So I’m watching Hellboy and I’m realizing…
In the movie, unlike the comic, the masquerade is still intact, the general public doesn’t know about the supernatural, and Hellboy is a cryptid on a level with Bigfoot (but, like, in cities and wearing a coat).
BUT he’s not just a cryptid, he’s a a cryptid that everyone refers to by the correct name, to the extent that there’s a comic series about him.
Basically what I’m saying is that at some point early in his career Hellboy was presumably stopped by a bystander with a question like “who the fuck are you” and he took a second out of his busy monster-huntin’ schedule to introduce himself.
