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This is a list of main and recurring fictional characters and organizations from ''The Venture Bros.'', the Adult Swim/Cartoon Network comic science fiction series. == Team Venture == Team Venture composes the central characters in the show; they live in a fortified compound in or near Colorado Springs, CO United States. The compound doubles as the headquarters for Dr. Venture's company, Venture Industries. * Henry Allen "Hank" Venture (voiced by Christopher McCulloch): A teenage boy, one half of the eponymous pair, a fraternal twin with blond hair. Hank's character is based on Joe Hardy of the Hardy Boys, Jonny Quest, and Fred Jones of ''Scooby Doo''. He tends to be more athletic and better at disguises than his brother. He is shown as the more outgoing and daring of the pair, and more attracted to adventure. In season 4, he became more rebellious when Brock had left, even going so far as to lose his virginity (nearly all knowledge of this event has been erased from his memory, however). Like his brother, Hank has been killed over a dozen times, but replaced with an exact clone who is supposed to have no memory of his own deaths; though he vaguely recollects jumping off the roof of his house in a Batman costume. After briefly joining the former Henchman 21's version of S.P.H.I.N.X. in season 5, Hank attained the power suit of former villainous S.P.H.I.N.X. member The Countess, which he wore until it was stolen by Molotov Cocktease in a fight and then destroyed by Brock Samson, leaving Hank in physical therapy for some time due to his atrophied muscles. In the end of season 5, Dean reveals to him that the two are clones of their original selves, but this does not upset him, and his own optimism about his previous technical immortality raises Dean's spirits. * Dean Venture (voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas): A teenage boy, one half of the eponymous pair, a fraternal twin with red hair. Dean is timid, selfless, and more "bookish" than Hank. He is a combination of Frank Hardy, Peter Parker (in fact, he wears Spider-Man pajamas in several episodes) and stereotypes of boys from the 1950s (e.g. Henry Huggins, Buddy Holly). While more timid than Hank, he shows signs of being slightly less emotionally stunted than his brother, as he has a crush on Triana Orpheus. Dean is considered the "Smart" son by Rusty. Dean has been killed over a dozen times, but each time he is replaced with an exact clone who has no memory of the death. He is named after fantasy artist Roger Dean, who made the cover art for Rusty and Dean's progressive rock album collection. He is an avid reader of the Giant Boy Detective series of books. After being dumped by Triana in the season 4 finale, Dean has become more of an emo, dressing in a black "speedsuit", moving out of his childhood bedroom, and becoming more sarcastic and unwilling to go with his father and brother on adventures. In "A Very Venture Halloween", Dean discovered that he and Hank were clones, a fact that he found disturbing and extremely upsetting. He responded by further distancing himself from his family. Since the season 5 premiere, Dean has become far more cynical; he has begun to use stronger language and now actively hates Triana for not only breaking up with him, but for dating someone else (he does not care if she is happy, only if he is). In the season 5 finale, he reveals the truth about their existence to Hank, who responds optimistically and changes Dean's outlook on their lives and allows him to move on from Triana and his self-pity. * Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture (voiced by James Urbaniak): Dean and Hank's Father. He constantly lives in the shadow of his famous father Dr. Jonas Venture, from whom he inherited Venture Industries. There is some question as to his actual degree of ability in the nebulously defined field of super-science. In fact, in "The Incredible Mr. Brisby", amusement park tycoon Roy Brisby accuses Dr. Venture of not having a doctorate at all. While Dr. Venture desperately wishes to emerge from his father's shadow, ultimately his knack for cutting corners proves his undoing, with his shoddy attempts at genuine technological innovation typically resulting in utter debacle (serving as the premise for several episodes), though some episodes such as the show's pilot and "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?" show that he is quite a capable inventor when it comes to the field of military hardware, producing nigh-indestructable personal force fields that can last for decades and mass-produced suicide bomber zombies that have netted him lucrative military contracts. Dr. Venture is also shown to have an encyclopedic knowledge of supervillain cliches, using them to his advantage to escape many a deathtrap. Dr. Venture is shown to have attended college with Brock, Pete White, Baron Underbheit and the Monarch, but he never graduated, apparently receiving "honorary degrees" from several Tijuana community colleges. Dr. Venture seems to dislike his son Hank; it seems ambiguous whether he actually cares for him at all. However, in Season 4 it is revealed that Dr. Venture sees a lot of himself in Hank and in fact, loves his son, but his own self-hatred made him reject Hank. His sons have died on multiple occasions, but he has always replaced them, though each of their deaths is shown to have weighed heavily on his subconscious. His childhood with the original team Venture has had an undeniably traumatizing effect on him, and he still wakes up at night with nightmares of his worst adventures, the most prominent being his encounter with a "Mechanical Murder Man". Although in ''Self-Medication'' Rusty is shown to be much more stable in comparison to other former boy adventurers, who are shown to mostly spend their time wallowing in their wasted childhoods and resentment towards their parental figures. He takes pills to manage his erratic psyche, hallucinations, and stress. * Brock Samson (voiced by Patrick Warburton): Brock Samson is a one-half Swedish, one-quarter Polish, one-quarter Winnebago "murder machine" who loves Led Zeppelin and recently acted as bodyguard to the Venture Family. Brock is based on wrestler Sid Eudy. For most of the series he has long blonde hair that is commonly remarked upon by others, often in reference to the biblical Samson. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska to a single mother. After being kicked out of college, he joined the US Army before joining the Office of Secret Intelligence (presumably a covert branch of the United States Government). There he acquired secret agent skills and a License to Kill. Even though Brock possesses a license to kill, he refuses to use a gun and instead wields a Ka-Bar fighting knife as his signature weapon. He relies on brute strength, endurance, and skill with a knife that borders on the supernatural. He is also able to tell whenever someone is in his car, apparently from an entirely separate continent, which Shoreleave believes is "a legitimate super-power". Brock also has subtly shown signs of being somewhat conflicted with his place in the world and unsure about his purpose as killing machine, such as when he confessed remorse for his murder of one Monarch henchman who later was revived by Dr. Venture into "Venturestein". Samson also has a personal code or ethics regarding innocents and whom he will kill if they are a threat to him and or the Ventures. In the season 3 finale, Brock becomes disillusioned with the O.S.I. and leaves the organization, also quitting his position as the Ventures' bodyguard. He then joins S.P.H.I.N.X., a group of other disillusioned O.S.I. agents who got tired of the rules and regulations put in place on the organization, and continues to keep a close eye on the Venture family (as S.P.H.I.N.X. uses an abandoned building on the Venture Compound for their base). In the season 4 finale, "Operation: P.R.O.M.", Brock and the other former O.S.I. members rejoins O.S.I. after Hunter Gathers is re-instated into the organization as its new commander. Brock also appears as a character in the crossover video game ''Poker Night 2''. In ''Poker Night 2'', though a conversation led by Brock and Ash from ''the Evil Dead franchise'', GLaDOS from ''Portal'' finds out that Ash has a family relationship with Brock, as Ash is technically one of Brock's 14th century ancestors due to time travel. * H.E.L.P.eR. (voiced by "Soul-Bot"): The Venture family's personal helper robot. H.E.L.P.eR. is an acronym for Humanoid Electric Lab Partner Robot. He was created by Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. to look after his son Rusty, but now assists Brock in looking after Dean and Hank. H.E.L.P.eR.'s role as an assistant to the Venture family is often reminiscent of Alfred Pennyworth, lifelong butler of Batman. H.E.L.P.eR. does not speak, but rather communicates via electronic beeps that are more or less understood by the Venture clan, similar in many ways to R2-D2. Though he is very sensitive, the Ventures often treat him like an old appliance or pet. The robot routinely gets smashed to pieces during the course of their adventures, but seems to get repaired by the next show. At the end of Season 3, he was destroyed in a car accident with 24. In Season 4, it was revealed that his head was lodged into Brock's chest, where he was later removed and fused with the Walking Eye. In the opening episode of season 5, it is revealed he was sold to Augustus St. Cloud but Billy Quizboy rescues him after beating St. Cloud in a trivia game. In the following episode, "Venture Libre", Dean restores H.E.L.P.eR. to his original body. * Sergeant Hatred AKA Courtney Robert 〔Season 5 Deleted Scenes〕 Haine (voiced by Brendon Small in season 2 and Christopher McCulloch from season 3 onward): Brock's former supervisor in the O.S.I., Dr. Venture's new one-time nemesis and, as of season 4, the family's bodyguard. Hatred becomes Venture's nemesis after the Monarch's forced departure from that position. Hatred is a large man with a giant red 'H' tattooed on his face (the rest of the word "hatred" is tattooed vertically down his body) and wears military fatigues much like the Marvel villain Nuke. He was the Monarch's next door neighbor when the Monarch had moved into Phantom Limb's former house. Sergeant Hatred mentions at a party that he hosts that he cannot be within 50 feet of a minor due to a court order, though he is married to Princess Tinyfeet and has a massive foot fetish. Despite being a convicted child molester, he is liked and respected throughout the supervillain community for his unfailing politeness and generosity; certain episodes also reveal that he knows his sexual attraction to children is wrong, and tries to keep it in check, in part by self-administering the IV drug "Nomolestol". The Monarch's henchman, namely 21 and 24, routinely steal parts from Hatred's technology, using his hover tank to rebuild the cocoon. 21 steals jet-packs from him as well. Hatred briefly chose Dr. Venture as his arch-enemy as revenge on the Monarch for his years of theft, planning to make Venture's life wonderful. As of season 4, Hatred has become the Ventures' new bodyguard. As of the Season 4 finale, Hatred had removed all of the word "Hatred" from his body, except for the D, which was placed in a "tender area". He had put a new tattoo on his face that is a giant V, for "Venture"; this causes Dr. Venture to sarcastically nickname him "Sergeant Vatred". During Season 4, Sgt. Hatred discovers his wife has left him for Captain Sunshine's archenemy Scorpio, and he falls into a depression. He also develops a case of gynecomastia in the Season 5 premiere due to a reaction between the Nomolestol and the Super Soldier surem he was injected with while with the O.S.I. and confesses to Dr. Venture that he likes to look at his enlarged breasts when he masturbates. His past in O.S.I. is further revealed as being the result of a super soldier program ala Captain America, but like in the comics, failed and Hatred ended up more like Nuke (a big muscular jarhead, relies on medication to balance out issues, etc.). However, while his physical prowess increased dramatically, his empathy disappeared, magnifying his pederastic tendencies to a violent level. *Dermott Fictel-Venture (voiced by Doc Hammer): An obnoxious teenager who first appears in "The Buddy System"; he was hinted to be the son of Brock Samson. Dermott is a compulsive liar and frequently interjects wild, and often clearly false claims about his abilities and past deeds into unrelated conversations. He is a friend of Hank's and occasionally visits the Venture compound from the nearby trailer park where he and his "mother" live. In the season 4 episode "Everybody Comes to Hank's" Hank sleeps with Nikki Fictel (voiced by Kate McKinnon) whom he knows as Dermott's older sister. It is revealed that Nikki is actually Dermott's biological mother and that her mother raised Dermott as her own son. When Nikki was 15 she had been the chairperson of the Rusty Venture Fan Club and she was impregnated by Rusty Venture who was tricked into thinking was 20. Rusty paid the family off with a check, due to threats from Dermott's grandmother about pressing charges for statutory rape unless he did so, despite Rusty wanting to take responsibility and raise the child with Nikki. This also means that Dermott is in fact the third Venture brother. In "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy", Dr. Venture has an interview in which he seems to believe Dermott is Brock's son. However, by the end it is implied that Dr. Venture has figured out that Dermott is his son, and whenever he is at the compound in season 5, Venture treats him as such without revealing it to him. After discovering he can understand H.E.L.P.eR, Dermott discovers this as well when in the episode "Momma's Boys" when Doctor Orpheus rescues him and explains he is psychically connected to the Venture boys, resulting Dermott learning he is one of the Venture boys. He hints at this knowledge in the episode's post-credits scene, in which he calls Rusty "Dad" as he leaves the family's kitchen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of The Venture Bros. characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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