History YMMV / WinterWar

* CrazyAwesome: Mashiro kicks asses while in Hollow-mode- which she can't control and is barely conscious and really violent during it.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: ''Orihime rescues Ichigo.'' To be precise, she rejects his hollow's control of him, restoring him to control of his body and saving the lives of most of the people in the vicinity. After being held captive in Hueco Mundo for several months.
** ''Isane'' [[spoiler: being the one who realizes how to defeat the Barragan fragment. She's been through so much in the fic, and then after just losing her hand, she's still thinking fast enough to come up with a way to kill it.]] (Everyone else was pretty awesome too, but her FailureKnight condition at the beginning of the story makes her effectiveness and quick thinking here even more cool.)
** Orihime pulling off her plan to [[spoiler: reject Kyouka Suigetsu. Thereby destroying Aizen's most dangerous power mid-battle.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Aizen]], arguably [[UpToEleven even moreso than in canon.]] After all, he WouldHurtAChild [[spoiler: [[EvilutionaryBiologist before experimenting ]]]], is letting the worlds literally fall apart by leaving Gin in charge of Seireitei, and stuck the captive members of [[TheMedic the Fourth Division]] with [[spoiler: [[YourHeadASplode remote-detonating collars.]]]] Oh, and he employs two minions determined to be the more depraved MadScientist... and [[TheDragon Gin]]. Who also WouldHurtAChild, [[TyrantTakesTheHelm among]] [[WeHaveReserves other]] [[MoralEventHorizon unplesant]] [[EvilIsPetty things]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Ogidou's behavior when he finds out that [[spoiler: Hisagi]] killed Iemura- [[spoiler: he tries to kill him during a battle, when his back is turned.]] How he reacts just seems to be an example of him going (more) AxCrazy... Then you remember that in canon (Soul Society-arc omakes- these are very minor characters in canon!), Ogidou is in Iemura's squad of Fourth Division. They worked together day-to-day, and Iemura was Ogidou's immediate superior officer. It makes [[spoiler: him trying to murder Hisagi]] seem less like pure AxCrazy, more revenge.

* NightmareFuel: [[TorturedAbomination Hollowfied Shinigami]], [[EatenAlive re-opened Hollow Pits,]] [[HeroicBSOD most]] [[StepfordSmiler of]] [[BrokenAce the]] [[BreakTheCutie characters']] [[VillainousBreakdown states]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate of]] [[MindRape mind]], the state of the [[CrapsackWorld universe in general]], and on top of it all it somehow '''[[SerialEscalation keeps getting worse.]]'''

-->Why, if he hadn't excised certain organs as unnecessary, they would have been positively twitching at the very idea.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Aizen]], of course, arguably [[UpToEleven even moreso than in canon.]] After all, he WouldHurtAChild [[spoiler: [[EvilutionaryBiologist before experimenting ]]]], is letting the worlds literally fall apart by leaving Gin in charge of Seireitei, and stuck the captive members of [[TheMedic the Fourth Division]] with [[spoiler: [[YourHeadASplode remote-detonating collars.]]]] Oh, and he employs two minions determined to be the more depraved MadScientist... and [[TheDragon Gin]]. Who also WouldHurtAChild, [[TyrantTakesTheHelm among]] [[WeHaveReserves other]] [[MoralEventHorizon unplesant]] [[EvilIsPetty things]].

* TearJerker: And holy freaking ''HOW!!!''
** Well, here we have one war lost with great casualties and the other war ongoing. And authors put that '''very'' dark' warning into each chapter summary for the reason. And almost every chapter tries its best to break your heart at least once.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Aizen]], of course, arguably [[BeyondTheImpossible even moreso than in canon.]] After all, he WouldHurtAChild [[spoiler: [[EvilutionaryBiologist before experimenting ]]]], is letting the worlds literally fall apart by leaving Gin in charge of Seireitei, and stuck the captive members of [[TheMedic the Fourth Division]] with [[spoiler: [[YourHeadASplode remote-detonating collars.]]]] Oh, and he employs two minions determined to be the more depraved MadScientist... and [[TheDragon Gin]]. Who also WouldHurtAChild, [[TyrantTakesTheHelm among]] [[WeHaveReserves other]] [[MoralEventHorizon unplesant]] [[EvilIsPetty things]].

* NightmareFuel: [[TorturedAbomination Hollowfied Shinigami]], [[EatenAlive re-opened Hollow Pits,]] [[HeroicBSOD most]] [[StepfordSmiler of]] [[BrokenAce the]] [[BreakTheCutie characters']] [[VillainousBreakdown states]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate of]] [[MindRape mind]], the state of the [[CrapsackWorld universe in general]], and on top of it all it [[MoralEventHorizon somehow]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible keeps]]'' ''[[TearJerker getting]]'' '''''[[ItGotWorse worse.]]'''''

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[TorturedAbomination Hollowfied Shinigami]], [[EatenAlive re-opened Hollow Pits,]] [[HeroicBSOD most]] [[StepfordSmiler of]] [[BrokenAce the]] [[BreakTheCutie characters']] [[VillainousBreakdown states]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate of]] [[MindRape mind]], the state of the [[CrapsackWorld universe in general]], and on top of it all it [[MoralEventHorizon somehow]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible keeps]]'' ''[[TearJerker getting]]'' '''''[[ItGotWorse worse.]]'''''
** The Barragan fragment's ''corrosive blood''. Meaning, if you actually manage to hurt it, you might just [[spoiler: loose a limb to blood splatter. ''Or your zanpakutou.'']]
** Chapter 43 revealing that while [[spoiler: Kyoraku has been imprisoned and not turned into a Hollow, he ''has'' been subjected to Aizen's illusions on what appears to be a regular basis. This gives a Mood Whiplash moment of the group finding him apparently asleep in his cell, snoring no less, and Lisa getting his attention by kicking him. Kyoraku knocks her to the ground, puts his arm around her neck, and calmly asks why 'Sosuke' thinks his tricks will work ''this'' time.]]

** Well, here we have one war lost with great casualties and the other war ongoing. And authors put that '''very'' dark' warning into each chapter summary for the reason. And almost every chapter tries its best to break your heart at least once.

* ''Isane'' [[spoiler: being the one who realizes how to defeat the Barragan fragment. She's been through so much in the fic, and then after just losing her hand, she's still thinking fast enough to come up with a way to kill it.]] (Everyone else was pretty awesome too, but her FailureKnight condition at the beginning of the story makes her effectiveness and quick thinking here even more cool.)

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Aizen]], of course, arguably [[BeyondTheImpossible even moreso than in canon.]] After all, he WouldHurtAChild [[spoiler: before experimenting]], is letting the worlds literally fall apart by leaving Gin in charge of Seireitei, and stuck the captive members of [[TheMedic the Fourth Division]] with [[spoiler: [[YourHeadASplode remote-detonating collars.]]]] Oh, and he employs two minions determined to be the more depraved MadScientist... and [[TheDragon Gin]]. Who also WouldHurtAChild, [[TyrantTakesTheHelm among]] [[WeHaveReserves other]] [[MoralEventHorizon unplesant]] [[EvilIsPetty things]].

* MoralEventHorizon: If [[spoiler: Mayuri]] hadn’t already crossed it, [[spoiler: severing Nemu from her zanpakuto]] would definitely count.

** Well, we have one war lost with great casualties and the other war ongoing. And authors put that '''very'' dark' warning into each chapter summary for the reason. And almost every chapter tries its best to break your heart at least once.

* MoralEventHorizon: If [[spoiler: Mayuri]] hadn’t already crossed it, [[spoiler: severing Nemu from her zanpakuto]] would definitely count.