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While most would consider Rick and Morty‘s main storyline the duo’s exploits throughout the universe, another big part of the series is Morty’s unlucky quest for love. For a fourteen-year-old kid, Morty sure has met a lot of girls while on his home planet or while traveling with Rick. Whether it’s pursuing someone who ultimately doesn’t return the favor or succeeding in getting into a relationship, things always go wrong for the loves in Morty’s life. Here’s a ranking of all eight women who captured Morty’s heart based on storyline, character memorability and their effect on Morty in general.
8. Jacqueline
It’s not easy to place one of Morty’s many wonderful love interests in last, but that spot goes to Jacqueline, who appeared for only a couple of minutes in the Season 3 episode “Rest and Ricklaxation.” In the episode, Morty gets his negativity separated from his confident side and uses it to climb the ladder of success as a stockbroker. Despite being fourteen years old, Morty lives the American dream in Wolf of Wall Street and American Psycho style by scoring an expensive studio apartment and a way-out-of-his-league girlfriend named Jacqueline. Of course, the good times don’t last as Morty doesn’t hang up his cell phone when talking to Jessica, allowing Rick to track him and inject the negativity serum back into him. At that moment, Morty had to break up with Jacqueline, even though she still believed he was her soulmate.
7. Gwendolyn
While Gwendolyn is not a person, she’s still a love interest for Morty since she captured his heart — or something else. In Season 1’s “Raising Gazorpazorp,” Rick and Morty are at a pawn shop in outer space, and a sex robot captivates Morty. He tries to convince Rick that he only wants it as a souvenir, but Rick knows Morty just wants it for sex.
And that’s exactly what Morty does with it when taking it back to Earth, even naming it Gwendolyn. Suddenly, Gwendolyn turns into a floating ball and gives birth to Morty Smith Jr., a half-human, half-Gazorpian spawn. It turns out that the Gazorpians created these types of robots to reproduce. So, although Gwendolyn doesn’t have much of a character, she is responsible for giving birth to Morty’s first child.
6. Stacy
Before Jacqueline, Morty hooked up with another older woman in “Rest and Ricklaxation.” Positive Morty charmed Stacy when meeting her in a bar shortly after Jessica left their date. In a short amount of time, they developed a strong relationship. However, later at the garage, it turns out Rick created a device to merge him and Morty’s toxic selves back together. She gets both Rick and Morty out of the tank after Morty says their safe word “Sea Cucumber,” and it actually sends her to the toxic world. What elevates Stacy’s character is that she was finally released from the toxic tank three weeks later when a tour guide activated it. That moment makes a hilarious payoff for a girl who was just enjoying her time at the bar before meeting Morty.
5. Annie
Annie is one of Morty’s earliest love interests, appearing in Rick and Morty‘s third episode, “Anatomy Park.” She works for Dr. Xenon Bloom’s theme park inside Ruben’s body but is forced to escape as Ruben dies. Morty has eyes on Annie when they journey throughout the body and tries to remind her that he is fourteen years old, not twelve. Annie falls for him after some heroic actions against Gonorrhea and the group’s traitor, Poncho.
She and Morty are the voyage’s only two survivors, and they seemed destined to become a couple. However, Annie believes she can build a new park. So, Rick shrinks into Ethan’s body. Although Ethan likely became a Cronenberg in the C-137 dimension, there’s still a chance for her to return and rekindle her romance with Morty.
4. Arthricia
Out of all of Morty’s love interests, Arthricia the cat person has the most interesting background and is proof that Morty is willing to enter an inter-species relationship. She stars in the Season 2 episode “Look Who’s Purging Now,” where she lives on the Purge Planet but is strongly against it. After being rescued from the purge by Rick and Morty, she goes from a damsel in distress to a compelling character by stealing their ship. It’s all part of her plan to exact revenge on the wealthy elite who oversee the purge, and Rick and Morty join in on her cause. After all the action and destruction, Morty finally tries to ask Arthricia out, but she immediately lets him know that she has a boyfriend. Hopefully, Arthricia can become single in the future and return to go out with Morty.
3. Planetina
By far the most powerful of Morty’s love interests is Planetina, a Captain Planet parody voiced by Alison Brie. Unlike Morty’s awkward first encounters with girls, he and Planetina hit it off when they meet and even become a celebrity couple. He violently rescues her from the grownup Tinateers who use her for their own profit.
Despite their love, Morty’s parents obviously don’t approve of the relationship, considering how much older and dangerous she is. Morty learns that the hard way as he witnesses her quest for a cleaner earth and environment turn into a path of death and destruction. The shaken Morty has to break up with Planetina in one of the saddest scenes of the entire series. Considering how powerful she is, it wouldn’t be surprising if she came back with a vendetta against Morty.
2. “The Vat of Acid Episode” Girlfriend
Although Morty’s girlfriend in Season 4’s “The Vat of Acid Episode” doesn’t have a name or voice, she’s still the closest Morty ever got to a stable relationship. While he’s enjoying life with a “do-over” remote created by Rick, he meets her at a coffee shop, beginning a five-minute sequence reminiscent of Up‘s opening. They go through the typical ups and downs of a relationship before taking a big trip to Alaska. Suddenly, their heartwarming story becomes a dark tale of survival when the plane crashes in the snowy mountains, but through their love, they both survive.
Just when they seem set for life as a couple, Jerry mistakes Morty’s do-over remote for the TV remote. Suddenly Morty is back where he started just before meeting her. However, this time he freaks out when seeing her and gets pepper-sprayed, landing on the do-over remote and making it so he can’t even go back and meet her again. So much emotion was packed into Morty’s five minutes with this girl, and all of it disappeared in an instant.
1. Jessica
When it comes to Morty’s love interests, Jessica is the obvious answer as to who should land in first place. She’s the only girl Morty’s pursued constantly throughout the series and is the primary motivation for plenty of his actions. The biggest of those was giving her a potion in “Rick Potion No. 9” to make her fall in love with him. However, it began a chain reaction that led to everyone in the C-137 dimension becoming Cronenbergs.
Another Jessica highlight was in the Season 5 opener “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” when Morty finally asked Jessica out and, to his surprise, she said yes. Their date at the Smith household was going well until generations of the Hoovy family kept interrupting it. Just when it seemed like Morty and Jessica were about to become a couple, the Hoovys took her to their world where she became a Time God. After witnessing the fall of a civilization occurring over thousands of years, Jessica returned to the real world and told Morty that they should just be friends. It goes to show that the harder Morty tries to be with Jessica, the more disastrous the results get.
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