Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture

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Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture

Rusty in all his glory
1st appearance: The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay
Voice Artist: James Urbaniak
Groups
Team Venture, Venture Family


Doctor Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture is the current owner and head of Venture Industries. He lives and travels with his sons Hank Venture and Dean Venture and his bodyguard Brock Samson in the Venture Compound.

As a child (and presumably until entering college) he was called Rusty Venture, and was famous (in a cartoon show based on his real life) as a boy adventurer. While attending college, he decided to go by his initials instead, and asked to be called T. S. Venture, possibly as a nod to writer T. S. Eliot. Today, he is commonly called Dr. Venture, although some of his older acquaintances may refer to him as T. S. or Rusty.

Although the son of famed superscientist Dr. Jonas Venture, Dr. Venture does not seem to have inherited his father's technological or adventuring skills. He has few working inventions of his own, and relies heavily on his late father's inventions to pay the bills as well as for everyday use. His lack of income forced him to sell many of his father's inventions at a 'tag sale', as seen in Tag-Sale -- You're it!.

The identity of Hank and Dean's mother remains unknown, although Venture's first bodyguard Myra Brandish has claimed to be their mother in I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills. It is possible that Hank and Dean have no actual mother; they may have been grown completely in a laboratory. Dr. Venture refers to the boys having been through a 'prototype phase' in Are You There God? It's Me, Dean, but he may have been referring solely to clone slug development and not their actual creation. The fact that Dr. Venture claims to have lost his virginity at 24, and has not had sex since, may add credence to the theory that Myra Brandish is actually the boys' mother.

Dr. Venture was seduced by Dr. Girlfriend in Mid-Life Chrysalis as part of a plan hatched by The Monarch, though she denys or forgets the incident as is convenient. He was also the target of Sally Impossible's misguided attempt to escape the suffocating grasp of her husband Richard Impossible (Ice Station -- Impossible!) and was subsequently used by Venture in a plot to retrieve a part of an invention of his father's in Twenty Years to Midnight. He has been violently rebuffed by both Molotov Cocktease and Hunter Gathers on separate occassions.

Venture is addicted to "diet pills" (which seem to quiet his semi-frequent hallucinations) and has had a variety of medical problems. In Dia de Los Dangerous, he had both of his kidneys removed. Later, in Return to Spider-Skull Island, he has a "tumor" removed, only to find out that it was actually his twin brother, Jonas Venture Jr..

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