The warped misadventures of a former boy genius turned washed-up, middle-aged mad scientist Dr. Rusty Venture; his moronic teenage sons; their maniac bodyguard; and the Doctor's arch-nemeses, incompetent super villain The Monarch and his masculine paramour, Dr. Girlfriend.
The Venture Bros. is one of the best shows you aren't watching and/or haven't seen.
What if we followed Johnny Quest from boy adventurer to grown man? What if he was a miserable failure who could not live up to his father's legacy? That's the basic premise behind this series. Here's a fun fact, he's actually a minor character within the show.
We are currently up to season 5. That means you have some catching up to do.
Here is a brief overview of the characters and a bit of what they've been up to through the first four seasons.
| Father of the Venture twins. Rusty constantly lives in the shadow of his famous father Dr. Jonas Venture. While Dr. Venture desperately wishes to emerge from his father's shadow, ultimately his knack for cutting corners proves his undoing, with his shoddy attempts at genuine technological innovation typically resulting in utter debacle. His childhood time with the original team Venture has had an undeniably traumatizing effect on him, and he still wakes up at night with nightmares of his worst adventures. | ||
| Brock Samson is the one-half Swedish, one-quarter Polish, one-quarter Winnebago murder machine who recently acted as bodyguard to the Venture Family. He now works for the organization S.P.H.I.N.X after quitting the O.S.I.,but still cares for the Venture family. Even though Brock possesses a license to kill, he refuses to use a gun and instead wields a bowie knife as his signature weapon. He relies on brute strength, endurance, and skill with a knife that borders on the supernatural. Samson also has a personal code or ethics regarding innocents and who he will kill if they are threat to him and or the Ventures. | ||
| A teenage boy, one half of the eponymous pair, a fraternal twin but with blond hair. Hank's character is based on Joe Hardy of the Hardy Boys, Jonny Quest, and Fred Jones of Scooby Doo. He tends to be more athletic and better at disguises than his brother. He is shown as the more outgoing and daring of the pair, and more attracted to adventure. In season 4, he became more rebellious when Brock had left. | ||
| A teenage boy, one half of the eponymous pair, a fraternal twin but with dark (possibly receding) hair. Dean is timid, selfless, and more "bookish" than Hank. He is a combination of Frank Hardy, Peter Parker and a stereotypical boy from the 1950s. While more timid than Hank, he shows signs of being slightly less emotionally stunted than his brother, as he has a crush on Triana Orpheus. Dean is considered the "Smart" son by Rusty. | ||
| Though he frequently describes himself as Dr. Venture's nemesis, their rivalry resides almost completely in the Monarch's imagination. In reality, Dr. Venture considers him more a nuisance than a genuine threat. His plans against the Venture family are usually bizarre and fail for a number of sad reasons. At the end of season one, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison after being framed by the Phantom Limb. He has since escaped and began to rebuild his criminal operation, being reunited with Dr. Girlfriend in the process and eventually marrying her. | ||
| Wife and assistant to the Monarch, she bears a remarkable similarity to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and shares her New England accent. Dr. Girlfriend was the undisputed brains behind the Monarch's operations, but she felt unappreciated by him. After a short separation, they renewed their relationship on the condition that the Monarch stop arching Dr. Venture and make Dr. Girlfriend his partner, not just his number 2. Dr. Girlfriend now goes by the name Dr. Mrs. The Monarch and has designed a new butterfly-themed costume for herself. | ||
| After the death of Henchman 24, he goes into heavy combat training and emerges with sufficient strength and martial prowess to contend with former-tormentor Brock Samson. In "Operation" P.R.O.M.", 21 was offered a chance to work with the anti-unlicenced super science team, SPHINX. He found he enjoyed working "with guys who actually know what they're doing" for once, and began to question his dedication to the ways of the Monarch and evil in general. By the end of the episode, he realized that being a villain was not for him, and quit the ranks of the Monarch. | ||
| An expert necromancer and mystic who rents a portion of the Venture Compound and is friendly with Dr. Venture. Along with Brock, he is the only associate of Dr. Venture who displays any sort of competence, although his pomposity tends to detract from his abilities. He has been confused for Dracula a number of times and his speech is filled with overly dramatic phrases, delivered in a theatrically grandiose voice with extreme emphasis on mundane topics, implying the pun, "Dr. Obvious". After witnessing Dr. Venture's various enemies, he develops a fervent desire for an archnemesis of his own. | ||
| He was the Monarch's next door neighbor when the Monarch had moved into Phantom Limb's former house. Hatred briefly chose Dr.Venture as his arch-enemy as revenge on the Monarch for his years of theft, planning to make Venture's life wonderful. As of season 4, Hatred has become the Ventures' new bodyguard. As of the Season 4 finale, Hatred had removed all of the word "Hatred" from his body, except for the D, which was placed in a "tender area". He had put a new tattoo on his face that is a giant V, for "Venture"; this causes Dr. Venture to sarcastically nickname him "Sergeant V.D.". |
Get all that? Thanks Wikipedia!
Here are some clips:
Violence? Brock Sampson
Explosions? Brock...Sampson.
Nudity? Brock. Fucking. Sampson
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