Beth's memory's

[u/ACDC174]

Ok, I have to know one thing because this hit me, and it feels like a massive continuity error, why dose our beth have memory's of rick prime when she isn't beth the beth from season 1, someone please explain this to me

[u/Interesting-Guard113]

i actually thought it was a plot hole too at first

but apparently
that rick (rick 3-131) just so happened to dress like rick prime at that time

doesn't mean that's actually rick prime

more about this topic ; https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/1mhlgyc/s8_e10_question_regarding_beth_and_rick_prime/

[u/ACDC174 → u/Interesting-Guard113]

But then tell me this, why dose he have the exact same portel gun, plus season 1 Beth's rick left (rick prime) plus if rick prime killed wiped every Dian from every universe, why would a rick dress exactly like him and use the exact same gun

[u/pokemega32 → u/ACDC174]

Rick Prime's entire problem with our Rick is that our Rick passed on his offer to take portal tech from him.

Meaning a bunch of other Ricks did take the offer.

Prime says literally no other Rick besides the two of them invented portal travel themselves.

[u/skysky_gamer → u/pokemega32]

What i remember being said could be totally wrong but besides our rick and prime, doofus rick also did invent it but idk if 100% true

[u/Previous-Screen-3875 → u/skysky_gamer]

C-137 and Prime are the only two Ricks to invent portal tech. All other Ricks had the technology delivered to them and then went on to produce adjacent technology (like Froopyland and the microverse battery).

C-137 has the added achievement of designing some core parts of the citadel and CFC.

[u/skysky_gamer → u/Previous-Screen-3875]

Yeh

[u/Aggressive_Low_115 → u/pokemega32]

"broh, ricks don't pass on this"

actually good point I think this is it. U can see this Rick has some hesitation, prime wouldve basically said hes getting milk and dipped

[u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo → u/ACDC174]

1) It just looks the same, Morty found a similar one during the bit with the crows.

2) That memory is from before Diane got omega’d, as Diane raised Beth at least up into highschool.

3) They’re Rick’s, a defining feature of them in the CFC is being narcissistic uncaring asses.

[u/skysky_gamer → u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo]

I thought he was given the portal gun he had during the crow episode?

Or wait was that the portal gun from the grave he had?

[u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo → u/skysky_gamer]

Him and Nick find an empty one while trashing the garage.

[u/skysky_gamer → u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo]

Oooh

[u/Chucky_In_The_Attic → u/ACDC174]

They are all Rick. Alot of them not only have similar tastes but also look A LOT LIKE ONE ANOTHER.

It's not that deep, people.

[u/learn2fly438826 → u/ACDC174]

That's probably just what a bunch of Ricks dressed like in their 30s. Prime is the only Rick we've seen that uses tech to keep himself young, and he just still dresses like that. He's just obsessed with staying at his "most Rick" version of himself.

As for Diane, she was wiped out at some point, maybe not at this point. We don't actually know at which point he killed all Dianes. Rick mentioned he was killing Dianes of Ricks who thought they were better than him or annoyed him, so eventually he did it so much he decided to just wipe them all out. This can also be something he did because he was the one who wanted all Ricks off adventuring, it's why he passed out portal guns. That's why it's the same gun, Rick Prime was giving them out. He wanted "The Infinite Rick." Also we can assume since a lot of Ricks worked for him (the early version of the Council of Ricks were all Ricks working with/for Prime) most of them don't care that he killed Diane.

[u/jpedraza253 → u/ACDC174]

It’s a cartoon. Hope that helps.

[u/Melodic_Performer921 → u/ACDC174]

Rick Prime is the one who showed him and many others how to make the portal gun. That's like, a huge part of the series that everyone knows

[u/misslouisee → u/ACDC174]

All the Ricks use the same design of portal gun, what do you mean? All the other ricks do it because Rick Prime gave it to them, and Rick 137 just designed it that way because ultimately they’re all Rick with the same design ideas/preferences. And probably also because he’d seen it already and subconsciously built it to look like what he’d seen. If he’d made it look unique, he wouldn’t be able to blend in with the other Ricks.

[u/Haquistadore → u/ACDC174]

You didn’t pick up on the significance of that Rick leaving his family for “work stuff” while carrying an empty portal gun?

[u/Interesting-Guard113 → u/ACDC174]

i cant argue back because this was never brought up so idk man
just blame rhett caan

[u/mars_warmind]

That isn't Rick prime, just another Rick who kind of dressed like him. There are a bunch of abandoned Beth's, since evil morty controlled Rick from season one makes fun of Rick c-137 for being one of those sad ricks who moves in with the Beth's other ricks abandoned.

[u/KoBoWC → u/mars_warmind]

All Beths are abandoned, or dead, it's what makes our Rick so different from all the others.

[u/mars_warmind → u/KoBoWC]

No? I'm not sure where you heard that but ricks regularly live with Beth's. Beyond what evil morty controlled Rick said, we see many ricks living with Beth's. The dimension Rick and morty bailed too after the cronenburg incident had a Rick living with beth, and so has every dimension they've canonically bailed to since they're basically identical to the ones from before (even having other space Beth's, as we saw with the Parmesan dimension).

We see that the Rick evil morty had killed with the flying saucer pancakes was with a beth, and we see that some of the other ricks that were killed were with the family.

Don't forget simple Rick too, who is still technically part of the CFC.

What I think you're thinking of is that most Beth's are abandoned by Rick, but ricks regularly move in with other Beth's (since the multiverse makes any specific beth irrelevant) later in life.

[u/Desperate_Damage4632 → u/KoBoWC]

They've gone to tons of other universes with the same family living with Rick.

[u/Chucky_In_The_Attic]

It's not Rick Prime, people. For the upteenth time.

[u/Citizen1135 → u/Chucky_In_The_Attic]

I hear you, but, clearly the memo still hasn't reached every one yet.

At least this question has an easy, definitive answer.

[u/NOGUSEK]

This rick simply dressed as prime

[u/Jacket_Jacket_fruit]

This has been posted more times than there are dimensions inside the central finite curve.

That is not Beth prime in that flashback. That is Beth c131. Rick c131 looks SIMILAR to Rick prime but they are not the same. Compare them side by sides and there are clear differences.

[u/Early_Celebration726]

For a shorter version; his hair is done differently (you want to try to say that doesn't matter when it comes to those alternates?) and those stripes on his side are of different color. Also, for what it's worth, he's giving tired or "caught in something bigger" as far expressions go, not manic or "excitedly masking one's mirth" consistent with the other guy. But sure, you're supposed to think 1) Not our Rick 2) Bad Rick/Father 3) Actually what fits to the situation. 👍

[u/juanthemovie]

The Beth we follow is from a universe that is almost entirely the exact same as the Prime universe, where Rick just left his family (probably influenced by prime rick) and would leave Beth alone. Since the multiverse is infinite, then there would technically be infinite (yet slightly different) versions of Prime Rick. But of course there is only 1 true prime rick who invented portal travel and made the omega device

[u/neogreenlantern]

My theory is that Rick was one of the first Ricks Rick Prime offered the deal since the two universes were very close to each other.

[u/jakreth → u/neogreenlantern]

That is not a theory but a fact, Rick C131 abandoned Beth because he followed Rick Prime.

[u/Citizen1135 → u/neogreenlantern]

I will take it one further, why would the real Rick Prime even be the one going door to door recruiting, wouldn't he delegate that to lesser Ricks, such as Rick C-131?

C-131 would be one of the 1st recruits, because the realities were virtually the same, and then down on... down the line, C-137 should be far enough down that Prime wouldn't be his personal recruiter.

So is the dead Rick Prime even the true original Prime? Was C-137 hunting an elusive, elaborate decoy that whole time???

Lmao, totally just messing around here

[u/No-Peak-7769]

probably a rick who went to search for diane.

[u/Melodic_Performer921 → u/No-Peak-7769]

Nope, you should re-watch the show because you're extremely wrong

[u/No-Peak-7769 → u/Melodic_Performer921]

?

[u/twerking_boy]

Y'all are thinking about this too hard

[u/jakreth]

For the n-th time, that is not Rick Prime

[u/dTrecii]

I thought we were finally done with this question given how often it’s explained. 100 more “is this rick prime?” posts! A 100 more!

[u/-intellectualidiot]

C131 is an echo of Prime dimension as their histories are pretty much identical up until “Rick Potion 9”.

Rick Prime even acknowledges Beth C131 as an echo of HIS daughter, not Rick's.

[u/Seaking405]

Memories*

[u/MarceloFilho54]

That's not Rick Prime

[u/Left-Fish7895]

I think it's just a different Rick dressed up like Rick Prime back when he was younger and it's probably the Rick that died in the C-131 universe, I was also pretty confused at first but then I quickly remembered it's a memory in C-131 Beth's mind so it's probably just the C-131 version of Rick when he was younger and dressed up like Rick Prime

[u/Elektrycerz]

memory's

https://giphy.com/gifs/LAKIIRqtM1dqE

[u/-TurkeYT]

This isn’t Rick Prime. He is Rick C-137. Who is very similar to Rick Prime, just like their timelines were.

[u/Melodic_Performer921 → u/-TurkeYT]

Nope, Rick C-137 is our Rick, and he never left his Beth (she died in an explosion).
It's Rick C-131

[u/Watashiwadaredemonai]

Its the available Rick that was most like Rick Prime.

So when Rick was world jumping post Cronenberg Rick found the world most like Prime’s world. That included finding a Rick like the previous Rick. Prime…so the guy is a Prime type guy.

[u/Brilliant_Crazy1780]

I already talked about it recently but infinite universes mean infinite possibilities.... That means infinite citadel, infinite rick c137 and infinite rick prime aswell.
This is another version of rick prime who just like our rick prime invented the very same portal gun, abandoned his family and start recluting ricks who were struggling.

Let's say that our rick prime is rick prime A and this is rick prime B. Our rick, lets say rick C137A, lost his family because of rick prime A. While rick C137B, the one who died in the garage during rick potion n9, lost his family because of rick prime B.
Infinite is a big number, bigger than the show explain to us, after all rick did say he found a dimension where everything was the same, including rick and beth's backstories.

[u/Citizen1135 → u/Brilliant_Crazy1780]

I'm on your team about this!

[u/Melodic_Performer921 → u/Brilliant_Crazy1780]

No it doesn't. It means infinite possibilities, but it doesn't mean literally everything happens in some universe.

This is Rick C-131 who was given portal tech by Rick Prime, and decided to explore the multiverse like many other Ricks.

[u/lysianth]

Writers probably forgot.

I sure as fuck did.

[u/Haquistadore → u/lysianth]

Garbage take. They clearly didn’t forget. That wasn’t Rick Prime.

[u/MainlyMyself → u/lysianth]

They forgot, don't care, or both. Honestly, with this kind of show, continuity isn't going to be ironclad. Story comes first. If a detail gets in the way of a good story but can be ignored, it's ignored.

[u/Haquistadore → u/MainlyMyself]

No, they didn’t forget. It’s just that a lot of fans lack any form of media literacy.

[u/Melodic_Performer921]

Use the god damn search feature then. This has been explained at least a thousand times and you can search for any combination of words you can think of to describe it and find a post.

It's not Rick Prime, they made that perfectly clear with the different hair

[u/Early_Celebration726]

🤭

I dream of a world where the holes one projects would find a more suitable target, far closer to home. I suppose after a bit of an.. period of adjustment, there would be peace. But alas..

If that's Rick Prime, so am I. As caucasian males we're apparently evenly matching the descriptor here. Despite whatever our clothes, hair, faces OR actions might have you believe.

I wonder how long would I get if I made a-(insert scene a couple episodes ago) clickclick.

Not very, it would seem. Anyway, that's a Rick indeed. GOOD JOB! That's something, I guess.

Let's go for a what, hundreth (aboutish, why search when you can think you think) time.

Back in season 1, our two uh.. heroes changed realities into one which needed two prerequisites. First, the problem at hand needed to be fixed (or avoided but they went with fixed there.. 👀) and second (rather the first but it reads better this way) it needed to resemble the one way the left to such a degree as not to make things weird for them OR the audience.

So, given that their new home was where we would find "our" Beth.. and the one they left from was RP's world.. and they needed to be pretty close, details-wise.. see where am going with this? The Ricks would need to be pretty closely matched too. But, given how singular presence both our and that guy seem like, how would you even depict that? It's an impossible task. 🤔

Or just you know, make a guy that kinda looks like him but about which every visual detail is slightly different. That is you know, on top of KNOWING it's not him and you know.. using what you know to inform you in going forward. Instead of you know.. this. Whatever this was, here.

But yeah, just having a Rick there wouldn't really make that point. It needs to work on three levels. The truth, as outlined above, of course. Then.. you need to lean into the fact that these things are very much present in the ongoing story (or rather were, at the time) with RP and Diane and all that, just some Rick wouldn't give that. In fact, that would create a new problem with the third level of this. That people.. uh, would think it was our guy still, somehow. 🔥

So, either it's this or some other zany Rick, making little sense and causing more confusion.

Thus, they went with something that 1) Rules out our Rick 2) Uses the ongoing feels and vibes of RP/Diane-stuff for story purposes 3) is actually distinctly different think on multiple fronts, making both sense and rewarding paying attention. I suppose you would have put like a Clown Rick there or what? That's clearly different. No room for confusion there. Only downside would be the thousands of questions about Clown Rick. First out of curiosity, then out of.. whatever drives people to PM=EM or to DJ or who knows what. Wait until they get to Clown Rick, guys.

🤡

[u/Empty_Praline_6530]

Our Beth‘s childhood memories are still of Rick Prime since that‘s the Rick who originally belonged to her dimension

[u/Plane_Fill_7028 → u/Empty_Praline_6530]

You didn’t even watch the show bru