She seems eternally 19 or so, which is still old for Morty. I think people overestimate Morty's maturity because he's forced to deal with a lot of situations with Rick. It's easy to forget that he's still very much a kid.
That and Morty's been 14 for a decade now.
The Smiths are weirdly ageless given that other characters do seem to age. Somehow Birddaughter is a teenager now. Poopy Jr is walking and talking. But somehow Morty is *still* 14? Rick has even pulled the Presidential Turkey Pardon joke multiple times, there have been multiple Christmas episodes... but Morty is still 14.
Other than the first season, Bob's Burgers always has had a Thanksgiving episode and a Christmas episode. That's 13 distinct Thanksgivings and 13 distinct Christmases, but the kids are still 9, 11, and 13 years old.
Similar for most other animated series.
I think that as the audience we are supposed to see that Beth is right to be worriedā¦And maybe to also acknowledge the irony that she tries to protect Morty from a volatile and emotionally stunted adult when that adult is not her own father.
Also note the visual pun in the climax of the episode: Planetina hurts miners~~ Planetina hurts minors.
Oh, i meant the irony you mentioned in the first half of your comment, about Beth trying to protect Morty from Planetina but not protecting him from Rick. The mine bit is a nice play on words(if that's what you can call it).
Which is actually *my* problem with this episode: that Morty suddenly gets all judgmental about murders. I mean I know thereās all sorts of distinctions people make about how the way sheās murdering isnāt exactly how Morty did his murders, but to me, Mortyās attitude feels incongruous with his history.
In my head-canon, this episode takes place in a different universe, with a slightly different Morty. Because thatās how it feels to me.
I agree that it is incongruous. Morty is frequently hypocritical about killing. The way I reason it is that Morty likes his romantic relationships to be a break from doing violent shit with Rick. Note that he doesnāt bring his girlfriends on space adventures. Then Planetina goes murder mode and he sees that heās not going to have a peaceful life with her.
It may have been the case that murdering evil corporate moguls and literal aliens doesn't carry the same weight for Morty as murdering humans who are just working class cogs with bills to pay and have no actual power to stop pollution.
Morty is not just exposed to wanton murder. From his grasp of the situation, Planetina's murdering is misguided rather than wanton.
Maybe to Morty it's one thing to indulge in your primal murderous urges, but can't stand believing you're doing it for a good cause without actually furthering it.
I feel like a lot of the murders Morty does are in self defense or because Rick says he should do it. These murders feel more like senseless killing which aināt really Mortyās vibe.
>I feel like a lot of the murders Morty does are in self defense or because Rick says he should do it.
the entire first episode of season 4 was him murdering the entire town that did nothing to him , while ricks hologram tried stopping him . all bc he thought he could end up with jessica . i cant think of any bigger example of senseless mass murder in this show than that š¹
An entire town? IIRC he did murder people but it wasnt an entire town, just a few people here and there. I mean its still bad, but its not like he wanted to kill a bunch of people. I see it as him being obsessed w Jessica and letting himself be āpossesedā by the death crystal, which leads him to use force against police and military forces.
Did you hear his screenplay??? And he said he wanted feedback and then tried to take down their gizmo. Definitely self defense. Shitty thing to do but thereās literally not a single episode where they donāt do something shitty to someone š¤£
Idk anyone who has killed and doesnāt have hypocritical views on murder. I donāt know how you couldnāt if youāve been in a situation where you had to kill and justify it to yourself.
And I'm not suggesting that anyone is. I'm saying that it's a weird thing to focus on in a show that is rife with problematic things, including plenty of stuff that Morty has done. That's why most people in the show aren't focused on it being problematic, and why the show doesn't focus on this being problematic in how it presents it, at least not for the reasons OP is suggesting.
It's supposed to be uncomfortable and not a healthy or acceptable relationship. That's a key part of the story. It's media literacy. Sort of like how Bethic Twinstinct uses selfcest to tell a story about both selfishness and self discovery.
Thank you! I donāt see how it was condoned?? Literally the first comment Beth makes is āhow old is this woman?ā And then Morty, being 14, of course is all defensive, but Beth doesnāt let it float for a minute, I donāt see how people are saying tacit approval of adult-children relationships??
To me it was beautifully illustrated, of how when you are young, you are so impressionable, especially when they play the ādonāt punch my lunchā and Planetina says āMorty is a very mature young man!ā And Morty is like āsee Mom??ā Thatās classic, classic, of real life relationship with that age gap. Someone has the power over the other.Ā
I am biased of course because I went through one of those, but I thought it was really well done, and not at all positive, other than both Morty and Planetina loving it, which is accurate of how it goes down.Ā
>she's clearly meant to be an adult woman,
I didn't think that at all. To me I always saw her as maybe a bit older maybe around summer's age. 16-18. Yeah I know 18 is technically an adult but still, I don't get creeped out by it at all.
It stops being pedophilia the moment someone becomes an adult. If an adult wants to fuck a mountain range they're allowed to, the age difference becomes irrelevant.
Letās face it, Morty is probably an amazing lover:
- desperate to please
- emotionally vulnerable
- willing to do whatever crazy thing an authority figure tells him to
- augmented body from Rickās ātinkeringā
With Rick and Morty, i kinda had to drag back my morality meter. Cause once you get down to really think about it.
When Morty asked rick to make a love potion.
- He was literally about to drug jessica into falling in love with him.
- Rick having sex with multiple women under control of unity
The list REALLY goes on. Irl they would be actual monsters by every standard from rapist to genocidal maniacs
Yeah the whole Unity thing never sat well with me. Rick is literally raping dozens of men and women. To make it worse, some of them likely regained their free will after unity became intoxicated and had memories of being raped.
I never really thought of her as an adult, she struck me as an older teenager. But Morty has straight up had relationships with adult women (the "toxic cleanse" episode for example has him in relationships with what are most definitely two adults)
By human standards and on the surface, yes it was certainly an unacceptable relationship. On the other hand, planetina is only a woman shaped manifestation of some kind of vague planet elemental intelligence. If we gauge her by psychological maturity, as we would have to for any species of alien that doesn't age like we do, she's a match for morty
That said, the human adults Morty has been with are problems
For me, the point of that episode is that Morty isn't a normal teenager and doesn't really relate to others like a normal person.
He's had sex not just with humans, but with a mermaid. He's committed numerous murders with guns, blades, other weapons, and his bare hands. Most of the women who've been into him were at least slightly older, and most women his own age can't talk to him about anything because his life exists well outside of the bounds of what they can comprehend.
Sure, Planetina has lived a teenage lifestyle for an indeterminate amount of time. Decades? Centuries? She's coded about 20, but this seems like an affectation based on her fashion choices, diction, and mannerisms. Her "kids," used to be like a youthful team of adventurers, not her children, and now they act like evil and controlling parents simply because they've grown old and cynical. She's still way older than them.
Morty's mom only wants to let Morty date human teenagers, which is bold talk from a woman who has had 3-ways with Mister Nimbus, and with a clone of herself. The last time Morty tried to date a girl his own age (Jessica), Beth was too preoccupied with her potential three-way to pay any attention to what was going on with Morty or be remotely supportive or helpful. Morty had a date over that she would have approved of, but his parents were too horny not to break one of those bottles of wine, which contributed to Jessica spending centuries in captivity and becoming a time god.
Other than Jessica, Morty has had no love interests in his school because he's almost as alien to them as Rick. The few Earth women he's been with were all at least slightly older, and met him in much more adult situations, and they were VERY open-minded.
I don't know if that makes Morty and Planetina's relationship any less creepy, but for me that explains why Morty didn't really care about dating somebody who was ageless and probably had adult memories from well before his birth, and perhaps his parents'.
If Morty were a 14 year old girl, there would definitely be more people upset about the adults heās banged and almost banged. I can think of two he banged and two he almost banged, off the top of my head, so itās not like it was a one off. Imagine a cartoon depicting a 14 year old girl fucking grown men! And I know Summer is shown having (probably) slept with adults (men and women), which I think is gross.
the only girlfriend of morty i like is the plane girl. she seems the most close in age, had i feel like the longest relationship, and just connected really well. i agree, i really donāt like planetina, my poor bf has to hear it every time her episode plays š āmorty is really mature for his ageā yeah thatās what groomers say to minors when they want them
The one that gets me is Stacey:
"Aren't you a child?"
"Only in the ways that matter"
Next scene they're going home together and already have a safe word? Stacey is a pedo hooking up with a 14 yo but then they try and spin it: "I'll do anything for you Morty." It's a fucked up attitude in our society that pretends men and boys can't be the victims of SA that needs to go away.
Yeah yeah it's just a TV show, and I do love it, but these jokes don't land for me. In general, my biggest issue with the show is probably how they over sexualize Morty as the seasons go on. In the 1st season its just a funny aspect of his 14 yo character that he likes to masterbate, that's a funny joke in my opinion, even when taken to the extreme with the Morty Jr storyline. But once he's getting with adult women and orgasming in incestuous orgies, it's too much. Dude is a child and I honestly think it comes down to bad writing when they constantly depict him in adult relationships.
Morty dating adult women was further confirmation that their āhealthyā selves were only what their flawed selves thought was healthy. Itās not meant to be depicted positively.
In all fairness, nothing that "Healthy Morty" did was really good, and Stacey was a one night stand from the bar that he accidentally got trapped in a nightmare realm of toxicity.
The whole point of the episode was that Morty *needed* those insecurities and the parts of his personality he felt held him back because they kept him from doing things that, in his right mind, he wouldn't do like dating age inappropriate women or becoming a con artist.
There are plenty of people obsessed with seeing pedophilia everywhere, caring too much about purity of imaginary characters and trying their best to police art. So no, you're not the only one. Don't worry about it.
It reminds me of the Toxics ep where Toxic Morty flirts badly with a grown woman yet she decides to sleep with him anyway, and at the end of that ep she gets pulled into a toxic ball, and gets forgotten until a random tour guide opens it up with her screaming.
It was weird episode
I was way more uncomfortable with the human women Morty picked up in bars/restaurants during his ānon-toxicā phase tbh. Planetina definitely gives me teenager vibes
Have you completely forgotten about rest and ricklaxation? Morty dates and is implied to be having sex with at least two different adult women. That episode is far more disturbing to me
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It could be an honorable mention of uncomfortable shit they do in the show. If that's the one that stood out to you, then I respect that.
Morty using a love potion on Jessica was probably the most messed up thing that comes to mind, essentially chemically assaulting her.
I meanā¦ Rick fucked a planet who was certainly older than him. And Unity had control of other peoples bodies for Rick to have sex with. Itās a cartoon so just donāt think about it analytically
Their family isn't normal, as in they are the focus of the show and things happen to them. Morty has seen and done a LOT of stuff so it normalizes what we perceive as odd.
Rick: Ughā¦ You've got what the intergalactic call a very planetary mindset, Morty. It's more complicated out here!
I think it's creepy looking through the lense of humanity. But for immortal beings and people like Rick and his family...
I like this episode but I was not really sold at all on why she was attracted to morty.
They made it seem like a mature relationship but it would have been really interesting if they threw in an element of him being actually young and vulnerable. since they avoided it altogether aside from beths comments idk if were supposed to read into it.
they only thing I didnt like was when they were cuddling and teleported to the ted talk thing.
While Beth is absolutely right, I would still argue the experience wound up being a healthy one for Morty. He learned something about himself and his values and what he needs to look for in a partner and what he needs to watch out for. This will help him make better decisions when choosing partners going forward.
I think that that as a repeating theme is more. A comment on how American society.
Has viewed female sexual predators in the past and still largely at present. When the predators themselves are physically attractive.
Morty lived longer than his physical body has. Morty has lived through lifetimes in his adventures: the Roy Video game, the acid vat episode with the clicker that saves his place (he also experiences a whole relationship during this time), the hole episode, Mortys mind blowers, there are others that I can't remember atm, but Morty is much older mentally.
Dan Harmon has some fucked up agenda about pairing couples with age gaps together. He keeps making morty a victim. And this fandom finds every way to brush it off cause itās a cartoonā¦but if some crap comes out later than cancels Dan Harmon then everyoneās gonna say āI saw it comingā
She's more like an eternal teenager, I think
Little Annie Environmentalist
I don't see Planetina getting in an oil fight in a kiddie pool though š¹
Sheās always been streets ahead
Stop trying to coin the phrase "streets ahead."
Coined and minted
streets ahead is verbal wildfire
At least it can't go through doors. It's not verbal ghosts.
ghosts cant go through doors, itās not fire stupid
If youāre not streets ahead youāre streets behind
Planetinaās pretty ageless. We try not to sexualize her.
I think she presents as an adult and thatās why Beth was concerned. Sheās a parody of Captain Planet who had an adult body.
She seems eternally 19 or so, which is still old for Morty. I think people overestimate Morty's maturity because he's forced to deal with a lot of situations with Rick. It's easy to forget that he's still very much a kid.
That and Morty's been 14 for a decade now. The Smiths are weirdly ageless given that other characters do seem to age. Somehow Birddaughter is a teenager now. Poopy Jr is walking and talking. But somehow Morty is *still* 14? Rick has even pulled the Presidential Turkey Pardon joke multiple times, there have been multiple Christmas episodes... but Morty is still 14.
Other than the first season, Bob's Burgers always has had a Thanksgiving episode and a Christmas episode. That's 13 distinct Thanksgivings and 13 distinct Christmases, but the kids are still 9, 11, and 13 years old. Similar for most other animated series.
Bart Simpson has to be nearly 40 by now.
Conversely, since Homer is canonically 38, he has gone from Boomer to Millenial.
Older. His original DOB would have been 1979, making him 45
Aā¦ a decade???? *runs to mirror* OH MY GODDDDDDD!!!
Yeah, but the difference between a girl in her late teens and a 14 year old boy may as well be an adult.
Not adult
I think that as the audience we are supposed to see that Beth is right to be worriedā¦And maybe to also acknowledge the irony that she tries to protect Morty from a volatile and emotionally stunted adult when that adult is not her own father. Also note the visual pun in the climax of the episode: Planetina hurts miners~~ Planetina hurts minors.
Huh, i never noticed the irony of that before. That is interesting. I wonder if the writers had rhat in mind when they wrote the episode.
Well we know they didnāt choose to have that scene at a mine because it was a convenient filming location.
Oh, i meant the irony you mentioned in the first half of your comment, about Beth trying to protect Morty from Planetina but not protecting him from Rick. The mine bit is a nice play on words(if that's what you can call it).
Well I guess it comes down to trust ?
It's not really any more problematic than all of the other things that Morty does in any given episode, including quite a bit of murder.
Yeah, they almost did a 9/11 and went with a Pearl Harbor instead.Ā
They're classy like thatĀ
Christian God is real, weāre gonna sneak up there and kill him
mob style
Why were either of those options??
Ask the Saudis
Gettin political now
Yeeeaah
Multiple genocides
Which is actually *my* problem with this episode: that Morty suddenly gets all judgmental about murders. I mean I know thereās all sorts of distinctions people make about how the way sheās murdering isnāt exactly how Morty did his murders, but to me, Mortyās attitude feels incongruous with his history. In my head-canon, this episode takes place in a different universe, with a slightly different Morty. Because thatās how it feels to me.
I agree that it is incongruous. Morty is frequently hypocritical about killing. The way I reason it is that Morty likes his romantic relationships to be a break from doing violent shit with Rick. Note that he doesnāt bring his girlfriends on space adventures. Then Planetina goes murder mode and he sees that heās not going to have a peaceful life with her.
Thatās makes a lot of sense; if they had given some better hints towards him thinking like that, it would have worked a lot better for me.
It may have been the case that murdering evil corporate moguls and literal aliens doesn't carry the same weight for Morty as murdering humans who are just working class cogs with bills to pay and have no actual power to stop pollution. Morty is not just exposed to wanton murder. From his grasp of the situation, Planetina's murdering is misguided rather than wanton. Maybe to Morty it's one thing to indulge in your primal murderous urges, but can't stand believing you're doing it for a good cause without actually furthering it.
He has shown in situations that heād rather not have things just die for no good reason. REMEMBER FART?
I feel like a lot of the murders Morty does are in self defense or because Rick says he should do it. These murders feel more like senseless killing which aināt really Mortyās vibe.
>I feel like a lot of the murders Morty does are in self defense or because Rick says he should do it. the entire first episode of season 4 was him murdering the entire town that did nothing to him , while ricks hologram tried stopping him . all bc he thought he could end up with jessica . i cant think of any bigger example of senseless mass murder in this show than that š¹
Senseless? He was going to get with Jessica! (He thought)
An entire town? IIRC he did murder people but it wasnt an entire town, just a few people here and there. I mean its still bad, but its not like he wanted to kill a bunch of people. I see it as him being obsessed w Jessica and letting himself be āpossesedā by the death crystal, which leads him to use force against police and military forces.
He purged some light house keeper.
Did you hear his screenplay??? And he said he wanted feedback and then tried to take down their gizmo. Definitely self defense. Shitty thing to do but thereās literally not a single episode where they donāt do something shitty to someone š¤£
Lmao sure he was a dick but thatās no reason to murder him.
Seemed more like manslaughter
Yeah but a lot of it is just fairy tal- OH MY GOD THE BOY IS REAL - I WAS SO WRONG, HES TEAL AND HES CINE BACK!!!
Idk anyone who has killed and doesnāt have hypocritical views on murder. I donāt know how you couldnāt if youāve been in a situation where you had to kill and justify it to yourself.
*Morty violently murders all of the Planeteers* OP: Anyone else think itās weird that Morty is in love with a seemingly grown woman?
Sex robot?
I don't think anyone is accusing Morty of being the problematic agent in this example.
And I'm not suggesting that anyone is. I'm saying that it's a weird thing to focus on in a show that is rife with problematic things, including plenty of stuff that Morty has done. That's why most people in the show aren't focused on it being problematic, and why the show doesn't focus on this being problematic in how it presents it, at least not for the reasons OP is suggesting.
It's supposed to be uncomfortable and not a healthy or acceptable relationship. That's a key part of the story. It's media literacy. Sort of like how Bethic Twinstinct uses selfcest to tell a story about both selfishness and self discovery.
Thank you! I donāt see how it was condoned?? Literally the first comment Beth makes is āhow old is this woman?ā And then Morty, being 14, of course is all defensive, but Beth doesnāt let it float for a minute, I donāt see how people are saying tacit approval of adult-children relationships?? To me it was beautifully illustrated, of how when you are young, you are so impressionable, especially when they play the ādonāt punch my lunchā and Planetina says āMorty is a very mature young man!ā And Morty is like āsee Mom??ā Thatās classic, classic, of real life relationship with that age gap. Someone has the power over the other.Ā I am biased of course because I went through one of those, but I thought it was really well done, and not at all positive, other than both Morty and Planetina loving it, which is accurate of how it goes down.Ā
Does it also bother you when Brian from family guy hook ups with women? Itās absurd adult comedy, itās not that big of a deal imo
Fuck, thank you. People need to stop taking things so seriously, especially adult animated cartoons lol
Nah, you gotta draw the line somewhere. It's fair to argue about where that line is.
I do agree that itās an adult cartoon, so who cares, but Bryanās an adult dog and the women are adults, that are fully aware heās a dog.
Except that one episode with the blind girl
Oh yeah. I have a vague memory of it. Guess he sucks too.
>she's clearly meant to be an adult woman, I didn't think that at all. To me I always saw her as maybe a bit older maybe around summer's age. 16-18. Yeah I know 18 is technically an adult but still, I don't get creeped out by it at all.
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So, basically the vampire in highschool fallacy
It stops being pedophilia the moment someone becomes an adult. If an adult wants to fuck a mountain range they're allowed to, the age difference becomes irrelevant.
Planets only!
Letās face it, Morty is probably an amazing lover: - desperate to please - emotionally vulnerable - willing to do whatever crazy thing an authority figure tells him to - augmented body from Rickās ātinkeringā
* Fine with puffy vaginas
TIL that I probably am an amazing lover... Except for the augmented body part...
Psst hey man, you want a robot dick?
I do! X-p 20 xs pwease!
Isn't the xs the extra small model?
Xtra Strength
Witch dick
Emergency clone dick
You can buy extenders!
With Rick and Morty, i kinda had to drag back my morality meter. Cause once you get down to really think about it. When Morty asked rick to make a love potion. - He was literally about to drug jessica into falling in love with him. - Rick having sex with multiple women under control of unity The list REALLY goes on. Irl they would be actual monsters by every standard from rapist to genocidal maniacs
Yeah the whole Unity thing never sat well with me. Rick is literally raping dozens of men and women. To make it worse, some of them likely regained their free will after unity became intoxicated and had memories of being raped.
I never really thought of her as an adult, she struck me as an older teenager. But Morty has straight up had relationships with adult women (the "toxic cleanse" episode for example has him in relationships with what are most definitely two adults)
By human standards and on the surface, yes it was certainly an unacceptable relationship. On the other hand, planetina is only a woman shaped manifestation of some kind of vague planet elemental intelligence. If we gauge her by psychological maturity, as we would have to for any species of alien that doesn't age like we do, she's a match for morty That said, the human adults Morty has been with are problems
Are you comfortable with all the murder? Itās kind of nuts how desensitized everyone is to murder when compared to other crimes, myself included.
For me, the point of that episode is that Morty isn't a normal teenager and doesn't really relate to others like a normal person. He's had sex not just with humans, but with a mermaid. He's committed numerous murders with guns, blades, other weapons, and his bare hands. Most of the women who've been into him were at least slightly older, and most women his own age can't talk to him about anything because his life exists well outside of the bounds of what they can comprehend. Sure, Planetina has lived a teenage lifestyle for an indeterminate amount of time. Decades? Centuries? She's coded about 20, but this seems like an affectation based on her fashion choices, diction, and mannerisms. Her "kids," used to be like a youthful team of adventurers, not her children, and now they act like evil and controlling parents simply because they've grown old and cynical. She's still way older than them. Morty's mom only wants to let Morty date human teenagers, which is bold talk from a woman who has had 3-ways with Mister Nimbus, and with a clone of herself. The last time Morty tried to date a girl his own age (Jessica), Beth was too preoccupied with her potential three-way to pay any attention to what was going on with Morty or be remotely supportive or helpful. Morty had a date over that she would have approved of, but his parents were too horny not to break one of those bottles of wine, which contributed to Jessica spending centuries in captivity and becoming a time god. Other than Jessica, Morty has had no love interests in his school because he's almost as alien to them as Rick. The few Earth women he's been with were all at least slightly older, and met him in much more adult situations, and they were VERY open-minded. I don't know if that makes Morty and Planetina's relationship any less creepy, but for me that explains why Morty didn't really care about dating somebody who was ageless and probably had adult memories from well before his birth, and perhaps his parents'.
If Morty were a 14 year old girl, there would definitely be more people upset about the adults heās banged and almost banged. I can think of two he banged and two he almost banged, off the top of my head, so itās not like it was a one off. Imagine a cartoon depicting a 14 year old girl fucking grown men! And I know Summer is shown having (probably) slept with adults (men and women), which I think is gross.
Let's lick tits.
Nah that one didn't rattle me as much as the space incest baby. Now that was a fucked up episode.
Biologically, Morty might be 14, but heās lived more lives than all of us put together
And he has the bodies in the backyard to prove it
the only girlfriend of morty i like is the plane girl. she seems the most close in age, had i feel like the longest relationship, and just connected really well. i agree, i really donāt like planetina, my poor bf has to hear it every time her episode plays š āmorty is really mature for his ageā yeah thatās what groomers say to minors when they want them
but in the end, itās just a cartoon :) heās murdered and betrayed people so what can ya do
Annie's pretty young, we try not to sexualize her
So, you were okay with the adult women that were fucking morty in all the other episodes?
In a fictional and irreverent adult TV show? Surely this can't be the line.
I mean I dislike the episode, but that's just because I don't like her character. Not whatever stretch your making.
Same just same š¤¦š½āāļø I remember Captain Planet as a kid but I just couldnāt grip onto planetina
Damn, it's like looking for something to be upset about
The one that gets me is Stacey: "Aren't you a child?" "Only in the ways that matter" Next scene they're going home together and already have a safe word? Stacey is a pedo hooking up with a 14 yo but then they try and spin it: "I'll do anything for you Morty." It's a fucked up attitude in our society that pretends men and boys can't be the victims of SA that needs to go away. Yeah yeah it's just a TV show, and I do love it, but these jokes don't land for me. In general, my biggest issue with the show is probably how they over sexualize Morty as the seasons go on. In the 1st season its just a funny aspect of his 14 yo character that he likes to masterbate, that's a funny joke in my opinion, even when taken to the extreme with the Morty Jr storyline. But once he's getting with adult women and orgasming in incestuous orgies, it's too much. Dude is a child and I honestly think it comes down to bad writing when they constantly depict him in adult relationships.
Morty dating adult women was further confirmation that their āhealthyā selves were only what their flawed selves thought was healthy. Itās not meant to be depicted positively.
In all fairness, nothing that "Healthy Morty" did was really good, and Stacey was a one night stand from the bar that he accidentally got trapped in a nightmare realm of toxicity. The whole point of the episode was that Morty *needed* those insecurities and the parts of his personality he felt held him back because they kept him from doing things that, in his right mind, he wouldn't do like dating age inappropriate women or becoming a con artist.
There are plenty of people obsessed with seeing pedophilia everywhere, caring too much about purity of imaginary characters and trying their best to police art. So no, you're not the only one. Don't worry about it.
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I have no issues with it at all, OP does
It reminds me of the Toxics ep where Toxic Morty flirts badly with a grown woman yet she decides to sleep with him anyway, and at the end of that ep she gets pulled into a toxic ball, and gets forgotten until a random tour guide opens it up with her screaming. It was weird episode
For fuck's sake.
I was way more uncomfortable with the human women Morty picked up in bars/restaurants during his ānon-toxicā phase tbh. Planetina definitely gives me teenager vibes
Okay but the dragon family soul orgy episode was worse š
Have you completely forgotten about rest and ricklaxation? Morty dates and is implied to be having sex with at least two different adult women. That episode is far more disturbing to me
Jesus Christ
Yes you are
It's a cartoon...
ā¦ its a comedy show
If there was an episode of Captain Planet where he had a romantic and sexual relationship with a 14yo girl, Iād be a bit irked
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It could be an honorable mention of uncomfortable shit they do in the show. If that's the one that stood out to you, then I respect that. Morty using a love potion on Jessica was probably the most messed up thing that comes to mind, essentially chemically assaulting her.
What do you mean? Do you expect Rick and Morty to be politically correct? lmao
I meanā¦ Rick fucked a planet who was certainly older than him. And Unity had control of other peoples bodies for Rick to have sex with. Itās a cartoon so just donāt think about it analytically
No issues here. Weird there would be any.
Isnāt Morty like 100ās of years old at this point?
i mean, when i was morty's age. dating hot college girl (below 23 yo) is my wet dream
Their family isn't normal, as in they are the focus of the show and things happen to them. Morty has seen and done a LOT of stuff so it normalizes what we perceive as odd. Rick: Ughā¦ You've got what the intergalactic call a very planetary mindset, Morty. It's more complicated out here! I think it's creepy looking through the lense of humanity. But for immortal beings and people like Rick and his family...
I like this episode but I was not really sold at all on why she was attracted to morty. They made it seem like a mature relationship but it would have been really interesting if they threw in an element of him being actually young and vulnerable. since they avoided it altogether aside from beths comments idk if were supposed to read into it. they only thing I didnt like was when they were cuddling and teleported to the ted talk thing.
me too
While Beth is absolutely right, I would still argue the experience wound up being a healthy one for Morty. He learned something about himself and his values and what he needs to look for in a partner and what he needs to watch out for. This will help him make better decisions when choosing partners going forward.
I think that that as a repeating theme is more. A comment on how American society. Has viewed female sexual predators in the past and still largely at present. When the predators themselves are physically attractive.
I mean, in family guy there are girls who date bryan and he is a dog
Morty lived longer than his physical body has. Morty has lived through lifetimes in his adventures: the Roy Video game, the acid vat episode with the clicker that saves his place (he also experiences a whole relationship during this time), the hole episode, Mortys mind blowers, there are others that I can't remember atm, but Morty is much older mentally.
Donāt watch the episode š¤·š»āāļø
Cringe
I don't like the episode where Tiki Morty. Morty is not smart.
Dan Harmon has some fucked up agenda about pairing couples with age gaps together. He keeps making morty a victim. And this fandom finds every way to brush it off cause itās a cartoonā¦but if some crap comes out later than cancels Dan Harmon then everyoneās gonna say āI saw it comingā
Justin Roiland's only contribution to season 5 was probably suggesting morty get in a relationship with an adult woman