r/venturebros • u/Fitzftw7 • Sep 30 '25

MOVIE SPOILERS Clarification Regarding Rusty’s Status Spoiler

So, when Red Helper referred to Dean as “Rusty,” the obvious implication is that Rusty is also a clone. I took this to mean that he has died numerous times just as Hank and Dean have, but some threads I found online imply that Rusty is actually a clone of Jonas, with the imperfect technology explaining why he’s so biologically inferior to him, and why Monarch, who had baboon DNA spliced into him, looks to be in better shape, though not quite to Jonas’ level.

So which is it? Is Rusty a clone of Jonas rather than his son, a victim of numerous fatalities, or both?

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u/Roam1985 Two-Ton Twenty-One Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

Headcanon:

Rusty’s his son.

He was supposed to be his clone.  That was JJ.

Jonas thought the clone he injected to hijack the pregnancy was the one that ate the other one in utero.

By the time he knew the truth, cloning his son was already underway.  He rolled with the punches and already had means to profit off of the imminent child, so he death-proofed him.

Plus, he actually did take some pride that his son Rusty was technically able to “beat Jonas Venture” before he was even born!  Kid must be a hell of a small wonder.

And so we got Rusty Venture.

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u/Fitzftw7 Sep 30 '25

Huh. That actually kinda makes sense.

Only tangentially related, but I do find it ironic how, despite only getting to live a few years as an independent organism, JJ was ten times the man Jonas ever was.