Major Story Arcs

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Worldender, an alien warlord hellbent on destroying planets, came to Earth on Rick’s watch. While his family tried to convince him to save the day, he was visited by a superhero team called The Vindicators. The team was started by Vance Maximus, an Earthling previously deputized into a galactic peace keeping force, and Supernova, an alien woman with great cosmic power. They were previous survivors of Worldender’s attack on other planets. Their plan was to recruit Earth’s greatest heroes, including Rick, to stand against Worldender together. The other members included:

• Alan Rails - The Phantom Conductor, capable of summoning ghost trains
• Million Ants - a sentient colony of a million ants
• Crocubot - A cyborg crocodile
• Diablo Verde - a green Hispanic fire-breathing ogre
• Calypso - a powerful voodoo sorceress
• Lady Katana - a female cyborg swordsman
• Noob-Noob - the intern responsible for non-essential superhero duties

Rick originally turned down their invitation for membership not taking them seriously, however, when Morty started to glorify them more than him, Rick decided to join them just to show them up. After helping them destroy much of Worldender’s army, Rick blasted him with a green laser, seemingly killing him.

During their exit, The Vindicators gave Rick and Morty a beacon so that they could be called if the universe ever needed the Vindicators to reassemble, although they had no intention of inviting Rick again.

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While working in the garage, both Rick and Morty see the Vindicator beacon turn on. Rick was ready to ignore it, but Morty invoked their deal for Morty to choose 1 out of every 10 adventures. After answering the beacon, they find the team, three members short, had gone on an adventure without Rick and Morty, bruising Morty’s ego. Now, Worldender had returned, and they needed every hand on deck to deal with it.

Seemingly jealous of Morty’s love for the Vindicators, Rick went on a drunken bender the night before their mission. While blacked out, he killed Worldender and rigged his corpse as the first stop in a series of intricate traps, inspired by the horror franchise, Saw. Rick, Morty, and the Vindicators were forced to solve the traps or else they would die.

The first trap was to match the members of the Vindicators with their vague origin descriptions. Sick of Rick, Vance tried to escape through an air vent and was brutally killed by a trap. Thankfully, Morty is able to solve the first trap because Rick’s opinion that the Vindicators are interchangeable (thus there were no wrong answers) was so obvious. The second puzzle required them to identify the location The Vindicators refuse to speak about. Crocubot is killed for choosing a controversial planet, but Morty knew the answer to be Israel, which Rick often ranted about when drunk.

Rick, who is already embarrassed about his blackout behavior, is even more embarrassed when he learns the third trap is simply shooting a basketball to stop a neutron bomb. Familiar with Rick’s handywork, Morty decides to just disarm it himself, but Million Ant and Alan Rails start to argue over Supernova’s affections, leading to Million Ants killing Alan Rails. The fourth and final trap involves putting the only part of The Vindicators that Rick cares about on a weighted platform. Rick instructs Morty to get on it, believing it to be him, however, Morty is taken to a hidden room with a video apology for Noob-Noob, Vindicator intern, who happened to weight the same as Morty.

Meanwhile, Supernova ends up killing Million Ants and nearly kills Rick too if not for the rooftop party Rick had planned for solving all four puzzles, which Morty did. Supernova snuck away instead, leaving Rick and Morty behind and The Vinidcators finally done

The New Vindicators

The personification of the universe Rick and Morty currently resides in, Parmesan (pronounced Par-Mee-Zee-Ann), hand-picked a new roster of Vindicators. She chose:

• Planetina - anti-pollution superhero and Morty's ex-girlfriend
• Sleepy Gary - a manifestation of a psychic parasite made real
• Old Man Meseeks - who was manifested to kill Rick, an impossibility that means he can never rest
• Titanium D - An Alphabetrium veteran of their war against the Numbericons.