History Characters / TheVentureBrosVentureAllies

* KarmaHoudini: He basically destroyed Billy's life, first ruining his reputation as a Quizboy by cheating for him, then losing both the money that Billy had been saving for college and the boy's hand by accidentally entering him in a dogfighting ring. After Billy's failed mission with the O.S.I., Brock brings him, memory wiped, into Pete's care. Over the years since, Billy has been the only competent member of their duo and, whenever Billy regains his memory, Pete takes him to have his memory wiped once again. Pete has basically avoided all consequences for his actions. It's really no wonder that Zero introduced Billy as "under the villain Pete White".

* HahvahdYahdInMyCah: Speaks with a New England accent.

* MagicalEye: One that allows him to track and hunt Blaculas.

* {{Leitmotif}}: This plays whenever he's in extra LargeHam mode, which is quite often.

* LargeHam: He cannot ''stop'' being a ham.

* InsistentTerminology: Orpheus habitually refers to Rusty as "Mr. Venture" rather than "Dr. Venture." (Of course, Rusty's actual credentials as a doctor are dubious at best.)

* GothGirlsKnowMagic: She's the Goth girl daughter of a necromancer and studying magic with her mother, who's also an accomplished sorceress.

* 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.

* 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.

[[folder:Professor Richard Impossible]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/StephenColbert (Seasons 1, 2 and 6), Creator/BillHader (Season 4), Peter [=McCulloch=] (The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay)
->''(When asked by Sally about what's more important than family) "Sciiiennnceee?"''
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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 became a supervillain and part of Phantom Limb's Revenge Society until it was dissolved after the destruction of Gargantua-2.

* 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, it's later revealed that he is a former army vet and has a ton of practical skills such as the ability to drive a tank.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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, and aside from a mention or two, is ''completely absent'' in season six. His (and the Triad's) return in the season 7 premiere reveals they had been living in a motel ever since the Venture Compound burned down during "All This and Gargantua-2", though now they plan to buy a brownstone in Manhattan. One with a "Doctor Strange window".[[note]]The very real First Warsaw Congregation synagogue in the Lower East Side.[[/note]]

* 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, lingam, ummm, craves theeee stamen-like skills of the yoni. This is quite natural.
** (Note: he is so embarrassed by the subject that he gets his biology exactly wrong: the lingam is the human equivalent of the stamen, the yoni of the pistil. 'Lingam' and 'yoni' are not so much antiquated as exotic, being the Sanskrit terms that might be familiar to Orpheus from tantric writings or other subcontinental works.)

* 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 lest 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 prominently 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:

* BreakTheHaughty[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: In "Twenty Years to Midnight" he is turned into a flag by Team Venture his wife leaves him and the next time we see him he's crossed the DespairEventHorizon but his humiliation wasn't over because then his repeated attempts at suicide failed publicly.

* InsufferableGenius[=/=]SmugSuper: As a Reed Richards parody, he takes all of Reed's faults and turns them up to eleven.

* VillainDecay: Starts as a [[KnightOfCerebus pretty intimidating presence]] but after his TraumaCongaLine and Creator/StephenColbert [[TheOtherDarrin being replaced by]] Creator/BillHader he became about as ineffective as the shows other villains [[spoiler:Thankfully then [[EvilMentor Henry Killinger]] showed up.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After Sally leaves him.