History ComicBook / RickAndMortyOni

* {{Deconstruction}}: In Issue 4, Jerry, benefitting from his character's heightened Intelligence and Charisma, explains to Morty that Rick [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech isn't actually "cool", but merely acts "cool"]]. That is, while Rick normally can exploit his MadScientist skills to achieve ridiculous feats and impress people, that doesn't make him a good person--in fact, he's a downright lousy person who, as Jerry puts it, isn't good at caring for other people.

* HiddenDepths: Jerry C-137 actually turns out to be a great TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons player, who has actually been playing for multiple editions, and probably a better potential Dungeon Master than Rick. Whereas Rick only cares about [[{{Munchkin}} making the most overpowered characters possible and winning all the time]], Jerry cares about [[TheRoleplayer creating vibrant, memorable characters]] and helping the rest of the party have fun. He encourages the others to really get into making personas they want to try during their visit, and is generally treated much more pleasantly by the Dungeon Master as a result of this.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jerry gives a variant of this trope in issue #4 of ''Rick and Morty vs. TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', explaining to Morty that Rick actually isn't a cool guy, he's a JerkAss who can do cool things, and that putting him in a situation where he can't cheat like that just brings his real faults into undeniable perspective.
-->''Morty:'' Well grampa Rick seems really... different.
-->''Jerry:'' Ha! Morty, Rick's never been cool.
-->''Morty:'' What? But he's--
-->''Jerry:'' Don't get me wrong: he '''looks''' cool. All the time. But he's not. He's just able to do cool things. Big difference.
-->''Morty:'' B...What do you mean?
-->''Jerry:'' You've got eyes. Look at him. There he is. Same as always. Snarky. Bitter. Self-centered as a gyroscope. If you take away what he can do, you see what he is. And it isn't pretty. The thing is, [[SpoonyBard bards]] [[SubvertedTrope are great these days]]. He '''could''' fight. He even has spells... he's just not interested in helping. Never has been. He's only interested in amusing himself. He could feed people. Cure cancer. But he doesn't. He makes death rays and gets high. Right now, I'm not cool. I can just do magic. Though don't get me wrong. I love having high Intelligence and Charisma. It's so easy to understand all this...to know my own mind and say exactly what I mean. The difference between me and Rick isn't that he's cool and I'm not. It's that I'm not good at caring '''for''' people. But Rick, he isn't good at caring '''about''' them.

** Rick has never read HPLovecraft because he figures that the monsters in it are probably super racist.

* DispropotionateRetribution: Rick threatens to blow up the virtual reality [=DnD=] game he created, and thus kill everyone in it, if Morty plays a bard.

* EvilIsPetty: Rick's old drinking buddy has been dethroned and imprisoned by the new queen that Rick told him not to marry. Rick risks not only his own life, but Morty’s as well[[note]](the aliens on this planet are very germ-phobic and he's inoculated Morty with dozens of infectious diseases to sneak by them)[[/note]] just to deliver a letter to the king telling him that he told him so.

* {{Deconstruction}}: In issue #4 of ''Rick and Morty vs. TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Jerry, benefiting from his character's heightened Intelligence and Charisma, explains to Morty that Rick [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech isn't actually "cool", but merely acts "cool"]]. That is; whilst Rick normally can exploit his MadScientist skills to achieve ridiculous feats and impress people, that doesn't make him a ''good person''--in fact, he's a downright lousy person who, as Jerry puts it, isn't good about caring for other people.

* FantasticRacism: Ari Strongbow--Summer's character in the 5th Edition universe--has deep resentment towards giant species, including their related kins such as ogres, due to clashes with the giants at her kingdom's borders and losing her brother dying to them.

* HiddenDepths: Jerry C-137 actually turns out to be a great Dungeons and Dragons player.

* TheRoleplayer: Summer does a good job of playing out her character--Ari Strongbow--in 5th edition universe. This includes playing up her [[FantasticRacism prejudices against ogres]], due to giants and their kin being her favored enemy, which also reflects her backstory's tragic loss of her brother to the giants bordering her kingdom.
* TakeThat: Rick's treatment of 4th Edition as "unknown" seems to show its controversial reputation.

** The family is playing a game with Pokémon expies, and ask Rick to make the Mons real. Said Mons then proceed to attack all of them and nearly destroy the house.

** Just after Dictator Morty and Rebel Summer from Dimension 304-X finally reconcile, their Jerry crashes into the room on a tank, running over, smushing, and killing them both.

* PunnyName: The alternate universe versions of Rick and Morty run their own store (which is named after them) called "Brick and Mortary's".

* RuleSixtyThree: Rule 63 Cosplay Rick, introduced in Issue 57, is a young female version of Rick from the "[=SchwiftyCon=]" universe, whose Morty is a dog.

* ScrewYourself: Downplayed; Rick is shown to have no problem flirting with Rule 63 Cosplay Rick, but it doesn't go beyond the flirting stage.

** The family is playing a game with Pokémon expies, and ask Rick to make the Mons real. Said Mons then proceed to attack all of them and nearly destroy the house.

* RuleSixtyThree: Rule 63 Cosplay Rick, introduced in Issue 57, is a young female version of Rick from the "[=SchwiftyCon=]" universe, whose Morty is a dog.

* BarrierWarrior: Rick gave Morty a Personal [[DeflectorShields Deflector Shield]] in Issue 56.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Morty demanded that Rick give him something to protect himself. Rick turned Morty into a BarrierWarrior allowing him to use him as a HumanShield.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Knowing that the dinosaurs in his island were specifically bred to be subservient to him, Summer dresses up as Rick to rescue him from the angry workers he’d abandoned there. She and Morty don’t realize that the huge carnivores will eat the workers until after it happens.
** The family asking Rick to make them real Pokemon Expies

* TheDogBitesBack: Doofus Jerry could be seen as this, since it means there's at least one Jerry that can take Rick down a peg.

* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: The universe’s best cola after tasting it Morty immediately forgave Rick for sacrificing him to get it.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Rick called Morty out for agreeing with him that VictoryIsBoringfurious that Morty had a NighInvulnerability PoweredArmorand couldn’t fgure out what to do with it. Which led into a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for being StupidGood.

** "Creepy sex monster" Peacock Jones is also depicted as a particularly vile villain. He threatens to rape Summer when she refuses to have sex with him (which he demands in return for taking her on an adventure), and Rick frames him for drug trafficking and gets him thrown in prison in response. When he later joins the Rick Revenge Squad, he asks where Summer is with the heavy implication that he plans to attack and rape her, and Beth is frantic and runs off to protect her at the first opportunity she gets. Every character takes every possible opportunity to call him a pervert, creep, or something similar, and Rick even insinuates that Jones is a child molester after the latter kidnaps Morty.

* HeroicSacrifice: Summer performs a suicidal charge to allow the others to save a bunch of children from being sacrificed. [[spoiler: Luckily, she manages to return to their home universe intact after being "banished" by Jerry before succumbing to her wounds.]]

* PoweredArmor: The Hollauog

** "Creepy sex monster" Peacock Jones is also depicted as a particularly vile villain. He threatens to rape Summer when she refuses to have sex with him (which he demands in return for taking her on an adventure), and Rick frames him for drug trafficking and gets him thrown in prison in response. When he later joins the Rick Revenge Squad, he asks where Summer is with the heavy implication that he plans to attack and rape her, and Beth is frantic and runs off to protect her at the first opportunity she gets.

* RuleSixtyThree: Rule 63 Cosplay Rick is a young female version of Rick introduced in Issue 57 she’s from the "SchwiftyCon" universe.

* ScrewYourself: While ultimately averted Rick is shown to have no problem flirting with Rule 63 Cosplay Rick

* UnwittingPawn: Peacock Jones became one for the Illumirick
* VictoryIsBoring: Rick quickly lost interest in going on adventures after Morty received his PoweredArmor

* {{Deconstruction}}: "Painscape" can be considered both this to Rick’s status as a JerkSue InvincibleHero as well as a SpiritualAntithesis to the first series. Like the original Jerry’s knowledge and skill allows him to rally everyone together in order for them to utilize their skill to hold back the invading horde. Unfortunately since Rick tends to create overpowered characters they longer they remain in the world the more the rules of reality changes [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem to suit their needs]] until they are eventually able to just NoSell all of the oppositions attacks requiring the intervention of Rick to defeat them.
* HeroicBSOD: Jerry after the revelation that the horde of Rick Charecters were invincible due to ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem.

* VictoryIsBoring: Both Wizard-Fighter-Rogue-[=CleRick=] and Bardrick were visibly bored after conquering there perspective universes.

* ResetButton: In "Painscape", the sequel series, Rick uses the second of his ThreeWishes to hit this and return the dimension--where everyone has been brainwashed to be completely obsessed with D&D, the entire world has become overrun by monsters, and his whole family has been killed--to normal, with no one except for him having any memory of what happened.
* RuleOfThree: Invoked by Rick at the end of the second series, "Painscape". Since he still has one of his ThreeWishes on his wish ring left, he tells the reader that he'll save it for the apparently-forthcoming third D&D series, noting that it's gonna be a trilogy.

!! Tropes in the ''Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons and Dragons''

* BigNo: Summer's reaction in the final issue of "Painscape" when Morty is disintegrated in battle.
* ChekhovsGun: Name-dropped by Rick after BreakingTheFourthWall at the end of the second series. Since he still has one of his ThreeWishes on his wish ring left, he states that the final wish will be this for the third series.

* {{Deconstruction}}: "Painscape" can be considered both this to Rick’s status as a JerkSue InvincibleHero as well as a SpiritualAntithesis to the first series. Like the original Jerry’s knowledge and skill allows him to rally everyone together in order for them to utilize their skill to hold back the invading horde. Unfortunately since Rick tends to create overpowered characters they longer they remain in the world the more the rules of reality changes [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem to suit their needs]] until they are eventually able to just NoSell all of the oppositions attacks requiring the intervention of Rick to defeat them.

* HeroicBSOD: Jerry after the revelation that the horde of Rick Charecters were invincible due to ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem

* {{Munchkin}}: Rick tends to create overpowered characters whenever he plays the game. In the backstory of the sequel series, his constant rerolls, and throwing out subsequently created characters with miserable results without ever fully developing them and their world, created an army of resentful characters, who launch an interdimensional invasion in the present day out of spite towards Rick.

* ResetButton: In "Painscape", the sequel series, Rick uses the second of his ThreeWishes to hit this and return the dimension--where everyone has been brainwashed to be completely obsessed with D&D, the entire world has become overrun by monsters, and his whole family has been killed--to normal, with no one except for him having any memory of what happened.

* RuleOfThree: Invoked by Rick at the end of the second series, "Painscape". Since he still has one of his ThreeWishes on his wish ring left, he tells the reader that he'll save it for the apparently-forthcoming third D&D series, noting that it's gonna be a trilogy.

* ThreeWishes: In "Painscape", Rick is banished to the D&D world that he created but never finished developing, with no apparent way to return home. He instead battles through the world and levels up as much as possible until he eventually finds the magic ring he made up, which grants him these:

* VictoryIsBoring: Both Wizard-Fighter-Rogue-CleRick and Bardrick were visibly bored after conquering there perspective universes.

*** In the series, right before he dies, Krombopulous Michael is shown to have a lover whose picture he keeps in a locket. Issue 34, which is about Michael's origin story, shows that this was his wife, Krombopulous Amy, who is told that Rick was responsible for her husband's death and decides to take up killing to avenge him.

** It turns out that, years ago, Krombopulous Michael heeded Rick's advice and fell in love and got married. When his wife, Krombopulous Amy, is informed of his death in Issue 34, all she's told is that Rick had something to do with it (even though, as we know from "Mortynight Run" and as Rick later tells Amy himself, Morty was the one who was actually (inadvertently) responsible). Unfortunately, she turns out to be a master assassin as well.

** Issue 34 is this for Krombopulos Michael. He got his name when he was recruited for a government strike force. Since they already had a Michael, the commander started calling him Krombopulos Michal after his birth town to distinguish them. He became a hired assassin because, on the night before the mission, Micheal was unwilling to wait, entered the compound, and killed everyone himself. The next day, after seeing the level of devastation he left, the rest of the strike force refused to work with him, so he went freelance.

*** When Roiland sees Rick and Jones fighting, he says, "Are they doing a bit? When did this become a thing?" Harmon then asks Roiland if Peacock Jones (whom they're assuming is another cosplayer) is one of his characters, and Roiland responds with "No. Mine are good."

* {{Squick}}: In-universe: When Rick puts Summer in a pocket dimension for her own protection from Doofus Jerry, Morty--who's wearing the pocket dimension around his neck--didn’t know that she could see out of it, and has repeatedly had ADateWithRosiePalms while she desperately tries to block it out and not look.

* HeroicSacrifice: Summer performs a suicidal charge to allow the others to save a bunch of children from being sacrificed. [[spoiler: Luckily, she managed to return to home universe intact after being "banished" by Jerry before succumbing to her wounds.]]

* FantasticRacism: Ari Strongbow--Summer's character in the 5th Edition universe--has deep resentment towards giant species, including their related kins such as ogres, due to clashes with the giants at her kingdom's borders, one of which cost her brother his life.

* HeroicSacrifice: Summer performs a suicidal charge to allow the others to save a bunch of children from being sacrificed.

* {{Munchkin}}: Rick, who prefers to have an overpowered character. In the backstory of the sequel series, his constant rerolls, and throwing out subsequently created characters with miserable results without ever fully developing them and their world, created an army of resentful characters, who launch an interdimensional invasion in the present day out of spite towards Rick.

* TheRoleplayer: Summer does a good job of playing out her character--Ari Strongbow--in 5th edition universe. This includes playing up her [[FantasticRacism prejudices against ogres]], due to giants and their kin being her favored enemy, which also reflects her backstory's tragic loss of her brother to the giants that her kingdom regularly fights against.

'''Morty''': Th-They're not that funny, though, Rick. Comedically, it's real low-hanging fruit. I-I-I mean, all you do is turn into something, then yell what it is and then you add your name. It's pretty basic. Like, maybe it's a little absurdist, but it's really just playing to the lowest commone denominator, you know?\\

** Issue 40 features an extended, none-too-subtle dissection of [[DiscreditedMeme the "Pickle Rick" meme.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Knowing that the dinosaurs in his island were specifically bred to be subservient to him, Summer dresses up as Rick to rescue him from the angry workers he’d abandoned there. She and Morty don’t realize that a bunch of huge carnivores would eat them until after it had happens.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Like his Dimension C-137 counterpart. Rick of Dimension C-132 has a thing for redheads.
* HiddenDepths: The Jerry from Dimension C-132 is shown to be an exceptional gambler.

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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rick seems to have a thing for redheads.

** Averted in another instance: Death and child molestation are the only things worse than Gorpathian AnalProbing.

** Deconstructed when Morty doesn’t realize he's talking to a walrus version of Rick. This level of stupidity just disgusts the original Rick.

** TheDragon (a DragonInCheif version): Prince Detrar, who has the most direct contact with Party Dog and recruits the rest of the members on his behalf, then actively leads the rest of the squad to attack the family's home.

** TheDarkChick: Krombopulos Amy, the sole female of the group, who wants revenge on Rick due to her husband's death, and is the only member whom Rick is able to get through to and calm down by talking to her (though it's implied he still kills her anyway).

** ''Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons II: Painscape'' (2019-) - A sequel with Rick's old characters invading his world.

** Issue 34 is this for Krombopulous Michal. He got his name when he was recruited for a government strike force. Since they already had a Michael, the commander started calling him Krombopulous Michal after his birth town to distinguish them. He became a hired assassin because, on the night before the mission, Micheal was unwilling to wait, entered the compound, and killed everyone himself. The next day, after seeing the level of devastation he left, the rest of the strike force refused to work with him, so he went freelance.

*** Rick also immediately tries to fight Doofus Jerry again, despite having lost to him numerous times already, after the latter easily defeats Morty, and shields him from Krombopulos Amy when she wants to kill him.

*** When Harmon asks Roiland if Peacock Jones (whom they're assuming is another cosplayer) is one of his characters, Roiland responds with "No. Mine are good." He then, upon seeing Rick and Jones fighting, asks "Are they doing a bit? When did this become a thing?"

* CrazyPrepared: Jerry masters a banishment spell that would allow him to send his family back home; while he trusts the Dungeon Master in general, he doesn't trust him enough to leave his family’s life in someone else's hands.
* FantasticRacism: Ari Strongbow--Jenny's character in the 5th Edition universe--has deep resentment towards giant species, including their related kins such as ogres, due to losing her brother along with clashes with the giants at her kingdom's borders.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: The ogre "camp" the group attacked happened to be a relatively peaceful community, much to Jerry's dismay]].

* {{Munchkin}}: Rick prefers to have an overpowered character to the point that his constant rerolls and leaving behind ones with miserable results resulted in an army of resentful characters launching an interdimensional invasion out of spite towards Rick.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: When Jerry's adventuring group tried the find the infant of a peasant family, it turned out to be a cultist-couple intend to kidnap an ogre child as part of a ritual to bring forth an apocalypse. Furthermore, this bites into the group--except Summer's character due to her prejudices against ogres--as the "camp" they flooded turned out to be a relatively innocent settlement.]]
* TeamDad: As a contrast to Rick, Jerry generally has a team-work based mentality and laid-back attitude towards character creation even picking a Half-Elf (+2 Charisma with +1 in two of any attributes) Abjurer mage (Intelligence-focused class with protection-based spells) to the disappointment of Rick (a PowerGamer) and an ogre mage (a magic-user frustrated with Jerry's ability to negate his spells multiple times).
* TheRoleplayer: Summer managed to play out her character--Ari Strongbow--in 5th edition universe. This also included playing up her [[FantasticRacism prejudices against Ogres]] due to "Giants" being her favored enemy that also reflected in her backstory's tragic loss of her brother to giants that her kingdom regularly fought against.

* TheRoleplayer: As a contrast to Rick, Jerry generally has a team-work based mentality and laid-back attitude towards character creation even picking a Half-Elf (+2 Charisma with +1 in two of any attributes) Abjurer mage (Intelligence-focused class with protection-based Abjuration school) to the disappointment of offensive-minded Rick and an ogre mage.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Despite everyone telling him how useless Abjuration is, Jerry, a.k.a. Kiir Bravian, is repeatedly shown to be utterly badass.