26 Major ‘Rick and Morty’ Ricks, Ranked From Least to Most Rick (Photos)
In most of the infinite timelines of “Rick and Morty,” there’s a Rick and a Morty. While all those Ricks are similar to the same person, they vary in key Rick qualities, like intelligence, callousness, evilness, hedonism and disdain for the government. Here’s every major Rick in “Rick and Morty,” ranked by where they fall on the spectrum of Rickality.
26. Doofus Rick
The least-Rick Rick is the Rick that’s the kindest and most emotionally sensitive, even if he is kind of dumb. Doofus Rick is kind, empathetic, and a generally good dude. He uses science for good, like making ovenless brownies, and he’s really supportive. Too bad he’s also mercilessly bullied by the other Ricks (and according to them he eats poop). It seems like only a matter of time before this Rick meets a horrific end.
25. Past Rick
He might be a purely fabricated origin story, but a version of Rick who chose family over science — only to have his family killed by another version of himself — jives with the slightly more altruistic moments we’ve seen from Rick C-137, the show’s protagonist (Ricktagonist?). Could there be a nugget of truth in Rick’s fabricated backstory, or is he really just driven by McDonald’s “Mulan” McNugget dippings sauce?
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24. Replacement Rick
Replacement Rick managed to save his world from genetic disaster, where Rick C-137 failed. But he made a fatal science error and blew himself and his Morty up. It might be Ricklike to fail, but as real Ricks prove, narrowly pulling out a success, or just bailing on a bad situation, is essential to being Rick. Also not accidentally killing yourself.
23. Insurance Rick
It’s true that it’s an incredibly Rick thing to do to find a niche and exploit it for profit, and that’s likely what the Rick that sells Morty insurance on the Citadel of Ricks is doing. But it’s very unRick to give up super-science in favor of insurance sales.
21-22. Salesmen Ricks
The Salesmen Ricks on the citadel are monuments to compromise. One’s hanging around the Citadel of Ricks selling “Morty Dazzlers” to help Ricks spice up their Mortys, and the other sells Morty dolls that spout the catchphrase “Show me the Morty.” Both are slightly more Rick than Insurance Rick, because Morty Dazzlers and Morty Dolls seem like more of a scam than Morty Insurance.
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20. Cowboy Rick
Sure, we know nothing about Cowboy Rick or his dimension and he exists only to make one of the many “Rick and Morty” jokes about “Back to the Future,” but that’s a nice hat and he wears the hell out of it.
19. Tiny Rick
The teenage clone body into which Rick C-137 beamed his consciousness also had a major effect on our mean old Rick. The younger version was a nice kid that everyone liked, who was also genuinely helpful and kind — while remaining pretty intelligent. And he managed to kill a local vampire, Coach Feratu, which probably saved a lot of teenage lives.
18. Cronenberg Rick
The Cronenberg version of Rick also messed up his world and had to hop to another dimension. Luckily, Rick C-137 ruined his dimension and turned everyone into Cronenbergs. Aside from the obvious genetic differences, Cronenberg Rick seeks a place where he and Cronenberg Morty can belong — which is at odds with Rick’s usual nihilism.
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12-17. Council of Ricks
The guys who lead the Citadel of Ricks certainly have the brains and the sci-fi know-how, but they lack a certain Rick-ness. As Rick C-137 explains, it’s pretty hypocritical to try to shrug off the confines of government by creating another government. They all have cool hair, though.
7-11. Seal Team Rick
A group of Rick commandos takes some of Rick’s Rickest tendencies — utilizing sci-fi weapons for ridiculous carnage — to their logical extreme. But like the Council of Ricks and other, more organized Ricks, the idea of a team of Ricks goes against Rick’s drive for individuality and hatred of himself.
6. Future Rick
Like Past Rick, Future Rick might also be a pure fabrication, or some version of the truth in Rick C-137’s origin story. Popping up to provide Rick with portal gun technology, and then forcing him back into the super-science racket by killing his family, is pretty extreme when it comes to Rick’s usual methods. He’s not quite that evil — or is he?
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5. Evil Rick
The Rick behind the assassinations of other Ricks and the kidnapping of their Mortys turned out to be a robot controlled by Evil Morty. And as Rick C-137 notes, his tactics are extreme and horrific even for Rick standards. We’ve seen our Rick have some empathy and some love for his family, so even though he’s supposedly close to Evil Rick when it comes to evilness, two shades darker is apparently a pretty big jump in Rickness.
4. Drunk Rick
As demonstrated in “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender,” get Rick drunk enough and he goes off the rails. Everything is heightened — his need to prove himself right about everything, his desire to punish people for whatever it is he thinks they’re not getting, and his emotional attachments, such as they are. Drunk Rick is basically a full-on supervillain (in a half-ass way), but reveals that there’s still some humanity underneath. Maybe.
3. Pickle Rick
Though perhaps not technically a whole separate person when Rick C-137 transforms himself into a pickle to get out of going to family therapy, Pickle Rick seems more violent and full of bloodlust than C-137 did even when he was on the Purge world in Season 2.
2. The Scientist Formerly Known as Rick
Though he was assassinated off-screen by Evil Rick, The Scientist Formerly Known as Rick sounds like a pretty cool Rick. He dressed well, he was obviously musically inclined, and he cast off the shackles of the Council of Ricks in favor of his individuality. Given how often Rick C-137 improvs music to get himself out of trouble, the two sound like they were pretty similar and probably would have gotten along pretty well.
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1. Rick C-137
The Rickest of Ricks, who, as Morty notes in Season 3, hates all other Ricks, as he hates himself. C-137 is the Rick we follow in the show, who sometimes seems to have a pretty good relationship with his family and even cares about what happens to them — like when he nearly sacrificed himself to save Morty C-137. But this Rick also vehemently denies liking or caring about anyone but himself, and demonstrates that fact quite a bit. Forcefully individual, ridiculously capable, totally unable to take serious responsibility for anything, he’s mostly evil with just a little bit of good, and no other Rick can quite match his Rickness.
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