History YMMV / RickAndMorty

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: A lot of viewers think that both Morty and Rick are somewhere on the autism spectrum. The show has actually hinted this in-universe more than once, including one point where Rick calls Morty his "getaway driver with Asperger's", and another where Rick asks Morty if ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' was made for autistic people, [[BaitAndSwitch because he's starting to love it.]]

* CryForTheDevil: Tommy may have become [[spoiler:a CloudCuckoolander {{Caligula}} who rapes the Froopyland inhabitants and eats their children to stay alive, but it's clear that Beth betraying him and leaving him to die broke his mind. He spent decades in a false world that he was unable to leave, gave up hope of ever returning home, and had to do terrible things to survive. When he sees two more human beings, his first reaction is to explain who he is, and to put on a play about how he got trapped. Disturbing as the play is, and his demonstration of the rape and cannibalism, it's obvious that Tommy's mind has reached a breaking point. It says something that ''Rick'' is disturbed about what Beth did, and tells her that since she made this problem, she has to fix it on her own. Then at the end, Beth still refuses to take responsibility, while Tommy is cowering from her on learning who she is, and he sets his children on her when she won't apologize. Whether or not Beth killed Tommy, she did murder his children and cut off his finger, without suffering any consequences for her actions.]]

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* MisaimedFandom: Some fans consider Rick to be a hero despite his abusive nature, or at least an UnscrupulousHero if not an AntiHero. We ''are'' meant to see Rick as a compelling individual (i.e. an interesting character who [[JerkassHasAPoint has his points]], and is funny) but in no way are we meant to ignore the negative impact he has on his family and friends. He uses his intelligence, skill, and StrawNihilist tendencies to justify gaslighting Morty and Beth in order to assert his perceived superiority. Morty starts taking on some of Rick's negative traits, and is frequently horrified by how much he has been corrupted by his grandfather. Rick's refusal to emotionally open up to his loved ones damages Rick himself even more. The third season acknowledges this fact by deconstructing Rick's abusive influence on the family. Morty states in the season premiere that Rick shouldn't be seen as a hero and, by the time the third season ends, even Summer and Beth have grown tired of Rick's toxic behavior. In spite of all of the above, there are still some people who view Rick as someone to be admired for "telling it like it is" to people, in spite of all of the problems that his attitude causes everyone.

** "[[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]" is a charismatic, cunning and pragmatic version of [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] [[spoiler:from Dimension 79⊢⊇V]], who grew tired of his role as his grandfather's sidekick and planned to break free from Rick's control by escaping to the beyond of the Central Finite Curve, where Rick isn't the smartest man. [[spoiler:Enslaving his own Rick, after getting him blackout drunk]], Evil Morty proceeds to use him as a scapegoat to kill other Ricks for their knowlegde and kidnap their Morties for torture, so their screams would make him undetectable for the [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel the Citadel]]. He soon hacks into Rick C-137's portal gun to lure him out, but once Morty Prime rallies his selves into defeating Evil Rick, Evil Morty hides amongst the kidnapped Morties to go to the Citadel, where he wins the election for president with his sheer charisma, and then wasting no time in eliminating any opposion. After reconstructing the Citadel into a giant portal gun, Evil Morty invites Rick C-137 to complete his brain scan, before [[TheBadGuyWins successfully breaching the Curve]]. Once his retirement is interrupted by Rick and Morty's attempt to track down Rick Prime, Evil Morty is willing to work along with them, because Prime has technology that threatens his existence, being the crucial part in Rick finally getting revenge on Prime. Matching Rick's intellect and even outwitting him, Evil Morty manages to be one of few antagonists to win and recieve no punishment for his actions.

** "Rick Potion #9" was praised for being a deconstruction of the LovePotion trope, this has been long since back in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' and even can be traced back all the way to Season 1 of "The Twilight Zone" in 1960.

** Season 7 is considered the weakest season so far by both critics and audiences, earning it a 71% and 42% on Website/RottenTomatoes respectively, as it's seen as the first season where the show was left [[StatusQuoIsGod spinning its wheels]]. Common criticisms include too much time dedicated to mediocre {{Joke Character}}s from earlier seasons like Mr. Poopybutthole and [[Music/IceT Water-T]], and even its best episodes only exist to [[ArcFatigue reinforce the status quo]] (i.e [[spoiler:Rick Prime is killed at the halfway point]] and the season finale has no major plot developments), not helped by the fact that Creator/DanHarmon outright admitting he wants the show to go on as long as ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. The feeling is that while previous seasons at their worst were at least still interesting, season 7 was simply SoOkayItsAverage with little new to say.

** Given that he was set up to be Rick's archenemy and the catalyst for his StartOfDarkness, [[spoiler: Rick Prime]] turns out to be this, [[spoiler: being taken out halfway through season 7 in brutal but otherwise anti-climatic fashion.]]

** Currently, there's a very strong theory among the fandom, which may even be hinted at by some of the writers, that Evil Morty is actually the Morty from C-137 Rick's original dimension. Doesn't helps Rick has hinted he had Morties before the current one, and that Evil Morty seems to have a particularly strong grudge against this specific Rick. [[spoiler:This is eventually {{Jossed}}, though, in Season 5, where it's confirmed that, since Rick's original Beth was killed when she was just a child, his native dimension doesn't even ''have'' its own Morty (or Summer) at all. What's more, Evil Morty's backstory is never really elaborated on, and it's made clear that he's just a Morty who grew sick of the Ricks' tyranny and wanted to break free of it. It's quite possible that "Evil Rick" really was his native Rick all along, with Evil Morty just hijacking him for his own purposes.]]