recently discovered this channel and am glad to sub after watching this vid. I was a DnD fan, watched every saturday morning! Thanks for the trips down "memory lane".

All these years and I just realized: Venger was the first character (that I know of) to pull the 'Wings Look Like A Cloak When Folded" thing that Disney's Gargoyles are known for 😁

Such a great show. Had a lot of heart and soul, unlike most cartoons today. I'm 47 and still remember this show so fondly. Keep fighting the good fight Venger, wherever you are.

@markcarpenter6020

Жыл бұрын

I actually have the DVD box set that came with DnD (3.5) character sheets for all the characters.

@buckster2575

Жыл бұрын

48 and still love this show.cartoons stopped being good a long time ago.

@markcarpenter6020

Жыл бұрын

@@buckster2575 somewhere around the late 90s or early 2000s cartoons started to suck.

@oddacious0ne

Жыл бұрын

My children watch it on DVD 📀 was stoked to find it. With the D&D resurgence there are some memorabilia available.

I love the D&D cartoon.

Venger is one of Peter Cullen handful of villainous role in his career

@torquetheprisoner

Жыл бұрын

he was the predators voice aswell in the predator

@marcus9434

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Peter Cullen is a voice actor.

@philv2529

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you don't mess with venger...he's also Optimus prime! And Uni is freaking MEGATRON! (and Tiamat.)

Me my mother and my sister would sit and watch on Sat morn ten or fifteen years ago I found the whole series on DVD.i loved this show

His origin is truly a big twist! And yes, his voice is indeed very iconic!

One of the best 80s cartoons. The toys that just came out are amazing as well.

One of if not THE best written cartoon of the 80's..

One of my favorites as a kid,it was funny...as tough as Venger was, when Tiamat shows up he hauls a**!!! Thanks for the nostalgic moment 😊

ERRATA & NOTES: 5:45 that's Lolth, demon queen of spiders, one of the original monsters from the AD&D Monster Manual 6:09 "In Search Of the Dungeon Master" is the episode title. 6:27: the 'monstrous frogs' are called bullywugs, and are from the Fiend Folio. 6:58: the lizard men were called lizard men in the Monster Manual contemporary of the series. I believe lizard 'folk' was later editions of the game. 10:50: in "Requiem" they kids fought a hydra, not Tiamat. 11:22: the script describes the monsters as an 'amoeboid' 15:13: in the film (SPOILERS) it's suggested that the challenge winners will perish, and the kids are the lead team after the first trial.

Absolutely delighted some D&D is getting covered been years since I seen the show

Thanks I had forgotten a lot here d&d was one of the better Saturday morning cartoons. Venger was quite a memorable adversary.

Absolutely loved this cartoon and so did my Dad we used to watch it together

Yes!!!!! Cullen made avenger SO COOL!!! I was glued to Saturday morning tv and loved this show!!! Thanks!!!!

There is a fan made finale to the D & D series…which was really well done. Dungeons and Dragons Animated Series: Requiem the final episode.

@zetaviodeloryan5381

Жыл бұрын

Do tell!! :)

@brianmurphy250

Жыл бұрын

@@zetaviodeloryan5381 I started to reply and then did a double take! Thank you for the brilliant ending to that series! It was a thing of beauty and the perfect capstone! I only wished you worked at Lucasfilm

Such a great character, with a sense of values that can't help but be respected. In my youth, I really did on more than one occasion have the thought "What would Venger do?"

@LordTalax

Жыл бұрын

So you ran around attacking people in your youth?

@TitularHeroine

6 ай бұрын

​@@LordTalaxUnleashing havok, summoning shadow demons, the average childhood

@urbanraida

4 ай бұрын

​@@LordTalax No, of course not. Was having too much fun on my flying horse for that. I sent my Shadow Demon out to do any dirty work that needed doing.

Venger has a hint of honour in him (a remnant of his humanity), when he struck a deal with Hank for a temporary truce so he can get rid of the Demogorgon he lost control of.

From a leader of the Autobots to an evil sorcerer

@Guarayakha

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Megatron: From a Fearsome Leader of the Decepticons to a cutesy Unicorn.

@SubZerotheoneandonly2675

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that too

@morqadayn3733

Жыл бұрын

"Orcs...roll out!"

Peter Cullen Also Did ("K.A.R.R") From Knight Rider And Of Course ("Optimus Prime") THE TRANSFORMERS G1 ("♏♏🦂🦂☮☮☯☯").

@Kas58223

Жыл бұрын

I believe Peter Cullen did the sound the Predator makes the cankling noise it makes

it blew my mind that venger was the dungeon masters son

I get the feeling Venger struck out on his own to prove himself and what better way to do it than to fight the Nameless One, something that inevitably corrupted him into the source of all evil we’ve come to grow and love. Like he didn’t seek out the Nameless One to become an apprentice but instead he sought it out to defeat it so he could prove to his father he was a bad ass but the ended up being corrupted into evil. Can’t say the same about his sister though!

@thegreatandloveableperidot9169

Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit confused sorry when did he get corrupted in the show?

Who the hell did the Dungean Master have a child with? 😐

I remember having a Warduke action figure when I was a kid. I am old. Very very old.

Should have mentioned Xandora. Ep 11: The Box. She's obviously Venger's mother.

Venger's magic & his Mystic Energy Blasts always sounded off loud with D & D battle theme!!!!!!

Great video . Btw, that spider lady was Lolth , spider goddess demon. Love the video!

Im old. Thanks for the reminder.

Did you forget that Venger has another weakness, you can find it in an episode called *"The Traitor."* The cloud bears have heart stones which Venger is powerless against.

My favorite villain of the 80’s. Above Mumm-Ra, Mon-Star, Capt. Bizarrely, Megatron, Cy-Kill, and Mr. Cogswell

@FakeJake5843

Жыл бұрын

He is my second favorite underneath Megatron

I always wondered why he only had 1 horn.

They should do a live action Venger in the D&D movies.

The magical guises of Venger are amongst the most despicable in toons history right next to the likes of EviLynn.

Zillion Baron Ricks reminds me of Venger cause he also lost a horn in battle.

Clarification: that wasn't Tiamat the Young Ones were facing in Requiem. It is simply a hydra that lived on the moors.

If they added Venger into a sequel to Honor Amongst Thieves I wonder who would be cast as this awesome character. I would love someone like Robert Englund or Brad Dourif

@setvenharis

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking of Jason Isaacs or Mark Strong or Ralph Ffeines (alrhough it’ll be much like Voldemort) with makeup fx and voice manipulation and reverb.

@modelermark172

Жыл бұрын

I'd like to nominate Robert Carlyle. When he played Rumpelstiltskin (AKA, The Dark One) in "Once Upon A Time," he really stole the show!

@LightStreak567

Жыл бұрын

One problem: The D&D tv show is not set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, it was set in a D&D world that was neither the Eberron or Grayhawk campaing settings, which were the only D&D worlds in 1983-1985, the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, which is the D&D world Honor Among Thieves is set in, was created a year after the show Venger appeared in was cancelled, in 1986. The final episode of the D&D show aired as a radio drama, and in the end, it revealed Venger was Dungeon Master's son. After the kids found a way to turn Venger back into DM's son, they were finally able to go back to Earth. But how did they end up in the Forgotten Realms? I theorize that the final episode of the 80's D&D show was retconned a bit. Instead of being able to get directly back to Earth, Dungeon Master opened a portal to the Forgotten Realms world, explaining that Toril (the name of the setting's planet) used to have portals that directly connect to Earth, and their only way back to Earth is to find a portal from that world.

@steveyoung5811

Жыл бұрын

@lightstreak567 I see your point but what if a Live action D&D series was created taking best episodes of the very popular and much loved animated series so that we finally get D&D that so many people may mutually love and enjoy. I haven't seen D&D: HAT yet but am looking forward to seeing it.

@LightStreak567

Жыл бұрын

@@steveyoung5811 I see your point too. They would have to better explain how they got from The Realm to the Forgotten Realms. And I saw Honor Among Thieves on March 31st, and I enjoyed it.

I think it spoke more of his character that Venger didn't NAME his steed "Nitemare", that's just the classification of it's SPECIES.

The Nameless One is the chained god, Tharizdun.

@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988

Жыл бұрын

Not sure that was ever confirmed, but it would make sense

@billcox8870

Жыл бұрын

@@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988 in 5e it is one of the names of that forgotten God. It also goes by the name of the Elder Elemental eye. The Big Bad Evil from The Temple of Elemental Evil D&D module. The 5e version is princes of the Apocalypse.

Ushiesu: hello...i must say, all the orgins that i now know..is something in my heart i knew, he wasnt no beast nor a villian... But in his humen form...hes beautiful...and more than a monster he is, however the thr truth is..i miss him so much 😔 ❤, i pray that he'll survive and make it, whenever i think of him and the video has show me his true nature now...thank you - from: Ushiesu the mistress of beauty and nature

I want to see Venger in live action so baldy

Video maker: I think a nod towards the wiki in which you got most of the info wouldn't have gone amiss

Whenever Peter Cullen isn't narrating for Voltron, Admiral Grimetz briefing Donald or being the heroic Optimus Prime...he's relishing as Venger! One of his best villain roles...besides The Predator!

I feel like Venger owes a lot to Evil from Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits...

@micromax3242

Жыл бұрын

he should have made Eric half carrot.

They should do a samurai Jack with this show, I really miss it

The Nameless One is supposed to be Venger's master since that's who made him who he was & he had turned his back on Dungeon Master because he wanted power & he felt like he wasn't getting what he wanted with DM so he had no choice but to seek out The Nameless one, But Dungeon Master made a vow to never give up on his son which is why he needed help in bringing him back which explains where the kids came in.

I loved this cartoon . I have it on dvd

Please! Venger was the only reason that I even watched the show at all.

This is the D & D movie I want to see!

@TorbenFewell

5 күн бұрын

Fr! Even though the cameos were cool in the movie it was a killer teaser all the more.

As a child of the 70s and 80s, the only thing that would've made cartoons even better...if they didn't have those shiddy sidekicks like Uni, Snarf, T-Bob, the Wonder Twins, Gleek, Wendy and Marvin, Scott Trakker, Ms.Lion and so on. Hell, throw all of the humans in the Transformers not named Dr.Arkeville.

@edwardchampion8891

11 ай бұрын

Out of all of them uni was bearable.

I personally think Venger is a multi-class sorcerer/warlock, born a sorcerer... possibly wizard, given the time of his creation, and that he showed Presto how to use ingredients to use magic when disguised as Merlin, but I am not certain if he would be considered a wizard or shadow sorcerer now... but taking the warlock profession after taking on The Nameless One as his patron, Shadow Demon being his Familiar... similar to a shadow sorcerer being able to conjure a Hound of Ill Omen, which can become a Familiar... to give him his arcane knowledge from the imprisoned Nameless One. The rays he uses as his main weapon are the Warlock cantrip, Eldritch Blast... "A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range." He has been shown to be able to use the magic weapons as an Arcane Focus to increase the power of his spells, such as when he delivered an Eldritch Blast that hurt Tiamat. I am honestly uncertain if Venger has wings... From the way they curl up over his shoulders, I believe he is using the magical item, the Cloak of the Bat. Observed spells he has used: Eldritch Blast (general magical attack) - Shield - Create Skeleton Warrior (although it is never explained the mechanics of how this spell is cast... just that powerful wizards can trap their souls in circlets to create and control them) - Disguise, Alter, and/or Polymorph Self spells (Shown magically disguised as Merlin, and as a halfling) - Clone (he was shown to have been destroyed, and his spirit leaving his body in Day of the Dungeon Master, the Hall of Bones, and other episodes, being destroyed in various ways, throughout the series, to return later) - Polymorph (turning wolves into baby wolves in Valley of the Unicorns, and transforming Lukian in Prison without Walls) - Chromatic Orb (in Prison without Walls) - Control Winds - Teleport (Numerous times) - Fire Eyes (firing blasts of energy from his eyes) - Find Familiar (either Shadow Demon, or his Nightmare) - Telekinesis - Lightning Bolt (Servant of Evil) - Minor Illusion (showing Kerrox the threatened destruction of his homeland in Servant of Evil) - Scrying (showing the knight Sir John, and letting him hear, his captured son in Eye of the Beholder) - Dispel Magic - Animate Objects (Prison without Walls, animating the giant stone statues) - Ray of Frost (as shown in Eye of the Beholder by the slow down effect on Venger when hit with his own spell) - Firebolt (Used against Tiamat in The Hall of Bones) - Scorching Ray (In Search of the Dungeon Master, as shown by the three rays cast) - Banishment (Cast on Kelek in Valley of the Unicorns) - Ottiluke's Resilient Sphere or Wall of Force (Servent of Evil)

This is explained succinctly in "Requiem": Hank: "Erik, remember what you said about this whole realm being a dungeon? I think you were right: we're all prisoners here, including Venger. ...our mission in the realm is not to defeat Venger, it is to redeem him." Dungeon Master: "Thank you, my young pupils. You have done the one thing it was not in my power to do: you have returned my son to me."

If only venger had the matrix to light his darkest hour..... 🤜🏼❄️🤛🏼

@micromax3242

Жыл бұрын

He would just transform and roll out John Wayne style.

I miss that show

This is all nice but why doesnt Eric have a sword!

@sixgunsymphony7408

3 ай бұрын

An effect of the 1970s peace movement on the entertainment industry

I’d love it if he returned in a DnD anime or was in a sequel to honor among thieves

@0valeyes

Жыл бұрын

As much I like to see them for squeal reasons will be a origin movie of the Cartoon.

@ryankoopacanada

Жыл бұрын

@@0valeyes that sounds interesting

@0valeyes

Жыл бұрын

@@ryankoopacanada Yeah but they could still only be a cameo and DnD story's don't always stay with one cast of characters which those like me think it's going to be an anthology series.

@ryankoopacanada

Жыл бұрын

@@0valeyes that’s true

@FakeJake5843

Жыл бұрын

That would be nice

Dungeon master's son When i found out i snapped! This is one the most underrated cartoons ever!

He's a Tiefling, before Tieflings were a thing.

I wouldn't mind seeing Venger showing up in the realm of Ravenloft. He would've fit in the Gothic land of Barovia, and its Lord , Count Strahd Von Zarovich.

So Dungeon Master could have opened a portal at any time but chose to keep them in the relm to futher his own ends . Very Dumbledorie .

Venger -- a villain so tough, we all ignored the fact that he wore a skirt.

@FakeJake5843

Жыл бұрын

Facts

Sweet

Venture is dungeon Master's son

Venger has a weakness to heartstones of the cloud-bears.

Y’know I had never realized that in the cartoon Venger had odd “derpy” eyes. And here I was thinking the recent figure was just Hasbro’s normal garbage tier Quality Control.

When i was a Freshman in High School in the another student had a home brew game . In it there where 8 Characters with 18 different stories then it hsd a era where all the monsters NPC characters where with stats the book also looked homemade

Great series, but very confusing now. As a Venger is around and kicking. Also there seems to be three versions of the DND kids: The original group who ended up in Waterdeep, a second younger group rubbing around the 5E Era and a third group on the comics with Venger, Tiamat, and the DM.

Am I the only one who rooted for him?

And we find out that the kids never returned home, they ended up in Faerun instead.

The nameless one is not Voldemort nor The Sha Ka Ree One from Star Trek. I assume he is a mother board like creature like Hordes leader from She-Ra which is much alike many tyranical A.I.s in animes as old as Toward the Terra from the 70s and Sosal X of Gatchaman.

Dungeonmaster's retirement plan.

I thought the "Nameless One" was just made up for one episode. We never heard or saw anything of him in all the other episodes of the show.

Pure magic Venger was dark and often this aspect looked like he was once a magnificent hero turned evil by dark forces I also thought his father was someone close to the story not the master of the realm the main character but one of the characters the gladiator features looked almost similar to that of Vengers and his abilities weren't as powerful but overall that was a huge source to the story a weak individual usually becomes the villain and victim in these role-playing games and that's not to mention a lot imagination from the creative perspective either? What happened to the hero's after they left and was that the end and what about they weapons of magic did they ever venture back long before the new stories came?

What if vengers was like the kids trapped in the realm and went mad while trying to get out and back to earth and decided if can leave the realm he will rule it

Any links to those episodes, the final one and the kids vs the nameless one?

Ok so like what i don't get is that if Venger wanted the kids magical weapons instead of trying to kill them and take them by force why not just help the kids get back home in exchange for their artifacts?? Kids: hey Venger we don't really want to be here you can have our weapons if you show us how to get home... Venger: die children!! Oh wait that's all i have to do to win is send you home?? Sure follow me it's this way..end of show problem solved everyone wins the end.

There are multiple versions of fan attempts to animate the "Requiem" episode...the one shown in clips here seems to duplicate original studio animation...where can I find it? Please.

Which game is featured at 7:31

Venger is Optimus Prime?!

O would be a lot more excited about his return of modern DnD didn't suck so often.

The Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. What world is it on? Warduk, Stongeheart, and Kelek point not to the Advanced D & D worlds, but to the Known World/Hollow world of basic D &D

Can you do a video on blackblair thorn

There is a good fan made ending to the show and it is on youtube

One thing that always puzzled me was why did Venger only have one horn?

Dungeon Master should ask for a blood test.

is Venger a Red Wizard?

The one-horned wonder.

When Optimus Prime becomes Evil 😈.

There’s a game???

Voldermort looks like him but without the pointy teeth

@modelermark172

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I also think that JKR may have been influenced by the "Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon" when she wrote "Harry Potter." That maze scene in "The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow" is very similar to the one in, "The Goblet of Fire;" especially the effect the maze has on those who are in it.

What is his class, sorcerer or warlock

What game is this referring to?

Hmmmm Optimus Venger and Dungeon Mastertron .......Tiascream.....UNIcron....sensing a pattern Hankimus...Eric Idlegar.....Bobbybee....Sheilacee....Persepto.....Dianobots.....More Than Meets an RPG....

This is what the new movie Dungeons and Dragons should have been on. The character of Venger is alot like the devil in Christianity even he was created by God. He wanted to overthrow and be like God, alot like Venger and the Dungeon Master.

@FakeJake5843

Жыл бұрын

Facts

Not the reality baby! There are secret truths behind all that! Venger and Dungeon Master are Son and Father, but from the same Self, the Divine Monadic. Venger is just the fallen angel, and his secret GOD( Dungeon Master) is working all he can to his redemption!! Karina was just brother/sister from the "brotherhood" Irmandade/Secret demons Order, just that!

Who here had a ❤ on Diana?

Why did dungeon master give venger back his powers in the episode of heart of dawn ? Didn't make any sense to me

Venger = Dr MAD = Optimus Prime

Isn't all the NPCs in the realm a son or daughter of the Dungeon Master?

Why are the actors in the movie so old and otherwise different to the cartoon characters they are based on?.

@zetaviodeloryan5381

Жыл бұрын

Filming with children calls for special hours. They are limited in when they can film. So they used adults since it was just a cameo.

@baldbeardedbloke6887

Жыл бұрын

@@zetaviodeloryan5381 OK. Thank You for that clarification.