Hellboy

Hellboy (Scenesys ID: 204)
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Full Name:	Anung un Rama
Gender:	Male
Species:	Demon
Theme:	Dark Horse (FC)
Occupation:	Paranormal Investigation
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Status:	Active
Groups:	SHIELD
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Apparent Age:	{{{PAge}}}	Actual Age:	80
Date of Birth	23 December 1944	Actor:
Height:	203 cm	Weight:	180 kg
Hair Color:	Black	Eye Color:	Yellow
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Profile

The world's greatest paranormal investigator, if you believe the hype. Hellboy has been an agent of the B.P.R.D. since 1952, and has developed a reputation in mystical circles for being very effective, if you don't mind a few broken buildings. He's also the central figure in a lot of prophecies about Ragnarok, the Apocalypse, or whatever people are calling The End of the World these days.

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Abilities

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DURABILITY

Only Hellboy's right hand would really be considered 'invulnerable', but the rest of him is pretty durable. He can be shot and stabbed, but it's rare for any of these injuries to be more harmful to him than a minor flesh wound. He's especially good at taking a beating, and has been known to get back into the fight after being bashed in the head many many times with a pair of iron tongs, or hit by a truck, or shot in the face with a shotgun, or blown up with explosives. He's even been subjected to 'enough voltage to light up Hamburg' by evil Nazi scientists, all it did was cause him blinding pain.

GOOD SAMARITAN

Originally given to him by The Torch of Liberty, The Good Samaritan is a completely custom 4-chambered revolver that fires 20 mm rounds. That's friggin' huge. By comparison, that's larger than a 10 gauge shotgun shell. This gives Hellboy a lot of flexibility with load plans, as he can fill the Samaritan with giant slug rounds, or some of his own customized shells. Personal favorites include 'Whopper' rounds (White Oak, Holy Water, Garlic, Silver Shavings), and tracking rounds that leak fluorescent fluid all over the place after they hit a target.

Essentially, the Good Samaritan is a shotgun in pistol form. Very few people are capable of firing it. Hellboy wouldn't admit it, but sometimes it even hurts HIS hand.

The pistol was forged from steel that consisted of old church bells, crucifixes, blessed silver, and a few mystic metals that Hellboy hasn't been able to verify. The wooden handgrip is carved from the wood of the actual Cross. On top of that, the weapon has been blessed with protection spells that make it practically immune to damage, or the wear and tear that comes from firing ridiculously oversized rounds for nearly a century.

IMMORTAL?

There's no way to know for sure, but Hellboy doesn't really seem to have aged at all ever since he reached physical maturity (very rapidly) in the late 40s. It's possible that he simply won't age, or at such a slow rate that he could live for hundreds of years. At this rate, it looks like he'll be killed off by the hordes of Hell or the hosts of Heaven long before he has a chance to get old.

IMMUNITY: FIRE

As a creature of Hell, Hellboy is functionally immune to heat and fire-based attacks. The same holds true for most types of 'mystical flame.'

RIGHT HAND OF DOOM

The enormous stone hand on Hellboy's right arm has always been a source of mystery. It's big, heavy, and seemingly indestructible, which makes it very useful for delivering sledgehammer strikes against Hellboy's sturdier foes. It also seems to be especially effective against mystical enemies, both for dispelling their attacks and destroying their physical forms. Surprisingly though, it's actually fairly dexterous. Too large to use on your average keyboard or pistol trigger, but the hand moves nimbly enough to snatch a fly out of the air.

Fairly recently, Hellboy has discovered that his hand wasn't originally meant for the crude purposes that he subjects it to. It's actually The Right Hand of Doom, an object at the center of several prophecies, and a key to awaking the dragon Ogdru Jahad and unlocking the gates of Hell. Suffice it to say, Hellboy doesn't really want to do either of those things.

STRENGTH

One would expect a guy who is built like a gorilla to be pretty strong, but Hellboy's strength exceeds that and ascends comfortably into the 'superhuman' region. He is able to send cars flying by punching them. He can uproot large trees and throw them like spears. He frequently wrestles with enormous monsters many times his size, and somehow always manages to hold his own.

UTILITY BELT

The belt that Hellboy always wears on missions is covered in comically oversized pouches. Each of these pouches is filled with Very Useful Things, like spare ammunition for the Good Samaritan, various charms and mystic relics, and a few grenades.

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FIGHTING

With just under eighty years of experience and training, Hellboy is an expert hand to hand combatant. His formal training was mostly in the arts favored by the Army during the forties: Boxing, Wrestling, and the WWII Combatives system favored by instructors like Rex Applegate and William Fairbairn. The rest of his 'training' has largely consisted of fighting men and monsters up close and personal since the early fifties.

INVESTIGATION

Hellboy never intended to become a detective, but has built up a reputation as the world's greatest paranormal investigator despite himself. He'd rather skip straight ahead to the punching, but cases tend to have a habit of unfolding at their own pace, and clues are required to get from Point A to Point Punching.

So he's learned to be methodical, search an area carefully, and ask the right questions from witness and experts. To this day, however, he tends to rely very heavily on his gut feelings, and usually can tell when something is off about a person's behavior before they ultimately reveal themselves to have been the monster all along.

And they almost always do that...

LANGUAGES

Hellboy was taught Old Lemurian as a boy by Trevor Bruutenholm as sort of a 'secret language' the two shared. In reality, the Professor was priming Hellboy to enjoy a lifetime of learning. He's had to study Latin, Ancient Atlantean, Hyperborean, Enochian, and uh... English. Interestingly though, he seems to have a natural ability to speak the languages of Hell, perhaps because he had learned some of it before he was reborn on Earth?

MARKSMANSHIP

The Torch of Liberty claimed that Hellboy was the worst shot that he'd ever tried to train. Hellboy has been practicing with firearms for about eighty years now, and he's still never really gotten past 'basic proficiency' with any of them. Fortunately, the guns he favors tend to fire very large bullets.

OCCULT LORE

Having had access to one of the world's most exhaustive occult libraries since before he could read, and being the adopted son of one of the world's greatest paranormal investigators, Hellboy has a pretty thorough database of occult lore rattling around in his giant red noggin.

True, there are agents with the B.P.R.D. who are better at the whole 'book thing', and things tend to work better when they do the cross-referencing and feed Hellboy the tidbits of information he needs for an individual mission. But if he were suddenly left to his own devices (which happens frequently), he'd still be able to recall the best way to kill a Penanggalan, or disenchant a Hand of Glory. He could even (perish the thought) do his own research.

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B.P.R.D.

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense was founded by Hellboy's adopted father, Trevor Bruttenholm (pronounced 'Broom') in 1944. Inducted as a full agent in 1952, Hellboy is one of the Bureau's oldest and most senior living operatives. He has never been considered as a possible candidate to assume the role of 'Director', however, due to his... temperament.

As a senior agent, Hellboy has access to all of the B.P.R.D.'s resources, including their vast occult library, their highly classified mission files, and a first rate collection of mystical relics. He also has the ability to requisition vehicles for missions, and can select his own teams for assignments. He can even induct new operatives without needing approval.

The greatest asset the B.P.R.D. has, by far, is the wealth of talent working in the field and behind the scenes. Hellboy can count on experts in many obscure (possibly made-up...) fields of academia, and can get backup from trained paramilitary security forces. Most of all, he gets to work with other freaks like himself, each with their own unique gifts to go along with their own unique freakishness.

CONTACTS

Over the past eighty years, Hellboy has met most people who matter in mystical circles. He's a frequent guest at the Oblivion Bar, he knows the members of The Osiris Club, and he keeps open lines of correspondence with all of the world's weirdest professors. If he runs into a mystery that's a bit outside his expertise, he probably has a guy he can call. Usually that guy is dead, and that's a clue.

PROPERTY

Recently, Hellboy has dipped into his savings to buy a piece of property in the Bad Part of Gotham. Maybe the presence of a demon won't exactly help with the gentrification, but he can't cause property values to go any lower, can he?

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CHOSEN ONE

Over the past eighty years, Hellboy has been reminded many times that he's some sort of special 'Chosen One', but he's not exactly sure what it is he's been chosen for. In fact, he seems to have been chosen for lots of things.

Is his destiny to use The Right Hand of Doom to unlock the gates of Hell and bring The Old Gods back to Earth, destroying all human life in the process? There's a cult who thinks that's exactly what he should be doing with his time.

Is he meant to be a central figure in the upcoming Ragnarok? There are some extremely well-preserved Nazis who don't understand why he doesn't drop everything and help kick off the event.

Is his destiny to wield Excalibur and lead the legions of England's dead to reclaim his rightful place on the throne? Strangely enough, there's a cult who is extremely unhappy that he hasn't done it yet.

There are many prophecies that allegedly refer to Hellboy in some way or another, and there are just as many nutjobs who'd like to try to make him fulfill 'his destiny.' For his part, Hellboy only believes the prophecies that come with convincing pictures, and he would rather just hang out with his cats and eat pancakes than get involved with any of it.

But the nutjobs keep coming...

DEMONIC APPEARANCE

Even with his horns filed down, Hellboy looks like a demon. Or possibly a red gorilla, depending on your cultural exposure. Either way, he clearly doesn't fit in. The appearance of aliens and mutants have lessened the need to keep his existence a carefully-guarded secret, but he still tends to draw gasps wherever he goes.

His intimidating hulking appearance, as well as his status as an outwardly obvious demonic entity, makes it harder to gain the trust of others. Especially religious folks, who always seem to be the ones he needs information from. He will probably always be viewed with a certain amount of fear and distrust, even when the entire planet is populated by freaks.

SECRET NAME

Hellboy has only learned his 'real name' fairly recently, and has kept it as secret as he possibly can. Unfortunately, there always seem to be creepy mystics who know more about Hellboy than he does about himself. it's well known in magic circles that uttering the true name of a demon can give great powers over that demon. Any sufficiently powerful sorcerer who is able to learn the name 'Anung Un Rama' would be able to use that name to bind Hellboy in 'chains of ice and tongues of fire', or possibly even command him to do things against his will.

Coupled with the appropriate demonic spells, one could possibly even cause Hellboy to go 'full demon' and reveal his invisible crown. Or, you know, trigger the Apocalypse.

TEMPERAMENT

For a variety of reasons, Hellboy has a habit of having... outbursts. This is especially troublesome from someone with his size and strength. It's part of the reason that he doesn't spend much time out among the rest of civilization, and generally prefers to stay away from situations where he's likely to get angry.

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Over The Top	March 8th, 2023	Hellboy arm wrestles Cain Marko. Kind of.
Fortunate Son: Bright Sunshine in Kentucky	December 2nd, 2022	SHIELD and allies raid a former HYDRA site suspected of housing Project Prodigy. Things quickly go wrong, and an elaborate trap is sprung.
What do we do about the kids	April 24th, 2021	Batman summons the Justice League to decide what to do with their sidekicks. It's time for some of them to get promoted.
The Shield and the Box	April 20th, 2021	The shield is finally found and brought to the Magic Box.
The Open Door: The Neverending Night	April 20th, 2021	A rare sighting of a solar eclipse is prelude to an army of vampires attacking the park, in search of something important..
The Shield: Hellboy gets briefed	April 19th, 2021	Justice League Dark is heading to New Jersey.
Club Lux Grand Re-Opening	April 18th, 2021	Club Lux's grand re-opening goes off with a rousing success! Despite all the anti-heroes and villains within it's walls!
Agent Bob is not going to live this one down	November 27th, 2019	Hellboy comes to tell Nick he has nothing to worry ab- Oops.
A Jarl For A Day: Barbara Gordon	November 27th, 2019	A night of celebration was held in honor of Jarl For A Day, overseen by Jarl Barbara Gordon. It gave many an unfamiliar glance at customs of old, with bonus visits from King of Asgard, Thor of the Avengers, and the Lady Sif, a Shield Maiden to the Asgardian Royal Family.
The Stan Of Salem's Lot	November 12th, 2019	A letter is found, a circle is drawn. But seriously, did Steely Dan really record here?
LizHellboyWIP1	October 18th, 2019	Liz and Hellboy catch up on old times. Part two coming soon!
All Hell(boy) Breaks Loose	September 27th, 2019	Mina meetss Hellboy, has company and a fight. Also food.
Newbies: Taking down the Rippers	May 26th, 2019	A SHIELD Team led by Agent Coulson moves on a Gotham Warehouse with a recently formed terrorist cell. A number of agents, including Hellboy and Sibilance, take them down... and confiscate a supply of ordinance.
Reunion of Old Soldiers	May 2nd, 2019	Natasha and Bucky reunite for a talk about the past
Age of Despair Part IV: Assassination	May 1st, 2019	AN assault on the JL Watchtower was thwarted by the combined might of the Justice League and her allies, at the cost of losing Superman to the minions of Darkseid. Next target - Apokolips!
Age of Despair: The Mountain Makes a Housecall	April 12th, 2019	Willow's plans to drag Sam to the Watchtower change when Kara shows up unexpectedly, as does Hellboy. She confesses to them about Nightmare Nurse and it's determined an exorcism is likely in order. Next stop: John Constantine.
A Bunch of Weird Folks Walk Into Bar...	March 28th, 2019	Magik, Hellboy, Willow, and John Constantine all head to McAnally's introductions are made, drinks are had, and more is sure to come of it all.
Age of Despair Pt 3: Apokolips	March 26th, 2019	Through tremendous sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears, the Justice League was succesful in rescuing Superman from Apokolips! Although he is near death, there is hope he will recover.
Leviathan: They're Crepes in France You Know	March 24th, 2019	Brunch at Chez Miscreant is filled with revelations. Some good. Some bad. The food? Tasted kinda like Waffle House..
Post Derby Date Debriefing	March 24th, 2019	A post Roller Derby date party at Luke's becomes increasingly more surreal. Including a near battle royale between Hellboy and Castiel that takes no less than Agent May, Steve Rogers, and Bucky to break it up. Castiel's people skills are improving. Somewhat.
The Darkness	March 19th, 2019	Age of Despair Pt 2: The Darkness. Tune in next week to see if our heroes, having pierced the veil will remember their vows of righteousness! Can they save their beloved friend without becoming what they fear? Will there be casualities? Who will survive: Apokalypse!
Now That the Chaos is Over	March 15th, 2019	Willow visits the Watchtower to inform Supergirl she can help find Superman. Hellboy shows up with a similar offer. Plans are made.
Disturbance In Progress	March 3rd, 2019	There's a disturbance that comes out over the radio. But what happens is by far more disturbing.
Runnin' with the Devil	February 22nd, 2019	Hellboy takes Nyx under his wing (he does not have wings) and tries to help her learn to throw a punch.
Haunted Watchtower	February 13th, 2019	The Enchantress attacks the Justice League in the Watchtower in an attempt to make them slaves. Although defeated, Superman is now missing!
Royal Screwup	December 29th, 2018	Summary needed
The New Ride	December 3rd, 2018	Summary needed
Astral Flux: Metal and Fungus	November 20th, 2018	A small team of engage the monster fungus under the town, possessed by the Shadow KIng.
Astral Flux: Cooking in the Shadow King's kitchen	November 13th, 2018	A group of heroes take on some of the Shadow King's minions.
The Demon You Know	October 13th, 2018	Jason Blood introduces Jeannette to Derek Khanata and Hellboy.
Astral Flux: Howling Recon	October 12th, 2018	The howling commandos examine the Mexico site.
Astral Flux: Evolution	October 11th, 2018	Some X-Men, an Iron Man and a Hellboy. Some very important revelations are revealed.
Planned Commandohood	October 10th, 2018	Summary needed
A Bird in the Hand	October 10th, 2018	Hellboy and Superboy meet a ballerina carrying a laundry basket full of rubber duckies.
A Demon's Lair	October 5th, 2018	Summary needed
Raining Dogs And Bats	October 5th, 2018	A Death Dealer, and a monster hunter. More alike than different, they actually hit it off.
Astral Flux: One Dead, One Alive	October 1st, 2018	An attempt by Psylocke to free the telepaths in SHIELD gets a little insane.
OPERATION HARD RESET, Stage Three: Ill-Met in Tiki Bar	October 1st, 2018	The Howling Commandos drink, smoke, and eat trash. They talk strategy, sort of. Everyone's wearing sunglasses.
Recruiting the Rider (Howling Commandos)	September 29th, 2018	Summary needed
Astral Flux: This body's on You	September 27th, 2018	Agents barter with the possessed telepath Paul Dannon, and earn their information in blood.
Ghost Stories	September 26th, 2018	America has a lot of stories to tell. Also the Death Dealer rules.
In the Depths	August 25th, 2018	Summary needed
Germination: 'Steve'	July 9th, 2018	An interview with Steve reveals information on the Fungus People and some terrorists.
Germination: A Pet Fungoid	July 7th, 2018	Skye, May, and Hellboy interview the man with the pet fungus.
Demon VS Mutant	June 17th, 2018	Summary needed
Germination: Sprawl	June 12th, 2018	The space-mushrooms show a new trick, and heroes respond!
Germination - Underneath	June 4th, 2018	Hellboy comes to the Avengers mansion seeking help with his moldy lungs.
Just Like Old Times	May 30th, 2018	Another segment of a smuggling ring is dismantled, and The Shadow has learned where she needs to go to find the next link in the chain...
Leviathan: The Rescue	May 26th, 2018	Lag is rescued by hacker, a superspy, a super-soldier, a demon, and a guy with a bow and arrow.
Log 2696	October 4th, 2017	Summary needed
Log	June 2nd, 2017	Summary needed
This Job Can Be A Real Drain	May 8th, 2017	Summary needed
Hell to Work With	April 28th, 2017	Summary needed

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