A DMT-inspired Wormhole sequence blends a whole lot of various imagery from art, film, and religion.Bender from Futurama appears on a magazine Morty is reading while Beth tries to fix the mody morphing machine.The giant Summer turned into looks like one of the giant humanoid monsters from Attack on Titan, and the plot references sci-fi classics like Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.The theme park where everyone can kill with abandon and not die echoes the hedonism of Westworld.Summer turns herself giant and inside out with one of Rick's machines while trying to make her boobs bigger so her ex-boyfriend will like her again. Rick takes Jerry on an adventure to a resort with an immortality field, where locals ask Jerry to help them kill Rick. Drunk Rick references the geopolitical complexities of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.One task forces characters to make a number of three-pointers on a basketball court in a limited amount of time, referencing a similar task in Escape from LA.Doomnomitron, a parody of Ultron from Avengers 2, is referenced as the villain of the off-screen Vindicators 2, to which Rick and Morty weren't invited.Worldender, described by director Bryan Newton as, "If Thanos fucked Darkside and had a baby and then that baby the fucked some other giant creature monster, that's Worldender.". Supernova lampoons the godlike powers held by characters like Doctor Strange and Starfire.Crocubot represents the trope of two different things combined into one hero.Million Ants pokes fun at Ant-Man, while his alien origins and position as the token non-fleshy humanoid is reminiscent of Groot.Vance Maximus's suave, tech-centric cool guy is a send up to Tony Stark.The second half of the plot references the horror-movie trope made popular by the Saw series in which a villain tortures victims with sadistic games.The punch card earning Morty the ability to choose every tenth adventure in the intro recalls his agreement with Rick from season one's "Meeseeks and Destroy.".The title references The Avengers, X-Men, Justice League, The Guardians of the Galaxy, and any series of endless sequels built on the "team of superheros" trope.By the end of the episode, Morty wants to become a real human, referencing titles like Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Steven Spielberg's AI, Robin Williams's Bicentennial Man, and the classic children's book and Disney film, Pinocchio. Rick creates robotic copies of Morty and Summer.Various logos, including Atari, Bart Simpson, and Hello Kitty, populate the wreckage of Seattle.We see characters spray painting their own faces, and one shouts, "MY BODY IS CHROME, MY BLOOD IS GASOLINE" referencing the mentions of a "shiny and chrome" afterlife in Fury Road.White's The Elements of Style when he tells a character to "Save it for the Semantics Dome."
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