Marishka

"Too bad...so sad."

- Marishka to Van Helsing before attacking him

Marishka was one of Count Vladislaus Dracula's three Brides and the quaternary villain in the 2004 film, Van Helsing.

She was one of Gabriel Van Helsing's enemies-the first Vampire that he killed when he came to Transylvania.

During the film, Marishka was first seen with the other two Dracula's Brides in their bat forms, flying toward Anna Valarious and Van Helsing.

Marishka was told by Verona, one of Dracula's two Brides, to finish Van Helsing while the Vampires attacked the village looking for Anna. Marishka eagerly agreed and flew to attack Van Helsing, and was shot with multiple silver arrows that failed to strike her in the heart.

Marishka appeared on the roof of a home, her wounds healing as she hissed at Van Helsing. When Carl, Van Helsing's close 'sidekick', alerted him of a small fountain of Holy Water by the church in the village, Marishka smiled and hissed before she leap from the roof and rammed into Van Helsing, and repeatedly knocked him and tossed him into walls-only to bring Van Helsing closer to his crossbow, which he needed to finish her off.

Carl alerted Van Helsing of Marishka as she flew toward him, and Van Helsing ran to the fountain of Holy Water, dipped in the bow end of the crossbow, turned around, and fired the crossbow. The silver, Holy-Water wet arrows shot into Marishka as she flew above Van Helsing, rammed her into the roof of a village home, and she gasped and screamed while she turned into ashes, her bones clattered onto the ground.

That killed her, and Marishka was not seen again, but only mentioned in the rest of the film.