Discussion YMMV / RickAndMorty

I moved these entries here until someone can write these without sounding like there just complaining about Rick.

• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • This is taken Up To Eleven in Season 3. He crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he reveals that him turning himself in to the Galatic Federation was not out of selflessness, but to get Beth and Jerry divorced because Jerry suggested turning him in. In the next episode, he tries to steal the green rock that's prized by the people in the post apocalyptic dimension, and then when he makes a deal with them and gives them a smaller part of the rock that they use for electricity, he steals that rock too. And if he didn't cross the Moral Event Horizon in the Season 3 premiere, he definitely crossed it when he left Summer and Morty in the dangerous dimension with cannibals and attempted to replace them with robots. The only reason he came back to get them is because finding new versions of them would be too much work. In Vindicators 3: Return Of World Ender, he decides to put the Vindicators through Saw-Esque traps to prove they're stupid, incompetent jerks. With all these actions, Rick has been stripped of all his sympathy, and is pretty much a downright villain at this point. It's not that much of a stretch to call him an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist now.

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
  • S03E04, Vindicators 3: Return of the World Ender. The episode had a lot of potential when the promo introduced the superheroes and their powers, and also advertised a new, seemingly threatening, villain. The villain gets offed after the first act by Rick, who then proceeds to set up Saw-esque traps in his lair so he can prove to Morty that the Vindicators are all worthless, incompetent assholes (note: he does all that off-screen, effortlessly, and while piss-drunk). The superhero parody felt shallow at best, and lazy at worst, and the whole plot is just Rick, a guy who destroyed entire universes, bickering with (and killing off) the Vindicators, who turn out to be complete assholes who aren't above destroying entire planets to avoid asking the former for help. On top of that, the death traps themselves turn out to be a non-issue because Morty's experience with Rick's drunken escapades allows him to deal with them effortlessly, leaving no room for drama or tension. To add insult to injury, one of the surviving Vindicators decides to kill off Rick and Morty - the latter having done nothing to deserve it - and murders her own teammate who got in the way, said teammate (and lover) being killed off right away, but waiting to kill Rick and Morty for no reason but to have time for the elevator to bring them to an out-of-nowhere Dance Party Ending, organized offscreen by shitfaced Rick, allowing both the protagonists' survival and the villain to get off scot free, with Rick saying that he has many enemies and isn't worth it remembering or worrying about a single one. End of episode.

• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Some fans see Jerry crossing this in "Look Who's Purging Now" when he faked an interest in Summer in order to weasel money out of her, even going so far to manipulatively use old memories of them together to get close to her.

Seriously? I certainly don't approve Jerry's behavior but, really, in a show where Rick enslaves a planet to power his car battery, Summer actively helps the Devil to curse innocent people and Morty gleefully slaughters a bunch of people in the same episode, Jerry becomes Irredeemable because he once manipulated his daughter for money?

I removed because those are one sided criticism rather than a true Broken Base. If someone can express the other opinion.

• Broken Base:
  • Although Word of God has confirmed that the attempted rape scene in "Meeseeks and Destroy" was intended to be serious and disturbing, several viewers found it humorous. They often attribute this to the abruptness of the scene or the fact it's performed by a jelly bean invokes Narm.
  • This is doubly true of "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate", which is generally disliked for being an unnecessary sequel to "Rixty Minutes" with a less compelling B plot and hit-or-miss sketches.
  • From "Look Who's Purging Now" some fans didn't like Morty's slaughter of the Amish Cat Folk. While many think it's a sign that Morty has Jumped Off The Slippery Slope, some feel that it starts to set in Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy for the character.