The Secret Reason That Dan Harmon Voiced Rick & Morty’s Mr. Nimbus

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The fact that Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon voices Mr. Nimbus in the show’s season 5 premiere secretly gives a meta insight into the show runner’s real-life writing style. As creative voices, Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland couldn’t be much more different. As noted by YouTuber CJ The X in a video on Rick & Morty, the mercurial Harmon is known to be a perfectionist, while Roiland is an ardent fan of improvisation, random humor, and freewheeling self-expression.

This balance works well for the writing of the show, although it could make a potential Rick & Morty movie a bad idea. Rick & Morty balances Harmon’s love of story structure and clever plotting with Roiland’s anarchic sense of humor, resulting in a show that feels both airtight and chaotic at the same time. Rick & Morty’s season 5 premiere even managed to sneak in a nod to this dynamic when Roiland and Harmon’s characters argued during one pivotal scene.

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Rick’s previously-unseen nemesis Mr. Nimbus almost explained Rick’s “dead wife” origin story during Rick & Morty’s season 5 premiere, only for Rick to cut him off and demand that the character didn’t attempt to establish any canonical backstory with the irascible antihero. The conversation was between Nimbus and Rick, but Rick & Morty snuck a meta gag about their real-life actor's divergent creative styles into proceedings. Mr. Nimbus was voiced by Harmon while Rick was voiced by Roiland, so there was a meta-joke in Harmon (famously fond of conventional narrative structure, plants and payoffs, and following the story circle) and Roiland (an anarchic improviser) debating when to deepen Rick’s origins and give