Rick and Morty is now back and running with the highly anticipated sixth season of the series, and the post-credits scene from its big premiere has fully brought a brand new major villain to the series! Rick and Morty has promised a much deeper dive into serialization and the greater series’ canon than seen in the past seasons, and given everything that happened at the end of the fifth season, it turns out that the show was really only getting started from this point out. There’s something even bigger in the works for the future of the series with its next major threat.ย
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The next major threat on Rick’s doorstep is one that he’s been chasing after for a long time. When the fifth season finale revealed Rick’s origin story in full, it was explained that Rick’s original Diane and Beth were killed and he’s been chasing after the Rick that did it for quite a long time. The Season 6 premiere then brings this Rick, Rick Prime, to his doorstep for the first time in six seasons, and the post-credits scene gives us a full introduction into how Rick Prime operates.
During Rick and Morty’s Season 6 premiere, “Solaricks,” it’s revealed that the Rick our Rick had been chasing after was actually Morty’s original grandfather. Rick had chosen this particular Morty and Smith Family to live with when he couldn’t hunt down Rick Prime in the hopes that Rick Prime would return to his old universe someday. With the premiere seeing Rick rebooting portal travelers in his attempt in reactivating the portal fluid following Season 5’s finale, this actually brings Prime Rick back to his original universe…the universe that was turned into Cronenberg monsters back in the first season.ย
The final moments of the episode see Rick Prime reveal that he was the one taunting Rick C-137 from inside the tube as seen earlier in the episode, and he comes across Cronenberg universe Jerry. Jerry proposes a team up between the two, and when Rick Prime denies it, Jerry tries to kill him only for Rick Prime to kill him instead. Now that this new and very dangerous Rick (who our Rick calls “the real deal”), it’s really sparked what we can expect for either the rest of the season or in future seasons to come.ย
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