History RickAndMorty / TropesEToL

** In the second season opener, "A Rickle in Time", the time-screw from the end of the first season causes deviant timelines that involve thecharacters acting in character, but slightly out of sync; sometimes in times, sometimes in space, sometimes both.

** In "Pickle Rick", Dr. Wong delivers it: attending therapy and getting help is a choice, despite it being a potential help if your relationship with your loved ones is downright toxic and hateful. She can only offer advice, but can't make him or Beth take it. As she puts it, Rick's choices constantly prefer to go for death-defying adrenaline adventures, rather than BoringButPractical maintenance.[[spoiler:He turned himself into a pickle to get out of therapy, which led to him being covered in rat blood and cockroach limbs and human feces, as well as nearly vegetating.]] He may prefer to court death over repairing his family, and ultimately the choice is up to the individual.

* HarmlessFreezing: As fitting for a sci-fi show, it's {{Averted|Trope}} overall. While it's shown that the target will be fine if they're unfrozen quickly, such as in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" when one of the Ricks freezes Jerry and unfreezes him a moment later, if it lasts for two long or the frozen person is damaged while in that state, they won't fare so well. Examples include:

* LastMomentTogether: Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat. In the episode, Morty would hold upon a crystal that will vision his fate in the future, and one of his fates involves dying an old life, with his school crush, Jessica caressing his hand. [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Morty would continuously try to change the future so that he and Jessica end up together]] well until his last days when she tells him that she loves him, though he is eventually stopped by Rick from going AKIRA. However, [[FridgeLogic he later overhears Jessica talking about how, after she gets out of school, she wishes to cheer up dying strangers and repeat their names on their tags over and over to console them. ]] [[AllForNothing This means he wasn't going to die with Jessica as his wife as he likely thought, but simply being consoled while dying alone and miserable.]] Morty was pretty pissed about this.

* GassyGastronomy: Rick [[VerbalTic often belches in between his sentences]] since he's TheAlcoholic.

* GodwinsLawOfFacialHair: Abrodolph Lincoler is a fusion of Adolf Hitler and Abraham Lincoln Rick made in an attempt to make a morally neutral superleader. However, the experiment fails and Abrodolph gets into a fight at a party after referring to a black partygoer as "boy".

** Jessica's boyfriend invokes it on Abradolf Lincler. He probably gets this a lot. Though, to be fair, Lincler played the Lincoln card first. He was asking for the rebuttal.

* FearInducedIdiocy: Vance Maximus, Renegade Starsoldier was a member of ''[[WesternAnimation/Vindicators2 The Vindicators]]'' and presented himself as the suave and calm leader of the group in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E4Vindicators3TheReturnOfWorldEnder Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender]]". [[spoiler: When he goes to fight Worldender with his team, he finds out a drunk Rick already killed him and set up death traps in order to make Morty lose faith in them. Maximus was the first to die as he [[DirtyCoward immediately cracked]] from pressure and revealed himself as an [[BitchInSheepsClothing anxious]], [[GloryHound image-conscious phony]] who saw Morty as a means of publicity. He dies frantically trying to escape through a vent, where he succumbs to a booby-trap that gruesomely bisects him off-screen. [[AssholeVictim But let's face it, he and his team are even worse than Rick.]]]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Lampshaded and averted in "Anatomy Park".
--->'''Morty:''' Spleen Mountain? Bladder Falls? Pirates of the Pancreas?\\
'''Rick:''' You got a problem with that last one, Morty?\\
'''Morty:''' No, I'm just saying them in the order that I see them.
** In "Rixty Minutes", an alternate reality ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has a bizarre lineup of a piece of toast, two guys with handlebar mustaches, a guy painted silver who makes robot noises, [[InsectoidAliens Garmanarnar]], three creatures even the narrator is stumped by, a peephole, and Bobby Moynihan.