Rick Sanchez is a brilliant scientist in Rick And Morty. He is a rude alcoholic with no respect for most people, and he has a tendency to put his family in danger. Thanks to the fact that he is one of the smartest people in many universes, he is arrogant – but able to get himself out of the stickiest situations.
He’s also an incredible inventory. Though he is one of the smartest minds in the show, he has made his fair share of mistakes. Some of his mistakes are the darkest and most catastrophic failures Rick and Morty has ever seen.
10 Rick Was Caught By Facehuggers
Rick, Morty, and Summer went to a planet covered in facehugger eggs in Promortyus. Both Rick and Morty got far too close to the eggs in an act of carelessness, allowing the facehuggers to attach to and possess them. A typical facehugger explosively gives birth mere moments after possessing a host, killing both itself and the host. However, thanks to Summer, Rick and Morty did not die. Summer taught the facehugger society to live their lives to the fullest, but Rick destroyed their society, sending them back to the days in which they had a brief life cycle, simply because none of the facehuggers wanted to clean up the mess.
9 Rick Made A Poor Attempt To Keep Birdperson To Himself
To save Birdperson, Rick had to enter Birdperson’s mind. Rick tried his hardest to convince Birdperson to live again, traveling through the various memories of their time together. Rick wasn’t able to convince him, so he revealed that Birdperson had a daughter in an effort to save him. This gave Birdperson a renewed desire to live, but he saw right through Rick’s intentions.
Rick always saw Birdperson as his best friend, and was still bitter that Birdperson never joined him on his adventures. He craves nothing more than to have the loyalty of the people around him, but as shown in Rickternal Friendshine Of The Spotless Mort, Birdperson never allowed Rick to manipulate him.
8 Turning Into A Pickle Solved None Of Rick’s Problems
To get out of family therapy, Rick turned himself into a pickle in Pickle Rick. He had a cure that would deploy when the family left, but Beth realized his scheme and took the serum with her. As a result, Rick was unable to do much of anything until he fell into the sewers. He had to use his brilliant mind to adapt, killing and utilizing the body parts of bugs and rats that he encountered. He even accidentally infiltrated a building full of Russian agents, who were hellbent on trying to kill him. Rick eventually showed up at the therapy appointment anyway, worse for wear and desperate for the anti-pickle serum.
7 Operation Phoenix Was Never Perfected
In Big Trouble In Little Sanchez, Rick revealed that he was working on something called Operation Phoenix, which would allow him to transfer his mind into a duplicate body. When he transferred himself into a younger body, his younger self took control. His real self could only cry out for help using songs, which only Summer was able to pick up on. Unwilling to feel trapped like that again, he destroyed his backup bodies, calling the project a failure. Not perfecting the project would turn out to be a mistake as well, since in Edge Of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat, he woke up in the cloned bodies of Ricks in other universes since he didn’t have his own. This wouldn’t have been so bad if most of the other Ricks weren’t fascists.
6 He Destroyed The Vindicators
In Vindicators 3, Morty wanted to help the Vindicators destroy the Worldender in one of his obligatory Morty-led adventures. Rick had no interest in it, and due to his personality conflicting with the members of the hero team, they did not get along. He became incredibly drunk, covering the conference table in diarrhea. Morty and the Vindicators soon found out that Rick did much more in his drunken state. He not only defeated Worldender on his own, but he set up a series of traps that killed Vance Maximus and Crocubot. As tensions grew, the Vindicators started to destroy each other, with Supernova being the only surviving member in the end.
5 Rick Created A Chain Of Decoy Families That Destroyed Themselves
Mortyplicity showed that Rick made the mistake of creating decoy families to allow the decoys to take the fall for his family in case of an emergency. Rather than acting as a shield for Rick’s family, the decoys made decoys of their own.
The decoys became aware of the other decoys that they did not create, leading to them destroying themselves while the original family was off-planet with Space Beth. This failed plan only led to an episode filled with a large number of needless deaths, as the decoys showed that they had the same memories, feelings, and personalities of the people they were cloned from.
4 Rick Cloned Beth
No episode better emphasizes how much Rick has failed as a father than Star Mort Rickturn Of The Jerri. When Beth was presented with the choice to either go to space or stay on Earth, she decided to let Rick choose to determine what he wanted. Unwilling to make the choice, he created a perfect clone with her memories and randomized the Beths so he wouldn’t know which was real. Although the rest of the family didn’t know the truth, Rick’s constant attempts to convince each Beth that the other one was the clone made the family disgusted with him.
3 Rick Created The Citadel Of Ricks
When Rick became tired of pointlessly killing dozens of versions of himself, he helped the surviving Ricks create the Citadel of Ricks, a place that was intended to become a safe haven for Ricks and Mortys. This Citadel not only made multiple attempts on Rick’s life, but ironically, many of the Ricks and Mortys within were more vulnerable since they gathered in one place. The Citadel was revealed to have done more despicable things, such as torturing Mortys, overworking them, and manipulating Beth and Jerry into getting together to create more Mortys.
2 Rick’s Love Potion Cure Was Ineffective
In Rick Potion #9, Rick created a love potion for Morty to use on Jessica to get his grandson off of his back. He forgot to mention to Morty that the love potion shouldn’t be administered if the recipient had the flu, as it would make the effects rapidly spread to other people. What Rick didn’t realize was that not only was it flu season, but Morty was going to the school dance, an event filled with people. Rick, confident in his ability to fix the situation, decided to create a cure using praying mantis DNA. This only made the people want to kill Morty, and mutated them to resemble a praying mantis. His second cure utilized more animal DNA, but that only mutated the people further, forcing Morty and Rick to flee their universe.
1 Rick Lost His Original Family
Rickmurai Jack showed Rick’s genuine backstory. He lost Beth and Diane when another version of himself killed them. This inspired him to create a portal gun, which he used to search for the version of himself that was responsible for their deaths. He killed countless Ricks in his quest for vengeance, which would eventually lead to the Council of Ricks blaming him for the chain of murders that occurred in Close Rick-counters Of The Rick Kind. Unfortunately, he never found the version of himself that was responsible. He appears to have given up on his search, as it had only appeared to do him more harm than good.
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