Guild of Calamitous Intent

The Guild of Calamitous Intent is a fictional guild and organization of supervillains in the Adult Swim program The Venture Bros.

Organization
The Guild seems to be an overbearing and major organization of villains in the Venture Bros. universe, holding as its members nearly every supervillain and otherwise major criminal presumably active. The members pay dues and submit themselves to certain regulations in return for protection from the law and other benefits such as health care.

The Guild has certain members working directly for the top, particuraly in terms of espionage, these are known as ''Strangers]]. Furthermore some costumed supervillains also work directly for the Guild, such as Tiny Eagle, who intercepted a message the Monarch tried to send out while in jail.

Brock Samson has stated the Guild's methods are accurate and precise enough that it's the only organization he still respects.

Activities in the Show
The Guild was passingly first mentioned by the Monarch in "Home Insecurity" when he and Baron Underbheit had turned a despute into a good time and wanted to have a villainous team-up, but would have to ask the Guild to allow it for regulation purposes (which they passed on doing anyway). Another passing mention was in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean" when the Monarch wasn't even listed amongst its members in an adventurer's field guide, claiming he only joined it for the health care plan.

The Guild's activities suddenly came to the forefront in "The Trial of the Monarch". We learn the Phantom Limb is a major member of the Guild, and that in a gross use and expansion of its power was to cause a policeman to conviently dissapear when the Monarch was drunkenly rambling about the Limb's house calling for Dr. Girlfriend to come back to him. The Monarch, who was being arrested at the time, saw this, but was too dazed to make much of it; but at his trial concerning the cop's dissapearance the necromancer Dr. Orpheus could merely probe his mind and retrieve the memory, revealing the Guild's abuse-something the Limb could not let happen, and so Limb flash-freezed the entire courtroom and subliminally encouraged Dr. Orpheus to proclaim the Monarch guilty. Dr. Orpheus did so and the Monarch was tossed into prison, with an added benefit to the Phantom Limb-Dr. Girlfriend was now his for the taking and the embarrassing rival out of the Guild and the picture.

The Limb seemed to catch wind of the Monarch's plot to cause a prison riot in "Powerless in the Face of Death" and either bribed or force members to abandon the scheme. Here another interesting fact is revealed: the Guild, presumably under Limb's influence, has been neglecting to help members in jail or otherwise incapicitated, such as King Gorilla (who had been paying dues to the Guild for a decade with nothing to show for it), revealing perhaps that Limb is attempting to cast off those members he feels are worthless. In any event, King Gorilla realized that the Monarch was more concerned over winning Dr. Girlfriend back from the Phantom Limb more than any sort of vengance against the Guild and helped the Monarch escape.

Trivia

 * The Guild, in having all major supervillains as members as well as those members paying dues and working together, is similar to the DC Comics supervillain team the Secret Society of Supervillains.