# Hellboy (film)

Hellboy is a 2004 supernatural action-thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola.

## Hellboy

* [While weightlifting] I hate those comic books. They never get the eyes right.
* [To Sammael] Listen, Sammy, I'm not a very good shot, but the Samaritan here uses really big bullets. So what do you say we work this out in a nice, peaceful–? [Sammael runs off] Oh, crap.
* Waiting for me, chunk-face?
* [Breaking Sammael's lower jaw] OPEN WIDE!
* I'm fireproof. You're not.
* Didn't I kill you already? You goddamned monster!
* [Grabs Sammael by the tongue] Second date, no tongues!
* You missed!
* How big can it be?
* Damn! Would you please be a little more careful?
* [About Liz's new nickname] "Sparky"? Who came up with that? Myers?
* Gonna be sore in the morning.
* [While beating Sammael with a payphone he had ripped off a wall] It's for you! You shouldn't– hurt– people!
* [To the train conductor, who is beating him in the head with a fire extinguisher to try and knock him off the train] Hey! I'm on your side! [Train Conductor: Sure.] [The train conductor hit Hellboy in the head with a fire extinguisher, knocking him off the train]
* [Watching Meyers and Liz] No cream and milk, moron. She takes it black. Told ya! Wait, she took his picture! DAMN!
* It's not– It's not what you think. Plus, you're nine. You're too young to be giving me advice.
* Hey, Myers, you're a talker. What's a good word, a solid word for "need"?
* [To Kroenen] You killed my father! Your ass is mine!
* [Grigori Rasputin: What have you done?] [Stabs Rasputin in the stomach with one of his horns] I chose.
* [Liz Sherman: In the dark, I heard your voice, what did you say?] I said, "Hey, you on the other side – let her go. Because for her, I will cross over, and then you'll be sorry."

## FBI Agent John Myers

* Hellboy– He's real!
* Are you gonna be okay? Alone?
* Remember who you are! [Throws Hellboy the rosary]
* [Closing narration] What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.

## Liz Sherman

* I'm learning to control it. I'm learning where it comes from. For the first time in my life, I'm not afraid.
* I don't like the term firestarter. I just don't.
* [To John as she ignites her powers] You should be running.

## Trevor Bruttenholm

* What is it that makes a man a man? Is it his origins – the way things start? Or is it something else, something harder to describe?
* The Nazis were desperate. Combining science and black magic, they intended to upset the balance of the war.
* Abe possesses a unique frontal lobe. Unique – that is a word you'll hear frequently around here.
* As you entered the lobby there was an inscription: "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." (In Absentia Luci, Tenebrae Vincunt). There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.
* [Narrating] There we were, an unready father for an unwanted child. The boys gave him a name that very night. In retrospect, perhaps not the most fortunate. But nevertheless, a name we all came to use. We called him Hellboy.
* [Last words] I know what to call him. Nothing you can do or say can change that. I call him "son". [Puts his rosary on the book] I'm ready. [Grigori Rasputin: [Puts his hand on Broom's shoulder] It'll be quick.] [Rasputin walks away. Kroenen points his arm blade at the back of Broom's neck and stabs it. Broom collapses to the floor dead]

## Abe Sapien

* [About his Rubik's cube] Listen, I'm not much of a problem solver. Three decades– and I've only completed two sides.

## Ivan Klimatovich

* [Last words, in Russian] I was better off dead!

## Dialogue

    Nazi General: Five years of construction and research, Grigori. Five years! The Führer doesn't look kindly on failure!
    Grigori Rasputin: There will be no failure, General. I promised Herr Hitler a miracle. I'll deliver one! What I do tonight, can never be undone! I will open a portal, and awaken the Ogdru Jahad – the Seven Gods of Chaos! Our enemies shall be destroyed, and from the ashes– a new Eden will arise.
    Abe Sapien: Behind this door – a dark entity, evil, ancient, and hungry.
    Hellboy: Oh, well. Let me go in and say "Hi".
    John Myers: [about Sammael] What the hell is that thing?!
    Hellboy: Aw, crap! [peels off a tentacle latched to his arm] Let me go ask.
    Hellboy [being hit on the head with a fire extinguisher]: Hey! I'm on your side!
    Train conductor: Sure! [hits him on the head again]
    John Myers: [enters the library] Hello?
    [Myers looks around the library until he hears Abe's voice inside the tank.]
    Abe Sapien: Turn the pages, please, if you don't mind.
    [Myers stares inside the tank until Abe swims up in front of the glass and presses his hand on it, surprising him.]
    Abe Sapien: Please. [gestures to the books] The pages.
    John Myers: [glances at the books, then looks at Abe] These? You're reading these?
    Professor Broom: [from behind Myers] Four books at once– [Myers turns to him] –every day. As long as I'm there to turn the pages. [Approaches Myers] My name's Broom. Professor Trevor Broom.
    [Broom and Myers shake hands.]
    John Myers: Sir, I'm John–
    Abe Sapien: [presses his hand on the glass] Agent John T. Myers, Kansas City, '76. T stands for Thaddeus, mother's older brother. Scar on your chin happened when you were ten. You still wonder if it's ever going to fade away.
    John Myers: [touches the scar on his chin, to Broom] How did it–?
    Professor Broom: He. [chuckles] Not 'it'. Abraham Sapien. Discovered alive in a secret chamber of St. Trinian's Foundling Hospital, Washington. His name was taken from his little inscription stuck to the side of his tank. [points to the small piece of antique paper, framed on the wall, with his cane]
    John Myers: [reads] "Icthyo Sapiens. April 14, 1865".
    Professor Broom: [pulls down the bottom of the pneumatic tube] The day that Abraham Lincoln died. Hence "Abe Sapien." [uses a pair of tongs to pick up two rotten eggs that are on a silver plate]
    John Myers: [disgusted by the rotten eggs on the silver plate] Ugh.
    Professor Broom: Rotten eggs. [puts the two rotten eggs in the pneumatic tube, then pushes up the bottom] A delicacy. Abe loves them.
    [A vacuum sucks the two eggs into the tank. Abe catches the two eggs and eats them.]
    John Myers: How does he know so much about me?
    Professor Broom: [turns the pages on the books] Abe possesses a unique frontal lobe. Unique. That's a word you'll hear frequently around here.
    John Myers: Sir, where am I, exactly?
    Professor Broom: As you entered the lobby, there was an inscription: "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.
    [Clay pushes the cart of food into Hellboy's room, with Myers following behind.]
    Agent Clay: He gets fed six times a day. He's got a thing for cats. You'll be his nanny, his keeper, his best friend. He never goes out unsupervised.
    John Myers: Who?
    [Clay picks up the Hellboy comic book and gives it to Myers. Myers takes it and looks at it.]
    Hellboy: I hate those comic books.
    [Myers looks up to see Hellboy smoking a cigar and exercising with a 300 lb. Stainless steel Dumbell.]
    Hellboy: They never get the eyes right.
    John Myers: [looks at the comic book, then at Hellboy] Hellboy. He's real.
    Agent Clay: Yeah, sixty years old, by our count, but, uh, he doesn't age like we do. Think reverse dog years. He's barely out of his twenties.
    Hellboy: What's with the hair, Clay? Finally got them implants, huh?
    Agent Clay: [laughs uncomfortably] It'll– It'll fill in. [feels his hair]
    Hellboy: Who's the squirt?
    Agent Clay: Agent Myers is your new liaison.
    Hellboy: [drops the dumbell] I don't want him. What, you get tired of me, Clay? [picks up his lighter and uses it to light his cigar]
    Agent Clay: [whispers to Myers] The candy. Give him the candy.
    John Myers: Oh, uh, sir, I, uh– I have these for you. [Holds up the two Baby Ruth bars]
    Hellboy: Father's back? [Clay nods] He's still angry?
    Agent Clay: [normal voice] Well, you did break out.
    Hellboy: Ah, I wanted to see her. Nobody's business. [Uses his lighter to light his cigar again]
    Agent Clay: It is. You got yourself on TV again.
    Hellboy: Myers, huh? You got a first name, Myers?
    Agent Clay: [to Myers] Try not to stare. He hates it when people stare.
    John Myers: [Closes his eyes, to Hellboy] John. Uh, John Myers. [Opens his eyes] Well, John'll do. [To Clay] Stare at what?
    Agent Clay: His horns. He files them to fit in.
    [Hellboy approaches Myers and Clay. He takes the Baby Ruth from Myers. Myers stares at Hellboy's horn stumps.]
    Hellboy: [notices Myers staring at his horn stumps] What you looking at, John?
    John Myers: Uh– Oh, no, no, no. Uh, nothing. Uh, n– Nothing at all.
    [Hellboy, Myers, and Clay hear a siren blaring. They turn to see the siren.]
    Female voice: Code red.
    Hellboy: Hey, hey, hey.
    Female voice: Warning: Code red.
    Hellboy: [turns to Myers] They're playing our song. Come on, champ. [pats Myers on the chest] Let's go fight some monsters.
    [Hellboy and Clay head out, while Myers stands bewildered.]
    John Myers: He doesn't want me with him. I know that much. He respects Clay, not me.
    Professor Broom: You're doing fine.
    John Myers: No, I'm not. Look, I'm really sorry, but I'm not your guy.
    Professor Broom: I'm dying, Agent Myers. [Myers stops and turns to him] Like any father, I worry about him. In medieval stories, there is often a young knight who is inexperienced, but pure of heart.
    John Myers: Oh, come on. I am not pure of heart.
    Abe Sapien: [who is psychic] Yes, you are.
    Professor Broom: Rasputin is back for him. What I'm asking of you is to have the courage to stand by him when I am gone. He was born a demon; we can't change that. But you will help him, in essence, to become a man.
    John Myers: Miss Sherman? Can I call you Liz? It's a beautiful name.
    Liz Sherman: 60 percent of the women in the world are named Liz.
    John Myers: Well, it's impressive by my standards. My name's John. John T. Myers. Dr. Broom asked me to invite you back to the Bureau.
    Liz Sherman: In the dark I heard your voice, what did you say?
    Hellboy: I said, "Hey, you on the other side – let her go. Because for her I will cross over, and then you'll be sorry."
    (Holding a corpse by a noose over his shoulder)
    Hellboy: This is Ivan Klimatovich. Say hi, Ivan.
    Ivan Klimatovich: [in Russian] Go that way, Red Monkey!
    Hellboy: [carrying the torso of the re-animated corpse over his shoulder] How you doing back there, Ivan?
    Ivan Klimatovich: [in Russian] If I still had legs, I'd kick your ass!
    Hellboy: [to fellow agent] Could you hold this guy for a while? He is so negative.
    Professor Broom: [opening narration] What is it that makes a man a man? Is it his origins, the way things start? Or is it something else, something harder to describe? For me, it all began in 1944, classified mission off the coast of Scotland. The Nazis were desperate. Combining science and black magic, they intended to upset the balance of the war. I was 28, already a paranormal advisor to President Roosevelt. I could never have suspected that what would transpire that night would not only effect the course of history, but change my life forever.
    Professor Broom: [talking to John Myers about the history of Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense] 1937: Hitler joins the Thule Society, a group of German aristocrats obsessed with the occult. In 1938, he acquired the spear of Longinus, which pierced the side of Christ. He who holds it becomes invincible. Hitler's power increases tenfold. 1943: President Roosevelt decides to fight back. The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense is born. 1958: the Occult Wars finally come to an end with the death of Adolf Hitler.
    John Myers: [stops walking for a moment, pausing in thought] 1945, you mean. Hitler died in '45.
    Professor Broom: [amused] Did he now?
    Tom Manning: Every time the media gets a look at him, they come running to me. I'm running out of lies, Trevor.
    Professor Broom: I thought you liked being on television.
    Tom Manning: I do. [lights a cigar] So, how many escapes, this year alone? Five?
    Professor Broom: Tom, he's our guest, not a prisoner.
    Tom Manning: Yeah, well, your "guest" happens to be six-foot-five, bright red, has a tail, and is government funded.
    Professor Broom: [seeing Kroenen descend the stairs into his library] I see the puppet... but where is the puppeteer?
    Grigori Rasputin: Very good, Professor Broom. [Broom turns to see him sitting nearby]
    Professor Broom: It was you. The scraps of paper. Liz's sudden relapse and return.
    Grigori Rasputin: Breadcrumbs on the trail, like in a fable. They both distract him, and guide him exactly where I need him.
    Professor Broom: Moscow?
    Grigori Rasputin: His destiny. [rises] And the last clue will be left by the late Professor Broom. You raised the child, nurtured him... so in return, I will permit you a brief, brief glimpse of the future.
    [Rasputin puts a hand on Broom's forehead, showing him a vision of a destroyed New York City, the Ogdru Jahad free, and Hellboy with a crown of flame amidst the ruins.]
    Grigori Rasputin: He will open the portal and bring about the end of the world. If only you had had him destroyed sixty years ago, none of this would have come to pass... but then, how could you have known? Your God chooses to remain silent. Mine lives within me. Every time I died and crossed over, a little more... [tentacles writhe in his hand] of the master came back with me. He disclosed to me the child's true name. Would you like to know it?
    Professor Broom: I know what to call him. I call him... son.
    [Broom turns back to the open book and sets down his rosary.]
    Professor Broom: I'm ready.
    Grigori Rasputin: [puts a hand over Broom's] It'll be quick.
    [As Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" plays on the record player, Kroenen stabs the professor through the throat with one of his blades, killing him.]

## External links

* Hellboy official site
* Hellboy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Hellboy at Rotten Tomatoes
* Hellboy at Metacritic
* Hellboy film official site
* The Doug Jones Experience Hellboy film page
* Hellboy at FLAREgamer
* Detailed Comparison between Theatrical release (PG-13) and Director's Cut
* The Hellboy Archive