Rick Sanchez

== Fictional character biography ==

== Fictional character biography ==

===Backstory===

===Backstory===

'''Rick Sanchez from Earth C-137''' is a [[mad scientist]] who seems to know everything in the universe and thus finds life a traumatizing and pointless experience. Following the murder of his wife [[Diane Sanchez|Diane]] and daughter [[Beth Smith|Beth Sanchez]] in his native reality (C-137) by his [[Parallel universes in fiction|parallel self]] '''Rick Prime''', Rick dedicates his life to hunting Prime down, developing [[Interdimensional travel|inter-dimensional travel]] and a portal gun. Along the way, Rick befriends [[Birdperson]] and becomes a leading figure in the revolution against the Galactic Federation throughout his mid-30s. He also played the bass in a band with him and Squanchy as seen is Episode 5, Season 2. After being [[Romantic rejection|rejected]] by Birdperson, Rick returns to his journey of vengeance, before ultimately becoming the leader of a fledgling "Citadel of Ricks". The Citadel had originally formed to oppose him after he had killed a number of alternate versions of himself on his journey of vengeance, and under his guidance oversaw the binding of the multiverse's Ricks into a "Central Finite Curve" in which they are all the "Smartest Man in the Universe", manipulating the flow of realities in which his daughter lived to ensure that she met [[Jerry Smith (Rick and Morty)|Jerry Smith]] in order to produce an endless number of hypothetical grandchildren, allowing them to hide from the Federation using their brainwaves. Depressed by his failure to locate Prime, Rick eventually abandons the Citadel and casts himself into the multiverse once again, crashing into the garage of a now-adult, living version of Beth from Rick Prime's reality, where Prime had abandoned her and Diane twenty years prior. Rick befriends her son, that reality's [[Morty Smith]], and frequently traveled with him on adventures through space, visiting other planets and [[Parallel universes in fiction|dimensions]] with him (and occasionally [[Summer Smith]]).{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLnHWTfP8I|title=''Rick's Crybaby Backstory –'' Rick and Morty ''– adult swim''|date=September 12, 2021|access-date=September 12, 2021|via=[[YouTube]]|work=[[Adult Swim]]|quote=Morty injects himself with Rick’s downloaded brain and learns Rick’s tragic backstory.}} In the third season of the show, it is revealed that he is at least 70 years old.{{Cite web|url=https://foxgist.com/2017/08/29/rick-and-morty-season-3-episode-6-review-toxin-toxic-toxicity|title=''Rick and Morty'' Season 3 Episode 6 Review: Toxin Toxic Toxicity|last=Edim|first=Odiso|date=29 August 2017|website=FoxGist|access-date=30 August 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710141411/https://foxgist.com/2017/08/29/rick-and-morty-season-3-episode-6-review-toxin-toxic-toxicity/|archive-date=10 July 2018}}

'''Rick Sanchez from Earth C-137''' is a [[mad scientist]] who seems to know everything in the universe and thus finds life a traumatizing and pointless experience. Following the murder of his wife [[Diane Sanchez|Diane]] and daughter [[Beth Smith|Beth Sanchez]] in his native reality (C-137) by his [[Parallel universes in fiction|parallel self]] '''Rick Prime''', Rick dedicates his life to hunting Prime down, developing [[Interdimensional travel|inter-dimensional travel]] and a portal gun. Along the way, Rick befriends [[Birdperson]] and becomes a leading figure in the revolution against the Galactic Federation throughout his mid-30s. He also played the bass in a band with him and Squanchy as seen is Episode 8, Season 5. After being [[Romantic rejection|rejected]] by Birdperson, Rick returns to his journey of vengeance, before ultimately becoming the leader of a fledgling "Citadel of Ricks". The Citadel had originally formed to oppose him after he had killed a number of alternate versions of himself on his journey of vengeance, and under his guidance oversaw the binding of the multiverse's Ricks into a "Central Finite Curve" in which they are all the "Smartest Man in the Universe", manipulating the flow of realities in which his daughter lived to ensure that she met [[Jerry Smith (Rick and Morty)|Jerry Smith]] in order to produce an endless number of hypothetical grandchildren, allowing them to hide from the Federation using their brainwaves. Depressed by his failure to locate Prime, Rick eventually abandons the Citadel and casts himself into the multiverse once again, crashing into the garage of a now-adult, living version of Beth from Rick Prime's reality, where Prime had abandoned her and Diane twenty years prior. Rick befriends her son, that reality's [[Morty Smith]], and frequently traveled with him on adventures through space, visiting other planets and [[Parallel universes in fiction|dimensions]] with him (and occasionally [[Summer Smith]]).{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLnHWTfP8I|title=''Rick's Crybaby Backstory –'' Rick and Morty ''– adult swim''|date=September 12, 2021|access-date=September 12, 2021|via=[[YouTube]]|work=[[Adult Swim]]|quote=Morty injects himself with Rick’s downloaded brain and learns Rick’s tragic backstory.}} In the third season of the show, it is revealed that he is at least 70 years old.{{Cite web|url=https://foxgist.com/2017/08/29/rick-and-morty-season-3-episode-6-review-toxin-toxic-toxicity|title=''Rick and Morty'' Season 3 Episode 6 Review: Toxin Toxic Toxicity|last=Edim|first=Odiso|date=29 August 2017|website=FoxGist|access-date=30 August 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710141411/https://foxgist.com/2017/08/29/rick-and-morty-season-3-episode-6-review-toxin-toxic-toxicity/|archive-date=10 July 2018}}

===Television series===

===Television series===