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Rick and Morty Variants

Rick(s) voiced by: Justin Roiland (Seasons 1 to 6), Ian Cardoni (Season 7 onwards)
Morty(s) voiced by: Justin Roiland (Seasons 1 to 6), Harry Belden (Season 7 onwards)

The Citadel

See here for the Ricks and Mortys affiliated with the Citadel.

Evil Rick

"We both know that if there's any truth in the universe, it's that Ricks don't care about Mortys."

Appears in: "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind"

"See, Rick, you’re not as clever as you think you are. I wanted you to find me. We’re not so [belch] different, you and I."

A sarcastic clapping, serial killer alternate version of Rick. In reality, he is a robotic puppet being controlled by Evil Morty.

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• Actually a Doombot: He was set up as the Big Bad of his first appearance, but turned out to just be a cyborg that the real villain was controlling through his eyepatch.
• Body Horror: After Evil Rick's death, a piece of his head comes off to reveal sparking wires. One of the investigating Ricks cuts open his skull to reveal that his brain is more wires and circuits than flesh, which outs Evil Rick as merely a puppet under someone else's control.
• Create Your Own Villain: His constant abuse towards his Morty eventually led to him becoming Evil Morty, turning Evil Rick into his own puppet and starting his quest to escape the Central Finite Curve while killing any version of Rick and Morty necessary.
• Dying as Yourself: 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.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Evil Rick sees Rick C-137 crying over fond memories of Morty as a baby, he mocks the notion that a Rick could ever care about a Morty. With the reveal that Evil Rick was just a puppet, it's highly probable this was Evil Morty's true feelings.
• Evil Costume Switch: Wears a black shirt instead of a light blue shirt.
• Eviler than Thou: Evil Rick has a list of Ricks in order of how evil they are, with Rick C-137 being marginally less evil than himself. There's one Rick who stands between both of them, but he's weird as hell.
• Evil Doppelgänger: They both are alternate timeline versions of the duo and very much antagonists. Moreso the Morty.
• Expendable Clone: Evil Rick travels from one timeline to the next to eliminate other Ricks and kidnap their Mortys and subject them to the Morty-Dome to hide.
• Fighting from the Inside: 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.
• Get It Over With: Evil Rick yells this trope as he is being beaten to death by the other Mortys he imprisoned...This mainly because it's the only way he can be free from Evil Morty's control.
  "Do your worst, you little bastards! Kill me! DO IT! DO ITTTTTTTTT!"
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Evil Rick has a scar on his lips to contrast his Morty's Eyepatch of Power.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Evil Morty's eyepatch warned him when Evil Rick was trying to commit suicide so to escape Evil Morty's control, and thus was able to prevent him from doing it.
• Knight of Cerebus: Shares this spot with Mr. Jellybean. They both have few funny lines and are excessively cruel and darker than any of the other villainous characters shown thus far. His true identity as a puppet controlled by Evil Morty effectively catapults Evil Morty to this status as well.
• Lack of Empathy: C-137 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 Cold-Blooded Torture.
• Non-Indicative Name: He's not actually eviler than any other Rick, he's just being controlled by a much eviler Morty.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Quoted exactly when he compares himself to C-137 Rick.
• Shadow Archetype: As shown in "Unmortricken" his arguments with Evil Morty were very similar to our Rick and Morty, with the two bluffing one another over him quitting, he just had enough one day.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He was just a one-shot villain from the first season, but it is revealed that the abuse he put his Morty though was what motivated him to become Evil Morty and start his plan to escape the Central Finite Curve.
• Underestimating Badassery: He never thought the Morty he abused and adventured with would ever be capable of standing up to him, much less turning him into a living meat puppet for his own use.

Evil Morty

For details, see this page.

Tiny Rick

Appears in: "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez"

A younger clone of Rick with Rick's consciousness in it. ^note Let me out!

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• The Ace: He quickly becomes the most popular kid at school. Morty also notes that he is an extremely good wingman, having managed to set up a date between him and Jessica.
• Alternate Self: Tiny Rick is just Rick in a teenage body, but the change in hormones and brain chemistry changes Rick's normal outlook and behavior in a similar manner to psychological drugs. The way Tiny Rick is always positive and upbeat is more than a little similar to the effects of someone taking an anti-depressant.
• Body Backup Drive: Tiny Rick was a part of what Rick had dubbed "Operation Phoenix", a series of clones of himself at different growth states he could transfer his consciousness to in the event he died. The whole unfortunate business that happened with Tiny Rick, however, leads Rick to conclude that the project was a mistake, so he destroys all the clones with an axe.
• Despair Event Horizon: Summer and Morty uses depressing music to invoke this in him, combining it with his innate teenage angst and makes him want to return to cynical old age.
• Double Consciousness: Tiny Rick isn't really a separate consciousness or a personality split from Rick's, but instead he's Rick changed into a teenager. The changes to Rick's personality are due to being in a younger teenage body with a younger teenage brain. Tiny Rick's brain is less developed and the chemical balances of his body change Rick's mood and emotions in a similar fashion to someone taking psychological medication giving him an upbeat personality, a constant feeling of happiness, and a child's tendency to not focus on the negative. Unfortunately, Rick's foul mood, cynicism, and perpetual focus on the negative aspects of life are a large part of who he is so when he's in his teenage body, he's not himself.
• Enemy Within: His "teenager" identity eventually gets in a battle for dominance with his real personality.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: The teenaged clone body's hormones is the reason for the emerging of the Tiny Rick identity and said identity's eventual takeover.
• Split-Personality Takeover: Though the clone has the original Rick's consciousness, the teenage hormones in his body cause a different identity to develop and take over. Rick communicates through "Tiny" Rick's subconscious, causing him to beg for Morty and Summer to save him from himself through Tiny Rick's artistic endeavors.
• Teen Genius: He's still Rick, after all, so this logically applies.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Everyone is fully aware that he's an 80-year-old man in a child's body. They just don't care.
• Verbal Tic: He frequently interrupts himself to remind everyone that he is, in fact, Tiny Rick.

Healthy Rick and Healthy Morty

Appear in: "Rest and Ricklaxation"

The positive sides of Rick and Morty's personalities, at least from their perspectives. Healthy Rick is a meek and polite Cool Old Guy that feels a sense of responsibility towards his large knowledge and Healthy Morty is an upbeat popular kid who never loses self-confidence.

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• The Ace: Not long before he came around, Healthy Morty gets seemingly everyone in the school to love him and helps with their homework (including math and music). He moves on to become a successful stockbroker with a hot, red-headed girlfriend.
• Ambiguous Situation: At the end of the episode, Healthy Morty does not end the call that he suspects Rick is using to track him down. Whether it was his own decision to get his toxins back, a subconscious decision or an accident is anyone's guess. The DVD commentary confirmed that Morty unconsciously left his phone on.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: And they're healthy enough to admit that.
• Extreme Doormat: Downplayed with Healthy Rick. He wasn't okay with getting trapped in the toxic dimension and will fight if he has to. But he was briefly willing to let Toxic Rick turn the whole world toxic.
• The Fettered: Healthy Rick abhors violence and only does it when prompted. He gets a Groin Attack for it.
• Good Is Not Soft: Healthy Rick is almost always friendly, polite and an overall Nice Guy. He also has zero qualms with exploiting Toxic Rick's attachment to Toxic Morty, repeatedly shooting and wounding Toxic Morty in order to browbeat Toxic Rick into re-merging with him.
• Kid A Nova: After Jessica quickly leaves their dinner date ("I think you'd get bored with me"), he later gets two older women to fall for him.
• Lack of Empathy: They both have lost a lot of their capacity for feeling empathy towards others and each other. Especially Healthy Morty, who becomes a full-blown sociopath.
• Literal Split Personality: The embodiments of Rick and Morty's good traits.
• Likes Older Women: Healthy Morty dates two older women (Stacey and Jacqueline).
• Love Is a Weakness: Neither of them have many feelings left. Specifically, they feel no empathy towards others or even each other, because the true Rick and Morty considered, respectively, attachment to family and capacity of empathy to be things that are bad for them.
• Moral Sociopathy: What Rick becomes without his full personality traits — he's kind, reasonable, pacifistic, alturistic, and moral, but lacking in any real empathetic connections with anyone.
• Motor Mouth: Healthy Morty loves to talk.
• Nice Guy: They both lack any of the toxic attributes of the originals... Or just what the originals think are toxic attributes.
• The Sociopath: As it turns out later, they're nice versions of this. They lack Regular Rick's love for his family and Morty's capacity for empathy, traits they both consider to be negative, so they went over to the Toxic versions of themselves. In turn, they lack remorse and sadness as well. Healthy Morty wasn't bothered by Jessica leaving their dinner date in the least and quickly moved on to Stacey, then he moved on another woman named Jacqueline after Stacey was trapped in the toxic dimension. Healthy Rick uses this to his advantage to get Toxic Rick to fuse with him again by shooting Toxic Morty in the limbs.
• Science Hero: Healthy Rick is a much more conventional version of the trope. He concerns himself with the well-being of others and thinks out the consequences of his actions. That being said he won't hesitate to sacrifice one person to save many others, even if it is his own grandson.
• Shadow Archetype: A perfect Inverted Trope. They are the best and healthiest version of Rick and Morty from their own perspectives...which amount to two polite sociopaths incapable of attachment and empathy for other people. Healthy Rick, despite his politeness and generally nice demeanor, feels completely indifferent slapping Healthy Morty and shooting Toxic Morty, which abhors Toxic Rick, who still cares for his family. Healthy Morty is so eager to be himself and so utterly selfish, he does not care for the sacrifices Rick made to absorb his own toxic self, refuses to absorb Toxic Morty and leaves his family behind with not an ounce of regret in his mind (at least initially).
• The Unfettered: In somewhat a positive way. Unlike most examples of this trope that are evil because they aren't hampered by morality, Healthy Morty has none of the originals' insecurities and depression to hold his desires back. In this case being a productive, confident optimist. On the other hand, Healthy Morty lacks the empathy and caringness of the original Morty making him unrepentantly selfish.

Toxic Rick and Toxic Morty

Appear in: "Rest and Ricklaxation"

The negative sides of Rick's and Morty's personalities, at least from their perspectives.

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• Anthropomorphic Personification: They're the embodiments of everything Rick and Morty seem to find negative and or wrong about themselves. This includes Rick's attachment to Morty (which he views as irrational) and Morty's empathy.
• Assimilation Plot: Toxic Rick decides to toxify the whole world using a modified detoxification tank.
• Being Good Sucks: The fact Toxic Morty is the one who has been saddled with Morty's moral compass and ability to feel empathy, seems to at least strongly imply that Morty feels weighed down by his nice nature and a strong sense of justice.
• Chemistry Can Do Anything: In the detoxification tank, where everything is made of a nebulous toxin counterpart to conventional elements, Toxic Rick discovers a new form of electricity and constructs a device that allows him to escape after contacting Rick.
• Enemy Without: Toxic Rick, as a personification of Rick's worst qualities, is this. Toxic Morty, on the other hand, is never shown to feel no real ill will towards his healthy counterpart and appears to really be only on Toxic Rick's side because he feels obligated to help him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Toxic Rick is nothing but Rick's worst traits, and even more abusive to Toxic Morty than Regular Rick is to Regular Morty, but when Toxic Morty is minutes away from dying, Toxic Rick shows genuine concern. He even gives up his own life by merging back with Healthy Rick to save Toxic Morty's life.
  Toxic Rick: Morty, not that I give a shit, but are you okay?
  Toxic Morty: Jesus Christ, it hurts!
  Toxic Rick: Relax, quit your bitching. You're going to be fine. Grandpa's here.
• The Fettered: Toxic Morty is Morty's fetters personified, being his castoff moral compass, insecurity, and self-deprecation. Without the traits that Toxic Morty embodies, Morty is confident, capable...and an amoral sociopath.
• A God Am I: Toxic Rick makes regular Rick look humble.
  Toxic Rick: Do you think if God existed, HE could do it?! The answer is NO! If God exists, it's fucking ME!!
• Jerkass: Toxic Rick is nothing but Rick's jerkassery and anger personified. On the other hand, he cares about Morty, whereas Healthy Rick does not.
• Literal Split Personality: To Rick and Morty, been the cast-offs from the removal of all the negative aspects of their personality, as well as what the two of them perceive as their weaknesses. In the end, it turns that some of their traits are needed to keep Rick and Morty's personalities in balance.
• Love Is a Weakness: Rick thinks so, so Toxic Rick ends up with all of his fondness for Morty and his family in general.
• Shadow Archetype: Possibly the most literal example ever,^note The Jungian Shadow is not just a person's "bad" qualities, it is the parts of a person's mind that they are not conscious of because they are in denial about their own desires and emotions. The show follows Jung's concept so closely that it's hard to believe that was not the writers' intent. they are the embodiment of the things that drive Rick and Morty crazy, everything that they dislike and fear about themselves. Anger, narcissism, and rudeness for Rick as well as self-worth issues, awkwardness and shyness for Morty. On another note, their capacity to feel attachment and empathy are also, respectively, in them.
• Self-Deprecation: All Toxic Morty does is talk about how pathetic he is. It turns out that he practically is Morty's conscience; without his insecure and self-deprecating manners, Morty is extremely confident, but unfortunately, it also means he is entirely amoral and lacks any kind of grounding.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Toxic Rick allows himself to be reabsorbed into Healthy Rick so the resulting Regular Rick will save Toxic Morty's life. Unfortunately, Healthy Morty decides to run away before that can happen, resulting in Toxic Morty dying anyway.
• Tsundere: Despite being relentlessly abusive of him, deep DEEP down, Toxic Rick still has an immeasurable amount of love for Toxic Morty. It's because Rick's love for Morty is so genuine, it's considered by him to be an irrational attachment, thus a negative trait.
• The Unfettered: Rick is already pretty amoral, but Toxic Rick is basically the personification of all of his amorality, narcissism, and nihilism without anything (besides his love for Toxic Morty) to hold him back.

Fascist Ricks and Fascist Morty

Appear in: "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat"

A series of alternate-dimension Ricks (and a Morty) that all support a fascist regime and never cancelled Project Phoenix, allowing C-137 Rick to be cloned into their dimensions, much to his regret.

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• Affably Evil: Shrimp Rick establishes himself as one of the most polite and compassionate Ricks as he was concerned for C-137 Rick's health when he came out of the cloning facility and had a very cordial conversation with C-137 about the similarities and differences of their cultures. It's only when C-137 reveals that he isn't a fascist that Shrimp Rick turns on him and even then he doesn't personally kill him despite having the means to do so.
• Alternate-History Nazi Victory: Rick's Body Backup Drive that he never properly decommissioned past destroying his own backups keeps uploading him into parallel universes run by fascists. Thoroughly lampshaded by Rick, who quickly grows exasperated enough to immediately kill himself and pop to the next universe at the first sign of fascism.
• Bears Are Bad News: One of these Fascist Ricks is a blue-furred teddy bear.
• In Spite of a Nail: It's commented on that, even though his universe is run by shrimp instead of humans, Shrimp Rick's Earth is uncannily identical to realities run by humans.
• Teens Are Monsters: Fascist Morty shot his Rick dead so he can have a "classic" adventure with C-137 Rick.
• Token Good Teammate: Amongst the Fascist Ricks, Shrimp Rick is the only one of the group that behaves cordially to Rick and even has a friendly conversation with him, which makes him different from his other fascist counterpart and even the Ricks from the Citadel. That being said, as a fascist, he's willing to betray Rick once he learns he doesn't support fascism.

Hologram Rick

Appears in: "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat"

A holographic AI Rick installed into Morty to make sure Rick is cloned back whenever he's killed.

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• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Becomes giant when he gains solid form.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Despite claiming that's a harmful AI stereotype, he turns evil when he becomes solid.
• Eye Scream: He is killed when Wasp Rick lays his eggs in his eye, with the larva eating their way out moments later.
• A God Am I: Upon being turned into a solid giant by the ferrofluid, he immediately declares "I'm a fucking god! You're fucked!".
• Hypocrite: Spends most of his screentime preaching about hologram rights and such. Then he gains solid form and instantly says being a hologram sucks.
• One-Winged Angel: Upon stepping into the strange ferrofluid Morty unleashed, he turns solid and into a giant.
• Soapbox Sadie: He cares a lot about hologram social issues like AI-phobia and solid privilege.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He spends the majority of the episode preaching rights for holograms and how they were people too. This all gets thrown out the window once he gains solid form and stops caring.

Wasp Rick

Appears in: "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat"

Wasp Rick is a surprisingly kind alternate-dimension Rick, despite being a wasp.

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• Facial Horror: Wasp Rick explains that he can lay eggs into the eyes of his prey, which then eat their way out. He does this exact thing to Hologram Rick.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's about as unpleasant as Ricks tend to be but he's shown to be quite warm to his family. It's actually an Invoked Trope on his end. As he explains it, the life of a wasp is so inherently horrific that having a bit of empathy isn't the worst way of doing things.
• Parasites Are Evil: Played with; a parasitoid wasp, Wasp Rick makes it abundantly clear that their way of life involves eating their prey alive and laying their eggs in their eyeballs... and yet, he's easily one of the nicer Ricks in the multiverse, with a much healthier relationship with his family and happier home life in general.
• Pet the Dog: He ends up helping C-137 Rick get back to his dimension and to his body without much fuss. He even saves C-137 Rick and Morty from a gigantic Hologram Rick.
• Token Good Teammate: He's the first alternate-dimensional Rick that C-137 Rick meets while body surfing that is not a fascist. Also unlike most Ricks, he also has a pretty good and stable relationship with the rest of the Smith family.
• Wicked Wasps: As Wasp Rick explains, the life of a wasp means that you inherently start off life as an asshole. Ironically, this makes him one of the nicer Ricks and, notably for the episode he appears in, not a fascist.

Memory Rick

First appearance: "Rickternal Friendshine of the Rickless Mort"

Memory Rick is a younger, more idealistic version of Rick, constructed from Birdperson's memories of Rick at that age. He became a sentient memory after meeting the real Rick and later followed him to aid Rick in his goal of reviving their friend Birdperson.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: He admits that Rick throwing a bucket over his head and trapping him in a shipping container was “charmingly analogue.”
• Alternate Self: He is a version of a younger Rick formed from Birdperson's memories. From Rick's attitude, however, it seems that it's an accurate recollection.
• The Anti-Nihilist: He takes this attitude on being a memory of Rick rather than his own person, due to Rick himself already having a similar attitude from his experiences traveling the multiverse. He initially views the real Rick as a Straw Nihilist due to letting his cynicism about it get to him.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Rick’s bacon several times throughout their journey together and even manages to earn Rick’s respect as a result.
• Become a Real Boy: He is aware that as a memory, he only exists as a recollection of Birdperson's memories, but more than any other memory he seeks to become sentient and live a real life. Rick offers to bring him to life by the end of the episode, but he ultimately declines out of concern of growing into the same kind of person as the real Rick.
• Blood Knight: He's actually excited at the prospect of Blood Ridge turning into his personal Vietnam.
• The Bus Came Back: He makes a cameo appearance in "The Jerrick Trap" post-credit scene, where Rick and Jerry's mind swap causes Memory Rick to be trapped in Jerry's mind.
• *Click* Hello: How he introduces himself to real Rick after catching him sneaking around in Birdperson’s memories. Thankfully, he doesn’t pull the trigger and gives Rick a chance to explain himself.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Through no fault of his own, all of his memories of before he met Birdperson are very generic and bird-themed despite being human—a notable example he lists is that he remembers his ninth birthday party taking place in a pine tree.
• Disney Death: It seems he died saving Rick and Birdperson from the evil Tammy, but he managed to survive and, in Rick's words, "propagated himself from BP's subconscious into mine so he can become a sentient memory."
• Future Me Scares Me: Memory Rick does not like where his future is heading, finding his future self overly cynical and callous, and thinks he's a creep for replacing other Ricks so he can live in a reality where his daughter is still alive. Rick later offers to give Memory Rick a physical body, but Memory Rick refuses due to his fears of becoming like Rick.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Memory Rick is quite defensive when Rick catches on to him having transferred himself from Birdperson’s mind into his own to live as a sentient memory, claiming he didn’t want to tell Rick about his plan due to the “wild, callousness thing” that Rick has going on.
• I Work Alone: Discussed and ultimately defied. Young Rick is more than willing to team up with real Rick to help save Birdperson's life and he's incredulous to discover that Rick refuses his assistance to help save Birdperson even though he’s an invincible memory. Rick eventually relents and accepts Memory Rick’s aid, but only after Memory Rick manages to prove himself.
• Morality Pet: After their initial tense meeting, he immediately offers to help Rick save Birdperson and sticks with Rick despite Rick attempting to get rid of him. Rick eventually grows attached to him and doesn’t mind too much when Young Rick transfers himself from Birdperson’s mind into his own to live as a sentient memory.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His dialogue indicates that Rick's original Beth was dead before she could give birth to a Morty.
• Skilled, but Naive: Rick actually finds him “insufferable” due to him being "young," and Memory Rick himself admits he doesn't know the rules of how Birdperson's mind works. That said, Memory Rick does manage to earn Rick’s respect by proving himself a useful ally in combat.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: This Rick, despite having lost his family, is significantly more idealistic, being eager to take down the Galactic Federation and responds to knowing that he'll have his own "Vietnam" in the Battle of Blood Ridge with glee.

Rick C-132

Played By: Christopher Lloyd

A Rick not too far removed from Rick C-137. This live action Rick has jumped to another dimension with his Morty, in search of a new home. Officially named Rick C-132 by Adult Swim with the teaser of a live action episode.

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• Casting Gag: Rick and Morty began life as a raunchy parody of Back to the Future, with Rick being a parody of Doc Brown. Christopher Lloyd playing this Rick brings the joke full circle.
• Old Shame: Rick C-132 is pretty miffed Morty C-132 thought he would turn himself into a pickle again, stating "Are you kidding? (spits out piece of pickle) NEVER!"

Adult Morty

Appears in: "Rickmurai Jack"

After Morty artificially aged himself into a 40-year-old, Rick took him to the Citadel to subtract the excess age, which forms into a 26-year-old version of Morty.

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• She Is All Grown Up: Adult Morty is quite handsome. It's implied that this is because he's technically a newborn who hasn't been loaded with the baggage that comes from being Rick's sidekick, while the source-Morty could just as easily get worse-looking with age.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's shot to death by some police Mortys mere seconds after being brought into existence.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: By his own admission he's not quite ready to sell out and wants to be a famous influencer.
• Younger Than They Look: He's only a few seconds old, but resembles a hypothetical version of Morty as an adult.

Rick Prime (Unmarked Spoilers!)

"Imagine doing anything you want, then hopping to a timeline where you never did it. Imagine going anywhere, anytime, with nobody able to stop you."

First appearance: "The Rickshank Rickdemption"

"You [Main Rick] think it's cool being the smartest man on Earth, but once we give you this technology, you become the smartest thing in every conceivable universe—the Infinite Rick. A god."

The original Rick of the Prime Dimension/Cronenberg Dimension who introduced C-137 Rick to interdimensional travel and the existence of the multiverse. After our Rick rejected Rick Prime's offer to join him, he killed C-137 Diane and C-137 Beth, making Rick the man he is today.

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• Accidental Murder: His bomb kills Diane and Beth, but was likely intended to kill Rick, who ended up as the only survivor. Season 7 reveals he completely intended to kill both Diane and Beth because he thought Rick's rejection of portal tech was him implying Rick was better than him because he loved his family more than himself.
• The Ace: 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 and that they've fallen for one of his traps. 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.
• The Ageless: He looks younger than C-137 Rick, due to his cybernetic enhancements including regenerative tissues.
• Always Someone Better: Functions as this to both Rick C-137 and Evil Morty, 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.
• Arch-Enemy: Is this to the Main Rick Sanchez, who spent literal decades trying to hunt him down for killing his wife and daughter. Whereas Main!Rick tends to address most of his foes with either apathy or mockery, Rick Prime is the one enemy he treats dead seriously. In the Season 6 Finale, Rick Sanchez goes back to trying to hunt him down, even calling him his nemesis.
• Attention Whore: As a Troll who delights in animosity, it comes with the territory. He leaves messages that constantly mock the other Ricks as "inferior versions" of himself, and shows sadistic enjoyment in psychologically torturing/killing multiple Ricks who try to find and kill him. His last moments are relishing the fact that Main Rick prioritized killing him over stopping Evil Morty from getting the Omega Weapon, risking the existence of Rick Sanchez across the multiverse as a result.
• Awful Wedded Life: 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 a variant of his didn't possess the same apathy.
  • Calling him the worst husband ever does not even begin to cover the fact that he intentionally 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.
• Ax-Crazy: As someone that represents the worst qualities of Rick, it should come as no surprise Rick Prime is this. Although he never visibly loses it, his petty nature, Troll moments, and sociopathic tendencies make it crystal clear that he's borderline insane. Two big examples of this are him literally erasing his wife from existence in every single dimension just to spite Rick, and him making C-137 Rick^note along with Morty and Evil Morty and a bunch of other Ricks fight to the death for a chance to reunite with Diane, only to then release a giant murder bot with her face on it, and then when that's defeated he reveals that the entire arena itself was a death trap the whole time, which slowly releases columns of fire until the entire place is covered in flames, giving the winner a few moments before they're incinerated to death.
• Big Bad: After a while, it's ultimately established that Rick Prime is the main villain of the franchise. Arc Villains Evil Morty and Tammy have come and gone, but season 6 starts with a reveal that Rick Prime is the one who killed Rick's family, which set him down a path of revenge that ultimately resulted in the creation of the Citadel of Ricks and everything that transpired after it, including Evil Morty.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • He's more confused and bemused than anything 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 respect for him being the only other Rick to figure out portal travel on his own. The catch is that he went one step further and erased every iteration of Diane from the multiverse, ensuring multiple Rick variants are hunting him for killing their wife, so it's a little hard for him to keep track of them all.
  • He's so used to Ricks hunting him down in revenge for killing Diane that he's created multiple death traps for any who get too close.
• Cessation of Existence: His Omega Device is an absurdly destructive example, wiping out every version of a person across infinite parallel universes. Guess who he decided to use it on?
• Confusion Fu: Rick Prime is a master of misdirection, constantly blurting out different possibilities to confuse and make his opponents question what the truth actually is.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Evil Morty. Evil Morty was Morty's Shadow Archetype, being what he'd become if his dynamic with Rick had remained the same in spite of his Character Development. He was an Anti-Villain who was Driven to Villainy by Rick's narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies and whose goal was to break the status quo. Rick Prime is Rick's Shadow Archetype, being what Rick would become if he got his wish of defying Character Development and fully embraced his narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies. His number one goal is ensuring every Rick is as bad as he is, and proving his own superiority.
• Crazy-Prepared: He has a contingency plan for everything and anything that any Rick can throw at him. Unfortunately for him, this did not apply to (what he thought was) his original Morty.
• Dark Reprise: Rick Prime puts his prisoners through elaborate Saw-style gauntlets, just like Rick did to the Vindicators. The key differences are that Main!Rick was drunk, didn't really WANT the Vindicators to die and was actually HORRIFIED at what he did in that state. Rick Prime, on the other hand, does it all ENTIRELY on purpose, and doesn't give two shits about the fates of his victims.
• Defiant to the End: Even when Rick is literally beating him to death, Rick Prime mocks him by saying Rick's just like him; which isn't entirely untrue. He also points out that if Rick had discovered interdimensional travel first, it could just as easily be him who would go on to murder Rick Prime's Diane. He also (accurately) mocks Rick for dedicating his life to vengeance so much that killing him will leave Rick with nothing left to live for. Following Rick Prime's death, Rick realizes his vengeance changed nothing.
• Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life: The Stinger in Season 6 episode 1 "Solaricks" hints at this.
  Hermit Jerry: Why... are you here?
  Rick Prime: Buddy, I've been asking myself that exact same question.
  • His question turns out to be less philosophical and more practical: 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.
• Die Laughing: He never stops laughing, even as Rick beats him to death, reducing his skull to a bloody, pulpy mess.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Rick Prime's hyped up as Main Rick's nemesis, but despite the crucial role he played in turning Main Rick into the man he is in the present, and season 7 being hyped as Main Rick hunting him down, Rick beats Rick Prime to death at the end of episode 5 of season 7, Rick's vengeance only leaving him feeling empty.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He comes across a version of himself who would rather be a loving 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."
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played for Laughs. 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 little interest in Morty, his grandson from his original universe, though he does drop his guard at the very end.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed. Rick Prime tries to shift Rick's attention over to Evil Morty possessing the schematics to the Omega Weapon. Rick doesn't care and still kills him anyway.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Was taken aback when Rick rejected his offer of portal technology in favor of a simpler life with his wife and daughter, unable to grasp that any Rick wouldn't want the universe to roam as they pleased.
• Evil Doppelgänger: He serves as this to Rick, being an even more evil version of him who truly does not care about his family at all, and is only interested in doing whatever he wants. Rick even sourly compares him to his own "don't give a shit" attitude from earlier seasons - though unlike Rick C-137, Rick Prime genuinely does not care about anything but himself.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: 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 at his worst, reveling in mocking the pain and supposed inferiority of his victims.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • The entire reason he murdered Rick's original Diane and Beth in the first place was because Prime interpreted Rick prioritizing his family over dimension-hopping hedonism as a snub on Rick's part, implying he's better than Prime.
  • Convincing a handful of Rick variants that he can resurrect their Dianes if they win his game, then having the final boss be a killer robot that not only looks like Diane but also spews targeted insults has got to be the dickest of dick moves.
  • Taken to it's utmost extreme with his absolute worst act, when it's revealed that he 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.
• Evil Wears Black: Distinct from most Ricks by wearing a black-and-red tracksuit.
• Eviler than Thou: Take Main!Rick, erase virtually all of his (already limited) redeeming qualities, and amp his Jerkass tendencies up even further than normal. That's Rick Prime in a nutshell.
• Facial Horror: 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.
• Fatal Flaw: 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 callous murders of countless Dianes that made Rick absolutely hellbent on killing him, regardless of the consequences or the threat of the Omega Weapon.
• Faux Affably Evil: Despite being evil to the core, he's still capable of being polite. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if he’s genuinely Affably Evil or pretending to be:
  • When Rick Prime first met our Rick, he was rather cordial and wanted him to become part of the Citadel of Ricks—but when Rick refused the offer, Rick Prime tries to murder him and instead killed his wife and daughter.
  • In the Season 6 premiere, he is also polite to Hermit Jerry. If Hermit Jerry didn't slash his throat, Rick Prime likely would have left him alone, and even then he compliments Jerry on having the balls to try and kill him.
• Foreshadowing: He makes his contempt of the idea of Ricks valuing family over science clear for [Main] Rick's brief encounter with him. He's ultimately revealed to be the Rick that abandoned his family and allowed [Main] Rick to step in and replace him in [Main] Morty's life.
• A God Am I: Outright tells Rick that portal technology would make him a god.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He killed Rick's wife and daughter, setting that Rick on the hunt for revenge which led to him killing several alternate Ricks. Rick's grief and failure to find this Rick caused his downward spiral into the Rick we know today. These killings also led to a bunch of other Ricks being sent out to kill him, which ultimately ended in Main Rick destroying the proto-Citadel. Rick was only able to get the other Ricks off his back by forming a truce with the Ricks that would eventually form the Council of Ricks and helped them design and build the new Citadel (or more accurately, the Citadel seen in "Close Rick-Counters Of The Rick Kind" and "The Rickshank Redemption").
  • He is also this to the rest of the Smith-Sanchez family, as it was his abandonment of Beth that was the root cause of all of her issues, which snowballed onto mutually dysfunctional relationships with Jerry, Morty and Summer.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Implied to be the case with how after creating Portal Travel to go into The Multiverse just to get away from his wife, Rick Prime would stumble across other versions of himself who were all Happily Married 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 where it's revealed that Rick Prime 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.
• Hate Sink: In spite of his competence and humorous traits, Rick Prime is by far the most monstrous variant of Rick in the entire franchise, 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 a (relatively) better father figure, despite his massive character flaws. He later outright says he 'never got too close to the concept' of a happy family life, clearly not regretting how he treated his daughter, or even how the rest of his family turned out. [Main] Rick even says that Rick Prime truly does not give a shit, and has moved on from the Smith-Sanchez family so thoroughly that not even taking [Main] Morty (his biological grandson) as a hostage would have an impact on him.
• Healing Factor: When Hermit Jerry slashed his neck, the injury recovered within seconds. When main Rick and him have their climactic duel in a later episode, he's able to almost instantly regenerate himself perfectly from being smashed and exploded into a chunky mess, showing his healing technology is far superior to the other Rick's.
• The Hedonist: Rick Prime doesn't have an 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 be free of the consequences of his actions. He's little more than a Psychopathic Manchild whose only goal is constant stimulation and personal amusement.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Up until Season 7, it's unclear why he offered Rick the secrets of portal travel, and then killed his Beth and Diane when he refused. Season 7 reveals his only motivation was spite for Rick rejecting him, and everything he's done since then is to hide from him.
• Hidden Depths: Rick Prime shows a look of regret after he kills Slowmobius. He also seems to have a bit of a soft spot for his own Morty, though it's not clear if this was a ruse or not.
• Hijacked by Ganon: 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 the Big Bad and just wants to be left alone.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: 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.
• It's All About Me: Although most versions of Rick have varying degrees of this, Rick Prime takes this up a notch and crosses it with The Hedonist. Rick Prime is so self-centered that he truly doesn't give a shit about anybody or anything but himself.
• I Work Alone: 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. Ironically, this trope is one of the only things Rick Prime shares with Evil Morty.
• Kansas City Shuffle: In "Solaricks", he pretends to be an alternate Rick trapped in a glass tube (with multiple recordings of himself surrounding it) when Rick finds his hideout, all to throw any uninvited guests off his scent.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: He kills his counterpart's Diane and Beth, ruins Rick's life, MASSIVELY fucks up the Smith-Sanchez family and gets away with all of it for six and a half seasons. It's not until "Unmortricken" where karma finally bites him in the ass.
• Karmic Death: Despite his bluster, Rick Prime is ultimately killed by Rick C-137, the same Rick whom Rick Prime killed the aforementioned versions of Diane and Beth via a bomb.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: His remorseless murdering of the alternate versions of his wife and daughter, while probably unintentional on his part, lacks any of the shows usual Black Comedy and establishes him as the nastiest version of Rick in the series; which, given what Rick pulls on the regular, is really saying something. It's revealed he used a machine that literally wipes every single version of a particular person out of existence across dimensions to kill every Diane. He then attempts to do it with every single member of his own family just to hurt Rick.
• Knight of Cerebus: Despite retaining the typical Rick's sense of humor, Rick Prime's vile behavior and complete Lack of Empathy is nonetheless portrayed very seriously. The fact that he's the one who managed to break Rick tells you all you need to know.
• Last of His Kind: After killing his Jerry, he's now the only non-mutated human left on the show's original Earth, until Rick finally kills him in Season 7.
• Laughably Evil: Given that he's Rick only without any shred of humanity, he still shares Rick's sense of humor and dishes out some hilariously dark and petty zingers.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Since he left his dimension when Beth was young and never came back he didn't notice the apocalypse on Earth. He also has little idea who Jerry is since he never grasped the family concept other Ricks did.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: 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's only a bit more awkward than usual before asking if he should just be quick to "wrap things up".
• Monster Progenitor: States that he and Rick C-137 are the only two Ricks to independently create portal travel. If he's telling the truth, then his nickname of "Prime" is apt - he was the first one to abandon his family to explore the multiverse and the one who enabled infinite other Ricks (who probably would have been dimension-bound otherwise) to do the same. This kickstarts many of them to become cruel, uncaring "Gods". For good measure, Rick Prime is shown to be much smarter and capricious than any other Rick.
• Narcissist: In Rick's edited version that he give to the Galactic Federation, this Rick advertised the proto-Citadel as "a non-stop party where the guests are the only people we like (i.e. Rick)."
• No Name Given: Downplayed, as he shares the same name as our protagonist, but he doesn't have any particular designation or characteristic to distinguish him, aside from his lack of a Morty. Pocket Mortys names him "Weird Rick." It isn't until Season 6 that we learn that he's the real Rick and Morty is his biological grandson. Word of God is that the show's crew distinguishes him from the protagonist Rick by calling this one 'Rick Prime'.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Part of his dying words to Rick are that, since he and Rick Prime are the only two Ricks who invented interdimensional travel on their own, if Rick had discovered it first, he may have gone on to be just as bad as Rick Prime, maybe even killing Rick Prime's wife and daughter instead of the other way around if he had the chance. To rub salt on the wound, he admits that he found it absurdly hilarious that Rick's been raising his grandson and (formerly) lived in the home he abandoned while he's been living large.
  Rick Prime: Admit it. You would've been me. I just walked into your garage before you walked into mine! But eventually you did! You LIVED in my HOUSE!!
• Not So Invincible After All: 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 latter two would prove integral to his defeat.
• Offing the Offspring: Killed Rick's Beth, who despite being an alternate universe counterpart is still his daughter biologically. In "Solaricks," he also kills Hermit Jerry, who is his universe's Jerry and thus his son-in-law. In "Unmortricken", while he is awkward about it, he was fully prepared to murder his own grandson (though it was Evil Morty in disguise).
• Parental Abandonment: He abandoned his wife and child who was the first Beth we saw on the show. He tried to get Rick to do the same and when the latter refused, Rick Prime murdered them.
• Real After All: When he first appeared, the audience was lead to believe he was ultimately a fabrication concocted by Rick to escape the Galactic Federation. When Morty sees Rick's canon backstory however, he's revealed to be entirely real.
• Psychological Projection: 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 with the satisfaction of corrupting another Rick to become as bad he is.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's even worse than Main Rick in this regard - he's insanely petty and spiteful to the point that 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.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Wears a unique red and black ensemble in contrast to the white labcoat that's normal for Ricks, and is the evilest Rick seen to date.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Only made two appearances in flashbacks through the first five seasons—and the audience was led to believe he didn't actually exist for three seasons—but he is responsible for making our Rick the way he is.
• Smug Snake: Basically everything he says is dripping with sheer arrogance. Even as Rick C-137 mercilessly beats him to death, he maintains his smug demeanor and sucks much of the joy out of what should be a cathartic moment for the protagonist.
• The Sociopath: Moreso than all other Ricks. As our Rick puts it, "For [Morty] to be bait, the guy'd have to value something. He truly does not give a shit." It's worth noting that when he's confronted by Hermit Jerry, he says he "never got too close to the concept" of the Smith family. Hermit Jerry being his son-in-law who was married to his daughter. His pitch for Multiverse travel is also all about doing whatever you want without the potential consequences, unlike most Ricks who are just as interested in the cool adventures they could have. He built a weapon that would erase a person from every single timeline just to spite Rick, and even as he is being beaten to death by him, Rick Prime only mocks the fact that Rick is nothing without him.
• Til Murder Do Us Part: He didn't just kill Rick's Diane, he used a weapon that wiped every version of her out of every universe, it's implied that included his own.
• Troll: He's so self-aware of storytelling, his secret base will have multiple timers of multiple times to throw off any visitors. And he was sure to have multiple monitors to tease them about whether he's there or just a clone.
• Underestimating Badassery: Subverted. While he mocks Evil Morty as being part of Rick's "cheer squad," he doesn't hold back at all against the former in combat and anticipates and counters his strategies. What ultimately makes his undoing is Evil Morty disguising himself as the main Morty - Rick Prime's original grandson.
• Viler New Villain: Rick Prime is this to all previous enemies that Rick C-137 has faced, including Evil Morty. Not only are the atrocities that Rick Prime has committed far more horrific (e.g. wiping out every version of someone across the multiverse), but they are done for the most pettiest of reasons (i.e getting offended for Rick not coming with him).
• Villainous Breakdown: It's subtle, but present when he uttered his "Not So Different" Remark speech when Rick C-137 delivers an Extreme Mêlée Revenge on him.
• Villains Want Mercy: Once he's tied down, his Healing Factor turned off, and he sees that Evil Morty is destroying all his back-up bodies, to ensure there's no way he can escape, Rick Prime makes an attempt to save himself by offering to make Evil Morty his sidekick. Once Evil Morty, rather obviously, turns the offer down, he just devolves into insulting Evil Morty.
• Villain Respect:
  • He's legitimately impressed when Hermit Jerry catches him off-guard and cuts his throat, even if he quickly shrugs it off with his Healing Factor. Although promptly killing Jerry for it, the fact that this Rick paid him a compliment at all is surprising given most Ricks' condescending attitude toward Jerries.
  • He does have some minuscule respect for Main Rick since he's the only Rick other than himself who was able to discover interdimensional travel on his own, with every other Rick needing to be handed it. It's the one thing that differentiates Main Rick from every other Rick trying to kill Rick Prime for murdering their Diane.
  • He is also impressed enough by Evil Morty to offer him a seat as his sidekick, though of course Evil Morty refuses.
• Walking Spoiler: Rick Prime can't really be talked about without spoiling the fact that he is responsible for killing off Rick C-137's Diane and Beth.
• We Can Rule Together: Offers this to Evil Morty when the latter has him at his mercy, saying they can be like Batman and Robin. Evil Morty declines, saying he doesn't need a Robin. Given that Prime is helpless and Evil Morty is erasing his backups so there's no chance of him coming back, it's clearly only Prime's last ditch attempt to save himself.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Rick was never able to find this Rick despite dedicating years to finding him. He also apparently never joined the Citadel. Heck, even after Rick defeated the other Ricks and organized them into the Citadel, even this combined inter-dimensional organization of Ricks wasn't able to find him. The season 6 premiere eventually reveals that he is in fact our Morty's original Rick, who abandoned his family but was dragged back to his home dimension by the events of the episode.
• Would Hurt a Child: Has no compunctions killing a child Beth alongside her mother just to spite Rick for refusing his offer. Main Rick also notes that using Morty as a hostage against him wouldn't work, because he genuinely doesn't care about his grandchild's safety and would happily allow him to be hurt or killed.
• Worth It: His erasure of Diane Sanchez's existence across the multiverse not only sent Main Rick in a vengeful crusade against him, it also ensured multiple other versions of Rick would be equally committed to hunting him, especially because they weren't involved in Main Rick's "slight" against him. He showcases nothing but happiness at this, because it ensures he'll have a never-ending source of entertainment from mocking and humiliating all his "inferiors" about how he's better than them, often leaving convoluted death traps that take advantage of Rick's flaws whilst really rubbing his superiority in.

Space Jam Rick and Morty

First appearance: Space Jam: A New Legacy (in person), "Rickfending Your Mort" (mentioned)

They are variants of Rick & Morty who cameoed in the Space Jam sequel.

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• Actually a Doombot: Created specifically to assure fans the much reviled Space Jam cameo wasn't the real Rick and Morty and to be killed off.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Rick calls the Tasmanian Devil a "badger thing" and admits he can't treat Taz's insanity.
• Death by Cameo: Their one canonical appearance in the show is as corpses in body bags after Rick kills them.
• Driven to Suicide: They begged their mainline counterparts to kill them, due to Space Jam: A New Legacy being a critical and commercial embarrassment.
• Lighter and Softer: Rick doesn't swear in a context in which his mainline counterpart would undoubtedly have, opting for the tamer "dumb-dumbs" instead of a harsher insult.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: They hightail it out of their cameo after trying to scan the Tasmanian Devil's mind.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Main Rick found their cameo in Space Jam: A New Legacy so embarrassing he decided to murder them, and apparently they begged him to do it.

Rick Bot

First appearance: "A Rick in King Mortur's Mort"

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

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• Actually a Doombot: We don't find out he's not the real Rick until his second appearance.
• Almost Dead Guy: Rickbot is sliced open by five tiny lightsabers, but hangs on long enough for some dying words. Rick even complains about how long it's taking him to actually die.
• Bait-and-Switch: We were originally led to believe this was the real Rick pretending to be nice and overly supportive as one of his elaborate revenge plans against Morty for talking back to him and going against him commands, turns out it was a robot replica designed to be nice and was a little to good at it.
• Death Seeker: Once Rickbot is revealed to be a robot and Morty is infuriated by the deception, the former becomes increasingly guilty about lying to everyone, especially as the rest of the Smiths shower him with more and more Oblivious Guilt Slinging. By the time all three Smith women attack him after Morty tells them the truth, he gladly welcomes death, and is outright disappointed when they revive him to help save the Earth, repeatedly attempting to commit Heroic Sacrifices and otherwise put himself In Harm's Way so he can end it. He finally gets his wish near the end after taking five mini-lightsabers from a gatling gun to the stomach.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Rickbot dies in Morty's arms after Taking the Bullet for the President, once Rick has returned them all to Earth.
• Face Death with Dignity: After Rickbot is exposed to the family, he calmly closes his eyes while he's torn apart. Though this is mainly because he's a Death Seeker, and he's actively disappointed to be brought back to life again later.
• Good Counterpart: To Evil Rick, naturally. Both are android replicas of Rick (Rickplicas?) whose reveals are treated as plot twists. While Evil Rick went out of his way to be bad with no indication of any greater depth, Rick Bot turned out to be a complex being just as capable of doing wrong by others as he was of doing right, but still choosing to be a good guy nonetheless.
• Hit Me, Dammit!: When trying out the new lightsaber, Rickbot orders Morty to strike him with it, which Morty is reluctant to do. He reluctantly does, and Rickbot reveals that he made his body disappear from the clothes like Obi-Wan (but didn't actually die and is just hiding naked nearby).
• Implausible Deniability: Rickbot insists he isn't a robot even when it's obvious he is (like when the family reactivates him and he's still literally in pieces), because he's been programmed to never admit to being one and can't stop.
• Indy Hat Roll: Spoofed with Rickbot sliding halfway under the Slow Doors of the President's backroom on purpose and waits to be crushed before Morty pulls him through just in time.
• Machine Blood: Rickbot spits oil from his mouth when he dies in Morty's arms.
• Pet the Dog: A heavily downplayed one, but Rickbot reveals as he's dying that he was programmed by the real Rick with the purpose of making Morty and the rest of the family happy, and thus, that everything he did was something that Rick himself indirectly did by extension. While Rick ducking out on Morty in favor of hunting Rick Prime and replacing himself with a robot all because Morty called him boring in the previous episode is definitely him being his usual cantankerous, Jerkassy self, this is still far better than how he would have reacted to such a slight in previous seasons. Essentially, instead of taking revenge for the put-down, he subbed in a nicer version of himself who would support Morty and help him fix his problems, and whom he ensured would look after his family and treat them more kindly than Rick himself normally does.
• Running Gag: Rickbot emphatically denying that he's a robot. Even after everyone he's talking to already knows that he is.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Rickbot insists that he's definitely not a robot, even after the Robotic Reveal. He's actually doing it on purpose because his programming has literally made it so that he'll die if he directly tells the truth, so he tries to make it as obvious as possible so the family will figure it out without him saying it, complete with turning it into a painfully obvious game. Unfortunately for him, they just interpret it as more family bonding and love "Rick" all the more for it. He even continues with it after being brought back to life, when everyone knows he's a robot.
• Taking the Bullet: Rickbot jumps in front of the President and gets riddled with lightsaber bullets from Morty's Gatling gun; however, it's not so much a Heroic Sacrifice as it is an effort to finally die.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Morty is pissed to learn that the nicer "Rick" he's grown to love is actually a robot doppelganger of the real deal, feeling betrayed by both of them and angrily distancing himself from both. Nonetheless, Rickbot was built to love and take care of the Smiths, and considering he was created by Rick, his programming ensures that he does this job well and has real feelings for them. The moment Morty reveals that he's a robot to the rest of the family though, all but Jerry proceed to slaughter him in anger, despite having just sang his praises up to that point, just because he was a robot, and none of them have any issue reactivating him to force him to help Morty get the Lightsaber back, and don't care how much he just wants to die at this point. By the end, Morty at least regrets pushing him away and is saddened when he dies.

Beth Variants

Space Beth

"Space Beth"

Voiced by: Sarah Chalke

A version of Beth who seemingly took Rick's offer in "The ABC's of Beth" to leave her family behind to travel the cosmos on her own. Despite being called "Clone Beth" by Pocket Mortys, it's never revealed whether she's a clone or the original Beth, with behind-the-scenes material calling her "Space Beth".

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• Action Girl: While Beth was always badass, she usually reserved displaying it for emergencies only. Space Beth spends much of her new life fighting and has upgraded herself accordingly.
• Ambiguous Clone Ending: Invoked. Rick continuously flip-flops on whether she or Earth Beth is the clone, repeatedly claiming to both that they're the real one and the other is the fake. When he watches the Mind Blower at the end, it reveals that Rick randomly swapped the two around and looked away to make sure he himself wouldn't know which is which. The promotion for Pocket Mortys names her as "Clone Beth" but nobody in the show knows or cares about who is the real Beth. By Season 5, everyone just calls her "Space Beth".
• Amicable Exes: Since this version of Beth never reconciled with Jerry, as she left her whole family behind to go on space adventures, she is this with him (despite Jerry expressing happiness that he now has "two wives", since it's pretty clear that this Beth doesn't want to get back with him). She is incredulous that Earth Beth decided to take him back and mocks their relationship once or twice, but when Rick points out that Earth Beth is indeed the same person like her and still decided to get back together with Jerry, Space Beth has no response, implying that she still has unresolved feelings for him of some kind.
  • She also, despite considering herself divorced from Jerry, still keeps her married name. After Jerry manages to distract Phoenix Person long enough for Space Beth to deactivate him, she admits with a smile that he "has his moments", and at least doesn't seem to mind being in his presence.
  • Zig-Zagged by "Bethic Twinstinct", it's implied that she joins Earth Beth in a threesome with Jerry when the two Beths fall in love, culminating in a polyamorous relationship. Considering that all three continue to be on good terms afterwards (such as "Unmortricken" showing the three of them playfully goofing off together), it's possible that this has continued.
• Anti-Hero: A version of Beth who fully embraced her dark side and has become a somewhat Sociopathic Hero with many similarities to Rick, but she's nonetheless on the side of good, fighting against the tyrannical Galactic Federation.
• The Anti-Nihilist: When Rick states that she's currently in a "hero phase" that she'll outgrow, Beth denies it, insisting that, unlike him, she's "never going to stop giving a shit". This is something she shares with her Earth counterpart (even if their respective versions of "giving a shit" manifest in very different ways).
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Space Beth and Earth Beth work together to fight off waves of Galactic Federation soldiers.
• Broken Bird: Even moreso than Earth Beth, who admires her for it.
  Earth Beth: Wow, jaded and hot.
• Butch Lesbian: Well, "Butch Bisexual" since she might have been married to Jerry. She is the more "masculine" of the two Beths and becomes the more assertive of the two when she and Earth Beth have an affair.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Spends essentially her entire focus episode doing this to Rick after she finds a (possible) explosive device in her neck that he implanted. She first comes back to Earth to kill him, then to find out the truth of whether or not she's a clone. In the end, Space Beth, along with Earth Beth, both call Rick out for being such a shitty father that he deleted the memory of which one of them is the original and which is the clone. Both decide they don't need to know since they're happy with their lives the way they are and neither consider his involvement in them important anymore. Space Beth even throws a fake punch at Rick, making him flinch, and she and Earth Beth walk away laughing.
• Crazy-Prepared: Due to her technological upgrades, she's become exactly like Rick in this regard. She has the ability to phase in and out of matter has Pokémon style creatures to fight against Rick's, can disable his forcefields, and has the ability to change her voice to imitate anyone she wants.
• Cyborg: The start of the episode shows exposed circuitry in her arm, and she seems to have a switch in her forehead that gives her Intangibility and Super-Speed when she presses against it.
• Distaff Counterpart: For her father, who Earth Beth even mocks for dressing like he did back in his thirties.
• Duplicate Divergence: When Beth asked Rick to decide whether or not he wanted her in his life, he realized that he basically couldn't handle the decision emotionally, made a clone of her and sent one of them (nobody knows which one, not even Rick) into space and had one stay on Earth so he wouldn't have to actually make a conscious choice. What started as the two of them being the same person with all the same memories who made one major, opposite decision from each other has resulted in each of them becoming quite different in many ways:
  • This Beth Took a Level in Badass as she's become a rebel leader who frequently gets into physical fights, and has become a Cyborg with all sorts of cybernetic enhancements like Rick's, while the Beth who stayed on Earth, though still badass, is physically a normal human. This Beth has also changed her appearance: she keeps one side of her head shaved, has a blue streak in her hair, and has replaced her usual outfit with fancy decked-out space gear.
  • From Space Beth's perspective, Rick essentially told her she should leave and replaced her, rather than telling her he wanted her to stay and be part of his life. As such, she's far less attached to him and cares less at this point about his approval than Earth Beth (that is, until the end of "Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri", at which point they both don't care). She even tries to kill him when she thinks he put a bomb in her neck, then tries again when he gives a Freudian Slip suggesting he might see her supposed clone as the "real" Beth instead of her.
  • On a related note, since she left her family behind for the sake of her own fulfillment, this Beth is decidedly less attached to the rest of them as well. She does still care about Morty and Summer and still considers them her kids—she's willing to allow Morty to drive her spaceship and brings them back various gifts from her adventures (such as "space cigarettes" and foreign gaming consoles) as souvenirs—but does seem fine with having a much smaller role in their lives now, and admits at the beginning of "Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri" that, since another version of her is taking care of parenting them for her, she doesn't feel the need to miss them while she's away. She does start visiting more in Season 6 onwards, but has no desire to stay for long periods of time and acts more like a Cool Aunt to her kids.
  • This Beth left while she and Jerry were still separated and planning on divorcing (if they hadn't finalized it already) without ever reconciling with him, so while she does admit that he "has his moments" and seems to be Amicable Exes with him, she doesn't want him back at all and seems irritated that Earth Beth reconciled with him. She becomes more accepting of it, but still has the disdain, disrespect, and somewhat vitriolic relationship with him that Beth did in the early seasons.
  • Since Space Beth is a version of Beth who embraced her darker side instead of working to improve from it, she has more of her father's negative qualities than Earth Beth does; she's boastful of her accomplishments to the point that she gets into a passive-aggressive competition with Rick about them, and seems to still be The Alcoholic. She's also much quicker to resort to violence; she kills a Gromflomite despite originally intending to spare him when he annoys her by not remembering her name, is quick to try to murder Rick twice and uses Earth Beth as a hostage at one point, threatening to blow her brains out. Later, she also expresses little regard for Jerry's or the rest of her family's feelings about how her affair with Earth Beth is affecting the rest of them.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Not exactly happy about the Federation's opinion of her name, as seen when she shoots soldier in the head for rambling on about how plain it sounds to him.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • None of the family are particularly angry that she effectively abandoned them, with Earth Beth being the exception. Morty expressed that he would forgive as long as he could ride in her ship.
  • By the end of "Bethic Twinstinct", Jerry quickly forgives her for having had an affair with the other Beth. Justified since he didn't really have any problem with them getting together to begin with, only with the fact he wasn't kept in the loop, and the Beths discover they like him in their loop.
• Explosive Leash: She has a device pulled from her neck which she assumes is a bomb. Rick denies this, claiming it was meant to transfer memories between her and Earth Beth, who has a similar device. He confirms that it would also disintegrate the clone, meaning it still is a bomb, just with more than one use.
• Expy: A blonde heroine who fights evil outside of Earth in outer Space and more importantly, saves Rick and Morty in "Solaricks" exactly in the style of Iron Man's rescue in 'Avengers: Endgame'', making her one of Captain Marvel.
• Fire-Forged Friends: She and Earth Beth initially don't get along at all and argue over the choices that they made, but they eventually find mutual ground in their hatred for Rick and work together, blasting their way through the Galactic Federation's ship while joking with each other.
• Hero of Another Story: While Earth Beth has spent season 4 focusing on raising her kids and improving relationships with her family, Space Beth has been waging war against the Galactic Federation, starting a resistance movement and becoming their most wanted criminal in the process.
• Honorary Aunt: Despite a few bumps, the Smith family eventually comes to see her as family and don't really care if she is the true Beth or the clone. Rick is the only one who does and that is because of his realization that he himself doesn't actually know.
• Jerkass Ball: While she is usually at least friendly to Jerry, this isn't the case in "Bethic Twinstinct", where she actively wants Home Beth to leave him and talks down to him for pretty much the entire episode.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Just like Rick did back in the day, Space Beth has been waging a war against the Galactic Federation. She wants to save the galaxy from them and Rick explicitly calls it a "hero phase" like he used to have. Her crew even has a member that's a female member of Squanchy's species. Space Beth has also outfitted herself with cybernetics like Rick and has become Crazy-Prepared enough that she can keep up with him in a fight.
• The Maiden Name Debate: A divorce variation; despite considering herself at least permanently separated if not outright divorced from Jerry, she still goes by her married name of "Beth Smith" rather than "Beth Sanchez", her maiden name. It's not known whether this is just because she's grown used to the name, or if it's to distance herself from her also-infamous father so that the notoriety she gains is based on her own merits and not her relationship with him.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When she returns to Earth to kill Rick for implanting an explosive device in her neck, she unintentionally leads the Galactic Federation to Earth too.
• Non-Indicative Name: Referred to as "Clone Beth" out of convenience in Pocket Mortys despite "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri" making it clear that it's impossible to tell which Beth is the real one. In a behind-the-scenes video, Dan Harmon refers to her as Space Beth.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Gets hit with one from Rick when she questions Home Beth having gotten together with Jerry. Rick points out that she is the same person as Home Beth, and as such should also blame herself for getting back with him.
• Parental Abandonment: Whether or not she's the original Beth, she still has all of the original Beth's memories and did abandon her kids to go off and have adventures with no visible regrets. She didn't leap heroism until later, but her kids are relatively cool with it since now they have two badass moms, making it a win-win situation for them. The knowledge of infinite realities with infinite versions of their parents probably makes cloning not that big a deal in their eyes.
• Patricide: Originally comes back to Earth to kill Rick after she finds out he put a possible explosive device in her neck. Then tries again when he slips up and reveals she may not be the original Beth. However, by the end of the episode, it's made clear that Rick himself doesn't know if Space Beth is the clone or not.
• Rebel Leader: Space Beth has spent the time since the end of season 3 acting as the leader of a resistance movement called the Defiance, which fights against the tyranny of the Galactic Federation. Rick thinks it's just a "hero phase" like the one he went through and criticizes her for going a little "Star Warsy".
• Rugged Scar: She has one across her right eye.
• Shout-Out: She has a blue streak in her hair, possibly referencing Darkest Timeline Britta from another Dan Harmon show, Community.
• Sibling Team: She and Earth Beth become this in the season 4 finale. They're not actually sisters, but since one is a genetic copy of the other, they might as well be twins, and after initially bickering they become sisterly by the end of the episode.
  Rick: [seeing Space Beth about to shoot Earth Beth] Okay, I know this is bad parenting, but if you stop fighting, I'll take you both to McDonald's.
• Smash Sisters: Well, smash clones actually; while they are openly antagonistic at first, both Beths eventually team up and demonstrate very effective teamwork.
• Sociopathic Hero: She still has a bit of a sociopath streak leftover from "The ABC's of Beth", but she's been spending a lot of time-fighting against the Galactic Federation.
• Special Person, Normal Name: She's a notorious enemy of the Federation, but they can't help but find her name to be utterly plain.
• Straw Feminist: She has shades of this, especially in scenes where she uses female empowerment as an excuse for her more unsavory actions. Jerry of all people calls her out on this when she calls him entitled for being upset at not being included in her and Beth's affair.
  Jerry: It's not Handmaid's Tale to loop in your husband.
• Tomato in the Mirror: She starts off believing she’s the original Beth, only to return to Earth after finding evidence that she might be a clone. By the end of the episode, she and her doppelgänger have decided it doesn't matter which is the original and which is the clone since she and Earth Beth are fine with their lives as they are. Then the audience and Rick, but no one else, find out Rick intentionally made it impossible to know which is which.
• Tom the Dark Lord: Her actual name, "Beth Smith" is seen as an incredibly boring name by a Gromflomite. She responds to this by killing him.
• Took a Level in Badass: Whether she's the original Beth or the clone, she's still a tremendous badass, beating Rick as the Galactic Federation's most wanted. She's the leader of a resistance movement called the Defiance and has implanted enough technological upgrades within herself that she's able to act as a one-woman army and even incapacitate Rick, though he was going easy on her.
• Walking Spoiler: There's a reason she's listed as "Spoiler Character" here. Her mere existence spoils that Beth was cloned at the end of "The ABC's of Beth", which the audience doesn't find out until over a full season later. A further spoiler comes from the end of her premiere episode where it's revealed Rick intentionally made it impossible to know which Beth is the original and which is the clone.
• Weakness Turns Her On: Much more prominent than with Earth Beth. Not only is it her approach to Earth Beth when they start an affair, it's also what leads to the ambiguously polyamorous relationship between Earth Beth, Space Beth, and Jerry by the end of "Bethic Twinstinct". It seems she gets truly turned on by Jerry's submissiveness.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite seemingly staying with the family at the end of Season 4, she's absent from the Season 5 premiere "Mort Dinner Rick Andre". However she makes a brief appearance near the end of Mortyplicity. Then in the Season 6 premiere, she mentions that she spends most of her time "saving the galaxy", but after Summer convinces her to stick around to help with the family's current crisis, she ends up bonding and decides to come around more often, like for Thanksgiving in episode 3 and the zoo trip in episode 5.

Beth Sanchez C- 137 (Unmarked Spoilers)

Beth Sanchez "C-137"

Voiced By: N/A

Our Rick's original daughter. Originally seemed to be fabricated in order to fool the Galactic Federation, "Rickmurai Jack" reveals her to completely real, and her death alongside her mother's is the real driving factor to all of Rick's antics.

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• Cheerful Child: In her brief appearance, Beth seemed to be a cheerful child before her father's meeting with Rick Prime.
• Daddy's Girl: Rick loved her dearly, and her death completely broke him.
• Death of a Child: She's one of the characters who died in the show.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Is first shown in the memory segment in "Rickshank Redemption".
• Morality Pet: Rick abandoned his Mad Scientist antics for his family. Rick Prime soon puts a stop on it.
• Real After All: "Rickmurai Jack" confirms that the memory of her was absolutely real, instead of being fabricated as Rick claimed to say in "The Rickshank Redemption".
• Small Role, Big Impact: Is only shown in two scenes in 2 separate episodes and with no lines, but Rick originally abandoned exploring the Multiverse for her and her mother, due to which Rick Prime was infuriated and tried to kill Rick. Beth was killed alongside her mother, which propelled Rick into a spiral of self-hatred and madness, eventually leading to the show and the Rick we know.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about Beth C-137 without mentioning her death and its impact on Rick.

Jerry Variants

Jerry Smith Prime - Spoiler Character

Jerry Smith Prime

Voiced by: Chris Parnell

Your mom and sister died, Morty! And I moved on. From caring. And that is the best deal you will ever get. So take it.

The original Jerry from Morty's home dimension and his dad for the first six episodes. Morty catches up with him in "Solaricks", discovering that he's the last human on that earth after his Beth and Summer died.

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• Action Dad: Morty's original father became a shotgun toting badass, hell-bent on protecting his wife and daughter. Sadly, they didn't make it.
• Action Survivor: Jerry has been the last living human in his world's apocalypse, having to become a ruthless hunter to adapt to the Crapsack World he resides in.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: This Jerry is much braver and more resourceful than his replacement after having survived the horrors of the apocalypse and the death of his own family.
• Back for the Dead: Prime Jerry appears in the premiere for Season 6, only to be killed off in The Stinger by Rick Prime.
• Beard of Sorrow: After outliving both Beth and Summer, Jerry grew out his hair and beard.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Jerrys are typically weak-willed, cowardly and somewhat dim in contrast to Rick. This Jerry knowingly turned into the sort of man Rick expected him to be; cold, uncaring and crafty.
• Berserk Button: He has come to detest Rick so much that he will attack and kill any version on sight. The first instance of this gets his Beth and Summer killed. The second gets him killed.
• Crazy-Prepared: Jerry had pre-written a note explaining to Morty that he'd been planning to wait until Morty's back was turned so that he could steal his shit and goes on to say depending on how long Morty reads the note he may think he can still catch up with him. Morty stops reading to chase after him, but then falls into a trap that leaves him hanging upside down, facing another note where Jerry says he thought Morty would've had cooler shit to steal.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: While he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of actually killing Rick Prime, he did manage to give him a would be fatal throat slice that even he didn't see coming. Rick Prime even compliments him before promptly shooting him dead.
• Dork Knight: While clearly a tough guy, he's still Jerry. Even shouting "FATALITY!" to himself after slitting Rick Prime's neck open.
• Fatal Flaw: While Rick and Morty certainly done him no favours, he was an Action Survivor until his murderous hatred of Rick came into play. Trying to attack a bunch of SWAT Ricks on sight got him and his family frozen, costing him his own Beth and Summer, and later attempting to kill Rick Prime got him swiftly shot dead.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: He blurts out that "there are no doctors anymore" after he gets hit with a spear from Morty. Mere minutes later, we learn that Beth (who was a horse doctor) has died.
• Harmless Freezing: Played Straight for him, but averted by his Beth and Summer who are left frozen by Ricks from the Citadel in the Season 3 premiere, and Season 6 has Jerry reveal Summer died from not "thawing right" and Beth got sick afterwards and died as well.
• Heal It With Fire: He cauterises his aforementioned shoulder wound by bringing it to a contact with a heated spear tip.
• Heartbroken Badass: He has become a badass ever since we last saw him, but it came at a terrible cost of losing his wife and daughter.
• Hidden Badass: The original Jerry, the man who came up with the slogan "Hungry for Apples?", turned out to be a more than capable in survivor during the end of the world.
• I Have No Son!: Jerry's last conversation with Morty has shades of this, calling him out for abandoning them while leaving Beth and Summer to die. When Morty offers to find him a new reality and family, he states that he's at peace with his life as is and that Morty is the sole disturbance.
• Last of His Kind: Jerry reveals Beth and Summer died prior to the Season 6 premiere, leaving him the last human, until he too is killed by Rick Prime.
• Major Injury Underreaction:
  • In a great contrast to his main counterpart, he is barely affected by getting stabbed in the shoulder with a spear thrown by Morty.
  Jerry: Damn it Morty, there are no doctors anymore.
  • Played with against Rick Prime, while he is fatally injured, his last words are to ask why he is even here in the same weary fed-up tone as his usual arguments with Rick before.
• Manly Facial Hair: Due to the collapse of civilization, Abandoned Jerry let his facial hair grow out, which fits with his more badass nature.
• Mirror Character: To Space Beth and Evil Morty, all three of them are members of the Smith family who became more cynical developed a hatred for all things Rick, Took a Level in Badass and turned away from the family to have their own adventures. However there's two key differences with them, 1) They both chose to leave, he was forced to be alone. 2) Evil Morty became an Impossible Genius, capable of outsmarting every Rick he came across and Space Beth warmed up and re-connected with her family. Jerry became stronger and more resourceful but his intelligence didn't significantly improve and his blind hatred for Rick ended up getting him killed by Rick Prime.
• Oh, Crap!: He loses his composure a split-second before Rick Prime gives him a Boom, Headshot!.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He outlives Summer after she died from "not thawing right".
• Safety in Indifference: He moved on from his wife's and daughter's deaths by "moving on from caring".
• Self-Serving Memory: While he was quite right to call out Morty for deserting him and the rest of his family and coming back only for an inhuman observance, he leaves out the key detail of them trying to kidnap Morty and kill alternate!Summer for "stinking of Rick", and only getting cryogentically frozen by the invading SWAT Ricks as self defence for trying to attack them, giving a terrified Morty a fair reason to "leave them to freeze".
• Took a Level in Badass: Deconstructed; he is now way more competent than any other Jerry we've seen on the show so far, but as he points out to Morty, it's come at the terrible cost of losing his world to an invasion of monstrosities, his wife and daughter dying, and his son leaving this world behind and only returning once to use his old family as a prop to teach Summer a lesson about Rick. Even though he claims his life is great now that he doesn't have to care about anyone anymore, he is clearly heartbroken underneath.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In hindsight, this Jerry is ultimately responsible for his Beth and Summer dying. He stole and destroyed Morty's Portal Gun, which brought the SWAT Ricks. All because the gun "stank of Rick" and he wanted to keep Morty with them (and kill the alternate Summer). When the family immediately try to kill the SWAT Ricks they are frozen in response.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In the Season 6 premiere, Jerry finally calls Morty out on abandoning his family not once, but twice, only coming back the first time to prove a point to Summer and then leaving them frozen. He's especially enraged when Morty says the apocalypse "improved" Jerry.
  Jerry: Oh, am I cool enough for you now? [chuckles] Well, that was easy. It only cost me fucking everything!
  Morty: Whoa, hey, I-I—
  Jerry: You came back and talked about us like we weren't people, Morty! Then you bailed and left us to freeze!
  Morty: I was apologizing for that earlier—
  Jerry: Your mom and sister died, Morty! And I moved on. From caring. And that is the best deal you will ever get. So take it.

Wooden Jerry

Voiced by: Chris Parnell

Appearances: "Mortyplicity"

One of the examples of the lazier decoys made by another decoy of Rick Sanchez. This one, like the rest of his decoy family, is completely made of wood. His only goal is to use a can of varnish to cross the river.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if he's immortal because he's a wooden automaton or because he used an entire can of varnish to coat himself, though the implications of The Stinger lean more towards the latter.
• And I Must Scream: He's dismembered by beavers and has his torso used as a nest, gets submerged underwater and wakes up in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, has his head mounted on a mirror and then set on fire, then has his head mounted on a cross where an alien version of Jesus is being crucified. The process takes millennia and he's alive for all of it, and none too happy about it either.
• Apologetic Attacker: After sealing himself away so he'll be safe while his family dies, he tearfully apologizes to them, saying he just wants to live and only has one can of varnish. Although he doesn't seem even mildly upset afterwards.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He betrays his family both because he wants to live and because he wants to keep his can of varnish for himself. In the end he gets his varnish and he gets to live, but his varnish grants him a life of thousands of years of agony that leaves him begging for death.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Zigzagged. His comeuppance was pretty karmic, though the varnish he used on himself apparently only protected him just enough to only preserve his head, leaving him alive for millenia but unable to do anything but watch and bemoan his situation.
• Complete Immortality: He survives presumably thousands if not millions of years after sustaining major damage.
• Dirty Coward: As opposed to the real Jerry who's generally more of a Lovable Coward, this version of Jerry is willing to allow his entire family to be killed just so he can save his own life. And so he won't have to share his can of varnish.
• Fate Worse than Death: Ends up a living severed head going through horrible situations, and apparently unable to die.
  "Oh god, why can't I die? This is the worst thing that's ever happened to anyone!"
• Hate Sink: Despite only being a one-off character, he shows himself to be a Dirty Coward of the highest caliber, leaving dozens of decoys, including his own family, to die just so he wouldn't have to share a can of varnish just to cross a river. Him getting immortality by varnish, and then enduring millennia of torment with no death to release him, is immensely satisfying.
• It's All About Me: Other than his cowardice, this is the other reason why he lets his family to die rather than keeping the escape pod open. He only has one can of varnish and doesn't want to share. It gets even worse considering that when he showed the varnish to Wooden Morty and Summer the two weren't even interested in his can of varnish, with Wooden Summer more interested in dying in glorious decoy battle, which she doesn't get thanks to her Wooden decoy father.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Wooden Jerry left everyone else to die so he could keep a single can of varnish for himself to cross a river. He ends up immortal and going through ever-worse situations. Bonus points, as he states immediately after locking the door he doesn't want to die and he begs for death after the beavers get him. It only gets worse from there.
• Lethally Stupid: Left every decoy to die so he could keep the varnish for himself, his own family was the only one made of wood. Furthermore, he only needed it so he could cross a river on foot.
• Made of Iron: Albeit only his head, much to his dismay.
• Murder by Inaction: He allows his decoy family to die by shutting the door to the escape pod before they can reach it, even though there was plenty of time for them to get inside. He does it deliberately so he can keep a can of varnish.
• Shadow Archetype: He is even more cowardly and selfish than Jerry on his worst day, as he leaves everyone else to die so he can keep a can of varnish to cross a river.
• Vocal Evolution: Played for Laughs. His rather stilted speech pattern dissolves the more and more exasperated he gets by the bizarre time progression, to the point he basically just sounds like the normal Jerry by the end of it.

"Season 2 Jerry" - Spoiler Character

"Season 2 Jerry"

Voiced by: Chris Parnell

A version of Jerry that was the main Jerry from "Rick Potion #9" to "Mortynight Run". He gets accidentally swapped by our Rick and Morty with the current Jerry and gets sent to a "Season 2" Dimension, where he lives until his death in "Solaricks"

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: After getting bitten in the face by Mr. Frundles, he appears to become another clone of Mr. Frundles with his face being replaced by that of Mr. Frundles'.
• Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel sympathy for him and his death given how mean he was to the family just before his death.
• Awful Wedded Life: Heavily Implied, given how he takes a jab at Beth without any remorse, and the Beth from the dimension he was in the whole time is shown to be just as abusive towards the main Jerry. To sell this point, our Beth even gets taken back by his remark, showing that her love for our Jerry has been restored, at least to a much greater extent compared to Season 2 Beth.
• Jerkass: Given that this is a Jerry who never developed past his debut season, he's still a much pettier and ruder version of himself, especially once he starts insulting Beth out of nowhere like what used to be the norm.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After messing with Rick's stuff by releasing Mr. Frundles, he immediately gets bitten and assimilated by him.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Him releasing Mr. Frundles.
• Modesty Towel: His whole appearence in "Solaricks" has him wear a towel right after coming out of a cold shower.
• Non-Indicative Name: In spite of what he is called, his appearence as the main Jerry actually happens predominantly in Season 1. As for Season 2, he is the main Jerry only in the premiere and the first few scenes of "Mortynight Run".
• Only Known by Their Nickname: While his real name is Jerry Smith just like any other Jerry, he is referred to as "Season 2 Jerry" by Rick to distinguish him from our Jerry.
• Spanner in the Works: He forces the entire Smith-Sanchez family to move to a new dimension after he releases Mr. Frundles, destroying the earth in the process.
• Too Dumb to Live: He didn't realise he shouldn't have messed with Rick's stuff until it was all too late for him.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He is shown to be a far meaner character than our current Jerry, not having had the time or circumstances to grow as a person, with him taking a potshot at Beth in the one scene he appears in "Solaricks".
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: He says nothing of the presence of another version of himself and two versions of Beth when he meets the family.
• Walking Spoiler: His mere existence confirms the theory that our Jerry since Mortynight Run isn't actually the original Jerry due to Morty screwing up the tickets and Rick not caring enough to check.

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