History Recap / RickAndMortyS3E4Vindicators3TheReturnOfWorldEnder

* DeadlyGame: Rick set up a series of challenges for the Vindicators that are mostly meant to prove how pathetic they are, though by the third game he got lazy and simply has them play basketball.

* AssholeVictim: All of the Vindicators except Supernova are killed off, which they deserved seeing as they enacted a FinalSolution on a whole planet to kill one shapeshifting villain even though Rick could have easily tracked that one down without casualties. What's more, most of them start acting like assholes right before they die, such as one of them calling Morty a "semi-retarded disabled kid we only keep around for the press".

* AssholeVictim: All of the Vindicators except Supernova are killed off, which they deserved seeing as they enacted a FinalSolution on a whole planet to kill one shapeshifting villain even though Rick could have easily tracked that one down without casualties.

* TheLoad: Inverted. Rick is the one who put everyone in danger and does little to actually help them afterwards, and the Vindicators are at each other's throats too much to get out. As a result, Morty is the the only person who consistently helps the group escape, despite being written off as both the Vindicators ''and'' Rick as a useless promoted fanboy who's only around for the press.

* DecapitatedArmy: 1-Million Ants can survive anything as long as the queen ant in his body lives. Destroy that and his ants scatter, leaderless.

* KarmaHoudini: Supernova murders 1-Million Ants and was going to murder Rick and Morty and only stopped because of the party. She dances uncomfortably into the crowd and disappears. Also Rick is responsible for the entire mess and gets away scott free. As per usual.

* MundaneUtility: 1-Million Ants and Supernova use their powers to make three-point shots in baseketball.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Rick is proven right in that the Vindicators aren't everything Morty thought they were (though his point was that they were incompetent glory-hounds rather than outright bastards), but the Vindicators were also correct in that Rick is impossible to work with who can easily cause as many problems as he solves. Reluctantly deciding to team up with him leads to the team's death.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Rick is proven right in that the Vindicators aren't everything Morty thought they were (though his point was that they were incompetent glory-hounds rather than outright bastards), but it the Vindicators were also correct in that Rick is impossible to work with who can easily cause as many problems as he solves. Reluctantly deciding to team up with him leads to the team's death.

* KarmaHoudini: Supernova murders 1-Million Ants and was going to murder Rick and Morty and only stopped because of the party. She dances uncomfortably into the crowd and disappears.

* DecapitatedArmy: Million Ants can survive anything as long as the queen ant in his body lives. Destroy that and his ants scatter, leaderless.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Rick is sort of worried that he might regularly go on anti-Semitic rants while drunk, and is relieved when Morty states all he does is ramble about defense budgets.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rick's final challenge is for the Vindicators to place the one thing about their team that is worthwhile on a pad. Morty assumes it's a trick question, as Rick sees no value in them, while Rick guesses he might have meant Morty. Morty, however, wasn't part of the Vindicators when Rick made the recording. Noob-Noob is who he meant.

* KarmaHoudini: Supernova murders Million Ants and was going to murder Rick and Morty and only stopped because of the party. She dances uncomfortably into the crowd and disappears.

* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Rick's drunken antics cause the Vidicators to go crazy and start killing each other, eventually making Supernova a full-on villain.
* MundaneUtility: Million Ants and Supernova use their powers to make three-point shots in baseketball.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rick is sleeping naked on a table after blacking out and killing World Ender, and making Saw-inspired death traps for the Vindicators.

** Rick and Morty have gone on an adventure with the Vindicators before.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rick's tests for the Vindicators is supposed to be one long point about this, with the solution to each puzzle being to admit terrible things about themselves, such as their lack of originality or pathetic-ness. Except Rick's so drunk that after the first test, the others rapidly devolve into nonsense.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Over the course of one night, Rick slaughtered his way through World Ender's lair, set up an elaborate game, and organized a party.

* TheLoad: Inverted. Rick is the one who put everyone in danger and does little to actually help them afterwards, and the Vindicators are at each other's throats too much to get out. As a result Morty is the the only person who consistently helps the group escape, despite being written off as both the Vindicators ''and'' Rick as a useless promoted fanboy who's only around for the press.

** Rick's gotten this drunk before, as Summer knows right off the bat he organized the party while shitfaced.

* CallBack: Morty gets to choose the adventure for every other ten adventures he goes on.
** Also, the Neutrino bomb Morty has to disarmed while Rick was blackout drunk.

* NoodleIncident: Morty apparently disarmed too many neutrino bombs in the past.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Morty is thought to be what Rick holds dear. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Noob-Noob.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: This is the idea everyone had when World Ender is defeated. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Rick.]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rick is sleeping naked on a table after blacking out, [[spoiler:killing World Ender, and making Saw-inspired death traps for the Vindicators]].

* ShoutOut: ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' is referenced by name.

* BaitAndSwitch: Morty is thought to be what Rick holds dear, [[spoiler:turns out to be Noob-Noob]]
* CallBack: Morty gets to choose the adventure for every other ten adventure he goes
* GreaterScopeVillain: This is the idea everyone had when World Ender is defeated, [[spoiler: turns out to be rick]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rick is sleeping naked on a table
* NoodleIncident: Morty apparently disarmed too many neutrino bombs
* ShoutOut: Saw is referenced

* GreaterScopeVillain: This is the idea everyone had when World Ender is defeated, [[spoilers: turns out to be rick]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Morty is thought to be what Rick holds dear, [[Spoiler:turns out to be Noob-Noob]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Morty is thought to be what Rick holds dear, turns out to be Noob-Noob

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