But Padrow-Chunt isn’t finished - she eats a bunch of random fortune cookies, and is transformed into an Akira-esque mutant.ĭuring the battle, the creature is let loose (and instantly kills its keeper), while a ball of chaos explodes into a vortex, sucking all the cookies in, along with Padrow-Chunt. Rick helps her fulfill her fate in seconds, hacking Goldman-Sachs and buying her out. She wants to become the world’s most successful businesswoman, a hilariously dull way to utilize the power of destiny. While facing off against Jennith Padrow-Chunt, Rick realizes that the annoying entrepreneur is immortal, with her destiny still unfulfilled. Like the best of Rick and Morty fights, it's less about the tension, and more about Rick finding increasingly deranged ways to slaughter his foes. This leads to another creative fight scene, in which Rick’s “Inspector Gadget” props go up against a group of grunts with fortune cookie superpowers, with Rick figuring out a way to use their powers to his advantage. It’s not a great plan - you’d think the guy would just print a fortune that would explicitly direct fate in his favor, but it leads to this hilarious situation, where Jennith Padrow-Chunt has brought Jerry’s mom to the factory, so he can fulfill his twisted destiny. Said alien is attended to by a hillbilly keeper, who deliberately planted disturbing fortunes in the cookies in the hope of attracting a rescuer, so he can release and, umm, marry the creature - a quick one-liner even implies that a rogue fortune sparked the coronavirus pandemic.

And it turns out, the source of that godlike power is an alien with stomach issues which feeds on chaos and digests it into fate, its poop being the source of all the world’s fortune cookies. Rick is inspired by the power she holds, and wants to take it for himself even the smartest man in the universe can’t control destiny. And those who haven’t yet fulfilled their destiny are not able to die, meaning that Jerry is temporarily immortal - until he does the deed with his mother. And she actually can, as her accurate fortune cookies have the power to alter the very fabric of reality - all of those meaningless fortunes are manufactured to raise the value of the real ones.

The entrepreneur running the operation is a very on-the-nose Gwyneth Paltrow caricature, named “Jennith Padrow-Chunt” who believes she can manifest her own destiny.

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