† Biography Info by Guillermo del Toro †
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theynevergettheeyesrightThe information below was taken from the Mini Biographies on the two disc special edition Hellboy movie. It is also listed in the Hellboy Movie guide book as his back story and canon info (From the Movie Point of view).
This information is NOT my wording at all but that of the director Guillermo Del Toro who wrote up some Bios for character before filming. Everything here was taken word for word from the DVD and the book. I changed no wording. A lot of it fits very closely to the original comics and I use this as his history and back story. Movie verse and Comic verse are a bit different after all and this is canon to the movie.
HELL BOY BIOGRAPHY
“...The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slo. Through Eden took their solitary way...” - John Milton - Paradise Lost
Anung Un Rama
October 9th 1944
6 foot 9 inches, 350 lbs. Black hair red skin
Golden eyes, stone hand
LIKES:
The look of Liz in the golden light of dusk. The look of Liz in the morning. The look of Liz from a distance. The look of Liz nearby. Her voice, her smell, her clothes, her skin... having her fall asleep on his shoulder, well, you get the idea. He looks up to Professor Broom but feels like James Dean in East of Eden. He adores beer, pizza, chili, nachos, pumping iron, a good cigar, a bad cigar, traveling, cats, candy (especially Baby Ruth), old Upa cartoons, old Fleischer cartoons, Polaroid Photos (Liz taught him that), Zippos (he collects them), Ding-dongs and Twinkies, cookies and milk, greasy burgers and hot dogs, shaving his horns. He is easily amused by flatulence (thinks Dumb and Dumber is a masterpiece) and loves to bawl with b&w movies (especially City Lights and Brief Encounter). Beating the crap out of monsters. Getting his coat fixed and ready. His big, bad gun “The Samaritan,” and its bullets. Bruce Willis, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Pixar Movies (thinks that monsters, inc is a better name for the B.P.R.D. - Abe takes offence.) And watching Toy Story 1 and 2 with Liz makes for a perfect afternoon.
Loves the 3 stooges, the Marx brothers, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton.
DISLIKES:
Vegetables (beets especially), oysters, jalapeno peppers, salads, Yanni, Charlotte church, People Magazine, The Enquirer, photographers, Abe Burping (those damn eggs are nasty) or getting sanctimonious. Thinking of his origin, learning about it. People staring at his forehead. Being locked up for more then 4 months without an “outing,” … being called a demon.
Biography By Guillermo Del Toro:
To understand Hellboy one has to know a bit about his family. His real family, that is. His mother was born in 1681. Her name was Catherine Tanner-Tremaine and she was born in east Bromwich, England. A rich heiress to a tobacco merchant, she studied harpsichord and singing and was adept at most feminine arts. Her parents died when she turned 19 and for the longest time she lived alone in her palatial home, reading and painting.
Immersed in German literature, she dreamt of spirits and magic. Cautiously, she acquired tests and grimoires from her London bookseller and eventually came to own an important collection of magic artifacts and lore (including Dr. John Dee’s Fabled Magical bow) and displayed them in her private library/study.
She summoned a high-ranking demon and willingly found intimacy with him. This was both the highest and most terrifying moment of her life.
She was a changed woman, her soul had probed darkness and its acrid aftertaste made the rest of her life a road of repentance. But sin has its own ways of staying and in spite of her charity and her pious marriage to a minister and the edification of many a church and chapel, she died out of grace. By her feet laid her two human children: a nun and a pastor.
She confessed her transgressions and cried bitterly. She begged them to save her soul, for it would be claimed by her dark paramour.
But just as she exhaled her last breath, her lover reclaimed her body, slaughtering her earthly children so swiftly that a gust of wind shuddered all the window in Tremaine Manor.
Their souls joined, he wooed her and promised that - in his eyes - she would always look young and that within her still lay her unborn spiritual son, awaiting to incarnate and fall to earth.
And she laid dormant, like an insect in amber, until her child was summoned forth by Grigori Efimovich Rasputin one fateful autumn night in 1944. The details of Hellboy’s birth have been properly consigned in B.P.R.D. archives and so has his eventual transfer to a New Mexico army base by Professor Trevor Broom.
It was Broom’s finding of the child that prompted him to stay permanently in the United States, accepting from President Roosevelt the charge of Director of Opperations at the head of the B.P.R.D.
Hellboy grew fast and was incredibly inquisitive. He had the most vivacious eye and showed interest in most mechanical things - frequently smashing them into pieces with his stone glove.
Under the supervision of General Norton Rycker, daily tests were arranged and frequent biopsies were done to obtain tissue samples. Hellboy showed incredible resistance to pain, but cried bitterly every time. A sample of the stone in his clove required the use of high-tension diamond drill bit and provided less then a square millimeter of material before exploding into a shower of sparks and debris.
Professor Broom taught Hellboy the language. First they communicated with signs, then a few sounds and finally with words. The child also had a great affinity with animals and for a while, he could “talk” to the base dog mascot (an ability that he would lose over the years) and considered it more evolved species then humans. Perhaps because of this, hellboy wasn’t “potty-trained” until his later childhood years.
In private sessions, Broom was asked by the president to conceal Hellboy’s existence from the rest of the world and vowed to provide funding for a larger B.P.R.D. building.
In spite of the secrecy, now and then Hellboy was introduced to many a celebrity. Einstein flew to New Mexico in order to spend an afternoon with the creature and found him delightful and bright. Hellboy compared hairstyles between Broom and Einstein and expressed his predilection for the later. In 1946 he threw a rock at Babe Ruth’s head and - in a most impolite manner - kept calling Clark Gable “Sewer Breath.”
Photos were shown to Josef Stalin that depicted Hellboy as a USA secret weapon, Stalin liked his color but believed him a Hoax.
In 1949, Hellboy met the soviet director, who kept pinching him in the cheek and fondling his horns. Hellboy started shaving them shortly thereafter.
In 1951, he was released into Professor Broom’s full-time custody and moved into the B.P.R.D. headquarters - Back then in Boston, MA. The early ‘50s proved particularly active for the Bureau as Adolf Hitler waged his secret war with the USA from South America. Hellboy proved his enormous talent as an agent in the field and beating a cybernetic Hitler with his own mechanical leg may prove to be one of his greatest triumphs. At the end of the decade, the B.P.R.D. moved into its new headquarters.
The building that presently houses the Bureau was created in the 1940’s and was intended by the Federal government as one of their cold war strategic bunker-shelters to lodge all branches of government.
Hellboy’s room used to be the building’s safe and it ensconced by the rock of a cliff and a concrete and steel armature.
Broom kept Hellboy’s origins nebulous to his “son” until 1959, when they had a “heart-to-heart” in view of Broom’s first bout with cancer.
Hellboy was so upset that he decided never to probe into the subject again. his dreams were inevitably assaulted by apocalyptic scenarios every now and then and a chip was placed on his shoulder: every time he punched an alien creature he exorcised his own “otherness”. He is incredibly sensitive about being “started upon” or “photographed,” except by Liz.
Through the years Hellboy remained the sole non-human component of the B.P.R.D. until 1978 when Abe Sapien joined the ranks of the organization. Hellboy and Abe started their friendship on the wrong foot. Abe was everything Hellboy was not: Introspective, laconic, an avid reader (Hellboy always favored old issues of Popular Mechanics and a dozen silver age comic books like Sugar and Spike and Little Lulu) and an extremely private guy. Hellboy was jealous of Broom’s attention towards Abe and the Fishman’s propensity to take offence everytime Hellboy would bestow a new nickname upon him.
In 1988, Liz Sherman joined the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy fell in love at first sight.
From that moment on, Hellboy, the invulnerable, knew the meaning of pain.
This information is NOT my wording at all but that of the director Guillermo Del Toro who wrote up some Bios for character before filming. Everything here was taken word for word from the DVD and the book. I changed no wording. A lot of it fits very closely to the original comics and I use this as his history and back story. Movie verse and Comic verse are a bit different after all and this is canon to the movie.
HELL BOY BIOGRAPHY
“...The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slo. Through Eden took their solitary way...” - John Milton - Paradise Lost
Anung Un Rama
October 9th 1944
6 foot 9 inches, 350 lbs. Black hair red skin
Golden eyes, stone hand
LIKES:
The look of Liz in the golden light of dusk. The look of Liz in the morning. The look of Liz from a distance. The look of Liz nearby. Her voice, her smell, her clothes, her skin... having her fall asleep on his shoulder, well, you get the idea. He looks up to Professor Broom but feels like James Dean in East of Eden. He adores beer, pizza, chili, nachos, pumping iron, a good cigar, a bad cigar, traveling, cats, candy (especially Baby Ruth), old Upa cartoons, old Fleischer cartoons, Polaroid Photos (Liz taught him that), Zippos (he collects them), Ding-dongs and Twinkies, cookies and milk, greasy burgers and hot dogs, shaving his horns. He is easily amused by flatulence (thinks Dumb and Dumber is a masterpiece) and loves to bawl with b&w movies (especially City Lights and Brief Encounter). Beating the crap out of monsters. Getting his coat fixed and ready. His big, bad gun “The Samaritan,” and its bullets. Bruce Willis, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Pixar Movies (thinks that monsters, inc is a better name for the B.P.R.D. - Abe takes offence.) And watching Toy Story 1 and 2 with Liz makes for a perfect afternoon.
Loves the 3 stooges, the Marx brothers, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton.
DISLIKES:
Vegetables (beets especially), oysters, jalapeno peppers, salads, Yanni, Charlotte church, People Magazine, The Enquirer, photographers, Abe Burping (those damn eggs are nasty) or getting sanctimonious. Thinking of his origin, learning about it. People staring at his forehead. Being locked up for more then 4 months without an “outing,” … being called a demon.
Biography By Guillermo Del Toro:
To understand Hellboy one has to know a bit about his family. His real family, that is. His mother was born in 1681. Her name was Catherine Tanner-Tremaine and she was born in east Bromwich, England. A rich heiress to a tobacco merchant, she studied harpsichord and singing and was adept at most feminine arts. Her parents died when she turned 19 and for the longest time she lived alone in her palatial home, reading and painting.
Immersed in German literature, she dreamt of spirits and magic. Cautiously, she acquired tests and grimoires from her London bookseller and eventually came to own an important collection of magic artifacts and lore (including Dr. John Dee’s Fabled Magical bow) and displayed them in her private library/study.
She summoned a high-ranking demon and willingly found intimacy with him. This was both the highest and most terrifying moment of her life.
She was a changed woman, her soul had probed darkness and its acrid aftertaste made the rest of her life a road of repentance. But sin has its own ways of staying and in spite of her charity and her pious marriage to a minister and the edification of many a church and chapel, she died out of grace. By her feet laid her two human children: a nun and a pastor.
She confessed her transgressions and cried bitterly. She begged them to save her soul, for it would be claimed by her dark paramour.
But just as she exhaled her last breath, her lover reclaimed her body, slaughtering her earthly children so swiftly that a gust of wind shuddered all the window in Tremaine Manor.
Their souls joined, he wooed her and promised that - in his eyes - she would always look young and that within her still lay her unborn spiritual son, awaiting to incarnate and fall to earth.
And she laid dormant, like an insect in amber, until her child was summoned forth by Grigori Efimovich Rasputin one fateful autumn night in 1944. The details of Hellboy’s birth have been properly consigned in B.P.R.D. archives and so has his eventual transfer to a New Mexico army base by Professor Trevor Broom.
It was Broom’s finding of the child that prompted him to stay permanently in the United States, accepting from President Roosevelt the charge of Director of Opperations at the head of the B.P.R.D.
Hellboy grew fast and was incredibly inquisitive. He had the most vivacious eye and showed interest in most mechanical things - frequently smashing them into pieces with his stone glove.
Under the supervision of General Norton Rycker, daily tests were arranged and frequent biopsies were done to obtain tissue samples. Hellboy showed incredible resistance to pain, but cried bitterly every time. A sample of the stone in his clove required the use of high-tension diamond drill bit and provided less then a square millimeter of material before exploding into a shower of sparks and debris.
Professor Broom taught Hellboy the language. First they communicated with signs, then a few sounds and finally with words. The child also had a great affinity with animals and for a while, he could “talk” to the base dog mascot (an ability that he would lose over the years) and considered it more evolved species then humans. Perhaps because of this, hellboy wasn’t “potty-trained” until his later childhood years.
In private sessions, Broom was asked by the president to conceal Hellboy’s existence from the rest of the world and vowed to provide funding for a larger B.P.R.D. building.
In spite of the secrecy, now and then Hellboy was introduced to many a celebrity. Einstein flew to New Mexico in order to spend an afternoon with the creature and found him delightful and bright. Hellboy compared hairstyles between Broom and Einstein and expressed his predilection for the later. In 1946 he threw a rock at Babe Ruth’s head and - in a most impolite manner - kept calling Clark Gable “Sewer Breath.”
Photos were shown to Josef Stalin that depicted Hellboy as a USA secret weapon, Stalin liked his color but believed him a Hoax.
In 1949, Hellboy met the soviet director, who kept pinching him in the cheek and fondling his horns. Hellboy started shaving them shortly thereafter.
In 1951, he was released into Professor Broom’s full-time custody and moved into the B.P.R.D. headquarters - Back then in Boston, MA. The early ‘50s proved particularly active for the Bureau as Adolf Hitler waged his secret war with the USA from South America. Hellboy proved his enormous talent as an agent in the field and beating a cybernetic Hitler with his own mechanical leg may prove to be one of his greatest triumphs. At the end of the decade, the B.P.R.D. moved into its new headquarters.
The building that presently houses the Bureau was created in the 1940’s and was intended by the Federal government as one of their cold war strategic bunker-shelters to lodge all branches of government.
Hellboy’s room used to be the building’s safe and it ensconced by the rock of a cliff and a concrete and steel armature.
Broom kept Hellboy’s origins nebulous to his “son” until 1959, when they had a “heart-to-heart” in view of Broom’s first bout with cancer.
Hellboy was so upset that he decided never to probe into the subject again. his dreams were inevitably assaulted by apocalyptic scenarios every now and then and a chip was placed on his shoulder: every time he punched an alien creature he exorcised his own “otherness”. He is incredibly sensitive about being “started upon” or “photographed,” except by Liz.
Through the years Hellboy remained the sole non-human component of the B.P.R.D. until 1978 when Abe Sapien joined the ranks of the organization. Hellboy and Abe started their friendship on the wrong foot. Abe was everything Hellboy was not: Introspective, laconic, an avid reader (Hellboy always favored old issues of Popular Mechanics and a dozen silver age comic books like Sugar and Spike and Little Lulu) and an extremely private guy. Hellboy was jealous of Broom’s attention towards Abe and the Fishman’s propensity to take offence everytime Hellboy would bestow a new nickname upon him.
In 1988, Liz Sherman joined the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy fell in love at first sight.
From that moment on, Hellboy, the invulnerable, knew the meaning of pain.
