Hellboy, for friends "Red“, Is a cartoon character created by American cartoonist Mike Mignola in 1993 for the label Legend for the well-known Dark Horse publishing house. The character made his debut in 1993 in a first four-volume miniseries called "Hellboy: Seed of destruction"Made by Mike Mignola, which was followed over the years by some miniseries and unique volumes, but in the third and final issue of the miniseries" The Fury Hero ", published in August 2011 by Dark Horse Comics, Mike Mignola decided to have the character of Hellboy die, leaving many loyal readers in disbelief. The author stated that the decision to have Red die in the final volume of the series had been made a few years ago, but in 2012, the author surprised everyone by launching a new regular series called “Hellboy in Hell“, Which told the adventures of the big red-skinned boy in hell.
History
During the Second World War, on an island in Scotland, the evil sorcerer Grigorij Rasputin, accompanied by the Nazi secret services, is preparing to carry out a magical rite called "Ragnarok" with the aim of evoking demonic forces from the afterlife to change the fate of the war in progress. Before the portal opens for good, a platoon of allies attacks them causing the Nazis' plan to fail, confining Rasputin and his allies inside the portal. Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, an expert on the paranormal, is convinced that the portal has been open for too long and consequently something could have come out of it: in fact, after a few hours of research the soldiers find a small red-skinned creature very similar to a devil. The professor then decides to take that little creature with him and raise her as a son. Once an adult Hellboy becomes the best detective in the "Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense“, A secret US agency that has the task of protecting the United States from any paranormal and supernatural threats. Inside the secret agency we also find other members of the team led by Red, or Elizabeth Sherman said "Liz", A girl capable of generating flames with thought, and the amphibious humanoid Abraham Sapien, known simply as"Abe".
Powers and abilities
Hellboy is a big red-skinned boy, just over two meters tall with a long tail and large horns that he files periodically. His right forearm is his real strength: not only is it made of an indestructible and unknown material, but it also gives him a superhuman strength. Red ages much slower than a human and he is endowed with a regenerating factor, which, however, does not make it completely invulnerable. Plus it's a real one expert in the use of firearms.
The film
Hellboy is ready to return to cinemas all over the world on 11 April with the reboot of the film directed by Guillermo del Toro seen on the big screen a few years ago. This time to play Red in the new film directed by the English director Neil Marshall (Doomsday, Centurion) will be the US actor David Harbor, we have already seen in action as Agent Hopper in the TV series “Stranger Things”. In this new adventure that sees him protagonist, Hellboy together with the members of the secret agency known as "Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense" is called to England to defeat three angry giants. Once he arrives in Great Britain, Red will discover his true origins and will also be forced to face the blood queen Nimue, an ancient resurrected witch who can't wait to take revenge on mankind. Hellboy must try to stop the destructive fury of the blood queen at all costs, in an epic battle to avert the end of the world.
