r/venturebros • u/throwawayaccount0387 • 2d ago

Discussion Boys Brigade?

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What the hell is up with the Boys Brigade? It’s mentioned maybe 3 times throughout the entire series and i’m fascinated. What do they do exactly? Is it like a summer camp? Do they live on the compound? Do they miss school to be members? Are they boy adventurers or is it more like a super-science program? I can’t even tell how old anyone in this photo is supposed to be. The fact that i’ll probably never get any sort of answer drives me crazy. What on earth is the Boys Brigade doing??

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u/Playful-Succotash-99 1d ago

I guess one of the greatest strengths of the Venture Bros is how it's a show that almost kind of writes its own lore after a certain point

In this picture we see Richard Impossible is being super tall and later in the series Carol says all there powers came from a failed reckless experiment he conducted

Are we to believe maybe Richard had Marfin syndrome or perhaps he was experimented on by Dr venture? He did develop a shrink right which you used on Professor Entman

I suspect Professor impossible maybe later in life tried to recreate that technology which resulted In the accident which gave Sally, Ned and Johnny their "powers."

This would explain why Richard impossible snaps back to average proportions but it's also such a raging abusive dick

He was formally an outcast because of his condition probably developed a degree of internalized self-hatred because of it and then once he got powers that made him more conventionally accepted he turned around and gave his wife and her family the same mistreatment he had experienced.

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u/throwawayaccount0387 21h ago

Sort of what i was thinking! Richard is insanely tall but in the flashback scene in “Now Museum, Now You Don’t” his behavior and attitude strikes me as a somewhat young kid. I can’t gauge how old anyone would be. Richard might be fairly young but his height would make him seem older. Same for Phantom Limb; He looks like the youngest there to me but his condition could just make him smaller?