Rusty literally doesn't give a shit and puts in the bare minimum effort, but every now and then he shows some legitimate care for his sons. It's few and far-between, but it's there.
Rick varies wildly from episode to episode either caring about his family or being willing to abandon them to save his own ass.
Robert's often misguided but genuinely means well and tries to set his kids on a good path, he's just kind of moronic.
Early's just kind of a classic piece of shit.
Overall I'd say Robert's the best, Early's the worst, and Rusty and Rick are too inconsistent to fully judge.
Rusty does what most parents who were themselves abused as children do - they underparent in an effort to minimize harm, because they believe they'll pass on the abuse they received. Graded on the world he exists within, he's better I think than most people give him credit for.
Earl is horribly abusive but manages to keep his son properly gaslit into loving him regardless.
Clay's a horribly abusive father but his own father (who never wanted kids to begin with) fricked him up too and had the show continued, would have irrevocably destroyed any chance for Orel and Clay to reconcile (leaving a flash forward in the finale that implies that Orel escapes the cycle of abuse while somehow not fully renouncing his dad, meaning there is still hope that Clay will realize the monster he had become and repent his evil)
Rusty is a horrible dad in the early seasons of Venture Brothers, complete with gaslighting Hank and Dean. But besides the whole cycle of abuse shit, Rusty's bad parenting is in conjecture with the cloning tech he uses to keep bringing the boys back to life making him apathetic to their safety; something that (to his credit) goes away when the cloning safety net is destroyed and the boys are now at risk of dying permanently. Meaning that Rusty has to start parenting full time and while not always successful, gives the implication that he isn't THAT bad a parent
Rick is a complete and total monster, to the point of considering caring for his family to be a "toxic trait". Consumate gaslighter and abusive monster, he tops even Clay as being worse dad if only because Clay at least has an excuse for being a monster dad; Rick has none in that it's been implied both in the tv show and the comic spin-off that he had a perfectly normal life and CHOSE to be a monster long after his wife/kid's death and the multiverse giving him a second chance at family.
Granddad is probably the "best" dad but he is highly resentful of Huey and Reilly ruining what was supposed to be his golden years of being a swinging single widower, by forcing him to be a parent all over again in his golden years. In his defense, Huey and Reilly both are wild children unlike the other broken kids, so he has to be more active to keep them in line.
In Rusty's defense, if my kids died a dozen times in a row and had to be reset with clones I would probably disengage emotionally from them just as a fricking DEFENSE mechanism. Imagine the tremendous grief he must have experienced the first time his kids died to go through with the cloning project in the first place to 'save' them. And when the boys died, int he first scene of season 1 Rusty still is overcome by grief and runs away from his life.
He didn't even create cloning, the one thing that it seemed like he didn't steal from his father. Now he just uses Billy and White to do the stuff for him.
Unfortunately Rusty IS a genius. It has been shown multiple times that when push comes to shove he can do all the superscience work. He's just a lazy motherfricker who will take any opportunity to push the work of actually getting the job done onto someone else any chance he can take.
The gigant from ranking of kings >Has his wife killed by his mistress >Still keeps his mistress around >Let's her talk him into getting another wife just to have a second kid >Takes over his kids body >Is ok with it >Tries to kill his other son for opposing him >Also tries to kill all his men
He is Jonas on steroids
I first watched KoTH on adult swim so I'm counting it.
He was decent
Considering the amount of trauma he went thru and how little of it he is passing down to bobby Hank is a saint
Rusty literally doesn't give a shit and puts in the bare minimum effort, but every now and then he shows some legitimate care for his sons. It's few and far-between, but it's there.
Rick varies wildly from episode to episode either caring about his family or being willing to abandon them to save his own ass.
Robert's often misguided but genuinely means well and tries to set his kids on a good path, he's just kind of moronic.
Early's just kind of a classic piece of shit.
Overall I'd say Robert's the best, Early's the worst, and Rusty and Rick are too inconsistent to fully judge.
Rusty does what most parents who were themselves abused as children do - they underparent in an effort to minimize harm, because they believe they'll pass on the abuse they received. Graded on the world he exists within, he's better I think than most people give him credit for.
Robert pretended to be blind and also killed an actual blind man
but probably a pretty good father as far as AS dad standards go
oh, you'll be hearing about it, son
Rusty let them make their own choices until he ran out of clones, he's a miserable bastard but he cares for the boys
you omitted him because you didn't want a short thread
Never watched Orel, sorry.
Worst is either him or Jonas Venture.
Jonas is definitely worse. Clay is up there
Early has shot his son more times, but it only took one time for Orel to see what a monster Clay is.
Clay is a very well written horrible person
>My father put his human penis in my shark mother.
Early is based.
>best
Rusty
>worst
The one with the dead child
...Rusty?
thats how they call the dr venture, no?
The boys never died
>One with the dead child
Can technically apply to all the ones listed.
Earl is horribly abusive but manages to keep his son properly gaslit into loving him regardless.
Clay's a horribly abusive father but his own father (who never wanted kids to begin with) fricked him up too and had the show continued, would have irrevocably destroyed any chance for Orel and Clay to reconcile (leaving a flash forward in the finale that implies that Orel escapes the cycle of abuse while somehow not fully renouncing his dad, meaning there is still hope that Clay will realize the monster he had become and repent his evil)
Rusty is a horrible dad in the early seasons of Venture Brothers, complete with gaslighting Hank and Dean. But besides the whole cycle of abuse shit, Rusty's bad parenting is in conjecture with the cloning tech he uses to keep bringing the boys back to life making him apathetic to their safety; something that (to his credit) goes away when the cloning safety net is destroyed and the boys are now at risk of dying permanently. Meaning that Rusty has to start parenting full time and while not always successful, gives the implication that he isn't THAT bad a parent
Rick is a complete and total monster, to the point of considering caring for his family to be a "toxic trait". Consumate gaslighter and abusive monster, he tops even Clay as being worse dad if only because Clay at least has an excuse for being a monster dad; Rick has none in that it's been implied both in the tv show and the comic spin-off that he had a perfectly normal life and CHOSE to be a monster long after his wife/kid's death and the multiverse giving him a second chance at family.
Granddad is probably the "best" dad but he is highly resentful of Huey and Reilly ruining what was supposed to be his golden years of being a swinging single widower, by forcing him to be a parent all over again in his golden years. In his defense, Huey and Reilly both are wild children unlike the other broken kids, so he has to be more active to keep them in line.
In Rusty's defense, if my kids died a dozen times in a row and had to be reset with clones I would probably disengage emotionally from them just as a fricking DEFENSE mechanism. Imagine the tremendous grief he must have experienced the first time his kids died to go through with the cloning project in the first place to 'save' them. And when the boys died, int he first scene of season 1 Rusty still is overcome by grief and runs away from his life.
>Genius father has to worry about being imperfect father
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Rusty may be many things, but a genius he is not
He didn't even create cloning, the one thing that it seemed like he didn't steal from his father. Now he just uses Billy and White to do the stuff for him.
Unfortunately Rusty IS a genius. It has been shown multiple times that when push comes to shove he can do all the superscience work. He's just a lazy motherfricker who will take any opportunity to push the work of actually getting the job done onto someone else any chance he can take.
The gigant from ranking of kings
>Has his wife killed by his mistress
>Still keeps his mistress around
>Let's her talk him into getting another wife just to have a second kid
>Takes over his kids body
>Is ok with it
>Tries to kill his other son for opposing him
>Also tries to kill all his men
He is Jonas on steroids
You forgot the part where he gets away with it and goes to heaven while the mistress ends up getting revived solely because his son wants to bang her.