Hellboy 3: 10 Comic Plots That Should Be Used

Both of the first two movies have featured an opening prologue that show us a little of Hellboy's early life. The first movie began with his "birth" and adoption by Professor Bruttenholm, the second with him as a child living with Bruttenholm on an American air base. What better way to kick off his final movie, then, than with a flash back to his first ever mission?

Herman von Klempt, a Nazi scientist usually shown as just a head in a jar with a swastika on his forehead and a penchant for experimenting on enhanced apes, is one of Hellboy's more entertainingly bonkers villains. The only survivor of The Lobster's prevention of the Nazi attempt to launch a space capsule, Von Klempt has crossed paths with Hellboy on several occasions since.

The recent Hellboy And The B.P.R.D.: 1952 arc told the story of the big red guy's first mission, sent to Brazil to investigate mysterious deaths at a "cursed" fortress. There he encounters Von Klempt and a bunch of Frankenstein-like experiments involving chimpanzee soldiers and reanimated corpses.

Opening the film with Hellboy's first mission would be a good way of showing the character's development since being a raw rookie and would begin things with a lighthearted big action sequence akin to a Bond film, something that would help with the tone in a movie that is likely to get quite dark later. Von Klempt wouldn't be much of a main villain for the film, but would work well for this fun little prologue.

Alternatively, The Golden Army's epilogue showed Kroenen's head being lowered into a Von Klempt style jar, meaning that, rather than the Kroenen-Black Flame character mash-up suggested above, a possible Hellboy III could always see Kroenen reconfigured with a Von Klempt-esque design.