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Rick & Morty’s Jerry is pretty much unwanted by everyone he knows. His wife divorced him, his father-in-law constantly insults him and his kids pile on with the abuse. But there is a group of people that do want Jerry—only it’s on account of a death warrant for genociding an entire planet, making him the most wanted man in the galaxy.

Jerry is life’s punchline. He is a useless ineffective man that gets zero respect from anyone around him because he lacks any self-respect. He’s the foil to Rick Sanchez, who is a megalomaniac with an unparalleled ego and stubbornness. Rick is wanted by some of the galaxy’s most important aliens for the super technology he created and his constant rule-breaking. So it’s a surprise when a trained assassin shows up trying to kill Jerry instead of Rick for crimes against, well, not humanity, but a whole planet-load of beings.

Writer/illustrator Marc Ellerby put together Rick & Morty Presents: Jaguar as a way to expand on the assassin held in a super maximum facility that was set against Pickle Rick but ended up joining the malicious pickled cucumber. The comic shows Jaguar in his prime as an expert killer part of an assassin team after his family was killed. The Galactic Federation, the ruling government of most of the universe, finds out Jerry killed an entire planet’s people and sent out a contract for his head.

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It’s unusual for Jerry to be on par with Rick in any respect. He often competes with Rick for his family’s admiration, usually coming up short. While Rick is usually in the crosshairs for whatever war crime he's most recently committed, Jerry is up to bat now for most wanted. Jerry stole Rick’s portal gun and used it to try to get a milkshake from the distant planet of Flaven Six. He failed to get his milkshake, but settled for some free food, only to let out an atomic-level fart that melted the flesh away from the planet’s inhabitants.

In the comic Rick spends his time trying to divert Jaguar from killing Jerry and isn’t at all wounded to be second place for once. Especially considering it's for the undesirable role as the second-most wanted for execution. It clearly pains Rick to save Jerry’s life over and over from Jaguar. He would want nothing else than to be rid of his wormy son-in-law. But letting him die would be as bad as killing him and his family would miss Jerry, or at least miss taking shots at him.

Rick convinces Jaguar to give up killing Jerry but that doesn’t drop Jerry’s wanted level. Jaguar’s assassin friends and goons from the Galactic Federation drop in to eliminate Jerry and take in Rick to steal his tech. Jerry gets a mech suit to help out but still manages to look effete in a badass metal exoskeleton. The crew kills off the attackers and Jerry is relinquished to Rick. But that doesn't mean his death warrant isn't still out there. It’s a bit of a plot hole in the Rick & Morty comic, but since the Galactic Federation has trouble tracking Rick, despite his home-base always being on Earth, it seems reasonable they would have trouble tracking Jerry, too.