Pocket Mortys from Adult Swim Games transmogrifies Rick and Morty into a Pokémon game for Android and iOS. You steer Rick around the Citadel of Ricks and portal-connected dimensions, all in pursuit of loose Mortys to forcefully microchip and add to your growing army of child combatants. It’s a nice little time-killer for the purgatorial dead zone between Rick and Morty Season 2 and Rick and Morty Season 3.
Since Pocket Mortys just came out yesterday, it’s hard to say how big of a hit the Rick and Morty game will be. But with a rapturous reception on Twitter and a five star score (with nearly a 1000 reviews) in the iOS App Store, plenty of people are already loving Pocket Mortys. But could it get popular enough to influence new episodes in Rick and Morty Season 3?
There are a few prominent elements of Pocket Mortys that seem like plausible additions to Rick and Morty Season 3, even if we’re unlikely to get an entire Pokémon parody episode.
Rick and Morty Season 3 And The Return Of The Council Of Ricks
For one, don’t be surprised if we see a return of the Council of Ricks in Rick and Morty Season 3. This interdimensional governing body comprised entirely of Ricks first appeared in the Rick and Morty Season 1 episode “Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind” and are also the primary body steering the plot of Pocket Mortys.
For Rick and Morty Season 2 co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland wanted to focus on further expanding the series’ universe. “There was a heavy impulse in Season 2 to not call anything back from Season 1,” Dan Harmon told a San Diego Comic-Con audience. That’s expected to change in Season 3.
With an established viewer base and an expansive fictional universe Rick and Morty Season 3 will be more free to fold back in existing characters. With the Rick of Dimension C-137 (“our” Rick) currently in Federation prison, Morty petitioning the Council of Ricks for aid seems like a natural solution.
Another element from Pocket Mortys that might emerge in Rick and Morty Season 3 is an expanded variety of dimensional-variant Ricks and Mortys. Whereas most alt-dimension universe Ricks and Mortys seen in episodes of Rick and Morty still look like, well, Rick and Morty, Pocket Mortys stretches the boundaries of dimensional variety. Even if it’s little more than any easter egg, a nod to Mysterious Rick or Sausage Morty would seem like an easy fit in Rick and Morty Season 3 episodes.
But beyond that it seems unlikely anything too specific will be pulled from Pocket Mortys for Rick and Morty Season 3. This is, in large part, because Pocket Mortys doesn’t do too much to expand on the Rick and Morty mythos.
