History YMMV / RickAndMortyS5E10RickamuraiJack

* PlotHole: The episode constantly goes back and forth on how Evil Morty sabotaged Rick's portal gun. First Rick asks Morty if he topped up on portal fluid while he was last on the Citadel, and later their reason for going in the caves under the city was to get untainted fluid. However his and everyone else's portal gun only stops working right when Evil Morty wants it to, and he accuses him of ''hacking'' it, not sabotaging the fluid.

** The episode, and the season, ends with [[{{Cliffhanger}} Rick & Morty stranded in space]] while [[TheBadGuyWins Evil Morty breaks out of the Central Finite Curve]].

** The episode, and the season, ends with [[{{Cliffhanger}} Rick & Morty stranded in space]] while [[TheBadGuyWins Evil Morty breaks out of the Central Finite Curve.]]

* FridgeBrilliance:
** It may seem odd that the special anime intro for "Rick and Two Crows" is only 30 seconds long. That's because it's not a parody of traditional anime intros, which tend to be 90 seconds long, it's a parody of the shortened ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' versions of anime intros!
** Evil Morty's callous murder of the Ricks and Mortys of the Citadel is his final revenge on Ricks in general, and it takes out anyone who could've tracked him down after he escaped.
** Evil Morty calls the Central Finite Curve a crib. That is exactly what it is. A place where Ricks can play with their friends without worrying anything bad is going to happen to them. Rick is the smartest man in any universe he enters, with enough preparation time he can solve any problem and kill anyone. And if he dies? He will just get resurrected in one of the alternative universes where he is also the smartest man thanks to one alternative project Phoenix, as we see in "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat". And if he dies in that universe, he will resurrect in another. This brings another level to Evil Morty's sabotage of Project Phoenix: the first universe every Rick will wake up will be above Evil Morty's blender, every next one is unknown. It might take a long time for other "murdered" Ricks to get home and with the destruction of the Central Finite Curve, it is not a certainty they will wake up in Project Phoenix of a "Rick friendly", if fascistic, world.
** With this episode's revelation, it makes total sense why Rick is so different from the other Ricks of the Citadel -- he ''didn't'' want to be a super-smart scientist, he was forced down that path by other Ricks, and slaughtered untold legions of them trying to find the Rick that killed his family. The Citadel was created out of this chaos and he wanted no part of it, and thus he galvanized his multiversal selves into uniting against him. And then they began manipulating Beths and Jerrys together to create Mortys. The Citadel is a symbol of everything that Rick hates about existence and a reminder of the loss of his family and his failure to avenge him, and he's so bitter and cynical compared to other Ricks because he's the only Rick among them that was forced down this path in life instead of choosing it.
*** It also explains why he hates Jerry -- he's only with Beth because the Citadel made it happen, and Rick knows that on some level, he's responsible for hooking his daughter up with a man like Jerry just for the sake of giving him a sidekick for his adventures. At the same time, it explains why he never tried to kill or remove Jerry outside of season 3: he knows Jerry is just another victim of the Citadel, manipulated down this path, so he doesn't hate Jerry as a person so much as what he represents. Causing the divorce and his ultimate attempt at killing Jerry in season 3 is because Jerry tried to take away the family Rick wished he had. And that's also the reason why Rick stopped interfering with Beth and Jerry after Season 3, they got above the Citadel's influence and got back together of their own volition.
* FridgeHorror: Evil Morty's sabotage of the portal network could mean that any Ricks and Mortys that used their portal guns before the Citadel was destroyed were killed too.

*** It also explains why he hates Jerry -- he's only with Beth because the Citadel made it happen, and Rick knows that on some level, he's responsible for hooking his daughter up with a man like Jerry just for the sake of giving him a sidekick for his adventures. At the same time, it explains why he never tried to kill or remove Jerry outside of season 3: he knows Jerry is just another victim of the Citadel, manipulated down this path, so he doesn't hate Jerry as a person so much as what he represents. Causing the divorce and his ultimate attempt at killing Jerry in season 3 is because Jerry tried to take away the family Rick wished he had.

** It may seem odd that the special anime intro for "Rick and Two Crows" is only 30 seconds long. That's because it's not a parody of traditional anime intros, it's a parody of the shortened ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' versions of anime intros!

*** It also explains why he hates Jerry -- he's only with Beth because the Citadel made it happen, and Rick knows that on some level, he's responsible for hooking his daughter up with a man like Jerry just for the sake of giving him a sidekick for his adventures. At the same time, it explains why he never tried to kill or remove Jerry outside of season 3: he knows Jerry is just another victim of the Citadel, manipulated down this path, so he doesn't hate Jerry as a person so much as what he represents. Causing the divorce and his ultimate attempt at killing Jerry in season 3 is because Jerry tried to take away Rick's current family.

*** It also explains why he hates Jerry -- he's only with Beth because the Citadel made it happen, and Rick knows that on some level, he's responsible for hooking his daughter up with a man like Jerry just for the sake of giving him a sidekick for his adventures. At the same time, it explains why he never tried to kill or remove Jerry: he knows Jerry is just another victim of the Citadel, manipulated down this path, so he doesn't hate Jerry as a person so much as what he represents.

** Rick turns out to have helped in building the Citadel of Ricks.

** Rick's fabricated backstory from Season 3 [[RealAfterAll is real]], and he went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after the death of his Diane & Beth in search of the Rick that killed them, causing the deaths of many Ricks in the process.

*** It also explains why he hates Jerry -- he's only with Beth because the Citadel made it happen, and Rick knows that on some level, he's responsible for hooking his daughter up with a man like Jerry just for the sake of giving him a sidekick for his adventures.

** Evil Morty calls the Central Finite Curve a crib. That is exactly what it is. A place where Ricks can play with their friends without worrying anything bad is going to happen to them. Rick is the smartest man in any universe he enters, with enough preparation time he can solve any problem and kill anyone. And if he dies? He will just get resurrected in one of the alternative universes where he is also the smartest man thanks to one alternative project Phoenix, as we see in "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat". And if he dies in that universe, he will resurrect in another. This brings another level to Evil Morty's sabotage of Project Phoenix: the first universe every Rick will wake up will be above Evil Morty's blender, every next one is unknown. It might take a long time for other "murdered" Ricks to get home and with destruction of Central Finite Curve, it is not a certainty they will wake up in Project Phoenix of "Rick friendly", if fascistic, world.

* FandomNod: This episode marks the first time the FanNickname of "Evil Morty" is actually said on the show. In a twist, however, it's said by Evil Morty himself, referring to our Morty in a NotSoDifferent speech.
-->'''Evil Morty''': There you go, kid. Now you're Evil Morty too. Sooner or later we all are, on this side of the curve.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** The revelation that alternate universe Ricks manipulate their versions of Beth into meeting their respective Jerrys to produce Mortys. The Ricks are using ''their own daughters'' as breeding stock.
** For that matter, The Mortys themselves are treated as disposable livestock to keep a bunch of horrible old men happy.
** Evil Morty didn’t need to kill all of those Ricks and Mortys at the Citadel to escape the curve. Hell, he didn’t need to destroy the Citadel at all but he did it in a state of existential angst.

* FridgeBrilliance: It may seem odd that the special anime intro for "Rick and Two Crows" is only 30 seconds long. That's because it's not a parody of traditional anime intros, it's a parody of the shortened ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' versions of anime intros!

** Evil Morty didn’t need to kill all of those Morty’s at the Citidel to escape the curve. Hell he didn’t need to destroy the Citidel at all but he did it in a state of existential angst.

* MoralEventHorizon: The revelation that alternate universe Ricks manipulate their versions of Beth into meeting their respective Jerrys to produce Mortys. The Ricks are using ''their own daughters'' as breeding stock.

* Evil Morty didn’t need to kill all of those Morty’s at the Citidel to escape the curve. Hell he didn’t need to destroy the Citidel at all but he did it in a state of existential angst.

* MoralEventHorizon: The revelation that alternate universe Ricks manipulate their versions of Beth into meeting their respective Jerrys to produce Mortys. The Ricks are using ''their own daughters'' as breeding stock.

* FridgeBrilliance: It may seem odd that the special anime intro for "Rick and Two Crows" is only 30 seconds long. That's because it's not a parody of traditional anime intros, it's a parody of the shortened ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' versions of anime intros!