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".

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.

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

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 😁

I love the D&D cartoon.

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

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!

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.

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

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 😊

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

From a leader of the Autobots to an evil sorcerer

it blew my mind that venger was the dungeon masters son

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?"

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

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

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

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.

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

This was my favorite cartoon at that time. I don’t know why it was cancelled. The music and characters were great and Vengor was an epic character. It taught good ethical lessons at the end. It wasn’t your typical mindless cartoon. Entertaining for people of all ages except for maybe very young children like age 4. My only criticism is they made too few slides for the movement of the characters. I’m sure there’s a word for that but I don’t know what it is. With today’s technology that can be easily remedied. I hope they bring it back someday.

I always wondered why he only had 1 horn.

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Im old. Thanks for the reminder.

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.

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

The Nameless One is the chained god, Tharizdun.

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

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 .

I want to see Venger in live action so baldy

I loved this cartoon . I have it on dvd

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)

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.

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

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

Am I the only one who rooted for him?

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Venture is dungeon Master's son

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?

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

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

I miss that show

Sweet

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

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

Dungeonmaster's retirement plan.

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

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

Venger is Optimus Prime?!

Who here had a ❤ on Diana?

When Optimus Prime becomes Evil 😈.

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!

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

Which game is featured at 7:31

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

Dungeon Master should ask for a blood test.

Can you do a video on blackblair thorn

The one-horned wonder.

is Venger a Red Wizard?

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.

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

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.

What game is this referring to?

There’s a game???

What is his class, sorcerer or warlock

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

Voldermort looks like him but without the pointy teeth

Plot Twist: The Nameless One is Matt Mercer 🤣🤣😜

Sounds like American Police.