History Bleach / TropesCToD

** Chapter 1 is called "Death & Strawberry" and involves Rukia stabbing Ichigo to give him Soul Reaper powers. In Chapter 195 Rukia returns to Karakura after the Soul Society arc and restores Ichigo's HeroicResolve that he'd lost, thus restoring his ability to fight as a Soul Reaper; this chapter is called "Death & Strawberry Reprise." Much later, Urahara instigates a plan to restore Ichigo's lost Soul Reaper powers that culminates in Rukia stabbing Ichigo again; this chapter is called "Death & Strawberry 2."

* CareerEndingInjury: If a Soul Reaper is cut in both their Chain of Fate and Soul Sleep at the same time, they will forever lose their powers. If they do not die from the wounds (which are very close to the heart), their days as a Soul Reaper are over. When Uryuu defeats Jirubou Ikkanzaka, he permits Jiroubou to live but shoots him through the Chain of Fate and Soul Sleep to ensure Jiroubou can never again be a threat.

%%* ComedicSociopathy: Mayuri's antics are ''meant'' to be this, but [[BaseBreaker about half the fans]] find them to be too [[MoralEventHorizon horrific]] to count.

** Another and by far the worse yet by chapter 680: Yhwach has become all powerful, especially after taking Ichigo's powers once he uses the true extents of his abilities to hand him and Orihime a crushing defeat, despite their best efforts.

** Chapter 679 puts Ichigo in a pose that's very similar to the one he had after losing to Ulquiorra in their second battle. However, the meaning is reversed. In the first, Ichigo was utterly defeated and Ulquiorra expected him to give in to despair, which Ichigo refused and remained DefiantToTheEnd. In the second, Ichigo's words are simply "It's over", after Yhwach also said the same thing.

%%* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Happens to so many important characters, it's not even funny. Some characters get Chucked '''mid-arc'''. Justified after the TimeSkip [[spoiler:as Ichigo lost all of his powers, including the ability to see apparitions, and so would reasonably lose contact with many of his superpowered friends.]] Though this doesn't explain what happened to Kon.

* {{Consistency}}: 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.
** 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.

*** 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 both spirit aged and could manifest her own zanpakutou (complete with its own release). 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.

* {{Consistency}}: 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. The fandom has mixed success in spotting when such exposition is accurate or inaccurate.
** 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 from guns to crossbows, although all of them can resort to bows if they have to.

*** 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.
*** 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, however, this isn't mentioned and Soifon's Bankai is too heavy for her to easily wield.

*** Nanao's zanpakutou is not a part of her individual soul, but instead an AncestralWeapon.
*** It's possible to hide a zanpakutou inside ''another'' zanpakutou.
*** We're originally told that you can only unlock a zanpakutou's abilities by earning its respect and thus learning its TrueName; both Ichigo and Renji discover that their zanpakutou lied to them, which gave them vastly different weapons and abilities than their true forms.
*** Kenpachi's zapakutou spirit lived as her own person with ''her own zanpakutou and abilities''.
*** We're told a zanpakutou is always effortless for their masters to use, regardless of weight--except for Soifon's bankai, which is so heavy and cumbersome that she doesn't like it.
*** Once a bankai is broken, it can never regain its full strength again. However, that drawback is rendered meaningless in two of the three cases we see onscreen, whereupon the owners (Renji and Ichigo) learn it wasn't their "true" bankai anyway.

* {{Consistency}}: Rules for the plot and story mechanics can often [[UnreliableExpositor be revealed as false]], hyperboly, or oversimplification. While very few rules are ever bluntly {{Retcon}}ned, so many loopholes are revealed by {{Revision}} that the overall consistency is very loose.
** Early in the series, we're told that shinigami and Quincy are completely different, to the point that they ''always'' use different weapons (a sword for shinigami and a bow for Quincy). Later on, we learn that the Ishida family were the only ones who insisted on ''exclusively'' using the outdated bows, while Yhwach's army manifests a variety of weaponry.

* {{Consistency}}: Rules for the plot and story mechanics can often [[UnreliableExpositor be revealed as false]], hyperboly, or oversimplification. While very few rules are ever bluntly {{Retcon}}ned, so many loopholes are revealed that the overall consistency is very loose.

* {{Consistency}}: Bleach has very loose rules that make up the backbone of the plot and story mechanics. However, those rules can often [[UnreliableExpositor be revealed as false]], hyperboly, or oversimplification.

** Early in the series, we're told that shinigami and Quincy are completely different, to the point that they ''always'' use different weapons (a sword of shinigami and a bow for Quincy). Later on, we learn that the Ishida family were the only ones who insisted on ''exclusively'' using the outdated bows, while Yhwach's army manifests a variety of weaponry.

*** We're originally told that you can only unlock a zanpakutou's abilities by earning its respect and thus learning its TrueName, both Ichigo and Renji's zanpakutou lied to them, which gave them vastly different weapons and abilities than their true forms.

* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Ichigo returns from Soul Society only to walk in on Kon in his body with his hand down his pants, jerking off to an imagined threesome with Rukia and Orihime. He's not impressed.

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** In the Karakura battle, Wonderweiss & his pet OlympicMon arrive to restore/bolster Aizen's forces and the Vizards arrive and even the playing field for the Gotei 13 in Chapters 363-364.

* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler: Tousen.]] He spent much of his adult life plotting revenge on Soul Society as a result of the death of his [[ImpliedLoveInterest friend]]. One of his deepest fears was to [[BecomingTheMask die a Soul Reaper]], the thing he hated most. As a result, he Hollowfied to escape being a Soul Reaper. At the end, when defeated and dying after his battle with [[spoiler:Komamura and Hisagi]], he returns to the Soul Reaper form he had once despised, finally understanding the value of the friendships he had forged amongst the Soul Reapers. He has just enough time to make his apologies [[spoiler:to Komamura and Hisagi]] absolutely clear before [[BigBad Aizen]] kills him. Of course, he was dying anyway, but Aizen just wanted to prove a point.

!!Tropes for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', C to D:

* CreateYourOwnVillain / CreateYourOwnEnemy: Particularly during {{filler}} and films, the Soul Society in general and Yamamoto in particular, tend to do this in their adherence to tradition and ''extreme'' rigidity. Example include the "Dark Ones" from ''Memories of Nobody'', Shusuke Amagai from the ''New Captain'' Arc, Sōjirō Kusaka from ''The Diamond Dust Rebellion'', and the Quincies from the series proper.