Hellboy has been adapted into live-action feature films in 2005 and 2008.
 In the films, Hellboy has shown skill in necromancy, animating a man's dead body so that it could give him directions
 The increasing commitments from the Hellboy franchise meant that 2008 one-shot In the Chapel of Moloch was the first Hellboy comic Mignola had provided the script and art for since The Island in 2005

