Evil Morty is Still the King 

I think you might have misinterpreted that part. She moved on with her life because she found someone who had gone through similar trauma, which Rick never did. The actual message this sequence is sending us, in my opinion, is that we are all fucked up, and how we deal with our fucked-up-ness is up to our specific circumstances.

And it shows that all of Rick's misery is his own fault. He could have moved on and lived his life to honor the loved ones he lost, but he just doubled down and became a monster with nothing to live for but that revenge.

Integrantedavidanoturna, I agree with you.

@@jordanloux3883 true, on the other side of this though, Should he have? Like, if he did would that have actually made his life better or not? I think the multiverse is better off without Rick Prime

@@triple3joe I feel like Rick Prime is a troll. He's just a sad loser who does loud, obnoxious stuff for attention. The guy literally kept himself in suspended animation for who knows how long because he had nothing better to do than wait for our Rick to look for him. He has no idea how to just sit in a room with himself and it drives him mad.

Because Rick Prime had every single countermeasure for anything any Rick could/would do, but he never accounted for a smart Morty, which was what ultimately brought him down.

​@@djpegao I feel like Evil morty wouldn't have been able to take out Rick Prime by himself, but that doesn't really matter. Fact is that he's the one who took Rick Prime down. I know he's "Evil" Morty but I'll rather him be a reoccurring character rather than being a main villain moving forward.

⁠@@DaWhisperI think him saying to our Rick “You’re different, I could use you in the future” spoils that he won’t be a villain in later episodes

A Rick who saw other Ricks as less than him was killed by a clone of his grandson that those Ricks mass produced as a commodity. Is there a word for a mix between poetic, ironic and "take that you piece of shit" ?

Actually Rick killed Rick Prime, Evil Morty provided the necessary assist

The thing is, that's never been the *writers* doing that. It's been *Rick* because Rick has every reason to *hate* continuity. But in this episode, he had every reason to fully embrace it and take the opportunity for revenge. Because he was into his arc, there was no one around to criticize arcs.

@@AdderMoray I mean the writers blatantly use Rick as a self insert in many instances. Dan Harmon especially

@@iggyzeta9755it isn’t half but definitely a small portion calling themselves Nazis. They’re just really loud and obnoxious so it seems like half

That's how you can tell they're adding new writers who are less resistant towards serialization. I love that they didn't make a single meta joke about it, thet just did.

Best line: That's not an alive amount of blood.

Ironically, the only Rick who has ever survived being in the same room as him is the Rick who recognizes that a Morty can outplay him. This is the same Rick that has been force-fed humble pie for at least three seasons, the one Rick who acknowledges that he's not always in control and could be better

exactly how he stayed alive he knew from the first moment he met Evil Morty not to underestimate him @@JohnPeacekeeper

Since only two Ricks invented the portal gun, who’s the “prime Rick” now? ;)

@@JohnPeacekeeperreminds me of the one Mindblowers sequence where Rick says “taken for granite” and Morty corrects him. He didn’t want to acknowledge that Morty had potential, now he does

@@JohnPeacekeeper Tbf Evil Morty could wipe out all Ricks now that he has the weapon but he won't because he knows it won't get him the piece and quiet he wants.

Very good point, actually. No "the citadel runs on canon" or "now everyone can shut up about it." Just a quality episode.

I agree, Adventure Time to me strikes the perfect balance. It’s everything Rick and Morty wants to be tbh.

@@qrowinghonestly I didn’t mind those quips but I agree it was so much better when there was none of it

I didn't get into rick and Morty till season 6 which was the first season I watched. For me lore episodes are better than adventures.

From what I can guess, the outside curve multiverse, has a area that acts as the magnetic north of the multiverse, or a dimensional whirlpool where all new portal travels get caught in. Like getting caught on a current, explaining why there are so many first timers who just get killed, being stuck in starving shark infested waters while bleeding. This is best seen with the jetson copies, who all end up on the same place.

@@irmuusanaa4227who’s to say infinite portals don’t open basically everywhere? It doesn’t have to be unique to that exact location

I've come to understand that the central finite curve was a term given to the series of universes where Rick was the most powerful being in the universe. While Rick is smart and powerful he's wise enough to know that in the infinite possibilities he can also just be the weakest thing in the universe. so he rigged the portals to only keep him in the infinite portions where he held a intellectual and technological advantage. Evil Morty breaking out of the central finite curve basically meant that he was jumping out of the Rick-inhabited section of the infinite universes.

@@kroneexe, true, yet there is an oddity about that region of infinity. The area it self, the entire place looks like multiple places or worlds Just collapsed in on it’s self, it’s chaos, even the area outside of the curve was more stable, So my theory is: that region where evil Morty go the crystals is where multiple universes collapsed into eachother, creating a massive curve in multiversial a premature finite curve.

@@irmuusanaa4227because it’s the infinity possibilities. such thing show to us is simply one of said possibilities. the real question would be why EM chooses to stay there instead of less chaotic portions of infinity possibilities

Going by the story train episode, I figure that they look at what fan theories spring up and what people are expecting to happen, only to go "Pfft, nope!" and make a canon episode that completely goes against these expectations.

@@djdomain The story train episode is what really turned me off Rick and Morty. The jabs at the audience weren't great and the meta was getting a little much but that train episode really hit home that the writers actively disliked the fans, fan theories and most of all our desire for cannon. Now that Justin Roiland is gone I'm holding out hope that this starts to change even ust a little bit.

@@djdomainexcept this episode confirmed fan theories

​@@nicholassumoski8434I loved it. The jabs were at people who think every episode should be plot driven and insulting the writers for thinking of doing anything episodic. Even though they established plot driven episodes are for occasional situations.

Dan harmon was the main one that disliked people *liking* the writing of the show. He did a little screen rant about it once. @@nicholassumoski8434

I don't think a lot of people pieced that together, it sounds different enough with the robot effects that everyone just chucked it up to be a classic case of a voice actor doing 2 voices, really good detail.

Same.

Evil Morty is may favorite. He is the only one to stand up to the ricks and not just survive, but win. Whenever he's on screen he has control. People sees exactly what he wants people to see.

Also the fact that there was nothing else in that scene, no guns, no scifi weapons, no weapons, nothing, just prime mocking and laughing maniacally while our rick slowly tears into him.

That's an interesting take. I didn't really think about it but yeah the gore is usually really just used very casually or comedically in this show and this was not like that at all. And yeah the line 'you lived in my house' is very raw

There's also Doofus Jerry in the comics who was a massive threat to the Citadel of Rick's

Yeah. I love how his backstory isn't that dissimilar from any other Morty's experience. It sends the message that even our Morty could become like him. If the pain inflicted and situations/available choices align in a particular way, are we really sure any other morty wouldn't make similar choices?

If you were trapped within a multiverse a demon created to get away from the whole of creation, you'd be a victim too even if it's construct of time paints you out to be a villain.

He tortured countless mortys your not being “cool” by emphatising with evil characters. Evil morty is my fav character but this doesnt change he is evil

He’s not really evil… if he’s evil then… Rick is a whole other level of satan. It just looks bad because we saw Morty do so much carnage in a short time, but Rick has done the same exact things, and many much worse things, just spread out… it’s like a guy who kills ten people in a weekend, vs a person who has killed ten or so people in his lifetime, but he also invented TNT, Sarin Gas, Nuclear technology and knew exactly what would happen and did it anyway. Rick has casually wiped out entire civilizations, and realities on a whim… genocide on levels we cannot even fathom! So no… “evil” Morty isn’t evil… he’s a kid who saw the devil, realized that he lives in hell and decided he wanted to get away. From the perspective of EM, he is much less evil than Rick, way more justified in his actions and arguably most of his victims deserved it… aside from the Mortys and a few innocents but most Ricks have it coming… I know we laugh but having “Morty insurance” with “Free replacement Morty coupons” is beyond fucked up in the worst way… that’s dehumanizing and detached in a way hitler can’t even imagine… lol fuck that’s dark when you really think about it! His own grandson! His blood… (kinda) and the Ricks just use them up and get a new one… Then they take it one step further and do the same thing with entire realities! Your universe is fucked? Just get a new one… try again… I’m team Morty for sure. Lol

​@@DanteYewToobboth are evil

@@DanteYewToob your whole argument is evil morty isnt evil because Rick is more evil

He took his narcissism so far it looped back around to just being... sad. And not "sad" in a sympathetic way, but Rick Prime was just some edgy tryhard Rick who was brought down because his whole schtick of caring about nothing meant he inevitably had no one in his corner when things went south.

It's his multiverse man. What do you think happened to the demons that got cast out? They created their own mini kingdoms in the image of the real kingdom. Offered it to our reality via 2D media. And they all interact with our reality via consciousness by implanting thoughts into the 3D entities that perceive said pieces of 2D media if the human aligns. And that's not even going into the fact that a human had to accept the thoughts to begin with in order to bring it into a form others humans could comprehend like 2D media. Anything on a flat surface is 2D media from books, to movies, to shows, to video games.

I thought I heard that Diane left Rick prime or something

@@xItzRevenge Doesn't that make it even more pathetic? His marriage didn't work so no one's marriage can work out? Hell it's telling that he lost because Evil Morty and Rick and Morty worked together while he doesn't really have anyone who gives a damn about him. In a way he's living the philosophy Rick often pushes and showing how unsatisfying it is.

@@iczer7788 yes

It also shows us that the creation and repair of the curve weren't solely a sectioned off Rick circlejerk cage, whatever is happening outside of it is incredibly wacky and unstable.

@@Epsicronics It could be the main reason why Rick is afraid of it, too much chaos is way too unpredictable XD

It's been so long since they've done a lore-heavy episode without complaining about it the whole time lol. It's a breath of fresh air.

@@CoryTheNorm yeah, it was giving teen titans go level of pettiness of making fun of the viewer for wanting the writers to take the show seriously

​@@hunimoonzIn this regard, after that Szechuan sauce situation, I wouldn't blame them.

Not necessarily, if Rick does what Slowmobious wife did when she began her revenge sequence and opens his heart to someone new that went through something similar, and commences to rebuild his life, he can find happiness again.

​@@forestflood5338rick could possibly build a machine that does the reverse of what rick primes machine does.

I think he was just being petty. His goal was never to ruin every other Rick's life, he was just a narc who didn't like when people "less" than him act like they weren't. He was sadistic about it, and maybe he felt some kinship with our Rick because both of them invented interdimensional travel. Even at the end he acts cocky until Evil Morty destroys his back ups, is not until EM lets him alone with our Rick that he lets a final fck you, but thats not a win, maybe a draw for our Rick, but for everyone else? yeah, Prime lost hard.

@@jacobweatherford4696 I mean if it does it probably has to end up with rick committing suicide or something equally dark. When it comes to coping with loss the human truth behind it isn't "just keep on focusing on your loss and never get over it" it's "move on." Yes people do the former but the human experience of doing the former is destroying your own mind and life, you can't have a story do the former and just have it work because that doesn't make any sense to us, it'd feel cheap because it is cheap, it's not how our world works.

​@@jacobweatherford4696no as what Rick prime said *When I fucking build something it fucking works*. That means permanent consequences, no ejection seat. This is a life lesson. You have to learn to let go because no matter what you do, you can't ever go back to the way things are. Otherwise you risk destroying yourself by obsessing over things you can't control. Everything ends eventually, and none of it you can take with you to the grave. Even memories fade away after long enough time.

Bin waiting for dis

Yep. Next is Evil Morty.

Eh, 10 seasons are enough.

@@harukano9930 yeee 10 are a lot, and I don't mean 10 more season, but I can see it going up to 12-13 seasons

Rick and morty, 100 seasons forever

It's also ballsy, establishing that Evil Morty's the Rickest Rick, in the sense he's the smartest, he's practically a god, and nobody can stop him. Not even C-137, and I was surprised that he went the revenge route instead of recognizing the weapon was going to be taken by Evil Morty and acting on that.

@@nicksmith7736 Because the weapon isn’t currently a problem in Morty’s hands. I bet he didn’t even bother to assemble the omega device because he has no use for it, as he said, “it’s just a deterrent”.

@@cezarcatalin1406 Right, but knowing Rick, having someone else step in and do your thing for you is the dinosaur situation again. It would be pretty easy to predict Rick eventually going after Evil Morty for that reason

@@nicksmith7736 I'm not, I don't think he cares about Evil Morty getting the weapon especially given that EM isn't planning on attacking him and wants to be left alone.

@@nicksmith7736 I've seen this take but I kinda doubt it - I don't think he cares that much that EM "stole his kill" and didn't seem that hung up about it when EM brought rick back to kill prime rick

Uncle slowmo… :(

There is no coming back after this. He will be a heavy non-presence in the future episodes.

?? The evaluación morty / rick prime has been ongoing for various seasons

Yes evil Morty killed two birds with one stone he is definitely one of a kind. who's he is the potentially more smarter than any Rick any Universe where Rick was the smartest man in the universe in a infinite Loop where Rick was the only smartest thing in the entire Multiverse.

Faz sentido... Its make sense

You can barely tell nobody is complaining

@@tribehasspoken4038I can but personally I prefer Mortys new voice more (and many are complaining)

​@Luvs2spwge-xu6rd i dont get it , to me it rick sounds the same but a little sober and morty sounds like he started puberty again

@@tribehasspoken4038 people are certainly complaining, but as for the voices the new VA for morty is way more noticeable than the new one for Rick

rick voice actor is so talented he brings layers to the performance its easier to take him seriously when needed

It really was something.

I thought it was one of the best in the series lol

True. That's actually very interesting how EM weakness is his strength. I wonder if future seasons will integrate that plot

@@fan4every1lol89Que God and Dianne’s spirit possessing Evil Morty in a nutshell

im not sure if that's the case since the Citadel does have its own portal fluid reservoirs, so that one Rick probably just didn't have access to it and, like you said, didn't actually know how to make it. but there's a good chance that at least some amount of Ricks on the Citadel knew how to re-create the portal fluid

@@freerobux49 Maybe. But, expanding on the Citadel a bit, I think they said that the Citadel was for Ricks to hide from the Federation, implying that maybe the Federation completely took over in some realities, and if we go with the theory that there are only a limited number of Ricks who know how to make Portal Fluid, it could explain a lot of the Citadel's inner workings. Why are there news reporter Ricks, Ricks that work on assembly lines, and Ricks who seemingly live one the Citadel full time when they could portal to any reality? Well, it''s like Rick said, there are only so may times he and the family can hop from dimension to dimension. If the Federation has taken over in multiple dimensions, and there's only so many Ricks who understand how to make Portal fluid, then maybe the reason why assembly line Rick worked at the candy factory was to make enough money to either buy portal fluid, or be assigned to a new dimension that lost it's Rick and is free from the Federation's control.

The omega device is his insurance and full control over Rick. But evil morty also slightly respects him enough to not want to use it on him. When he said “you’re a little different though Rick. Maybe I can use that someday? “ line says it all.

Slow Mobius still had children present. It doesn't erase you from time, it erases you from every dimension in every universe. Whether there is some kind of memory effect associated with being erased or whether her children were simply too young to remember their dad, I'm not certain of yet

Bruh. You should become a writer fr

@@fan4every1lol89 nah im horrible at writing. But I remember telling my friend the rick prime arc would end with rick, evil morty, and morty fighting rick prime at a space station, and after that evil morty would use rick in the future and rick wouldnt feel fulfilled. After that the show would move on like nothing happened. But there was one detail i got wrong. I thought the fight would be in season 10

Succeed when he failed to erase all of the hims across the multiverse previously, during the Unity episode. Dan Harmon mentioned It in the commentary track.

total waste of a monkey paw

Well said, but I feel like all this has significantly less impact than it should because that universe got Cronenberg'd. Instead of that universe still being the main setting, it's just one of several that Rick abandoned at this point.

@@nagger8216Interesting cause for me it has more impact as it shows how much they are alike. C137 doesn’t really care that much about Prime’s world and vice versa.

@@orrorsaness5942 Yeah, but then all those characters aren't even from the Cronenberg universe besides Morty. When Prime says "You stole my family, my house" it means a lot less once you remember Rick abandoned it all a long time ago anyway. A fact that Prime doesn't even bring up either.

@@nagger8216 I see