Richard Sanchez

Summer Bethany Smith (granddaughter)

Mortimer Richard Smith (grandson)

Morty, Jr. (great-grandson)

Diane Bonnie Sinclair (ex-wife)

Francis Edward Sanchez (father)

Isabelle May Roiland (mother)

Patricia Joan Sanchez (sister)

Robert Henry Sanchez (brother)

Arthur Charles Sanchez (brother)

Jeanette Elizabeth Sanchez (brother)

Michael Sanchez (nephew via Robert)

Daniel Sanchez (nephew via Robert)

Adrienne Sanchez (niece via Arthur)

James Sanchez (nephew via Arthur)

Mark Sanchez (nephew via Robert)

David Sanchez (nephew via Arthur)

William and Benjamin (twin nephews via Patricia)

Wendy (niece via Jeanette)

Christopher (nephew via Jeanette)

Alice Margaret Schrab (m. grandmother)

Lawrence George Roiland (m. grandfather)

Lydia Agnes Cantwell (p. grandmother)

Vincent Gilbert Sanchez (p. grandfather)

George Willard Sinclair (father in-law)

Ella Therese Spencer (mother in-law)

Henry Willard Sinclair (brother in-law)

Katherine Adele Sinclair (sister in-law)

Brian Sinclair (nephew)

Dennis Sinclair (nephew)

Arms salesman

Store Owner (briefly)

**Richard Daniel Sanchez or Rick Sanchez C-137** is a genius scientist whose alcoholism and reckless, nihilistic behavior are a source of concern for his daughter's family, as well as the safety of their son, Morty.

## ​Biography

Not much is known about Rick's life as he made sure that only certain sections could be researched, except for a few things. It has been mentioned multiple times that Rick has been absent from the family for at least fourteen years and it wasn't until the 15th January ~~SOME YEAR~~ when Rick finally returned to the Smith house. The reason for his absence is unknown to the rest of the family. Only Rick's later years are easy to document where he resided in the Smith house, using the garage to work on his inventions and scientific formulas, travelling to other dimensions, building various robots and devices, and causing general mayhem in different parts of the universe.

Rick has a very pessimistic worldview, informing Morty that love is "just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed", advising him not to continue the cycle of love, marriage and heartbreak that he had to go through and that his parents would likely go through, encouraging him to direct his energy towards science. This could imply that the woman he married before is either divorced and/or deceased. He and Morty also left their original dimension (Dimension C-137) in favour of the one they currently reside in, on the same day. When Rick was somewhere in his college years or in his 20's, he, Birdperson, Squanchy and Ford Pines were in a rock band called "The Flesh Curtains, so friendship unlike love was valid to him.

## Apperance

Rick is a tall, lanky old man. He has long legs and arms and is very skinny. He has a dimly tanned ashy complexion and grey-blue hair with a bald spot on the back of his head. He has spiky hair on his head and a unibrow. His face is wrinkly as he has bags under his eyelids and a pressure fold above his unibrow that follows its position and laugh lines on both sides of his mouth. He wears a white lab coat with a light blue green shirt underneath. He also wears brown pants, a dark brown belt with a yellow buckle, and black shoes. He is occasionally seen with some green spill on his mouth, Showing up mainly when he is drunk or after he throws up. Rick speaks in a rambling, stammering manner that is often interrupted by belching and gagging, usually from being drunk.

## Personality

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, created to spite Mr. Needful, 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 a 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 Purge he observed, 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.

Rick has the tendency to be possessive and dominating of Morty, believing the boy to be his own personal helper. This doesn't prevent Rick from genuinely caring about Morty. He occasionally uses his own inventions to improve his grandson's life, such as invading the dreams of Mr. Goldenfold to help raise the boy's math grades (although raising Morty's grades would have the side benefit of preventing Morty's parents from removing Rick's helper) Rick can also be protective of Morty, when he eventually sets aside his cynicism to allow Morty to have a positive adventure, and abruptly kills Mr. Jellybean as the two are leaving the fantasy world because of the previous attempted rape on Morty. He even tried to sacrifice himself for Morty when they messed up time and accepted death, that is until he saw a way out of dying. He cried when seeing pictures of Morty and remembering Morty as a newborn reaching out to him, when he was held captive by Evil Rick, causing Evil Rick to mock him and then for Rick to insult him back.

Rick and Morty have a strong bond, though their relationship is strained due to Rick's cynicism, alcoholism, lack of conventional morality, and his tendency to push aside other members of the Smith family. Rick clearly doesn't respect Jerry in any sense, and his relationship with Beth can be tumultuous at times. Since Summer began to tag along on some of Rick's adventures, his initially very little interest in her, begun to develop a closer bond.

Rick has trouble taking orders from others, is very anti-totalitarian, and seems to dislike people with authority and government officials. He refuses to join the Council of Ricks because he views them as a government. He also calls the guards at Intergalactic Customs "robots" and claims that he doesn't respect them, as he deems them bureaucrats and doesn't like "being told where to go and what to do". Rick also has a great dislike of standardized education, claiming that school "isn't a place for smart people" and a "waste of time", and insists that things such as studying and homework are pointless and stupid.

Rick holds seemingly contradictory beliefs on religion, at one point telling Summer at the breakfast table in the pilot, "There is no God", yet in the "Anatomy Park" episode, he tells the family "Do you realize that Christ was born today? Jesus Christ our savior was born today-are you people even human? What kind of Christmas is this?" (although he was most likely sarcastic), quickly recognizing Mr. Needful as the Devil (eventhough he was just one of Lucifer's demon), and when he thinks he is going to die while one of the other sixty-three Ricks is chasing after Morty's lost collar, actually kneels and prays-"Please God, if there's a Hell, please be merciful to me" (significantly, when no one else can hear him). When the 1/64th Rick succeeds, he yells "Fuck you God, not today, bitch!" When the Ricks recombine in the presence of Summer and Morty, however, he once again says "I did it! There is no God! In your face!" It's possible this is just due to Rick's ego and his complete confidence in his own abilities.

Despite his general disregard for others, he is shown to harbor deep emotional pain and sorrow, especially when it comes to his romantic relationships, such as with his ex-wife and Unity. Not much is known about his marriage, but the absence of his wife is possibly a contributing factor to his current personality. Much more is known about his relationship with Unity. After freshening up during a long party with Unity's hive mind avatars, he returned to find Unity and all the planet's inhabitants gone, leaving behind a farewell note for Rick explaining that while Unity enjoyed its time with him, they could not be together, as they were too alike in the sense that they both turn others into mirror images of themselves, though in Rick's case, he does so through bad influence rather than assimilation.
Dejected, heartbroken, and alone, Rick returned home, where he was confronted by Beth over the basement lair and the escaped alien, and asked to keep no more alien pets. To Beth's (and the whole family's) shock, Rick simply conceded and retreated to the garage, where he clumsily attempted suicide with a makeshift death ray. He first killed a small, baby-like blob creature he kept, hoping to cure the space AIDS which the alien apparently suffered from. After Beth and Jerry let Blim Blam escape, Rick lost his chance to find the cure, hence his decision to euthanize the small alien. He thawed it out with a serum, comfortingly petting it as it cried out and screamed. He turned it to ash with the death ray before he sat down under it as it was about to fire again, only to pass out at the last moment while the death ray overloaded and fried. He remained slumped over his workbench, passed out, for the majority of the day and night. Rick and Morty then visited Beta 7's world, where Unity is staying. Rick demanded to see Unity, but Beta 7 informs Rick he is considered a "hostile entity" and threatened to attack the two unless they left, which Rick reluctantly did at Morty's urging.

### ​Substance Abuse

Originally, Rick's consumption of alcohol was passed off by his familty, but after the Rick's party, Bird Person claims that Rick is in "great pain" (citing his catchphrase "wubba lubba dub dub" as meaning "*I am in great pain. Please help me.*" in Bird Person's language), and that he uses drugs and alcohol to numb himself. This is most likely due to his genius intelligence, and the traumatizing effect that his continuous adventures may have on him, in the past and present. Rick regularly explains that the best method on how to deal with horrible events and outcomes is to "not think about it".

### ​Criminal Record

Throughout his numerous adventures with Morty, Rick has been shown to be ready and willing to disregard rules, laws and social norms if it is necessary to complete a task or escape a dangerous situation. Early on during the time he spent adventuring with Morty, Rick resorted to assault, battery, vandalism, smuggling, corruption of a minor, home invasion, reckless endangerment, terrorist threats, indecent exposure and even murder and arson in order to get the job done. The most common crimes committed are driving (or flying) under the influence, drug abuse, and public intoxication. After Bird Person's wedding, Rick was arrested by the Galactic Federation, he was placed under maximum security, another prisoner asks him "What are you in for?", to which Rick responds simply with "Everything"

* **Assault:** After messing up time and alerting a Fourth Dimensional Being , Rick started beating it up. Also when returning from an adventure to retreave MegaSeeds, Rick slaps a bystander alien in the face while fleeing from airport security, causing the alien to cry
* **Bioterrorism:** After trying to help Morty with his love life, Rick made a dysfunctional love potion using molegenes that spread a flu-like virus. Fixing his mistake he altered the potion to prey mantis DNA but this just spread the flu to everyone in the world, which caused them to rip apart and mutate into giant praying mantis monsters. He attempted to fix this again, by using another potion, but this only made them mutate again, cronenberging the entire world. He couldn't fix the mutations in the end, and just left the dimension with Morty, leaving all of the mutated humans behind.
* **Breaking and Entering (Burglary):** When the dogs take over ​Ricks world , Rick and Morty snuck into Mr. Goldenfold's house while he was sleeping with the intent to brainwash him into giving Morty an A in mathematics by invading Mr. Goldenfold's his dreams and incepting the idea.
* **Cable** **Piracy:** Rick regularly use an interdimensional cable box to stream an infinite amount of TV channels to his own television and the intergalactic hospital television.
* **Child Abuse:** Rick takes Morty along with him on all of his adventures, sometimes against his will. He often endangers his life as well as leaving him traumatized and mentally scarred by exposing him to scary and horrible things, such as watching himself get killed and having to bury his own body or being forced to kill clones of his family. Morty is also the victim of lots of physical damage such as breaking his legs.
* **Corpse Mutilation:** Rick ripped apart bodies of multiple rats and cockroaches and reassembled them into a pickle/rat suit.
* **Driving Under Influence:** Rick is drunk throughout the majority of his life and he's seen driving the space cruiser while he's drunk. Most notably when he prank Morty by creating a neurtino bomb, but then forgetting it was a prank due to being extremely intoxicated. Rick flew the space cruiser with Morty as he explained his fake plan and it almost led to him destroying the world .
* **Felony Murder:** Through the course of their adventures, many people have died as a direct or indirect result of Rick's actions. These deaths were usually during the commission of various other serious crimes he was committing, including felony evasion, smuggling, fraud, etc. Rick has also induced Morty to kill people for him, such as making him shoot the security guards to aid their escape after smuggling MegaSeeds.
* **Genocide:** In order to keep the inhabitants of the microverse producing power for his spaceship, Rick smashes the container of the Miniverse. This causes the Miniverse, and the Teenyverse (a miniature universe within the Miniverse), and its two races of inhabitants to be wiped from existence.
* **Human Cloning:** Rick clones and growes other versions of himself in vats in his bunker under the Smith Family garage. Although it remains unclear where cloning fits into Galactic law, it is at least illegal on Ricks World.
* **Illegal Arms Dealing:** Rick sold weapons to a hitmen for a long time, possibly also hiring him to kill various living beings.
* **Impersonation:** When Rick's concoctions mutated everyone on the planet not biologically related to Morty, the two traveled to a new dimension whose versions of them had just died in an explosion seconds before their arrival, and assumed their places as if nothing had happened. The corpses are currently still burried in the Smith's backyard. While escaping from Galactic prison, he took control over the minds many Gromflomites and members of SEAL Team Rick, and pretended to be them.
* **Kidnapping and False Imprisonment:** Rick kidnapped many an alien and kept them imprisoned in the basement against there own will for an amount of time, so that he could perform multiple tests on them.
* **Murder:** Outside of all of the hostile aliens he's killed, Rick has killed multiple innocent beings too. He blasted King Jellybean with a laser gun just as he was leaving the dimension (although it was justified, seeing as how Jellybean attempted to rape Morty and was shown to be a serial rapist pedophile). He ran around with an axe and killed several living versions of himself at different ages, including a baby, a young child, a young adult, and a full adult (although this could also fall under suicide, since they were his own clones). Rick has killed many of the Galactic Federation. Rick and Morty partook in a Purge, and Rick killed a large number of government officials, although this was in a successful effort to remove that Purge.
* **Prison Escape** - Rick broke out of the Galactic Federation Prison multiple times, killed many of the guards, and finally, blew the entire place up, which in turn, must have freed any other prisoners, assuming any survived the explosion.
* **Slavery:** Rick used a microverse, containing a whole planet of people to power his Spaceship battery. Originally, through deception, later through fear of destruction).
* **Smuggling:** Rick attempted to smuggle many different items, including multiple batches of MegaSeeds, past Intergalactic Customs security, sometimes by having Morty shove them up his butt to avoid the scanner detecting them. However, during the first attempt to smuggle MegaSeeds with Morty a security guard told them they had a new machine that would detect things up there, Rick grabbed Morty and took off running from them.
* **Terrorism:** The inhabitants of the microverse are forced to step on gooble-boxes to power Rick's spaceship for fear of their planet being destroyed (see above: Slavery).
* **Time Bending:** Rick froze time for the equivalent of six months which caused time to start splitting and dividing multiple times, to the point where a Fourth Dimensional Being came and tried to arrest him and his grandkids, also revealing that Rick may have done before.
* **Torture/Cruelty to Animals:** Rick was at a time in possession of a living, albeit frozen, being (unclear on the sentience of said being), which was horribly suffering after thawing out , and then he shocked it with a superheated ray, reducing it to ash. This was apparently to test his suicide machine.
* **Vandalism/Arson:** Rick destroyed multiple things at a constent rate throughout his life due to his lack of care for the things around him.
* **Treason/Rebellion:** Rick was part of an organization that attempted to overthrow and destroy the Galactic Federation, along with his old comrades Squanchy, Birdperson and Stanford Pines.

## ​Relationships

### ​Morty

Though exploitative and demanding, Rick genuinely cares about his grandson and values their adventures together, possibly making him the only Rick in existence to do so. He hesitates to outwardly show any love or appreciation however, making sure Morty doesn't get cocky. Rick was genuinely shocked to find that the Morty he traveled with turned out to be a simulation, when he was put into one by the Zigerions and he called them "diabolical sons of bitches", being angry they simulated Morty's genitalia. He then became very drunk and threatened the real Morty with a knife, demanding to know whether or not he was another simulation before passing out. Morty was possibly the stabilizing influence in Rick's life that kept Rick from doing things that could end up doing a lot of harm, though this does not work on many occasions. When Rick messed up, Morty was the one who convinced him to fix things.

Though Morty often frustrates him, Rick seems to get very upset at the idea of not being able to have adventures with Morty. He repeatedly attempts to help Morty escape from his other obligations to free up more time, in order to have him continue to be his assistant, such as pulling him out of school, manipulating Mr. Goldenfold's dreams to give Morty A-grades in math, allowing Morty to lead an adventure of his own, and creating a serum of vole oxytocin to force Jessica into loving Morty, just so Morty would hand him a screwdriver.

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Rick and Morty fist-bumping.

Rick's (and all Ricks in other realities) reason for bringing Morty along with him is that all Ricks give off a very distinct brainwave pattern due to their genius, making them easy to track by their various enemies. The only way to camouflage the brainwave is to stand near someone with "complementary" brainwaves, which Rick calls "Morty Waves". Despite this, Rick seems to do things with Morty for reasons beyond needing camouflage, such as watching TV with him, taking him to an alien pawn shop, and infiltrating Mr. Goldenfold's dreams. It can also be pointed out that Rick can be spiteful to those that have genuinely upset Morty, such as when King Jellybean assaulted Morty, which not only caused Rick to attempt to cheer Morty up but also murder King Jellybean once he figured out what happened.

Rick believes that Morty is "as dumb as he (Rick) is smart", but still insists that Morty focus on science. He claims that Morty will "be like him (Rick) someday", and that he has a "special mind". He also takes offense when Jerry insinuates that Morty has some kind of disability.