Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Corrected entry: In the scenes in the auction house, the auctioneer is wearing glasses the whole time, but when Prince Nuada holds up the creature in his hand, you get a brief look at the auctioneers face before the creature attacks and he is no longer wearing glasses.

becca

Correction: It's not impossible or unlikely that he'd take them off. For instance, perhaps the auctioneer is farsighted. He wears reading glasses so he can read the auction manifest. When the strange intruder bursts in and brandishes an even stranger object the auctioneer removes his glasses, off camera, to get a better look at it.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, we are told that the crown is indestructible. Nonetheless, we watch the crown being destroyed in one of the film's final scene.

Correction: The Golden Army is mentioned as being indestructible, not the crown.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: In the subway scene, when Prince Nuada is training his right hand is closest to the blade, but then all of a sudden his left hand is nearest to the blade.

Correction: It's a simple, very quick switch to make. I just watched the scene and Nuada even appears to be winding up for the maneuver just before the angle changes.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The first time you see the Prince Nuada out of puppet form, there is a continuity shift on his hair when he slams the spear on the ground.

Correction: Not specific enough. What changes?

Phixius

I believe they are referring to his hair being flipped forward over his head when he lands with his head down, to the next shot where the prince's hair is hanging straight down and fixed.

Corrected entry: When the auction show is attacked the power goes out and the emergency lights come on, yet the television screens stay on?

Correction: Most likely running on emergency backup power. I can have my laptop running off a power-cord, remove it, and the battery will kick on. They likely had an emergency power-source for the equipment, as they are dealing with very expensive items at the auction, and would want to maintain power constantly. Hence, the screens staying on.

Corrected entry: When the prince's nose bleeds, we see that the Princess's nose bleeds as well to show their link. Then a second later, both of their faces are blood free.

Correction: We see the prince wiping the blood away. It's entirely likely that the princess did the same (twins have a knack for doing things at the same time).

Corrected entry: After Hellboy is speared, when his POV is shown his eyes are seen closing from top to bottom, when instead it should be left to right.

Correction: The reason the blink is top and bottom is because Hellboy is on his side, as represented by the image being turned. Hellboy's point of view and blink are correct.

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, after the crown is whole and in Hellboy's possession, Liz decides to melt the crown down so no one could ever use it again to raise the Golden Army. But throughout most of the movie, Liz and her team had possession of one of the pieces of the crown. Why didn't she just melt that one piece when they had it? The crown never could've been put back together without it, and they would have never had to worry about the Golden Army.

Correction: Abe kept the 3rd crown piece a secret from the rest of the team, they did not know it was in their possession until Abe trades it for the Princess.

They didn't know Abe had found it later, but they did know Nuala had it before when they first met her and that it was dangerous, they could have done it then.

Continuity mistake: After the golden army bots awaken, it zooms out to show how big the army is, when they do the prince and princess disappear in the background, then reappear.

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Suggested correction: There are two black silhouettes on the background, they should not be black, but still.

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Trivia: During the auction scene, there's a man with a dog on his lap. This man is Santiago Segura, a Spanish actor. He was the underground train driver in the first film (the one who knocked HB down the train with a fire extinguisher).

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Question: When the Princess Nuala asks Abe what he's wearing early in the film, Abe answers "It's a breathing apparatus". But he only dons the mechanism twice in the film, and rarely wears it outside where the microbes in the air can kill him! Why even wear it?

CCARNI

Chosen answer: Why not wear it? It's clearly something that's useful to him, even if it's apparently not particularly essential. It may simply just make him more comfortable, like a human wearing a scarf in cold weather - allowing him to breathe the water that he prefers rather than air. There's never any mention that Abe can only survive for a limited time out of the water; equally, there's no suggestion that he's particularly vulnerable to atmospheric microbes. It's part of his equipment that he uses when he wishes to, that's all.

Tailkinker

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