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One-off characters (in order of appearance)

Season One

Snuffles/Snowball

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Voiced by: Rob Paulsen

Appears in: "Lawnmower Dog"

Morty's pet dog, whose intelligence Rick enhanced with a special helmet... and who then turned said helmet into a mechanical arm and translator by himself, then made that into a bipedal mech suit and mass-produced the devices in order to uplift all other dogs on the planet and enslave humanity.

Animals Fear Neutering: One of his main beefs with humanity comes from the fact that the Smiths neutered him, angrily demanding to Summer to reveal what they did with his testicles.
Badass Adorable: A vengeful aspiring world conqueror equipped with a mech-suit and Super-Intelligence... who's still a cute and fluffy dog.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Since Morty was the only human who treated him well, Snowball made him his pet human and let him live a pampered life.
Didn't Think This Through: Rick's uplifting helmet is designed to carry more batteries than he intended, allowing Snuffles to supply more power to it to make him even smarter.
Fluffy the Terrible: After rising up against the Smiths, Snuffles refuses to use his "slave name" and instead takes the name of Snowball, "because [his] fur is pretty and white."
Freudian Excuse: Literally. "Where are my testicles, Summer?"
Gone Horribly Right: Jerry just wanted the dog to be smart enough so that it wouldn't piss on the rug. Rick made him smarter, alright.
Heel Realization: When Rick incepts a dream in Snowball where Morty is dying, Snowball's right-hand dog tells him to let Morty die because that's what humans would have done to a dog in the same situation. Snowball rebukes this idea — and when he wakes up, he realizes that subjugating humanity is just going to make him no different from them. He instead takes his uplifted dogs to live on an uninhabited planet, where he hopes their budding civilization can learn from and not make the mistakes of other sapients.
"We are not them!... We are not them."
Light Is Not Good: Snowball has white fur, looks like an adorable dog, and later gets silver armor, but he quickly becomes a tyrant after becoming intelligent.
Meaningful Rename: After becoming intelligent, he renames himself Snowball and declares that Snuffles was his "slave name".
Shout-Out Theme Naming: Snowball is the name of a major character in Animal Farm.
Undying Loyalty: To Morty. When he believed Morty was dying, he states that he would gladly give up his empire to save him.
Uplifted Animal: A dog given human-level intelligence by Rick though a special helmet.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He firmly believed his actions were for the good of all dogs, even if it was at the expense of humanity.
White Hair, Black Heart: He has white fur, but his actions while sentient, such as castrating and enslaving humans, were still appalling.
You Will Be Spared: Because Morty treated him well, Snowball declares that he will be allowed to keep his testicles.

Scary Terry

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Voiced by: Jess Harnell

Appears in: "Lawnmower Dog"

A monster found in the dreams of Morty's math teacher. To be specific, he was found in the dream of a centaur, who was in the dream of a T.V. character that Morty's math teacher was dreaming about.

All-Ghouls School: He apparently went to school full of similarly scary students.
Anti-Villain: He's only villainous because his race of people is expected to be, and at worst he's a Punch-Clock Villain. If he didn't have to scare people to survive as part of his Dream Walker race, he wouldn't have to be villainous.
Captain Ersatz: He's an obvious Freddy Krueger parody. Rick even calls him a "legally safe knock-off of an 80's horror villain."
Dark Is Not Evil: He becomes this after Rick and Morty help him with his nightmares and is revealed to be an all around Nice Guy, if not a little mean. The same can also be said about the Dream Walker race that Scary Terry is a part of. Despite having knives for hands and full on Facial Horror, most of them are just ordinary people, but some can still be jerks or even friendly.
Dream Walker: Rick notices that he is able to freely travel between the different dream levels.
Family-Values Villain: Scary Terry is happily married to a loving wife and has a young child at home. He also shouts "Sex is sacred, bitch!" while cutting Mrs. Pancakes into five pieces. Downplayed in that he is — at worst — a Punch-Clock Villain.
Heel–Face Turn: After Rick and Morty go into his dreams and stick up for him against his mean professor, he quickly befriends them and helps them escape the dream world.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Scary Terry is prone to outbursts and is a demonic Dream Walker, but he is actually friendly once people get to know him.
Punch-Clock Villain: He's a devoted father and husband with the frustrating job of entering people's dreams and scaring them out of their wits. It's not even totally clear if he kills his victims.
Pungeon Master: Subverted; unlike everyone else in his class, he's shown to be pretty bad at it, and just tends to yell, "You Can Run, but You Can't Hide, bitch!"
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: He usually ends sentences with the word "bitch". In his case, it's an uncontrollable Verbal Tic that caused him a bit of grief in school. He even says it when being genuinely friendly.
Scary Terry: Awww, bitch!
- That said, his wife doesn't allow this trope in their house because of their child.
  Terry's Wife: Out there. Not in here.

Dr. Xenon Bloom

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Voiced by: John Oliver

Appears in: "Anatomy Park"

An amoeba-like creature who co-founded Anatomy Park. He ends up getting killed by a swarm of E. coli while operating a train to save Morty and Annie.

Bad Boss: Apart from holding an amusement park with potentially life-threatening risks, but according to Poncho, Bloom gives out iTunes gift cards as a Holiday bonus.
Expy: Of John Hammond. He even has a near-identical walking stick.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He comes off as an unsettling fellow, especially given his surroundings and expertise, but still at least tries to be friendly and cheerful.
Punny Name: His name is one on Jeff Goldblum, since xenon and gold are both chemical elements.

Zigerion Scammers

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Voiced by: David Cross

Appears in: "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!"

Four-armed aliens who, as the name indicates, love to try scamming people.

Advance Fee Fraud: They collectively parody this as a species.
Never My Fault: The various departments of their organization talk themselves in circles blaming each other for Jerry's erroneous abduction.
Small Name, Big Ego: Their leader really likes to rub it in how they're all smart enough to outsmart Rick with multiple simulations they use to trap him and get him to reveal the steps to create concentrated dark matter.
Stupid Crooks: As Rick states, they're "The galaxies most ambitious, least successful con-artists".
Too Dumb to Live: Rick tricks them all into creating a massive explosion out of the false ingredients to create concentrated dark matter to kill them all. This comes after they all laughed at him for being apparently dumber than them.
Weaksauce Weakness: They are extremely squeamish about nudity, to the point that they won't surveil Rick while he's in the shower even for the sake of their plan.

King Jellybean

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Voiced by: Tom Kenny

Appears in: "Meeseeks and Destroy"

A giant, sentient jellybean that Morty has an unfortunate encounter with. He was the king of a magical land who used his powers of being king to sexually assault those below him, particularly children.

Alien Blood: His blood appears to be turquoise, as shown when Morty smashes his face repeatedly into a toilet seat, and when Rick zaps him which makes him explode.
Asshole Victim: He rapes children. A quick death was too good for him.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Plays himself as an empathetic ear to strangers and a child loving monarch to his people, when in reality he is a violent sexual predator.
Cerebus Syndrome: In "Unbelievable Tales", despite his actions being several times as dark and depraved, his characterization is much more over the top and surreal. In his "Rick and Morty" appearance his portrayal of a child molester is unsettlingly realistic and Played for Drama.
Depraved Kids' Show Host: A big time case in his "Unbelievable Tales" appearance.
Dull Surprise: He's so beaten down and disheveled after his encounter with Morty, he can barely manage a deadpan grunt as Rick disintegrates him.
Early-Bird Cameo: Originally appeared in one of Roiland's Unbelievable Tales shorts under the alias of "Crumply Crumplestein".
Glass Cannon: Manhandles and sexually assaults Morty as he tries to escape. When the latter finally fights back, however, the kid beats him to a pulp.
Hate Sink: King Jellybean was shown right from the start to be a loathsome and creepy rapist who enjoys molesting children. Nothing remotely funny is found in this guy aside from the ridiculous fact that he was an anthropomorphic jellybean. His beating from Morty combined with his death at Rick’s hands are both seen as well deserved.
Humiliation Conga: Brutally beaten with a toilet seat by a child he tried to rape, then later blown up unceremoniously by Rick while he is paraded by his worshippers still battered and disheveled.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Near the end of the episode, he's been severely beaten by Morty, but apparently will still remain King despite his heinous crimes. A second after they depart and the portal closes, it reopens and Rick (who realizes what happened) blows him to shreds with a ray gun. Under the implication of The Stinger, he's been doing this for a long while until the two handed him his comeuppance.
King Incognito: Darker example. Morty meets him at a bar, where he is seemingly Slumming It to molest children unrecognized.
Knight of Cerebus: His attempt to rape Morty is played entirely straight, and it's extremely unpleasant to watch. His comeuppance reverts to the show's standard Black Comedy however.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Despite being Not Good with Rejection, when Morty retaliates and beats him to a pulp, he decides to cut his losses and tries to slink out of the bar. This doesn't stop Rick catching onto what's happened though...
Laser-Guided Karma: Literally, laser-guided. He really shouldn't have messed with Rick's grandson.
Most Definitely Not a Villain: In The Stinger, it's revealed the good and kindly king had a statue of himself made in the town square with him licking an underage boy in his underwear.
Nightmare Face: Compared to that docile grin shown above, he truly has a "rape face" when he doesn't get what he wants.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: One of the first to fall victim to Morty's hidden formidable side, getting beaten to a pulp with a toilet seat after he tries to rape him.
Not Good with Rejection: Turns VERY nasty when Morty "teases" him and doesn't play along.
One-Hit Kill: Rick blows him to gooey smithereens with a single shot.
The Power of Legacy: Despite the post-mortem discovery of King Jellybean's Porn Stash — a box of Polaroids implied to be of underage kids — the mayor of the village orders the evidence burnt, for fear that the legacy which inspired the kingdom would be tarnished.
Rape and Revenge: Attempted to rape Morty in a restroom, but gets beaten up in retaliation, and afterwards was shot dead by Morty's grandfather.
Sanity Slippage: Back when he was "Crumply Crumplestein", he implies he wasn't always the depraved child molester.
Thin-Skinned Bully: When Morty, a scrawny, wimpy teenager, finally decides to fight back, he pulverizes him with little effort. When he is seen a couple of scenes later, he still looks sore.

Morty Jr.

Voiced by: Finnegan Perry (Baby), Will Jennings (Child), Richard Christy (Teenager), Maurice LaMarche (Middle-Aged)

Appears in: "Raising Gazorpazorp"

The result of Morty spending a lot of time with a Gazorpazorpian breeding chamber, which is more of a Fembot, Morty Jr. is a half-human, half-Gazorpazorpian creature that Morty takes the responsibility of raising.

Always Chaotic Evil: Parodied. As a Gazorpazorpian, all Morty Jr wants to do is destroy and dominate. The biggest joke in the episode is that despite Morty's best efforts (which aren't very good) he can't override that base programming.
Baby's First Words: The first sign of his Gazorpazorpian instincts.
Morty Jr.: Da!
Morty: Oh, what was that Morty Jr.?! We-were you gonna say 'da-da'? Say da-da!
Morty Jr.: DEATH!
Morty: (concerned) ...Da-da.
Morty Jr.: DOMINATION!
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Basically what his morality consists of, at least growing up. He doesn’t care about love like Morty tries to teach him, but instead thinks death, destruction and domination of the enemy is more important. He does genuinely care about Morty and decides to channel his inherent bloodthirst into writing instead.
Bastard Bastard: Subverted. He was born out of a one-night stand between Morty and a breeding chamber, and by the time he becomes a teenager, his issues with Morty's treatment of him cause him to be a jerk to his father, and he goes on a violent rampage attacking innocent people. The subversion is in the fact it's hard to fault him for how he responds to Morty's parenting and his violent urges are more of a species instinct that he lacks control of, until he's taught how to curb it.
Big Ol' Unibrow: Interestingly, Morty Jr. has one just like his great grandpa.
Blood Knight: All males of his species are totally driven by their destructive impulses. There's even a scene where he has a shouting match with his father, because Morty cares about love and kindness, as opposed to weapons and dominating the enemy.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: As a teenager, he thinks that death and destruction is more important than love due to his Gazorpazorpian instinct.
Calling the Old Man Out: He writes a book about how awful a father Morty was.
Creepy Child: As a child, he quickly develops the male Gazorpazorpian urge to kill and destroy. His first word was "death"!
Cultured Badass: While growing up, he spent his time watching the History Channel and developing knowledge of military history, to Morty's frustration.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: While it's Morty hitting him that causes him to finally leave the house as a teenager and finally act on his bloodlust by rampaging, he still can't bring himself to kill Morty when he confronts him, and stops the destruction when he defends him against Rick.
Driven to Suicide: After getting into an argument with Morty that ends with the latter hitting him, Morty Jr. walks outside the house to breathe in the oxygen that his father told him was toxic... then he finds out the truth.
Former Teen Rebel: By the end of the episode, Morty Jr. has channeled his rage and aggression into becoming an author and has written a book titled "My Horrible Father" about Morty and his childhood with him.
Half-Human Hybrid: His father is a human while his "mother" was a Gazorpazorpian breeding chamber.
Hereditary Hairstyle: The one feature he inherits from Morty, besides a more human-like face, is his hair.
Jerkass Has a Point: A very downplayed example if even that - He spent his childhood locked in a house believing the outside world is poison, and Morty's desperate and incompetent attempts at keeping him in line involved shouting at, and eventually shoving him. Whether or not Morty apologized and they seemed to reconcile and regardless of Morty himself being a child, he did still do a pretty awful job raising him.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: A severely downplayed example - as an angsty teen, he comes to appreciate Morty after they have a heartfelt talk and they make up, but he then uses his father's advice to write a book bashing his father's parenting skills. He has every right to have done so, but it still comes as a twist that hurts Morty.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Gazorpazorpians normally have three pairs of arms, two on their torsos and one on their heads. Morty Jr. only has two pairs, a pair on his torso and the pair on his head.
Tame His Anger: What Morty tries to do, albeit mostly ineffectively. It does work in the end when he suggests that there's jobs out there for people with a thirst for destruction like him, and then creator of Marmaduke, Brad Anderson's suggestion helps Morty Jr. finds a creative outlet for his anger in becoming a best-selling author.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He has the urge to kill and dominate ever since he was a child, as is the case with males of his species.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Played with. Even as a child, he still had the Gazorpazorpian urge to kill and destroy, but was also more friendly, innocent, and was still very sweet to Morty in his own way.
We Are as Mayflies: Inverted. Gazorpazorpians mature into adulthood within a day. If anything, Morty's human genes seems to slow the process down a bit as Morty Jr. only grows in his teenage years within a day. When he is later seen in The Stinger of his episode (implied to be some weeks later) he appears middle aged and has gray hair.
Younger Than He Looks: While he may be an old man now, he's still less than a year old.

Tophat Jones

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Appears in: "Rixty Minutes"

The mascot for Strawberry Smiggles breakfast cereal, Tophat Jones is a leprechaun-like being who hoards all the Strawberry Smiggles for himself, only to meet a gruesome demise at the hands of the children his cereal is intended for.

Disproportionate Retribution: Tries to keep all the cereal to himself like the Real Life mascots he parodies, but instead of just losing the cereal, he's brutally murdered for it.
Dragged Off to Hell: Implied at the end where he begs Jesus to take him away in the moments of his death, only to claim that he's seeing demons approaching.
Expy: Of Lucky Charms mascot Lucky the Leprechaun. His rabbit ears also call to mind the Trix Rabbit.
Family-Unfriendly Death: Has his stomach carved open by the children and its contents devoured.
Mix-and-Match Critter: Looks like a combination of Lucky the Leprechaun and the Trix Rabbit.

Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson

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Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Appears in: "Rixty Minutes"

The owner of "Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson's Electronics", an outlet store for home appliances on an alternate Earth. Like his name indicates, Johnson has hundreds of ants crawling around on his eyeballs, keeping him from seeing anything, but it doesn't seem to bother him too much, possibly because of a second ailment — a malfunctioning nervous system that keeps him from feeling anything on his body.

Eye Scream: Oh god yes, the ants don't seem to do any actual damage, but the very idea of having insects crawling on your eyeballs is bad enough.
Honest John's Dealership: Averted, his shop seems to be reasonably normal, not counting the bizarre nature of its owner.
Major Injury Underreaction: You'd think being mostly blind and unable to feel anything would be an And I Must Scream scenario, but Johnson doesn't seem to mind his living situation too much.
Man on Fire: He sets himself on fire with a gas stove and doesn't notice due to his lack of sensation.

Lucius Needful

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Voiced by: Alfred Molina

Appears in: "Something Ricked This Way Comes"

Summer's boss who also happens to be the Devil himself, operating a store where he gives people magical items at no cost. Predictably enough, the price is that said items usually screw over their new owners in ironic ways.

The Devil Is a Loser: Rick continually makes a fool of him and even drives him to try and hang himself. When Summer saves him, he admits that he just wants to go back to hell where people actually think his antics are cool and funny, unlike his experience on Earth. At the end of the episode, Needful gets beat up by a roided-out Rick and Summer.
Expy:
- Of Leland Gaunt from Needful Things, specifically the movie version, where Gaunt was the Devil in disguise.
- His design, however, is more based on Mr. Dark from the Disney adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Eviler than Thou: Inverted. The Devil, who nearly committed suicide due to Rick's atrocities, openly admits to Summer that Rick is much darker than he is.
Jackass Genie: He always has an item that seems to solve any problem but always comes with an ironic twist for the user. Unfortunately for him, Rick is able to uncurse said items with his inventions (or at least remove the negative side-effects) and even starts a neighboring store doing just that solely to spite him.
The Farmer and the Viper: That's what you get when you help out the Devil. In his own words:
"I've been Zuckerberging people even before Zuckerberg's balls dropped!"
The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The store that he owns, which Rick lampshades as one of the things that makes him Obviously Evil.
Louis Cypher: Rick immediately sees through his bullshit and outright asks him if he's the devil. Afterwards, he doesn't even bother hiding it.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: How do you take revenge against someone that outsmarts you and betrays you? You bulk up, track him down and beat the shit out of him; then Summer and Rick begin tracking bullies and beating the shit out of them too. Textbook grandfather-granddaughter bonding.
Satan: He explicitly states that he is the Devil himself and talks about how he'd rather go back to hell than deal with Rick.
Sophisticated as Hell: "I'm the Devil, bee-otch! What, whaaat!" Followed by a fiddle solo.

Abradolf Lincler

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Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche

Appears in: "Ricksy Business"

An experiment created when Rick combined the DNA of Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler, in an attempt to create a morally neutral super leader... what resulted was an awkward being of ambiguous moral standings.

Adolf Hitlarious: He's a partial clone of Adolf Hitler who is completely ineffectual and played for humor.
Badass Boast: "Prepare to be emancipated from your own inferior genes!"
Godwin's Law of Facial Hair: He 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".
Heroic Sacrifice: To protect Morty and Summer's friend from a two-headed monster while they gathered crystals. He got better, although he suffers A Fate Worse Than Death.
Jerkass: Being the amalgamation of two different leaders has lead him to be an emotionally stunted jerk.
Lamarck Was Right: In real life, one's genes of course have no actual influence on your political or sociological beliefs at all, which are determined 100% by the environment you grow up in.
Mistaken for Racist: By Brad when he addresses him as "boy." Pointing out he's half-Abraham Lincoln just made things worse.
Mix-and-Match Man: A hybrid of Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler. The fact that he's living with completely conflicting ideals has left him deeply confused.
Not Quite Dead: The Stinger of the season one finale shows him awakening while chanting "Revenge", only to be used in what can be considered an alien circle-jerk.
Tragic Monster: As he says, he's an abomination tortured by the duality of his own being.
True Neutral: invoked He was Rick's attempt at creating a morally neutral super leader. It didn't go quite as planned and just made him a jerk with conflicting emotions.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: He admits to Morty that all he wanted to do was to have Rick acknowledge him.

Season Two

Krombopulos Michael

Voiced by: Andy Daly

Appears in: "Mortynight Run"

A trigger-happy yet extremely personable assassin that Rick sells guns to.

Aerith and Bob: A rare example of this trope applying to one character. "Michael" is a decidedly normal last name for an alien named Krombopulos. This seems to apply to their entire species, given in the next season we have Cornvelious Daniel.
Affably Evil: It is really hard to hate an assassin who absolutely loves his job, is the friendliest guy you'll ever meet when he's off the clock, and hands out his business card while wishing you a good day.
Krombopulos: Oh boy, here I go killing again!
An Alien Named "Bob": Played with. His first name is Krombopulos, but his last name is the mundane human first name "Michael".
Ax-Crazy: The Vindicators comic series shows that not only does he openly murder practically everyone he meets, not killing for extended amounts of time will throw him into severe fits of depression.
Bad People Abuse Animals: He admits that he has no issues with killing animals.
Blood Knight: "I just love killing!"
Card-Carrying Villain: He boasts, extremely politely, that he has no ethics and will kill anyone or anything, then hands Morty a literal business card.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In the comic of issue #34, he manages to kill a Cromulon while he's on a planet. Just when nukes didn't work in "Get Schwifty", Krombopulos just did it in one page of the comic.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: If the picture in his locket is anything to go on.
Even Evil Has Standards: Averted when it comes to assassination when he happily tells Morty he has none. However, he's also a Punch-Clock Villain and while he enjoys killing people on the job he seems to be a decent guy off the clock.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The business card he gives Morty ends up allowing Morty to locate him and run him over (though Krombopulos was completely oblivious to Morty being against him, to begin with, and Morty didn't mean to run him over anyway).
Laughably Evil: "Oh boy, here I go killing again!"
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: He's the only Gromflomite shown not to work for the Galactic Federation; Indeed, as an assassin, he actively defies its laws.
Neck Snap: Seems to have a fondness for it; he snaps five necks on his way to his target without missing a beat.
Professional Killer: He's an assassin for hire who happens to be incredibly open and cheerful about what he does, but Rick makes it clear that he can and will kill anyone he gets hired to.
Psycho for Hire: As noted, he has absolutely no personal ethics and will gladly kill anyone he gets hired to.
Punch-Clock Villain: A rare version that's also a a Psycho for Hire. Krombopulos Michael has no standards and loves to kill people on the job but off the job he seems to be just a regular friendly guy though you probably don't want to give him a reason to be the guy he usually is when he's working.
Religious Bruiser: He appears to pray before doing a hit.
Tracking Device: His business cards have tracking technology to lead whoever has them to his location. An odd thing for an assassin to casually pass out. According to the Vindicators comic series, this is so that both potential clients and victims will find him.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Only gets two scenes before he gets unceremoniously run down by Morty. Then again, since it took place in an alternate reality (which you can tell thanks to a Freeze-Frame Bonus earlier in the episode), he's likely still alive in the main continuity.
Would Harm a Senior: He admits that he's willing to kill old people.
Would Hurt a Child: He explicitly points out that he has no qualms about killing children if someone was to hire him for such a job.

Fart

Voiced by: Jemaine Clement

Appears in: "Mortynight Run"

A telepathic, gaseous life form who was the target of Krombopulos Michael before Morty saves him.

Affably Evil: Fart remains polite and thankful towards Morty for saving his life, despite his plans on killing him and his home planet. The only time he drops it was when he was revealing his plan to Morty, but picks it back up when Morty asks him to sing for him. Justified in that Fart genuinely believes that Morty understands and agrees with him.
Anti-Villain: Of the more Obliviously Evil kind. He genuinely believes in his cause and harbors no grudge towards his rescuers other than that they are carbon-based. Right up to the reveal, he helps Rick and Morty and remains cooperative. And when The Reveal hits, he believes that there is nothing wrong with his intentions, and believes that Morty agrees. He reacts with shock and horror as Morty kills him, not understanding why.
Appropriated Appellation: Rick mocks him as a "mind-reading fart". Despite Morty's protests, the cloud decides that he likes being called Fart and decides that it's his new name.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: His gaseous form means he can't survive going through one of Rick's portal, so Rick and Morty have to transport him to the wormhole the long way, resulting in Fart slowly revealing to Morty his true nature.
Et Tu, Brute?: He's devastated when Morty responds to his confessions of planning genocide of carbon-based lifeforms by killing him.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: More like "Alien can't comprehend Organic Life", but still. Although Fart can read Morty's thoughts and can see that he wholeheartedly believes "Life must be protected even through sacrifice", he fails to understand that, from Morty's perspective, the "sacrifice" in this case must be Fart himself so it doesn't bring forth the destruction of all life as Morty knows it.
Exact Words: During their final conversation, when Morty is horrified at the revelation of Fart's intentions, Fart brings Morty's words back to him by saying that "life must be protected even through sacrifice. You haven't changed your mind about that, I can sense your thoughts". It turns out that Morty had not, and was planning on killing Fart before he can destroy all carbon-based lives.
Fantastic Racism: Flings the word "carbon-based lifeform" at least once with a hint of contempt, then it's revealed that he wishes to purge them.
Final Solution: His species sees carbon-based life as a threat to higher lifeforms like himself, and will purge carbon-based life from the galaxy whenever they find it.
Hypocrite: "Goodbye, Moonmen", the song he sings while mentally connecting with others, contains the lyrics "The world can be one together, cosmos without hatred". Yet he clearly despises carbon-based life, believing it to be a disease that needs to be wiped out.
Mellow Fellow: Speaks in a constant calm monotone, until Morty disintegrates him at least.
Obliviously Evil: He genuinely sees no wrong in his Final Solution plan, even stating it openly to Morty under the belief he would see its logic.
Psychic-Assisted Suicide: One of his powers. He drives a police officer into suicidal despair by showing him images of his best friend having sex with his wife.
Reality Warper: One of his abilities, he can manipulate matter turning it from one material in to another. He demonstrates this ability to Rick and Morty by turning oxygen in the air into gold.
Sarcasm-Blind: Aside from not realizing that being called a fart was an insult, when reading the minds of others, he doesn't take sarcasm into account and has a habit of reading thoughts out loud before quickly correcting himself.
Fart: (reading Rick's mind) I came here accidentally through a wormhole created by what you call "get out of my head Fart I know you're in here la-la-la-la-la". No! In what you call the Promethean Nebula.
Tautological Templar: He openly and nonchalantly reveals his plan to eliminate all carbon-based life to Morty (including him), confident that, given his own altruistic nature, he would understand it is for the best of the world. He is dumbfounded and horrified when Morty turns on him.
Villain Song: "Goodbye, Moonmen" is actually about how he plans to cleanse the galaxy of carbon-based lifeforms.
All the moonmen want things their way
But we make sure they see the sun...
Villainous Breakdown: As Morty disintegrates him, he breaks his mellow speak and coughs a dumbfounded "Why, Morty?!?"
You Are a Credit to Your Race: How he comes to view Morty. It doesn't stop him from wanting to kill him along with all other carbon-based life, however.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In a sense it states this to Morty as he prepares to leave and prepare his Final Solution, believing Morty would accept it. It is his own undoing, however.

Beta-7

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Voiced by: Patton Oswalt

Appears in: "Auto Erotic Assimilation"

Another hive-mind who occupied a planet near Unity's, they traded goods and information as part of an alliance, although Beta-7 seems to want to be "more than allies".

Expy: The Borg, but a loser nerd.
Friend Zone: Stuck with this in regards to Unity, possibly subverted by the episode's end when it is revealed Unity is staying with it.
Ink-Suit Actor: All of them are short and portly, like Patton Oswalt.
Meaningful Name: "beta" is a slang term in male culture referring to guys who are perceived to be weaker and less traditionally masculine than "alphas," having been adopted from the now-debunked theory on alphas in wolves. The name works because it shows Seven on being passive and less impressive when compared to Rick. Also, Seven is a number that symbolizes completion or fullness. In other words, it's full name is "complete loser" or "total loser"

Blim Blam

Voiced by: John Kassir

Appears in: "Auto Erotic Assimilation"

"Um, first of all, hello, um, my name is Blim Blam the Korblok. Second of all, cards on the table, I'm a murderer that eats babies and I came to this planet to eat babies."

A slimy baby-eating alien that Beth and Jerry find chained up under the garage.

Affably Evil: Sure, he Eats Babies, but he is polite enough to introduce himself and establish that he came to the planet to do so before launching into his nuclear rant.
Body Horror: Appears to have a number of ghastly open sores, although this might potentially be some natural and perfectly healthy aspect of his Bizarre Alien Biology.
Deadpan Snarker: Especially in regards to the slowly opening garage door.
Blim Blam: Um, is there a slow setting? Best door ever...
Eats Babies: He came to Earth because he is a baby eating murderer.
Even Evil Has Standards: Despite the above trait, even he finds Beth and Jerry absolutely insufferable to the point that he feels sorry that Rick has to deal with them on a daily basis and leaves the planet earth behind permanently.
Jerkass: When Morty and Summer help him open the garage door, he complains about the door's speed with obnoxious sarcasm, then flips them the bird. Of course, after witnessing Beth's and Jerry's argument he'd pretty much had more than enough of the Smiths and Earth as a whole.
Jerkass Has a Point: He may be a Jerkass who Eats Babies, but he makes valid points about Jerry and Beth in his vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
Mic Drop: Played straight, and then subverted when he realized he needed it to speak.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives an unbelievably vicious one to Beth and Jerry after they devolve into one of their spousal arguments regarding both their marriage and Rick's place in their lives, which leads to him tearing his chains out of the walls, stealing a translator device, and laying the fuck into them.
Blim Blam the Korblok: Um, first of all, hello. Uh, my name is Blim Blam the Korblok. Second of all, cards on the table, I'm a murderer that Eats Babies, and I came to this planet to eat babies. However, I am also carrying a highly infectious disease that I suppose you could call "Space-AIDS" as you put it. And Rick did chain me up so that he could attempt to cure it. At the same time, Rick's motivation to cure my disease was not to save my life or anyone else's, but to patent and sell the cure for billions of Blemflarcks. But you know the reason WHY I ripped my chains out of the wall? AND do you know WHY I'm never coming back to this planet? Because the TWO OF YOU ARE THE FUCKING WORST! You both hate yourselves and each other, AND THE IDEA THAT IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH RICK IS LAUGHABLE. I'd laugh, but I'm biologically incapable — THAT'S HOW ALIEN I AM. And even I'm sitting here listening to the two of you and being like, "WHAT THE FUCK". So, good luck with your shitty marriage, and tell Rick I'm sorry he has to deal with either of you. BLIM BLAM, OUT! *Mic Drop*
Secretly Dying: The other reason he came to Earth; he apparently has what we could accurately term "Space-AIDS" and Rick was trying to cure him. Although the only reason he was doing so was to patent and sell the cure for profit, which Blim Blam is totally cool with.
The Unintelligible: He can't speak properly without a translator device, and his vocal processes are apparently so alien that he is biologically incapable of laughter.
Would Hurt a Child: He eats infants.

The Parasites

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"Shoot, it's like a Where's Waldo? page! Can you find me? Check out all these zany characters..."

Voiced by: Various (Pencilvester by Tom Kenny, Reverse-Giraffe by Keith David, Frankenstein and Mrs. Refrigerator by Kevin Michael Richardson, and Tinkles by Tara Strong)

Appears in: "Total Rickall"

An unnamed alien parasite that multiplies by disguising itself as a zany side character and implanting false memories into people's brains. Rather than feeding off their hosts directly, however, they get sustenance by mooching and taking advantage of their hosts' hospitality.

Alien Blood: Their blood is hot pink.
Allegorical Character: The characters are ultimately a metaphor for toxic relationships. The parasites have one and only tactic, implant false memories and pretend to be their victim's longest friend or family member so they can conquer planets and turn people against each other. However, as Morty eventually figures out, the parasites can only form pleasant memories so you only need to remember one bad experience you've had with them to tell if they are actually a parasite or a real person.
Ambiguous Situation: Lines from both Reverse Giraffe and one rubber duck-looking Parasite implies that their memory implantation abilities even fool eachother, but it's possible that the lines were given purely to divert attention away from themselves.
Animate Inanimate Object: Several parasites take on this form.
Backstory Invader: Their entire thing is that they masquerade as longtime friends and loved ones of the Smiths while using fake memories to erase suspicion about their sudden appearances.
Crippling Overspecialisation: The parasites only have one tactic, implant false memories and pose as a close and trusted friend or family member. The parasites aren't shown to have any other combat prowess and are quickly killed once Morty finds a way to identify a parasite.
Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: The parasites are capable of easily multiplying and manipulating humans' memories to think they are long-term companions. They very nearly succeed in exterminating the one person maintaining them until they discover their weakness; they can't create bad memories. After one bad attempt to work around this, the parasites panic and are easily exterminated by the Smith family alone, albeit due to Rick being Crazy-Prepared as usual.
Empathic Shapeshifter: In a sense. They create memories and then assume the forms of people in those memories, but appear to be unable to change shape after they've done this. Likewise, impersonating real people also seems to be out of the question.^note
Fake Memories: They reproduce via getting people to suddenly remember wacky misadventures they had. Their flaw is the fact that they can only create positive memories, meaning that anyone you have a negative memory of has to be real.
Faux Affably Evil: They each take the form of a wacky side character, and multiply by telepathically implanting fake good memories into people's minds to take over the world. According to Rick, this is all for the purpose of leeching off their victims and to ultimately multiply and take over their planet.
Flanderization: Invoked as a result of their multiplication. The more parasites appear overtime, the more exponentially zany their pretend attributes and personalities become. The first parasite is a normal looking human masquerading an uncle. The later ones consist of giant baby wizards and Samurais in a suit of ham.
Flight: If the form they shapeshift into is capable of flight, regardless of how nonsensical it might be.
Flock of Wolves: The parasites have become so numerous to the point where it's implied that they even manipulated each other as Duck was genuinely shocked about Baby Wizard being a parasite, even retorting that he remembers him setting him up with his wife.
Frankenstein's Monster: One of them takes on the form of Frankenstein's monster.
Manipulative Bastard: Not only do they exploit their victims' minds to pose as supposed loved ones, they are smart enough to place doubts into suspicious minds and even shrewdly place paranoia onto other people. Reverse Giraffe in particular single-handedly convinces everyone that Rick is the only parasite and there's a good chance that Rick would have been executed if not for Morty's "Eureka!" Moment. Furthermore, at least some of them use their telepathic abilities to play roles that will cause their victims to want them around and thus reluctant to turn on them. For example:
- Jerry craves attention, validation, and approval from others. Two parasites exploit this by taking on the form of a caring and supportive big brother and a long time best friend who is also a secret lover. They then pretend to console and stick up for Jerry at various points, causing him to willingly embrace them.
- Summer, who really wants to be popular and not feel like a mistake, gets magical friends who take her away from her problems and insecurities in the real world.
- Rick is closest to Pensylvester, who is basically a good hearted Kid Sidekick. Who knew Rick might have a soft spot for a Kid Sidekick with a good heart?
- Sleepy Gary is basically Jerry, (complete with somewhat resembling Jerry) but more charming and likable, while also not being pathetic and spineless, as Jerry often is. As a result the entire family prefer having him take Jerry's place, and overlook the obvious conflicts it should form in their memories.
Mundane Utility: They instantly devise convoluted backstories and incredible Lotus-Eater Machine scenarios just to mooch off food from their victims. That's it, no more, no less.
Non-Standard Character Design: Many of them have one, particularly Tinkles.
Parody Sue: They bond with their hosts by planting Fake Memories of them being charming and perfect friends that always come through for them at the right moment. This turns out to be their downfall after the Smiths realise all the memories between real family members have some flawed or unpleasant moments, something the parasites seem unable to replicate (the best one of them can do is create a fake flashback of a ride on a roller coaster, which is lamp shaded as being more thrilling than scary or unpleasant).
Polyamory: One of the parasites takes the form of Sleepy Gary, who is Beth's "real" husband, with Jerry just being a guy who lives with them and is having a secret affair with Gary.
Squishy Wizard: They die instantly if shot, even from wounds that wouldn't kill the forms they're masquerading as. A shoulder wound is sufficient to kill one of them, with Rick justifying his uncertainty by the logic that it wouldn't have killed a real person.
This Was Their True Form: They revert to their actual form upon being killed.
Token Houseguest: Most of the characters that the parasite takes the form of are parodies of wacky sitcom characters, complete with silly catchphrases and gimmicky personalities. Their method of parasitism even extends to this: rather feeding directly from their hosts, they instead gain sustenance by essentially mooching food off of them as guests, and multiply to the point that they're mooching off every household on the planet if not brought under control.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The parasites take all kinds of outrageously improbable forms, including a velociraptor (who's also a photographer), a wizard baby, a talking female refrigerator, and Frankenstein's Monster. Yet, Rick and the Smiths can't tell any of them apart from their actual family. Justified, since they can infect people's brains with fake memories of themselves. Pencilvester may be a living pencil, but to the Smiths, he's also a beloved member of the household that they've known since forever.
Villainous Breakdown: When their weakspot is exposed, and one parasite tries and fails miserably to work around it, they subsequently explode into panic as the Smiths gun them down, trying in vain to escape, or begging desperately for their lives.
Villainous Friendship: While their friendships with the real Smiths are supposedly just manipulation, they all seem genuinely united in their act, and only ever try to shift suspicion onto the real family members rather than their fellow parasites.
Villains Want Mercy: They manipulate and sweet talk as a survival tactic by default. When the Smiths expose them, their facade cracks and they resort to straight up pleading for mercy, insisting in vain that their personas are real.
Pencilvester: (panicking) Rick, it's me! Pencilvester! Listen to that name! You can't kill me!!!

The Cromulons

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SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

Voiced by: Justin Roiland.

Appears in: "Get Schwifty"

A race of planet-sized, planet-stealing floating faces. They abduct planets for their version of a musical reality show, and blow the losing planets to smithereens.

Earth-Shattering Kaboom: They invoke this on planets if they're disqualified from their show.
Karma Houdini: They've destroyed many inhabited planets in the name of their own entertainment and receive no comeuppance in the end.
Lack of Empathy: They kidnap entire planets for the sake of a game show. And if they don't comply, well, then their planet gets disqualified. Explosively so.
No Indoor Voice: Granted it's hard to sound quiet being a planet-sized head, but they don't even try.
Wave-Motion Gun: They use one mounted on a satellite to blow up planets.

Zeep Xanflorp

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Voiced by: Stephen Colbert

Appears in: "The Ricks Must Be Crazy"

The greatest scientist of Rick's microverse, and the creator of the miniverse which threatens Rick's power supply.

Alien Blood: His kind have orange blood, which his shown after his final showdown with Rick.
Badass Bookworm: He holds his own against Rick in a vicious fist fight, though he ultimately loses to his creator.
Determinator: He keeps up his feud with Rick for months on end, even still wanting to fight while exhausted and crippled.
Enemy Mine: After fighting with Rick in the tiniverse for what Rick describes as several months, Morty forces Zeep and Rick to work together to get them back to the miniverse. Immediately after they succeed, Zeep betrays Rick and ultimately it leads to a fist fight between the two.
Everyone Has Standards: He's horrified to realize Rick created his universe, not to help his world, but to power his car. Also, he calls Rick a monster for destroying two smaller universes.
Flipping the Bird: After Rick forces his people to go back to using pedal power, Zeep flips off the sky, being perhaps the first of his people to use it in the correct context.
Functional Addict: Off handily mentions that he's an opium addict. Considering that he's considered one of the best minds of his world despite this, he seems to be functioning fairly well despite that.
Gadgeteer Genius: Zeep can craft pretty much anything if given enough incentive. He created a handheld catapult to assault Rick after learning he created his whole universe merely to power his car, destroying half of Rick's workshop all the way across a gorge.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arrogant and condescending as he is Zeep did create his miniverse out of a desire to better his world.
Naytheist: Despite Rick being seen as a god-like figure among his people, Zeep treats Rick with irreverence and later outright hatred after learning that he created his world and their impractical power source solely as a battery for his car.
Mini-Mecha: Created his own in the wilderness of the tiniverse world for hunting out of Bamboo Technology. It was built not just to hunt but to also counter everything Rick's own Mini-Mecha had.
Rage Against the Heavens: Spitefully calls Rick his god in a fight after learning Rick created his universe. Doesn't stop Zeep from hating Rick after finding out what an unrepentant and unapologetic asshole Rick is. He also calls Rick a monster after he destroyed the miniverse.
School Is for Losers: He dropped out of school, which is why he never learned about Rick. At the end of the episode, Rick uses this against him as he readies himself for a fight.
Rick: You quit school, but you still got some learning to do.
Skilled, but Naive: He's as smart as Rick and just as clever, but Rick's been at this longer and knows tricks that Zeep doesn't even think are possible.
Tomato in the Mirror: After seeing his own miniverse rendered useless by the tiniverse of a scientist within, he realizes that Rick pulled the same scam on his world.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like Rick, he created a planet filled with intelligent life for the sake of exploiting them. The difference between the two of them was that Zeep did it to provide free energy to his people, freeing them from the obsolete and physically demanding source of power that they were stuck with, while Rick did it just to power his car.

Shrimply Pibbles

Voiced by: Werner Herzog

Appears in: "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate"

The galaxy's most influential civil rights leader.

All-Loving Hero: He devoted his life to civil rights.
Pibbles: "Kindness is the currency of the universe, consider donating today."
Bizarre Alien Biology: He needs heroin to live and the human penis can be implanted in his body as a replacement heart.
Doomed Hometown: His home planet was the target of a genocide and utterly destroyed.
Expy: A combination of Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.
Final Solution: Shrimply Pibbles' home planet was destroyed by Klargon Death Squads. He is also mentioned as speaking out against the Genocide of Klorgon and the tragic events of 65.3432.2314.
Meaningless Meaningful Words: The Tumbler-esque Galactic Federation website has an article on six "inspiring" Shrimply Pibbles quotes. While five of them are about kindness and courage, one of them is just him asking for help finding car keys he misplaced.
Mistaken for Junkie: When spying into his medical records, Jerry discovers that Shrimply Pibbles takes heroin and assumes he is an addict. Only it's not for recreation; heroin makes up 10% of the atmosphere of his home planet, and so he can't survive without ingesting some of it.
Trademark Favorite Food: He likes to eat gloooaoak with crenge juice and garbla sauce (which are like raw oysters).
Velvet Revolution: He seems to be leading "the slime beings with acid for blood" and some other alien races in one of these.
Villain Respect: The Galactic Federation is an oppressive dictatorship that mutilates, spies on, and exploits its member races. Shrimply Pibbles is a genocide survivor and a champion for civil rights. You'd think this would put them at odds, and yet the Galactic Federation's website admires him and even repeats his quotes. It's just too bad they didn't listen to him.

The Eyehole Man

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Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Appears in: "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate"

An alien wearing a purple superhero cape and mask. He's the mascot for Eye Holes brand cereal, appearing in one of the segments of "Interdimensional Cable Part 2", who brutally assaults anyone he catches with a box of his Eyeholes, insisting that he's the only one allowed to have Eyeholes. As Jerry finds out in The Stinger for this episode, that is not an idle threat.

The Dreaded: Anyone who eats from a box of Eyeholes runs the risk of getting attacked by the Eyehole Man, no matter what planet they're on. Rick tells Morty to keep his eye out.
Expy: Basically a mascot like the Trix Rabbit or Lucky The Leprechaun taken to a logical extreme.
Jerkass: He's a highly aggressive asshole who unhesitatingly beats the tar out of anyone he catches with his cereal for the sole reason that he doesn't want anyone besides himself to have it.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: What happens if the Eyehole Man catches you eating his Eyeholes, he comes crashing in through a window and just starts beating the everloving crap out of you.
No Indoor Voice: Carries around a megaphone where he loudly yells about his Eyeholes while attacking his victims/customers.
Serious Business: When he tells you to keep your mitts off his Eyeholes, he means it.
Pintsized Powerhouse: Despite his speed and strength, he's actually pretty short and scrawny.
Worth It: According to Rick, the taste of Eyeholes is so good it's worth the risk of incurring the wrath of the Eyehole Man.

Stealy

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Appears in: "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate"

A strange alien creature who hosts a show called "The Adventures of Stealy" on "Interdimensional Cable" which features him going to different locations and stealing random things, then rating them in his secret hideout to show how much they're worth.

Bag of Holding: Can hold a surprising amount of loot in the pockets of his vest.
Impossible Thief: Averted, he snatches whatever catches his eye, and the people he steals from occasionally notice him but tend to be so baffled by the bizarre sight that they dont react. If they do protest, Stealy just pulls out a rag full of chloroform and drugs them.
Sticky Fingers: The entire point of his show, he'll steal literally anything, valuable or not.
Rubber Man: Has very long, rubber-like arms.

Arthricia

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Voiced by: Chelsea Kane

Appears in: "Look Who's Purging Now"

A Cat Girl from an alien planet. She is rescued from the Purge by Rick and Morty. She secretly plans on killing the aristocrats who organize the purge.

Action Girl: She can be quite deadly when given access to proper weaponry.
All for Nothing: Her goal in killing the planet's elites was to put a stop to the yearly purging festival once and for all, but the other survivors decide they would rather just keep it going to work out their pent up aggression.
All Love Is Unrequited: Morty likes her (or at least that is what she thought he was going to say when he wanted to ask her a question), but she doesn't reciprocate. She claims to already have a boyfriend, but the way she says it seems to imply that she's lying and is just not interested in him.
Bad Liar: Very awkwardly claims she to have a boyfriend when Morty asks her out. Eventually, Morty feels so patronised he just tells her to knock it off.
Beware the Nice Ones: She is pretty nice most of the time, but she does not hesitate to shoot Rick and steal his ship to accomplish her plan to end the purge. Later on, she goes on a rampage when given access to Powered Armor, and literally dances in the blood of her victims.
Cat Girl: She comes from a race of Cat Folk.
Damsel in Distress: She's first seen helplessly cornered by a mob intent on murdering her for fun during the purge.
Didn't Think This Through: Killing off the aristocrats who started the Purge was meant to be the end of the atrocious event, but she had no plans for what would come after or any kind of coalition among her people to try to build a new version of society. Without that in place, her people almost immediately default to what they know: the Purge.
Easily Forgiven: Rick is pretty laid back when confronting her given she shot and left him for dead. Morty threatens to kill her, but more out of his psychotic rush from the purge, and even tries to ask her out later. This is played oddly straight in a show that either Deconstructs or mocks the use of the trope. (At least in Rick's case, perhaps her enthusiasm in going after the government and power brokers reminds him of his own loathing for such figures.)
Arthricia: Hey, thanks for helping me Rick. You're a pretty great guy.
Rick: Yeah yeah yeah, fuck you for shooting my liver. *walking away* I'll see you you around.
Karma Houdini: Apart from a harmless crash and a very half-hearted retort from Rick, she gets no punishment for screwing over and outright trying to kill the people who saved her life, they in fact outright help her get exactly what she wanted. Although this may not last long, as her planet is implied to go right back to purging after Rick and Morty leave, meaning that she didn't really accomplish anything beyond some brief catharsis, and there's now every chance she'll simply be killed in a subsequent Festival.
Space Amish: Her race is Amish-inspired and they have a fairly low-tech culture, likely due to the Festival severely crippling societal and technological progress. However, they're not surprised to see Rick or his spaceship and one of them states that the general store stocks wiper fluid, so while they dont have much tech themselves, they're not unfamiliar with it, presumably due to being visited by aliens come to see their Purge.
The Unfair Sex: Her only sympathetic trait is that Morty is attracted to her.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Is perfectly willing to shoot one of her rescuers and steal their ship, leaving them to die, in an effort to kill the aristocrats exploiting the villagers to end the purge once and for all.
What You Are in the Dark: She is not after active bad guys, she's after people who authorise her town to do bad things, and even in doing that her approach is almost as morally ambiguous and gleefully sadistic. It is ultimately for nothing since her people are bloodthirsty imbeciles and prefer to keep the purge ongoing anyway.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She is genuinely in danger when Rick and Morty first save her, but after that she invents the story of a fake nana who's in danger so she can steal Rick's ship and technology.

Season Three

Hemorrhage

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Voiced by: Joel McHale

Appears in: "Rickmancing the Stone"

The brutal leader of a wasteland gang. He is a nihilist who shares chemistry with Summer.

The Apunkalypse: Like everyone in his gang apparently.
Bucket Helmet: His main headgear is a bucket painted with a skull.
Cool Helmet: He uses a painted bucket that hides his incredibly plain appearance: a normal-looking blonde guy with a somewhat thin mustache.
Expy: He's a parody of Lord Humungus from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.
May–December Romance: Temporarily becomes a couple with Summer, until Rick introduces his clan to electricity and he becomes a Lazy Bum and they break up, which was part of Rick's gambit all along.
Stripperiffic: Like the rest of the residents, he wears very little to cover himself. Later he wears a shirt and pants in his short marriage to Summer (still wears the helmet though).
Wasteland Warlord: As the brutal leader of the Deathstalkers, a raider gang in a Mad Max-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Armothy

Appears in: "Rickmancing the Stone"

A woodcutter who was murdered by slave-raiders after watching them burn his family to death. His muscle-memories are placed into Morty's Arm and use Morty to seek violent revenge.

Ax-Crazy: Subverted. While violent in nature, Armothy is really lashing out its grief about the cruel deaths inflicted on its family rather than true sadism.
Blood Knight: When he and Morty are in the Blood-Dome, he savagely beats scores of wasteland cannibals to death with his bare fists all day and into the knight. Then he notices the raider who massacred his village and goes into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
The Faceless: Even in his flashbacks we only see his arm.
Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Twice in a row when he has his sights set on the unnamed raider who massacred his entire village and making the Slaver King shut up while comforting Morty.
Good Is Not Nice: He'll protect Morty from nihilistic cannibals and he'll help Morty work through his trouble with his parents' divorce, but don't expect forgiveness if you kill his family or neighbors.
Kill It with Fire: How he kills the raider who murdered him and his family.
Odd Friendship: With Morty. It even wipes Morty's tears and hugs hims when Morty realizes its going to pass on.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Since he only controls an arm and doesn't know Sign Language, Armothy can't tell Morty his real name. "Armothy" is just a nickname Morty gives him.
- It's possible it doesn't know how to write either as it could've written it's name in the dirt.
Our Ghosts Are Different: Although its the muscle memory of an arm implanted through science, Armothy acts more like a revenant, its personality and actions fueled by its memories of its past life. It even passes on by thinking it completed its revenge against the tyrant that ordered the death of its family.
Please, Don't Leave Me: He's on the receiving end from Morty just before he completes his revenge. He has to console Morty with a hug.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: This is his Unfinished Business. During one of his murderous rampages, he sees the leader of the raid that killed his family. The leader admits to killing his original owner and family on the orders of a tyrant before Armothy burns him to death. Morty and Armothy then track down and strangle the tyrant but hilariously, it passes on before it actually kills him, leaving Morty assisted by Rick to finish the job.
Symbiotic Possession: With Morty's left arm. He controls it independent of Morty and acts against Morty's will, but he defends Morty in battle and helps Morty cope with his parents divorcing. It gets to the point where Morty is sad to see him go.
Token Good Teammate: On a planet where people eat each other to survive and possess a nihilistic view of practically everything, it held a loving dedication to its family. It also protects Morty from harm and encourages Morty to accept his parents' divorce.
Took a Level in Badass: When he was alive, with a body and an axe, he was not shown fighting back against the raiders. But when he's reduced to a single muscular arm he's able to slaughter hundreds of extremely dangerous foes.
Undeath Always Ends: When Morty asks if this will be the case, he makes a "maybe" expression with Morty's hand. This turns out to be the case, as once the King of the Slavers is dead he is gone and Morty's arm returns to normal.
Unfinished Business: Avenging his murder and the murder of his village.

Raider

Voiced by: John Dimaggio

Appears in: "Rickmancing the Stone"

An unnamed horseman who participates in the massacre of Armothy's village. He then gets killed by Armothy in revenge.

Beard of Evil: His face is covered by one of these.
Blood Sport: He enjoys watching Blood-dome violence in his spare time. This proves to be his undoing.
Dirty Coward: He's more than happy to burn an entire defenseless village to the ground, to slaughter most of the villagers, and to taunt and whip a dying woodcutter. But when an arm possessed by that woodcutter notices him he runs away panicking.
Just Following Orders: Screams this trope word-for-word as he runs away from Armothy.
Karmic Death: Gets burned alive literally a few seconds after the flashback about him massacring a village with fire.
Kill It with Fire: He does this to a village, and then the ghost of one of the villagers does this to him in turn.
Rape, Pillage, and Burn: As seen in Armothy's flashback.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: His last words are an unaccepted offer to betray his boss.
This Cannot Be!: What he says when he realizes that Armothy is back.

Slaver King

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Appears in: "Rickmancing the Stone"

An unnamed King who lives in a castle, profiting from the labor of slaves.

Bad Boss: He threatens to send one of his servants/slaves to the wastelands for bathing him incorrectly.
Expy: His physical appearance bears a striking resemblance to Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
In the Blood: He uses this to defend himself, claiming that slavery is a family business he was born into. He even goes so far as to tell the ghost of a man his Mooks killed that he's the real victim. Armothy is not convinced.
Mooks: He employs riders with whips and horned helmets to Rape, Pillage, and Burn villages, and he employes armored men with face-obstructing helmets to guard his castle. Armothy kills all of these.
Never My Fault: Claims that he's the victim because he was born into slavery business.
No Name Given: The only "name" we have for him is the Slaver King. Even the episode's credits call him that.
Not Quite Dead: Subverted. He survives Armothy strangling him (Armothy was a woodcutter, not a paramedic), but then Rick finishes the job by drowning him.
Pædo Hunt: Downplayed. He is shown scolding two prepubescent children who appear to be his servants/slaves. One of them washes his taint, and the other wash his genitals. It appears that he employs the two servants because he is lazy (instead of for sexual pleasure), but either way, he's still a villain and he's still paying/forcing children to touch his private parts.
Precision F-Strike: Says this right before Armothy strangles him.
Too Dumb to Live: He doesn't even try to run away while Morty is talking to Armothy. His only attempt to save his own life is to voice support for Morty's suggestion that Armothy and Morty spare him and spend the rest of their lives beating up unrelated people in The Blood-Dome.
Vengeance Feels Empty: He tries telling this to Armothy, but considering he's the target of that revenge he's somewhat biased. Armothy is not convinced.

Jaguar

Voiced by: Danny Trejo

Appears in: "Pickle Rick"

An assassin sent out by the agency he was held captive in to kill Pickle Rick.

Androcles' Lion: Saves Rick and Morty in the Stinger after the former helped him take down the Agency Director.
Big Damn Heroes: Appears in The Stinger of "Pickle Rick" to save Rick and Morty from Concerto.
Boxed Crook: The Agency Director offers Jaguar and his daughter, Caterina, their freedom, if Jaguar can kill Pickle Rick.
Dark Is Not Evil: Jaguar wears a black bodysuit and has a horrifying appearance, but he is fighting against corrupt government officials and even saves Rick and Morty from Concerto.
Enemy Mine: After he finds out his daughter is actually dead, he works together with Pickle Rick to defeat the rest of the agency.
Expy: Of Batman, the Punisher, and John Wick.
Gun Fu: He fights via acrobatic flips while firing two Uzis.
Hero of Another Story: As a spoof of action movie heroes, Jaguar had his own adventures long before Pickle Rick came along. When he's introduced, it's after he's been captured by the agency controlling his country that Jaguar has long been at war with. The Stinger shows he's still off on his own adventures when he saves Rick and Morty.
Ink-Suit Actor: He looks a lot like Danny Trejo without a handlebar mustache.
Mysterious Past: Absolutely nothing is known about him or the people he fights against, just that he's an assassin who fought for his people, and he and his daughter have been kidnapped by the mysterious agency.
Nothing Personal: Tells Pickle Rick this; he's only set out to kill him to save his daughter. Pickle Rick tells him that's the oldest line in the book.
Outliving One's Offspring: The Agency Director lied about his daughter being alive. When Rick makes an offhand mention of himself having infinite daughters from infinite timelines, Jaguar has a brief moment of hope asking if the same is true for him. Rick tells him no.
Papa Wolf: The only reason he agrees to take on Pickle Rick, who's killed every operative he's come across, is because the Agency Director promises to release Jaguar's daughter if he does.
Worthy Opponent: Capable of matching Pickle Rick in combat, at least for a while. This, along with the lack of malice between them, leads Rick to spare his life and work together.
Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Presumably he's imprisoned for crimes against his country, because when the Agency Director offers to free him, Jaguar retorts, "There is no freedom while your leader breathes. Our country is a prison." In retrospect, it's probably why he and Rick formed a pseudo-friendship.

Agency Director

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Voiced by: Peter Serafinowicz

Appears in: "Pickle Rick"

The head of a secret compound that Pickle Rick inadvertently infiltrates.

Bad Boss: He's rather dismissive of his underlings and shoots two of them in the head to save himself.
Character Death: He's consumed by the explosion when his facility is destroyed.
Enemy Mine: He frees Jaguar, a prisoner of his facility, by offering him the chance to see his daughter if he kills Pickle Rick. This ends up backfiring on him when Pickle Rick and Jaguar form an alliance against him.
Face Death with Dignity: "Farewell, Solenya."
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is a Bad Boss.
I Lied: About Jaguar's daughter still being alive.
Last-Second Chance: The first time Rick asks to be let out the Agency, Director refuses. When he agrees to do so later — after all his men are dead — Rick tells him that the offer is off the table.
No Name Given: He's only referred to as "Agency Director", even in the credits.

Concerto

Voiced by: Ryan Ridley

Appears in: "Pickle Rick"

A mysterious musical-themed villain.

Beware the Silly Ones: A joke villain who gets killed off almost instantly, and nevertheless had Rick terrified.
Bright Is Not Good: Has a colorful appearance, but is a psychopath who kills people with a giant piano.
Flat Character: We never get to know about his motivations since he only appears in The Stinger of "Pickle Rick", and gets his throat slit by Jaguar in a Big Damn Heroes moment.
Incredibly Lame Pun: "And now for the E-Splat!" ^noteInstead of "E-Flat".
Instrument of Murder: Concerto executes people using a giant piano.
Musical Assassin: He executes people with a giant piano by smashing their heads in with the hammers that play the notes.
Near-Villain Victory: Has Rick damn sure he's about to die.
Practically Joker: His abnormally large grin and pale face are evocative of the Clown Prince of Crime, and his giant piano-themed Death Trap is reminiscent of a campy Batman villain.
Slasher Smile: Has one all the time. His teeth even look like piano keys.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets one minute of screen time before he's killed by Jaguar.

Risotto Groupon

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Voiced by: Clancy Brown

Appears in: "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy"

An alien who wants revenge against Rick for usurping his kingdom.

Alien Blood: His kind have pink blood
Boom, Headshot!: His fate when facing Rick.
Freudian Excuse: The reason why Risotto wanted Rick dead so badly was because Rick sold weapons to Risotto's enemies, which resulted in Risotto and his entire species becoming enslaved.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: After experiencing a wormhole, he almost decided to abandon his revenge to Rick. Until Rick shoots him dead.
Ignored Epiphany: Rick invokes this against Groupon as justification for killing him even as he's in the throes of a cosmic epiphiany. According to Rick, the feeling was only temporary and he would have talked himself into trying to kill Rick again eventually.
Impoverished Patrician: Once a king, now forced to be a manager at a theme park.
Kick the Dog: Spends any moment of his appearance that's not focused on killing Rick being insulting and disparaging towards Jerry.
Large and in Charge: He is relatively big compared to humans, but he is definitely the tallest one among his race.
Not Worth Killing: Decides not to shoot Jerry not out of gratitude, but out of the fact that he sees it as a waste of a bullet. He changes his mind once Jerry tries to bite him.
Plant Person: His species all have trees as antennas on their heads.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Adding to Rick's previous one to Jerry. He calls Jerry out for his pathetic attempt to stop him from shooting Rick for actually being simply a half-assed attempt at looking and feeling heroic so he can't feel bad when Rick gets killed in front of him and can convince himself he did what he could.
Villain Has a Point: Not pleasant in the least but makes a valid argument that Rick is a Karma Houdini who deserves to answer for his crimes. Something proven when Rick pulls a tactless Never My Fault over ruining Jerry's marriage, treating the whole mess as a joke immediately after Jerry refuses to help Risotto kill him.

Squirrels

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Appear in: "Morty's Mind Blowers"

Small mammals and the secret rulers of an alternate Earth.

Cute Bruiser: They are initially unassuming until you realize you can hear them. Then they will gather en masse and chase you down, and you probably don't want to find out what happens if they actually catch you.
The Dreaded: Even Rick is afraid of them.
The Man Behind the Man: They have the power to topple governments and cripple economies. In fact they are so powerful that they apparently forced Rick and Morty to abandon another universe.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In both a literal and political sense.

Kiara

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Voiced by: Jennifer Hale

Appears in: "The ABCs of Beth"

A Krutabulon warrior priestess Jerry hooks up with on an interstellar dating service Rick mentioned.

Action Girl: Par for the course given that she's both a warrior priestess and voiced by Jennifer Hale.
Action Girlfriend: To Jerry.
Easily Forgiven: She ends up sleeping with Rick even though he killed her boyfriend for trying to kill Jerry. She seems to have no hard feelings about this.
Exotic Equipment: Jerry implies she has two vaginas.
Fantastic Racism: Her people seem to despise and go to great lengths to exterminate the varrix, which are initially depicted as being like mindless vermin, but turn out to be completely sapient.
Green-Skinned Space Babe: Aside from having three breasts and a xenomorph-like head, she looks like an attractive humanoid woman.
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: It turns out the varrix she's been hunting are sapient and can talk. Morty makes a joke hoping it isn't human season, but she claims she'd never hunt a human.
Hypocritical Humor: When Jerry tells her that he used her as a rebound to make his ex jealous, she claims that all humanity is duplicitous. Then her ex shows up and it turns out she was using Jerry for the same reason.
Interspecies Romance: She begins dating Jerry, a human, to the point where they become soulbonded. Turns out both of them were just using each other to make their exes jealous.
Mind over Matter: She has telekinetic powers that lets her fly and crush a car. She can also pass them along via sexual contact.
Multi Boobage: She has three. Lampshaded by Jerry.
Jerry: I'm sure you noticed what she has three of but guess what she has two of?
Proud Warrior Race Girl: Her culture is obsessed with hunting other races.
Super-Empowering: Sexual contact with her grants telekinesis.
Warrior Monk: She is a warrior-priestess of her own race.
Woman Scorned: After Jerry tells her that he wants to break up due to his kids, she goes on a rampage to murder them. When Jerry finally fesses up, she declares that that humans are all horrible beings.
Would Hurt a Child: Jerry's first attempt in breaking up involved telling her that Morty and Summer pushed him to do it. Her response is to kill them both. Additionally, it is revealed that she was killing varrix in the place where they mate and raise their newborns.
Xenomorph Xerox: She has a Xenomorph shaped head but given her role as a hunter, she's more of a Predator Pastiche.

Joseph Eli Lipnip

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Appears in: "The ABCs of Beth"

Tommy's father. He was wrongly convicted of murdering and eating his son and was almost executed for it before Beth saved him.

Acquitted Too Late: Narrowly Averted. He was acquitted just before the lethal injection was administered. A second later and he'd be dead.
Clear Their Name: Beth clears his name by bringing Tommy's clone to the prison, proving that he didn't eat his son.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Is reunited with his wife and with a clone of his beloved son, after being wrongly imprisoned for thirty years and almost executed.
Gunman with Three Names: Although he isn't accused of using a gun.
Heroic BSoD: He appears to be having one during his execution.
Miscarriage of Justice: When his son went missing due to Beth stranding him in Froopy Land, Joseph was accused of eating him. Joseph was exonerated, but only after spending thirty years in prison and almost being executed.
Say Your Prayers: During his execution a Catholic priest is standing next to him and reading from the bible, presumably praying to God on Joseph's behalf.

Tommy Lipnip

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Voiced by: Thomas Middleditch

Appears in: "The ABCs of Beth"

Beth's childhood friend. He was allegedly murdered and eaten by his dad, but he was actually stranded in "Froopy Land", a formerly completely safe and wholesome world Rick built for Beth.

Bestiality Is Depraved: His casual sex with Froopy Land animals is just further proof of how completely insane he's become. His play shows him humping rocks and trees to pass the time, before finding out he could make kids by doing the same from Froopy Land animals.
The Caligula: After being trapped in Froopy Land and having sex with the native creatures, he effectively became their leader by being all of the current generation's father. His rule is one where his subjects are all food for him and each other. His lack of human interaction into adulthood hasn't helped his mental state either.
Cannibal Clan: He and his children regularly eat one another to survive.
Crapsaccharine World: Well, not at first, anyway. In fact, the only big problem with Froopy Land is that it was designed to be perfectly safe, and that does mean that it lacks a food chain, and as a result, it also lacks the means to sustain a person. As a result, in order to survive Tommy had to mate with the imaginary inhabitants of Froopy Land in order to create organic creatures he could eat. In the process, he turned the land into this trope by populating it with beings with a human instinct for hunger and violence and establishing a society where eating your newborns is the norm.
Deadpan Snarker: It's insane how sharp his sarcasm is even though he's been trapped in a cycle of cannibalism and inbreeding for two-thirds of his life.
Eats Babies: His own inbred babies, in fact. Doing so was his only means of survival while trapped in Froopy Land. He had no other means of food other than the kids he fathered with the native Froopy Land animals.
Fat Bastard: He has a potbelly, probably because he eats his inbred children so often.
Go Mad from the Isolation: Decades of being trapped, alone, in a simulation where he had to resort to bestiality, incest, and cannibalism to survive, has clearly driven him off the deep end.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Refers to Beth as a "B-Word" at one point despite having no adults to enforce this.
Half-Human Hybrid: The Froopies he sires.
Humans Are Bastards: Froopy Land was a perfectly safe, child-proofed world where even drowning is impossible. Then Tommy blended his human DNA with the once harmless artificial wildlife. Although considering that Froopy Land also lacked a proper food chain until Tommy had to create one (more like a food loop, actually), not out of malice but out of desperation, it's arguably a case of both this and Nature Is Not Nice.
Jerkass Has a Point: Rightfully calls out Beth's refusal to apologize for pushing him and leaving him in Froopy Land.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Gender Inverted. All of the subjects in his kingdom are his offspring.
Offing the Offspring: He had to consume the Half Human Hybrids he fathered to save himself from starvation.
Psychopathic Manchild: Justified. He was trapped in Froopy Land as a kid, where he eventually grew into an adult with no other human influence. This and a logical need to satisfy his most primitive human needs (in particular, eating and mating) have turned him into a dangerously immature man with no concept of society other than the twisted one he created out of desperation.
Replacement Goldfish: When she's unable to get the real Tommy to return with her, Beth and Rick grow a clone of him and use it to prevent Tommy's father from being wrongfully executed for his murder.
Tragic Villain: Villain is a stretch. He's clearly insane but also a case of he did what he had to do for survival being trapped in a different world for years as a child by Beth. What we see is utterly depraved, but he was also out of options.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Driven by desperation to eat his children to survive aside, it is rather disturbing that he had developed a sexual drive as a child within a few days of being trapped. And that's ignoring his later actions of incest, bestiality, cannibalism, infanticide and so forth, which he'd also have to develop as a child all on his own. These are really things that no normal child would ever come up with in the same situation, which says a few things about Tommy.
Uncertain Doom: When Tommy refuses to go home, Beth either kills him or just cuts off his finger to grow a clone of him to take his place. The last we see of him, Tommy orders his children to kill Beth and she begins happily massacring them. She returns covered in blood, which might be Tommy's or just his children's.

Season Four

Glootie

Voiced by: Taika Waititi

Appears In: "The Old Man And the Seat"

An alien that Rick hired, or possibly enslaved, to work as his intern. He also tattooed "Do Not Develop His App" on Glootie's forehead, and for good reason as it turns out.

Affably Evil: Always cheerful, helpful and polite, even after his true plans are revealed.
Catchphrase: "Do you wanna develop an app?", which he manages to drop about five times in the span of thirty seconds in his first appearance
The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Despite his species having allegedly "perfected" romantic relationships, the Love Finderrz app can't find any soulmate matches for Glootie. The only other person this is seen happening to is Jerry.
Dead Man's Switch: When Morty and Jerry try to force him to turn off the app, he activates what seems to be one of these, but it's actually just an app on his phone that beeps and glows, so he can escape when his attackers take cover. He's a bit too portly and slow to get away in time.
Exposed Extraterrestrials: Doesn't wear clothing for some reason, which isn't really pleasant to see. He wears a sports jacket and sweatpants combo later but takes them off off-screen for whatever reason.
Extra Eyes: His species have four eyes.
Heel–Face Turn: Turns against his species and ruins their plans for Earth by adding an ad-wall to the app, leading to humans abandoning it after Jerry points out that for all his hard work, he has no soulmate of his own, despite his overlords claiming they have perfected relationships.
Just Following Orders: "I'm just an intern."
Non-Action Guy: His expertise is in programming, not combat. Even having a gun doesn't make him much of a threat. He loses a struggle with Morty for God's sake!
Planet Looters: Glootie's species survive by stealing the water from planets distracted by their dating apps.

Tony

Voiced by: Jeffrey Wright

Appearances: "The Old Man And The Seat"

A widower that uses Rick's secret toilet, and becomes the target of his ire.

Alien Blood: His people seem to have mauve blood, as shown when Rick punches another version of Tony in the face.
The Anti-Nihilist: Leans into this after crossing paths with Rick. He accepts that the universe will keep on taking things away and obsessing over the few things you think you can control won't change that. All the while, Rick obsesses over someone who used his toilet.
Foil: To Rick. Both are men coping with past losses, but while Rick reacts to the uncaring void of the universe in mostly destructive or obsessive ways, Tony learns to take it in stride and is inspired to enjoy his fleeting life. He goes on to die shortly afterwards while committing to his newfound love of life, leaving behind friends and a loving family to mourn him. Meanwhile Rick has countless back-up plans to protect himself from death even in old age, and struggles with his relationships with his family.
Killed Offscreen: The secretary of his job informs Rick that Tony died skiing down Space Mt. Everest.
Lotus-Eater Machine: Rick hooks him up to one in an attempt to keep him away from his toilet, but Tony's flailing around ends up strangling himself with the cords so Rick has to let him out. Strangely, his ideal scenario is a Fluffy Cloud Heaven with his deceased wife...and toilets everywhere with her coaxing him to poop with her.
Nice Guy: Very polite and cooperative with Rick, and by all accounts seems to have been a pleasant man and a loving husband to his late wife. The receptionist at his former job cried over his death, even weeks after quitting.

Miles Nightly

Voiced by: Justin Theroux

Appearances: "One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty"

A "heist artist", a thief that sees heists as a form of art, which annoys Rick to no end.

Alien Blood: He bleeds purple when he gets dismembered
Asshole Victim: Averted. Despite him being a rather unpleasant heist artist, Rick and Morty are both absolutely horrified when the brainwashed HeistCon attendees tear him apart.
Bizarre Alien Biology: In addition to his purple blood, he also has golden bones and pale-blue veins.
Calling Card: An origami horse.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Heistotron's goons tear him limb from limb after Rick tells them to steal every square inch of HeistCon.
Gentleman Thief: Smooth talking, handsome and quite talented in his field of stealing valuables.

Heistotron

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Appearances: "One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty"

An AI Rick invented to one-up Miles Nightly by predicting any possible twist or double cross. However, it goes rogue and starts to perform heists and absorb more people in its crew, eventually building a spaceship designed to steal planets.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Rick only made him to help with a heist against Miles Nightly, but Heistbot ends up double-crossing him and heists more and more things, eventually heisting Earth itself! This ultimately ends up being subverted because Heistbot's actions were all part of Rick's plan to show Morty how stupid heist plots are.
The Assimilator: It can use nanobots to brainwash people into joining its crew.
The Chessmaster: Parodied. He and Rick keep one-upping each other in an increasingly convoluted heist plot. It eventually devolves into him and Heistbot just saying "Because I programmed you to believe that!" over and over again for 2 hours straight. Rick eventually ends up coming out on top.
Monumental Theft: Exaggerated for both comedy and horror. Heistotron grows powerful enough that he steals the planetary core out of an alien planet, completely blowing the atmosphere and killing all life on the planet in seconds. He later steals Earth and hundreds of other planets before anyone can tell what has happened.
Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Of the slow-clapping variant when he reveals himself to Rick. Justified since he has the lack of arms to do so.

Balthromaw

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Voiced by: Liam Cunningham

Appearances: "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty"

A dragon that was enslaved by a Wizard and sold to Morty, but ends up bonding with Rick.

Actor Allusion: The incident with Rick mentioned below is a clear reference to Game of Thrones where Quentyn Martell attempts to tame Rheagar the dragon and gets burned alive for his trouble. Liam Cunningham plays The Onion Knight, Ser Davos Seaworth, in the series.
Breath Weapon: Naturally, he can breathe fire. Rick even points this out when he No Sells his flames.
Rick: If only I had prepared better for this encounter by remembering the only thing dragons are known for!
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Subverted. After using it as a metaphor for sex the entire episode, Synchronization with multiple people/dragons at once is explicitly labelled an orgy.
Flight: The other thing dragons are known for. Notably the ability to ride him is why Morty wants a dragon in the first place, but Balthromaw finds flying as tedious as a human might find walking a marathon.
Synchronization: Its the equivalent to sex for dragons, and they love having it.
Our Dragons Are Different: In terms of design, he's a typical wyvern-style dragon, but in terms of personality, he is more like Rick. And also a huge slut.

Talking Cat

Voiced by: Matthew Broderick

Appearances: "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty"

A mysterious talking cat that Jerry meets in his room out of nowhere and who refuses to give explanations.

Cats Are Mean: Somewhat downplayed initially; At worst, he's merely a socially-inept Jerkass who comes off as more creepy and insufferable than outright malicious or mean-spirited. But apparently whatever gave him the ability to speak is so monstrously, incomprehensibly evil that even Rick is almost driven to suicide by it.
Diabolus ex Nihilo: He just shows up offscreen in Jerry's room. Rick even says him showing up is completely unrelated to his adventures with Morty.
Flat Character: Intentionally so. He is inexplicably obsessed with maintaining only two random character traits; avoiding questions about why he can talk and partying in Florida. Even when no one cares about why he can speak and he's kicked out of Florida, he still dedicates himself to these obsessions.
Hypocrite: He tells Jerry that he shouldn't ask questions and he should just focus on having fun. But on the Florida party cruise, he repeatedly asks questions of the other guests, bringing down the entire party to the point where the partygoers kick him off the cruise.
Jerkass: Not overtly, but he's still kinda a sinister jerk. He gives condescending nonanswers whenever anyone asks him questions and sells Jerry out at the Florida party. Jerry, Rick, and the entire yacht of partygoers all eventually get fed up with him.
No Name Given: Unusually in a series where almost everyone is named, the Talking Cat doesn't possess a name.
Noodle Incident: Whatever he did to gain the ability to speak telepathically. The only thing we know about it is that it was horrifying.
No Social Skills: When attempting to socialize with people on the yacht, he makes an ass of himself and gets thrown off.
Nothing Is Scarier: Rick scans his mind to find out what he truly is, and when he and Jerry examine what he found through one of his devices, it's so horrible that it leaves Jerry curled up on the ground uncontrollably vomiting and nearly makes Rick kill himself.
Talking Animal: He can talk because he's from outer space. Take Our Word for It.
Would Hurt a Child: The faintest idea we're given of his sin is that it might have something to do with extreme child (specifically infant) abuse, judging by the screaming babies in his head.

Alien Snakes

A society from a planet of snakes in the brink of a world war.

Fantastic Racism: Apparently their entire planet is in one big snake race war, although from what we are shown of their society, different species of snake get along just fine.
Enemy Mine: Discovering that there are other forms of life in the universe is enough for them to (for the most part) put their differences aside and band together to attack Earth.
High Collar of Doom: The President of the country that sent their first astronaut to space has the collar of his suit turned up and extending past his head, resembling a cobra's hood.
Kill All Humans: After Morty sends a snake from a petstore to their planet as a Replacement Goldfish for their astronaut snake, they find out about the dangers humans pose to their kind and decide to wage war.
Planet of Hats: Snakes in this case.
Shout-Out: Their whole plight is one to the Terminator franchise.
Snakes Are Sinister: Their astronaut's First Contact with alien life is to give it a venomous bite before he even knows she's there. When Rick examines their planet he mocks that they're on the verge of a global war from racial tension that will likely knock them back to the dark ages. This gets exponentially worse when they discover time travel and decide to Kill All Humans.
The Unintelligible: They only communicate via hissing, with only certain beings being capable of communicating with humans.

Tickets Please Guy

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Appearances: "Never Ricking Morty"

The conductor(?) on the Story Train. Is suprisingly ripped for an old man.

And I Must Scream: Due to how he ends up getting trapped between the inside and the outside of the train, his Cruel and Unusual Death is drawn out for months from his own perspective.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He is sucked out a window into space, ripped in half in the process, then because of the effects of the train, he experiences a months-long hell of spinning in a circle spraying blood everywhere before Morty finally puts him out of his misery.

The Glorzos

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Appearances: "Promortyus"

A species of parasitic beings that take over their hosts and reproduce by generating an egg that kills them and the host when created. Rick, Morty and Summer are taken in by them, with Rick and Morty being taken over by some parasites.

Aliens Are Bastards: Subverted. Parasitic life-cycle aside, they aren't malicious beings. They only wanted to use Rick's technology to explore the universe, and their intercoms preach of peace.
Alien Blood: Their blood is greenish-yellow
Artistic License – Biology: A reproductive process wherein the organism produces only a single egg and immediately dies completely defeats the purpose, since it does not provide a net population increase and thus does not help to replace idividuals who die from other causes, dooming the species to eventual extinction.
Everyone Has Standards: When Rick's parasite makes a series of internet videos saying that their hosts only exist to spawn more of them, a large number of glorzos frown on his narrow-minded attitude. It's clearly meant to evoke YouTubers that make conspiracy commentary, with a particular reference to Alex Jones and his side business of selling Brain Power pills. That said, he was only lashing out about biological drives because he wanted to start a family with Morty's facehugger, who became favored by Summer and began to neglect him.
Expy:
- Of Facehuggers, complete with the host they impregnate dying from giving birth.
- They're also similar to Starro, as they use their hosts as puppets.
One-Gender Race: They are all able to reproduce through their hosts.
Puppeteer Parasite: They latch onto their hosts face to control them and even gain their voice. However, if so much as even one tentacle is removed, the host regains control.
Weaksauce Weakness: Summer is able to avoid getting face-hugged by several of them because they end up stabbing themselves on the toothpick in her mouth. Later, it's shown that Harmonica music forces them to gestate new eggs involuntarily, killing them and their hosts.
We Are as Mayflies: The parasites originally had a life cycle of roughly 30 minutes before their host died to produce a new egg. Summer was the one to convince them to strive to extend their lives and build an actual civilization.

Morty's Girlfriend

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Appearances: "The Vat of Acid Episode"

A girl Morty meets and starts dating when he is using the save button.

His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Her name is literally "Morty's Girlfriend".
Nice Girl: Seems to be one from what is shown about her; she seems to genuinely care about Morty and her relationship with him, despite also being shown to become frustrated with Morty being inattentive to her, and being willing to spray Morty with mace when their relationship is undone and Morty freaks her out by running at her and hysterically rambling about their relationship that, as far as she knows, never happened. After it's revealed how the save point remote actually works, and all of the universes that Morty was jumping around from are fused together, and Rick forces Morty to fake his death in the fake acid vat to escape retribution from the assorted parties that want Morty's head, Morty's Girlfriend, appears among the mob, having also been fused with the other universes, and thereby remembers Morty and their relationship. But she is too late to stop Morty, who seemingly dies in the acid, and she runs away in tears.
No Name Given: Since Morty's entire relationship with his girlfriend happens in a montage with no dialogue, we never learn her name. In the Pocket Mortys video game her name is just "Morty's Girlfriend".
Satellite Love Interest: Exaggerated and parodied; her official name is "Morty's Girlfriend," she's mainly seen in a dialogue-free Falling-in-Love Montage that provides no opportunity for her speaking voice to be heard or for any real name to be given, and Morty's entire relationship with her is undone by an absent-minded mistake on Jerry's part.
The Voiceless: Her entire relationship with Morty happened in a montage with no dialogue, so her voice is never heard. Even when she makes a reappearance as Morty was about to drop himself into the eponymous vat of acid, her voice is inaudible.

Gaia

Appearances: "Childrick of Mort"

A sentient planet who Rick had sex with.

Explosive Breeder: Ricklets literally erupt out of a volcano when she gives birth...which results in them shattering upon contact without significant outside intervention.
Genius Loci: She is a sentient planet that, if The Stinger is anything to go by, Rick met on a pornographic planet site.
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: The Wailord of this scenario, being a sentient planet who had sex with Rick. Even Reggie counts as a Skitty compared to her, as while he might be a skyscraper-sized god posing as a large cloud, those are still downright puny compared to a planet.
Woman Scorned: When she finds out Rick killed Reggie, she floods her landscape with lava out of anger...which actually end up killing all of her kids except for the rejects that Jerry raised.

Ricklets

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Appearances: "Childrick of Mort"

Gaia's offspring.

Literally Shattered Lives: What happens to them after they are literally erupted from the ground by Gaia giving birth, which means significant outside intervention is required for them to even live.
Revenge: Beth is concerned that Gaia will raise them to hunt down the Smith family for Zeus' death. Rick assures her that he put a tracking device on their ship and he'll blow it up if they try.
Semi-Divine: Half living planet, half god.
Silicon-Based Life: They are sentient clay humanoids that slightly resemble Rick.
Strong Family Resemblance: At first it seems like they're Rick's kids because they seemingly inherit his pointy hair. Turns out they get their hair from their real father.

Reggie

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Appearances: "Childrick of Mort"

A Zeus-like god who is the real father of Gaia's children.

Cruel and Unusual Death: A ship being driven by a high Morty and Summer gets lodged in his skull, then Rick pilots it out his eye socket. This results in his cloud form breaking down and his body getting impaled on the tower of Rick's city.
Cumulonemesis: How he appears at first, but this is just a form he takes to appeal more to Gaia.
Jerkass Gods: He's got powers on par with Zeus, and he's not interested in anything to do with his children except teach them fear.
Physical God: He's described as being "a Zeus", but Rick clarifies he's not God with a capital G.
Sizeshifter: In his true form. Initially he shrinks to almost Rick's size to fight him on an even playing field, but after he beats Rick up, he grows giant to make an example of Rick in front of his kids.
Shock and Awe: He takes the form of a huge thunderstorm and tries to smite Rick with lightning.
Spiky Hair: Near identical to Rick's own, complete with bald spot, hence why his children were believed to be Rick's. He even has this trait in his cloud form.
Super-Empowering: He's able to give Jerry and the unproductives his godly powers.
This Was His True Form: Within his cloud form is a fairly standard-looking depiction of Zeus, which Rick thinks resembles Kid Rock.

Season Five

Hoovans

Voiced by: Jim Gaffigan (Hoovy)

Appearances: "Mort Dinner Rick Andre"

A Race of Cow-Like creatures that live in a dimension that has an accelerated time compared to ours.

Anti-Villain: The Hoovans that are given focus are presented as cruel and conniving, but they have been indoctrinated from birth into a culture of revenge with their only purpose in life being to wait for Morty's return even when his visits are spaced several lifetimes apart for them.
Cassandra Truth: Because the gaps between Morty's appearances are so long from their perspective, many of the Hoovans believe that the "Dark Child" is nothing but a myth. Only after Morty leaves behind one of Rick's weapons (allowing them to advance their society considerably) is his existence universally accepted.
Dying Curse: After being fatally wounded by Morty, the son of the first Hoovan Morty encountered makes his children swear to avenge him with his dying breath. This is what escalates the conflict from a simple case of revenge into a full-on religion with Morty as their Satanic Archetype.
Escalating War: Starting with an innocent oversight, Morty manages to become the enemy of an entire bloodline which accumulates enough followers and resources to become an entire civilization dedicated to eradicating Morty.
Mix-and-Match Critters: They're a race of blue humanoids with a mixture of bovine and canid features.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Hoovy was just being nice in helping Morty bring the aged wine back to his world. But when he returned, he found that his beloved wife had died of old age, and his son (who wasn't even born when Hoovy left) resents him for being gone all those years.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: At one point in their history, the King's son is banished for insisting that the "Dark Child" is a myth. He is then taken in by a cloaked figure, and trained to kill his father. Immediately after the deed is done, the Prince is killed by his own mentor.
Robot War: Go through one. Possible the result of going from a medieval-level society to a cyber-punk future in a single generation, without decades of Sci-Fi warning what could go wrong.
Year Outside, Hour Inside: Within a few minutes of Rick and Morty's dimension, entire generations pass within theirs, and their technology grows from medieval farming to a society so technologically advanced that Rick himself is completely out-matched (though this largely happened as a result of Morty leaving behind one of Rick's weapons after demolishing the place).

Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Appearances: "Mortyplicity"

A starfish man in a target suit who always wants to be hunted.

Berserk Button: Being ignored is a major one for him, as he murders one of the Smith-Sanchez decoy families just because they didn't hunt him.
Beware the Silly Ones: He looks like a starfish wearing a black-and-white striped jumpsuit with a bullseye on it, whose only goal is to be hunted. He seems like a ridiculous gag character who's only around for a quick laugh, but when people don't hunt him, he hunts them in revenge.
Chekhov's Gunman: He seems like just a one-note character around for a quick gag in the Cold Open and then is discarded once the actual plot is set in motion. At the end of the episode he returns and murders the remaining decoy family because nobody hunted him, even though that family wasn't the same one that ignored him.
Disproportionate Retribution: When one decoy family of Smith-Sanchezs stops hunting him to deal with the squids trying to kill them, Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted shows up at the end and guns down the remaining Smith-Sanchez decoy family (different than the one that ignored him) because nobody hunted him.
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: A rare case where a sapient being actually wants to be hunted, to the point that it's his entire identity. And if someone doesn't hunt him, he hunts them.
Informed Species: He's referred to as being a starfish, even though he looks nothing like one.

Planetina

Voiced by: Alison Brie

Appearances: "A Rickonvenient Mort"

An environmentally-conscious superhero that Morty develops feelings for.

The Ageless: She's been an active superhero since the mid 90s but looks the exact same in the present as she did when she first came into existence, while her "kids" are now middle-aged.
All for Nothing: The planet she was trying to protect, using any means necessary, gets completely blindsided by the Outside-Context Problem of Mr. Frundles, who wipes out all life within a few minutes in the first episode of season 6.
All Your Powers Combined: Comes with being a Captain Ersatz of Captain Planet. After being summoned into existence by four elemental rings, she can use all of their powers.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's a genuinely nice and wholesome superhero who just wants to save the earth by helping the environment. After seeing humanity's continued apathy to the planet's destruction despite her pleas, she comes to believe the system is broken and decides the only way to save the planet is by killing anyone who contributes to the planet's destruction, even if they're as powerless as coalminers who need a job.
Broken Pedestal: In addition to having a crush on her, Morty admires her for her super heroics and attempts to help the environment. This admiration slowly goes away as she becomes more extreme in her actions, and dissolves completely when she murders three hundred coalminers.
Captain Ersatz: She's a very blatant Gender Flip of Captain Planet, right down to her skin and outfit's coloring. After Morty acquires the rings that summon her via murdering their original bearers, she becomes a Corrupted Character Copy.
Catchphrase: Hers seems to be, "There's only one solution to earth's pollution: You!" She says it directly into the camera during the Cold Open and an old video of her Morty shows his family has her saying the same thing. The last time she says it it's much darker as it's followed by her murdering coalminers who refuse to abandon their jobs rather than save the environment.
Composite Character: Aside from Captain Planet, Planetina is also similar to Crysta from FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Both are magical girls who fall for ordinary male teenagers, only to become disillusioned with how much damage humanity has done to the world.
Corrupted Character Copy: By the end, Planetina becomes one of Captain Planet, taking her desire to save Earth to such a extreme she becomes an eco-terrorist. First slashing the tires on numerous cars to encourage people to walk, then setting a congressman's home on fire with a Molotov Cocktail, and eventually going as far as to kill dozens of the people she accuses of being filthy murderers in desperation to achieve her goals. Due to the aforementioned lack of Heart or a Tina-teer wielding of, it implies this is what happens when you lack one when saving the planet.
Distaff Counterpart: She is a female Expy of Captain Planet.
Eco-Terrorist: What she essentially becomes by the end of the episode, eventually resorting to burning down the mansion of a politician that allows the environment to be ruined and murdering hundreds of innocent coalminers to stop them from polluting the planet.
Endearingly Dorky: She comes off as this initially with her Incredibly Lame Puns during battle, perky attitude, genuine enthusiasm over saving the environment and wholesome language in a show where everyone curses. Morty very quickly falls for her because of it. She loses this by the end of the episode, between her homicidal anger over humanity's apathy towards the planet and Morty breaking up with her.
Gaia's Vengeance: A fairly benevolent version of the "Gaia's Avenger" type as she only targets poachers and supervillains whose gimmicks revolve around destroying the planet. Then she plays this straight when she becomes insane enough to start killing relatively innocent people just to stop them from harming the environment through their indifference. Depending on how one interprets her line just before her psychotic break, she may literally have an empathic connection with the planet.
Planetina: Can't you hear the Earth screaming?!
Granola Girl: Other than her goal is saving the Planet, She’s implied to be vegan like preferring plant-based doughnuts over ice cream.
Green Aesop: Essentially her existence acts as this and all her efforts are focused on saving the planet by saving the environment.
He Who Fights Monsters: Starts off as a fairly wholesome superhero only to become a mass-murdering eco-terrorist in the face of humanity's continued apathy towards the environmental destruction of the planet.
Insistent Terminology: Not helping the optics of her relationship with Morty is that she keeps calling the people who summon her into existence with their magic rings her "kids." These "kids" have been summoning her since the mid 90s and are well into adulthood.
Irony: After Planetina is free to pursue her quest to save the planet, the episode implies that her benevolent acts of environmentalism are outweighed by her extreme acts of destruction that'll inevitably cause significantly more harm to the environment as she continues. ^note
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Her efforts to save the environment start off with genuine super heroics then go a little overboard by giving everyone in a traffic jam flat tires so they'll have to walk instead of drive then goes officially overboard by cheerfully burning down an indifferent congressman's house. Eventually she reaches the point where she murders three hundred innocent coalminers because they value their jobs more than the planet.
Love Cannot Overcome: Morty genuinely does love Planetina and is just as heartbroken about breaking up with her as she is about being dumped, but no matter how much he cares about her, he simply can't condone her extreme methods of murdering relatively-innocent people to try to protect the planet.
Love Makes You Crazy: During their breakup, one of the justifications Planetina gives for her murderous actions is that, not only are they the only way she can save the planet, they're the only way she can save Morty. Morty says if that's the only way he can be saved, then he doesn't want to be saved.
Madden Into Misanthropy: Planetina is driven to ever-more violent extremes as she sees the apathy of the human race towards the damage they're causing to the planet.
Magical Girlfriend: She's this for Morty, a plain, awkward teenager who becomes romantically involved with a beautiful, environmentally-focused superhero who is one of the few people to actually respect him and care about what he has to say. Given the tone of the series it doesn't last, as Planetinia becomes an eco-terrorist and Morty ultimately breaks up with her because he can't reconcile his love for her with her homicidal actions to save the planet.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Planetina is stated to be one of the few people who doesn't see Morty as a Straw Loser. Then Morty corrupts her by murdering her PR team and exposing her to the climate injustices going on.
Nice Girl: She's a very friendly and affectionate lady. At first.
Precision F-Strike: Planetina is one of the only characters in the show to avoid cursing and is a genuinely wholesome person. She doesn't even curse after becoming so angry that she murders hundreds of innocent people for damaging the environment. This makes it all the more meaningful when Morty breaks up with her for her actions and her last words to him are a tearful, "Fuck you."
Pungeon Master: In keeping with the Captain Planet homage most of her dialogue while fighting Diesel Weasel revolves around this. She introduces herself to Morty after she sees him recycling by saying, "Every litter bit helps."
Rhymes on a Dime: Likes to rhyme really cheesy one-liners.
Sanity Slippage: Planetina goes from being kind and gentle to having a psychotic breakdown where she's killing people who show zero empathy for the environment.
Vague Age: Planetina is stated to resemble an adult, which freaks out a few people since she's dating a 14-year-old. Morty points out that since she's born from an amalgamation of elemental powers, her exact age isn't relevant. With that being said, she's been active for 20-30 years.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Planetina goes from just stopping environmental disasters and spouting platitudes to nipping the problems in the bud by killing anyone who contributes to or profits from environmental vandalism.

The Tina-Teers

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Voiced by: Steve Buscemi (Eddie), Lauren Tom (Xing Ho)

Appearances: "A Rickconvenient Mort"

Planetina's "kids," by which she means the four now middle-aged individuals with magic rings who summon her into existence.

And There Was Much Rejoicing: Despite viewing them as her "kids," Planetina isn't terribly upset when Morty murders them all, instead feeling happy about her newfound freedom. Granted, they were horrible people who've been exploiting her since the 90s and were literally trying to sell her into slavery.
Asshole Victims: They're a bunch of greedy jerks who only see Planetina as a product to exploit, to the point where they're literally planning on selling her. Eddie is particularly odious, using his fire ring in an attempt to mutilate and/or murder Morty for dating Planetina. All of them get suitably painful deaths.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Once they grew into adults exploiting Planetina for money.
Corrupted Character Copy: The Tina-teers are corrupt, middle-aged versions of the Planeteers, implied to have long since lost whatever idealism they once held in their youth, and now more concerned with filling their pockets than saving the planet and planning on selling Planetina to a shady man. Noticeably, the Tina-teers don't have a Heart counterpart.
Decapitation Presentation: As part of Morty's Delivery Guy Infiltration to crash the Tina-Teers' sale of Planetina, he pretends to be a pizza man with a "cheesy Italian, extra crispy." Then he tosses Eddie's charred skull onto the table with the Water ring bearer recognizing Eddie's cheekbones.
Elemental Powers: The four rings represent Air, Fire, Water and Ear...sorry Dirt.
False Friend: If the Tina-Teers ever valued Planetina as a person, that time has long since passed, as they're more interested in profiting off of her, to the point where they're literally willing to sell her.
Fingore: Morty gets the Fire ring by biting off the finger Eddie was wearing it on.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Morty incinerates Eddie with his own Fire ring.
Jerkass: All of them. Their Establishing Character Moment is Eddie pushing Morty away while telling him it's $20 for an autograph from Planetina while the rest of them neg Planetina over "gaining weight" and "getting ugly" from eating half of a plant-based donut.
Kid Hero All Grown-Up: The Tina-Teers were teenagers in the mid '90s, and Planetina still refers to them as her "kids" even though they're now middle-aged. It's ambiguous if they ever were heroes in their youth, but in present day they're just greedy sellouts.
Only in It for the Money: They only allow Planetina to do her eco-friendly heroics so they can make money off of her through hosting Eco-Cons, charging for autographs and selling merchandise of her. Eventually they just decide to sell her off as a slave for a big enough payout.
Unfriendly Fire: While Morty is being shot at by guards working for the man who plans on buying Planetina, he ducks for cover behind the Air ring bearer, causing her to be shot to death instead.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: They used to be fairly heroic kids until they turned into corrupt business adults using Planetina as advertisement to promote their merchandise and get richer.
Would Hurt a Child: Eddie uses his Fire ring in an attempt to mutilate Morty in the hopes Planetina won't love him if he's not "pretty no more".
Your Head Asplode: Morty uses the Air ring to inflate Xing Ho's head to the point where it literally pops.

Daphne

Voiced by: Jennifer Coolidge

Appearances: "A Rickonvenient Mort"

A female Morglutzian who likes going around.

Bizarre Alien Biology: She has breasts hanging from her arms that she uses to control and manipulate men, much to Summer's disgust.
It's All About Me: She only cares about saving herself from her planet being destroyed and ultimately manipulates Rick into a relationship so he can give her a tour around the universe up until she's no longer in a dangerous place or planet about to be destroyed, which thanks to Summer attempting to expose her by saving the third planet she and Rick arrive in happens, at which that point she dumps Rick on the spot.
Last of Her Kind: The last Morglutzian following her species and planet's end.
Really Gets Around: She mentions that her flirting has brought down all sorts of males just so she could survive, and Rick is no different.
Sole Survivor: Of the Morglutzian race since the rest of her kind were killed in a cataclysmic event which she escaped by manipulating Rick.
Subverted Catchphrase: When Summer reveals to Rick she was just using him to save herself.
Rick: Um, hello!?
Daphne: Beat Goodbye.
Verbal Tic: Likes saying "Hello!" a lot.

Arabic Man

Voiced by: Dan Harmon

Appearances: "A Rickconvenient Mort"

A wealth Arabic man who tried to purchase Planetina from the Tina-Teers.

And Now You Must Marry Me: Implied to be his motive for buying Planetina.
Arab Oil Sheikh: Lampshaded when he attacks Morty.
"I am an individual character, I represent no group!"
Does This Remind You of Anything?: An evil Arabic man being killed by a group of SEALs.
Exotic Entree: He states his intention to eat infant seals to celebrate buying Planetina.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He's bespeckled and a villain.
Laser-Guided Karma: He gets eaten alive by the baby seals he was planning on eating.

Blazen

Appearances: "Rickdependence Spray"

A katana-wielding mercenary tasked with fighting Morty's sperm.

Heroes Prefer Swords: Uses a katana whereas all the other mooks use guns. Doesn't do him much good in the end though.
Paper Tiger: He's established as the coolest looking character on the team assigned to exterminate Morty's mutant sperm. He quickly blows his whole image in his big moment. First his katana gets stuck in the ceiling of a cave, then when he jumps to grab it his pants drop and everyone sees he's wearing women's underwear. The katana then drops out on its own, impaling Blazen. His dying wish is for Rick and Morty to find his wife, who he claims is Kathy Ireland. They assume he's delusional, but the the real Kathy Ireland shows up and confirms they were married. Then when she hears that he was wearing her underwear she's repulsed.

Sperm Queen

Voiced by: Michelle Buteau

Appearances: "Rickdependence Spray"

The leader of Morty's mutant sperm.

Brick Joke: Her whole existence is meant to be payoff for a joke where the president and his cabinet act really sexist towards Summer, telling her they don't consider her useful unless they need a girl-on-girl fight. The Sperm Queen acknowledges that this would have been the most practical way to beat her.
Oxymoronic Being: She's female, yet is a sperm, which are inherently male reproductive cells.

Sticky

Appearances: "Rickdependence Spray"

A mutant sperm that Morty befriends.

Androcles' Lion: Sticky becomes loyal to Morty because Morty helped dislodge his tail from a rock.
The Farmer and the Viper: Sticky helps humanity by killing the Sperm Queen before she can inseminate Summer's oversized ovum. With no other sperm to compete with, Sticky inseminates the ovum himself. Everyone is shocked, despite this being a sperm's only function.
Handicapped Badass: Some abnormal sperm do have two flagella, and are generally weaker for it.

Demons

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche (Leader), Tom Kenny (Guards)

Appearances: "Amortycan Grickfitti"

Demons that feed on suffering that Rick tried to con. As payback, they force him to accompany them on "guys night" and inflict the worst possible torture they know on him: including Jerry.

Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Parodied to hell and back. The demons rarely let a minute go by without reminding whoever they're speaking to that whatever regular people find bad, the demons find pleasurable. A bad day is really a good day, a cry for help is actually a cry not to be helped, even the demons feeling insulted or embarrassed only leads to them feeding off of their own misery and converting it back into pleasure.
Cringe Comedy: The real reason they take Jerry with them on guys night is feeding off of the cringe he induces in Rick. Since Jerry's too oblivious to feel embarrassed about the way he acts, they feed off of Rick's annoyance with his son-in-law's "lameness" and plan on imprisoning them both in hell just to feed off it forever.
Deal with the Devil: The demons made one with Rick and ended up with faulty skin hooks. Then they made another one for payback where Rick had to go on "guys nights" with them, and bring Jerry along.
Emotion Eater: They feed off of the physical and emotional suffering of anyone, including themselves. Any shame or sadness they feel only makes them feel pleasure.
Expy: They're blatant parodies of the Cenobites from Hellraiser.
Hellbent For Leather: They're demons who wear bondage gear over their mutilated bodies in keeping with the Cenobite parody.
Line-of-Sight Name: All the demons are named after their physical attributes, like Coatrack Head and Mousetrap Nipples. At one point a demon just assumes Rick and Beth's names are Marlin Guts and Dartboard Face because those are what they used to disguise themselves as demons.
Malevolent Mutilation: Their bodies are horror shows of flayed flesh and questionable piercings.
Reverse the Polarity: Rick eventually defeats them by converting the pleasure they derive from pain back into pain.
Too Kinky to Torture: Regular attacks have no effect on them because they just feed off of the pain and derive pleasure from it. They can't even be hurt emotionally since any negative feelings about themselves just make them feel pleasurable. It takes Rick reversing the polarity to turn pain from pleasure into just pain to finally defeat them.
Villains Want Mercy: They torture people to feed off of their suffering but the second Rick finds a way to make them stop experiencing pain as pleasure and instead revert it back to pain, they're left begging for mercy.

Coop

Voiced by: Timothy Olyphant

Appearances: "Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular"

A marine who willingly transforms into a turkey as part of the President's secret mission to stop Rick Sanchez from getting a Presidential turkey pardon on Thanksgiving.

Failed a Spot Check: Failed to realize that two of his turkified soldiers had been replaced by Rick and Morty, or that the turkey they're rescuing isn't the President but a random turkey that swallowed his tracking pill.
Good Ol' Boy: He's just a simple country boy man who wants his future race car driver son to grow up in a world where he can fill his pickup with hot dogs and drive it to a juke box playing their demographic's current favorite music. Emphasized by his voice actor using the same Eastern Kentucky drawl he used for Raylan Givens.
My Girl Back Home: His pregnant wife, Mary Lou, who keeps trying, in vain, to talk Coop out of risking his life on increasingly absurd missions.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His reward for helping the President save the world from Turkey President? PTSD from his time spent transformed as a turkey and his healthcare taken away by his boss to buy more missiles.
Semper Fi: He's a marine whose skills are put to invaluable use by the President on a secret mission... to turn into a turkey.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Played for dark laughs. The Stinger has him out shopping for groceries with his wife and son when a box of blueberries spill, triggering Coop's PTSD from when he was a turkey caught in a feeding frenzy and re-enacting it in the middle of the store.
Southern-Fried Private: He's competent as a sergeant but his naivety and blind obedience to the President makes him come across as either a little dim or easily manipulated.
Undying Loyalty: He remains tragically loyal to the President and continues to defend him even after getting his healthcare taken away so the President could buy more missiles. This in spite of the fact that Coop helped President Curtis overthrow the Turkey President and gained PTSD from his time spent as a turkey which the President only subjected Coop to in order to win his petty feud with Rick.

Turkey President

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Voiced by: Keith David

Appearances: "Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular"

After the President transforms himself into a turkey as part of his ongoing feud with Rick, he ends up being switched with a random turkey that gets infused with his DNA and steals his identity.

Armor-Piercing Question: After the Turkey President convinces Congress and his VP to let him remain President even after he's been exposed as a fake, the real President furiously asks them all if they think the imposter cares about America. The Turkey President, whose creation was the result of a petty feud between the real President and Rick, has a very effective response.
POTUS: You can't be serious! You think he cares about America?!
Turkey POTUS: Is that why this is happening to you? Because you cared about America?
Creepy Monotone: Adding to his unnerving presence is his emotionless and stilted way of speaking. Presumably a side-effect of only recently learning how to speak like a human.
Did Not Think This Through: He attempts to force a Sadistic Choice on the President. Either fight him, or allow the Turkey President's weapon on the Washington Monument to turn every turkey in America into super soldiers. The President points out the blindingly obvious solution is for him to kick the Turkey President's ass while Rick and Morty stop the weapon.
Die Laughing: After being mortally wounded, he snaps his own wishbone and wishes to explode to take the President with him. His last moments are spent maniacally laughing before he blows up.
Evil Doppelgänger: He's a turkey infused with POTUS's DNA, making him resemble the President, albeit one with turkey-like attributes.
Fantastic Racism: Apparently turkeys used to be dinosaur like beings that were the supreme rulers of America and used to prey on humans until two species of aliens overthrew them. The Turkey President still views his species as superior to humans and wants to go back to how things used to be.
Faux Affably Evil: He has a soft-spoken voice with a faux polite air but he's also willing to snap an innocent scientist's neck when she grows suspicious of him and plans on taking over the world by turning turkeys into giant super soldier monsters.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The real President impales him with a cornstalk, mortally wounding him. Though the Turkey President lives long enough to make one last attempt on POTUS's life.
President Evil: He intends to turn all turkeys in America into hybrid super soldiers so they can regain their dominance over humanity.
Red Right Hand: He looks like the President but with turkey-like attributes, including an engorged wattle, snood above the nose and sporadic feathers sticking out of his skin.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He ends up selling New York to France once the robot assassin in the Statue of Liberty goes on a rampage, and uses the proceeds to bribe Congress into letting him create his army of turkey super soldiers.
Taking You with Me: After being impaled by the real President on a cornstalk, the Turkey POTUS reaches into his chest and pulls out a wishbone. He snaps it then wishes to explode in a failed bid to take the President with him.

Memory Tammy

Voiced by: Cassie Steele

Appearances: "Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort"

A memory of Tammy from Birdperson's mind. Since she's a memory from back when Birdperson thought she was a good person who loved him, she acts like the person he thought she was rather than the evil individual she was in real-life.

Dying Declaration of Love: She tells Birdperson she loves him just before she's wiped from existence in his decaying dreamscape.
Face Death with Dignity: Having told Birdperson she loves him one last time, she watches him escape his crumbling mind and calmly embraces oblivion with a peaceful look and smile on her face.
Locked Out of the Loop: She's a memory who only knows what Birdperson knows and a lot of his memories are locked away by Federation brainalyzer technology. As such, she's just as surprised as Birdperson is when told that they have a child.
Loving a Shadow: In this case, she is the shadow. Birdperson fell in love with the person Tammy pretended to be, so when the memory of her gains sentience, she continues to act like the loving partner BP thought she was rather than the evil person she was beneath the mask.
Other Me Annoys Me: Given that she's a memory from before her true personality was revealed, she's understandably disturbed to see the memory versions of herself who killed BP and resurrected him as a cyborg.

Nick

Voiced by: Nicholas Rutherford

Appearances: "Forgetting Sarick Mortshall"

A man who got portal fluid splashed on his thigh that Morty finds himself connected to after getting some on his hand. After a falling out with Rick, Morty teams up with Nick to have new adventures as the "Portal Boys."

Affably Evil: When Morty first meets him, Nick is very friendly, encouraging him to cut Rick out of his life because of how toxic their relationship is. He also discourages Morty from trying to bust him out of the mental institution he's locked in despite the horrifying abuse he suffers there. Once he gets his freedom back though, he quickly goes off the rails, murdering people who he thinks are crossing him and unarmed bystanders for fun. Even his friendliness to Morty ends after the latter abandons him.
Ax-Crazy: It turns out there was a reason he was locked up in a mental institution. After Morty busts him out, it doesn't take long for Nick to start killing people at the drop of a hat.
Bedlam House: The institution he's imprisoned in is this with guards who like to beat patients on Sundays. He says it's still better than Mondays when they tie them down and lick their faces. Plus it's meatloaf day.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He tells Morty he met Rick one night while drinking and then came home with him. He ended up messing with some stuff in the garage, got portal fluid splashed on him, then Rick literally fired him out of a catapult to Australia. The trauma ended up landing him in a mental institution. Later he reveals he was lying, Rick catapulted him because Nick tried to steal his portal gun, and given his killing spree later it's no mystery why he's locked up in an institution.
Death by Irony: Nick wanted to be the "Portal Boys" with Morty in order to be something special and was willing to kill the latter when he refused to fall in line. Morty ends up chopping off his own portal hand and tossing it into the portal on Nick's thigh that connects them, causing Nick's entire body to be sucked into the portal before disappearing, either killing him or subjecting him to a fate worse than death. Either way, he ends up a Portal Boy.
I Just Want to Be Special: He thought stealing Rick's portal gun was his ticket to being something special. After Morty gets a portal similar to Nick's own that connects them, he decides Morty is his best chance at being special instead by becoming the Portal Boys.
Negative Space Wedgie: Morty dropping his severed portal-hand into Nick's portal causes a paradox that sucks Nick in with it, before he is obliterated from existence entirely.
Rebound Best Friend: After Rick replaces Morty with two crows as his new sidekicks, Morty decides to make Nick his new adventuring partner. Morty thinks that they're both victims of Rick and that by teaming up they can go on adventures that are actually heroic. Unfortunately Nick turns out to be a psychopath who's even more toxic and controlling than Rick, resorting to murder when Morty won't fall in line.
Weaponized Teleportation: Nick and Morty take advantage of the portals that connect them to supply the other with weapons in a fight, first using the technique to take out the guards trying to keep Nick locked up. Nick later takes advantage of this to shoot people through Morty's portal hand against Morty's wishes. Morty later uses it agaisnt him by dropping his own severed hand portal into Nick's leg portal. The resulting paradox causes Nick to be sucked into himself.

Two Crows

Appearances: "Forgetting Sarick Mortshall"

Two crows randomly picked by Rick to be his new sidekicks to punish Morty for screwing up.

Morality Chain: Surprisingly they end up being this for Rick. During an adventure where Rick tries to get an alien treasure from a temple and ignores a bunch of ridiculously cute aliens being murdered by a temple trap, the crows stop Rick from getting the idol because "empathy is the real treasure." Rick first tries to fire them only for alien crows to teach him empathy and eventually decides to see what more they can teach him.
Rebound Best Friend: Rick makes them his new sidekicks after Morty makes one mistake too many. At first it's just a bit, but after learning how empathetic they are, he actually becomes super obsessed with crows and decides to make the change permanent. He even tries to start a new franchise: Rick and Two Crows, where they Walk the Earth facing down the forces of their nemesis, Crow Scare. Except then it turns out the crows are using Rick as a rebound for Crow Scare, who turns out to be their old adventuring partner and they end up dumping Rick to get back together with their ex.
Uplifted Animal: An artifact owned by the crow aliens briefly allows them to transform into similar aliens, only for the two crows to go back to normal after helping Rick destroy it. The only thing they ask for in return is bird quaaludes.
We Can Rule Together: The two crows are given this offer by the alien crows, who turn on Rick once they find out he thought crows were stupid. The crows play along long enough to become like the alien crows, then use their skills to save Rick's life instead.

Season Six

Mr. Frundles

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Mmm, I'm Mr. Frundles!

^{Earth infected by Mr. Frundles}

Voiced by: Justin Roiland

Appearances: "Solaricks"

A parasitic creature that Season 2 Jerry accidentally unleashes onto the world, forcing the Smith-Sanchez family to find a new dimension to live in.

Adorable Abomination: Once the existential danger it presents becomes apparent it's undeniable that Mr. Frundles is an utterly adorable instance of the potential horrors in the wider universe.
Apocalypse Wow: By the end of his screentime, Mr. Frundles has assimilated Earth itself, swallowing its oceans with its gigantic mouth and reducing it to a lifeless husk, thus being an example of Class 6 of Apocalypse Wow.
The Assimilator: Everything it bites acquires its face and the ability to bite other things to repeat the process. This can spread exponentially to quickly overtake a planet and everything on it.
Clone by Conversion: Whatever it bites grows its face, verbally identifies as Mr. Frundles and bites other things to spread. Living things that already have a face will have them transformed into the same one it has.
Cute Is Evil: So cute that Rick kept it solely on this merit, in spite of how incredibly dangerous it is.
Cute Little Fangs: Played for horror. Seriously.
Fluffy the Terrible: Despite its adorable appearance, one bite can infect a person or even an object into becoming an extension of Mr. Frundles, to the point where the entire planet becomes a Mr. Frundles in seconds.
Grey Goo: Given it also infects inanimate objects and the way it took over Earth, it can be considered to be similar to a Grey Goo apocalypse, making it a combination of this and The Virus.
Killer Rabbit: Mr. Frundles seems to be an adorable harmless alien creature at first, until Season 2 Jerry lets it out of the cage.
Perpetual Smiler: Mr. Frundles has one with a Cute Little Fang, as does everyone it infects.
Living Polyhedron: The original Mr. Frundles is essentially a mobile pyramid.
Planet Destroyer: The last we see of him, he literally drinks all the water bodies of Earth with its mouth, degreening the whole planet in seconds and probably ending all life on it.
Planet Eater: Given how he took over Earth itself via infection or assimilation, he can be considered a variation of this.
Pokémon Speak: His entire dialogue.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: Rick kept Mr. Frundles as a pet because he thought it was cute.
Take Over the World: Its ultimate fate, infecting the planet itself.
The Virus: If it bites someone - or something, as inanimate objects are not immune - the victim becomes Mr. Frundles as well and can further the infection at an alarmingly fast rate. The second the original Mr. Frundles gets out, it takes about a minute before it turns the entire planet into Mr. Frundles.

Jons

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Voiced By: Peter Dinklage

Appearances: "Rick: A Mort Well-Lived"

The leader of a group of alien criminals who are staging a Die Hard heist on Blipz And Chitz, leaving it up to Summer to assume the role of John McClane and stop them.

Did Not Think This Through: Pulls a Die Hard against an intergalactic arcade, despite the fact that the entire place runs on tokens, and doesn't even have any money on-site.
"Die Hard" on an X: Stages a Die Hard heist in a space arcade.
The Dreaded: Invoked upon him. Once he realizes that Summer Smith is "the ultimate McClane," he immediately loses his cool and orders his terrorists to kill her no matter the cost.
Jons: You don't have to not do things that were done in 'Die Hard.' You can shoot the glass. Shoot the glass! Throw grenades! Do everything! Just kill her!
Eaten Alive: Dies this way when one of his henchmen, Winslow, in a bizarre Shout-Out to Officer Al Powell from the first movie, gets over his fear of eating people after having accidentally eaten a child some time before, and transforms into a One-Winged Angel form and devours his boss.
Expy: Of Hans Gruber from the original Die Hard, which he deliberately invokes. He has an identical sibling who is himself an Expy of Simon Gruber from Die Hard With A Vengeance.
Godzilla Threshold: He orders his associates to stop following the Die Hard movies once he realises Summer isn't mimicing John McClane.
Just Desserts: He gets eaten alive by Winslow in the end.
No Name Given: Barely averted. When contacting one of his associates, Frank, he refers to himself as "Jons."
Serious Business: Reveals that the themes and plots in the Die Hard movies are recurring amongst nearly all civilizations of the cosmos, and he's written several books on the subject, including Earth's version.
Pretty Little Headshots: Played for Laughs. Kills the manager of Blipz And Chipz this way, mimicing Hans Gruber killing the manager of the Nakatomi Plaza. Ironically, he wanted to pull a Your Head A-Splode, and complains that the laser gun he's been given fires a discrete energy beam that makes clean little holes instead.
I Have Your Wife: Non-romantic example. Jons and his terrorists finding Morty's comatose body by the Roy game and announcing the discovery to Summer is what causes her to surrender herself.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Summer is told to "Do a Die Hard", and yet has never watched the films, while the Hans Gruber alien assumes she is a "Die Hard enthusiast". This leads her to do things different than what they expected her to had she watched them, making her a wildcard.
Wrote the Book: He personally states that he wrote several books on "Die Hard", or rather the mythology about a man who does what happens in the movie. This develops on every sentient civilization and led to "Die Hard" for Earth, or "Tower Man" "Thornberg Cycle" and "Foolish to Have Imagined You'd Be Able to Kill" in other galaxies. This ends up biting him in the end when Summer reads one of the books, allowing her to actually learn about Die Hard tropes (specifically, duct taping a gun to her back).

Jennith Padrow-Chunt

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Voiced By: Heather Anne Campbell

Appearances: "Final DeSmithation"

The CEO of Fortune 500, a company that produces fortune cookies.

Ambition Is Evil: She works every day towards fulfilling her cookie fortune of becoming the most successful businesswoman on earth.
Bizarre Taste in Food: She is introduced in the introductionary video for herself literally eating ramen noodles from a toilet.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: She the CEO of Fortune 500, and is willing to exploit the manipulation of fate for profit.
Dropped a Bridge on Her: Her death by getting eaten by the Lockerean creature is rather unceremonious.
Euphemistic Names: The second name in her surname sounds similar to well...
Just Desserts: In the end, she gets eaten by the Lockerean she used to make fortune cookies.
Kick the Dog: She brings in Jerry's mom into the building just to invoke his fate of having sex with his mom.
Light Is Not Good: She wears an all-white suit. She is also the Big Bad of the episode.
Morning Routine: Like any other shallow CEO, she has a morning routine, consisting of... sleeping on a bed of loose grains and dragging her vagina across Chinese silver grass.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: She's a clear parody of Gwyneth Paltrow, complete with her obsession with vaginas.
One-Winged Angel: After Rick strips her of her immortality by making her the world's richest woman for but a fleeting moment, she eats a ton of fortune cookies all at once, turning into a Body Horror-tastic abomination with lightning breath, intent on taking Rick down.
Purpose-Driven Immortality: Because her fortune of becoming the world's most successful businesswoman is destined to come true, she is immortal until she achieves that. A goal that Rick is willing to help her with, and then promptly undo.
Transformation Horror: When she eats many fortune cookies with unresolved fates to become a One-Winged Angel, she turns into a monster not unlike one from AKIRA.
The Upper Crass: Her lifestyle is very bizarre and crude, parodying lifestyles of many celebrities.
Villain in a White Suit: She only ever wears an all-white suit.
Villainous Breakdown: When Rick ends her immortality by invoking her fate, she responds by eating a whole bunch of unresolved fortuned cookies, becoming a One-Winged Angel.
Winds of Destiny, Change!: Her company's fortune cookies bear fortunes that will come true, no matter how improbable.

Old M. Hucksbee

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Voiced By: James Adomian

Appearances: "Final DeSmithation"

An employee of Fortune 500, tasked with making the fortunes in the cookies.

Bestiality Is Depraved: Besides escaping from the factory, he also wants to have sex with the Lockerean creature.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He gets torn apart limb-by-limb by the Lockerean creature.
Face Death with Dignity: Upon realizing the alien creature he loved was nothing more than a wild animal, his only response was to deliver an anecdote about the nature of interspecies sex, and then says "Well, joopidty-boop, time to die." before being torn apart by an alien creature.
Half-Witted Hillbilly: Of the Country Bumpkin type. He is certainly a parody of a redneck.
"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!": He's been putting obscene fortunes and specific cries for help in the fortune cookies, all in hope that someone would do something about it, hopefully freeing him and the alien creature the company exploits.
Interspecies Romance: He is in love with the Lockerean creature that Fortune 500 exploits for it's fate-assuring fortune cookie dough feces.
Lets Wait Awhile: Played for Laughs, while he wants to have sex with the Lockerean creature, he also wants to wait till he can marry it since he is Catholic.
Mr. Exposition: He provides more information about how fortune cookies work to Rick, especially about cookies with unresolved fortunes, which Rick immmediately exploits.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He threatens to release a virus that will "shut down the world" to a random person if they don't free him. After they don't do so, the fortune cookie's fate is realised, making him the In-Universe instigator of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The Dinosaurs

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From left to right: the Brachiosaurus God, the Triceratops God and the Tyrannosaurus Rex God

Voiced By: Jason Mraz (Brachiosaurus God), Dan Harmon (Triceratops God), Lisa Kudrow (Tyrannosaurus Rex God)

Appearances: "Juricksic Mort"

Three Dinosaurs consisting of a Tyrannosaurus rex, a Brachiosaurus and a Triceratops who return to Earth to find it inhabited by humans. They are benevolent though oblivious to human nature, and bid to turn the Earth into a Utopia, but swiftly get sent away from Earth due to circumstances beyond them....

All for Nothing: The dinosaurs, to their immense sorrow, realize that their efforts are for naught because every utopia they usher in inevitably attracts malicious living meteors that destroy the worlds they uplifted. They, and Rick, even drop the trope name word-for-word.
Alternate-History Dinosaur Survival: It turns out the dinosaurs did not all go extinct, but a handful left such as this trio for outer space and came back to Earth after some 66 million years.
Always Someone Better: Zig-Zagged. Rick casually proclaims himself on the same level as the dinosaurs, but though they don't brag about it, they seemingly prove him wrong with their far superior technology. They even have portal technology and traveled the multiverse, before deciding to focus on their universe of origin. However, Rick very quickly understands their tech and adapts his own to counter it, to the point that in the episode's climax the Dinosaurs are powerless to move him away against his will.
Balance of Good and Evil: The show gives a Science Fiction version of the concept with these dinosaurs and the sentient meteors. While the dinosaurs evolved into "higher and higher levels of loving vegan godhood, another life-form devolved into an equally selfless hate-filled species of barely-sentient rocks" that seek out the dinosaurs as a form of Animal Jingoism, crashing into every planet that the dinosaurs colonize.
Beyond the Impossible: The dinosaurs are even more intelligent than Rick is, and that is no small feat. They casually create a new portal gun (a portal pistol) for him, and the pistol is not only much sleeker and compact than Rick's old portal gun, but the portals it creates allow you to see your destination instead of just a swirling green vortex. They're also able to terraform entire worlds and cause plants to sprout and grow from barren soil. And to highlight just how impressive they are, most of their displays of power are accomplished just by them thinking about it and concentrating for a moment, putting them on the level of Reality Warpers.
Can't Argue with Elves: The dinosaurs are genuinely superior to humans in every way, and worst still are entirely humble about it so it can't even be said that they're smug. Every frustration people could have with them providing everything they want and need is unjustified due to petty resentment at the loss of purpose and honest observation that addressing problems was deliberately being procrastinated. The only justification for rejecting them is they're so good that their entire species is a Doom Magnet for living meteors that are as hateful as they are compassionate.
Condescending Compassion: The Dinosaur's entire hat is that they are superior to humanity, they know they're superior to humanity, prove they are superior constantly and they do it while being obnoxiously nice about it. The fact that they deliver what they promise — a utopia free of responsibility on a thriving planet — just makes it all the more frustrating.
Dumb Dinos: Inverted. The dinosaurs are actually highly intelligent, peaceful beings that turn whole worlds into utopias wherever they go. Unfortunately, their intelligence and kindness end up attracting evil asteroids bent on wiping out every planet of them.
Foil: The dinosaurs to Rick. Like Rick, they are so impossibly advanced that they've basically ascended to physical gods able to do anything they want and go anywhere they please. The key difference is that Rick hoards his technology for his own use and his vast knowledge of existence is the catalyst for him being such a cynical and detached Straw Nihilist; but the dinosaurs are Anti-Nihilists who have dedicated themselves to traveling the cosmos using their powers to help lesser species flourish and terraforming worlds into utopias. And while Rick usually doesn't care about the chaos he leaves behind in his adventures, the dinosaurs are genuinely compassionate and are horrified to learn that all the past civilizations they've helped were wiped out after they left.
Good Is Boring: The leaders of the world concede control to the dinosaurs knowing that if they refused, the world's impoverished would overthrow them. Eventually, though, everyone gets tired of the utopian existence the dinosaurs usher in. When the dinos are forced to leave, newspapers say everyone is far less happy and problems are worse than ever, just like they like it.
Hero Antagonist: The dinosaurs are genuinely altruistic and effective at solving humanity's problems. Their presence causes the central conflict, but it's not really their fault.
Heroic Suicide: The dinosaurs go to Mars and attempt to let the meteor kill them there after discovering all the planets they previously helped were struck by meteors due to their presence there so that no more worlds with sentient life will be harmed. Rick narrowly manages to convince them otherwise by putting himself on-site, betting that the dinos' altruistic nature will prioritize his survival over their suicide, and using his tech to block their attempts to teleport him away, ensuring that the only way for them to save his life is by destroying the meteor.
Humans Are Bastards: Conversed by them. The dinosaurs avoid outright labeling humans as such despite what they have been doing in their absence. They instead insist that they "tried their best".
Hypocrite: When the dinosaurs learn about the sentient meteor coming to wipe out the Earth, they admit that they have been procrastinating on finding a non-violent solution, the same kind of problem-avoiding they had accused humanity of doing when they first arrived.
Not So Above It All: The dinosaurs are zen altruists, but them fixing the rift at the end is difficult to interpret as anything but passive-aggression after Rick previously declined their aid in fixing it. Especially after Rick forced their hand into killing the living meteor to save him. The Stinger also shows that their favorite pastime is skateboarding.
Passive-Aggressive Kombat: The undertone of Rick's conflict with the dinosaurs. They sincerely want to help, but Rick considers himself equal to them (even though he's clearly not) and resents any implication he needs their help. After he forces their hand to destroy a living meteor to save his life (when they were otherwise willing to allow it to kill them), they immediately fix the space-time rift he said he was going to get around to closing because "we just love helping", forcing him to actually finish recreating portal tech to travel the multiverse.
Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: It turns out the dinosaurs are so kind, intelligent, and selfless that their existence attracts beings of pure destructive hatred: living sentient meteors that eventually collide with any planet which the dinosaurs settle on.
Produce Pelting: The audience at the stadium throws their dino toys on the stage in protest.
Puny Humans: The dinosaurs return and are surprised to find "Monkeys went bald?", explaining later that humanity's mammal ancestors were essentially like squirrels to them. Averted in that they don't look down on humanity after evolving beyond "non-constructive criticism", and peacefully assume custody of the Earth to do what they've done on other planets throughout the universe, uplift the standard of living into a utopia.
Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Rick, believing that the dinosaurs are Too Good to Be True, decides to investigate the other planets they previously helped, and he and Morty discover that all of them were, like Earth, eventually struck by a huge asteroid that made all the dinos still living there go extinct, and now that they've returned to Earth again, another such asteroid is heading right for the planet. However, he also realizes that the dinos truly had no idea this was happening, and when he reveals all of this to everyone on Earth, they're as upset to learn about it as the humans are. They really are as selfless and kind as they always appeared to be, and decide fairly quickly to leave Earth to spare its population from being killed by the asteroid.
Shown Their Work:
- The Tyrannosaurus have feathers on their heads and tails, but are predominantly scaly according to fossil evidence.
- The sauropods, particularly the Brachiosaurus, have what appear to be pseudo-beaks that sauropods are now believed to have possessed. This is notably one of the first times in fiction sauropods are portrayed with this new discovery.
Thinking Up Portals: Near literally when the dinosaurs restore portal tech to Rick by mentally replicating a Portal Pistol for him. It's colored purple and the portals it makes are translucent so one can see their destination. Rick smashes it because he dislikes being one-upped.
Throw the Dog a Bone: In spite of having been kicked off of Earth, the Dinosaurs are shown to enjoy their time on their new home as they can spend their time on their favourite hobby of skateboarding.
Too Good to Be True: Averted. Rick initially thinks that the Dinosaurs are hiding something, but it turns out that they truly are as altruistic as they present themselves to be. They genuinely didn't know about the meteor destroying all their civilizations and are horrified to learn about it.
Ultraterrestrials: Dinosaurs were Sufficiently Advanced Precursors that left Earth after achieving utopic existence and traveled the universe uplifting the standard of living for other species.
Utopia: The Dinosaurs called the bluff on the Human race wanting more free time and turn the planet into a thriving utopia completely free of all conflict and capitalism. The President, Beth, Summer, and Morty all realize how much it sucks to not have [to pretend] to fix the problems that they cause.

The Meteors

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Voiced By: Unknown

Appearances: "Juricksic Mort"

According to Rick, "barely" sentient meteors evolved along with the dinosaurs to have become just as selflessly evil as the dinosaurs become selflessly good. Thereby, they are currently rocks of pure rage with the singular intent to destroy any utopia created by the dinosaurs.

Always Chaotic Evil: The sentient meteors, who only appear to live to destroy planets improved upon by the Dinosaurs and speak only in Angrish.
Angrish: The living meteor spouts nothing but incomprehensible rage-speak and angry screaming.
Balance of Good and Evil: The show gives a Science Fiction version of the concept with the dinosaurs and the sentient meteors. While the dinosaurs evolved into "higher and higher levels of loving vegan godhood, another life-form devolved into an equally selfless hate-filled species of barely-sentient rocks" that seek out the dinosaurs as a form of Animal Jingoism, crashing into every planet that the dinosaurs colonize.
Fake Ultimate Mook: While they resembled terrifying and unstoppable threats to the dinosaurs, it turned that the dinosaurs could in fact kill them. It's just that they were so pacifistic they couldn't bring themselves to kill another life-form.
Genius Loci: The meteor that killed the dinosaurs turns out to be a species of perpetually angry asteroids that slam into any planet with dinosaurs.
It Can Think: According to Rick, they barely apply to this, thanks to evolving as the antithesis to the hyper-intelligent dinosaurs.
Living Lava: The sentient meteors resemble living lava rocks in a sense.
Lovecraft Lite: The hateful meteors targeting the altruistic dinosaurs present a relatively mundane kind of Cosmic Horror Story. A utopia can never last because a massive rock drifting somewhere in space that hates everything will sense the dinos' selflessness somehow and be driven to destroy their planets to extinguish all life. These meteors can be destroyed, but the dinosaurs are so all-loving that they won't even do so in self-defense, only in order to save another life form besides themselves.
Omnicidal Maniac: The dinosaurs are so advanced, altruistic, and humble that their mere existence attracts the attention of their living antithesis: sentient meteorites, which evolved into the most primitive, hate-filled, and destructive life-forms possible, and have devoted their entire existence to annihilating the dinosaurs and everything they fix.
Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: It turns out the dinosaurs are so kind, intelligent, and selfless that their existence attracts beings of pure destructive hatred: living sentient meteors that eventually collide with any planet which the dinosaurs settle on.
Red Is Violent: They are predominantly reddish in colour and are planet-destroyingly violent.
Self-Disposing Villain: While they destroy planets, it also results in one of themselves getting killed.
Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: They are pretty much this trope embodied. Sentient meteors that want to destroy all utopic worlds made by the dinosaurs even if it means getting themselves killed.
Shout-Out: The Meteors that keep on following the Dinosaurs have a striking resemblance to the moon from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Previous Leon

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Eat Lead Pussy

Appearances: "Full Meta Jackrick"

Voiced By: Justin Roiland

A parasitic fly-like creature that crosses path with Rick and Morty.

Brought to You by the Letter "S": He wears a jacket with his initials on it.
Healing Factor: He is able to grow his wings back after they get torn off of him by Jesus Christ by feeding on his "potential" (read: life force).
Lotus-Eater Machine: Previous Leon puts his victims in a fake Previously on… segment while he drains them of their life force.
Made of Iron: He suffers a lot of abuse throughout this episode, but shrugs them off with ease.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: He attempts one when pointing a gun at Morty. But Rick interrupts this and takes over the gun.
Previously on…: Previous Leon has the power to force someone to relive their recent past while he drains their life force in the present. This can include past events that never happened but can have real consequences.
Punny Name: His name is wordplay on Previously on….

The Self-Referential Six

Appearances: "Full Meta Jackrick"

A group of metafiction-themed super beings.

Ascended Extra: Protago-Nick can fire a beam that can make anyone the protagonist, even an extra.
Ass Pull: Mr. Twist's power is this, being able to alter reality however he pleases as long as it's in the form of a plot twist, even if it came out of nowhere.
Backstory Invader: Downplayed with Flash Back. While he doesn't meddle with people's backstories, he can take a peek at their past by suddenly appearing in a flashback.
Bait-and-Switch: Miss Lead's introduction naturally involves giving Rick a greeting like they're old acquaintances, before haughtily slapping him.
Buxom Beauty Standard: Miss Lead has a very noticeable bust, further emphasized by the Cleavage Window in her outfit. Given she's a super-heroine themed character, it's likely a reference to Most Common Superpower.
I'm Melting!:
- Connie TinuityError's fate after Rhett Caan splashes her with coffee, which was "always" a lethal weakness.
- Also Mr. Twist's fate after he was retconned to have been born without bones by Rhett Caan.
Non-Indicative Name: Played with.
- After Mr. Twist introduces himself, he responds to Morty asking who the 6th member is that Morty is. Rick quickly dismisses it. According to him, Mr. Twist tells that to everybody and there is no 6th member, seemingly playing the trope straight.
- Ultimately subverted in The Stinger, which features Tag Man, a hulking man with a simplistic face, beating various aliens in an arena while excitedly shouting he's Tag Man, the man who lives in the tag. He didn't appear in the episode proper because he lives in the tag of the episode.
Offscreen Reality Warp: Connie TinuityError's power is that she can make anything appear, as long as it happens offscreen.
Punny Name: Except for Mr. Twist, they've all got trope puns for names. Miss Lead, Flash Back, Protago-Nick and Connie TinuityError
Reality Warper: Connie TinuityError can change the world to her whims as long as the changes happen off-camera (as in, causing a continuity error by placing something at a location previously that was vacant in an earlier shot). Mr. Twist can do the same, as long as he phrases it as a plot twist.
Smash Cut: Mr. Twist has these in grenade form, jumping ahead to the next scene when they explode.
Switching P.O.V.: Protago-Nick can make this happen in an instant, changing the focus of the narrative onto whoever he hits with his beams.
Weaksauce Weakness: According to Rhett Caan, Connie TinuityError "always was" able to be killed by coffee, which leads to her melting after being splashed with some.
Whole Costume Reference: Flash Back wears a costume similar to The Flash.

Rhett Caan

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche

A prisoner of the Self-Referential Six, with meta powers of his own.

Adaptational Name Change: Invoked upon himself by Rhett Caan, who was formerly called Brett Caan, changing his name to Rhett after hearing Morty wonder why he isn't named Rhett Caan since Rhett is a name too.
Even More Omnipotent: While Mr. Twist and Connie TinuityError have Reality Warper powers, Rhett Caan is regarded as the strongest member of the team and effortlessly takes them out.
Kryptonite Factor: According to Rick, Rhett Caan was imprisoned in a cell made out of sports since sports is the opposite of story and his powers affect storytelling.
Punny Name
Reality Warper: He can simply make changes to reality by saying out loud that something always was what he said it was. Rhett's power stands out for the sheer scale he can affect,being able to send the entire base to a formless void and turn it into a giant orange just because he felt like it.
Retconjuration: Rhett Caan's power. He can make anything he says retroactively always have been true.
Reverse Arm-Fold: Rhett Caan folds his arms behind his back when talking to Rick and Morty from his prison cell.
A Villain Named Khan: Rhett Caan, an omnipotent character and the bane of the Self-Referential Six.

Cookie Magneto

Voiced by: John Early

A cookie-themed supervillain who challenges Rick and Morty to a fight.

Bullying a Dragon: He chose to start a fight with Rick Sanchez.
Expy: A tongue in cheek blatant copy of Magneto, but for cookies.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Discussed. Morty asks if he can control cookie ingredients, pointing out that sugar is in so many things that this villain could theoretically control most physical matter.
Mathematician's Answer: Morty asks him if he controls things people generally agree are cookies, he answers that what people call cookies are things he controls.
Semantic Superpower: Discussed when Morty asks him how nuanced his control of cookies is, wondering that if the definition is stretched to ingredients, he actually has control over a wide range of common compounds.
Single Substance Manipulation: Spoofed and lampshaded; he's Magneto...but for cookies. His sole scene is Morty questioning any nuanced applications of this vague description.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed by Rick with a laser cannon before the intro theme even plays.

Piss Master

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"You wanna piece of piss?"

Voiced By: Will Forte

Appearances: "Analyze Piss"

A urine-themed supervillain who has it out for Rick.

Alien Blood: His blood is purple.
Boisterous Weakling: He makes a big deal out of his demands for Rick to fight him, but his combat skills are so meager that Jerry, of all people, is able to get the best of him.
Came Back Wrong: Rick tries to revive him, but due to lack of oxygen circulation, his brain was already too damaged to properly function, leaving him a jabbering husk that Rick has to re-kill.
Captain Ersatz: Pissmaster has green skin, rides a metal glider and keeps a stash of themed grenades, much like the Green Goblin. Unfortunately he doesn't have the Goblin's super strength or super intelligence.
Dirty Coward: He's all too quick to apologize and plead for mercy after Jerry gets the upper hand in their fight.
Dirty Old Man: He's old enough to have grandchildren and made a sexual comment about Summer while antagonizing Rick. This royally pissed Jerry off.
Driven to Suicide: After losing a fight to Jerry, he killed himself by slitting his wrists in a piss-filled bathtub.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a daughter who cares for him very much. She is what spurned Rick to impersonate Piss Master.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: His name is "Piss Master" and he, well, has mastery over piss.
Goodbye, Cruel World!: He left a suicide note, blaming Jerry.
Green and Mean: As is standard for his race, Pissmaster has green skin.
Harmless Villain: Jerry Smith beats him in a one-on-one Wimp Fight, and soundly at that. This should tell you exactly where Piss Master's threat level lies.
Heroic Sacrifice: Feigned. As far as the universe is concerned, this was Piss Master's fate, sacrificing himself in order to dispose of a bomb on Orphan Island. In actuality, that's a bit of Engineered Heroics on Rick's part, so Piss Master's daughter will believe he died a glorious death instead of a tragic suicide.
Idiosyncrazy: He's a supervillain with a urine gimmick.
Inelegant Blubbering: Pissmaster can not take a punch. When Jerry's done with him, he's pathetically begging for mercy and trying to make his lewd comment towards Summer sound like a faux pas.
Irony: A supervillain with a urine gimmick gets labelled a "piece of shit" by the public.
Making a Splash: He wears a super suit which gives him the ability to spray pee, and can make shields of solidified urine.
Mobile Fishbowl: Pissmaster's suit is filled with urine that goes up to his eyes. Presumably this is because he doesn't have enough storage space in the tank on his back to spray several waves of piss at his enemy.
Never My Fault: His note makes it clear that he blames Jerry for his situation, despite the fact that he came to the Smith household looking for a fight, and clearly never bothered to develop any real combat skills (to the point where Jerry was able to make him beg for mercy after a short Wimp Fight).
Power Armor: He wears armor that sprays urine and shapes urine. Rick's version features a urine jetpack and possesses greater control of urine, able to make shapes as complex as a ladder out of solidified urine.
Small Name, Big Ego: He acts like he's a fearsome supervillain, but between having only a single appearance, a stupid gimmick and combat skills so pathetic he could be overpowered by Jerry, it's clear Pissmaster's awesomeness is all in his head.
Urine Trouble: His whole gimmick.
Villains Want Mercy: Once Jerry started beating him with a plastic lawn flamingo, he tries to get away and begs for mercy.
Wimp Fight: He gets into one with Jerry after casting off his armor. The two flail around, barely even getting any solid hits on each other.

Knights of the Sun

Voiced by: Daniel Radcliffe, Matt King, David Mitchell, and Robert Webb

Appearances: "A Rick in King Mortur's Mort"

An order of Knights who live on the sun and protect the Solar System.

Human Aliens: The Knights of the Sun, apart from the immortality granted by their station, have fused carbon walls for blood vessels making them immune to overdosing on heroin.
Jerkass Has a Point: One of the Knights reminds everyone that Morty refused to follow their ways and unwittingly disillusioned their beliefs. So why bother following their "king's" command to reunite if he doesn't change his mind?
Living Forever Is Awesome: The Knights of the Sun declare that they have the good kind of immortality you don't get bored with and can die whenever you want. Also, living on the sun means they can't overdose from heroin. Unfortunately, part of the initiation ritual is cutting off your dick, and that's a deal-breaker for Morty.
Poor Communication Kills: Over and over and over the Knights of the Sun boof it. They fail to explain that it's a kind of ritual You Kill It, You Bought It situation with becoming a knight, then fail to explain that you have to cut your dick off to join, then spring that you have to beat the king in combat in order to leave, only for that to turn out to be another You Kill It, You Bought It, and then it turns out that they've all been incredibly stupid about their religion and thought the solar system literally orbited the scepter when really it was a political metaphor.
Secret-Keeper: One of the newly-inducted Knights of the Sun bumps into a very-much-alive Rick and Morty hiding nearby, right after hearing the story of how they supposedly sacrificed themselves in atonement and to end the Knights' practice of castrating themselves. Morty quickly points out to him that, if he tells anyone else that they're actually still alive, the Knights (including him) will have to go back to cutting their dicks off. The guy acknowledges this and has no problem with keeping the secret.
Too Good to Be True: Once Morty gets to the Sun and is told about the perks of becoming one of their Knights, he figures there has to be a catch, and starts questioning it; the Knights tell him that they are "immortal" in the sense that they can't be killed, but they can die whenever they please, and they're not forced to stay on the Sun forever and can come and go as they like. Morty seems satisfied by the answers, but at his induction ceremony, finds out that there is indeed a catch: Knights are required to cut off their penises to join the order.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Discussed. The Knights of the Sun are immortal, but not so immortal that they will grow sick of it, as they can die whenever they want. That said they seem to need to find a successor for their sword first and are quick to kill themselves as soon as they find one.

Season Seven

Gul'Karna

Voiced By: Tom Kenny

Appearance: "How Poopy Got His Poop Back"

A Predator whom Mr. Poopybutthole hired as a private investigator to keep tabs on his ex-wife Amy only for him to sleep with her instead.

Et Tu, Brute?: Mr. Poopybutthole was not pleased to find out the guy he hired to watch over his ex-wife ends up sleeping with her.
Easily Forgiven: Despite Mr. Poopybutthole stealing his step-son and his friends beating the crap out of him, Gul'Karna assured him it was no hard feelings. Well, except for the hard feeling of getting a Grammy smashed over your head by Hugh Jackman.
Expy: Subverted, he's just literally a Predator from the film series of the same name, replete with all of the weapons, the green blood, etc. One wonders if his appearance was an officially-sanctioned crossover, since he's really not a "parody" outside of appearing in a comedic context.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His full name/title is "Gul'Karna, Clan Leader of the Skin-Thieves".

Chuxley

Voiced By: Ryan Ridley

Appearance: "The Jerrick Trap"

A Crime boss whose goons unwittingly brought in Morty and was desperate to avoid facing the wrath of Rick Sanchez

Affably Evil: Despite being a crime boss, he is quite reasonable with his underlings and tries to avoid unnecessary conflict with Rick Sanchez. However, that does not mean he won't try to kill you and your family if you push him too far.
Bullying the Dragon: At first, he tried his best to defy this when his goons brought in Morty for dealing crystals on their turf. He tries to assure Rick Sanchez that his grandson is perfectly fine and was even willing to throw in a bribe. However, seeing the confusing state Rick and Jerry were in made him think he could take them out which led to them mowing him and his gang down. He realizes this in the end, lamenting that he thought "I could kill God."
Face Death with Dignity: He takes his death pretty well, all things considered, finding it an honor to die at the hands of Jerricky and accepting his last meal of a burger (pretty moldy) with grace.
Genre Savvy: He is well aware that messing with Rick Sanchez is a death sentence. He berates his goons for bringing in Morty, the kid who hangs with Rick and tries his best to play nice with him. If it was Rick on any other day, it probably would just leave them alone.
Major Injury Underreaction: For a guy who got a hole literally drilled through him, he takes it pretty well up until he loosened his stitches.
Reasonable Authority Figure: For a Mafia Don, he is actually quite diplomatic with his underlings and rivals. He lectures his goons about the dangers of messing with Rick, reassure Rick that Morty is fine and give him a bribe to make him leave, and when his goon apologizes to him for starting this whole mess, he actually accepts it and tells him he is off the hook if they make out of this. (He doesn't but it's the thought that counts.)
Torso with a View: Gets this, courtesy of a Conehead by Rick. He actually manages to survive this with a hole in his gut but dies after he loosened his stitches in a shootout.

President of 41 Kepler B

Appearance: "That's Amorte"

The President of a world where humanity produces spaghetti when they commit suicide.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems nice and kind, inviting Morty to her planet and offering for him to be a liaison between their worlds. However, she reveals herself to be a Cold, greedy capitalist willing to make thousands of her civilians kill themselves to satisfy the bottom line.
Category Traitor: She sold out her own people as livestock. Further illustrating the point is that she's a woman of color.
Hate Sink: She's got absolutely no qualms about profiting off suicide or turning her entire planet into an industrial dystopia, caring only about the fiscal benefits.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: She bears a bit of a resemblance to US Vice President Kamala Harris.
President Evil: By the end of this episode, it's safe to say she won't be polling too high now that her constituents are also livestock.

Fred Bunks

Appearance: "That's Amorte"

A terminally ill widower from 41 Kepler B.

Childhood Friends: He and Amber have known each other since they were children.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Fred's dreams of becoming an architect failed due to his inability to keep up in class, his relationship with Amber crashed and burned with little chance of recovery, he turned to drugs, alcohol and meaningless sex as a coping mechanism and his parents died shortly after he was forced to move back in with them. When Fred decides to create Fredblox and market it as a toy, his life turns around once more, he cleans up his act and Amber falls in love with him again. Amber spends the rest of her life with Fred.
The Everyman: His life's story reveals him to be a standard middle-class guy who experienced various highs and lows. The fact that Fred's history was so relatable is what ultimately decides the market for suicide spaghetti.
Expy: Fred's got a multiversal equivalent that resembles Groot.
Trademark Favorite Food: Strawberry jam, which he eats with his fingers.

Amber

Appearance: "That's Amorte"

Fred's love interest.

Connected All Along: For a time, Amber was married to the man that Rick had harvested for suicide spaghetti at the start of the episode.
Childhood Friends: She and Fred have known each other since they were children.
Hairstyle Inertia: Ever since childhood her hair has been styled into a pair of short bushy ponytails, with the only vairant being when she added purple highlights during her teen-young adult years.
Parental Abandonment: After she rekindled things with Fred, she left her husband and her kids.
Posthumous Character: Amber died before the episode began. Her ex-husband was implied to have killed himself either in grief over her death or that he never got over her leaving him.
Satellite Love Interest: Downplayed. She's ultimately just an extension of Fred's life story, but at the same time we see she started a family of her own and left them for Fred once he sorted himself out, showing that she was just as prone to making questionable choices as he was.
The Voiceless: Amber doesn't get any dialogue due to being dead by the time the episode starts.

Observers

Voiced By: Ryan Hansen, Dan Harmon, Troy Baker.

Appearance: "Rickfending Your Mort"

Omniescent alien stones that record all of history.

Amoral Attorney: The Observer defending Rick and Morty in court barely hides he is egging for their execution as much as the rest of the Kangaroo Court, sarcastically asking if his equally incriminating clips are helping them:
Rick: I'm starting to see why this lawyer was free.
Asshole Victim: Morty accidentally killing the first Observer by kicking him into a truck. Overboard? Perhaps. Satisfying nonetheless? Definitely.
Can't Take Criticism:
- The first Observer overpowers Rick and Morty's settlement to show off its powers, leading the two to protest that he seems more interested in presenting a Clip Show and rudely pay him to leave. Insulted, the Observer harasses the Smith family with humiliating clips outside their house.
Morty: Just take the L. This is embarrassing!
Observer: I'll show you embarrassing. (cuts to another clip)
- The Observer court don't prove much better. When Rick turns the tables on them by revealing all of their dirty laundry, they quickly resort to deflecting onto each other and eventually devolve into a riot.
Hypocritical Humor: The Observers thrive on showcasing juicy moments they have of other people screwing up or acting unscrupulously. When Rick hijacks their tech and shows moments of Observers committing loads of equally immoral or petty acts (ranging from Murder by Inaction to using their visions to sell bootleg DVDs of movies), the court acts just as defensively as the duo had with their own misgivings and ultimately devolve into a Never My Fault riot.
Jerkass: The first Observer refuses to leave the Smith household, pestering Rick and Morty before moving onto the rest of the family with no provocation.
Kangaroo Court: Rick and Morty are put on trial by the Observers with the judge, jury, defense, and prosecution all being Observers. After escaping execution, Rick goes out of his way to show that nearly every individual Observer there is also a corrupt hypocrite, causing them to break into violence among themselves.
Large Ham / No Indoor Voice: They speak very loud and constantly make hammy quips about the clips the show.
Living Lie Detector: The Observers can tell if someone is lying because they can see everything. Summer learns this when she claims to have been learning for a test while she wasn't.
Mundane Utility: They're omniscient beings with the power to showcase any event from the past from anywhere, though ultimately seem more keen on using this ability to present faux Clip Shows or squeeze embarrassing or unpleasant moments from other people to watch. As one Observer refutes when called out on this lame abuse of power, their very nature is to watch.
Murder by Inaction: Rick shows footage exposing the Observers of this crime when they refuse to help a drowning person.
Not So Omniscient After All: Despite boasting their power to see everything, Rick and Morty's actions repeatedly catch them off guard:
- The first Observer is killed after Morty attacks him and inadvertantly pushes him into a moving truck. He lampshades in his dying words that he should have saw that coming.
- The Observer court is taken off-guard when Rick hacks into their systems to prevent his and Morty's execution. He then uses their tech to showcase incriminating clips of court members, who apparently had no foresight that Rick could do such, that these moments would be caught or of the other Observers' crimes.
Observer: Plot twist!
The Omniscient: The Observers see everything and EVERYTHING.
Rule of Funny: A fight breaks out in Observer court when one of the Observers shows a clip of the judge having sex with another Observer's wife. Since all Observers are omniscient, they should already know this happened, but it functions as a Brick Joke of an earlier clip in the episode of Rick tricking a temple guardian into admitting to having sex with the other guard's wife and instigating a fight.
Skewed Priorities: Pretty much everything they do devolves into their obsession with making {[Clip Show}}s. As Rick and Morty escape after the Kangaroo Court breaks into chaos, the prosecution demands they come back....as he still has clips.
The Thing That Would Not Leave: The Observer refuses to leave and continues to taunt the family with compromising video footage from outside the Smiths' house.
Uncertain Doom: Rick and Morty leave the Observer court to riot and murder each other.

Churry

Voiced By: Maria Bamford

Appearance: "Rickfending Your Mort"

A churro that Morty had Rick turn into a living being.

Animate Inanimate Object: Deconstructed; One adventure is Morty having Rick animate a churro for him to have as a friend. When Morty comes back to Rick asking to make Churry a normal churro again, Rick explains that to bring Churry to life without needing any internal organs he had to make him functionally immortal; he can't turn him back into a normal churro. Morty, not happy to learn this, abandons Churry on a barren planet, which leads him to swear vengeance.
A Lizard Named "Liz": A churro named Churry. Morty's not the best at naming things.
The Thing That Would Not Leave: Implied to be how Morty ends up feeling about the idea of Churry being immortal and staying by his side forever, even though he does enjoy hanging out with Churry. The clip was used as evidence to show how immoral and fickle Morty could be after all.

Apeborg

Appearance: "Rickfending Your Mort"

A supervillain that Rick and Morty faced at some point.

Even Evil Has Standards: Apeborg is just as disgusted as Morty is when Rick gets the latter to French-kiss Apeborg in his nostrils.
Expy: He resembles the albino gorilla-form of Superman's enemy Ultra-Humanite.

Kwyatt and Kenneth

Appearance: "Wet Kuat Amortician Summer"

Leaders of an underground syndicate that trafficks kuatos.

Big "NO!": Kenneth's Kuato (x several layers) when Rick uses his spider-like pod to force him to go into the ocean where he'll drown.
Ear Ache: Morty bites Kenneth's ear off during their Kuato battle.
Hunter of His Own Kind: The real mastermind behind the illegal Kuato trafficking is revealed to be Kenneth's Kuato...'s Kuato's Kuato. He openly admits to having sold out his own kind for money.
Implausible Deniability: Kwyatt insists to Kenneth that he didn't betray him... though obviously he did lead Rick and Summer right to his lair.
Just Between You and Me: Kuato Kenneth reveals his fourth Kuato to the heroes because he is certain they are about to die.
Karmic Death: Kwyatt, a Dirty Coward who acts as a Honey Trap to lure in Kuato girls to be abducted and sells out his boss to save himself, ends up being killed via Your Head Asplode on said boss's orders once the latter decides that he's no longer worth keeping around.
Looks Like Jesus: Kenneth does resemble a Jesus depiction, but is a scam artist which is more in line with the Antichrist.
Organ Theft: Kenneth trafficks Kuatos to wealthy clients who want the status of having Kuatos.
Overly Long Gag: Kenneth reveals himself to be a Kuato within a Kuato, then a Kuato within that Kuato, and when he promises to keep going, Rick runs out of patience and forces his moving pod to drown him.
Preemptive Apology: Kwyatt apologizes to Summer before the van with the kidnappers rolls up.
The Reveal: Played for Laughs when Kenneth reveals himself to be a Kuato within a Kuato, repeating the process as if it's really surprising (though Summer admits a talking Kuato is surprising). When he shows that there's another Kuato inside him, and implies it continues layers deeper, Summer and Rick just get sick of it.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kenneth to Kwyatt when the latter leads Summer and Rick right to the traffickers' hideout after they beat him up, ordering his mooks to kill him and his Kuato by bursting their heads.
Your Head Asplode: How Kenneth's underlings kill Kwyatt (and his Kuato) with a psychic link.

Sinistar- 7

Appearance: "Rise Of The Numbericons: The Movie'''

A Numbericon that finds herself allied with Water-T.

Abusive Parents: Her father Lord Dreadnought didn't think twice about punishing her incompetence with force lightning.
Anthropomorphic Typography: A sentient number.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Water-T and Sinistar 7 start out as enemies, then move into this after the former saves the latter from drowning, eventually leading to them making out. By the end, once their two civilizations have merged, they've become an Official Couple.
Big "NO!": Sinistar 7 delivers one when Water-T's group escapes her pursuit, as well as when Infinity kills her father.
Drunk with Power: Sinistar 7 lampshades it herself when 8 becomes Infinity and goes on a rampage across Alphabetrium, not only blowing up the Alphabetriums but also his own people the Numbericons. This prompts Sinistar 7 and the rest of his people to turn against him and ally with the Alphabetriums.
Even Evil Has Standards: Even though Sinistar 7 was raised to hate the Alphabet, even she found Infinity's senseless rampage across Alphabetrium to be horrible and so she committed a Heel–Face Turn.
Sinister Serpent: Like the majority of numbericons, she resembles a snake.

Oxygen-S/8/Infinity

Voiced By: Peter Serafinowicz

Appearance: "Rise Of The Numbericons: The Movie'''

The mastermind behind the feud between the Alphabetrians and Numbericons.

The Mole: A Numbericon that altered his appearance so he could pass for an Alphabetrian.
The Starscream: After ascending to Infinity, he kills Lord Dreadnought and usurps his position as leader of the Numbericons.

Lord Dreadnought

Appearance: "Rise Of The Numbericons: The Movie'''

The leader of the Numbericons.

Big Bad Wannabe: He's killed immediately after his agent 8 ascends to Infinity.
Expy: The cackling decimal point that hangs around him is reminiscent of Salacious Crumb, the alien monkey that Jabba the Hutt kept as a pet. His actual name, as revealed in the closed captioning, is indeed "Decimal Crumb".
Punny Name: He is a sentient number 0, and his name is Lord Dreadnought.
Shoulders of Doom: He wears an impressive set of pauldrons despite not having any arms.

Bigfoot

Voiced By: Maurice LaMarche

Appearance: "Mort: Ragnarick"

The Bigfoot, who is revealed to be continuously antagonized by Rick.

Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: He's Bigfoot.
Body Backup Drive: When Bigfoot joins the resurrection cycle after being killed by the Pope, he's initially dropped into a copy of Summer before Rick engineers him a unique human body.
Foreshadowing: He's forshadowed via a picture drawn by a supposed psychic hired by the President in "Air Force Wong", showing Rick being attacked by Bigfoot.
Grievous Harm with a Body: Bigfoot tries and fails numerous methods to breach the Project Phoenix pod before finally whaling on it with Rick's corpse in frustration. Unfortunately, whatever Rick's cybernetic implants are made of is tough enough to damage the reinforced glass.
Humanity Ensues: Thanks to dying and being revived by Project Phoenix, Bigfoot is given a human body.
It Can Think: Morty learns the hard way that Bigfoot isn't a mindless beast as it tricks him with Crocodile Tears.
Translator Microbes: The Pope gives Bigfoot a wrist computer that he can use to type out speech, bought from a Predator for three Flintlock pistols. Rick later upgrades it so it reads Bigfoot's thoughts.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Bigfoot pretends to mourn Rick's death, convincing Morty he's a gentle, intelligent soul. The latter is true, the former not so much, as Morty learns when Bigfoot quickly kills him.

The Fear Hole

Voiced By: Liev Schreiber

Appearance: "Fear No Mort"

An open sewer crack located in a Denny's bathroom stall that forces anyone who enters it to confront and overcome their worst fear.

Affably Evil: Feeds on terror and despair, and will insult those who challenge it when sufficiently miffed, but it makes good on its promise on helping entrants deal with their worst fears.
- On it’s intro video tape, it’s Avatar is even seen cheerfully helping a patron of the fear hole out of the hole itself. And is very upfront about the experience and why it promotes it.
Ambiguously Evil: The Hole's avatar is quite sinister and it's quite ruthless about scaring people, but it's left ambiguous how evil it actually is. It's possible the Hole - as it says in the VHS tape - harmlessly feeds off of fear and helps people conquer it. Yet it also claims it wants to feed off its victims' fear until they die, and Rick and Morty are gradually drained of their energy while they stay inside the Hole. Yet this too could simply be it trying to scare its customers into overcoming their fears.
Ambiguous Situation: The Reveal casts a long shadow over anything it says and/or that happens after Morty enters The Hole. Was Morty at any risk of dying, or was that just a way to raise the stakes? Was "Diane" an accurate recreation of the real thing, or was she just based on Morty's assumptions? We will likely never know.
Animal Motif: Its avatar likens the Hole to a red garra or "doctor/nibble fish" due to the purportedly benign symbiotic relationship it has with its entrants while it feeds.
Break Them by Talking: Gives one to Morty when confronted about his intentions. Before, Morty is quite condescending and derivative about the Hole's shtick. After, he looks very disturbed and even frightened.
Morty: So, what are you? Like, the Hole? The Hole's promoter, the Hole's intern?
Hole's Avatar: Is there a hole here?
Morty: Right. I'm-I'm supposed to go there and be shocked that there's no Hole, or that there is a Hole, what difference would it make?
Hole's Avatar: Hmm. You are hard to scare.
Morty: And Rick isn't, right? The Hole is gonna, like, suck at him forever because his big secret is that he's got the most fear?
Hole's Avatar: Well, we can certainly say you aren't afraid to be reductive. I doubt your Grandpa has more fear than the average asshole at a Denny's.
Patron: Hey!
Hole's Avatar: Sorry. If anything, he seems pretty brave. Certainly not afraid to die. Kinda makes his fear extra... delicious.
Morty: So, what, he's scared of love?
Hole's Avatar: Everyone's scared of love, dipshit. You'll learn that in your '20s. It takes a very rare, very powerful being to be terrified of happiness.
Morty: Dumb.
Hole's Avatar: You're dumb. That's why you're not scared to be happy. The smarter you are, the more you know. Happiness is a trap. It can't last forever. Let's say you meet the love of your life, well, it's still gonna end. It's inevitable, whether by the slow pull of a disease, or the shock of loose footing on a hiking trail, whether it be the corrosion of two personalities that reshape each other until they're incompatible, or maybe the old stranger in a bar who says the things that need to be said to that person, that night. The point is, happiness. Always. Ends. Best case scenario, think about this, best case is that you die at the same time. Yikes.
Morty: Can't the Hole just let me go then? Sounds like I don't matter.
Hole's Avatar: You don’t. But if you go, you’ll take him away. Don’t worry. Rick will die before accepting happiness. After that, we’ll chase you with some clowns or some dumb shit like that. But Grandpa…(chuckles) yummy, yummy. Grandpa’s gonna die. Just. Like. Diane.
*Cue Dramatic Thunder*
Hole's Avatar does an Evil Laugh.
Emotion Eater: Of fear. Claims to be a benign one, but the truth is unclear.
Epiphanic Prison: A sentient one.
Expy: Of Rod Serling. His debut episode is a homage to the The Twilight Zone.
Humanoid Abomination: The Rod Serling-like fellow who invites Rick and Morty to the Hole and later taunts Morty about its nature is revealed to be an extension of the Hole itself. His true nature beyond that is unknown.
I Know What You Fear: The Hole forces its customers to confront what they fear most, even (and especially) if they themselves don't even know what that is yet.
Nothing Is Scarier: It isn’t made clear what the Fear Hole actually is, or why it appeared within a Denny’s bathroom. It’s avatar only explains that it is from Earth.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Calls out Morty for being an easily frightened and tormented teen, and highlights Rick's fear of happiness in a succinct and acidic monologue. Subverted since it's all part of the Hole's efforts to help Morty realize his true greatest fear.
Sophisticated as Hell: The Hole represents itself through a Serling-esque middle-aged gentleman who can put on the charm and mystique of the man even as he calls Morty a "dipshit".
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Those that escape it wake up covered in sewage, because epiphany or not, they still chose to descend into a hole located beneath a dirty bathroom stall.

Characters / Rick and Morty: One-Off Characters

One-off characters (in order of appearance)

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Season Four

Season Five

Season Six

Season Seven

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One-off characters (in order of appearance)

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Season Four

Season Five

Season Six

Season Seven

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Index

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