Most Violent 'Hellboy' Comics Moments

Hellboy rides out with the hunting party.The Wild HuntThe Wild Hunt betrays Hellboy with an electrified lance. Hellboy confronts a band of giants who killed the rest of the Hunt members. In a bad fight, Hellboy flies into a rage, grabs a giant's broken sword, and kills them all.

During Hellboy's "lost weekend," a months-long bender in Mexico in 1956, he clashed with a mad scientist who got Frankenstein's monster from a circus. Demons push the scientist to make Hellboy fight the monster in a wrestling ring; Hellboy does.

When the fighters aren't entertaining enough, the scientist's hunchbacked sidekick, Tupo, whips the monster. The creature grabs Tupo by the leg and tears it off.

Hellboy's barbaric moments are not always grand. In "The Corpse," an early Hellboy short story, he makes an enemy in Gruagach, a fairy he sings with iron, who turns into a pig-man. Gruagach leads other fairies to bring back Nimue, the Queen of Blood.Gruagach tries to kill himself. A curse from Merlin keeps him immortal.Gruagach attempts suicide but finds a curse from Merlin makes him immortal.

Hellboy finds Gruagach and tries to end his suffering. Even emptying a clip into the pig-man does not work. Hellboy did terrible things, but his ending—or lack of one—is heartbreaking.

In "The Wolves of Saint August," published in 1994, Hellboy and Dr. Kate Corrigan confront the last werewolf family heir. William Grenier says, "I am much sinned against," after facing werewolf ghosts. He cuts a gash in his forehead and peels off his skin, showing the giant werewolf underneath.

During the fight, Hellboy uses a statue's head to take out Grenier's eye and hits him with a metal cross. Red, cross-shaped marks stay on him in an unforgettable, unused cover image.

In "The Crooked Man," Hellboy and Tom Ferrell track witches and the Crooked Man in the Appalachian Mountains. They meet Cora Fisher, a woman who allied with the witches but agreed to help Hellboy and Ferrell anyway.

On their trip, they pass the mines where the Melungeon Witches live. The witches know Cora's name. As they call her, she spits up a huge centipede, then turns into a swarm of glowing bugs, snakes, frogs, bats, and other things that swarm Hellboy, showing him a strange vision of a wicked church.

Hellboy meets many strange creatures during his travels, but he has not run acrossToo many vampires.There is a reason for that, as revealed in several of the B.P.R.D.The comics tie into Hellboy's adventures. Hellboy crosses paths with a vampire once in "The Sleeping and the Dead."

There, he meets a ghost girl and her mummified cat. They fight. Hellboy moves the ghost girl near the vampire who made her what she is. She turns into a giant specter, her hands grip the vampire's body, squeezing until he loses his head.

Rasputin has been Hellboy's main enemy throughout the comics. He is difficult to end.Rasputin has been a thorn in Hellboy's side from the start. Rasputin brought Hellboy to Earth with Project Ragnarok. They have crossed swords many times.Rasputin has plagued Hellboy since the start. Rasputin brought Hellboy to Earth during Project Ragnarok. They have clashed many times since.

Seed of DestructionThe first Hellboy mini-series from 1994. During this fight, Rasputin tries to wake a sleeping Ogdru-Hem monster. Rasputin dies for the first time in the comics. Abe Sapien impales him with a harpoon. Liz Sherman's powers bring down Cavendish Hall. Hellboy then fights Rasputin's fire-breathing skeleton, who warns, "If you [slay] me you will never know who you are!"This occurs in the first Hellboy mini-series, 1994. Rasputin tries to wake a sleeping Ogdru-Hem monster. He dies for the first time in the comics. Abe Sapien impales him with a harpoon. Liz Sherman's pyrokinetic powers bring down Cavendish Hall. Hellboy fights the fire-breathing skeleton of Rasputin, who warns, "If you [slay] me you will never know who you are!"

"This is not the end!!" Rasputin's skull insists before Hellboy smashes it with his Right Hand of Doom. Hellboy counters, "It is for you," but comic readers know it is harder to control a bad sorcerer.

"This is not the end!!" Rasputin's skull demands just before Hellboy smashes it with his Right Hand of Doom. Hellboy replies, "It is for you," but comic readers know keeping a bad sorcerer down is harder.

The blow, framed by quotes from

MacbethMacbethRasputin produces a river of blood. Hellboy's sister Gamori follows the blood to Pandemonium, the capital city of Hell. There, she goes mad and takes down the whole city.

Wake the DevilHellboy fights the vampire Count Giurescu. The Count appears on horseback as Hellboy is chained to a huge wooden stake at a crossroads. As the Count charges, Hellboy breaks the stake free and smashes it into the horse, turning both the horse and rider into bone in one large, mostly white panel. Hellboy declares, "Pow!"Hellboy confronts the vampire Count Giurescu. The Count appears on horseback as Hellboy stands chained to a huge wooden stake at a crossroads. As the Count charges, Hellboy breaks the stake free. He smashes it into the horse, turning both the horse and rider into bone in one large, mostly white panel. Hellboy shouts, "Pow!"

"That's interesting," Hellboy says afterward. "No matter how hard you hit them, horses don't"usuallyHecate appears and explains Giurescu's death. She reclaimed the power that turned him into a vampire. Hecate and Hellboy fight first. Hellboy finds this frustrating.

Hellboy fights Nimue in an apocalyptic clash. Nimue acts as a vessel for an Ogdru Jahad. A magical storm destroys England. Nimue's army battles the fallen British nobles. Queen Mab calls Nimue's crew the four horsemen.

Slain soldiers stretch across the view. Lightning strikes English landmarks. Hellboy fights a dragon. He defeats it but dies. Nimue's spirit takes his heart and drags him to the underworld.

After Africa, "The Third Wish" traps Hellboy underwater. A mer-witch named the Bog Roosh imprisons him with a golden nail and bones. These come from a man who pretended to be a werewolf but hated Hellboy. Down there, Hellboy fights zombified mermaids and sea creatures, including giant crabs and octopuses.

Hellboy uses a golden spearhead. He chops the creatures into mincemeat in silent panels. These panels preview Hellboy's future work.

Abe Sapien asks, "Is that a monkey?" The chimp, formerly Count Guarino, looks around a dark corner in "Box Full of Evil." Hellboy spots the chimp then. The chimp fires shots, hitting Abe's shoulder and side. This three-panel sequence became one of the most beloved in Hellboy canon.This sequence involves the monkey shooting Abe Sapien.This moment starts things going wrong for Hellboy and Abe in the Hellboy canon.

The chimp chains Abe and uses a hot iron brand against him. Hellboy becomes incapacitated by his true name. Igor Bromhead, the occultist, takes him.Igor Bromhead set the story into motion.St. Dunstan used iron tongs to capture Ualac. Ualac stops Bromhead from killing Hellboy. Ualac fights Hellboy himself. Hellboy snaps off his horns and uses them to impale the demon. Bromhead turns half-lizard and gets bricked up in a wall. Messing with occult forces in the Hellboy universe does not pay.

After an ocean adventure, Hellboy washes ashore on a deserted island. He drinks with skeletons. He discovers the island is not empty. Years ago, the Inquisition captured a man who knew world history. They pierced him with spears; an Ogdru-Hem monster appeared, waiting for Hellboy on the island.

During the fight, Hellboy takes fatal damage, and the man knits himself a new body. He shares the secret history with Hellboy, saying, "I am everything you..."Hellboy Learns The Secret History Of The World is among the most violent 'Hellboy' comic moments.Everything you were ever have been.It meant me.Hellboy wins by tricking the Ogdru-Hem creature into impaling itself on a ship's mast.

Astute Hellboy fans know Hellboy is hard to beat. He takes hits but keeps hitting werewolves with his big stone fist, yelling "Boom!". So, when the Baba Yaga seeks revenge for the eye Hellboy took out years ago, she sends the immortal Koshchei against the title character.

Koshchei hid his soul in an egg, a duck, a rabbit, and a goat. While fighting Hellboy, Koshchei loses his head, gets pinned, and impaled on trees before turning into a horned giant swept away by a flood.