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Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense

Index Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (the B.P.R.D. or BPRD) is a fictional organization in the comic book work of Mike Mignola, founded by the United States and United Kingdom governments, charged with researching the occult, paranormal and supernatural, and defending against their dangers. [1]

85 relations: Abe Sapien, Area 51, B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters, B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: New World, B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls, B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and Other Stories, B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs, B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame, B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories, Ben Daimio, Blade (comics), Blade II, Borneo, Brunei, Bureau 13, Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, China, Colorado, Comic book, Connecticut, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Presents, Fairfield, Connecticut, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal government of the United States, Fiction, France, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FX (TV channel), Germany, Government agency, Guillermo del Toro, Guy Davis (comics), Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hellboy, Hellboy (2004 film), Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hellboy Universe, Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom, Homunculus, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Johann Kraus, Kate Corrigan, Latin, ..., Limited series (comics), Liz Sherman, Malaysia, Masi Oka, Mike Mignola, Mummy, Munich, Myspace, Nazism, Neo-Nazism, New Jersey, New Mexico, Occult, Ogdru Hem, Ogdru Jahad, One-shot (comics), Operation Paperclip, Paranormal, Pyrokinesis, Roger (Hellboy), Special agent, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, Tom Manning (comics), Trade paperback (comics), Trevor Bruttenholm, United Kingdom, United Nations Security Council, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Army Air Forces, Vector 13, Werejaguar, 2004 in film, 2008 in film. Expand index (35 more) »

Abe Sapien

Abraham "Abe" Sapien, born Langdon Everett Caul, is a fictional character introduced in the comic book series Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola.

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Area 51

The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.

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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters is the second trade paperback collection in the Hell on Earth cycle of the B.P.R.D. series.

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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: New World

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: New World is the first trade paperback collection in the Hell on Earth cycle of the B.P.R.D. series.

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B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls

B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls is the seventh trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D. series.

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B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and Other Stories

B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth & Other Stories is the first trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D. series.

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B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs

B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs is the third trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D. series.

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B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame

B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame is the fifth trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D. series.

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B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories

B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice & Other Stories is the second trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D. series.

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Ben Daimio

Captain Benjamin "Ben" Daimio is a fictional comic book character who appears in Dark Horse Comics books featuring Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, of which Daimio is an employee.

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Blade (comics)

Blade (Eric Brooks) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Blade II

Blade II is a 2002 American superhero film based on the fictional character of the same name from Marvel Comics.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi), is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.

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Bureau 13

Bureau 13 is a fictional top-secret government agency which investigates and combats supernatural events, featured in the eponymous role-playing game (RPG) series.

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Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (the B.P.R.D. or BPRD) is a fictional organization in the comic book work of Mike Mignola, founded by the United States and United Kingdom governments, charged with researching the occult, paranormal and supernatural, and defending against their dangers.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher.

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Dark Horse Presents

Dark Horse Presents was the first comic book published by American company Dark Horse Comics from 1986.

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Fairfield, Connecticut

Fairfield is an affluent town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Fiction

Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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FX (TV channel)

FX (originally an initialism of Fox Extended, pronounced and suggesting "effects") is an American basic cable and satellite television channel based in Los Angeles, California, owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Government agency

A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency.

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Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author and former special effects makeup artist.

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Guy Davis (comics)

Guy Davis (born 1966) is an American illustrator who has worked on comic properties along with conceptual design for film, television and video game projects.

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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)

Hawaii Five-0 is an American action police procedural television series that premiered on Monday, September 20, 2010, on CBS.The series is a reboot of the original series, which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1980.

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Hellboy

Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola.

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Hellboy (2004 film)

Hellboy is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Ron Perlman, loosely based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola.

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the fictional character Hellboy created by Mike Mignola.

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Hellboy Universe

The Hellboy Universe is the fictional universe of the Hellboy comic and its various spin-offs, created by Mike Mignola.

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Hellboy: Conqueror Worm

Hellboy: Conqueror Worm is a Hellboy comic book mini-series, written and drawn by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics.

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Hellboy: Seed of Destruction

Hellboy: Seed of Destruction is the first Hellboy comic book mini-series, published by Dark Horse Comics.

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Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom

The Right Hand of Doom is the fourth trade paperback collection in the Hellboy series created by Mike Mignola published by Dark Horse Comics on February 4, 2004 which collects various mini-series, one-shots and back-up features featuring fictional paranormal detective Hellboy.

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Homunculus

A homunculus (Latin for "little person") is a representation of a small human being.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Johann Kraus

Johann Kraus is a fictional character in the comic book series Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola.

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Kate Corrigan

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Limited series (comics)

In the field of comic books, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues.

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Liz Sherman

Elizabeth Anne Sherman is a fictional character appearing in the Hellboy comic book series created by Mike Mignola.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Masi Oka

(born December 27, 1974) is a Japanese-American actor, producer and digital effects artist.

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Mike Mignola

Michael Joseph "Mike" Mignola (born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer known for creating the "Mignola-verse" for Dark Horse Comics, a collection of titles including Hellboy, B.P.R.D. and various spinoffs (Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder, etc.). He has also created similarly themed titles for Dark Horse including Baltimore, The Amazing Screw-On Head, and Joe Golem: Occult Detective.

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Mummy

A mummy is a deceased human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideology of Nazism.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Ogdru Hem

The Ogdru Hem are fictional creatures in the Hellboy universe.

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Ogdru Jahad

The Ogdru Jahad are fictional characters in Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic and serve as the main villain of the franchise as well as being Hellboy's archenemy.

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One-shot (comics)

In the comic book publishing industry, a one-shot is a comic book published as a single, standalone issue, with a self-contained story, and not as part of an ongoing series or miniseries.

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Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by Special Agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were recruited in post-Nazi Germany and taken to the U.S. for government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

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Pyrokinesis

Pyrokinesis is the purported psychic ability allowing a person to create and control fire with the mind.

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Roger (Hellboy)

Roger the Homunculus is a fictional character featured in the Hellboy and B.P.R.D. comic books published by Dark Horse Comics.

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Special agent

A Special Agent, in the United States, is usually a criminal investigator or detective for a federal, state, or county government who primarily serves in investigatory roles.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro.

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Tom Manning (comics)

Tom Manning is a fictional character from Dark Horse Comics' Hellboy universe.

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Trade paperback (comics)

In comics, a trade paperback (often shortened to trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme.

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Trevor Bruttenholm

Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a fictional character in the comic book series Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola and John Byrne.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security as well as accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its United Nations Charter.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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Vector 13

Vector 13 is a comic strip published in the British magazine 2000 AD.

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Werejaguar

The were-jaguar was both an Olmec motif and a supernatural entity, perhaps a deity.

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2004 in film

The year 2004 in film involved some significant events.

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2008 in film

The year 2008 involved many major movie events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_for_Paranormal_Research_and_Defense

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