Warning: Contains spoilers for Rick and Morty: The Anime Episode #1 Rick and Morty The animated series has just twisted an already annoying element of the main show even more. While the first episode of Rick and Morty: The Anime received mixed reviews from fans, it still made a significant effort to expand on the massive Rick and Morty multiverse. Many allusions to the main series were made in the first episode, but one major plot detail completely twisted one of the show's darker jokes.
While Rick hides from the Galactic Federation throughout the story, Morty comes into focus when he becomes fascinated by a new VR game his grandfather made for him. It essentially works like “Roy,” a video game set in the Rick and Morty universe where players play as a regular guy named Roy and earn points by living his life. However, This iconic joke takes a much darker turn as things begin to change over time.
Turns Out Morty's VR Game Is Tied to Every Reality in the Rick and Morty Universe at Onceas explained by another Rick in cyberspace. The worst part of it all is that everything Morty goes through actually happens in real life.
Rick's VR Game for Morty Crosses Over Multiple Alternate Realities
Everything Morty sees throughout the series is actually happening.
While “Roy” is entirely based on fiction, simply created by the player to seem realistic in order to immerse him in Roy’s life, this virtual reality created by Rick takes a much more bizarre approach to the concept. The story keeps shifting from one alternative possibility to another. as Morty finds himself getting close to a man named Frank and a woman named Elle. From there, his life takes place in these timelines as he even experiences his own death countless times in an homage to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
It's an extremely strange chain of events that takes the story down a darker path. Morty faces the life and death of countless other Mortys across the multiverse.as indicated by the color of their costumes changing whenever the outcome changes. It is unclear whether they actually fight the monster in their reality, but the game eventually becomes much more realistic as these alternate Mortys take different paths after interacting with the beast, often ending up with Frank or Elle, even in the Cronenberg reality, as shown in the episode's post-credits scene.
Rick and Morty's Warped Version of “Roy” Has a Different Purpose
This is essentially the prologue to the main series.
What's fascinating about the VR sequence from Rick and Morty: The Anime is how it plays into what's to come in the series as a whole. Trailers for the anime have shown that Elle will play a much larger role in the first season, so This entire first episode essentially serves as a prologue to the next series. Morty experiencing these alternate paths shows that he will learn the right and wrong direction he and Rick should take when things start to look like the game.
It will be interesting to see how each episode ties into Morty's experience in the game. There's no denying that this is a strange way for the anime to start the series. However, with hints of the future clearly lurking, this dark approach to one of the Rick and MortyThe most outrageous pranks are the perfect way to start an anime.
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