Publisher Dark Horse Comics Full name Thomas Manning Partnerships Trevor Bruttenholm Creator Mike Mignola | Created by Mike Mignola Team affiliations B.P.R.D. Notable aliases Dr. Thomas Manning Partnership Professor Broom | |
First appearance Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (1994) Played by Jeffrey Tambor, Jim Cummings Affiliation Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense Movies Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden A, Hellboy: Blood and Iron Similar Professor Broom, Liz Sherman, Grigori Rasputin, Johann Kraus, John Myers | ||
Tom Manning is a fictional character from Dark Horse Comics' Hellboy universe. He is director of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.
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Character overview
Manning has classically been portrayed as a stuffed-shirt bureaucrat who refuses to trust the paranormal members of his agency, even though their presence is critical to the successful defense of the planet. In recent years, Manning has softened his approach to his superhumans; Roger the Homunculus, for example, was promoted to leader of his own squad even though Manning, at one point, had a bomb placed in Roger's chest as a precautionary measure.
Manning, perhaps smarting from the defection of Hellboy from the Bureau, recently refused to accept the resignation of Captain Ben Daimio after a disaster that claimed Roger and his team. In this way, Manning has developed from a cold administrator to a leader that places the needs of his agents over the needs of the Bureau.