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* {{Expy}}: A very blatant one of [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Doctor Doom]], with The Monarch even making the comparison. This makes his team-up with [[TheFantasticFaux Prof. Impossible]] in the Revenge Society especially amusing--Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic also become allies in the Future Foundation for a time.
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* BatmanParody: Despite his superpowers and colorful costume, he has many parallels with the Dark Knight: he has a British butler, a young sidekick with different boys in the role, one of his sidekicks dying really traumatizes him, a stately manor with an underground lair, and he's [[ActorAllusion voiced by]] Creator/KevinConroy. Even his (deceased) nemesis, Clue Clown, is PracticallyJoker with a bit of ComicBook/TheRiddler thrown in for good measure. The MistakenForPedophile aspects of his focus episode also reflect ''Seduction of the Innocent'', the real-life book whose accusations of that nature against Batman contributed to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.
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* BatmanParody: Despite his superpowers and colorful costume, he has many parallels with the Dark Knight: he has a British butler, a young sidekick with different boys in the role, one of his sidekicks dying really traumatizes him, a stately manor with an underground lair, and he's [[ActorAllusion voiced by]] Creator/KevinConroy. Even his (deceased) nemesis, Clue Clown, is PracticallyJoker with a bit of ComicBook/TheRiddler thrown in for good measure. The MistakenForPedophile aspects of his focus episode also reflect ''Seduction of the Innocent'', the real-life book whose accusations of that nature against Batman contributed to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.MediaNotes/TheComicsCode.
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[[center: [-[[Characters/TheVentureBrothers Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTeamVenture Team Venture]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersOSI The OSI]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersVentureAllies Venture Allies]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheMonarchAndCohorts The Monarch And Cohorts]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild The Guild of Calamitous Intent]] | '''Others''']]-]
Characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. This page is for all remaining characters who do not neatly fit into one of the other sub-pages.
!!Due to the sheer number of [[WalkingSpoiler Walking]] and {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s (including some characters' placement and, in a few cases, their very ''name''), '''[[Administrivia/SpoilersOff Spoilers Are Off]]''' for these pages. You have been warned.
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!The Revenge Society
[[folder:The Revenge Society as a Whole]]
!!The Revenge Society as a Whole
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[[caption-width-right:500:Members pictured L-R: Phantom Limb, Fat Chance, Baron Ünderbheit, Prof. Impossible, Radical Left]]
A group for "disenfranchised" supervillains formed by Phantom Limb during his opposition to the Guild of Calamitious Intent. Originally Limb (in his "Revenge" persona) and a collection of inanimate objects, he expands it to include other villains after regaining his sanity.
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* CarnivalOfKillers:
** Parodied in the "group's" first appearance as Phantom Limb (then as the deranged "Revenge") introduces his team members in this fashion, despite the fact that they're inanimate objects (a coffee mug, a shoe, and a toaster).
** Played straight at the beginning of "All This and Gargantua-2" where they get a ReestablishingCharacterMoment after having worked with Dr. Killinger, being reintroduced (and in the case of the new members, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment properly introduced]]) while showing off the new abilities they've learned.
* TheHeist: They plan to pull one on Gargantua-2 and are actually pretty effective in pulling it off. However, it's a front Phantom Limb is using to ''destroy'' the station with the backing of the Sovereign after being promised a Guild Council seat. The Sovereign betrays Limb and most of the Revenge Society ends up dead, missing, or leaving.
* StartMyOwn: The group is specifically started by Phantom Limb as a rival/opposition to the Guild.
* VillainTeamUp: Specifically for "disenfranchised" supervillains in opposition to the Guild of the Calamitous Intent.
* WeirdTradeUnion: Formed as a rival group to the Guild touting less of the Guild's [[ObstructiveBureaucrat complex bureaucracy]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phantom Limb]]
->See his entry on the [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild Guild of Calamitous Intent]] page.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Prof. Impossible]]
->See his entry on the [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersVentureAllies Venture Allies]] page.
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[[folder:Baron Ünderbheit]]
!!Baron Werner Ünderbheit
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TRiderSmith
->''"[[SarcasmMode As usual, your detective skills are impeccable, Samson. You succeeded in exposing my sinister plan to lock myself in a dungeon, chained to an albino.]]"''
Dr. Venture's "other" ArchEnemy, Baron Werner Ünderbheit is the tyrannical ruler of Ünderland (pronounced oon-derland) who lost his jaw back in college. He blames Rusty for this, although it was actually the result of The Monarch's first attempt to kill Rusty. Ousted as ruler in season two, he joined as the muscle for the Revenge Society.
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* ArchEnemy: Considers himself Dr. Venture's arch-enemy, but The Monarch completely eclipsed him during the show's run. In the earlier seasons, Rusty acknowledged Ünderbheit more as a proper nemesis, since Rusty recognizes why Ünderbheit has it in for him (even suggesting he was responsible for what happened to his jaw through negligence), while he has no idea why The Monarch has such a vendetta.
* BadBoss:
** He's very fond of executing his subordinates. One of his henchmen even mentions that after their mandatory military service, all former soldiers are executed.
** He also immediately assumes that the Revenge Society want him to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten kill Manservant]] in order to join. After he does so, the mortificed other Society members point out they just wanted him to sign a contract.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite being set up as a much more intimidating ArchEnemy to Dr. Venture in comparison to the Monarch, this is what Ünderbheit ended up being. His attempts at revenge reach nowhere ''near'' the level of persistence and determination as those of the Monarch and, after he's dethroned, he's reduced to being the bumbling muscle for the Revenge Society.
* TheBluebeard: Has killed his ''seven'' former wives.
* TheBrute: For the Revenge Society, being their largest and most physically imposing member. Unlike most of the others, he has no real superpowers (though does learn how to launch his metal jaw as a sort of BattleBoomerang by "All This and Gargantua-2").
* TheBusCameBack: Season two's "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. He returns in season four, as a fitting founding member of the Revenge Society.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subverted. He disappeared after season two, and then twenty-nine episodes later, he makes a couple of cameos and becomes a member of the Revenge Society not soon after.
* TheCaligula: He has plenty of delusional, overly aggressive traits as ruler of Ünderland. He tries (and fails) to execute a trio traiterous associates with a "Tiger Balm" stunt (giving them little tins of Tiger-brand lip balm and then having actual tigers with bombs strapped to them attack) and it's mentioned that all of his soldiers are executed once they turn 38.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Both sounds like and bears a strong resemblance to Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, although he's not an example of TheAhnold. The physical resemblance is even more obvious in flashbacks to his college years, where he's a dead ringer for Arnie during his "Mr. Universe" career phase.
* EvilOverlord: As the villianous ruler [[{{Uberwald}} Ünderland]] until his deposition in season two.
* {{Expy}}: A very blatant one of [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Doctor Doom]], with The Monarch even making the comparison. This makes his team-up with [[TheFantasticFaux Prof. Impossible]] in the Revenge Society especially amusing--Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic also become allies in the Future Foundation for a time.
* FlatCharacter: He's a rather generic EvilOverlord and the show ''knows'' it. It's even acknowledged during his time in the Revenge Society where, while training under Killinger, he shows off his [[BattleBoomerang prosthetic jaw launching trick]] but Killinger asks what else he can do, only for Ünderbheit to grimace as he realizes that's all he's got. Killinger doesn't even explain what changed about him through his training like the others and instead simply calls his name.
* FreakLabAccident: Lost his jaw in college during an explosion he blames on Rusty, but was really the Monarch trying to kill Rusty.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He made gay marriage illegal in Ünderland and [[SweetOnPollyOliver mistakenly marries Dean Venture]] in "Love Bheits", leading to his arrest and overthrow.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Underbheit anticipated this in the re-introduction in season four, [[NeckSnap providing an immediate demonstration]] by killing Manservant. Turns out he was WrongGenreSavvy and LeeroyJenkins about it, they only wanted him to sign a contract.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's by far the largest person seen in Ünderland and rules it as an EvilOverlord. Subverted when he joins the Revenge Society, as he's the largest and most muscular member, but is reduced to being TheBrute instead.
* KnightOfCerebus: From his early appearances and the promotion of him in the show's first opening, it appears that the original plan for Ünderbheit was that he would act as Rusty's "real", serious ArchEnemy while the Monarch would remain an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. However, the writers quickly found Ünderbheit too one-dimensional to fill that role.
* PutOnABus: He gets overthrown and exhiled in season two's "Love Bheits", then doesn't appear again for 28 episodes until season four's "Pomp and Circuitry".
* RedRightHand: Has a prosthetic metal jaw as the result of an apparent FreakLabAccident in college.
* SpikesOfVillainy: He's a overtly villainous EvilOverlord and has spikes on his costume. He gets even ''more'' spikes on his Revenge Society uniform as of "All This and Gargantua-2".
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Tries to marry the captive Dean Venture (who is dressed as [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]] for a Halloween party), mistaking him for a girl. This ultimately results in his overthrow, as he made gay marriage illegal in Ünderland and is arrested, then exiled, for the crime.
* {{Uberwald}}: Rules his kingdom of Ünderland with an iron fist. It is always dark when shown, mentions are usually accompanied by a wolf howl, and it has mandatory conscription for all citizens until the age of 37 ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after which they are executed]]).
* UncertainDoom: 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 Fat Chance's [[CoolGate enigma hole]], but Ünderbheit is not with them. The 2018 ''Go Team Venture'' artbook suggests that he was able to escape back to Ünderland through Fat Chance's enigma hole.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Under his rule, all citizens of Ünderland are executed at age 37 as they've become too old to properly serve.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fat Chance]]
!!Fat Chance
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JacksonPublick
->''"Before you make your weightist judgements, I got this way due to a botched scientific experiment."''
A New York-based supervillain recruited into the Revenge Society, Fat Chance became morbidly obese and acquired an "Enigma Hole" in his navel that serves as a portal to another dimension from which he can pull random (and occasionally useful) items.
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* BrooklynRage: He's a quick-tempered, New York-based supervillain with the requisite accent.
* CoolGate: His "Enigma Hole" is a portal to another dimension located in his belly button. He has no control over what he pulls out (though later learns to harness this power under Dr. Killinger) and it can be used in reverse - going through it to enter another dimension.
* CaptainErsatz: Possibly one to Chunk, a supporting character of ComicBook/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 ''Venture Bros'' reference...
* FatBastard: He's a morbidly obese supervillain who joins the Revenge Society.
* FreakLabAccident: Claims that this is how he both became obese and got his "Enigma Hole" during his interview with the Revenge Society. Immediately Lampshaded when Phantom Limb, Prof. Impossible, and Baron Ünderbheit show off their own powers/disfigurements from the same types of accidents.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Uses his name to create these. The other characters are typically unamused.
* RandomEffectSpell: What he pulls out of his Enigma Hole is completely random, ranging from "half a Roman Legion" to a Music/BeachBoys CD. After some work with Dr. Killinger, he learns to control what he pulls out.
* TookALevelInBadass: With a little training from Dr. Killinger, he overcomes the randomness that comes with his Enigma Hole, being able to pull out specific items while also using it as a CoolGate for others to travel through.
* UncertainDoom: In "All This and Gargantua-2", he is last seen lying unconscious in the self-destructing space station. Phantom Limb and Radical Left use his Enigma Hole to escape, but it's unknown if Fat Chance escaped or not.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: He's a morbidly obese guy who has the power to grab items from a portal to another dimension in his belly button. What comes out is entirely random, which leads to the other supervillains pullin stuff out of him in an attempt to find something remotely useful to kill Dr. Venture with. As it turns out, the power also works the other way, allowing Venture to escape and, later, Phantom Limb and Radical Left to escape an exploding Gargantua-2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radical Left]]
->See his entry on the [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild Guild of Calamitous Intent]] page.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lyndon-Bee and Lady-Hawk Johnson]]
!!Lyndon-Bee and Lady-Hawk Johnson
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=] (Lyndon-Bee) and Mia Barron (Lady-Hawk)
->''"You will not seek nor will I accept your escape."''
A pair of married supervillains who were inducted into the Revenge Society alongside Fat Chance. He is cursed to transform into a bee during the day while she is cursed to transform into a hawk at night.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: In their human forms, they each dress as the animals they transform into. Lyndon-Bee has a black and yellow striped tie with fake antennae while Lady-Hawk wears a set of wings.
* {{Expy}}: Their powers (and her name) are taken from ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}''.
* ForcedTransformation: He transforms into a bee during the day while she turns into a hawk at night, and "never the twain shall meet".
* NighttimeTransformation: She's a woman in the day and a hawk at night, while he is a bee in the day and a human at night. They are cursed to never both be human at the same time.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Their physical appearances and voices are based on former U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson Lyndon B. Johnson]] and First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They're present in "Bright Lights, Dean City" when the Revenge Society descends upon Dr. Venture, but are gone by the time of "All This and Gargantua-2" with no explanation.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zero]]
!!Scott Hall (Henchman 1, Henchman 0, Zero)
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[[caption-width-right:672:L-R As Monarch Henchman #1, Henchman 0, Zero]]
->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
->''"I hench for no man."''
A by-the-book henchman who started out working for the Monarch in stark contrast to #21 and #24. Following his apparent death, he strikes out on his own as the centurion-themed "Henchman 0" and kidnaps a bunch of sidekicks/henchmen that he forces to fight to the death. After another apparent death, he joins the Revenge Society as the villain "Zero".
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* AncientGrome: As Henchman 0, he appears to serve the Greek god Zeus while themed as a Roman centurion.
* AndThisIsFor: 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 [[KilledMidSentence kill him mid-sentence]] (for real this time) via NeckSnap.
* BackForTheDead: Re-appears after his second apparent death as a new member of the Revenge Society in "All This And Gargantua 2", only to finally have his neck snapped by Brock. If that alone didn't kill him, the exploding Gargantua-2 certainly did.
* TheCaligula: He makes sidekicks and henchment fight to the death for next to no reason other than as penitence and for his amusement.
* TheComicallySerious: His stern hyper-professionalism definitely makes him this in the show's universe - especially since "professionalism" and "actual skill" don't always go together.
* EvilCounterpart: To 21. Both were Monarch henchmen changed after a major event (near-death by Brock Samson and 24 dying) who each TookALevelInBadass. However, while 21 was largely unmotivated before, Zero was already motivated. Whereas 21 has avoided becoming a villain on his own but is slowly growing into one, Zero immediately became one. Whereas 21 is fully willing to rely on dirty tactics when the situation calls for it, Zero fights with honor.
* GenreBlindness: Falls into all of the old henchman cliches in his first appearance. He's mocked mercilessly by #21 and #24 for it and appears to be killed by episode's end. (He survives.)
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: After being mocked and left for dead by #21 and #24, he gains a severe and specific vendetta against villainous lieutenants and sidekicks who think they're any better than a typical henchman.
* KilledMidSentence: He's in the middle of giving Brock a AndThisIsFor speech prior to shooting him when Hank busts in, causing a distraction, and allowing Brock to kill Zero via NeckSnap.
* KnightTemplar: His scheme with Zeus is revenge on what he believes to be the problem with superheroes and villains - not caring about their henchmen/sidekicks.
* TheManBehindTheMan: "Zeus" is actually just an OldSuperhero dressed in a Greek god getup. Zero is the real brains behind the "kidnapping henchmen/sidekicks and making them fight to the death" scheme.
* MauveShirt: Starts as an exploration of the classic {{Mook}}, falling into all of the usual cliches and apparently dying at episode's end. He survives and makes two more appearances, first as his own villain and then as a member of the Revenge Society.
* MeaningfulName: His name Zero is because he used to be a henchman. It's how 21 guesses his secret identity.
* {{Mook|s}}: Deconstructed. He is a villain's henchman who falls into all of the classic cliches that typically lead to henchmen dying, while {{Mauve Shirt}}s 21 and 24 discuss the whole thing. Even when he tries to invoke NominalImportance, they explain it away as his "inevitable death" will now be "pathos".
* MyHeroZero: Serves not only as of the episode BigBad in "Any Which Way But Zeus", but he turns out to be Scott Hall/Henchman #1, a henchman thought killed in "The Lepidopterists". While he may not be a hero, he 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: How Brock kills him in "All This and Gargantua-2", through the bars of a holding cell door.
* NeverFoundTheBody:
** In his debut episode "The Lepidopterists", having thought to have suffered "death by Samson". 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 ''All This and Gargantua-2'' when he is revealed to have survived ''once again'' and has joined the Revenge Society. Subverted when he dies for good via NeckSnap, with his body left aboard the exploding space station.
* NominalImportance: A Deconstruction of this trope in his debut appearance. While 21 and 24 mock him for falling into all of the classic henchmen cliches, he frustratedly calls out "Scott Hall! My name is Scott Hall!" in an attempt to invoke this trope. They scoff and retort that his "inevitable death" will now be "pathos".
* OnlyMostlyDead:
** In his debut episode "The Lepidopterists", he apparently suffers a "death by Samson", who is not exactly known for leaving survivors. Somehow, he survives, escapes Spider-Skull Island, and then returns as Henchman 0.
** At the end of "Any Which Way But Zeus", after orchestrating the kidnapping and fighting to the death of numerous sidekicks/henchmen, he is apparently killed by his escaping captives. Somehow, he survives yet again and joins the Revenge Society.
** Finally averted in "All This and Gargantua-2", when he is finally KilledOffForReal via NeckSnap by Brock. Even if that somehow didn't kill him, the exploding eponymous space station surely did.
* StopHavingFunGuys: [[invoked]] To {{Mauve Shirt}}s #21 and #24 who normally screw armor and even openly discuss their PlotArmor. It makes Zero mad in his debut episode and leads him down a path to becoming a villain himself, with particular contempt for henchmen, thereafter.
* ThatManIsDead: Says it word-for-word when called "Henchman 0" when it's revealed that he is Zero.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: He is seriously pissed off at heroes/villains who disregard the lives of their sidekicks/henchmen. As Henchman 0, he kidnaps a bunch of them and forces them to fight to their deaths in penance and for his amusement.
* WrongGenreSavvy: After his return, he shifts into thinking the world is a lot more serious and he's a lot more important than he actually is. After being thwarted initially in "Any Which Way But Zeus", he is finally KilledOffForReal in "All This and Gargantua-2".
* YouBastard: Gives this to #21 when the latter deduces his identity in "Any Which Way But Zeus".
[[/folder]]
!The Fraternity of Torment
[[folder:The Fraternity as a Whole]]
!!The Fraternity of Torment
A group of supervillain enemies to the original Team Venture.
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* TheArtifact: The group apparently still exists, as they hold a small sliver of the "Share of Villainy" market according to a Guild presentation, but their original members are all dead or retired.
* BullyingTheDisabled: Their team-up was in response to the "cruel society that once mocked us for our differences", as each has physical deformities. When Jonas Venture Sr. goes undercover in the Fraternity, he pretends to have a "supernumerary nipple" as his "deformity".
* FailedASpotCheck: The entire group failed to see through Jonas Sr.'s PaperThinDisguse as the Japanese supervillain "Dr. Fangdragon". Scaramantula even calls out his obvious non-Japanese traits like being 6'2" and hirsute without realizing it.
* LegionOfDoom: They are a VillainTeamUp wishing to "wreak revenge" on the "cruel society" who mocked them for being deformed and each are adversaries of the original Team Venture.
* RoguesGallery: Essentially a VillainTeamUp of Rogue's Gallery enemies of the original Team Venture.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scaramantula]]
!!Scaramantula
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TobyHuss
An elderly Italian retired supervillain who was a former archenemy of the original Team Venture. In his retirement, he's become pretty mellow and well-adjusted by the standards of the show.
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* AffablyEvil: Very much so. The only reason he even offers to aid Brainulo in his revenge is that he hates how cheesy the museum pieces have made the decor of his former lair, and even then his revenge amounts to nothing more than some harmless [[TheGadfly trolling]]. He even gets sentimental when reminded of the time Jonas beat him in a swordfight on top of the Venture compound.
* AnimalMotifs: Spiders. He has eight fingers on his right hand like the legs of an arachnid and had his face tattooed to look like a spider, with his eyebrows and mustache forming four of the eight legs.
* CoolOldGuy: Very spry and fit for his age, delightedly taking the stairs two at a time while his old foes lag behind. He also comes across as very friendly, polite, and earnestly enjoys signing autographs and talking to his old fans.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain Scaramanga from ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' with added spider-theming.
* PokeThePoodle: Unlike Brainulo he doesn't seem to hold any serious grudges against Team Venture, and his only form of "vengeance" is deliberately ''annoying'' them by attracting a longer line of fans seeking autographs than them.
* PunnyName: "Scare" and "Tarantula". He's a villain (scary) with a spider-theme. It is also a play on ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain Scaramanga.
* RedRightHand: He has a hairy, eight-fingered right hand that looks a bit like a tarantula.
* ShoutOut: His lair is based on that of Ernst Stravro Blofeld in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Attempted to kill Rusty by dropping him in a pool full of piranhas. (He was rescued by the original Team Venture.)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brainulo]]
!!Brainulo
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A villain with psychic abilities from 1,000 years in the future, he was trapped in 1969 by Jonas Venture Sr. Now elderly and (apparently) senile, he seeks vengeance against the original Team Venture.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: His last-ditch attempt to cause havoc at J.J's museum fails because he failed to take into account the idea that his robot was either gutted of its internal mechanics to prevent it from going on a rampage in a public museum or simply didn't work after being left alone for almost half a century.
* {{Expy}}: Most closely of [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hector Hammond]], with his withered body, enormous head, and psi-powers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: From the year 3000, until Jonas Sr. [[NoodleIncident somehow trapped him in the past]]. Brainulo harbors a serious grudge over this.
* MyBrainIsBig: Though it's not entirely clear if it's because of the genuine size of his brain or if it's cybernetics given the nodes on his head. In either case, he possesses psychic powers including the ability to read minds and control his robot psychically.
* ObfuscatingDisability: He pretends to be senile to make people underestimate him. Subverted when he fries his brain when trying to control his old robot and ''actually'' becomes senile.
* PsychicPowers: His [[AmbiguousSituation brain or his cybernetics]] grant him these. He reads the mind of the other party guests in an attempt to sew chaos and can control his robot with his mind.
* {{Technopath}}: He can (or could previously) control his giant robot, Futuro, with his mind.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Mighty Manotaur]]
!!The Mighty Manotaur
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A large, muscular, bull-themed supervillain.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was ostracized due to his size, leading to him joining the Fraternity of Torment.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: A villain with SuperStrength and bull-theming.
* TheBrute: As the Fraternity's largest and most physically powerful member.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: While he is a large, muscular, formidable opponent to begin with, his SuperStrength apparently comes from his bull cowl as Phantom Limb made a point to ensure he couldn't get it during his misaimed revenge trip.
* MistakenIdentity: When he gets caught trying to seduce Dr. Girlfriend away from Phantom Limb, the Monarch quickly calls himself "The Mighty Manotaur" as a cover identity, apparently unaware that there was once a real villain by that name. Years later, during Phantom Limb's SanitySlippage, he finds and kills the real Mighty Manotaur in misguided revenge.
* SuperStrength: Which he used to be the Fraternity's muscle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: On two levels:
** He barely even gets a sentence of dialogue before he's killed by Phantom Limb in a case of MistakenIdentity at the end of "Shadowman 9".
** During the {{Flashback}} opening in "Now Museum, Now You Don't", he doesn't speak while at the Fraternity of Torment table and is immediately taken out of the fight against Team Venture by Kano's fire breath, causing him to plunge into the pool.
[[/folder]]
!Crusaders Action League
[[folder:Crusaders Action League as a Whole]]
!!Crusaders Action League
The resident superhero team of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
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* AvengersAssemble: Have their own phrase for this: "Crusaders, Convene!"
* BigApplesauce: Based in New York City, they apparently only operate there. They run into some JurisdictionFriction with the O.S.I. who are protecting Dr. Venture when he moves into [=VenTech=] Tower.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', complete with a couple of {{Captain Ersatz}}es of Creator/MarvelComics characters and an AvengersAssemble catchphrase, though Warriana is more closely based on Creator/DCComics[='=] ComicBook/WonderWoman.
* HeroesRUs: The C.A.L. is a ''business'', afterall, with multiple tiers and packages. They normally reserve their services for "paying customers only", though will make an exception to do something like save a minor or get back at a hated villain.
* InterServiceRivalry: They aren't particularly fond of the O.S.I., despite both organizations being heroic protection services in nature. Warriana chews out Stars and Garters when the learn Dr. Venture already has O.S.I. protection when they arrive to pitch their services.
* SuperTeam: Naturally, as a team of superheroes in the vein of The Avengers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stars and Garters]]
!!Stars and Garters (Tosh Thompkins)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarkGagliardi
The leader of the team, a patriotic superhero with a shield who wears garterbelts. His civilian identity is Tosh Tompkins, a professor at Stuyvesant University and otherwise rival to Jared (Brown Widow).
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* AlasPoorVillain: He visits the comotase Think Tank in the hospital and plays guitar for him after being told music helps in the healing process. Given that Warriana has apparently battled Think Tank in the past, it can be presumed Stars and Garters was one of the "jock" nemeses Think Tank mentions.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Aside from the fact that his hero outfit includes a garter-belt and stockings, in "The High Cost of Loathing", he is caught by Hank doing a tearful serenade to the comatose Think Tank by his hospital bed with an acoustic guitar.
* CaptainErsatz: In civilian mode of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''[='s=] Flash Thompson, both jocks who bully nerdy, spider-themed heroes (Flash to Spider-Man, Tosh to Brown Widow) with very similar names.
* CaptainPatriotic: A patriotic-themed superhero who carries a shield, just like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
* {{Crossdresser}}: His superhero constume is very feminine, including frilly garters, stockings, and high-heeled boots.
* JerkJock: How he treats Brown Widow while in his civilian identity, teasing him and throwing things at him.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Only performs superheroics for "paying customers", as he has to remind Warriana when she moves to save Hank. He still joins in the fight against Brock, playing it off as "pro bono" heroism for good PR.
* PetTheDog: He's a SmugSuper in costume and a JerkJock in civvies, but Stars and Garters is the only person we see visiting Think Tank in the hospital and is even crying about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Warriana]]
!!Warriana (Alexis Warrington)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KateMcKinnon
A man-hating Amazon superhero who develops a relationship with Brock. Her civilian identity is Alexis Warrington, host of a current affairs television show in New York City.
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* AffectionateNickname: She refers to Brock as "[[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMortalsAndDemigods Heracles]]". It's derisive at first but becomes affectionate once they start dating.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Given that she's both a figurative and literal Amazon, and Brock Samson is her type. At several points, she references the TropeNamer directly by ''literally'' referring to him as Heracles (the Greek version of Hercules).
* AmazonianBeauty: Even though she's tall, muscular, and seems to have one of her breasts cut off, Brock is still crazy about her.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Molotov's Veronica, though it seems that they will probably never be in direct competition and it's all but stated that Brock has chosen Alexis.
* CasualKink: She's rather open about being into BDSM given she was willing to use her lasso to get Brock to admit to her he enjoyed the "butt stuff" from their first time.
* ChariotPulledByCats: Flies around in an invisible chariot, apparently pulled by invisible horses.
* ClarkKenting: Her civilian persona is a mild-mannered, nasally-voiced, bespectacled journalist. She also appears to wear a prosthetic (at least on-air) to hide the fact that she only has one breast.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Is an admitted man-hater, using "rape-on" instead of "hard-on", and is constantly mocking and teasing the RatedMForManly Brock in their first interactions, especially during his "pissing testosterone" showdown with Haranguetan. This leads to some HypocriticalHumor as she is quick to display some of these toxic masculine behaviors herself, and ultimately [[AllAmazonsWantHercules gets into a relationship with Brock]].
* {{Foil}}: To Molotov Cocktease. Both are strong, independent women who are [[ActionGirl incredible fighters]], absolutely deadly to mess with, and have a romantic relationship with Brock Sampson. However, they differ in many ways. Molotov is a mercenary/secret agent that works covertly and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney does her job for a paycheck]]. Alexis has a normal job in the limelight where thousands of people see her every day and the same goes for her Warriana guise that she uses to help people because GoodFeelsGood. Molotov is [[WaifFu slim]], [[SheFu agile]], and [[CombatPragmatist tricky in a fight]] while making up for her lack of brawn by fighting dirty and using any weapon she can get her hands on. Alexis is a StatuesqueStunner and an AmazonianBeauty with SuperStrength who only relies on a few weapons and primarily uses [[GoodOldFisticuffs her fists]] while having a straightforward fighting style. Molotov is TheTease with Brock and often [[FemmeFatale manipulates him using guile and her feminine wiles to get him to do what she wants]] and while she often gets into combat with Brock has never truly gotten close to him as she only cares about Brock the secret agent, not Brock Sampson the loyal bodyguard and member of the Venture family and they have never consummated their relationship. Alexis and Brock clash initially as serious BelligerentSexualTension while arguing and mocking each other. Yet later, Alexis respects Brock as a man and doesn't mind meeting him on or off the job and seems to prefer Brock the man to Brock the secret agent. Unlike Molotov, Brock chased her and shared his honest feeling with her which resulted in [[TheirFirstTime a lot of sex]]. [[SexGoddess Very good sex]].
* HandicappedBadass: Appears to have only one breast. A case of ShownTheirWork on the writers' part, as the original myth of the Amazon warriors claimed they would cut off their right breasts, as they were thought to interfere with the use of a spear or bow and arrow.
* HypocriticalHumor: While quick to decry stereotypical toxic masculine behaviors, she exhibits more than a few of them herself. She scoffs at Brock and Haranguetan "pissing testosterone" at each other, only to start clashing egos with Brock as well. She later has sex with him while he's intoxicated with [[MindControl God Gas]], then acts dismissive the morning after, leaving him to endure the WalkOfShame out of her apartment; she apologizes by claiming work is stressing her out, then goes after Think Tank for "messin' with my man".
* KnowsTheRopes: Wields a golden "Truth Lasso" as both a weapon and interrogation device.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She's a parody in part of Creator/AriannaHuffington, a Greek-American journalist and founder of the Huffington Post--hence her civilian identity, name, and Greek origins.
* ShownTheirWork: Warriana only having one breast may seem like another odd physical quirk like so many others have in the Venture-verse, but it actually comes from an ancient Greek misconception/mistranslation that the mythological Amazons cut off their right breast to better use a spear/bow. It's a very obscure detail but given how often the show draws on Myth/ClassicalMythology, it's not really surprising that they included it.
* SuperStrength: She's superhumanly strong, able to lift even the 7'0" tall Brock with ease.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She becomes aggressively protective of Brock after starting a relationship with him. She even helped him defeat the supervillain, Think Tank, because he was fighting Brock.
* WonderWomanWannabe: She's an obvious parody of ComicBook/WonderWoman from her invisible chariot to her lasso. Though Warriana seems to be more an ancient idea of an Amazon than the modern idea embodied by Wonder Woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fallen Archer]]
!!Fallen Archer
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->'''Voiced by''': Larry Murphy
An archer-themed superhero whose arrows have human feet on them instead of arrowheads.
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* ArcherArchetype: He's a mostly stoic archer-themed superhero based on the ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' version of ComicBook/GreenArrow.
* CaptainErsatz: Of ComicBook/GreenArrow and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} (themselves {{Alternate Company Equivalent}}s), being an archer-themed superhero. His facial structure, voice, and mannerisms are based on the former (particularly the Creator/StephenAmell version in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'') while his purple costume and membership in an Avengers-like group are drawn from classic depictions of the latter.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He fires arrows with feet on them instead of pointed tips. They seem to bludgeon those they hit and are capable of "hopping" back to him once fired.
* LivingWeapon: His arrows appear to be this, given that the feet are fully functional and capable of hopping their way back to him under their own power
* MeaningfulName: On two levels. First, the PunnyName level, as "fallen arch syndrom" affects the feet and he fires arrows tipped with feet. Second, he's an archer shown to be TheMole for the villainous Wide Wale, meaning he's "fallen".
* TheMole: He's Wide Wale's mole in the team, providing him with information and a cut of the League's earnings.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His facial structure, voice, and mannerisms are based on Creator/StephenAmell playing ComicBook/GreenArrow in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', if Amell borrowed ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}[='s=] purple costume.
* OhCrap: After Brock breaks free of his rope TrickArrow, Fallen Archer visibly panics and drops a bunch of his arrows as he tries to knock another while Brock charges in.
* PunnyName: "Fallen arch syndrome" is a painful condition that afflicts the feet. He's an archer who fires foot-tipped arrows.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: He'll dive into a fight without a second thought, but he has very awkward mannerisms, stammering when giving the C.A.L. "[[HeroesRUs sales pitch]]" to Dr. Venture and being visibly frightened when meeting with Wide Wale.
* TrickArrow:
** Spoofed; all of his Arrow's are tipped with feet that bludgeon those struck and the only benefit seems to be that they can hop back to him after a battle.
** He also has a set connected by a rope that can tie up his target.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Night Dick]]
!!Night Dick (Richard Knight)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JamesAdomian
A murdered cop turned biker-themed superhero after being resurrected through unknown means. Everyone laughs at his heroic name.
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* AtrociousAlias: He seems to be the only one who doesn't realize how stupid his name sounds.
* BackFromTheDead: Was gunned down by the mob and LeftForDead before getting resurrected through unknown means and becoming a superhero.
* BadassBiker: His theme as a superhero, riding a gravity-defying CoolBike that spews flames.
* CaptainErsatz: Of ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' (A BadassBiker with a CoolBike that may or may not be demonic in origin) and ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' (An ex-cop that came back to life who wears a CoatHatMask). With a dash of Creator/DavidHasselhoff's Michael Knight from ''Series/KnightRider'' (Similar surname, both own a super-vehicle).
* CoatHatMask: Wouldn't be a proper ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' Ersatz if he wasn't wearing this outfit. A proper trenchcoat, tie, fedora, and DominoMask.
* CoolBike: Owns a pretty damn cool one at that, it not only defies gravity (which allows it to go up buildings and fly) but it's exhaust is flames.
* DominoMask: Wears one as apart of his CoatHatMask ensemble.
* HardboiledDetective: In addition to his superheroism, he works as a gruff PrivateEye, being hired by Dr. Venture to look into notorious BlackWidow, Teresa Didae. Even he can't convince Rusty that pursuing her is a terrible idea.
* LeftForDead: He was gunned down by the mob and left for dead, leading to his resurrection and subsequent superheroism.
* PunnyName: His surname is "Knight", he still works as a PrivateEye (who in most FilmNoir media work at night), and "dick" is an old-fashioned term for a detective.
* RescueIntroduction: His first appearance has him save a falling Hank while riding up the side of a skyscraper.
[[/folder]]
! The Peril Partnership
[[folder:The Peril Partnership as a Whole]]
!! The Peril Partnership (Le Partenariat Péril)
A Canadian supervillain labor group in direct competition with the Guild of Calamitous Intent with a reputation as "honorless scum".
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* CanadaEh: Based out of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, but in an inversion to the "Canadian Niceness" aspect of the trope, they're detested by the Guild and O.S.I. alike as "honorless scum".
* EnforcedColdWar: They and the Guild have held an uneasy truce for the past 60 years. However, the damage done to the Guild by the Sovereign's purge has caused the Peril Parternship to muscle in on Guild territory, particularly the RenegadeSplinterFaction led by The Creep.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: They're initially presented as ''very'' small fish in supervillainy, seen holding less than a tenth of a share of "organized villainy" in a Guild pie chart. In "Any Which Way But Zeus", Brock is incredulous that they're popular enough to have any of their members kidnapped by Zeus. By season seven, following the Sovereign's purge and subsequent Guild turmoil, they've become a much bigger player to the point that Wide Wale, a powerful mafioso in his own right, opts for paying them off instead of a head-on fight and they've been able to turn at least one Guild operative to function as TheMole.
* TheMole: They've got at least one in the Guild, Stranger S-464. The Guild makes a deal with him to become a reverse mole, but his actions ultimately lead to the Guild wiping his mind.
* NoodleIncident: Something has made the Peril Partnership anathema to the general idea of organized crime and government-sanctioned crimefighting, as both the Guild ''and'' the O.S.I. have it out for them. They're hated enough that O.S.I. Agent Kimberly [=McManus=] breaks off her affair with Guild Stranger S-464 when she saw he had a Peril Partnership belt buckle. The next time they meet, she's ready to tear him a new one for joining in with the "honorless scum".
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Peril Partnership group muscling in on Guild territory is a splinter faction led by rogue villain "The Creep", who was thrown out of the O.S.I for killing a troop of boy scouts and refused to join the Guild because he didn't like the rules and regulations. That said, the Peril Partnership as a whole doesn't seem to have a particularly good reputation to begin with.
* RunForTheBorder: Being based in Canada, they are a haven for American villains who refuse to join the Guild or who have pissed the Guild off. The Creep was a former O.S.I. member who joins the Partnership because he doesn't like the Guild's strict rules and regulations while, at the end of the FinaleMovie, Dr. Mrs. the Monarch sets up Mantilla with the Partnership to keep her safe from O.S.I./Guild prosecution.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They're a supervillain union from Canada encroaching upon New York City, whose brazen disregard for the [[ContractualGenreBlindness rules and regulations]] of the Guild sees them labeled a serious and unpredictable threat.
* ShownTheirWork: Being based in Canada, the Partnership's French name (Le Partenariat Péril) is typically shown or displayed in addition to its English name meeting Canada's bi-lingual requirements.
* SigilSpam: All members of the Peril Partnership wear a belt buckle with "PP" on it. This is how Kimberly [=McManus=] deduces that S-464 is TheMole for them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Creep]]
!!The Creep (Mission Creep)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JamesAdomian
A former O.S.I. agent turned supervillain and Peril Partnership splinter faction leader. He's an absolute lunatic and hoards stolen Guild technology.
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* AxCrazy: You'd have to be at least a little dangerously crazy to mistake a group of boy scouts for enemies and then slaughter them all. He has only experienced further SanitySlippage after, entering full on lunatic territory.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: His lair is strewn with Guild technology he's stolen, such as Maybe Man's Indifference Engine, Nat King Cobra's Venomator, Mr. Monday's Calendar of Magic Mondays, Jungle Jim's Greenhouse Ray, Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine, the Monarch's own Butter-Glider, and giant lawn darts that were banned for being safety hazards.
* ContinuityNod: His outfit, equipment, and technology laying around his lair are almost entirely from villains seen or mentioned before in the series.
** Wears one of Baron Ünderbheit's pre-Revenge Society costume pauldrons.
** Is in possession of Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine (previously seen in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean").
** Has Mr. Monday's "Calendar of Magic Mondays". Mr. Monday was a fellow inmate of the Monarch in "Powerless in the Face of Death".
** Rides around on the Monarch's Butter-Glider from "The Diving Bell vs. The Butter-Glider".
** He has Maybe Man's "Indifference Engine". Maybe man was one of the Dunwich inmates in "Momma's Boys".
** Has Tank Top's breastplate from "O.S.I. Love You".
* {{Expy}}: Shares a number of similarties with Marvel's ComicBook/{{Cable}}, including robotic eye and arm, extreme militaristic attitude, and leading a RenegadeSplinterFaction (The Creep of the Peril Partnership and Cable of the X-Men).
* FashionableAsymmetry: ''"Fashionable"'' is being generous, but his entire ensemble is made out of different kinds of clothes or armor that belonged to other characters seen or mentioned in the series.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Challenges the Monarch and 21 to a game of "Dive Bomb" using lawn darts. He is killed when one pierces his head after being distracted by future versions of Rusty and Billy stepping out of Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine.
* MeaningfulName: Before being kicked out, his name in the O.S.I. was "Mission Creep." This is the term for when an operation, whether due to SkewedPriorities or unexpected complexities, goes from an incidental issue to a long-term commitment that goes well past the original intent. The Creep took a fairly mundane guard-duty mission and escalated it to lunacy until he found himself kicked out of the O.S.I. and in the Peril Partnership.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: He uses a trident taken from [=PoseiDon=] Juan, a Poseidon-themed supervillain.
* RummageSaleReject: His outfit consists of items stolen from other villains that have no business being worn together.
* ShoutOut: Wields a trident as his main weapon, apparently taken from Poseidon-themed supervillain "[[Literature/DonJuan PoseiDon Juan]]".
* SociopathicSoldier: As an O.S.I. agent, he mistook a group of boyscouts ("They were wearing paramilitary clothing!") for enemies and slaughtered them all.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: While most of his outfit is made up from pieces taken from the costumes of other villains, his chest piece still has a (scratched out) O.S.I. logo on it.
* TalkativeLoon: It bears repeating -- ''he's an absolute lunatic'' and runs his mouth endlessly.
* TimeMachine: Has the previously-seen Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine in his possesion. It ultimately leads to his death, as he is distracted by future versions of Rusty and Billy stepping out of it while playing "Dive Bomb" and gets impaled by a dart.
* WouldHurtAChild: One of the things that [[EvenEvilHasStandards appalls even The Monarch and Gary]] is his lack of reaction to having [[KickTheDog killed a troop of boy scouts]] when he was in the O.S.I., even apparently gloating about it. Although his angrily defensive tone and TwitchyEye does imply he seriously regrets it on some level.
-->'''The Creep''': They were wearing paramilitary clothing! ''Anyone'' could have made that mistake...
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blind Rage]]
!!Blind Rage
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrendonSmall
A blind supervillain with enhanced other senses sent by the Peril Partnership to negotiate with the Guild.
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* AssholeVictim: Considering his first impression was him blackmailing the Guild and acting like a gigantic, sexist, egotistical asshat, not a lot of tears were shed when Red Death took it upon himself to ambush him, bind him to a railroad track, and give him a ToThePain-laced lecture on the simple elegance of proper villainy before leaving him to get run over by an oncoming train.
* ChainedToARailway: His fate courtesy of Red Death, who decided to kill him in this classic villain fashion to teach him a lesson.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: He's a villainous, loutish Expy of ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} with matching powers and a similar costume.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Like his inspiration, Daredevil, he's blind but "sees" via radar and has an enhanced sense of smell.
* FailedASpotCheck: He fails to recognize that the "chef" he compliments as he leaves the restaurant is actually Phantom Limb. Justified, since Phantom Limb's most noticeable feature is his invisible limbs. Blind Rage is blind so he is unable to notice this, and his Daredevil-esque "radar" would register Phantom Limb's limbs the same as it would everyone else's.
* JabbaTableManners: While meeting with members of the Guild council at Vincenzo's, he devours the appetizer they ordered while talking, spewing food chunks out of his mouth as he does.
* PetTheDog: About the only nice thing that he does is compliment the "chef" for the stuffed peppers. Subverted, since the "chef" in question is actually Phantom Limb, who was intending to eat with them.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In addition to being awful in numerous other ways, he sexually harasses Dr. Mrs. the Monarch about five times in the short meeting they have.
* ShoutOut: His civilian clothes reference Tyler Durden from ''Film/FightClub''.
* ShownTheirWork: His ChestInsignia is his initials (accurately) written in Braille.
* UncertainDoom: We don't actually know if he was hit by the train, which was Red Death's intention. Whether he gets hit or escapes, the message to the Peril Partnership about not messing with the Guild is delivered.[[note]]According to Doc Hammer in creator commentary, he survived but was crippled and would have returned in the canceled season eight during a plotline where the Monarch gets disabled henchmen at a discounted.[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tiger Shark]]
!!Tiger Shark
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->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A shark-man supervillain and representative of the Peril Partnership at the O.S.I./Guild summit.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Brock pulls this on him, having no memory of sleeping with Tiger Shark's wife and then breaking his knees.
* FishPerson: He's humanoid with shark-like features, including a fin, gray skin, and gills.
* NasalTrauma: He attempts to dive at Brock and gets his face smashed into the council table as a result, leaving his nose bloodied.
* UnknownRival: Still harbors a grudge against Brock for sleeping with his life and breaking his knees during a previous encounter. Brock has no memory of any of it.
[[/folder]]
!Residents of Ünderland
[[folder:Girl Hitler]]
!!Girl Hitler
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->'''Voiced By''': Mia Barron
A part of Baron Ünderbheit's council in Ünderland before overthrowing him and taking it over. She is a female version of Adolf Hitler and the fiancee of Catclops.
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* AdolfHitlarious: She's a hilariously incompetent female-version of Adolph Hitler.
* TheExile: Chooses to exile Baron Ünderbheit instead of executing him in order to "soften Ünderland's image".
* HeelFaceTurn: Once served Baron Ünderbheit, but then leads a resistance against him, allies with the Ventures, and overthrows him to establish a democracy.
* GirlsWithMoustaches: Has a Hitler moustache, as her name implies.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Is incredibly ineffectual at antagonizing Baron Ünderbheit until the Ventures arrive, mostly just playing childish pranks on him.
* TheStarscream: A downplayed example in that, while she usurps Baron Ünderbheit's position as leader of Ünderland, she is doing it to overthrow his tyranny and is implied to be a decent leader after.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catclops]]
!!Catclops
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->'''Voiced By''': Creator/JamesUrbaniak
A part of Baron Ünderbheit's council in Ünderland before overthrowing him. He's a vaguely military-looking guy with a cat's head in place of his eyes and is the the fiance of Girl Hitler.
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* EyepatchOfPower: The cat's head he has in place of his eyes wears a patch over one of its eyes and he's (initially) a villain who serves on Baron Ünderbheit's council then overthrows him.
* HeelFaceTurn: Once served Baron Ünderbheit, but then leads a resistance against him, allies with the Ventures, and overthrows him.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Is incredibly ineffectual at antagonizing Baron Ünderbheit until the Ventures arrive, mostly just playing childish pranks on him.
* PunnyName: He has a cat's head in place of his eyes, and one of the cat's eyes has a patch over it, making him a "Cat Cyclops".
* SoreLoser: He's miffed and jealous that Girl Hitler is picked to be the new leader of Ünderland over him, offering a weak and terse congratulations to her once he finds out.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Manic 8-Ball]]
!!Manic 8-Ball
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A part of Baron Ünderbheit's council in Ünderland before overthrowing him. He's dressed all in black with an "8" on his face and communicates only in standard "Magic 8 Ball" messages.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Once served Baron Ünderbheit, but then leads a resistance against him, allies with the Ventures, and overthrows him.
* Magic8Ball: His theme as a villain-turned-hero. He dresses all in black save for an "8" on his face and communicates in standard "Magic 8 Ball" messages via a window on his chest.
* {{Seers}}: Baron Ünderbheit uses him like one would a Magic8Ball, asking "yes or no" questions for advice.
* TheVoiceless: Cannot speak and only communicates via "Magic 8 Ball" messages in a window on his chest.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Manservant]]
!!Manservant
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->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
Baron Ünderbheit's personal slave.
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Does everything for Baron Ünderbheit while in a state of constant exasperation. Given that he's explicitly a slave, he doesn't have much choice.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Baron Ünderbheit [[WrongGenreSavvy thinks that Phantom Limb and Impossible want a demonstration of his commitment]] in order to join them, so he kills Manservant. (They really just wanted him to sign a contract.)
* KilledOffForReal: Baron Ünderbheit breaks his neck thinking it is required as an initiation to the Revenge Society. Prof. Impossible and Phantom Limb are mortified as they only wanted him to sign a contract.
* NeckSnap: How he is killed by Baron Ünderbheit.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: According to Pete White, Baron Ünderbheit made him sleep in Pete's closet [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether in college]].
[[/folder]]
!Associates and Neighbors of the Venture Family
The associates and relative neighbors of the Venture family at their compound. Ordered by the character's first apperance.
[[folder:Kim]]
!!Kim
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->'''Voiced by''': Nina Hellman
Triana's "Cybergoth" best friend who is largely apathetic to the weirdness of the Venture family and their associates.
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* ApatheticCitizens: Is not fazed in the slightest by the weirdnes of the Ventureverse, such as having no reaction to Phantom Limb's apparently missing limbs or being offered the chance to become a supervillain.
* BlindDate: Triana agrees to help her father get the Venture boys out of the house in "Victor. Echo. November." by going on a date with them. While she obviously already knows Dean, Kim is Hank's blind date.
* MistakenForSubculture: She's a UsefulNotes/CyberGoth whose colorful appearance (outfit, hair) and apathetic demeanor gets her mistaken as a supervillain by both Hank and Dr. Girlfriend. She decides just to roll with it.
* PerkyGoth: She's a UsefulNotes/CyberGoth with plentiful pink in her appearance (outfit, hair) and an apathetic, SureLetsGoWithThat type of personality that makes her some downright perky by the standards of most in the cynical, jaded Ventureverse.
* PutOnABusToHell: "Operation P.R.O.M." reveals that she fell in with the "preppies", developed a drug problem, and then became a born-again Christian who now resides in Florida.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit in "Victor. Echo. November." is pink UsefulNotes/CyberGoth, tight, shows off her ample cleavage, and [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine exposes her midriff]]. Hank and Dr. Girlfriend both mistake her for a supervillain at least in part because of it.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Her reaction to being offered membership into the Guild of Calamitous Intent. She initially thinks Dr. Girlfriend is hitting on her until Triana points out the Guild business card, which she also thinks is cool.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Venturestein]]
!!Venturestein
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A nameless Monarch killed by Brock during a raid on the Venture compound and reanimated by Dr. Venture who sells him to the military. He later defects and co-founds a nation for victims of mad science experiments.
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* BodyOfBodies: Heavily downplayed, but after being reanimated the first time, he tries to attack Brock who bashes the top of his head in. Rusty has to stitch the top of the head from another corpse onto Venturestein's, mean he has parts from two bodies.
* TheBusCameBack: Introduced in season two's "¡Viva los Muertos!", he's PutOnABus until season five's "Venture Libre", which serves a SequelEpisode to his introduction.
* ExplosiveLeash: Wears one while serving the military as a suicide bomber zombie. Removing these is one of the first things he and the other zombies do after freeing themselves.
* FrankensteinsMonster: He's actually kind of scrawny, but he's got the requisite HulkSpeak, stitched-together head, and neck bolts.
* HulkSpeak: In his second appearance. Though, unlike most examples, he is actually quite intelligent in most areas, able to perfectly understand concepts like communism, rebellion, the internet, and guerrilla warfare. It's just his verbal language skills that are lacking.
* NeckSnap: Brock initially kills him with one, twisting his head completely around 180 degress.
* OutcastRefuge: Helps to form on in South America where other victims of super-science experiments gone awry can come to live in peace.
* TechnicalPacifist: He has army training, has strength that comes with being "a Frankenstein", and leads a well-organized militia. But he tries to avoid needless violence if he can help it. He even lets Hank, Rusty, and Hatred go free when his science experiment soldiers caught them (since after all, they're technically family). In fact, his whole plan revolves around a ShamingTheMob speech toward all the scientists and their experiments of the jungle to live in harmony which, surprisingly enough, ''works!''
* TookALevelInBadass: Was mostly a dumb brute when he started. Some army training and teachings from UsefulNotes/CheGuevara made him much more formidable.
* TheUndead: A "Frankenstein" created by Dr. Venture from two dead Monarch henchmen.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Tinyfeet]]
!!Princess Tinyfeet
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-> '''Voiced By''': Sue Gilad
Sgt. Hatred's stereotypically Native American-themed wife who later divorces him.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear is she's a villain herself. She was the daughter of a superhero and is seen exclusively dating supervillains, but her alignment is never revealed or even otherwise implied.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Her attire is deliberately stereotypical, being the daughter of a Native American-themed superhero who has possibly become a supervillain.
* CasualKink: She's into some really kinky things, such as having a threesome with her husband's henchmen and sleeping with a number of villains. In "Operation P.R.O.M.", the Monarch and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch kidnap her, which is easy since she's already in bondage. She spends the rest of the episode bound and gagged, with no one commenting, and even wins prom queen.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: While her own alignment is unclear, her father was a Native American-themed superhero named Chief Justice and she is seen exclusively dating villains.
* MyGirlIsASlut: She apparently left Hatred for not being sensitive to her very kinky needs and was seen having a bizarre threesome with some of his former men. Hatred later gladly took her back and was fine with playing rough... but learns that she's already shacked up with another villain, Scorpio.
* TooKinkyToTorture: When the Monarch kidnaps her as a bargaining chip with Hatred, he and Doctor Mrs. The Monarch don't even have to tie her up; she was already in bondage. She even ASKED to be put in the trunk, according to them. It's possible this was a lie on the Monarch's part (Tinyfeet's exasperated expression supports this idea) and Tinyfeet simply couldn't object.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Spends "Operation P.R.O.M." in bondage with a ball gag in her mouth, and still manages to win Prom Queen.
* TheVoiceless: Says only one word in the entire series, in her first appearance:
--> '''Princess Tinyfeet:''' Maize.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Margaret Fictel]]
!!Margaret Fictel
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->'''Voiced by''': Lisa Hammer (season one), Kate [=McKinnon=] (all other appearances)
A gruff, older woman who works as a diner waitress and Dermott's apparent mother. Unknown to him, she's actually his grandmother.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: She is the waitress serving Dr. Orpheus as he trails the Venture boys way back in season one's "Return to Spider-Skull Island". She is shown to Dermott's "mother" in his introductory episode, season three's "The Buddy System".
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Dermott thinks she is his mother, but she's actually his grandmother. His "sister" Nikki is his actual mother, having gotten pregnant as a teenager by Rusty.
* {{Gonk}}: While not overly horrible looking to the audience, she's treated as downright repugnant in universe. Brock's response when Hank and Al ask if he's ever slept with her sums it up:
-->'''Brock''': Never been that drunk or that lonely.
* MamaBear: She was absolutely livid with Rusty for getting her daughter pregnant and made sure he paid them hush money before banning him from seeing her. She then raises her daughter's son as her own.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: She tells Dermott that his father lives at the Venture compound. Dermott (and the audience for a few seasons) believe she's talking about Brock. It turns out that Rusty is his father.
* TrashyTrailerHome: Lives in one that she shares with her daughter and grandson. She ticks many of the stereotypes of those who live in these, being older, a smoker, having trashy dyed hair, and a low-wage job.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nikki Fictel]]
!!Nikki Fictel
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[[caption-width-right:200:As seen during Hank's FilmNoir fantasy, hence the black and white.]]
->'''Voiced by''': Kate [=McKinnon=]
Dermott's "sister" who is actually his mother, having gotten pregnant by Rusty while a teenager.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Collects merchandise from the old ''[[ShowWithinAShow Rusty Venture Show]]'' and has a side business selling it online, which is how Billy Quizboy learns of her.
* CoolBigSis: The role she plays to Dermott, driving him around and getting crushed on by Dermott's friend.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Dermott thinks she is his sister, but she's actually his mother, having gotten pregnant as a teenager by Rusty.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Rusty Venture Show]]'', even being the fan club president in her teens. It winds up deconstructed with her tricking Rusty into committing statutory rape by lying about her age and committing (possible) statutory rape herself by having sex with Hank[[note]]His status as a clone makes his legal age tricky to pin down, but he's at least 16 which is the legal age of consent in some states. It just depends on where the Venture compound actually is...[[/note]] because he reminds her of the cartoon version of Rusty.
* FemmeFatale: Is introduced in this fashion during Hank's FilmNoir fantasy.
* FilleFatale: Downplayed, but she still managed to successfully seduce Rusty when she was only 15 after lying about her age, although this does mean that he's guilty of statutory rape.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: In true FemmeFatale fashion, she is actually Dermott's mother as revealed at the end of Hank's FilmNoir "investigation" in "Everybody Come to Hank's".
* MrsRobinson: She's at least 15 years older than Hank, nearly twice his age, and sleeps with him.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The timeline means she is at least in her early 30s, but she doesn't really appear to be that much older than Hank or Dermott.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Nikki was a FanGirl of Rusty Venture growing up. After getting impregnated by him, she learned that the ''real'' Rusty was far from being anything like he was on TV. Years later, she meets Rusty's son Hank, who actually has the qualities of the person she idolized, so she seduces and sleeps with him.
* TeenPregnancy: Slept with Rusty at 15 (after lying about her age), resulting in Dermott.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Back when she actually ''was'' close in age to Hank or Dermott, she still looked old enough that Rusty thought she was over the age of consent.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Quymn Family]]
!!The Quymn Family
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[[caption-width-right:250:Top to Bottom: Dr. Tara Quymn, Nancy and Drew, Ginnie]]
->'''Voiced By''': Nina Hellman (Dr. Quymn, Nancy, Drew), Joanna Adler (Ginnie)
A DistaffCounterpart to the Venture family consisting of mother Dr. Quymn, her twin daughters Nancy and Drew, and their bodyguard Ginnie.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ginnie, a pseudo-ButchLesbian, toward Brock. [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased He's put off by a woman being as blunt and sexually-forward as he normally is]], and it also doesn't help that Brock misheard her name as ''Jimmy'' and initially thought she was a man.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Ginnie, despite "hating men", still comes onto Brock but he isn't interested.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Played straight with the Quymn twins as another way of reflecting the fraternal Venture twins.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Ginnie looks and acts like a classic ButchLesbian, but clearly has feelings for both Tara and Brock suggesting that she's really bi.
* BestHerToBedHer: Ginnie is clearly attracted to Brock and considers him the only "real man" she's ever met. She is clearly turned on when wrestling him.
* BreakTheCutie: Dr. Quymn's off-camera break-up with the father of her two kids, which left her emotionally destroyed until her childhood friend Rusty came back into her life.
* DistaffCounterpart: Dr. Quymn's twin daughters, Nancy and Drew, were written to be counterparts of Dean and Hank, twins but with far more worldliness. Dr. Quymn herself is one to Rusty Venture, being the neglected children of action-adventurers who bonded over that fact. Ginnie fills the spot in comparison to Brock, both imposing, powerful, sexually forward bodyguards.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Dr. Quymn appears in the Guild book of available arches that the Monarch is paging through in "Home is Where the Hate Is", two episodes before she is introduced.
* FakeBoobs: When the Quymn twins have Dean in bed, one of them removes her bra (offscreen) only for some padding to fall out.
* HeroicLineage: Dr. Quymn is the daughter of Mz. Quymn, a heroine married to Col. Gentleman (Tara's step-father) based on [[Characters/MarvelComicsWildPack Silver Sable]].
* IncompatibleOrientation: Ginnie, an AmbiguouslyBi pseudo-ButchLesbian, clearly has deeper feelings for Tara than simply being her protector. Tara, however, shows no interest in her in "that way".
* LastUnsmokedCigarette: Dr. Quymn wears a crystal necklace throughout "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman". We find out after she suffers an epileptic seizure and her home burns down that it's her last cigarette, which she proceeds to smoke to deal with the stresses of the evening.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Quymn" is a homophone of "quim," [[CountryMatters an old British term for a certain part of the female body]]. It also sounds quite similar to the titular character of ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman''.
** Nancy and Drew are named for, well, ''Literature/NancyDrew''. Fitting for teenage female sleuths.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Subverted by Ginnie who, while trying to impress Brock, wears a frilly pink bra... but underneath her same sweaty, masculine AdventurerOutfit. It seems like he didn't even notice until she takes it off and hands it to him.
* SimilarSquad: A DistaffCounterpart to the Venture family, including an awkward red-headed patriach/matriach, twin children, and a gruff bodyguard.
* StrawFeminist: Ginnie "hates men" and, when asked to clarify, explains that she "doesn't hate men, just never met a real one". She [[AllAmazonsWantHercules still comes on to]] a (very disinterested) Brock.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Outrider]]
!!The Outrider
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DocHammer
A necromancer and Dr. Orpheus' former student who married his mentor's ex-wife, Tatyana, making him Triana's stepfather.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Zig-zagged between he and Dr. Orpheus. The Outrider has gained an ability Orpheus never has, the ability to travel between worlds, but cheated to get it. However, by cheating instead of working hard, the Outrider has made time for his wife (Dr. Orpheus ex-wife) who left Orpheus because he was a workaholic who never had time for her. In the end, Outrider [[HardWorkHardlyWorks admits that Orpheus is the better sorcerer, but at too high of a cost]].
* CondescendingCompassion: He means well, but his attempts to give advice to other people such as telling Dean to move on from Triana rather than get hung up on her going out with someone else come off as incredibly saccharine and rather insincere in their intentions.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Is introduced doing this to a Cthulhu-looking creature that Torrid had summoned from Hell.
* EverybodyHasStandards: He is outraged when he thinks the KKK is setting up a burning cross on his lawn.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Zig-zagged. To achieve his level of power, he had to take shortcuts, unlike Orpheus who worked his way there. While this did back-fire when he fought Torrid, his personal life is better than Orpheus' because The Outrider had more time for his loved ones, and other people, while Orpheus focused exclusively on his job.
* {{Irony}}: According to the DVD commentary for season four, his wife has grown tired of him the same way she had with Orpheus (she has a bored, disinterested expression when we first see her, while the Outrider is seeing Triana off). He's clueless about it.
* NiceGuy: He's right up there with Jonas Jr. as one of the outright nicest characters in the series, though also like J.J., he can be rather condescending. The only time we see him anything other than cordial is when he attacked by what he thought was a KKK member burning a cross on his lawn (it was just Dean in a ghost costume).
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His appearance is based on Mystery, aka Erik von Markovik, the host of Creator/VH1's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickup_Artist_%28TV_series%29 The Pickup Artist]]''.
* NonProtagonistResolver: He is the one who stops Torrid's "open a portal to Hell" scheme and, if later comments from the Guild are to be believed, kills Torrid, despite him being the official ArchEnemy to the Order of the Triad.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: One example was when he tried to explain to Dean that Triana had moved on and found someone else. He also said that their relationship was over, and Dean had to accept that if he wanted her to be happy. Unfortunately, his need to spell it out completely caused him to come across as incredibly condescending, leading Dean to respond with a "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck You!]]"
* ShadowArchetype: To Orpheus. Both are necromancers, both are incredibly powerful, but while Orpheus is more skilled due to all of his training, the Outrider had to get there through shortcuts. While Orpheus speaks in a grandiose manner and is so immersed in his work he and his wife drifted apart, the Outrider is fairly personable, has no trouble interacting with people, and is now married to Orpheus' ex-wife.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tatyana]]
!!Tatyana
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[[caption-width-right:400:The Master copying Tatyana's form]]
A sorceress who is Dr. Orpheus' ex-wife, Triana's mother, and is currently married to The Outrider.
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* TheAlcoholic: She has a drink in her hand in each of her appearances.
* CaptainErsatz: Of several "magical female superheroes" including both Creator/DCComics's ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (especially her Halloween episode appearance) and Creator/MarvelComics' [[Characters/DoctorStrangeSupportingCharacters Clea]] (a love interest of ComicBook/DoctorStrange who forms the basis of Dr. Orpheus).
* {{Irony}}: According to the DVD commentary for season four, she has grown tired of the Outrider the same way she had with Orpheus (she has a bored, disinterested expression when we first see her, while the Outrider is seeing Triana off). He's clueless about it.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Both her usual purple attire and her Halloween costume are extremely low cut, showing off her ample cleavage.
* ShoutOut: Her normal attire is a lower-cut version of Lily Munster's dress from ''Series/TheMunsters''.
* TheVoiceless: While The Master speaks when [[VoluntaryShapeshifting taking her form]] to teach Orpheus a lesson, she never speaks as herself. According to creator commentary, this was intentional, as they had some future ideas for her and wanted to keep her role open for a potential bigger name voice actress down the line. With Orpheus and associates going OutOfFocus later in the series and then the cancellation, nothing ever came of it. This trait does add to her "disinterested" characterization.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Given Orpheus and Triana's ages, as well as comments made by the Master while in her form, she is older than her gorgeous body implies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raven]]
!!Raven
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A handsome goth guy dating Triana after he moved in with her mother, he has a disability with his legs and uses crutches.
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* DisabledLoveInterest: A {{Goth}} who walks with crutches, looks like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''[='s=] Edward Cullen, and is dating Triana.
* TheExsNewJerkass: Downplayed toward Dean, who fully believes this. Raven doesn't actually do anything all that jerkass-y to Dean and doesn't even seem to mind Triana going with Dean to prom, but he is a rather lame, trying-too-hard {{Goth}} stereotype.
* {{Expy}}: Looks exactly like Robert Pattinson playing [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
* {{Goth}}: Has the overall aesthetic, being physically based on Robert Pattinson's [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], TallDarkAndHandsome, and wearing a lot of black with a skull belt buckle.
* TakeThat: He's [[StealthPun lame]] and looks like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''[='s=] male lead.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: It's certainly easy to see why Triana would fall for him, he's a very good-looking guy with a goth aesthetic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ben]]
!!Ben
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JKSimmons
A reclusive geneticist living in a house on the edge of the Venture Compound who apparently helped both Dr. Ventures create the cloning technology that was later used for the boys.
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* TheAlcoholic: He is never seen without a drink in hand or nearby, even offering Dean his first beer to help him cope with knowledge that he's a clone. However, given that his cloning technology seems to work well and he's able to save the Monarach's life with a makeshift blood transfusion, he's a highly functional alcoholic.
* CoolOldGuy: He's a very chill older guy who helped develop the Venture cloning technolocy, helps Dean to cope with the fact that he's a clone, and gives him some beer to cheer him up. He's apparently into surfing and has taken in two "rejects", RICO (an ape-like mutant) and the red H.E.L.P.eR. model II (all others were recalled and destroyed).
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Shares Jonas Sr.' and Rusty's views on using backup clones as a safety precaution for one's children. Unlike them, his attitude towards doing so isn't to justify ParentalNeglect, but out of a sincere belief that losing a child (and to a lesser extent, being childless) is a horrific thing to experience.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Nothing seems to phase him despite how mind-blowingly weird it would be to just about anything else. His front yard is a mass grave and he just shrugs it off. He has no issue telling any of his cloned creations that they're clones. He doesn't even flinch when jumping in to help the Monarch who just crashed landed with a skyscraper and got impaled by a statue. When you've been working with the Ventures for a few decades, you develop thick skin to these sorts of things it seems.
* LikeASonToMe: While not biologically his children, his work on the cloning technology that created them sees him viewing Rusty, the Monarch, and the boys in this light. Even though the Monarch is a supervillain responsible for atrocities including some of the deaths of Hank and Dean, he still volunteers his services to save the Monarch's life.
* LoveMartyr: While he knows that the Monarch is an unrepentant supervillain and murderer who is responsible for some of the deaths of the Hanks and Deans, Ben unhesitatingly offers to help save his life in the FinaleMovie, motivated by his sentimentality over one of his creations and to honor the memory of the late Fitzcarraldos. Likewise, he thinks fondly of Jonas Sr. While not blind to his tremendous flaws, he chooses to focus more on what love existed in the man, and even passes along a luxury wristwatch he gave him to Hank.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He worked with both Jonas and Rusty to create cloning technology and has lived on the compound for years, yet he was never hinted at or mentioned before "A Very Venture Halloween". This may be justified since Dr. Venture told his sons to stay away from his house, apparently because Ben has no problem with telling the boys that they're clones. Oh, and there's a mass grave in front of the house - and we mean a ''mass'' grave.
-->'''Ben''': [To Dean] Between your grandpappy and your old man, hundreds of people have been killed on your property. They're all buried out there.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thalia]]
!!Thalia
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KateMcKinnon
A State University student who befriends Dean while applying as an intern for one of Dr. Venture's projects.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: After being turned into a four-armed, telepathic mutant while working on the Palaemon Project, she reverts back to being human after being exposed to the antidote.
* DisposableIntern: Was hired onto Dr. Venture's Palaemon Project as one. (So was everyone else working on it, as he accepted everyone who applied needing the free labor.) He chastises Dean for bringing her into the Compound living quarters and is more annoyed than anything when she shows him the extra set of arms she grew.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: You wouldn't guess that anything was wrong with her before she showed her new set of arms to Dr. Venture, and she only shows some mild irritation when she has to point out that they're ''new''.
* FreakLabAccident: Being exposed to radiation while working on the Palaemon Project mutates her into a superhuman with telepathic powers and an extra set of arms.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When reverted back to normal (due to the Monarch's antidote) with the rest of those exposed, she and the others appear to lose their memories about their time at the Venture Compound (due to Dr. Venture's "antidote" gas, which is really one big roofie).
* NerdGlasses: Is an awkward, nerdy student and wears them most of the time.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Wanted Dean to become chief of the Palaemon mutants so that they could be King and Queen of the new age.
[[/folder]]
!Military and Government Figures
[[folder:General Manhowers]]
!!General Manhowers
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A US Army General and main military contact for the Venture family.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Is wearing a U.S. Air Force uniform in the pilot episode. All later appearances have him in an Army officer's uniform.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He was a fellow boy adventurer and school chum of Professor Richard Impossible and Phantom Limb.
* FriendOnTheForce: A military version for the Venture family, dating back to Jonas Sr. who had been selling his inventions to the military for decades.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Shows interest in Dr. Venture's Ooo-Ray and "Venturesteins" for their destructive military applications.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His military rank, name, and overall demeanor bring to mind UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower.
* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: When Brainulo reads his mind in "Now Museum, Now You Don't" while trying to sew chaos among the guests, he sees a memory of Manhowers burning villages and villagers during what is implied to be UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Col. Bud Manstrong]]
!!Col. Bud Manstrong
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->'''Voiced by''': Terrence Fleming
An astronaut who resided on the Gargantua-1 space station and was present as a young man for the "Movie Night Massacre". A very naive and chaste fellow (not helped with there only being two people aboard the station), he pilots the station during its crash.
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* AccidentalHero: Celebrated as a hero, but actually ''blacked out'' from a handjob while piloting the crashing Gargantua-1 back to Earth.
* CelibateHero: A deconstruction. He's so sexually repressed that it ruins his relationship with Anna, who cheats on him with Brock. He's also shown to be pretty inept with anything concerning sex.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He is extremely protective over Anna (despite the two not actually having a sexual relationship) to the point where he gets jealous and tries to fight ''[[OneManArmy Brock]]'' when he finds out they had sex.
* LiteralMinded: When Brock asks if he ever "hit that" when discussing Anna, he's outraged that Brock would even ''think'' he'd raise a hand against her.
* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Rusty calls him a "repressed masturbator" during "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?"
* MindControl: While the exact method is never made clear, his mother has an unnaturally strong power of suggestion over him, the point where he even blacks out while he finds himself doing as she commands. There are implications that it's nothing technological or supernatural, but that she's just that [[MyBelovedSmother controlling and manipulative]] over him.
* MommasBoy: Very devoted to his mother partly due to her mind-controlling him.
* MyBelovedSmother: Even without the mind control, his mother is very controlling and manipulative of him.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Gargantua-I crew during the "Movie Night Massacre". He, as the station's teenage paperboy, was asleep in a different section of the station when the massacre took place. He's the only known survivor of the actual crew, while a few of the Guild infiltrators also survived (Vendata as an android and Red Death because he never took his spacesuit helmet off).
* VicePresidentWho: After his "heroism" during the Gargantua-I crash, President Breyer (whose administration is very corrupt and lagging in the polls) wants to make Manstrong his VP candiate for the publicity boost. He's obviously not qualified to be so close to the presidency.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lt. Anna Baldavich]]
!!Lt. Anna Baldavich
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->'''Voiced by''': Nina Helman
A Russian astronaut aboard Gargantua-1, she and Bud were supposedly in a romantic relationship, but Bud's resistance to her advances put a strain on it. She is always shown from behind and her face is apparently not the most pleasant thing to look at. She dies when the space station crashes back to Earth.
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* ButterFace: A TakeOurWordForIt example; she's got a killer body, but her face is supposedly hideous. Even Brock claims that he "can never get used to that" whenever she takes off her helmet. The official art book even reveals that the creators never even bothered to design a face for her since no one was going to see it. After she dies, a news banner states she receives a closed-casket funeral.
* CompressedHair: Her giant mass of frizzy red hair poofs out whenever she takes off her spacesuit's helmet.
* TheFaceless: [[TakeOurWordForIt And for a good reason]]. There's a blank sheet of flesh where her face ought to be on her official character sheet in the art book.
* KilledOffForReal: Perishes when Gargantua-1 hits Earth and is given a closed-casket funeral in Moscow... [[ButterFace not only due to injuries sustained in the crash, either]].
* OutWithABang: Gives Bud a handjob as he's piloting the crashing space station back to Earth and dies during the crash.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: She's Russian and dies in the Gargantua-1 crash, while Bud (who was in the exact same place receiving a handjob from her) suffers only some cuts and bruises.
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!Other Heroes
Other heroes, Guild-sanctioned "Protagonists", and former "Boy Adventurers". Ordered by the character's first appearance.
[[folder:Tiny Attorney]]
!!Tiny Attorney
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->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A malformed conjoined twin stuck in the torso of his "inbred simpleton" host, who is an attorney specializing the prosecution of villains.
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* {{Expy}}: Physically, of the mutant Kuato from ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', who leads the Martian Rebellion and is similary attached to his host's torso.
* FetusTerrible: Inverted, as he is the "brains" of the operation and the host is a "simpleton" who doesn't speak.
* KilledOffForReal: After being captured by the Guild during "The Trial of the Monarch", he is one of the people Phantom Limb guns down while "hunting" to intimdate the Monarch.
* SimpleCountryLawyer: His persona, including white suit, and personality are lifted from ''Series/{{Matlock}}'', the TropeCodifier.
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[[folder:Action Johnny]]
!!Action Johnny (Jonny Quest)
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->'''Voiced by''': Brendon Small
->''"Fathers are loving and caring and protective men, and I don't have one of those!
A former boy adventurer and colleague of Rusty's whose trauma and daddy issues have driven him to drugs. He initially was the grown up eponymous character from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'', but had his name adjusted in later seasons (while still strongly implied to be Jonny).
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* AbusiveParents: He clearly thinks of his dad as being terrible to him, forcing him along with his adventures. It's telling that ''Rusty'' somehow ended up being more well-adjusted as a human being.
* BerserkButton: Do '''not''' mention his father. Surprising him with Dr. Z (his father's former ArchEnemy who tormented Johnny in his youth) is also a bad idea. He seems to be getting better about this in later seasons, at least.
* FormerChildStar: The "boy adventurer" equivalent of this, just like Rusty Venture. Unlike Rusty (for the most part), Johnny has picked up the drug habits and extreme mental health decline that tends to come with the trope.
* FreudianExcuse: Blames his multitude of issues as an adult on his traumatizing upbringing and a lack of pateneral attention/affection from his father.
* FriendlyEnemy: Downplayed in regards to his relationship with Dr. Z in later seasons. Z regards Johnny with a sense of paternal affection to the point that, as his way of settling affairs before his ascension to the Council of 13, he offers to help Johnny get his life together. Johnny however is not quite as willing to mend bridges but is willing to reminisce about old times while indulging his former nemesis by letting Z chase him around.
* HiddenBadass: Johnny's a wiry, wild-eyed drug addict and a pitifully broken man, but he can still Judo throw a biker and hold his own in a seedy bar fight. Considering his childhood, it makes sense he would have picked up some skills and experience.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: His psychotic breakdown at his seminar implies that [[KickTheDog he killed Bandit]] and became a MonsterOfTheWeek in a misguided attempt to get attention from his neglectful father.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: Just like Rusty, he's a Deconstruction of the trope. The trauma he endured as a kid hero caused all sorts of mental health issues including, most prominently, drug addiction.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's actually older than [[YoungerThanTheyLook Rusty]], a fact he likes to poke fun at during therapy.
* ProperlyParanoid: Delusional as he is, he winds up being completely right about Dr. Z still being an active villain, just not in the way he thought.
* RecoveredAddict: Over the course of the series, he goes from being a hardcore addict to self-medicating, seeking professional help, to spending time in rehab.
* {{Wangst}}: Deliberately invoked in as dramatic a way as possible regarding his relationship with his father. He's drug-addled, severely traumatized, and prone to over-the-top breakdowns at the mere mention of his father.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: After season two, the show was prevented by Warner Bros. (who owns both properties) from calling him "Jonny Quest" so as not to damage the brand's reputation ahead of a planned reboot (that never ended up happening). He is still strongly implied to be Jonny Quest, they just don't/can't call him that.
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[[folder:Dr. Dugong]]
!!Dr. Douglas Ong (Dr. Dugong)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A super-scientist with a focus on marine biology, his DNA has been spliced with many benign sea creatures. He is briefly assigned to the Monarch as an arch and is the older brother of Chester Ong, the supervillain Wide Wale.
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* AloofBigBrother: All his brother ever wanted to do was make him proud of him and help him however he could. Douglas was aloof and unappreciative, driving Chester to attempt an extreme experiment resulting in a FreakLabAccident, giving them their mutuations and turning Chester to villainy.
* TheBusCameBack: After apparently being killed by the Monarch in season three's "Tears of a Sea Cow", the second episode of season seven's "Morphic Trilogy" reveals that he survived his encounter with the Monarch due to the starfish DNA he had spliced into his genome and is really the brother of Wide Wale, getting Wide Wale to release the Monarch.
* CaptainFishman: A FreakLabAccident involving an experimental gene-splicer resulted in Dr. Douglas Ong and his brother Chester being mutated with aquatic DNA, the former becoming the ScienceHero Dr. Dugong and the latter becoming infamous Kingpin and Level-10 supervillain Wide Wale. While the former had his DNA spliced with benign sea-creatures like seals and starfish, Wide Wale has bits of whale and shark in him, his daughter Sirena inheriting his mutant genes as an ApparentlyHumanMerfolk.
* ChekhovsGunman: He is seemingly killed off in his debut appearance by the Monarch who blows his head off at point blank range. Three seasons later, we meet Wide Wale, a supervillain with a similar sea creature mutation. When Wide Wale finally captures the Monarch as the Blue Morpho in the season seven-opening "Morphic Trilogy", he threatens to kill the Monarch for killing his older brother Doug. It takes Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, Red Death, and 21 attacking an OSI Dummy Corp. building to find out where Dr. Dugong (who survived and regenerated thanks to his starfish DNA) has been held in witness protection and reuniting the Ong brothers to defuse the situation.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His voice is an impression of Creator/JimmyStewart. It's especially prevalent in his pre-mutation flashback apperance.
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[[folder:Captain Sunshine]]
!!Captain Sunshine (Chuck Scarsdale)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KevinConroy
A solar-powered superhero who works as a news anchor at night, he is served by his butler Desmond (who was the original Captain Sunshine) and his sidekick, Wonderboy, of whom there have been several. The death of one of them at the hands of the Monarch left him rather broken and traumatized.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/KevinConroy, the most prolific ComicBook/{{Batman}} voice actor, plays a wealthy superhero who likes to take on young boys as sidekicks.
* AntagonistInMourning: Despite thinking it was a trick at first, he actually sobs uncontrollably at his (and presumably, the first Captain Sunshine's) ArchEnemy, the Clue Clown's, funeral upon seeing the corpse as the "jack in the box" as the punchline for one last gag.
* AscendedExtra: First mentioned in passing by the Monarch in season one's "Return to Spider Skull Island", as sending the hero the charred corpse of Wonderboy III is on his list of evil tasks for his henchmen and mentioned again in "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny" when a younger Monarch is trying to impress Queen Etheria; it isn't until season four that he finally appears in person, and he gets ADayInTheLimelight episode devoted to him, as well as some recurring appearances after.
* BatmanParody: Despite his superpowers and colorful costume, he has many parallels with the Dark Knight: he has a British butler, a young sidekick with different boys in the role, one of his sidekicks dying really traumatizes him, a stately manor with an underground lair, and he's [[ActorAllusion voiced by]] Creator/KevinConroy. Even his (deceased) nemesis, Clue Clown, is PracticallyJoker with a bit of ComicBook/TheRiddler thrown in for good measure. The MistakenForPedophile aspects of his focus episode also reflect ''Seduction of the Innocent'', the real-life book whose accusations of that nature against Batman contributed to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.
* CastingGag: Getting Creator/KevinConroy, who has more credits as Batman than any other actor, to play a BatmanParody is no small casting coup.
* DysfunctionJunction: The Monarch killed the third Wonderboy, leaving him traumatized and, terrified that it'll happen again, going to extremes to protect Hank as his new Wonderboy.
* GetOut: Said to Hank when he asks if he knows ComicBook/{{Batman}}.
-->'''Captain Sunshine:''' ''Get out of my Sanctum Solarium!''
* LegacyCharacter: He's the second Captain Sunshine. His butler Desmond was the first, and has the same power-set.
* LightEmUp: His main superpower is channeling solar energy as light. It enables him to fly during the day and a blast of it can leave targets with sunburn.
* LogicalWeakness: Since his super powers are fueled by direct sunlight, he is obviously powerless without it. Thus, he is not active as a superhero at night.
* ManChild: He's very immature, not helped by living with his mentor well into middle-age, and seems to live vicariously through his sidekicks as well.
* MistakenForPedophile: According to creator Jackson Publick, he's not a pedophile, just REALLY emotionally scarred and overprotective of his sidekicks to the point that it's easy to make the mistake.
* NiceToTheWaiter: A line in ''Every Which Way But Zeus'' makes it clear that he advocates for the rights of sidekicks, henchmen, and the retired; while he's likely driven by what happened to his own sidekicks, the fact that he also worries about henchmen shows that it falls under this trope.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** His personality is based on elements of Music/MichaelJackson's public persona, living in a Neverland Ranch-style mansion and has a borderline creepy devotion to his young sidekick(s). Further, his mostly-white costume, light-based abilities, and name all echo Film/CaptainEO. As the trope page for that film points out, "EO is so named to evoke the Greek root word meaning 'dawn'."
** His appearance, day job, and civilian name are based on TV anchor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Scarborough Chuck Scarborough]].
* NoodleIncident: At some point while the Monarch was an unlicensed rookie villain, he came into conflict with Captain Sunshine who he managed to bluff into thinking he was invulnerable. We only get to hear the end of the story as the Monarch tells it Dr. Girlfriend to impress her at Phantom Limb's party. Later, when Captain Sunshine confronts the Monarch, he [[ContinuityNod mentions knowing that the Monarch is invulnerable]], apparently still believing it to be true.
* OldSuperhero: While his age is never outright stated, his hair is starting to gray and he served as Wonderboy to the original Captain Sunshine, Desmond, back when Red Mantle and Dragoon were active villains in the '60s and '70s, so he is certainly not young. While he still seems to be in good physical shape, the lifetime of trauma that comes with superheroics and the death of his previous Wonderboy have left him a psychological wreck.
* PaperThinDisguise: The Action News team that Scarsdale is a part of is very blatantly the SuperTeam that Captain Sunshine is a part of.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: His gimmick is that he's powered by direct sunlight, enabling him to fly and shoot blasts of light powerful enough to leave sunburns. However, he is [[LogicalWeakness powerless at night]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: Desperately tries to make Hank into his new Wonderboy, as a way of coping with the previous Wonderboy's death at the hands of the Monarch.
* SupermanSubstitute: Like the Man of Steel, Captain Sunshine's SecretIdentity is a journalist, and he gets his superpowers (which includes flight) from exposure to direct sunlight.
* WellDoneSonGuy: If Desmond's (the ''original'' Captain Sunshine) snarking is any indication, the poor guy had a ''lot'' to deal with growing up.
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[[folder:Lance and Dale Hale]]
!!Lance and Dale Hale
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SethGreen (Lance), Creator/JohnHodgman (Dale)
Twin brothers and former boy detectives who attend the same therapy group as Rusty. Their career came to an end after the murder of their father, "the only mystery they couldn't solve", with strong implications that they killed him.
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* AbusiveParents: It's implied their father was abusive, at the very least emotionally.
* BigBrotherBully: Though they are twins, Lance definitely fits the trope, being dominating and downright abusive toward Dale.
* BlatantLies: Lance's explanation as to how both their fingerprints wound up on the murder weapon. Dale "forgot 20 years of detective training" and picked up the shotgun, then Lance "instinctively reached out to grab it". It's clear that no one is buying it.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Dale is the brains, Lance the brawn.
* CoolCar: Their red vintage convertible, which was the only thing they inherited from their father.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lance constantly makes snarky remarks toward the other members of the therapy group, especially Wonderboy.
* DirtyCoward: Dale, who just hides under a table during the bar brawl.
* DisinheritedChild: They were both cut from their father's will with all the money being left to charity instead. The only thing they got was their CoolCar.
* {{Expy}}: Of the ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'', being a pair of "boy detectives" with a similar surname (drawing from the phrase "hale and hearty").
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Dale. He has persistent nightmares about the murder and feels very guilty. As opposed to Lance, who doesn't seem to care much about what they did.
* InsaneTrollLogic: When their therapist is killed, Dale finds a matchbook he assumes must belong to the killer. He and Action Johnny go through the therapist's files and conclude Dr. Z must be behind it. Z was not too impressed.
--> '''Dr. Z:''' A snake kills your therapist, so you came all this way, in the middle of the night, to beat up an old man because of a matchbook?
--> '''Dale:''' Sounds kind of sloppy when you say it.
* IHaveNoSon: Lance considers Dale his "allegedly" twin brother.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Lance loves proving people wrong with a quick Google search on his phone.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: They're based quite a bit on the Menendez brothers, a pair of brothers from a wealthy family who murdered their abusive father, with much of the case focusing on whether they did it to escape his abuse or to inherit his fortune. Some of their lines are taken straight from various documentaries and accounts of the case, and Lance is shown to be a tennis player who tries to keep the case buried while Dale is clearly feeling guilty about it, which matches up with how the brothers are often portrayed.
* {{Patricide}}: They killed their dad, and they aren't particularly great at hiding that fact between Lance's BlatantLies explanations and Dale obviously being [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice guild-ridden]].
* PolarOppositeTwins: Dale is frumpy, reserved, and analytical. Lance is athletic, outgoing, and brash. Lance [[IHaveNoSon doesn't even seem to actually consider Dale his twin]].
* PunnyName: Their surname is a reference to the phrase "hale and hearty", in reference to the Hardy Boys.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Dale is the sensitive guy, obviously guilt-ridden from murdering their father, while Lance is the manly man who bullies others (especially Date) and snarks in every other sentence.
* WellDoneSonGuy: They strongly imply that this was part of their father's abuse.
---> '''Lance:''' We didn't get dick! Because nothing we did was ever good enough for him!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wonderboy II]]
!!Wonderboy II
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-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/PattonOswalt
The second Wonderboy and first to serve the current Captain Sunshine. He was forced to retire from the role when he turned 18 and has struggled to move on with a normal life, joining the same therapy group as Rusty.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/{{Robin}}, as the sidekick to a BatmanParody, specifically the ''Series/Batman1966'' tv show version complete with [[MadLibsCatchPhrase unusual exclamations]].
* FormerlyFit: He was in much better shape before his eating disorder and as seen in an older photo of he, the current Captain Sunshine, and Desmond.
* InkSuitActor: He is a dead ringer for his voice actor, Patton Oswalt, in a silly costume with a mullet.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: A Deconstruction, just like Rusty and Action Johnny. His upbringing was extremely traumatizing giving him PTSD and no shortage of other health issues (mental and physical) as an adult.
* KidSidekick: Was one to Captain Sunshine and suffered no shortage of horrors along the way. He was forced to retire when he turned 18 and has struggled to transition to a normal life.
* LegacyCharacter: He's the second Wonderboy after the original (the current Captain Sunshine). He was replaced when he turned 18 by Wonderboy III (who is killed by the Monarch), Wonderboy IV (Hank briefly), and then Wonderboy V (the current one seen working with Captain Sunshine at the Clue Clown's funeral).
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: He admits that he "can't get it up" unless he's "tied to a a chair with a bomb strapped to [his] chest" as a result of the trauma he endured as a child hero.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: InUniverse, his lawyers are still battling Captain's Sunshine's. He notes that he can no longer legally call himself "Wonderboy", but can keep the costume.
* UtilityBelt: When he was still the active sidekick to Captain Sunshine, he had one. He no longer has it and merely pretends (which is called out by Lance Hale) to be "activating" it at one point.
* WeightWoe: The stresses and PTSD of his time as a boy adventurer have made him an overweight stress-eater.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ro-Boy]]
!!Ro-Boy
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->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A robotic "boy adventurer" who was abandoned by his creator and joins Rusty's therapy group to cope with his anger issues.
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* BecomeARealBoy: Mentions this as a desire, but it isn't treated as a realistic option despite the universe's super-science and real magic.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Has many powers typical to a RobotSuperhero, including {{flight}} (via rockets in his feet), EyeBeams, implied superhuman strength and durability, etc.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Anime/AstroBoy'', being a [[RobotSuperhero robotic]] KidHero with many similar abilities.
* EyeBeams: One of his offensive capabilities. He uses them to fry the snake that kills the group's therapist.
* HappilyAdopted: By Dr. Z and his wife, who cannot have children of their own, at the end of "Self Medication". "The Terminus Mandate" confirms he's still living with them three seasons later.
* HumongousMecha: Hates "giant robots" with an extreme passion. It's implied during his turn in the therapy session that he made his hero living fighting them.
* KidHero: Crossing over with a RobotSuperhero, he has the size and maturity of a child despite possessing a bunch of super abilities. Like the others in the support group, he's also a deconstruction of the idea, being abandoned by (or possibility outliving) his creator but lacking the capability to move on without help.
* RobotSuperhero: He was created to be one, having most of their standard abilities (flight via rockets in his feet, eye lasers, implied superhuman strength and durability, the ability to "reset", etc.)
* TameHisAnger: Implies that he's in therapy to tame his anger issues and specifically mentions getting "really mad" at "giant robots".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brown Widow]]
!! Brown Widow (Jared Jansen)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NathanFillion
A New York City based superhero with spider powers and theming. He was formerly a super science Ph.D. student who got bitten by an irradiated spider while working on his thesis.
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* AlliterativeName: According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR-noyxIW9M a deleted scene]] from season six, his full name is '''J'''ared '''J'''ansen.
* BlessedWithSuck: Rather than the artificial web-shooters on his wrists like his obvious inspiration, he has an anatomically accurate mutant spinneret located in his lower back, meaning that if it activates while he's wearing pants it looks like he's shit himself. In "The High Cost of Loathing", he's using a cotton swab to clean out his spinnerets when Brock moves Dean into the dorms to be his roommate which is mistaken for masturbation. He also has two extra pairs of eyes (normally hidden by his hair, the ones on his costume are functional) and he [[YoungerThanTheyLook looks much older than he should for a Ph.D. student]], possibly due to the spider DNA affecting his lifespan and/or the stresses of protecting New York City.
* TheBusCameBack: He had a one-off appearance in season four's "Bright Lights, Dean City", then we don't see him again till season six, where he becomes more prominent as a local New York superhero and Dean's college roommate.
%%Covered by the SpiderManSendUp subtrope* CaptainErsatz: Of ComicBook/SpiderMan.
* CombatPragmatist: Despite his LargeHam tendencies mentioned below, the Brown Widow takes care to introduce himself only ''after'' he's already disarmed/disabled the bad guys, usually involving his webs.
* DatingCatwoman: Dated Sirena before Hank. He's a superhero and her father is the kingpin supervillain boss of NYC.
* FreakLabAccident: One was responsible for him getting his powers, which soured him on the whole "super-science thing".
* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Works in a ninja-themed one in later seasons. It's implied to be a step in him chasing an acting career.
* LargeHam:
** He can't help but sing to Rusty's attempt at writing an autobiographical Broadway musical, clinching the lead role had the Revenge Society not destroyed the script.
** He also makes grand proclamations whenever he stops some evil-doers as the Brown Widow, like this :
---> '''Brown Widow:''' This bank is protected by... '''[[SuddenlyShouting THE BROWN WIDOW]]'''!
* LightningBruiser: He has all the speed and agility one would expect from a Spider-Man expy, and he is very strong, once overpowering Brock.
* MundaneUtility: Part of his powerset is "perfect spider pitch", which lands him the lead role in Rusty's musical and he later alludes to seeking a career in acting.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Besides the aforementioned placement of where he fires his webs and his advanced age, Brown Widow is a very straightforward Spider-Man pastiche, lacking as many of the [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype freakish deficiencies or crippling neuroses of his fellow parodies]] in the series. As such, while the Monarch is one of the more dangerous characters in the setting, he's easily trounced by Brown Widow when he tries to rob a bank.
* ShoutOut: His superhero name is an obvious play on ComicBook/BlackWidow, while there is also an actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_geometricus brown widow spider]], a less-venomous "cousin" species.
* SpiderManSendUp: Very ''deliberately'' so, having all of Spider Man's ComboPlatterPowers (WallCrawl, ProjectileWebbing, SpiderSense, [[LightningBruiser superhuman strength and agility]], etc.) However, like the series many other [[{{Expy}} expies]] and {{Captain Ersatz}}es, he's ultimately a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype. The BlessedWithSuck aspects of having "spider-like powers" (web shooter on his lower back, extra sets of eyes that must be hidden) are played up and make him even more of a social outcast than his inspiration, while years of protecting the city have [[YoungerThanTheyLook aged him prematurely]].
* SuperLoser: He's a 30 year-old (who [[YoungerThanTheyLook looks even older]]) college student with a messy hairstyle (due to the need to cover his extra eyes), has a reputation for shitting his pants (which is really his web shooter reflexively going off), works a low-end job in a KitschyThemedRestaurant, and is picked on by JerkJock Tosh Tompkins.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: His concept art states his age is 30 but looks quite a bit older from stress.
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[[folder:Professor Victor Von Helping]]
!!Victor Von Helping (Victor Von Hellfire)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/GaryCole
Dean of sciences at Stuyvesant University and Dean Venture's unexpected academic advisor after Dr. Venture signs him up for several super-science classes against his will. There is more to him than meets the eye, including a past he is eager to escape from. He is also briefly the Monarch's official arch enemy.
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* AlmightyJanitor: His [[PowerLevels level as a hero]] is rather low, only a five. However, he's a FlyingBrick with FlyingFirepower who the Monarch couldn't even scratch, and he certainly seems far stronger than many of the villains we've seen identified as "level ten" arches. It's suggested that this might be due to the whole "equally matched aggression level" part to the system: he's a genuinely friendly guy who has a mundane job and doesn't want to get into fights unless he absolutely needs to, thus dragging down his score.
* BallsOfSteel: The Monarch tries [[GroinAttack kicking in the groin]] only to injure his foot since Victor's entire body seems to be made of metal.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's only mildly annoyed by the Monarch and 21 bursting into his classroom and physically attacking him, but flies into a violent rage when they actually threaten to harm his students.
* ChromeChampion: He's made of some really hard metal under a latex exterior. It's implied that one of the reasons he remains so passive until the Monarch starts threatening his students is because he knows there is little chance that the villain could actually hurt him.
* CoolTeacher: He is fully understanding of Dean's predicament and encourages him to try one of his safer science courses in the process. While he shrugged off any attempts at aggression Monarch and 21 tried to do against him, he completely loses his cool and nearly kills them when they threaten Sirena.
* DramaticIrony: He knows Jonas Sr. as a great man and is dismissive of Rusty. He doesn't know Jonas was an absolute monster. He also doesn't expand on his dismissal of Rusty whether it be seeing him as a failure, seeing him as a villain, or pitying him for his miserable life. Given that he is talking to Dean at the time who's having a crisis on what he wants out of life, Dr. Von Helping unintentionally increases the rift in the family.
* {{Expy}}: Thematically of ComicBook/DoctorDoom, being a scientist of dubious European descent with a "Von" ame and made of metal with fiery powers. His father is an even more obvious about his Dr. Doom basis.
* {{Foil}}: He is one to Red Death. Both of them are very affable outside of their job and care a lot for their family and students, even going [[PapaWolf berserk and terrifying anyone who puts those they care about in danger]]. They also lack a true face and can vaporize people with their powers, though Victor uses fake skin to hide his body. However, Red Death enjoys the supervillain life and relishes in killing people whereas Victor loves to help people and seems inexperienced about how arching works.
* FlyingBrick: Von Helping is quite powerful. He can fly and possesses superhuman strength/durability thanks to his metal body.
* GameFace: He wears a layer of latex skin to fit in with society, but if he's sufficiently angry, he'll show BlackEyesOfCrazy and melt his fake skin off to reveal his true metallic face.
* LatexPerfection: Dr. Von Helping wears some sort of flexible plastic over his nearly featureless metallic body to blend in with the rest of humanity despite his actual appearance. No one seems to realize it's fake until after he melts it off while fighting the Monarch.
* MeaningfulRename: Odds are he purposely changed his name from the villainous "Von Hellfire" to the less threatening "Von Helping" to distance himself from his supervillain lineage.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Averted, unlike most of the series' super-scientists with the title. In fact, of all science courses a super scientist would teach, he teaches botany at Stuyvesant University, rides his bike between classrooms, and is an active member of both Greenpeace and Doctors Without Borders.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Physically, he bears a striking resemblance to astrophysicist Creator/CarlSagan, in addition to sharing his optimism towards the sciences.
* PapaWolf: When the Monarch attacks his lab, Victor is patient and passive with him but when the Monarch has 21 grab his student Sirena, he reveals his true appearance and nearly incinerates the poor bastard before Dean intervenes.
* PlayingWithFire: His abilities as his true identity Victor Von Hellfire. He can shoot flames from his hands and can turn up his internal body temperature to burn off anything on his person.
* ScarsAreForever: A FreakLabAccident caused by his father led to scarring over 80% of his body, leaving him with a nearly entirely metallic body in its place.
* ShoutOut: His name references both [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] and [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Professor Abraham Van Helsing]].
* VillainousLineage: {{Defied|Trope}} as the son of legendary Guild member Vigo Von Hellfire. His father seemingly expected him to join the "family business", but Victor had no interest, instead trying to do good through super-science while distancing himself from the whole "heroes/villains" industry, including changing his surname. That said, a deep anger dwells beneath the surface and he won't hestitate to rage incinerate a villain threatening his students.
* TheVonTropeFamily: Dr. Von Helping is the son of Vigo Von Hellfire, an infamous Guild member.
* WhiteSheep: Turned his back on his villainous family legacy to pursue super-science for the benefit of mankind. He even changed his surname to further distance himself from his villainous father.
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!Other Villains
Other villains and "antagonists" not directly associated with the Guild or another villainous group. Ordered by the character's first appearance.
[[folder:Mike Sorayama]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Steve Park
A Japanese-American roboticist and old college friend of Rusty, Mr. White and Baron Ünderbheit. He became a robotics Professor at the college he and his friends went to. He stages his death in order lure the aforementioned three and Brock to a funeral, kidnap them, imprison them in his dungeon and kill them out of petty vengeance for making him ruin his chance with a girl named Leslie Cohen, who he had an obsessive crush on and he cannot contact her due to a restraining order she placed on him and he made robot slaves in Leslie's image who do his bidding. It's eventually revealed that he really his dead as he made a robot duplicate to carry out his evil plan.
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* DeadAllAlong: It turns out he really did die and that the Sorayama seen in the present was actually a robot.
* DeadlyPrank: Nearly became the victim of one in college.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While he has good reason to be upset with Rusty, Mr. White, Baron Ünderbheit and Brock for the crap they pulled on him in college, killing them is certainly an overreaction.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Aside from sharing a dorm with Rusty, White, Underbheit, and Brock, we find out in a later episode that he was a favorite student of Professor Hamilton G. Fantomas, who would later become Phantom Limb.
* EvilIsPetty: You don't get any pettier than wanting to murder 3 of your old friends due to them getting in the way of a relationship with a girl, and one who was thoroughly uninterested in you at that.
* {{Expy}}: He is basically an animated Mike Yanagita from ''Film/{{Fargo}}''. They are even played by the same actor.
* MisplacedRetribution: He wanted Rusty dead because he actually thought Rusty slept with Leslie Cohen, when Leslie actually slept with his roommate (Brock).
* ShoutOut: He's named after Hajime Sorayama, perhaps the most famous artist for {{Fembot}}s.
* StalkerWithACrush: He has an obsessive crush on Leslie Cohen from his college days. This is most likely what led to the restraining order she placed on him.
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[[folder:S.P.H.I.N.X]]
A former terrorist organization that was in a heated rivalry with the Guild of Calamitous Intent back in the '80s. They were wiped out during the "Pyramid Wars" but briefly revived under Hunter's leadership to take out supervillains not arching under Guild guidelines. The organization was dissolved when Hunter was appointed the new head of [=OSI=] with only 21 keeping it running as its sole member until the original members tried to reclaim it.
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* AntiHero: Under Hunter's command, the organization becomes this, hunting down supervillains who don't "get with the program" i.e trying to work independently of the Guild guidelines which instantly marks them for death.
* {{Expy}}: Of Cobra Command from from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe''.
* FalseFlagOperation: The victim of one. After the "Movie Night" incident, the Sovereign disguised himself as the S.P.H.I.N.X leader to "claim" responsibility for it, setting off the "Pyramid Wars of '87" with the [=OSI=] that completely decimated them.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The aftermath of Brock triggering the kill switches is thankfully not shown, all we know is that there's a lot of blood.
* KilledOffForReal: The original commander is killed by Brock and their flying ship is bombed completely, finally dismantling them for good.
* TheLastDance: All of the old SPHINX crew are going to die thanks to the kill-switches in their bodies beginning to degrade, so most of them leap at the chance for one last hurra against the OSI.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: When 21 went on a recruitment drive, the original SPHINX Commander found out and called in his old cohorts to take it back from him and try to pull a suicide attack on [=OSI=].
* TheRival: Were one to the Guild of Calamitous Intent back in the day.
* WesternSamurai: Windsong, an African-American ninja.
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[[folder:The Groovy Gang]]
A group of mentally disturbed drifters who roam America in a van to solve mysteries that may or may not exist. They are a reference to Franchise/ScoobyDoo but have their personalities based on notorious murderers and maniacs.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Patty and Sonny are just as much as victims to Ted and Val because Ted withholds Sonny's medication and Patty was abducted 10 years before the events of the episode.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear if Groovy really can talk and just won't do so with anyone but Sonny or if Sonny is just hallucinating that he can, given that Groovy is only ever seen talking to him alone.
* {{Beatnik}}: Val is a chain-smoking misandrist beatnik who believes men are inferior to women and are "walking abortions" because they didn't develop into women.
* TheBully: Ted is the ring leader and rules the gang with an iron fist through physical and verbal abuse. He withholds Sonny's medication to keep him under his control and has abducted Patty and kept her hostage for 10 years.
* ChurchGoingVillain: Ted believes in God and believes his actions are justified under God's will.
* ControlFreak: Implied of Ted, who breaks out threats of vicious punishments at the slightest hints of defiance to his wishes. At one point he loses his temper when Groovy won't stop barking at him and coldly threatens to shoot the dog dead if Sonny doesn't get him to behave.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: They are based off the members of Mystery Incorporated from Franchise/ScoobyDoo but are all also based on various 1970s serial killers and are dangerous criminal lunatics. It should be noted, based on a couple throwaway lines from the Boy Adventurers in Season 4's Self-Medication, that the Scooby Gang did exist in this universe.
* DeconstructiveParody: They can easily be interpreted as such to Mystery Incorporated, namely depicting how a group of random unrelated civilians who attempt to solve mysteries while travelling around the country would likely be mentally unstable lunatics who cause more harm than good.
* DiabolusExNihilo: They aren't connected to the guild or any other villainous organization, they are just a band of murderous drifters who came to the Venture Bros Compound by sheer coincidence.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Exaggerated with Val, who is based on Valerie Solanos, and wants to forcibly enslave a small portion of men to serve as breeding units and kill the rest of them.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite the issues that raise from Groovy trying to force Sonny into committing murder, [[AmbiguousSituation which may be down to Sonny's own psychological issues instead of actually happening]], the two are shown to care for each other; Groovy comments on how poorly Ted treats Sonny and Sonny is able to calm him down from aggression towards Ted which would have seen Groovy shot dead.
** Val pleads for Patty to run away with her and demonstrates a clear one-sided romantic attachment to her, which is one of her only redeemable qualities.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Val and Patty are shocked and horrified by Sonny and Groovy's violent killing of Hank and Dean in the flashback, while Ted is more concerned about the attention and consequences of killing 2 teenage boys.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ted rarely lacks a smile and says nearly everything with a pleasant tone of voice, even when he threatens the others with physical violence. It's pretty clear that he's an unhinged psychopath who has absolutely no good will towards anyone.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Sonny and Patty have no real interest in killing, but are forced to by Ted and Groovy (the latter of whom only speaks to Sonny).
* HateSink: Ted is the most depraved member of the Groovy Gang. Lacking even Val and Groovy's attachment to certain other members of the group, he emotionally manipulates Patty and Sonny and controls Sonny despite him objecting to his plans numerous times by withholding his medication unless he agrees to assist him. Even the innately comedic aspects of his character fail to diffuse his depravity.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Sonny is evil because Ted withholds his medication and Groovy forces him to kill people.
* KnightOfCerebus: There are ''very'' slight bits of humor attached to them but the idea of a bunch of psychologically disturbed drifters as a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Mystery Inc. is played dead serious.
* LaughablyEvil: They're a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Scooby-Doo characters as serial killers. While they're genuinely horrifying, the show still gets a decent amount of comedic mileage out of them. (Although only Val, Ted and possibly Groovy are genuinely evil.)
* NewAgeRetroHippie: They are compared to the negative stereotype of murderous hippies.
* NoodleIncident: Sonny and Groovy killed Hank and Dean at some point in the past while they were lost in a mine shaft, forcing the Groovy Gang to leave their bodies in the mine shaft.
* PsychoLesbian: Val is a lesbian who is attracted to Patty and is the second most evil member of the gang.
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Manchildren]]: All of them. Despite all visibly being middle-aged (and based off infamous '70s serial killers), they all dress, talk and act like teenagers from the late '60s and early '70s. Of all of them, Sonny is probably this trope the most.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once Ted and Sonny are killed by Brock and Groovy is killed by Venturestein, Patty and Val run away from the compound.
* ShoutOut: To the Mystery Gang from Franchise/ScoobyDoo and various infamous serial killers and murderers of the 70s and 80s:
** Ted is a combination of Fred and Ted Bundy.
** Sonny is based on David Berkowitz A.K.A "Son of Sam" and Shaggy.
** Groovy is based on Harvey, the dog of David Berkowitz's neighbor, who Berkowitz claimed was possessed and compelled him to commit murder and of course Scooby-Doo. He also seems to take influence from the role of Torgo in Manos: The Hands of Fate.
** Patty is based on Patty Hearst and Daphne.
** Val is based on Valerie Solanas and Velma.
*** Ted also references Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They aren't central to the plot but through them, Hank and Dean discover the cloning lab. Note how many tropes they have, despite only appearing in one episode.
* TheSociopath:
** Ted doesn't remotely care about any other member of the group, and uses them as tools that he kidnapped and emotionally manipulates.
** Val is a psychotic misandrist who wants to eradicate most of and enslave the remnants of half of the human population for the crime of being men. Her true sociopathy is questionable, however, given her apparent attachment to Patty.
* StrawFeminist: Val deeply hates men, believing them to be "walking abortions" because the Y gene is an "incomplete X gene".
* TalkingAnimal: Groovy, but only to Sonny, which leaves it ambiguous if he can actually talk or if it's just Sonny's delusions. Noticeably, he averts SpeechImpairedAnimal and instead talks with an indistinct sinister accent.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They are just a roaming band of murderous drifters, with 2 members only being part of the gang because they were forced to. Ted only sees the others as assets and subordinates (or in Patty's case, a sex slave), while Val only likes Patty due to her hatred of men.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Ted is the worst of The Groovy Gang, and forces the others to follow his lead.
* WhatADrag: Ted threatens to do this to Sonny for questioning their presence at the venture compound and stating how the van had enough fuel to keep moving.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Some members of the gang are very clearly broken people, though no less dangerous.
** Sonny is a deeply mentally ill and implicitly schizophrenic man who is urged by Groovy, who he likely hallucinates speaking, into murdering people, and has his medication withheld by Ted unless he agrees to go along with his plans.
** Patty was kidnapped 10 years ago and has been imprisoned and emotionally and sexually abused by Ted for the interim until she's agreed to go along with anything the group wants.
* WouldHurtAChild: One of the many deaths of Hank and Dean was caused by Ted and Sonny murdering them both in a blind panic.
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[[folder:Scare Bear]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:*Audible Breathing*]]
A scary man in a bear suit (probably). First made his appearance trying out for the Revenge Society. Later on, he helps out Hank during a blizzard in New York.
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* AllThereInTheScript: He isn't named in any episode he appears in and, since he's silent, doesn't show up in the credits either. The creators instead give his name in the DVD commentary.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: On one hand, he spends his time carrying a bloody knife and his outfit is stained with... something. On the other hand, he saved Hank from a blizzard. His motivation for showing Hank that Sirena has been cheating on him is similarly unclear.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He hasn't been seen to have any actual superpowers, but he is, at the very least, very ''well-informed.'' Finding Hank unconscious in a blizzard could have been simply a lucky coincidence if it wasn't for the fact that he seems to ''somehow'' know in advance 1) what dorm room Dean will be in and 2) the fact that Hank's girlfriend is cheating on him with his brother. Like everything else about him, his motivations for doing so are...unclear.
* BearsAreBadNews: A man in a bear costume drenched in blood and carrying a knife is downright creepy. He even unnerves the veteran supervillains of the Revenge Society when he interviews... which consists of him standing there menacingly, completely silent.
* CreepyMascotSuit: Scare Bear wears a very creepy looking bear mascot outfit. Given that he also is constantly holding a big knife, is covered in dried blood, and only communicates in husky breathes, this is arguably the LEAST unsettling thing about him.
* TheDreaded: He doesn't seem to be notorious, but the sheer fact that he can scare [[BigBadWannabe Phantom Limb]], [[TinTyrant Baron Underbheit]] and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Mr. Impossible]] really says something about him.
* NothingIsScarier: Being so mysterious and creepy is pretty much his whole shtick. Almost nothing is known about him at all, which makes him all the more disturbing.
* OffscreenTeleportation: He somehow manages to make his way to the office of the Revenge Society without Dean even seeing him come in.
* ShoutOut: He was inspired by an art piece entitled [[http://www.artnet.com/artists/mark-wallinger/sleeper-pvnaFFBhsFpFFm4whZMhmA2 Sleeper]] by artist Mark Wallinger. Jackson Publick came across it while searching for images of bear costumes.
* SilentAntagonist: He just stands around breathing heavily, never saying a word.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His main (probable) purpose is to stand there and be creepy. But he's the one who reveals to Hank that Sirena has been cheating on him.
* TheUnreveal: When he picks up the injured Hank from the snowstorm and takes him to a cheating Dean and Sirena, it seems like we might finally learn who he is. We don't. He disappears by the next episode and isn't brought up at all in the movie, likely leaving it a permanent mystery.
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[[folder:Bobbi St. Simone (Unmarked spoilers)]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JaneLynch
A former actress who's believed to be Hank and Dean's mother.
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* ConnectedAllAlong: It's revealed that Bobbi was once the wife of none other than the Guild of Calamitous Intent's original leader Force Majuere.
* IAmNotYourFather: Or "mother" in this case. Despite being named Hank and Dean's mother in Season 7, it's revealed in the finale movie that she was never in a relationship with Rusty. She might be Hank and Dean's biological grandmother however, as it's implied her daughter Debra sold her egg cells to Rusty in exchange for invisibility powers.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She doesn't want any part of the protagonist/antagonist system and just wants to live out her days in her ranch.
* PowerIncontinence: She was never able to completely control her invisibility powers. This is part of the reason for why she asked Rusty to get rid of them.
* UnseenNoMore: After having been referenced multiple times dating all the way back to the pilot episode, Hank and Dean's presumed mother finally appears in ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''. Only for Bobbi to turn out to be a RedHerring and strongly implied to technically be their grandmother.
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[[folder:Debra St. Simone/Mantilla (Unmarked spoilers)]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NinaArianda
The leader of ARCH, a supervillain group providing villains with more advanced technology.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: While she had briefly dated The Monarch, she finds the idea of dating Rusty to be profoundly gross, though they might have had a sibling-esq relationship. She also developed stalker behavior towards Dr. Mrs. The Monarch out of a desire for a working relationship with her, jealous of her many Number Ones (two of which she dated).
* BigBad: Of ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''.
* {{Expy}}: With her outfit, blond hair, and pale complexion she's a dead-ringer for Emma Frost of the X-Men comics.
* FinalBoss: Of the overall Venture Bros series.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: A [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] example. In return for being given her mother's invisibility powers, Debra mentions giving Rusty "stuff I wasn't planning on using," potentially egg cells that he used to create Hank and Dean. Debra never expresses any interest in the boys and Rusty never directly answers any question the boys make about her, so assuming she is in fact their genetic mother, she's definitely this trope. (In the creator commentary for the movie, Doc Hammer outright states this to be the case.)
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: In contrast to [[IJustWantToBeNormal her mother]] Debra absolutely wants to be a supervillain more than anything else in the world.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Only appears in the series finale, ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''.
* LightIsNotGood: She's a blonde supervillain who wears all white.
* PsychopathicManchild: Speaks and acts like an entitled teenage girl despite being around the same age as Rusty and the Monarch, who she manages to make look downright mature with the way she carries herself.
* PyrrhicVictory: Debra's so giddy about "winning" at the end of the film that she fails to notice how Dr. Mrs. The Monarch effectively punts her into the Peril Partnership, which is currently in the process of collapsing and is on the cusp of being destroyed by the Guild.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: It's implied she sold Rusty her egg cells, which became Hank and Dean.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: On Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, to the point where Debra has a StalkerShrine dedicated to her. It's because Debra thought Sheila's talents were being wasted on being TheDragon to villains like the Monarch, who she ironically used to date.
* StringTheory: She has a board dedicated to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch featuring pictures and documents connected by string. Apparently it started as a simple checklist but then grew into a "crazy board". She insists that she's didn't set out to make one, it just happened organically.
* TechBro: She initially comes off as a [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] version of this; she's a young, wealthy business mogul to a new company with an AsceticAesthetic that invokes Silicon Valley (ARCH) that markets its products as sleek, innovative and stylistically impressive, only to swindle its customer base with AwesomeButImpractical products that fail in the field. Her hacking [=VenTech's=] launch-product can even be considered a form of corporate espionage. Ultimately subverted when it's revealed that her company ARCH doesn't actually exist, the company being one big RedHerring while Mantilla is working alone in the end.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: She looks heavily like a female version of Hank, and it's implied that her egg cells were used to create him.
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Characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. This page is for all remaining characters who do not neatly fit into one of the other sub-pages.
!!Due to the sheer number of [[WalkingSpoiler Walking]] and {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s (including some characters' placement and, in a few cases, their very ''name''), '''[[Administrivia/SpoilersOff Spoilers Are Off]]''' for these pages. You have been warned.
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!The Revenge Society
[[folder:The Revenge Society as a Whole]]
!!The Revenge Society as a Whole
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[[caption-width-right:500:Members pictured L-R: Phantom Limb, Fat Chance, Baron Ünderbheit, Prof. Impossible, Radical Left]]
A group for "disenfranchised" supervillains formed by Phantom Limb during his opposition to the Guild of Calamitious Intent. Originally Limb (in his "Revenge" persona) and a collection of inanimate objects, he expands it to include other villains after regaining his sanity.
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* CarnivalOfKillers:
** Parodied in the "group's" first appearance as Phantom Limb (then as the deranged "Revenge") introduces his team members in this fashion, despite the fact that they're inanimate objects (a coffee mug, a shoe, and a toaster).
** Played straight at the beginning of "All This and Gargantua-2" where they get a ReestablishingCharacterMoment after having worked with Dr. Killinger, being reintroduced (and in the case of the new members, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment properly introduced]]) while showing off the new abilities they've learned.
* TheHeist: They plan to pull one on Gargantua-2 and are actually pretty effective in pulling it off. However, it's a front Phantom Limb is using to ''destroy'' the station with the backing of the Sovereign after being promised a Guild Council seat. The Sovereign betrays Limb and most of the Revenge Society ends up dead, missing, or leaving.
* StartMyOwn: The group is specifically started by Phantom Limb as a rival/opposition to the Guild.
* VillainTeamUp: Specifically for "disenfranchised" supervillains in opposition to the Guild of the Calamitous Intent.
* WeirdTradeUnion: Formed as a rival group to the Guild touting less of the Guild's [[ObstructiveBureaucrat complex bureaucracy]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phantom Limb]]
->See his entry on the [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild Guild of Calamitous Intent]] page.
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[[folder:Prof. Impossible]]
->See his entry on the [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersVentureAllies Venture Allies]] page.
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[[folder:Baron Ünderbheit]]
!!Baron Werner Ünderbheit
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TRiderSmith
->''"[[SarcasmMode As usual, your detective skills are impeccable, Samson. You succeeded in exposing my sinister plan to lock myself in a dungeon, chained to an albino.]]"''
Dr. Venture's "other" ArchEnemy, Baron Werner Ünderbheit is the tyrannical ruler of Ünderland (pronounced oon-derland) who lost his jaw back in college. He blames Rusty for this, although it was actually the result of The Monarch's first attempt to kill Rusty. Ousted as ruler in season two, he joined as the muscle for the Revenge Society.
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* ArchEnemy: Considers himself Dr. Venture's arch-enemy, but The Monarch completely eclipsed him during the show's run. In the earlier seasons, Rusty acknowledged Ünderbheit more as a proper nemesis, since Rusty recognizes why Ünderbheit has it in for him (even suggesting he was responsible for what happened to his jaw through negligence), while he has no idea why The Monarch has such a vendetta.
* BadBoss:
** He's very fond of executing his subordinates. One of his henchmen even mentions that after their mandatory military service, all former soldiers are executed.
** He also immediately assumes that the Revenge Society want him to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten kill Manservant]] in order to join. After he does so, the mortificed other Society members point out they just wanted him to sign a contract.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite being set up as a much more intimidating ArchEnemy to Dr. Venture in comparison to the Monarch, this is what Ünderbheit ended up being. His attempts at revenge reach nowhere ''near'' the level of persistence and determination as those of the Monarch and, after he's dethroned, he's reduced to being the bumbling muscle for the Revenge Society.
* TheBluebeard: Has killed his ''seven'' former wives.
* TheBrute: For the Revenge Society, being their largest and most physically imposing member. Unlike most of the others, he has no real superpowers (though does learn how to launch his metal jaw as a sort of BattleBoomerang by "All This and Gargantua-2").
* TheBusCameBack: Season two's "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. He returns in season four, as a fitting founding member of the Revenge Society.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subverted. He disappeared after season two, and then twenty-nine episodes later, he makes a couple of cameos and becomes a member of the Revenge Society not soon after.
* TheCaligula: He has plenty of delusional, overly aggressive traits as ruler of Ünderland. He tries (and fails) to execute a trio traiterous associates with a "Tiger Balm" stunt (giving them little tins of Tiger-brand lip balm and then having actual tigers with bombs strapped to them attack) and it's mentioned that all of his soldiers are executed once they turn 38.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Both sounds like and bears a strong resemblance to Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, although he's not an example of TheAhnold. The physical resemblance is even more obvious in flashbacks to his college years, where he's a dead ringer for Arnie during his "Mr. Universe" career phase.
* EvilOverlord: As the villianous ruler [[{{Uberwald}} Ünderland]] until his deposition in season two.
* {{Expy}}: A very blatant one of [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Doctor Doom]], with The Monarch even making the comparison. This makes his team-up with [[TheFantasticFaux Prof. Impossible]] in the Revenge Society especially amusing--Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic also become allies in the Future Foundation for a time.
* FlatCharacter: He's a rather generic EvilOverlord and the show ''knows'' it. It's even acknowledged during his time in the Revenge Society where, while training under Killinger, he shows off his [[BattleBoomerang prosthetic jaw launching trick]] but Killinger asks what else he can do, only for Ünderbheit to grimace as he realizes that's all he's got. Killinger doesn't even explain what changed about him through his training like the others and instead simply calls his name.
* FreakLabAccident: Lost his jaw in college during an explosion he blames on Rusty, but was really the Monarch trying to kill Rusty.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He made gay marriage illegal in Ünderland and [[SweetOnPollyOliver mistakenly marries Dean Venture]] in "Love Bheits", leading to his arrest and overthrow.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Underbheit anticipated this in the re-introduction in season four, [[NeckSnap providing an immediate demonstration]] by killing Manservant. Turns out he was WrongGenreSavvy and LeeroyJenkins about it, they only wanted him to sign a contract.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's by far the largest person seen in Ünderland and rules it as an EvilOverlord. Subverted when he joins the Revenge Society, as he's the largest and most muscular member, but is reduced to being TheBrute instead.
* KnightOfCerebus: From his early appearances and the promotion of him in the show's first opening, it appears that the original plan for Ünderbheit was that he would act as Rusty's "real", serious ArchEnemy while the Monarch would remain an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. However, the writers quickly found Ünderbheit too one-dimensional to fill that role.
* PutOnABus: He gets overthrown and exhiled in season two's "Love Bheits", then doesn't appear again for 28 episodes until season four's "Pomp and Circuitry".
* RedRightHand: Has a prosthetic metal jaw as the result of an apparent FreakLabAccident in college.
* SpikesOfVillainy: He's a overtly villainous EvilOverlord and has spikes on his costume. He gets even ''more'' spikes on his Revenge Society uniform as of "All This and Gargantua-2".
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Tries to marry the captive Dean Venture (who is dressed as [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]] for a Halloween party), mistaking him for a girl. This ultimately results in his overthrow, as he made gay marriage illegal in Ünderland and is arrested, then exiled, for the crime.
* {{Uberwald}}: Rules his kingdom of Ünderland with an iron fist. It is always dark when shown, mentions are usually accompanied by a wolf howl, and it has mandatory conscription for all citizens until the age of 37 ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after which they are executed]]).
* UncertainDoom: 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 Fat Chance's [[CoolGate enigma hole]], but Ünderbheit is not with them. The 2018 ''Go Team Venture'' artbook suggests that he was able to escape back to Ünderland through Fat Chance's enigma hole.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Under his rule, all citizens of Ünderland are executed at age 37 as they've become too old to properly serve.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fat Chance]]
!!Fat Chance
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JacksonPublick
->''"Before you make your weightist judgements, I got this way due to a botched scientific experiment."''
A New York-based supervillain recruited into the Revenge Society, Fat Chance became morbidly obese and acquired an "Enigma Hole" in his navel that serves as a portal to another dimension from which he can pull random (and occasionally useful) items.
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* BrooklynRage: He's a quick-tempered, New York-based supervillain with the requisite accent.
* CoolGate: His "Enigma Hole" is a portal to another dimension located in his belly button. He has no control over what he pulls out (though later learns to harness this power under Dr. Killinger) and it can be used in reverse - going through it to enter another dimension.
* CaptainErsatz: Possibly one to Chunk, a supporting character of ComicBook/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 ''Venture Bros'' reference...
* FatBastard: He's a morbidly obese supervillain who joins the Revenge Society.
* FreakLabAccident: Claims that this is how he both became obese and got his "Enigma Hole" during his interview with the Revenge Society. Immediately Lampshaded when Phantom Limb, Prof. Impossible, and Baron Ünderbheit show off their own powers/disfigurements from the same types of accidents.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Uses his name to create these. The other characters are typically unamused.
* RandomEffectSpell: What he pulls out of his Enigma Hole is completely random, ranging from "half a Roman Legion" to a Music/BeachBoys CD. After some work with Dr. Killinger, he learns to control what he pulls out.
* TookALevelInBadass: With a little training from Dr. Killinger, he overcomes the randomness that comes with his Enigma Hole, being able to pull out specific items while also using it as a CoolGate for others to travel through.
* UncertainDoom: In "All This and Gargantua-2", he is last seen lying unconscious in the self-destructing space station. Phantom Limb and Radical Left use his Enigma Hole to escape, but it's unknown if Fat Chance escaped or not.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: He's a morbidly obese guy who has the power to grab items from a portal to another dimension in his belly button. What comes out is entirely random, which leads to the other supervillains pullin stuff out of him in an attempt to find something remotely useful to kill Dr. Venture with. As it turns out, the power also works the other way, allowing Venture to escape and, later, Phantom Limb and Radical Left to escape an exploding Gargantua-2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radical Left]]
->See his entry on the [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild Guild of Calamitous Intent]] page.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lyndon-Bee and Lady-Hawk Johnson]]
!!Lyndon-Bee and Lady-Hawk Johnson
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=] (Lyndon-Bee) and Mia Barron (Lady-Hawk)
->''"You will not seek nor will I accept your escape."''
A pair of married supervillains who were inducted into the Revenge Society alongside Fat Chance. He is cursed to transform into a bee during the day while she is cursed to transform into a hawk at night.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: In their human forms, they each dress as the animals they transform into. Lyndon-Bee has a black and yellow striped tie with fake antennae while Lady-Hawk wears a set of wings.
* {{Expy}}: Their powers (and her name) are taken from ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}''.
* ForcedTransformation: He transforms into a bee during the day while she turns into a hawk at night, and "never the twain shall meet".
* NighttimeTransformation: She's a woman in the day and a hawk at night, while he is a bee in the day and a human at night. They are cursed to never both be human at the same time.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Their physical appearances and voices are based on former U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson Lyndon B. Johnson]] and First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They're present in "Bright Lights, Dean City" when the Revenge Society descends upon Dr. Venture, but are gone by the time of "All This and Gargantua-2" with no explanation.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zero]]
!!Scott Hall (Henchman 1, Henchman 0, Zero)
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[[caption-width-right:672:L-R As Monarch Henchman #1, Henchman 0, Zero]]
->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
->''"I hench for no man."''
A by-the-book henchman who started out working for the Monarch in stark contrast to #21 and #24. Following his apparent death, he strikes out on his own as the centurion-themed "Henchman 0" and kidnaps a bunch of sidekicks/henchmen that he forces to fight to the death. After another apparent death, he joins the Revenge Society as the villain "Zero".
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* AncientGrome: As Henchman 0, he appears to serve the Greek god Zeus while themed as a Roman centurion.
* AndThisIsFor: 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 [[KilledMidSentence kill him mid-sentence]] (for real this time) via NeckSnap.
* BackForTheDead: Re-appears after his second apparent death as a new member of the Revenge Society in "All This And Gargantua 2", only to finally have his neck snapped by Brock. If that alone didn't kill him, the exploding Gargantua-2 certainly did.
* TheCaligula: He makes sidekicks and henchment fight to the death for next to no reason other than as penitence and for his amusement.
* TheComicallySerious: His stern hyper-professionalism definitely makes him this in the show's universe - especially since "professionalism" and "actual skill" don't always go together.
* EvilCounterpart: To 21. Both were Monarch henchmen changed after a major event (near-death by Brock Samson and 24 dying) who each TookALevelInBadass. However, while 21 was largely unmotivated before, Zero was already motivated. Whereas 21 has avoided becoming a villain on his own but is slowly growing into one, Zero immediately became one. Whereas 21 is fully willing to rely on dirty tactics when the situation calls for it, Zero fights with honor.
* GenreBlindness: Falls into all of the old henchman cliches in his first appearance. He's mocked mercilessly by #21 and #24 for it and appears to be killed by episode's end. (He survives.)
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: After being mocked and left for dead by #21 and #24, he gains a severe and specific vendetta against villainous lieutenants and sidekicks who think they're any better than a typical henchman.
* KilledMidSentence: He's in the middle of giving Brock a AndThisIsFor speech prior to shooting him when Hank busts in, causing a distraction, and allowing Brock to kill Zero via NeckSnap.
* KnightTemplar: His scheme with Zeus is revenge on what he believes to be the problem with superheroes and villains - not caring about their henchmen/sidekicks.
* TheManBehindTheMan: "Zeus" is actually just an OldSuperhero dressed in a Greek god getup. Zero is the real brains behind the "kidnapping henchmen/sidekicks and making them fight to the death" scheme.
* MauveShirt: Starts as an exploration of the classic {{Mook}}, falling into all of the usual cliches and apparently dying at episode's end. He survives and makes two more appearances, first as his own villain and then as a member of the Revenge Society.
* MeaningfulName: His name Zero is because he used to be a henchman. It's how 21 guesses his secret identity.
* {{Mook|s}}: Deconstructed. He is a villain's henchman who falls into all of the classic cliches that typically lead to henchmen dying, while {{Mauve Shirt}}s 21 and 24 discuss the whole thing. Even when he tries to invoke NominalImportance, they explain it away as his "inevitable death" will now be "pathos".
* MyHeroZero: Serves not only as of the episode BigBad in "Any Which Way But Zeus", but he turns out to be Scott Hall/Henchman #1, a henchman thought killed in "The Lepidopterists". While he may not be a hero, he 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: How Brock kills him in "All This and Gargantua-2", through the bars of a holding cell door.
* NeverFoundTheBody:
** In his debut episode "The Lepidopterists", having thought to have suffered "death by Samson". 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 ''All This and Gargantua-2'' when he is revealed to have survived ''once again'' and has joined the Revenge Society. Subverted when he dies for good via NeckSnap, with his body left aboard the exploding space station.
* NominalImportance: A Deconstruction of this trope in his debut appearance. While 21 and 24 mock him for falling into all of the classic henchmen cliches, he frustratedly calls out "Scott Hall! My name is Scott Hall!" in an attempt to invoke this trope. They scoff and retort that his "inevitable death" will now be "pathos".
* OnlyMostlyDead:
** In his debut episode "The Lepidopterists", he apparently suffers a "death by Samson", who is not exactly known for leaving survivors. Somehow, he survives, escapes Spider-Skull Island, and then returns as Henchman 0.
** At the end of "Any Which Way But Zeus", after orchestrating the kidnapping and fighting to the death of numerous sidekicks/henchmen, he is apparently killed by his escaping captives. Somehow, he survives yet again and joins the Revenge Society.
** Finally averted in "All This and Gargantua-2", when he is finally KilledOffForReal via NeckSnap by Brock. Even if that somehow didn't kill him, the exploding eponymous space station surely did.
* StopHavingFunGuys: [[invoked]] To {{Mauve Shirt}}s #21 and #24 who normally screw armor and even openly discuss their PlotArmor. It makes Zero mad in his debut episode and leads him down a path to becoming a villain himself, with particular contempt for henchmen, thereafter.
* ThatManIsDead: Says it word-for-word when called "Henchman 0" when it's revealed that he is Zero.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: He is seriously pissed off at heroes/villains who disregard the lives of their sidekicks/henchmen. As Henchman 0, he kidnaps a bunch of them and forces them to fight to their deaths in penance and for his amusement.
* WrongGenreSavvy: After his return, he shifts into thinking the world is a lot more serious and he's a lot more important than he actually is. After being thwarted initially in "Any Which Way But Zeus", he is finally KilledOffForReal in "All This and Gargantua-2".
* YouBastard: Gives this to #21 when the latter deduces his identity in "Any Which Way But Zeus".
[[/folder]]
!The Fraternity of Torment
[[folder:The Fraternity as a Whole]]
!!The Fraternity of Torment
A group of supervillain enemies to the original Team Venture.
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* TheArtifact: The group apparently still exists, as they hold a small sliver of the "Share of Villainy" market according to a Guild presentation, but their original members are all dead or retired.
* BullyingTheDisabled: Their team-up was in response to the "cruel society that once mocked us for our differences", as each has physical deformities. When Jonas Venture Sr. goes undercover in the Fraternity, he pretends to have a "supernumerary nipple" as his "deformity".
* FailedASpotCheck: The entire group failed to see through Jonas Sr.'s PaperThinDisguse as the Japanese supervillain "Dr. Fangdragon". Scaramantula even calls out his obvious non-Japanese traits like being 6'2" and hirsute without realizing it.
* LegionOfDoom: They are a VillainTeamUp wishing to "wreak revenge" on the "cruel society" who mocked them for being deformed and each are adversaries of the original Team Venture.
* RoguesGallery: Essentially a VillainTeamUp of Rogue's Gallery enemies of the original Team Venture.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scaramantula]]
!!Scaramantula
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TobyHuss
An elderly Italian retired supervillain who was a former archenemy of the original Team Venture. In his retirement, he's become pretty mellow and well-adjusted by the standards of the show.
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* AffablyEvil: Very much so. The only reason he even offers to aid Brainulo in his revenge is that he hates how cheesy the museum pieces have made the decor of his former lair, and even then his revenge amounts to nothing more than some harmless [[TheGadfly trolling]]. He even gets sentimental when reminded of the time Jonas beat him in a swordfight on top of the Venture compound.
* AnimalMotifs: Spiders. He has eight fingers on his right hand like the legs of an arachnid and had his face tattooed to look like a spider, with his eyebrows and mustache forming four of the eight legs.
* CoolOldGuy: Very spry and fit for his age, delightedly taking the stairs two at a time while his old foes lag behind. He also comes across as very friendly, polite, and earnestly enjoys signing autographs and talking to his old fans.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain Scaramanga from ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' with added spider-theming.
* PokeThePoodle: Unlike Brainulo he doesn't seem to hold any serious grudges against Team Venture, and his only form of "vengeance" is deliberately ''annoying'' them by attracting a longer line of fans seeking autographs than them.
* PunnyName: "Scare" and "Tarantula". He's a villain (scary) with a spider-theme. It is also a play on ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain Scaramanga.
* RedRightHand: He has a hairy, eight-fingered right hand that looks a bit like a tarantula.
* ShoutOut: His lair is based on that of Ernst Stravro Blofeld in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Attempted to kill Rusty by dropping him in a pool full of piranhas. (He was rescued by the original Team Venture.)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brainulo]]
!!Brainulo
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A villain with psychic abilities from 1,000 years in the future, he was trapped in 1969 by Jonas Venture Sr. Now elderly and (apparently) senile, he seeks vengeance against the original Team Venture.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: His last-ditch attempt to cause havoc at J.J's museum fails because he failed to take into account the idea that his robot was either gutted of its internal mechanics to prevent it from going on a rampage in a public museum or simply didn't work after being left alone for almost half a century.
* {{Expy}}: Most closely of [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hector Hammond]], with his withered body, enormous head, and psi-powers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: From the year 3000, until Jonas Sr. [[NoodleIncident somehow trapped him in the past]]. Brainulo harbors a serious grudge over this.
* MyBrainIsBig: Though it's not entirely clear if it's because of the genuine size of his brain or if it's cybernetics given the nodes on his head. In either case, he possesses psychic powers including the ability to read minds and control his robot psychically.
* ObfuscatingDisability: He pretends to be senile to make people underestimate him. Subverted when he fries his brain when trying to control his old robot and ''actually'' becomes senile.
* PsychicPowers: His [[AmbiguousSituation brain or his cybernetics]] grant him these. He reads the mind of the other party guests in an attempt to sew chaos and can control his robot with his mind.
* {{Technopath}}: He can (or could previously) control his giant robot, Futuro, with his mind.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Mighty Manotaur]]
!!The Mighty Manotaur
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A large, muscular, bull-themed supervillain.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was ostracized due to his size, leading to him joining the Fraternity of Torment.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: A villain with SuperStrength and bull-theming.
* TheBrute: As the Fraternity's largest and most physically powerful member.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: While he is a large, muscular, formidable opponent to begin with, his SuperStrength apparently comes from his bull cowl as Phantom Limb made a point to ensure he couldn't get it during his misaimed revenge trip.
* MistakenIdentity: When he gets caught trying to seduce Dr. Girlfriend away from Phantom Limb, the Monarch quickly calls himself "The Mighty Manotaur" as a cover identity, apparently unaware that there was once a real villain by that name. Years later, during Phantom Limb's SanitySlippage, he finds and kills the real Mighty Manotaur in misguided revenge.
* SuperStrength: Which he used to be the Fraternity's muscle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: On two levels:
** He barely even gets a sentence of dialogue before he's killed by Phantom Limb in a case of MistakenIdentity at the end of "Shadowman 9".
** During the {{Flashback}} opening in "Now Museum, Now You Don't", he doesn't speak while at the Fraternity of Torment table and is immediately taken out of the fight against Team Venture by Kano's fire breath, causing him to plunge into the pool.
[[/folder]]
!Crusaders Action League
[[folder:Crusaders Action League as a Whole]]
!!Crusaders Action League
The resident superhero team of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
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* AvengersAssemble: Have their own phrase for this: "Crusaders, Convene!"
* BigApplesauce: Based in New York City, they apparently only operate there. They run into some JurisdictionFriction with the O.S.I. who are protecting Dr. Venture when he moves into [=VenTech=] Tower.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', complete with a couple of {{Captain Ersatz}}es of Creator/MarvelComics characters and an AvengersAssemble catchphrase, though Warriana is more closely based on Creator/DCComics[='=] ComicBook/WonderWoman.
* HeroesRUs: The C.A.L. is a ''business'', afterall, with multiple tiers and packages. They normally reserve their services for "paying customers only", though will make an exception to do something like save a minor or get back at a hated villain.
* InterServiceRivalry: They aren't particularly fond of the O.S.I., despite both organizations being heroic protection services in nature. Warriana chews out Stars and Garters when the learn Dr. Venture already has O.S.I. protection when they arrive to pitch their services.
* SuperTeam: Naturally, as a team of superheroes in the vein of The Avengers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stars and Garters]]
!!Stars and Garters (Tosh Thompkins)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarkGagliardi
The leader of the team, a patriotic superhero with a shield who wears garterbelts. His civilian identity is Tosh Tompkins, a professor at Stuyvesant University and otherwise rival to Jared (Brown Widow).
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* AlasPoorVillain: He visits the comotase Think Tank in the hospital and plays guitar for him after being told music helps in the healing process. Given that Warriana has apparently battled Think Tank in the past, it can be presumed Stars and Garters was one of the "jock" nemeses Think Tank mentions.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Aside from the fact that his hero outfit includes a garter-belt and stockings, in "The High Cost of Loathing", he is caught by Hank doing a tearful serenade to the comatose Think Tank by his hospital bed with an acoustic guitar.
* CaptainErsatz: In civilian mode of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''[='s=] Flash Thompson, both jocks who bully nerdy, spider-themed heroes (Flash to Spider-Man, Tosh to Brown Widow) with very similar names.
* CaptainPatriotic: A patriotic-themed superhero who carries a shield, just like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
* {{Crossdresser}}: His superhero constume is very feminine, including frilly garters, stockings, and high-heeled boots.
* JerkJock: How he treats Brown Widow while in his civilian identity, teasing him and throwing things at him.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Only performs superheroics for "paying customers", as he has to remind Warriana when she moves to save Hank. He still joins in the fight against Brock, playing it off as "pro bono" heroism for good PR.
* PetTheDog: He's a SmugSuper in costume and a JerkJock in civvies, but Stars and Garters is the only person we see visiting Think Tank in the hospital and is even crying about it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Warriana]]
!!Warriana (Alexis Warrington)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KateMcKinnon
A man-hating Amazon superhero who develops a relationship with Brock. Her civilian identity is Alexis Warrington, host of a current affairs television show in New York City.
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* AffectionateNickname: She refers to Brock as "[[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMortalsAndDemigods Heracles]]". It's derisive at first but becomes affectionate once they start dating.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Given that she's both a figurative and literal Amazon, and Brock Samson is her type. At several points, she references the TropeNamer directly by ''literally'' referring to him as Heracles (the Greek version of Hercules).
* AmazonianBeauty: Even though she's tall, muscular, and seems to have one of her breasts cut off, Brock is still crazy about her.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Molotov's Veronica, though it seems that they will probably never be in direct competition and it's all but stated that Brock has chosen Alexis.
* CasualKink: She's rather open about being into BDSM given she was willing to use her lasso to get Brock to admit to her he enjoyed the "butt stuff" from their first time.
* ChariotPulledByCats: Flies around in an invisible chariot, apparently pulled by invisible horses.
* ClarkKenting: Her civilian persona is a mild-mannered, nasally-voiced, bespectacled journalist. She also appears to wear a prosthetic (at least on-air) to hide the fact that she only has one breast.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Is an admitted man-hater, using "rape-on" instead of "hard-on", and is constantly mocking and teasing the RatedMForManly Brock in their first interactions, especially during his "pissing testosterone" showdown with Haranguetan. This leads to some HypocriticalHumor as she is quick to display some of these toxic masculine behaviors herself, and ultimately [[AllAmazonsWantHercules gets into a relationship with Brock]].
* {{Foil}}: To Molotov Cocktease. Both are strong, independent women who are [[ActionGirl incredible fighters]], absolutely deadly to mess with, and have a romantic relationship with Brock Sampson. However, they differ in many ways. Molotov is a mercenary/secret agent that works covertly and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney does her job for a paycheck]]. Alexis has a normal job in the limelight where thousands of people see her every day and the same goes for her Warriana guise that she uses to help people because GoodFeelsGood. Molotov is [[WaifFu slim]], [[SheFu agile]], and [[CombatPragmatist tricky in a fight]] while making up for her lack of brawn by fighting dirty and using any weapon she can get her hands on. Alexis is a StatuesqueStunner and an AmazonianBeauty with SuperStrength who only relies on a few weapons and primarily uses [[GoodOldFisticuffs her fists]] while having a straightforward fighting style. Molotov is TheTease with Brock and often [[FemmeFatale manipulates him using guile and her feminine wiles to get him to do what she wants]] and while she often gets into combat with Brock has never truly gotten close to him as she only cares about Brock the secret agent, not Brock Sampson the loyal bodyguard and member of the Venture family and they have never consummated their relationship. Alexis and Brock clash initially as serious BelligerentSexualTension while arguing and mocking each other. Yet later, Alexis respects Brock as a man and doesn't mind meeting him on or off the job and seems to prefer Brock the man to Brock the secret agent. Unlike Molotov, Brock chased her and shared his honest feeling with her which resulted in [[TheirFirstTime a lot of sex]]. [[SexGoddess Very good sex]].
* HandicappedBadass: Appears to have only one breast. A case of ShownTheirWork on the writers' part, as the original myth of the Amazon warriors claimed they would cut off their right breasts, as they were thought to interfere with the use of a spear or bow and arrow.
* HypocriticalHumor: While quick to decry stereotypical toxic masculine behaviors, she exhibits more than a few of them herself. She scoffs at Brock and Haranguetan "pissing testosterone" at each other, only to start clashing egos with Brock as well. She later has sex with him while he's intoxicated with [[MindControl God Gas]], then acts dismissive the morning after, leaving him to endure the WalkOfShame out of her apartment; she apologizes by claiming work is stressing her out, then goes after Think Tank for "messin' with my man".
* KnowsTheRopes: Wields a golden "Truth Lasso" as both a weapon and interrogation device.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She's a parody in part of Creator/AriannaHuffington, a Greek-American journalist and founder of the Huffington Post--hence her civilian identity, name, and Greek origins.
* ShownTheirWork: Warriana only having one breast may seem like another odd physical quirk like so many others have in the Venture-verse, but it actually comes from an ancient Greek misconception/mistranslation that the mythological Amazons cut off their right breast to better use a spear/bow. It's a very obscure detail but given how often the show draws on Myth/ClassicalMythology, it's not really surprising that they included it.
* SuperStrength: She's superhumanly strong, able to lift even the 7'0" tall Brock with ease.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She becomes aggressively protective of Brock after starting a relationship with him. She even helped him defeat the supervillain, Think Tank, because he was fighting Brock.
* WonderWomanWannabe: She's an obvious parody of ComicBook/WonderWoman from her invisible chariot to her lasso. Though Warriana seems to be more an ancient idea of an Amazon than the modern idea embodied by Wonder Woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fallen Archer]]
!!Fallen Archer
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->'''Voiced by''': Larry Murphy
An archer-themed superhero whose arrows have human feet on them instead of arrowheads.
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* ArcherArchetype: He's a mostly stoic archer-themed superhero based on the ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' version of ComicBook/GreenArrow.
* CaptainErsatz: Of ComicBook/GreenArrow and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} (themselves {{Alternate Company Equivalent}}s), being an archer-themed superhero. His facial structure, voice, and mannerisms are based on the former (particularly the Creator/StephenAmell version in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'') while his purple costume and membership in an Avengers-like group are drawn from classic depictions of the latter.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He fires arrows with feet on them instead of pointed tips. They seem to bludgeon those they hit and are capable of "hopping" back to him once fired.
* LivingWeapon: His arrows appear to be this, given that the feet are fully functional and capable of hopping their way back to him under their own power
* MeaningfulName: On two levels. First, the PunnyName level, as "fallen arch syndrom" affects the feet and he fires arrows tipped with feet. Second, he's an archer shown to be TheMole for the villainous Wide Wale, meaning he's "fallen".
* TheMole: He's Wide Wale's mole in the team, providing him with information and a cut of the League's earnings.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His facial structure, voice, and mannerisms are based on Creator/StephenAmell playing ComicBook/GreenArrow in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', if Amell borrowed ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}[='s=] purple costume.
* OhCrap: After Brock breaks free of his rope TrickArrow, Fallen Archer visibly panics and drops a bunch of his arrows as he tries to knock another while Brock charges in.
* PunnyName: "Fallen arch syndrome" is a painful condition that afflicts the feet. He's an archer who fires foot-tipped arrows.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: He'll dive into a fight without a second thought, but he has very awkward mannerisms, stammering when giving the C.A.L. "[[HeroesRUs sales pitch]]" to Dr. Venture and being visibly frightened when meeting with Wide Wale.
* TrickArrow:
** Spoofed; all of his Arrow's are tipped with feet that bludgeon those struck and the only benefit seems to be that they can hop back to him after a battle.
** He also has a set connected by a rope that can tie up his target.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Night Dick]]
!!Night Dick (Richard Knight)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JamesAdomian
A murdered cop turned biker-themed superhero after being resurrected through unknown means. Everyone laughs at his heroic name.
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* AtrociousAlias: He seems to be the only one who doesn't realize how stupid his name sounds.
* BackFromTheDead: Was gunned down by the mob and LeftForDead before getting resurrected through unknown means and becoming a superhero.
* BadassBiker: His theme as a superhero, riding a gravity-defying CoolBike that spews flames.
* CaptainErsatz: Of ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' (A BadassBiker with a CoolBike that may or may not be demonic in origin) and ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' (An ex-cop that came back to life who wears a CoatHatMask). With a dash of Creator/DavidHasselhoff's Michael Knight from ''Series/KnightRider'' (Similar surname, both own a super-vehicle).
* CoatHatMask: Wouldn't be a proper ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' Ersatz if he wasn't wearing this outfit. A proper trenchcoat, tie, fedora, and DominoMask.
* CoolBike: Owns a pretty damn cool one at that, it not only defies gravity (which allows it to go up buildings and fly) but it's exhaust is flames.
* DominoMask: Wears one as apart of his CoatHatMask ensemble.
* HardboiledDetective: In addition to his superheroism, he works as a gruff PrivateEye, being hired by Dr. Venture to look into notorious BlackWidow, Teresa Didae. Even he can't convince Rusty that pursuing her is a terrible idea.
* LeftForDead: He was gunned down by the mob and left for dead, leading to his resurrection and subsequent superheroism.
* PunnyName: His surname is "Knight", he still works as a PrivateEye (who in most FilmNoir media work at night), and "dick" is an old-fashioned term for a detective.
* RescueIntroduction: His first appearance has him save a falling Hank while riding up the side of a skyscraper.
[[/folder]]
! The Peril Partnership
[[folder:The Peril Partnership as a Whole]]
!! The Peril Partnership (Le Partenariat Péril)
A Canadian supervillain labor group in direct competition with the Guild of Calamitous Intent with a reputation as "honorless scum".
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* CanadaEh: Based out of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, but in an inversion to the "Canadian Niceness" aspect of the trope, they're detested by the Guild and O.S.I. alike as "honorless scum".
* EnforcedColdWar: They and the Guild have held an uneasy truce for the past 60 years. However, the damage done to the Guild by the Sovereign's purge has caused the Peril Parternship to muscle in on Guild territory, particularly the RenegadeSplinterFaction led by The Creep.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: They're initially presented as ''very'' small fish in supervillainy, seen holding less than a tenth of a share of "organized villainy" in a Guild pie chart. In "Any Which Way But Zeus", Brock is incredulous that they're popular enough to have any of their members kidnapped by Zeus. By season seven, following the Sovereign's purge and subsequent Guild turmoil, they've become a much bigger player to the point that Wide Wale, a powerful mafioso in his own right, opts for paying them off instead of a head-on fight and they've been able to turn at least one Guild operative to function as TheMole.
* TheMole: They've got at least one in the Guild, Stranger S-464. The Guild makes a deal with him to become a reverse mole, but his actions ultimately lead to the Guild wiping his mind.
* NoodleIncident: Something has made the Peril Partnership anathema to the general idea of organized crime and government-sanctioned crimefighting, as both the Guild ''and'' the O.S.I. have it out for them. They're hated enough that O.S.I. Agent Kimberly [=McManus=] breaks off her affair with Guild Stranger S-464 when she saw he had a Peril Partnership belt buckle. The next time they meet, she's ready to tear him a new one for joining in with the "honorless scum".
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Peril Partnership group muscling in on Guild territory is a splinter faction led by rogue villain "The Creep", who was thrown out of the O.S.I for killing a troop of boy scouts and refused to join the Guild because he didn't like the rules and regulations. That said, the Peril Partnership as a whole doesn't seem to have a particularly good reputation to begin with.
* RunForTheBorder: Being based in Canada, they are a haven for American villains who refuse to join the Guild or who have pissed the Guild off. The Creep was a former O.S.I. member who joins the Partnership because he doesn't like the Guild's strict rules and regulations while, at the end of the FinaleMovie, Dr. Mrs. the Monarch sets up Mantilla with the Partnership to keep her safe from O.S.I./Guild prosecution.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They're a supervillain union from Canada encroaching upon New York City, whose brazen disregard for the [[ContractualGenreBlindness rules and regulations]] of the Guild sees them labeled a serious and unpredictable threat.
* ShownTheirWork: Being based in Canada, the Partnership's French name (Le Partenariat Péril) is typically shown or displayed in addition to its English name meeting Canada's bi-lingual requirements.
* SigilSpam: All members of the Peril Partnership wear a belt buckle with "PP" on it. This is how Kimberly [=McManus=] deduces that S-464 is TheMole for them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Creep]]
!!The Creep (Mission Creep)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JamesAdomian
A former O.S.I. agent turned supervillain and Peril Partnership splinter faction leader. He's an absolute lunatic and hoards stolen Guild technology.
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* AxCrazy: You'd have to be at least a little dangerously crazy to mistake a group of boy scouts for enemies and then slaughter them all. He has only experienced further SanitySlippage after, entering full on lunatic territory.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: His lair is strewn with Guild technology he's stolen, such as Maybe Man's Indifference Engine, Nat King Cobra's Venomator, Mr. Monday's Calendar of Magic Mondays, Jungle Jim's Greenhouse Ray, Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine, the Monarch's own Butter-Glider, and giant lawn darts that were banned for being safety hazards.
* ContinuityNod: His outfit, equipment, and technology laying around his lair are almost entirely from villains seen or mentioned before in the series.
** Wears one of Baron Ünderbheit's pre-Revenge Society costume pauldrons.
** Is in possession of Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine (previously seen in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean").
** Has Mr. Monday's "Calendar of Magic Mondays". Mr. Monday was a fellow inmate of the Monarch in "Powerless in the Face of Death".
** Rides around on the Monarch's Butter-Glider from "The Diving Bell vs. The Butter-Glider".
** He has Maybe Man's "Indifference Engine". Maybe man was one of the Dunwich inmates in "Momma's Boys".
** Has Tank Top's breastplate from "O.S.I. Love You".
* {{Expy}}: Shares a number of similarties with Marvel's ComicBook/{{Cable}}, including robotic eye and arm, extreme militaristic attitude, and leading a RenegadeSplinterFaction (The Creep of the Peril Partnership and Cable of the X-Men).
* FashionableAsymmetry: ''"Fashionable"'' is being generous, but his entire ensemble is made out of different kinds of clothes or armor that belonged to other characters seen or mentioned in the series.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Challenges the Monarch and 21 to a game of "Dive Bomb" using lawn darts. He is killed when one pierces his head after being distracted by future versions of Rusty and Billy stepping out of Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine.
* MeaningfulName: Before being kicked out, his name in the O.S.I. was "Mission Creep." This is the term for when an operation, whether due to SkewedPriorities or unexpected complexities, goes from an incidental issue to a long-term commitment that goes well past the original intent. The Creep took a fairly mundane guard-duty mission and escalated it to lunacy until he found himself kicked out of the O.S.I. and in the Peril Partnership.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: He uses a trident taken from [=PoseiDon=] Juan, a Poseidon-themed supervillain.
* RummageSaleReject: His outfit consists of items stolen from other villains that have no business being worn together.
* ShoutOut: Wields a trident as his main weapon, apparently taken from Poseidon-themed supervillain "[[Literature/DonJuan PoseiDon Juan]]".
* SociopathicSoldier: As an O.S.I. agent, he mistook a group of boyscouts ("They were wearing paramilitary clothing!") for enemies and slaughtered them all.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: While most of his outfit is made up from pieces taken from the costumes of other villains, his chest piece still has a (scratched out) O.S.I. logo on it.
* TalkativeLoon: It bears repeating -- ''he's an absolute lunatic'' and runs his mouth endlessly.
* TimeMachine: Has the previously-seen Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine in his possesion. It ultimately leads to his death, as he is distracted by future versions of Rusty and Billy stepping out of it while playing "Dive Bomb" and gets impaled by a dart.
* WouldHurtAChild: One of the things that [[EvenEvilHasStandards appalls even The Monarch and Gary]] is his lack of reaction to having [[KickTheDog killed a troop of boy scouts]] when he was in the O.S.I., even apparently gloating about it. Although his angrily defensive tone and TwitchyEye does imply he seriously regrets it on some level.
-->'''The Creep''': They were wearing paramilitary clothing! ''Anyone'' could have made that mistake...
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blind Rage]]
!!Blind Rage
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrendonSmall
A blind supervillain with enhanced other senses sent by the Peril Partnership to negotiate with the Guild.
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* AssholeVictim: Considering his first impression was him blackmailing the Guild and acting like a gigantic, sexist, egotistical asshat, not a lot of tears were shed when Red Death took it upon himself to ambush him, bind him to a railroad track, and give him a ToThePain-laced lecture on the simple elegance of proper villainy before leaving him to get run over by an oncoming train.
* ChainedToARailway: His fate courtesy of Red Death, who decided to kill him in this classic villain fashion to teach him a lesson.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: He's a villainous, loutish Expy of ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} with matching powers and a similar costume.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Like his inspiration, Daredevil, he's blind but "sees" via radar and has an enhanced sense of smell.
* FailedASpotCheck: He fails to recognize that the "chef" he compliments as he leaves the restaurant is actually Phantom Limb. Justified, since Phantom Limb's most noticeable feature is his invisible limbs. Blind Rage is blind so he is unable to notice this, and his Daredevil-esque "radar" would register Phantom Limb's limbs the same as it would everyone else's.
* JabbaTableManners: While meeting with members of the Guild council at Vincenzo's, he devours the appetizer they ordered while talking, spewing food chunks out of his mouth as he does.
* PetTheDog: About the only nice thing that he does is compliment the "chef" for the stuffed peppers. Subverted, since the "chef" in question is actually Phantom Limb, who was intending to eat with them.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In addition to being awful in numerous other ways, he sexually harasses Dr. Mrs. the Monarch about five times in the short meeting they have.
* ShoutOut: His civilian clothes reference Tyler Durden from ''Film/FightClub''.
* ShownTheirWork: His ChestInsignia is his initials (accurately) written in Braille.
* UncertainDoom: We don't actually know if he was hit by the train, which was Red Death's intention. Whether he gets hit or escapes, the message to the Peril Partnership about not messing with the Guild is delivered.[[note]]According to Doc Hammer in creator commentary, he survived but was crippled and would have returned in the canceled season eight during a plotline where the Monarch gets disabled henchmen at a discounted.[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tiger Shark]]
!!Tiger Shark
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->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A shark-man supervillain and representative of the Peril Partnership at the O.S.I./Guild summit.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Brock pulls this on him, having no memory of sleeping with Tiger Shark's wife and then breaking his knees.
* FishPerson: He's humanoid with shark-like features, including a fin, gray skin, and gills.
* NasalTrauma: He attempts to dive at Brock and gets his face smashed into the council table as a result, leaving his nose bloodied.
* UnknownRival: Still harbors a grudge against Brock for sleeping with his life and breaking his knees during a previous encounter. Brock has no memory of any of it.
[[/folder]]
!Residents of Ünderland
[[folder:Girl Hitler]]
!!Girl Hitler
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->'''Voiced By''': Mia Barron
A part of Baron Ünderbheit's council in Ünderland before overthrowing him and taking it over. She is a female version of Adolf Hitler and the fiancee of Catclops.
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* AdolfHitlarious: She's a hilariously incompetent female-version of Adolph Hitler.
* TheExile: Chooses to exile Baron Ünderbheit instead of executing him in order to "soften Ünderland's image".
* HeelFaceTurn: Once served Baron Ünderbheit, but then leads a resistance against him, allies with the Ventures, and overthrows him to establish a democracy.
* GirlsWithMoustaches: Has a Hitler moustache, as her name implies.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Is incredibly ineffectual at antagonizing Baron Ünderbheit until the Ventures arrive, mostly just playing childish pranks on him.
* TheStarscream: A downplayed example in that, while she usurps Baron Ünderbheit's position as leader of Ünderland, she is doing it to overthrow his tyranny and is implied to be a decent leader after.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Catclops]]
!!Catclops
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->'''Voiced By''': Creator/JamesUrbaniak
A part of Baron Ünderbheit's council in Ünderland before overthrowing him. He's a vaguely military-looking guy with a cat's head in place of his eyes and is the the fiance of Girl Hitler.
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* EyepatchOfPower: The cat's head he has in place of his eyes wears a patch over one of its eyes and he's (initially) a villain who serves on Baron Ünderbheit's council then overthrows him.
* HeelFaceTurn: Once served Baron Ünderbheit, but then leads a resistance against him, allies with the Ventures, and overthrows him.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Is incredibly ineffectual at antagonizing Baron Ünderbheit until the Ventures arrive, mostly just playing childish pranks on him.
* PunnyName: He has a cat's head in place of his eyes, and one of the cat's eyes has a patch over it, making him a "Cat Cyclops".
* SoreLoser: He's miffed and jealous that Girl Hitler is picked to be the new leader of Ünderland over him, offering a weak and terse congratulations to her once he finds out.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Manic 8-Ball]]
!!Manic 8-Ball
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A part of Baron Ünderbheit's council in Ünderland before overthrowing him. He's dressed all in black with an "8" on his face and communicates only in standard "Magic 8 Ball" messages.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Once served Baron Ünderbheit, but then leads a resistance against him, allies with the Ventures, and overthrows him.
* Magic8Ball: His theme as a villain-turned-hero. He dresses all in black save for an "8" on his face and communicates in standard "Magic 8 Ball" messages via a window on his chest.
* {{Seers}}: Baron Ünderbheit uses him like one would a Magic8Ball, asking "yes or no" questions for advice.
* TheVoiceless: Cannot speak and only communicates via "Magic 8 Ball" messages in a window on his chest.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Manservant]]
!!Manservant
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->'''Voiced By''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
Baron Ünderbheit's personal slave.
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Does everything for Baron Ünderbheit while in a state of constant exasperation. Given that he's explicitly a slave, he doesn't have much choice.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Baron Ünderbheit [[WrongGenreSavvy thinks that Phantom Limb and Impossible want a demonstration of his commitment]] in order to join them, so he kills Manservant. (They really just wanted him to sign a contract.)
* KilledOffForReal: Baron Ünderbheit breaks his neck thinking it is required as an initiation to the Revenge Society. Prof. Impossible and Phantom Limb are mortified as they only wanted him to sign a contract.
* NeckSnap: How he is killed by Baron Ünderbheit.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: According to Pete White, Baron Ünderbheit made him sleep in Pete's closet [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether in college]].
[[/folder]]
!Associates and Neighbors of the Venture Family
The associates and relative neighbors of the Venture family at their compound. Ordered by the character's first apperance.
[[folder:Kim]]
!!Kim
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->'''Voiced by''': Nina Hellman
Triana's "Cybergoth" best friend who is largely apathetic to the weirdness of the Venture family and their associates.
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* ApatheticCitizens: Is not fazed in the slightest by the weirdnes of the Ventureverse, such as having no reaction to Phantom Limb's apparently missing limbs or being offered the chance to become a supervillain.
* BlindDate: Triana agrees to help her father get the Venture boys out of the house in "Victor. Echo. November." by going on a date with them. While she obviously already knows Dean, Kim is Hank's blind date.
* MistakenForSubculture: She's a UsefulNotes/CyberGoth whose colorful appearance (outfit, hair) and apathetic demeanor gets her mistaken as a supervillain by both Hank and Dr. Girlfriend. She decides just to roll with it.
* PerkyGoth: She's a UsefulNotes/CyberGoth with plentiful pink in her appearance (outfit, hair) and an apathetic, SureLetsGoWithThat type of personality that makes her some downright perky by the standards of most in the cynical, jaded Ventureverse.
* PutOnABusToHell: "Operation P.R.O.M." reveals that she fell in with the "preppies", developed a drug problem, and then became a born-again Christian who now resides in Florida.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit in "Victor. Echo. November." is pink UsefulNotes/CyberGoth, tight, shows off her ample cleavage, and [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine exposes her midriff]]. Hank and Dr. Girlfriend both mistake her for a supervillain at least in part because of it.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Her reaction to being offered membership into the Guild of Calamitous Intent. She initially thinks Dr. Girlfriend is hitting on her until Triana points out the Guild business card, which she also thinks is cool.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Venturestein]]
!!Venturestein
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A nameless Monarch killed by Brock during a raid on the Venture compound and reanimated by Dr. Venture who sells him to the military. He later defects and co-founds a nation for victims of mad science experiments.
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* BodyOfBodies: Heavily downplayed, but after being reanimated the first time, he tries to attack Brock who bashes the top of his head in. Rusty has to stitch the top of the head from another corpse onto Venturestein's, mean he has parts from two bodies.
* TheBusCameBack: Introduced in season two's "¡Viva los Muertos!", he's PutOnABus until season five's "Venture Libre", which serves a SequelEpisode to his introduction.
* ExplosiveLeash: Wears one while serving the military as a suicide bomber zombie. Removing these is one of the first things he and the other zombies do after freeing themselves.
* FrankensteinsMonster: He's actually kind of scrawny, but he's got the requisite HulkSpeak, stitched-together head, and neck bolts.
* HulkSpeak: In his second appearance. Though, unlike most examples, he is actually quite intelligent in most areas, able to perfectly understand concepts like communism, rebellion, the internet, and guerrilla warfare. It's just his verbal language skills that are lacking.
* NeckSnap: Brock initially kills him with one, twisting his head completely around 180 degress.
* OutcastRefuge: Helps to form on in South America where other victims of super-science experiments gone awry can come to live in peace.
* TechnicalPacifist: He has army training, has strength that comes with being "a Frankenstein", and leads a well-organized militia. But he tries to avoid needless violence if he can help it. He even lets Hank, Rusty, and Hatred go free when his science experiment soldiers caught them (since after all, they're technically family). In fact, his whole plan revolves around a ShamingTheMob speech toward all the scientists and their experiments of the jungle to live in harmony which, surprisingly enough, ''works!''
* TookALevelInBadass: Was mostly a dumb brute when he started. Some army training and teachings from UsefulNotes/CheGuevara made him much more formidable.
* TheUndead: A "Frankenstein" created by Dr. Venture from two dead Monarch henchmen.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Tinyfeet]]
!!Princess Tinyfeet
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-> '''Voiced By''': Sue Gilad
Sgt. Hatred's stereotypically Native American-themed wife who later divorces him.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear is she's a villain herself. She was the daughter of a superhero and is seen exclusively dating supervillains, but her alignment is never revealed or even otherwise implied.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Her attire is deliberately stereotypical, being the daughter of a Native American-themed superhero who has possibly become a supervillain.
* CasualKink: She's into some really kinky things, such as having a threesome with her husband's henchmen and sleeping with a number of villains. In "Operation P.R.O.M.", the Monarch and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch kidnap her, which is easy since she's already in bondage. She spends the rest of the episode bound and gagged, with no one commenting, and even wins prom queen.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: While her own alignment is unclear, her father was a Native American-themed superhero named Chief Justice and she is seen exclusively dating villains.
* MyGirlIsASlut: She apparently left Hatred for not being sensitive to her very kinky needs and was seen having a bizarre threesome with some of his former men. Hatred later gladly took her back and was fine with playing rough... but learns that she's already shacked up with another villain, Scorpio.
* TooKinkyToTorture: When the Monarch kidnaps her as a bargaining chip with Hatred, he and Doctor Mrs. The Monarch don't even have to tie her up; she was already in bondage. She even ASKED to be put in the trunk, according to them. It's possible this was a lie on the Monarch's part (Tinyfeet's exasperated expression supports this idea) and Tinyfeet simply couldn't object.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Spends "Operation P.R.O.M." in bondage with a ball gag in her mouth, and still manages to win Prom Queen.
* TheVoiceless: Says only one word in the entire series, in her first appearance:
--> '''Princess Tinyfeet:''' Maize.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Margaret Fictel]]
!!Margaret Fictel
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->'''Voiced by''': Lisa Hammer (season one), Kate [=McKinnon=] (all other appearances)
A gruff, older woman who works as a diner waitress and Dermott's apparent mother. Unknown to him, she's actually his grandmother.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: She is the waitress serving Dr. Orpheus as he trails the Venture boys way back in season one's "Return to Spider-Skull Island". She is shown to Dermott's "mother" in his introductory episode, season three's "The Buddy System".
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Dermott thinks she is his mother, but she's actually his grandmother. His "sister" Nikki is his actual mother, having gotten pregnant as a teenager by Rusty.
* {{Gonk}}: While not overly horrible looking to the audience, she's treated as downright repugnant in universe. Brock's response when Hank and Al ask if he's ever slept with her sums it up:
-->'''Brock''': Never been that drunk or that lonely.
* MamaBear: She was absolutely livid with Rusty for getting her daughter pregnant and made sure he paid them hush money before banning him from seeing her. She then raises her daughter's son as her own.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: She tells Dermott that his father lives at the Venture compound. Dermott (and the audience for a few seasons) believe she's talking about Brock. It turns out that Rusty is his father.
* TrashyTrailerHome: Lives in one that she shares with her daughter and grandson. She ticks many of the stereotypes of those who live in these, being older, a smoker, having trashy dyed hair, and a low-wage job.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nikki Fictel]]
!!Nikki Fictel
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[[caption-width-right:200:As seen during Hank's FilmNoir fantasy, hence the black and white.]]
->'''Voiced by''': Kate [=McKinnon=]
Dermott's "sister" who is actually his mother, having gotten pregnant by Rusty while a teenager.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Collects merchandise from the old ''[[ShowWithinAShow Rusty Venture Show]]'' and has a side business selling it online, which is how Billy Quizboy learns of her.
* CoolBigSis: The role she plays to Dermott, driving him around and getting crushed on by Dermott's friend.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Dermott thinks she is his sister, but she's actually his mother, having gotten pregnant as a teenager by Rusty.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Rusty Venture Show]]'', even being the fan club president in her teens. It winds up deconstructed with her tricking Rusty into committing statutory rape by lying about her age and committing (possible) statutory rape herself by having sex with Hank[[note]]His status as a clone makes his legal age tricky to pin down, but he's at least 16 which is the legal age of consent in some states. It just depends on where the Venture compound actually is...[[/note]] because he reminds her of the cartoon version of Rusty.
* FemmeFatale: Is introduced in this fashion during Hank's FilmNoir fantasy.
* FilleFatale: Downplayed, but she still managed to successfully seduce Rusty when she was only 15 after lying about her age, although this does mean that he's guilty of statutory rape.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: In true FemmeFatale fashion, she is actually Dermott's mother as revealed at the end of Hank's FilmNoir "investigation" in "Everybody Come to Hank's".
* MrsRobinson: She's at least 15 years older than Hank, nearly twice his age, and sleeps with him.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The timeline means she is at least in her early 30s, but she doesn't really appear to be that much older than Hank or Dermott.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Nikki was a FanGirl of Rusty Venture growing up. After getting impregnated by him, she learned that the ''real'' Rusty was far from being anything like he was on TV. Years later, she meets Rusty's son Hank, who actually has the qualities of the person she idolized, so she seduces and sleeps with him.
* TeenPregnancy: Slept with Rusty at 15 (after lying about her age), resulting in Dermott.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Back when she actually ''was'' close in age to Hank or Dermott, she still looked old enough that Rusty thought she was over the age of consent.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Quymn Family]]
!!The Quymn Family
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[[caption-width-right:250:Top to Bottom: Dr. Tara Quymn, Nancy and Drew, Ginnie]]
->'''Voiced By''': Nina Hellman (Dr. Quymn, Nancy, Drew), Joanna Adler (Ginnie)
A DistaffCounterpart to the Venture family consisting of mother Dr. Quymn, her twin daughters Nancy and Drew, and their bodyguard Ginnie.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ginnie, a pseudo-ButchLesbian, toward Brock. [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased He's put off by a woman being as blunt and sexually-forward as he normally is]], and it also doesn't help that Brock misheard her name as ''Jimmy'' and initially thought she was a man.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Ginnie, despite "hating men", still comes onto Brock but he isn't interested.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Played straight with the Quymn twins as another way of reflecting the fraternal Venture twins.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Ginnie looks and acts like a classic ButchLesbian, but clearly has feelings for both Tara and Brock suggesting that she's really bi.
* BestHerToBedHer: Ginnie is clearly attracted to Brock and considers him the only "real man" she's ever met. She is clearly turned on when wrestling him.
* BreakTheCutie: Dr. Quymn's off-camera break-up with the father of her two kids, which left her emotionally destroyed until her childhood friend Rusty came back into her life.
* DistaffCounterpart: Dr. Quymn's twin daughters, Nancy and Drew, were written to be counterparts of Dean and Hank, twins but with far more worldliness. Dr. Quymn herself is one to Rusty Venture, being the neglected children of action-adventurers who bonded over that fact. Ginnie fills the spot in comparison to Brock, both imposing, powerful, sexually forward bodyguards.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Dr. Quymn appears in the Guild book of available arches that the Monarch is paging through in "Home is Where the Hate Is", two episodes before she is introduced.
* FakeBoobs: When the Quymn twins have Dean in bed, one of them removes her bra (offscreen) only for some padding to fall out.
* HeroicLineage: Dr. Quymn is the daughter of Mz. Quymn, a heroine married to Col. Gentleman (Tara's step-father) based on [[Characters/MarvelComicsWildPack Silver Sable]].
* IncompatibleOrientation: Ginnie, an AmbiguouslyBi pseudo-ButchLesbian, clearly has deeper feelings for Tara than simply being her protector. Tara, however, shows no interest in her in "that way".
* LastUnsmokedCigarette: Dr. Quymn wears a crystal necklace throughout "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman". We find out after she suffers an epileptic seizure and her home burns down that it's her last cigarette, which she proceeds to smoke to deal with the stresses of the evening.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Quymn" is a homophone of "quim," [[CountryMatters an old British term for a certain part of the female body]]. It also sounds quite similar to the titular character of ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman''.
** Nancy and Drew are named for, well, ''Literature/NancyDrew''. Fitting for teenage female sleuths.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Subverted by Ginnie who, while trying to impress Brock, wears a frilly pink bra... but underneath her same sweaty, masculine AdventurerOutfit. It seems like he didn't even notice until she takes it off and hands it to him.
* SimilarSquad: A DistaffCounterpart to the Venture family, including an awkward red-headed patriach/matriach, twin children, and a gruff bodyguard.
* StrawFeminist: Ginnie "hates men" and, when asked to clarify, explains that she "doesn't hate men, just never met a real one". She [[AllAmazonsWantHercules still comes on to]] a (very disinterested) Brock.
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[[folder:The Outrider]]
!!The Outrider
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DocHammer
A necromancer and Dr. Orpheus' former student who married his mentor's ex-wife, Tatyana, making him Triana's stepfather.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Zig-zagged between he and Dr. Orpheus. The Outrider has gained an ability Orpheus never has, the ability to travel between worlds, but cheated to get it. However, by cheating instead of working hard, the Outrider has made time for his wife (Dr. Orpheus ex-wife) who left Orpheus because he was a workaholic who never had time for her. In the end, Outrider [[HardWorkHardlyWorks admits that Orpheus is the better sorcerer, but at too high of a cost]].
* CondescendingCompassion: He means well, but his attempts to give advice to other people such as telling Dean to move on from Triana rather than get hung up on her going out with someone else come off as incredibly saccharine and rather insincere in their intentions.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Is introduced doing this to a Cthulhu-looking creature that Torrid had summoned from Hell.
* EverybodyHasStandards: He is outraged when he thinks the KKK is setting up a burning cross on his lawn.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Zig-zagged. To achieve his level of power, he had to take shortcuts, unlike Orpheus who worked his way there. While this did back-fire when he fought Torrid, his personal life is better than Orpheus' because The Outrider had more time for his loved ones, and other people, while Orpheus focused exclusively on his job.
* {{Irony}}: According to the DVD commentary for season four, his wife has grown tired of him the same way she had with Orpheus (she has a bored, disinterested expression when we first see her, while the Outrider is seeing Triana off). He's clueless about it.
* NiceGuy: He's right up there with Jonas Jr. as one of the outright nicest characters in the series, though also like J.J., he can be rather condescending. The only time we see him anything other than cordial is when he attacked by what he thought was a KKK member burning a cross on his lawn (it was just Dean in a ghost costume).
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His appearance is based on Mystery, aka Erik von Markovik, the host of Creator/VH1's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickup_Artist_%28TV_series%29 The Pickup Artist]]''.
* NonProtagonistResolver: He is the one who stops Torrid's "open a portal to Hell" scheme and, if later comments from the Guild are to be believed, kills Torrid, despite him being the official ArchEnemy to the Order of the Triad.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: One example was when he tried to explain to Dean that Triana had moved on and found someone else. He also said that their relationship was over, and Dean had to accept that if he wanted her to be happy. Unfortunately, his need to spell it out completely caused him to come across as incredibly condescending, leading Dean to respond with a "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck You!]]"
* ShadowArchetype: To Orpheus. Both are necromancers, both are incredibly powerful, but while Orpheus is more skilled due to all of his training, the Outrider had to get there through shortcuts. While Orpheus speaks in a grandiose manner and is so immersed in his work he and his wife drifted apart, the Outrider is fairly personable, has no trouble interacting with people, and is now married to Orpheus' ex-wife.
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[[folder:Tatyana]]
!!Tatyana
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[[caption-width-right:400:The Master copying Tatyana's form]]
A sorceress who is Dr. Orpheus' ex-wife, Triana's mother, and is currently married to The Outrider.
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* TheAlcoholic: She has a drink in her hand in each of her appearances.
* CaptainErsatz: Of several "magical female superheroes" including both Creator/DCComics's ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (especially her Halloween episode appearance) and Creator/MarvelComics' [[Characters/DoctorStrangeSupportingCharacters Clea]] (a love interest of ComicBook/DoctorStrange who forms the basis of Dr. Orpheus).
* {{Irony}}: According to the DVD commentary for season four, she has grown tired of the Outrider the same way she had with Orpheus (she has a bored, disinterested expression when we first see her, while the Outrider is seeing Triana off). He's clueless about it.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Both her usual purple attire and her Halloween costume are extremely low cut, showing off her ample cleavage.
* ShoutOut: Her normal attire is a lower-cut version of Lily Munster's dress from ''Series/TheMunsters''.
* TheVoiceless: While The Master speaks when [[VoluntaryShapeshifting taking her form]] to teach Orpheus a lesson, she never speaks as herself. According to creator commentary, this was intentional, as they had some future ideas for her and wanted to keep her role open for a potential bigger name voice actress down the line. With Orpheus and associates going OutOfFocus later in the series and then the cancellation, nothing ever came of it. This trait does add to her "disinterested" characterization.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Given Orpheus and Triana's ages, as well as comments made by the Master while in her form, she is older than her gorgeous body implies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raven]]
!!Raven
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A handsome goth guy dating Triana after he moved in with her mother, he has a disability with his legs and uses crutches.
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* DisabledLoveInterest: A {{Goth}} who walks with crutches, looks like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''[='s=] Edward Cullen, and is dating Triana.
* TheExsNewJerkass: Downplayed toward Dean, who fully believes this. Raven doesn't actually do anything all that jerkass-y to Dean and doesn't even seem to mind Triana going with Dean to prom, but he is a rather lame, trying-too-hard {{Goth}} stereotype.
* {{Expy}}: Looks exactly like Robert Pattinson playing [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
* {{Goth}}: Has the overall aesthetic, being physically based on Robert Pattinson's [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], TallDarkAndHandsome, and wearing a lot of black with a skull belt buckle.
* TakeThat: He's [[StealthPun lame]] and looks like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''[='s=] male lead.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: It's certainly easy to see why Triana would fall for him, he's a very good-looking guy with a goth aesthetic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ben]]
!!Ben
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JKSimmons
A reclusive geneticist living in a house on the edge of the Venture Compound who apparently helped both Dr. Ventures create the cloning technology that was later used for the boys.
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* TheAlcoholic: He is never seen without a drink in hand or nearby, even offering Dean his first beer to help him cope with knowledge that he's a clone. However, given that his cloning technology seems to work well and he's able to save the Monarach's life with a makeshift blood transfusion, he's a highly functional alcoholic.
* CoolOldGuy: He's a very chill older guy who helped develop the Venture cloning technolocy, helps Dean to cope with the fact that he's a clone, and gives him some beer to cheer him up. He's apparently into surfing and has taken in two "rejects", RICO (an ape-like mutant) and the red H.E.L.P.eR. model II (all others were recalled and destroyed).
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Shares Jonas Sr.' and Rusty's views on using backup clones as a safety precaution for one's children. Unlike them, his attitude towards doing so isn't to justify ParentalNeglect, but out of a sincere belief that losing a child (and to a lesser extent, being childless) is a horrific thing to experience.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: Nothing seems to phase him despite how mind-blowingly weird it would be to just about anything else. His front yard is a mass grave and he just shrugs it off. He has no issue telling any of his cloned creations that they're clones. He doesn't even flinch when jumping in to help the Monarch who just crashed landed with a skyscraper and got impaled by a statue. When you've been working with the Ventures for a few decades, you develop thick skin to these sorts of things it seems.
* LikeASonToMe: While not biologically his children, his work on the cloning technology that created them sees him viewing Rusty, the Monarch, and the boys in this light. Even though the Monarch is a supervillain responsible for atrocities including some of the deaths of Hank and Dean, he still volunteers his services to save the Monarch's life.
* LoveMartyr: While he knows that the Monarch is an unrepentant supervillain and murderer who is responsible for some of the deaths of the Hanks and Deans, Ben unhesitatingly offers to help save his life in the FinaleMovie, motivated by his sentimentality over one of his creations and to honor the memory of the late Fitzcarraldos. Likewise, he thinks fondly of Jonas Sr. While not blind to his tremendous flaws, he chooses to focus more on what love existed in the man, and even passes along a luxury wristwatch he gave him to Hank.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He worked with both Jonas and Rusty to create cloning technology and has lived on the compound for years, yet he was never hinted at or mentioned before "A Very Venture Halloween". This may be justified since Dr. Venture told his sons to stay away from his house, apparently because Ben has no problem with telling the boys that they're clones. Oh, and there's a mass grave in front of the house - and we mean a ''mass'' grave.
-->'''Ben''': [To Dean] Between your grandpappy and your old man, hundreds of people have been killed on your property. They're all buried out there.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thalia]]
!!Thalia
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KateMcKinnon
A State University student who befriends Dean while applying as an intern for one of Dr. Venture's projects.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: After being turned into a four-armed, telepathic mutant while working on the Palaemon Project, she reverts back to being human after being exposed to the antidote.
* DisposableIntern: Was hired onto Dr. Venture's Palaemon Project as one. (So was everyone else working on it, as he accepted everyone who applied needing the free labor.) He chastises Dean for bringing her into the Compound living quarters and is more annoyed than anything when she shows him the extra set of arms she grew.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: You wouldn't guess that anything was wrong with her before she showed her new set of arms to Dr. Venture, and she only shows some mild irritation when she has to point out that they're ''new''.
* FreakLabAccident: Being exposed to radiation while working on the Palaemon Project mutates her into a superhuman with telepathic powers and an extra set of arms.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When reverted back to normal (due to the Monarch's antidote) with the rest of those exposed, she and the others appear to lose their memories about their time at the Venture Compound (due to Dr. Venture's "antidote" gas, which is really one big roofie).
* NerdGlasses: Is an awkward, nerdy student and wears them most of the time.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Wanted Dean to become chief of the Palaemon mutants so that they could be King and Queen of the new age.
[[/folder]]
!Military and Government Figures
[[folder:General Manhowers]]
!!General Manhowers
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->'''Voiced by''': Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A US Army General and main military contact for the Venture family.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Is wearing a U.S. Air Force uniform in the pilot episode. All later appearances have him in an Army officer's uniform.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He was a fellow boy adventurer and school chum of Professor Richard Impossible and Phantom Limb.
* FriendOnTheForce: A military version for the Venture family, dating back to Jonas Sr. who had been selling his inventions to the military for decades.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Shows interest in Dr. Venture's Ooo-Ray and "Venturesteins" for their destructive military applications.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His military rank, name, and overall demeanor bring to mind UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower.
* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: When Brainulo reads his mind in "Now Museum, Now You Don't" while trying to sew chaos among the guests, he sees a memory of Manhowers burning villages and villagers during what is implied to be UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Col. Bud Manstrong]]
!!Col. Bud Manstrong
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->'''Voiced by''': Terrence Fleming
An astronaut who resided on the Gargantua-1 space station and was present as a young man for the "Movie Night Massacre". A very naive and chaste fellow (not helped with there only being two people aboard the station), he pilots the station during its crash.
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* AccidentalHero: Celebrated as a hero, but actually ''blacked out'' from a handjob while piloting the crashing Gargantua-1 back to Earth.
* CelibateHero: A deconstruction. He's so sexually repressed that it ruins his relationship with Anna, who cheats on him with Brock. He's also shown to be pretty inept with anything concerning sex.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He is extremely protective over Anna (despite the two not actually having a sexual relationship) to the point where he gets jealous and tries to fight ''[[OneManArmy Brock]]'' when he finds out they had sex.
* LiteralMinded: When Brock asks if he ever "hit that" when discussing Anna, he's outraged that Brock would even ''think'' he'd raise a hand against her.
* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Rusty calls him a "repressed masturbator" during "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?"
* MindControl: While the exact method is never made clear, his mother has an unnaturally strong power of suggestion over him, the point where he even blacks out while he finds himself doing as she commands. There are implications that it's nothing technological or supernatural, but that she's just that [[MyBelovedSmother controlling and manipulative]] over him.
* MommasBoy: Very devoted to his mother partly due to her mind-controlling him.
* MyBelovedSmother: Even without the mind control, his mother is very controlling and manipulative of him.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Gargantua-I crew during the "Movie Night Massacre". He, as the station's teenage paperboy, was asleep in a different section of the station when the massacre took place. He's the only known survivor of the actual crew, while a few of the Guild infiltrators also survived (Vendata as an android and Red Death because he never took his spacesuit helmet off).
* VicePresidentWho: After his "heroism" during the Gargantua-I crash, President Breyer (whose administration is very corrupt and lagging in the polls) wants to make Manstrong his VP candiate for the publicity boost. He's obviously not qualified to be so close to the presidency.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lt. Anna Baldavich]]
!!Lt. Anna Baldavich
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->'''Voiced by''': Nina Helman
A Russian astronaut aboard Gargantua-1, she and Bud were supposedly in a romantic relationship, but Bud's resistance to her advances put a strain on it. She is always shown from behind and her face is apparently not the most pleasant thing to look at. She dies when the space station crashes back to Earth.
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* ButterFace: A TakeOurWordForIt example; she's got a killer body, but her face is supposedly hideous. Even Brock claims that he "can never get used to that" whenever she takes off her helmet. The official art book even reveals that the creators never even bothered to design a face for her since no one was going to see it. After she dies, a news banner states she receives a closed-casket funeral.
* CompressedHair: Her giant mass of frizzy red hair poofs out whenever she takes off her spacesuit's helmet.
* TheFaceless: [[TakeOurWordForIt And for a good reason]]. There's a blank sheet of flesh where her face ought to be on her official character sheet in the art book.
* KilledOffForReal: Perishes when Gargantua-1 hits Earth and is given a closed-casket funeral in Moscow... [[ButterFace not only due to injuries sustained in the crash, either]].
* OutWithABang: Gives Bud a handjob as he's piloting the crashing space station back to Earth and dies during the crash.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: She's Russian and dies in the Gargantua-1 crash, while Bud (who was in the exact same place receiving a handjob from her) suffers only some cuts and bruises.
[[/folder]]
!Other Heroes
Other heroes, Guild-sanctioned "Protagonists", and former "Boy Adventurers". Ordered by the character's first appearance.
[[folder:Tiny Attorney]]
!!Tiny Attorney
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->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A malformed conjoined twin stuck in the torso of his "inbred simpleton" host, who is an attorney specializing the prosecution of villains.
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* {{Expy}}: Physically, of the mutant Kuato from ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', who leads the Martian Rebellion and is similary attached to his host's torso.
* FetusTerrible: Inverted, as he is the "brains" of the operation and the host is a "simpleton" who doesn't speak.
* KilledOffForReal: After being captured by the Guild during "The Trial of the Monarch", he is one of the people Phantom Limb guns down while "hunting" to intimdate the Monarch.
* SimpleCountryLawyer: His persona, including white suit, and personality are lifted from ''Series/{{Matlock}}'', the TropeCodifier.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Action Johnny]]
!!Action Johnny (Jonny Quest)
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->'''Voiced by''': Brendon Small
->''"Fathers are loving and caring and protective men, and I don't have one of those!
A former boy adventurer and colleague of Rusty's whose trauma and daddy issues have driven him to drugs. He initially was the grown up eponymous character from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'', but had his name adjusted in later seasons (while still strongly implied to be Jonny).
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* AbusiveParents: He clearly thinks of his dad as being terrible to him, forcing him along with his adventures. It's telling that ''Rusty'' somehow ended up being more well-adjusted as a human being.
* BerserkButton: Do '''not''' mention his father. Surprising him with Dr. Z (his father's former ArchEnemy who tormented Johnny in his youth) is also a bad idea. He seems to be getting better about this in later seasons, at least.
* FormerChildStar: The "boy adventurer" equivalent of this, just like Rusty Venture. Unlike Rusty (for the most part), Johnny has picked up the drug habits and extreme mental health decline that tends to come with the trope.
* FreudianExcuse: Blames his multitude of issues as an adult on his traumatizing upbringing and a lack of pateneral attention/affection from his father.
* FriendlyEnemy: Downplayed in regards to his relationship with Dr. Z in later seasons. Z regards Johnny with a sense of paternal affection to the point that, as his way of settling affairs before his ascension to the Council of 13, he offers to help Johnny get his life together. Johnny however is not quite as willing to mend bridges but is willing to reminisce about old times while indulging his former nemesis by letting Z chase him around.
* HiddenBadass: Johnny's a wiry, wild-eyed drug addict and a pitifully broken man, but he can still Judo throw a biker and hold his own in a seedy bar fight. Considering his childhood, it makes sense he would have picked up some skills and experience.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: His psychotic breakdown at his seminar implies that [[KickTheDog he killed Bandit]] and became a MonsterOfTheWeek in a misguided attempt to get attention from his neglectful father.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: Just like Rusty, he's a Deconstruction of the trope. The trauma he endured as a kid hero caused all sorts of mental health issues including, most prominently, drug addiction.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's actually older than [[YoungerThanTheyLook Rusty]], a fact he likes to poke fun at during therapy.
* ProperlyParanoid: Delusional as he is, he winds up being completely right about Dr. Z still being an active villain, just not in the way he thought.
* RecoveredAddict: Over the course of the series, he goes from being a hardcore addict to self-medicating, seeking professional help, to spending time in rehab.
* {{Wangst}}: Deliberately invoked in as dramatic a way as possible regarding his relationship with his father. He's drug-addled, severely traumatized, and prone to over-the-top breakdowns at the mere mention of his father.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: After season two, the show was prevented by Warner Bros. (who owns both properties) from calling him "Jonny Quest" so as not to damage the brand's reputation ahead of a planned reboot (that never ended up happening). He is still strongly implied to be Jonny Quest, they just don't/can't call him that.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Dugong]]
!!Dr. Douglas Ong (Dr. Dugong)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A super-scientist with a focus on marine biology, his DNA has been spliced with many benign sea creatures. He is briefly assigned to the Monarch as an arch and is the older brother of Chester Ong, the supervillain Wide Wale.
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* AloofBigBrother: All his brother ever wanted to do was make him proud of him and help him however he could. Douglas was aloof and unappreciative, driving Chester to attempt an extreme experiment resulting in a FreakLabAccident, giving them their mutuations and turning Chester to villainy.
* TheBusCameBack: After apparently being killed by the Monarch in season three's "Tears of a Sea Cow", the second episode of season seven's "Morphic Trilogy" reveals that he survived his encounter with the Monarch due to the starfish DNA he had spliced into his genome and is really the brother of Wide Wale, getting Wide Wale to release the Monarch.
* CaptainFishman: A FreakLabAccident involving an experimental gene-splicer resulted in Dr. Douglas Ong and his brother Chester being mutated with aquatic DNA, the former becoming the ScienceHero Dr. Dugong and the latter becoming infamous Kingpin and Level-10 supervillain Wide Wale. While the former had his DNA spliced with benign sea-creatures like seals and starfish, Wide Wale has bits of whale and shark in him, his daughter Sirena inheriting his mutant genes as an ApparentlyHumanMerfolk.
* ChekhovsGunman: He is seemingly killed off in his debut appearance by the Monarch who blows his head off at point blank range. Three seasons later, we meet Wide Wale, a supervillain with a similar sea creature mutation. When Wide Wale finally captures the Monarch as the Blue Morpho in the season seven-opening "Morphic Trilogy", he threatens to kill the Monarch for killing his older brother Doug. It takes Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, Red Death, and 21 attacking an OSI Dummy Corp. building to find out where Dr. Dugong (who survived and regenerated thanks to his starfish DNA) has been held in witness protection and reuniting the Ong brothers to defuse the situation.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His voice is an impression of Creator/JimmyStewart. It's especially prevalent in his pre-mutation flashback apperance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Captain Sunshine]]
!!Captain Sunshine (Chuck Scarsdale)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KevinConroy
A solar-powered superhero who works as a news anchor at night, he is served by his butler Desmond (who was the original Captain Sunshine) and his sidekick, Wonderboy, of whom there have been several. The death of one of them at the hands of the Monarch left him rather broken and traumatized.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/KevinConroy, the most prolific ComicBook/{{Batman}} voice actor, plays a wealthy superhero who likes to take on young boys as sidekicks.
* AntagonistInMourning: Despite thinking it was a trick at first, he actually sobs uncontrollably at his (and presumably, the first Captain Sunshine's) ArchEnemy, the Clue Clown's, funeral upon seeing the corpse as the "jack in the box" as the punchline for one last gag.
* AscendedExtra: First mentioned in passing by the Monarch in season one's "Return to Spider Skull Island", as sending the hero the charred corpse of Wonderboy III is on his list of evil tasks for his henchmen and mentioned again in "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny" when a younger Monarch is trying to impress Queen Etheria; it isn't until season four that he finally appears in person, and he gets ADayInTheLimelight episode devoted to him, as well as some recurring appearances after.
* BatmanParody: Despite his superpowers and colorful costume, he has many parallels with the Dark Knight: he has a British butler, a young sidekick with different boys in the role, one of his sidekicks dying really traumatizes him, a stately manor with an underground lair, and he's [[ActorAllusion voiced by]] Creator/KevinConroy. Even his (deceased) nemesis, Clue Clown, is PracticallyJoker with a bit of ComicBook/TheRiddler thrown in for good measure. The MistakenForPedophile aspects of his focus episode also reflect ''Seduction of the Innocent'', the real-life book whose accusations of that nature against Batman contributed to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.
* CastingGag: Getting Creator/KevinConroy, who has more credits as Batman than any other actor, to play a BatmanParody is no small casting coup.
* DysfunctionJunction: The Monarch killed the third Wonderboy, leaving him traumatized and, terrified that it'll happen again, going to extremes to protect Hank as his new Wonderboy.
* GetOut: Said to Hank when he asks if he knows ComicBook/{{Batman}}.
-->'''Captain Sunshine:''' ''Get out of my Sanctum Solarium!''
* LegacyCharacter: He's the second Captain Sunshine. His butler Desmond was the first, and has the same power-set.
* LightEmUp: His main superpower is channeling solar energy as light. It enables him to fly during the day and a blast of it can leave targets with sunburn.
* LogicalWeakness: Since his super powers are fueled by direct sunlight, he is obviously powerless without it. Thus, he is not active as a superhero at night.
* ManChild: He's very immature, not helped by living with his mentor well into middle-age, and seems to live vicariously through his sidekicks as well.
* MistakenForPedophile: According to creator Jackson Publick, he's not a pedophile, just REALLY emotionally scarred and overprotective of his sidekicks to the point that it's easy to make the mistake.
* NiceToTheWaiter: A line in ''Every Which Way But Zeus'' makes it clear that he advocates for the rights of sidekicks, henchmen, and the retired; while he's likely driven by what happened to his own sidekicks, the fact that he also worries about henchmen shows that it falls under this trope.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** His personality is based on elements of Music/MichaelJackson's public persona, living in a Neverland Ranch-style mansion and has a borderline creepy devotion to his young sidekick(s). Further, his mostly-white costume, light-based abilities, and name all echo Film/CaptainEO. As the trope page for that film points out, "EO is so named to evoke the Greek root word meaning 'dawn'."
** His appearance, day job, and civilian name are based on TV anchor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Scarborough Chuck Scarborough]].
* NoodleIncident: At some point while the Monarch was an unlicensed rookie villain, he came into conflict with Captain Sunshine who he managed to bluff into thinking he was invulnerable. We only get to hear the end of the story as the Monarch tells it Dr. Girlfriend to impress her at Phantom Limb's party. Later, when Captain Sunshine confronts the Monarch, he [[ContinuityNod mentions knowing that the Monarch is invulnerable]], apparently still believing it to be true.
* OldSuperhero: While his age is never outright stated, his hair is starting to gray and he served as Wonderboy to the original Captain Sunshine, Desmond, back when Red Mantle and Dragoon were active villains in the '60s and '70s, so he is certainly not young. While he still seems to be in good physical shape, the lifetime of trauma that comes with superheroics and the death of his previous Wonderboy have left him a psychological wreck.
* PaperThinDisguise: The Action News team that Scarsdale is a part of is very blatantly the SuperTeam that Captain Sunshine is a part of.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: His gimmick is that he's powered by direct sunlight, enabling him to fly and shoot blasts of light powerful enough to leave sunburns. However, he is [[LogicalWeakness powerless at night]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: Desperately tries to make Hank into his new Wonderboy, as a way of coping with the previous Wonderboy's death at the hands of the Monarch.
* SupermanSubstitute: Like the Man of Steel, Captain Sunshine's SecretIdentity is a journalist, and he gets his superpowers (which includes flight) from exposure to direct sunlight.
* WellDoneSonGuy: If Desmond's (the ''original'' Captain Sunshine) snarking is any indication, the poor guy had a ''lot'' to deal with growing up.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lance and Dale Hale]]
!!Lance and Dale Hale
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SethGreen (Lance), Creator/JohnHodgman (Dale)
Twin brothers and former boy detectives who attend the same therapy group as Rusty. Their career came to an end after the murder of their father, "the only mystery they couldn't solve", with strong implications that they killed him.
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* AbusiveParents: It's implied their father was abusive, at the very least emotionally.
* BigBrotherBully: Though they are twins, Lance definitely fits the trope, being dominating and downright abusive toward Dale.
* BlatantLies: Lance's explanation as to how both their fingerprints wound up on the murder weapon. Dale "forgot 20 years of detective training" and picked up the shotgun, then Lance "instinctively reached out to grab it". It's clear that no one is buying it.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Dale is the brains, Lance the brawn.
* CoolCar: Their red vintage convertible, which was the only thing they inherited from their father.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lance constantly makes snarky remarks toward the other members of the therapy group, especially Wonderboy.
* DirtyCoward: Dale, who just hides under a table during the bar brawl.
* DisinheritedChild: They were both cut from their father's will with all the money being left to charity instead. The only thing they got was their CoolCar.
* {{Expy}}: Of the ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'', being a pair of "boy detectives" with a similar surname (drawing from the phrase "hale and hearty").
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Dale. He has persistent nightmares about the murder and feels very guilty. As opposed to Lance, who doesn't seem to care much about what they did.
* InsaneTrollLogic: When their therapist is killed, Dale finds a matchbook he assumes must belong to the killer. He and Action Johnny go through the therapist's files and conclude Dr. Z must be behind it. Z was not too impressed.
--> '''Dr. Z:''' A snake kills your therapist, so you came all this way, in the middle of the night, to beat up an old man because of a matchbook?
--> '''Dale:''' Sounds kind of sloppy when you say it.
* IHaveNoSon: Lance considers Dale his "allegedly" twin brother.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Lance loves proving people wrong with a quick Google search on his phone.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: They're based quite a bit on the Menendez brothers, a pair of brothers from a wealthy family who murdered their abusive father, with much of the case focusing on whether they did it to escape his abuse or to inherit his fortune. Some of their lines are taken straight from various documentaries and accounts of the case, and Lance is shown to be a tennis player who tries to keep the case buried while Dale is clearly feeling guilty about it, which matches up with how the brothers are often portrayed.
* {{Patricide}}: They killed their dad, and they aren't particularly great at hiding that fact between Lance's BlatantLies explanations and Dale obviously being [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice guild-ridden]].
* PolarOppositeTwins: Dale is frumpy, reserved, and analytical. Lance is athletic, outgoing, and brash. Lance [[IHaveNoSon doesn't even seem to actually consider Dale his twin]].
* PunnyName: Their surname is a reference to the phrase "hale and hearty", in reference to the Hardy Boys.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Dale is the sensitive guy, obviously guilt-ridden from murdering their father, while Lance is the manly man who bullies others (especially Date) and snarks in every other sentence.
* WellDoneSonGuy: They strongly imply that this was part of their father's abuse.
---> '''Lance:''' We didn't get dick! Because nothing we did was ever good enough for him!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wonderboy II]]
!!Wonderboy II
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-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/PattonOswalt
The second Wonderboy and first to serve the current Captain Sunshine. He was forced to retire from the role when he turned 18 and has struggled to move on with a normal life, joining the same therapy group as Rusty.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/{{Robin}}, as the sidekick to a BatmanParody, specifically the ''Series/Batman1966'' tv show version complete with [[MadLibsCatchPhrase unusual exclamations]].
* FormerlyFit: He was in much better shape before his eating disorder and as seen in an older photo of he, the current Captain Sunshine, and Desmond.
* InkSuitActor: He is a dead ringer for his voice actor, Patton Oswalt, in a silly costume with a mullet.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: A Deconstruction, just like Rusty and Action Johnny. His upbringing was extremely traumatizing giving him PTSD and no shortage of other health issues (mental and physical) as an adult.
* KidSidekick: Was one to Captain Sunshine and suffered no shortage of horrors along the way. He was forced to retire when he turned 18 and has struggled to transition to a normal life.
* LegacyCharacter: He's the second Wonderboy after the original (the current Captain Sunshine). He was replaced when he turned 18 by Wonderboy III (who is killed by the Monarch), Wonderboy IV (Hank briefly), and then Wonderboy V (the current one seen working with Captain Sunshine at the Clue Clown's funeral).
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: He admits that he "can't get it up" unless he's "tied to a a chair with a bomb strapped to [his] chest" as a result of the trauma he endured as a child hero.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: InUniverse, his lawyers are still battling Captain's Sunshine's. He notes that he can no longer legally call himself "Wonderboy", but can keep the costume.
* UtilityBelt: When he was still the active sidekick to Captain Sunshine, he had one. He no longer has it and merely pretends (which is called out by Lance Hale) to be "activating" it at one point.
* WeightWoe: The stresses and PTSD of his time as a boy adventurer have made him an overweight stress-eater.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ro-Boy]]
!!Ro-Boy
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->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCulloch=]
A robotic "boy adventurer" who was abandoned by his creator and joins Rusty's therapy group to cope with his anger issues.
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* BecomeARealBoy: Mentions this as a desire, but it isn't treated as a realistic option despite the universe's super-science and real magic.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Has many powers typical to a RobotSuperhero, including {{flight}} (via rockets in his feet), EyeBeams, implied superhuman strength and durability, etc.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Anime/AstroBoy'', being a [[RobotSuperhero robotic]] KidHero with many similar abilities.
* EyeBeams: One of his offensive capabilities. He uses them to fry the snake that kills the group's therapist.
* HappilyAdopted: By Dr. Z and his wife, who cannot have children of their own, at the end of "Self Medication". "The Terminus Mandate" confirms he's still living with them three seasons later.
* HumongousMecha: Hates "giant robots" with an extreme passion. It's implied during his turn in the therapy session that he made his hero living fighting them.
* KidHero: Crossing over with a RobotSuperhero, he has the size and maturity of a child despite possessing a bunch of super abilities. Like the others in the support group, he's also a deconstruction of the idea, being abandoned by (or possibility outliving) his creator but lacking the capability to move on without help.
* RobotSuperhero: He was created to be one, having most of their standard abilities (flight via rockets in his feet, eye lasers, implied superhuman strength and durability, the ability to "reset", etc.)
* TameHisAnger: Implies that he's in therapy to tame his anger issues and specifically mentions getting "really mad" at "giant robots".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brown Widow]]
!! Brown Widow (Jared Jansen)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NathanFillion
A New York City based superhero with spider powers and theming. He was formerly a super science Ph.D. student who got bitten by an irradiated spider while working on his thesis.
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* AlliterativeName: According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR-noyxIW9M a deleted scene]] from season six, his full name is '''J'''ared '''J'''ansen.
* BlessedWithSuck: Rather than the artificial web-shooters on his wrists like his obvious inspiration, he has an anatomically accurate mutant spinneret located in his lower back, meaning that if it activates while he's wearing pants it looks like he's shit himself. In "The High Cost of Loathing", he's using a cotton swab to clean out his spinnerets when Brock moves Dean into the dorms to be his roommate which is mistaken for masturbation. He also has two extra pairs of eyes (normally hidden by his hair, the ones on his costume are functional) and he [[YoungerThanTheyLook looks much older than he should for a Ph.D. student]], possibly due to the spider DNA affecting his lifespan and/or the stresses of protecting New York City.
* TheBusCameBack: He had a one-off appearance in season four's "Bright Lights, Dean City", then we don't see him again till season six, where he becomes more prominent as a local New York superhero and Dean's college roommate.
%%Covered by the SpiderManSendUp subtrope* CaptainErsatz: Of ComicBook/SpiderMan.
* CombatPragmatist: Despite his LargeHam tendencies mentioned below, the Brown Widow takes care to introduce himself only ''after'' he's already disarmed/disabled the bad guys, usually involving his webs.
* DatingCatwoman: Dated Sirena before Hank. He's a superhero and her father is the kingpin supervillain boss of NYC.
* FreakLabAccident: One was responsible for him getting his powers, which soured him on the whole "super-science thing".
* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Works in a ninja-themed one in later seasons. It's implied to be a step in him chasing an acting career.
* LargeHam:
** He can't help but sing to Rusty's attempt at writing an autobiographical Broadway musical, clinching the lead role had the Revenge Society not destroyed the script.
** He also makes grand proclamations whenever he stops some evil-doers as the Brown Widow, like this :
---> '''Brown Widow:''' This bank is protected by... '''[[SuddenlyShouting THE BROWN WIDOW]]'''!
* LightningBruiser: He has all the speed and agility one would expect from a Spider-Man expy, and he is very strong, once overpowering Brock.
* MundaneUtility: Part of his powerset is "perfect spider pitch", which lands him the lead role in Rusty's musical and he later alludes to seeking a career in acting.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Besides the aforementioned placement of where he fires his webs and his advanced age, Brown Widow is a very straightforward Spider-Man pastiche, lacking as many of the [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype freakish deficiencies or crippling neuroses of his fellow parodies]] in the series. As such, while the Monarch is one of the more dangerous characters in the setting, he's easily trounced by Brown Widow when he tries to rob a bank.
* ShoutOut: His superhero name is an obvious play on ComicBook/BlackWidow, while there is also an actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_geometricus brown widow spider]], a less-venomous "cousin" species.
* SpiderManSendUp: Very ''deliberately'' so, having all of Spider Man's ComboPlatterPowers (WallCrawl, ProjectileWebbing, SpiderSense, [[LightningBruiser superhuman strength and agility]], etc.) However, like the series many other [[{{Expy}} expies]] and {{Captain Ersatz}}es, he's ultimately a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype. The BlessedWithSuck aspects of having "spider-like powers" (web shooter on his lower back, extra sets of eyes that must be hidden) are played up and make him even more of a social outcast than his inspiration, while years of protecting the city have [[YoungerThanTheyLook aged him prematurely]].
* SuperLoser: He's a 30 year-old (who [[YoungerThanTheyLook looks even older]]) college student with a messy hairstyle (due to the need to cover his extra eyes), has a reputation for shitting his pants (which is really his web shooter reflexively going off), works a low-end job in a KitschyThemedRestaurant, and is picked on by JerkJock Tosh Tompkins.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: His concept art states his age is 30 but looks quite a bit older from stress.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professor Victor Von Helping]]
!!Victor Von Helping (Victor Von Hellfire)
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/GaryCole
Dean of sciences at Stuyvesant University and Dean Venture's unexpected academic advisor after Dr. Venture signs him up for several super-science classes against his will. There is more to him than meets the eye, including a past he is eager to escape from. He is also briefly the Monarch's official arch enemy.
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* AlmightyJanitor: His [[PowerLevels level as a hero]] is rather low, only a five. However, he's a FlyingBrick with FlyingFirepower who the Monarch couldn't even scratch, and he certainly seems far stronger than many of the villains we've seen identified as "level ten" arches. It's suggested that this might be due to the whole "equally matched aggression level" part to the system: he's a genuinely friendly guy who has a mundane job and doesn't want to get into fights unless he absolutely needs to, thus dragging down his score.
* BallsOfSteel: The Monarch tries [[GroinAttack kicking in the groin]] only to injure his foot since Victor's entire body seems to be made of metal.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's only mildly annoyed by the Monarch and 21 bursting into his classroom and physically attacking him, but flies into a violent rage when they actually threaten to harm his students.
* ChromeChampion: He's made of some really hard metal under a latex exterior. It's implied that one of the reasons he remains so passive until the Monarch starts threatening his students is because he knows there is little chance that the villain could actually hurt him.
* CoolTeacher: He is fully understanding of Dean's predicament and encourages him to try one of his safer science courses in the process. While he shrugged off any attempts at aggression Monarch and 21 tried to do against him, he completely loses his cool and nearly kills them when they threaten Sirena.
* DramaticIrony: He knows Jonas Sr. as a great man and is dismissive of Rusty. He doesn't know Jonas was an absolute monster. He also doesn't expand on his dismissal of Rusty whether it be seeing him as a failure, seeing him as a villain, or pitying him for his miserable life. Given that he is talking to Dean at the time who's having a crisis on what he wants out of life, Dr. Von Helping unintentionally increases the rift in the family.
* {{Expy}}: Thematically of ComicBook/DoctorDoom, being a scientist of dubious European descent with a "Von" ame and made of metal with fiery powers. His father is an even more obvious about his Dr. Doom basis.
* {{Foil}}: He is one to Red Death. Both of them are very affable outside of their job and care a lot for their family and students, even going [[PapaWolf berserk and terrifying anyone who puts those they care about in danger]]. They also lack a true face and can vaporize people with their powers, though Victor uses fake skin to hide his body. However, Red Death enjoys the supervillain life and relishes in killing people whereas Victor loves to help people and seems inexperienced about how arching works.
* FlyingBrick: Von Helping is quite powerful. He can fly and possesses superhuman strength/durability thanks to his metal body.
* GameFace: He wears a layer of latex skin to fit in with society, but if he's sufficiently angry, he'll show BlackEyesOfCrazy and melt his fake skin off to reveal his true metallic face.
* LatexPerfection: Dr. Von Helping wears some sort of flexible plastic over his nearly featureless metallic body to blend in with the rest of humanity despite his actual appearance. No one seems to realize it's fake until after he melts it off while fighting the Monarch.
* MeaningfulRename: Odds are he purposely changed his name from the villainous "Von Hellfire" to the less threatening "Von Helping" to distance himself from his supervillain lineage.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Averted, unlike most of the series' super-scientists with the title. In fact, of all science courses a super scientist would teach, he teaches botany at Stuyvesant University, rides his bike between classrooms, and is an active member of both Greenpeace and Doctors Without Borders.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Physically, he bears a striking resemblance to astrophysicist Creator/CarlSagan, in addition to sharing his optimism towards the sciences.
* PapaWolf: When the Monarch attacks his lab, Victor is patient and passive with him but when the Monarch has 21 grab his student Sirena, he reveals his true appearance and nearly incinerates the poor bastard before Dean intervenes.
* PlayingWithFire: His abilities as his true identity Victor Von Hellfire. He can shoot flames from his hands and can turn up his internal body temperature to burn off anything on his person.
* ScarsAreForever: A FreakLabAccident caused by his father led to scarring over 80% of his body, leaving him with a nearly entirely metallic body in its place.
* ShoutOut: His name references both [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] and [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Professor Abraham Van Helsing]].
* VillainousLineage: {{Defied|Trope}} as the son of legendary Guild member Vigo Von Hellfire. His father seemingly expected him to join the "family business", but Victor had no interest, instead trying to do good through super-science while distancing himself from the whole "heroes/villains" industry, including changing his surname. That said, a deep anger dwells beneath the surface and he won't hestitate to rage incinerate a villain threatening his students.
* TheVonTropeFamily: Dr. Von Helping is the son of Vigo Von Hellfire, an infamous Guild member.
* WhiteSheep: Turned his back on his villainous family legacy to pursue super-science for the benefit of mankind. He even changed his surname to further distance himself from his villainous father.
[[/folder]]
!Other Villains
Other villains and "antagonists" not directly associated with the Guild or another villainous group. Ordered by the character's first appearance.
[[folder:Mike Sorayama]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Steve Park
A Japanese-American roboticist and old college friend of Rusty, Mr. White and Baron Ünderbheit. He became a robotics Professor at the college he and his friends went to. He stages his death in order lure the aforementioned three and Brock to a funeral, kidnap them, imprison them in his dungeon and kill them out of petty vengeance for making him ruin his chance with a girl named Leslie Cohen, who he had an obsessive crush on and he cannot contact her due to a restraining order she placed on him and he made robot slaves in Leslie's image who do his bidding. It's eventually revealed that he really his dead as he made a robot duplicate to carry out his evil plan.
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* DeadAllAlong: It turns out he really did die and that the Sorayama seen in the present was actually a robot.
* DeadlyPrank: Nearly became the victim of one in college.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While he has good reason to be upset with Rusty, Mr. White, Baron Ünderbheit and Brock for the crap they pulled on him in college, killing them is certainly an overreaction.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Aside from sharing a dorm with Rusty, White, Underbheit, and Brock, we find out in a later episode that he was a favorite student of Professor Hamilton G. Fantomas, who would later become Phantom Limb.
* EvilIsPetty: You don't get any pettier than wanting to murder 3 of your old friends due to them getting in the way of a relationship with a girl, and one who was thoroughly uninterested in you at that.
* {{Expy}}: He is basically an animated Mike Yanagita from ''Film/{{Fargo}}''. They are even played by the same actor.
* MisplacedRetribution: He wanted Rusty dead because he actually thought Rusty slept with Leslie Cohen, when Leslie actually slept with his roommate (Brock).
* ShoutOut: He's named after Hajime Sorayama, perhaps the most famous artist for {{Fembot}}s.
* StalkerWithACrush: He has an obsessive crush on Leslie Cohen from his college days. This is most likely what led to the restraining order she placed on him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:S.P.H.I.N.X]]
A former terrorist organization that was in a heated rivalry with the Guild of Calamitous Intent back in the '80s. They were wiped out during the "Pyramid Wars" but briefly revived under Hunter's leadership to take out supervillains not arching under Guild guidelines. The organization was dissolved when Hunter was appointed the new head of [=OSI=] with only 21 keeping it running as its sole member until the original members tried to reclaim it.
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* AntiHero: Under Hunter's command, the organization becomes this, hunting down supervillains who don't "get with the program" i.e trying to work independently of the Guild guidelines which instantly marks them for death.
* {{Expy}}: Of Cobra Command from from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe''.
* FalseFlagOperation: The victim of one. After the "Movie Night" incident, the Sovereign disguised himself as the S.P.H.I.N.X leader to "claim" responsibility for it, setting off the "Pyramid Wars of '87" with the [=OSI=] that completely decimated them.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The aftermath of Brock triggering the kill switches is thankfully not shown, all we know is that there's a lot of blood.
* KilledOffForReal: The original commander is killed by Brock and their flying ship is bombed completely, finally dismantling them for good.
* TheLastDance: All of the old SPHINX crew are going to die thanks to the kill-switches in their bodies beginning to degrade, so most of them leap at the chance for one last hurra against the OSI.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: When 21 went on a recruitment drive, the original SPHINX Commander found out and called in his old cohorts to take it back from him and try to pull a suicide attack on [=OSI=].
* TheRival: Were one to the Guild of Calamitous Intent back in the day.
* WesternSamurai: Windsong, an African-American ninja.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Groovy Gang]]
A group of mentally disturbed drifters who roam America in a van to solve mysteries that may or may not exist. They are a reference to Franchise/ScoobyDoo but have their personalities based on notorious murderers and maniacs.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Patty and Sonny are just as much as victims to Ted and Val because Ted withholds Sonny's medication and Patty was abducted 10 years before the events of the episode.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear if Groovy really can talk and just won't do so with anyone but Sonny or if Sonny is just hallucinating that he can, given that Groovy is only ever seen talking to him alone.
* {{Beatnik}}: Val is a chain-smoking misandrist beatnik who believes men are inferior to women and are "walking abortions" because they didn't develop into women.
* TheBully: Ted is the ring leader and rules the gang with an iron fist through physical and verbal abuse. He withholds Sonny's medication to keep him under his control and has abducted Patty and kept her hostage for 10 years.
* ChurchGoingVillain: Ted believes in God and believes his actions are justified under God's will.
* ControlFreak: Implied of Ted, who breaks out threats of vicious punishments at the slightest hints of defiance to his wishes. At one point he loses his temper when Groovy won't stop barking at him and coldly threatens to shoot the dog dead if Sonny doesn't get him to behave.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: They are based off the members of Mystery Incorporated from Franchise/ScoobyDoo but are all also based on various 1970s serial killers and are dangerous criminal lunatics. It should be noted, based on a couple throwaway lines from the Boy Adventurers in Season 4's Self-Medication, that the Scooby Gang did exist in this universe.
* DeconstructiveParody: They can easily be interpreted as such to Mystery Incorporated, namely depicting how a group of random unrelated civilians who attempt to solve mysteries while travelling around the country would likely be mentally unstable lunatics who cause more harm than good.
* DiabolusExNihilo: They aren't connected to the guild or any other villainous organization, they are just a band of murderous drifters who came to the Venture Bros Compound by sheer coincidence.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Exaggerated with Val, who is based on Valerie Solanos, and wants to forcibly enslave a small portion of men to serve as breeding units and kill the rest of them.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite the issues that raise from Groovy trying to force Sonny into committing murder, [[AmbiguousSituation which may be down to Sonny's own psychological issues instead of actually happening]], the two are shown to care for each other; Groovy comments on how poorly Ted treats Sonny and Sonny is able to calm him down from aggression towards Ted which would have seen Groovy shot dead.
** Val pleads for Patty to run away with her and demonstrates a clear one-sided romantic attachment to her, which is one of her only redeemable qualities.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Val and Patty are shocked and horrified by Sonny and Groovy's violent killing of Hank and Dean in the flashback, while Ted is more concerned about the attention and consequences of killing 2 teenage boys.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ted rarely lacks a smile and says nearly everything with a pleasant tone of voice, even when he threatens the others with physical violence. It's pretty clear that he's an unhinged psychopath who has absolutely no good will towards anyone.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Sonny and Patty have no real interest in killing, but are forced to by Ted and Groovy (the latter of whom only speaks to Sonny).
* HateSink: Ted is the most depraved member of the Groovy Gang. Lacking even Val and Groovy's attachment to certain other members of the group, he emotionally manipulates Patty and Sonny and controls Sonny despite him objecting to his plans numerous times by withholding his medication unless he agrees to assist him. Even the innately comedic aspects of his character fail to diffuse his depravity.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Sonny is evil because Ted withholds his medication and Groovy forces him to kill people.
* KnightOfCerebus: There are ''very'' slight bits of humor attached to them but the idea of a bunch of psychologically disturbed drifters as a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Mystery Inc. is played dead serious.
* LaughablyEvil: They're a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Scooby-Doo characters as serial killers. While they're genuinely horrifying, the show still gets a decent amount of comedic mileage out of them. (Although only Val, Ted and possibly Groovy are genuinely evil.)
* NewAgeRetroHippie: They are compared to the negative stereotype of murderous hippies.
* NoodleIncident: Sonny and Groovy killed Hank and Dean at some point in the past while they were lost in a mine shaft, forcing the Groovy Gang to leave their bodies in the mine shaft.
* PsychoLesbian: Val is a lesbian who is attracted to Patty and is the second most evil member of the gang.
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Manchildren]]: All of them. Despite all visibly being middle-aged (and based off infamous '70s serial killers), they all dress, talk and act like teenagers from the late '60s and early '70s. Of all of them, Sonny is probably this trope the most.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once Ted and Sonny are killed by Brock and Groovy is killed by Venturestein, Patty and Val run away from the compound.
* ShoutOut: To the Mystery Gang from Franchise/ScoobyDoo and various infamous serial killers and murderers of the 70s and 80s:
** Ted is a combination of Fred and Ted Bundy.
** Sonny is based on David Berkowitz A.K.A "Son of Sam" and Shaggy.
** Groovy is based on Harvey, the dog of David Berkowitz's neighbor, who Berkowitz claimed was possessed and compelled him to commit murder and of course Scooby-Doo. He also seems to take influence from the role of Torgo in Manos: The Hands of Fate.
** Patty is based on Patty Hearst and Daphne.
** Val is based on Valerie Solanas and Velma.
*** Ted also references Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They aren't central to the plot but through them, Hank and Dean discover the cloning lab. Note how many tropes they have, despite only appearing in one episode.
* TheSociopath:
** Ted doesn't remotely care about any other member of the group, and uses them as tools that he kidnapped and emotionally manipulates.
** Val is a psychotic misandrist who wants to eradicate most of and enslave the remnants of half of the human population for the crime of being men. Her true sociopathy is questionable, however, given her apparent attachment to Patty.
* StrawFeminist: Val deeply hates men, believing them to be "walking abortions" because the Y gene is an "incomplete X gene".
* TalkingAnimal: Groovy, but only to Sonny, which leaves it ambiguous if he can actually talk or if it's just Sonny's delusions. Noticeably, he averts SpeechImpairedAnimal and instead talks with an indistinct sinister accent.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They are just a roaming band of murderous drifters, with 2 members only being part of the gang because they were forced to. Ted only sees the others as assets and subordinates (or in Patty's case, a sex slave), while Val only likes Patty due to her hatred of men.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Ted is the worst of The Groovy Gang, and forces the others to follow his lead.
* WhatADrag: Ted threatens to do this to Sonny for questioning their presence at the venture compound and stating how the van had enough fuel to keep moving.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Some members of the gang are very clearly broken people, though no less dangerous.
** Sonny is a deeply mentally ill and implicitly schizophrenic man who is urged by Groovy, who he likely hallucinates speaking, into murdering people, and has his medication withheld by Ted unless he agrees to go along with his plans.
** Patty was kidnapped 10 years ago and has been imprisoned and emotionally and sexually abused by Ted for the interim until she's agreed to go along with anything the group wants.
* WouldHurtAChild: One of the many deaths of Hank and Dean was caused by Ted and Sonny murdering them both in a blind panic.
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A scary man in a bear suit (probably). First made his appearance trying out for the Revenge Society. Later on, he helps out Hank during a blizzard in New York.
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* AllThereInTheScript: He isn't named in any episode he appears in and, since he's silent, doesn't show up in the credits either. The creators instead give his name in the DVD commentary.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: On one hand, he spends his time carrying a bloody knife and his outfit is stained with... something. On the other hand, he saved Hank from a blizzard. His motivation for showing Hank that Sirena has been cheating on him is similarly unclear.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He hasn't been seen to have any actual superpowers, but he is, at the very least, very ''well-informed.'' Finding Hank unconscious in a blizzard could have been simply a lucky coincidence if it wasn't for the fact that he seems to ''somehow'' know in advance 1) what dorm room Dean will be in and 2) the fact that Hank's girlfriend is cheating on him with his brother. Like everything else about him, his motivations for doing so are...unclear.
* BearsAreBadNews: A man in a bear costume drenched in blood and carrying a knife is downright creepy. He even unnerves the veteran supervillains of the Revenge Society when he interviews... which consists of him standing there menacingly, completely silent.
* CreepyMascotSuit: Scare Bear wears a very creepy looking bear mascot outfit. Given that he also is constantly holding a big knife, is covered in dried blood, and only communicates in husky breathes, this is arguably the LEAST unsettling thing about him.
* TheDreaded: He doesn't seem to be notorious, but the sheer fact that he can scare [[BigBadWannabe Phantom Limb]], [[TinTyrant Baron Underbheit]] and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Mr. Impossible]] really says something about him.
* NothingIsScarier: Being so mysterious and creepy is pretty much his whole shtick. Almost nothing is known about him at all, which makes him all the more disturbing.
* OffscreenTeleportation: He somehow manages to make his way to the office of the Revenge Society without Dean even seeing him come in.
* ShoutOut: He was inspired by an art piece entitled [[http://www.artnet.com/artists/mark-wallinger/sleeper-pvnaFFBhsFpFFm4whZMhmA2 Sleeper]] by artist Mark Wallinger. Jackson Publick came across it while searching for images of bear costumes.
* SilentAntagonist: He just stands around breathing heavily, never saying a word.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His main (probable) purpose is to stand there and be creepy. But he's the one who reveals to Hank that Sirena has been cheating on him.
* TheUnreveal: When he picks up the injured Hank from the snowstorm and takes him to a cheating Dean and Sirena, it seems like we might finally learn who he is. We don't. He disappears by the next episode and isn't brought up at all in the movie, likely leaving it a permanent mystery.
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[[folder:Bobbi St. Simone (Unmarked spoilers)]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JaneLynch
A former actress who's believed to be Hank and Dean's mother.
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* ConnectedAllAlong: It's revealed that Bobbi was once the wife of none other than the Guild of Calamitous Intent's original leader Force Majuere.
* IAmNotYourFather: Or "mother" in this case. Despite being named Hank and Dean's mother in Season 7, it's revealed in the finale movie that she was never in a relationship with Rusty. She might be Hank and Dean's biological grandmother however, as it's implied her daughter Debra sold her egg cells to Rusty in exchange for invisibility powers.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She doesn't want any part of the protagonist/antagonist system and just wants to live out her days in her ranch.
* PowerIncontinence: She was never able to completely control her invisibility powers. This is part of the reason for why she asked Rusty to get rid of them.
* UnseenNoMore: After having been referenced multiple times dating all the way back to the pilot episode, Hank and Dean's presumed mother finally appears in ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''. Only for Bobbi to turn out to be a RedHerring and strongly implied to technically be their grandmother.
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[[folder:Debra St. Simone/Mantilla (Unmarked spoilers)]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/NinaArianda
The leader of ARCH, a supervillain group providing villains with more advanced technology.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: While she had briefly dated The Monarch, she finds the idea of dating Rusty to be profoundly gross, though they might have had a sibling-esq relationship. She also developed stalker behavior towards Dr. Mrs. The Monarch out of a desire for a working relationship with her, jealous of her many Number Ones (two of which she dated).
* BigBad: Of ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''.
* {{Expy}}: With her outfit, blond hair, and pale complexion she's a dead-ringer for Emma Frost of the X-Men comics.
* FinalBoss: Of the overall Venture Bros series.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: A [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] example. In return for being given her mother's invisibility powers, Debra mentions giving Rusty "stuff I wasn't planning on using," potentially egg cells that he used to create Hank and Dean. Debra never expresses any interest in the boys and Rusty never directly answers any question the boys make about her, so assuming she is in fact their genetic mother, she's definitely this trope. (In the creator commentary for the movie, Doc Hammer outright states this to be the case.)
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: In contrast to [[IJustWantToBeNormal her mother]] Debra absolutely wants to be a supervillain more than anything else in the world.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Only appears in the series finale, ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart''.
* LightIsNotGood: She's a blonde supervillain who wears all white.
* PsychopathicManchild: Speaks and acts like an entitled teenage girl despite being around the same age as Rusty and the Monarch, who she manages to make look downright mature with the way she carries herself.
* PyrrhicVictory: Debra's so giddy about "winning" at the end of the film that she fails to notice how Dr. Mrs. The Monarch effectively punts her into the Peril Partnership, which is currently in the process of collapsing and is on the cusp of being destroyed by the Guild.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: It's implied she sold Rusty her egg cells, which became Hank and Dean.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: On Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, to the point where Debra has a StalkerShrine dedicated to her. It's because Debra thought Sheila's talents were being wasted on being TheDragon to villains like the Monarch, who she ironically used to date.
* StringTheory: She has a board dedicated to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch featuring pictures and documents connected by string. Apparently it started as a simple checklist but then grew into a "crazy board". She insists that she's didn't set out to make one, it just happened organically.
* TechBro: She initially comes off as a [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] version of this; she's a young, wealthy business mogul to a new company with an AsceticAesthetic that invokes Silicon Valley (ARCH) that markets its products as sleek, innovative and stylistically impressive, only to swindle its customer base with AwesomeButImpractical products that fail in the field. Her hacking [=VenTech's=] launch-product can even be considered a form of corporate espionage. Ultimately subverted when it's revealed that her company ARCH doesn't actually exist, the company being one big RedHerring while Mantilla is working alone in the end.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: She looks heavily like a female version of Hank, and it's implied that her egg cells were used to create him.
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