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After Three Years, Rick and Morty’s Ultimate Villain Crashes the Season 9 Premiere

written by Louise Everitt
After Three Years, Rick and Morty’s Ultimate Villain Crashes the Season 9 Premiere
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Major spoilers ahead: Rick and Morty storms into Season 9 on Adult Swim with its greatest villain finally back, detonating a premiere that resets the stakes.

Spoilers ahead for Rick and Morty Season 9. Adult Swim kicked off the new season by dragging the show’s biggest bad back into the spotlight... and then slamming the door on him harder than ever.

Evil Morty is back (and maybe gone again)

Season 8 kept things relatively low-key, focusing more on character beats than the decade-long mythology. Season 9 flips the switch back to the big-picture arc right away. The premiere, 'There’s Something About Morty,' brings Evil Morty back into the mix three years after we last saw him. And yes, the episode also reminds us he teamed with Rick in Season 7’s 'Unmortricken' to take down Rick Prime. The short version: Evil Morty returns, makes a power play, and gets erased from the board in a way that actually feels permanent. For now.

  • We find out Rick and Evil Morty have secretly stayed in touch since 'Unmortricken' and have been running smaller multiverse ops off-screen for years. Morty only learns about this when Rick and Evil Morty gear up to fight a reality-eating monster called The Collective.
  • Evil Morty’s leverage: he rebuilt Rick Prime’s Omega Device and is holding a version of the Smith family hostage with it. The threat is brutal — wipe that family line from every reality.
  • Morty getting involved gives Rick the opening he needs to destroy the Omega Device and break free of Evil Morty’s grip.
  • That triggers a full-on brawl between Rick, Morty, and Evil Morty. Tech vs. tech, they’re evenly matched, until the Smiths jump Evil Morty and push him into using a machine that temporarily freezes time.
  • And there’s the catch: once time is stopped, the Time Cops show up — a nice reminder why Rick hates time travel — and arrest Evil Morty.
  • The punishment: tossed into Time Cop prison for an indeterminate, basically infinite sentence. No exit plan in sight.
  • On top of the physical win, Rick and Morty get the moral one too. The episode spells out that Evil Morty kept working with Rick because he was ultimately jealous of Morty.

'Evil Morty is off the board for good.'

What that actually means

To be clear, this is the show putting a giant lock on a fan-favorite villain. Getting nabbed by the Time Cops and parked in infinite-time jail is a much bigger dead end than his previous exits. Could he break out someday? Sure, it’s Rick and Morty. But the way this plays, don’t expect him back anytime soon.

Why this is a swing for Season 9

After a quieter Season 8, this premiere snaps back to long-running lore: Rick Prime’s legacy tech, a brand-new cosmic threat in The Collective, and the return of the Time Cops to underline why Rick avoids time travel like the plague. It’s a sharp, mythology-heavy opener that puts a period — not a comma — on Evil Morty’s arc. At least for now.