After his appearance inside the season three premiere, Rick and Morty has permit Phoenixperson sit on the sidelines – but he should go back in part 2 of season four. He originally regarded as Birdperson, an ordinary old friend of Rick’s, who was memorable for his wisdom, oddly deadpan delivery and lack of facial expressions. He regarded in simplest a single episode of season 1, where he installed with Summer’s classmate Tammy.
Birdperson ended up being imperative to the season 2 finale, along with his wedding ceremony to Tammy because the primary plotline. She turned into revealed to be an undercover member of the Galactic Federation, and the marriage changed into honestly simply the set-up for a sting operation. A firefight broke out, killing Birdperson and finishing with Rick being arrested and imprisoned, having been located responsible of (in his personal words) “the whole thing.” Birdperson turned into resurrected by using Tammy and the Federation as Phoenixperson in the season three premiere, however hasn’t seemed since.
The second half of of Rick and Morty season 4 might be the appropriate time to bring back Phoenixperson and pay off this long dangling plot thread. He’s now a brainwashed cyborg, even though the brainwashing didn’t pretty preserve well enough for him to use Tammy’s desired name “Cyberbird.” Phoenixperson is truely no longer who he was before, and being added again inside the same episode that Rick escapes from prison and causes the Federation financial system to collapse, the intergalactic authorities was honestly hoping as a way to use Phoenixperson as a weapon against Rick.
Rick and Morty seasons three and four up to now haven’t dealt with the Federation (or what is left of it), however it’s an obvious hook to convey up for future conflict. Rick continues to be an enemy of the Federation for the entirety from treason to interdimensional cable piracy, and he’s been escaping the effects of his movements for too long. While he may have done fantastic harm to the Federation, he didn’t take them down completely. They nevertheless have at least the assets to brainwash someone after bringing them again as a cyborg.
Phoenixperson could be a particularly brilliant weapon against Rick because of their records together. Rick and Birdperson were best pals and intergalactic terrorists together – a bond that’s not without difficulty broken. Birdperson became the only one who noticed via Rick’s consistent chorus of “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” in season 1, and Rick reacted very strongly to Birdperson’s death. If everyone ought to break past Rick keeping his protect up, it might be Birdperson coming back. If Phoenixperson has sufficient of Birdperson’s memories to pass himself off as Rick’s pal again from the dead, then he will be the Federation’s finest weapon towards Rick.
While it’s not clear what the second half of season 4 has in store, in the end paying off vintage storylines like these could be a notable flow for the writers to make.