How “Mortyplicity” Foreshadowed Rick & Morty’s Season 5 Finale
Although the decoy-destroying antics of “Mortyplicity” initially look like an average episode of Rick and Morty, the outing secretly set up the tragic events of season 5’s finale. Rick & Morty is a sneaky series. While the show is outwardly raucous, goofy, and gory, the anarchic animated comedy sneaks in some moments of unexpected pathos from time to time and has set up some devastating twists over its 5 seasons.
Take, for example, Rick & Morty’s season 4 heist movie spoof, where an increasingly absurd deconstruction of the genre turned to be something far darker. The revelations of Rick & Morty’s season 5 finale made it clear that the “joke” of Rick stealing Morty’s hopes and dreams to ensure his continued compliance with his grandfather’s schemes was not a throwaway punchline at all. Instead, the gag was an early bit of foreshadowing designed to warn viewers that Rick’s tendency to view Morty as a commodity will come back in darker terms.
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Similarly, the plot of “Mortyplicity” (season 5 episode 2) also seems like one ofRick & Morty’s goofier outings at first, only for the season 5 finale to also underline its secret depths. In “Mortyplicity,” the Smith family is forced to kill endless versions of themselves in an episode that features some of Rick & Morty’s grossest (and most obscure) gags ever. However, under all of the double-crossing, shootings, and graphic flaying of its characters, the episode’s storyline also hints at a darker twist on this tale that arrived with the destruction of the Central Finite Curve.
A goofy, gory standalone adventure, “Mortyplicity” introduced countless versions of the Smith family, each of which acted as the
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