'The Venture Bros.' Characters

Back in the 1960s, Dr. Venture was a boy genius and son of the world-famous genius super-scientist who founded Venture Industries. Doc Venture accompanied his father on adventures all over the world, just like Jonny Quest and Tom Swift. But through a series of missteps in life, beginning with premature baldness in high school, he's failed to live up to his potential and fallen far short of his late father's fame and accomplishments. Consequently, he's haunted by the looming specter of his over-achieving father.

He compensates for the unkind hand Fate's dealt him by being a Herculean workaholic; going for days on end without sleep to finish his multiple science projects. But the lucrative contracts that flooded into Venture Industries under his father's tenure elude him, so the family business has fallen on hard times. As a result, he's an opportunist with highly malleable morals. To keep Venture Industries afloat, he's resorted to everything from designing automatic litterboxes to subletting parts of the Venture compound to holding a garage sale. Dr. Venture has little time or patience in his hectic schedule for his two unexceptional boys.