Rick and Morty
word of advice ! This clause contains spoilers for Rick and Morty # 4Rick ’s portal gun inRick and Mortyis perhaps his most utile and widely - recognized gadget in the series , and now , there ’s an all - young version of it within the franchise – and it ’s infinitely more horrifying .
Rick ’s portal gunallows him to travel to any universe he can mean of with the press of a button . The engineering science is unique to rick across the multiverse , which is proven straight with the fact that all a Rick has to do to refill their portal shooter fluid is yield a visit tothe Citadel of Ricks . This engineering science is something all Ricks harbour pretty tight to the chest , much to the dismay of a number of alien species , include the Gromflomites and the Zigerions , just to name a few . However , that did n’t stop one somebody from creating their own rendering of Rick ’s portal gun , except with one direful wrench add to its function . This portal gun does n’t just open up up portals to any population someone is thinking of , it actually creates any universe someone is thinking of .
Rick & Morty’s New Portal Gun Creates Universes, & They’re All Horrifying
InRick and Morty#4 by Alex Firer and Marc Ellerby , Rick is abducted by a technical school - billionaire call Glug Vronsky . Vronsky is ghost with partnering up with Rick and replacing Morty as Rick ’s go - to adventure brother . But before he abducted Rick and brought him to his laboratory , Vronsky wanted to check that thing were already up to sniff in terms of unparalleled technology . So , Glug sank jillion of dollar sign into develop his own edition of Rick ’s most telling gadgets . But not only that , Vronsky decide it ’d be even more impressive if he ‘ improved ’ on those gadgets as well . This is what led to the creation of the portal tech that creates universes , though it did n’t exactly work that well .
According to Vronsky ’s explanation as to how this portal technical school kit and caboodle , the interdimensional gateway uses the same rule as AI artistic production , where information is plugged into a curriculum and the art is created based on the information – except , with a universe . When Vronsky shows Rick how the automobile put to work , he assure it to show him a macrocosm where he and Rick are acquaintance , and are also ‘ freaky genus Circus folk ’ . The outcome is a horrifying ‘ Circus Rick ’ whose skin “ feels like laptop screen juice ” . This was just one example of what can be done with the political machine , but it ’s made clear that anything anyone can think of can be make on a world-wide scale the way images can be created with AI engines . While that is unbelievable , it ’s also deeply perturbing , as the end - result is n’t anything substantial or even active . It ’s just something seek its best to look genuine , when , in fact , it is just an full universe of the eldritch vale made evident .
The AI - generate creatures that come from the universe create by this engineering science are unsettling , cold-blooded , and all - around terrifying , and Rick ’s circus variant is the everlasting object lesson of that being true . So , whileRick and Mortyhas bring in an all - new version of Rick ’s portal gun , it is not one that is deserving using , as the human race it creates and then unleashes are truly frightful .
Rick and Morty#4 by Oni Press is available now .
