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Abraham "Abe" Sapien (built-in Langdon Everett Caul) is a member of the B.P.R.D.. Abe is a humanoid amphibious man, discovered in a Washington, D.C. basement in November of 1978. Abe has been with the Bureau ever since, as he endeavors to discover the truth about his identity. First appearing in Seed of Destruction, he is 1 of the longest running main characters alongside Hellboy and Liz Sherman, and has featured in several offshoot comics nether his own proper name.

Contents

• 1 History
  • ane.1 Discovery & Early Years
  • ane.2 The Cavendish Hall affair
  • 1.3 The Giurescu affair
  • 1.four Roger the Homunculus
  • one.5 The departure of Hellboy
  • 1.6 Hollow Earth
  • 1.7 Plague of Frogs
  • 1.8 Langdon Everett Caul
  • ane.nine The Black Flame
  • i.10 The Oannes Lodge
  • 1.11 Captain Daimio lost, Memnan Saa plant
  • 1.12 A New Race of Man
  • 1.13 Changed
  • 1.14 Abe Sapiens Serial
• two Abilities
• three Allies and Enemies
  • 3.i Allies:
  • three.2 Enemies:
• 4 Appearances in Other Media
  • 4.i Hellboy (2004–2008 motion-picture show franchise)
  • 4.2 Hellboy Animated
• v Trivia
• 6 Sources

History [ ]

Discovery & Early Years [ ]

In a child's chamber, 1978, a comatose, amphibious man was found inside a h2o-filled capsule within a long-lost chamber beneath the St. Trinian's Hospital. Institute past a group of plumbers, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense rapidly intercepted the creature, and nicknamed it "Abraham Sapien," in reference to the scrap of paper written on his tube: April 14th 1865 - the appointment of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

Unresponsive for weeks, information technology wasn't until B.P.R.D. scientists experimented with shocking him did he awake. However, it appears that Abe was at to the lowest degree somewhat enlightened of what was going on, as he has memories of overhearing ane of the scientists debating whether or non to give up trying to revive him and but skip to autopsy.

'Icthyo Sapien'

Abe'south experience in the Bureau is "terrifying", and he however sometimes has nightmares of the outcome. Unsure what the animal in the tube was, he was held under scrutiny by the Bureau every bit scientists studied him. However, Hellboy felt sympathy for him, told the doctors to shut down the experiments, because "they never terminate until someone says 'enough'". Abe came out of his tank healthy, if disoriented, and quickly responded to human contact. Despite no retentivity of a previous life, he was soon able to speak fluent English, evidently remembering the language rather than learning it.

Hellboy and other Bureau agents such as Liz Sherman were both specially addicted of Abe, and the iii of them formed a lasting friendship. Hellboy quickly convinced B.P.R.D. director Trevor Bruttenholm to let Abe come along on modest field operations so that the fish-man could learn about the world outside the Bureau. Between April and June of 1979, Abe was Hellboy's constant companion.

Although Abe's existence was never officially top secret, his discovery in the basement was never publicly revealed, and he didn't become the public effigy that Hellboy had. Nervous about his advent, Abe insisted on wearing a disguise when exterior the Bureau consisting of a trench coat, a hat, gloves, and sometimes sunglasses and a fake beard. But past Hellboy'southward departure in 2001, Abe appears to have gained enough self-confidence that he no longer uses the disguise at all.

In June 1979, a romance with archaeologist Anastasia Bransfield drew Hellboy away, leaving Abe largely stranded at headquarters. Liz and Abe developed a brother-sister relationship based on their common "freak" status every bit wards of the B.P.R.D.. Simply in 1980, Liz was made a full field agent, leaving Abe alone again every bit she began to travel more and more nether consignment. Abe grew jealous of Liz's freedom -- she was able to become part of the globe in ways Abe felt he never would.

In 1981, although still not an official agent, Abe joined a small group of agents on his first mission without Hellboy -- his first mission since Hellboy's departure in 1979. The seemingly simple consignment was to investigate a shipwreck off the coast of Espana, but the expedition was a disaster, resulting in 3 agents dead and many civilians before Abe was able to fend off the evil spirit that had emerged from the send. But Abe proved himself in the eyes of Bruttenholm and was fabricated a full field agent that March. (Abe Sapien: The Drowning)

The Cavendish Hall affair [ ]

Principal commodity: Seed of Destruction

In May 1994, Abe Sapien accompanied Hellboy and Liz Sherman to the haunted and aboriginal Cavendish Hall, to investigate the mysterious death of Hellboy's mentor, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, by an odd frog-like creature. They spoke with Mrs. Cavendish, who, unbeknownst to him and his companions, was beingness used equally a pawn past the immortal monk Grigori Rasputin to lure Hellboy into fulfilling his original purpose equally the harbinger of the apocalypse.

After interrogating Mrs. Cavendish with non much success, Abe decided to investigate the surrounding area, now underwater due to centuries of the sinking of the land which the manor is congenital on. Abe dove out his guest sleeping accommodation window and into the murky, disgusting lake. Later on some time exploring, Abe came across the sight of 2 of the mutated Cavendish sons disappearing into the water with their deceased mother.

He warily stepped backwards, despite feeling an odd sense of kinship with the creatures, and accidentally stumbled upon an old room containing the body of the long dead patriarch of the manor, Elihu Cavendish. Suddenly, Abe was possessed by the expressionless man's spirit, guiding his actions in club to verbal vengeance on Rasputin for his family's suffering.

Abraham Sapien as he appears in Seed of Devastation.

Arriving in time to stop Rasputin from summoning the Seven Gods of Chaos and awakening the monstrous demonic entity Sadu-Hem, the possessed Abe harpooned Rasputin trough the breast, and dived into the air, snatching abroad the unleashed Liz, who began to utterly destroy the old ruins with her uncontrolled fire powers. Now dorsum under his own mental self, Abe took Liz and helped her escape the ruins while Hellboy dealt with Rasputin personally.

Afterwards, Abe and Liz shared their odd experiences during the time that Hellboy was fighting Rasputin and the magically transformed Cavendish children. When Abe asks Hellboy about what happened during his brief moment with the dying Rasputin before escaping the exploding ruins, Hellboy stays silent, a grim look of unease in his optics.

The Giurescu affair [ ]

Primary commodity: Wake the Devil

Sometime afterward the Cavendish Hall mission, Abe was summoned to a B.P.R.D. coming together along with agents Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Bud Waller, Sidney Leach, and Kate Corrigan. Manager Tom Manning explained the latest mission: to investigate three different sites; one of which may be the castle of Vladimir Giurescu, a vampire with Nazi connections, whose body has recently been stolen by his followers and is to exist resurrected the following night on the full moon. Abe is assigned with the first squad consisting of him and agent Clark, to investigate Site 2.

Aboard a B.P.R.D. airplane en route, Abe approached Hellboy, having noticed Hellboy'south disturbed reaction when Manning brought up the Nazi connectedness. He tried to comfort his friend, but Hellboy insisted he was fine, and was before long dropped out the cargo door via a (malfunctioning) rocket pack over Site 1.

After touching down on Szentes Castle, both Clark and Abe witnessed a massive explosion come from the afar Castle Guirescu. Abe merely responded with a dry, "Hellboy'due south blowing things up over again…" Afterward confirming their site to be a dead end, both Abe and Clark set out to a nearby Romanaian town to search for Hellboy, whose tracking belt signal was detected in that area. The two arrived at a decrepit church building, post-obit the belt's signal, and when they entered the holy building they saw a reverend continuing before them, stiff equally a board and belongings Hellboy's stolen belt. Realizing also belatedly that it was a set-up, both Clark and Abe fell through the collapsing floorboards and into a trap of massive stakes, which fatally impaled Clark and Abe barely managed to avoid the deadly spikes.

Abe confronted by Rasputin'southward vengeful spirit.

In the basement beneath the church, Abe was confronted by the ghost of Rasputin, who told him that he would be punished for Rasputin's murder, and that Abe would die as he had, concluding, "The easily on the spear shaft volition belong to another -- simply the centre that drives them volition be mine." A moment later on, the severed head of a local priest told Abe, "Sunken bells are tolling for thee. Out of the caverns of Num-Yabisc, dark and terrible and deep, the sea is calling her children home."

Though Abe did not sympathize the declaration, it filled him with a sense of impending doom.

Roger the Homunculus [ ]

Chief article: Virtually Colossus

Upon his rescue by the B.P.R.D. team, Abe learned his worry was not misplaced. Liz had encountered a homunculus during the mission to Romania, and was apparently dying subsequently losing her pyrokinesis to the homunculus. Abe stayed with Liz at a Romanian hospital, refusing to exit her side until the moment of her death -- a much more burdensome blow to Abe than Bruttenholm's expiry a few years earlier. Fortunately, Hellboy had tracked down the homunculus and compelled him to return the stolen burn down to Liz. The beast, whom Hellboy had named Roger, was able to return Liz's power, bringing her dorsum to life instantly at the expense of his own.

A few months later, back at headquarters, scientists Cobb and Reed prepared to dissect the now-lifeless homunculus in the same way that they had dissected Abe. Abe overheard the conversation and recalled his ain memories regarding the Bureau and experimentation. When the scientists stepped out of the room, Abe rerouted the edifice's electricity into Roger, causing serious damage to the headquarters just zapping Roger back to life, and ultimately bringing another major player to the B.P.R.D. team. With Liz healthy again and Roger joining the Bureau, Abe'southward sense of doom began to elevator.

The difference of Hellboy [ ]

Main article: Box Full of Evil

Main commodity: Conqueror Worm

In May 1999, Abe and Hellboy travelled to Lochmaben, Scotland to investigate the theft of a box and a set of tongs that had in one case belonged to Saint Dunstan. Abe was shot and tortured past a chimpanzee (formerly Count Guarino). He later made a full recovery but his sense of dread began to render as events darkened and his best friend Hellboy began to struggle with his identity. But following the example of Liz, he put on a brave face up and connected to devote himself to his duties.

Abe's fears proved justified in 2000, when Liz left the Bureau over again, this time to study at a monastery in the Ural Mountains to endeavor and control her powers.

Things presently got worse when Hellboy quit the Agency also, simply one year later in 2001; distressed over the Bureau's implanting a bomb in Roger and his own role in the apocalypse, Hellboy decided to travel, asking Kate Corrigan to say goodbye to Abe for him. Though Abe continued piece of work as a field amanuensis, he began to feel more and more isolated, and he and Roger considered leaving though neither could imagine where they could get.

(note: from here, Abe no longer appears in the principal Hellboy comics; from hither on, all his appearances are in the B.P.R.D. spinoff comics)

Hollow Earth [ ]

Principal commodity: Hollow Earth

The Soul of Venice & Other Stories

Liz's spirit appeared to Abe in September 2002, pleading with him to help her. Abe, along with new agents Johann Kraus and Roger too equally field manager Kate Corrigan , traveled to the monastery where they discovered Liz'south lifeless body amid dozens of murdered monks. Abe stepped up (somewhat reluctantly) equally the squad's leader every bit they descended into the Earth and rescued Liz'due south spirit from a archaic race who'd captured it to ability their machines. Later on, Liz returned to the Bureau, and a new spirit of teamwork developed among the crew, with Abe and Liz'southward brother-sis human relationship as its foundation. For the following two years, they worked together in investigations around the earth.

Plague of Frogs [ ]

Main article: Plague of Frogs (story)

One night in July 2004, Abe dreamed of dead bodies falling into the body of water. In the background of his dream, he once once again heard the vocalisation of the dead priest telling him that sunken bells were tolling for him, and that the ocean was "calling her children home."

At the same time, a strange fungal version of the Sadu-Hem creature that had been discovered in the ruins of

Cavendish Hall, escaped from a B.P.R.D. lab in New Bailiwick of jersey. Abe and team tracked the fungus to Crab Point, Michigan, where Humbert T Jones aka the W Virginia Miracle Male child, was using information technology to catechumen the townsfolk into frog creatures similar to those encountered ten years prior. Within Jones's house, Abe discovered a shrine to Rasputin. Abe realized what was happening simply too belatedly to terminate information technology; Jones impaled Abe with a spear, fulfilling Rasputin'due south prophecy. Johann appears on the scene to cease the haemorrhage but appears unable to cease Abe'due south expiry, with Abe'due south seemingly concluding words: "Also tired... Do yous hear them? Sunken bells... they are tolling for me."

"The hands on the spear shaft will belong to another -- only the heart that drives them will be mine."

At the moment of Abe's death, his spirit travelled back in fourth dimension to an ancient and beautiful undersea temple where he sees a mysterious alien ocean creature. Watching as the centuries passed, Abe saw the temple fall into ruins, and observed the beast curling into itself into something resembling an egg. A man in a diving adjust then removed and then egg, taking it to a submarine. As if in a dream, Abe found himself walking through the halls of St. Trinian's Hospital in Washington -- in 1865. Outside, it rained frogs every bit Abe entered the hush-hush Oannes Guild laboratory in the basement of the building.

Inside, Langdon Everett Caul and other Society members performed a ritual with the egg, upon which it crumbled into dust in Caul's hands. Abe was invisible to all only Caul, who began to panic, assertive that he was existence visited by an evil spirit for "what he'd washed". Abe's spirit was drawn into Caul'southward torso, causing Caul to collapse and his eyes to turn white. Abe views Caul's concluding moments, hearing the concerned voices of the Order over fourth dimension as they observe Caul'south transformation and and so their leaving him after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in which they appear to be involved. They seal the room, maxim that when information technology'due south safe, they'll return for him.

Though he had lost a lot of blood and been declared dead past Johann, Abe of a sudden returned to life. Despite having been speared through the chest, Abe made a surprisingly fast recovery in the weeks that followed.

The trip back in fourth dimension did not bring dorsum whatever memories, but it did requite Abe a name: Langdon Everett Caul.

Langdon Everett Caul [ ]

Principal article: The Dead

Abe knew that his nigh-death experience had been more than a blood loss-addled dream and, compelled to discover the facts almost the central mystery of his life, began to research Caul with the assist of Kate Corrigan. This led him to Littleport, Rhode Island where Caul had lived with his wife, Edith Howard. Not ever stable at the best of times, Edith took Cauls disappearance hard; afterwards a month, she hurled herself into the body of water. Troubled by this information, Abe went alone to visit the now dilapitated and empty house where he'd once lived.

"Edith Howard. Edith Caul. My wife."

In that location, Edith's ghost appeared to Abe and tried to persuade him in a conjured recreation of their onetime life, with her live and Abe equally Caul one time once more. Though he was tempted -- Abe had never dreamed of being a normal man or having a wife, and it was a profound experience for him -- he ultimately decided that he couldn't live in a dream, however appealing. Telling Edith that they had to accept what had happened, he helped her spirit face her own death, freeing her from her grief.

The Black Flame [ ]

Main article: The Black Flame (story)

Main article: The Universal Machine

Abe returned to the new B.P.R.D. headquarters in Colorado, more haunted and afar than ever; only Kate knew about his history as Caul, and even then Abe shared no details of his experience with Edith. His behavior grew erratic; he withdrew from his friends and coworkers -- including new team leader Ben Daimio -- and made foreign attempts to act more like the man he once was; he tried to put more conventional clothing over his very anarchistic body, and his speech patterns changed either in a deliberate or subconscious attempt to sound more than like a homo of a hundred years agone -- a human being he still couldn't remember, and only knew from bits and pieces of investigation.

Preoccupied with his past, Abe stepped abroad from his field duties every bit the Bureau as it faced a grave new threat -- a growing population of frog monsters spread beyond the northern United states of america. Kate encouraged Abe to seek help with a counselor, just he ignored the offer.

Merely the squad was dealt a terrible blow when Roger was killed in action by Landis Pope, a Zinco CEO who was using the pall of the Black Flame to atomic number 82 the frogs. Abe blamed himself and his retreat from fieldwork for Roger's murder, and overcompensated by rushing off into battle, most getting himself killed in the process.

The frogs ultimately retreated underground -- common cold comfort for the team, which spent the next few months trying to observe a way to revive Roger to no success. Abe connected to wrestle with the ghosts of his past, trying to figure out who he should exist.

The Oannes Society [ ]

Main commodity: Garden of Souls

Old friends, now enemies.

In August 2006, Abe received an old cigar box with the initials 'Fifty. Eastward. C.' with a map to Republic of indonesia. With Captain Daimio for visitor -- who he divulged the clandestine about his former identity -- he was compelled by the Egyptian mummy Panya to a secret island where he encountered several of his onetime colleagues from the Oannes Society. The Society planned to kill millions of people in lodge to relieve them by housing the souls in artificial bodies nether their control, challenge that if they cannot save all flesh they will at least save "the essence" of information technology. In their visitor, Abe learned more well-nigh his lost past and recognized that the man he'd one time been had little in mutual with the man he was now. With the assist of Panya and Captain Daimio, Abe was able to foil their plan, returning to the Bureau with Panya, one of the bodies the Society had been making... and some peace of listen.

Captain Daimio lost, Memnan Saa found [ ]

Main article: Killing Ground

Principal commodity: The Warning

Main article: The Blackness Goddess

Daryl the wendigo was moved to B.P.R.D. headquarters for their stronger property facilities. Shortly thereafter, Captain Daimio transformed into a jaguar-similar monster later years of trying to control the change; the transformed captain killed five people, including Johann Kraus'southward new body, and freed Daryl before escaping into the Colorado wilderness. Abe and Ben had become good friends since Ben's joining the Bureau, and it was Abe who led a forcefulness to try and observe him, though whether to get him back or to put an end to his threat is questionable.

Notably, he did not bring Johann along with him, seeming to believe that Johann'south own agenda could be a risk to the mission. A rift of suspicion began to form betwixt the two agents.

Abe and agents spent weeks searching for Ben with fiddling evidence every bit to where he was before they were called dorsum by the Bureau.

New evidence had been constitute to locate a man called Memnen Saa who had been simultaneously harassing and aiding the Bureau in their war against the frogs and the Blackness Flame. But when the team went to a jungle temple to find him, Liz Sherman vanished earlier their eyes and 1 of their planes flew off without any form of pilot. Memnan Saa appeared before Abe, warning him that he could have killed them all simply chose non to, before forcibly evicting them from the area. They later tracked the missing airplane to where it had crashed Munich, Germany. There, the team discovered the aforementioned subterranean race that had once kidnapped Liz was now in league with the frogs to build monstrous machines. When discovered, the machines began to destroy Munich, leaving Abe and team largely powerless to practice more than watch as they desolated the metropolis.

They turned their efforts underground, Abe and Johann took a pocket-sized force of men to destroy the power source the monsters were using to power their robots. They succeeded in doing so, but Munich was largely lost. Abe realized that the plane had been crashed in Munich by Memnan Saa on purpose, to pb them to the proof that he wasn't lying to Liz. Troubled past this news and even so no new information to Liz'southward safety, Abe was infuriated when Memnan Saa appeared to him in a hotel room presently after, warning him of what he deemed an unavoidable future.

With the discovery of notes from Lobster Johnson that pointed towards Memnan Saa's location, the ancient city of Thadrethes, the B.P.R.D. partnered with the Military machine to show up on Memnan Saa's doorstep. Despite coming fully armed, Saa welcomed Abe, Kate and Devon into Thadrethes where they constitute Liz, unresponsive but rubber equally her burn down was used to destroy the invading forces of frogs outside. Abe tried to force Memnan Saa to turn her over, and was responded with being slammed into a pillar. Merely Memnan Saa met his terminate when Liz burned him alive, and anybody returned safely to the Agency.

A New Race of Man [ ]

Main article: Rex of Fear (story)

Main commodity: New World

With Memnan Saa dealt with and Liz returned, the team turned their full attention to stopping the Black Flame. With Liz, Devon, and several more armed agents behind him, Abe led the assault deep down below the Argathan monastery from Hollow Earth. The Blackness Flame was found, merely with unexpected results; Liz vanished into thin air when she went out to watch ahead.

The Black Flame makes uneasy declarations to Abe's purpose.

The Blackness Flame also made a startling claim: that Abe was the first of a new race of men, and that he would have a central place of ability in bringing near the next world after humanity'due south extinction. Abe angrily refused to believe it, threatening to knife open ane of the incubating frogspawn. Only when the Black Flame showed him one of the Ogrdu Hem, Abe stepped frontward as if hypnotized, staring back with wide eyes.

Meanwhile, Liz experienced a vision of the future in which the B.P.R.D. had failed in saving humanity. In the wreck of 1 of their planes, she finds several photos of squad members; an older Devon, a full mobile Panya, even Hellboy. Amidst them, she finds a photo of what looks like a more mutated, unmerciful Abe, most all traces of his humanity lost.

Whether or not this vision was a sure ane of the future or only i of many possible ones is up for debate.

The rest of the Black Flame'due south machinations were put to an end when Liz used her flame to destroy everything in the caverns, with a mysterious shaman effigy from her visions teleporting Abe and the squad away earlier flames engulfed the surreptitious. Information technology's currently believed that the Black Flame and his remaining forces were all destroyed.

The team was found in the mountains of Austria, afflicted with minor frostbite just otherwise prophylactic and sound. After Kate Corrigan and Tom Manning got UN funding for the Bureau, Kate came to come visit them. It was then that Devon quietly asked to be moved every bit far away from Abe as earlier; the Black Flame had placed a barrier between them with his claims, one that would testify to exist pregnant in the future.

Things seemingly go back to concern at the Bureau. With UN funding, the Bureau now has to spread their work load, keeping everyone busy with even the most minor cases. But despite the busy hours, Abe keeps researching for possibilities of finding Ben Daimio and Daryl, locating the pair in the wilds of British Columbia. At the aforementioned time, he deals with Devon'southward uneasiness at the Blackness Flame's words; Abe firmly denies them, where Devon believes at that place may be some truth to it that the team is ignoring.

Abe took leave to discover Ben, and establish himself in the heart of disharmonize when he does; a town mysteriously empty, he and Ben notice that a pair of Ogdru Hem were responsible and kill them likewise as the human woman protecting them. Ben revealed that these juvenile Ogdru Hem had found their way through a human woman'southward torso, who believed they were her children.

Ben expressed his conventionalities that the tipping point and simply now are these horrors able to skid through into their world. Abe requested his friend to return to the Bureau but Ben declines, warning Abe the greatest danger is the invasion into people'due south hearts and minds; that this poses a great run a risk than any mere monster similar the i that has risen from the Salton Sea. He does ask Abe to call back a few things from HQ however, and Abe later on returns with Daryl's photo of his family and some supplies for Ben. Ben wished him well, and the two part on good terms.

The tension between Abe and Devon explodes at a debriefing.

Once dorsum at B.P.R.D headquarters Abe was debriefed alongside Agent Devon, Johann and Kate Corrigan about what he found; Abe lied and said he establish the situation on a hunch, neglecting to mention Ben or Daryl. Devon was hostile toward Abe, questioning why he ventured to British Columbia in the first place. Abe defended his actions and started to storm out only for a tech assistant to enter and report that Abe's laptop had been bugged with spyware. An enraged Abe accuses Devon of spying on him while Devon pleads ignorance. Kate tried to diffuse the situation only to no avail.

But in reality, it was Johann who had bugged Abe'south computer; assertive Ben to be entirely at error for the expiry of his second body, Johann had become obsessed with finding the former captain and getting revenge. Knowing Abe and Ben had been skilful friends, Johann continues to spy on him for more than data about how to accomplish his vengeance, putting some distance between the former comrades.

Changed [ ]

Main article: Gods

Main article: Monsters

Main article: Russia

The problems between Devon and Abe connected for months. Kate attempted to become them to talk more openly with each other about their fears regarding the Black Flame's words. Devon repeatedly brings up Daimio's possession as an example that Abe could exist potentially dangerous, and that Abe's reaction did nothing to dispel the villain's merits.

Abe argued that his reaction was one of fear. He points out that no i really knows what he is, so when the Black Flame pointed out how much he is like the frogs, it "brought up a fear I've been trying non to have for fifteen years". Devon admits this makes some sense, but is non entirely convinced however, and the meeting ends fairly unwell.

The team is sent to Texas to find a new lead; a teenager named Fenix who seems to take incredible luck surviving the monster and environmental attacks on the area. Abe leads a team including Devon to investigate, discovering both Fenix and new behemothic monsters attacking the people following her. Saving her from being eaten, Abe attempted to calm her, introducing himself by name.

Fenix replied, "I know who you are" and shot him repeatedly in the chest and cervix.

Devon witnessed the entire assault, staring in horror for some time before medics go far to help. But when he called Kate to report what happened and she asks who shot Abe, he paused briefly earlier answering that he didn't meet who. Fenix vanished from the scene, and Abe was rushed back to headquarters.

Abe was placed into constant supervision to heal, the fish-man having been unconscious since the shooting. His recovery seemed to be going smoothly until he of a sudden crashed. The doctors got his heart beating once more and place him on life support, but the damage was done: Abe had all-encompassing brain damage, and appeared to be all just dead.

Kate argued with the Bureau to keep Abe on life support at to the lowest degree for a fourth dimension, but confides in Johann that she's unsure of his chances. When asked what he's observed, Johann said he still senses a soul trapped in Abe'due south body merely that it feels "drastic", and that he thinks it's fourth dimension to allow Abe go.

The changes to Abe's body in 'Gods', 'Russia', and 'The Return of the Principal' respectively.

However, at the end of the Russia arc, Kate got a call. The doctors reported that Abe's eye is beating over again on its own, his brainwaves stabilizing, and that the staff is baffled as to how. Simply at the same fourth dimension, Abe's body begins to change. His nose slowly disappeared and his shape began to alter, becoming less homo than ever earlier.

For all intents and purposes, it appears that Liz's vision might exist coming true.

Abe Sapiens Series [ ]

Abe remained in a blackout for 4 months while evolving from his previous advent to his current 1.  His new appearance has brought further suspicion downwardly upon Abe and he has fled the Agency for Paranormal Inquiry and Defence seeking his own answers.  For a while he was pursued by B.P.R.D. agents led by a reluctant Amanuensis Vaughn.

Abe currently stars in his ain ongoing series, Abe Sapien.  This book follows Abe as he travels on human foot through the American Southwest, seeing firsthand how the end of the world is effecting humanity.  The first series was a three-issue arc entitled Abe Sapien: Night and Terrible. The second arc, Abe Sapien: The New Race of Man, which saw Abe exploring the Salton Bounding main, besides finished after a two-issue miniseries.  The serial picked upward again from October to November 2013 with Abe Sapien: The Shape of Things to Come, where Abe institute himself in Arizona.

Abilities [ ]

Abe is an extremely talented swimmer, with a natural affinity for water. He tin breathe both air and water, simply can merely stay out of water for about a week; when travelling, he sleeps in hotel bathtubs to keep his skin from drying out. He is sensitive to the status of h2o he swims in. When swimming in Venice, the water was so polluted that he had to stay in his tank for a long time afterwards to recover.

He is a talented marksman, likewise equally one of the most skilled agents in the B.P.R.D. (beside Hellboy and Liz), with decades of experience.

He as well appears to accept greatly enhanced strength and healing capabilities. Some (but past no means all) of the wounds he has survived include being speared in the chest (so severely he was initially alleged expressionless), getting shot multiple times and and so tortured by an ape, being thrown onto big spikes, and being shot in the face and breast (again, declared dead for some fourth dimension). Whether or not his body fifty-fifty tin can die is upwards for debate, equally both times he'south been alleged dead he's returned to life.

It'south also possible that he does not age, or that he ages at a much slower rate than normal humans, given that he was in the tube nether the hospital for 113 years while he made his transformation. This may be a trait he inherited from his previous life as Langdon Everett Caul, who was roughly seventy at the time he became Abe, while withal looking quite young.

It is possible he has some limited psychometry, although the instances of psychometry may actually exist properties of the object he's interacting with, not an ability he possesses.

Allies and Enemies [ ]

Allies: [ ]

• Hellboy : A carmine-skinned demon with a right hand made of stone. He was summoned to Earth as a child to be the goad for the approaching Apocalypse, just was rescued by American soldiers and raised to go a forcefulness for good. Hellboy was responsible for rescuing Abe from the Bureau's experiments, and for his following training; as such, Abe and Hellboy have been expert friends, and Abe misses him strongly subsequently he leaves.

• Liz Sherman : A pyrokinetic, this brooding, somber adult female has the psychic power to create and manipulate fire. Liz and Abe share a mutual bond from their 'freak' status, and accept long supported each other both on and off the field.

• Roger the Homunculus : An artificial human being created from blood and herbs, both mixed in a jar with horse manure. Abe saved the creature from the B.P.R.D.'s unethical experiments by freeing him -- much like how Hellboy saved Abe himself -- and helped train him to go a field agent. Abe was distraught when Roger was killed, blaming himself for non being there.
• Trevor Bruttenholm:

• Tom Manning : The Special Projects Director of the B.P.R.D. and Abe'south boss. The two have non been seen to interact much outside a professional relationship, though Tom does seem to recognize that having Abe on the payroll helps keep the Bureau funded and that he knows what he's doing.

• Kate Corrigan : The field director for the special talents team, and long time friend. Abe trusted her enough to let her aid him find out more than about Langdon Everett Caul, and respects her as a co-worker.
• Johann Kraus : Kraus is a German medium who's body was destroyed, but his ectoplasmic form remained. Abe and Johann had an easygoing relationship until Ben killed Johann'southward second body. Ever since, their relationship has been tense if not outright hostile, though Abe does not know that Johann had been spying on him to try and locate Ben.
• Panya:
• Ben Daimio : The (now quondam) captain of the special talents team. Abe and Ben bonded over a shared ethic, and it was Abe who kept up the search for him and somewhen discovered him after Ben had fled the Agency. Abe lied to the Bureau to keep him prophylactic, despite the possible risk Ben posed to both the public and himself.
• Andrew Devon : A recent addition to the Bureau, former scholar. Though formerly on good terms, their human relationship took a drastic plough after the events of King of Fear. Abe accused him of assertive that he was the Antichrist, and Devon covered upwards Fenix'south actions in shooting Abe.

Enemies: [ ]

• Grigori Rasputin : An undead mystic who claims to exist the official messenger of the terrible cosmic entity, the Ogdru Jahad, and is completely devoted to bringing about the finish of days, by any means. During the Cavendish mission, Abe Sapien was possessed by the vengeful spirit of Elihu Cavendish, and while under the ghost's influence harpooned Rasputin, killing his physical form. Rasputin'southward ghost later claimed that Abe would exist punished for this, dying in a similar way that Rasputin did, which did in fact come true.
• The Blackness Flame : A former Zinco CEO who sought to control the frogs, responsible for the death of Abe's friend, Roger. He claimed that Abe was the first of a new race of man, and that he would be a key figure in bringing about the doom of man. He is believed to be dead afterward Liz destroyed him and the terminal of the frogs.

Appearances in Other Media [ ]

Abe Sapien, being a fan favorite, has been adapted into various other media, most prominently picture show and animation.

Hellboy (2004–2008 film franchise) [ ]

Abe Sapien in the film series with Trevor Bruttenholm.

In Guillermo del Toro's adaption of Hellboy, Abe Sapien as an important character whose design would be later used for the comic version'south post B.R.P.D.: Hell on Earth appearance. While played past Doug Jones below extensive makeup and CGI-enhancement, merely dubbed by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce in the 2004 picture Hellboy.

In the moving picture, Abe Sapien possesses unique psychic abilities, and requires a h2o-breathing device when out of the water for long periods of time. He is portrayed as having a rather passive personality, and has a sibling-similar relationship with the more than directly, "shell stuff into submission, ask questions afterwards" philosophy of Hellboy. As well as having a fondness for thousand-yr eggs.

Sapien appeared in the movie's 2008 sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Regular army, in he doesn't vesture his breathing appliance equally much in this sequel, and he shows his marksman skills in the picture show. He is also the 1 who discovers Liz's pregnancy whilst instinctively protecting her during an assault from tooth faeries. He falls in love with the elf Princess Nuala, which leads to his helping Prince Nuada past giving him the magical crown slice (to control the Aureate Regular army) for her safe.

Abe's more comedic side is touched on in the flick also. The fact that he does non recollect his past life means he is completely inexperienced with love and relationships, and finds himself at a loss of how to act effectually Nuala. However, he finally tells her how he felt as she dies in his arms at the end of the picture, through telepathy.

Hellboy Blithe [ ]

Abe Sapien in the Hellboy Animated series.

Second most prominently, his appearance more akin to original design in the comics, Abe is a main graphic symbol alongside Hellboy and Liz Sherman in the animated feature-length movies that etch the Hellboy: Animated continuity. Two films have been released and so far that star Abe, voiced past Doug Jones, as a cast member:

• Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms, in which he and Liz Sherman are caught in a plane crash. The two fall into the ocean beneath, where Abe saves Liz'due south life past releasing air into her lungs. They become stranded on a rocky island during a supernatural hurricane and battle a "dragon".
• Hellboy Animated: Claret and Atomic number 26, where Abe is given a much larger activity-packed role.

Abe also appears in the graphic-novella series books Hellboy Blithe: The Black Wedding and Hellboy Animated: The Judgement Bell.

Trivia [ ]

• Originally, Hellboy was to be a member of a superhero squad Mignola conceived. In the conceptual drawing for the planned squad, featuring a more than monstrous, taller Hellboy, yous can run across Abe Sapien among the teammates.
• Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who is an best-selling major fan of Mignola'due south piece of work, personally claims that Abe is his favorite "Hellboy" character.
• In the films, Abe describes his trunk equally 'a temple' and avoids 'impurities', only does get boozer in Hellboy 2 when Hellboy 'bullies' him into having a potable with him. However, in the comics he is often seen enjoying cigars and sometimes drinking.
• In the books, Abe is said to enjoy chess, sometimes pulling Kate into playing with him and maxim that she'due south a sore loser.

Sources [ ]

• Wikipedia article
• Official Hellboy site
• 2012 Comic Expo Panel

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