Evil Morty's entire plan in Rick and Morty explained, from his silent debut as Eyepatch Morty in season one to the moment he blasts a hole through the Central Finite Curve.
This video traces the full arc of the show's most patient antagonist across every major appearance, starting with "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind" in 2014 and moving through "The Ricklantis Mixup" and "Rickmurai Jack." It explains what the Citadel of Ricks actually was as a society, why Mortys were treated as second class citizens inside it, and how one Morty used the Citadel's own election to take the highest seat in it. It also covers the Central Finite Curve, the bounded slice of infinity where a Rick is always the smartest being present, and why Rick C-137 built it in the first place.
What's covered in this video:
The season one finale reveal, written by Ryan Ridley and directed by Stephen Sandoval, where the feared Evil Rick turns out to be a mindless cyborg operated by remote control through a transmitter hidden in a Morty's eyepatch.
The voice history of the character, from Justin Roiland's 2014 debut through the season five finale to Harry Belden taking over in the season seven episode "Unmortricken" after Roiland's 2023 departure.
The cold open trick that shows an Evil Rick murdering a Rick at a family dinner, and the reveal the next morning that the household was never Rick C-137's.
The Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks convicting C-137 on fabricated evidence for the murder of twenty-seven alternate Ricks and the kidnapping of their Mortys.
The revelation that a Morty's brainwaves cancel out a Rick's genius-level signal, making grandsons into camouflage, and the compound where captured Mortys are industrialized into a cloaking machine.
"The Ricklantis Mixup," also called "Tales from the Citadel," written by Dan Guterman and Ryan Ridley, directed by Dominic Polcino, first aired September 10, 2017 on Adult Swim.
The Citadel's class system, including the Simple Rick's Wafer Cookie factory where Wonka Rick harvests endorphins from Simple Rick trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine, plus Mortytown and Morty Academy for Rickless Mortys.
The campaign, the assassination attempt by his own campaign manager, the election win, and the execution of Council members who insisted the Council retain control.
Dan Harmon's reported description of the storyline as a political thriller modeled on Robert Redford's film The Candidate.
"For the Damaged Coda" by Blonde Redhead, from the 2000 album Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, and how it became his unofficial theme.
The Central Finite Curve explained through the "malcontent" line, the green portal fluid that marks its limits, and "The Rickshank Redemption" with its running chicken nugget sauce thread.
"Rickmurai Jack" from 2021, where Rick C-137 is revealed as the Curve's architect, built while searching for the Rick who killed his wife and daughter, and where Evil Morty uses a device combining Rick and Morty DNA with portal fluid to escape into the wider multiverse.
The answer to why, which amounts to exhaustion rather than trauma: being sick of Rick is what makes a Morty evil.
Mentioned in this video: Evil Morty, Eyepatch Morty, President Morty, Rick C-137, Evil Rick, Rick and Morty, Adult Swim, Justin Roiland, Harry Belden, Dan Harmon, Ryan Ridley, Stephen Sandoval, Dan Guterman, Dominic Polcino, Robert Redford, The Candidate, Blonde Redhead, For the Damaged Coda, Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind, The Ricklantis Mixup, Tales from the Citadel, The Rickshank Redemption, Rickmurai Jack, Unmortricken, Citadel of Ricks, Council of Ricks, Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks, Central Finite Curve, Mortytown, Morty Academy, Simple Rick, Wonka Rick, Simple Rick's Wafer Cookie factory, Lotus-Eater Machine, portal gun, portal fluid, Summer Smith, Morty Smith.
