Hellboy: Blood and Iron

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Hellboy: Blood and Iron
Directed by	Tad Stones
Produced by	Tad Stones
Written by	Mike Mignola Tad Stones
Starring	Ron Perlman Selma Blair Doug Jones John Hurt Peri Gilpin
Distributed by	IDT Entertainment
Release date(s)	March 17, 2007
Language	English
Preceded by	Hellboy: Sword of Storms
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Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second in the Hellboy animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. It first aired on March 17, 2007 on Cartoon Network and is scheduled to be released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment in June 2007.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot

In 1939, young Professor Bruttenholm (affectionately nicknamed "Broom" by his colleagues and students) destroyed Erzsebet Ondrushko, a vampiress who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young after selling her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate. Years later, a haunting at upstate New York is brought to the BPRD's attention. The elderly Professor Bruttenholm decides to investigate it himself, taking top BPRD agents, Hellboy, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien, who are more worried about his welfare than a haunting.

Much to Broom's horror, it turns out that the ghosts are the victims of Erzsebet Ondrushko, who is soon resurrected by her two harpy/hag servants. While the others deal with her minions and Broom settles his affairs with Erzsebet once and for all, Hellboy ends up battling Hecate herself, who has been watching him for some time and desires him to embrace his true destiny: one that includes the destruction of mankind.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Ron Perlman	Hellboy
Selma Blair	Liz Sherman
Doug Jones	Abe Sapien
Peri Gilpin	Professor Kate Corrigan
John Hurt	Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
Jim Cummings	Tom Manning
Rob Paulsen	Sydney Leach
Cree Summer	Hecate
James Arnold Taylor	Young Trevor
Grey DeLisle	Anna
Kath Soucie	Erzsebet Ondrushko

[edit] Trivia

Oliver Trumble's appearance is likely based on David Xanatos, the main antagonist of Disney's Gargoyles. Unlike Xanatos, Oliver does not possess his Machiavellian intellegence and suave charm.
Lobster Johnson, the Nazi-hunting pulp adventurer who appeared most prominently in the Hellboy comic storyline, Conqueror Worm, makes an exceedingly brief cameo at the end of the credits. As he fades in from the black background, Tom Manning states that "I've heard all the stories. It is the offcial position of the United States government that the Lobster did not exist. He is a work of fiction. End of story", repeating his sentiment from the begining of Conqueror Worm.