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* SleepLearning: The boys sleep in learning beds designed to teach them the basics they were missing out on by not having a standard school-based education {originally created by Jonas Sr. for Rusty). The beds also double as [[BrainUploading recorders of the boys' memories]] while they sleep to be implanted into clones in the highly likely event they should die. Again.
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* SleepLearning: The boys sleep in learning beds designed to teach them the basics they were missing out on by not having a standard school-based education {originally created by Jonas Sr. for Rusty). Of course, said information is woefully outdated as said videos were made during Jonas Sr.'s time and never updated to take ScienceMarchesOn into account. The beds also double as [[BrainUploading recorders of the boys' memories]] while they sleep to be implanted into clones in the highly likely event they should die. Again.
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** He takes the knowledge that he and Hank are clones very poorly, leading to his "emo phase" (along with his falling out with Triana that happened around the same time). He doesn't take either event well and no one he talks to seems to consider the moral and philosophical implications of his situation as severely as he does, believing that it's better than being dead. He decides not to tell Hank to spare him from this same fate but, after a season of wrestling with it, finally tells Hank to handles it in stride while helps Dean to overcome it as well.
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** He takes the knowledge that he and Hank are clones very poorly, leading to his "emo phase" (along with his falling out with Triana that happened around the same time). He doesn't take either event well and no one he talks to seems to consider the moral and philosophical implications of his situation as severely as he does, believing that it's better than being dead. He decides not to tell Hank to spare him from this same fate but, after a season of wrestling with it, finally tells Hank to who handles it in stride while helps Dean to overcome it as well.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: He complains a lot about how J.J. is better than him and feels he's flaunting his wealth and status in Rusty's face. But in "The Doctor is Sin", when he realizes that Dr. Killinger is setting him up to become a (surprisingly effective) supervillain and arch J.J., Rusty ultimately refuses to sign the arching papers, [[HeelRealization realizing]] that for as much as he resents his brother, he doesn't ''hate'' him, and does not want to become as much of an asshole as their father turned out to be. Later in the series, when J.J. reveals he's dying from cancer, he's rendered speechless and genuinely consoles his brother. Likewise, when J.J. performs his HeroicSacrifice aboard the Gargantua-2, he gives the "Go Team Venture" sign in salute.
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** He complains a lot about how J.J. is better than him and feels he's flaunting his wealth and status in Rusty's face. But in "The Doctor is Sin", when he realizes that Dr. Killinger is setting him up to become a (surprisingly effective) supervillain and arch J.J., Rusty ultimately refuses to sign the arching papers, [[HeelRealization realizing]] that for as much as he resents his brother, he doesn't ''hate'' him, and does not want to become as much of an asshole as their father turned out to be. Later in the series, when J.J. reveals he's dying from cancer, he's rendered speechless and genuinely consoles his brother. Likewise, when J.J. performs his HeroicSacrifice aboard the Gargantua-2, he gives the "Go Team Venture" sign insalute.salute.
** A downplayed example with his father. Rusty has no reason to still love his dad and every reason in the world to hate and resent him, and his feelings toward the man are complicated to say the least. But despite all the trauma and abuse he suffered at Jonas's hands Rusty is surprisingly good at separating his personal feelings for his dad apart from an unbiased look at the man, maintaining respect for his positive qualities and clinical awareness of his faults. When finally finding the Orb, Rusty was actually able to acknowledge his father's skill as a scientist and make a rational, measured response to such a massive discovery by asking what his dad would do in such a situation. When his Dad almost destroyed Ventech Towers he was able to get him to calm down by appealing to Jonas's ability to think logically and remind him that he isn't a building. Likewise, when negotiating the Treaty Of Tolerance, Rusty accurately surmises his father's faults as a person and as a parent, the effect it had on everyone involved in the treaty, and moves forward with a more positive viewpoint that benefits everyone. In a group therapy session Rusty outright said that while he resented his father he never wanted to ''murder'' him, despite honestly having every reason to do so.
** He complains a lot about how J.J. is better than him and feels he's flaunting his wealth and status in Rusty's face. But in "The Doctor is Sin", when he realizes that Dr. Killinger is setting him up to become a (surprisingly effective) supervillain and arch J.J., Rusty ultimately refuses to sign the arching papers, [[HeelRealization realizing]] that for as much as he resents his brother, he doesn't ''hate'' him, and does not want to become as much of an asshole as their father turned out to be. Later in the series, when J.J. reveals he's dying from cancer, he's rendered speechless and genuinely consoles his brother. Likewise, when J.J. performs his HeroicSacrifice aboard the Gargantua-2, he gives the "Go Team Venture" sign in
** A downplayed example with his father. Rusty has no reason to still love his dad and every reason in the world to hate and resent him, and his feelings toward the man are complicated to say the least. But despite all the trauma and abuse he suffered at Jonas's hands Rusty is surprisingly good at separating his personal feelings for his dad apart from an unbiased look at the man, maintaining respect for his positive qualities and clinical awareness of his faults. When finally finding the Orb, Rusty was actually able to acknowledge his father's skill as a scientist and make a rational, measured response to such a massive discovery by asking what his dad would do in such a situation. When his Dad almost destroyed Ventech Towers he was able to get him to calm down by appealing to Jonas's ability to think logically and remind him that he isn't a building. Likewise, when negotiating the Treaty Of Tolerance, Rusty accurately surmises his father's faults as a person and as a parent, the effect it had on everyone involved in the treaty, and moves forward with a more positive viewpoint that benefits everyone. In a group therapy session Rusty outright said that while he resented his father he never wanted to ''murder'' him, despite honestly having every reason to do so.
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** Despite being a smaller example than most, the Ventures still count for this. All of them have crippling psychological issues in one form or another, including honorary members Brock and Hatred. Dermott, while an asshole, seems to be the sole exception despite having a rather disturbing backstory, though he doesn't know the full details.
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** Despite being a smaller example than most, the Ventures still count for this. All of them have crippling psychological issues in one form or another, including honorary members Brock and Hatred. Dermott, while an asshole, seems to be the sole exception despite having a rather disturbing backstory, though he doesn't know the full details.
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** Let's put it like this: Rusty is actually fairly intelligent and pretty capable in his own right, possibly even to the point of ''surpassing'' his father's work, but thanks to a small novel's worth of {{Freudian Excuse}}s and a childhood TraumaCongaLine long enough to wrap around the Venture compound ''twice'' at ''minimum,'' he's too jaded and self-absorbed to do any more than the bare minimum with his work unless profit is involved, and even then he might still try to half-ass it. He has shown himself capable of converting H.E.L.P.eR to a dialysis machine, removing the boys' kidneys, creating a robot, making Venturestein, and maintaining a clone farm, not to mention being seemingly the ''only'' person in the world able to make working DeflectorShields[[labelnote:*]]Granted, it was actually the small army of interns he hired who built the shields, after said interns were mutated by radiation into a superhuman, caste-based society, but he was the one who mutated them in the first place, albeit unintentionally.[[/labelnote]], but these are very rare flashes of competence. In fact, many of the times his inventions backfire are ''because'' he managed to get them working, but then half-assed or completely neglected the final third or so of development, which inevitably ends up biting him in the ass when the invention works part of the way, then breaks down or malfunctions due to the aforementioned shortcut.
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** Let's put it like this: Rusty is actually fairly quite intelligent and pretty very capable in his own right, possibly even to the point of ''surpassing'' his father's work, but thanks to a small novel's worth of {{Freudian Excuse}}s and a childhood TraumaCongaLine long enough to wrap around the Venture compound ''twice'' at ''minimum,'' he's too jaded and self-absorbed to do any more than the bare minimum with his work unless profit is involved, and even then he might still try to half-ass it. He has shown himself capable of converting H.E.L.P.eR to a dialysis machine, removing the boys' kidneys, creating a robot, making Venturestein, and maintaining a clone farm, not to mention being seemingly the ''only'' person in the world able to make working DeflectorShields[[labelnote:*]]Granted, it was actually the small army of interns he hired who built the shields, after said interns were mutated by radiation into a superhuman, caste-based society, but he was the one who mutated them in the first place, albeit unintentionally.[[/labelnote]], but these are very rare flashes of competence. In fact, many of the times his inventions backfire are ''because'' he managed to get them working, but then half-assed or completely neglected the final third or so of development, which inevitably ends up biting him in the ass when the invention works part of the way, then breaks down or malfunctions due to the aforementioned shortcut.
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* BunglingInventor: He is an interesting case study in this trope. He can be somewhat capable when properly motivated (usually by his life being in danger or by the prospect of a huge payday), such building the "Joy Can", a matter transporter, and modifying many of his father's leftover inventions like the cloning technology, but his BrilliantButLazy tendencies tend to lead to failure more often than not. It's not that many of his inventions "don't work", it's that he doesn't bother to think (or care) about the negative effects, like his Vacuum Boom-Broom ''leaking radiation''.
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* BunglingInventor: He is an interesting case study in this trope. He can be somewhat capable [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] He's actually a very good scientist when properly motivated (usually by his life being in danger or by the prospect of a huge payday), such capable of building complex inventions such as the "Joy Can", a matter transporter, and modifying many of his father's leftover inventions like the cloning technology, but his BrilliantButLazy tendencies tend to lead to failure more often than not. It's not that many of his inventions "don't work", Ultimately, it's less that he actually bungles what he does, and more that he doesn't bother to think (or care) (nor does he really care all that much) about the negative effects, like his Vacuum Boom-Broom ''leaking radiation''.
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* DeadpanSnarker: He often reacts to the melodrama of his villains and the overzealousness of his sons with a deadpan remark. Crosses into HypocriticalHumor since [[NotSoAboveItAll he gets caught up in insane drama himself regularly]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: He often reacts to the melodrama of his villains and the overzealousness of his sons with a deadpan remark. Crosses into HypocriticalHumor HypocriticalHumor, since [[NotSoAboveItAll he himself gets caught up in insane drama himself regularly]].
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* FanDisservice: Almost every time he gets naked, the other characters react with shock or disgust. He's short, scrawny, pale, and out of shape all at once.
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* FanDisservice: Almost every time he gets naked, Rusty isn't hideous, but he's far from catwalk material, to say the other characters react with shock or disgust. He's least; he's short, scrawny, pale, pale and out of shape shape, all at once.once. Appropriately enough, anytime he gets naked is met with shock and disgust from others.
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* GadgeteerGenius: It's buried underneath [[BrilliantButLazy habitual laziness]] and a laundry list of [[FreudianExcuse Freudian Excuses]], but Rusty has proven on several occasions to be a genius-level scientist, with a knack for whipping up complex devices and even genetic engineering, as shown in ''[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS4E16OperationPROM Operation: P.R.O.M.]].''
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Suffers from severe dementia, seems to have no idea what is going on around him most of the time, and can only speak in barely intelligible mumbling. Hector seems to serve as his [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder minder]].
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Suffers A notably serious example. Swifty suffers from severe dementia, seems to have no idea what is going on around him most of the time, and can only speak in barely intelligible mumbling. Hector seems to serve as his [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder minder]].
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The (allegedly) ruthless, amoral AntiHero Blue Morpho was the one who did Team Venture's dirty work so that Jonas Venture didn't get his hands dirty. [[SubvertedTrope Except not really]]. Jonas and the rest of Team Venture were just as depraved as the Blue Morpho was reputed to be, but [[VillainWithGoodPublicity had a squeaky-clean image to maintain]]. In fact, Jonas had to blackmail the Blue Morpho into this role, simultaneously [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] and [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] it.]]
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The (allegedly) ruthless, amoral AntiHero Blue Morpho was the one who did Team Venture's dirty work so that Jonas Venture didn't get his hands dirty. [[SubvertedTrope Except not really]]. Jonas and the rest of Team Venture were just as depraved as the Blue Morpho was reputed to be, but [[VillainWithGoodPublicity had a squeaky-clean image to maintain]]. In fact, Jonas had to blackmail the Blue Morpho into this role, simultaneously [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] and [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] it.]]
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first episode plays him as something of a FlatEarthAtheist who dismisses the chupacabra and religion as "total crap." Though Rusty kept some KnowNothingKnowItAll traits throughout the series, that particular one fell by the wayside apart from his disdain for things described as "magic." If anything, the writers decided that Rusty's SeenItAll background meant that he was, if anything, SuperGullible, to the point of being entirely deceived by the auto-recorded messages on a Teddy Ruxpin doll.
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* CastingCouch: Barely subverted. Jonas invited Bobbi St. Simone to his lab to help her improve the invisible woman special effects for her upcoming show "Follow that Bikini". However, while he of course used it as a pretense to have sex with her, he also made good on his word and gave her actual invisibility superpowers. That she had a hard time turning on-and-off.
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* CastingCouch: Barely subverted.Subverted. Jonas invited Bobbi St. Simone to his lab to help her improve the invisible woman special effects for her upcoming show "Follow that Bikini". However, while he of course used it as a pretense to have sex with her, he also made good on his word and gave her actual invisibility superpowers. That That, in true Jonas fashion, she [[BlessedWithSuck had a hard time turning on-and-off.on-and-off]].
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* CastingCouch: Barely subverted. Jonas invited Bobbi St. Simone to his lab to help her improve the invisible woman special effects for her upcoming show "Follow that Bikini". However, while he of course used it as a pretense to have sex with her, he also made good on his word and gave her actual invisibility superpowers. That she had a hard time turning on-and-off.
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* GroupCostumeFail: Hank's refusal to wear any costume other than [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} The Bat]] ruins at least two costume contests, once when they go as ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters and another as members of Music/{{KISS}}.
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* GroupCostumeFail: Hank's refusal to wear any costume other than [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} The Bat]] ruins at least two three costume contests, once when they go as ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters, once as characters from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', and another again as members of Music/{{KISS}}.
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* GroupCostumeFail: Hank's refusal to wear any costume other than [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} The Bat]] ruins at least two costume contests, once when they go as ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters and another as members of Music/{{KISS}}.
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** A RunningGag is his admiration and desire to be ''Batman'', wearing a Batman mask every chance he gets and going as Batman for Halloween almost every year (even when it ruins the family's attempt at a group costume).
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Many of his earlier JerkAss actions can be attributed, at least in part, to the PsychoSerum Jonas had him on. By the time of the series proper, after "kicking" the stuff, he practically fatherly to Hank, a good husband/romantic partner to Jeanie and Rose, and even admits that the regrets some of his actions to Rusty.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Many of his earlier JerkAss actions can be attributed, at least in part, to the PsychoSerum Jonas had him on. By the time of the series proper, after "kicking" the stuff, he he's practically fatherly to Hank, a good husband/romantic partner to Jeanie and Rose, and even admits that the regrets some of his actions to Rusty.
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* UnreliableNarrator: When they're in Hank's coma, he tells the boy that his father harassed and stalked Bobbi St. Simone, while ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart'' reveals that they're on rather amicable terms to the point that she lives relatively close to the Colorado compound.
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* UnreliableNarrator: UnreliableExpositor: When they're in Hank's coma, he tells the boy that his father harassed and stalked Bobbi St. Simone, while ''Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart'' reveals that they're on rather amicable terms to the point that she lives relatively close to the Colorado compound.
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** The movie reveals that [[spoiler:he shares many traits with his biological mother: not only are they both quirky, energetic and blondes, they’re also both cases of IJustWantToBeSpecial- Hank wants to be an adventurer, Debbie a supervillian.
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* CondescendingCompassion: Even when it seems like he's being benevolent, what's really happening is his narcissistic escapades are just so happening to yield positive consequences. He often saved the world in his adventures, but that was really just because he loved fighting villains and he left countless lives shattered in his wake because he never caused about damages. He gave his "friend" Blue Morpho an adoptive son to raise, since Morpho had been trying to start a family. It's touching until you find out Jonas spliced one of the clones he had lying around of his son with baboon genes on a whim, was displeased with the results, and pawned the kid off on Morpho to get rid of it. The fact that the Blue Morpho wound up being a loving father was an afterthought; when he wound up dead and his son orphaned, Jonas intercepted the body for science experiments but never checked up on the child, who later grew up to be The Monarch.
** Gave Bobbi St. Simone the power of invisibility in exchange for sexual favors, then when she asked to have it reversed he ignored her in favor of pushing her further into a life she didn't really want. Like most of Jonas's other friends she understandably betrays him for this, deciding to work for The Guild.
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** The FinaleMovie reveals that he gave Malcolm, who is revealed to be one of Rusty's clones, to the Blue Morpho and his wife to raise as their own when he found out they couldn't conceive children. Considering the ''many'' ways he had mistreated the Blue Morpho and the heavy implications that he coerced the Blue Morpho's wife into having sex with him, this is a very shocking, selfless development.
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** The FinaleMovie reveals that he gave Malcolm, who is revealed to be one of Rusty's clones, to the Blue Morpho and his wife to raise as their own when he found out they couldn't conceive children. Considering the ''many'' ways he had mistreated the Blue Morpho and the heavy implications that he coerced the Blue Morpho's wife into having sex with him, this is a very shocking, selfless development. Then again, Malcolm was a Rusty clone that Jonas had randomly spliced with Baboon genes and wasn't pleased with, so from Jonas's perspective his "favor" was just him finding someone to dump an unwanted experiment on.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zig-zagged due to his extreme narcissism. While he constantly rescued Rusty from death and danger, it was always circumstances that he himself had gotten Rusty into as a result of bringing a small child along on his dangerous adventures, and the only reason he actually saved him was that he required somebody to succeed him to stroke his ego. On the other hand, he was legitimately confident in his son's potential as a scientist, seemed to be sincere when he called Rusty his greatest creation, and actually let him keep his happy memories with his would-be Greek kidnappers by shooing him out of the room before beating the snot out of said kidnappers. Especially as Rusty got older and moved to college, when Jonas seemed to take more of a genuine interest in bonding with his son. Unfortunately, he had also ''thoroughly'' alienated Rusty by that point and (apparently) died soon after.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zig-zagged due to his extreme narcissism. While he constantly rescued Rusty from death and danger, it was always circumstances that he himself had gotten Rusty into as a result of bringing a small child along on his dangerous adventures, and the only reason he actually saved him was that he required somebody to succeed him to stroke his ego. On the other hand, he was legitimately confident in his son's potential as a scientist, seemed to be sincere when he called Rusty his greatest creation, creation (though given the later revelation that he had cloned Rusty, this comment can be taken in a drastically darker light), and actually let him keep his happy memories with his would-be Greek kidnappers by shooing him out of the room before beating the snot out of said kidnappers. Especially as Rusty got older and moved to college, when Jonas seemed to take more of a genuine interest in bonding with his son. Unfortunately, he had also ''thoroughly'' alienated Rusty by that point and (apparently) died soon after.
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** For all the torment he subjects Rusty to, he did apparently believe in Rusty's potential as a scientist. For example, in "Twenty Years to Midnight", he left a message to Rusty about the Grand Galactic Inquisitor, believing that Rusty could handle it (or least that he would be the best person on Earth to handle it). He also asks for Rusty's help in transplanting his brain into the Blue Morpho, just assuming that Rusty would be capable of performing complex brain surgery. He chose poorly, but it says a lot about how he viewed his son, especially considering his narcissism. Further, when on the erzatz Johnny Carson Show, he claimed his son was his greatest creation, and was apparently sincere about it. He also shows it in smaller moments, like when the decency to let his son keep his happy memories from "Spanikopita" and shooing him out of the room before savagely beating the would-be Greek kidnappers.
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** For all the torment he subjects Rusty to, he did apparently believe in Rusty's potential as a scientist. For example, in "Twenty Years to Midnight", he left a message to Rusty about the Grand Galactic Inquisitor, believing that Rusty could handle it (or least that he would be the best person on Earth to handle it). He also asks for Rusty's help in transplanting his brain into the Blue Morpho, just assuming that Rusty would be capable of performing complex brain surgery. He chose poorly, but it says a lot about how he viewed his son, especially considering his narcissism. Further, when on the erzatz Johnny Carson Show, he claimed his son was his greatest creation, and was apparently sincere about it. (Given the later revelation that he cloned Rusty, this comment can be seen in a much different, darker light). He also shows it in smaller moments, like when the decency to let his son keep his happy memories from "Spanikopita" and shooing him out of the room before savagely beating the would-be Greek kidnappers.
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* MoralityAdjustment: Brock has one of the most subtle yet significant adjustments of the main cast over the course of the series. While ostensibly "heroic" from the start, in the pilot, he outright abandons the Venture boys to have sex with an unattractive hooker, and the first season emphasizes his AxCrazy and womanizing traits. However, he grows more moral by the next season; for example, in "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner", he addresses one of these instances by saying that he didn't know that Lt. Baldavitch and Col. Manstrong were in a formal relationship before he had sex with the former and he apologizes to Manstrong for the transgression. In "¡Viva los Muertos!", Brock has a WhatMeasureIsAMook inspired breakdown in which he questions his willingness to kill hapless enemies who pose no threat. He goes on a VisionQuest, but in the end, he realizes that being lethal is what he ''does''. However, he does acknowledge that there's a difference between justified lethal force in the line of duty and soulless killing. In the season three finale, after witnessing so many bizarre things over the years, he has another breakdown and outright quits. He comes back, first to S.P.H.I.N.X., then the O.S.I., and then back to Team Venture, but is much less of a mindless OneManArmy. He realizes that he is good at what he does, despite the nature of it, and that it allows him to do "cool" things while [[PapaWolf protecting those he cares about]].
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The Monarch's deceased father and an ally of the original Team Venture. He and his wife died in the plane crash that orphaned their son. Jonas Sr. recovered the Blue Morpho's body and turned him into a cyborg named Venturion. Venturion's programming was erratic, resulting in him nearly strangling a young Rusty to death, and was promptly terminated by Kano. He was eventually recovered by Dr. Z, who erased his memories as the Blue Morpho and Venturion, and became the supervillain Vendata. For more information on Vendata specifically, see [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild The Guild]].
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The Monarch's deceased father and an ally of the original Team Venture. He and his wife died in the plane crash that orphaned their son. Jonas Sr. recovered the Blue Morpho's body and turned him into a cyborg named Venturion. Venturion's programming was erratic, resulting in him nearly strangling a young Rusty to death, and was promptly terminated by Kano. He was eventually recovered by Dr. Z, who erased his memories as the Blue Morpho and Venturion, and became the supervillain Vendata. For more information on Vendata specifically, see [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild [[Characters/TheVentureBrosTheGuild The Guild]].
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* CharacterDevelopment: Brock has some of the most subtle yet significant of the main cast over the course of the series. In the pilot, he outright abandons the Venture boys to have sex with an unattractive hooker, and the first season emphasizes his AxCrazy and womanizing traits. However, he grows more moral by the next season; for example, in "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner", he addresses one of these instances by saying that he didn't know that Lt. Baldavitch and Col. Manstrong were in a formal relationship before he had sex with the former and he apologizes to Manstrong for the transgression. In "¡Viva los Muertos!", Brock has a WhatMeasureIsAMook inspired breakdown in which he questions his willingness to kill hapless enemies who pose no threat. He goes on a VisionQuest, but in the end, he realizes that being lethal is what he ''does''. However, he does acknowledge that there's a difference between justified lethal force in the line of duty and soulless killing. In the season three finale, after witnessing so many bizarre things over the years, he has another breakdown and outright quits. He comes back, first to S.P.H.I.N.X., then the O.S.I., and then back to Team Venture, but is much less of a mindless OneManArmy. He realizes that he is good at what he does, despite the nature of it, and that it allows him to do "cool" things while [[PapaWolf protecting those he cares about]].
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[[center: [-[[Characters/TheVentureBrothers Main Character Index]] | '''Team Venture''' | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersOSI The OSI]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersVentureAllies Venture Allies]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheMonarchAndCohorts The Monarch And Cohorts]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersTheGuild The Guild of Calamitous Intent]] | [[Characters/TheVentureBrothersOthers Others]]]]-]
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* AbusiveParent: He is ''the reason'' why Rusty is the ConditionedToAcceptHorror, SeenItAll, TooBrokenToBreak, traumatized mess of a person he is today. He included Rusty in all his missions [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood from ages 3-17]], made him endure numerous kidnappings, tortures, and [[ChildrenForcedToKill forced him to kill]] at least twice. Whenever Rusty attempted to express his frustration, Jonas would simply disregard it and call him ungrateful. His style of parenting was so bad, that in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean", even The Monarch admitted to Hank that Jonas really did a number on him. He's also repeatedly shown to be not have been shy at all about exposing young Rusty to sex, as he just sent Rusty into another room during a key party (rather than arranging to get him out of the house, or holding it somewhere else entirely) and often appears naked in Rusty's hallucinations. There's also the fact that Colonel Gentlemen invented a sex act and named it after Rusty, which suggests nothing good... As revealed very late in the series, the original Rusty died and Jonas [[GenerationXerox replaced him with a clone]] (likely several times given that Jonas had at least 22 clones ready to go). He also never bothered to establish relationships with any of his other implied illegitimate children - The Monarch, Tara Quymn, or the kid in the boy's brigade that looks exactly like him.
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* AbusiveParent: He is ''the reason'' why Rusty is the ConditionedToAcceptHorror, SeenItAll, TooBrokenToBreak, traumatized mess of a person he is today. He included Rusty in all his missions [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood from ages 3-17]], made him endure numerous kidnappings, tortures, and [[ChildrenForcedToKill forced him to kill]] at least twice. Whenever Rusty attempted to express his frustration, Jonas would simply disregard it and call him ungrateful. His style of parenting was so bad, that in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean", even The Monarch admitted to Hank that Jonas really did a number on him. He's also repeatedly shown to be not have been shy at all about exposing young Rusty to sex, as he just sent Rusty into another room during a key party (rather than arranging to get him out of the house, or holding it somewhere else entirely) and often appears naked in Rusty's hallucinations. There's also the fact that Colonel Gentlemen (allegedly) invented a sex act and named it after Rusty, which suggests nothing good... As revealed very late in the series, the original Rusty died and Jonas [[GenerationXerox replaced him with a clone]] (likely several times given that Jonas had at least 22 clones ready to go). He also never bothered to establish relationships with any of his other implied illegitimate children - The Monarch, Tara Quymn, or the kid in the boy's brigade that looks exactly like him.
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* AbusiveParent: He is ''the reason'' why Rusty is the ConditionedToAcceptHorror, SeenItAll, TooBrokenToBreak, traumatized mess of a person he is today. He included Rusty in all his missions [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood from ages 3-17]], made him endure numerous kidnappings, tortures, and [[ChildrenForcedToKill forced him to kill]] at least twice. Whenever Rusty attempted to express his frustration, Jonas would simply disregard it and call him ungrateful. His style of parenting was so bad, that in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean", even The Monarch admitted to Hank that Jonas really did a number on him. As revealed very late in the series, the original Rusty died and Jonas [[GenerationXerox replaced him with a clone]] (likely several times given that Jonas had at least 22 clones ready to go). He also never bothered to establish relationships with any of his other implied illegitimate children - The Monarch, Tara Quymn, or the kid in the boy's brigade that looks exactly like him.
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* AbusiveParent: He is ''the reason'' why Rusty is the ConditionedToAcceptHorror, SeenItAll, TooBrokenToBreak, traumatized mess of a person he is today. He included Rusty in all his missions [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood from ages 3-17]], made him endure numerous kidnappings, tortures, and [[ChildrenForcedToKill forced him to kill]] at least twice. Whenever Rusty attempted to express his frustration, Jonas would simply disregard it and call him ungrateful. His style of parenting was so bad, that in "Are You There God, It's Me Dean", even The Monarch admitted to Hank that Jonas really did a number on him. He's also repeatedly shown to be not have been shy at all about exposing young Rusty to sex, as he just sent Rusty into another room during a key party (rather than arranging to get him out of the house, or holding it somewhere else entirely) and often appears naked in Rusty's hallucinations. There's also the fact that Colonel Gentlemen invented a sex act and named it after Rusty, which suggests nothing good... As revealed very late in the series, the original Rusty died and Jonas [[GenerationXerox replaced him with a clone]] (likely several times given that Jonas had at least 22 clones ready to go). He also never bothered to establish relationships with any of his other implied illegitimate children - The Monarch, Tara Quymn, or the kid in the boy's brigade that looks exactly like him.
