List of The Venture Bros. episodes

Scientist and former boy adventurer Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture, his twin sons Hank and Dean, and his near-invincible Office of Secret Intelligence (O.S.I.) bodyguard Brock Samson live on his deceased father Jonas's compound, and are frequently attacked by butterfly-themed supervillain The Monarch. The family travels to the United Nations so Rusty can present his new invention, and the boys encounter The Monarch, fleeing from him and almost consorting with a prostitute. Brock finds The Monarch, assuming he has done something to the boys. Rusty's invention turns out to be a death ray, which the UN rejects but the army gleefully buys. A Japanese businessman that has been trying to steal the ray is found masturbating over it, turning out to have a fetish for advanced technology.

While Rusty tries to buy drugs in Tijuana from a doctor, The Monarch's henchmen kidnap the boys and barely manage to incapacitate Brock, burying him out in the desert. The doctor takes Rusty's kidneys, and he calls his Humanoid Electronic Lab Partner Robot (H.E.L.P.eR.) to take him back to his jet, the X-1, where he converts him into a dialysis machine. He finds Brock's grave, only for him to burst out of it and take Rusty to rescue the boys. The Monarch, feeling guilt over how little Rusty seems to care for the boys, explains why he wants to help them to his girlfriend, Dr. Girlfriend: as a child, he was orphaned in a plane crash and raised by a swarm of monarch butterflies, and wants to give the boys that same love. Brock drives his car through The Monarch's "Cocoon" fortress and massacres his men, while Rusty rescues the boys and has them play rock paper scissors to decide who gives up their kidney for him.

Rusty is summoned to his father's space station, Gargantua-1, to investigate the station's "PROBLEM" light turning on. Brock and H.E.L.P.eR. are sucked into space when Rusty accidentally opens the bay doors, but Brock survives and has sex with the station's captain's love interest. The captain, Bud Manstrong, scares the boys with a story about a crew member who went insane and sent the previous crew of the station into space during a movie night, and they mistake a returned H.E.L.P.eR. for the crew member's spirit and launch him back into space. Brock and Manstrong go to repair the hole that H.E.L.P.eR.'s return left in the station, and Brock beats Manstrong up when he confronts him. Rusty discovers that a toy he left in the station's circuity as a child melted and removes it, turning the light off. As the Ventures leave the station, the light turns back on.

Brock leaves on a camping trip into military-guarded woods, where he runs into a bionic former soldier and his lover, Sasquatch. To protect them, Brock shaves Sasquatch and passes them off to guards as military friends. H.E.L.P.eR. discovers that Rusty is building a new defense robot and leaves the compound, hurt. Both The Monarch's and metal-jawed villain Baron Ünderbheit's henchmen attack Rusty at the same time, causing the compound to lock them outside and send him and the boys to the panic room. They are attacked by the defense robot, Rusty having not whitelisted the family yet, and he is forced to call and apologize to H.E.L.P.eR., who reboots the compound's system and causes the defense robot to attack the now allied henchmen. The Monarch and Ünderbheit have a lengthy debate over who gets to attack Rusty, eventually agreeing to team up without realizing their men are dead.

The Ventures go to Africa so Rusty can meet with quadriplegic entertainment mogul Roy Brisby. Brisby asks Rusty to clone him, and has his pet panda that he won from David Bowie knock Rusty out when he refuses. He drugs Brock, who is rescued by his longtime adversary and love interest, mercenary Molotov Cocktease. They fight and almost have sex, but he is disheartened to learn that she is still wearing a chastity belt. The boys are kidnapped from the X-1 by a revolutionary group fighting Brisby's empire and mind-controlled to hate him. Brisby shows Rusty his plans to take over the world with his influence, only for the revolutionaries to attack him just as Brock and Cocktease arrive, who goes off on her own to complete her mission. Brock frees the boys and rescues Rusty.

Necromancer Byron Orpheus becomes the compound's new tenant, and Dean is instantly smitten with his daughter Triana. Brock rescues Hank from being lured into Rusty's new invention, a machine that locks from the outside and shows those inside it their greatest pleasures, but is pulled in. The boys cover their heads and follow him in, protecting them from its visions but locking them in with him. Orpheus senses dark power coming from the machine, and Rusty admits he is powering it with an orphan's heart. Orpheus fails to get it open until Triana enters, and her saying Dean's name allows him to open the door. Orpheus vanishes the machine to prevent it from trapping anyone else.

Rusty takes his hydrofoil, the X-2, out to the Bermuda Triangle to find Jonas's long-sunken experimental plane, hoping to salvage and sell it. He dives into the water and goes looking for it, but his tracking device awakens the spirit of the plane's dead pilot. The X-2 is attacked by pirates looking to steal it, and they capture Brock, who easily escapes. Dean finds himself getting along with the pirates' captain, while Hank encounters the spirit and calls Orpheus. He puts them in touch with the spirit's widow, who tries to calm it down until Brock gets back on the X-2, beats up the spirit, and throws it into the ocean.

Rusty applies for a job under scientist Richard Impossible, who has the ability to stretch his limbs. When Impossible requests a urine sample from Rusty, his wife Sally discreetly offers to give him a clean one and tries to seduce him, only for him to learn that her skin turns invisible if she is not focusing. She reveals that she and Impossible gained their powers because of his experiments, as well as her brother, who bursts into flames whenever his skin touches oxygen, and her cousin, whose skin is several inches thick. Impossible leaves Rusty out in the Arctic to die for discovering his secret. An O.S.I. agent dies on the Venture compound while rescuing a vial of a serum created by Impossible, and some of it gets on Hank. Brock learns that he will soon explode if not cured and takes him to Impossible, rescuing Rusty along the way. Impossible concludes that the serum doesn't work on humans, and Sally tries to leave with Rusty, but he leaves her behind, disgusted by her condition.

After the X-1 gets pulled over by the military, Brock learns that his O.S.I. license is expired. The boys help him study and train for the exam, and despite him completely ignoring the rules, he passes and kills a bartender who mocked him when he was unlicensed. Rusty, insecure after one of the soldiers refers to him as "grandpa," tries to find a date. A disguised Dr. Girlfriend seduces him and injects him with a serum that turns him into a giant caterpillar. As Rusty begins to cocoon himself, a guilty Dr. Girlfriend returns and injects him again with a serum that turns him back to normal.

Before The Monarch can torture the Ventures, Dean tries to get him to stop because of the sudden pain he feels in his genitals. Rusty cites a law of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the villain organization The Monarch is licensed under, that forces him to halt the torture temporarily. Rusty brings Dean to his albino college friend Pete White and Pete's stunted scientist roommate Billy Quizboy. Billy discovers that Dean is suffering from testicular torsion and fixes it. Meanwhile, The Monarch takes Hank and Brock as collateral. Brock observes that The Monarch has nothing to do other than go after Rusty, and decides to start a fight with his men out of pity. Before the fight can reach its climax, Rusty calls to inform them that Dean is healed. The Monarch prepares to torture the Ventures again, only for Hank to ask him to stop, now suffering from torsion himself.

Rusty holds a yard sale at the Venture compound, which The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend attend. While he eats one of the sandwiches Hank is selling and goes looking for a bathroom as a result, she is accosted by Phantom Limb, an old associate of hers with invisible and electrical arms and legs. He tries to convince her to leave The Monarch and she turns him down, but has visible doubts. The Monarch starts a fight so he can sneak into the house and use the bathroom, and once inside, he finds that Rusty's life is too mundane and depressing to make any worse. Before Dr. Girlfriend can voice her concerns, they are attacked by O.S.I. guards, who The Monarch kills before declaring his determination to hate Rusty and escaping with a rejuvenated Dr. Girlfriend.

The Ventures attend the funeral of Rusty's old friend, Mike Sorayama. His mechanical coffin is rigged to kidnap Brock, Pete, Rusty, and Ünderbheit, all of whom he knew in college. Having faked his death, Sorayama explains that all of them hurt his chances of asking out his crush in one way or another, only for Brock to escape using Ünderbheit's jaw. The boys call Jonas's old friends, Team Venture, for help, including the suave Colonel Gentleman, the violent Action Man, and the super-strong Kano. Team Venture locates Sorayama, destroying and disguising themselves as his robots, only for Brock to beat them up, accidentally dispatching Sorayama in the process. The Ventures discover that Sorayama is actually a robot and the real Sorayama is dead, leaving and forgetting Pete and Ünderbheit.

The Monarch is put on trial for killing a police officer. In his testimony, a henchman publishes an embarrassing biography of him that delves into Dr. Girlfriend's past. Enraged that she used to work for multiple male, higher-ranking villains, he kicks her out. Dr. Girlfriend testifies that she went back to Phantom Limb, and a drunken Monarch stormed over to his house. Orpheus is called to the stand to read The Monarch's mind, revealing that, while urinating on Phantom Limb's lawn, he was caught by the officer. The Guild drugged The Monarch and paid the officer to fake his death. Before Orpheus can reveal this, Guild agents freeze everyone in the room, the entire situation revealed to be a sting to capture the attorney opposing The Monarch. Phantom Limb hypnotizes Orpheus to implicate The Monarch, while Dr. Girlfriend hypnotizes The Monarch to believe she was not involved.

Rusty is sent to the hospital after his stomach bulges, scaring the boys, who believe he is pregnant, into running away. A tumor is removed from his stomach, but it comes to life, runs away, and steals the X-1. Upon returning to the compound, Rusty is attacked by the tumor, actually a man with Jonas's face in a mechanical suit made from household items, who reveals himself to be Rusty's twin that he ate in the womb. Brock knocks the tumor out of his suit, but Rusty begs Brock to spare him. The tumor names himself Jonas Jr. or "J.J.", and Rusty gives him the X-2 and the family compound on Spider-Skull Island as restitution for eating him. The boys are arrested after speeding on their hover scooters. Orpheus informs Rusty of the boys' predicament, who bails them out and makes them ride their scooters in front of the car. 24 and his nerdy friend 21 spot the boys while driving, accidentally shooting and killing them.

Rusty uses the deaths of the boys as an excuse to run away and avoid his responsibilities, only to be found and dragged back to the compound by Brock. When he returns, J.J. has become more successful than him, having partially completed a teleporter that he asks him to finish. When Rusty unplugs it while standing inside, he accidentally splits his body into thirds and teleports them across the compound. Orpheus is shocked to learn that the boys have clone backups, having died many times, and Rusty explains that their "learning beds" that school them in their sleep are used to restore their brains. The imprisoned Monarch plots an escape, but the Guild catches wind of it and Phantom Limb bribes his accomplices to back out. When The Monarch is cornered by guards, accomplice King Gorilla is moved by his desperation to win Dr. Girlfriend back and helps him escape through the sewer line.

The Monarch calls 21 and 24, ordering them to assemble a new team of henchmen after the old ones abandon him, so they source new henchmen from a bad neighborhood. Rusty finishes reprogramming the boys' brains, and they go to the mall. Dr. Girlfriend and Phantom Limb go to the same mall, and The Monarch follows them. He tries to win Dr. Girlfriend back, but gets distracted when 24 notices the Ventures, and she rejects him after realizing he cares more about his villainy than her. The henchmen kidnap Rusty, and the new henchmen overthrow the Monarch and lock him up with 21, 24, and Rusty. Dr. Girlfriend helps the boys hotwire Brock's car and has Hank drive her to the Cocoon, while Phantom Limb helps Brock break into the Cocoon, believing The Monarch took Dr. Girlfriend. Unaware that Phantom Limb and Brock have massacred the new henchmen, the imprisoned group break into 21's old room and arm themselves with his collection of memorabilia, opening the door to unknowingly fight their rescuers.

Brock leaves on an O.S.I. mission and asks Cocktease to guard the Ventures. Disgusted at Brock's talents being wasted on a low-danger job, she vows to get the boys in shape, and Hank becomes infatuated with her. Her costume's self-defense mechanism injects him with a hallucinogen when he smells it, and he convinces himself to kill Rusty, who is also attracted to Cocktease. He attacks Rusty with a knife and seemingly kills him. Brock is tasked with killing Colonel Hunter Gathers, his now rogue mentor. He track Gathers down, finding that he has undergone a sex change operation. Unable to kill her, he leaves.

The episode opens with a recap of "Part One", where the Ventures get tangled with an Egyptian cult that has a time machine. "Part Two" begins with them stuck in a room with spiked walls closing in, and Rusty reluctantly calls Orpheus to help them. He stops the walls and Rusty escapes, leaving the boys and Brock to fight the cult on their own. They get access to the time machine, allying with several historical figures and other versions of Hank and Brock. Rusty returns to the compound and refuses to thank Orpheus, believing he could have saved them with science. They bet on who can shrink an object smaller, and Rusty is forced to get Jonas's broken shrink ray from Pete and Billy. They test the ray on Billy, but it does not work properly. Unable to work his magic, Orpheus consults his sarcastic mentor, The Master, who gets him to see that he is single and friendless because of his dedication to his work. Rusty and Orpheus admit to each other that they failed.

As Brock discovers an old camera with a message from Jonas on it, an alien descends to Earth. Jonas explains that at midnight tomorrow, Rusty needs to assemble pieces of a machine he had hidden to save the world. The Ventures travel to Spider-Skull Island so Rusty can steal the X-2, but he is caught by J.J., who offers to help. The boys go to the apparently dead Colonel Gentleman's place in Tangier and find the machine piece. J.J. and the pirate captain, now his employee, find the second piece in a bathysphere inhabited by "Action" Johnny, a former boy adventurer turned addict. Brock and Rusty go to New York City to infiltrate Impossible Industries, where Rusty manipulates Sally into helping them. They are caught by Impossible, who has already captured the other two groups, but Sally saves them and Brock defeats him by tying part of him to a subway train. The assembled machine activates at midnight just as the alien catches up with them, and Jonas steps through the machine and kills it, explaining that it was going to destroy the world. Rusty tries to talk to him, only for him to reveal that he is an alien taking Jonas's face to hide his horrifying true form.

Orpheus sets the boys up for dinner with Triana and her friend when Rusty asks him to watch them, while The Monarch goes to the same restaurant to discuss his Guild contract with Phantom Limb, who brings Dr. Girlfriend. When The Monarch mocks Phantom Limb's guild status as a bureaucrat, he orders the Ventures killed as a display of power. Brock kills the Guild agents invading the compound and goes to save the boys, who Phantom Limb notices while in the bathroom and decides to kill. Brock intercepts him and threatens him into backing down, and Phantom Limb apologizes, admitting he just wanted to impress Dr. Girlfriend.

While flying back from a costume party, the Ventures fly over Ünderland, Ünderbheit's territory, who downs the X-1 and captures them. Believing Dean is a girl because of his Princess Leia costume, he decides to marry him. Brock, Rusty, and Hank are rescued by revolutionaries who have been fighting Ünderbheit by pranking him, and they decide to rescue Dean by themselves. Dean's royal tailors realize that he is male and contact the revolution. Just as Ünderbheit marries Dean, the revolutionaries arrive and point out that gay marriage is illegal in Ünderland, getting Ünderbheit exiled.

Orpheus is registered for a Guild archnemesis and is ordered to put a team together for his upcoming interview, and he assembles his friends, "blacula" hunter Jefferson Twilight and The Alchemist, into the "Order of the Triad". Torrid, a candidate, kidnaps Triana, provoking Orpheus into fighting him and earning him his role as the Order's nemesis. The Monarch drops a sex worker into the bowels of the Cocoon to make her fight for her life after having her pretend to be Dr. Girlfriend. 21 forges archnemesis IDs and steals jetpacks to try and encourage 24 to work with him, but they are unable to get the jetpacks to work.

Gargantua-1 crashes, leaving Manstrong as the only survivor. He is regarded as a national hero and invited to dinner at the White House, which the Ventures also attend. The ghost of Abraham Lincoln informs the boys that he noticed a device on Manstrong's neck and suspects his mother is controlling him to kill the president. As Manstrong and his mother talk to the president in the Oval Office, Rusty breaks in so he can pitch his force field, the remote for which breaks when a secret service agent tackles him, trapping everyone in the office. Lincoln realizes he can move through things that bear his image and has the boys make a suit out of five dollar bills for him. Manstrong attacks Brock when he believes he is trying to have sex with his mother just as Lincoln breaks through the force field, and Rusty realizes the device is actually a piece of Gargantua-1's motherboard, which removes Manstrong's sexual inhibitions when taken off.

Rusty returns from a trip to Japan being followed by an oni. The boys are kidnapped by Myra Standish, a woman who claims to be Rusty's former bodyguard and the boys' mother. She happens across Rusty and kidnaps him as well, and Brock rescues them. Kindly villain advisor Dr. Henry Killinger accosts The Monarch and takes over and improves the Cocoon, convincing 24 to side with him. 21 goes to Dr. Girlfriend for help, who fights her way to The Monarch, only for Killinger to reveal he set them up so they could make up.

Brock kills a new Monarch henchman during a raid on the compound, and is unable to shake his guilt over the idea that the man could have turned his life around. He goes to the Order's ceremony that they are holding, and has an epiphany about his work that reinvigorates him. Rusty rebuilds the dead henchman as "Venturestein", a low-functioning monster he tries to sell to the military. A psychotic gang of detectives stumble onto the compound and come across the boys, who they had killed years earlier. They chase the boys into the room that houses their clones, and Brock and Venturestein rescue them. Rusty passes off the clones as Christmas gifts, placating the boys.

The Monarch proposes to Dr. Girlfriend, having been seeing her behind Phantom Limb's back. She agrees on the condition that he no longer pursues Rusty, only for his henchmen to kidnap the Ventures as a gift on the day of the wedding. The Monarch convinces Dr. Girlfriend that he brought the Ventures to the Cocoon as wedding guests. An annoyed 24 sends Dean away, and he winds up in the Cocoon's engine room. The ceremony begins, and Dr. Girlfriend is walked down the aisle by David Bowie. Before the couple can officially be wed, Phantom Limb surrounds the Cocoon with his henchmen despite being denied retaliation by The Sovereign, the Guild's leader, and orders Dr. Girlfriend returned to him. Bowie's treacherous men, Iggy Pop and Klaus Nomi, incapacitate him and take Dr. Girlfriend, while Brock takes command of the henchmen and organizes them to fight Phantom Limb's forces. Hank disguises himself as a henchman and joins the fight, while Phantom Limb reveals to Dr. Girlfriend that The Sovereign is Bowie, making him the new Sovereign. Pop accidentally frees Bowie, who kills him and Nomi before dueling Phantom Limb. The Order, summoned after Orpheus sensed the Ventures were in trouble, accidentally crash the X-1 into the Cocoon's engine room, where Dean is hallucinating a fantasy adventure because of the fumes. Rusty and The Monarch eject themselves from the downed Cocoon, crashing into Phantom Limb's ship, and he escapes after losing an arm and leg in the crash.

Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch are separately grilled by the Guild's Council of Thirteen, who are putting The Monarch on trial for his improper arching of Rusty. Flashbacks reveal that The Monarch was originally a henchman and arched Rusty in secret, eventually working for Phantom Limb, where he met Dr. Girlfriend. He dressed as The Monarch at a party specifically to woo her, earning Phantom Limb's contempt and convincing the Council of his innocence in the present. They reveal that the entire ordeal was a test to certify Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch's official dual villain status under the Guild. The Monarch's henchmen are taken over by Dr. Girlfriend's henchmen, the two "moppets," who order them to rebuild the Cocoon. Fed up with them, 21 and 24 contact Brock to try and have him kill them, but he instead helps rebuild the Cocoon just as the Guild arrives to assist them. The moppets stab 24 when he dumps a cooler of Gatorade on them, and The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, now Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, move into Phantom Limb's old house. Post-credits scene: Phantom Limb tracks down and kills a villain The Monarch pretended to be while seducing Dr. Girlfriend.

As Rusty's finances turn dire and he refuses to accept another loan from J.J., he is approached by Killinger, who turns the compound around and forces Rusty to confront his fear of success, which turns out to stem from the way Jonas raised him. Despite how well liked Killinger is by the Ventures, Orpheus is unsettled by him and becomes determined to beat him when Killinger evicts him. He convinces Brock and The Alchemist to help him, and they sneak into the compound. Killinger reveals to Rusty that he has been grooming him to be a Guild supervillain that arches J.J., and Orpheus, Brock and The Alchemist break in to find Rusty instead signing Killinger's severance agreement.

Billy hits his head, causing him to remember his past, but Pete knocks him out before he can do anything. Flashbacks reveal that Billy was a successful game show contestant, but was disgraced after Pete, the host of a show he was colluding with, cheated for him. They tried to get a job with Rusty, but he rejected them, and Pete accidentally enlisted Billy in a dogfight that lost him his eye and hand. He abandoned Pete and was found by Gathers and Brock, who equipped him with his robot hand and had him go undercover at Phantom Limb's college, suspecting that he was part of the supposedly inactive Guild. Phantom Limb made Billy his research assistant and revealed that his limbs are extremely deformed, making him a laughingstock amongst his family, and that he had built a machine with resources provided by the Guild to grow his limbs. He tested it, but it went haywire and exploded, regrowing his limbs but also vanishing them. Brock was reassigned to guard Rusty by a Guild agent posing as O.S.I. for his poor work, and he brought Billy back to Pete after they wiped his memory.

Rusty's new arch, recovering pedophile Sergeant Hatred, throws a party to celebrate his new job and invites Rusty. The Monarch steals one of Hatred's explosive devices and plants it on Rusty, while Hatred reveals to him that he intentionally arched Rusty because The Monarch had his henchmen steal Hatred's technology. Rusty joins them in conversation as the bomb comes close to going off, only for the ineffective device to not work. 21 explains 24's stabbing to Hank and asks for his help getting rid of the moppets, only for them to notice the two trying to sneak up on them and giving chase, assuming Hank is 24 out of costume. 21, 24 and the boys flee from the moppets, and distract them by putting 21 and 24's costumes on dummies.

Rusty hosts a day camp for aspiring super scientists at the compound, where Hank befriends petulant teenager Dermott Fictel, who aggravates Brock to the point that he decides to find someone to beat him up. The Monarch sends the disguised moppets to spy on Rusty, but Brock identifies them and kicks them out after failing to get them to beat up Dermott. Rusty takes the tour group into an abandoned building, only to be attacked by a rabid gorilla inside, which kills one of the children before he can lock it back inside. Dean beats up Dermott when he mocks him in front of Triana. Hatred arrives after mixing up his arching schedule, and helps Rusty make the rest of the day fun for the children. As the kids leave, Rusty gives a hastily made clone of the dead boy to his parents. Dermott is picked up by his mom, who asks if he met "him." Dermott asks "you sure he's my real father?"

While training an orangutan to box so it can be sold on the black market, Rusty encounters his childhood crush, adventurer Tara Quymn, as well as her unstable bodyguard Ginnie and her twin daughters. Both Rusty and Ginnie are infatuated with Quymn, while the twins are interested in Dean. They get word from natives of a "wereodile" stalking the jungle at night, making Dean paranoid that one of the Quymns could be the monster. As Rusty and Quymn prepare to have sex and the twins drug Dean and do the same, Ginnie catches the former and starts beating Rusty up. As Ginnie and Brock fight, the epileptic Quymn has a seizure, and Dean, believing her to be the wereodile, starts hitting her. Hank is attacked by the wereodile in the jungle, but it is beaten up by the orangutan. The next day, the twins lose interest in Dean after learning he is uncircumcised, and the Quymns leave in disgust.

Rusty falls into the compound's bunker, and when Brock follows him, he gets trapped in a room with the minuscule Paul Entmann, a former friend of Jonas's that has been stuck in the room for thirty years by the hostile artificial intelligence M.U.T.H.E.R.. Rusty encounters a group of sycophants who worship instructions Jonas left for Rusty in case of an apocalypse. When Pete and the Order try to investigate, M.U.T.H.E.R. demands to talk to Jonas or else she will launch a nuclear missile hidden under the compound. Entmann explains that the kids were being given a tour of the bunker with Team Venture when M.U.T.H.E.R. went haywire and tried to seal them all inside, resulting in him being trapped in the room and the kids to be stuck in the bunker. Rusty flees from the now-adult kids and clings to the top of the launching missile, only for it to malfunction due to them using it as a toilet.

After The Monarch kills his new archnemesis, mutant Dr. Dugong, he and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch argue about his henchmen's lack of things to do and his inability to arch anyone but Rusty. After learning that Rusty and Brock are out, The Monarch takes 21 and 24 to unauthorizedly invade the compound. Hank, Dermott and H.E.L.P.eR. are trying to start a band, and Dean is annoyed by H.E.L.P.eR.'s inability to stop making noise. He shuts off H.E.L.P.eR.'s system, deactivating the compound's defenses and allowing The Monarch to infiltrate the compound. 21 informs Hank that he has seen him die multiple times and tries to prove his point by shooting him, unaware that his rifle shoots tranquilizer darts. Dean finds The Monarch defiling one of Rusty's robots, and he manipulates him into not telling Rusty. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch is forced to mobilize the henchmen to go pick up The Monarch, and Hank wakes up with the impression that he is immortal.

In 1969, Team Venture seizes Spider-Skull Island from its villainous owners, who sets it to self-destruct, only for the bomb to malfunction before it can explode. In the present, Rusty is invited by J.J. to the island's opening of the Jonas Venture Museum, where he finds himself irritated with his lack of presence despite his importance in Jonas's life. Sally, now Jonas's girlfriend, is annoyed to see a depressed Impossible also present. One of the old villains uses his psychic powers to upset the pirate captain, who revolts with his friends against J.J.'s poor treatment of him. Team Venture (along with Colonel Gentleman, who was actually in a diabetic coma) fights back, and the chaos is stopped when J.J.'s memorial film for Jonas starts playing. J.J. invites Rusty to speak, who has already left. The villain tries to reconnect to his robot, one of the museum's exhibits, but instead causes the bomb to restart its countdown.

The Monarch launches an attack on Spider-Skull Island, but the Cocoon is damaged by J.J.'s giant "Ventronic" robot. While The Monarch realizes that, through Guild law, he can attack Rusty as revenge as long as he survives the fight, J.J. calls the O.S.I., who sends agents Cardholder and Doe, as well as Brock. Cardholder and Doe drug the captain, which gets him addicted to tranquilizer. They explain that because of The Monarch's repeated killing of his past arches, they are authorizing his death, and J.J. decides to use the island's death ray. The Monarch sends 21, 24, and the hyper-competent Henchman 1 to the island to perform subterfuge, where, despite 21 and 24's insistence that he is marked for death, he successfully sabotages the island's wiring. While the Cocoon speeds towards the island, J.J. prepares to fire the death ray and 1 trips the alarm system, causing Brock to attack him. J.J. fires just as The Monarch closes in.

Billy decodes a secret message hidden in Rusty's old cartoon and finds that it leads him to a spot on the Venture compound. They dig there and discover a phonograph cylinder meant for "the Venture bodyguard," as well as another code. Billy and Rusty conclude they are supposed to go to Studio 54, while Brock listens to the cylinder and learns from Rusty's great-grandfather Lloyd Venture's bodyguard, Sandow, that the Guild used to be a righteous organization that fell apart when they fought over their source of power, an orb-shaped device. He learns from Gathers that he is to kill Rusty if he tries to use the orb, and tracks a signal to Kano's apartment, who reveals that he has a second cylinder. They listen to it and discover that Sandow killed Venture when he tried to use the orb, while The Alchemist properly decodes the new messages and tells Rusty and Billy to go to the Frick Collection. They discover the orb, but before Brock can ambush them, Rusty declares intent to study it and only use its abilities for good. Brock decides not to kill him and leaves.

Brock's car is revealed to have attacked him itself, and he concludes that the O.S.I. is after him. Just after the Ventures leave, The Monarch invades the compound but finds it empty. He discovers Hatred in the bathroom, depressed over his wife preparing to divorce him and demanding Rusty kill him. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch manipulates H.E.L.P.eR. into giving her Rusty's location. Cocktease and Gathers confirm to Brock that three top assassins have been sent to kill him, and the first one attacks him. He boards the X-1 to escape, but the ejector pod lands on top of the first assassin after he shoots out one of its engines. Brock goes to Shore Leave, a former O.S.I. agent, for assistance, and is attacked by the second fishing-themed assassin, who drags him into the ocean and tries to get him eaten by sharks. Brock tricks him into decapitating himself on a shark's teeth by dressing the dead shark like him. The Ventures lay low in a hotel room, only for Brock to realize they are rooming across from the third assassin. He nearly kills Brock, but Hank distracts him long enough to make him impale himself on his own sword. Brock orders Hank to call "The Cleaner", the police arrive to arrest the Ventures, only for them to be freed by The Cleaner, called by Cocktease. The Monarch and O.S.I. general Timothy Treister locate them at the same time. Brock convinces them to come to the compound independent of each other, while the Ventures hide in the panic room, where they encounter Hatred. O.S.I. forces and Monarch henchmen attack each other, while 21 and 24 hide in The Monarch's car. H.E.L.P.eR., equipped by The Monarch with a bomb, gets in the car and drives off with 24 still inside. Hatred commands the boys' clones into the battle, halting it, only for The Monarch to emerge in a new, untested suit that destroys the clones and immediately crashes. Treister reveals to Brock that the O.S.I. only came to help him after he was attacked by the assassins, and a disillusioned Brock decides to quit as both an agent and bodyguard. He moves to take The Monarch's car, only for H.E.L.P.eR. to explode, killing 24.

Brock, wounded in the explosion, wakes up on the O.S.I. mothership with H.E.L.P.eR.'s head embedded in his chest. He escapes and has it surgically removed before hunting down Cocktease for revenge. He bumps into an agent of the anti-O.S.I. villain hunting group S.P.H.I.N.X., looking to take her down as well, distracting him and getting him shot by her. More S.P.H.I.N.X. agents take him away, and he awakens in their hideout, where Gathers reveals that the sex change was a front to infiltrate Cocktease's operation, and he, Shore Leave, and other former O.S.I. agents are now with S.P.H.I.N.X.. 21 tries to pay Rusty to clone 24 with the first issue of Marvel Comics, but Rusty ignores him and Hank takes the comic, its value being decreased as it is damaged over the course of the episode. Nazis try to force Rusty to clone a dog with Adolf Hitler's blood in it, but Dean gets attached to the dog and refuses to kill it. Orpheus kills the Nazis with his magic, but the Hitler-dog escapes.

While holding the boys hostage, The Monarch is attacked by solar-powered hero Captain Sunshine, enraged over The Monarch's murder of his sidekick, and takes Hank with him to be his new sidekick. Hank accepts the job, but finds Sunshine to be unstable and deeply attached to him. Rusty tries to pay The Monarch's ransom to get the boys back, but The Monarch only gives back Dean and steals the payment, unaware that a shrunken Hatred, now the Ventures' bodyguard, is hiding in the bag. He sees The Monarch tracking Sunshine and forwards his location to Rusty, who will get the payment back via Guild law if he rescues Hank first. Rusty and The Monarch converge on Sunshine's mansion at the same time, and The Monarch corners Sunshine with a solar weapon meant to kill him, but it only strengthens him. Sunshine stops when he sees Hank with his father, contradicting his story that he was an orphan, and disgustedly orders him to leave.

A deformed, discarded clone of Dean lives in the compound's attic, making a skin suit from the dead Dean clones so he can pass as the real Dean. While he collects the last Dean corpse he needs for his suit, a grounded Hank is snuck out by Dermott and they steal Rusty's car, hitting the clone's corpse and believing they killed the real one. Dean is encouraged by Rusty to start his career in super science after being shown Rusty's prog rock collection, only to be attacked by the clone in the middle of his experiments. The police are called to the compound by a confused deliveryman and observe Hatred's new defense measure: several decoys of Rusty that explode on contact. Hank and Dermott steal a Venture tour tram and flee the compound, although Dermott abandons Hank. The Deans' fight ends when the clone hugs a Rusty decoy and is blown up.

Obsessively talking to 24's skull, 21 vows to hunt down his killer. He kidnaps the boys from the compound and subjects them to Chinese water torture in an attempt to make them confess. He admits that 24's death is what motivated him to improve and get into shape, but is also the only thing that drives his actions, and lets them go. Hatred calls Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, suspecting The Monarch's involvement in the boys' disappearance and she offers to meet with Rusty directly. She lies to The Monarch, who is missing a photoshoot because of an allergic reaction he had to a fancy dish, about where she is going, and he bitterly suspects she is doing her own shoot. He finds 21 in his treehouse, now subjecting himself to the torture, and accuses him of trying to overthrow him. 21 instead express his admiration for The Monarch's genuine hatred, and he decides to let 21 have the tree fort for a little longer, planning to burn it.

Phantom Limb kidnaps Councilmen Red Mantle and Dragoon, having Billy sew the latter's head onto the former's body to save his life. He gets the location of the orb from Billy just as the Guild arrives to get help from Rusty, and so he has Red Mantle and Dragoon break in and steal the orb for him. He confronts The Sovereign with the orb and demands the title of Sovereign due to his grandfather being the founder of the Guild, but The Sovereign reveals that the man usurped his power and the true heir is Dean, because of his great-great-grandfather, preventing Phantom Limb from ever being Sovereign. Phantom Limb tries to activate the orb, but a flashback reveals that Sandow disobeyed his orders and broke the orb instead of killing Venture. Phantom Limb is arrested, and Dean returns the title of Sovereign to The Sovereign.

Rusty is able to get out of The Monarch's arching because of his boy adventurer group therapy appointment. After the therapist dies due to a poisonous snake bite, Action Johnny identifies one of his henchmen patients at a strip club, who works for his old arch-nemesis and Councilman Dr. Z. They visit him, and he convinces them of his innocence and tries to make them see that they need to grow up, and Rusty decides to leave to spend time with his family. Hatred locks himself in the panic room, fearing that he may act on his pedophilic urges. Hank disguises himself as Hatred's ex-wife to lure him out, then 21 and his men tranquilize him.

Torrid opens a portal to Hell and is sucked in, and the Order are almost killed by the demon that comes through until they are saved by The Outrider, the powerful sorcerer who is Orpheus's ex-wife's husband. Embarrassed, Orpheus tries to build a portal himself despite The Master's warnings that The Outrider is more naturally talented, and when this fails, he goes back to Torrid's portal. The Outrider emerges, having rescued Torrid from Hell, who grapples with The Outrider and sends his spirit to Hell. The Order performs a ritual that allows them to be sent to the plane of Hell, but only The Alchemist and Orpheus go through. They meet The Outrider, who explains to Orpheus that he continuously practices risky magic to get where he is, while Orpheus gave up everything to learn it properly, something he admires. Jefferson, having the ability to act as a gateway between two worlds, pulls them back. Triana discovers that The Master's portal is in her closet, who points out that her ability to see him makes her magic and she should train herself with her mother and The Outrider right away.

The Monarch signs with Guild attorney Monstroso to get Rusty evicted from the compound, unknowingly signing over his own arching rights in the process. 21, now having visions of 24 talking to him, breaks into the compound in an attempt to get the drop on Monstroso, only to bump into Brock and do battle with him, losing the fight but earning his respect. He agrees to help 21 attack Monstroso and stop his plan, and they do. Rusty discovers that the S.P.H.I.N.X. hideout is in an abandoned building of the compound, and is forced to have them wipe the memories of Billy and the boys when they discover it.

Rusty collapses during an arching and is rendered catatonic. With the X-3 submarine missing, the boys go with Brock in a S.P.H.I.N.X. submarine that Billy shrinks and injects into Rusty's bloodstream. They discover that the source of Rusty's distress is a blockage caused by the X-3, which has the skeletons of Hank and Dean's clones inside of it, although the boys do not understand the situation. The Monarch buys a glider that he becomes obsessed with, leaving both his henchmen and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch annoyed. She asks 21 to snap him out of it by having the henchmen go rogue and try to kill Rusty, and they force H.E.L.P.eR., rebuilt into a spider-like robot, to get them into the compound after Hatred puts it on lockdown. The Monarch goes to arch Rusty himself when he learns of this, tying him to the glider and dragging him through the sky, but Hatred saves him by enlarging Rusty and causing the glider to crash.

Dean's learning bed prints out his graduation certificate, but Hank's does not. Rusty takes Dean to his old college and tries to get him in due to his legacy status, but the dean points out that Jonas was the one who made meaningful contributions to the college, not Rusty. Phantom Limb, having escaped from Guild custody, convinces the reclusive Impossible to work alongside him and start a new villain organization. They go to Impossible's public appearance at the college so Phantom Limb can steal back the parts from the machine that regrew his limbs. Guild forces attack him, but he narrowly escapes with the parts he needs. Hank tries to join S.P.H.I.N.X. and is given a series of difficult tasks by Gathers, but is denied access despite passing all of them. Despondent, he hits his learning bed in frustration, which prints out his jammed graduation certificate.

An apparition of Zeus begins kidnapping underlings and having them fight to the death for the pleasure of him and a masked man named Zero. The Guild, O.S.I., and Phantom Limb's "Revenge Society" hold a summit to investigate the issue and deduce that Zeus could be the original Captain Sunshine, who is being held prisoner by Zero. Shore Leave and 21 work together to kill Zeus, only to realize he is a cardboard cutout. Zero reveals himself to be the surviving Henchman 1, having tricked Sunshine into working for him. Billy and Pete free the captives and they all defeat Zero together. As Rusty grows despondent at not being kidnapped, Hatred and the boys blindfold him and tie him to a chair, with his only person to talk to being a teddy bear with voice lines. He tells his "captors" to kill Hank when they claim they have the boys, only to tell a disguised Hank that he knows he is not cut out for the life of a super scientist and does not want him to suffer torture for Rusty's career.

Dean and Rusty leave the compound for Dean's New York internship. Hank begins a detective case focused on finding Dermott's true father when he claims it is Brock. Brock denies it, but Dermott gives Hank a Venture keychain from his mother. Hank, who has been flirting with Dermott's sister Nikki, goes to see her and they have sex. Orpheus and The Alchemist perform a spell on the keychain that reveals the past to them: Dermott's father is actually Rusty, who impregnated Nikki, the president of his fan club, when she was fifteen, and her mother promised to raise Dermott as her son. Hank learns this when he touches the keychain and allows S.P.H.I.N.X. to wipe his memory.

Dean is interning for Impossible, while Rusty stays with him in New York after becoming obsessed with writing an autobiographical musical. The Revenge Society holds auditions for the team with little success, and find the musical's script that Rusty asked Dean to make copies of. They use this to lure Rusty to Impossible Industries so they can kill him, but new member Fat Chance, who has a portal in his chest, trips and falls on Rusty, sending him into the portal. Dean investigates the power outage that Impossible planned and discovers his constantly aflame brother-in-law being used to power the building. He frees him and he sets the building on fire, burning the only copy of the musical in the process.

After Rusty becomes unexplainably mute and suicidal, Orpheus decides to go into his mind to understand why, unaware that it is The Monarch going into him and controlling his brain from the inside. Orpheus meets Rusty's representations of Rusty's obsession with sex and death in the forms of Billy and Pete. They encounter Rusty's lustful id, who forces Billy and Pete to kiss for his amusement so they can pass. They then meet his ego, who is trying to fix a broken puppet of a young Rusty, and Orpheus brings the id's women to do the job. They finally meet the imprisoned super-ego, who helps them escape Rusty's mind. 21 and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch bond while protecting The Monarch's body, eventually kissing, but they are interrupted by The Monarch waking up when he is attacked by Rusty's memories of the dead Hanks and Deans.

While faking being a licensed doctor at a hospital, Billy notices a trio of mute, sinister businessmen known as the "Investors" stealing the heart of the dying King Gorilla. They kidnap him and take him to Monstroso, who treats Billy lavishly and arranges for him to have sex with a trio of prostitutes. Billy believes he is being groomed to be turned into a vampire, but Monstroso explains that he made a deal with King Gorilla for his heart upon his death, his own heart failing him, and he licenses Billy as a doctor so he can perform a heart transplant. Tracking the Investors through a homing device in Billy's hand, Brock and Shore Leave sneak on to Monstroso's yacht. The Investors easily escape, and Brock comes across Billy in the middle of surgery. Brock tries to convince him to let Monstroso die, but Billy insists upon finishing the surgery properly.

Gathers meets with Treister to negotiate for S.P.H.I.N.X. being taken off the O.S.I.'s wanted list in exchange for handing over Monstroso, but when he reveals that Monstroso told him there are Guild moles inside the O.S.I., Treister turns into a "Hulk" and rampages. Cardholder and Doe reveal that Treister actually has prostate cancer and they have been manipulating him to think otherwise, and plan to take over the O.S.I. when he is deemed too insane to run it. They detain Gathers and go to kill Monstroso, but Treister summons him to the control room and reveals he knows of Cardholder and Doe's deception, having recruited S.P.H.I.N.X. to hide in a fake Monstroso body and detain them. Impressed with Gathers's skill and bravery, he gives him control of the O.S.I. and launches himself into space so aliens can cure his cancer. Rusty throws a prom for the boys at the compound, and Triana goes with Dean as a friend, but leaves in disgust when he cannot get over the fact that she has a boyfriend. Hank and Dermott agree to help him win her back. Rusty invites several escorts to the prom and drugs them with a lustful chemical made from a mutant fly. 21, burying 24's skull where he died but still being troubled by visions of him, is invited to come, and Orpheus helps him realize that he was imagining 24. The Monarch gets in by bribing Hatred with his ex-wife and approaches 21, assuming he is doing undercover work, but 21 quits. Cocktease, undercover in S.P.H.I.N.X., kidnaps the real Monstroso. Brock's pursuit of her ends with her car on the edge of a cliff, and she reveals that the escorts are actually her assassins that will kill everyone unless she calls them off, and she is dating Monstroso. When Brock threatens to kill him, she sends the car off the cliff with her inside, and he races back to the compound to find everyone dancing with the escorts, who are under the effects of Rusty's drug. They mutate into insect creatures, and Brock leaps into battle.

The episode is presented as a documentary that follows Hank and Dermott's band, Shallow Gravy, and their "hit" song "Jacket". It documents Hank and Dermott's friendship, the destruction and rebuilding of H.E.L.P.eR., and their short-lived attempt at touring. Rusty learns Dermott's last name and, to his horror, realizes that he may be his illegitimate son.

On Halloween, Dermott and Hank dare Dean to enter a supposedly haunted house that Rusty has warned them to stay away from. There, he meets Ben, a geneticist who worked with Jonas to develop the boys' cloning project, and he reveals to Dean that he is a clone. The Order hosts a meeting of magic users at the compound, where they perform feats of sorcery to impress each other. While Orpheus is out of the room, The Alchemist raises an army of zombies that chase Hank and Dermott, and The Master destroys them. After lecturing the magicians, he leaves Orpheus to deal with them, and he gives them a speech about the spirit of Halloween. As Dean mutely walks back to the compound and stares at it, Orpheus proclaims that Halloween "is the night we discover who we truly are."

Brock finds that Cocktease's body is gone and Monstroso's is another fake, and S.P.H.I.N.X. returns to the O.S.I., leaving 21 as the only person left. Dejected after the prom, Dean burns his old belongings and learning bed, and he and Hank take separate rooms. J.J. reminds Rusty that he agreed to build an energy shield for the in-progress Gargantua-2, so he sources interns from a college to work on it and gets a loan from wealthy memorabilia purchaser Augustus St. Cloud, Billy's archnemesis. The radiation the shield emits mutates the workers, and they begin eating the non-mutated assistants. The Monarch, still in denial about 21 quitting and believing Rusty is making mutant warriors, asks Dr. Mrs. The Monarch to make some of their own. The interns finish the shield but lock it inside their living area, planning to use it to mutate the world. 21 takes control of the situation and sends Billy and Pete to get a decontamination device Rusty sold to St. Cloud. He agrees to give the device back if Billy can beat him in a trivia battle, which he narrowly does. A mutant Dean has been flirting with has him fight their leader and he wins, being crowned the mutant king. As Rusty floods the mutants' home with an improvised antidote, the Cocoon arrives and The Monarch unleashes his mutants, which Dr. Mrs. The Monarch reveals are actually butterflies full of antidote serum. The next day, Rusty gives the finished, cleaned shield to J.J..

Rusty is summoned by the military to a South American country in revolution because of its leader, Venturestein. The X-1 is attacked by a Pteranodon and Hank is separated from Rusty and Hatred, who are captured by Venturestein's men. Venturestein explains that after being sent to the country to destabilize their revolution, he ended up joining it and freeing other tortured science experiments. He uses the tablet the military gave Rusty to broadcast his message of revolt to experiments around the world, and refuses to kill Rusty when his comrades demand it. Hank begins to frighten the revolutionaries when he dresses up like a bat and begins killing them, and they try to kill Rusty and Hatred, who escape with Hank to the beach. A congresswoman that has been trying to get ahold of Rusty so he can vote for her lands in the middle of the conflict and tries to get everyone's attention, only to be killed when she triggers the dropped tablet's explosive function.

21, trying to do solo work as a crime fighter, continuously clashes with the O.S.I.. He puts out an ad for more people to join S.P.H.I.N.X., attracting its old, villainous members, and Hank, who is given a S.P.H.I.N.X. strength suit. The old members commandeer the S.P.H.I.N.X. ship and plan to use it to attack the O.S.I. mothership, but Brock and Shore Leave stop them. A guilty 21 laments his failure, but Brock assures him he had good intentions. The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch infiltrate the compound in disguise and plant bombs in its tunnels, but The Monarch is shocked to find a picture of him and Rusty as children with Jonas and his parents behind them, a meeting he does not remember. Hatred finds the bombs and assumes 21 is responsible. He takes Dean to leave them in front of S.P.H.I.N.X. headquarters and tries to get him to talk about his attitude, but Dean does not reveal what is troubling him.

Rusty takes Billy, Pete and Hatred to the annual "Spanakopita" festival held on a Greek island that he has gone to since he was a child, but the leader, Giorgos, makes Hatred suspicious. He confronts Giorgos, and he explains that they accidentally kidnapped Rusty while plundering the X-2 and made up the festival to satiate him, but he came back years later believing it to be real, so they kept up the ruse. Seeing how happy the festival makes Rusty, Hatred keeps the truth hidden from him. St. Cloud follows them to the island and decides to participate in the festival's competition, making a bet with Rusty for the X-1 if he wins. As St. Cloud cheats his way through the challenges, Rusty orders Billy and Pete to take care of him, but they are caught upon sneaking onto St. Cloud's boat and discovering a stash of drachmas, used to tally victories in the challenges. St. Cloud ties them up, leaving Pete to burn in the sun, but St. Cloud's albino assistant frees them to honor the "albino code." Billy presents Giorgos with St. Cloud's drachmas and he is declared the winner, but St. Cloud purchases the island to prevent Rusty from enjoying his victory.

The O.S.I. capture Monstroso and Cocktease. Knowing the Guild will kill him no matter what, Monstroso explains what the Council is to Brock and identifies one of their members, Boggles the Clue Clown. When Brock asks about the Investors, they appear and kill Monstroso, unseen by Brock, who is knocked out when Monstroso panics. Cocktease escapes confinement and Hank, on board to refill Hatred's medication, pursues her in the strength suit, but she easily defeats him and takes the suit. Brock pursues her to one of the engines of the mothership and throws her into it. The federal agents who have been getting an account of the situation leave, and a flashback reveals that Gathers stopped Brock from killing Cocktease, explaining that she was hired to kill all the O.S.I. double agents on board and is working for them now, and Brock throws the empty strength suit into the engine. Gathers marks Cocktease as deceased, only for the real agents to enter to interview them about the situation. The "agents," actually the Investors, vanish.

Hank and Dermott use the teddy bear Rusty befriended to distract him so they can sneak out, but when he becomes obsessed with it and believes villains have kidnapped his "friend," they decide to track down the voice of the bear to end things. 21 informs them that the bear's voice actor is in an asylum for insane criminals, so they rob a bank, and Hank and 21 are committed. They meet the voice actor in the asylum, but learn that all of the patients are part of a cult led by Myra, who Dean has been in contact with because of his desperation for a mother. She tries to get her cult to put Dean back into her womb, but in the process admits she is not the boys' mother. Hank and 21 rally the patients to revolt and escape. Orpheus, sensing a Venture son in distress, is summoned to an imprisoned Dermott and frees him. While Rusty and Hatred look for his "friend," their car flips over off a cliff, and they are narrowly rescued by the escaped voice actor.

The O.S.I. spy on Boggles's funeral and identify cyborg Councilman Vendata. Shunned by his peers because of his limited emotions, he posts a request for a date with another robot on Guild forums, and the O.S.I. disguise hero Ghost Robot as villain Galacticon and have him go with Vendata to get information. They leave the restaurant to go to Councilman Don Hell's club, and Brock and Shore Leave disguise themselves as villains and follow him in. Rusty, believing they are going to a party, follows them with Billy, and they are caught by Hell's men. Vendata catches Brock and Ghost Robot in the bathroom, and Brock beats up and strips him, disguising himself as Vendata. They move to leave when the real Galacticon arrives, only for Hell to reveal he has Rusty and Billy on the "Wheel of Torture" and invite the clubgoers to play. Brock steals the winning token so he can stall for time while Shore Leave cuts through the suspension of the club's giant disco ball, but they are stopped by The Monarch arriving. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch uses Guild law to prove that the torture is illegal, leaving him and Rusty alone, only for the disco ball to fall on the latter.

Believing Rusty to be possibly dead, Hatred send the boys to their godfathers. Dean goes to live with Colonel Gentleman, who has him document his old stories for his memoirs. Hank goes to Boca Raton to live with the Action Man in his retirement community, where they bury Entmann after the Action Man accidentally crushed him with his rocking chair. To fulfill a Team Venture tradition, he urinates on the grave, and has Hank, the youngest present, defecate on it. Hank helps him win over his love interest, Billy's mother. Hatred reluctantly asks 21 for help infiltrating the Cocoon and finding Rusty, but soon takes a liking to him. While one of the moppets catches Hatred and convinces him that 21 sold him out, 21 convinces the henchmen that the moppets killed 24. The Monarch repeatedly attempts to torture Rusty, but all of them fail. He gives up and decides to let him go, but claims to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch that he broke Rusty's will and grew tired of him. Just as 21 returns to The Monarch, Hatred launches a missile at the Cocoon in revenge for his supposed betrayal, and the downed Cocoon crashes into The Monarch's house and destroys it.

Several Councilmen are assassinated by The Sovereign when the O.S.I. closes in on them, and he declares his plan to destroy the finished Gargantua-2 to the remainders, including Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, trying to kill them when they refuse. Dr. Z, Red Mantle, and Dragoon deal with Gathers for full immunity in exchange for The Sovereign's location. The Revenge Society, squatting in The Monarch's new house, relocate to "Meteor Majeure", the space base of previous Guild leader Force Majeure, also planning to attack Gargantua-2. The Monarch discovers Phantom Limb's plans to attack the station and decides to stop him so he can be tapped for Councilman. He breaks into the compound and steals a rocket ship, burning the compound in the process. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch goes to kill The Sovereign after learning that The Monarch will die if he reaches Gargantua-2, where he reveals that he is not actually David Bowie, but instead a shapeshifter. He sets his office to self-destruct before leaving. Watch and Ward save her, and an O.S.I. sniper accidentally shoots The Sovereign while he is in the form of an eagle. The office's escape pod drives into The Monarch's ship, taking it to Meteor Majuere. Brock, having snuck onboard Gargantua-2 to track The Investors, is detained after being found out. Treister's frozen body is found in space. Impossible and Fat Chance sneak aboard on the shuttle that brings him in, and the rest of the Society come in through Fat Chance's portal. Secretly taking orders from the Sovereign, Phantom Limb deactivates the energy shield, leaving the station to be buffeted by asteroids. Brock recognizes Zero, now part of the Society, and goads him into getting close to the bars so he can kill him. Hank frees him, and Rusty and Dean reboot the shield together. The damaged station prepares to self-destruct, and Sally convinces Impossible to leave the Society so their son will still have a father. Knowing the explosion will kill the escaping passengers, a cancer-stricken J.J. pilots the station and has Treister, mutated into a Hulk by space radiation, push it away, killing them both. The Investors attack their brother, Killinger, on Meteor Majeure, but he kills them just as The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch arrive.

The Ventures move into the penthouse of Venture Industries' headquarters, VenTech Tower, and Brock is reassigned as their bodyguard. They are accosted by the Crusaders Action League (C.A.L.) who try to get them to pay for protection, but Rusty refuses. The Monarch and 21 go to the tower to arch and drug the pirate captain, getting him re-addicted to tranquilizer. While looking for attractive women, Hank notices one face-down in her pool and uses Brock's grappling gun to zipline to the building and get her attention, only for her to reveal that she has gills. Hank falls off the line when he waves to her but is rescued by a member of the C.A.L., who mistake Brock and H.E.L.P.eR. for villains and fight them. With the Guild falling apart after the Sovereign is revealed as dead, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch meets with high-ranking, mutated villain Wide Wale, who lives across the street from Rusty. He agrees to lend his financial support in exchange for a seat on the Council and exclusive arching rights towards Rusty, and she concedes to his terms.

Billy has one of his collectables, the ball from Duran Duran's "Is There Something I Should Know?" music video, stolen by St. Cloud. Knowing the importance it holds to pop culture, he threatens to send it back in time unless Billy and Pete sell him their company, and they reluctantly do. The Monarch discovers that several villains are in line to arch Venture before him, so he has 21 assemble them into a list. They track down one of the villains and threaten her into signing away her arching rights. When they return to the house, the people remodeling it have discovered a secret door in the study that leads to a cave full of gadgets. Desperate for tranquilizer, the captain climbs into a nearby zoo's polar bear enclosure and takes the darts used on the animal. Having fired almost all of the Venture Industries employees, Rusty forces the captain to get clean. Receiving a tip from Shore Leave that Wide Wale is about to arch Rusty, Brock works with Hatred to trick him into stealing a fake valuable, and he returns to find that they have placed the polar bear in his penthouse.

While looking through J.J.'s inventions, Rusty accidentally frees a swarm of superhuman nanobots that enter Dean. 21 deduces that the cave belonged to the vigilante Blue Morpho, who The Monarch realizes was his father. He leaves to attend a Guild event at Wide Wale's penthouse, but is refused entry because he arrives in costume. Duplicating villain Copycat allows The Monarch to have one of his suits, but splits in two, drugs him, and steals his costume. He breaks into Rusty's penthouse and urinates on his furniture, while at the same time, he points this out to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, leaving her enraged and embarrassed in front of her colleagues as she believes her husband is arching Venture illegally. Hank, now working as a pizza deliveryman, is called to deliver to Wide Wale, and realizes that his daughter Sirena is the woman with gills. He navigates around Wide Wale's aggressive henchman Rocco so he can ask her out, and she accepts, attracted to his risky lifestyle.

Rusty has Billy and Pete develop a mind control gas, but it only causes religious fervor. 21 suggests that The Monarch go out as Blue Morpho so he can take out the villains in line to arch Venture, which he rejects until he sees a tape with his father and Jonas together and becomes bored of Guild paperwork. As Rusty tests his gas on his current arch, Haranguetan, and accidentally gasses Brock, The Monarch and 21, dressed as Blue Morpho and his sidekick Kano, arrive and rescue Billy when Haranguetan tries to kill him. 21 punches Haranguetan and he falls to his death through the hole in the floor that Wide Wale's arching created. Brock storms over to the apartment of Warriana, a C.A.L. member that he is attracted to but intimidated by, and professes his love for her.

Brock wakes up with a dismissive Warriana. While consoling Haranguetan's widow Battleaxe, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch receives footage of Blue Morpho killing him. The Monarch and 21 go to get the Blue Morpho's car out of an impound lot, where Dr. Mrs. The Monarch spots them after taking Battleaxe there to get her and Haranguetan's tank, but they escape when The Monarch accidentally activates the car's flight function. Battleaxe finds the footage and believes that Rusty is the Blue Morpho, taking the tank to go kill him. Rusty's new arch attacks him and Brock, but Warriana teams up with Brock to save them, and they make their relationship official. Battleaxe accidentally runs over Rusty's arch as he leaves and drives them both into the hole, killing her. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch sees the Blue Morpho's car flying around VenTech Tower, and later Rusty looking down at the carnage, and she grows suspicious.

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch raises her suspicions that Rusty is Blue Morpho to the Council, but they do not take her seriously. The Monarch drugs her so he can plant bombs in the vacant lair of the Doom Factory team, Rusty's new arch. The Doom Factory distract Rusty with their bizarre artistic presentations and steal his equipment, summoning their lair, which The Monarch gets stuck on. He escapes as they leave, and the detonator falls out of his jacket, setting off the bombs and killing the team. Hank and Sirena go on their date, and Dean, Pete and Billy star in several "random" events that Hank put together to impress her. As Brock and Rocco pursue them, Sirena admits she likes the lengths Hank will go to, and they kiss just as they are found and separated.

After meeting Christopher Lambert at a party, Rusty invites him to watch a lunar eclipse at VenTech Tower. The Monarch goes to arch his new nemesis legitimately, while he sends 21 to abduct and kill the next villain in line to arch Rusty. The Monarch sends a picture of his arching work to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, while 21 has the villain call her before he kills him. She misses the messages as Rusty steps out to watch the eclipse from his balcony, while the Council sets up a sniper rifle to kill him. Wide Wale makes her shoot him, but Rusty, having stolen the Blue Morpho jacket from a tailor after 21 dropped it off, is saved by the jacket's bulletproof lining.

Two villains wake up in a decrepit bathroom full of dead bodies, both chained to pipes. One of them learns that the other has been there for weeks and gone insane, and he kills and cannibalizes the other man like he did the dead bodies. The Guild and the O.S.I. stage a sting at VenTech Tower to catch Blue Morpho, where Watch, Ward, Gathers, and Phage disguise themselves as the Ventures and H.E.L.P.eR.. Rusty's new arch, the feared Red Death "attacks," but instead of showing up, The Monarch and 21 convince Red Death's family to leave their home and call him, pretending to have kidnapped them. He storms the Morpho Cave, forcing The Monarch to explain his stint as Blue Morpho. Red Death expresses sympathy towards his determination to hate Rusty, explaining that he has to repress his own urge to kill regularly, and he advises The Monarch to continue his quest. 21 reveals that he lost the nerve to kill the rest of the villains arching Rusty and that he locked them all in the cave's bathroom, unaware that the villain had gone insane and killed the rest. Red Death agrees to waive his arching rights and not tell the Guild what he has learned in exchange for killing the man.

21 wakes up late to help The Monarch with his attempt on Wide Wale's life, getting The Monarch captured. Wide Wale unmasks him and reveals that his brother is Dr. Dugong, and he plans to kill The Monarch in revenge. With pressure from the Guild mounting to capture Blue Morpho, 21 tries to reveal the truth to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, but finds that the Morpho Cave has been seemingly replaced with an ordinary basement. They go to Red Death for help, and he agrees to help in exchange for a seat on the Council. He massacres the staff of an O.S.I. records building and retrieves the information of Dugong. As Wide Wale orders Hank to shoot The Monarch, 21 and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch stop him and Red Death bursts into the penthouse with Dugong, regenerated from his starfish DNA, in tow, getting Wide Wale to stop.

The man in the Blue Morpho costume reveals himself to be Vendata, and the shaking of the tower causes the Venture logo to fall onto the entrance, sealing everyone inside. The shaking stops when Vendata plugs himself into the PROBLEM light so he can talk to Jonas. Various parties recount the story of the Blue Morpho. Blue Morpho did everything Jonas said because he was blackmailed with a sex tape, and Jonas had his wife "swing by my compound" when he was having trouble having conceiving a child. When she became pregnant, Jonas took Kano as payment. After Blue Morpho died in a plane crash, Jonas preserved his brain and made him into a cyborg, but Kano was forced to kill him after he tried to strangle Rusty during a malfunction, which brought on his vow of silence. Dr. Z found him and reprogrammed him into the evil Vendata. Red Death and Vendata took a team of villains to hijack a movie night on Gargantua-1, where Jonas caught Vendata trying to blackmail him with the sex tape. He told Vendata that he was the Blue Morpho, and, believing him to be no threat, he left. In response, Vendata opened the bay doors and sucked everyone into space, killing Jonas. After Brock beat him up in Don Hell's club, he regained fragments of his memory and walked to Newark, putting on his old costume and seeking out Jonas. Back in the present, the Action Man has a stroke, and Pete uses the lobby's artifact shrink ray to get Team Venture out of the tower. The Monarch breaks in, planning to kill Blue Morpho to clear his name. His presence distracts Blue Morpho and he addresses him as "Malcolm", and Jonas seizes him with his tendrils. Blue Morpho engages his thrusters and they fly off. They crash, and The Monarch addresses Blue Morpho as "daddy?" before he dies. The Guild arrives, and The Monarch claims he killed them both.

After Rusty sustains severe injuries jumping out a window while demonstrating his new technology, Hank uses him being gone as an excuse to rent out his old room to a German couple. With his relationship with Sirena straining because college is taking up all her time, he tries to admit his insecurities to Rusty, only to realize he is high on morphine. Hatred and Brock kill the German couple, assuming them to be intruders. The Monarch is assessed by the Council as a "Level 5" villain, and Dr. Girlfriend advises him to arch legitimately for a while when he overdraws on his bank account. Dean moves into his college campus and learns that Rusty has enrolled him in multiple science classes against his will. He talks to his superhero professor, who encourages him to try one of his classes, with Sirena being the only other student. The Monarch crashes the class because the professor is his new arch, and a fed-up Dean pays him one million dollars to leave them alone. Sirena thanks him with a kiss on the cheek, and Dean realizes he is attracted to her.

The Guild and the O.S.I. agree to renegotiate the terms of the "Treaty of Tolerance" at the ruins of the compound. Hank hangs out with Dermott, now an O.S.I. soldier, and they notice S-464 and McManus almost having sex, but she stops and leaves in disgust when she notices "PP" on his belt. Dean goes to Ben's house and meets a model of H.E.L.P.eR. that can speak, watching the house while Ben is away, who addresses Dean as "Rusty" as he leaves. The Guild and the O.S.I. are unable to reach an agreement over the logistics of their conditions, and Rusty, the mediator, snaps at them and accuses them of being childish, forcing them to come to an agreement. As Dermott reports the incident with S-464 to Gathers and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, Dean, realizing Rusty is also a clone, hugs him.

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch convinces S-464 to act as a double agent for the Guild in exchange for helping him get McManus back. The Monarch takes part in the "Little Villain" training program, where he is assigned to St. Cloud. He and 21 find their efforts to make him more menacing futile, although Dr. Mrs. The Monarch illegally upgrades his weapons above his level, knowing it will catch the O.S.I.'s attention. St. Cloud announces his arching of Billy and Pete, who Rusty and Brock try and fail to make ready to fight him. During the fight, St. Cloud accidentally gases them and himself with nitrous oxide. S-464 talks to McManus when she arrives, and they reconcile.

Rusty finishes his teleporter and prepares to sell it, but Brock takes him to Gathers, who urges him to give the teleporter up so it does not destabilize the world economy. When he refuses, Gathers leaves him to talk to the Illuminati, who invite him to a gathering to try and change his mind. There, they give him the choice between having anything he wants by giving up the teleporter or being killed. The Monarch is tasked to work with a team put together by Copycat, planning to steal the teleporters from VenTech Tower. 21 arrives to give The Monarch his wings, and discovers that Copycat is using the team as a decoy. Copycat intentionally triggers the security system after Brock arrives to collect the teleporters, sending one of them to the panic room, and The Monarch winds up in it when Copycat's helicopter clips him while flying. As Brock kills the team, Copycat airlifts the panic room out of the tower, only for Hatred to shoot down the helicopter, killing him. The Monarch escapes by using the teleporter, winding up next to 21, who has taken the other and is driving away. They crash and wind up with both teleporters after the other one falls out of the dropped panic room, narrowly escaping from Brock.

Rusty seeks out Teresa Didae, a woman notorious for marrying wealthy men and pampering them before she kills them for their money. The Council meets with Partnership representative Blind Rage, who agrees to leave the Guild alone if they pay them off. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch learns that to fully become the governing body of the Guild, the Councilmen must perform one last arch and retire as villains. Red Mantle and Dragoon fearfully put off finding out who their arch is, only to learn that all of them are dead. Phantom Limb and Gathers have a penis-measuring competition, which the former wins by an inch. Red Death does not read his arch letter and instead kidnaps Blind Rage, ties him to a set of train tracks, and tells him to tell the Partnership that they will not submit, although his fate is left unknown. Dr. Z goes to Action Johnny's rehab clinic and they reminisce about their old battles. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch goes in her old costume with 21 to arch her old nemesis, who turns out to be Didae. 21 convinces her to approach her, and they instead reconcile. She later reveals to 21 that she stole Didae's wallet. Didae goes to meet Rusty, but he is so strung out on the antivenoms Brock dosed him with that he passes out.

New York is besieged by an unending blizzard, and the Guild tasks The Monarch and 21 with killing hoarder villain The Creep, who they believe stole a Guild weather machine and created the blizzard. He forces them to play lawn darts for their life, but is distracted when Rusty and Billy come out of a stolen time machine (the former of whom addresses The Monarch as "Malcolm") and is killed by the dart. Rusty is tasked by the O.S.I. with destroying the machine, so he takes Billy to stop it, who pushes out a thermal suppository Rusty is having him test into the machine's vent. They discover that S-464 is operating the machine, who explains that he did it to get McManus's attention. Unable to get in touch with Sirena, Hank hikes across the city and hits his head on a street light. He is found by a mute person in a bloodstained bear costume, who carries him to Dean's dorm, where he finds Sirena cheating with him before passing out from his head wound.

Dean tries to apologize to a comatose Hank by listing off the ways he has been a bad brother and admits he wants things to go back to normal. Hank awakens in a world that is a cross between The Empire Strikes Back and the film Barbarella, realizing it is purgatory. He meets the Action Man, who reveals that his and Dean's mother's name is "Bobby Saint Simone". Phage, in a coma after his cybernetic parts injured him during a teleporter test, saves them from a wampa. Hank jumps into the Mathmos to escape. The Guild uses Rusty's teleporter to break into VenTech Tower and kidnap Rusty to Meteor Majeure. They leave behind a squadron of soldiers to subdue Brock, who he gleefully massacres. The Council hosts The Monarch's Level 10 promotion ceremony on Meteor Majeure, where he and 21 are put through several tests. 21 is offered a villain role, and the Council gives him the choice to kill Rusty. Annoyed, The Monarch decries the rituals and 21 sides with him, only for the Council to reveal that the rejection was the final test. With Brock threatening to come through the teleporter if they do not send Rusty back, Watch and Ward go to fetch him, revealing in the process that they tested Rusty's blood and that he is related to The Monarch.