Top 20 Rick and Morty Characters That Got Killed Off
#20: Story Lord
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Voiced by Paul Giamatti, Story Lord is a formidable opponent of Rick who is able to manipulate storytelling devices against the scientist. Like the “Tickets Please” guy, he has a cut physique and strong fighting skills. A pompous figure who is fixated on story structure, Story Lord’s motivations revolve around literary categories such as breaking the fifth wall and seeking the world’s supply of motivation. However, the villain meets his end in “Full Metal Jackrick” after fighting Rick in a rematch where he’s smothered by cheap merchandise. Talk about poetic justice.
#19: Slow Mobius
We first see Slow Mobius in the season one finale “Ricksy Business” where he attends Rick’s house party as a guest. At first, he looks like a minor throwaway character, but in “Unmortricken,” it is revealed that the time dilator is Rick’s uncle that he loves dearly. Unfortunately, Rick Prime kidnaps Slow Mobius and kills him across all dimensions to get a rise out of Rick. After Slow’s passing, his wife goes out looking for him before meeting someone else and moving on, which shows the lives that Slow Mobius’s death impacted.
#18: Jerry Smith Prime
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This is the version of Jerry from season one that lives in the universe the Cronenberg monsters take over. We see Jerry Prime go from a cowardly, whiny man baby to a resourceful action hero. The remarkable thing about Jerry Prime is this is what Jerry could have been if the comforts of society hadn’t kept him complacent. However, the tragedy of the apocalypse takes its toll on Jerry, as he loses both Beth and Summer and is forced to learn how to go on without them. Sadly, in the post credits scene for “Solaricks,” Rick Prime kills off Jerry, but at least Jerry gets a dignified death… for a Jerry.
#17: King Jellybean
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Morty comes across this royal anthropomorphic candy in the bathroom. Though he appears nice and supportive at first, Jellybean shows his true colors as a predator when he forces himself on Morty. Immediately after the assault, Morty acts traumatized around Rick, who is able to figure out what happened to his grandson. When Rick and Morty come across Jellybean again, Rick takes the opportunity to assassinate the king for what he did. Jellybean was an example of the random dark humor of “Rick and Morty,” embodying something that is both absurd and sinister at the same time.
#16: Roy
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Unlike other characters on this list, Roy is a fictional character within the show, as he is the main character of an arcade game at Blips and Chitz. In the game, the player is put in a simulation where he gets to inhabit the life of an ordinary man named Roy and is faced with the kind of decisions everyone has to make in life. As Morty plays the game, convinced this is his reality after Rick slipped the headset on him, we see the ups and downs of Roy’s life as it unfolds, with the disappointing heartbreaks and his harrowing bout with cancer. Roy might not have been real, but he touched our hearts with his story.
#15: The Council of Ricks
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This panel of six different Ricks oversee the operations of the Citadel where even more versions of Rick and Morty live. Among the priorities of the Council was maintaining bureaucratic order and protecting the Citadel from various threats, including the Galactic Federation and Rick C-137. When they make the mistake of kidnapping Morty and Summer, Rick dispatches the group, which was all part of an elaborate plan to get rid of all his enemies in one fell swoop. After the demise of the Council’s members, there was a power vacuum in the Citadel that was later filled when Evil Morty became president.
#14: Krombopulos Michael
An assassin who bought weapons from Rick, Krombopulous Michael was not like other contract killers. He was very open about his profession and kept a very public profile. Voiced by Andy Daly, Michael had an upbeat personality and was very passionate about his life’s work. Sadly, Morty, bothered by the ethical qualms of Rick doing business with this figure, crashed into Michael to prevent him from killing his target. However, what Morty didn’t know was that by keeping Krombopulous Michael from killing his target, he was aiding a more dangerous entity.
#13: The Zigerions
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An alien race known for their scams, the Zigerions were trying to fool Rick into giving away his formula for concentrated dark matter. The leader, voiced by David Cross, is a petty jerk as only Cross can bring to life. To fool Rick, they set up simulations that gradually get more intricate and make the audience question what the reality within the episode really is. At first, it looks like the Zigerions were successful in their confidence game, but Rick was just tricking them into destroying themselves with cold indifference because they annoyed him.
#12: Miles Knightly
An alien master of the heisting arts, Miles Knightly steals something before Rick does, angering the genius scientist. To get back at Knightly, Rick decides to crash Heist-Con, where Knightly is presenting. After challenging Rick to a heist-off, Knightly reveals that he stole Rick’s crew and performed the theft already. However, Rick one-ups him and then some, by revealing that he used a robot programmed with a heist algorithm to hypnotize not only Knightly’s crew, but also the entire convention! Despite hating heist movies, Rick proves incredibly adept at using their tropes. A little too much, actually. After ordering the audience to steal the convention itself, they proceed to rip Miles Knightly apart! We don’t think there’s going to be a switcheroo on this twist.
#11: Japheth
When Rick asks Morty to retrieve wine he left in a dimension where time moves much faster, like Narnia, Morty runs into a dog/cow man named Hoovy. Hoovy accidentally follows Morty through to his dimension. Upon returning, he finds his wife dead and his son, Japheth, immediately kills him for leaving. As sad as Hoovy’s death is, his son’s life ends up being more impactful. After attacking Morty in revenge when he returns, Japheth then grows old and has sons of his own, who don’t believe his stories of the boy and the door. Morty ends up beating him up so much his life gives out. With his dying words, Japheth sets his sons and their whole society against Morty. Talk about a grudge!
#10: The Decoys
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In the episode “Mortyplicity,” Rick created decoys of the entire Smith family, who in turn made decoys, who in turn made decoys, etc. The entire episode is a fakeout where we’re led to believe we’re seeing the Smith family, only for it to be revealed to be decoys who are brutally murdered. It’s depressing to see the anguish some of the decoys go through when they find out they’re not real. Some of the decoys which are sloppy decoys made by other decoys have interesting designs such as the scarecrow decoy or the ones made out of wood.
#9: (Most of) The Vindicators
A galactic superhero team, the Vindicators are by any other measure a powerful and successful group. However, they made the mistake of asking Rick for help against their nemesis, Worldender. Rick gets drunk and proceeds to defeat him while in a stupor, then has time to lay “Saw” style traps and puzzles for the superheroes in Worldender’s lair. Although a few of them are taken out by these, the rest end up killing each other, after the stressful situation brings out their inner conflicts. Only one, Supernova, manages to survive the outing. Still, we may not have seen the last of the group, even if most of them are gone.
#8: Tickets Please Guy
On a metaphysical Story Train, Rick and Morty encounter plenty of colorful characters, including an older man who takes their tickets when they are in disguise. Upon encountering them again, the “tickets please” guy proves surprisingly buff and adept at using a human shield. Rick blows out the window of the train, causing “Tickets Please” Guy to be cut in half. While his mind wakes up in another reality, his bodily injuries soon catch up to him, leading to him being in constant agony across both realities and even inspiring a religion in one. Ultimately, Morty puts “Tickets Please” Guy out of his misery, though it may have also led to the death of a whole reality too.
#7: Armothy
In order to distract the denizens of a post-apocalyptic dimension, Rick injects muscle memory and fighting experience from a dead man’s arm into Morty’s arm. This makes Morty’s arm not only a powerful killing implement, but also semi-autonomous and intelligent. While Morty uses the arm, which he dubs Armothy, to vent his frustrations about his parents’ divorce by competing in a blood dome, Armothy seeks to find the ones who killed his wife and kids. With Morty’s help, the two reach the man ultimately responsible and Armothy apparently kills him, before fading away like a ghost. While his unfinished business has to be finished by Morty, the duo’s bizarre friendship was still entertaining while it lasted.
#6: Gordon Lunas
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When Rick and Morty decide to look through memories Rick removed from his grandson’s mind, we meet Gordon Lunas. In this memory, Morty looks through a telescope at the moon, only to see a sinister man with a mustache in mid-stride on the moon who looks back at him. No one believes him, and the next day, Morty is disturbed to see the man, Gordon Lunas, is now his school guidance counselor. Morty goes to his principal about it, who believes that Morty means Lunas is a deviant. After he confronts Lunas with it, Morty is horrified to find that Lunas has taken his own life and that what he saw on the telescope was just a smudge. This is just awful for everyone involved.
#5: Alien Parasites
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The Smith family house becomes infested with alien parasites. This isn’t anything out of the ordinary for them, but the twist is that these parasites insert memories of themselves into their victims’ brains; making them believe they’re trusted friends or family. This leads to plenty of amusing “flashbacks” of their adventures with the family and to a lot of great character designs and concepts. Eventually, Morty figures out that they can only create happy memories, leading to a massacre of everyone they love the most. While we still weep for Pencilvester, none of us were hit nearly as hard as Jerry was by the loss of Sleepy Gary.
#4: Tony
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When Rick discovers someone has been using his special toilet, he’s understandably furious. He goes to great lengths to find the culprit, and it turns out to be Tony, a soft-spoken office worker and widower. Although Rick decides against killing him, he still tries to rebuff Tony. However, Tony continues using Rick’s toilet and is unfazed by his threats. Even a simulation of the afterlife isn’t enough to deter him. Rick’s simulation pushes Tony to live his life to the fullest, which he does – before tragically dying while skiing on “space Everest.” Tony’s death is so sad because he was just a nice guy who just wanted to be Rick’s friend. Rick might have enjoyed his company if he weren’t too busy pushing him away.
#3: Fart
When Morty decides to stop an assassin Rick sells a gun to, he saves the life of a green, bejeweled cloud, whom Rick nicknames “Fart.” The telepathic gas is fond of singing and creating psychedelic montages in people’s heads. Although it proves surprisingly effective in getting them out of jams, ultimately it wants to return to its own kind through a wormhole. Morty is sad to see it go – at least until it reveals that it plans to return to kill all carbon-based life in the universe. With much regret, Morty kills Fart. It’s one of the first times Morty takes a life on purpose and marks a major development in his character. Goodbye innocence and goodbye moon men…
#2: Tammy Guterman
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Tammy Guterman seemed like just the average high school girl who fell for Rick’s best bud, Birdperson. However, she turned out to be a Galactic undercover agent that killed her new husband. While Birdperson’s death hits hard, he does come back as Phoenixperson. When Rick finally comes into conflict with Tammy again, it’s because she’s chasing one of Rick’s daughters, Beth. One of the Beths. Who may or may not be a clone. Anyway, when both Beths are kidnapped, Tammy has Rick at gunpoint when Morty and Summer come to the rescue, allowing Rick to shoot Tammy dead in revenge for making him go to a wedding. Also for killing his bestie. Still, Tammy proves useful even in death.
#1: Rick Prime
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This version of Rick is possibly the most evil and dangerous one of all. In addition to killing Jerry Prime and Slow Mobius as previously mentioned, he also killed Rick C-137’s wife, Diane. He’s also highly skilled, killing Ricks out of boredom and having developed a device that can wipe out a person’s existence across all dimensions of the multiverse. For more than a season, Rick C-137 was obsessed with trying to find Rick Prime and get revenge for ruining his life, only for Rick Prime to mock him for failing to do so. After teaming up with Evil Morty, Rick C-137 is finally able to get his revenge by brutally beating Rick Prime to a fatal pulp.
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