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" he smashes up a series of clones of himself with an axe while nude. It makes a bit more sense in context, but only a bit.
* GadgeteerGenius: He builds robots for fun, among other things. In one case, he built a robot for the sole purpose of passing butter, and endowed it with enough intelligence for it to become depressed by its lot in life.
* GassHole: He frequently belches in the middle of his sentences when he's drunk, which is often. This has been noticeably downplayed since the pilot, though. He's also capable of letting out massive farts on command.
* GagPenis: In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", when his penis is [[FullFrontalAssault shot fullscreen, in its blood-covered, censored glory]], it's shown to reach well down almost to his knees.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: WordOfGod states that one of the reasons why Rick is such a crazy bastard is the fact that his advanced intellect puts him above normal humans and lets him realize how truly chaotic the universe is. Similarly, one of the reasons that he treats others with contempt is the fact that he doesn't see anyone as particularly special since there are infinite versions of them in other realities. Though it was only part of a BatmanGambit, he did refer to the portal gun's creation as what separated him from being a man and an unfeeling ghost.
* HairstyleInertia: He's had the same hairstyle, including grey hair, for his entire life.
* HeroesWantRedheads: While Rick isn't what most would consider a "hero", he does seem to have a fetish for red-haired people as seen in "Auto Erotic Assimilation", in which he has his hive mind lover fill a stadium solely with redheads.
** It's also speculated that Beth's mother was a redhead, due to both the above reason and because Summer's existence means that the redhead gene runs in the family some way or the other.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Near the end of "A Rickle in Time", one of the singularity-Ricks follows Morty through the abyss. Thinking that there is no other way out, Rick gives Morty his own collar that would allow them to reemerge with the many realities, allowing Morty to leave as Rick continues to fall through time and is content with this fate. [[SenselessSacrifice He finds the other collar and fixes it soon after to return himself]], but he did not know that.
** In a possibly slightly less lethal way, [[spoiler:he turns himself in to a Galactic Federation prison at the end of "The Wedding Squanchers" so that his family can live a safe and normal life on Earth. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the Season 3 Premier, where he reveals being CapturedOnPurpose was AllAccordingToPlan to destroy the Galactic Government.]]
* HiddenDepths: He occasionally makes remarks that hint at wanting to be seen as a good person, at least by his family. Season 2 also shows that he is incredibly aware of his own flaws and that he uses a partial JerkassFacade to hide his troubles from others because he doesn't know how to cope with them on his own.
** "Auto Erotic Assimilation" has Rick ''horrified'' when a town gets destroyed ForTheLulz.
** "A Rick-Le In Time" has him [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 1 of 64 instantiations of him)]] pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die, [[UngratefulBastard only to go back to mocking his existence when he is saved.]]]]
*** In addition, it is implied that Rick is insecure about his alcoholism; earlier in the episode, Rick claims that he is still in sync with his alternate reality self because he's never unsure, but when Morty makes an offhanded comment about his drunkenness, it causes Rick's certainty to falter just long enough to desynch.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Morty "gay" despite being openly [[ExtremeOmnisexual pansexual]].
* TheInsomniac: He is shown to frequently wake Morty up for adventures or just in general in the middle of the night and questions why Beth and Jerry think people need to sleep every single night. It's probably due to his alcoholism and general paranoia.
* InsufferableGenius: Oh definitely. Rick flaunts the fact that he is the smartest man around and that everyone is inferior to him.
* InvincibleHero: For a certain definition of "hero", but it's noticeable given the SadistShow nature of the series that Rick has a near-perfect win record. Be it against genius alien scientists, the Devil himself or even alternate versions of Rick, Rick is never bested. Given the revelation that [[spoiler:Rick intentionally allowed the Galactic authorities to arrest him in order to destroy them from within in the second season finale]], "Auto-Erotic Assimilation" is so far the only episode of the series that ends with Rick not coming out on top.
* ItAmusedMe: What his motivation seems to be half of the time. He will casually abandon a plan or a scheme if he finds it to be boring.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Somewhat, as he's shown to be pretty selfish and is well aware that his intellect far surpasses everyone around him, though he doesn't make too big a deal about becoming the center of attention.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Rick has a very jaded attitude towards the weird things in his adventures. Even more so towards normal things, such as [[SchoolIsForLosers school]], [[HollywoodAtheist religion]] and [[SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids love]]. Which is strange, since in some episodes he takes the exact opposite stance on at least two of these topics. It's probably to emphasize Rick's ego.
* JerkassFacade: He is an actual {{Jerkass}} for the most part but he falls into this territory when he claims not to really care for Morty.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Rick may be an abrasive, self-centered alcoholic, but he knows more about how the multiverse works and how to survive in it than anyone else. Basically, if he tells you NOT to do something, such as [[spoiler:trying to raise a human/alien hybrid that could potentially destroy humanity]] or [[spoiler:freeing a sentient gaseous entity from space jail who ultimately reveals that its race considers corporeal life a disease fit only for extermination]], it's a good idea to listen. Unfortunately, Morty and his family have yet to realize this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be an insane, abusive drunk who constantly drags his grandson on life-threatening adventures, but he clearly loves his daughter and grandchildren enough to keep them safe. In the episode "Mortynight Run", an alternate version of him even created a daycare center at an inter-dimensional junction for other Ricks to deposit their Jerrys at. In "Get Swifty," when the world is in danger of a floating head, he and Morty go straight to the Pentagon to help the President deal with the situation. In "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" Rick actually comforts Jerry over the fact that the best day of his life was a simulation.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In "Wedding Squanchers" Rick turns himself into the Galactic Federation so that his family can have a normal life, only to later reveal that this was an elaborate scheme to score points with Beth, giving her that final push into divorcing Jerry. Most of the time however, [[JerkassFacade he's more or less just playing the part of one]]. At this point implying that [[UnreliableExpositor he could still just be saying this]] [[ObnoxiousInLaws no matter how badly he actually treats Jerry]].
* JesusWasWayCool: Despite being an atheist ([[PrayerIsALastResort except for 2/64ths of him in "A Rickle In Time"]]), Rick still complains when he sees the family texting on their phones on Christmas. And he specifically references Jesus being born on Christmas in his complaint.
* JiveTurkey: He has a fondness for hip-hop lingo, with such examples as "Don't even trip, dawg" or "Riggety-Riggety Rekt". He also in one episode called Morty the "M-bomb".
* KavorkaMan: Invoked; while describing an alternate, technologically-advanced dimension where everyone was forever young, he mentions that his elderly nature made him the planet's biggest celebrity, and he "had a lot of fun with a lot of young ladies". He also had a past relationship with Unity, an entire hivemind. In a flashback in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" He is seen having sex with a beautiful blond woman, who turns into a monster. Rick also had a wife who he had Beth with.
* KickTheDog: He murders an entire universe at one point. On a more personal level, he's physically and emotionally abusive towards those close to him, the severity of which is mostly dependent on his mood. He has his limits though.
* KleptomaniacHero: Rick tells Summer and Morty to always respond to distress signal because often the aliens are dead and he can steal their stuff. Also in the Simpsons couch gag featuring them, Rick is seen stealing their stuff while waiting for Morty to come back.
* KnightTemplarParent: If Rick does go PapaWolf for his grandkids, then he will invariably go straight for horrific overkill in the process. The scammers and King Jellybean got an instant death sentence for what they did with Morty and when he sets his car up to protect Summer the thing resorts to straight up NightmareFuel measures until she talks it down.
** In a deleted scene from "Interdimensional Cable", Rick kills Jerry in the alternate reality where Jerry and Beth achieved their dreams, saying afterwards "Hey, sweetie! I saw this creep on the news, was he bothering you?"
* KnightOfCerebus: Downplayed in that he's still funny, but in the third season he [[spoiler:was able to manipulate Beth into divorcing Jerry.]] He even lampshades this.
--> '''Rick''': Welcome to the darkest years of our adventures, Morty!
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: According to an index of Ricks we see in "Close Rick-Counters", our Rick's not as evil as he ''could'' have been. Given an evil version of Morty actually compiled it, however, that should be taken with a grain of salt.
* LonersAreFreaks: Rick is a loner even by the standards of other Ricks. The Council of Ricks deems him a renegade because of his non-cooperation, and main Rick specifically mocks them for being too cowardly to go it alone. However, while he's against the council itself as a whole, he's cool with a couple of the head members.
* MadScientist: He is a scientific genius and astounding inventor. He's also an eccentric HeroicComedicSociopath.
* ManChild: Despite being in his 60's, Rick acts more like a teenage boy. He makes frequent toilet jokes, sex jokes, swears a lot, has a huge house party (possibly to spite his granddaughter's idea of a party) when his daughter and son-in-law are away, blows money at an arcade, disrespects authority and treats Summer and Morty more like his friends than his grandkids. During said house party, he fits in seamlessly, becoming the life of the party... even when it's among [[OneOfTheKids people who are almost a quarter his age.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: One can interpret him as taking advantage of Morty's naivete to fool him into helping him with his work, though he pretty obviously tricks Morty's parents into letting him go on adventures with him.
** In the season 3 Premier it is revealed that Rick turning himself in during the season 2 finale was all just part of a big BatmanGambit. After he overheard that Jerry wanted to turn him in, he did it himself to drive Jerry and Beth apart and at the same time destroy the entire Galactic Federation (and the Council of Ricks when they interfered and forced him to improvise). Now Rick has defeated the two most powerful organizations in the show and is the man of the house, meaning he can force Morty to go on adventures with him and nobody will believe Morty if he tells them the truth.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Rick" is another way for saying "Dick," and, well, he can be kind of a jerk at times.
** "Rick" means '[[AwesomeMcCoolname mighty, brave ruler]]'.
* MortonsFork: Forced into choosing between his freedom and his family's security in "The Wedding Squanchers". He chooses the latter.
* MrExposition: Rick is usually the only person in the show that can make sense of the chaotic situations that befall the family, or the ones that he gets them into. He then proceeds to explain, contextualize and alphabetize everything in impatient tirades between belches and the vomit coming up.
-->"Well, it's possible that your dog became self-aware and made modifications on the cognition amplifier, then turned on Jerry, Beth, and Summer after learning about humanity's cruel subjugation of his species, but your guess is as good as mine, Morty."
* MysteriousPast: Beth even alludes to his "incredibly vague backstory" Exactly where he was and what he was doing during the years he was gone is unknown, even to his family. It's mentioned in "The Wedding Squanchers" that Rick and others were involved in numerous atrocities fighting for freedom from the Galactic Federation, to the point of being labeled a terrorist. Exactly what these atrocities were are unknown though.
* NeverMyFault: He will be the last one to admit that he screwed things up (often because he was right to begin with), though he does give in on occasion.
* NightmareFetishist: Took his sweet time eliminating the mantis creatures in "Rick Potion #9" because of how cool they looked. Also, he got to be a literal [[{{Pun}} nightmare fetishist]] in "Lawnmower Dog".
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted. He's at his ''sixties'' and is casually pansexual.
* NoodleIncident: Prone to spurting these concerning his (sometimes disturbing) adventures in the past. For instance, he claims to have done something akin to Beth's incident with Mr Poopy Butthole, only on ''a planetary scale''. He leaves it at that.
* NotSoAboveItAll: While visit a "[[Film/ThePurge Purge]] World", he stops to check out the violence for some kicks, and when Morty refuses to watch, Rick says that is because Morty is afraid to face his own primal instincts. However, when a person is [[GoryDiscretionShot mangled off-screen]], he is visually sickened, to the point of puking out the ship window, and admits he may have bitten off more than he could chew.
* NotSoDifferent: Played straight and subverted with the Council of Ricks. Rick calls them all a bunch of sellouts, but admits that, like him, they all can't resist in tormenting Jerry. Similarly, Rick picks on Doofus Rick just as much as the Council Ricks do. The similarities end when Council of Ricks marks off Mortys as their main resource and not as their respective grandsons, the moment evil Rick/Morty baffled that C-137 Rick!Prime actually loves his grandson cements this.
* NWordPrivileges: He described the term "Glip Glop" as being to Traflorkians "like the N-word and the [[CountryMatters C-word]] had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for Jews". Later in the same episode, he greets a large group of green aliens by saying "Yo! What up, my Glip Glops?" to absolutely no objections.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Jerry sees him as this. Rick himself isn't all that fond of Jerry since he did get his daughter pregnant when she was just a teenager. Even in the rare moments that Jerry tries to be friendly to him, Rick is quick to lash out and mock him. There have been times though where Rick has been at least pleasant to him such as in "M. Night Shaym Aliens" where Rick actually comforts Jerry [[spoiler: over the fact that the best day of his life was a simulation.]] Unlike most examples, Rick never tries to break them up. He even signs them up for an off planet marriage therapist to help them fix their relationship and is pleased when he sees them happy together again. That is, until Jerry proposed turning Rick into the Galactic Federation, leading Rick to manipulate Beth into divorcing Jerry as revenge for crossing him.
* OddFriendship: With Morty and later on, Summer. Doubles as an IntergenerationalFriendship.
* OmnicidalManiac: Destroys the Miniverse that powers Zeep's planet, thereby killing everyone in the Miniverse as well as everyone in the Teenyverse. It's also implied that it's not the first time he's caused massive planetary destruction, with him mentioning that he did something similar to Beth's shooting of Mr. Poopybutthole "[[NoodleIncident on a planetary scale.]]"
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Gadgetry, chemistry, medicine, he can accomplish nigh-impossible feats with them all. That's... [[GoneHorriblyRight not always great]].
* OneManArmy: [[spoiler: Rick single-handedly brings down the Galactic Federation and the Council of Ricks, the two most powerful organisations in the show, by teleporting the latter's headquarters into a Federation prison, then devestating the Federation's economy.]]
* OutGambitted: Pulls this off against the aliens in "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" and the Devil himself.
* PapaWolf: In general, don't even think about harming or taking advantage of his grandkids. Anyone who does will get blown to bits or get a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** Rick may not show it too often, but he doesn't take kindly to people messing with his grandson. Just ask the aliens who spied on a naked Morty to create a 100% accurate simulation in order to steal Rick's secrets and the jellybean king who tried raping him. Oh wait, you can't. They blew up!
** He's very protective of his granddaughter Summer, if the episode ''Something Ricked This Way Comes'' is of any indication.
** Rick doesn't think that Jerry is worthy of his daughter and is angry with him for getting her pregnant when she was only 17 and ruining her life.
* ThePatriarch: At the end of first episode of Season 3, after [[spoiler: Beth tells Rick about her divorcing Jerry]], Rick brags to Morty about how he usurped Jerry as head of the family.
* PetTheDog:
** In "Meeseeks and Destroy", Rick convinces Morty to keep going on their adventure and blows up the Jellybean King when he knew that he did something bad to Morty that traumatized him. It's especially heartwarming due to [[BreakTheCutie Morty's original reaction]] in the first place.
** A somewhat strange example, because the dog in question wasn't really [[spoiler:''physically'' there]], but after the aliens from "M. Night Shaym-Aliens" use Morty in their scheme to scam the recipe for dark matter out of Rick, he does ''not'' take this emotional deception lightly. As punishment for using his grandson, Rick ends up blowing up the aliens' spaceship instead of just leaving like he had in the past.
** In "A Rickle in Time", when Morty falls into a timeless abyss after his collar broke in one of the timelines, Rick does not hesitate in diving in to save him and sacrificing his own collar so that his grandson may live. He even calmly accepts his death and quietly begs Morty to be a better man than him. At least, until he finds Morty's collar and fixes it in time.
** In "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind," one of Rick's memories moves him to tears: picking up an infant Morty.
** In "Auto Erotic Assimilation" he is shocked when Unity bombs a town just for a fun and relieved when she reveals that that she had evacuated it beforehand.
** "Total Rickall" has him tearfully admit that he cannot kill a parasite that calls itself 'Pencilvester', asking Morty to do it for him.
** In "Look Who's Purging Now", he tells Morty that his murderous rampage was due to the candy bar he ate earlier filled with aggression-increasing chemicals, even though the wrapper states that the bars are Purginol-Free.
** In "The Wedding Squanchers", he calls the Galactic Federation pretending to be Jerry and claims the family was abducted by Rick (and therefore innocent victims) and then asks that the family be allowed to go back to Earth safely in exchange for tipping them off.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Invoked and discussed by Morty, but subverted in "Something Ricked This Way Comes". When Rick mentions the microscope would make him retarded, Morty says he can't talk like that, to which Rick explains he is not making fun of differently capable people, he is stating the fact that, were he to use the microscope, he would become mentally retarded in the literal sense.
-->'''Morty:''' "Okay, yeah, but I don't think it's about logic, Rick. I-I think the word has become a symbolic issue for [[MoralGuardians powerful groups that feel like they're doing the right thing]]."
-->'''Rick:''' "Well, ''that's'' [[DoubleSubversion retarded]]."
* PowerTrio: With Birdperson and Squanchy, and then with Morty and Summer.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** In "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", he denies killing numerous alternate versions of himself, on the grounds that it wouldn't profit him to do so.
** In the same episode, he frowns upon the wall of tortured Mortys used as a camouflage, deeming it "barbaric overkill", because the same result can be achieved with five Mortys and a jumper cable (he assures Morty that he's never actually tested the theory).
** This is a mindset Rick often demonstrates, often criticizing excessive effort being put in towards reaching a goal or bemoaning when someone takes things too far.
* PrayerIsALastResort: In "A Rickle In Time", [[ItMakesSenseInContext Rick and Morty's timeline gets split into 64 possibilities]]. At least two of those possible Ricks prays to God in desperation, despite claiming to not believe in God on multiple other occasions.
-->possible Rick falling into a time abyss: "Oh, sweet Jesus, please let me live. Oh, my God, I have to... I've got to fix this thing. Please, God in heaven. Please, God. Oh, lord, hear my prayers."
-->Second possible Rick: "Please God, if there is a Hell, please be merciful to me."
* ProudToBeAGeek: Wants to get his entire family limited edition Nintendo 3DS'es, just so they can play video games together. He also carries his 3DS around with him, so he can pull it out whenever he gets bored.
-->'''Rick''': You guys! You gotta hurry! I just got back from Walmart, they're selling Nintendo 3DS systems for $149.99 on sale, plus every time you buy one you get a $50 dollar gift card! Brings the total down to $110 after tax! Now listen, we can flip those sons of bitches for $230 a piece '''''EASY'''''! They're all limited edition Zelda ones! ''Hurry! Hurry come with me!'' We can be rich and we all get to keep one and we can play Nintendo games!
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: He puts a big premium on HIS personal liberty. Other than that, he sees nothing wrong with enslaving an entire universe just to power his car battery. Deconstructed since there's rarely a time he ''isn't'' called on this by someone InUniverse.
* PungeonMaster: Shows shades of this, ''especially'' in the comics:
** In ''Rick and Morty Comics #19'', Rick attacks a famed intergalactic space traveler named Peacock Jones with his Bee Gun (it shoots bees). What did he say? "Let it '''Bee''', motherf*cker."
* SadisticChoice: Indirectly gives one to Zeep in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy". After he and Morty escaped, Rick knew that Zeep would be forced to choose between either having his world destroyed just to spite Rick, or have the inhabitants continue to be unknowingly enslaved in order to generate power for Rick's ship. He ends up choosing the latter.
* SandInMyEyes: While his memories are being played on a screen for Evil!Rick to watch, our Rick tears up at seeing his memories of Morty. When Evil!Rick blatantly asks him if he is "crying over a Morty", Rick says, "No, I'm just allergic to dipshits."
* ScienceHero: While he's a man of science through and through, whether or not he can be considered a hero is debatable.
* SchoolIsForLosers: In his opinion. Not so much for losers, just not for smart people.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He has a tendency of running from his problems rather than dealing with them. This ranges from abandoning Beth and his wife to [[spoiler:jumping to a new dimension after being unable/unwilling to fix the one he's in]]. [[UpToEleven He even abandons]] [[spoiler:his own body]] in the season 3 premier.
* SeenItAll: He's seen so much crazy shit that practically nothing fazes him anymore.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man (a foul-mouthed, aloof SociopathicHero) to Morty's Sensitive Guy (an awkward, sweet AllLovingHero).
* ShipperOnDeck:
** Rick seems to be a Morty and Jessica shipper. The first episode has him drunkenly planning to destroy human civilization, except for Morty and Jessica, because they could repopulate the Earth together.
** Double subverted with Birdperson and Tammy. At first he was displeased of their marriage, but not because of his dislike towards Tammy, just his distrust towards the whole idea of marriage. But he later makes a toast saying that if Birdperson loves Tammy, then Rick loves her as well. [[spoiler:Tragically, he was right to some extent -- Tammy was undercover agent for the Galactic Federation.]]
* SirSwearsALot: Comes off as second nature to him. He has little inconvenience calling his grand kids "pieces of shit".
* SlasherSmile: Has a pretty good one in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", when he kills the clones he created at the end.
* SociopathicHero: Outright confirmed by WordOfGod--Rick makes a consistent effort to stay as unattached to people as possible. He is considered a troublemaker even by alternate Ricks, upon whom main Rick frowns because they formed a government to protect themselves. According to Evil!Rick, the Rick we know is only slightly less evil than he is. Of course, "Evil Rick" does turn out to be a puppet for a highly resentful evil Morty, so this is probably an unreliable assessment.
* StrawNihilist: While Rick does find things to do and reasons to keep going on, at the same time he has a very jaded view of existance. Interestingly his Nihilism and Anti-Nihilism are just two sides to the same coin as while he finds freedom in there being no purpose to existence, he also values nothing (except maybe his family bit even this is contextual) and doesn't seem to care about almost anything.
* StringTheory: In one episode we see Rick's bedroom. One wall has notes connected this way.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Rick prefers to emotionally distance himself from others, and normally is aloof and uncaring to someone else's problems. However, Rick ''does'' have a soft spot for his family that he shows at certain moments.
* TalkativeLoon: Usually as a result of alcoholism.
* TheLastDJ: Proudly states to be the Rickest Rick for not joining the Council of Ricks. It's implied that this is the reason he still cares so much for his Morty, as unlike them he's not surrounded by them.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the trailer for Alien: Covenant, Rick's liver proves to be more powerful than the entirety of a facehugger's immune system when said facehugger dies of poisoning from all the drugs and alcohol in Rick's system mere seconds after latching onto him.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Rick tends to bring the worst out in people, which is the reason why Unity broke up with him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's seemingly obsessed with the Schezuan dipping sauce ''[=McDonalds=]'' used to promote ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''. So much so that he himself has dubbed his search for it as the series's MythArc.
* {{Troll}}: Towards the Devil in "Something Ricked This Way Comes". He even lampshades it by comparing it to "when WesternAnimation/BugsBunny [[WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare fucks with the opera singer for 20 minutes]]", though even he didn't plan on driving the Devil into suicide.[[note]]Though since he'd just go to hell for dying which is where he lives, it's treated more like he's just throwing up his hands and going home.[[/note]]
* {{Tsundere}}: He cares for Morty and the rest of his family, but it's almost certain that he will never say that out loud.
* UglyGuyHotWife: [[spoiler: If Diane is how his real ex-wife looks. She's a beautiful blonde and Rick is pretty goofy-looking.]]
* VagueAge: It's easy to argue that Rick is beyond the supposed age group for a typical protagonist. Considering he has a daughter at his early adulthood who underwent TeenPregnancy bearing her eldest daughter who is at 17, it is assumed that he is in his 60's.
* VerbalTic:
** He finds himself constantly dropping Morty's name when talking to him. Just listen to his speech at the end of the pilot.
** Though it's hardly a tic, Rick can barely talk without constantly belching or tempting to throw up.
** Rick also has a stutter.
* UnreliableNarrator: It's very questionable in Season 3, Episode 1 just how much of what he says is the truth. When he's being interrogated by a Galactic Federation agent within [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind a brainalyzer]], he shows them a memory in which the Council of Ricks contacted him with news of dimensional travel, then [[spoiler: killed his family in his original world. He then implies he swore revenge and their deaths spurred him on to make the portal gun, and that's why he's so callous and unfeeling. However, [[FiveSecondForeshadowing the memory in which this occurs is full of sloppy details]], and is revealed several seconds later to be completely fake. However, it's become popular for fans to suggest [[EpilepticTrees that the Council of Ricks did something terrible to him]], though nobody can agree what.]] On a lesser note, he claims that everything he does is driven by a need for a discontinued dipping sauce from [=McDonalds=] later in the episode.
* VillainProtagonist: A great deal of his actions can be seen as questionable at best, from dangerous experiments to child endangerment to outright genocide to being neglectful of his family. In "Wedding Squanchers" Birdperson reveals that Rick is a wanted criminal and is considered a terrorist by the Galactic Federation. The devil even lampshades this.
--> Devil: I may be the devil but your grandpa is ''the devil''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Rick and Morty are more like friends than grandfather and grandson. That doesn't stop Rick from using Morty to his benefit and constantly putting him in danger.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Hinted at in ''Auto Erotic Assimilation'', when one of his sexual demands is to be observed by a stadium packed with "Every man that remotely resembles my father."
-->'''Men''': ''[chanting]'' Go, son, go! Go, son, go!
* WhatTheHellHero: Chews out Summer for introducing Tammy to Birdperson, after the former revealed herself as [[TheMole an undercover agent for the Galactic Federation]] and killed him during their wedding reception, resulting in them out on the lam.
* WouldHitAGirl: Rick has no qualms over killing women if they should attack him or his family.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Frank Palicky in the pilot, who was bullying Morty and got frozen to death by Rick. Played with since Rick assured Morty it was completely reversible (at least it would have been if Summer didn't accidentally shatter his body).
** His reaction to the baby created by Morty's sexbot is to try and kill it with his laser gun, believing it will grow up to be a threat. [[spoiler:He's at least polite enough to back down when Morty names it, though he was also right.]]
** Every episode of the online flash game ends with Rick beating up Morty. (In Episode 3 he beats up Morty fused with Summer, but it still technically counts.)
** He brutally murders multiple clones of himself at the end of "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" with an axe. At least two of the clones were children.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: It is unclear if he is supposed to have light blue hair or grey hair, since other characters with white/grey hair do not share this trait. His hair may look blue because his skin has a sickly grey tinge to it. As of "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", we learn that it was always this color, even in his youth.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Is an active rebel against the Galactic Federation led by the Gromflomites. When asked what he was incarcerated for after turning himself in, his response is simply "everything."
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[[folder:Mortimer "Morty" Smith]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Justin Roiland
Rick's grandson who falls victim to playing the role of his sidekick. Morty is a young high school student who has trouble fitting in, especially given the circumstances he faces at home. He likely has a disability of sorts, and has trouble keeping up with the other kids in class, but he is proven to be pretty badass outside of school at Rick's side.
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* ActionSurvivor: Though he's usually the NonActionGuy to Rick, episodes like "Anatomy Park" show that he is capable of taking care of him self without him around.
* {{Adorkable}}: While his morality can sometimes become skewered, Morty at his best is a sweet and kind, though shy and self-conscious kid.
* AllLovingHero: Morty is a living deconstruction of the trope. No matter how hard he tries, he inevitably gets dragged into situations in which people (sometimes innocent people) get killed. In "Mortynight Run" he tries to save the life of an imprisoned living gas that Rick names "Fart". Not only does he accidentally kill the assassin but by freeing the gas he causes a dangerous chase sequence that kills several cops and Fart uses its abilities to kill several more as well as a handful of innocent bystanders. In the end, Morty kills the gas when he realizes it plans to lead an invasion that will purge the universe of all carbon-based life.
* AmbiguousDisorder: As shown in the pilot, he can rattle off complicated math and science facts instantly when Rick prompts him, yet can barely concentrate in his remedial-level classes. Hinted further when Rick yells, "He's just like me!" Parodied, in that he actually ''doesn't'' have a disorder - he's just [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext feeling the side effects of dissolving alien spores in his rectum]], and Rick [[ManipulativeBastard took advantage of it]]. The pilot also has Jerry tactlessly state that Morty has a learning disability right in front of him.
* TheAntiNihilist: The events of "Rick Potion #9" seem to have turned him into this [[spoiler: if his speech to Summer in "Rixty Minutes" is anything to go by.]]
--> '''Morty''': I'm better than your brother. [[YouAreNotAlone I'm a version of your brother you can trust when he says "don't run."]] Nobody exists on purpose, nobody really belongs anywhere, everybody's going to die. Come watch TV?
* BeleagueredAssistant: He is often forced by Rick to assist him with his science projects and often rather shady adventures where he is injured and traumatized on a regular basis. Despite this, he seems to enjoy going on adventures with Rick.
* BerserkButton: Not enough to drive him to violence, but still evident enough to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness piss him off in the first place]]: MoralGuardian-ish attitudes, which he calls "a one-way ticket to extinction".
** Blaming him for something he didn't do or when he did exactly what he was asked tends to set him off. As the feline Amish villagers learned.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Morty tends to snap if pushed too far. For example, when the Jellybean king tried to rape him, Morty eventually lost it and beat the crap out of him.
** The episode "Look Who's Purging Now" has Rick mention Morty having this tendency, to which Morty dismisses. Come late in the episode when the villager kicks Morty and Rick out of his house just for Morty criticizing his screen play, which the alien asked, he remorselessly kills him and when the Rick's PowerArmor appears, mercilessly kills scores of the villagers, many of who were just hiding. Rick tries to play this off as a chemical in a candy bar they ate except it no longer has the chemical.
** He [[spoiler: actually tries to kill]] Rick towards the end of the first episode of season three.
* BookDumb: He may do poorly in school, but he does think quickly on his feet and can be pretty observant. He also has enough common sense to poke holes in Rick's ideas and think about consequences--even if Rick usually dismisses him. It's later revealed that his supposed stupidity is why Rick has him as a sidekick. Morty's brainwaves are capable of canceling out Rick's brainwaves and thus able to mask him from potential enemies. It gets to the point where Mortys are even treated as a resource by the Council of Ricks. Although, this may just be an excuse for Rick to spend more time with Morty so he can actually avert this trope for his grandson, considering [[ExperiencedProtagonist he did spend most of the time without him in his younger days]].
* BornUnlucky: Good lord, this poor guy has it hard. He's behind at school, can't get the girl, almost got raped, and gets used by his manipulative grandfather who takes him on adventures where he gets psychologically traumatized every day.
* BreakTheCutie: In "Meeseeks and Destroy", Morty almost becomes victim to rape by the Jellybean King. Afterwards, he is practically crying and tells Rick that he just wants to go home.
* BrainyBrunette: Due to the increasing amount of time he spent with Rick, he's growing to be a strong male example.
* ButtMonkey: Rick's adventures generally leave him either deeply traumatized or incredibly humiliated.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Tries to do this with Rick, but his grandfather either outright dismisses these criticisms or pointedly ignores answering to them as he attempts to steer the conversation elsewhere. There was that one time in "Rick Potion #9", though.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** [="OoOOOooOOHHhhh!"=]
** He often responds to Rick with "Oh geez, Rick".
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown:
** Jerry once walked into his room while Morty was under the covers looking at his laptop. Morty then gave an extended speech about how he should be more careful when entering his room.
** Summer once caught him jerking it in the kitchen, to which he answers that he's done it all over the house and he's thinking about her friend.
* CharacterDevelopment: Compare him with the quivering, useless Mortys in "Close Rick-counters", and you can see that the experiences he's gone through have definitely matured him. Given his Rick is said to be belligerent even by the standards of other Ricks, it probably rubs off on this version of Morty. By Season 2, he's become fairly numb to a decent amount of the insanity around him, though he still has his limits and still maintains a moral compass that Rick for the most part lacks. He also seems more tolerant of Rick's antics only raising an issue if Rick has a direct hand in causing problems.
* TheChosenOne: By virtue of being the only Morty with enough of a spine to stand up to a Rick. Though Evil Morty may in fact be the "one true Morty" that the captive Mortys spoke of.
* CorneredRattlesnake: Morty is often meek and cowardly in confrontation, though can prove quite a threat if forced into a corner. After Jellybean King tried to rape him, he retaliated and rather quickly beat him to a pulp, all the while still terrified for his life.
* CoolLoser: Morty isn't seen bullied that much and even his crush when she talks to him is quite pleasant to him and was willing to go to the dance with him in the episode "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez".
* ADateWithRosiePalms: As a typical 14-year-old boy, Morty is a chronic masturbator. He awkwardly warns Jerry not to come into his room when he's on the internet because who knows what he could be looking at, and only makes a half-hearted attempt to explain away that he's using an alien sex doll robot in his room before just giving up and going back to it. In Season 2's "Total Rickall", a flashback reveals Summer coming home early to find him masturbating ''in the kitchen''. When she demands to know why the hell he's doing it in the kitchen, in embarrassment he angrily declares that he does it in ''every room of the house'' (and as she flees, he defiantly shouts after her that he was thinking of her best friend). In "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", after Morty spends a few months trapped on a primitive alien planet without his laptop, he admits to masturbating to "an extra-curvy piece of driftwood".
* {{Expy}}: He's the Marty [=McFly=] to Rick's Doc Brown, though he's wimpier than the original.
* ExtremeDoormat: Rick will drag him to their adventures whether he likes it or not.
* EvilCounterpart: The version of him helping Evil!Rick kill other Ricks and taking their Mortys to hide Evil!Rick from other alternate versions of himself by torturing them. It is then revealed at the end that Evil!Rick was a robot being controlled by Evil!Morty.
* FirstNameBasis: He always refers to Rick by his first name, whereas Summer generally addresses him as Grandpa Rick.
* GenerationXerox: Roiland has stated he believes an adult Morty will look like Jerry but have Rick's abilities.
* GoingNative: Hilariously when he goes to live with a group of primitive aliens after getting fed up with Rick's feud against Zeep. Months later, Rick runs into Morty again, now part of the tribe and decked out in their native costume. Morty takes Rick and Zeep to the tribe's WorldTree and starts to give spiel about it, then abruptly stops and grabs Rick by the lapels:
--> '''Morty:''' You have to get us the f**k ''outta'' here! These people are backwards savages! They [[InsaneTrollLogic eat every third baby because they think it makes fruit grow bigger]]. Everyone's gross and they all smell like piss all the time! I-I-I miss my family, I miss my laptop... I masturbated to an extra-curvy piece of driftwood the other day!
* HeroesWantRedheads:
** His crush, Jessica, has orange-ish red hair.
** By Arthricia in "Look Who's Purging Now" he's at two for three on redheaded love interests.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Jessica does like him back to some degree, but often the zany situations will unavoidably kill off any vibes and advances for Morty.
* IdiotHero: Stated to be dimwitted by most people around him and according to his father has a learning disability of some sort.
* ImAManICantHelpIt:
** One of Morty's biggest flaws. He's a sucker for a pretty face, which often [[SkewedPriorities skews his priorities]] when his life isn't in immediate danger. It has even caused an apocalypse on one occasion. Him getting Rick to buy him a sex bot sets up the events of "Raising Gazorpazorp".
-->'''Rick''': Kind of weird that you were that willing to sell my existence out for some trim, Morty.
** As a horny 14 year-old male, this is one of his reasons for being a rather unapologetic masturbator.
* InformedFlaw: For all of Morty's supposed stupidity, he never really comes across as any dumber than the average 14-year-old and even seems to be talented at thinking on his feet.
* InSeriesNickname: Almost no one calls him by "Mortimer".
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Definitely in "Look Who's Purging Now".
* KissingWarmUp: Beth has to tell him not to practice kiss the pillow.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: He seems to take after his father, both physically and mentally. One of the reasons Beth puts up with his adventures with Rick is that she'd rather her father rub off on him than Morty becoming another Jerry.
* LovableCoward: Very meek and easily intimidated. [[CharacterDevelopment He's getting better though.]]
* MoralityPet:
** To the hyper-intelligent Snuffles in "Lawnmower Dog".
** While he might put him through a ''lot'' of crap, Rick does actually love Morty and can be quite protective of him.
* NiceGuy: Despite his flaws, Morty is a good-natured person who has a strong moral compass.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Though normally very tolerant and the voice of reason, he will often breakdown and lash out when separated from modern conveniences. For example, in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", he launches into an epic rant about how the locals suck and how much he hates it there.
* NotSoDifferent: Morty is gradually becoming more like Rick, choosing violence and murder as an off-hand solution, and becoming increasingly misanthropic and jaded with the universe.
* OddFriendship: With Rick.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Morty is 14, and has a close bond with his elderly grandfather.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 14 and in high school, but has been mistaken for a preteen and is shorter than his crush and classmates. [[RealityIsUnrealistic This is]] TruthInTelevision.
* OnlySaneMan: {{Zig Zagged|Trope}}. Despite being "as stupid as [Rick] is smart", he's easily the most responsible person in the family; however out of him and Summer, she is more mundane and grounded.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Look Who's Purging Now", Morty lets out all of his pent up rage and starts murdering the inhabitants of the purge planet he and Rick were stuck on, a far different take on his usually calm and whipped personality. It's one of the few times we see Rick visibly shocked and concerned about his grandson. It culminates with [[spoiler:Rick tazing him into submission when Morty threatens to kill an innocent girl as well as his own grandfather]].
* OverprotectiveDad: He lies to Morty Jr. about the outside air being poisonous for him, although it was really a matter of protecting everyone ''else'' from his son's homicidal urges.
* PapaWolf: Even though Rick warned Morty that Morty Jr. is one of he most aggressive creatures in the galaxy (and is later proven right), Morty will ''attack Rick'' if he tries to kill Morty Jr. Morty even stated that if Rick wanted to kill Morty Jr., he have to kill him too.
* ParentsAsPeople: In one episode Morty has a half-alien son and tries to raise him well, but a combination of factors (Morty Jr. reaches adulthood in one day and his hyper aggressive, and Morty has no experience with raising children) results in Morty Jr. having a pretty bad childhood. While they do reconcile when Morty Jr. is a young man, he still writes a book about his bad childhood literally called My Horrible Father. Upon learning of this Morty is very downcast, only saying that he hopes his son is eating enough.
* RageBreakingPoint: Morty is normally very in control of his anger, but this tends to slip out. Most prominently in "Look Who's Purging Now" where he was being blamed by Rick for the majority of the episode reaches it's breaking the CatFolk villager that fostered them during the purge decided to kick them out just because Morty criticized his screenplay, [[UngratefulBastard which the villager asked him to critique]]. Leading Morty to push the villager down some stairs, killing him and later slaughtering scores of the villagers, many of who were hiding, with Rick's PowerArmor. It gets to the point where Rick is forced to knock Morty out until the end of the episode.
* RedOniBlueOni: While [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope not necessarily all the time]], he is the slowly collected doormat Blue to his sister's feisty, rebellious Red.
* SeenItAll: He starts to show signs of it in season 2. In "Auto Erotic Assimilation", once he gets past the potential threat of being assimilated by [[HiveMind Unity]], he just rolls with it. When Unity loses control of a town and a race war erupts, much to Summer's shock, he just says "First race war, huh?" with a chuckle.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy (an awkward, sweet AllLovingHero to Rick's Manly Man (a foul-mouthed, aloof SociopathicHero).
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Rick implanted him with nanomachines that gives him the ability to transform into a car. It evidently automatically triggers at the sound of a car alarm.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Beth and Jerry don't like the fact that Rick drags Morty out of school to go on his adventures in the pilot. In the second episode, "Lawnmower Dog", Rick intercepts Morty's math teacher's dreams so that he subliminally convinces him to give Morty good grades all the time, even if Morty isn't there.
* ShrinkingViolet: Being an exaggeration of an [[SociallyAwkwardHero awkward teenager]], Morty is very shy and anxious.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: In a sense, as of Season 3, he's the only remaining member of the original cast. His versions of Summer, Beth and Jerry were left behind in the 'Cronenburg-ed' timeline, and are possibly dead after being frozen by the Rick squad that found Morty and Summer in 'The Rickshawnk Redemption' while Rick himself has lost his original body and has [[BodySurf transferred into]] an alternate Rick.]]
* TheSouthpaw: Not seen very often, but Morty's dominant hand is his left. The most obvious is throwing the frisbee at the end of "The Wedding Squanchers", where he both throws and catches with his left hand.
* TeensAreShort: According to "Pocket Mortys", the typical height of a Morty is 5'2.
* TookALevelInBadass: His adventures with Rick seem to be rubbing off on him, as stuff that would send him into a near panic attack early in the show is starting to be met with worry or curiosity rather than blind fear. For example, in "Auto-Erotic Assimilation" a comment after the [[ItMakesSenseInContext nipple based race war reignites when Unity loses control of the species it has assimilated]] indicates that this isn't his first time dealing with race wars and during "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", after having enough of Rick's and Zeep's bullshit inside the Teenyverse, he opts to go off on his own and within a couple of months takes control of a local tribe of savage tree-people. He's still definitely TheWoobie, but he's slowly starting to grow into an IronWoobie.
* TookALevelInCynic: His adventures with Rick have slowly shaped Morty into a more apathetic person. See SeenItAll section.
* TheUnfavorite: In his original universe, as neither of his parents try to find him after the world is devastated in "Rick Potion #9".
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Morty is often the more sensible and reasonable one among his family. He convinces Summer to stay after she learns she was an unwanted pregnancy by telling her that she is no different than anyone else. He later tells Rick that he will be O.K. if Rick leaves but he won't forgive him for breaking his mom's heart.
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[[folder:Jerry Smith]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Chris Parnell
The father of Morty and Summer, and the husband of Rick's daughter Beth. Jerry is an extremely insecure person who has trouble balancing his job, family, and marriage, none of which are helped by the influence of Rick's escapades, which he sometimes finds himself unwittingly weaseled into.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Has a male lover in "Total Rickall" who turned out to be an alien parasite. Since their memories together were manufactured and the parasites are incapable of making unpleasant memories, it's hard to say if he would have actually enjoyed it.
* TheAntiNihilist: Despite his life being rather... well... miserable, he refuses to give in.
-->'''Jerry:''' Life is effort and I'll stop when I die!
* BerserkButton: Rick's actions in general annoy him but when Beth defends these actions, that drives him over the edge. In the episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation" he and Beth have a nasty argument when Beth tries to defend Rick having an alien locked up in a secret lab he built. Another example is in "The Wedding Squanchers" when Beth and the kids were willing to be galactic fugitives and do whatever Rick wants so that they could have him in their lives.
* BookDumb: In defending his right to continue to call Pluto a planet, he quips that if he can't do so, we might as well burn Galileo at the stake for claiming the sun is round.
* ButtMonkey: Most likely the biggest example in the show, possibly more so than his son. Just to give some examples:
** The best day of his life was an alien simulation of life running at minimum capacity, which he never caught on to until Rick broke the illusion.
** Dozens of problem-serving assistants from another dimension couldn't take two strokes off his golf swing after two days of effort, driving them to homicidal misanthropy.
** In "Mortynight Run", it's revealed one version of Rick made a Jerry daycare if Ricks happen to find themselves with a Jerry they can't just send back home. According to our Rick, Jerrys tend to die quickly if allowed off Earth. The daycare is shown to work based on the fact that Jerrys are all unilaterally easily-controlled simpletons. When prime Jerry gets fed up and leaves (upon realizing that that was always allowed), he comes back in under five minutes because he can't deal with the weirdness around him.
** "Look Who's Purging Now" sums it up:
--->'''Jerry''': I'm this entire family's toilet paper.
** Subverted in the comics with the Jerry of Doofus Rick's universe, who is successful in everything he does and is able to defeat Rick to the point that [[spoiler:he single-handedly conquered the Council of Ricks and enslaved them to conquer other dimensions]].
* BumblingDad: He's not necessarily a bad dad, but he blurts out a pretty big bombshell in the pilot by telling Rick that Morty has some sort of disability right in front of his own son's eyes (in all fairness, he then gently told Morty that he'd always love him, but he felt the responsible thing was to be honest with Morty so he could take steps to address it instead of just ignoring the problem). In other instances he's shown to be a pretty effective dad, and the "bumbling" aspect of the trope is better applied to his role as a husband and his ButtMonkey status.
* LesCollaborateurs: The Galactic Federation gives him a job at the end of Season Two. The first episode of Season Three has him working in a government office, wearing a government uniform with three metals and a federation armband.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Like his father-in-law, he can kick some monster ass if needed. This is best demonstrated in "Rick Potion #9" where he takes on the mutant apocalypse- and wins. Jerry seems to do best when lives are on the line, and miserably the rest of the time. In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", despite starting off simply trying to cower in a hole, he eventually guns his way to rescue his wife while also thinking up how to deal with the monster version of Beth. During "The Wedding Squanchers" when the Galactic Federation attacks the wedding, he picks up a gun to defend his family. That it was a harmless confetti gun should not count for lack of trying.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's implied that Jerry was in a rape situation in the past.
* DirtyCoward: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] compared to most. He tends to be somewhat cowardly in most dangerous situations, having once locked Beth out of the car when they were chased down by a crazed hobo. However, he can be [[FearlessFool doggedly determined]] when he has a goal in mind.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Jerry may be a ditz, but he's not wrong in saying that Rick's activities are dangerous and are going to get the family in trouble or that Beth's selfishness and fear over her father leaving ''again'' is the reason she turns a blind eye to his craziness even though said craziness puts the family at risk.
* FanBoy: Of the movie [[Film/Titanic1997 Titanic,]] to the point of dragging his wife to a lame reenactment cruise.
* FatalFlaw: His need to feel important.
* {{Foil}}: To Rick. While Rick is a sociopathic, brave, and brilliant scientist who abandoned Beth when she was a child and the person who the family will go along no matter how crazy his ideas. Jerry is a normal, {{downplayed}} DirtyCoward who is a bit of a ditz, the family's resident ButtMonkey, and didn't abandon Beth after she was pregnant while they were both in high school.
* GoodParents: Though not exactly, he's still a better parent than Beth or Rick.
* GrewASpine: Finally stands up to Rick in the season 3 premiere, putting a Him or Me scenario on the table. [[spoiler:Which is exactly what Rick wanted, cause he knew Beth would choose him over Jerry.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Has a fairly belligerent relationship with his wife. In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", Beth's mytholog of Jerry is a pathetic worm-like creature that is subservient to Monster!Beth, which even the actual Jerry finds utterly pathetic.
* HiddenDepths: In timelines where Summer wasn't born, Jerry has a tendency to make it big in Hollywood as an actor or a writer/director.
* HonorBeforeReason: ''Pluto is still a planet to him'', and he will argue that point endlessly, even if his son gets a bad grade on his report. [[spoiler:Or if four billion lives are put in jeopardy. Almost.]] He's just insecure, you know?
* InkSuitActor: He looks a lot like his voice actor Chris Parnell.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Jerry constantly fears that Beth may not truly love him.
** Not just his wife, he also fears that his children may favor Rick over him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Jerry can be very, almost absurdly, selfish at times. For example, in "Look Who's Purging Now", despite Rick and Morty being in clear danger he still fixates on getting attention from Summer continually distracting her, ignoring their peril, and almost getting them killed. Made much worse when it's revealed he wasn't really even trying to reconnect with his grown-up daughter... he just wanted to mooch cash from her.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Subverted. Jerry is very sensitive about how smart he is (which isn't much) and doesn't take people pointing this out very well.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The feminine boy to Beth's masculine girl
* MrSeahorse: In the opening sequence, Jerry is shown giving birth. It has yet to come up in any episode yet, but you can be sure it's on its way. Since Rick was seen delivering the baby, it was probably something Rick did that caused this.
* NoRespectGuy: Nobody has any respect for Jerry. Least of all him.
* OnlySaneMan: Where Rick is involved at least. While his wife and children welcome Rick's presence in their lives Jerry is the only one to recognize and bring up the concerns that having a MadScientist living in the house creates.
* StraightMan: Which is odd because he's also the dimmest of the main characters. But despite his awkwardness, he rivals Beth as the most normal of the family.
* StrawLoser: He rarely catches any breaks, no one in his family takes him seriously, and his marriage is constantly hanging on by a thread due to the fact that Summer was an accident.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: When his parents come to visit the family for Christmas dinner, it's shown that Jerry got ''all'' of his facial features from his father.
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** The Season 2 premiere has the B-plot end with Jerry successfully performing a romantic gesture for Beth, and the final scene is him being consistently funny enough to put her in a laughing fit.
** The Season two finale has him getting a Federation-mandated job after him being nagged for being unemployed for the past season.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "Rick Potion #9", though it apparently doesn't carry over to the reality Rick and Morty settle down in where the situation that turned him into a badass is resolved (or didn't go far enough for his badassery to happen). In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" he is fed up with Beth's perception of him as a meek worm and decides to fight back to rescue her from a monster perception of herself.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. It's implied that he married way out of his league, though Jerry is more average-looking than truly ugly. But this isn't helped by the fact that the father of his wife very much thinks this and constantly reminds him of it.
* UnfazedEveryman: He is essentially surrounded by the family of a MadScientist, whose [[UpToEleven family pet named Snuffles even outsmarts him]]. While some of his moments do involve a TroubledFetalPosition, he takes Rick's realities comfortably well, but [[YankTheDogsChain not for very long]].
* YankTheDogsChain:
** Gets one in "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!", when he has the best day of his life, but is pulled out right at the best moment by Rick, who reveals it was all just a simulation. It actually gets worse near the end when he tries to use the same "award winning" pitch from the simulation and is promptly fired over how bad it is.
** He gets yet another one (if you think about it from the perspective of the series) in "Rick Potion #9", when he wins the pure affection of his woman by becoming a total badass in a CrapsackWorld, only for Rick and Morty to completely ditch that reality altogether and return to one where he and Beth are apparently back where they started. Badass Jerry is still out there, he's just... never important to the show again.
** Yet another one in "Close Rick-counters" where he meets "Doofus Rick", the only person who respects him... who is then taken away by the rest of the Council, and Jerry is mocked by the other Ricks for being friends with him.
** In "The Rickshank Redemption", he gets a great job and loves living in the Galactic Federation. Then Rick destroys the Federation's economy, causing chaos and making him unemployed again. He forces Beth to choose between him and Rick. She chooses Rick.
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[[folder:Beth Smith (née Sanchez)]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Sarah Chalke
Jerry's wife, Summer and Morty's mother and Rick's daughter, Beth faces the problems that follow her unstable marriage and her dad living with her family, though she's the least affected family member by the latter of the two. She has a job as a heart surgeon for horses.
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* TheAlcoholic: While not to the extent of Rick, she can really put away wine when things get down. In "Rixty Minutes", she goes through several boxes of wine while lamenting her lost opportunities. In "Total Rickall", Summer has at least one memory of Beth getting wasted and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle, which is followed by her rushing to fill a wineglass after she shoots Mr. Poopybutthole under the mistaken belief that he's a shapeshifting alien parasite]].
* AlcoholicParent: She got it from Rick. She isn't bad as him though, but a flashback with her and Summer shows that she's had her problems.
* BerserkButton:
** Implying she's not a real doctor seems to be a sore spot.
** Also the few times that she has stood up to Rick come when he tries to pass off problems caused by his own carelessness as being Jerry's fault.
* BuxomIsBetter: In the Rick and Morty rushed license adventure, Summer wears a DD bra believing she will grow into it because Beth herself has large breasts.
* DaddysGirl: {{Deconstructed}}. She adores her father for the most part and is willing to put up with a lot of his crap, though even she has her limits. WordOfGod even notes that her adoration of Rick (who, ignoring the mad scientist aspect, is still an alcoholic absentee parent who was away for much of her life) is what truly makes her a messed up person. In "The Wedding Squanchers", she admits that the reason she puts up with her father and is willing to be a galactic fugitive is because she's afraid of Rick running out on her again.
* DeadpanSnarker: It seems to be a learned trait from her father, though it tends to come off more as complaining when she does it.
* DisappearedDad: Rick was gone for a large portion of her life. She said that she used to draw him into family pictures with crayon. Once he returned, she was willing to do anything she could to keep him in her life.
* DrowningMySorrows: After she shoots Mr. Poopybutthole, and after Rick gets arrested again.
* FreakyIsCool: It's stated by the creators that Beth fetishes the abnormal and this is one of the reasons she likes having Rick around.
* {{Gasshole}}: She can [[LamarckWasRight burp just as well as her father]] to some extent, particularly when drunk. The Ricks are all quite proud of her for this.
* GenerationXerox: She's inherited her father's intelligence, his ego and alcoholism.
* HospitalHottie: Her job as a heart surgeon for horses. It's shown that had she not given birth to Summer and married Jerry, she would have gone on to become a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: In the stinger of Rick Potion #9, Beth tells Jerry she doesn't care about what might have happened to Rick and Morty and now that they have gone, she feels finally happy. It is questionable whether the current Beth feels the same way.
* InkSuitActor: Like Jerry, she strongly resembles her own VA.
* InTheBlood: She's inherited her father's egocentric nature and predisposition for alcoholism.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Remarkably so. A standout moment was in Wedding Squanchers when Birdperson tells her about him and Rick being galactic fugitives wanted for terrorism who have committed numerous atrocities together, and she doesn't even acknowledge what he's saying, preferring instead to talk about herself and her problems.
** A recurring source of conflict between her and Jerry is the latter's belief she'd gladly let Rick's antics mess with the lives of the rest of the family so long as ''she'' was happy to have her father back. In said episode, she bluntly confirms that theory. It's a pretty normal reaction for someone in her situation though.
* {{Jerkass}}: The status quo of the show is that Jerry and Beth's marriage is always on the brink of collapse; as such, she is particularly venomous towards Jerry, even above everyone else and almost as much as Rick. The original Beth became indifferent to the fate of Morty after the events of Rick Potion #9.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Beth or at least the current Beth at least earnestly loves and ''attempts'' to make her dysfunctional family and marriage work, and given how selfish and egocentric Jerry himself is, it's a two-way endurance.
* LatinoIsBrown: Averted, if her family background really is Latino (and not, say, Iberian Spanish). Beth has the most fair complexion out of her whole family. If the version of her mother in ''The Rickshank Redemption'' is accurate, then she strongly takes after her in appearance rather than Rick.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Turns out, she does not take loneliness well, especially when she has no one to look down to. It's been revealed in "Rixty Minutes" :despite her fame and fortune as an experienced human surgeon, she surrounds herself with only birds in cages while DrowningHerSorrows with pints of wine for her lonesomeness.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Older than the typical example, but she's still a Daddy's girl.
* MamaBear: In "The Wedding Squanchers" Beth defends Summer against a robot that tried to harm her.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The masculine girl to Jerry's feminine boy.
* MissingMom: Rick states in the pilot that she is no longer alive, and it's mentioned in "Rick Potion #9" that Rick left her mom. In "Auto Erotic Assimilation" Beth mentions that her mom had an issue with Rick putting his experiments before the safety of his family, resulting in him leaving. Whether or not she is dead or simply not around is unknown
* MoralityPet: In at least some sense, Beth (with Morty) seem to function as one for Rick. He tends to genuinely compliment and flatter Beth. He never swears at her like he does with the rest of the family and even calls her "sweetie".
* NeverMyFault: She seems to always blame Jerry for their strained marriage yet never admits her cold and distant behavior to him could be a factor.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** One of the comic books reveals that Beth regularly uses Rick's portal gun to meet up with alternate versions of herself. They even have their own rock band.
** In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" Jerry manipulates the device she is strapped into to present a mental image of what she idealistically wants him to view her as. That being [[{{Narcissist}} a literal goddess!]]
* OedipusComplex: An Electra Complex variant. WordOfGod has it that she grew up resenting her mother and idolizing [[DisappearedDad Rick]] as she came to blame her for Rick running out on them. [[BrokenPedestal The bloom's probably off the rose]] at this point, though she's still more lenient than she ought to be, partly because she'd rather have Morty end up like Rick than Jerry.
* OpenMindedParent: She is typically ok with her father taking her children on potentially dangerous adventures across the universe, mostly because she would rather her children be more like her father than their father. She also didn't want to intervene with Morty loudly [[MakesSenseInContext using a sex robot]] in "Raising Gazorpazorp" because she thought it would affect him negatively. However, she did intervene when she thought Rick was using it too.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Much of a DaddysGirl as she is Beth is fully willing to call out Rick when his antics lead to real trouble.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Beth is quite a narcissist. In the "Pilot" Rick is able to get her to stop being angry with him for taking Morty on his adventure by complimenting her breakfast. She tends to put her own needs ahead of others, such as insisting Rick stay in their lives despite his antics. In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" Jerry knows that she wants him to view her as a goddess.
* TeenPregnancy: She was impregnated by Jerry when she was seventeen.
* UglyGuyHotWife: With Jerry, who is implied to have married out of his league, but downplayed, as Jerry is more average-looking than truly ugly.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Beth is beautiful while Rick isn't very attractive or in shape.
* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed. She obviously seems a more stable and intelligent being than [[TheDitz Jerry]], but even he is perfectly able to call her out on her flaws and arrogance many times over.
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[[folder:Summer Smith]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Spencer Grammer
The daughter of Jerry and Beth, the granddaughter of Rick, and the sister of Morty. Summer behaves the way a typical teenage daughter living in a house with a psychotic grandfather would.
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* ActionGirl: In the comic book B-plot (''[[PunnyName Summer Spectacular]]''), she imagines herself as this. Issue 1 has her saving a man from a hostage situation, while Issue 2 portrays her as the commander of an army of anthropomorphic food. Gradually starts to grow into the role as the series goes on. Going so far as to be proactive at times given how morally compromised her grandfather is and how spineless or apathetic Morty tends to be. Culminates in the spin-off comic ''Little Poopy Superstar,'' where she gets to team up with Mr. Poopybutthole.
* ACupAngst: Wears double D bras despite her size being much smaller, claiming she'll grow into them because "Mom's got big boobs."
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In the pilot, she has a crush on [[TheBully Frank Palicky]]. Too bad he got frozen to death by Rick.
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ummer '''S'''mith.
* AppealToPopularity: Summer has a tendency to follow the crowd if only so she can get more attention. In "Ricksy Business" she encourages Morty as well as one of her geeky school mates, Nancy to traverse a dangerous dimension because she thinks they'll ruin her house party. In "Get Schwifty" she becomes a religious fanatic when the rest of the town starts worshiping the giant heads in the sky. It also might be why she is so disturbed with Unity, one mind controlling the minds of many.
* AscendedExtra: While she was always part of the main crew, Summer gets a major bump in screen time after "Rick Potion No. 9", and another one during season two, to the point where entire subplots were centered around her. Summer also appears quite often in the comics and is even getting a spin-off comic of her own: ''Lil' Poopy Superstar''.
* BigSisterBully: {{Zig zagged}}. Summer doesn't actively pick on Morty, mostly because neither one speaks to each other. At one point she groin kicks him for what at first seems like a ''very'' flippant reason She kicked him in the groin without warning because she thought he went in her room. It appears to be an overreaction ... until it is revealed a minute later in the episode that Morty masturbates in EVERY room in the house. Even so, they do care for each other.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Though mostly in the pilot. She has shown improvement in later episodes, but still generally carries this trope around with her. She also has much more of a backbone than her brother and thus a lot less tolerance for Rick's bullshit.
* BrilliantButLazy: {{Implied}}. Summer mentioned at one point she ''intentionally'' gets C grades and it's shown that Summer [[HiddenDepths possesses superior intelligence]].
* BrotherSisterTeam: She and Morty are seen working together when the need calls for it, mostly against something caused by their grandfather.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In chapter 3 of the game, one of the items is Summer's "relaxing massager," and it's made very clear what she does with it. Rick sees the item and doesn't think it's a big deal.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Raising Gazorpazorp" has her being involved in Rick's misadventure and future episodes have put a bigger focus on her such as ''Rixty Minutes'' and ''Something Ricked This Way Comes''. As of season 2, Rick has much less of a problem including her on his and Morty's intergalactic escapades.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: After the events of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", Summer is scammed out of her business venture with Lucius Needful (aka the actual devil). The answer? Get jacked up on steroids with your grandfather and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the living shit out of him]] in front of thousands of onlookers in Seattle.
* FieryRedhead: Obviously, especially in episodes like "Something Ricked This Way Comes" and "Auto-Erotic Assimilation".
* GenerationXerox: She has inherited some of Rick's creativeness, jadedness and love of adventure, and Beth's hero-worship of Rick.
* GreenEyedMonster: It is shown that Summer can be jealous of Rick and Morty's close relationship, and she can sometimes feel ignored by her grandfather. While Rick does his best to keep her at a distance, the two of them have gone on their own adventures, including on the planet Gazorpazorp. Her complex of being ignored by Rick manifests into a connection with the Devil in "Something Ricked This Way Comes".
* GroinAttack: She once kicked Morty in the nuts because he once went into her room to masturbate.
* HairColorDissonance: Summer is a strawberry blonde.
* HiddenDepths: Although Summer is not as scientifically-minded as Rick, she does possess superior intelligence. Summer is shown to be very whip-smart and nimble-witted, at least compared to rest of her family.
** Summer also seems to communicate with Rick better than Morty does, at least as long as neither party is being belligerent. Near the end of "Ricksy Business", Summer understands Rick's vague descriptions of a device much faster than Morty does even though the latter had spent much more time with Rick by that point.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Summer gets frustrated that when Rick won't allow her to go on adventures with him and is annoyed to find all her alternate reality selves to be rather boring. Or non-existent.
** Outright says it in ''Rick and Morty Comics #16'' when she runs off with another space traveler. Rick, rather uncharacteristically, agrees and lets her go.]
--> ''"I want to be special, Grandpa Rick! I deserve to be special!"'' ''"Yeah, Summer. Yeah. You do.''"
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her outward bratty and aloof attitude, Summer does have a moral compass (which especially stands out when she goes on adventures with Rick and Morty) and does love her family.
* MoralityPet: While Rick can be a ''huge'' jerk to Summer, it's obvious that he does love her.
* MsFanservice: Only in Mr. Goldenfold's dreams. Although it's [[IncestSubtext not as sexy as it looks]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In "Lawnmower Dog" she says she gets C's intentionally. It might just be an excuse for her bad grades.
* OnlySaneWoman: Along with Morty, Summer is by far the most grounded and "normal" person in her family, as she is the one that calls out Rick the most and is the one that has the least "zany" adventures opposite from her family. This causes Rick not to take her to his adventures with Morty, considering that she would protest more easily than her pushover brother.
* PottyFailure: Seems to have this problem.
** In "A Rickle in Time", when Morty knocks out Rick, he mentions that all the Mortys knocked out all the Ricks and all the Summers peed their pants.
** In "Total Rickall", during the flashback to when everyone got stuck in an elevator, she tells Morty "Just pee your pants. I did it the moment we got stuck."
** In "Look Who's Purging Now" she fondly remembers Jerry pushing her on the swings until she peed herself.
** A promotional commercial for season 2 also seems to lampshade this problem as Summer, Rick, and Morty search the multiverse for a bathroom that Summer can use. Morty mentions in passing that Rick solved this same problem with by simply putting a catheter in him.
* RedIsHeroic: The only member of her family with red hair and has the strongest moral compass of them all (especially after Morty [[TookALevelInCynic grew more apathetic]]).
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In the first episode of Season Three, Summer is the only one in the family who doesn't take Rick [[HeroicSacrifice turning himself in]] as abandonment. When she is looking frantically in the garage for a way to rescue Rick, she finds six dead flies on a work table and guesses that if they are arranged in a certain pattern they might unlock a secret lab full of weapons. She only gives up that attempt because Morty mentions the dead Rick buried in the backyard, realizing they could his portal gun. [[spoiler: When Rick later enters the garage, he complains about Jerry moving his things around, and then re-arranges those same dead flies in such a way that they unlock a secret lab exactly like the one Summer described]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Jerry's facial features and head shape.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Becomes this to Rick and Morty whenever she's taken along on their adventures due to her brother's growing cynicism making him unfit for the role.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The comic portrays her eating pizza a lot. In Issue 1, she accidentally burns herself because she's simultaneously daydreaming, straightening her hair, and eating a slice of pizza. In Issue 2, she holds the hand of an anthropomorphic piece of pizza as he dies on the battlefield.
* TheUnfavorite: In the second universe it's shown that Jerry and Beth are very resentful of the sacrifices they had to make because Summer was born. It takes Morty's twisted consolation to make her stay. It's not long until where an alternate universe closely similar to theirs [[{{Subverted}} regret the abortion and has caused both parents terrible lives as the current universe watches it unfold.]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Justin Roiland
A [[SociopathicHero cold-hearted]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer yet brilliant elderly scientist and inventor]] living with his daughter's family, and Summer and Morty's maternal grandfather. Rick constantly drags his grandchildren Morty and Summer along on adventures that serve purposes rarely expressed. He has access to all sorts of technology he's supposedly invented all on his own, or gained from alien species, and he is (in)famous among aliens as one of the most intelligent beings in existence. Despite that, [[TheAlcoholic he drinks]] and behaves like a {{Jerkass}} most of the time, and finds that his technology is really cut out for bigger problems than found everyday in the family, though when the two combine the result is never a pretty sight.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Up until the Rickshank Redemption, he apparently used to have a fear of wicker furniture.
* AgentMulder: In contrast to [[ArbitrarySkepticism what you'd]] [[FlatEarthAtheist expect from a TV scientist]] he's surprisingly open to the supernatural things like vampires or {{Satan}} although he ultimately believes [[JerkassHasAPoint (correctly for the most part)]] that he can outdo them all with science.
* TheAlcoholic: He's either drunk, chugging down whiskey from his flask or acting like a know-it-all asshole.
* AlcoholicParent: And his daughter Beth is shown to have inherited some of the traits.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: "Sanchez" is a Latin American name and he has a ''very'' slightly different skin tone from the other characters, but that's about it. [[https://youtu.be/ANE1Bz7Qk0c?t=15m45s When asked about this]], Roiland stated that [[ShrugOfGod he considers it irrelevant]]. In the commentary of "Auto-Erotic Assimilation", Rick was confirmed to be of Hispanic descent.
* AndIMustScream: In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", he puts his mind in a clone of a younger version of himself, which takes complete control and shoves our Rick to the back of the mind. While in this state, he can only communicate to the outside world through the clone's angst. This gets fixed at the end of the episode, of course.
* AnimeHair: You could have sworn that a blue, spikey up-do would have better suited an anime character, [[EinsteinHair but then again]], he is a MadScientist.
* AntiHero: He has a few good moments that just barely stop him from being a VillainProtagonist.
* TheAntiNihilist: It didn't just take a lot of intelligence to get where he is supposed to be for someone who swam across the vast ocean of realities that make [[AnAesop purpose of humanity very insignificant or even irrelevant by default]], all the while not driving himself to commit SeenItAllSuicide after realizing this in his lifetime; as his grandson Morty learned in "Rick Potion #9".
* AwfulWeddedLife: Rick's marriage to Beth's mother started out with them being very much in love but over time, the love faded and their marriage failed and Rick left her. Beth even states that her mom fought with Rick about his willingness to risk his family's safety for his experiments.
* AxCrazy: "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" has Rick killing several inactive clones of himself with an actual ax before realizing he has to get Jerry and Beth and getting one more hit in before cheerfully declaring "one for the road!" He isn't like this most of the time but the right trigger could send him off the deep end as seen in "A Rickle in Time."
* BadassBookworm: He is the most intelligent human alive on Earth, a [[HollywoodScience prodigious scientist]] and he is ''very'' able to kick ass despite his age; see below.
* BadassCape: [[spoiler:When he beats the Council of Ricks (or really, 5/6ths of them and Mysterious Rick) in ''Pocket Mortys'', he takes Mysterious Rick's cape as a prize.]]
* BadassGrandpa: He's ''unnaturally'' strong and agile for a 60-year old man, and can deliver an ass-kicking when needed. Also has access to many dangerous weapons he built himself. In "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" he takes on several massive, alien beasts in melee combat and wins.
* BatmanGambit: He manipulated Morty's repressed rage in "The Rickshank Rickdemption" to [[spoiler:get a clear shot at the last Council of Rick leader.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Whenever someone asks him to fix a problem, Rick generally uses one of his inventions to fix it. While these inventions do function properly, they often have unforeseen consequences that often endanger the user or make situations worse.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: In "A Rickle in Time", Rick beats a fourth-dimensional being to unconsciousness. As a result, said being tries to beat Rick up in retaliation. Instead they accidentally mistake Albert Einstein for Rick (due to them have a similar haircut), prompting him to develop e=mc[[superscript:2]]. This means Rick inadvertently caused Einstein's most important discovery.
-->'''Fourth-Dimensional Being:''' You don't mess with time, motherf[beep]er! ''(leaves)''\\
'''Einstein:''' ''(gets up)'' I ''vill'' mess vith time!\\
''(begins to write "E=mc[--[[superscript:2]]--]]][[spoiler:" on his chalkboard)''\\
'''Einstein:''' ...I vill mess vith time.
* BerserkButton: Having his [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Pancreas]] idea criticized.
** And on a more serious note, crossing him. Gearhead wound up with his gearsticles shoved into his mouth, and [[spoiler:Jerry was manipulated into divorcing Beth for proposing turning him in to the Galactic Government.]]
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Justin Roiland stated himself that Rick is "well hung."
* BigNo: Immediately after Tammy guns down Birdperson.
* BigOlUnibrow: Borders between both Type I & II.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Morty describes him as somewhere around this or ChaoticNeutral during [[spoiler: his and Summer's trial at the Citadel of Ricks]].
-->'''Morty:''' Well, he's not a villain, Summer, but he shouldn't be your hero. He's more like a demon, or a super fucked up God.
* BodySurf: [[spoiler: How Rick escapes the Galactic Prison (by switching with his interrogator). He then travels through multiple alternate reality versions of himself to bring down the Council of Ricks.]]
* BoomerangBigot: Generally sees humans as annoying and needy, and has briefly forgotten the word for humans more than once.
* BrilliantButLazy: Rick refuses to spend any serious effort on things he sees as being beneath his talents, which is a lot of things, and quite a few plotlines are started by him being faced with a problem he finds inconsequential and whipping up a quick and easy solution in response. Said quick and easy solution then inevitably turn out to have some sort of disastrous side-effects attached to it. It's also possible Rick dropped out of school when he was younger and that's why Rick thinks school is a waste of time.
* BrokenAce: Rick is a genius scientist and inventor who builds robots for fun and invented inter-dimensional travel. He's also a [[TheAlcoholic raging alcoholic]] (being drunk almost all of the time) and snorts crystals (in a thinly veiled reference to crystal meth and cocaine) while being neglectful (if not abusive) to his family. His catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" translates to "I am in great pain, please help me" which is why he tries to numb his emotions with substances. Nevertheless he almost always is able to save the day (even if it was mostly his fault to begin with).
* BungledSuicide: Rick attempts to disintegrate himself after Unity leaves him due to Rick's negative influence on everyone around him. Rick is only saved after passing out, missing the heat ray by a hair.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: In spades. He's a massive drunk, has borderline BlueAndOrangeMorality, and has a habit of dragging his grandson along on dangerous adventures, but the guy is a very talented and accomplished MadScientist... even if a lot of his experiments are odd.
* ByronicHero: Minor hints here and there, that Rick has a pretty troubled past. He is also moody, cynical, and very passionate about his science. However, while his scientific habits may not be self-destructive as much as they are outwardly destructive, his drug habits most certainly are, and he occasionally shows cracks in his narcissism that betray a strong self-loathing.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Don't think about it!"
** In later episodes, he tries to make "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" his catch phrase. According to Birdperson, it means "[[JerkassFacade I am in great pain,]] [[StepfordSmiler please help me.]]" in his language.
** From the same episode he states that "I Don't Give a Fuck" is his new catchphrase.
** "Run, Morty!"
** "Total Rickall" shows that "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" is apparently one of many nonsensical catchphrases he frequently utters, including (but not limited to) "And that's the way the news goes," "Grass tastes bad," "VideoGame/BurgerTime," "AIDS," and last but not least, "Lick-lick-lick my balls!"
** "And awaaaaaaaaaayyy we go!"
* CharacterDevelopment: Seen towards the end of season one and even more so in season two. Rick goes from being vaguely concerned about his grandchildren to actually enjoying their company and obviously trying to look out for them (even though he tries to hide it). He even begins caring about what they think of him, as he tells creatures like the assassin to not mention some of his darker deeds while they are around. Taken UpToEleven when he is willing to sacrifice himself to save Morty.
** Sadly not all development is positive for him; he's also shown hints of an abysmally lonely and broken side, as well as indications he really just [[DrivenToSuicide wants it all to end]].
** However, some positive character development has taken place over time, because in "Get Schwifty" he tells Ice T that he can't just "float around space forever, not caring". Since Rick was the one to proclaim how little he cared for everything all the time in Season One (particularly in "Something Ricked This Way Comes"), that's nice to hear coming from him.
* TheChessmaster: It turns out [[spoiler:Rick's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the season two finale was all part of a bigger scheme to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking topple the intergalactic federation, get Jerry and Beth to divorce and to get the promotional Mulan dipping sauce.]]]]
* ComedicSociopath: Certainly comes across as one, but it's implied to be a defense mechanism fostered over decades -- if he ever stopped to empathize with those he's wronged over the years or consider the full consequences of his actions, he just might go completely insane.
* CoolOldGuy: When he's not being drunk, or a dick, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or a drunk dick]], which is rare. Ironically, when he's being these things, he's much more likely to be this to anyone ''except'' his own grandchildren.
* CynicalMentor: To Morty, naturally. There actually is well meaning behind some of it such as him advising Morty to not get involved with love and instead focus on science, wanting to spare Morty heartache.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rick has been through a lot in his life, to the point where he is numb to pretty much everything. It's also hinted that he had a troubled relationship with his parents who were unsupportive of him. He also had a marriage that failed, resulting in his disappearance.
* DeadpanSnarker: Does this a lot around Jerry or the inhabitants of any world he travels to.
* DeathSeeker: In Season 2 especially, Rick is more or less waiting for the end to find him. However, he's also shown a fear of dying and has sought ways to cheat death such as his attempted BodyBackupDrive in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez". He seems okay with the idea of dying if he has absolutely no way out of it but will quickly jump on any possibility of avoiding his demise.
** In "A Rickle in Time," he gives up his waveform collar so Morty can return home, [[HeroicSacrifice dooming himself to certain death in a quantum void]].
--> ''"I'm okay with this. Be good, Morty. Be better than me."''
** In "Auto-Erotic Assimilation," he attempts suicide by disintegration ray (see BungledSuicide above) after his breakup with Unity.
** In "Total Rickall," he angrily demands that Morty execute him while he's being held down by two memory parasites.
--->''"[[GetItOverWith ...so why don't you do us both a favor and]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith pull the trigger!?!]]''''' ''[[GetItOverWith Do it! DO IT,]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith MOTHERFUCKER]]'''''!! ''[[GetItOverWith PULL THE]]'' '''''[[GetItOverWith FUCKING]]''''' ''[[GetItOverWith TRIGGER!!!]]"''
* DefrostingIceKing: While still a snarky MadScientist, Rick has ''slowly'' mellowed out over the course of the series, and the season 2 finale even has him making a speech about opening up to people for the first time. [[spoiler:Even when the frost comes back after everything goes to hell, he turns himself into the Galactic Federation so his family can live on Earth in peace.]][[spoiler: Averted when it turns out he only turned himself in so he could topple the Galactic Federation (changes in plan also allowing him to kill the Council of Ricks) and get Beth to divorce Jerry for crossing him.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits it in ''Wedding Squanchers''. He'd managed to [[CharacterDevelopment give a beautiful speech]] (Though it didn't seem that way at first) about emotionally opening himself up and enjoying himself and his friend's happiness... Only for it not to work out later. He refers to this as "letting his guard down", and says he'll never do that again.
* {{Determinator}}: Nothing stops Rick once he sets his mind to it.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: In "Something Ricked This Way Comes", he starts a business in which he removes the curses from the cursed items of Mr. Needful's store solely to {{troll}} him. He manages to drive the devil into attempting suicide.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After Mr. Needful "[[PersonAsVerb Zuckerbergs]]" Summer, the two work out heavily and proceed to kick the shit out of him.
* DimensionalTraveler: His portal gun lets him hop between dimensions, universes, and timelines at will.
* DirtyOldMan: Rick is seen in BDSM gear, having wild sexual requests with Unity and in one of Morty's bad memories is hitting on some hot alien babes as Morty is being dragged away by a giant lobster.
* DisappearedDad: He ran out on Beth and her mother when she was a child after growing bored with his marriage. There are vaguest hints that very deep down, Rick is actually deeply ashamed at this, and realizes he is a terrible father and grandfather, and this is one of the root causes of his alcoholism and self-loathing.
** Moreover, some episodes (most visibly "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind" and "Get Schwifty") show Rick with an infant and a young child Morty, strongly suggesting Rick had been keeping tabs on his grandson well before his official return to his daughter's life.
* DiscardAndDraw: His love for his daughter isn't nearly substantial enough to make him not abandon her so he can go to another parallel dimension that he didn't mutate to live with a near-identical Beth. Probably not the first time he has done this either.
** A bit of FridgeHorror here, in that Rick, being able to travel across alternate dimensions, must be aware that infinite different versions of his daughter (and other loved ones) exist all the time, and an infinite subset of them must be dying fairly horrible deaths at any given time. It's fundamentally impossible to change this, so he seems to have made a conscious decision "not to think about it". Dealing with this kind of horrifying awareness may be a contributor to his substance abuse problem.
* DitzyGenius: Can easily qualify when it comes to his drunkenness and sociopathy.
* DotingParent: The one person (at least in the Smith family) Rick is never seen disrespecting is his daughter Beth. He even calls her "sweetie" sometimes. He also doesn't think someone like Jerry is worthy of his daughter and isn't shy about expressing that.
* DrivenToSuicide: He attempts to commit suicide after Unity breaks up with him. He also tries to goad Morty into killing him when Morty accuses him of being a parasite. Both attempts fail.
* DrowningMySorrows: He evidently uses drugs and alcohol to dull his pain.
* EinsteinHair: Comes with being a Dr. Brown parody. There's even a moment where a pair of vengeful Time Cops mistake Einstein for Rick.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the pilot, Rick drags Morty out of his bedroom in an attempt to drunkenly nuke the world in order to start everything over, but tries to pass it off as a SecretTestOfCharacter when it fails.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He is, in general, a very morally-questionable man, but there are still lines he won't stand being crossed. For example, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mr. Jellybean's attempt to rape Morty clearly shocked him so much]], and in the post-credits stinger of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", we see him that he loathes neo-Nazis, animal abusers, Westboro Baptists, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking school bullies.]]
** He calls out Morty for using a LovePotion to get Jessica to like him, calling him a "creep" at one point. During his WhatTheHellHero speech to his grandson, Rick compares the LovePotion to drugs used to commit rape. (Though as Morty correctly points out, Rick still made said LovePotion for Morty when he asked, so the point is kinda downplayed).
** In "Auto Erotic Assimilation", he was horrified when Unity blew up a city to prove that it can "let go".
** In the Council of Ricks episode, among the multiple Ricks, Rick is shown to be the only one who cares about his Morty beyond the kid being a resource for cloaking himself.
** He is horrified upon witnessing his despised son-in-law get shot brutally on TV.
** "Look Who's Purging Now" has Rick eagerly awaiting the violence of a purge night on the planet they're on, but he quickly becomes disgusted a few seconds into it, and is clearly worried when Morty starts getting involved in it.
** He has an absolute breakdown when Tammy kills Bird Person.
** When we see his memory of where he was on 9/11, we see Rick standing in front of a television with a distraught look on his face.
* EvilCounterpart: A different Rick from another timeline was killing other Ricks and subjecting their Mortys to a FateWorseThanDeath to hide himself, before he and Morty put an end to him. [[spoiler:This is ultimately subverted, as it reveals that that Rick's Morty was controlling the rogue Rick the entire time.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Rick has been doing his thing long before the show began. He's explored TheMultiverse extensively, knows all the ins and outs about existence itself, is often familiar with the antagonists that appear, and just has a storied past in general.
* {{Expy}}:
** He's basically [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Dr. Emmett L. Brown]] if he were an alcoholic sociopath. And/or combined with [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros Dr. Thaddeus S. Venture]].
** He shares very similar aspects with [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] in his fantastic use of science, inter-dimensional and space travel and being considered a renegade among his peers; that is, if The Doctor were constantly intoxicated.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: According to WordOfGod, he is pansexual. Roiland even confirms it. Comes up in "[[http://40.media.tumblr.com/5a825d7ba07b98e92435d57a4aadd265/tumblr_inline_nvq99xMjfQ1qmzzvf_500.png Auto Erotic Assimilation]]", where among the things he ends up having an orgy with are a group of (presumably male) miners and a giraffe.
* FanDisservice: Rick in after changing to blend in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUoIgWSY4jU the pleasure chamber, a scene which also features fanservice from Summer.]] Him and Morty walking naked through a Zygerian simulation counts as well.
* FantasticRacism: Rick does not like [[WhatMeasureIsAMook Gromflomites]]. Mostly for being bureaucrats.
* FatalFlaw: Rick's destructive tendencies (and his unwillingness to change) tend to put the lives of his family in danger and strain his relationships with them. Even [[MoralityPet Morty]] has his limits with Rick.
** Tying into the above is that Rick is very prone to DidntThinkThisThrough often causing problems by using his science for quick fixes and never giving forethought to trouble down the line, forcing him to solve things as they happen.
* FirstNameBasis: While Summer calls him grandpa and Beth calls him dad, Morty only calls him Rick. It's an indicator of their relationship as they are more like [[VitriolicBestBuds friends]] than family.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Which is strange, considering that he once lectured the family about the importance of Jesus during Christmas, and that he and Morty have encountered vampires, demons, and all sorts of other supernatural phenomena. Not to mention he's flat-out scammed the Devil himself.
** It probably goes along with his ego and thinking he is above all that.
** "A Rickle In Time" has him [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 2 of 64 instantiations of him)]] [[SubvertedTrope pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die]], [[DoubleSubvertedTrope only to go back to mocking his existence]] [[UngratefulBastard when he is saved.]]]]
* FourthWallObserver: There's some evidence that Rick is at least partially aware that he's in a TV show, usually in the form of saying goodbye to the audience at the end of an episode, even going so far as to celebrate the season 1 finale.
* FullFrontalAssault: In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" he smashes up a series of clones of himself with an axe while nude. It makes a bit more sense in context, but only a bit.
* GadgeteerGenius: He builds robots for fun, among other things. In one case, he built a robot for the sole purpose of passing butter, and endowed it with enough intelligence for it to become depressed by its lot in life.
* GassHole: He frequently belches in the middle of his sentences when he's drunk, which is often. This has been noticeably downplayed since the pilot, though. He's also capable of letting out massive farts on command.
* GagPenis: In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", when his penis is [[FullFrontalAssault shot fullscreen, in its blood-covered, censored glory]], it's shown to reach well down almost to his knees.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: WordOfGod states that one of the reasons why Rick is such a crazy bastard is the fact that his advanced intellect puts him above normal humans and lets him realize how truly chaotic the universe is. Similarly, one of the reasons that he treats others with contempt is the fact that he doesn't see anyone as particularly special since there are infinite versions of them in other realities. Though it was only part of a BatmanGambit, he did refer to the portal gun's creation as what separated him from being a man and an unfeeling ghost.
* HairstyleInertia: He's had the same hairstyle, including grey hair, for his entire life.
* HeroesWantRedheads: While Rick isn't what most would consider a "hero", he does seem to have a fetish for red-haired people as seen in "Auto Erotic Assimilation", in which he has his hive mind lover fill a stadium solely with redheads.
** It's also speculated that Beth's mother was a redhead, due to both the above reason and because Summer's existence means that the redhead gene runs in the family some way or the other.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Near the end of "A Rickle in Time", one of the singularity-Ricks follows Morty through the abyss. Thinking that there is no other way out, Rick gives Morty his own collar that would allow them to reemerge with the many realities, allowing Morty to leave as Rick continues to fall through time and is content with this fate. [[SenselessSacrifice He finds the other collar and fixes it soon after to return himself]], but he did not know that.
** In a possibly slightly less lethal way, [[spoiler:he turns himself in to a Galactic Federation prison at the end of "The Wedding Squanchers" so that his family can live a safe and normal life on Earth. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the Season 3 Premier, where he reveals being CapturedOnPurpose was AllAccordingToPlan to destroy the Galactic Government.]]
* HiddenDepths: He occasionally makes remarks that hint at wanting to be seen as a good person, at least by his family. Season 2 also shows that he is incredibly aware of his own flaws and that he uses a partial JerkassFacade to hide his troubles from others because he doesn't know how to cope with them on his own.
** "Auto Erotic Assimilation" has Rick ''horrified'' when a town gets destroyed ForTheLulz.
** "A Rick-Le In Time" has him [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext (technically 1 of 64 instantiations of him)]] pray to God to have mercy on him when it looks like he's going to die, [[UngratefulBastard only to go back to mocking his existence when he is saved.]]]]
*** In addition, it is implied that Rick is insecure about his alcoholism; earlier in the episode, Rick claims that he is still in sync with his alternate reality self because he's never unsure, but when Morty makes an offhanded comment about his drunkenness, it causes Rick's certainty to falter just long enough to desynch.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Morty "gay" despite being openly [[ExtremeOmnisexual pansexual]].
* TheInsomniac: He is shown to frequently wake Morty up for adventures or just in general in the middle of the night and questions why Beth and Jerry think people need to sleep every single night. It's probably due to his alcoholism and general paranoia.
* InsufferableGenius: Oh definitely. Rick flaunts the fact that he is the smartest man around and that everyone is inferior to him.
* InvincibleHero: For a certain definition of "hero", but it's noticeable given the SadistShow nature of the series that Rick has a near-perfect win record. Be it against genius alien scientists, the Devil himself or even alternate versions of Rick, Rick is never bested. Given the revelation that [[spoiler:Rick intentionally allowed the Galactic authorities to arrest him in order to destroy them from within in the second season finale]], "Auto-Erotic Assimilation" is so far the only episode of the series that ends with Rick not coming out on top.
* ItAmusedMe: What his motivation seems to be half of the time. He will casually abandon a plan or a scheme if he finds it to be boring.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Somewhat, as he's shown to be pretty selfish and is well aware that his intellect far surpasses everyone around him, though he doesn't make too big a deal about becoming the center of attention.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Rick has a very jaded attitude towards the weird things in his adventures. Even more so towards normal things, such as [[SchoolIsForLosers school]], [[HollywoodAtheist religion]] and [[SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids love]]. Which is strange, since in some episodes he takes the exact opposite stance on at least two of these topics. It's probably to emphasize Rick's ego.
* JerkassFacade: He is an actual {{Jerkass}} for the most part but he falls into this territory when he claims not to really care for Morty.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Rick may be an abrasive, self-centered alcoholic, but he knows more about how the multiverse works and how to survive in it than anyone else. Basically, if he tells you NOT to do something, such as [[spoiler:trying to raise a human/alien hybrid that could potentially destroy humanity]] or [[spoiler:freeing a sentient gaseous entity from space jail who ultimately reveals that its race considers corporeal life a disease fit only for extermination]], it's a good idea to listen. Unfortunately, Morty and his family have yet to realize this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be an insane, abusive drunk who constantly drags his grandson on life-threatening adventures, but he clearly loves his daughter and grandchildren enough to keep them safe. In the episode "Mortynight Run", an alternate version of him even created a daycare center at an inter-dimensional junction for other Ricks to deposit their Jerrys at. In "Get Swifty," when the world is in danger of a floating head, he and Morty go straight to the Pentagon to help the President deal with the situation. In "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" Rick actually comforts Jerry over the fact that the best day of his life was a simulation.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In "Wedding Squanchers" Rick turns himself into the Galactic Federation so that his family can have a normal life, only to later reveal that this was an elaborate scheme to score points with Beth, giving her that final push into divorcing Jerry. Most of the time however, [[JerkassFacade he's more or less just playing the part of one]]. At this point implying that [[UnreliableExpositor he could still just be saying this]] [[ObnoxiousInLaws no matter how badly he actually treats Jerry]].
* JesusWasWayCool: Despite being an atheist ([[PrayerIsALastResort except for 2/64ths of him in "A Rickle In Time"]]), Rick still complains when he sees the family texting on their phones on Christmas. And he specifically references Jesus being born on Christmas in his complaint.
* JiveTurkey: He has a fondness for hip-hop lingo, with such examples as "Don't even trip, dawg" or "Riggety-Riggety Rekt". He also in one episode called Morty the "M-bomb".
* KavorkaMan: Invoked; while describing an alternate, technologically-advanced dimension where everyone was forever young, he mentions that his elderly nature made him the planet's biggest celebrity, and he "had a lot of fun with a lot of young ladies". He also had a past relationship with Unity, an entire hivemind. In a flashback in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" He is seen having sex with a beautiful blond woman, who turns into a monster. Rick also had a wife who he had Beth with.
* KickTheDog: He murders an entire universe at one point. On a more personal level, he's physically and emotionally abusive towards those close to him, the severity of which is mostly dependent on his mood. He has his limits though.
* KleptomaniacHero: Rick tells Summer and Morty to always respond to distress signal because often the aliens are dead and he can steal their stuff. Also in the Simpsons couch gag featuring them, Rick is seen stealing their stuff while waiting for Morty to come back.
* KnightTemplarParent: If Rick does go PapaWolf for his grandkids, then he will invariably go straight for horrific overkill in the process. The scammers and King Jellybean got an instant death sentence for what they did with Morty and when he sets his car up to protect Summer the thing resorts to straight up NightmareFuel measures until she talks it down.
** In a deleted scene from "Interdimensional Cable", Rick kills Jerry in the alternate reality where Jerry and Beth achieved their dreams, saying afterwards "Hey, sweetie! I saw this creep on the news, was he bothering you?"
* KnightOfCerebus: Downplayed in that he's still funny, but in the third season he [[spoiler:was able to manipulate Beth into divorcing Jerry.]] He even lampshades this.
--> '''Rick''': Welcome to the darkest years of our adventures, Morty!
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: According to an index of Ricks we see in "Close Rick-Counters", our Rick's not as evil as he ''could'' have been. Given an evil version of Morty actually compiled it, however, that should be taken with a grain of salt.
* LonersAreFreaks: Rick is a loner even by the standards of other Ricks. The Council of Ricks deems him a renegade because of his non-cooperation, and main Rick specifically mocks them for being too cowardly to go it alone. However, while he's against the council itself as a whole, he's cool with a couple of the head members.
* MadScientist: He is a scientific genius and astounding inventor. He's also an eccentric HeroicComedicSociopath.
* ManChild: Despite being in his 60's, Rick acts more like a teenage boy. He makes frequent toilet jokes, sex jokes, swears a lot, has a huge house party (possibly to spite his granddaughter's idea of a party) when his daughter and son-in-law are away, blows money at an arcade, disrespects authority and treats Summer and Morty more like his friends than his grandkids. During said house party, he fits in seamlessly, becoming the life of the party... even when it's among [[OneOfTheKids people who are almost a quarter his age.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: One can interpret him as taking advantage of Morty's naivete to fool him into helping him with his work, though he pretty obviously tricks Morty's parents into letting him go on adventures with him.
** In the season 3 Premier it is revealed that Rick turning himself in during the season 2 finale was all just part of a big BatmanGambit. After he overheard that Jerry wanted to turn him in, he did it himself to drive Jerry and Beth apart and at the same time destroy the entire Galactic Federation (and the Council of Ricks when they interfered and forced him to improvise). Now Rick has defeated the two most powerful organizations in the show and is the man of the house, meaning he can force Morty to go on adventures with him and nobody will believe Morty if he tells them the truth.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Rick" is another way for saying "Dick," and, well, he can be kind of a jerk at times.
** "Rick" means '[[AwesomeMcCoolname mighty, brave ruler]]'.
* MortonsFork: Forced into choosing between his freedom and his family's security in "The Wedding Squanchers". He chooses the latter.
* MrExposition: Rick is usually the only person in the show that can make sense of the chaotic situations that befall the family, or the ones that he gets them into. He then proceeds to explain, contextualize and alphabetize everything in impatient tirades between belches and the vomit coming up.
-->"Well, it's possible that your dog became self-aware and made modifications on the cognition amplifier, then turned on Jerry, Beth, and Summer after learning about humanity's cruel subjugation of his species, but your guess is as good as mine, Morty."
* MysteriousPast: Beth even alludes to his "incredibly vague backstory" Exactly where he was and what he was doing during the years he was gone is unknown, even to his family. It's mentioned in "The Wedding Squanchers" that Rick and others were involved in numerous atrocities fighting for freedom from the Galactic Federation, to the point of being labeled a terrorist. Exactly what these atrocities were are unknown though.
* NeverMyFault: He will be the last one to admit that he screwed things up (often because he was right to begin with), though he does give in on occasion.
* NightmareFetishist: Took his sweet time eliminating the mantis creatures in "Rick Potion #9" because of how cool they looked. Also, he got to be a literal [[{{Pun}} nightmare fetishist]] in "Lawnmower Dog".
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted. He's at his ''sixties'' and is casually pansexual.
* NoodleIncident: Prone to spurting these concerning his (sometimes disturbing) adventures in the past. For instance, he claims to have done something akin to Beth's incident with Mr Poopy Butthole, only on ''a planetary scale''. He leaves it at that.
* NotSoAboveItAll: While visit a "[[Film/ThePurge Purge]] World", he stops to check out the violence for some kicks, and when Morty refuses to watch, Rick says that is because Morty is afraid to face his own primal instincts. However, when a person is [[GoryDiscretionShot mangled off-screen]], he is visually sickened, to the point of puking out the ship window, and admits he may have bitten off more than he could chew.
* NotSoDifferent: Played straight and subverted with the Council of Ricks. Rick calls them all a bunch of sellouts, but admits that, like him, they all can't resist in tormenting Jerry. Similarly, Rick picks on Doofus Rick just as much as the Council Ricks do. The similarities end when Council of Ricks marks off Mortys as their main resource and not as their respective grandsons, the moment evil Rick/Morty baffled that C-137 Rick!Prime actually loves his grandson cements this.
* NWordPrivileges: He described the term "Glip Glop" as being to Traflorkians "like the N-word and the [[CountryMatters C-word]] had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for Jews". Later in the same episode, he greets a large group of green aliens by saying "Yo! What up, my Glip Glops?" to absolutely no objections.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Jerry sees him as this. Rick himself isn't all that fond of Jerry since he did get his daughter pregnant when she was just a teenager. Even in the rare moments that Jerry tries to be friendly to him, Rick is quick to lash out and mock him. There have been times though where Rick has been at least pleasant to him such as in "M. Night Shaym Aliens" where Rick actually comforts Jerry [[spoiler: over the fact that the best day of his life was a simulation.]] Unlike most examples, Rick never tries to break them up. He even signs them up for an off planet marriage therapist to help them fix their relationship and is pleased when he sees them happy together again. That is, until Jerry proposed turning Rick into the Galactic Federation, leading Rick to manipulate Beth into divorcing Jerry as revenge for crossing him.
* OddFriendship: With Morty and later on, Summer. Doubles as an IntergenerationalFriendship.
* OmnicidalManiac: Destroys the Miniverse that powers Zeep's planet, thereby killing everyone in the Miniverse as well as everyone in the Teenyverse. It's also implied that it's not the first time he's caused massive planetary destruction, with him mentioning that he did something similar to Beth's shooting of Mr. Poopybutthole "[[NoodleIncident on a planetary scale.]]"
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Gadgetry, chemistry, medicine, he can accomplish nigh-impossible feats with them all. That's... [[GoneHorriblyRight not always great]].
* OneManArmy: [[spoiler: Rick single-handedly brings down the Galactic Federation and the Council of Ricks, the two most powerful organisations in the show, by teleporting the latter's headquarters into a Federation prison, then devestating the Federation's economy.]]
* OutGambitted: Pulls this off against the aliens in "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" and the Devil himself.
* PapaWolf: In general, don't even think about harming or taking advantage of his grandkids. Anyone who does will get blown to bits or get a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** Rick may not show it too often, but he doesn't take kindly to people messing with his grandson. Just ask the aliens who spied on a naked Morty to create a 100% accurate simulation in order to steal Rick's secrets and the jellybean king who tried raping him. Oh wait, you can't. They blew up!
** He's very protective of his granddaughter Summer, if the episode ''Something Ricked This Way Comes'' is of any indication.
** Rick doesn't think that Jerry is worthy of his daughter and is angry with him for getting her pregnant when she was only 17 and ruining her life.
* ThePatriarch: At the end of first episode of Season 3, after [[spoiler: Beth tells Rick about her divorcing Jerry]], Rick brags to Morty about how he usurped Jerry as head of the family.
* PetTheDog:
** In "Meeseeks and Destroy", Rick convinces Morty to keep going on their adventure and blows up the Jellybean King when he knew that he did something bad to Morty that traumatized him. It's especially heartwarming due to [[BreakTheCutie Morty's original reaction]] in the first place.
** A somewhat strange example, because the dog in question wasn't really [[spoiler:''physically'' there]], but after the aliens from "M. Night Shaym-Aliens" use Morty in their scheme to scam the recipe for dark matter out of Rick, he does ''not'' take this emotional deception lightly. As punishment for using his grandson, Rick ends up blowing up the aliens' spaceship instead of just leaving like he had in the past.
** In "A Rickle in Time", when Morty falls into a timeless abyss after his collar broke in one of the timelines, Rick does not hesitate in diving in to save him and sacrificing his own collar so that his grandson may live. He even calmly accepts his death and quietly begs Morty to be a better man than him. At least, until he finds Morty's collar and fixes it in time.
** In "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind," one of Rick's memories moves him to tears: picking up an infant Morty.
** In "Auto Erotic Assimilation" he is shocked when Unity bombs a town just for a fun and relieved when she reveals that that she had evacuated it beforehand.
** "Total Rickall" has him tearfully admit that he cannot kill a parasite that calls itself 'Pencilvester', asking Morty to do it for him.
** In "Look Who's Purging Now", he tells Morty that his murderous rampage was due to the candy bar he ate earlier filled with aggression-increasing chemicals, even though the wrapper states that the bars are Purginol-Free.
** In "The Wedding Squanchers", he calls the Galactic Federation pretending to be Jerry and claims the family was abducted by Rick (and therefore innocent victims) and then asks that the family be allowed to go back to Earth safely in exchange for tipping them off.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Invoked and discussed by Morty, but subverted in "Something Ricked This Way Comes". When Rick mentions the microscope would make him retarded, Morty says he can't talk like that, to which Rick explains he is not making fun of differently capable people, he is stating the fact that, were he to use the microscope, he would become mentally retarded in the literal sense.
-->'''Morty:''' "Okay, yeah, but I don't think it's about logic, Rick. I-I think the word has become a symbolic issue for [[MoralGuardians powerful groups that feel like they're doing the right thing]]."
-->'''Rick:''' "Well, ''that's'' [[DoubleSubversion retarded]]."
* PowerTrio: With Birdperson and Squanchy, and then with Morty and Summer.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** In "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", he denies killing numerous alternate versions of himself, on the grounds that it wouldn't profit him to do so.
** In the same episode, he frowns upon the wall of tortured Mortys used as a camouflage, deeming it "barbaric overkill", because the same result can be achieved with five Mortys and a jumper cable (he assures Morty that he's never actually tested the theory).
** This is a mindset Rick often demonstrates, often criticizing excessive effort being put in towards reaching a goal or bemoaning when someone takes things too far.
* PrayerIsALastResort: In "A Rickle In Time", [[ItMakesSenseInContext Rick and Morty's timeline gets split into 64 possibilities]]. At least two of those possible Ricks prays to God in desperation, despite claiming to not believe in God on multiple other occasions.
-->possible Rick falling into a time abyss: "Oh, sweet Jesus, please let me live. Oh, my God, I have to... I've got to fix this thing. Please, God in heaven. Please, God. Oh, lord, hear my prayers."
-->Second possible Rick: "Please God, if there is a Hell, please be merciful to me."
* ProudToBeAGeek: Wants to get his entire family limited edition Nintendo 3DS'es, just so they can play video games together. He also carries his 3DS around with him, so he can pull it out whenever he gets bored.
-->'''Rick''': You guys! You gotta hurry! I just got back from Walmart, they're selling Nintendo 3DS systems for $149.99 on sale, plus every time you buy one you get a $50 dollar gift card! Brings the total down to $110 after tax! Now listen, we can flip those sons of bitches for $230 a piece '''''EASY'''''! They're all limited edition Zelda ones! ''Hurry! Hurry come with me!'' We can be rich and we all get to keep one and we can play Nintendo games!
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: He puts a big premium on HIS personal liberty. Other than that, he sees nothing wrong with enslaving an entire universe just to power his car battery. Deconstructed since there's rarely a time he ''isn't'' called on this by someone InUniverse.
* PungeonMaster: Shows shades of this, ''especially'' in the comics:
** In ''Rick and Morty Comics #19'', Rick attacks a famed intergalactic space traveler named Peacock Jones with his Bee Gun (it shoots bees). What did he say? "Let it '''Bee''', motherf*cker."
* SadisticChoice: Indirectly gives one to Zeep in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy". After he and Morty escaped, Rick knew that Zeep would be forced to choose between either having his world destroyed just to spite Rick, or have the inhabitants continue to be unknowingly enslaved in order to generate power for Rick's ship. He ends up choosing the latter.
* SandInMyEyes: While his memories are being played on a screen for Evil!Rick to watch, our Rick tears up at seeing his memories of Morty. When Evil!Rick blatantly asks him if he is "crying over a Morty", Rick says, "No, I'm just allergic to dipshits."
* ScienceHero: While he's a man of science through and through, whether or not he can be considered a hero is debatable.
* SchoolIsForLosers: In his opinion. Not so much for losers, just not for smart people.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He has a tendency of running from his problems rather than dealing with them. This ranges from abandoning Beth and his wife to [[spoiler:jumping to a new dimension after being unable/unwilling to fix the one he's in]]. [[UpToEleven He even abandons]] [[spoiler:his own body]] in the season 3 premier.
* SeenItAll: He's seen so much crazy shit that practically nothing fazes him anymore.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man (a foul-mouthed, aloof SociopathicHero) to Morty's Sensitive Guy (an awkward, sweet AllLovingHero).
* ShipperOnDeck:
** Rick seems to be a Morty and Jessica shipper. The first episode has him drunkenly planning to destroy human civilization, except for Morty and Jessica, because they could repopulate the Earth together.
** Double subverted with Birdperson and Tammy. At first he was displeased of their marriage, but not because of his dislike towards Tammy, just his distrust towards the whole idea of marriage. But he later makes a toast saying that if Birdperson loves Tammy, then Rick loves her as well. [[spoiler:Tragically, he was right to some extent -- Tammy was undercover agent for the Galactic Federation.]]
* SirSwearsALot: Comes off as second nature to him. He has little inconvenience calling his grand kids "pieces of shit".
* SlasherSmile: Has a pretty good one in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", when he kills the clones he created at the end.
* SociopathicHero: Outright confirmed by WordOfGod--Rick makes a consistent effort to stay as unattached to people as possible. He is considered a troublemaker even by alternate Ricks, upon whom main Rick frowns because they formed a government to protect themselves. According to Evil!Rick, the Rick we know is only slightly less evil than he is. Of course, "Evil Rick" does turn out to be a puppet for a highly resentful evil Morty, so this is probably an unreliable assessment.
* StrawNihilist: While Rick does find things to do and reasons to keep going on, at the same time he has a very jaded view of existance. Interestingly his Nihilism and Anti-Nihilism are just two sides to the same coin as while he finds freedom in there being no purpose to existence, he also values nothing (except maybe his family bit even this is contextual) and doesn't seem to care about almost anything.
* StringTheory: In one episode we see Rick's bedroom. One wall has notes connected this way.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Rick prefers to emotionally distance himself from others, and normally is aloof and uncaring to someone else's problems. However, Rick ''does'' have a soft spot for his family that he shows at certain moments.
* TalkativeLoon: Usually as a result of alcoholism.
* TheLastDJ: Proudly states to be the Rickest Rick for not joining the Council of Ricks. It's implied that this is the reason he still cares so much for his Morty, as unlike them he's not surrounded by them.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In the trailer for Alien: Covenant, Rick's liver proves to be more powerful than the entirety of a facehugger's immune system when said facehugger dies of poisoning from all the drugs and alcohol in Rick's system mere seconds after latching onto him.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Rick tends to bring the worst out in people, which is the reason why Unity broke up with him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's seemingly obsessed with the Schezuan dipping sauce ''[=McDonalds=]'' used to promote ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''. So much so that he himself has dubbed his search for it as the series's MythArc.
* {{Troll}}: Towards the Devil in "Something Ricked This Way Comes". He even lampshades it by comparing it to "when WesternAnimation/BugsBunny [[WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare fucks with the opera singer for 20 minutes]]", though even he didn't plan on driving the Devil into suicide.[[note]]Though since he'd just go to hell for dying which is where he lives, it's treated more like he's just throwing up his hands and going home.[[/note]]
* {{Tsundere}}: He cares for Morty and the rest of his family, but it's almost certain that he will never say that out loud.
* UglyGuyHotWife: [[spoiler: If Diane is how his real ex-wife looks. She's a beautiful blonde and Rick is pretty goofy-looking.]]
* VagueAge: It's easy to argue that Rick is beyond the supposed age group for a typical protagonist. Considering he has a daughter at his early adulthood who underwent TeenPregnancy bearing her eldest daughter who is at 17, it is assumed that he is in his 60's.
* VerbalTic:
** He finds himself constantly dropping Morty's name when talking to him. Just listen to his speech at the end of the pilot.
** Though it's hardly a tic, Rick can barely talk without constantly belching or tempting to throw up.
** Rick also has a stutter.
* UnreliableNarrator: It's very questionable in Season 3, Episode 1 just how much of what he says is the truth. When he's being interrogated by a Galactic Federation agent within [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind a brainalyzer]], he shows them a memory in which the Council of Ricks contacted him with news of dimensional travel, then [[spoiler: killed his family in his original world. He then implies he swore revenge and their deaths spurred him on to make the portal gun, and that's why he's so callous and unfeeling. However, [[FiveSecondForeshadowing the memory in which this occurs is full of sloppy details]], and is revealed several seconds later to be completely fake. However, it's become popular for fans to suggest [[EpilepticTrees that the Council of Ricks did something terrible to him]], though nobody can agree what.]] On a lesser note, he claims that everything he does is driven by a need for a discontinued dipping sauce from [=McDonalds=] later in the episode.
* VillainProtagonist: A great deal of his actions can be seen as questionable at best, from dangerous experiments to child endangerment to outright genocide to being neglectful of his family. In "Wedding Squanchers" Birdperson reveals that Rick is a wanted criminal and is considered a terrorist by the Galactic Federation. The devil even lampshades this.
--> Devil: I may be the devil but your grandpa is ''the devil''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Rick and Morty are more like friends than grandfather and grandson. That doesn't stop Rick from using Morty to his benefit and constantly putting him in danger.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Hinted at in ''Auto Erotic Assimilation'', when one of his sexual demands is to be observed by a stadium packed with "Every man that remotely resembles my father."
-->'''Men''': ''[chanting]'' Go, son, go! Go, son, go!
* WhatTheHellHero: Chews out Summer for introducing Tammy to Birdperson, after the former revealed herself as [[TheMole an undercover agent for the Galactic Federation]] and killed him during their wedding reception, resulting in them out on the lam.
* WouldHitAGirl: Rick has no qualms over killing women if they should attack him or his family.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Frank Palicky in the pilot, who was bullying Morty and got frozen to death by Rick. Played with since Rick assured Morty it was completely reversible (at least it would have been if Summer didn't accidentally shatter his body).
** His reaction to the baby created by Morty's sexbot is to try and kill it with his laser gun, believing it will grow up to be a threat. [[spoiler:He's at least polite enough to back down when Morty names it, though he was also right.]]
** Every episode of the online flash game ends with Rick beating up Morty. (In Episode 3 he beats up Morty fused with Summer, but it still technically counts.)
** He brutally murders multiple clones of himself at the end of "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" with an axe. At least two of the clones were children.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: It is unclear if he is supposed to have light blue hair or grey hair, since other characters with white/grey hair do not share this trait. His hair may look blue because his skin has a sickly grey tinge to it. As of "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", we learn that it was always this color, even in his youth.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Is an active rebel against the Galactic Federation led by the Gromflomites. When asked what he was incarcerated for after turning himself in, his response is simply "everything."
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[[folder:Mortimer "Morty" Smith]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Justin Roiland
Rick's grandson who falls victim to playing the role of his sidekick. Morty is a young high school student who has trouble fitting in, especially given the circumstances he faces at home. He likely has a disability of sorts, and has trouble keeping up with the other kids in class, but he is proven to be pretty badass outside of school at Rick's side.
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* ActionSurvivor: Though he's usually the NonActionGuy to Rick, episodes like "Anatomy Park" show that he is capable of taking care of him self without him around.
* {{Adorkable}}: While his morality can sometimes become skewered, Morty at his best is a sweet and kind, though shy and self-conscious kid.
* AllLovingHero: Morty is a living deconstruction of the trope. No matter how hard he tries, he inevitably gets dragged into situations in which people (sometimes innocent people) get killed. In "Mortynight Run" he tries to save the life of an imprisoned living gas that Rick names "Fart". Not only does he accidentally kill the assassin but by freeing the gas he causes a dangerous chase sequence that kills several cops and Fart uses its abilities to kill several more as well as a handful of innocent bystanders. In the end, Morty kills the gas when he realizes it plans to lead an invasion that will purge the universe of all carbon-based life.
* AmbiguousDisorder: As shown in the pilot, he can rattle off complicated math and science facts instantly when Rick prompts him, yet can barely concentrate in his remedial-level classes. Hinted further when Rick yells, "He's just like me!" Parodied, in that he actually ''doesn't'' have a disorder - he's just [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext feeling the side effects of dissolving alien spores in his rectum]], and Rick [[ManipulativeBastard took advantage of it]]. The pilot also has Jerry tactlessly state that Morty has a learning disability right in front of him.
* TheAntiNihilist: The events of "Rick Potion #9" seem to have turned him into this [[spoiler: if his speech to Summer in "Rixty Minutes" is anything to go by.]]
--> '''Morty''': I'm better than your brother. [[YouAreNotAlone I'm a version of your brother you can trust when he says "don't run."]] Nobody exists on purpose, nobody really belongs anywhere, everybody's going to die. Come watch TV?
* BeleagueredAssistant: He is often forced by Rick to assist him with his science projects and often rather shady adventures where he is injured and traumatized on a regular basis. Despite this, he seems to enjoy going on adventures with Rick.
* BerserkButton: Not enough to drive him to violence, but still evident enough to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness piss him off in the first place]]: MoralGuardian-ish attitudes, which he calls "a one-way ticket to extinction".
** Blaming him for something he didn't do or when he did exactly what he was asked tends to set him off. As the feline Amish villagers learned.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Morty tends to snap if pushed too far. For example, when the Jellybean king tried to rape him, Morty eventually lost it and beat the crap out of him.
** The episode "Look Who's Purging Now" has Rick mention Morty having this tendency, to which Morty dismisses. Come late in the episode when the villager kicks Morty and Rick out of his house just for Morty criticizing his screen play, which the alien asked, he remorselessly kills him and when the Rick's PowerArmor appears, mercilessly kills scores of the villagers, many of who were just hiding. Rick tries to play this off as a chemical in a candy bar they ate except it no longer has the chemical.
** He [[spoiler: actually tries to kill]] Rick towards the end of the first episode of season three.
* BookDumb: He may do poorly in school, but he does think quickly on his feet and can be pretty observant. He also has enough common sense to poke holes in Rick's ideas and think about consequences--even if Rick usually dismisses him. It's later revealed that his supposed stupidity is why Rick has him as a sidekick. Morty's brainwaves are capable of canceling out Rick's brainwaves and thus able to mask him from potential enemies. It gets to the point where Mortys are even treated as a resource by the Council of Ricks. Although, this may just be an excuse for Rick to spend more time with Morty so he can actually avert this trope for his grandson, considering [[ExperiencedProtagonist he did spend most of the time without him in his younger days]].
* BornUnlucky: Good lord, this poor guy has it hard. He's behind at school, can't get the girl, almost got raped, and gets used by his manipulative grandfather who takes him on adventures where he gets psychologically traumatized every day.
* BreakTheCutie: In "Meeseeks and Destroy", Morty almost becomes victim to rape by the Jellybean King. Afterwards, he is practically crying and tells Rick that he just wants to go home.
* BrainyBrunette: Due to the increasing amount of time he spent with Rick, he's growing to be a strong male example.
* ButtMonkey: Rick's adventures generally leave him either deeply traumatized or incredibly humiliated.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Tries to do this with Rick, but his grandfather either outright dismisses these criticisms or pointedly ignores answering to them as he attempts to steer the conversation elsewhere. There was that one time in "Rick Potion #9", though.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** [="OoOOOooOOHHhhh!"=]
** He often responds to Rick with "Oh geez, Rick".
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown:
** Jerry once walked into his room while Morty was under the covers looking at his laptop. Morty then gave an extended speech about how he should be more careful when entering his room.
** Summer once caught him jerking it in the kitchen, to which he answers that he's done it all over the house and he's thinking about her friend.
* CharacterDevelopment: Compare him with the quivering, useless Mortys in "Close Rick-counters", and you can see that the experiences he's gone through have definitely matured him. Given his Rick is said to be belligerent even by the standards of other Ricks, it probably rubs off on this version of Morty. By Season 2, he's become fairly numb to a decent amount of the insanity around him, though he still has his limits and still maintains a moral compass that Rick for the most part lacks. He also seems more tolerant of Rick's antics only raising an issue if Rick has a direct hand in causing problems.
* TheChosenOne: By virtue of being the only Morty with enough of a spine to stand up to a Rick. Though Evil Morty may in fact be the "one true Morty" that the captive Mortys spoke of.
* CorneredRattlesnake: Morty is often meek and cowardly in confrontation, though can prove quite a threat if forced into a corner. After Jellybean King tried to rape him, he retaliated and rather quickly beat him to a pulp, all the while still terrified for his life.
* CoolLoser: Morty isn't seen bullied that much and even his crush when she talks to him is quite pleasant to him and was willing to go to the dance with him in the episode "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez".
* ADateWithRosiePalms: As a typical 14-year-old boy, Morty is a chronic masturbator. He awkwardly warns Jerry not to come into his room when he's on the internet because who knows what he could be looking at, and only makes a half-hearted attempt to explain away that he's using an alien sex doll robot in his room before just giving up and going back to it. In Season 2's "Total Rickall", a flashback reveals Summer coming home early to find him masturbating ''in the kitchen''. When she demands to know why the hell he's doing it in the kitchen, in embarrassment he angrily declares that he does it in ''every room of the house'' (and as she flees, he defiantly shouts after her that he was thinking of her best friend). In "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", after Morty spends a few months trapped on a primitive alien planet without his laptop, he admits to masturbating to "an extra-curvy piece of driftwood".
* {{Expy}}: He's the Marty [=McFly=] to Rick's Doc Brown, though he's wimpier than the original.
* ExtremeDoormat: Rick will drag him to their adventures whether he likes it or not.
* EvilCounterpart: The version of him helping Evil!Rick kill other Ricks and taking their Mortys to hide Evil!Rick from other alternate versions of himself by torturing them. It is then revealed at the end that Evil!Rick was a robot being controlled by Evil!Morty.
* FirstNameBasis: He always refers to Rick by his first name, whereas Summer generally addresses him as Grandpa Rick.
* GenerationXerox: Roiland has stated he believes an adult Morty will look like Jerry but have Rick's abilities.
* GoingNative: Hilariously when he goes to live with a group of primitive aliens after getting fed up with Rick's feud against Zeep. Months later, Rick runs into Morty again, now part of the tribe and decked out in their native costume. Morty takes Rick and Zeep to the tribe's WorldTree and starts to give spiel about it, then abruptly stops and grabs Rick by the lapels:
--> '''Morty:''' You have to get us the f**k ''outta'' here! These people are backwards savages! They [[InsaneTrollLogic eat every third baby because they think it makes fruit grow bigger]]. Everyone's gross and they all smell like piss all the time! I-I-I miss my family, I miss my laptop... I masturbated to an extra-curvy piece of driftwood the other day!
* HeroesWantRedheads:
** His crush, Jessica, has orange-ish red hair.
** By Arthricia in "Look Who's Purging Now" he's at two for three on redheaded love interests.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Jessica does like him back to some degree, but often the zany situations will unavoidably kill off any vibes and advances for Morty.
* IdiotHero: Stated to be dimwitted by most people around him and according to his father has a learning disability of some sort.
* ImAManICantHelpIt:
** One of Morty's biggest flaws. He's a sucker for a pretty face, which often [[SkewedPriorities skews his priorities]] when his life isn't in immediate danger. It has even caused an apocalypse on one occasion. Him getting Rick to buy him a sex bot sets up the events of "Raising Gazorpazorp".
-->'''Rick''': Kind of weird that you were that willing to sell my existence out for some trim, Morty.
** As a horny 14 year-old male, this is one of his reasons for being a rather unapologetic masturbator.
* InformedFlaw: For all of Morty's supposed stupidity, he never really comes across as any dumber than the average 14-year-old and even seems to be talented at thinking on his feet.
* InSeriesNickname: Almost no one calls him by "Mortimer".
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Definitely in "Look Who's Purging Now".
* KissingWarmUp: Beth has to tell him not to practice kiss the pillow.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: He seems to take after his father, both physically and mentally. One of the reasons Beth puts up with his adventures with Rick is that she'd rather her father rub off on him than Morty becoming another Jerry.
* LovableCoward: Very meek and easily intimidated. [[CharacterDevelopment He's getting better though.]]
* MoralityPet:
** To the hyper-intelligent Snuffles in "Lawnmower Dog".
** While he might put him through a ''lot'' of crap, Rick does actually love Morty and can be quite protective of him.
* NiceGuy: Despite his flaws, Morty is a good-natured person who has a strong moral compass.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Though normally very tolerant and the voice of reason, he will often breakdown and lash out when separated from modern conveniences. For example, in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", he launches into an epic rant about how the locals suck and how much he hates it there.
* NotSoDifferent: Morty is gradually becoming more like Rick, choosing violence and murder as an off-hand solution, and becoming increasingly misanthropic and jaded with the universe.
* OddFriendship: With Rick.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Morty is 14, and has a close bond with his elderly grandfather.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 14 and in high school, but has been mistaken for a preteen and is shorter than his crush and classmates. [[RealityIsUnrealistic This is]] TruthInTelevision.
* OnlySaneMan: {{Zig Zagged|Trope}}. Despite being "as stupid as [Rick] is smart", he's easily the most responsible person in the family; however out of him and Summer, she is more mundane and grounded.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Look Who's Purging Now", Morty lets out all of his pent up rage and starts murdering the inhabitants of the purge planet he and Rick were stuck on, a far different take on his usually calm and whipped personality. It's one of the few times we see Rick visibly shocked and concerned about his grandson. It culminates with [[spoiler:Rick tazing him into submission when Morty threatens to kill an innocent girl as well as his own grandfather]].
* OverprotectiveDad: He lies to Morty Jr. about the outside air being poisonous for him, although it was really a matter of protecting everyone ''else'' from his son's homicidal urges.
* PapaWolf: Even though Rick warned Morty that Morty Jr. is one of he most aggressive creatures in the galaxy (and is later proven right), Morty will ''attack Rick'' if he tries to kill Morty Jr. Morty even stated that if Rick wanted to kill Morty Jr., he have to kill him too.
* ParentsAsPeople: In one episode Morty has a half-alien son and tries to raise him well, but a combination of factors (Morty Jr. reaches adulthood in one day and his hyper aggressive, and Morty has no experience with raising children) results in Morty Jr. having a pretty bad childhood. While they do reconcile when Morty Jr. is a young man, he still writes a book about his bad childhood literally called My Horrible Father. Upon learning of this Morty is very downcast, only saying that he hopes his son is eating enough.
* RageBreakingPoint: Morty is normally very in control of his anger, but this tends to slip out. Most prominently in "Look Who's Purging Now" where he was being blamed by Rick for the majority of the episode reaches it's breaking the CatFolk villager that fostered them during the purge decided to kick them out just because Morty criticized his screenplay, [[UngratefulBastard which the villager asked him to critique]]. Leading Morty to push the villager down some stairs, killing him and later slaughtering scores of the villagers, many of who were hiding, with Rick's PowerArmor. It gets to the point where Rick is forced to knock Morty out until the end of the episode.
* RedOniBlueOni: While [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope not necessarily all the time]], he is the slowly collected doormat Blue to his sister's feisty, rebellious Red.
* SeenItAll: He starts to show signs of it in season 2. In "Auto Erotic Assimilation", once he gets past the potential threat of being assimilated by [[HiveMind Unity]], he just rolls with it. When Unity loses control of a town and a race war erupts, much to Summer's shock, he just says "First race war, huh?" with a chuckle.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy (an awkward, sweet AllLovingHero to Rick's Manly Man (a foul-mouthed, aloof SociopathicHero).
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Rick implanted him with nanomachines that gives him the ability to transform into a car. It evidently automatically triggers at the sound of a car alarm.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Beth and Jerry don't like the fact that Rick drags Morty out of school to go on his adventures in the pilot. In the second episode, "Lawnmower Dog", Rick intercepts Morty's math teacher's dreams so that he subliminally convinces him to give Morty good grades all the time, even if Morty isn't there.
* ShrinkingViolet: Being an exaggeration of an [[SociallyAwkwardHero awkward teenager]], Morty is very shy and anxious.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: In a sense, as of Season 3, he's the only remaining member of the original cast. His versions of Summer, Beth and Jerry were left behind in the 'Cronenburg-ed' timeline, and are possibly dead after being frozen by the Rick squad that found Morty and Summer in 'The Rickshawnk Redemption' while Rick himself has lost his original body and has [[BodySurf transferred into]] an alternate Rick.]]
* TheSouthpaw: Not seen very often, but Morty's dominant hand is his left. The most obvious is throwing the frisbee at the end of "The Wedding Squanchers", where he both throws and catches with his left hand.
* TeensAreShort: According to "Pocket Mortys", the typical height of a Morty is 5'2.
* TookALevelInBadass: His adventures with Rick seem to be rubbing off on him, as stuff that would send him into a near panic attack early in the show is starting to be met with worry or curiosity rather than blind fear. For example, in "Auto-Erotic Assimilation" a comment after the [[ItMakesSenseInContext nipple based race war reignites when Unity loses control of the species it has assimilated]] indicates that this isn't his first time dealing with race wars and during "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", after having enough of Rick's and Zeep's bullshit inside the Teenyverse, he opts to go off on his own and within a couple of months takes control of a local tribe of savage tree-people. He's still definitely TheWoobie, but he's slowly starting to grow into an IronWoobie.
* TookALevelInCynic: His adventures with Rick have slowly shaped Morty into a more apathetic person. See SeenItAll section.
* TheUnfavorite: In his original universe, as neither of his parents try to find him after the world is devastated in "Rick Potion #9".
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Morty is often the more sensible and reasonable one among his family. He convinces Summer to stay after she learns she was an unwanted pregnancy by telling her that she is no different than anyone else. He later tells Rick that he will be O.K. if Rick leaves but he won't forgive him for breaking his mom's heart.
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[[folder:Jerry Smith]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Chris Parnell
The father of Morty and Summer, and the husband of Rick's daughter Beth. Jerry is an extremely insecure person who has trouble balancing his job, family, and marriage, none of which are helped by the influence of Rick's escapades, which he sometimes finds himself unwittingly weaseled into.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Has a male lover in "Total Rickall" who turned out to be an alien parasite. Since their memories together were manufactured and the parasites are incapable of making unpleasant memories, it's hard to say if he would have actually enjoyed it.
* TheAntiNihilist: Despite his life being rather... well... miserable, he refuses to give in.
-->'''Jerry:''' Life is effort and I'll stop when I die!
* BerserkButton: Rick's actions in general annoy him but when Beth defends these actions, that drives him over the edge. In the episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation" he and Beth have a nasty argument when Beth tries to defend Rick having an alien locked up in a secret lab he built. Another example is in "The Wedding Squanchers" when Beth and the kids were willing to be galactic fugitives and do whatever Rick wants so that they could have him in their lives.
* BookDumb: In defending his right to continue to call Pluto a planet, he quips that if he can't do so, we might as well burn Galileo at the stake for claiming the sun is round.
* ButtMonkey: Most likely the biggest example in the show, possibly more so than his son. Just to give some examples:
** The best day of his life was an alien simulation of life running at minimum capacity, which he never caught on to until Rick broke the illusion.
** Dozens of problem-serving assistants from another dimension couldn't take two strokes off his golf swing after two days of effort, driving them to homicidal misanthropy.
** In "Mortynight Run", it's revealed one version of Rick made a Jerry daycare if Ricks happen to find themselves with a Jerry they can't just send back home. According to our Rick, Jerrys tend to die quickly if allowed off Earth. The daycare is shown to work based on the fact that Jerrys are all unilaterally easily-controlled simpletons. When prime Jerry gets fed up and leaves (upon realizing that that was always allowed), he comes back in under five minutes because he can't deal with the weirdness around him.
** "Look Who's Purging Now" sums it up:
--->'''Jerry''': I'm this entire family's toilet paper.
** Subverted in the comics with the Jerry of Doofus Rick's universe, who is successful in everything he does and is able to defeat Rick to the point that [[spoiler:he single-handedly conquered the Council of Ricks and enslaved them to conquer other dimensions]].
* BumblingDad: He's not necessarily a bad dad, but he blurts out a pretty big bombshell in the pilot by telling Rick that Morty has some sort of disability right in front of his own son's eyes (in all fairness, he then gently told Morty that he'd always love him, but he felt the responsible thing was to be honest with Morty so he could take steps to address it instead of just ignoring the problem). In other instances he's shown to be a pretty effective dad, and the "bumbling" aspect of the trope is better applied to his role as a husband and his ButtMonkey status.
* LesCollaborateurs: The Galactic Federation gives him a job at the end of Season Two. The first episode of Season Three has him working in a government office, wearing a government uniform with three metals and a federation armband.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Like his father-in-law, he can kick some monster ass if needed. This is best demonstrated in "Rick Potion #9" where he takes on the mutant apocalypse- and wins. Jerry seems to do best when lives are on the line, and miserably the rest of the time. In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", despite starting off simply trying to cower in a hole, he eventually guns his way to rescue his wife while also thinking up how to deal with the monster version of Beth. During "The Wedding Squanchers" when the Galactic Federation attacks the wedding, he picks up a gun to defend his family. That it was a harmless confetti gun should not count for lack of trying.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's implied that Jerry was in a rape situation in the past.
* DirtyCoward: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] compared to most. He tends to be somewhat cowardly in most dangerous situations, having once locked Beth out of the car when they were chased down by a crazed hobo. However, he can be [[FearlessFool doggedly determined]] when he has a goal in mind.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Jerry may be a ditz, but he's not wrong in saying that Rick's activities are dangerous and are going to get the family in trouble or that Beth's selfishness and fear over her father leaving ''again'' is the reason she turns a blind eye to his craziness even though said craziness puts the family at risk.
* FanBoy: Of the movie [[Film/Titanic1997 Titanic,]] to the point of dragging his wife to a lame reenactment cruise.
* FatalFlaw: His need to feel important.
* {{Foil}}: To Rick. While Rick is a sociopathic, brave, and brilliant scientist who abandoned Beth when she was a child and the person who the family will go along no matter how crazy his ideas. Jerry is a normal, {{downplayed}} DirtyCoward who is a bit of a ditz, the family's resident ButtMonkey, and didn't abandon Beth after she was pregnant while they were both in high school.
* GoodParents: Though not exactly, he's still a better parent than Beth or Rick.
* GrewASpine: Finally stands up to Rick in the season 3 premiere, putting a Him or Me scenario on the table. [[spoiler:Which is exactly what Rick wanted, cause he knew Beth would choose him over Jerry.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Has a fairly belligerent relationship with his wife. In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", Beth's mytholog of Jerry is a pathetic worm-like creature that is subservient to Monster!Beth, which even the actual Jerry finds utterly pathetic.
* HiddenDepths: In timelines where Summer wasn't born, Jerry has a tendency to make it big in Hollywood as an actor or a writer/director.
* HonorBeforeReason: ''Pluto is still a planet to him'', and he will argue that point endlessly, even if his son gets a bad grade on his report. [[spoiler:Or if four billion lives are put in jeopardy. Almost.]] He's just insecure, you know?
* InkSuitActor: He looks a lot like his voice actor Chris Parnell.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Jerry constantly fears that Beth may not truly love him.
** Not just his wife, he also fears that his children may favor Rick over him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Jerry can be very, almost absurdly, selfish at times. For example, in "Look Who's Purging Now", despite Rick and Morty being in clear danger he still fixates on getting attention from Summer continually distracting her, ignoring their peril, and almost getting them killed. Made much worse when it's revealed he wasn't really even trying to reconnect with his grown-up daughter... he just wanted to mooch cash from her.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Subverted. Jerry is very sensitive about how smart he is (which isn't much) and doesn't take people pointing this out very well.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The feminine boy to Beth's masculine girl
* MrSeahorse: In the opening sequence, Jerry is shown giving birth. It has yet to come up in any episode yet, but you can be sure it's on its way. Since Rick was seen delivering the baby, it was probably something Rick did that caused this.
* NoRespectGuy: Nobody has any respect for Jerry. Least of all him.
* OnlySaneMan: Where Rick is involved at least. While his wife and children welcome Rick's presence in their lives Jerry is the only one to recognize and bring up the concerns that having a MadScientist living in the house creates.
* StraightMan: Which is odd because he's also the dimmest of the main characters. But despite his awkwardness, he rivals Beth as the most normal of the family.
* StrawLoser: He rarely catches any breaks, no one in his family takes him seriously, and his marriage is constantly hanging on by a thread due to the fact that Summer was an accident.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: When his parents come to visit the family for Christmas dinner, it's shown that Jerry got ''all'' of his facial features from his father.
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** The Season 2 premiere has the B-plot end with Jerry successfully performing a romantic gesture for Beth, and the final scene is him being consistently funny enough to put her in a laughing fit.
** The Season two finale has him getting a Federation-mandated job after him being nagged for being unemployed for the past season.
* TookALevelInBadass: In "Rick Potion #9", though it apparently doesn't carry over to the reality Rick and Morty settle down in where the situation that turned him into a badass is resolved (or didn't go far enough for his badassery to happen). In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" he is fed up with Beth's perception of him as a meek worm and decides to fight back to rescue her from a monster perception of herself.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. It's implied that he married way out of his league, though Jerry is more average-looking than truly ugly. But this isn't helped by the fact that the father of his wife very much thinks this and constantly reminds him of it.
* UnfazedEveryman: He is essentially surrounded by the family of a MadScientist, whose [[UpToEleven family pet named Snuffles even outsmarts him]]. While some of his moments do involve a TroubledFetalPosition, he takes Rick's realities comfortably well, but [[YankTheDogsChain not for very long]].
* YankTheDogsChain:
** Gets one in "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!", when he has the best day of his life, but is pulled out right at the best moment by Rick, who reveals it was all just a simulation. It actually gets worse near the end when he tries to use the same "award winning" pitch from the simulation and is promptly fired over how bad it is.
** He gets yet another one (if you think about it from the perspective of the series) in "Rick Potion #9", when he wins the pure affection of his woman by becoming a total badass in a CrapsackWorld, only for Rick and Morty to completely ditch that reality altogether and return to one where he and Beth are apparently back where they started. Badass Jerry is still out there, he's just... never important to the show again.
** Yet another one in "Close Rick-counters" where he meets "Doofus Rick", the only person who respects him... who is then taken away by the rest of the Council, and Jerry is mocked by the other Ricks for being friends with him.
** In "The Rickshank Redemption", he gets a great job and loves living in the Galactic Federation. Then Rick destroys the Federation's economy, causing chaos and making him unemployed again. He forces Beth to choose between him and Rick. She chooses Rick.
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[[folder:Beth Smith (née Sanchez)]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Sarah Chalke
Jerry's wife, Summer and Morty's mother and Rick's daughter, Beth faces the problems that follow her unstable marriage and her dad living with her family, though she's the least affected family member by the latter of the two. She has a job as a heart surgeon for horses.
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* TheAlcoholic: While not to the extent of Rick, she can really put away wine when things get down. In "Rixty Minutes", she goes through several boxes of wine while lamenting her lost opportunities. In "Total Rickall", Summer has at least one memory of Beth getting wasted and accidentally hitting her in the eye with a wine bottle, which is followed by her rushing to fill a wineglass after she shoots Mr. Poopybutthole under the mistaken belief that he's a shapeshifting alien parasite]].
* AlcoholicParent: She got it from Rick. She isn't bad as him though, but a flashback with her and Summer shows that she's had her problems.
* BerserkButton:
** Implying she's not a real doctor seems to be a sore spot.
** Also the few times that she has stood up to Rick come when he tries to pass off problems caused by his own carelessness as being Jerry's fault.
* BuxomIsBetter: In the Rick and Morty rushed license adventure, Summer wears a DD bra believing she will grow into it because Beth herself has large breasts.
* DaddysGirl: {{Deconstructed}}. She adores her father for the most part and is willing to put up with a lot of his crap, though even she has her limits. WordOfGod even notes that her adoration of Rick (who, ignoring the mad scientist aspect, is still an alcoholic absentee parent who was away for much of her life) is what truly makes her a messed up person. In "The Wedding Squanchers", she admits that the reason she puts up with her father and is willing to be a galactic fugitive is because she's afraid of Rick running out on her again.
* DeadpanSnarker: It seems to be a learned trait from her father, though it tends to come off more as complaining when she does it.
* DisappearedDad: Rick was gone for a large portion of her life. She said that she used to draw him into family pictures with crayon. Once he returned, she was willing to do anything she could to keep him in her life.
* DrowningMySorrows: After she shoots Mr. Poopybutthole, and after Rick gets arrested again.
* FreakyIsCool: It's stated by the creators that Beth fetishes the abnormal and this is one of the reasons she likes having Rick around.
* {{Gasshole}}: She can [[LamarckWasRight burp just as well as her father]] to some extent, particularly when drunk. The Ricks are all quite proud of her for this.
* GenerationXerox: She's inherited her father's intelligence, his ego and alcoholism.
* HospitalHottie: Her job as a heart surgeon for horses. It's shown that had she not given birth to Summer and married Jerry, she would have gone on to become a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: In the stinger of Rick Potion #9, Beth tells Jerry she doesn't care about what might have happened to Rick and Morty and now that they have gone, she feels finally happy. It is questionable whether the current Beth feels the same way.
* InkSuitActor: Like Jerry, she strongly resembles her own VA.
* InTheBlood: She's inherited her father's egocentric nature and predisposition for alcoholism.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Remarkably so. A standout moment was in Wedding Squanchers when Birdperson tells her about him and Rick being galactic fugitives wanted for terrorism who have committed numerous atrocities together, and she doesn't even acknowledge what he's saying, preferring instead to talk about herself and her problems.
** A recurring source of conflict between her and Jerry is the latter's belief she'd gladly let Rick's antics mess with the lives of the rest of the family so long as ''she'' was happy to have her father back. In said episode, she bluntly confirms that theory. It's a pretty normal reaction for someone in her situation though.
* {{Jerkass}}: The status quo of the show is that Jerry and Beth's marriage is always on the brink of collapse; as such, she is particularly venomous towards Jerry, even above everyone else and almost as much as Rick. The original Beth became indifferent to the fate of Morty after the events of Rick Potion #9.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Beth or at least the current Beth at least earnestly loves and ''attempts'' to make her dysfunctional family and marriage work, and given how selfish and egocentric Jerry himself is, it's a two-way endurance.
* LatinoIsBrown: Averted, if her family background really is Latino (and not, say, Iberian Spanish). Beth has the most fair complexion out of her whole family. If the version of her mother in ''The Rickshank Redemption'' is accurate, then she strongly takes after her in appearance rather than Rick.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Turns out, she does not take loneliness well, especially when she has no one to look down to. It's been revealed in "Rixty Minutes" :despite her fame and fortune as an experienced human surgeon, she surrounds herself with only birds in cages while DrowningHerSorrows with pints of wine for her lonesomeness.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Older than the typical example, but she's still a Daddy's girl.
* MamaBear: In "The Wedding Squanchers" Beth defends Summer against a robot that tried to harm her.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The masculine girl to Jerry's feminine boy.
* MissingMom: Rick states in the pilot that she is no longer alive, and it's mentioned in "Rick Potion #9" that Rick left her mom. In "Auto Erotic Assimilation" Beth mentions that her mom had an issue with Rick putting his experiments before the safety of his family, resulting in him leaving. Whether or not she is dead or simply not around is unknown
* MoralityPet: In at least some sense, Beth (with Morty) seem to function as one for Rick. He tends to genuinely compliment and flatter Beth. He never swears at her like he does with the rest of the family and even calls her "sweetie".
* NeverMyFault: She seems to always blame Jerry for their strained marriage yet never admits her cold and distant behavior to him could be a factor.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** One of the comic books reveals that Beth regularly uses Rick's portal gun to meet up with alternate versions of herself. They even have their own rock band.
** In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" Jerry manipulates the device she is strapped into to present a mental image of what she idealistically wants him to view her as. That being [[{{Narcissist}} a literal goddess!]]
* OedipusComplex: An Electra Complex variant. WordOfGod has it that she grew up resenting her mother and idolizing [[DisappearedDad Rick]] as she came to blame her for Rick running out on them. [[BrokenPedestal The bloom's probably off the rose]] at this point, though she's still more lenient than she ought to be, partly because she'd rather have Morty end up like Rick than Jerry.
* OpenMindedParent: She is typically ok with her father taking her children on potentially dangerous adventures across the universe, mostly because she would rather her children be more like her father than their father. She also didn't want to intervene with Morty loudly [[MakesSenseInContext using a sex robot]] in "Raising Gazorpazorp" because she thought it would affect him negatively. However, she did intervene when she thought Rick was using it too.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Much of a DaddysGirl as she is Beth is fully willing to call out Rick when his antics lead to real trouble.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Beth is quite a narcissist. In the "Pilot" Rick is able to get her to stop being angry with him for taking Morty on his adventure by complimenting her breakfast. She tends to put her own needs ahead of others, such as insisting Rick stay in their lives despite his antics. In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" Jerry knows that she wants him to view her as a goddess.
* TeenPregnancy: She was impregnated by Jerry when she was seventeen.
* UglyGuyHotWife: With Jerry, who is implied to have married out of his league, but downplayed, as Jerry is more average-looking than truly ugly.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Beth is beautiful while Rick isn't very attractive or in shape.
* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed. She obviously seems a more stable and intelligent being than [[TheDitz Jerry]], but even he is perfectly able to call her out on her flaws and arrogance many times over.
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[[folder:Summer Smith]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Spencer Grammer
The daughter of Jerry and Beth, the granddaughter of Rick, and the sister of Morty. Summer behaves the way a typical teenage daughter living in a house with a psychotic grandfather would.
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* ActionGirl: In the comic book B-plot (''[[PunnyName Summer Spectacular]]''), she imagines herself as this. Issue 1 has her saving a man from a hostage situation, while Issue 2 portrays her as the commander of an army of anthropomorphic food. Gradually starts to grow into the role as the series goes on. Going so far as to be proactive at times given how morally compromised her grandfather is and how spineless or apathetic Morty tends to be. Culminates in the spin-off comic ''Little Poopy Superstar,'' where she gets to team up with Mr. Poopybutthole.
* ACupAngst: Wears double D bras despite her size being much smaller, claiming she'll grow into them because "Mom's got big boobs."
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In the pilot, she has a crush on [[TheBully Frank Palicky]]. Too bad he got frozen to death by Rick.
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ummer '''S'''mith.
* AppealToPopularity: Summer has a tendency to follow the crowd if only so she can get more attention. In "Ricksy Business" she encourages Morty as well as one of her geeky school mates, Nancy to traverse a dangerous dimension because she thinks they'll ruin her house party. In "Get Schwifty" she becomes a religious fanatic when the rest of the town starts worshiping the giant heads in the sky. It also might be why she is so disturbed with Unity, one mind controlling the minds of many.
* AscendedExtra: While she was always part of the main crew, Summer gets a major bump in screen time after "Rick Potion No. 9", and another one during season two, to the point where entire subplots were centered around her. Summer also appears quite often in the comics and is even getting a spin-off comic of her own: ''Lil' Poopy Superstar''.
* BigSisterBully: {{Zig zagged}}. Summer doesn't actively pick on Morty, mostly because neither one speaks to each other. At one point she groin kicks him for what at first seems like a ''very'' flippant reason She kicked him in the groin without warning because she thought he went in her room. It appears to be an overreaction ... until it is revealed a minute later in the episode that Morty masturbates in EVERY room in the house. Even so, they do care for each other.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Though mostly in the pilot. She has shown improvement in later episodes, but still generally carries this trope around with her. She also has much more of a backbone than her brother and thus a lot less tolerance for Rick's bullshit.
* BrilliantButLazy: {{Implied}}. Summer mentioned at one point she ''intentionally'' gets C grades and it's shown that Summer [[HiddenDepths possesses superior intelligence]].
* BrotherSisterTeam: She and Morty are seen working together when the need calls for it, mostly against something caused by their grandfather.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In chapter 3 of the game, one of the items is Summer's "relaxing massager," and it's made very clear what she does with it. Rick sees the item and doesn't think it's a big deal.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Raising Gazorpazorp" has her being involved in Rick's misadventure and future episodes have put a bigger focus on her such as ''Rixty Minutes'' and ''Something Ricked This Way Comes''. As of season 2, Rick has much less of a problem including her on his and Morty's intergalactic escapades.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: After the events of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", Summer is scammed out of her business venture with Lucius Needful (aka the actual devil). The answer? Get jacked up on steroids with your grandfather and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the living shit out of him]] in front of thousands of onlookers in Seattle.
* FieryRedhead: Obviously, especially in episodes like "Something Ricked This Way Comes" and "Auto-Erotic Assimilation".
* GenerationXerox: She has inherited some of Rick's creativeness, jadedness and love of adventure, and Beth's hero-worship of Rick.
* GreenEyedMonster: It is shown that Summer can be jealous of Rick and Morty's close relationship, and she can sometimes feel ignored by her grandfather. While Rick does his best to keep her at a distance, the two of them have gone on their own adventures, including on the planet Gazorpazorp. Her complex of being ignored by Rick manifests into a connection with the Devil in "Something Ricked This Way Comes".
* GroinAttack: She once kicked Morty in the nuts because he once went into her room to masturbate.
* HairColorDissonance: Summer is a strawberry blonde.
* HiddenDepths: Although Summer is not as scientifically-minded as Rick, she does possess superior intelligence. Summer is shown to be very whip-smart and nimble-witted, at least compared to rest of her family.
** Summer also seems to communicate with Rick better than Morty does, at least as long as neither party is being belligerent. Near the end of "Ricksy Business", Summer understands Rick's vague descriptions of a device much faster than Morty does even though the latter had spent much more time with Rick by that point.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Summer gets frustrated that when Rick won't allow her to go on adventures with him and is annoyed to find all her alternate reality selves to be rather boring. Or non-existent.
** Outright says it in ''Rick and Morty Comics #16'' when she runs off with another space traveler. Rick, rather uncharacteristically, agrees and lets her go.]
--> ''"I want to be special, Grandpa Rick! I deserve to be special!"'' ''"Yeah, Summer. Yeah. You do.''"
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her outward bratty and aloof attitude, Summer does have a moral compass (which especially stands out when she goes on adventures with Rick and Morty) and does love her family.
* MoralityPet: While Rick can be a ''huge'' jerk to Summer, it's obvious that he does love her.
* MsFanservice: Only in Mr. Goldenfold's dreams. Although it's [[IncestSubtext not as sexy as it looks]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In "Lawnmower Dog" she says she gets C's intentionally. It might just be an excuse for her bad grades.
* OnlySaneWoman: Along with Morty, Summer is by far the most grounded and "normal" person in her family, as she is the one that calls out Rick the most and is the one that has the least "zany" adventures opposite from her family. This causes Rick not to take her to his adventures with Morty, considering that she would protest more easily than her pushover brother.
* PottyFailure: Seems to have this problem.
** In "A Rickle in Time", when Morty knocks out Rick, he mentions that all the Mortys knocked out all the Ricks and all the Summers peed their pants.
** In "Total Rickall", during the flashback to when everyone got stuck in an elevator, she tells Morty "Just pee your pants. I did it the moment we got stuck."
** In "Look Who's Purging Now" she fondly remembers Jerry pushing her on the swings until she peed herself.
** A promotional commercial for season 2 also seems to lampshade this problem as Summer, Rick, and Morty search the multiverse for a bathroom that Summer can use. Morty mentions in passing that Rick solved this same problem with by simply putting a catheter in him.
* RedIsHeroic: The only member of her family with red hair and has the strongest moral compass of them all (especially after Morty [[TookALevelInCynic grew more apathetic]]).
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In the first episode of Season Three, Summer is the only one in the family who doesn't take Rick [[HeroicSacrifice turning himself in]] as abandonment. When she is looking frantically in the garage for a way to rescue Rick, she finds six dead flies on a work table and guesses that if they are arranged in a certain pattern they might unlock a secret lab full of weapons. She only gives up that attempt because Morty mentions the dead Rick buried in the backyard, realizing they could his portal gun. [[spoiler: When Rick later enters the garage, he complains about Jerry moving his things around, and then re-arranges those same dead flies in such a way that they unlock a secret lab exactly like the one Summer described]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Jerry's facial features and head shape.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Becomes this to Rick and Morty whenever she's taken along on their adventures due to her brother's growing cynicism making him unfit for the role.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The comic portrays her eating pizza a lot. In Issue 1, she accidentally burns herself because she's simultaneously daydreaming, straightening her hair, and eating a slice of pizza. In Issue 2, she holds the hand of an anthropomorphic piece of pizza as he dies on the battlefield.
* TheUnfavorite: In the second universe it's shown that Jerry and Beth are very resentful of the sacrifices they had to make because Summer was born. It takes Morty's twisted consolation to make her stay. It's not long until where an alternate universe closely similar to theirs [[{{Subverted}} regret the abortion and has caused both parents terrible lives as the current universe watches it unfold.]]
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