History ComicBook / Hellboy

* AHellOfATime: [[spoiler:Hellboy's ultimate fate is apparently to spend eternity in Hell, which apparently isn't as bad as it sounded at first. Billions of people and demons to meet (or fight), a house, possibly some family, and a nearly infinite world to explore forever. In other words, more like the norse Valhalla than anything. Then again, he '''is''' [[BriarPatching a demon...]]]] At the end when [[spoiler:Hellboy is seemingly taken to heaven after wandering hell for a while.]]

Created by Mike Mignola.

* GainaxEnding: The ending for the Hellboy side of the storyline is a [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel giant flaming Hellboy with fully grown horns and wings]] trashing Pandemonium, walking along a beach in his usual form, finding himself in a mansion, and meeting a glowing sphere, pyramid, and cube.]]] Lampshaded by Mignola himself.

** Gruagach was a minor fairy who took the place of a human child. After being found out by Hellboy, he unleashed a boar-headed giant on Hellboy, got stuck in the ginat's shrunken body, and ended up freeing Nimue to get his revenge.

Has a [[Characters/{{Hellboy}} character page]] that NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* AHellOfATime: [[spoiler:Hellboy's ultimate fate is apparently to spend eternity in Hell, which apparently isn't as bad as it sounded at first. Billions of people and demons to meet (or fight), a house, possibly some family, and a nearly infinite world to explore forever. In other words, more like the norse Valhalla than anything. Then again, he '''is''' [[BriarPatching a demon...]]]]
** Averted at the end when [[spoiler:Hellboy is seemingly taken to heaven after wandering hell for a while.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: [[TheDevil Astaroth]] and his horde's reaction to Hellboy having breakfast
--> '''Mammon''': It is the boy. He has eaten the pancake.
--> '''Haborym''': He will never come back to us now.
--> '''Astaroth''': Truely, this ''is'' our blackest hour.

** The third series of ComicBook/{{BPRD}} ''The devil you know'' is served as this for the whole mignolaverse [[spoiler:as most of humanity survived and remain in underground while earth is revived as it will be inhabited by a new race of frog people as prophesied from early Hellboy stories]] though mike mignola will continue to write more stories revolving around Hellboy's adventures from the past.

** The third series of ComicBook/{{BPRD}} ''The devil you know'' is served as this for the whole mignolaverse [[spoiler:as most of the humanity survived and remain in underground while earth is revived as it will be inhabited by a new race of frog people as prophesied from early Hellboy stories]] though mike mignola will continue to write more stories revolving around Hellboy's adventures from the past.

** The third series of ComicBook/{{BPRD}} ''The devil you know'' is served as this for the whole mignolaverse [[spoiler:as most of the humanity survived and remain in underground while earth is revived as it will be inhabited by a new race of frog people as prophesied from early Hellboy stories]]though mike mignola will continue to write more stories revolving around Hellboy's adventures from the past.

* PublicDomainCharacter: Frankenstein's monster. According to Mignola, he's the Shelley version but with a strong James Whale influence, since Film/BrideOfFrankenstein is his favourite film. The implication seems to be that Shelley's novel was here based on true events.

* '''''Frankenstein Underground''''' - FrankensteinsMonster (who first appeared in "House of the Living Dead") journeys to an [[HollowWorld underground world.]]

* KnightTemplar: The Knights of Saint Hagan, a Crusader who rose headless to fight in the last battle of the Crusades. His followers continued their campaign to destroy all things Satanic with considerable success. Hellboy lampshades their 'kill em all' approach as misguided... however, ''most'' of the demons and heathens killed certainly deserved it.

Created by Creator/MikeMignola.

Created by MikeMignola.

Created by [[MikeMignola]].

* GainaxEnding: The ending for the Hellboy side of the storyline is a [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel giant flaming Hellboy with fully grown horns and wings]] trashing Pandemonium, walking along a beach in his ususal form, finding himself in a mansion, and meeting a glowing sphere, pyramid, and cube.]]] Lampshaded by Mignola himself.

* NaziHunter: Hellboy acted as one after the war. In the non-canon ''Comicbook/SavageDragon'' crossover he even killed Hitler himself.

** Hellboy himself seems to favor this over knowing his full past and origins: "I ''like'' not knowing. I ''sleep good'' not knowing.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Hellboy's conflict with Astaroth ends very abruptly when Astaroth is devoured by the demon Leviathan, due to a previously unmentioned grudge between the two of them.]]

* HollowWorld: The BPRD miniseries ''Hollow Earth'' and ''King of Fear'', as well as ''Frankenstein Underground'', where the titular character ends up in the ruins of an ancient underground Hyperborean city.