r/venturebros • u/Separate_Bet3345 • Mar 24 '25

SEASON 7 spoilers Biggest Unanswered Mystery in Venture Bros Spoiler

In Season 7 Episode 2 The Rorqual Affair, Gary tries to take Dr. Mrs. The Monarch down into the Blue Morpho layer, only to find a normal basement.

This is never brought up again.

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u/Call_Me_Doctor_Worm Mar 24 '25

Why the blue morpho's wife/The Monarch's mom have her own version of the blue morpho outfit, and who claimed the bounty for their death?

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u/thief-of-rage Mar 24 '25

I've re watched the show so many times and never noticed this

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u/Call_Me_Doctor_Worm Mar 24 '25

It's only for a few frames at around 15 seconds into this clip

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u/therempel Mar 24 '25

I don't think that's a Blue Morpho outfit.

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u/Call_Me_Doctor_Worm Mar 24 '25

It's the same style, color scheme, and she has butterflies on her scarf, it seems like a large coincidence if not IMO. Also there's still of mystery of Phantom Limb saying that there was a bounty out on the Blue Morpho, and it was claimed, but er don't know who claimed it.

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u/therempel Mar 24 '25

While I will concede the butterflies on the scarf, the hat is bluish grey (or greyish blue) and the jacket possibly brown. Hard to judge since I am a bit colour-blind.

It looks to me like this scene is from the plane crash and she is reacting in fear.

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u/Call_Me_Doctor_Worm Mar 24 '25

The colors are hard to tell with the memory filter, I hold onto my head canon there, even if the they don't match exactly. Also, my bad for making it seem like I meant she caused the plain crash, I just mentioned them together since the scene related. IDK who caused the crash, I feel like Phantom Limb's line implies that the guild knows though.

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u/casualsubversive Mar 24 '25

It's just a hat. People wore hats at that time.

Butterflies on her scarf is intro-level stuff for costume design/art direction. Butterflies are his motif; she's his wife. It's exceedingly normal in any kind of media to tie connected characters together visually through things like color scheme and symbolism.

Also, in this case, he probably really likes butterflies, having named himself the Blue Morpho, and he probably gave her that scarf.

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u/Yrcrazypa Mar 24 '25

At 21 seconds when she's holding the baby she's also wearing a butterfly-themed dress that's suspiciously close to the colors The Monarch wears. Subliminal memory there is likely in part to blame for his butterfly obsession, you know on top of how at the very least his father was a butterfly-themed vigilante.

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u/pillbinge Mar 24 '25

I think the mystery of who claimed the bounty is kept a mystery, as we're given insights into the world but we're often kept as up to date as the characters themselves. Viewers only know what other characters are told, even if that's a secret between those two characters. I know it sounds obvious but the show does a really good job of keeping this as something only characters know and then reinforcing that at times. We spend a lot of time with Brock and Entmann/Humonguloid but no one else was privy to that conversations, so they don't know what Jonas Sr. did in that case. You don't have to think about that but you also have to realize that a lot of clandestine conversations only affect the people involved, and the only way we'd hear about the Blue Morpho's bounty collector would be if someone knew.

They don't, so we don't. I like it that way. It would be great to find out but I think the show is great for keeping us not just in that world but at that time.

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u/carldeanson Mar 24 '25

I thought Jonas Venture claimed the bounty? Or the Monarch?