Sirena Ong

Sirena Ong
	The Venture Bros. character
	; Sirena on her birthday
First appearance	Hostile Makeover
Last appearance	The Forecast Manufacturer
Voiced by	Cristin Milioti
Information
Nickname(s)	"Tadpole"
Occupation	Student ; Supervillain daughter
Relatives	Unnamed Grandmother; Wide Wale (father); April (mother, deceased) ; Douglas Ong (uncle)
Notable; characteristics	; Gills for breathing underwater
Prior; Relationships	Brown Widow (ex-boyfriend); Hank Venture (ex-boyfriend); Dean Venture (ex-lover)

Sirena Ong is the daughter of supervillain Wide Wale and a reccurring character on The Venture Bros.

Personality and abilities

Sirena is Wide Wale's daughter and lives with him in the New York penthouse of Tophet Tower. Although she has a more human appearance than her father and uncle Douglas Ong, she has inherited some of their fish-like abilities and features such as having a pair of gills that allow her breathe and therefore stay underwater for long periods of time, and also needs to get her skin wet every six hours.

She speaks in a thick New York Italian accent, uses profanity quite liberally, and is also a student at Stuyvesant University. She rebels against the doting over-protectiveness of her father, especially from his henchman Rocco who guards her at all times, and is not interested her father's business of The Guild, super-science, and marine biology, and just wants to be a normal student.

Character History

Sirena first appears in Hostile Makeover, where she is seen by Hank underwater in her pool as if she were drowning. This causes Hank to panic and come to her rescue. He steals Brock's grappling gun to make it to her building, where he discovers that she possesses gills, allowing her to survive underwater. Sirena shares a look with Hank before he falls from the roof.

In Faking Miracles Hank spots and runs after her while she is out for a run in Central Park, but he's attacked by Wide Whale's henchman Rocco and The Lice, which causes her to order them to leave Hank alone. She is then seen returning home angry at what occurred at the park before going off to her room. As she is leaving, her father mentions that it is her eighteenth birthday and he is throwing her a party to celebrate.

At the party, she nearly drinks a glass of wine but her father snatched it because she is still a minor. She is obviously annoyed, prompting her father to ask what is wrong. She tells him that she didn't want a party and her father tells her he'll get her a pizza, which always cheered her up as a child. The pizza is delivered by Hank, who is recognized by Sirena and Rocco, which leads to him being chased through the building by her father's henchmen.

Later, Sirena is in her room watching TV until she spots Hank on the veranda, where the two officially get acquainted. She playfully tells Hank that she is unimpressed he isn't willing to risk his life to date her until, to her shock, Hank jumps off the building just as her bodyguard enters and she explains she was getting air. She then looks over the veranda before Hank's hover car the Go-Pod emerges with Hank having landed safely in it. He coolly asks Sirena out on a date, as she is impressed and agrees.

In It Happening One Night, Hank and Sirena go out, with Hank taking her for a ride in his hover-car and walking her through the park where they encounter a mugger which was really Pete White in disguise that Hank scares off. The two are then given directions to a restaurant by a man playing drums (Dean Venture in disguise). Before they go Sirena takes a knife and digs out the tracking chip her father placed in her arm. She tells Hank she does this when she is having fun, which elates Hank before he takes her out for dinner. After a few circumstances, like bumping into her ex-boyfriend the Brown Widow and being pursued by her and Hank's bodyguards, she lets him know that she was aware that the mugger, drummer, and paparazzi they encounter on their date were fake and staged, and that he didn't need to do that anyway as she likes him. The two go for a swim in the Hudson River where they share a kiss before they are taken back home by Brock and Rocco.

In The Rorqual Affair, Sirena and Hank are seen making out when Rocco intrudes on them. Hank escapes out a window before he can be seen; they share a kiss and he goes. Later on, Sirena confronts her father and tells him to stop sabotaging her relationships. Wide Wale sends her to her room until further notice, which she complains about. She leaves her room when she hears glass shattering, confronting her father about it and questioning why her boyfriend is present. She then meets her uncle Douglas Ong for the first time. He is happy to see her and she greets him in a kind tone before turning to her father to angrily ask him why he never told her that she had an uncle. Dugong was similarly upset, with Wide Wale sputtering in response that he didn't tell either of them because of Douglas' presumed death.

In The High Cost of Loathing, she finally meets Hank's brother Dean. They bond with each other over both being genetically altered and rejecting both of their father's wishes of them studying super science. During class together, The Monarch and 21 attacking, looking to kill Professor Victor Von Helping. Von Helping fights back and was ready to destroy The Monarch, when Dean rose to the occasion by aggressively and confidently confronting The Monarch, writing him a check for $1 million dollars, demanding he leave Von Helping alone. Sirena, impressed by Dean's confidence, in addition to his more real and authentic personality compared to Hank's, and the things they share in common, kisses and decides to date Dean instead and the two begin having an affair.

During The Forecast Manufacturer, Hank tries to text her but she doesn't pick up. Despite being told to give her space, Hank decides to visit her but suffers a concussion and passes out in the snow. Hank is found by a stranger wearing a bear costume and taken to the dorm. Hank finds Dean's room and walks in to find Sirena cheating on him with Dean. She tries to lie about what's going on to the dazed Hank but Dean confirms it and soon she does as well. She is soon startled to see the figure who brought Hank to the dorm and watches Hank pass out from his experience.

While Sirena physically doesn't appear in Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, messages from her can be seen in Hank's phone. Some of her messages are begging Hank to call her to talk about things and voicing concern for his safety. When passing the Statue of Liberty on a tour boat in New York, Hank imagines the statue as Sirena. While writing on his diary, Hank briefly thinks about Sirena and Dean making out which makes him burst out crying. Hank would later forgive Dean for the affair and she is not mentioned again.

Relationships

Family

Wide Wale

Wide Wale is Sirena's super-villain father. He appears to dote on his daughter and calls her by the affectionate nickname "Tadpole". He is also extremely overprotective of her to where he assigns his top henchman Rocco to watch her at all times and even manages to implant a tracking chip on her which she is able to figure out and remove. She deeply resent her fathers doting, over-protectiveness, openly arguing against him and constantly sneaking out to go on dates behind his back and rejecting following in his footsteps of going into marine biology and super science. Despite her attitude, he seems to still dote on and spoil her, and still sees her as a child, refusing to let her drink a glass of wine and still offers to have a pizza party.

Douglas Ong

Douglas is her uncle on her father's side. Sirena did not know of him until The Rorqual Affair, while he seemed aware of her and was happy to see her and introduced himself. Sirena kindly greeted him but was angry that her father didn't tell her about him.

Rocco

Rocco is one of Wide Wale's Whale Lice henchman and Sirena's primary bodyguard. They have a contentious relationship, with Rocco frequently overstepping his boundaries in his zealousness to protect her. It appears he may have a bit of a crush on Sirena, while she resents his authority over her and consistently flouts it whenever the chance occurs for her to escape his watchful eye. Rocco cannot stand Hank Venture; his disapproval of Sirena's relationship with Hank made her like him even more.

Hank Venture

Sirena seems initially impressed and smitten by Hank, despite her knowing that he staged their first date together with his friends and family. However, Hank was overbearing with his attention, insisting on texting, being and seeing with her all of the time to the point where she's to be exhausted by him and may have been a factor into why she cheats on him with Dean. She may have also been disappointed by his poor sexual performance and over excitement with her. When she was discovered cheating, she tried to hide it but revealed it while feeling guilty and was concerned for him after he collapsed from his head wound.

During the film, she sent him text messages, with some begging Hank to call her so that they could talk about things and voicing concern for his safety. However, Hank never responded and the film's ending could confirm their relationship was over.

Brown Widow

In It Happening One Night, it is revealed she once dated Brown Widow in his civilian guise, Jared. It is unknown how long their relationship lasted, or what caused them to break up, but it appears they had a tense standing, as she seemed irritated when greeting him while on a date with Hank, calling him "stalker boy". Its hinted by Hank during their date that she apparently dates heroes to annoy her father which could imply what Jared's relationship was for her. As seen in The High Cost of Loathing, they are still not on good terms as she dismissed him after he greeted her.

Dean Venture

In It Happening One Night, they meet when Dean is trying to help Hank impress her though no interaction is made. They meet again as fellow students at Stuyvesant University in The High Cost of Loathing, where they bond over their genetic backgrounds, rejection of father's plans for them, and shared trauma from exposure to the world of super-science. Dean also "protected" her from The Monarch and Henchman 21's failure of an arching. Sirena, impressed by Dean's confidence, in addition to his more real and authentic personality compared to Hank's, and the things they share in common, kissed Dean on the cheek for being sweet to her, leaving him with an embarrassing erection, and ultimately decided to date Dean instead and the two begin having an affair. After Hank catches the two in the act, Dean is deeply remorseful to the point where he claims he never really loved her.

Episode Appearances

Trivia

Her name is a reference to the mythical birdlike humanoid beings called "sirens", who were purported to lure sailors to their deaths. Like the sirens, on first her being discovered by Hank she nearly, if inadvertently, lured him to his death. Additionally, Sirenia is the scientific name for the manatee and dugong family (named for the mythological sirens).
She ought not be confused with the non-fictional actress Serena Ong, whose major film credit appears to be as a background extra in Sharknado (2013).
According to Jackson Publick in an interview, due to the cancellation of the show a scene with Sirena was cut: "It was a bummer to lose Wide Wale and St. Cloud and a brief Sirena scene that would have been nice as a button for her".^[1]
- In another interview both Jackson and Doc Hammer stated that the scene involving Sirena would show the fans her side of the story after the events of The Forecast Manufacturer^[2]:
  - Hammer: I don't want people walking away going-
  - Publick: She's a bitch
  - Hammer: Yeah. She's not a bad person. And we understood what happened (between her and Dean). And we wanted to tell people like, 'This is just a part of growing up. These terrible things just happen.
  - Hammer: We wanted people to walk away understanding her and understanding what happened. Obviously, she's not in love with Dean. And hers is a very complicated relationship with Hank because it's his first relationship. And that's the age where we mess up.

References

[1] 'The Venture Bros.' creators on saying goodbye to their show: 'It sucks'

[2] Doc Hammer reveals the 'Venture Bros.' scene he regrets losing

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