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This led to his cynicism, his hopeless apathy, his amoral attitude, and a decades-long intergalactic vengeance quest that went nowhere. Ultimately, the big reveal of season 5’s finale was that an errant Rick did indeed kill the wife and child of Rick-137 (the Rick viewers know and love) years earlier (“ so you can all stop talking about it,” as the character sardonically says after the reveal). Poopybutthole waxed lyrical about the state of his life in the surprisingly maudlin stinger, it became clear that he was talking about more than his own existence and tacitly summarizing the themes of the entire preceding season. Rick & Morty’s post-credits stingers tend to be silly one-off gags, but this one (like the preceding episode) was different. However, odd as it may sound, it was the post-credits stinger of the episode that encapsulated the meaning of the entire season, with a seldom-seen supporting character going deep and guiding viewers through the season’s metaphorical import. The action of the finale was fast-paced, dramatic, and surprisingly sincere, explaining Rick’s heartless apathy, a tragic relation about the real relationship between Ricks and Mortys, and a shocking coda that left the future of both title characters unclear.

Related: Rick & Morty Season 5 Finale Breaks The Show's Rules (But Won't Kill It) The Rick & Morty season 4 finale challenged this and season 5 promised a major shift in terms of tone and story for the series, something it more than delivered in the explosive finale. Many episodes of the show ended with character development being mostly forgotten or undone to maintain the status quo of Rick & Morty, and some fans felt characters were growing stale as a result. That section of the infinite universe is where Ricks live.Until season 4, Rick & Morty relied on a mostly episodic formula. As Evil Morty explained, it’s a barrier that divides “all the infinite universes from all the infinite universes where ’s the smartest man in the universe.” (Think of a line without end in either direction, but with one portion partitioned off. That’s what the Central Finite Curve really is: a wall between realities. The Ricks of the Citadel simply separated themselves from all the infinite universes where they aren’t. Not because Rick is naturally the smartest man in every universe though. But every Rick within the Central Finite Curve has one thing in common: they are the smartest man in their own universe. He is the exact center of this previously unexplained concept. Rick C-137, “the Rickest Rick,” sits right in the middle. The show made passing references to the Central Finite Curve previously-most notably in explaining how far from its center a particular Rick falls.

Rick and morty season 5 finale full#

It gave him a full scan of the specific Rick who ruined his life.Įvil Morty with an eyepatch stands in front of a shocked Rick and Morty

In his quest for vengeance he became an arms dealer to acquire a crystal that helped him access his own memory. He started visiting different worlds looking for the man who murdered his family. What really happened is that a shell-shocked, depressed Rick lived in squalor at his shattered home until one day he decided to build that portal gun.

In the fake memory, Rick instantly built his portal gun and headed into the multiverse. Unlike the fake memory he showed the Federation, what followed felt much sadder. But instead of taking “no” for an answer, Murder Rick dropped a bomb into the garage, killing Prime Rick’s wife and daughter. Rick C-137 (the show’s main Prime Rick) turned down his alternate dimension copy, saying that kind of life sounded lonely. A Rick from another dimension showed up in his garage offering him intra-dimensional technology. The fake memory he showed the Federation in the season three premiere was mostly true. A green scanned image of a Rick in a black tactical suit holding a portal gunĪdult Swim Rick’s “Stupid Crybaby Backstory”īird Person once said wubba lubba dub-dub means “I am in great pain.” Now we know why Rick says it all the time.