History Characters / TheVentureBrosTeamVenture

The grand figure looming over the series. Publicly, Dr. Jonas Venture, Sr. is a renowned super-scientist, adventure hero, and charistmatic celebrity who saved the world countless times and whose genius profoundly changed it. In private, he was an abusive, narcissistic sociopath who chased women and never missed an opportunity to promote himself to an adoring public. Jonas lived a life of luxury and adventure, with the world constantly revolving around him, and that was the only way he accepted it. He was a terrible father to Rusty, an even worse friend who would use anyone around him without hesitation, and a careless scientist who often left projects unfinished, colleagues trapped or killed, and cared little for the consequences of his actions, downplaying negativity, victim blaming, and quickly moving on to his next big idea. He is believed to have died in the "Movie Night Massacre" aboard his Gargantua-1 space station about 17 years before the series begins.

* TheAce: A DeconstructedCharacterArchetype of it, along with a ScienceHero, being based on examples like Literature/DocSavage but showing what a person who lives this kind of life would be as a person, parent, and friend. He ''was'' a brilliant scientist, undeniably charistmatic, and could handle himself in a fight... but brought his young son along on his adventures, traumatizing the hell out of him, and cared little for any other collateral damage his actions caused.

* {{Expy}}:
** Of Kato, the Asian martial artist sidekick of Radio/TheGreenHornet. Made even clearer in season six when it's revealed that he started as the sidekick of the Blue Morpho, himself an expy of the Green Hornet.
** Physically, he shares a number of characteristics with [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob]], i.e. Asian, [[MadeOfIron really tough]], [[TheVoiceless doesn't talk]].

** There is also irony between this trope and Rusty's admitted plan of "retiring to Spanakopita on a pile of money" when he sells his teleporter technology. He could have done that as soon as he inherited [=VenTech=] form J.J., either letting the (already well-run) company continue to what J.J. had it doing while pocketing profit or by selling his shares for billions. Instead, he [[PointyHairedBoss ran the company into the ground]] (including implied bankruptcy come the FinaleMovie) by firing nearly everyone and re-focusing it on "super-science" instead of the BoringButPractical tech J.J. had it creating.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Has the chance to bail out of the falling [=VenTech Tower=] twice in ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''. The first time, he's talked out of it by Billy who shames him for the potential deaths he could prevent by stopping its descent. The second time, he decides to do so of his own volition using Ventronic, which potentially saved the lives of Dr. Orpheus, Hank & Dean, Jefferson Twilight, Dermott Fictel, Bobbi St. Simone and her animals, who were in the immediate area. At minimum, this act allows the protagonists to recover and resuscitate H.E.L.P.eR., which would've been impossible if Hunter Gathers had blown the building out of the sky like he originally intended.

* MisterSeahorse: He used Debbie St. Simone's DNA to [[TrulySingleParent impregnate himself with Hank and Dean.]]

* StalkerWithATestTube: According to the Action Man and the finale he was apparently this for the St. Simones which resulted in Hank and Dean.

* TrulySingleParent: The last shot of the series is TheReveal that he mixed Debra St. Simone's DNA with his own to gestate Hank and Dean in a cybernetic womb.

Characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. This page is for the Venture family and close associates.

* TheBigGuy: Brock is an absolutely massive mountain of a man who towers over everyone else on Team Venture and is naturally one of the best physical combatants seen in the series. If the fake Guild ID he presents in "Bot Meets Bot" is accurate (and one presumes the physical measurements would be), he is ''seven feet tall''. Colonel Hunter Gathers put it best when first meeting Brock:

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Jonas gave his gigantic form the name "Humongoloid", combining "humongous" and the slur "mongoloid", used toward people with Down's Syndrome. It's perfectly in-character for Jonas, but it's unclear what Entmann though about it.

* TuxedoAndMartini: States in his debut episode that he served in [=MI5=] and is voiced in an imitation of the most famous Franchise/JamesBond actor, Creator/SeanConnery.

* OlderThanTheyLook: He looks much younger than the rest of the original Team Venture despite being aorund the same age. As he notes, his half-Atlantean DNA is responsible for that.

* DumbMuscle: Calle a "mindless savage", all he can say is his name but he can swing a mean club.

->''"Twenty years? I'm... 45? I haven't even kiss a girl yet..."''

->'''Doctor Orpheus:''' Who is Hector Molina and why do I keep getting his junk mail?!

A middleweight boxing champion and good friend to Jonas Sr. who served on the original Team Venture. After becoming a punch-drunk palooka, his wife left him and Jonas gave him a maintenance job at the Venture Compound out of pity.

* {{Expy}}: His overall appearance in his prime, including face, hair, mustache, and preference for white boxing trunks, are taken from former heavyweight champion [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Frazier Joe Frazier]].

A test pilot who died in a crash while testing one of Jonas' planes. When the current Venture family and Brock Samson disturbed Tom's spirit, he climbed onto the Ventures' boat doing nothing but screaming. Eventually, Brock decapitates him and throws him back into the ocean.

* AcePilot: Hence his testing of the experimental craft.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Well being dead helped this, but he's never seen with the rest of Team Venture in flashbacks, even after Aquarius, Swifty, Hector and Ook Ook were retroactively added.
* DemBones: His face and left arm at least.
* LosingYourHead: Thanks to Brock.
* MajorlyAwesome: Is a Major.

* OverlyLongScream: Spends pretty much the entire episode screaming.
** SkywardScream: ...After discovering his widow married the Action Man.
* ShoutOut: [[Music/DavidBowie A pilot named Major Tom involved in an accident while flying a plane designated 'TVC-15']], huh?
* FlamingSkulls: For no adequately explained reason.
* TheUndead: Is a ghostly skeleton apparition.

A "mindless savage" and apparent unfrozen caveman who somehow got refrozen between 1969 and the present day.

* BadWithTheBone: Uses one as a club.
* ContemporaryCaveman: Was frozen and then joined the old Team Venture after thawing out. He is then apparently refrozen at some point and is now on display in the museum.
* {{Expy}}: Roughly, of Bubba the Caveduck from WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987.
* FlatCharacter: Was only in one episode so it makes sense.
* HumanPopsicle: Even manages to get ''refrozen'' between 1969 and the present day.

The Team Venture counterpart to [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Hadji]], a small Mexican boy who saved Rusty's life as a boy. Grew up and got a job on the Venture Compound. Rusty actually forgot that he existed. [[BerserkButton Doctor Orpheus still gets his junk mail.]]

* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Rusty has no idea who he is anymore.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Like Swifty, Rusty fires him at the drop of a hat.
* HeroicBystander: Becomes a member of Team Venture after saving Doctor Jonas Venture's life by shielding him from a spear with an Aztec calendar as a child.

Son of a drunken sailor and an Atlantean princess, Otto is a standard aquatic hero who has long since given up violence as an answer to his problems after joining Jehovah's Witnesses.

* ActualPacifist: Which is cool and all, but makes him all but useless when the boys call the original Team Venture together to save their dad.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of either ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} or ComicBook/SubMariner. There are just enough details that he could really be either.
* {{Atlantis}}: He's half Atlantean.
* CaptainFishman: He's the TokenNonHuman of the original Team Venture, having a FishPerson physiology.

* FishPerson: He's half-human, half Atlantean, which makes him look like a fish-man.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Thanks to, in the Action Mans's words, a "Drunken sailor having his way with his mermom."

* OlderThanTheyLook: Has his half-Atlantean DNA to thank for that.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: A deleted scene for "Past Tense" has him voicing a disgust for "sodomites" and aiming this towards Colonel Gentleman.

In his prime, he was a middleweight boxing champion and a good friend to Jonas Venture, Sr. After becoming a punch-drunk palooka, his wife left him and Jonas gave him (and Hector) a maintenance job at the Venture Compound out of pity.

* DentedIron: All the hits he's taken in the past have left him with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_pugilistica dementia pugilistica]], so he's not too aware of his surroundings.
* {{Expy}}: His appearance is a take off to UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Despite being grossly underqualified, Rusty fires him due to him not remembering him after working there for 30 years.
* [[JetPack Jet Boots]]: When he was a member of Team Venture.
* RetiredBadass: He may be slow and out of shape, but damn if he can't still throw a punch.

* TalkativeLoon: Speaks almost entirely in {{word salad}}s nowadays. "I remember there was a ''ring''... that ''loved'' the radio."

->'''Col. Gentleman''': (referring to Kano) Careful, lad. His hands are strong enough to crush a boulder, but delicate enough to crush a butterfly.

The massive, stoic martial arts master and pilot of the original Team Venture. Originally the sidekick of the Blue Morpho, he became Jonas Sr.'s official O.S.I. bodyguard and a nurturing parental substitute to Rusty. He took a vow of silence in penance for killing "a great man", afterward mostly communicating via oragami. He seems to have retired to Japan after the apparent death of Jonas Sr. by the time of the series.

** Of Kato, the Asian martial artist sidekick of Radio/TheGreenHornet. Made even clearer in season six when it's revealed that he started as the sidekick of the Blue Morpho, himself an Expy of the Green Hornet.

* FarEast: Kano's ethnicity is never made explicit in the show, only being referred to a few times as "Asian", but he blends elements of being Japanese (practices oragami, appears to be in Japan when Col. Gentleman contacts him in "Past Tense", his uniform appears to be a karate gi) and Chinese (an {{expy}} of Kato from the Green Hornet, most famously played by Bruce Lee who was from Hong Kong).

* MundaneUtility: His incredibly strong and martial arts-honed hands are capable of creating extremely detailed oragami in ''seconds''.

* TheStoic: Subverted. Outwardly, he is a massive, intimidating martial artist who served as bodyguard to a ScienceHero. However, his [[ElectiveMute vow of silence]] came as the result of guilt from killing "a great man" and beneath it all, he's a pretty goofy guy, being into oragami, baking, and karaoke.

* EasilyForgiven: He seem to doesn't harbor any resentment toward the rest of the old Team Venture for leaving him shrunken and trapped, immediately rejoining them and living with the Action Man until his death.

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!!Dr. Paul Entmann (Humongoloid)

The forgotten member of the team, Dr. Entmann was left stranded in a sealed room under the Venture Compound after an attempt to cure his super-gigantism turned him into a tiny human.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mostly in tiny mode. Apparently, the point is that with the Yiddish accent, "Entmann" sounds like "Ant Man". Plus it's a vaguely Jewish name anyway.
* BestialityIsDepraved: Claims that the ants he fought for decades frequently tried to rape him.
* ButtMonkey: The guy never got a break. First turned into a giant whose heart nearly stopped after the slightest physical activity. Then turned 6 inches tall and left in an abandoned bunker for 30 years fighting off ants. And then squished under a rocking chair.
* CaptainErsatz: Of [[ComicBook/AntMan Dr. Hank Pym/Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/Yellowjacket.]] Thoroughly lampshaded when Brock says he reminds him of a Marvel hero and Entmann's guesses ("Hawkeye?" "Sub-Mariner?") are way off.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: With a ShapeshifterModeLock at a tiny size.

* MightyGlacier: As the Humongoloid (his giant form) but he was more BlessedWithSuck if anything, considering the strain his size applied to his heart.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: When he was a giant he bore a striking resemblance to Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, including slurred speech and curly hair.
* SquareCubeLaw: References it - he nearly went into cardiac arrest from the slightest activity when he was a giant, and expresses annoyance with the "many times its own weight" description of an ant's strength.

* UndyingLoyalty: Publicly, he joined Team Venture after the Blue Morphic was infected with an alien virus that made him evil. In reality, he was one of the many things Jonas forced the Blue Morpho to give him under threat of blackmail.

The silent badass of the team, Kano was the cool, silent pilot and MadeOfIron martial artist. He is later revealed to have been Jonas, Sr.'s official OSI Bodyguard in the vein of Brock Samson. He was originally the sidekick of the Blue Morpho.

* TheBigGuy: With hands strong enough to crush a boulder, but gentle enough to crush a butterfly.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Beneath that threatening appearance, he's a GentleGiant with a big heart.
* ElectiveMute: Turns out that he isn't mute. He took a vow of silence for killing a "great man". When he first tells this to Brock and Brock asks him directly if he killed Jonas Venture, he "resumes" his vow of silence. But with the revelation he was Blue Morpho's sidekick, it's not clear as to which "great man" this was. Season 7 finally spells it out: after the original Blue Morpho died in a plane crash, Dr. Venture rebuilt him into the cyborg Venturion, but due to Jonas neglecting Venturion; his programming malfunctioned and resulted in an attack on young Rusty [[PapaWolf when he saw Malcom crying, forcing Kano to subdue his former partner in crime-fighting by killing him for good.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Kato, sidekick of Radio/TheGreenHornet. Made even clearer in season 6 when it's revealed that he started as the sidekick of the Blue Morpho, himself an Expy of the Green Hornet.
** He also shares a number of characteristics with [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob]], i.e. Asian, [[MadeOfIron really tough]], [[TheVoiceless doesn't talk]].
* GentleGiant: Despite his imposing appearance, he's clearly a sensitive soul, being very gentle and protective of his friends and having hobbies in cooking and karaoke. He seems to have been the primary caretaker of Rusty and was a borderline TeamMom.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His vow of silence is because he is consumed with grief and guilt over having to MercyKill his best friend Blue Morpho/Venturion when the cyborg had a psychotic episode and nearly killed Rusty.
* NiceGuy: By far the nicest, well-balanced, and least sociopathic member of the original Team Venture (other than Otto Aquarius, but he can be a bible-thumping prick at times too).
* TeamMom: The role he played to the rest of Team Venture. He and [[TeamDad Colonel Gentleman]] did more to raise and care for Rusty than Jonas ever did.
* TheStoic: Has all of the mannerisms to go with the silence. ''Beneath'' the vow of silence, it's subverted, as he's actually a pretty goofy guy.