Rick & Morty Theory Reveals The Real Reason C-137 Created The Finite Curve
The Rick and Morty season 5 finale revolved around Evil Morty's quest to escape the Central Finite Curve, and a fan theory helps explain the real motive behind the Curve’s creation. First mentioned in Rick and Morty season 1, episode 10, the Central Finite Curve is yet another one of many multiverse-related concepts the show has developed. With Rick and Morty season 6 still far away, it remains only to theorize and conjecture about what has already been presented about the Curve - and how it might affect the future of the show.
Despite being introduced early in the series, it took quite a while before the Central Finite Curve concept was brought up again. Behind Evil Morty's master plan, virtually the only running story that Rick and Morty's episodic format followed, was the character's desire to cross the Curve. While Evil Morty succeeded in his plan, it's still a mystery what’s on the other side of the Curve, and why Rick created it in the first place.
Evil Morty believes Rick C-137 created the Central Finite Curve purely out of selfishness and to make sure no one, including none of the infinity Mortys, would ever have access to a universe in which Rick wasn’t the dominant lifeform. However, according to a fan theory (via Reddit), the reason behind the creation of the Curve comes from a good place: Rick C-137 wanted to protect every other Rick who hadn't lost their wife and daughter, and thus didn't 't become a narcissist genius, from the dangers that the genius Ricks of the multiverse could bring. The Curve would be a way of ensuring that at least some Ricks, Dianes, and Beths could have a normal life.
The Central Finite Curve was the most elaborate and secret part of Rick's C-137 and other Rick forerunners' plan to create a Citadel of Ricks and Mortys. Unbeknownst to the Mortys, Rick C-137 and other versions of him adapted the Portal Gun technology to isolate a slice of the multiverse that contained that would contain every reality in which Rick was the dominant lifeform from all the rest. The Central Finite Curve thus essentially serves as a wall separating the corner of the multiverse in which Rick is the smartest creature from others in which he is not.
Rick C-137 and the other founders of the Citadel ensured that this separation prevented anyone, including the Mortys, from crossing from one side of the curve to the other. That's why at no point in Rick & Morty was anything shown from the other side. Given the secrecy about the project, no Morty before Evil Morty was aware of the Curve's existence. To them, Rick was the smartest being in every universe in existence, and most probably never even considered a universe where that wasn't the case.
The Central Finite Curve was created in a way that not even Rick's Portal Gun could access - at least not with conventional liquid. With the passage of time and the changes in the representatives of the Council of Ricks, the truth about the Central Finite Curve grew smaller with each day. Despite all that has already been revealed about the Central Finite Curve, there is still an element of speculation about it as Rick & Morty never showed what outside the curve looks like.
The true intentions of the so-called Evil Morty, the eye-patched Morty who was behind some of the main events in the series, had long been Rick and Morty's biggest mystery. Introduced in the penultimate episode of the first season, Evil Morty had an attitude that stood out from the rest of the Mortys and seemed to do whatever it took to achieve his goals. Evil Morty got his name from, among other things, using dozens of Mortys as a human shield and killing several Citadel Ricks and Mortys to be elected president. However, Morty's ultimate goal was far less complex than imagined: he just wanted to escape the Central Finite Curve.
It's unclear when or how Evil Morty found out about the Curve, but the fact is that he devoted a lot of time and resources to find a way to transport himself out of it. Evil Morty was tired of having to see what the Mortys were subjected to in this portion of the multiverse, and so all of his plans from the beginning of the series had the ultimate goal of opening a portal to somewhere Rick wouldn't be the smartest creature in the universe.
Despite his history of selfishness, manipulation, and crimes against the galaxy, Rick's C-137 was once a loving father and husband. Witnessing the deaths of his wife and daughter, which were caused by the actions of some other Rick, is what drove Rick C-137 into madness and created the cold-blooded character Rick and Morty viewers know so well. However, this theory states that there was still some goodness left in Rick Sanchez and that the Finite Curve was actually a way he had found to protect the non-genius Ricks and their families from the dangers that other Ricks could bring.
The lifestyle of the genius and inventor Rick creates risks at all times not only for them but also for their families, and people like Morty, Beth, Jerry, and Summer have already learned that it is impossible to have a normal life around Rick. As strange as it may seem, not all Multiverse Ricks are geniuses - some are normal people with the potential to live normal lives. It's that kind of life, something the genius Ricks will never have, that Rick C-137 wants to protect according to the theory.
If this theory is correct, then Evil Morty was wrong about why Rick created the Centra Finite Curve. For all the harm C-137 has wrought, the character may have had good reason to build one of his most controversial inventions. It remains to be seen if Rick and Morty will show what's outside the Central Finite Curve and if the real reason behind its creation will finally be revealed.