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Bleach

Zangetsu: "Do you want to fight? Or do you want to live?"
Ichigo: "I want to win!"

Ichigo Kurosaki would have liked to have been an Ordinary High School Student, but his orange-colored hair (which he swears is his natural color) and his ability to see ghosts kept getting in the way. Still, he was able to live a fairly normal life with his father (who can see ghosts but is hiding that as well other things from all of them) and his two sisters, Karin and Yuzu, who can both see ghosts to some extent (though Karin steadfastly refuses to acknowledge them). However, Ichigo is barely aware of the full nature of the spirit world until he comes into contact with a shinigami (lit. "death god", used as "soul reaper") named Rukia Kuchiki, whose profession is to destroy evil spirits ("Hollows") and send good spirits ("Pluses" or "Wholes") to the afterlife.

Unfortunately for Ichigo, Hollows have a favorite food aside from ghosts who have yet to pass on- people with high natural spiritual energy- and a fifteen-year-old kid and his two little sisters who can see ghosts definitely qualify.

When Rukia is injured saving Ichigo from a Hollow which has come to consume his family, she offers the boy a choice: either die at the hands of the Hollow, or take on a portion of her Soul Reaper powers in order to defeat it. Unfortunately, his abnormally high amount of spiritual energy absorbs all of her powers instead, forcing Ichigo to take up her job until Rukia can recover and return home.

Bleach starts off as a quirky Urban Fantasy action-comedy, but soon becomes a much more standard Shonen fighting series with the start of the infamous Soul Society arc. In this arc, Rukia is arrested by her fellow Soul Reapers for the crime of transferring her powers to a human and taken back to the afterlife- Soul Society- to be executed. Naturally, Ichigo wants to mount a rescue. Training montages, Shonen Upgrades and ridiculously complicated plans ensue. This arc is infamous for introducing Loads And Loads Of Characters (tripling the previous cast; manga author Tite Kubo has admitted that when he has trouble coming up with new material, his first recourse is to create new characters), drastically changing the formula and tone of the series and for its sheer length, which coined the phrase, "Are they still in Soul Society?"

That said, this change of direction has led to not only one of the most ludicrous Wham Episode's in anime history, but many a Crowning Moment Of Awesome as well, and its continued popularity speaks for itself. Hell, it even has musicals! (One of only four manga/anime ever to do so).

Currently on Adult Swim of Cartoon Network.

And if you do not mind, feel free to check out the Bleach characters sheet

If you are watching the English dub or haven't read the manga, there are spoilers below.

Bleach provides examples of:

  • Absolute Cleavage
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Kenpachi slices a building in half with one swing of his sword. Much later, he pulls this off by stabbing it. The only thing sharper is his aura of badassness.
  • Action Girl: Most of the female Soul Reapers, including Rukia after she's done being a Quickly Demoted Woman. Yoruichi stands above them all, as she is able to beat the shit out of Yammy without using her sword at a point where Arrancar were difficult for even bankai users to beat.
  • Adaptation Dye Job: Matsumoto (blonde -> red), Nelliel (light green -> blue with green tint) and Gin (white -> purple tint), and Starrk as well (black -> brown). Harribel's skin tone also seems to have been lightened between the manga and the anime.
  • All Is Well That Ends Well: Ishida brings hollow bait to a dispute where a tape measure would suffice. No one brings it up again after they're done solving the problems he created, except in the anime-only New Captain Amagai arc.
  • Aloof Big Brother: Byakuya
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Kurosaki Isshin. Just.... Kurosaki Isshin.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Too many characters to count. Possibly because dark people are cool.
  • Americans Hate Tingle: Hinamori.
  • An Ice Person - Rukia and Captain Hitsugaya
    • In the current Filler Arc both their Zanpakutou have materialised in a human like form too.
  • Animated Actors: Some of the Omake have the characters as these.
  • Anime Hair: Most of the characters, really. Renji's is especially weird, since it obeys gravity normally when his Slipknot Ponytail goes, but is otherwise spiky beyond all belief
  • Apathy Killed The Cat: Ichigo's indifference on the afterlife.
  • Art Evolution: Twice, so far. Basically Kubo re-polishing his style; the real differences are in the eyes.
  • Artistic Age
  • Ascended Meme: From one of the previews in the Zanpakutou Tales filler arc. "Isn't Kenpachi's zanpakutou going to materialize?" "Of course not. If his zanpakutou materialized, Soul Society would be destroyed and the show would be over." "Oh, so the studio stepped in."
    • Sort of. The actual meme is about Kenpachi achieving bankai.
  • Asskicking Equals Authority: The Soul Reapers
  • Ass Kicking Pose: Parodied/Subverted with Tatsufusa, 8th Division 3rd seat, and his Zanpakuto-flailing.
  • Ass Pull: Yammy being the 0th and the 10th Espada.
    • Ichigo's uber-Hollow form.
    • When the Soul Reapers were suddenly in urgent need for one of their superhealers, and it seemed that there is none available, Kira conveniently turned out to be former medical division member although it quite directly contradicted his previous back story.
  • As You Know: Used often in the anime, never more obviously than when Isshin and Urahara discuss the Vizards and the Arrancar, informing each other of much information they both already know, for the benefit of the audience and some other characters watching nearby.
  • Attack Attack Attack: Ichigo will fight until he collapses. Then he gets up and does it again. And again. And again. Doesn't always work, though, like when Aizen nearly cut him in half and told him that he could have all the guts and courage in the world and it wouldn't matter because his body just Would. Not. Work. Same situation when Ulquiorra utterly owned Ichigo (at least before uber-hollow form) and Ichigo could not be convinced to surrender.
  • A Twinkle In The Sky: Occurs in anime episode 127 when the Vizard Hiyori Sarugaki jumps into the sky while carrying Orihime.
  • Author Appeal: There's a reason why some fans call him Titty Kubo. He also likes to dress up his characters in different outfits on the splash pages.
  • Ax Crazy: Kenpachi, in a likeable sort of way, and Grimmjow.
  • Awesome But Impractical: There are a number of impractically huge weapons in the series, such as Renji's flail, Barragan's axe, Nnoitra's sickle and Ikkaku's bankai...thing. Currently in first place is Soifon's cruise missile bankai—it looks kind of cool, but she absolutely hates it because it is so impractical for her preferred combat style, being huge, heavy, noisy, flashy, unhideable, and using too much power for her to do it again too many times.
    • Not to mention that her Shikai is absurdly broken anyway. Because what does a Fragile Speedster need? A weapon that can kill anything by hitting the same spot twice!
  • Awesomeness By Analysis: Urahara will analyze your spirit particles mid-battle.
    • Ishida does this a lot as well.
  • Back From The Dead: Ichigo, often with a power-up to go with it.
  • Back To Back Badasses: Many times; it began way back when when Ichigo and Ishida fought off a mob of Hollows and a Menos.
  • Badass: Kenpachi is essentially the living embodiment of the word.
  • Badass Army: The 11th squad. Kenpachi flat-out says that the only requirements for being a member are loving to fight and being good at it.
  • Badass Grandpa: Yamamoto. Get off his lawn or he'll set your punk ass on fire.
  • Badass Longcoat: Bleach fans like to refer to Ichigo's bankai as "the pimpcoat".
  • Badass Long Robe
  • Badass Normal: Chad and Ichigo, before their powers manifested, were capable of taking on five or six assailants using nothing more than determination and teamwork. It also helps that Chad is Made Of Iron. Zaraki may count as well, provided you don't count raw spiritual energy as having superpowers.
  • Bad Cop Incompetent Cop
  • Bare Your Midriff: Harribel, Nelliel, Mila-Rose, Lilynette, Loly, Charlotte Cuulhorne
  • Battle Aura: Spiritual force is initially depicted as wind, but later in the series develops into auras. Certain high-power characters can even incapacitate weaker opponents simply by releasing their auras.
  • Battle In The Center Of The Mind: Ichigo's constant struggle with Hollow Ichigo
  • Battle In The Rain: In both the aptly-named "Memories in the Rain" mini-arcs
  • Beach Episode: Episode 228, and the omake of Volume 26, which also includes Orihime licking off the juices left from the Naughty Tentacles.
  • Berserk Button: Hitsugaya when Hinamori is threatened, Ikkaku when called bald, and Kira when Gin is mentioned.
  • Beware The Nice Ones: Mama Bear Retsu Unohana. Ukitake is a really nice guy but also quite strong, as indicated by his ability to brush off a cero with his bare hand. Shunsui is also a generally affable, perverted Martial Pacifist who becomes downright scary when he begins fighting properly.
  • BFG: Soifon's bankai
  • BFS: Do you have to ask?
  • Big Bad: Sosuke Aizen, not even a spoiler anymore
  • Big Badass Wolf: Komamura Sajin. For quite a while, his only real fight was against Aizen, who so far had dominated everyone with minimal effort. He finally gets a chance to show what he's made of when he comes to the rescue of a defeated Ikkaku, completely dominating his opponent, throwing him to the ground despite being less than considerably smaller, and finishing him off with his bankai.
  • Big Bra To Fill: The stage adaptation.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Plenty of times. Ichigo did it in the Soul Society arc. The Soul Society captains did it in the Hueco Mundo arc. In chapter 364, everything has gone to hell as Aizen, Gin, and Tousen show up, with almost every single prominent Soul Reaper beaten or about to be beaten. Then the Vizard show up.
    • End of chapter 379, Byakuya and Kenpachi's appearence has this written all over it.
  • Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The noodle scene. Yoruichi is shown eating noodles for close to two full minutes for no apparent reason and the most that is said about it is Urahara commenting that her arm is working.
    • Probably Filler to pad out the episode. The same scene in the manga took all of two panels or so.
      • And fanservice, given how little Yoruichi is wearing in that scene.
      • Most certainly an Overly Long Gag, as well; this troper started giggling about halfway through, and nearly fell off his chair. Most bizarrely, not a Noodle Incident at all.
  • Big No: Orihime in chapter 349 after Ulquiorra blows a hole through Ichigo's chest.
  • Bird Run
  • Bishonen: Ayasegawa Yumichika—even his name sounds girly—and Kuchiki Byakuya.
  • Bishonen Line: Hollows of Menos class and higher shrink down and get less monstrous-looking as they get stronger; the ultimate hollow class Vasto Lorde are basically humans with masks. Also, Aizen unlocks the power of hollows by removing their mask...and the change in power is shown by them becoming more human-like.
    • The Espada's releases are an example of this as one goes up by number. Yammy, Aaroniero, Szayel, and Zommari (10th through 7th respectively) are outright monstrous, but they get progressively smaller and arguably less scary. 6th through 3rd Espadas Grimmjow, Nnoitra, Ulquiorra, and Harribel (whose release is much more human looking than the previous three) are animal based. Number 2 Barragan becomes the grim reaper in a flaming fur coat, and 1st Espada Starrk just gets an eyepatch and a change of clothes. And a pair of really cool guns.
  • Bizarrchitecture: Kuukaku Shiba's house moves. A lot.
    • The layout (or at least the corridors) of Las Noches(or at least Szayel's section) can apparently be magically changed from a control room.
  • Black And Grey Morality: The Soul Reapers can be enormous bastards at times. Then you meet the Hollows, and suddenly they don't look so horrible. At least they don't want to eat your soul.
  • Blood From The Mouth: To excess. Getting stabbed in the shoulder really shouldn't make you cough up blood. Then there's the chronically-ill Ukitake, whose tuberculosis makes him cough up blood at inconvenient times.
  • Blood Knight: Zaraki Kenpachi embodies the concept. Other examples include Ichigo's hollow, Grimmjow, and Nnoitra.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Kenpachi, Grimmjow and Ganju.
  • Boring But Practical: Kenpachi's hidden super technique, which turns out to be actually fighting properly. Of course, this is Kenpachi, so it can be easily argued that nothing he does is boring.
  • Boring Immortal Hero: Despite the long run and very large cast, no one on the Soul Society's side has died. Generally even serious wounds are healed quickly by numerous superhealers on good guys side. On other hand Arrancars on bad guys side have suffered 20-25 deaths so far and rising. And that's only counting properly-named Arrancars, not numerous nameless hollow mooks.
    • Despite all of this, though, Aizen still seems to be winning.
  • Board To Death: Aizen to the Central 46.
  • Bowdlerize: Harribel's underboob is covered up in the anime.
    • When his stomach was destroyed by Szayel, Ishida coughed up water. Likewise, Szayel's Gabriel ability was toned down into something far less horrifying.
    • Instead of tearing their left arms off completely, Harribel's fraccion simply has them dissolve into red spirit particles in order to form their pet, Allon. When he takes out a chunk out of Rangiku's torso, the anime makes it look like he simply crushed the internal organs instead.
    • Back in the Soul Society arc, Gin didn't just slash Jidanbo's arm, he cut it off.
    • In the manga, Aizen takes a huge chunk out of Ichigo's hip, toned down in the anime.
    • In the manga, we see more of when Grimmjow rams his arm through Ruppi than in the anime.
    • During Yammi and Ulquiorra's first appearance, the blood involved when Yammi struck Orihime and Ichigo several times were not only toned down, copious amounts of water was also vomited instead of blood.
  • Boy Meets Girl: Ichigo and Rukia.
  • Breaking The Fourth Wall: Happens from time to time, mostly in the previews. In the story itself it's usually Kon who does it.
  • Break The Cutie: Hinamori Momo, to a T. Orihime also undergoes the process in the Hueco Mundo arc.
  • Bully Hunter: Don't vandalize memorials or try to beat up Actual Pacifists when Ichigo is in the area. He demonstrates the trope quite nicely in his first appearance, and again in his and Sado's Back Story
  • Butterfly Of Death And Rebirth: Jigoku-cho, aka hell butterflies, naturally.
  • Butt Monkey: Tetsuzaemon Iba (as president of the Soul Reaper Men's association), and don't even get started on Hanatarou "world's most bullied kid" Yamada. Lately Uryuu tends to become this when Mayuri is around.
  • By The Eyes Of The Blind
  • By The Power Of Greyskull: Activation of advanced zanpakutou forms, Orihime's abilities
  • Calling Your Attacks: Most magical effects require this, at one point it's explicitly stated by Ichigo's Zanpakuto that knowing and saying his special attack's name will make it much more powerful.
  • Character Magnetic Team
  • Chaste Hero: Ichigo. Poor Orihime has been pining after him since the second chapter and he still hasn't noticed. He does freak out when confronted with female nudity, though.
  • Chekhovs Gun: More often than it's given credit for. The most notable case is Ichigo's Hollow mask in the Soul Society arc.
  • Cherry Blossoms: Subverted — Kyouraku Shunsui likes the aesthetic, so he has his lieutenant dump them out of a basket from overhead. Played straight with both releases of Byakuya's zanpakutou, made up of little blades that look like cherry petals.
  • Chest Burster: Szayel does this to resurrect himself.
  • Chunky Updraft: Occasionally.
  • City Of Adventure: Karakura Town is really a spiritual nexus, where all the weird powers are, where all the baddies show up, and where Aizen plans to erase in order to create a Cosmic Keystone.
  • Clingy Mac Guffin: Even the Hougyoku's creator couldn't destroy that darn orb! Also, Ichigo's Hollow mask earlier on.
  • Clothing Damage: Happens all the time to male characters, but largely and curiously averted for females.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Orihime
  • Comedic Sociopathy: Mayuri's antics are meant to be this, but many find them to be too horrific to count.
  • Complete Monster: Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Dear gods, Mayuri Kurotsuchi. As if his actions in the series itself weren't enough to convince you, we later learn that before the start of the series he was held without charge in the Soul Society's loony bin, and kept in a cell and chained to a wall while most other inmates are allowed to run free. In his defense he hadn't actually done anything(that we know of), Soul Society just considered him a potential threat to the status quo.
    • Then again...
    • To a slightly lesser degree, Espada #8 Szayel Aporro Granz. Don't even think about their fight.
    • Grand Fisher was already pretty nasty in the manga, but is even worse in the anime as he's directly responsible for Orihime's brother becoming a Hollow.
    • Nnoitra had his moments. Due to his utterly MASSIVE inferiority complex he treats everyone like dirt when he's not being intentionally cruel. When he is...in one of his first appearances he attacks Chad and the Privaron Espada Chad was just fighting despite them both being severely weakened/injured. He then proceeds to do the exact same thing to Grimmjow and Ichigo.
  • Conspiracy Redemption: Played with in that the Soul Society was being manipulated by the Big Bad. They thought they were doing the right thing(even if they didn't like it) and that Ichigo was this terrible invader person.
  • Contagious Powers: Chad and Orihime's powers come from Ichigo, whose power is so great, it "oozes out", affecting those around him.
    • It's even implied that prolonged proximity to Ichigo (ie., being in the same town and going to the same school as him) has made many normal people more sensitive to spiritual energy, letting them see ghosts and possibly being why Aizen chose the town as the step in his place.)
  • Cool Sword: Let's see, we've got Zangetsu, Zabimaru, Benihime, Hozukimaru, Senbonzakura...
  • Cordon Bleugh Chef: Orihime
  • Crapsaccharine World: Rukia's drawings. She explains hollows and Hueco Mundo to Ichigo by making a drawing where souls are bunny faces and hollows are angry bunny faces.
  • Crapsack World: When you die in Bleach, you end up as a peasant in a medieval Japanese slum, ruled by a bunch of Soul Reapers are generally more interested in getting into fights with each other than doing their jobs. And this is the Good Place. Eventually, you die again, and reincarnate back on Earth, in an endless cycle.
    • Unless you become a hollow and get shot by a Quincy, then it's game over.
    • Or if you were a Complete Monster in life, then you go to hell. What happens to you there and if there's an "after there", remains to be seen.
  • Crazy Awesome: Zaraki, Hichigo and Grimmjow all qualify.
  • Crazy Prepared: Mayuri and Urahara
  • Crosses The Line Twice: Everything Mayuri does. Everything.
  • Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: Hirako Shinji, full stop.
  • Curb Stomp Battle: Most of the fights are this. A few extend into How Much More Can He Take, but this is standard
    • Chad in particular tends to defeat his opponents almost instantly, or get taken down just as quickly himself.
    • Wonderweiss taking out Ukitake in one hit while Starrk nailed the distracted Shunsui point blank with a cero.
    • And just a few short chapters later, Mashiro quite literally curb stomps Wonderweiss in return, by basically Rider Kicking him right in the mouth, and dragging him out of the air into a rather forceful landing on the ground. Wonderweiss' jaw is slacked when you next see him. So, we can basically assume Mashiro RIPPED HIS JAW OUT OF PLACE. Even Bleach can redefine curbstomping every once in a while.
      • Though a few panels later Mashiro's mask's breaks and Wonderweiss goes to hit her but she is saved by Kensei.
  • Cute Bruiser: Yachiru, who's capable of lifting Kenpachi (her Captain, himself a very large man) without any problems at all.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Hiyori
  • Cuteness Proximity: During the anime Bount Arc
  • Damsel In Distress: Rukia in the Soul Society Arc, Orihime in the Hueco Mundo Arc, Ishida in the Bount Arc, and Rurichiyo in the latter part of the Amagai Arc.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Nel, her underlings, possibly the demoted Arrancar, and Ichigo using Hollow powers.
    • Most Soul Reapers, with their black kimonos, fall under this trope to an extent. Ichigo is the posterboy for it. His bankai is a black sword which shoots black energy blasts, and his surname means "black cape" ("cape" as in "promontory point").
  • Dead All Along: Kaien Shiba, the vice commander of Rukia's squad and her initial crush.
  • Dead Man Writing: Aizen's letter to Momo Hinamori in the Soul Society arc.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Ishida
  • Dead To Begin With: The whole series, basically, though that doesn't mean they can't die anyway.
  • Death Is Cheap
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Several Soul Reapers after they fought Ichigo, and several Arrancars during the fighting in Hueco Mundo.
  • Delinquents: Ichigo looks like a punk because of his orange hair, so people pick fights with him all the time.
  • Demonic Invaders: Hollows, Arrancar
  • Devour The Dragon: Szayel has apparently specifically designed minions which he can devour to heal himself. In the manga, he actually eats the minion, but in the anime he turns it into a purple orb then eats it.
  • Die For Our Ship: Way too many to list here. See the entry itself.
  • Discard And Draw: Happens with both Uryu and Ichigo after they lose their powers the first time(Uryu after his fight with Mayuri and Ichigo after his first encounter with Byakuya).
  • Doomed Appointment: Aizen Sousuke
  • Double Standard: Played with in the 14th volume of the manga: Uryuu Ishida and Orihime Inoue acquire two Soul Reaper uniforms to disguise themselves with. To Uryuu's alarm, Orihime suddenly begins changing while they're in the same room. He quickly tells her to stop, to which she replies, "You're right. A boy and a girl shouldn't change in the same room together." She then seems to have constructed a personal change room for Uryu, telling him to go ahead. He asks himself while changing, "Isn't it... supposed to be the other way around?"
  • Drag Queen: Charlotte Cuuhlhourne
  • Drop The Hammer: Love's shikai.
  • Dying As Yourself
  • Easter Egg: In the Menos forest, Nel uses her status as an arrancar to try and escape. In the dub, one of the adjucas leaders tells her "All that gets you is a free cup of tea at Las Noches". This aired over a month before the infamous "Tea with Aizen" scene did.
  • The Electric Slide: All of the Soul Reapers pull this off at one time or another.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Aaroniero Arruruerie's Ressurreccion form
  • Empathic Weapon: The Zanpakuto with which Soul Reaper fight.
    • Later on Ichigo subverts the 'bond' part when it's revealed that his Hollow side has subsumed his sword's personality — the relationship turns more to "horse and rider" and it's stated that he should watch. His. Back.
  • Enemy Without
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Hitsugaya frequently takes 1st in popularity polls, despite relatively small amounts of screentime. The second film even features him as the star!
  • Epigraph: Each tankubon opens with a small panel depicting a single character and a short poem seemingly in that character's voice. Kubo Tite's emokid poetry is surprisingly good.
  • Epileptic Tree: Of special note was the fan theory/joke that Yammy was, in fact, the 0th Espada, which was later validated.
  • Episode Title Card: In a variation, the cards feature only episode numbers.
  • Eternal Prohibition: When Chad is offered a drink, he says he is a minor and it is understood!
    • Fridge Logic in that Chad was a minor in both Japan and Mexico, but he was in the Soul Society at the time. So he was under Soul Society laws. It was not specified if could or not, just that it was dropped to avoid comlpications!
      • It was just in the anime, though, not the manga. Anime series sometimes add a "you're not allowed to drink alcohol until you're 20" note in scenes where a minor is drinking/offered alcohol.
  • Evasive Fight Thread Episode: The fights between Yamamoto, Ukitake and Kyoraku and the one between Kenpachi and Komamura either never get past opening remarks or simply aren't shown. Komamura ends his fight early specifically in response to sensing the other one happening.
    • Kenpachi and Byakuya has been danced around in both the anime and manga briefly.
  • Excited Episode Title: Most of them.
  • Evil Albino: Jin Kariya looks like one, having gotten his white hair and red eyes through supernatural means.
  • Eyepatch Of Power: Kenpachi, whose eyepatch is a self-handicap that absorbs his power. Nnoitra has one, too.
  • Face Of A Thug: Ichigo's hair in naturally blondish-red. This is very rare in Japan; most people have to bleach their hair to do so and are considered Delinquents. People always picked fights with him over this.
  • Faceless Goons: The Exequias
  • Facial Markings: Several Soul Reapers, nearly all of the Arrancar, and the Vizard's hollow masks.
  • Faking The Dead: Aizen Sousuke.
  • Fan Disservice: The only bare arse we've seen throughout the entire series belonged to not only a man, but ''Mayuri'' of all men...
    • What's shocking is that Mayuri is unrecognizable without his face paint, body modifications, freaky hairstyles, and weird hat. This troper rocked back for a second when he realized who that guy was.
    • Harribel's Stripperific design for some (or Bleach's use of giant boobs in general).
  • Fan Nickname: Arrowlad, Captain Broken, Captain Mom, Captain Tuberculosis, Dragon Boobs, Shirosaki... the list goes on.
  • Fanservice: Can anyone say Orihime-with-bathtime-Matsumoto scene? Actually, any of the girls with impossible chests: the two mentioned, Kuukaku, Yoruichi, Harribel, Nelliel aka adult! Nel Tu...
    • Meanwhile, half of the male cast qualifies as Estrogen Brigade Bait and they're regularly subjected to Clothing Damage, especially Ichigo who spent most of his latest fight practically naked save for half of his hakama.
    • Harribel is practically the Anthropomorphic Personification of Fan Service and Author Appeal. When they use their Ressurection most Arrancar transform into some grotesque caricature of an animal. Harribel's Resurrection not only makes her look completely Human but also removes as much of her clothes as possible without her actually being naked. It defines Stripperific.
    • And let's not forget the 10th opening which made all the females in Bleach sexier than they already were.
  • Fate Worse Than Death: Szayel *shudders*
  • Faux Action Girl: Rukia used to be one in the first arc as a Quickly Demoted Woman but she regains her powers in time for the Hueco Mundo arc.
    • Pretty much every female lieutenant fits this. By definition, you have to be really damn strong to be a lieutenant, but the only one who ever won a fight she was involved in was Rangiku (against a Gillian-class arrancar who didn't release his zanpakuto). Momo? Incapacitated early on, lost to Harribel's Fraccion along with Rangiku. Isane? Got hit by The Worf Effect when Ichigo showed up at Rukia's execution. Nemu? No. Nanao never even got involved in any fights, nor did Yachiru.
    • Actually, Nemu interfered in the fight between Ishida and Mayuri and Mayuri beat her silly for it. Also, she lost against Szayel, but that may have been intentional, to see what abilities he had up his sleeve.
  • Final Boss Preview: Basically, any time Ichigo jobs against someone he later beats, it's this. Byakuya was the first one, then Grimmjow, then Ulquiorra.
  • Fetish Fuel: Nel, who has a loli form, an adult form, and a furry form.
  • Fighting Series
  • Filler Villain: The Bount, Captain Amagai, and Muramasa.
  • First Name Basis: Uryu gets quite upset when Ganju, whom he doesn't know well or like, calls him by his first name. A young Soifon is initially hesitant to call Yoruichi by name, but later settles for "Yoruichi-sama" ("Lady Yoruichi" in the dub and "Ms. Yoruichi") in the English manga). Ukitake calls everybody by this, including people he's only known briefly, like Ichigo. Hitsugaya hates when people call him by his first name. At the end of the Soul Society arc, a wounded Byakuya asks Renji pathetically "Is Ichigo going to keep calling me by my first name?".
  • Five Bad Band
  • Five Man Band: For most of the Soul Society Arc, not to mention the Hueco Mundo Arc.
  • Flash Step: The Trope Namer, and a favorite combat maneuver of most Soul Reapers. The Arrancar have their own move called Sonido and the Quincy have Hirenkyaku. Despite the different names (and claims by various practitioners that their version is better), the only apparent difference between them is the sound effect each one makes. This is even Lampshaded by Gin Ichimaru in one of the omakes.
  • Flaw Exploitation: Savvy villains abound.
  • Flipping The Table
  • Floating Advice Reminder: Kenpachi, consulting imaginary squad members.
    Yachiru: Try swinging wildly!
    Kenpachi: I've been doing that.
    Ikkaku: Maybe it's like this? Try using your inner eye.
    Kenpachi: If I could do that, he'd be dogmeat by now.
    Yumichika: If it were me, I'd give up. Elegantly.
    Kenpachi: Get. Out.
  • Foot Focus: The series offers barefoot closeups of Rukia (when she's about to be executed in #54), Orihime (#116), and Ikkaku (in #119).
    • Also, there are a few Bleach characters who are always barefoot, such as Kukaku Shiba, Ashido Kano, Nel and and the Great Desert Brothers, and Dark Rukia in Bleach: Fade to Black.
  • Foreign Sounding Gibberish: "Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez" and "Aaroniero Arleri"? Tite Kubo has said that the names of the Espada were inspired by architects (See The Other Wiki).
  • Four Is Death: Espada #4, Ulquiorra has come the closest of anyone to killing Ichigo. Additionally, his general appearance is pretty morbid, especially after using Resurrection. Inverted with Squad 4 of the Gotei 13, which is in fact the medical squad.
    • It should be noted that, due to the association with death, 4 is considered a very unlucky number in Japan and the 4th squad are pretty much treated like Butt Monkeys, especially by the 11th squad.
  • Fridge Logic: In the Arrancar arc, when Yumichika is trying to learn Bankai he complains that his sword never listens to him, but he explicitly never calls his sword by its real name, instead using a nickname that it hates. Sooo...why is he surprised that it's unresponsive?
    • Probably for the same reason that he doesn't realize that the sword has the same character flaws he does.
  • Functional Magic: Rule Magic variety, called kidou (lit. "the demon way"), Quincies have their own variation of this that uses German spell-calls.
  • Gag Dub: "Peachy Bleachy") Or the long-running fan-favorite "Hueco Mundo Cup"
  • Genius Ditz: Orihime has "both brains and boobs" despite her cluelessness, consistently obtaining high marks in class; Uryuu is #1 in their entire grade and fruitier than a pina colada. Also, he's slowly picking up Orihime's cluelessness.
  • Giant Mook: The Gillians. Fura is a Giant Mook turned Up To Eleven.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Hiyori
  • Glasses Push: Ishida and Szayel
  • Glowing Eyes Of Doom: A pretty common feature of Soul Reapers about to get seriously badass.
  • A God Am I: Seems to be Aizen's motivation. Additionally, Barragan refers to himself as the "god of Hueco Mundo".
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: The Bount came into existence from an accident during an experiment into eternal life.
  • Good Hair Evil Hair: Aizen slicks his hair back when he discards his Kent Clark disguise.
    • Mullets are a sign of great evil in Bleach. Just look at Grimmjow's released form and Ichigo's über-hollow form.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Mayuri is a Mad Scientist who captures people for experimentation and turns his own men into living bombs. Kenpachi is a battle nut who got his captain seat by killing his predecessor.
    • Mayuri only for a very liberal definition of good.
  • Gratuitous English: Don Kanonji and his catch phrase "Spirits are always with you!" and "Smells like Bad Spirits!" Also, Renji's "Red Pineapple" shirt.
  • Gratuitous German: The Bount arc and Ishida's attacks and weapons later on.
  • Gratuitous Spanish: Spanish names for Arrancar-related things. Fun fact, "Menos Grande" means "Less Big". Talk about a Blind Idiot Translation. All the Spanish used almost anywhere is terrible.
    • Menos could also mean "minus". The Spanish isn't completely terrible; but grammar is often a trainwreck (Arrancar is the infinitive form of the verb "To rip off". Since Arrancars have ripped parts of their masks off, it makes some sense, but it's most definitely the wrong conjugation.), though some of it is good (Hueco Mundo means Hollow World. Hollow as in "empty", so it's got a double meaning).
    • Well, Menos do get less big as they get stronger... it's more likely that it's supposed to mean "Great Minus", though.
  • Grievous Harm With A Body: Chapter 351 - Uber-Hollow Ichigo rips Ulquiorra's arm off and throws it at him.
  • The Grim Reaper: Theme of the whole series.
  • Hair Colors
  • Hands On Approach: Yoruichi giving Soifon some pointers on how to properly use a sword in combat. Odd, considering Yoruichi is never seen using one...
  • Hard Work Hardly Works: Orihime works incredibly hard, but never gets a chance to do much, either from her allies telling her to Stay In The Kitchen or her enemies being too powerful or keeping her hostage. Ichigo works for his power, too, but the results always amaze beyond expectations.
    • Orihime's problem is that she's basically a Technical Pacifist, but her only attack technique has no non-lethal mode. It either fails entirely or is a One Hit Kill, with nothing in between.
  • Heads I Win Tails You Lose: Seems to be what Aizen just pulled off in the battle of Fake Karakura Town.
  • Healing Shiv: Hanatarou Yamada's Hisagomaru, which goes from a Healing Katana to a Wounding Scalpel
  • The Heartless: Hollows, both figuratively and literally.
  • Hero Antagonist: The Soul Reapers (not counting Aizen and co) in the first arc. From their perspective, they're trying to deliver punishment to a criminal and Ichigo and his team are an armed mob raiding the police station.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In Memories of Nobody, Senna does this to Save Both Worlds
  • Heroic Sociopath: Kenpachi
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: Ikkaku and Yumichika
  • Hey Its That Voice: Masashi Ebara does the voice for the Big Bad in the first Bleach movie. Of course, it's hard to take him seriously once you realize that same voice actor is shouting about the Glorious Springtime of Youth as Might Guy in Naruto.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Anything concerning Mayuri. Some of the crap Szayel Granz pulled qualifies, too. Naturally, his fight with Mayuri was basically several straight chapters of 'which of these two is creepier'?
    • Allon tears a flesh taco out of Matsumoto, knocks Hinamori out with one punch, squeezes fresh Soul Reaper juice out of Hisagi, and blasts Iba away with a cero. And except for the last one, he did this all without saying a word and with his eyes closed.
    • Unexpectedly - Yachiru (in one of the omakes)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eHJmE2VKfI&feature=related
  • High Pressure Blood: Everyone manages to lose incredible amounts of blood without dying.
  • Hoist By His Own Petard: During the Bount arc, Ugaki is killed by his own doll, albeit with a little help from Kariya.
    • More recently Barragan.
  • Honor Before Reason: During his fight with Ulquiorra, upon regaining his sanity, and seeing how he mutilated his opponent while being turned into a hollow, he asks him to mutilate him back to make it a fair fight. According to Byakuya, he had a similar reason for tearing off his forming Hollow mask during their fight in the Soul Society arc.
  • Hope Spot: In several places throughout the series, but the Fake Karakura arc may have just set a new record.
  • Horror Hunger
  • Hot Blooded: Ikkaku, Ichigo, Renji, Grimmjow, Yammy, most notably.
  • Humans Are Special: Not explicitly stated, but humans improve faster than anyone else, not even counting Ichigo. Ishida goes from getting smacked around by Renji to rescuing him from Szayel Aporro (it didn't work, but he at least fought at the same level that Renji did). Chad goes from struggling to hit a regular hollow to curb-stomping a Privaron Espada. This happens within the span of six months. Normal Soul Reapers have to train for six years before they're even allowed to fight a hollow on their own. Even the most powerful ones don't attain shikai until years after they graduate the academy.
  • I Am Not Left Handed: Hardly anyone uses their strongest attack at the beginning of a battle, and often not even for an entire battle when they're losing; this is true even for many of the smarter adversaries. Ikkaku refuses to use his bankai if there's anyone around to see other than Yumichika, who in turn refuses to show his shikai's true form under any circumstance if anyone in his division can in any way sense him, even if it means he has to die. In other cases, this is justified by these attacks having very significant disadvantages, like Soifon's much despised, unwieldy bankai, or Kyoraku's bankai, which according to Ukitake is dangerous to anyone in the area if he uses it.
    • Considering Kyoraku's abilities in shikai, and the fact that Kyoraku himself says even that is dangerous for him to use, we can only imagine what a chaos spam sandwich his bankai is.
    • It's averted twice in the series. The first time is Ichigo's first fight with Ulquiorra, where he makes a big show of going bankai. Cut to Emocar's Dull Surprise when he realizes that Ichigo threw his mask on at the same time. The second time is Kensei fighting Wonderwyce. Right after he rescues Mashiro the first thing he does is whip out his bankai.
    • Ikkaku also pulls of a more literal example, surprising an opponent with the fact that he's ambidextrous, and thus can quickly switch hands to attack from a different direction.
    • And then there's Aizen. His shikai alone gives him a massive Story Breaker Power, to the point that to this day readers have a difficult time imagining how the heroes can possibly defeat him. He's never shown his bankai to date, and then there's the fact that part of his plans were to attain Hollow powers on top of his Soul Reaper ones. Given how much stronger such powers made Ichigo, think of what it would do for somebody who can stop Ichigo's bankai with one finger.
  • I Am Your Opponent
  • Ignored Enemy: Yammy for Kenpachi and Byakuya.
  • I Knew It Ichigo has never seen Aizen's shikai, that's one reason why Soul Society keeps him around.
  • Image Song: Boy howdy. Important characters with voice actors who can carry a tune get two or three each. Renji has one, And it is badass! Hell, even Nel and Hanatarou have them.
  • Indy Ploy: Let's face it, none of Ichigo's plans are exactly thought out. Goes with his Leeroy Jenkins nature.

  • Informed Ability: Supplementary materials state that Unohana is the third strongest captain, behind Yamamoto and Aizen. We never actually see her do anything except act kind and heal people. This also applies to many of the captains' bankais, which have yet to be seen.
    • You mean the supplementary materials that rank all their powers numerically and list Kenpachi as the weakest one?
      • The general consensus among fans is that these rankings are only useful for assessing a Captain's relative aptitudes in different aspects of combat, and that they're worthless for comparing one Captain to another. That said, there must be some reason why everyone is a afraid of angering Unohana, even though she's a healer who has yet to be shown or even alluded to fighting a battle.
  • Intimate Healing...?: What Mayuri does to heal Nemu after his battle with Szayel. Squicks the hell out of Uryu and Renji. Mayuri, however, insists that they must be perverts to think he's doing that.
  • Invisible To Normals: Ghosts, Hollows, Soul Reapers, and their (often oversized and glowy) weapons.
  • I Owe You My Life: In the anime, during the Soul Society arc Ichigo says that the reason he's trying to rescue Rukia is because she saved his life from the Hollow in the first episode. Also, Komamura Sajin to Yamamoto Genryuusai Shigekuni.
  • I Sense A Disturbance In The Force
  • Johnny Yong Bosch: Voices Ichigo Kurosaki, and Hollow Ichigo
  • Just In Time: Too many to count. The show practically thrives off of this for battle turnarounds.
  • Karma Houdini: Mayuri. In his first appearance he uses his subordinates as bombs and was both physically and emotionally abusive of his Lieutenant/daughter/ clone, Nemu. Additionally, he plays into Uryu Ishida's backstory by having arranged the deaths of Ishida's clan so that he could run torturous experiments on them. So far the only one who actually seems to care about any of this is Uryu.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Yuzu has a whole episode devoted to finding a cat (which turns out to be the spirit of a dead cat) and taking care of it, thus when she's in trouble with hollows, it protects her and in so doing can finally pass on.
  • Knockback Slide: Happens in virtually every fight scene.
  • Kudzu Plot
  • Last Name Basis: Ichigo with his friends, save for Rukia, Tatsuki, Keigo and Mizuiro. Chad is debatable, as "Chad" is Ichigo's mispronunciation of "Sado" which became a nickname that stuck, though all other characters use Sado. Averted/Subverted in the English Dub and to a lesser degree in the English manga, as most characters are referred to by first name, while Chad is "Chad" to everyone, when in the original it's only Ichigo who uses the nickname. Also, Hitsugaya, Urahara, Aizen, and a couple more.
    • The English manga doesn't go quite as far with the aversion/subversion, as many of the characters who used last names continue to do so, but some exceptions remain (Ichigo's friends; Renji, Momo and Izuru; and Ukitake and Kyoraku).
    • Taking it further, Ichigo and Ishida both drop honorifics when speaking to one another. Of course Ichigo rarely uses honorifics anyway; Ishida is a more interesting case since normally he has a "well-mannered young man" speaking style from which he only deviates when he's talking to Ichigo (and some enemies).
    • Ichigo seems to always use given names for the people he met in Soul Society, whether he befriended them or not. This greatly irritates Byakuya and Hitsugaya.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: "Screw you, Soul Society, I am going to completely ignore my responsibilities, duties and your plans to go save Orihime and cause you to have to bail me out."
    • "And I'm going to do it in the least subtle way I possibly can."
  • Les Yay: Soifon's "admiration" for Yoruichi. She literally stalks Yoruichi in an attempt to see her naked, and in the video games expresses jealousy that Ichigo and Yoruichi had a bath together.
  • Light Is Not Good: The arrancar all wear white outfits, as do the rogue captains.
  • Load Bearing Hero
  • Loads And Loads Of Characters: The page has a break down of just how many characters this series has by Arc. Wikipedia lists it as having 147 speaking characters, and that isn't including the spirits of the Zanpakutou or the Shun Shun Rikka. Kubo has said that when he has trouble writing plotlines and new materials, he begins to think of new characters, usually en masse. Hence, new characters usually come in large sets (the Soul Reapers, the Vizards, the Espada, and so forth). The fact that characters very rarely die doesn't help.
    • Specifically, the heroes rarely die. And by "rarely" we mean never. Seriously, we're on what? 380 and Hiyori is the first hero to even present the possibility of dying at all. Contrast the enemies who get taken out by the dozen.
  • Locked Out Of The Loop: The reason Tatsuki is so damn pissed at Ichigo.
  • Macekre: Carl Macek is a script writer of the English Dub. Ironically, the trope is entirely (Or mostly) averted.
  • Made Of Phlebotinum: Everything in the Soul Society is made of spirit particles.
  • Mad Scientist: Kurotsuchi Mayuri, Urahara Kisuke, Szayel Granz and Ran'Tao - incidentally, Ishida has fought Mayuri and Szayel, and interacted with Urahara and Ran'Tao... he seems to attract Mad Scientists.
  • Mad Scientists Beautiful Daughter: Nemu Kurotuschi
  • Magical Girl: Charlotte Cuuhlhourne is definitely a parody. Even more obvious in the anime.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Aizen] so hard. He masterminds the plot to become the ruler of the universe, stabs his most loyal lieutenant, nearly killing her, fakes out his entire organization into thinking that he was a calm, kind and understanding man, manipulates the entire world by pretending to be dead, deflects the heroes' strongest technique with a finger, starts a new organization with the 10 strongest arrancar, kidnaps one of the hero's nakama, and kills a loyal subordinate of his new organization, and calmly claims that he was stronger than all of his 10 subordinates combined. If that's not a magnificient bastard, I don't know who is.
  • The Man Behind The Monsters
  • Martial Pacifist: Hisagi, Kyoraku, Tousen, and maybe Kira.
  • Mass Hypnosis: Aizen's shikai ability.
  • Meaningful Name: Zanpakuto are prone to having these.
  • Memetic Badass: Yammy. Even more so when Kubo apparently decided to say Sure Why Not and turned him into Espada #0
  • Memetic Mutation: The Leekspin; "NOBODY DIES IN BLEACH!"; TACO AIZEN; Filler!Rukia and Raepface!Ikkaku; "Tite Kubo Trolled My Fandom!"
    • Yammy's "Who said the numbers of the 10 Espada go from 1 to 10?" line now pops up whenever any anime uses a plot twist that involves numbers. For example, Naruto recently gave fans cause to say "Who said the numbers of the Tailed Beasts went from 1 to 9?"
  • Mirror Match: During the fight with Kenpachi, Ichigo is forced into a Battle In The Center Of The Mind with "himself" to prove to Zangetsu that he's worthy of wielding him. However, this "other Ichigo" turns out to be Ichigo's inner Hollow. This happens again in Ichigo's Vizard training, only this time the hollow can use Getsuga Tensho and Bankai. One of the filler arc characters can mimic anyone else and Ichigo ends up fighting a "copy" of himself. Also one of Szayel's powers.
  • Mixed Archetypes: Ichigo - Messiah/Anti-hero.
  • Mook Maker: Fura
  • Morality Pet: Delightfully subverted with Yachiru Kusajishi, who looks the part, but eagerly enjoys watching Blood Knight Zaraki have his fun, and always tries to see to it that he gets to have more fun.
  • The Movie: Three so far
  • The Musical: The (several) "Bleach Rock Musicals"; live stage adaptations that very loosely follow the plot of the manga but focus on Soul Society and the Soul Reapers: Orihime and Chad only appear once or twice and Ishida doesn't appear at all.
  • My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Ishida vs. Mayuri
  • My Revenge Is Mercy
  • Nakama
  • Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Coyote Starrk, the Primera Espada.
  • Needle In A Stack Of Needles
  • Neutral Female: Orihime 90% of the time and most of what we see of Rukia. When Orihime tries to break out of this, in a surprisingly effective way, she's promptly told by Ichigo to stay out of the fight.
  • New Powers As The Plot Demands: Ichigo will spontaneously develop a new power quite often right in the middle of an important fight.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Most of the characters are ghost samurai. Secret mobile corps members like Soifon and Yoruichi are pretty much ninja as well.
  • No Big Deal: Rukia has a Men In Black-style "flashy-thing" kicking around.
  • Normally I Would Be Dead Now: Many, many examples. Ichigo is easily the worst abuser in the series, though Hiyori is poised to take the title from him if she survives being chopped in half by Gin.
  • No Sell: Most enemies are randomly immune to Ichigo's powerful moves.
    • Let alone Szayel who just happens to be immune to whatever Ishida throws at him, making the poor boy useless against him.
  • Not Quite Dead: Too many to list...
  • Not So Harmless:
    • Starrk, the lazy, pacifist espada who is unconcerned about Aizen's plot, is Espada #1.
    • Yammy, the complete moron who gets outsmarted by every hero he fights and can't even figure out who he's supposed to be killing without Ulquiorra looking over his shoulder and telling him what to do, outranks Starrk.
      • Subverted, rather unsuprisingly. When Ichigo shows up he manages to knock Yammy on his ass with an attack that couldn't even scratch Ulquiorra, who was five ranks lower and when Kenpachi showed up(wearing that stupid eyepatch and hefting his sword in one hand) he takes out one of Yammy's legs. And now Byakuya and Kenpachi aren't even paying attention to him, choosing to argue with eachother and pummel him when he tries to interrupt with a Cero. It's just getting sad now.
    • Wonderweiss, the happily insane child who just might be a bit of a problem.
  • Not So Weak: Chad, who will not fight for his own benefit due to his grandfather's promise.
  • Not Worth Killing: Often, including to Ichigo. Subverted when Kenpachi attempts to spare Nnoitra, saying that it's not worth his time to finish off someone who can't fight back. This only further enrages him, so he makes a last ditch attack on Kenpachi, who finishes him off.
  • Odd Couple: Most of the Captain Lieutenant sets are this.
    • Aloof Big Brother Byakuya Kuichiki and his relatively Hot Blooded lieutenant Renji.
    • Flamboyant and lazy Kyouraku Shunsui from 8th Division and his Badass Bookworm lieutenant Ise Nanao
    • Hitsugaya and his lieutenant Matsumoto Rangiku. Blond woman with obnoxiously huge breasts who resembles a porn star with a kid who looks about ten with silver hair. He's smart, mature and grumpily down-to-earth, while she's a flirtatious flake with a heart of gold, who drives him insane with Marshmallow Hell.
    • Bloodthirsty 11th Division Captain Zaraki Kenpachi and his ridiculously cute little-girl lieutenant Kusajichi Yachiru
  • Odd Friendship: Ichigo and Rukia, Ichigo and Ishida, Ganju and Hanatarou, etc. etc...
  • Odd Shaped Panel
  • Omake: Soul Reaper's Illustrated Picture Book/Golden Cup, in which Kon includes a screen wipe of Kon flying by. For the bad guys' side, we have Arrancar Research Time. Recently, Rukia hosted her Substitute Soul Reaper Diaries to make up for her and Ichigo's severe lack of screentime in the main body of the episodes.
  • Omniscient Morality License: Urahara, who pretty much caused every conflict in the entire series. Made the Hogyoku which Aizen later stole, released Mayuri (who went on to torture thousands of Quincies and blow up his own men) from prison, tried to strip Rukia of her powers, nearly turned Ichigo into a hollow and succeeded in giving him a Superpowered Evil Side, got Orihime captured, and so on. Most of his actions are working to fix that first screw up.
  • On The Next
  • One Winged Angel: Arrancar can release their zanpakutou to grow and gain power. The shikai and bankai of a Soul Reaper's zanpakuto act in much the same way, even if the user stays the same. When fighting Kurotsuchi Mayuri, Ishida's desperation technique forms a single wing made from spirit energy particles on his back.
    • Ulquiorra can apparently transform twice.
    • Ggio Vega has two different modes to his transformation; Tigres Estoque, which makes him fast but not especially strong, and Tigres Estoque El Sable, which makes him much stronger.
  • The Only One Allowed To Defeat You: Kenpachi to Ichigo, probably also Renji to both Ichigo and Kuchiki Byakuya. Grimmjow invokes this against Ichigo as well.
  • Only Six Faces
  • Orcus On His Throne: Barragan Luisenbarn, unquestioned God-King of Hueco Mundo. Has an army and an endless kingdom and nothing to do. Before Aizen shows up.
  • Ordinary High School Student: Yet with his orange hair, high grades, and ability to see the dead, Ichigo wasn't really that ordinary to begin with.
    • Best part is, he says he has high grades because he mostly stays home and studies to keep out of trouble. What causes him trouble? His orange hair. People don't believe its natural and assume he's a punk, so other students pick fights and teachers tend to try to give him crap, which he can't let slide.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different: Soul Reapers, natch
  • Our Hero Is Dead: Ichigo, once or twice. He Came Back Wrong after the time he got a giant hole blown through his chest, but all's well that ends well.
  • Overly Long Name: Lieutenant of Squad 2, Marechiyo Yoshiayamenosuke Nikkoutarouemon Oomaeda, possibly justified in that his family are fairly well-off nobles who are traditionally prone to overenthusiastic naming.
  • Padding: Recently, starting with approximately episode 215, Bleach has begun using Padding to very good effect. About half of an episode will be almost still, with little more than waving hair or moving lips etc. The rest of the episode will be very high quality animation, which makes action portions of the battle awesome. Thankfully, the less action heavy moments are still drawn well and on model.
  • Parental Abandonment: The major human cast seem to all be missing at least one parent, a couple at least are missing both.
  • Peek A Boo: Harribel's Fan Nickname, Underboobs, loses all meaning in the anime, what with her lower breast plates.
  • Percussive Prevention: A Soul Reaper does this to Orihime during the Soul Society arc in order to prevent her from getting in the middle of Uryu's fight with Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
  • Petal Power: Byakuya's probably the friggin king of this trope.
  • Pilot: The manga had one, which you can read here. In it, Rukia was actually shrunk after giving her powers to Ichigo, took baths in his coffee mug, and Orihime not only was Ichigo's secret crush but also Dead All Along.
    • The anime had one at Jump Festa 2004, which covered the majority of volume 3 of the manga. This troper recommends watching this as opposed to it's later reincarnation as anime episodes 8 and 9.
  • Pillar Of Light: When we finally get there, Ichigo's Cero.
  • The Pesci: Two of Harribel's fraccions are good examples, flying off the handle at allies and enemies alike to start childish arguments even mid-battle.
    • Mayuri Kurotsuchi has a healthy dose of this as well, especially in his first appearance, where he flew of the handle at the most minute of provocations, and often took it out on his lieutenant/daughter. Since then, he has chilled out alot, and while he is still callous and easily annoyed, he handles it a lot better. A running fan-joke that the heroes simply broke into Soul Society on one of Mayuri's bad days was recently practically confirmed. When Ichigo calls him by his name without any honorifics, he lets it slide with only a small complaint, causing the other captains present to comment that he must be in a very good mood to be so lenient.
      • Only for him to go on another rant about how he would torture Ichigo to death when Ichigo dared to compare him to Urahara Kisuke.
  • Playing Against Type - Rie Kugimiya plays Kurotsuchi Nemu. Not exactly what her usual roles are ne?
  • Playing With Fire: Yamamoto and Momo, but especially Yamamoto. Also, from the most recent filler, Amagai
  • Plot Armor: All of the good guys have it, but Ichigo is the worst. He has managed to walk away from death at the hands of Ulquiorra twice now.
  • Posthumous Character: Kaien
  • Power Glows: But of course.
  • Power Limiter: All captain- and lieutenant-level Soul Reapers are limited to one-fifth of their power in the living world to minimize the destruction they leave in their wake and not to have their power affect any souls, like Ichigo's power did with Orihime and Chad. The English dub is lazy about this and doesn't translate the actual word, leaving it as "gentei kaijou." Probably because it's cooler in Japanese.
    • Although gentai kaijou literally means Limit Break, it's not an example of that trope.
  • Psycho Supporter: Tousen—whose blindness makes him immune to Aizen's illusions—follows Aizen in the name of "justice", which happens to be nearly the only word in his vocabulary. That and it is "the path of least bloodshed".
  • Puppy Dog Eyes: Nel the Arrancar does this sometimes in the anime.
  • Quickly Demoted Woman: Rukia, who takes several plot arcs to get back the power she started out with.
  • Race Against The Clock: During the Soul Society arc, Ichigo and the others have to save Rukia before she is executed; during the Bount arc, the Mod Souls force Ichigo and friends to participate in dangerous "games" with strict time limits.
  • Rain Of Arrows: Ishida really likes this trick, and will occasionally brag about his rate of fire.
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Hitsugaya and Nel Tu. For Hitsugaya, Soul Reapers just age very slowly, while Nel Tu in actuality has an adult-like form and only became a child due to injury from Nnoitra.
  • Recycled Script: Ichigo gathers a ragtag group of friends from his school to enter another world and fight unsurmountable odds to rescue a friend, continually getting stronger after each opponent up to a climactic clash that ends with nothing. The Soul Society arc, or the Hueco Mundo arc?
    • Even the details are similar. It all starts when two uniformed baddies, one rowdy and one emotionless, show up in the human world. Defeated by them, Ichigo goes through Training From Hell to gain new power. Once on the other side Ichigo gains a small, friendly tagalong, while one of his nakama gets to defeat the murderer of their mentor.
    • A White Haired Pretty Boy wants to take over Soul Society because he and his kind were exiled long ago. The Bount arc (Jin Kariya, Bounts), or Memories of Nobody (Ganryu, Dark Ones)? The English dub even uses Troy Baker as the voice actor for both characters.
    • The Third movie, Fade to Black, is intentionally filled with deja vu to repeat lots of older scenes throughout the series.
  • Red Herring: Ichimaru Gin, big time. Sort of subverted when he turns out to be evil anyway.
  • Red Oni Blue Oni: Several character sets, often with explicit color schemes.
  • Reincarnation Romance: Jossed. The popular fan theory that Ichigo was the reincarnation of Kaien Shiba, Rukia's former superior and first crush, because of their close physical resemblance, to the point where Ukitake goggles in shock at how similar they are. (Curiously, Kaien's siblings, Kuukaku and Ganju didn't show any signs of noticing his resemblance to Kaien.) Kubo punched a hole in this theory when he revealed that Kaien's soul had merged with a couple of Hollows, meaning he's still technically "alive", or at least long enough to rule the theory out.
  • Reverse Shrapnel: Captain Kaname Tosen's zanpakuto
  • The Right Hand Of Doom: Chad's armoured right arm, though this later became an arm of protection after his left arm stole the title.
  • The Rival: First Ishida Uryuu, then Abarai Renji, then Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, then...you get the picture.
  • Rule Of Cool: Tite Kubo thrives on this. Chapter names are derived from whatever English words he deems interesting and/or fit the current happenings of the manga. The anime mimics this somewhat with lively, completely different each episode title cards. Even the title, Bleach, was chosen because he found his first choice, "Black", to be too bland, along with the contrast of "bleach" relating to the color white.
  • Running Gag: Rukia's art, Ishida's cape obsession, Ikkaku's baldness, Orihime's foods
  • Samurai: Kyouraku Shunsui and Kid Samurai Hitsugaya
    • Also Senbonzakura in the Zanpakuto Unknown Tales filler.
  • Samus Is A Girl: The reaction Ichigo and the gang have to the true identity of Kukaku Shiba. Also, Ichigo's reaction when Yoruichi, formerly known as a black cat with a masculine voice, reveals her true form.
  • Schoolgirl Lesbians: Chizuru, a demented classmate who practically molests Orihime every chance she gets.
  • The Scrappy: Momo, for her loyality to Aizen during the Soul Society arc and her denial of Aizen's betrayal afterward; Orihime, for being the second Damsel In Distress and her love for Ichigo causing rage for the IchiRukia shippers; and recently Toshiro, for being the most popular character.
    • Ironically, for the same reasons people hate Momo is why the Japanese fans love her. Talk about clashing cultures.
  • Screw The Rules Im Doing Whats Right: Hanatarou, Ukitake and Kyouraku in the Soul Society arc.
    • Ichigo at the start of the Hueco Mundo arc. Of course he ended up playing right into Aizen's hands but hey, it's the thought that counts.
  • Secret Keeper: Renji, Yumichika, Iba and Komamura all know Ikkaku has Bankai, but they promise not to say anything about it.
    • Hisagi and Charlotte Cuuhlhourne find out about the true ability of Yumichika's Zanpakuto, only Charlotte dies, taking the secret with him.
  • Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains
  • Seven Deadly Sins: Has a series of chapters named after the Sins, each seemingly refering to the characters and their actions (it's a bit vague)
    • 341 - The Envy: Clingy Jealous Girl team Lolly and Menoly
    • 342 - The Greed: Ichigo shuts down Orihime from getting involved in HIS fight
    • 343 - The Gluttony: starts with Yammy stuffing his face, then has him kill Lolly and Menolly for the lulz
    • 344 - The Pride: subverted Ishida has accepted help from Mayuri, likely a big blow to his pride, but doesn't really fit the "Sin" theme
    • 345 - The Sloth: The despair Ulquiorra tries to instill in Ichigo.
    • 346 - The Wrath: possibly Ulquiorra's Tranquil Fury as he thrashes Ichigo
    • 347 - 352 - The Lust 1 - 6: The emergence of Ichigo's new hollow form, it's vicious overkill of Ulquiorra, and attacking Ishida for getting in its way.
    • The whole theme makes a lot more sense in the the collected volume with Ulquiorra's poem:
—>I envy because of the heart. I glutton because of the heart. I covet because of the heart. I am prideful because of the heart. I sloth because of the heart. I rage because of the heart. Because of the heart, I lust for everything about you.
  • Shinigami: As described throughout this entry.
  • Ship Tease: Studio Pierrot loves IchiRuki. So much so, a few IchiHime and RenRuki moments from the manga are actually toned down or even left out from the anime.
  • Ship To Ship Combat: Ichigo/Rukia vs Ichigo/Orihime+Renji/Rukia vs Ishida/Orihime vs Ulquiorra/Orihime vs... (check the entry for examples)
  • Shoot The Dog: The death of Kaien Shiba by Rukia's hand. Ironically, she must later re-confront this when facing an enemy who'd eaten Kaien's soul, basically being forced to kill him again. Rukia has it rough.
  • Shout Out: Pretty much everything about Mashiro is a huge Kamen Rider reference.
    • In episode 133, Ikkaku teaches a Kendo class. One of the boys is a cowardly, easily cowed young man who nevertheless completes the training. The short brown hair, baby-face features, and the near constant phrase from Ikkaku about not "running away" make it seem as though the writers were paying homage to something. Then again, the boy's name was Shinji for crying out loud. The only way to make it more obvious was for the english dub to hire Spike Spencer.
      • ...who already plays Hanataro and D'Roy in the dub.
  • Sidekick Glass Ceiling
  • Single Stroke Battle: Poor Hiyori
  • Shapeshifter Guilt Trip
  • Sorting Algorithm Of Evil
  • Spanner In The Works: Wonderweiss showing up in the middle of the Soul Reapers' fight in Karakura Town, with a gigantic ball of horror in tow. Two captains promptly get pounded.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Too much. Is it Schiffer or Cifer (turns out it's the latter)? Wonderwyce or Wanderweiss? Et cetera... Meanwhile, Grimmjow's last name is correctly spelled Jaegerjaquez. It doesn't help that Kubo seems to enjoy changing the spelling of the Arrancar's names.
    • All of the Espada have double letters in their names. Why is anyone's guess.
  • Spotlight Stealing Squad: The Soul Reapers. Starting from the Turn Back The Pendulum arc and following into the Fake Karakura Arc the Soul Reapers have been completely dominating the story with the ostensible main characters being pretty much absent. Even Ichigo, the main character hasn't done anything all this time except for one fight (to put it in perspective: for ~10 chapters in about one and a half years), otherwise his few appearances amounted to little more than cameos.
    • The Soul Reapers, even minor characters, also appear in movies, anime fillers and musicals, whereas characters such as Ishida, Orihime or Chad are usually more or less ignored (with the sole exception of the Bount filler arc).
  • Squick: Most things involving Mayuri.
  • Star Fish Character: Starrk, sort of. Unlike other Arrancar, when he removed his mask instead of his power being sealed in the form of a sword, it was sealed in the form of his Fraccion, Lilynette.
  • The Starscream: Ryou Udagawa during the Bount arc. Another Bount, Sawatari, reveals similar ambitions just before Mayuri kills him. Also, in the manga, Barragan, though he never gets the chance to even try.
  • Statistically Speaking: Weighing in at a total of 390 in regards to battle data, Kenpachi is statistically the weakest Captain, but he's capable of fighting and defeating two other Captains simultaneously while they are at their strongest and he's holding back.
    • He actually DIDN'T defeat Komamura, and it's quite possible Tousen was feigning his true strength.
    • Similarly, Hitsugaya's total of 510 puts him in the same tier as Byakuya and just behind Kyoraku, despite the fact both appear to be vastly more competent.
  • Sticks To The Back: Ichigo's sash is remarkable.
  • The Stoic: Way too many.
  • Stoic Spectacles: Uryu's and his dad's.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Hollow Ichigo, a distinct personality who while equal in strength to Ichigo is far more skilled, knows all the abilities of Zangetsu innately, and doesn't hold back. Ichigo demonstrates another, more mindless Superpowered Evil Side after Ulquiorra blows a hole in his chest, turning his bankai's Super Speed Up To Eleven and blowing Ulquiorra open with a gigantic cero. And it looks awesome.
  • Super Empowering
  • Superpower Lottery: Soul Reapers have a wide variety of zanpakuto powers, ranging from pitifully lame to gamebreakingly unfair. Shikai example: Ikkaku gets a spear with the special power to... Separate into three attached sections and Renji gets a sword that stretches. Meanwhile, Ichigo's fires giant energy blasts, Mayuri's induces complete paralysis, and Aizen's traps anyone who sees its release in a nearly perfect, unbreakable illusion. The best part is, they don't even get to decide what their powers do. Soul Reapers get what they're given. And let's not even get started on bankai...
    • To be fair, Ikkaku's shikai is effective in close-range fighting, since he can use it to take his opponents by surprise, and Renji's sword is both more durable and more lethal once released.
    • Chad and Orihime manifesting powers is a literal example of exposure to Ichigo, based on their personalities, and desires. Their powers manifested like Empathic Weapon: Chad was always a phyiscal fighter, who used his strength to protect people after his grandfather taught him, and it manifested as his arm. On the case of Orihime, her power manifested from hating seeing people get hurt, and the people who do harm to people close to her, making her personality one based on denying existence to harmful event, and people or things she hates, making her power "Denial of negative events". All indications are that there are no limits whatsoever to Orihime's powers, other than that she has to absolutely want them to work (the reason for her offensive power being so ineffective) and their strength is directly proportional to how confident she is, making her basically omnipotent if she even gets over her confidence issues.
  • Surprisingly Good English: The first closing theme, Life is Like a Boat, features full verses in word perfect unaccented English, due to the fact that the singer was raised in the US.
    • Also Hazel Fernandes' song, "Number 1", which plays during action sequences.
  • Swiss Army Weapon: Zanpakuto and their optional shikai and bankai forms
  • Sword Beam: Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho and Ichimaru Gin's Shinsou are the most obvious examples, but a lot of the Soul Reapers use these.
  • Sword Fight: This is shonen—the whole flippin' series is essentially one very long and angsty sword fight.
  • Sword Sparks: Unavoidable, really.
  • Take My Hand: Ichigo to the Arrancar Nel in Hueco Mundo in anime episode 146.
  • Talking Is A Free Action: Oh my goodness, the Kido incantations. Sufficiently skilled practitioners can skip them, but doing so significantly reduces their power. Subverted in the anime-only Bount filler arc, in which Rukia complains that her enemy is too fast and gives her no time to finish her chants.
    • This is taken to ridiculous extremes with Charlotte Cuuhlhourne, whose attacks are sometimes preceded by sixteen-word long names. This becomes particularily jarring in the anime, which has to recycle animation just to give him enough time to shout out the whole name. Admittedly this may be is definitely lampshading.
  • Testosterone Poisoning: Kenpachi...just Kenpachi.
  • Theme Music Power Up: "Number One" plays whenever Ichigo is about to kick some serious ass. Hilariously subverted when Ichigo charges at Aizen at the end of the Soul Society arc: the music starts up, Ichigo makes his move... Then his sword is blocked by a single finger, the song abruptly stops, and Ichigo nearly gets cut in half. Aizen's just that broken.
    • Lampshaded in the Karakura Super Heroes episode, in which Don Kanonji declares that the role of Karakura Red (the protagonist) will go to the contestant who is worthy to be the Number One. Naturally, the song starts up when the real hero (the cat spirit) starts fighting.
  • The Reveal: Aizen is not dead. He's the Big Bad. Cue the Curb Stomp Battle.
  • The Thirty Six Stratagems: Aizen has used nearly a third half of this list in his plans.
  • There Was A Door: Grimmjow has got to be the king of this trope. At one point in order to get into Orihime's room he blows a hole in the wall. While this in itself fits the trope, what makes Grimmjow especially notable is that there was already a huge hole in the wall where the door used to be, literally right next to the hole he made.
    • At one point, four different characters enter the same room. Not one of them uses a door. Instead, they burst through the floor, two different walls, and another dimension.
    • Renji, Matsumoto, Ikkaku, and Yumichika all enter Ichigo's room through the roof...and break his ceiling light in the process. Then they get scolded by Hitsugaya for their destructive entrance methods. After all, he had enough sense to climb in through the window.
  • Third Times The Charm: Ichigo practices this trope regularly against quite a few of the people he eventually defeats.
  • This Is Something Hes Got To Do Himself: Many instances, most notably the Kaien flashback—"If you help him now, what will become of his pride"
  • Those Two Guys: Keigo and Mizuiro. Orihime and Tatsuki seem like that at first
  • The Tease: Yoruichi, who loves to torment Ichigo by appearing naked in front of him.
  • To Be Lawful Or Good: Byakuya Kuchiki is hit with this when he must chose between upholding the law of the land and allowing his adopted sister (and sister-in-law) Rukia to be executed and following his late-wife's request to protect her little sister. He chooses the former.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Mayuri Kurotsuchi
  • Took A Level In Badass: Numerous as might be expected in a shonen, but Yammy stands out for his Resurrection promoting him from Espada #10 to Espada #0.
  • Touched By Vorlons: Ichigo's Soul Reaper powers are activated by plunging Rukia's sword into his heart. In turn, his incredible amount of power brings out Chad and Orihime's latent abilities and eventually gives Tatsuki, Keigo and Mizuiro the power to see ghosts and so on. This becomes a source of comic relief in some episodes, when Keigo makes the Soul Reaper who was assigned to replace Rukia nuts by constantly talking to him.
  • Training From Hell: Urahara puts Ichigo through this in the Soul Society arc; later, during the Bount arc, Ichigo and his friends learn that the Mod Souls' dangerous "games" were actually training exercises devised by Urahara to force them to work together as a team.
  • Tranquil Fury Ichigo when he fights Yammy in his (Yammy's) released form.
    • Ishida personifies this trope as even when he's really pissed, he's still quite calm.
    • Byakuya fits better, particularly when facing Espada #7 Zommari Leroux and seeing he was about to finish off Rukia.
  • Transformation Is A Free Action: Though this is actually also subverted a lot, especially in zanpakuto releases. Even a Captain, Kuchiki Byakuya got his release interrupted at least twice—once by Yoruichi, who fast-wraps some kind of magical(?) bandage around his sword, and once by Renji, who simply just pushes Byakuya's sword aside with his own and throwing it out of balance.
    • Grimmjow's release gets stopped in two fights, as well—by Tousen and by Ulquiorra, both grabbing his sword right after the release command but before he could call out his zanpakuto's name. And then there's the one in the Arrancar Encyclopedia where he interrupts himself.
  • Try Not To Die: Renji to all the ryoka storming Hueco Mundo, Orihime to Ichigo during the Grimmjow fight.
  • Tsundere: Soifon is a Les Yay version of this, being cold and efficient at work but going all googly-eyed for her beloved "Yoruichi-sama"
  • Turn The Other Cheek
  • Underboobs: Harribel, adult Nell
  • Urban Fantasy: When the stories are set in present day Japan
  • Values Dissonance: One of the reasons that western fans hate Hinamori Momo (or, at least did before she recently came back). The Japanese see her as a Yamato Nadeshiko and ideal woman/wife/mother. On the other side of the world, she's seen as weak, foolish, and everything a modern woman shouldn't be.
    • Arguably Mayuri, who is meant to be Played For Laughs despite the often horrific manner of his antics.
  • Villain Decay: Barragan provides a literal example.
  • Villain On A Bus: Aizen in the anime
  • Villain Pedigree: Regular hollows seem pretty threatening for... about 15 episodes. When Uryu shows up, he and Ichigo are capable of mowing them down four or five at a time.
    • The first Gillian that shows up takes Ichigo and Uryu working together to defeat. And they don't actually kill it, they just hurt it bad enough that it decides to retreat. Now Gillians are nothing more than Giant Mooks.
    • At first even lowest arrancars seemed to be a threat to even lieutenants. By now only few strongest have any reputation left, while lower ones are just a cannon fodder (which is probably Aizen's intention anyway). They're still threats to harmless civilians and low-ranking Soul Reapers, but What Measure Is A Non Super?
  • Visible Sigh: During comedic moments.
  • Wall Banger: Ichigo's Honor Before Reason and Espada #0: Yammy Rialgo among other things. Also, Urahara emphasizing Orihime's helplessness instead of telling her about how great her power was and that Aizen was quite interested in it; at least that backfired spectacularly.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Grimmjow, Yammy, Abirama Redder
  • We Are As Mayflies: Soul Reapers and Hollows (and for that matter ordinary Soul Society civilians) live vastly longer than humans. But it's a bit of a subversion, since they're what humans might become after dying.
  • Weak But Skilled
  • We Have Reserves: Aizen mostly, although Mayuri also qualifies.
  • Wendee Lee: Dub voice of Yoruichi Shihoin, Tatsuki Arisawa and Ururu Tsumugiya; also the ADR director along with Kirk Thornton
  • Whack A Mole: In the Bount filler arc in the anime, one of the "games" involves one of the Nakama being replaced with a shapeshifter. The heroes have to figure out who it is before an elapsed time runs out or the modsouls will start playing Kill Em All with the Muggles.
  • Wham Episode: The end of the Soul Society Arc.
  • What An Idiot: The Soul Reapers face down Aizen and the top three Espada, a small army of the most dangerous foes they have ever faced. They neglected to bring so much as a single 4th Division healer with them, and wonder what went wrong when half the lieutenants are dying or incapacitated while the bad guys are going strong.
  • What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: Ishida makes knitting and SCA-style costume design cool
  • What The Hell Hero: Tatsuki does this to Ichigo when he refuses to confide in her after she confronts him.
    • Ichigo does this to Ishida when Ishida uses hollow bait in the middle of a city with a population of 100,000 people at least.
  • White Haired Pretty Boy: Hitsugaya Toushirou, Ukitake Juushirou, Ishida Ryuuken, Jin Kariya, Ganryu
  • Why Dont You Just Shoot Him: When she first used Resurrection, Harribel displayed the necessary speed and power necessary to get around Hitsugaya's defenses with her sword, and could have ended the fight at literally any point. Instead, she spent the entire rest of the fight playing tug of war with her water powers and his ice powers.
    • Additionally, every Espada can supposedly use the uber-powerful Gran Rey Cero. Aside from Grimmjow, not a single one seems to remember this.
  • Willfully Weak
  • Woman In White
  • Woolseyism: The replacement of "Shinigami" with "Soul Reaper" in the English releases.
  • Xanatos Roulette: Any of Aizen Sousuke's masterful schemes. The Soul Society arc was one elaborate plan to extract the Hougyoku from Rukia's soul, involving killing and impersonating Central 46, using Ichigo and friends as a distraction, faking his death, and throwing Soul Society into civil war. If things don't go quite as planned, the plans change; Brute-forcing a quick fix is an option, too.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: To some degree, Momo Hinamori. Captain Unohana and Rukia's former idol Miyako Shiba embody this trope better, though.
  • You Can See Me?
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Aizen does this to everyone he sees as not being useful: Momo, Harribel. Subverted by Byakuya with Rukia,
  • You Never Asked: Kisuke Urahara loves this trope.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Grimmjow, Nel, Szayel, Mayuri
  • You Should Know This Already: Aizen is evil, Gin is a subverted Red Herring, Aizen is evil, Tousen goes with them because he's a Knight Templar, Aizen is evil, Shinji Hirako is a Bad Ass, Aizen is evil, Urahara isn't as nice as he seems, and oh yeah, AIZEN IS EVIL!!!
    • Anything that's aired in the American dub. If it's gotten that far, it's been around long enough that it doesn't need spoiler tags.
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