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Recap + Corrections

Welcome to part 2 of the Rick Meta-Parasite Theory. This is the follow-up to the greatest Rick and Morty theory. Last time, we established that Rick was a meta-fictional parasite that came from outside of the canon to take the place of Rick Prime. There was a bunch of proof for this and it retroactively changes the entire narrative of the series in a consistent way. This new part is also going to be based off the first one, so go read that and gas it up with reblogssssss 🔥

This new part is going to be broken into several distinct parts because there’s more proof and confirmation for this theory through specific segments. Let’s start out with some clarifications:

I throw around the phrase ‘parasite’ a lot. To clarify what a parasite actually IS, it’s an entity that can attack the mind and the memories of a person to enter the narrative of the Rick and Morty series. Nearly all of them are meta-fictional as well.

I called Evil Morty a ‘counter-parasite’, which isn’t exactly true. He is simply another parasite. In the moment, I meant that he can attack other parasites. However, they ALL do this. The grander narrative of this theory is just parasites fighting one another to get to their host, Rick Prime. It’s survival of the fittest and by calling Evil Morty a ‘counter’ to parasites, I made it sound like he was made for this or is some antithesis when my proof was to show he was falling in line with the motifs of parasites I set up. This includes how Evil Morty had access to technology targeting a Rick’s mind and body, so he’s just a flat-out parasite.

As if it wasn’t mentioned before or obvious enough - Yes, C-137 is the child of Doc and Mharti. And he went after Rick Prime because he resembles his ‘dad’, Doc. I just didn’t say it because it’s a gross idea that still somehow works because the idea is that he is leeching off himself

There’s more proof of a shared parasite family tree as well. I pointed out that the Federation is made up of aliens who built memory devices to enter Rick’s mind. But the one Gromflomite agent they send in has a physical reaction to nearing Rick’s backstory and realized he was honing in on it. This means that genetically, they would be able to detect memories and use this to create these kinds of devices. If this is a sense they naturally have, they’re just building off it. The best way to explain this would be to think of it as how we’ve built telescopes to amplify our sense of sight. These Gromflomites are doing the exact same with their innate sense of memory/origin tracking. Although the memory parasites from Total Rickall may not be the original root of this species or its larval stage, they are for sure related and all intertwined in some way. I ended up realizing that making a family tree for this was incredibly hard and probably not worth the effort for this theory, even though I kept promising it. If I eventually find way better proof (yes, somehow better than all these long theories), I’ll consider making a family tree for every meta-parasite in ‘The Animal Theory’

In general, I don’t actually read or watch many theories on this show. I know about the classic Season 3 ones, but I’ve stayed in my own world for the past few years. I AM aware of the theory that the Total Rickall parasites came into the house via the ‘Mortynight Run’ rocks Rick collected. There’s a couple extra links I could be including like how Fart can read minds and this could make him a parasite (since he’s also being hunted by a Gromflomite), but the weird detail of this episode being next to Auto-Erotic Assimilation and the implied parasite family tree or evolutionary line is better and has more throughlines of proof. If I did keep this theory in mind, the implications would be way harder to unpack. For example, why is a Gromflomite hunting down something that is related to parasites that I recently tied back to a huge family tree/species of parasites that contain the Gromflomites instead? This theory is already complicated enough - this entire recap and correction section is already lengthy.

This also brings us to the next needed clarification, that being about why parasites even exist at all. This will be a broad breakdown that isn’t needed if you already understood the last theory’s point about parasites hunting Rick:

The Central Finite Curve is in the midst of the ‘actual’ multiverse that has infinite possibilities that aren’t isolated according to Rick’s importance or even lack thereof in reference. This is referred to as the non-canon of the show. Everything outside of it requires beings that are formless or can push through this chaotic multiverse with natural ease. On a meta-fictional level, entities like Previous Leon can do this just fine because he can traverse through any narrative and its narrative archetypes. He’s even seen using his own portals (or what was said to be a hole in the fourth wall).

I also recently learned that Shoney’s is NOT a parody of Denny’s. It’s a real chain that you can actually visit if you are a weird Rick and Morty fan. So this theory will ignore the claims I made about the fear hole being a tunnel through hyper-reality that connects to a real Denny’s, since Shoney’s is JUST AS REAL. However, it will be revised in this theory. I just thought I’d clarify here that it isn’t a parody at all and you guys can also go eat at Shoney’s like Rick. Weirdos.

I won’t be addressing a good amount of existing theories, like the Mortynight Run I mentioned before. I WILL shout-out @rickle-n-mort-enthusiast for some insane proof they found regarding the usage of C-137 as Rick’s assigned dimensionality that builds off my previous proof of C-137 being a false prime code. I’ll also be refusing to mention a LOT of things in this theory solely to keep things shorter and simpler. That means I’ll be removing the portion talking about the Non-Canon Adventures, a portion that tried to scrape together any proof regarding the talking cat that Jerry befriended, any proof regarding Birdperson (outside of a small Phoenixperson mention at the end), any proof regarding the anime, any more leaks, any other theories, any other implications or inspirations outside of Doc and Mharti or Back To The Future, and just anything you might not have seen mentions here. Either way, a lot of that stuff is saved for the inevitable Part 3 once I’m not as burnt-out from writing and editing this 8,000 behemoth.

Random Smaller Proof

I decided to go for ‘That’s Amorte’ because of its food motif and to see if Season 7 can rectify this theory further. Although it doesn’t instantly prove the entire main premise, there’s scattered remnants of this theory. We do see a small amount of memory erasure and tampering going on in this episode. Rick mentions sped-up lifespans and cloning as well, which is going to be important at the end of this theory and for ‘The Animal Theory’ coming out after this. Although you could make the point that people being eaten = parasite theory proof, it’s a little counterintuitive once you break it down further. At the end, no one else wanted to eat the spaghetti after actually seeing the memories of the person whose guts they were eating. Everyone BUT RICK. You can call this proof, but the spaghetti comes from suicide, not memories. As a result, I’ll just keep it here in case anyone was wondering about its inclusion in this theory. It has small bits of proof but the entire EPISODE isn’t supporting much. Surprisingly, an episode that DOES support this theory and even the idea of memories being eaten is ‘The Ricklantis Mix-Up’

The Citadel Already Eats Memories

The Citadel knows the power of a Rick’s memories. Specifically, two Ricks have their memories fine-tuned and used as flavoring for a wafer

Simple Rick’s memories linger on a younger Beth and his times with her, kept on a loop

Meanwhile, Rick from dimension J-22 has his memories on a loop, specifically the memory of leaving the harsh working environment of the Simple Rick’s factory

The factory has the technology to loop memories into food. What’s interesting is that this is where the show first mentions the curve by its name, specifically using the term ‘iterations’. This is the official term for what I’ve been calling ‘deviation offsets’. Simple Rick seems to be 16 iterations off the curve. This doesn’t mean he’s literally not listed on the curve. I take it to mean that he’s in the first 16 iterations of a system based on Rick Prime, meaning he’s very close to Prime. And the entire point of this theory is that Rick C-137 is a parasite that feeds on memories and the mind of Prime. And here we have the memories of a Prime-esque Rick LITERALLY BEING EATEN.

Then we have J-22, who tries to take control of the situation and literally takes over his place later on. J-22 is stated to be ‘more Rick’ than any other Rick there. The parallels between the narrative of Prime and C-137 literally don’t stop. It shows that C-137 caused a butterfly effect and caused other Ricks to be based on him. Not in the sense that they follow up his narrative through “What if?” scenarios - rather, they directly follow his footsteps. This also confirms the idea that his narrative is very easy to recreate, what with Slow Mobius’ wife and Summer following his footsteps when they need to hunt down a given Rick or Prime-esque enemy in their life.

And the carry on top of J-22’s demise is that they end up using his memories and mind for a new batch of wafers. Feasting on a Rick’s memories.

I’d also like to draw parallels to how Previous Leon seems to feed on memories quite literally. And this would also explain why Rick is hunted too, not just because he’s any other parasite. The new two reasons are that he’s still the “false prime”, the Rickest Rick. He’s confused as Prime and the hero of this franchise

And two, Rick C-137 is easier to locate. Even though he couldn't hunt down Prime, that very journey is what shaped him. They go for the next best thing

And just one more minor detail - of course it makes sense that honing in on Prime is important. If you could get memories from the edges of the curve, you would stay at the outer edges. Yet we see parasites entering in constantly and hunting down C-137 - meaning it’s closer to the center axis, NOT the edges where the end of the curve and the main multiverse begins.

This shows how a Rick’s memories are fuel in the Citadel, but this acts as support for my previous theory since I said that meta-fictional parasites use C-137’s memories as fuel. The Galactic Federation, Previous Leon, The Self-Referential Six, Evil Morty, the memory parasites in Total Rickall, etc.

‘Rickmancing the Stone’ shows that Rick can transfer memories over into another being to create a parasite. He draws from ‘muscle memory’, saying he’s done this before. He injects it into Morty’s arm, creating a vengeful arm that is drawing from its own memories and acts on its own while using Morty’s body for its own benefits - textbook definition of a parasite.

How Does Evil Rick Exist?

Here’s a question to anyone who read the first part - If the idea of deviation off-sets for the curve are true, then how does Evil Rick exist? Rick C-137 is a parasite from outside of the canon PRETENDING to be a Rick based off the image of Prime. However, there’s still somehow Ricks based on C-137. Evil Rick is explicitly one of them because he HIMSELF mentions he’s a few deviations off Rick C-137, with only one Rick standing between them said to be ‘weird’. So I think a few things can be hypothesized.

I think each dimension pops up in real time based on events. Several series follow this logic, where an event in one universe causes it to branch off into another. After all, the curve explicitly is slightly based on each previous dimension and their outcomes. The reason I view Evil Rick and his dimension as an impossibility is because there is no Rick to be based off. There is merely a parasite pretending to BE Rick Prime, but there’s still some logical consistency.

We later on know that Evil Morty is another entity like Rick C-137. He’s able to breach the mind of Prime easily and shut down his decoys. He managed to get Rick’s backstory - something that I pointed out EVERY meta-parasite is just dying to do and is the secret overarching narrative of this series. And the greatest proof I can give you is the fact that he controls Evil Rick through his brain. He’s able to do all this mind stuff and later on escapes the curve entirely, noting that it’s also not that big of a task for him to take down Prime. Considering that this is a shared goal between C-137 and Evil Morty, that further aligns them both as parasites. But Evil Morty already has another Rick host - HIS Rick. He’s the definition of a host he’s using to anchor himself in more ways than one. I’ve mentioned how the anchoring works to ‘canonize’ these characters, not to mention that it’s being used to infiltrate the curve and the Citadel of Ricks itself.

This seems to be what Evil Rick’s dimension is mirroring regarding C-137. The parasite narrative of a narrative parasite. But why is it Morty this time?

Rick’s arrival into the curve caused another dimension to pop up, affecting the nearby ones into being distorted and causing it so it is fixated on this parasitic arrival. Now, we have Morty as the parasite. It’s as simple as that. That explains how these two exist even though they should’ve been based off a genuine Rick and Morty.

However, it seems that this proof continues further. We have Morty’s Mind Blowers - an episode and schism that shows that Rick consistently erases and alters Morty’s memories. This should be VERY alarming considering that the theory is constantly built on smaller instances of memory-tampering, and here we are with a big one. If anything, I think this is better proof that Evil Rick and Morty are based on the meta-parasite angle of C-137 to the point that I’d almost say it’s canon.

Rick tampers with Morty’s memories often. He’s practically his lab rat. I mentioned earlier that in Rickmancing the Stone, he created a parasitic arm using its memories alone on Morty. He’s also said he’s done it before - he clearly HAS with this type of memory on hand. Evil Morty would go on to experiment on HIS Rick and HIS memories. Evil Rick even eventually gets a hold of Rick’s memories of Morty, showing that Evil Morty has created a host that can do this work FOR him. It’s a consistent staple among these characters I keep deeming as parasites.

I remember I had an offhand comment that implied a sort of ‘hyper-canon’ that involved Denny’s. I understand that it was very strange and may have seemed out of context, but it was actually a crucial piece for the second part of this theory. The idea is that Denny’s is the original higher-layer franchise that had its lower-layer parody be important to the Rick and Morty curve narrative, existing as Shoney’s and its own existing in-universe franchise

As stated before, the entire reason that Rick C-137 was stated to be a non-canon/outside of the canon parasite is because he’s a parody deviation. He was removed from the parody and its source that he became his own thing entirely - or rather, later on modeled himself in the image of another franchise. To be fair, the idea of how Rick C-137 exists in a Rick image when I claimed that Rick Prime was the first ever Rick in this Rick and Morty franchise is just one big chicken-and-egg paradox. But we have better proof of how deviation offsets (as I coined it) work. We have Memory Rick becoming sentient due to the fact that he is a perspective based on a memory of a younger version of Rick.

The Incestual (Meta) Paradox

I’m gonna have to try to keep this one simple by starting with a useful comparison. I mentioned Doc and Mharti, which was the original Rick and Morty. It’s a parody of Back To The Future, and this parody is the groundwork for the entire show and theory as well. On a literal meta level, Rick C-137 is the child of Doc and Mharti as the show developed away from its parodic roots. Back To The Future has a subplot wherein Marty McFly travels back in time and nearly causes his younger mother to fall in love with him. This is a perfect representation of the time paradox that this show has on a meta level as well, ironically enough, which is due to the fact that I do NOT know what came first - Rick C-137 or Rick Prime. This is referring to their designs but also because I don’t know how many universes existed when the two met. 0? 1? 2? A few dozen? All of them?

Rick C-137 being a parasite means that Rick Prime must have come first so he could have someone to target. That is unless we follow the logic of appearances being chronological dictations because again, that’s a more meta timeline. I used it to try to prove that Rick created alternate decoys of his family to get his show on the air and continue being a total meta-parasite, which means that Prime probably didn’t exist at the time and he didn’t have some sort of goal.

By process of elimination though, we can try to see who came first in a less risky way. I know this part seems easy and useless, but it’s because we need to understand WHO defines WHAT.

Seeing as how C-137 as a dimension still is part of the Central Finite Curve while their narrative affects the rest of the Curve, it means that they are ingrained in it and crucial to it. Prime HAS existed there for long, yet C-137 is being replicated as though he’s just another Rick variant. Yes, he’s a parasite and he’s trying to fit in. As you’ll see later, there’s more proof that he even gets caught doing this parasitic fake Rick life. Being the ‘Rickest Rick’ means you can actually slip into the Curve and be manipulated by it, yet he’s not being dragged along. That means we have a ‘Rick layer’ and the actual parasite underneath. He’s forcing it by leaning into it so hard that it should’ve given it away from day one - and it almost did. That’s probably another reason that Rick Prime decided to take everything away from him. The difference between Rick Prime and Rick C-137 is a lot like comparing a diamond formed deep in the earth and one that was artificially cut. While the cut diamond is far more perfect and pushes the idealized beauty of diamonds, it’s very obvious that it was artificial. That is the best way to explain the idea that Rick is a parasite that is trying way too hard to fit in. To everyone else, he’s a flawless diamond that inexplicably formed under pressure when, in reality, it was done to maximize his survival and intelligence to survive while in the Central Finite Curve and continue living as a parasite. I know that this theory takes away from some of his greatest moments of love for those around him…and it does, I won’t lie. The way this works is that Rick knows he’s in a show. He is an actor, in another sense. The character he is playing is based off Rick Prime, while it’s more like he’s an actor who has beef with the character and actor that is Rick Prime. It’s layered, like I said, and on a meta level it’s fitting with how both characters are voiced by one actor.

The paradox is simply that Rick is going after Rick Prime originally due to his…attraction warranting him to do what his…fathers of Doc and Mharti did as well. And since he’s festering within his own cosmology and fighting over a version of himself, it’s a boiling pot that can be metaphorically digested as incestual. It’s just the ‘Rick layer’ doing this fight that is paradoxical. THis is all very wordy, but the reason this is all being mentioned is for the end part and far more meta layers.

Rick as a PARASITE is just his normal form.

This parasite was formed from Doc and Mharti, but ended up finding a perfect host to also base themselves off to create the Rick Layer

This Rick Layer is everything else we see that is affected by the Curve. His parasitic conflict changes the curve and other dimensions that aren’t even BASED on him or Prime entirely because it isn’t the Rick Layer doing this. Rick C-137 cannot possibly have his conflict reflected because the Central Finite Curve does not concern itself with two dimensions at once. Rather, it’s because Rick has such a chokehold, like a leech that refuses to let go and drains the blood of the Central Finite Curve all for himself, leaving it weak and basing it off the most popular event going on right now.

The Ads Are Canon

This is still going to be crazy and I need you all to hear me out. I think the ads are important to this theory. Specifically, the fast food commercials they’ve made in collaboration with Rick and Morty. The promotional material for the show seems to exist in its own layer as well, with the Season 1 promo showing Rick was already aware of the difference between a ‘show’ and its promotional material, demonstrating that they had no backside because it was not needed. If Rick cares so much about his show and tracks each season and narrative, I’m 100% convinced that he created these promotional selves to be sentient and help get the show on air. He has meta technology on hand so this wouldn’t be too hard. I could probably say the same about the Pringle Morties, but things like the sentient Wendy’s food items…why would Rick invent food that wants to kill him that has 0 association with him? This is where the bulk of these theories begin, so strap in.

The Wendy’s ads are surprisingly the main smoking gun of this theory. In one of them, we see them impersonate the family to trick Morty into doing a commercial. Rick literally says they’re using his likeness. Wow. It’s almost like this ENTIRE theory is about Rick C-137 using Prime’s likeness as a parasite to infiltrate his franchise’s reality. So that means these guys are their own parasites outside of reality as well, who have come in to impersonate the family.

One of the commercials shows these sentient food beings also trying to kill Rick and Morty, with Morty sporting a flat blue-lined ax. This weapon looks VERY similar to the one seen in Season 3’s opening, with Morties being trapped in plastic and weapons in their plastic casing. This also reminds me of the fact that we see a Butter Morty in the opening of Season 6 that is acknowledged in the meta episode. This means there’s several food manifestations acknowledged on a meta level. So now, time to get into another connection that’s a little flimsy:

For some reason, there’s a food motif going on with meta levels and memories.

The meta-parasites eat the memories of their hosts or host realities.

The memories of two Ricks similar to C-137 and Prime are used to flavor wafers being sold at the Citadel of Ricks.

When Rick is compromised and his memories are infiltrated by the Gromflomites, he was in a Shoney’s and later visits a McDonald’s before going to his origin story, then all the way back to Shoney’s to reveal they never left to begin with.

The fear hole is located inside a Denny’s

And now we have these sentient food items alongside Butter Morty being noticed and Morty in a commercial also having a reference to one of the season’s openings.

Any other commercials are quite lackluster and I could easily explain them away as being promotional material that pre-Rick Layer Rick is doing. Not ACTUALLY before the events of the show, but I mean the version of Rick that was making those commercials with the Smiths I think are decoys he made to market himself and make sure he’s on air to hunt Prime down. That can explain how the Pringle Morties also work. Summer’s reaction could be that, well…she just saw rampant Pringle Morties come through effortlessly, or that this is the actual Summer here. The real one we see in the show, not some other decoy. Rick’s trust in Summer would explain why he doesn’t hesitate to remove the veil of reality and say it’s just a commercial in a dire moment rather than just a normal occurrence, similar to when he told Morty he’s in a commercial for the show before it aired. It seems that back then, it was more cynical while now, it’s to affirm her that it’s a commercial as a way to hope that it doesn’t go fully haywire. Also, the Pringle Morties still tie into this food motif. Robots can draw from very basic memories (anyone remember how Morty’s decoy in Rickmancing the Stone is eating spaghetti and how the episode shows that muscle memories translate into actual memories and instinct?) as also shown in Fear No Mort with a robot Rick made being scared as to why it has child memories. They are likely running on end with memories of Pringles and are decoys Rick made that are being used. It’s reminiscent of how, in Edge of Tomorty and the theory I made on its fascist dimensions, the back-up bodies from the vats are being monitored and restricted by a higher controlling government. These were taken from Rick just for this commercial and run rampant to promote themselves in an uprising revolt against Rick’s wishes, which wouldn’t be the first time this happens to one of Rick’s inventions after all.

I could make a point about that fear hole again, but that is going to be saved for later. This will be a good transition into the segment about the fear hole, actually.

The Fear Hole Is A Tunnel

This one is another stretch for now, but there’ll be proof to ease you into this. I mentioned that the fear hole stretches across every layer of reality we see because it was using Morty to understand Rick on a fundamental level. It was able to recreate Diane, which is interesting to think about for a moment. Diane doesn’t exist and the only one coming close to recreating her was Prime himself. Keep this in mind because I have more proof that the fear hole knows about the true nature of Diane, which also means that it seemingly transcends time and space. This would be viewing the story from a higher state rather than just being a timeline, as Diane is erased from existence, making it meta-chronological. Obviously, WE THE VIEWERS can still see Diane before and after her erasure. But Morty doesn’t know anything about Diane. It’s more that it is taking Morty’s raw thoughts and allowing them to be shaped with the context of who each character is. That’s also likely why we see background characters from his school pop up at times and even Nancy showing up (i’m not gonna fangirl right now I swear). It’s because it’s drawing from his memories to fill in certain gaps at times. He knows these people way better and uses them as stand-ins while gapped knowledge of other individuals is filled in. That also explains how Rick’s intentions were revealed. Morty didn’t KNOW Rick until the fear hole filled in the details he was unaware of, allowing him to realize that Rick didn’t jump into the hole with him.

After all, we fear what we do not know. The fear hole allows people to get over their fears by explaining them and removing unknown factors, which is a very real way to counter one’s phobias.

Let’s skim over the fact that I managed to finally explain the fear hole because this is JUST the start, kind of like how I managed to explain how the Central Finite Curve works and then explained even more mind blowing stuff. First of all, how does the fear hole know this? How does it actually know every little thing about EVERYONE, not just Rick and Diane? The fear hole appeared in a Denny’s, a location similar to Shoney’s, which has brought comfort to Rick. It’s also a place that he stays in mentally during the events of ‘The Rickshank Rickdemption’. This means it’s using a place similar to Rick’s comfort to slowly ease everyone into this situation. Again, this is reflecting similar methods of unpacking one’s fears. The fear hole is what I refer to as a tunnel. I don’t know if I’d also call it a parasite, even though it seems to display some level of sentience. The man in the suit could be its mind personified, but that’s for later to solve. Let it be known that IF it were a parasite, this could likely be its main host to entice people into its trap.

Anywho, if this fear hole connects through layers, then it likely pierces through every possible layer and meta layer. This would concern itself with the ads and promotional material, as I already said. And these worry themselves over marketability and using Rick’s likeness. Being more Rick than Rick. Being a Rickest Rick, like C-137 - emphasizing the point about sentient food ads trying to take Rick’s place.

And the Story Train manages to have a setting that tracks marketability as well, meaning Story Lord similarly tracks this as a mechanism of the train and reality, especially concerning Rick and Morty. The end of the first Story Train episode literally ends on an ad that the Citadel of Ricks was using to promote their Story Train toy set, meaning that the Story Train is technically an ad that is placing itself in the vicinity of other Ricks to be marketed and sold - much like the sentient Wendy’s food items. But is there any further proof that the Story Train and fear hole are TRULY intertwined?

Yes.

We can start off by showing that anything in the fear hole isn’t canon by definition. It is presupposed canon instead, implied canon. This is because our view of the fear hole relies on Morty’s knowledge of the world being currently shaped by the fear hole’s actual knowledge of reality. The first part of this theory explained that the outer reaches of the Story Train are considered non-canon and need an anchor. Otherwise, they spiral out of control with no direct medium. The reason that there can still be narrative spirals within the train is because it can happen quicker with nearby sequences going off - Rick and Morty can suddenly be in one story and exit into another because it is contained within the train. In the fear hole itself, it is going off what Morty knows as the fear hole’s knowledge guides him. Outside of the Story Train, literal continuity is needed or else you risk entering an uncontrollable story that has no anchor, no amount of truth to it at all. At the same time, I considered the non-canon to be the actual multiverse. This is the multiverse that surrounds the Central Finite Curve, this time being INFINITE instead of finite, and where Evil Morty fled to. This would also be similar to the chaos of the fear hole. A perfect analogy would be the fact that a sector of this ‘actual multiverse’ was contained under the premise that Rick is important, giving us the Central Finite Curve. The same happens with the Story Train containing its own continuity while the fear hole contains its own point of view with Morty inside of it. All of these line up, meaning that the Story Train must be using the fear hole as a tunnel.

But this still needs just a bit more evidence to it. How would the fear hole contain greater layers of reality AND the Story Train if it stays in a Denny’s at all times?

As we already know, the Story Train and the fear hole have countless layers to them until one resolves into the next in a transcendental format. You can go to the control room of the Story Train or realize your true fear in the heart of the fear hole. At the same time, the Story Train needs continuity to stay anchored and a medium. Otherwise, it’s similar to the chaotic multiverse outside of the train. And Morty didn’t know he was even in the fear hole at times until he himself realized it and eventually escaped it with the realization of what his actual fear is and what actually lies out there. To Rick outside of the fear hole, he had no idea what was even going on inside the fear hole. And then I remembered the fear hole demon guy in the suit.

Holy shit. He’s the key to this, LITERALLY. He was the one that brought them there, practically a symbiotic relationship with the fear hole. That memory energy and fear keeps it constantly flowing, sure, but there’s another important thing to mention. He not only explains what it is OUTSIDE of the hole, but explains how it works INSIDE of the hole. His sentience persists inside the fear hole because he is intertwined with it. Knowledge conquers irrational fears. Knowledge is how one escapes the fear hole, by either coming out smarter than their phobia or being blissfully unaware of its nature like Rick and staying away from it. And knowledge/awareness brings life to the Story Train and is the key to surviving the outer multiverse/non-canon. The fear hole’s manifestation demon (no idea what to call him) is the one allowing people to slowly escape with knowledge to anchor them to each layer - much like the Story Train. And we know the Story Train isn’t sentient, so I think that the fear hole is utterly massive in comparison to it.

It seems to contain knowledge it shouldn’t. As I said before, it knows what Diane looks and somewhat acts like and that Rick can see through her simulated flaws. It does this all from Morty’s flawed views of the world. In the first part of the theory, I said it reached into the “hyper-canon” of our real world and Doc and Mharti to reach Rick’s origin story. I don’t really stand by that view, but I think it can reach it by virtue of its size and magnitude. It reaches out and swallows the entire franchise - which thematically fits with containing the entire series so far by being at the very end of it (so far at least).

Just a small tidbit as well - Previous Leon was going through what Rick called a hole in the fourth wall. This is likely what the entire fear hole is, as it’s a fitting explanation that also ties in an actual statement from ‘Full Meta Jackrick’

I don’t know if the fear hole falls into the category of being a meta-parasite due to how large it is, but because it is said to feed off fear, then that is enough to class it here. To conclude, it seems that the Story Train practically uses the fear hole as a tunnel to reach every layer of reality possible. The ads exist on a layer here as well but are just as valid. I mentioned a ‘higher power’ and it’s likely this fear hole itself. If it gives a view through one’s perspective and shows the true higher layers or things one wouldn’t normally notice by filling in the blanks, it explains how Rick just KNOWS about these products perfectly without ever interacting with them. Going back to the actor comparison, it’s like Rick or anyone else is reading off a script. In a way, he is because he’s being fed this information through the fear hole. And seeing as how the fear hole creates a very convincing reality that can only be debunked through minor flaws (Rick notices Diane glitching out, Rick is the one who tears the wallpaper to show they’re in a Pringles ad), then it’s safe to say that these locations we see in these commercials takes place in the fear hole and probably different layers.

What does Rick get from this, though? He’s seen being paid in the PS5 promo (not related to food but still being used for this fear hole proof), but I think what matters the most is that he’s getting publicity. If he cares about being aired, then he cares about connecting himself to these other products and attaching his name to it - like a parasite.

Furthermore, it makes sense because he allows himself to parody or be parodied - such as the God of War or Ghost of Tsushima commercials. I said that these were the things that gave him life and still give him life. These are quick bursts of life for him, being able to effortlessly leech onto other properties and parody them or be parodied by them. The fear hole fills in the information for him so it’s not as hard. And since parodies fundamentally revolve around overlapping or blatant narrative archetypes, it makes sense why Rick was constantly referencing narrative archetypes such as cliches or story formats on a whim. He NEEDS to understand them to allow himself to keep living and it is the basis to understand many scenarios he’s in, which would explain why he later on uses meta technology that reveals things such as foreshadowing or Chekov’s Gun hidden in plain sight through a - I shit you not - meta-reality, or as he calls it, a meta-canon. That means that these things are a part of a canon connected ONLY through meta layers, so it practically confirms these things are connected together

Oh, and let’s not forget the whole minor narrative archetype of soup being used in Full Meta Jackrick. Just one more food connection to mention, though…

Hardee’s.

Hardee’s is the ONE outlier that threatens to debunk all of this. All we have is Rick letting the Hardee’s sentient burgers into Morty’s room with delight. And that says that he isn’t afraid of them. I didn’t want to mention it because of this entire build-up…BUT, it’s probably just him having some fun on set or experimenting with creating his own sentient food to counteract Wendy’s.

Rick Created Diane and Beth

I saved the very best for last. I briefly said that Rick wanted to ‘canonize’ himself and blend in as a Rick with a normal Diane and Beth. This is somewhat not true. I think that Rick was paralleling Prime’s current narrative to be the very first Rick to create portal travel, leeching off of Prime’s work and his life. Even though we never see this, Prime says ‘echoes of my daughter’ in his fucking amazing speech, meaning that Beth does exist for him too. This is what everyone else is basing themselves off of. So where exactly did C-137 locate a Diane and Beth if he’s faking this life as a parasite?

He didn’t. He made them.

You’ll quickly realize that this single portion could be its own great theory, but this acts as the greater support for this two-part theory. I think that Rick created his Diane and Beth. What’s the proof?

First off, we know that he’s an inventor. Even though portal travel was out of his reach, he was using technology early on to identify Rick Prime and his features. This means he has facial technology and yes, scans his own MEMORIES into a photo, which is another mini-bombshell of proof. This allows him to KNOW what Diane and Beth look like to create these blueprints in the first place.

Rick has the ability to create artificial intelligence and artificial humans as well. He once created a creature that mimics Jerry’s voice perfectly. He has created clones and decoys of his family. He has Diane’s voice still integrated into his technology. And this technology is clearly sentient, Rick allows them to have free will and opinions of their own - whether it be the Diane AI, the ship, the sentient lightsaber, the Morty clone that gained actual emotions and feelings before shutting itself down, etc. This is famously difficult to pull off, but it’s what many would argue separates a robot from a conscious being. The creation of free will into a robot would mean that these were real enough to Rick and their own ‘people’ in a way. So this shows that it’s clearly possible, but there’s way more than this.

Despite him being able to give free will to his creations, they’re still not perfect. ‘Rickmancing the Stone’ shows him whipping up Summer and Morty clone-bots that are pretty faulty. His clones were quick but not perfect - except one.

Space Beth.

Beth’s clones seem to have the most amount of work put into them. This got to the point where Rick couldn’t even tell who the actual clone was, not to mention that in ABC’s of Beth, he gave her the option of a clone already. It’s probably because Rick has had more time to perfect Beth’s clone rather than Summer and Morty…which shouldn’t be true. Wouldn’t it be paradoxically easier to create a working clone of someone younger rather than your older daughter you’ve known for longer? Not really. Because even if he was absent in Beth’s life and would have more reason to make a better clone for his accident-prone grandson he needs for adventures, it means that he has more experience creating a Beth clone.

Like the very original. Further explaining that very identity crisis both Beths have.

It’s also an interesting parallel to draw between him, Prime, and Simple Rick. At the very beginning, I said that Prime and Simple Rick were very similar to one another according to their placements along the Central Finite Curve. Simple Rick’s greatest invention is said to be his daughter Beth. And Rick C-137 took that VERY seriously - his greatest invention is still Beth, following Rick Prime’s footsteps.

The reason he’s making these two is because he’s a parasite, he’s not an actual Rick based off Prime. Since it’s just both of them in this war, he doesn’t have an established family because he isn’t an actual Rick based on Prime, this is merely a disguise. That’s why he allowed himself to be explicit as the ‘Rickest Rick’ when this disguise falls flat once Prime kills off Diane and Beth. Even though these are ‘fake’, these are advanced creations and Rick would be kind of a lonely guy. He clearly has a major disconnect that not even Morty can pin down in the fear hole since he can’t even give Rick what he truly wants - that Diane is STILL fake and inaccurate.

Why did Prime then kill off every Diane?

Because it’s a perfect amount of control and universal timing. C-137 can’t go out of his way to perfect the technology and lay low in another universe. I mentioned how he travels to other dimensions to blend in, but that’s with an existing universe. Prime was stopping him from starting over in another universe. Instead, he enters the existing lives of other Ricks - like a fucking parasite.

Considering that Rick meets Diane nearly across every dimension, Prime would either be interrupting the current relationship or soon-to-be relationship between a Rick and Diane across any given dimension. It means that Rick C-137 would either run into a dimension that doesn’t have a Diane yet or she’s dead. The reason Beth isn’t killed off is, well…no Diane means no Beth, in a way.

Although there isn’t enough proof that Diane was created, the proof is simply that C-137 is just going off ‘fake it until you make it’. I have to keep hammering this point home because otherwise, people would point it out as a fallacy when it’s just the basics.

Also, yes, it’s still a reason to be distraught. He likes the multiverse because he can access ANY Beth he wants at this point. It means he doesn’t have to create clones and that’s probably why he takes liberties nowadays compared to his older clone - Beth. And the dude once tried to befriend a fucking robot that serves butter. If he does that, he would for SURE be distraught at these free will top-of-the-line artificial humans he made himself dying right in front of him by the man he’s trying to control and whose life he’s trying to steal. He’s shown a good amount of compassion for his creations.

And another small piece of proof is that the fear hole shows Diane glitching out during it. I know that this is Morty’s view, but let’s follow the logic of the fear hole in the lens of this theory. It’s slowly molding a perfect Diane for our Rick, imagined in the mind of Morty. That would be his Diane. Although we’re getting Morty’s views, it’s being molded by the fear hole and its powers, alongside its knowledge on Rick and reality. That would be creating a perfect Diane that only shows its flaws when it acts slightly robotic and off before actually glitching, like a piece of technology. This also isn’t even his Diane, a point shown at the beginning. This is a perfect harrowing allusion to the fact that Rick C-137 has no Diane at all. That’s why he ended up creating one, it’s a stolen invention. I mean, let’s not also forget that Rick Prime had fake hosts of his own depending on technology. It just seems like a Rick thing to do to create humanoid robots that can trick people into thinking they’re ACTUAL humans, as it was so convincing that it kept tricking Rick and required the aid of Evil Morty.

Even more proof from previous parts includes the weird detail that, in the same fear hole episode, we see that the robot that Rick makes for Diane has memories of a child before short-circuiting and neglecting its own programming. Again, this seems to be a common theme for these robots, but this shows that memories fuel life into these robots - more proof that C-137’s Diane and Beth must have had its memories siphoned off existing variants off the curve

I’d also like to mention that Rick mentions making robots for the Federation. What does he call the Gromflomites in the pilot episode? ‘Robots’.

Now, I’m going to just insert this next theory at the end since we’ve gotten enough proof of Diane and Beth being artificial humans. I have nowhere else to put this, but considering that Rick in the pilot was portrayed as senile, missing obvious details, and quick on his feet with lies or excuses, perhaps he made robots for the Federation that got replaced by Gromflomites. We also see that they have access to a blue portal that can apparently reach outside of the curve. The one time we’ve seen a blue portal is when Rick was originally making them, the ones we see in Rick’s backstory that the Federation’s Gromflomite agents themselves witnessed (even if it was a false origin). I’m going to consider the pilot as also being a part of the canon, perhaps it takes place very early on in the timeline and there’s just a gap between it and the first actual episode. Anyways, I’m mentioning this because if Rick went against the Federation, they would want to tap into Rick’s vulnerability. That means using his technology in more subtle ways, taking him and his friend, and tracking his origin story. This is done in three ways:

-Don’t use agents created by Rick and instead use his technology that can be altered or won’t turn on them

-Track down his friends and alter Birdperson using technology Rick gave them. This would be possible due to their bond and the sheer irony of it, as well as hinting at the fact Rick’s technology perfectly works on his best friend.

-Start to amplify and reuse Gromflomite innate senses and build their own technology based on it to track memories and parasitic minds, eventually using it on Rick himself.

This shows how it FINALLY wraps around, showing that Rick’s influence truly pans out and graces everything, as we saw that the Central Finite Curve changes from his conflict and new life hunting Rick Prime down.

To cap off everything that’s been said here, we have more proof for the narrative I was laying out. Rick C-137 is a meta-fictional parasite from outside of the canon who is trying to impersonate Rick Prime, the actual Rick of this franchise. He has used his inventive demeanor to fabricate a false life in the process yet was found out by Rick Prime, who he only followed closely because it resembled one of his fathers and as a way to slip into this system of potentially infinite bodies to take control over too.

The life of a parasite needs it to actually take over a body. Way back in Part 1, I showed that the multiverse and non-canon out there is chaotic and ruthless. These meta-parasites push themselves through this chaotic sea to fund a host to replicate or take over narratively speaking. That’s why Rick’s greatest invention is portal travel - the one way to eliminate this entire issue. It is this reason why he holds it close and is an icon inseparable from him.