History WMG / RickandMorty

Rick seemed aware that President Morty was up to no good. And he was already victim of the brainscan once. Foll me once, shame on you, fool me twice...

One proof of tampered/created memories seems to be visible when he encounter Beth: The house he crashed has already the crack in front of the garage from the interdimentionnal travel in season 1 finale, which cannot be possible. If this memory is not real, why the other should be?

** This world isn't real. While Beth and Jerry are happy together and Morty stands up to his grandfather for being an UngratefulBastard, they can all see the cracks in the facade. If it is his real family trapped with him, ''Jerry'' of all people goes SpottingTheThread by pointing out a fish-guy can't be Rick's worst enemy given he "fucked a planet". Morty himself tells off Rick for being an UngratefulBastard, pointing out he saved his grandfather's life. It will culminate in an arc similar to ''WandaVision'' where Rick has to accept that the status quo has changed, and leave this world. 

** During a panel with the Paley Center for Media in October 2020 for the show, Dan Harmon said that a "particularly emotional" Season 5 episode will involve Morty finding love with a girl that's not Jessica, and while he didn't say it would be Morty's Girlfriend from S4E08, she seems like a fairly likely option for a love interest for Morty that's not Jessica and wouldn't just be another girl Morty lusts after and completely blows winning over due to his perverted instincts, Rick's interference, or some combination thereof. It's likely that, if he fails to maintain his relationship with such a love interest, it will be genuinely PlayedForDrama and not just another moment where we're laughing at Morty's terrible luck and/or watching him get hit with karma for being a horny teenage boy.

[[WMG:Season 5 has Rick in another simulation]
...but this time he has no desire to escape. 
** Season 5 opens up with Rick and Morty going on more adventures with death crystal mining, with only Earth Beth and Jerry present while Summer has TookALevelInBadass. There's no explanation of how this ties up season 4 with his family leaving him. Rick introduces an archnemesis while we have never seen before, and acts NeverMyFault when Morty accidentally broke a treaty. 
** This world isn't real. While Beth and Jerry are happy together and Morty stands up to his grandfather for being an UngratefulBastard, they can all see the cracks in the facade. If it is his real family trapped with him, ''Jerry'' of all people goes SpottingTheThread by pointing out a fish-guy can't be Rick's worst enemy given he "fucked a planet". Morty himself tells off Rick for being an UngratefulBastard, pointing out he saved his grandfather's life. It will culminate in an arc similar to ''WandaVision'' where Rick has to accept that the status quo has changed, and leave this world. 

* Another possible alternate version of this- Rick goes to a dimension where what seems to be a fully-played-straight AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark variation of Rick and Morty takes place, doubling as a TakeThat to both what certain critics of the show see it as and what bigoted fans of Rick seem to wish the show was. Morty and Jerry are even more pathetic and spineless than any other incarnation of either of them that has ever appeared in the show up to this point, Beth is an even more explicitly abusive wife, and Summer is a StrawFeminist (or, perhaps, a Straw Straw Feminist that's a satirical take on how misogynistic fans of Rick seem to see feminist women). Rick enjoys living in a truly consequence-free version of his dimension that more easily rewards his nihilism for a little while, until he eventually becomes sick of it, wanting to go back to living with a Morty, Summer, Jerry, and Beth that actually have some depth to them and can successfully call him out when he needs it. At this point, he would end up in a deadly conflict with that dimension's Rick, who would have been away for a little while for some reason. This dimension's Rick would basically be the biggest HateSink of any version of Rick ever seen in the show and maybe even the comics, having all of Rick's worst qualities turned UpToEleven, none of the qualities that make C-137 Rick funny, entertaining, or sympathetic, and could only ever possibly be liked by the most toxic of Rick's fans, actively repulsing even C-137 Rick. Whereas C-137 Rick is usually an UnscrupulousHero or NominalHero, even in conflicts with other Ricks seemingly more evil than himself, this would be one of the rare moments where C-137 Rick is umambiguously the good guy, and this other Rick's death at C-137 Rick's hands would be one of C-137 Rick's most satisfying moments of all time. C-137 Rick's experiences in that dimension would likely motivate him to make a more sincere effort to be a better person going forward, although to what degree would largely depend on how close to the eventual series finale of Rick and Morty this kind of plot would take place.

* Things could go wrong for Rick in a more mundane way; by actually ending up in a universe with various differences from the one he's used to being in. Some will be minor divergences that Rick wouldn't care about; Jerry having a mustache as a reference to the MirrorUniverse [[Franchise/StarTrek Spock]], Jessica [[RaceLift being African-American]] (and Morty having a preference for black women as a result), Vance Maximus is alive and just the Smiths boring neighbor, and the garage being on the other side of the house. Others that Rick failed to account for will end up being more extreme; Beth [[CallBack is a deer surgeon instead of a horse surgeon and is cheating on Jerry with a co-worker]], Jerry is still employed at his original job and happy and stable there despite still being disrespected by the family, Summer is a super popular serial heartbreaker, and Morty is an adrenaline junkie who actually ''likes'' absurdly wild adventures and pushes Rick to goon on them even more. It'll turn out that Rick actually wanted the small challenge of changing this reality and his life in it to be more of a carbon copy of how things were at the start of the show, but when it ends up resulting in this new family despising him, Rick'll go running back to the "main" Smiths

[[WMG: The DNA cocktail that helped create the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 the Cronenberging]] included material from creatures living in [[Series/StrangerThings the Upside Down]]]]

Just like the mini-verse in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", except far more complex. That's why things like the central finite curve, Rick being the smartest being in whatever universe he comes from, ect are a thing-they're all part of a giant battery for higher beings. This is also why the AliensSpeakEnglish trope is a thing or how the laws of physics are never something that'd prevent Rick from visiting or using his portal gun. There are a finite number of universes within the battery and Rick might be able to leave its confines thanks to the portal gun(he was smart enough to make a mini-universe). Or there are an infinite, [[MoreThanInfinite but from the perspective]] of [[EldritchAbomination whatever's in charge]] they're like how a sphere can have an infinite amount of circle cross-sections. The power source that's being supplied is either nihilism or a desire for meaning, which is why the Rick and Morty multiverse is one with plenty of motivation to search for a meaning and/or [[CosmicHorrorStory devoid of such]]. Rick's existence may be part of how the battery works.