Millennium (Hellsing)
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- This article deals with the fictional group Millennium from the Hellsing series. For other uses see Millennium (disambiguation).
Millennium is a fictional organization from the manga series Hellsing by Kouta Hirano. The Millennium Organization is a Nazi group. Its name, "Millennium," is a reference to the "Thousand Year Reich" (with a millennium equaling a thousand years) which Adolf Hitler had wanted to establish in World War II. After the end of the war, this mysterious group pooled its resources and, with substantial help from the Vatican, relocated to Brazil and went into hiding. Millennium's researchers have discovered a way to transform people into vampires through unknown means (although it is hinted that some kind of surgery is involved), and monitors them using implanted computer chips.
Millennium seems to be a supernatural version of The Boys from Brazil. Most of the members are monsters of some sort, or have found a way to prolong their lives.
[edit] History
Millennium was founded before the end of World War II, by Hitler's Special Order #666, as a means of researching and using supernatural phenomena for military purposes. In 1944, their grand project of creating a vampire army was foiled by a 14-year-old Walter C. Dornez and his accomplice, Alucard (who had apparently taken on the form of a young girl). In the current storyline (set in 1999), Walter and Alucard claim to have "killed everyone there" and put an end to their experiments, but exactly what happened during these events remains to be seen. It is apparent that they did not, in fact, kill the Major, the Doctor, the Captain, or Lieutenant Rip Van Winkle. Furthermore, the current status of their supposed source vampire (an unnamed female referred to only as "She") is unknown. The events that took place in 1944 are told in the ongoing prequel to Hellsing, Hellsing: The Dawn.
After this event, Millennium began to plan their escape. By the end of 1944, most of the members had left for South America, taking with them a battalion of 1,000 Waffen SS volunteers. This was known as the "Letztes Bataillon," translated in English as the "Last Battalion," a secret weapon to be used in a future conflict.
[edit] Members
- The Major/SS-Sturmbannführer Montana Max
- A former SS officer, once in charge of the Nazi experiments with vampires, until the operation was attacked by a young Walter and Alucard in 1944. He leads the Letzes Bataillon (Last Battalion) in his attempts to wreak unending war.
- The Doctor
- The mad genius whose research led to the creation of a Nazi vampire army out of 1,000 volunteers in the 'Letztes Bataillon'.
- The Captain/SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Günsche
- The Major's silent, stoic adjutant and bodyguard. He is the only 'real' werewolf in Millennium's Werwolf forces.
- First Lieutenant/SS-Obersturmführer Rip van Winkle
- One of Millennium's top soldiers, and member of the Werwolf special forces, she uses special bullets from a long barrelled flintlock musket which "punish all without distinction".
- First Lieutenant/SS-Obersturmführer Zorin Blitz
- A tall, massively muscled female vampire who works for the Millennium organization and is part of its Werwolf force. She is 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).
- HJ-Oberstammführer (Warrant Officer) Schrödinger
- Though there has been some debate in the Western world regarding his species, Schrödinger has been identified by Hirano as a catboy ("Werwolf" would be the military unit he serves in), and created by the Doctor (whom he irreverently refers to as "Doc").
- Tubalcain Alhambra
- Also known as 'The Dandy Man', he sent a SWAT unit in an attempt to kill off Alucard and Seras when they arrived in Brazil.
- According to the character descriptions in the Dark Horse version, he was a First Lieutenant in Millennium. He justified his actions to the public by labeling Alucard and Seras as terrorists, tempting the officials behind the scenes with the promise of vampirism. When Alucard demanded that he stop using pawns and fight directly, his attacks consisted of razor-sharp playing cards that could apparently cut through nearly anything. (slightly similar to the tactics used by Gambit in X-Men save that his cards aren't explosive). When injured, he re-forms himself in a flurry of cards; they seem to be the equivalent of the masses of shadows and the pools of blood that appear when Alucard is shapeshifting or re-attaching limbs. This is a bit ambiguous, however, as it may have been an illusion or a doppelgänger.
- In the end, Alucard tore through his arm, drank his blood, and absorbed his soul, gaining access to his memories. These memories, which contained a record of Millennium's plans, were later related by Alucard to a special meeting of the Round Table. After Alucard drank his blood, the Major and the Doctor burned him to death, just as they'd had Jan Valentine. His soul later reappeared, along with all the others absorbed by Alucard over throughout the ages, when Integra releases his control art restriction system to level zero.
- Luke and Jan Valentine
- These two vampires (FREAKs in the TV series; FREAKs were humans turned into vampires with the aid of a chip) have much influence in the underworld. Their exact origins are unknown. However, in the second episode of the OVA, a comment by Jan suggests that they are from the lower classes of society. With an army of ghouls, they stormed Hellsing HQ. Their ghouls were armed with rifles, body armor, and shields. Jan uses a pair of suppressed P90 lookalikes, while Luke uses a pair of sawed-off M1 Garand rifles (and, in the OVA, what appears to be an Enchanted Forest Bowie Knife). Jan faced off against Walter and Seras, while Luke descended into the basement to do battle with Alucard. Alucard overwhelms Luke and easily kills him, while Jan is burned to death by the Major and Doctor for almost revealing their identities.
- In chapter 78 - Finesthour (3), Luke emerges from the remains of Alucard's hellhound "Baskerville", after Walter had sliced it in two.
- While they were killed in volume 2, they "reappear" many times in the afterword mangas (omakes), often in extremely hilarious situations.
- '(Note: Jan's name is pronounced /yahn/, as the 'j' makes a 'y' sound in German.)'
- Walter C. Dornez
- Walter is a 69-year-old retired member of the Hellsing Organization. At the beginning of the series, he acted only as Integra's butler. However, he later lived up to his old nickname, the "Angel of Death," when Hellsing was attacked. Walter was altered in some sort of procedure by the Doctor, brainwashed, and now fights for Millennium. The reasons for Walter to turn himself against Hellsing is yet to be revealed and is still debated among the fanbase.
