| Kano | |
|---|---|
| The Venture Bros. character | |
 | |
| First appearance |
Ghosts of the Sargasso |
| Voiced by |
Christopher McCulloch |
| Information | |
| Notable characteristics |
Ability to breathe fire Code of silence Highly skilled martial artist Highly skilled in piloting the X-1 Superhumanly quick in creating origami |
| Alliances |
The Blue Morpho (formerly) Team Venture (formerly) |
Kano was the former bodyguard of Jonas Venture Sr. and member of Team Venture on The Venture Bros. He was voiced by Christopher McCulloch.
History[]
Before joining Team Venture, Kano was the crime-fighting partner of The Blue Morpho, and the two had saved the lives of Team Venture when they were captured by the villain Scaramantula.
According to the Jonas Venture comic series, Kano joined Team Venture when the Blue Morpho was possessed by an alien virus that made him evil. However, Colonel Gentleman brought the validity of the comics into question and The Blue Morpho later revealed that Jonas Venture Sr. had blackmailed him into giving up Kano as a bodyguard/partner.
Kano became an OSI agent assigned as Jonas Venture Sr.'s bodyguard, but in reality meant to protect the Orb. Like the rest of the original Team Venture, he was angry and disgusted at Jonas transferring the brain of his dead friend, Morpho into the Venturion robot causing Jonas to relegate it to babysitting Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture. One day while it was watching Rusty, Venturion experienced a malfunction that made it attack and strangle Rusty. Kano intervened and damaged it beyond repair, saving Rusty. Kano was so distraught at destroying what was left of his old friend, The Blue Morpho, that he took a vow of silence from that moment and never spoke to anyone ever again.
Despite his vow of silence, he remained throughout the years as Dr. Venture's aide until Venture's apparent death during Movie Night.
When Jonas's son, Rusty, was searching for the Orb, Brock Samson went to Kano for information. Kano broke his decades long vow of silence to answer Brock and gave the second gramophone of Eugen Sandow (as Kano kept it because it also contains Sandow's chocolate recipes) . When Brock questioned Kano if he killed the elder Venture, he went back to being silent again except for expressing an interest in karaoke.
Appearances[]
- Ghosts of the Sargasso
- Past Tense
- A Very Venture Christmas
- The Buddy System
- Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
- What Goes Down Must Come Up
- Now Museum-Now You Don't
- ORB
- Pomp and Circuitry
- From the Ladle to the Grave: The Shallow Gravy Story
- Spanakopita! (flashback and dream sequence)
- Faking Miracles
- The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem.
- Arrears in Science
The New Kano[]
The moniker of Kano, as he worked for the Blue Morpho, was adopted by Gary Fischer in order to help the new Blue Morpho take down Dr. Venture's slew of new arch-villains.
Trivia[]
- Kano is likely inspired by The Green Hornet's assistant Kato. His silent demeanor, fighting skills, and brute strength all correspond with the bodyguard/henchman archetype found in many works of fiction, with particular similarities to the James Bond villain Oddjob.
- Kano's name originates from volcano based on his ability to breathe fire, as according to the commentary in Now Museum-Now You Don't. In real life, he takes his name from one of the production crew, Danny Kimanyen, who went by "Kano" as an artist.
- Kano's communication through origami is likely inspired by the character of Gaff from Blade Runner who would do the same to make some point or to leave a message/calling card.
- Kano's interests including baking and karaoke, the later likely being from before he took his vow of silence.
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