Zorin Blitz

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real_name = Zorin Blitz


caption = Zorin Blitz in Hellsing manga vol. 7
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publisher = Young King OURs
debut = Hellsing volume 4
creators = Kouta Hirano
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alliances = Millennium, The Last Battelion
powers = Superhuman strength and speed, Immortality, Illusion casting, Regeneration, Mind Reading, wields a massive scythe

nihongo|First Lieutenant Zorin Blitz|ゾーリンブリッツ中尉|First Lieutenant Zōrin Burittsu is a character in the manga Hellsing and a member of the Millennium forces. In the OVA, her Japanese seiyou is Yoko Soumi, and her English voice is Helena Taylor.

She is a tall, massively muscled female vampire who works for the Millennium organization and is part of its Werwolf force. She is also the commander of one of Millennium's zeppelin forces, and is apparently the instigator of the Valentine Brothers' attack on the Hellsing mansion (though this is simply conjecture from mixing the manga and anime storylines).

She is a formidable fighter, wielding a giant scythe with enough force to cut a man in half. One side of her body is covered with tattoos, which include some designs but are mostly letters (into which Hirano occasionally sneaks phrases such as "Trigun Maximum," "Gungrave," and "Elvis Lives"); when exercising her power of illusion, they flow from her body onto the walls and ground around her, extending her influence over the area. She can also read minds/souls allowing her to determine what illusions work best on her victims.

She attacked the Hellsing mansion during Millennium's invasion of London (Operation Seelöwe 2) and kills Captain Pip Bernadotte, leading Seras Victoria to drink his blood and awaken her latent vampiric powers. Seras subsequently kills Zorin in a spectacularly violent and bloody manner, scraping her face across a wall like butter across toast. Right before Seras did the deed, Schrödinger appears and informs Blitz that her inevitable death will come in Seras' hands instead of being burned, as she disobeyed direct orders from the Major. Her orders were to wait for the others before entering Hellsing Manor. She disobeyed this by entering and attacking as soon as she could. Schrödinger also tells her that the Major and Doc have no time to use the microchip inside her to burn her to death, because they have a "new toy" to play with (Walter). So Zorin dies in a complete contrast to Rip van Winkle, an unglorified death that Schrödinger later describes to the Major as like "a worthless insect". Ironically, these are the same words she used to describe Pip.

Her tattoos are different from panel to panel, in terms of images (in volume 7 she is show to have a pentagram on her right cheek, though in at least one panel it is a hexagram instead) as well as number and arrangement of letters, though it's never stated if they actually change or if Hirano simply didn't bother trying to maintain identical patterns of hundreds of letters and images.

Trivia

In the James Bond 007 movie "A View to a Kill", actor Christopher Walken plays a villain named Max Zorin who was a chem-engineered ubermensch 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.

Zorin appears briefly at the end of OVA III, and will be appearing in OVA IV & V. She will be voiced by Yōko Soumi and in English by Hellena Taylor