the saddest thing about this is our rick had to pretend to be a bad father to convince beth he was the same rick who abandoned her. he was literally about to give up science for his real wife n daughter before they were killed
He still is a bad father though. In Rick Potion #9 he left another version of her in a world that he ruined. He could have come back for her anytime, but didn't.
The theory I've seen floating around a lot is that Beth only survives if her Rick abandons her. If he puts family above science he loses his family. Ironically, the most loving thing a Rick can do for his daughter IS abandon her. ACTUALLY loving his family leads to their deaths. No wonder he's so afraid to show emotional attachment...
"he was literally about to give up science for his real wife n daughter" We don't know that, that was part of the "fake" backstory in season 3 Without dialogue, we don't know how much detail Rick changed, note that in the real backstory, C-137 appears to show animosity towards the other Rick, they look to be arguing, but if you go to the scene in the brainalyzer, he is calm and serene
Because of this backstory my opinion of Rick has greatly changed. Rick, despite being an all powerful bad ass, was little more than a selfish prick. The finale of season 4 where Rick was watching his own memory to discover who his real daughter was, only to realize that he doesn't even know. His conclusion of himself perfectly sums up how I felt about him all this time: "Holy shit, I'm a terrible father". Rick is the smartest man in the (known) multiverse. Unsurpassed in intellect, balls, and power. But at the end of the day he's still a piece of shit, deadbeat dad- UNTIL we see who he truly is in this finale. This revelation explains so much about Rick's personality, his attitude towards each member of the family, and overall why he does what he does. I now sympathize and have grown to truly respect him as a human being.
@@Funkgun that would be a trip. Because that Beth was technically abandoned - and the Rick that bombed the Diane/Beth did seem like a dick Rick that once he found out portal tech immediately turned nihilist evil ("nothing matters but more power/knowledge"....so willing to kill Diane/Beth in our Rick's universe, that its very likely he never cared about his own) ...and our Rick *taking* the dick Rick's family as a response is a decent "F you" (maybe even waiting to see if the dick Rick ever comes back)
The saddest thing about this scene is the revelation that Rick never wanted any of this. Portal technology, sci-fi adventures, intergalactic quests and conflict; he wasn’t interested. He was forced into it for revenge, and he was unable to have even that. He isn’t a drunk shitty person by nature. He became this person from a lifetime of loss and failure.
And it makes us realize the reason nothing matters to him is not because of some grand intellectual 'we are just small temporary meatbags in a vast space' reason but because what mattered to him is already gone
He already lost the one thing he cared about. Is no wonder he's in great pain. Being the "Father who abandoned Beth" (quotations because his real family died) and he lives his life taking the responsibility of a life he never even choose to be in. Which makes the scene where him and mordy move into another family and him seem unaffected give a much more deeper meaning to it when you think about it.
It's interesting that throughout that whole memory sequence, the only time we see Rick smiling and laughing and enjoying his life again are when he's with Morty.
I noticed something weird though. On the pizza planet he's smiling lying back relaxed. Maybe thinking about his family or something? I dunno, it's a weird inclusion
@@Stingra87New dimension, new reality. Agreed, he was in the natural early stage of wonder before becoming numb to it. Even with his grief, it is hard to not enjoy something as unreal as a Pizza Dimension, at least in the beginning.
@@peterthosegriffins666the joy of discovering new horizons, especially a very absurd reality where you are the phones, he probably found it amusing and pondered on the infiniteness of everything during that time which distracted him away from the grim reality of his dead family.
This puts a whole new perspective on that scene where Rick was crying at the images of baby morty. Because he never got to see morty grow up and only knew him at the age he is now.
@WungusBill RIck likely went to various universes and observed a version of Beth growing up and having children. Likely visited but never stuck around. So even more fueling his feeling about what he lost.
@WungusBill really, it's 50/50 if the writers had all this planned. If not at least a good chunk of it planned. They mentioned the central finite curve a couple times in past seasons. Edited: Autocorrect.
@WungusBill you don’t know what age Morty was when Rick came back to Beth tho so he could easily have memories of a baby morty. Regardless of what actually went down I seriously doubt the writers are just completely winging it lol
@@liverpoolfcx7 We do? She couldn't be 18 or 19 at that scene, which would make Morty 1 or 2yo. She seems to be exactly the same as her 31yo counterpart, and their Rick has abandoned his family for OVER 14 years, so it wouldn't make sense for him to show up when Morty was a baby
Yeah I love this reveal. But remember in s1 e9 (or 10 of you include the pilot), he is shown to have a memory of baby Morty. Did he find a Beth, leave, and then come back years later? Or did he just visit some random baby morty? This episode heavily implies that he crashed into Beth's life right before season 1, so kind of a plot hole right there.
@Afro Ninjutsu yeah that could totally be possible, and like you said the possibilities are endless. But it's so obvious that in season 1 the writers meant for that baby to be OUR morty, I mean Rick tears up when seeing him after all. So I can't help feel that it was a recton the writing staff had internally.
@@8mmkyle865 Rick might make comments about his family from other dimensions not really being his family, but all Ricks share identical DNA so technically any Morty is still his grandson. Plus tearing up could easily be because he's looking at the grandson he never got to have.
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@@ApexGale the deeper part about it is, I think that might be why RIck hates Jerry more than we despise Jar Jar. Jerry represents the person that Rick never got to be; just an average joe with an average family. But HAPPY too. And to see Jerry ruin that, to see him complain about what he takes for granted, yeah, I can definitely see why Rick despises Jerry so much now.
Birdperson, S1E11: “Your grandfather, is indeed, in very deep pain; that is why he must numb himself.” That line hits a lot harder after watching this scene.
This what I've been saying since day one. Ricks at the citadel had literally abandoned their family to live in their own club house was my argument before. They expanded on that idea with just ricks and mortys living separate and then the engineering of morty so that they didn't have to keep stealing them
rickest rick should be doofus rick, because he didnt have a family, but he what the true one with emotional capacity to understand and feel; to put someone before him.
This also explains why Rick always wants to go on adventures with Morty the most. He never got to see Beth grow up, Summer is already into her teenage years, but Morty is closest to the age his Beth was when she was murdered, so with Morty around he at least has a chance to try and be a parent to a child again.
Morty is 14 years old and Beth "child" seems to be much younger than Morty But it makes sense that your theory that Rick wants to go on adventures with just Morty
@@Qwertzym0onsif you know I actually question that a lot. Morty isn’t dumb, a little young and immature, but he’s pretty competent at this point. I doubt morty is much camo at all at this point. Evil morty clearly shows us, mortys are not inherently dumb, just generally.
@@wish5615 yup and a good example is when they get detoxified morty becomes more like evil morty which is clearly smart or as equally as smart as rick. Which brings me to a theory about evil morty, what if evil morty is just another morty that didn’t get his detoxed self fused back with him.
I saw a fan theory that I think is so amazing. That only prime Rick and c 137 Rick are the only 2 ricks to actually create portal travel, every other Rick was given the technology. It explains why the portals still aren’t working or why c137 is the most dangerous, he was the only one beside Rick prime to reach his full potential. It also explains why we are so many ricks do 9-5 jobs at the citadel since they never developed the tech for themselves
@@sapujapu4282 rick c-137 took rick primes place when rick prime abandoned his family on earth c-137 hence his number ,in reality we dont really know our ricks universe but we know that he took his place which eventually turned into the chronenberg verse and they had to switch worlds. So to answer your question rick prime is beths(from s1-s3) real dad but he left and the rick we see is the one we follow for the rest of the show, our rick(c-137) didn’t abandon his family and rick prime murdered them and dipped not to be seen since.
@@jlog1737 So, if im getting this Right, our Rick isnt C137 actually, he just Took the place of the OG C137, which is Prime Rick. We didnt saw Prime Rick Then ever again?
@@sapujapu4282 Prime Rick was in the season 6 premier. He was the one on the Cronenberg world with the invisible base. He was show naked and then the post credits scene show him getting dressed so we assume it is Rick Prime. Especially since all Ricks were returned to the home universes and our Morty is Morty Prime and so also got sent to Cronenberg universe.
What I like about this backstory is that it proves Rick isn't a nihilist. Every time he spouted nihilistic rhetoric to Morty, or whomever else he was talking to, it was a lie he was telling himself. He wanted to believe that his family meant nothing, but it meant everything to him. His entire life is dedicated to the love he had for the family that was taken from him.
wow. u are right. also you can tell that his bond with Morty is deeper than just that of a cloaking device because he decided to bring morty with him after the chronenberg episode even thought he could have left him and found another universe where just the rick died
@Where's the hen? there was no point to saying that. Like obviously everything is gone eventually but there's a difference between things going the way they usually do and your family getting violently murdered. Get outta here with your edginess
I finally understand the true tragedy of Rick: a man who is dangerous not because he doesn’t care, but because he could be said to have cared too much. He is not a good man nor a terrible one, but he is an example of what happens when you lose too much.
Part of me thought that he made a clone of Beth, space Beth and home both, so his daughter could live both lives. Instead of having to give up her family to live her best life on her own, she can live either way simultaneously by having a clone of herself. Though, now we know Rick chose to be with his family. Maybe it was an act of kindness: living both lives like Rick did, only without the tragedy, heartbreak, and leaving/having you family taken away in an instant.
@@garrettviewegh677 - Few are even capable of seeing that for all the derision they throw at Jerry for being pathetic the same can easily be applied to Beth. Namely she refuses to take accountability for her life and despite such everyone in the family gives her a free pass. I mean she couldn't even pick between staying with her family or pursing her dumb dream. Ultimately making Rick decide for her. If not for having a father like Rick she wouldn't be able to assume credit for his intelligence as if it was her own.
whats worse is that last scene when he reunites with Beth is short lived because he ends up abandoning her after converting almost all of the humans on the planet into monsters.
I get the feeling after seeing this that Rick's general nihilism is less of a epiphany he had from interdimensional travel, and more of a coping mechanism.
As someone who used nihilism and cynicism as a cover for depression and anxiety for years, I can at least personally vouch for this. Its a lot easier to think of the world as terrible and irredeemable when you think of yourself in the same light. Its also especially insidious because cynicism and nihilism can look like "wisdom" because people think that happiness and optimism is a sign of childishness and immaturity.
I think it makes the conversation he had with bird person hit even harder. Bird person's people experienced genocide at the hands of the galactic federation, when he fought them for years and finally won on blood ridge, it meant something. Well, it's more like it meant everything.There was catharsis there. Rick never got that, he was never able to find the guy that was responsible for his personal tragedy, and after so much time wasted and his entire life spent chasing a phantom his coping mechanism was that it all didn't matter (And it's also reality which he didn't choose to be exposed to, that he's just one Rick, and there are infinite Ricks). When he shares his secret with Bird Person, the feeling of loneliness kicks in again because truly NO ONE could understand what it's like to be a Rick (And they refuse to choose to, because who would choose that?! It's miserable), let along this specific Rick. Bird Person wants things to matter, he wants meaning; Rick, ironically also wants that but it's impossible to achieve for him because he's aware that he's not exactly special and there are infinite versions of him. To top that off, the one thing that could have given him "meaning", finding his wife's killer, seems to be anything but attainable. He's chasing a phantom across infinity, it's tiresome, and no one wants to share that with him.
Things we learned in just 3 minutes: -Morty C-137 never existed. -Rick never saw his daughter grow, he just showed up in a universe where she´s alive -In that unverse, Beth believes she has been abandoned by her father. She wasn´t. Rick C-137 killed the Rick from that unierse. Probably. -Who knows how many Beths have been "abandoned" by Rick. -"The Rickest Rick" is the most kind, loving, and broken Rick. -Rick C-137 hates all Ricks as much as Evil Morty does. Feel free to add more
@@jonnyb.animationstutorials7119 Which explains why he smiled and genuinely enjoyed the company of Wasp Rick, because Wasp Rick was one of the few Ricks who valued and loved his family as much as he did.
You know what would be the worst part, and a totally mindf if they did it. That Rick Prime didn't kill his wife and kids, but C-137 did it. We don't even see Rick Prime actually killing them. Just some mean words, a portal and a bomb. That he did some time travel tomfoolery that he wiped from his mind because it was too hard to deal with to try to stop it from happening and ended up causing them to die. That all he left himself with a disrespect for time travel to stop himself from potentially going back and learning about what he did.
@@markgresch9944 using time travel in a weird you killed your own loved ones thing just leads to a headache and what should be a universe destroying Paradox, like in The Flash Season 3
Then he turns to alcohol to numb his pain. When kills those other Ricks later, he doesn’t show anger, glee, or remorse. He’s just a severely depressed man and seeing go from a loving father to who he is now makes this the saddest moment of the whole show.
The all multiverse of Ricks and Mortys is a well of sadness, all those Ricks and Mortys being the tools of other tools, some believing in a false cause, some just being the victims from those tools when they come to their universe just to kill them / kidnap them. We don't even know which was the first Ricks to start the citadel, it was already a thing way back before C-137. Rick Prime doesn't even seem to care of the Citadel since he's gone rogue too. Everytime a Rick or a Morty dies I think on the fact that all their adventures lead to this collateral death, end of the story for them. How much different were they to the ones we are following ? Just enough to be crushed, it's sad, there's no point, and somehow, it does to me. When does it become so casual to kill an alternate version of yourself ? I suppose that a chroenenberg version wouldn't be too hard, but a version that is so slightly different that it is you, period. Over and over, you kill them, it doesn't matter to you, no surprise to see Rick being so cold, and he brings Morty into it, at a tragic point where, somewhere, A morty was as much done with the value of life to turn his self evil. Yeah, depressing.
Think about it. That Rick who took (at the time) "Good Rick's" family is the catalyst for all of this destruction. They no doubt hate him more than C-137, ergo, themselves. C-137 was the hero and the Rick other Rick's aspired to be. Further proof is the sadness the one Rick who rebelled had for "Simple Rick" and his anger at Simple Rick's death via portal gun. This Rick (C-137) does have a genuine desire to be good and do the right thing but is so damaged, broken, and desensitized.
"You fit the profile" "you have a history of killing Ricks" those were the words in my mind while I saw that clip for the first time, that and "those are the few lines that separate my life as a man from an unsient ghost"
question. would the beth he crash landed into actually be dead now, cuz im 90% sure thats cronenberg-beth because the beth rick's with now didn't have a crash landing, instead rick just inserted himself in another version of himself that died all the way back in the beginning without beth knowing.
@@ajx6169 as far as i remember. there were ricks being killed and rick was called to the citadel because he is literally the rick with the most body count but we the viewers didnt know any better yet. It made sense for the council to accuse the one guy who went on a killing spree on ricks. At the end of the episode, we viewers find out it was evil morty who did it but why rick was called to be a suspect during the episode was never fully explained until this episode.
the story: rick, probably in his mid to late 20's, was on the verge of discovering interdimensional travel, but after being shown a version of him that succeeds, decides he doesn't want to become that kind of person. the rick that greeted him is offended by one of his own rejecting the portal gun and so retaliates by killing ricks wife and daughter. the trauma of this incident sends rick into a spiral of depression and self imposed isolation. after anywhere from several months to a few years he resolves to complete his portal gun project and hunt down the rick that murdered his family. after some time exploring the multiverse and learning about many different universes, he meets a guy who tells him about a criminal arms syndicate that sells memory crystals. he offers to trade an expensive rifle for one, but knowing the criminals aren't just going to give a memory crystal away that easily, plants a trap that kills the dealers before they can shoot him. he uses the memory crystal to print off a photo of the rick who murdered his family. he then spends several years searching for this rick, to no success. by now he is in his mid thirties. he eventually gets wrapped up in wars involving the galactic federation, during which time he meets bird person along with many of his other closest friends. once the federation is defeated, he asks bird person to come with him on his adventures, but he declines. rick then travels to a future version of his own life where he picks up a trail that puts him back on his original quest. He spends the next several decades travelling from universe to universe murdering any rick that stands in his way in search of the one who killed his family, continually meeting dead ends. this is where he begins to build up a reputation among the rest of the ricks. he picks up another clue centring around a special symbol with a large number of ricks tied to it. he spends several years systematically assasinating each one. finally he reaches the end of the trail, meeting a rick that looks suspiciously like the one who he's looking for, but unfortunately isn't. just before this rick dies he destroys all evidence that could keep the search going. at this point rick, now an old man, looses all hope. he returns to his own dimension to live the rest of his short life in pain, but is constantly bothered by other ricks trying to assassinate him, as a full political movement against him has built up among the ricks. rick emotionlessly slaughters the entire group, and the rest of the rick population chooses to swear fealty to him. he and four others team up to create a citidel for all the ricks to live in harmony, but rick is unconvinced by the idea. once construction is complete, he chooses a new family in a new dimension where their rick is long gone, and reintegrates back into the life he never got to have, introducing morty to the portal gun, and finally achieving happiness for the first time in his life, permanently scarred by the decades that preceded it.
Pretty good summary. I missed a lot of those details during this flashback. I wish it would have had an entire episode dedicated to it so all these details you pointed out would have been more fleshed out and easier to understand. But good job figuring it out
What if, during his bloody expedition to assassinate the Rick that killed his wife and daughter, "our" Rick killed the Rick of "our" Morty ? That would mean that "our" Morty is living alongside the murderer of his grandfather.
@@Rob1n_13 actually he does, because in the scene you see him as a young man looking at an *older* version of himself interacting with an alternate summer and morty who, by his own lifetime, wouldn't have been born yet. Is not a big deal or a much of a plot hole since he is just skipping time in another universe and then traveling back once he gets out to a different universe.
I love what they did with his backstory. The ironic twist is him deciding to go and pretend to be “this universe” Rick, being a father to Beth, grandfather to Morty and Summer… all the while they are Evil Rick’s family. That is why at the shows start he cares nothing about them because they aren’t his family, they are the family of the man who killed his. Then over the course of the show you see him legit start to care about them, the family evil Rick abandoned.
@@guyonyoutube501and now that Morty is the only one left of his original family... everyone else confirmed dead. He's in the same spot as Rick as the sole survivors now.
@@guyonyoutube501well think about it, his beth was dead and this is a perfect match of the croneberg universe in almost every sense. So to rick it still pretty much feels like evil rick’s family
@@guyonyoutube501True...tho the secondary reality was specifically chosen to be exactly the same except for Cronenberg World being that Earth's fate, so that Beth, Summer, Jerry are still 99.999% similar.
he ditch everybody from Rick prime's family except Morty making him and Morty the only survivors on a family, it's interesting because by the end of season 5 you can tell that Rick cares about every member of the new family so much that he bring all of them to a new reality after the incident with Mr. Trundles
It just hit me: Birdperson denying Rick made him go back to revenge. He found a friend, whom he confided in. When BP denied dimension hopping to go on adventures, Rick refocused on his revenge.
Or Birdperson remembers incorrectly and in reality Rick wanted him to help finding the Rick that killed his family .The reason he could be remembering incorrectly is because BP thought Rick was being unreasonable
@@15muzwasnotatheatre16 He went from looking around the multiverse for the Rick that killed his family, to hanging out with BP and taking on the Federation, to having BP decline Rick and him portal hopping for adventures, and then Rick killing any Rick he came across.
This explains the “plot hole” I always had a gripe with in the episode where a Rick attempted and failed to make portal juice, and the fact that the portal gun was set to the chainsaw dimension. All the Citadel Ricks never learned how to make the portal juice, it was kept as a secret to the high elites, given to them. But C-137 perfected it himself, no help, and he made that portal gun with his own hands instead of buying it or having it given to him.
Honestly, the theme here actually kind of transcends the sci-fi genre R&M parodies, sort of stepping into bigger shoes for a moment and graduating to full-blown cosmic existentialism. The track that's playing gives a palpable flavor: long, echoing drones often indicate monumentality in music, symbolizing the vastness of space and the constructs our characters are grappling with, along with the lonely thrumming synths to represent Rick's robotic directive for answers, despair, and just being lost. It all fits, and I think this is the point where the story is going to turn around. I think it's where we're gonna start to see Rick's breaking point. His true limits. That's some good human music.
There's a lot of cyberpunk content out there that in comparison this is Weird Al's Dare to be Stupid. A song that parodied Devo so well that the man himself (Johnny Devo) said Al did in one song what he failed to do in one album.
I love how Morty isn't even phased that he isn't Rick's original Morty, because rick doesn't have one, he's his first Morty so in a sense, he still is his "original" Morty...
I think he might've had another Morty somehow. Remember in Birdperson's home? There was Rick picking up what appeared to be a baby Morty. And Morty was confused who that was since he didn't see it as him.
@@randalthekidd7006 yeah i was thinking that. he could have just found any random universe where just the Rick died but he looked for one where both died so he could bring his buddy. He was not attached to the Beth because she is not she daughter. It is the same way he didn't just find another version of bird person
@@stansman5461 Didn't that happen after Rick moved to the different world where the previous Rick and Morty died and were buried in the backyard? That Rick had been shown to have been around and loving to his family/Morty. It's extremely possible that Birdperson remembers the Rick from before our Rick took over his life, who seemed close and may have been there for Morty's birth somehow. It would also explain how Morty was confused, because he's not the original, either, the original is buried outside in the backyard. (I believe it was Season 1 episode 6 IIRC that they change realities.)
It’s the music that makes this entire scene one of the most memorable unique scenes, they could have used voice and sound instead they used an eerie but sad theme showing the time lapse of everything, and that’s truly brilliant this entire finale was amazing.
I've been holding out watching most of them. For the other 4 I binged. For this one I am savoring. Don't know when the next one will be. I was confused that a good bit of people were of the opinion that this season was a hack job after around the 3rd episode. I, of course, emphatically disagreed.
I love that about Rick and Morty. A lot of the really emotional scenes are accompanied with music and little else. For example, At the end of Rick Potion #9, Auto Erotic Assimilation and two scenes in the Season 5 Finale. And it works SOO well
The part where it shows Rick and Morty start their adventures with laughter really hits hard for me. After the tragedy that happened to him, Rick was finally able to find some semblance of happiness with his family again when he started to go on adventures with the grandson he was never able to have in his original dimension.
The whole show so far has been Rick dealing with his grief after not being able to avenge his family. Also him trying to kill himself after the Unity thing is way more painful now
Amazing background music. It has the mystery, the sorrow and the solitude. It has the emotions that Rick felt. I have goosebumps every time I hear this masterpiece.
What I see nobody notes is that... He never erased those memories. He erased dozens less painful, but not those. Everybody, even Rick himself, see him as a cold bastard, but deep down he does care.
Well yes but also think about it. If he erased the memory of his family's death, he wouldn't remember what happened to them but would remember them. Which would eventually lead to him watching the memory to find out and being traumatized all over again! If you watch the Mindblower episode, everything he erased from Morty was a singular isolated event.
Also most of the painful memories are what could be called keystones, they are underpinnings of who Rick is and why he does what he does. Removing those would fundamentally change his personality, and might also have too many things that depend on them.
it makes sense, some memories are just pointless and dont add at all, but those, for more painful they can be, are the core of his life and personality
Rarely is it so literal as killing versions of yourself just to get revenge on the you that killed your family, so while that statement is generally true it was never as dramatic as this.
When you realize that Rick’s “totally fabricated origin story” had him moving on from his wife and daughter’s death immediately and going straight to revenge when in reality he had to endure who knows how many weeks or months of mourning.
I’m the 1000th like. Yes that’s exactly how it stays consistent. I wondered about the fake back story. But the fake part was immediately building the portal gun
0:33 I love that shot of Rick being treated by paramedics after the explosion. Just makes the thing seem real when you throw in something grounded like that.
After this backstory it makes sense why Rick was so carefree of jumping dimensions back in s1. He didn’t care so much about the family, now he does (especially Morty) that’s great character development
dude, the reason he jumped around dimensions in season 1, is because non of this was established at that point. The SHOW was carefree back then, and in my opinion, a LOT better.
@@ben_cav yeah the writers wrote into that and character development over time shows a difference between season 1 Rick and season 5 Rick. His character arc has made him care more about family and what he does. It’s good writing even if they didn’t have everything solid back then.
Matpat made a theory about this years ago. He said that there’s no such thing as “creative ideas” and that ideas are just made from things that our brain remixed.
He changed a few other details, in the fake backstory he seemed happy and content whereas in the real one, he seems agitated and annoyed. Likely the conversation that actually occurred, differs from what Rick put in the fake backstory.
Seriously, goes from goofy fart jokes then charges head first into a truly meaningful and profound story that explains why he does what he does and why he is who he is. definitely wasn't expecting this.
The sad part that gets me is when he flies into beth and Jerry’s house. Beths in tears; and even though ricks been drinking he sobers up really quick. She’s not his daughter and yet she is. That a whole emotional mind blow.
What's even sadder is that is the daughter of Rick Prime who pretty much had the Joker with portal tech for a father & then Rick abandons this Beth to later die in S1 E6.
@@AyKrax I’m wondering if that’s still a part of ricks growing phase. I feel like they could’ve done more on that. Unraveling Rick or their reasons for doing so is a bit pondering.
I first got my glimpse of the show in the Do You Feel It scene. From there, I had a feeling that this man I'm watching might have been suffering from a lot of sadness and possibly past trauma. So when I first started watching the show, all I can think of is that Rick is an interesting character that I want to know more about. I feel bad for him and I love him for that.
Searched his whole life to find his wife and daughter’s killer. Got old and tired of a never ending cycle of hunting rick prime down. Then moved into Rick primes universe where he abandoned Beth and had to live with Rick primes wrongs. All while still finding happiness hanging with the grandson and daughter that he never had. Rick c-137 is GOAT
Maybe evil morty was engineered by c137 as an attempt to continue the family he lost (after seeing morty in other worlds). Something about that maybe made him snap, maybe something about how Rick explained the past
@@niitami9852 The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. Evil Morty is just a Morty who figured out what was going on. He may be more intelligent than the other Mortys, but there is absolutely no evidence of anything else beyond that.
This is probably why Rick isn't bothered to admit that he's a bad father to "his Beth". Because she isn't his Beth, his real Beth was killed, and he technically never avandoned her, nor had any intentions of doing so
He blames himself for what happened even though it wasn't his fault. He probably believes he could've done something different like accept the other Rick's offer, which may have not led to the other rick to kill his original wife and daughter as a petty retaliation. Obviously our rick is being way too hard and unfair to himself since he had no way to predict that outcome.
This explains a lot about Rick. His hatred of Jerry: Jerry spent more than double the time with Beth than Rick did. Why Rick only has a handful do-over dimensions: the dimensions where he has vanished but Beth is still alive and possible dimensions where the rogue Rick came from. Why he sometimes views his family as expendable: he technically doesn’t have a family due to the death of his Beth and Diane in his dimension.
@@colmarek of course he did have to go to a new earth after breaking the one he hijacked. But now we know his crybaby backstory, we can look forward to rick getting his revenge.
@@RandomYT05_01 Problem is, he tried his best to track him down but failed, and now that Rick C137 is known throughout the multiverse on that side of the Central Finite Curve (green portals), then there's no reason the killer Rick would want to be anywhere close to where C137 can happen across him. He'd have to come across him in the mother of all coincidences, not to mention recognizing him, as the Ricks have aged.
I think the sad part is Rick c137 has lived a very loooong life with nothing in his heart but hatred for Rick prime and he spent all his years unable to avenge his daughter and wife
The way Rick just has to say his backstory is "stupid, crybaby" while he's supposedly trying to dissuade Morty from being curious about it, that in itself seems like a subtle cry for help and a cry to be understood.
Lol no its actually Dan Hammons reaction to the toxic fan base that wants every episode to be part of the lore Canon. Instead of the grand adventures he wanted for the series
@@cryptidcloud no it’s true Dan hates how seriously people can take the show hence using Rick as a vehicle to establish meta commentary making fun of said seriousness
Tbh, kinda makes sense that he didn’t, because he’d be too grief-stricken, shocked and traumatised from the sudden and horrific loss of his wife (Diane) and daughter (Beth) to even care about the state of his house at that point.
@@totalcreativegaming6681 its been like 30-40 years, he left it for himself as a standing memory, thats probably why it didnt age over that time and collapse further
And then he crashed into another's rick's home who's Beth has been waiting for to return. He never had a Beth who grew up, he just moved in with an abandoned Beth.
So let me see if I got this: Rick Prime went around recruiting Ricks with the promise of them being the best in the multiverse and giving them portal technology. So he's the one who manufactured the idea of the Central Finite Curve and every Rick within it is essentially stuck in there since they don't have the ability to create their own portal fluid or any knowledge of how it works. My assumption is that Rick Prime wanted to make his version of a citadel or government and take over the multiverse until only Rick's were left. A non-stop party where the only person invited is the only person they like. Then there's Rick-C137. The only one that passed on Rick Prime's invitation. Rick Prime then kills the reason behind Rick-C137's refusal: his family. With nothing left to lose, Rick-C137 creates his own portal gun and tries tracks down Rick Prime, only to fail. The Ricks within the Curve find out about C-137's killings and decide to join forces to eliminate him, but C-137 obliterates them with a bored expression. The Ricks then reach a truce with C-137 and develop Rick Prime's original idea of a citadel/government, to which C-137 eventually leaves the project. He then drunkenly crashes into Rick Prime's Smith family house and encounters Rick Prime's Beth. Be it guilt or whatever, Rick C-137 stays and becomes a part of the family. And from there, the Rick and Morty story begins. I assumed a lot and borrowed some aspects (like the "other Ricks can't create their own fluid" theory) from other commenters but I think this makes the most sense.
He did intend on hanging in Rick Prime's universe on the hope that Rick Prime would return and he could finally kill him. But he never came and C-137 found himself attached to Morty.
that's true since most rick' are sheep and will follow the herd, Only a few of them will actually try to break down the recipe to portal travel like doofus rick which means he's actually pretty smart unlike most rick's who jut want to party.
This just makes Stupid Rick saying “I’ve never got to have a morty of my own.” Even sadder. He was probably the one Rick who also got screwed over by Evil Rick but chose to not seek revenge. Which the other Ricks take his compassion and pacifist nature as stupid.
@acktually aintaddingup apparently roiland and harmon like r&m best as a shitposting vehicle more so than long-form storytelling to the point that they kinda hate continuity or at least that's what rick would have us believe
@@StormZephyr They don't really hate it, otherwise they wouldn't do it. They just like doing it whenever they feel like it, not based on fandom pressure because of course if it was up to us we would want all episodes to be like this one
Exactly, this is why I wish fans would stfu about canon stories. The writers haven’t forgotten about them, they’ll do them when they do them. Just enjoy what ever else they out in the meantime
It’s wild when you think how the current Beth isn’t even the Beth WE THE AUDIENCE started with. The Beth in the flashback is still trapped in the Cronenberg Universe.
@@peachpie3597 It’s left ambiguous. They got hit with the freeze ray, which in a previous episode they state it’s non-lethal. They can eventually thaw out, but the world is overrun with monsters so they were left quite defenceless
yeah, a revenge arc..... truly the pinnacle of story telling.... am I being gas lit here? The reveal is terrible. The only good thing about this segment is the music.
@@ben_cav I mean the reveal is that he's the rickest rick, because his origin and mindset is the opposite of all other ricks. It's why we follow c-137 and not the other ricks n mortys
1:55 I've always found this part so depressing. Just imagine the pain hitting him after his final & only link to his family's killer was destroyed there, realizing all the effort he made to find him went to waste, being the smartest Rick & then the absolute despair & misery consuming him at that moment; He'd just lost a huge piece of himself he can't retrieve, & then would not even be able to avenge them anymore either.
Wordd this whole sequence hit home but that part and watching him see all of his progress shatter in front of him literally dn figuratively was just sad man
@@SexyFace He was seeking after the killer & scanning the victims' faces after killing each one to see if it's him by doing the way you just said, doing so up until he finds a chain system of the Ricks who were part of the same complex the killer was within, & seemingly the holocran thingy that got broken there was the pathfinder to the rest of the Ricks system which the killer may've been part of. After it broke then the system became unachievable for Rick & he couldn't find the specific killer anymore in the sea of the infinite Ricks, so he gives up & breaks.
Just a theory, but it's never actually shown that the bomb that killed his family was planted by the Rick who was offended. He leaves and then the bomb shows up. It most likely was him, but then again, who knows?
You know something? You only start seeing the drool in the backstory when he's just given up on life. No hope of getting payback, no family to go back to, no nothing. Then when he's showing Morty the Portal Gun, it's gone. It really does sell the fact that Morty's one of the few things he has left to live for.
feels like the problem with understanding the show is that alot of polar opposites happen but don't affect certain parts of the show.. like Rick acting like he doesn't give a fuck when he still does.. it's all part of his complex backstory but it makes sense. just like when he gave up on finding the killer it changed him entirely but that still didn't stop him from becoming the rickest Rick.. I feel like everything he was and went thru makes him the rickest Rick. feels like he always was is and will be the rickest rick..
I'll do you one better buddy. Pay attention to Rick's skin color as well, as rick progresses through his life and falls into his depression his skin color starts turning grey
This shows how rare and special our Rick is. Just like Simple Rick was treated like a delicacy, our Rick also chose Family over Science. He just didn’t get the chance to live it out. The music with this story tells it beautifully. Amazing finale
The timeline where Rick abandons Beth and his wife is when RICK GOES IN THE PORTAL that the other rick offered at the start. When he says no we see Beth come out and she looks to be small child, around the same age it was hinted at that he abandoned them. So all the Ricks at the Citadel probably chose going through the portal that was offered rather than staying behind with his family, which is why C-137 is different than the rest, he achieved the technology on his own and wasn't given it. This also explains why there's so many versions of Rickless families where Rick abandoned Beth at a young age. He goes in the portal not knowing he won't come back. He never says goodbye before leaving so Beth thinks he just walked out
@@junhengshi2242 kinda, except he was just moving wine, but it is similar because when he left it caused a chain of events that led to a government being formed, like what rick did to form the citadel
The saddest part is that based on how portal technology works they probably never COULD get back without knowing the original "number" of their universe, IE their Beth's still exist and COULD be reached but they'd need to know to memorize what dimension they started from BEFORE being taken wherever that Rick usually takes them. Most of the Citadel Ricks probably aren't there by choice, they are just hopelessly lost in the Central Finite Curve and eventually realized have nowhere else to go...
@@sobgray No, it wasn’t. Rick never abandoned his original family. They were killed. It was another Rick that abandoned Beth and their family. Our Rick(C-137) came back
@@ham7357 > : makes factually incorrect statement about the details of the characters. >Me: Corrects him in a non-aggressive way >Ham: Bruhhhh, it’s a cartoon. Don’t take it seriously. >MFW =_=
So all this time Beth talking about how Rick walked out when that's just the more common outcome across infinite timelines and he's just filling the space of a rick that left his wife and daughter when he comes from a reality in which they died years and years ago. This is well thought out and actually opens up the lense for more plot progression. Excited to see what they do with this now that they can lay his backstory and the evil morty plot to rest.
@@sideshowspook133 he probably created before beth died, and when he travelled dimensions he probably figured this beth also had it, or that episode takes place in a different dimension with different rick and morty
@@sideshowspook133 I imagine it’s a thing all the Ricks that leave their families do, and this Rick just knows about it. I can’t imagine this Rick being so negligent as to give Beth Froopyland, and especially not her murder knife.
The most accurate background music for my man Rick. The person behind the background music deserves all the love because it's a job well done. I'm listening to it on repeat.
Then what? That Rick served his purpose, he won anyways.(our Rick became exactly what he refused back then) Just killing him wouldn't have much meaning at this point.
He’s killed so many Ricks, that he stopped checking to see if it was the rick that killed his family. He probably already killed him just didn’t care to check
This really cleared up a lot of things. Like in the episode where ricks were getting killed, and they said it fit c-137's profile. It also made sense when rick said that he cant universe jump multiple times, because only some ricks had this happen to them
that's what I love about this episode, it cleared the air and made a lot of small moments throughout the series that were thought to never be touched again on all connected
@@carlosmendoza1177 that's actually been a pretty well understood explanation for why all universes we see roughly look similar. Definitely not something the writers just came up with on their own.
I think it has more to do with Morty, because he can fill for whichever Rick, none of the others matter to him much, but the more the story progresses the fewer opportunities he have to change universe, since he cares for them in the way they are at that point, now if he changes he has to find one with the same kind of relationship, the two Beths, etc. The more happens the harder it becomes.
This scene also gives context to his disappointment in Bird Person. Rick fought an ENTIRE war against The Galactic Federation FOR Bird Person (Making him the most wanted man in all of the galaxy) and, in his own way tells him this yet... ... Bird Person wouldn't even help him in his war against the ONE MAN who set him down this path. This really puts his anger towards Bird Person at the time into greater context.
Keep in mind that Rick was probably mid-twenties to early thirties at the start, and he's been confirmed to now be in his seventies which implies this revenge quest took 40+ years and could've gone on forever, he never got the right one
And guess what on his revenge quest and present rick c-137 never intended to harming morty's because he know that morty didn't involved any of rick evil plan on his dimension
What if Rick is the same Rick that killed his wife, but from the future? I can’t really think of the context behind why Rick would, but that would be an insane plot twist if there is some sincere reasoning attached.
this is the biggest plot question i have that i havent seen anyone bring up yet: rick is 70. birdperson is in his 40s. rick met birdperson when he was 35. (first mindfuck: are we supposed to believe birdperson was 5-10 years old when they met at birding man?) summer is 17 and beth had summer at ~17-18, so we know Beth is in her mid-30s. rick had beth when we was, presumably, in his 20s. …???
There's also Simple Rick, there's probably other Ricks too. The multiverse is infinite, after all. Some might even be in the Central Finite Curve. Since the only metric within is that Rick is the smartest being, so there might be ones who actually have a successful family life.
This is such a sad backstory. Also all the times when Beth pointed out that Rick left them in order to make him feel guilty... but all this time he was the ONLY Rick in the multiverse that actually chose his family. Rick's backstory is really tragic. I love how this show in the first season made us think that Rick is overall just a selfish person who cares mostly about science and adventures but throughout the seasons that were aired so far they humanized Rick and showed why he is the way he is. Best animated show ever.
What about fascist Rick and wasp Rick, also teddy bear rick? Rick c-137 ran into all of them inside their beths houses. If there are an infinite number of universes then there’s no way he’s the only one who stayed with his family. Not to mention the rick and morty that “our” rick and morty replaced when they blew themselves up.
@Afro Ninjutsu The ricks that stayed with their family are not the smartest in their universe so they are outside of the curve, simple rick was taken from outside of the central finite curve
@@miguelromero3713 i think it was more how high in regard he truly holds morty to be toxic, like overattachment. He feels it gets in the way. Healthy rick could love morty but still be distant enough to not be overwhelmed at destroying the toxic version compared to toxic rick and carry out a plan that has little danger for actual morty.
C-137 definitely developed attachment issues from his backstory. The one time he choose family over science his family was taken away by science. This plus the cosmic nihilism you get from visiting infinite versions of reality made him decide no emotional attachment is good to begin with, since everything is meaningless to the vastity of the world. He fails to acknowledge that in the face of cosmic nihilism, when reality slaps you in the face with the awareness that nothing really matters, you give meaning to what you want and that's all the meaning you will possibly have in your life. Rick does this implicitly (he cares for his family) but he refuses to admit it even to himself.
It's a pretty heartbreaking backstory until you realize the Beth that was teary eyed to see him come back into her life at 2:31 is now a feral cannibal (S3E1) left behind in a world that Rick Cronenburged, leaving Beth, Summer, and Jerry as the only humans left on earth.
That very true. But it could also be used as a way to show Rick care more about being a father figure to morty. I mean Beth is an adult now and he can’t really raise her anymore, but morty is still young. It shows in a way that he cares more about being with morty than anything else.
@@Lionfaceboi to add to that when rick is being interrogated by the galactic federation in the brain analyser we see part of this back story which Rick later describes as "a completely fabricated back story"
So if the implication is that Rick “came back” to Beth at around the beginning of season 1, what’s the explanation for Rick having a memory of a toddler Morty in the first episode involving evil Morty?
We can assume Rick probably spend some time with other versions of the family while looking for Rick Prime, so that Morty is more likely not "our" Morty
Maybe Rick had visited several realities including one where Morty was still a baby. Maybe Rick intended to bail on this reality like the other's but seeing a baby Morty so close to his daughter's age when she died reawakened something in Rick and kept him coming back. For Rick this was a second chance to be a father again. So he kept coming back visiting him in secret watching him grow up and slowly he became attatched. It explains why he cares about Morty despite finding his attatchment irrational.
@@funnyblog100 Idk. Both the theories presented are decent but have problems/ are a bit of a stretch with the information we currently have. I’m sure it’ll eventually get explained. It’s just a kind of weird retcon. A very good one, just weird.
@@KellsKats Yea I think a retcon is the mostly likely explanation. Making season 1 they likely hadn't planned this far out, it was just supposed to be a funny new sci fi show. Then it got popular and they started developing it with more substance and lore.
It is a bit of an inconsistency, but we only saw the highlights of his backstory, a few minutes out of the decades he spent traveling the multiverse. It wouldn't be too farfetched for Rick to encounter, or even stay a few days with, other smith's families around the time Morty was a baby.
The heavy part comes from the fact that Morty has to live with knowing his family isn't his real family, but that his grandpa isn't even his real grandpa from his previous universe. He now knows that "his Rick" hopped at least 2 universes while he hopped 1. He now knows he is but a few authentic Morty and that his existence is disposable and expandable at the same time. He has to live with also knowing that his mom may even be a clone and that a 2nd version is out there. It's alot for a 14 year old to handle
Add to that his breakups in the season, the amount of mass murder he's witnessed, even been a part of, the reality of the vat of acid, knowing about evil Morty and what he revealed about the Central Finite Curve. Our Morty must surely have PTSD
Something I found interesting is that C-137 Rick didn’t hurt that one Rick who was hanging around with Morty and Summer. It might show that while Rick hated himself and other Ricks, he did draw a line with Ricks that didn’t abandon their families.
You are right,he only aim for the ricks who abandon his family,he don't want another family-over-technology ricks to be in grief,he already feel it,he dont want another to feel it too
Poor Rick. He lost his wife and daughter, went on a multiversal murder spree to find their killer (an alternate version of himself), and eventually just gave up after years of failing to find the Rick responsible. After being put through all of that, it's no wonder he is the way he is now.
Hold on, I just realised now that Rick comes back to Rick Primes's family after he abandoned them and replaced him. Replacing his family with Prime's family is actually quite sad.
@@ashleyanne6925 S6E1, Solaricks; Rick attempts to reset portal travel, but instead resets portal travelERS. Rick, Jerry and Morty are sent back to their original universes. Morty being sent to the Cronenberg World. but how is the Cronenberg dimension Prime Rick’s dimension? When Rick picks Morty up from that dimension, he explains that his original grandpa Rick, one of many that abandoned Beth, left and this was where he was. Morty connects the dots for us. Prime Rick abandoned Beth to recruit other Ricks, like he tried with C-137. The Ricks that accepted are the ones that abandoned Beth. With Prime Rick gone, Rick met Prime Rick’s “family”, his Beth, his Morty, Summer, Jerry, Snuffles, etc etc.
@@friedsyshi You said "those who accepted are abandoning Ricks", so how do you know that Cronenberg Rick is the Prime Rick and not just one who accepted?
@@Сайтамен Because our Rick went to Rick Prime's dimension hoping that Rick Prime would eventually return so that he could get his revenge. But he never did. In "Solaricks", when our Rick went into the wormhole, "Diane" told him that Rick Prime was likely trapped in his original dimension just like everyone else was. When he realized that, he went straight to that dimension. The fact that where he went is the same dimension that Morty ended up in (his original dimension, which got Cronenberg'd in "Rick Potion #9"), paired with the fact that Rick Prime was there as well, outright proves that the Cronenberg'd dimension was Rick Prime's original dimension all along, and that our Morty is Rick Prime's grandson.
Kinda cool that ricks ship wasn’t always made out of dumpster parts and actually had ion thrusters and a paint scheme that looked pretty rad. Kind of shows the deterioration of him both mentally and physically.
I love this backstory, it isn't needed at this point but it shows that Rick is a broken man that has gone through so much for revenge and the pursuit of answers, but finally in the end he really did just want his family again. Sadly the damage is done and he doesn't know how to stop even though he is doing what he really wants now, spending time with his grandson and daughter again.
What uf he decides to time travel..he kills that evil rick but then decides not to change the past because he'd lose morty and all the others he loved....so he dresses up and kills beth and diane himself
It's a step deeper. The one consistent thing in the "finite curve" that was created is that his wife is dead in all of them. With that broken we'll see how much that holds. Regardless, how sad is it that in the infinite realm of possibilities with a man who can go anywhere and replace his family with alternate versions as he wills, his wife is gone in every single one of them. There's a "cob" planet, a boob world, a universe of butts, but not a place where his wife is alive. Maybe he or a version of himself killed them all. Rick's cornerstone characteristic is that he's a narcissist and jealous person who does not like to share, and C-137 know this. Wherever Diane exists or has existed, there will be a Rick that will hunt her down and kill her just to keep another Rick down or to push him to pursue a "higher calling" of selfishness where he is an inter-dimensional God and emotion and relationships get in the way, which is what happened to C-137. So, after realizing this our Rick goes to the next level of suicide and first tries to purge not just himself, but every version of himself. He stops trying to find just the one evil one that ruined his family, but all of them are equally guilty. After decades of futility he gives up, makes peace with it and simply exists. His relationship with the rest of the family is the only thing that keeps him around, no matter how toxic it is. That's really the beauty of this show. In a twisted way it shows that even in an infinite realm of possibilities, there seems to still exist the concepts of fate, finality and grief. I strongly believe that Dan Harmon puts a lot of his own personal demons into it. He's an interesting and intelligent guy, but from his personal life I can totally see where his inspiration originally came from. Just look at the ending cards from the first few seasons. That claymation character is him.
What if the reason he made the central finite curve was not so he would be the smartest man in every universe, but so none of them have Diane. Maybe the death/absence of Diane is just what leads him to become that.
@@AberrantAberrant You're probably right on the money with that. There has to be a reason why she hasn't yet appeared in any of the universes we've seen so far. It's either Beth and Diane are dead or Diane is missing and Beth's alone married to Jerry. That does raise the question, what happened in the universes where Ricks abandon their Beths? Was Diane still around, raised Beth herself and died afterwards?
He said he couldn't make his marriage work during Birdperson's wedding, yet in the back story the marriage seems to work just fine, so no it does not make complete sense
Not completely, considering that tmhe said that the "dead family" story was completely fabricated (that was the only way he could change the details of what the brainalyzer saw).
I want to bring attention to the fact that while Rick spent years killing other versions, all of those were assassinations. The multiverse of Ricks banded together specifically to bring down C-137. And they still couldnt touch him. The citadel was literally made as a peace offering to the one Rick that nobody could beat. When they say hes "The Rickest Rick", its not just a mere title.
And despite all that, Rick C-137 still isn't as powerful as Rick Prime. He needed Evil Morty's help to stand any chance at all and even then, Prime still technically defeated him. Evil Morty had to bring C-137 back to life after Prime tore him apart. The entire Citadel was no match to C-137, which really emphasizes how much more powerful Prime was in comparison.
@@tomnorton4277 Which really makes me wonder. Wouldn't that make Prime "The Rickest Rick"? Or does 137s compassion for his family that Prime lacks put him aside from Prime to give him that title?
Well, him and poor Simple Rick, who got kidnapped by the Citadel, and then fed an endless loop of his daughter so they could extract the chemical from his brain to sweeten their candy.
A few things: 1. This really makes me think there'll be a deeper reason to why rick doesn't respect time travel. Maybe something about it can't truly bring back his family 2. Simple rick basically got the life c-137 never had 3. If C-137 was a builder of the citadel, he may have been an originator of the central finite curve. If that's the case, maybe he built it as a sort of containment cell for his selves. Seeing firsthand what Rick's do with interdimensional travel, he maybe cut off any universe where he was smart enough to discover it from the multiverse at large. Being for the benefit of the Rick's may be a cover.
Only thing with the 3rd point is that blue portals are for travel within a single universe, green for within the central finite curve and yellow for outside of the CFC. The rick that killed C-137 family used a green portal so the CFC must've existed beforehand, likely being created by that rogue rick
@@TY-km8hj Good point, didn't notice that. Maybe the rogue actively made a multiverse where he was the smartest being, so would take it personally that a rick would reject his vision of a rick dominated multiverse. Could also explain why C137 never found him, if he made the curve he may have left himself a backdoor out of it, making it nearly Impossible for rick to find him.
Actually thinking about it now, anytime time travel or finding a new world happens, rick has to get rid of the other version of himself to take its place, as in the kronenberg event and the do over button. If it works the same with time travel, maybe rick just can't bring himself to take a rick away from a happy life. He may be cold to the Rick's he knows are as much Jerks as he is, but he may still be a softie for a Rick that shared his values.
Actually, I find it kinda weird that in a show that has explored virtually every other sci-fi concept, real time travel is actually non-existent. Perhaps it may be because time travel as we think of it is both physically and theoretically impossible. However…it can also be because the technology was never developed by any Rick, save one. Or …it may not have been developed by a Rick at all….
Love the Terminator 1 vibes… Rick as Kyle Reese, traveling back and forth through spacetime to find the variant that terminated his family with only the help of a picture. Wears a similar coat as Arnold’s, and becomes a Terminator of other Ricks. And in 1:36 it’s similar to the club scene when Arnold uses a lasered gun. Even the music has a similar 80s T1 soundtrack vibe.
@@kickass1179 except there is time travel in Rick and Morty? In the very first episode Morty breaks his legs and Rick leaves and returns a second later with a cure but tells Morty he was gone for a very long time. There is also an entire snake terminator time travel episode? Rick even personally uses time travel in that episode as well as he creates a snake time machine and travels back in time to give himself the snake time machine before he invented it because he's too lazy to actually invent it on the spot. Rick also freezes time a couple times. Rick doesn't respect time travel but it is absolutely in the show and Rick knows full well how to utilise it. It is just not worth the headache to him.
I just didn't get it. At 2:30 when Rick crash the lawn' ground is shown cracked up. That's shouldn't be because that happened in season 1 episode 11. So how did that appeared. Can anyone explain.
Rick loves his wife, his daughter and his grandson. In a multiverse of infinite possibilities he chooses to spend time with Morty and his family nearly ALL the time. Love means everything to Rick and that is exactly the reason he’s so cynical and nihilistic about it.
I love this bounty hunter style they put Rick in when he was younger. The long hair, the trench coat, the straps...He looks the part to be on a mission across the infinite universes.
they figured it all out later, except for the firing roiland part, which was unfortunate and a call to the industrial standard of no second chances, which is utterly contrived as history has proven with the heard and depp trials and even more twisted double standards, but so be it
It shows that Rick’s whole character is just one big facade he’s telling himself more than anyone, he actually cares more than anyone. He developed this character out of trauma as a shield from more of it.
When you realize rick was at his happiest when he started running around dimensions with his alternate grandsons. Morty doesnt know it but he keeps rick as stable as he can be with his knowledge and ability.
Morty wouldn't have been born in any reality at that stage because Beth would be too young. The citadel literally wouldn't exist for decades so there would be no clones
It just dawned on me, a portion of those ricks that abandoned Beth might be because of rick killing so many other ricks while seeking for the rick that killed his wife and daughter.
the saddest thing about this is our rick had to pretend to be a bad father to convince beth he was the same rick who abandoned her.
he was literally about to give up science for his real wife n daughter before they were killed
He still is a bad father though. In Rick Potion #9 he left another version of her in a world that he ruined. He could have come back for her anytime, but didn't.
The theory I've seen floating around a lot is that Beth only survives if her Rick abandons her. If he puts family above science he loses his family. Ironically, the most loving thing a Rick can do for his daughter IS abandon her. ACTUALLY loving his family leads to their deaths. No wonder he's so afraid to show emotional attachment...
"he was literally about to give up science for his real wife n daughter"
We don't know that, that was part of the "fake" backstory in season 3
Without dialogue, we don't know how much detail Rick changed, note that in the real backstory, C-137 appears to show animosity towards the other Rick, they look to be arguing, but if you go to the scene in the brainalyzer, he is calm and serene
To know Rick would’ve become simple Rick.
If you thing about the beth withouts ricks, is because our rick kills them.
All of Beth’s nagging about Rick abandoning them is even more painful now, because he’s the only Rick that actually didn’t abandon his family.
It would be interesting if he came back to one of the Beth's that was abandoned by the one who dropped the bomb.
Because of this backstory my opinion of Rick has greatly changed. Rick, despite being an all powerful bad ass, was little more than a selfish prick. The finale of season 4 where Rick was watching his own memory to discover who his real daughter was, only to realize that he doesn't even know. His conclusion of himself perfectly sums up how I felt about him all this time: "Holy shit, I'm a terrible father". Rick is the smartest man in the (known) multiverse. Unsurpassed in intellect, balls, and power. But at the end of the day he's still a piece of shit, deadbeat dad- UNTIL we see who he truly is in this finale. This revelation explains so much about Rick's personality, his attitude towards each member of the family, and overall why he does what he does. I now sympathize and have grown to truly respect him as a human being.
Wooowww
@@Funkgun that would be a trip.
Because that Beth was technically abandoned - and the Rick that bombed the Diane/Beth did seem like a dick Rick that once he found out portal tech immediately turned nihilist evil ("nothing matters but more power/knowledge"....so willing to kill Diane/Beth in our Rick's universe, that its very likely he never cared about his own)
...and our Rick *taking* the dick Rick's family as a response is a decent "F you" (maybe even waiting to see if the dick Rick ever comes back)
Wow
The saddest thing about this scene is the revelation that Rick never wanted any of this.
Portal technology, sci-fi adventures, intergalactic quests and conflict; he wasn’t interested. He was forced into it for revenge, and he was unable to have even that. He isn’t a drunk shitty person by nature. He became this person from a lifetime of loss and failure.
And it makes us realize the reason nothing matters to him is not because of some grand intellectual 'we are just small temporary meatbags in a vast space' reason but because what mattered to him is already gone
He already lost the one thing he cared about. Is no wonder he's in great pain. Being the "Father who abandoned Beth" (quotations because his real family died) and he lives his life taking the responsibility of a life he never even choose to be in.
Which makes the scene where him and mordy move into another family and him seem unaffected give a much more deeper meaning to it when you think about it.
Makes sense why he abandoned Beth as wel
@@TheEviltaco666 He never abandoned Beth, his Beth died and he just took the place of a Rick who actually did abandon her.
He's talking about the earth rick ruined.
It's interesting that throughout that whole memory sequence, the only time we see Rick smiling and laughing and enjoying his life again are when he's with Morty.
I noticed something weird though. On the pizza planet he's smiling lying back relaxed. Maybe thinking about his family or something? I dunno, it's a weird inclusion
Nice observation!! He has been an emotionless husk for so long, but after he met Morty, everything changed, he is seemingly starting to be happy again
@@peterthosegriffins666 I mean, wouldn't you smile if you found a planet made of pizza?
@@Stingra87New dimension, new reality. Agreed, he was in the natural early stage of wonder before becoming numb to it. Even with his grief, it is hard to not enjoy something as unreal as a Pizza Dimension, at least in the beginning.
@@peterthosegriffins666the joy of discovering new horizons, especially a very absurd reality where you are the phones, he probably found it amusing and pondered on the infiniteness of everything during that time which distracted him away from the grim reality of his dead family.
This puts a whole new perspective on that scene where Rick was crying at the images of baby morty. Because he never got to see morty grow up and only knew him at the age he is now.
@WungusBill RIck likely went to various universes and observed a version of Beth growing up and having children. Likely visited but never stuck around. So even more fueling his feeling about what he lost.
@WungusBill really, it's 50/50 if the writers had all this planned. If not at least a good chunk of it planned. They mentioned the central finite curve a couple times in past seasons. Edited: Autocorrect.
@WungusBill you don’t know what age Morty was when Rick came back to Beth tho so he could easily have memories of a baby morty.
Regardless of what actually went down I seriously doubt the writers are just completely winging it lol
@@liverpoolfcx7 We do? She couldn't be 18 or 19 at that scene, which would make Morty 1 or 2yo. She seems to be exactly the same as her 31yo counterpart, and their Rick has abandoned his family for OVER 14 years, so it wouldn't make sense for him to show up when Morty was a baby
@@ThunderTrovoadas truueee forgot about the whole young pregnancy thing my b
The fact Rick never had a Morty of his own is heartbreaking.
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@@joed9499 Rick's daughter died in his orginial dimension, so he never actually had his own morty.
Yeah I love this reveal. But remember in s1 e9 (or 10 of you include the pilot), he is shown to have a memory of baby Morty. Did he find a Beth, leave, and then come back years later? Or did he just visit some random baby morty?
This episode heavily implies that he crashed into Beth's life right before season 1, so kind of a plot hole right there.
@Afro Ninjutsu yeah that could totally be possible, and like you said the possibilities are endless.
But it's so obvious that in season 1 the writers meant for that baby to be OUR morty, I mean Rick tears up when seeing him after all. So I can't help feel that it was a recton the writing staff had internally.
@@8mmkyle865 Rick might make comments about his family from other dimensions not really being his family, but all Ricks share identical DNA so technically any Morty is still his grandson. Plus tearing up could easily be because he's looking at the grandson he never got to have.
It's so heartwarming that Rick begins to be able to laugh and have fun when Morty comes into the picture
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@@AxxLAfriku they definitely ass
@@AxxLAfriku dude get help
@@AxxLAfriku Amogn ys
@@AxxLAfriku wtf
Love the transition from him being a decent person and slowly turning into an emotionless ghost
Lol, decent? He arranged for the destruction of an entire inhabited planet just keep his grandson from writing heist movies.
@@dt05That’s obviously not what they’re referring to, they’re talking about when he was younger
@@dt05 yes that was after his decent person phase
@@dt05bud, in his youth he was the only Rick to pass on portal tech just to be able to spend more time with his family
@@ApexGale the deeper part about it is, I think that might be why RIck hates Jerry more than we despise Jar Jar.
Jerry represents the person that Rick never got to be; just an average joe with an average family. But HAPPY too. And to see Jerry ruin that, to see him complain about what he takes for granted, yeah, I can definitely see why Rick despises Jerry so much now.
Birdperson, S1E11: “Your grandfather, is indeed, in very deep pain; that is why he must numb himself.” That line hits a lot harder after watching this scene.
exactly
"Do you know what Wabbalabadubdub means?" In our language, it means: I'm in great pain, please help me"
-Also birdperson
Bird person nooooooooooooo
What season and episode is this? I have literally zero memory of this
@@prich0382 I think the "S" and "E" on the comment specify which "S"eason and "E"pisode of the quote.
This whole finale showed me that Rick is the _Rickest Rick_ because he actually _cares_ about Morty and his family, and _NOT_ because he doesn't.
He cares about his family but he tries his damndest to push them away because he feels like he’ll lose them again
This what I've been saying since day one. Ricks at the citadel had literally abandoned their family to live in their own club house was my argument before. They expanded on that idea with just ricks and mortys living separate and then the engineering of morty so that they didn't have to keep stealing them
rickest rick should be doofus rick, because he didnt have a family, but he what the true one with emotional capacity to understand and feel; to put someone before him.
@@pikaplayz5190 c-137 is the rickest rick because he cared for his family so much that he searched for decades to find the one who killed them
He's that different kind of Rick.
This also explains why Rick always wants to go on adventures with Morty the most. He never got to see Beth grow up, Summer is already into her teenage years, but Morty is closest to the age his Beth was when she was murdered, so with Morty around he at least has a chance to try and be a parent to a child again.
Morty is 14 years old and Beth "child" seems to be much younger than Morty
But it makes sense that your theory that Rick wants to go on adventures with just Morty
No
He hangs out with morty cuz the genius waves get canceled by the dumb waves of morty
@@Qwertzym0onsif one of the reasons why he does bring morty along, but that still does not cancel out the other interpretation
@@Qwertzym0onsif you know I actually question that a lot. Morty isn’t dumb, a little young and immature, but he’s pretty competent at this point. I doubt morty is much camo at all at this point. Evil morty clearly shows us, mortys are not inherently dumb, just generally.
@@wish5615 yup and a good example is when they get detoxified morty becomes more like evil morty which is clearly smart or as equally as smart as rick. Which brings me to a theory about evil morty, what if evil morty is just another morty that didn’t get his detoxed self fused back with him.
I saw a fan theory that I think is so amazing. That only prime Rick and c 137 Rick are the only 2 ricks to actually create portal travel, every other Rick was given the technology. It explains why the portals still aren’t working or why c137 is the most dangerous, he was the only one beside Rick prime to reach his full potential. It also explains why we are so many ricks do 9-5 jobs at the citadel since they never developed the tech for themselves
Cool theory
@@farrel2307 Wait, arent C137 and Prime Rick the same Rick, our main Protagonist? Or am I trippin rn?
@@sapujapu4282 rick c-137 took rick primes place when rick prime abandoned his family on earth c-137 hence his number ,in reality we dont really know our ricks universe but we know that he took his place which eventually turned into the chronenberg verse and they had to switch worlds. So to answer your question rick prime is beths(from s1-s3) real dad but he left and the rick we see is the one we follow for the rest of the show, our rick(c-137) didn’t abandon his family and rick prime murdered them and dipped not to be seen since.
@@jlog1737 So, if im getting this Right, our Rick isnt C137 actually, he just Took the place of the OG C137, which is Prime Rick. We didnt saw Prime Rick Then ever again?
@@sapujapu4282 Prime Rick was in the season 6 premier. He was the one on the Cronenberg world with the invisible base. He was show naked and then the post credits scene show him getting dressed so we assume it is Rick Prime. Especially since all Ricks were returned to the home universes and our Morty is Morty Prime and so also got sent to Cronenberg universe.
What I like about this backstory is that it proves Rick isn't a nihilist. Every time he spouted nihilistic rhetoric to Morty, or whomever else he was talking to, it was a lie he was telling himself. He wanted to believe that his family meant nothing, but it meant everything to him. His entire life is dedicated to the love he had for the family that was taken from him.
wow. u are right. also you can tell that his bond with Morty is deeper than just that of a cloaking device because he decided to bring morty with him after the chronenberg episode even thought he could have left him and found another universe where just the rick died
he still left this crying beth while changing dimensions
burh most nihilist are like him they just don't realize it yet
@@johannliebert2772 when did he do that
@@theenjeneer2792 Cronenberg remember?
When you realize that the Rick we've followed since the beginning is actually Simple Rick, except his family was taken from him.
Losing his family changed him
@Where's the hen? there was no point to saying that. Like obviously everything is gone eventually but there's a difference between things going the way they usually do and your family getting violently murdered. Get outta here with your edginess
@Where's the hen? Oh my god..
@Where's the hen? nice opinion. Unfortunately, 50.0274° N, 19.2020° E
@Where's the hen? you’re the reason why I hate Rick and Morty comment sections
So when Rick looked visibly upset revisiting his "fake backstory" he wasn't just acting, the shit was actually painful to revisit and watch again.
Yes
I imagine it'd be easy to over sell his grief for the sake of baiting the investigator in a little longer too
I mean
He made it look convincing
Makes sense he had to make it the real one in order to have a genuine and believable reaction.
It’s all fake so feed into it whatever you’d like
I finally understand the true tragedy of Rick: a man who is dangerous not because he doesn’t care, but because he could be said to have cared too much. He is not a good man nor a terrible one, but he is an example of what happens when you lose too much.
he is the definition of a tortured soul
Revenge Rick
cringe
@@MorbiusBlueBallsyes you are
@@eobardthawne3380 ironic coming from you
This makes last season's "Holy shit, I'm a terrible father." hit harder knowing Rick lost his chance to be a father
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Part of me thought that he made a clone of Beth, space Beth and home both, so his daughter could live both lives. Instead of having to give up her family to live her best life on her own, she can live either way simultaneously by having a clone of herself. Though, now we know Rick chose to be with his family. Maybe it was an act of kindness: living both lives like Rick did, only without the tragedy, heartbreak, and leaving/having you family taken away in an instant.
I mean he got a good what 3-5 years on his beth
@@garrettviewegh677 - Few are even capable of seeing that for all the derision they throw at Jerry for being pathetic the same can easily be applied to Beth. Namely she refuses to take accountability for her life and despite such everyone in the family gives her a free pass. I mean she couldn't even pick between staying with her family or pursing her dumb dream. Ultimately making Rick decide for her. If not for having a father like Rick she wouldn't be able to assume credit for his intelligence as if it was her own.
whats worse is that last scene when he reunites with Beth is short lived because he ends up abandoning her after converting almost all of the humans on the planet into monsters.
I get the feeling after seeing this that Rick's general nihilism is less of a epiphany he had from interdimensional travel, and more of a coping mechanism.
Accepting reality is the opposite of copium.
@@JoshSweetvale Sounds like cope
As someone who used nihilism and cynicism as a cover for depression and anxiety for years, I can at least personally vouch for this. Its a lot easier to think of the world as terrible and irredeemable when you think of yourself in the same light. Its also especially insidious because cynicism and nihilism can look like "wisdom" because people think that happiness and optimism is a sign of childishness and immaturity.
I think it makes the conversation he had with bird person hit even harder.
Bird person's people experienced genocide at the hands of the galactic federation, when he fought them for years and finally won on blood ridge, it meant something. Well, it's more like it meant everything.There was catharsis there.
Rick never got that, he was never able to find the guy that was responsible for his personal tragedy, and after so much time wasted and his entire life spent chasing a phantom his coping mechanism was that it all didn't matter (And it's also reality which he didn't choose to be exposed to, that he's just one Rick, and there are infinite Ricks). When he shares his secret with Bird Person, the feeling of loneliness kicks in again because truly NO ONE could understand what it's like to be a Rick (And they refuse to choose to, because who would choose that?! It's miserable), let along this specific Rick.
Bird Person wants things to matter, he wants meaning; Rick, ironically also wants that but it's impossible to achieve for him because he's aware that he's not exactly special and there are infinite versions of him. To top that off, the one thing that could have given him "meaning", finding his wife's killer, seems to be anything but attainable.
He's chasing a phantom across infinity, it's tiresome, and no one wants to share that with him.
@@JoshSweetvale dude you're spending too much time on the internet if you can't keep actual english and meme words apart
Things we learned in just 3 minutes:
-Morty C-137 never existed.
-Rick never saw his daughter grow, he just showed up in a universe where she´s alive
-In that unverse, Beth believes she has been abandoned by her father. She wasn´t. Rick C-137 killed the Rick from that unierse. Probably.
-Who knows how many Beths have been "abandoned" by Rick.
-"The Rickest Rick" is the most kind, loving, and broken Rick.
-Rick C-137 hates all Ricks as much as Evil Morty does.
Feel free to add more
And he's one of the only Ricks that actually care about their family.
@@jonnyb.animationstutorials7119
Which explains why he smiled and genuinely enjoyed the company of Wasp Rick, because Wasp Rick was one of the few Ricks who valued and loved his family as much as he did.
@@Mednessen not only, in citadel Simple rick
@@Mednessen maybe or maybe they killed his family
Why was Evil Morty evil again?
That fact that Rick literally spent his life killing himself but could never find the version of Himself who killed his Wife and daughter is sad
You know what would be the worst part, and a totally mindf if they did it. That Rick Prime didn't kill his wife and kids, but C-137 did it. We don't even see Rick Prime actually killing them. Just some mean words, a portal and a bomb. That he did some time travel tomfoolery that he wiped from his mind because it was too hard to deal with to try to stop it from happening and ended up causing them to die. That all he left himself with a disrespect for time travel to stop himself from potentially going back and learning about what he did.
@@markgresch9944 using time travel in a weird you killed your own loved ones thing just leads to a headache and what should be a universe destroying Paradox, like in The Flash Season 3
Then he turns to alcohol to numb his pain. When kills those other Ricks later, he doesn’t show anger, glee, or remorse. He’s just a severely depressed man and seeing go from a loving father to who he is now makes this the saddest moment of the whole show.
Aged like fine milk.
The all multiverse of Ricks and Mortys is a well of sadness, all those Ricks and Mortys being the tools of other tools, some believing in a false cause, some just being the victims from those tools when they come to their universe just to kill them / kidnap them. We don't even know which was the first Ricks to start the citadel, it was already a thing way back before C-137. Rick Prime doesn't even seem to care of the Citadel since he's gone rogue too. Everytime a Rick or a Morty dies I think on the fact that all their adventures lead to this collateral death, end of the story for them. How much different were they to the ones we are following ? Just enough to be crushed, it's sad, there's no point, and somehow, it does to me. When does it become so casual to kill an alternate version of yourself ? I suppose that a chroenenberg version wouldn't be too hard, but a version that is so slightly different that it is you, period. Over and over, you kill them, it doesn't matter to you, no surprise to see Rick being so cold, and he brings Morty into it, at a tragic point where, somewhere, A morty was as much done with the value of life to turn his self evil. Yeah, depressing.
“Because Ricks hate themselves the most” means so much more now.
Like a boss!
Think about it. That Rick who took (at the time) "Good Rick's" family is the catalyst for all of this destruction. They no doubt hate him more than C-137, ergo, themselves.
C-137 was the hero and the Rick other Rick's aspired to be. Further proof is the sadness the one Rick who rebelled had for "Simple Rick" and his anger at Simple Rick's death via portal gun.
This Rick (C-137) does have a genuine desire to be good and do the right thing but is so damaged, broken, and desensitized.
I thought the same thing when I watched the premier
"You fit the profile" "you have a history of killing Ricks" those were the words in my mind while I saw that clip for the first time, that and "those are the few lines that separate my life as a man from an unsient ghost"
question. would the beth he crash landed into actually be dead now, cuz im 90% sure thats cronenberg-beth because the beth rick's with now didn't have a crash landing, instead rick just inserted himself in another version of himself that died all the way back in the beginning without beth knowing.
You know it’s interesting. This also explains why rick got called into the citadel in the first season when there was someone murdering other ricks!
OMG you’re right
Damn yea shit
Mind explaining how? I’m confused
@@ajx6169 as far as i remember. there were ricks being killed and rick was called to the citadel because he is literally the rick with the most body count but we the viewers didnt know any better yet. It made sense for the council to accuse the one guy who went on a killing spree on ricks. At the end of the episode, we viewers find out it was evil morty who did it but why rick was called to be a suspect during the episode was never fully explained until this episode.
@@therabbidt thank you!!!
the story:
rick, probably in his mid to late 20's, was on the verge of discovering interdimensional travel, but after being shown a version of him that succeeds, decides he doesn't want to become that kind of person. the rick that greeted him is offended by one of his own rejecting the portal gun and so retaliates by killing ricks wife and daughter. the trauma of this incident sends rick into a spiral of depression and self imposed isolation. after anywhere from several months to a few years he resolves to complete his portal gun project and hunt down the rick that murdered his family.
after some time exploring the multiverse and learning about many different universes, he meets a guy who tells him about a criminal arms syndicate that sells memory crystals. he offers to trade an expensive rifle for one, but knowing the criminals aren't just going to give a memory crystal away that easily, plants a trap that kills the dealers before they can shoot him. he uses the memory crystal to print off a photo of the rick who murdered his family. he then spends several years searching for this rick, to no success. by now he is in his mid thirties. he eventually gets wrapped up in wars involving the galactic federation, during which time he meets bird person along with many of his other closest friends. once the federation is defeated, he asks bird person to come with him on his adventures, but he declines. rick then travels to a future version of his own life where he picks up a trail that puts him back on his original quest. He spends the next several decades travelling from universe to universe murdering any rick that stands in his way in search of the one who killed his family, continually meeting dead ends. this is where he begins to build up a reputation among the rest of the ricks. he picks up another clue centring around a special symbol with a large number of ricks tied to it. he spends several years systematically assasinating each one. finally he reaches the end of the trail, meeting a rick that looks suspiciously like the one who he's looking for, but unfortunately isn't. just before this rick dies he destroys all evidence that could keep the search going. at this point rick, now an old man, looses all hope. he returns to his own dimension to live the rest of his short life in pain, but is constantly bothered by other ricks trying to assassinate him, as a full political movement against him has built up among the ricks. rick emotionlessly slaughters the entire group, and the rest of the rick population chooses to swear fealty to him. he and four others team up to create a citidel for all the ricks to live in harmony, but rick is unconvinced by the idea. once construction is complete, he chooses a new family in a new dimension where their rick is long gone, and reintegrates back into the life he never got to have, introducing morty to the portal gun, and finally achieving happiness for the first time in his life, permanently scarred by the decades that preceded it.
Pretty good summary. I missed a lot of those details during this flashback. I wish it would have had an entire episode dedicated to it so all these details you pointed out would have been more fleshed out and easier to understand. But good job figuring it out
I agree with you in almost everything except one thing. Rick c137 does not travel in time. He goes to another universe.
Loses*.
What if, during his bloody expedition to assassinate the Rick that killed his wife and daughter, "our" Rick killed the Rick of "our" Morty ? That would mean that "our" Morty is living alongside the murderer of his grandfather.
@@Rob1n_13 actually he does, because in the scene you see him as a young man looking at an *older* version of himself interacting with an alternate summer and morty who, by his own lifetime, wouldn't have been born yet. Is not a big deal or a much of a plot hole since he is just skipping time in another universe and then traveling back once he gets out to a different universe.
I love what they did with his backstory. The ironic twist is him deciding to go and pretend to be “this universe” Rick, being a father to Beth, grandfather to Morty and Summer… all the while they are Evil Rick’s family. That is why at the shows start he cares nothing about them because they aren’t his family, they are the family of the man who killed his. Then over the course of the show you see him legit start to care about them, the family evil Rick abandoned.
Well no, only Evil Rick's Morty. The rest of Evil Rick's family was stranded on Cronenberg world.
@@guyonyoutube501and now that Morty is the only one left of his original family... everyone else confirmed dead. He's in the same spot as Rick as the sole survivors now.
@@guyonyoutube501well think about it, his beth was dead and this is a perfect match of the croneberg universe in almost every sense. So to rick it still pretty much feels like evil rick’s family
@@guyonyoutube501True...tho the secondary reality was specifically chosen to be exactly the same except for Cronenberg World being that Earth's fate, so that Beth, Summer, Jerry are still 99.999% similar.
he ditch everybody from Rick prime's family except Morty making him and Morty the only survivors on a family, it's interesting because by the end of season 5 you can tell that Rick cares about every member of the new family so much that he bring all of them to a new reality after the incident with Mr. Trundles
I just realised the saddest part is this Rick was alone for a large part of his life. Beth, Summer and Morty are the family that he never had.
Even if unintentional I love how you exclude his son in law Jerry for family lmao
@@i_esha9856 funny
@@i_esha9856 well, technically Jerry would be alive in his universe, theres no reason he would be dead
@@MissyMeghan3 But there is also no reason for them to even know each other
I like that Jerry isn't included
It just hit me:
Birdperson denying Rick made him go back to revenge. He found a friend, whom he confided in. When BP denied dimension hopping to go on adventures, Rick refocused on his revenge.
Or Birdperson remembers incorrectly and in reality Rick wanted him to help finding the Rick that killed his family .The reason he could be remembering incorrectly is because BP thought Rick was being unreasonable
how did he refocus exactly
@@15muzwasnotatheatre16 He went from looking around the multiverse for the Rick that killed his family, to hanging out with BP and taking on the Federation, to having BP decline Rick and him portal hopping for adventures, and then Rick killing any Rick he came across.
Woahhh I noticed that too!
@@ajgameguy3674 he doesn't care anymore actually after bp he was the crow guy then mortys grandpa, perhaps i missed something
This explains the “plot hole” I always had a gripe with in the episode where a Rick attempted and failed to make portal juice, and the fact that the portal gun was set to the chainsaw dimension.
All the Citadel Ricks never learned how to make the portal juice, it was kept as a secret to the high elites, given to them. But C-137 perfected it himself, no help, and he made that portal gun with his own hands instead of buying it or having it given to him.
Yoooooo thats sick
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That explains why he's smarter than the other Ricks.
And plus he has more battle experience than all the Ricks, since Bloody ridge
I believe you mean the blender dimension
That synthwave track with the cyberpunk-ish vibe is just another level. Love how the caricature grasps the actual essence of the genre.
Honestly, the theme here actually kind of transcends the sci-fi genre R&M parodies, sort of stepping into bigger shoes for a moment and graduating to full-blown cosmic existentialism.
The track that's playing gives a palpable flavor: long, echoing drones often indicate monumentality in music, symbolizing the vastness of space and the constructs our characters are grappling with, along with the lonely thrumming synths to represent Rick's robotic directive for answers, despair, and just being lost. It all fits, and I think this is the point where the story is going to turn around. I think it's where we're gonna start to see Rick's breaking point. His true limits.
That's some good human music.
Interstellar
Original track is : children by robert miles
There's a lot of cyberpunk content out there that in comparison this is Weird Al's Dare to be Stupid. A song that parodied Devo so well that the man himself (Johnny Devo) said Al did in one song what he failed to do in one album.
Blade runner
I love how Morty isn't even phased that he isn't Rick's original Morty, because rick doesn't have one, he's his first Morty so in a sense, he still is his "original" Morty...
Very well said
thats why i think he brought him with him post cronenburg
I think he might've had another Morty somehow. Remember in Birdperson's home? There was Rick picking up what appeared to be a baby Morty. And Morty was confused who that was since he didn't see it as him.
@@randalthekidd7006 yeah i was thinking that. he could have just found any random universe where just the Rick died but he looked for one where both died so he could bring his buddy. He was not attached to the Beth because she is not she daughter. It is the same way he didn't just find another version of bird person
@@stansman5461 Didn't that happen after Rick moved to the different world where the previous Rick and Morty died and were buried in the backyard? That Rick had been shown to have been around and loving to his family/Morty. It's extremely possible that Birdperson remembers the Rick from before our Rick took over his life, who seemed close and may have been there for Morty's birth somehow. It would also explain how Morty was confused, because he's not the original, either, the original is buried outside in the backyard. (I believe it was Season 1 episode 6 IIRC that they change realities.)
It’s the music that makes this entire scene one of the most memorable unique scenes, they could have used voice and sound instead they used an eerie but sad theme showing the time lapse of everything, and that’s truly brilliant this entire finale was amazing.
And its very similar to the music in Infinity Train.
Do you know where I can find the music they used?
The music successfully shows how Rick felt during his quest of vengeance, rage mixed with hopelessness.
I've been holding out watching most of them. For the other 4 I binged. For this one I am savoring. Don't know when the next one will be. I was confused that a good bit of people were of the opinion that this season was a hack job after around the 3rd episode. I, of course, emphatically disagreed.
I love that about Rick and Morty. A lot of the really emotional scenes are accompanied with music and little else. For example, At the end of Rick Potion #9, Auto Erotic Assimilation and two scenes in the Season 5 Finale. And it works SOO well
The part where it shows Rick and Morty start their adventures with laughter really hits hard for me. After the tragedy that happened to him, Rick was finally able to find some semblance of happiness with his family again when he started to go on adventures with the grandson he was never able to have in his original dimension.
I see it as him laughing away the pain from the life he never achieved
There is a reason why his catchphrase is; "wubba lubba dub dub" (which means according to birdperson; Im in deep pain)
The whole show so far has been Rick dealing with his grief after not being able to avenge his family. Also him trying to kill himself after the Unity thing is way more painful now
his family again?? he never had one, he is one of those deadbeat rick who stays with abandoned beths.
@@bladerj his family was diane and beth and they died?????
Amazing background music. It has the mystery, the sorrow and the solitude. It has the emotions that Rick felt. I have goosebumps every time I hear this masterpiece.
Gives some blade runner vibes too
@@biostar4 The shots of him eating noodles with the long coat is definitely a bladerunner homage. I loved it
It’s a cover of Robert Miles song Children
It’s an homage to Terminator 1’s soundtrack.
TRUUUUEE
What I see nobody notes is that...
He never erased those memories.
He erased dozens less painful, but not those. Everybody, even Rick himself, see him as a cold bastard, but deep down he does care.
Yeah he didn't erase Birdperson rejecting him either. It seems he keeps memories of people important to him, even if it's painful.
Well yes but also think about it. If he erased the memory of his family's death, he wouldn't remember what happened to them but would remember them. Which would eventually lead to him watching the memory to find out and being traumatized all over again!
If you watch the Mindblower episode, everything he erased from Morty was a singular isolated event.
Also most of the painful memories are what could be called keystones, they are underpinnings of who Rick is and why he does what he does. Removing those would fundamentally change his personality, and might also have too many things that depend on them.
it makes sense, some memories are just pointless and dont add at all, but those, for more painful they can be, are the core of his life and personality
He did the same thing when him and Jerry saw what the talking cat had done. Rick knows ignorance isn't bliss.
My man’s literally been fighting himself his entire life
"One's worst enemy is oneself"
@@pannik_lucas
"Not if I kill him first"
Isn't that technically every human in existence.
Rarely is it so literal as killing versions of yourself just to get revenge on the you that killed your family, so while that statement is generally true it was never as dramatic as this.
Aren't we all?
When you realize that Rick’s “totally fabricated origin story” had him moving on from his wife and daughter’s death immediately and going straight to revenge when in reality he had to endure who knows how many weeks or months of mourning.
years
By his beard, even more than that actually
The drinking and the sadness all along
I’m the 1000th like. Yes that’s exactly how it stays consistent. I wondered about the fake back story. But the fake part was immediately building the portal gun
Or years
0:33 I love that shot of Rick being treated by paramedics after the explosion. Just makes the thing seem real when you throw in something grounded like that.
After this backstory it makes sense why Rick was so carefree of jumping dimensions back in s1. He didn’t care so much about the family, now he does (especially Morty) that’s great character development
dude, the reason he jumped around dimensions in season 1, is because non of this was established at that point. The SHOW was carefree back then, and in my opinion, a LOT better.
@@ben_cav evil guy
@@ben_cav yeah the writers wrote into that and character development over time shows a difference between season 1 Rick and season 5 Rick. His character arc has made him care more about family and what he does. It’s good writing even if they didn’t have everything solid back then.
Hentai
@@ben_cav tbh i kinda like how the show is right now but that's just my opinion
So the fake backstory in season 3 wasn’t completely made up, he just changed what he did after Beth and Diane were killed
“The best lie is the one that is 90% truth” -Some asshole politician
Yeah, instead of figuring out immeadiatly, he spend time alone to grief first
Matpat made a theory about this years ago. He said that there’s no such thing as “creative ideas” and that ideas are just made from things that our brain remixed.
He changed a few other details, in the fake backstory he seemed happy and content whereas in the real one, he seems agitated and annoyed. Likely the conversation that actually occurred, differs from what Rick put in the fake backstory.
@@andys2801 can you link the video it sounds interesting
I want to add, as hilarious as Rick and morty is, the show shines when it gets serious. Absolutely brilliant.
The soundtrack artist waited his entire life for this moment
Seriously, goes from goofy fart jokes then charges head first into a truly meaningful and profound story that explains why he does what he does and why he is who he is. definitely wasn't expecting this.
That’s how I feel about Gintama
No it doesn't. It's fine once in a while, but it would be terrible if this was the norm.
Yeah, that's exactly why these deep parts of the show are so good. It's nice as an occasional break from the craziness
The sad part that gets me is when he flies into beth and Jerry’s house. Beths in tears; and even though ricks been drinking he sobers up really quick. She’s not his daughter and yet she is. That a whole emotional mind blow.
What's even sadder is that is the daughter of Rick Prime who pretty much had the Joker with portal tech for a father & then Rick abandons this Beth to later die in S1 E6.
@@AyKrax I’m wondering if that’s still a part of ricks growing phase. I feel like they could’ve done more on that. Unraveling Rick or their reasons for doing so is a bit pondering.
Its like she had reborn and fully aware who rick it is (her version )
Only to leave her to die in the Cronenberg dimension
He had everything he could ever want and that other Rick despised him for it.
Facts
True
Theory, the morty who left the finite curve is just a Rick who wanted to spend time with his wife
@@lululinx7836 yeah, I'm sorry just no-
@@lululinx7836 lol wtf
When you put it all into perspective Rick really is his own worst enemy
We all are.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUH
I hate fact I know it too well
It's like the man who kills Rick is Rick himself.
@@atif45602 it is
A story of a broken man who wanted simple decent life but still lost everything. After seeing this u can almost forgive and understand Rick better
I first got my glimpse of the show in the Do You Feel It scene. From there, I had a feeling that this man I'm watching might have been suffering from a lot of sadness and possibly past trauma. So when I first started watching the show, all I can think of is that Rick is an interesting character that I want to know more about. I feel bad for him and I love him for that.
Almost
Maybe not forgive…
@@RealCoolstriker64 witch is why i said "almost". Rick has done a lot of bad stuff to people out of crazy bad reasons
@@mastereman4832 Maybe not "almost," somewhat sure.
Searched his whole life to find his wife and daughter’s killer. Got old and tired of a never ending cycle of hunting rick prime down. Then moved into Rick primes universe where he abandoned Beth and had to live with Rick primes wrongs. All while still finding happiness hanging with the grandson and daughter that he never had. Rick c-137 is GOAT
So ironically, the "Rickest Rick" has just as much reason to hate the other Ricks as Evil Morty does.
thats why he despised the concil of ricks, and the citadel in general
In reality it's more of a matter of him being the least Rick that the richest. He's the only Rick that cares
Maybe evil morty was engineered by c137 as an attempt to continue the family he lost (after seeing morty in other worlds). Something about that maybe made him snap, maybe something about how Rick explained the past
@@seeker296 he could be or he was just one of the cloned morties that were being manufactured at the citadel
@@niitami9852 The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. Evil Morty is just a Morty who figured out what was going on. He may be more intelligent than the other Mortys, but there is absolutely no evidence of anything else beyond that.
This is probably why Rick isn't bothered to admit that he's a bad father to "his Beth". Because she isn't his Beth, his real Beth was killed, and he technically never avandoned her, nor had any intentions of doing so
He blames himself for what happened even though it wasn't his fault. He probably believes he could've done something different like accept the other Rick's offer, which may have not led to the other rick to kill his original wife and daughter as a petty retaliation. Obviously our rick is being way too hard and unfair to himself since he had no way to predict that outcome.
@@wolfofthenorthwinds7477 depressed people tend to very harshly criticize themselves, and even more so if it involves a dead family. It makes sense.
@@seanpanigel5494 u calling me out
or made froopy land
He has several times admitted to being a sad drunken mean spiteful old man
This explains a lot about Rick. His hatred of Jerry: Jerry spent more than double the time with Beth than Rick did. Why Rick only has a handful do-over dimensions: the dimensions where he has vanished but Beth is still alive and possible dimensions where the rogue Rick came from. Why he sometimes views his family as expendable: he technically doesn’t have a family due to the death of his Beth and Diane in his dimension.
Yeah. Well-said
This comment made me realize something. The Rick who killed "our" Rick's Diane and Beth is probably from the universe where "our" Rick went.
@@colmarek of course he did have to go to a new earth after breaking the one he hijacked. But now we know his crybaby backstory, we can look forward to rick getting his revenge.
@@RandomYT05_01 Problem is, he tried his best to track him down but failed, and now that Rick C137 is known throughout the multiverse on that side of the Central Finite Curve (green portals), then there's no reason the killer Rick would want to be anywhere close to where C137 can happen across him.
He'd have to come across him in the mother of all coincidences, not to mention recognizing him, as the Ricks have aged.
@@colmarek The Rick that killed c-137's family being the Rick of the Beth we see throughout the show, that would be a cool idea.
I think the sad part is Rick c137 has lived a very loooong life with nothing in his heart but hatred for Rick prime and he spent all his years unable to avenge his daughter and wife
The part where all evidence of his progress shattered and him crying made me sad
And now he can continue looking for him
The way Rick just has to say his backstory is "stupid, crybaby" while he's supposedly trying to dissuade Morty from being curious about it, that in itself seems like a subtle cry for help and a cry to be understood.
Lol no its actually Dan Hammons reaction to the toxic fan base that wants every episode to be part of the lore Canon. Instead of the grand adventures he wanted for the series
@@axelramirez6730 nah
@@cryptidcloud the episode's dialouge supports my statement
Its the writers saying, "fine, here, we settled it."
@@cryptidcloud no it’s true Dan hates how seriously people can take the show hence using Rick as a vehicle to establish meta commentary making fun of said seriousness
I like how at first he was doing things a "regular" scientist would do. Just scanning everything and recording all the data he could.
It would be cool if he worked for the department of defense or something like area 51 and that's how he's so good with tech
@@N.E.U.R.O Also the reason why the US government have some advanced technology on their own
So basically when you get the scanner in Subnautica
Agree. at that time, he wasn't like a mad scientist that creates or invent something in short time.
He was just a normal scientist back then.
That and also getting high at concerts and starting a band with the two friends he made while huffing intergalactic paint thinner.
After all those years, rick didn't even repair his own house
Tbh, kinda makes sense that he didn’t, because he’d be too grief-stricken, shocked and traumatised from the sudden and horrific loss of his wife (Diane) and daughter (Beth) to even care about the state of his house at that point.
@@totalcreativegaming6681 its been like 30-40 years, he left it for himself as a standing memory, thats probably why it didnt age over that time and collapse further
And then he crashed into another's rick's home who's Beth has been waiting for to return. He never had a Beth who grew up, he just moved in with an abandoned Beth.
it was only the garage that needed fixing
@@gid519 it's likely he killed the rick that belonged to that beth some time before he even arrived there, when he was mass murdering ricks
So let me see if I got this:
Rick Prime went around recruiting Ricks with the promise of them being the best in the multiverse and giving them portal technology. So he's the one who manufactured the idea of the Central Finite Curve and every Rick within it is essentially stuck in there since they don't have the ability to create their own portal fluid or any knowledge of how it works. My assumption is that Rick Prime wanted to make his version of a citadel or government and take over the multiverse until only Rick's were left. A non-stop party where the only person invited is the only person they like.
Then there's Rick-C137. The only one that passed on Rick Prime's invitation. Rick Prime then kills the reason behind Rick-C137's refusal: his family. With nothing left to lose, Rick-C137 creates his own portal gun and tries tracks down Rick Prime, only to fail. The Ricks within the Curve find out about C-137's killings and decide to join forces to eliminate him, but C-137 obliterates them with a bored expression.
The Ricks then reach a truce with C-137 and develop Rick Prime's original idea of a citadel/government, to which C-137 eventually leaves the project. He then drunkenly crashes into Rick Prime's Smith family house and encounters Rick Prime's Beth. Be it guilt or whatever, Rick C-137 stays and becomes a part of the family. And from there, the Rick and Morty story begins.
I assumed a lot and borrowed some aspects (like the "other Ricks can't create their own fluid" theory) from other commenters but I think this makes the most sense.
He did intend on hanging in Rick Prime's universe on the hope that Rick Prime would return and he could finally kill him. But he never came and C-137 found himself attached to Morty.
As someone who barely watches the show, tyvm bro. I understand it now and it is actually sad. Dang ty.
That's exactly it.
that's true since most rick' are sheep and will follow the herd, Only a few of them will actually try to break down the recipe to portal travel like doofus rick which means he's actually pretty smart unlike most rick's who jut want to party.
Accurate
This just makes Stupid Rick saying “I’ve never got to have a morty of my own.” Even sadder. He was probably the one Rick who also got screwed over by Evil Rick but chose to not seek revenge. Which the other Ricks take his compassion and pacifist nature as stupid.
That, or he never met the Diane of his universe
(Doesn't he eat his feces though?)
@@xenoraptor4714 that’s confirmed false
@@xenoraptor4714 Why would you trust bully Ricks?
@@DoodleZoo doesn't matter anyways. He's the best rick
The fact that they did fanservice of this level and didn't retcon it is just mind blowing
@acktually aintaddingup apparently roiland and harmon like r&m best as a shitposting vehicle more so than long-form storytelling to the point that they kinda hate continuity
or at least that's what rick would have us believe
@@StormZephyr They don't really hate it, otherwise they wouldn't do it. They just like doing it whenever they feel like it, not based on fandom pressure because of course if it was up to us we would want all episodes to be like this one
@@thiagoalbornoz5062 it'd be better if it was that's why this season mostly sucked
This isn’t fanservice
Exactly, this is why I wish fans would stfu about canon stories. The writers haven’t forgotten about them, they’ll do them when they do them. Just enjoy what ever else they out in the meantime
It’s wild when you think how the current Beth isn’t even the Beth WE THE AUDIENCE started with. The Beth in the flashback is still trapped in the Cronenberg Universe.
Thats crazy i forgot about that
Didn't they die tho
Also the abandoned dimension where squirrel surround both rick and morty. Morty mind blower episode
@@peachpie3597 It’s left ambiguous. They got hit with the freeze ray, which in a previous episode they state it’s non-lethal. They can eventually thaw out, but the world is overrun with monsters so they were left quite defenceless
I think it's crazier that we aren't always watching C137 but they made it clear that S5 was all about C137
"You could be a God along infinite universes..."
"...Sounds lonely..." C137
It's True.
Rick Is A Lonely God Just Like The Doctor Who.
This only proves how human Rick really is I mean he literally travelled to different dimensions looking for the Rick that killed his family
yeah, a revenge arc..... truly the pinnacle of story telling....
am I being gas lit here? The reveal is terrible. The only good thing about this segment is the music.
@@ben_cav I hope it turns out that he is the rick that killed his family but otherwise it got kinda lazy
@@ben_cav
how is it terrible
That doesn’t make him a good human
@@ben_cav I mean the reveal is that he's the rickest rick, because his origin and mindset is the opposite of all other ricks. It's why we follow c-137 and not the other ricks n mortys
1:55
I've always found this part so depressing. Just imagine the pain hitting him after his final & only link to his family's killer was destroyed there, realizing all the effort he made to find him went to waste, being the smartest Rick & then the absolute despair & misery consuming him at that moment; He'd just lost a huge piece of himself he can't retrieve, & then would not even be able to avenge them anymore either.
Wordd this whole sequence hit home but that part and watching him see all of his progress shatter in front of him literally dn figuratively was just sad man
did i miss the part where it is linked to his family? i thought he was just hunting any and every rick that he possibly could.
@@SexyFace He was seeking after the killer & scanning the victims' faces after killing each one to see if it's him by doing the way you just said, doing so up until he finds a chain system of the Ricks who were part of the same complex the killer was within, & seemingly the holocran thingy that got broken there was the pathfinder to the rest of the Ricks system which the killer may've been part of.
After it broke then the system became unachievable for Rick & he couldn't find the specific killer anymore in the sea of the infinite Ricks, so he gives up & breaks.
whoa didnt even notice the rick faction thing until watching it again thanks for explaining
Just a theory, but it's never actually shown that the bomb that killed his family was planted by the Rick who was offended. He leaves and then the bomb shows up. It most likely was him, but then again, who knows?
You know something?
You only start seeing the drool in the backstory when he's just given up on life. No hope of getting payback, no family to go back to, no nothing.
Then when he's showing Morty the Portal Gun, it's gone.
It really does sell the fact that Morty's one of the few things he has left to live for.
yess omg big facts!!!! thank you for pointing that out so fucking true.. 🍻🔥💯
feels like the problem with understanding the show is that alot of polar opposites happen but don't affect certain parts of the show.. like Rick acting like he doesn't give a fuck when he still does.. it's all part of his complex backstory but it makes sense. just like when he gave up on finding the killer it changed him entirely but that still didn't stop him from becoming the rickest Rick.. I feel like everything he was and went thru makes him the rickest Rick. feels like he always was is and will be the rickest rick..
I'll do you one better buddy. Pay attention to Rick's skin color as well, as rick progresses through his life and falls into his depression his skin color starts turning grey
If you think about it, it's probably the first time he's genuinely smiled in *decades.*
@@birbserker4317 His families killer is also noticably grey skinned.
Here after Rick primes defeat. Crazy to see how far we have come
This shows how rare and special our Rick is. Just like Simple Rick was treated like a delicacy, our Rick also chose Family over Science. He just didn’t get the chance to live it out. The music with this story tells it beautifully. Amazing finale
What is that music from?? Just an original thing or is it a spinoff of bladerunner or something
@@3C3C33 it’s original
@@3C3C33 does give blade runner vibes huh. It was beautifully composed
@@milkiekittie6659 agree. Thanks for uploading
@@milkiekittie6659 Makes sense. I kind of thought the noodle scene was a Blade Runner reference too.
The timeline where Rick abandons Beth and his wife is when RICK GOES IN THE PORTAL that the other rick offered at the start. When he says no we see Beth come out and she looks to be small child, around the same age it was hinted at that he abandoned them. So all the Ricks at the Citadel probably chose going through the portal that was offered rather than staying behind with his family, which is why C-137 is different than the rest, he achieved the technology on his own and wasn't given it. This also explains why there's so many versions of Rickless families where Rick abandoned Beth at a young age. He goes in the portal not knowing he won't come back. He never says goodbye before leaving so Beth thinks he just walked out
He deep down was the Rick with the biggest heart. And in the end it made him the most dangerous one of all.
@@junhengshi2242 kinda, except he was just moving wine, but it is similar because when he left it caused a chain of events that led to a government being formed, like what rick did to form the citadel
Wait if they go into the portal what happens
The saddest part is that based on how portal technology works they probably never COULD get back without knowing the original "number" of their universe, IE their Beth's still exist and COULD be reached but they'd need to know to memorize what dimension they started from BEFORE being taken wherever that Rick usually takes them. Most of the Citadel Ricks probably aren't there by choice, they are just hopelessly lost in the Central Finite Curve and eventually realized have nowhere else to go...
Or a lot of them were murdered by C-137 so they never made it back home.
Damn, Imagine how hurt Rick must be every time Beth mentions him "abandoning" her when she was little...
Why? It's a choice that he would have made in other circumstances. It's a choice that he made infinite times.
@@sobgray No, it wasn’t.
Rick never abandoned his original family. They were killed.
It was another Rick that abandoned Beth and their family.
Our Rick(C-137) came back
Bruh it’s a cartoon
@@ham7357 > : makes factually incorrect statement about the details of the characters.
>Me: Corrects him in a non-aggressive way
>Ham: Bruhhhh, it’s a cartoon. Don’t take it seriously.
>MFW =_=
She was abandoned by rick, just not this one and it sucks it had to turn out that way..
The image of Rick absolutely massacring alternate versions of himself is a chilling allegory for self-hatred.
So all this time Beth talking about how Rick walked out when that's just the more common outcome across infinite timelines and he's just filling the space of a rick that left his wife and daughter when he comes from a reality in which they died years and years ago. This is well thought out and actually opens up the lense for more plot progression. Excited to see what they do with this now that they can lay his backstory and the evil morty plot to rest.
Doesn’t explain how he was able to create froopy land for Beth when she was a child
@@sideshowspook133 he probably created before beth died, and when he travelled dimensions he probably figured this beth also had it, or that episode takes place in a different dimension with different rick and morty
@@Ragazaloth Or maybe it's like the vat of acid almost every Rick made froopy land for Beth so Rick knew it was for Beth
@@sideshowspook133 I imagine it’s a thing all the Ricks that leave their families do, and this Rick just knows about it. I can’t imagine this Rick being so negligent as to give Beth Froopyland, and especially not her murder knife.
@@sideshowspook133 "He" may not have, he may have done extenuous research on the Rick he's replacing and simply learned about froopy land
The most accurate background music for my man Rick. The person behind the background music deserves all the love because it's a job well done. I'm listening to it on repeat.
Is it on iTunes?
and IDK about you guys, but this soft but ominous synth reminds me so much of the OG Cosmos soundtrack
@@matheussanthiago9685 link?
What the song called
We need to know what this song is called 😭 I thought I was the only one
Would be interesting to see the Rick that killed his family again, as a new ultimate villain for the series
Ey nice to see you here
disagree
Then what? That Rick served his purpose, he won anyways.(our Rick became exactly what he refused back then)
Just killing him wouldn't have much meaning at this point.
He’s killed so many Ricks, that he stopped checking to see if it was the rick that killed his family. He probably already killed him just didn’t care to check
It would just be the series finale at that point
The music in this scene is so powerful. The mixture of finally knowing canonical information about Rick with the synths really does wonders for me.
There pictures of other ricks including they live rick.
This really cleared up a lot of things. Like in the episode where ricks were getting killed, and they said it fit c-137's profile. It also made sense when rick said that he cant universe jump multiple times, because only some ricks had this happen to them
that's what I love about this episode, it cleared the air and made a lot of small moments throughout the series that were thought to never be touched again on all connected
They even mentioned the central finite curve in that particular scene, but none of us had idea what that really meant
@@carlosmendoza1177 that's actually been a pretty well understood explanation for why all universes we see roughly look similar. Definitely not something the writers just came up with on their own.
'We can do this like 2 or 3 more times' -Rick when morty messed with squirrels and went to a new universe
I think it has more to do with Morty, because he can fill for whichever Rick, none of the others matter to him much, but the more the story progresses the fewer opportunities he have to change universe, since he cares for them in the way they are at that point, now if he changes he has to find one with the same kind of relationship, the two Beths, etc. The more happens the harder it becomes.
The music carries this scene to just an entirely new level.
It's not as cool as it souds in the original video but it's something: there you go /watch?v=2ABByPi6e38
Deus ex and blade runner
Yes it’s beautiful
blade runner / terminator
This scene also gives context to his disappointment in Bird Person.
Rick fought an ENTIRE war against The Galactic Federation FOR Bird Person (Making him the most wanted man in all of the galaxy) and, in his own way tells him this yet...
... Bird Person wouldn't even help him in his war against the ONE MAN who set him down this path.
This really puts his anger towards Bird Person at the time into greater context.
Keep in mind that Rick was probably mid-twenties to early thirties at the start, and he's been confirmed to now be in his seventies which implies this revenge quest took 40+ years and could've gone on forever, he never got the right one
And guess what on his revenge quest and present rick c-137 never intended to harming morty's because he know that morty didn't involved any of rick evil plan on his dimension
Even the fact that he went every universes for his revenge with only to just finally gives up for these 40+ years to find an murderous Rick.
If he's 70 and started in his mid 20s, it's closer to 50 years he's searched
What if Rick is the same Rick that killed his wife, but from the future? I can’t really think of the context behind why Rick would, but that would be an insane plot twist if there is some sincere reasoning attached.
this is the biggest plot question i have that i havent seen anyone bring up yet: rick is 70. birdperson is in his 40s. rick met birdperson when he was 35. (first mindfuck: are we supposed to believe birdperson was 5-10 years old when they met at birding man?) summer is 17 and beth had summer at ~17-18, so we know Beth is in her mid-30s. rick had beth when we was, presumably, in his 20s.
…???
Our rick is the only rick who would pick his family over science.
There's also Simple Rick, there's probably other Ricks too. The multiverse is infinite, after all.
Some might even be in the Central Finite Curve.
Since the only metric within is that Rick is the smartest being, so there might be ones who actually have a successful family life.
This is such a sad backstory. Also all the times when Beth pointed out that Rick left them in order to make him feel guilty... but all this time he was the ONLY Rick in the multiverse that actually chose his family. Rick's backstory is really tragic. I love how this show in the first season made us think that Rick is overall just a selfish person who cares mostly about science and adventures but throughout the seasons that were aired so far they humanized Rick and showed why he is the way he is. Best animated show ever.
What about fascist Rick and wasp Rick, also teddy bear rick? Rick c-137 ran into all of them inside their beths houses. If there are an infinite number of universes then there’s no way he’s the only one who stayed with his family. Not to mention the rick and morty that “our” rick and morty replaced when they blew themselves up.
Not the best animated show ever.
@@patrickdixon7202 Let's agree to disagree
@Afro Ninjutsu The ricks that stayed with their family are not the smartest in their universe so they are outside of the curve, simple rick was taken from outside of the central finite curve
As Bird Person explained "wub-a-lub-a-dub-dub" translates into "help me, I am in great pain".
This explains why he sees loving Morty as something toxic or bad, because he's not his Morty, he never had one to begin with.
He still cares for this morty tho. If he didnt he would have let morty die a long time ago.
@@andergarcia4953 He clearly has grown fond of this Morty and acknowledges his love and appreciation for him.
@@miguelromero3713 i think it was more how high in regard he truly holds morty to be toxic, like overattachment. He feels it gets in the way. Healthy rick could love morty but still be distant enough to not be overwhelmed at destroying the toxic version compared to toxic rick and carry out a plan that has little danger for actual morty.
C-137 definitely developed attachment issues from his backstory. The one time he choose family over science his family was taken away by science.
This plus the cosmic nihilism you get from visiting infinite versions of reality made him decide no emotional attachment is good to begin with, since everything is meaningless to the vastity of the world.
He fails to acknowledge that in the face of cosmic nihilism, when reality slaps you in the face with the awareness that nothing really matters, you give meaning to what you want and that's all the meaning you will possibly have in your life.
Rick does this implicitly (he cares for his family) but he refuses to admit it even to himself.
@@theduelist92 Is he even from c-137............
It's a pretty heartbreaking backstory until you realize the Beth that was teary eyed to see him come back into her life at 2:31 is now a feral cannibal (S3E1) left behind in a world that Rick Cronenburged, leaving Beth, Summer, and Jerry as the only humans left on earth.
That Beth actually survived the last time they went to her universe
That very true. But it could also be used as a way to show Rick care more about being a father figure to morty. I mean Beth is an adult now and he can’t really raise her anymore, but morty is still young. It shows in a way that he cares more about being with morty than anything else.
or until you realized it can't be the full and real backstory as when rick is shown coming back to Beth's life it's the house from season 2.
@@Lionfaceboi to add to that when rick is being interrogated by the galactic federation in the brain analyser we see part of this back story which Rick later describes as "a completely fabricated back story"
Didn't a cronenburged Rick and Morty travel to Morty's universe? I wonder what happened to Cronenburged Jerry and Beth and Summer?
So if the implication is that Rick “came back” to Beth at around the beginning of season 1, what’s the explanation for Rick having a memory of a toddler Morty in the first episode involving evil Morty?
We can assume Rick probably spend some time with other versions of the family while looking for Rick Prime, so that Morty is more likely not "our" Morty
Maybe Rick had visited several realities including one where Morty was still a baby. Maybe Rick intended to bail on this reality like the other's but seeing a baby Morty so close to his daughter's age when she died reawakened something in Rick and kept him coming back. For Rick this was a second chance to be a father again. So he kept coming back visiting him in secret watching him grow up and slowly he became attatched. It explains why he cares about Morty despite finding his attatchment irrational.
@@funnyblog100
Idk. Both the theories presented are decent but have problems/ are a bit of a stretch with the information we currently have. I’m sure it’ll eventually get explained. It’s just a kind of weird retcon. A very good one, just weird.
@@KellsKats Yea I think a retcon is the mostly likely explanation.
Making season 1 they likely hadn't planned this far out, it was just supposed to be a funny new sci fi show. Then it got popular and they started developing it with more substance and lore.
It is a bit of an inconsistency, but we only saw the highlights of his backstory, a few minutes out of the decades he spent traveling the multiverse. It wouldn't be too farfetched for Rick to encounter, or even stay a few days with, other smith's families around the time Morty was a baby.
The heavy part comes from the fact that Morty has to live with knowing his family isn't his real family, but that his grandpa isn't even his real grandpa from his previous universe. He now knows that "his Rick" hopped at least 2 universes while he hopped 1. He now knows he is but a few authentic Morty and that his existence is disposable and expandable at the same time. He has to live with also knowing that his mom may even be a clone and that a 2nd version is out there. It's alot for a 14 year old to handle
Make that 3 universes for Rick. Don’t forget that Morty f*cked with the squirrels
Morty already knows this and just chooses to watch tv dude.
family are not based on biological. but based on value
Add to that his breakups in the season, the amount of mass murder he's witnessed, even been a part of, the reality of the vat of acid, knowing about evil Morty and what he revealed about the Central Finite Curve. Our Morty must surely have PTSD
Your existential crisis is Monty's "Tuesday".
Something I found interesting is that C-137 Rick didn’t hurt that one Rick who was hanging around with Morty and Summer.
It might show that while Rick hated himself and other Ricks, he did draw a line with Ricks that didn’t abandon their families.
You are right,he only aim for the ricks who abandon his family,he don't want another family-over-technology ricks to be in grief,he already feel it,he dont want another to feel it too
The one at 1:17 right ?! Did you also notice Morty is a girl !
@@brandonata5847 was waiting to see if anyone noticed that
@@brandonata5847 damn good observation
this is why i love the comment section, didnt even notice that untill I read this
Poor Rick. He lost his wife and daughter, went on a multiversal murder spree to find their killer (an alternate version of himself), and eventually just gave up after years of failing to find the Rick responsible. After being put through all of that, it's no wonder he is the way he is now.
The Rick reponsible is probably himself
Hold on, I just realised now that Rick comes back to Rick Primes's family after he abandoned them and replaced him. Replacing his family with Prime's family is actually quite sad.
then prime family got put into a cronenburg world
How do you know that’s Rick Primes family? I think I missed a detail
@@ashleyanne6925 S6E1, Solaricks; Rick attempts to reset portal travel, but instead resets portal travelERS. Rick, Jerry and Morty are sent back to their original universes.
Morty being sent to the Cronenberg World. but how is the Cronenberg dimension Prime Rick’s dimension? When Rick picks Morty up from that dimension, he explains that his original grandpa Rick, one of many that abandoned Beth, left and this was where he was. Morty connects the dots for us.
Prime Rick abandoned Beth to recruit other Ricks, like he tried with C-137. The Ricks that accepted are the ones that abandoned Beth. With Prime Rick gone, Rick met Prime Rick’s “family”, his Beth, his Morty, Summer, Jerry, Snuffles, etc etc.
@@friedsyshi You said "those who accepted are abandoning Ricks", so how do you know that Cronenberg Rick is the Prime Rick and not just one who accepted?
@@Сайтамен Because our Rick went to Rick Prime's dimension hoping that Rick Prime would eventually return so that he could get his revenge. But he never did.
In "Solaricks", when our Rick went into the wormhole, "Diane" told him that Rick Prime was likely trapped in his original dimension just like everyone else was. When he realized that, he went straight to that dimension.
The fact that where he went is the same dimension that Morty ended up in (his original dimension, which got Cronenberg'd in "Rick Potion #9"), paired with the fact that Rick Prime was there as well, outright proves that the Cronenberg'd dimension was Rick Prime's original dimension all along, and that our Morty is Rick Prime's grandson.
Can we just acknowledge how fucking cool the music is in the backstory montage?
Ikr? It fucking slaps
Does anyone know what the song is called?
Synth Synth Synth
@@nathansolansky7997 I wanna know too
@@justaweeb9086 i believe it's a synth version of the song 'children' by Robert Miles
Kinda cool that ricks ship wasn’t always made out of dumpster parts and actually had ion thrusters and a paint scheme that looked pretty rad.
Kind of shows the deterioration of him both mentally and physically.
Yeah, Rick stopped caring.
Yea how he made it out of "scrap" in his garage
@@juniorlee7084 The technology is just as advanced but Rick no longer cared whether it looked nice or not.
It's because he crashed it into the garage
2:30 he crashed it into Beth's garage. It was in good nick before that
Can we just appreciate that the only happy memory is him being with Morty?
What about when he is in pizza planer, chilling besides the spaceship?
@@vrzrea795 you got a point there...
But I mean, it's a pizza-planet... who wouldnt be happy there? Except vegans ofc.
What about mulan sauce
@@humanterminator1056 what about the world where Hitler cured AIDS?
1:05 Wow, even Rick had a "Eating ramen at night in a cyberpunk dystopia while wearing a trench coat" phase
I love this backstory, it isn't needed at this point but it shows that Rick is a broken man that has gone through so much for revenge and the pursuit of answers, but finally in the end he really did just want his family again. Sadly the damage is done and he doesn't know how to stop even though he is doing what he really wants now, spending time with his grandson and daughter again.
What uf he decides to time travel..he kills that evil rick but then decides not to change the past because he'd lose morty and all the others he loved....so he dresses up and kills beth and diane himself
I agree that as time goes on his backstory becomes less necessary so they gave it all at once right now before it damages the show
It's a step deeper. The one consistent thing in the "finite curve" that was created is that his wife is dead in all of them. With that broken we'll see how much that holds. Regardless, how sad is it that in the infinite realm of possibilities with a man who can go anywhere and replace his family with alternate versions as he wills, his wife is gone in every single one of them. There's a "cob" planet, a boob world, a universe of butts, but not a place where his wife is alive. Maybe he or a version of himself killed them all. Rick's cornerstone characteristic is that he's a narcissist and jealous person who does not like to share, and C-137 know this. Wherever Diane exists or has existed, there will be a Rick that will hunt her down and kill her just to keep another Rick down or to push him to pursue a "higher calling" of selfishness where he is an inter-dimensional God and emotion and relationships get in the way, which is what happened to C-137. So, after realizing this our Rick goes to the next level of suicide and first tries to purge not just himself, but every version of himself. He stops trying to find just the one evil one that ruined his family, but all of them are equally guilty. After decades of futility he gives up, makes peace with it and simply exists. His relationship with the rest of the family is the only thing that keeps him around, no matter how toxic it is.
That's really the beauty of this show. In a twisted way it shows that even in an infinite realm of possibilities, there seems to still exist the concepts of fate, finality and grief. I strongly believe that Dan Harmon puts a lot of his own personal demons into it. He's an interesting and intelligent guy, but from his personal life I can totally see where his inspiration originally came from. Just look at the ending cards from the first few seasons. That claymation character is him.
Higher on the list of what he wants is to reverse mistakes and just go back to his original family and raise his daughter.
I think this is why Rick is the "Rickest Rick." He hates himself the most.
What if the reason he made the central finite curve was not so he would be the smartest man in every universe, but so none of them have Diane. Maybe the death/absence of Diane is just what leads him to become that.
@@AberrantAberrant You're probably right on the money with that. There has to be a reason why she hasn't yet appeared in any of the universes we've seen so far. It's either Beth and Diane are dead or Diane is missing and Beth's alone married to Jerry.
That does raise the question, what happened in the universes where Ricks abandon their Beths? Was Diane still around, raised Beth herself and died afterwards?
Yeah, no sh!t.
Pretty sure he hates the Rick that killed his wife and daughter even more.
I mean they did say that in the show
This backstory actualy make sense!
Of course it makes sense. It's canon made by the creators and not some fanmade backstory. So it's only natural
He said he couldn't make his marriage work during Birdperson's wedding, yet in the back story the marriage seems to work just fine, so no it does not make complete sense
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Not completely, considering that tmhe said that the "dead family" story was completely fabricated (that was the only way he could change the details of what the brainalyzer saw).
@@runforestrun5537 he couldn't protect his wedding and it ended badly because "he" killed her
I want to bring attention to the fact that while Rick spent years killing other versions, all of those were assassinations. The multiverse of Ricks banded together specifically to bring down C-137. And they still couldnt touch him. The citadel was literally made as a peace offering to the one Rick that nobody could beat. When they say hes "The Rickest Rick", its not just a mere title.
And despite all that, Rick C-137 still isn't as powerful as Rick Prime. He needed Evil Morty's help to stand any chance at all and even then, Prime still technically defeated him. Evil Morty had to bring C-137 back to life after Prime tore him apart.
The entire Citadel was no match to C-137, which really emphasizes how much more powerful Prime was in comparison.
@@tomnorton4277 Which really makes me wonder. Wouldn't that make Prime "The Rickest Rick"? Or does 137s compassion for his family that Prime lacks put him aside from Prime to give him that title?
It seems what really distinguished Rick from his counterparts, is that he truly cared for his family.
Well, him and poor Simple Rick, who got kidnapped by the Citadel, and then fed an endless loop of his daughter so they could extract the chemical from his brain to sweeten their candy.
You forget wasp Rick too
@@andmicbro1 He was a simple Rick that got his family taken away from him
“Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist” - George Carin
yes
I Was One Once.
Believe Me It Sucks
A few things:
1. This really makes me think there'll be a deeper reason to why rick doesn't respect time travel. Maybe something about it can't truly bring back his family
2. Simple rick basically got the life c-137 never had
3. If C-137 was a builder of the citadel, he may have been an originator of the central finite curve. If that's the case, maybe he built it as a sort of containment cell for his selves. Seeing firsthand what Rick's do with interdimensional travel, he maybe cut off any universe where he was smart enough to discover it from the multiverse at large. Being for the benefit of the Rick's may be a cover.
Only thing with the 3rd point is that blue portals are for travel within a single universe, green for within the central finite curve and yellow for outside of the CFC. The rick that killed C-137 family used a green portal so the CFC must've existed beforehand, likely being created by that rogue rick
@@TY-km8hj Good point, didn't notice that. Maybe the rogue actively made a multiverse where he was the smartest being, so would take it personally that a rick would reject his vision of a rick dominated multiverse. Could also explain why C137 never found him, if he made the curve he may have left himself a backdoor out of it, making it nearly Impossible for rick to find him.
Actually thinking about it now, anytime time travel or finding a new world happens, rick has to get rid of the other version of himself to take its place, as in the kronenberg event and the do over button. If it works the same with time travel, maybe rick just can't bring himself to take a rick away from a happy life. He may be cold to the Rick's he knows are as much Jerks as he is, but he may still be a softie for a Rick that shared his values.
Strongly agree that Rick sold that other Ricks the concept of the CFC as a fortress but actually built it as a prison.
Actually, I find it kinda weird that in a show that has explored virtually every other sci-fi concept, real time travel is actually non-existent. Perhaps it may be because time travel as we think of it is both physically and theoretically impossible. However…it can also be because the technology was never developed by any Rick, save one.
Or …it may not have been developed by a Rick at all….
Love the Terminator 1 vibes… Rick as Kyle Reese, traveling back and forth through spacetime to find the variant that terminated his family with only the help of a picture. Wears a similar coat as Arnold’s, and becomes a Terminator of other Ricks. And in 1:36 it’s similar to the club scene when Arnold uses a lasered gun.
Even the music has a similar 80s T1 soundtrack vibe.
there is no time travel in Rick and Morty, they established that.
Pretty sure they were doing Blade Runner there but ya.
@@kickass1179 except there is time travel in Rick and Morty? In the very first episode Morty breaks his legs and Rick leaves and returns a second later with a cure but tells Morty he was gone for a very long time. There is also an entire snake terminator time travel episode? Rick even personally uses time travel in that episode as well as he creates a snake time machine and travels back in time to give himself the snake time machine before he invented it because he's too lazy to actually invent it on the spot. Rick also freezes time a couple times. Rick doesn't respect time travel but it is absolutely in the show and Rick knows full well how to utilise it. It is just not worth the headache to him.
“Yes, now everybody can shut up about it.”😂
Narrator: "But they did not shut up about it."
I just didn't get it. At 2:30 when Rick crash the lawn' ground is shown cracked up. That's shouldn't be because that happened in season 1 episode 11. So how did that appeared. Can anyone explain.
@@kiraisjustice8547 you should probably post your own comment rather than reply here, that's an interesting detail taht willbe talked about
@@finch3010 I have. But I have replied same sentences in every comment so that I could get any answer
@@finch3010 you CAn find my comment in new comments
Rick loves his wife, his daughter and his grandson. In a multiverse of infinite possibilities he chooses to spend time with Morty and his family nearly ALL the time. Love means everything to Rick and that is exactly the reason he’s so cynical and nihilistic about it.
Except his son-in-law, Jerry. Jerry is very dumb
I love this bounty hunter style they put Rick in when he was younger. The long hair, the trench coat, the straps...He looks the part to be on a mission across the infinite universes.
Also that single scene is better than Blade Runner 2049.
@@slavko321 no.
@@slavko321 absolutely not
@@slavko321youre delusional
@@slavko321
Damn, you just entered the thunder dome and are getting blasted.
0:01 of course it opened with a morty moaning.
0:00
They waited so long to reveal this and it made perfect sense and makes everything from season one more important. That’s a testament to good writing
The entirety of season 5 was god-awful, the good thing about it was this episode
they figured it all out later, except for the firing roiland part, which was unfortunate and a call to the industrial standard of no second chances, which is utterly contrived as history has proven with the heard and depp trials and even more twisted double standards, but so be it
If you think this was planned out since season 1 you are a morty.
@@eff_this_network I liked season 5
@@joseph8298The guy's a massive nonce, stop defending him
It shows that Rick’s whole character is just one big facade he’s telling himself more than anyone, he actually cares more than anyone. He developed this character out of trauma as a shield from more of it.
Does it alter the perception of toxic rick somehow?
When you realize rick was at his happiest when he started running around dimensions with his alternate grandsons. Morty doesnt know it but he keeps rick as stable as he can be with his knowledge and ability.
Well, now he does!
Morty wouldn't have been born in any reality at that stage because Beth would be too young. The citadel literally wouldn't exist for decades so there would be no clones
It just dawned on me, a portion of those ricks that abandoned Beth might be because of rick killing so many other ricks while seeking for the rick that killed his wife and daughter.