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The Rick and Morty Presents: Unity comic has a lot of issues (the way they use she/her pronouns and very gendered language to refer to Unity and also there’s just a general feel of misogyny) but there are some moments from it that I definitely appreciate:
Honestly I just think this panel is hot 😅
Rick being extremely horny and up for an ‘erotic challenge’ with a catboy, a sentient slice of pizza, and a trunkperson ‘for Unity’ (but really just for himself)
I love how feral he looks here and also what weddings is he wrestling at? My headcanon is going to be that Rick just gatecrashes weddings to start drama with people he’s never met in his when he’s bored
Again Rick being unashamedly horny but also something about his face and pose in the second panel just cracks me up
Rick wakes up in restraints and his immediate thought is ‘oh this is hot’
Obsessed with this
We love perceptive Morty. Surprisingly I think this is actually one of the things that really demonstrated this trait of Morty’s to me - he knows Rick so well and sees through his bullshit
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"i trust you now." / "that's nice, but i don't trust you."
"you did not know of the child when you came to rescue me, and once aware, refrained from sharing until necessary to save yourself."
"fair enough."
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"Fear No Mort" was constant whiplash. In fact, I struggled to evaluate this episode at first because it was one twist after another. Throughout the episode, I had flashbacks to "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" (the rap scene might've been a direct reference) and the Rickbot reveal in "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation."
For better or worse, season seven's had a lot of callbacks and episodes that mirrored previous ones: "That's Amorte" played out like "Mortynight Run"; "Air Force Wong" brought together Dr. Wong, the president and Unity; "Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie" was a "Get Schwifty" sequel.
Seasons six and seven have also piled on the fanservice. The first four seasons stubbornly refused to give us what we want, dangling fan theories or a gentler Rick in our faces before yanking it away. Rick started to change in season five, but it's another ten episodes before you get Rick in a suit and tie, Rick announcing that Rickcest is canon, Rick regularly going to therapy, Space Beth joining the family and other content that's floated around the fandom since 2017.
And let's not forget the big one: C-137 Rick and Morty, Prime Rick and Evil Morty in one episode, fighting and teaming up after we saw Evil Morty's once-forbidden backstory.
Some call it cheap thrills, but I call it a gift to the fandom that's patiently waited for the fakeouts to end. And now that I've said that: "Fear No Mort" was one giant fakeout.
But was it, though?
This is the most unpopular opinion in the world, but I'm not invested in Rick and Diane's relationship. As a gay woman, I just don't connect with opposite-gender couples. Also, I dislike the trope of the idolized dead wife that the audience only learns about through her widower. She's not her own character, just an extension of the male protagonist.
When the fake Rick and Diane reconnected, I thought "Oh boy, this is getting cheesy." They're falling for each other again: check. Rick feels guilty about her death: check. We see how similar they are: check. Rick doesn't want to leave: aaaand, check.
I'm also a little lost after the ending. Morty was the only one in the hole, so why did we see all these scenes from fake Rick's perspective? Was an NPC really that busy?
How much we learned about Diane is debatable, too, since Morty never met her. I guess his ideas came from whatever Rick's told him and maybe the ship's voice since she's based on Diane.
I did like how the episode kept reminding us that Morty's still in the Fear Hole. I mean, we didn't know that, but we knew that. No "Are they in the Fear Hole or not??" until all the twists in the third act.
Aside from that, I don't want the show to revisit the past too much because Rick needs to let go. If you're a Marvel fan, you saw the backlash to Steve Rogers traveling back in time to spend a lifetime with Peggy in "Endgame." He had a life in the present, but he refused to move on.
Nostalgia makes us yearn for earlier years, but if Rick abandoned his family to live with Diane in another reality, I wouldn't call that a sweet ending. I'd call that a disappointment and a waste of his character.
Turns out, Rick never had that option at all.
Well...in a way, he did. And when Morty told him what he saw in the Fear Hole, Rick ran back to the restroom. He looked into the hole. He thought about it. And then he did what I wanted him to do, which was walk away. In this moment, he chose the present.
Admittedly, Morty's fear came true: Rick didn't jump in the hole after him, he did just sit there and watch, and he didn't want to say that Morty's irreplaceable out loud. Plus, Rick was bewildered when Morty hugged him. But for the first time, instead of standing stiffly or gently pushing him away, Rick started to hug him back.
We also saw what Morty didn't: Rick smiling to himself after hanging up the picture of Morty that he kept in his wallet. He had the chance to wallow in shadows of the past, but he didn't take it. Rick chose him.
"Fear No Mort" could've ended with Rick just saying "Let's go" and leaving, but it didn't. Seasons one and two Rick would've bitched and moaned about Morty taking so long. Season three Rick would've left him there for a while to torment him. Season four Rick would've found a way to take advantage of this.
But seasons five, six, seven? That's real character development. That's what all the Twitter users saying "Wow, Rick and Morty is actually good" have been missing out on.
And for the first time in the series, a season didn't end with Rick relapsing or getting a (well-deserved) ass kicking. Is Morty going to get the grandfather that he deserves? Or will he move on, too, now that Rick's releasing his iron grip? Speculating is fun, but for now, let's focus on today.
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I think something I love abt r&m is whenever characters like morticia is there, no one seems to think she'd like boys n be boy crazy. she'd still be oh so in love with jessica. morticia being a girl does not change that all.
I talk about it enough as it is on the queerness of rick and morty, but they do it so naturally that you can't just deny that it's there. dude bros try so hard to pull a "and they were best friends" on rick and birdperson when it blatantly tells you word for word that rick was hopelessly so in love with birdperson, he had a false image of bp in his head that he'd drop everything (his culture, his people etc) to go on endless journeys and to live a lifetime together no matter what came their way.
and while I'm not the biggest fan of how unity is presented as nonbinary as a nonbinary person myself, they're a prominent transgender character that people try soooo hard to push away and even with my personal reasons, I feel seen by them! i was geniunely so shocked to hear rick, a character so many people present as a womanizer cool dude bro who doesn't give a shit, defend them and say "don't talk to them that way!", it was like a slap in the face but... in a positive way!!!! (When I say shocked, I mean it as in its new for me!!)
there's no way of getting around it whatsoever. you can't just go "b-b-but that's not what the writers meant!" When it's been confirmed so many times by the writers themselves. i know ill sound annoying, but r&m is, undoubtedly, oh so very gay and i think it's beautiful how such a silly show can bring together many talented disabled n queer folks alike even with the awful awful moments it has.
#van's shitbox#rambles#before anyone asks yes i was absolutely an annoying 15 yr old gay trans boy during covid#as i was writing this i kept on realizing “man this really shows who i was in sophomore year” LOL#rick and morty
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Please drop more Rick and Morty V-537 lore! What are their relationships with the rest of the family like? Any friends? Love interests? Pets?
(This answer will be more focused on Rick, but I'll make one exploring Morty pretty soon)
Rick has a great relationship with his family. He was there always for his daughter. He raised her during the war against Unity and helped her and Jerry raise their children after the war. The kids love him and he is a good grandpa.
Snuffles is still in the picture as an emotional support dog for the family.
Rick and Jerry are good friends. They hang out in "guy nights". Rick is still an alcoholic, but Jerry takes care of him since he is the only one aware of his alcohol issues (Rick hides them from the rest of thr family).
Jerry has some scars around his body because before he met Beth he was assimilated by Unity. (The assimilation in this universe leaves visible consecuences in the body of any host)
Rick was married with Diane but they were never more than friends (that whole explanation needs an entire post). His romantic interest is Bird Person, during the war and in the present day.
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Ship Bias for Rick!
Ship bias meme || Accepting !
Let me start with saying that Rick is a fucking hoe so he'd fuck anyone who can consent. That's his type, for the most. Then he has some preferences, but honestly? As I said, he'd fuck pretty much anyone.
When it comes to canon, just as for Morty, I don't ship him with anyone. I do consider his past relationships with Diane, Unity and (one-sided) Birdperson important for his backstory, but I'm not really invested in any of them past the angst and the consequences it has brought into his present days.
So, once again as for Morty, my main ships for Rick have been built through RPs. He has a few more than Morty does, but if I had to pick my top dynamics, here they are:
Rick & Rick with @advnterccs: once again, YEAH, the selfcest ends up being my OTP. In all honesty, Rin and I weren't planning to have our Ricks becoming a couple, especially such a sappy one, especially since they started from truly disliking each other. We had expected them to become at most friends with benefits, but...look at them now. They are head over heels with each other and they have been for almost two years. DAMN.
Rick & Clarissa/Chance with @dynamoprotocol: Rick and Clarissa are one of the most delicious "friends with benefits to lovers to bitter exes to cautiously civil to friendly exes to lovers again" I've ever written. Clarissa (and Chance later) challenges Rick in a way that forces him to own up to all the shit he has pulled, even if he fights it till the very end. The two of them fell in each other's orbit when they were at their worst and then met again while they were on the mend. Theirs is a story of both mutual destruction and healing.
Rick & Fish with @imprvdente: Ah yeah, Rick's accidental ex-wife xD They started off butting heads at every chance they had, but ofc it turns out that it was UST all along, to the point that they end up getting drunk married at one point xD They are fuck buddies, for the most part, and then they also become close friends. Do they have feelings for each other? Are they on their way to catch them? Good question. For what they are concerned, they aren't planning to, but time will tell (also because in the polyship verse my Rick gets very jealous, and not just because Rin's Rick has a big crush / wants to date Fish).
RIck & Petal with @petalsxfallen: These two started off disliking each other and not getting along at all, and it took Petal losing her memories to get them to admit that, all in all, they don't hate each other that much and that they are sexually attracted to each other. Their whole dynamics is rooted in the friends with benefits trope and they honestly work amazingly as such. It's uncomplicated, it's fun, it helps with frustration and stress. Up to this day, they are both very contented with what they have.
A special mention goes to my two polyships (Rick & Clarissa & Rick and Rick & Fish & Rick), because they bring up some absolutely delicious angst, but also a chance for Rick to grow as a person.
Also, a second special mention goes to whatever the fuck my Rick is with some of @technodromes' muses (Krang, Subprime and Shredder), because it's hilarious. Idk what it is, but it's SO DAMN FUNNY x33
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i’ve been trying to simmer on the recent episode from last sunday, i’ve found a lot of posts that put my weird feelings into words!! autoerotic assimilation felt so special and i think the emphasis on unitys identity and presentation was a big part of that. we know unity “primarily” uses the fem presenting blue alien in certain contexts but i don’t remember much interaction with rick or others using the other host bodies? or at least not as many as in autoerotic assimilation. i also found it weird that the president just kind of. became a hive mind kind of but not really? and that seemed inconsistent with who unity is. i liked exploring rick more with wong and having her more involved directly with his sci fi bullshit. although unitys concern was undeserved and rick is clearly trying his best, i couldn’t find myself interested enough and found myself wondering where morty was. anyways final post abt that episode for now SORRYY!!
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Now, this is a long shot I have no doubt -🥼🕊
I'm looking for a semi-lit > advanced-lit Rick & Morty roleplay, I'm 21+ FTM and looking for a 21+ partner - this would NOT be incest or 🍪 but other types dead dove themes are still welcome and encouraged, given the nature of the show i.e; Abuse (physical, mental, etc,) body horror, experimentation, dubious morality, etc,.. things of that nature. I write mutable, third person, present tense paragraphs.
I'm looking for any of these, but not all: I will do mXm/mXnb ccXcc/ccXoc but have a preference for platonic at the moment! I would realistically want a rick and morty focused storyline but would love to play some of the other characters alongside either being Rick or Morty!
I'd prefer to play rick but I love morty too, so can be easily persuaded to play him.
• completely Platonic Rick and Morty relationship
• our own OC rick and mortys (if you have one of either, please tell me! or we can come up with a duo ourselves)
• young!c-137 (pre-morty) birdrick
• fleshcurtains! rick meeting c-137 morty
• continuing after s6
• citadel of rick's adventure!
as for ships, I like birdperson X rick, rick X mr. nimbus, rick X unity, rick X rick or rick X an OC.
these are just things I have in mind they're vague but I do have some proper plots in mind and would like to expand upon them with you!, but please! if you have a plot of your own , don't hesitate to tell me. I'm not extremely active and would prefer if you do not rush me, being friends OOC isn't a requirement but I'd like us to be friendly! I write long and detailed replies but will bring the same energy as my partner.
please no rickorty shippers. I roleplay only on discord -- react to this post and I'll message you on here when I can! 💚
give a like and anon will get back to you
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Rick & Morty Recap: Auto Erotic Assimilation
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub, readers.
The Recap: Rick, Summer, and Morty run into a former lover of Rick’s, a parasitic hive mind named Unity who’s recently taken over an entire planet. Rick rekindles the relationship, leading the two of them into a spiral of destructive behavior with disastrous planet-wide effects.
I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to come up with a buffer for this recap, and it fought me every step of the way. This episode is perfectly competent in terms of technical elements – the Event Horizon riff that introduces Unity is a really nice isolated sequence, the simplicity of the alien designs allows for a lot of individual variation while getting across that they’re all pulled by one puppeteer, and as always the show has a good eye for slipping in licensed music stingers as an extra bit of gut punch – but it all feels terribly beside the point, deliberately held back to give the script a chance to shine. Even the sex shenanigans, which feel like a place where the show could easily cut loose, are left at the edges of the proceedings. We, like Rick, are not allowed an out.
So let’s start with Rick and Unity, in the name of having at least a breath of triumph. Because conceptually, there is a lot about Unity that makes me absurdly happy. It doesn’t have a gender, first of all – both Summer and Rick refer to the collective hivemind as “it” no matter what body it’s possessing at a given moment, and at the very least Summer strikes one as the type to use a being’s proper pronouns (fun fact: “it” is something like “queer” in that it has a history of being used as a slur, but has also been reclaimed by some non-binary people; ask before you use it, basically). And the general tenor of Rick and Unity’s mutual attraction, a queer relationship if ever there was one, is an achievement on the level of one Captain Jack Harkness. And this is going to require a little history, so sit tight.
First of all, Rick not being straight has been a confirmed thing since s2 premiere year’s Comic Con. In the middle of riffing about what undisclosed facts the audience might want to know about Rick, co-creator and majority of the voice cast Justin Roiland casually dropped the fact that the character is pansexual (that’s being attracted to someone regardless of gender). And while there was some rejoicing and some shrugging and saying “okay, sure,” there was also a surprising amount of pushback within internet discussions. A lot of “oh, he must’ve been joking,” with a fair amount of implicit “why would you assume a character is queer without it being stated, repeated and then signed in triplicate with infant blood.” Which is a whole bag of annelids regarding queerness as punchline and the defaulting of heterosexuality that we don’t have time to get into today; but suffice it to say, this episode put an extremely satisfying sock into those arguments.
And even better than the fact itself is the execution. The designs of Unity’s hosts (something about those atrocious jumpsuits, I think), not to mention the whole “unified species performance” thing, put me in mind of the famous Star Trek TNG episode “The Outcast.” For those of you who may not know or remember, that was the one where Trek thought maybe kinda they’d like to do a metaphor about homosexuality….only to fumble it completely by making the alien an escapee from an agender race who wanted to present as female, and then casting a cis female in the role so that her ensuing relationship with Riker is basically a vanilla flavored heterosexual one pretending to have something to say (and given the fact that the persecuting aliens have a butch vibe, they might’ve even gone into a wholly different wince-worthy territory. I digress).
The point being that Unity does that sci-fi trope of “the metaphorical queer” one better on every level. Harmon’s mentioned a few times that one of the goals in the writers’ room is to take familiar storytelling devices and then break them, and this is a triumph of that mentality. Because Unity does work as a metaphor: its hivemind nature serves as a comparison and contrast to Rick’s warring need to be alone and to subsume himself in others, and a question of whether the need for community outweighs our often stated preference for individuality. It’s just that the metaphor isn’t an excuse to hide some squeamish expectation that in the wide world of the cosmos every relationship would still somehow manage to fall into a relatively modern form of Western binary heterosexuality. Oh, and as a nice topper on the cake Unity is a really charming character, clearly sketched as sweet-natured and ambitious but lovesick even speaking from all those mouths. I hope we see it again someday.
And – I promise we’re almost done, and then we can move onto the suicide stuff you darling monsters – the extra delightful twist of it is how casual the actual sexual preference part of their relationship comes up. One of the great hand-wringing complaints often levied against the inclusion of queer relationships or individuals in popular media is that it seems “forced,” as though every new introduction would by needs hold the frightened viewer’s hand like some special from the 80s. In response, here are Rick and Unity: Rick’s only gendered request regarding partners has to do with his daddy issues audience, he’s fawned over and appreciated by male and female presenting hosts (and the giraffe, which in the spirit of references I couldn’t help reading as a nod to the Jack Harkness/John Hart conversation about the poodle); and neither Morty nor Summer (of course not, they’re modern teenagers) bring gender up at all when confronting Rick about his relationship. There you go. It’s as simple as a character making a passing comment about someone of the same gender, or referencing a past relationship, and then the adventure story moves on. Can we stop pretending it’s some kind of Herculean feat now, MCU?
Okay. Let me just blotch the still dripping tears from my keyboard, and we can continue.
I kid, of course. The bleakness of those final two minutes defies the catharsis of tears. Starting from the fact that you can see the components of the machine while Jerry is rifling through drawers, meaning that this thing was ready to go at a moment’s notice, and ending with that unspeakably agonizing shot where an entire night and ensuing day goes by without a single soul, not even Morty, coming to check on him. Rick might’ve screwed up his relationship with Unity on his own, but nobody deserves that kind of loneliness.
And the worst of it is that there’s really no support network for Rick at this point in the game: Beth is too afraid that he’ll leave to push him to improve, and too caught up in how she’s idolized him over the years to really pry into what makes him tick; Jerry has a massive inferiority complex over the whole affair, and Rick doesn’t have an ounce of respect for him anyway; Morty is well on his way to becoming a less drunk version of Rick (it was somewhere between horrifying and fascinating to watch the B-plot play out as essentially a season 1 adventure with Summer replacing Morty’s role), and is already starting to pull away from his grandpa; Summer is the closest to understanding what makes Rick tick and is willing to engage with him honestly on it, but she also has arguably the fewest emotional walls of the core cast, and frankly any teenager would get dragged right down into the abyss if they tried to hold up Rick’s decades of issues.
The show’s dabbled in nihilistic sentiment before – the show’s most quoted line, after all, is about how our existence is inherently meaningless – but that blow has always been softened by pushing the relationship between the Sanchez/Smith family to the fore. Pulling that away is potentially a very, very powerful tool, playing on our trust that eventually those interpersonal bonds will eventually come back to the fore. And it’s an issue worth exploring, as Beth and Jerry’s argument calls out the fact that Rick often matters more as a catalyst for other people’s revelations than he does as a human being in his own right. This is a lot of trust to ask from an audience that’s put a lot of emotional investment into this dark little world – I have all my digits crossed that it pays off.
So, how will the preview that seems to be about spontaneously appearing wacky sidekicks throw us all into unplumbed depths of despair next episode?
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man I saw this rnm post a while back whining about how unity is ultimately depicted as a big tiddy alien woman despite being a hivemind "bc they have to assert rick is Big Hetero" or something and im like 🙄 first of all Summer referred to Unity with it/its pronouns To rick in autoerotic assimilation...second of all rick is canonically pansexual and the presence of one love interest *you* decide to code as female doesn't negate that. maybe unity just prefers to present as a femme with huge tits. they clearly are okay with any pronouns since they never corrected anybody on her/it/they. unitys gender presentation doesn't erase the fact that rick has had sex with multiple genders and species, including a clone of himself if "forgetting the ice cream" is to be believed; and it also doesn't erase the complicated homoromanticism of birdrick, a romance which is played straight rather than for laughs. he also has had a sexual history with mr nimbus. furthermore the only character of the sanchez/smith family who has never been speculated to be queer is morty. summer hooked up with a girl in that one episode, Jerry was in love with sleepy Gary, and both Beth and Jerry are fucking her clone AND mr nimbus. so maybe look for queerbaiting in other media because in my opinion rnm handles queer characters better than most.
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rambling about the rick-unity-wong talk bc i'm upset about it
r: look, it's clear you weren't lying when you said you could've taken over earth because your finger just took over america. i need you to help me fix that.
u: oh, it took that to make you believe me?
r: why should i believe you? you show up unannounced and hijack a state.
u: i called you! multiple times! you ghosted me.
so there are two ways i think you can read rick not believing unity. one is that he believed it was trying anything to stay in proximity to rick even though he was asserting boundaries, or two, he did actually believe it but wanted to deal with the situation on his own or just wanted it gone. either way, he didn't want to be around it.
then there's the part about rick ghosting it. like okay yes. unity tried giving rick a heads up but the fact is that it knew rick wasn't answering its calls. it Knew rick wouldn't know it was there unless it made a big deal about it being there and that's what it did. it literally showed up without permission and assimilated a whole state on rick's home planet, in rick's country. just to get his attention.
w: rick, is that true?
r: she dumped me. why would i answer her calls?
and now we get a blatant explanation for why rick was ignoring unity. i imagine it would've been clear enough anyway without this explanation but rick is still upset from being broken up with. so he decided to ghost it with no explanation, cutting it off entirely.
w: alright, i'm going to commit a cardinal sin in couples therapy here, but rick, i think you're wrong. [..] you had an outer-space lady who was worried for your life and your response was hostile enough to cause a huge problem.
u: thank you.
w: now you're asking her to both forgive you and solve it?
now, the mistake wong makes here is assuming she knows the full story. obviously she's smart and i think she gave her best analysis based on what she knows of the situation, but in her ignorance she fails to listen to rick, her patient.
the whole theme of this episode is rick asserting his boundaries. he doesn't want to see unity because last time he did it ended catastrophically for him. he's not ignoring it out of pettiness but as a defence mechanism. a coping strategy. and when it decided to follow through with its plan of coming to america anyway, destroying the boundaries rick had in place, it made him lash out.
rick also has a tendency to self sabotage when things are going well for him, whether he realises it or not. he abuses morty when they get too close. he made unity party with him instead of doing its duties. his actions push people away, keeping them at arms length.
i believe his boundaries are in place to prevent these episodes of self sabotage. so when they get ignored and discarded, he goes back into that mindset.
and wong, who would be aware of this at least vaguely, blames unity's actions on rick ignoring it which is not fair in the slightest imo.
w: unity, i think the reason rick brought me here is that he doesn't know how to indicate to you he's changed. because he's changing very slowly. but he is.
now this is something i had trouble understanding bc i am a shameful rick apologist at the best of times and couldn't remember what he actually did wrong. his crime in this instance was when he was distracting unity from its work, influencing it to drink and party all the time and avoid its responsibilities. this became too much for it, especially when it saw how rick used the same methods to detach himself from his family.
so it broke up with him, leaving him to spiral into the worst mental state we as the audience have personally seen him in in present day - his suicide attempt. unity doesn't know about that, and i'm guessing wong doesn't either, because all rick needed to say to wong was that their breakup ended horribly for him so being around it is difficult for him and maybe she would've understood more. but no that's too much vulnerability for old man sanchez.
rick has changed since then. i imagine he better understands why unity left him. i also think he knows that it wants the best for him but struggles with accepting that. that's what led to this mess of a situation.
he feels hurt from being abandoned. it feels hurt that rick couldn't understand why it left. and all of this culminated in a messy situation where unity acted drastically to get rick's attention, and rick in his stubbornness and pain refused to accept it.
and so. i think wong spoke too quickly. i think she definitely knows rick's patterns and is right to call him out but made an unfair judgement on only him because even she expects the worst from him. he is changing, but she is encouraging unity not to give him a second chance because he's not there yet. when really that decision should be up to unity.
even though it does take agency at the end. after unity releases america from its hold, we get this absolutely heartbreaking scene between it and rick.
r: i trust you now.
u: that's nice. but i don't trust you.
unity turns rick's lack of trust in it back at him, and it's telling the truth. it feels betrayed by rick's actions in this episode because it only wanted to make sure rick was alright. to it, rick seems to be punishing unity for caring about him.
anyway in conclusion. rick is mentally ill, wong was a little too harsh on him in this episode bc it's a complex situation, and unity will act drastically if it can't get rick's attention. it's unfair to blame it all on rick in this case (even though things are normally his fault) bc while he did act immaturely in response, he wasn't the only one that escalated the conflict so drastically.
this is not a refined analysis. i might fix it later but no promises.
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i just love the concept of Unity you know, and how straight forward Rick is with it. like, hey kids this is grandpa's ex, Unity, it's a hivemind alien who rocks my singlemind. and he and summer like, never stumble over it's pronouns even if summer doesn't understand it at all at first
and i love how Unity is executed, from a writing standpoint. like obviously it doesn't need to use a single voice or body to communicate but it does out of accommodation of its guests, but it also is so fluid among its different bodies, picking up conversations from one extension to another and rick just really fluidly goes along with it.
like, one, what a representation of adhd, because yeah but two it really fits in with rick's whole nihilism theme that he is presenting at this time. he is really going hard on the 'no one matters because nothing is unique' and that fits with how easily he interacts with Unity's different extensions and hosts without getting hung up on a specific body or iteration
also i love the fact that Unity still carries a torch for rick... like, it inhabits a species with cool-toned hair, but still manages to front the red-headed ones most often for rick's benefit. like, unity straight up found a host planet that most catered to rick's kinks. that's fucked up, but like,,,,, romantic.
like, what knows more intimately that free will is a joke, that a single person matters very little in the face of reality, that despite that it's so, so easy to get hung up on connections and relationships than a hivemind. Unity is a perfect compliment to Rick. it's alien and cold and uncaring on the surface but holds a much deeper empathy and care than you'd first expect.
i love that rick says that unity isn't into other hiveminds, i love that he feels special that he could keep up with an entire hivemind, being single minded. that he could project his hangups on connecting with a single person onto unity who he thought couldn't connect to other hiveminds. i love that he's jealous of the borg-stand in, that he's doesn't like Unity leaning on the borg-hivemind because Rick isn't capable of that kind of support and empathy and emotion yet. that he can't imagine something being capable of that without ulterior motives.
i love that unity is afraid of falling into rick's cult of personality, that he's so charismatic that it fears not being able to separate itself from him, when that's it's whole thing. like, unity should just consume rick into itself but it doesn't because rick is special to it... like did the writers even think about this before they wrote it because HOLY SHIT
these are cycles and it's fantastic....
#misc#i just...... love unity#i love that the writing for unity comes off as effortless#there's so much more i want to say#about like the writing and unity and ricks relationship#and unity's presentation#and summer & morty's reaction to it#i just think its neat#and i want to write 3k on how queer unity and rick are together#queer as in fuck you im here#queer as in i am queer and i am here#it's the first episode i felt safe in... as like.. a queer person#yes i going to hammer this point in unity is queer rep and unity and ricks relationship is important as queer rep
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i NEED TO KNOW what u think of unity as a character ! i feel like they r never talked abt but i rly do hate that they were added in for rick's character development and then never talked abt again cuz they had so much potential.
Ooo!!
Unity's interesting to me because like I'm interested in them as a concept? (What were they like when they met Rick? Why did the relationship end the first time?? How many beings did they inhabit at the time???? Since it's implied that they have grown as a hivemind since they used to date Rick, etc.)
However, I'll admit that I wasn't really invested in their episode tbh (I just didn't think it was very funny imo apart from the Beth and Jerry plot, I just felt it was kinda boring???? idk also I wasn't crazy about how they 'resolve' the whole issue that Summer had with Unity either, like I get that Unity was inhabiting 'bad' people or people who had nothing else in their lives but like ??? Summer's initial argument was about free-will ??? So it kinda felt like a cop-out to be like "oh well, they were bad people so it's all good")
I am very interested in their dynamic with Rick though!! It's further elaborated in an issue of the comic where it's kinda like "they're both horribly toxic as a couple and they choose not to care" which I think is interesting (however, kinda counteracts the ending of their ep in which they did chose to care about this toxicity and break up with Rick so idk nothing really matters canonically lol) but I definitely think that they are an interesting character that should've been explored more than just to give Rick Sanchez a heartbreak plot tbh
#once again a 'female' presenting character ...#(i can say this because although Unity was a hivemind they were also played directly by Christina Hendricks for most of the ep)#... is relegated to backstory to humanize Rick's character lmao ok wack#I do think Unity is a very interesting character concept and wish that maybe they weren't just a one off ep but a recurring character??#at least for a little while?#there's so much about them that intrigues me#unity#rick sanchez#rick x unity#rick and morty#asks#this is also the ep that i have seen the least tbh??? i just think it's boring except for the music and beth and jerry#idk i've only seen it like twice?? and have little to no interest in watching it again lol
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I've had plenty of issues with the way the Rick and Morty crew has approached Rick's sexuality in the past, but in the case of Rick's scene with Bird Person, I don't see how you could not interpret it as romantic. I would've preferred it if the episode made it explicit, but I felt it was less "haha were they in love or not?? we're never tell lolz!!" and more "Rick wasn't ready to admit his feelings yet."
The proposition itself is bordering on romantic--Rick's not just asking Bird Person to go on an adventure with him. He's asking him to go on endless adventures through an infinite number of realities for the rest of their lives, forever. Like OK, you can enjoy going on adventures with your friends, but Rick's basically asking Bird Person to spend the rest of his life with him.
That alone might not be enough, but when Bird Person presses him for an explanation, Rick suddenly gets awkward and uncomfortable when he says "You matter--to me." Then he panics when Bird Person uses the word "relationship," implying that he knows what's going on but doesn't want to admit it.
Finally, when Bird Person rejects him, Rick loses his shit and storms off. I don't think he would've reacted like that if someone like Squanchy turned down an adventure (unless Rick's also got it bad for Squanchy, lol.) Even if it WAS platonic, Rick must be pretty attached to Bird Person to flip out like that.
Of course, at the end, Rick admits that Blood Ridge wasn't one of the worst moments of his life--it's what came after. Maybe I could understand a platonic interpretation if Rick and Bird Person had a huge falling out and never spoke again, but that's not what happened. On the surface, this was all about Bird Person turning down the chance to go on adventures. Rick's reaction shows that it was much more than that.
The funny thing is that even Memory Rick reacts badly to that scene. He starts ranting about how Bird Person's an asshole and he doesn't love him. Pretty harsh reaction to seeing a "friend" turn down the chance to go on adventures, my man. Present Day Rick was also clearly uncomfortable, although he's more forgiving at this point in his life.
This episode also has a couple of scenes that you could interpret as allusions to Rick's sexuality. As I said in another post, Rick's big moment with Bird Person at the other end had romantic vibes--Rick stretches his arms out like Rose in Titanic while Bird Person steps behind him and wraps his arms around him. Like come on, no one would call that platonic if Bird Person were female.
Also, as @exkernal wisely pointed out, we literally see Rick come out of the closet at the end of the episode. Totally a coincidence, right?
And at the end, Rick still hasn't changed much. Bird Person calls him out on the fact that Rick only brought up his child as a last-ditch effort to get him back to reality. Rick withheld that information because he wanted Bird Person to hang out with him and go on adventures with him--"a hundred years," as he put it. Plus, the Story Train episode makes it clear that Rick's still got it bad for Bird Person.
Normally, I get frustrated when the writers won't explicitly acknowledge Rick's sexuality, but eh...in this case, I think he wasn't ready to admit his feelings to anyone, including himself. Still would've preferred a flat-out statement, though.
But sure...the man who fell for a male dragon, had male lovers in the Story Train episode, had an (admittedly brief) tryst with one of Unity's male bodies and confessed his love to his male best friend is 100% heterosexual, am I right?
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If there was one thing I just can’t stand about Rick and Morty it’s Unity.
I fucking hate Unity so much it’s almost fucking irrational. I hate everything about it. It’s so fucking gross. The only good thing it has going for it was the hot alien president lady it was forcibly possessing / mind controlling.
And it’s whole episode was goddamn rapey because of it. The only highlight of the episode and literal best part of it was the ending where Rick tried to kill himself and I think that says a lot about how much the rest of the episode sucked hardcore.
Lord help, I hope we never have to suffer through Unity ever again. There’s a reason I only watched this episode one time and cringed the entire way through it. Like it wouldn’t have been so bad had Unity not been presented as a better alternative for the aliens she was possessing. Like the message was ultimately “peace trumps free will and autonomy”, which is absolute bullshit. Unity enslved a whole planet and, even tho Rick himself called it slavery, it still wasn’t presented as bad. And you know by Unity’s very nature it forced those aliens to have sex with Rick. And Rick clearly knew better so it really puts him in an even worse light.
Plus on a personal note I just find collectivism and hive minds to be the ultimate form of gross and fucking creepy.
Anyway, worst episode ever. Worst character ever. Like I get what this show is and it obviously didn’t turn me off to the series but God did this episode just blow massive donkey shit.
#rick and Morty#rnm unity#anti unity#character hate#I’ve been holding this rant in for years#even its name fills me with rage#anti rick x unity
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What's Out This Week? 2/2
A new month means new books, and there's a bunch this week!
Manor Black: Fire In The Blood #1 (of 4) - Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt
From the creators of Harrow County and The Sixth Gun comes the next chapter of this gothic horror fantasy about a family of sorcerers in crisis.
The powerful and ancient blood sorcerer Roman Black has taken a young fire mage under his wing after she has done the impossible-taken her magic house's totem spirit inside herself. But the totem is powerful, and may be impossible to control, especially when Roman's children begin to see the young mage as a threat.
Geiger 80-Page Giant #1 - Geoff Johns, Gary Frank & Various
MAD GHOST COMICS presents a MONSTROUS 80 PAGES of all-new stories featuring GEIGER, as well as his allies and enemies! First, in an extra-sized lead story, GEOFF JOHNS & BRYAN HITCH introduce the mysterious man known as REDCOAT and reveal his bizarre ties to the American Revolution, the Unknown War, and Geiger himself. Then, discover the secrets of the Warlords of Las Vegas - Bonnie Borden! Goldbeard! Mr. Karloff! And more! - in a series of tales written and drawn by some of the greatest writers and artists today! Plus, the special origin tale of Geiger's favorite two-headed dog, BARNEY, and a PREVIEW of GEOFF JOHNS & GARY FRANK's new upcoming series: JUNKYARD JOE!
Speed Republic #1 - Ryan Lindsay & Emanuele Parascandolo
In the future, Europe has united under one man, The Autocrat. He rules the apocalyptic landscape from corporate monopolies with a vision of unity that is gospel to some, but hollow to others. To distract the 99% from their poor and empty lives, they are given the opportunity to compete in the Grand Race. A marathon street race through Europe where only one driver can make it to the end and win a life of luxury.
Our hero, Sebastian Valencia, enters with the hope that winning this race can make up for his wasted past, but along the way he starts to question what kind of future he is actually buying into.
Rick & Morty Presents: HeRicktics Of Rick #1 - Amy Chu & Sarah Stern
When Rick finds the source of a new, incredibly powerful substance, he lays claim to an entire planet in order to corner the market. But Rick and Morty aren't the only ones on the recently renamed Arrickis, and the original inhabitants aren't going to go away quietly.
Rick and Morty become embroiled in the local political and religious struggle and must escape not only with their lives, but with their minds intact!
Primos #1 (of 4) - Al Madrigal, Carlo Barberi & Brian Reber
Centuries ago, two Mayan brothers constructed a spacecraft that sent them hurtling into outer space. Returned to Earth only to find their culture and civilization destroyed, one of the brothers vows revenge and seeks to decimate the planet with intergalactic technology gathered on his travels. To prevent this, his sibling creates a contingency plan that activates the world's protectors - descendants of their own family. Now, the fate of the planet lies in the hands of three cousins scattered throughout Central and North America who have never even met.
New Masters #1 (of 6) - Shobo & Shof
Nigerian brothers SHOBO and SHOF present NEW MASTERS, a groundbreaking blend of science fiction, adventure, drama, and vibrant Afrofuturism. In a striking vision of West Africa under the thumb of alien colonizers, a motley crew of outcasts find themselves caught up in a power struggle for control of an ancient artifact with immense power.
Whatcha snagging to kick off the month, Fantomites?
#WOTW#comic#what's out this week?#comic book#comics#comic books#New Masters#Primos#RIck & Morty#Speed Republic#Geiger 80 Page Giant#Manor Black
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