History Characters / TheVentureBros

* Myth/GreekMythology: As revealed in ''All This and Gargantua-2''', they are named Lips, Caicias, and Skeiron after the Greek gods of the southwest, northeast, and northwest winds, respectively.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Possibly subverted. His mention of working for RichardNixon implies that he may actually ''be'' this universe's Henry Kissinger, not merely based on him.

* {{Expy}}: Monarch himself calls him a "dime-store DoctorDoom". Although the resemblance is little more than skin deep: beyond ruling a {{Ruritania}} with an iron fist and blaming an old colleague for a disfiguring accident, tthey don't really share anything in common.

* {{Expy}}: Monarch himself calls him a "dime-store DoctorDoom".

* {{Expy}}: She HAS to be a ShoutOut to Miss Bellum of PowerpuffGirls fame!

* MightyGlacier: As the Humongoloid (his giant form) but he was more BlessedWithSuck if anything.

-->'''Voiced By:'''James Urbaniak (Season 1), Christopher McCulloch (Season 5 Onward)

'''Watch''': Yeah, 'needles'. Good one. Try Giant Metal Spikes.
'''Ward''': They're wonderful and frightening and they go in through your neck and they replace all your blood!
'''Watch''': You get your blood back at the end of the summit, unless that 'loss of life' thing happens. Then we send your next of kin a big jar of blood and a very nice card.

-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [[=McCulloch=]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Voiced By''':Christopher [[=McCulloch=]] ]]

-->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [[=McCulloch=]]

-->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [[=McCulloch=]]

-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [McCulloch]

* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: Still treats her grown son like a boy.

* OfficalCouple: With The Action Man.

* ''[[Characters/TheMonarchAndCohorts The Monarch And Cohorts]]''
* ''[[Characters/TheGuildOfCalamitousIntent Guild of Calamitous Intent]]''

[[folder:''The Monarch and his men'']]
-->''"I just...I just wanted to kick his [Dr. Venture's] ass! I wanted to build a ''machine'' to kick his ass! I wanted to build an empire to ''house the machine'' to '''kick his ass'''!"''
-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [[=McCulloch=]]
!!The Monarch
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As Dr. Venture's self-proclaimed arch-nemesis, the Monarch plots the downfall of Team Venture with the utmost glee. His back is adorned with the wings of the mighty Monarch Butterfly from which he takes his name. Insecure and uncertain at heart, he leans on Dr. Girlfriend probably more than a super-villain should. His first name, as stated by his wife and in flashbacks, is Malcolm, while his last name is revealed in the season 1 finale to be [[spoiler: The Monarch]].

Tropes associated with The Monarch:
* ArchEnemy: To Dr. Venture.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A lot of jokes are made at his expense in the first season for not knowing nearly as much about monarch butterflies as he should. The very first episode does a decent example of it after he reveals that he was raised by monarch butterflies after his parents died, and was then abandoned by them.
-->'''Dr. Girlfriend''': Oh sweetie. Butterflies only live about nine months.
-->'''The Monarch''': What?
* BadBoss: He actually stays away from YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murders, but he often kills his henchmen for either startling him, annoying him, or in one case, to downsize. It later turns out that ''all'' of his henchmen except {{Mauve Shirt}}s 21 and 24 are suicidal {{Death Seeker}}s.
* BatmanGambit: A rare case of a villain pulling one off. [[spoiler: In ''The Lepidopterists,'' he manages to get Jonas Jr. to try to kill him, thus qualifying as "prior escalation" and allowing Monarch to arch "guild sanctioned relatives," i.e., Rusty Venture.]]
* BigBadWannabe: How he started out, even taking on Captain Sunshine while still an unlicensed rookie villain. As of season four, he's reversed that position to be a big fish in a small pond. Then, after his wife gets promoted to the Council for Thirteen in season five, he is back to fitting the trope since he now wants to be on the council as well.
* BiTheWay: When 21 revealed that he accidentally made out with his wife, Monarch scoffed stating that villains have threesomes all the time.
** The photo in his unauthorized biography of him "making out with Stiv Bators and Lydia Lunch."
* BrilliantButLazy: Not unlike Rusty Venture. He's [[NotSoHarmlessVillain able to demolish every]] ScienceHero the guild throws him against, and not only that, but he does it ''too quickly''. He has excellent talent at villainy, but he chooses to use it for the purpose of tormenting Rusty Venture for... [[MysteriousPast some]] [[IrrationalHatred reason]].
* [[CampStraight Camp Bi:]] This is also brought up when he expresses his disbelief at someone from Depeche Mode showing up to a party with a girl.
* CardCarryingVillain: He is proud to say that he is evil and lives for the torment of a guy he just doesn't like.
* CompanionCube: The Butter-Glider. He even took it on a picnic. [[CargoShip He had it in bed with him, and defended it from his wife.]]
** Before that, it was revealed that he talks to his dead stuffed cat, Mister Mostly Mittens.
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Only when arching Rusty Venture. Against anyone else, he proves to be ruthlessly effective.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: His eyebrows are so long that a very large part of each of them is not on his head.
* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, King Gorilla?]]: He actually says this in the episode "Powerless in the Face of Death", when the latter is rather hesitant to help him escape from prison.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:During "SPHINX Rising", he finds a picture of a young Rusty and him playing together at the Venture Compound. To say it unnerves him is a massive understatement.]]
* ForTheEvulz: His sole motivation is hating Dr. Venture. It is implied that the only reason he does so is because he just ''feels'' like it.
** Given the rather soul-crushing realization that he and Venture are both losers, it could simply be that he wants to destroy Rusty because the man represents everything about himself that he hates.
* FreudianExcuse: When Monarch tried to kill Venture during college years, it injured Baron Underbheit and people thought Venture did it so now Monarch wants vengeance. It's still left unexplained as to why Monarch tried to kill Venture in the first place.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: At first. By the end of season 2, after a little help from Dr. Killinger and reuniting with Dr. Girlfriend, he is downright ''lethal'' by season 3.
* IrrationalHatred: Why he hates Venture is unexplained, nor is it likely to be anything particularly significant.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a jerk to his men (kills them or sends them to their deaths), his fellow villains (steals their technology and frequently belittles them), and on several occasions, to his wife (pre and post marriage) as well. By numbers the only reason Rusty doesn't get the brunt of it is because they don't usually get much screen time together.
* LargeHam: He loves classic-style villain speeches.
** Lampshaded by Sgt. Hatred in ''Home is Where the Hate Is'' while playing charades:
--->'''Sgt. Hatred:''' Nope, you talked, I can't count it.\\
'''Monarch:''' HATRED! MARK MY WORDS! ...\\
'''Hatred:''' Blah, blah, blah. We're all supervillains here, Monarch. We've heard that speech a thousand times. You don't get the points.
* LoopholeAbuse: When the Guild prevented him from arching Dr. Venture, [[spoiler: he signed up to arch Jonas Venture, Jr. and after a [[BatmanGambit clever plan]], earned the right to terrorize JJ's immediate relatives.]]
** [[spoiler: Also how he saves Rusty's life in a Guild operated night club since, as Rusty's primary arch, he has the first right to kill Dr. Venture. The other villains are forced to release him.]]
* NotSoDifferent: He and Rusty actually share a moment to reflect on their lives in ''The Devil's Grip'' and realize they have a lot in common.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Posterboy for this trope. At first he seemed like an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, but it quickly turned out that he was a significantly bigger threat to people who didn't have [[{{Badass}} Brock Samson]] on their side.
** After losing the rights to arch Dr. Venture he actually made it a habit out of killing his new Archs ''too quickly.'' Although this is seriously mitigated by the fact that he was only dangerous when facing hapless chumps like Doctor Dugong, and when he fought Jonas Jr (AKA someone who actually knew what he was doing) he was [[CurbStompBattle utterly thrashed]] in a straight fight, suggesting that he's out of his depth fighting a genuinely skilled super-scientist who doesn't play by the Guild's rules and is willing to hit back.
** It's also heavily implied that he does care for Rusty and the boys in a way; he wants Rusty ''crushed'', not merely killed, and feels a connection to them due to their long adversarial relationship. When he's facing people he simply doesn't care about at all, he's far, far more lethal.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gets into rivalries with Baron Underbheit and Sgt. Hatred over who gets to be Rusty's ArchEnemy. [[spoiler: Also saves Rusty's life in a Guild operated nightclub, since, as Rusty's primary arch, he has the first right to kill Venture.]]
* RaisedByWolves: Claims to have been raised by monarch butterflies after his parents died in a plane crash when he was a preteen. The money for his college education and villainy were provided for by a trust fund.
* RunningGag: There are several instances when The Monarch is forced to take a taxi, he either shoots the cab driver, or sends his henchmen to do his dirty work to get out of paying the fare.
* SkewedPriorities: Everything takes backseat to tormenting Dr. Venture, except for [[PetTheDog his relationship with Dr. Girlfriend.]] This leads to him taking on Rusty as his ''best man''.
* TriggerHappy: Approach him cautiously; he tends to shoot a lethal dosage of darts into the mouth of anybody who startles him.
* UnknownRival: Well, hardly ''unknown'', but his obsessive hatred of Dr Venture is entirely one-sided - Rusty doesn't seem to care much about him at all beyond "That clown in a butterfly suit who tries to kill me slightly more often than all those other guys who try to kill me".
* TheUnreveal: When remembering his first atttempt to kill Venture in college (which failed and blew off Ünderbheit's jaw) in ''Shadowman 9'', the Monarch remembers a fellow student telling him what happened. Said student used his real first name: [[spoiler:apparently the Monarch's real name is Malcolm]].
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: In the season 5 episode "Bot Seeks Bot," Rusty Venture is captured in a Guild operated night club and about to be dipped into acid (even ''Brock Samson'' knows it would be suicide to attempt to rescue Doc surrounded by so many supervillains,) when Monarch shows up, citing Guild regulations which state that he has the first right to kill Venture as Venture's primary arch. The other villains are forced to release Dr. Venture.]]
* VillainProtagonist: He is the story's protagonist as often as the antagonist.

!!Dr. Girlfriend/Dr. Mrs. The Monarch
-->''"I was thinking of something that plays off my abilities more than my sexuality."''
-->'''Voiced By''':Doc Hammer
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The [[CrossDressingVoices husky-voiced]] Dr. Girlfriend is perhaps the only voice of reason in the Monarch's sad little world. Skilled and capable, she is often the only thing that makes the Monarch's plans even remotely viable. Before teaming up with the Monarch, she was involved with the Phantom Limb under the name of Queen Etherea.

Tropes associated with Dr. Girlfriend:
* AbsoluteCleavage: Kept in place with a lot of tape.
* AffablyEvil: When The Monarch was torturing H.E.L.P.eR for the Ventures' location, she put a stop to it and put a comforting arm around him. And soon had exactly the information the Monarch was trying to get...
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: She still holds a grudge against Brock Samson for not taking advantage of her when he had the chance.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She knows what she's doing and she can be very civil and friendly, but you shouldn't let your guard down when she's around. Just ask H.E.L.P.E.R..
* DarkActionGirl: Martial prowess isn't her specialty, but she has been shown on a few occasions to be capable of kicking ass.
* DarkMistress: A classic example.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most often happens when whatever villains she is with jeopardizes their plans by trying to be overly macho, particularly Phantom Limb.
* TheDragon: She's the Monarch's right-hand woman and is in charge of his security and gadgetry; she's also a very capable combatant on her own.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: During her first meeting as [[spoiler:one of the Council of Thirteen]], she calls out the Sovereign's plan to [[spoiler:destroy Gargantua-2 and all the innocent civilians onboard]] to be extreme and insane. Overlaps with PragmaticVillainy due to the fact that such an action would anger the O.S.I., whom the Guild has an uneasy truce with.
* FriendlyEnemy: She gets along really well with Dr. Venture.
* GadgeteerGenius: She designed the Monarch's wings, built his security system, replicated Captain Sunshine's solar powers, and more.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: She's TheDragon for someone she can outdo in ''a lot'' of things.
** She admits though that she was something of a failure as a solo villain (she doesn't have powers or a budget on her own, and was frankly being strangled by the Guild's red tape regarding female villains which kept her from doing anything productive as a solo GadgeteerGenius). Not to mention that she doesn't have nearly the talent for dramatics and villainous monologues that the Monarch does.
* IHaveManyNames: She has been officially known as Lady Au Pair, Queen Etherea, Dr. Girlfriend, and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch; The Monarch has also called her Dr. Ex Girlfriend, Dr. Fiancee, and Dr. My Wife.
** Incidentally, her first name is Sheila.
* LoopholeAbuse: Her intimate knowledge of Guild law allows her to do this frequently. [[spoiler: At the end of Season 5, it's even been recognized by the Sovereign who has offered her a seat on the Council of Thirteen]].
* MoralityPet: Her main purpose is to make the Monarch more relatable.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: But at least she is clearly an engineer of some sort, and WordOfGod confirms that she has a Ph. D.
* MsFanservice: Oh yes, just look at her!
** AbsoluteCleavage
** AloofDarkHairedGirl
** LeotardOfPower
** ZettaiRyouiki
* NiceHat: Based on that of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (along with her look for the first couple of seasons). Ironically, she has no idea who that is. It's implied that the guild came up with the persona for her when she wanted a 'competent female counterpart of a great leader' motif and rejected their more {{stripperiffic}} ideas.
** Later, she typically dresses as like a female version of the Monarch, complete with CoolCrown.
* OnlySaneMan: She's one of the sanest people in the series. She's generally easygoing and her default demeanor isn't malicious, which just makes her someone you shouldn't underestimate. This is best shown in the season 5 opening, where it's revealed that to combat the supposed mutant army Dr. Venture was building, she contacted the foremost specialist on genetic mutations [[spoiler: to create a serum to reverse the mutations and neutralize Venture's supposed army. In her words "You don't fight fire with fire, you fight it with water."]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her Queen Etherea and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch costumes.
* TaughtByExperience: Had apparently been working for supervillains for some time before The Monarch met her.
* {{Transsexual}}: Subverted. Her voice makes Brock suspect she's one, but it's later revealed she just smokes a lot.
* [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Unusually Uninteresting Sound]]: Her obviously-male voice is usually completely ignored, though it gets occasional LampshadeHanging (especially from Brock Samson, who often seems to be the only one to notice it.)
* VocalDissonance: A decidedly feminine MsFanservice with a voice gruffer and deeper than Brock Samson's. It's justified in-universe by her pack-a-day smoking habit, and her voice was a little lighter during college.
* VocalEvolution: Her voice was even deeper and masculine in [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earlier episodes,]] but gradually became (somehow) more feminine while retaining the Brooklyn-trucker vibe.
* WholeCostumeReference: Often wears a dress and hat nearly identical to one worn by Jackie Kennedy. Hilariously, as shown in "Home Is Where the Hate Is", she doesn't know who Jackie Kennedy is.

!!Henchman "[[RedBaron Two-Ton]]" 21 (Gary, Viceroy) and the late Henchman 24
-->'''Henchman 24:''' Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.
-->'''Henchman 21:''' Oh my God, you're crazy! They're so obviously mammals!
-->'''Henchman 24:''' Please! She'd be in estrus 24/7 if she didn't lay eggs.
-->'''Henchman 21:''' Smurfs don't lay eggs! I won't tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a f**king beard! They're mammals!
-->'''Voiced By:'''Doc Hammer(21) and Christopher [=McCulloch=](24)

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The Monarch's henchmen are known only by their official numbers. #21 and #24 were the two best known. Somehow, despite their ineptitude and questionable loyalty, they managed to avoid the unceremonious slaying The Monarch often levies on his less fortunate henchmen. #21 (real name Gary) came into the employ of the Monarch when his henchman army kidnapped him at age 15. #24 seems to have joined of his own volition, having lost his job when the local factory closed down and his G.E.D. left many other careers inaccessible to him. He was a career henchman, first henching for [[spoiler: Phantom Limb, alongside the future The Monarch, as seen in "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny!". In exchange for helping The Monarch strike out on his own, 24 was allowed to come along... eventually.]]

At the end of season three, [[spoiler: 24 died in an explosion.]] [[spoiler: 21]] went a little nuts, TookALevelInBadass, and became the Monarch's drill sergeant and go-to muscle. [But by the end of season four, Gary became completely disillusioned with The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch alike, and found greater peace with the various residents of the Venture compound. SPHINX quickly took Gary in even before he had decided to quit The Monarch. In the Shallow Gravy special, Gary has been shown to have stayed with SPHINX, and is interviewed under his pseudonym "The Viceroy". And in the season five premiere, [[spoiler: he remains the sole member of SPHINX after the rest of the team rejoined with OSI]]

[[spoiler: Gary tried to strike out on his own but only kept getting in the OSI's way. The original SPHINX members eventually responded to his call for new members and came to reclaim their old base in the hopes to do a suicide run against the OSI wanting to go out in blaze of glory. Which resulted in the base getting blown up, putting an end to SPHINX for good. Jobless and directionless, Gary camped out on the Venture Estate for the remainder of the season before ultimately re-joining the Monarch.]]

Tropes associated with 21 and 24:
* {{Acrofatic}}: 21, along with StoutStrength, once he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] following [[spoiler: the death of 24]]. Despite his size, he becomes faster, more athletic, and capable of performing some impressive martial arts moves.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: 24 frequently mentions that he has methods of dealing with living in a floating fortress with no women.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Then in "Operation: P.R.O.M.", Gary decides he probably isn't evil after all.]]
* AlasPoorYorick: [[spoiler: After 24 dies, 21 keeps his skull as a memento, and claims he can still listen to 24 speaking to him through it.]]
* AscendedFanboy: 21 alternates between this and PunchClockVillain, depending on whether the mission features cool VillainTropes.
* AuthorAvatar: Listening to the creator commentary and seeing Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick at cons makes it very obvious that 21 and 24 ''are'' the writers. When a fan asked them to settle an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny that 21 and 24 argued about in the show, they seriously debated it with each other and were indistinguishable from the characters.
* BrutalHonesty: [[spoiler:21 has a bit of a breakdown in "Operation: P.R.O.M." in front of The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: 21's bailing on us.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dr. Mrs.]]'''[[spoiler:: What?!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: Ask him.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:21]]'''[[spoiler:: It's true! I'm sick of this! I'm slightly drunk, I'm talking to the ghost of my fucking dead friend, I'm probably in love with you, and...so yeah, whatever, I'm over it!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: You're over it?]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dr. Mrs.]]'''[[spoiler:: You're in love with me?]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: Whoa, wait, what?!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:21]]'''[[spoiler:: We made out!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dr. Mrs.]]'''[[spoiler:: Well... Well, that's a stretch. We got drunk. Maybe we kissed, but uh...]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: Suuuuuuuuure, you d-- where was I, then, uh?]]
-->'''[[spoiler:21]]'''[[spoiler:: Where were you--you were there! We were on top of you! We made out on you!]]
** [[spoiler:It's also part of the reason 21 gets rid of 24's skull. He keeps showing up when he tries to masturbate.]]
* BulletProofVest: 21 bought one, it's protects him from a rifle shot from Hatred, but the force knocks him out and leaves a nasty bruise on his torso.
* DrillSergeantNasty: [[spoiler: 21 following 24's death.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: After 24 dies, we see a henchman's hand checking off a list of suspects for his killer.]]
** [[spoiler:It's just the Moppets trying to cover up their (likely) murder.]]
* GenreSavvy: They catch on to a lot of details regarding the workings of the Venture universe.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: 21 leaves the Monarch and joins SPHINX.]]
** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:He rejoins the Monarch at the end of season 5.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: 21 even lampshades this in a third-season episode, when The Monarch doesn't know who 24 is.
* [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I Always Wanted To Do That]]: Instead of taking their mission seriously with #1, they hide in plain sight from Brock by pretending to be mannequins in a "villain diorama"; they comment on how little chance there is to actually do it.
* LampshadeHanging: 21 in particular loves to hang them, such as commenting on their PlotArmor.
* LargeHam: Jackson Publick's delivery while voicing 24 frequently moves into MundaneMadeAwesome territory. The hamminess really fits once he becomes a SpiritAdvisor.
* MauveShirt: [[spoiler: Subverted. 24 starts as one, but dies anyway.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[GeniusBonus Gary's recurring "Viceroy" identity.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_Viceroy_Mimicry_Comparison.jpg The Viceroy butterfly is so called because its appearance mimics that of the Monarch butterfly]].[[note]]They are both foul-tasting to predators, and their shared appearance reinforces the warning to not eat them.[[/note]]
* NobleTopEnforcer: Post-[[TookALevelInBadass Taking A Level in Badass]], 21 becomes this is Season 4 for the Monarch. [[spoiler: This eventually leads to [[HeelFaceTurn him quitting]] in the season finale.]] In the season five finale, [[spoiler:he goes back to being this for the Monarch after the [=OSI=] rejects his efforts to join, and he fails in his attempts at being a hero as the only member of [=SPHINX=]]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: 24 is voiced as an imitation of Ray Romano. Out of costume, 21 and 24 look like Creator/KevinSmith without a beard and Jerry Seinfeld with a unibrow, respectively.
* NonActionGuy: They breeze through their assignments by slacking off and using their [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] to avoid deadly cliches. [[spoiler: This stops after the death of 24.]]
* PlotArmor: They start bragging about it in season three. [[spoiler: Not a good idea, as it costs 24 his life.]]
* PunchClockVillain: They're losers and social outcasts who are just trying not to get killed. In one episode, #24 is overheard to complain that working for the Monarch was the only job he could get after the factory he worked at closed ("It was either this or the Army").
* RedBaron: 21 eventually picks up the epithet "Two Ton" 21.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:21 in "Operation: P.R.O.M."]]
* StoutStrength: 21, along with {{Acrofatic}}, once he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] following [[spoiler: the death of 24]]. He's even larger now, with a still-massive gut, but a clear increase in strength.
* TalkingToTheDead: [[spoiler: In season four, 21 starts talking to 24's skull.]]
** [[spoiler: In "Operation P.R.O.M.", when Dr. Orpheus helps 21 realizes that one of 24's ghost friends isn't actually dead yet, 24 vanishes, and Gary breaks down in tears. This indicates that 24 was a figment of 21's imagination the entire time. This is seemingly contradicted by 24 communicating with one of Monstroso's dead henchmen when 21 isn't exactly present onscreen, but this could simply have been an extension of 21's hallucination.]]
** When incessantly asked about it, Jackson Publick confirmed that [[spoiler:they ''intended'' for 24 to not really be a ghost, but ultimately, it's open to interpretation (although the "24 really was a ghost" theory only works under very specific and unlikely circumstances).]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Among The Monarch's henchmen.
* TookALevelInBadass: The biggest example in the show. Following the events of the season three finale, NonActionGuy 21 becomes "Two Ton 21," the {{Badass}} DrillSergeantNasty of the Monarch's henchman - he turns his tubbiness into StoutStrength, fights Sgt. Hatred to a standstill, and impresses Brock Samson with his fighting skills and sheer balls.
** However, in the same episode that said badassery asserts itself, he fails [[spoiler: to find 24's killer]], flubbed his attempt at Chinese Water Torture, realized that [[spoiler: his friend's death could've been avoided if he hadn't been such a lazy coward]], and accidentally gives his boss horrendous food poisoning, causing the Monarch to lose out on his chance at appearing in a high-profile supervillain magazine.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In "The Lepidopterists".
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Their favorite subject of conversation, along with copious FanWank. 24 always takes the less logical position. [[invoked]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:As the sole remaining member of SPHINX [[RunningGag (sphinx!)]] at the start of season 5, Gary dubs himself "SPHINX Commander" and uses that as his codename]].
* YouAreNumberSix: Subverted with 21, who sometimes went by his real name, "Gary" [[spoiler: but now does so full-time]].


!!The Murderous Moppets, AKA The Pupa Twins
-->'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' We can take out his tongue...\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with relish'') With a knife!\
'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' Or remove 'is 'eart...\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with great relish'') Yeah, with a knife!\
'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' A bigger knife!\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with greater relish'') Fucking knife!
-->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=] (Tim-Tom) and Doc Hammer (Kevin)

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Tim-Tom and Kevin originally served as Dr. Girlfriend's [[TheDragon muscle]] when she was known as Lady Au Pair. She eventually got back in contact with them after she left The Monarch. She brought them back into the fold in time for her wedding to The Monarch, after which they started terrorizing the henchmen.

Tropes associated with Tim-Tom and Kevin:
* AerithAndBob:
--> '''Doc Hammer''': "You want one to be named like a Moppet - like Tim-Tom - and the other one to just walk in with like, 'What's your name?' 'Kevin.' 'Good enough!'"
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Dr. Mrs. The Monarch is upset at their deaths. The Monarch and 21... not so much.]]
* AxCrazy: They [[KnifeNut like knives]] a little too much.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: 21 figures out they were the ones who offed 24 and calls for a "hench must kill hench" rule on them. The rest of the Monarch henchmen gang up and kill them off screen. Dr. Mrs The Monarch confirms their deaths in ''All This And Gargantua 2''.]]
* KnifeNut:See their quote, and keep in mind they've been told their target is underage.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: According to Phantom Limb, they're "well-placed sleeper agents". We don't know for sure if this is correct, but the recent revelation that they were likely the ones who killed 24 (and are messing with 21's mind by crossing names off his list of suspects, which would contribute towards Limb's plan from "Bright Lights, Dean City") adds some additional proof.]]
* PermaStubble: Both of them have it.
* PsychoForHire: It's pretty clear their reason for being minions is because they get off on killing.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: to The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, though as time passes they become less compliant.
* SaltAndPepper: Only in appearance, as their personalities aren't actually very different.
* SlasherSmile: They each tend to get one, especially when about to use knives.
* ThoseTwoGuys: An AxeCrazy version. They don't qualify as ThoseTwoBadGuys because they don't act like [=TTBG=]s typically do.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Everyone they work with has tried to get to know them, generally for Dr. Girlfriend's sake. They ''all'' hate them. [[spoiler: Even Dr. Girlfriend has started feeling uncomfortable around them, which was evidently so satisfying to the Monarch that he got an erection.]] The Monarch has intended to kill them, [[spoiler:and 21 succeeded getting them killed by the rest of the Monarch's henchmen after accusing them of killing 24.]]

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[[folder:''The Guild of Calamitous Intent'']]
!!The Sovereign[=/=]David Bowie
-->''"Pay no attention to the handsome and ageless rock star hiding behind the couch! I am the mighty Sovereign!"''
-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [=McCulloch=] (As the Sovereign Head), James Urbaniak (As Bowie)
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The enigmatic leader of the Guild, who just happens to be none other than Music/DavidBowie. [[spoiler:Or really, a shapeshifter impersonating Bowie.]]

Tropes associated with The Sovereign:
* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:Turns out he's not David Bowie, but a shapeshifter impersonating him.]]
* AffablyEvil: Running the biggest supervillain organization in the world, but we've never really seen any evidence of him being a bad guy (though Brock wants to kill him over ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' he did in Berlin).
** BaitTheDog: Comes off just as affable and quirky as any other villain on the show despite being the head of a global evil organization. Then ''All This and Gargantua-2'' comes along and [[spoiler:he tries to murder most of his own allies and a lot of innocent civilians just to welch out on a DealWithTheDevil he made with the Investors. He even lampshades it to Doctor Girlfriend, pointing out that it's hardly a surprise that the leader of the biggest supervillain syndicate in the world would be, you know, ''evil'']].
* CardCarryingVillain: Admits it in his own snarky way.
--> ''"Right, the heir to the global evil organization is a bad man, who'd've guessed? Total shocker."''
* CelebrityImpersonator: James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture, Phantom Limb, etc). Allegedly, they tried to get the real Bowie, but he declined. This is also lampshaded with Sovereign's first appearance as Bowie.
** And according to Monstroso, [[spoiler:he isn't the real Bowie. Merely a former shape-shifting super-villain, who met Bowie in the 80's, and apparently uses Bowie as his favorite public persona. Granted, this does explain a few things and allows the show to keep using him as often as it does.]]
* TheChessmaster: In the conflicts he has been featured in, he has demonstrated an aptitude for thinking a few steps ahead of his opposition. [[spoiler: Proves to be in over his head against the Investors and Killinger, however.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Noticeably avoids this until the fifth season, where he tries to pull a ''three-way'' backstab in events culminating in ''All This and Gargantua-2''. He has most of the Guild's Council of Thirteen killed, promises Phantom Limb and the Revenge Society the open seats, then leaves them to die on the exploding Gargantua-2 while at the same time trying to have the Investors killed in order to get out of a deal he made with them. He ''almost'' gets away with it if not for an accidental shot from Head Shot...]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Has shades of this.
--> ''"[[CrowningMomentOfFunny No. Please don't activate a broken coffee mug]]."''
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: It turns out that he rose to the position of Sovereign thanks to a deal with the Investors. He tries to have them killed in ''All This and Gargantua-2'' before they collect on their end of the deal.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Headshot accidentally kills him when he fires randomly into the air, killing him in his eagle form.]]
** [[spoiler: DisneyVillainDeath: ...well, we see ''an'' eagle fall dead afterwards.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of sorts. [[spoiler:He finally takes center stage in the special, ''All This and Gargantua-2'', where he's in a BigBadEnsemble with the Investors.]]
* HugeHolographicHead: The majority of his public appearances.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:His deal with The Investors turns out to have been mainly for the shapeshifting abilities. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch calls him out as a loser who just ''acts'' like important people. He doesn't disagree.]]
-->[[spoiler: Dr. Mrs. The Monarch: "So, who are you really?"]]
-->[[spoiler: Sovereign: "Oh, no one. [[AlasPoorVillain Just someone who wanted to be anyone but himself]].]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Accidentally taken out by Headshot. ...Maybe.]]
* NighInvulnerability: Seems to shrug off that which would outright destroy an ordinary person. [[spoiler: But even if he can shrug off Phantom Limb's death touch, he's not immune to bullets. Maybe.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Music/DavidBowie, though not explicitly mentioned as much as before, but it's still obvious.
* OpenSecret: The true identity of The Sovereign is a carefully guarded Guild secret... but everyone already knows he is Music/DavidBowie.
** [[spoiler:Averted, as revealed in Season 5.]].
* {{Rotoscoping}}: His appearance as the Sovereign has extremely naturalistic animation.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: That said, it's fairly clear that Sovereign underestimates Phantom Limb's abilities, as Limb has escaped Sovereign himself and several Guild ambushes, the latter with ease.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His primary power.

!!Red Mantle & Dragoon
-->'''Red Mantle''': Two heads ''are'' better than one!\
'''Dragoon''': What does that have to do with anything?\
'''Red Mantle''': Nothing, I've just been wanting to say that all day. I got sick of waiting for an opportunity.
-->'''Voiced By:'''Doc Hammer (Red Mantle) and Christopher [=McCulloch=](Dragoon)
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Two members of the Guild's [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Council of Thirteen]], they moved into the spotlight in season four. They have spent decades in the Guild headquarters, leaving both of them out-of-touch with the outside world. After a near-fatal encounter with Phantom Limb, Dragoon's life was saved when Billy Quizboy attached his head to Red Mantle's shoulder.

Tropes associated with Red Mantle & Dragoon:
* AscendedExtra
--> '''Doc Hammer:''' We took silhouettes and gave them an episode.
* BadassGrandpa: When he still had a body, Dragoon could pick up Revenge and toss him like a ragdoll.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: If a throwaway line in the season 5 Halloween special is to be believed, Red Mantle's magical powers come from, surprise surprise, his [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin red mantle.]]
* DishingOutDirt: Red Mantle's apparent power (or at least one of them,) as seen in the season 5 episode "Bot Seeks Bot" when [[spoiler: he uses this power to move dirt onto the grave of the deceased Councilman #4.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Pulls this along with Dr. Z in ''All this and Gargantua 2'', defecting to the OSI in return for protection from the Sovereign.]]
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Dragoon.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: It is made ''very'' clear that they are actually Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, with the plane crash that killed both musicians merely a cover for their induction into the Guild's Council.
* MultipleHeadCase: They had to spend some time adjusting and coordinating to this arrangement. Dragoon insists that he will eventually take over the whole body.
-->'''Dragoon''': I've been standing here all day with my dick in my hand!
-->'''Red Mantle''': [[AccidentalInnuendo That was MY dick]].
* RetiredBadass: Guild masterminds, and Dragoon still had some fight in him before losing his body.
* SilenceYouFool: Dragoon hung several lampshades on this during the Council's first appearance.
* StoutStrength[=/=]{{Acrofatic}}: Dragoon, prior to their merging.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Not like they have much of a choice.

!!King Gorilla

-->'''Monarch''': ''"Oh this isn't gay. But King Gorilla over there is! And I bet he can't wait to snap off a piece of your dick in his ****!"''
-->'''King Gorilla''': (Kissy lips.)
-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [=McCulloch=]
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A tough old talking gorilla who served time in prison alongside The Monarch. [[spoiler: He made a deal with the Investors to donate his heart to Monstroso when he dies in exchange for getting out on his life sentence.]]

Tropes associated with King Gorilla:
* BlackComedyRape: See PrisonRape.
* CaptainErsatz: To two DC Comics villains, Gorilla Grodd and Monsieur Mallah (the latter of whom is also gay).
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Courtesy of The Investors.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When The Investors come to collect his heart. He doesn't panic, just gruffly tells them to get it over with.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: In order to get the Monarch out and back to Doctor Girlfriend, he helps him break out, knowing full and well the Guild will be on his ass. He was let out in season four.
** Also a villainous example, [[spoiler: he would eventually give his heart to a dying Monstroso, who arranged his release from prison in return]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: His lung cancer proved to be fatal. Or rather [[spoiler: ''would'' have been fatal, had the Investors not ripped out his heart to give to Monstroso.]]
* KillerGorilla: Well, he is a gorilla super villain.
* ManiacMonkeys: The Venture universe's contribution to the lineup of evil talking gorillas.
* ManlyGay: He's a supervillain gorilla with none of the stereotypical mannerisms.
* PrisonRape: He tried to rape The Monarch once, but he couldn't get it up because Monarch looked too much like a girl from behind. He even brought him back to his cell, but still felt nothing.
* PutOnABus: After playing a major part in the season two premiere, he vanished from the show.
** TheBusCameBack: In Season 4, dying from lung cancer. His life sentence was commuted [[spoiler: upon the condition that he give up his heart to Monstroso upon his death.]]

!!Monstroso

-->'''Dr. Girlfriend''': ''"Monstroso? That's what this is about? He's the king of the double cross. I mean, think about it, he's a lawyer and a supervillain. That's like a shark with a grenade launcher on its head."''
-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [McCulloch]

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An influential supervillain and lawyer. The Monarch tries to team up with him to screw over Venture at the season four midpoint. This ends about as well as you'd expect (remember, this is a show about failure). [[spoiler: Captured by the OSI during Season 5, and [[NeverFoundTheBody (possibly)]] killed by the Investors as an anti-snitching measure.]]

Tropes associated with Monstroso:
* AffablyEvil / PetTheDog: He's pretty nice to Billy, ButtMonkey among [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkies]], in ''The Silent Partners'', showing him a great time on his CoolShip, sympathizing with his problems and finally [[AManIsNotAVirgin helping him get laid]]. Granted he was trying to butter Billy up before asking him to perform a heart transplant, but it's not like he couldn't have simply put a gun to his head or counted on the bribe of becoming a real doctor - he went out of his way to show Billy a good time.
* AmoralAttorney: He's a ''supervillain lawyer.''
* AscendedExtra: We first hear about Monstroso in the henchman-published book that leads to the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend's divorce in the first season.
-->'''Monarch:''' And there's this picture of you in Monstroso's lap!
-->'''Dr. Girlfriend:''' That was at a party. Look at his lap! There's like five people on there!
* BigBeautifulMan: We've gotten enough looks at him shirtless and he's got a physique that can be considered a cross between Brock and 21's.
* TheBrute: Subverted. He's a ManOfWealthAndTaste AmoralAttorney who happens to be a ten-foot-tall wrestler.`
* CardCarryingVillain: Devil motifs. Really.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crossing is his MO, and it's perfectly allowable (and ''encouraged'') by Guild law.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: During the second half of the fourth season, after recovering from a mid-season surgery.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Seemingly dropped to his doom by The Investors.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has an inhumanly deep voice.
* {{Expy}}: Shares a number of similarities with MarvelComics villain, ComicBook/TheKingpin, including his monstrous size, nice suit, and being a businessman running a criminal empire. He also shares some traits with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey Anton LaVey]], founder of the Church of Satan, including his facial hair, devil hood, and general devil motif.
* GeniusBruiser: Obviously very intelligent, he also seems to be just as strong as he looks since [[spoiler: he actually ''survived'' the epic beatdown delivered by Brock and 21]].
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted at the very last minute in his first appearance.
* LargeAndInCharge: [[http://mantiseye.com/img/caps/507/notes/mugshot-monstroso-full.jpg 7'4, to be specific.]]
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He's a supervillain lawyer businessman with a massive yacht and a taste for fine cigars.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A play on "monstrous".
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In "Operation P.R.O.M.", he and Molotov are in a limo as it falls down a cliff and explodes, and in the Season 5 premiere his "body" turns out to be an inflatable decoy. Five episodes after reveal he's still alive. But in that same episode he goes missing ''again'' after being phased though the wall of the OSI airship and dropped from hundreds of feet in the air.]]
* OhCrap: When [[spoiler:The Investors appear during his interrogation on the O.S.I. Heli-Carrier]], he has a severe freak out. Nothing had fazed him before, from fighting 21 and Brock simultaneously to being [[spoiler: at the mercy of the O.S.I.]] Now he's scared witless.
* RunningGag: He offers the Monarch a cigar four times in about ninety seconds.
--> "Fine, yes! Gimme a fucking cigar!"
* SmugSnake: Trying to defeat both the Venture family and The Monarch simultaneously... with zoning law fine print.

!!Watch and Ward
-->'''Phantom Limb''': ...Very well, but you may have to give me the shot in my derriere. Needles can't penetrate my electro-impalpable limbs!
'''Watch''': Yeah, 'needles'. Good one. Try Giant Metal Spikes.
'''Ward''': They're wonderful and frightening and they go in through your neck and they replace all your blood!
'''Watch''': You get your blood back at the end of the summit, unless that 'loss of life' thing happens. Then we send your next of kin a big jar of blood and a very nice card.
-->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=] (Watch) and Doc Hammer (Ward)
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High-ranking Guild communications officers, who report directly to the Sovereign. They're fairly good at their jobs, when not distracted by inconsequential matters, be they misplaced juice boxes or mp3 selection.

Tropes associated with Watch and Ward:
* AuthorAvatar: Their conversations are often taken from actual conversations between Jackson and Doc. As a bonus, Doc and Ward (whom he voices) are both blond.
* IdiotBall: Failed to notice Phantom Limb's escape from Guild HQ, due to Watch having a bug clinging to his back.
-->'''Watch''': Aah! It's one of those ones that flies!
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: And they're constantly bickering and trip each other up at every turn.

!!Torrid
-->''"Save my place in the queue. There's something I feel I must do. Something ''[[NameDrop torrid.]]"''
-->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
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The Order of the Triad's Guild-sanctioned archenemy, who has a fire theme.

Tropes associated with Torrid:
* UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent
* CaptainErsatz: Sort of a fusion of Pyro of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} (for his powers and ethnicity, although Torrid can create flame and teleport), Comicbook/{{Deadman}} (for his costume), and Dormammu (from ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'') (for his mythical connections).
* GassHole: Much fuss is made over the smell he leaves behind in the Venture bathroom.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The Order of the Triad seem to currently believe he's dead.
* PlayingWithFire: Being a CaptainErsatz of Pyro.
* TeleportSpam: When necessary. He uses it more to dodge than to attack.

!!Augustus St. Cloud
-->''"You win this time, but mark my words, and mark them well: I will get you, Quiz Boy!"''
-->'''Voiced By:'''James Urbaniak (Season 1), Christopher McCulloch (Season 5 Onward)

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The newest member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent as of the Season 5 premier, who specifically joins to arch Billy Quiz Boy. He is also incredibly rich, and is a collector and fan boy of antiques from movies and TV shows.

Tropes associated with St. Cloud:
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: He even claims his "superpower" is the fact he has "lots of money".
* AscendedExtra[=/=]EarlyBirdCameo: He appears as a background character in the first four seasons, most memorably getting Baron Underbheit's boot in his ass at Rusty's yard sale.
* TheCollector: Of in numerous pop cultural icons, many of them ridiculously expensive. Billy utterly hates him for this, because he never lets anyone else see them except to show off and damages them for his own amusement (like altering [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Auric Goldfinger's]] pajamas so they'd fit him). He also collects albinos.
* EvilIsPetty: When Billy and Pete come to his house to try to barter with him for a flying ship, he agrees on the condition that Billy eat a dollar's worth of pennies. The reason? Billy outbid him for an action figure on eBay.
* {{Expy}}: He's a rich snobbish version of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Comic Book Guy]] (especially his voice).
* {{Hypocrite}}: He still holds a grudge against Billy for cheating on the ''Quizboys'' show in his youth, yet himself cheats audaciously in the Spanakopita events.
* OpaqueLenses: When he fully becomes a villain. We can see his eyes in his earlier appearances.
* PyrrhicVictory: Tries to pull one on Rusty and Billy by announcing he bought the island where Spanakopita is held after they win the final event, unaware [[spoiler: that the locals had sold him "Spanakopita," the spinach pastry, rather than "Spanakos," the actual name of the island. What's more, the locals were scamming him as well as Rusty the entire time.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Manages to bypass many of the Guild's set rules (such as new members being unable to choose their own archenemy) by bribing them with money.
** He likewise bribes his way through the Spanakopita events just to get under Billy and Rusty's skin.

!!The Investors
-->[[spoiler: '''Voiced By:''' Doc Hammer, John Hodgeman and T.Ryder Smith]]
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Three amazingly creepy men in suits. They exist to make deals with people. The deals [[DealWithTheDevil frequently end badly for the person who makes them]].

Tropes Associated with The Investors:
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Are they magically empowered humans, vampires, demons, or some other malevolent entities? [[spoiler: As of ''All This and Gargantua-2'', they are revealed to be some form of higher being. Whether alien or demonic is still not revealed.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: They appear to be equals in power, with none being in charge of the others.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Killinger reveals them all to be brothers, making them the three Cains to his {{Antivillain}}ous Abel.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: And according to Brock, only Billy and White have "Borrowed money from them, and lived long enough to panic about it". [[spoiler:The Sovereign made one with them in order to become leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, and his plan to destroy Gargantua-2 is an effort to kill them before they can collect on his part of the bargain.]]
* TheDreaded: When they come to collect on your end of whatever deal you made with them. Even the 10 foot tall supervillain lawyer, Monstroso, is scared out of his mind when [[spoiler: they show up for him in "O.S.I. Love You."]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: They first appeared in the background behind the speakers at the state university in the episode "Pomp & Circuitry." They were said to be there representing the '''G'''eneral '''C'''onsolodated '''I'''nsurance company...
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:In ''All This and Gargantua-2'', they're revealed to be the true power behind the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the Sovereign having made a DealWithTheDevil with them in order to gain his power.]]
* Myth/GreekMythology: As revealed in ''All This and Gargantua-2''', they are named Lips, Caicias, and Skeiron after the Greek gods of the southwest, northeast, and northwest winds, respectively.
* HumanoidAbomination: All three of them. It was previously hinted that they weren't humans, [[spoiler:and confirmed in ''All This and Gargantua-2'' where they're revealed to be the same kind of higher life form as Dr. Killinger. What that life form is, though, is never explained. It's possible, for example, that they are the Greek gods of the Southwest, Northeast, and Northwest winds - because why not.]]
* [[IntangibleMan Intangible Men]]: Bullets and knives just pass right through them. They can also walk through walls and floors. And [[spoiler:reach inside peoples chests, and phase them through walls.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By Dr. Killinger in ''All This and Gargantua-2''.]]
* [[KnightOfCerebus Knights Of Cerebus]]: Unlike such villains as The Monarch, their actions and presence are NEVER played for laughs.
* [[MasterOfDisguise Masters Of Disguise:]] [[spoiler:As shown during "O.S.I. Love You" then can perfectly impersonate two O.S.I. agents, and a nonexistent third rookie agent.]]
* PowerFloats[=/=]GhostlyGlide: We almost never see them walk [[spoiler:when not shape-shifted]], which adds to their creepiness.
* PsychicPowers: The Investors generally don't actually directly interact with the people around them, but rather use mental projections. It's why they don't show up on camera. [[spoiler: When it looks like they're taking Killinger on in an epic lightsaber duel, that turns out to be a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.]]
* SiblingsInCrime: They're brothers.
* TheVoiceless: Until [[spoiler:"O.S.I. Love You" when disguised as the O.S.I. company men. Later, in ''All This and Gargantua-2'', they speak in their own voices for the first time.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of their powers, as seen in [[spoiler: "O.S.I. Love You" when they perfectly impersonate the O.S.I. agents.]]

[[folder:''Spider Skull Island'']]
!!Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr.
-->''"But we're [[TitleDrop the Venture Brothers!]] Shouldn't we work together?"''
-->'''Voiced By:'''James Urbaniak
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Dr. Venture's twin brother [[spoiler: whom he ate in the womb]], Jonas, Jr. - or JJ - is a two-foot tall dwarf with all of the skill, charisma, success, and hair that Rusty lacks. He is usually seen getting contracts that Rusty wants whenever Rusty calls him up for a loan. [[spoiler: "All This and Gargantua-2" revealed that his organs had been failing for some time and is on the verge of death, but he instead chooses to personally pilot the failing Gargantua-2 to save the fleeing passengers from catastrophic meltdown, taking his own life in the process.]]

Tropes associated with JJ:
* TheAce: He's more like his father than his brother is. Complete with the insufferable ego.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's the perfect heir to the Venture ScienceHero tradition and always miles ahead of Rusty in success and fame.
* ArtificialLimbs: His left hand didn't form during his birthing development. After he finally leaves Rusty's body, Billy makes him a cybernetic prosthetic.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with. His first appearance in the season 1 finale, he tries to murder Rusty. He mellows into a smug-genius characterization after he starts making a fully deserved name for himself as Jonas' true inheritor. "Now Museum Now You Don't" showed that he's something of a passive-aggressive, condescending jerk under stress, with some of it coming through normally. "The Lepidopterists" shows him to be a fan of DisproportionateRetribution who doesn't know the rules (and is irritated by the OSI-GCI relationship). [[spoiler: Played more straight in the Season 5 premiere, where he has contracted Rusty for a large project and openly admits his surprise and gratitude when Rusty delivers beyond his expectations. That being said, he didn't know about [[NoodleIncident near apocalyptic shenanigans]] that happened as a result of Rusty's incompetence. By ''All This And Gargantua 2'' he seems ready to let bygones be bygones, and acts far more brotherly towards Rusty than ever, even bequeathing him the newly rebuilt Venture Industries.]]
* TheCharmer: Even as a malformed two-foot-tall fetus man he's amazingly successful with the ladies due to his good looks and endless charisma.
* CombiningMecha: Pilots the core component of Ventronic, a flying ShoutOut to {{Voltron}}.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Chooses to die saving everyone aboard the Gargantua rather slowly/painfully from cancer, and does so with a smile on his face.]]
* DeadGuyJunior: By his own choice.
* GadgeteerGenius: Built a mecha body out of spare parts in his first appearance and apparently created his own CombiningMecha.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pilots the cockpit containing the overloaded nuclear core of Gargantua 2 safely away from its escaping life pods. It detonates with him inside.]]
* HollywoodCyborg: He has a robot forearm covering the gimpy non-limb he had in his first appearance.
* InstantExpert: Earned two Ph. D.s [[RuleOfFunny in a month]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:During the pre-season 6 special ''All This And Gargantua 2.'' There's a brief moment where it sounds like Dr. Orpheus might have raised him from the dead, only for him to be talking about Dean's giraffe plushie.]]
* NiceGuy: Can be rather smug and condescending and does consistently treat Rusty like crap, but by the standards of the Venture universe, those are hardly the worst qualities around. He also seems to care for his nephews.
* PutOnABus: Spent all of season 4 working to complete a space station.
* TheResenter: A less-extreme example; in spite of being more successful and intelligent than Rusty, he seems a touch bitter about not being regarded as Jonas Venture's son. In his first appearance, this drove him to try and kill Rusty. He's since mellowed out, but has been shown trying to erase Rusty's boyhood accomplishments from memory and replace it with himself.
* SmugSuper: Like daddy Jonas, J.J. develops a rather obtrusive ego with his massive intellect, though it tends to come out most when he's under stress.
* VocalEvolution: In his first appearance, he had a deep, raspy voice. Afterward, he gained a smooth and smug voice to go along with his role as AlwaysSomeoneBetter. (It's not clear if either one is an affectation, or possibly even ''both''.)
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Reveals in ''All This And Gargantua 2'' that his organs are failing as he's dying from cancer.]]

!!Sally Impossible
-->''"What could be more important than your family, Richard?!"''
-->'''Voiced By''':Mia Baron
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Richard Impossible's now-ex-wife. When the lab accident occured that gave Richard his stretching powers, she was affected too but was much less fortunate as she was given the "power" of making her skin visible, without utilising it her skin ''returns'' to being invisible and makes for a pretty gross sight. Her other family members, who were also caught in the blast, didn't fare as well (her brother Cody ignites when exposed to oxygen, while her cousin Ned became a walking tumor). To save his public image, Richard hid them away and refused to let Sally interact with anyone. Rusty winds up meeting her by accident and she tries to use him to escape Richard's grasp but Rusty quickly abandons her. In their next encounter Rusty used her to get a vital piece of equipment he needed from Richard's lab. It was during this encounter she met Jonas Venture Jr and the two quickly hit it off. Sometime afterward she divorced Richard and went to live with J.J along with Ned and her infant son Rocket (Cody somehow still staying with Richard).
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Tropes associated with Sally:
* BlessedWithSuck: Stuck with a power she never wanted and claims it take a great deal of effort to maintain control -- really, it barely even counts as a ''power'', more like a flat-out disability.
* BodyHorror: When she loses control of her power, yeesh.
* CaptainErsatz: Of The Invisible Woman from ''Franchise/FantasticFour''.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:She still hates Richard, but saves him anyway cause he's Rocket's dad.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Minor one, before she was always cowering in front of her husband and gets sparks of courage if she knew she could escape or at least discredit him. She ratches up a bit when Richard shows his neglect for Rocket and by third appearance she done with his crap and is disgusted by his attempts to win her back (though she does show some appreciation for his attempted and supposed HeroicSacrifice). She now a part of J.J's fighting force, helping to defend Spider Island from the Monarch in a giant mecha. As part of that, she's also improved her control over her visibility and managed to conquer her issues.

!!The Pirate Captain
-->''" I'm really, really sorry about this whole mess, and, you know, the whole pirate thing is behind me now, and... plus, you kinda killed Steve, and burnt my ship. So, if you could give us a lift out of here I figure we'd just call it squaresies."''
-->'''Voiced By:'''Christopher [=McCulloch=]
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The 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. He has not been referred to by any name or nickname other than "The Captain" so far. He currently resides with Jonas Jr. on Spider Skull Island and fulfills the duties of a butler, caretaker, and right-hand man. The Captain always refers to Jonas as "Chairman".
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Tropes associated with the Captain:
* CombiningMecha: "[[{{Voltron}} I form the right arm!]]"
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No name given, only known as "the pirate" or "the Captain."
* HeelFaceTurn: He was never all that evil, but he's not that good of a good guy, either. He gets annoyed when JJ dredges up his "bad guy" past, but for the most part is a loyal employee and a reliable Number Two.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He and his crew have been stuck for a decade in the Sargasso, and he fails rather miserably when attempting to take the X-2.
* InstantSedation: Gets ''addicted'' to it in one episode.
* ShoutOut: He is modeled after ''ScoobyDoo'' villains, and makes a lot of specific references to that end (such as mentioning that he got to meet Cher and "the guy who was the voice of InspectorGadget"[[note]]Don Adams[[/note]], who both guest-starred on ''ScoobyDoo'').
* TalkLikeAPirate: And he friggin' loves it!

!!Ned
-->''"Ned go Boom Boom."''
-->Voiced By: Christopher [=McCulloch=]
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Sally Impossible and Cody's mentally challenged cousin. Formerly associated with Impossible Industries, Ned followed Sally to Spider Skull Island to live with Jonas Venture Jr.
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Tropes associated with Ned:
* CaptainErsatz: Of The Thing from ''Franchise/FantasticFour'', except mentally handicapped.
* HandicappedBadass: He packs a wallop when he wants to - guy's roughly the same size as Brock.
* SuperStrength: As noted above, the guy is super strong.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''The Revenge Society'']]
!!Phantom Limb
-->''"No one retires from the Phantom Limb's shit list!"''
-->''Voiced By:''James Urabanik
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The leader of the Revenge Society and the man who recruited Dr. Girlfriend into the Guild of Calamitous Intent, Hamilton G. Fantomas is the [[LegacyCharacter grandson]] of the adventurer and Guild founder Literature/{{Fantomas}}. Born with atrophied limbs, his attempts to speed up their muscle growth instead gave him invisible hands that could kill with a touch. He eventually worked his way up in the Guild, always with [[TheStarscream an eye on the Sovereign's position]]. Dr. Girlfriend used to work with him and date him as Queen Etherea before meeting the Monarch; she goes back to him in season two, securing his position as the BigBad of that season.

After his above origins were revealed in season three, he made a major comeback in season four as he attempted to conquer the Guild once more... and failed. Then he decided to make his own guild to piss off the Sovereign.
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** BaitTheDog: Comes off just as affable and quirky as any other villain on the show despite being the head of a global evil organization. Then ''All This and Gargantua-2'' comes along and [[spoiler:he tries to murder most of his own allies and a lot of innocent civilians just to welch out on a DealWithTheDevil he made with the Investors]].

* [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Unusually Uninteresting Sound]]: Her voice was completely ignored for less than half a season before being lampshaded, and it is usually ignored.

* ''[[Characters/TheVentureBrothersVentureAllies Venture Allies]]'' [[lablenote:Note]]Pete White, Billy "Quizboy" Whelan, Dr. Byron Orpheus, The Alchemist, Jefferson Twilight, Orpheus' Master, Triana Orpheus [[/labelnote]]

-->''"I just...I just wanted to kick his [Dr. Venture's] ass! I wanted to build a ''machine'' to kick his ass! I wanted to build an empire to ''house the machine'' to '''kick his ass'''!"''

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!!Gary (formerly Henchman "[[RedBaron Two-Ton]]" 21) and the late Henchman 24
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At the end of season three, [[spoiler: 24 died in an explosion.]] [[spoiler: 21]] went a little nuts, TookALevelInBadass, and became the Monarch's drill sergeant and go-to muscle. [[spoiler:But by the end of season four, Gary became completely disillusioned with The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch alike, and found greater peace with the various residents of the Venture compound. SPHINX quickly took Gary in even before he had decided to quit The Monarch. In the Shallow Gravy special, Gary has been shown to have stayed with SPHINX, and is interviewed under his pseudonym "The Viceroy". And in the season five premiere, he remains the sole member of SPHINX after the rest of the team rejoined with OSI.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Everyone they work with has tried to get to know them, generally for Dr. Girlfriend's sake. They ''all'' hate them. [[spoiler: Even Dr. Girlfriend has started feeling uncomfortable around them, which was evidently so satisfying to the Monarch that he got an erection.]] The Monarch has intended to kill them, [[spoiler:and 21 succeeded getting them killed by the rest of the Monarch's henchmen after accusing them of killing 24.]]

* KnifeNut:
-->'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' We can take out his tongue...\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with relish'') With a knife!\
'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' Or remove 'is 'eart...\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with great relish'') Yeah, with a knife!\
'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' A bigger knife!\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with greater relish'') Fucking knife!

!!Henchman #1/Scott Hall/[[spoiler:Zero]]
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A by-the-book henchman that was a stark contrast to #21 and #24. He followed all the old cliches, for which he was fiercely mocked by the GenreSavvy duo. He did go up in one final showdown with Brock that apparently ended with his death. [[spoiler:But later came back as a centurion named Zero who used Captain Sunshine's butler Desmond (disguised as the Greek god Zeus) to kidnap Henchman and Sidekicks to fight to the death. He's later found out by 21, who distracts him while an army of supervillains attack. It's unknown whether he survived or not.]]

Tropes associated with Henchman #1:
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:Just before attempting to shoot Brock, he begins to say it's for every henchman Brock has killed. Unfortunately for him he gets distracted by Hank's entrance, causing Brock to kill him for real this time.]]
* {{Badass}}:Just like [[spoiler:#21]] he took on Brock Samson one on one [[spoiler:And Lived]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Re-appears as a new member of the Revenge Society in ''All This And Gargantua 2,'' only to finally have his neck brutally snapped by Brock. And if that didn't kill him, the exploding Gargantua-2 certainly did.]]
* TheCaligula: [[spoiler:He makes supervillains and super scientists fight for next to no reason other than as penitence and for his amusement.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:To 21. Both changed after a big event, both got a large number of minions. Both TookALevelInBadass. But while 21 was largely unmotivated before, Scott was already motivated. Whereas 21 has avoided becoming a villain on his own but is slowly growing into one, Scott immediately became one. Whereas 21 is fully willing to rely on dirty tactics when the situation calls for it, Scott fights with honor.]]
* GenreBlind: Falls into all of the old henchman cliches in his first appearance. He's mocked mercilessly by #21 and #24 for it.
* KnightTemplar:[[spoiler: His scheme is revenge on what he believes to be the problem with superheroes and villains]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Zeus is actually a holographic puppet used to inspire fear and confusion. He's the real one behind the Super Death Camp]]
* MauveShirt: Starts off as an exploration of the classic RedShirt. [[spoiler: He survives and makes two more appearances, first as his own villain and then as a member of the Revenge Society]].
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:His name Zero is because he used to be a henchman. It's how 21 guesses his secret identity.]]
* MyHeroZero: [[spoiler:Serves not only as the Big Bad of the episode, but [[spoiler:he turns out to be Scott Hall / Number 1, a henchman from a previous episode]]. Thus, while he may not be a hero, he [[spoiler:survives not only being a henchman in a superhero/villain world, whose death is portented and lampshaded, but FIGHTING BROCK SAMSON]], which counts as a superpower in its own right.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Brock kills him in ''All This and Gargantua-2''.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Becomes a plot point in season four when he turns out to be the villain of "Every Which Way But Zeus".]] Comes up again in [[spoiler: ''All This and Gargantua-2'' when he is revealed to have survived once again and has joined the Revenge Society.]]
* NominalImportance: A Deconstruction of this trope.
* RedShirt: Again, Deconstructed.
* StopHavingFunGuys: To #21 and #24. [[invoked]]
* ThatManIsDead: Says it word-to-word when it's revealed that he is [[spoiler:Zero]].
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: He is seriously pissed off at people who disregard the lives of their henchmen.
* YouBastard: Gives this to [[spoiler:#21]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''The Guild of Calamitous Intent'']]
!!The Sovereign[=/=]David Bowie
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-->''"Pay no attention to the handsome and ageless rock star hiding behind the couch! I am the mighty Sovereign!"''

The enigmatic leader of the Guild, who just happens to be none other than Music/DavidBowie. [[spoiler:Or really, a shapeshifter impersonating Bowie.]]
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Dr. Venture's "other" ArchEnemy, Werner Underbheit is the tyrannical ruler of [[{{Ruritania}} Underland]] (pronounced oon-derland) who lost his jaw back in college - he blames Rusty for this, although it might have been the result of The Monarch's first attempt to kill Rusty. Recently ousted as ruler. Now the muscle for the Revenge Society.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:''The Original Team Venture'']]
!!Dr. Jonas Venture, Sr.
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The grand figure looming over the remains of the current world today is the legacy left behind by Dr. Jonas Venture, Sr. Adventure hero, scientist, woman-chaser, celebrity, and media darling who could do anything ''except'' raise a son. Dr. Venture lived a life of luxury and adventure, with the world constantly revolving around him, and that was the way he liked it. Too often, this ended up with Dr. Venture ignoring important things like missing colleagues, the family's cursed artifact, and non-emotionally scarring time that should have been spent with his own son. Then, he would play down any negative consequences of anything he ever did until he could forget about it.

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* ''[[Characters/TheVentureBrothersVentureAllies Venture Allies]]'' [[lablenote:Note]]Pete White, Billy "Quizboy" Whelan, Dr. Byron Orpheus, The Alchemist, Jefferson Twilight, Orpheus' Master, Triana Orpheus [/labelnote]]

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!!Pete White
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-->''"Oh, FYI, I issued some shares back when we needed cash for the Nintendo Wii."''

The "ever popular" Pete White is an unlikely friend of Dr. Venture who attended State University with him and Baron Underbheit in the early 1980s. He is a computer scientist and lives in a trailer with Master Billy Quizboy, where the two have launched their own tech company, Conjectural Technologies. He patterns his trademark new wave look after Phil Oakey of The Human League. And he's an albino.

Tropes associated with Pete:
* BrilliantButLazy: Heavy on the "Lazy" part, since he never seems to do much. He does seem to be the defacto computer expert of the group and isn't too bad at it, however.
* CampStraight: Despite his appearance and nature, he is straight.
* TheEighties: Heavily influenced by the culture.
* HahvahdYahdInMyCah: Speaks with a New England accent.
* HeroicAlbino: Well, heroic by ''Venture Bros.'' standards.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Billy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Particularly towards Billy, becoming his caretaker after Billy's mind was wiped by the O.S.I. and offering his last bit of money to anyone who would help him get Billy back when he was kidnapped by the Investors.
* MistakenForGay: Several times, even by his best friend Billy.
* [[NotWorthKilling Not Worth Memory Wiping]]: The O.S.I/Sphinx don't bother wiping his memory whenever they wipe Billy's. (It actually works out, since White can bring Billy to them whenever he does regain his memory.)
* PunnyName: An albino with the last name of "White."
* WeaksauceWeakness: White helpfully reminds people at every opportunity that he can't take much sunlight. He's even been shown to ''burst into flames'' when directly exposed to strong sunlight.

!!William "Billy" Whalen, AKA Master Billy Quizboy
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-->''"It's industrial espionage, you've come to steal our great ideas. You've been foiled; we have none!"''

A hydrocephalic neurogeneticist of dubious professional accomplishment, he was once a child prodigy and often capitalizes on his pedomorphic looks to pass for one in his adulthood. His nickname stems from his reign as champion of a TV quiz show in his youth. He lives, platonically, with Pete White in a trailer which doubles as the headquarters of their startup tech business, Conjectural Technologies.

Tropes associated with Master Billy:
* {{Adorkable}}: Even moreso in {{Flashback}}.
* ArchEnemy: [[RememberTheNewGuy Apparently]], Billy has a longstanding rivalry with the exceptionally rich collector/fanboy Augustus St. Cloud, who becomes his official arch-enemy at the beginning of season 5 (Augustus joined the Guild solely for this reason).
* AscendedFanboy: Billy is Rusty's biggest fan. He has "ascended" as far as being able to help his idol.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: After being pushed to far in {{Flashback}}, he managed to punch [[BadassNormal Brock Samson]] in the balls and escape from him and Col. Gathers.
* BrilliantButLazy: It is implied that he and White actually have some pretty decent skills between the two of them; they successfully cured Dean when he had a rare and embarrassing medical condition despite having no medical experience, and Billy reattached Rusty's arm after a Guild member ripped it off. However, they mostly just goof off in their spare time.
** If Pete is the 'Lazy' one, Billy is the 'Brilliant' one; by "The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter-Glider" he's guiding a miniaturized submarine through Rusty's vascular system, apparently from memory.
** As shown by "The Silent Partners" He's not lazy; he just never got his medical degrees and seemed to always regret it.
* ButtMonkey: Being a ButtMonkey on a SadistShow where everyone is either a {{Jerkass}}, a failure, or both is a major accomplishment. What's even funnier is that he gets so much flak despite being the useful half of his duo.
* CatchPhrase: "High five!" His constant attempt to trick people into slapping his metal hand.
* EyepatchOfPower
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Pete.
* HonorBeforeReason: He was willing to restore Monstroso, first for the money, but then because of his doctor's honor. He was still willing to let Brock kill Monstroso after he recovered, though. To be fair, Monstroso had treated him more than fairly, was offering him his life's dream, and had spent a while bonding with him; he had plenty of reasons to like the guy even knowing he was a monster.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Every time he regains the memory of how he lost his eye and hand, Pete knocks him out and takes him to the O.S.I/Sphinx to have his memory wiped again.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Rusty and White come to the conclusion that since he's a virgin, killing Billy wouldn't be murder, "just a very late abortion."
** [[spoiler:No longer a Virgin thanks to Monstroso and some prostitutes]]
* MyBrainIsBig: Billy claims that his excess of brain fluid makes him smarter. This is debatable.
* NiceGuy: One of the least {{Jerkass}} characters in the show.
* NoodleIncident: He doesn't know how he got his metal hand. He eventually remembers... or maybe Col. Gathers wiped his memory again.
* OffModel: His robotic left hand/arm isn't always consistent. Most of the time, it makes up his left forearm and hand, however, in some shots (such as the scene where he is performing surgery on Monstroso in ''The Silent Partners,'' it is only his left hand, stopping at his wrist.
** In "The Buddy System", the mechanics of his left arm appear to go into his flesh. It might just be a covering.
* ProperlyParanoid: Apparently, Billy was right to look for conspiracy clues on his Rusty Venture [=DVDs=].
* TeenGenius: Subverted on two occasions. First, when it is revealed that he is actually in his 30's; secondly, in a flashback showing him in his actual TeenGenius phase, he is completely overwhelmed by college-level classwork. He was smart and racked up the points on quiz shows, but he didn't really display any real-world talent until he grew up and began successfully sewing limbs onto bodies with full function.
** Also discussed when he acts as Dean and Hank's guidance counselor - he reminds Rusty, privately, that the boys really don't have the life skills to face the real world, and you realize that he's speaking from experience.
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[[folder:''Order of the Triad'']]
!!Dr. Byron Orpheus
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-->''"Well, if you ''must'' call me [a magician], yes. But if you are after mere parlor tricks, you'll be sorely disappointed. For if I reach behind your ear, it will not be a ''nickel'' I pull out... BUT '''YOUR VEEERY SOOOOUUL'''!!"''

Necromancer extraordinaire Dr. Byron Orpheus has the tendency to speak in a ringing, melodramatic tone, often at inappropriate times and [[Main/{{Leitmotif}} usually accompanied by dramatic music]]. Dr. Orpheus is divorced and has one child (Triana Orpheus). Currently living in back of the Venture Compound, in the old Advanced Arachnid Research Lab with his daughter. Although he calls himself 'Doctor', he only has a degree in Communications with a minor in Women's Studies from a community college. He does, however, claim that his title comes from a higher power. He can be an absent-minded parent, but he means well.

Tropes associated with Dr. Orpheus:
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Dr. Orpheus is easily mistaken for "a Dracula."
* AesopAmnesia: Apparently a common result of his chats with his Master, such as when he declared "I already know that I know nothing!" [[ComicallyMissingThePoint when he clearly hadn't learned that lesson]].
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Will throw out some rather archaic terms, particularly during some of his more dramatic speeches. Or when simply giving the "the birds and the bees" speech to his daughter:
--> '''Dr. Orpheus:''' Hear me out! [clears throat] When young women reach estrus, the, uhh, lignum, ummm, craves theeee stamen-like skills of the yonie. This is quite natural.
--> '''Triana:''' Dad. Come on. I'm doing you a favor.
--> '''Dr. Orpheus:''' It's just that boys at their age have unchecked desires coursing- nay, ''RAGING AS A TEMPEST WOULD!!'' Through their ''tingling nethers!''
* ArchEnemy: He spends the first season pining for one, and is eventually given one in the form of Torrid, who bears a physical resemblance to Comicbook/DoctorStrange's nemesis Dormammu, but little more.
* TheArtifact: Introduced as a "necromancer", and he attempts to resurrect somebody at one point while saying that it's perfectly routine. This does not get visited again for a while, and he later says that he only uses the word "necromancer" because "wizard," "sorcerer," and "magician" have fallen out of favor.
* BerserkButton: HIS DAUGHTER'S VIRGINITY IS NOT A PRIZE TO BE WON!
* CaptainErsatz: Of Comicbook/DoctorStrange.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In fact he's one of the most morally ''decent'' people on the show.
* InformedAbility: If his master and other statements are to be believed, Orpheus is likely a very powerful necromancer. This being ''The Venture Bros.'', however, a large portion of his feats are usually just alluded to while he tends to fail on a regular basis on-screen. (Not that he doesn't have his moments.)
** He does trap the souls of two rednecks in a tiny figurine because they were interfering with his quest to look out for the Venture Brothers.
** He's also usually shown to be capable of effortlessly teleporting people anywhere in the world, among other useful feats. It's just that the problems he usually faces aren't ones that those kinds of powers help with; and when other people encounter problems that his powers ''could'' face, they rarely seem to think to ask him for help. The few times people do ask him for assistance with straightforward brute-force issues, he tends to resolve them very quickly.
** In the Halloween special, after all the other high level magicians, including The Outrider, raise zombies while Orpheus is out moping after just having been bested by The Outrider again, [[spoiler: The Master states in front of all of them, that Orpheus is his best pupil. Possibly it could be due to Orpheus getting the point if not the ability.]]
** To be fair he destroys a death trap from a continent away, the time he failed to resurrect someone it was because he was already alive. He has telekinesis, can teleport easily, and can remove you soul at will. He's pretty clearly not someone to be triffled with, sillyness aside.
* LargeHam: He cannot ''stop'' being a ham.
* {{Leitmotif}}: This plays whenever he's in extra LargeHam mode, which is quite often.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: He'll gesture wildly [[MundaneMadeAwesome even if saying rather mundane things]].
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Any time he ''RAISES HIS VOICE'' to deliver '''MUNDAAAAANE INFORMATION''' to the tune of SWELLING MUUUUSIC!
--> "Get me... my ''BLUUUUUUUE WINDBREAKER!!!''"
--> "Who wants...''PIZZZZZZA ROLLS?!''"
* MundaneUtility: He uses his powers as a powerful necromancer to cook frittatas, among other things.
* MysticalHighCollar: Since he's an {{Expy}} of Comicbook/DoctorStrange and wears the same outfit.
* NiceGuy: Seriously, he's the nicest guy in the show. And a good dad, too.
* NoIndoorVoice: Constantly shouts over a blaring, overly dramatic soundtrack.
-->'''Orpheus:''' Do not be too hasty in entering that [bath]room, I had '''TACO BELL for lunch!'''
* OutOfFocus: Orpheus was a major supporting character throughout the first three seasons but was scaled back, almost to the point of absence in the first half of season four. He gets some more focus mid-late season four, but is once again out of focus in the first half of season five, getting only one brief appearance.
* PapaWolf: For both his own daughter and the Venture Brothers
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Didn't have anything to do with the incident, but [[TropeNamer named the trope.]]

!!Jefferson Twilight
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-->''"What's the use in training? I have no magic powers. The second someone uses magic, I get killed!"''

An old friend of Dr. Orpheus. He is a black man who fights Blaculas (black vampires) for a living and wields two swords. He is a pastiche of the superhero Blade and the blaxploitation movie protagonist, Shaft. As a play on Blade's half-vampire thirst for blood or an artificial replacement, Jefferson Twilight suffers from diabetes and low blood-sugar, leading him to heavily thirst for sugared liquids, such as Nik-L-Nips. His left eye is discolored as it is a magical Blacula tracker he calls the "Blood Eye." The episode "What Goes Down, Must Come Up" revealed a lot of his BackStory. For example: his mother was taken by marauding Blaculas when he was ten, and he was a tank commander in the USMC.

Tropes associated with Jefferson:
* BadassNormal: Originally the only non-mystical member of the Triad. Later on he's revealed to be "between worlds," which, while impressive, is also an incredibly specific ability.
* BuffySpeak: Starkly contrasts the grandiose speaking style of Dr. Orpheus.
* CaptainErsatz: Of {{Blade}} the Vampire Hunter. Also with a dash of {{Shaft}}.
* CripplingOverspecialization: He often complains about the fact that there are no Blaculas for him to fight, and implies that he'd be lost if he came up against a non-black vampire. However, he does make up for it with an array of other useful skills, such as his military training.
* TheHunter: Of Blackulas, after watching his mother get taken by them when he was 10.
* InsistentTerminology: He hunts "Blaculas." ''Not'' African-American vampires, because there is not a sizable African-American population in ''Britain''.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Uses two of them as his primary weapons.
* MagicalEye: One that allows him to track and hunt Blaculas.
* TokenMinority: The most prominent black character in the show.
* WeaksauceWeakness: In a world with real magic, super-powered heroes and villains, and actual mythical creatures, Jefferson's weakness is ''diabetes.'' He's also the only non-magical person a team of magic users that often fights ''other'' magic users.

!!The Alchemist
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-->''"I care about the true spirit of the divine. I care about the universal truth. But being a magic superhero that keeps chasing ''the same guy'' is completely '''gay'''! And that is coming from a guy that voluntarily has sex with men!"''

Another old friend of Dr. Orpheus, who is searching for the philosopher's stone ("as a metaphor for enlightenment") as well as a cure for AIDS. Unlike Twilight and Orpheus, it would seem that he is much less serious about his business and would rather mix business with pleasure; however, his true opinion on the Triad was revealed in the episode "Showdown at Cremation Creek", where he stated that he was more into helping the balance of the Universe than running around fighting one Super-Villain. It has been openly acknowledged that he is gay and a fan of Jimmy Buffett. He is sometimes referred to as "Al", but whether this is his real name or merely short for Alchemist is uncertain. He has an open hatred of the internet due to finding out his boyfriend was cheating on him via MySpace. [[spoiler:At least that's what he thinks happened after an O.S.I. mindwipe.]]

Tropes associated with The Alchemist:
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Foil}}: To Orpheus. Even more apparent when they move in together.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Okay, so it may have only been in one episode ("What Goes Down Must Come Up"), but when the triad are performing magic, it's implied that The Alchemist has one too. When Orpheus does some magic, his leitmotif plays and when The Alchemist does some magic immediately afterward, a little trumpet piece plays. And immediately after that, when it's Jefferson's turn and it's revealed that he has no magic to do, it's completely silent.
* LivingLieDetector: Mentioned in passing during "Everybody Comes To Hank's". It is apparently part of his mystical powers. (As it isn't terribly useful when fighting supernatural threats, he uses it for [[MundaneUtility mundane]] things like double-checking everyone he and Hank interviewed are telling the truth.)
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently the voice of reason for the Order of the Triad.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Once turned someone's tire into gold. Why does he need to shack up with Orpheus, again?
* StraightGay: Mostly.
** CampGay: When he wants to be.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Shore Leave in "Operation P.R.O.M." [[spoiler: They did.]]

!!Orpheus's Master
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-->''"So, I taste my own genitals... In my mouth. It's.. a conundrum"''
A snarky, mysterious magician who taught Orpheus everything he knows...and takes every opportunity to shove Orpheus's failures in his face. Likes to take a form that relates to whatever problem Orpheus needs help with, which is often just an excuse for him to try out the PowerPerversionPotential of VoluntaryShapeshifting. He wishes Orpheus would loosen up and act like a normal guy instead of a LargeHam.

Tropes associated with Orpheus's Master:
* ActorAllusion: Creator/HJonBenjamin plays Master essentially like [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies Coach McGuirk]] with near omnipotent supernatural powers.[[invoked]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Loves to needle Orpheus for this - apparently their chats often result in AesopAmnesia.
* CynicalMentor: ''Super'' heavy emphasis on the cynical.
* TheFaceless: We've never seen his ''true'' form, if he even has one.
* PowerPerversionPotential: He turns into Catherine the Great's horse so that he can [[strike:re-enact Catherine's supposed sexual encounter with it]] teach Orpheus a lesson about biting off more than he can chew, turns into Cerberus to [[strike:lick his own genitals and talk at the same time]] teach Orpheus a lesson about being a stuffy know-it-all, and takes the form of [[spoiler: Orpheus's ex-wife]] to [[strike:enjoy the curvy, sexy body]] hit Orpheus where it hurts the most. His shapeshifting always has a purpose and a point, but nonetheless he milks the Perversion Potential as much as he can.
* SeriousBusiness: From his dialogue, it sounds like Orpheus's supposed higher calling is actually pretty insignificant fluff that Orpheus treats as Serious Business. This could just be part of his attempt to puncture Orpheus's stuffed shirt.
* TricksterMentor: For all the grief he gives Orpheus, he honestly does give him useful advice... albeit indirectly and in the form of riddles. His fondness of VoluntaryShapeshifting also suggests a [[TricksterArchetype Trickster]] background.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Note that ''only'' Orpheus gets the TricksterMentor and PowerPerversionPotential treatment. When appearing before anyone else (Triana, Orpheus' guests), the Master opts for forms that have more direct and obvious connections to what he's about to impart.

!!Triana Orpheus
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Triana is the daughter of Dr. Orpheus and lives with her father in a rented out laboratory-cum-apartment within the Venture compound. She is 17, a bit of a goth, but otherwise a completely normal teenage girl. She is possibly the most down-to-earth character on the show, despite her father's tendency to dramatize. She takes an interest in kitsch. Dean had nurtured a crush her for most of the show's run. [[spoiler: The very moment that Dean decided to tell her, Triana revealed her non-interest in him.]]

Tropes associated with Triana:
* BackForTheFinale: Returned for the season four finale.
* DeadpanSnarker: One of the more well-adjusted individuals in the series, and will break out the snark in regards to the ridiculousness of the other characters.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Inverted. Orpheus would rather she go to art school, and for her own safety not get mixed up with the magical or supernatural. (It's not touched upon whether this was the case ''before'' they met the Ventures or not.)
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: She's the Goth girl daughter of a necromancer and studying magic with her mother, who's also an accomplished sorceress.
* LimitedWardrobe: She always wears the same outfit, which is later [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because her father put a portal to a mystical realm in her closet and she finds it scary.
* MissingMom: Eventually [[spoiler: leaves the Venture Compound to study magic with her mother.]]
* OnlySaneMan: During the first season and a half or so she was this around Dean and Hank, before slowly vanishing from importance.
* PerkyGoth: Phenomenally well-adjusted for the daughter of a high-level sorcerer.
** She's now studying magic herself, but her personality remains the same.
* PutOnABus: To study magic with her mom.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Orpheus' Master points out in their conversation together, that just by ''coming through the portal in her closet'' Triana has proved that she has significant magical talent - {{Muggles}} can't even see the portal.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Seen mostly toward Hank and Dermott.
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[[folder:''The Monarch and his men'']]
!!The Monarch
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-->''"I just...I just wanted to kick his [Dr. Venture's] ass! I wanted to build a ''machine'' to kick his ass! I wanted to build an empire to ''house the machine'' to '''kick his ass'''!"''

As Dr. Venture's self-proclaimed arch-nemesis, the Monarch plots the downfall of Team Venture with the utmost glee. His back is adorned with the wings of the mighty Monarch Butterfly from which he takes his name. Insecure and uncertain at heart, he leans on Dr. Girlfriend probably more than a super-villain should. His first name, as stated by his wife and in flashbacks, is Malcolm, while his last name is revealed in the season 1 finale to be [[spoiler: The Monarch]].

Tropes associated with The Monarch:
* ArchEnemy: To Dr. Venture.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A lot of jokes are made at his expense in the first season for not knowing nearly as much about monarch butterflies as he should. The very first episode does a decent example of it after he reveals that he was raised by monarch butterflies after his parents died, and was then abandoned by them.
-->'''Dr. Girlfriend''': Oh sweetie. Butterflies only live about nine months.
-->'''The Monarch''': What?
* BadBoss: He actually stays away from YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murders, but he often kills his henchmen for either startling him, annoying him, or in one case, to downsize. It later turns out that ''all'' of his henchmen except {{Mauve Shirt}}s 21 and 24 are suicidal {{Death Seeker}}s.
* BatmanGambit: A rare case of a villain pulling one off. [[spoiler: In ''The Lepidopterists,'' he manages to get Jonas Jr. to try to kill him, thus qualifying as "prior escalation" and allowing Monarch to arch "guild sanctioned relatives," i.e., Rusty Venture.]]
* BigBadWannabe: How he started out, even taking on Captain Sunshine while still an unlicensed rookie villain. As of season four, he's reversed that position to be a big fish in a small pond. Then, after his wife gets promoted to the Council for Thirteen in season five, he is back to fitting the trope since he now wants to be on the council as well.
* BiTheWay: When 21 revealed that he accidentally made out with his wife, Monarch scoffed stating that villains have threesomes all the time.
** The photo in his unauthorized biography of him "making out with Stiv Bators and Lydia Lunch."
* BrilliantButLazy: Not unlike Rusty Venture. He's [[NotSoHarmlessVillain able to demolish every]] ScienceHero the guild throws him against, and not only that, but he does it ''too quickly''. He has excellent talent at villainy, but he chooses to use it for the purpose of tormenting Rusty Venture for... [[MysteriousPast some]] [[IrrationalHatred reason]].
* [[CampStraight Camp Bi:]] This is also brought up when he expresses his disbelief at someone from Depeche Mode showing up to a party with a girl.
* CardCarryingVillain: He is proud to say that he is evil and lives for the torment of a guy he just doesn't like.
* CompanionCube: The Butter-Glider. He even took it on a picnic. [[CargoShip He had it in bed with him, and defended it from his wife.]]
** Before that, it was revealed that he talks to his dead stuffed cat, Mister Mostly Mittens.
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Only when arching Rusty Venture. Against anyone else, he proves to be ruthlessly effective.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: His eyebrows are so long that a very large part of each of them is not on his head.
* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, King Gorilla?]]: He actually says this in the episode "Powerless in the Face of Death", when the latter is rather hesitant to help him escape from prison.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:During "SPHINX Rising", he finds a picture of a young Rusty and him playing together at the Venture Compound. To say it unnerves him is a massive understatement.]]
* ForTheEvulz: His sole motivation is hating Dr. Venture. It is implied that the only reason he does so is because he just ''feels'' like it.
** Given the rather soul-crushing realization that he and Venture are both losers, it could simply be that he wants to destroy Rusty because the man represents everything about himself that he hates.
* FreudianExcuse: When Monarch tried to kill Venture during college years, it injured Baron Underbheit and people thought Venture did it so now Monarch wants vengeance. It's still left unexplained as to why Monarch tried to kill Venture in the first place.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: At first. By the end of season 2, after a little help from Dr. Killinger and reuniting with Dr. Girlfriend, he is downright ''lethal'' by season 3.
* IrrationalHatred: Why he hates Venture is unexplained, nor is it likely to be anything particularly significant.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a jerk to his men (kills them or sends them to their deaths), his fellow villains (steals their technology and frequently belittles them), and on several occasions, to his wife (pre and post marriage) as well. By numbers the only reason Rusty doesn't get the brunt of it is because they don't usually get much screen time together.
* LargeHam: He loves classic-style villain speeches.
** Lampshaded by Sgt. Hatred in ''Home is Where the Hate Is'' while playing charades:
--->'''Sgt. Hatred:''' Nope, you talked, I can't count it.\\
'''Monarch:''' HATRED! MARK MY WORDS! ...\\
'''Hatred:''' Blah, blah, blah. We're all supervillains here, Monarch. We've heard that speech a thousand times. You don't get the points.
* LoopholeAbuse: When the Guild prevented him from arching Dr. Venture, [[spoiler: he signed up to arch Jonas Venture, Jr. and after a [[BatmanGambit clever plan]], earned the right to terrorize JJ's immediate relatives.]]
** [[spoiler: Also how he saves Rusty's life in a Guild operated night club since, as Rusty's primary arch, he has the first right to kill Dr. Venture. The other villains are forced to release him.]]
* NotSoDifferent: He and Rusty actually share a moment to reflect on their lives in ''The Devil's Grip'' and realize they have a lot in common.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Posterboy for this trope. At first he seemed like an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, but it quickly turned out that he was a significantly bigger threat to people who didn't have [[{{Badass}} Brock Samson]] on their side.
** After losing the rights to arch Dr. Venture he actually made it a habit out of killing his new Archs ''too quickly.'' Although this is seriously mitigated by the fact that he was only dangerous when facing hapless chumps like Doctor Dugong, and when he fought Jonas Jr (AKA someone who actually knew what he was doing) he was [[CurbStompBattle utterly thrashed]] in a straight fight, suggesting that he's out of his depth fighting a genuinely skilled super-scientist who doesn't play by the Guild's rules and is willing to hit back.
** It's also heavily implied that he does care for Rusty and the boys in a way; he wants Rusty ''crushed'', not merely killed, and feels a connection to them due to their long adversarial relationship. When he's facing people he simply doesn't care about at all, he's far, far more lethal.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Gets into rivalries with Baron Underbheit and Sgt. Hatred over who gets to be Rusty's ArchEnemy. [[spoiler: Also saves Rusty's life in a Guild operated nightclub, since, as Rusty's primary arch, he has the first right to kill Venture.]]
* RaisedByWolves: Claims to have been raised by monarch butterflies after his parents died in a plane crash when he was a preteen. The money for his college education and villainy were provided for by a trust fund.
* RunningGag: There are several instances when The Monarch is forced to take a taxi, he either shoots the cab driver, or sends his henchmen to do his dirty work to get out of paying the fare.
* SkewedPriorities: Everything takes backseat to tormenting Dr. Venture, except for [[PetTheDog his relationship with Dr. Girlfriend.]] This leads to him taking on Rusty as his ''best man''.
* TriggerHappy: Approach him cautiously; he tends to shoot a lethal dosage of darts into the mouth of anybody who startles him.
* UnknownRival: Well, hardly ''unknown'', but his obsessive hatred of Dr Venture is entirely one-sided - Rusty doesn't seem to care much about him at all beyond "That clown in a butterfly suit who tries to kill me slightly more often than all those other guys who try to kill me".
* TheUnreveal: When remembering his first atttempt to kill Venture in college (which failed and blew off Ünderbheit's jaw) in ''Shadowman 9'', the Monarch remembers a fellow student telling him what happened. Said student used his real first name: [[spoiler:apparently the Monarch's real name is Malcolm]].
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: In the season 5 episode "Bot Seeks Bot," Rusty Venture is captured in a Guild operated night club and about to be dipped into acid (even ''Brock Samson'' knows it would be suicide to attempt to rescue Doc surrounded by so many supervillains,) when Monarch shows up, citing Guild regulations which state that he has the first right to kill Venture as Venture's primary arch. The other villains are forced to release Dr. Venture.]]
* VillainProtagonist: He is the story's protagonist as often as the antagonist.

!!Dr. Girlfriend/Dr. Mrs. The Monarch
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-->''"I was thinking of something that plays off my abilities more than my sexuality."''

The [[CrossDressingVoices husky-voiced]] Dr. Girlfriend is perhaps the only voice of reason in the Monarch's sad little world. Skilled and capable, she is often the only thing that makes the Monarch's plans even remotely viable. Before teaming up with the Monarch, she was involved with the Phantom Limb under the name of Queen Etherea.

Tropes associated with Dr. Girlfriend:
* AbsoluteCleavage: Kept in place with a lot of tape.
* AffablyEvil: When The Monarch was torturing H.E.L.P.eR for the Ventures' location, she put a stop to it and put a comforting arm around him. And soon had exactly the information the Monarch was trying to get...
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: She still holds a grudge against Brock Samson for not taking advantage of her when he had the chance.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She knows what she's doing and she can be very civil and friendly, but you shouldn't let your guard down when she's around. Just ask H.E.L.P.E.R..
* DarkActionGirl: Martial prowess isn't her specialty, but she has been shown on a few occasions to be capable of kicking ass.
* DarkMistress: A classic example.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most often happens when whatever villains she is with jeopardizes their plans by trying to be overly macho, particularly Phantom Limb.
* TheDragon: She's the Monarch's right-hand woman and is in charge of his security and gadgetry; she's also a very capable combatant on her own.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: During her first meeting as [[spoiler:one of the Council of Thirteen]], she calls out the Sovereign's plan to [[spoiler:destroy Gargantua-2 and all the innocent civilians onboard]] to be extreme and insane. Overlaps with PragmaticVillainy due to the fact that such an action would anger the O.S.I., whom the Guild has an uneasy truce with.
* FriendlyEnemy: She gets along really well with Dr. Venture.
* GadgeteerGenius: She designed the Monarch's wings, built his security system, replicated Captain Sunshine's solar powers, and more.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: She's TheDragon for someone she can outdo in ''a lot'' of things.
** She admits though that she was something of a failure as a solo villain (she doesn't have powers or a budget on her own, and was frankly being strangled by the Guild's red tape regarding female villains which kept her from doing anything productive as a solo GadgeteerGenius). Not to mention that she doesn't have nearly the talent for dramatics and villainous monologues that the Monarch does.
* IHaveManyNames: She has been officially known as Lady Au Pair, Queen Etherea, Dr. Girlfriend, and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch; The Monarch has also called her Dr. Ex Girlfriend, Dr. Fiancee, and Dr. My Wife.
** Incidentally, her first name is Sheila.
* LoopholeAbuse: Her intimate knowledge of Guild law allows her to do this frequently. [[spoiler: At the end of Season 5, it's even been recognized by the Sovereign who has offered her a seat on the Council of Thirteen]].
* MoralityPet: Her main purpose is to make the Monarch more relatable.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: But at least she is clearly an engineer of some sort, and WordOfGod confirms that she has a Ph. D.
* MsFanservice: Oh yes, just look at her!
** AbsoluteCleavage
** AloofDarkHairedGirl
** LeotardOfPower
** ZettaiRyouiki
* NiceHat: Based on that of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (along with her look for the first couple of seasons). Ironically, she has no idea who that is. It's implied that the guild came up with the persona for her when she wanted a 'competent female counterpart of a great leader' motif and rejected their more {{stripperiffic}} ideas.
** Later, she typically dresses as like a female version of the Monarch, complete with CoolCrown.
* OnlySaneMan: She's one of the sanest people in the series. She's generally easygoing and her default demeanor isn't malicious, which just makes her someone you shouldn't underestimate. This is best shown in the season 5 opening, where it's revealed that to combat the supposed mutant army Dr. Venture was building, she contacted the foremost specialist on genetic mutations [[spoiler: to create a serum to reverse the mutations and neutralize Venture's supposed army. In her words "You don't fight fire with fire, you fight it with water."]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her Queen Etherea and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch costumes.
* TaughtByExperience: Had apparently been working for supervillains for some time before The Monarch met her.
* {{Transsexual}}: Subverted. Her voice makes Brock suspect she's one, but it's later revealed she just smokes a lot.
* [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Unusually Uninteresting Sound]]: Her voice was completely ignored for less than half a season before being lampshaded, and it is usually ignored.
* VocalDissonance: A decidedly feminine MsFanservice with a voice gruffer and deeper than Brock Samson's. It's justified in-universe by her pack-a-day smoking habit, and her voice was a little lighter during college.
* VocalEvolution: Her voice was even deeper and masculine in [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earlier episodes,]] but gradually became (somehow) more feminine while retaining the Brooklyn-trucker vibe.
* WholeCostumeReference: Often wears a dress and hat nearly identical to one worn by Jackie Kennedy. Hilariously, as shown in "Home Is Where the Hate Is", she doesn't know who Jackie Kennedy is.
!!Gary (formerly Henchman "[[RedBaron Two-Ton]]" 21) and the late Henchman 24
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-->'''Henchman 24:''' Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.
-->'''Henchman 21:''' Oh my God, you're crazy! They're so obviously mammals!
-->'''Henchman 24:''' Please! She'd be in estrus 24/7 if she didn't lay eggs.
-->'''Henchman 21:''' Smurfs don't lay eggs! I won't tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a f**king beard! They're mammals!

The Monarch's henchmen are known only by their official numbers. #21 and #24 were the two best known. Somehow, despite their ineptitude and questionable loyalty, they managed to avoid the unceremonious slaying The Monarch often levies on his less fortunate henchmen. #21 (real name Gary) came into the employ of the Monarch when his henchman army kidnapped him at age 15. #24 seems to have joined of his own volition, having lost his job when the local factory closed down and his G.E.D. left many other careers inaccessible to him. He was a career henchman, first henching for [[spoiler: Phantom Limb, alongside the future The Monarch, as seen in "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny!". In exchange for helping The Monarch strike out on his own, 24 was allowed to come along... eventually.]]

At the end of season three, [[spoiler: 24 died in an explosion.]] [[spoiler: 21]] went a little nuts, TookALevelInBadass, and became the Monarch's drill sergeant and go-to muscle. [[spoiler:But by the end of season four, Gary became completely disillusioned with The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch alike, and found greater peace with the various residents of the Venture compound. SPHINX quickly took Gary in even before he had decided to quit The Monarch. In the Shallow Gravy special, Gary has been shown to have stayed with SPHINX, and is interviewed under his pseudonym "The Viceroy". And in the season five premiere, he remains the sole member of SPHINX after the rest of the team rejoined with OSI.]]

[[spoiler: Gary tried to strike out on his own but only kept getting in the OSI's way. The original SPHINX members eventually responded to his call for new members and came to reclaim their old base in the hopes to do a suicide run against the OSI wanting to go out in blaze of glory. Which resulted in the base getting blown up, putting an end to SPHINX for good. Jobless and directionless, Gary camped out on the Venture Estate for the remainder of the season before ultimately re-joining the Monarch.]]

Tropes associated with 21 and 24:
* {{Acrofatic}}: 21, along with StoutStrength, once he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] following [[spoiler: the death of 24]]. Despite his size, he becomes faster, more athletic, and capable of performing some impressive martial arts moves.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: 24 frequently mentions that he has methods of dealing with living in a floating fortress with no women.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Then in "Operation: P.R.O.M.", Gary decides he probably isn't evil after all.]]
* AlasPoorYorick: [[spoiler: After 24 dies, 21 keeps his skull as a memento, and claims he can still listen to 24 speaking to him through it.]]
* AscendedFanboy: 21 alternates between this and PunchClockVillain, depending on whether the mission features cool VillainTropes.
* AuthorAvatar: Listening to the creator commentary and seeing Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick at cons makes it very obvious that 21 and 24 ''are'' the writers. When a fan asked them to settle an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny that 21 and 24 argued about in the show, they seriously debated it with each other and were indistinguishable from the characters.
* BrutalHonesty: [[spoiler:21 has a bit of a breakdown in "Operation: P.R.O.M." in front of The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: 21's bailing on us.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dr. Mrs.]]'''[[spoiler:: What?!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: Ask him.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:21]]'''[[spoiler:: It's true! I'm sick of this! I'm slightly drunk, I'm talking to the ghost of my fucking dead friend, I'm probably in love with you, and...so yeah, whatever, I'm over it!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: You're over it?]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dr. Mrs.]]'''[[spoiler:: You're in love with me?]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: Whoa, wait, what?!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:21]]'''[[spoiler:: We made out!]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dr. Mrs.]]'''[[spoiler:: Well... Well, that's a stretch. We got drunk. Maybe we kissed, but uh...]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Monarch]]'''[[spoiler:: Suuuuuuuuure, you d-- where was I, then, uh?]]
-->'''[[spoiler:21]]'''[[spoiler:: Where were you--you were there! We were on top of you! We made out on you!]]
** [[spoiler:It's also part of the reason 21 gets rid of 24's skull. He keeps showing up when he tries to masturbate.]]
* BulletProofVest: 21 bought one, it's protects him from a rifle shot from Hatred, but the force knocks him out and leaves a nasty bruise on his torso.
* DrillSergeantNasty: [[spoiler: 21 following 24's death.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: After 24 dies, we see a henchman's hand checking off a list of suspects for his killer.]]
** [[spoiler:It's just the Moppets trying to cover up their (likely) murder.]]
* GenreSavvy: They catch on to a lot of details regarding the workings of the Venture universe.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: 21 leaves the Monarch and joins SPHINX.]]
** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:He rejoins the Monarch at the end of season 5.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: 21 even lampshades this in a third-season episode, when The Monarch doesn't know who 24 is.
* [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I Always Wanted To Do That]]: Instead of taking their mission seriously with #1, they hide in plain sight from Brock by pretending to be mannequins in a "villain diorama"; they comment on how little chance there is to actually do it.
* LampshadeHanging: 21 in particular loves to hang them, such as commenting on their PlotArmor.
* LargeHam: Jackson Publick's delivery while voicing 24 frequently moves into MundaneMadeAwesome territory. The hamminess really fits once he becomes a SpiritAdvisor.
* MauveShirt: [[spoiler: Subverted. 24 starts as one, but dies anyway.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[GeniusBonus Gary's recurring "Viceroy" identity.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_Viceroy_Mimicry_Comparison.jpg The Viceroy butterfly is so called because its appearance mimics that of the Monarch butterfly]].[[note]]They are both foul-tasting to predators, and their shared appearance reinforces the warning to not eat them.[[/note]]
* NobleTopEnforcer: Post-[[TookALevelInBadass Taking A Level in Badass]], 21 becomes this is Season 4 for the Monarch. [[spoiler: This eventually leads to [[HeelFaceTurn him quitting]] in the season finale.]] In the season five finale, [[spoiler:he goes back to being this for the Monarch after the [=OSI=] rejects his efforts to join, and he fails in his attempts at being a hero as the only member of [=SPHINX=]]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: 24 is voiced as an imitation of Ray Romano. Out of costume, 21 and 24 look like Creator/KevinSmith without a beard and Jerry Seinfeld with a unibrow, respectively.
* NonActionGuy: They breeze through their assignments by slacking off and using their [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] to avoid deadly cliches. [[spoiler: This stops after the death of 24.]]
* PlotArmor: They start bragging about it in season three. [[spoiler: Not a good idea, as it costs 24 his life.]]
* PunchClockVillain: They're losers and social outcasts who are just trying not to get killed. In one episode, #24 is overheard to complain that working for the Monarch was the only job he could get after the factory he worked at closed ("It was either this or the Army").
* RedBaron: 21 eventually picks up the epithet "Two Ton" 21.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:21 in "Operation: P.R.O.M."]]
* StoutStrength: 21, along with {{Acrofatic}}, once he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] following [[spoiler: the death of 24]]. He's even larger now, with a still-massive gut, but a clear increase in strength.
* TalkingToTheDead: [[spoiler: In season four, 21 starts talking to 24's skull.]]
** [[spoiler: In "Operation P.R.O.M.", when Dr. Orpheus helps 21 realizes that one of 24's ghost friends isn't actually dead yet, 24 vanishes, and Gary breaks down in tears. This indicates that 24 was a figment of 21's imagination the entire time. This is seemingly contradicted by 24 communicating with one of Monstroso's dead henchmen when 21 isn't exactly present onscreen, but this could simply have been an extension of 21's hallucination.]]
** When incessantly asked about it, Jackson Publick confirmed that [[spoiler:they ''intended'' for 24 to not really be a ghost, but ultimately, it's open to interpretation (although the "24 really was a ghost" theory only works under very specific and unlikely circumstances).]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Among The Monarch's henchmen.
* TookALevelInBadass: The biggest example in the show. Following the events of the season three finale, NonActionGuy 21 becomes "Two Ton 21," the {{Badass}} DrillSergeantNasty of the Monarch's henchman - he turns his tubbiness into StoutStrength, fights Sgt. Hatred to a standstill, and impresses Brock Samson with his fighting skills and sheer balls.
** However, in the same episode that said badassery asserts itself, he fails [[spoiler: to find 24's killer]], flubbed his attempt at Chinese Water Torture, realized that [[spoiler: his friend's death could've been avoided if he hadn't been such a lazy coward]], and accidentally gives his boss horrendous food poisoning, causing the Monarch to lose out on his chance at appearing in a high-profile supervillain magazine.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In "The Lepidopterists".
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Their favorite subject of conversation, along with copious FanWank. 24 always takes the less logical position. [[invoked]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:As the sole remaining member of SPHINX [[RunningGag (sphinx!)]] at the start of season 5, Gary dubs himself "SPHINX Commander" and uses that as his codename]].
* YouAreNumberSix: Subverted with 21, who sometimes went by his real name, "Gary" [[spoiler: but now does so full-time]].


!!The Murderous Moppets, AKA The Pupa Twins
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Tim-Tom and Kevin originally served as Dr. Girlfriend's [[TheDragon muscle]] when she was known as Lady Au Pair. She eventually got back in contact with them after she left The Monarch. She brought them back into the fold in time for her wedding to The Monarch, after which they started terrorizing the henchmen.

Tropes associated with Tim-Tom and Kevin:
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Everyone they work with has tried to get to know them, generally for Dr. Girlfriend's sake. They ''all'' hate them. [[spoiler: Even Dr. Girlfriend has started feeling uncomfortable around them, which was evidently so satisfying to the Monarch that he got an erection.]] The Monarch has intended to kill them, [[spoiler:and 21 succeeded getting them killed by the rest of the Monarch's henchmen after accusing them of killing 24.]]
* AerithAndBob:
--> '''Doc Hammer''': "You want one to be named like a Moppet - like Tim-Tom - and the other one to just walk in with like, 'What's your name?' 'Kevin.' 'Good enough!'"
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Dr. Mrs. The Monarch is upset at their deaths. The Monarch and 21... not so much.]]
* AxCrazy: They [[KnifeNut like knives]] a little too much.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: 21 figures out they were the ones who offed 24 and calls for a "hench must kill hench" rule on them. The rest of the Monarch henchmen gang up and kill them off screen. Dr. Mrs The Monarch confirms their deaths in ''All This And Gargantua 2''.]]
* KnifeNut:
-->'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' We can take out his tongue...\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with relish'') With a knife!\
'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' Or remove 'is 'eart...\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with great relish'') Yeah, with a knife!\
'''Tim-Tom Moppet:''' A bigger knife!\
'''Kevin Moppet:''' (''with greater relish'') Fucking knife!
* TheMole: [[spoiler: According to Phantom Limb, they're "well-placed sleeper agents". We don't know for sure if this is correct, but the recent revelation that they were likely the ones who killed 24 (and are messing with 21's mind by crossing names off his list of suspects, which would contribute towards Limb's plan from "Bright Lights, Dean City") adds some additional proof.]]
* PermaStubble: Both of them have it.
* PsychoForHire: It's pretty clear their reason for being minions is because they get off on killing.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: to The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, though as time passes they become less compliant.
* SaltAndPepper: Only in appearance, as their personalities aren't actually very different.
* SlasherSmile: They each tend to get one, especially when about to use knives.
* ThoseTwoGuys: An AxeCrazy version. They don't qualify as ThoseTwoBadGuys because they don't act like [=TTBG=]s typically do.

!!Henchman #1/Scott Hall/[[spoiler:Zero]]
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A by-the-book henchman that was a stark contrast to #21 and #24. He followed all the old cliches, for which he was fiercely mocked by the GenreSavvy duo. He did go up in one final showdown with Brock that apparently ended with his death. [[spoiler:But later came back as a centurion named Zero who used Captain Sunshine's butler Desmond (disguised as the Greek god Zeus) to kidnap Henchman and Sidekicks to fight to the death. He's later found out by 21, who distracts him while an army of supervillains attack. It's unknown whether he survived or not.]]

Tropes associated with Henchman #1:
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:Just before attempting to shoot Brock, he begins to say it's for every henchman Brock has killed. Unfortunately for him he gets distracted by Hank's entrance, causing Brock to kill him for real this time.]]
* {{Badass}}:Just like [[spoiler:#21]] he took on Brock Samson one on one [[spoiler:And Lived]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Re-appears as a new member of the Revenge Society in ''All This And Gargantua 2,'' only to finally have his neck brutally snapped by Brock. And if that didn't kill him, the exploding Gargantua-2 certainly did.]]
* TheCaligula: [[spoiler:He makes supervillains and super scientists fight for next to no reason other than as penitence and for his amusement.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:To 21. Both changed after a big event, both got a large number of minions. Both TookALevelInBadass. But while 21 was largely unmotivated before, Scott was already motivated. Whereas 21 has avoided becoming a villain on his own but is slowly growing into one, Scott immediately became one. Whereas 21 is fully willing to rely on dirty tactics when the situation calls for it, Scott fights with honor.]]
* GenreBlind: Falls into all of the old henchman cliches in his first appearance. He's mocked mercilessly by #21 and #24 for it.
* KnightTemplar:[[spoiler: His scheme is revenge on what he believes to be the problem with superheroes and villains]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Zeus is actually a holographic puppet used to inspire fear and confusion. He's the real one behind the Super Death Camp]]
* MauveShirt: Starts off as an exploration of the classic RedShirt. [[spoiler: He survives and makes two more appearances, first as his own villain and then as a member of the Revenge Society]].
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:His name Zero is because he used to be a henchman. It's how 21 guesses his secret identity.]]
* MyHeroZero: [[spoiler:Serves not only as the Big Bad of the episode, but [[spoiler:he turns out to be Scott Hall / Number 1, a henchman from a previous episode]]. Thus, while he may not be a hero, he [[spoiler:survives not only being a henchman in a superhero/villain world, whose death is portented and lampshaded, but FIGHTING BROCK SAMSON]], which counts as a superpower in its own right.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Brock kills him in ''All This and Gargantua-2''.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Becomes a plot point in season four when he turns out to be the villain of "Every Which Way But Zeus".]] Comes up again in [[spoiler: ''All This and Gargantua-2'' when he is revealed to have survived once again and has joined the Revenge Society.]]
* NominalImportance: A Deconstruction of this trope.
* RedShirt: Again, Deconstructed.
* StopHavingFunGuys: To #21 and #24. [[invoked]]
* ThatManIsDead: Says it word-to-word when it's revealed that he is [[spoiler:Zero]].
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: He is seriously pissed off at people who disregard the lives of their henchmen.
* YouBastard: Gives this to [[spoiler:#21]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''The Guild of Calamitous Intent'']]
!!The Sovereign[=/=]David Bowie
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-->''"Pay no attention to the handsome and ageless rock star hiding behind the couch! I am the mighty Sovereign!"''

The enigmatic leader of the Guild, who just happens to be none other than Music/DavidBowie. [[spoiler:Or really, a shapeshifter impersonating Bowie.]]

Tropes associated with The Sovereign:
* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:Turns out he's not David Bowie, but a shapeshifter impersonating him.]]
* AffablyEvil: Running the biggest supervillain organization in the world, but we've never really seen any evidence of him being a bad guy (though Brock wants to kill him over ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' he did in Berlin).
** BaitTheDog: Comes off just as affable and quirky as any other villain on the show despite being the head of a global evil organization. Then ''All This and Gargantua-2'' comes along and [[spoiler:he tries to murder most of his own allies and a lot of innocent civilians just to welch out on a DealWithTheDevil he made with the Investors]].
* CardCarryingVillain: Admits it in his own snarky way.
--> ''"Right, the heir to the global evil organization is a bad man, who'd've guessed? Total shocker."''
* CelebrityImpersonator: James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture, Phantom Limb, etc). Allegedly, they tried to get the real Bowie, but he declined. This is also lampshaded with Sovereign's first appearance as Bowie.
** And according to Monstroso, [[spoiler:he isn't the real Bowie. Merely a former shape-shifting super-villain, who met Bowie in the 80's, and apparently uses Bowie as his favorite public persona. Granted, this does explain a few things and allows the show to keep using him as often as it does.]]
* TheChessmaster: In the conflicts he has been featured in, he has demonstrated an aptitude for thinking a few steps ahead of his opposition. [[spoiler: Proves to be in over his head against the Investors and Killinger, however.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Noticeably avoids this until the fifth season, where he tries to pull a ''three-way'' backstab in events culminating in ''All This and Gargantua-2''. He has most of the Guild's Council of Thirteen killed, promises Phantom Limb and the Revenge Society the open seats, then leaves them to die on the exploding Gargantua-2 while at the same time trying to have the Investors killed in order to get out of a deal he made with them. He ''almost'' gets away with it if not for an accidental shot from Head Shot...]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Has shades of this.
--> ''"[[CrowningMomentOfFunny No. Please don't activate a broken coffee mug]]."''
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: It turns out that he rose to the position of Sovereign thanks to a deal with the Investors. He tries to have them killed in ''All This and Gargantua-2'' before they collect on their end of the deal.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Headshot accidentally kills him when he fires randomly into the air, killing him in his eagle form.]]
** [[spoiler: DisneyVillainDeath: ...well, we see ''an'' eagle fall dead afterwards.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of sorts. [[spoiler:He finally takes center stage in the special, ''All This and Gargantua-2'', where he's in a BigBadEnsemble with the Investors.]]
* HugeHolographicHead: The majority of his public appearances.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:His deal with The Investors turns out to have been mainly for the shapeshifting abilities. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch calls him out as a loser who just ''acts'' like important people. He doesn't disagree.]]
-->[[spoiler: Dr. Mrs. The Monarch: "So, who are you really?"]]
-->[[spoiler: Sovereign: "Oh, no one. [[AlasPoorVillain Just someone who wanted to be anyone but himself]].]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Accidentally taken out by Headshot. ...Maybe.]]
* NighInvulnerability: Seems to shrug off that which would outright destroy an ordinary person. [[spoiler: But even if he can shrug off Phantom Limb's death touch, he's not immune to bullets. Maybe.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Music/DavidBowie, though not explicitly mentioned as much as before, but it's still obvious.
* OpenSecret: The true identity of The Sovereign is a carefully guarded Guild secret... but everyone already knows he is Music/DavidBowie.
** [[spoiler:Averted, as revealed in Season 5.]].
* {{Rotoscoping}}: His appearance as the Sovereign has extremely naturalistic animation.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: That said, it's fairly clear that Sovereign underestimates Phantom Limb's abilities, as Limb has escaped Sovereign himself and several Guild ambushes, the latter with ease.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His primary power.

!!Red Mantle & Dragoon
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-->'''Red Mantle''': Two heads ''are'' better than one!\
'''Dragoon''': What does that have to do with anything?\
'''Red Mantle''': Nothing, I've just been wanting to say that all day. I got sick of waiting for an opportunity.

Two members of the Guild's [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Council of Thirteen]], they moved into the spotlight in season four. They have spent decades in the Guild headquarters, leaving both of them out-of-touch with the outside world. After a near-fatal encounter with Phantom Limb, Dragoon's life was saved when Billy Quizboy attached his head to Red Mantle's shoulder.

Tropes associated with Red Mantle & Dragoon:
* AscendedExtra
--> '''Doc Hammer:''' We took silhouettes and gave them an episode.
* BadassGrandpa: When he still had a body, Dragoon could pick up Revenge and toss him like a ragdoll.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: If a throwaway line in the season 5 Halloween special is to be believed, Red Mantle's magical powers come from, surprise surprise, his [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin red mantle.]]
* DishingOutDirt: Red Mantle's apparent power (or at least one of them,) as seen in the season 5 episode "Bot Seeks Bot" when [[spoiler: he uses this power to move dirt onto the grave of the deceased Councilman #4.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Pulls this along with Dr. Z in ''All this and Gargantua 2'', defecting to the OSI in return for protection from the Sovereign.]]
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Dragoon.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: It is made ''very'' clear that they are actually Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, with the plane crash that killed both musicians merely a cover for their induction into the Guild's Council.
* MultipleHeadCase: They had to spend some time adjusting and coordinating to this arrangement. Dragoon insists that he will eventually take over the whole body.
-->'''Dragoon''': I've been standing here all day with my dick in my hand!
-->'''Red Mantle''': [[AccidentalInnuendo That was MY dick]].
* RetiredBadass: Guild masterminds, and Dragoon still had some fight in him before losing his body.
* SilenceYouFool: Dragoon hung several lampshades on this during the Council's first appearance.
* StoutStrength[=/=]{{Acrofatic}}: Dragoon, prior to their merging.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Not like they have much of a choice.

!!King Gorilla
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-->'''Monarch''': ''"Oh this isn't gay. But King Gorilla over there is! And I bet he can't wait to snap off a piece of your dick in his ****!"''
-->'''King Gorilla''': (Kissy lips.)

A tough old talking gorilla who served time in prison alongside The Monarch. [[spoiler: He made a deal with the Investors to donate his heart to Monstroso when he dies in exchange for getting out on his life sentence.]]

Tropes associated with King Gorilla:
* BlackComedyRape: See PrisonRape.
* CaptainErsatz: To two DC Comics villains, Gorilla Grodd and Monsieur Mallah (the latter of whom is also gay).
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Courtesy of The Investors.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When The Investors come to collect his heart. He doesn't panic, just gruffly tells them to get it over with.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: In order to get the Monarch out and back to Doctor Girlfriend, he helps him break out, knowing full and well the Guild will be on his ass. He was let out in season four.
** Also a villainous example, [[spoiler: he would eventually give his heart to a dying Monstroso, who arranged his release from prison in return]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: His lung cancer proved to be fatal. Or rather [[spoiler: ''would'' have been fatal, had the Investors not ripped out his heart to give to Monstroso.]]
* KillerGorilla: Well, he is a gorilla super villain.
* ManiacMonkeys: The Venture universe's contribution to the lineup of evil talking gorillas.
* ManlyGay: He's a supervillain gorilla with none of the stereotypical mannerisms.
* PrisonRape: He tried to rape The Monarch once, but he couldn't get it up because Monarch looked too much like a girl from behind. He even brought him back to his cell, but still felt nothing.
* PutOnABus: After playing a major part in the season two premiere, he vanished from the show.
** TheBusCameBack: In Season 4, dying from lung cancer. His life sentence was commuted [[spoiler: upon the condition that he give up his heart to Monstroso upon his death.]]

!!Monstroso
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-->'''Dr. Girlfriend''': ''"Monstroso? That's what this is about? He's the king of the double cross. I mean, think about it, he's a lawyer and a supervillain. That's like a shark with a grenade launcher on its head."''

An influential supervillain and lawyer. The Monarch tries to team up with him to screw over Venture at the season four midpoint. This ends about as well as you'd expect (remember, this is a show about failure). [[spoiler: Captured by the OSI during Season 5, and [[NeverFoundTheBody (possibly)]] killed by the Investors as an anti-snitching measure.]]

Tropes associated with Monstroso:
* AffablyEvil / PetTheDog: He's pretty nice to Billy, ButtMonkey among [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkies]], in ''The Silent Partners'', showing him a great time on his CoolShip, sympathizing with his problems and finally [[AManIsNotAVirgin helping him get laid]]. Granted he was trying to butter Billy up before asking him to perform a heart transplant, but it's not like he couldn't have simply put a gun to his head or counted on the bribe of becoming a real doctor - he went out of his way to show Billy a good time.
* AmoralAttorney: He's a ''supervillain lawyer.''
* AscendedExtra: We first hear about Monstroso in the henchman-published book that leads to the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend's divorce in the first season.
-->'''Monarch:''' And there's this picture of you in Monstroso's lap!
-->'''Dr. Girlfriend:''' That was at a party. Look at his lap! There's like five people on there!
* BigBeautifulMan: We've gotten enough looks at him shirtless and he's got a physique that can be considered a cross between Brock and 21's.
* TheBrute: Subverted. He's a ManOfWealthAndTaste AmoralAttorney who happens to be a ten-foot-tall wrestler.`
* CardCarryingVillain: Devil motifs. Really.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Double-crossing is his MO, and it's perfectly allowable (and ''encouraged'') by Guild law.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: During the second half of the fourth season, after recovering from a mid-season surgery.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Seemingly dropped to his doom by The Investors.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has an inhumanly deep voice.
* {{Expy}}: Shares a number of similarities with MarvelComics villain, ComicBook/TheKingpin, including his monstrous size, nice suit, and being a businessman running a criminal empire. He also shares some traits with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey Anton LaVey]], founder of the Church of Satan, including his facial hair, devil hood, and general devil motif.
* GeniusBruiser: Obviously very intelligent, he also seems to be just as strong as he looks since [[spoiler: he actually ''survived'' the epic beatdown delivered by Brock and 21]].
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted at the very last minute in his first appearance.
* LargeAndInCharge: [[http://mantiseye.com/img/caps/507/notes/mugshot-monstroso-full.jpg 7'4, to be specific.]]
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He's a supervillain lawyer businessman with a massive yacht and a taste for fine cigars.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A play on "monstrous".
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In "Operation P.R.O.M.", he and Molotov are in a limo as it falls down a cliff and explodes, and in the Season 5 premiere his "body" turns out to be an inflatable decoy. Five episodes after reveal he's still alive. But in that same episode he goes missing ''again'' after being phased though the wall of the OSI airship and dropped from hundreds of feet in the air.]]
* OhCrap: When [[spoiler:The Investors appear during his interrogation on the O.S.I. Heli-Carrier]], he has a severe freak out. Nothing had fazed him before, from fighting 21 and Brock simultaneously to being [[spoiler: at the mercy of the O.S.I.]] Now he's scared witless.
* RunningGag: He offers the Monarch a cigar four times in about ninety seconds.
--> "Fine, yes! Gimme a fucking cigar!"
* SmugSnake: Trying to defeat both the Venture family and The Monarch simultaneously... with zoning law fine print.

!!Watch and Ward
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High-ranking Guild communications officers, who report directly to the Sovereign. They're fairly good at their jobs, when not distracted by inconsequential matters, be they misplaced juice boxes or mp3 selection.

Tropes associated with Watch and Ward:
* AuthorAvatar: Their conversations are often taken from actual conversations between Jackson and Doc. As a bonus, Doc and Ward (whom he voices) are both blond.
* IdiotBall: Failed to notice Phantom Limb's escape from Guild HQ, due to Watch having a bug clinging to his back.
-->'''Watch''': Aah! It's one of those ones that flies!
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: And they're constantly bickering and trip each other up at every turn.

!!Torrid
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-->''"Save my place in the queue. There's something I feel I must do. Something ''[[NameDrop torrid.]]"''

The Order of the Triad's Guild-sanctioned archenemy, who has a fire theme.

Tropes associated with Torrid:
* UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent
* CaptainErsatz: Sort of a fusion of Pyro of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} (for his powers and ethnicity, although Torrid can create flame and teleport), Comicbook/{{Deadman}} (for his costume), and Dormammu (from ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'') (for his mythical connections).
* GassHole: Much fuss is made over the smell he leaves behind in the Venture bathroom.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The Order of the Triad seem to currently believe he's dead.
* PlayingWithFire: Being a CaptainErsatz of Pyro.
* TeleportSpam: When necessary. He uses it more to dodge than to attack.

!!Augustus St. Cloud
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-->''"You win this time, but mark my words, and mark them well: I will get you, Quiz Boy!"''

The newest member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent as of the Season 5 premier, who specifically joins to arch Billy Quiz Boy. He is also incredibly rich, and is a collector and fan boy of antiques from movies and TV shows.

Tropes associated with St. Cloud:
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: He even claims his "superpower" is the fact he has "lots of money".
* AscendedExtra[=/=]EarlyBirdCameo: He appears as a background character in the first four seasons, most memorably getting Baron Underbheit's boot in his ass at Rusty's yard sale.
* TheCollector: Of in numerous pop cultural icons, many of them ridiculously expensive. Billy utterly hates him for this, because he never lets anyone else see them except to show off and damages them for his own amusement (like altering [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Auric Goldfinger's]] pajamas so they'd fit him). He also collects albinos.
* EvilIsPetty: When Billy and Pete come to his house to try to barter with him for a flying ship, he agrees on the condition that Billy eat a dollar's worth of pennies. The reason? Billy outbid him for an action figure on eBay.
* {{Expy}}: He's a rich snobbish version of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Comic Book Guy]] (especially his voice).
* {{Hypocrite}}: He still holds a grudge against Billy for cheating on the ''Quizboys'' show in his youth, yet himself cheats audaciously in the Spanakopita events.
* OpaqueLenses: When he fully becomes a villain. We can see his eyes in his earlier appearances.
* PyrrhicVictory: Tries to pull one on Rusty and Billy by announcing he bought the island where Spanakopita is held after they win the final event, unaware [[spoiler: that the locals had sold him "Spanakopita," the spinach pastry, rather than "Spanakos," the actual name of the island. What's more, the locals were scamming him as well as Rusty the entire time.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Manages to bypass many of the Guild's set rules (such as new members being unable to choose their own archenemy) by bribing them with money.
** He likewise bribes his way through the Spanakopita events just to get under Billy and Rusty's skin.

!!The Investors
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Three amazingly creepy men in suits. They exist to make deals with people. The deals [[DealWithTheDevil frequently end badly for the person who makes them]].

Tropes Associated with The Investors:
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Are they magically empowered humans, vampires, demons, or some other malevolent entities? [[spoiler: As of ''All This and Gargantua-2'', they are revealed to be some form of higher being. Whether alien or demonic is still not revealed.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: They appear to be equals in power, with none being in charge of the others.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Killinger reveals them all to be brothers, making them the three Cains to his {{Antivillain}}ous Abel.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: And according to Brock, only Billy and White have "Borrowed money from them, and lived long enough to panic about it". [[spoiler:The Sovereign made one with them in order to become leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, and his plan to destroy Gargantua-2 is an effort to kill them before they can collect on his part of the bargain.]]
* TheDreaded: When they come to collect on your end of whatever deal you made with them. Even the 10 foot tall supervillain lawyer, Monstroso, is scared out of his mind when [[spoiler: they show up for him in "O.S.I. Love You."]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: They first appeared in the background behind the speakers at the state university in the episode "Pomp & Circuitry." They were said to be there representing the '''G'''eneral '''C'''onsolodated '''I'''nsurance company...
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:In ''All This and Gargantua-2'', they're revealed to be the true power behind the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the Sovereign having made a DealWithTheDevil with them in order to gain his power.]]
* Myth/GreekMythology: As revealed in ''All This and Gargantua-2''', they are named Lips, Caicias, and Skeiron after the Greek gods of the southwest, northeast, and northwest winds, respectively.
* HumanoidAbomination: All three of them. It was previously hinted that they weren't humans, [[spoiler:and confirmed in ''All This and Gargantua-2'' where they're revealed to be the same kind of higher life form as Dr. Killinger. What that life form is, though, is never explained. It's possible, for example, that they are the Greek gods of the Southwest, Northeast, and Northwest winds - because why not.]]
* [[IntangibleMan Intangible Men]]: Bullets and knives just pass right through them. They can also walk through walls and floors. And [[spoiler:reach inside peoples chests, and phase them through walls.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By Dr. Killinger in ''All This and Gargantua-2''.]]
* [[KnightOfCerebus Knights Of Cerebus]]: Unlike such villains as The Monarch, their actions and presence are NEVER played for laughs.
* [[MasterOfDisguise Masters Of Disguise:]] [[spoiler:As shown during "O.S.I. Love You" then can perfectly impersonate two O.S.I. agents, and a nonexistent third rookie agent.]]
* PowerFloats[=/=]GhostlyGlide: We almost never see them walk [[spoiler:when not shape-shifted]], which adds to their creepiness.
* PsychicPowers: The Investors generally don't actually directly interact with the people around them, but rather use mental projections. It's why they don't show up on camera. [[spoiler: When it looks like they're taking Killinger on in an epic lightsaber duel, that turns out to be a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.]]
* SiblingsInCrime: They're brothers.
* TheVoiceless: Until [[spoiler:"O.S.I. Love You" when disguised as the O.S.I. company men. Later, in ''All This and Gargantua-2'', they speak in their own voices for the first time.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of their powers, as seen in [[spoiler: "O.S.I. Love You" when they perfectly impersonate the O.S.I. agents.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Spider Skull Island'']]
!!Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr.
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Dr. Venture's twin brother [[spoiler: whom he ate in the womb]], Jonas, Jr. - or JJ - is a two-foot tall dwarf with all of the skill, charisma, success, and hair that Rusty lacks. He is usually seen getting contracts that Rusty wants whenever Rusty calls him up for a loan. [[spoiler: "All This and Gargantua-2" revealed that his organs had been failing for some time and is on the verge of death, but he instead chooses to personally pilot the failing Gargantua-2 to save the fleeing passengers from catastrophic meltdown, taking his own life in the process.]]

Tropes associated with JJ:
* TheAce: He's more like his father than his brother is. Complete with the insufferable ego.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's the perfect heir to the Venture ScienceHero tradition and always miles ahead of Rusty in success and fame.
* ArtificialLimbs: His left hand didn't form during his birthing development. After he finally leaves Rusty's body, Billy makes him a cybernetic prosthetic.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with. His first appearance in the season 1 finale, he tries to murder Rusty. He mellows into a smug-genius characterization after he starts making a fully deserved name for himself as Jonas' true inheritor. "Now Museum Now You Don't" showed that he's something of a passive-aggressive, condescending jerk under stress, with some of it coming through normally. "The Lepidopterists" shows him to be a fan of DisproportionateRetribution who doesn't know the rules (and is irritated by the OSI-GCI relationship). [[spoiler: Played more straight in the Season 5 premiere, where he has contracted Rusty for a large project and openly admits his surprise and gratitude when Rusty delivers beyond his expectations. That being said, he didn't know about [[NoodleIncident near apocalyptic shenanigans]] that happened as a result of Rusty's incompetence. By ''All This And Gargantua 2'' he seems ready to let bygones be bygones, and acts far more brotherly towards Rusty than ever, even bequeathing him the newly rebuilt Venture Industries.]]
* TheCharmer: Even as a malformed two-foot-tall fetus man he's amazingly successful with the ladies due to his good looks and endless charisma.
* CombiningMecha: Pilots the core component of Ventronic, a flying ShoutOut to {{Voltron}}.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Chooses to die saving everyone aboard the Gargantua rather slowly/painfully from cancer, and does so with a smile on his face.]]
* DeadGuyJunior: By his own choice.
* GadgeteerGenius: Built a mecha body out of spare parts in his first appearance and apparently created his own CombiningMecha.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pilots the cockpit containing the overloaded nuclear core of Gargantua 2 safely away from its escaping life pods. It detonates with him inside.]]
* HollywoodCyborg: He has a robot forearm covering the gimpy non-limb he had in his first appearance.
* InstantExpert: Earned two Ph. D.s [[RuleOfFunny in a month]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:During the pre-season 6 special ''All This And Gargantua 2.'' There's a brief moment where it sounds like Dr. Orpheus might have raised him from the dead, only for him to be talking about Dean's giraffe plushie.]]
* NiceGuy: Can be rather smug and condescending and does consistently treat Rusty like crap, but by the standards of the Venture universe, those are hardly the worst qualities around. He also seems to care for his nephews.
* PutOnABus: Spent all of season 4 working to complete a space station.
* TheResenter: A less-extreme example; in spite of being more successful and intelligent than Rusty, he seems a touch bitter about not being regarded as Jonas Venture's son. In his first appearance, this drove him to try and kill Rusty. He's since mellowed out, but has been shown trying to erase Rusty's boyhood accomplishments from memory and replace it with himself.
* SmugSuper: Like daddy Jonas, J.J. develops a rather obtrusive ego with his massive intellect, though it tends to come out most when he's under stress.
* VocalEvolution: In his first appearance, he had a deep, raspy voice. Afterward, he gained a smooth and smug voice to go along with his role as AlwaysSomeoneBetter. (It's not clear if either one is an affectation, or possibly even ''both''.)
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Reveals in ''All This And Gargantua 2'' that his organs are failing as he's dying from cancer.]]

!!Sally Impossible
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Richard Impossible's now-ex-wife. When the lab accident occured that gave Richard his stretching powers, she was affected too but was much less fortunate as she was given the "power" of making her skin visible, without utilising it her skin ''returns'' to being invisible and makes for a pretty gross sight. Her other family members, who were also caught in the blast, didn't fare as well (her brother Cody ignites when exposed to oxygen, while her cousin Ned became a walking tumor). To save his public image, Richard hid them away and refused to let Sally interact with anyone. Rusty winds up meeting her by accident and she tries to use him to escape Richard's grasp but Rusty quickly abandons her. In their next encounter Rusty used her to get a vital piece of equipment he needed from Richard's lab. It was during this encounter she met Jonas Venture Jr and the two quickly hit it off. Sometime afterward she divorced Richard and went to live with J.J along with Ned and her infant son Rocket (Cody somehow still staying with Richard).

Tropes associated with Sally:
* BlessedWithSuck: Stuck with a power she never wanted and claims it take a great deal of effort to maintain control -- really, it barely even counts as a ''power'', more like a flat-out disability.
* BodyHorror: When she loses control of her power, yeesh.
* CaptainErsatz: Of The Invisible Woman from ''Franchise/FantasticFour''.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:She still hates Richard, but saves him anyway cause he's Rocket's dad.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Minor one, before she was always cowering in front of her husband and gets sparks of courage if she knew she could escape or at least discredit him. She ratches up a bit when Richard shows his neglect for Rocket and by third appearance she done with his crap and is disgusted by his attempts to win her back (though she does show some appreciation for his attempted and supposed HeroicSacrifice). She now a part of J.J's fighting force, helping to defend Spider Island from the Monarch in a giant mecha. As part of that, she's also improved her control over her visibility and managed to conquer her issues.

!!The Pirate Captain
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The 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. He has not been referred to by any name or nickname other than "The Captain" so far. He currently resides with Jonas Jr. on Spider Skull Island and fulfills the duties of a butler, caretaker, and right-hand man. The Captain always refers to Jonas as "Chairman".

Tropes associated with the Captain:
* CombiningMecha: "[[{{Voltron}} I form the right arm!]]"
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No name given, only known as "the pirate" or "the Captain."
* HeelFaceTurn: He was never all that evil, but he's not that good of a good guy, either. He gets annoyed when JJ dredges up his "bad guy" past, but for the most part is a loyal employee and a reliable Number Two.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He and his crew have been stuck for a decade in the Sargasso, and he fails rather miserably when attempting to take the X-2.
* InstantSedation: Gets ''addicted'' to it in one episode.
* ShoutOut: He is modeled after ''ScoobyDoo'' villains, and makes a lot of specific references to that end (such as mentioning that he got to meet Cher and "the guy who was the voice of InspectorGadget"[[note]]Don Adams[[/note]], who both guest-starred on ''ScoobyDoo'').
* TalkLikeAPirate: And he friggin' loves it!

!!Ned
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Sally Impossible and Cody's mentally challenged cousin. Formerly associated with Impossible Industries, Ned followed Sally to Spider Skull Island to live with Jonas Venture Jr.

Tropes associated with Ned:
* CaptainErsatz: Of The Thing from ''Franchise/FantasticFour'', except mentally handicapped.
* HandicappedBadass: He packs a wallop when he wants to - guy's roughly the same size as Brock.
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[[folder:''The Revenge Society'']]
!!Phantom Limb
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-->''"No one retires from the Phantom Limb's shit list!"''

The leader of the Revenge Society and the man who recruited Dr. Girlfriend into the Guild of Calamitous Intent, Hamilton G. Fantomas is the [[LegacyCharacter grandson]] of the adventurer and Guild founder Literature/{{Fantomas}}. Born with atrophied limbs, his attempts to speed up their muscle growth instead gave him invisible hands that could kill with a touch. He eventually worked his way up in the Guild, always with [[TheStarscream an eye on the Sovereign's position]]. Dr. Girlfriend used to work with him and date him as Queen Etherea before meeting the Monarch; she goes back to him in season two, securing his position as the BigBad of that season.

After his above origins were revealed in season three, he made a major comeback in season four as he attempted to conquer the Guild once more... and failed. Then he decided to make his own guild to piss off the Sovereign.

Tropes associated with Phantom Limb:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Possibly some sort of ethnicity unless that's just a tan.
** The Monarch states that Phantom Limb "wears an awful lot of purple for a white guy," but that's about it for ethnic information.
* AnArmAndALeg: He loses an arm, leg and implicitly his Penis after his altercation with the Soverign ended with his airship crashing. Impossible reconstructed his machine and at the very least Limb's arm and leg have been restored.
* BigBad: Mutual enemy to Dr. Venture and The Monarch in season 2
** BigBadWannabe: In Seasons 4 and 5. He spends the latter half of season 4 recovering and slowly building a team of his own, and is absent in season 5 apart from a cameo in Bot Seeks Bot, which shows that the revenge society has been watching the council meetings. [[spoiler:Then we find out that he is being manipulated by the Sovereign as part of an elaborate scheme to kill the Investors by destroying Gargantua 2]]
* CardCarryingVillain: He makes a lot of grand speeches about how [[ForTheEvulz awesome it is to be evil]].
* CloudCuckooLander: After getting kicked out of the Guild, he gets a little...[[SanitySlippage batty]].
* CompanionCube: In season 4, he now has a new Guild consisting of a toaster, a mug and one of Dr. Girlfriend's shoes. Turns out they're not so harmless, as he manipulates them with his detached invisible limbs to use in combat.
* DetachmentCombat: He can still control and re-attach his invisible limbs after they have been cut off.
* EvilerThanThou: Downplayed. He's by far the evilest and most experienced member of the Revenge Society, having years of Guild membership under his belt, but knows well enough to be a team player and is an effective leader.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Especially during season 4.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Successfully disables a series of Guild death-traps using a common household ''toaster'' and later disarms a group of Guild soldiers using a ''high-heeled shoe'' as a boomerang in the episode ''The Revenge Society.''
* KnightOfCerebus: Comes far closer to killing the Venture family than anyone else has in ''Victor. Echo. November ''Even certified {{Badass}} ''Brock'' realizes that they "might not make it this time" when he realizes it's the [[EliteMooks Guild Strangers]] they're up against instead of the usual [[{{Mooks}} henchmen rabble.]]
* LargeHam: He's very fond of dramatic hand motions. Not that the viewer can see them.
--> "I'm wringing my hands.........MENACINGLY!"
* LegacyCharacter: He is the grandson of Literature/{{Fantomas}}.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Has a very sophisticated, aristocratic manner about him, likes fine cheeses and wines, lives in a home based on the Frank Lloyd Wright [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storer_House_%28Los_Angeles%29 "Storer House,"]] and sells stolen artwork as his brand of supervillainy.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Once he realizes that [[spoiler:the Sovereign betrayed him and the Revenge Society to die on Gargantua-2]] after going behind the backs of his teammates to make a deal with him. He gets hit with this so badly that he genuinely considers himself unworthy of [[spoiler:a place in the new Council of 13]], a position he fiercely coveted until that point.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Phantom Limb's powers continue to change. In Season 1 his hands caused veins to pop up on people when he uses his touch of death, and they don't seem to glow (he was wearing a heavy coat, but no light came out of the disconnect between gloves and sleeves). All other appearances neglect the veins and have his arms glow green and red for the touch of death. Season 4 shows he can detach and control his limbs. His limbs glow blue now and his powers seem to be electricity based, as he stunned Dean instead of killing him, and it seems he can regulate how much charge they give.
* NotQuiteDead: Wisdom, the coffee cup, who has been put back together after Limb accused him of being the Sovereign.
** Ironically, Chuck (the toaster) and Lady Nightshade (the shoe) "perished" in the scuffle that occurred after his escape.
* ObfuscatingInsanity[=/=]HesBack: In "Pomp and Circuitry", it's revealed that he was waiting for the perfect time to strike. He then proceeds to launch his plan to form a new team with failures of superheroes and villains, and so far it's working.
** And despite some initial pitfalls due to Professor Impossible's inexperience, he manages to nearly kill Doctor Venture, if not for Fat Chance accidently tripping onto him.
* PerverseSexualLust: He really, really likes making Dr. Girlfriend wear her [[{{Stripperiffic}} Queen Etherea costume]].
* PunnyName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb Phantom limb syndrome]]
* RedRightHand: Invisible limbs that can kill with a touch.
* RomanticFalseLead: His initial role.
* RuleOfFunny: The only possible explanation for all of the things that he manages to do (without his prosthetics) with just one arm and one leg...
* ShoeSlap: Uses a high-heeled shoe like a boomerang in ''The Revenge Society.''
* ShoutOut: To obscure comic hero ComicStrip/ThePhantom, between the names and similar costumes.
* SmallReferencePools: Want to know just how well this show averts this? One of its major villains is a descendent of Fantômas, a French character who is largely unknown in the US. The trope itself is, fittingly, one of his pet peeves, as seen when he tried to sell a Rembrandt to a Mafioso who only wanted the Mona Lisa.
* SmugSnake: His overconfidence almost always leads to his downfall.
* TheStarscream: To the Guild Sovereign.
* StartMyOwn: In the second half of season four, he tells the Sovereign he's going to start his own guild with [[CompanionCube Wisdom]], Professor Impossible, Baron Underbeit, Lady Hawke Johnson/Lyndon Bee and Fat Chance.
* StayInTheKitchen: A thoroughly unsympathetic example. There is no misguided chivalry at work here, just plain old misogyny. Dr. Girlfriend left him initially because he let her engineering proficiency go to waste in favor of using her as arm candy.
-->(After Dr. Girlfriend calls him out on crashing her wedding.) Sweet girl, you're being irrational, and such is the curse of your sex. I forgive you.
* SuperPowerLottery: "I can kill a man by simply touching him. Now what were your special powers again?"
* TouchOfDeath: Though it's been shown in "Bright Lights, Dean City" he can control it to merely knock out his foe if necessary.
* VillainousBreakdown: By season four has gone completely off his rocker. See CompanionCube.
* VillainousFriendship: By the time of ''All This and Gargantua-2'', he does actually feel some affection for the other members of the Revenge Society. He [[spoiler: doesn't want Sovereign [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to kill them after they have outlived their usefulness]] and feels remorse for "betraying" the Revenge Society, even though he tried to justify it to them by saying he was doing it so they could all be on the Council of Thirteen]].
* VisibleInvisibility: His limbs avert the trope, which is an occasional source of humor - such as when he tried "wringing [his] hands - [[MundaneMadeAwesome menacingly]]!", only for nobody to know what he was doing.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Subverted. In his first appearance, his only [[IncrediblyLamePun visible]] power is having invisible limbs. Later, it turns out that his limbs can instantly kill by touch, deflect projectiles, and can be detached and remotely operated.
* WickedCultured: A definite example, once called out for having sold out his villainous principles for high culture accoutrements such as dealing in stolen art instead of 'the old stuff'. (In the same episode, he laments how many of his fellow art thieves want to steal the Mona Lisa, for no other reason than it's a famous painting, and not because they appreciate it as art.)

!!Professor Richard Impossible
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A fellow super-scientist and CaptainErsatz of ''Franchise/FantasticFour'' leader Reed Richards AKA Mr. Fantastic, but much, much darker. At first he seemed just like his counterpart... and then it was revealed his fellow members got useless, or in one case harmful, powers and that he kept them under wraps to save face. Doctor Venture won over his wife, Sally, while working with Impossible but left her behind when they left. She finally escaped with Doctor Venture's brother J.J. along with her and her son Rocket. He didn't take it well. He soon fell into a deep depression until his old buddy Phantom Limb convinced him to go over to the evil side, while remaining a super scientist to the public. He's now a super villain and part of Phantom Limb's Revenge Society.

Tropes associated with Richard:
* AccidentalHero: Saves the whole Spider Skull Island from exploding, by trying to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself with it]].
* BeardOfSorrow: Starts to grow one after Sally dumps him. Shaves it (with the help of Phantom Limb) immediately after joining the Revenge Society.
* CaptainErsatz: Of [[Franchise/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]], with a little bit of WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles mixed in.
* CardCarryingVillain: He really enjoys his new status of villain, [[ThatManIsDead changing his name]], throwing [[IncrediblyLamePun puns]] and all the stuff.
* TheDragon[=/=]EvilGenius: For the Revenge Society.
* DrivenToSuicide: Tried to kill himself at least two times after Sally dumped him.
* DomesticAbuser: Not physically, at least.
* FaceHeelTurn: Well, he was always a dick, but he's dropped all pretense of being one of the "good guys" now.
* ForScience: He conducted an experiment that blew up in his face. It granted him incredible stretching powers, but left his family with painful and hideous mutations. Not only is he completely unsympathetic to their plight, but he treats them like prisoners most of the time less they embarrass him. He is a thinly-veiled parody of ''The ComicBook/FantasticFour''[='=]s Reed Richards, who has slipped into this trope from ReedRichardsIsUseless more than once (most recently during ''ComicBook/CivilWar''). His crowning moment of For Science comes when confronted by his wife that their son was missing, he ignores her and handwaves it:
-->'''Sally''' "What could possibly be more important than your own son?"
-->'''Richard''' "... sssssssssssscience?"
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In the first two seasons he identifies as a "good guy" despite being very despicable. In season three, after Sally leaves him, he crosses the DespairEventHorizon and at least has enough good in him to attempt a HeroicSacrifice. Then in season four, he joins Phantom Limb's Revenge Society and embraces his inner evil. [[spoiler:Then in the special ''All This and Gargantua-2'', he leaves the Revenge Society after his ex-wife convinces him to leave with her instead of dying on the space station.]]
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Has been unable to kill himself because his rubber body is so durable.
* IHaveNoSon: Barely acknowledges the existence of his son, Rocket. He even attempts to justify his neglect by claiming that Rocket is probably not his biological son.
* InsufferableGenius[=/=]SmugSuper: As a Reed Richards parody, he takes all of Reed's faults and turns them UpToEleven.
* JerkAss: He's a self-aggrandizing super scientist who would unthinkingly do horrible things for profit, glory, and scientific curiosity. While such a description would apply to many other characters in the show, Professor Impossible has repeatedly shown his contempt and lack of empathy towards others by coldly dismissing them as insignificant in the face of his own scientific pursuits and abilities.
* LaughablyEvil: Became waaay more humorous once he went off the deep end and joined the Revenge Society. This may have something to do with Bill Hader, though.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Even before his FaceHeelTurn, he was shown to have a very shaky grasp on ethics. His ''first'' solution to Hank being contaminated by [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion The Goliath Serum]] was to kill him. He doesn't even pause what he's doing when he finds out that his son is missing and is only concerned about it because his wife is beating on him and berating him because of it.
* NotSoDifferent: Phantom Limb points out that he wasn't that far from being a supervillain in the first place.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: While his lack of experience has kept him from being an effective supervillain thus far, it must be remembered that this is the same person who has devised a biological agent capable of turning living creatures into bombs and has harnessed [[spoiler: his brother-in-law's self-combustion powers]] to provide Impossible Industries with enough free electricity to go completely "green", all of which occurred before he decided to become a real supervillain.
* NighInvulnerability: Although he can still be harmed, his elastic nature makes him incredibly difficult to kill or even injure.
* RubberMan: He's a spoof of the Mr. Fantastic and the only one of the Impossibles to have a useful power.
* ThatManIsDead: Attempts this by calling himself Professor Incorrigible, but Limb wasn't crazy about the idea.
* TheSociopath: A high-functioning and affable one (in a 1950's TV-dad kind of way), but his interactions with people underlines that this guy has ''serious'' difficulty differentiating between people and disposable lab rats.
* VillainousBreakDown: After Sally leaves him.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He manages to keep up his good publicity up until his split with Sally. Though he isn't actually exposed for the JerkAss that he is, his mental breakdown and decline have become apparent to others.

!!Baron Underbheit
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Dr. Venture's "other" ArchEnemy, Werner Underbheit is the tyrannical ruler of [[{{Ruritania}} Underland]] (pronounced oon-derland) who lost his jaw back in college - he blames Rusty for this, although it might have been the result of The Monarch's first attempt to kill Rusty. Recently ousted as ruler. Now the muscle for the Revenge Society.

Tropes associated with Underbheit:
* ArchEnemy: Considered himself Rusty Venture's arch enemy, but The Monarch completely eclipsed him during the show's run.
* TheBluebeard: Has killed his seven former wives.
* TheBrute: For the Revenge Society.
* TheBusCameBack: ''Love Bheits'' was intended to be the last appearance of the character in the series, as Doc and Jackson didn't find him interesting enough to write for. Until season 4 that is, and the formation of the Revenge Society.
* CaptainErsatz: A very blatant one of DoctorDoom, with The Monarch even making the comparison. This makes his recent team up with Dr. Impossible amusing - especially since Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic are ''also'' teammates in the Future Foundation now.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subverted. He disappeared after season two, and then twenty-nine episodes later, he makes a couple cameos and becomes a member of the Revenge Society not soon after.
* EvilOverlord: Of Ünderland [[spoiler: until his deposition in Season 2.]]
* {{Expy}}: Monarch himself calls him a "dime-store DoctorDoom".
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Underbheit anticipate this in he re-introduction in season four, [[NeckSnap providing an immediate demonstration]]. [[spoiler: Turns out he was WrongGenreSavvy and LeeroyJenkins about it. They only need him to sign a contract.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: From his early appearances and the promotion of him in the show's first opening, it appears that the original plan for Underbheit was that he would act as Rusty's "real," serious ArchEnemy while the Monarch would remain an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. However, the writers quickly found Underbheit too one-dimensional to fill that role.
* RedRightHand: Has a prosthetic metal jaw.
* {{Ruritania}}: Underland. [[spoiler: Subversion: it's located near Michigan.]]
* SpikesOfVillainy: Has these on his armour
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Tried to marry the captive Dean Venture (who was dressed as [[StarWars Princess Leia]] for a fancy dress party), mistaking him for a girl.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:In "All This and Gargantua-2", he is last seen arguing with Phantom Limb in the self-destructing space station. Phantom Limb and Radical Left are shown to have escaped via one of Fat Chance's enigma holes, but Underbheit is not with them.]]

!!Fat Chance
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A new recruit to the Revenge Society, Fat Chance was forever changed by a botched scientific experiment, which left him obese. However, it also gave him an "Enigma Hole" in his belly, which he can pull random (and occasionally useful) items from.

Tropes associated with Fat Chance:
* BrooklynRage
* CoolGate: His Enigma Hole, even if he has no idea what's on the other side.
* CaptainErsatz: Possibly one to Chunk, a supporting character of TheFlash. He also was a scientist who, due to a mishap, was rendered obese and with the power to send objects to and from a parallel universe through his body. Not a very well known character, but it'd hardly be the most obscure reference Venture Bros has made.
* FatIdiot: To an extent.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Uses his name to create these.
* TookALevelInBadass: With a little training from Killinger, he eliminates the randomness that comes with his Enigma Hole.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:In "All This and Gargantua-2", he is last seen lying unconscious in the self-destructing space station. Phantom Limb and Radical Left use one of his enigma holes to escape, but it's unknown if Fat Chance escaped or not.]]

!!Radical Left
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Former inmate at Dunwich Asylum, now new member of the society.

* EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared in ''Momma's Boys'' as an inmate at the Dunwich Asylum before joining the Revenge Society in ''All This and Gargantua-2''.
* {{Expy}}: A pretty obvious one of ComicBook/TwoFace. Hasn't been seen flipping a coin yet, however.
* SharpDressedMan: After joining the society.
* TwoFaced: His left side wants anarchy! His right side wants a nice home in the suburbs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''The Original Team Venture'']]
!!Dr. Jonas Venture, Sr.
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The grand figure looming over the remains of the current world today is the legacy left behind by Dr. Jonas Venture, Sr. Adventure hero, scientist, woman-chaser, celebrity, and media darling who could do anything ''except'' raise a son. Dr. Venture lived a life of luxury and adventure, with the world constantly revolving around him, and that was the way he liked it. Too often, this ended up with Dr. Venture ignoring important things like missing colleagues, the family's cursed artifact, and non-emotionally scarring time that should have been spent with his own son. Then, he would play down any negative consequences of anything he ever did until he could forget about it.

Tropes associated with Jonas:
* AbusiveParent: Manages to top Rusty and Professor Impossible as the worst Dad in the series. He included Rusty in all his missions from ages 3-17, made him endure numerous kidnappings, and forced him to kill someone with a house key. Whenever Rusty attempted to express his frustration, Jonas would simply disregard it and call him ungrateful. His style of parenting was so bad, that in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean", even The Monarch admitted to Hank that Jonas really did a number on him.
* TheAce: Since he's a parody of characters like Franchise/DocSavage.
* BreakTheCutie: To Rusty.
* BrokenPedestal: He's a globetrotting super-scientist adventurer who has foiled the plots of countless supervillains. But when you dig a little deeper, you see that he was an emotionally abusive parent who constantly put his son's life in danger by dragging him along on dangerous adventures as well as being a habitual womanizer. He frequently lost interest in his projects, leaving many half-finished and anyone unfortunate enough to be involved to their own devices (E-Den, the drug addled orphans trapped beneath his compound, Dr. Entmann, etc.)
* TheCasanova: A habitual womanizer, known to throw "key parties."
* {{Crossover}}: According to ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'', he worked with [[{{VideoGame/Portal2}} Cave Johnson]] at one point.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: His first appearances seemed to make the audience think that Rusty is a jerk for not liking his amazing father more. It isn't until we later learn about some of the darker secrets of Venture Industries (such as keeping a population of drug-addicted orphans in the tunnels beneath their house for decades) that we begin to see Jonas as he really was.
* {{Expy}}: Is a [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] version of Franchise/DocSavage and [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Dr. Benton Quest]].
* GadgeteerGenius: A brilliant inventor...until he would lose interest and leave many of his projects unfinished. Rusty seems to stay afloat by (poorly) completing Jonas' unfinished work.
* GenerationXerox: Like his father Lloyd Venture, he was a super-scientist and engaged in globe spanning adventures. He also installed this lifestyle into his son.
* HarmfulToMinors: Just about anything he did with his son counts.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Died under mysterious circumstances and never said goodbye to Rusty. Near the end of the third season, [[spoiler: it is strongly implied that his bodyguard Kano killed him for trying to activate the O.R.B...which had ironically been rendered useless by Lloyd Venture's bodyguard Sandow.]]
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Has hosted a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_party#Key_parties key party]] at least once.
* PapaWolf: If there is one positive trait to him, he does look after and protect his own son - as a group of poor would-be Greek kidnappers found out the hard way. Zig-zagged in that Rusty is only ever in danger due to his own father's negligence and willingness to put him in dangerous situations. Not helping it is that the various Greek kidnappers actually did better to Rusty than his father could on any given day...
* PetTheDog: Related to PapaWolf, for all of the torment he subjects his son through, he at least has the decency to let his son keep his happy memories before savagely beating up said would-be Greek kidnappers.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died before the series began, though is seen frequently in flashbacks.
* RoguesGallery: Has a fairly deep one. Just going by those shown or mentioned in the show: Scaramantula, Brainulo, Manotaur, Half-Jackal, [[ChurchOfHappyology L. Ron]]... The first 3 even did a VillainTeamUp to kidnap Rusty.
* SpiritAdvisor: But only while Rusty is off his drugs.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted in that he acted as one to Rusty, and by "Acted" we mean sneaking out whenever his son tried talking about his issues and calling him ungrateful for [[IJustWantToBeNormal not enjoying the life of a boy adventurer]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: to Rusty.
* WhatTheHellDad: He took Rusty with him on dangerous adventures as he didn't see anything wrong with it and didn't get why Rusty would want a normal life. Needless to say, it's understandable why he would considering that he had to kill a man at a young age twice among other things.

!!Col. Gentleman
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-->''"That thing is gonna kick like a badger, so you have to re-level quick. Aim for the bastard's neck. Hold 'im up there, Kano! I don't care if he wets himself and your head; that boy is gonna see somebody die! And if he doesn't want it to be his father, he'll have to pull that trigger!"''

The apparent second-in-command of the 60's Team Venture, Col. Gentleman is the swinger of the group.