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Rick and Morty Season 7: Morty/Evil Morty Moments We Nearly Missed

Before we rest our Rick and Morty brains for 2023, there were two interesting moments contrasting Morty & Evil Morty we wanted to pass along.

Okay, we thought we had extinguished our dumpster fires of random speculation for the year when it came to Adult Swim's Rick and Morty – but then, we rewatched S07E04: "That's Amorte" (directed by Lucas Gray and written by Heather Anne Campbell), and we think we missed two very big moments in the overall Morty/Evil Morty dynamic and our concerns about Morty being on the path to become another eyepatch-sporting big bad. At one point in the episode, Morty promises the President of the "Spaghetti Planet" that they'll come up with an alternative food source. That leads to the dimension-hopping duo having an aside where Morty says that the entire fiasco was Rick's fault, so it was his responsibility to clean it up – and that's where the key moment came. Rick responds by reminding Morty that this is another example of Morty constantly questioning Rick in ways that get folks in trouble – with Rick being the one who has to rescue him. Rick tells Morty that they're adventures can't continue that way – and then we see a remorseful Morty promising Rick that he wouldn't question him moving forward and will trust his judgment calls. Got it? Okay, now let's jump ahead an episode to…

"Unmortricken" (directed by Jacob Hair and written by Albro Lundy & James Siciliano), with a cold open that offers Evil Morty's backstory leading up to S01E10 "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" (directed by Stephen Sandoval, written by Ryan Ridley). From there, it developed the threads that tied that episode together with S03E07 "The Ricklantis Mixup" (directed by Dominic Polcino, written by Dan Guterman & Ryan Ridley) and S05E10 "Rickmurai Jack" (directed by Jacob Hair, written by Jeff Loveness & Scott Marder). But it's the first opening moments that matter, with not-yet-Evil Morty and his Rick returning from another adventure – and Morty not too thrilled about it. That leads to a tense standoff between the two, and we get a slight variation on what our Rick told our Morty in the previous episode – this isn't going to work if Morty continues to question, complain & sulk. But unlike the path that our Morty went in "That's Amorte," there was something about this very-similar moment that sent Morty down the path to earn the right to add "Evil" to his name.

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