Although he seemed to relish the adventuring life as a child, in his current middle-age (45-46 as of pinstripes & Poltergeists; Brock had mentioned a year had passed since season 3 and in Twenty Years to Midnight, it was established he was 44), he now despises it and constantly fails to live up to the legacy of his father and the expectations the world had for him. Dr. Venture developed a method of cloning (or used technology invented by his father) to bring them back due to their being death-prone (while he seems to have forgotten their precise ages, as shortly after being cloned Hank notices his ID is wrong when the Doctor comments it's their sixteenth birthday Hate Floats though in that instance, the date is most likely wrong due to frequent clonings). After trying to present a Death Ray to the United Nations in the pilot, the show begins in earnest. James Urbaniak, Actor: American Splendor. Construct an actual, working force-field that could only be. Jonas was a careless parent; hardly ever taking care or worrying about the well-being of his son just as Rusty would do with his own children. When offered the opportunity to become a successful arch-nemesis to his brother thanks to Dr. Henry Killinger, Venture declined, showing at least some semblance of morality and concern for whether he is "a bad person". To many things, Doctor Venture exhibits a strange kind of numbness. Indeed, Thaddeus seems to be following in his father's footsteps of self-absorption and callous disregard for others - yet, strangely, he's more functional than some of his contemporaries, even able to manage his own drug habit. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Dr. Henry Killinger comments it is because his fear of success. Jonas also implanted a tracking device into one of Rusty's molars to help locate him after his frequent kidnappings (once a fortnight, according to original Team Venture member Colonel Horace Gentleman). He was saved by Brock and Phantom Limb teaming up and storming the flying Cocoon. Dr. Venture, in short, is a man whose childhood was unstable and unpredictable, has never been able to live up to the expectations placed upon him and is now a bitter, washed-up, and burnt-out man; this is largely thanks to the fact that he had for 43 years been carrying his half-developed Twin Brother Jonas, whom he had absorbed in the womb. Shaggy is a manic depressive and Fred is a creepy woman beater. “The Venture Bros.” has never actually explained it, and even Rusty doesn’t seem to know why. Hatred, Shore Leave, Hank, Dean, and Dr. Orpheus) playing touch football. He generally carries a number of 'diet pills,' which he appears to be addicted to. Although the two get along well enough, Dr. Venture is frequently annoyed by Orpheus' dramatics and the two have debated the merits of technology vs. magic extensively. Huh, all this time I just thought it was heavily edited (to remove the pants wetting, etc.) The Monarch considers himself Venture's archenemy, for an as yet unexplained reason, yet Venture himself seems to consider the Monarch a nuisance unworthy of serious consideration (Dia de Los Dangerous!). [adult swim] wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. However, protesters forced him to stop prematurely. A narcissistic, amoral, lousy super-scientist, much of the humor is derived from his continual failures and shortcomings. A former boy adventurer who had become a bitter and jaded middle-aged man due to the trauma from his adventuring days. It should be noted, however, that Dr. Venture said this in a moment of stress as he was attempting to ascertain the nature of Dean's sudden illness (which turned out to be testicular torsion), not to mention Dr. Venture's own issues with chemical dependency. Moreover, his relationship with Rusty seemed to alternate between paternalism and disregard — an alternation which often reflects whatever action will most benefit or extend Jonas Sr.'s notoriety and fame. Despite this, he and Brock have a relatively amicable relationship, and Brock (to his credit) has stayed improbably loyal to Dr. Venture and his assigned task of protecting him from any and all harm. One night when Brock, having accidentally killed a quarterback during practice, burst into the room containing Venture, White, Sorayama, and Ünderbheit playing a Dungeons & Dragons game. Shoes which the sole can be rotated 180 degrees to misdirect anyone following the person, called "Sneekies". Dr. Venture has proven his scientific competence on numerous occasions, though his accomplishments are often driven by selfish desires (i.e. While Hank and Dean are the titular Venture Bros., the show mostly revolves around their father, Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture. At this point in time, his relationships with Hank and Dean have become even more disparate. The Metasonic locator, a successful and apparently benign invention, also served an inadvertent macabre purpose once activated: reviving the vengeful (if impotent) ghost of Major Tom. last-minute save by Brock and a flying car defeated the sibling, botched attempt to kidnap Dr. It's possible that Venture does possess overall some sort of paternal connection, but due to his own poor father model and little patience, he simply is not a good day-to-day father. Venture has moments of insight and compassion, and even charm and wit, but these are few and far between, as he often falls back into cynicism, self-pity, extreme egotism, and utter amorality. He no longer liked being called Rusty and still does not (he claims to be called "T.S." He still manages to get plenty of adventuring and action in life, frequently not by choice, such as having a second kidney removed in Tijuana (Dia de Los Dangerous!, being forced to fix the Gargantua-1 space station his father developed (Careers in Science, attempting to directly cash in on his father by searching underseas for an experimental spacecraft Jonas invented (Ghosts of the Sargasso) , various plots of the Monarch like attempting to kidnap his sons, being turned into a giant caterpillar Mid-Life Chrysalis, and being captured in the Amazon rainforest (Are You There, God? He and Hank have begun to argue constantly while he has started grooming Dean to follow in his footsteps as a super-scientist. Since then, Jonas has been granted about half the Venture fortune and has adapted to being the success Thaddeus never was (not to mention a lot more friendly to Thaddeus than vice-versa). 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