The 10 best Rick and Morty theories about what happens in season 8

From Evil Morty recreating the Omega device to Summer spending more time with Rick, there are a lot of interesting theories about what will happen when Rick and Morty returns for season 8. Rick and Morty season 8 is scheduled to air in 2025. An eighth season of Rick and Morty it was confirmed back in 2018, after season 3, when Adult Swim ordered 70 new episodes that would take the series through season 10.

Adult Swim recently released a teaser trailer for Rick and Morty Season 8, which showed Rick testing several different aliens as possible replacements for Jerry (as a likely reference to the recent recasting of Rick and Morty themselves). It's a fun trailer with a great premise, but it doesn't reveal much about what will actually happen next. Rick and MortyIt's the next season. How will Rick overcome his difficult ordeal with Rick Prime? Are Rick and Morty still in the fear hole? Will Churry the churro finally return for revenge?

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Rick and Morty Season 8 Won't Heavy on Tradition

When the show started, Rick and MortyThe Game's writers had no interest in expanding its lore or exploring its characters' backstories. They wanted to focus on telling self-contained stories without building long-form arcs. But when they teased Rick's origin story and audiences latched onto it, they reluctantly changed their stance on the lore. Season 7 was the most historic installment of the series to date. Rick finally defeated his archenemy and Evil Morty became more powerful than ever.

After all the story of Season 7, Season 8 could see Rick and Morty Return to your roots with more independent adventures that aren't tied to any larger plot. Season 7 concluded the show's most overarching storyline. Season 8 needs to go back to just spending time with these characters while preparing for the next one.

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Rick will move on after killing Rick Prime

In Season 7, Episode 5, “Unmortricken,” Rick and Morty ended one of his longest stories in a truly harrowing way. After obsessively searching for Rick Prime for several seasons, Rick finally managed to locate him, trap him in a room, and beat him to death. And just like other dark revenge stories like The Last of Us Part IIhe discovered that revenge solved nothing. He still feels terrible; now, he only has a brutal murder weighing on his conscience.

Typical of Rick, he bottled up these feelings deeply and drank until he was stupefied. But in season 8, these feelings will certainly resurface and Rick will have to deal with them. The comprehensive history of Rick and Morty Season 8 could revolve around Rick trying to overcome Rick Prime's ordeal.

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Poopybutthole will become a villain

Poopybutthole had one of the wildest and most unexpected character arcs in Rick and Morty. He was introduced as a figment of the Smiths' imagination, who turned out to be a long-time family friend. So he became the show's resident fourth wall breaker, often appearing in the post-credits scenes of Rick and Mortyseason finales to comment on all the big twists. Then, he took a dark turn when his wife left him.

The continuation of Mr. Poopybutthole's arc in Rick and Morty Season 8 will have to be as unpredictable as everything that came before it. Throughout the series, Mr. Poopybutthole became increasingly darker. The natural next step would be for the character to become a full-fledged villain, which would present an interesting conflict for his good friend Rick.

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Summer will play a bigger role in Season 8

The last seasons of Rick and Morty appear to have subtly groomed Summer to take on a larger role in the show's future. When Rick told Summer that she reminded him of Diane, it created the possibility for more parallels to be drawn between the two characters. When Rick admitted that he had respect for her after Night Summer led the Night Family's mutiny, he highlighted the stark difference between his relationship with Summer and his relationship with Morty.

Rick and Morty appears to be setting Summer up for a larger role in future plots. In Season 8, there could be more focus on her relationship with Rick (in stark contrast to her much less respectful dynamic with Morty). So far, Summer has been one of the best and most underused characters on the series. Maybe that will change when Season 8 arrives.

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Rick and Morty Season 8 Will Reveal Why Rick Doesn't Travel Through Time

Since the beginning of Rick and MortyRick generally avoids time travel and stubbornly refuses to create a time machine. This started as a meta joke about not indulging in the most overused sci-fi trope and a reference to the fact that Rick and Morty emerged as a parody of Back to the future. But Season 8 may reveal that there's actually a deeper, personal reason for Rick's aversion to time travel.

Perhaps Rick experimented with time travel at some point in the past, when he was younger and even more reckless. Maybe he messed with the space-time continuum and it had disastrous consequences that led him to give up on time travel for good. Evil Morty's destruction of the Central Finite Curve could bring the ramifications of that mistake back to haunt Rick in Season 8.

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Doofus Jerry will finally appear on the TV show

Since 2015, Oni Press has been publishing Rick and Morty comics to complement the TV show. The series didn't make many references to the comics, but there were some crossovers. The Vindicators originated in the comics before becoming the focus of an episode of the TV series. In that spirit, Rick and Morty Season 8 could finally bring one of the comics' best characters – Doofus Jerry – to the TV show.

Doofus Jerry is the nickname given to the version of Jerry from Dimension J19ζ7. In his universe, Doofus Jerry is a successful business tycoon and the king of his own world. Chris Parnell is great at playing Jerry as a loser, but it would be interesting to see what he would do with a more confident and talented version of the character.

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Churry The Churro will be back for revenge

One of the best episodes of Rick and Morty season 7 was episode 6, “Rickfending Your Mort,” in which Rick and Morty litigate their relationship with the help of an all-seeing alien. The episode reveals that, at some point in the past, Morty asked Rick to bring his churro to life. He and Churry the churro bonded for a while, but eventually Morty grew tired of his needy new friend and asked Rick to turn him back into a churro.

But Rick revealed that this was impossible, because to bring Churry to life he had to do it.”functionally immortal.So Rick and Morty came up with a scheme to promise to reunite Churry with his people, and then just abandon him on a distant planet with some regular churros. Churry swore revenge, so he could return for his revenge in Season 8 (and that could be hilariously anticlimactic).

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Rick and Morty are still in the fear hole

Season 7 ended with one of the Rick and MortyBest Episodes of All Time: Season 7, Episode 10, “Fear No Mort.” Unimpressed by traditional haunted houses, Rick and Morty are directed to a hole in the men's room of a Denny's that promises to unleash their deepest, darkest fears. The episode was full of unpredictable twists and turns; every time Morty thought he had escaped the fear hole, he discovered it was still there.

At the end of the episode, Morty seems to have definitively escaped the fear hole. But it would be a shocking twist for Season 8 to reveal at some point that Rick and Morty are still in the fear hole after all. It would certainly be a wild narrative experiment, but Rick and Morty He was always great at it.

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Evil Morty will recreate the Omega device

While Season 7 definitively closed the book on the Rick Prime saga, it left the door open for more Evil Morty stories. The last time Evil Morty was seen, he was examining the schematics of the Omega Device – the weapon that allowed Rick Prime to erase all variants of a certain person from the multiverse – before the original was destroyed. Evil Morty ominously told Rick C-137 and Morty Prime that this would give him the ability to recreate him.

Evil Morty initially decided not to replicate the Omega Device because he did not want to share Rick Prime's reputation as a threat to the multiverse. But that could easily change. Something could happen that makes Evil Morty want to rid the multiverse of a certain enemy, leading him to recreate the Omega Device and use it.

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Rick and Morty Season 8 Will Introduce a New Big Bad

Rick and Morty Season 8 could bring back Evil Morty or turn someone like Mr. Poopybutthole or Doofus Jerry into the series' new big bad. Alternatively, it could introduce an entirely new character as the big bad to replace Rick Prime. It would arguably be more effective to turn the next big bad into a new character rather than reusing a familiar face, because part of what made Rick Prime such a great villain was the mystery surrounding him.

Rick and Morty It's not the kind of show that needs something really bad; it worked perfectly well as an episodic series before delving into its mythology and backstory. But having Rick Prime around gave the series a sense of purpose that it now lacks. Rick and Morty season 8 could introduce audiences to a new overarching villain.