Thought's on Hellboy as a character. From my point of view, removing my biased emotions from it · 11:18pm Dec 25th, 2018
Hellboy is a Superhero in the sense that he is a hero that appears in a Comic Book. But he has no secret identity, he is respected world wide for his work in the field of Occult Investigation, he does not wear a costume, instead opting in wearing as contemporary like clothing and fashion as possible despite his rather bizarre body getting in the way of that. He act's like a 1950's Hard-Boiled detective, oddly enough because he really is one as he started working as a B.P.R.D. Agent in 1952 and still uses plenty of the fashion of the era if the least glamorous looking stuff of the era at that.
Before going solo to confront and stop ignoring his supernatural origins in 1998, he worked willingly as a legitimate Federal Agent with rank and a salary for over 40+ years. He actually acts like an old man with the energy and motivation of a thirty-year-old man. Meaning, old mind, young body. Ignoring that he is a demon, he is in retrospect the adopted son of an Oxford graduated English scientist that immigrated to the United States, and worked as a consultant for the United States Government since the end of World War II.
Hellboy himself despite being a more physical and less reserved man than his adopted father due to being raised in the United States of the 1950's surrounded by World War II veterans has plenty of Bruthemholm's values. And despite this, he had the privilege of meeting some really famous people that were contemporaries of his father like Oppenheimer and Einstein. He also spent his time reading pulps, comic books, and heroic stories and fairy tales, the last two by the influence of his father.
Hellboy tried to follow in his fathers' footsteps as best he could, but he then embraced his trues potential for a while and died in the field of battle buying humanity a little more time. Which is probably my biggest point.
Hellboy was a hero, not a superhero, but a hero both in the real world sense and in the mythological and folkloric sense. One that lived, struggled and died. And even if he is back he isn't the same anymore in the comics. He saw too much. Now we accept that. And we still love him.
That is a good analysis, my friend. You should make more of these types of blogs in the future. :)