Rick Prime

*- Rick Prime introducing himself to Rick C-137.*

***Rick Prime**: "Buddy, I have been asking myself that exact same question."*

*- Rick Prime to his son-in-law Jerry before killing him.*

*- Rick Prime's pre-recorded message, taunting Rick C-137 and Morty Prime.*

*- Rick Prime's last words to Rick C-137, as the latter beats him to death.*

## Evil-Doer

Kill the families of every Rick Sanchez using the Omega Device. (Temporarily Succeeded; Eventually Failed)
Psychologically break Rick Sanchez. (Briefly Succeeded; Temporarily Failed)
Kill Evil Morty, and Morty Smith Prime. (Both Failed)

### Hobby:

Traveling the multiverse.
Watching TV.
Hunting.
Planning.
Scheming.
Tormenting Rick C-137.

### Crimes:

Mass Murder
(Including Child Murder & Murder By Negligence)
Pseudocommando
Tyrannicide
Homicide
Vandalism
Harassment
Torture
Stalking
Fraud
Usurpation
Defilement
Terrorism
Mutilation
Trespassing
Conspiracy
Corruption
Psychological Abuse
Unethical Experimentation
Child Abandonment
Property Damage
Indecent Exposure

### Type of Villain:

Homicidal Egomaniacal Mastermind

**Richard "Rick" Daniel Sanchez**, better known as his common nickname **Rick Prime**, is one of the main overarching secondary antagonists (Alongside with **Evil Morty**) of the adult-animated science-fiction series *Rick and Morty*.

He is the alternate version and archenemy of **Rick C-137** due to ruining the latter's entire life and family, by killing both His wife and daughter, kickstarting Rick to then invent the portal gun and go on a futile mission of revenge for decades, ultimately causing him to become the broken, depressed and destructive man he is today. Rick Prime is eventually revealed to be the true grandfather of the main version of Morty Smith, as well as his family-in-law which would be later adopted by Rick C-137 after leaving them.

Like all of his other versions, he was voiced by the series co-creator Justin Roiland up until Season 6. In Season 7, he is voiced by Ian Cardoni.

## Appearance:

Being Rick's counterpart, the two share many identical features, such as their blue hair, gray skin and unibrow. What sets him apart from other Rick's, however, is his short slicked back hair and mysteriously youthful appearance. He is always seen wearing a navy shirt with a red stripe under a vest as well as navy pants with a lopsided belt.

## Personality:

Rick Prime is essentially the embodiment of all of Rick's worst attributes. He is an arrogant, nihilistic, narcissistic, self-righteous scientist with a god complex. He doesn’t care for anybody else and believes that the only thing that any Rick needs is his infinite selves. As such, he doesn’t like to "team up with other." He prefers to not be found by others and likes to seclude himself, however he does love building elaborate bases where he can taunt whoever may enter.

While his exact motives are unknown, he seemingly spent a lot of his time going to different Ricks throughout the multiverse and giving them the Portal Gun formula. However, Rick Prime is shown to be incredibly spiteful and petty. He was surprised and angered when Rick C-137 refused to take the portal gun formula, and out disgust of how benevolent Rick was and of pettiness for having been rejected, he kills both Diane and Beth. It can be presumed he did this to manipulate Rick into becoming as terrible as him and his other counterparts are and to also prove to Rick that his good-hearted nature could be easily destroyed, which unfortunately was mostly right.

He’s shown to be just as, if not more intelligent and strategic as Rick C-137 himself. In "Solaricks", he ends up setting up several traps and extra prerecorded hologram screens to distract and confuse Rick while simultaneously taunting him, with his eyes on the prerecordings even managing to follow Ricks every move in the present as though he were looking at his counterpart himself. And in "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation" he has somehow found a way to be in multiple universes at once, or at least has made it appear as such to confuse Rick. He also shows an indignant and petulant side while pretending to be a naked clone, shaking his bare bottom at Rick and Morty to mock them, with his later meeting with Jerry Prime confirming that it was him.

Curiously enough, he lacks his counterpart's hostility towards Jerry, complementing Jerry Prime on "arcing out" and even praising him as a "badass" when he slashes his throat, albeit in a condescending manner. Being the psychopath he is though, he ultimately doesn't care for his son-in-law any more than he does for the rest of his family, outright admitting that he "never got to close to the concept" before coldly killing Jerry Prime despite the latter not posing a threat to him.

In "Unmortricken" Rick Prime would eventually become increasingly consumed with sociopathic pride when he uses his Omega device to exterminate other dimensional variants relating to Ricks to spite, and enjoys sadistically taunting his nemesis psychologically with imagery of his original dead wife through advanced machinery to attack him, including giant robots of Diane, which he brags about even in death to destroy every aspect of Rick-C137's existentialism, and being cocky and overconfident to the degree where he underestimates his enemies enough to bring them to his own operational base while trolling them with dispenses of his own weaponry to the point that Evil Morty is able to paralyse him when he lets his guard down long enough to seal his fate to be given to his enemy.

## History:

Like most Ricks in the Central Finite Curve, Rick Prime would go on to become a scientist as an adult and have a wife named Diane and a daughter named Beth, but he would ultimately become neglectful and uncaring towards them and choose science over his family, eventually callously abandoning them both. Unknown to him, Beth would later marry a man named Jerry give birth to two children, Summer and Morty, the latter going on to become the very Morty that serves as the deuteragonist of the show.

Sometime later, he would meet another version of himself from Dimension C-137 who, like him, was a small-time inventor married to a woman named Diane, and with a daughter named Beth. Rick Prime entered Rick C-137's dimension as he was attempting to perfect his portal technology, and tried to convince him to become an inter-dimensional traveler. However, unlike what he himself did, Rick C-137 instead opted to stay with Diane and Beth, viewing his family as more important, much to the other's frustration and confusion. Rick Prime left the dimension, but not before killing Diane and Beth with a bomb as Rick C-137 watched in horror. Bitter with vengeance, Rick C-137 eventually invented the portal gun and killed many alternate versions of himself in his attempts to kill Rick Prime.

At some point, Rick Prime found out about Rick C-137's quest to kill him so he went into hiding but regardless, Rick C-137 never got the chance to find him and get revenge, so he instead settled down with the aformentioned Morty and an alternate version of their family.

Years later, Rick C-137's botched attempt at resetting the portal index after his and Morty's encounter with Evil Morty led to every dimensionally displaced counterpart being sent back to their home realities, including Rick Prime. Rick C-137 realized that Rick Prime was finally back in his home dimension and went to his hideout with Morty to kill him, However, as soon as he arrived, Rick Prime, appearing through a pre-recorded message, decided to further antagonize Rick C-137, showing that there is a naked Rick taunting him inside a capsule (that Rick being the actual Rick Prime) and making it seems like his hideout is rigged to blow. Ultimately, Rick C-137 and Morty chooses to leave his hideout so he can rescue Summer, Beth, and Space Beth, once again leaving Rick Prime victorious and allowing him to get away with his crimes, at least for the time being.

Later, Rick Prime came across the alternate Jerry in his home dimension. Jerry briefly suggested they team up, but Rick Prime denied the idea, saying it’s too much work for him to manage a team. As Rick Prime was talking, Jerry slit his throat in an attempt to kill him. However, Rick Prime’s otherwise fatal injury healed itself, after which he promptly killed Jerry.

At some point he built the Omega Device, which would allow him to erase any person he desires from the multiverse. His first use of this weapon was to erase many versions of Diane from existence, at which point he would use his many body doubles to lure every erased Dianes grief stricken and vengeful Ricks onto the same quest for revenge as C-137. These Ricks would eventually kill a Rick Prime body double that would trigger a strain of portal fluid that would transport them to an unknown location where they would be forced to fight each other to the death for Primes amusement under the promise of the last Rick left alive having his Diane restored to life, which was shown to be a lie as the winning Rick would instead be forced to fight a robot with Dianes face and voice who would kill them anyway.

His trap would eventually ensnare Rick C-137, Morty, and Evil Morty who would berudgingly team up to escape the death match and stop Rick Prime. Rick manages to track Prime to his lair with Evil Morty's help. Prime then declares his intention to erase every member of Ricks family from existence just to torment him further, demonstrating the Omega Devices power by erasing Slowmobius and his every counterpart in front of him (despite Prime admitting to supposedly like him). A fight breaks out with Prime proving to be a match for Rick and Evil Morty on his own, dominating the fight until both Ricks get stunned by a giant robot Dianes fist crushing them.

Regenerating his mangled body, Prime approaches one of the 2 Morty's who appears to be the main Morty. Despite seemingly recognizing him as being his original grandson, he tries to kill him anyway, only to be stunned by a hidden taser in the arm, with it being revealed that the Morty Prime tried to kill was Evil Morty who had tricked him by putting his shirt and eyepatch on the main Morty to lower Primes guards. As Evil Morty downloads the plans for the Omega Device and shuts down Primes remaining body doubles, Prime offers to team up with Evil Morty, only for the latter to refuse and leave him at the mercy of C-137.

After years of hunting him down in anticipation of his revenge, Rick viciously beats Prime to death, ignoring his warnings of Evil Morty using the Omega Device against him. Recognizing his end had come, he spends his last few moments of life viciously mocking his mortal enemy on how it had been he who made him the man he is and that his life would mean nothing without Prime giving him purpose, smugly pointing out how he had briefly lived in his original home and adopted his grandson to give his life meaning. Rick eventually beats the last bit of life out of his hated counterpart but learns in the aftermath that his victory had brought him no satisfaction, because his family was still dead. Despite still having Morty and his current family, Rick feels even more lost than before.

## Trivia:

* Rick Prime shares his name with one of the members of the Council of Ricks.
* When Rick Prime is giving his pre-recorded speech, he refers to Keyser Söze, another popular villain in fiction while taunting Rick C-137.
* In January of 2023, Justin Roiland was fired by Adult Swim for his domestic abuse allegations, yet *Rick and Morty* has been confirmed to continue without him, though this consequently means that Rick Prime will be recast in case he makes further appearances. It's supposedly also means Rick Prime's story will continue as the series villain.
* In *Pocket Mortys*, Rick Prime, whose name is given as "Weird Rick", is a customization option at Salesman Rick's, and can be purchased for 10 Blips and Chitz coupons (or 10 credits if the player is playing in Multiplayer).
* Rick Prime was known as "Weird Rick" until the Inside the Episode for "Solaricks" came out, where Dan Harmon and episode writer Alberto Lundy consistently refer to him as "Rick Prime." "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation" is the first episode to refer to him as such in dialogue
* Rick Prime appears younger than most Ricks, including our own. Given his regeneration ability, it is likely he has developed some technology that allows him to stay immortal.
	+ This stays consistent with what we know about Rick (and by extension, most if not all Ricks). Rick has often expressed dread at his mortality and often tries to avoid his inevitable death with projects like Operation Phoenix.
* In the episode "*Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind*", during the scene when Evil Rick is showing Rick C-137 his diagram of all the Ricks from most evil to least, he had himself #1, and Rick C-137 #3. He said the Rick in the #2 spot was "super weird". Rick Prime went by Weird Rick until Season 6, so it's possible that the name "Super Weird Rick" was in fact Rick Prime. Which would prove some fan theories that Evil Morty is more evil then Rick Prime, considering Evil Rick was number #1 on the list, and Evil Rick was a robot controlled by Evil Morty. Although it's possible the diagram wasn't true, it's possible it might of been part of Evil Morty's scheme to trick Rick C-137 into thinking Evil Rick was a actual Rick.

## Gallery:

Rick Prime meeting Rick C-137 for the first time.Rick Prime showcasing his portal gun to Rick C-137.Rick Prime angrily leaving Dimension C-137 after Rick C-137 rejects his offer.A photo of Rick Prime from Rick C-137's memory.Rick Prime in Season 6.Rick Prime's full body appearance in season 6.Rick Prime healing his fractured open wound, after being slashed with a knife by Jerry Smith Prime.Rick Prime's appearance in Pocket Mortys.Rick Prime's Pocket Morty sprites.Rick Prime in season 7, along with his well-deserved death at the hand's of Rick C-137.