Rick and Morty
Summer SmithfromRick and Morty ’s original universe died heroically deliver her world and the multiverse overall from a smashing evil . WhenSummer was introduced , her world of high schooling and teenage priority was interrupt by random effect of her grandfather and comrade ’s madcap sci - fi adventures . When her world was change eternally , Summer and her parents were left to fend for themselves in a existence full of Cronenberg - comparable lusus naturae . AlthoughRick and Mortywould revisit the reality they abandoned to start again elsewhere , their comic adventures would proceed Summer ’s history and reveal her tragical destiny , sacrifice herself to forestall a cabal of malevolent Ricks from unleashing a mythically malign Rick with the potential to demolish the multiverse .
InRick and MortySeason 1 , Episode 6 “ Rick Potion # 9 , ” Rick ’s attempt to lift the love potion he make for Morty only results in the entire worldtransforming into repulsive , violent monstrosities call " Cronenburgs,“which leaves Rick and the Smith family as the only remaining humans . While Beth , Jerry and Summer conform to a ferine life style of kill and consuming Cronenbergs , Rick and Morty get out to another dimension to pose their doppelgängers there who died in a science laboratory accident . While this worldly concern would be revisit in Season 2 ’s “ The Rickshank Redemption , ” the comicRick and Morty # 45explores the day-after-day living of Summer and her family , which lie of remaining animated and bolt down Cronenbergs that range into their territorial dominion and often become dinner . Summer ’s living exchange when she encounters a Cronenberg adaptation of her brother who admits to being from another world where Rick cure all the monstrosity , causing the flex brace to seek another mankind where they ’d fit in .
In theRick and Morty # 45story by Kyle Starks and Marc Ellerby , Summer learns from Cronenberg Morty that hisRick has search councilwith a grouping of extremely evil Ricks who plan to unleash “ Old God Rick , ” an put away malign Rick with abyssal power . Summer and Morty attempt to utilise her gramps ’s former starship and the neutrino bomb calorimeter within to demolish them and halt Old God Rick from becoming freed . When the plan change upon running into her father , Summer prevents Jerry from piloting the destine ship , choosing to sacrifice herself to stop her otherworldly grandpa and his evil edition from dooming other populace the way he doomed hers .
One can debate that Summer ’s role inRick and Mortybegan to expand after the nominal duo abandoned their original humankind for another , playing a more pivotal role in future storyline instead of being solely reactionary . She admits that despitewhat Rick and Morty didto their populace , she still overleap them and that she grow bored of her daily routine . When she suffer the deformed var. of her crony , it presents her with what she ’s been missing : a purpose . Although it ’s a suicide mission , she willingly tread up to save the mankind from a rendering of her grandpa that distinctly reference H.P Lovecraft ’s multi - tentacled Old God Cthulhu . She sees this as her chance to not only save her public but all other humans full of adaptation of her family that remain to lot with the consequence of Rick ’s flair and self .
As the clock tick down , Summer flies off just as Old God Rick rears his head , the next mushroom swarm suggesting that all Ricks present perished along with her in the explosion . While this Smith family lost their daughter but gather a Cronenberg son , it ’s a bittersweet ending to the originalSummer that fans get laid before Rick and Mortytook their signature tune mayhem to another universe . Although its unclear on if her death here is canon with her later coming into court in the show , the real catastrophe is thatSummersacrifice will belike remain unknown and forgotten within the shadow her grandfather and chum ’s bequest hurtle throughout theRick and Mortymultiverse .
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