Golden Army

"Awaken the Golden Army, but the fields will not grow from that blood."

- Princess Nuala

{{Quote|Build me this Army, the King said|Professor Bruttenholm]}

The Golden Army is an antagonistic force in the movie Hellboy II:The Golden Army. Awh. It is seventy times seventy soldiers, as in four thousand nine hundred soldiers, all made from clockwork and all wound up. A beautiful feat of goblin engineering, beautiful yet deadly. The Army was proposed by a goblin blacksmith who sought the respect of King Balor, and when the King was despaired at the human onslaught, he agreed to have the blacksmith build him a gigantic Army.

The next time the humans marched, the earth trembled and the skies darkened from the looming Golden Army. The onslaught was unstoppable and the sadistic Golden Army slaughtered injured humans. Nobody survived. One might argue the humans got their desserts for starting a war, but does violence really solve violence?

Prince Nuada wanted to resurrect the Golden Army when it was shut in the earth, never to be awoken again. The goblin had made the Army unstoppable and invincible, and King Balor had hated the evil the Army made, so he ordered it deactivated. The goblin agreed, and confessed that sometimes he wished he had never made the Army.

When the goblin took Hellboy to the Prince, Abraham Sapien gave Nuada the Crown, which could control the Army, by whoever wore the Crown would be rightful leader and King of the Army. One of royal blood simply had to wear the Crown, announce "I am King (insert name here) ruler of the Golden Army. Is there any who would dispute my right?" If the Golden Army recognized the royal blood, they would salute the ruler. If the ruler was challenged by another being, then they would have to accept the challenge. Years later, when Prince Nuada put the Crown on and declared himself King, to which the unstoppable Army awoke, Hellboy challenged Prince Nuada to a challenge, remembering the story Professor Bruttenholm had told him.

The demon and elf battled it out when Princess Nuala forced her brother to acknowledge Hellboy's royalty, as she called him "the son of the Fallen One", to which Prince Nuada accepted his challenge and they fought, emerging as equals. The Golden Army entered the fight. Johann Krauss, the ghost secret agent, entered the fight by possessing one of the Golden Army, turning him good, and making him kill his brothers, but Krauss could only possess him for so long and although he did good, he had to reenter his original body.

Eventually, the Army was defeated when Prince Nuada died, and when Liz Sherman broke the Crown in pieces, from her arsonic power, the Golden Army crumbled into nothing.