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Dagda's goblin / Hellboy, Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 (1999)
Who are you? What's your name? / ... Anung Un Rama ... / PHAA! That's just words, boy. What do they mean? / I don't know.
— Hellboy · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A name imposed by prophecy is not the same thing as an identity understood or chosen. Hellboy can repeat the words but cannot supply their meaning. The goblin's questions open a gap between what others call him and the life he might decide to lead.
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In context
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Near the end of Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 (1999), Hellboy encounters Dagda's goblin in a dreamlike interlude. Asked who he is, he gives the name Anung Un Rama, then cannot explain what it means. The goblin challenges the name's authority while Dagda and Sir Edward Grey are present. The questions and replies belong to the goblin and Hellboy respectively.
Sources (2)
- Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 — written source 1Box Full of Evil; quotation and sceneReference checked
- Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 — written source 2Box Full of Evil; quotation and sceneReference checked
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