The first argument ultimately reduces to a regression into smaller and smaller layers of reality, rather than an actual ascension into higher dimensions or levels of existence. What we see in Rick and Morty is not a hierarchy that builds upward toward transcendence, but rather a recursive nesting of universes that continually shrink in scale. Each microverse is simply another iteration of the same concept, functioning as a battery for the universe above it, without introducing fundamentally new dimensions of being. Because of this, the true narrative and cosmological focus of the series remains centered on Rick’s own universe, the one in which the majority of the story unfolds, rather than on the microverse or any of its subsequent regressions. These regressions serve more as a comedic exploration of infinite recursion than as evidence of a metaphysical hierarchy. In other words, the microverse chain is a clever narrative device, but it does not elevate the cosmology beyond Rick’s universe itself, which is the primary stage of the series and the only one with meaningful relevance to its overarching themes.