For the Damaged Coda is a track by American band Blonde Redhead, released on their 2000 album Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons. It stayed relatively obscure until Rick and Morty began using its piano opening as the theme for Evil Morty, a sinister alternate version of the show's young hero, first in the 2014 episode Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind and again in later finales. Fans clipped that short piano motif, shared it across YouTube and TikTok, and it became shorthand for a dark reveal, keeping the song in circulation long after its original release.