Bleach: Sternritters N - Z / Characters

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A list of Sternritters - the most elite members of the Wandenreich - marked from N-Z. Members of the elite guard, Schutzstaffel, are marked with (Ṧ). For Sternritters B-M, see here.

N - Robert Accutrone

Robert Accutrone

^Vollständig

"It's quite pleasing your morale has returned. Indeed. However, there's one thing you've miscalculated. Your boss will fall before our boss. After all...you aren't the only ones to get fired up by your boss!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed pistol

Vollständig: Grimaniel

Schrift: N

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (JP), Neil Kaplan (EN)

Sternritter "N". A powerful, older gentleman who directly engages Shunsui Kyoraku in combat, and later summons the Soldat to lay waste to Soul Society. Stoic and pragmatic, he's not one for words and prefers quick-kills.

His Quincy weapon manifests as a traditional pistol. His Vollständig is named Grimaniel.

Adaptational Badass: While he gets defeated off-screen in the manga, the anime shows his fight with Byakuya and he gets to have a proper fight before his death by Auswahlen, also showing his own Vollstandig-enhanced version of Grimmaniel.
Adaptation Deviation: A very, very minor one. In the manga, his pistol is designed after a Beretta 92, with some minor cues of a Beretta APX. In the anime, it resembles a Desert Eagle far more than anything else, though it's very slightly smaller than one.^noteThough perhaps Robert has very large hands that makes even a Hand Cannon look like a standard handgun?
- A much more significant deviation occurs in Episode 25 of the TYBW anime. In the manga, he points a gun at Liltotto, has a major Freak Out about how Yhwach abandoned everyone, and dies after getting burned away by the Auswahlen. None of this happens in the anime. He's last seen lying on the floor looking up at the sky, long before we even get to see the Auswahlen occur.
Adaptation Expansion: His fight with Byakuya is actually shown in the anime, which expands on his powers a bit and showcases him giving Byakuya the most trouble out of the three Sternritter who fought him. Of course, "most trouble" only amounts to Byakuya needing his Bankai to take Robert down, whereas NaNaNa and Candice were defeated by Shikai alone.
Affably Evil: In battle, he's cordial and polite with his enemies despite the fact he's trying to kill them (though the anime has him stop this during his Villainous Breakdown, at which point he addresses Byakuya as the very hostile "kisama" in the original Japanese).
Ambiguous Situation: His fate is more obvious in the manga, where he's seen getting hit by the Auswahlen which burns his skin all the way to the bone. But the anime never shows him getting hit by the Auswahlen, and while there are indications that he was Killed Offscreen, it's never made clear in the anime itself compared to the manga when the season ends.
Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a suit and tie underneath his uniform coat and is powerful enough to fight on par with Kyoraku.
Combat Pragmatist: During his fight with Shunsui, he aims straight for Shunsui's eye and guns him down the moment he's distracted. When he and several other members of the Sternritters all fight Ichigo, he purposely waits until Ichigo's neck-deep trying to deal with the others before appearing at his side with his pistol ready to fire right at his head.
Curb-Stomp Battle: He's soundly defeated off-screen along with Candice and NaNaNa by Byakuya during their battle in the Silbern-taken Seireitei, barely managing to do anything to the captain of the 6th Squad. The anime does showcase his turn against Byakuya, but it still qualifies for this since his Vollständig was quickly overwhelmed by Byakuya's Bankai.
Evil Sounds Deep: The anime gives him a deep yet sophisticated voice that enhances his old gentleman aura.
Excuse Me While I Multitask: While fighting Shunsui, he kills a Soul Reaper messenger that had arrived at the battlefield without taking his eyes off of Shunsui.
Flash Step: Demonstrates the most out of the Sternritter. His Vollständig, when translated into English, even reads "Walk of God". It is implied that this is the basis of his power, but as seen in Riddle for the Ages, never confirmed. At the very least, Robert's usage of it enabled him to blast out one of Shunsui's eyes and nearly get a point-blank hit on Ichigo.
Foreshadowing: In the anime, after Yhwach takes Uryu, Haschwalth, and the Schutzstaffel over to the Royal Palace, Robert is shown silently looking back, a somber look in his eyes as he realizes he wasn't chosen by his emperor. During his fight with Byakuya, he grows increasingly desperate, proclaiming that he will prove his worth to Yhwach by winning. After he's defeated by Byakuya, Robert is seen looking up at the same sky that Yhwach left everybody in, and quietly accepts his fate (he doesn't confront Liltotto like he did in the manga). All of this foreshadows the Auswahlen, as while he's activating it and explaining himself to Liltotto, Yhwach explicitly says he considers all the Quincies he left behind as Cannon Fodder for the ones he chose to follow him up to the Royal Palace.
Fragile Speedster: The anime expands on his fight with Byakuya, which elaborates on his fighting style, a fast and immediate one that contributes to his No-Nonsense Nemesis tendencies. Unfortunately, even with Sklaverei increasing his speed, he simply can't keep up with Senbonzakura Kageyoshi's raw power and is defeated.
The Gunslinger: His Quincy cross manifests in the form of a pistol, the design similar to a Beretta 92.
Holy Halo: When fighting his opponent, he briefly shows the halo that indicates Vollständig is being used.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Managed to headshot a Soul Reaper messenger without even looking at him.
Malevolent Masked Man: When using Sklaverei to power up his Vollständig, Robert gains a face-guard mask made of Reishi.
Mercy Kill: He attempts to kill Liltotto to prevent her from suffering a more painful death and betrayal by Yhwach's Auswählen. Yhwach doesn't even give him the chance.
Mysterious Past: The most that's divulged about Accutrone's past is that he's an Old Soldier. Notably, not even the name and power of his Schrift was ever revealed when every other Sternritter aside from BG9, even the three Killed Offscreen by Kenpachi, got theirs at least briefly explained.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: He doesn't play around with his foes. As soon as an opening presents itself, he immediately moves in for a kill-shot.
Not So Stoic:
- Though he normally appears as a composed and collected individual, he shows a more emotional side during his fight with Kyoraku after he manages to cut him after Yamamoto's arrival on the battlefield ignites his battle spirit, arguing that the Shinigami aren't the only ones who get fired up when their boss is fighting.
- He has another (very understandable) when he realizes horrified that Yhwach left him behind in the Seireitei, losing his composure in anguish knowing he's gonna die thanks to the Auswählen. The anime hints at this one during his fight with Byakuya, where he screams that he will defeat the Captain and Ichigo and prove that he can stand at Yhwach's side.
Oh, Crap!: A massive one when he realizes that Yhwach has left to the Soul King's realm without him.
Old Retainer: He implies he was part of Yhwach's original army, given he refers to Liltotto and Giselle as newcomers.
Old Soldier: Robert is one of the older-looking Sternritter, and he manages to fight a seasoned captain like Shunsui to a standstill, even getting some lasting damage on the latter's eye. He shows his exasperation that the younger Sternritter lack his experience. When Liltotto suggests that they hold their ground until Yhwach returns to Soul Society, Accutrone's response is an anguish of exasperation. Having served under him for a long time, and learning how he treats his subordinates, Robert knows that the fact that Yhwach did not take them meant he had left them for good.
Riddle for the Ages: What the 'N' stands for is never revealed. His letter is only confirmed shortly before he's killed. The anime implies that his abilities are speed-based via the Adaptation Expansion on his fight with Byakuya, and his Vollständig, Grimaniel means Walk of God, but what specific word that refers to is not disclosed.
Scary Shiny Glasses: His glasses gleam ominously while fighting Kyoraku, often hiding his eyes in the process.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Underneath his quincy uniform, he's wearing a suit.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: He makes it clear to Liltotto and Giselle that he's lived long enough under Yhwach's service to know just how low the latter can stoop, including sacrificing those who were not "chosen" to accompany him to the Royal Palace.
Spared by the Adaptation: Technically this falls more into a case of Ambiguous Situation, but in the original manga Yhwach's Auswählen drip-dries him to the bone after he threatens Liltotto, ending up quite definitely Deader than Dead. In the anime, he never pulls his gun on her and him getting hit by the beams is never shown.
Stripped to the Bone: When he's hit by Yhwach's Auswählen, he's reduced to a skeleton.
Super-Speed: While not officially revealed, his Schrift is heavily implied to be related with possessing an extraordinary speed, as both during his fights with Kyoraku, Ichigo and Byakuya he tries to finish off his opponents by getting closer to them so fast they cannot react to his movements.
Tears of Fear: When he realizes that he was left behind by Yhwach, he knows all too well what's coming, and breaks down before Liltotto and Giselle.
Weak, but Skilled: Given his age, Robert can't really take a lot of hits and lacks any large attacks. But he displays great accuracy with his Spirit Weapon and makes heavy use of Hirenkyaku to get up close and go for a point-blank hit if he can't manage a shot from a distance. The anime showcases that him attempting a power-charge against Byakuya is the worst possible outcome for him.
The Worf Effect: He's established as a skilled Sternritter able to surprise Kyoraku and blow off one of his eyes with his Vollstandig. Later, along with Candice and NaNaNa, he's defeated off-screen by Byakuya in order to show the progression of his training in the Royal Realm. The anime does show the battle, but this only enforces the trope; unlike NaNaNa and Candice, Robert puts up a fairly decent fight, activating Grimaniel at full power and rushing Byakuya...only to be overwhelmed by Byakuya's Bankai and knocked out. At the very least, he was the only one of the three to make Byakuya use it.

O - Driscoll Berci

Driscoll Berci

"It sucks so bad to be this weak, ain't that right, Lieutenant!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed knuckle-dusters

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: O - The Overkill

Voiced by: Nobuaki Kanemitsu (JP), Bill Butts (EN)

Sternritter "O" of "The Overkill". A tall, dark-skinned man with a beard. He's a battle-hungry braggart who loves talking down to his opponents, even if he's found one worthy of his time.

His Quincy cross manifests as a pair of knuckles, allowing him to materialize his Heilig Pfeils as throwing spears. His ability increases his strength every time he kills an opponent.

Asshole Victim: As one of the most unpleasant and nasty of the Sternritters, his flaming death at Yamamoto's hand is not precisely meant to entice sympathy on the audience.
Beard of Evil: He has a prominent, wild beard that helps showcasing him as a ruthless brute who shows no mercy towards his enemies.
Blood Knight: Driscoll is a bloodthirsty man whose main method of gaining strength is killing, but he seems to prefer opponents that can put up a fight. He is after all happy his opponent is Yamamoto of all people.
Bullying a Dragon: Driscoll truly thought he could fight Yamamoto and win, and brags in his face that he killed Sasakibe. It would be the last thing he did in his life.
Curb-Stomp Battle: He kills 107 Soul Reapers (including a lieutenant) in 182 seconds, and later does the same to Hisagi, who is unable to do him any harm. Ironically he ends up receiving one at the hands of Yamamoto, barely having time to react as the Captain Commander burns him to ashes.
Death by Irony: A man called Overkill gets overkilled by Yamamoto, who torches him all the way to the bone when Driscoll confirms he killed Sasakibe.
Evil Gloating: The man will simply not shut up as he's pounding his opponents.
Evil Is Bigger: He's the tallest of the Sternritters, dwarfing both Hisagi and Yamamoto considerably.
Evil Sounds Deep: In the anime he's given a gruff, brutish voice to match his appearance and personality.
Hero Killer: He claims to have killed about 100 Soul Reapers during his first appearance at Seiretei, with Sasakibe being one of them, making him the first antagonist of the manga to kill a named heroic character outside a flashback. He later comments to Hisagi that, upon arriving in Seireitei for the second time, he killed 100 Soul Reapers more.
Javelin Thrower: Driscoll can use the Reishi around him to create the arrows of light of the Quincies, the Heilig Pfeil. However, Driscoll's Heiligh Pfeil are long enough to be thrown as javelins, similar to Ulquiorra's Lanza Del Relampago. He killed Sasakibe by throwing and impaling him with one of these after stealing his Bankai, and was about to do the same to Hisagi until Yamamoto arrived in time to save him.
Jerkass: Driscoll is a sadistic and ruthless man who enjoys slaughtering Soul Reapers. He brutally kills Lieutenant Sasakibe, and later brags about to his Captain's face. He would not even live long enough to regret this decision.
Level Grinding: His whole power is based on becoming stronger with every kill, be it an ally or an enemy, much like level grinding in a video game.
Not Enough to Bury: Driscoll's entire body is reduced to ashes once Yamamoto stops restraining himself.
Sadist: He greatly enjoys the carnage he causes, and mocks and taunts his enemies when he thinks he has the upper hand, to his delight. When he confronts Yamamoto, he decides to use his deceased lieutenant's Bankai to emotionally hurt him. Even his Schrift reflects this personality trait, as it makes him stronger the more he kills.
Shock and Awe: He used his medallion to steal Sasakibe's Bankai and tried to use it on Yamamoto. Predictably, it didn't work.
Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he has what it takes to fight Yamamoto. He has no idea how absolutely wrong he is.
Small Role, Big Impact: He's not around for many chapters, but his brutal, humilitating murder of Sasakibe is what motivates Yamamoto to be so reckless and revenge-driven during the beginning of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc, which eventually ends with his fight against the fake Yhwach and subsequent death.
Smug Smiler: Except for his entrance in the Seiretei and later his initial face-off against Hisagi (where he sports a serious expression), he’s normally smiling arrogantly at his opponents.
Smug Snake: He thinks having a Bankai means he's as powerful as the Captain Commander. Yamamoto burns that notion away pretty quick, along with the rest of him.
Stripped to the Bone: Yamamoto roasts him so hard that we are treated to a shot of Driscoll's burnt out skull before it disintegrates.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Operates on this principle in combat, as evidenced by his epithet and what he does to poor Sasakibe. Fittingly, Yamamoto treats him to the exact same principle in blowing him away with Ryujin Jakka.
Time-Limit Boss: Tite Kubo has revealed, years after Driscoll's death, that The Overkill has a glaring weakness: each time Driscoll eats, sleeps or loses consciousness, all the power gained through The Overkill goes away.
Too Dumb to Live: Dude just had to rub Sasakibe's death in Yamamoto's face, prompting the latter to fry him in fury.
Unskilled, but Strong: A case where his lack of skills ends up going against him. Driscoll is a hulking man able to submit his opponents with sheer physical strength, with his main ability merely boosting his own power. In regards to his usage of Sasakibe’s Bankai, however, Yamamoto claims it to be weaker than in possession of his original owner. The anime elaborates on this and shows why: Koko Gonryo Rikyu is supposed to be used by imbuing the Shikai with the threads of lightning coming out of the dome where they come from and strike the enemy with the full power of the Bankai, while Driscoll only uses one of the threads to hit the enemy, resulting in a way inferior version. As a result of Driscoll’s lack of technique, Yamamoto is barely hurt by the impact of the lightning.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed literally in one chapter after his name is revealed.

P - Meninas McAllon

Meninas McAllon

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"You could've at least taken it outside."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed bow

Vollständig: Pornipora

Schrift: P - The Power

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (JP), Anne Yatco (EN)

Sternritter "P" of "The Power". Her uniform consists of frilled boots, frilled gloves and frilled skirt, a belt with a heart-shaped buckle, a large bow around her neck, and a white cap with the Wandenreich symbol.

Her abilities consist of super-human feats of strength, such as lifting an entire row of buildings with one hand. She possesses a heart-themed bow. Her Vollständig, named Pornipora in the anime, allows her to weaponize reishi dumbbells.

Adaptation Dye-Job: The cover of chapter 581, the digital colored scans and Bleach Brave Souls portrays her with red eyes and magenta hair, while the cover of chapter 640 portrays her with light pink hair and green eyes instead.
Adaptational Early Appearance: The anime shows her briefly as the Sternritter who almost kills Rukia during the first Quincy invasion, way before her proper debut in the series.
Affectionate Nickname: Liltotto and Giselle refer to her as "Minnie" (or "Meni" in the official subs for the anime).
Ambiguous Situation: She's never shown getting hit by the Auswahlen in the manga. We last see her under Pepe's control as she punches Liltotto. After she's said to be defeated by Liltotto off screen, Liltotto claims that Meninas should still be alive, but we never see her again. She doesn't appear with Bazz-B, Giselle, and Liltotto who all survived the Auswahlen, so while we can surmise that she may have died to the Auswahlen, it isn't explicitly said so. It takes a light novel written by a different author and released after the manga concluded before we learn that she evidently did die, and we're still never told how. The anime averts it completely by showing her carrying Candice just before they're both hit by the Auswahlen.
Apologetic Attacker: In the anime, she apologizes to an unconscious Rukia before departing a demolished Seireitei.
Brainwashed and Crazy: She gets hit directly by Pepe's ability, who makes her infatuated with him and bound her to his will, even turning on Liltotto, attacking her without second thoughts.
The Brute: Among the female Sternritter, she’s the tallest and physically strongest, while not being excessively bright herself and mostly relying on pure strength and physical combat to deal with enemies.
Combat Pragmatist: She is not above attacking opponents as they are running away from her, as shown in the anime when she defeats Rukia the moment she tries to run away to Byakuya's aid.
Commissar Cap: One so nice, she wears it sideways.
Cute Bruiser: She looks innocent and acts girlish, but she hits like a rock slide and can toss around entire groups of buildings. She took out Kenpachi Zaraki with one punch (granted, he was already severely injured from his fight with Gremmy), and she's the only one of the eight Sternritter that actually got a clean hit on Ichigo himself. Even Robert Accutrone holds her strength in high regard.
Dark Action Girl: She indifferently kills some Soul Reapers by dropping entire buildings on them.
Deadpan Snarker: When Ichigo arrives by slamming into the clock tower, she comments that it looks like he's botched his attempt at a Dynamic Entry. She also comments on how "full of himself" Ichigo is to try making a beeline to Yhwach while surrounded by eight Sternritter.
Dissonant Serenity: She always has a serene, calm expression on her face and acts like her usual princess-like self even when she’s fighting or slaughtering enemies.
Emotionless Girl: By far one of the less emotional of the Sternritters, usually displaying a stoic expression and barely emoting in her dialogues. The only exception is when Pepe brainwashes her into her love slave, where she smiles in a trance as she attacks Liltotto.
Enhanced Punch: Meninas's main power is vastly augmenting her physical strength to the point of massively bulking up, in order to deliver devastatingly powerful punches.
Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed Trope. In both the manga and anime, Meninas has a mildly sympathetic look in her face as she watches Giselle kill Bambietta. It doesn't mean she stops Giselle, but it's also not something Meninas seems to like either.
Growing Muscles Sequence: Her Schrift makes her able to expand her muscles to nearly the size of Opie's Ayon-enhanced muscles, presumably enhancing her strength along with it.
Hulking Out: Apart of Super-Strength, her Schrift allows her to increase the size of her muscles, something that presumably gives her an even greater physical strength.
Jerkass: Despite her cute and innocent demeanor, Meninas just stands aside and lets Bambietta die and become a zombie, even though she knew what Giselle might do and could've stepped in. Though given how she voiced her disapproval towards her previously, this could just be a dislike of Bambietta specifically.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The anime and the light novels (specifically Can't Fear Your Own World) show that despite her ruthlessness and seeming apathy, she actually does care about her fellow Quincies, and specifically the female Sternritter, despite hiding it behind a snarky pseudo-mean girl persona.
Ms. Fanservice: She's busty, she's got long legs and she has large hips. She wears a tight, form-fitting uniform with no sleeves, thigh-high stockings, and a frilled skirt.
Muscles Are Meaningless: Zig-zagged. She has herculean strength despite her thin limbs, yet she's capable of producing much more muscle mass to increase her power.
Only Six Faces: She's basically Orihime with a clothing change and palette swap.
Pet the Dog: In the anime, she actually helps a wounded Candice up and tries to get her away from the battlefield right as Yhwach activates the Auswahlen. Even as the Auswahlen comes down on them both, Meninas stays by Candice to the very last second, never once thinking of stepping away or leaving her comrade for dead. She doesn't even snark at Candice about her loss (at least on screen), she just focuses on getting Candice to safety.
Pink Is Feminine: She has pink hair, which is accompanied by the most feminine bearing of the female Sternritter.
Psycho Pink: Pink is her personal Color Motif, seen in her hair, belt, bow and Vollstandig. While she’s not one of the worst Sternritters morality-wise, she’s still a ruthless antagonist with no qualms about crushing her enemies.
Shaping Your Attacks: In the anime, under her Sklaverei-powered Vollstandig, she can mold her attacks in the shape of dumbbells for close quarter combat, which she can also change into a pair of dumbbell-shaped batons (giving her a cheerleader image) and blades.
Statuesque Stunner: She stands at 191 cm/6'3" tall and is the tallest female character.
Super-Strength: Meninas' Schrift is 'The Power', which increases her physical strength to supernatural level. She can effortlessly lift several buildings and their foundations, punch a weakened Kenpachi hard enough to paralyze him, and hit Ichigo hard enough to leave a bruise when he just came back from training in the Spirit King's realm. Even the other Sternritter are in awe of her strength, as shown when Robert Accutrone is surprised by Ichigo tanking a hit from her.
The Undead: The novel Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World reveals that at some point after Liltotto knocked her out she did, somehow, die (possibly from Yhwach's Auswählen), but was brought back from the dead and turned into this by Mayuri, along with Candice and Najahkoop.
Wicked Heart Symbol: While all of the female Sternritter have a heart-shaped buckle in their belts, Meninas is the only one with a clear heart motif, as seen in her bow, arrows and Vollstandig, all made of heart-shaped reishi and in the case of her Sklaverei Vollstandig, covering her chest and knees in hearts. She’s one of the villains, however, so the Heart Symbol motif contrasts with her merciless actions.

Q - Berenice Gabrielli

Berenice Gabrielli

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unknown

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: Q - The Question

Voiced by: Kenn

Sternritter "Q" of "The Question". A Quincy with pink and purple hair whose power apparently causes the victims to question everything about themselves. It didn't work on Zaraki, however, since he couldn't hear what was being said over the noise being made by Jerome. He tore out Berenice's throat before the Question could work on him.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Berenice's hair was first revealed as pink and purple in the chapter 640 cover, but it's black and blonde in the digital colored version of the manga, while in the anime it's blonde and purple. Berenice's eyes are green in the digital colored scans, but they're purple in the anime.
Ambiguous Gender: Fitting their Schrift, Berenice has an androgynous appearance, a feminine name, wears make-up and paints their nails... but buttons their uniform on the right side, something only male Sternritters are seen doing. They also use the boku pronoun and are voiced by a man in the anime adaptation, which may point towards Berenice actually being a Bishōnen.
Break Them by Talking: Apparently how Berenice's ability works. Unfortunately for them, if you can't hear, it doesn't quite work.
Department of Redundancy Department: Their speech to Kenpachi in the anime is certainly... something.
Berenice: "The Question! Kenpachi Zaraki, I object to everything about you! For those who have been called out and objected to by me... should those who are objected to, are obligated to answer my objections! To you, who lacks wisdom, do you realize how dangerous this is? It is impossible for you to understand. Therefore! There is no other way than to know yourself! I know about you, Kenpachi Zaraki, the embodiment of murderous intent. In that case, first and foremost, towards your very essence of murderous intent... I will raise an objection. Now! The first objection, Kenpachi Zaraki! Your murderous intent—"
Dies Wide Open: The second clear photo of Berenice's face reveals as much.
Epic Fail: Berenice could have either won or lost, but "the Question" depended on the power of the voice, which was drowned out by Jerome, whose own power was activated by him roaring. Averted in the anime, where Kenpachi runs into Berenice before Jerome.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Kenpachi mentioned Berenice did this at some length, but unfortunately for Berenice, it didn't work as it was supposed to.
Impromptu Tracheotomy: Zaraki kills Berenice by tearing out the Sternritter's throat.
Ironic Name: Berenice's name in Greek means "bringer of victory". While the Quincies did utterly devastate their enemies during the first invasion, Berenice's off-panel death did not factor at all into it.
Talking Is a Free Action: In Kenpachi's case, it is certainly not.
Too Dumb to Live: Berenice's power depended on the voice but in the manga, they decided to use it after Jerome, whose power was a Super-Scream, which deafens their opponent. That mistake costs Berenice their life.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Yet another in a long line of people killed off-panel by Zaraki.

R - Jerome Guizbatt

Jerome Guizbatt

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unknown

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: R - The Roar

Voiced by: Takahiro Fujiwara

Sternritter "R" of "The Roar". A large, tanned Sternritter that resembles a gorilla. He participated in the invasion of the Seireitei, where he was killed by Zaraki, who paraded his corpse on his back. He's able to launch supersonic howls.

Adaptational Attractiveness: His enlarged form looks significantly less apelike and more humanoid in the anime when compared with the manga.
Dies Wide Open: When we manage to get a better look at his face, though he distinctly lacks pupils.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Zaraki casually mentions that he sliced Jerome in half when he transformed.
One-Winged Angel: Zaraki said that he transforms into an ape-thing to fight.
Super-Scream: He can blow people away with his voice when he transforms.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Defeated out of sight by Zaraki before we learn anything else about him.

S - Mask De Masculine

Mask De Masculine

^Vollständig

"My heart is being consumed by the overwhelming desire to crush you where you stand... for the sake of justice!!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: None

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: S - The Superstar

Voiced by: Yasuhiro Mamiya (JP), Bill Butts (EN)

Sternritter "S" of "The Superstar". A large masked Luchador who accompanies Äs Nödt during the Wandenreich's initial Blitzkrieg against the Sereitei. A couple of cans short of a six-pack, but still one of the Sternritter. His constant companion (and groupie) James is always seen at his side.

He fights primarily using classic Lucha Libre wrestling moves, but his true power comes from a cheering audience - with James more than happy to provide that for him. Cheering him increases his strength and regenerates him. With enough cheers, his Vollständig power transforms him into a caped superhero^*in a speedo! with overwhelming physical abilities - and star-shaped lasers to boot.

Affably Evil: Mask largely leaves Hisagi, Ikkaku and Yumichika alone after pummeling them. He also seems to be genuinely grateful for his tiny partner James' support and he is genuinely pissed when Rose injures James. However, since he views Soul Reapers as villains, he won't hesitate to use lethal attacks if they threaten him enough.
Beware the Silly Ones: Don't let appearances fool you. He fought and beat five Soul Reapers with Bankai, two of which were Captains, and didn't even need Vollständig to do it. He's also the one responsible for Renji's mortal wounds that lead him to the Royal Realm. He even catches Kensei's Bankai with one hand while still taunting him and later defeats Rose in a single attack after negating his Bankai.
Big Guy, Little Guy: Mask has a short, chubby bespectacled bald man named James as a tagalong partner to cheer him on. It turns out Mask's Schrift is to get stronger whenever someone is cheering for him, so of course it would make sense to have a fan constantly accompany him.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When he meets Renji for the second time, it takes a while for Mask to recognize him. Mask says he can't be bothered to remember every "villain" he defeats.
Calling Your Attacks: Not all the time, but when he's putting on a show he calls out attacks with "Star" in the name, like "Star Eagle Kick", "Star Headbutt", and "Star Flash".
Cluster F-Bomb: Combines this with This Is Unforgivable! during his Villainous Breakdown.
The Coats Are Off: Like most of the Sternritter seen so far, he decides to take off his Wandenreich mantle when he gets serious.
Combat Pragmatist: One of the biggest examples of how far Wandenreich soldiers are willing to go to win their fights. The moment Rose explains how his Bankai manipulates sound, he intentionally ruptures his eardrums to render it useless.
Cool Mask: Mexican mascara used by Lucha Libre warriors.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of his fights have consisted of an ambushed strike that overwhelms his opponents with brutal strength. He took out Renji, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Hisagi like this, the latter three in a single attack. He even takes out Rose with one star-shaped laser beam to the chest, and breaks Kensei's right arm after giving him a brutal beatdown.
Curb Stomp Cushion: While Renji has the edge in the fight and it is mostly a stomp in his favor, Mask does turn the tide of the fight briefly when using his full power, and manages to pressure Renji momentarily upon using Vollständig, notably throwing him around several times, with Renji being shown struggling briefly to find an opening. Renji's new Bankai, and Mask accidentally killing James with his Star Flash Supernova, give Renji a moment to turn the tables back to his side and kill Mask before James can return.
Dumb Muscle: Subverted. At first it seems that Mask isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Äs Nödt dismisses him for not having read the reports that non-captains could possess Bankai, setting him up to seem like he's an idiot. Later on, it becomes clear he's not stupid so much as over-enthusiastic.
Energy Weapon: The star on his mask can shoot star-shaped beams powerful enough to take out a Captain in one shot.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: At first, averted. He challenges all of his opponents without them knowing that the key is to Shoot the Medic First, and doesn't describe his best attacks until after he's already leveled the opponent with them. But then played straight again when he allows James to recover his damage right in front of Renji, thus letting Renji figure it out quickly. He also explains how his anger-powered Star Mark works before attacking with it, which is good for the readers, because the way Renji reacts to it, we otherwise wouldn't have known what it did.
Expressive Mask: The star on his mask first becomes a question mark when he realizes he can't hear what Renji is saying, then becomes a lightbulb when he figures out how to fix the problem. When he enters his Super Mode, the mask pattern changes again, with Renji actually calling attention to it.
Friendly Fire: He incinerates his loyal supporter James in the huge area of effect of his Star Flash Supernova. Somewhat justified in that eventually James would have revived from that, but it ends up leading to Mask's death when Renji capitalizes on the moment to use his new bankai to kill him before James can return.
A God Am I: Mask appears to have a lot of overconfidence in his abilities. He boasts to Renji that he would stand no chance against his "Godly" power.
Good Powers, Bad People: Mask's Schrift is called 'The Superstar'. His strength is bolstered by the support of a cheering fan who believes completely in his "heroic" ability to defeat "villains". He can even heal his own injuries if a fan believes in his ability to achieve victory. He regards himself as a hero, but he works for the villainous Wandenreich, and it's strongly implied that he and his fan, James, are somehow two parts of a single being. Unlike a hero, he's willing to turn on even James if it means achieving victory.
Guardian Entity: After Mask and James are killed, Yhwach implies that Mask was just a manifestation of James's powers. Kubo himself would go on to confirm this.
Healing Factor: Mask can use his Schrift's power to regenerate any wounds he sustains by having James cheer for him. He demonstrates this by healing his eardrums that ruptured earlier.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He might very well have won his fight with Renji had his ultimate attack not accidentally vaporized all the James clones. Renji was struggling briefly to fight back before he activated his new Bankai, but after Mask accidentally killed James, Renji capitalizes on the moment by releasing his new Bankai, Soo Zabimaru, and kills Mask before James can be reborn, destroying both of them permanently.
Hot-Blooded: While not as overt as Bazz-B or Bambietta, he still has a very boisterous personality, acting like a luchador.
Humiliation Conga: Renji completely hands him his ass after activating his Bankai during their rematch: killing James, breaking his arm, impaling, bisecting, and incinerating him in rapid succession.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Renji skewers him before incinerating him.
Knight Templar: He's a self-proclaimed "hero", invokes a superhero aesthetic, refers to his foes as "villains", and claims to fight "in the name of justice", even though he's part of a villainous organization and is a pretty brutal fighter. He drops his "heroic" façade once he gets angry for being injured.
Large Ham: A Luchador who acts like he's theatrically performing for a wrestling crowd even when there's no-one around to watch. Turns out this is part of his power, since he's revived by the cheers of his fan(s).
Leeroy Jenkins: He charges in to help Äs Nödt against Byakuya and Renji and falls straight into Byakuya's trap as a result. He escapes it only to interrupt Renji's attempt to activate Bankai. Äs Nödt had been hoping to bait Renji into losing his Bankai but Mask hadn't bothered researching his opponents before fighting them so didn't know Renji had a Bankai at all. He corrects this mistake for the second invasion.
Life-or-Limb Decision: He crushed his own eardrums and rendered himself deaf to save himself from the finishing blow of Rose's sound-based Bankai. Once the threat is removed, he can use James to heal the injury.
Lightning Bruiser: Despite his build and size, he is frighteningly fast and stealthy. In the span of a few pages, he blitzes Kensei, no-sells his Bankai, and takes him out in a couple of blows.
Masked Luchador: He's heavily luchador-themed and his mask seems to be central to his more powerful attacks.
Meaningful Name: He's so heavily luchador-themed that even his name reflects the symbolism. His mask also seems central to some of his more powerful attacks.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During the first invasion, Renji was about to attack Äs Nödt with his Bankai, only for Mask to knock Renji out before he could activate it. This ensures that Renji has his Bankai still, allowing it to be reforged by Ōetsu. This, in turn, leads to Mask's death when Renji returns from the Royal Palace with his new true Bankai.
Nigh-Invulnerability: Thanks to his immense durability/Blut and James-induced healing factor. As long as James is somehow alive, Mask flat out cannot be killed, and it takes Mask accidentally killing James with his own attack, and Renji using his new Bankai right away after, for him to die for real.
No Body Left Behind: The end result of Renji's new and improved Bankai leaves him a scorched corpse which quickly crumbles into ashes.
No-Sell: Shrugs off Kensei's Bankai with no injuries.
The Power of Friendship: Believe it or not, this is sort of how his Schrift, 'The Superstar', works. Basically, the more people cheer for him, the stronger he gets. Sort of like an in-universe Popularity Power. As long as James is alive, any cheering Mask gets from him powers him up in some way.
Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Used on Renji while in his Super Mode.
Reduced to Dust: Renji's Zaga Teppō attack reduces him to an ashy corpse that blows away in the wind.
Sharp-Dressed Man: His outfit is a mash-up of a Luchador costume, a tuxedo, and the standard Wandenreich military garb. The bow-tie is an especially nice touch.
Shoot the Medic First: You can take him down, but he'll just get back up. It's his one-man fanclub that has to go down first, since his cheers revive and empower Mask. This is harder to achieve than it sounds. James can heal from basically any injury, and even regenerate from nothing so long as Mask continues to exist. Both have to be killed at the same time (more or less) for their deaths to stick.
Super Mode: When James is cut into several pieces, the pieces grow into numerous copies of James which all cheer for Mask. The extra cheering allows him to reach his full power and activate Vollständig.
Super-Toughness: His power increases thanks to James cheering him on, allowing him to become capable of shrugging off Bankai attacks without injury.
Tautological Templar: Mask sees himself as a hero of justice. Everyone he faces in battle are cowardly villains in his eyes, regardless of whether or not they're actually villains. He claims his sole ambition is to eradicate all evil villains from the world, and he is very extreme about it. However, if he gets angry enough, he will abandon any pretense of fighting for justice and mercilessly pummel enemies until they are dead.
Villainous Breakdown: After James is bifurcated, his originally Affably Evil personality starts to falter. And when Renji starts upstaging him completely, it takes a complete nosedive as he completely loses his mind, something which carries on until he gets killed by Renji's true Bankai.
Villainous Friendship: He will chat casually with James while knocking out Captain-level Soul Reapers.
Wave-Motion Gun: His Star Flash Supernova, which involves tracing out a giant star in-flight with his Vollständig, from which the star beam powerful enough to completely vaporise several city blocks is fired. Still, it fails to harm Renji and accidentally obliterates James in the process.
The Worf Barrage: The fight deliberately turns the concept of hero and villain on its head with the villain playing the hero's role and the protagonist playing the villain's role. As a result, when Mask unleashes his power on Renji, it doesn't even slow Renji down, effectively demonstrating Renji's new level of power.
Wrestler in All of Us: He mostly fights like a luchador.
Wrong Genre Savvy: In keeping with the theme of him being a luchador who has cheering fans to please, he views himself as the hero and the Soul Reapers as the villains that must be defeated, even though it's the Quincies who are threatening the balance between worlds.
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Making him angry increases the power of his punches by a factor of ten.

James

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (JP), Christopher Swindle (EN)

James is a short and chubby young-looking man who also acts as Mask de Masculine's sidekick. It was later confirmed by Kubo that James is indeed the original Sternritter "S" of "The Superstar" and Mask was a fictious form of his ideal hero.

Asteroids Monster: Slicing him up into tiny bits results in multiple copies of him forming from the pieces.
Blush Sticker: It only went off when he was bifurcated by Rose.
Death by Irony: Despite James's devotion to Mask, Mask has no qualms about killing James himself if it means taking out the enemy at the same time. Mask justifies his attitude based on the fact James will keep being 'reborn' from Mask's life-force, but that depends on Mask not being killed before James can regenerate. Either way, James's idealistic loyalty is met by only pragmatic opportunism from the object of his worship.
The Dog Was the Mastermind: While he seems to just be Mask's sidekick who cheers him on to activate his powers, Yhwach only observes the death of James as he reabsorbs the power from "The Superstar". Kubo would later confirm in a Q&A that James was the actual recipient of the Schrift, while Mask was simply his creation.
Fanboy: He exists for no other purpose than to cheer Mask on, which in turn is actually what boosts the Sternritter's powers. In a twist, he's actually the real holder of Mask de Masculine's power, which is implied to be why he's such a fanboy of him.
Gemini Destruction Law: James and Mask can revive each other from even fatal injury, meaning that to actually kill them, they must be destroyed before either has a chance to heal the other.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Zig-zagged. While James is the original Sternritter "S" and Mask being his figment of a hero, Mask is the one who engages in battle and James cheers him on. As a key component of Mask's "The Superstar", his cheers empower Mask enough to take down Bankai-using Captains.
Nigh-Invulnerable: He's actually quite easy to damage. He's chopped in half by Rose, and later sliced into chunks by Renji with no effort whatsoever. However, just dicing him up won't actually kill him. He is ultimately vaporized by Mask's star beam, and were it not for Renji killing Mask then and there, even this would not have killed him.
Non-Action Guy: He's twice been attacked and hasn't so much as seen it coming, let alone shown any ability to defend himself. As he is the true power behind "The Superstar", this makes him more dangerous than one would think.
Self-Duplication: When Renji chopped James into pieces, every bit of his flesh became a new tiny James, cheering on for Mask.
Shoot the Medic First: He's not just a sidekick, he's an all-purpose strength booster and healer. Mask De Masculine's power allows him to get up and hit even harder than before when someone is cheering for him, James acts as his source of strength. Hisagi points out James should be killed first before Mask can be beaten. This is harder than it sounds, though. Cutting him in half failed to silence him, and cutting him into chunks caused all the chunks to sprout more of James, making Mask even stronger. Mask eventually explains that James is an extension of himself; even when completely vaporized by Mask's star beam, he'll eventually be reborn to keep cheering Mask on.
Sunglasses at Night: Wears a pair of goggles, even though night has descended upon the Soul Society.
Unfriendly Fire: Gets caught up in a massive blast caused by Mask's Star Flash Supernova.

T - Candice Catnipp

Candice Catnip

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^Vollständig

"All I know is that this guy just covered me in dirt. And that, he’s not getting away with!! How the hell many hours earlier than everyone else d’you think I have to get up every day to make sure my hair is perfect, eh?!!!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed bow

Vollständig: Balbarriel

Schrift: T - The Thunderbolt

Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama (JP), Shara Kirby (EN)

Sternritter "T" of "The Thunderbolt". She's a passionate and headstrong young woman, whose bluntness extends towards peers such as Bambietta.

Her power allows her to electrify the spirit particles in the air, hence her title of the "Thunderbolt". She is also capable of manifesting a Quincy bow from the heart-shaped buckle on her belt. Her Vollständig, named Balbarriel in the anime, grants her six thunderbolt-shaped wings she can use as makeshift swords.

Achilles' Heel: The anime reveals that her Vollständig, Balbarriel, needs a recharge period if used too often. Unfortunately for Candice, this happened at the worst possible moment: Her fight against Byakuya. Without the ability to launch gigantic lighting bolts, she's no better than a sitting duck.
Adaptation Dye-Job: The cover of chapter 581 and the digital colored scans portray her with lime green eyes and hair, but the cover of chapter 640 changes her eye color to blue. Bleach Brave Souls goes with the first color palette, however, here the color of her lightning attacks and her Vollständig are changed from light blue to lime green.
Alliterative Name: Both her names begin with the same "Ca" sound.
Ambiguous Situation: In the manga, she's defeated by Byakuya off screen, and she's last seen face down on the ground, covered in a pool of her own blood. But Liltotto claimed Candice was still alive. We never see her getting hit by the Auswahlen and she never shows up with Liltotto, Bazz-B, or Giselle to call a truce with the Soul Reapers afterwards. Much like Meninas, we learn she died only in a light novel released after the manga ended, and we're still not told if she died from her wounds to Byakuya, died from the Auswahlen, or if she was killed by Mayuri who we're told captured her and Meninas. This is averted in the anime, where we see her getting hit by the Auswahlen alongside Meninas.
Amusing Injuries: When she and her female group are tossed into a building, she has the unfortunate honor of being the first to land, so the other three end up using her as a cushion. It's capped off by Liltotto jumping off her face. She's certain they were doing it on purpose.
An Arm and a Leg: Candice's left arm is destroyed when she tries to block Ichigo's Getsuga Jujisho, leaving her to swear in frustration as she grips the bloody stump.
Artificial Limbs: A bizarre version when her left arm is destroyed by Ichigo's Getsuga Jujisho. Giselle manipulates the flesh from a zombified Shinigami to create a new arm for her.
Berserk Button: She takes hours to get her hair perfect, so any damages given to it serves to make her even angrier than usual. When Ichigo throws her towards a building and gets her bruised and covered in dirt, she goes ballistic.
Butt-Monkey: Among her peers, she's the one to suffer most punishment; during their battle against Ichigo, she suffers a lot of injuries (such as losing an arm or being used as a cushion by her friends when Ichigo throws them to a building) while being mocked by her group, to add salt to the wound. When she, Robert, and Nanana tag-team Byakuya, she's effortlessly beaten offscreen along with them. Her only major victory involved beating down an already-weakened Kenpachi, and she still needed help from 3 other Sternritters to do that.
Character Tics: Whenever she's excited, she licks her lips.
Curb-Stomp Battle:
- When Ichigo returns from the Royal Palace, she takes point and tries to fight him to get what she wants if she kills him. Ichigo easily throws her around, and humiliates her without trouble, leaving her unable to even hurt him.
- After Yhwach departs for the Royal Palace, with Ichigo in hot pursuit, Candice and seven other Sternritters engage the remaining Soul Reapers in a fight. Come Chapter 594, she, NaNaNa and Robert are found lying on the ground, presumably defeated by Byakuya.
Curtains Match the Window: Both her eyes and hair are pale lime green colored in the digital colored scans and Bleach Brave Souls.
Dark Action Girl: She's hot-blooded, foul-mouthed, and gleefully fries some 11th Division Soul Reapers with her lightning bolts. She even electrocutes Kenpachi.
Death from Above: She introduced herself to the 11th Division by tossing lightning bolts down on some hapless Red Shirts searching for Yachiru.
Dual Wielding: She dual-wields lightning bolt-shaped swords drawn from the wings of her Vollständig, for a total of six.
Dynamic Entry: She announces her arrival on the battlefield by destroying Red Shirts with a lightning strike.
Elemental Weapon: Her bow fires electricity-imbued Heilig Pfeil, and she gains a pair of lightning bolt-shaped swords after activating Vollständig.
Even Evil Has Standards: She hates Bambietta's habit of inviting men to her room just so she can kill them to blow off some steam, though Giselle in the manga suggests that she's only objecting because she's missing the chance to take them to bed herself.
- In both the manga and anime, Candice looks rather uncomfortable while watching Giselle kill a wounded Bambietta and zombify her. Candice never stops it from happening but she seemingly thinks it's overkill.
Green and Mean: Possesses a vibrant chartreuse mane of hair and is a merciless, wrathful warrior fighting in favor of the antagonistic Quincies. Her attacks in Bleach Brave Souls are also portrayed with the same yellowish-green color.
Hot-Blooded: Candice has a very short temper. Among Bambietta's groupies, she's the easiest to provoke. Most of her hotbloodedness manifests in the (oddly funny) expressions she makes whenever she's offended, rather than violence.
Hypocrite: In Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World she criticizes Neliel and Halibel for wearing outfits that show off so much of their figures, while still wearing the same revealing Wandenreich outfit. Meninas calls her out on this, but she ignores it.
Jerkass: Candice is a very temperamental person who will get angry at the slightest provocation. She also doesn't appear to value her comrades' lives much as she intentionally lets Bambietta die to become Giselle's zombie, despite being two feet away from her. She knew firsthand what Giselle's abilities could do, as evident later on when she tells Giselle to heal her arm, without resorting to using blood.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her anger issues aside, the novels show that she does care about her fellow female Sternritter, she sees them as her friends, and she shows immense appreciation to them for sticking by her after the war. This even applies to Bambietta, and her own brush with death or near death mellows her out a bit.
Leeroy Jenkins: Candice's hotheaded nature can be detrimental at times. Her fellow female Sternritter had hoped to fight Ichigo with a unified strategy, given his special status. However, Candice is too fired up to care and charges straight in to fight him alone. When she loses her arm, Liltotto points out it's because she's fighting too emotionally for strategy, but it only fires her up even more.
Leg Focus: Her legs usually gain a lot of focus in panel shots, emphasised by the fact she wears nothing on them except for a pair of boots and tiny shorts.
Lightning Bruiser: Her lightning bolts are powerful enough to scorch Kenpachi and she moves so swiftly she can blitz him when he's attempting to do the same to her. When Ichigo throws her into a building that proceeds to collapse on her, all it does is annoy her.
Ms. Fanservice: Her clothing exposes her large cleavage, her midriff, and her legs. She's often positioned in panels to expose either her legs or cleavage and sometimes both. Occasionally her butt too.
Ms Swears-A-Lot: She's easily the most foul-mouthed of the Sternritter, with almost every thing she says peppered with at least one curse word.
Only Six Faces: She looks like a teenaged Rangiku with her hair dyed green.
Personality Powers: Her Schrift allows her to create and control lightning bolts, allowing her to perform devastating lightning attacks. This goes handily with her short-tempered, easy to provoke nature.
Pragmatic Villainy: She chewed out Bambietta for killing attractive mooks every time she's frustrated. It's a waste of a hot guy.
Psycho Electro: Candice's Schrift allows her to project lightning bolts and use them as weapons, and she is a very vicious and merciless warrior serving Yhwach's ambitions.
Really Gets Around: Giselle suggests that she does, but Candice objects.
Shock and Awe: The name of Candice's Schrift is 'The Thunderbolt'. It allows her to generate, discharge, and control lightning bolts. She can generate powerful lightning attacks whenever she wants, and her Heilig Pfeil is said to be a whopping five gigajoules. She is also very fast, which allows her to blitz Kenpachi when he tries to blitz her.
Skewed Priorities: She wants to fry Ichigo to a crisp, not because he's one of the designated war potentials or that he just threw her into a building, but because doing so got her hair dirty.
Giselle: That's why she's angry?
Slasher Smile: She sports an epic, wicked grin (even sticks out her tongue and licks her lips) as she fries several 11th Division soldiers with her lightning.
The Undead: Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World reveals that she is, in fact, still alive (in a sense), after the events in the manga, having been revived as a zombie by Mayuri, along with Meninas and Najahkoop.
The Worf Effect: After being established as a powerful warrior by killing a lot of Red Shirts from the 11th Division and taking down an injured Kenpachi, she later is beaten by Ichigo in many different ways once he arrives at Seireitei, to show his progress after his training in the Royal Palace. Later she's used to show how strong Byakuya became after going through a similar training, being defeated by him off-screen along with NaNaNa and Robert. The anime expands on the fight a bit, which reveals that 'The Thunderbolt' needs a recharge period, and Candice ran out of energy at the worst possible moment before being beaten by Senbonzakura in one hit, implying Worf Had the Flu.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She mostly displays unladylike behavior like a short temper or being brutal in a fight, but she's shown to be interested in boys and takes great pride in carefully caressing her hair, to the point she gets mad when Ichigo ruins it.
Tomboyish Voice: She has a low, aggressive tone suiting her hotheadedness and vulgarity.
Worf Had the Flu: The anime has her Vollständig run out of power during her fight with Byakuya, leaving her defenseless. It's implied that otherwise, she would have put up a better fight, given her Schrift is much better in direct combat than NaNaNa's and whatever Robert's was.
Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Her electric attacks in the digital colored scans are portrayed as light blue in color (following the overall blue motif of the Quincy). Bleach Brave Souls, on the other hand, portrays them instead as green colored, following her own color motif.

U - NaNaNa Najahkoop

NaNaNa Najahkoop

"Don't worry. Both you and your something or other^* won't have time to shed tears. You're gonna be dead in five minutes."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unknown

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: U - The Underbelly

Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (JP), Zeno Robinson (EN)

Sternritter "U" of "The Underbelly". He wears a highly stylized afro and ski goggles. He enjoys insulting his opponents to provoke rather than to belittle them.

His ability allows him to find and exploit a target's weak points after observing them.

Alliterative Name: The "Na" sound is repeated throughout both his names.
Attack Its Weak Point: NaNaNa's Schrift is called 'The Underbelly', which allows him to analyze the Reiatsu of an enemy. Once he is finished understanding, he determines and targets any vulnerabilities found. He makes a grid around them that he calls the Morphine Pattern which pinpoints the holes in the enemies' Reiatsu and paralyzes them. Despite he himself not being strong enough to actually be a threat, 'The Underbelly' is potent enough that even Aizen is affected by it, being momentarily stunned by it.
Badass Boast: When he confronts a Captain-level opponent, he proudly boasts that he will be dead in five minutes.
The Coats Are Off: Takes off his cape when he confronts Ichigo along with his Quincy comrades.
Curb-Stomp Battle: After Yhwach departs for the Royal Palace, with Ichigo in hot pursuit, NaNaNa and seven other Sternritters engage the remaining Soul Reapers in a fight. Come Chapter 594, he, Candice and Robert are found lying on the ground, defeated so fast by Byakuya that the anime expands the fight...whereupon Byakuya has no weaknesses for NaNaNa's Schrift to exploit thanks to the protection from the Ouken clothing and immediately uses Senbonzakura to one-shot the Sternritter.
Entertainingly Wrong: He secretly watches Renji rest after his victory over Mask de Masculine, assuming some trap is lying in wait if he approaches. He's stunned when he realizes that Renji actually just fell asleep in the middle of enemy territory.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: He brags about his power to the Thirteen Court Guard Squads after using it on Aizen.
Jerkass: NaNaNa is a very arrogant individual who will criticize and mock even his own fellow Sternritter. He makes fun of Rose's love of music and guitar, saying he doesn't care to understand art.
Lean and Mean: He is thin and wiry even by his universe's standards.
Leeroy Jenkins: Also takes part in jump-rushing Yamamoto. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Subverted in that he survived, and because of Bazz-B's Schrift, The Heat, at that.
Mysterious Watcher: After Renji kills Mask De Masculine, he "observes" him while he sleeps overnight, implied to be related to his power. The "Underbelly", as it turns out, relies on scanning the opponent's spiritual pressure to locate weaknesses in order to paralyze them. Unfortunately for NaNaNa, he does not use this on Renji and instead fights Byakuya...whose spiritual pressure lacks any weaknesses due to the protection his Ouken clothing grant, leading to NaNaNa getting one-shotted.
Redemption Rejection: He's offered the chance to join with the Soul Reapers by Kyoraku. He refuses, insisting that he, Bazz-B, Liltotto, and Giselle are there to fight them. Unfortunately for him, he'd only assumed the other Sternritters' intentions; Bazz-B guts him before accepting Kyoraku's offer.
Scary Teeth: His teeth are checkered black and gold.
Smug Smiler: He likes to smile mockingly at any new opponent, with those freaky teeth of his.
The Undead: In Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World he turns up alive (in a sense) again, as Mayuri has revived him as a zombie.
Undying Loyalty: Despite being left for dead after being hit by Yhwach's Auswählen, NaNaNa remains blindly loyal to his Emperor. He tries to prevent the Soul Reapers from hindering his plans after his betrayal, and rejects Kyoraku's offer to join him. Bazz-B, who no longer shares the same loyalty, shoots a hole in NaNaNa to get him out of the way.

Guenael Lee

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"My very essence vanishes right before your very eyes and slips right out of your mind."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed dagger, Unnamed spear

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: V - The Vanishing Point

Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa (JP), Alex Cazares (EN)

Sternritter "V" of "The Vanishing Point". A creepy old man who seems to enjoy messing with his opponents.

As the Vanishing Point, he can disappear and reappear anywhere at will - in a metaphysical sense as well as he is capable of erasing himself from his enemies' memories as well. His Quincy cross manifests as a knife.

Actually a Doombot: Turns out he was just a creation of Gremmy, the true "V".
Death by Irony: Since Guenael can make himself vanish from people's memories, Gremmy kills him by claiming he doesn't remember him and that he's vanished, killing him.
Defiant to the End: He angrily attacks Gremmy while he's being erased.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Takes his sweet time doing so, knowing they'll forget about it anyway. But then Yachiru starts hitting him with just her instincts...
Fish Eyes: His eyes go in different directions.
Hoist by His Own Petard: His power involves convincing his opponents that he doesn't exist so he can attack them freely. Gremmy kills him by declaring that he no longer exists.
Invisible Jerkass: He likes to screw with his opponents by sneaking up on them and then disappearing from their sight and memory several times in a row.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: His invisibility doesn't just conceal his presence, but actively erases any memory of his existence from observers, kind of like a more combat-oriented version of the Silence. He can even make people forget him while they are hitting him.
Logical Weakness: If your opponent's first instinct to you magically appearing in front of them is to attack you, then the ability to erase yourself from their memory is useless as they will just hit you every time you appear.
No Sense of Personal Space: He's introduced hugging Isane, having used his powers to sneak up on her.
Oh, Crap!: He's stunned when he realises that the reason why Yachiru can hit him is because she reacts on instinct instead of thought. His power is most effective against people who think about the moves they're about to make.
Red Herring: Part of what makes his power so sinister, is that he's not the real Sternritter V, and the genuine one is a lot creepier.
Squishy Wizard: Beyond his power of invisibility and erasing his presence, he doesn't have anything else going for him. His only weapon is a common knife and once Yachiru got around his power, he was pretty much done.
Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted. Yachiru initially stopped him in his monologue with a good punch to the cheek.
This Cannot Be!: His reaction to Yachiru actually managing to cut him, even though she should have only struck an after-image of his form.
Villainous Breakdown: He is at first very smug because he can predict everything Isane says and does. Unfortunately for him, Yachiru is anything but rational. He gets so angry that he starts ranting that she is a stupid beast and he will kill her.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He only lasts three chapters before Gremmy kills him.
Would Hurt a Child: He had absolutely no problem hitting or stabbing Yachiru.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Is killed by Gremmy, who says he's bored with him now.

Gremmy Thoumeaux

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"In this world, the most powerful force is imagination."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unknown

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: V - The Visionary

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (JP), A.J. Beckles (EN)

The true Sternritter V, "The Visionary". He appears before Isane and Yachiru as they deal with Guenael, and later challenges Kenpachi to a duel. Despite his youthful appearance, he is a quite cruel and powerful foe. Like Pernida and Gerard, he is implied to be a disembodied piece of the original Soul King - in his case, the brain.

Anything he imagines becomes real, from countless guns and missiles to even an incoming asteroid. This power can be further amplified by imagining multiple copies of himself.

Action Bomb: Gremmy's copies try this on Kenpachi. It doesn't kill him, but it's the most effective attack he tries.
Adaptational Early Appearance: In the anime, he's first seen at a meeting between Haschwalth and the other Sternritter, well before his debut in the manga.
Almighty Janitor: Despite being one of the most powerful Quincies around, if not the most powerful after Yhwach, Gremmy himself is not part of the Schutzstaffel and thus shares the same rank with the other regular Sternritter.
Always Second Best: His powers are absurdly unfair, but Yhwach was still able to seal him away on his own. Which implies that even The Visionary is still trumped by the Almighty's future-altering.
Alas, Poor Villain: While Gremmy isn't the most sympathetic person, his death is still played in a rather somber tone. As he gracefully admits defeat, Gremmy reveals that he himself is just a product of his own imagination and shows his true form as a brain in jar. As he begins to vanish into nothingness, he laments that he still wants to win and how a world without imagination will await him. Gremmy was locked up his whole life and the only moments where he felt joyful and alive were also his last. Kenpachi who had earlier expressed great joy at the intense fight, is noticeably somber afterwards.
Antagonist Abilities: Gremmy's Schrift is called 'The Visionary'. He is able to alter reality by making anything he imagines become real. He is also capable of using his ability to create living beings, including a clone of himself to increase the effect of his ability.
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Cites flat out that he's the strongest of the Sternritter as he can pretty much come up with anything to counter any attack.
Ax-Crazy: When he first enters battle, the other Quincies are shown to be unnerved that Yhwach has let him loose. As the fight against Kenpachi progress, Gremmy becomes increasingly excitable and begins taking unnecessary risks in response to his growing battle lust. When he begins unleashing attacks that will take out his own allies, and even the city everyone's fighting over, it becomes clear that the reason the Quincies are unnerved by Gremmy is because he is completely unhinged.
Beautiful Void: His character poem states that there being nothing is beauty in itself. His final moments have him state that a world without imagination awaits him.
Blood Knight: Gremmy has spent most of his life locked up due to how powerful his Schrift is. He is freed to enter the battlefield on the Wandenreich's second invasion of Soul Society. He confronts Kenpachi and engages in battle with him. For the first time in his life, Gremmy is faced with a genuine challenge which fills him with excitement at the prospect of killing Kenpachi.
Body Horror: When he perceives Kenpachi as a monster to be defeated, his body starts to tear apart from that monster killing him from within.
Brain in a Jar: Turns out this is his true form. The body of Gremmy that we have been seeing this whole time was just another product of his imagination. His remains are revealed to have wound up in the possession of Tokinada Tsunayashiro, who used them to create the artificial Soul Reaper/Hollow/Quincy hybrid Hikone Ubuginu.
Character Development: Gremmy during his short appearance grows from someone with zero experience, who is too arrogant to even bother moving a finger and someone who believes his power to be undefeatable, to someone who tries his best to win at all cost, who feels joy and desire for the first time and finally accepts defeat gracefully.
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The function of his Schrift, The Visionary. Anything he imagines becomes physical reality. As Kenpachi discovers, however, this also means his changes don't stick unless he puts some effort into maintaining them. He turns Yachiru's bones into cookies, but they go back to being bone when he's distracted by his battle with Kenpachi.
Colony Drop: After his normal attacks on Kenpachi fail to do the job, he decides to go for broke and just drop a meteor on the entire area.
Creepy Child: Gremmy has the appearance of a young child. He takes great pleasure in how he can use his power of imagination to kill. His smiles are manic and insane and in one color page, his eyes are vivid red, with no visible difference between sclera, pupil and iris.
Deliberate Injury Gambit: He allows Kenpachi to cut him which traps the sword in his body. This allows him to ambush Kenpachi with a giant hand that crushes him from the sky.
Didn't See That Coming: He lets Kenpachi strike him, confident that his imagined steel skin will protect him... until Kenpachi's attack cuts him anyway. He's fairly composed despite the surprise, however. When he can't kill Kenpachi conventionally, he summons a meteor to just destroy everything but himself, reasoning that his power would protect him from retaliation and Kenpachi's only recourse would be to attack him in vain. Apparently having failed to grasp just how crazy Kenpachi is, he's quite surprised when Kenpachi cuts down the meteor instead.
The Dreaded: Askin implies Gremmy's chaotic power is a problem for everyone. Upon witnessing Gremmy's willingness to destroy friend and foe alike just to achieve victory, he clarifies it's the extent of Gremmy's madness that's the real problem. Letting that madness be unleashed is why he felt Yhwach should have never allowed Gremmy to fight.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: He happily explains what his power is and what he is imagining. To his credit, this works favorably for him as a psychological boost (it's always easier to imagine and picture something if you say it aloud).
Explosive Decompression: He tries to do this to Kenpachi by imagining a pocket of outer space enveloping him. However, he's so focused on this that Kenpachi simply flies out and starts cutting his clones down, as they're too distracted to render themselves Nigh-Invulnerable.
Godzilla Threshold: Implied. Throwaway lines from some of the other Sternritter indicate Gremmy is usually kept locked up somewhere by Yhwach and normally doesn't participate in combat due to his destructive abilities and general insanity. Not surprisingly, he fights the Soul Society's own Godzilla in the form of Kenpachi.
Graceful Loser: He humbly accepts his defeat and tries not to make any excuses for his loss. Though he notes that he still wished to have won.
Healing Factor: He can heal his wounds simply by imagining that they've already healed. Kenpachi briefly manages to outpace this by striking him so quickly that Gremmy can't keep up with the damage, but Gremmy is back to normal as soon as there's a lull in the fight.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Gremmy believes Kenpachi's implacable power makes him a monster and concludes he must become stronger than Kenpachi to defeat him. In his imagination, he creates the monster he believes Kenpachi to be. However, during the process of being created, the monster kills Gremmy from the inside out.
Gremmy: My power of imagination was perfect. It was too perfect. I was able to comprehend and understand all of your power. But I could not imagine... that you're the only one capable of withstanding your own power.
Imagination-Based Superpower: The primary ability of his Schrift, The Visionary. If he thinks of anything in his mind, it will become reality. He's able to make Yachiru's arm break simply by imaging it to be "made out of cookies", conjure up multiple firearms, make his body harder than steel, heal any injuries he's sustained, create lava or water, and manipulate the surrounding structure to his liking. He's able to create a clone of himself to make his power stronger to attack the whole of Seireitei just by imagining an asteroid collision. His demise deconstructs the trope by exploring the clear question of whether the user's own fate is affected by his or her imagination.
Inconsistent Spelling: "Gremmy", "Guremi" and "Glemy" are commonly used by fandom.
Logical Weakness:
- Gremmy only creates what he imagines is enough, not what is actually enough, so when he imagines himself as hard as steel, Kenpachi can cut him by attacking hard enough to cut steel. Kenpachi also breaks his arena construct because he didn't imagine it to be strong enough.
- Gremmy's powers have No Ontological Inertia, so he must stay focused on things to maintain changes. He stops using his powers on Yachiru when Kenpachi breaks his focus, restoring her body to normal.
- Gremmy's power of Reality Warping and Imagination-Based Superpower allows him to cause anything to happen that he can imagine. While this makes him absurdly powerful, its danger runs both ways: if Gremmy imagines something that is harmful or even fatal to himself, then he will likewise be affected by it. This includes imagining that he could die.
Metaphorically True: He boasts that he will not lift a finger to kill Kenpachi. Since his true form is a Brain in a Jar and his body is imaginary, he explains that technically he doesn't even have a finger to lift.
More Dakka: Conjures an absurd amount of guns and several missiles to attack Kenpachi. It doesn't work.
Mysterious Past: The end of his fight against Kenpachi reveals that Gremmy was just a brain projecting the illusion of a person. There is no explanation of how a brain could function in such a manner, how he came into existence, how he came to be with Yhwach and how he can undergo the blood ritual that empowers a Sternritter's Schrift. Yhwach managed to seal him away, despite Gremmy's power making this nigh impossible. Several other beings have turned out to be animated, self-aware body parts of the Soul King, or contain animated, self-aware body parts of the Soul King inside them, but Gremmy is never associated with the Soul King in the main series, leaving his existence and history a mystery. In Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World it's implied he's the Soul King's brain.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Due to his Imagination-Based Superpower, he can block incoming attacks just by thinking he's made of steel. His ability to make himself resistant to any kind of strike can only be defeated if his opponent carries the self-belief of being able to cut anything, no matter what it's made of. When he starts cloning himself, he becomes even more durable to the point where even Kenpachi cannot cut him.
No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Not initially something he feels, but when the notion is brought up by Kenpachi, Gremmy quickly comes to believe that he's right. Because Gremmy's power has always just immediately given him anything he envisions, he's never really felt true desire before. It's not until he finds an opponent in Kenpachi too strong to simply imagine away that he realises what he's been missing, the new sensation of actually wanting to win turning him into a total Blood Knight.
Nonchalant Dodge: Leans out of the way of Yachiru's sword swing and says her attacks are so predictable they're boring.
No Ontological Inertia: His changes don't really last unless he continues to focus on them. When he's distracted from Yachiru, her bones return to normal. When he finally dies, everything he creates during his fight disappears.
Nothing Is Scarier: As he vanishes Gremmy notes how a world without imagination awaits him, a prospect he find scary, yet also beautiful.
The Nothing After Death: As Gremmy dies, he notes that a world without imagination will await him. His character poem muses how that itself is beauty.
Oh, Crap!:
- After Kenpachi manages to truly injure Gremmy, Gremmy confronts the possibility of actually dying. When Kenpachi points out the danger in this, Gremmy is horrified to realise that if he imagines his death, his own power will kill him.
- When he tries to imagine himself as the monster he believes Kenpachi to be, the monster kills him from the inside out in the process of being created. Gremmy realises what's happening too late to stop his own death.
Only Friend: Can't Fear Your Own World reveals that Liltotto is his sole friend as she's the only Sternritter who wasn't terrified of him and actually willing to hold a conversation with him. He often used his power to create snacks for her whenever she visited him.
Only Six Faces: Looks like Yukio with bigger teeth, curlier hair, and darker eyes.
Person of Mass Destruction: The Sternritter are nervous about Gremmy entering battle and can't understand why Yhwach allowed it. Their primary concern appears to be that Gremmy is dangerously powerful and doesn't care if his own side is affected by his power. At the height of his battle with Kenpachi, he decides to drop an asteroid on to Seireitei just to try and kill one man. This leads to even Haschwalth being worried, who orders the Soldat to try and protect the sleeping Emperor from the falling asteroid.
Pieces of God: Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World implies that he was part of the Soul King, thus explaining his ludicrous amount of power.
Physical God: Gremmy claims to be the strongest of the Sternritter, second only to Yhwach himself. This claim is shown to be almost warranted by both his immeasurable amount of Spiritual Power, and his Schrift granting him the ability to alter reality itself to the will of whatever he imagines. His power was feared by both Haschwalth and Askin, and he was able to fight on par with Kenpachi Zaraki, a top contender for the title of strongest Soul Reaper in the series. The only reason he lost at all was because he couldn't fathom Kenpachi's power, and accidentally killed himself when he tried to imagine himself as being a monster to match him.
Powers Do the Fighting: With his ability to create or change anything, he can fight without moving a finger. He's amazed when one of Kenpachi's attacks forces him to use his hand to block it, but this doesn't subvert the trope: it's eventually revealed his entire body was also a figment of his imagination.
The Power of Creation: As a result of his power to manifest his imagination, he can create living beings. He can clone himself to increase the effect of his power, as shown by creating a meteorite that could've destroyed the entirety of Seireitei. He can also create other Sternritters such as Guenael Lee and Shaz Domino, who are able to exist as sentient individuals with agency.
Reality Warper: A side effect of his powers makes him into a minor one, being able to change the physical properties of people and places just by imagining them, such as making a giant arena sprout from the ground. Due to the concentration required, he doesn't demonstrate more than one change at a time for any person he's targeting though.
Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: When Kenpachi gains the upper hand in their fight, he nearly kills himself with his own power as a result of imagining the possibility of his own death. Kenpachi guessing what he's thinking snaps him out of it before he dies. He later dies for real via accidentally inflicting Body Horror on himself.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Once he begins to enjoy the fight, his expression becomes manic and insane. The chapter's cover art focuses on this expression and reveals his eyes are completely red, emphasizing his unnatural state of mind.
Sealed Evil in a Can: According to Askin, Yhwach keeps him locked up until he has need of him. This is justified due to Gremmy's godlike power, and it makes him quite the problem should he decide to go rogue.
Self-Disposing Villain: Most of the protagonists don't kill kids. Gremmy ends up destroyed by his own imagination, sparing Kenpachi from joining that short list.
Self-Duplication: What he calls his "Ultimate Technique". He can completely recreate himself, with the newly-made self every bit as real as the original. They can thus combine their powers to increase the power of his reality-warping, as shown by creating a meteorite that could destroy Seireitei and everything in it except for Gremmy.
Sense Freak: Fighting Kenpachi ends up making him one for the thrill of battle, having never felt it before, wanting to win never previously being relevant when victory was always just a given.
Slasher Smile: Unleashes a rather terrifying one against Kenpachi.
Smug Snake: Gremmy is convinced he's the strongest Sternritter, and boasts that his power of imagination is the strongest kind of power that exists. However, he struggles to imagine an attack that Kenpachi cannot counter. In the end, he is done in by his own power because he underestimated how strong Kenpachi's body is.
Stealth Hi/Bye: He introduces himself by suddenly appearing inside the barrier Isane set up around the wounded.
Superpower Lottery: Gremmy can achieve anything he wants by making his thoughts reality. He can transform bones into cookies and kill with a thought. He can double his power by copying himself, open rifts in space and summon asteroids. He cannot be defeated directly; he has to defeat himself by creating a paradox whereby he tries to become something he also believes is impossible. Add to that, Quincy abilities like Sklaverei which in Vollstandig let Quincies absorb anything made out of reishi and Blut Vene which can shrug off Bankai-level attacks and you have a lottery grand prize winner.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: He attempts to drop a meteor on the whole of Seireitei just to try and kill Kenpachi.
Thought-Aversion Failure: His biggest weakness. When he starts to entertain ideas that are harmful to him, he is harmed by them. In the end, he dies because he could imagine being as strong as Kenpachi, but he could not help but think that such power should tear whoever wields it apart.
Thought-Controlled Power: He has to continue actively thinking about whatever he makes or causes with his powers, or else it resets to normal. Any side-effects that happened in the interim, however, seem to stick; Yachiru's bones change back from cookies when he stops paying attention, but she still has a broken arm.
To the Pain: He lovingly details to Kenpachi the effects of Explosive Decompression while inflicting it on him.
Unskilled, but Strong: Gremmy is one of the most powerful beings in the entire series, able to fight Kenpachi after he had awakened his Shikai, and had the raw power to potentially destroy all of Seireitei, including being viewed as a threat to Yhwach in some way. However, Gremmy doesn't have battle experience, meaning he doesn't know how best to apply his abilities effectively when fighting Kenpachi, resulting in Gremmy losing the advantage as Kenpachi continually fights through his absurd powers. Even as he learns from the fight and improves on the fly, Gremmy's lack of experience means when he finds himself unable to kill Kenpachi despite pushing himself harder, he ultimately kills himself when he finds he can't think of something that can match the Captain.
Villainous Breakdown: One is narrowly avoided the first time he is seriously injured by Kenpachi. However, when he's finally forced to accept the truth that he can't imagine something Kenpachi cannot cut, he falls into a manic, aggressive state and wildly imagines himself as the monster he believes Kenpachi to be. As a result, his own power destroys him from the inside out.
Walking Spoiler: Guenael was initially introduced as Sternritter V. Three chapters later, Gremmy appears and introduces himself as the real Sternritter V, revealing Guenael to be only a figment of Gremmy's imagination shortly before disposing of him.
What Is This Feeling?: As his fight with Kenpachi becomes more intense, Gremmy gets his first taste of a real desire to win. While he doesn't know why he feels this way, he realises that he's never felt so good.
Worthy Opponent: Considers Kenpachi Zaraki to be one, to the point that he creates an arena for them to fight one on one.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Tells Guenael that watching him fight was very entertaining, but now that he's bored, there's no reason to keep him around.
You Monster!: When Gremmy realises Kenpachi cut the asteroid with a single swing, he yells out that Kenpachi is a monster.

W - Nianzol Weizol

Nianzol Weizol

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Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unknown

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: W - The Wind

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (JP), Robbie Daymond (EN)

Sternritter W of "The Wind", (as in a winding path, wind-up toy, etc, not the movement of air) Weizol is a strange-looking man with two tongues, shaggy black hair, and a perpetual cross-eye. He is first introduced in the Royal Realm, when Yhwach summoned him against Senjumaru Shutara.

His ability allows him to distort space.

Adaptational Early Appearance: In the anime, he's first seen during a meeting between Haschwalth and the other Sternritter, well before his debut in the manga.
Creepy Child: He's a barefoot kid with two tongues and is constantly cross-eyed.
Died Standing Up: When Shutara fights him, she sews his clothing at super-speed to trap him in place, and also sews multiple pins into the clothing that pierce his entire body. He dies standing in the spot he's trapped in before eventually collapsing on a pool of his own blood.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: He explains to Shutara that his power is used on enemies and attacks that he sees and then clarifies that by 'seeing' he means people that he has seen and memorised, making it obvious to Shutara that anyone he hasn't seen and memorised can defeat him. Fortunately for her, she can work at speeds that are faster than the eye can see or memorise.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Shutara quickly remakes his uniform while he is busy fighting her subordinates and turns it into a piece of clothing that pierces Nianzol from the inside out.
Logical Weakness: Subverted and Invoked. He tells Shutara his power can be used on enemies and attacks he sees, making her believe he has to literally see them. He then goes to explain that by "seeing", he means his power can only be used on attacks or people he sees and has memorized. Shutara simply reveals that she remade his uniform from scratch at super-speed while he wasn't paying attention, which impales him from the inside out.
Maniac Tongue: When he first reveals his presence, mocking Shutara for accusing Yhwach of insolence, his grin is accompanied by his two tongues lolling out in a W-shape.
Powers Do the Fighting: As long as he's aware of the attack, he doesn't have to move to twist space and deflect it.
Slasher Smile: He first reveals his presence with an unnaturally wide grin that reveals his twin tongues and bares his upper teeth. It's accompanied by his eyes rolling up into his head, giving him an off-kilter sense of lazy creepiness that is at odds with the fact he's in the middle of a fight against the Royal Guard.
Space Master: "The Wind" (not that kind) allows him to twist the space around himself, causing attacks to push to the side of the target. Anyone he is protecting with his power doesn't need to dodge, even at point-blank range, because their weapons simply cannot touch their intended target.
Speech Impediment: He speaks with a very pronounced lisp on account of his two tongues constantly hanging out his mouth.
Touch of Death: As a corollary to his Space Master powers, Weizol can use his powers offensively by deliberately trying to touch his opponents. Because his ability warps the space around him, this has the practical effect of making his finger as sharp as any sword. He uses this to cut several of Shutara's mooks in half.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed by his own uniform one chapter after his introduction.

X - Lille Barro (Ṧ)

Lille Barro

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"If comprehension comes slowly, reaction will also follow suit. That's how it always is when you're on the losing side of things."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Diagramm (sniper rifle)

Vollständig: Jilliel

Schrift: X - The X-Axis

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (JP), Evan Michael Lee (EN)

Sternritter "X" of "The X-Axis". A dark-skinned, youthful-looking man with a tattoo over his left eye, he is the leader of the Schutzstaffel, Yhwach's elite guard comprised of exceptionally powerful Sternritter, and the first Sternritter to receive a Schrift.

His Quincy Cross manifests as a large sniper rifle, known as Diagramm. His ability is the "Perforator of All Creation", which makes his attacks unblockable and himself intangible. Barro's Vollständig is Jilliel. In this form, he obtains a halo and four pairs of wings, while also becoming encased within a vaguely seraphim form that lacks arms and possesses only rudimentary legs. If someone manages to kill him, he can enter an evolved form, which looks like a surrealist bird with amped-up powers.

Adaptational Early Appearance: In the anime, he's present when Yhwach inaugurates Uryu as his successor, unlike the manga, where he didn't debut until over a year after the corresponding chapter was released.
All Crimes Are Equal: Or rather everything is sinful. Once he enters Vollständig, Lille considers basically everything his opponents do as a grave sin.
All There in the Manual: In the manga, Lille falls to the Seireitei after his fight with Kyoraku and Nanao and transforms into multiple flamingo-type birds. He is confronted by a zombified Kira but what happens after that is never revealed. The wrap-up Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World reveals that Lille survives Kira, Yhwach's second Auswählen and the destruction of Seireitei, but was dealt with as the war wrapped up.
Angelic Abomination: After Kyoraku's Bankai decapitates his Vollstandig form, he regrows a long neck with an owl-like head. This new head has horizontal eyelids and can contort its shape and swivel its eyeballs around, making it look downright alien. He also gains detached arms and oddly-shaped "legs". It's completely unrecognizable from Lille's original form, and harkens to the Biblical depiction of angels.
Animal Motifs: Owls and birds. Upon his second transformation, Lille gains several owl-like properties and once his power disperses, he transforms into a flock of birds.
Antagonist Abilities: He is a Long-Range Fighter who carries a Sniper Rifle that allows him to perform an Unblockable Attack. He also prefers taking his opponents completely off-guard, and his Always Accurate Attack strikes down the target with a One-Hit KO. He also has a Super Mode that gives him Intangibility (which is normally limited precisely because he considers it unfair) and, in the event that something does hurt him, can just regenerate into an even stronger One-Winged Angel.
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Lille manages to achieve divinity or something very close to it in his holy form. In this form, Lille displays several characteristics and move-sets displayed formerly only by Aizen when he became a transcendental and godly being. In this form, Lille is so strong that only a weapon meant to use against Gods is the only hope of the Shinigami to counter him.
Asteroids Monster: When his Heiligenschein is damaged by Nanao's Shinken Hakkyōken, his body shatters and rains down on Soul Society, leaving his wings behind. Each piece regenerates into a wingless copy of himself.
Badass Boast: Lille was the very first Quincy given power by Yhwach, therefore making him one of the most powerful of the Sternritter. As a result, he is a very boastful individual. He boasts to Nimaiya that the X-Axis is an Unblockable Attack. His attack slices through two separate Shikai and Nimaiya's chest and he tells the dumbfounded Royal Guard members to line up accordingly so that he can take them out in one shot. His Vollständig forces Kyoraku to use his last resort tactic — Bankai. He then blasts Kyoraku before he can react. When he then survives Kyoraku beheading him, he declares that he is an immortal, invincible Messenger of God who cannot be defeated by Bankai.
Bald of Evil: In his initial Vollständig form, he hasn't got a hair on his head.
Beware the Silly Ones: After his fall into the Seireitei and loss of power, Lille was transformed into a flock of silly-looking birds that constantly made chirp sounds, but was still capable of firing highly destructive beams all over the place.
BFG: Lille's Spirit Weapon takes the form of a white-furred, black rifle that's longer than he is tall, and with a very thin barrel, called Diagramm. At the very end of the gun is a large cross. He considers it his "bow", and can quickly repair damage by replenishing it with his reishi. It leaves perfectly spherical holes behind and is capable of destroying entire cities with a single shot.
Boom, Headshot!: He fires a bullet that burrows through Shutara's forehead and destroys her headdress. No hesitation, no explanation of his abilities, no bothering to allow his opponent to react. It's just point-and-shoot.
Combat Pragmatist: When the running Soul Reapers are forcibly split up by their differing abilities to handle the inhospitable Reishi environment as a result of injuries, stamina or strength, Lille decides to take advantage of this opportunity. He sets himself up in a protected location, at a distance, and snipes down any Soul Reaper that gets too isolated.
Cold Sniper: While Quincies are primarily long-distance fighters to begin with, Lille Barro has the power to shoot through anything between himself and his designated target, penetrating any substance. To that end, whereas other Quincies use bows and arrows, he uses a modified sniper rifle and picks off his opponents from a much greater distance than other Quincies. True to this trope, he keeps his cool much better than most of his Hot-Blooded comrades, even when an enemy gets within melee range. When sent to deal with the invading Soul Reapers, he opts to conceal himself atop city buildings and pick them off one by one instead of confronting them head-on. This cold pragmatism successfully incapacitates almost all of the lieutenants and forces the Captain Commander to play his hand.
Curb-Stomp Battle: After Yhwach both revives him and the elites and gains power-ups, Lille demolishes Ōetsu just as effortlessly.
De-power: After the Hakkyouken reflects his attack back at him, his body shatters into pieces and falls into Seireitei, reforming as a bunch of giant flamingo-like creatures without his Heiligenschein. While he can still fire highly destructive balls of light, he is no longer intangible and has lost his regenerative abilities.
Deity of Human Origin: Zigzagged. Whereas Yhwach was born a demigod (half human, half...whatever the Soul King was), Lille was a Quincy who was gifted his power by Yhwach via his blood - the first ever, no less. As a result, while he's a Quincy (i.e., human), his powers are much closer to divinity than the rest of his kind. It takes a weapon specifically forged to kill gods just to defeat him, and even then it still fails to kill him. That being said, Lille never once acknowledges himself as a god, only his divine messenger.
Disproportionate Retribution: He is defeated by Nanao Ise, aided by her Captain Shunsui Kyoraku. His Heiligenschein is destroyed which results in him losing his Godlike powers and being drastically weakened. How does he intend to pay Shunsui for the loss of his God powers? By destroying the entire Seireitei of course.
Exact Words: Lille explains The X-Axis to Squad Zero as a force that pierces through anything between his gun and his target. Oetsu tries to take advantage of this by positioning himself such that shooting him would also hit Yhwach, but Lille goes for it anyway and Yhwach is unscathed. He then reiterates that The X-Axis pierces anything between his gun and his target, which in this case is Oetsu.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Double Subverted. After he tells Kyoraku that the Sternritter have extensive intel on Soul Reaper abilities, Kyoraku asks him to give him a little info to keep things fair. Lille scoffs at the idea of fights being fair, but doesn't think explaining his power will put him at a disadvantage. He therefore consents to explain the basic gist of his power.
Facial Markings: His left eye is always closed and sports a black tattoo in the shape of an encircled saltire cross. If he receives damage three times, this eye opens, transforming the tattoo into a spiritual Quincy cross that activates the full potential of his X-axis power and triggers Vollständig.
Fallen Angel: Lille believes to have become this as his fight with Shunsui caused him to lose his wings and Heiligenschein and himself to become a sinner. Also a literal example as he fell from the Royal Realm in the sky into the Sereitei several miles below.
Feathered Fiend: The loss of his Godly power causes Lille to transform into a flock of flamingo-esque birds. While considerably weaker, he still towers over most Shinigami and is more than a match for an undead and augmented Kira.
The Fundamentalist: Lille seems to consider Yhwach to be God Himself, and views himself as the messenger of God. Therefore, Lille wholeheartedly believes that everything he does in the name of Yhwach's cause is righteous. To him, the Soul Reapers are grave sinners who must be judged and punished. By the time he ascends to Godhood himself, Lille considers everything his enemies do to be unforgivable sins.
A God I Am Not: While Lille believes that he is closer to being a God than a human, Lille quickly mentions that he doesn't see himself as a full-fledged God, when actually called one. Lille is 'merely' a messenger of God. The one true God that Lille believes in is Yhwach. Though he admits to Nanao, he doesn't mind being called one.
Good Thing You Can Heal: Even after Kyoraku manages to cut Lille's head off with his Bankai, bypassing his Intangibility in the process, Lille just grows a new monstrous one.
Half the Man He Used to Be: During their first fight, Oetsu kills Lille by bifurcating him. It doesn't stick, though, courtesy of Yhwach's Auswählen. His fight with Kyoraku and Nanao ends with his left half getting vaporized after the Hakkyouken reflects his Trompete.
Holier Than Thou: Thanks to his ascension into something close to godhood, Lille comes to believe that every action against him is a grave sin, even causing him to squint from a bright light, while everything he does is utterly righteous.
Holy Halo: Gains one in his Vollständig form named Heiligenschein.
Intangibility: One of the abilities granted by his Schrift, 'The X-Axis'. When his normally closed left eye activates, he becomes intangible. In this state, swords pass right through him without causing him any damage. He intentionally keeps his left eye closed to give his opponent a fair fight. When triggered three times, the left eye can remain open which activates his Vollständig.
Knight Templar: Lille believes Yhwach to be God Himself, and himself, the first Quincy gifted with power, as His divine servant. As a result, Lille believes that Yhwach's cause is the more righteous and holy one and has no problems with letting the world go to ruin. Lille's mindset in general is like that of a crusader.
The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: Lille initially sees Nanao's bladeless Hakkyouken as no threat to his intangible body, but puts up an arm to defend himself at the last possible second and is surprised to see it actually get cut and dispersed. He then chastises her for not making that cut count and vows not to let his guard down a second time.
Light Is Not Good: Lille in his Vollständig’s second form is a brightly colored Godly being. Lille in this state can generate balls of light to illuminate the entire area and can fire beams of light that will obliterate anything it catches. He uses it to purge sinners. Said sinners also happen to be the protagonistic Soul Reapers.
Mask of Sanity: Beneath the veneer of the professional sniper he typically acts in, is a disturbingly zealous Knight Templar who views everything his enemies do is heresy. This becomes more prevalent when he enters his first, but especially his second transformation.
More Dakka: His Vollständig grants him four pairs of wings, all of which have three holes. Every hole can fire a shot simultaneously, leaving destruction in their wake.
No Mouth: Hasn't got a mouth in his initial Vollständig release.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Lille Barro, like most Quincies, favors getting the job done as quickly as possible. He is pragmatic and serious in his sniping expertise. He goes for head shots and kills his targets efficiently.
Off with His Head!: Kyouraku bypasses his Intangibility with his Bankai and takes his head clean off. Lille just grows a new one, albeit more monstrous.
Ominous Owl: Once he transforms a second time Lille gains an owl motif and gains several characteristics of owls. This form recalls the bizarre and abstract nature of angels and is rightfully called 'fantastically grotesque'.
One-Winged Angel: The third time his left eye opens, his Vollständig "Jilliel" activates, giving him a halo, a cylinder body with no limbs, four pairs of wings, and holes all over his body and wings that produce his X-axis power. A further transformation gives him an owl's head with an elongated neck, deer-like legs, and his original wings and halo. His arm movements can produce a "divine light" attack, and his "Trompete" attack erases a large part of the city. Lille can only be injured or defeated by a weapon that's designed to kill Gods.
Our Angels Are Different: He claims that, as the first person to have been bestowed a Schrift upon by Yhwach, he's the latter's best creation, and refers to himself as the messenger of God, with Yhwach being his God. When he is revived by Auswählen, he resembles the popular depiction of an angel, an attractive human dressed in white complete with feathery wings. However, his Vollständig, while retaining some of the Hollywood-angel traits like the wings and halo, is more inspired by the Bible's abstract depictions of God's messengers, creating an alien, inhuman form. His 2nd transformation with an owl's head with an elongated neck, deer-like legs, wings, and halo brings the Abrahamic angelic imagery to mind.
Physical God: Lille is the very first Quincy granted a Schrift by Yhwach, and is by far one of the most powerful Sternritters in the Wandenreich, and is able to access a second form of his Vollständig that transforms him into a Transcendent being. He himself states that he is closer to a God than a human. In the end, only a weapon that was specifically designed to kill Gods could hurt him, and even that didn't fully destroy him.
Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Inverted; his Vollständig removes his already short hair and leaves him completely bald, with vaguely X-shaped streaks of light covering his head. His second transformation gives him hair, but his form is unrecognizable to his regular form.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: He is the leader of the Schutzstaffel and has the feats to back it up. After Yhwach's Auswählen power-up, he easily defeats Nimaiya, a member of the Royal Guard, and later defeats Captain-Commander Kyoraku, even after Kyoraku enters Bankai. It gets even further pushed once he goes all out with his Jilliel — nothing less than a weapon specifically designed to kill Gods can do him in. And even then he is far from defeated. There is a very strong implication that he's also a case of Asskicking Leads to Leadership, which is why he's the leader of the Schutzstaffel in the first place.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- He talks down to Senjumaru, claiming that her surprise is the result of being so weak that she doesn't realize she's lost until it's too late. He also claims that the Soul Palace was already conquered the moment Yhwach stepped into the realm.
- In a soliloquy, he states that he can pick off the Soul Reapers the way a predator can hunt a herd: due to their differing abilities and injuries, the running Soul Reapers become separated from each other. He later comments on the vulnerability of the remaining survivors, stating that it only takes a single person to break a disciplined formation; Kyoraku promptly stops in an attempt to locate him and is instantly shot. Unfortunately for Lille, Kyoraku has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Both the Thirteen Court Guard Squads and the Wandenreich believe that Lille perished when Nanao's mirror sword reflected his God's trumpet on him. But unbeknownst to them, he transformed into a bunch of birds.
The Scourge of God: He sees himself as Yhwach's divine instrument to punish all sinners.
Shout-Out: His Trompete attack is based on the geometric figure known as Gabriel's Horn, which is nicely in line with The X-Axis motif. Traditionally, Gabriel is said to be the angel who will blow the horn to herald the coming of Judgment Day. What does "Jilliel" mean? Judgment of God.
The Stoic: Is very calm and calculating as befitting of his status as a sniper. That said... Once he switches on Jilliel and particularly in his second transformation, he turns into a Not So Stoic Large Ham - losing all self-control in favor of revelling in his God-like power.
Story-Breaker Power: Even for the standards of the Schrift and outside of them, The X-Axis is an exceptionally powerful ability. First off, its primary usage is an Unblockable Attack that cannot be conveniently dodged. And if triggered thrice, it renders Lille completely intangible. Physical attacks? Useless. Kido? It does absolutely nothing. And after that, if Lille were to be somehow actually injured, he can simply regenerate into a more powerful form that is casually capable of Godlike feats such as city-wide level of destruction. It is very telling that the only way he was defeated at all was due to a very specialized tool specifically meant to deal with the divine.
Super Prototype: Lille reveals that he was the first Quincy to ever receive a Schrift from Yhwach, for which he considers himself Yhwach's "masterpiece" and "the man closest to God". The result was a nigh-intangible, absurdly destructive Godlike being who leads an elite squad which includes two fragments of the Soul King. The other Sternritter, who received their Schrifts later, are nowhere near as powerful.
Unblockable Attack: The Schrift that Lille was gifted with is called 'The X-Axis'. He aims for the target and releases his attack. However, this doesn't involve anything like "bullets", it simply pierces anything along his line of sight, hence the X-axis. It doesn't matter what comes between him and his target, as any obstacles will simply end up taking the same damage the target takes.
Undying Loyalty: Even after Yhwach decided to abandon the Schutzstaffel, performed the Auswählen on them, and was killed and the war ended, Lille still chose to fight against the Soul Reapers in his name.
Villain Teleportation: While in his Vollständig, he can warp to any location in his direct vicinity, appearing as a spiraling circle while doing so.
Villainous Breakdown: He goes crazy over the loss of his Holy Halo, vowing to utterly destroy Soul Society as revenge for Kyoraku aiding in his defeat, proclaiming that even his death wouldn't be enough to satisfy him.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Lille is under normal circumstances, the most composed and professional of the Schutzstaffel. However, when he undergoes his Vollständig, he slowly begins to become boastful with his religious zealotry while maintaining his stern tone and when he enters his second transformation, all all subtlety vanishes as he loudly proclaims everything is sinful except for himself and his liege.
World's Strongest Man: Lille Barro is the very first Quincy to receive power from Yhwach. As a result, Lille became one of the strongest Quincies to ever exist. He is selected by Yhwach to lead his Elite Guard. His Schrift, 'The X-Axis', enables him to pierce anything within his line of sight and become intangible. He can fight toe-to-toe with Shunsui Kyoraku, the new Captain-Commander of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads, and can even overpower him when he enters his Quincy: Vollstandig. He is also one of the only two Quincies (the other being Gerard Valkyrie) who can enter into a second form of his Vollstandig, which outright transforms him into a Transcendent Being that can only be injured by a weapon that is stated to kill the divine.
"X" Makes Anything Cool: The first of the Sternritter to receive powers from Yhwach, and easily in the running for the most formidable and powerful, is "X".

Y - Loyd Lloyd

Loyd Lloyd/Royd Lloyd

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"Please forgive me... Lord Yhwach."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unknown

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: Y - The Yourself

Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi (JP), Robbie Daymond (EN)

Sternritter "Y" of "The Yourself" is pale and bald, possessing a third eye on his forehead. He wears odd buns on the sides of his head that obscure his ears. Initially thought to be a throwaway Sternritter killed off-screen by Kenpachi Zaraki, he carries a deeper secret than one would expect. In reality, "The Yourself" is given to Loyd and his twin brother, Royd.

Loyd and Royd's shared ability is to take the appearance and power of a given target, with Loyd copying their moveset while Royd copies their memories.

Adapted Out: The twins' backstory, which explains why they're so indistinguishable from birth as well as the difference between their mimicry abilities, is left out in the anime adaptation. This caused a bit of confusion among anime-only watchers, as it's not really made clear that Loyd and Royd are two different people.
Almighty Janitor: In spite of being just a Sternritter with his particular variation of his Shrift only allowing the copying of memories, he was strong enough to defeat Zaraki in an offscreen battle and force Yamamoto to use Bankai to defeat him. And Yamamoto was convinced he was the real Yhwach, even after "Yhwach" began to act uncharacteristically.
Always Identical Twins: Their mimicry ability began before they were born. As a result, by the time they were born, they had learned to mimic each other and were therefore indistinguishable from each other.
Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how much of Royd's fight with Yamamoto was done with solely his own abilities, the memories he inherited from Yhwach with the Yourself, or if Yhwach personally powered him up with Auswählen. Yamamoto is convinced that he's fighting the real Yhwach, but he also is blinded by rage, while Royd is being outperformed at every step. In a 2023 Q&A, Kubo explained that Royd had 70-80% of Yhwach's power in addition to all of his memories (and conversely, Loyd had all of Kenpachi's power and 70-80% of his memories).
Bald of Evil: Despite his youth, his head is completely bald, and actively took part in the eradication of Soul Society as well as deceiving Yamamoto in order to weaken him so the real Yhwach could finish the job.
Chekhov's Gunman: Loyd is first introduced as a random Sternritter Kenpachi killed off. However, Kenpachi's description of Loyd's power is the set-up for the Royd reveal that leads to Yamamoto's death.
Ditto Fighter: They have the ability to mimic the forms of others, including someone's memories and power. Each one, however, can only copy a certain amount of the person's power or memories; Loyd can fully copy someone's power but only most of their memories, while Royd can fully copy memories but only most of their power. In the case of Loyd, this allows him to fully copy the raw power of Kenpachi, but he is unable to defeat him once Kenpachi adapts and simply gets stronger on the fly, while Royd can fully imitate Yhwach to the point of almost perfectly convincing people he truly is him, but lacks the raw power needed to stand up to Yamamoto's bankai.
Elite Mooks: Loyd was praised by Kenpachi as being a tough opponent. Royd manages to stand his ground against Yamamoto's Bankai before finally going down. Yamamoto had previously made short work of four other Sternritter with no effort. Yhwach praises his performance before killing him.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Royd reacts with grief and horror when Yamamoto uses his Bankai to summon undead Quincy.
Foreshadowing: While disguised as Yhwach, Royd is horrified when Yamamoto uses his Bankai to summon fallen Quincy soldiers to attack him. It's been thoroughly established that the real Yhwach doesn't care at all about his men, even killing them himself at certain points, hinting that "Yhwach" isn't who he appears to be.
Killed Mid-Sentence: Despite praising Royd's successful ruse, Yhwach immediately vaporizes Royd before the latter can even finish expressing his gratitude.
Out-of-Character Alert: Royd's dying apology is what tips Yamamoto off that the Yhwach he was fighting is a fake. After all, Yhwach, whom Yamamoto personally fought 1000 years ago, has no one to apologize to for losing.
Punny Name: Loyd Lloyd? The Engrish is hard not to notice. Furthermore, he has a brother named Royd, and the Japanese don't pronounce Ls.
Repetitive Name: Loyd Lloyd, despite the spelling variation, is a repeated name; in the Viz translation, it's Loyd Loyd, making it an example of Classic Classic, rather than Classic Classical. Complicated further by the twin's name being Royd Lloyd, bearing in mind that the Japanese don't pronounce Ls.
Third Eye: The twins each have a third eye on their forehead as a sign of their power-copying abilities.
This Was His True Form: Royd only lets up his Yhwach guise as he is dying and after the real Yhwach appears before him, confirming that Royd successfully carried out the hidden objective of distracting Yamamoto despite being mortally wounded for it.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Yhwach doesn't have much respect even for the followers that successfully and perfectly carry out his orders. Royd sacrificed his life to carry out Yhwach's plan, but Yhwach still blasted his dying form. Yamamoto calls him out on this. Admittedly, Royd was dead anyway at that point thanks to the wounds sustained by Yamamoto, but still.
Villainous Breakdown: When Royd realizes the skeletons he is fighting are Quincies Yhwach knew on a personal level, he's shaken to the core and starts acting less and less like the real Yhwach.
Walking Spoiler: Royd is such a twist that a section about Loyd cannot even lead with Royd's name, as Loyd was taken out off-screen and barely discussed except to foreshadow Royd. Royd himself was a major plot point that set up Yamamoto's death.

Z - Giselle Gewelle

Giselle Gewelle

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"Nothing good will come to you even if you kill me."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed bow

Vollständig: Azhalbiora

Schrift: Z - The Zombie

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (JP), Casey Mongillo (EN)

Sternritter "Z" of "The Zombie". A petite girl with quirky hair that's tied to make it look like she has antennae. She's a tad stranger than her other compatriots, publicly talking about whether or not someone's had sex without a care in the world, and generally acting flighty in the middle of battle. Despite this, she is capable of great sadism and cruelty.

As "The Zombie", she possesses a powerful Healing Factor, making her very difficult to kill, and she is able to use dead bodies to heal her teammates. She can also control anyone who comes into physical contact with her blood, making her victims a type of "zombie". Perhaps to reflect this, she also has a bone-themed bow. Her Vollständig, named Azhalbiora in the anime, grants her skeletal wings which can produce reishi skeletal soldiers.

All for Nothing: Liltotto, Giselle and Bazz-B form an Enemy Mine with the Shinigami when Yhwach's Auswahlen makes them realize how little he values them. Bazz-B fights Haschwalth and loses, but the fight may have slightly wavered Haschwalth's allegiance toward their emperor. The two girls? Defeated off-panel, accomplishing nothing more than briefly disturbing Yhwach's nap.
Alliterative Name: Despite the spelling of Giselle's name, they both start with the same soft "Gheh" sound.
All There in the Manual: After failing to kill Yhwach, Giselle was last seen lying in a pool of her own blood with no confirmation if she died or survived thanks to her abilities. Advertisment for the novel Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World reveals that she indeed survived. The novel further elaborates on her abilities and her relationship with Bambietta.
Ambiguous Gender: Or rather ambiguous sex. Giselle presents herself as female, but Yumichika and Charlotte imply that Giselle may be a transgender woman. It is not confirmed if they are right or wrong and Giselle's true sex is played as a mystery in the manga, but Kubo later clarified in a 2022 Q&A that this is correct.
Amusing Injuries: In the anime, Liltotto fires a Golden Crunch at Ichigo while Giselle is right behind him, causing her to panic and then express relief when he indirectly saves her by holding the jaws open. When Meninas starts attacking him, he jumps out of the way, allowing the jaws to chomp into Giselle's neck. Because of her Healing Factor, it's not taken too seriously.
Animal Motifs: The Cockroach. Her hair resembles cockroach antennae, and like cockroaches, she has an association with corpses and is very, very hard to kill.
Antagonist Abilities: Giselle's Zombie abilities are triggered via contact with her blood, so she entices her opponents to cut her ensuring they become covered in her blood. If they are alive when this contact happens, they are placed in a state of undeath allowing Giselle to control their minds. If they were dead, they're resurrected under Giselle's complete control. Giselle's Healing Factor is so great she's almost impossible to kill and instantly heals even lethal injuries.
Badass Adorable:
- Giselle has the face of cute young girl and likes to engage in funny shenanigans, but according to Liltotto she is even stronger than Meninas and Candice.
- Applies to her Vollständig minions too. These reishi skeletons are adorable in a cartoonish sort of way, but it's been confirmed that they and their bones can be used to zombify someone without the need for Giselle's blood. Suffice to say... not good.
Bad Boss: When Bambietta begs for Giselle to give her... something unspecified, Giselle responds by punching her, grabbing her by the hair, and flashing a Slasher Smile after giving her a False Reassurance. Giselle also has no qualms about using her as a Human Shield or performing Cold-Blooded Torture.
Beware the Silly Ones: Giselle is a cheerful person who likes to make silly faces and snark at friends. Giselle is also a ruthless fighter who is remorseless when forcing a bunch of Shinigami soldiers to kill themselves, and has no qualms about murdering her own teammates to gain access to their abilities, as with Bambietta.
Blood Magic: Anyone Giselle's blood touches becomes a "controlled corpse". Smaller amounts only work on weaker individuals, and they retain their sense of self. On stronger individuals, more blood is required and it will take time to work its way through the target's system, causing the target's complexion to become dark red. These zombies are fanatically loyal to Giselle and almost impossible to kill short of full vaporization. It can even revive the dead. Quincies can only be converted after death and with Hollows the effect is only temporary.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Liltotto notes that Giselle is stronger than several of her comrades, but in battle Giselle prefers to let her zombies fight and would rather fool around instead. The post manga novels claim that Giselle could rival a captain like Mayuri in intelligence, if she simply put some effort into it.
Cold-Blooded Torture: After Mayuri injures Giselle in their confrontation, Giselle hides away in a cave with Bambietta. To heal, Giselle absorbs Bambietta's blood, which causes a great deal of pain to the latter. Giselle decides to add to the pain by biting and tugging a chunk of Bambietta's skin. When Bambietta pleads with Giselle not to take so much blood, and says she doesn't wanna die from it, Giselle responds by repeatedly slamming Bambietta's head onto a rock while saying "You're already dead!" All Giselle cared about was getting as much blood as possible, regardless of whether or not it was too much for Bambietta to handle (who was rendered incapacitated from it). Though Giselle knew that it would not kill Bambietta.
Combat Medic: Giselle can decompose corpses into new limbs to replace severed ones. As a result, Giselle's the group's designated healer.
Combat Sadomasochist: Despite her claiming otherwise, Giselle derives immense sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain. Giselle will openly admit to getting very turned on by killing Bambietta and zombifying the corpse. She also doesn't seem to mind getting chopped to pieces when she has to use her power which relies on her blood splattering on whoever she wishes to control.
Consuming Passion: After her fight with Mayuri, Giselle retreats with Bambietta in cave and begins to suck her blood and bite her flesh in order to regenerate. The panels and Bambietta's moans make it look much more sexual.
Control Freak: Giselle seems to have problems, if other people, especially Bambietta, don't listen to her commands. Whenever Bambietta doesn't follow or even talks back, Giselle immediately resorts to violence and once became very enraged. Giselle mentions that the lack of control is one of the disadvantages of zombifying someone after death. It would also explain her preference for the undead, as zombies can't disobey.
Cute and Psycho: Giselle has the innocent face of a little girl and behaves likes that most of the time, but she also once bashed Bambietta's head against the ground in sheer rage, only to gleefully embrace and declare her love for Bambietta a few seconds later. She is more than just a bit unstable.
Deadpan Snarker: Giselle's quick to push Candice's buttons, often making side comments that irritate the latter.
Death Is Cheap: Giselle's Schrift allows her to negate the death of anyone as long as their bodies are intact and bring them back as zombies. Combining her ability with Mayuri's science is one of the very few ways to bring someone truly back from the dead.
Deliberate Injury Gambit: Giselle controls targets through blood contact, so she goads opponents into recklessly attacking. This ensures Giselle's blood splatters all over the targets, snaring them. This backfires on Ikkaku and Yumichika because Yumichika immediately deduces what Giselle is up to. This forces Giselle to enact Plan B - bring out already created zombies to fight on Giselle's behalf.
Did Not See That Coming: Mayuri taking control of Giselle's zombies, turning them against Giselle.
Dissonant Serenity: She acts very friendly and childish no matter the situation. But behind that act is a truly cruel and vile person. Giselle is very gentle and calm when offering to help Bambietta, but the blind panic this offer causes Bambietta makes Giselle's serenity appear creepy. It's later revealed Giselle's idea of helping was to murder Bambietta and inject the corpse with her blood, effectively creating an immortal and loyal zombie with Vollständig and The Explode completely intact. After revealing that her blood effectively brainwashes them if it comes into contact, Giselle cheerfully orders the Red Shirts to commit suicide.
Domestic Abuse: Giselle is in love with Bambietta and in several ways behaves like her girlfriend, but this does not stop her from abusing Bambietta. She rationalizes it by reminding Bambi that she's already dead.
Enigmatic Minion: Giselle is constantly snarking, teasing and smiling when she interacts with most people. This makes her true feelings and thoughts hard to read even for her closest friends. Combined with her status of a Wild Card it gives her an eerie aura of unpredictability.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Giselle is a horrible, horrible person, but she is friends with the other female Sternritter and often concerned for their safety. Her love for Bambietta is likewise genuine. She is not above abusing Bambietta but at the end of the day she will make sure that Bambietta will survive and prevent what Bambietta would find much more gruesome: dying for real.
Even Evil Has Standards: Gigi doesn't actually control the hearts and minds of the people she zombifies and is fine with that, being mildly annoyed when accused of doing so. She also shows some disgust towards Mayuri when she learns of his own experiments.
The Exile: When Liltotto choses to abandon the Wandenreich following Yhwach's defeat she takes Giselle with her, both because of their friendship and to make sure that Giselle doesn't abuse her necromantic powers.
Face Framed in Shadow: Giselle's confession that she doesn't want Bambietta to die is accompanied by a face covered in dark silhouette. It makes Giselle look sinister, and for good reason: Giselle kills Bambietta to convert her into a zombie that will do whatever Giselle wants her to do.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Giselle looks cute and innocent, but she is one of the most depraved characters in the entire series.
Faking the Dead: After Zombie Kensei stabbed her, Giselle was able to convince Mayuri that she was truly dead. Giselle would later taunt him for that mistake.
Faux Affably Evil: Giselle always carries a cheerful, pleasant smile, speaks sweetly, and offers to help others and treat them well. It. Is. A. LIE. You don't want Giselle's kind of help — smiles and affectionate behaviour means Giselle is thinking of turning you into a zombie... and by the time Giselle starts smiling, it is already too late to run away.
Fetishized Abuser: It's implied that Giselle's and Bambietta's relationship is more than platonic, at least from Giselle's part, but this doesn't stop Giselle from abusing Bambietta psychologically and physically. Her abuse has been played for horror as much as it has been sexualized.
Foreshadowing:
- When Candice spurns Giselle's attempt at using blood to heal her arm, Giselle mopes around about how she can't zombify Quincies unless they're already dead. This is exactly what happened to Bambietta.
- Giselle's collection of fallen Soul Reapers is foreshadowed earlier in the arc, when we see one Soul Reaper collapse after his fight and a shadow loom over his fallen form. It turns out the shadow that fell over the fallen Hitsugaya◊ was Giselle, who calls on him to fight Mayuri on Giselle's behalf.
- Giselle and Liltotto collapsed on the ground after their fight with Yhwach and he immediately went to sleep. Once Orihime and Ichigo arrived at Yhwach's throne room, there was no trace of the two. This would imply their survival and Haschwalth's help in rescuing them during the night.
For the Evulz: Giselle's decision to reanimate Bambietta into a mindless zombie. While it does make sense to keep a powerful ally around, Giselle demonstrates the ability to conventionally heal allies. Giselle wanted to turn Bambietta into a zombie. It wasn't a necessity, and it wasn't compassion. Despite this, she claims to not be a sadist.
Freak Out: When Bambietta pleads Giselle not to take too much blood so that she doesn't die, Giselle completely loses her composure and bashes Bambietta's head against the ground, shouting that Bambietta is already dead. It takes a moment for Giselle to realize afterwards what actually happened.
The Gadfly: Giselle likes to flirt, insult or snark in order to get a reaction from others. This takes a turn for the dark in her interactions with Bambietta. Giselle admits the reason for her psychological torment of Bambietta is because she likes to see her break down and cry.
Good Thing You Can Heal: Giselle claims not to be a very good fighter. That doesn't matter because what Giselle doesn't mention is the phenomenal ability to heal. Giselle can instantly recover from being cut in half and even unbreak a broken neck. When a Red Shirt cut through Giselle's heart, Giselle still regenerated, although at a somewhat slower than usual pace and with the help of stealing the blood of others. Even Yhwach was unable to kill her.
Hair Antennae: Giselle's hair is tied on top to give the effect of insect-like antennae coming out of the head.
Healing Factor: Despite being sliced from shoulder to stomach, Giselle just pushes the two pieces back together and is instantly healed. When Giselle's neck is broken by Ichigo, it is instantly reset as if simply cricking a joint. Being stabbed through a vital point, however, is quite the work to heal from; Giselle heals herself by sucking the blood from Bambietta's zombiefied body.
Healing Hands: Giselle can use her Schrift to heal people by taking parts from others, including the dead, to heal their own. This is done to restore Candice's arm. Giselle is also able to repair zombies in this fashion. She can also heal herself as well from any injury up to, and including getting sliced vertically in half using 'The Zombie'.
Hidden Depths: There are instances that show that Giselle is more intelligent than she lets on. She knows which buttons she has to push in order to get a rise of her friends and enemies alike and is easily able read the stoic expressions of Liltotto and figure out her true feelings and thoughts much to the latter's chagrin. She is able to fake being dead to such a degree that it even can fool the likes of Mayuri and Yhwach. Her giving Hitsugaya the Schutzstaffel uniform implies familiarity with the history of the Hagal Rune. The novels later state the possibility that her intelligence could rival Mayuri, though her lack of understanding of Mayuri's scientific counters to her power undercut this.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Mayuri manages to quickly study Hisuguya's blood in his zombified state and make a virus to counteract it that puts Giselle's zombies in Mayuri's control. He then promptly sics one of the zombies on Giselle, stabbing through Giselle's chest in no time.
Hypocritical Humor: Giselle denies being a sadist, but takes great pleasure in zombifying enemies and allies alike, even gleefully humiliating and abusing an undead Bambietta. She also notes that Bambietta is rather crazy, despite not being a paragon of sanity herself.
I Love the Dead: She displays several necrophiliac tendencies throughout her screentime. Giselle is very, very enthusiastic about not only the creation and acquisition of new zombie thralls, but there are heavy sexual undertones regarding the treatment of personal "favorites", such as Bambietta's reanimated corpse. Her character poem outright states that she loves the dead.
Implausible Deniability: Giselle is genuinely perplexed when people suggest that she is sadistic and publicly announced that she isn't. But reading her trope page makes it impossible to portrait her as anything but one.
Insult Backfire: When Liltotto tries to insult Giselle by calling her a bitch, it only causes her to smile in delight.
I Shall Taunt You: When Giselle appears alive and well in front of Mayuri and Kyoraku after being seemingly destroyed by the former's zombies, Mayuri condescendingly comments on her durability. Giselle's response is to make a childish face at him.
In-Series Nickname: Both Bambietta and Candice call Giselle Gigi. Mayuri later gives her the name Zombie Girl.
Jerkass: Do NOT let her childish and cute demeanor fool you. Giselle is one of the most depraved and sadistic of the Sternritter. She kills Bambietta for no other reason than to turn her into one of her zombies so that she can do whatever she wants to her. She constantly abuses and harms her for no other reason than to get off on her pain.
Karma Houdini: Giselle is a very sadistic individual who abuses Bambietta a lot and killed her in the first place. Yet she survives the events of the final arc with no repercussions and seemingly lives happily ever after.
Kick Them While They Are Down: Bambietta was never a pleasant person, so having Giselle reanimate her into a corpse could be seen as well deserved karma. However, Bambietta already had her comeuppance in the form of Humiliation Conga in her fight with Dangai Joue. Therefore, Giselle's zombification of Bambietta, and corresponding desire to do the same to Candice, is portrayed as overkill villainy rather than karmic justice.
The Kirk: Of the rough Sternritter faction following the death of Yhwach. She is not as calm and rational as Liltotto, but also not driven by insticts as much as Bambietta.
Lean and Mean: The skinniest of the Sternritter (barring Liltotto) and easily one of the most utterly depraved characters in the entire series.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: Giselle claims to be positively turned on by Bambietta's pleading and begging Giselle to not "help" her.
Madness Mantra: In chapter 604, after being de-powered, Giselle is seen embracing Bambietta again, while repeatedly saying "Bambi-chan won't die... because I won't die... I won't die... I won't die..." with enormous bags under her eyes.
Major Injury Underreaction: When Giselle's left shoulder gets sliced in half, she just smiles and carries on talking. The wound disappears quickly.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After surviving Yhwach's Auswählen, Giselle makes the decision to help out the Soul Reapers if it means getting into close enough proximity to Yhwach to obtain revenge.
Nightmare Fetishist: Her necrophiliac tendencies aside, Giselle remarks how a banged-up and half mummified Bambietta looks cuter than usual. When seeing the cold expression of Liltotto Giselle finds that expression really creepy but also claims that she likes it.
Oh, Crap!:
- Gives an epic one in Chapter 596, when Mayuri reveals that he can turn Giselle's zombies into his own.
- Gets another one in Chapter 603 when Robert explains what's about to happen to the Sternritter left behind by Yhwach.
Only Friend: Giselle is the only one who doesn't insult Bambietta, opting instead to make fun of Candice and is the only female Sternritter, who calls Bambietta by her nickname. In general it seems that Giselle is the only one, who actually likes her. Unfortunately for Bambietta, Giselle's feelings are a bit extreme.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Yhwach uses the Auswahlen, Giselle is seen clinging onto Bambietta's lifeless body, repeatedly promising "I won't die" over and over. It's rare to see Giselle genuinely scared for her life like that.
People Puppets: While the Zombie appears to be necromancy at first, it is essentially this. Those who come into contact with Giselle's blood are enslaved to her will and become "corpses" that are fully self-aware but unable to act of their own volition. Giselle can control any flesh that has touched her blood, living or not, with the exception of Quincy flesh, which must be dead first, giving the impression of creating zombies. This is how she forces the Squad 11 members to commit suicide and is even able to transfer flesh to her comrades to heal wounds and restore limbs.
Perpetual Smiler: Giselle's constantly smiling, but displays a range of expressions from quirky smile to unhinged grin.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Giselle wears a dress that reaches mid-thigh and black stockings that reveal no skin at all.
Playful Cat Smile: Giselle's most common expression, highlighting a cheerfully mischievous, sadistic personality.
Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Giselle's blood covers a bunch of 11th Division soldiers; when Giselle orders them to kill themselves, they do.
Puppeteer Parasite: Giselle's blood acts as this, infecting a host and making them slaves to Giselle's will.
Reverse Psychology: One of Giselle's favorite tactics in order to goad others into attacking her is using reverse psychology, by telling her opponents that they shouldn't attack her. Considering how her power relies on blood contact, she's not wrong.
Rule of Symbolism: Almost everything about Giselle are an allusion to the bokor from voudon religion. The battle and use of Hitsugaya against Mayuri strongly resembles the zombification process of the original myth.
Security Cling: She holds onto Bambietta's body for dear life after Yhwach activates the Auswahlen on the Sternritter.
Self-Harm–Induced Superpower: She can use her blood to turn anyone into a zombie, in which she has to injure herself first to do it.
Simple, yet Awesome: How can Giselle easily increase the scope and effectiveness of her abilities? By mixing her blood with water.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: Giselle greatly enjoys taking control of others and claims murdering Bambietta aroused her, displaying a characteristically serene and cheery demeanor the whole time.
Squee: When Candice ordered Giselle to heal her arm, the latter is elated... and then Candice tells Giselle not to use blood. Giselle is disappointed.
Took a Level in Kindness: A minor example. Giselle still treats Bambietta horribly, but following the end of the war she stops resorting to physical abuse, whenever Bambietta doesn't follow her orders, when before that would be her first response.
Unfriendly Fire: Giselle has no qualms about sacrificing an ally if it means obtaining another zombie.
Ungrateful Bastard: After being healed by Haschwalth's aide, Liltotto leaves with Giselle, since she believes that Giselle would turn their saviors into zombies and use their flesh to heal herself. Giselle later expresses no qualm about the idea of zombifying Ichigo even though it was him who defeated Yhwach in the end.
Voodoo Zombie: Everything about Giselle is a based on the bokor from Voudon beliefs. Giselle is able to create zombies by spreading her blood and like in the original myth, Giselle's zombies can both be undead and reanimated through her blood or living and Brainwashed into slavery. Bambietta's pleads for something...unspecific is reminiscent of the addictive effects of zombie powder. Like in the original myth Giselle is capable of both healing others and creating zombies. Even Giselle's Ambiguous Gender is a reference to the two hands of the bokor, the male right hand that uses white magic to heal and the female left hand that uses black magic to create zombies.
Wild Card: After the end of the war, Giselle lost any semblance of affiliation with any faction and unlike Liltotto is loosely motivated at best by her desire to get her former comrades back. She is such a loose cannon that Liltotto has to keep an eye on her, lest she unleashes a zombie apocalypse.
Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Giselle has a tendency to hit or otherwise abuse Bambietta and every time she tells Bambietta that it is her own fault.
Yandere: Giselle has an... extreme liking towards Bambietta, particularly as a zombie. Giselle becomes enraged after hearing Bambietta's plea to not take so much of her blood and repeatedly bashes her head into the pavement until it cracks open and knocks her out. When Giselle realizes what happened, she glomps Bambietta happily, and gushes over over how much she loves her.
Zombie Apocalypse: Anyone who's died/nearly died over the course of this arc is fair game to be one of Giselle's zombies. Giselle's had a lot of time off-screen to run around converting people.

Characters / Bleach: Sternritters N - Z

Robert Accutrone

Driscoll Berci

Meninas McAllon

Berenice Gabrielli

Jerome Guizbatt

Mask De Masculine

James

Candice Catnip

NaNaNa Najahkoop

Guenael Lee

Gremmy Thoumeaux

Nianzol Weizol

Lille Barro

Loyd Lloyd/Royd Lloyd

Giselle Gewelle

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Robert Accutrone

Driscoll Berci

Meninas McAllon

Berenice Gabrielli

Jerome Guizbatt

Mask De Masculine

James

Candice Catnip

NaNaNa Najahkoop

Guenael Lee

Gremmy Thoumeaux

Nianzol Weizol

Lille Barro

Loyd Lloyd/Royd Lloyd

Giselle Gewelle

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