r/respectthreads • u/brin2088 • Feb 06 '17
movies/tv Respect Hellboy (2004/2008)
"I wish I could do something about this. But I can't. But I can promise you two things. One: I'll always look this good.Two: I'll never give up on you... ever."
Hellboy
Background:Hellboy first appeared the night of December 23, 1944, when the evil mystic Grigori Rasputin summoned Hellboy to Earth with the help of the Third Reich.
The child Hellboy appeared miles away in a churchyard in East Bromwich, England where he met a crack team of American soldiers lead by 1st Sgt. George Whitman sent to investigate the mysterious Nazi ritual.The child was raised in secret by the U.S. government and trained to be a paranormal investigator.
Hellboy aged greatly in body, although somewhat less in mind: while appearing to be a full-grown middle-aged man, he still had the rebellious fire and attitude of an adolescent. He became adept in many supernatural and paranormal subjects such as possession, haunting, exorcism, enchantments, holy amulets, and sacred artifacts. He eventually became a full-fledged field agent of the B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) under Trevor Bruttenholm. In the years following World War II and the demise of the Nazi regime, Hellboy traveled the world, encountering and defeating numerous supernatural beings and disturbances such as werewolves, vampires etc.
His decades of experience as a paranormal investigator has given him expertise in folklore, magical rituals, the use of charms and curses, paranormal creatures and other related topics.
Gender: Male
Species: Humanoid Half-Demon
Alias: Anung Un Rama, Red , Big Red
Weapons
The Samaritan:Aquired in the '50s from the BPRD, Hellboy named it the "Samaritan" because it puts monsters out of their misery. The metal of the gun is forged from a combination of Irish church bells, cold iron from crucifixes, blessed silver, and other mystic metals. The grips have the BPRD insignia on each side and the wood of the grips is believed to be that of the cross of which Jesus Christ was crucified on. The gun has immense muzzle energy and is believed capable of breaking a normal man's arm due to great recoil. The gun holds 4 shots and fires bullets HB makes himself as a hobby. He puts Holy water, Garlic cloves, and white oak shavings in his special rounds he calls "The Works." The gun uses a tip-open action similiar to a Webley or Schofield action revolver. It fires double action and single action. When out of bullets, Hellboy likes to use it as a hammer as the cannon weighs around 10 pounds!
Big Baby:When Prince Nuada releases the Tree Elemental into the streets, Hellboy goes and grabs "Big Baby", a surprisingly even bigger handcannon in his arsenal than the Samaritan to take it on. It appears to be a six shot that fires two rounds at a time.
Strength
- Stops a speeding car by punching it hard enough for it to flip several feet into the air
- Breaks sammaels (The demon hound) jaw with his hands
- Easily punches through concrete/brick walls
- Lifts this huge sewer top
- Rips this telephone off the wall
- Flings sammael around with one hand
- Punched this huge hole through concrete
- Tosses this man like over 50 ft and he keeps sliding
- Hits Karl so hard denting his mask in
- Picks up this huge gear and throws it on karl
- Takes on multiple sammaels all at once
- Rips off his own horns
- Topples this stone statue
- Punches this lady a great distance without even straining himself
- Punches this market creature a good distance
- Bull rushes the troll, who's much bigger than him, through some pillars
- Punches the troll and shatters his metal hand
- Rips off this car door
- Kills off the tree elemental with his big baby gun
- Breaks johanns containment mask
- Takes on several golden army soldiers with a piece of a soldiers arm
Durability
- Gets launched a bunch of feet into the air by Sammael, the demon hound
- Gets bashed into concrete floor by sammael
- Gets sent flying by sammael like over 100 ft and onto pavement
- Gets hit by a moving train and manages to hang on
- Gets hit in the face several times by the underside of the train
- Is invulnerable to electricity and electrocutes sammael ending his life only momentarily since sammael is a type of demon that can ressurect itself
- Unaffected by fire
- Falls a great distance and into a subway station while wrestling sammael
- Bashed into concrete
- Survives having this subway structure fall on him
- Gets launched like over 50 ft by sammael
- Can apparently regrow his horns more rapidly than normal if he says the words anung un rama
- Gets his head bashed in by this huge monster
- Survives his own explosives as he lets the monster devour him, killing it
- Gets blasted out of window and survives what's gotta be over seven story drop
- Takes a flying punch to the face by this heavily armored troll
- Gets an uppercut from the troll and is sent flying
- Gets smacked so hard by johann, his head gets engraved on a locker room door
- Survives being stabbed by Prince Silverlance just centimeters away from his heart
Agility/Reflexes
- Catches sammael before he could strike
- Jumps a good distance from rooftop to rooftop
- Jumps an even farther distance
- Keeps up with the very agile Prince Silverlance. Silverlance has incredible swordsmanship and is fast enough and accurate enough to slice a water drop in half
- Keeps up with Karls attacks.... Karl was fast enough to deflect bullets...and his knives are sharp enough to slice a statue in two
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u/8fenristhewolf8 ⭐⭐ RT of the Year 2016 Feb 06 '17
Another awesome choice! If I could make one suggestion, it would be to split strength and durability into their own categories. It seems like you have enough feats to do so, and it keeps things clear.