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to kill Hellboy upon his arrival during the Nazis' Project Ragna Rok, but he couldn't. Trevor instead raised Hellboy as his "son", when their relationship is strained as Hellboy doesn't take orders from him, demanding why Trevor took him in if trying to become the best Hellboy himself. Later In the
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As the movie begins in the present, Broom discovers that he is dying of cancer, and selects the young agent John Myers to serve as Hellboy's new liaison. He is killed by Rasputin as part of a plot to lure Hellboy to Rasputin's grave, where he can fulfil the purpose he was summoned to Earth for.
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that enrages him to. While the demons are spreading around the world, Alice Monaghan channels Broom's spirit to encourage Hellboy to decapitate Nimue, returning her and all demons to hell. After revealing the truth about Hellboy's arrival and origin, Broom bids farewell to his adopted son.
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arc. Before he could explain himself to Hellboy, he was murdered by a 'frog monster', the first of thousands of such beasts the Bureau would eventually face. Bruttenholm's death signalled the first contact Hellboy would have with emissaries of the
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Sixty years later, he is still a member of the Bureau, though no longer Director of Field Operations. Experiencing recurring nightmares of Erzebet's resurrection, he suggests that the entire team be sent on an apparently trivial mission in
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appears, Broom adopts him and dedicates himself to raising Hellboy as a human, despite his demonic origins. The film makes the father-son relationship between the two characters more explicit, with Hellboy always calling Broom "Father."
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that causes him to limp for the rest of his life, but throws a hand grenade under the portal machine that both destroys the machine and maims Kroenen as he is attempting to retrieve it. When the infant
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that belonged to Broom, a reminder that Broom raised him to choose his own path – upon which Hellboy tears away his re-grown horns and kills Rasputin rather than turn the final key.
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The creators of the comic book have stated in interviews that Hurt's portrayal of Bruttenholm was uncanny, as though he had been the original model for the comics character.
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Before he is killed, Rasputin taunts him, saying that Broom has effectively nurtured a creature with the power, and the destiny, to bring about the
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academic well versed in the supernatural, Trevor Bruttenholm was a member of the British Paranormal Society. He was an advisor to U.S. President
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An aged Bruttenholm disappeared in 1992 during the Cavendish expedition to the Arctic Circle. Bruttenholm turned up, alive, in 1994 during the
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Bruttenholm and Hellboy developed a very strong emotional bond like that of a father and son, and both joined the U.S. Government's new
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In the film, a series of flashbacks (in reverse chronological order) show the young Bruttenholm traveling to Eastern Europe to combat
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came into the possession of Bruttenholm, not Rasputin. Rasputin retreated to the
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from their prison as Anung un Rama, Myers stops him by throwing him a
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Bruttenholm only appeared in the sequel film's flashback prologue,
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to win the war, was put in place by the supposedly deceased mystic
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issue #1 (1994). He is an adoptive father to titular protagonist
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When Hellboy is about to unlock the key that will release the
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portrayed Professor Trevor Bruttenholm in the film reboot
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Trevor Bruttenholm also appeared in the straight-to-DVD
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In the film, "Broom" accompanies the team of American
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Trevor Bruttenholm appears in the 2004 motion picture
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