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Pacelli to bring him to the island – the ghost appears, and when Marc insists on negotiating with it himself, Whitey shoots him. His partner dead, Whitey attempts to hold the head for ransom but Blackbeard's body bisects him with a cutlass. Hellboy confronts the re-formed Blackbeard and is shot in the shoulder. Meanwhile, Abe finds he is talking to the undead body of one of Blackbeard's victims, as more gather in the surf. They swim off after Blackbeard and Abe follows. Hellboy punches off Blackbeard's head and the body nearly kills the historian when he reaches for it. Hellboy and Blackbeard fight in the water and Blackbeard invites Hellboy to join him as a pirate, to which Hellboy replies with a deadpan "Let me think about it." Blackbeard's dead victims rise around Blackbeard and drag him into the water – Abe, who had swam to the location, sees Blackbeard's body pulled into the depths, its head dragged behind it in one hand and screaming a stream of bubbles. Abe greets Hellboy who comments "Everybody loves a pirate," and they head back to the mainland.
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476:, based on the 2008 comic of the same name. The film was co-produced between Nu Boyana and Campbell Grobman Film and was presented by Millennium Media in association with Dark Horse Entertainment. Taylor expressed his intentions to "reset" the film series and depict a younger and wandering version of Hellboy with a folk horror influence similar to the comics; Taylor also confirmed that the film would be R-rated in order to embrace the "dark and scary and violent and adult" elements of the comics. The following month,
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402:"The Mole"
397:"The Mole"
352:Abe Sapien
326:Blackbeard
322:Abe Sapien
204:comic book
101:Written by
93:Created by
27:and Others
796:Baba Yaga
478:Jack Kesy
330:Psalm 107
155:Editor(s)
115:Artist(s)
79:Superhero
51:Publisher
1165:Category
1067:Animated
951:The Dead
921:B.P.R.D.
779:Villains
677:March 3,
671:Archived
644:March 2,
638:Archived
611:March 3,
605:Archived
601:Collider
574:Archived
23:Hellboy:
1101:Hellboy
1052:Hellboy
831:Hellboy
740:Hellboy
725:Hellboy
482:Hellboy
457:Hellboy
428:Addenda
422:England
340:sextant
277:Roanoke
208:Hellboy
206:series
1103:(2019)
1054:(2004)
822:Comics
805:Groups
733:Heroes
531:
484:, and
376:Moloch
312:Konami
214:#1–3,
180:
62:Format
1044:films
1034:Films
269:Devil
72:Genre
679:2023
646:2023
613:2023
582:2023
529:ISBN
488:and
380:Goya
286:crab
265:Hell
178:ISBN
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