Top 10 Crazy Rick and Morty Theories That Might Be True
For this list, we'll be looking at some favorite fan speculations about this clever sci-fi show.
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#10: Rick Sanchez & Ford Pines
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This show crosses over with “Gravity Falls” A LOT. In “Society of the Blind Eye,” Stan Pines drops some items – which, in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind," exit when Rick opens a random portal. Dipper and Mabel Mortys are spotted in the Citadel in "The Rickshank Rickdemption," and there have been depictions of what appears to be Bill Cipher, and maybe Robbie’s muffin graffiti too in the show. With worlds so close, is it possible Rick ever met that other interdimensional traveler/genius, Ford Pines? Will we get a guest appearance from Ford? Did Ford fight against the Galactic Federation, or with it … Is that a bird-person feather!? All speculation, but that's why it is a fan theory.
#9: Rick Knows This Is TV
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Throughout the series, Rick has repeatedly taken time for fourth wall breaks, and the people around him either don’t seem to notice or don’t get it. This theory basically runs off the idea that Rick is so smart, that he’s figured out he is on a TV show. This is also the real reason he is so depressed, being neither alive nor dead. He doesn't care about anything because what’s the point when you are a cartoon at the mercy of an unknowable creator. He’s smart, but also just rendered lines. He has no true free will, so literally nothing matters. Ugh, no wonder he drinks.
#8: Not the Rickest
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Say whaaaaat? In the penultimate episode of season one, Rick C-137 declared himself the Rickest Rick. Fans (and Morty) seem to have taken that to mean that he is the most calculating, brilliant, and cold with complex dashes of caring of all the Ricks – at least within the central finite curve. But that’s the thing with finites, right? Seeing as this was a self-professed and assumed personal identity, isn’t it possible that he is not the Rickest Rick? Could there be another Rick that could out-Rick our Rick? Or is that rick-diculous?
#7: Rick Replaced a Suicide
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This one ties back into another theory that we’ll get into a little bit later. While it is known that Rick and Morty already hopped universes once (or maybe twice now, damn squirrels), when Rick returned after two decades absent, perhaps he just slid into whatever world was closest/available whilst on the run from the Galactic Federation. This theory posits that basically yes, and that the Rick he replaced had succeeded in killing himself or was killed off elsewhere. Hey, if the seat was open...
#6: So Smart?
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Back in the very first episode, Rick drags Morty off on an adventure in the middle of the school day . Turns out that he needs seeds from a special tree. Not much is said about these seeds, only that Rick really needs them for his work – and of course that Morty needs to put them way up his butt to smuggle them through customs. By the end, they dissolve, an action that – fleetingly – gives Morty hyper-intelligence. Fans have speculated that the work Rick needs the seeds for is literally all his work; that he makes them into a beverage, which he is constantly swigging from his flask whenever they start to wear off.
#5: How the Federation Found Rick
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This one is pretty darn likely. When at the spaceport (smuggling those aforementioned seeds), Rick and Morty get the alarm raised. Realizing whom they just let slip away, the Federation is able to track where the portal opened: Morty's school. Unsure of where to go from there, they planted deep cover agent Tammy to pose as a student and find out who Rick Sanchez’s grandkids were. After seeing Mr. Meeseeks (look at me!) presentation, Tammy realized Summer Smith had access to alien lifeforms and was therefore likely the gal she was looking for. She befriended her, and used that friendship to access Rick and his friends. It makes a lot of sense.
#4: Not Original
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Remember that possible suicide Rick took over for? We’re tying it back. Seeing how there’s so much universe swapping, we wouldn’t be surprised if our Rick is not from the same universe as our Morty. While it seems firm that our Rick is C-137 – as that is the way that the Council of Ricks addressed him – it is never actually established that our Morty is Morty C-137. That was just assumed. This theory suggests that Rick C-137 is not with C-137 Morty, but that even before he Cronenberged up our Morty’s world, Rick had left, or was forced to leave, a different universe.
#3: Not the Same Every Time
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The idea is that the main story arc really does follow Rick C-137 and his Morty around. However, episodes that don't add to the larger arc could be any similar Rick and Morty. The first glimpse of this comes in “Mortynight Run,” when Rick and Morty are dropping off Jerry at the Jerryboree. They get a ticket with the number 5126. We then follow a Rick and Morty pair around on their adventures with Fart. But when they return to pick up Jerry, another Rick asks the duo we’ve been following around if they have ticket 5126 – meaning they are actually the pair we saw in the opening, and our C-137 Rick and Morty presumably.
#2: Evil Morty Is the Original Morty
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If Rick C-137 is not with Morty C-137, what happened to that original Morty? Well, he’s been cooking up revenge: Evil Morty IS the Original. When we first encounter Evil Morty, Rick is having his brain scanned by a “Rick” piloted by Evil Morty. In it, we see Rick has memories of a baby Morty. Fans predict that this is Evil/Original Morty as a baby. Also, in Bird Person’s home, there is a picture of Rick with a baby Morty. It seems very likely that Rick C-137 helped raise Original Morty and abandoned him, which is why Original/Evil Morty tried to frame C-137 for murdering Ricks, and now has taken over the Citadel. Elaborate revenge.
#1: Morty IS Rick
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As the Whovians out there might say, this gets sort of timey-wimey. The idea is that Morty is a young Rick and that Rick learned everything he knows from himself while on crazy sci-fi adventures. Morty’s knowledge of aliens and advanced technology has progressed a lot in two years. What would happen in sixty? They both like redheads, and folks who believe this theory got another extra boost with the appearance of Tall Morty at the academy on the Citadel; a Morty at school so long he aged – and grew up to be Rick! However, this requires time travel stuff (and that’s literally an idea shelved in the garage). Guess only time will tell.
