![]() We were dropping little Easter eggs in Season 5 because, when we started that season, we had already talked about where we were going to take the show in Season 6. We had moved him back into his childhood home, and we knew we were going to do this when we were writing Season 5. Publick: Because we thought it would be funny. What made you want to do an extended Green Hornet reference with The Monarch? We definitely had to write around it a little bit and pare down some of the other stories. But if you’re telling a Venture story, you have to save about a third of your script for The Monarch. There are others where he’s the majority of the episode, like where he has a pretty big role. We balance it so there are episodes where it’s just the B or C plot, and it’s tangentially related to the main story. It’s not like we just fell into it and were like, “Oh crap, we’ve got to put The Monarch in this one.” It did make it tricky. ![]() It was a lot of fun to write for, and we knew what we were doing when we did it. He hijacked a good portion of the season. They’ve earned their place as co-main characters with the Venture family.Įspecially this season with the Blue Morpho storyline. But, like everybody else’s story on the show, his got really involved, and he comes with his own mini-cast, between him and his wife and 21 stepping up from henchman obscurity. But even then, we tried to keep him in only half the episodes at most. We know what his voice sounds like.” And we just kept doing that. Venture like this,” and then we would go, “Oh, f–k it, we might as well just make it The Monarch. And you know, when we started getting into writing some of the stories, we would just come up with a placeholder villain, and go, “Okay, well, this guy is bugging Dr. There would just be so many people trying to kill Dr. He was in the pilot, and I had more of an idea of a villain of the week kind of thing. I definitely didn’t know he’d even be recurring when we first started. Publick: I think people like him, and I guess he’s graduated to a main character. ![]() Is it a problem that The Monarch is in every episode? Did you not consider him to be a main character when you started out? If you feel that one’s a little stronger, you run it earlier or later depending on what you want the momentum to feel like, or you know, if it’s sweeps week or some crap like that. Sometimes you finish a season and they don’t all interconnect. ![]() Jackson Publick: We dug ourselves a hole this season with a pretty specific arc to The Monarch’s story that compelled us to put him in every single episode, so that story had to get told in order. We’ve seen a lot more of The Monarch in Season 6. Read on for a full briefing from the co-creators on The Monarch’s expanded role and The Guild’s new layers of red tape, and then watch an exclusive clip (warning: NSFW) from this week’s episode.Ībout: The Monarch and Blue Morpho | The Bureaucracy of Arch Villainy | The Season 6 Finale While talking to Publick and Hammer, we managed to cover both topics, along with details on what to expect from the final episodes of Season 6. a reference to a nuanced system of law enforcement regulations is just as likely as a reference to a (seemingly) one-off joke about a dugong-themed super scientist. Co-creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer have spent 13 years refining the show, but now the first set of episodes to use the New York setting, the newly restructured Guild of Calamitous Intent and the Ventures’ new primary arch villain, Wide Wale, is coming to an end. In the wake of 2015’s “All This and Gargantua-2” special, Season 6 of The Venture Bros., Adult Swim’s long-running Jonny Quest-style boy adventurer spoof, made some major changes to the show’s formula. The Ventures are living it up in New York as “level 10 protagonists” while their former arch nemesis, The Monarch, dons the guise of the Blue Morpho vigilante in New Jersey.
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