Characters / Hellboy

aka: BPRD

This is the character page for Hellboy and B.P.R.D.. Please note this is a series in which Anyone Can Die, so death tropes may well be visible, even if the circumstances are spoilered.

Includes characters from the three live-action movies.

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The B.P.R.D.

Introduced during the original Hellboy run (1993-2000 aprox.)

Hellboy

AKA: Anung Un Rama

Born: December 23, 1944

Debut: Dime Press #4

The central character, summoned to Earth by Grigori Rasputin and a group of Nazi occultists in the final months of World War II as part of Project Ragna Rok. Found by the U.S. Army, he was raised by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm in an Air Force base in New Mexico. In adulthood, he became the primary agent for the B.P.R.D., until he left in 2001 to find his destiny.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: Tropes are not bad, but his interpretation varies subtly between media. Hellboy (especially when written by Mignola) is an alcoholic brawler alright but he's also extremely quiet and terse. He's a rather calm man unless provoked and his sense of humor is very dry. This only gets more notorious (and can be explained In-Universe) because the comics avoid Comic-Book Time and he becomes more reserved as he grows older. The Del Toro films portray him closer to his initial/younger characterization: more talkative and temperamental, but also more likely to be involved in silliness. Him being a very empathic person underneath is constant in both media, though.
• The Alcoholic:
  • He realizes in "The Storm And The Fury" that he's been drinking solidly for six years and has made a lot of bad decisions, so he quits.
  • The five months he spent in Mexico back in 1956 (as recounted in "Hellboy in Mexico" and other stories) largely consisted of him wandering around and getting blackout drunk to the point that he doesn't remember large chunks of his stay there.
• The Antichrist: Though he's not too keen on the idea and becomes an Anti Anti Christ which ultimately costs him his life.
• Anti Anti Christ: He's the poster child for it. The only demon that doesn't want Hellboy to bring about The End of the World as We Know It is Hellboy himself.
• Apocalypse Maiden: He's prophesied to bring about the end of the universe. But being the Anti-Antichrist, he's not on board with all of that malarkey.
• Apologetic Attacker: In the first volume, he apologizes to the frog monster that was once Sven Olafson as he shoves a grenade down its throat.
• An Arm and a Leg: He was born with a normal right arm, but shortly after his birth, his father cut his right arm off and replaced it with Anum's.
• Art Evolution: He started off pretty boxy and beefy, along with his hair being in what appears to be a buzzcut. As the series went on, Hellboy became more and more thin, with his shoulders progressively narrowing and the Right Hand of Doom larger than it was initially.
• Artifact of Doom: Anum's Right Hand of Doom, the key that will release the Ogdru Jahad and bring about the Apocalypse.
• Ascended Demon: He's so heroic that his spilled blood causes lilies to sprout.
• Back from the Dead: Seven years after Nimue tore his heart out and banished him to hell, and with the help of Sir Edward Grey and the soul of Roger, Hellboy returned to the world of the living (In Roger's coffin, no less) at the end of The Devil You Know: Messiah, though once his work was done he was taken back to the afterlife.
• Big Eater: Eats more than you'd expect even from someone his size.
• Big Red Devil: His general appearance, though he tries to downplay it by filing his horns down.
• BFG: The Good Samaritan in the films, and its inspiration, the Hand Cannon given to him by the Torch of Liberty when he was younger. He eventually loses this at the bottom of the sea, and replaces it with a Colt 1911, which he loses fighting giants a year or two later. Beyond these he has a tendency to lose any firearms he's given. It doesn't bother him, because he's actually a rather lousy shot by his own admission:
  "I'm a lousy shot…but the Samaritan here fires really big bullets."
• Catchphrase: "Oh, crap!" Stories often end with "That's all for you!" (generally after he's killed something), and "There you go." Also, "Son of a—" is uttered whenever things go to hell.
• Characterization Marches On: When John Byrne was scripting the series, Hellboy was a lot more hotheaded and prone to attacking first without provocation (which is likely where the Del Toro film version of the character got his personality from). After Mignola took scripting the series into his own hands, Hellboy very quickly settled into his unflappable Deadpan Snarker self, and his moments of anger (besides his Berserk Button at the mere sight of Nazis) are shown to be entirely justified and due to the attackers starting the fight.
  Byrne!Hellboy: Well, that's all for you!
  Mignola!Hellboy: There you go.
• Cigar Chomper: In the Guillermo del Toro films, he's a huge fan of cigars as a tough and gritty Action Hero and monster hunter, and due to being a fireproof demon they don't bother him at all. In the comics he prefers cigarettes.
• Cool Crown: The Crown of the Apocalypse, a fiery crown that floats above his head at all times, but is usually invisible. If it does appear, The End of the World as We Know It is near.
• Cosmic Plaything: Much to his displeasure and annoyance, he seems to be fated to continuously be reminded of his eventual apocalyptic destiny, often as violently as he could possibly be reminded. Even other B.P.R.D. agents mention that regardless of how tame the case seems to be, when Hellboy shows up things get violent, and he always catches the worst of it.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As he puts it:
  "I like not knowing. I've gotten by for fifty-two years without knowing. I sleep good not knowing."
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite having horns and being half-demon, Hellboy is an utterly regular, decent, rather noble blue-collar guy who cares about those close to him, who doesn't have much patience for people telling him he should be evil.
• Deadpan Snarker: Hellboy has a very dry sense of humor and has a habit of snarking at his enemies.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He killed Satan, and decimated most of Hell's population by himself during the seven years he was there.
• Does Not Like Spam: As a little boy, he hated "pamcakes" because they were yucky and he wanted noodles for breakfast instead. That is, until he had his first bite.
• Fertile Blood: In The Nature of the Beast, there's a legend that when the monk who first killed the St. Leonard Worm was injured fighting the dragon, lilies grew from where his blood fell. When Hellboy fights the Worm, lilies grow from where his blood fell as well. This is significant because Hellboy is a half demon and the prophesied Antichrist, but he is so good despite this fact that he becomes an Anti-Antichrist. This becomes a plot point in Ragna Rok: The blood from his death revitalizes the Earth and allows new life to bloom after the Osiris Club and Liz raze the planet to kill the Ogdru Hem.
• Friend to All Children: He's really soft-hearted and friendly towards children.
• Genius Bruiser: Hellboy isn't just all brawn. He is very knowledgeable of most areas of magic, sorcery, folklore and the occult and his physiology means he can innately understand all magical and ancient languages. He's also a talented paranormal investigator, an excellent strategist and is an expert at thinking on the fly and using his wits to outsmart and defeat opponents.
• Gentle Giant: Hellboy is gentle with children, even sometimes when it's against his better judgment.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: His preferred method of fighting is devastating boxing moves. His Right Hand of Doom is not just there for looks.
• Half-Human Hybrid: The son of a demon prince Azzael and a human witch Sarah Hughes.
• Handicapped Badass: Losing an eye doesn't slow him down.
• Happily Adopted: By Professor Bruttenholm.
• Hardboiled Detective: Is an otherworldly version of the noir classic model, a heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, cynical demon with a Badass Longcoat who sticks his nose where it doesn't belong, takes a beating, solves paranormal mysteries, etc. He's often referred to as "The World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator".
• Healing Factor: He has one which allows him to recover quickly on the rare occasion that he is wounded.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He had a beloved dog named Mac when he was young.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Subverted. He's instinctively good with a sword and he's not a particularly good shot. Nevertheless, he goes into battle with a gun or just good old Five Fingered Mary far more often than a sword, just another sign of him contradicting his nature. During the battle against the Queen of Blood's army, he remarks that the axe he picks up midway through is more his style.
• The Hero: The Primary Protagonist of the franchise.
• Hide Your Otherness: Hellboy keeps sawing off his devil horns in an effort to fit in and deny his very, very evil heritage.
• Horned Humanoid: He files them down. As a kid however they were relatively long.
• Horrifying Hero: Hellboy is the demon who was supposed to bring about the Apocalypse, and he probably would have become a straight Humanoid Abomination if not for being raised like a human. He's personable enough that he isn't treated like the abomination he is, but by his very nature he was supposed to be evil.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Much of Hellboy's character revolves around his desire to live like a human as much as his demonic appearance would allow. But he's constantly annoyed by his demonic brethren and other supernatural forces reminding him of his destiny because he's really just trying to mind his own business.
• Immune to Fire: He's fireproof, which he uses to his advantage when fighting other demons that aren't so resistant and which also helps his relationship with his pyrokinetic girlfriend.
• Inhumanable Alien Rights: Hellboy was granted "honorary human" rights by the UN in 1952, after his field mission in Brazil.
• Instant Taste Addiction: A young Hellboy falls in love with pancakes after trying them, and they become his Trademark Favorite Food, with a bonus funny scene of the denizens of hell lamenting that he'll never return to them now that he's discovered pancakes.
• Interspecies Romance: With Liz in the films, and Alice in the comics.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's gloomy, sarcastic, abrasive, and not much of a people person but beneath he's a big softy who genuinely cares about people and their safety and can be very kind-hearted when he wants to be.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Hellboy adores cats and they love him right back.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He's gonna be sore in the mornin'.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: The damn thing's enormous. It was big even when he was a skinny little kid.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's extremely fast and agile, especially for a being his size. He can keep up with most demons in combat, can run at impressive speeds and his reflexes and agility are enough to let him dodge bullets with ease.
• Made of Iron: He's ridiculously hard to kill, and is able to absorb huge amounts of punishment and remain standing. He'd almost be Nigh-Invulnerable if it weren't for the fact that he still tends to feel a great deal of pain and bleed everywhere when he does get injured.
• Military Brat: Sort of. He grew up on a military base (rather strongly hinted to be Area 51), and regarded the site personnel as family (though there were one or two who treated him as a science project).
• Mundane Fantastic: In the comics. Given his status as a big red demon-person and relative fame as a paranormal investigator, you'd think more people who met Hellboy in the comics would react with more surprise to his presence when he suddenly shows up to investigate things, but almost everyone he meets treats his appearance like nothing special at all, and frequently fail to even remark on it at all.
• Older Than They Look: Hellboy's appearance is inhuman enough to make an apparent age not readily determinable, but he doesn't really seem to show his 60-80 years in which he has been on Earth (he was technically "born" in the 1600s, but doesn't seem to have aged until he left Hell). Alice Monaghan also looks about twenty years younger than she is, due to the influence of the fae.
• Orc Raised by Elves: Basically a baby Antichrist raised by good humans to be a hero.
• Parental Favoritism: Hellboy is his biological father Azzael's favorite son. His siblings aren't happy about their dad liking a newborn that hasn't done anything yet instead of them.
• Red Hot Masculinity: The titular character is a Big Red Devil with a gruff exterior and a love for drinking, fighting, and smoking.
• Red Is Heroic: A red-skinned demon who fights for humanity.
• Red Is Violent: Maybe he's red and with the good guys' side, but also Good Is Not Soft.
• The Right Hand of Doom: He bears the Trope Namer. The Right Hand of Doom is all that remains of Anum, the Watcher that used that very hand to both create the Ogdru Jahad, and sealed them off. After his death, his Hand was passed down throughout history, until it fell in the hands of the Duke of Hell Azzael, who replaced his son's original arm with it so he could bring an end to all.
• Royal Blood: From both sides. Father was a Duke of Hell, mother was descended from King Arthur. After years of thorning the sides of his father's agents, it's his mother's family that nearly leads him to end the world.
• Screw Destiny: As seen in Wake the Devil:
  Hecate: Accept the truth of your existence or be destroyed! You cannot escape your destiny!
  Hellboy: Gonna try.
  Hecate: Time is coming to ring down the curtain on man. Already, the four horsemen are loose in the world. It is for us to darken the sun, turn the moon to blood, and put out the stars. Then you and I alone, forever, in the dark—
  Hellboy: Shut up! Not gonna happen... 'cause you're very, very ugly... and... you have a giant snake body!
  **impale**
• Smoking Is Cool: Rarely seen without a cigarette or cigar. Given his immunity to disease, it's not like he's worried about the health risks.
• Super-Strength: He's awfully strong, which makes being hit by his hand hurt even worse than it already would.
• Super-Toughness: Hellboy is very hard to hurt and harder to keep down for any decent amount of time, which is good for him, since he typically runs up against monsters that are just as durable and strong as him, if not moreso.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's just over seven feet tall and has a very dry wit.
• Trademark Favorite Food: "Pamcakes." In fact, the very first time he ate them, he was lost to the forces of darkness forever.
• Trenchcoat Brigade: One of his trademarks is a coat and a big cigarette.
• Working-Class Hero: Hellboy himself is largely based on Mike Mignola'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.
• The Unchosen One: He was chosen by Hell to be the one who'd unleash the Ogdru Jahad and destroy the world, but once he connected with humanity, he became their protector. Once he ate pancakes for the first time, Hell itself crossed the Despair Event Horizon.
  • After his death, all those forces of darkness who were counting on him to end the world become convinced they had the wrong guy after all.

Elizabeth 'Liz' Sherman

AKA: Elizabeth Ann Sherman

Born: April 15, 1962

Debut: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #2

Pyrokinetic Liz Sherman, a young woman suffering from Power Incontinence as well as struggling with self-esteem issues over childhood trauma stemming from when her powers first manifested. She was taken in by the bureau in 1974 where she learned to control her powers to some degree. Her trauma has left her bitter and she often left the bureau — only to return some time later.

In B.P.R.D., she manages to gain control over her powers after living with a society of monks for a few years, and gradually becomes significantly more powerful.

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• Accidental Murder:When she was eleven she lost control of her powers when a bully was messing with her pigtails. He ended up burning to death in front of her...but he was only the first one.
• Amplifier Artifact: The Hyperborean artifact Liz uses on the mountain-sized Ogdru Hem spikes her flame powers to the levels of a short radius nuke.
• Bad Powers, Good People: When she was young she accidentally killed a dozen people including her family. For a while, she believed her power was evil, but later she learns to control it.
• Blessed with Suck: Having been raised Catholic, she often views her powers this way. And there's also the "killed thirty-two people including her family" thing.
• Can't Stay Normal: Has ditched the BPRD numerous times only to come back.
• Cursed with Awesome: Congrats Liz, you're one of the most unstoppable forces on the planet, if you can control your powers.
• Dreaming of Things to Come:
  • Memnan Saa really does want to warn her, even if he's got his own purposes in mind. If only she would listen…
  • She has a dream in which a living Panya is desperately warning her to run away from something, but she doesn't understand why until it's too late. However, it turns out that this is actually foreshadowing how Kate dies when the B.P.R.D. HQ is destroyed and she refuses to leave Panya behind. Speculatively, this may be due to Mignola changing his mind about who would die in that scene.
• Dull Surprise: Liz Sherman's default expression for most of the Hellboy comics and movies. Justified, as she's supposed to be depressed and heavily medicated due to her tragic past, and in the later BPRD series, she gets better.
• Expy: Of Charlene McGee from Stephen King's Firestarter. Liz has the exact same powers, a similar backstory, and even manifested her powers during roughly the same time period. Basically, she's what Charlene would be if she had the BPRD instead of The Shop and Hellboy instead of her father.
• Faux Action Girl: Throughout her career with B.P.R.D., Liz is usually the one to be possessed, kidnapped, and, of course, rescued by her teammates. This is all despite her training, power set, and years as a B.P.R.D. agent. In her early appearances, she was a Damsel in Distress who needed rescuing on four separate occasions.
  • In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Liz does absolutely nothing as her allies fight enemies made of wood (known for its flamability) and gold (known for its low melting point) in a seemingly unintentional subversion of Plot Tailored to the Party.
• Finger-Snap Lighter: Liz Sherman uses her pyrokinesis to light her cigarettes on occasion.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: A gothy girl who happens to be pyrokinetic.
• Hold the Line: By the time of Cometh the Hour she, along with Johann, has been reduced to this, fighting a holding action against the hordes of new Ogdru Hem spawned by Nunn-Jahad in an effort to buy time for the BPRD to evacuate their headquarters.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Raised Catholic, she spent most of her life believing her powers (which were difficult to control) to be a result of her sins. The fact that a number of innocent people died the first time her control slipped didn't help.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Soon became good friends with a thousands-of-years-old mummy named Panya.
• Kill It with Fire: Liz uses this a lot, obviously.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Dark to Princess Nuala's Light in the movie sequel.
• Mundane Utility: Liz Sherman lighting her cigarettes with pyrokinesis.
• Must Have Nicotine: She is a chain smoker who often bums cigarettes off her fellow agents.
• Older Than She Looks: Over fifty in real-time years, doesn't look a day out of her twenties in recent books.
• Playing with Fire: Sadly, it also comes with Power Incontinence.
• Person of Mass Destruction: As a powerful pyrokinetic she is one of these.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: She is used to power a machine in a BPRD issue.
• Power Incontinence: When her pyrokinesis first activated she couldn't stop it and ended up killing thirty-two people including her family.
• Psychic Powers: In addition to her pyrokinesis, she seems to have uncontrollable telepathic and precognitive abilities. She called Abe for help after her soul was used to fuel a machine; she has visions and dreams of the future and has apparently visited this future herself.
• Relationship Upgrade: Starts up a relationship with Howards by the last arc.
• Self-Made Orphan: When her powers manifested as a girl, Liz incinerated an entire city block and killed her parents, her brother and her dog.
• Survival Mantra: The fire is not my enemy, it is a part of me, it is mine.
• Took a Level in Badass: She was always powerful, but her lack of control over her abilities made her effectiveness questionable at best. Over the years she steadily gains more control. In Reign of the Black Flame she takes on the eponymous villain (who himself Took a Level in Badass to become a Physical God) and had a high powered brawl throughout New York City, destroying skyscrapers and giant monsters alike while her body became living fire. Holy shit.
  • By the end of the "Hell on Earth" cycle she's essentially the main heavy hitter of the whole Bureau, and up to a point for humanity as a whole, until Kraus undergoes his own badass level upgrade. Afterwards, both share the position without trouble.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Further understanding of her powers (and learning how to blow up Ogdru Hem) has significantly mellowed Liz out and made her more sociable.
• Uncertain Doom: After exploding to destroy the Ogdru Hem, the entire franchise's last shot is Abe's descendants finding her encased in some sort of mysterious crystal thousands of years later, leaving it possible that she's the only main character to survive the ending.
• Warrior Monk: Lived with a group of these and learned how to control her powers from them. They were killed and their murderers tried to turn Liz into an energy source. Once again, she needed to be rescued.
• Wreathed in Flames: Anytime she really cuts loose with her powers, she tends to manifest an aura of fire all around her body.

Abraham 'Abe' Sapien

Pre-Second Mutation

AKA: Langdon Everett Caul

Born: Unknown

Debut: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #2

A super-intelligent "icthyo sapien" and Hellboy's best friend. He began his life as Langdon Everett Caul in the 19th Century. Being involved with the Oannes Society, an occult organization who believed in life and all knowledge having come from the sea, he transformed into a fish man after an incident. He was found in 1978 in an abandoned laboratory beneath a Washington, D.C. hospital. After some efforts to wake him up (and some grueling tests from curious scientists) the amnesiac fish man took a new name and became an agent.

After an encounter with the Black Flame, getting shot by Fenix Espejo, and a second mutation, Abe left the B.P.R.D. and started wandering the post-apocalyptic United States. His travels are chronicled in the spinoff book Abe Sapien.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: Abe has wildly differing personalities between media. In the original comics he's arguably even more detached and stoic than Hellboy, not to mention that he has a tendency for navel-gazing and melancholy. The Del Toro films make him the sensitive guy to Hellboy's more overt machoness, making him much more communicative, social and goofier.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Abe went from reasonably handsome◊ (if fishy) in the comics and animated movies to a much more inhuman, fish-like appearance◊ in the films. Of course, his second mutation in the comics ended up turning him into more like his film counterpart.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the movies, he's not as good a fighter, and his physical strength is downplayed.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Abe Sapien spinoff could be considered this and "Garden of Souls" is almost completely devoted to Abe Sapien with some supporting action for Daimio.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: In his previous life as a human, Abe, or rather Langdon Caul, was the leader of the Oannes Society, a group of men who became aware of the looming apocalypse and made a plan to implant their minds into five unaging superhuman bodies, then destroy most if not all human life on Earth with a series of bombs planted around the world, taking the billions of souls of the dead into their bodies so that some part of humanity would persist forever. Caul's (to them) mysterious transformation was considered a positive omen from Oannes that their endeavor was bound for success. To say the least, Abe is horrified to learn about all this.
• Chrome Dome Psi: In the movies he hasn't any hair on his head and possesses what, in so many words, amounts to psychic abilities.
• Demonic Possession: At the climax of Seed of Destruction, he gets possessed by the spirit of Elihu Cavendish. It turns out to be a rather benevolent example, since the ghost only used his body to hurl a harpoon through Rasputin's chest and snap Liz out of her hypnosis.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Crushed to death by Rasputin in the Grand Finale.
• Fish People: He's not dubbed "Icthyo Sapien" for no reason. Not only does he look like a fishman, he has all the abilities you would expect from one, such as being an incredibly good swimmer and breathing underwater.
• God in Human Form: Hinted. He is called "fish god" once or twice, and it's increasingly heavily hinted he might be an avatar or rebirth of Oannes the sea god.
• Identity Amnesia: At first, but investigating his past led to Abe remembering his past life.
• I Hate Past Me: Abe desperately wants to learn about his origins. Then he wishes he hadn't.
• Made of Iron: He's nearly as tough as Hellboy is, having survived being shot three times by an angry monkey, tortured with iron brands, impaled through the chest twice, and once tossed around like a ragdoll by the Ogopogo Lake Monster.
• Mysterious Past: Not that mysterious anymore, but now he has a mysterious future (as seen in several of Liz’s visions, he will play a role in the apocalypse and unexpectedly, he seems to be connected to Shonchin and the Hyperborean shamans).
• Named After Somebody Famous: The B.P.R.D. gave him the first name Abraham for Abraham Lincoln. It's explained that this was something of a dark joke, as a scrap of paper listing his species near where they first found him referenced the date Lincoln was killed.
• Non-Action Guy: In the films, Abe is shown as a solid non-action member of the team, and his fighting scenes often get him thrown around and barely managing to survive whatever they are facing. If anything, he only looks good in dodging maneuvers and aiming.
• The Ophelia: Caul’s wife Edith Howard always had an unstable psyche. But after he disappeared, she went mad and drowned herself. She continued to haunt their house and tried to coax Abe into staying with her and becoming Caul again. He shows her her reflection in a mirror and she makes peace with her death.
• Psychic Powers: In the films, he has a unique brain structure which gives him what amounts to these, but are apparently distinct from them in some way.
• Put on a Bus: This happens to Abe in an awesome way in the B.P.R.D. story "The Dead". He returns to field duty... but not for long.
• Recurring Dreams: Abe had a weird one in the Plague of Frogs story arc.
• Super-Strength: It's downplayed in the films, but Abe appears to be extremely strong in the comics, once even capable of tearing a stone block the size of his torso out of a castle wall he was chained to. His mutation in "Hell On Earth" explicitly made him even stronger.
• Stable Time Loop: After being stabbed and going into a coma, he somehow ended up in Victorian London and by watching and touching his former self somehow caused his transformation into a fish man in the first place.
• Shout-Out: As a humanoid fish man who apparently is still undergoing the process of further mutation into an even more fish-like state and his origins tied to a mysterious undersea city, Abe is something of a Deep One analogue for the Hellboy universe, especially with the revelation that Abe is effectively a highly evolved version of one of the Frog Monsters.
• Species Surname: Abe's last name is "Sapien" and his species is known as "Ichthyo Sapien"
• Tomato in the Mirror: One of the main things driving Abe's wandering at present is his deep denial about his similarity to the frog monsters.
• Touch Telepathy: In the films, he has vaguely-defined psychic powers involving his "unique frontal lobe", and they are based on touch — he can do psychometric readings of objects, and share the images he gains from these telepathically. He can also detect life and read memories or emotions through his hands.
• Tastes Like Friendship: After saving Abe from being vivisected Hellboy takes him to the cafeteria for a ham sandwich.
• They Would Cut You Up: Curious scientists wanted to dissect him but he was saved by Hellboy. He later saved Roger from the same fate.
• Truly Single Parent: Is easily killed by Rasputin in Ragna Rok but explodes into thousands of eggs that grow into Icthyo Sapien babies that take over humanity's place as rulers of the planet.

Professor Katherine 'Kate' Corrigan

Debut: Dark Horse Presents #88

Kate was a professor of history at New York University before joining the B.P.R.D. in 1984 as a consultant. She specializes in folklore and has a vast knowledge of anything occult, mystical or folklore. Kate became a regular cast member of the B.P.R.D. spinoff series where she acts as the special liaison to the ‘'enhanced talents'’ agents before eventually getting promoted to director. Kate and Hellboy are exes and good friends and she blames herself for encouraging him to leave the bureau.

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• A Day In The Lime Light: B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine is all about her searching for a way to bring Roger back to life.
• Badass Bookworm: In B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine Kate is captured by an ageless marquis who wants to trade her for either Roger’s corpse or Abe Sapien. While unable to get the book she needed from the marquis to restore Roger back to life, she did manage to escape on her own in an awesome way – she recognized the ring of the marquis as a ring belonging to King Solomon and by destroying it she released a demon who was a prisoner of the marquis and who promptly took him to Hell.
• Big Good: Kate is the one running the B.P.R.D.'s attempt to stop the apocalypse.
  • As the crisis start piling up so does the B.P.R.D. standing and influence, and Kate's own authority. By the end of "Hell on Earth" she's backed by the U.N. and has army-like resources.
• Break the Cutie: Trying to save humanity with limited success has slowly chipped away at Kate's friendly attitude and empathy.
• Badass Normal: One of the few non-superpowered, non-military trained agents, but can still hold her own.
• The Chains of Commanding: Starts to feel this real hard throughout the Hell on Earth Arc, as the Bureau becomes much more powerful even as the situation also becomes a lot more desperate for humanity.
• Despair Event Horizon: Suffers this in Part One of Cometh the Hour as a result of the Ogdru Jahad's inexorable advance towards the BPRD headquarters in Colorado and being confronted with the necessity of having to evacuate said base, in addition to the stress of fighting a losing war to save humanity for years.
• Driven to Suicide: It's very difficult to say if her death was this or a complex example of For Want Of A Nail. Everyone notes that she doesn't want to leave the Colorado H.Q. and that she doesn't take the necessity to leave with the appropriate urgency. She downright refuses to leave Panya behind despite the insane danger involved in going back to the building, and when she finds her she admits that over a decade of war has taken a toll on her. Both women hold hands and then Nunn-Jahad destroys the building at that precise moment. It isn't clear what Kate's plan was, or if she even had any.
• Geek: Kate Corrigan is a occult/mythology geek (it was her day job before she joined the BPRD).
• Going Down with the Ship: She could have escaped, but she outright refused to leave when there were still any agents in the building. When Panya decides to remain behind she stays with her, and both women stay a bit too much in the danger zone....
• I Want Grandkids: In the (probably) non-canon Curse of the Haunted Doily, the ghost of Kate Corrigan's mother bugs her about this.
• Interspecies Romance: Hellboy and Kate dated for a brief time before ending the relationship on good terms.
• Klingon Promotion: Is essentially running the B.P.R.D. since all of her superiors kept getting killed.
• Relationship Upgrade: Starts a long-distance relationship with Bruno Karhu, a German policeman she met during the King of Fear arc. Sadly, the relationship doesn't work as the demands of her position take their toll.
• Took a Level in Badass: Went from an academic who was deeply unnerved by her first contact with a ghost in The Wolves Of Saint August to effectively the coordinator of humanity's fight against the Apocalypse.
• Team Mom: For the special agents, then the entire bureau.

Roger The Homunculus

Debut: Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3

Roger, a big energy-absorbing homunculus, was discovered in 1996 in Romania by B.P.R.D. agents Liz Sherman, Bud Waller and Sidney Leach. He was activated when Liz (who subconsciously wanted to get rid of her pyrokinesis) touched him. Liz went into a coma and Roger into a killing spree. Roger felt guilty and prayed to God to be killed. He then encountered his "brother", who was trying to get revenge on humanity by sacrificing Kate and using a giant homunculus made of human fat. Roger saved Kate, used Liz’s power to melt the giant body and killed his brother. He restored Liz’s pyrokinesis and — being without an energy source again — went into a coma for three years. He was restored by Abe Sapien using an overdose of electricity and became an agent. Roger is killed in the pages of B.P.R.D. by the villain The Black Flame.

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• Artificial Human: Being a homunculus, Roger is naturally this.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Subverted. They even spend an entire story arc letting you think it's gonna happen.
  • Subverted again in The Devil You Know: acting on a tip from Fenix the team return to their Colorado base and exhume his grave. What's in the coffin is alive, but it isn't Roger; it's Hellboy.
• The Big Guy: After Hellboy leaves the Bureau, Roger takes his place as the team muscle.
• Cigar Chomper: He becomes one during the war on the Frogs, under the influence of Ben Daimio. Liz thinks that because of his (relative) youth and inexperience, he tends to "imprint" on people like a bird - at first Hellboy, and after he leaves, Ben.
• Collector of the Strange: A harmless version. Roger collects all sorts of stuff and junk and hangs it up on strings from his ceiling. One of his collected things turns out to be very important in order for Liz to burn Katha-Hem to dust.
• Gentle Giant: Doesn't much care for violence. This starts to change, however, after Daimyo takes him under his wing.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Returns Liz's power to her, knowing it would mean he'd no longer be animated, because she was slowly dying without it.
• Innocent Fanservice Guy: Roger only wears his boots. Played for Laughs at least once.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: In the B.P.R.D. series, his characterization tends more towards this.
• Last of His Kind: The last of the Mischrasse homunculi.
• Manchild: Roger is very childlike. He looks up to and wants to please Ben Daimio like he were his parent. He collects all sorts of stuff and his spirit even becomes a child in a dreamlike world after he died.
• Mortality Grey Area: He's inert if he doesn't have a power source to activate him, but not dead. His friends come visit his soul and find out he's happy where he is, apparently in a relationship with the Roman goddess of sewers, and asks not to be brought back.
• Really 700 Years Old: More than 500 years old. He doesn't age thanks to being an artificial creature.
• Sacrificial Lion: His whole team was blown to pieces in the B.P.R.D. spinoff series.
• They Would Cut You Up: Abe prevented some B.P.R.D. scientists from doing so.
• We Can Rebuild Him: Sadly no, Kate, you can’t, cause the book you needed to do so is now in Hell, along with the marquis.
• Why Am I Ticking?: The Bureau puts a bomb in Roger for fear of him going rogue. This is the major catalyst (but not the only reason) for Hellboy to leave.

Professor Trevor Bruttenholm

Debut: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1

The founder and director of the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy's adoptive father. Is killed by the frog creatures at the beginning of the first Hellboy comic and in the middle of the movie.

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• Badass Bookworm: Downplayed. While far from a fighter, Bruttenholm still participates in B.P.R.D. field missions and deals with all the danger that entails, especially in the 1940s. At one point he even parachutes out of a rocket filled with vampires!
• Big Good: Was this for the B.P.R.D. when he ran it.
• Defiant to the End: In the first film, he makes it clear to Rasputin and Kroenen that no matter what, he will always see Hellboy as his son.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Subverted. He doesn't die in anyone's arms, but the first thing Hellboy does when he finds him is just hold him.
• Face Death with Dignity: In the first film, Kroenen fatally stabs him after Rasputin assures him that his death will be quick. Trevor calmly accepts it.
• Good Parents: Is he ever. Bruttenholm made sure to give Hellboy a stable childhood and raise him with all the love he could. It's due in no small part to his parenting that Hellboy becomes the Anti-Anti-Christ.
• Motherly Scientist: Gender flipped. He adopts Hellboy after he was summoned into this world.
• Posthumous Character: Trevor is only shown in flashbacks and prequels, which show how important he was to the team.
• Plot-Triggering Death: His death alerts the Bureau to the dangers of the frog creatures and Rasputin.

Thomas 'Tom' Manning

Debut: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1

Director of the B.P.R.D. since Trevor Bruttenholm resigned in 1982. When the team relocated to Colorado he disappeared.

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• The Bus Came Back: Returns in Part Two of Cometh the Hour, where he coordinates the evacuation of the B.P.R.D. Headquarters with Kate in front of the advancing Ogdru Jahad and its Ogdru Hem spawn.
• King on His Deathbed: Is revealed to be terminally ill in The Devil You Know #6, when he speaks with Hellboy at the B.P.R.D. helicarrier's command center from his bed at a D.C. secure facility. In his words, he has had "many new illnesses" in the last few years, since the start of the war against the Ogdru Hem. It is indicative of how bad things generally are that Hellboy believes that a dying Manning may yet live long enough to see how it all turns out...
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: At first, he tended to follow the directions of his superiors in opposition to the opinions of his team. This included planting a bomb in Roger (unwillingly, but still), which drove Hellboy to resign. After this he gradually evolved into a Reasonable Authority Figure.
• Put on a Bus: Manning basically disappeared from the series when the team went to Colorado.

Sydney Leach

Debut: Hellboy: Wake the Devil

A B.P.R.D. agent with the power of limited ferrokinesis, expressed mostly in abilities to detect metal and manipulate it to small degrees. Has a relaxed, informal attitude to his work and calls himself "the living metal detector."

He worked with the B.P.R.D. during the Romania mission circa 1997 during which he was injured.

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• Extra-ore-dinary: "The living metal detector", indeed.
• Injury Tropes: Had his hands burned when trying to open a hatch that had been heated up by Liz's power.
• The Nicknamer
• Plucky Comic Relief: A rare Bureau agent with some levity.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: His fate after the Romania mission in 1997 is unknown.

Introduced on B.P.R.D. during the "Plague of Frogs" Arc (Aprox. 2000-2010)

Capt. Ben Daimio

Debut: B.P.R.D.: The Dead #1

Field director of the B.P.R.D. following Bruttenholm's death and Hellboy's departure, the one in charge of leading missions. Daimio was a U.S. Marine Captain, but was killed, then brought back to life. He eventually has to be killed when the were-jaguar spirit keeping him alive starts killing agents.

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• And I Must Scream: As he explains to Abe later, he is conscious and aware while in the Jaguar form, but has no control over what it does. Meaning Ben watched helplessly as he slaughtered dozens of his own men in Killing Ground.
• Back from the Dead: Under originally mysterious circumstances. He died, and cut himself out of a body bag three days later, with half his face missing, and very much to his surprise.
• Bait the Dog: Played with. He seems to be a good, decent person, respected and even looked up to by everyone on base. And he is. But the jaguar inside of him is not. As Mignola once said, despite being a good man, he was one of the worst things that ever happened to the B.P.R.D.
• Crazy Survivalist: By New World, he's ended up here.
• Death Seeker: Once he realizes he'll never be free of the jaguar curse.
• Demonic Possession: Plays a major part in his backstory.
• Famous Ancestor: He's the grandson of Crimson Lotus, a witch and Japanese war criminal who was the arch-enemy of Lobster Johnson. However, he inherited none of her supernatural abilities. The jaguar-demon possessing him is completely unrelated to this.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Notably subverted with Daimio. He has hideous scarring along the left side of his head, and is missing an ear and most of his left cheek. Blame the jaguar demon that's now inhabiting his soul.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: Eventually revealed to be the source of his rebirth. But he has no control over his werejaguar form, and kills countless B.P.R.D. personnel in Killing Ground before he escapes.
• Parental Substitute: He becomes one of these in a way for Roger, who starts imitating his attitude to the point of smoking cigars as well. For his part, Ben eventually becomes very proud of the golem's developing abilities as a fighter and a leader. Though Roger isn't as sanguine about the former as he appears.
• Race Lift: Subverted. Ed Skrein was planned to play Daimo in the reboot movies, but upon learning the original character’s race, he gave up the role, unprompted. Wisely avoiding backlash, the production team then cast Daniel Dae Kim—who isn't Japanese either.
• Resist the Beast: He managed to do this on his own for a while, then with the help of moxibustion, but eventually, the jaguar beame too strong to be contained.
• Semper Fi: A former Captain in the United States Marine Corps.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He's had a rough time of it. He was dead for three days, wouldn't you be too?
• Superpowered Evil Side: Thanks to the aforementioned Demonic Possession. In Killing Ground, it wakes up.
• Tragic Monster: He never asked to become the host of the jaguar cult's assassin, and he endured a lot in his ultimately futile quest to contain it.

Johann Kraus

AKA: The Ectoplasmic Man

Debut: Dark Horse Extra #42

A German medium who was reduced to his ectoplasmic form after a séance gone wrong - he was the only spiritual medium worldwide lucky (or perhaps unlucky) enough to be outside his body, on the astral plane, when a mysterious Chinese artifact incinerated every other powerful medium, all at once, leaving him with no physical body to go back to.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Became Johann Krauss in the film, purely so Hellboy could crack an "SS" joke.
• Aesop Amnesia: At the end of Killing Ground Johann seems remorseful over the fact he wasn't there to help stop Ben Daimio in his were-Jaguar form sooner. And that maybe indulging in booze and sex while he should have been at his post was selfish. Cue the start of Hell on Earth where Johann is avoiding work to sit in a lab alone with a new body the bureau is attempting to make for him. Made extra callous by the fact Kate is overworked due to all the horrific apocalyptic disasters currently happening. One panel even has Johann casually reading a book in said lab after Kate trusted him with command while she was away.
• Astral Projection: He had the abilitiy in life to project himself to "the other side". Now, technically, he is living astral projection, caught between the two worlds.
• The Blank: Due to his lack of a physical form.
• Character Development: Has gradually become colder, more bitter and often more callous, as his connection with regular humanity has waned. In the end, he overcomes this and sacrifices his soul to save humanity.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Johann is a very good person, but he has some deep flaws. His desire for a real body has sometimes overriden his good judgement, and being dead has made Johann somewhat callous.
• Demonic Possession: Or rather spiritual. This is one of Johann's abilities.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Johann partially merged with the universe and channelled every last trace of Vril in it to completely destroy Nunn-Jahad. In doing so, he proved that the Ogdru Jahad are not invincible.
• Empathic Shapeshifter: At the end of Killing Ground, his ectoplasmic form is temporarily that of his recently-destroyed new body, but reverts to his old one as he realizes just how much his selfishness has cost others.
• Gratuitous German: When he loses his temper. Allmachtiger!
• The Hedonist: In Killing Ground, when he (temporarily) finds a new, super-powered body, he spends as much time as he can working out, masturbating, and eating huge amounts of food (so much that the custodial staff complained he was single-handedly raising their monthly garbage tonnage). Many of the issue's problems could have been solved, and innocent people saved, if he hadn't snuck off-base to carouse with pretty ladies and booze at the worst possible moment.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Johann destroyed Nunn-Jahad and saved the world, at the cost of his own life.
• Hold the Line: By the time of Cometh the Hour he, along with Liz, has been reduced to this, fighting a holding action against the hordes of new Ogdru Hem spawned by Nunn-Jahad in an effort to buy time for the BPRD to evacuate their headquarters.
• Infernal Paradise: One story has him saddled with a bunch of frog-man ghosts who haven't been in their form long enough to automatically go to frog-man heaven, and whose presence on earth is spreading corruption and sickness. When he finally manages to get them where they're going he has a glimpse of a hideous "paradise" that might suit a bunch of froglike servants belonging to one twisted deity or another but sure ain't great for humans. As he's staring in horror, the portal to Frog Heaven extends a tongue/tentacle/pseudopod and nearly drags him in before he escapes. The whole thing has him shell-shocked and re-reading The Bible for a bit.
• Killed Off for Real: Due to how he killed Nunn-Jahad, the sheer strain of channeling all the Vril in the universe burned out his soul.
• Must Make Amends: After becoming infatuated with his body and dropping the ball when the team needed him in Killing Ground led to many death's at the possessed Daimio's claws, Johann tries to make it up the rest of the team (whose responses to his efforts vary). Eventually, he makes it his personal mission to hunt down and kill Daimao himself.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • Back when he still had a body, Johann once fell for the deceased wife of one of the bereaved participants of a séance and persuaded the increasingly-reluctant man to come back for further séances, putting both the man and his wife through emotional torture, until the man finally refused. So Johann summoned the lady himself and told her that he was in love with the depth of compassion and warmth in her heart. She proceeded to admonish him, saying that those feelings were expressed toward her husband and begged him to stop what he was doing, saying that she found Johann too pathetic to hate.
  • In Killing Grounds the mistake he makes ends up leading to the deaths of several innocent people.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: As Kate Corrigan points out, Johann isn't technically dead. He just doesn't have a body anymore.
• Powered Armor: At the end of the "Modern Prometheus" story, he upgrades to the Sledgehammer armour (!) allowing him to one-shot Ogdru Hem and fight off the Black Flame.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Becomes one of humanity's main heavy hitters afterwards, at the loss of his psychic powers.
• Psychic Powers: Prior to his incident, Johann was a medium who could temporarily project himself into the afterlife. Now he has his powers, but is effectively a spirit himself.
• Psychopomp: He can help spirits pass on to the afterlife.

Panya

Panya and one of her pets.

AKA: Naunet

Debut: B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls #1

Panya is an ancient mummy who was unwrapped by the Heliopic Brotherhood Of Ra in the late 19th century, before being kidnapped by Abe Sapien's old colleagues, the Oannes Society. She was taken in by the B.P.R.D. after Abe tracked down the society in "Garden Of Souls." Also taken in was an assortment of odd chimaeras made by the Society, for which Panya feels a lot of simpathy for.

She has limited movement and needs a wheelchair. Her psychic powers are great and varied, being capable of possessing some creatures, causing migraines, speak to the dead and enter people's consciousness. She acts as a mentor in the craft for younger psychic Felix Espejo. She also often acts as part of the Mission Control, along with Kate.

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• And I Must Scream: The Oannes society confined Panya to a bed for decades, constantly surrounded by burning opiates which left her unable to move. Eventually, her muscles atrophied to the point where the opiates were only necessary to keep her from using her powers to their fullest extent, as she had lost the ability to move on her own. Once the B.P.R.D. rescue her, they start giving her physical rehab, and by the end of the comic she can walk again.
• Driven to Suicide
• Friend to All Living Things: She has a psychic rapport with animals (and certain humans), and has a great affection for them, particularly the Oannes Society's chimeras.
• Glasgow Smile: due to being a moving corpse, her face often looks like she has a Slasher Smile, probably due to Rigor Mortis.
• Grand Dame: despite being an Egyptian mummy, Panya awoke and lived for a long time in Victorian England, and it shows. Half her time is spent complaining and fussing over anything.
  • Deadpan Snarker: naturally she has the trademark British dry wit, as expected of an elegant old lady (millennia old, in her case).
• Future Badass: A very complex example. In Liz's predictions she sees a no longer mummy-like Panya, looking like a normal human and completely decked on B.P.R.D. battle equipment. In reality, she does regain the ability to walk, but she dies before the Apocalyptic scenario Liz envisioned and she never fully participates in battle like in the vision. Possibly her becoming a soldier was a future that somehow never came to happen.
• Intergenerational Friendship: She quickly hit it off with Liz Sherman and Fenix.
• Killed Off for Real: Died when Nunn-Jahad destroyed the HQ, along with Kate and a lot of people.
• Merlin Sickness: Possibly. When she first arrived at the B.P.R.D., she was weak and bed-ridden. As she grew stronger she took to a wheelchair and was generally more active, and there were hints that this might be significant. Then, by the end of "Hell On Earth", she's capable of walking again. Of course, she is also going through physical rehab after decades of being forced to lie in bed.
• Mission Control: In any other series, the ancient, prophecy-spouting mystic would be allowed to putter around the secret base until exposition was needed. But Kate gets sick of Panya's freeloading and sticks her in front of all the monitors watching the news.
• Mummy She is one, but it seems she's like a normal human in surprising ways, such as being able to take in sustenance, being affected by drugs, having her muscles atrophy from disuse and benefit from rehab, apparently feeling pain and so forth.
• Psychic Powers: She seems to have clairvoyance, telepathy, the ability to dominate simple or weak minds (and induce headaches in others), and precognition. Like Kraus, she can also project into the spiritual plane.
• Red Herring: there's constant signs that she's planning something, not helped by her habit of looking at people from afar with a sinister visage. By the end of "Cometh The Hour" it turns out that all she wanted was to free her animals and block the elevator so she could commit suicide on her feet and alone, while surrounded by the chimaeras she loved.
• Spooky Séance: She takes over Kraus as the one in charge of this in the Bureau, and she has several confrontations with villains on the psychic realm.
• Those Two Guys: Seen throughout most of the series along with Kate as the Mission Control.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: she caused the death of Kate, a dear friend and arguably one of the most essential human beings to the defense of the species. Panya wanted to stay on the H.Q. to die, Kate would have none of it. They stood a bit too much on the place during the attack and both were taken by the Dragon.
  • The Greatest Story Never Told: throwaway lines in "The Devil You Know" imply Panya is suspected to have caused Corrigan's death, as the last thing anyone saw of Kate was her looking for the mummy. In reality she had no ill intentions to the Bureau and and truly wanted her colleagues to live, with Kate's death being mostly the result of the director's own stubbornness to leave no one behind, combined with really bad luck.
• Vagueness Is Coming: What her original role was.

Andrew Devon

An accountant that gets promoted to field agent and goes on a few missions, the biggest one being following Fenix Espejo across country. Eventually promoted all the way to head of the B.P.R.D. by The Devil You Know.

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• Ascended Extra: Played a small supporting role in "The Universal Machine", then kept coming back and working his way up. Now he's a main character.
• Demonic Possession: Falls victim to this after dying, courtesy of one of Varvara's demons
• Fantastic Racism: He does not trust Abe because of his appearance.
• Jerkass: He is really dickish to Abe Sapien...
  • Jerkass Has a Point: ...but he's right that simply ignoring Sapien looking almost exactly like the frog creatures is silly.
• Mauve Shirt: Not a really important agent early on, but not dead meat either. By this point he's got as much Plot Armour as you can have in an Anyone Can Die series.
• No-Respect Guy: Rather unpopular during his tenure as director, thanks in no small part to his animosity with Liz and Abe.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Agent Devon was turning into one before he got Reassigned to Antarctica.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Got stuck with following Fenix around the US, probably for insulting Abe.

Professor James Henry O'Donnell

A very easily excited Bureau scientist who seems to know a great deal about the Ogdru Jahad. He tends to freak out whenever the case relates to the Ogdru Jahad, and often launches into gothic prophecy about whatever they seem to be facing.

He was once a world-renowned expert in Ancient Languages who did some consulting work for the Bureau in Bruttenholm's time, while showing perhaps a bit too much enthuasiasm for the topic. This all changed when he joined Hellboy on a mission to investigate the library of recently deceased necromancer Alessandro Divizia. During the mission O'Donnell wandered to the wrong room and witnessed things he should not have witnessed, which drove him insane. A shameful Bruttenholm would then take O'Donnell in as a ward for the Bureau so he would have the correct care in his condition. This had an unexpected positive turn for humanity, as despite his madness O'Donnell is a very useful addition to the Agency.

He needs constant psychiatric supervision and medication. He has some level of magical knowledge, and he can recite by memory ancient texts that no longer exist. His ramblings might or might not have prophetic insight.

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• Affectionate Parody: Of Lovecraft's protagonists. He's essentially locked into the narration of a Cosmic Horror story.
  • Deconstructed Trope: As it turns out, when they have to deal with a Cosmic Horror survivor on a daily basis, most people are just exasperated by them
• Animal Motifs: Flies. He sees the great mages of history becoming flies, and often hallucinates with human-like flies.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Whatever fried his brain left him with a tenuous connection to reality. To the point that his co-workers are somewhat tired of O'Donnell's rantings, which in this universe of prophecies being worth everything is saying something.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Often followed by a tired nurse tasked with keeping him unexcited.
  • The Cloud Cuckoo Lander Was Right: Arguably one of the few characters with some idea of the relevance the Hyperboreans have to the current dangers humanity faces (at least in his lucid moments).
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He gets to save the day during "The Devil's Wings", using incantations he found on an old text to free a possessed Kate Corrigan. Let's not talk about how he kinda caused it by unearthing another relic.
• Day in the Limelight: "The Transformation of J.H. O'Donnell" is about his backstory and mania.
• Mad Prophet: Is this for the Bureau, though his co-workers tend to regard him with exasperation rather than reverance.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: He comes off across as one of those Lovecraft protagonists who went crazy after reading the Necronomicon or something similar, only he's still lucid enough to speak with (most of the time) because the BPRD can help manage his psychosis with medication.
• You Shall Not Pass!!: How he goes. He's one of the last surviving members of the Bureau, and he diverts the attention of a bunch of monsters to allow more people to escape.

Ashley Strode

Debut: B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs #3

Initially introduced in "War on Frogs" as a young, unusually cheerful agent that looked up to Liz Sherman, Ashley was a member of the U.S. Navy before joining the B.P.R.D. Years later she would reappear on the "Hell on Earth" Arc as an independant agent, usually investigating cases as opposed to the bigger ones most of the Bureau works with.

During the events of "B.P.R.D. Exorcism" she helps old time Bureau ally and exorcist Ota Benga to deal with the demon Andras. After witnessing Ota Benga's death she takes it upon herself to become the Bureau's resident Exorcist, a role for which she quickly shows a great talent for.

Her abilities to battle demons would make her instrumental to the Bureau during their last mission in "The Devil You Know" Arc, in which she takes protagonism in the fight against the powerful demon known as Varvara.

She's shown to be either a lesbian or bisexual.

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• Ascended Extra: Initially a one-off agent that just so happened to really like Liz during "The War on Frogs", Strode would eventually star in her own storyline, take multiple, huge levels in Badass and end up as one of the main players ofthe final arc, and even killing the penultime Big Bad.
• Empowered Badass Normal: She was already a competent soldier and detective before initiating herself on exorcism.
• Flaming Sword: she gets one in the spiritual realm when dealing with demons. She eventually gets the ability to manifest it on the real world too.
• Girl Next Door: Her design had this look in mind
• Hero Worship: She adores Liz and usually tries to defend her from criticism. Kate shows doubt on whether Liz even knows Ashley's name.
• Hollywood Exorcism: Naturally. Right after Ota Benga's death she starts using an old bible and a crucifix. She's an unusual example though, being female and not a priest.
• Interfaith Smoothie: Her invocations include christian figures, hindu deities and mesopotamian lore.
• The Lad-ette
• Magic Knight: In a way. She has spiritual abilities and is also a very competent shooter and detective.
• Mauve Shirt: From a minor agent that just so happened to look up to Liz in "War on Frogs" to star on her own arcs.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: In a way: Ota Benga's death and example inspired her to follow his steps, but he never formally taught her
• Taking You with Me: She's the one to kill Yomyael, aka Varvara, but the now unpossessed daughter of Rasputin kills her afterwards.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Becomes instrumental in the conflict for the Bureau against the demon, Varvara.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A particulary tragic example. Varvara had to be stopped, but in killing her she accidentally freed Rasputin back to the world, ushering true Apocalypse and costing her her life.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Ashley starts as very insecure in her own abilities, and it takes some support from older members to truly come into her own.

Joseph Vaughn

Debut: B.P.R.D.: Casualties

A veteran, grizzled B.P.R.D. agent that first appeared as a background character during the short story "Casualties" (but is implied to have worked and survived much more, as he may have been on the Agency as long as Abe). He would later take protagonism in "The Pickens County Horror", battling a cadre of hillbilly vampires and narrowly surviving.

Vaughn mostly stayed on the background until the "Dark and Terrible" Arc in Abe Sapien's solo title, in which he rose in prominence due to tragic circumstances. He's the agent initially tasked by Field Director Kate Corrigan with finding the missing Abe Sapien, and takes to the monster-filled roads in America to do so. In the process though he's killed by a mutant. Notorious Necromancer Gustav Strobl finds his corpse and raises the once normal agent to be his new servant zombie, while keeping his memories, intelligence and personality. Vaughn's fear of death makes him an unwilling accomplice to Strobl's ventures during the run, as they form an extremely uneasy bond.

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• Badass Normal
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He initially accepts Strobl's "arrangement" of being bought back to life, preferring it over, well, being dead. After trying and failing to escape and furthering their contract by helping Strobl take a life he becomes well and truly chained to his new master, to his horror.
• Fate Worse than Death
• The Generic Guy: arguably one of the most run-of-the-mill agents that has recurring appearances, truly just an average Joe trying to deal with the traumatic horrors the B.P.R.D. deals with on a daily basis. Arguably this makes his turn to an undead monster more tragic
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Vaughn is initially somewhat willing to act as Strobl's servant, tempted by the chance to live again. His own morality is what prevents him from truly turning sides.
• Mauve Shirt
• Our Zombies Are Different: He becomes the classic "servant" type. As times go by his skin begins to rot, and he starts to look like the classic version, with a blue skin and visible damage in his body
  • Voodoo Zombie: he's intelligent and does no brain eating, but is chained to his master.
• Sarcastic Devotee: He's usually tired of Strobl's stuffiness, and generally unhappy with the situation.
• Sidekick: Strobl's somewhat unwilling one.
• Spanner in the Works: Stops Strobl's plan to catch Abe, saving his life.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Manages to help Abe a bit in his first duel against Strobl, only for the necromancer to finally destroy his body.

Introduced on B.P.R.D. during the "Hell on Earth" Arc (aprox. 2010-2015)

Ted Howards / Gall Dennar

Once, agent Ted Howards was a rational, friendly, and perfectly mundane Bureau agent, sent with two companions to investigate what turned out to be a nineteenth-century occultist temple in Chicago. Here he discovered and picked up an unimaginably old sword - while in the distant past, a primitive warrior chief named Gall Dennar is handed the same sword when his father is killed in battle. Both lose consciousness and, from that point on, their destinies merged: when Howards is found by his companions, his personality has undergone a complete change into that of a stoic, silent, and unfriendly berserker warrior, yet more competent than old Howards ever was.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: His sword is perfectly capable of cleaving through a man's skull even when thrown.
• The Berserker: He wears no armor and wields no other weapon than his sword, simply launching himself at his foes and tearing them to pieces.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Being possessed by the blade allowed him to achieve superhuman feats, especially being far more agile than a normal human could be. It's unclear if this is due to Gall's training or the blade's magic.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's abruptly killed by a random subterranean monster whilst attempting to escort refugees to an underground shelter during Ragna Rok.
• Excalibur in the Rust: Averted. His sword is still sharp and in excellent condition a thousand years after his death, thus becoming Frankenstein's creature's sword.
• Inexplicably Awesome: From the perspective of most of the Bureau members, for the longest time Howards explains nothing of his powers, but is clearly superhuman for no apparent reason.
• Long-Dead Badass: Is this by the time his mummified remains are found by Frankenstein's creature a thousand years later, with the creature saying that he had heard from the people of the subterranean world about his legend, and that he had been the "last hero of the world above."
• Past-Life Memories: Howards' seem to have been taken over by, or merged with, Dennar's.
• Relationship Upgrade: Hooks up with Liz Sherman by "The Devil You Know".
• The Quiet One: Notorious between the agents for never speaking and going off on his own.
• Wild Card

Fenix Espejo

Debut: B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth - Gods #1

A teenage Seer that can predict when Ogdru Hem would attack and other calamities. Fenix initially led a group of other survivors around, protecting them from monsters before getting recruited into the B.P.R.D.. Has a pet Rottweiler named Bruiser.

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• Disposable Vagrant: Played mostly straight with her group of runaways: almost none of them are named, they have almost no lines, and most of them serve little addition to the story other than as monster-chow; Fenix also sees them as a surrogate family, and feels responsible when one of them dies.
• Final Girl: She's the last surviving B.P.R.D. member, reaching the new underground world along with Giarocco's son.
• Green Thumb: Tends a garden outside the B.P.R.D. Colorado headquarters with Liz and Kate.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Panya. Later with Liz, who sees a lot of her younger self in Fenix.
• Jerkass: Of the angry teenager variety.
• Queen of the Homeless: Well, not queen per se, but she is most certainly the leader of her band of drifters and runaways, as her abilities allow her to warn them of dangerous areas to avoid.
• The Runaway: Doesn't have any parents, and when we fist meet her she is train hoping with a group of other teenage backpackers trying to stay one-step ahead of the undead mutants and crab creatures.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Her general attitude when things get dangerous. Justified, as her powers allow her to see danger before it arrives, giving her a chance to avoid it. Considering that physically she is just a normal teenage girl, it's not like she could do much on her own in most dangerous situations even if she chose to stay.
  • After one-too-many attacks by the crab creatures leaves Fenix's group scattered and decimated, she is left with two options: either vainly try and regroup (and most likely end up monster chow), or risk going cross-country with Devon and joining the B.P.R.D.. She chooses the latter.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Joining the B.P.R.D. really helped Fenix find purpose in her life.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: Is accused of this when first introduced. In reality "fenix" is the Spanish equivalent for phoenix, and its her real name, along with "Espejo" (mirror).

Carla Giarocco

Debut: B.P.R.D.: New World #1

A notable Mauve Shirt, Carla Giarocco was one of the many minor B.P.R.D. agents (albeit a very competent one). She gained prominence after the events in "The Slow Death" where she managed to survive an attack by a monstrous Ben Daimio, even managing to harm him (albeit not permanently). After this she became one of Kate's most trusted agents and the leader of several expeditions, particulary the Russian mission in "The Return of the Master".

She has no powers to speak of but is a very competent soldier and leader.

Notably she has a son named Connor, which makes her a bit unusual in the series. Her love for her son is one of her main drives.

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• Adrenaline Makeover: She was already a soldier, but her first appearance had longer hair, which she eventually changed to a mohawk-esque look (which also had the result of making her look more distinctive)
• Badass Normal: No powers whatsoever, but goes toe to toe with abominations unfazed.
• The Corruptible: Almost falls victim to Varvara's dreams, as she uses her love of her son as a weakness for her terrifying visions.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Her death is tragic even by the series's standards. She's shot in the head by a possessed Devon, and agonizes just long enough to die in her son's arms. Sniff.
  Carla, dying, holding her son: "Baby...''"
• Dreaming of Things to Come: An unusual example. Her actual first appearance was a background corpse during Liz Sherman's vision of the Apocalypse.
• The Everyman: Carla is indicative of the changes in the Bureau: as events spiral out of control the Agency becomes more militarized and its members go from oddball creatures to career soldiers. Carla has no interest or talent for the supernatural and sees the monsters that attack humanity as simply monsters that must be stopped.
• Honor Before Reason: Her reasons for saving Nichayko.
• I Have a Family: An almost textbook example during The Slow Death: she mentions that she has a son back home. Unusually she didn't die after this (but got real close).
• Mauve Shirt: Her first appearance was a corpse in one of Liz's vision of an apocalyptic future. She would appear later on page talking to the phone with Kate. By the end of the series she's a main player, and arguably the most plot relevant B.P.R.D. foot soldier.
• Odd Friendship: Forms one with Nichayko, of all people. He has nothing but respect and admiration for her, she in turn saves his life.
• Rugged Scar: Has a notorious one in her eyebrow, courtesy of a converted Daimio.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a truly epic one to Kraus after his need for vengeance almost cost her her life during an attack from a converted Daimio. Kraus apologized after this but Carla was not amused.

Joined the B.P.R.D. during "The Devil You Know" Arc (aprox. 2015 and beyond)

Leonid

A superhuman, gigantic member of the S.S.S. and Nichayko's apparent second in command, joining him in the joint mission with the B.P.R.D. to take down the Black Flame on Manhattan.

After Nichayko's death, he joins the B.P.R.D. in time for their last mission on Manhattan.

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• The Dragon: Worked as Nichayko's second in command, and the other distinctive member of the S.S.S.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Even by this series's standards his death is anticlimactic. He gets carried off by some of Varvara's devils at the start of the Last Mission.
• Gentle Giant: Though gentle may be overselling it, he's usually soft spoken and professional.
• Godzilla Threshold: by "The Devil You Know" the B.P.R.D. and the S.S.S. have essentially joined completely, with Leonid's participation one of the more notable results of this all.
• Inexplicably Awesome: No real explanation is given for his clearly superhuman abilities
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: The closest thing to an explanation we get for how he survives fire and can carry cars?They make them tough in Mother Russia.
• Nightmare Face: He's very nearly incinerated during a mission against the Pickens vampires. He survives due to his Charles Atlas Superpower, but his body stays charred, making him look like a zombie.
• Super-Strength
• Super-Toughness

Nastassja "Stazz" Hansen

Debut: Abe Sapien: Sacred Places #1

A B.P.R.D. member tasked by Kate with finding Abe following Agent Vaughn's disapearance during the "Abe Sapien" solo comic. She essentially goes undercover in Rosario, which is where she finds Abe. She would relent on her search eventually due to Panya's words about Abe's destiny, but she helps brings Abe back by the end of the solo title.

She reappears on the main title by "The Devil You Know". After Corrigan's death and Devon's promotion, she becomes his second in command for the duration of the arc. Following Devon's own death she's becomes one of the last few remaining B.P.R.D. agents with any authority.

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• Action Survivor: One of the last surviving B.P.R.D. members, being one of the leaders to the last mission to escape to an underground world. She almost makes it, but she taken by the Frog Monsters right on the entrance of the cave
• Badass Normal
• Deadpan Snarker
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Sadly functions as this for Devon, being much more calmer and competent than him.
• Ink-Suit Actor: on "The Devil You Know" arc, once she takes a more leading role, she takes to using suits and leaves her hair longer. This makes her look suspiciously like a certain Agent Dana Scully.
• Inspector Javert: Her role during her first appearance during on the Abe Sapien storyline (taking over Vaughn afer his death.)
• The Stoic
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Works at this for a section of "The Devil You Know" arc.
• Write Who You Know: Scott Allie based her on his niece, who's a military intelligence officer in real life.
• You Are in Command Now: The closest thing to a leader the greatly diminished Bureau has by the time they are trying to escape underground.
• You Don't Look Like You: Her design varies between her appearance on the Abe Sapien solo and her appearance on the main B.P.R.D. title, owning to either being undercover or different art styles. On Burnham she's a thin, young woman with very short, almost white hair. By the time she's working with Devon her hair is darker and more formal clothing makes her look much older.

Members of previous iterations of the B.P.R.D.

Susan "Sue" Xiang

Debut: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. #1

A Chinese-American B.P.R.D. agent with psychic powers, she worked for the Bureau during the 1950s. She was part of Hellboy's first mission and continued working with the then rookie agent throughout the decade, appearing in the pages of "Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.".

Her family has mysterious ties with the secretive Golden Crane Organization, as it seems she's descended from a long line of people dedicated to fight evil. She was an F.B.I. agent before joining the Bureau, Prof. Bruttenholm fished her out from there after he surmised she had latent psychic powers.

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• The Empath
• Empowered Badass Normal: Already an F.B.I. agent before gaining access to her powers.
• How Do I Shot Web?: It takes her a while to truly develop her abilities.
• Locked into Strangeness: A traumatic experience gives her a streak in her hair.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling
• Psychometry: Her powers are actually very similar to Abe Sapien's on the Del Toro movies: she can see the past of objects she touches.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: An inevitable secondary effect of being introduced in a prequel, but in-universe there's nary a mention to what happened to such an important agent during the early years of the Bureau.

Simon Anders

A central character of the 1946-48 trilogy who later received his own spin-off in B.P.R.D.: Vampire.

Simon Anders was a typical American Merchant Marine who ended up working for the BRPD. In 1947, he was seduced and nearly killed by the Brezina sisters and infected with their peculiar form of vampirism. While a friend of Professor Bruttenholm’s was able to banish the infection for the time being, it was only a matter of time before he turned, and the man was left to contemplate his own mortality…

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• Death Seeker: Shows shades of this in 1948 when he knows he’s destined to turn into a vampire.
• Foreshadowing: When interviewed about surviving at sea in World War II, he describes how he would bake under the sun, and suck the life out of what fell into his fishing net…
• Evil Makeover: To an almost comical level. He goes from a formal, typical army man to immediately get a dramatic fashion sense as soon as he accepts his vampirism, having been shown with old-timey aristocratic clothes, naturally all in black. It's apparently a vampire thing.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From a run-of-the-mill agent turned victim, to someone strong enough to hunt vampires for the rest of his life.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has short blond hair, and while he’s not perfect, he’s pretty much on good’s side.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Since the Brezina sisters used sorcery alongside vampirism, his strain appears to be different from most, at the very least making him as strong as the strongest vampires.
• Robinsonade: During World War II, he was stranded in a life raft for several weeks.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The power of his vampirism was sealed away by a super-exorcism, but it’s only a matter of time before it returns…
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: It’s clear that even before the B.P.R.D., his experiences at war and at sea have left him very troubled. He’s seduced by the Brezina sisters in part because he wanders off by himself and is too sad to keep his wits about him.
• The Stoic: He doesn’t emote much, preferring to keep a lid on it.
• Suddenly Shouting: When he does get emotional, he’s very hammy.
• A Threesome Is Hot: Denied. When the Brezina sisters capture him, they lay (all fully clothed) on either side of him in a bed, mimicking this, but it’s clear this is just a prelude to killing him.

Pauline Raskins

A recurring background character, Pauline was once a B.P.R.D. agent active on the field circa 1989-1992, often working with Hellboy during this period, later becoming a field leader of sorts. Decades later she would retire to a desk job in B.P.R.D., being the one in charge of training new members.

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• A Day in the Limelight: We finally see a bit of her partnership with Hellboy on the aforementioned "The Seven Wives Club".
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Drawn this way in Mignola style back when she was B.P.R.D. support.
• I Was Quite the Looker: An interesting example caused due to different drawing styles. On the current day she is a very normal looking 40-year old lady, and when we see her she usually just like a normal person. But on "The Seven Wives Club" she is drawn by Adam Hughes who proceeds to make her look like a breathtaking model with glasses.
• Retired Badass: she's a normal-looking office lady by current day, but she was on the thick on it for years with the B.P.R.D. and managed to survive.
• The Smart Guy: In "The Seven Wives Club" we see that she had this role when on the field, helping Hellboy defeat a haunting by quickly identifying the mechanisms behind the spell that was giving him hell. She is also shown to constantly reflect on the nature of the supernatural with Hellboy.

Allies

Lobster Johnson

"This claw of mine is burning red. It calls me to grasp justice".

AKA: The Lobster

Debut: Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1

"The Lobster" has two histories. The real Lobster was a New York vigilante in the 1930s, and fought Nazis, spies, gangsters, saboteurs and villains like Memnan Saa and the Black Flame, branding their foreheads with the "Lobster's Claw" after their death. He was hired by the US government on the eve of the Second World War, and died in a secret assault on the headquarters of the Nazi space program. He proved as tenacious in death as in life and his ghost held on for years, eventually aiding Roger and Liz in the modern age as a ghost.

None of this is known to the public, however, and the US government denies the existence and any knowledge of "The Lobster." Stories based on the rumors of his mysterious exploits, written by a hack who claimed to have met the real deal, eventually made him a Pulp Magazine star. The character was adapted for a crude superhero comic, and a pair of abysmal film serials starring Vic Williams followed. In the 50's, Mexican director Eduardo Fernandez created somewhere between nine and twelve low-budget films about Lobster Johnson, portraying him as a luchador hero; in fact, these were the source of the name "Lobster Johnson." Before the world ended and Hell On Earth began, rumours abounded that a reboot might be in order, possibly directed by Guillermo del Toro.

He has his own spinoff comic, Lobster Johnson.

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• Adaptation Decay: In-universe, any derivative work created about The Lobster is said to be both inaccurate and generally shoddy.
• Anti-Hero: A solid Type 3 Pragmatic Anti-Hero. Throughout his short career in the 30s he personally killed hundreds of gangsters, Nazi saboteurs, cultists and monsters. And he only gets more dangerous when he's dead.
• Came Back Strong: If anything dying and coming back as a ghost seems to have made him even better at his job.
• Cult Classic: invokedBoth film series are notoriously terrible, but many enjoy them anyway, including Hellboy.
• Guns Akimbo: His usual fighting style, firing two automatic pistols at once.
• I Am Not Shazam: In-Universe, he was known simply as "The Lobster" during his lifetime. Posthumous pulp fiction fictionalizing his exploits ended up dubbing him "Lobster Johnson" and that name stuck for posterity, with even Hellboy calling him such. Ironically this also applies out of universe, with the character's own spin-off being titled "Lobster Johnson" despite this and the Hellboy readership by and large calling him that.
• Incoming Ham: The only time Lobster shows any emotion besides seriousness is when he's attacking.
  Fear the Claw!
• Made of Iron: Even before he became an immortal ghost, the Lobster could take a licking and keep on ticking, despite seemingly being an ordinary man up against horrifying occult threats and dieselpunk super-science.
• Masked Luchador: "Lobster Johnson" in the Mexican wrestler pictures. They invariably open with a woman driving a car with a corpse in the back seat, which comes to life and becomes Lobster Johnson when she sings to it.
• Mysterious Past: But it was probably dark and troubled.
• Nazi Hunter: Both before and during World War II.
• Polyglot: Knows multiple languages, including Turkish and Japanese.
• Secret Identity: The pulp novels claim he was crippled millionaire William Johnson. The real-life reader has never seen him without his mask.
• Shrouded in Myth: Until Roger and Hellboy meet his ghost, even Hellboy had only heard rumours of his real existence, from the GIs who raised him.
• The Stoic: Unlike many of the more-hammy pulp heroes of the day, unless he's actively shooting up a bunch of bad guys, or gritting his teeth or howling in pain under torture, the Lobster's face never really moves from the same serious expression, no matter how over-the-top or strange the situations he finds himself in.
• True Companions: His gang. Unfortunately, the group as a whole had a high turnover rate.
• Two-Fisted Tales: His solo comic deliberately takes cues from the pulp stories of the early 20th century, while still tying into the comic's Myth Arc.
• Unfinished Business: Seemingly what kept him hanging around after his death. He eventually finds a sort of happiness back where he died.
• Urban Legend: This is the main reason why all the in-universe stories about him are pulpy and wildly incorrect.
• Vigilante Man: As the brutal, gun-toting reaper of the criminal underworld.
• Zorro Mark: His lobster claw.
  Lobster Johnson: "Here is the claw!"
  Those Wacky Nazis: "Nein! Nein!"

Daryl The Wendigo

A Wendigo case the B.P.R.D. had to deal with. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Wendigo curse, Hellboy can't simply kill Daryl or else the curse will move to someone else, so they have to lock him up.

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• And I Must Scream: His imprisonment. They can't kill him without passing on the Wendigo curse to his killer, so they have to lock him up. They give him a picture of his family in the hopes it'll give him comfort, before he gradually forgets his former life and becomes the Wendigo inside too.
• Death of Personality: His memories began to fade as soon as he was possessed. Soon only the ravenous Wendigo will remain.
• Mercy Kill: He killed Daimio (who had sought him out) when his curse overtook him.
• Not Quite Dead: When the jaguar-demon seems to have killed him, the wendigo makes a comeback and finally ends Ben's tortured existence.
• The Speechless: By the time he appears again, he lost his ability to speak, but he still has humanity left in him.
• Uncertain Doom: We know that Daryl is doomed to forget his family and become the Wendigo entirely, but is killing the werejaguar spirit going to lead to him being possessed as Ben was? And what is that going to do?
• Wendigo: Daryl has been possessed by the Wendigo's spirit, and thus will gradually degenerate into a vicious beast who'll pass his curse onto someone else when killed.
• The Woobie: One of the series' biggest. He was just an ordinary husband and father who ran into a Wendigo in the wild and killed it in self-defense. Even more woobie-ish? Wendigos generally target murderers and cannibals when they're hunting food and Daryl was of course nothing of the sort.

Varvara

A demon that takes the appearance of a little Russian girl. Varvara helped Trevor Bruttenholm after World War II by giving cryptic but helpful warnings. In the present day Varvara's been captured by the Russian Special Sciences Services and imprisoned in a magical bell jar.

As the situation for the human race truly reaches its most desperate point in the fight against the Ogdru Jahad, Nichayko frees her, and she participates in the defense of B.P.R.D. HQ. Once this crisis is averted she takes advantage of the Evil Power Vacuum and becomes the Big Bad, trying to establish a new Pandemonium on Manhattan. The mission to stop her is the last B.P.R.D. mission, as her actions hasten the last, true Ragna Rok.

Her true demonic name is Yomyael. The true identity of the girl possessed by the demon is that of Varvara Rasputina. Once freed from Yomyael's influence she can act as a "gate" for her father Rasputin into this world.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: Baron Konig may be a powerful vampire monarch, but as a demon lord, Varvara stands a few tiers higher than him, as the vampire learns when he tries to kill Bruttenholm when she worked with him in 1946.
• Been There, Shaped History: She was one of three demons summoned to Earth by Peter the Great, and helped him create the Russian Empire.
• Big Bad: The main one during most of the "The Devil You Know" arc.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: While a definite threat on her own, she ends up playing second fiddle to Rasputin.
• Big Red Devil: Her default appearance. Interestingly in her own daydreams she still imagines herself as a little girl.
• Boring, but Practical: Arguably what made her so dangerous. Rather than the complex and vague evil plans the Bureau usually dealt with, Varvara upon freed essentially just amassed followers, turned them into an army and then marched, with a few moles to deal with the Bureau. It was extremely effective.
  • Zerg Rush: Another thing that set her apart is that instead of the huge monster most villains used, Varvara transformed her human followers into a massive amount of tiny, winged imps. They were fast and nimble and extremely hard to deal with, with Leonid and Devon quickly dying in the onslaught.
• The Chessmaster: Her plan to deal with the Bureau is actually pretty good, in no small part because it is also pretty simple. Prior to the confrontation she uses her Dream Weaver powers to send Giarocco dreams that imply following her is the only way to save her son. This causes the agent to question her own loyalty, until thankfully the other agents notice it and calm her down...but THEN this turns out to have been a Red Herring, and the true objective of her machinations was Director Andrew Devon, who she has identified as a weak link. During the battle her minions kill Devon and she uses his bitterness to facilitate a possesion, meaning that she now had a hidden servant right in the middle of the B.P.R.D. team. Chaos ensued.
• Dream Weaver: One of her many, many powers. Uses it to corrupt Agent Carla Giarocco, showing her horrifying visions related to her son. This is also how she gets a huge follower base.
• Going Native: She chose to stay on Earth rather than collect the soul of her summoner and return to Hell with her due to finding the world and humanity to be intriguing. She then spent centuries happily living amongst humans under the guise of many different people.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Textbook example. She comes really close, but Rasputin steals the spotlight from her in the last issues.
• Face–Heel Turn: Helped humanity (while satisfying her whims during the 1950s); after being freed to help defeat the Ogdru Jahad she takes over as the penultime threat the B.P.R.D., and humanity, face.
• Last of His Kind: Is the last surviving demon lord of Hell, on account of having been imprisoned on Earth when the lesser demons rose up against their masters upon Hellboy's arrival in Hell.
• Light Is Not Good: In Mike Mignola's dark, Chiaroscuro-filled artwork, Varvara is drawn with a bright white dress, bright blond hair, pale white skin, and is seemingly unaffected by shadows at all. She probably does it deliberately to mess with everyone.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Implied to be why she likes humans so much and sides with them.
• Manchild: Or womanchild. It's not clear which Yomyael is, but in Varvara's body, they like to act like a somewhat spoiled little girl.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Her last words essentially tell the B.P.R.D. how screwed they are, as she was keeping Rasputin's spirit from manifesting.
• Nominal Hero: At least she likes to help out the heroes in-between mocking people with their horrible fates.
• The Reveal: The true identity of her physical body is that of Varvara, daughter of Rasputin, named like but separate to the historical figure.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Sealed by the SSS. Until she is released by SSS Director Iosif Nichayko in response to one of the Ogdru Jahad breaking free from its prison and attacking Earth.
• Token Evil Teammate: The only malevolent demon on team humanity.
• Villainous Rescue: When Baron Konig is about to kill Bruttenholm, she intervenes and scares him off.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Or trepidation. Bruttenholm isn't too thrilled when she calls him her favorite human being.

Iosif Nichayko

Iosif Nichayko is the field director of Russia's Special Sciences Service, the Russian equivalent of the B.P.R.D., and a magical zombie in a special containment suit. Has helped the B.P.R.D. fight off a number of Ogdru Hem and considers many of them his friends, especially Johann Kraus. Is also Varvara's jailer.

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• The Alcoholic: Between Armageddon, his own death, and Varvara, Iosif has a lot of reasons to drink vodka.
• Creepy Good: In a series that features such heroes as a fishman, a ghost, and the Antichrist, Iosif stands out as a rotting corpse in a sealed tank full of preservation fluids. His introduction is a mix of effusive praise and gestures of friendship towards Kate and Johann, ranting and running down his subordinates, and sudden outbursts of violence. But it turns out, he is absolutely genuine, and one of the BPRD's fiercest allies to the point of his Heroic Sacrifice.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Iosif Nichayko was just some kind-hearted grunt in the Soviet military before joining the Special Sciences Service for extra pay, babysitting a healing artifact, dying, being brought back as a zombie, and eventually overthrowing freaking Varvara as the Director of the SSS decades later. Guy developed some serious Chessmaster abilities.
• Kid with the Leash: Not a kid, but same idea. He is in charge of containing Varvara, and is absolutely terrified of her getting out because he knows she will exact terrible revenge on him. Which is an indicator of how bad the situation has become that he eventually frees her from her prison, knowing the horrible fate that awaits him.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: He is not happy with his continued un-life, but can't kill himself until the world is safe.
• Our Zombies Are Different: A magically revived Soviet Soldier that was initially mindless and in charge of protecting a magical set of armor. Once the Bureau stole that he regained sentience.

Sir Edward Grey / Acheron

Sir Edward Grey is an agent working for Queen Victoria as a one-man equivalent of the B.P.R.D. in Victorian England. In the present day he follows his own agenda, and occasionally acts as a Spirit Advisor to Hellboy. Stars in his own spinoff comic Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: He was the first modern user of the Hyperborean sword that would eventually make its way to Ted Howards, via the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra.
• All Your Powers Combined: At some point after his meeting with Hellboy, he tried to seek out Rasputin to kill him, but was swallowed by Leviathan. In Leviathan's stomach he found the souls of countless other sorcerers, and only managed to escape by killing and consuming them, becoming a demonic entity himself.
• And I Must Scream: In 1916, he was cursed with eternal life and then torn apart by Amdusias, a Duke of Hell, after Grey successfully stopped the Order of the Silver Star's attempt to summon him. Amdusias then dragged Grey down to hell with him, and his pieces were strewn along the river Acheron, until the creatures who lived there sewed him back together.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: After being ripped apart and cast into Hell, he became the embodiment of the Hellish river Acheron. He ultimately refuses this and becomes the guardian of England instead.
• Bad Powers, Good People: "You will learn to do evil in order to do good." While he had no powers in life, after his death Edward learned sorcery from a warlock (who's own power came from demonic pacts) and became more powerful by gorging on the souls of fellow sorcerers, becoming a kind of demonic entity in the process. Despite this, he is a wholeheartedly good man who wants to protect the world.
• Big Good: One of the top candidates for most powerful force of good in the setting. Edward is fiercely dedicated to protecting humanity and spent his life fighting evil forces while protecting the innocent, including supernatural entities that did no harm. After his death, he becomes a Spirit Advisor to both Hellboy and Koshchei, pointing them to where they need to go to make Hell a better place. He is also a powerful enough sorcerer to stand on equal footing with Hecate and Baba Yaga, tried to kill Rasputin, almost became the embodiment of the river Acheron, and ultimately becomes guardian of the new Garden of Eden.
• British Stuffiness: Started off like this. Over time, his experiences with the supernatural pushed him more towards a very British Deadpan Snarker.
• Broken Pedestal: He was initially entirely loyal to Queen and Country, but after Queen Victoria elected to cover up the crimes of a prominent noble with connections to Jack the Ripper in part because it would reflect poorly on her that a member of her court was a mass-murderer, and in part because her victims were "only" prostitutes, he resigned from his position and left the Queen's service.
• Character Development: Goes from a stuffy gentleman who believes all magic is evil, to a much older and wiser man and incredibly strong warlock, who speaks as an equal to Hecate, the Baba Yaga and Dagda himself, and has become friends with an African witch doctor.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Koshchei in Hell ends with Alice calling him out of Hell to the new England to be its guardian lest evil return. He is restored to his human form and seemingly reunited with his lost love Mary Wolf.
• Enemy Mine: Teams up with his enemies, the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra, to fight Vladimir Giurescu and his vampire army in 1882.
• I Gave My Word: Despite his falling out with Queen Victoria, when Hellboy asks him centuries later in Hell who Jack the Ripper was, Grey keeps silent since he swore an oath to keep it secret.
• The Lost Lenore: The woman he loved, Mary Wolf, was murdered by the Heliopic Brotherhood in revenge for his defying them. He is haunted by the loss for the rest of his life, until he is apparently reunited with her at the end of Koshchei in Hell.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Edward wanted to save Hellboy from some misery by seeking out and killing Rasputin himself, which only resulted in him being eaten by Leviathan and having to commit a horrible atrocity to escape.
• Occult Detective: Originally hired by the Queen, then operating by himself, his job was to protect the Crown against supernatural threats.
• Those Two Guys: Might be developing this with Mohlomi, as the two appeared together a number of times after Mohlomi's passing on from the world. It's eventually revealed in City of the Dead that the two already met for the first time back in 1882, when Grey fought Vladimir Giurescu.
• Van Helsing Hate Crime: Initially Edward Grey was of the opinion that anything supernatural was the devil's work. Over time he grew out of this, and by modern day he's a sorcerer himself.
• The Witch Hunter: Defied. Despite being known by the title Witchfinder and the job that made him famous being to kill a witches' coven, Edward Grey was more of an Occult Detective. He disliked the title Witchfinder because it was associated with Henry Hood, a No Historical Figures Were Harmed of Matthew Hopkins who killed countless innocent women. Edward was actually fairly tolerant of the supernatural, agreeing to leave it alone as long as it didn't pose a threat to people.

"The Visitor"/Michael Mathers

An extraterrestrial being who was sent to kill the infant Hellboy and avert the Apocalypse. In the end he decided he couldn't go through with it, deciding instead to monitor Hellboy as he grew up in the service of good. Debuts as a ghost in The Conqueror Worm and stars in the one-shot spin-off comic The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed.

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• Aliens Are Bastards: Very much averted. Can't kill an innocent, even when they're destined to bring the Apocalypse. Seems to be a species characteristic, since his superiors, although skeptical, decide to back his decision.
• Alliterative Name: His human identity is "Michael Mathers".
• Early-Bird Cameo: As early as "Seed of Destruction", we saw members of his species monitoring the Ogdru Jahad's tombs and attempting to prevent their release.
• Hero of Another Story: Did his part to stop Ogdru Hem incursions during the decades he was observing Hellboy.
• Magic Tool: His "Prism", a glowing green thingamabob the size of a deck of cards.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Marries an Earthling during his decades on our world, but his lifespan is a lot longer than a human's, and he's distressed when her mind decays into senility while he remains young.
• Mysterious Protector: Hellboy never even notices him, but the Visitor's been present at several significant events in his history and even lent a hand to keep HB alive when necessary.
• Voice of the Legion: In his brief cameo appearance in the video game Hellboy: The Science of Evil he speaks with a reverberating telepathic voice that sounds almost identical to those of the Eldar in the Dawn of War series, right down to the classy mid-Atlantic accent.
• The Watcher: Kept an eye on Hellboy, unseen, for most of his life to make sure he doesn't get on the path to releasing the Ogdru Jahad. He even saw white lilies spring up in Hellboy's shed blood, a story where Hellboy fought alone, and so knew he had chosen rightly when he spared him.

Ota Benga

A Catholic priest and talented exorcist that often helps the Bureau when dealing with possession cases. He is the priest that seals Anders's dark powers within him.

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• Hollywood Exorcism

Shonchin

The ghost of an Hyperborean Age priest that appears on key moments of humanity's struggles against the forces of evil.

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• Big Good: Rarely appears, but he, along with a few others, is the closest to a benevolent greater power

The Snake

A character from a In-Universe fairytale, The Magician and the Snake. Once, a wizard demonstrated his power by making three solid objects disappear in thin air, but in doing so overexerted himself and privately told his close friend the Snake that he would die when they reappeared. The Snake was distraught, but the two spent the next years living well and being good friends, and the Wizard ultimately died happy knowing that he had lived a good life and was loved.

The Snake appears in Hellboy in Hell and Koshchei in Hell, serving as an advisor and guide each time.

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• Ambiguous Situation: The Snake is largely left up for interpretation, as is The Magician and the Snake. Most curiously, the fairytale appears to be just that, a fairytale, but the Snake nevertheless appears and impacts real events. It's unclear if the Snake that Hellboy and Edward Grey encounter is the same as the one from the fairytale, or some other benevolent force.
• Good Samaritan: The Snake simply appears, helping characters out randomly. The first time it appears outside of the short story that introduced it, it helps Dulot get out of his Deal with the Devil, and the second time, it provides Edward Grey with an option other than becoming Acheron.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Notable subversion, despite the overall franchise drawing heavily on Biblical Motifs. The Snake is entirely benevolent, and when Alice references the biblical Serpent in Eden, the Snake chimes in that she's not talking about it.

Civilians and Neutral Characters

Alice Monaghan

A child Hellboy rescued from fairies. Years later she would return to help Hellboy.

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• Changeling Tale: Her first appearance as a baby in "The Corpse". Notably, her changeling replacement would also go on to be a major character.
• Official Couple: She and Hellboy fall in love when he meets her as an adult.
• Older Than They Look: She refers to it as "something the fairies left her." When she reappears in Hellboy's life the late 00s, she's roughly 49-51 years old, but looks to be in her mid to late-20s.
• The High Queen: Revealed in Hellboy in Hell. She seems to have taken on the role of the departed Queen Mab.

Grace

A woman Abe rescues from an insane captor in the "Abe Sapien" solo. After this Abe and her travel together for a while, despite.

In reality she was captured following the harrowing trauma of seeing her sister and daughter die in a car crash after a monster attack.

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• Freudian Excuse: She's very distrustful of Abe despite his dependency on him, and she's constantly on edge by the trail of horrors that follow him. Given the desperate situation she's in and her traumatic experiences, this is somewhat understandable.
• Important Haircut: Shaves her head so that she doesn't remember her deceased daughter when looking at the mirror.
• Parting-Words Regret: Abe and her part ways on very bad terms, with her essentially having a freak-out at the inevitable wave of misfortunes that follows the fishman. A latter number would include a letter from her to Abe, in which the now calm Grace apologized for her words and actions and wished him well. Sadly Abe is never shown to receive the latter.

Maggie

Debut: Abe Sapien: The Garden II

A child with psychic powers that can only speak in strange tongues, with her mother serving as translator. Abe meets her in his travels throughout the barren USA. She acts as the leader of a commune. Her powers seem to be related to Hyperborea.

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• A Child Shall Lead Them: Becomes one of the leaders of humanity after their descent to the underground, following Ragna Rok.
• Ms. Exposition: As one of the few characters with more information on the true nature of the world, she usually spends her screen time explaining stuff.
• The Unintelligible

Dayana

Debut: Abe Sapien: Sacred Places #1

A powerful witch and santera that Abe meets on his travels. She's the leader of a small cult in Rosario, where she uses her power to protect them from the monsters outside. After meeting Abe she and a few of her closed ones travel with him for a while, until they come in conflict with evil voodoo practitioner Arbogast on Burnham.

She survives a nasty wizard-off with Arbogast, who's killed by she and Abe. Sadly she's seriously injured. The last we see of her is that she settled down with her family.

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• Creepy Good: Looks very menacing, being very tall and pall, with odd marks in the skin of her face...but she truly only wants for her small family of followers to survive during the Apocalypse.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Looks suspiciously like Elvira
• Looks Like Cesare
• Our Witches Are Different: A very rare case in this series of a very powerful and at least somewhat moral witch. Her powers somehow prevent monsters from approaching her, she can levitate and attack creatures with incantations and she has healing powers.
• Red Right Hand: Not a villain, but the scars of her hair quickly mark her as a person of supernatural power.

Frankenstein's Monster

The creature himself, created by Viktor Frankenstein in an arrogant attempt at making life.

He meets and fights Hellboy in the 50s during his brief, substance-induced trip throughout Mexico, having been brainwashed by an evil scientist. Would eventually reach the Underworld, his adventures presented in the "Frankenstein Underground" spinoff.

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• All Myths Are True: The events of Mary Shelley's novel are shown to be essentially true in the Hellboy universe, including his demand of an partner and difficulties with his creator.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: His initial appearance as an enemy.
• The Bus Came Back: Reappears with no context on the very last pages, waiting for humanity to join him underground.
• Foil: Very similar to Roger in lots of ways, different in others. Both are artificial humans, but Frankenstein's creature is much older (and somewhat smarter) making him much more depressive and bitter.

Villains

The Queen of Blood

A powerful sorceress who was imprisoned by the Britain's witches for 1,500 years before she was brought back to life to lead the Wild Hunt.

Her True identity is that of Nimue, the witch that captured Merlin.

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• Anti-Human Alliance: The Queen of Blood gathers one to destroy mankind. Unfortunately for them, she has no intention of restoring their world.
• Big Bad: Of the 2019 film.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Her nakedness only adds to her creep factor.
• Hero Killer: She killed Hellboy.
• Historical Domain Character: Nimue, a character from Arthurian lore.
• Lady of Black Magic: A powerful sorceress who has been alive for centuries, with vast demonic and magical powers at her call.
• One-Winged Angel: In her final fight with Hellboy, the power of the Ogdru Jahad turned her into a dragon-like monstrosity. It was not enough.
• Taking You with Me: After Hellboy mortally injured her, she used the last of her strength to tear his heart out and kill him.

Ogdru Jahad

Nunn-Jahad, the first Ogdru Jahad to break free.

The Dragon of Revelation, the Seven Who Are One, the Seven Gods of Chaos, destined to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. Created by Anum, given life by the darkness, then sealed away by Anum, but not before giving birth to the Ogdru Hem. Only Hellboy and his Right Hand of Doom can set them free to destroy the world.

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• Arch-Enemy: To Hellboy.
• Big Bad: The Ultimate villains of the series.
• Cool Crown: All of them have green flames shaped like crowns floating behind their heads.
• Crystal Prison: They're trapped inside a giant, cloudy yellow crystal. Well, six of them still are, at any rate...
• Demonic Possession: Ogdru Jahad can "link" their minds with someone who catches their interest, vastly empowering them but warping their bodies to resemble them, as they did with Nimue and the Black Flame.
• Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Their true forms resemble dinosaurs. Specifically hadrosaurs of all things. Mignola may have chosen hadrosaurs for their elaborate crests, representing the crowns worn by the Dragon in the bible.
• Dragons Are Demonic: The Ogdru Jahad are seven dragon-like monsters prophesied to destroy the Earth, currently trapped within seven cocoons somewhere in deep space. Just about every other villain is trying to accelerate their coming or delay them by killing Hellboy (who is prophesied to wake them). Hellboy himself being an Anti Anti Christ, he ends up slaying an avatar of them, but it still isn't enough to prevent the apocalypse.
• Draconic Abomination: They are seven vaguely draconic eldritch entities usually fused into one body. Anything related to them, including the mere sight of them, can induce madness as Professor O'Donnell found out the hard way.
• Greater Scope Villains: Many of Hellboy's enemies seek to set them free.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: As Nunn-Jahad demonstrated, their physical forms are nearly impossible to destroy, being completely immune to anything the BPRD and the US government threw at it. Nukes did not even scratch it. The only thing that could hurt and ultimately kill it was a nearly immeasurable amount of Vril.
• Not So Invincible After All: It took Johann giving his life to do so, but he proved that the Ogdru Jahad can be killed permanently, but a massive amount of Vril is needed to do so.
  • The remaining ones are killed off by the Osiris Club jerry rigging the Right Hand of Doom.
• Monster Progenitor: They spawned the Ogdru Hem from their very bodies, and as Nunn-Jahad showed, they can do so at will, dozens at a time.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Anum sealed them off shortly before his death. And Hellboy's got the key right in his hand (or rather, it is his and Anum's hand). Seed of Destruction shows there's some strange alien race that guards their prison but they won't be much help if anyone tries in earnest to bust the inmates out.
• Tentacled Terror: They are a mix of Lovecraft and Babylonian myths, are often portrayed as enormous tentacled masses beyond our universes borders. They're also the Big Bad of the entire setting, are responsible for the creation of Hellboy and have intended for him to bring them into our reality to usher in the End of Days.

Ogdru Hem

The 369 Offspring of the Ogdru Jahad, imprisoned on Earth at the dawn of time. Hellboy and co. are able to fight off a few of them, but their mass reawakening kicks off the aptly titled Hell on Earth series.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Unlike the demons of Hell, the Ogdru Hem are all horrible monster animals.
• Eldritch Abomination: Just like their parents. The first of them to be introduced, Sadu-Hem, can best be described as a massive pillar of tentacles and crustacean legs.
• Kaiju: Their smallest offspring are about the size of train cars, they are usually as big as skyscrapers.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin

There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago...

The head of Project Ragna Rok and the one who originally summoned Hellboy to Earth. Based on the real-life Russian mystic.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: He's consistently drawn with blue skin, most likely to emphasize his undead nature.
• Arch-Enemy: To Hellboy.
• Astral Projection: After he found his way to the Ogdru-Jahad's temple in the Arctic, he connected his mind and spirit to Sadu-Hem, which allowed him to see the imprisoned form of his master. He spent decades in this state before Professor Bruttenhom and the members of the Cavendish expedition unwittingly woke him up.
• Back from the Dead: Quite a few times. He's truly dead now, the last fragment of his soul used by the Baba Yaga to strengthen Koshchei the Deathless.
• Bad Boss: Surprisingly averted. While all serve in his machinations to unleash the Dragon and bring about the end, he doesn't treat his followers badly unless they explicitly fail him, as Roderick Zinco finds out.
• Big Bad:In the 2004 film, and the first three volumes of the comics. Ultimately, he’s this for the entire franchise.
• Healing Factor: Part of what makes him so hard to kill. In their first encounter, Hellboy blows half of his head off with his pistol only for Rasputin to heal in a matter of seconds.
• Healing Hands: He offhandedly mentions that he was capable of healing the sick with a touch, back before his first death.
• The Heavy: The Most prominent villain in the series and active agent of the Ogdru Jahad.
• Historical Domain Character
• Historical Domain Superperson: Here, he's a sorcerer that worships the ancestral Ogdru-Jahad and wants to start the Apocalypse. In the original comics, he has a Healing Factor and Mind Control powers and has come back as a ghost at least twice, while in the 2004 movie adaptation he has Resurrective Immortality and comes back to life with a fragment of his god inside.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Obviously. Real life Grigori Rasputin was a regular man who, if not wholly good, was far from evil, and a true friend of the Romanovs subject to a massive smear campaign. Hellboy depicts him as a prophet of an apocalyptic beast.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Consistently refers to Hellboy as "creature" when they first meet.
• Mind Control: He was able to mentally command all of the people at the base camp of the Cavendish expedition to transport Sadu-Hem down the mountain it was entombed in and onto a boat.
• Occult Blue Eyes: His pupiless eyes glow an eerie blue, which contrasts with Hellboy's red eyes.
• Our Liches Are Different: Part of the reason he keeps coming back. When he met Baba Yaga, he gave her half of his soul, which she buried in the roots of Yggdrasil.
• Rasputinian Death: In addition to the (embellished) real-life version (poisoned, shot, castrated and dumped in the Neva), in "Seed Of Destruction", he's impaled with a harpoon by Abe, burned by Liz and finally his bones crushed by Hellboy. In "Wake The Devil" his spirit dwindles as his schemes fail, and after "The Conqueror Worm" Hecate reduces his spirit to a speck, which the Baba Yaga keeps. Then, finally, she breathes the last of that into Koshchei the Deathless in a last-ditch attempt to kill Hellboy, which also fails. And that was that.
  • Except it was not! With a convoluted, unlikely plan involving his illegitimate daughter, Varvara, being possessed by a demon, he's finally able to come back to life after Yomyael's defeat in Manhattan. More powerful than ever, he finally ushers the Apocalypse, but is killed by Old Red before he can truly bask on it.
• Resurrective Immortality: In the film. Every time he died, he was resurrected with a part of his god inside his body.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He considered everyone he worked with during Project Ragna Rok to be total idiots compared to him.
• Telepathy: One of his many powers. He was able to read Professor Bruttenholm's memories after coming in contact with him, which is how he learns about Hellboy.
• The Undead: Carries on as a ghost in the comics after his death.
• Thanatos Gambit: If his final resurrection was indeed planned, it was an insane plan indeed. He used his magic on his illegitimate daughter, Varvara, and manipulated it so that the demon Yomyel would use her as its vessel, becoming the demonic entity known as "Varvara". Varvara proceeded to do her own shenanigans, while the actual body was kept safe, immortal and hidden from all magical eyes. As soon as Yomyael is defeated and the real Varvara is freed, Rasputin has a gate to enter the world again and all hell breaks loose.
• Tragic Villain: The comics version comes across as rather tragic, as his schemes to control the direction of the world's end continually unravel, leaving him an increasingly impotent and humiliated figure raging against his ultimate irrelevance in the grand scheme. Tellingly, when the apocalypse does come about, he has almost nothing to do with it.
• Villain Respect: In the first film, he has enough respect for Professor Bruttenholm to make sure he gets a quick and painless death.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: Even after he becomes a spirit, he retains the hole in his chest from when the possessed Abe Sapien threw a harpoon through him. It also has ethereal smoke constantly coming out of it.

Herman von Klempt

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A recurring Nazi Mad Scientist villain who often appears to menace Hellboy and friends with his army of cybernetically enhanced gorillas known as the "Kriegaffes", despite being nothing but a floating head in a jar. He was a childhood friend of Kroenen's and was responsible for turning him into a cyborg after he lost most of his body in a lab accident, but Rasputin refused to let him into Project Ragna Rok because even Rasputin thought he was too crazy. Nonetheless he eventually found himself working for the Ogdru Jahad anyway.

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• Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Lived in a secret lab in the jungles of South America after WWII.
• Berserk Button: Don't hurt his monkeys.
• Big Bad: Of The Science of Evil video game.
• Brain in a Jar: He's lucky enough to still have his face, at least.
• The Bus Came Back: He made a couple of appearances in the early years of the title (fittingly for the villain of the second-ever story, and its first "supervillain"), only to be killed off in "The Conqueror Worm". He wouldn't reappear until the 1946 series over a decade later, though his head showed up in BPRD... then he came back for real at the start of BPRD: The Devil You Know.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. The best you can say about his relationship with his granddaughter is that he's pleased with her competence. He rewards her for her devotion to him by telling her to put on a gas mask so only her body will be transformed by the Conqueror Worm, leaving her a sapient reptile-person and allowing her a front seat for the destruction of the world. Thanks?
• Facial Markings: Has a swastika on his forehead, Charlie Manson-style.
• Flight: He and his jar can levitate.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Starts out as an independent evil mastermind but winds up serving the Ogdru Jahad just like every other bad guy in the series.
• Maniac Monkeys: His favored minions. B.P.R.D. 1946 gives him bionic chimps in addition to the usual gorillas.
• Meaningful Background Event: His head seems to be part of Mr Pope's office collection of Nazi supervillain memorabilia.
• Mobile-Suit Human: During the Conqueror Worm arc, he has a robotic body with his head-tank in the center. He can also control it remotely.
• The Needless: He's a head in a jar who doesn't need to eat (as far as we see) or breathe.
• Shock and Awe: His tank has a built-in electrical weapon.
• Ungrateful Bastard: After Kroenen revives him he starts criticizing his latest evil plan and insulting him.
• Villainous Friendship: With Kroenen. He really doesn't get along with the others, though.

Karl Ruprecht Kroenen

A horrifically mutilated Nazi scientist was part of Project Ragna Rok. Despite his creepy appearance, he's dedicated to his friends and is usually the Only Sane Man of whatever group he's lackeying for. Unfortunately, said friendships are entirely one-sided, nobody listens to his advice, and he inevitably suffers from the fallout.

The film rather dramatically reworks him into a mute undead clockwork assassin.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the films, he's a nigh-unkillable assassin as opposed to a meek scientist.
• Adaptational Personality Change: his comic version and the Del Toro movie version are essentially two completely different characters. In the comics he is one of several crazy Nazi scientists, whereas he's a quiet ninja-like enemy on the film.
• Affably Evil: His comic incarnation is actually a pretty nice guy, despite being a Nazi who wants to sacrifice the world to an Eldritch Abomination. He's friendly and polite to his colleagues and goes out of his way to help his best friend Herman even when he knows it might get him in trouble.
• Alas, Poor Villain: By the time of BRPD: The Devil You Know he's a severely depressed drifter wandering around apocalyptic New York, fully aware that the paradise he dreamt of his never coming and musing over the ways he wishes he had died. He tags along with the Big Bad only because von Klemp strikes up a friendship with her, they both openly mock and disparage him, and finally said Big Bad kills him simply because he's such a sad sack.
• Alien Blood: Over the decades, the blood in his veins dried up into dust.
• All There in the Manual: Kroenen's film backstory is revealed in a series of comic panels in Hellboy: The Art of the Movie and in the special features on the DVD. And his comic version's in the companion book.
• Awesome, but Impractical: His fighting style during the World War 2 segment of the movie. Dual blades are cool, but they are rather slow compared to just shooting enemy soldiers with a gun. He does just that at the start of the fight and mows down an entire enemy squad in quick succession, but then switches to his blades once his gun runs dry instead of just grabbing another gun. Given his immunity to bullets and explosions, Kroenen could probably wipe out the entire Allied attack force by himself if he would just grab an automatic weapon and start mowing them down.
• Badass Longcoat: In the 2004 movie, he wears one over his SS uniform. His wrist blades are hidden in the sleeves.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: 60 years ago, these were his primary close range weapons. In the modern day, he prefers bladed tonfa.
• Body Horror: His movie incarnation surgically removed his own eyelids, lips, fingernails, and toenails, as well as repairing himself with a clockwork heart, a robotic hand, and a steel rod in place of a broken piece of his spine. His comic incarnation may be even worse off, considering that gas-mask like face is his actual skull.
• Combat Sadomasochist: His backstory in the films stated that every day, he'd whip himself with a branch of oak and find pleasure in the pain. And let's not forget his "surgical addiction."
• Cyborg: His heart is a strange clockwork device and his left hand is a mechanical prosthetic.
• Diagonal Cut: Slices open Samael's prison with a single clean, delayed cut.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He's the only one of Rasputin's disciples who considers Vladimir Giurescu to be too uncontrollable and believes that trying to use him in their plans is a bad idea.
• Facial Horror: In the film, there is a very good reason he is rarely seen without his gas mask. He surgically removed his lips and eyelids, giving him a ghoul-like appearence. Being essentially a corpse also does not help at all too.
• Freak Lab Accident: In the comics he was blown up in a lab explosion and turned into a cyborg by his friend Herman von Klempt. In Wake the Devil the two are caught in a second freak lab explosion. They got better.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Kroenen invented all the bits and pieces that make him what he is today.
• Genius Bruiser: A Master Swordsman who invented his own cybernetics.
• Immune to Bullets: In the films, he simply shrugs off being shot on account of having no vital organs to hit and his blood turned to sand.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: In the first film he can not only block bullets with his blades, he can also deflect back at the shooters.
• Never Found the Body: A Double Subversion no less! In the film, he gets impaled by a piece of rebar and is pinned to the wall, presumably killing him. However, his body mysteriously dissappears after the battle. 12 years later, an unmarked grave in Romania is found that contains Kroenen's corpse. Come 2004 though, and he somehow is Back from the Dead.
• Silent Antagonist: He never speaks in the film. This is most likely due to him removing his lips.
• Terrified of Germs: Hence his signature gas mask.
• Unexplained Recovery: He gets blown up in Hellboy proper after an incident involving a self-destruct button. Likely due to his popularity in the movie, he somehow survives this and pops back up as a recurring villain in BRPD.

Gruagach

An evil fairy creature that hates Hellboy for thwarting his plan to kidnap Alice Monaghan. He eventually throws in his lot with the Queen of Blood.

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• Changeling Tale: The actual changeling of "The Corpse".
• Chekhov's Gunman: Nobody expected him to come back after his first appearance, but he went on to become one of the most important characters in the series.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He released Grom, a giant pig-man monster that fought against Cu Chulainn himself so it would kill Hellboy. Unfortunately for him, one of the first things Grom does when it gets free is eat him.
• Full-Frontal Assault: In his original form, he didn't wear any clothes.
• Humiliation Conga: He's burned with a horseshoe and thrown in a fireplace, his plan to abduct Alice is ruined (which brings his race closer to extinction), the pig demon he recruits to fight Hellboy eats him, and then when said pig demon is killed its body shrinks down until his hide is skintight on him, condemning him to look like a pig forever.
• Sinister Swine: A malicious fairy resembling a boar-man.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Nice job destroying England, the world, your own people, and the human race, Gruagach.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: At first, his plan is to attack the human world to stop the slow fade of the fairies. When he learns that this can never work, he instead decides to simply not die quietly. The great irony being that he ends up bringing about a situation where humanity must do the same thing.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Most of what he does is out of pride for his doomed race. Mixed a little with his desire to free himself from the pig's body he's trapped in. It's also revealed that in the distant past he was a bold warrior with a human lover who accidentally cost him his status.

Hecate

A goddess from Hyperborean times who was "born out of the shadow of the moon, and delivered from the belly of a wolf".

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Hecate is in crazy stalker love with Hellboy. Unfortunately, he's not the kinda guy who goes for metal-skinned vampire snake women who want to kill every living thing on Earth.
• Honey Trap: Hecate's backstory involves her using a variation on this. She was an ascetic who lived in the mountains until she came down to the main city of the (soon to be doomed) kingdom of Hyperborea. She seduced King Thoth of Hyperborea and while he was asleep broke into his forbidden garden.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Hellboy willingly steps into her spiky interior so that his final death will help restore life on Earth. In effect, she is joined with him like she always wanted.
• Big Bad: She's the true villain of the Blood and Iron animated movie.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: In Wake The Devil, she's one of the major threats to Hellboy and his team alongside Rasputin. They aren't working together though.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: One of the many ways she dies, courtesy of Hellboy.
• Information Broker: Hecate proceeds to the nearest Hyperborean temple and pisses out all the knowledge the ingested angels had given her and PAINTS the walls with it, effectively giving away world-killing knowledge for free.
• I Have Many Names: Hecate, Heca-Emen-Raa, Black Heccata, Lamia, Lilith, Coyolxuahqu or just the Black Goddess. She's been around a long time.
• I Know Your True Name: Due to some shenanigans with Giurescu and the conditions of her last resurrection, Hecate now has the body of (and thus in a way, true name of) Ilsa Haupstein. It comes back to bite her, bigtime.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Has this for Hellboy's 'destined' role as Anung Un Rama, World-Ender. Hellboy doesn't reciprocate.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to the Queen of Blood, anyway. This isn't saying much.
• Mama Bear: She doesn't take kindly to anyone hurting her vampiric "children", as Hellboy finds out the hard way.
• Monster Progenitor: Among others, she's the "mother" of Giurescu the vampire, and may in fact be the mother of all vampires, if the prehistoric "Cold People" (who worship her and need to be staked through the heart to stay dead) are any indication.
• Never My Fault: She claims she gives knowledge freely, what people do with it is their business. Seems fair, until you remember that the last time she did this the people of Hyperborea used her knowledge to destroy themselves.
• Snake People: After what she did, Thoth cursed her with a half-snake form.
• Red Baron: She has well over a dozen ominous titles such as Amaranthine Goddess, Queen of Witches, and Mother of Terror.
• Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Three cast off angels. Hecate didn't like the king keeping all this knowledge from his people, so quite rationally she ATE the three angels and with them all their knowledge and decides to share it with everyone.
• True Name: The method of her rebirth gives her one of these by which she may be controlled: Ilsa Haupstein.
• Weakened by the Light: Whether it's due to her own nature or Thoth's curse, sunlight is lethal to her.
• Why Won't You Die?: Godhood usually does not guarantee immortality in this series. Gods like Perun can be bumped off in just a few pages, but Hecate takes the cake in terms of being tough to kill. Or, at least, keep dead. While not quite as persistently resurrected as Grigori himself, Hecate has returned at least four separate times and in increasingly bizarre ways.

Bog Roosh

One of the oldest Sea Witches, who is first seen in the storyline "The Third Wish" she is a large eel like mermaid who is bound to an undersea cave. After receiving a vision of Hellboy causing the destruction of Earth she seeks to kill Hellboy.

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• Anti-Villain: She wants to kill Hellboy so she can stop him from causing the apocalypse.
• Jackass Genie: The wishes she grants her granddaughters backfire in horrible ways: Her first granddaughter getting murdered by the reanimated corpse of her lost love when she wished to be reunited with him, the second granddaughter drowning after wishing for legs and the ability to breath air so she could be with a man on the surface, her third granddaughter's wish for her father's long lost spear indirectly leads to her father being condemned to Hell.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Her power is based on the number of drowned sailor souls she has stolen and locked into stone jars, the more souls she has trapped the more powerful she becomes.

Koshchei the Deathless

A legendary Slavic lich. He lived in Baba Yaga's "Russia that never quite was", a parallel dream dimension. He is literally impossible to kill unless his soul is exposed or drained. He serves as Baba Yaga's (reluctant) Dragon in "Darkness Rising". His backstory is revealed in Koshchei the Deathless, a miniseries told to Hellboy during his stay in Hell as Framing Device.

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• Anti-Villain: He was never evil by choice and loathes all the evil deeds he did in life.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: Uses both sword and bow with equal levels of skill.
• The Dragon: Serves, grudgingly, as Baba Yaga's throughout his story arc. Her leverage over him is that she will allow him to die after he's killed Hellboy, which makes Koshchei a...
• Death Seeker: He cannot die unless his phylactery is exposed and only Baba Yaga knows where it is. He longs to die, and it is implied the world bores him.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: He was originally one of Hellboy's enemies in life. When meeting him in Hell, it's shown they hold no hard feelings towards each other, as they share a drink in a bar and Koshchei tells his backstory to Hellboy.
• Fallen Hero: He used to be a brave warrior whose courage and bravery earned him the hand of a princess... Unfortunately, said princess had a lover on the court and had him killed in his sleep. His quartered remains were found by the dragon that he originally served, who then turned him into a lich to save his life.
• Magic Knight: In addition to being a swordsman, he learned magic from his dragon master and has the powers of a lich.
• Moral Event Horizon: An in-universe example. He wanted to get rid of his humanity so he used a monster's deadly song to kill everyone in a town after promising its king that he would kill the monster for them, in order to deliberately kill "Koshchei the Man" and become "Koshchei the Devil".
• Noble Top Enforcer: Serves as this to Baba Yaga, as Koshchei has in his own words "done a hundred black deeds" but doesn't seem proud of them. He does Kick the Dog a bit by killing Vasilisa with an arrow.
• Noble Demon: Despises Baba Yaga's sadism and tells Hellboy to die quickly, to rob the witch of her "sport" during their final confrontation.
• Our Liches Are Different: Koshchei keeps his soul inside a needle which is inside an egg which is inside a duck which is inside a hare which is inside a goat, which puts him deep into Properly Paranoid territory. The original legend manages to go EVEN FURTHER: His soul is inside a duck which is inside a hare which is inside a goat which is inside a steel/iron chest on an island that is either moving or impossible to locate unless you've been there. His backstory reveals that he became a lich after a dragon saved his life.
• Villain Protagonist: He is the focus in the Koshchei the Deathless miniseries, where he tells Hellboy his life story in a bar while they are both in Hell.
• Unwitting Pawn: How he became Baba Yaga's slave in the first place. She tricked him into killing his dragon master saying that his brood would enslave mankind. Turns out she ordered to get rid of him because she couldn't stand a greater power than her own. When he learned of this treachery, he tried to kill her but couldn't find her. Then he unwittingly revealed the location of his soul to her, allowing the Baba Yaga to enslave him.

The Black Flame

A recurring moniker, notable for being surrounded by impossible black flames. The earliest Black Flame that we know about was called Raimund Diestel and fought Lobster Johnson and the Sledgehammer Armor during World War II. The second Black Flame is Landis Pope, Roderick Zinco's successor as head of the Zinco Corporation, who allied with the Frog People and later took over Manhattan.

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• Arch-Enemy: To the Sledgehammer armor, whoever is wearing it, since it seems to be one of the few things that can stand up to him. Also to Liz, whose firepower matches his but isn't evil.
• Badass Boast: As seen in Reign of the Black Flame:
  Liz: So I killed you, huh? Good to know. This time I'll get it right!
  The Black Flame: (emerging unscathed from a point blank fire blast) You won't.
  
• Captain Ersatz: Mr. Pope is a pretty blatant parody of David Xanatos.
• Dragged Off to Hell: Pope is carried away by the frogs after the destruction of Katha-hem. When he reappears, what sanity Pope had left seems to be gone.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When Diestel's wife is killed he abandons the fight to go to her, and allows himself to be arrested.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Pope believes that he can control both the powers of the black flame and the frogs. He is wrong.
• Fallen Hero: Diestel was a member of Sarah Jewell's party that attempted to rescue the missing girls that had been abducted by the Cult of the Black Flame in 1923. He helped in their rescue, but ended up becoming the first incarnation of the Black Flame in the process. By 1932 he is an inhuman, cold-blooded killer, and from 1933 onwards he serves the Nazis.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: After realizing what his actions have unleashed, Pope is repentant. He apologizes to Liz for killing Roger... who, unaware till now he'd been responsible at all, responds by allowing him to be dragged away.
• The Juggernaut: The original Black Flame was immune to anything less than a cannon shell, and that didn't kill him either.
• Legacy Character: The first Black Flame, Raimund Diestel, appeared in the 1930s, and was a mystical assassin until he was killed by the Sledgehammer in 1944. His suit and remains were recovered decades later by Landis Pope, who had a (at least partially) nonmagical copy of the suit created to allow him to interact with the frogs more easily.
• Origin Story: The standalone miniseries "Rise of the Black Flame", revealing more about Diestel and Kamala.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Raimund Diestel. A German naval officer, he served on the S.M.S. Emden during World War I before its destruction by an Australian cruiser. Having enough of the war, he deserted and made his way to Siam (Thailand), where he became an opium addict.
• Technicolor Fire: It's in the name. Notably, Pope's initial version of the costume burned blue, and turned black after the frogs empowered him and he became the real Black Flame.
• The Undead: He looks like he has a skull for a head. Pope's was initially a helmet, and after he returned it appeared his head has become mummified; it's not clear if this was the case for Diestel.
• Took a Level in Badass: He is revived in Return of the Master. In Reign of the Black Flame, we discover that he's now practically a Physical God whose life force is connected to every living thing in the ruins of New York City, hence making it impossible for Liz Sherman and the BPRD to kill him without resorting to mass murder.
• Unwitting Pawn: His true purpose is just to burn, and light the way for the Ogdru Hem. The frogs allowed him to "control" them so they could get him to take on this role.

Memnan Saa

Memnan Saa was born Martin Gilfryd in 19th Century London and has interacted with Edward Grey, the Lobster and the BPRD. Spent most of the first part of B.P.R.D. tormenting Liz with apocalyptic visions of the future.

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• Dark Messiah: This is how Memnan Saa sees himself.
• Evil Sorcerer: He wants to save humanity...in order to rule over it.
• Expy: Invoked. By 1937, he's started acting and dressing like a faux-Asian mastermind. It's like the read the Fu Manchu books and geeked out over them or something.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Memnan Saa began his long life as Martin Gilfryd, a mortal curator for the British Museum's Egyptology Department. He would go on to study multiple ancient magicks and lost arts from teachers across the globe, even in places unknown to modern man, gaining a great deal of untold power. At the height of his ability he's basically unstoppable.
• Mighty Whitey: Invoked, but ultimately subverted.
• Unwitting Pawn: For all his claims of being the savior of humanity, it’s implied he’s actually being manipulated by the Ogdru Jahad when he is shown among their servants Rasputin and the Black Flame during the Queen of Blood’s transformation into one of them.
• Villainous Crush: Devon outright states that he's clearly in love with Liz, and his stalker-ish behavior would seem to give this weight.
• Villains Never Lie: Repeatedly claims that he has never lied to Liz. It eventually becomes obvious this is at best only metaphorical truths and at worst simply his own delusions of messiah-hood.
• Visionary Villain: He plans to save (and later, rule) the world, because he doesn't believe the B.P.R.D. have the nerve to make big decisions in the coming apocalypse.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Memnan Saa's primary motivation was to preserve the human race and civilization. He was willing to resort to any means necessary, however, and he even dismissed Kate Corrigan's offer of an alliance between himself and the B.P.R.D. by claiming that the latter was not ruthless enough. Of course, his secondary motivation is to rule over the survivors as a god, so there's that too.
  Memnan Saa: Your bureau, your governments, will try to save all of this earth. That is childish! The war has already begun. You believe you've had your victories. You will believe that again. While the truth is, little by little you are losing. So, there is only one question.. a question you will never be able to answer. How much are you willing to lose... to win?
• Yellow Peril: His look has deliberate shades of this as he is essentially a wannabe Mighty Whitey trying to be Fu Manchu.

Vladimir Giurescu

A powerful vampire lord, Vladimir Giurescu was chosen by the goddess Hecate to be her son, and his veins run with her blood. Whenever he is mortally wounded, he can be taken to a secret temple built for the goddess beneath Castle Giurescu, laid out on an altar in the light of the full moon, and a few ritual sacrifices later he’s good as new again.

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• A God Am I: He believes that since he can recover from almost anything, he's closer to a god than a man.
• Back from the Dead: Giurescu nearly drowned in a frozen river and was brought back to life as a vampire after his father sacrificed all their dogs and their servants. If he is killed or mortally wounded (which happens a lot), his remains are deposited in a special ritual room to bring him back.
• Brutal Bird of Prey: A vampire who turns into a scary eagle instead of one of the usual Bloodsucking Bats.
• The Dragon: To Hecate in Wake The Devil.
• The Dreaded: By Adolf Hitler of all people. His presence was so dark and unnerving that he ordered his arrest and execution.
• Evil Overlord: He inherited his father's estate and for three centuries ruled the surrounding area with an iron fist, paying Hecate in blood as tribute.
• Expy: He shares many traits with Dracula such as having "vampire brides" and resembling his real-life inspiration. It's also mentioned he attempted to create a secret empire in England during the 1880s, but he was stopped by the Witchfinder Edward Grey, similar to Dracula's own plans in the novel which took place in a similar time period.
• Feathered Fiend: Giurescu can shapeshift into an eagle and he can control crows to spy and attack his enemies.
• Healing Factor: The light of the full moon can heal his wounds.
• Never Found the Body: The B.P.R.D. tries to move his skeleton to their headquarters for safekeeping after Hellboy kills him, but it disappears at the airport in Bucharest. The epilogue of Wake The Devil states that it was never recovered.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Giurescu became a vampire through a magical ritual instead of being bitten and turned.
• Polyamory: He took many wives over the course of the centuries, and even had more than one at once.
• Red Baron: Dubbed as "Giurescu the Devil" by Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Undying Loyalty: To his "mother" Hecate. He even gives his newly restored life to resurrect her after she's killed by Hellboy.
• The Unfought: Despite being the eponymous character of Wake the Devil, he never fights Hellboy after regaining his strength, choosing instead to revive Hecate at the cost of his life.
• Unholy Matrimony: Not only with his vampire brides, but he also had Ilsa Haupstein as a lover.

Baba Yaga

A legendary witch of Russian folklore, Baba Yaga is one of Hellboy's recurring foes. She is often pulling the strings from behind the scenes, and is surrounded by a strange cast of characters.

Oh, and she flies around in a pestle and mortar.

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• Artificial Limbs: Her legs are made of wood
• Evil Old Folks: She's an ancient evil witch and certainly looks the part. She's also Rasputin's grandmother.
• Eye Scream: She ran into Hellboy years ago in a graveyard. The encounter ended with Hellboy shooting out her left eye.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a simple but poignant one to Rasputin at the end of Wake The Devil for his failure in Romania and for allowing himself to become little more than a pawn to the Ogdru Jahad.
  "Like it or don't, you are what you have allowed yourself to become... Nothing."
• Walking Shirtless Scene: She's not a fan of shirts, which in this case, is not sexy in the least. Thankfully, her chest is always covered one way or another.

Baron Ernst Konig

A vampire encountered by Professor Bruttenholm after the end of World War II. He is angry with Hitler and the Nazis for betraying Vladimir Giurescu and his family, and plans revenge against humanity for the Nazis' crimes.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: He has grand plans to wage war on and eradicate humanity, making vampires the rulers of the world. The most he manages to accomplish is killing a bunch of Nazi prisoners before he's killed by his own infuriated allies in his second appearance.
• Didn't Think This Through: Despite the vampire leaders agreeing to lay low and wait for humanity to forget about them so they can take them by surprise, he doesn't even try to hide his brutal slaughter of Nazi prisoners, which draws the attention of B.P.R.D. and thus humanity. To make matters worse, he went about his rampage without informing the rest of the vampire nobility. When they find out that he risked premature war with humanity without their consent, they kill him on the spot.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Konig is a brutal vampire lord, but he was appalled by the Nazis' treatment of his fellow vampires. Granted, he did not like Giurescu and personally thought he deserved the fate he brought upon himself for trying to forge an alliance with the Nazis, but the execution of Giurescu's wives was what drove Konig into launching his vendetta.
• Evil Versus Evil: A Vampire Monarch hates the Nazis for their betrayal of his fellow vampires.
• Feathered Fiend: Similarly to Giurescu, Konig shapeshifted into a bird instead of bats - in his case, an owl.
• Humans Are Insects: Like all vampires, he considers humanity beneath them and seems offended that Giurescu tried to ally himself with the Nazis and viewing them as their "equals."
• Nazi Hunter: A rare evil version of this trope, since he personally hunts downs Nazis for their crimes against vampirekind.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • He cowers in fear when Varvara steps in to defend Bruttenholm against him, revealing herself as a demon lord.
  • He has just enough time before his fellow vampires carry out his sudden execution for the horror to set in.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Although no physical rape occurred, Konig feels that the living exsanguination of one of Vladimir Giurescu's wives for experimentation with the blood was a bodily violation equivalent to such that he finds particularly vile.
• Revenge Before Reason: His pursuit of vengeance nearly exposes the vampires to the rest of the world.
• The Unfought: The B.P.R.D. doesn't even come close to fighting him; he is instead executed by his fellow vampires to uphold The Masquerade.
• Transhuman Treachery: He feels that vampires are something greater than human, and that Giurescu was a fool for associating with them.
• Undignified Death: He is literally Bitch Slapped half to death by his fellow vampires before one of them slits his throat. A pretty pitiful end for a vampire nobleman.
• We Can Rule Together: Konig makes this offer to his fellow vampires to come out of the shadows and attack the humans now (i.e., in the late 1940s) instead of putting off their attack to the pre-arranged year in the future. They refuse.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He has long, white hair and is evil and bloodthirsty, like other vampires in this setting.

Gustav Strobl

A 19th-century German occultist and necromancer and once the teacher of a certain Martin Gilfryd, who would later be known as Memnan Saa.

Gilfryd murdered him, but due to his occupation he still managed to come back to life. After the apocalyptic events in The King of Fear, Strobl takes to prowling the devastated America, taking a special interest in Abe Sapien.

His aim is to become a ruler in Hell despite being human, and he is willing to do anything to get it.

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• Affably Evil: Strobl is ever so polite while he goes around the ruins of the USA and forces Vaughn to do his bidding.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Naturally, he shows his true colors as soon as someone gets in his way.
• Big Bad: Essentially functions as this for the Abe Sapien spin-off.
• The Cynic: His attitude toward the unfolding apocalypse is largely this, with his primary concern being the accumulation and strengthening of his power.
• Evil Sorcerer: One of the most powerful and evil ones in the setting.
• Gentleman and a Scholar: Keeps his 19th-century aristocrat attitude at all times.
• Necromancer: Has the ability to raise the dead to do his bidding, as demonstrated when he reanimates Joseph Vaughn as his sentient servant zombie.
• Older Than They Look: Coupled with Immortality Begins at Twenty. He always dresses like he did back in the 19th century but outside of that looks like a perfectly normal man.
• One-Winged Angel: Transforms into an Icthyo Sapiens like Abe just in time for their climactic battle.
• Outside-Context Problem: Strobl waited so long behind the scenes that the Apocalypse happened. By the time he takes prominence he's somewhat aimless, looking for new ways to get power, and this makes him go after Abe. He met Prof. Bruttenholm and fought Hellboy once, but he was never considered a priority issue.
• The Stoic: He never smiles.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: In stark contrast to most of the villains, Strobl initially appears as a Tall, Dark, and Handsome gentleman, dressed in black, elegant clothes.
  • Nightmare Face: Nearing his final battle with Abe he's grievously harmed. He ends up with some hideous scars in his face and no nose at all.

Osiris Club

A secret society, splintered from the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra, of aristocratic men (and one woman) patiently conspiring for the right time to gain power.

They wait for a long time. They succeed.

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• Crippling Overspecialization: If their actions in Ragna Rok are any indication they are, indeed, extraordinary in the mystical department. Sadly their planning abilities and their capacity to defend themselves leave much to be desired.
• Didn't Think This Through: SO MUCH. They succeed in taking over the Dragon, something that nobody had managed to even get close to, but they had no countermeasure to a single angry ghost.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: They appear for no reason at all until the very ending of the story, at the point in which they successfully take over the Ogdru Jahad... only to die anyway.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: They essentially save planet Earth from the Ogdru Jahad, allowing it to be reborn.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: These idiots manage to steal the power of the Ogdru Jahad.
• Unknown Rival: They consider themselves highly among the many dangers of the world. And, hilariously, they are right, seeing as how they alone succeed in taking over the Dragon.
• While Rome Burns: Insist on drinking tea and acting casually while Ragna Rok happens

Thrym

Long-deceased king of the frost giants and enemy of the Norse Gods.

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• Arch-Enemy: Of Thor.
• Back from the Dead: He died long ago during Ragnarok, and in the modern day his goal is to resurrect himself and the rest of the Norse monsters.
• Big Bad: Of the Bones of Giants miniseries.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: A monstrous jötunn who towers over Hellboy.

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Prince Nuada

The main villain of the second Hellboy film, Nuada Silverlance is the crowned prince of the Clan Bethmoora elves (also known collectively with the other magical races as 'the sons of the earth') and the last of the warrior elves. Nuada is anti-human and focused on preserving his own kind and other non-human life by destroying all humans, and has returned from exile to awaken the Golden Army to carry out the genocide of humanity.

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• Anti-Villain: Nuada is sympathetic because - though his methods are excessive - his motivations are understandable. He's spent centuries - possibly millennia - watching the mythical creatures that once ruled the world fade into the background as humans expanded and the royal family has been reduced to ruling from sewers. Furthermore, humans violated the ancient, eternal treaty between them and the magical beings; a treaty Nuada’s father King Balor made because he regretted the slaughter and decided not to commit genocide on humanity... then the descendants of those people (perhaps unknowingly) threw Balor's mercy back in his face and violated the treaty's terms. Nuada wants to take the planet back from the humans in the name of the fey beings before their kind dies out completely.
  Prince Nuada: "The humans... the humans have forgotten the gods, destroyed the earth, and for what? Parking lots? Shopping malls? Greed had burned a hole in their hearts that will never be filled! They will never have enough!"
• Badass Normal: Played with. Although he is an elf with a psychic link to his sister, none of his racial traits seem to actually help directly in combat, save perhaps, being an elf. Also, he seems to age slower than humans, judging from the flashback scenes where a young Hellboy's father tells his son a story about The Golden Army, including the Elves that initially used the aforementioned army as their secret weapon.
• Big Bad: In the second movie. His desire to reawaken the Golden Army and restart the war against humanity drives the plot.
• Brother–Sister Incest: There's some definite undertones to the way he acts around Nuala, and he's clearly jealous when he realises she's grown close to Abe. del Toro even calls him an "incestuous little bastard" during his commentary on the film.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Subverted. While Nuada gives an extended "The Reason You Suck" Speech toward his father, Nuada is also clearly in the wrong. While he's got his points, it doesn't justify his solution of outright genocide.
• Can't Argue with Elves: He makes some really good arguments against humans that Hellboy is unable to refute.
• Corrupted Character Copy: He's basically a villainous take on the elves from the Lord of the Rings movies, being a dashing, elegant swashbuckler who guards the magical aspects of the world. While the elves of Middle Earth didn't have the highest opinion of humanity, they still accepted that their time in the mortal realm was coming to a close, while Nuada wants to rouse his people into reclaiming their place.
• The Determinator: He waited centuries - if not millennia - to call upon his army to wipe out humanity and return his people to their rightful place.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Nuada loved his father and is extremely remorseful at killing him to obtain the pieces of the crown.
  • Nuada genuinely cares for his sister, perhaps too much. He's visibly upset when she doesn't agree with his policy to wipe out humans.
• The Evil Prince: Downplayed Trope, as though he does kill his own father to obtain a piece of the crown, he shows regret for it and didn't do it solely out of ambition.
• The Exile: Self-imposed in protest over the peace treaty between his people and the humans.
• Fantastic Racism: Nuada despises humans, though he has reasons for doing so. However, he is reasonable, even friendly, to non-humans.
• The Fair Folk: Nuada is the prince of the fey people, who are being wiped out due to humanity's industrialism and greed destroying their connection with nature.
• Fragile Speedster: Nuada is an extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant, gracefully dodging or parrying everything that comes his way while using his spear to retaliate. Most of Hellboy's fight against him is just trying to pin the slippery elf down. Once he does, though, Nuada is beaten pretty much instantly.
• Half-Identical Twins: He's identical twins with Nuala, who is a woman who looks essentially like a female version of him.
• Incest Subtext: Nuada implicitly has feelings for his sister Nuala, getting jealous toward Abe and cornering her a few times. While he does genuinely care about her, it's heavily implicit that this is on some level not in a brotherly manner.
• Kill All Humans: Prince Nuada's stated goal is to use the Golden Army to wipe out humanity and take back the world for the fey.
• Knight Templar: Nuada views himself as good due to his mission to save his people, which means committing patricide, attempting to commit an outright genocide on humanity, and all manner of other heinous crimes are justified in his eyes.
• Morph Weapon: Nuada's blade can switch from being a sword to being a glaive with ease, something he makes significant use of.
• Never My Fault: Nuada guilts Hellboy into not killing the Elemental he'd unleashed by stating that it's the last of its kind. It doesn't work, as Hellboy personally witnessed Nuada summon it for the purpose of fighting Hellboy and his team to the death.
• Pet the Dog: Several moments including his Villainous Friendship and a literal one where he kills the guards at the entrance to the B.R.P.D. headquarters but spares the guard dogs after persuading them not to attack him, petting one.
• Polar Opposite Twins: While both are very dedicated to their people and culture, they go about it in the exact opposite way: Nuada believes destroying humanity after humans forgot a sacred pact with the Elves and destroyed the forests is the right thing to do, while Nuala wants no bloodshed and wishes to help humans prevent a war. He does much of his fighting himself, having been training for years alone, while Nuala can't fight, but is willing to work with the B.P.R.D. to stop him.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: A master of it.
  • Nuada tells off his father and sister for the fact they care more about their peace treaty with humanity than they do about saving their people; while his solution of wiping out humanity is very extreme, both of them only oppose him with great remorse and all but acknowledge he is right.
  • Nuada lectures Hellboy twice about how awful humanity is, noting that they are cruel beings whose greed and small-mindedness has forced magical creatures such as Hellboy himself and the fey into hiding.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Wears a red-and-black samurai-like outfit during the climactic scene, and generally tends toward red, black, and gold as his color palette throughout the film.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Nuada, despite being self-exiled, returns when he realizes his people are likely to be wiped out and tries to take the fight to humanity using the Golden Army.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Like Hellboy, alluding to his magical heritage.
• Tragic Villain: Nuada is a Well-Intentioned Extremist with the goal of keeping mankind from annihilating his people. He has watched them slowly die out for years, along with the oppression of magical beings, and when he finally grows tired of it and strikes back in an attempt to Kill All Humans, he feels the only way to get the weapon he desires is to murder his own father for it, something he clearly hates doing. As the film goes on, it becomes clear that while Nuada is a Fantastic Racist and a maniac, he was just trying to do a good thing after years of humans proving his mistrust of them right. As he dies, he's clearly distraught at the fact his sister will die with him and the magical world will be left even more vulnerable.
• Villainous Friendship: With Wink. He was dismayed by Wink’s death and sought to avenge him.
• Warrior Prince: Nuada is more than a capable combatant. And as the son of King Balor, he qualifies for both sides of the trope.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Nuada wants to save his people from their doom and end the oppression of magical creatures. Unfortunately, his solution is to wipe out humanity using the Golden Army.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Nuada is clearly conflicted about his deeds and actions, is completely correct in that humanity's greed is destroying his people, and has some genuinely sympathetic traits after watching the elves die out slowly due to mankind. That said, his solution to this is to wipe out mankind, an action which cannot be justified.
• You Are What You Hate: Nuada hates humanity for causing extinctions through their industrialization and unchecked greed, yet he seeks to wipe out humanity using an army of mass-produced automatons made from solid gold.

Princess Nuala

Nuada's twin sister, also psychic, who shares a bond with him. She is, however, entirely against his plan to destroy humanity, and is willing to fade away if it means keeping the peace as her father wanted. She meets Abe Sapien and teams up with the B.P.R.D. to stop him, developing mutual feelings for the fish man in the process.

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• Beauty Equals Goodness: Despite her people's somewhat creepy appearance, she's very pretty and delicate-looking- the novelization describes Abe as "thunderstruck" when he first sets eyes on her.
• Color Motif: Her main gown is blue to symbolize her future relationship with Abe, with gold to hint at her magical nature and heroism. She also takes interest in a poetry book the exact color of her gown, enjoying a particular poem Abe also loves.
• Damsel in Distress:
  • Nuada eventually takes her back and tells Abe if he wants to see her again he'd better give up the crown piece.
  • Played with; when they first meet and Nuala is on the run from her brother with the crown piece, Abe assumes she needs his assistance, but she assures him it's the other way around.
• Dating What Brother Hates: Nuada is 'not' happy to see her even refer to Abe by his first name, inferring she is fond enough of him to do so.
• The Determinator: Like her brother, she refuses to give in- but her agenda is the exact opposite of his.
• Friend to All Living Things: She was implied to be this in the original script, with a pet monster guard dog protecting her and feeding fruit to magical creatures in a cage.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's very kind and forgiving, with platinum blonde hair.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Kills herself to ensure Nuada does not try to take command of the Golden Army again.
• Lady and Knight: The Bright Lady to Abe's White Knight.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Light to Liz's Dark.
• Love at First Sight: How Abe fell for her. For Nuala, however, it was more when they had a Love At First Psychic Touch moment.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Has three: her main blue gown with gold accents, a black and red gown she wears during her first appearance, and a pale golden Japanese-style gown in the climactic scene.
• Polar Opposite Twins: While both are very dedicated to their people and culture, they go about it in the exact opposite way: Nuada believes destroying humanity after humans forgot a sacred pact with the Elves and destroyed the forests is the right thing to do, while Nuala wants no bloodshed and wishes to help humans prevent a war. He does much of his fighting himself, having been training for years alone, while Nuala can't fight, but is willing to work with the B.P.R.D. to stop him.
• Our Elves Are Different: Nuala is considerably kinder to humans than The Fair Folk tend to be in folklore.
• Proper Lady: Nuala is the picture of grace, manners, and kindness (initial mistrusting of Abe aside when they met), not holding a grudge at all against humanity for shoving her people into the background.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Strongly averted. She wears one red and black dress but is as far from evil as it gets.
• Silk Hiding Steel: The picture of elegance, but she threatened Abe with a knife to the throat when she caught him following her around the market.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Like Hellboy, alluding to her magical heritage.
• True Blue Femininity: Her main dress is a lovely shade of blue, and she's very genteel.

Sammael

Sammael the Desolate One, also known as Lord of the Shadows, Harbinger of Pestilence, Seed of Destruction, and Hound of Resurrection.

An aberration that serves Rasputin and fights Hellboy several times. Extremely powerful and capable of regenerating into two after being killed.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Sammael is a mindless, bloodthirsty beast that will massacre all in his path.
• Asteroids Monster: As stated above, whenever Sammael is killed, two more hatch from eggs and grow to full size in seconds. The only way to truly defeat him is to kill off all his bodies and eggs at once.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: One of them is enough to engage Hellboy in a long fight, whereas a whole army of them is felled by Liz's powers during the climax.
• Furry Reminder: Some slight details in his design imply he's a kind of heavily mutated dog.
• Elite Mook: Since he can clone himself, he serves as attack dogs for Rasputin.
• Healing Factor: When Samael dies, he can ressurect himself into two copies, similar to a Hydra. Later, it's revealed that Samael can lay eggs, duplicating himself even more.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Has several similarities to the Frog People from the comics, especially the prehensile tongue.

John Myers

An F.B.I. agent that is reassigned to work in the B.P.R.D. during the 2004 "Hellboy" movie directed by Guillermo Del Toro. As in this version the whole world had a masquerade regarding the supernatural he becomes a Fish out of Water and it takes him a while to become used to the Bureau's weirdness.

He's tasked as Hellboy's "nanny", replacing another such agent that Hellboy had a better relationship with. This immediately creatres a harsh situation between the two, which would improve throughout the movie. He doesn't appear on any other Hellboy media, and in the second film directed by Del Toro he's mentioned to have been "reassigned to Antarctica".

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• Audience Surrogate: The present-day story begins with Myers being inducted into the B.P.R.D. with Bruttenholm and his staff giving their new recruit details on their organization. Naturally, he's absent in the sequel due to serving his narrative purpose.
• Badass Normal: Provides some important assistance during the final fight.
• Fish out of Water:In this version normal people had no idea the supernatural existed and Hellboy is known as merely an urban myth and a comic book character.
• The Generic Guy: More of a plot device to introduce the viewer to the weirdness of the Hellboy universe.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Said word for word as the reason he's suddenly missing by the second movie.
• Spanner in the Works: He's the one who persuades Hellboy to defy Rasputin and not release the Ogdru Jahad.

Mr. Wink

Prince Nuada's henchman and muscle, Mr. Wink serves as The Dragon for his plan to ressurect the Golden Army.

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• Artificial Limbs: Has a prosthetic right hand that he can shoot out like a ball and chain.
• The Brute: He's a towering, strong-as-hell cave troll that has a metal fist similar to Hellboy's stone fist.
• The Dragon: Serves as this for Nuada, though he doesn't even get to live to see the Golden Army get ressurected.
• Dumb Muscle: He is very big and strong, but he's killed roughly by his own incompetence when he accidently shoots his fist into a grinder, dragging him in and killing him.
• Evil Counterpart: To Hellboy. They're both hulking brutes who act as the muscle for shadowy organizations. Hellboy is red with a stone fist, while Wink is blue with a metal one. Hellboy flattnes out his horns to fit in better with humanity, while Wink doesn't even speak English. Wink also has cloven hooves, which Hellboy had in the comics and is implied to have in the films.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Hellboy doesn't even kill Wink, telling him that their fight is over. Red gives him one last our before Wink stubbornly refuses, launching his fist into a garbage crusher, dragging him in and killing him.
• Villainous Friendship: Was the best friend of Nuada, and the reason why Wink sided with him to ressurect the Golden Army. Wink's own death saddens Nuada greatly.

Characters from other spin-offs and one-shots in the universe

Screw-On Head

Some manner of Victorian robot/golem thing that fights evil in the service of President Abraham Lincoln. He's a detachable head that can attach itself with a screw on its neck to different mechanical bodies. He's on a mission to stop the nefarious plans of undead occultist Emperor Zombie, aided by his manservant Mr. Groin and his taxidermied assistant dog, Dog.

He's the main character of the eponymous series, The Amazing Screw-on Head and the 2006 pilot episode for an animated series.

In-universe he exists as a part of a series of novels written by Walter Edmond Heap

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• Denser and Wackier: Compared to the main Mignolaverse, this story is much more nonsensical and comical.
• Mysterious Past: Parodied. The comic is about to explain us where Screw-On Head came from, but instead shows us "three horrible women and a monkey".
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Lincoln-era robot with a detachable head.

Sarah Jewell

Debut: Rise of the Black Flame #1

An American occultist and detective that battled the supernatural around the world circa the 1920s along with her accomplice, Marie-Therese La Fleur. She was part of the Silver Lantern and a close friend of Edward Grey, with whom she had several adventures (nothing romantic) before each parting off their own way. She might not have been the first Western woman to enter a harem, but she's pretty sure she was the first to kill a manticore inside of one.

She first appears helping controlling the first Black Flame in the English Colony of Burma in the 20's, but it's quickly established that by then she's already had a long and fruitful career and that she's known the world over. Later she becomes the star of the spinoff of a spinoff of a spinoff "The Sarah Jewell Mysteries", chronicling some of her cases, most of them with a more "classic mystery" vent than the usual story in the Mignolaverse.

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• Amateur Sleuth: Her stories are a clear send-off to the classics in the mystery genre..
• Badass Normal: She can perform exorcisms and is an occultist, but for all practices and purposes she's a normal woman fighting the inhuman on a daily basis.
• The Flapper: part of the inspiration for some of her costumes, though she was a bit too old to be part of the movement (she was middle aged by the 20s).
• Grand Dame: As she grows older
• Geek Physiques: As she grows older she gains some weight, which sometimes puts a hamper when a case needs some more physical activity. She remains a Big Beautiful Woman and perfectly competent otherwise.
• Lady of Adventure

Marie-Therese La Fleur

Sarah Jewell's fellow accomplice during her travels and investigations, their relation being somewhat ambiguous. She's a woman from Lousiana, and who became acquainted with Jewell after dealing with some issues related to some crocodile people.They've been traveling together ever since.

She's more quiet and practical than the verbose Sarah, and is also much more physically fit than Jewell (but just as stylish) so she's sometimes in charge of all the persuading that needs a more hands-on approach.

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• The Flapper: Always dressed in lovely era-appropriate fashion.
• Lady of Adventure
• The Watson

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