When Rick and Morty don robo-suits and enter the Purge, expect blood.
S2, E9 ‘Look Who’s Purging Now’ Mashes to Mashes Thankfully he’s in a technologically sophisticated futuristic hospital that presumably offers socialised healthcare. Jerry is violently shot to death, leaving his face a drooping, lacerated, blood-dripping husk. S2, E8 ‘Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate’ Jerrymurdering A punkish strongman is crushed to death under the wheels of a car he’d hoped to repel, his blood and body parts thrown from the fast-spinning tyres like fireworks from a Catherine Wheel. Rick and Morty Season 5 Debuts First Look Teaser By Alec Bojalad S2, E8 ‘Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate’ Man vs CarĪnother Interdimensional TV segment, another stomach churner. In this advert, a cereal-hocking leprechaun – the mascot of this universe’s favourite breakfast cereal, Strawberry Smiggles – is pinned down on a tree stump by a little boy and girl, who proceed to slit open his abdomen and feast on his spilled-out innards even squeezing out cereal shapes from his intestines and gobbling them like Pez sweets. You should never watch Inter-dimensional TV on a full stomach. Our own – thankfully unscathed – Rick and Mortys arrive from a doomed neighbouring dimension to bury them and take their place. Their crumpled remains, spattered with blood, smash against the wall Rick’s eye pops out.
In a sequence as chilling as it is gruesome, Rick mishandles some super-dangerous piece of kit and blows himself and Morty to Kingdom Come. He bleeds out, a look of mystified shock frozen in his eyes, convulsing as his life-force ebbs away.
S1, E5 ‘Meeseeks and Destroy’ Fairytale EndingĪ fairytale giant – in the ‘Fe Fi Fo Fum’ mould – slips in his kitchen and slams his skull on a table-top. (It’s a testament to Rick and Morty’s perpetually heavy ante that a little girl having her head sliced off by a Freddy Krueger substitute doesn’t even make it onto the list.) Here are the most gruesome, in all their gory glory, season by season. There are long deaths, slow deaths, good deaths, bad deaths, sad deaths, funky deaths, perfunctory deaths, ironic deaths, iconic deaths, horrid deaths, hilarious deaths and hectares of borderline disturbing deaths. That it’s not the first association you make with the show is possibly a by-product of there being so damn much of it that it stops registering. What really characterises it though, is death. Then there are the catch-phrases, and the colourful cast of supporting characters – everything from fatally-depressed Mr Meseeks to embedded family friends like Mr Poopybutthole. The super-slick, super-sick Rick and Morty brand is known for many things: the warped, borderline-abusive dynamic between its titular characters, its deliciously dark humour, the gleefulness it takes in capsizing the conventions of a thousand genre tropes.
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