Rick Sanchez

Rick Sanchez, also known as Grandpa Rick, Rick C-137 and Smartest Man in the Universe, is the main protagonist from the Rick and Morty series.
== Charactah Account ==
A cold-hearted yet brilliant elderly scientist and inventor living with his daughter's family, and Summer and Morty's maternal grandfather. Rick constantly drags his grandchildren along on adventures that serve purposes rarely expressed. He has access to all sorts of technology he's supposedly invented all on his own, or acquired from alien species, and he is (in)famous among aliens as one of the most intelligent beings in existence. Despite that, he drinks and behaves like a jerkass most of the time, and finds that his technology is really cut out for bigger problems than found everyday in the family, though when the two combine the result is never a pretty sight.
Rick is a genius scientist, capable of creating complex scientific inventions, including brain-enhancing helmets, dream-invading devices, portals to several different dimensions, 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 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 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, and 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 flew into a rage, mowing down multiple Federation troops. Rick gasped 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. 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Rick and Morty
* Rick and Morty Season 2
* Rick and Morty Season 3
* Rick and Morty Season 4
* Rick and Morty Season 5
* Rick and Morty Season 6
* Rick and Morty Season 7
=== Comics ===
* Ninja High School: Indie Wars
* Rick and Morty
* Rick and Morty Go To Hell
* Rick and Morty Presents
* Rick and Morty Presents: Death Stalkers
* Rick and Morty Presents: HeRICKtics of Rick
* Rick and Morty Presents: Jerry
* Rick and Morty Presents: Morty's Run
* Rick and Morty Presents: Sleepy Gary
* Rick and Morty Presents: Snuffles Goes to War
* Rick and Morty Presents: The Flesh Curtains
* Rick and Morty Presents: The Hotel Immortal
* Rick and Morty Presents: The Vindicators
* Rick and Morty Presents: Unity
* Rick and Morty Treasury Edition
* Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons
* Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons #1: Director's Cut Edition
* Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons II: Painscape
* Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Deluxe Edition
* Rick and Morty: Corporate Assets
* Rick and Morty: Ever After
* Rick and Morty: Free Comic Book Day 2017
* Rick and Morty: Go To Hell
* Rick and Morty: Lil' Poopy Superstar
* Rick and Morty: Mr. Nimbus
* Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It
* Rick and Morty: Rick's New Hat
* Rick and Morty: Show Me What You Got
* Rick and Morty: Worlds Apart
=== Movies ===
* Space Jam: A New Legacy
=== Video Games ===
* MultiVersus
* Pocket Mortys
* Rick and Morty Presents: Jerry's Game
* Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure
* Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
== Trivia ==
* Rick's appearance is meant to parody Doc Brown from Back to the Future
* Rick has digestive problems, as revealed in ELDERS REACT TO RICK AND MORTY.
* Rick and Morty were originally from The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, Justin Roiland's original Back to the Future parody. Also the names of the characters sound similar to the names "Doc and Marty," the main characters of the trilogy.
* Rick has a fear of pirates.
* His last name, "Sanchez" is Hispanic in origin. In the audio commentary for the episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation", Rick was confirmed to be of Hispanic descent. Exactly where is unknown.
** Justin Roiland claims that he considers Rick's cultural background "irrelevant".
* According to himself, he has the hardest working liver in the galaxy.
* Rick (C-137) is one of the only Ricks in existence shown to care about his Morty, as he starts crying when he is shown various memories of Morty, though he outwardly dismisses it as "being allergic to dipshits.". This is further proven when he was ready to sacrifice himself for his Morty's sake during Season 2 episode 1 when they were in the Schrödingers cat field.
** Wasp Rick also cares about his Morty and family.
* In "Auto Erotic Assimilation," Rick is revealed to be an open pansexual.
* It's possible that Rick had a complicated relationship with his father because he wanted a stand of men who remotely resembled his father to cheer him on while he had sex with Unity. In "Pocket Mortys" the scientist known as Rick says how he heard that Rick's mother was never satisfied by any actions of Rick or those of his siblings. It's possible they were not very supportive of Rick and weren't satisfied with his achievements. None of Rick's siblings, nieces, or nephews have ever been mentioned or seen on the show.
* In "A Rickle in Time," he briefly mentions that if he dies in a cage, he loses a bet. What this bet is wagering or who it's with is never stated.
* A flashback gag in "Total Rickall" shows Rick as being interested in getting a special edition Link Between Worlds 3DS XL and asking Nintendo for sponsorship. However, Rick actually owns a black 3DS that he is seen playing in "Look Who's Purging Now".
* Rick can write with his right hand, shoot with his right hand, and sometimes holds objects with his right, but seems to favor using his left. He is often seen holding drinks with his left, shooting with his left, and even plays guitar with his left in a framed photo in Bird Person's house, with the exclusion of "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", where he plays guitar right-handed. With this evidence, it can be concluded that Rick is fully ambidextrous, whether it be by natural or cybernetic means.
* Rick breaks the fourth-wall more than any other character in the series. In fact, he seems to be the only character fully aware of the fact that he's in a TV show, sometimes directly addressing the audience.
* Politically, Rick’s Social Values seem to be completely anti-authoritarian (Anarchist), as he opposes bureaucracy and the Galactic Federation as a total. When it comes to his economic values, he seems to not have a preference for left wing or right wing economics, even though, at many instances, he has been critical of capitalism with the episode “Never Ricking Morty“ being a major example. Because of Rick's hyper anti-authoritarianism and seemingly criticalness of capitalism, some speculate he's an Egoist.
* Rick's prisoner ID code while incarcerated is AE-3852-I.
* In the episode, "Get Schwifty", Rick is shown to be the bass guitarist in a band called "The Flesh Curtains" performed by Rick, Squanchy, and Birdperson. Although the band is never mentioned in the show, Birdperson keeps a photograph of the band on his wall. Rick's guitar playing skill is also evidenced in the episode, "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", as Tiny Rick plays his own Tiny Rick Song on the guitar.
* Rick is currently the only character to have his consciousness transferred into a series of different bodies (including different versions of himself in the multiverse, clones of himself, and Cornvelious Daniel)
** Rick's current body is not even his own. His original body was killed during the events of "The Rickshank Rickdemption".
* Rick has a planet fetish.
* Rick has a B-Negative blood group.
* Jerry speculates that Rick may have more children besides Beth, due to his promiscuous lifestyle. This is later proven when Rick has a half horse human hybrid child with Poñeta named Foal.
* Rick has hinted that he is autistic. Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon is also on the autism spectrum.
* In the third season's premiere, Rick is referred to as the smartest being in the universe by the Gromflomite guards. This marks the first case of his title of The Smartest Man in the Universe being used. Rick was never called this in previous seasons. After this episode, however, several characters and even Rick himself refer to him as such.
* During the episode "Mort Dinner Rick Andre," many things about Rick are revealed.
** Rick has a nemesis called Mr. Nimbus. Mr. Nimbus seems to have vague connections to Rick's past.
** Apparently, Rick originally had an assistant named Kyle. Nothing is known regarding Kyle, except that Mr. Nimbus prefers him over Morty.
** Mr. Nimbus refers to Rick as Richard, possibly revealing this as his first name, with Rick merely being a nickname. However, Rick himself never confirms this.
* Rick C-137 is atypical and unique from other Ricks in the show.
** He did not have his own Smith family, as Beth C-137 was murdered as an infant by Rick Prime. He moves in with the Smith family that were abandoned by the same Rick who denied him his own family, posing as this version and pretending he had returned.
** Rick C-137 does not have a 'Morty C-137', as the Morty we follow through the show is from the Cronenberged Dimension. The only other Rick confirmed to not have his own biological Morty is Doofus Rick.
** The majority of the other Ricks we see live amongst each other on the Citadel of Ricks, as a capitalist-like civilisation, with varying professions, social classes and a governing democracy. However, not only is C-137 hostile to other Ricks (having murdered hundreds of thousands of versions of himself) he regularly expresses hatred and apathy for such governments and societies. He previously refused to join the Council of Ricks multiple times, instead opting on becoming an inter-galactic fugitive terrorist ("terror-rick"). All of which as shown in "Rickmurai Jack" and "The Rickshank Rickdemption."
** Despite the reoccurring gag that Morty questions whether Rick C-137 simply utilizes him selfishly, like all other Ricks, no other version of Rick has been shown to care about Morty and Summer as much as C-137. This could be due to the fact that his grandchildren of his dimension were never born, and thus he cherishes them more than other Ricks who naturally had grandkids.
* It has been confirmed in "Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort" that Rick was born naturally with light blue hair.
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== External Links ==
* Rick Sanchez at Rick and Morty Wiki
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