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But look at my life now. Hatred's become a job. I had true hatred with Venture. I didn't have to fake it. That sweet loathing just poured out of me whenever I saw his pathetic face! I just-I just-I just wanted to kick his ass! I wanted to build a machine to kick his ass! I wanted to BUILD AN EMPIRE TO HOUSE THE MACHINE TO KICK HIS ASS!
~ The Monarch.

Malcolm Fitzcarraldo, better known as The Monarch, is the main antagonist of the Adult Swim series The Venture Bros. He is the self-proclaimed (later legalized) archenemy of Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture and one of the world's most powerful supervillains despite his rather comedic lack of success, largely down to his arrogance, inability to not get tricked and his over-dramatic nature, all of which are parodies of traditional megalomaniacal behavior common in supervillains. He is named after the Monarch Butterfly, which he has taken an obsession with and modeled his entire empire around.

Biography[]

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The Monarch was the child of a wealthy couple who died when their private plane crashed in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The Monarch was the only one to survive the crash and spent three months living in the forest among a colony of Monarch butterflies, who "adopted" him. As he was ignorant of their migration patterns, the butterflies eventually left, and the devastating Monarch hitch-hiked to the city and collected his sizable inheritance.

The remainder of his boyhood and teenage years were likely spent in New York, as "The Trial of the Monarch" revealed Monarch's connection with the 1980s New York punk scene. The Monarch apparently left New York to go to college [he, Thaddeus Venture, Werner Underbheit, Pete White, and Mike Sorayama all went to the same college at the same time. Brock Samson attended for one of those years but was a freshman to the others' senior class levels.

In college, he was known as Malcolm and shared a creative writing class with Dr. Venture; apparently, the Monarch devoted all of his assignments to butterflies (which led Venture to initially assume he was a "closet case"). At some point in college, The Monarch made his first attempt to kill Thaddeus, which instead resulted in Underbheit's disfigurement.

After graduating college with a BA in Creative Writing, The Monarch went to work at the Guild of Calamitous Intent as a registered low-level henchman to Sea An-enemy, Helicopter, and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Coat, while he waited for his trust fund to come out of escrow.

During this time, he also illegally moonlighted as his "Monarch" alter-ego, unsuccessfully arching on a young Dr. Venture. He was working as Shadowman 9 for Phantom Limb when he met his future wife; she had just failed at being a solo super-villain (Lady AuPair) and accepted a Number 2 position working for Phantom Limb, this time as Queen Etheria. Donning one of his "early version" butterfly costumes, he attended a dinner party held by the Guild, and successfully seduced Queen Etheria in his car parked outside; Phantom Limb discovered this, and both Queen Etheria and The Monarch left together.

With the guidance of his new Number 2 (Dr. Girlfriend), The Monarch gave up his henching career and turned to full-time arching of Doctor Venture. Using The Monarch's vast wealth, they built a giant, floating military base from which to launch his attacks on Dr. Venture. Near the end of the first season, he and Doctor Girlfriend have a falling out over a tell-all book published by the Monarch's henchmen (according to the Monarch, "filled with lies and pictures of also-lies"), which brought to light her salacious past with a variety of other supervillains. She left him and went back to Phantom Limb, who in turn framed the Monarch for murder so that he could have Doctor Girlfriend to himself. The Monarch managed to escape from prison and rebuilt his career, eventually winning back Doctor Girlfriend; The Monarch and Doctor Girlfriend were officially married at the beginning of season 3, whereupon she changed her name to Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.

In return for recognition and leniency from the Guild (and for permission to marry his wife), The Monarch was forced to stop arching Dr. Venture, a fact which he has trouble coming to terms with. Season 3 saw The Monarch sinking ever-lower in depression over not arching Venture: killing all 8 of his "new assignments" from the Guild, nearly ruining his marriage, raiding the Venture compound and having sex with "GUARD" (a robotic guardian with the face of Dr. Venture), claiming it to be an attempt to give it chlamydia; and finally arching Jonas Venture, Jr. on a trial basis.

Thanks to a "family by-laws" loophole found by Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, season 3 ends with a horrific showdown at the Venture compound, where The Monarch donned shooting, flying (but otherwise immovable) armor and faced off against the O.S.I. He ended up killing all of the Hank-and-Dean clone slugs, several O.S.I. troopers, many of his own henchmen, and finally fell to earth in a nauseated bundle, to be picked up by his remaining henchmen and his wife.

In the second episode of Season 4, The Monarch kidnaps Hank and Dean and tries to order Dr. Venture to pay a ransom. Hank is immediately rescued by Captain Sunshine, who takes him back to his lair to make him the new Wonder Boy. (The Monarch killed the last Wonder Boy while he and Dr. Girlfriend were broken up). Dr. Venture gets Dean back and then both he and the Monarch track down Captain Sunshine's lair in order to get Hank back. His wife creates for Monarch a solar ray cannon, guessing that Captain Sunshine's powers don't work at night. However, the ray gun empowers Sunshine who then defeats the Monarch. The Monarch, his wife, and 21 head home in a cab. One of them then fires a dart at the cabbie when he inquired about the fare.

Personality[]

It's who I am, without this hate, I'm nothing. I'm not like you. I can't just turn this off. I'm the man who hates Dr. Venture, period.
~ The Monarch expressing his life-long and obsessive hatred of Dr. Venture to Red Death.

The Monarch's complete personality is based around his never-ending hatred of his arch nemesis Dr. Venture. He has never stated what made him hate Venture, at one point he was unable to answer Hank's question on why he hates Venture. Regardless, his hatred made him into a villain hellbent on revenge by any means. He is a colorful villain whose theatrics are not matched through his competence - his plans tend to go awry through mixtures of error, arrogance, horrific luck, being outwitted, and Brock Samson killing henchmen until enough are dead to end any schemes. He also speaks in grandiose speeches and phrases, some of which get away from him or don't sound like he expected. (Though to be fair, the ominous music that performs during his speeches tends to balance it out.)

He has a serious homicide streak, regularly killing henchmen for minor offenses, killing an intern to sneak onto the Venture compound, and murdering dozens of villains in his crusade to arch Venture. There are a few lines he might not cross to suit his purposes, including breaking Guild laws.

Despite his seeming incompetence, he can be pretty skilled at arching and is considered by many (including Doctor Mrs. The Monarch and 21) to be a individual truly talented in villainy, filled with a villainous sort of hatred that's almost an art form. After he was once banned from arching Dr. Venture, he ran through eight arches in a few months, killing each of them on the first day of arching them. In the case of Dr. Dugong, he attempted to channel his hatred of Dr. Venture, causing him to slip into a temporary moment of insanity and hallucinate Venture's face when looking at Dugong. He was almost assassinated by O.S.I. for it, however he managed to escape through sheer tenacity and trickery. His abilities have grown over the sequence and, along the way, he has gained allies and a powerful henchman in the form of 21, who turned his following of inept idiot henchmen into a fearsome fighting force.

In fact, The Monarch was once able to intimidate Tim-Tom and Kevin by threatening them with death if they tried to order him about. This was once notable as they are usually fearless and murderous, as well as scaring the different henchmen.

The Monarch has admitted, solely to 21, that sometimes he hates himself more than other villains hate their arch-nemeses. Despite his wealth, power, lovely wife, and loyal henchmen, he seems eternally insecure and self-loathing. The reasons for this have but to be explained. It's not entirely impossible that, on some level, The Monarch realizes he is wasted most of his life over what may have started as a petty grudge.

The Monarch can be witty and charming, and possesses a cutting sarcastic wit. Unfortunately, these traits tend to emerge right before he does something very unwise. He often explodes in episodes of violent rage which get him into a lot of trouble. These rages are often accompanied by executions of whichever hapless henchman angered him. For some reason, he rarely teams up with other super-villains, preferring to work with his henchmen and wife. (Likely, the Monarch prefers to have the spotlight to himself.) When he does team up, he inevitably betrays them and goes his own way. He is deeply in love with his wife and extremely protective of her. The two have an erratic but passionate long-term history. The Monarch can be both loving and playful (as witnessed in several intimate scenes), but also bitterly insecure over their relationship. This insecurity has almost cost them their relationship several times.

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Trivia[]

  • In the finale movie, it was stated by Ben that the Monarch is a clone of Rusty with two percent of baboon DNA, which was to prevent premature hair loss and gain enhanced aggression as a side effect. Thus explaining the Monarch have his moments of suicidal stupidity.
    • Despite his origins, Monarch is still loved by his wife very much; giving him encouragement to continue the arching as he was better half of Rusty, which is the Greek myth of the eternal battle against one's self.
  • He is responsible for Baron Werner Ünderbheit losing his jaw, as revealed in a flashback.
    • Despite being told of it when it happened, in the present day he seems to not recall.
  • He is a native of New York.
  • He is a fan of Game of Thrones, frequently watching it with Henchman 21.
  • He and his wife did not believe Dr. Dugong was a mutant but rather a customed man but later learns from the latter's brother Wide Wale of their mutation story.

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The Fluttering Horde
The Monarch | Dr. Girlfriend | Henchman 21 | Henchman 24 † | Speedy | Tim-Tom and Kevin † | Tiny Joseph

Council of 13
Don † | Boggles the Clue Clown † | Councilman 10 † | Dragoon | Dr. Girlfriend | Dr. Phineas Phage | Dr. Z | Force Majeure † | Mommy Longlegs † | Monseñor † | Phantom Limb | Radical Left | Red Death | Red Mantle | Steppenwolf † | The Nerve † | The Sovereign † | Wide Whale | Wide Fop

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The Doom Factory
Billy Maim † | Black Maria † | Eenie-Meanie † | Frigid † | Gerard the Gorilla † | Hard Candy † | Serpentine † | She-Hemoth † | Trashenstein † | Ultra-Violent † | Wes Warhammer

Neo-Nazis
Adolf Hitler † | Fritz

The Revenge Society
Baron Werner Ünderbheit | Fat Chance | Scott Hall

The Peril Partnership
Blind Rage † | The Creep | Tiger Shark

U.R.G.H.
Boar-Man | Dog-Man | Giant Crab | Gill-Man | Karl | RICO | Turu

Fraternity of Torment
Brainulo | Manotaur | Scaramantula

S.P.H.I.N.X.
Diamond Backdraft | Ersatz Destro † | S.P.H.I.N.X. Commander | Wind Song

Cult of Osiris
Cult of Osiris Believer | Cult of Osiris Executioner | Ibis Priest

Long Division
Short Division | Tom

Orange County Liberation Front
Debbie | Ted

Hench-Person Groups
Hoplites | Lesliebots | Mexican Wrestlers | Pro-Teens | Shaadowmen | Snakemen | Venchmen

Hank Venture's Alter Egos
Enrico Matassa | Russian Guyovitch

Other
Bruno | Chupacabras | Crime-O-Dile | Denizen of the Second World † | Dr. Schumpmaker | Dr. Septapus † | Futuro | Half-Jackal | Herman | Kikai | L. Ron | Lady-Hawk Johnson | Luchador in Red | Lyndon-Bee | Mandalay | Mecha-Mouth | Mike Sorayama † | Molotov Cocktease | M.U.T.H.E.R. | Oni | Otaku Senzuri | Pei Wie | Professor Richard Impossible | Roy Brisby | Scare Bear | Scary Nilsson | Shame Face | Shrill Spector | Slagathor | Steve the Ghost Pirate † | Turnbuckle † | White Noise † | Jonas Venture Sr.

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