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'''The Smith-Sanchez Family''' ([[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyJerrySmith Jerry Smith]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyBethSmith Beth Smith]]) | [[Characters/RickAndMortySchool School]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel The Citadel]] ([[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty The President]]) | [[Characters/RickAndMortyOthers Others]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyOneOffCharacters One Off Characters]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyOni Oni ComicBook]]-]]]]]

!!Main Family Members
[[folder:Summer Smith]]

!!Summer Smith
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SpencerGrammer
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Bitch, my generation gets traumatized for breakfast."'']]

->'''Summer:''' It's called "carpe diem" Morty. Look it up.\\
'''Morty:''' ''You'' look it up, you don't-you don't even know what it means.\\
'''Summer:''' That's because losers look stuff up while the rest of us are carp'en all them 'diems.

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 and is considerably more level-headed than the two combined, but that doesn't mean she lacks her fair share of sass.

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Grandparents]]: The earlier seasons show Rick’s treatment of Summer to be rather harsh. Compared to Rick’s treatment of the rest of the Smith family, he doesn’t value Summer’s company as much as Morty, and he doesn’t shower Summer with affection like he does with Beth. The only person in the family that Rick actively treats worse than Summer is Jerry, whom Rick has his reasons for disliking. Thankfully, Rick manages to undergo character development and softens his attitude towards Summer in later seasons.
* TheAce: Downplayed but Summer does exhibit hints of this trope, particularly in later seasons once she's given more screentime. It's shown in several episodes that Summer possesses superior intelligence, she’s a surprisingly strong combatant, and a great leader. After Rick begins taking her on more adventures and giving her a chance to prove herself, Summer is able to gain Rick's respect until he comes to view her as TheReliableOne. Even Morty seems aware that Summer is essentially this compared to him, as several episodes have him readily acknowledging that Summer is more intelligent than him or have him mention her excellent leadership.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In “Childrick of Mort,” when Rick finds himself in a CurbStompBattle with Reggie, Summer and Morty accidentally save Rick’s life by crashing a spaceship into the back of Reggie’s head, killing him instantly. Rick outright admits that this single act makes both Morty and Summer his “heroes.”
* ACupAngst: The Rushed Licensed Adventure game reveals that she wears double D bras despite her size being much smaller, claiming she'll grow into them because "Mom's got big boobs."
** Turns up in the show proper [[JustForPun in a big way]] when said angst ends up driving the B-plot of "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy"; she uses Rick's size shifting ray to try and enlarge her breasts only to have the rest of her body enlarged too.
** This turns out to be retconned in "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion", where it's revealed that Summer turns out to suddenly have a regular bust while she's wearing an open-cleavage dress.
* ActionGirl: She gradually becomes this after she starts going on adventures with Rick to avoid dealing with the stress caused by her parent's divorce. From then on she becomes incredibly self-sufficient and ready to fight should the need arise, especially given how morally compromised her grandfather is and how spineless Morty tends to be.
** 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.
** Her progression culminates in the spin-off comic ''Little Poopy Superstar,'' where she gets to team up with Mr. Poopybutthole.
** In “Rickmancing the Stone,” Summer adapts quite well to the post-apocalyptic lifestyle of the Death Stalkers, hunting down “what used to be humans” and killing mutants.
** In “Rattlestar Ricklactica,” Summer helps fight against the army of snakes attacking the Smith household.
** In “Mort Dinner Rick Andre,” Rick trusts Summer with going to the bottom of the ocean and fighting Mr. Nimbus’ warriors so she can steal the source of his powers.
** In "Mortyplicity," the decoy Summers are shown fighting and dying alongside the rest of their decoy family.
** In “Solaricks,” she’s excited to test her "wolverine claws" on the scavengers and space monsters at the Citadel of Ricks.
** It “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” Summer manages to hold her own against a small group of alien terrorists attempting to kill her.
* ActOfTrueLove: Summer pulls this off for both Rick and Morty in "Ricksy Business." Regardless of her GreenEyedMonster tendencies, once Summer realizes how important their adventuring is to both Rick and Morty's lives, Summer decides to help the pair fix the bleak situation they are in. When Morty is panicking and unable to find a device Rick needs, Summer chooses to step in, find it for him, and even gives it to Rick herself, ensuring her grandfather and younger brother can continue to go on adventures whenever they want, even if she's left out in the long run.
* AesopAmnesia: Summer has been shown several times that she shouldn't consider Rick her "hero", or blindly seek his approval, such as in "Rickshank Redemption" where she learns about the reality he and Morty left to rot. Despite this, she can go overboard in her attempts to please him or cater to his whims, making it her top priority. She's gone as far as to build a legion of giant robot pilots to impress him.
* AffectionateNickname: Rick sometimes call her "Sum-Sum". Summer is apparently fond enough of the nickname to use it to refer to herself in "A Rickconvenient Mort."
** Rick seems to like calling Summer a "queen," and has done so on several occasions. In “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim Morty,” Rick calls Summer a “queen” without any sarcasm when admitting he’s going to slay Morty’s dragon. In “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” an intoxicated Rick once more calls Summer a “queen."
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
** In the pilot, she has a crush on [[TheBully Frank Palicky]]. Too bad he got frozen to death by Rick.
** She enters into a brief business relationship with the Devil of all people.
** After her parents' divorce, she starts a relationship with the leader of a tribe of cannibalistic marauders. [[spoiler: It doesn't last]].
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ummer '''S'''mith.
* AloofBigSister: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Summer goes back and forth on this. Earlier on, she was much closer to being actually aloof and uncaring about Morty. But as the show went on, she's become closer to Morty and cares about him, even if she doesn't always show it. It especially shows with how often [[SiblingTeam they tag team]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: She was once in a relationship with Ethan, married to Hemorrhage and had a big crush on Toby. However, in "The Old Man and the Seat" she has a total of four soulmates when she uses the new app, "Lovefinderrz": three guys and one woman. It is unknown whether Summer is actually attracted to women, desperate to find someone to be with or follows the app's soulmate match results randomly.
** In "Edge of Tomorty: Rick, Die, Rickpeat," Summer refers to Jessica's selfie at her grandmother's funeral as "A hot pic," and in ''Rattlestar Ricklactica" When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Rick offers to take Summer to "Boob World,"]] she simply responds by saying "Eh, Not today."
** This is even more pronounced in the comics In one issue, Rick and Summer go to an alternate universe where Summer has a girlfriend. At the end of the comic, Rick reveals that the reality they're currently in is identical to Summer's native reality in every conceivable way, except that this version of Beth was allergic to red wine, so she never became an alcoholic, and was consequently much more emotionally supportive of Summer and helped her come to terms with her own sexuality. The implication being that our Summer is Bi and hasn't yet realized it.
* AnimalMotifs: Apparently, Jerry thinks Summer is similar to a lemur and says as much in “Childrick of Mort.” Summer doesn’t appreciate this comparison in the slightest.
* AppealToPopularity: Summer tends 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 schoolmates, 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''.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Winds up transforming into an inside-out giant in ''The Whirly-Dhirly Conspiracy'' as a result of messing around with Rick's size-shifting ray.
* BarbarianLonghair: Evoked in ''The Rickshank Redemption'' and ''Rickmancing the Stone''; the audience actually sees Summer with her hair down but only at a point where she's given into her survivor lifestyle.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Summer is one of the more grounded members in the Smith family, with a strong sense of morality and the backbone to stand up for it. That said, if you somehow happen to find yourself on her enemy list, you’re pretty much a goner. Just ask Tammy Gutterman, the girl Summer believed was her friend and who betrayed her in “The Wedding Squanchers.” In "Starmort: The Rickturn of the Jerri," Summer ruthlessly breaks her kneecap when Tammy tries to attack Rick before leaving her at Rick’s mercy.
* BigSisterBully: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Summer doesn't actively pick on Morty, mostly because neither one speaks to each other. At one point she groin kicks him for what she thought was him going into her room (until it is revealed a minute later that Morty masturbates in EVERY room in the house). Even so, they do care for each other.
* BigSisterInstinct: To her brother Morty. Summer and Morty developed very protective instincts towards each other as they faced threats, their parents' complicated relationships and Rick's antics. Morty tries to protect Summer in any way he can, even from her own adoration of Rick.
** In Season One:
*** In “Rixty Minutes,” after learning the current Morty living with her is not “her” Morty, she’s genuinely shocked and horrified to realize that "her" Morty is dead.
*** In “Close Rickcounters of the Rick Kind,” when the Citadel Ricks are messing with Jerry and phone in a prank call pretending to be Rick, claiming that he’s going to take Morty and fly into a black hole, Summer is horrified. The fact that it’s revealed to be a prank call doesn’t lessen her fear for Morty's safety.
*** In "Ricksy Business," Summer eventually decides to help Morty clean up the house after the wild party completely trashes it. She also brings Rick the device that allows him to freeze time, allowing the trio a chance to clean the house at their own pace which in turn allows Morty to keep on going on adventures with Rick.
** In Season Two:
*** In “Auto Erotic Assimilation,” when she and Morty are cornered by rioting racists during a race war, Summer hugs a panicking Morty close to her in an effort to protect him.
*** In “Look Who’s Purging Now,” Summer is annoyed that Jerry continuously tries to get her attention when she’s busy taking down instructions and attempting to help Rick and Morty during their purge world experience, even outright telling Jerry that Rick and Morty are in danger while he’s interrupting her.
** In Season Three:
*** While being at odds with Morty in the episode “Rickshank Redemption,” Summer still puts Morty’s safety first and when the Council of Ricks demands she renounces Rick or suffer the consequences, she promptly tells them to shove it and that they can do whatever they want with her but demands that they let Morty go.
*** In “Rickmancing the Stones,” Summer expresses concern finding Morty participating in the Blood Dome and later celebrates his victory while proudly proclaiming that Morty’s her brother. She also has no problems letting Morty stay with her when she gets married to Hemorrhage.
*** In “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” one of Morty’s memories has Summer give Morty a sympathetic, anguished look when Beth immediately chooses to spare her over Morty. A later memory has Summer try to help Morty purge an evil worm alien with The Power of Love, and after witnessing how long the worm is, questions if they should help Morty by pulling it the rest of the way out of his body. Rick rejects this and tells her not to touch it and encourages Summer and Beth to “keep loving Morty” at a distance. A later memory also shows that Summer was willing to drive Morty to school, even going to look for him so she could remind him it was a school day so that he wouldn't be late if he happened to lose track of time.
*** In “Rest and Ricklaxation,” Summer expresses shock when Healthy Rick slaps Healthy Morty after Healthy Morty slaps Healthy Rick.
*** In the episode “Starmort The Rickturn of the Jerri,” the siblings initially quarrel over an invisibility belt that Rick gives to Summer but later resolve to work together when Federation agents attempt to apprehend them, with Summer implicitly ready to use an empty fire extinguisher as a weapon to protect Morty if anything happened.
** In Season Four:
*** In “Promortyus,” Summer’s reason for trying to evolve the Glorzo is to keep the Glorzo possessing Morty from laying an egg inside him and killing him in a gruesome death.
*** In “The Vat of Acid Episode,” Summer is encouraging and supportive of Morty’s relationship with his new girlfriend. After Morty is rescued from nearly dying in the wilderness after a horrible plane crash strands him in the wild, Summer is shown waiting in his hospital room for him to recover and is delighted when he wakes up.
*** In the “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim Morty” episode, Summer clearly isn’t happy about Rick and Balthromaw betraying Morty and bonding with each other when Balthromaw is supposed to be Morty’s dragon. She also steps in and helps Morty rally the dragons to overthrow the wizard and help break Balthromaw’s bond with Rick when she realizes Morty is struggling with his words.
** In Season Five:
*** In “Childrick of Mort,” Summer and Morty wander in the woods, getting lost and finding a crashed alien spaceship. While lost, Summer gives Morty consent to eat her corpse if she dies first. Her only request is that Morty doesn’t eat her ass, which she points out will be weird.
** In Season Six:
*** In “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” Summer is willing to pull a Die Hard style attack on some armed and dangerous alien terrorists in order to protect a comatose Morty and give Rick enough time to get Morty’s consciousness back to his body. At the end of the episode, Summer immediately notices something is off with Morty's behavior and makes a point to ask Rick if Morty’s alright, implying she knows that Morty doesn’t have all of his memories back. Notably, despite her HeroWorshipper tendencies toward Rick, the brief look that Summer gives to Morty after Rick reassures her that Morty is fine suggests that she doesn’t quite believe Rick.
* 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.
** In "Mort Dinner Rick Andre," Summer is visibly grossed out when her parents admit to being "sex positive" in front of her, even mentioning that she might never come back from the the ocean as she leaves.
* 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.
* BreastExpansion: Gives herself a dose of this in Season 3. Unfortunately, she goes in for a second dose, winds up unbalanced, and causes a big mess.
* BrilliantButLazy: {{Implied|Trope}}. Summer mentioned at one point she ''intentionally'' gets C grades and it's shown that Summer [[HiddenDepths possesses superior intelligence]]. This gets played for laughs in "Night Family," where Summer finally manages to break out of her LaboriousLaziness and achieve Honor Roll--because she's having her "Night Person" do her studying for her.
* BrotherSisterTeam: She and Morty are seen working together when the need calls for it, mostly against something caused by their grandfather.
* ButtMonkey: Not as much as Morty and Jerry, but she happens to get hurt sometimes (e.g. Beth accidentally hitting her with a wine bottle resulting in getting a black eye, strangled by various foes, having her body turned inside out and giant, attacked and held hostage by aliens, etc.).
* CasualKink: In "Rattlestar Ricklactica", after Rick saves her from a snake choking her, she attacks the other snakes while shouting "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Nobody! Chokes me! Without consent!]]"
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from being just a bratty stereotypical teenage girl into a lot more of an action girl and becoming more and more equipped to deal with the strange situations her grandpa puts the family in and becomes indifferent to her mother's NeverMyFault attitude. She also shows a lot more of her HiddenDepths and mental aptitude in later seasons as she gets more focus.
* ColorMotifs: Mainly pink, also purple on occasion. Summer is usually distinguished by her pink top and her cell phone case is mostly purple with a pink heart. As the series goes on, her various outfits tend to be varying shades of pink, purple, or occasionally even red.
** In “Promortyus,” Empress Summer’s cape and gown are red and gold.
** In “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” Summer controls the red Gotron ferret and wears the Red Gotron Ferret Suit.
* CombatStilettos: Her Blooddome outfit in ''Rickmancing the Stone'' comes with a pair of gray heels.
* CoolBigSis: In “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” Marta, one of one billion fragments of Morty’s consciousness, seems to think this of Summer Smith. When Roy (Rick) attempts to get Marta to leave with him by reminding her that Summer is in danger, Marta angrily responds that wherever Summer is, she’s “doing fine without [Roy’s] help.”
** Morty himself seems to share this sentiment in general when he and Summer aren’t engaged in TeethClenchedTeamwork, tpically following Summer’s lead when it’s just the two of them.
* CovertPervert: Though she's more subtle about her hormones than Morty is, she still masturbates and even uses an invisibility belt to infiltrate an attractive man's house and go through the items in his room.
* DaddysGirl: Summer actually has a bit of this regarding her relationship with Jerry. Although she’s willing to join in when it comes to making fun of Jerry's ButtMonkey status with the rest of the family, she usually holds back her most cutting retorts unless Jerry is either being an idiot or insults her.
** In “Meseeks and Destroy,” Summer tells Jerry that unless he starts putting effort into his marriage and giving Beth the attention she deserves, Beth will leave him and their marriage will end in divorce, causing Jerry to realize that his marriage is in trouble.
** In “Big Trouble In Little Sanchez,” when Summer’s attempt to get Rick to help her hunt a vampire at her school result in Rick cruelly insulting her and genuinely hurting Summer’s feelings, Summer turns to Jerry for comfort.
** In “Intergalactic Cable II,” Summer worriedly asks if Jerry will be okay following him being rushed to an alien hospital and taken to critical care unit. She also follows her mother to check on Jerry while he’s attempting to hold Shrimply Pibbles hostage and is horrified when she witnesses Jerry being shot multiple times by alien police. She's later shown waiting in his hospital room for him to recover.
** In “Look Who’s Purging Now,” Summer recalls that Jerry used to push her on a swing set when she was still a child and she appreciates it enough to remember it fondly.
** In “Rickmancing the Stone,” Summer is angry with Jerry for going through with the divorce and doesn’t want to interact with him at first. However, she eventually forgives him and even goes to visit him on her own to bring him a house-warming gift and offer him a hug.
** In “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” she decides to support her parents getting back together and runs away with them to a place they believe Rick will never find them, under the belief that Rick will try to kill Beth for being a clone that gained self-awareness. When she finds out Rick instead wants to kill Jerry, she still isn't happy and refuses to let it happen.
** In “Promortyus,” when one of Summer’s friends openly admits to Summer that she wants to have an affair with Jerry, Summer’s response is an angry, “Oh, really?”
** In "Night Family," Summer is shown jumping from a moving police car into Night Jerry's arms during the winding down chase scene. Interestingly, Summer seems to be the only Smith family member to remember that Night Jerry is an ally, as she shows no hostility to him when she realizes he's returned, unlike Morty and Beth whom quickly forget and attack him during the chase scene. She also willingly goes along with his plan to "jump" once Night Jerry mentions that Summer doing so will allow the Smiths to be together as a "family," which she finds endearing enough to go along with.
* 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 and she gets her own subplot in "The Whirly-Dirly Conspiracy".
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: In “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” Summer manages to achieve this with Winslow, an alien terrorist who attacked the Blipz and Chitz Arcade. Winslow attempts to kill Summer only to be shot NotQuiteDead by Summer herself.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Summer invokes a family example with her grandfather, Rick. Although Rick treats Summer in an abusive manner in earlier seasons, Summer's persistance leads to Rick relenting and allowing Summer to come with him and Morty on more of their adventures in season 3. This culminates with Rick's relationship with Summer going from occasional PetTheDog moments to genuine MoralityPet status from Season 4 onward.
* DeliberateUnderPerformance: Summer offhandedly mentions in "Lawnmower Dog" that she chooses to get C's in school out of the belief that smarter people are always meaner. In "Night Family," she finally manages to break out of this and makes Honor Roll with her excellent grades.
* DullSurprise: Summer tends to not get nearly as hysterical as Morty or their parents do whenever something weird happens. In "Lawnmower Dog", Summer comments on how being smart just made Snowball a jerk and this is why she "chooses" to get average grades. Keep in mind the entire family was trapped in a cage and facing an imminent Planet of the Dogs-type uprising. Then again, considering her family's general dysfunctional lifestyle, in addition to living in the same house as [[MadScientist Rick]], it's possible Summer grew more desensitized to it than Morty did at that point.
** Summer justifies this in "The ABC's of Beth" by claiming to Beth that her generation "gets traumatized for breakfast."
* TheDreaded: She becomes this to the alien terrorists in “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” who eventually come to view her as “the ultimate [=McClane=]” and try to do everything in their power to kill her as a result.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being a bitch to Morty a lot of the time, she's horrified in one memory of "Morty's Mind Blowers" where their mother chooses to save Summer's life over Morty's without any hesitation.
** In “Promortyus,” Summer expresses extreme annoyance at one of her friends, Tricia, informing her of their desire to have a sexual affair with Jerry after watching him beekeeping.
** In "A Rickconvenient Mort," Summer is enraged when she finds out that Rick's new girlfriend, Daphne, is only using him so that she can survive, especially since Rick seems to have genuine feelings for her.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Do not mess with her parents, their marriage, or her grandfather Rick’s safety. She can and will kick your ass for doing so. Just ask the monsters that tried to eat the Beths in “Solaricks,” or the alien terrorists that attempted to hold Rick and Morty hostage in “Rick: A Mort Well Lived.”
** In "Starmort: The Rickturn of the Jerri," Summer ruthlessly breaks Tammy Gutterman's kneecap when Tammy tries to attack Rick before leaving her at Rick’s mercy.
** In "A Rickconvenient Mort," realizing that Rick is too caught up in Daphne's HoneyTrap to see that Daphne is just using him, (a fact that Daphne shamelessly confessed to Summer earlier,) Summer takes matters into her own hands and stops a literal apocalypse from happening in order to break up their relationship.
* 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.
* FanDisservice: Her attempt to give herself bigger boobs started with a noticeable asymmetry, then ended with her turned into an inside-out giant.
* FieryRedhead: Obviously, especially in episodes like "Something Ricked This Way Comes" and "Auto-Erotic Assimilation".
** In "A Rickconvenient Mort," Summer proves that this, along with being a BrattyTeenageDaughter, make her too much for Jerry to handle when he tries to forbid her from going on an apocalypse party crawl with Rick. In spite of Jerry's newfound authority as man of the house, Summer simply tells him off and leaves with Rick anyway.
* FreudianExcuse: Defied in "Pickle Rick" when Beth accuses her of huffing enamel because [[spoiler:she resents Beth for divorcing Jerry. Summer establishes in the session that she just likes getting high and it's not because of her family being shitty]].
* FriendVersusLover: In "A Rickconvenient Mort," Summer is the friend (Rick's granddaughter) who competes with Daphne (Rick's lover) for Rick's attention. Summer is ultimately able to prove to Rick that the relationship is "dumb" by stopping an apocalypse, meaning that Daphne no longer has to stay with Rick to survive and causing her to break up with him on the spot. Rick reluctantly admits that Summer did the right thing.
* GenerationXerox:
** Summer has inherited Rick's creativity and love of adventure, as well as Beth's hero-worship of Rick. Taken a step further in [[Recap.RickAndMortyS3E2RickmancingTheStone "Rickmancing The Stone"]] when [[spoiler: Summer's relationship with her cannibal boyfriend turns out exactly like Beth and Jerry's marriage after a few weeks of living together. {{Justified|Trope}} because, as Rick points out, both relationships were based on running away from their problems.]]
** According to Rick, Summer reminds him of [[spoiler:Diane, her grandmother.]]
* TheGenericGirl: While Rick is a mad scientist, Morty is his long-suffering sidekick and Beth and Jerry are a dysfunctional couple, Summer is completely devoid of any drama. She is very aware of this and her attempts to break into Rick and Morty's adventures are an active attempt to become less generic.
* 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", which ironically makes ''Rick'' jealous enough to try and destroy Mr. Needful's business because Summer was hero-worshipping him instead of Rick.
* GroinAttack: She once kicked Morty in the nuts because he once went into her room, even though he tries to tell her he didn't. Given we later see a memory of her stumbling in on Morty masturbating in the kitchen and he defiantly says he does it in ''every room in the house'', this may be why her reaction was so extreme.
* HairColorDissonance: Summer is a strawberry blonde.
* TheHedonist: Summer likes cheap thrills, which makes her similar to her grandpa. Season 3 reveals she got busted at school for huffing enamel, and she says she likes the highs.
* HeelRealization: In "Ricksy Business," after realizing that Morty genuinely enjoys going on adventures with Rick and will be devestated if he can no longer do so, Summer begins to realize that Morty needs Rick's attention more than she does. Learning from Birdperson that Rick is in great pain and would be in even more despair if his adventures with Morty were forbidden is what solidifies Summer's resolve to help the pair, even if it means she continues to be left on the sidelines. Summer proceeds to invoke an ActOfTrueLove to help her younger brother and grandfather escape punishment and make sure they can continue to go on adventures together.
** In "Childrick of Mort," Summer realizes that Jerry was correct about her and Morty not having any survival skills and realizes that her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jerry earlier for referring to her as a lemur may have gone too far. The fact that Jerry admits Summer was correct about him wanting to feel needed before Summer can apologize for her actions actually makes her more ashamed, and she doesn't dare insult him a second time even after Jerry politely calls her out on her less than polite rant towards him earlier.
** In “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” after spending the entire episode abusing her power as Rick's favorite grandchild, Summer tearfully admits to the family and Morty himself that Morty was indeed correct about everything he'd been warning her about once Rick fires her: Rick’s obsession with the Gotron became too much for him, Summer became so addicted to making Rick happy that she ignored Morty’s warnings, and Summer’s efforts to bring the family together actually just drove everyone apart. Thankfully, Summer realizing this causes her to realize that Morty is also right about wanting to rescue Rick from the original Gotron pilots seeking to kill him, and she recruits her parents and Naruto Smith into helping the pair save Rick's life.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the comics, her Cronenberg Dimension self uses one of Rick's neutrino bombs to destroy some evil Ricks before they can conquer the multiverse.
* HeroWorshipper: Much like her mother, Summer begins to hero-worship Rick and overlook his flaws to gain his approval. This is a problem since, as Morty says, Rick may not be the villain, but he's definitely not a hero. Summer herself outright admits in “The Rickshank Rickdemption” that Rick is her hero and refuses to renounce him even when the Council of Ricks orders her to in exchange for leniency. She’s also shown to desire his approval in “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” to the point of admitting that she became “addicted” to making Rick happy. Unfortunately, this loyalty comes back to haunt her in those same episodes: Rick's supposed willingness to disregard her safety when she's being used as a human shield in "The Rickshank Redemption" cause Summer genuine distress and "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" show that even in spite of her devotion, Rick is willing to dispose of her when she's no longer useful to his plans.
* HiddenDepths: As the series continues, and Summer's character is fleshed out, she's shown to possess this.
** 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 the rest of her family.
*** Summer 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.
*** In [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption "The Rickshank Redemption"]], she suggests that the dead flies on Rick's desk will reveal a secret lab if rearranged in a certain way. At the end of the episode it's proven she was right, even though Morty thought she was growing unhinged.
*** She 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. At the end of the episode, Summer is quick to put two and two together and realize that Rick caused her marriage with Hemorrhage to deteriorate with his antics of modernizing the Death Stalkers' lifestyles.
*** In [[Recap/RickAndMortyS5E2Mortyplicity "Mortyplicity"]] the decoy Summer clones are shown to always be the first ones to realize that they're decoys, ''before even Rick considers the idea''. The Summer decoys are also one of best at surviving the clone war, as a large group of SoleSurvivor Summers is only matched in size by a group of Ricks.
** Despite her wililngness to AppealToPopularity, Summer's leadership abilities are also highlighted in several episodes.
*** In "Rickmancing The Stone," Summer is capable enough to lead the tribe of Death Stalkers alongside Hemorrhage.
*** In "Promortyus," Summer becomes Empress of the Glorzo society and does so well that even the Council of Glorzo obey her.
*** In “Claw And Hoarder Special,” Summer manages to rally the outcast dragons to overthrow the wizard in control and kill him so that Rick’s Soul Bond with Balthromaw will disappear. Even more impressively, she does this after Rick’s abrasive personality rubs them the wrong way.
*** In "Solaricks," Summer is the one leading the party on the mission to establish the beacon at the desolated Citadel of Ricks. She even manages to convince Space Beth and Beth to be more civil towards each other after rescuing them.
*** In "Night Family," it's revealed that Night Summer is the one who leads the Smith family when their "night person" takes over after they fall asleep.
** Surprisingly, despite her own upbringing, "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" proves that Summer is quite the capable parent, being able to teach Naruto how to love, believe in himself, and how to escape his imprisonment so that he can live free from the military's control.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: While not quite as bad as her younger brother, she still pleasures herself frequently, has a few casual kinks and abused an invisibility belt to invade an attractive man's home and go through his things ''very'' thoroughly.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: A familial variant. Summer reveals that she feels lonely due to not having a family member to buddy up with. Beth and Jerry have each other and Morty hangs out with Rick all the time. She ends up bonding with Naruto Smith for these very reasons despite being very uncomfortable about his conception.
* 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 traveller. Rick, rather uncharacteristically, agrees and lets her go.
---> '''Summer:''' I want to be special, Grandpa Rick! I deserve to be special!\\
'''Rick:''' Yeah, Summer. Yeah. You do.
*** She later gets her wish when she becomes a regular part of Rick and Morty's adventures in the 2nd and 3rd seasons.
* IdiotBall: In the B plot of the "Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", where she uses Rick's enlargement device without his input, leading to a series of events that end up deforming her.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Summer huffing pottery glaze in the art room could be a sign she has inherited an addictive personality like her mother and grandfather.
* 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.
* LaboriousLaziness: Summer confesses in "Lawnmower Dog" that she gets C-grades on purpose because she believes intelligent people are jerks, and even when she manages to break this habit to achieve Honor Roll in “Night Family,” it’s only because she has her Night Person do her studying for her. Even her interest in adventures can wane rather quickly depending on the situation: she gets tired of the decoy situation rather quickly in “Mortiplicity,” and the Gaia camping adventure barely retains her attention at all in “Childrick of Mort.”
* MamaBear: She immediately bonds with Naruto in “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion” and is enraged that the military were attempting to use him as the “ultimate weapon” rather than treating him like a child. She retaliates by going against their orders to help train Naruto to be a super soldier and instead teaches him how to love and believe in himself, ultimately helping him escape his captors. Closer inspection of the brief clip where Summer is teaching Naruto to prefer playing with a rattle over a missile shows her physically throwing out her arms to prevent the soldiers standing behind her from approaching Naruto and shocking him with their large tazers.
* MamasBoy: A rare gender-inverted example, as Summer is Beth’s oldest child and also her daughter. Interestingly, despite Beth admitting that she doesn’t have much of a maternal instinct, Summer is surprisingly close to her mother and enjoys spending time with her.
** In “Meseeks and Destroy,” Summer is the one catches on to Beth’s newfound self-worth and clues Jerry into the fact that Beth will leave him if he doesn’t start showing her the appreciation she deserves.
** In “The Rickshank Rickdemption,” Beth attempts to warn Summer that idolizing Rick isn’t healthy, but Summer is too upset at Rick’s imprisonment to listen.
** In “Rickmancing the Stone,” Summer joyfully hugs Beth upon returning home after spending weeks in a post-apocalyptic version of earth.
** In “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” Beth immediately chooses to spare Summer over Morty when given the Sadistic Choice of which child she wants to save. Beth also pokes fun at Morty alongside Summer and Rick when he’s attempting to exorcise a rather large parasite through his mouth.
** In “The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy,” a distressed Summer asks Beth is she thinks Summer is beautiful after Ethan, her boyfriend, breaks up with her. Beth’s inability to bring herself to tell Summer that she’s pretty causes Summer to run away, heartbroken and disfigured from being turned inside out. Beth becomes determined to fix her mistake with Morty’s help and finally admit to Summer that her daughter is beautiful to her. Morty even mentions this is one of the few times Beth has displayed behavior that makes her a “good mother.”
** In “The ABC's of Beth,” Summer remarks to Jerry that she made it clear to both the lawyers and the judge presiding over his and Beth’s divorce that she chose to stay with Beth instead of Jerry.
** In “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” Summer supports Beth getting back together with Jerry and runs away with them to an isolated cabin in the woods to try and keep her safe from Rick, who the family believes will try and kill her after believing she’s a clone who gained self-awareness.
** In “The Old Man and the Seat,” Beth’s protectiveness of Summer results in her hounding Summer ''across the country,'' including getting into a physical altercation with Summer at the end of the episode. However, Beth’s actions are EasilyForgiven by Summer at the end of the episode.
** In “Solaricks,” she goes on an adventure with both Beths and actually enjoys spending time with them to the point of chastising both of them for their arguing with each other ruining the family time. She also invokes Extremely Protective Child and kills “most” of the alien monsters to save the Beths when they’re Eaten Alive before cutting them out of the monster’s stomach to rescue them.
* AMistakeIsBorn: Her conception was the reason [[MarriedTooYoung her parents were married]].
* MoralityPet: Although Rick had limited interactions with Summer in earlier seasons, most of the scenes involved Rick being a ''huge'' jerk to Summer. "Big Trouble In Little Sanchez" even has Tiny Rick admit that Rick is a "grumpy douche" to Summer in general. However, Rick would show that despite his JerkAss behavior towards her, he did care for his granddaughter with occasional PetTheDog moments. As Summer gained more of Rick's respect during their adventures together in Season 3, it’s Summer who was able to convince him to stay with the newly-reformed Smith family at the end of “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” in spite of his plans to abandon them and move to a new world. As of Season 4 onward, Rick's behavior towards Summer has become more natural and affectionate compared to earlier seasons, leading to this trope.
* MsFanservice:
** Only in Mr. Goldenfold's dreams. Although it's [[IncestSubtext not as sexy as it looks]].
** She is made to wear a very ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''-style outfit in the comics after she teams up with Peacock Jones.
** In the season 3 finale, while shopping with Beth, she tries on a ''very'' skimpy outfit. She even strikes a few poses.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In "Lawnmower Dog" she says she gets C's intentionally. It might just be an excuse for her bad grades.
* OnceASeason: She generally gets at [[ADayInTheLimelight least one major episode per season]]: [[Recap.RickAndMortyS1E9SomethingRickedThisWayComes "Something Ricked This Way Comes]], [[Recap.RickAndMortyS2E3AutoEroticAssimilation "Auto Erotic Assimilation"]], [[Recap.RickAndMortyS3E2RickmancingTheStone "Rickmancing The Stone"]], [[Recap.RickAndMortyS4E7Promortyus "Promortyus"]], and [[Recap.RickAndMortyS5E3ARickconvenientMort "A Rickconvenient Mort"]].
* 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.
* PetTheDog: She is horrified by the extreme lengths Rick's car will go to to "Keep Summer Safe" and demands it doesn't kill or hurt anyway - which is the only thing that stops it from going on a bloody rampage.
** She proudly announces Morty is her brother when he kicks ass in the dome in "Rickmancing the Stone."
** Tells the Council of Ricks that they can do whatever they want with her, but demands they let Morty go.
** She's the only Smith family member to treat Night Jerry respectfully in "Night Family." Rick slaps Night Jerry for droning about how good of a person Jerry is and Beth and Morty immediately attack Night Jerry on sight during the chase scene before he reminds them that he's on their side. Summer, however, is shown to treat him well and she even goes along with his plan of having her jump from a moving vehicle into his arms so the Smith family can be together.
** Rick's relationship with Summer in earlier seasons involves a few these, even if the moments are few and far between. It’s not until later seasons, after Rick undergoes his character development and grows closer to Summer that he starts treating her as a second MoralityPet alongside Morty.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Says Rick, "We all got pink eye because you won't stop texting on the toilet!"
* PinkMeansFeminine: Downplayed. She’s distinguished by her pink top but she also has Rick’s love of adventure and she doesn’t shrink from a fight.
* 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.
** [[https://youtu.be/Y1X2SVQtMEE 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 by simply putting a catheter in him.
* TheReliableOne: Becomes this to Rick more and more as the series goes on and he sees how competent she is, trusting her with important missions and tasks in episodes such as "Morty's Mind Blowers", "Mort Dinner Rick Andre", "Solaricks", and "Rick: A Mort Well Lived".
* ReplacementGoldfish: This version of Summer, who has ostensibly become the “main” Summer over the course of the series, is actually an entirely different person from the Summer of the first six episodes of Season 1, who was abandoned in the Cronenberged universe by C-137 Rick. Unlike her mom and dad, she’s aware of this, as the main Morty reveals it to her while explaining why she shouldn’t idolize Rick.
* SeenItAll: In "Morty's Mind Blowers", she doesn't even blink upon finding Rick and Morty with none of their memories. Instead, she simply comments on it being a "Scenario 4" and breaks out a notecard on what to do.
* ShutUpHannibal: Having grown sufficiently calloused to them, Summer counters Rick's attempt to bully the family into shame and subservience with a nihilistic rant family during the season 3 finale by farting. Rick immediately [[ActuallyPrettyFunny admits that it was a pretty clever and funny reponse]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: In “Raising Gazorpazorp,” she wears a yellow top similar to Morty’s yellow shirt to signify her role as Rick’s temporary sidekick in the adventure.
* 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 use 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]].
* 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.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Jerry's facial features and head shape. As someone pointed out on Reddit, Summer is basically Jerry with a ponytail.
** Eventually does get commented on by a Dragon in "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty"
-->'''Dragon:''' That man with a ponytail is right!
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Let's just say that Summer is quite capable of delivering these and has done so on several occasions.
* TookALevelInBadass: Summer's adventures with Rick and Morty allows her to go from the teenager who gets easily scared from horrors to the warrior-like ActionGirl who doesn't even blink when about to kill those who try to kill her.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: In "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion", Summer does everything she can to go along with what Rick wants, enabling his worse habits along the way. She even gets Morty and their parents kicked out of Rick's Gotron coalition.
* 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.
* TranquilFury: In “Rickmancing the Stone,” she is ''furious'' with Rick for ruining her marriage to Hemorrhage with his antics, and although she doesn’t raise her voice, she makes it clear that she’s fully aware of the fact that Rick is responsible for the relationship falling apart. It’s one of the few times in the series that she refers to her beloved “Grandapa Rick” as just plain “Rick,” and while she admits she’s learned her lesson, her rage is enough to cause Rick to refrain from gloating and he immediately summons a portal when Summer curtly tells him she’s ready to leave.
* 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 [[SubvertedTrope regret the abortion and has caused both parents terrible lives as the current universe watches it unfold.]] One of Morty's Mind-Blowers shows that [[spoiler:she's at least Beth's favorite, since when a villain forces her to choose whether Summer or Morty will be spared, Beth doesn't even take a second to think it over before choosing to save Summer.]]
** While Rick does love her deep down, it's pretty clear he favors Morty over her although this might be because Morty is easier to manipulate. As Summer begins to hero-worship Rick more and more, she tries to compete with Morty for Rick's attention and prove herself as an adventurer.
* UngratefulBitch: Morty has stood up for Summer multiple times, and even saved her life on occasion. Despite this, Summer often acts aloof toward Morty, and has even tried to supplant him as Rick's "favorite".
* ValleyGirl: She talks like one, something Rick's car mocks her over in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy".
---> '''Ship:''' My function is to "keep Summer safe", not to keep Summer "being, [[LikeIsLikeAComma like]], totally stoked about, like, the general vibe and stuff". That's you, that's how you talk.
* WellDoneDaughterGal: Notably, she doesn't have this relationship with Jerry, but with her grandfather, Rick, whose approval she tries to win. Especially noteworthy in the season three premiere.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: She had a crush on Frank Palicky, a psychotic bully who tried to cut Morty over an imagined slight.
* WhatTheHellHero: She calls Jerry out for trying to remove Snowball's collar, pointing out you can't just give a creature sentience and then take it away again.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Although no attention is called to her particular situation, in "Ricksy Business" Summer gets a choice similar to Morty's own about whether or not she wants Rick and Morty to be able to continue their adventures without her, or whether she wants to put a stop to their adventuring due to feeling left out. When Beth and Jerry return home from their trip and are about to find the house trashed from a massive party thrown by Rick, in spite of Beth's warning to Rick that finding the house damaged will result in no more adventures, Morty begins to panic and is unable to locate a device that will help a hungover Rick fix the mess. Summer chooses to help the pair by locating the device that Rick's asking for and even giving it to him herself, ensuring that Rick and Morty can continue adventuring whenever they want.

!!Extended Family Members

[[folder:Diane Sanchez]]
!!Diane Sanchez
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KariWahlgren
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The wife of Rick Sanchez and mother to Beth. Very little is known about her other than the fact Rick abandoned her and their daughter sometime before his twenty-two-year-long disappearance. The Season 5 premiere confirmed that her name was Diane.

* AmbiguousSituation: The only things known about her is that her name is Diane, she's blonde (as evidenced by Beth), and she's dead. When and how she died, what her relationship with Rick was like and why they separated, and even what she really looks like is all left to speculation, and Rick is insistent on keeping it this way. "The Rickshank Redemption" seemed to divulge some details, but Rick fabricated the memory to trick the Galactic Federation. However, a revelation in "Rickternal Friendshine of the Rickless Mort" shows that the memory may not be completely fabricated... There is also the question as to why there is seemingly no alternate universe version of her, even in realities where Rick didn't abandon his daughter (like Simple Rick). "Rickmurai Jack" reveals that [[spoiler:the memory actually was real. Both Diane and Beth were killed by a bomb sent by another version of Rick, and in his grief, Rick went on a Quest of Vengeance looking for the man who killed them. As for the lack of alternative version of herself, because the multiverse is locked out behind the Central Finite Curve to prioritise dimensions where Rick is the smartest man in the universe, Diane can never be a part of the Sanchez family by the present day, because she's the biggest obstacle preventing Rick from fully embracing his Mad Science]].
* AwfulWeddedLife: Her marriage to Rick was rocky, with her angry at him for prioritizing his scientific experiments over his own family. Rick dismisses whatever love he initially felt for her was just a chemical reaction compelling him to breed, and he eventually abandoned her and their daughter for his own interests.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. It turned out that their marriage wasn't as horrible as it seemed. While alternate versions of Rick and Diane might not have had such good relationships, Series Rick and his Diane seemed to love one another. On the other hand, it is played straight with Rick Prime, who is revealed to be Series Morty's actual grandfather.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Invoked by Rick when he uses a fabricated memory of her and a child Beth's deaths which supposedly led to his current lifestyle. [[spoiler:Turned out it was true after all.]]
* TheGhost: She's never been seen in the flesh during the series and rarely mentioned.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has a head silver blonde hair and was Rick's innocent and loving wife that he still misses even years after her death.
* HappilyMarried: A big clue that the Diane Sanchez seen in Rick's flashback in "The Rickshank Redemption" is a fake is that she's seen being happy with Rick and supportive of his scientific pursuits, while the real Mrs. Sanchez has been established as disliking Rick putting his inventions before their family. [[spoiler:As it turns out the memory was mostly true, and the two of them appeared to have a healthy marriage.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: Rick fell into a deep depression after her death and even built a an A.I. with her voice to torture himself, [[BeneathTheMask he still hasn't let go of this]] but put's up a façade of having fallen out of love with her years ago.]]
* MissingMom: She's never shown up in the series so far with very little proof that she's alive or dead.
* MoralityChain: On a personal and meta-level. [[spoiler: Her death, alongside their daughter's, is what caused Rick to devolve into the apathetic drunken mess of a human being he was at the start of the series, capable of causing mass destruction either through willful neglect or sheer apathy. Before that point Rick was actually willing to give up his mad science and become a full-time family man for them. And because of the Central Finite Curve, every multiverse Rick visits is one where he's the smartest man in that dimension, which is only possible if he's separated from his wife. Accordingly, despite being able to hop into multiple dimensions, because the infinite possibilities are limited to prioritize Rick's intelligence, Diane or a version of her is never a part of the Sanchez family by the present day, so Rick can never reunite with a version of her like he can with Beth, contributing to her status as TheGhost throughout the seasons]].
* PosthumousCharacter: "Mort Dinner Rick Andre" finally confirms that she's dead - or at least, publicly believed to be dead.

[[folder:Joyce and Leonard Smith]]
!!Joyce and Leonard Smith
!!!Voiced by: Patricia Lentz (Joyce Smith), Creator/DanaCarvey (Leonard Smith)
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Jerry's mother and father.
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* CasualKink: Joyce likes to make out with Jacob while Leonard watches from a closet dressed as Superman. They're also close enough to Jacob that they bring him along to family gatherings. Only Jerry seems to think this is weird.
* GoodParents: They're both very loving and supportive of Jerry. Even Rick is nice to them, or at least nicer than he is to Jerry.
* HappilyMarried: 40 years and going on strong. Jacob was only brought in to experience something new before one of them passed away.
* UncertainDoom: Exactly what happened to them in the original universe after everyone in the world was Cronenberged is never stated (since they're also Morty's grandparents and like Rick are thus immune to the virus). Same for the second Universe as Mr. Frundles essentially became the planet in season 6.
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* SixthRanger: Space Beth basically becomes the sixth member of the family beginning with "Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri".

* 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. In "Promortyus" she casually mentions to Morty and Rick that she jerks off.

* DeliberateUnderPerformance: Summer says in "Lawnmower Dog" that she chooses to get C's in school out of the belief that smarter people are always meaner. In "Night Family," she finally manages to break out of this and makes Honor Roll with her excellent grades.

* DefrostingIceKing: Summer invokes a family example with her grandfather, Rick. Although Rick treats Summer in an abusive manner in earlier seasons, Summer's persistance leads to Rick relenting and allowing Summer to come with him and Morty on more of their adventures in season 3. This culminates with Rick's relationship with Summer going from occasional PetTheDog moments to genuine MoralityPet status from Season 4 onward.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Not as much as Morty and Jerry, but happens to get hurt sometimes, such as Beth accidentally hitting her with a wine bottle resulting in getting a black eye, strangled by various foes, having her body turned inside out and giant, attacked and held hostage by aliens, and so on.

** Summer has had the displeasure of walking in on Morty masturbating a number of times, and the siblings accidentally wind up (non-sexually) making an enormous sci-fi incest baby in "Rickdependence Spray" in the form of Naruto Smith.[[labelnote:*]]Specifically, Summer donates one of her eggs to try to stop the giant sperm monsters running rampant on the planet, only for everyone to discover that the sperm are Morty's, and they fail to prevent one of the sperm from fertilizing the egg.[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisParnell (Jerry), Creator/SarahChalke (Beth), Spencer Grammer (Summer)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JustinRoiland (Night Rick and Night Morty), Creator/ChrisParnell (Night Jerry), Creator/SarahChalke (Night Beth), Spencer Grammer (Night Summer)

* BrotherSisterIncest: He's technically Summer and Morty's son, though not through traditional means and more bizarre circumstances.
* InsistentTerminology: He's referred to as "The Giant Incest Baby" throughout "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" and only gets a name near the end of the episode.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Spencer Grammer

The Smith family from Morty's home dimension. Following the events of [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]] where Rick and Morty's actions cause the apocalypse, the pair move to a new dimension, abandoning Morty's original Jerry, Beth and Summer as the last human beings on an earth overrun with killer mutants.

* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Abandoned Jerry is much braver and more resourceful than his replacement.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Jerrys are typically weak-willed, cowardly and somewhat dim in contrast to Rick. This Jerry knowingly turned into the sort of man Rick expected him to be; cold, uncaring and crafty.

* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Beth and Summer died sometime before Season 6, leaving Jerry an empty shell by the time Morty reunites with him.]]

* HeelRealization: In “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” after spending the entire episode abusing her power as Rick's favorite grandchild, Summer is forced to admit that Morty was indeed correct about everything he'd been warning her about once Rick fires her: Rick’s obsession with the Gotron became too much for him, Summer became so addicted to making Rick happy that she ignored Morty’s warnings, and Summer’s efforts to bring the family together actually just drove everyone apart. Thankfully, Summer realizing this causes her to realize that Morty is also right about wanting to rescue Rick from the original Gotron pilots seeking to kill him, and she recruits her parents and Naruto Smith into helping the pair save Rick's life.

* GreenEyedEpiphany: In "Ricksy Business," after realizing that Morty genuinely enjoys going on adventures with Rick and will be devestated if he can no longer do so, Summer begins to realize that Morty needs Rick's attention more than she does. Learning from Birdperson that Rick is in great pain and would be in even more despair if his adventures with Morty were forbidden is what solidifies Summer's resolve to help the pair, even if it means she continues to be left on the sidelines, leading to Summer invoking an ActOfTrueLove to help her younger brother and grandfather escape punishment.

* MoralityPet: Although Rick had limited interactions with Summer in earlier seasons, most of the scenes involved Rick being a ''huge'' jerk to Summer. "Big Trouble In Little Sanchez" even has Tiny Rick admit that Rick is a "grumpy douche" to Summer in general. However, Rick would show that despite his JerkAss behavior towards her, he did care for his granddaughter with occasional PetTheDog moments. As Summer gained more of Rick's respect during their adventures together in Season 3, it’s Summer who was able to convince him to stay with the newly-reformed Smith family at the end of “The Rickchurian Mortydate,” in spite of his plans to abandon them and move to a new world. As of Season 4 onward, Rick's behavior towards Summer has become more natural and affectionate compared to earlier seasons.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Regardless of her feelings, once Summer realizes how important their adventuring is to Rick and Morty's lives, Summer decides to invoke this trope towards both of them in "Ricksy Business." When Morty is panicking and unable to find a device Rick needs, Summer chooses to step in, find it for him, and even gives it to Rick herself, ensuring her grandfather and younger brother can continue to go on adventures whenever they want, even if she's left out in the long run.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Summer is one of the more grounded members in the Smith family, with a strong sense of morality and the backbone to stand up for it. That said, if you somehow happen to find yourself on her enemy list, you’re pretty much a goner. Just ask Tammy Gutterman, the girl Summer believed was her friend and who betrayed in “The Wedding Squanchers.” In "Starmort: The Rickturn of the Jerri," Summer ruthlessly breaks her kneecap when Tammy tries to attack Rick, leaving her at Rick’s mercy.

* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Summer invokes a family example with her grandfather, Rick. Although Rick treats Summer in an abusive manner in earlier seasons, Summer's persistance leads to Rick relenting and allowing Summer to come with him and Morty on more of their adventures in season 3. This culminates with Rick's relationship with Summer going from occasional PetTheDog moments to genuine MoralityPet status from Season 4 onward.

* TheDreaded: She becomes this to the alien terrorists in “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” who eventually come to view her as “the ultimate McClane” and try to do everything in their power to kill her as a result.