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Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice-over actor. His best known roles are as Clay Morrow on Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Hellboy in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Vincent on the series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990) for which he won a Golden Globe Award, Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Nino in Drive (2011), and Benedict Drask in Don't Look Up (2021). Perlman is also known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013) and Nightmare Alley (2021). His voice-over work includes the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout (1997–present), Clayface in the DC Animated Universe, Slade in Teen Titans (2003–2006), Mr. Lancer in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Lord Hood in the video games Halo 2 (2004) and Halo 3 (2007), the Stabbington brothers in Tangled (2010), The Lich in Adventure Time (2011–2017), Xibalba in The Book of Life (2014) and Optimus Prime in both the Transformers: Power of the Primes (2018) animated series, and the film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).
Ron Perlman
The Great Darkness
for The Great Darkness in Tales of The Spectre S1
Suggested by sefrase
Episode 1 narrates the creation, while the 2nd one recounts the arrival of darkness, The Great Darkness, tasked with restoring balance against the light of the source. Episode 3 tells the tale of the transformation of the source into the being known as The Presence, simultaneously giving birth to Paradise. Following a rebellion by Lucifer, the Hell and demons were born. Episode 4 narrates how The Presence gave birth to the Greek gods, tasked with representing different forms of life. The episode recounts the famous myth of Cronus devouring his children. In episode 5, Aztar, an angel of Lucifer, comes to seek forgiveness from The Presence, who turns him into its spirit of vengeance, The Spectre. Episode 6 recounts the creation of the Parliaments of Life (including the Parliament of Trees), where the gods represent the beliefs of humans and the representations of The Presence, while the parliaments act to protect the world. Episode 7 narrates the creation of magic. The Presence brings the goddess Hecate to life, based on its Greek gods. Witnessing this, The Great Darkness creates the Upside Down Man, the opposite of Hecate's light. The Phantom Stranger also appears at the same time as an eye of The Presence. Episode 8 tells the story of the creation of the Lords of Order and Chaos, as well as the first confrontation between the two sides.
