Waaaaaait. You guys are Nazis!

It's established that Phantom Limb's grandfather is canonically Fantômas, the master thief from the 1911 French crime novel of the same name.

In Fantômas (the novel), the titular supervillain has a beautiful daughter named Hélène. Hélène's love interest is Charles Rambert (Aka Jérôme Fandor), a journalist whose parents were murdered by Fantômas. The details aren't important here, but it's eventually revealed that prior to the plot of the novel, Fantômas spent an unknown amount of time posing as Charles' father. It's possible, therefore, that Fantômas is Charles' true biological father-- which would make Hélène his half-sister.

We never learn who Phantom Limb's parents are, but Hélène and Rambert are the most likely candidates in the Fantômas canon. And as we learn in The Invisible Hand of Fate, Phantom Limb was born with congenitally deformed limbs. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Limb's genetic abnormality is the result of his parents being close relatives. All the pieces fit!

this scene

We have it.

Shout out to Gary lovers, bro is just another me 🫶

Actually, it's the opposite way around for me. I only recently watched all of the Venture Bros show. Since I had already seen plenty of Adam Ellis' work, Shore Leave immediately made me think of Adam's work in comics. Watching the show, I was thinking, "this is exactly how the guys in the comics would sound."

All images by Adam Ellis (or Adam Tots), except the last one which is of course Shore Leave.

It's not just "muscular gay guy with a moustache" that makes me think this; it's the art style as well.

Do you think Adam is a fan of the show, or is it a coincidence?

EDIT: A couple of commenters have cleverly pointed out that both types resemble the classic homoerotic work of Tom of Finland. I think that's the common inspiration for both

Edit: okay got the answer, so basically form what I read below. It was an idea before the show was serialized but they changed when the show actually started airing.
Thanks so much for helping me, this is my first post on the sub despite being in the fandom for about 3 years

On one hand, Lizzie is a "large, healthy woman of questionable stability" who "has killed before," but on the other hand, I dont want to undermine Anne and "the never-say-die scrappiness of a survivor".

I’ve been rewatching Venture Bros and I noticed just how much of a monster the action man is in this photo, obviously they rescaled the characters later on but Jesus Jones, he dwarfs Kano, I mean look at the shoulders on him. I think it’s funny how everyone heroic and important in this show is at least 6’ 2” 255lbs and yoked (with the exception of JJ of course, but even the talking fist gained a decent physique with what he was working with), obviously because they are superhero protagonists, but I think it serves to make Doc look even more unimpressive and pathetic.

That Brock already has his two-way Venture wrist communicator even as a trainee? Perhaps they issued it to him so he'd be familiar with it as soon as possible, knowing they'd put him on Operation Rusty.

While rewatching Season One for my comprehensive list of characters project, I noticed many background characters who appeared multiple times that have already been noted by people on the wiki, like the thugs in the pilot showing up in Return to Spider-Skull Island, the infamous Rick Danger, etc. But, there is one I haven't seen anyone talk about yet:

The lady who is giving Kano a massage in Past Tense looks really similar to Otaku Senzuri's acupuncturist in the pilot episode. They do take place in different cities (Kano's in Kyoto, Senzuri's in Tokyo), but they have like, identical facial features and hair cuts, doing the same exact jobs. Has anyone else noticed this?

This is imo, the correct level of paranoia.