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Mammon / Haborym / Astaroth, Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999, “Pancakes”
He has eaten the pancake. / He will never come back to us now. / Truly this is our blackest hour.
— Hellboy · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The demons read a child's ordinary pleasure as a decisive loss for their side. The enormous language of damnation meets breakfast, and breakfast wins. It is a compact expression of the comic's affection for Hellboy's humanity.
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In context
Spoilers for HellboyShow the scene
The three demons speak in ‘Pancakes’, a Hellboy short published in Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999. At an army base in 1947, the young Hellboy is persuaded to try a pancake. The scene cuts to Hell, where Mammon, Haborym and Astaroth treat his enjoyment as a catastrophe. Their three successive comments make the exchange, rather than a speech by Hellboy.
Sources (3)
- Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999 annual (DHP Jr.) — written source 1Pancakes; quotation and sceneReference checked
- Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999 annual (DHP Jr.) — written source 2Pancakes; quotation and sceneReference checked
- Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999 annual (DHP Jr.) — written source 4Pancakes; quotation and sceneReference checked
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