The Rick and Morty comic series wrapped up one of the lingering storylines from the award-winning "Pickle Rick" episode. The comic continued the story of the gruff-voiced ruthless assassin named Jaguar by reuniting him with his old friend, Rick Sanchez. Although this reunion goes through its ups and downs, the ending achieves something very rare in the popular Adult Swim series, a happy ending.

In the Rick and Morty episode Pickle Rick, Rick transforms himself into a pick to escape family therapy. While a pickle, he creates a custom-made exoskeleton and accidentally infiltrates a secure complex overridden with armed guards. When they refuse to let him leave, their attacks cause Rick to retaliate and force his captors to release Jaguar, a well-trained prisoner voiced by Danny Trejo to kill the Pickle Man in exchange for the release of his daughter. Discovering they are evenly matched, Rick convinces Jaguar to switch sides and together they kill the remaining guards and destroy the complex while escaping together. Although Jaguar learned tragically that his daughter was actually dead, he left Rick on good terms, eventually returning to help save him and Morty from the villain Concerto.

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In Rick and Morty Presents: Jaguar #1 by writer/artist Marc Ellerby, readers learn that Jaguar lives alone on a quaint farm, haunted more by the loss of his family than he is by the deaths he regularly causes as a member of DEAD.S.T.R.I.K.E. When his government masters order him to kill Rick's wayward son in law Jerry Smith, Jaguar's intervention saves Jerry's life long enough to reunite with Rick who'd come to retrieve Jerry and his stolen portal gun. When Rick also opposes Jaguar's attempt to kill Jerry, Rick finds himself in hot water when Jerry accidentally reveals that Rick lied about his portal gun and the multiverse which contains infinite parallel versions of his family. An angry and driven Jaguar pursues them both throughout the galaxy, seeking revenge on the man who cost him a second chance to reunite with his family.

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Jaguar is perpetually haunted by flashbacks of his daughter and his family in scenarios that bring to mind Lois Lane's dream about Clark Kent in Justice League. The reason he's so furious with Rick is that that lie cost him an opportunity to find the peace he so desperately craves even if it is on another world altogether. When he can't destroy Rick's family the same way others did him, all three of them unite to fight Jaguar's former teammates in DEAD.S.T.R.I.K.E. While being pummeled to death by a Juggernaut villain, he is mocked about his dead family and how he mourns their passing, blaming himself for his lifestyle making them for targets looking to control and manipulate him. Although the villain considers Jaguar's goal of peace unachievable due to his reputation and others looking to fill the void DEAD.S.T.R.I.K.E. would leave behind, Jaguar later pleads with Rick to help him reunite with his family. The comic at least tries to offer some justification to why Rick lied originally, that every dimension is unique and won't be exactly the version of his family that he lost.

Although he is warned he may need to kill another version of himself or worse, co-parent with him, Jaguar is given a portal to another world by a sympathetic Rick who considers the matter closed. Although Rick and Morty shows the pros and cons of the multiverse and meeting other versions of yourself, Jaguar finds himself in a world and a version of his family that is almost identical to his old world. Although questions remain about this new Earth and its possible differences, Jaguar is reunited with his family and is finally at peace, accomplishing a happy ending that is rarely seen in Rick and Morty.

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