Rick and Morty: 10 Characters In The Series More Powerful Than Rick

In the older seasons or episodes of Rick and Morty, Rick has often been established as the show’s “god” figure. He can do anything and everything he wants as long as he sets his mind into it. However, as the show went on, plenty of other more powerful characters have been introduced to put Rick in his place.

Turns out there are more dangerous and omnipotent beings than Rick and some more than half of them were his enemies. It’s a great way of making Rick less boring. In the latest season even, there were at least four characters who have defeated and humiliated him; here are 10 of those beings that ought to remind Rick that he needs to step up.

10 EVIL MORTY

Don’t be fooled by the Morty facade, Evil Morty is by far Rick’s most concrete enemy in the show. The showrunners do seem to be taking their time with how his story will unfold but Evil Morty is very much capable of defeating Rick on his own.

In fact, he has already fooled Rick once and afterward went on to carry out his sinister plan of becoming the dictator of the Citadel. This elevated Evil Morty into a position of power higher than that of the Council of Ricks.

9 FOURTH-DIMENSIONAL BEINGS

A combination of Rick, Morty, and Summer’s fists across several different synced timelines was able to thwart off a fourth-dimensional being, Rick himself said that these “things” were immortal and their lives are infinite.

That means Rick can never defeat these fourth-dimensional beings. They also transcend across space and time at will and can fix time like it was a clogged sink. Even Rick wasn’t sophisticated enough for that and had to use these beings’ devices.

8 UNITY

Rick always chooses relationship partners who are in a much higher biological tier than he is and his most notable ex-lover was a hive mind creature named Unity. Turns out Unity is a lot more powerful than Rick since she can consume whole universes.

That’s the sole purpose of Unity’s existence– to assimilate everything in multiverse though it seems to prefer to do it one planet at a time or rather slowly, thankfully. How and why Rick won the loyalty of such a creature is rather baffling, perhaps Unity was still young when Rick and it got together.

7 GIANT HEADS

There aren’t many moments in the show where Rick decides to bend to an enemy’s will and do as it asks, but that happened in the “Get Schwifty” episode. It’s the one where giant head the size of a planet acts like an American Idol judge except deadlier but less repulsive.

Rick, as knowledgeable and great as he is, simply couldn’t think of a way to deal with these things on his own terms; he had to become a musician and perform a hit song in order to save Earth. Luckily, these things never bothered Earth again.

6 ICE-T/WATER-T

The “Get Schwifty” episode is full of people more powerful than Rick and one of those, apart from the giant head, is… Ice-T. At least, it’s the Ice-T in Rick and Morty‘s wacky universe and he turns out to be an alien of the Alphabetrium realm.

Ice-T then revealed his true form as an anthropomorphic monolith made out of ice (who’d have thought?) and that he could also withstand the giant heads’ planetary death ray. This places Ice-T in the multiversal power hierarchy, way above Rick that’s for sure– that’s how cool he is.

5 SCARY TERRY

A cheap knockoff of Freddy Krueger, named Scary Terry appears to be more than enough to make Rick Sanchez run for dear life. What’s more surprising is that this took place as early as Season 1. Scary Terry being in full control of dreams makes him the god of human dream worlds.

Rick simply couldn’t contend with that sort of control. Granted, Scary Terry only appears if Rick tries to copy Inception too much and go deep within dreams down in Scary Terry’s domain; nevertheless, he could still easily destroy the old man in his home court.

4 STORY LORD

Speaking of home-court advantage, Story Lord– a newly introduced character in Season 4, is also unbeatable in his own mental construct. That mental construct would be a story train which is both literal and figurative.

Anyway, Story Lord has full control over his own world, minus the religious aspect and he has easily beaten both Rick and Morty in his own playground. Even Story Lord was able to convince Jesus to break free from their contained world, possibly killing all of them.

3 ZEUS

Rick’s disdain for anything religious (Jesus excluded) is something he wears on his sleeve. He has shown that he neither fears literal gods, not even a Zeus (or quite possibly the Zeus). He even challenged the irresponsible Greek god to a brawl.

This ended badly even though Zeus went down to Rick’s level. Rick barely left a scratch on Zeus while he almost got beaten to death by another older and more narcissistic being and would have died if not for Morty and Summer’s lack of life skills.

2 SPACE BETH

Beth Smith has proven in the latest episode of Rick and Morty that she can be just as menacing as her father. Her space Beth version is also younger, angrier, and deadlier than Rick while also fearless enough to assault her father in his own garage.

Beth ended up winning after spontaneous Pokemon reference and gadget show-off and was even threatening to kill Rick. Of course, Rick likely wouldn’t kill his own daughter especially not knowing whether Space Beth is the clone or the original one… bomb in the neck or not.

1 PHOENIX PERSON

Bird Person (BP), who became evil after being turned into Phoenix Person (PP, thank you, internet) was once Rick’s best friend. Knowing the sociopathic old man, he would be true friends with anyone significantly weaker than him.

Well, Phoenix Person got to demonstrate just how more powerful he is compared to Rick in the Season 4 finale. Rick was all but dead once Phoenix Person was done with him and he only lived after Space Beth helped– proof that Rick’s getting too old.

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