Six films across three separate continuities, and two of them are cartoons.
Not one order but three, because these six films are three unconnected attempts at the same character. Start with the del Toro pair, which is the only run where one film follows another.
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Opens in Scotland in October 1944 with the Nazis opening a portal, then jumps sixty years. Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, and the version most people mean when they say Hellboy.
A direct sequel with the same cast and the same world. A third was planned and never made, so the story simply stops here.
A complete restart with David Harbour. Nothing carries over and nothing is required first. Its sequel was cancelled.
Then what? The two animated films, Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron in that order, use the same voices as the del Toro films and were blessed by Mignola and del Toro, but they are not formally in that continuity. They sit alongside the live action pair rather than between them, and they are best watched after both. Hellboy: The Crooked Man from 2024 is a third start, set in 1959 with another new cast, and needs nothing before it.
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