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*** The B plot has Morty also call out the Hoovians for this; he accidentally started a generational saga of Hoovians wanting him dead while getting wine to drink with Jessica from their Narnia-like dimension. For context, decades in their world pass in minutes on Morty's world, thus their society evolves every time Morty nips down to the basement portal to get another wine bottle and either gets attacked or retaliates with Rick's armory. When their latest attempt to assassinate him gets Jessica kidnapped, his rescue leads with the robots that defeated the Hoovians capturing him. Morty revives in their lab and says, "I just took some wine! I already apologized! What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Jessica was ''definitely'' an innocent party in this fiasco.
** The season five finale reveals that {{spoiler|the tragic backstory that Rick presented to the Citadel was ''real'' and not made-up as he claimed at the time. A rogue Rick did kill his Beth and Diane using a bomb, when his Beth was a little girl, and Rick spent months both coming up with the interdimensional formula and recovering from his injuries. He never abandoned any Beth before she was old enough to have Summer and Morty. When Morty comes out of the memory gun flashback, he apologizes to Rick for what happened. Then Evil Morty holds them at gunpoint; he says that all Ricks try to justify their actions based on tragic backstories, and Morty's Rick is no different. He may have a point; this was this same Rick that went on a rampage to kill dozens of Ricks trying to avenge his family, leading to the Citadel and Council of Ricks being formed}}.
* ''[[Tuca & Bertie]]'':
** This is what leads to the season one fight between the title characters. Tuca has a phobia of hospitals because her mother died in one after suffering a car accident. She also overhears Bertie calling her "clingy" which Tuca is, and stubbornly refuses to see a doctor about a sudden pain. Her virtual sex client has to drive seven hours to save her when she collapses on a call, and he notifies Speckle about the situation when Speckle mistakes the call for a videogame and starts "playing". While Bertie is relieved that Tuca pulls through a terrifying surgery, she's annoyed that Tuca didn't come to her for help earlier because she was doing a pastry event that could boost her career and had to leave to check on her dying best friend. When a recovered Tuca notices that she's upset, Bertie says all of this, that she would have been fine with taking Tuca to a doctor before the problem became serious, rather than Tuca endangering herself the one time Bertie wasn't available to bail her out of her immaturity. Tuca goes [[Never My Fault]], and they have a huge argument.
** Comes up during the series finale arc, when Bertie {{spoiler|ghosts her longstanding boyfriend of several years in favor of confronting a childhood trauma at Jelly Lakes. When she returns, she finds herself unable to explain to Speckle why she didn't his calls and blew off work at the same time, right before Molting Day, this world's version of Christmas. Speckle gets mad at her and calls her out, saying that he can't be the "rock" in their relationship all the time. While they do make up thanks to Bertie visiting the fixer-upper he bought and admiring it, Bertie herself admits that she was a bad girlfriend and seeks therapy next season to try and "fix" herself and not repeat this incident. Therapy doesn't work that way, but she does make progress}}. Season two shows that they finally talked about it, which was all Speckle wanted; {{spoiler|Bertie didn't tell him about being molested as a twelve-year old, or having a weird attraction to Pastry Pete after he manhandled her, because she thought that not getting over trauma or irrational feelings made her weak and morally bankrupt. Speckle reassures her that it's not her fault that the lifeguard that molested her or Pastry Pete took advantage of her, and her therapist Joanne says it's normal to have trauma recur years later}}.
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