Zorin Blitz

Mind reading

Psychological torture methods

Vampire physical attributes

Torture

Mutilation

Terrorism

Treason

War crimes

“ You can do better than that. Now, SCREAM! Not so tough anymore. I love the way you squirm beneath my boot heel.[...] God, you're such a weakling. And I was so sure you'd be a challenge. You're trash, like all those men I killed. Now, how to end this? Maybe I should just cut your head off. I've seen what's in there; this is a kindness! Now... die! „ ~ Zorin expressing her sadism as she tortures Seras Victoria.

“ Just breaks your heart, doesn't it? He was a bug, buzzing around my face; that's why I had to swat him down. Like a gnat! „ ~ Zorin mocking Seras crying over Pip Bernadotte's death.

**First Lieutenant Zorin Blitz** is an officer in the Millennium Organization serving as a commander of the Letzte Bataillon and a major antagonist in the *Hellsing* manga series and its OVA adaption, *Hellsing Ultimate*, appearing as the main antagonist of Volume 7 of the manga and its respective episode in the OVA series.

Zorin was voiced by Yōko Sōmi in the Japanese version, and by Helena Taylor in OVA 4 and Rachel Robinson in OVA 5-7 in the English dubbed version.

## History

Zorin was dispatched by the Major to survey the Hellsing manor. Commanding roughly 1/3 of the Letztes Battalion, Zorin led an attack on Hellsing manor though it was initially a disaster, with Seras Victoria easily shooting down Zorin's zeppelin with the Harkonnen II's AA cannons. The survivors then charged at the manor on foot, but were caught in a minefield set up by Captain Pip Bernadotte's Wild Geese troops. Eventually though, thanks to Zorin's illusions, the Millennium forces manage to get through the mine field and breach Hellsing Manor. Zorin led her battalion of troops against the Wild Geese, slaughtering most of the mercenaries.

Zorin eventually came across Seras and crippled her after gouging her eyes with her scythe, slicing left arm off her and leaving her paralyzed with a strike to her spine. Pip tries to save Seras, but Zorin mortally wounds him. However, as he is dying, Pip asks Seras to drink his blood. While Seras cries, mourning the death of the man she loves, Zorin mocks and calls him an "insect", making Seras infuriated. Fulfilling Pip's request, Seras drains his body of all his blood, absorbing his soul to herself, healing all her wounds with a shadowy mass replacing the arm Zorin had cut off, and awakening her full powers as a vampire. Seras then swears to destroy Zorin with Pip's help, and plows her way through Zorin's remaining forces.

Now alone against Seras, Zorin attempts to use her illusions against Seras again, but finds that Pip's soul is inside Seras' own and is protecting her from Zorin's powers. Schrödinger then appeared and delivers a message to Zorin from the Major, commenting that her eagerness to lead a spectacular charge is what led to her downfall as she never considered what would happen if she was defeated, as well as informing her that The Major and Doc are too busy working on converting Walter into a vampire to activate her the microchip, leaving Zorin to her fate at Seras' hands. Seras then overpowers Zorin and kills her by slamming her head onto a wall and dragging it across it until it's nothing but a splatter of blood.

At the end of Volume 10, Zorin's scythe is seen at a shrine alongside items from other characters killed in the series.

## Personality

Zorin is extremely sadistic and bloodthirsty, often enjoying using her illusion magic to mess with her victim's minds before she finishes them off. She is shown to be quite cruel, as she gleefully shows her enemies illusions of painful past events, such as showing one of the Wild Geese mercenaries an illusion of his dead daughter, and Seras flashbacks of the day her parents were murdered. Like many of the other monsters in Hellsing, she shows little to no respect towards her opponents, calling the Wild Geese mercenaries "sad meat sacks" and Seras a weakling. It could be the fact that before Walter's betrayal, she was the strongest vampire in Millenium so she naturally underestimates her oppenents. She is also quick to anger and impulsive, which led to her going against orders and attacking Hellsing manor, resulting in her demise.

## Abilities

As one of the top members of Millennium Organization and a member of The Werewolves, she is a very powerful vampire with very unique vampiric abilities and weapons. She was able to effortlessly toy with Seras in her pre-blood infused state, but she was eventually outmatched once Seras drank Pip's blood.

* **Biological Immortality:** Being a vampire, Zorin remains at her physical prime forever. While she is ageless, she is not immortal, and was killed by Seras.
* **Superhuman Strength:** Zorin had a degree of superhuman strength, as she was able to lift her massive scythe with ease.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Zorin's speed was enhanced to the point where she could run across a field to the Hellsing Manor in mere seconds along with her battalion.
* **Regeneration:** Zorin was able to heal wounds such as getting her cheek scraped by the Harkonnen and being shot five times in the chest by Pip.

* **Illusion-Casting:** Zorin's power was her ability to create illusions, seemingly facilitated by the third eye of her right palm. These illusions include creating an enormous copy of herself (taller than the Hellsing Manor) and showing her victim illusions of painful past events. They are extremely realistic to the point of physically tangible to her victims. However, sufficiently trained vampires can resist or outright negate the effects. They can also be broken if Zorin is distracted or injured while casting them.
* **Mind Reading:** While a victim is trapped in an illusion, Zorin is capable of reading their mind/soul, seeing which illusions would work better.
* **Scythe Proficiency:** Zorin's weapon of choice is a massive scythe with enough power to slice a man in half. She is equally dangerous at range, being able to throw it great distances with impressive accuracy.
* **Self-Disintegration:** As seen among the most powerful members of Millennium, her body was capable of being remotely cremated via her implanted chip

## Trivia

* In the James Bond 007 movie A View to a Kill, actor Christopher Walken plays a villain named Max Zorin who was a chemically engineered superhuman created in late World War II by Nazi Germany and who possessed a zeppelin-based flying HQ. He also had May Day, a giant, muscular female bodyguard. It is entirely possible that Hirano drew from these elements in creating his Hellsing character.
* Her last name, Blitz, is German for "lightning". It is likely a reference to Blitzkrieg (*Lightning War*), a military tactic used by Nazi Germany in the early days of World War II that involved overwhelming enemy lines with a single massive offensive combining infantry and tank regiments.

* "The Blitz" was also the common term for Germany's campaign of bombing raids on Britain during WWII.

* Zorin's tattoos are known to change between scenes and panels (in at least one panel of Volume 7, her pentagram becomes a hexagram, and the number and arrangement of letters changes frequently), but it is never stated if they actually change or if Hirano simply didn't bother trying to maintain identical patterns of hundreds of letters and images. The latter is more likely, as Hirano occasionally snuck in references to other works (such as "Trigun Maximum," "Gungrave," "Mission Impossible", and "Band of Brothers"), as well as comedic phrases ("Elvis Lives"). In one panel of the manga, the tattoos bear the phrase "Comic Master", referring to an online comic-making application.
* Zorin Blitz is one of the few major characters in the series to not wear white gloves. She is also the only major member of Millennium who lacks such gloves.
* While she has green eyes in the OVAs, in the first trailer for OVA 4, she had blue eyes.

* She has heterochromia iridum.

* Interestingly, despite Schrodinger telling her the Major and Doctor had no time to activate her death switch, it is seen activating later, after Seras had killed her. It is likely that it activates in response to her death, though it is also possible that The Major and Doctor merely left her to a painful death for having proven herself to be incompetent.
* Intentionally or not, Zorin's outfit bears an extremely close resemblance to the one worn by fellow manga vampire Dio Brando in part 3 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
* It is notable that the jagged design on Zorin's scythe is relatively common on hand forged blades such as this one Dynasty Forge - Katana Blade and reveal themselves through the used metal metallurgy, folded smithing of 2 different steel hardenings and the polishing.
* Interestingly, Zorin's design bear's similarities to the anime-exclusive villain Incognito. Specifically, they both have a disfigured eye and tattoos covering one side of their body.
* Zorin’s second English voice actress—under the pseudonym Cherla Borinnos—voiced the Queen of England in the parody *Hellsing Ultimate Abridged*.