Oh my Rick. Season 3 was leading up to this. Do you remember all of those cybernetic upgrades Rick suddenly got in The Rickshank Rickdemption, Vindicators 3, The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, and The ABCs of Beth? It looks like they finally turned Rick into full villain territory. Of course he's the God that he claims doesn't exist because he let the world stay a grotesque cronenberg mess in Rick Potion #9! What did he do here that was so horrible in this episode? He killed 12 of the president's bodyguards just because he wanted the president to give him a selfie with Morty and avoids any punishment he could have gotten for it. Any reason why we were supposed to root for Rick from the beginning of the series is suddenly gone because he's too bad now. He's almost as evil of an anti-hero as Supernova. It really sickens me that he let her go when she killed 2 other Vindicators who weren't killed by Rick's Saw-like game, but he made 12 people in the white house die when they didn't deserve it. Are we supposed to find this funny? Because it's not funny. It's just cruel. Thank Rick Season 3 was so short, because half of its episodes (#4, #7, #8, #9, #10) keep throwing unnecessary violence in our faces and that poop doesn't stick to the wall because it slips off and hits the fan. Rick Potion #9 and Raising Gazorpazorp from Season 1 foretold that Rick would decay from an anti-hero who still had some humanity in him to an invincible villainous god who has the power to kill presidential authorities just for touching him. In this episode, it's even easier for a character to suddenly die without me realizing it than all those guys in the The Simpsons episode Any Given Sundance. Rick might as well team up with Supernova because they're both very evil heroes, and I hope Morty teams up with Mr. Goldenfold, Tammy, Phoenix Person, and his dog friends from Lawnmower Dogs to kill both of them in Season 4, which they will in its 10th and final episode. Sigh. I really miss Mr. Goldenfold, Tammy and Bird Person and I hated their absence in Season 3 after The Rickshank Rickdemption. They were the 3 coolest supporting characters that this show ever had. Brandon Johnson, Cassie Steele, Dan Harmon, if you're reading this message, please come back for Season 4! Oh, and to answer your question about how knocking someone out is a deterrent-it either allows you to get away or gives that person a chance to learn to not touch you again. Just because they could come after you again is no excuse to give yourself touch-kill powers, or else sexual harassers would have no chance to learn from their mistakes, so stop sentencing people to death, Rick! I don't care if there are more of those 12 people you killed in other universes. In this universe's jurisdiction, you should be jailed for life or executed for unnecessary instant death sentences! I don't know what's worse-Gumball and Darwin getting abused by everyone else in the universe 25% of The Amazing World of Gumball's episodes or Rick abusing everyone else in the universe in 25 % of Rick and Morty's episodes, but it depends on how far the abuse goes. Actually, if Rick makes it too easy for people coming after him to die just by touching him, he's the worse abuser by default. No, Rick, infinity universes is not an excuse to make impossible instant death a deterrent like knocking out isn't enough to make them learn their lesson. It's also no excuse to kill random people like nobody else would care and your opinion is the only one that matters, because death sentences to anyone who touches you is still wrong no matter what universe you are in. I'm looking at you, Vindicators 3. Rick and Morty's episodes are sucking more and more and becoming more unfunny and unenjoyable because they think that having episodes with anything positive happening like Lawnmower Dogs, Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind, A Rickle in Time, Get Schwifty and The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy would be boring, but they were not. And yet almost nobody complains about Rick and Morty's worst episodes when they get worse than Modern Family Guy, instead choosing to treat Rick Potion #9 and Vindicators 3 like they're great for the show when they're not.