agents face their own struggles during this time - Johann claims revenge on Ben Daimio for the destruction of his new body, while Abe is shot in the head by a panicked psychic girl named Fenix. Society is pushed to the brink of madness as many new cults arise to worship the creatures, while other supernatural forces begin shifting their plans in response to the global chaos. In the wake of the events of King of Fear, the world enters an apocalyptic era as natural disasters and vicious monsters crawl out of the Earth. In the wake of this new crisis, the United Nations Security Council drafted the Bureau to work directly for them, with "blank cheque" funding.Ī vision of the future shown in King of Fear showed the apocalypse had triumphed over this larger, more heavily armed B.P.R.D. This inadvertently caused massive volcanic disasters across the world, devastating Malaysia and causing the destruction of Borneo (wiping out the nations of Indonesia and Brunei), and also causing the rise of a large, immobile monster in California, spewing out a gas across America and Mexico that mutates people. Finally, Liz Sherman exhausted all of her powers in destroying the underworld alliance. This crisis saw half of Munich destroyed, the Bureau discredited in the eyes of the American military, and Abe Sapien revealed to be an example of the next stage of the frog's evolution.
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After Katha-Hem was destroyed, the frog monsters dragged the Black Flame into a vast pit and the invasion appeared to come to an end.Ī series of incidents-featured in The Warning, The Black Goddess, and King of Fear-saw the Bureau threatened by both an alliance of the frogs, the Black Flame, and creatures from the Hollow Earth, united to bring about an apocalypse and the birth of a new human race and also the villain Memnan Saa, who abducted Liz in an attempt to use her powers to conquer the Earth so he could prevent the Apocalypse. Together they raised the gigantic Katha-Hem (one of the Ogdru Hem, the 369 spawn of the Ogdru Jahad) which ran rampant across the American heartland until Liz Sherman used an ancient artifact to amplify her pyrokinetic powers a thousandfold.
The frog monster invasion reached its peak during the events of The Black Flame during which a Neo-Nazi madman adopted the persona of the World War II era supervillain the Black Flame and insinuated himself as the leader of the frogs. As such, the facility contains vast quantities of secret files that the B.P.R.D. This facility was last used to house Nazi scientists who defected to America after World War II.
To cut costs, the Bureau moved from its traditional headquarters in Connecticut to an abandoned research facility in Colorado. Though the "frogs" began operating on the East Coast, they spread west on both sides of the US-Canada border. The Bureau was the United States' only defense against an onslaught of frog creatures (originally featured in Seed of Destruction). is a well known and respected organization that has excellent relations with most international governments and United States government agencies, with the exceptions of China and the CIA. Over the years, the Bureau has added several agents with "enhanced skills" to its ranks including Hellboy in 1952, Liz Sherman in 1980, and Abe Sapien in 1981. Professor Bruttenholm served as director until the late 1950s when he stepped down to return to field work. It is a private organization that receives funding from several major governments (mostly the United States and United Kingdom, although other countries including Canada, Japan, France, and Italy have been mentioned). It maintains strong links to various branches of the US military to this day. It initially had strong links to the United States Army Air Forces and was based at a military airbase in New Mexico, but in 1947 later relocated to a custom built facility in Fairfield, Connecticut. was founded in 1945 by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm to combat various occult threats uncovered in operations against Nazi Germany.
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