| Speedy | |
|---|---|
| The Venture Bros. character | |
 | |
| First appearance |
Dia de los Dangerous! |
| Voiced by |
Doc Hammer |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Henchman |
| Notable Characteristics |
Pimples Floppy hair sticking through top of his uniform |
| Alliances |
The Monarch The Fluttering Horde |
Speedy was a minor character on The Venture Bros. He was killed by Brock Samson.
Character History
Speedy was an enthusiastic young henchman in The Monarch's Fluttering Horde. Desperate to "earn his wings", Speedy suggested that they kidnap Hank and Dean Venture.
Brock Samson grabbed Speedy by the throat while he was attempting to kidnap the Venture twins. Speedy's fellow henchmen were finally able to take Brock down after firing an extensive amount of tranquilizer darts and hitting him with a truck.
Despite being unconscious, Brock wouldn't loosen his tight grip around Speedy's throat, which was strangling him to death. The other henchmen tried to save him with no success. When they realized it was futile, they performed a mercy killing by shooting Speedy with a tranquilizer. Speedy's struggling ceased and he died, either from windpipe collapse or asphyxiation. The other henchmen buried Speedy along with the supposidely-dead Brock in a grave marked with the latter's combat knife. Speedy's corpse was later seen and discarded by Brock after he regained consciousness and crawled his way out of the grave.
Episode Appearances
Season 1
Season 3
- The Lepidopterists (mentioned)
Season 4
- Pinstripes & Poltergeists (cameo as ghost)
Trivia
- Speedy could be considered a prototype version of Henchman 21. Both Speedy and 21 began as "young and inexperienced" henchmen, Doc Hammer voices both characters with the same voice, and Speedy's brief interactions with Henchman 24 mirror that of his later relationship with 21.
- Speedy appeared to Henchman 21 as a ghost (who may or may not be real) in Season 4's Pinstripes and Poltergeists. As Doc Hammer had been using Speedy's voice for Henchman 21 since the former's death, Speedy's one line of dialogue has a slightly lowered pitch than before.
- Speedy's henchmen uniform is unique, featuring a tight v-necked tunic that shows off his defined torso curvature, as well as an open-top cowl that exposes his hair and lacks the antenna the Monarch's henchmen typically have. No other henchmen other than Speedy is ever seen wearing this version of the uniform, and he appears to be still wearing it when he reappears as a ghost in Pinstripes & Poltergeists.
- His name is likely a reference to the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow's teenaged sidekick, Speedy.
- His name and demise may be a reference to the 1989 storyline "The Death of Speedy" from the groundbreaking indie comic book Love and Rockets. In that story protagonist Maggie Chascarrillo deals with the violent loss of her crush, Eulalio "Speedy" Ortiz.
- The American indie rock band Speedy Ortiz was named after the same character and storyline from Love and Rockets.
- Henchman 24 tells Scott Hall (Henchman 1) about the death of Speedy as a cautionary tale in Season 3's The Lepidopterists.
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