Hellboy 3: 10 Comic Plots That Should Be Used

According to "The True History of Lobster Johnson", a back-up feature in The Lobster's first run of his solo title, a big budget adaptation of Lobster Johnson And The Ring Of Death is, within the Hellboy comics universe, one of the many rumoured future Del Toro projects. How can the director resist calling back to this tribute to his own work within his source material?

The Lobster is Hellboy's own hero, a gang-busting vigilante in classic pulp adventures in 1930s New York. In the comics, The Lobster is recruited by the US government during the war and dies preventing the launch of a Nazi space capsule.

Having been immortalised in a series of in-universe comics and low budget films, he represents the kind of dashing hero the young Hellboy looks up to and he later returns as a ghost to help Hellboy defeat another Rasputin monster-summoning scheme. The ghost of The Lobster turns up to offer assistance at other times, too, even taking over Johann Kraus' ectoplasmic powers at one point.

In the short lived animated Hellboy spin-offs, the third film was set to focus on the character and star Bruce Campbell in the role. It's a shame that the film was never made, but a third live action Hellboy would give the producers a chance to set that right.

If (as The Golden Army animated epilogue implies) the film is going to bring back the Nazi elements of the opening movie's prologue, then featuring The Lobster's death in the war and return as a helpful ghost would make sense. But even if it is just as an Easter egg of Hellboy watching the character's Mexican film adventures or telling his new children all about his own hero, it would be nice to see The Lobster feature somewhere.