Evil Morty: Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons
To expound upon this post
It's no secret that Evil Morty's theme is tied up with the album Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons by Blonde Redhead: It's the album where For The Damaged Coda comes from, but the lyrics of the rest of the album fit into his characterisation, too.
“In Particular”:
Some place safe I would imagine
Someone new would be so cruel
Incurable paranoiac
Hysterical depression
- Even when Evil Morty has escaped the central finite curve, he still can't imagine himself forming any new friendships or relationships because of his lasting trauma
Everyone else is really boring
Anyone else won't be good enough
Despite this, the only people that Evil Morty is drawn to are Rick C-137 and Prime Morty. Again and again he keeps returning to Rick because anyone else won't be good enough.
Sometimes I spin around for days
Skip and chase and say
Forget about tomorrow
Until I realize
This valid and logic motion
Is what keeps me from moving
EMorty tried doing what all other Mortys do: he pushed it down and tried to ignore it, until one day he finally snapped.
“Melody Of A Certain Three”
Crawl, crawl as a child and move like a man
Pushing like a father, pulling like a friend
Whatever it takes, forever it seems
But despite of all that, all is well, all is well
As @trucknoisettes said in a post, Rick Prime is the only adult/only Rick we have seen who actually acknowledges that Evil Morty is still a child...
In S5E10, Rick also says the only "man" who ever hacked his portal gun was EMorty, which reiterates this fact.
However, every Rick has underestimated Evil Morty at some point (and paid the price for it), so "move like a man” really nails home the fact that EMorty is able to get the upper hand because he 'crawls like a child's and then strikes when they least expect it.
Pushing like a father, pulling like a friend
The Ricks and their neediness and their fucked up relationship with Mortys: “an infinite crib around one infinite fucking baby”
Rick is the patriarch of the family, in S3E1, C-137 even declares himself the new head of household in Jerry's absence.
We also saw in the Rick And Two Crows arc that Prime Morty and C-137 Rick played out the same dynamic we see in EMorty's flashback: the arguing. Rick says "it's abusive" but he really does seem to consider teenagers to be his peers more than people his own age are (a point I believe @thesoftboiledegg has made before). He is often more like a friend or sibling to Morty than a grandfather, and certainly not a figure of authority.
“Hated Because Of Great Qualities”
I was worried I might be rude to you
So worried that I was
It's a lie to serve the truth
And I'm still guilty
“A lie to serve the truth” certainly sounds like EMorty's entire election campaign.
“Loved Despite Of Great Faults”
The only secrets
We talked about
Were all the fears
In all these years
We spent together
That you refuse to fade away
I hide to stay the same
EMorty had to leave to protect himself, and similarly, Ricks refuse to hide or fix their 'great faults', but EMorty can't help but love them despite it.
“This Is Not”
So she left everything and traveled to the other world
Evil Morty left the CFC.
But life was like a dream
A series of meaningless movement
Yet Morty still feels the same sense of detached nihilism and hopelessness that Rick feels.
“A Cure”
Oh I see how his life resembles yours
And you somehow are like him
I see I know I've been too good for you
You know he's just like me
Pleasing you and now all
You do is wish
I was more and more like him
If so, would you consider keeping me closer?
If the Freaky Mortys theory turns out to be true this lyric adds so much... But even if Evil Morty and Prime Morty did not switch places, it's clear that Evil Morty longs for it on some level.
So now I call myself a pleaser
This time sitting on a secret
One secret everybody knows
Evil Morty gets the plans for the Omega Device so he can deter future threats against him
“For The Damaged”
And here we have the most important track on the album:
Maybe again
He will be alone
Guess we're both equally damaged
Find your name
Do it all the same, equally
Signal when you can't breathe no more
Ultimately, every Morty has suffered similarly at the hands of a Rick, and EMorty tortured and murdered several Mortys in order to achieve his goal of escaping the CFC, therefore perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
Then you could see the view
You'll know we are equally damaged
Don't be a fool, make it easier
You'll learn to say when
Signal if you can't say, "no more"
Morty already knew all-too-well that getting revenge didn't make him feel whole again, but Rick C-137 was ultimately incapable of letting go of his vendetta and that's what got him killed. Now resurrected, not only is he in EMorty's debt, but he's now all the more aware of the similarities between the two of them.
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