History Monster / Bleach

* The leader of the Vandenreich already qualifies, ''despite not even having his name revealed''. Not only has he [[spoiler: conquered Hueco Mundo and is in his way to do the same to Soul Society, as well as keeping Harribel prisioner]], but he [[spoiler: kills his own subordinates merely on whims.]]

[[caption-width-right:320: He actually does [[ColdBloodedTorture worse[[ [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil far worse]] things after this]]

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[[caption-width-right:300: Aizen and his true ugly nature exposed]]

* The leader of the Vandenreich already qualifies, ''despite not even having his name revealed''. Not only has he [[spoiler: conquered Hueco Mundo and is in his way to do the same to Soul Society, as well as keeping Harribel prisioner]], but he [[spoiler: kills his own subordinates merely on whims.]] [[spoiler:And if his quote regarding Harribel is to be taken, which sums up to "If I want Arrancar, I can make more."... it means that he probably [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil wouldn't be above]] ''raping'' Harribel.]]

* One ''unseen member'' of the Vandenreich also qualifies. He is the one [[spoiler: who killed Sasakibe, and sent him flying into Yamamoto's office to show what Yamamoto's fate will be]] in the Vandenreich's eyes.

* Yammy Rialgo, the 10th Espada. His acts of cruelty are hard to look past - when his arm was reattached, he decided to test if it worked by [[UngratefulBastard crushing the head of the same nurse that reattached his arm]]. His only remark after this is a grumble about how, if it was fully healed, it would've split her in half.
* Nnoitra Gilga, the 5th Espada. This man is a chauvinistic creep who ''hates'' how a woman is ranked higher on a strength-based society, and went so far as to ''literally'' break her friends' faces in order to rile her up enough for him to catch her off guard. Once he did, he slashed aher face, gave her amnesia and threw her into the desert wasteland of Hueco Mundo to rot. Present-story, he cheats his way into winning a fight by ambushing weakened opponents and essentially torturing them to death. At one point, he insinuates that Ulquiorra keeps Orihime ([[TermsOfEndangerment whom he calls "pet-sama"]]) in-line by sexually assaulting her. (And when a personification of nihilism calls you "disgusting," [[EvenEvilHasStandards you know you've crossed a line]]). Furthermore, he shoved his fingers into Orihime's mouth to keep her from shouting, gave ''very'' unsettling implications that he would've done things to her once Ichigo was killed, and ''kicked a child'' across a desert.

* The leader of the Vandenreich already qualifies, ''despite not even having his name revealed''. Not only has he [[spoiler: conquered Hueco Mundo and is in his way to do the same to Soul Society, as well as keeping Harribel prisioner]], but he [[spoiler: kills his own subordinates merely on whims.]]

* The leader of the Vandenreich already qualifies, ''despite not even having his name revealed''. Not only has he [[spoiler: conquered Hueco Mundo and is in his way to do the same to Soul Society, as well as keeping Harribel prisioner]], but he [[spoiler: kills his own subordinates merely on whims.]]

* Yammy Rialgo, the 10th Espada. His acts of cruelty are hard to look past - when his arm was reattached, he decided to test if it worked by [[UngratefulBastard crushing the head of the same nurse that reattached his arm]]. His only remark after this is a grumble about how, if it was fully healed, it would've split her in half.

* The Hollow Shrieker was shown to have been a Complete Monster even ''before'' he turned into a Hollow. A serial killer who stabbed a mother to death and got off on it, his greatest regret was being killed before being able to do the same to the woman's young son, Yuichi Shibata. After he became a Hollow, he sealed the child into the body of a parakeet and lied to him, saying that if he could escape from him for three months, he'd revive his mother - and Shrieker would kill and eat the souls of anyone trying to help the child. He gets a very appropriate comeuppance, however - after Ichigo kills him, he is sent to Hell for the serious crimes he committed whilst still alive, because the ''Zanpakuto'' can only cleanse Hollows of sins committed whilst being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Shrieker is the ''only'' Hollow seen to receive this treatment, which says a ''lot'' about how bad he was - even Grand Fisher, listed below, was only a Complete Monster whilst a Hollow (or otherwise hadn't committed sufficiently serious sins whilst human).

** Of course, Aizen managed to beat the rap by being a MagnificentBastard for the majority of the time.... which makes his act of [[spoiler:tricking Hitsugaya with an illusion into stabbing his childhood friend, Hinamori - the very same lieutenant who Aizen [[BreakTheCutie broke]] beforehand]] all the more horrific, and finally cemented him as an asshole through-and-through by much of the fandom, even several of his own fans. It's really clear here that Aizen could have effortlessly created the illusion they were attacking out of thin air. He actively chose to use another person for it, and at that specifically chose Hinamori.

* The Hollow Numb Chandelier. She mind-controled the Karakura students via shooting seeds into their bodies, tortured Orihime and Tatsuki when they tried opposing her, planned really {{squick}}y tortures and deaths for both of them (like having the boys gangrape Orihime and then forcing her to commit suicide, or mind-controlling her to strip naked before throwing herself off a building in public) ''while telling the girls what she plans for them'', and forced Tatsuki and Chizuru to beat up Orihime for her own amusement. It's a HUGE relief when Orihime develops her powers, heals Tatsuki and kills Numb Chandelier, releasing the Karakura students in the process.

* The leader of the Vandenreich already qualifies, ''despite not even having his name revealed''.

* The leader of the Vandenreich a;ready qualifies, ''despite not even having his name revealed''.

* Implied with Kageroza Inaba in the most recent {{filler}} arc. His behavior towards Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.'' [[spoiler:It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her to have a FusionDance with her so that he could become his original self again.]]

* Implied with Kageroza Inaba in the most recent {{filler}} arc. His behavior towards Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.'' [[spoiler:It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her to have a FusionDance with her so that he could become his original self again.]]

* Implied with Kageroza Inaba in the most recent {{filler}} arc. His behavior towards Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.''" [[spoiler:It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her to have a FusionDance with her so that he could become his original self again.]]

* Kokuto from the fourth movie, Hell Chapter, deliberately invokes this attitude to get Ichigo to break the chains keeping him in Hell. All in the span of 30 seconds, he [[spoiler:murders [[SixthRanger Renji]], [[TheSmartGuy Uryu]], [[TheLancer Rukia]] and [[TagalongKid Yuzu]], and taunts Ichigo with the lifeless body of his younger sister.]] Why? '''Just to piss him off'''.
* Implied with Kageroza Inaba in the most recent {{filler}} arc. His behavior towards poor Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.''" [[spoiler: It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her, to the point of having a FusionDance with her, for gaining powers of course.]] Basically, [[spoiler: he's a "Cell" ripoff.]]

** How did Aizen transform one of his subordinates - Wonderweiss Margera - into an [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakuto-negating]] arrancar? By utilizing the Hogyoku, Aizen erased all of Wonderweiss' intelligence, speech, memory, reasoning and emotions, in order for the ability-negating aspect to work efficiently, all so that Wonderweiss could negate the abilities of '''one person'''. When that same person - Genryusai Yamamoto, a hardened veteran of countless scars and battles - is disgusted to the point of actually calling him out on it, Aizen justifies it by claiming that, since [[TheHeartless hollows]] (Wonderweiss' species) are AlwaysChaoticEvil and lack a purpose in life, turning one of them into an autistic doll was his way of giving Wonderweiss' existence ''meaning'', retorting that ''Yamamoto'' was the cruel one for killing Wonderweiss and destroying the very same purpose that Aizen essentially forced upon Wonderweiss. Not done yet: Aizen modified Wonderweiss to negate Yamamoto's fire-generating abilities, but made it so that those very same flames were sealed ''inside'' of Wonderweiss, who promptly ''exploded, nearly destroying an entire city'' almost immediately after his death. [[FridgeHorror Then there's the implications of Wonderweiss not being that willing to do this in the first place]].

** Now we see another retro-active BIG evil action coming from him. [[spoiler:When Aizen was a lieutenant, he and other members of his division beat up and left a young Rangiku Matsumoto to starve to death. Not only that, it's implied that [[RapeAsDrama they may have raped her]] as well. Even if Aizen and his crew didn't rape Matsumoto, and the imagery looks for all the world like they did; what they certainly did was even worse: [[spoiler:they stole a piece of her ''soul'' so Aizen could use it to help awaken the Hougyoku]]. This is the reason why Gin Ichimaru (who actually tended to Rangiku afterward) is with him... so he can kill Aizen for what he and his goons did to his MoralityPet.]]

** [[spoiler: Worst of all, he gets what could be seen as KarmaHoudini at the end of his arc.]] [[spoiler: Firstly, his fight with Ichigo was more of a CurbStompBattle than the extreme beatdown he deserves, and he is merely sealed away for 20,000 years after his defeat, which at this point is a year and he DOESN'T seem upset about it.]] And seeing how [[MadScientist Mayuri]] is allowed to be pardoned of his crimes, it is very likely that he'd [[FridgeHorror escape and put the Soul Society in jeopardy]] or [[{{Asspull}} accept as a good guy in order to defeat a certain enemy]].
** He tends to be especially cruel to women, [[MindRape Mind Raping]] Momo for the longest time, implications of [[AbortedArc somehow tampering with Orihime which may or may not be brought up]] and [[spoiler: almost kills Harribel just because she was taking too long and her superiors had just died]], Aizen is pretty much a feminist.

** How did Aizen transform one of his subordinates - Wonderweiss Margera - into an [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakuto-negating]] arrancar? By utilizing the Hogyoku, Aizen erased all of Wonderweiss' intelligence, speech, memory, reasoning and emotions, in order for the ability-negating aspect to work efficiently, all so that Wonderweiss could negate the abilities of '''one person'''. When that same person - Genryusai Yamamoto, a hardened veteran of countless scars and battles - is disgusted to the point of actually calling him out on it, Aizen justifies it by claiming that, since [[TheHeartless hollows]] (Wonderweiss' species) are AlwaysChaoticEvil and lack a purpose in life, turning one of them into an autistic doll was his way of giving Wonderweiss' existence ''meaning'', retorting that ''Yamamoto'' was the cruel one for killing Wonderweiss and destroying the very same purpose that Aizen essentially forced upon Wonderweiss. Not done yet: Aizen modified Wonderweiss to negate Yamamoto's fire-generating abilities, but made it so that those very same flames were sealed ''inside'' of Wonderweiss, who promptly ''exploded, nearly destroying an entire city'' almost immediately after his death.

** Now we see another retro-active BIG evil action coming from him. [[spoiler:When Aizen was a lieutenant, he and other members of his division beat up and left a young Rangiku Matsumoto to starve to death. Not only that, it's implied that [[RapeAsDrama they may have raped her]] as well. Even if Aizen and his crew didn' :rape Matsumoto] - and the imagery looks for all the world like they did - what they certainly did was even worse: [[spoiler:they stole a piece of her ''soul'' so Aizen could use it to help awaken the Hougyoku]]. This is the reason why Gin Ichimaru (who actually tended to Rangiku afterward) is with him... so he can kill Aizen for what he and his goons did to his MoralityPet.]]

** He tends to be especially cruel to women, [[MindRape Mind Raping]] Momo for the longest time, implications of [[AbortedArc somehow tampering with Orihime which may or may not be brought up]] and [[spoiler: almost kills Harribel just because she was taking too long and her superiors had just died]], Aizen is pretty much a feminist.

** Now we see another retro-active BIG evil action coming from him. [[spoiler:When Aizen was a lieutenant, he and other members of his division beat up and left a young Rangiku Matsumoto to starve to death. Not only that, it's implied that [[RapeAsDrama they may have raped her]] as well. Even if Aizen and his crew didn't [[spoiler:rape Matsumoto]] - and the imagery looks for all the world like they did - what they certainly did was even worse: [[spoiler:they stole a piece of her ''soul'' so Aizen could use it to help awaken the Hougyoku]]. This is the reason why Gin Ichimaru (who actually tended to Rangiku afterward) is with him... so he can kill Aizen for what he and his goons did to his MoralityPet.]]

** He tends to be especially cruel to women, [[MindRape Mind Raping]] Momo for the longest time, implications of [[AbortedArc somehow tampering with Orihime which may or may not be brought up]] and [[spoiler: almost kills Harribel just because she was taking too long and her superiors had just died]], Aizen is pretty much a feminist.

* Implied with Kageroza Inaba in the most recent {{filler}} arc. His behavior towards poor Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.''" [[spoiler: It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her, to the point of having a FusionDance with her, for gaining powers of course.]] Basically, [[spoiler: he's a "Cell" ripoff.]]
* Yukio Hans Vorarlberna. Present-time, his comrade failed to defeat her opponent, following which he brought down the sky so ''both'' would die. In his backstory, he stole his neglectful fathers' wealth, bankrupted his parents' company and indirectly drove his father to suicide, and ''enjoyed it''. However, he gets a subversion - a flashback showed him in tears, implying that he felt guilty over his parents' deaths. Moreover, while it's clear he hates his father in particular, his BerserkButton is abandonment; when confronted with an insinuation that his parents abandoned him, he cared enough to ''defend'' his parents over it, claiming that ''he'' left them instead. On closer inspection, Yukio is a pretty smart deconstruction. He was totally deprived of moral guidance as a child [[spoiler: for having been a CuteMute whom his parents shoved aside due to said speech impediment]], he wanted [[spoiler: his parents]] to aknowledge him as an equal [[spoiler: due to their abandonment (as he thought and still thinks that adults see children as inferior beings)]], and the deal about [[spoiler: enjoying his parents's deaths]] was actually a lie. [[spoiler: (He used his powers in the past to recreate visions of Mom and Dad treating him kindly.)]] In short: the dude did '''[[KickTheDog really]]''' [[KickTheDog nasty shit]] and there's no way to deny it, but his StartOfDarkness didn't come from ''inherent'' evil, and it looks like he's still not beyond the point of no return. Let's see what happens.
* Shukuro Tsukishima, the current BigBad. [[spoiler: [[TimeMaster He has "split" the past of everyone Ichigo has ever known, and has "slipped in his very existence" into their past history]]. In other words, [[MindScrew everyone except Ichigo now remembers Tsukishima having always been by their side]]. To top it all off, [[RememberTheNewGuy Inoue and Sado now believe Tsukishima was the one who saved Rukia, and defeated Aizen.]]]] He hasn't killed anyone yet, but he's already [[MindRape damaged Ichigo]] far more than even Aizen was able to. Furthermore, he ups the ante. [[spoiler:If a person starts to doubt the memories he inserted, he can create new ones just through speaking to them, [[NightmareFuel albeit in a very terrifying way.]] The end result is that those people, if too many contradicting memories are added, start to go through a literal mental breakdown. Even Ginjou has commented on how he's broken people like this in the past. Orihime and Chad were his latest victims, only saved by Urahara and Isshin.]]
* Whatever brutality that Tsukishima didn't do, [[spoiler: Kugo Ginjo]] accomplished, from [[spoiler:murdering the Fullbringers that gave his powers]], to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling Ichigo with his sword]] and [[EyeScream slashing straight through Ichigo's eyes]]. The clincher was when it turned out that [[spoiler:he was EvilAllAlong, having pulled a MemoryGambit in order to get Ichigo to trust him; once he reverted back into his true self via a second slash from Tsukishima, Ginjo stabbed Ichigo once again with his sword, absolutely ''demolishing'' whatever hope, trust or even sanity that Ichigo had by that point.]]
** Surprisingly, 477 delves more on these two. And has ''both'' of them [[HiddenDepths show some degrees of humanity]], as it shows that not only [[spoiler: Ginjou [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/18 was genuinely kind to a teenaged!Tsukishima in the past]] (and these memories come from ''Tsukishima'' himself, meaning it's not likely [[FakeMemories they're fake]])]], but [[spoiler: [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/9 the defeated Ginjou]] has [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/10 rather sad]] inner thoughts]], and [[spoiler: Tsukishima [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/16 almost *despairs*]] [[HowDareYouDieOnMe at the prospect of Ginjou dying]].]] Who knows if it'll work or it will just be an AuthorsSavingThrow that will make them [[DracoInLeatherPants DILP's]]. Handle with care, KT.

* The Hollow Shrieker was shown to have been a Complete Monster even ''before'' he turned into a Hollow. A serial killer who stabbed a mother to death and got off on it, his greatest regret was being killed before being able to do the same to the woman's young son, Yuichi Shibata. After he became a Hollow, he sealed the child into the body of a parakeet and lied to him, saying that if he could escape from him for three months, he'd revive his mother - and Shrieker would kill and eat the souls of anyone trying to help the child. He gets a very appropriate comeuppance, however - after Ichigo kills him, he is sent to Hell for the serious crimes he committed whilst still alive, because the ''Zanpakutou'' can only cleanse Hollows of sins committed whilst being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Shrieker is the ''only'' Hollow seen to receive this treatment, which says a ''lot'' about how bad he was - even Grand Fisher, listed below, was only a Complete Monster whilst a Hollow (or otherwise hadn't committed sufficiently serious sins whilst human).

* Implied with Kageroza Inaba from the newest {{filler}} anime arc. His...behavior towards poor Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.''" [[spoiler: It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her, to the point of having a FusionDance with her, for gaining powers of course.]] Basically, [[spoiler: he's a "Cell" ripoff.]]

* Shukuro Tsukishima, the current BigBad. [[spoiler: [[TimeMaster He has "split" the past of everyone Ichigo has ever known, and has "slipped in his very existence" into their past history]]. In other words, [[MindScrew everyone except Ichigo now remembers Tsukishima having always been by their side]]. To top it all off, [[RememberTheNewGuy Inoue and Sado now believe Tsukishima was the one who saved Rukia, and defeated Aizen.]]]] He hasn't killed anyone yet, but he's already [[MindRape damaged Ichigo]] far more than even Aizen was able to. Furthermore, he ups the ante. [[spoiler:If a person starts to doubt the memories he inserted, he can create new ones just through speaking to them, [[NightmareFuel albeit in a very terrifying way.]] The end result is that those people, if too many contradicting memories are added, start to go through a literal mental breakdown. Even Ginjou has commented on how he's broken people like this in the past. Orihime and Sado were his latest victims, only saved by Urahara and Isshin.]]

* Szayel Aporro Granz, the 8th Espada. As a MadScientist for the arrancar, Szayel likes nothing more than pulling the organs out of people via voodoo dolls and then smashing them to bits. In particular, before the organ-breaking began, he toyed with his enemies' heads by ripping apart one out of two voodoo dolls in half, only to reveal that the only parts that can be felt from a voodoo doll are the toy-like organs on the inside. Beforehand, he had specifically modified his underlings to serve as healing aids - by devouring them whole, he'd be able to heal himself. Now, in regards [[BodyHorror of what]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel he did]] to poor [[TheWoobie Nemu]]...well, bluntly put, one of his abilities allowed him to invade any convenient host (the petite Nemu) that had maintained physical contact with him during his death, devour Nemu from the inside to reconstruct his original body, ''horribly'' enlarging Nemu's stomach and emaciating her to near-death, and then burst fully grown from her mouth head-first, leaving Nemu an anorexic husk, whose condition was so bad that she had to get '''groped by her father to get healed back to normal'''. What's worse is that the amount of time it took for ''that'' to finish was just a tad bit too long, giving the impression that he was initially trying to [[FridgeHorror burst through her "special opening", before deciding to move out of her mouth instead.]] He is so terrible [[spoiler:that he is one of two of the Espada to end up in Hell (the second being Aaroniero Arruruerie).]] He also deconstructs the trope of AvengingTheVillain by stating that he is the younger brother of Ilfort, an arrancar that Renji had killed, but has no intention of avenging him. In fact, he infected his brother with mini-spy cameras in order to gain an advantage in their fight, even comparing the loss of his brother with the loss of a box.

** Of course, Aizen managed to beat the rap by being a MagnificentBastard for the majority of the time.... which makes his act of [[spoiler:tricking Hitsugaya with an illusion into stabbing his childhood friend, Hinamori - the very same lieutenant who Aizen [[BreakTheCutie broke]] beforehand]] all the more horrific, and finally cemented him as an asshole through-and-through by much of the fandom, even several of his own fans.
*** It's really clear here, as Aizen could have effortlessly created the illusion they were attacking out of thin air. He actively chose to use another person for it, and at that specifically chose Hinamori.

** Now we see another retro-active BIG evil action coming from him. [[spoiler:When Aizen was a lieutenant, he and other members of his division beat up and left a young Rangiku Matsumoto to starve to death. Not only that, it's implied that [[RapeAsDrama they may have raped her]] as well. This is the reason why Gin Ichimaru (who actually tended to Rangiku afterward) is with him...so he can kill Aizen for what he and his goons did to his MoralityPet.]]
** Even if Aizen and his crew didn't [[spoiler:rape Matsumoto]] - and the imagery looks for all the world like they did - what they certainly did was even worse: [[spoiler:they stole a piece of her ''soul'' so Aizen could use it to help awaken the Hougyoku]].
** The bastard even lampshades his Complete Monster status - he claims to be [[AboveGoodAndEvil above such "petty" things]] [[TheUnfettered as ethics and morality]], as he claims they would serve no other purpose than to limit [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel his]] [[MoralEventHorizon potential]]. In fact, this is why Aizen is such a terrifying and despicable person: he sees himself as an {{Ubermensch}} who is above everyone else, and is thus exempt from the notions of morality and decency adopted by "lesser beings", even mocking them as useless notions only the weak would cling to. Therefore, in his mind, he has the right to do whatever he wants, and he's so powerful that nobody can stop him from doing so.

* Implied with Kageroza Inaba from the newest {{filler}} anime arc. His...behavior towards poor Nozomi is rather questionable, to the point where her default reaction for Inaba is like that ''of a rape victim.''"
** [[spoiler: It turns out he really, REALLY wanted to get close to her, to the point of having a FusionDance with her, for gaining powers of course.]] Basically, [[spoiler: he's a "Cell" ripoff.]]
* Yukio Hans Vorarlberna. Present-time, his comrade failed to defeat her opponent, and he brought down the sky so ''both'' would die. In his backstory, he stole his neglectful fathers' wealth, bankrupted his parents' company and indirectly drove his father to suicide, and ''enjoyed it''. However, he gets a subversion - a flashback showed him in tears, implying that he felt guilty over his parents' deaths. Moreover, while it's clear he hates his father in particular, his BerserkButton is abandonment; when confronted with an insinuation that his parents abandoned him, he cared enough to ''defend'' his parents over it, claiming that ''he'' left them instead.
** Actually, Yukio is a pretty smart deconstruction. He was totally deprived of moral guidance as a child [[spoiler: for having been a CuteMute whom his parents shoved aside due to said speech impediment]], he wanted [[spoiler: his parents]] to aknowledge him as an equal [[spoiler: due to their abandonment (as he thought and still thinks that adults see children as inferior beings)]], and the deal about [[spoiler: enjoying his parents's deaths]] was actually a lie. [[spoiler: (he used his powers in the past to recreate visions of Mom and Dad treating him kindly).]] In short: the dude did '''[[KickTheDog really]]''' [[KickTheDog nasty shit]] and there's no way to deny it, but his StartOfDarkness didn't come from ''inherent'' evil, and it looks like he's still not beyond the point of no return. Let's see what happens.
* Shukuro Tsukishima, the current BigBad. [[spoiler: [[TimeMaster He has "split" the past of everyone Ichigo has ever known, and has "slipped in his very existence" into their past history]]. In other words, [[MindScrew everyone except Ichigo now remembers Tsukishima having always been by their side]]. To top it all off, [[RememberTheNewGuy Inoue and Sado now believe Tsukishima was the one who saved Rukia, and defeated Aizen.]]]] He hasn't killed anyone yet, but he's already [[MindRape damaged Ichigo]] far more than even Aizen was able to.
** He just upped the ante in recent chapters. [[spoiler:If a person starts to doubt the memories he inserted, he can create new ones just through speaking to them, [[NightmareFuel albeit in a very terrifying way.]] The end result is that those people, if too many contradicting memories are added, start to go through a literal mental breakdown. Even Ginjou has commented on how he's broken people like this in the past. Orihime and Sado were his latest victims, only saved by Urahara and Isshin.]]

** Actually? 477 delves more on these two. And has ''both'' of them [[HiddenDepths show some degrees of humanity]], as it shows that not only [[spoiler: Ginjou [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/18 was genuinely kind to a teenaged!Tsukishima in the past]] (and these memories come from ''Tsukishima'' himself, meaning it's not likely [[FakeMemories they're fake]])]], but [[spoiler: [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/9 the defeated Ginjou]] has [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/10 rather sad]] inner thoughts]], and [[spoiler: Tsukishima [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/477/16 almost *despairs*]] [[HowDareYouDieOnMe at the prospect of Ginjou dying]].]] Who knows if it'll work or it will just be an AuthorsSavingThrow that will make them [[DracoInLeatherPants DILP's]]. Handle with care, KT.

* Szayel Aporro Granz, the 8th Espada. As a MadScientist for the arrancar, Szayel likes nothing more than pulling the organs out of people via voodoo dolls and then smashing them to bits. In particular, before the organ-breaking began, he toyed with his enemies' heads by ripping apart one out of two voodoo dolls in half, only to reveal that the only parts that can be felt from a voodoo doll are the toy-like organs on the inside. Beforehand, he had specifically modified his underlings to serve as healing aids - by devouring them whole, he'd be able to heal himself. Now, in regards [[BodyHorror of what]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel he did]] to poor [[TheWoobie Nemu]]...well, bluntly put, one of his abilities allowed him to invade any convenient host (the petite Nemu) that had maintained physical contact with him during his death, devour Nemu from the inside to reconstruct his original body, ''horribly'' enlarging Nemu's stomach and emaciating her to near-death, and then burst fully grown from her mouth head-first, leaving Nemu an anorexic husk, whose condition was so bad that she had to get '''groped by her father to get healed back to normal''' (don't ''[[BrainBleach]]'' ask how that works). What's worse is that the amount of time it took for ''that'' to finish was just a tad bit too long, giving the impression that he was initially trying to [[FridgeHorror burst through her "special opening", before deciding to move out of her mouth instead.]] He is so terrible [[spoiler:that he is one of two of the Espada to end up in Hell (the second being Aaroniero Arruruerie).]] He also deconstructs the trope of AvengingTheVillain by stating that he is the younger brother of Ilfort, an arrancar that Renji had killed, but has no intention of avenging him. In fact, he infected his brother with mini-spy cameras in order to gain an advantage in their fight, even comparing the loss of his brother with the loss of a box.

* The Hollow Shrieker was shown to have been a Complete Monster even ''before'' he turned into a Hollow. A serial killer who stabbed a mother to death and got off on it, his greatest regret was being killed before being able to do the same to the woman's young son, Yuichi Shibata. After he became a Hollow, he sealed the child into the body of a parakeet and lied to him, saying that if he could escape from him for three months, he'd revive his mother - and Shrieker would kill and eat the souls of anyone trying to help the child. He gets a very appropriate comeuppance, however - after Ichigo kills him, he is sent to Hell for the serious crimes he committed whilst still alive, because the ''Zanpakutou'' can only cleanse Hollows of sins committed whilst being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Shrieker is the ''only'' Hollow seen to receive this treatment, which says a ''lot'' about how bad he was - even Grand Fisher, listed below, was only a CompleteMonster whilst a Hollow (or otherwise hadn't committed sufficiently serious sins whilst human).

* One of Ichigo's earlier enemies, a Hollow called Shrieker, is shown to have been a Complete Monster even ''before'' he turned into a Hollow. A serial killer who stabbed a young mother to death and got off on it, his greatest regret is being killed before being able to do the same to her young son, Yuichi Shibata. After he became a Hollow, he sealed the child into the body of a parakeet and lied to him, saying that if he could escape from him for three months, he'd revive his mother - and Shrieker would kill and eat the souls of anyone trying to help the child. He gets a very appropriate comeuppance, however - after Ichigo kills him, he is sent to Hell for the serious crimes he committed whilst still alive, because the ''Zanpakutou'' can only cleanse Hollows of sins committed whilst being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Shrieker is the ''only'' Hollow seen to receive this treatment, which says a ''lot'' about how bad he was - even Grand Fisher, listed below, was only a CompleteMonster whilst a Hollow (or otherwise hadn't committed sufficiently serious sins whilst human).

** Let's see if you can read this without cringing: In the very next episode after that, how did Aizen transform one of his subordinates - Wonderweiss Margera - into an [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakuto-negating]] arrancar? By utilizing the Hogyoku (a device that "makes peoples' desire into reality"), Aizen erased all of Wonderweiss' intelligence, speech, memory, reasoning and emotions, in order for the ability-negating aspect to work efficiently, all so that Wonderweiss could negate the abilities of '''one person'''. When that same person - Genryusai Yamamoto, a hardened veteran of countless scars and battles - is disgusted to the point of actually calling him out on it, Aizen justifies it by claiming that, since [[TheHeartless hollows]] (Wonderweiss' species) are AlwaysChaoticEvil and lack a purpose in life, turning one of them into an autistic doll was his way of giving Wonderweiss' existence ''meaning'', retorting that ''Yamamoto'' was the cruel one for killing Wonderweiss and destroying the very same purpose that Aizen essentially forced upon Wonderweiss. Not done yet: Aizen modified Wonderweiss to negate Yamamoto's fire-generating abilities, but made it so that those very same flames were sealed ''inside'' of Wonderweiss, who promptly ''exploded, nearly destroying an entire city'' almost immediately after his death.

* The Hollow Numb Chandelier. She mind-controled the Karakura students via shooting seeds into their bodies, tortured Orihime and Tatsuki when they tried opposing her, planned really {{squick}}y tortures and deaths for both of them (like having the boys gangrape Orihime and then forcing her to commit suicide, or mind-controlling her to strip naked before throwing herself off a building in public) ''while telling the girls what she plans for them'', and forced Tatsuki and Chizuru to beat up Orihime for her own amusement. It's a HUGE relief when Orihime develops her powers, heals Tatsuki and kills Numb Chandelier, releasing the Karakura students in the process.

* Kokuto from the fourth movie, Hell Chapter, deliberately invokes this attitude to get Ichigo to break the chains keeping him in Hell. All in the span of 30 seconds, he [[spoiler:murders [[SixthRanger Renji]], [[TheSmartGuy Uryu]], [[TheLancer Rukia]] and [[TagalongKid Yuzu]], and taunts Ichigo with the lifeless body of his younger sister.]] Why? '''Just to piss him off'''.

* The Hollow Metastacia, who was responsible for the deaths of Kaien Shiba and his wife Miyako. His ability allowed him to possess his victims; he first did this to Miyako, and made her murder several of her subordinates before killing her. When tracked down and confronted later by Kaien, he said that he regretted "not eating the rest of that female soul reaper". Kaien jumps into battle with Metastacia, but ends up getting possessed as well. Metastacia sadistically taunts a petrified Rukia about her love for Kaien before attacking her. His self-inflicted death is very satisfying, despite him ending Kaien's life at the same time.

* Grand Fisher is completely made of this. His power consists of [[ManipulativeBastard creating a lure based on the memories of somebody or assuming the form of his past victims in order to prevent someone from attacking.]] Not only does he do this with Ichigo's mother, but he also gets off on it, treating it as a game. His favorite victims are women and children. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome It's immensely satisfying to see Isshin curb stomp him after Grand Fisher turns into an arrancar.]]

* The Hollow Metastacia, who was responsible for the deaths of Kaien Shiba and his wife Miyako. His ability allowed him to possess his victims; he first did this to Miyako, and made her murder several of her subordinates before killing her. When tracked down and confronted later by Kaien, he said that he regretted "not eating the rest of that female soul reaper". Kaien jumps into battle with Metastacia, but ends up getting possessed as well. The Hollow sadistically taunts a petrified Rukia about her love for Kaien before attacking her. His self-inflicted death is very satisfying, despite him ending Kaien's life at the same time.

* The Hollow Numb Chandelier. She mind-controls the Karakura students via shooting seeds into their bodies, tortures Orihime and Tatsuki when they try opposing her, plans really {{squick}}y tortures and deaths for both of them (like having the boys gangrape Orihime and then forcing her to commit suicide, or mind-controlling her to strip naked before throwing herself off a building in public) ''while telling the girls what she plans for them'', and forces Tatsuki and Chizuru to beat up Orihime for her own amusement. It's a HUGE relief when Orihime develops her powers, heals Tatsuki and kills Numb Chandelier, releasing the Karakura students in the process.