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Molotov Cocktease
The Venture Bros. character
Molotov2
First appearance

The Incredible Mr. Brisby
Last appearance

O.S.I. Love You
Voiced by

Mia Barron
Information
Aliases Little Red Killing Hood
Occupation Mercenary
Assassin
Secret Agent
Relatives Siberian Husky (Father, deceased)
Notable
characteristics

Master Assassin
Skilled at infiltration
Alliances

Any paying client (professional)
OSI (undercover)
Prior
alliances

Soviet Union
The Black Hearts (professional, disbanded)
Brock Samson (romantic)
Monstroso (romantic, deceased)

Molotov Cocktease was a major and reoccurring character on The Venture Bros. until she was written off of the show. She was voiced by Mia Barron.

Character History

Molotov is the daughter of KGB assassin and supervillain Siberian Husky. In 1986, she and her father were on assignment at The Goodwill Games posing as coach and gymnast team attempting to assassinate a VIP. Brock Samson as a rookie Office of Secret Intelligence agent was also there posing as a gymnast team to intercept them. When they initiated their attack on their target, she kills Brock's partner, while Brock in return killed Husky, traumatizing her. It was from this encounter that Brock would fall in love with her and also initiated the back and forth game that forms their relationship. Husky's dying wish was for her to wear a chastity belt emblazoned with the Soviet hammer and sickle on it.

Cocktease first officially appeared in the first-season episode The Incredible Mr. Brisby. Brock had been felled by a drugged cigarette and dumped in a tar pit to die, but he awoke to find Molotov pulling him free with a winch. After alternately viciously battling him and passionately making out with him, she agreed to help Brock rescue the Ventures. True to her word, she led him to the headquarters of the Orange County Liberation Front, but they arrived too late to intercept the boys. They both traveled to Brisbyland, where once inside the Brisbydome she took her leave to pursue her own objective: recovering Roy Brisby's pet panda for its previous owner, David Bowie.

She appeared again in Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!, although only as a fantasy. Brock became trapped inside one of Dr. Venture's inventions, a device dubbed "The Joy Can" that allowed people to live out their innermost dreams. In Brock's hallucination, she informed him that she was finally ready to go "all the way", but only under one condition: that he would not be gentle.

In Assassinanny 911, Brock asks her to temporarily assume his duties as Venture family bodyguard while he went out to find Hunter Gathers. Cocktease agrees to help him, but is disgusted with what she considers his babysitting duty. She decides to subject the Ventures to intense training, hoping to eliminate their utter dependence on Brock. Hank becomes smitten with Molotov, as does his father Dr. Venture. After accidentally injuring himself with her hidden boot spike, Hank hallucinates that she wants him to kill Dr. Venture; he responds by attacking his father with a papier-mâché machete. As Hank spits out lines from the Doors' song, "The End", the scene ends up as a tip of the hat to the film "Apocalypse Now". When Brock returns, he continues to decline Molotov's offers to become a mercenary team together, and she leaves in disappointment.

In the third season episode, The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part I) and The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part II) saw the formation of her Black Hearts Mercenary group and her manipulation of Brock Samson into ultimately leaving the O.S.I. by warning him of a plot by the O.S.I. to have him assassinated. Later on, he learned that Molotov and Hunter Gathers had hired the assassins and lead him to believe that the O.S.I. wanted to kill him. The intention was for Brock eliminate competition for Molotov's organization. When he attempted to get revenge on the Black Hearts, he discovered that Hunter Gathers had in fact infiltrated the group as a member of S.P.H.I.N.X. for the purpose of disbanding it, and that he had never meant for Brock to come to harm.

During season 4, she appears to be in an relationship with the supervillain Monstroso. In the season 4 finale Operation P.R.O.M., Molotov infiltrates S.P.H.I.N.X on the Venture Compound to recover the captured Monstroso attack Brock. She attempts to scare him by claiming that the prostitutes that Rusty had hired for the prom were actually her Black Heart's assassins ready to attack and kill everyone there. After engaging in an epic high-speed battle, the two confront each other with her telling him she loves Monstroso more than Brock, breaking his heart, even going so far as to remove her chastity belt, and appears to commit suicide with Monstroso. This was later revealed to be a ruse as the Monstroso body she was carrying was a fake, and the prostitutes were not her assassins.

In O.S.I. Love You, the O.S.I. track down the yacht that Monstroso and Molotov were located on, easily apprehending them and imprisoning them on the O.S.I. Hover-Quarters. This, however, was part of their plan, as Molotov escapes and Monstroso is killed by The Investors. Brock, over his romantic feelings for Molotov, captures and is about to kill her, when he is stopped by Gathers who alerts him to their plan of Molotov being inducted as an O.S.I. agent, there to expose and eliminate double agents in their midst. This was Molotov's last appearance on the show and their relationship was left unresolved.

Character Abilities

Molotov is a mercenary who performs black ops-type activities for anyone who can afford her services. On the surface, she appears to be the Soviet, female equivalent of Brock Samson: an amazingly competent, utterly lethal cigarette smoker who is irresistible to the opposite sex and unbelievably hard to kill. However, she seems to lack Brock's sense of long-term loyalty and duty, often acting in either her own best interests or that of her client of the moment. She also differs from Brock in that she does not share his dislike for firearms.

Cocktease's outfit consists of a very revealing, skin-tight black unitard (which barely covers her large breasts, dips below her navel in front and reveals the tops of her buttocks in back), topped with red gloves and stiletto heel boots and a heart-shaped eye patch over her left eye. A holster is slung low across her hips and a scabbard strapped to her back holds a katana-like sword. Her hair is long and red, her remaining eye is green, she has a small beautiful mole/beauty mark above her lip on the right side (resembling that of Marilyn Monroe), and she is in overall magnificent physical condition. Molotov is quite aware of her beauty and its effect on men, and does not hesitate to use it to her advantage.

While she speaks near-perfect English, she retains a thick Russian accent. As is appropriate to her chosen vocation, she is proficient in a wide variety of weapons (including knives, swords, and guns) as well as unarmed combat and martial arts. Her boots conceal dagger-like (and apparently poison or drug-tipped) spikes that protrude from the heels, although how she extends or retracts them is unclear.

Relationships with other characters

Brock Samson

In the episode Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic! Brock says that Molotov is the only woman he ever loved. The two first met early in Brock's career as an O.S.I. agent during a mission at the 1986 Goodwill Games where he inadvertently killed her father, the Siberian Husky, while they were both on a mission as well. They meet again in Paris while on an undisclosed assignment. Like many of their subsequent meetings, the encounter resembled sadomasochistic foreplay: she ultimately left him pinned to a mattress in a burning apartment, and in parting threw a lit cigarette onto his chest as he begged for one to smoke. Other events of their turbulent acquaintance, described but not depicted is Brock removing her left eye. Although the time frame for these happenings is unclear, Brock has kept the eyeball as a souvenir of sorts; it floats in a jar on his nightstand, still brilliant green. Molotov seems to consider this "sentimentality" endearing. One meeting between the two was described as a laser show in an Akron, Ohio planetarium to the music of Led Zeppelin; it was never specified whether the encounter was romantic, professional or accidental. Brock, a Zeppelin fan, has mentioned that one of their albums brings back strong memories of her, and this may be a reference to that meeting. Ultimately, however, she showed herself to be more than willing to manipulate Brock, and put his life in danger to further herself.

Despite the awful things they have done to each other, they love and respect each other as the best professionals in the field. Despite their intense chemistry, Brock and Molotov have never slept together because of the iron chastity belt she wears in respect of her dying father's wishes. When Brock believes Molotov to be dead after their confrontation in Operation P.R.O.M., he finds the belt and keeps it. She believes that his bodyguard assignment is beneath him and asks him to quit and work as a mercenary with her. He turns her down with a "go team Venture."

However, by Season 5, and after her declared devotion to Monstroso, he increasingly falls out of love with her to the point where in O.S.I. Love You, he is ready to kill Molotov and only stops when Hunter Gathers informs him that the agents killed were traitors and the O.S.I. hired her as a mercenary. Molotov has not been seen since then, and its unknown where they stand in regards to their feelings.

The sometimes seemingly murderous back-and-forth between Brock Samson and herself might very well be yet another of the numerous nods this animated series gives to comics and specific comic book characters.

Monstroso

Monstroso was Molotov's boyfriend. It is unknown how the two met or if they were genuinely in love with each other, but they were so close that she allowed him to break the chastity belt and lose her virginity to him. This enraged Brock so much, that he fell out of love with her.

The Venture Family

During the events of Assassinanny 911 when she was watching The Ventures for Brock, both Rusty and Hank fall in love with her and try to have sex with her. Molotov, utterly disgusted by them, deflects their advances. While Hank gets over his crush on her, Rusty does not and continues to fantasize about her throughout the series as she appears in his id, and confesses to it when he was interrogated by The Investors posing as O.S.I. agents.

Hunter Gathers

She and Hunter have a professional and working relationship throughout the series, often as allies in furthering their own and O.S.I. interests, between Hunter infiltrating her assassin group to allowing her to escape custody on the Hover-Quarters and kill all the double agents and allowing her to live and be an O.S.I. contract agent.

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Trivia

  • Molotov and Brock's relationship very similar to the one Race Bannon from Jonny Quest had with Jezebel Jade, also a foreign spy with a thick accent and ambiguous values. In Marvel Comics, a divorced, but friendly pair of world-class assassins -the heroic Silver Sable and the supervillain The Foreigner -also routinely clash in a professional but 'friendly' manner, and they too also occasionally (seemingly) try to kill one another.
  • Her name is a portmanteau of Molotov cocktail (an improvised firebomb) with "cock tease" (a slang term for a woman who subjects men to sexual teasing with no intention of gratification, referring to her beauty and chastity belt). 'Coqtiz,' an alternate spelling of her surname, can be found on a piece of storyboard artwork at Douglas Lovelace's website. Her name is a reference to similarly named James Bond femme fatales such as Pussy Galore and Xenia Onatopp.

Episode Appearances

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