Why the hell does Rick suddenly care about being seen as anti-Semitic? He's ruined at least one Earth - which includes the Israel of that Earth, along with the rest of its Jewish population before, without giving a damn. Various minor moments in the show make it clear Rick has wiped out entire civilizations, species, and yes, planets before without caring much, if at all. Why would someone like that ever care about the idea that he might be prejudiced?
He's an Equal OpportunityAnti-Hero. His sociopathy isn't discriminatory, and others making such an erroneous assumption about him is an affront to his ego.
It's also a joke about Even Evil Has Standards. Rick might be a complete jerk who destroys entire universes without caring much, but when he an issue that is as sensitive in Real Life as anti-semitism, he suddenly shows concern.
That's the thing about modern society: annihilating an entire multiracial inhabited planet would still be seen as less evil than killing a handful of people because of their ethnicity. This carries through to Rick, who causes much of the death around him through apathy or convenience, not due to bigotry.
The scene can also be read as him being confused that Drunk Rick had strong opinions on the topic at all. It's deliberately phrased so that it isn't clear what they are beyond it being super important, and Morty refuses to tell him.
Why does Rick care about diversity? Later in the same episode, Morty points out that Rick doesn't think anyone is different or special - which is fundamentally opposed to the idea that diversity holds any value.
The idea of being prejudiced against any specific group is completely opposed to his core principles — in poli sci jargon, he's opposed to exceptionalism. If you hate women, you're elevating men. If you hate blue Shpleebians, you're elevating non-blue Shpleebians. Rick thinks everyone is equal: they're all shit.
A Hispanic man is gonna notice if the "diverse" members of a team he's joined have a habit of dying.
It's a joke about the comic book industry killing off non-white superheroes for cheap drama. It makes no sense without that context because it's hard to imagine a more diverse team than the Vindicators.
Since when is that actually a thing? I can name plenty of white superheroes that have been killed off the same way.
The C-List Fodder trope when used in Comic Books is usually done by the bigtwo who's cast's mostly consist of heterosexual white male characters due to most of them being created inthe '30s or the '60s. So if a white male C-Lister dies, no big deal but if anyone else dose it makes an already white dominated cast that much less diverse. Could also be a Take That! to the MCU for taking their time before giving a solo movie to any black or female superheroes and the massive amount of publicity/controversy they got.
we were talking about this specific genre. that trope usually applies to horror movies, but overall includes just fiction in general.
In which case the joke might just be that this isn'ta superhero story, since Rick and Morty tends to fall more into the realms of Science Fiction and Horror than Superheroism, with Black Dude Dies First rather notoriously being a horror trope.
Rick is a terrible person. He's a broken godawful piece of shit who no one should emulate. Hell, we should probably throw him in a shark tank. But he's a broken godawful terrible shit monster because he cares. He lost his family and now he's surrounded by their ghosts. Rick wanted to be a good dad and that's why his family was murdered. Rick cares about being seen as anti-semitic and he cares about diversity because pretending not to care is a terrible, stupid costume he wears thanks to losing everyone he loved. Twice. Broken Ace for the lose.
It makes sense that Rick doesn’t take responsibility for his actions when black-out drunk and basically considers Drunk!Rick a different person, considering his greatest antagonists for most of his life were literally other versions of himself with different mentalities. For all intents and purposes, it might as well have been a straggler from the Council of Rick.
Morty gets pretty upset about the fact that the little ride for "the only thing Rick values" is made for Noob Noob, not him. But when Drunk Rick created the ride, he didn't even know that Morty would be coming along in the place of Noob Noob - so Rick might still appreciate Morty, just not consider him the part of the Vindicators.
There’s no way Drunk Rick couldn’t program his thing to tell the difference between Morty and Noob Noob. He knew Morty would be the one in there. He meant all the things about Morty, but he’s one of those dudes who can’t just say it straight because of how emotionally closed off he is. The Noob Noob stuff was his way of trying to get his cool back after he laid out honest emotion. And yes, he planned both the emotion and the take back together, because he’s Rick and that’s how his mind works.
This may be subverted, as piece of deleted dialogue revealed that the ride was triggered by Noob Noob's weight, which is 'approximately 98 pounds', which is implied to be Morty's own weight. Also, the issue isn't that Drunk Rick could not program the ride to know the difference. The issue is that Rick is lazy by nature and he very often ignores obvious and more efficient solutions. Even for his third challenge he just made a simple basket ball game, admitting he couldn't think of anything else. The ride was very much designed for Noob Noob and not Morty.
Thanks to Rick killing pretty much all the Vindicators and turning Supernova into a villain, Who's going to protect the Galaxy from a vast number of threats now? Even though the Vindicators may have not been heroes for purely altruistic reasons, they did spend a lot of time trying to save lives and do good.
However, Rick did make a point that he could probably achieve what takes them months in the space of about an hour (and indeed, he defeated for good a major threat they'd been failing to deal with for a long time in the space of one night whilst blackout drunk). The Vindicators are also noted to have a severe Destructive Savior streak, at one point destroying an entire planet just to kill one person, so it's not necessarily bad that they're gone either.
On the other hand, Rick readily admits to being capable of accomplishing very nearly anything, which would apparently include saving the universe by single-handedly defeating a supervillain... but only if he feels like it. Given his staggering indifference to most things, he's not likely to be the one to bother filling the role that the Vindicators at least tried to fill.
Plus, as far we know, The Vindicators only destroyed a planet one time. One incident doesn't really count as a Destructive Savior streak.
The Vindicators talk of going "3-for-3", implying this was only their third time ever fighting an actual villain. Seeing as almost all of them died the third time, and the aforementioned planetary destruction on the second, they don't seem to be doing much good for anyone.
Ricks ride at the end, plus various comments indicate various adventures. Maybe "3 for 3" just means their third big time challenge.
Does nobody notice that because Rick killed Worldender, he's effectively more DANGEROUS than Worldender?! And this is while he's blackout DRUNK!
Then again, that Rick is a staggeringly dangerous individual has been established since the first season, this isn't news to the audience, it's not even news to most of the authorities in the setting. If anything, it's baffling that the Vindicators didn't bother to take him seriously.
