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On The Venture Bros., Team Venture is a fictional adventuring organization, in currently two incarnations. Its base is Venture Industries; this article will deal with them both as the two are closely intertwined.

The original Team Venture

The original team was assembled by the renaissance man Dr. Jonas Venture to help him on his travels. They made exciting scientific discoveries, had fantastic adventures, and fought supervillains on a regular basis, presumably becoming well-renowned and beloved in the process. Their time frame was from the 1960s (sometime before Thaddeus Venture was born) to the early 1980s, when Jonas Venture died and the remaining team members went their separate ways. The members were:

  • Dr. Jonas Venture: Scientist, adventurer, and intrepid leader - also an irresponsible, oversexed, and careless egomaniac. One of the greatest minds of the 20th century, Dr. Venture, Sr., created an empire using science and innovation. Though the manner of his death is left ambiguous for a majority of the series (a heart attack is alluded to now and again), it's revealed that he was sucked into space during Movie Night on Gargantua 1. His body, frozen from the cold of space, was dropped and shattered.
  • Col. Horace Gentleman: Dashing diplomat, RAF, MI5, et cetera... retired." Wealthy, eccentric, and bisexual. He has a passionate, long-term, tempestuously violent romantic relationship with his manservant/companion Kiki. When depressed, he eats Mallomars and drinks Yoo-hoo, putting him in a diabetic coma.
  • The Action Man: Gun-toting, psychopathic, super-soldier. Real name Rodney, married Major Tom's wife, but later divorced. Dr. Orpheus, using his mystic powers, predicted that he will die of a stroke in two years and seventeen days. In in the third episode of Season 7, Rodney has this stroke and is currently in a coma from it.
  • Kano: Bodyguard to Jonas Venture. Resembles a sumo wrestler. Master of martial arts and origami, he also has the ability to breathe fire. His mute nature is his choice of penance for "taking from this world a great man," revealed to be his former partner The Blue Morpho, who Kano fought crime alongside before the two joined Team Venture.
  • Otto Aquarius: His father a drunken sailor and his mother a mermaid, he is an exiled son of Atlantis. He is able to breathe both water and air, and communicate with sea life. After he left the team, he became a Jehovah's Witness and pacifist, and doesn't prefer the company of his old team due to various moral issues (as shown in deleted scenes).
  • Swifty: A Jet-boot using African-American boxer, and bodyguard to Jonas. He suffers from dementia from years of boxing. Currently employed by Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture.
  • Ook Ook: A cave man-like member of the team who was frozen in the ice age and unfrozen by Jonas in the twentieth century. Currently (through an unexplained circumstance) encased inside a block of ice.
  • Dr. Entmann/Humongeloid: A formerly gigantic man who was eventually shrunk to roughly the size of an ant when an attempt was made to cure his condition. He was left underground by Jonas for about 30 years, until Brock Samson found him. Died by being crushed under a chair by The Action Man.
  • Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture: Otherwise known as Dr. Venture nowadays. He was merely a boy who accompanied his father and his father's teammates on their adventures from the ages of 3 to 17. He was good at climbing through small holes and often got captured, which proved traumatic to him. He now is a semi-sucessful super-scientist and father of the titular Venture Bros, Hank and Dean.
  • Hector Molina: A childhood friend of Rusty's, who worked for him for several years. Apparently, Hector's mail is still sent to the Venture Compound, as in the episode "¡Viva los Muertos!", Dr. Orpheus bemoans the fact that he continues to receive his junk mail.
  • H.E.L.P.eR.: Was the neurotic Robot nanny and is still today on the current Team Venture, only now he takes care of Hank and Dean and occasionally Rusty every now and again.

Friends and Allies:

  • The Blue Morpho: A vigilante crimefighter, along with his partner Kano, who the public believed to be a criminal himself. He became close allies with Jonas Venture after rescuing him from the clutches of Scaramantula.
  • Major Tom: Test pilot that speaks with a British accent, killed when an experimental spaceship crashed and sunk into the ocean, one of the original Team Venture's few (shown) failures. He was close friends with the Action Man.
  • Ben: Scientist who often collaborated with Jonas Venture and later Rusty Venture. Notably helping develop the cloning process and the first and second H.E.L.P.eR versions. He lives in a small cabin near the Venture Compound.
  • Triple Threat: Real name Rose Wallen, she was, and still is, a fantastic martial-artist who fought alongside Team Venture and had a brief relationship with The Action Man. Eventually she had her son, Billy. Rose is currently back with The Action Man. The two live in an apartment with Col. Gentleman, Pete White and Rose's son Billy.
  • The Boy's Brigade: A group of young adventurers including Hamilton Fantomas, Richard Impossible, General Manhowers and a joke character named Howard Bloom.
  • Roy Brisby: Owner of Brisbyland and creator of the Bizzy Bee franchise. Friends with Jonas Venture who helped develop the rides for his theme park.

The current Team Venture

Not officially a team like their previous incarnation, but rather a group of individuals revolving around Dr. Thaddeus Venture who have formed a somewhat extended family that includes members of the previous Team Venture. Much more incompetent and pathetic than the originals (to the extent that the Phantom Limb considers Dr. Venture a level-one threat to The Guild of Calamitous Intent, presumably the lowest tier possible), and frequently only inadvertently stumbling onto adventures, it is only through the frighteningly capable and dangerous bodyguard Brock Samson and necromancer Dr. Orpheus that they achieve any kind of results. Over time the team has bonded into a family that includes the surviving members of the original team Venture. The members are:

  • Doctor Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture: Dubious super-scientist and unworthy successor of the late Jonas Venture.
  • Hank Venture: One of the Venture twins, son of Thaddeus. Is more interested in sports and adventure than science.
  • Dean Venture: the other Venture twin, son of Thaddeus. The more science-minded son, as well as the most awkward.
  • Sergeant Hatred: A former super villain, arch enemy of Rusty, and apparently reformed(behavior modified) pedophile. Sgt. Hatred eventually became Rusty's bodyguard when Brock Samson resigned from the position. But, now that Brock has returned Hatred has been demoted to a security guard of VenTech Tower
  • H.E.L.P.eR.: The robotic pet/assistant to the Team Venture.
  • The Pirate Captain: The former leader of the "ghost pirates" in the episode "Ghosts of the Sargasso". After his initial encounter with the Venture family, he began living on the X-2 after having difficulties in finding a job. When Jonas Jr. acquired the ship, he hired the captain. When Rusty inherited his brother's belongings, he inheireted The Captain as an employee. He has not been referred to by any name or nickname other than "The Captain."

And, by extension:

  • Brock Samson: OSI agent and muscular bodyguard of Dr. Venture. Very deadly. Loves Led Zeppelin. Left after the fallout of a massive OSI/Monarch battle that also resulted in the revelation of Venture's clone lab. He has since rejoined the team after Dr. Venture received a hefty inheiretance from his brother.
  • Master Billy Quizboy and Pete White: This pair frequently finds itself aiding Dr. Venture and Company and might thus be considered peripheral or honorary members.
  • Doctor Byron Orpheus: A resident of the Venture compound, the necromancer frequently gets involved in their activities anyway. He has since assembled his own team, the Order of the Triad, and gained an official arch-villain. His team often aids Rusty.
  • Jonas "J.J." Venture, Jr.: Dr. Venture's semi-fetal, yet extremely capable and more successful brother. J.J. was diagnosed with a terminal cancer, and sacrificed himself to save Gargantua 2.
  • Sally Impossible: Jonas Venture Jr.'s former long-time girlfriend and Dr. Richard Impossibles ex-wife. She lived with J.J. along with her cousin Ned and son Rocket, and received ownership of the island after Jonas Jr. passed away,
  • The Alchemist: One of Orpheus Fellow member of the Triad and Openly gay.
  • Jefferson Twilight: A Blackula hunter Parody to Blade and also Orpheus fellow member of the Triad.
  • OSI: The Venture fellow allies and A group of Skilled fighters

Team Venture symbols

The hand symbol is simply a V sign placed against the fingers of another member doing the same. Hank and Dean will frequently do this after the end of any successful incident, and shout the team motto 'Go Team Venture!' in imitation of the former team (who do it far more impressively). When done properly (as the original team do, and the boys have managed on at least one occasion), it produces an impressive special effect of a large V with an outward-stretching ray pattern behind it. Brock and Dr. Venture have each expressed discomfort with the boys doing this (endings of "Ghosts of the Sargasso" and "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!" respectively). A side note to the (V sign) is that when the hand sign is done by Dean and Hank, it resembles the American Sign Language for "fuck". It is unclear if this was an intentional on the part of the show's creator for the possible "double" meaning. Brock, in moments of particularly outstanding loyalty to the family, has also said (albeit more calmly), "Go Team Venture"; this is accompanied by holding up two fingers, which makes the shape of a "V" and resembles the peace sign. This can be seen in "Assassinanny 911".

The symbol of the team and Venture Industries is a globe with latitude and longitude lines, with a red banner containing a 'V' covering the sphere's bottom. This is seen in Swiftys championship belt in a flashback and also in the employee uniforms Hector and Swifty wear.

Base

The Venture Compound of Venture Industries, was home base and headquarters of the team.

Cultural references

  • The original Team Venture with leader Jonas is a homage to Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five.
  • The name "Venture" is likely a reference to adventurers with improbably exciting last names such as Doc Savage and Jonny Quest, as well as being a synonym of the word "quest".
  • Col. Horace Gentleman bears a strong resemblance to Sean Connery's portrayal of Alan Quatermain in the film version of Alan Moore's comic miniseries League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Otto Aquarius resembles the character of Abe Sapien from Mike Mignola's comic series Hellboy. Team Venture itself could also be a parody/homage to Moore's comic series, which assembled various heroes from classic Victorian pulp/adventure fiction together as a team.
  • "Major Tom" and "the Action Man" are both characters from David Bowie songs; the opening scene of the "Ghosts Of The Sargasso" episode is a somewhat convoluted joke based upon lyrics from Bowie's "Space Oddity" and "Ashes To Ashes", both of which feature these characters. Action Man is also a long running and popular line of action figures based on a G.I. Joe license but of British origin.
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