Rick And Morty: 5 Reasons Rick Sanchez Is A Dark Reflection Of The Doctor
3. Other People
The Doctor
The worst crime of the Time Lords is genocide, and the Doctor especially believes that every life is worth preserving, frequently risking his own life to save actual monsters.
The major story arc of the 'new' Doctor Who series is the Doctor dealing with his guilt about blowing up his home planet to wipe out the Daleks.
Rick Sanchez
Rick lives his life jumping between dimensions, and knowing that there is an infinite copy of everyone he has ever known or cared about has seriously twisted his world view.
An experiment gone awry once turned those in his original dimension into horrible mutants, except his family who are Mad Max style bad-asses. Rick responded by jumping to a new dimension where Rick and Morty had been recently killed. They buried the bodies, took their places, and Rick thought nothing more about it.
Common Traits
As hyper-intelligent, logical, and occasionally cold, both Rick and the Doctor are used to standing out and being looked up to.
After years of amazing feats, and lives saved and taken, both have earned a reputation, but their fame only makes them more isolated and elevated. This makes it easier to casually make decisions that effect the lives of millions of ordinary people... and easy to abuse when you have no one to answer to.