What D&D Alignment is Rick and Morty? (Season 4) (Ft.  

I’m so glad you two are working together

This video is closer to what other AD&D alignment videos are correct in my opinion. I think that Rick needs a bit more slack cut to him on the "good" scale. Relative to his perceptions, abilities, and inevitable nihilism, Rick is a borderline saint. Edit: Also, some of your Chaotic Evil rules are based upon sheer selfishness. That generally has nothing to do with the Lawful-Chaotic scale. It is evil. That is Neutral Evil. Chaotic Evil is more The Joker that makes a big mess for fun and profit than someone who just jumps on an opportunity. That Jessica thing with the Death Crystal, he blindly follows his own selfish motive, looking to follow the order. That bounces between Lawful Evil and Neutral Evil with Neutral Evil motivation.

I don't think I could ever call Rick good but when you frame Rick like that, I would agree he leans closer to good than evil.

Well I'd rather see a more indepth breakdown of episodes, I'm all for breaking videos/reviews into parts like seasons or something. I'd wouldn't expect long running series to get done in one go and broken in parts, Maybe with time gaps and other videos inbetween the parts.

I'm done after the bit at 2:12. Just because, for him, destroying a world has the same overall impact as helping his grandkids hunt a vampire does not make it any less evil for him to, ya know, DESTROY A FRIKKIN' WORLD. The fact that doing so is just as impactful as a little side trip in a younger body goes to show how much of a sociopath he really is (by the way, that younger body also expressed a desire to live its own life separate from regular Rick's conscience and Rick chopped it and all the other bodies to pieces, so that means he was enslaving those clones that had developed their own wills so he could jump into their bodies whenever he wanted to be a different age, and then he murdered them instead of letting them go). TLDR: Rick is chaotic evil, or, at best, chaotic neutral. No one in their right mind should ever consider him good.

I disagree with the conclusion because of how you categorized evil. "Imagine the damage Rick could be doing if he gave a shit about destroying or conquering planets." That's not the standard for evil. Your end goals arent the determining factor on the alignment chart, even if they can be a factor. Good is defined as having a respect for life and being willing to put you and yours at risk for others. Evil is about putting nothing ahead of yourself and your desires. Neutral, in regards to this axis, generally means caring about and sacrificing for those closest to you and not caring about the world at large. At least, that's my memory of the definitions from 3rd edition, when I started playing. "Rick just wants to party and have a good time with his friends." On it's face, that's a neutral stance. However, as shown in the episode you're using clips from as you say that, Rick doesnt care who gets hurt or even dies in pursuit of that goal. This is actually an example of Rick being evil. I actually ultimately agree that Rick is Chaotic Netural at this point. Morty and Beth (and probably Summer) are important enough to him that he's willing to make sacrifices for them. He's just much more heavily leaning on the evil side since that's where hes coming from.

I would argue chaotic good for shooting Rick. He was trying to save Summer.

Morty C-137 90% Neutral Good (Default Alignment) 10% Chaotic Evil (When he is pushed beyond his limits) Rick C-137 I strongly disagree taking his actions lightly just because of Rick's inner nihilism. If we are justifying evil Character's from within they will be "good" characters... Thanos's thought his actions were for the greater good... he considered himself as a Hero. Tarquin doesn't want to be tagged as Evil.. Though every action he does screams Lawful Evil. Rick is selfish, he cares about himself 99% of the time. Even when he does "good" deeds, is because he wants his annoying relatives to stop annoying him. Because it's easier and faster to just do a random gadget that will eventually blow in their family faces, than lecturing them about the dangers of their requests. Rick is reckless, lazy, hedonist, alcoholic. He lacks emphaty.... of course he knows how to read feelings... utilitary emphaty... to manipulate people (the way psychopaths do) However Rick has low Charisma so he has to use other means to such purposes... And he only do such work for his family. And those he relates to. He has a soft spot.. for Morty. Sometimes... Overall Rick is Chaotic Evil 60% of the time. Chaotic Neutral 40% of the time (Drinking, sleeping, just doing random stuff like turning himself into a Pickle or a Teenager, being nice with his grandchildren and daughter)

Can Tanya Degurechaff be added to your list of D&D Alignment videos?

I can see morty getting more and more evil as the show goes on

as i like to every now and then remind people "evil" in dnd is far more nuanced than just what most associate with the term

"Shoot almost everyone you love, its the lawful good thing to do" DAMN!

I understand why mortys mind blowers was left out on both occasions but I still feel it should be considered because those events happened, regardless of the order, if that is the issue you have with it. There is a debate to be had about what forgetting certain events would shape his morality and alignment and id say that’s a better reason then just not knowing a timeline of events.

Rick's apathy towards anyone besides his family, and his willingness to kill entire planets and universes is what makes him evil.

I can’t wait for the part 3

We need more! Please!!

i think morty inspires rick to do better as rick doesn't want to let morty down and rick inspires morty to realize sometimes in life shit happens

I would argue that a character who so casually wipes out entire planets and civilizations because to them it’s no noteworthy anymore doesn’t make those actions less significant. It just makes that character more unsettling.

... arguing that Rick's actions are all equal because of his perspective is like saying everyone is the hero of their own story why bother with their alignment at that point. also, that fact that everything is equally meaningless to rick is a bigger argument for why his neutral character.

I disagree that the one's where Morty gets dragged around should be counted because it's not really something Morty does

I really want you to do this for Doctor Who (each of the doctors separately), but this is a monumental task I feel XD

it is really important to keep the argument in perspective to what a character is, for rick to destroy a universe isn't any more evil than you or me stepping stepping on a bug while absent mindedly following something we need or want to do, sure it would be nicer to watch where we are stepping, but in reality almost nobody ever does.

11:15 "chaotic neutral"?

Don't worry about the misunderstandings from your last video. Some people LOVE to misunderstand things in the worst possible way. Besides, It's impossible to clearly communicate anything to EVERYONE, even if they all speak the same language. :)

Fantastic video guys

well i think i know why rick didn’t fix conanberg world. it’s because it belong to the rick he hates. even if that rick doesn’t care it’s subtle revenge

Torture and mutilation to avenge hurt feelings??? Is that considered good? For your own good hope you remain single and without any kind of romantic relationship for the rest of your life

I do think that Rick is more well-intentioned than people give him credit for. Like using Morty to protect himself and punishing Morty for chastising his vat of acid idea, those are either chaotic good/neutral type stuff but some of t he stuff he did was outright selfish, such as forcing Morty to go get crystals just to do a high dance and selling guns to assassins just to play a video game and he has done some evil stuff for very selfish reasons that wouldn't put him in chaotic good imo. I would say Rick is more chaotic neutral. He doesn't care about rules or laws. I know some people think of him as a Chaotic Evil but I wouldn't put him in that category. He's not entirely evil, he's protective of his family and friends and is cooperative when in a team (something that Chaotic Evils aren't good at) Maybe Lawful or Neutral Evil at worst. He can do evil things when wronged like a Lawful Evil but he also does evil things for entirely selfish reasons (Neutral Evil). I also don't agree with putting Morty on the Neutral Good alignment. Maybe that was fitting before but especially not if you look at seasons 4 and 5. He kickstarted the snake event because he didn't want to stay in the car, he mutilated a boy because while the boy did do something wrong, that still was some lawful evil energy right there. The reason why he stole Rick's portal gun in the rick vs president episode didn't make sense as Rick iirc wasn't abusing his family, he just got a little too friendly with Clone Beth. Moreso true neutral right there. In general, I'd put him in the true neutral category. He does still believe in doing the right thing but he does do some evil things for his own benefit.

Broly is coming? Dope xD one of my favorite chars. I like this archetype a lot; my first DSA character was exactly the same.

You can't just brush off destroying a whole universe man.

Like 40 minutes long??? We would love that! At least I would since I'm binging rn

Rick Lawful Good (5): Risking his life to make sure his family is safe when dealing with the Alien Parasites, killing Coach Feratu, helping Beth's and Jerry's marriage, doing a bunch of nice things as Tiny Rick, and turning himself into prison to save his family. Neutral Good (6): Encouraging Morty to go on an adventure, killing Mr. Jellybean, fixing his house's damage with Morty and Summer, sacrificing himself briefly to save Morty, helping to save the Earth from the Cromulons, and helping Beth to save Joseph Lipnip Chaotic Good (11) (Ending alignment for Video 1): Encouraging the dogs to leave for the Dog Dimension, humiliating and beating up Mr. Needful, reaffirming Morty as his Morty, helping Morty and Fart on their quest, overthrowing the Purge Planet's government, forgiving Jerry for trying to have him killed, helping save the world from his toxic self, messing with the president by solving all of his problems, allowing Jerry back into the family, being nice to Tony even though he pooped in his toilet, and erasing Jerry's memory of the cat's visions Lawful Neutral: None. True Neutral (3): Killing the Zigerions to save Jerry, hopping through universes to get back to his home, and killing a species of snakes by letting the time cops handle them. Chaotic Neutral (5) (Starting alignment and current alignment): Building Anatomy Park in Ruben and Ethan, humiliating the matriarchal Gazorpazorps, throwing a destructive party, partying with Unity, and turning himself into a pickle to avoid therapy. Lawful or Neutral Evil: None. Chaotic Evil (10): Freezing Frank, forcing Morty to smuggle seeds through his butt, making a love potion, dooming the universe to a Cronenberg fate, leaving his universe, enslaving a microverse to power his car battery under threat of violence, ending the Galactic Government, thousands of lives, and Beth's and Jerry's marriage over a packet of szechuan sauce, stealing a rock with infinite power at the last second after introducing it to the Mad Max Planet, killing the Vindicators after getting blackout drunk, and going on a crazy plan to get Morty to give up on making a Netflix movie. Morty Lawful Good (6): Telling the truth about who he is to Summer, telling the truth to the Plutonians, killing the Alien Parasites, advising Jerry not to get into a toxic romance, saving the world from Jerry, and helping as many snakes as he can. Neutral Good (Ending alignment) (7): Taking charge in Anatomy Park, doing heroic acts for a fantasy village, saving Rick from Evil Rick, helping Unity with the planet they've taken over, helping to save the Earth from the Cromulons, not stopping Rick from leaving for the good of the family, and trying to help the Vindicators and Rick. Chaotic Good (5): Lying to Morty Jr. for his own health, covering for Rick's actions for the party, freeing Fart then killing him for the sake of the universe, mutilating Ethan for breaking Summer's heart, and abandoning Rick with his family out of fear of him. Lawful Neutral (1): Abandoning his family to avoid fusing back with his toxic self. True Neutral (Starting alignment) (8): Getting dragged into adventures four times, expressing denial that Tiny Rick taking over regular Rick is a bad thing until he's forced to do something about it, expressing his opinions on Interdimensional Cable, getting dragged into therapy, and realizing he should go on a middle of the road path. Chaotic Neutral (3): Killing a bunch of people on the Mad Max planet in a mix of catharsis and assisting the arm that's controlling him, giving up on his dreams for his Netflix movie, and getting jealous of a dragon for bonding better with Rick than himself. Lawful or Neutral Evil: None. Chaotic Evil (3): Drugging Jessica into loving him, killing a bunch of people on the Purge Planet, and shooting Rick out of frustration.

I mean in relation to the Teenyverse, he doesnt destroy the Teenyverse, he uses the threat of its destruction to ensure that the intelligent Character inside who had worked it all out and had attempted to kill Rick, in check, aslong as the battery continues to work, the universe is safe. However what Rick did do however was create the Teenyverse to begin with. So Chaotic Neutral.

I'm going to have to go with Rick as chaotic neutral.

Doing a bad thing for a good reason is still a bad thing lying to and emotionally traumatizing his son is a bad thing lawful evil.

Ethan did nothing wrong, summer just said he was dating someone else because she "has massive boobs" everything in the episode happened because of how she felt and perceived the issue and she alone messed with the device that altered her again Ethan had no input there. chaotic evil from morty for torturing ethan

Tormenting the teenager by morty. I would say lawful evil., not chaotic good The torment is evil, the loyalty towards family is lawful.

Waiting to see the later seasons update

So I was wondering if you could so an alignment for Sora from Kingdom Hearts. You have him as Neutral Good, and I'm curious as to your reasoning behind this.

So, Shrek is the base of this whole series, lol

Please make a video on John Wick’s alignment. That would be epic.

He pretty much enslaved a universe to power his ship. And that is just one evil act.

If Rick isn't evil, then it becomes hard to say that anyone's evil.

Season 4 was a Nat 1 for me.

Really I think the cronenberg in episode one is morty's fault. Rick even warns him of the danger and he still does it, a lot of the neutral calls that were for self interest

The second half of season 4 is coming out in 2 days from now, this vid is going to be outdated very soon, so I guess that was the plan?

You really need to do Loki from the mcu

morty was not in control of his arm in that episode

Trinston was here

12:07 nah man, that was Chaotic Neutral at best. That's assuming that's NOT the same summer from 2 episodes ago. Morty ACTUALLY did this because ethan ruined morty's day off from rick. Chaotic Evil

If you ever get to Iron man that will be a hell of alot of material, he changed alot between Iron Man 1 and Endgame.

Plz do Summer, Beth and Jerry!

Can we see some Danmachi characters? a few have really interesting arcs even in season 1

Umm, gonna really have to question torturing a teenager and disfiguring him because he hurts your sister's feelings. If that's a "good" act, then Hitler committing genocide is a "good" act, because he had an issue with all the people he murdered and thus that allows him to do as he pleases. It's really not a good argument that having your feelings hurt or acting in the place of someone who got their feelings hurt is a justification for permanently harming someone.

Netflix's The Punisher could be interesting.

Trying to work out the characters on the alignment chart. Captain America, Goku, Ash/Satoshi ? ,?, ? Dart Vader ,?, ?

ok this ending I'm more ok with rick IS NOT GOOD! but chaotic neutural. that sounds more accurate to me. as for morty I"m kinda surprised he didn't start off as lawful neutural, lawful good, neutural good but he ultimatly ended up where I expected him to.

Rick: True Neutral Morty: Chaotic Neutral/Good Jerry: Lawful Neutral Summer: Chaotic Neutral/Good Beth: Chaotic Neutral (Just Neutral) Mr. Poopbutthole: Neutral Good Evil Morty: Chaotic Evil Tammy: Chaotic Evil Bird-Person: Neutral Good Phoenix-Person: Neutral Evil

Please do Zuko from Avatar. He is by far the best choice from Avatar cause he is the only character who really changes alignment throughout the series.

can we look at the Alignment of Vegeta?

How 'bout Neflix's Daredevil?

can you make this about Overlord characters?

spoiler alert Morty is not from C137, that is a misconception and designation he gave himself based on what he heard rick referred to himself and having up to that point thought that he and his rick were from the same universe originally.

You should do vegeta some time

So, if you are neutral good and do a true neutral act, you get the same alignment shift as if you were doing a neutral evil act. Did I get that right?

Video starts at 3:39

Before watching my geuss for rick is chaotic evil or neutral and morty true neutral

He literally has stated that he was dead centure on the alignment chart.

I'm confused i thought Rick's alignment video already came out?

What alignment is Judy Hopps from Zootopia?

Season 4

there not evil there dysfunctional

6:24 Holy shit. This series is WEIRD.

I don't do this frequently, but I am downvoting this. I will change my vote if my mind is changed. Reasoning (and willing to debate) below. Yes, original Brolly had his (severe) short comings. However, DB Super Brolly was a nerfed version and an attempt to turn a psychotic mass murdering sadist who killed for fun (in other words, a SAIYAN) into a sympathetic antagonist rather than a villain. Frankly, this choice sickens me. This narrative decision robs the character of his previous status and menace. The Saiyan race is constantly hailed as a warrior race, seeking out battle for it's own sake. Original Brolly was all of that, and as the immensely powerful Legendary Super Saiyan, his power gifted by fluke genetics from birth and not earned, he would have been difficult to control, let alone raise, as a child more powerful than his father. I understand the dynamics of original Brolly and appreciate him more as an over powered villain barely controlled by a psychic dampener that his father uses to try to keep his impossibly dangerous son in a lobotomized state, without completely neutering Brolly's ability to wreak mass murder. New Brolly is basically Goku without the raising of Grandpa Gohan, more power, and a helpless damsel to get all worked up over the death of (his father, in the same way you hated the Deadpool 2 movie plot, yet you are fine with this?). DB Super Brolly is shown as far less powerful than his original version as well, detracting from him being perceived as this all powerful Saiyan warrior. The scars his new version has show him as vulnerable to harm, his power levels are shown lower, and the destruction caused by his attacks is significantly lower and more confined in area. Oh, he is nuking a glacier with these blasts, but original Brolly caused planet wide earthquakes when he used Goku's midsection as a trampoline. He blew up a habitable planet with what seemed to be an ordinary blast intended to kill a couple dozen nobodies. He toyed with four Super Saiyans and fused Piccolo with ease and was in full control the entire time.He survived Freiza blowing up Vegeta, a planet with ten times the gravity and presumably mass, as the Earth. He destroyed a freaking GALAXY unopposed. He was a cosmic level threat. New Brolly tries to recapture the menace and claims the power, but the only claim he gets to make to it is that he fights Golden Freiza off screen and takes on two Super Saiyan Blues. Given the way the Buu saga was handled and everyone freaking out about Kid Buu creating a death ball that was "enough to blow up the planet ten times," I feel like the series realized the problem of it's own power creep and over corrected by backsliding the abilities of the characters into Saiyan saga levels, as even Freiza had proven himself more powerful than that. In the end, I enjoyed the original Brollu BECAUSE he was a chaotic evil monster without an effort to humanize him or make him relatable. He was drunk on his own power and had lived his life unequaled and unchallenged. A spoiled child who COULDN'T be told no. He was anathema to Goku. Yes, the writing and story were bad, but the CHARACTER was there. You just didn't like WHAT he was. New Brolly lost ALL of that. He is Brolly in name only. Original Brolly was in full control at his most powerful while the new version was only powerful when lost in a rage.

Rick is hands down chaotic evil and so is Morty. Episode where he gets gem that tells him about death? He mutilates and kills innocent people.

It's still disproportonate dings

Dude you literally missed like two episodes

Is that a Sans one I see in that google sheet? 😮