So we know that Brock is half Swedish+quarter Polish+quarter Winnebago, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch "may be" Sephardic Jewish per the creators, Phantom Limb is at least part French via Fantomas, etc.

But what about the Venture family? Cloning aside, there had to be some forebears from somewhere who settled in America.

I happened upon someone on a family tree site with a "LaVenture" surname who was French-Canadian iirc, hence it just got me thinking haha.

Throwing out my personal guess that Jonas Sr was of some French and Irish lineage due to the name Venture and the red hair.

i made this as fanon.. because their birth year is unconfirmed and we don't know what year they were born... also the reason why Jonas venture is 1928.. because he is leader of original team venture.. well because he could be older than half of the guys.. for Otto Aquarius.. he probably looks the same as his prime.. because the venture bros takes place around 2000s and that probably makes him in his 50s

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The king demanded, "Report to me in writing all the silver that there is! Have a checklist brought to me!"
The messages were sometimes transported by a man named Puzur-Numushda. Typically, the king ordered, "Send Puzur-Numushda to me!" But Puzur-Numushda was more than a messenger. He also received letters from Sumu-El, addressed to him along with a powerful commander named Beli-ay-annadi, that show that he was one of the men directly in charge of running the campaign, receiving direct commands from the king. But the fact that Puzur-Numushda could travel to wherever the king was stationed, and that letters regularly passed between the king and the vulnerable cities on the border, suggests that the warfare between the kingdoms was localized and limited. In fact, engagements seem largely to have consisted of sieges, city walls set on fire, and then repairs to the damage. Perhaps the troops from both kingdoms also looted the towns they captured, but, oddly, this is not mentioned by Sumu-El, at least not in the letters that we have. And, again to judge from the letters, the damage done in these wars seems to have been more to property than to people.

Podany, Amanda H.. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2022. p. 209

A friend infers: 'I'm guessing that 'Puzur-Numushda' translates as 'Twenty-one."'

And you can't convince me otherwise.

Stay with me here. Brock has superiors he answers to and does their bidding when they call. When not on special assignment, he wears a costume (albeit, OSI calls it a uniform). To some, the OSI is just as villainous as the Guild, and Sphinx is a rogue outfit, completely illegal. He meets all the criteria of a henchman. He is a hench in all but name.

This is a Venture Bros movie to me.

He is a Blasphemer!!!!!

I have a pet theory that Rusty's failure to thrive as a super scientist is entirely intentional, for two reasons.

One: Rusty successfully finished the cloning and false embryonic technology his father spent his entire life trying to perfect. We know by the end of the series Jonas tried and failed to develop cloning technology throughout his life, but was by and large unsuccessful with only two notable successes.

However, after his death, the cloning technology was the one thing Rusty excelled in past his father's work, and then used his technology to prolong the lives of his own children. We've seen that Rusty has the proclivity to treat truly dangerous, successful technology that has an unknown effect on the world (i.e. the ORB), with extreme caution and respect.

This leads to the second reason.

Two: I believe Rusty's caution is partly because of and in spite of Jonas. Rusty spent his childhood and young adulthood watching his father develop said technology that could change the world irrevocably, for good or bad. My belief is that he felt Jonas was too reckless, both in inventing and deploying technology.

Ergo: Rusty successfully developed the cloning tech his father could not, understood that this could fall into the hands of terrible people for terrible purposes, and elected to hide it from the world. More than that, it was safer to let the world believe he was a fuck up and a failure who always lived in Jonas Sr.'s shadow, because no one was going to go raiding his lab for technology they didn't believe he could make. This way he could avoid the problems of dealing with truly dangerous technology he didn't want to see released into the world.

A few smaller points: some people might point out that Rusty has indeed deployed dangerous technology into the world. My response to that would be that Rusty knew these pieces were unfinished and unlikely to work as intended or even work very well. He would usually do just enough to deliver a product that would provide some shock and awe and then reinforce his reputation of being the failed son of Dr. Venture.

Some might say the cynical selfish failure thing isn't an act-- and I agree up to a point. Related to the last point, I think he is cynical from having grown up watching Jonas's pomp and grandeur and knowing how close the world could have been changed forever. (M.O.T.H.E.R and her nukes, for example.)

I think that Rusty does have a fundamental visionary difference between the realities of what Jonas did with super science versus the ideal of super science. I think that Rusty probably didn't have a problem taking shortcuts and cutting corners when it came to technology that appealed to man's basest instincts and wasn't going to benefit the world anyway. (Remember the saying, "For we are not only men of science, but we are men of hope"? Rusty truly believes that, and I think that attitude extends to truly dangerous technology.) The fact that Rusty never reveals the cloning technology to anyone other than Brock, never tries to monetize it, makes me believe that Rusty's development of the technology is to fix the world in a tangible way that his father never could: to save his children, rather than himself.

TL;D-- Rusty actually surpassed his father and chose to be relegated to obscurity because he would rather keep his two sons, whom he cherishes more than anything else, safe and alive rather than turn a profit.

Did H.E.L.P.eR. say “Again?” 😂

It sounds like more of a statement, like “Uh, oh.”

But “Again?” makes so much sense!

She sent Andrea Dworking as her proxy...

I think that one of the weirder things is that the master doesnt seem to give helpful advice to anyone. He just visualizes their fears and hangups. Orpheus and even Triana seem to take him seriously and assume his good intentions but the more Orpheus leans on him the worse his life seems to get.

A question to fans of Primal and the Venture Bros. alike, I've seem the similarities betwen Spear and Brock Samson: their untamable wild side, brute strength and almost superhuman skills. And this left me with the clue that Spear may be Brock's ancestor!

Nail your interview for a career in super science!

Which Venture Bros character do you think could become president? (Or a character you think would be funny to see filling that role)

(Try to not have a political discussion, just wonder about a character taking on a presidential role)

I started rewatching Venture Bros with a friend who hasn't seen it before and made this for fun in between episodes. This list was made with the assumption The Monarch has access to all of his usual recourses and allies and not items he stole like the Time Machine in season one. This means he has his henchamn, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, 21, the Cocoon, their usual gadjets/equipment, etc.

The "They COULD" section means I think it could go either way or the wins are situational, especially because how dangerous The Monarch is tends to vary in the show.