History Characters / RickAndMortyVariants

* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite being evil to the core, he's still capable of being unfailingly polite.

* TheAce: He ''is'' "the Rickest Rick", after all. Even Rick C-137, with all his intelligence, planning skills, and penchant for layers of back-up plans, spent decades trying to find Rick Prime to no success. Rick Prime has decoys, death traps, and secret bases across the multiverse, creating a massive network of confusion and chaos for any Rick that tries to look for him, and his plans take into account what these other Ricks will do and counteracts them. All of this is seemingly automated and left behind by him years ago, along with pre-recorded messages to taunt the Ricks about how he duped them. Even with Rick C-137 and Evil Morty -- potentially the two smartest beings in the universe aside from Rick Prime -- fighting together, Rick Prime ends up beating them both and is only defeated when Evil Morty impersonates the other Morty to take him by surprise.

* KarmaHoudini: He kills his counterpart's Diane and Beth, ruins Rick's life, and never faces any comeuppance. The fact that he couldn't find him led Rick into a depression.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Unmortricken", however, he finally gets beaten to death by Rick.

* TheAce: He ''is'' "the Rickest Rick", after all. Even Rick C-137, with all his intelligence, planning skills, and penchant for layers of back-up plans, spent decades trying to find Rick Prime to no success. Rick Prime has decoys, death traps, and secret bases across the multiverse, creating a massive network of confusion and chaos for any Rick that tries to look for him, and his plans take into account what these other Ricks will do and counteracts them. All of this is seemingly automated and left behind by him years ago, along with pre-recorded messages to taunt the Ricks about how he duped them. [[spoiler:Even with Rick C-137 and Evil Morty -- potentially the two smartest beings in the universe aside from Rick Prime -- fighting together, Rick Prime ends up beating them both and is only defeated when Evil Morty impersonates the other Morty to take him by surprise.]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Functions as this to both Rick C-137 and Evil Morty, [[spoiler:both of whom had been portrayed as unstoppable badasses yet repeatedly get fooled or bested by Rick Prime's traps or schemes. Only by working together with the main Morty were they finally able to take him down.]]

** His question turns out to be less philosophical and more practical: [[spoiler:He got returned to his home dimension involuntarily due to Rick's attempt to rebuild the portal gun, and he was in the process of figuring out how to escape again.]]

** Taken to it's utmost extreme with his ''absolute worst act'', when it's revealed that he [[spoiler: ''created a device that removed'' '''''all''''' ''Dianes in'' '''''all''''' ''of existence'', effectively for no other reason than out of ''pure'' '''''petty spite''''' ''against Rick C-137 in particular'', so that he could ''never'' reunite with his wife that was taken from him.]]

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: Rick Prime's augmentations include the ability to heal facial wounds, which he demonstrates after taking a particularly harsh blow to the face. When Evil Morty ties him down and lets Rick have his vengeance, Rick Prime's regeneration is damaged and his face takes all kinds of punishment without killing him. Apparently he only died afterwards due to blood loss.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Implied to be the case with how after creating Portal Travel to go into The Multiverse [[AwfulWeddedLife just to get away from his wife]], Rick Prime would stumble across other versions of himself who were all HappilyMarried with Diane and glad with raising their own Beths instead of being cynical asshole Hedonists like he was. Though it is more emphasized on the ''MONSTER'' part of it [[spoiler:where it's revealed that Rick Prime [[TheBluebeard decided to kill not only his wife]], but kill her in a way that would also kill ''every single version'' of his wife throughout the entire Multiverse: just to spite the other Ricks for daring to be happy.]]

* IWorkAlone: Another of his distinguishing characteristics, as of yet explored, is his lack of a Morty. So far, ''every'' Rick on the show that isn't living and working permanently on the Citadel and goes on adventures always wants one. The Citadel was even revealed as a Morty making facility to provide endless sidekicks/brain shields/cannon fodder for Ricks. When he abandoned his original reality, he left Morty behind with Beth, Jerry and Summer, something not even Main Rick would do. Rick Prime on the other hand, is seemingly content to do everything on his own.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: In "Unmortricken", however, he finally gets beaten to death by Rick.]]

* LastOfHisKind: After killing his Jerry, he's now the only non-mutated human left on the show's original Earth, [[spoiler:until Rick finally kills him in Season 7.]]

* PsychopathicManchild: He's even worse than Main Rick in this regard - he's insanely petty and spiteful to the point that [[spoiler: he wipes out every Diane in the multiverse just to torment the other Ricks who could be happy with her]], only cares about what he wants and does everything for nothing more than his twisted amusement and constant simulation. At one point, while pretending to be a naked clone, he shakes his ass at Rick and Morty to mock them, much like a petulant child.

[[Characters/RickAndMortyTheSmithSanchezFamily The Smith-Sanchez Family]] ([[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyJerrySmith Jerry Smith]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyBethSmith Beth Smith]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortySummerSmith Summer Smith]]) | [[Characters/RickAndMortySchool School]] | '''Rick and Morty Variants''' ([[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel The Citadel]], [[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]]) | [[Characters/RickAndMortyOthers Others]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyOneOffCharacters One-Off Characters]] | [[Characters/RickAndMortyOni Oni ComicBook]]-]]]]]

* FatalFlaw: Arrogance. After spending decades gallivanting across the multiverse, virtually unstoppable and killing whoever he pleases, he's ultimately taken down when he decides to engage the main Rick, Morty, and Evil Morty together, and it was his murder of infinite Dianes that made Rick absolutely hellbent on killing him, regardless of the consequences or the Omega Weapon.

* TheAce: He ''is'' "the Rickest Rick", after all. Even Rick C-137, with all his intelligence, planning skills, and penchant for layers of back-up plans, spent decades trying to find Rick Prime to no success. Rick Prime has decoys, death traps, and secret bases across the multiverse, creating a massive network of confusion and chaos for any Rick that tries to look for him, and his plans take into account what these other Ricks will do and counteracts them. All of this is seemingly automated and left behind by him years ago, along with pre-recorded messages to taunt the Ricks about how he duped them. [[spoiler:Even with Rick C-137 and Evil Morty -- potentially the two smartest beings in the universe aside from Rick Prime -- fighting together, Rick Prime ends up beating them both and is only defeated when Evil Morty impersonates the other Morty to take him by surprised.]]

* AttentionWhore: More than a little of his behaviour showcases this, fitting with his nature as a {{Troll}} who delights in the animosity and focus the other Rick variants directs toward him for his absolute Erasure of Diane from the Multiverse, all for a petty reasoning. He leaves messages that constantly mocks them as "inferior versions" of himself, and showcases nothing but enjoyment about psychologically torturing/killing multiple Ricks over their DetrimentalDetermination towards finding and killing him, to the point of slowly burning themselves out over years of searching and isolating themselves from their own family. His last moments are relishing the fact that Main Rick prioritises him over stopping Evil Morty from getting the Omega Weapon, risking the existence of Rick Sanchez across the multiverse as a result.
* AwfulWeddedLife: As noted by Beth, his marriage to Diane was miserable with him always prioritizing science and his adventures over his family, he eventually abandoned her and Beth, and when he met Rick he was actually enraged and possibly jealous that he wasn't the same as him.
** Calling him the worst husband ever does not even begin to cover the fact that he willingly built a weapon designed to eradicate every version of his ''wife'' in the multiverse, just so he could spite every Rick who actually gave a damn about their Diane.

** He's so used to Ricks hunting him down in revenge for killing Diane that he's created a special death trap for any who get too close.
* CessationOfExistence: His Omega Device wipes out every version of a person across every infinite reality.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Evil Morty. Evil Morty was Morty's ShadowArchetype, being what he'd become if his dynamic with Rick had remained the same in spite of his CharacterDevelopment. He was an AntiVillain who was DrivenToVillainy by Rick's narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies and whose goal was to break the status quo. Rick Prime is Rick's ShadowArchetype being what Rick would become if he got his wish of defying CharacterDevelopment and fully embracing his narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies to their fullest extent and whose number one goal is ensuring every Rick conforms to the status quo.
* CrazyPrepared: He has a contingency plan for everything and anything that any Rick can throw at him. Unfortunately for him, this ''does not'' apply to Mortys.

* DisproportionateRetribution: He comes across a version of himself who would rather be a father and husband and rejects portal technology. He retaliates by trying to kill this Rick with a bomb, which fails to kill the intended target, but takes out his wife and daughter. And hey, just because that wasn't enough, he then creates a weapon that erases every single version of Diane from the multiverse, then plans to do the same thing to every single member of his own family just to "teach [Main Rick] a lesson" before killing him.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: PlayedForLaughs. When he decides to wipe out every single incarnation of Rick's family throughout the multiverse, he admits the person he's about to kill will be painful for himself as well and even looks solemn as he wipes them from the existence. The laughs part comes from the family member being Slowmobius, or "Uncle Slow" as Main Rick calls him, a bit character from season 1 who was only revealed to be related to Rick in this scene. Averted otherwise -- he ran out on his Beth and Diane to become a multiversal traveler, and later used the Omega Weapon to kill every version of Diane across the multiverse, which would logically mean he killed ''his'' Diane too. He also displays no interest in Morty, his grandson from his original universe.

* EvilDoppelganger: He serves as this to Rick, as an evil(er) version who truly does not care about his family at all and is only interested in doing whatever he wants.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He possesses Main Rick's sense of humor and penchant for zingers but they're even more mean-spirited than Rick's pitch-black humor when he's at his worst, Prime reveling in mocking the pain and supposed inferiority of his victims.

** Taken to it's utmost extreme with his ''absolute worst act'', when it's revealed that he [[spoiler: ''created a device that removed'' '''''all''''' ''Dianes in'' '''''all''''' ''of existence'', effectively for no other reason than out of ''pure'' '''''petty spite''''' ''against Rick C-137 in particular'', so that he could ''never'' reunite with his wife that was taken from him. Without the ''slightest'' care that he's hurt ''all Ricks across all universes'' with this.]]

* FatalFlaw: Arrogance. Like many other Ricks in the show, he continually underestimates all Mortys. Fittingly, Morty Prime and Evil Morty manage to completely sabotage his plans.

%%* HateSink: With what limited screentime he has he is the most hatable Rick... which is saying a lot. He's revealed to be the Rick that callously abandoned his version of Beth, allowing [Main] Rick to step in and replace him as an infinitely-better father figure, despite his massive character flaws, and later outright says he 'never got too close to the concept' of a happily family life, apparently without any regrets for how he treated his daughter. [Main] Rick even says that Rick Prime ''truly'' [[LackOfEmpathy does not give a shit]], and has moved on from the Smith-Sanchez so thoroughly that not even taking [Main] Morty, his dimensional grandson, hostage would have an impact on him.

* TheHedonist: Rick Prime doesn't have some ultimate master plan, he's just like the vast majority of Ricks in that he sees the multiverse as a gigantic party where he can go and do whatever he wants and then be free of the consequences of his actions. He's little more than a PsychopathicManchild whose only goal is constant stimulation and personal [[ItAmusedMe amusement]].

* HijackedByGanon: Maybe. He was defeated by Evil Morty who took his Omega Device for himself, implying he ''might'' use it if he needs to but isn't desperate to do so as his official stance is he's done being BigBad and just want's to be left alone.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He's the first ever Rick to discover interdimensional portal travel and gave the technology to alternate versions of himself so they could all live just as selfishly as he does. It's implied the reason he did so is so none of them would discover the technology on their own, making him the Rickest Rick who could lord his superiority over “inferior” Ricks. Whenever he comes across a Rick who doesn't take him up on his offer and wants to focus on his family instead, Prime takes this as a personal attack, believing those Ricks were implying they're better than Prime, so he kills their families to spite them, sooth his wounded ego and prove without their families they're just inferior versions of him.

* LukeIAmYourFather: The season 6 premiere reveals he's the Rick native to Morty's original dimension, making him Morty's actual grandpa, and Rick took his place to get revenge on him if he ever came back. Morty's surprised but doesn't really care, since he considers Rick his real grandpa. Rick Prime himself doesn't care when he meets his original grandson, he just acts awkward before asking if he should just kill Morty quick to "wrap things up".

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: He has all of Rick's tremendously unfair protective and destructive technology and knowledge with none of his inhibitions, capable of doing almost anything he pleases and recovering from even mortal injuries. Unfortunately for him, while he's very good at defeating Ricks, he didn't count on Rick C-137 teaming up with Morty Prime and Evil Morty, let alone that those two would prove integral to his defeat.

* PsychologicalProjection: Ultimately, the reason he goes so far with all his actions comes down to believing that every Rick in the multiverse is just as immoral and selfish as he is. He comes to every Rick, offering them an opportunity to abandon their families to explore the multiverse as he did. The ones that refuse his offer end up having their families killed by him to force them to become just as cruel and ruthless as him. Even when being beaten to a bloody pulp by Rick Sanchez, Rick Prime still insists Rick would have done the exact same thing in his shoes if he discovered interdimensional travel first and took his grave the satisfaction of corrupting another Rick to become as bad he is.

* SmugSnake: Rick Prime is definitely dangerous and competent, but he spends too much time being cocky and overconfident to the degree where he underestimates his enemies enough to bring them to his own operational base, while mocking them with dispenses of his own weaponry to the point that Evil Morty is able to paralyze him when he lets his guard down.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Like all Ricks, he views Evil Morty as just another Morty. By the time he wises up that Evil Morty's different, it's only after the latter defeated him, erased any duplicates Prime had as a way of coming back, and handed him over to Rick to be killed.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: PlayedForLaughs. When he decides to wipe out every single incarnation of Rick's family throughout the multiverse, he admits the person he's about to kill will be painful for himself as well and even looks solemn as he wipes them from the existence. The laughs part comes from the family member being Slowmobius, or "Uncle Slow" as Main Rick calls him, a bit character from season 1.

* HiddenAgendaVillain: He's ultimately the one responsible for making Rick into the man he is today, but outside of that, little is known about this Rick. It's unknown ''why'' he tried getting Main Rick to leave and become a "god", why he tried ''giving'' the portal tech to Rick when most Ricks achieve it themselves, nor is it known where he even ''is''. Rick spent ''decades'' trying to hunt him down, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing countless Ricks along the way]], and never came any closer to finding him. Not even the proto-citadel seemed to know who or where he is, leaving his location just as mysterious as his goals. Furthermore, after talking up making a Citadel of Ricks, he never bothered participating with either iteration of it, causing our Rick to waste decades chasing after an organization that knew nothing about him.

* AdaptationalDumbass: Rick calls the Tasmanian Devil a "badger thing" and admits he can't treat Tassie's insanity.

* LighterAndSofter: Rick doesn't swear, opting to use the more childish "dumb-dumbs" as an insult when his mainline version would have undoubtedly gone with "bitches".

* ConfusionFu: Rick Prime is a master of misdirection, constantly blurting out different possibilities to constantly confuse his opponents on what the truth actually is.

** So far he seems more confused and bemused about why Main Rick is after him. It certainly seems like he doesn't care or even remember what happened, whereas Main Rick has spent ''decades'' hunting him, leaving a huge body count and countless destroyed universes. In season 7 it's revealed he does know about Main Rick's vendetta against him and has a small amount of [[VillainRespect respect]] for him being the only other Rick to figure out portal travel on his own.

* DyingAsYourself: He's Evil Morty's original Rick who was eventually taken over to be used as a puppet for Evil Morty. He kept trying to kill himself to break free of Evil Morty's control, but Evil Morty kept stopping him. As he's being beaten to death by the captured Mortys, he encourages them to kill him.

* FightingFromTheInside: After having a device implanted that allowed Evil Morty to control him, he repeatedly tried to kill himself, only for Evil Morty to stop him.

* ArchEnemy: Is this to the our Rick Sanchez (Sorry, Mr. Nimbus) who spent literal decades trying to hunt down the man after he killed his wife and daughter. Whereas Rick tends to treat most of his foes with either apathy or mockery, when they come face to face Rick gets deadly serious and tries to kill him straightaway with everything he got. In the Season 6 Finale, Rick Sanchez goes back to trying to hunt him down whom he calls his nemesis and brings Morty in on it.

* LackOfEmpathy: Prime Rick makes note that the Morty-Dome idea can be achieved by a lot fewer Mortys and a jumper-cable. Evil Rick, and by extension Morty, took the extra step by subjecting hundreds of Mortys to ColdBloodedTorture.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Quoted exactly when he compares himself to Rick C-137.

The Rick who introduced Rick to interdimensional travel and the existence of the multiverse. After Rick rejected Rick Prime's offer to join him, he killed Diane and Beth, making Rick the man he is today.

* TheAgeless: He looks younger than the main Rick, due to his cybernetic enhancements including regenerative tissues.
* ArchEnemy: Is this to the Main Rick Sanchez (Sorry, Mr. Nimbus) who spent literal decades trying to hunt down the man after he killed his wife and daughter. Whereas Rick tends to treat most of his foes with either apathy or mockery, when they come face to face Rick gets deadly serious and tries to kill him straightaway with everything he got. In the Season 6 Finale, Rick Sanchez goes back to trying to hunt him down whom he calls his nemesis and brings Morty in on it.

** Calling him the worst husband ever does not even begin to cover the fact that he willingly built a weapon designed to eradicate every version of Diane in the multiverse, just so he could spite every Rick who actually gave a damn about their wife.

* CessationOfExistence: His Omega Weapon wipes out every version of a person across every infinite reality.

Rick and morty Variants who cameoed in the ''Space Jam'' sequel.

* DrivenToSuicide: They ''begged'' their mainline counterparts to kill them, due to ''Space Jam: A New Legacy'' being a critical and commercial embarassment.

[[folder:RickBot]]
->'''First appearance''': "A Rick in King Mortur's Mort"

A "new, nicer Rick" robot made by Rick to take his place with the family.

[[folder:The Citadel]]
See their page [[Characters/RickAndMortyTheCitadel here]].
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* GreenEyedMonster: Implied to be the case with how after creating Portal Travel to go into The Multiverse [[AwfulWeddedLife just to get away from his wife]], Rick Prime would stumble across other versions of himself who were all HappilyMarried with Diane and glad with raising their own Beths instead of being cynical asshole Hedonists like he was. Though it is more emphasized on the ''MONSTER'' part of it [[spoiler:Where it's revealed that Rick Prime [[TheBluebeard decided to kill not only his wife]], but kill her in a way that would also kill ''every single version'' of his wife throughout the entire Multiverse: just to spite the other Ricks for daring to be happy.]]

* TheBluebeard: Possibly '''THE''' biggest and most awful Bluebeard in all of Media as revealed in [[Recap/RickAndMortyS7E5Unmortricken Unmortricken]]: where [[AwfulWeddedLife due to him hating his wife]] that he developed Portal Travel just to get away from her, he comes across other versions of himself: who instead of being cynical assholes like he was were instead all HappilyMarried with Diane Sanchez, including Rick C-137. After he killed C-137's family, he decided to kill his own wife by putting her into The Omega Machine. [[spoiler:Which not only killed Diane Sanchez; but also ''Every Single Version'' of Diane Sanchez across the entire Multiverse: just to spite the other Ricks for being happy.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: He comes across a version of himself who would rather be a father and husband and rejects portal technology. He retaliates by trying to kill this Rick with a bomb, which fails to kill the intended target, but takes out his wife and daughter. And hey, just because that wasn't enough, he then creates a weapon that erases EVERY SINGLE INCARNATION OF DIANE from the entire multiverse, then plans to do the same thing to every single member of his own family just to "teach [Main Rick] a lesson" before killing him.

!Rick and Morty Variants
->'''Rick(s) voiced by''': Creator/JustinRoiland (Seasons 1 to 6), Ian Cardoni (Season 7 onwards)\\
'''Morty(s) voiced by''': Justin Roiland (Seasons 1 to 6), Harry Belden (Season 7 onwards)

->'''All voiced by''': Creator/JustinRoiland (Seasons 1 to 6), Ian Cardoni (Rick(s); Season 7 onwards), Harry Belden (Morty(s); Season 7 onwards)