Rick & Morty's Parasite Secret Makes Jerry & Sleepy Gary Even More Tragic
In Rick and Morty season 2 episode 4 “Total Rickall,” the Smith family is bombarded by a horde of psychic parasites, and one of them becomes Jerry’s dream partner, Sleepy Gary. The made-up life the parasite created for Jerry and Gary had the two falling in love, even though Jerry believed Sleepy Gary was married to Beth. Throughout the episode, Jerry falls more and more in love with Sleepy Gary and even wants to die after it’s revealed that Gary was a parasite all along. While the whole situation is played up for laughs, one tie-in Rick and Morty comic proves that their love was genuine, making their story all the more tragic.
In Rick and Morty Presents: Sleepy Gary #1 by Magdalene Visaggio and CJ Cannon, Rick brings Sleepy Gary back to life to study the parasite’s biology and brain function in an effort to never be impacted by them again. When Gary wakes up, all of the fake memories he used to embed himself in the minds of the Smith family come rushing back to him and he is convinced that he is Beth’s husband, but Jerry’s lover, so he breaks out of Rick’s lab to find Jerry. Once he does, the two run away together after the parasite uses its psychic powers to trick people into believing he had been a part of their lives all along.
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After Sleepy Gary goes to Jerry’s office and convinces him to run away with him to an established alien settlement on Mars, the two form a life together on the Red Planet. That is, until Rick and Morty blast through a wall to their new house. The two are able to escape again, but this time Morty wonders why the parasite, being free to roam the world and even the universe, chooses to continue to run away with his dad
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