History NightmareFuel / Bleach

** Just look at the distance between his eyes. And the worst is, despite having turned into an insect-like abomination, there's still a part of his ''freaking human face'' left! With ragged teeth, of course. And the fact that he still talks (having gone batshit insane, but not significantly more than a few seconds ago before his transformation), yet is unable to recognize his old friend, whose face flashed before him in his dying moments might put him downright into the depths of the UncannyValley.

* Kutsuzawa collides into the UncannyValley with [[http://images.wikia.com/bleach/en/images/8/8e/Girikoenlargedform.png this unsettling transformation]].

* 679: The horrified look on Ichigo and Orihime's faces as Yhwach explains "The Almighty" and how utterly screwed they are.

* [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen's shikai]]. From the moment you see it, ''you can never again fully trust any of your senses''. [[ParanoiaFuel That's a pretty goddamn frightening thought right there.]] Then there's how he ''uses'' it; in particular, tricking both Kyoraku and Hitsugaya into backstabbing poor Hinamori.

* Tsukishima and his Fullbring. The guy can rewrite the past of anyone and anything he cuts, and uses it to turn all of Ichigo's friends against him. The mindgames he plays on people are simply terrifying. [[MagnificentBastard Mr. Tite Kubo]], has [[SurrealHorror truly outdone himself this time.]] He managed to make a [[PrimalFear villain]] even ''[[UpToEleven MORE FRIGHTENING]]'' than [[MasterOfIllusion Ai]][[SuperpowerLottery zen]].

** Chapter 525 not only re-affirms this but takes it UpToEleven. When Zaraki and Unohana first fought each other, Zaraki was only '''a child''', but he was '''stronger''' than Unohana. He even had his Zanpakuto back then, and it was still the same, chipped, constant-release nameless Zanpakuto that it is today. Zangetsu once said the disunity between Zaraki and his Zanpakuto and not knowing its name weakened both Zaraki and the Zanpakuto. To top it all off, the reason why Zaraki is weaker than what he used to be is because he was afraid of losing the one person who made him enjoy a fight, so he subconsciously limited his power. Take away the subconscious limiter, have him use proper swordsmanship and learn the name of his Zanpakuto. With every last thing that is limiting Zaraki's true potential rectified, imagine how powerful he can become...

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** Ichigo is still trapped. And still hearing everyone... everyone but the TrueCompanions. Even with Kirge slain, [[AdultFear it's still nerve-and-heartbreaking]].

** And what if this happens when not only you have any idea of what's going on, but your beloved and much younger little sister [[InnocentBystander who is NOT a combatant ''is right next to you'']]? And then one of the most powerful enemies shows up and you have no time to send the little girl to safety]]? [[AdultFear Whoa there, Kubo.

* 579: The battle won, Kenny calls out to Yachiru, and gets no response. Within the span of a single page, he goes from asking his squad members if they've seen her to screaming at them to look for her. [[AdultFear If you've ever been responsible for someone else's child or your own and suddenly discovered they were nowhere to be found, you know at least a tiny bit of this feeling]]. Also keep in mind this is Kenpachi Zaraki we're talking about; he's just lost one of the only two people he ever admitted to caring about, and he's now in danger of losing the second.

* Szayelapporo returns, now upgraded from an Arrancar to some damned entity similar to the Togabito. His left arm burns with a black flame that's already seared away the flesh, his left eye is a dark pit and two wounds on the sides of his head leak some mystery liquid that solidifies into a pair of horns. The worst part of all is that he's been watching over Renji ever since he ended up in Hell. [[AdultFear Then he tries to]] [[WouldHurtAChild kill Ichika]].

* Minor in comparison to the rest of this page, but seeing Hitsugaya in the anime viciously, determinedly stabbing his sword through Aizen's chest right up to the hilt for how deliberate it was. Not even taking into account [[Shocking Moments what happened next]]...

* It wasn't mentioned till now, but the whole [[BodyHorror Visored incident]]. Imagine being out in the night to investigate something that apparently wiped out ''captain-class'' Shinigami. The place is away enough no one can reach for Soul Society for extra help -- you and your friends are on your own. Then two of your friends show up, ''[[TheCorruption wearing a Hollow mask]]'', having become mindless monsters bent on killing ''you''. When you manage to defeat those friends, one of the unaffected people starts [[TheVirus exhibiting symptoms too]]. Soon, all of you are [[BodyHorror becoming monsters]] and ''there's nothing you can do about it.'' Also, because of it, the [[MildlyMilitary military organization]] you've been treating as home wants nothing more to do with you, and in fact has ''[[KickTheDog sentenced you to death as Hollows]]''. All of the Visored still seem quite traumatized by the event one hundred years later.
** Shinji has the addendum of seeing all his fears about Aizen proven to be true, [[OutGambitted to realize]] [[UnwittingPawn he's actually been acting as his vice-captain's pawn all along]], and to realize [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's partly responsible]] for the [[TheCorruption Hollowfication of his friends]]. His [[FreakOut breakdown as Aizen is about to kill him is downright chilling.]]

* In the manga, Grimmjow kicking Loly in the stomach so hard that it causes her to vomit, and ripping off her leg. The look of absolute ''terror'' in her eye says it all. Also look at how badly Loly [[http://read.mangashare.com/Bleach/chapter-273/page010.html disfigured]] Orihime's face. All of this was understandably softened in the anime (Grimmjow just swats Loly aside with his arm, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments psyches her out with a "Boo!" rather than rip her leg off]], and Grimmjow's arrival interrupted Loly before she got the chance to badly disfigure Orihime.

* [[http://www.mangarush.com/manga/bleach/415/p-17 Chapter 415]] What Aizen's cronies did to Matsumoto. She was one of the people they beat up and took a piece of her soul to power up Aizen's Hougyoku. Made worse by the fact that the state they left her in makes it look like she was raped.

* Chapter 419. [[http://www.manga-access.com/manga/B/Bleach/chapter/419/9]]. Aizen's transformation and his final form, now animated at ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' levels of scary:[[http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g321/mudatsu/db0dda46.gif Sweet dreams!]]

* Chapter 462: [[http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/90527597/11 Tsukishima mindraping Orihime and Chad]] [[http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/90527597/12 when they start breaking off]] [[http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/90527597/13 from his control]]. He seems to be enjoying it too.

* Ebern's NightmareFace as he's about to attempt to steal Ichigo's Bankai. [[https://www.mangareader.net/bleach/483/9 Pleasant dreams!]]

** Which leads to this [[http://i997.mangapanda.com/bleach/493/bleach-3325163.jpg humanoid abomination of a one-winged angel]].

** For worse, what follows this already scary moment? Nodt [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/496/17 giving]] [[TheUnsmile a seriously creepy not-smile]].

* Chapter 571: While it was indeed awesome, it also stands as a reminder that Yachiru [[CuteAndPsycho is much more than the]] CheerfulChild [[CuteAndPsycho we've seen her as.]] If her speech doesn't let you in that she's a bit...off, then [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/571/14 look closely]], and see how her eyes lose their light after she draws her sword, and gives her a mix of DullEyesOfUnhappiness and TheUnsmile. Her dialogue also reveals that the only reason she never got involved in fights before was because she didn't want to steal Zaraki's kills.

** And then later, once Kenpachi proves to be a true challenge, Gremmy learns to enjoy himself during the fight. The [[SlasherSmile grin]] he shows is rather, uh, [[http://www.mangabee.com/Bleach/575/20/ unsettling.]]

* 588: We get ''yet another'' reminder that the Thousand Year Blood War is BloodierAndGorier, with the unpleasant image of [[http://img.mangastream.com/cdn/manga/53/2441/10.png a Soldat's face bursting apart]] in something that looks straight outta ''Manga/BarefootGen''.

* 590: Giselle's behaviour towards Bambietta becomes incredibly abusive and sinister, culminating in her making [[http://mangasee.com/manga/?series=Bleach&chapter=590&index=1&page=8 THIS FACE.]]

* 597: We're introduced to a new Stern Ritter: [[http://www.onemanga.me/bleach-manga/597/16/ Nianzol Weizol, The Wind.]] Talk about a NightmareFace...

** And on top of all that, there's the volume's [[http://i997.mangareader.net/bleach/638/bleach-5887189.jpg title page]].

* Ebern's NightmareFace as he's about to unsuccessfully steal Ichigo's Bankai. [[https://www.mangareader.net/bleach/483/9 Pleasant dreams!]]

* The most chilling detail of all? Apparently Captain-level Soul Reapers can't assimilate into Soul Society when they die, so instead they go straight to Hell. Szayelapporo implies that doing so is going to prove a '''very''' costly mistake for the Soul Reapers.

* Szayelapporo returns, now upgraded from an Arrancar to some damned entity similar to the Togabito. His left arm burns with a black flame that's already seared away the flesh, his left eye is a dark pit and two wounds on the sides of his head leak some mystery liquid that solidifies into a pair of horns. The worst part of all is that he's been watching over Renji ever since he ended up in Hell.

* Szayel-Apporo returns, now upgraded from an Arrancar to some damned entity similar to the Togabito. His left arm burns with a black flame that's already seared away the flesh, his left eye is a dark pit and two wounds on the sides of his head leak some mystery liquid that solidifies into a pair of horns. The worst part of all is that he's been watching over Renji ever since he ended up in Hell.
* The most chilling detail of all? Apparently Captain-level Soul Reapers can't assimilate into Soul Society when they die, so instead they go straight to Hell. Szayel-Apporo implies that doing so is going to prove a '''very''' costly mistake for the Soul Reapers.

** Even more nightmarish is what happens after Ichigo has a hole blasted him and even more so ''why'' Orihime sees' that Ulquiorra has effectively killed Ichigo and tries to heal him, while Uryu tries to hold Him off, but it ''doesn't work'' so she cries out for help, and it works! Ichigo is back in the fight, all good yeah? ''Wrong!'' Ichigo has turned full hollow, sporting a wicked new form that the fandom had taken to calling "Vasto Lorde Ichigo" and the next few pages/scenes show why, he brutally and absolutly decimates Ulquiorra in his most powerful form, a form that can throw projectiles many times stronger than nuke, and Ichigo tears him apart and goes to butcher Ulquiorras broken body, Uryu tries to stop him, Ichigo proceeds to throw Zangestsu through Uryus' stomach! Then just when we think Ichigo has simply Devolved into a mindless destructive beast, he starts speaking, the worst part about his transformation, he simply repeats a MadnessMantra over and over "I...Must.. I Must..I Must Protect...Her" (thats what it said on the translations i read), Imagine the horror, the Orihime must feel at that moment, he hasn't became a brutal monster out of a EleventhHourSuperpower effect, he became a brutal monster because of her and his ChronicHeroSyndrome ''Massively'' Backfiring.]]

** His death at the hands of Mayuri Kurotsuchi is just as jarring: he is very, ''very'', '''''very''''' slowly stabbed through the hand and the chest. But that's not what makes it nightmare fuel. What makes it nightmare fuel is that Szayelaporro unintentionally absorbed one of many special drugs placed in Nemu's body while he was being reborn in her. Mayuri explains that the drug he just absorbed heightens his senses to superhuman levels, slowing his sense of time to the point that through his perspective, one second will feel like one century to him. By the end of it, he is ''begging'' Mayuri to hurry up and kill him.

* [[http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Arrancar_Hollow_Hole.jpg Nnoitra's Hollow hole and mask fragments]]. It was revealed with him getting STABBED IN THE HEAD by Kenpachi.

** His death at the hands of Mayuri Kurotsuchi is just as jarring: he is very, ''very'', '''''very''''' slowly stabbed through the hand and the chest. But that's not what makes it nightmare fuel. What makes it nightmare fuel is that Szayelaporro unintentionally absorbed one of many special drugs placed in Nemu's body while he was being reborn in her. Mayuri explains that the drug he just absorbed heightens his senses to superhuman levels, slowing his sense of time to the point that a speeding bullet would look like it's moving at a snail's pace. The drug's normal dosage is one drop diluted two hundred and fifty thousand times, but what Szayelaporro absorbed was the undiluted version, meaning that through his perspective, one second will feel like one century. By the end of it, he is ''begging'' Mayuri to hurry up and kill him.

* The fourth movie brings us Hell itself, from what appears to be gigantic prison city made up entirely of white [[AlienGeometries marble blocks]] patrolled by giant skeletal gorillas with floating skulls instead of heads, that can pass through walls and chew on people, to a sea with stone lotuses, with a corpse of one such monster impaled on a giant sword inside each, to what appears to be a cavern, with ponds of corrosive yellow liquid and a dimly lit underground tunnel, leading to a desert made of the ground bones of the damned, with some sort of dark sacrificial altar in the middle, and a pool of lava that respawns anyone killed in hell so they can die again, and that's just the start.
* The scene in ''Fade To Black'' where Homura and Shizuku fusing with Rukia against her will, because they want to be with her and want nobody else getting in the way. Poor Rukia's tortured screams do '''NOT''' help. After this, Dark Rukia shows up and rams her scythe into a plant which spawns an EldritchAbomination that's '''OVER 150 STORIES TALL''' with massive eyes '''EVERYWHERE''', sprouting tentacle monsters that look made out of ''sperm''. All the captains make a BigDamnHeroes, but it doesn't really help much, because the damn thing spawns the monsters '''non-stop.'''

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* Minor in comparison to the rest of this page, but seeing Hitsugaya in the anime viciously, determinedly stabbing his sword through Aizen's chest right up to the hilt for how deliberate it was. Not even taking into account [[HolyShitQuotient what happened next]]...

* 643: Thought being blown into pieces would finish off Pernida? It doesn't, as eyes and fingers appear on each piece of the blown apart Pernida, riddle Nemu with the "Compulsory", [[{{Gorn}} and basically explode her entire body.]] Then Szayel shows up as a hallucination in Mayuri's mind to savagely taunt him over Nemu's death...

* '''Barragan Luisenbarn.''' The spitting image of death itself in his released form, he is a nightmarish ghoul enshrouded in darkness with a crowned ''skull'' for a head, who ''rots the ground he walks upon''. And that's only in regards to the ''ground''. Anything that decays with time (even if it would regularly take thousands, no, millions of years), will be reduced to nothing in a short time.

** Baraggan's BattleAura of death.

** His death at the hands of Mayuri Kurotsuchi is just as jarring: he is very, ''very'', '''very''' slowly stabbed through the hand and the chest. But that's not what makes it nightmare fuel. What makes it nightmare fuel is that Szayelaporro unintentionally absorbed one of many special drugs placed in Nemu's body while he was being reborn in her. Mayuri explains that the drug he just absorbed heightens his senses to superhuman levels, slowing his sense of time to the point that a speeding bullet would look like it's moving at a snail's pace. The drug's normal dosage is one drop diluted two hundred and fifty thousand times, but what Szayelaporro absorbed was the undiluted version, meaning that through his perspective, one second will feel like one century. By the end of it, he is ''begging'' Mayuri to hurry up and kill him.

* Rukia in Ganju's flashback [[spoiler: when she returned with Kaien's body to the Shiba residence.]] The look in her eye is just...terrifying.

* Metastacia. It's kinda hard to use words to describe this thing, so just use this [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100107154647/bleach/en/images/e/e9/Metastacia_Full_Body.png picture.]] If anybody touches the tentacles on his back, their zanpakuto is broken, leaving them at his mercy. [[spoiler: [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090315004608/bleach/en/images/d/d0/KaienMetastacia.jpg Poor Kaien.]]]] And in the manga it was worse; ''there were tentacles sprouting out of his empty eye sockets.'' Not mentioning his habit of turning friend against friend. Imagine having to fight your friend, but it's not really your friend, even though you know it actually is.

* [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen's shikai]]. From the moment you see it, ''you can never again fully trust any of your senses''. [[ParanoiaFuel That's a pretty goddamn frightening thought right there.]] Then there's how he ''uses'' it; in particular, [[spoiler: tricking both Kyoraku and Hitsugaya into backstabbing poor Hinamori.]]

* Ichigo having a giant bloody hole blasted through his chest. The fact that he then [[spoiler: runs around with that gaping hole in his chest somehow makes it worse.]] In an earlier fight, he was almost cut in half.
** Even more nightmarish is what happens after Ichigo has a hole blasted him and even more so ''why'' [[spoiler: Orihime sees' that Ulquiorra has effectively killed Ichigo and tries to heal him, while Uryu tries to hold Him off, but it ''doesn't work'' so she cries out for help, and it works! Ichigo is back in the fight, all good yeah? ''Wrong!'' Ichigo has turned full hollow, sporting a wicked new form that the fandom had taken to calling "Vasto Lorde Ichigo" and the next few pages/scenes show why, he brutally and absolutly decimates Ulquiorra in his most powerful form, a form that can throw projectiles many times stronger than nuke, and Ichigo tears him apart and goes to butcher Ulquiorras broken body, Uryu tries to stop him, Ichigo proceeds to throw Zangestsu through Uryus' stomach! Then just when we think Ichigo has simply Devolved into a mindless destructive beast, he starts speaking, the worst part about his transformation, he simply repeats a MadnessMantra over and over "I...Must.. I Must..I Must Protect...Her" (thats what it said on the translations i read), Imagine the horror, the Orihime must feel at that moment, he hasn't became a brutal monster out of a EleventhHourSuperpower effect, he became a brutal monster because of her and his ChronicHeroSyndrome ''Massively'' Backfiring.]]

* When Tousen [[spoiler: had a jaw sprout out of his otherwise-blank Hollow mask.]] Look at what happened to his arm...

** Just look at the distance between his eyes. And the worst is, despite having turned into an [[spoiler: insect-like abomination]], there's still a part of his ''freaking human face'' left! With ragged teeth, of course. And the fact that he still talks (having gone batshit insane, but not significantly more than a few seconds ago before his transformation), yet is unable to recognize [[spoiler: his old friend, whose face flashed before him in his dying moments]] might put him downright into the depths of the UncannyValley.

* [[spoiler:Kensei's first Hollowfication,]] which not only makes him go berserk, but makes pillars start to grow out of his back.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXrJeajif4U scene]] in which [[spoiler:Hiyori]] nearly gets strangled to death by a [[spoiler: insane Hollowfied Ichigo]] with a huge SlasherSmile on his face. The English dub of that particular scene takes this up a notch. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlImtPnOEk Holy crap, Johnny Yong Bosch!]] (start around 3:48) That crazy bone-chilling laughter...
** What makes said scene actually even more nightmarish is [[spoiler: Hiyoris' reaction, rememeber that all of them had to go through a similar kind of process to Ichigo, so she has SeenItAllBefore, even her reaction to her fight with him is boredom, then Hollow Ichigo surfaces and her face goes from bored to scared, after the other subdue Ichigo, she is in the corner with a terrified look on her face, jesus...]]

* When we finally get to see it, the release of [[spoiler: Wonderweiss]] looks like a [[Manga/DGrayMan level 4 Akuma]]. Much like [[spoiler: Tousen]], he still has a bit of a humanoid chin. The worst part of it is by far [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100310001417/bleach/en/images/0/06/Wonderweiss_arms_arms.png those goddamn arms]] ''erupting'' out of his over-sized shoulders.

* Ninth Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie ''definitely'' has the look of an ugly-ass EldritchAbomination. His real "face" is [[spoiler:a large, glass cylindrical capsule filled with ''blood-red'' liquid and two small, floating Hollow ''heads'', that tend to talk at the same time when revealed, almost as if there's ''two people'' speaking to you. The upper head has a menacingly deep voice, while the other is more high-pitched and child-like, like that of a living doll or chipmunk]]. His zanpakuto is a deformed arm-like appendage with dozens of sprouting tentacles, concealed in his left hand under his glove. One of his powers is to ''absorb you into himself'', gaining all your memories and abilities, which he can perfectly mimic to any one else he comes into contact with, ''including peoples' faces''. He shape-shifts by forcing one of his heads through the glass, making it bubble into a coating of skin, which he then stretches to force the rest of the cylinder under. Finally, [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080806095721/bleach/en/images/7/7c/Aaroniero_Arruruerie_Resurreccion.jpg his released form is a MASSIVE, two-eyed, grinning octopus]]. For reference, that little yellow thing standing right in front of Aaroniero is ''Rukia''.

* Tesra vs. Ichigo. Tesra goes OneWingedAngel on Ichigo immediately, and then proceeds to break every bone in his body. ''You can hear Ichigo's arm being snapped like a twig!'' Tesra apparently thought it was necessary to slam him into the ground from 15 feet up 3 times in a row and then attempt to break his spine on two different occasions. Thankfully, [[spoiler: Zaraki pulled a BigDamnHeroes and then took Tesra out in one shot.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JKCRKTxrP4 Now for all to enjoy!]]

* Chapter 403 gives us [[spoiler: Aizen's new form]]. As Ichigo himself states in the chapter: "What...the fuck...is that..."
** Following up on [[spoiler:Chrysalis-Aizen]], this is what happens after he's hit with a big-ass Getsuga. Special note is that, when injured, he doesn't bleed, his skin ''cracks'' instead, with ''no'' reaction at all from the guy, implying that he can't feel ''anything'' anymore.
* Chapter 409: Upon reaching [[spoiler: the real Karakura Town, Aizen began ''randomly slaughtering passerbys.'' Keep in mind, most of which ''can't even see him.'']] And he isn't even doing so with intent; his BattleAura is so strong, anything made of reishi (spirit particles), which includes peoples' souls, that isn't used to such a strong aura, gets ''splattered''. Only those that actually have something to resist can ''try'' to survive. That means Aizen is now currently so powerful that his mere presence is enough to kill ''the entire human population''. Oh. He also [[spoiler: goes after Ichigo's friends, intending to kill them in the hopes that it'll provoke Ichigo into becoming more powerful]].
* [[http://www.mangarush.com/manga/bleach/415/p-17 Chapter 415]] What Aizen's cronies did to Matsumoto. [[spoiler: She was one of the people they beat up and took a piece of her soul to power up Aizen's Hougyoku]]. Made worse by the fact that the state they left her in makes it look like she was raped.
* 416. Up until now, Aizen has cleanly cut his enemies down. Then he slashed them across the chest, then ripped off an arm, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed through the chest]], and finally [[PersonOfMassDestruction throwing the already dying victim through a building]]. [[DissonantSerenity With that perfectly calm smile.]] And Aizen's doing this to [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Gin]], who had just then betrayed him and was the last subordinate he had.]] And here the good guys at least had the hope of going down without too much pain...

* [[spoiler: Ginjo was already hit with "Book of the End", and being hit twice TURNED HIM BACK TO NORMAL: The actual villain of the arc]]. He and Tsukishima effectively took the very concept of TrueCompanions that gives strength to so many ShonenGenre protagonists, [[DeconstructedTrope defeated it, and virtually made it their bitches]].

** This also happens to be the first time we're seeing things ''from the perspective of somebody affected by him. Even [[spoiler: Ginjo]] [[PragmaticVillainy dislikes]] Tsukishima's usage of his Fullbring as it can completely destroy the victim's MIND and make them {{Empty Shell}}s with overuse. His reaction is LackOfEmpathy.

* [[spoiler: The monsters that Yukio summoned into his fullbring and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard that he]] [[AvertedTrope was almost]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed by them]].]]

* Ebern's NightmareFace as he's about to [[spoiler: unsuccessfully]] steal Ichigo's Bankai. [[https://www.mangareader.net/bleach/483/9 Pleasant dreams!]]

** Also, [[spoiler: Yamamoto]] [[TranquilFury is pissed.]] SCARINGLY [[NightmareFace pissed.]]
* Chapter 492: Ayon's rampage is an in-universe moment, but the biggest one is after the rampage: [[spoiler: Kirge is still alive after having his neck snapped like a twig, and just puts it back in place.]]
** For worse, how did we learn about it? [[spoiler: When Apacci approaches him to boast... and all of a sudden, she gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.]] [[OhCrap Oh shi--]].
* Chapter 493: [[spoiler: We get to see the [[SarcasmMode pleasant]] sight of people's flesh being]] ''[[spoiler: disintegrated from their bones.]]'' [[spoiler: Up to and including seeing seeing [[LightningBruiser Ayon]] being reduced to a skeleton, in a way somehow much more gruesome than the similar fate of those affected by Baraggan's ability.]]

* Chapter 494: [[spoiler: Interesting that they introduced several officers at once with zanpakutous to boot at once. That means that they'll probably be cannon fodder to the Vandenreich while -- DID ONE OF THEM BLAST KIRA'S RIGHT SIDE OFF?! 1,000+ deaths in 7 minutes? Aizen, can you be our BigBad again? ]]
** Even more so, does [[spoiler: poor Kira]]'s horrifying injury look familiar? [[spoiler: Yes, it's disturbingly similar to what happened to Matsumoto in the FKT arc. Only that, instead of having his right side merely torn by a GiantMook's hand, the upper half of his body was blasted off.]] Auuuugh.

** Made worse by the fact (s?)he [[spoiler: stole a bankai, specifically [[DeathByAThousandCuts Byakuya's]].]]
*** And has now [[spoiler: used Senbonzakura Kageyoshi to turn Byakuya into a fountain of blood.]] As Nodt '''is''' the living embodiment of Nightmares.
* Because of a miscalculation, four captains have now [[spoiler: had their bankai ''stolen'' before they get the chance to set them off.]]. So much that it gives resident [[TheStoic stoic]] [[spoiler: Byakuya a legendary OhCrap face, too shocked to even hide it]].
** For worse, what follows this already scary moment? [[spoiler: Nodt]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/496/17 giving]] [[TheUnsmile a seriously creepy not-smile]].
* Well, keep in mind that the above were only the mid-tier captains, surely the senior captains will -- [[spoiler: ''and'' Shunsui's [[EyeScream lost an eye]]]]...oh shit.
** The effects of the [[spoiler: bankai thievery]] sound part TearJerker and part this when [[spoiler: Toshiro was breaking down because he couldn't communicate with Hyorinmaru. It sounds like not only it was just a stolen ability, but his partner was outright ripped out and imprisoned, and likely may not be able to use his shikai either]].
* Straight from the 500th chapter, we have [[spoiler: Ichigo trapped in the Garganta, he can [[AndIMustScream hear everything from the battle... If you can call it a battle, but can't be heard by anyone.]] Also, the members of the Science and Development team alongside [[GentleGiant Jidanbo]] are [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forced]] to attack each other during this.]]
** In regards to the last one: [[spoiler: ''Not'' everyone is BrainwashedAndCrazy. Jidanbo seems to be, but [[PeoplePuppets Rin is clearly not]] since he's crying TearsOfFear as he stabs Hiyosu during his GoThroughMe.]]

** [[spoiler:Ichigo is still trapped. And still hearing everyone... everyone but the TrueCompanions. Even with Kirge slain, [[AdultFear it's still nerve-and-heartbreaking]].]]
** [[spoiler:As Nodt vs Byakuya. As succeeds where Tsukishima has failed... by [[MindRape mind raping Byakuya]]. As Nodt's explains that his/her ability is shooting arrows [[EmotionBomb that augment fear at his enemies]], causing them to literally be scared to death.]]
** [[spoiler:Byakuya fights it well and reminds himself that he fights for Rukia... but he soon succumbs to it.]] And [[https://12dimension.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/bleach501_11-panel.jpg this image]] of [[spoiler:Rukia disintegrating and becoming a zombie]] ''does not help''! Creator/TiteKubo can be insanely good at PsychologicalHorror, '''and it shows'''.
** And at the end, [[spoiler:Byakuka ''is attacked by his own Bankai'', blood jettisoning from his body.]]
* Chapter 502 gives us As Nodt repeatedly using [[spoiler:Senbonzakura to turn Byakuya into a mangled bloody mess.]]
** Also,[[spoiler:Byakuya's bloody body]] lying in a huge crater in the wall. It is not pretty.
*** Neither is the scene in which [[spoiler: where his right arm is severed.]] O U C H.
* Chapter 503: [[spoiler:Ichigo seems to be starting to suffer a mental breakdown from not being able to break out of the cage.]]
* Chapter 504: [[spoiler:Yamamoto oneshotting [[AxCrazy Driscoll Berci]] by ''actually melting him''. Admittedly overlaps with SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome [[KickTheSonOfABitch by virtue of the recipient]].]]
** [[spoiler: It should also be mentioned that Driscoll's skeletal structure could be seen in the fire. Prior to this, nobody got scorched ''that badly'' by Yamamoto, which shows how personally he took it. Yeah, do not piss him off.]]
* Chapter 505: [[spoiler: Kenpachi ''lost'' to the Emperor. How do we know he got his ass handed effortlessly? Yhwach is holding him up by a few fingers impaled in his face, the eyes are blank (no eyepatch!), and Kenpachi isn't displaying ''any'' sign he enjoyed the battle. It is ''chilling'' to watch, especially how the few panels prior was Yamamoto's rage [[MoodWhiplash riling up the Soul Society]].]]
* Chapter 507: [[spoiler: Zanka No Tachi's]] power and heat is so intense that it is causing all of the moisture in Soul Society to vanish. Unohana even tells Yamamoto to finish the fight quickly before [[spoiler: Zanka no Tachi]] destroys Soul Society.
* Chapter 508: [[spoiler: Zanka No Tachi, Minami: Kaka Juuman Okushi Daisoujin. Just try imagining Yamamoto raising 100,000 skeletons of the people he's killed to fight against you. Said skeletons are ''charred'' and at least a few of the people he killed were Stern Ritter.]] Yamamoto pissed off is Nightmare Fuel. The Hellfire imagery, The Sheer Beastial/Demonic faces. If you came into this chapter blind, YOU THINK YAMAMOTO IS A VILLAIN from the bowels of hell!

* Chapter 511, [[spoiler: Yamamoto dies.]] Not only is he [[spoiler:cut in half, his hand gets cut off, and his entire body gets completely disintegrated. Even if Orihime can get to Soul Society, he almost certainly can't be brought back.]] Also, [[spoiler: the Vandenreich has brought in their army to destroy all of Soul Society, and are now in the process of massacring the few Shinigami left]].
* Chapter 512: The sheer look of '''''rage''''' on [[spoiler: Ichigo's]] face, you can hardly blame him though, he was essentially [[spoiler: trapped in a cage, helpless and forced to listen to his friends ''die'']].
* The death glare on the final page of Chapter 520. Combine that with who it's from: [[spoiler: the normally cheerful, but nonetheless universally feared Unohana. Oh, and by the way, it turns out her real name is Yachiru Unohana, and she's the original Kenpachi]].
** [[spoiler: It's particularly effectively done, because of how her face usually looks. Her neat hairstyle and calm expression normally adds to her 'motherly' image. ''Here'' Unohana is shown partly in shadow; her hair frames her face in a way that make it looks like a mask and her expression is less 'calm' than it is blank and deathly.]]
** Also, the manner in which [[spoiler: Tenjirou's {{Healing spring}}s]] work may be very benefitial, but it sounds horribly... uncomfortable. [[spoiler: To get healed, you have to be totally submerged in one of them, which sucks out the damage to your body and reiatsu and drains it into another pool. There, said damaged blood/reiatsu are sucked into a skeleton bone and replenished in the pool... which instead of water, is made of blood. ''And you get tossed into that blood pond to continue the process''. Later, rinse, repeat, until your health is fully restored]]. Also, [[spoiler: if you're healthy... you have to get out ASAP before the healing springs work ''against'' you, making your body '''explode'''. (Hence why Tenjirou's assistants must wear protection).]] Yeah, it does work wonders on [[spoiler: Ichigo and Renji]] and ultimately saves [[spoiler: Rukia and Byakuya too]], but ''still''. Ewwwww.
* Even more nightmare-worthy facial expressions from [[spoiler: Unohana]] in Chapter 523. [[spoiler:She]]'s like a completely different person now, complete with StringyHairedGhostGirl style hair...

* [[spoiler: Unohana's]] training regimen for [[spoiler: Kenpachi]] in Chapter 524. In a series that typically involves characters calling out their attacks and explaining their abilities, [[spoiler: she quickly and brutally takes down Kenpachi, culminating in a killing slice to his neck...and then she ''heals it.'' She intends to heal every fatal blow she lands, just so Kenpachi can survive long enough to learn from the training. That alone demonstrates just how deadly Unohana really is.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Kenpachi's reaction when he realizes that he's unable to kill Unohana, and that she's about to kill him. That's probably the only time in the series in which Kenpachi looks scared.]]
* Kenpachi Zaraki has never had any formal training as a Soul Reaper. Central 46 had to pass a law forbidding his formal instruction just to make sure he wouldn't get so strong they couldn't control him. Now picture Kenpachi Zaraki, with formal training as a Soul Reaper, with all of his spiritual energy, and proper fighting techniques, and, against the law of his squad, KIDO. Him just swinging his sword with both hands [[spoiler: was enough to one shot Nnoitra.]] Now imagine that kind of power coming after you.
** Chapter 525 not only re-affirms this but takes it UpToEleven. When Zaraki [[spoiler: and Unohana]] first fought each other, Zaraki was only '''a child''', but he was '''stronger''' [[spoiler: than Unohana.]] He even had his Zanpakuto back then, and it was still the same, chipped, constant-release nameless Zanpakuto that it is today. Zangetsu once said the disunity between Zaraki and his Zanpakuto and not knowing its name weakened both Zaraki and the Zanpakuto. To top it all off, the reason why Zaraki is [[spoiler: weaker than what he used to be]] is because [[spoiler: he was afraid of losing the one person who made him enjoy a fight, so he subconsciously limited his power.]] Take away the [[spoiler: subconscious limiter]], have him use proper swordsmanship and learn the name of his Zanpakuto. With every last thing that is limiting Zaraki's true potential rectified, imagine how powerful he can become...
* [[spoiler: Unohana's bankai... [[DemBones WTF]]?]]
** Yes, it would seem Unohana's NauseaFuel Bankai [[spoiler: dissolves everything. In an extremely disgusting manner.]] And even more disturbingly, she seems to be the one that [[spoiler: is intentionally keeping Zaraki alive, no matter how much he is dissolved.]] Because she cares. It would also seem that Unohana is fully capable of [[spoiler: killing Zaraki whenever she damn well pleases, but cedes her own life because she deems him worthy of the title of Kenpachi. He may not be as skilled as her, but she clearly respects his raw power and future potential.]]
* Zaraki Kenpachi [[spoiler: is about to learn his Zanpakuto's name.]] This is a moment fandom has been anticipating for a long time and now, having regained his former power that surpasses the second-strongest Shinigami in Soul Society, he is about to finally learn [[spoiler: the name of and to start working together with his Zanpakuto.]] When Ichigo began working together with Zangetsu in his fight with Zaraki, Ichigo went from being beaten on the ground to overwhelming Zaraki and eventually beating him. One can only imagine what heights Zaraki will achieve...it seems [[FanNickname Godpachi]] might become reality.
** Also the test Ichigo and Renji had been subjected gives more nightmare fuel since it gives us a timeframe [[spoiler: Unohana was killing and reviving Kenpachi for 3 straight days so yeah its confirmed if she wanted to Unohana won't let you die until she wanted you to die.]]

* In Chapter 534 [[spoiler: Masaki suffers some [[BodyHorror after effects]] of letting that proto-arrancar bite her... and it causes her to gain what looks like a [[TorsoWithAView Hollow Hole]] and bulging veins it looks pretty horrible. Remember what happened to the Visored? It's the same thing. The one revealing it is none other than Urahara, and he's ''dead'' serious.]]
* In Chapter 535 [[spoiler:poor Masaki finds herself floating helplessly [[OutOfClothesExperience naked]] into a massive hollow's mouth. Thank God Isshin saved her.]]
* Chapter 537: We learn the ''real'' reason why [[spoiler: Masaki]] died. [[spoiler: She had her powers stolen by the Vandereich leader, simply because he considered her "tainted" and/or "not strong enough". And this happened ''right when she was about to fight Grand Fisher'', which she could have defeated easily if not for Yhwach's intervention.]]
** For worse, [[spoiler: she wasn't the only victim. ''All'' remaining Quincies who didn't fit Yhwach's standard of "purity" [[ThePurge suffered the same fate.]] Including Uryuu's mother Kanae, who fell in a coma and died three months later.]]
*** And as of 544, we have confirmation that [[spoiler:Uryuu's survival wasn't for lack of trying on Yhwach's part. ''He tried to kill an 8 year-old just for existing.'']]

* Chapter 546: Imagine being a Soul Reaper who is either training or doing some chores or tasks and all of a sudden [[spoiler: shadows envelope the Seireitei and in its place is the home base of the Vandenreich. All of a sudden, hundreds of Soul Reapers are [[MassOhCrap shitting themselves with the fact they are now in a place they have no knowledge of, and the fact it is the base of the enemy. And considering 2/3 of the Soul Reaper count got decimated in their last encounter...]]]]
** And what if this happens when not only you have any idea of what's going on, but [[spoiler: your beloved and much younger little sister [[InnocentBystander who is NOT a combatant]] ''is right next to you'']]? And then one of the most powerful enemies shows up and you have no time [[spoiler: to send the little girl to safety]]? [[AdultFear Whoa there, Kubo]].
*** And this particular horror reaches CRITICAL MASS QUOTIENT in Chapter 549, since [[spoiler: [=BG9=] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabs Mareyo with a tentacle]] and holds her hostage with the threat of extracting it and letting her bleed to death]]. Shiiiiiiiit...
* Chapter 558 shines a really dark light on the relationships between the [=FemRitters=]. [[spoiler: When Bambietta is defeated, she's surrounded by Giselle, Candice, Liltotto, and Meninas. Giselle claims that [[PleaseDontLeaveMe they don't want her to leave them]], which would be fine if it wasn't for how she was FaceFramedInShadow as she said so, along with how Bambietta actually elects to plead for her not to help. There's something very ominous about it.]]

* Chapter 562. [[spoiler:Mask De Masculine, up until that point, was a rather flamboyant and [[LargeHam hammy]] Stern Ritter of the bunch. All of his actions seemed to make him rather LaughablyEvil than anything else. But when Renji demonstrates just how dangerous he is, the guy snaps. His eyes turn bloodshot, he's screaming and ranting on about how much of a "hero" he is and a "villain" his enemies are, and at one point, he starts attacking Renji repeatedly while [[MadnessMantra repeatedly chanting the word "murder" over and over again]]]]. Another reminder of [[CallBack how depraved and insane the Stern Ritter are]].
* Chapter 563 has a terrifying scene in which [[spoiler:James' mouth, despite being detached from the rest of his face and his body after Renji shredded him, is given a close-up as it cheers for Mask De Masculine...''And a smaller James comes out of it before more James come out of the shredded remains of his body'']]. Renji is ''visibly horrified by the sight''.

** This is not in the least helped the Sternritter or anybody else by the fact that [[spoiler:Yhwach LITERALLY feeds on the death of his minions and those they kill. Since he thus needs endless bloodshed and war to survive, he has become a completely unfeeling abomination, caring more about the powers he has bestowed than the soldiers he has bestowed them upon.]]
** Oh, if only it were that simple. [[spoiler: The ability applies to anyone who has touched his soul, so even if a Shinigami were to die in unrelated combat, their power would still go to him. OH, and this means he already has Yamamoto's power, and he and Kenpachi have most certainly made contact. In other words, if Kenpachi dies after attaining Bankai, it's over for the entire universe.]]
** Adding to the creepy, he's had this power [[spoiler:since he was a baby. The text notes that everyone who was "healed" by touching his soul would die mere months later as Yhwach took back the soul fragments along with their memories and abilities. He's been killing people since birth.]]

* Chapter 566 features the return of [[spoiler: As Nodt]]. Not only that, but [[spoiler: as soon as he sees Rukia, the younger sister of the guy he almost killed, [[ImplacableMan he]] [[NightmareFace starts]] [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness going]] [[MadnessMantra fucking]] [[AxCrazy CRAZY]].]]
** A more low-key one. [[spoiler: His EmotionBomb apparently cannot be blocked, which Rukia found out when his fear attack bypassed Sode No Shirayuki's ice]].

** If it was somehow possible, As Nodt continues to ''become even more horrifying'' in Chapter 569. He practically [[spoiler:grows into a borderline EldritchAbomination]] after Byakuya shows up.
* Chapter 570: [[spoiler: Now we get a Quincy whose powers are comparable to [[Series/DoctorWho The Silence]]. Yachiru actually lands a hit but forgets instantly and gets [[WouldHurtAChild sucker-punched]] as a result.]]
** Not to mention, [[spoiler: the Quincy who did that? He manages to pull one HECK of a NightmareFace against both Yachiru and Isane]]. And for worse, [[spoiler: all of this happened ''in a specially sealed place that was supposed to be a haven for the Shinigamis''.]] [[ParanoiaFuel Fuuuuuuu--]]

* Chapter 572: Another Sternritter appears and explains that [[spoiler: Guenael is just a product of his imagination before vaporizing him. He claims he already killed Kensei and Rose, and Isane checks their bodies to confirm this. Yachiru tries to attack him, but he causes the bones in her arm to be made of ''cookies'', thus breaking them.]]

** Then, when he overcomes that, he [[spoiler:copies himself and combines his powers with his duplicate in order to ''[[ColonyDrop bring down a meteor]]''!]]
* 577: [[spoiler: The meteor causes an OhCrap from practically ''everyone'' especially when it busts ''right through'' the Seireitei's shields!]]

** Gremmy sends Kenpachi to [[spoiler:the vacuum of space, which nearly causes his eyes to burst out of his head and his lungs to collapse.]]
** [[spoiler:Gremmy tries to imagine himself stronger than Kenpachi, but the strain tears his body apart, killing him.]]
* 579: The battle won, [[spoiler:Kenny calls out to Yachiru, and gets no response. Within the span of a single page, he goes from asking his squad members if they've seen her to screaming at them to look for her.]] [[AdultFear If you've ever been responsible for someone else's child or your own and suddenly discovered they were nowhere to be found, you know at least a tiny bit of this feeling]]. Also keep in mind this is [[spoiler:Kenpachi Zaraki we're talking about; he's just lost one of the only two people he ever admitted to caring about, and he's now in danger of losing the second.]]
* 580: Giselle Gewelle reveals her ability, [[spoiler:"the Zombie". She [[SchmuckBait lets her enemies cut her up]] as brutally as they like, leading to a sight of her mangled and split body that's unnerving by itself. But the true nightmare begins when [[BloodMagic her blood]] sprays over her attackers. Once that happens, [[PeoplePuppets they lose control of their bodies]], doomed to exist for no other purpose than to obey Giselle's orders. If she [[PsychicAssistedSuicide commands them to kill themselves]], they'll do so, [[AndIMustScream fully aware of their actions]]... and there's nothing they can do to stop it.]] And while all that is happening, [[GenkiGirl Giselle]] [[PerpetualSmiler won't drop her smile even for a moment]].
** Not to mention, right before her ability kicks in, [[spoiler: after letting the others cut her up [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe almost in half]], she just [[HealingFactor puts herself back together]], [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction as if it was nothing]].]] OUCH.

** Not to mention, there's the reason why she's using such skills. [[spoiler: Candice got her arm severed ''by her own attack''.]] Owwwww.

** When Ikkaku and Yumichika confront Giselle, the latter summons [[spoiler: [[http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:588Giselle_summons.png a darker skinned Bambietta]] to help kill every last Shinigami. The nightmare part? Bambietta's eyes are a deranged mixture of lifelessness, depression, and horror, most likely still begging Giselle not to kill her.]]
* 589: Yumichika and Ikkaku continue to fight the seemingly [[spoiler: lifeless Bambietta, cutting off one of her arms and impaling her through the head, but to little effect. Giselle immediately confirms that she finished Bambietta off, explaining how her powers only affect Quincies post mortem. To make things worse, she admits that Bambietta's face upon dying gave her a generous orgasm. It makes you wonder what exactly she did to Bambietta's body... Pass the BrainBleach.]]
** Adding to that is Bambietta's behavior towards Giselle....[[spoiler: it appears she was not only turned into a zombie, but into ''a sex slave''.]]

* 591: Giselle reveals another minion after the others are defeated: [[spoiler:Hitsugaya, sporting the same darker skin as Bambietta and dressed up in a Vandenreich uniform.]]
* 592: How [[spoiler:the zombified]] Hitsugaya makes his presence really known. He unleashes a wave of ice over the area, [[spoiler:causing Ikkaku to lose his leg]]. He stabs [[spoiler:Ikkaku]] a few times to take him down, then unleashes a brief yet brutal beatdown on [[spoiler:Yumichika]] by nailing him in the gut with an ice-spike knee, headbutting him and cutting him down. After this, he strikes down [[spoiler:Charlotte]]. Throughout all of it, he's carrying [[DissonantSerenity an out-of-place expression of calm on his face]].
* 594: Kurotsuchi Mayuri, who claims to have [[LostInTranslation his flesh stuck with decorum instead of skin]], [[spoiler: says its painful for him to use such a drug he's about to use on someone that can't resist, but it consoles his heart to see Hitsugaya resist with words by ''pleading him to stop''. Then we get one page worth of Hitsugaya's screaming divided in two pages.]]
** 596: The same thing happens with [[spoiler:Kensei and Rose (and presumably to Matsumoto) as well. The drug itself is bad. It changes the very composition of the blood while the recipient is still ''conscious''. So basically, Mayuri is pumping out the 'bad blood' and replacing it with new blood''like'' stuff]]. No wonder everyone was screaming their heads off!

** Also on this chapter, [[spoiler: we have Liltotto basically eating Pepe alive offscreen]]. As if Giselle's treatment to Bambietta wasn't gruesome enough...
* 600: [[spoiler: Lille blows a hole through Senjumaru's skull and her body falls to the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. Valkyrie suggests Pernida cleans the mess up. The latter complies, brutally contorting and compressing the body until nothing remains but a small ball of bloody cloth. The worst part being that we don't even see what he did. The good news being that the body was a fake.]]

* 601: [[spoiler: Askin's powers]] are a serious dose of this. [[spoiler: His ability is to [[{{Immortality}} survive stuff that would kill almost anyone else]] ]]; this means that, to make them kick in, [[spoiler: he must be ''grievously'' wounded, ill, etc.]], which is proven by [[spoiler: him surviving the same attacks that let Ouetsu curbstomp three Schutzstaffel Sterntitter [[PraetorianGuard Gerard, Lille, and Pernida]].]] No wonder that [[BlessedWithSuck he hates them.]]
* 602: [[spoiler:Askin's other power is to control toxicity levels. He can even make ''your own blood'' lethal to [[PoisonousPerson you]].]]
* 603: [[spoiler:We see Auswählen in full effect.]] What does this '''exactly''' mean? Instead of [[spoiler:fighting Nimaiya immediately]]... [[spoiler:Yhwach performed ThePurge of his own subjects '''again''', to power himself and his PraetorianGuard up and fight at full strength, by creating [[PillarOfLight pillars of light]] that either absorbs the targets whole [[StrippedToTheBone or only leaves their bones behind]]. [[LittleMissBadass Liltotto]] and [[{{Necromancer}} Giselle]] managed to escape for the moment... [[CoolOldGuy Accutrone]], [[ScaryBlackMan Nanana]] and [[PlayingWithFire Buzz-B]] [[KillEmAll were not as lucky]].]] There's a very, VERY good reason why this chapter is named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "What the HELL"]].
** [[spoiler:Even more terrifying is Yhwach himself. When a hurt Liltotto screams to Yhwach, [[WasItAllALie demanding to know what they were to him]], he responds with, [[TrueCompanions "Comrades. We are comrades. We help each other."]] He truly seems to not see anything wrong with how he treats his subordinates, cementing himself as arguably the most terrifying and twisted character of all.]]
** [[spoiler:Special mention goes to the... '''weird''' deals between Zombie!Bambietta and Giselle. Giselle, who had been badly wounded by Zombie!Kensei, drags both of them into a dark cave and starts drinking Bambietta's blood to recover. Starts innocently enough, with Giselle simply sucking blood out of Bambietta's wounds, but then turns terrifying when she bites and tears into her flesh to drink more. When Bambietta states that she doesn't want to die, Giselle freaks out and responds by saying Bambietta is already dead, and smashes Bambietta's head into the pavement repeatedly, which splits her head open and knocks her out. The shot of a blank-faced Bambietta staring at the camera, with a puddle of blood underneath her head, is '''very''' disturbing. Giselle sees the now incapacitated Bambietta, and being the VERY weird person she is (to say it politely), decides to glomp her happily, and basically says she prefers Bambietta as a zombie. The image is complete with Giselle's version of Vollstandig: ''a pair of skeleton wings''.]] Uuuuuuuhhhh...

** "The Almighty's" scope is clarified. [[TheOmniscient Yhwach can see into the future]], make use of any ability he sees, and the pupils and irises in his eyes further divide into a third set right before [[spoiler:he vaporizes Ichibei's torso, pieces of his rib cages and organs flying away from the destruction.]] There is also a shot of [[spoiler:Ichibei's spine... or, at least the vertebrae of his neck.]] So basically, Yhwach makes Aizen look like a complete scrub by comparison.

** ''[[LightNovel/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld Can't Fear Your Own World]]'' expands on this. [[spoiler:Had Ichigo died in his fight with Yhwach, ''he'' would have been made into the new Soul King.]]
* 614: [[spoiler: Ichigo's own Quincy blood forces him '''to kill the Soul King''' once he grabs Yhwach's sword. Now, the destruction of Soul Society begins...]]
* 615: [[spoiler: The living world is starting to fall apart as well as Soul Society and every other world. Yuzu and Karin are caught in an earthquake. Orihime tries to heal the Soul King, but nothing happens.]]
* 616: It seems that [[spoiler: Ukitake has found a way to at least delay the destruction of Soul Society]], by [[spoiler: replacing the Soul King's right hand with himself.]] Problem is, this involves [[spoiler: him basically trading what's left of his life and the deity that let him live (aka the [[ChekhovsGun Kamikake]] that was seen some chapters ago) [[HeroicSacrifice in exchange for that]].]] And the immediate consequences [[BodyHorror are]] [[LivingShadow NOT pleasant]] [[BloodFromTheMouth to the sight]]...
* 617: [[spoiler:Kamikake is streaming out of Ukitake's mouth and eyes, and his body has gone completely limp while his life-force is used to temporarily substitute for the Soul King.]] It's very unsettling to see [[spoiler:Ukitake]] in such a state. Also, [[spoiler:Mimihagi's eye seemingly '''smiles''' in response to Yhwach's anger towards it, as the Soul King himself is apparently the one thing Yhwach cannot "see" with his eyes.]]
** [[spoiler:Aizen lets out quite the menacing grin at the very end of the chapter. It's enough to unnerve Kyoraku, who had the balls to go speak to him in the first place.]]
* 618: [[spoiler:Aizen]] shows he still has the power he had in [[spoiler:"Deicide"]] when his reiatsu begins '''disintegrating''' the hands of a guard who tries to bind him in a restraint. He just got too close to [[spoiler:Aizen]] [[InstantDeathRadius and his hands were obliterated.]]
* 619: After [[spoiler:Uryu]] shows up at the battle in the Soul King Palace and [[spoiler:shoots Yoruichi in the shoulder]], causing the barrier around [[spoiler:the Soul King and Mimihagi]] to shatter, Yhwach sets about [[spoiler:''ripping Mimihagi off the Soul King'']] with a ''genuinely terrifying'' SlasherSmile on his face.
* 620: Yhwach breaks apart and absorbs [[spoiler:Mimihagi]], decides that he is going to take everything from [[spoiler:the Soul King]] and uses the power he absorbed from [[spoiler:Mimihagi]] to fire down a black beam from the Soul King Palace down to the Seireitei. The image of the left side of his body covered with [[spoiler:Kamikake's]] markings is suitably terrifying.
* 621: The Soul King's true power was released [[spoiler: from the seals placed on him by the Shinigami]], and there is so much of it overflowing [[spoiler: that even Yhwach cannot absorb and contain all of it effectively]]. The form it takes? [[EldritchAbomination A mass of tiny one-eyed shadow abominations that proceed to swarm the Seireitei]]. Why? As Haschwalth states: "The Soul King's enemies are [[spoiler:only/now the Shinigami.]]"
* 626: Yhwach's [[EyesDoNotBelongThere new appearance]] [[spoiler: after fully absorbing the Soul King.]] Even his elites were frightened.
** Even if you aren't put off by his appearance, [[spoiler: there's the fact that the old Soul King has, in Haschwalth's words, ''ceased to exist.'' Let's just say that even if Ichigo and the others defeat Yhwach, things won't necessarily be the same...]]

* 637: [[spoiler: The reveal of Pernida Parnkjas's true identity - it's a giant disembodied arm with a two-pupiled eye in its palm. Not only that, but it's also the left arm of the Soul King much like how the Mimihagi was the right. It raises many disturbing questions, the primary one being: "How did Yhwach get ahold of this thing?!"]]
** Follow-up question: ''[[spoiler:Why the hell is the Soul King's left arm serving its owner's most dangerous enemy?!]]''

* 639: [[spoiler: Practically all of Chapter 639 but special mention goes to the reveal of Mayuri's modified Bankai. It is absolutely ''bone chilling'' seeing the big, black-eyed baby monster of a Bankai screaming bloody murder as Mayuri tells Pernida that just being ''alive'' causes the Bankai pain. Not only that, its skin peels off when it comes into contact with Pernida's nerves.]]

* 643: Thought being blown into pieces would finish off Pernida? [[spoiler:It doesn't, as eyes and fingers appear on each piece of the blown apart Pernida, riddle Nemu with the "Compulsory", [[{{Gorn}} and basically explode her entire body.]]]] [[spoiler:Then Szayel shows up as a hallucination in Mayuri's mind to savagely taunt him over Nemu's death...]]

* 644-645: as one of the oldest and most powerful of the shinigami captains, Kyoraku has always carried a [[NotSoHarmless subtle-yet-potent degree of scariness]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes behind his cheerful, goofy demeanor]], but now it's becoming clear just how terrifying he is. Considering that his power is [[spoiler: [[RealityWarper literally making children's games real]] ]], it only ups it more.

** You probably don't, but [[ShmuckBait if you're curious]]: [[spoiler: it operates in stages. First it inflicts all of its wielder's injuries on everyone else, then it gives them a nasty-looking disease before drowning both the enemy ''and'' the wielder in a black ocean that materialises out of nowhere.]]
** There's more--if we remember a throwaway remark made by Ukitake during the Fake Karakura Town arc, along with something that Kyoraku says before unleashing his Bankai, then the possibility arises that ''Katen Kyokotsu: Kuromatsu Shinjuu'' doesn't just [[spoiler: [[MutualKill affect both Kyoraku and his enemy]] ]], but [[spoiler: ''everyone'' within the Bankai's considerable area of effect--allies and noncombatants alike!]]

-->'''Kyoraku:''' "Nanao-chan... [[spoiler:if you get caught up in this, I apologize. So it's come to this... I guess it's time to see what's waiting for me on the other side. '''Bankai.''']] "
* 650: Lille Barro shows off what it means to be the "Messenger of God" [[spoiler:by regenerating his severed head and transforming into what can only be described as [[EldritchAbomination a giant owl with a long neck, deer-like legs, extremely long and lanky arms, the wings from his first form, and a halo above his head]]]]. He then proceeds to NoSell [[spoiler:Kyoraku's Bankai and starts blasting everything around him in an effort to kill Kyoraku]], and nearly succeeded if it wasn't for [[BigDamnHeroes Nanao]] showing up.

* 654: The reappearance of [[spoiler: Izuru Kira]], whom we assumed just another casualty. He finally gets a [[BigDamnHeroes moment to really shine]] against an [[CoDragons actually strong character]] as opposed to just [[EliteMooks mooks]]. What makes this nightmare fuel is his appearance. His entire body is covered in contrasting shadow, his zanpakuto already released, and [[spoiler: that hole in his torso? It hasn't been healed. There's just three rods propping it together, and you can clearly see the crescent moon THROUGH the hole.]]
* 664: Askin's [[spoiler: Vollstandig-induced Gift Ring[[note]]Poison Ring[[/note]] grafting itself onto Urahara's eye and ''[[EyeScream imploding it]]''.]]
* 665: Kisuke's [[spoiler: Bankai: It has the ability to 'restructure' by his own definition, and we see it very graphically in action. Askin's arm is almost surgically pried apart upon the Bankai's activation, Kisuke's face and down his neck have been visually stitched together to restore his eye sight, and his hand was rather graphically 'disassembled' and restructured during the fight.]]
* 666: Even having [[spoiler: his heart ripped out and crushed by Grimmjow]] isn't enough to bring Askin down.
* 678: How staggeringly powerful God Yhwach is. Ichigo can barely do anything despite [[spoiler: going Bankai in his new super form.]] Yhwach's easily one of the most formidable, nightmarish opponents that have ever existed, given how Ichigo's raw power couldn't even touch him.
** To elaborate: the instant Ichigo uses [[spoiler: Tensa Zangetsu in his new Hollow form]], Yhwach uses "The Almighty" [[spoiler:to pull a "possible future" where Tensa Zangetsu broke into the present]], which causes [[spoiler:Tensa Zangetsu]] to break instantly in the present. How do you beat a man who can not only see all possible futures, [[spoiler: [[RealityWarper but can "change the future" by bringing a chosen future into the immediate present?]]]]

* 682: As Yhwach returns to Soul Society, he sees [[spoiler: the very same Sosuke Aizen. When Aizen claims this Soul Society is his, Yhwach gives him his menacing grin, and completely frees him of his chair by completely destroying it, proving how terrifyingly powerful Yhwach is. Now, Aizen can do whatever he wants, and there are only a few who can stop him.]]
* 683: Yhwach continues to show how menacing he is when he starts [[spoiler:curbstomping Aizen, Ichigo and Renji with his godlike powers. He breaks Renji's Bankai and lops off his arm, he destroys Aizen's Zanpakuto while shrugging off his attacks and then shatters Ichigo's new reformed Bankai before blowing a giant hole into Ichigo's abdomen.]]
** Yhwach's look of [[spoiler: genuine surprise when it turns out he was seeing an illusion all along by Aizen and ends up being stabbed by the ''real'' Ichigo and his body blown to bits by a point-blank Getsuga Tensho.]]
* 684: Yhwach actually demonstrates the final and most frightening bit of "The Almighty": [[spoiler: If through some miracle, his opponent actually manages to kill him, ''he can rewrite the future to a point where he survives and is still alive!!'']]
** Aizen ends up being [[spoiler:swallowed whole by Yhwach.]]
** Yhwach decides to end the final battle by [[spoiler:absorbing everything around him into a singular point. He's then shot by Uryu Ishida with an arrow laced with Still Silver, the same silver that ends up clotting his victims' hearts if they were unfortunate enough to get hit by Auswahlen. The look on his face as he's infected by his own weapon is terrifying. Even then, Yhwach is able to overcome even this trump card in a matter of seconds!!]]
** Yhwach's [[spoiler:horrifying realization that the nightmare he had on his throne room, shown to him by Haschwalth, was actually a ''warning'' about Ichigo slashing him in half with his old Zanpakuto. The brief opening of Ishida's arrow gave Ichigo all the time he needed to slash the evil Quincy monarch in two, this time Yhwach has no omniscient power at all to save him.]]
* 685: Akon reading a peculiarity on his computer screen: [[spoiler:Yhwach's reiatsu appearing in Soul Society. Even after a decade of peace, the man will not stay dead.]]
* 686: It was only for a brief moment but [[spoiler:Yhwach's reiatsu takes a brief life of its own and starts to attack nearby Shinigami. Thankfully, Kazui Kurosaki was able to wipe it out forever...somehow.]]
** Aizen is revealed [[spoiler:to have survived the final battle and ends up being imprisoned again in a reinforced chair. The man has to look forward to an eternity of jail time.]]

* The scene in ''Fade To Black'' where [[spoiler: Homura and Shizuku fusing with Rukia against her will, because they want to be with her and want nobody else getting in the way. Poor Rukia's tortured screams do '''NOT''' help.]] After this, [[spoiler:Dark Rukia]] shows up and rams [[spoiler:her]] scythe into a plant which [[spoiler: spawns an EldritchAbomination that's '''OVER 150 STORIES TALL''' with massive eyes '''EVERYWHERE''', sprouting tentacle monsters that look made out of ''sperm''. All the captains make a BigDamnHeroes, but it doesn't really help much, because the damn thing spawns the monsters '''non-stop.''']]

** The nucleus of a Bakkoto looks like an eyeball. Gyokaku ''kept them on his desk''. Then, when Amagai [[spoiler: kills Gyokaku]], he takes them with him and then ''wears them like a sash'', looking like he has four eyeballs growing across his chest.

* Ebern's NightmareFace as he's about to [[spoiler: (unsuccessfully)]] steal Ichigo's Bankai. [[https://www.mangareader.net/bleach/483/9 Pleasant dreams!]]

* Ebern's NightmareFace as he's about to (unsuccessfully) steal Ichigo's Bankai. [[https://www.mangareader.net/bleach/483/9 Pleasant dreams!]]