Marissa Wiegler is a corrupt CIA operative and the primary antagonist of the film. She is a Texan woman with vividly-bright red hair, often seen wearing formal attire. Marissa bears an uncanny resemblance to the corrupt chemical plant CEO Danielle Atron from the television show 'The Secret World of Alex Mack'. She has a vague Southern accent and can speak a number of languages. She has multiple aliases, each one with its own passport and official documents.Marissa didn't start out as being 'evil'. She was, in her younger years, a skilled agent in many ways who wanted to succeed desperately. It is implied throughout the film that she may have at some point had a relationship with Hanna's father , Erik. In the 1990's, Marissa was responsible for a top-secret project in which women from abortion clinics were recruited to have their fetuses genetically altered into super-soldiers without pity and with heightened senses, memory skills and reflexes. Two years later, Marissa shut down the project and ordered the women and their mutated children killed. Hanna was the exception. Her mother, Johanna, rescues her and Erik drives them through the countryside. Marissa tracks them down and, mentally unbalanced at this point, she shoots at them, hitting Johanna fatally whilst Erik flees with baby Hanna in his arms. Marissa is profoundly haunted by Johanna's words, she will never be yours , and she vows to track down and kill Hanna.Marissa eventually succeeds in finding Hanna, killing Erik and the eccentric former agent Mr. Grimm in the process. Hanna and Marissa literally fight to the death in an abandoned amusement park, and unfortunately for Marissa, Hanna hits her in the abdomen with a spear and then shoots her in the heart, killing her just as the film ends.Marissa is a bit of an obsessive, not only in her mission of finding Hanna but in everything else she does as well. She is shown to be cautious of germs to the point where she is always seen with gloves on and brushes her teeth until they bleed. It is implied that she couldn't have children of her own and thus views Hanna in an almost motherly way, though wanting to murder her. Not much is known about Marissa's days before the CIA, and she tries to keep it that way. Show less «