Venture Industries

Venture Industries (not to be confused with Venture Techno Industries) is a privately owned company of the Venture Family. Once world renowned for its innovations in technology and science, Venture Industries fell from grace since Jonas Venture, Sr.' passing. The Venture Compound was its headquarters, before moving to New York City.

History

Venture Industries was founded at an unknown time by Jonas Venture Sr who grew it into the one of the world's largest and most prominent companies that was at the forefront of Super-science. It had three divisions: a consumer products division that focused on everyday products for the home such as the H.E.L.P.eR. robot, Learning Beds, and manufactured airplanes, boats, and cars; a defense contract division that built machines and weapons for the military, and a media production division that created and ran The Rusty Venture Show, comics, toys, and the overall public image of Team Venture.

After the death of his father, Thaddeus Venture, then a college student, was put in charge of the company. Due to Rusty's ineptitude, the company went into a gradual decline as there were few new inventions and products of value. Assets, such as the New York headquarters, and it's consumer products and media divisions, were sold for cash, and all of the employees were eventually let go, leaving only Rusty, H.E.L.P.eR, Hector Molina and Swifty as it's only sole employees.

Rusty kept the company barely afloat and running by continuing to sell off the old assets, technology, and inventions from his father's era, as well as still fulfilling defense contracts for the government by selling them weapons such as The Oo-Ray and the Venturestein's. Venture Industries would later be revived somewhat under the management of Jonas Venture, Jr., who repaired some of the damage that Thaddeus had inflicted through incompetence upon their company. Much like Jonas Venture Sr., Jonas Jr. completed many of the company's government contracts before leaving to found his own successful company, Venture Techno Industries. General Manhowers, The Venture's main military contact, announced to Rusty that the US Government would be working with J.J. instead of Rusty, tiring of seeing and using the same old equipment from his father's days, on top of Rusty's faulty and problematic inventions like the Venturestein's.

Venture Industries appears to have been abandoned (and possibly rendered defunct), after The Monarch burned down the Venture Compound. Rusty had inherited Venture Techno Industries after JJ.'s death, and the Venture family moved to VenTech Tower.

Products

Inventions and products that appear to originate at Venture Industries are:

• The supersonic airplane X-1, the yacht-like X-2, and the submarine X-3.
• Learning Beds. Subliminal audio-learning aides one uses while asleep, used for Thaddeus Venture, his clone, (unknowingly Jonas Jr. and his clone) his sons, and their clones (as well as Venturestein). They can also record brainwaves and memories.
• Cloning. So far not public - when asked about it, Dr. Venture has to publicly deny its existence, both to hide the fact that his sons are clones, because they traumatize very easily - and to keep himself out of trouble from Congress, as they have banned all cloning research in North America. It was used only to replace Thaddeus, Hank and Dean when they died.
• Jonas' Greatest Invention. A 4 piece portal that a Alien used to kill The Grand Galactic Inquisitor and save Earth.
• Venture Rex, cigarettes.
• The robotic nanny H.E.L.P.eR.
• H.E.L.P.eR. Model Two. A H.E.L.P.eR. for civilian use.
• Laser death rays.
• A supposedly functioning Shrink ray, purchased by Master Billy Quizboy. Later unintentionally broken by Pete White when he disassembled it "looking for a treasure map." It has since been repaired and used successfully on several occasions.
• A machine that can make someone invisible. Such as Bobbi St. Simone.
• The TVC-15, a flying saucer style craft that crashed during testing.
• A Drill Vehicle. Later put in the museum on Spider-Skull Island.
• The Univac.
• Ventech Missile Defense System that was controlled by M.U.T.H.E.R. Strangely enough, it seems that Jonas Sr. also used the term Ventech with his company Venture Industries, even though decades later Jonas Jr. named his own company VenTech (short for Venture Techno Industries). M.U.T.H.E.R. also inadvertently created The Subterranean Dwellers.
• A Titan II ICBM built (presumably) by Jonas.
• A Avrocar. Put in the museum on Spider-Skull Island. Later bought by Augustus St. Cloud.
• A Dymaxion car used for the Shallow Gravy band.
• Venturion. A cyborg built from The Blue Morpho.
• The PROBLEM. Designed to prolong the life of a individual.
• The orbital space station Gargantua-1.
• A wearable womb device. That made the Venture Bros.
• Communicator Watches.
• Hover Bikes, and Hover shoes. The shoes were later bought by St. Cloud.
• A silver two-door car, bearing the Venture Industries logo and a running board decal that reads, "Venture Motors." The vehicle itself resembles a late-model Saab 96, as Saab was once revered for its innovations in automotive technology. Thaddeus and Myra Brandish had sex in it once and it was still used by Thaddeus and the Venture brothers themselves.
• The melt-anything 'Oo-Ray.'
• The robotic bodyguard G.U.A.R.D.O.
• The Joy Can. A machine capable of reproducing the innermost fantasies of anyone who enters. Powered by the heart of an abducted orphan boy, much to the disgust of Dr. Orpheus, who disposed of the machine shortly after learning this.
• The Metasonic Locater, a tracking device capable of locating the TVC-15. It also has the ability to awaken the dead.
• A replica of a lightsaber, purchased by one of The Monarch's minions, Henchman 21, at a yard sale. Although it looks very realistic, the "weapon" does not inflict any damage.
• A weapon that doesn't work.
• A weapon that Rusty never got to work, but Jonas Jr. did.
• A sound that kills (built by Jonas Jr.).
• A teleporter (malfunctioning and unfinished, built by Jonas Jr.).
• A laser ray, that can burn things.
• A mind control helmet, which can make you think you were a very special episode of Blossom.
• A Tesla coil, which can emit bolts of electricity.
• A large Walking Eye, that did actually nothing, but was advanced enough to cause supervillains to want to attack it.
• A force-field that actually seemed to keep all matter and sound from escaping, but can be washed away with club soda.
• Venturestein, Ted, Sonny, Marsha Backwood, and other reanimated corpses.
• Zero gravity pen, it writes in space.
• Sneakys, spy shoes. The soles flip around so the Russians can't follow your footprints.
• The Boom-Broom. A faulty vacuum cleaner that leaked radiation.
• Rusty's Spanish Fly. A specially engineered strain of spanish fly, from a mutated giant fly. Which seduces women, unfortunately, it also turns them into giant mutant flys.
• The Palaemon Project, to create a ray shield for the space station Gargantua-2. The development of which created the Children of Palaemon.
• Palaemon "Antidote Gas." A ad-hoc mixture of roofies and antibiotics that in large doses erases memory, leaving only the vaguest dream-like remnants. Small amounts leaves occupants memory intact, but intoxicated and giddy.

Staff

• Founder: Jonas Venture Sr.
• Owner: Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture
• Bodyguard(s): Myra Brandish, Brock Samson, Sergeant Hatred
• Employee(s): Hector Molina, Swifty, Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr.
• Associate(s): Conjectural Technologies (Pete White, Billy Quizboy), The Order of the Triad (Dr. Orpheus, The Alchemist, Jefferson Twilight)