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| — Zeep responds to Rick's allegations that his Miniverse is slavery, The Ricks Must Be Crazy |
Zeep Xanflorp is a scientist within Rick's Microverse Battery who creates his own micro-planet power supply called the Miniverse. His development of a new power supply prevents Rick from using his flying car. Zeep is depicted as arrogant and very intelligent, and in many ways a parallel of Rick Sanchez.
Personality[]
Zeep appears to function as the Microverse's version of Rick Sanchez. Much like the latter, Zeep is arrogant, self-loathing and prideful; traits which are outshined by his sheer genius. Zeep constantly talks down to the people around him and shows little care for social status when doing so. He is condescending towards Chris, the president of his home planet, and refuses to make time for Rick and Morty, despite Rick being a revered figure in his planet's culture.
Zeep also mimicks Rick's ruthless personality. Once he, Rick and Morty were trapped inside the Teenyverse, Zeep constantly tried to one-up Rick and tried to kill him multiple times. He also betrayed Rick after the two built a way to escape the Teenyverse and attempted to destroy the Miniverse Battery with Rick and Morty inside it. This, of course, would've also destroyed an entire universe of his own creation, fully demonstrating his ruthless capabilities. However, after Rick destroyed the Miniverse Battery instead, Zeep was temporarily distraught and called Rick a "monster". This may imply Zeep never intended to destroy the battery and was merely bluffing.
Despite his similarities to Rick, Zeep is seemingly more altrusitic than him. Whilst Rick invented the Microverse Battery just to power his car or charge his phone, Zeep invented his Miniverse Battery to benefit his entire society.
Abilities[]
- Genius-level intellect: Zeep's intelligence appears to be either close to or on the same level as Rick Sanchez's. He uses this intelligence to create the Miniverse Battery, which contains an entire universe inside it and has the potential to power an entire planet.
- Craftsmanship: Zeep is able to craft complex devices using only the resources from the wilderness on a prehistoric planet.
Appearance[]
Zeep appears to be an alien-like creature of an unknown species. He has a green head, with a large forehead that tapers down throughout his face. He has blue stripes across his forehead. Zeep has yellow irises, blue pupils, and dark circles underneath his eyes, perhaps from all the late-nights he spent crafting his Miniverse. Zeep's fingertips and lips are blue. Like Rick, Zeep has a single eyebrow.
For his clothing, Zeep wears a green labcoat with gold detailing on the collar and wrists, with a grey shirt underneath, on his native Microverse. When he visits his Miniverse, he wears an alien fursuit as a disguise.
Relationships[]
Chris[]
Zeep cooperates with the Microverse's President to develop a new power source for their society. Chris is amiable to Zeep, although Zeep is somewhat disrespectful of him, addressing him by first name and sarcastically calling him a "great president".
Rick Sanchez[]
Rick took an immediate disliking to Zeep, due to their alarmingly similar ideas and personalities. While likewise indifferent and somewhat disliking of Rick, due to him only knowing Rick as an alien visitor who granted his planet with an "outdated" power system, Zeep's feelings towards his 'creator' eventually evolve into an outright hatred and resentment, especially once he realizes his universe was only created to power Rick's car. After a duel where Rick bests him, he seems to come to an understanding of how Rick works. At the end of the episode, even though Zeep may not have a better opinion of Rick, he begrudgingly accepts that his fate is in Rick's hands.
Kyle[]
When Kyle explains his plan to enslave people in a Teenyverse to make the Flooblecrank in Zeep's Miniverse obsolete, Zeep is appalled at him. He starts to make the same objections that Rick had made to his Miniverse, but then realizes his hypocrisy.
Trivia[]
- Zeep's status is only known up to the point when Rick and Morty escaped the Microverse. Time in the Microverse may pass faster than in the real world, but if it is slow enough for Rick to have met Chris in a previous visit before "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", Zeep may still be alive, although potentially much older.