History Awesome / Hellboy

Upon seeing that Hellboy is light-heartedly considering all that power, Liz uses her fire power to destroy the crown that can control the Golden Army. The way she says "Don't even think about it." sells it.

* Hellboy's final fight. After all the weird monsters, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, the mad sorcerers and mythological figures, what is his final battle? A motherfucking DRAGON. A manifestation of the Ogdru Jahad, he fights it, as it later turns out, atop Big Ben and kills it with a sword made from the Queen of Bloods hatred. If that isn't awesome, I don't know what is.

** CMOA for the art, as well. I've seen dragons depicted many times over as cute, badass and what have you. This is the first one that looked ''terrifying''

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* When Guillermo del Toro met with Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, to discuss who should play the character in the movie, they both said "Ron Perlman" at the same time.
* Many of the first film's creatures, such as Ivan the corpse, were voiced by none other than Guillermo del Toro himself.
* Guillermo del Toro has said that the studios wanted to make many unnecessary and derivative changes to the character of Hellboy (for instance, having him be a normal man who becomes Hellboy when he's angry) and del Toro vetoed every single attempt.
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** Even more impressive is how the confrontation plays out. In a earlier BreakingSpeech the ghost of the Sledgehammer Armour's last pilot showed Johann a vision of what would happen if he fought the Orgdu Jahad directly ie the Sledgehammer armour would be destroyed by by the monsters BreathAttack and either Johann would be destroyed or left powerless to possess corpses AftertheEnd. What actually happens: The Ordgu Jahad destroys the armor as predicted but Johann's spirit isn't phased having worked that he doesn't need the armour anymore. Que the Ordgu Jahad being being torn to screaming pieces and shattered throughout the cosmos while Johann goes out with a smile.

* In ''Box Full Of Evil'', he [[spoiler:defeats Ualac by ripping off his newly grown [[HornedHumanoid horns]] and ''stabbing him with them'']].

* Hellboy's final fight. After all the weird monsters, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, the mad sorcerers and mythological figures, what is his final battle? [[spoiler: A motherfucking DRAGON. A manifestation of the Ogdru Jahad, he fights it, as it later turns out, atop Big Ben and kills it with a sword made from the Queen of Bloods hatred.]] If that isn't awesome, I don't know what is.
** CMOA for the art, as well. I've seen [[spoiler: dragons]] depicted many times over as cute, badass and what have you. This is the first one that looked ''terrifying''
* The conclusion to Hellboy In Hell has Hellboy fully tap into his terrible power to [[spoiler:become an enormous demon capable of defeating Leviathan and Behemoth. He then allows the lower fiends to take revenge on what is left of the infernal aristocracy so he can free the captive souls of the underworld.]]

* Liz and [[spoiler: the [[TookALevelinBadass Black Flame's]] fight in Reign of the Black Flame counts as a moment in and of itself. It's akin to something out of a straight superhero story with both borderline PhysicalGods throwing down and firing off epic [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]] as they do it.]]
* Varvara using the dagger that Hellboy used to kill Satan to [[spoiler:unleash the imprisoned Titans of Hell so they can battle the Ogdru Jahad.]]
* At the conclusion of B.P.R.D Hell on Earth, [[spoiler: one of the Ogdru Jahad has fallen to Earth, and it quickly shows just why these beings are so feared: Liz, who is at this point a PhysicalGod in all but name, can't even scratch it, the US military hits it with 8 nukes at once and doesn't kill it, Varvara releases the ancient Watcher Angels who created the Ogdru Jahad (and upon whose backs Hell is built) and - though they put up a good fight - they are destroyed. What ultimately saves the day? Johann Kraus, who is on the verge of becoming one with the universe/reaching enlightenment. He refuses to do so, and even though it burns out his soul, he instead takes the full power of the ''universe itself'' in hand to do something no one thought possible and ''kills'' the Ogdru Jahad dead while firing off one hell of a BadassBoast. [[HeroicSacrifice A heroic sacrifice]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu "Did you just punch out Cthulhu"]] at its finest.]]

** [[spoiler: The build up is something in of itself. The Ogdru Jahad has taken everything the assorted heroes can throw at it, the GodzillaThreshold has been well and truly crossed and nothing is working. Kate and Panya are dead, Liz has taken the news badly and has hurled herslef into the Ogdru's path becoming a miniature sun, torching hundreds of Orgdu Hem at once then suddenly a hand touches her shoulder and she finds herself miles away with friends Johann's name on her lips while in the distance a wormhole opens above the Orgdu Jahad and cosmic power is brought to bear.]]
** [[spoiler: Even more impressive is how the confrontation plays out. In a earlier BreakingSpeech the ghost of the Sledgehammer Armour's last pilot showed Johann a vision of what would happen if he fought the Orgdu Jahad directly ie the Sledgehammer armour would be destroyed by by the monsters BreathAttack and either Johann would be destroyed or left powerless to possess corpses AftertheEnd. What actually happens: The Ordgu Jahad destroys the armor as predicted but Johann's spirit isn't phased having worked that he doesn't need the armour anymore. Que the Ordgu Jahad being being torn to screaming pieces and shattered throughout the cosmos while Johann goes out with a smile.]]
* At the end of the last issue of ''The Devil You Know: Messiah'', [[spoiler: Liz Sherman and the other BPRD agents are at the ruins of the BPRD's Colorado headquarters, searching for Roger's grave due to a cryptic hint they got from Fenix. They locate the grave and open the coffin... and find ''Hellboy'' lying in it, alive and breathing. Yes, after seven years, [[HesBack Hellboy is back in the land of the living]]]].

* Hellboy [[spoiler:tears off his horns and proceeds to stab Rasputin with one]]. And after that, when he tells Liz Sherman what he said [[spoiler:to bring her back to life: "Hey, you, on the other side -- let her go. Because for her I will cross over, and then you'll be sorry."]]

---> *Hellboy [[spoiler:tears off his horns, preventing the Ogdru Jahad from escaping]]*
--->[[spoiler: '''Rasputin:''']] What have you done?
--->'''Hellboy:''' [[spoiler: I... *STAB* CHOSE.]]
** And to further reiterate, he [[spoiler: threatened ''all the powers of Hell itself'' into letting Liz go]]... '''''and they did'''''.

* Hellboy is (apparently) at Kroenen's mercy, until Manning throws a cog at the Nazi, distracting him long enough to let Hellboy [[spoiler: pull him into the spike pit. Then he drops a giant machine cog on him. And Manning adds insult to injury by dropping the rest of his smaller cogs on him as well.]] Then he teaches Hellboy the proper way to light a cigar.

* Kroenen himself. Especially in the first scene when he [[spoiler:shoots his gun eight times, using up all the bullets, and then pops his knives out of his sleeves and kills a whole lot more of them]].

* In ''The Golden Army'', [[spoiler: Liz tells the Angel of Death ''to its face'' that she wants him to bring Hellboy back to life, even if he'll end up destroying the world]].

** [[spoiler: The build up is something in of itself. The Ogdru Jahad has taken everything the assorted heroes can throw at it, the Godzillathreshold has been well and truly crossed and nothing is working. Kate and Panya are dead, Liz has taken the news badly and has hurled herslef into the Ogdru's path becoming a miniature sun, torching hundreds of Orgdu Hem at once then suddenly a hand touches her shoulder and she finds herself miles away with friends Johann's name on her lips while in the distance a wormhole opens above the Orgdu Jahad and cosmic power is brought to bear.]]

* ''Film/{{Hellboy}} II: The Golden Army'' has Johann Krauss who beats the living shit out of Hellboy by using ectoplasmic win plus locker doors. Later on, when the Golden Army awakens, Krauss takes control of one of the soldiers and starts mauling the rest of them in a spectacular case of ColorCodedForYourConvenience.

** The build up is something in of itself. The Ogdru Jahad has taken everything the assorted heroes can throw at it, the Godzillathreshold has been well and truly crossed and nothing is working. Kate and Panya are dead, Liz has taken the news badly and has hurled herslef into the Ogdru's path becoming a miniature sun, torching hundreds of Orgdu Hem at once then suddenly a hand touches her shoulder and she finds herself miles away with friends Johann's name on her lips while in the distance a wormhole opens above the Orgdu Jahad and cosmic power is brought to bear.
** Even more impressive is how the confornatation plays out. In a earlier BreakingSpeech the ghost of the Sledgehammer Armour's last pilot showed Johann a vision of what would happen if he fought the Orgdu Jahad directly ie the Sledgehammer armour would be destroyed by by the monsters BreathAttack and either Johann would be destroyed or left powerless to possess corpses AftertheEnd. What actually happens: The Ordgu Jahad destroys the armor as predicted but Johann's spirit isn't phased having worked that he doesn't need the armour anymore. Que the Ordgue Jahad being being torn to screaming pieces and shattered throughout the cosmos.