Brock Samson
The Venture Bros. character
First appearance

The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay
Last appearance

The Saphrax Protocol
Voiced by

Patrick Warburton
Aliases "Walking Swedish Murder Machine"
"Super Kill-Guy"
"Murderist Extraordinaire"
"Slayer of Henchmen"
Jesus Tralfaz
Agent 92-62
Agent Topanga Lawrence
Gender Male
Occupation Secret agent
Family Bonnie Jablonski Samson (mother, according to "Poker Night 2")
An unnamed brother
Neko (son)
An unnamed son
Nationality American

Great strength, stamina, and agility
Exceptional skill in hand-to-hand combat
Street smart and usually level-headed

The Office of Secret Intelligence
Team Venture

United States Armed Forces

The Guild of Calamitous Intent
The Investors (all deceased)
Long Division
Monstroso (deceased)
Mike Sorayama (deceased)
The Monarch
Phantom Limb
S.P.H.I.N.X. Commander (deceased)
Old S.P.H.I.N.X. (defunct)
Tiger Shark

Brock Samson is the deuteragonist of The Venture Bros.. He is an O.S.I. agent and bodyguard of Dr. Thaddeus Venture. He is a parody of pro-wrestler Psycho Sid Vicious.




He attended college on a football scholarship to State University in the early 1980s, where his fellow students included Thaddeus Venture, The Monarch, Pete White, Mike Sorayama, and Werner Ünderbheit. He roomed with Dr. Venture, but the two never socialized as he spent much of that time having sex with other female students. Unfortunately, Brock accidentally killed his team's quarterback (Tommy) during practice, leaving him with a guilt he has carried ever since. Afterwards, he went on a drunken rampage that resulted in Rusty and his friends being severely beaten. Brock's athletic scholarship was subsequently cut, and he left the day after for the Army.

Enlisting in O.S.I.


Brock's license to kill

The rest of Brock's past with the O.S.I. has yet to be revealed, except during one of his first missions of his career, as a rookie Brock and unnamed partner were on mission where Brock encountered KGB agent Molotov Cocktease, also on her first assassination mission. During said mission, Brock's partner was killed by Molotov and Brock in turn killed her father who was attempting to assassinate someone. Brock would have occasional encounters with Molotov in the ensuing years, and she would come to be the "only woman [he has] ever loved."

Bodyguarding the Ventures

Brock's career as an O.S.I. field agent effectively came to an end when he and Colonel Gathers attempted and failed to expose Hamilton G. Fantomas as a member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent during the episode The Invisible Hand of Fate. As a result, the double-agent Sergeant Hatred reassigned him to the 'rookie' duty of Dr. Venture's bodyguard. In the episode ORB, it is revealed that this assignment was actually one in a series of ruses stretching back to the late Victorian era enacted to keep agents close to each Venture super-scientist so that they could be killed quickly in the event that they tried to make use of a mysterious artifact known as the Orb.

Leaving the Ventures


Brock survived and was treated by the O.S.I, but believing they were up to something, he escaped and went into hiding, but not before a metal plate was secured to his chest to cover the wound inflicted by H.E.L.P.eR's head. For some time after this, he stayed in a log cabin with Steve Summers and Sasquatch, a couple he met in Home Insecurity. While Brock managed to heal during this period of inactivity, he also became overweight and out of shape.


In the season 4 finale Operation P.R.O.M., Hunter Gathers is given control of the O.S.I by General Treister. In Season 5, due to Gathers becoming the new leader of the O.S.I. As a result, S.P.H.I.N.X. dissolves and the members, including Brock (but not the recently joined Henchmen 21), rejoin the agency.

Returning to the Ventures

In Season 6, Brock is re-assigned to protect the Ventures by General Gathers due to Dr. Venture being given a large company and fortune from his late brother, making him a giant target for actual high ranked villains and not just mid level ones like the Monarch, re-taking his place from an ousted Sergeant Hated. He takes a disliking to the local superheros, namely the protection racket Crusader Action League, though he is attracted to power-house superheroine, Warriana. During a battle with a villain named Think Tank, Brock is blasted out of Ventech Tower but is saved by Warriana, whom he had slept with the previous night. With her help, they defeat Think Tank as an "unsanctioned team-up", a precursor to entering a full relationship.





After the start of season 4, Brock has a metal plate fastened between his pectorals to cover a wound he received when H.E.L.P.eR's head was lodged in his chest following an explosion. Although he has since healed, the plate has yet to be removed, and has more than once allowed him to be shot by heavy ordinance yet not be harmed.


Though he has become a well-developed, three dimensional character, Brock mostly embodies the 'strong, silent' stereotype. He usually speaks in a low, gravelly deadpan and maintains a casual aura. He speaks calmly in anything short of the most urgent circumstances, and his level voice is sometimes at odds with a crazed facial expression. During said moment, Brock will take down every enemy in sight but despite that, he refuses to kill women and children due to his teachings from Colonel Hunter Gathers. He loves fighting and killing seeing his agent duty as his true purpose even, though he sometimes doubts his lethal actions. This came to ahead in ¡Viva los Muertos! when he killed a helpless henchman who had given up fighting and was later resurrected as Venturestein. His terror of Brock and tortured existence made Brock realize that he'd gone too far killing a helpless man. Afterwards, while reconciling the fact that being a lethal badass is what he is while also resolving to control his bloodlust so as to only resort to serious violence and lethal force if it's necessary and unavoidable. His fear of the supernatural is one of the few things which was shown to be able to faze Brock, as shown when Dean spoke Sumerian and when the VenTech Tower was "haunted".[1]


Brock's personality has evolved considerably throughout the series. In the beginning of the series, he seemed to be hostile and closed off to most of the family. While loyal to them and has shown to care about them, he largely ignored them, focused on brutally murdering his enemies and having sex as often as possible. As the series has continued he has begun showing affection for the Ventures, and a great deal of concern for their safety. Though a departure from the unfeeling Brock of early episodes, the writers confirm he is still assumed to be the 'Swedish Murder Machine' behind the scenes.



His ability to endure pain is matched by his ability to inflict it, which he does with great enthusiasm. He has shown himself to be capable of killing many different creatures at a moment's notice, including men, monsters, bears, and tyrannosaurus. He generally disdains firearms, preferring to kill instead with his hands or his Bowie knife, but occasionally makes exceptions for certain projectile weapons. Despite his disdain for guns, he is an excellent marksman: in the episode The Incredible Mr. Brisby, Brock repeatedly stops the fall of Dr. Venture by pinning the cuff of his pants to the wall with a rivet-gun. He has the ability to tell if anybody is in his classic muscle car. Even from a different continent. As of season 7, Brock wears a pistol on his person at all times as a visual deterrent to anybody facing him, though he admits to those close to him it's never loaded.


  • Two-way communicator wristwatch
  • Bowie Knife
  • Pistol (never loaded)

Recurring themes




Brock's List of Cool Crap he never thought he'd get to do


Relationships With Other Characters

Venture Family


Dr. Venture

Dr. Venture and Brock first met in college, where they where roommates, but they didn't see much of each-other. Brock later left after accidentally killing the school quarterback, which they took away his scholarship for, and went to work at the O.S.I. Rusty also left college a short time after this because of the death of his father. They later meet again when Brock is assigned to be his body guard. During this time they had a fairly steady relationship, until the episode The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together Part 2 where Brock quits the O.S.I. and leaves the Venture Family. In season 6, Brock returns to work for Thaddeus after the latter is given control of his late brother's company.

Hank and Dean




Sergeant Hatred



Hunter Gathers

Hunter Gathers trained Brock and is responsible for turning him into the super agent he is today. In Assassinanny 911 Brock says that he was like a father to him which showed he was hesitant to kill his former mentor. In the same episode Brock is sent to kill him for abandoning the O.S.I.. However Hunter gets a sex change and goes from male to female, and Brock can't kill him because Hunter taught him never to kill women or children. It is shown that Brock had a hard time accepting many of his former mentor's choices but still respects him. Later Hunter, Brock, Shore Leave and other rogue O.S.I. agents join SPHINX and worked together. When Gathers is given full control of O.S.I., Brock and the other SPHINX agents are able to rejoin the O.S.I.

Hunter is also aware of Brock's care for the Venture Family, placing him as their bodyguard in Season 6 after they moved to New York with money.

Shore Leave


Head Shot


Amber Gold



Molotov Cocktease





Brock had encountered Warriana in the episode Hostile Makeover where she and her team mistook Brock for pushing Hank off the Venture Industries building and attacked him for it. During their battle, Brock was impressed with the heroine's strength and openly made it clear of his attraction to her while under the affects of her Truth Lasso, which she seemed to reciprocate. When the misunderstanding was cleared up Warriana parted ways with Brock with a hint of flirtation in her voice.

In Rapacity in Blue, the two encounter each other again after she spots Brocks shouting bravado statements at a villain attacking the Ventures (namely, who was going to actually start the fight and throw the first punch). She interferes in Brock's argument by knocking out the villain leading to Brock yelling at her and causing the two argue in the same matter as she just ended. Later, when talking to Hank, he shows that he is frustrated by his attraction to her. Later, while under the effects of Dr. Venture's mind control gas, Brock visits Wariana's apartment where he proceeds to voice his admiration of her strength and beauty. His words greatly flatter her and she carries him off into her apartment presumably for intercourse.

The next morning in Tanks for Nuthin', Brock (free from the mind control gas) awakens in surprised as he discovers that he apparently allowed Warriana to insert a foreign object into his rectum. He tries to leave surreptitiously, but Warriana is already awake and working in her apartment. They have an awkward, terse exchange, Warriana dismissively asking "oh, are you still here?", at which point Brock leaves. Later that night, Warriana rescues Brock after he has been shot out of VenTech Tower by Think Tank. They acknowledge that they both lead busy, complicated lives, but agree that they enjoy each other's company. Warriana then helps Brock defeat Think Tank, saying no one was going to do that to "her man". Together they quickly defeat him, Think Tank complaining about their "unsanctioned team-up", to which Warriana suggests to Brock they go to her place an make the team-up official. He agrees, but asks for no "butt stuff"; she uses her Truth Lasso to compel Brock to admit (loudly) he liked it. In A Party for Tarzan, it is shown they are continuing their relationship, which seems to involve some level of bondage with Brock being tied up by the lasso.

Poker Night 2 Information


  • His drink of choice is vodka.

Poker Night 2 Relationships

Ashley "Ash" Williams


Despite all this, he does rip on Ash from time to time for being a moron.







Mad Moxxi




Reginald Von Winslow


Save-Lot Bandit


Episode Appearances

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7


  • Brock's O.S.I. agent number is 9262, as revealed in The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part II).
    • This marks the first time, where members of his family are seen.
  • Brock is heavily based on Samson from The Bible.
  • Brock has an herb garden and regularly does the lawn with his signature special blend of Blue Ridge and Creeping Red.
  • Brock's name may also be a play on Doc Samson, a recurring character from Marvel's Hulk comic books.
  • Born May 28, 1962.
  • Brock is willing to show mercy if he's already hurt someone to the point they aren't a threat, although this is by no means a given if he decides to kill for the heck of it.
  • He hates when henchman commit suicide by cyanide capsule, robbing him of the chance to kill them himself, and considers it "cheating".



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