r/HellBoy • u/AdCute7251 • 17h ago
In Hellboy 2, during the Auction, the edition and Prince Nuada try to make us believe that "that ancient extinct culture" are the Elves, but no, they are the Human Tribe with whom the Elves once made a truce.
One of the biggest injustices I discuss when I watch Hellboy 2 is that Man didn't forget his promise. If we look closely, although the Elves, Fairies, and other elements are clearly from European folklore, in this installment, the Elf King and his people are in the United States after so much time has passed. If we look at the items in the auction, they are all Pre-Hispanic American artifacts. One of the things I hate to discuss most in fiction is the existence of the King of the Elves, the King of the Goblins, but we humans, even in most fiction, are not a unified people; we are a collection of tribes. And given how it's told, probably within the Hellboy universe, the Elf King made a truce with the first Americans, who evidently suffered genocide with the arrival of Europeans, and whose beliefs were ridiculed as myths.
It would be ironic that although humans in Pre-Hispanic America were not peaceful or perfect among themselves, they were so far removed from the level of environmental destruction seen in Europe during the same period.
