History Recap / RickAndMortyS5E10RickamuraiJack

** Likewise, the display of the Central Finite Curve is colored gold.

** Rick C-137 was never able to find the Rick that murdered his wife and daughter.

** The "Central Finite Curve" that most Ricks originate from is actually a walled-off section of the multiverse where the Ricks are the smartest living being in every universe. Evil Morty was interested in Rick C-137 to gain information from him about how to open access to it; his plan is to destroy it and escape from it to a part of the multiverse where Rick either doesn't exist or at least is no longer the god-like smartest being in it, and he intends to burn the Citadel down on his way out and kill all the Ricks and Mortys there.

** When looking back at "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", it becomes clear that the reason Rick C-137 was the prime suspect in Evil Morty's Rick-murder spree was because of his earlier RoaringRampageOfRevenge against many alternate Ricks.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given by Evil Morty to Rick and Morty about Rick.

** Evil Morty's plan has been to escape the corner of the multiverse where Rick is the smartest man in every universe. He succeeds and is revealed to have his own unique yellow-colored portal tech, which he uses to explore the now-opened Multiverse.

* AmbiguousSituation: With the revelation that the Citadel of Ricks have been cloning Mortys to meet their high demand, this brings up the question of whether Morty we know all this time was born and raised by his original parents, or if he is in fact a clone of the original one. The episode does not answer this, but give a couple hints towards the latter.

* TheBadGuyWins: Evil Morty accomplishes his main goal of escaping to a new multiverse where Rick is not the smartest man, all while destroying the Citadel, and is shown to be totally satisfied in having done so. The only aspect of his plan that goes awry is that the main Rick and Morty, as well as numerous other Mortys, survive the wormhole created with the Central Finite Curve's destruction, where Evil Morty clearly intended for all of them to die.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Rick is right that it's impossible for him to be responsible for every alternate-reality version of him and all the atrocities they've committed, and that he was against the creation of the Citadel and its Morty-market, Evil Morty is right that virtually literally every Rick in the Central Finite Curve use their troubled pasts as a justification to blow off responsibility for anything altogether.

-->'''Morty''': And what are you doing about [Ricks' exploitation of Mortys]?
-->'''Evil Morty''': Jack shit. I'm leaving.
* BuffySpeak: After Rick and Morty escape from him, Evil Morty makes a brief ominous monologue about how tonight, his plan (to deactivate the Central Finite Curve) will be complete...except that he phrases it as such:

* CharacterDevelopment: ZigZaggedTrope. Initially Rick seemed to be making good on his development, engaged in a seemingly endless conflict with Crow Scare and rebuking Morty calling it "pointless", and refusing to return to Morty after reiterating how unhealthy their relationship is. After he finds out Two Crows were cheating on him with Crow Scare though, he returns home and [[StatusQuoIsGod returns to his usual self]], [[AesopAmnesia completely forgetting everything he learned]]. With that said, when Evil Morty gives him a HannibalLecture after Morty reviews Rick's memories, Rick at least refused to leave Morty behind and even urged him to save himself.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Rick and Morty manage to escape from Evil Morty's attempt to kill them, but are left stranded in Mortyburg with no obvious means of returning home, Rick's portal gun having been rendered useless and discarded. Evil Morty has also succeeded in his plan to destroy the Central Finite Curve and murder countless other Ricks and Mortys to do so, and escaped into another dimension outside of the Curve.

* CrazyPrepared: Evil Morty sabotages nearly every possible escape route the Ricks might employ. All the portal fluid reroutes to hostile universes, the main source of portal fluid is shunted to Evil Morty's device, and "Operation Phoenix" is rerouted to tubes with blenders in them. Their Mortys don't fare much better. He also remains consistently prepared for any of Rick C-137's attempts to attack him.

** When Morty meets up with Rick during the latter's adventures with the two crows, he is now 40 years old, and claims to Rick that Jerry died of cancer and Summer is married to a junkie, giving the impression that Rick has been away from the family for decades. Viewers, however, will probably notice that Rick doesn't seem to have aged at all, let alone 26 years, and when Rick returns to the Smith family after his break-up with the crows, it's revealed that not much time has passed at all, and Morty just aged himself up to guilt-trip Rick into coming back.
*** However, this could be a reference to the fifth season of WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack, where Jack has been roaming the earth for fifty years without aging a day since he arrived in the future.

** Likewise, the Central Finite Curve is colored gold... and Evil Morty destroys it.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: The Central Finite Curve itself is the "Tiny Pond" for TheMultiverse: one that had been tailor-made by all of the Ricks in order to separate them from the other Universes where Rick ''isn't'' "The Smartest Man" living there.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Not only does Morty now know that he wasn't Rick's original Morty - because Rick's original Beth died as a child - the episode ends with the Citadel destroyed for good, with the only survivors being Rick C-137 and Morty, the Mortys that came with them, and any Ricks and Mortys already in Mortyburg when Rick detached that section of Citadel. Rick's sabotaged portal gun is useless for now, and with the Central Finite Curve destroyed, the rest of the multiverse is open as Evil Morty leaves with his golden portal gun.

* ObviousRulePatch A random Rick and Morty pair (with afros) decide to kill themselves [[LoopholeAbuse so Operation Phoenix can reincarnate them in their lab back home and allow them to escape.]] Unfortunately for them, Evil Morty thought of this too, and in addition to hacking all of the portals, has also hacked Project Phoenix to reroute into clones on the Citadel, who, upon being activated, are promptly blended to shreds and used to power his machinery to destroy the Central Finite Curve.

* PetTheDog: Rick and Morty help evacuate the deformed Mortys and save a handful of them from the Citadel's destruction. It seems Evil Morty's HannibalLecture about Ricks not caring about Mortys helped open Rick's eyes.

* NotSoSimilar: Despite trying to pull a NotSoDifferentRemark, Evil Morty, thanks to being TheSociopath with a massive LackOfEmpathy, doesn't seem to understand that what ''truly'' makes him "evil" is how he has tortured and/or murdered a multitude of Ricks ''and'' fellow Mortys without batting an eye, sometimes to the point of major overkill and even when it wasn't necessary for his plans. By contrast, though our Morty has gotten incredibly fed up with Rick to the point of being willing to kill him or let him die, he has otherwise only been complicit in the deaths of Ricks who were trying to kill him or his family, and has never knowingly gotten involved with hurting other Mortys, even showing horror when he has inadvertently done so.

* ManipulativeBastard: It is revealed that the Ricks of the Central Finite Curve have done this to gain a near unlimited supply of Mortys for themselves. They have manipulated the Beths and Jerrys of various dimensions into meeting and falling in love with each other so they will eventually give birth to Morty (and Summer too to an extent). They also steal the genetic material of each Morty so they can clone them in large masses, and instantly replace one if they are killed.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: PlayedForLaughs. When Morty is de-aged from 40 to 14, the years that were taken off get compressed into a 26-year-old version of him. This older Morty exists for less than a minute before he's killed by two cop Mortys for interfering in police matters.

* GoldColoredSuperiority: All of the portal guns that we've seen in the series thus far, which were built by Ricks, use green portals and fluid. When Evil Morty escapes to a new universe beyond the Central Finite Curve and utilizes his own portal gun, the portal and fluid are instead gold.

* AmbiguousSituation: With the revelation that the Citadel of Ricks have been cloning Mortys to meet their high demand, this brings up the question of whether Morty we know all this time was born and raised by his original parents, or if he is in fact a clone of the original one. The episode does not answer this, but give a couple hints to the latter.

** Rick and Morty return to the Citadel of Ricks for the first time since "The Rickshank Redemption", and discover that a Morty (whom, as they eventually learn, is Evil Morty) was elected President, which occurred in "The Ricklantis Mixup". We also see some of the changes that have been enacted since then, such as there being many more Mortys on the Citadel's police force (and they have different uniforms).

** The scene of Rick crashing into the garage and running into Beth seems to be set in the same dimension as, and not much earlier than, the events of the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E1Pilot pilot]], yet the crack around the house from "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E11RicksyBusiness Ricksy Business]]" is there. It's likely an example of OffModel.

* ManipulativeBastard: It is revealed that the Ricks of the Central Finite Curve have done this to gain a near unlimited supply of Mortys.

* LightIsNotGood: President Morty has switched to wearing a white shirt with a turquoise tie. He is, of course, actually Evil Morty, and switches to black once he begins his plan.s for themselves. They have manipulated the Beths and Jerrys of various dimensions into meeting and falling in love with each other so they will eventually give birth to Morty (and Summer too to an extent). They also steal the genetic material of each Morty so they can clone them in large masses, and instantly replace one if they are killed.

* LightIsNotGood: President Morty has switched to wearing a white shirt with a turquoise tie. He is, of course, actually Evil Morty, and switches to black once he begins his plan.
* LoopholeAbuse: Defied. A random Rick and Morty pair (with afros) decide to kill themselves so Operation Phoenix can reincarnate them in their lab back home and allow them to escape. Unfortunately for them, Evil Morty thought of this too, and in addition to hacking all of the portals, has also hacked Project Phoenix to reroute into clones on the Citadel, who, upon being activated, are promptly blended to shreds and used to power his machinery to destroy the Central Finite Curve.
* ManipulativeBastard: It is revealed that the Ricks of the Central Finite Curve have done this to gain a near unlimited supply of Mortys for themselves. They have manipulated the Beths and Jerrys of various dimensions into meeting and falling in love with each other so they will eventually give birth to Morty (and Summer too to an extent). They also steal the genetic material of each Morty so they can clone them in large masses, and instantly replace one if they are killed.

* MediumAwareness: Plenty, thanks to this being a [[ContinuityCavalcade continuity-heavy episode]], mostly from Rick but also a bit from Morty and Evil Morty too. References include this being called "a Citadel episode", noting that the Citadel "runs on canon", and mentioning that Rick hates "serialized drama" and wants to "keep it episodic".

* VillainBall: Played with. Evil Morty had no reason to reveal his plans to Rick, and could have simply allowed him to leave peacefully without a hint that his sabotaged portal gun would blend him into soup. Instead, he shows his true colors, which allows Rick and Morty to escape and not only to survive all of his attempts to kill them, but also save a few additional Mortys (and possibly Ricks). Evil Morty still succeeds, but he could have taken out Rick and Morty if not for his need to gloat.

** In the brief BreakingTheFourthWall moment, meta-Rick tells fans to check out "Season 1, Episode 9" for context about Evil Rick and Evil Morty. However, said episode was actually "Something Ricked This Way Comes", which had nothing to do with them; the episode he really means is "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", which is episode ''10'' of the first season.[[note]]This mistake was probably because "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind"'s production code is 009 ("Pilot"'s is 000), which the writers might have mistaken for the ninth episode.[[/note]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Evil Morty accomplishes his main goal of escaping to a new multiverse where Rick is not the smartest man, all while destroying the Citadel, and is shown to be totally satisfied in having done so. The only aspect of his plan that goes awry is that C-137 Rick and Morty, as well as numerous other Mortys, survive the wormhole created with the Central Finite Curve's destruction, where Evil Morty clearly intended for all of them to die.

* FalseReassurance: Evil Morty uses this when telling his Rick henchmen to allow C-137 Rick and Morty to leave. Rick quickly becomes suspicious that it's a trap, and confirms this by tossing one of the other Ricks into the portal, which promptly shreds him. From Evil Morty's smirk, it's pretty clear he ''wanted'' Rick to figure it out, and chuckles happily when he does.

* NonActionBigBad: Cunning and CrazyPrepared as he may be, Evil Morty is still a Morty, a 14-year-old boy surrounded by numerous versions of his ass-kicking adult grandfather, and as such, he doesn't even try to physically fight against Rick and Morty C-137, ordering his Rick minions to take care of it instead.

* PopUpTrivia: After Evil Morty reveals his identity to C-137 Rick and Morty and they remember kicking Evil Rick's ass, the screen briefly pauses and goes gray while a Rick modeled after Stan Lee informs the audience that they should watch "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E10CloseRickCountersOfTheRickKind Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind]]"[[note]]though he actually mis-numbers it, referring to it as episode 9 instead of episode 10[[/note]] from Season 1 for the necessary context, adding a "Rickcelsior!", before returning to the show.

* XanatosGambit: Evil Morty was so thorough in his plan, even the survival of C-137 Rick and Morty [[VillainExitStageLeft couldn't stop his escape]]. The latter two had to settle for escaping by the skin of their teeth, without a lick of portal fluid. That's how much of a win Evil Morty scored against them.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: While Rick's backstory from "The Rickshank Redemption" was true, it didn't exactly happen as Rick had shown the Federation. In the version he showed the Federation agent, he was acting laid-back and indifferent when he rejected the other Rick's offer; in reality, Rick acted openly annoyed and suspicious towards the other Rick and gave him a much more firm and emphatic refusal. Then, rather than figuring out the portal gun equation instantly after his wife and daughter's deaths, Rick had gone into a deep depression for an unknown amount of time before eventually figuring out how to make the gun and going off in search of the Rick who had murdered his family.

* ForTheEvulz: Evil Morty's plan is to destroy the Central Finite Curve, a wall separating universes where Ricks are the greatest minds alive from those where they aren't. A result of this is the destruction of the Citadel, which is a wretched and corrupt place even under the far more pragmatic and sensible Evil Morty. But he goes over the line when he ensures that no one will be able to escape at all even though it's not strictly necessary for his plans. However, it may be a case of PragmaticVillainy, since the remains of blended-up Ricks and Mortys being funnelled into his machine seems to suggest that he ''needed'' their remains for his plan.