Rick and Morty's Weirdest Secret Explains the Dark Origin of Evil Morty

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The mysterious origin of one of Rick and Morty's most sinister villains has not been explored, but thanks to the comics from Oni Press, some light may have been shed on Evil Morty's backstory. For a series set in a multiverse of infinite possibilities and happenings, Rick and Mortyis appropriately very weird. But no matter how strange and enigmatic things end up, eventually it all ends up tying together, bringing purpose to the purposeless and sense to the nonsensical.

Rick and Morty #31 and #33 feature a two-part story called «The Rick Identity» by Magdalene Visaggio and Marc Ellerby. The story reveals that Rick periodically swaps the minds of his family members for fun, a dark premise somewhat akin to how Morty ends up being eaten in the credits. To fix this conundrum, Rick doesn't actually switch them back — because that's too difficult — he just tinkers with their minds so that they believe they've always been that character.

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This means that any version of Rick and Morty seen could actually be any other character thinking that they're Rick or Morty. If one were to speculate, this would make a lot of sense for how Evil Morty came to be. Morty has been proven time and time again to be unintelligent, no matter the reality. An argument for a genius Morty can be made due to the infinite number of realities, perhaps somewhere outside of the Central Finite Curve. But it's more likely that Evil Morty is the result of a Rick's mind swapping shenanigans, one who possibly switched his mind with Morty's, and made himself forget that he was ever Rick.

This is a Morty with Rick-level intellect and every distasteful thought Morty has ever had towards his