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| The Action Man | |||||
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| You're dead and I married your wife. | |||||
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| 1st appearance: | Ghosts of the Sargasso | ||||
| Voice Artist: | Christopher McCulloch | ||||
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The Action Man is a member of the original Team Venture, the adventuring group formed by Jonas Venture Sr. The Action Man appears to be a super soldier (possibly a parody of Captain America).
As part of Team Venture, The Action Man, real name Rodney, had many thrilling adventures only the smallest of which we know about. When his fellow teammate Major Tom died in the Sargasso Sea during a test flight of a new aircraft that Jonas Venture had created, as seen in the introduction to Ghosts of the Sargasso, Rodney did the honorable thing and married Major Tom's wife, Jeannie.
The Action Man and the rest of the Original Team Venture were called out of retirement to aid Hank and Dean Venture, the grandsons of Jonas Venture, to rescue their father. During this outing Rodney also had a briefly violent encounter with Dr. Orpheus after which Orpheus informed him that he would die of a stroke in two years.
Before this happens, he and the original team venture are invited by Jonas Venture Jr. to the Jonas Venture Jr. Museum of Jonas Venture in the episode Now Museum - Now You Don't! He reveals he now has plastic knees and some of his exploits when he was younger. Also, as member of the original Team Venture, he helped to take Spider-Skull Island, though he was a little over the top shooting henchmen indiscriminately.
Apparently he used to frighten "Rusty" Venture by sneaking into his room at night and putting a gun to the boys head. When Rusty awoke Action Man would pull the trigger, emotionally scarring the boy with the hollow click of the empty chamber. He would then depart simply saying, "Not tonight Rusty. Not tonight." Exactly why he did this is not revealed, but it was likely similar to Sergeant Hatred's efforts to train the venture boys to be constantly ready for danger by sneaking into their room at night and pretending to kill them.
