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Diane's death was the defining moment in Rick's life that made him into who he is. The story of Diane has been the overarching mystery of the series from season one up until season five. She was murdered by another Rick via an explosion from a futuristic bomb. The trauma from her murder caused Rick to spiral into a vengeful rampage, sending him on a journey to avenge his dead wife by finding the Rick that killed her.

Contents

• 1 Appearance
• 2 Biography
  • 2.1 Diane from the replacement dimensions
• 3 Episode Appearances
  • 3.1 Season 1
  • 3.2 Season 3
  • 3.3 Season 4
  • 3.4 Season 5
  • 3.5 Season 6
• 4 Behind the Scenes
• 5 Trivia
• 6 Gallery
• 7 References
• 8 Read More

Appearance

Diane Sanchez was a fair-skinned woman, she had blonde hair and prominent lips, as well as several freckles on her face. The only outfit she's been shown in so far depicts her as wearing a pale blue blouse with white jeans.

Biography

Diane was Rick Sanchez's wife and Beth's mother. Not much has been revealed about what her relationship with Rick was actually like due to conflicting statements over the course of the series. However, it can be discerned that they had a happy marriage, as shown in the (only partially fabricated) flashback in "The Rickshank Rickdemption". Mr. Nimbus appears to have known Rick long enough to at least know who Diane was, although it is unclear if he actually knew her (as shown in "Mort Dinner Rick Andre").

However, Rick's marriage to Diane was tragically cut short when another Rick, annoyed at Rick's refusal to explore the universe like other Ricks, murdered Diane and an infant Beth using an explosive that destroyed Rick's house. As shown in "Rickmurai Jack", Rick spent the next several decades of his life systematically murdering various Ricks across the multiverse, trying to find the one who took his wife and child away from him. However, he was unsuccessful in his endeavor, and after founding the The Citadel he decided his best bet was to instead settle down in the dimension the other Rick came from. Since that Rick had abandoned his family, Rick reasoned he could give them the relief of having him back in their lives while also allowing him to wait for that Rick to return and he could finally have his revenge.

Rick avoids revealing much about his relationship with Diane to Morty for a good portion of the series. He even avoids telling the audience, deliberately pretending the backstory from "The Rickshank Rickdemption" is fabricated and interrupting Mr. Nimbus from establishing a "canonical backstory". After Morty finally learns in "Rickmurai Jack" due to the actions of Evil Morty and tries to sympathize, Rick brushes it off, claiming that at least "everyone can shut up about it."

As revealed in "Solaricks", at some point over the years Rick created an AI-version of Diane to "haunt" him at his old house in Dimension C-137. This AI would always sound like she was calling to him from the other room and would constantly remind Rick of his failure to save her and urge him to get revenge on her and Beth's murderer. Rick re-encountered this AI when he was returned to the dimension after trying to reset his portal fluid, where he declared it was time for him to move on from her and Beth's deaths, as he now had a family in a different dimension to care for. However, the AI Diane reminded him that the Rick who murdered her would also have been affected by Rick's portal fluid error, thus returning to the Cronenberged Dimension. Rick nearly started his revenge quest once more but was talked out of it by Morty, unaware that the Diane AI had been correct.

Diane from the replacement dimensions

Not much is revealed about the Diane from the dimensions that Rick settled in, including the Cronenberged Dimension and Dimension C-131. The pilot episode confirms that she is at least deceased, based on Rick's remark that Beth's mother would have loved the breakfast she cooked. Comments by Rick in "Rick Potion #9" and "The Wedding Squanchers" suggest in these dimensions her marriage with Rick was considerably less happy, due to the Ricks' self-destructive attitudes: Rick characterizes it as a "failing marriage" in the former episode and remarks "I couldn't make a marriage work and I can turn a black hole into a sun" in the latter.

At the conclusion of "Auto Erotic Assimilation", Beth insists to Rick that she could never sacrifice her family's safety just to keep him in her life. At this point, Beth realizes that she sounds like her mother, suggesting that Diane valued her family's safety over Rick's scientific experiments.

Episode Appearances

Season 1

• "Pilot" (mentioned)
• "Rick Potion No. 9" (mentioned)

Season 3

• "The Rickshank Rickdemption" (flashback)
• "The ABC's of Beth" (mentioned)

Season 4

• "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri" (flashback cameo)

Season 5

• "Mort Dinner Rick Andre" (mentioned)
• "Mortyplicity" (mentioned)
• "Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort" (mentioned)
• "Rickmurai Jack" (flashback cameo)

Season 6

• "Solaricks" (mentioned)
• "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation" (mentioned)

Behind the Scenes

Until "Mort Dinner Rick Andre", the identity of Rick's wife and Beth's mother was ambiguous due to the nature of the flashback in "The Rickshank Rickdemption." The manner in which Rick denies being driven by a "totally fabricated backstory" led many to conclude the entire flashback was a ruse to fool his interrogator, indicating that the cause of Diane's passing, nay even her name, would remain ambigious. However, in "Mort Dinner Rick Andre", Diane is referenced by Mr. Nimbus, to which Rick angrily shoots it down as him establishing a canonical backstory. "Rickmurai Jack" eventually revealed the entire story was true, and the "fabricated" part was how Rick came up with the portal fluid formula. Dan Harmon admitted he always felt the "Shoney's revelation" was Rick's true backstory, but avoided confirming it in "The Rickshank Rickdemption" because he thought it was too early in the show's run to be imposing canon.[1]

Very little has been discussed about Diane, even by the series' creators. Harmon has said on multiple occasions that she was "unremarkable", later suggesting she was more comparable to Jerry, and that this was connected to Beth's idolization of Rick.[2][3][4]

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