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- Morty injects himself with Rick’s downloaded brain and learns Rick’s tragic backstory.
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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
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 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
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.
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.
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 also makes sense as to why c-137 is better at fighting than all the other ricks. Because he spend his whole life killing himself
omg
That's a cool detail to think about
Yea I never thought abt that
Omg thats a good point. Nobody is a bigger threat to our Rick than other Ricks.
@@campfortson4387other way around, no one is a threat for other rocks, like our rick
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
@@JuradodoCZcams truueee forgot about the whole young pregnancy thing my b
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
The saddest part about this is that with the latest episode we learn that Diane was wiped from every reality. Not to mention there were many more Rick’s who’ve had their wives taken away and have spent their life trying to find Rick Prime.
It was no wonder she didn’t exist
That begs the question: How did the rest of the Rick's have Beth, Summer and Morty alive? Were some other's Diane and Beth unharmed? Diane was wiped from existence yet they still exist now.
@@milksalmonI figured at some point Rick Prime found out Rick C-137 was coming after him and decided to sever any possible connection with Diane C-137 could have made. Seeing as he developed a bond with a family he made from multiple dimensions.
@@milksalmonOnly Diane wiped out in every universe not Beth
@@jojonium4861
So that means other Rick's had Diane and the entire family.
Wouldn't all the Ricks sought out revenge if suddenly one day Diane disappeared?
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
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
damn
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.
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.
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 )
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
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
This makes last season's "Holy shit, I'm a terrible father." hit harder knowing Rick lost his chance to be a father
This comment needs to be higher
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.
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
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.
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.
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
"You could be a God along infinite universes..."
"...Sounds lonely..." C137
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
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!!!
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.
Here after Rick primes defeat. Crazy to see how far we have come
I love all the subtle ways we see that Rick REALLY does care about others... I randomly paused at 0:23, and Rick's split-secant unguarded expression is one of genuine upset/concern over what Morty's about to do himself.
Late for the party.
That expression and the stutter. I saw it just as a natural human reaction to it, but some comments in other videos pointed out he rarely stutters (like that time he and Morty forgot their own identities).
He cares for a selected few. He killed to many too careless.
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?
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?
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.
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?
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p 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.
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
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
The image of Rick absolutely massacring alternate versions of himself is a chilling allegory for self-hatred.
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.
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
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
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.
As someone on Reddit pointed out “the fabricated backstory” was actually fabricated. The backstory the bugs were searching for was how he created the portal gun. So he just “fabricated” the equation part of the memory
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
1:05 Wow, even Rick had a "Eating ramen at night in a cyberpunk dystopia while wearing a trench coat" phase
Coming from after season 6 episode 1, Morty's real grandfather was actually the Rick that killed Rick C-137's family.
Yeah I find that really interesting
@@Joni-C137 I think I remember seeing a theory in the comment once about this exact same thing. Man.
Makes sense why he seems much smarter than the average Morty
Wow.
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 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.
@@mikecb80 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.
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.
Who's here after unmortricken? Man, Rick's backstory just gets keeping more depressing and twisted
What’s that?
@@idkbro1206newest episode of Rick and morty
The way his eyes look so empty after he fulfilled his revenge. There's nothing much left since his whole life had been about finding Rick Prime, and now that is over, he still lost his original family, and the only way he can numb himself is with a shitload of alcohol. Maybe Evil Morty is right, maybe he will take his own life. He came close to suicide before, he'll probably do it again. It's really depressing.
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
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
This was one of the moments of the season and its sandwiched between the writers chastising us viewers for wanting a back story.
They're so obsessed with avoiding serialisation, but the connecting storyline is the best part of the show.
The Truth
Disagree, the serialization and attempts to be deep drag the show down because Dan Harmon is a hack when it comes to that sort of thing.
@@GigaChadh976 I agree the attempts to be deep fall flat because it still comes wrapped up in nihilism and a detachment, but they tease a great back story with Rick's tragic past while breaking him down with the Finite Curve reveal, only to drop it in Season Six.
If you're only doing 10 episodes a season, it's mad they couldn't connect the dots.
It hurts knowing no matter what rick does, it will not bring back Diane or give him his own true morty
He never had a morty or adult beth which is why he's not really attached to anything
@@TJ-fe7rrHis attached to prime morty. He couldve left him yet stayed and protected him
@@five2019he’s probably attached because his morty was originally rick primes morty so he probably uses him to remind himself to go after prime rick, he also never got to have one of his own so i can see why he would want him around
@@bullymaguire2913 he quit trying to find rick prime, hence them moving dimensions after they cronenberg all the people, the same case when he resetted portal travelers, he only realized fick prime halfway of trying to find morty, even on the same episode morty tried sacrificing himself which rick refused and was the only reason why he didnt chase rick prime any further before the knights of the sun thing
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.
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
What a scene. Shouldve won an Emmy on this scene alone. The music and the story was very heart-breaking
How did Dr Wong (or whatever did) get Pickle Rick RaM’s first Emmy, but this got nothing
@@andrams6010 Whoa dude. Halt ✋ This is a furry-free zone
The whole problem with this is that the Citadel part should have been it's whole episode or at least a special. There was so much more here that needed to be fleshed out and in the end the whole thing feels incredibly rushed.
Man literally just wanted to be a normal human with a happy family life. His circumstances literally made him a god. The isolation after losing his family and chasing a target he never was able to find. For somebody who can literally do anything u did think it would be fun but ig being superior to literally everybody else in the universe comes with its own set of problems.
“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
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 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.
He is the most interesting character I have seen, he is complex without reaching the pretentious, his problems, mentality and personality are built in a slow, not at all boring way that reminds me a lot of reading a book. It's a contradictory story, weird, and the best in animated science fiction.
Could you recommend books that are similar to Rick Sanchez character?
Shut it, nerd.
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
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
The creators understand full well how much the fans love this lore and backstory, yet they tease us with poking fun at it
I cried when Rick lost his family it was one of the most gruesome and emotional moment in the series. It's basically the origin of how Rick became the smartest man in the whole universe.
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
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.
Came here after season 6 premiere, I really feel bad for Rick.
The story is so good, you feel and empathize for Rick even more now.
Same I really do fell bad,the premiere was amazing but it was quite sad too
I'm still traumatized by Mr Frundles.
Same. This whole show wouldn’t have happened if Rick Prime didn’t kill Rick’s family.
You think maybe the reason he wasn’t more upset to leave Cronenberg Beth was because he already had his Beth and he felt like she was irreplaceable, but since he’s spent more time with the new Beth from the replacement dimension he learned to move on
And on top of that the reason he brought Morty was because that was his first Morty, so he didn’t wanna make the same mistakes?
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.
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
pretty sad that rick wasted the majority of his life trying to find a killer he was never gonna catch
Now I understand why Beth always talks about Rick leaving again it’s because Rick prime is her real father and he is the one that actually left. This Rick will never leave
It’s so true
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
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?????
Crazy thinking that c-137 morty is the morty of the Rick that killed our ricks family
Yeah I find that mind blowing tbh
@@Joni-C137 bruh, did you not noticed that he calls Morty C-137. As in the same one who’s with C-137 Rick. Not Pre-Cronenberg World Morty.
@@Silent_Fool Yeah ever tho our Morty isn't C-137
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 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
Rick has finally got his revenge. But what’s the cost? What’s the result? Nothings changed yet nothing will be the same anymore.
Even in the end, rick prime won
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
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
This completely caught me off guard and became my favourite moment of the whole show
Rick is such an interesting and amazing person. This was the best finale hands down
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.
This is probably one of the best backstory’s ever. The sympathy gained for Rick over this is unlimited.
This is literally my favorite scene from all of Rick and morty
So Rick's Morty was never his Morty, he could never have one.
Woha. Mind. Blown.
Makes you wonder who/where Morty’s *real* rick is
In the episode 8 of this season, the memory Rick does not know who morty is, thus it was implied that he never had a Morty until he arrived with the Beth who was abandoned at the end of this flashback.
He basically didn't have a Morty until the moment he started living with that abandoned Beth.
@@nonononojeneveupaboirunver9200 yessir
@@DuskLegend A Rick who abandoned his family for science, that's why Beth's alive thus Morty being born.
The real question is "What happened to Diane when Rick left?".
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
0:01 of course it opened with a morty moaning.
If anyone is wondering why our Rick is so much better than other Ricks at basically everything it's because that thing he used to scan the phoneman with was apparently an early version of the brain scanner Evil Morty used in this episode and our Rick used it to absorb the scientific knowledge of hundreds or even thousands of advanced alien species throughout his journey for revenge against Rick Prime
Another thing we know now is that he simply cut himself off from any universe he wasn't the smartest, which is why Rick comes across as so stupid so often out of universe: Because we're not one of his universes. But in his part of the multiverse, he's not just arrogant, he's quantifiably right.
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
@@Osiris414 it’s original
@@Osiris414 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.
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.
1:03 I think this version of Rick lives in a universe where he is not the smartest one in the universe, on the other side of the central finite curve. Whether he knew it or not, once the curve was constructed, Rick could never find the Evil Rick that killed his family. Even though the curve is gone, so we may very well end up meeting him. It’s also interesting to note how different his portal gun looks.
Well guess what buddy
@@bluepumpkinkid2916 lol yeah I know, but hindsight. It was a decent guess. It’s just weird that this Rick hasn’t been seen.