In his case though, He had the option to move up and leave henching. But he decided to stick with it because he enjoyed it. Not because he was 'way too into it'
Gotta love the cyclical irony of his death. Dude managed to avoid the cliches that get ordinary henchmen killed yet died to one of those very cliches as an established solo villain.
saddly, Zero's true nemesis was his inability to let it go, he survived his encounter with Brock and instead of turning over a new leaf, he became consumed by his need to prove something to nobody who would care.
This is true of so many characters in the series. How many of them lack the separation of work and life that Red Death manages? How many of them could go off and live as normal people entirely out of this system and be generally happy except for the fact that they would be bored to tears not fulfilling their compulsions?
@@allyourpie4323 Which is the big joke with the red death considering he’s one of the few villains that isn’t just essentially a psychotic cosplayer with a super science tech or magical powers.
@@redghost9968 maybe it’s the blank slate of his costume signaling that he was supposed to turn over a new leaf and form a new identity to build off of, but he couldn’t let go of Zero. With his gladiator costume I’d argue a better name is “phase Zero”, with each phase marking a new improvement
Nobody should give him any shit. Dude survived his first encounter with Sampson and the actually dying by the man, myth, and legend. Not many can make such a claim.
ah 21 can and unlike 1 he also fought sampson multiple times even captured him a few times (with alot of good henchmen dying in the process of course, rip speedy) and the last major fight he had with sampson he gained his respect because he both got some solid hits on him and even took him to the ground and then proceeded to not die but team up with him
@@kevind3974 he usually hid from Brock. It took 24 dying to strengthen his resolve and months of training to be able to stand his ground with Sampson. Also 21 is a rare occurence. 99% die looking in Brock's eyes.
@@AnatoDragonshard to be fair, 21 respects Samson, and Samson respects 21. the man made himself better and was willing to fight brock hand to hand despite being afraid of him. they're more frienemies then enemies
@@rosesske2551 Batman has a reason to. Bruce Wayne is a socially/financially powerful person, and Batman is one of the most (in)famous costumed heroes in the DC universe. The wrong people being able to make a proven connection between the two would be utterly disastrous for not just him but his cohorts and his/their loved ones (like, say, if someone found his contingency plans he has to neutralize fellow Justice Leaguers and retooled them into outright attempted assassinations by using details of their secret identities to get the most optimal drop on them with said plans).
@@MrCinnamonkey can you imagine if in season 8 turn out that Scott hall part of some big mission for broke . Karma will be a bitch for broke after that. Aw yeah nice job broke you killed this one guy who was a villein but turned out that he is also the guy who was involved in a secret mission to fight a virus X .
Hell, he could've killed Brock if he didn't waste all that time monologuing and being distracted by noise. He literally had the drop on both of them... lmao
The one plot hole I've never gotten around is how Desmond was able to pull his Zeus stunt at night, when Captain Sunshine isn't supposed to be able to use his powers without the sun.
@@BannerMirror501 or a weakness the current one only has. Could be that his is a weaker version since he was granted his powers by the original or something. Idk. Food for thought.
@@LaffyTaffy04 You don't get someone to lighten up by acting like some asshole telling the same person they're gonna die. That will just piss them off.
im kinda sad this character's gone he honestly had interesting concept a standard villain henchmen gets sick of it all and becomes his own villain/a no man's henchmen
Wasn't that what Monarch did? Or pretty much any villain they hench as a sort of apprenticeship? He was the guy at work that was hurt on the job and no one came to visit.
@@jreese7436 no i mean the idea in general take the idea of the generic henchmen/goon and make it so they're tired of being treated as the expendable canon fader and decide to become a henchmen who wont be pushed around
I feel like him dying kinda goes against his hole gag as a character. It would've been more fitting if he got paralyzed or something and became a human vegetable.
Henchman Zero always had the most confusing motivations. If he referred to himself as an avenging henchman, why was he getting henchmen to kill themselves? What was the goal?
Well he obviously want revenge against 21 because he and 24 abandoned him while making a mockery of his professionalism. I'd imagine this expanded towards other sidekicks and henchmen.
@@JohnnyTightlips2007 But then he's not avenging them. And considering how intelligent he was in his first appearance, its flat out impossible for me for me to believe he doesn't know the definition of "avenging"
@@Xerock I guess he's avenging himself and all the other dead henches behind him at that point. He kinda lets on thats what hes all about before he gets samson'd
They were all "number twos" and sidekicks, not generic "nameless" henchmen. Maybe he had something against people that thought of themselves as something more than henchmen but still dedicate their lives to someone else idk
I love how they wanted to bring this character back more than they did, but Chris McCulloch was hesitant because in order to do the voice, he had to choke himself with one hand. You really hear it in the first appearance
That probably would have been the route I'd go for. Zero holding a grudge on 21. Zero also being the one behind the death of 24 mainly due to trying to kill both of them. It would have been a dramatic build up to a final showdown between 21 and Zero. Especially, given the arc Gary went through in the last season.
For someone who almost only has the character trait of, "such a know-it-all that they're a prick," Zero's firearm training was shotty at best holding the gun that close to *Brock Samson* and those in the same cell as him.
One thing alot wont notice is that he is the same in real life as he was in the show. nobody when thinking of the Venture Brothers will think about how cool Henchman 1 was, or at all. Only when given example of his existence will we be like "oh yeah". Same for the characters in the show.
I like to think he was also thinking of Speedy and 24 talking about “This is for all Henchmen” he would more then certainly have more hate being a former henchmen of one of the groups Brock possibly has the biggest count for.
Fun fact, Mr.White is using a Trident which wwas the weapon of choice for the Retiarus A class of light armored gladiators, who were popularly considered cowardly and effeminate because of their preference for defensive fast skirmish fighting rather than fighting "properly"
On paper, Henchman 1/Zero is more awesome than Henchman 21/Gary. Yet Samson remembers the latter and the latter actually gave him a half-decent fight. Zero never once game Brock a challenge.
I’m surprised Hank still vomited after watching Zero get killed by Brock, you’d think he’d be used it. Of course maybe the whole “Gargantua” thing got him stressed, and the killing pushed him overboard.
The best comedy I ever have seen. I laugh so hard at VB that I actually can't beathe. It's precsiely my brand of humor. And honestly, I love JG's music so much I bought the score for the series.
Zero you deserved way more respect from everyone, you should have gotten it and it was not right at all the way you got ended like that. It was so inexplicably wrong of the producers and all of the characters in this damn show to deny you more so much more credit.
You feel bad for Scott, the man seemed to be genuinely capable and a cut above other henchmen and could have been a great villain but his ego and insecurity ended up bogging him down.
So it looks like they need pairs of henchmen, it works better 24 & 21 The murderous moppets The venture twins Hank and Dean . . . They die a lot so that's what henchman do Billy & Pete White Brock/hatred and rusty Brock/hunter gathers Having different builds allows speciality in skills Like a skinnier teammate with a huskier teammate One to tank things & carry a bigger load, one to scout & secure Then you have groups of them based on that performance, this is only what I've seen from the venture bros, it works season after season to have two different build teammates mostly they live
21 realized he couldn't really strike out on his own and so he henched for Monarch. He survived. 1/0 thought he was bigger than his pants and died a pathetic death while throwing a tantrum shouting he was actually someone.
I finally figured out Zero's deal. He's the perfect henchman, accomplishing his villainous boss' plans but still will always job against the heroes. 21 and 24 are the perfect sidekicks, perfect support to their boss in all things. The problem is there can only be one sidekick so 24 had to go.
![Best of Henchman 21 [Venture Bros]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OH5RxhAmWkw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Best of Henchman 24 [Venture Bros]](/img/1.gif)
I'm convinced that "do I know you" is Brock's ultimate test of a hench's mettle. Zero failed hard lmao
21 definitely passed.
@@doubleac5561 21 passed with top grades, enough that he earned himself a team up with Brock.
@@emetanti yes
21 is truly the best number.
and dude died like almost every other henchmen death by samson
In the end, a cliche got him. He didn't take the shot and decided to gloat instead.
It all comes full circle. Death by Samson.
Ironic
OOOH!!! well spotted, he managed to die a real Supervillians death.
due to mindless gloating.
A real henchman would never gloat!
Well to be fair I feel like if he did shot at Samson he would have done something to the bullet
He just couldn't smell a cliche coming
"That rare blend of expendable and invulnerable that makes for a perfect henchman"
God i love that quote
Invulnerable*
Shame it didnt last for 24...
@@williamb.j.blaskowicz.5664 #STFU
@@Schregger yeah, it seems the expendable part won out. 😔
@@Schregger too soon…
“You are way to into this” says the guy who gets Hench 4 Life tattooed on his torso
Julian Kirby that’s not getting into it that’s just being loyal to your job
To be fair, a lot happened to him for him to get that tattoo. Was after 23s death no?
@@squizzlor 24, and yeah. Two-Ton 21 got way into this between those two scenes.
In his case though, He had the option to move up and leave henching. But he decided to stick with it because he enjoyed it. Not because he was 'way too into it'
To be fair, "You are into this" was spoken by the Sphinx Fabulous dude i forgot the name of. Shore Leave or something?
Gotta love the cyclical irony of his death. Dude managed to avoid the cliches that get ordinary henchmen killed yet died to one of those very cliches as an established solo villain.
saddly, Zero's true nemesis was his inability to let it go, he survived his encounter with Brock and instead of turning over a new leaf, he became consumed by his need to prove something to nobody who would care.
Hell yeah. Seriously, how many henchmen get to brag about the fact they survive. This dude was way too into himself.
This is true of so many characters in the series. How many of them lack the separation of work and life that Red Death manages? How many of them could go off and live as normal people entirely out of this system and be generally happy except for the fact that they would be bored to tears not fulfilling their compulsions?
@@allyourpie4323 Which is the big joke with the red death considering he’s one of the few villains that isn’t just essentially a psychotic cosplayer with a super science tech or magical powers.
@@zjuraeventide8949 defiantly not speedy thats for sure all though if u count venturestein he was a ex monarch henchmen turned into a zombie
Worse thing is that he could’ve escaped. Hank was only a second away from getting them out
This isnt the best of, this is literally all the screentime he ever got.
Exactly
they cut a picosecond of him breathing
Counter: they are literally the same
@@riddlerthediddler4392 Brock also cut out some time of him breathing
And with his death no one will remember him because of how forgettable he was.
I honestly liked Zeros gladiatorial outfit more than his Revenge Society one
It’s way more badass.
To be fair, that was the Revenge Society's fault. Zero didn't really have a say in what the uniforms would be.
I don't know...his Revenge Society suit looks a lot more impressive.
I kinda like his revenge society a little more, something about it...
@@redghost9968 maybe it’s the blank slate of his costume signaling that he was supposed to turn over a new leaf and form a new identity to build off of, but he couldn’t let go of Zero. With his gladiator costume I’d argue a better name is “phase Zero”, with each phase marking a new improvement
Gary was wrong. He wasn't a redshirt, he was a fallen hero in the making. They just couldn't see it because they aren't supposed to be the heroes.
Exactly
He doesn't care to be anything more than someone helping his friend with his hate
Nobody should give him any shit. Dude survived his first encounter with Sampson and the actually dying by the man, myth, and legend. Not many can make such a claim.
Not even henchman #1 can make that claim now... You know, with his head separated from his spine... f
ah 21 can and unlike 1 he also fought sampson multiple times even captured him a few times (with alot of good henchmen dying in the process of course, rip speedy) and the last major fight he had with sampson he gained his respect because he both got some solid hits on him and even took him to the ground and then proceeded to not die but team up with him
@@kevind3974 he usually hid from Brock. It took 24 dying to strengthen his resolve and months of training to be able to stand his ground with Sampson. Also 21 is a rare occurence. 99% die looking in Brock's eyes.
Death by Sampson is a valid cause of death
@@AnatoDragonshard to be fair, 21 respects Samson, and Samson respects 21. the man made himself better and was willing to fight brock hand to hand despite being afraid of him. they're more frienemies then enemies
I love that he still wore his monarch henchman uniform underneath his gladiatorial costume. Like who wears a disguise beneath a disguise? 😆
*looks at suicide squad assault on arkham batman*
Red hood
Re: Chang wearing his Jeff cap under his Dean cap.
Batman in several comics.
@@rosesske2551 Batman has a reason to. Bruce Wayne is a socially/financially powerful person, and Batman is one of the most (in)famous costumed heroes in the DC universe. The wrong people being able to make a proven connection between the two would be utterly disastrous for not just him but his cohorts and his/their loved ones (like, say, if someone found his contingency plans he has to neutralize fellow Justice Leaguers and retooled them into outright attempted assassinations by using details of their secret identities to get the most optimal drop on them with said plans).
RIP Zero. You were such a delight to watch.
His name was Scott Hall.
Shut up
His hatred will be missed.
Can't argue with that one.
@@MrCinnamonkey can you imagine if in season 8 turn out that Scott hall part of some big mission for broke .
Karma will be a bitch for broke after that.
Aw yeah nice job broke you killed this one guy who was a villein but turned out that he is also the guy who was involved in a secret mission to fight a virus X .
Zero would’ve survived if he hadn’t gotten close to the cage. He could’ve shot at Brock from the other side of the room.
21 and 24 tried to warn him. But he was too blinded by his own ambition to see the cliche coming. R I P
if he pulled that trigger he woulda died quicker lol thats brock fucking sampson he is shooting at
Hell, he could've killed Brock if he didn't waste all that time monologuing and being distracted by noise. He literally had the drop on both of them... lmao
“Stop fighting and fight!” One of my favourite moments from the show.
Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the war room.
So 21 was right the first time. It took a while, but his official death was still death by Samson.
The one plot hole I've never gotten around is how Desmond was able to pull his Zeus stunt at night, when Captain Sunshine isn't supposed to be able to use his powers without the sun.
Monarchs light gun he used on the current captain sunshine, must have left it at the sunshine lair.
@@BannerMirror501 or a weakness the current one only has. Could be that his is a weaker version since he was granted his powers by the original or something. Idk. Food for thought.
It could function like batteries.
he might not have the exact same power set as the current CPT
Tanning booth
Let's be real, if Scott didn't say his name he would've died.
Man, 21 and 24 were kinda jerks to him. Zero was cool.
then he contracted Phantom Limb syndrome.
They were trying to get him to lighten up and work smart, not hard. If the henchman manual was worth a damn, they wouldn't drop like flies.
@@LaffyTaffy04 You don't get someone to lighten up by acting like some asshole telling the same person they're gonna die. That will just piss them off.
Then he got to outlive 24
@@SuperWolsey ironically and unfortunately
I was actually sad when he died. Total cliche, weak character, but still a badass
"Ah! I don't BLAME you for killing this guy before! He's so into himself!" Once again, Shoreleave nails the crux of the biscuit.
I can't believe adultswim canceled this show
AT&T canceled this show.
Getting a movie.
Hell of a Run.
Buy the Book.
Again
@@blenderbanana what book?
Zero didn’t deserve that, he was coming back
“I know it sounds crazy, but they both have that rare blend of expendable and invulnerable that makes for a perfect henchman”
I love this line.
im kinda sad this character's gone he honestly had interesting concept a standard villain henchmen gets sick of it all and becomes his own villain/a no man's henchmen
Wasn't that what Monarch did? Or pretty much any villain they hench as a sort of apprenticeship? He was the guy at work that was hurt on the job and no one came to visit.
@@jreese7436 no i mean the idea in general take the idea of the generic henchmen/goon and make it so they're tired of being treated as the expendable canon fader and decide to become a henchmen who wont be pushed around
He probably would've been a good osi agent
I miss Zero. I would love to see him come back again. Sadly, the show is done for, but at the very least I can dream.
There is a movie coming, there's a chance
I hope we can at least hear a flashback cameo from 24.
I'm happy with his arc. He literally dies to a cliché 10/10.
He has that entitled ‘know it all’ personality that makes it easy for people to insult him
3:19 My favorite moment from Zero
7:28 My favourite moment from Zero
@@SuperCityscan thank you for this timestamp, perfectly timed lol
"Have you ever heard the tragedy of Henchman Zero?"
"No..."
"It's not that interesting. Forget I mentioned it."
He had such a sad, unimportant death. 21 and 24 called it.
“Dude, what the hell is a ‘S-7 maneuver’?”
1:51
i love how phantom limb joins in the nerdy discussion but instantly regrets it
The only known henchman that's been samsoned twice.
“Oh! OW! OH MY!”
**drops like a bag of rocks**
21 is smart, he chose to develop plot armor before becoming the badass that can do it all.
Its pretty wild that he gets FUCKING WRECKED in his own best of.
Twice.
"when you have to shoot, shoot, dont talk." - Tuco, The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Scott hall, my name is Scott hall!
Now it's just pathos.
Incredibly, Zero is the only henchmen who had the honor of being killed by Samson twice.
It made me laugh so hard when they bring up speedy from episode 1🤣🤣🤣
Wow.... Killed by brock twice.... This guy had it either rough or good?
I feel like him dying kinda goes against his hole gag as a character. It would've been more fitting if he got paralyzed or something and became a human vegetable.
If the show was written by Family Guy staff this thing would certainly happen.
Henchman Zero always had the most confusing motivations. If he referred to himself as an avenging henchman, why was he getting henchmen to kill themselves? What was the goal?
Create an army of the strongest henchmen that survive a gladiatorial battle. Thats the best I got.
Well he obviously want revenge against 21 because he and 24 abandoned him while making a mockery of his professionalism. I'd imagine this expanded towards other sidekicks and henchmen.
@@JohnnyTightlips2007 But then he's not avenging them. And considering how intelligent he was in his first appearance, its flat out impossible for me for me to believe he doesn't know the definition of "avenging"
@@Xerock I guess he's avenging himself and all the other dead henches behind him at that point. He kinda lets on thats what hes all about before he gets samson'd
They were all "number twos" and sidekicks, not generic "nameless" henchmen. Maybe he had something against people that thought of themselves as something more than henchmen but still dedicate their lives to someone else idk
I love how they wanted to bring this character back more than they did, but Chris McCulloch was hesitant because in order to do the voice, he had to choke himself with one hand. You really hear it in the first appearance
That probably would have been the route I'd go for. Zero holding a grudge on 21. Zero also being the one behind the death of 24 mainly due to trying to kill both of them. It would have been a dramatic build up to a final showdown between 21 and Zero. Especially, given the arc Gary went through in the last season.
For someone who almost only has the character trait of, "such a know-it-all that they're a prick," Zero's firearm training was shotty at best holding the gun that close to *Brock Samson* and those in the same cell as him.
It’s just zero I bench for no man
Hench
@@NoNo-gq5op bench
"stop fighting and start fighting" killed me 😂
Zero anti-villain extraordinaire
The first clip where they explains 21&24’s dynamic is cool
7:30 "Henchman Zero now Plain Zero" 😋
Now that I think of it, Zero try so hard to not be a henchman yet ended up like any henchman dying to Brock Samson.
21 only ever tried to be, 21, and by god, he became the best 21 there ever was.
He died in such a henchmen way too. "What was that noise?" followed by a neck snap
One thing alot wont notice is that he is the same in real life as he was in the show. nobody when thinking of the Venture Brothers will think about how cool Henchman 1 was, or at all. Only when given example of his existence will we be like "oh yeah". Same for the characters in the show.
0:17 smartest thing The Monarch has ever said.
Honestly God why do Hank and Dean still vomit when they see Brock kill someone they've spent their whole lives seeing him kill people
Vagal Response.
Not whole lives because they are killed every other time.
@@Jaxvidstar exactly
@@Jaxvidstar still technically their whole lives. Just that their lives aren't as long as a normal person's.
goddamnit... i really wish he got his own villain arc as just zero. Wouldve been badass for 21 or monarch to get him.
I like how zero is wearing a uniform under a uniform to disguise people from knowing who he is
Scott Hall, even his name sounds like he came out of a comic book
I like to think he was also thinking of Speedy and 24 talking about “This is for all Henchmen” he would more then certainly have more hate being a former henchmen of one of the groups Brock possibly has the biggest count for.
God damn it, I was about to comment with the quote when I saw the description.
"I'm not gonna die"
Truer words have been spoken...
Fun fact, Mr.White is using a Trident which wwas the weapon of choice for the Retiarus
A class of light armored gladiators, who were popularly considered cowardly and effeminate because of their preference for defensive fast skirmish fighting rather than fighting "properly"
On paper, Henchman 1/Zero is more awesome than Henchman 21/Gary.
Yet Samson remembers the latter and the latter actually gave him a half-decent fight. Zero never once game Brock a challenge.
RIP Speedy, never got his wings
He really couldn't spot a cliché coming, right to the end
Imagine if 21 had outted Zero as Scott instead of 1
I really really wanted an epic fight between him and 21, it’s a crime that we got teased with it only for it to never happen
6:50 is one of the most savage shit ever from brock. He did all that on one leg without losing balance. Its so... graceful yet deadly.
"Oh don't encourage him Richard!"
So of course this means he constantly does this.
I’m surprised Hank still vomited after watching Zero get killed by Brock, you’d think he’d be used it. Of course maybe the whole “Gargantua” thing got him stressed, and the killing pushed him overboard.
Im gonna miss him, he had a pretty cool design
The best comedy I ever have seen. I laugh so hard at VB that I actually can't beathe. It's precsiely my brand of humor. And honestly, I love JG's music so much I bought the score for the series.
Lmao, and just like that - ended as he started...
At the hands of Brock Samson. Poetic, really.
Henchman 0 is actually the famous wrestler Scott Hall AKA Razor Ramon AKA Henchman 1 AKA ZERO lol
I think his name being Scott is funny cause he def was giving Cyclops vibes the whole time
Lol I was going to say "I hench for NO MAN" but I'm cool with that. The complete opposite of a fallen hero like Jason Todd aka Red Hood.
"My name is Scott Hall..."
Me: "and his buddy Kevin Nash"?
Ironically Zero survived longer than 21
I just got that Zero calls both billy and white each others hench/sidekick. Flawless.
Zero you deserved way more respect from everyone, you should have gotten it and it was not right at all the way you got ended like that. It was so inexplicably wrong of the producers and all of the characters in this damn show to deny you more so much more credit.
i hate how you can totally hear that its him in the armor during the zeus phase but i still never noticed it was him until it was revealed...
I had a soft spot for Zero. He was a competent henchman who always got the short end of the stick and could never catch a break.
To be fair, he _did_ outlive 24.
Man kinda wished zero outsmarted brock at least one, by accident.
It’s one thing to survive Sampson but it’s another to dance with the reaper twice. Dude was begging for it, really.
That first question by Mrs Monarch is great. A question no one asks in any other media that we have wanted to know at some point.
You feel bad for Scott, the man seemed to be genuinely capable and a cut above other henchmen and could have been a great villain but his ego and insecurity ended up bogging him down.
"Stop fighting and Fight!"
How can a guy be serious and hilarious at the same time?
1:30
RIP Speedy
“He almost got his wings”
So it looks like they need pairs of henchmen, it works better
24 & 21
The murderous moppets
The venture twins Hank and Dean . . . They die a lot so that's what henchman do
Billy & Pete White
Brock/hatred and rusty
Brock/hunter gathers
Having different builds allows speciality in skills
Like a skinnier teammate with a huskier teammate
One to tank things & carry a bigger load, one to scout & secure
Then you have groups of them based on that performance, this is only what I've seen from the venture bros, it works season after season to have two different build teammates mostly they live
If you're gonna shoot - shoot, don't talk
21 realized he couldn't really strike out on his own and so he henched for Monarch. He survived.
1/0 thought he was bigger than his pants and died a pathetic death while throwing a tantrum shouting he was actually someone.
I think had Zero saw villainy as fun (like 21) or a way to gain power (like Phantom Limb) instead of ego-boost then he'd probably wouldn't have died.
Zero actually lasted longer than 24
It still surprises me that he outlived 24
I finally figured out Zero's deal. He's the perfect henchman, accomplishing his villainous boss' plans but still will always job against the heroes. 21 and 24 are the perfect sidekicks, perfect support to their boss in all things. The problem is there can only be one sidekick so 24 had to go.
I love the fact that 24 brings up Speedy.
The Monarch's most loyal henchman!
I find it hilarious how 21 and 24 are right and how invisible they are to everyone
Thanks for uploading this,I just rewatched Zero’s first episode!!