Rick Sanchez' Most Low-Key Cold-Blooded Moments On 'Rick And Morty'

In "Rick Potion #9," Morty tries to get a love potion from Rick for his crush, Jessica. Morty's creepy wish turns the whole world into lustful, Morty-obsessed monsters. Rick tries making an antidote multiple times, but every attempt makes the Earth's monsters more monstrous.

The whole planet ends up covered in Cronenberg-style monsters. Only Morty's immediate family stays immune. Rick throws his hands up in defeat, then decides to ditch that reality, including Beth, Summer, and Jerry.

Rick uses people, but his actions in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" show his manipulation skills are extreme. After the microverse battery fails, we learn it powers an entire artificial universe Rick built. That universe exists only to run his ship, yet it spawned societies as complex as ours.

Rick meets an intellectual rival inside the battery but ignores him as an equal. Rick threatens the rival, stating his whole universe will shatter if they do not supply power. He enslaves a whole tiny universe just to keep his ship's lights on.

The Season 2 premiere, "A Rickle in Time," shows Rick's cruelty toward his grandchildren. After Rick, Morty, and Summer get stuck in a void of uncertainty, he gets angry about the kids' lack of certainty.

Rick thinks the kids focus too much on being "grandpa's favorite," making their situation worse. To fix their delusions, he explains in detail why he doesn't care about either of them. This is a rant, and it makes them feel bad.Morty and Summer feel terrible about themselves.Morty and Summer feel terrible about themselves.

Rick rarely treats Jerry well, so including him in an adventure in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy" surprises people. Morty worries his dad will kill himself after the divorce, which brings the two closer. However, a militant named Risotto Groupon captures Jerry, who learns Groupon's people were enslaved because Rick sold gear to their enemies.

Rick often sells deadly weapons on the black market and deals with shady characters. It is sobering to consider the countless lives Rick ended by seeking quick money.

"Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender" brings the interstellar superhero team the Vindicators before quickly killing them. The super team calls Rick and Morty for an adventure. Rick reluctantly agrees to answer because Morty needs to choose the adventure. Rick despises the Vindicators. He gets blackout drunk. Rick builds a series of Machiavellian traps to "teach" the team. These traps show Rick thinks they are just tired clichés.

Rick's drunken, half-baked actions slay the mighty Vindicators one by one.Saw-Rick uses ripoff mechanisms. Rick claims no fault, saying he was blackout drunk and thus a different person. Morty watches his heroes get dismantled, often physically.

"Pilot" Rick differs from current Rick. He acts a bit kookier and less nihilistic, but he still treats Morty like a disposable subordinate. Rick pushes Morty to store a Mega Seed where the sun doesn't shine. Morty is horrified by the request, but Rick insists this is the only way they pass intergalactic customs.

They needed to pass intergalactic customs because Rick accidentally blew his portal gun charge while getting sidetracked in another dimension. This is a huge ask for Rick, who caused them to get stuck there.

The explosive first episode of Season 3, "The Rickshank Rickdemption," traps Rick with the Galactic Federation while his family adjusts to a new Earth. Rick escapes his confinement and destroys the entire Galactic Federation by wrecking its economy, causing them to leave Earth. Earth is free, but that was not Rick's goal. Jerry sees Rick's return as a line he cannot cross, demanding Beth choose between Rick and him.

Beth chooses Rick, just as he planned. He destroyed the Federation mostly to get rid of Jerry. Once Jerry is gone, Rick immediately talks to Morty about his plan to split his parents. He calls himself the family patriarch and preaches about McDonald's old Mulan Szechuan McNugget sauce.

"Morty's Mindblowers" shows Rick has been messing with Morty's memories for a long time. There is a room in their house for old memories taken from Morty's brain. Morty gets horrified when he replays some of his forgotten memories.

Rick manipulates Morty's memory often for his own gain. Morty sees one memory where he corrects Rick's speech; Rick wipes his mind to keep his image perfect. Morty's memory wipe also vanishes from his recollection.

Rick treats others poorly; he exploits vulnerable men. "Anatomy Park" in Season 1 shows this. Rick built a secret theme park inside the body of a homeless man named Ruben. His Pirates of the Pancreas ride is one of Rick's projects, but it kills the host.

Ruben carried terrible diseases that likely caused his death. Rick has top medical gear, yet he built a cheap roadside carnival from Ruben's body instead of helping a sick man.

Parenting proves a huge test, even for the smartest man. In "The ABC's of Beth," Rick built Froopyland so he could escape his young daughter sometimes.

To cover his absence, Rick lets Beth choose to leave her family. He agrees to replace her with a clone so the family does not notice. Beth likely chose the clone; the original Beth clone knows nothing of her real self.

Rick rarely leaves his dimension, but he plans. In "Rick Potion #9," Rick and Morty leave their universe after Rick accidentally "Cronenbergs" humanity. Rick takes Morty to a new dimension where they died, then asks Morty to bury the bodies.

Infiltrating a dimension is different from asking your grandson to bury his dead. Morty is deeply shaken by this. Rick confronts Morty with the reality of death without hesitation.

In "The Rickchurian Mortydate," Rick and Morty clash with the U.S. president. Rick demands the president take a selfie with Morty. The POTUS claims the two are state fugitives.

Rick refuses to leave the Oval Office without a selfie. The president then orders a Secret Service agent to take Rick into custody. Rick warns that anyone touching him instantly dies. The agent tries to take him. Rick dies. Other agents shoot Rick with their bullets. These agents protect the president from a hostile Rick.

Rick shows no emotional weakness. He keeps his feelings hidden. He rarely lets anyone see them. This applies to his family. Rick avoids talking about his feelings to them.

Before therapy, Rick turns into a pickle. He says it has nothing to do with therapy. He cannot change back for a while. Beth calls him out and takes his anti-pickle serum. Rick stays a pickle. Rick preferred being a pickle over the therapist's office.

Project Phoenix appeared in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez." Rick plans immortality using clones of different ages in his lab. He uploads his mind into a teenage clone. This action causes the adult Rick to permanently vanish.

After leaving his teenage body, Rick hacks his clones apart with an axe. Morty and Summer watch horrified. Rick butchers himself naked. He does this more for pleasure than necessity.