Matrix Summer is a version of Summer Smith within the Matrix Simulator machine. She appeared in the episode "Summer of All Fears".
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Rick traps Morty and Summer into his Matrix Simulation for a period of time after they steal his phone charger. Within the simulation, Summer rises to power and becomes a politician and tech CEO while gathering lithium she needs to escape the Matrix simulation. While doing so, Summer engineered a war to gain a country’s supply of lithium by filming an man acting as a terrorist cutting a charging cable to spark outrage and start a war as Matrix Morty and his friends at a fire station sign up for the war. Matrix Summer then ignores the actor’s request of fixing the cable and destroys the building the broadcast was filmed in, killing everyone involved. Matrix Summer purposely manipulated Morty to join it because he has the ability to not die within the simulation and win the war. After the events of the Lithium War, Matrix Summer uses the lithium supply to create a machine that allows phone to charge in the air. She meets up with Matrix Morty in the woods to tell him about their plan and activates the device which causes an error that crashes the simulation and allows them back into their reality.
Rick plans to wipe Matrix Morty and Summer’s minds but they resist to do so as bETH then tells Rick to not mind wipe them if they want to do so. While Rick follows Beth’s suggestion, he mentions how it will have consequences for everyone. Matrix Summer decides to go to Harry Herspon High School to rule the school with her newfound maturity but becomes annoyed by the drama obsessed students and apathetic teachers. Matrix Summer and Beth then bond at first due to her confidence but the latter becomes annoyed by her maturity and cynicism. Believing that Summer’s new confident but insufferable personality from the Matrix simulation is ruining their mother-daughter relationship, Beth tries to use the Memory Blower gun to erase Matrix Summer. However, Matrix Summer refuses to go through with being mind blown and drives away to Santa Fe through hot wiring a car.
Beth finds her at Zenta-Fe and decides to reason with her more calmly as they repair their relationship. Matrix Summer then hears about Morty’s plan to destroy a nuclear plant at Power Planet Valley and rushes to convinces him to stop his plan. Matrix Morty and Summer beat up a nuclear scientist as they believe that they are stuck in another Matrix simulation until Rick clarifies that he did not do so. After Matrix Morty and Summer realize that their traumatic experiences are too much to bear, Rick finally reset Summer’s mind to normal and she forgets about her experiences within the Matrix. Matrix Summer leaves a video message on her phone to Summer but the latter deletes the video before she can finish watching it.