The portal created by improperly formulated portal fluid collapsed around the Rick trying to use it to escape the authorities, causing him to seemingly dissolve after brief contact. Fluid Validation Mechanism - The event horizon of a portal may be some form of membrane rather than energy.In Forgetting Sarick Mortshall, Rick revealed that this fluid is extremely toxic, This is physically shown in the following episode, where waves of the fluid is launched out of underground tunnels on the Citadel, dissolving most solid objects it came into contact with, implying the fluid is some kind of nucleic acid.
It is unknown if any conventional energy source is present, but the attached portal fluid vial which acts analogous to a fuel tank holds a supply of "Quantum Portal Solution" appears to be a reliable visual indicator of portal availability.
Given the fact that Tammy Guterman demanded that the portal gun was not to be damaged when demanding that Rick dropped it, combined with the fact that the Galactic Federation used a brainalyzer on Rick to get the details on how to build their own strongly implies that the Federation wanted to use his portal formula for their own personal use and that the reasons for it were likely to exert their control onto other dimensions. Another portal gun was found by Summer in The Rickshank Rickdemption when she unearthed the corpse of the Rick that was killed in the Replacement dimension but that gun was later destroyed by the Jerry Smith that lived in the Cronenberged dimension.
After relying on this newly constructed and unique version of the portal gun for several years, gradual improvements were made which eventually culminated in the result of the modern iteration typically shown in Rick and Morty's adventures.ĭuring the present-day events shown in the series, the modern version was destroyed by a Gazorpazorp in Raising Gazorpazorp and as result, Summer and Rick had to return to Earth via space craft. Rick acquired a replacement gun, but that one was also destroyed when Rick rigged it to explode during the battle between Federation agents and the wedding guests at Birdperson's wedding reception in The Wedding Squanchers.
After grieving from the trauma, the Rick we've followed throughout the series pulled himself together and jury-rigged a much smaller prototype variant, now seemingly capable of interdimensional travel and used it to travel to the Phone Universe on his search, among countless others on the Curve. These events led to the untimely death of his wife and child which ultimately sent him down a path of vengeance to find the party responsible. However, shortly after standing his ground against the Weird Rick, the alternate version swiftly left the dimension for good, and likely sent back a bomb in his place as a final gesture of his disapproval. After failing to work out errors inherent to his invention, an interdimensional version of himself traveled into his garage hoping to implore him to shift his focus into traveling between realities instead, even alluding to a thinly veiled reference of the Central Finite Curve's existence in the process.Īfter his counterpart explains what awaits the titular protagonist if he accepts the offer, Rick C-137 decided to reject the knowledge of any further secrets on the basis it all sounded lonely and later claimed to be completely giving up on science as an occupation to his wife Diane. It shows a bulky handheld prototype device seemingly edging on the capabilities of practical interspatial teleportation, though Rick C-137 is shown clearly having difficulty getting it fully operational. The earliest observed instance of the gun is during a memory (depicting Rick in his home dimension tinkering with the concept of teleportation) extracted by Federation Agent Cornvelious Daniel while Rick was willfully imprisoned.