It's here, it's here, it's finally here! Season 7 of one of my few favorite shows on Tv. Now despite the humor and great characters this show is very serialized and has tons of backstory, not as massive and cryptic as FNAF but it would really help if you saw every episode from the beginning. But I'm aware that not everyone has the time for that (but seriously make it this show is totally worth it) and thankfully Adult Swim realized that as well so they had Henchman 21 (aka the most badass nerd character on par with Travis Touchdown) make these videos to give reaps of seasons 1-5 leaving me to give the details of last season. So here's seasons 1-4 in less then 8 minutes.
Now for season 5.
Now here's where I come in. So after the Gargantua 2 fiasco Doc's inherited Ventech Industries from J.J and like the classic little fuck up that he is, fires all of the board members and starts spending company money on him, Hank and Dean so of course the stocks drop like a stone elephant. J.J's #2 The Captain tries desperately to get Doc under control and eventually he and Doc reach a compromise after Dean steps up to the plate and after the Captain kicks his addiction to tranquilizer darts again. How it works now is the Captain handles the public face of the company while Rusty indulges in super science tinkering, so he's Iron Man. But what about the Captain, how'd he fall off the wagon?
Well the Monarch shoots him with one while he and Gary flee scoping the Ventech building. Though at that point, Venture's off the list for the Monarch for three reasons. First, because of Doc's new CEO status he's bumped up the priority list for O.S.I security (side note that means Brock's back guarding the Ventures) now you might be thinking "like that's ever stopped the Monarch before" but that was when he had his flying Cocoon, an army of elite henchmen, Gary, Dr Mrs The Monarch and his Monarch-mobile; but the cocoon was destroyed by Hatred with most if not all of his henchmen on board which means he, the Mrs and Gary had to move into the Monarch's old rundown Mansion in Newark New Jersey. Which leads us to 2, after that, Monarchs E.M.A (equally matched aggression) level went from 9 or a 10 to a 4, Rusty's now classified as a 10, do the math. Speaking of 10, 3 Venture's arching rights were given to the most influential member of the New York chapter of the Guild; Wide Wale as a peace offering to convince him to join the regrowing Council of 13 (more like Council of 5, later 7 which is just Dr Mrs the Monarch, Phantom Limb, Radical Left, Red Mantle/Dragoon and Dr Z, Dr Phineas Pahge later rejoins and Vendata is still MIA since the Don Hell fiasco) which he in turn divvied up to a bunch of other Level 10 villains underneath him.
Needless to say this along with renovating the house has put a major strain on The Monarch and his wife's marriage. Also it gets simultaneously better and worse, while the Monarch and Gary try to convince some of the level 10's to pass on arching Venture they stumble across the lair of the Monarch's Dad, a member of Team Venture; The Blue Morpho who's basically a blue Green Hornet (aka the original intention for Blue Beatle by his creator.) So Monarch figured that if he and Gary become the new Blue Morpho and Kano they could go around and kill all the Level 10's without anyone knowing it's him. But as you could imagine, dead villains means the Guild is out for Blood, especially given the history of the Blue Morpho as the junkyard dog of Team Venture and being dead for years they obviously smell something rotten. Coincidentally Dr Mrs the Monarch is heading the investigation not knowing that the man she's trying to kill to potentially save her husband; is her husband.
Now killing these villains is nothing to a nut-bar like the Monarch but Gary on the other hand is not taking this well, on top of his existing mental health issues after the death of 24. Not helping is that the Monarch often has Gary as Kano go around killing some of the arches while he's with his wife to maintain his cover. So on top of his previous hallucinations Gary's going to need some serious therapy. Though this only stopped because they messed with the absolute wrong villain. That being Red Death, the most professional villain still in the game, he's basically like if Mr Rogers became a horseman of the apocalypse and had plastic surgery to look like the Red Skull, simultaneously the sweetest guy you'd ever meet, a loving husband and father while also being a living, breathing nightmare for those who're on his hit list.
When the two tried to take him out, it backfired but instead of killing them Red Death just had a talk with the two and convinced them to give up on their crusade, after cleaning up one of Gary's messes. As for Hank and Dean they're adapting to big city life as Hank and Dean do. Dean's struggling with college life since he's, well, Dean and has nothing but outdated facts in his head thanks to his learning bed thing. As for Hank, he's started getting odd jobs and he's got a girlfriend, Sirena Ong, Wide Wale's daughter, yeah he's basically the first guy Sirena's meet who wasn't a playboy D-bag and isn't intimidated by her dad's overprotectiveness or his Guido henchmen. Billy and Pete aren't out of the fun either since their company was sold to Ventech after it was sold to their arch Augustus St Cloud over a prop from a Duran-Duran video.
Hatred's still hanging around too even though he was officially taken off the job with Brock resigned, so he's now their front desk security guard, basically as useful as boobs on a bull. Speaking of Brock aside from being back with the Venture's he's got his own issues. His first night in the city Brock tangled with the local Super heroes. One of which is an Amazon named Warriana and after some shenanigans with God Gas the two started to develop a relationship. She's possibly the first woman Brock's met that can actually challenge him and not jerk him around.
We haven't heard from Dr Orpheus and the Order of the Triad since season 5 but they'll be coming back this season so there's that to look forward too and hopefully we'll see The Alchemist and Shore Leave make their thing official. So that's about it as far as major story recap is concerned the rest is hijinks, insanity, speed-suits and Christopher Lambert. The characters are still hilarious and interesting, the writing is still top notch and Doc seems to finally have it together, he might suck as a scientist still sponging off of J.J but he's pretty much financially secure as long as he lets the Captain do his thing and stop experimenting with Mind control gas. If you haven't seen the Venture Bros yet, fix that A.S.A.P it's honestly one of the best shows Adult Swim has right now aside from Rick and Morty. So tune in, laugh and GO TEAM VENTURE!!!
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
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