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The Is This An Example? forum thread has suggested that a meta-trope will rarely be justified, when sub-tropes should suffice. Brought here to try and identify which sub-tropes should apply.
* {{Consistency}}: [[strike:Rules for the plot and story mechanics can often [[UnreliableExpositor be revealed as false]], hyperbole, or oversimplification. While very few rules are ever bluntly {{Retcon}}ned, Kubo is fond of having story points revealed from a character\'s point-of-view or understanding, and then to make that character\'s knowledge flawed or completely wrong. Loopholes are then revealed by {{Revision}} as old information is given new context or clarification. Because of this, it\'s difficult for readers to discern boundaries to these rules.]] \'\'\'Reason: Already under UnreliableCanon.\'\'\'
** Early in the series, Uryuu insists that Shinigami and Quincies are completely different and that Quincies only ever use bows because Shinigami don\'t. It\'s later made clear that Uryuu doesn\'t know as much about Quincies as he thought, and that the Ishida family are the only Quincies that insist on using bows. The Vandenreich Quincies use a whole range of weapons, including guns, crossbows and their own fists, and some of them use projectiles that are \"arrows\" in name only.
** A major example of this are the rules for how zanpakuotou and their major forms, shikai and bankai, work.
*** Nanao\'s Zanpakutou is not a part of her individual soul. She was given an Asauchi like all other Shinigami students, but was incapable of bonding with it to produce a Zanpakutou of her own. Her soul was already linked to the AncestralWeapon that only women of the Ise family can use. It is also not considered the personal property of the Ise woman who wields it, belonging to Soul Society as a sacred weapon.
*** It\'s possible to hide a Zanpakutou within another Zanpakutou. While the concept of hiding things inside people\'s souls has been long established, nothing was mentioned about Zanpakutou until it was revealed.
*** Ichigo was originally told that a Zanpakutou only reveals its true abilities (particularly Bankai) once the Shinigami has earned the spirit\'s respect enough to learn the spirit\'s TrueName. Renji and Ichigo later learn their Zanpakutou were lying to them and that the spirits had not revealed their true names or abilities, which are different to what they\'ve so far been using. The reveal of these lies tie in to Yumichika\'s well-established situation whereby he knows both a false name and a true name of his own Zanpakutou, enabling him to lie to everyone else about what his Zanpakutou\'s powers really are.
*** Zanpakutou spirits live within a Shinigami\'s inner world. A Shinigami of sufficient ability can manifest that Zanpakutou in the real world either unconsciously or deliberately, but there have been no stated cases of Shinigami living along side their manifested Zanpakutou spirit until Nimaiya comes along. Even then, he knows he\'s living with manifested Zanpakutou Spirits. Kenpachi\'s eventually revealed to have been living along side his own Zanpakutou spirit for years without ever having realised the truth. Helping this deception was the fact that said spirit aged and could manifest her own zanpakutou (complete with its own release), as well as bleed and receive grave injuries. In the past, we\'d seen that Old Man Zangetsu\'s physical age varied and that he could summon \"decoy\" zanpakutou at will, but both of those cases were under very different circumstances than Kenpachi\'s spirit. Outside of filler, though, we\'d \'\'never\'\' seen a manifested zanpakutou spirit become injured in a fight.
*** Kubo once stated in an interview that he imagines it would be difficult for other Shinigami to wield the Zanpakutou of someone else, that a Zanpakutou would be almost weightless for its master, but very heavy for anyone else. In the story itself, Isshin once mentions that all captain-level zanpakutou would be as big as skyscrapers if they reflected their owners\' power, which led to some extra assumptions about weight not being an issue. Later, we find out that Soifon\'s Bankai is too heavy for her to easily wield.
*** Once a Bankai is broken, it can never again regain its full strength because it can never again return to the form it originally had. However, if a Bankai can be remade into something new (such as a Shinigami learning that the Zanpakutou was hiding its true form from him all along), the relationship between the Shinigami and the Zanpakutou can be rebuilt from scratch, and a brand new form, at a brand new level of power, can be created.
* {{Consistency}}: [[strike:Rules for the plot and story mechanics can often [[UnreliableExpositor be revealed as false]], hyperbole, or oversimplification. While very few rules are ever bluntly {{Retcon}}ned, Kubo is fond of having story points revealed from a character\'s point-of-view or understanding, and then to make that character\'s knowledge flawed or completely wrong. Loopholes are then revealed by {{Revision}} as old information is given new context or clarification. Because of this, it\'s difficult for readers to discern boundaries to these rules.]] \'\'\'Reason: Already under UnreliableCanon.\'\'\'
** Early in the series, Uryuu insists that Shinigami and Quincies are completely different and that Quincies only ever use bows because Shinigami don\'t. It\'s later made clear that Uryuu doesn\'t know as much about Quincies as he thought, and that the Ishida family are the only Quincies that insist on using bows. The Vandenreich Quincies use a whole range of weapons, including guns, crossbows and their own fists, and some of them use projectiles that are \"arrows\" in name only.
** A major example of this are the rules for how zanpakuotou and their major forms, shikai and bankai, work.
*** Nanao\'s Zanpakutou is not a part of her individual soul. She was given an Asauchi like all other Shinigami students, but was incapable of bonding with it to produce a Zanpakutou of her own. Her soul was already linked to the AncestralWeapon that only women of the Ise family can use. It is also not considered the personal property of the Ise woman who wields it, belonging to Soul Society as a sacred weapon.
*** It\'s possible to hide a Zanpakutou within another Zanpakutou. While the concept of hiding things inside people\'s souls has been long established, nothing was mentioned about Zanpakutou until it was revealed.
*** Ichigo was originally told that a Zanpakutou only reveals its true abilities (particularly Bankai) once the Shinigami has earned the spirit\'s respect enough to learn the spirit\'s TrueName. Renji and Ichigo later learn their Zanpakutou were lying to them and that the spirits had not revealed their true names or abilities, which are different to what they\'ve so far been using. The reveal of these lies tie in to Yumichika\'s well-established situation whereby he knows both a false name and a true name of his own Zanpakutou, enabling him to lie to everyone else about what his Zanpakutou\'s powers really are.
*** Zanpakutou spirits live within a Shinigami\'s inner world. A Shinigami of sufficient ability can manifest that Zanpakutou in the real world either unconsciously or deliberately, but there have been no stated cases of Shinigami living along side their manifested Zanpakutou spirit until Nimaiya comes along. Even then, he knows he\'s living with manifested Zanpakutou Spirits. Kenpachi\'s eventually revealed to have been living along side his own Zanpakutou spirit for years without ever having realised the truth. Helping this deception was the fact that said spirit aged and could manifest her own zanpakutou (complete with its own release), as well as bleed and receive grave injuries. In the past, we\'d seen that Old Man Zangetsu\'s physical age varied and that he could summon \"decoy\" zanpakutou at will, but both of those cases were under very different circumstances than Kenpachi\'s spirit. Outside of filler, though, we\'d \'\'never\'\' seen a manifested zanpakutou spirit become injured in a fight.
*** Kubo once stated in an interview that he imagines it would be difficult for other Shinigami to wield the Zanpakutou of someone else, that a Zanpakutou would be almost weightless for its master, but very heavy for anyone else. In the story itself, Isshin once mentions that all captain-level zanpakutou would be as big as skyscrapers if they reflected their owners\' power, which led to some extra assumptions about weight not being an issue. Later, we find out that Soifon\'s Bankai is too heavy for her to easily wield.
*** Once a Bankai is broken, it can never again regain its full strength because it can never again return to the form it originally had. However, if a Bankai can be remade into something new (such as a Shinigami learning that the Zanpakutou was hiding its true form from him all along), the relationship between the Shinigami and the Zanpakutou can be rebuilt from scratch, and a brand new form, at a brand new level of power, can be created.
