I just love how it was Evil Morty who took down Rick Prime, he exploited the one weakness all Ricks have: Underestimating their Morty. Its the same way how he was able to take down his Rick.
Well to be fair his own rick was also taken down because he trusted Morty. He was even cheerfullly repeating those exact same words about "me and you, rick and morty. 100 episodes straight etc" (not exact quote but you get my point) at the time he was being killed. So most likely this would also have worked with our morty and most morties, it is just that evil morty had completely outgrown his need for a rick.
@@randomguy4989 whats sad is that it seems his rick wasn't even really evil. him and morty just went on too many adventures where morty found it lame or boring and instead of just being out and living a normal life he decided to kill rick. i wonder what he did with summer, jerry, and beth
I like how Rick Prime uses Evil Morty as a shield, and at first I notice how our Rick tried to avoid shooting _through_ the shield to get to the target by going for a headshot..... But then I watched Rick Prime catch it, and throw the projectile back before blew up in an explosion that would have taken them both down.....
@@orderflowarchives I don't think evil morty killed his rick, cause he kept him alive when his rick attempt to suicide, like why would evil Morty care about his rick taking his own life when he can get new rick? Due to that, maube deep down, he still cared about his rick, he just wants to take the dominate role
Honestly I like the fact that all Rick prime saw was just another morty, and all evil morty saw was just another Rick. They are actually a lot more similar to each other than they probably thought!
I think Evil Morty only helped because a) he was interested in fighting the "strongest" Rick according to the only Rick that survived the citadel being destroyed and could not be captured by Evil Morty before. b) he was hoping to get some new tech from Rick Prime or C137 he didn't have which he eventually did in the end and has the power to wipe out every Rick. This is more dangerous because Rick Prime could not use it simply because he is Rick too but Evil Morty having it is more dangerous building to more possible outcomes of the show.
@@MMythBunkersB I’ve heard a few decent theories, but honestly this is mine I think evil morty respects Rick c137, because he’s actually more emotional than other ricks he actually cares in his own ways. He’s terrible at showing it but he does show more empathy than other ricks and truly does love his morty and has started thinking of him as his grandson. Every time evil morty has encountered Rick c137 he’s always been somewhat admiring of him more than other ricks in ways. So I think he wants him to live, and actually doesn’t want to fight him. However he also still thinks of him as a rick and knows how ricks think. So think about this, all Rick has ever wanted was vengeance, all he’s ever wanted was to kill Rick prime because Rick prime took everything from him. He took his happiness and his happy life away from him, so evil morty gave Rick c137 everything he wanted the only reason he had for searching the universe and going on adventures is now gone he has no more ambition, and nothing to strive for. So now evil morty is basically free to plan whatever he wants while morty prime and rick c137 are trying to figure things out and find out where to go next. I just find it interesting that evil morty didn’t want to be followed but also isn’t all evil I don’t think either. Although he is evil and does hate most ricks I don’t think he hates all ricks.
@@MMythBunkersBno, bro evil Morty is not interested in revenge, in the episode he mentioned that he could kill Rick prime anytime he wanted to, the only reason why he helped C137 is to show him how meaningless was his whole revenge thing, just like meaningless will be for evil Morty to want to have revenge on Rick
@@joto5459 Funny enough - C-137 is the Rick Evil Morty thinks does not exist - one who cares and loves his Morty. When he realizes this, he lets him go just reminding Rick not to follow him and leave him alone. Evil Morty has the ability to wipe all ricks from existence now but C-137 Rick made him realize that there is slight hope for Ricks to become better people. Even though he originally used Morty to try to lure Rick Prime, he grew to love his adoptive grandson in his own way and even though He's replaced Summer's and Beth's, he's NEVER replaced Morty. Also Evil Morty realizes if he wiped Rick from Existence, Beth, Morty, or Summer would rise up and come take him down.
I love the contrast between Rick's technology and Evil Morty's technology. Rick's tech is all about attacking and causing damage, even if his body is destroyed, while Evil Morty relies more on defense and control to avoid damage to himself
Exactly! Everything the Ricks do is for their own ego, so naturally their combat style reflects this. They want to be the most overwhelming force possible as a testament to their genius. Evil Morty, on the other hand, does everything out of a fight for survival. He seeks to stack any advantage in his favor and win without having to fight where he can. Always love when shows take the time to reflect details about the characters in how they choose to engage in a fight
@@mcs9990the creators said that the next episodes will focus on how rick goes on with his life after achieving his life mission, and probably evil morty will come back in the finale in some form
I guess there will be just plain Rick & Morty adventures, but in the season finale it will be revealed that Rick Prime is still alive and thus more hype for next season@@mcs9990
Rick Prime had advantages such as regeneration, the ability to produce clones in his field and his robots. Evil Morty and Rick, though weakened by the damage, did well against Rick Prime.
@@pancakes8670 no, they swapped at the end (when Morty woke he was confused as to the eyepatch) I think Edit: By "the end" I mean the end of the big action sequence (around 1:36)
@SeanVanGorden maybe evil morty told c137 about how to use his tech while they both went into the same portal right before their arrival to Rick Primes base. Evil Morty has very advanced communication skills so he planned into tricking Rick Prime into a scenario where he is gonna look defenseless, in case c137 rick dies.
It was ironically the best time for Slowmobius to use his powers, every excruciating second he fell closer into his inevitable death was a second his infinite selves got to live, breathe, and experience. That unyieldingly kind heart didn't hesitate one second at sacrificing his quick death in hopes of achieving an infinite level of good, because no matter how seemingly small a few seconds may seem to the average person, Slowmobius was all about savoring each individual moment, gifting others the time to take it all in, one last time. Godspeed king; lost but never forgotten.
@@Artisticfeets well he was low diffing a 3v1 vs c-137 and evil morty and "morty prime" he was not taking that fight seriously at all in fact if it hadnt been for rick fighting rick prime to the death and losing he wouldve went after evil morty on the drone im just saying he had a reason to think that way
@@samuelburksI'd say he was mid diffing Rick C137 & Evil Morty. Morty Prime was Low def. EM knew he was going to need to bring Morty Prime alone that's why he not only asks once but twice. Rick Prime is the strongest character in a 1v1 by a pretty Wide margin rn. The point of the episode was that two assholes had to put their little egos aside to stop the biggest asshole. But most people missed the point and started glazing EM for some reason.
Rick Prime is that dangerous it takes 2 of the smartest people in the whole verse to take him down. Evil Morty really carried with that switching places plan
rick prime was watching evil morty before he started putting in work but had to focus on a suicidal rick fighting him to death and getting exploded and smashed by a giant fist he wasnt even able to see evil morty do the swap by the time he had regened bro let his guard done to what he assumes is his old grandson
@@samuelburksWell Rick prime was overconfident nonetheless,he could have saw that the “evil Morty” laying down dont have the injuries but all he saw was just a harmless Morty that poses no threat
@@DiamondIngot. he was actively going to go after evil morty whenever he hacked his drone we see this in the fight after c-137 is crushed prime is about to go after evil before having to get into a fight with rick that he takes to the death while hes doing that he explodes and is crushed his eyes are closed by the time evil morty has already swapped places he wouldve taken evil morty seriously just not our (i suppose thats your point all he still got defeated by a morty cause he didnt take him seriously but you gotta understand what happend before to lead up to that and why its not totally the case) it was a 3v1 that evil morty wouldve never won by himself or even with just morty prime
@@DiamondIngot. also you never really claimed evil morty beat him by himself so that paragraph i sent you dont have to respond to all of it just the parts that directly oppose your stance my fault for the slight topic change
@@JulyYunicowas his name the only one credited? or were the new voice actors there too cause if they are also there, maybe they used roiland audio for a flashback or smn
@@JulyYunico Justin Roiland is still in the opening credits as a creator because he can sue them if they don't put him there. Ian Cardoni is voicing Rick in this clip (and Harry Belden is voicing Morty)
I like that Morty isn't physically stronger than Rick, but he doesn't rely on technology as much instead largely on his wits as well. It's good to see Evil Morty not being a mini Rick
They keep calling him evil morty, but he's actually pretty polite for the most part. He's pragmatic morty, and I think he actually enjoys morty's company.
Do you still remember the introduction tho? He kidnapped hundreds of morties and had them being perpetually tortured by devices to act as a safety mechanism so he could kill and harvest hundreds of Ricks brains. I agree that evil is perhaps not the defining character trait, as he does his things for a pragmatic goal as you said, you basically a machiavellan pragmatist with absolute disregard for loss of human life is what defines him better than just "evil" for the sake of evil. But if you had someone killing hundreds of people just to fulfil their goal I think almost everyone would agree that he isn't a saint. Plus he also accepted everyone in the Citadel to die (thousands of rick and innocent morties) so he could achieve his goals.
@@randomguy4989 good point, although I'd add that if mass murder is a qualifier for "evil", then Rick C-137 is pretty evil for having unleashed Heist-o-tron on the galaxy, allowing it to destroy planets like Gramuflack and all their citizens, all to teach Morty a lesson or whatever.
DAMN! Evil Morty not only hijacked Prime Morty's mind, but also outsmarted Rick Prime in such an easy fashion. He's definitely the most powerful antagonist.
Honestly im intrigued how the rest of the season will go, this season been a mixed bag of good to... boring episodes but hey this seems to be a start of a new development for rick, excited to see what the staff will do
Honestly I really don’t know what impact that development will have. The only thing I can think of that we haven’t actually seen before is Rick’s growth stops being so slow and he is actually well on his path to being a good person. Which is awesome but doesn’t seem like that exciting a development unless it somehow pays off in a big way If Rick just ends up being even more self destruction, it would just feel like we are going back to the early seasons. And I would like to move forward not back.
@@ethanharmer5151 true, hope he doesn't just fully destruct, however with the whole rick going to therapy earlier this season I have hope he may start changing in a better direction
@@christoffcreations1389 I mean he has been changing in a solid direction. During this seasons Unity episode, he wasn’t the toxic one in a situation for a change. He was the one cleaning up the toxic person’s mess and getting the blame for it. To me, that’s already growth. So with this, he might change faster than he already was. But I am not sure what exciting story developments that could give us other than him being healthier.
@@ethanharmer5151 true true, ngl as much as I liked the episode definitely felt like this was a season finale lol, I hope they either use the concept of the curve to have more threatening foes or maybe it's how he learns more? (Since the episode shows others can be on par or greater than his intelligence) who knows we just gotta wait n see
Season 6 for the most part is really good as honestly I think the only weak episode was the finale mostly because it copy pasted elements too much from the season 3 and 4 finales (big fight with the president and Star Wars "homage") but season 7 has been sort of eh until... this episode which was yeah really good and this is easily one of the best battles we've seen in the entire show.
@@DianaGohan I loved the Jerry and Spaghetti episodes. Overall they’re making things more weird and dark this season which has always been Rick and Morty at its best.
@@mr.greasy6483The real problem is that season 7 isn’t funny. Rick and Morty while going deep and dark and introspective was always hilarious. Season 7 barely has any laughs. It’s missing the humor and wackiness. I don’t even know how to put my finger on it but jokes just fall flat. And the spaghetti episode was all about preaching a message it wasn’t even funny
@@Childofbhaal you make a good point there- my favorite bit was the Morty turning into a car joke, but honestly I wonder if the show isn’t as funny now because it’s really hard to throw the audience off? It’s fairly easy to come up with clever sci-fi concepts when the characters can do anything but clever sci-fi jokes seem to be a lot harder
@@mr.greasy6483It seems like the overall writing has shifted greatly. I know they’ve had a new show runner since season 5 I believe and that’s when the change was pretty noticeable. I think they’re trying to move away from the early R&M formula and go on to new things. Which is okay but I miss the crazy humor..
I love the new Rick's scream. It sounds a bit off from the last one, but it feels way more genuine and creepy. The death of Rick prime felt weirdly real.
Rick Prime's death was some of the best voice acting in the entire show. Ian Cardoni was great from the start and I never actually noticed that Justin Roiland had been replaced until after I watched the season. Once I found out, it didn't change anything for me because Cardoni's performance was so good that I just see it as a continuation of Roiland's work. However, Rick Prime's death scene cemented for me that Cardoni is BETTER than Roiland ever was. The most emotionally raw delivery I can think of from Roiland was "Bird person, no!" Great delivery, don't get me wrong, but Cardoni went through a whole gamut of emotions ranging from Rick's chilling "Let's find out" to Prime's scornful laughing, narcissistic rage, choking on his own blood, and finally the pitiful whimpers of a dying man. That's a lot for an actor to handle whilst also having to imitate a previous actor the entire time and Cardoni nailed it perfectly.
I think they’re building up to Rick’s biggest villain being himself. Not a version of himself, like Rick Prime, but his actual self. This whole season seems to be focused on self-betterment so far (Evil Morty becoming the best version of Morty without Rick, Burgers & Fries/Jerricky), and with Rick C-137 even starting to go to therapy and now having no purpose since Rick Prime is dead, I think he’s finally gonna get introspective and work to fix himself from the ground up.
@@johnathanbrandt2526Saying one thing, and later showing it to be different is theme progression. Morty wasn't the pinacle of wisdom and still figures the world out. Neither Rick who's super depressed about his wife, being in direct contrast to his "nothing matters attitude" while he showed that bird person matters to him, and his new family starts to matter to him, and his old family meant everything to him. "Nothing matters" was never true, although it seems that way in this multiverse of infinite copies.
I’m betting the ending will take parts of both. Rick comes to the (correct) decision that he’s a genuine threat to his family. And not just him, but every Rick. After a particularly bad episode, he decides to go find ‘Evil’ Morty and steal the blueprints to kill every Rick, and his family tries to stop him. Whether he succeeds or not it’d be a interesting idea and conclusion to the series. Either Rick selflessly/ishly take out every Rick, and the family lets him go to his final rest, or the family succeeds in stopping him, and help him become better and cope.
@@johnathanbrandt2526I don't think those are contradictory. "Nothing matters, come watch tv" suggests that there is no grander purpoose to life, so life is free to be enjoyed. Rick has just lost his seeming "purpose," so a message like that could be a possible solution.
Didn't they already do this before? I think we also had a "mid-season finale" with Ricklantis Mixup where they put the most impactful story on number 7, that was the House of Cards-style episode where Evil Morty basically runs for presidency and takes over the entire citadel and executes the council of ricks and the entire society of Rick and Morty gets thematized along the way. The final episode of that season was then Rick clashing with the President for the entire episode almost 15 minutes straight shooting at each other just to get that signature for Morty or so (which was a cool episode as well ngl, but obviously the citadel plot is a bigger lore).
My theory, the season finale will involve Bigfoot. Like we saw hinted in episode 3. Additionally, that is clearly Bigfoot in the background of the cover art for this season, if I'm not mistaken.
Evil Morty just wants to be left alone. He’ll be back eventually, I’m sure, but for now it sounds like the show wants to focus on Rick being empty with his goal completed
I just noticed, Rick Prime noticed he was being scanned by Evil Morty so he switched to that Kuato Rick which was unscannable hence the reason he managed to shake off Morty.
@@willg1088didn't prime jerry actually die tho? Like by the cute cosmic horror biting his leg and absorbing itself into Jerry? Or was prime the Cronenberg one?
At what point did they even switch though? It doesn’t seem like any point they could have? Is it a plot hole, or are they setting something up in the future?
Was Morty Prime and C-137 Morty switched the whole time? How did they manage to pull that off so fast? Theres a lot of things to wonder about this episode and it leaves it open. Also not seeing Rick Prime’s Body burn up or something means we might be able to see him in the future.
The last episode of this season will end on a cliffhanger while simultaneously going back in time to show us what happened like they always do. It will all make sense
@@Euro-GaNationalist-hv1on We just witnessed that Morty Prime. Rick Primes Morty was our Morty. So he would be Morty Prime. C-137 doesnt exist and that was mistake when writing my initial comment. However I dont know where we classify “Evil” Morty if he’s not really evil..
@@SeanVanGorden To be fair I think saying "Prime Rick's Morty" is technically more correct than "Prime Morty". Prime Rick is well established to be the prime rick (also shown strongly again in this episode and by all the other failing ricks tryng to take him down), and he is the Rick of our Morty, but our isn't really Prime (at least not yet) so that would also suggest our Morty is the top morty there is which at the time isn't true. I tend to just call them "our" Rick and "our" Morty now to avoid terminology confusion.
@@GustavoSilva-ny8jcliterally the only time i noticed the different actors was the scene when evil morty says “motherfucker” before finding rick and morty 😭
@@msampson2286 yeah, it's so precise i got confused when i heard about the switch (there's even deniers lol) and many people act like there's a huge difference, "only in your paranoid head pal" i think. You can mention someone like EM but he's different cause he's giving each one unique voices now.
@@Zerch-gi9qr Rick C-137 turned Prime into mincemeat, and before that the evil Morty destroyed all his copies and deprived him of regeneration, do you think Prime is alive? Rhetorical question
@@gendarmeofeurope5 There are hardly any copies of prime that are not in his brain or that he erased from his memory for his own safety in case something like that happened, like a horcrux. But this goes against Prime's personality, he did not consider that inferior beings would go that far. (That wasn't rhetorical question)
I absolutely adore how this fight is a literal love letter to all sci-fi BS going around this universe (multiverse?). Idk why they kept stalling this confrontation, it's literally too badass to get past. Probably cause it was still in development.
I don't think it could have been done a fraction as well if they had tried to do this back in any of the earlier seasons. Can you imagine them trying to do this plot in season 4 or 5? Would've been a train wreck. Nah, it was perfect timing.
@@niallharrington3636 and if you think about it, Evil Morty used to be in the central finite curve, meaning that his Rick was the smartest of his universe. That means Rick would have been smarter than Evil Morty and far smarter than all the other Ricks we know. That Rick would probably have been the smartest Rick in all of Rick and Morty.
i like to think even though evil morty beat rick prime, rick prime was still smarter than him. Those who try to argue that evil morty is smarter than rick prime, is just wrong. Evil morty has some very advanced gadgets, but he gets them by researching existing things rick has done. The citadel for example, or portal guns, and now the omega device. So while rick prime did lose against evil morty, nearly the entire fight he had the upper hand and eventually lost because of underestimating a morty. I think there is definitely an argument to be made that evil morty is smarter than our current rick, but not against rick prime/
This is what I have been feeling too. I wish they had a few episodes about him hunting prime before dropping this. They could have made a focus as to how hard he is to track across the multiverse, how him relapsing into his hunt for prime is destroying his family, and having that cliffhanger of “what now” would have been an excellent way to end the season while bringing back the og Villian of Rick and morty for the next season. Those Rick prime episode build ups would have made this better.
@@jackcalkins4232This came out of no where and is regarded as one of the best episodes to date. LMAO a build up of something that’s been built from S1 would only irritate fans, goofy boy. There’s a reason they did this and a reason you’ll never produce a good show with your ludicrous mentality. Goofy
@@iarguewithgoofies7355 just waking up to a stranger on the internet calling me a “goofy boy” made my day before it even started. It’s quite a funny insult and I legit laughed out loud so thanks for that. I’m using that for others
I just hope that this wasn't the end for canon stories for the next time, but rather a demonstration of what's to come. The possibilities are endless, no need to just do whacky things again but further develop the characters
Everyone EM and Morty Prime switched after EM got shot on the upper arm. Thats why they switched shirts. In the Omega device destruction sequence, its clearly shown Morty Prime having a hole on the shirt arm despite there being no injuries. So it was EM that fought Prime with C-137 in the fight montage
FYI Evil Morty has been controlling Morty by the eye patch ever since they stepped into Evil Morty portal, that’s why we see he’s so good at re-using Prime's robot body as a temporary “gun” and in the end tricking Prime into thinking that he is the original grandson. Very good tactics I must say.
At this point "Evil" is too broad to describe this Morty. He's caused genocide sure, but that's hardly unique to him compared to other Ricks and Morties. Rick C-137 has probably killed just as much if not more than him, but nobody calls him "Evil Rick". Rather than "Evil Morty", this Morty is more of a "Jaded Morty". He believed that all Ricks were assholes by their very nature and fundamentally don't care about Morties due to a superiority complex, and that all other Morties other than himself were just pawns to be used and sacrificed by Ricks. He and Rick C-137 are similar in that they both sit on top of a mountain of pride and refuse to admit when they are wrong about something, but although he would never say it out loud he realized that this Rick is different from observing him with Morty Prime and noticing that at some level he genuinely cares about him and looks after his well being. Having realized this, he chooses to spare Rick C-137's life and to not wipe out all Ricks from existence despite being fully capable of doing so. Not entirely as a mercy, but as an experiment of sorts to find out what happens to this Rick after finally experiencing closure. My speculation is if we ever see this Morty again, it will be him who initiates the contact and it will be so he can see with his own eyes whether Rick C-137 has truly turned out for the better or if he's living proof that Ricks cannot change and only care about Morties so long as they are useful.
I will say straight after the big explosion, before Prime recover : he was in fact not knock out and landed on morty on purpose, so he could switch with him.
I hate the route they've gone, just undermines rick, he's just not that unique anymore, nothing that special beyond the second person to make portal fluid
I know I'm super late. But us no one gonna talk about how Evil Morty's shield lasts only seven shots? I think it's like a easter egg based on the number of the season.
I just love the way he says “Shitty grandpa :/“ so matter of factly. Like it was the ONLY possible outcome of that situation and he KNEW it 🤣 Underrated line lol
Dude all the comments point it out that yeah the biggest weakness of Rick is underestimating a morty! That’s kind of been evil mortys biggest strength and why he hates ricks for the most part. Like the only flaw they all share is thinking mortys are lower then them….
honest question.. 0:15 tag team combo 0:34 big enemy hand trying to crush you 1:24 act of desperation, you killed your self along with the enemy the fact you know you will survive 1:37 dead enemy but you know his still alive i just wanna know if this scene are common on movies or tv show coz i think already seen this kinda moves on "holomyth bad ending"
Rick prime is true deffinition of rick. He dont need morty to be what he is know. He is the jump start for all these rick . He is superior in combat ability,technology,and mentality . But he lacks what our rickest rick have. A morty. Thats why i believe rick prime is smarter,stronger,and better than evil morty. But evil morty knows rick more than rick itself.
I do wonder if this is really the end of Rick Prime. Narrative wise it makes sense for Rick’s growth as a character, like in the show the mentalist, but I think they could really tap into the existentialism of the show from here. Along with that, they could do larger threats of cross dimensional things (I’ve always wondered what they were going to do with the Cthulhu-like creature they show in the S1 opening credits). But I have a feeling with Rick Prime existing in all those locations at the end of Season 6, as well as his own operation Phoenix or akin, we may see him again, and Rick will pass on pursuing him again showing his growth, until Rick Prime threatens his original family, and makes Rick fight him again. On another note, I loved how Evil Morty was portrayed, as always. His story of ultimate nihilism feeling trapped by the unstable Rick’s and just wanting freedom at any cost makes him compelling despite him clearly lacking much of any kind of moral compass. They display the prowess his emotional maturity with all the knowledge assimilated from other Rick’s (while finding a way to improve as well). I hope we see him in small doses again if it can be done well as an anti-hero, potentially wrapping up in some sort of sacrifice to save multiple multiverses in lieu of Rick C-137 as the culmination of his character. Then again, Rick and Morty has always liked to mess with its own stories and not take things too seriously, which is a shame because I think that’s often where the show shines the most. I’ve mostly lost interested in the show, but if they keep putting out episodes like this or build on their strong story and theses, I might get sucked back in.
