Photos 9. Top cast Edit. Jim Tozzi Various as Various. Brian Stack Various as Various …. John Flansburgh Computer as Computer.
Vincent D'Onofrio Eric as Eric …. Bill Hader Pavlov as Pavlov …. Will Oldham Reverend as Reverend. Dustin Emery Xavier as Xavier. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Xavier meets all kinds of different folk on his journey who he bores to tears with self obsessed tales about his life and his ability to "blow minds," and encounters rednecks who don't take kindly to his appearance.
He speaks in a low, gruff, movie trailer-type tone that accentuates his narcissistic rambling. Although Xavier has a sense of morality and means well, he tends to cause havoc wherever he goes, attempting to help characters along the way, but unknowingly making situations worse due to total incompetence. In the pilot episode, we see in a flash-back that he burnt his house down as an adolescent whilst practicing a spiritual ritual. The fire killed his adoptive parents, yet he is totally oblivious that it was his fault, and is still out to find whoever is responsible.
When asked if he has any powers, he is heard to say "powers are for the weak," yet the truth is that he has few, if any, as he is incapable of executing them efficiently. Did you know Edit. User reviews 34 Review. Top review. Xavier : A self-absorbed and oblivious, faun -like wanderer with delusions of grandeur, Xavier is the eponymous main character of the program, often shown to be a deeply insecure, near-sociopathic and child-like individual who can quickly turn against others if interactions with them lead to negative feelings about himself.
His left hand is a snake from the elbow downwards. It usually acts like an ordinary hand, but in the episodes "The 6th Teat of Good Intentions" and "El Tornadador", it appeared to have a life of its own and spoke to Xavier directly.
His knees bend at the joints backwards, he is covered in brown fur and has ocular heterochromia , having one brown eye and one blue. Instead of a nose, Xavier has a raptor-like beak, though he also has a mouth. He has six nipples and a giant eye in place of his genitalia. He typically wears tennis shoes and a loin cloth embroidered with varying symbols. Xavier's purpose seems to change slightly with each episode, with the initial plot setting him as a wandering philosopher , aspiring "wise man" or sage of sorts whose intent on hermitism seems to give references Northern California Corns and Beaners.
At first hand and of initial importance seems to be Xavier's drawn-out search for an answer to the abstract question, "What doth life? Later on in the series, however, the original plot seems to alter slightly into a more personal and less transcendent search: Xavier announces his reasons for roaming the world as the means to which he can help others, his purpose being to improve the quality of human existence and generally speaking, do good.
Much of the first season focuses on his search for the person who killed his father while the second season puts focus on his search for his mother. Chief Master Guru : This supposedly Indigenous shaman took Xavier in after he became orphaned, and taught him mystical and spiritual practices one such teaching being the power to heal others with the use of a fictional instrument called a "shakashuri". The Shaman features frequently in flashbacks, and—despite Xavier's adulation—is shown to be abusive, bullying and cruel.
He eventually fakes his own death in order to get rid of Xavier, but its later revealed that he gave Xavier the loin cloth and the inspiration to help people in order to get rid of him.
Xavier's father : Being dead, Xavier's father only appears in flashbacks and visions. Xavier says he wants to avenge his father's death, but in one such flashback his father insists that Xavier himself killed him. Xavier's father seems to have been just as neglectful as his mother. VC: Xavier consumes us. He consumes both of us, all in his mouth. JL: It feels good! VC: We like to say it has more twists than a bag of pretzel sticks.
VC: We just did it. You wanna do it? JL: How long does it take to make an episode? It takes four months to write a season.
Two weeks per script. VC: We spend a lot of time on lunch, the fanciest lunch we can get. JL: The thing is, we write all the scripts in real time. But the thing about the writing, the most difficult part, to be honest, is our lawyers.
Vernon and I have to write in separate rooms now. VC: Will you inform Mr. JL: It takes us way too long to write an episode. Other people write Adult Swim shows in days and hours.
VC: I know the Venture Bros. AVC: What about the animation? Are you very involved in the process? I would fucking kill myself. JL: We write and then do the voiceover, and then do storyboards and then send it their way. Then they rape its corpse and turn it into crystalline brilliance.
VC: This is all done via technology. This is how I understand it. VC: They have all the freedom in the world to do exactly what we tell them to do. VC: They can follow any whim that we tell them they must do. They basically do that in 10 months for a little bit of money.
AVC: How did you settle on that videogame-inspired style? VC: CG just has this clumsy earnestness about it. The whole show is mo-cap, and the guy who plays Xavier is a horse. We just have a horse walking around, wearing a man suit. JL: Somehow, that animation is perfectly beautiful, honest, and truthful.
He sees his family, and you just hear the sound of the clawing. AVC: And yet you take a chance on people being immediately repelled by it, because it looks so strange? VC: No one is saying they like it. People celebrate how real and amazing it looks, like when someone stands up and walks out of the room, but only a dumb person would stand up and walk out of the room like that.
Somehow, the people who make it tout how amazing that is. I think we did it. A bag for his hair and a jar for his tears? Who wrote it? You see how talking about Xavier illuminated so much truth about you? VC: Because people are fucking over. And Xavier is showing them that. Because transcripting this shit is not fun. AVC: You guys sent a note to an A. JL: Oh, it was definitely out of anger, just like everything else. VC: You should see me eat cookies.
I fucking hate that shit. AVC: I think that his biggest criticism is that he felt the show was designed to repel viewers, which I think maybe you guys would agree with. JL: I wholeheartedly disagree with that. Who cares? JL: You fucker, you turned on him! Actually, we were psyched, because that was the most press we got for season one.
VC: We sent him a note, and he sent us a pair of sopping-wet panties. What was that about? It was blood, but still, pretty hot. Is he toothless? JL: Send us a fucking picture of him. What does this fucker press? What does he weigh stripped? Give us numbers. Is he beefy? Is he cute? He is?
AVC: It does test the limit of what entertains people. VC: There are certain aesthetic humps that you have to get over to enjoy our show. AVC: And what can you promise on the other side of your hump?
VC: A larger, more erotic hump. Humps of truth and beauty. JL: We call them truth humps. Our minimum is 10, our maximum is
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