Name: 瑞克和莫蒂。為什麼莫蒂很重要 (Rick and Morty: Why Morty Matters)
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"Go to school, Summer. I'll go in Morty's memory and do a little."

But Rick himself certainly values Morty, enough to want to spend all his time with the boy,

and if we dig deeper it becomes clear that Morty’s actually just as essential to the

or rather, to all the Rick and Morty universes, as Rick is, and for good reason.

So here are the key reasons we can see for why Morty matters.

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"You two call yourselves geniuses, but you've spent this time learning nothing!

Come with me into the forest -- there's something I wish to teach you."

"There's a heavy theme of creator and createe in Rick and Morty."

The dynamic of father and son or creator and creation is reflected in Rick’s contentious

But while of course they’re literally grandfather and grandson,

thematically, the father-son story is a key part of Morty’s relationship with Rick.

Father-son narratives have been around for thousands of years,

not just as a way of talking about literal parents and children,

they are humanity’s way of dealing with our complicated feelings on life’s key principle

Stories based on an "Archnemesis Dad" reflect our pain due to the inevitability of life

In Greek mythology, Cronos, the youngest of the titans, overthrew his father to become

then became paranoid that his children would overthrow him,

and decided to kill all his own kids by eating them, as a precaution.

But one baby, Zeus, was hidden by his mother in a cave,

and grew up to kill Cronos and become king of the gods on Olympus.

Perhaps the most iconic example of the Archnemesis Dad trope is Star Wars, with Luke and Darth

A key message of these narratives is that fighting the inevitable only helps it come

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, a prophecy says that the baby Oedipus will kill his father

All of his parents’ efforts to avoid this only make sure that these events do in fact

And Harry Potter features an original take on the same motifs.

Voldemort hears a prophecy saying Harry would kill him, so he tries to kill the young boy.

But in the process, the powerful wizard inadvertently plants a bit of his soul in Harry,

giving the young boy unique powers and acting as his "creator" in a way.

Harry, thereby strengthened, grows up to become Voldemort’s downfall, and fulfills the prophecy.

All of these stories demonstrate the pain we feel knowing we’ll die and be replaced.

But we can't prevent this universal destiny, so characters who try to fight this natural

And the dad who tries to stop his son from replacing him by squashing new life

becomes a villain at war with the nature of life itself.

As we've seen, the "Archnemesis Dad" trope can apply to any Parent-Child, Creator-Creation,

Any relationship that is fundamentally about the old passing on knowledge or life to the

or the young searching for their place in the world.

Rick and Morty aren’t father and son, but their relationship eerily follows this classic

Early on in the show, Morty admires Rick and tries to mimic him,

spending much more time with Rick than with his actual father.

Morty’s time with Rick is an apprenticeship of sorts,

though he learns more about controlling Rick than about actual science.

He can now see through Rick’s petty behavior and disable a nutrino bomb in minutes.

Rick, meanwhile, seems hellbent on asserting his dominance and keeping Morty’s ego in

"Just don’t get too big for your loafers, Buster Brown.

A cocky Morty could lead to some big problems."

This underlying dynamic explains why Rick so often feels the need to put Morty down.

His behavior echoes many of the Father-Son stories

in which the father tries to keep the son from gaining any power, fearing displacement.

Their time together transforms Morty -- he becomes increasingly jaded and callous.

"Mr. President. If I've learned one thing today,

it's that sometimes you have to not give a f***!"

And most importantly, his attitude towards Rick changes drastically.

He's now disillusioned with Rick’s behavior, ethics and approach to life,

"Come on, bird person. Rick's that complicated!

He sees through the bravado to the egotism beneath.

"He bails on everybody! He bailed on mom when she was a kid! He bailed on Tiny Planet!

And in case I never made this clear to you, Summer, he bailed on you!"

The “Archnemesis Dad” narrative has already been overtly featured on Rick and Morty in

Here we saw a bitter, cold Morty who hates “Ricks of all kinds” and devotes his time

This Morty possesses the solidified adult identity and goals

that every "son"’ figure must search for and eventually achieve,

and this role seems to be ridding the multiverse of Ricks.

The question that remains is whether our Morty will renounce Rick.

In Morty’s Mind-Blowers, we saw what might have been the final straw

as Morty snapped and actually attacked Rick.

And in Ricklantis we see what appears to be Evil Morty returning

and making a bid for city council in the Citadel of Ricks, suggesting bigger upheavals to come.

If Rick’s story reflects the fear of inevitably growing old and becoming irrelevant,

Morty’s story reflects the challenges of growing up.

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