History Recap / TheVentureBrosS4E5TheRevengeSociety

** Many to the Season 3 episode: ''ORB''.
** The car Revenge/Phantom Limb drives is a turquoise Honda Accord with a ghost painted on the hood. He mentioned this as the car he drove before making it big as a supervillain in ''Victor. Echo. November.''
** In the statement he forces the conjoined councilmen to read, Revenge/Limb claims to have been the victor in the "Battle of Cremation Creek," as seen in the season two finale two-parter ''Showdown at Cremation Creek.''
** Hank and Sgt. Hatred were riding the hoverbikes through the tunnels sealed by Dr. Venture at the end of ''What Goes Down, Must Come Up.''

At Revenge's headquarters, an abandoned mansion, a kidnapped Billy Quizboy performs life-saving surgery, attaching Dragoon's head to Red Mantle's body. As the newly-attached duo wakes up, Revenge introduces himself. They recognize him as the now-insane traitor, Phantom Limb. They expect Limb to murder them, but Limb reveals that he needs them, as they are the eldest members of the Guild still alive, and assures them that after he says what he has to say, they will be ''willing'' to assist them.

At the compound, Sgt. Hatred has had a break down due to Hank's resentment of him. He has locked himself in the bathroom and is drinking cologne for the alcohol. Venture tries to talk Hatred out of the bathroom, but is forced to leave when the compound alarm system goes off. Hank runs into to tell them that a massive Guild army has arrived at the compound. Hatred storms out of the bathroom and orders everyone but Hank into the panic room, hoping to bond with Hank by having him help. Hatred believes that the Guild is there for him, due to him spilling all the Guild secrets he knew to the O.S.I. Trying to bond with Hank, who claims to be Brock-trained and "Franchise/{{Batman}}-loaded," Hatred allows Hank to call the shots. This leads to them taunting the Guild and doing things that Venture normally disallows Hank from doing.

In the tunnels under the compound, Hank and Hatred are riding hover bikes. Hatred reveals that he knows that Hank is taking advantage of him, and brings up the training Hank received from Brock. Hank decides to return to the compound and fight the Guild.

Outside, the captive councilmen and Limb meet with high-ranking Guild operative Music/BrianEno. The councilmen are forced to read a statement from Limb, stating that Limb is the rightful heir to the Guild via his grandfather, Fantômas. Several Guild soldiers draw their weapons but Limb disarms them by throwing Lady Nightshade at them.

* CompanionCube: Wisdom the coffee mug, Chuck the toaster, and Lady Nightshade the shoe are each one for Revenge/Phantom Limb. It is even implied that he is in a sexual relationship with the shoe. (The shoe is revealed to have once belonged to Dr. Girlfriend/Dr. Mrs. the Monarch.)

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As Phantom Limb/Revenge is on the cusp of "activating" the ORB, Rusty is the only one who is utterly unconcerned (hinging on bored, even). Given how he's been studying the artifact since he acquired it in the previous season, it's a pretty big hint that the thing is secretly broken and he knows it.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dragoon and Red Mantle are strongly implied to be the Music/TheBigBopper and Music/BuddyHolly, having been recruited into the Guild instead of dying in that plane crash. Music/BrianEno is also apparently a high ranking member of the Guild, possibly even #2 to Music/DavidBowie.

* RewatchBonus: Gives one to "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS3E11ORB ORB]]". At the end of the flashback showing Col. Venture about to activate the ORB , you can hear glass breaking, foreshadowing the reveal here that Sandow broke the ORB instead of killing Venture.

** Numerous references are made to Music/DavidBowie's music, including his album ''Hours...'', ''Diamond Dogs'' being actual robotic security dogs, his short-lived band Tin Machine, the ''Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family,'' and Revenge/Limb calling him the "thin white douche," in reference to his self-created title "the thin white duke."

* ToughRoom: A rare aversion where Red Mantle snickers at Dragoon's ''Series/GilligansIsland'' reference regarding the TapOnTheHead trope. Per Doc Hammer, in the commentary: "I felt kinda weird writing that cuz it's a comedy show and a guy said a joke and then another guy laughs at it, that doesn't happen in comedy shows -- cartoons -- you just say a joke and the audience laughs at it."

-->'''Red Mantle:''' "MAKE WAY FOR THE DASHING PHANTOM LIMB!" I didn't write this crap.

* VillainousBreakdown: Phantom Limb's falling-apart comes to a head when he reintroduces himself to the world as "Revenge", head of the Revenge Society. That might not sound so bad, but his founding members are a toaster, a coffee mug, and ''a shoe he stole from Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.'' As Red Mantle puts it, the man has become a fruit loop.

* {{Acrofatic}}: For being large and quite old (especially if he really is the Big Bopper,) Dragoon is able to toss around the much younger Revenge/Phantom Limb like a rag doll until Limb hits him with his TouchOfDeath. He also manages later on to knock out a Guild soldier with a toaster (thrown one-handed, in a body he had only hours before been grafted onto, with an arm he only has limited control over, no less).

* {{Acrofatic}} / StoutStrength: For being large and quite old (especially if he really is the Big Bopper,) Dragoon is able to toss around the much younger Revenge/Phantom Limb like a rag doll until Limb hits him with his TouchOfDeath. He also manages later on to knock out a Guild soldier with a toaster (thrown one-handed, in a body he had only hours before been grafted onto, with an arm he only has limited control over, no less).

* {{Mondegreen}}: When Dragoon is recounting how he and Red Mantle first got into the Guild, he refers to the date as "February 16, '59"; Billy, mishearing this as ''1659'', imagines the two dressed as wandering minstrels.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As Phantom Limb/Revenge is on the cusp of "activating" the ORB, Rusty is the only one who is utterly unconcerned. With how he's been studying the artifact since the previous season, it's a pretty big hint that the thing is secretly broken and he knows it.

* ThatWasNotADream: Billy yells for White to come listen about the crazy dream he just had at the end, before realizing it all really happened and also [[BedmateReveal he's in bed with Sgt Hatred]].
* ToughRoom: A rare aversion where Red Mantle snickers at Dragoon's ''Series/GilligansIsland'' reference regarding the TapOnTheHead trope. Per Doc Hammer, in the commentary: "I felt kinda weird writing that cuz it's a comedy show and a guy said a joke and then another guy laughs at it, that doesn't happen in comedy shows -- cartoons -- you just say a joke and the audience laughs at it."

-->'''Red Mantle:''' Nothing. I've just been wanting to say that all day, I got sick of waiting for an oppertunity.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Phantom Limb/Revenge is on the cusp of "activating" the ORB, Rusty is the only one who is utterly unconcerned. With how he's been studying the artifact since the previous season, it's a pretty big hint that the thing is secretly broken and he knows it.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dragoon and Red Mantle are strongly implied to be the Big Bopper and Music/BuddyHolly, having been recruited into the Guild instead of dying in that plane crash. Music/BrianEno is also apparently a high ranking member of the Guild, possibly even #2 to Music/DavidBowie.

At Revenge's headquarters, an abandoned mansion, a kidnapped Billy Quizboy performs life-saving surgery, attaching Dragoon's head to Red Mantle's body. As the newly-attached duo wakes up, Revenge introduces himself. They recognize him as the now-insane traitor, Phantom Limb. They expect Limb to murder them, but Limb reveals that he needs them, as they are the eldest members of the Guild still alive.

* ThatWasNotADream: Billy yells for White to come listen about the crazy dream he just had at the end, before realizing it all really happened and also [[BedmateReveal he's in bed with Sgt Hatred]].

* TapOnTheHead: Red Mantle/Dragoon lampshade the fact that Billy and one of the Guild goons are easily knocked unconscious with just a hit on the head.

** Hatred's explaining that he was a pedophile using a comparison to birds and bees may be a reference to an infamous scene in {{Film/Spartacus}} when Crassus gave a similar speech to his young male slave about oysters and snails.

At the mansion, Red Mantle and Dragoon are learning to operate their new shared body as they page through the Guild Charter. Limb is demanding information about his grandfather's, Literature/{{Fantomas}}, involvement with the founding of the Guild. He also introduces his "Revenge Society," consisting of a coffee mug, a toaster, and a high-heeled shoe. The elder duo says that they met Fantômas in the 1950s when he asked them, both former musicians, to join his band. Fantômas turned out to be a lousy sousaphone player who needed them, along with some other kidnapped musicians, to support him. Limb cuts them off saying he isn't interested in that story, but instead, wants to know his grandfather's connection to the legendary artifact ORB. Billy, listening in from the sack Phantom Limb kidnapped him in (which Billy climbed back into hoping not to die,) says he knows where the ORB is: The Venture compound.

** The scene where Bowie hides behind a table to protect his identity as the Sovereign and his dialogue then are references to ''TheWizardOfOz.''

** Hatred's explaining that he was a pedophile using a comparison to birds and bees may be a reference to an infamous scene in {{Film/Spartacus}} when Crassus gave a similar speech to his young male slave about oysters and snails.
* TheCoup: Phantom Limb/Revenge seeks to usurp control of the Guild of Calamitous Intent from the Sovereign, with his being grandson of Fantômas being precedent and his possession of the ORB as leverage; he is thwarted by the Sovereign and Team Venture, and the ORB is revealed to be a useless dud.