10 Rick & Morty Fates Worse Than Death

6. Finding Out Your Entire Life Was A VR Game

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Galactic arcade Blips and Chitz looks like a pretty fun place to be, until you discover the existential dread lurking within the unassumingly-titled virtual reality game "Roy".

Roy is a game that allows the player to live out the entire life of an ordinary man called Roy Parsons, taking only a matter of minutes of your time in the real world. It's so immersive that it really makes you feel like Roy, every experience and emotion he has is also had by you. It's like The Sims dialled up to eleven.

Rick puts Morty into the game without warning, and Morty takes Roy through a heartbreakingly emotional 55-year journey where he gets married, has a kid, successfully fights off cancer, and eventually dies by falling off a ladder in the back of his carpet store.

When Morty exits the game at the conclusion of this emotional rollercoaster, he's dazed and disoriented, tragically wondering where he is and begging to see his wife. Morty's just lived out a full life, and then been told none of it was real and, worse still, mocked by Rick for his low score. Ouch.

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