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50 free Hellboy trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Hellboy is one of the stranger success stories in comics: a red-skinned demon, summoned to Earth as a baby in the last months of the Second World War, who grows up to investigate hauntings and punch monsters for a secretive agency. He was meant to end the world. He would rather not, and that stubborn decency is what has kept readers and filmgoers coming back for more than thirty years. This quiz covers the whole franchise. There are questions on the original comics and the folklore they borrow from, on the heroes and villains of the Bureau's casebook, on all four live-action films and the people who made and starred in them, and on the animated features and video games. Some are easy openers about the big red guy himself; others go behind the scenes to casting near-misses, voices you may not have recognised and details only long-time readers will know. It suits fans who want to find out how well they really know Hellboy, film buffs who came in through the movies, and quiz hosts looking for a comics round. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories along the way.
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Q 01Which American writer-artist created Hellboy after drawing a demon for a convention booklet with the name on its belt?
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola drew the snarling monster in 1991 with no plan to use it again, adding the name at the last minute because it made him laugh.
Q 02Which actor starred as Hellboy in the 2004 film, although studios turned the project down partly because he was cast?
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman was the choice from the start: Hellboy's dialogue was written with his voice in mind before he had even been cast.
Q 03Which Mexican filmmaker wrote and directed the 2004 film Hellboy and its 2008 sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army?
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro staged the action like a Ray Harryhausen monster film, in wide shots with almost no camera movement.
Q 04What is the name of Hellboy's oversized stone fist, the key that could unleash the apocalypse?
Right Hand of Doom
The Right Hand of Doom once belonged to an ancient spirit, and Hellboy keeps it attached because he fears what anyone else would do with it.
Q 05Which Stranger Things actor took over as Hellboy for the R-rated 2019 reboot of the film series?
David Harbour
David Harbour was suggested for the part by Hellboy's own creator and played the demon as younger and rougher, like a troubled teenager.
Q 06Which independent publisher, rather than Marvel or DC, has put out Hellboy stories since the character's 1993 debut?
Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics printed Hellboy's first story as a four-page black-and-white strip in a promotional issue limited to about 1,500 copies.
Q 07Which amphibious agent in Hellboy was found by workmen sealed in a tank beneath a Washington hospital?
Abe Sapien
Abe Sapien was found by workmen in 1978, sealed in a tank under a Washington hospital with a note dated the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Q 08Which Hellboy character, taken in by the Bureau as a child after a deadly blaze, can start fires with her mind?
Liz Sherman
Liz Sherman is only a colleague in the comics: her romance with Hellboy was invented for the films.
Q 09What are the two circular, goggle-like shapes on Hellboy's forehead in both the comics and the films?
Filed-down horn stumps
Filed-down horn stumps are all that is left because Hellboy has ground his horns away since he was a child, and keeps doing it as an adult.
Q 10Which real historical figure, supposedly long dead, leads the wartime ritual that brings the infant Hellboy to Earth?
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin comes back from his 1916 murder in the comics and sells the Nazis an occult way to win the war while chasing his own apocalypse.
Q 11Which English actor played Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, the scholar who raises Hellboy, in the 2004 film?
John Hurt
John Hurt's professor dies far later in the story than he does in the comics, a delay chosen so that audiences would grow attached to him first.
Q 12In the name of the B.P.R.D., the agency that employs Hellboy, what does the letter P stand for?
Paranormal
Paranormal is the P in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, whose first director was the professor who adopted Hellboy.
Q 13Which animals does Hellboy keep by the dozen in his quarters at the Bureau in the 2004 film?
Cats
Cats share the room where the 2004 film keeps Hellboy shut away, so hidden from the outside world that the public treats him as an urban legend.
Q 21Which miniseries, the first to carry Hellboy's name on its cover, was loosely adapted into the 2004 film?
Seed of Destruction
Seed of Destruction ran for four issues in 1994, and its artist-creator was so new to writing that an established comics writer scripted it for him.
Q 22For which annual fan convention was the very first Hellboy story printed in a promotional issue in August 1993?
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 carried the four-page story, in which Hellboy runs into the god Anubis in an American ghost town.
Q 23What name do the 2004 film Hellboy and its sequel give to Hellboy's oversized revolver?
The Samaritan
Q 14Which animation creator voices the German ectoplasmic medium Johann Krauss in Hellboy II: The Golden Army?
Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane replaced the first actor hired after the director decided the original voice clashed with the mechanical sounds of the character's suit.
Q 15Beneath which New York landmark is the secret troll market hidden in Hellboy II: The Golden Army?
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge hides the market, which the team finds by tracking the swarm of creatures that devoured an auction-house crowd.
Q 16Which tiny creatures does the villain of Hellboy II: The Golden Army unleash to eat the crowd at an auction?
Tooth fairies
Tooth fairies here are a ravenous swarm, nothing like the bedtime-story visitor, and they are set loose to seize a piece of a crown that is up for sale.
Q 17Which actress plays Nimue, the Blood Queen, a sorceress cut to pieces and later revived in the 2019 film Hellboy?
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich described the Blood Queen as the mother of the monsters, and the film gives the character a much bigger part than the comics did.
Q 18In the 2019 film Hellboy, Hellboy learns that his human mother made him the heir of which ruler?
King Arthur
King Arthur's bloodline entitles Hellboy to the king's famous sword, which he refuses at first after a vision of himself causing the apocalypse.
Q 19Which folklore witch holds a lifelong grudge against Hellboy because he once shot out one of her eyes?
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga lost the eye when Hellboy travelled to Russia to stop her kidnapping and eating children, and she never forgave him.
Q 20In a two-page Hellboy comic, which breakfast food does the young hero taste, making the demons of Hell mourn his loss?
Pancakes
Pancakes win young Hellboy over at the first bite, and the demons of Pandemonium wail that he will never come back to them now.
The Samaritan is built with iron from a church bell, though Hellboy admits he is a terrible shot and would rather fight up close.
Q 24Which creature performer plays three roles in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, including the Angel of Death?
Doug Jones
Doug Jones also played the eight-foot doorkeeper of the elf court, working servo-driven extensions fitted over his own fingers.
Q 25Which sitcom star voiced the fish-man agent in the 2004 film Hellboy but refused to take a screen credit?
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce turned down the credit, the press tour and the premiere out of respect for the actor who wore the suit on set.
Q 26Which exiled elf, played by Luke Goss, sets out to wake the mechanical soldiers in Hellboy II: The Golden Army?
Prince Nuada
Prince Nuada believes humans have driven magical creatures into hiding, and he asks Hellboy why a demon would fight on their side.
Q 27At which real coastal landmark do Hellboy and his team find the sleeping army in Hellboy II: The Golden Army?
Giant's Causeway
The Giant's Causeway is where the badly wounded Hellboy is carried, and where the goblin smith who forged the army shows the team the way in.
Q 28In which country is the Hellboy short story The Corpse set, where Hellboy buries a body to win back a stolen baby?
Ireland
Ireland in 1959 is the setting: the story reworks an old folktale, and the body has to be laid in consecrated ground before dawn.
Q 29Which body passed a special act in 1952 granting Hellboy honorary human status, a week before he joined the Bureau?
The United Nations
The United Nations made it official in August 1952, by which time Hellboy was already a celebrity who had been featured in Life magazine.
Q 30Which 1930s pulp vigilante, Hellboy's childhood hero, returns as a ghost to help him against the Conqueror Worm?
Lobster Johnson
Lobster Johnson burned a claw symbol into the foreheads of the gangsters he killed, yet the public remembers him only as a character from pulp serials.