She is highly insecure about her profession as a horse surgeon, and is quick to snap at the implication she is not a 'real' surgeon or a 'real' veterinarian. In The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, Morty lashes out on Beth for her distance towards him and Summer. This ended at her son's picture, who she looked at the longest, and smiled at afterwards. She has extended this behaviour to those such as her son Morty - particularly when he is shown taking care of his own son - and her husband, who unwittingly feeds her insecurities by implying she was not a 'real' surgeon. She and Jerry share a number of common goals - generally around doing what is best for their family - but these goals are strained by their disagreement on how to achieve these ends. Stop taking my son on these adventures!”?” The answer is because Jerry is terrified that Beth will leave him and Beth is terrified that Rick will leave her. Beth Smith SPECIES Join Rick and Morty on AdultSwim.com as they trek through alternate dimensions, explore alien planets, and terrorize Jerry, Beth… Rick and Morty Season 7 Updates: Rick and Morty co-writer Dan Harmon’s famous improvement are 3 seasons in advance, due to the fact the crew is already running on the display’s 7th season. That's why dad left. RELATIONSHIPS In Morty's Mind Blowers, it was revealed that Beth prefers her daughter Summer over her son Morty. Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri However, she has some limits even for his behaviour, and has given him ultimatums in Pilot and Auto Erotic Assimilation, which he has ultimately followed - so she is not entirely defensive of her father's behaviours. The Destroyer (Tommy)Blade Smith (An unnamed Gromflomite)Clone Beth Due to her lonely childhood, wether Rick was present or not, Beth does have a vulnerability with abandonment. He admits this to Jaguar in, Pickle Rick. Their relationship is very rocky and strained, due to the fact that both of them missed out on fulfilling their dreams due to poor decisions when they were teenagers - as when Jerry puts on a headset that allows him to view many realities in "Rixty Minutes", he realizes that without Beth he would have became a successful director. In the Season 3 episode, The ABC's of Beth, an even further layer of Beth's personality was revealed. Why would any parents let this crazy man disappear through clearly dangerous portals with their son?” And after talking about it with Justin for a while, I realized the most important thing about that show for me which is that Rick left at one point in Beth's childhood and Beth blamed her mother for Rick's absence. Using their traits from their respective lives, the two Beths work together to kill the aliens. Ironically, despite her continous frustrations with Jerry's "simple nature", she herself also bears clear insecurities, especially with her father. Human (possible Clone) Rick and Morty season 5 will delve deeper into the mystery of the arrival of Clone Beth.. This is one of the reasons that Beth married and stayed with Jerry for more than 15 years, because - unlike Rick - he stays with her no matter what. However, there are far more characters than just Rick and Morty. In the episode, The ABC's of Beth, after Beth and Rick clone her childhood friend Tommy and save his father from being executed, they share a long-awaited, and progressive moment with each other. Alive The details of Beth's history are relatively unknown, she was born from Rick Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez/Diane Sanchez, she has recounted herself as a \"bright-eyed\" woman from Muskegon, Michigan in \"Meeseeks and Destroy\". She's not a real surgeon. St. Equis Hospital It is likely that Beth chose the latter option based on the scenes that followed. However, this Beth is not the same Beth in Rick Potion #9, who comes to the conclusion that her father Rick is a "selfish, irresponsible ass," after he turned everyone on Earth into monsters and abandoned she, Jerry and Summer. PLACE OF ORIGIN Initially they were antagonistic, with each one resenting the other and not understanding the choices that they made. However, it is stated that Rick made up this event to fool the alien. And in the episode, The ABC's of Beth, after talking with her father about his offer to create a clone of her, Beth still contemplating, carries her hand carefully over all the individual pictures of the family on the refrigerator. ...Rick's daughter is more fucked up than Rick, and fucked up because of Rick, don't you worry about that. Beth Smith is one of the central characters in the show Rick and Morty. Rick, aware that the increasing danger that would represent his daughter, created a dream world for his daughter, Froopyland, in order to keep the other children of the neighborhood safe. The details of Beth's history are relatively unknown, she was born from Rick Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez/Diane Sanchez, she has recounted herself as a "bright-eyed" woman from Muskegon, Michigan in Meeseeks and Destroy. That's really, really fucked up. Rick and Morty Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Beth believes her father to be a better influence on their children than Jerry, which is another reason she thinks he should live with them. She is often critical of his ideas, and suggests that she feels held back or unappreciated by him. Rick later admits to Morty that he had a hand in manipulating this because Jerry went against him. Rick discloses that she had a tumultuous and destructive childhood, only exacerbated by her murderous and sociopath tendencies (which Rick accredits to his own mental state, and whose behavior as a role model and eventual disappearance no doubt contributed to). Beth Smith STATUS She wears a red collar shirt, blue pants and white shoes. Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty, Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure, https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Beth?oldid=71453. The rest of the family panics and Beth retreats into the kitchen and haphazardly pours a glass of wine while her eyes filled with tears as Mr. Poopybutthole bleeds heavily while awaiting an ambulance. Shortly after, Beth insists to Rick that the divorce would be good for Jerry, and the family, after he expresses remorse. Ironically, Rick and Morty fans will remember that neither Beth is technically Rick's original Beth, as he and Morty joined this universe after ruining their own a couple of seasons before that. Beth was disappointed to find out that her other self remarried Jerry, but Rick pointed out that since they are the same person, she would have done the same thing. It is unknown which Beth is the original and which one is the clone. Beth aspired to become a heart surgeon as an adult, but during high school, when she as already 17 years old, she went to prom dance with her classmate, Jerry Smith, possibly out of pity, and they had sex, and she became impregnated with her first and only daughter, Summer. Post-credits scene : Beth discovers that Jerry wasted $700 calling Taddy Mason, who charges money just to talk on the phone. She shares the other Beth's regret of shooting Mr. Poopybutthole in the chest at the end of "Total Rickall". But farther from Rick. Beth later uses the morphizer to enlarge herself, puts her skin inside out, and comforts a crying Summer. Although Beth can sometimes be derisive of what she sees as weakness, dependence or emotional vulnerability, she can still be compassionate and caring at times, more so than her father. However, by the finale she decides to reconnect with Jerry and they are living together with their children and her father. She bothers to love her father and that keeps everything feasible because otherwise it would all fall apart. FIRST SEEN IN Davin turns into a "mantis-person" as a result of Rick's cure for it, and attacks Beth. 34-35 (physically) Space Beth Biographical Information Sleepy Gary (ex-fake husband) Her preference for her only daughter over her only son could be because she is jealous of his close relationship with Rick. Space Beth tracks down her counterpart and nearly succeeds in killing her before they are kidnapped by Tammy. HOME PLANET Beth tells Rick if she is a clone, he should just kill her and get it over with or go to another dimension and be with another version of her. She believes that Rick, as crazy as he is, is the better of her two parents even though she was raised by her mother and she blames her mother's unremarkability on her father's departure and will do anything to keep her father back in her life. In The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, Morty lashes out on Beth for her distance towards him and Summer. She wears the pants in the family and she's witty and she doesn't like herself. Beth denies having any feelings for him, which she most likely doesn't, but Jerry does not trust her around him. Rick, Morty, and Summer return home where Jerry gives Beth an ultimatum to choose … Despite having a scar over her right eye, her right eyelids show no sign of scarring. FAMILY SPECIES Rick and Morty co-writer Dan Harmon has discovered the display’s crew is already running on season 7, no matter having completed airing season four this year. She also exhibited resentment towards being patronized during her surgical work, such as by her co-worker, Davin when he lets her know they're losing a patient, or when another veterinarian implies she cannot save a deer. She was also envious of her friend Tommy, and his father who was present in his life, which lead her to abandon him in Froopyland, mirroring her father's image, and roused her to become a better person by her own standards. Urging her father he may lose her, Summer acknowledges that Beth is a "beautiful woman". Rick Potion No. She currently works as a veterinarian at the St. Equis Hospital. Later in the episode, Beth is heartbroken to find that Rick abandoned her a second time (little did she know that this time, he turned himself in to protect her and her family from the Federation). At some point during her childhood, her parents' marriage deteriorated amid unknown circumstances and her f… Beth believed she needed to prove herself to Rick because of how rarely he ever tells her he loves her. She can become defensive and even insecure about this when challenged by it, as in "The Wedding Squanchers" she calls Jerry a "dumb asshole" for proposing the idea that Rick doesn't care for the family, and so in turn they have no reason to treat him with care. It seems like she'd rather her son risk his life with her insane father than end up being...like her husband. Yea these were the three things I noticed which led me to draw the conclusion that Beth did abandon her family and went to travel around multiverse, following her dad's footsteps. It is likely that she chose the latter based on the scenes that followed, though The Rickchurian Mortydate puts this into further debate. In the Season 2 finale, The Wedding Squanchers, Beth gets a closer look at her father's personal life, and tries her best to keep Jerry from ruining her chances of going on adventures with him more often. Over the years, the Rick and Morty series has garnered millions of viewers because of its interesting characters, as well as its smart and deep storylines. She is the daughter of Rick Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez/Diane Sanchez, the wife of Jerry Smith, and the mother of Summer Smith and of the deceased Morty Smith, she is also the daughter-in-law of Leonard Smith and Joyce Smith, and the granddaughter of Rick's Father and an unnamed woman. It is also likely that without her father Rick's influence, Morty could be Beth's favorite. Morty will be in a relationship and Dan Harmon mentioned that this story was written by his long-time friend Rob Schrab. She believes that Morty was filled with Jerry's insecurities as a result of Jerry's overly-nurturing method of raising him, and consequently, she is largely absent from Morty's life. Directed by Wesley Archer, Juan Jose Meza-Leon. That is, until The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. In Something Ricked This Way Comes, Beth communicates with Morty through text, reminding him of Jerry's intellectual insecurities, so that he will accept Jerry's offer to help him with his science project. This Beth Kid Armor Funko POP! When the family is taken back to earth by the Galactic Federation, she bursts into tears. In Meeseeks and Destroy, mother and daughter happily go shopping together after their Meeseeks disappear. Davin tries to romance Beth in Rick Potion #9, but sneezes and is affected by Morty's love potion, asking "how soft are his privates". Sometime after The ABC's of Beth, Rick cloned her, resulting in two beths. That is the same reason why she disagreed with Jerry so strongly, and wept, when he suggested that the family turn in Rick to the Galactic Federation so that they can go back home to Earth in The Wedding Squanchers. She does question her existence and asks her father in, "Oh my God. Justin Roiland is voiced by both Rick and Morty. In The Rickshank Rickdemption, Jerry took a stand against Rick's behavior towards the family, apparent manipulation of Beth's father issues in order to live rent-free, and his frequently putting their children in danger. Her full name might be Lizbeth, doing her name as "Lizbeth Sanchez" or "Lizbeth Smith". However, the alternate Jerry and Beth eventually realize that they are miserable without one another and get together after years apart. “Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call “love” is … It is revealed in The ABC's of Beth, that at some point of her childhood, Beth became an insane and psychotic little girl. When meeting Dr. Wong in "Pickle Rick" however, she largely bragged about her father as a scientist, and believed that the reason he turned himself into a pickle had nothing to do with the fact that he wanted to avoid family therapy (which ended up being debunked, as he did turn himself into a pickle to evade it). Although she originally wanted to kill her, she has come to admire her. Beth has notably inherited her father's tendency to rely on alcohol to control stress, drinking wine briefly in Meeseeks and Destroy and amid more stressful situations, very heavily in both Rixty Minutes, at the end of Total Rickall and in The Rickshank Rickdemption. In Rixty Minutes, Jerry and Beth both get to see an alternate version of themselves in a different reality and find themselves unsatisfied with their current lives, leading them to eventually decide that splitting up would be inevitable. In addition, Beth can be highly sarcastic at times, such as when she predicted Snuffles increased intelligence would backfire in the episode, Lawnmower Dog. Each season, Justin spent a few days for Rick or Morty to get a voice. She looked inhuman / robotic. Horse surgeon at St. Equis Hospital But from there, we have different mechanisms for coping with the blame. Rick is a mad scientist who drags his grandson, Morty, on crazy sci-fi adventures. It isn't unlikely that in the case that the same events were to occur in the replacement dimension, as they had in dimension C-137, that this Beth would feel the same way. ", "I was like, “Why would that be the case? In Rick Potion #9, Beth (C-137) admits that without her son Morty and her father Rick around, she is much happier, and seems indifferent to her son's fate. Rick and Morty might be the stars of the show, but Beth is a goddamn hero in her own right. Morty feels guilty over all the aliens he's killed, but Rick wrongly blames a candy bar that Morty has eaten, thus appeasing him. He would clone her, and let her leave to do what she wants, or she could stay, and continue to care for the family. Beth blamed herself for her parents falling out, and seeing her father as an intelligent scientist compared to her mother, Beth came to idolize her father and blamed her mother for "chasing off the dad with the guts to leave". AGE She currently acts as the mother and the daughter of the Morty Smith and Rick Sanchez from Dimension C-137, respectively. One of the two Beths later left for space to have adventures, becoming an interstellar rebel dubbed “Space Beth,” who returned to Earth in season 4’s finale “Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri” with designs on killing Rick and Earth Beth. Characterized by a superiority complex and abandonment issues, Beth gradually came to struggle with her husband over his contributions to their marriage, due in part to his lower-level position and subsequent employment, further driven by her father influencing her feelings of superiority. Space Beth is either Beth's clone or the original Beth that this Beth was cloned from. She also discovers a chip implanted in her neck that will kill her should return to Earth and get in proximity of the other Beth. Member of the Defiance If it makes you feel better, the Rick and Morty team have recently promised answers of a different kind, teasing that the truth behind Space Beth will be revealed in season five. Sarah Chalke Beth Smith (née Sanchez) is one of the main characters of Rick and Morty. The reason of Beth's choice is because she is jealous of his closer relationship with Rick. Powered by Reelgood After over two and a half years of fans obsessing over one question, Rick and Morty finally addressed whether or not Beth was a clone. Amusingly, this could be a hint that she's "married to the wine bottle" in more than one sense. In Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure, Summer has an over-sized bra in her closet and jealously claims she'll grow into it because "Beth's got big boobs". Her genius father's clear preference for her over her 'idiot' husband has in turn fed her feelings of superiority, especially towards Jerry. Beth's change in parenting in the episode may be permanent, as she hasn't been as motherly or supportive in any other episode, especially not to Summer, who along with Morty needs this the most from her. Beth thinks her dad is better than her mother because her dad had the brain and guts to leave her. Space Beth also meets Summer and Morty who are amazed to have two versions of their mother. Beth knows that her son Morty is not very intelligent, and wants him to succeed in school. Jerry doesn't always seem to respect her occupation as horse surgeon and occasionally has Freudian slips about it, which greatly offends her, and she is often frustrated by Jerry's insecurities and immature actions. Without any hesitation, Beth immediately demanded that her daughter Summer be the one who survives. Muskegon, Michigan, Replacement Dimension I guess I [think I] know more about her than what you've learned so far, but you know she got pregnant at seventeen. She detested her father for lying to her about cloning her. Throughout the episode, Total Rickall, Beth acts suspiciously towards Mr. Poopybutthole, mistaking him for a parasite. They become married since that incident, eventually producing their second child and only son, Morty three years later. When Rick is cynical about love. At the end, they are living together again with both being happier and Beth defended Jerry from Rick's insults. Now, fans are eagerly waiting for massive reveals of season 5 while it is still in development. However, it is apparent Beth still loves her son due to her behavior in The Rickchurian Mortydate, where she was happy to be a family again. Rick also admitted in the same episode to Jerry that he believes Jerry impregnating Beth ruined her chances of being successful, and detests him for his detachment to his daughter. She tries to clean up her bruise with make-up. Beth had originally planned to get aborted the girl when she was still a fetus, but due to the fact that she and Jerry blew a tire on the way to the abortion clinic, they kept the fetus. Neither Beth knows or cares which of them is the clone or original, as they respect the other for being who they are and because of the mutual resentment of Rick. Rick and Morty travel through the multiverse looking for adventures and fun. And if Morty needs to risk his life traipsing across the galaxy with her insane alcoholic father, it's better than Morty growing up in safety and ending up like her mother or her husband Jerry who she considers to be unremarkable and unredemptive and therefore undeserving of her affections. 9 She began to ask to her father Rick to create toy-like weapons to harm other children. Morty calls this Beth amazing, not caring if she is his original mother. "There's pretty groovy things coming regarding Beth… Space Beth was not a one-off character. OCCUPATION In a flashback from the episode, Total Rickall, a drunken Beth accidentally hits her daughter Summer's eye with a bottle on her picture day. Rick and Morty season 5 is on track to show us what it’s got sooner rather than later. She has been defining her life by her marriage straight out of high school to this unremarkable man that she in her mind compares to her mother, while fetishizing exceptionality in the form of her father. She may share this belief, wishing she had been able to continue her medical education to become a 'real' doctor in Rixty Minutes. As a result of her father's disappearance, Beth has come to fixate on exceptionalism and intelligence, and has a fear of abandonment, resulting in a deep-seated desire to keep her father in her life. In many cases Jerry is often the more sentimental and nurturing one who calls out Rick for being a negative impact on Morty, and Beth is often the one justifying his actions. Upload your creations for people to see, favourite and share. He blames this on her relationship with Rick, telling her that she doesn't need to prove herself to be worthy of Rick's love by acting essentially just like him, as it is making her appear just as narcissistic and irresponsible. Rick finally tells her that he genuinely loves her, although in his own way. She acknowledges Summer as a daughter. Another thing to note is that she still acknowledges Rick as her father, and didn't try to kill him upon returning to the family - and instead teases him, throwing punches and using blank threats. VOICE ACTOR With Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke. AKA Sometimes they don't even admit it to themselves but they say, “My dad's so fucking cool, he got the fuck out of here. Rick brings Beth to a world he created for her when she was younger while Beth looks for a long-lost childhood friend trapped there for years. It is not disclosed whether or not Beth decides to remain. The Destroyer (Tommy) She is either the original Beth Smith from the Replacement Dimension, or a clone of her. WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Rick and Morty Season 4, Episode 10, "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri." Their escapades often have potentially harmful consequences for their family and the rest of the world. However, they eventually bond over a mutual resentment of Rick and his lies and even gain a respect for one another. This shows that although she does feel dislike for her father, she still has a streak of decency and compassion in her not to kill him. Space Beth has a scar over her right eye and a piercing in her right eyebrow. Fan theories tend to get ridiculous and nauseating, but in the case of Rick and Morty and the idea that Beth … When she and Jerry accidentally hit a deer, her first concerns were to help and assist it and Beth would stop at nothing to bring it back to health. Without any hesitation, Beth immediately demanded that her daughter Summer be the one who survives. And my mom's such a bitch she's always asking me to clean my room. Beth at the wedding of Birdperson and Tammy, Beth screams while being attacked by a homeless man. Due to this suggestion, in The Rickchurian Mortydate Beth began to suffer from identity crisis despite Rick constantly telling her she is real. She has no problems allowing Rick to take Morty on most adventures, believing Rick is not only teaching him valuable life skills and improving his intelligence, but that he is the only friend Morty has. Though it has been implied by Dan Harmon and the episodes Rick Potion #9 and The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy that Jerry and Beth's relationship was more stable before Rick came back into her life. "Space Beth" is a character on Rick and Morty. At the end of "The ABC's of Beth", Rick made a clone of Beth labeled "Clone Beth" with all her memories and, unable to decide whether or not he wanted his daughter in his life as Beth had asked him to decide, purposefully has their positions shuffled so that he himself would not know which Beth was the clone, before sending one to space and keeping the other at home, and wiping his own memory of the incident (later, this leads him to finally admit to himself that he is a terrible father). Much like her original counterpart from Earth, she has completed memories. And that while she's trying to gain Rick's approval, she's hurting him and Summer. In the Rick and Morty Season 3 episode titled “The ABC’s of Beth,” the animated series suggested Beth could have a clone. When Rick said that he got the pizza off the counter, notice that Beth's expression became blank / deadpan till the credits start rolling. He blames this on her relationship with Rick, telling her that she doesn't need to prove herself to be worthy of Rick's love by acting essentially just like him, as it is making her appear just as narcissistic and irresponsible. AKA She realizes that she doesn't want to be like him anymore, and that she wants to be herself. She returned to Earth to kill him but did talk peacefully with him at a diner when Rick initially told her she wasn't the clone and was pleased to see him acknowledge her endeavors as a space adventurer. STATUS Beth met Jerry in high school and had unprotected sex on prom night, resulting in the pregnancy that produced their first and only daughter, Summer. The blue streak in her hair might be a reference to Evil Britta from Dan Harmon's other series. Jerry insinuates that Beth was raised "like a reptile" by Rick, suggesting that his method of parenting was very unorthodox. PLACE OF ORIGIN We've already met one Evil Morty, we've now seen what "our" Morty might look like with his cowardice and indecision removed (short version: he becomes Jordan Belfort) and Summer has actively tried to become detached and dark, but "Evil Beth" - armed to the teeth with the weapons Rick had made at her request as a girl - is really the first time we've seen any of them be good at it and not ultimately reject it as a … Upon realizing this, Beth institutes change, and later uses the morphizer to make herself giant, puts her skin inside out, and comforts Summer who was crying, and really needed her at the moment.