Rick and Morty

They're making a spin off out of sheer spite,they know fans don't want it but they're counting on fans hating watching anyway

Where's Invisible Garbage Truck Jerry?

It's a new franchise.

It ran out of gas before it could get anywhere.

Vindicators 2 videos are on Adult Swim You Tube account

For useful reference, here are the videos for the webseries in question:

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Jul 23rd 2022 at 1:54:53 PM

...I didn't realize the one with the planets around her was so endowes.

These were actually rather fun.

Oh, they're just short webisodes. When it was announced the Vindicators were getting their own series, I though we were talking half hour episodes. This is a lot easier to digest.

I'm assuming the planet in Episode 5 was Dorian 5, the planet that the Vindicators said they blew up to kill Doomnonitron.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jul 23rd 2022 at 4:34:59 AM

I think the shorts were pretty good honestly, they did a good job at fleshing out most of the Vindicators

Nova and Vance, at the very least, had their deaths coming it seems. Nova in particular was basically Rick just contained to one universe

Nova's the one who didn't die.

Neat tidbits in the title cards; the three Vindicators who Nova kills and Doomnomitron disappear from the card after their deaths, Alan's face goes from determined to distressed in episodes 8-10, and Nova's face becomes bloodstained in 8 and 9, and sinister in 10.

This was a lot more fun than I was expecting.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Jul 24th 2022 at 1:42:24 PM

And THEY claimed RICK was bad (Poor Train Man.).

The team was a ticking bomb that only needed a bit of stress to blow up. And Rick's a lot more than just a "bit" of stress.

Oaky, 2 of those Vindicator deaths I understand, but what in the hell did she have against Katana because jesus christ. The corpse is... jesus.

Man when R and M wants to go deep.

And it is amazing how much story you can tell in 2-minute episodes and a few title cards.

I'm not sure what happened in Episode 9 with Nova's expression, or why we ended on them receiving awards and the team being awkward.

Edited by FOFD on Jul 25th 2022 at 6:19:27 AM

A comment on the last vid also pointed out why the team name "Vindicators" is fitting.

And they do so by denying and hiding their wrongdoing and taking credit for something they didn't do.

Edited by M84 on Jul 25th 2022 at 6:58:30 PM

I should have had more faith that this would be good. Does this retroactively make the Vindicators episode good though? Probably.

No, but it adds more context to it.

I didn't like the vindicators episode because I never really liked when the show tried to pretend the person who destroyed an entire mini-universe because he was manipulating a planet into powering up his car has that much of a moral high ground over a group of people acting like jerks, so the web shorts providing more context to why they were such bad people seems interesting.

Edited by good-morning on Jul 25th 2022 at 1:08:20 PM

Morality's always been deliberately misprioritized in the Rick and Morty universe. I think to an extent you're supposed to treat it as more abstracted and analogous than take it at face value.

By real-world standards, being a lousy (grand)parent and chasing irresponsibly hedonistic thrills at the expense of his loved ones are the least of Rick's sins compared to all the people he's killed, universes he's destroyed or enslaved, and general destruction he's wreaked across the multiverse, but narratively speaking they're just brushed off as dark comedy or used as an analogy for the aforementioned, more interpersonal flaws Rick has, which is where the show's morality is actually focused.

In the case of the Vindicators, both the Vindicators' history of murder/planetary destruction and Rick drunkenly trapping them in a Saw obstacle course are evil things in a general sense, but the main point is Rick destroying Morty's sense of hero-worship by exposing the Vindicators as bickering time-bomb assholes who only present themselves as good role models when it's easy and convenient, but in the process causing Morty to re-evaluate his view of Rick as well. The death and destruction involved in the process is just set dressing.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Jul 25th 2022 at 11:40:22 AM

That's a mature and sophisticated way of arguing in favor of the Comedic Sociopathy to people who never seem to like or grasp that sort of comedy. Wow. Keeping the quote.

Edited by FOFD on Jul 25th 2022 at 7:11:49 AM

Wasn't it established that the Vindicators were merely Harmon and Roiland venting their frustrations on the MCU at the time? It's kinda a blunt Take That! at them once you read in between the lines.

According to Adult Swim's Twitter, September 4th is the release date of Season 6.

I wonder if this is building up to Nova returning or something. It feels like since the very moment she spoke and pulled the rug under Noob Noob she was increasingly set up as THE member you wanted to see meet a horrible end she never got.

Eh they'll bring her back in a anti-climatic subversive way once the fans whine loud enough about her being a dangling plot thread.

I legit want someone to kill her, like Planetina or Naruto.