History Recap / RickAndMortyS5E10RickamuraiJack

** 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.

->'''Morty''': Whoa… Dead wife? \\

->'''Morty''': Whoa... Dead wife? \\

*** Right before he departs to beyond the Central Finite Curve, Evil Morty re-dons the eyepatch he wore throughout "Close Rick-Counters."

* RegionalRiff: A Japanese string instrument plays during Rick's adventures as Crow Rick.

** Evil Morty goes into a MotiveRant, pondering the question of WhatIsEvil, during which he concludes that he is being labeled as "evil", simply because he is fed up with Rick's behavior and wants to get away from him. All the while, he never acknowledges any of the suffering and death he callously and often needlessly has inflicted upon both numerous Ricks and fellow Mortys.

** Evil Morty goes into a MotiveRant, pondering the question of WhatIsEvil, during which he concludes that he is being labeled as "evil", simply because he is fed up with Rick's behavior and wants to get away from him. All the while, he never acknowledges any of the suffering and death he callously and often needlessly has inflicted upon both numerous Ricks and fellow Mortys. Though, due to the reveal of numerous psychotic and messed-up Ricks in the Curve, it could be suggesting that any actions he takes that seem "evil" is something that a Rick can and probably ''has'' done at some point, so any form of demonising him compared to Rick is just hypocrisy.

* CardCarryingVillain: Played with. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series is the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances just like he said the Ricks do. That might seem hypocritical of him, but it's actually an inversion; it's hypocritical of ''Rick and Morty'' to call him Evil when Ricks have done the same actions as him for their own reasons. The only reason they are considered favourable or defended really is ProtagonistCenteredMorality on the fact that their Ricks.

* CardCarryingVillain: Played with. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series is the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances ([[{{Hypocrite}} just like he said the Ricks do]]).

** Evil Morty being "evil" stems from his Rick's ego and putting up with it. Like with Rick, though (see below), the excuse is downplayed/doesn't entirely hold up because, despite manipulating the Citadel's system to become president and knowing how Mortys in general are victims of it, he decides to just leave it all behind and ''kill'' all of the Mortys of the Citadel along with the Ricks.

** Evil Morty calls Rick out on this when Rick denies any responsibility for the behavior of his alternate selves. Evil Morty states that all off them use that excuse to pretend that they aren't collectively responsible for enabling each other's misanthropy. Gets {{downplayed|Trope}} in that, while that argument works for ''most'' Ricks, Rick C-137 goes out of his way to ''avoid'' other Ricks and couldn't care less what they do so long as they leave him alone.
** Evil Morty goes into a MotiveRant, pondering the question of WhatIsEvil, during which he concludes that he is being labeled as "evil", simply because he is fed up with Rick's behavior and wants to get away from him. All the while, he never acknowledges any of the suffering and death he callously and often needlessly has inflicted upon both numerous Ricks and fellow Mortys.

* NotSoSimilar: Despite the above, 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 Morty C-137 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.

** A ''lot'' of what Evil Morty says becomes questionable due to certain contradictions, such as claiming Rick C-137 ''created'' the Citadel, whereas the flashback Morty saw of Rick's past showed he, at best, helped in making the ''concept'' before bailing on it while the Council finished it, not helped by Evil Morty openly admitting to lying about certain things, making it hard to trust the validity of ''anything'' he said and whether or not he's just lying to further his goals and potentially turn Morty against Rick, which would make it less likely either of them would survive his plot.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Morty having used the aging serum on himself to attempt to guilt Rick into returning is ultimately responsible for all the disaster that occurs in the rest of the episode. They have to return to the Citadel to de-age him, and once they're there, Evil Morty is able to gain access to the memory scan he took from Rick in Season 1, allowing him to kick-start his plans, while also preventing them from escaping the way they arrived via hijacking Rick's portal gun.

* WhatIsEvil: Evil Morty claims the reason he is called "evil" is because Ricks function on ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and as such, anything that goes against them is considered "evil". He says he's just a Morty who got fed up with his Rick, and that ''any'' Morty can become "Evil Morty" the moment they get fed up with their Ricks too. His speech gets undermined, though, due to the fact he's not "evil" because he opposes Rick, he's "evil" because he is no better than the Ricks if not ''worse'' due to going out of his way to be as callous as possible to both Ricks ''and'' Mortys, while also being willing to screw everyone and everything over for ''his'' goals.

*** There's more to that: the Citadel was established as a truce between C-137 and the other Ricks. As mentioned before, C-137 already went on a Rick-killing spree once, and he was called in because more Ricks were being murmured. They weren't shocked by his decrying of the Citadel, he was never a supporter (hell, the whole thing started because he didn't want to join), they were afraid that he was ending the truce.

** This episode confirms that C-137 Rick was picking up science when Beth was just a child, she died shortly after and he only saw her again once she was already grown up and with family. Although the level he reached might not have been the same shown in "The Rickshank Redemption", we are shown that it took at least some time after her death to discover the portal technology. However, "The [=ABCs=] of Beth" established that C-137 Rick had enough scientific ability to create and move between dimensions when Beth was still a child and that he was already deep enough in his scientific experiments that Beth asked him for all sorts of weapons and machinery. Even assuming the alternate Rick developed differently enough to do all that, Rick had no way to know it, having had a radically different experience with his daughter. The callous way he describes creating an alternate dimension just to have some quiet also conflicts with Rick refusing to join the proto-citadel to be simply a family man. Though, it's firmly established that Rick has the technology to see people's memories, so he may have just scanned Beth's or another Rick's mind to get his story straight, and since Rick has made other references to abandoning Beth when he didn't actually do so, it seems likely that he's just putting on this facade to hide that his own Beth died a long time ago. Why would he chose to be so callous instead of building a healthy relationship with Beth, however, it's anyone's guess.

** This episode confirms that C-137 Rick was picking up science when Beth was just a child, she died shortly after and he only saw her again once she was already grown up and with family. Although the level he reached might not have been the same shown in "The Rickshank Redemption", we are shown that it took at least some time after her death to discover the portal technology. However, "The [=ABCs=] of Beth" established that C-137 Rick had enough scientific ability to create and move between dimensions when Beth was still a child and that he was already deep enough in his scientific experiments that Beth asked him for all sorts of weapons and machinery. Even assuming the alternate Rick developed differently enough to do all that, Rick had no way to know it, having had a radically different experience with his daughter. The callous way he describes creating an alternate dimension just to have some quiet also conflicts with Rick refusing to join the proto-citadel to be simply a family man. Though, it's firmly established that Rick has the technology to see people's memories, so he may have just scanned Beth's or another Rick's mind to get his story straight, and since Rick has made other references to abandoning Beth when he didn't actually do so, it seems likely that he's just putting on this facade to hide that his own Beth died a long time ago.

** Rick’s entire backstory is revealed, and it ultimately confirms what we saw in "The Rickshank Rickdemption". To elaborate: "a Rick" killed Rick C-137's wife and daughter, so he went on an anti-Rick killing spree until he established the incarnation of the Citadel we first saw, then left to rejoin a version of Beth that had been abandoned by a Rick.
* WhatIsEvil: Evil Morty claims the reason he is called "evil" is because Rick's function on ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and as such anything that goes against them is considered "evil". He says he's just a Morty who got fed up with his Rick, and that ''any'' Morty can become "Evil Morty" the moment they get fed up with their Ricks too. His speech gets undermined though due to the fact he's not "evil" because he opposes Rick, he's "evil" because he is no better than the Ricks if not ''worse'' due to going out of his way to be as callous as possible to both Rick's ''and'' Morty's, while also being willing to screw everyone and everything over for ''his'' goals.
* WhatTheHellHero: After Evil Morty reveals to Morty C-137 about how Mortys are literally bred and cloned countless times to have an infinite supply available for Ricks, Morty gives an angry "What the ''fuck''?!" and demands to know from Rick if this is true. Rick tries to claim it's more complicated than that, causing both Mortys to retort in unison with "Liar", and then just avoids answering the question in favor of breaking out of his restraints and escaping. He later does, however, remind Morty that he's not personally responsible for the actions of every Rick in the multiverse, something that Evil Morty disagrees with since not only is C-137 responsible for building the Citadel in the first place, but because literally ''every Rick'' uses that line and the idea that they're the Underdog to justify every horrible act they do.

* CardCarryingVillain: PlayedWith. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series is the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances just like he said the Ricks do. That might seem hypocritical of him, but it's actually an inversion; it's hypocritical of ''Rick and Morty'' to call him Evil when Ricks have done the same actions as him for their own reasons. The only reason they are considered favourable or defended really is ProtagonistCenteredMorality on the fact that their Ricks.

** Evil Morty being "evil" stems from his Rick's ego and putting up with it. Like with Rick, though (see below), the excuse is downplayed/doesn't entirely hold up because, despite manipulating the Citadel's system to become president and knowing how Mortys in general are victims of it, he decides to just leave it all behind and ''kill'' all of the Mortys of the Citadel along with the Ricks because Mortys are unwitting enablers of Ricks that will almost always take their side.

* MeaningfulEcho: Of the previous episode, in which Rick's two crows had become enhanced and had the opportunity to kill him, with Rick fully acknowledging they have every reason to do so, but instead decided to side with and rescue him, impressing him with how empathetic crows are. In the climax of this episode, Evil Morty offers Morty a chance to come with him through the Curve and escape the Citadel[[note]](he's actually lying, but Morty doesn't know this)[[/note]], and Rick again admits it's the most rational decision. Morty, too, chooses to save and stand by Rick, leaving him sincerely touched.

** Beth and Jerry are in a library facing opposite bookshelves; a Rick reaches through a portal to tap Beth on the shoulder to make her turn around, see Jerry, and think it was he who tapped her.

** Evil Morty calls Rick out on this when Rick denies any responsibility for the behavior of his alternate selves. Evil Morty states that all off them use that excuse to pretend that they aren't collectively responsible for enabling each other's misanthropy. Gets PlayedWith in that, while that argument works for ''most'' Ricks, Rick C-137 goes out of his way to avoid other Ricks and couldn't care less what they do so long as they leave him alone.
*** Yet at the same time, Rick C-137 is also responsible for the creation of the Citadel and (possibly)helped make the Central Finite Curve, and knew of all the messed-up things the other Ricks did and do but chose not to do anything about it, which is BystanderSyndrome, and essentially enabling the other Ricks and allowing them to all the evil that they do and claiming that it not his problem.
** Evil Morty goes into a MotiveRant, pondering the question of WhatIsEvil, during which he concludes that he is being labeled as "evil", simply because he is fed up with Rick's behavior and wants to get away from him. All the while, he never acknowledges any of the suffering and death he callously and often needlessly has inflicted upon both numerous Ricks and fellow Mortys. Though, due to the reveal of numerous psychotic and messed-up Ricks in the Curve, it could be suggesting that any actions he takes that seem "evil" is something that a Rick can and probably ''has'' done at some point, so any form of demonising him compared to Rick is just hypocrisy.

* NotSoSimilar: Despite the above, 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 Morty C-137 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. Though it suggested that it's actually a case of NotSoDifferent with Evil Morty and ''Rick''.

* PopGoesTheHuman: The owl soldier early one burst into pieces after numerous crows swarm [[OrificeInvasion through his mouth]] into his belly.

** A ''lot'' of what Evil Morty says becomes questionable due to certain contradictions, not helped by Evil Morty openly admitting to lying about certain things, making it hard to trust the validity of ''anything'' he said and whether or not he's just lying to further his goals and potentially turn Morty against Rick, which would make it less likely either of them would survive his plot.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Morty having used the aging serum on himself to attempt to guilt Rick into returning is ultimately responsible for all the disaster that occurs in the rest of the episode. They have to return to the Citadel to de-age him, and once they're there, Evil Morty is able to finish the memory scan he did on Rick in Season 1, allowing him to kick-start his plans, while also preventing them from escaping the way they arrived via hijacking Rick's portal gun.

* WhatIsEvil: Evil Morty claims the reason he is called "evil" is because Rick's function on ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and as such anything that goes against them is considered "evil". He says he's just a Morty who got fed up with his Rick, and that ''any'' Morty can become "Evil Morty" the moment they get fed up with their Ricks too. Although his speech might seem to be undermined by his actions making him no better than the Ricks due to going out of his way to be as callous as possible to both Rick's ''and'' Morty's, while also being willing to screw everyone and everything over for ''his'' goals, this just shows that it is impossible to label him "evil" and a Rick "good" if they have both done horrible, evil, fucked-up things to achieve their goals. And any callous actions on Evil Morty's part is countered by any evil actions any Ricks have done for their own amusment.

* CardCarryingVillain: PlayedWith. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series is the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances ([[{{Hypocrite}} just like he said the Ricks do]]).

* CardCarryingVillain: Played with. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series is the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances ([[{{Hypocrite}} just like he said the Ricks do]]).

** Evil Morty calls Rick out on this when Rick denies any responsibility for the behavior of his alternate selves. Evil Morty states that all off them use that excuse to pretend that they aren't collectively responsible for enabling each other's misanthropy. Gets {{playedwith|Trope}} in that, while that argument works for ''most'' Ricks, Rick C-137 goes out of his way to avoid other Ricks and couldn't care less what they do so long as they leave him alone.

** Evil Morty being "evil" stems from his Rick's ego and putting up with it. Like with Rick, though (see below), the excuse is downplayed/doesn't entirely hold up because, despite manipulating the Citadel's system to become president and knowing how Mortys in general are victims of it, he decides to just leave it all behind and ''kill'' all of the Mortys of the Citadel along with the Ricks.

** Evil Morty calls Rick out on this when Rick denies any responsibility for the behavior of his alternate selves. Evil Morty states that all off them use that excuse to pretend that they aren't collectively responsible for enabling each other's misanthropy. Gets {{downplayed|Trope}} in that, while that argument works for ''most'' Ricks, Rick C-137 goes out of his way to ''avoid'' other Ricks and couldn't care less what they do so long as they leave him alone.
** Evil Morty goes into a MotiveRant, pondering the question of WhatIsEvil, during which he concludes that he is being labeled as "evil", simply because he is fed up with Rick's behavior and wants to get away from him. All the while, he never acknowledges any of the suffering and death he callously and often needlessly has inflicted upon both numerous Ricks and fellow Mortys.

* NotSoSimilar: Despite the above, 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 Morty C-137 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.

** A ''lot'' of what Evil Morty says becomes questionable due to certain contradictions, such as claiming Rick C-137 ''created'' the Citadel, whereas the flashback Morty saw of Rick's past showed he, at best, helped in making the ''concept'' before bailing on it while the Council finished it, not helped by Evil Morty openly admitting to lying about certain things, making it hard to trust the validity of ''anything'' he said and whether or not he's just lying to further his goals and potentially turn Morty against Rick, which would make it less likely either of them would survive his plot.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Morty having used the aging serum on himself to attempt to guilt Rick into returning is ultimately responsible for all the disaster that occurs in the rest of the episode. They have to return to the Citadel to de-age him, and once they're there, Evil Morty is able to gain access to the memory scan he took from Rick in Season 1, allowing him to kick-start his plans, while also preventing them from escaping the way they arrived via hijacking Rick's portal gun.

* WhatIsEvil: Evil Morty claims the reason he is called "evil" is because Rick's function on ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and as such anything that goes against them is considered "evil". He says he's just a Morty who got fed up with his Rick, and that ''any'' Morty can become "Evil Morty" the moment they get fed up with their Ricks too. His speech gets undermined though due to the fact he's not "evil" because he opposes Rick, he's "evil" because he is no better than the Ricks if not ''worse'' due to going out of his way to be as callous as possible to both Rick's ''and'' Morty's, while also being willing to screw everyone and everything over for ''his'' goals.

* CardCarryingVillain: Played with. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series to be the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances ([[{{Hypocrite}} just like he said the Ricks do]]).

** This continues as Rick and Morty are escaping, just giving a flat, sarcastic "Uh oh" when Rick breaks free of his bonds and shoots at him (since Evil Morty has a force field activated that blocks the shot), gives a satisfied chuckle when he figures out that Evil Morty was the one who hacked his portal gun in the past and has done so again, and isn't at all concerned when Rick steals the memory scan back from him, probably because he already has what he needs anyway.

* 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 C-137 was born and raised by his original parents, or if he is in fact a clone of the original C-137. The episode does not answer this.

* 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 it's 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.

** When Evil Morty exposits on the Central Finite Curve, we see unique universes as well as universes that depict previous episodes, namely "Auto Erotic Assimilation", "The Old Man and the Seat", and "Mort Dinner Rick Andre."

* CardCarryingVillain: Played with. Evil Morty gleefully accepts and acknowledges his title, and doesn't really try to defend his actions. However, he seems convinced that the ProtagonistCenteredMorality of the series to be the ''only'' reason he is considered evil, and doesn't actually take responsibility for his actions, deflecting the blame to the circumstances ([[NotSoDifferent just like the Ricks do]]).

* OnceMoreWithClarity: While Rick's backstory from "The Rickshank Redemption" was true, it didn't exactly happen as Rick had shown the Federation. In the fake version, there were multiple other Ricks who came to visit Rick C-137 to offer him the portal technology, and he was acting laid-back and indifferent when he rejected their offer; here we see only one alternate Rick visiting, and our Rick acting openly annoyed and suspicious towards him and giving 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.

** Numerous references are made to "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind" once Rick and Morty learn that President Morty is actually Evil Morty from that episode, up to and including a BreakingTheFourthWall moment where a Stan Lee-esque Rick directly advises viewers to watch this episode for context:

* BreakingTheFourthWall: 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.

* ResetButton: Rick left at the end of the previous episode after having apparently understood how abusive he was, and was planning on trying to learn to do better. Within the first few minutes of the episode, he and the crows end their partnership, and he returns home, gets back together with Morty, and seems like he'll go back to being the usual Rick. Adult Morty even lampshades the trope by suggesting to "hit the reset button".

* ResetButton: Discussed. Adult Morty suggests "hitting the reset button" when referring to him and Rick going back to being a team.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Rick left at the end of the previous episode after having apparently understood how abusive he was, and was planning on trying to learn to do better. Within the first few minutes of the episode, he and the crows end their partnership, and he returns home, gets back together with Morty, and seems like he'll go back to being the usual Rick.

* VillainBall: Played with. Evil Morty could have kept scanning Rick's brain during dinner and would have got away with it, and waited until Rick used his portal gun to leave, in which he would have accidentally killed himself and Morty. 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). That said, this does nothing to hinder Evil Morty's plan, but he didn't succeed in killing the C-137 duo.

** Rick wants to get away from the citadel since it "runs on canon", and so an adventure there would have actual repercussions and not be just an episode. He is proven right in a major way.

** After Rick and Morty learn this, Rick frees them, and they prepare to leave, Evil Morty tells his Rick henchmen that they're free to go, but takes a parting shot at them that leaves Rick suspicious. After confirming with his Morty that he got the portal fluid-refill from the Citadel, he shoves one of the Rick guards into the portal to test it, the latter is immediately ripped apart, proving that Evil Morty never intended to leave them alive. Rick then puts together that the only person who managed to hack his portal gun was Evil Rick, and since Rick saw him be beaten to death, that means that Evil Morty was the one to have hacked his portal gun.

** A ''lot'' of what Evil Morty says becomes questionable due to certain contradictions, such as claiming Rick C-137 ''created'' the Citadel, whereas the flashback Morty saw of Rick's past showed he, at best, helped in making the ''concept'' before bailing on it while the Council finished it, not helped by Evil Morty openly admitting to lying about certain things, making it hard to trust the validity of ''anything'' he said and whether or not he's just lying to further his goals

* VillainBall: Played with. Evil Morty could have kept scanning Rick's brain during dinner and would have got away with it, and waited until Rick used his portal gun to leave and killed himself. Instead, he shows his true colours, which leads Rick and Morty not only to survive but also to save a few additional Mortys (and possibly Ricks). That said, this does nothing to hinder Evil Morty's plan, but he didn't succeed in killing the C-137 duo.

* WhatIsEvil: Evil Morty claims the reason he is called "Evil" is because Rick's function on ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and as such anything that goes against them is considered "Evil". He says he's just a Morty who got fed up with his Rick, and that ''any'' Morty can become "Evil Morty" the moment they get fed up with their Ricks too. His speech gets undermined though due to the fact he's not "Evil" because he opposes Rick, he's "Evil" because he is no better than the Ricks if not ''worse'' due to going out of his way to be as callous as possible to both Rick's ''and'' Morty's, while also being willing to screw everyone and everything over for ''his'' goals.