Why is Rick so depressed?

Why is Rick so depressed?

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He's so smart, he realized he's in a cartoon.

Because he's a faggot.

He's just so nihilistic. With a wicked sense of humor.

Let's just say he's gotten himself into a bit of a zucchini.

He knows he's in a tv show.

Because a bitchmade beta male faggot mark for himself who worked himself into a shoot.

Smart enough to see life's and everyone else's bullshit for what it is and smart enough to know he isn't above it all.

Because Harmon himself is a sadsack so he forces in random moments of "depression" because he relates to Rick.

when you're the smartest person in the room, what can you ever learn?

You know those Emo dipshits that think they're better than everyone else because they alone have realized life is pain or whatever?
People who desperately want to seem smart are the same way. They pretend being smart and being depressed go hand in hand, so their characters have to be even MORE depressed than they are just to highlight that theyre even more smart

He's an alcoholic
He's probably killed trillions and condemned many more to worse fates
The only person he cared about for most of his life was his daughter, and he abandoned her, leaving her with JERRY, and a job that he likely views as unworthy of her
Most of his friends died horribly
His daughter, grandson, and granddaughter all have varying levels of resentment towards him
He abandoned his (presumably) original daughter and grandaughter to a world full of unnatural horrors of his creation
He's overthrown a lot of governments, some interdimensional in scale, but things never seem to get better
The only people he considers anything near his equal are his alternate-dimension counterparts, but they're all dicks

well if his "false" memory is any frame of referance.


He was super smart, but even by 35 hadn't accomplished anything beyond being able to afford a small house in the subarbs, a beautiful wife and daughter.

then, he began to seriously experiment and put his genius to use.

and before he's able to complete his first succesful invention, another version of him shows up, tells him there are infinite versions of himself, rendering any invention he ever makes pointless, because literally it has or will be done.

Infinity renders it moot in a way as far as achievement and creation.

To which, he replies, fuck this, theres literally no point, may as well just enjoy life with the family since then that's a more immediate fulfillment than inventing something you ALREADY KNOW, is being worked on and done by another version of you.

And just when he comes to that realization, and allows that huge burden of invention of his shoulders to enjoy his family, they are murdered.

So then he returns immediately to invention. Not out of a sense of desire to create, but out of necessity and revenge. Meaning that every invention he ever makes has been tainted for the goal of something other than the desire to create for its own sake.

You take a way a man's family and hobby, then satisfy his revenge (persumably), then he's basically staring at the next 35 years with nothing to fucking do but do whatever you want, because you have a portal gun and nothing left to lose.

Until Morty.

Because his daughter is dead and he knows there's nothing he can do about it.

Because they somehow think this makes him a "deep" character to excuse his actions.

He lost his original wife and Beth through a portal. Due to his own actions. He has traveled the multiverses trying to find them. He has never found them. This current family he is living with is just a poor substitution and constantly reminds him of what he lost.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH THEY DID IT SHUT DOWN THE SHOW (((THEY))) KNOW

If you think the show tries to be deep, maybe you shouldn't be watching cartoons.
Maybe you should going to school or something to better your shitty life.

Because his daughter was knocked up by an idiot that preys on his family

>Why is the lonely, asshole alcoholic sad inside?

There's some serious cart before horse shit going on in this thread. People don't need a reason to be shitty and self-destructive.

The garage memory was just something Rick got from a bad batch of Simple Rick wafer cookies.

or was purely symbolic of his inner mental struggle between invention and family.

when we see Rick captured by Evil Morty. they scan his brain and see Rick with a baby morty.

LITERALLY:
>tfw to smart

Knowing everything and being perfect must be pretty boring

Except he LITERALLY isn't, since we've seen equally smart Ricks that aren't completely dumpster fires (like Doofus Rick).

He's just an asshole that has difficulty maintaining healthy relationships and has a problem with drinking -- the fact that he's also some bullshit super genius is almost entirely incidental.

If he knew everything and was perfect, he'd have known how his daughter was going to die and would have been able to prevent it.
Its the one thing he didn't know and couldn't do.

the alcoholism is definitely Rick trying to suppress something.

Sober Rick is probably the scariest thing in the multiverse

>the alcoholism is definitely Rick trying to suppress something.

Feeling like shit. He's trying to suppress feeling shitty. That's why people drink.

But Sup Forums says if you're rich and smert you shouldn't feel low-spirited ever!

>Rick
>being perfect
>Being fucking perfect
What the fuck kind of stupid are you user? Have you even watched an episode of this? A clip even? What the fuck even is your definition of perfect and how fucked up must you be to have Rick meet those criteria?

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because he knows hes a loser. thats why he acts like a dick. if he wasnt a loser he would just be cool all the time.

Because he's so deep and misunderstood. He's just too smart and everyone else is too dumb. And he's an alcoholic with daddy issues. Just like Harmon! So euphoric. So subtle.

>tfw too intelligent to be happy

He's just too smart. He sees all the bullshit that all of the fakers and politicians want him to believe, but he's not having any of it because he's just too smart to be a fucking sheep.

Why does it seem like it works so well for everybody else

Drinking hasn't ever made me feel any better

You ever start playing a game, and after a while you feel like you don't really want to keep playing, but you haven't died or failed yet so you just sorta keep playing anyway?

Something like that.
Nothing is ever really a challenge to him, nor does anything have any real meaning. But he keeps going because nothing has actually stopped him yet.

'cause sauce?

He's a man who's seen to much shit.

Because he drinks.

>He's just too smart. He sees all the bullshit that all of the fakers and politicians want him to believe, but he's not having any of it because he's just too smart to be a fucking sheep.

>They pretend being smart and being depressed go hand in hand
Isn't that what that therapist said to Rick himself? That Rick was using his intelligence as a rationalization for his sickness, when in reality, they were seperate?

that was a made-up memory you fucking retard

he is thinking about israel

You're not drinking enough.

Are you possibly talking about Dan "Six thirds of white cis males are Nazis" Harmon?
What reason would he have to be depressed?

>Sober Rick is probably the scariest thing in the multiverse

Blackout Rick was bad enough...

Cause life is shit.

He discovered how meaningless and insignificant his life is. There are countless others identical to him. He's not unique, he's not special, he's just going to die and be forgotten one day, a cosmic blip in the grand scheme of things.

The Garage was a made up memory.

When they look outside the Shoney's. they see 'where rick was on 911', 'rick's favorite sports blooper', and rick's wife and beth standing in front of a portal.

When you spend a lifetime burning bridges you eventually come to realization that you're stuck where you are

Sounds like me at 29.

>They pretend being smart and being depressed go hand in hand
Studies show anywhere between a 60-75% rate of Major Depressive Disorder among individuals with an IQ over 130 with several other serious mental disorders also having a ridiculously high prevalency/comorbidity.

It's also generally believed that since only 2.1% of people on the planet are in that range it's incredibly difficult for those individuals to find peers and establish support networks.

A memory he apparently made up using the commercial for Simple Rick's.

And it's all his own fault. That's the kicker: it's all on him. He can't blame other people for his life being crap, and he knows it.

>c137
>cosmic blip
ok

Because he's going to die, and he knows he's going to die. And what matters when you know you're going to die?

lol

let's hope the bougie fuck pays them better

also can anyone edit this so it looks like rick wants to fuck the three mortys

>cartoonbrew

Well there goes any respect I had. If you ain't pro-union we ain't friends.

Here you go.

I really liked Lizard Morty.

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add a lip bite and i think your set

I have an IQ of 130 and I'm a depressed alcoholic.

Heres why: the average (white) IQ is 100. The beginnings of mental retardation is at sub 70.

The difference in IQ between me and a normie is the same difference between a normie and a literal retard.

Imagine going through life, where the average person you met was mentally retarded.

It takes its toll.

make the blood on his arm cum

I bet you are actually at an IQ of 71

137 here, IQ is a meme for failures to feel better about being failures. Nobody should ever be proud of their IQ or take it seriously. I regret letting the nurse test me because of the negative effect that arbitrary number had on my personality.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimism#Philosophical_pessimism

Is this some meme you're trying to revive?

No sorry I just really hate IQfags.

Since you guys took them: what do IQ test even test you on?

Shapes and shit. I think some math, this was half my life ago. The thing is I'm fairly sure there are different tests with different questions that give different results, making the whole thing an even bigger joke.

He's a god character written for people who have convinced themselves that the reason they're so sad is because they're so smart and everyone around them is such idiots. In reality they're mostly just Jerry's.

Because he is a genius character designed to appeal to a generation of low achievers

The IQ test I took was mostly logic and problem solving, IE rotate an object in your mind and pick one of the 4 possible shapes it could be

I tried

Has anyone scored less than 10 on an IQ test that wasn't trying to and had an organic brain?

I think below a certain point they just look into specifics of what's wrong with you instead of trying to decipher how someone can be so wrong

You got a primary source on that that isn't from that random website that went viral on respectable sites with impeccable integrity like "/r/latestagecapitalism" and "the fempire"?
A simple google search yields a disqus user talking (possibly larping but still more trustable) about how it was overblown: disqus.com/home/discussion/cartoonbrewlive/8216rick_and_morty8217_co_creator_justin_roiland_8220fuck_the_union8221/

Because of PICKLE RICK MORTY LMAO I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PICKLE

He found out about his fanbase

he is what happens if you let untreated borderline fester. basically a toxic hurricane that hates itself.

Do you seriously spend your free time in frothing fits of rage on Sup Forums's Sup Forums, Dan? Don't you have to practice shooting a gun to protect yourself against fascists or something?

>"I-I-I wish inc-cest had a more m-mainsteam appeal... F-for a f-friend!-!"
Fucking hell. That one joke just turned a good episode mediocre.

Do you like epic doggos? :D

For cheap sympathy points

And the next day, a US senator liked an incest porn video on twitter

Haha yeah!! So fucking bizzare that two events with similarities happened in the real world and in my autistic soyboy cartoons! LOL I'm really good at current events haha look guys I managed to combine my pop trendy twitter tv shows and headlines into one EPIC post!!

No miami morty to fuck

Sup Forums used to be pretty liberal, with some anons pretending to be racist assholes for a laugh.

Then actual racist assholes saw that, and thought that everyone in Sup Forums agreed with them. Soon they flocked there in droves. This created the genuinely racist Sup Forums we have today.


"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company"

Because he's in the multiverse. Everything good and bad is happening simultaneously, so he is totally irrelevant to reality as a whole. If he stayed in one universe, he'd have meaning in that universe since he couldn't escape the consequences of his actions.

Rick is depressed because he can always leave everything behind, and we've seen him do this at least once before.

so close

congrats

he knows about all the memes dragging his show for not being as good as Xavier.