Rick & Morty Spawned The Wrong Spinoff Show
Rick and Morty will soon gain its first spinoff with The Vindicators, but the Adult Swim series should have gone for another project when it came time to expand its universe. Rick and Morty’s critical and commercial success made spinoffs an inevitability. The anarchic animated comedy has an immersive fictional world with plenty of avenues for potential offshoots, which meant it was no shock when the spinoff The Vindicators was announced.
Like Morty’s Time God love interest, Jessica, the Vindicators are a memorable set of side characters who featured heavily in one Rick and Morty outing: season 3, episode 4, “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender." A parody of the Avengers, the Vindicators are a team of superheroes with plenty of in-fighting and big egos, and most of them despise Rick — who hated them right back. Satirizing superheroes is a perfect use of Rick and Morty’s acerbic, self-aware tone, but the creators still picked the wrong show by making The Vindicators into its first spinoff.
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Between The Boys, Invincible, and particularly the recent animated anthology series The Boys: Diabolical, there are already plenty of critically acclaimed R-rated, dark, gory, and blackly comic parodies of the MCU on the small screen right now. This could make Rick and Morty's The Vindicators spinoff redundant, whereas an Interdimensional Cable spinoff could have revived a TV institution that isn’t doing particularly well. The sketch comedy series format is no longer at the height of its popularity, something that an Interdimensional Cable spinoff could have potentially changed, especially if it kept the loose, improvisational feel of Rick and Morty’s
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