The Venture Bros./Awesome: Difference between revisions

** As Myra Brandish tries to run him over in her car, facing backwards, he performs Taichi's Single Whip, with one hand stretched forward and the other to his side. When she hit him, he flies through the windscreen, crushing her into the seat, his forward hand drops into position on the wheel, and his hand stretched to the side prevents Dr. Venture from flying out of the windscreen.

** Brock vs. The Monarch's henchmen in "Dia de los Dangerous", after Brock airdropped his '69 Charger straight into the middle of Monarch's lair.

'''Brock''': (eye twitching) '''''They hit me with a truck.''''' }}

** His "MURDERFLIES!" speech to the Monarch's henchmen also counts.

*** He ''did'' have to blow some frozen blood out of his nose, but you have a point.

*** And he STILL had enough energy to have crazy sex with a frighteningly ugly woman.

** An episode has him killing a bunch of the Monarch's henchmen in a warehouse/hangar. If you freeze frame, you will see him having pinned a henchman to the wall with a ''functioning lawnmower'' which he holds in one hand while strangling another henchman with his other hand.

** One of the most fantastic moments comes in the episode "Victor. Echo. November." While Dr. Venture is watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Brock vaults into the room, completely naked, covered in blood, with a SEVERED HEAD in his hand. Dr. Venture asks why Brock is naked, and his response is spoken in an animalistic growl:

** Not to mention the opening scene of "Dia de Los Dangerous!", where, after he is forced to strip naked, he receives an appreciative gasp, and even a short round of applause. And there was a springing sound when he took his underwear off, for some reason, even though he was in a room full of muscular, oiled up men in tights.

*** Well, ''obviously'' he did that on command just to further shame and humiliate every other man in that room with their inadequacy.

** How is it that we've gone this long without mentioning the FIRST episode? Where he's being charged by the Monarch's henchman, and manages to get a doubly-literal death-grip on poor Speedy. Cool moment, but the fact that they had to mercy-kill Speedy pushed it into CMOA territory.

** During ''Mid-Life Chrysalis'', when Brock's OSI license is suspended and he has to retake the test. The officer reading back his results generally summarizes Brock's overall MO:

'''Agent Trayster''': Well, let's see here Mr. Samson. On the driving portion you [[Car Fu|totaled every car but the one you were driving]]. On the pistol range you [[Doesn't Like Guns|refused to use a gun]], and, oh, ''(chuckle)'' here's my favorite: on the written you drew the little guy with wings from the [[Led Zeppelin]] records--<br />

'''Brock''': Icarus. So, uh, what are you trying to tell me here, little man? You don't like Zep?<br />

*** The next time you see that bartender he's wearing an eyepatch.

** At the end of "Blood of The Father, Heart of Steel", he ''kills Hitler''. Hitler in the form of an [[You Cloned Hitler|angry dog with his brain/soul in it]], but Hitler nonetheless. And he does it with a ceremonial golden dagger, such that the dog is ''disintegrated'' by the magic afterwards.

* The Monarch's got a few moments, himself. For one, his "minty fresh entrance" into his accountants office (Bad directions; It was supposed to be the Secret Venture compound), and, for another, his standoff against Brock on his birthday.

** Oh, and his daring prison escape. And the speech he made leading up to it.

**** This troper posits that it would actually be characteristic of Phantom Limb to {{spoiler|not recognize a former henchman of his. He's not the type who'd bond with his henchmen.}} Remember, Phantom Limb also {{spoiler|doesn't recognize 24 as being a former henchman of his, despite 24 having the ''same number'' while working for the Monarch.}}

*** Not to mention his triumphant foray into the lair of the Phantom in that very episode.

*** As well as his first attempt to kill Venture as the Monarch where he simply ''[[Car Fu|drives a car through every room of the building Blues Brothers-style to get to the lab]]'', even if he stepped out and got his ass kicked.

*** The entire third season episode "The Lepidopterists" is a crowning moment of awesome for the Monarch. He {{spoiler|launches a deliberately doomed assault on Jonas Venture Jr. so that he can get his henchmen onto Spider-Skull Island so they can hack his video feed and make it look like he was killed by JJ, freeing him to arch Rusty Venture with a guild sanction like he always wanted.}}

** During the yard sale at Dr. Venture's place, he realizes he really wants an arch villain. So he slaps The Monarch across the face and lights his shoes on fire. Then he hands him his card in case the Monarch would like to arch him. The extent of the Monarch's retaliation was shouting, "You dick!"

** The original Team Venture mistakes him for a villain (shooting him in the process) and Dr. Orpheus forces a standstill between the two. Then he tells The Action Man's fortune...

'''Dr. Orpheus''': From a stroke. Good day, sir! }}

*** Later on, someone comments they might not make it out alive from the villain's lair:

** And the Order of the Triad's "Rochambeau." Okay, it wasn't the Rochambeau, but it ''really should be.''

*** His teleportation spells are pretty cool along with his exits. He once made a cloud shaped like a skull explode into a bunch of little skulls, seconds after he teleported out of the room.

*** That's because his heart does not pump blood like you and I, but rather a condensed form of pure liquid awesome.

* Russell "Go-Fish" Sturgeon, the second assassin from the third season finale (and the only one that was really any level of competent), throws a grenade at Brock before binding him with a ''[[Improbable Weapon User|Fishing Pole]]''. He then drags Brock through the water with his speed boat and pelts him with chum to ''attract sharks''!

** And then Brock saying a quick prayer after dispatching him with a clever trap.

* Heinrich "Herr Trigger" Triggermensch proving to be an [[Implacable Man]] in his pursuit of Brock (and the only of the assassins to {{spoiler|come out of their encounter with Brock alive, even if he died shortly thereafter}}.)

*** At which point Helper climbs out of his little hole on the roof, climbs down the X-1, grabs the landing gear, and sacrifices half of his body to serve as an emergency landing gear. AWESOME.

** Go Fish vs Brock Samson. Go Fish opens up with a grenade, then a frog bait that ties up Brock, then he tosses chum on Brock to LURE SHARKS TO KILL HIM. Brock cuts off his own hair, mounts it on a shark with his shirt, ties up the shark with fishing wire, and as Go Fish comes in for the final kill, Brock decapitates him with a shark. With a MOTHERFUCKING SHARK. His final line, a direct call out to the two useless <s>formerly</s> homosexual Christians on deck, is COLD AS HELL. He takes Go Fish's hat, puts it on his head, and goes with the line...

** While not as interesting as the rest, Le Treur vs Brock Samson is still quite entertaining, though in a much more subtle way. Of the three assassins, Le Treur does the single most damage to Brock, cutting off his nipple, carving him up with a sword pretty well, and slamming him through a window. In response, [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Brock bissects him vertically with his own sword.]] The hilarious part comes that when the blood splashes off of Le Treur, it hits the boys in a way to make them look as if they've pissed themselves.

*** Le Treur's statement to Hank of [[Card-Carrying Villain|"I only like Batman for the villains!"]] is pretty magnificent, as well.

** Treister's entire exit is one. {{spoiler|He invites Hunter to the (real) bridge of the OSI airship, where he gives him the wheel. When Hunter tells him he's not a Hulk and that the Lepidopterists are Guild double agents plotting a takeover, Treister reveals that he already knew and set up an ambush for them. Treister puts Hunter in charge of the OSI, then ''launches himself into space'' so as to allow "alien technology" to find him and cure his cancer. To cap the whole sequence off, the last show of Treister is of him being releaed from his rocket in space, with a post-it note saying "Fix It!" affixed to his chest.}} That's the absolute pure defenition of [[Crazy Awesome]].

** After the Outrider's stupid speech at the very end of the episode:

*** And people said he would never have another [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

** {{spoiler|Gary quitting.}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUgUr8yvIwo The last 2:30 minutes of the episode were just fantastic.] Spoilers, obviously

* David Bowie.

* Dr. Orpheus' entire involvement in the episode ''Assisted Suicide''. Despite the series being a "show about failure," he spent that entire episode showing that he is ''damn'' good at what he does and {{spoiler|saves Dr. Venture from The Monarch's mind-assassination attempt.}}

** Which involved doing [[Noodle Incident|unspecified acts]] of Id's choosing in order to provide Ego with two hot babes of Rusty's fantasies.