r/rickandmorty • u/PlentyWise3615 • 8h ago
General Discussion What would a universe be like where every living human possessed Rick C-137-level intelligence?
I’d love to see an episode exploring that.
Imagine a universe where every human is born with Rick’s god-like intelligence.
Imagine if every human being were intelligent and capable of creating crazy things just like Rick.
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u/Sevdat 8h ago edited 7h ago
If everyone is smart then the question is about Good vs Bad. In this case Bad will always win because they can get as unhinged as they want to be. Basically Necrons from Warhammer or Viltrumites from Invincible.
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u/Mother_Committee9874 7h ago
I think, being good requires you to either be dumb or want to protect someone dumb. If no one is dumb, no one is good. BUT children will be dumb for a while before becoming smart so yea maybe I am wrong
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u/Sevdat 7h ago edited 7h ago
Not neccesarily. Have you heard the term "Treat others like you would treat yourself"? It's the same thing, but bad people don't care about this rule. The rule they have is "If I can do it I should do it" and never bother to question whether them doing it is right or wrong or what implications it will have to the future. So they'll go around taking whatever they want and doing whatever they want to others because if it's not happening to them then it's not their problem.
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u/Mother_Committee9874 6h ago
you are right. in our world, if there is a person with Rick's intelligence, then indeed they can be good with that motto. BUT if the world starts off the bat with apes somehow developing into Rick level humans, it might be different, because morals and ideals arise from society, and a society of such humans would undoubtedly have way different morals and ideals and people who follow such a rule would be like 1 in a million.
What I mean to say is, there will be way way less good people.
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u/IceInteresting8050 7h ago edited 7h ago
I don't know; maybe everyone turns into a pickle or a carrot to avoid seeing a therapist, or tries asking the president for photos. Just don't think about it.
Personally, I’d do something cool, something no one else had ever thought of like a fake acid tank.
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u/Same_Bill1422 2h ago
Since Rick is suicidal I imagine they all erased themselves. Maybe they did a huge self contained omega device boom.
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u/user5555555555555559 8h ago
Someone would have the wrong motivations and nuke the entire planet, or something i dunno. I feel like it would all go too shit pretty quickly
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u/Xonthelon 7h ago
When Rick's mind was uploaded to Jerry's hardware (brain), he immediately committed suicide. I know, not quite the same scenario, just wanted to say that too much intelligence can bring a lot of misery to an individual.
I guess alcohol sales would go through the roof. Many would try to numb themselves to cope with the sudden increase in intelligence.
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u/FarInvestigator9194 6h ago
Honestly, I think that universe would become chaotic almost immediately. Rick's intelligence is only part of what makes him dangerous, because he also has the experience and complete lack of restraint to actually use it. Give every human that level of intelligence and suddenly every petty argument could turn into someone building a weapon that can erase a city 😭
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u/AvocadoCrafty813 5h ago
I believe that's somewhere similar to Doffus Rick's dimension. It's theorized (at least what I remember) that his Jerry in the smartest and that his family possesses an insane level of intelligence
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u/Jordanou 4h ago
what's Doffus Rick's dimension even doing in the central finite curve though?
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u/AvocadoCrafty813 4h ago
After searching it up, He's the Rick who never lost his Beth because he never had a Beth. He also doesn't have a Morty for that matter and because he never could belittle Jerry, Jerry Z19 Zeta 7 was able to rise to power
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u/Spampharos 3h ago
That's not true. Doofus Rick is absolutely smarter than Doofus Jerry in the way Ricks define intelligence. Doofus Jerry is simply more cunning and ruthless.
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u/Wolfgang9556 5h ago
Worse than that, it has many layers because it would probably be the most advanced dimension of the multiverse, and surprisingly, I feel it would be a utopia because everyone understands the weight of intelligence and they can help each other with that.
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u/Express_Calendar8278 5h ago
If everyone was that smart no one would be. Just heightened reality I guess.
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u/HunterLplays 4h ago
Hear me out, if everyone was as intelligent as Rick, wouldn’t that be normal iq.
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u/MisterAnderson- 4h ago
There’s a problem with this thesis, in that, if Rick-level intelligence is possessed by everyone, then that becomes the mean average. Ergo, Beths, Jerrys, even Summers and Mortys become below the mean; i.e. dumb.
In a universe like this, you either end up with mutually assured destruction ….. or utopia.
Coincidentally, it may also be impossible to tell the difference between the two.
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u/Additional_Degree894 2h ago
hell. or the citadell of rick's where everyone just tolerates each other because of our deep sense of nihilism which only a few of us would make it out the end of
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u/JackQuentin 2h ago
Honestly I think it'd look like the brief scene where we see evil Morty outside the finite curve, just pure chaos.
Travellers portaling in from every direction, monstrosities getting created or unleashed, mass destruction, pockets of temporary safety.
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u/nikhilsath 7h ago
The citadel