Hellboy (Guillermo Del Toro)

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## Hellboy

"Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons!"

San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (August 1993): first full Hellboy appearance, black & white only

Next Men #21 (December 1993): first appearance in a regularly published title

## Powers/abilities, equipment and weaknesses

### Abilities

- Superhuman strength and endurance
- Accelerated healing

- Longevity/Extensive knowledge of the supernatural

- Right Hand of Doom (which serves as the key to the End of the World)

- Innate capability to comprehend magical languages

- Immunity to fire and lightning

## Friends and Enemies

### Friends

Abe SapienLiz Sherman

Johann Krauss

**Hellboy** is the titular protagonist of the Guillermo Del Toro films, based on the *Dark Horse* comics of the same name.

He is a well-meaning demon who was summoned from Hell to Earth as a baby by Nazi occultists (spawning his hatred for the Third Reich). He was discovered on a fictional Outer Hebrides Island by the Allied Forces; amongst them, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, who formed the United States Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). In time, Hellboy grew to be a large, red-skinned adult with a tail, horns (which he files off, leaving behind circular stumps on his forehead), and an oversized right hand made of stone (the "Right Hand of Doom").

## Good Qualities

1. He is often described as a likable, gruff individual with much panache and witty humor in his attitude.
2. Although a bit gruff, he shows none of the malevolence thought to be intrinsic to classical demons and has an ironic sense of humor. This is said to be because of his upbringing under Professor Bruttenholm, who raised him as a normal boy. With this upbringing, he has a genuinely good heart and love for other humans, despite his demonic origins.
3. A living oxymoron, Hellboy is a force for good, with an iron will and a desire to do the right thing.
4. He has continuously stated his disinterest in his supposed nefarious ‘purpose,’ and often has to hide his conflicted feelings beneath the wisecracking facade of an adventurous tough-guy who would just as soon knock back a cold beer and light a stogie, then battle demons and evil spirits.

## Bad Qualities

1. He occasionally sounds like a dunce. Curtesy of Perlman's idiotic acting. He can't go three feet without tainting Hellboy's legacy.
2. He can't match the same level of coolness he does in the comics.
3. He looks awful when compared to the more appealing look his 2019 version has.
4. He is a huge reason to why his movies are trash. They wasted their money by hiring a bad actor and a bad director to make a Hellboy film, which can't match up to good action-horror movies like *Dog Soldiers* and *The Descent*. The sequel is arguably trashier than the first. The writing can't even match up to a decent movie, which hardly utilizes characters and given Perlman's trash acting the character couldn't be salvaged. When the reboot came out, Del Toro Glorifiers attacked the reboot film because it was different. They ignore the flaws of Del Toro's movies and only see flaws in Marshall's film. Perlman Hellboy can't even look or sound believable, while Harbour Hellboy sounds and looks mightily believable. Overall the fans of the first two movies ignore the glaring issues of them, including Hellboy himself, but didn't give the reboot film a chance just because it wasn't Del Toro directing and Perlman acting. They also slandered the reboot film, Neil Marshall, and David Harbour. A message for those toxic fans: get over yourselves, the world is full of people and you should accept our differences.

## Trivia

* His true name is Anung Un Rama (translated in English as "and upon his brow is set a crown of flame").
* He jokingly claims he's a 'bad shot'.
* His comics have been adapted into three live-action films, the first two by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro and a reboot by *The Descent* director Neil Marshall. Another reboot is in the works.
* According to Mignola, Hellboy’s personality was primarily based off of his father, a worker who often came home with many injuries, but always shrugged them off with dry humor.
* He is identified as the "World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator".