First Lieutenant Zorin Blitz

First Lieutenant Zorin Blitz (ゾーリンブリッツ中尉 Zōrin Burittsu Obersturmführer?) is a member of the Millennium forces and 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 a person to determine the ideal illusion to use on them.

Zorin attacked the Hellsing mansion during Millennium's invasion of London (Operation Seelöwe 2), having been warned prior to not underestimate Seras Victoria as her forces execute the members of the Wild Geese before she personally kills Pip Bernadotte. However, not taking the Major's warning seriously as she only maimed Seras, Zorin finds herself facing the young vampire after drinking Bernadotte's blood to awaken her latent vampiric powers. As a result, Serah becomes immune to Zorin's powers become due to making Bernadotte her familiar and thus his soul and memories incorporated into Seras's mind. From there, Schrödinger briefly appearing to tell her that she will have a undignified death instead of being incinerated, Zorin is killed by Seras in a spectacularly violent and bloody manner with her face scrapped across a wall like butter across toast.

Her tattoos are different from panel to panel, in terms of images (in volume 7 she is shown 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.

Zorin appears briefly at the end of OVA III, with a full appearance in OVA IV, appears in OVA V, is a central character in OVA VI, and makes her final appearance in OVA VII. Her last name means "lightning" in German and may be a reference to the World War II German military tactic of Blitzkrieg. 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.[original research?]