From flashback scenes, viewers know that the main Rick was planning on giving up scientific pursuits. That is until Rick Prime entered the picture to hand him the secret to interdimensional travel. When Rick refused, Rick Prime dropped a bomb on his Diane and Beth, killing them. He then has the drive to invent the portal gun on his own and numerous other inventions.
Rick’s pursuit of revenge gave him the ambition always to be smarter than everyone around him, and that wouldn’t have happened without Diane dying. In another Reddit thread about the theory, a lot of fans think it holds weight, with u/usgrant7977 stating, “I imagine he gave up on a super driven, dedicated career in science in the world’s where his wife didn’t die. I think he just took the chance to be a dad and a husband as better than a life obsessed with advanced science.” It would make sense for Rick needing to be the smartest to hunt down Rick Prime because, as we’ve seen so far, Rick Prime is seemingly one step ahead of the smartest man in the universe.
Redditor u/Organic-Proof8059 saw this theory working as well: “I interpreted as the feverish obsession of finding her murderer drove Rick to insane levels of genius…because he’d never find him, he constantly leveled up, like a constant state of becoming more genius.” Since breaking out of the Central Finite Curve is possible now, could Rick one day be reunited with Diane and give up his need to be a genius? Anything’s possible in this show, especially seeing how it’s continuing up to at least the 100-episode mark.
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