Global InformationRick Sanchez information
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| Created by | Justin Roiland Dan Harmon |
| Designed by | Justin Roiland |
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| Full name | Richard Daniel Sanchez |
| Alias | The Rickest Rick (Rick Prime) The Smartest Man in the Universe (seasons 1–5) |
| Nickname | Rick |
| Title | Rick C-137 (main character) |
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| Spouse | Diane Sanchez C-137 (wife; erased from reality) |
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| Children | Beth Sanchez C-137 (and by proxy Beth Smith C-131 and Space Beth C-131) The CHUD Heir |
| Nationality | American |
| Age | 70+ |
Richard Daniel "Rick" Sanchez is one of the two eponymous characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty and resulting multimedia franchise. Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, he is voiced by the former during the first six seasons of the series,[1] then by Ian Cardoni beginning with the seventh season, and Yōhei Tadano in Rick and Morty: The Anime, after voicing the character in the Japanese dub of the series and various promotional short films. Rick is a misanthropic, alcoholic scientist inspired by Christopher Lloyd's Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown from Back to the Future and Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic from Marvel Comics. In September 2021, Lloyd portrayed Rick himself in a series of promotional interstitials for the series.[2][3]
Known for his reckless, nihilistic behavior, pragmatic moral ambiguity and pessimistic personality, the character has been well received. Rick C-137 is a mad scientist who seems to know everything in the universe and thus finds life a traumatizing and pointless experience. Following the murder of his wife Diane and daughter Beth Sanchez in his native reality (C-137) by his parallel self Rick Prime, Rick dedicates his life to hunting Prime down, developing inter-dimensional travel and building a wall around the segment of the multiverse where Rick is "The Smartest Man in the Universe", dubbed the Central Finite Curve, to narrow his search, massacring countless alternate versions of himself in the process of hunting down Prime before temporarily resigning himself to failure, founding the Citadel of Ricks out of the survivors, and retiring to move in with the family of an adult version of Beth (Smith) from Prime's own native reality (whom Prime had abandoned when Beth was a teenager) out of the slim hope of Prime one day returning so Rick could complete his vendetta, consisting of his son-in-law Jerry and teenage grandchildren Summer and Morty Smith, going on a series of adventures with the latter, over the course of which events in the first and fifth seasons lead to Morty and Summer having two children of their own, Mortimer Junior and Naruto.
The first three volumes of the Rick and Morty comic series follow the Rick and Morty of Dimension C-132 while most issues of subsequent volumes (following the "Head-Space" arc in which Rick C-132 is killed) follow the main Rick (C-137) and Morty (Prime) from the television series, with the final volume ("The Rickoning") and Rick and Morty Go to Hell following another alternate Rick (and Morty) identified as Devil Rick in the latter series, and featuring a Girl Rick designed after cosplayer Santana Maynard by series writer Kyle Starks;[5] the video game Pocket Mortys meanwhile follows the Rick and Morty of C-123.[6] The main character Rick of the franchise and their alternative selves have received a positive critical reception.[7][8][9][10]
- ^ a b Kilkenny, Katie (24 January 2023). "Adult Swim Cuts Ties With Justin Roiland Following Domestic Abuse Charges". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ a b Pulliam-Moore, Charles (3 September 2021). "Rick and Morty…This Is Heavy". Gizmodo. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ a b Guttmann, Graeme (5 September 2021). "New Rick & Morty Live-Action Clip Has Christopher Lloyd Eat a Pickle". Screen Rant. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
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JEMwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Maynard, Santana (20 December 2019). ""Ya'll need to check out the official Rick and Morty comic issue 57!! Yours truly seems to be making a cameo ;D And I'm more than happy to know my dog is also canon now. lmao SPECIAL THANKS to Kyle Starks for making it happen. ❤️ He's a great writer and you all need to check out his other works as well!" — edited from "Ya'll, I'm officially canon. 😀 check out the official Rick and Morty comic that I do a cameo in. This pic of me in cosplay was sent to the animator and my dog Morty even gets referenced too. My dog is also canon. Yay! Lmao But definitely check out the comic, especially this issue (Issue 57) if you want to see what more I do in it. 😊 SPECIAL THANKS to Kyle Starks for making it happen. ❤️ He's a great writer and you all need to check out his other works as well!"". Retrieved 20 December 2019 – via Facebook.
- ^ Whalen, Andrew (13 January 2016). "'Pocket Mortys' Is Out Now, But It's Not Rick and Morty From The Show". Player One. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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