So many bad guys! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best baddies from “Rick and Morty” so far. In this list, we’ll explore which villains left the biggest impression in the sci-fi animated series.
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00:00 "Now you see my true form."
00:02 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best baddies from Rick
00:07 and Morty so far.
00:08 For this list, we're exploring which villains left the biggest impression in the sci-fi
00:12 animated series.
00:14 We won't be looking at evil organizations as they could have their own video.
00:18 "Our single centralized galactic currency just went from being worth one of itself to
00:22 zero of itself."
00:24 Number 10.
00:25 Lucius Needful
00:26 Amped up on jealousy of Summer's admiration for her boss, Rick meets the illustrious and
00:31 dapper Lucius Needful at his vintage thrift shop containing power-filled items with ironic
00:35 curses.
00:36 "A price for everything, Mr. Goldenfold.
00:39 A price for everything."
00:41 "Oh my god!
00:42 How can I not see this coming?"
00:48 It doesn't take long for Rick to realize Needful is the devil.
00:51 When he's offered a microscope and realizes it'll lower his IQ, Rick takes that super
00:55 personally.
00:56 He later creates a store with the sole purpose of removing Needful's curses, putting the
01:00 downstairs ruler out of business.
01:02 "Don't pay for cool stuff with your soul.
01:04 Pay for it with money.
01:05 You know, like how every other store in the world works."
01:08 But Needful wasn't down for long as he becomes a tech giant.
01:12 Then heel turns on Summer, who had been his biggest advocate.
01:16 This doesn't go well for him as Rick and Summer become beefy and beat him up.
01:20 "How do you like that?
01:22 How do you like that?"
01:25 "Why?"
01:26 9.
01:27 The Alien Parasites
01:28 Imagine you come to the realization that everyone you love and with whom you have a lifetime
01:32 of happy memories was nothing but a massive deception.
01:36 Pretty devastating, right?
01:37 "Will everybody just relax for a second?
01:39 There's no such thing as an Uncle Steve.
01:41 That is an alien parasite."
01:43 "But I've known him my whole life."
01:46 "No you haven't, Jerry."
01:48 Well, that was the case for the Sanchez-Smith family in the episode "Total Rickall."
01:52 One alien parasite had infiltrated the family as quirky characters, implanting false memories
01:57 of their relation to the humans.
01:58 "But this house has been infested with fake loved ones that spread through fake memories
02:02 and our planet will be destroyed if they get out."
02:05 "But Rick, even you have to admit you do tend to overreact to stuff."
02:09 While Morty eventually figured out who his family was based on the terrible experiences
02:13 he'd had with them, the parasites were so close to manipulating the family into letting
02:17 them out of the house so they could take over the world.
02:20 But alas, instead, the creatures met their demise with an epic Sanchez-Smith rampage.
02:26 "Summer, I've always loved you."
02:29 "Yep."
02:30 Number 8.
02:31 Heist-A-Tron
02:32 In an episode dedicated to the heist genre in "One Crew Over the Krookoo's Mort,"
02:36 Rick's invention Heist-A-Tron showcases its destructive capabilities alongside a library
02:40 of convoluted thieving plans mashed together.
02:43 "Heist-A-Tron, state your prime directive."
02:45 "To heist."
02:46 "Calculate Miles Knightley's current heist plan and add one double cross with a switcheroo."
02:51 "Compiling crew members most likely to double cross."
02:55 After all, it double-crossed Rick and Morty and went on to destroy a planet by stealing
02:59 its core.
03:00 Then, it even nabs the Earth.
03:03 It takes its antithesis, Randotron, a new crew, and Rick arguing with Heist-A-Tron for
03:08 two hours to finally defeat the bot.
03:10 "And I programmed you to believe that.
03:15 A most curious algorithm.
03:17 It appears the only perfect heist is one that was never written.
03:21 Goodbye."
03:22 Or does it?
03:23 As it turned out, this was all Rick's plan to suck the joy of heists from Morty so he
03:28 would tank his pitch meeting at Netflix.
03:30 Which is pretty messed up.
03:32 Does this make Rick the villain?
03:33 Maybe.
03:34 "Who needs dreams?
03:35 I'll just hang out with you and go on adventures and do whatever you want to do, you know,
03:39 forever."
03:40 "Oh, well, uh, okay.
03:41 I mean, if that's what you want."
03:44 Number 7.
03:45 Rick's Mythologue.
03:46 Beth and Jerry taking part in couples counseling sounds like a swell idea.
03:50 Instead, the alien facility births one of the most vicious baddies in Rick and Morty.
03:55 To showcase how each partner perceived the other, a mythologue is created from the other's
03:58 mind.
03:59 "And we will now render Jerry's perception of Beth with artificial biological life.
04:05 Interesting."
04:06 "What the hell is that?
04:11 Take that back!
04:12 You do not think that about me!"
04:14 Jerry's version of Beth is basically a xenomorph with her face, who goes on a rampage with
04:18 Worm Jerry's help.
04:20 But her plan doesn't end there.
04:22 Beth's mythologue wanted to construct an army of Jerry's to take over the universe.
04:26 "I want Jerry's.
04:27 An army."
04:28 "An army of Jerry's."
04:29 "The value of his subservience is wasted on you.
04:30 I will use it to dominate the universe."
04:41 If it wasn't for human Beth and Jerry coming to an understanding and creating good mythologues
04:45 of each other to destroy her, Xenobeth would likely have turned the universe to ash.
04:50 "Stop!
04:51 This representation displeases me."
04:54 Number 6.
04:55 Night Summer
04:56 Witnessing Rick being tied up by the Darksmiths was one of the scariest things we've seen
05:00 on the show.
05:01 "You see, Night, you is not in charge.
05:06 Night, I am."
05:09 We still see their glowing, haunting eyes whenever we close our eyes.
05:13 Anyway, the Elder Sanchez created the Somnambulator, a device that allowed them to unconsciously
05:18 perform tasks as they slept - mostly so Rick and Morty could have sick abs.
05:23 But that all goes wrong when Science Grandpa is stubborn about rinsing plates.
05:27 "If you refuse to clean your dishes, then I will have to do it for you."
05:37 Night Summer leads the unconscious family.
05:39 Her unemotional and conniving personality led to her side defeating the Daytime Smiths.
05:44 If it wasn't for the group splashing out all their money and choosing to end their
05:47 existence by destroying the Somnambulator, they would have remained in charge.
05:53 "Whoa, how long have we been asleep?"
05:58 "Oh, it can't be that long.
05:59 Oh my God.
06:01 No!
06:02 They killed the Choco Taco!"
06:05 Number 5.
06:06 Story Lord
06:07 While he technically didn't face off against the real Rick and Morty during his debut in
06:11 Never Ricking Morty, Story Lord is still one of their biggest threats.
06:15 "Rick and Morty."
06:16 "Story Lord, I should have known you were behind this and I did."
06:20 "Who is this guy?"
06:21 "Ugh, he's like a Matrix space Frasier.
06:24 Let's get this fight over with, nerd."
06:25 After all, as the conductor of the Story Train, he used narratives and continuity to wreak
06:30 havoc on the duo across dimensions.
06:32 It took Rick and Morty using Story Lord's own powers against him by praying to Jesus
06:37 and trapping the conductor in a Christian children's program to defeat him.
06:40 "I beg your pardon?"
06:42 "God damn."
06:43 "Oh my Lord and my God!"
06:48 At least briefly.
06:49 He returned in the episode "Full Meta Jack Rick," where he kidnapped his creator Jan
06:53 to help take motivation from the universe.
06:56 But when the true Rick and Morty catch up to him, it eventually ends in Jan smothering
07:00 Story Lord.
07:01 "Joseph Campbell says you have to be the one to put him down."
07:04 "Wait, wait, wait, wait, Joseph Campbell also says you have to use this brand new limited
07:08 edition Rick plush available only on rick-plush.biz.
07:12 Supplies are limited.
07:13 Act now."
07:14 Number 4.
07:15 Reggie.
07:16 In the episode "Child Rick of Mort," the writers took a page out of Maury Povich's
07:19 playbook with some relationship drama.
07:22 After being told by Gaia that he's the father of the sentient planet's children, Rick
07:25 and Beth become the architects for the clay-like offspring civilization.
07:28 "God, you are such a space nerd."
07:30 "I'm not a nerd.
07:31 We're raising a society here, Beth.
07:32 If we want them to be self-sufficient, they need to get out into space."
07:35 Well, when the real daddy turns up in the shape of Reggie, Rick uses science to battle
07:39 the god.
07:40 However, not even his doodads could match the might of Zeus, who wipes the floor with
07:45 Rick in a fistfight.
07:46 Granted, with god shenanigans.
07:48 "Only lesson they need is right here, fear.
07:51 And it looks like school's out, bitch."
07:54 "I think you mean school's in."
07:56 If it wasn't for Morty and Summer being a deus ex machina and accidentally flying a
08:00 spaceship through Reggie's head and ending him, Rick would've met his demise.
08:05 "Little boopas, come on now.
08:06 You kids, you did real good here.
08:08 You did good."
08:09 Number 3.
08:10 Tammy Guterman
08:11 Some villains you have some sympathy for.
08:14 And you can empathize with their actions.
08:16 But then there's Tammy Guterman.
08:18 After Rick and Morty dipped two dimensions C-131 after the Cronenberg fiasco, this version
08:23 of Tammy made her first appearance in Rixie Business, hooking up with the delightful bird
08:27 person.
08:28 "Tammy, I should let you know.
08:29 I just got out of a highly intense soul bond with my previous spirit mate."
08:34 "I'm not looking to get into a soul bond.
08:36 I'm just looking for…"
08:38 "I believe bird person can arrange that."
08:41 By the wedding squanchers, Tammy announced she was a Galactic Federation agent, then
08:45 wiped out bird person and several others in the massacre on her wedding day.
08:49 "Everyone here is under arrest for crimes against the Federation."
08:53 "L'chaim!"
08:54 "Tammy, what are you doing?"
08:55 "Sit your bird ass down."
08:57 "Tammy?"
08:58 "I'm not a bird person.
08:59 I'm a human."
09:00 "Tammy, I'm not a bird person.
09:01 I'm a human."
09:02 "Tammy, I'm not a bird person.
09:03 I'm a human."
09:04 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:05 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:06 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:07 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:08 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:09 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:10 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:11 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:12 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:13 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:14 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:15 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:16 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:17 "Tammy, I'm a human."
09:38 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:02 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:09 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:10 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:11 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:12 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:13 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:14 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:15 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:16 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:17 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:18 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:19 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:20 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:21 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:22 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:23 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:24 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:25 "Tammy, I'm a human."
10:26 "Our people will get more from the idea he represented than from the jellybean he actually
10:35 was."
10:36 Mr. Nimbus
10:37 The ruler of the ocean is Rick's nemesis, a title not given out to any villain.
10:42 "Richard, you have desecrated the sacred treaty betwixt land and sea.
10:47 Now face the wrath of your once and eternal foe, Mr. Nimbus."
10:52 "Sorry, who is that?"
10:54 "My nemesis."
10:55 Supernova
10:56 Masquerading as a hero, Supernova wiped out a planet, many citizens, and her lover.
11:01 "It's the galaxy's faith in the Vindicators that keeps the galaxy secure."
11:07 "Yeah, I feel safer already."
11:08 "No doubt.
11:09 Who do we make the check out to?"
11:10 "I will say, we are getting some good licks in while choking to death."
11:14 Toxic Rick
11:15 As the combination of Rick's so-called negative aspects, Toxic Rick toxified the world.
11:19 "After 70 years of being bottled up as a sentimental jackass, I finally get to live
11:24 my own life."
11:25 "You said we were merging."
11:26 "I lied, dumbass."
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11:43 Number 1.
11:44 Evil Morty
11:45 With a simple eyepatch and an eerie theme tune showcased in the episode "Close Rick
11:49 Counters of the Rick Kind," Evil Morty became a standout baddie in the animated show.
11:54 "This is the receiver."
11:55 "Yeah, but where's the transmitter?"
12:05 He uses his cunning, ruthlessness, and unusually high intelligence for a typical Morty to exact
12:10 revenge against Rick's and Morty's.
12:12 EM took control of the Citadel as its president, coldly icing his campaign manager, who discovered
12:18 the tragic truth.
12:19 "That Morty is not what he seems."
12:21 "Yeah, well, no Morty seems like a president."
12:23 "He won?"
12:24 "Yeah, it was a blowout."
12:27 He would go on to try and take out Rick and Morty, then breach the central finite curve
12:32 in the episode "Rick-Mor-I-Jack," which led to the near destruction of the Citadel
12:36 and the demise of many Ricks and Mortys.
12:41 Now, it remains to be seen what Evil Morty will do next.
12:48 Which Rick and Morty invention would you like to exist in the real world?
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