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* TakeOurWordForIt: We never see the Atlantis adventure, but afterwards, Rick and Morty make a big point to talk about it being really wonderful.
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** In a meta sense, that fact that the episode ends without the audience seeing the Atlantis story is this.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: They wasted it on purpose, as a joke, but the 'Rick and Morty in Atlantis' plot is completely offscreen.
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* BoomerangBigot: Cop Morty loathes other Morties and calls them animals, or worse.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: In contrast to Cop Rick below, Cop Morty is plain scummy, because he doesn't respect the laws, threatens and needlessly kills people, takes bribes from a mob boss and finally betrays Cop Rick's trust. He's also a BoomerangBigot against Morties, something Cop Rick calls him out on.
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* ScrewYourself: The seedy nightclub "The Creepy Morty" seems to be dedicated to Mortys who are sexually attracted to themselves.
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* NamesTheSame: There's naturally some confusion when everyone is named Rick and Morty.
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* NamesTheSame: There's naturally some confusion when everyone is named Rick and Morty. It gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Wonka Rick when he faces Factory Rebel Rick, and also twice when Cop Rick and Cop Morty face mob boss Big Morty. Due to this trope, most Ricks and Morties have taken up some form of descriptor (or use a number) when refering to each other.
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* WhamShot: And for those who didn't also notice the MusicalSpoiler, the contents of classified documents that Campaign Manager Morty had are shown to the audience while they are drifting in space: pictures of the Candidate Morty [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E10CloseRickCountersOfTheRickKind with a familiar eyepatch and a robotic Rick...]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: Slick Morty kills himself at the wishing portal.
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* WhamLine: Actually a Wham ''Song'', for those who haven't already pieced together TheReveal: when Candidate Morty- now President Morty- gives his speech to the new council and looks out over all the Ricks and Mortys who were flushed out the airlock, ''Evil Morty''[='s=] theme from "Close Rickcounters of the Rick Kind" begins playing.
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** Dumb Rick first appeared in the comics, in which he killed his Morty, explaining how he ended up alone on the citadel.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The episode starts with Rick C-137 and his Morty going to Atlantis but focus quickly switches to the citadel.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Played with. The initial opening suggests that we'll be following C-137 Rick and Morty on their Atlantis adventure, but instead we follow the various Ricks and Mortys living at the Citadel of Ricks. However, the switch is pretty blatantly telegraphed.
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* CallBack: Evil Morty from "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" returns, and once again, his identity is TheReveal at the very end of the episode, complete with the same music playing as the episode ends and goes into the credits.
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** The entire episode deals with the fall-out of Rick C-137 killing the entire Council of Ricks and indirectly destroying the Citadel of Ricks in "The Rickshank Redemption", and it's outright discussed in the beginning.
** Evil Morty from "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" returns, and once again, his identity is TheReveal at the very end of the episode, complete with the same music playing as the episode ends and goes into the credits.
** The entire episode deals with the fall-out of Rick C-137 killing the entire Council of Ricks and indirectly destroying the Citadel of Ricks in "The Rickshank Redemption", and it's outright discussed in the beginning.
** Evil Morty from "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" returns, and once again, his identity is TheReveal at the very end of the episode, complete with the same music playing as the episode ends and goes into the credits.
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* CallBack: Evil Morty from "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" returns, and once again, his identity is TheReveal at the very end of the episode, complete with the same music playing as the episode ends and goes into the credits.
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* AbsenteeActor: Jerry yet again, and Summer as well. Beth briefly shows up in child-form in a memory/flashback, but her adult self does not appear, either.
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* CallBack: Evil Morty from "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" returns, and once again, his identity is TheReveal at the very end of the episode, complete with the same music playing as the episode ends and goes into the credits.
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* ActingForTwo: Taken UpToEleven. Justin Roiland is the only voice actor who appears in the entire episode.
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* HisNameIs: Campaign Manager Morty is spaced just before he can reveal Evil Morty's true nature to the Ricks.
* MermaidProblem: Mermaids evidently do have vaginas, since both C-137 Rick and Morty enjoyed some quality time with them while in Atlantis.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Cop Rick turns down a bribe from Big Morty and kills Cop Morty for breaking the rules, then turns himself in.
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* WretchedHive: Morty Town, a slum where Mortys with no Ricks or families are relocated. It's all crime and poverty with the Mortys trying to make a living however they can.
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* TheIlluminati: The Citadel had a secret conspiracy that actually was TheManBehindTheMan for the original Council of Ricks that C137 Rick destroyed. These guys then try and assert power over Candidate Morty, but he usurps them instead.
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* RousingSpeech: Candidate Morty gives a solid one to the crowd noting that the real divides are not between Ricks and Mortys but between Ricks and Mortys who want to keep the Citadel and have more equality while against those who want to maintain the status-quo.
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* TrenchcoatBrigade: Trenchcoat Rick gives Campaign Manager Morty the secret photos that made him try and assassinate Candidate Morty.
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* NoodleIncident: The actual Atlantis adventure of Prime!Rick and Prime!Morty turns out to have been one of their low-intensity happy adventures that involved a lot of sex with mermaids.
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* DirtyCop: Cop Morty is pure scum.
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** The factory rebel Rick and his fate as the next Simple Rick is one to ''Film/{{Brazil}}''.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Drama Morty sacrificed himself in the portal to wish for a change. At the end, his friends think that the wish came true. Of course given that it is Evil Morty in charge, BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor is in effect.
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* TemptingFate: TheStinger for the episode has Morty C-137 asking Rick C-137 if he's curious what happened on the Citadel. Rick dismisses it as something that could never have any bearing on their lives ever again.
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* MusicalSpoiler: Just in case the viewer hadn't guessed, Evil Morty's theme, ''For The Damaged Coda'', starts playing immediately before his identity is revealed.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Evil Morty takes over the Citadel of Ricks.
* BoardToDeath: When a member of the board of Ricks that secretly runs the Citadel boasts that Candidate Morty is just a figurehead, he asks who shares that opinion then has Ricks loyal to him murder those that raised their hands.
* BrickJoke: In TheStinger, C-137 Rick and Morty come back from their Atlantis adventure,
* TheBusCameBack: Evil Morty comes back to the scene and is most likely going to take action.
* BoardToDeath: When a member of the board of Ricks that secretly runs the Citadel boasts that Candidate Morty is just a figurehead, he asks who shares that opinion then has Ricks loyal to him murder those that raised their hands.
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* {{Homage}}: The side-plot with the four Mortys references ''Film/StandByMe''.
* DownerEnding: Evil Morty won the election and almost everyone who was follow throughout the episode is either dead, trapped in the new order that is the new Citadel, or in limbo (in the case of the Rick that killed his boss and co-workers).
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** Cop Morty and his new partner are one to ''Film/TrainingDay''.
* LotusEaterMachine: Simple Rick is a family man who chose his family over science. The Wonka Rick captured him and stuck him in a repeating loop of his happiest memory to harvest his endorphins and turn it into snack food flavoring. At the end, the Rick who rebels against the system is tricked into thinking he's escaped, then shot and stuck in the machine with that thought being run through his head to produce the flavoring.
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* StrippedToTheBone: The Loco Rick suffers this fate when his homemade portal fluid turns out to be brewed wrong.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Campaign Manager Morty is blown out an airlock, along with every Rick and Morty that died over the course of the episode.
* TeleporterAccident: The Loco Mortys have a Rick brewing homemade portal fluid. When he tries to use it to escape from Cop Morty, the portal collapses and skeletalizes him. Cop Morty then uses it to destroy their entire building rather than go through the trouble of booking them all.
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** A Loco Morty acts scared to Cop Rick to gain sympathy, then stabs him when Rick shows compassion.
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* DownerEnding: Evil!Morty Evil Morty won the election and almost everyone we who was follow throughout the episode is either dead, trapped in the shithole that's new order that is the new Citadel, or in limbo (in the case of the Rick that killed his boss and co-workers).co-workers).
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