Recap / Rick and Morty S7 E5: "Unmortricken"

Rick finally tracks down Rick Prime, and with some unwanted assistance from Evil Morty, finally manages to take him down.

---

Tropes:

• Ambiguously Absent Parent: While learning the origin of Evil Morty, it's revealed that he snapped after his Rick told him that he could just quit, which he did. But the question of his family's whereabouts is still there. In the flashback, Jerry, Beth, and Summer are nowhere to be seen or mentioned. The house Evil Morty and his Rick are living in appears to be different than the usual Smith house. It is unknown if Evil Morty was being raised by his Rick alone or if something happened to his family. And there's the fact that it's possible that Evil Morty doesn't even have a family; previously, it was revealed that the demand for Mortys was so high that Ricks started cloning Mortys, so it's possible that Evil Morty could be one of those clones that never had a family.
• All for Nothing: At long last, Rick C-137 comes face to face with his nemesis Rick Prime with nothing between him and his vengeful rage... and Rick C-137 loses the final fight. It's ultimately Evil Morty who takes Rick Prime down, and though he lets Rick C-137 deliver the coup de grace, Rick Prime mocks and laughs at him all the way to his last breath. Rick C-137 is left completely unsatisfied and purposeless, and all his revenge really accomplished was handing Evil Morty the Omega Weapon on a silver platter.
• An Arm and a Leg: Rick Prime rips off Main Rick's leg and starts to beat him with it, only for Main Rick to rip off Rick Prime's arm and start hitting him with it. Then they attach their stolen limbs to their respective sockets.
• And Then What?: Evil Morty directly asks Main Morty what will happen if Rick does manage to kill Rick Prime, indifferently suggesting that he'll commit suicide afterwards (to Morty's annoyance). Indeed, once Rick has succeeded, the result is a Heroic BSoD and a "What Now?" Ending.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Rick Prime decides to use the Omega Device to kill all iterations of all of Rick's family members in front of him to teach him a lesson, then kill Rick himself afterwards. He "starts small" by doing this to Slow Mobius, but doesn't get the chance to do it to anyone else before Rick and the Mortys stop him.
• Artificial Outdoors Display: Evil Morty's station has a shield that deflects the detritus of the multiverse. Once Evil Morty has restored it to full power, he activates an overlay that makes it appear like an idyllic planet as opposed to a largely empty void.
• Asshole Victim: Evil Morty's original Rick is shown to have been just as much of an abusive Jerkass to him as is the typical Rick, shutting him down and yelling at him for (understandably) complaining about being subjected to more gross, degrading stuff on their latest adventure and telling him to just quit if he's going to whine about it. It's hard to feel bad for him, and easy to sympathize with his Morty, when the latter finally snaps from this, becomes Evil Morty, and uses Mind Control on him to turn him into the Evil Rick we saw in "Close Rick-Counters".
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Calling Evil Morty a "neutral" party might be a stretch, but he was content to simply lounge in his grandiose home outside the Central Finite Curve — until Rick's "fracking" of the Curve to find Rick Prime affected his home. He portals straight to Rick's lab to make his displeasure known, only assisting in the hunt for Rick Prime so that he'll be left alone.
• Back for the Dead: Slow Mobius returns, only for Rick Prime to kill him in every dimension.
• Badass Boast: Rick Prime, after being defeated by Evil Morty, offers to make him the Robin to his Batman. Evil Morty, who has the same I Work Alone mentality as Rick Prime himself, turns it around on him by coolly making it clear he's the Batman and doesn't want or need a Robin.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • The beginning of the episode sees what appears to be our Rick and Morty in an argument after another adventure. To cool off the argument, Morty offers Rick a six-pack of beer...and then comes back in the middle of the night wearing an eye-patch and puts a receiver in the brain of his incredibly drunk Rick. We just saw Evil Morty's Start of Darkness.
  • During the "semifinal round" of the battle in Rick Prime's trap, as Rick and the two Morties discuss their situation, an Indiana Jones Rick in the adjacent arena seemingly whips a disheveled, Badass Longcoat Rick to death, splattering so much blood on the glass wall as to obscure the protagonists' view of the fight and prompting a "Whoa, tough customer!" from Rick. Moments later, however, the blood gets cleared away by Longcoat Rick — no worse for wear — using Indiana Jones Rick like a human squeegee before brutally electrocuting him to death and turning to scowl through the glass, impatiently awaiting the final round.
  • The Stinger has Slow Mobius' wife go through depression after he is erased from all infinite timelines by the Omega Device, with her eventually setting out on a journey to apparently hunt down his killer like Rick did after Rick Prime killed his family — complete with the same melancholy synth music played over his flashback in "Rickmurai Jack" — a task doomed to fail since Rick Prime is already dead. Instead, she meets an alien who is going through something similar after the death of his own wife and the two bond, dropping their quests for revenge and instead raising their families together as each other's Second Love, all while the background music changes to become happier and more hopeful.
• Behind the Black: Lampshaded. When the trio finds themselves stuck in Rick Prime's trap, Rick guesses the purpose of the trap is to contain all of the Ricks who might get too close to finding Rick Prime's real location. Evil Morty asks him if his deduction is based on that being what he would do and all Ricks being the same, essentially not-so-subtly accusing him of being predictable. Rick sarcastically replies that he is basing it on "the ensemble of thematic Ricks huddled opposite your POV." The camera then flips around to reveal said ensemble of thematic Ricks.
• Big Fancy House: Evil Morty's space station is less of a villain lair and more of a vacation home. It consists of a large mansion built on a lush grassy yard complete with a swimming pool and robot butlers. The space station is attached to the side of the Central Finite Curve for stability and ease of access, while there's a powerful barrier keeping the chaos of the void out that can have an idyllic landscape projected on it.
• Bittersweet Ending: Slow Mobious becomes a victim to Rick Prime's Omega Device and Evil Morty manages to obtain schematics for the device in question, giving him an extremely powerful leverage against Rick and Morty. Even though Rick kills Rick Prime, he now feels empty inside after having fulfilled his life goal of avenging his wife and daughter's deaths. But now Rick Prime is removed as a threat, Evil Morty has stated he won't use the Omega Device as long as he is left alone, and Rick can finally start to heal from his obsession with Rick Prime.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: At the end, Rick is absolutely soaked with Rick Prime's blood, which Evil Morty lampshades as a "not alive" amount when Morty asks if Rick Prime is dead.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Evil Morty has embraced this after calling his 'evil' merely being sick of Rick in his last appearance.
• Chained Heat: Downplayed. During their fight, Rick and Rick Prime get the wires of their implants tangled. Since they're already fighting to the death anyway, all this does is shift the fight to extreme close combat like the stylized knife fight from "Beat It".
• Combat Clairvoyance: Evil Morty's eye patch is able to scan Rick Prime's brain and predict his next move. Rick Prime counters this by producing a "Kuato Rick" from his abdomen that can't be scanned, which then manages to graze Evil Morty with a shotgun.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Once the Cold Open is revealed to be Evil Morty's origin story, we then see a Fully Automatic Clip Show of "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", "The Ricklantis Mixup", and "Rickmurai Jack" from his perspective while building up to the present day.
  • Evil Morty sarcastically asks Rick why he isn't busy with turning himself into a pickle.
  • Rick's Heroic BSoD at the end of the episode as he realizes he has no idea what to do now that he has gotten his revenge on Rick Prime is the same as Morty's from "Rick Potion #9", having the same Thousand-Yard Stare and the same song playing in the background.
  • A humorous example in a very dark episode: When Evil Morty goes to the Morty registry, the clerk tells him he needs to lose the eye patch, as all Ricks have a fear of pirates.
  • Rick Prime's file for the Omega Device is titled "Booger AIDS", the same title Rick uses for all his files, as revealed in "Solaricks".
  • Space Beth, Earth Beth and Jerry are seen washing Space Beth's spaceship together in the end and enjoying it near the end of the episode, thus seemingly confirming that their status as a throuple after the ending of Bethic Twinstinct" is still in effect.
• Crazy-Prepared: Rick Prime has countless Expendable Clones, a series of "prime" clones that serve as a trap for anyone that gets past the regular copies, and he even anticipated Rick beating his trap and finding the Omega Device, having been waiting for him to arrive.
• Cycle of Revenge: The central theme of the episode. It's completed by Rick, who beats Rick Prime to death, but is broken by a few others:
  • Evil Morty walks off with Rick Prime's weapon, and is questioned why he isn't using it considering how much he hates all Ricks. He says he could end the Rick Experiment if he wanted, but he would be better off just making sure Rick never bothers him again. The last thing he wants is for an infinity of Summer Smiths, or anyone else, coming after him for revenge.
  • Slow Mobius ends up getting killed by Rick Prime's Omega Weapon, which erases him from all infinite timelines. His wife still remembers him, and swears to take revenge, eventually going through the same journey to seek out information, until she meets another person who is also going through the exact same journey, which convinces both of them to settle down and raise their families together.
• Deader than Dead: The Omega Device kills not only the target but every copy of them in every conceivable universe. This was/is the fate of Diane Sanchez and Slow Mobius, and Evil Morty makes it clear that he'll do it to Rick as well if the latter doesn't leave him alone.
• Death Seeker: As revealed in a flashback, Evil Rick (the Rick under Evil Morty's control in his first appearance) desperately wanted to die to escape his life as Evil Morty's puppet, hence why he practically begged the freed Mortys to kill him.
• Death World: The part of infinity we're shown outside of the Central Finite Curve is a hellscape of shattered planets, horrifying monsters, and countless people discovering portal technology and the risks of using them. It underlines Evil Morty's complete and absolute loathing of Rick as the "Smartest man in the Universe" when he unironically tells his robot butler that he considers the never-ending chaos "paradise", and is content to stay there in a protected bubble from the madness to enjoy peace and quiet.
• Defiant to the End: Even after Rick Prime is defeated and restrained, he continues to act condescending to everyone. He talks down to Evil Morty about making him his sidekick and saying the plans for the Omega Weapon are for "grown-ups". Then, when Rick starts to beat him to death, smashing his face in, he just continues to laugh at him while taunting him by stating he made Rick who he is, pointing out how their positions could have been reversed if Rick had perfected inter-dimensional travel before him, and that after he "saw infinity" all he ended up doing was living in Rick Prime's garage and raising his own grandson.
• Diagonal Cut: The monster chasing Evil Morty in the Cold Open runs through a nigh-invisible fence made up of razor-sharp blades. The monster stops in its tracks and then falls into pieces.
• Didn't See That Coming: Happens twice to Rick Prime.
  • During the initial hunt for Rick Prime that gets everyone caught in an Involuntary Battle to the Death trap with alternate Ricks, Rick C-137 and the two Mortys are the only survivors as the trap begins a violent cleaning sequence. The arena shuts down Rick's portal gun and even works on Evil Morty's — but not both at once, with some of Rick Prime's own portal fluid thrown in for good measure. Not only does Evil Morty's presence allow them to escape a previously inescapable deathtrap, Rick then uses the black fluid to immediately find Rick Prime's real location.
  • Like countless Ricks before him—the Council and Shadow Council of Ricks, the whole of the Citadel, and C-137 himself—Rick Prime also never saw a clever Morty coming, allowing Evil Morty to blindside him and take him down with a Twin Switch.
• Didn't Think This Through: In a moment of panic when being dropped into the Omega Device, Slow Mobius turns on his powers to perform a Slow-Motion Fall. As Morty notes, all that did was make his death take longer.
• Die Laughing: Even in the face of impending death, Rick Prime doesn't let his sinister, soulless grin slip away, instead laughing madly and taunting Rick C-137 as his face is remodeled like clay with each punch thrown at it.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Rick Prime, who has been Rick's one true Arch-Nemesis and Rick himself saying this season would be dedicated to hunting him down, dies for good in this episode with half the season left.
• Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Rick Prime reasons that the only difference between him and Rick is that Rick Prime figured out portal travel first. If Rick had, he believes Rick would have become him, so it was only logical for him to strike first. Considering that Rick C-137 loved his family more than science and was only motivated to invent portal travel in the first place to avenge them, while Rick Prime didn't care about his family at all to the point of being willing to kill every Diane in the multiverse out of spite, he's clearly full of it.
• Do with Him as You Will: A villainous version. After deleting Rick Prime's Body Backup Drive and stealing his schematics, Evil Morty leaves Rick Prime helplessly strapped to a chair as he proceeds to resuscitate Rick and walks out the room, telling Rick to "knock yourself out." It also counts as a subtle Secret Test of Character, as Rick Prime points out that Evil Morty has the Omega Device schematics, meaning he can use it himself to potentially wipe out all Ricks in one go, something Evil Morty makes it clear he wouldn't mind in theory, so Main Rick can either stay and kill his hated enemy whilst letting Evil Morty become a potentially bigger threat, or choose to stop Evil Morty whilst risking letting the immobilized Rick Prime go. Rick doesn't hesitate before proceeding to wail on Rick Prime.
• Enemy Mine: Although the truce is only temporary, Evil Morty joins in on the climatic battle against Rick Prime, largely out of self-preservation once he learns that Rick Prime killed every version of Diane in the multiverse, because it means he could do the same to all Mortys, which would kill Evil Morty too. He makes it very clear to Morty after the battle is won that this team-up does not make them Fire-Forged Friends.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Upon joining up with Rick again, Morty immediately tells him in a panicked voice to kill Evil Morty, despite having just suggested that working together with everyone else there is their best chance of making it out of Rick Prime's trap alive, because he doesn't trust him not to backstab them later. An annoyed Evil Morty comments "And they call me 'Evil Morty'?"
  • Rick Prime honestly informs Rick that Evil Morty stole the Omega Device plans, seemingly because he is genuinely worried about what a teenager might do with such a weapon if he ever had a bad day, whereas Rick Prime at least uses it for highly specific, if absurdly petty, reasons.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: Evil Morty, to preserve his own existence from the even-more-evil Rick Prime, joins forces with the main Rick and Morty, the former of whom is himself a Nominal Hero at best and a Villain Protagonist at worst. Main Morty is pretty much the only major cast member of the episode who doesn't have "total asshole" as his default mode.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: Once Rick C-137 is finally face-to-face with Rick Prime, who is bound to a chair and no longer has any contingencies left, Rick finally enacts his revenge by brutally beating Rick Prime to death with his bare hands. By the time it's over, Rick Prime's face is absolutely pulverized and it is not a pretty sight.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: When Rick declares that he is going after Rick Prime alone after having figured out his real location, Evil Morty decides to open a portal and go after him, telling Morty "Come or don't. I don't care," and leaves. Morty considers it for a moment, then, with a Determined Expression on his face, he takes a decisive step towards the portal, only for it to close on him, leaving him stranded and unsure about what to do. Evil Morty then reopens the portal and tells Morty he thought he was going to follow him. Morty defensively declares that he actually was and was trying to do a whole thing by taking a heroic step forward before the portal closed on him.
• Finger Gun: Done quite literally with Evil Morty, who shoots his finger into Rick Prime's head, allowing him to tap into Rick Prime's implants and deactivate all his failsafes.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: The Rick Prime clones Rick mines from the multiverse comment on his work as he kills them, each one seamlessly carrying on the conversation.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the opening scene, Rick is much meaner and more abusive towards Morty than he has been in recent seasons post-Character Development, treating him more like he did at his worst moments in Seasons 3 and 4. Then we soon discover that these are not our main characters; this latest instance of abuse to this Morty from his especially Jerkass-y Rick is the last straw that causes his Start of Darkness, wherein he snaps, becomes Evil Morty, and hijacks his Rick's brain to turn him into his puppet, Evil Rick.
• Flashback with the Other Darrin: During a flashback scene with the freed Mortys killing Evil Rick, his dying words seem to be voiced by Ian Cardoni instead of Justin Roiland.
• Flat "What": Rick Prime decides to start deleting Rick's family from across the multiverse one by one, and "starts small" with...Slow Mobius, whom Rick calls "Uncle Slow." Morty — who, like the audience, never got any indication that Rick was close to him — can only comment "What the fuck?"
• Forced Prize Fight: Rick Prime's primary clone turns into a black goo that teleports the occupants to a station where they're forced to fight each other to the death, with the winner getting to see Diane again. Except she's just a giant robot head that kills them and they're incinerated if they manage to beat her.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Main Rick leaves to confront Rick Prime, Evil Morty asks Main Morty if either of them have ever considered what Rick would do once he'd succeeded in his lifelong quest for vengeance, snidely suggesting he'd ultimately resort to killing himself to end it all. Once Evil Morty incapacitates Rick Prime and has everybody helpless before him, he arranges the situation to put Main Rick in a Sadistic Choice — either stopping Evil Morty before he gets away with the Omega Weapon schematics but risking Rick Prime escaping in the meantime, or staying to take revenge on his Arch-Enemy when he's finally helpless and Out of Continues before him, but as a consequence, letting someone who despises Ricks in general get away with a weapon that could kill them all at any time. Main Rick goes ahead with messily enacting his revenge, with Evil Morty smug in the aftermath that he proved him correct about how little Rick values his own existence.
  • Evil Morty makes the uncharacteristically generous offer to Morty C-137 to join him in going to confront Rick Prime, even opening the portal back up to give him a second chance to do so after it closes before Morty can walk through. Evil Morty later ends up pulling a Twin Switch with Morty during the fight to get the drop on Rick Prime, hinting that he wanted him there all along for this reason.
• Friendship Denial: After everything is done, Morty tries to strike up a conversation with Evil Morty, who stops him and tells him straight that just because they temporarily teamed up doesn't make them friends.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: One of the Mortys in the database from which Evil Morty deletes himself is wearing a green jacket and a purple tie. Later, it's shown that this exact same Morty was part of Evil Morty's president campaign.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: The current danger of Evil Morty, whose abilities, cunning, intelligence and successes have repeatedly run circles around and completely surpassed countless Ricks, all simply originated from a regular, normal Morty who just grew sick and tired of his Rick's awful antics and attitude and decided to rebel.
• Fully Automatic Clip Show: The episode opens with a montage of how Evil Morty came to be, featuring clips from his three previous appearances.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: We have Rick, Morty (the "good"), and Evil Morty (the "bad") teaming up against Rick Prime (the "evil").
• Grievous Harm with a Body: During their brawl, Rick and Rick Prime start ripping each other's cybernetic limbs off in the heat of the battle. They then proceed to try and beat each other up with them.
• Gunboat Diplomacy: Evil Morty walks off with schematics to Rick Prime's Omega Device. Not to use it, but as insurance to keep Rick away, knowing that using it will just lead to a bigger target on his back in the long run.
• Half the Man He Used to Be:
  • Longcoat Rick is cut in half by Rick and Evil Morty.
  • Rick stops the Diane Bot by slicing it in half, separating the face from the rest of the machine.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Slow Mobius's wife manages to move on from his death in the post-credits scene thanks to her finding a Second Love.
• Honorary Uncle: Slow Mobius to Rick... apparently, to Morty's confusion. Even Rick Prime genuinely seems to feel bad about erasing him.
• If You Die, I Call Your Stuff: Rick's ship tells Rick she gets his stuff if he dies, as he runs off to face Prime.
• Ignored Enemy: After pulling in Rick Prime's final decoy, Rick and Evil Morty get into an argument with the Rick Prime decoy looking miffed that they're ignoring him. He gets their attention with an Ahem to remind them he's still here.
• I'll Kill You!: Rick upon coming face-to-face with Rick Prime, and then again after Rick Prime erases Slow Mobius from existence.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: After Evil Morty opens a portal to go deal with Rick Prime, he tells Morty, "Come or don't. I don't care," and leaves through the portal. Morty thinks about it for a moment and decides to join Evil Morty, but his portal closes before he can enter. Despite claiming he doesn't care, Evil Morty reopens his portal to allow him to join him because he honestly thought he was coming. Although it's implied that he needed Morty to use him to help him take down Rick Prime.
• Inescapable Net: Parodied when Evil Morty arrives at Rick's lab and Morty rushes to get "the net". It's not entirely clear if Rick really even has one or if he's just humoring Morty.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Even after seeing Evil Morty's backstory, we don't know why he is so good, enough to beat even Rick Prime at his own game. He seems to be just that good.
• Insult Backfire: When Evil Morty first drops in, he gripes that Rick is somehow still managing to be a thorn in his side even though he left the Central Finite Curve. All Rick takes from this is that the shockwaves from his station have a greater range than he thought, further aggravating Evil Morty because Rick is treating it like a compliment.
• Interrupted Suicide: In a flashback to during the events of "Close Rick-Counters", Evil Rick tries to kill himself in a moment of lucidity to escape Evil Morty's Mind Control, but the latter is able to force him to stop.
• Involuntary Battle to the Death: Rick Prime puts Rick, the Mortys, and the six other alternate Ricks into a Forced Prize Fight version, saying the winner will be reunited with Diane (though Rick knows this is a trick). Both Rick and Evil Morty easily kill their respective opponents, then team up to also easily take down the final alternate Rick standing among the other four.
• Ironic Echo:
  • In this 66th episode of the series, Rick goes through a Heroic BSoD in the same manner and style as Morty did in the 6th episode, "Rick Potion #9", even including the same Sentimental Music Cue song ("Look On Down from the Bridge").
  • Slow Mobius' wife goes through the same journey to seek out information on who killed her husband in the same way that Rick did to find Rick Prime after Diane's death. Thankfully, her story has a happier ending.
• Irony:
  • Despite Evil Morty having instigated all the conflict between himself and the main Rick and Morty in the past, having tried to murder them multiple times, and lamenting not long after they meet again that he probably should have just killed them instead of talking to them, he doesn't actually attempt to do so at all during their Enemy Mine, nor does he betray them (probably Pragmatic Villainy in case he still needs them), while both Rick and Morty try to shoot him or discuss doing so, as they understandably don't trust him.
  • Rick pulls in another decoy of Rick Prime after implementing Evil Morty's suggestion but doesn't kill him right away, suggesting it could be a trap, at which point the latter guesses that it's the real deal and Rick just doesn't want to kill him because he'll owe Evil Morty the credit for it. While this is a rare instance of him being wrong and Rick is totally right this time (which he takes great delight in), Evil Morty does ultimately get credit for the kill in the end; he's the one who actually defeats Rick Prime and destroys all his backups so he can't get away, and then revives a grievously injured Rick to let him finish off Rick Prime.
• I Shall Taunt You: Rick Prime's attitude toward the captured Rick. He immediately points out that it's pre-recorded due to how little consideration he has of them, and that every apparent reaction to them is simply due to the other Ricks being that predictable. And as if that wasn't enough, the Rick that manages to survive the ordeal has to face a monster based on Diane who also shouts some hard truths just to hurt them.
• It Amused Me: Evil Morty notes that he could have just teleported into Rick's lab and killed both him and Morty when their search for Rick Prime unintentionally messed with his bubble of paradise. Instead, his curiosity about what exactly they were doing that caused the disruption makes him pop in to demand answers from them first, and on seeing a way to better refine Rick's searching process, smugly points it out just to rub it in Rick's face that he's better than him. After Morty accidentally activates the trap that sucks them all in, Evil Morty notes his mistake in not just killing them and leaving, but upon hearing about the Omega Device from Rick Prime's recording, he decides to continue working with the main duo to bring down Rick Prime so he can remove that as a variable, as he knows it would kill him too if Rick Prime uses it on a Morty to spite Main Rick.
• Jerkass: Morty is practically the only truly good-hearted character who isn't this within the whole episode, being surrounded by a variety of condescending assholes, such as his sociopathic murderous original grandfather, his cynical and abrasive honorary grandfather, a whole bunch of vengeful, violent alternate versions of them, and his own smug and cold Evil Counterpart with an eyepatch.
• Just in Time: After surviving Rick Prime's Involuntary Battle to the Death, the three protagonists are threatened by an advancing wall of fire. They make it out of the box in the nick of time using the goo to enhance their portal fluid.
• Karma Houdini: Evil Morty once again leaves the episode without any consequences for his previous actions in his earlier appearances. Though granted, he doesn't do anything "evil" this time outside of being an asshole to Rick and Morty as usual—instead participating in an Enemy Mine with them against Rick Prime—he still steals the plans to the Omega Device for himself, stating it is just insurance to make sure they leave him alone and promising he will use it if they ever come after him. Thus, he is still in the same position he normally is, victorious and untouchable.
• Karmic Death: After Rick Prime killed Rick C-137's Diane and Beth just to spite him, later killed every iteration of Diane in the entire multiverse just to spite many other Ricks, does the same to Slow Mobius, killed Original Jerry and many other victims, and ruined countless lives largely for his own amusement, he's finally defeated by the main duo and Evil Morty, culminating in Rick brutally beating Rick Prime to death with his bare hands, until his face is left as nothing more than a bloody pulp.
• Killed Off for Real: Rick Prime — truly the real deal, not a clone or a decoy — gets Out-Gambitted and defeated by Evil Morty and then Rick takes his Revenge by slowly, brutally beating him to death with no chance for him to come back from it after Evil Morty destroyed all his backups and also removed his Healing Factor.
• Knuckle Tattoos: The Stinger shows Slow Mobius' wife getting knuckle tattoos that read "NEVERSLO".
• Lonely at the Top: Rick Prime is unconnected to the Citadel. He just accidentally created the Council of Ricks and all the renegade Ricks by offering all of them the chance to join him and then killing every Diane when they all refused him. He's lived alone ever since.
• The Lost Lenore: Played for (Dark) Laughs. Since the beef all the alternate Ricks have with Rick Prime is that he killed Diane, every anguished lamentation of "He killed my wife!" is met with an eye-roll and an exasperated "We know!"
• Lousy Lovers Are Losers: The Dianebot that Rick Prime sics on Rick and the Mortys furiously screams that Rick "sucked at eating pussy" during their relationship. He's actually rather blase about this, knowing she's "saying it to be hurtful" but candidly owning up to it, acknowledging that he was young and inexperienced at the time. Rick is, however, a bit more perturbed when she states she "always thought your dick smelled weird".
• Metaphorgotten: Proving Evil Morty is Not So Above It All, when Rick invokes Enemy Mine for why they should cooperate to take down Rick Prime, citing that both parties hate the the latter more than each other because he's the worst Rick of all, Evil Morty just retorts, "So what? The worst turd's a pizza." Main Morty is just confused by this non-analogy and asks him to elaborate. He doesn't (although it's possible he meant that the worst turd is the worst at being a turd, meaning that the worst Rick would be the un-Rickest Rick of all).
• Mirror Character: On top of Rick Prime, Evil Morty and the various other Rick's that appeared in this episode who are all Evil Counterpart and Shadow Archetype's of the main duo. Slow Mobius' wife becomes one for Rick at the end of the episode, going in search of her husbands killer in a reenactment of Rick's backstory from the Season Five finale, only with a much happier ending. Showing the life Rick could have led if he'd moved on instead of remaining stuck in the past.
• Mutually Assured Destruction: Evil Morty copies the schematics for the Omega Device as insurance against Rick. He has no intention of using it unprovoked because that's what got Rick Prime killed, he just wants him to know that he can and will do so if Rick comes after him.
• Never Heard That One Before: Among the Ricks that got teleported to Rick Prime's death trap is a disheveled Rick who angrily states Rick Prime killed his wife. The other Ricks, whose Diane has also been killed, collectively tell him in an annoyed tone "We know".
• Non-Action Guy: As per usual, Morty is out of his depth when dealing with various alternate Ricks and Evil Morty, mostly hanging back while the latter and Rick do the fighting. That said, he does assist a few times where he can, like knocking Rick out of the way of an attack and hijacking a destroyed Rick Prime decoy body to help Evil Morty out.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Rick Prime claims that if Prime didn't go to him C-137 would have gone to him, and reinforcing it with the fact C-137 did, in fact, end up taking his home and family. C-137 doesn't have anything to answer to that, and his reaction at the end of the episode might suggest that Prime had some kind of point.
• Not So Invincible After All: Evil Morty has previously been depicted as borderline unstoppable, always one step ahead and prepared for every eventuality. When forced to fly by the seat of his pants in this episode after being dragged along with the main Rick and Morty, he's blindsided a couple of times and his victory comes down to exploiting Rick Prime's arrogance rather than being better than him. Evil Morty even lampshades how foolish he was to let himself get dragged into the adventure instead of just killing Rick first thing, though it ends up paying off for him.
• Not the First Victim: Rick is not the only Rick to lose his Diane to Rick Prime. In fact, Rick Prime killed every iteration of Diane in the multiverse. Several other Ricks have been captured for coming too close, and it's implied more before them were likewise caught and killed.
• No Warping Zone: Rick Prime's trap room has shielding which blocks portal travel. Even Evil Morty's golden portal gun, which he specifically designed to overcome the usual methods Ricks would use to stop portal travel, doesn't function. After they've beaten the traps, Rick and Evil Morty combine their portal guns and some of the teleportation fluid from the trap clone to overcome the shielding.
• Offing the Offspring: Rick Prime acknowledges that Morty is his actual grandson, not just some copy, but still intends to kill him.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Played with since it does involve literal teleportation. Rick reaches Rick Prime's lair by driving his ship through a portal that contains some of the black teleportation fluid he used to track him down to begin with. Then when he gets there, Evil Morty and Main Morty show up shortly after with the former's portal gun, without any explanation of how they figured out the coordinates of where to go.
• Oh, Crap!: It's subtle, but a worried look briefly appears on Prime's face when Evil Morty drags in C-137's body, realizing what Evil Morty is doing and what C-137 is about to do.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The final Rick Prime decoy that Rick captures with Evil Morty's help unleashes a flood of black ooze when killed that absorbs Rick and Evil Morty's portals before teleporting everyone present to Rick Prime's death trap. After beating the death trap, Rick and Evil Morty combine the ooze with their portal guns together to escape, and Rick scans it to finally track down Rick Prime to his hiding place.
• Once More, with Clarity: The Cold Open, after showing Evil Morty's origin, then shows his actions leading up to "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", as well as the events of that episode from his perspective. It then moves on to "The Ricklantis Mixup" and a little bit of "Rickmurai Jack", concluding with showing what he's been doing since then.
• Other Me Annoys Me: Morty and Evil Morty, mutually, once again during their Enemy Mine. Evil Morty is as dismissive and condescending to Main Morty as ever, who in turn snaps at him several times for how much of a dick he is and even encourages Rick to shoot him at one point.
• Out-Gambitted: Rick Prime is finally outplayed when Rick, Morty, and Evil Morty escape his previously-inescapable deathtrap and Rick uses the black teleport fluid he recovered from said deathtrap to track his nemesis down at long last. Even with Home Field Advantage, he cannot avoid a real confrontation, and it ends in his death.
• Out-of-Character Alert: When Rick captures four normal decoys of Rick Prime, they immediately start talking to Rick just to mock him, not breaking stride even as he kills them. When Evil Morty helps Rick find who they think is the real Rick Prime, this version remains silent while having a serious look on his face. While Rick can't describe it, he feels this Prime feels too different compared to the previous decoys and thinks this may be a trap, but Evil Morty thinks Rick just doesn't want to admit he needed his help to find Prime. Rick is ultimately proven correct when Morty kills this version and it transforms into a black ooze that captures Rick, Morty, and Evil Morty.
• Papa Wolf: Downplayed, but it's implied Rick doesn't let Morty come with him to kill Rick Prime because he knows his grandson is a Non-Action Guy and doesn't want to risk his safety. When Evil Morty shows up at Rick Prime's hideout and brings Morty with him anyway—and also makes it clear he's not concerned about what happens to Morty there due to being, well, evil—Rick shoots at him, knowing it won't actually do anything because of the force field, just to express his extreme annoyance.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted for at least heavily downplayed Evil Morty is certainly still evil and makes no bones about it, but he gets a couple small moments that prove he's the Lesser of Two Evils compared to Rick Prime, being a mere "bad" to Rick Prime's "truly evil". Still, these moments are more out of Pragmatic Villainy than anything else.
  • Despite having previously tried to kill Main Rick and Morty several times and ruminating that he should have done so here instead of talking to them, he doesn't actually attempt to murder or even betray them at any point this time during their Enemy Mine, probably due to Pragmatic Villainy. He also brings Morty with him to the final showdown against Rick Prime when Rick leaves him behind, although it's hinted towards the end that was mainly so he could take advantage of Morty's presence for a Twin Switch to exploit Rick Prime's traditional arrogance.
  • Evil Morty could have easily killed Rick Prime himself after disabling all his backup bodies and obtaining the blueprints for the Omega Device, but he disables his healing factor and revives Rick so he can finally get his revenge. Possibly because, as he notes before he leaves, Main Rick really is different from most of the other Ricks in the multiverse. Though it's mitigated somewhat by Word of God stating Evil Morty didn't do it to help Rick, but to test him, setting him to decide to either kill Rick Prime at the cost of Evil Morty getting his hands on the Omega Device, or prevent Evil Morty from obtaining a device that could destroy him utterly at the cost of his Revenge. Rick chooses the former.
• Power Palms: During the Involuntary Battle to the Death, we see Evil Morty kill a Rick by firing projectiles from his palm.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Evil Morty obtains the schematics to Rick Prime's Omega Weapon and says that while he could eradicate every Rick in the multiverse, he doesn't want a bunch of vengeful Summers (or anyone else) coming after him and just wants to be left alone. It's more useful as a deterrent, to keep Rick from going after him.
• Precision F-Strike: Not that Evil Morty doesn't swear plenty anyway, but he has a couple moments of being more annoyed than usual and responding like this. He shouts "Motherfucker!" when realizing that his sanctuary is being disrupted due to the main duo messing with the Central Finite Curve, and then once the three of them are captured by Rick Prime's clone trap, his reaction is merely dropping an F-bomb in irritation.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • Though Evil Morty speculates Rick is hesitating to kill the Rick Prime that Evil Morty helped him find because that would mean admitting he needed Evil Morty's help, Rick's hesitation comes from the belief that this is simply another clone, which Morty proves by impulsively killing the clone and triggering its trap. He even mocks Evil Morty for missing a step after they're caught.
  • Rick correctly deduces that Rick Prime's offer to bring back Diane is a hollow mockery and the Ricks would be better off teaming up to escape, but the other Ricks fail to heed that advice.
  • Played with when Evil Morty shoots the first Rick he and Morty are locked up with despite that Rick claiming to be nice. Though Evil Morty is just doing it because he doesn't see any value in keeping him around, the Rick does concede that he was going to kill them at the first opportunity.
  • After Diane Bot is cut in half, Rick places a force-field box around the remains. Evil Morty snarks about him taking her to go, moments before the robot initiates a powerful self-destruct explosion that clearly would've otherwise annihilated everything within the chamber.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Rick Prime, after being torn limb from limb and burned for good measure, has his limbs crawl back to him before his Healing Factor kicks in.
• Pun: Evil Morty's "Knock yourself out" to Rick C-137 about Rick Prime, given that the Ricks are technically the same person.
• Replacement Goldfish: It's acknowledged that Rick's ship sounds like his dead wife Diane, just more robotic, in mockery from Rick Prime.
• Retcon: In his first appearance, Evil Rick was said to be a full robot that was being controlled by Evil Morty. Now, he was an organic Rick under technological mind control that was trying to break free off screen.
• Ret-Gone: The Omega Device not only killed all Slow Mobiuses, The Stinger implied that it also erased his children's knowledge of him, though not his wife's— although her stumbling to answer the question suggests that she nearly forgot as well. It gives another angle to all Ricks' focus on remembering Diane, even when the memories are extremely painful and help drive them into more toxic and self-destructive behaviour to cope — if they let go and move on from her memories, they will never get them back, and memories are all that's left of Diane's existence now, meaning it'd be like consigning her to the void.
• Returning Big Bad: After Evil Morty left the Central Finite Curve in "Rickmurai Jack", Rick Prime—Main Rick's nemesis who murdered his wife—was set up as the new Big Bad for the series. Now, though, Rick Prime gets majorly Out-Gambitted by Evil Morty—who returns and forms an Enemy Mine with Rick and Morty out of self-preservation—and is beaten to death by Rick. Evil Morty, meanwhile, steals Rick Prime's schematics for the Omega Device, and while he mostly just wants to be left to his own devices and is merely taking them as a deterrent, he does hint that he may have use for Rick again in the future, once again leaving him as the biggest overarching threat in the series.
• Return to Shooter: Rick Prime makes the bullets shot at him by Rick stop in mid-air. He then steers them into his gun to be used as ammunition against Rick. Moments later, Rick Prime performs a Catch and Return of a missile Rick fires at him.
• The Reveal:
  • Rick Prime didn't just kill Rick C-137's Diane; he made a weapon called the Omega Device, capable of killing every iteration of any individual across the entire multiverse, and used it on her, explaining why we haven't seen any version of Diane in the present day.
  Morty: Rick? You didn't tell me he killed your wife across infinity.
  Evil Morty: Yeah, now I wanna meet this guy.
  • Main Rick and Rick Prime share the distinction of being the only two Ricks to ever invent portal technology. Rick Prime either killed or recruited every other Rick.
  • Slow-Mobius is Uncle Slow. Is he related to Rick or is he an Honorary Uncle?
• Revenge Before Reason: Rick killing Rick Prime means that Evil Morty gets his hands on the Omega Device, which threatens Rick's life. Evil Morty even tells him about the choice. Rick decides to get his revenge, at the cost of handing over a powerful weapon to someone who loathes him more than anyone else in the multiverse.
  • However, it is also subverted: Evil Morty is a dangerous opponent with access to a very dangerous weapon, but he is also in top shape, and just dispatched an opponent who took everything Rick had and came out on top, while Rick Prime is actually exposed and defenseless. Attacking Evil Morty is unlikely to achieve anything besides irritating him and giving Rick Prime a chance to escape, and Rick just had prove that he can't even find Prime on his own, let alone kill him. Even without the revenge component, taking out Prime is the option that makes more sense, since it's the one that assures him to take out a powerful opponent (who is also the one most likely to attack people close to him, Rick Prime having killed two members of Rick's family to Evil Morty's zero).
• Running Gag:
  • Rick keeps shooting at Evil Morty just to test out if his personal deflector shield still works.
    Evil Morty: [Gets shot at for the umpteenth time] You're exhausting.
    Rick: Can't help it. I'm a rascal!
  • The joke comes full circle when Evil Morty takes a shot at Rick Prime out of annoyance with his Evil Gloating, even though "a douche like him" would be prepared for it.
    Rick Prime: Right. Good instinct. I would have tried that too.
• Sadistic Choice: Evil Morty gives a subtle one to Main Rick in his apparent "mercy" in leaving him alone with a helpless Rick Prime. Evil Morty has the Omega Weapon schematics, and has made it clear he still has a massive loathing of Rick and the very concept of him as the smartest man in the universe, meaning he's more likely to use it to obliterate Rick from existence than anyone else. On the other hand, stopping him would risk letting Rick Prime, genuinely helpless and without any backups or ways out of the situation, potentially escape, essentially asking Rick if he values his revenge over his own life. Rick doesn't hesitate to kill Rick Prime, and Evil Morty smugly taunts him about it afterwards, noting how Vengeance Feels Empty.
  Evil Morty: How's it feel? Better? No? Exactly the same? (shrugs) Yeah, it always does. Hope you're happy with your choice.
  Rick: Fuck off!!
  Evil Morty: I'm gonna. (shows a hologram of the Omega Device) Just don't force me to improve on the design.
• Save the Villain: Morty at one point uses a robot duplicate body of Rick Prime to shoot another duplicate who's about to attack Evil Morty. The latter does, at least, thank him for the assist (in his usual emotionless tone) once the fight is over.
• Say My Name: Rick screams Rick Prime's name as he heads for his base.
• Ship Tease: For Beth, Space Beth and Jerry. See Threesome Subtext.
• Shooting Superman: Rick shoots Evil Morty to test if his shield is still up, and keeps doing it throughout the episode just to be a dick.
• Skewed Priorities: Evil Morty is one or two more steps ahead of Rick's plans and constantly taunts him passive-aggressively while Rick begrudgingly tries to avoid ever admitting being wrong, so once they and Morty are captured by the Rick Prime clone that turned out to be a tentacle monster portal trap, Rick's first reaction isn't concern, but instead taking great delight that Evil Morty was wrong about something, as he failed to recognize this and wrongly suspected the clone to be the real deal.
• Slow "NO!": When Slow Mobius falls to his death in slow motion, Rick screams "No" in slow motion too.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: Unsurprisingly, Rick and Evil Morty have a near-constant stream of it during their Enemy Mine, with Main Morty occasionally joining in on the fun as well.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • Played straight for Rick when Main Morty unwittingly executes the Rick Prime clone and gets the trio transported into Rick Prime's trap room. However, it ultimately ends up working out for them and being this to Rick Prime, since it's how Evil Morty learns about the Omega Device and motivates him to join the main duo in stopping Rick Prime, and also lets Rick use the clone's black fluid to track him down.
  • Invoked by Evil Morty who makes sure to bring Main Morty along with him to the incredibly dangerous confrontation with a Rick who is smart enough to challenge both him and Main Rick no matter what they throw at him. Whilst Main Morty is fairly competent in his own right, he's nowhere near able to pose a threat to Rick Prime directly, and mainly serves as support throughout the chaos. However, when "Evil Morty" and Main Rick are knocked out from the fighting and Rick Prime reassembles himself with seemingly only the "lesser" Morty left to face him, his lack of caution towards the "sidekick" gives Evil Morty all the opening he needs to incapacitate Rick Prime, revealing he pulled a Twin Switch only possible because Rick Prime thought there was another incompetent Morty in the fight.
• Start of Darkness: We see Evil Morty's origin here: he finally snapped after his Rick forced him into one too many gross, humiliating adventures and then dared him to quit when he understandably complained about it. Evil Morty decided to do just that, pretending to smooth things over and getting his Rick drunk enough to let his guard down, then perfecting his Mind Control eyepatch and forcibly implanting the receiver into Rick's brain, turning him into the "Evil Rick" under his complete control that audiences first saw in "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind".
• The Stoic: As per usual, Evil Morty is deadpan and mostly unemotive throughout the adventure, remaining straight-faced while Rick and especially Morty react to what's going on around them and mostly just keeping a snarky and flatly annoyed demeanor.
• Stutter Stop: In the beginning flashback, there's a telltale moment where Evil Morty finally snaps from dealing with his Rick: he drops the anxious, stuttering voice every other Morty has. This is permanent, as Evil Morty never stutters in the present day (as we've seen in previous episodes), except when he's doing it deliberately to impersonate Main Morty during the Twin Switch.
• "Take That!" Kiss: After Rick destroys the giant robot head of Diane enough that it can no longer move, it continues to taunt him by mockingly telling him to "give my ghost a kiss" and making kissing noises at him.
• Tele-Frag: During the post-opening scene of multiversal chaos, a family resembling The Jetsons arrives near Evil Morty, with the father celebrating his discovery of portal tech. After dismissing his wife's notion that some of the other infinite versions of their family developed portal technology, they're immediately destroyed by the opening of a new portal on top of them by a parallel family, who are then themselves destroyed the same way.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In the Cold Open, it's shown that when Evil Morty was rightfully pissed off with his original Rick after their latest adventure, the latter shut him down and dared him to just quit if he was going to keep "whining." Unfortunately for him, his Morty did exactly that, becoming Evil Morty and subjecting him to Mind Control which turned him into Evil Rick.
  • Once Rick and the two Mortys defeat the Diane-bot that Rick Prime sicced on them for winning the Forced Prize Fight, Morty expresses relief that they're safe now. Cue the entire room starting to go up in flames to "reset" it for the next game, prompting Rick to lampshade this.
    Rick: You could count chickens professionally, Morty.
• Thinking Up Portals: The post-opening scene shows where Evil Morty works after leaving the Central Finite Curve and there are many aliens with their own portal guns of different shapes and colors.
• Threesome Subtext: In Rick's "What Now?" Ending sequence, as Rick goes to the fridge to grab cans of beer, he witnesses Beth, Space Beth and Jerry wash Space Beth's spaceship, which very quickly goes off the rails as Space Beth playfully douses both Jerry and Earth Beth with a waterhose.
• Title-Only Opening: Following the Cold Opening, where we see Evil Morty's Start of Darkness, the show's usual opening sequence is skipped, instead replaced with the title card, perhaps to emphasise that it is more of a story-driven episode with a lot of focus on Evil Morty.
• Too Dumb to Live: The multiverse outside of the Central Finite Curve is filled with an infinite number of inventors constantly discovering portal travel. And all of them seem to be vastly less intelligent and competent than Rick, resulting in them dying immediately after they figure it out.
• Tranquil Fury: Once Rick Prime is restrained by Evil Morty and begins mocking Rick, an obviously enraged and vengeful Rick simply gives him a dull unimpressed glare before silently and succinctly beating him to death, only making one dry remark to Rick Prime's "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  Rick Prime: What's your life without me??
  Rick: (deadpan) Let's find out...
• Twin Switch: Or rather, alternate-version switch. At some point during the climactic battle, Evil Morty switches places with Main Morty and convincingly pretends to be the latter, seemingly the last one standing after the other Morty and Rick are down. But as Rick Prime is about to shoot him, Evil Morty shoots first, taking him down and revealing who he really is. Notably, as per Evil Morty's usual I Work Alone mentality, he did this on his own and Main Morty wasn't in on the plan, only realizing it happened when he wakes up wearing an eye patch and Evil Morty's shirt.
• Underestimating Badassery: In the end, despite being the most sociopathic, ruthlessly competent Rick ever seen so far in the series, Rick Prime makes the same fatal mistake as many of his other alternate selves: dismissing Evil Morty, despite his obvious arsenal, by assuming that a Morty could never be a real threat to him, lumping him in with the main one and and thinking Rick is pathetic enough to need two of them as a "cheer squad." It winds up getting Rick Prime killed when Evil Morty pulls a Twin Switch to get the drop on him, then destroys all of his backup bodies, leaving him completely helpless to save himself from Rick finishing him off.
• Unflinching Walk: Lampshaded by Morty when Evil Morty walks away at the end not watching the explosion of Rick Prime's Omega Device.
  Morty: Pretty cool visuals. You're missing it.
• Un-person: Evil Morty does this to himself first thing after hijacking his Rick; they break into the Citadel and erase any record of his existence so he can fly under the radar more easily when pulling off his plans.
• Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Unfortunately for Rick C-137, Rick Prime is the Upgrade; his cybernetic body has a much more potent Healing Factor and a deadlier array of weapons. Despite Rick C-137 putting up a good fight that ends in a Double Knockout, Rick Prime literally reassembles himself and heals up within seconds none the worse for wear.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Rick manages to kill Rick Prime, but then finds himself without purpose, going through a Heroic BSoD as reality sets in. Lampshaded by Evil Morty knowingly asking Rick if he feels better, already aware of the answer.
• Villainous Breakdown: As C-137 proceeds to reduce Prime to a bloody meatpile, Prime attempts to laugh it off but proceeds to descend into ranting and rambling how he made C-137 who he is and how he will be nothing without him as his laughter descends into him wailing in pain and passing out from the beatdown.
• Villain Opening Scene: The entire Cold Open centers on Evil Morty in a Fully Automatic Clip Show, starting with his origin story and ending with what he's been up to since the events of "Rickmurai Jack".
• Villain Protagonist: Actually not Rick this time, but Evil Morty instead, who gets a Villain Opening Scene of his origin story and works with the main duo to take out an even more evil threat, Rick Prime. In the end, once again, Evil Morty comes out on top, getting everything he wanted.
• Villain Respect: Rick C-137 is the only Alternate Self that Rick Prime has any respect for, as they were apparently the only two Ricks to invent portal travel on their own instead of receiving it from one of their alternates. Evil Morty, while still disdainful of Rick, also recognizes that C-137 is different from the rest and wonders if he can use that in the future.
• Villainous Valour: Rick Prime manages to trap and kill several Ricks (and is implied to have done it for a long time), with Rick C-137 himself only surviving thanks to Evil Morty's assistance (who himself only survive thanks to Rick's presence). He then faces Rick C-137, Morty and Evil Morty in battle and holds his own against all three of them, actually defeating Rick C-137 despite the assistance, and requiring Evil Morty to trick him relying on his ego to take him down. And then there is Evil Morty, who actually defeats Rick Prime, and upstages Rick C-137 at every turn.
• Villains Want Mercy: Though he doesn't outright beg for it, it's clear Rick Prime's suggestions that he and Evil Morty team up and that C-137 go after Evil Morty instead of killing him are nothing more than pathetic attempts to get them to spare his life, hiding them behind his massive ego. Neither of them take the bait. Ultimately subverted, though, since he attempts it with both of them, but doesn't insist when they refuse, and he actually spends his last moments taunting and mocking Rick C-137.
• We Can Rule Together: Rick Prime offers to team up with Evil Morty, just like Batman and Robin. Evil Morty replies that he doesn't need a Robin.
• Wham Episode: Evil Morty returns and we learn his origin story, Rick catches up to Rick Prime and finally gets his revenge (leading him to ponder what happens next), and we learn that Diane was not only killed by Rick Prime, but he used a superweapon to kill every version of her in the multiverse... the plans for which Evil Morty now has in his possession.
• Wham Shot: The episode opens with Morty complaining about his latest adventure with Rick. Rick gets pissed and suggests Morty should quit, so Morty instead offers him a beer and goes to work on something in his room. When he comes back, Rick is good and drunk, and Morty puts on an eyepatch, revealing this to be the origin of Evil Morty.
• "What Now?" Ending: With Rick Prime dead and Diane avenged, this question looms over Rick's head as he and Morty head home.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?:
  • Evil Morty invokes this on himself after he gets pulled into Rick Prime's trap with Rick and Morty, stating, "That's what I get for talking to you instead of just killing you." Despite this, he doesn't actually try to kill them at all during their team-up, largely out of Pragmatic Villainy since they're up against an even bigger threat.
  • After Evil Morty promises to use the Omega Device on Rick if the latter comes after him, Morty, who knows how much he hates all Ricks, invokes this by asking why he's just threatening to use it instead of actually doing so. Evil Morty responds by pointing out that this would only perpetuate the Cycle of Revenge and get people like Summer to come after him for Rick's death, and he mainly just wants to be left alone.
• World of Chaos: This is apparently what the multiverse outside of the Central Finite Curve is — all of the timelines where someone other than Rick invented portal travel co-mingle freely, and since that's an infinite number of possibilities that creates an infinite amount of extra-dimensional travelers, the result is a nightmarish hellscape where monsters and debris from kooky inventors who were Too Dumb to Live litter an unfathomable surreal abyss and people are repeatedly tele-fragged by their alternate selves. And yet Evil Morty prefers this to the Central Finite Curve, even if he has basically attached his home to the side of it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Unsurprisingly, Rick Prime has no problem with trying to kill the two Mortys, who are 14 years old. He also greets who he thinks is his original grandson while preparing in the same breath to shoot him dead. (Unfortunately for him, it's actually Evil Morty, who pulled a Twin Switch and shoots him first.)
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Evil Morty lets out an exasperated "Motherfucker!" when he realizes that even outside the Central Finite Curve, Rick is still a thorn in his side, if unintentionally.

---