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Real name Langdon Everett Caul
Abraham "Abe" Sapien is a fictional character introduced in the comic book series Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola. He takes his name from "Icthyo sapiens", the fanciful species designation chosen for him by his colleagues in the 19th-century Oannes Club, and from Abraham Lincoln, on whose assassination date the Oannes Club abandoned Abe's body, leaving only a cryptic note as explanation, in a suspended animation tank beneath a Washington D.C. hospital. He is occasionally referred to as a fishman, or merman.
As well as regular appearances in Hellboy and B.P.R.D., Sapien has also starred in his own one-shot comic, Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead by Brian McDonald and Derek Thompson, and the mini-series Abe Sapien: The Drowning by Mike Mignola.
Biography
Langdon Everett Caul est un scientifique de l'Époque victorienne et un homme d'affaires qui est devenu impliqué avec la Oannès Society, une organisation occulte qui croyait que la vie et toutes les connaissances étaient venues de la mer. Après la découverte d'une étrange méduse dans une ruine sous-marine, Caul et les autres membres exécutent un rituel mystérieux. Mais un accident se produit, la créature est libérée et métamorphose Caul en icthyo sapien. La société croit alors que Langdon est la réincarnation d'Oannès, ils l'enferment dans un grand tube d'eau, dans un laboratoire caché au-dessous de l'hôpital Saint Trinian de Washington, en attendant que le corps soit formé entièrement. Mais l'hôpital est abandonné à la suite du début de la Guerre de Sécession en 1861.Le tube n'est retrouvé qu'en novembre 1978 par des ouvriers. Le tube porte l'inscription « Ichtyo Sapien April 14 1865 ». La date du 14 avril 1865 étant le jour où John Wilkes Booth assassina le président Abraham Lincoln... La créature est alors donnée au BPRD, le Bureau de Recherche et de Défense sur le Paranormal (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense dans la version originale). Il est alors nommé Abraham Sapien en référence à l'inscription sur le tube. Les scientifiques du BPRD veulent alors le disséquer mais Abraham est sauvé par Hellboy, un démon travaillant au BPRD. Abraham devient alors un agent du bureau et obtient sa première mission avec Hellboy en 1981.
Abraham a été pris en main par le professeur Trevor Bruttenholm, le père adoptif de Hellboy. Le professeur lui a fait découvrir la littérature et lui fait lire de nombreux livres, parfois plusieurs en même temps.
Au BPRD, il passe son temps libre dans son bassin à lire et manger des œufs pourris, plus particulièrement les « Œufs de cent ans ».
Best films
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Filmography of Abraham "Abe" Sapien (4 films)
Add to a movie listHellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
, 2hDirected by Guillermo del Toro
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films set in the future, Demons in film, Superhero films, Political films, Dystopian films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Disaster films
Actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, John Hurt, Seth MacFarlane
Rating69%
During Christmas 1955, an 11-year-old Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his adoptive father, Trevor Broom, involving an ancient war between man and magical creatures, started by man's greed. After defeat of the magical creatures' forces, the master of the goblin blacksmiths offers to build an indestructible mechanical army for the elven King Balor. Encouraged by his son Prince Nuada, Balor orders the building of this Golden Army. The humans are devastated by the army. Balor is ridden with guilt and forms a truce with the humans: Man will keep his cities and the magical creatures will keep their forests. Nuada does not agree with the truce and leaves in exile. The magical crown controlling the army is broken into three pieces, one going to the humans and the other two kept by the elves.
, 1h15Directed by Victor Cook, Tad Stones
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Cree Summer, Peri Gilpin
Rating65%
In a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order it is related that in 1939, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm investigated a series of murders in Eastern Europe. Erzebet Ondrushko, a vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, was responsible. She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate, and had just kidnapped the fiancee of one of the townsmen. When the search party confronted Erzebet in her castle, all members of the party were horribly killed, and Bruttenholm was left to face her alone. He tricked her into the sunlight, effectively destroying her.
, 1h17Directed by Tad Stones
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Peri Gilpin, Dee Bradley Baker, Keith Ferguson
Rating63%
The film starts in the middle of an unspecified mission which sees Hellboy, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien battling bat-worshipping Mayan zombies who are lead by a gigantic zombie bat. The group are eventually able to defeat their opponents when Liz unleashes her pyrokinetic powers, although she is still unsure of her ability to control her powers.
Hellboy (2004)
, 2h2Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Demons in film, Superhero films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Disaster films
Actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, John Hurt
Rating67%
In 1944, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland. With the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, they intend to free the Ogdru Jahad—monstrous entities imprisoned in deep space—to aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin knows this will be an apocalyptic event that he believes will create a paradise. He opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, member of the Thule Society and Adolf Hitler's top assassin. An Allied team is sent to destroy the portal, guided by young Trevor Bruttenholm, who is well-versed in the occult. The German team is killed and the portal is destroyed—in the process absorbing Rasputin—while Haupstein and Kroenen escape. The Allied team discovers that an infant demon with a right hand of stone came through the portal; they dub him "Hellboy" and Bruttenholm adopts him.