![]() Notable for, out of all of Adult Swim's original shows, coming the closest to making any actual sense. There is also The Monarch, Rusty Venture's longtime nemesis who transforms from lame joke villain based around butterflies to bad-ass super-villain his quest to win back his girlfriend and get revenge against fellow villain Phantom Limb, who framed him for murder, catapults him into the spotlight in a number of episodes. The focus of the series shifted from the brothers and onto Rusty Venture, and as the theme of "failure" became the central element of the series, the series began to show what happens to boy adventurers as they grow up and discover that the promises of the era of "super-science" in the 1960s never came. The series quickly developed into something far more interesting than a mean-spirited Jonny Quest parody as the characters gained depth and the show took a dark turn into deconstructing the entire "boy adventurer" genre. The Venture family travels the world, getting into all sorts of bizarre adventures and spoofing the everloving hell out of Jonny Quest along the way - at least at first. They are followed by their government issued bodyguards: first Brock Samson, an ex-black ops agent who's described as a Swedish murder machine, and then Sergeant Hatred, a former super-villain/recovering pedophile who was drafted by the military to replace Brock when he quit the job. ![]() ![]() (2003-2004, 2006, 2008-2010, 2013, 2016-) is a cartoon series on Adult Swim/ Cartoon Network that focuses upon the lives and adventures of the titular Venture brothers (snarky Hank and brainy Dean) and their father, scientist/adventurer Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (who has grown bitter and abusive towards his own children due to his failure to live up to the legacy of his super-scientist father Jonas Venture, making him a sort of pulp version of a Former Child Star). ![]()
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