The room erupted into chaos. The Golden Army was relentless. They didn't tire, they didn't feel pain. They marched over each other, a tidal wave of gold crushing the air from the room.

Nuada eventually recovers all three pieces (by threatening to kill Nuala unless Abe gives his piece to him). He assembles the crown and travels to the magical foundry deep beneath Ireland where the Golden Army sleeps.

"I am a father!" Bruttenholm shouted, finishing the incantation.

The entity turned, horrified. "You dare? You are not a sorcerer!"

Bruttenholm pulled a small, leather-bound book from his satchel—a translation of the Book of the Dead he’d been working on. He began to read. Not a spell of attack, but a spell of binding. He spoke the words in the ancient tongue, his voice trembling but loud.

Directed by the visionary Guillermo del Toro, (2008) is a landmark of supernatural fantasy and superhero cinema. Moving away from the gritty, Nazi-centric origins of the first film, this sequel dives headfirst into folklore, presenting a lush world where ancient myths collide with modern humanity. A War Between Two Worlds

Inside the house, Lord McDonough, a man whose skin looked as pale and brittle as parchment, led them to the library. He offered tea with a shaking hand.

He realized then that legends were never about winning. They were about enduring.

Nuada first attacks an auction house in New York to steal the humans’ piece. This brings him into conflict with the .

Princess Nuala, knowing her life is magically linked to her brother’s (if one dies, so does the other), stabs herself to ensure Nuada cannot survive. Both twins die. In her final moment, Nuala shares a brief, tragic romance with Abe Sapien.

Bruttenholm didn't reach for a gun. He reached for his satchel. "Hellboy! The Crown! They need the Crown of Bethmoora to act as a hive mind! Without the crown, they are chaos!"

"Legend says the King of the Elves commissioned the Army from the goblins," Bruttenholm said, lighting a pipe. "Seventy times seventy soldiers. Mechanical, indestructible, and relentless. They were meant to wipe out humanity."

The film’s central conflict revolves around an ancient truce between humans and the "Mythic Realms". (Luke Goss), an exiled elven prince, becomes weary of humanity’s environmental destruction and decides to reclaim the Earth. To do so, he seeks to awaken the Golden Army , a legendary battalion of 4,900 indestructible mechanical warriors forged by his father, King Balor.

But that was a problem for the future. For now, he had a boy to feed.