Rick Sanchez (V-9876)

Richard D. Sanchez III, also known as Rick, is a war veteran. He used to reside in Dimension V-9876, due to a space volcano erupting and obliterating his former home. Now that he's stuck in outer space with the rest of his family, he has no choice but to look for a safe dimension to move to.

Appearance
Rick Sanchez from Dimension V-9876 is a tall, lanky elderly man, with an ash gray complexion (due to his alcoholism), white scleras, a black asterisk-shaped eye, yellowish-gray teeth, spiky light blue hair with curled points to resemble the stars on a five-star general's helmet, a unibrow of the same color as his hair, a bald spot on the back of his head, a narrowed nose, and five fingers on each hand.

He wears a turquoise long-sleeved t-shirt, maroon pants, a dark grayish-black belt with a white belt buckle, a tattered tan lab coat that is made from his old military uniform, and white shoes with symbols resembling ankhs on them.

He also wears a black eyepatch (with a gray 'X' on the front of it) on his left eye (due to him losing an eye in the war), a scratch mark on his right temple, and is frequently seen with light green saliva on his mouth (due to him constantly burping and vomiting, after getting drunk).

Personality
Rick Sanchez from Dimension V-9876 is a war-veteran-turned-scientist, who works in the garage of the house that the rest of his family used to live in, prior to the space volcano erupting. He is a self-centered megagenius, and previously made inventions in the garage. While he does take his Morty on adventures with him, he does not force him into participating in them (in contrast to how C-755 Rick always forces his Morty to do so, and attempts to kill him if the latter gets caught trying to avoid them). He salutes almost all the time, as a nod to what he was required to do in the wartimes. He opposes of his Beth and Jerry's suggestion that V-9876 Morty should attend an art school.

When he goes on adventures with V-9876 Morty, they are classified as safe (for the most part), likely because he actually cares about his Morty. This is why V-9876 Morty never evolved into a cynical badass (then again, he's careless about all of the crazy intergalactic shit he witnesses). He insults his Jerry, which isn't surprising for an angry, retired war veteran to be surrounded by idiots. Since one of his eyes was shot out in his past, he has difficulties with seeing properly, and hopes he will create a cybernetic copy of his old eye in a future timeline.

Trivia

 * It is unknown what he looked like during the war, though it is likely that he was much younger than he is now.
 * In "Time for Rickvenge", it is revealed that the reason why he wears an eyepatch is because he lost an eye during the war.