Beth Smith — Rick and Morty

Bethany "Beth" Smith (née Sanchez) of Dimension C-131, She is the daughter of Rick Sanchez and Diane Sanchez (deceased), the wife of Jerry Smith, and the mother of Summer Smith and Morty Smith. She also works as a horse surgeon/veterinarian at the St. Equis Hospital.

Characterized by a superiority complex and abandonment issues, Beth gradually came to struggle with her husband over his contributions to their marriage, due in part to his lower-level position and subsequent employment, further driven by her father influencing her feelings of superiority. The two eventually divorced, before reuniting eventually.

Around the same time, Beth grappled with the decision to leave her family in order to find herself or stay on Earth and accept things for the way they are. She ended up leaving Rick to decide for her, who created a clone of Beth and mixed the two around so not even he would know which one was the original Beth. One of the Beth’s flew out into space, whilst the other remained on Earth beside her family.

She was born from Rick Sanchez and Diane Sanchez, and she has recounted herself as a "bright-eyed" woman from Muskegon, Michigan. During Beth's childhood, her parents' marriage deteriorated amid unknown circumstances, and Rick decided to leave both Beth and her mother to travel across the cosmos. Beth blamed herself for her parents falling out, and seeing her father as an intelligent scientist compared to her mother, Beth came to idolize Rick and blamed Diane for "chasing off the dad with the guts to leave".

Beth is a slender, pale fair-skinned woman of above average height with an oval-shaped face and slightly wavy shoulder-length blonde hair in a long bob cut, she also has a big bust. She wears berry pink-colored lipstick for makeup, has a pointed nose, and long eyelashes. She wears a short-sleeve V-neck collared desire-red polo shirt, straight-leg blue pants and slip-on white shoes. Beth admits that, since her unwanted pregnancy, her waistline has widened.

Beth is an intelligent, ambitious, and independent woman who suffers from a variety of deep-seated insecurities. A dedicated veterinary horse surgeon, she is the family's main breadwinner and often tries to do the best for her family based on this sense of responsibility. She is highly insecure about her profession as a horse surgeon, and is quick to snap at the implication she is not a 'real' surgeon or a 'real' veterinarian.

Although Beth can sometimes be derisive of what she sees as weakness, dependence or emotional vulnerability, she can still be compassionate and caring at times, more so than her father. When she and Jerry accidentally hit a deer, her first concerns were to help and assist it and Beth would stop at nothing to bring it back to health. She often expresses grave concern for Morty's education and health, when they are not related to Rick, and is considerate of the consequences on her children of her leaving Jerry. She has generally considered her family her first priority and has "defined her life" around her marriage to Jerry, which has at times driven her marital regrets. Her dedication to her family can fade quickly if she feels patronized, devalued, or that she or another family member, such as Morty or Rick, is threatened.

Beth has a superiority complex, believing herself at times to be above others as a way of hiding her insecurities. She has extended this behaviour to those such as her son Morty and her husband, who unwittingly feeds her insecurities by implying she was not a 'real' surgeon. Her genius father's clear preference for her over her 'idiot' husband has in turn fed her feelings of superiority, especially towards Jerry. She also exhibited resentment towards being patronized during her surgical work. These feelings of superiority however seem to disappear quickly when Rick is removed from her life, or even when she merely feels more confident in herself.

As a result of her father's disappearance, Beth has come to fixate on exceptionalism and intelligence, and has a fear of abandonment, resulting in a deep-seated desire to keep her father in her life. As a result, she is generally willing to put up with Rick - and his needs without sarcasm or argument - rationalizing his experiments and behavior.

Her relationship with Jerry is extremely rocky. Beth and Jerry have remained together partially due to the fact that Jerry is the only man who has not abandoned her.

Beth has notably inherited her father's tendency to rely on alcohol to control stress, drinking wine.

Beth can be highly sarcastic at times.

Overall, Beth is a complexly conflicted woman with several layers of contradictory nature. Firstly, she envisions herself much like her morally bankrupt father Rick, admiring him for his unlimited intellect and independence, which at first seems to stem from confidence of being virtually the smartest being in the universe. However, throughout the vast years of interstellar madness and chaos the universe has to offer, she realises Rick’s carelessness core origin lies in the awareness of how insignificant it all is.

Finally, for all the bad things Beth inherit from her father; alcoholism, negligence, unemotional attachments, rude/cold behaviour etc. she manages to rise above the negative aspects which makes Rick Rick, while with keeping his strengths: intelligence, bravery, self-reliance etc. She starts with a happy childhood until losing her mother and eventually her father, which leaves her mingle alone. For twenty years, she is forced to grow up by herself and raise a family she was unprepared for, however, it is her family that proves she succeeded, even if it is a distorted vision of her future self. Her love is ultimately her greatest difference form her father and lack of knowledge or interest in treating things as insignificant, grants her more happiness than Rick ends up with.

• Beth is a questioning atheist.
• Beth drives a red Honda Civic.
• Beth is also shown to possess autosexual tendencies.
• Beth is bisexual.