Do you feel like you’re drifting across the cosmos on your search for the perfect Tattoo Design? Well, worry not, we’re about to break the cycle and rise above to get you RICK-ety RICK-ety WRECKED as we Show You What We’ve Got with these Squanchtastic Rick and Morty Tattoo Designs.
What is Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty is an animated sci-fi comedy series that follows the chaotic adventures of Rick Sanchez, a genius but reckless scientist, and his awkward teenage grandson Morty Smith.
Rick drags Morty across alternate dimensions, planets, timelines, and universes, often causing disasters that they either barely escape from or make worse. The show is a mix of humour with existential dread, with absurd sci-fi inventions, multiverse logic, pop-culture references, and over-the-top adventures.
Best Rick and Morty Tattoos
Now that we know a little about Rick and Morty, let’s take a look at some of the best Rick and Morty Tattoos the internet has to offer.
Rick Tattoo
Rick Sanchez is the brilliant but chaotic scientist at the centre of Rick and Morty. He’s widely considered the smartest man in the multiverse, best known for being cynical, sarcastic, unpredictable, and emotionally complicated, mixing comedy, tragedy, and genius in one alcoholic package.
Morty Tattoo
Morty Smith is Rick’s anxious, kind-hearted teenage grandson, who is the emotional opposite of Rick. He starts as nervous and easily overwhelmed, but over time becomes braver, sharper, and surprisingly capable. Morty is the show’s heart, balancing Rick’s cold logic with empathy and (usually) common sense.
Rick’s Space Cruiser Rick and Morty Tattoo
Rick’s Space Cruiser is a homemade, junkyard-looking spacecraft that Rick built himself. While it may look like it’s made of trash, it’s secretly one of the most advanced vehicles in the multiverse that Rick intentionally keeps ugly to avoid attention, or just because he doesn’t care.
Planetina Rick and Morty Tattoo
Planetina is a heroic, elemental-powered eco-warrior introduced in Season 5 of Rick and Morty, a parody and homage to Captain Planet with a darker twist. She fights to protect the planet and stop environmental destruction, but punishes polluters sometimes too harshly.
Morty falls deeply in love with Planetina, feeling like he’s found someone who understands him. However, Planetina’s trauma and destructive rage push the relationship into dangerous territory.
Morty, despite loving her, has to end things when she becomes uncontrollably violent, killing groups of people she sees as harming the planet.
Portal Rick and Morty Tattoo
The portal is a neon-green, spiralling gateway that lets Rick and Morty hop between planets, dimensions, alternate timelines, and entirely different universes. When Rick pulls the trigger, the Portal Gun tears a temporary hole in space-time and opens the iconic swirling, green vortex, which is usually the beginning point for their latest crazy adventure.
Bojack Horseman x Rick and Morty Tattoo
BoJack Horseman is an adult animated comedy-drama series that blends dark humour, heartfelt storytelling, Hollywood satire, and deep emotional themes.
It follows BoJack, a washed-up celebrity who was once the star of a beloved 90s sitcom and is now struggling with depression, addiction, self-destruction, and the consequences of his actions.
Morty. Jr Rick and Morty Tattoo
After impregnating a female robot, Morty must travel to Gazorpazorp, a fictional alien planet with an extreme gender divide, violent culture, and chaotic reproductive system. As a result of constant conflicts, the two genders were divided, with females becoming incredibly intelligent and males reverting to a primitive state.
Morty Jr. struggles between his violent genetic instincts and Morty’s attempts to raise him peacefully. After leaving the Smith household, he becomes a writer as a way to express his violent feelings without acting them out, and blaming his father for his a tortured childhood.
Walkie Talkie Rick and Morty Tattoo
Oh-oh, walkie-talkie, that’s Die-Hard, don’t have to see it to know that!
Ghost in a Jar Rick and Morty Tattoo
Ghost in a Jar is a minor but memorable character who appears in the episode “Total Rickall.” He is a tiny ghost trapped inside a glass jar that exists purely as a parody of sitcom character tropes and the entire episode’s central gimmick.
Toilet Rick and Morty Tattoo
“The Old Man and the Seat” is one of the show’s most emotional Rick-focused stories, on the surface about Rick’s private toilet but underneath, about loneliness, vulnerability, and connection.
When Rick discovers that someone else used his private toilet, he becomes furious and sets out on a mission to find the intruder. The intruder is Tony, a gentle, lonely, middle-aged alien man who didn’t mean any harm.
Tony and Rick both use the secret toilet spot for the same reason: to find a moment of peace and escape from the world. Their conversations reveal that Tony sees through Rick’s emotional armour, and he even calls Rick out for pushing people away.
Scary Terry Rick and Morty Tattoo
Scary Terry is a parody of Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, who appears in Season 1, Episode 2: “Lawnmower Dog.” He’s a dream-hopping monster covered in knives, but is surprisingly sensitive underneath his scary persona.
Scary Terry chases people through their dreams, screaming insults and slashing with his knife-fingers. But unlike Freddy, Scary Terry is clumsy and struggles to keep up, acting more like a tired worker than a terrifying demon.
Mr. Meeseeks (Kirkland) Rick and Morty Tattoo
The red Mr. Meeseeks is a Kirkland-brand Meeseeks who doesn’t enjoy helping others. Unlike the original Mr. Meeseeks, Mr. Meeseeks is red-skinned, with blond hair, and small patches of white body and facial hair.
This brand of Meeseeks doesn’t seem to care about fulfilling requests, but the lengths he will go to complete them are unknown.
Toxic Rick and Morty Tattoo
In this episode, “Rest and Ricklaxation,” Rick and Morty go to an alien spa that removes all their “toxicity.” However, the machine literally extracts their toxic personality traits and turns them into separate physical beings.
These toxic versions are distorted, acidic, unstable, and reflections of their worst traits.’ Toxic Rick and Morty escape the spa and try to reclaim “non-toxic” Rick and Morty to take over their bodies
This leads to a fight of ideology, with healthy Rick trying to let go of pain, and Toxic Rick refusing to let him grow. Eventually, they must merge again because they can’t exist without each other.
Beth Rick and Morty Tattoo
Beth Smith is Rick’s daughter, who is deeply affected by Rick’s abandonment. She works as a horse surgeon, though her constant desire to be a “real” surgeon has created an internal conflict: she wants to prove herself, fears failure, and feels she has never lived up to her potential.
Shrimp Rick Tattoo
Shrimp Rick is one of the many alternate-universe versions of Rick Sanchez who appears in Season 4, Episode 1, “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat.”
In this multiverse-hopping episode, Rick keeps respawning in different realities after dying, thanks to a backup clone system. Each universe has slightly different biology, so each time he wakes up, he’s in a new Rick body.
One of the bodies he revives into is Shrimp Rick, a Rick who evolved in a universe where shrimp became the dominant species.
Dragon Rick and Morty Tattoo
Dragons appear in Season 4, Episode 4 — “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktims Morty.” This episode is a parody of fantasy tropes, Dungeons & Dragons, and extremely bizarre dragon bonding rituals.
Pokémon X Rick and Morty Tattoo
Pokémon is a massive global franchise created by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. It began in 1996 as a pair of Game Boy games and grew into a huge world of video games, trading cards, a long-running anime, movies, toys & merchandise, and apps like Pokémon GO.
At its heart, Pokémon is about capturing, training, and battling creatures called Pokémon.
Phone Universe Rick and Morty Tattoo
The Phone Universe is an alternate reality where phones are sentient beings who use pizzas as furniture, eat furniture for sustenance and use people as phones. The universe appears in “Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind,” where Rick and Morty run through it while they’re pursued by the Council of Ricks as the phone orders “one large sofa chair, with extra chair,” on his person.
Bug Alien Rick and Morty Tattoo
Gromflomites are a major insect-like alien species in Rick and Morty. They are the primary soldiers, bureaucrats, and agents of the Galactic Federation, a huge intergalactic government that Rick absolutely hates.
Screaming Sun Rick and Morty Tattoo
The Screaming Sun appears in the episode “The Wedding Squanchers,” where a planet like Earth’s sun literally screams loudly throughout the entire daytime cycle.
When Bird Person’s wedding is surrounded by the Galactic Federation, Rick and the Smith family escape, but can no longer return home. In need of a new place to call home, they search for Earth-like planets not under the Federation’s jurisdiction.
The first planet they find is incredibly small, but they then find a much larger planet where everything, from plants to even animal life, is “on a cob,” leading them to escape in terror. The last planet seems perfect, until they discover a sun that screams endlessly throughout the planet’s 42-hour day.
Bird Person Rick and Morty Tattoo
Birdperson is a calm, stoic, deeply philosophical alien warrior who is also Rick’s oldest and closest friend, and one of the few characters Rick genuinely respects. Birdperson fought alongside Rick in the Galactic Federation–Human War, with their bond forged in trauma, rebellion, and survival.
Birdperson marries Tammy, who turns out to be a deep-cover Galactic Federation agent. At their wedding, Tammy betrays him and shoots him to death.
Starry Night Rick and Morty Tattoo
The Starry Night is one of the most famous paintings in the world, created by Vincent van Gogh in 1889. It was painted while Van Gogh was staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Although Van Gogh didn’t explain a clear meaning, the painting is often seen as expressing emotional turbulence, hope in darkness, a sense of wonder and imagination, or spiritual longing.
Squanchy Rick and Morty Tattoo
Squanchy is a recurring alien character and one of Rick’s closest old friends, best known for using the word “squanch” for everything. During the confrontation at Bird Person’s wedding, he activates his “Super Squanch” form — a giant, muscular, feral transformation that looks like a Hulk-cat hybrid — and takes on Gromflomite soldiers to protect everyone.
He ultimately survived the encounter and returned to living peacefully on his home planet.
Jessica Rick and Morty Tattoo
Jessica is Morty’s longtime crush and a kind, popular high-school girl. Morty spends much of Seasons 1–2 crushing on her, planning ways to talk to her, and trying to use Rick’s inventions to impress her, but ultimately failing.
The most famous example is during the episode Rick Potion #9, where Morty asks Rick to make him a love potion to gain Jessica’s attention. Because it’s flu season, the virus spreads, and everyone who catches it becomes obsessed with Morty.
Rick tries to fix the problem with multiple different serums, but accidentally turns the entire population into praying mantis Monsters, then slug creatures, and eventually “David Cronenberg” monsters.
Rather than save the world, they ditch the universe and travel to an almost identical Universe where that universe’s Rick and Morty die moments before they arrive, allowing them to take their place with nobody noticing.
Evil Morty Rick and Morty Tattoo
Evil Morty is an alternate-universe Morty who becomes a major antagonist and one of the most intelligent, strategic, and dangerous characters in the entire series. He becomes the first Morty to ever break free from Rick’s control, and goes further than any Rick ever did.
Evil Morty first appears disguised as a harmless Morty sidekick serving “Evil Rick.” However, Evil Rick is a puppet, with Evil Morty being the real mastermind. He kidnaps hundreds of Mortys and tortures them to block Rick’s brainwaves, and frames Rick C-137 for murder, all to gather intelligence and hide from the Citadel.
Evil Morty infiltrates the Citadel and blends in as a regular “campaign Morty,” where he runs for President of the Citadel by manipulating factions of Ricks and Mortys. He wins the election through political brilliance and brutality, and as soon as he becomes President, he wipes out all his enemies, including corrupt Ricks, police Mortys, and potential threats.
He reveals the truth that the multiverse originally had infinite realities, but Ricks created the Central Finite Curve, a “fenced-off section” of universes where Ricks are always the smartest being.
He decides to break the entire system, building a massive portal weapon that destroys the Central Finite Curve, killing millions of Ricks and Mortys in the process and opening the infinite multiverse to escape into true freedom.
Purpose Robot Rick and Morty Tattoo
The Purpose Robot is a small, sentient robot Rick created to complete small tasks for him. We first see the Purpose Robot in “Something Ricked This Way Comes,” where Rick developed it for no other reason than to pass the butter. Upon hearing its purpose, the robot breaks down into an existential crisis.
The Robot returns in “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” where it was revealed that Morty had befriended and repurposed the (then) Butter Robot to serve more as a “Purpose Robot”, using it to attempt to escape a cell with Rick, before the Robot is crushed by a guard.
The robot last appears in “Full Meta Jackrick,” where Rick reactivates him to free Rhett Caan from his cell. When he asks Rick, “What is my purpose?” Rick tells him to pull the lever when he says.
Pickle Rick Tattoo
To avoid going to family therapy, Rick turns himself into a Pickle. However, he accidentally falls into the sewer and must build a body of cockroach and rat parts to fight his way out.
Rick eventually ends up in a fortress run by foreign operatives, where he fights numerous guards before facing a legendary assassin voiced by Danny Trejo. While they start as enemies, they become allies after bonding over tragic pasts.
Snuffles Rick and Morty Tattoo
Snuffles, who changes his name to Snowball, is the Smith family dog who becomes hyper-intelligent thanks to one of Rick’s inventions. He appears in Season 1, Episode 2, “Lawnmower Dog,” starting off as a sweet, harmless pet, but after Rick gives him a dog-enhancement helmet, he becomes self-aware, articulate, and strategic.
Mister Meeseeks Rick and Morty Tattoo
Meeseeks are blue, humanoid creatures that appear in Season 1, Episode 5, “Meeseeks and Destroy.” They come from a device called the Meeseeks Box, which summons a Mr. Meeseeks to complete a single task for the person who summoned him; once the task is complete, the Meeseeks ceases to exist instantly.
Hunter Rick and Morty Tattoo
Hunter is a minor character in Season 2, Episode 6, “The Ricks Must Be Crazy.” When Summer is left in Rick’s Space Cruiser, Rick issues a command to “Keep Summer Safe.”
When an intimidating man approaches Summer, she becomes uncomfortable, and he becomes upset, believing she thinks she’s better than him. In response to its command, the cruiser violently cuts the man into pieces, then paralyzes another man who came to help.
Summer commands the ship to cause no one any harm, and the vessel calls off its weapons. When armed officers appear to detain Summer, the ship deploys a capsule revealing Hunter, the deceased 7-year-old son of a police officer who drowned in 1996. This hunter was briefly recreated by Rick’s car AI to be used as a non-violent psychological deterrent that causes the officer to break down as the boy melts in his arms, keeping Summer safe from harm.
Doofus Rick Tattoo
Doofus Rick is an alternate version of Rick Sanchez who appears in Season 1, Episode 10, “Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind.” He is a member of the multiverse of Ricks but is considered the least intelligent, least cool, and least competent of all Ricks.
Gerry Rick and Morty Tattoo
Jerry Smith is Morty and Summer’s dad, Beth’s husband, and Rick’s punching bag. He represents the “ordinary man” in a universe full of chaos and genius, and he struggles constantly to keep up. Jerry is insecure, needy, and anxious, but always well-meaning.
The Scream Rick and Morty Tattoo
The Scream is a world-famous painting by Edvard Munch, created in 1893. It’s an expression of pure emotional intensity, with the painting showing a figure on a bridge, clutching its face, mouth open in a silent scream.
Edvard Munch described the moment that inspired it:
He was walking at sunset when the sky suddenly turned blood red.
He felt “a great scream in nature,” as if the world itself were crying out.
The painting captures anxiety, panic, existential fear and overwhelming emotion.
Breaking Bad X Rick and Morty Tattoo
Breaking Bad is an American TV series created by Vince Gilligan, which aired from 2008 to 2013. It’s widely considered one of the best shows ever made, with the story following Walter White, a quiet high school chemistry teacher who turns into a ruthless meth manufacturer after being diagnosed with cancer.
Summer Rick and Morty Tattoo
Summer Smith is Morty’s older sister and Rick’s granddaughter. She starts off as a typical teen, but quickly becomes one of the show’s smartest, boldest, and funniest characters.
She often comments on how ridiculous the situations are, acting as the viewer’s voice, but she’s also the first to dive into chaos if it means fun or adventure.
Mr. Poopybutthole Rick and Morty Tattoo
Mr. Poopybutthole is a small, yellow, friendly character who appears throughout the series. He speaks politely, dresses like a cheerful cartoon character, and in his first appearance, acts like he’s been part of the Smith family for years.
He first appears in “Total Rickall,” where the Smith house becomes infested with memory parasites that create false memories and false characters. When Beth shoots him, expecting him to dissolve like a parasite, he bleeds out and screams in pain. Mr. Poopybutthole is a parody of sitcom characters who show up randomly and act as they’ve always existed.
Gazorpazorpfield Rick and Morty Tattoo
Gazorpazorpfield is an interdimensional television series seemingly from the planet Gazorpazorp, or a different dimensional version of the planet seen in the episode “Raising Gazorpazorp”.
This Gazorpazorpian version episode takes place on a Mumunmununsday with Gazorpazorpfield wanting enchiladas, before going on an insult-based rant at Jon.
Naruto Rick and Morty Tattoo
Naruto is a hugely popular Japanese anime and manga series created by Masashi Kishimoto. It follows the life of Naruto Uzumaki, a loud, energetic, determined young ninja who dreams of becoming Hokage, the strongest leader of his village.
Where To Get Your Rick and Morty Tattoo
Now that we’ve seen some amazing Rick and Morty Tattoo Designs, let’s take a look at some of the best locations to get your potential new ink.
Arm Rick and Morty Tattoo
Arm tattoos are one of the most popular choices as they offer the perfect balance of visibility and control. You can show the tattoo off easily by wearing short sleeves, but you can also cover it when you need to look more professional.
The arm has more room for detail than people expect, making it ideal for medium-to-large designs. It is also a great place for first-timers because the pain level is moderate, allowing artists to work comfortably and achieve clean, precise results.
Rick and Morty Tattoo on the Calf
Calf tattoos are great for people who want a larger piece without diving into highly visible areas. The calf has plenty of room for vertical or wrap-around designs and is one of the least painful areas to get tattooed because of the muscle and padding, making it perfect for long sessions.
Calf tattoos also stay hidden under trousers, making this placement popular for people who want privacy or work in professional environments.
Forearm with Rick and Morty Tattoo
The forearm is a fantastic canvas for storytelling tattoos. It’s long, straight, and naturally visible, so designs read clearly without warping. Forearm tattoos are great because they’re easy to admire yourself, making them a meaningful spot for personal symbols, quotes, and designs with emotional value.
The pain level is very manageable, and the placement works beautifully with both minimal tattoos and bold statement pieces, and they also age well, thanks to stable skin and low friction.
Rick and Morty Tattoo on the Shoulder
The shoulder is one of the most versatile areas of the body. Rounded, muscular, and naturally curved, it allows designs to wrap beautifully around the arm or flow up toward the collarbone.
Shoulder tattoos look powerful while still being easy to hide under clothing. The pain level is moderate but very manageable, and the area’s shape works well for circular designs. Because the skin here doesn’t stretch much, shoulder tattoos tend to hold their detail over time.
Thigh Rick and Morty Tattoo
Thigh tattoos are perfect if you want a big, detailed artwork without drawing constant public attention. There’s so much space here that artists can create stunning compositions, from massive floral pieces to dragons, animals, or full illustrative scenes.
The thigh is also one of the less painful areas, especially on the outer thigh, and the thicker skin means tattoos here age beautifully. It’s an intimate location too; you can choose when to reveal it, making thigh tattoos feel personal, powerful, and expressive.
Conclusion
With our adventure Wubba lubba dub-done! it’s time to portal our way home. We hope we’ve given you the Squanch you’ve been looking for to show your friends what you got. But before you blast off, why not head into another tattooing universe by checking out these Gundam Tattoo Ideas, these Super Villain Tattoo designs, or check out these Sponge Bob Tattoos.
