List of The Venture Bros. Characters - Team Venture

Team Venture

Team Venture composes the central characters in the show; they live in a fortified compound in an undisclosed location somewhere in the 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 but 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 (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.

• Roger Dean "Dean" Venture (voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas): A teenage boy, one half of the eponymous pair, a fraternal twin but with red (possibly receding) 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 a stereotypical boy 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. He is an avid reader of the Giant Boy Detective series of books. As of "A Very Venture Halloween", Dean has learned that he is a clone but Hank has not.

• 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). 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 sons; it seems ambiguous whether he actually cares for them 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. His sons have died on multiple occasions, but he has always replaced them. His childhood time 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. He takes pills to manage his erratic psyche, hallucinations and stress.

• Brock Samson (voiced by Patrick Warburton): Brock Samson is the one-half Swedish, one-quarter Polish, one-quarter Winnebago murder machine who recently acted as bodyguard to the Venture Family. He now works for the organization S.P.H.I.N.X after quitting the O.S.I.,but still cares for the Venture family. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska to a single mother. After being kicked out of college he became an Army Ranger 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 Marine Corp fighting knife or Ka-Bar 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 threat to him and or the Ventures.

• 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. 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 he was lodged into Brock's chest, where he was later removed and fused with the Walking Eye.

• Sergeant Hatred (voiced by Brendon Small in season 2 and Christopher McCulloch in seasons 3 and 4): Brock's former supervisor in the O.S.I., Dr. Venture's new one-time arch-nemesis and, as of season 4, the family's bodyguard. Hatred becomes Venture's arch-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," but has molested both Venture boys. 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 V.D.".