well behaved women

I have a lot of love for the Hellboy comics. But though I love certain things about the second movie (those familiar with my journal will know them, and they are summed up as: Nuada, Nuala, and their world) I loathed the BPRD's characterization and let's not even speak of the first film.

They turned Hellboy into a fratboy. They robbed Liz of all her fierce, capable, cynical glory. They ruined Abe, too, by shoehorning him into 'intellectual' and not giving him any real characterization. Hellboy, Liz and Abe were intelligent, competent and tough, blue-collar joes who went to work, dealt with it, and if that work was putting down monstrous worms or hell hounds, well then they got it done. The movie took a shredder to the characters I loved. So: I ship Hellboy/Liz and also Liz/Abe and Hellboy/Katie but only comicverse.