List of The Venture Bros. characters

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This is a list of main and recurring fictional characters from The Venture Bros., a comic science fiction television series aired on Adult Swim.

Overview[edit]

Character Portrayed by Appearances
First Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Special Season 6 Season 7
Part 1 Part 2
Team Venture
Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture James Urbaniak "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" Main
Brock Fitzgerald Samson Patrick Warburton Main
Henry Allen "Hank" Venture #14 Christopher McCulloch Main Does not appear
#15 "Powerless in the Face of Death" Does not appear Main
Dean Venture #14 Michael Sinterniklaas "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" Main Does not appear
#15 "Powerless in the Face of Death" Does not appear Main
Sergeant Hatred Brendon Small "Fallen Arches" Does not appear Guest Does not appear
Christopher McCulloch "The Invisible Hand of Fate" Does not appear Recurring Main
Dr. Jonas "J.J." Venture Jr. James Urbaniak "Return to Spider-Skull Island" Recurring Main Guest
Dermott Fictel Doc Hammer "The Buddy System" Does not appear Guest Recurring Main Does not appear Guest
Sirena Ong Cristin Milioti "Hostile Makeover" Does not appear Guest Main
The Order of the Triad
Dr. Byron Orpheus Steven Rattazzi "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!" Recurring Guest Main Does not appear Guest
The Alchemist Dana Snyder "Fallen Arches" Does not appear Guest Main Guest
Jefferson Twilight Charles Parnell Does not appear Guest Main Does not appear Guest
Venture acquaintances
Billy Quizboy Doc Hammer "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" Recurring Main Recurring
Pete White Christopher McCulloch Recurring Guest Recurring
Triana Orpheus Lisa Hammer "Eeny, Meeny, Miney...Magic!" Recurring Does not appear
The Pirate Captain Christopher McCulloch "Ghosts of the Sargasso" Guest Recurring Guest Does not appear Main Recurring Guest
The Guild of Calamitous Intent
The Monarch Christopher McCulloch "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" Main
Dr. Mrs. The Monarch (née Dr. Girlfriend) Doc Hammer Main
Gary "General / Henchman 21" Fischer Main
Henchman 24 Christopher McCulloch Main Guest Recurring Does not appear Voice Flashback
The Sovereign "The Trial of the Monarch" Guest Main
Dr. Henry Killinger "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills" Does not appear Guest Does not appear Deleted scene Guest Main Does not appear
The Revenge Society
The Phantom Limb James Urbaniak "Home Insecurity" Recurring Guest Main
Professor Richard "Incorrigible" Impossible Stephen Colbert "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay" Recurring Does not appear Main Does not appear
Peter McCulloch Guest Does not appear
Christopher McCulloch Does not appear Recurring Does not appear
Bill Hader Does not appear Recurring Does not appear
Baron Werner Ünderbheit T. Ryder Smith "Home Insecurity" Recurring Guest Does not appear Guest Main Does not appear
Zero (Scott Hall) Christopher McCulloch "The Lepidopterists" Does not appear Guest Does not appear Guest Does not appear Main Does not appear
The Council of Thirteen
Wide Wale Hal Lublin "Hostile Makeover" Does not appear Main
Red Death Clancy Brown "Red Means Stop" Does not appear Guest Main

Team Venture[edit]

Team Venture consists of the central characters in the show; they previously resided in a fortified compound in Colorado Springs which also served as the headquarters for their company, "Venture Industries." Following the destruction of the compound in Season Six and Dr. Venture's inheritance of his brother's fortune, they relocate to the Ventech Tower at Columbus Circle in Manhattan.

Dr Rusty Venture[edit]

Dr Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (voiced by James Urbaniak): Dean and Hank's father, head of Venture Industries, and clone-brother of The Monarch. He is a capable scientist and inventor, but his greed, lack of formal education, and insistence on cutting corners result in his attempts at technological innovation failing, causing chaos for him, his family, friends, and sometimes the world at large. Although the money he earns is sufficient to support him and his family, it fails to satisfy his greed and his aspirations to match his father's wealth and success. While he cares for his sons, his father's abusive and negligent parenting influences the way he treats them, sometimes showing as much indifference to them as his father did to him. In Season 7, it is revealed that Dr. Venture is not the original, but rather a clone of the first Rusty Venture, who died in the past.

Brock Samson[edit]

Brock Fitzgerald Samson (voiced by Patrick Warburton): Born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a single mother, Brock is a one-half Swedish, one-quarter Polish, one-quarter Winnebago "murder machine" who serves as a bodyguard to the Venture family. He attended the same university as Dr. Venture until he was expelled for accidentally killing one of his football team's teammates. Despite holding a license to kill, Brock eschews guns and instead favors a Ka-Bar fighting knife as his signature weapon. He grapples with his role in the world and his purpose, guided by a personal code of ethics concerning innocents and whom he will eliminate if they pose a threat to himself or the Ventures. Brock owns an orange 1969 Dodge Hemi Charger named "Adrianne," frequently seen driving or shirtlessly washing at the Venture compound. Following the explosion of the car carrying Henchman 24, H.E.L.P.eR.'s head was briefly embedded in Brock's chest, leading to 24's death; the head was later removed and replaced with a metal plate.

Hank Venture[edit]

Henry Allen "Hank" Venture (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Hank, the elder fraternal twin with blond hair, is a teenage boy and one half of the titular duo. He emerges as the more extroverted and adventurous of the pair, drawn to action and thrill-seeking, often envisioning himself as a vigilante superhero. In season 4, he exhibits increased rebelliousness following Brock's departure, even losing his virginity to an older woman who happens to be his best friend's mother. After briefly affiliating with former Henchman 21's rendition of S.P.H.I.N.X., Hank acquires the power suit of former S.P.H.I.N.X. member The Countess, donning it until it is stolen and destroyed. This incident leads to Hank undergoing physical therapy due to muscle atrophy. In season 6, he opts out of college and takes on a job as a delivery boy at a pizzeria. Additionally, he embarks on a romantic relationship with Sirena Ong, the daughter of his father's current Guild-assigned villain, Wide Wale. In season 7, Hank slips into a coma after discovering Sirena's infidelity with Dean but eventually recovers.

Dean Venture[edit]

Dean Venture (voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas): As a teenage boy and one half of the eponymous pair, Dean is the younger fraternal twin with red hair. Despite being more timid than Hank, he exhibits signs of greater emotional maturity. Dean garners more favor from their father, who grooms him to succeed as the heir to Venture Industries. Like his brother, Dean has faced death over a dozen times, only to be replaced by an exact clone each time, devoid of memories of his demise. Following a breakup with Triana and the revelation of his clone status, Dean adopts a more emo persona, donning a black "speedsuit" and relocating from his childhood bedroom, displaying reluctance to join family adventures. However, Hank's optimism and familial support pull him out of his emotional slump. In season 6, Dean enrolls at the fictional Stuyvestant University in New York, excelling as a philosophy student and befriending Brown Widow, his roommate. In season 7, he engages in an affair with Hank's girlfriend, Sirena Ong, but later regrets his actions.

H.E.L.P.eR.[edit]

H.E.L.P.eR. (voiced by Christopher McCulloch; credited as "Soul-Bot"): H.E.L.P.eR., short for Humanoid Electronic Lab Partner Robot, serves as the Venture family's helper robot, communicating through electronic beeps. Despite his sensitivity, the Ventures often regard him as an old appliance or pet. Throughout their adventures, H.E.L.P.eR. frequently gets smashed to pieces but miraculously appears repaired by the next episode.

Sergeant Hatred[edit]

Sergeant Hatred, also known as Courtney Robert Haine,[1] is voiced by Brendon Small in season 2 and Christopher McCulloch from season 3 onward. He serves as Brock's former supervisor in the O.S.I., the husband of Native American villainess Princess Tinyfeet, and the Venture family's bodyguard. He is a large, muscular man with a giant red 'H' tattooed on his face, often seen wearing military fatigues. Despite being a convicted child molester for having slept with a 17-year-old, he is liked and respected throughout the supervillain community for his unfailing politeness and generosity; certain episodes also reveal that he knows his sexual attraction to teenagers is wrong, and tries to keep it in check using medication and electroshock therapy. He is known for his caring nature beneath his battle-hardened exterior.

Dermott Fictel[edit]

Dermott Fictel (voiced by Doc Hammer): An obnoxious teenager who first appears in "The Buddy System"; he was hinted to be the son of Brock Samson. Dermott is a compulsive liar and frequently interjects wild, and often clearly false, claims about his abilities and past deeds into unrelated conversations. He is Hank's best friend and occasionally visits the Venture compound from the nearby trailer park where he and his "mother" live. In "Everybody Comes to Hank's", Hank sleeps with Nikki Fictel (voiced by Kate McKinnon), whom Dermott knows as his older sister, but is actually his mother. His real father is also revealed to be Rusty, making him Hank and Dean's half-brother. He stays behind when the Venture family moves to New York and later joins the OSI, being accepted as an operative despite his lack of training, thanks to a good word put in for him by Dr. Venture.

Venture acquaintances[edit]

Dr Jonas Venture Jr.[edit]

Dr. Jonas Venture Jr., also known as J.J. (voiced by James Urbaniak): Dr. Venture's deformed twin, who was absorbed by Rusty in the womb and surgically freed from Rusty's body after being mistaken for a tumor. Although he has the body of an infant, he has an adult appearance and seems to have inherited his father's brilliance. He is scientifically astute, hard-working, attractive to women, and a multi-billionaire CEO of a profitable corporation. However, his worship of his father causes the original Team Venture to dislike him greatly, as he ignores their importance to his father's life, business, and legacy. JJ dies in "All This and Gargantua-2" when he sacrifices himself to prevent his space station, Gargantua-2, from harming people, when it self-destructs due to sabotage from The Investors. In his will, he bequeaths his fortune, the New York City Headquarters, and technology patents to his brother.

Triana Orpheus[edit]

Triana Orpheus (voiced by Lisa Hammer): Dr. Orpheus's 17-year-old quasi-goth daughter. She has purple hair and is fairly friendly with the Venture twins. She and Dean become close until they have a major fight and fall out after she chooses to date another boy named Raven over Dean. In season four, it is revealed that she has inherited her father's abilities when she encounters her father's mystical mentor, who purposely took up residence in her closet because of her power.

Pete White[edit]

Pete White (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): An albino computer scientist and co-founder of Conjectural Technologies. He attended college with Venture, Samson, Baron Ünderbheit, and The Monarch, where he hosted a new wave radio show called "The White Room". After earning a doctorate in computer science, White and Billy Quizboy collaborated on a Jeopardy-style game show called "QuizBoys", with Pete as the host and Billy as a contestant. However, they were fired for cheating and rigging the shows in their favor. Despite a brief falling out, Pete eventually reunited with Billy. They took up residence in a trailer near the Venture Compound. Like Venture and Quizboy, White is skilled and knowledgeable in super science and technology but tends to be lazy and half-hearted in his efforts. In season six, after Dr. Venture inherits his brother's company and fortune, Pete and Billy move to New York City with the Venture family. There, they become leading scientists for Dr. Venture, assisting him in inventing breakthrough technology to sell through Ventech.

Billy Quizboy[edit]

William Whalen, a.k.a. Master Billy Quizboy (voiced by Doc Hammer): Self-proclaimed "boy genius" Billy Whalen is an adult with a speech impediment and growth hormone deficiency. Despite suffering from hydrocephalus, his intellect remains unaffected. He gained recognition as a contestant on the game show Quizboys, hosted by Pete White. When White cheated on his behalf, they were both disqualified from the show, and Billy's winnings were seized by the SEC. Seeking employment, White and Billy approached Dr. Venture, but were rejected. Later, in a misunderstanding, Billy lost a hand and an eye in a dogfight. Subsequently, he was recruited by Brock Samson and Hunter Gathers, who equipped him with a mechanical hand and camera eye for undercover work. While spying on Professor Hamilton Fantomas, Billy suffered an accident that led to the creation of Phantom Limb and the loss of his left eye once again. Despite lacking formal education, he became a medical doctor, neurogeneticist, and co-founder of Conjectural Technologies. He briefly joined the Order of the Triad after performing brain surgery on the Outrider. In season 5, his old nemesis Augustus St. Cloud became his and White's designated arch-enemy. In Season 6, he and Peter relocate to New York City with the Venture family to assist Dr. Venture in developing breakthrough technology for the Ventech brand.

The Pirate Captain[edit]

The Pirate Captain (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): The leader of the "ghost pirates" in "Ghosts of the Sargasso". Following his initial encounter with the Venture family, he took up residence on the X-2 after facing challenges finding employment. When Jonas Jr. acquired the ship, he hired the captain, who has only been addressed as "The Captain" thus far. He lived with Jonas Jr. on Spider Skull Island, assuming roles such as butler, caretaker, and right-hand man. The Captain consistently refers to Jonas as "Chairman". Subsequently, after J.J.'s demise, he becomes an employee of Dr. Venture upon inheriting J.J.'s New York City business.

Bobbi St. Simone[edit]

Bobbi St. Simone (voiced by Jane Lynch): Bobbi St. Simone is the proprietor of a sanctuary for cybernetic animals. In the 1960s, she was an actress in a bikini movie who had an affair with Jonas Venture, who also bestowed upon her invisibility powers. Following the failure of her film, Jonas coerced her to work for the O.S.I. as a mole within The Guild of Calamitous Intent. She later assumed the identity of Madame Majeure after falling in love with and marrying Force Majeure. However, she fled with her daughter Debbie after Force Majeure was murdered by The Sovereign. Bobbi struck a deal with Dr. Venture to transfer her powers to her daughter, implying that this was in exchange for Debbie's eggs, making her Hank and Dean's biological grandmother.

The Order of the Triad[edit]

Dr. Byron Orpheus[edit]

Dr. Byron Orpheus (voiced by Steven Rattazzi): A necromancer who rents a portion of the Venture Compound and is friendly with Dr. Venture. Along with Brock, he is one of the few associates of Dr. Venture who displays competence and morals, although his pomposity tends to detract from his abilities. His speech is filled with overly dramatic phrases, delivered in a theatrically grandiose voice with emphasis on mundane topics, usually accompanied by ominous trumpet-laden music. After witnessing Dr. Venture's various enemies, he develops a fervent desire for a nemesis of his own and is later given the opportunity when the Guild approves his request for one in the season 2 episode "Fallen Arches", holding a series of interviews for the position. He is fiercely protective of Hank and Dean Venture, after being responsible for their "death" at the end of Season 1, only to find out the truth about the boys in Season 2. He is the father of Triana Orpheus, who lived with him on the Venture Compound until she moved in with Orpheus's ex-wife after breaking up with Dean Venture. By season 7, it appears that he and the Order of the Triad move to New York City in order to be closer to The Ventures.

Jefferson Twilight[edit]

Jefferson Twilight (voiced by Charles Parnell): An old friend of Dr. Orpheus, Jefferson Twilight is a dhampir who fights Blaculas (black vampires) for a living, wielding two swords. He suffers from diabetes and low blood sugar, leading him to crave sugared liquids. His left eye is discolored, functioning as a magical Blacula tracker he calls the "Blood Eye." The episode "What Goes Down Must Come Up" reveals much of his backstory, including that his mother was taken by marauding Blaculas when he was ten and he was a tank commander in the USMC. Initially upset about lacking a magical ability, it is discovered that he has the ability to act as a bridge between worlds, something that once saved his friends.

The Alchemist[edit]

The Alchemist (voiced by Dana Snyder): Another old friend of Dr. Orpheus, The Alchemist is on a quest for the philosopher's stone and a cure for AIDS. Unlike Twilight and Orpheus, he appears less serious about his endeavors and prefers mixing business with pleasure. However, his true stance on the Triad was revealed in the episode "Showdown at Cremation Creek", where he expressed a commitment to balancing the universe rather than engaging in constant battles against supervillains. He is openly gay and a fan of Jimmy Buffett. He shares a friendship with Hank, seeing similarities between them. Sometimes referred to as "Al," it's unclear if this is his real name or simply a nickname. He harbors a strong dislike for the internet after discovering his former boyfriend's infidelity on MySpace. In "Everybody Comes to Hank's," it's revealed he was previously in a relationship with Shore Leave, but the latter erased his memory of it due to The Alchemist's perceived clinginess. In "OSI Love You," he and Shore Leave share an amorous video chat, suggesting they reconciled.

Original Team Venture[edit]

  • Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. (voiced by Paul Boocock): Deceased father of Dr. Rusty Venture, Jonas Junior, and as of season 7, it is revealed that he is also The Monarch's father. He was the foremost super scientist and adventurer of his time, creating what is now known as Venture Industries and leading the original Team Venture. Despite his public image as a brilliant scientist and superhero, Jonas was revealed to be a manipulative, sociopathic womanizer with questionable morals and ethics, considered by the Guild to have been a greater villain than any of those he fought. He appeared to view Rusty as an unplanned and unwanted birth, often ignoring his son's existence in favor of drinking, partying, and pursuing sexual encounters. When he did acknowledge Rusty, he subjected him to years of emotional manipulation and abuse. Season 7 revealed his most egregious act, which would define the history of the entire series. He blackmailed his best friend Blue Morpho with a sex tape showing him cheating on his wife, forcing Morpho to do his dirty work for him. This involved coercing Morpho's sidekick, Kano, into joining Team Venture and impregnating Morpho's wife under the guise of "assisting" with their infertility issues. Morpho's wife gave birth to a baby fathered by Jonas, who would later grow up to be The Monarch. When Morpho died in a plane crash, Jonas transferred his brain into a robot body, naming him Venturion, an act that disgusted and horrified the original Team Venture. When Venturion malfunctioned and attacked Rusty Venture, Kano fatally disabled it, and Jonas disposed of its remains. Venturion's body was captured by Dr. Zinn and the Guild of Calamitous Intent, who reprogrammed him into a villain called "Vendata." He later confronts and kills Jonas by ejecting him into space. Team Venture recovered his remains and embedded them in the ProBLEM device on the station, keeping him in stasis until he could be saved. Years later, his son JJ found the ProBLEM after Gargantua-1 crashed on Earth. Unaware of its contents, he placed it in the lobby of Ventech headquarters as an art piece, inadvertently wiring it into the building's security and technology. Despite his physical demise, his brain remained alive and used the building's connection to upload his consciousness, haunting Dr. Venture and his family. Through the building's Wi-Fi, he reveals his true purpose for Venturion/Vendata to Rusty and the original Team Venture: to transfer his consciousness into Vendata's brain, using the robot as a temporary vessel until Rusty could clone him a new body. This plan was thwarted by Vendata/Blue Morpho, who destroyed the ProBLEM machine in a virtual reality fight with Jonas, presumably resulting in the demise of both.
  • The Action Man, whose real name is Rodney (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A retired American supersoldier with flatulence problems and "plastic knees" that hinder his movements. He married Major Tom's widow, Jeannie, after Tom's tragic accident. Like Jonas, he wasn't well trained with children and was hinted to have had some bad moments with young Rusty. He had a habit of waking up Rusty Venture back in the old days by placing an unloaded gun against the sleeping boy's head and pulling the trigger, then saying, "Not today, Rusty". According to Rose, Rodney was a womanizer and a junkie, both of which he denied, claiming it was all in the past and never cheated on Jeannie, which is most likely a lie. "Action Man" is also the name of Hasbro's original 12 Inch GI Joe figures, released outside the United States. The Action Man moved to a retirement community in Boca Raton, Florida, where he is alone following the death of Jeannie. He briefly had Dr. Entmann as a roommate, only to accidentally crush him with his rocking chair while Dr. Entmann was in a shrunken-down state. He later dates fellow retired superhero, and Billy Quizboy's mother, Rose, and moves in with Colonel Gentleman.
  • Colonel Horace Gentleman (voiced by Christopher McCulloch impersonating Sean Connery): A retired member of the original Team Venture and later ersatz leader of the reformed Team Venture. He is a Scottish gentleman and adventurer in the vein of Allan Quatermain and James Bond. The influence is apparent in the similarity of his voice to that of Sean Connery, who has played both characters in movies. He dresses in an old-fashioned British suit, complete with cane and fedora. It is briefly implied that he is a pederast, and this was later confirmed by the creators.[2] In the second season, Hank and Dean find him apparently dead of unspecified causes; however, it is revealed in "Now Museum-Now You Don't" that he was merely in a diabetic coma and is still alive. He is an ethnic/gender chauvinist, and has a penchant for writing out random lists in his notebook. He briefly bears a grudge against Rusty Venture for breaking the heart of his stepdaughter, Dr. Quymn, whom he has retained some affection for. Col. Gentleman lives in Tangier, it formerly being a haven for the world's elite and greatest intellectuals, but in recent years he has realized that he is the only one left, and is dejected that Kiki has broken up with him for the last time. At the end of season 5, he realizes that there is no reason for him to stay in Tangier anymore and moves back to the United States, becoming the Action Man's new roommate.
  • Kano (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A retired member of the original Team Venture, Kano is a master of martial arts and an accomplished pilot, likely inspired by the Green Hornet's assistant, Kato. In earlier episodes, he never speaks and communicates only through origami and sparse gestures; however, this is attributed to a vow of silence he took, revealed in the episode "ORB". This vow was made when he took a great man from the world, which Brock believed to be Jonas Venture Sr. As described by Col. Gentleman, his hands are "powerful enough to crush a boulder, yet delicate enough to crush a butterfly." Although not a villain, his silent demeanor, fighting skills, and brute strength correspond with the bodyguard/henchman archetype found in many works of fiction, with particular similarities to Oddjob. In addition to his skill in fighting and origami, Kano also appears to be a capable aircraft pilot. Kano has also displayed the ability to breathe fire in the episode "Now Museum-Now You Don't". On the DVD commentary, it is revealed that his name originates from "Volcano". Season 7 revealed that Kano was originally the bodyguard of the Blue Morpho, The Monarch's father. Kano was forced into the original Team Venture away from the Blue Morpho after Jonas had blackmailed Morpho. When Jonas resurrected the Blue Morpho as the cyborg Venturion after his death in a plane crash, Venturion malfunctioned and attacked Rusty, forcing Kano to snap his neck. According to the other members of the original team, Kano never spoke again after this event, thus "the great man" whom Kano killed before taking his vow of silence.
  • Otto Aquarius (voiced by T. Ryder Smith): A retired member of the original Team Venture, Otto Aquarius is an exiled son of Atlantis. He is half-human and half-Atlantean, granting him a greatly extended life-span and the power to communicate telepathically with sea creatures. Most recently, he has converted to either the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (according to the special features section of the Season 1 DVD) or the Jehovah's Witnesses (according to Christopher McCulloch's blog), though his bizarre appearance often sabotages his attempts at evangelism. Due to his newfound faith, he is now a pacifist, which seems to confirm that he is a Jehovah's Witness.
  • Dr. Entmann (voiced by Stephen DeStefano): A tiny man left abandoned in a nuclear fallout shelter, Dr. Entmann was previously a heroic figure known as Humongeloid, standing at 15 feet tall, flabby, and curly-haired. Brock Samson discovers Dr. Entmann in a disused and abandoned lab below the Venture Compound, where he had been trapped for some 30 years since an experiment to shrink him went disastrously wrong. Dr. Entmann moves in with Action Man but is later accidentally killed when Action Man crushes him.
  • Swifty (voiced by Brendon Small): An African-American boxer and former bodyguard to Dr. Jonas Venture. In flashbacks, Swifty is shown using a pair of jet-powered boots. Currently, he suffers from dementia due to years of boxing and works as a janitor on Spider-Skull Island.
  • Hector (voiced by Brendon Small): A Hispanic boy and childhood friend of Rusty Venture. Seen in a flashback, he used an Aztec calendar to prevent an arrow from injuring Jonas Venture. Hector then joined the original Team Venture as Rusty's companion. However, as revealed in "Powerless in the Face of Death", in the present day, Rusty has no recollection of Hector or their adventures together. Hector reveals that he has been living in a part of the Venture compound closed off by Rusty years prior, unaware that it had been closed or that Jonas Venture had died, at which point Rusty unceremoniously evicts him. Hector appears to be the proxy of Hadji from Jonny Quest in the original Team Venture.
  • Ook Ook: A caveman-like member of the team. In the present day, Ook Ook's body is encased inside a block of ice for unknown reasons.

O.S.I.[edit]

The Office of Secret Intelligence is a branch of the United States government that handles supervillain activity, both combating groups of supervillains or assisting super scientists and superheroes with their Guild of Calamitous Intent-assigned archenemies. A pastiche of G.I. Joe and S.H.I.E.L.D., in the 1980s they fought against the supervillain organization S.P.H.I.N.X. in the Pyramid Wars, during which the original S.P.H.I.N.X. was defeated. The O.S.I. operates from a hovering base based on the helicarrier and seems to answer to a division known as the Misters who are the go-between with the "Secret President."

  • General Timothy Treister (voiced by Toby Huss): Commander of the O.S.I., he's a tough, no-nonsense, highly energetic military man. He is first mentioned in "Mid-Life Chrysalis", but first appears in person in "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together"; after Brock Samson goes on the run from the hit put on him by Molotov Cocktease, Treister leads the effort to find and debrief Samson. He later shows up to help coordinate between the O.S.I., S.P.H.I.N.X., the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the Revenge Society, and the Peril Partnership during Zeus and Zero's rampage across the world's sidekicks. Finally, in "Operation P.R.O.M.", Treister reveals he is dying of testicular cancer, but has been fooled by Mister Doe and Mister Cardholder into thinking he has been turned into a Hulk after experimental gamma ray chemotherapy. After finally meeting with Col. Gathers, revealing he has discovered Doe and Cardholder are Guild double agents, he entrusts O.S.I. back to Gathers and shoots himself off into space in order to have his cancer cured by "alien technology". Treister reappears in "All this and Gargantua-2", where his frozen body is taken aboard the titular ship and upon being awoken believes that Billy and JJ are aliens and goes on a rampage after misinterpreting them as being hostile. He and JJ sacrifice themselves to stop Gargantua-2's self-destruction from hurting anyone, during which it is revealed that, as a result of the solar radiation his body was subjected to while he was in space, Treister actually is a Hulk-like creature.
  • Mister Doe and Mister Cardholder (voiced by Doc Hammer and Christopher McCulloch, respectively): Two Mister-level agents of O.S.I. They first appear in "The Lepidopterists" to assist Dr. Jonas Venture Jr. in his fight against his newly assigned archenemy The Monarch, as they plan on capturing The Monarch for killing so many previous archenemies. They regularly appear as assistants to General Treister and are even made to guard the Venture family during "Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel" before Sgt. Hatred is assigned to them. In "Operation P.R.O.M.", they reveal to Col. Gathers that they are Guild moles sent to trick Treister into thinking he has been turned into a Hulk, to prove to the President that Treister should be removed from his position and they should take his place. Their plan is foiled when Treister reveals to Gathers that he has discovered that they are moles and that Mile High has been working for him as well.
  • Gen. Hunter Gathers (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Brock's former mentor from when he was in training for the O.S.I. Gathers has since gone into hiding after undergoing sex reassignment surgery (SRS), taking a job as a dancer at Night 'N Ales, a strip club. The character is modeled on Hunter S. Thompson, and his name is a play on the term hunter-gatherer. Other than Brock, Gathers was the only O.S.I. agent who believed the Guild was still in existence in the late eighties, as seen in "The Invisible Hand of Fate". Despite being extraordinarily eccentric, he seems to sincerely care about his job and defending his country. He also taught Brock the strict rule of never killing women or children, as that differentiated them from the "baddies". This is something he used to his advantage when he went rogue from the O.S.I., who then sent Brock to kill him. He is apparently a member of Molotov Cocktease's "Black Hearts" assassination guild, as shown in the scene following the end credits of "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part II)". However, despite the SRS, he still has the same face and voice as before, including a perpetual five o'clock shadow. The sex reassignment and apparent betrayal of the O.S.I. were revealed in the Season 4 opener to have been an elaborate ruse to infiltrate the Black Hearts; when Gathers and Samson were captured by Sphinx agents, Gathers revealed himself as an undercover Sphinx officer. In Pinstripes & Poltergeists, it is revealed that Gathers and other members of the O.S.I., disgusted with its ineffectual bureaucracy, eventually quit the O.S.I. and took S.P.H.I.N.X's name and equipment to form an organization capable of covertly and effectively combating super-powered villains against whom the O.S.I is powerless. S.P.H.I.N.X. seeks to terminate villains who do not abide by the rules of organized villainy mandated by institutions like the Guild of Calamitous Intent. Hunter surrenders command of S.P.H.I.N.X. to 21 after he is promoted to O.S.I.'s General.
  • Shore Leave/Holy Diver (voiced by Doc Hammer): A former O.S.I. agent fired for violating O.S.I.'s don't ask, don't tell policy. Shore Leave had joined Hunter Gathers in S.P.H.I.N.X.. In Pinstripes & Poltergeists, it is revealed that he and Mile High faked being a couple as well as their conversion to religious fanaticism, for their cover. He started flirting with the Alchemist in the last episode of the 4th season and ended up making out with him. It is also revealed in "Everybody Comes To Hank's" that he and the Alchemist were briefly in a sexual relationship, but Shore Leave broke it off and wiped the Alchemist's memory when he became too "possessive" and dumped his boyfriend to move in with Shore Leave.
  • Mile High/Sky Pilot (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A former O.S.I. agent fired for violating O.S.I.'s don't ask, don't tell policy. He had joined Hunter Gathers in Sphinx. In the episode Pinstripes & Poltergeists, it is revealed that he and Shore Leave faked being a couple as well as their conversion to religious fanaticism for their cover. His name is a reference to the mile high club, as well as to the 1968 song "Sky Pilot" by Eric Burdon & The Animals. In the season finale "Operation: P.R.O.M." it is revealed he was a double-agent working for the O.S.I..
  • Dr. Vulcano (voiced by Brendon Small): The surgeon who performs sex reassignment surgery on Hunter Gathers in "Assassinanny 911". Later, he is seen assisting the Nazis in their creation of the dog containing Hitler's soul and removing H.E.L.P.eR's head from Brock's chest in "Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel", where he is also revealed to be a member of S.P.H.I.N.X. under Hunter Gathers' command. In "O.S.I. Love You", Dr. Vulcano is seen to have been recruited into O.S.I.
  • Headshot (voiced by Bill Hader): O.S.I.'s top marksman, who worked on the mission to capture Monstroso and Molotov Cocktease. He is in a relationship with Amber. In a moment of infidelity, he attempts to examine who he believes to be the captive Molotov Cocktease, only to discover Amber in her place. More shocking to him is the truth about Amber's hair color. It is heavily implied that Headshot accidentally shot and killed the head of the Guild, The Sovereign, while the latter was escaping in eagle form. It was later confirmed that the Sovereign had died, but it is unknown whether Headshot's action gained any acknowledgment.
  • Amber Gold (voiced by Paget Brewster): A female operative of O.S.I. She is tasked with examining Molotov Cocktease in captivity. When she believes that the Nozzle has detected a foreign object in Molotov's eyepatch, she momentarily takes her eyes off Molotov, allowing Molotov to escape her restraints and disguise herself as Amber using Amber's platinum blonde wig to cover her own shorter natural blonde hair. Amber is in a relationship with Headshot, although their relationship becomes strained when he discovers her blonde hair is a wig and feels she is hiding other things from him. Additionally, she is having an affair with Brock Samson.
  • Afterburner (voiced by Doc Hammer): A ninja operative of O.S.I. who wears a complete bodysuit similar to Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe, to hide his horribly disfiguring burn scars.
  • Shuttle Cock: An O.S.I. operative themed after an astronaut who wields a badminton racket as a weapon. He is a double-agent killed by Molotov Cocktease.
  • Slap Chop: An O.S.I. martial artist operative resembling Iron Fist from comics and Vince Offer, known for pitching the "Slap Chop" kitchen utensil on infomercials. He is a double-agent killed by Molotov Cocktease.
  • Bum Rush: An O.S.I. operative themed after a homeless beggar, who stores his weapons in a shopping cart. He is a double-agent killed by Molotov Cocktease.
  • Tank Top: An O.S.I. operative who wears an armored tank top with a tank cannon attached to it. He is a double-agent killed by Molotov Cocktease.
  • Snoopy (voiced by John Hodgman): A meek O.S.I. operative who works on the bridge and assists General Gathers.

Archvillains and henchmen[edit]

The Guild of Calamitous Intent[edit]

The Guild of Calamitous Intent is the primary antagonist in the series. It functions as an organization of supervillains, akin to a trade union, offering benefits such as health insurance and establishing rules and conduct standards among its members and their adversaries, primarily superheroes and super-scientists. Serving as a stabilizing force in the world of supervillainy, the Guild prevents unchecked chaos by organizing its members into a cohesive force and restricting their actions to Guild-approved targets, thereby curbing total destruction, murder, and mayhem. Initially led by the enigmatic figure known as "The Sovereign" and the Council of Thirteen, the current iteration of the Guild suggests a refuge for missing or presumed deceased rock stars. In Season 6, most of the Council of 13 is eliminated by The Sovereign to solidify control and confront the supernatural supervillain group, The Investors. Following The Sovereign's accidental demise at the hands of O.S.I., surviving members, including Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, Dr. Phineas Phage, Dr. Z, Red Mantle, and Dragoon, under Dr. Henry Killinger's guidance, form a new Council of 13, with assistance from the surviving Revenge Society members, after Killinger eradicates the Investors to restore balance between O.S.I. and the Guild. Although Killinger declines the Sovereign role, he bestows control of the Guild to the council. Season six introduces the New York branch of the Guild, comprising the organization's most dangerous supervillains. Notably, the original Guild charter does not stipulate a specific number of council members, and members cannot actively engage in arching their enemies.

The current iteration of the Guild was reportedly established around 1959 by Phantom Limb's grandfather. However, its roots extend back to the late Victorian era, when it operated as a heroic organization under the leadership of Colonel Lloyd Venture, Rusty Venture's grandfather. This earlier incarnation was devoted to safeguarding an enigmatic artifact known as the "ORB." A schism within the organization arose over differing views on the ORB's purpose. Fantomas founded the Guild of Calamitous Intent in 1910, advocating for using the ORB to dominate mankind, while Lloyd established the modern version of the OSI, aiming to utilize the ORB for the betterment of humanity.

The Monarch[edit]

The Monarch (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Dr. Venture's self-styled nemesis, whose real name is Malcom Fitzcarraldo. He is obsessed with monarch butterflies, which he claims raised him as a child after he survived the plane wreck that killed his parents. While attending State University, he began arching Dr. Venture, though the reasons remain unrevealed (though possibly due to mocking his affinity for butterflies and suspecting him of being a "closet case"). He later worked for various villains and served as Phantom Limb's Shadowman 9 until becoming The Monarch and winning over Dr. Girlfriend. Despite frequently portraying himself as Dr. Venture's nemesis, their rivalry exists solely in The Monarch's imagination. In reality, Dr. Venture sees him more as a nuisance than a genuine threat, even entrusting his sons to The Monarch's care due to his incompetence. He is also Captain Sunshine's unofficial arch-enemy, demonstrating greater ruthlessness by killing Wonder Boy III and sending the hero his charred corpse. The Monarch eventually lost his arching privileges against Rusty after being discovered as an unsanctioned Guild villain. However, he regained the right to arch Rusty by invoking the Guild's "prior escalation" clause. In season one's finale, he was wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned due to framing by Phantom Limb. After escaping in season two, he rebuilds his criminal enterprise, reuniting with Dr. Girlfriend and eventually marrying her. By the third season, they reside in Phantom Limb's former mansion in the gated community of Malice. In season five, The Monarch's Cocoon ship, home, and henchmen are destroyed by Sgt. Hatred, leading him, his wife, and Henchman 21 to relocate to The Monarch's abandoned childhood home in Newark, New Jersey. Losing his cocoon and henchmen substantially lowers his Guild ranking, thereby revoking his rights to fight Dr. Venture. In "Faking Miracles," The Monarch discovers that his father was the Blue Morpho. Assuming his father's hero identity, he and Henchman 21 eliminate New York Guild members harassing Dr. Venture to advance on the waiting list. In season 7, it's hinted that The Monarch's mother had an affair with Jonas Venture, making him Dr. Venture's half-brother, a revelation that shocks him. In the film, Ben reveals that he and Dr. Venture are clones of the original Rusty Venture, with The Monarch having baboon DNA spliced in to counter premature alopecia, though it results in heightened aggression. He was given to Don Fitzcarraldo by Jonas Venture.

Henchman 21[edit]

Henchman 21/Gary Fischer[3], briefly known as S.P.H.I.N.X. Commander and occasionally as the Viceroy (voiced by Doc Hammer): A pop-culture geek who, at the series' outset, serves as a henchman for The Monarch, always alongside his closest friend Henchman 24. He authors "Flight of The Monarch," a tell-all that leads to The Monarch's incarceration. Following Henchman 24's demise, he undergoes intense combat training, emerging with enough strength and martial skill to challenge Brock Samson. Together, he and Samson defeat Monstroso, a common foe. Henchman 21 continues to converse with what he believes is Henchman 24's ghost, though Henchman 24's ghost suggests he may only exist in Henchman 21's mind (a notion both confirmed and refuted in Operation: P.R.O.M.), echoing Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King." In "Operation P.R.O.M.," 21 is invited to join S.P.H.I.N.X., an anti-unlicensed superhero team, where he finds camaraderie and begins to question his loyalty to The Monarch and villainy in general. Ultimately, he realizes villainy isn't his path and resigns from The Monarch's service. In "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy," a 2011 Venture Brothers special set after "Operation P.R.O.M.," he is interviewed wearing a S.P.H.I.N.X. uniform with his face obscured, going by the name Viceroy. Following "Operation P.R.O.M.," Gary assumes command of S.P.H.I.N.X., though it's short-lived as original S.P.H.I.N.X. members seize control, prompting O.S.I. to disband the organization. Gary resides in the Venture Compound's backyard after Dr. Venture and Sgt. Hatred destroy S.P.H.I.N.X.'s headquarters, mistakenly believing Gary planted bombs there (in reality planted by The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch during an infiltration attempt). Later, adopting his "Viceroy" persona, he aids Hank and Dermott in a bank robbery to reach Teddy at Dunwitch Asylum. After assisting Hatred in rescuing Dr. Venture, he leads The Monarch's henchmen in overthrowing the moppets and decides to rejoin The Monarch, not out of loyalty or to the henchman lifestyle, but because The Monarch is his only remaining friend. By Season 7, 21 is The Monarch's sole henchman, aiding him in his role as the new Blue Morpho by eliminating Dr. Venture's enemies, though he struggles with guilt as he has never intentionally killed before. Attempting to stop the killings, he captures several archenemies, but one cannibalizes the others. In the season finale, the Guild offers Gary a chance to become a supervillain and leave The Monarch, but he declines, reaffirming his loyalty to his best friend and his desire to help him settle his grudge.

Henchman 24[edit]

Henchman 24 (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A tall, thin man with a voice reminiscent of comic Ray Romano and described by 21 in the second season's first episode as resembling Jerry Seinfeld with a unibrow. He served as Shadowman 24 for Phantom Limb simultaneously with The Monarch's tenure as Shadowman 9. The Monarch promised to promote him to "number 2" in exchange for a favor, a pledge never fulfilled. Henchman 24's powder blue Nissan Stanza serves as the replacement Monarch Mobile after The Monarch's lair is destroyed, but it's promptly stolen by a fleeing prostitute. The Stanza mysteriously reappears in The Monarch's Cocoon garage, heavily damaged from the Cocoon's crash in the Grand Canyon. The Monarch remembers little about 24 besides his voice, likened to Ray Romano's. Formerly a factory worker, 24 confides in Dean that his ex-girlfriend married his father and he aspired to become a cabinet maker. He perishes in an explosion at the end of the season three finale. Throughout season 4, his skull appears as an object with whom #21 converses as before. In "Pinstripes & Poltergeists," #24 seemingly manifests as a ghost haunting #21 due to lack of alternative options. In "Operation: P.R.O.M.," it's revealed that #24 wasn't a ghost during season 4 but a figment of 21's grief-stricken imagination. 21's acknowledgment of this allows him to come to terms with 24's demise. Though he suspects foul play in 24's death, he accuses Tim Tom and Kevin, enabling The Monarch's henchmen to overthrow them.

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch[edit]

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, née, formerly known as Dr. Sheila Girlfriend (voiced by Doc Hammer): The wife and assistant to The Monarch. Throughout much of her tenure as The Monarch's second-in-command, she donned Jackie Kennedy's iconic short pink jacket and pillbox hat, echoing the former First Lady's style and accent, typical of Long Island. Her humorously deep voice stems from a past smoking addiction, satirizing the former First Lady's lower-than-usual vocal pitch. Following The Sovereign's demise, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch rises to prominence within the Guild, placing strain on her marriage with The Monarch—especially when his authority to arch Dr. Venture is revoked due to his perceived low status in comparison to a Level 10 Protagonist like Venture. The Monarch believes his wife should expedite his ascent to a higher rank, whereas she prioritizes her role within the Guild, adhering strictly to protocol. Unlike her husband, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch often delineates between her villainous persona and her true self, frequently addressing herself by her birth name, Sheila, and maintaining amicable relationships and collaborations with certain protagonists and their allies when necessary.

Tim-Tom and Kevin[edit]

Tim-Tom and Kevin (voiced by Christopher McCulloch and Doc Hammer, respectively): Achondroplastic dwarves who previously served as Dr. Girlfriend's assistants during her solo career as Lady Au Pair. Despite their surly, foul-mouthed, and seemingly psychotic behavior—readily engaging in ferocious attacks with their matching stilettos with minimal provocation—they maintain a respectful demeanor toward Dr. Girlfriend. However, in her absence, their demeanor shifts markedly, revealing a more aggressive and unstable disposition. Although typically intimidating towards others, they exhibited fear when confronted and threatened by The Monarch, particularly when his wife was not present—an occurrence that underscored the only instance they displayed vulnerability. Despite their tendency to bully others, they developed a modicum of respect for 21 following his transformation into General 21.

They are presumed to have perished in the destruction of the Cocoon, orchestrated by Sergeant Hatred.

Watch and Ward[edit]

Watch and Ward (voiced by Christopher McCulloch and Doc Hammer, respectively): As the communications and operations liaisons for the Guild of Calamitous Intent, Watch and Ward are responsible for interacting with prospective protagonists and antagonists to facilitate appropriate arching assistance. Watch is characterized by a tactical eyepatch covering his left eye and a bald appearance, while Ward sports an eyepatch over his right eye, with hair protruding from beneath his cowl. The duo frequently engage in arguments, often drawing inspiration from real-life conversations between McCulloch and Hammer, such as Ward's irritation when Watch consumes his juice box.

Dr. Henry Killinger[edit]

Dr. Henry Killinger (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A highly skilled businessman and negotiator, Dr. Henry Killinger demonstrates a profound understanding of legal matters, particularly tax law. While he possesses magical abilities, the precise nature and scope of his powers remain ambiguous. Some characters struggle to comprehend him when he speaks due to his complex manner of communication.

Dr. Killinger's notable appearances involve spontaneously offering his services as a strategist, business consultant, and motivational coach to main characters, free of charge, in the episodes "I Know Why The Caged Bird Kills" and "The Doctor Is Sin". In both instances, his intervention leads to a significant improvement in the efficiency of his clients' endeavors. Despite his status as a supervillain capable of ruthlessly dispatching adversaries, Dr. Killinger also exhibits the capacity for forming genuine friendships and performing acts of kindness. He fosters an avuncular relationship with the Venture boys in "The Doctor Is Sin", to the extent that they affectionately refer to him as "Uncle Henry".

The Sovereign[edit]

The Sovereign (voiced by Christopher McCulloch, with an impersonation of David Bowie by James Urbaniak): A mysterious figure who leads the Guild of Calamitous Intent, The Sovereign primarily communicates through telescreens, which distort his face and voice. While initially appearing as David Bowie, "O.S.I Love You" reveals that he is a shapeshifter who frequently adopts Bowie's likeness. Whether The Sovereign is the actual David Bowie within the show's universe remains ambiguous.

In "All this and Gargantua-2", The Sovereign orchestrates the murder of most Council of 13 members and engineers an assault on Gargantua-2 as part of a larger plan to eliminate the Investors. He meets his demise while in eagle form, shot down by Headshot.

Force Majeure[edit]

Force Majeure: The original sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, Force Majeure was an elemental villain and the archenemy of Jonas Venture. He met his demise at the hands of the shape-shifter who later assumed the role of The Sovereign. He was married to Madame Majeure and is hinted to be the biological grandfather of the Venture Brothers.

Iggy Pop[edit]

Iggy Pop (impersonated by Christopher McCulloch): An American rock musician and one of the Sovereign's henchmen. He possesses the ability to create spheres of energy that explode upon his command, "Pop." Despite betraying the Sovereign in favor of Phantom Limb, he meets his demise at the hands of the Sovereign for his treachery.

Klaus Nomi[edit]

Klaus Nomi (impersonated by Christopher McCulloch): A German singer and one of the Sovereign's henchmen. He possesses the ability to sing in a hypersonic voice, and his bowtie can function as a projectile. Despite betraying the Sovereign in favor of Phantom Limb, he meets his demise at the hands of the Sovereign for his treachery.

Eon[edit]

Eon: The Sovereign's new bodyguard, bearing a striking resemblance to longtime Bowie collaborator Brian Eno.

Monstroso[edit]

Monstroso (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) is both a lawyer with the Mammoth Corporation and a supervillain licensed with the Guild of Calamitous Intent. His size is enormous, with a lap sufficient for Dr. Girlfriend and a brace of four additional revelers. Monstroso is prosperous enough to have employed the bulk of The Monarch's men while he was in prison, no doubt due to his lawyer and supervillain vocations. In "The Silent Partners", Monstroso has the Investors kidnap Billy Quizboy, and it is revealed that he is dying of heart failure and requires a transplant from King Gorilla. Billy was chosen because of his skills, and the Investors would return the favor by forging documents signed by Billy to "officially" give him credentials to be legally recognized as a doctor and "immortality" for his recognized fame as a great surgeon because the surgery is so difficult. Billy completes the transplant, and in the post-credits scene, Monstroso appears to be recovering from his surgery, although he appears to be unaware that he is no longer on his boat but actually at the Sphinx headquarters on the Venture compound. However, in "Operation: P.R.O.M.", Monstroso is rescued by Molotov, and it is revealed that he and Molotov are in a romantic relationship. After the limousine, in which he is being rescued by Molotov, falls off a cliff, Brock finds it in the season 5 premiere and finds Monstroso's "body" was a fake, with no trace of Molotov. He and Molotov are eventually captured by O.S.I. in "O.S.I. Love You", but he is killed by the Investors after he reveals too many guild secrets to Brock.

Torrid[edit]

Torrid (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) is the archenemy of the Order of the Triad. He is first assigned as their archenemy in "Fallen Arches" when he kidnaps Triana Orpheus to the Torrid Zone. He possesses fire-based powers. In "Showdown at Cremation Creek", he steals the All-Seeing Orb, prompting The Alchemist and Jefferson Twilight to question the utility of having an archenemy. Torrid's final appearance is when he attempts to open a portal to the Second World, unwittingly getting sucked into it and then summoning an elder god that the Triad are unable to defeat, leaving Orpheus' protege, the Outrider, to save them all.

Truckules[edit]

Truckules (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) is a supervillain with themes of both trucks and Hercules. He was formerly Number One for Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, from whom she learned how to hotwire any vehicle. His upper body resembles that of Optimus Prime's, and is so wide that when he attends The Monarch's wedding, he requests two seats.

The Intangible Fancy[edit]

The Intangible Fancy (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) is a supervillain with the ability to become intangible. He attends Dr. Venture's yard sale to make a purchase but becomes embroiled in the ensuing fight. Later, he is questioned by the Council of 13 after attempting to smuggle contraband.

The Investors[edit]

The Investors (Caecius: voiced by Doc Hammer; Skiron: voiced by John Hodgman; Lips: voiced by T. Ryder Smith) are a mysterious group of supervillains introduced in "Pinstripes & Poltergeists" as members of the Guild aligned with Monstroso. They possess seemingly omnipotent abilities, capable of granting the dreams and wishes of individuals through "contracts," albeit at a steep price. Despite being sought after by both O.S.I. and the reformed S.P.H.I.N.X., they evade capture.

In "O.S.I. Love You," they disguise themselves as O.S.I. Mister level operatives, including Mister Frost (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), Mister Sample (voiced by Dana Snyder), and Mister Yourname (voiced by Brendon Small), the latter of whom has not undergone proper induction. Their goal is to interrogate individuals regarding the whereabouts of Monstroso and Molotov Cocktease. During Brock's interrogation, they kill Monstroso, successfully deceiving General Gathers until the real Mister operatives arrive.

During the opening of Gargantua-2, they aim to "collect" what they offered to JJ Venture by destroying the station. Concurrently, The Sovereign plans to attack the station to eliminate the Investors before they demand their due from him. With assistance from Phantom Limb, they sabotage the station, escape The Sovereign, and confront Dr. Henry Killinger on Meteor Majeure, where they perish in battle.

Augustus St. Cloud[edit]

Augustus St. Cloud (voiced by Christopher McCulloch, originally James Urbaniak) is the affluent former rival of Billy from their quiz show days, both being collectors of sci-fi and Rusty Venture memorabilia. He initially appears at Dr. Venture's tag sale, enduring Baron Ünderbheit's attacks due to The Monarch's intervention. Later, he joins the ranks of supervillains, despite not being an official Guild member yet.

After making a substantial donation to the Guild's Widows and Orphans charity, he gains induction into the Guild and the privilege to choose from a pool of archnemeses. He insists on selecting Billy Quizboy, and Watch and Ward comply after another generous donation. St. Cloud's feud with Billy escalates when they must retrieve items he purchased from Dr. Venture to fund the Palaemon Project, uncovering St. Cloud's Asian albino henchman, "Pi Wai." Despite refusing to consume $1 worth of pennies, the exact value Billy outbid St. Cloud in an eBay auction years earlier, Billy triumphs over St. Cloud in a trivia contest once again. He reclaims Venture's hovercraft, essential for handling the Palaemon Project mutants, and H.E.L.P.er, who had been sold to St. Cloud.

St. Cloud is recognized by his short and stout stature, deadpan voice, round dark glasses, and assortment of ginger pageboy-style wigs. His immense wealth and somewhat petulant demeanor lead him to employ monetary persuasion or acquisitions to achieve his objectives.

The Council of Thirteen[edit]

The governing body of the Guild of Calamitous Intent consists of the following known members:

Council of the Sovereign[edit]

  • Councilman 1: Vendata (voiced by Doc Hammer): A cyborg created by Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. to house the consciousness and memories of human beings, specifically his friend Blue Morpho, who perished in a plane crash. Originally dubbed "Venturion," he malfunctioned and attempted to strangle young Rusty, prompting his destruction by Kano. This event profoundly affected both characters: Rusty experiences recurring nightmares, while Kano, devastated by the necessity of killing his former partner, swore eternal silence. Dr. Z salvaged Vendata's remains, reprogramming him into a supervillain named "Vendata." As a villain, he was part of a gang of young supervillains who attempted an unauthorized arch of Jonas aboard Gargantua-1. During a confrontation with Jonas, Vendata deliberately opened the station's bay doors, leading to the Movie Night Massacre. The Sovereign seemingly rewarded him by granting him the top seat on the council. O.S.I. orchestrated a sting operation, with Ghost Robot acting as an informant to extract information on the Council of Thirteen from Vendata, but Brock Samson severely damaged Ghost Robot. This attack triggers Vendata's recall of his original memories as the Blue Morpho. He confronts Jonas at Ventech Tower in New York City, assuming his Blue Morpho identity. Jonas, via the ProBLEM machine, reveals his intention to use Vendata/Venturion as a temporary vessel for his consciousness while Rusty clones a new body for Jonas, erasing Blue Morpho's consciousness and memories in the process. Their confrontation leads to their apparent demise when their virtual selves destroy their physical bodies inside the ProBLEM machine.
  • Councilman 2: Wild Fop (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A Restoration-themed supervillain introduced in an informational video provided to Dr. Orpheus upon his approval as a supervillain. He meets his demise when attacked by his dogs in "All This and Gargantua 2".
  • Councilman 3: Red Mantle (voiced by Doc Hammer): A magic-wielding supervillain with elemental powers, who is accompanied by Dragoon, attached to his neck. Together, they are referred to as "Red Dragoon" in season 6. Red Mantle is implied to be an elderly version of Buddy Holly, abducted by the Guild decades earlier.
  • Councilman 4: Boggles, the Clue Clown: A clown-themed supervillain and former nemesis of Captain Sunshine. He is a fusion of the Joker and the Riddler, with Dragoon describing his jokes as tedious and his riddles as obvious. Boggles is discovered deceased from a heart attack, possibly linked to his identity being exposed to Brock by Monstroso. He is replaced by Dr. Phineas Phage.
    • Dr. Phineas Phage (voiced by Bill Hader in season 4, James Adomian in seasons 5, 6, and 7): A cybernetic villain with a bacteriophage theme who leads a group of henchmen known as the "Pro-Teens." He debuts in "Pomp & Circuitry" as the Guild-appointed archenemy to Richard Impossible. Encountering Phantom Limb's altercation with Professor Impossible, Phage is assaulted by the fleeing villain but survives to notify the Guild. He makes a cameo appearance in "Any Which Way But Zeus," among the other villains and heroes whose followers were abducted. Following Boggles the Clue Clown's funeral in the season 5 episode "Bot Seeks Bot," Phage is appointed by the Sovereign as the new Councilman #4. To secure this position, he memorizes the entire book of Guild law for his exam but is ultimately outsmarted by Dr. Mrs. The Monarch in a debate on the subject. In "All This and Gargantua 2," he is one of the only Council members to survive, escaping with Dr. Mrs. The Monarch but eventually parting ways with her after leaving Guild headquarters. Upon the Guild's reformation, Phage is reinstated as a Councilman. However, he is absent from the current council members in "The Terminus Mandate," and it is later revealed that he is in a coma in "The Saphrax Protocol" due to injuries sustained when his cybernetic body caused a malfunction in the teleporter he was using.
  • Councilman 5: Dr. Z: See below.
  • Councilman 6: Monseñor (voiced by Larry Murphy): A priest and villain with a lucha libre theme. He delivers Boggles' eulogy at his funeral but is later killed by poison gas in "All This and Gargantua 2".
  • Councilman 7: Don Hell (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A magic-wielding supervillain who owns a nightclub for other supervillains called Don Hell's. Upon discovering Dr. Venture and Billy Quizboy in his establishment, he attempts to entertain his patrons by torturing them until Dr. Mrs. The Monarch reveals it violates Guild bylaws to harm another member's archenemy without approval. Loosely based on real-life New York City club promoter Don Hill, he meets his demise by drinking acid in "All This and Gargantua 2".
  • Councilman 8: Dragoon (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A dragoon-themed supervillain whose head has been sewn onto the body of Red Mantle. He is highly critical of fellow supervillains and believes all magic is abominable. Dragoon is gradually losing his faculties, mistakenly believing himself to be from the 16th century and confusing real events with those from Wacky Races. Implied to be an elderly Big Bopper, abducted by the Guild decades earlier.
  • Councilman 9: Steppenwolf (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A werewolf-themed supervillain. He owns a car similar to that owned by the family in The Munsters. Killed by a car bomb in "All This and Gargantua 2".
  • Councilman 10: An insect-themed armored supervillain who was killed by a car bomb in "All This and Gargantua 2". The The Art of the Venture Bros book mentions that the creators never settled on a name for this character but the name Omocha Bug may have been used in an early script.[4]
  • Councilman 11: Mommy Longlegs[5] (voiced by Paget Brewster): The only currently female member of the Council of Thirteen, she does not attend the congratulatory party for Phage as her grandchildren are coming to town for the weekend. Her silhouette resembles that of background character Mommy Longlegs, a spider-themed supervillainess, one among the many kidnapped by Zeus and Zero in "Any Which Way But Zeus". Killed by gunshots fired by a Guild murderbot while making her escape from the Sovereign's headquarters in "All This and Gargantua-2".
  • Councilman 12: The Nerve (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A supervillain who is a sentient nervous system with no body, floating in a transparent humanoid suit. Found dead in a dumpster in "All This and Gargantua 2".
  • Councilman 13: The Sovereign

Wide Wale[edit]

Wide Wale (voiced by Hal Lublin): The leader of the New York branch of the Guild, he is brought in to help shore up support for the Guild and the council after the events of Gargantua-2. He agrees to join only if he is given the arching rights to Dr. Venture. His real name is Chester Ong, and he is the younger brother of Doctor Dugong, a scientist whom The Monarch seemingly killed. As a result of a laboratory accident, he has physical aspects of whales as part of his biology; these traits were inherited by his daughter Sirena. In Season 7, he forbids his daughter from seeing Hank Venture since he doesn't approve of him. He later captures The Monarch and tells him that he plans to kill him out of revenge for his brother's death. He also tasks Hank with killing him, but he refuses, and just when Wide Wale is about to do it, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch and Red Death appear with Dr. Dugong, who grew a new head, allowing him to survive The Monarch's attempt on his life before he went into hiding, provided by the OSI. Wide Wale is then faced with dealing with his daughter and brother, who are angry that he didn't tell them about Dugong. In "The Terminus Mandate," he resigns from his seat on the council, as he is unable to let go of his personal vendettas, though he remains an ally to them.

Red Death[edit]

Red Death (voiced by Clancy Brown): A skinless red supervillain similar to the Red Skull. Despite his terrifying visage and reputation, he is actually a kind and loving husband and father. However, when arching or in times of anger or other elevated emotion, he slips into an evil persona with no hesitation to kill. In Season 7, it is revealed that Red Death was a member of a gang of young Guild villains at the beginning of his career in the 1980s.

Original members[edit]

  • Col. Lloyd Venture (August 24, 1800s - November 15, 1940) (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Grandfather of Dr. Jonas Venture Sr., great-grandfather to Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture and Dr. Jonas Venture Jr., and great-great-grandfather to Hank and Dean. Col. Venture was the leader of the Guild, a group set up to protect the Orb from falling into the wrong hands.
  • Eugen Sandow (voiced by Paul Boocock): Famed German bodybuilder who served as Col. Venture's O.S.I.-appointed bodyguard. In the flashbacks during the episode "Orb," he intimates in his phonograph diaries that he killed Col. Venture for attempting to discover the secrets of the Orb, the true purpose of O.S.I.'s watch over the Venture family. However, in "The Revenge Society," it is revealed that he only broke the Orb and both he and Col. Venture hid this from their descendants and later bodyguards.
  • Aleister Crowley (voiced by Steven Rattazzi): Famed British occultist who sought to use the Orb for his own ends, believing that he had a right to it as the Orb's most recent owner. However, he was later forcibly ejected from the Guild's zeppelin for doing so.
  • Fantômas (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Famed French thief and ancestor of Phantom Limb who wants to use the Orb to rule the world. He is later kicked out of the Guild and forms his own Guild of Calamitous Intent by recruiting Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, attempting to convince them that the sousaphone was an instrument that belonged in rock music.
  • Oscar Wilde (voiced by James Urbaniak): Famed Irish poet who, upon Fantômas' suggestion to use the Orb for evil, denounces that the Guild should not be a "Guild of Calamitous Intent."
  • Samuel Clemens (voiced by Paul Boocock): Famed American author and member of the original Guild who alerts fellow members that they are being chased by Nicola Tesla and his cadre of Avon Ladies.

Other members[edit]

  • Brick Frog: A villain clad in a frog costume whose "superpower" involves hurling bricks stored in a satchel.
  • Scare Bear: An enigmatic villain always garbed in a blood-stained bear costume, brandishing a knife. As it never communicates, its gender remains unknown. It made its debut as an applicant to the Revenge Society in "Bright Lights, Dean City," startling the leadership by stealthily entering Professor Impossible's office. Later, it joined the Guild, making sporadic background appearances before assuming a more significant role in "The Forecast Manufacturer." In this episode, it rescues an injured Hank from a blizzard, transporting him to Dean's dorm, where Sirena is revealed to be cheating on Hank with Dean. How it was aware of Sirena's relationship with Hank and her presence at the dorm with Dean remains a mystery.
  • Flying Squid (voiced by Bill Hader): A supervillain with a squid motif, who first identifies the costume Shoreleave is wearing in the bar as belonging to the missing Guild member, Sri Lankan Devil Bird. He subsequently rescues Dr. Venture from Don Hell by coordinating with The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch to utilize guild law for intervention.
  • Vespertina (voiced by Paget Brewster): A supervillainess with a floral theme, who makes advances towards Shoreleave while he is dressed as Red-Throated Loon, but is put off by his flamboyance.
  • Sri Lankan Devil Bird: A four-armed supervillain who endeavors to arch Dr. Venture in "The Doctor Is Sin." Brock dispatches him quickly. Later, Shoreleave utilizes his costume, under the alias "Red-Throated Loon," to infiltrate Don Hell's nightclub, but Flying Squid recognizes it as belonging to his comrade.
  • Sunsational (voiced by Doc Hammer): A supervillain with a theme inspired by the Solar System, who leads a group of henchmen, each representing one of the planets, with Sunsational himself embodying the Sun.
  • Galacticon: A robotic supervillain akin to Galactus. O.S.I. disguises Ghost Robot as Galacticon to go on a date with Vendata. Don Hell notes that the real Galacticon always comes to his club to pick up a new john, noting that he is into bears. The real Galacticon later appears at the club, causing problems with O.S.I.'s plans.
  • Haranguetan (voiced by Steven Rattazzi): A brutish supervillain with a preference for hand-to-hand violence. He is defeated by Warriana after injuring Sgt. Hatred and arguing with Brock. Later on, he returns to arch Dr. Venture again, only to become an unwitting test subject for Venture's "God Gas." The gas induces a violent hallucination in him, in which he sees Venture and Billy as demonic figures. While attacking Billy, he was confronted by The Monarch and 21 in their Blue Morpho and Kano alter-egos; 21 rescued Billy and knocked Haranguetan into a pit, killing him.
  • Battleaxe (voiced by Barbara Rosenblat): Haranguetan's Irish widow and a supervillain in her own right, who owns and manages a pub. When informed by Dr. Mrs. The Monarch of her husband's death, she becomes emotional and suits up in her villain costume and makeup to retrieve his vehicle, the Haranguetank, from impound. After doing so she becomes intoxicated and begins driving to confront Dr. Venture, whom she believes to be the Blue Morpho, only to hit Think Tank and drive into the same pit where Haranguetan died. Though seemingly killed alongside Think Tank, she is later revealed to have survived and returned to running her pub.
  • Copy-Cat (voiced by Toby Huss): A New York-based supervillain with the ability to produce duplicates of himself. He is smooth and womanizing, with no concern for the marital status of the objects of his interest. He attempts to seduce Dr. Mrs. The Monarch at Wide Wale's party and uses his powers along with The Monarch's stolen costume to frame him for illegally arching Dr. Venture. Despite failing in his seduction, he succeeds in increasing the rift between her and The Monarch. Though unconfirmed to be him, a similar looking man appears in All This and Gargantua-2 as the lounge singer promoted for Gargantua-2's casino. Inspired visually, as well as in speech pattern, by Dean Martin, though his voice is an impression of Frank Sinatra.
  • Dr. Nidaba/Think Tank (voiced by Jeffrey Wright): A genius supervillain who works as a professor of philosophy in his civilian persona, whose class is attended by both Dean Venture and Brown Widow. Upon receiving permission to arch Dr. Venture, he swiftly deduces that Dean is distracted from his classes by his home life and advises him to try to avoid his home situation, as he does not want to lose his best student. Later, donning a purple, tank-shaped suit of armor that grants him various abilities – such as the ability to ride up walls, project barriers and shoot laser projectiles – he attacks Venture, only for his plans to play chess fail when Venture informs him he does not play the game. He fights Brock and temporarily gets the upper hand, before Warriana – who has some unspecified (but very negative) history with him – appears and helps Brock destroy his armor. He is severely injured when hit by Battleaxe in the Haranguetank shortly afterward, though he is later revealed to be alive, and in a coma in The High Cost of Loathing. His hovering tank "chair" and incredibly large head is likely a nod to the Marvel Comics supervillain MODOK.
  • The Doom Factory: An avant-garde team of supervillains based on Andy Warhol and the Warhol Superstars as well as the Legion of Doom. Their M.O. is to throw lavish parties at the homes of their arches while quietly stealing all of their possessions. Their headquarters is a flying saucer beneath the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Their headquarters was blown up in midair by The Monarch after they had finished robbing Dr. Venture, killing them all at once.
    • Wes Warhammer (voiced by Chris McCulloch): The leader of the Doom Factory, based on Andy Warhol and Lex Luthor.
    • Frigid is a reference to Factory member Brigid Berlin. She is physically patterned after, and has the freezing powers of, Captain Cold.
    • Eenie-Meanie: A tiny, fairy-like villainess. Her name is a reference to Factory member Edie Sedgwick; her size-reducing powers are those of Bumblebee (a possible error in writing; Bumblebee is a heroic member of the Doom Patrol, and has never been a villain).
    • Serpentine is a name reference to Factory member Ondine, and has the loquacity of Riddler.
    • Hard Candy is a name reference to Factory member Candy Darling. This particular character actually appears to be a pastiche of two characters at the same time: while his skin seems to have the angular, multi-faceted appearance of Bizarro, his face strongly looks like that of The Joker (he also constantly cracks jokes).
    • She-Hemoth is a reference to Holly Woodlawn in terms of appearance, but her size-increasing power and appearance is that of Giganta.
    • Gerard the Gorilla takes his moniker from Factory member Gerard Malanga; he demonstrates no super powers in the episode, he physically resembles Gorilla Grodd.
    • Trashenstein is a reference to Factory member Joe Dallesandro: a pastiche of the titles of the movies for which he is most famously known, Flesh for Frankenstein and Trash. His mindless rage and monosyllabic grunting mirrors that of Solomon Grundy, even though his physical appearance is that of Frankenstein's Monster.
    • Black Maria is a reference to Factory member Paul Morrissey, while his appearance is an almost exact duplicate of longtime DC Comics supervillain and Legion of Doom member Black Manta mixed with a Polaroid Polavision film camera.
    • Ultra Violent is named after Factory member Ultra Violet; she physically resembles and demonstrates the powers of Star Sapphire.
    • Billy Maim borrows his name from Factory member Billy Name, and while he does not seem to physically resemble any Legion of Doom member, his retractable finger claws are reminiscent of LoD mainstay Cheetah.

The Revenge Society[edit]

A new, independent organization of villains set up primarily to oppose the Guild of Calamitous Intent; as such, a number of its members have had unpleasant dealings with the Guild in the past. Its founder is Phantom Limb, who initially created the society as his "team" to obtain the ORB for use against the Guild; however, this version of the Revenge Society was merely Phantom Limb himself along with a coffee mug named Wisdom, a toaster named Chuck, and a shoe called Lady Nightshade that he believed were real people. After escaping Guild custody later on, Phantom Limb teamed up with Richard Impossible to found the current Revenge Society, which has since had quick success in the field of villainy and they fail to kill Dr. Venture, twice in "Bright Light, Dean City". The group has effectively been broken up as of "All this and Gargantua-2".

  • The Phantom Limb (Hamilton G. Fantomos) (voiced by James Urbaniak): A villain with invisible arms and legs. Although he is quite cunning and ruthless, he is also one of the more culturally refined characters in the show, judging from his interest in Persian rugs and fine cheeses. Despite his intellect, he often comes off as pretentious, and at times clueless about the repercussions of his action - as if he's too far into his 'role' to understand what he's doing. He was originally a professor at the same state college many of the show's characters had attended and had tiny deformed arms and legs, resulting in him being disowned by his family of adventurers. When Billy Quizboy was sent in by O.S.I. to spy on him, Fantomas made Billy his lab assistant, thinking he possessed a brilliant mind. During an experiment to turn his limbs to normal size, a malfunction occurred which turned Fantomas' limbs not only to normal size, but also invisible, and endowed him with the ability to kill with a mere touch. He once dated Dr. Girlfriend, but she left him for The Monarch after she grew tired of his controlling and possessive personality.
  • Professor Richard Impossible (voiced by Stephen Colbert in seasons 1, 2, and "All This and Gargantua-2" Peter McCulloch in "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay", Christopher McCulloch in season 3, and Bill Hader in season 4): Founder of Impossible Industries, a major government contractor, and former professor to Dr. Venture, Mr. White, Billy Quizboy, and also hired Dean Venture as an intern. He holds science and the pursuit of knowledge in much higher regard than other people; at times this has made itself manifest as homicidal ruthlessness, though most of the time he's simply out of touch, causing animosity with his wife, Sally. Impossible and his cohorts are a parody of the Fantastic Four: an experiment with cosmic radiation gave them each strange abilities (this parody is referenced explicitly in the episode "Love Bheits" when it is mentioned that the Impossibles beat the Ventures in a costume contest by dressing as the Fantastic Four). Richard can stretch his body like rubber, similar to Mister Fantastic, and seems to use this power to make himself appear taller. The other members of his family have useless parodies of the other members' powers. A disheveled, depressed Richard Impossible is seen in "Pomp & Circuitry," having spent time since the party in terrible condition due to being depressed from his wife leaving him for JJ Venture, being recruited by the Phantom Limb to gain revenge on the Guild, and in the end, forming a new Guild with Phantom Limb. Richard then takes on the supervillain moniker Professor Incorrigible, but quits when he realizes his son needs him to be a father and leaves Gargantua-2 with his ex-wife and son.
  • Baron Werner Ünderbheit (voiced by T. Ryder Smith): A noted member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and former tyrant dictator of Ünderland. He wears a prosthetic metal jaw and speaks in a thick, pseudo-German accent. He blames Dr. Venture for the loss of his jaw; however, it has since been revealed that the explosion that disfigured Ünderbheit was actually caused by The Monarch. After his deposing, he is seen in "Pomp and Circuitry" panhandling outside of Impossible Industries, and again in the post-credits sequence asking to join Phantom Limb and Professor Impossible's new Guild. He is presumed dead after Gargantua-2 exploded.
    • Manservant (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Baron Ünderbheit's servant, given to him as a birthday present while he was in college. He is so completely devoted to Ünderbheit that he almost seems to have no will of his own; he speaks in a zombie-like monotone and always appears to be staring into space. He is seen in "Pomp and Circuitry" with Baron Underbheit, panhandling outside of Impossible Industries, and by his side when the Baron tries joining Phantom Limb and Impossible's new Guild. In "Bright Lights, Dean City" he appears briefly with the Revenge Society in a new costume before Ünderbheit, to show loyalty to the Society, breaks his neck, killing him.
  • Fat Chance (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A supervillain recruited into the Revenge Society to fill up missing archetypical positions. After a scientific accident, Fat Chance's duodenum now contains a portal to another dimension from which he pulls objects that always seem to help him.
  • Lyndon Bee (voiced by Christopher McCulloch) and Ladyhawk Johnson (voiced by Mia Barron): A pair of supervillains inducted into the Revenge Society. During the day Lyndon Bee transforms into a bee and at night Ladyhawk transforms into a hawk, and they are cursed to never be together except during an eclipse.
  • Radical Left (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A supervillain imprisoned at Dunwitch Asylum who has half of his body severely disfigured. Based on DC comics villain Two-Face, his personality is split between "Radical" anarchist ideas and peaceful desires more akin to a common 50's suburbanite. He is later seen as a member of the Revenge Society and later the New Council, in "All This and Gargantua-2". It is revealed in season 7 that Radical Left absorbed his nemesis Right Wing in a past encounter, meaning they each share one half of a full body, with the two occasionally playing games to decide who controls their body's actions.
  • Zero (Scott Hall) (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Originally Number One in The Monarch's forces, he is brutally beaten by Brock Samson in a stealth mission on Spider-Skull Island after his adherence to cliches while sabotaging the island caught Brock's attention. Later, he takes the name Zero, and with the original Captain Sunshine, kidnaps the world's sidekicks to pit them in battle against each other, only to be stopped by a rebellion led by Gary. He joins the Revenge Society in their robbery of Gargantua-2, but his genre blindness ultimately leads to his death, as he becomes so caught up in killing Brock that he spends minutes monologuing to him and thus allows Amber Gold to disarm him, giving Brock the chance to snap his neck.

Ünderland[edit]

Ünderland is a micronation located near Michigan. Once led by Baron Werner Ünderbheit in a dictatorship, he ruled the land and had a forced conscription for all men age 18 and a forced euthanasia at 40. Ünderland also had no prisons, as all crimes are subject to the death penalty. As a result of "Love Bheits", Ünderbheit is deposed and Ünderland becomes a democratic society.

  • Girl Hitler (voiced by Mia Barron): Formerly one of Baron Ünderbheit's senior advisers, she (along with Catclops and Manic 8-ball) was "executed" for betraying Ünderbheit's confidence, although all three survived. Since Baron Ünderbheit's removal from power, she has become Ünderland's president.
  • Catclops (voiced by James Urbaniak): A cyclops with a cat's face and a tail protruding from the back of his head. After their "execution" by tiger-bombs, he and Girl Hitler fled underground, where they led an ineffectual group of freedom fighters. After Ünderland's liberation, he proposed to Girl Hitler.
  • Manic 8-ball (unvoiced): A human with the powers of a magic 8-ball. He was "executed" by Baron Ünderbheit for treason along with Catclops and Girl Hitler. Despite surviving the combination of tiger attack and explosion, he was captured and remained a prisoner of Ünderbheit, who used his eight-ball power for advice. Lacking a mouth, he never speaks, instead using the 8-ball messages on his chest to answer yes or no questions.
  • Eunuchs (voiced by Christopher McCulloch and James Urbaniak): A pair of homosexuals who work under Baron Ünderbheit to prepare Dawn (Dean Venture) for the Baron's wedding. The thinner of the two was actually a college student from Detroit who took a semester abroad to Ünderland before being captured and conscripted as a court eunuch. He discovers that Dean is actually a boy but keeps the secret to embarrass Ünderbheit.

Imprisoned villains[edit]

  • King Gorilla (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A talking homosexual gorilla who befriended The Monarch while in jail. King Gorilla was a member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent until his imprisonment for brutal murder and rape of Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil during a reality TV show. Because of his high-profile crime, the Guild turned its back on King Gorilla and has led to the villain becoming bitter and cynical towards the Guild. After kidnapping and attempting to rape The Monarch, he was moved enough by The Monarch's quest to regain Dr. Girlfriend's love that he assisted in the fellow villain's escape from prison. Though it was believed at first that King Gorilla had been killed off screen by Phantom Limb, Christopher McCulloch's LiveJournal has revealed he was supposed to return, free from prison, in the second half of the fourth season.
  • Mr. Monday (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): An upperclass-esque villain with a monocle, obsessed with Monday. When The Monarch is planning his breakout for that night, Mr. Monday insists "Can't we wait until Monday?" and uses words such as "Mondaylicious!" Mr. Monday is released from prison by Phantom Limb, only to be hunted and killed by him on his private grounds in Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part I).
  • Tigeriffic (voiced by Paul Boocock) A former supervillain with superhuman strength and tiger-like abilities.
  • White Noise (voiced by Brendon Small) A smoking, racist former television repair-man, White Noise was transformed while repairing a TV that was still plugged into a live socket. He is concerned about The Monarch's criminal organization being "racially mixed", and doesn't want his pure white blood to be muddied. The Monarch then questions whether he even has blood, and how he knows he's even white. He speaks with a Southern dialect. During The Monarch's escape, he was supposed to aid by taking out the guards, along with Dr. Septapus. He is also hunted and fatally shot by Phantom Limb on his private grounds.
  • Dr. Septapus (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Another one of The Monarch's criminal cohorts while in prison, Dr. Septapus has seven limbs on his body. Four arms on his sides, one arm from his chest, and two legs. During The Monarch's escape, he was supposed to aid by taking out the guards, along with White Noise. He is released from prison, only to be hunted by Phantom Limb on his private grounds. He is shot down from a tree, and then shot again on the ground.
  • Tiny Joseph (voiced by Doc Hammer): Although he originally appeared as one of The Monarch's henchmen in a dream sequence in "A Very Venture Christmas", he later appeared as The Monarch's cellmate. He is only a few inches tall, and inscribes a message upon a Microdot, which is to be carried out by a butterfly for The Monarch. He was also used as a projectile in The Monarch's makeshift prison dartgun.
  • Teddy (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A criminally insane supervillain with severe burns who once provided the voice for a Teddy Ruxpin-like toy, imprisoned in the Dunwitch Asylum for the Criminally Insane after hugging Ronald Reagan too hard. The boys and Hatred first use the toy to trick their father into thinking he has been kidnapped by Zeus in "Any Which Way but Zeus", and then Hank and Dermott use the same toy to trick their father into thinking he is still talking to Teddy in "Momma's Boys" by using a prepaid cellphone to keep him occupied while they sneak out of the house. When Venture discovers part of the ruse, he assumes Teddy is in danger. Hank, Dermott, Gary, and H.E.L.P.eR try to get into Dunwitch to talk to the original Teddy, but fall into Myra Brandish's coup attempt. Teddy later escapes and saves Dr. Venture and Sgt. Hatred from certain death when their car falls into a ravine on the way to "Bygolly Gulch".
  • Cuckoo Clocker (voiced by Christoper McCulloch): A supervillain imprisoned at Dunwitch Asylum who has a cuckoo clock door in his head.
  • Big Time: A supervillain imprisoned at Dunwitch Asylum who has a clock face tattooed on his face and his moustache resembles two clock hands. Both he and Myra Brandish believe he has powers over time.
  • Maybe Man (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A supervillain imprisoned at Dunwitch Asylum who Myra Brandish asks to place Dean in her womb so she may finally give birth to him, although he only responds with "maybe".

Fraternity of Torment[edit]

The Fraternity of Torment is one of a handful of supervillain organizations other than the Guild of Calamitous Intent. The group was largely made up of disenfranchised men shunned by society for their various physical defects. They were frequently the antagonists to Team Venture during the 1960s, and it is shown that Jonas and his team often seemed to merely be tormenting and bullying them for fun rather than fighting them out of any sense of justice. The remnants of the original group appear in "Now Museum, Now You Don't", but it is stated they still have some level of presence in the world of organized supervillainy alongside the "Peril Partnership".

  • Scaramantula (voiced by Toby Huss): An Italian spider-themed supervillain themed after the James Bond villain Scaramanga. He has eight fingers on his right hand and a partial spider mask on his face complemented by his eyebrows and moustache as a full set of eight legs. He owned Spider Skull Island until an unsuccessful kidnapping of Rusty Venture results in their defeat by Team Venture, as Dr. Venture has infiltrated the group posing as "Dr. Fanadragon" whose backstory claimed a supernumerary nipple caused exclusion in his hometown. After Dr. Venture reveals his identity, the Fraternity is defeated by Team Venture and Scaramantula escaped, and set off a self-destruct sequence that ultimately failed, resulting in Spider Skull Island's annexation into Venture Industries. In the present day, Scaramantula has retired from supervillainy and is in top shape having exercised on Spider Skull Island's escape path many times. After seeing what has been done to his former home, he assists Brainulo in taking revenge, and ultimately escapes another death at the hands of the self-destruct sequence.
  • Brainulo (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A supervillain from a thousand years in the future claimed to have been trapped in the year 1969 after Dr. Jonas Venture destroyed his means of returning. With his superior intellect and mental powers, he controlled a giant robot known as Futuro. During the attack on Spider Skull Island, Brainulo took control of Futuro, but the Humongoloid knocks it over, crushing Brainulo. In the present day, Brainulo is revealed to be a paraplegic and it appears he has become senile, but the senility is all an act to take revenge on Dr. Venture and his offspring. He preys on the insecurities and fears of those at the Jonas Venture Museum's opening party, hoping to cause a riot, but when he fails he attempts to take control of Futuro one last time, but the attempt shorts his own brain, resulting in actual senility. He turns up again in the lobby of Impossible Industries in "Bright Lights, Dean City" as an apparent applicant to the Revenge Society; however, given that he is merely sitting still and staring, he may have simply wandered in.
  • Manotaur: A supervillain possessing superstrength and having been made an outcast due to his size. During the flashback in "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny", The Monarch claimed to be "Manotaur" to avoid retaliation from Phantom Limb after he seduced Dr. Girlfriend. In the end of the episode, it is revealed the Manotaur is real and had since retired into a job with the MTA whereupon he is killed by the still living Phantom Limb.

Peril Partnership[edit]

The Peril Partnership is another supervillain union based out of Toronto. It is one of several rival organizations to the Guild of Calamitous Intent. Its members can be distinguished by their wearing the letters 'PP.' In season 7, it is revealed that the Peril Partnership has infiltrated the Guild. However, it is revealed that this is actually a splinter group made up of some of the Peril Partnership's American members, hoping to cause a war between the Guild and Peril Partnership so that they can take over as the dominant super villain organization.

  • Tiger Shark (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A shark-themed supervillain who is the only known member of the Peril Partnership. He appears in "Any Which Way But Zeus" to participate in the think tank to find everyone's kidnapped henchmen and sidekicks. He reveals he previously fought Brock Samson during Samson's time in O.S.I., though his vendetta is more personal since he found Brock in bed with his wife. Brock half-heartedly apologizes and hints his wife lied to him about being married.
  • The Creep (voiced by James Adomian): The leader of the Peril Partnership splinter cell. The Creep was originally an O.S.I agent known as Mission Creep, but was discharged after he wiped out an entire Boy Scout troop while securing a mountain fortress, claiming that he mistook them for enemy combatants. He refused to join the Guild due to their rules and by-laws, and instead joined the Peril Partnership, only to again find himself chafed by their code of conduct. Finally, he established a splinter cell of equally disgruntled villains, planning to provoke a war between the Guild and the Partnership. He then made a habit of killing Guild villains for sport and taking their signature tools or gimmicks as prizes, as he planned to weaponize them against the O.S.I after taking out both the Guild and the Partnership. He is tracked down by the Monarch and 21 on orders from the Guild and O.S.I, and he forces them to play a deadly game of Lawn Darts, ending when he accidentally kills himself while distracted by Dr. Venture and Billy Quizboy appearing from Grover Cleveland's Presidential time machine.
  • Blind Rage (voiced by Brendon Small): A blind, pro wrestling-themed villain who is part of the Peril Partnership splinter cell. He is sent to blackmail the Council of Thirteen, but is rebuked. Later the same day he is hunted down by Red Death, who knocks him out and ties him to the subway train tracks (but not telling him if the train is on the track he is tied to), leaving him to either be run over or survive and deliver a message not to threaten the Guild. Whether or not he survived is unknown.

S.P.H.I.N.X.[edit]

Originally a terrorist organization that was the primary adversary of the O.S.I. 20 years ago until its defeat in the Pyramid Wars of 1987. The Pyramid Wars began when S.P.H.I.N.X. seemingly claimed credit for the Movie Night Massacre on Gargantua-1, in which Jonas Venture Sr. and many others perished, but the organization was actually framed by the Sovereign using S.P.H.I.N.X. Commander's form. Several members of the O.S.I. who were disillusioned with its ineffectual bureaucracy decided take up the S.P.H.I.N.X. mantle, along with their leftover equipment, to create an organization to deal with rogue supervillains. At the end of season 4 and the beginning of season 5, the members of S.P.H.I.N.X. who were formerly O.S.I. agents are redrafted into O.S.I., leaving the former Henchman 21 as the only S.P.H.I.N.X. operative. Gary tries to recruit new members, and accidentally reunites the original S.P.H.I.N.X. members. Knowing that their S.P.H.I.N.X. loyalty chips will soon dissolve and kill them, they dedicate themselves to a final suicide attack against the O.S.I. S.P.H.I.N.X.'s rented headquarters space within the Venture compound is blown up in the season 5 episode "S.P.H.I.N.X. Rising", forcing Gary to live in the Venture's backyard. The original remaining S.P.H.I.N.X. members are:

  • Michael/SPHINX Commander (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A fairly tall man who can't control the volume of his voice. He has been stalking his former lover Theresa, the Countess. Gary forbids him to use his former name "SPHINX Commander" because Gary is now the leader, so Michael calls himself "Mister Daddy Warlord of the Children of the Corn". He later usurps Gary's position and kidnaps Hank, who is using the Countess' old power suit. He is later killed by Brock after refusing to hand over Hank.
  • Theresa/The Countess: SPHINX Commander's former second-in-command and lover, a parody of the Baroness. Her powered armor suit grants its wearer enhanced strength and mobility. Hank adopts the suit, but since it was designed for the Countess it makes Hank look and move like a woman. It has a feature that prevents the wearer from harming the SPHINX Commander. After SPHINX is defeated, Hank keeps the power suit and wears it all the time. Molotov Cocktease steals the suit in "O.S.I. Love You", and it is destroyed by Brock Samson in order to fake Molotov's death.
  • Wind Song (voiced by Tim Meadows): A parody of Storm Shadow, Wind Song is an African American ninja member of the original S.P.H.I.N.X. He has taken to forming a family and wearing Coogi sweaters inspired by Cliff Huxtable during his retirement.
  • Diamond Backdraft (voiced by Larry Murphy): A former member of S.P.H.I.N.X. who was the group's flamethrower and snake-handling operative.

Other supervillains[edit]

  • Storm Front (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A weather controlling supervillain who protests to having to have his powers temporarily taken away for the think tank in "Any Which Way But Zeus". He claims he will not harm anyone, as his powers are purely precipitation based.
  • Crime-o-dile: A crocodile-themed supervillain previously killed by Captain Sunshine after he fell into his own crock-pit that was set on fire. A henchman appears in a support group attended by 21 and 24 after the imprisonment of The Monarch.
  • Scorpio (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Another member of Captain Sunshine's rogues gallery who is scorpion-themed. He later appears in Sgt. Hatred's old home in Malice, having become Princess Tinyfeet's new lover.
  • Mantilla (voiced by Nina Arianda): Real name Debra “Debbie” St. Simone. She is the daughter of Bobbi St. Simone and Force Majeure. She is an ex-girlfriend of The Monarch and is implied to be the egg donor and biological mother of the Venture Bros. She appears to have the ability to turn herself and her clothes invisible due to biological engineering. She also appears to have vast matter and energy manipulation powers, but the nature of these is unclear. She is the leader of the apparent upstart villain guild and smartphone app known as ARCH.

Recurring and minor characters[edit]

  • Molotov Cocktease (voiced by Mia Barron): A highly trained assassin and sometime-ally, sometime-rival to Brock Samson, as well as his love interest until her apparent death in "Operation P.R.O.M." They first met when she was a gymnast at the inaugural Goodwill Games and her father was a mercenary they had been sent to kill before he assassinated Mikhail Gorbachev, but he discovers she too was a mercenary who killed Brock's partner at the time. She unfailingly wore a chastity belt until the end of the fourth season, when she told Brock she was "taken" by Monstroso. She appears to commit suicide at the end of season four, by falling off a tall cliff in front of Brock Samson. However, in the fifth-season premiere, Brock investigates the site and finds evidence that Molotov may have faked her death and is in hiding with Monstroso. She and Monstroso are captured by O.S.I. in "O.S.I. Love You", but she escapes custody and goes on a rampage throughout O.S.I.'s hovering headquarters, killing several operatives and stealing Hank's power suit. In the end, just as Brock is about to kill her, Col. Gathers reveals she has been hired by him to root out double agents in O.S.I. and to test their security. To prevent this knowledge from falling into the hands of the Misters, they fake Molotov's death. Her status and whereabouts since then are unknown.
  • Colonel Bud Manstrong (voiced by Terrence Fleming): The former leader of the crew of Gargantua-1. Manstrong takes a strong moral stance on most issues, and is strictly sexually abstinent, which his mother attributes to his father having been a larger influence on Bud than her. He also has the moral stances and vocabulary of a man from the 1950s to the 1960s. Although he is very willful in most situations, he wilts under attention from his often inebriated and oversexed mother. His forbearance of sex puts a great deal of strain on his relationship with cosmonaut Lieutenant Anna Baldavich, his love interest and fellow crew member aboard Gargantua-1. He is declared a hero when Gargantua-1 crashes on a wanted terrorist group in "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?" whereupon he is offered a chance to run for the vice-presidency, which he turns down in horror upon learning of the president's sexual indiscretions.
  • Lieutenant Anna Baldavich (voiced by Nina Hellman): Col. Manstrong's only companion on Gargantua-1. Baldavich is a Russian cosmonaut whose face is never shown, but it is suggested that it is extremely unattractive. However, this has not stopped Manstrong from falling in love with her, and she for him, but he will not return her advances for intimacy, which has caused Baldavich to become increasingly upset with him. To this end, she successfully seduces Brock, who demands that during sex she keep her helmet on, in order to both satisfy her urges and to make Bud jealous enough to force him to initiate sex with her. Instead, Bud completely gives up on his relationship with Anna, and pushes Brock to marry her due to his archaic beliefs. Manstrong reveals that her father invented the Mr. Mouth board game, and as a result she is quite wealthy. After the Ventures leave Gargantua-1, she and Manstrong seem to reconcile, but he still refuses to be intimate. As the space station fails for the last time and crashes into the Earth, Baldavich gives Manstrong a handjob, causing him to pass out, and she dies in the resultant crash.
  • The Master (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin): A shapeshifting, supernatural presence who lives in a black void and is Dr. Orpheus's mentor. He is much more relaxed than Orpheus, and often chides his student for being extremely uptight. However, this attitude seems to be his method of imparting advice to his pupil; he convinces Orpheus to better himself by pointing out his flaws. He has called Orpheus his best student and seems to have a fondness for him, frequently letting Orpheus come to him for advice.
  • Myra Brandish (voiced by Joanna Adler): A mentally unstable woman who is under the impression that she is Hank and Dean's mother, kidnapping the boys and eventually capturing Dr. Venture when she comes in contact with him as well, revealing that she is also his former O.S.I. bodyguard. After being subdued by Brock, he states that Myra is a former cast member of American Gladiators nicknamed "Power Cat" who checked herself into an insane asylum after the show was cancelled and began kidnapping the Ventures whenever she goes off her medication and breaks out. Venture, however, admits that he slept with her. During a flashback in "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny", she is seen acting as Dr. Venture's bodyguard, saving him from an attack by The Monarch with loving eyes towards Venture. In a later flashback in "The Invisible Hand of Fate", Myra is seen being taken away by O.S.I., claiming she loves Dr. Venture, while he holds his toddler sons in his arms. It is in this episode that she is revealed to be working on Operation: Rusty's Blanket, an assignment that Brock receives later. Myra's next appearance is in "Momma's Boys", where it is revealed she is incarcerated at the Dunwitch Asylum for the Criminally Insane and has been keeping in contact with Dean who believes she is his mother. She has charmed one of the guards and several other inmates under her thrall as "Momma" and has had Dean visit on Mother's Day so she may finally give birth to him, revealing to both Dean and Hank that she is not their biological mother. Hank's declaration causes the other inmates to rebel, allowing for their escape. Elsewhere, Dr. Venture has confided to Sgt. Hatred that he tricked Myra into thinking she was the boys' mother in order to get her to babysit them for free.
  • General Manhowers (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A general in the United States armed forces. Due to his high military rank, he is one of Dr. Venture's principal clients. He buys the Ooo Ray from Venture in the pilot episode. In later appearances, Gen. Manhowers realizes that Venture has not invented anything new in years, as in his latest foray to the compound during season 3's "The Doctor Is Sin". However, he does commission Venture to make an army of Venturesteins out of the murdered Ted and Sonny as well as some spoiled clones of the boys. When the original Venturestein revolts during season 5's "Venture Libre", he sends Venture to retrieve him, with a jPad armed to explode.
  • Princess Tinyfeet (voiced by Sue Gilad): Sgt. Hatred's wife, she is a Native American whom Sgt. Hatred loves for her namesake tiny feet. She divorces Sgt. Hatred in "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together".
  • Dr. Tara Quymn (voiced by Nina Hellman): A superscientist and childhood friend of Dr. Rusty Venture, as her mother Mz. Quymn was well acquainted with Dr. Jonas Venture, and her stepfather is Colonel Gentleman. She meets up with Rusty when he goes to the Amazon to seek out a plant that might help with his erectile dysfunction while she is in the Amazon for more altruistic reasons, investigating as to whether or not the fruit known as Solomon's Heart can cure cancer. Her life closely parallels that of Dr. Venture, in that she is accompanied by a brutish bodyguard and has a set of twin children, although they are all women unlike Dr. Venture's all-male family unit. She and Rusty fall for each other, once more, but the alleged attack of the "Wereodile" exacerbates Dr. Quymn's epilepsy causing a seizure, a fact that horrifies Dr. Venture, and she begins to smoke a cigarette she has hidden away in a pendant around her neck. She has had a series of bad relationships, and Ginnie believes that this is just another. In the end, the two doctors end their respective relationships, but it is later revealed that Dr. Quymn's heart was broken by the short affair when Colonel Gentleman berates Rusty for hurting his stepdaughter, unaware of the true circumstances behind their breakup. It is suggested that Dr. Quymn is the half-sister of Dr. Venture, as the two closely resemble each other and Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. and Mz. Quymn were long involved in a romantic affair behind Colonel Gentleman's back.
    • Nancy & Drew Quymn (voiced by Nina Hellman and Joanna Adler): Dr. Quymn's identical twin daughters, who only differ in that Drew has a freckle on her nose. They go on mystery solving adventures, not unlike those of Hank and Dean. Hank falls in love with both of them, but both are instead enamoured with Dean who is oblivious to their attraction. They fight over who should have Dean, but they later decide to share him, but he is repulsed by the event as he believes the two to be "wereodiles". When Hank is revealed to have been circumcised by the Amazonian villagers threatened by the "Wereodile", the two suddenly lose interest in Dean. Hank later tries to ask them out for his and Dean's prom, to no avail. Their name comes from the fictional girl detective Nancy Drew.
    • Ginnie (voiced by Joanna Adler): Dr. Quymn's muscular bodyguard. Her sexuality is a source of jokes, as she resembles the butch lesbian archetype and constantly tries to convince Dr. Quymn to give up men. However, she still flirts with Brock, who is confused by her means of courtship which includes the use of double-entendres and sexual poses before rebuffing him when he pays attention to her. In the end, Ginnie reveals in her discussion to Dr. Quymn that she does not want to have to pick her back up from another broken relationship, showing that Quymn has been in a series of broken relationships. In the confusion, Dr. Venture asks for help and Brock comes to his assistance, resulting in an equally matched fight between Brock and Ginnie, who both show pleasure in the fight.
  • Venturestein (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A former henchman of The Monarch killed by Brock and brought back to life by Dr. Venture's superscience in "¡Viva los Muertos!". Due to his initial attempt to strangle Dr. Venture, Brock caves in his skull and they have to find a replacement belonging to a deceased black man. His control over the English language is limited, at first, but he soon begins to learn how to compose more coherent sentences. Dr. Venture initially decides his Venturestein project should work in factories, using the boys' learning beds to teach Venturestein how to make shoes, but General Manhowers decides to buy 100 Venturesteins when he discovers they can be used as expendable soldiers, and filled with C-4. In "Venture Libre", it is revealed that during his time in the army, he and the Venturesteins are sent to quell a factory strike in Puerta Bahia, only for Venturestein to meet Jorge, the young Mexican boy who appeared in the instructional video he watched when he was first made, who teaches him how to speak better and also the teachings of Che Guevara. This leads Venturestein to liberate several other scientific experiments he has found in the Central American jungle, for some reason home to many evil scientists, and to form an "Abomi-Nation" where all such scientific experiments can call home. His loyalty to Dr. Venture, who he does not see as a horrible creator as the other scientific experiments do, and his friendship with Hank, as well as the death of Congresswoman Marsha Backwood, lead to the successful formation of his "Abomi-Nation" and their formal entry into the United Nations. Venturestein is still seen as being able to properly make sneakers in his appearance.
  • Groovy Gang: A parody of the cast of Scooby-Doo and several infamous criminals who head to the Venture Compound to steal items for gas money.
    • Ted (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): The gang's charismatic and sociopathic leader, who often threatens the others with violence and the wrath of God. Upon spotting Dr. Byron Orpheus, he believes the Venture Compound to be a "Dracula factory". Ted is killed by Brock when he attempts to kill the man in self-defense, and he is used to make a new Venturestein, later seen to be one under the original Venturestein's command. He is a pastiche of Fred Jones and serial killer Ted Bundy.
    • Patty (voiced by Sue Gilad): The red-headed and relatively fashion-conscious member of the gang. It is hinted that Ted kidnapped her years ago, and she is now suffering from Stockholm syndrome. She runs away from the compound with Val after Ted, Sonny, and Groovy are killed. She is a pastiche of Daphne Blake and Patty Hearst, an heiress who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and then joined them in a series of crimes, during which time it is believed she suffered from Stockholm syndrome.
    • Val (voiced by Joanna Adler): The bespectacled brains of the group, who seems to be attracted to Patty and is aware of Ted's lies, but does nothing about them as they allow her to both take advantage of Patty's low self-esteem and abuse Sonny when he is at his most vulnerable. Despite her outspoken misandric belief system, she gets along with Ted quite well due to their shared desire for control over Patty and Sonny. She survives the events of the episode with Patty and runs away to parts unknown afterwards. She is a pastiche of Velma Dinkley and Valerie Solanas, radical feminist who penned the SCUM Manifesto, which Val quotes, and attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol.
    • Sonny (voiced by Paul Boocock): The paranoid hippie dog-owner of the group who is regularly tormented by Ted and Val. Ted has him addicted to an anti-psychotic medication he calls "Groovy Treats", as the medication is used to keep Sonny from hearing the voice of his dog Groovy. At some point in the past, Sonny and Groovy accidentally came across the Venture brothers, and in a paranoid psychotic rage killed the two. His and Ted's discovery of the boys alive and well lead the group to investigate further. Sonny is killed by Brock using Ted's gun, and is later turned into a new Venturestein under the original's command. He is a pastiche of Shaggy Rogers and David Berkowitz, the infamous "Son of Sam" serial killer who said he was coerced into his murders by a demon who spoke to him through a neighbor's dog.
    • Groovy (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): The gang's Great Dane who only seems to talk to Sonny in a German accent to push him into committing murder at the behest of "the Master", though Sonny had largely been able to resist him. No one else in the gang is ever spoken to by Groovy, so it is not clear if he can actually talk, as the Master is another character on The Venture Bros., or if the speech is a schizophrenic hallucination held by Sonny. At some point in the past, Sonny and Groovy found the Venture brothers and while Sonny bludgeoned one of them to death, Groovy fatally mauled the other. Groovy has his throat crushed by Venturestein and then turned into a shoe.
  • The Outrider (voiced by Doc Hammer): Dr. Orpheus's former protege who successfully seduced Orpheus's wife and ended their marriage. Rather than focusing his attention on learning the ins and outs of necromancy, the Outrider spent his time looking at the easier shortcuts to achieve greater power, which included trepanning to insert an amulet known as the Eye of Osiris into his skull to provide him safe passage into and out of the Second World. He appears in "The Better Man", saving the Order of the Triad from an elder god Torrid summons from the Second World, but he later becomes trapped between worlds when attacked by Torrid once more. In their attempts to save him, the Order of the Triad removes the Eye of Osiris from his skull, trapping them in the Second World until Jefferson Twilight develops his latent magical abilities. The Outrider later admits he idolized Orpheus but disliked how he attained his goals in life and found the easier way out, so that he would be able to be a family man. He and Tatyana teach Triana magic, and at Orpheus's Halloween party uses a puzzle box similar to the one from Hellraiser as part of their magical production that evening.
  • Tatyana: Dr. Orpheus's ex-wife and mother of Triana. When the Master uses her form to speak to Orpheus, he is entranced by its beauty and finds it difficult to teach Orpheus any sort of lesson, noting how buxom she is. It is only during this time that she speaks, but with the Master's voice. Tatyana bears a striking resemblance to Cassandra Peterson's horror hostess persona Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
  • Brown Widow (voiced by Nathan Fillion): A superhero based in New York City who has the ability to spin webbing from his lower spine. He first appears in "Bright Lights, Dean City," in which he saves Dr. Venture using his powers when a taxi driven by Baron Underbheit goes out of control. He later appears to befriend Dean, revealing that he gained his powers in a laboratory accident involving spiders, though he quickly becomes more interested in singing a musical number with Dr. Venture. He later reappears in the sixth season as a college student and classmate of Dean, who does not seem to realize who he is. He is bullied by other students, who throw garbage at him to make him reflexively use his powers, which they believe is him soiling himself. In the past, he dated Sirena Ong, and he has a job at a ninja-themed restaurant.
  • The Blue Morpho (voiced by Paul F. Tompkins): The Monarch's late father who was killed in a plane crash decades ago. His real name was Don Fitzcarraldo. He was initially presented as a socialite and good friend of Jonas Venture Sr., and later was revealed to have been a vigilante superhero affiliated with the original Team Venture. Kano was originally his bodyguard and crimefighting partner. He appeared on the Rusty Venture television show and had a comic book by Jack Kirby detailing his adventures published. However, much like Jonas, he had much poorer morals in private compared to his public persona; he engaged in such behaviors as cheating on his wife with celebrities, and didn't care if he was labeled a "bad guy" by the public. This embracing of the darker sides of his personality inspired his son to adopt the Blue Morpho mantle as his own, using the persona to eliminate rival supervillains for the right to arch Dr. Venture. He is eventually revealed to have been the Venture Industries hatchetman, eliminating any enemies Jonas might have had. In season 7 it is revealed he was resurrected by Jonas as the cyborg Venturion, who strangled young Rusty Venture and that led to Kano snapping his neck, killing him again. He is later found by Dr. Z who reconstructed him, which allowed him to become the former Councilman #1, Vendata. After regaining his memory, Venturion interfaces with Dr Jonas' and it is revealed that Jonas' blackmailed the Morpho by using a recording of Jonas, Morpho, Jill St. John and Stella Stevens in an orgy. The Morpho was very upset at this indiscretion because he and his wife have been trying for a child. Jonas agrees to "examine" his wife, claiming his science is very "potent." Venturion (regaining his human memory) calls Jonas out on this, but in true narcissist fashion Jonas shrugs it off. Regardless of Malcom's (The Monarch) biological father, The Morpho loved Malcom dearly, an emotion Jonas never authentically showed to his legitimate son Rusty. While Venturion is distracted recalling all the flashbacks, Jonas attempts to coerce Billy into switching their brains. Billy refuses to kill Venturion and The Monarch appears in Monarch fashion. Venturion sees him and joyfully mutters the name "Malcom," but before The Monarch can get any answers Jonas attacks him and through a series of event leads to the death of both. OSI later claims Jonas' head for "experiments."
  • Sirena Ong: (voiced by Cristin Milioti) The daughter of Wide Wale and budding love interest of Hank. Because of her father's mutation, she has inherited a number of whale-related physical traits, such as the need to regularly have her body in water and the ability to breathe underwater. She is blunt and temperamental, and although she understands her father's overbearing love for her, she is easily irritated by his henchmen when they try to keep her under control; she bears a particular dislike for one henchman named Rocco. She once dated Brown Widow prior to dating Hank, but broke up with him. Hank's good-natured efforts to impress her with the aid of Billy, Pete and Dean lead her to further develop deeper feelings for him because of how genuine he is. In Season 7, she and Hank are a couple now but she has to face her father's overprotectiveness and his lack approval in Hank. She also meets her uncle Douglas and is angry her father never told her about him. It is revealed in the mid-finale, she has cheated on Hank by sleeping with his brother Dean.

The Impossibles[edit]

  • Sally Impossible (voiced by Mia Barron): Richard's estranged wife. She has invisible skin which leaves her muscle tissue visible and requires all her concentration to keep her skin visible. Sally developed, and still maintains, a crush on Dr. Venture, who was repelled when he discovered her condition. Richard has implied that she has been repeatedly unfaithful and that her newborn son might have been fathered by someone else. This is a reference to the Invisible Woman's relationship with the Sub-Mariner, who has pursued her romantically from their first encounter. Eventually, it came to the point where Richard was keeping Sally practically as a prisoner in their home and keeping her under constant guard, accurately suspecting that she wanted to run away from him. Sally has been dating Jonas Venture Jr. and resides on Spider Skull Island with the rest of the Impossibles, sans Richard and Cody, though it is hinted that she and JJ are having troubles due to the latter's inability to commit. In "All this and Gargantua-2", however, her and JJ's strained relationship finally breaks and she decides to leave with Rocket and Richard, though she implies that she and Richard's relationship will be one of shared custody over Rocket rather than anything romantic or loving.
  • Rocket Impossible: Sally and Richard's newborn son. Thus far, he has not displayed any sort of superpowers or genetic mutations.
  • Ned (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Sally and Cody's cousin living with down syndrome, who has been transformed into a "giant callus" with 3-inch-thick (76 mm) skin. He lived with Sally, Rocket and J.J. on Spider-Skull Island for some time, but his whereabouts during the events of Gargantua-2 were unknown. He was later seen attending J.J.'s funeral with the rest of his family.
  • Cody (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Sally's brother. Bursts into flames when exposed to oxygen. He cannot control this painful reaction, so he is kept in an air-tight container. As a result, he is usually in a state of unconsciousness. In "Bright Lights, Dean City", Professor Impossible is revealed to have been using an imprisoned Cody to provide clean energy to Impossible Industries, an act which Phantom Limb describes as being "the most deliciously evil thing [he'd] ever seen", though the true evilness of it seems to be lost on Professor Impossible. His fate after being freed from Impossible Industries is unknown.

Jonny Quest characters[edit]

  • Action Johnny/Jonny Quest (voiced by Brendon Small): Since the death of Dr. Benton Quest, he has been secreted away within the Quest Bathysphere, living in isolation and feeding (when possible) his addiction to narcotics, as shown in the episode "Twenty Years to Midnight". He is fooled into handing over a piece of Dr. Venture Sr.'s machinery after being bribed by the Captain and Jonas Jr., an act that Jonas Jr. later regretted. He has sobered up, but is still a high strung nervous wreck due to his many psychological issues resulting from his father's irresponsible parenting. In "The Buddy System", Johnny claims that "fathers are caring and protective men, and I don't have one of those". In the same episode, Johnny also expresses the desire to free Dean from his father but is stopped mid-sentence by Brock. He also implies that he staged several crimes to spite his father, including the murder of their dog Bandit. He has since shown to become much better in "Self Medication" as well as more functional and social, off-handedly mentioning that he had gone on a date with Velma Dinkley which resulted in him contracting herpes. In "The Terminus Mandate" it is revealed that he is living in a rehab facility, and he finally is able to make peace with Dr. Z.
  • Race Bannon (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): Brock's friend from the Office of Secret Intelligence, where he once worked as a torturer. Died after jumping from a jet that Nat King Cobra's Snake Men were piloting while retrieving the Goliath Serum. He carries various spy gadgets reminiscent of those carried by James Bond.
  • Hadji Singh (voiced by Jackson Publick): Another reference to a Jonny Quest character, he is now a manager working with Jonas Jr. He is seen also taking care of Johnny, while worrying that if he brings Johnny back home, his (Hadji's) wife will leave him.
  • Dr. Z (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A reference to a recurring villain "Dr. Zin" in the Jonny Quest franchise, he was featured in the episode "The Buddy System" in which he was to be a special guest star in a stage show featuring Action Johnny. The show was being performed as part of "Rusty's Day Camp for Boy Adventurers." Upon seeing his old nemesis, Johnny panics and has a mental breakdown. Sergeant Hatred, having interrupted the show with what he thought was a routine arching, greets Z with a hand shake, saying "The Dr. Z! Aw man, I love your work." In "Self-Medication" Dr. Z was confronted by Action Johnny, Dr. Venture, and a group of former "Boy Adventurers" to accuse him of the murder of their therapist. However, Dr. Z was innocent and the group discover that he is married. During a peaceful dinner Dr. Z advises the former "Boy Adventurers" that they need to grow up and stop living in the past, revealing that he feels that he had wasted his life and wished he and his wife could have had a normal marriage. In "Pomp and Circuitry", one of the silhouetted members of the Council of 13 looks and sounds a lot like Dr. Z. Appears to be a homage to Fu Manchu, an evil genius from a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer. In "What Color is Your Cleansuit?" Dr. Z appears in an old Guild PSA to warn against the dangers of blundering henchmen. In "Bot Seeks Bot", Dr. Z is confirmed to be a member of the Council of 13. He is a member of the new Council of 13 in season 6, having survived the Sovereign's purge of the old Council.
  • Mrs. Z (voiced by Seth Green): Dr. Z's wife of many years after he retires from supervillainy. She says that she was in fact Dr. Z's beard until the two fell in love, although it was much too late to form a family.

Therapy group members[edit]

  • Lance (voiced by Seth Green) and Dale Hale (voiced by John Hodgman): The Hale Brothers were previously famous boy detectives until the murder of their father, the reason for their therapy, particularly Dale who cannot get over the sight of seeing their father dead. It is hinted that they are the perpetrators, as Lance continually dismisses that their fingerprints were on the gun that was used to murder their father due to their sleuthing, and later, when Dr. Venture accuses them of doing so, Lance quips that it was never proven and Dale goes into hysterics believing that Dr. Venture knows the truth. It is implied that the murder was driven by Lance's desire to get at their inheritance, only to discover that their father's money would all go to the Boy Detective Academy, leaving them with nothing but a car to show for their crime, though they both cherish the vehicle. They are parodies of the Hardy Boys and the Menéndez brothers.
  • Ro-Boy Z (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A robotic boy who has abandonment issues due to his creator/father and psychopathic tendencies due to a life of fighting giant robots. He also has anger issues when he sees other robots, leading to apparent pyromaniacal tendencies. He eventually gets adopted by Dr. Z and his wife Mrs. Z, allowing the couple to fulfill their familial desires and giving Ro-Boy a way to move on from his creator.

The Super Gang[edit]

  • Chuck Scarsdale/Captain Sunshine (voiced by Kevin Conroy): A sunlight-powered superhero previously mentioned by The Monarch in reference to having his henchmen return the charred remains of Wonder Boy to him. Captain Sunshine, appearing in person in the episode "Handsome Ransom", has since sworn revenge on The Monarch and thwarts his plans to get a ransom for Hank and Dean from Dr. Venture when he takes Hank away, inducting him as his new sidekick and ward Wonder Boy. It is hinted that Captain Sunshine has pederastic tendencies towards the various boys he takes as his ward and Wonder Boy, although Jackson Publick has confirmed that this is not the case. In actuality, the various dangerous situations Scarsdale had to face as the original Wonderboy resulted in him developing an apparent case of Peter Pan syndrome, living out the childhood he never had through his colorful toy-filled mansion and living vicariously through his wards. Coupled with his guilt over the death of the 3rd Wonder Boy and his apparent habit of literally throwing criminals into prison rather than handing them over to the authorities, Scarsdale is painted as a dangerously out-of-touch man in the vein of older superheroes. He is the lead anchor of the Action 5 News Team, but leaves his post at the evening broadcast when The Monarch tries to re-kidnap Hank, despite being powerless at night. In the ensuing conflict, Captain Sunshine is exposed to a device Dr. Mrs. The Monarch created to reproduce his sun powers, intended to be his one weakness. Instead, the device repowers him and he rallies to defeat The Monarch and his minions, only to be disappointed when Hank chooses to step down as Wonder Boy and return home. In "Any Which Way But Zeus", Red Mantle claims he was not Captain Sunshine's archenemy, but the original Captain Sunshine (Desmond), identifying Scarsdale as the original Wonder Boy. In "Bot Seeks Bot", Sunshine and his new Wonderboy attend the funeral of his archenemy Boggles the Clue Clown and has an emotional outburst over the death of his long-time archenemy.
    • Desmond (voiced by Doc Hammer): Captain Sunshine's butler. In "Any Which Way But Zeus", Desmond is revealed to be the original Captain Sunshine, and Scarsdale his ward Wonder Boy. Desmond also acts as Zeus to convince the various organizations to set up a series of protective laws and such for sidekicks.
    • Wonderboy (voiced by Patton Oswalt): This former Wonderboy was the first ward of Captain Sunshine. As a result of his depression from being kicked out and his failed career as an independent hero, he has turned to binge eating and joins a support group of fellow former boy adventurers for therapy. It is assumed that he is the second Wonderboy, succeeding Scarsdale to Desmond, and preceding the one killed by The Monarch, Hank, and a fifth one who appears in season 5's "Bot Seeks Bot".
    • Wonderboy 5 (voiced by Larry Murphy): Captain Sunshine's current Wonderboy, who seems more or less indifferent to the death of Boggles the Clue Clown and has to drag Captain Sunshine away when he has an emotional outburst as Boggles' coffin is lowered into his grave. He also shows himself to be a more competent detective than his mentor, almost immediately solving Clue Clown's final riddle when Captain Sunshine was utterly stumped.
  • Barbara Qantas/Barbie-Q (voiced by Rachel Feinstein): Chuck Scarsdale's Australian co-anchor who resembles a Barbie doll that can spout pink flames. She is one of Zeus's captives in "Any Which Way But Zeus".
  • Sam Turgen/U.S. Steel (voiced by Doc Hammer): The Action 5 News Team's sports anchor who as U.S. Steel is a superpowered and Uncle Sam-inspired hero. In "Any Which Way But Zeus", U.S. Steel expects to find Ghost Robot, unaware he was killed earlier.
  • Neville Brown/Brown Thrasher: Sam Turgen's sports co-anchor who as Brown Thrasher has bird-themed powers akin to Falcon. He is one of Zeus's captives in "Any Which Way But Zeus".
  • Weatherbot 5/Ghost Robot (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): The Action 5 News Team's meteorologist whose true identity is that of a robot with a ghost inside of him. It is assumed he is killed by 21 in "Any Which Way But Zeus" when 21 shatters his robotic eyes. However, in season 5's "Bot Seeks Bot", Ghost Robot is alive and well, and he is deputized by the O.S.I. to aid in their undercover mission to discover the identities of the Council of Thirteen, by going on a date with Vendata as robotic Guild member Galacticon. Ghost Robot's interest in having fingers and the appearance of the real Galacticon jeopardize the mission, resulting in the death of Vendata.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Season 5 Deleted Scenes, Season 5 Episode 2 Venture Libre
  2. ^ Season 2 DVD commentary for "Powerless in the Face of Death"
  3. ^ A Party For Tarzan
  4. ^ The Art and Making of the Venture Bros, p. 258
  5. ^ The Art and Making of the Venture Bros, p. 128