Line #0 Trivia/Hellboy


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2	* RecursiveAdaptation: ''Hellboy Animated'' has its own comic books.
3	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Hellboy himself is largely based on Creator/MikeMignola's father, who was a cabinet maker. He'd often come home to his family with tales of horrific on-the-job accidents, including one careless fellow losing a hand, told in the nonchalant, unflappable manner that would become HB's trademark.
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6	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Mignola named his collaboration with Richard Corben, ''The Crooked Man'', as his favorite Hellboy story.
7	* CreatorsPest:
8	** Both Creator/MikeMignola and Duncan Fegredo realized they've made a huge mistake after they designed and debuted Nimue's three raven helmet and learned how awful it was to draw it. This led to not only Nimue wearing said helmet making few appearances in ''The Storm And The Fury," but Mignola also wrote in a scene where the helmet got ditched so Fegredo no longer had to illustrate it.
9	** Mignola doesn't hate Liz Sherman, but admitted that in the early days of the comic she was a creative dead end to him, to the point that he intended to kill her off after her initial appearances.
10	* DiedDuringProduction: Industry legend John Severin was asked what types of story he'd like to draw when he came onboard. His first request, to do a [[TheWestern Western]], led to the ''Witchfinder'' story "Lost and Gone Forever". His second request, to do a WWII story, led to the ''Sledgehammer '44'' series being developed, but he died after only drawing the first three pages and some character designs. The series was eventually completed by other artists.
11	* ExiledFromContinuity: The appearance of the Torch of Liberty in the first miniseries is still canon, but since the character is created and owned by John Byrne, who scripted the original miniseries, he has never reappeared outside of Hellboy's "family photo".
12	* FlipFlopOfGod / LyingCreator: In the miniseries ''Hellboy in Hell'', Mignola released a heartfelt letter saying [[spoiler: this was going to be the end of Hellboy, and that he wrote issue ten as such]]. A few months afterwards, an issue of BPRD [[spoiler: showed Hellboy was coming back]] and Mignola released a statement contradicting his earlier statement by saying [[spoiler: Hellboy in Hell was never planned to be the end and that Hellboy will indeed return for the apocalypse promised in ''King of Fear'']]. Either Mignola changed his mind or he was lying about [[spoiler: Hellboy in Hell being the end.]]
13	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Mignola plots the series ''years'' in advance, but he did change his plans for ''Hellboy In Hell'' which was originally intended to run at its own pace indefinitely. But after [[spoiler: Hellboy killed Satan]] too many dominos were pushed over and he decided to go for a GrandFinale with issue ten instead.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mignola originally intended for Liz to die after her encounter with Roger, due to lack of ideas at the time on where to take the character. Glen Murakami's horrified reaction when Mignola told him of his intention to kill her shamed him into letting her live.
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16	[[AC:From the films:]]
17	->[[Trivia/Hellboy2004 See here]] for the first film.
18	->[[Trivia/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy See here]] for the second film.

Context Trivia / Hellboy