History WesternAnimation / HellboyAnimated

* HonorBeforeReason: The Japanese daimyo in ''Sword of Storms'', to the point of killing his own daughter to keep his promise to the demons Thunder and Lightning.

* GhostlyGoals: The Ghosts in ''Blood and Iron'' wish to be avenged. The Samurai's wife is waiting for her husband to return.

* {{Foreshadowing}}[=/=]MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Father Lupescu’s name means “wolf” in Romanian. Guess what he gets turned into later.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: One of Erzsebet’s victims in the flashback is ''a baby''.

* MercyKill[[spoiler:: After the rescue party finds Anna drained of all her blood, her fiancé's ultimately to put a stake through her heart in order to prevent her from coming back as a vampire.]]

* RoleReprisal: As noted above, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, and John Hurt reprise their respective roles from [[Film/Hellboy2004 the live-action film series]] as Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, and Professor Bruttenholm. In fact, as the movies were released before ''The Golden Army'', this was the first time Jones's own voice was heard as Abe (having been dubbed over by [[Series/{{Frasier}} David Hyde Pierce]] in the first movie). The only exception besides Pierce is Jeffrey Tambor as Tom Manning, having been replaced by Creator/JimCummings.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Despite Erzsebet's cruel remarks on how "the years have not been so kind to [him]", Bruttenholm has no regrets about growing old, and pities her far more than she does him.

An animated adaptation of the ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'' comicbook series. They're a distinct [[AlternateContinuity continuity]], closer in spirit to the comics, but they feature actors (Creator/RonPerlman, Creator/SelmaBlair, Creator/DougJones, and Creator/JohnHurt) reprising their roles from [[Film/{{Hellboy}} the live-action film series]], along with the addition of Creator/PeriGilpin as Kate Corrigan.

* RoleReprisal: As noted above, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, and John Hurt reprise their respective roles from [[Film/{{Hellboy}} the live-action film series]] as Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, and Professor Bruttenholm. In fact, as the movies were released before ''The Golden Army'', this was the first time Jones's own voice was heard as Abe (having been dubbed over by [[Series/{{Frasier}} David Hyde Pierce]] in the first movie). The only exception besides Pierce is Jeffrey Tambor as Tom Manning, having been replaced by Creator/JimCummings.

* BiggerBad: Hecate in ''Blood and Iron''.

An animated adaptation of the ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'' comicbook series. They're a distinct [[AlternateContinuity continuity]], closer in spirit to the comics, but they feature actors (Creator/RonPerlman, Creator/SelmaBlair, Creator/DougJones, and Creator/JohnHurt) reprising their roles from [[Film/{{Hellboy}} the live-action film series]], along with the addition of [[Series/{{Frasier}} Peri Gilpin]] as Kate Corrigan.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Ghosts in ''Blood and Iron''.by two Youkai, and the longer he's under their spell, the more monstrous he becomes.
* DemonicPossession: Professor Sakai is on the receiving end

* RoleReprisal: As noted above, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, and John Hurt reprise their respective roles from [[Film/{{Hellboy}} the live-action film series]] as Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, and Professor Bruttenholm. In fact, as the movies were released before ''The Golden Army'', this was the first time Jones's own voice was heard as Abe (having been dubbed over by [[Series/{{Frasier}} David Hyde Pierce]] in the first movie). The only exception besides Pierce is Jeffrey Tambor as Tom Manning, having been replaced by Creator/JimCummings.

* AdaptationDistillation: ''Blood and Iron'' is "Wake the Devil" minus the bits that got adapted for the first movie- to wit, Rasputin and the Nazis. And with Elizabeth Bathory replacing Giurescu.

* BloodBath: In ''Blood and Iron'', Erzsebet Ondrushko (who's basically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory Elizabeth Bathory]] under a slightly different name) bathed in the blood of her victims to preserve her youth and beauty.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Ghosts in ''Blood and Iron''.
* DemonicPossession: Professor Sakai is on the receiving end by two Youkai, and the longer he's under their spell, the more monstrous he becomes.

* BloodBath: In ''Blood and Iron'', Erzsebet Ondrushko (who's basically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory Elizabeth Bathory]] under a slightly different name) bathed in blood to preserve her youth.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In Professor Bruttenholm's flashback at the beginning of''Blood and Iron'', an unlucky RedShirt gets drained of blood courtesy of Erszebet. Two others are EatenAlive by the aforementioned demonic wolves shortly afterwards, [[Main/SoundOnlyDeath though mercifully offscreen.]]

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Rather than being portrayed as love interests like they were in the live-action films, Liz and Hellboy are portrayed as having more of a sibling-like relationship, which is actually more in-line with how the original comics portray them.

* MonsterMash: In ''Blood and Iron''. Harpies, wolves, and a werewolf, all cooperating under the orders of a vampire.
* MundaneUtility: Liz uses her powers to heat up coffee.
* NoodleIncident: Hellboy, Abe, and Liz often talk about previous unseen adventures.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Erzsebet sold her soul to Hecate, the Witch Queen. She's in total monster form unless she's bathed in blood in which case it works as a FountainOfYouth for her. She does feed, but it's the bathing that's shown to be her rejuvenation.

An animated adaptation of the ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'' comicbook series. They're a distinct [[AlternateContinuity continuity]], closer in spirit to the comics, but they feature actors (Creator/RonPerlman, Selma Blair, Creator/DougJones, and Creator/JohnHurt) reprising their roles from [[Film/{{Hellboy}} the live-action film series]], along with the addition of [[Series/{{Frasier}} Peri Gilpin]] as Kate Corrigan.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: As opposed to the films, Hellboy and Liz's relationship is like this, which is roughly more in-line with how the comics portray them.

* RoleReprisal: As noted above, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, and John Hurt reprise their respective roles from [[Film/{{Hellboy}} the live-action film series]] as Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Professor Bruttenholm, and Abe Sapien. In fact, as the movies were released before ''The Golden Army'', this was the first time Jones's own voice was heard as Abe (having been dubbed over by [[Series/{{Frasier}} David Hyde Pierce]] in the first movie). The only exception besides Pierce is Jeffrey Tambor as Tom Manning, having been replaced by Creator/JimCummings.