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In the garage, he works on his inventions and science - for example, traveling to other dimensions, building various robots and devices, and causing general mayhem in different parts of the universe, be it dimensions, planets, or alternate realities. A notable aspect of Rick's development is that as the series has progressed, Rick's god-like status has been moved to the forefront of the story. Many characters refer to him as the smartest man in the universe [10] , whilst he himself has called himself a god and demonstrated his unstoppable nature.

Rick is a tall, old hispanic-american man. He has long legs and arms, and is very skinny. He has a dimly tanned ashy complexion and grey-blue hair with a bald spot on the back of his head. He has spiky blue hair on his head and a unibrow. His face is wrinkly as he has bags under his eyelids and a pressure fold above his unibrow that follows its position and laugh lines on both sides of his mouth.

He wears a white lab coat with a turquoise undershirt underneath it. He also wears brown pants, a dark brown belt with a yellow buckle, and black shoes. He is occasionally seen with some green spill on his mouth, showing up mainly when he is drunk, or during a rare chance where he throws up.

Rick speaks in a rambling, stammering manner that is often interrupted by belching and gagging, usually from being drunk or high. Interestingly, while he remains identical throughout the series, Rick has occupied the body of one of his alternate selves, having taken over his mind during the Season 3 premiere. Rick also sports a range of cybernetic enhancements, which he occasionally uses during perilous situations. From these moments, it can be reasonably assumed that both of his arms and at least one of his eyes are now completely cybernetic.

Rick is a genius scientist, capable of creating complex scientific inventions, including brain-enhancing helmets, dream-invading devices, portals to several different dimensions, cloning technology, cybernetic implants, various energy weapons and force fields, and the world's first amusement park inside the body of a living human.

His brilliance can be muddled by his jaded personal views and his alcoholic tendencies. Rick is easily bored and does not do well with routine. When his curse removing store in the episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes" started requiring real work, Rick simply lit the whole store on fire and abandoned it. He regularly goes to other dimensions to harvest resources and will often willingly kill aliens to get them.

He is willing to be extremely brutal such as when people betray him or his life or those close to him are in danger. He is usually portrayed as homicidal and having a large disregard for life, enough that he came close to bombing the world with neutrinos while drunk.

He was shown to find killing fun during the Purge and was even willing to kill Morty's half-Gazorpian son due to the child's danger to everyone and unstable nature. This does not make him completely heartless, however, as he has been shown to be shocked, startled or annoyed by the loss of life that he deems unnecessary, foolish, or unreasonable. He was annoyed at Morty for letting Fart live, resulting in a chase with local police that cost many bystanders their lives.

In addition to that, he was panicked when Unity destroyed an entire city that Rick thought still had people in it since he was unsure if Summer and Morty were there or not. He also was shocked and upset by people he was close to dying or nearly dying, such as when Mr. Poopybutthole was shot and he ran to his side in fear for the latter's life. When Bird Person was killed by Tammy , Rick flies into a rage, mowing down multiple Federation troops.

In " Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate ", Rick gasps when seeing Jerry being shot several times, and left mutilated. During the time of the Festival, he only watched the killing for a few short seconds before becoming overwhelmed by the violence and vomiting.

Later, when helping Arthricia get revenge against the upper class, he felt he had done enough killing and began to find it gratuitous.

Contrary to popular belief, Rick is not a nihilist. Although his commonly-stated viewpoint on life may be the typical nihilistic idealism that "nothing has meaning", he doesn't always put his money where his mouth is. Rick expresses love and emotion for his family and lovers on an almost episodic basis. Plot relevant instances include " The ABC's of Beth ", which proves his fatherly love for Beth and " Auto Erotic Assimilation ", where he's being dumped by Unity made him depressed enough to cry.

Rick frequently reminds people that he's above everything that could hold meaning or value to him and made "I don't give a fuck!

Rick is shown to care about maintaining relationships with others and holds a sentimental value of his family. Rick has the tendency to be possessive and dominating of Morty, believing the boy to be his own personal helper.

This doesn't prevent Rick from genuinely caring about Morty. He occasionally uses his own inventions to improve his grandson's life, such as invading the dreams of Mr. Goldenfold to help raise his math grades, though this could have been a tactic for Morty to skip more school to go on adventures with Rick [12].

Rick also demonstrates being fairly protective of Morty, as shown in the episode " Meeseeks and Destroy " , where he eventually sets aside his cynicism to allow Morty to have a positive adventure, and abruptly kills Mr. Jellybean as the two are leaving the fantasy world because of the previous attempted rape on Morty. He cried when seeing pictures of Morty and remembering Morty as a newborn reaching out to him, when he was held captive by Evil Rick , causing Evil Rick to mock him for his irrational attachment for Morty.

Rick and Morty have a strong bond, even though their relationship is strained due to Rick's cynicism, alcoholism, lack of conventional morality, and his tendency to push aside other members of the Smith family. Rick's carelessness is prevalent around Jerry, as he clearly doesn't respect him in any sense, and his relationship with Beth can be tumultuous at times.

Rick initially had very little interest in her, but over time as the two spent time together, they have begun to develop a closer bond. Rick is shown to have trouble taking orders from others. He is anti-totalitarian. As a result, Rick tends to dislike people with authority and government officials. He refuses to join the Council of Ricks , because he views them as a government. He also calls the guards at Intergalactic Customs "robots" and claims that he doesn't respect them, as he deems them bureaucrats and doesn't like "being told where to go and what to do".

Rick also has a great dislike of standardized education, claiming that school "isn't a place for smart people" and a "waste of time", and insists that things such as studying and homework are pointless and stupid. Rick claims to be atheistic, but holds seemingly contradictory beliefs on religion. At one point, he tells Summer at the breakfast table in the pilot, "There is no God" - yet in the " Anatomy Park " episode, he tells the family "Do you realize that Christ was born today?

Jesus Christ our savior was born today-are you people even human? What kind of Christmas is this? He also quickly recognizes Mr. Needful as "the devil", and when he's under the impression that he is going to die while one of the other sixty-three Ricks is chasing after Morty's lost collar, actually kneels and prays, "Please God, if there's a Hell, please be merciful to me" significantly, when no one is around.

When the Ricks recombine in the presence of Summer and Morty, he once again says "I did it! There is no God! In your face! Rick is most likely just atheistic making religious jokes and references, as in Never Ricking Morty , it is revealed that the most uncharacteristic act Rick would do is resort and pray to Jesus Christ, as it crashes the entire "story train".

Despite his general disregard for others, he is shown to harbor deep emotional pain and sorrow, especially when it comes to his romantic relationships, such as with his former wife, Diane, and Unity.

In " Rickmurai Jack ", it's revealed that Rick loved Diane dearly. Her death left a permanent mark on Rick, leading him to go on a decades-long quest for vengeance looking for the Rick who killed her.

His inability to find the Rick responsible for her death has haunted Rick, causing him to become an alcoholic to cope with the pain and turning him into the nihilistic mad scientist he is now. Rick also carried a rather deep bond with Unity. After Rick freshest up during a long day with Unity's hive mind avatars, he returned to find Unity and all the planet's inhabitants gone, leaving behind a farewell note for Rick explaining that while Unity enjoyed its time with him, they could not be together.

Unity calls out the fact that Rick mentally controls people, whereas Unity physically controls people, and that when they are together they bring out the worst in each other. They are too alike in the sense that they both turn others into mirror images of themselves in Rick's case, he does so through bad influence rather than assimilation.

Dejected, heartbroken, and alone, Rick returned home, where he was confronted by Beth over the alien hidden in the basement lair, and asked him to keep no more alien pets. To Beth's and the whole family's shock, Rick simply conceded and retreated to the garage, where he clumsily attempted suicide with a makeshift death ray.

He first killed a small, Cronenberg-like creature he kept, as it suffered from space AIDS and was living in agony. He thawed it out with a serum, comfortingly petting it as it cried out and screamed. He turned it to ash with the death ray before he sat down under it as it was about to fire again, only to pass out at the last moment while the death ray overloaded and fried. He remained slumped over his workbench, passed out, for the majority of the day and night.

Rick and Morty then visited Beta 7's world, where Unity is staying. Rick lashed out at Beta 7, insisting to see Unity again, but Beta 7 informs Rick that he's considered a "hostile entity" and threatened to attack the two unless they left. Rick reluctantly does, at Morty's urging to go to the movies. Originally, Rick's consumption of alcohol is presented more from a comedic viewpoint throughout the series' run, but in the Season 1 finale " Ricksy Business ", Bird Person claims that Rick is in "great pain" citing his catchphrase "wubba lubba dub dub" as meaning " I am in great pain.

Please help me. This is most likely due to his genius intelligence, nihilism, and the traumatizing effect that his continuous adventures may have on him, in the past and present in " Rick Potion No. In " Rickmurai Jack ", it's shown that Rick began drinking copious amounts of alcohol to deal with the death of his wife and daughter as well as his failure to enact revenge upon their killer.

Throughout his numerous adventures with Morty, Rick has been shown to be ready and willing to disregard rules, laws and social norms if it is necessary to complete a task or escape a dangerous situation.

Season one has Rick resorting to assault, battery, vandalism, smuggling, corruption of a minor, home invasion, reckless endangerment, terrorist threats, indecent exposure and even murder and arson in order to get the job done.

The most common crimes committed are driving or flying, in Rick's case under the influence, drug abuse, and public intoxication. His full criminal record is displayed on a monitor. Although in an alien language and unreadable, it is shown to be quite long. After he is placed under maximum security, another prisoner asks him "What are you in for? Though exploitative and demanding, Rick genuinely cares about his grandson and values their adventures together, making him one of the few Ricks to do so.

He hesitates to outwardly show any love or appreciation however, making sure Morty doesn't get cocky. Night Shaym-Aliens! He later becomes very drunk and threatens the real Morty with a knife, demanding to know whether or not he is another simulation before passing out. Morty is possibly the stabilizing influence in Ricks life that keep Rick from doing things that could end up doing a lot of harm though this does not work on many occasions.

When Rick messes up, Morty is the one who convinces him to fix things. Though Morty often frustrates him, Rick seems to get very upset at the idea of not being able to have adventures with Morty. He repeatedly attempts to help Morty escape from his other obligations to free up more time, in order to have him continue to be his assistant, such as pulling him out of school, manipulating Mr.

Goldenfold 's dreams to give Morty A-grades in math, allowing Morty to lead an adventure of his own and creating a serum of vole oxytocin to force Jessica into loving Morty. Rick even goes through an elaborate heist setup that causes an unknowing Morty, who expressed interested in pitching a series idea for Netflix, to lose interest in the endeavour and continue agreeing to go on adventures with him. Rick's and all Ricks in other realities reason for bringing Morty along with him is that all Ricks give off a very distinct brainwave pattern due to their genius, making them easy to track by their various enemies.

The only way to camouflage the brainwave is to stand near someone with "complementary" brainwaves, which Rick calls "Morty Waves".

Despite this, Rick seems to do things with Morty for reasons beyond needing camouflage, such as watching TV with him in " Rixty Minutes ", taking him to an alien pawn shop in " Raising Gazorpazorp ", and infiltrating Mr. Goldenfold's dreams in " Lawnmower Dog ". It can also be pointed out that Rick can be spiteful to those that have genuinely upset Morty, such as in " Meeseeks and Destroy " when King Jellybean assaulted Morty, which not only caused Rick to attempt to cheer Morty up but also murder King Jellybean once he figured out what happened.

Rick believes that Morty is "as dumb as he Rick is smart", but still insists that Morty focus on science in " Rick Potion No.

He claims that Morty will "be like [Rick] someday", and that he has a "special mind". He also takes offense when Jerry insinuates that Morty has some kind of disability. Rick initially cared very little for and paid scarce attention to his granddaughter, saying her opinion meant "very little" to him. As time went on, however, the two began to bond and go on their own adventures, making her - in a sense - Rick's second sidekick. Needful for revenge. He has abandoned at least one Summer to die after he was forced to switch dimensions.

However, he seems to care for his current version. He tends to acknowledge her input, stating he was almost proud her suggestion to destroy the federation. Rick is also disgusted by the sight of a dream version of Summer dressed in sexual clothing in " Lawnmower Dog ", and having her ask Rick and Morty to "make an inter-generational sandwich" makes him visibly disgusted. It appears that Rick loves his daughter, and for the most part is kind to her.

However, his treatment of her may just be a ploy to stay on her good side so he can continue to stay at her home and continue his adventures with Morty, although during " Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind " many Ricks from different dimensions seem to like C Rick's daughter, proving that he might have true feelings for his daughter. Jerry claims that Beth was "raised like a reptile by a mentally ill scientist" in " Raising Gazorpazorp ", suggesting that Rick's method of raising Beth was unorthodox.

Rick also treats Beth with more respect than he does the rest of the family. He often will curse at the other members or mock them but he is never seen doing this to Beth. He also has called her "Sweetie" a few times. While the exact details have yet to be revealed, it can be assumed that Rick was absent from a majority of Beth's life due to his adventures and terrorist acts against the Galactic Federations, most notably with Birdperson and Squanchy.

Rick only came back into Beth's life a short while before " Pilot ", though he visited at least once during Morty's very early childhood.

It is likely that she was unaware of this visit. Poopybutthole after thinking he was a parasite. He blames this on her relationship with Rick, telling her that she doesn't need to prove herself to be worthy of Rick's love by acting essentially just like him, as it is making her appear just as narcissistic and irresponsible.

And that while she's trying to gain Rick's approval, she's hurting him and Summer. Using an Elliott Smith song, Summer is able to get through to the older Rick, and he walks them through on how to transfer his mind back to his original body.

After Rick is put back into his original body, he decides Project Phoenix a project where Rick could seemingly live forever by continuously transferring his consciousness into younger bodies was a failure after Tiny Rick almost killed him. After dubbing it a failure, Rick brutally murders Tiny Rick and the rest of the clones with an axe. He seemingly takes special care to mutilate Tiny Rick for the trouble he put Rick through. Rick and Morty Wiki Explore. Rick and Morty. Universes Planets Businesses.

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