History Recap / TheVentureBrosS2E1PowerlessInTheFaceOfDeath

* MundaneMadeAwesome: #21 dons his henchmen uniform while humming ''Mars, the Bringer of War'' and providing his own sound effects. Then, #24 shows up and sings along with him.

A montage plays showing the situations of the shows other prominent characters. Triana is shown consoling a distraught Dr. Orpheus, who blames himself for the death of the boys. The Monarch is shown still in prison. Dr. Girlfriend is still with Phantom Limb, though she looks uneasy. Henchmen 21 and 24 are shown blowing up the the Cocoon, per the Monarch's orders. Billy and White are shown fitting Jonas Jr. with a robotic arm, similar to the one Billy has.

With Venture back at the compound, it is revealed that JJ has been taking on all of Rusty's contracts, as they were addressed to "Dr. Venture" and JJ has since earned two doctorates. (In the month that Rusty was gone.) He only has two contracts remaining, and gives one (a teleporter already under construction) to Rusty. Rusty goes to his manufacturing wing, which he had padlocked years ago, to find that two men have been living there and working on the machine. One of them is Hector, Rusty's former boyhood associate, while the other is Swifty, a former prize fighter and friend of Jonas Venture Sr. Rusty doesn't remember them and fires them on the spot. Rusty attempts to use the unfinished teleporter, leading to a power surge.

Monarch attaches a microfilm message to one of his pet butterflies (which the prison allows him to keep for rehabilitation purposes,) intended for 21 and 24 about the Monarch's pending escape. It is instead intercepted by a Guild agent and reported to Phantom Limb.

Orpheus, driven by guilt, decides to resurrect the boys using necromancy, upsetting Triana. Orpheus makes a trip the underworld looking for the souls of Hank and Dean. When he returns, he finds hairless, skinless versions of Hank and Dean wandering around and muttering something about "milkshakes."

Monarch tries to organize a breakout with his fellow inmates, assigning them each roles in the escape plans. Unbeknownst to the Monarch, Phantom Limb visits one of the inmates, King Gorilla, and threatens him into betraying the plan. Meanwhile, 21 and 24 both meet out of costume in a henchmen support group.

The time comes for Monarch's escape, but everyone else bails on the plan, leaving Monarch alone to battle three prison guards. Once they subdue him, Monarch is drug away cursing and screaming, mentioning his love for Dr. Girlfriend in the process. King Gorilla, upon hearing of Monarch's deep love, decides to assist Monarch and takes out the guards. He breaks away the toilet in his cell, which allows Monarch to crawl through the sewer pipes to freedom.

Venture and Orpheus argue over the ethical ramifications of Venture's cloning, to which Venture argues that it's no different than the necromancy Orpheus practices. He explains that the boys memories are recorded in their learning beds and are downloaded into the new clones, so for all intents and purposes, they are the exact same boys as before. The two clone slugs make their way into the room, with Venture telling Brock to take them back to their machines to be finished. The boys perform a garbled "Go Team Venture" salute before collapsing onto each other.

The {{Stinger}} shows the Monarch, covered in filth from the sewer pipes, successfully escaping prison. He reaches out for the hand presented to him to help him out of the muck, thinking it to be one of his henchmen. However, it turns out to be the disembodied right section of Dr. Venture.

* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, King Gorilla?]]: Said by the Monarch when King Gorilla (initially) refuses to help Monarch escape.

* GreatEscape: The Monarch hatches a daring escape plan, involving the cooperation of several fellow imprisoned villains... who all look the other way when he makes his move due to threats of death from Phantom Limb. He got out with help from King Gorilla, who defied Phantom Limb due to his own issues with the Guild and the Monarch's reveal why he was framed (Phantom Limb getting with Dr. Girlfriend and trying to keep the Monarch out of the picture.)

* LoveFreak: King Gorilla's reason for helping Monarch escape is how much Monarch loves Dr. Girlfriend.

* PrisonRape: King Gorilla tries to rape the Monarch while in prison, but can't get aroused because Monarch's thin body is "too much like a girl."

** Monarch escaping prison through the sewers is a nod to ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption.''

** When looking for the boys souls Orpheus has pictures of their faces on his hands like Mr. Dark does in "Literature/SomethingWickedThisWayComes".

* WhatTheHellHero: Orpheus is rightly shocked and disgusted to find out that Rusty simply replaces Hank and Dean when they die with identical clones.

* TookALevelInKindness: JJ is much nicer than in his previous appearance, though he's still fairly smug.

* TeleporterAccident: Leaves Rusty in pieces (though still alive.)

* GreatEscape: The Monarch's hatches a daring escape plan, involving the cooperation of several fellow imprisoned villains... who all look the other way when he makes his move due to threats of death from Phantom Limb. He got out with help from King Gorilla, who defied Phantom Limb due to his own issues with the Guild and the Monarch's reveal why he was framed (Phantom Limb getting with Dr. Girlfriend and trying to keep the Monarch out of the picture.)

* GreatEscape: Though his initial plan fails, Monarch is able to successfully break out of prison.

* DeathMontage: One is shown depicting many of the previous times the boys died. (In a few of them, only one of them is shown dying, which begs the question...[[FridgeHorror what does Rusty do with the other boy in that case?]])

** The same commentary plays with biting the hand humur too, playing a message from CN denying them the money, and revealing that the network only agreed after seeing the scene cut to music written by Doc Hammer which was bad enough to convince them they needed the track to make the sequence work.

A montage plays showing the situations of the shows other prominent characters. Triana is shown consoling a distraught Dr. Orpheus, who blames himself for the death of the boys. The Monarch is shown still in prison. Dr. Girlfriend is still with Phantom limb, though she looks uneasy. Henchmen 21 and 24 are shown blowing up the the Cocoon, per the Monarch's orders. Billy and White are shown fitting Jonas Jr. with a robotic arm, similar to the one Billy has.

* ManlyGay: King Gorilla

* PrisonRape / BlackComedyRape: King Gorilla tries to rape the Monarch while in prison, but can't get aroused because Monarch's thin body is "too much like a girl."

** The song that plays during the intro is ''Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)'' by {{Rozalla}}. [[note]] The producers had to fight Cartoon Network to get the licensing for the song, which cost an eighth of their budget. This is lampshaded in a later episode.[[/note]]

* TeleporterAccident: Leaves Rusty in pieces (though still alive.)