History Recap / RickAndMortyS7E9MortRagnarick

* MonsterMash: After dying many times at the hands of the Pope, Bigfoot calls in a Vampire, a Werewolf, A Mummy, Frankenstein, and a Fishman. They still get vaporized all together and sent to Valhalla.

--> "It's over, the Pope!"

** Back in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS7E3AirForceWong Air Force Wong]]", one of President Curtis's aliens predicted that Rick would be pummeled by Bigfoot. In this episode, Rick captures and provokes Bigfoot as part of his scheme to get into Valhalla.

** Norse religion and practices are just a ShallowParody of Vikings rather than anything even remotely accurate.

* AllForNothing: The story is kicked off by Rick attempting to tap into the infinity energy of the afterlife. He succeeds but is forced to [[CutTheJuice destroy the conduit]] because the Pope immediately siphons all the energy to become an all-powerful GodEmperor, rendering the whole adventure pointless.

* HealthyInHeaven: The versions of Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein at Valhalla look much better off than their living counterparts. Lampshaded by Dracula who notes that the Mummy is looking good.

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: PlayedForLaughs when Rick first storms the Pope's chamber, declaring "it's over, The Pope! We've got you!"

* AfterlifeWelcome: In the opening scene, Jerry is greeted by his grandmother at the gates of the afterlife. He asks where his grandfather is, so she explains that he's gotten tired of showing up after Jerry has repeated this song-and-dance eight times now. Jerry is then pulled back to life, revealing that Rick and Morty are using him to study the afterlife.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Freeing more monsters to fight the Pope really sounds and ''looks'' cool. What they could do against the Pope's infinite energy and insta-kill attack. And, in fact, they end up being entirely irrelevant.

* InAWorld: When Bigfoot gets his TranslatorMicrobes from Rick and a new voice to go with it, he immediately decides to play with his improved voice by saying "In a world where time actually is money..." before getting interrupted by Morty who says he remembered that movie.

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Bigfoot types "You are fucked!" into his wrist translator before giving Rick a beating at the Smith's home.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Granted, Rick was going to use all that infinite energy from Valhalla for himself but the Pope is no better, using it to vaporize Rick and Morty over and over again instead of sharing it with the world.

* IncomingHam: Rick screams "Pope!" whenever he is at the doorsteps of the Pope's throne room. At one point his delivery gets accompanied by DramaticThunder.

* EmptyShell: When Bigfoot breaches the Project Phoenix pod, a failsafe activates and Rick's soulless body starts running for its life, gibbering all the while.

* SinisterMinister: The Pope is in this episode but he is far from being a benevolent man of the cloth. He kidnaps Bigfoot and trains him to become his personal assassin, steals Rick's infinite energy for himself, and has no problem killing a 14-year old boy along with his grandfather countless times.

* BigNo: The Pope lets one out at the end before getting sucked into the "popey ball".

* BrickJoke: Back in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS7E3AirForceWong Air Force Wong]]", one of President Curtis's aliens predicted that Rick would be pummeled by Bigfoot. In this episode, Rick captures and provokes Bigfoot as part of his scheme to get into Valhalla.

* LamePunReaction: To Rick's "popey ball", as mentioned below, although subverted when Morty sheepishly confesses he was about to make that exact pun.

* ShooTheDog: Parodied at the end with Rick and Morty weeping while releasing Bigfoot in his human form back into the woods, Bigfoot protesting all the while that he is perfectly capable of understanding them.

* TheStinger: After the credits, Rick takes the captured Pope to an underground cage fight, only for the cops to bust up the operation. The Pope asks how long it's been and who has been appointed the new Pope, learning that Rick's gibbering, soulless body has been appointed in his place.

** In this episode it's shown that if an outside entity is attempting to destroy one of Rick's backup bodies from Operation Phoenix, the security system will detect it and set the clone loose in a mindless, animalistic state, so that it at least has a chance to escape being destroyed long enough for Rick to revive.

* GodGuise: When Rick's scheme gets found out by the vikings, he claims to be Odin testing them. It begins to work before Morty knowing him reveals the ruse and it takes him blowing them up multiple times and appearing to them on mechanical wings for them to believe it.

** Because the Pope keeps killing Rick, Morty, and Bigfoot with energy siphoned from Valhalla, the trio are sent there each time they die, allowing Rick to beam their consciousnesses to a BodyBackupDrive in his lab.

** Because the Pope keeps killing Rick, Morty, and Bigfoot with energy siphoned from Valhalla, the trio are sent there each time they die, allowing him to beam their consciousnesses to a BodyBackupDrive in his lab.

* AfterlifeWelcome: In the opening scene, Jerry is greeted by his mother at the gates of the afterlife. Jerry asks where his grandfather is, so she explains that he's gotten tired of showing up after Jerry has repeated this song-and-dance eight times now. Jerry is then pulled back to life, revealing that Rick and Morty are using him to study the afterlife.

* GoIntoTheLight: In the opening NearDeathExperience, Jerry's mother asks him to follow her into the light. Jerry is then yanked back, because Rick is repeatedly killing him to study his connection to the afterlife.

* ShooTheDog: Parodied at the end with Rick and Morty weeping while releasing Bigfoot in his human form back into the woods.

* ThisMeansWarPaint: Morty puts on facial warpaint for the fight against the Viking crowd at Valhalla.