i wish it had been morty prime who called the time police on evil morty in There's Something About Morty instead of rick.
i really like thinking about how the very first Canon episode, despite how strong of a rick presence there is, is at its core just between morty prime & evil morty. their places in the multiverse are immediately introduced as kind of opposite figures. theyre both powerful and strong and, and more importantly, able to be so independently without needing to stand behind a rick. but while evil morty achieves this by becoming a rick (both metaphorically and also by Literally using mind control to acting as a rick) and learning to be apathetic, morty does this by being himself and using his empathy as a strength.
i think rick making the call was a bit anticlimactic compared to what it couldve been. it wouldve made perfect sense to have morty do it. the method of winning was literally calling for help! whats more mortyish on the rick/morty scale than being comfortable asking for help when you need it, especially from a group who you've had beef with in the past. i think it wouldve been so much more fitting and satisfying if, just like their first battle, evil morty was bested by the morty he looks down on the most for the traits he looks down on him the most for. for evil morty to be forced to acknowledge that as low as he views other mortys for being mortys, he is still again and again defeated by the mortyest morty.
especially because, to me, this episode was about the mortys. rick was there to be a figure to fight over and progress the plot but the central conflict was between the morties. rick was just there. it feels a bit unsatisfying for the ending to just be rick winning because hes smart when i feel like the episode ultimately wasnt really about him.