Bleach Sternritters B-M / Characters

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

B - Jugram Haschwalth

Jugram "Jugo" Haschwalth

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"Lives that were saved by good fortune must be swept aside by equal ill fortune."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed sword / Freund Schild (Shield)

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: B - The Balance

Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (JP), Robbie Daymond (EN)

Sternritter "B" of "The Balance". Yhwach's second-in-command and the Grand Master of the Sternritter. A quiet, dispassionate man, he's not spoiling for a fight but doesn't hesitate to kill or to provoke an enemy into attacking.

He wields a slender, cruciform sword. His ability is to redirect all fortune, good or bad. Opponents who experience good fortune will be afflicted with bad fortune, and if harm should come to Haschwalth, he can redirect any "bad fortune" away from him. His Freund Schild usually takes the brunt of the bad fortune, before Haschwalth redirects it away to repair his shield.

All There in the Manual: The manga ends with many aspects of Haschwalth's character and actions staying enigmatic. The novel Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World clears some of these up and elaborates on his last moments.
And There Was Much Rejoicing: It's implied that Haschwalth was less than sad over the demise of his uncle.
Antagonist Abilities: Haschwalth's Schrift is "The Balance", which means that he can immediately reverse any fortune or misfortune; as long as an ability doesn't One-Hit Kill him, any damage he takes will be reversed. It's also a Semantic Superpower, because Haschwalth can choose what he considers to be "fortune" or "misfortune", so he can carefully pick what events to reverse and which ones not to. No potential weaknesses in the ability are explored, because Haschwalth is eventually killed by Yhwach's Auswählen rather than any protagonist.
Ambiguous Situation: The exact circumstances surrounding his demise are quite iffy. While he was hit by the lights of the Auswählen, he avoided the same fate as Robert and Gerard. But unlike Bazz-B and NaNaNa, who suffered no ill effects beyond the loss of Vollständig, Haschwalth stated that he would die soon. Given how several of his statements contradict what actually happened, it is unknown if he actually lied to Uryu or not. It is thus unknown whether he died because of the Auswählen, him swapping his wounds with Uryu or a combination of the two.
Arrow Catch: A thousand years ago, Haschwalth and Bazz-B lost their homeland and families to Yhwach and train together to seek revenge. Once they meet Yhwach, Haschwalth switches sides and catches the arrow Bazz-B fires at Yhwach. A thousand years later, the pair fight over Yhwach again, and Haschwalth again catches Bazz-B's arrow in almost exactly the same stance.
Attack Backfire: The ability of his Schrift, The Balance, makes it so that any damage he takes is negated, while his opponents take damage for managing to hit him in the first place.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Sees how Nanao's "Quincy" barrier works, notes the hastiness of the spell while deducing correctly that she didn't share her invention with the other Shinigami and was about to adjust his power to shatter her barrier before being called away. He does all this in a matter of seconds.
Badass Boast:
- His first major introduction consisted of him saying, "Shiver in fear, Soul Reapers. The Sternritter have come to purge you."
- When Hubert comments that he can always kill Bazz-B for insubordination when Yhwach's not watching, Haschwalth states "I'm watching". Hubert backs down immediately.
Believing Their Own Lies: Following his fight with Bazz-B, Haschwalth convinced himself that he gladly threw Bazz-B away for more power from Yhwach. Though seeing the actual events of their fallout, how he still tried to keep his former friend from harm and how distraught over their broken relationship he really was, it's clear that the opposite is the case. Haschwalth realized this once Yhwach takes away his powers with the Auswählen.
The Bore: Bambietta notes in an omake that Haschwalth has a tendency to give very long and boring lectures. They are bad enough that the prospect that she is about to receive just another one, genuinely scares Bambietta.
Break Them by Talking: During the first invasion, Kajomaru was clearly afraid to oppose him so Haschwalth turned that fear back on him with a skillful analysis of Kajomaru's resolve.
Character Tics: Haschwalth holds his right arm whenever he is uncomfortable with a situation or sad.
Consummate Liar: In a stark contrast to Yhwach who only tells the truth, albeit by twisting it, Haschwalth lies several times throughout the final arc, albeit again by twisting it.
Creepy Uncle: As a parentless child, his sole caretaker was his uncle. He first meets Bazz-B while under a lot of pressure to hunt down a rabbit before he goes home to his uncle. His uncle catches up to him and addresses him in a very eerie and uncomfortably affectionate manner that instantly kills his enthusiasm over making a friend. When Yhwach culls the Quincy population of their homeland, it's implied that Haschwalth is not upset by his uncle's death.
Curb-Stomp Battle: When he and Bazz-B fight, he holds back throughout the entire fight. He easily dominates Bazz-B and brushes off every attack. The fight ends when he finally decides to effortlessly cut down Bazz-B.
The Comically Serious: Haschwalth is usually just The Stoic. But a New Year's omake turns him into this. He asks what an Otoshidama (the tradition of giving children money on New Year in Japan) is, voices his distaste and reeducation plan to prevent the spread of the tradition within the ranks of the Sternritter in the same serious manner as he does everything else.
Deal with the Devil: His words as he prepares to cut Uryu down after their fight suggest he views giving up his friendship with Bazz-B as this in order to obtain power from Yhwach.
Death by Irony: Invoked. Haschwalth constantly rants about how the Sternritter and the entire Quincy race should be prepared to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their grand emperor, Yhwach, without even batting an eyelash when Yhwach deliberately slaughters all the lower Sternritter in order to revive the Schutzstaffel. Once he decides to act against Yhwach's orders he sees being targetted by the Auswählen as the only fitting fate.
The Dragon: He’s Yhwach’s second-in-command and advisor. Whenever the Sternritter are shown as a group, he is at the head of the formation, commanding. He accompanies Yhwach almost everywhere and seems to be one of the few to hear his orders directly from the Emperor himself. Bazz-B claims no Sternritter would "bat an eyelash" should Haschwalth be announced Yhwach's successor, and his title is "Grand Master" of the Sternritter. As it is later revealed, Haschwalth was deliberately selected by Yhwach to be his "other half" due to Haschwalth being one of the only Quincies with the power to share spiritual power, just like Yhwach himself. Whenever Yhwach sleeps, he swaps his powers with Haschwalth who temporarily takes charge of the Wandenreich. He is one of the last enemies that the heroes fight before the final confrontation with Yhwach.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He berates Uryu, who he'd been curb-stomping and was about to kill, for giving him a sympathetic look after Yhwach decides that the Sternritter are no longer necessary and uses Auswählen on him, leaving him on death's door. He claims that it is an honor that Yhwach found his power fitting to steal, but not Uryu's.
Enigmatic Minion: His poker face makes it hard to read his intentions. He gave Kajomaru a breaking speech before killing him without any flicker of expression. During Yhwach's clash with Ichigo, he shows concern for Ichigo after Yhwach stabs him in the neck. The Sternritter think Haschwalth is Yhwach's rightful successor but he's unconcerned by their mutterings. It's strongly implied that he is both sympathetic and frustrated with Uryu, but it doesn't affect his loyalty to Yhwach. A thousand years ago, Haschwalth and Bazz-B lose their homeland and families to Yhwach and Bazz-B believes they're training together to seek revenge. Haschwalth's motive is ambiguous, he switches sides the moment they first meet Yhwach, and he never explains why to Bazz-B. Despite that betrayal, there are signs he's been protecting Bazz-B over the years without Bazz-B's awareness. This continues even after his death, where several Quincy outright refer to him as an enigma and wonder just what his true intentions were and what was going inside his head.
Exotic Eye Designs: When Yhwach sleeps and his powers swap with Haschwalth, he gains the former's multi-irised eyes that signifies his possession of The Almighty.
Foil: Serves as one to Uryu. Both were seen as talentless Quincy by others, lived in an estranged family situation and used to have no friends. But their decisions in life would mirror each other. After Haschwalth met Bazz-B, the two would quickly become best friends. After Yhwach burned down their homes, Haschwalth would follow Bazz-B on his quest for vengeance against Yhwach, even though he didn't really have a grudge against him personally, simply because Bazz-B was his friend. Haschwalth would later betray his friend and abandon him for his own beliefs. Uryu on the other hand was, at first, hell bent on righting the wrongs committed against his grandfather and, at first, a rather aloof ally. But his friendship with Ichigo made him abandon this mindset. By the time the final arc started, Uryu didn't care about right and wrong, but only the safety of his friends. Fittingly, Uryu's Schrift is the Antithesis.
Full-Name Ultimatum: During his fight with Bazz-B, Haschwalth repeatedly demands Bazz-B to stop fighting, eventually yelling out his full name before cutting him down.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: After seeing the future, Haschwalth makes the decision to help several of his enemies and manipulates Yhwach's future vision in a crucial way. Despite this he is still fighting for Yhwach's side and actively hinders the process of his enemies.
Heel Realization: Downplayed. While he still believed in Yhwach's cause, he definitely regretted abandoning and betraying his friend Bazz-B.
Heroic Sacrifice: From the perspective of the Quincy, Haschwalth is remembered as a hero who cast away his own life to ensure the survival and future of the Quincy race.
A Hero to His Hometown: The Shinigami may see him as an invading enemy, but for the Quincy, he is nothing but a wise and selfless man.
In-Series Nickname: Bazz-B is the only one who calls him "Jugo", due to their long history together.
Irony: He gets angered at Uryu proclaiming he'll keep the powers Yhwach gave him and not give up anything, especially his friends, in exchange. Haschwalth gives a rant about why this is impossible as he prepares to kill him, only to have his powers taken away by Yhwach's last Auswählen while Uryu's remain.
Left for Dead: A self-invoked example. After seeing the future Haschwalth makes the decision to evacuate every Quincy and ensure their survival. Every Quincy outside the higher ranks that is. Despite knowing that Yhwach will sacrifice his elite Sternritter, he makes no effort to warn or evacuate them or even himself.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Haschwalth is a tall young man with a slim build and long blonde hair that descends past his shoulders.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Haschwalth's Freund Schild serves as a sturdy, perfectly serviceable shield when he's not using it to reflect misfortune upon his opponents. In the anime adaptation, it can even block attacks from Tenjiro's Kinpika; once Tenjiro deprives Haschwalth of his shield, the fight doesn't last long.
Manipulative Bastard: He tries to set up Uryu to fight against Ichigo, to prove his loyalty to the Wandenreich. It doesn't even remotely work, though he claims he already saw Uryu's betrayal through The Almighty. He later is able to use his connection with Yhwach and status as an Enigmatic Minion to orchestrate the downfall of Yhwach.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Should Jugram truly fight or carry out orders outside of battle given by His Majesty, Yhwach, Jugram will waste time on neither sarcastic wit nor trash talking. When he faces Bazz-B on Wahrwelt, he does not give him any chances to damage him and severely damage him with each slash from his sword. When he learns that Uryu was intentionally betraying him and the Schutzstaffel, and attempting to destroy Wahrwelt, he immediately attempts to kill him. As soon as he finds out Uryu's Schrift, he prevents Uryu from running by returning all the damage he received and attempt to finish him off when he is too injured to move.
No-Sell: As a child, Haschwalth was completely unaffected by Yhwach's great Reiatsu, and when he fights Bazz-B, there's nothing Bazz-B can throw at him that hurts him in any way.
Not Himself: Uryu notes that Haschwalth's behavior changes at night. Haschwalth confirmed that he dons the mask of the ruler at night, while Yhwach would don the mask of the father. After Haschwalth traded powers with Yhwach for the duration of the night, his behavior was more similar to Yhwach's than his own. As it turns out, some of it was an act in order to test Uryuu.
Not So Stoic: He appears aloof and solemn, but when "Yhwach" fights Yamamoto, Haschwalth regularly cries out his concern. When Yhwach stabs Ichigo to kidnap him to Silburn, Haschwalth looks so sad that Yhwach addresses his reaction directly. Bazz-B's determination to fight Haschwalth eventually causes Haschwalth to scream at him to stop. After being forced to fell Bazz-B, Yhwach swaps powers with Haschwalth and he confronts Uryu, maniacally accusing him of treason and setting him up to fight Ichigo. The cracks in his disposition show up even earlier than this: During Zaraki's battle against Gremmy, the latter decides to drop an asteroid on everyone. This was the first time Haschwalth genuinely panicked and quickly scrambled the Soldat to protect Yhwach.
Only Six Faces: Give Haschwalth a haircut, a pair of glasses, and some "Uryu what the hell are you even doing" lines under his eyes, and he could be Ryuken's twin. By the time Yhwach's sending Uryu on solo missions, Haschwalth's even starting to develop the same "Oh, Crap! I can't control him" expression.
Parental Abandonment: Haschwalth lost his parents at a young very young age, and was left in the care of a Creepy Uncle, though the reasons have not been specified.
Playing Both Sides: As a result of him being on the Heel–Face Revolving Door Haschwalths ends up helping his allies and enemies alike.
Power Nullifier: Yhwach claims Haschwalth possesses the same ability as himself, to share spiritual power, which is why he cannot absorb Reishi to make himself more powerful. Yhwach adds that, unlike himself, Hashwalth cannot take back the power he shares. The first "give and take" example that Haschwalth displays occurs when he shuts off Cang Du's special ability before killing him. The confrontation occurs after night falls and Haschwalth takes on Yhwach's abilities at night.
Prescience Is Predictable: Or rather horrible. Once Haschwalth gains the ability to see the future, he notes how the ability to do so is a cruel power indeed.
Psychotic Smirk: Sports several ones during his brief stint as the acting emperor.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: He is capable of standing in the presence of Yamamoto's Bankai without flinching and effortlessly cuts Ichigo's Bankai in half. He can instantly negate Cang Du's ability and kill him in a single strike, and is the only Quincy not cowering in fear at Yhwach's new form after absorbing the Soul King. When he fights Bazz-B, Bazz-B uses all of his abilities against Haschwalth but can barely scratch him, while he carves off Bazz-B's right hand and leaves him for dead without using any special abilities.
Redemption Equals Death: Even to the bitter end, he displays absolute loyalty to Yhwach. That said, in his last dying moments, Haschwalth offers to transfer all of Ishida's wounds onto himself so that, at the very least, he can protect his friends. It's his own way of coming to terms with not being able to protect his one and only friend, Bazz-B. This later turns out to be invoked, as the novel Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World reveals that being struck by the Auswählen is the only fitting fate for having acted against Yhwach.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: An invoked example. He makes the decision to betray Yhwach and play both sides, a decision that leads to Yhwach's end. As thus he believes that Yhwach stripping him of his power, thus killing him in the process, is the only acceptable fate for him.
Riddle for the Ages: Just what did he see when he caught a glimpse of the future? After seeing the future, Haschwalth describes the ability as a cruel power and despite being 100% to Yhwach just moments ago, Haschwalth immediately makes the decision to hinder his plans, orchestrate the events of his downfall and save several enemies. He is still a devout follower of Yhwach despite this and claims that all his actions are to ensure the future of the Quincy. The only confirmed things were that he saw his and Yhwach's own death, but it is strongly implied that these two events were not what he described as cruel and what caused his change in behavior. With his and Yhwach's death, the vision he saw may forever remain a mystery, leaving characters in- and out-of-universe guessing.
Save the Villain: From his perspective the Quincy who decided to betray Yhwach, have all become enemies. Despite this he makes the decision to order the evacuation of every Quincy outside the Schutzstaffel, renegade Quincy included, just to ensure the future of the Quincy race.
Secret Test of Character: Haschwalth believes that Uryu is one for him set by Yhwach to test his convictions and thus in a roundabout way he acts as one himself to test Uryu's convictions.
Seers: He and Yhwach are supposedly two halves of the same coin. So when Yhwach falls asleep, their powers are swapped with each other's. Through this, Haschwalth gains The Almighty, which allows him to see into the future. Haschwalth considers the power to see into the future to be a cruel and horrifying ability.
Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: Depending on the situation and especially during the final stages of the final arc, Haschwalth manages to wander through all stages. Most of the time he is The Fatalist, believing that one is unable to change the future in the grand scheme of things. He equals Yhwach, who has the ability to change the future with fate and while one can change ones own fate, against Yhwach, who can change the future, everything is futile. After Haschwalth saw the future, he takes every measure in order to ensure the survival of the Quincy race, implying that he changed the future. He furthermore decides to take fate by his own hands and decide on his own free will what the future will be, by making sure the future he saw will come true. After the war is over, Haschwalth's aide notes that Haschwalth had the ability to avert his and Yhwach's fates and that he could have changed the future, but chose to walk the path of his own free will. Haschwalth was aware that choosing free will would lead to his fate. In the end he decides to Screw Destiny by invoking You Can't Fight Fate.
The Stoic: Haschwalth has a perpetual aloof and solemn expression on his face that make him appear to be stoic and emotionless, and is by far the calmest amongst the Sternritter. He doesn't react when he kills either Soul Reapers or Quincies, and is the only one of the remaining Sternritters who doesn't visibly react to Yhwach's new form, whilst the others are reeling in shock and horror.
Super-Empowering: Just like Yhwach, Haschwalth is one of the only Quincies in existence that has the ability to impart spiritual power to others. Such a Quincy is said to be born every 200 years. Unlike other Quincies, Hashwalth cannot absorb Reishi; instead he gives it to others. Simply by being in another Quincy's presence, Haschwalth can greatly augment their power. He was able amplify Bazz-B's powers, causing him to develop his skills at an alarming rate. Because he is the only other Quincy with this power, Yhwach considers him his "other half".
Thwarted Coup de Grâce: After a largely one-sided battle with Uryu, he prepares to kill the latter for valuing his friends over Yhwach... only for that same Yhwach to use Auswählen on him and the remaining Sternritter.
Unreliable Expositor: Several statements he told Uryu would later be contradicted by what actually happened. He told for example that he saw how Ichigo and his friends would all perish, when in fact he saw Ichigo killing Yhwach or that he had destroyed all the sun gates scattered throughout Wahrwelt, when in fact Ryuken and Isshin were able to use one to infiltrate the castle. How much of this was in order to demoralize Uryu, how much Haschwalth's own ignorance and how much lies he told himself is thus unknown. While some of what he said could be due to having seen a Bad Future, Kubo having to close the series out quicker than intended seemingly is the cause of it.
Villain's Dying Grace: After Yhwach's Auswählen leaves him on death's door, he offers to take Uryu's wounds upon himself, respecting Uryu's conviction even though he notes there's no guarantee it'll mean anything in the long run.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Haschwalth's main concern are the survival of the Quincy race and gaining access to the lost paradise of the Quincy. For this he is willing to commit even genocide and sacrifice his own followers and friends. What pushes him out of Knight Templar territory unlike with Yhwach, is that it is unanimously agreed that his actions in the end truly ensured the survival and prosperity of the Quincy race, while Yhwach was primarily concerned with gaining immortality for himself. Haschwalth makes it clear that, on some level, he doesn't like what he is doing, but feels it is the best thing he can do to ensure the survival of his people.
We Used to Be Friends: Haschwalth and Bazz-B met as young children and spent every day together for five years training to become strong enough to join Yhwach's army. Yhwach put a wedge in their relationship by favouring the apparently talentless Haschwalth over the very talented Bazz-B, leaving Bazz-B determined to defeat Haschwalth if he had to. Eventually, Haschwalth cemented his loyalty to Yhwach by defeating Bazz-B and leaving him for dead. However, the badge Bazz-B gave Haschwalth in childhood had also secretly been carried by Haschwalth all those years, attached to the hilt of his sword. Even when Haschwalth ultimately cut Bazz-B down, a part of him still held on to it, as evidenced by how his sword hilt still had the button Bazz-B gave him embedded into the grip.
What Is This Feeling?: Whenever Haschwalth has to think about Uryu, he according to himself becomes overwhelmed by emotions that he has not experienced before. These new feelings are the main catalyst for his animosity with Uryu and why he is focused by him and why he among other things has to give his life and power for Yhwach's sake.
Winds of Destiny, Change!: His Schrift, 'The Balance', allows Haschwalth to balance out the luck of himself and his opponents, so any lucky shots his opponents get are instead balanced between them, causing them injuries even if they were never hit in the first place. Furthermore, his shield, Freund Schild, absorbs any misfortune that might befall him, so any damage Haschwalth does take is immediately transferred to the shield. His opponent then suffers that damage, too.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Haschwalth invokes this on Sternritter who he deems have failed the Wandenreich, executing them in Yhwach's name. Haschwalth himself is caught by Yhwach's Auswählen just as he's about to kill Uryu, his master having deemed the remaining elite Sternritter unnecessary after stealing Ichigo's powers.

C - Pernida Parnkgjas (Ṧ)

Pernida Parnkgjas

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^{Its true form appearance}

"I've truly come to despise your incessant badmouthing the name of the Quincy."

Species: Quincy? ^note

Weapon: Multiple unnamed bows

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: C - The Compulsory

Sternritter "C" of "The Compulsory". As a result of the cloak it wears, nothing is initially known about them - even their gender is an unknown. Nevertheless, Pernida first appears as a member of Yhwach's elite Sternritter the "Schutzstaffel" guard, and is summoned against Senjumaru Shutara. Pernida turns out to be the disembodied left arm of the Soul King.

Pernida's ability is to insert its nerves into opponents or inanimate objects, allowing it to contort, manipulate and destroy them. Its natural abilities come from its connection to the Spirit King, granting it high-speed regeneration and the ability to multiply; it also possesses powerful adaptive abilities, allowing it to "evolve" by gaining the traits of whatever its nerves touch. It can manifest basic Quincy bows, which it can spawn on each of its fingers.

Adaptation Expansion: The manga largely kept Pernida's origins a complete mystery, apart from the revelation that it was the left arm of the Soul King. The anime adaptation adds a few layers to this, implying that it was actually bonded to Ichibē Hyosube originally, much in the same way Mimihagi was bonded to Ukitake. When Yhwach attacked him during a treaty meeting over a thousand years ago, he somehow used the Almighty to literally extract the entity in Ichibē's left arm, eventually - somehow - giving birth to the Sternritter Pernida Parnkgjas.
Adaptational Early Appearance: In the anime, Pernida is present at Uryu's inauguration as Yhwach's successor, unlike the manga, where it didn't debut until over a year after the corresponding chapter was released.
Adaptive Ability: The Left Arm of the Soul King is a being that governs "progress" and "advancment" through evolution. As a result, Pernida is constantly learning from everything it experiences, including the opponents it fights. The longer a fight continues, the more it learns and develops, especially in response to whoever Pernida is fighting. Pernida is capable of evolving by absorbing and consuming biomass. Once its nerves have touched something or someone, it can learns everything it needs to evolve to that opponent's level. It has been able to use both Zaraki and Mayuri to advance itself, both in terms of abilities and communication.
All Your Powers Combined: By constantly absorbing the information gained from its enemies, Pernida can keep evolving its skills and abilities. After separately fighting Zaraki and Mayuri, it is able to simultaneously use everything it learned from both, pushing Mayuri back to the point he comes close to losing their fight.
Antagonist Abilities: Its powers make even an opponent of Zaraki's caliber fall quickly against it. Pernida utilizes a combination of controlling people through nerve endings, evolving itself by gaining information through those nerves, limited shapeshifting, healing and reconstitution from a severely damaged state, and Power Copying. Even a Crazy-Prepared and analytical fighter like Mayuri could not defeat it on his own.
Assimilation Backfire: By devouring Nemu, Pernida gains all of Nemu's regenerative ability. However, Mayuri is able to recover Nemu's brain before it can be absorbed. The brain is the key to controlling Nemu's regenerative ability. Without it, Pernida has no defense against the uncontrolled regeneration inflicted upon it.
Boring, but Practical: After its nerve abilities are rendered useless by Mayuri's modified Bankai, Pernida simply manifests its Heilig Pfeil and blows its way out of the thing's stomach.
Creepily Long Arms: Its entire form is just one big pale arm. It's actually the left arm of the Soul King.
Death by Irony: The left arm of the Soul King is said to represent progress. When Pernida destroys Nemu's body and consumes the remains, it unwittingly assimilates her perpetual cell growth factor, without her cerebrum to keep it in check, ultimately killing it from its cell growth progressing out of control into a cancerous explosion.
Do Not Call Me "Paul": Mayuri refers to it as the left arm of the Soul King, but it adamantly calls itself "Pernida".
Evil Laugh: After destroying Mayuri's Bankai, Pernida deliberately mimics Mayuri's evil laugh; it then asks Mayuri how good the impression was.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: A rare aversion for this Sternritter, Pernida explains absolutely nothing about its primary powers. Most of its enemies cannot figure out what's been done to them and even Mayuri can't quickly figure out the extent of Pernida's abilities. Pernida only tells Mayuri that as a Quincy, it can kill enemies with a bow (Heilig Bogen) and arrows (Heilig Pfeil), which is quite basic and common.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: On the palm of a hand. With one pupil too many.
Eye Scream: After its true form is revealed, it turns out that Nimaiya stabbed it right where its eye was located. Ouch.
Fingore: Mayuri blows off its pinky with a bomb. However, the pinky merely regenerates into a new left hand. Pernida then deliberately rips off its middle finger to create another copy.
Flechette Storm: Fires a massive storm of arrows at Mayuri with all 15 of its bows.
Guns Akimbo: Well, Bows Akimbo, anyways. Pernida can manifest its Heilig Bogen on all of its fingers at once for five shots at a time, and it can use its nerves to further guide the Heilig Pfiel fired once in flight.
Healing Factor: As a being of evolution, Pernida is capable of manipulating its body. As a result, if a finger is torn off, it can regenerate it. Even if its entire body is destroyed, Pernida can completely restore its body shortly after.
Hydra Problem: Any parts of it that come off can regrow into a new left arm, while the original regenerates what has torn off. This leads to multiple left arms, instead of death.
Hulk Speak: Pernida initially speaks in very rudimentary sentences, but contact with the Shinagami he fights allows him to gradually improve his vocabulary.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: While Pernida tries to use its powers against Nimaiya after Gerard and Lille's swift defeats, Nimaiya simply interrupts it by throwing his sword at Pernida's "head", impaling it. It's later revealed that Pernida is a left arm, the "head" being a clenched fist with a giant eye. The eye appears to be what Nimaiya pierced.
In the Hood: Pernida is introduced without removing its ostensibly large hood, and only its glowing eyes are visible. When the hood is finally removed, its revealed to be a left arm.
Invisible Anatomy: It can both talk and hear without any visible signs of an anatomy that can allow it to do either. Mayuri lampshades this by saying he'd love to get his hands on Pernida to figure out how it can talk.
Logical Weakness: Amongst a host of other powers, Pernida has the ability to absorb any power or ability an opponent has by consuming it or sampling them with its nerves. That also includes abilities that come Blessed with Suck; Pernida is defeated because it absorbs a regeneration ability that's so intensely powerful that it effectively takes over its body like cancer.
No Mouth: Due to being a hand. It is still able to speak, which intrigues Mayuri into wanting to dissect it.
Pieces of God: Pernida is actually the animate left hand of the Soul King. Rather appropiately, it possesses several Godlike abilities, most notably the power of evolution. Through the power of evolution, Pernida can evolve by absorbing biomass, copy the powers of anyone it absorbs information on, manipulate its own body, and shotting its nerves in the bodies of others to control their nervous system. It has a twin named Mimihagi, who was the right arm of the Soul King, which governs Stagnation.
People Puppets: The power of Pernida's Schrift, 'The Compulsory'. Pernida can invade its opponent's body by shooting its nerves into their body to manipulate their nervous system. Pernida can forcibly move their body and tear them to shreds. It crushed the body of one of the Soul King's guards and condensed the corpse of Shutara's body double into a ball. It can also severeky warp people's bodies as it did with the arms of Yoruichi and Kenpachi to the point where they both removed. Pernida can also use its nerves on inorganic matter to control and shape them, creating hands out of the ground. Unlike the other Schrifts, The Compulsory wasn't granted by Yhwach, and was instead an ability that Pernida always possessed.
Power Copying: Pernida can learn from everything his nerves touch and therefore his abilities are constantly evolving. By touching Kenpachi Zaraki, his communication ability improved as did his speed and reflexes. By coming into contact with Mayuri's Bankai, it becomes capable of shedding its outer layers of skin to escape external attacks.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: Lives up to its title as an Elite Sternritter. It easily defeats Kenpachi, and outcompetes Mayuri at every turn. Even with Mayuri pushed to his limit and Nemu using her true power, Pernida still incapacitates the former and kills the latter.
Sealed Badass in a Can: Downplayed. Pernida is able to walk freely, but it's intelligence and evolution is halted by a set of chains. Only after Kenpachi broke them was Pernida able to evolve.
A Sinister Clue: Played with and discussed in-universe. The Soul King's lost limbs function independently of him, having their own personalities and motives. While the Right Arm saved a young Ukitake from an early death, the Left Arm serves a brutal emperor who is trying to destroy the Soul Reapers and Soul Society. However, the Right Arm only helped Ukitake because it suited its long-term goal and didn't actually save his life; it merely delayed his death until the day the Soul King was killed by Yhwach leaving Yhwach baffled as to why the Right Arm would ever help the Soul Reapers given a mysterious wrong Yhwach believes they committed in the distant past. Meanwhile, the Left Arm is pitted against Mayuri, who spent decades capturing and torturing Quincies to perform inhuman experiments on them. During their fight, Pernida expresses his rage at how the Quincies have been treated by the Soul Reapers while Mayuri remains unrepentant. And while Yhwach is portrayed by the Soul Reapers as evil and has little regard for the lives he commands, it's very strongly implied in both the manga and the follow-up novels that the Royal Guard is covering up an ancient crime that Yhwach is seeking vengeance for.
This Is Unforgivable!: Mayuri captured and performed several twisted experiments on many Quincies before in the past. Therefore, Pernida carries a grudge against against Mayuri for looking down on the Quincy and the many acts of torture he committed against them.

D - Askin Nakk Le Vaar (Ṧ)

Askin Nakk Le Vaar

^Vollständig

"That's right, you're quite calm. So calm that you attacked him right away. Absolutely calm."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed longbow

Vollständig: Hasshain

Schrift: D - The Deathdealing

Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi (JP), Daman Mills (EN)

Sternritter "D" of "The Deathdealing", later promoted to Yhwach's Elite Sternritter the "Schutzstaffel" guard, much to his own surprise. A calm, collected and bitingly sarcastic officer who acts as a mediator when arguments break out. He claims he's too lazy to get involved in any fight that will require effort instead of being an easy victory. However, his true intentions are very difficult to pin down.

His Quincy Cross manifests as a longbow. His ability allows him to calculate and alter the lethal dosage of any substance that he fills himself with. This includes blood, or an opponent's reiatsu; which means he will become progressively invincible for each given opponent. His Vollständig is named Hasshain, and it grants him helical wings akin to his bow, along with a visor and various molecular-themed accessories. It amps up his abilities tremendously; for example, it allows him to annihilate targeted organs with an unblockable projectile.

Adaptive Ability: In order to use his Schrift, The Deathdealing, he first must take in a large amount of the substance he intends to make lethal; for example, in order to turn Nimaiya's blood lethal, Askin has to drink a large amount of blood himself. Once he's done this, however, he can no longer be killed by that substance, because he can heighten his resistance to it. His Vollständig increases this further, along him to adapt an immunity to any substance as long as he isn't attacking. Even another Adaptive Ability can't counter it, because once he's developed an immunity to a substance, as long as it has the same "base", the immunity will stand.
Affably Evil: He's laid back, polite and casual regardless of the situation, ranging from intervening in internal squabbles between Quincies, invading Mayuri's own research laboratory, or watching other Quincies fight, never resorting to insulting and belittling others barring some mild sarcasm.
Afraid of Their Own Strength: Askin's fear of getting caught up in his own powers causes him to subconsciously hold back as a kind of natural Power Limiter. Unfortunately for the protagonists, this means that as he's dying, his powers massively intensify when his body believes it no longer matters.
Antagonist Abilities: Askin has the ability to effortlessly alter the lethal quantity of any abundant substance within his body that he has consumed or absorbed, changing how deadly it becomes (ranging from lethal to harmless) to either a target, an Area of Effect or himself. Askin doesn't like brute force, preferring to take the fight out of opponents; he easily defeats Ichigo, Yoruichi's attacks are ineffective against him, and Nimaiya only avoids defeat by taking extreme measures to drain his own toxic blood. His Vollständig increases his immunity, negating even other Adaptive Abilities since as long as the same "base" applies, the immunity can't be overcome. He can also focus all of his "Deathdealing" ability into a tiny area, creating a ringed projectile with 100-percent killing power for any part of the body it touches.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Implied to have been recruited into the Schutzstaffel because of his power, the sole member of the lower ranks to achieve this.
Audience Surrogate: Askin serves this role once he got promoted into the Schutzstaffel, whenever he interacts with the Sternritter in the higher echelons and often points out things the audience thinks.
Awesomeness by Analysis: He's able to tell how much Nimaiya weighs and how much blood is in his body just by looking at him. He's also able to briefly evade Nimaiya's attacks after watching him fight, and later on he figures out how to avoid the power of Urahara's Bankai and its "Instant Death" Radius with just a few seconds of careful observation and getting as far away from it as he can when most any other opponent would have been screaming about watching their arm unravel like cloth. He's even smart enough to know that some people he should avoid fighting if possible, given he avoid fighting Mayuri, who is infamous for his ability to develop counters to people.
Big Eater: Askin is often seen to consume various kinds of food and drinks throughout the war, even when he should fight instead. It's eventually revealed that his Schrift only works once he "consumes" a certain substance,
Blessed with Suck: He claims his only natural ability is to not die no matter how badly he's injured. He also claims that he loathes it because it leaves him feeling like he's constantly at death's door.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Askin is quite the quirky fellow with a personality that's simultaneously cool and collected and surprisingly bombastic, and has the most comedic moments out of his fellow Quincies. In any given fight, he's the guy most likely to run away or sit down for a picnic. Yet he's unbelievably dangerous, with a win-to-loss ratio that's second only to Aizen.
Bond Villain Stupidity: He has Grimmjow, Ichigo, Orihime and Chad dead to rights after incapacitating them, but completely neglects to finish them off. With the latter three, he at least has the excuse that Yoruichi interrupts him, but he has no excuse for leaving the former alive. Indeed, not killing Grimmjow when he has the chance bites him in the ass hard during his fight with Urahara.
Catchphrase: When criticizing others' actions, like underestimating him, he'll often call their behavior "fatal". As his Gift Ball Deluxe intensifies from his impending death, his last words are telling Urahara that he won't call the situation "fatal" because the latter is so Crazy-Prepared that he'll probably find some way to escape.
Combat Pragmatist: By his own admission, he dislikes fights that drag on, and prefers to finish things quickly. Rather than fight Grimmjow head on, he runs away, throws one of his poison balls, and knocks him down easily afterwards.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Dishes them out like candy despite his demeanor, as there is little his opponents can do after The Deathdealing is in effect. With it, he instantly defeats Grimmjow, Ichigo, Yushiro, and Yoruichi. Even his more even fight against Urahara is largely in his favor, as Urahara's Bankai isn't able to outright give him the means to defeat Askin in a head to head battle.
Deadpan Snarker: Whenever he wants to say something sarcastic or scathing about someone (like Bazz-B or the entirety of Squad 12), he usually does it in a calm, deadpan way.
Disappointed by the Motive: When Urahara learns that the reason Askin is working for Yhwach is more so out of curiosity as to what were to happen should the Quincy King succeed, he swipes at Askin out of disgust before calling him out on his reasons for doing something like that, finding it a poor reason to help Yhwach. Askin takes it in stride and doesn't really disagree either.
Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: He explains his powers to Nimaiya only when Nimaiya is dying from a choice between either blood poisoning or blood loss. It allows Kirinji to use his blood-replacing power to save Nimaiya's life. He later explains his Hasshain power to Urahara, stating that he doesn't want to waste time and since he expects Urahara would just figure it out anyway, they might as well get it over with.
Facial Markings: Black streams curve upwards around his eyes from the corners, a style reminiscent of Ikkaku and Grimmjow's eye markings.
Feed It with Fire: Attacking him with Reiatsu-based abilities (even Shunko) only makes him stronger. Since Quincy have Energy Absorption abilities, and his power affects anything he "fills" himself with, he can then heighten his own lethal dosage to said Reiatsu so that it's no longer effective. This means that the only true way of winning against Askin is to simply overpower him in raw combat skills, but Askin is smart enough not to let that happen, and isn't weak enough that someone can do so. This is also why he seemingly avoids combat if he can help it, as he is savvy enough to realize that someone could on paper find a way to do the same to him, given he outright decides not to fight Mayuri, and seems really annoyed at the idea of fighting Urahara.
Foreshadowing: When Yhwach makes his move on the Royal Realm, Askin cryptically wonders whether he'll be chosen. It is later revealed that most of the Sternritters don't know that the Sternritter chosen to become the Elite unit are the only ones deemed useful to Yhwach for the next phase of his plan, leaving the rest to be slaughtered — by Yhwach, not the Soul Reapers.
Four Is Death: D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, he's the fourth member of the Elite Sternritter, and his title explicitly focuses on the word death. His ability is to perfectly calculate and alter the lethal dose of any substance required to kill a being, allowing him to, for example, overdose Nimaiya's blood flow. The only way to escape Askin's power is to bleed to death. (Since Kirinji's ability allows him to completely replace a person's blood, Kirinji steps in to save Nimaiya.)
Graceful Loser: He takes his defeat quite well and compliments Urahara. Askin even tells him that if it were up to him, Urahara should survive. Unfortunately he doesn't have the power to control his Giftball anymore, so it's not up to him to decide.
Healing Factor: One of the abilities granted by The Deathdealing. By raising his own lethal dosage to an attack, Askin can heal from any wound he sustains. This ability is greatly enhanced when the Schutzstaffel are revived and further powered up by Yhwach, becoming potent enough to recover from being electrocuted in mere moments.
Hero Killer: Askin is one of the most effective antagonists within the Wandenreich. No matter who fights, his opponents will lose. Not even Ichigo, who by this point has practially become a Physical God, can do anything against him. In the end it takes Urahara with the help of Grimmjow's Resurreccion just to finally kill him, and had it not been for Nelliel's help, they both would have died in the process.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How he is killed. Grimmjow impales him right at his heart, then crushes it.
It Amused Me: In-Universe this is why he follows Yhwach. Learning that Yhwach wants to make a new world sounds so interesting and "once in a life time", that he can't help but want to see how it ends, so he helps out because he wants to see what will happen should Yhwach succeed in doing so. He isn't really loyal to Yhwach like many others are either, something Urahara figures out quickly despite Askin's sarcastic attempts to deny it.
Last-Name Basis: His comrades call him by his last name, while Askin calls them by their first names. In his case it's a sign that the other Sternritter are not close to him. Especially noticeable with Gerard, who is on first name basis with the other members of the Schutzstaffel, yet calls Askin only by his last name.
Lazy Bum: He claims that he won't fight Mayuri because he doesn't like having to put in any effort to win a fight and that Mayuri's the type of person that needs some effort to defeat. Mayuri's taken aback by the attitude, but lets him go. Later, he's shown just sitting around having a picnic while watching Gremmy's fight with Kenpachi.
Load-Bearing Boss: He subconsciously holds back his full power because he’s afraid of poisoning himself, but after Grimmjow sneaks in and rips his heart out, the Gift Ball Deluxe his opponents are in intensifies since his body figures it no longer matters.
Manipulative Bastard: He turns up at the 12th division just to play word games with Mayuri and has no intention of actually fighting. When he pretends to lure Mayuri into an obvious trap and Mayuri declines, he simply leaves. His true purpose for visiting the 12th division therefore remains a mystery.
The Man They Couldn't Hang: Claims his only natural ability is to not die no matter how severe his injuries, and has had this ability even before he was recruited into the Wandenreich. Even having his heart ripped out and crushed isn't enough to take him down immediately.
Meta Guy: Askin seems to be aware about how antagonists in Shonen and especially in Bleach behave and often points out why he won't do the same or why he can allow himself to indulge in such behavior.
Mr. Exposition: New information about the Wandenreich is often delivered through Askin's comments or speeches. His conversation with Pepe sets up Gremmy, Pepe and Askin's power levels, he informs both the Soul Reapers and readers about the history of the Quincy and the creation of the Wandenreich a thousand years ago. He informs Ichigo about the other members of the Schutzstaffel and reveals the identity of the War Powers and why each one was chosen. He also discusses Yhwach's end-goal with Urahara.
Nigh-Invulnerability: His Adaptive Ability allows him No-Sell attacks he's experienced once before, which is easy to do because of his ability to survive what should be lethal injures. Once he gets revived and powered up by Yhwach, he gains a healing factor and becomes even harder to kill. Even when Urahara intervenes in his fight with Yoruichi and gives her a power up that allows her to No-Sell his No-Sell, he still survives it. Even getting his heart ripped out and crushed isn't enough to fully take him out, and he manages to live long enough to say some final words. It's implied that his inability to die is the main reason he was chosen by Yhwach, given that there were other Sternritter's arguably more powerful than him that were not chosen, something Askin himself is surprised by.
Not Quite Dead: Nimaiya's attack drops Askin fairly easily, but Askin's natural ability is to simply not die, so he gets back to his feet in short order. He claims it's not an ability that thrills him. Even when Nimaiya does finally down him, he's resurrected by Yhwach's Auswählen. Grimmjow later comments on this, that even with his own heart ripped out, Askin just won't die or stop talking.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Lampshaded in-universe. Askin deliberately creates the impression that he's cowardly, ineffectual and possesses no useful offensive ability at all. As a result, he is able to catch both Nimaiya (a Royal Guard member) and Grimmjow (an Espada-level Arrancar) completely off-guard, and even defeat Ichigo (first among the Special War Powers). When Yushiro and Yoruichi come to Ichigo's rescue, their Shunko attacks initially seem effective until Askin No Sells Yushiro's second attempt, successfully jams three Heilig Pfeil through the young man's chest and speed-blitzes even Yoruichi. As he points out, he's been completely underestimated until it's far too late.
Oh, Crap!: He only ever loses his cool twice: The first is when Gremmy decides to summon an asteroid just to kill Kenpachi. To be fair, Askin is the most likely to survive this, but regardless an asteroid smashing into your face is a type of pain you'd not look forward to. The second time is when Yushiro's insane strength completely freaks him out, though he gets over it fairly quickly.
Poisonous Person: This is the ability of his Schrift, which is rather appropriately titled 'The Deathdealing'. His power is to be able to calculate a person's lethal dosage of any substance and alter it at will, even making things that shouldn't be toxic, like a person's blood, lethal above a certain dosage. Essentially, he can remove a person's resistance to something that isn't poisonous or lethal so that it becomes toxic to them.
Powers Do the Fighting: He himself states that he doesn't like doing anything physical during a fight, even simply strangling an incapacitated opponent is not elegant enough for him.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: He proves his mettle as a member of the Schutzstaffel through his increasingly impressive feats. He was the only one of the elites to put up a fight against Nimaiya, handily defeats Grimmjow, Ichigo, and Yoruichi, and by activating Vollständig, he pressures Urahara enough to activate his long-concealed Bankai.
Straw Misogynist: Downplayed; his misogyny is targeted towards a specific type of woman. When Yoruichi shows up to fight him, Askin gets angry when she asks why he just doesn't finish his opponents off and states such things are for women like her and Bambietta while he's all about finishing his opponents "elegantly". He also goes on to state a woman should be judged not by beauty but style and presentation, something that he claims both of them lack.
Taking You with Me: Should Askin fall, his death will magnify his "Gift Ball Deluxe", ensuring those who are within its area of effect die with him. It even gets triggered if he falls unconscious.
The Team Normal: Severely downplayed - given that it's Bleach - but still applicable all things considered. Askin is the only member of the Schutzstaffel who doesn't have a unique origin of power going for him: He isn't a disembodied piece of the Soul King like Gerard and Pernida, he isn't a Super Prototype for the Shrifts and Vollständig like Lille Barro, he isn't a Gemischt Quincy like Uryū and his existence isn't directly connected to Yhwach's like Haschwalth. For all intents and purposes, he's an average Quincy who just happens to be really, really, really powerful - hence his inclusion in the guard. Even he himself is surprised he made the cut.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: He mistakes Yushiro for a girl only to learn that Yushiro's actually a guy. He doesn't really care though as they are enemies on the battlefield and is just a bit surprised by it.
Villain Ball: Thanks to his abilities, Askin is in the position to instantly kill his enemies several times, most notably Ichigo. But instead, Askin prefers to chat and do it the slow way because of his sense for aesthetics. This bites him several times, as instead of simply killing his enemies, he often gives them or their allies the chance to counter and fight back.
Visionary Villain: The reason he follows Yhwach. Rather than because of fanatical Undying Loyalty like the other Sternritters, Askin serves Yhwach because he is one of the only people capable of changing the world and recreating it into something new, something that he is curious to see.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Tanking Yushiro's Shunko burns off all the clothing on his upper torso, leaving only his brace-like armor piece around his neck.
Weak, but Skilled: Among the Schutzstaffel, Askin is by far the weakest in terms of power, being the only member to be a regular Quincy and not having some divine-in-nature power like the rest. The reason he's as deadly as the others is because he knows that he's weaker than them, and uses that to trick his enemies into falling for his traps or schemes, such as tricking the Hot-Blooded Grimmjow into chasing him, or separating Ichigo to knock him down. Due to his Schrift as well, he weaponizes his Adaptive Ability to figure out how his foes fight so he can No-Sell it and take them out with his poison. It's telling that he's defeated not by physical powerhouses like Ichigo, Grimmjow, or Yoruichi, but by Urahara, and even then Urahara has to use his Bankai just to secure a draw.
Worthy Opponent: Askin comes to deeply respect Urahara's intellect and resourcefulness during their fight and believes that Urahara will probably find a way out of the intensifying Gift Ball Deluxe.
Would Hurt a Child: Impales Yushiro with three Heilig Pfeil through his chest. Although Yushiro attacks him first, he has no qualms about attacking him back.

E - Bambietta Basterbine

Bambietta Basterbine

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^Zombified

^Vollständig

"The whole point of fighting is that you don't want to die! That you'll be killed if you lose! If you throw your life away in battle, where's the point in winning?!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed sword

Vollständig: Zufiel

Schrift: E - The Explode

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (JP), Anne Yatco (EN)

Sternritter "E" of "The Explode". A bloodthirsty and sadistic young woman, she enjoys racking up a large body count during a fight. When in a bad mood, she vents her frustrations via killing attractive mooks, much to the irritation of her compatriots. When she was in possession of a stolen Bankai, she wasn't able to sense anything from it, so she assumes that all Zanpakuto lack sentience as a result.

Her Quincy cross manifests as a short scimitar that resembles a Chinese dao and a Zulfiqar. She can make deadly explosions with her power and her Vollständig form enables her to shoot glowing spheres turning anything they hit into a bomb, whilst donning wings and a pentacle-shaped halo.

Adaptation Dye-Job: The digital colored scans give her violet eyes and black hair with purple shades, while the cover of chapter 640 portrays her instead with brown eyes and dark brown hair. The TYBW anime and Bleach: Brave Souls depicts her with the former color palette, but the color of her Vollständig in Bleach Brave Souls is changed from the typical light blue to a more salmon color, while the TYBW anime opts to portray it as bright red.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After Bambietta gets defeated by Komamura's new Bankai, Giselle offers to help but Bambietta begs her not to. Giselle follows through with it anyway, murdering her and keeping her corpse around for future use. She later begs Giselle not to take too much of her blood when Giselle bites Bambietta to drain as much blood as possible. And a third time when her PTSD kicks in, she becomes unable to do anything and begs Liltotto and Giselle to save her. Luckily for her they proceed to do just that.
Alliterative Name: Both of her names begin with the same "Ba" sound.
All There in the Manual:
- Bambietta was last seen lying on the ground after Giselle bashed her head against the floor with no confirmation whether that killed her or not. Promotional advertisement for the Bleach novel Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World reveals that she is indeed alive... in a manner of speaking. It also further elaborates on the specifics of her zombification, motivations and relationship with Giselle.
- Her Vollständig's name was revealed in anime design notes.
Amazing Technicolor Population: As a Zombie, she has dark-gray skin to showcase her newfound undead nature.
Ambiguously Bi: Bambietta has the tendency to bring good-looking men with the promise of sex into her bedroom, whenever she is frustrated or upset, only to kill them afterwards. It is left ambiguous whether or not something actually happens inbetween, though Bambietta has a noteable bored and dispassionate expression on her face. She is on the other hand much more enthusiastic in her interactions with Giselle and has some rather suggestive scenes with her post-zombification. Giselle biting her flesh and sucking her blood causes Bambietta to moan and drool. While it is initially believed that this was all caused by the zombification, Giselle later claims that those zombified after death, like Bambietta was, are not controlled by her and keep their personality and will. The novels confirm that Bambietta is in complete control of her actions.
Angst Nuke: She flies into a rage and creates a massive explosion when she discovers that her friends ran off somewhere and left her talking to herself.
Ax-Crazy: She's rather infamous (both out and in-universe) for her strong inclination towards violence and brutality, even when outside a fight. This manifests most especially in how she slices a guy in half (albeit with a blank, dispassionate face) without remorse as a way to vent frustration.
Bad Boss: Like most of the Sternritter, Bambietta is not a person one would like to work for. She's notorious among her fell female Sternritters for her habit of seducing handsome young soldiers into her bed chambers for "special relief" only to slice them in half to allevate her mood.
Beneath the Mask: Bambietta presents herself as a strong, confident, aggressive, sadistic and dominant woman and goes to great lengths to preserve that aura. Until her death that works just fine. Once Giselle kills Bambietta and resurrects her as a zombie, that mask breaks immediately and reveals that behind her facade lies a meek and scarred little girl afraid of the world and the prospect of dying. She is also rather submissive and masochistic.
Black Widow: She lures attractive men to her room with the promise of a sexual encounter and it always ends with their violent deaths, but it's unknown if she ever actually lets them get that far before killing them.
Blatant Lies: She tries to trick Haschwalth into believing that an Otoshidama is the tradition for the employer to give their employee money, instead of the usual tradition of parents giving money to their children. It doesn't work.
Blood Knight: Bambietta is a particularly bloodthirsty and sadistic individiual. When she makes her debut, she gleefully bisects a bunch of unnamed Red Shirts during the invasion of the Seireitei, laughing in joy while doing so.
The Baroness: She is initially presented as this with her Nazi and BDSM style clothing, her great sadism, bossy and domineering attitude and tendency to use her beauty to invite good locking men into her bedroom only to kill them afterwards, when she is in a bad mood. But as her Hidden Depths as a zombie reveal, Bambietta is much more masochistic, submissive and apologetic than it initially seems.
Butt-Monkey: Almost nothing ever goes right for her. After a humiliating defeat against Komamura, Bambietta's (un-)life is pretty much a downward spiral. She has to endure constant abuse under Giselle's hands. As an immortal zombie Bambietta gets injured and tossed around alot, either thanks to Giselle or her enemies. In an omake, she asks Haschwalth for some New Years money, but instead receives one of his boring and long lectures.
Can't Live Without You: As a zombie Bambietta's life is linked to Giselle's. If Giselle dies, she herself will die. But this also means that Bambietta cannot truly die as long as Giselle isn't dead. Thankfully for her, Giselle is nigh impossible to kill.
Clothing Damage: When Mayuri used her own bombs against her, Bambietta gets her uniform burnt and the cloth over the top of her boobs was destroyed, revealing most of her cleavage.
Consuming Passion: Her desire to eat blood and getting eaten by Giselle is played for all its sexual worth.
Combat Sadomasochist: Bambietta greatly enjoys bisecting others and uses this in order to destress. It is later revealed that Bambietta also enjoys receiving pain. Giselle performing Cold-Blooded Torture on her as a zombie causes her to drool and moan in excitement. Her only concern was the loss of blood, but not the pain Giselle inflicts.
Commissar Cap: She wears a white and black peaked cap with the his Wandenreich insignia emblazoned on its front, which gives off some serious BDSM undertones due to her generally domineering personality.
Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Once she goes Vollstandig, she easily defeats Shinji with her The Explode, as the sheer range from the Schrift easily counters Sakanade’s effect.
- In return, she’s dispatched by Komamura in their rematch thanks to his Jinka technique making him immortal, with Bambietta being unable to harm him in any meaningful way before she's soundly defeated by Dangai Joue.
Curb Stomp Cushion: While she is unable to defeat Komamura in his immortal state, her attacks are still capable of damaging his Bankai far worse than Tosen had with his hollowfication, meaning that Komamura would have lost against her without his humanification technique.
- With Bleach Ex now showing what her Sklaverei Vollstandig would have looked like, Bambietta didn't even have the chance to use her full power against Komamura.
Cute and Psycho: Bambietta looks the part of an attractive, almost unassuming young adult, but plays the part of a deranged Blood Knight who has no qualms about killing people, even those she just had a tryst with (as an unfortunate Soldat grunt can attest to).
Dark Action Girl: She's a violent and brutal fighter, laughing in joy as she slaughters Soul Reapers and killing others when she's frustrated. Turns out that Bambietta was intentionally invoking this trope and that her true personality is much more meek and submissive.
Deadpan Snarker: When she sees that Komamura has a new set of armor, she snarks about his new getup and says that it would've been more "breathtaking" for him to have shown up after she destroyed some of the Seireitei instead of before.
Bambietta: Why are you wearing a bucket?
Deliberate Values Dissonance: She's pretty disturbed at how little Komamura seems to care about his own life, an old-school Samurai code of honor. Bambietta, being more western, believes that people fight to keep themselves alive; not caring about your life while you fight is something she feels makes the fight meaningless.
Dirty Coward: Bambietta is insufferably smug and sadistic in battle, but the moment she realizes she can't do a thing to hurt Komamura or his transformed Bankai the second time around, she panics and tries to flee for her life - the keyword being "tries".
Dull Surprise: She displays very little emotion or surprise when the stolen Bankai get returned; nonchalantly blowing up the heads of a bunch of red shirts. She goes on to explain that she never liked having a Bankai to begin with, as she felt it was more trouble than it was worth. Even when Komamura shows up in front of her after getting a new set of armor, she barely reacts at all, instead preferring to snark at him.
Establishing Character Moment: The very first thing she does on-panel is to carve her way through a bunch of low-ranked Soul Reapers, laughing all the way. She turns out to be the kind of character that needs to kill people to de-stress.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When she realizes that Sajin gave up his life to gain the ability to No-Sell her powers, she utterly freaks out and tries to hightail it from him, because she can't wrap her head around someone sacrificing themselves for the sake of others.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: She explains the principle of how her explosions work with a certain measure of pride, partially because she was impressed that Komamura was able to figure it out beforehand.
Extreme Doormat: After her fight with Komamura concludes, Giselle turns her into a zombie, but it isn't until later that we learn Bambietta was reprogrammed into a submissive mess, literally salivating and begging for Giselle to give her something, apologizing when she gets physically abused by her new master, and begging Giselle to not be punished for making her "upset". It is later revealed that Bambietta is not brainwashed and the submissive personality is in fact her actual personality.
Fan Disservice: For as beautiful and busty as Bambietta is, she gets exploited a lot in her brief appearances. When she's defeated by Komamura and her bombs get shoved back into her body to explode, it destroys most of her top. Already a humiliating defeat, one of her boobs was completely exposed, with her nipple only being covered by a speech bubble. She then gets soundly defeated by Mayuri using her own power against her, which leaves most of her boobs exposed again while she needs Giselle to get her back in fighting shape. Then a lot of her chest gets shown off while Giselle drinks her blood, and after she has her head brutally bashed into a rock, there's a near upskirt that avoids showing her panties due to some convenient censoring.
Fate Worse than Death: In-Universe, Bambietta sees being turned into Giselle's zombie as something worse than dying. This trope is subverted once she is made one anyway; she is afraid of dying that she seems to accept her zombie state if it means surviving.
Feather Flechettes: While not true feathers, she fires orbs of explosive Reishi from her Vollständig's wings in this fashion.
Forgot About His Powers: The fear of death is so integrated into Bambietta's mindset that she forgets that as a zombie she can't die again, begging Giselle not to kill her despite Giselle reminding her she won't.
The Friend Nobody Likes: She's in a clique with four other Sternritter women. Bambietta fashions herself as the leader of the group, yet they chastise her for killing subordinates to blow off steam, ditch her at the first opportunity during the second invasion while complaining about how she has a screw loose, and none of them lift a finger to stop Giselle from killing and zombifying her. The only one who does like her though is Giselle, but as Giselle has proved many times, she is not someone you would want to be liked by.
Having a Blast: The Schrift she has been bestowed with is 'The Explode'. It gives her the power to create bombs. The way they work is that she sends out orbs of Reishi. Anything the Reishi comes into contact with is converted into a bomb. It's because of this that her attacks can not be blocked. It also makes her attacks omni-directional. In her Vollstandig, her explosive ability is amplified.
Hidden Buxom: Her uniform hides the fact she has an ample amount of cleavage, although her personality subverts the usual timidness associated with this trope.
Hidden Depths: Bambietta at first seems just like another bossy, arrogant and sadistic Blood Knight. But she displays some surprisingly deep views and thoughts on occasion. To start with she finds the idea of Heroic Sacrifice absurd, as winning means nothing if you unable to enjoy it. Later on, with the reveal that those zombified after death are not controlled by Giselle, it turns out that all her contrasting behavior as a zombie is part of her own personality; showing her as someone emotionally unstable, quite submissive, and deeply afraid of dying. She is also quite interested in the politics and future of the Wandenreich.
Hoist by His Own Petard: She's as vulnerable to her own bombs as everyone else is. Dangai Joue defeated her by forcing the bombs to explode inside her and Mayuri delays the detonation until she's in the middle of them, forcing Giselle to use her as a Human Shield.
Hot-Blooded: Similar to Rukia, Bambietta prefers to be calm and detached, and puts on an air of confidence and poise, but she's prone to really rash action once you get under her skin even a little bit.
Horror Hunger: Following her zombification Bambietta develops an uncontrollable lust for blood that often controls her actions and decisions.
Hulk Speak: Following her injuries in the war and Giselle incompletely healing her, Bambietta suffers a bit from brain damage and as a result has problems speaking in complete sentences.
Humiliation Conga: Her bombs are rendered completely ineffective on Komamura thanks to Dangai Joue; she becomes a mass of charred flesh once her bombs explode inside of her; she's reduced to a begging mess when she sees her comrades approach; and finally, she's reanimated into an undead corpse, completely at the service of and slavishly loyal to Giselle. She even gets her head slammed onto a rock repeatedly after pleading with Giselle not to take so much blood from her, which ends up splitting her head open, but as Giselle stated beforehand, she's already dead, so even this doesn't "kill" her, only tormenting her further.
The Id: She is the most emotional of the three remaining female Sternritter and is solely interested in getting Giselle's blood post-zombification.
In-Series Nickname: Like the other female Sternritter, Bambietta also has one with Bambi. Though only Giselle calls her that. The other female Sternritter just call her Bambietta or tend to insult her. While with Giselle it can, depending on the situation, be an Affectionate Nickname, a Term Of Endangerment or both.
Interplay of Sex and Violence: Bambietta has a violent, passionate personality. Her method of "de-stressing" is to choose a handsome, male subordinate and encourage him to expect a sexual encounter. Whether sex actually occurs is ambiguous, but the encounter always ends with her slicing him to pieces. Her female friends are irritated by the frequency with which she does this, and the mess it causes. This later continues after her death and reanimation as a zombie by the hands of Giselle, with the difference that she is now on the receiving end of the violence.
Irony:
- Bambietta is afraid of dying, yet in her final moments as a living person, she begs Giselle not to make her a zombie, despite it "saving" her in Giselle's own twisted way.
- Bambietta was disturbed at the idea of throwing your life away before you fight, since she feels you fight to live. After her zombification by Giselle, Bambietta is no longer "alive," but unlike Komamura, she's being forced to fight and did not willingly choose to discard her life.
- Even though Bambietta gets killed very early on by Giselle, that very act and the following zombification allowed her to be one of the few Sternritter who survived the war. Thanks to becoming a zombie, Bambietta was able to avoid the multiple Auswählen and executions Yhwach performed, the constant infighting and backstabbing between the Sternritter or getting killed by a Shinigami, while many other of her comrades were not so lucky. And all of that because she was the Sternritter who died in the second invasion first.
- Despite being claiming to be the leader of the female Stern Ritters she holds no authority over them whatsoever.
I Shall Taunt You: Her battles are highlighted by her snarky (and at times oddly funny) taunting of her opponents. Bambi develops a mini obsession with Sajin Komamura because she just finds it so fun to mock him for being a wolfman, calling him "Doggie" everytime she sees him.
The Leader: She attempts to invoke this, but it's ultimately averted. She acts like the leader of the five female Sternritter, but they clearly don't agree. Lilotto calls her a bitch, Candice chews her out for hogging the hunks to herself, Giselle doesn't think she's very sane, and they all decided to troll her by ditching her while she talked to herself. Although Candice and Giselle seem to respect her strength, even they treat her as no more than an equal.
Mad Bomber: The special power granted by her Schrift is to convert anything that comes in contact with her Reishi into a bomb. To fit with her volatile abilities, Bambietta has an equally volatile personality, causing buildings to explode whenever she gets upset.
Morality Pet: She serves as an inverted example for Giselle. Giselle, while an antagonist, is genuinely close to the other female Sternritter and several times worried about their well-being. It thus at first seems like that Giselle is a nice, if snarky person to her female comrades. It's only through her interactions with Bambietta, that the depths of Giselle's insanity and sadism become clear. Though Giselle interestingly considers Bambietta the person she loves, so this is played straight from her own twisted perspective.
Mortality Phobia: Bambietta is deeply afraid of dying. She states to Komamura that she participates in the war in order to ensure her own survival. Despite being afraid of Giselle turning her into a zombie and outright begging her not to, once Giselle does so anyway, Bambietta is so afraid at the prospect of dying again, that she prefers being abused by Giselle as a zombie and begs Giselle to let her stay with her if it means staying alive in some way. When she’s fighting Rudbornn’s Calaveras in the novels, their complete lack of concern about charging straight into her explosions unnerves her so much that it reawakens memories of Komamura and leaves her screaming in terror for her friends to save her from dying.
Ms. Fanservice: She has calf-high boots, black stockings and a micro skirt. She later removes her stockings (which reveal her long legs), unzips her shirt (showing off a rather large set of boobs), and adjusts her skirt (which shows more of her thigh in particular).
Multi-Directional Barrage: In response to Shinji screwing with her senses, she just starts pitching explosions in every direction.
The Nicknamer: She has nicknames for friend and foe alike. Komamura was given the nickname "Doggie" the moment they first met, while her four friends are called Lili (Liltotto), Gigi (Giselle), Meny (Meninas), and Candy (Candice).
Not Brainwashed: In the light novels, it turns out that Bambietta's slavish loyalty and absolute submissiveness towards Giselle post-zombification aren't the result of Giselle reprogramming her, but her actual personality behind the boisterous hot-tempered mask she wears.
Oh, Crap!:
- She thought she had defeated the Seventh Division. Komamura rallies himself, his lieutenant, and all his subordinates with a single speech. She's stunned.
- Has a larger one when Shinji uses his Shikai to invert her senses. Subverted in that she quickly recovers her composure and just starts shooting explosions in every direction, which eventually hits him.
- She gets several in Chapters 557 and 558, first when she sees Komamura's Bankai without the armor, then when she sees that it isn't affected by her bombs when she sees that he's totally fine with a hole in his chest, and (in the beginning of Chapter 558) when she realizes that her bombs are coming back into her.
- Her final, and most visceral one, occurs when she begs Giselle to stop after the latter offers to "help" her. Sadly, this leads to her death and then the use of her corpse due to Giselle's ability.
- She has another more comedic one in the New Year's omake, once she realizes that she is about to get another of Haschwalth's very long lectures.
Our Zombies Are Different: After her defeat against Komamura, Giselle murders her and raises her as a zombie, though she doesn't show up until Giselle summons her against Ikkaku and Yumichika. Despite being dead, she retains her ability to use The Explode, can still activate Vollständig, and retains the ability to talk and feel. She's extremely tough to kill, too, as a stab through the neck does nothing and losing limbs is an inconvenience. The best that can be done to stop her is by shooting her with a Cero, as Charlotte Chulhourne accomplished, and even then, she still survived. After that, she gets a ton of her blood sucked out by her "master" and has her head busted open by having it be smashed repeatedly against the pavement. She's noticeably limp and blank-faced, but as Giselle herself noted earlier, Bambietta was already dead anyway, so even in this case she didn't die.
Out with a Bang: Implied to have inflicted this on at least one mook. She calls a random guy up to her room when she's in a foul mood, makes it clear she wants sex with him, and when she kills him, they're both in a state of undress. What exactly happened in between is left to the imagination.
Person of Mass Destruction: Taken literally via The Explode. When she feeds her Reishi into an object, the object itself becomes a bomb. She's also one of the more powerful of the Sternritters, being able to fight several Soul Reapers simultaneously.
Psychopathic Womanchild: She's essentially a 14-year-old Genki Girl in a grown woman's body. She frequently refers to Captain Komamura as "doggy" throughout their fights, and throws temper tantrums when things don't go her way or she feels she's being ignored. This is a major reason why the other female Sternritter don't respect her very much.
Questionable Consent: While Bambietta clearly didn't agree with being killed and zombified, it is unknown how much of Bambietta's behavior as a zombie is because of Giselle's machinations and how much because of her own personality.
Red Is Violent: Red is her signature color and her Vollstandig in the anime is depicted as being of a bright scarlet coloration, which goes handily with her easy to anger, murderous nature.
Sinister Scimitar: Her unnamed blade is a curved sword that Bambietta is shown to be quite proficient in using.
Security Blanket: Bambietta briefly serves as one for Giselle after the Auswählen. She is the only thing that manages to keep Giselle's already fragile sanity intact, as Giselle lunges into her, chanting that they both won't die.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: After the war, it becomes obvious that her experiences there, namely her fight with Komamura, left her with a severe case of PTSD.
Significant Birth Date: Her birthday is August 6, the same day the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
Slasher Smile: When she sees Hinamori charging at her, Bambietta's smirk widens into a maniacal grin, accompanied by a crazed look in her eye.
Smug Snake: Bambietta is a highly arrogant woman who proclaims herself as the leader of the female Sternritters. She's actually a pretty dangerous fighter, but she has a pretty bad habit of being dismissive of her opponents. Naturally, she's the first of the female Sternritters to fall in battle. Surprisingly, her actual personality is much more humble and apologetic.
Sphere of Destruction: When her gal-pals don't immediately show up when she calls them, she flies into a rage and creates a huge radial explosion.
Stockholm Syndrome: She seems to have developed this for Giselle post-zombification. Despite the constant abuse she has to suffer under Giselle, who killed her in the first place, Bambietta does not want to leave Giselle and apologizes whenever Giselle hits her.
Terms of Endangerment: She mocks Komamura's appearance by referring to him as "inu-chan" and "wan-chan" ("doggie").
This Is Unforgivable!: She says this of herself after being the first of the female Sternritters to lose.
Tsundere: When she realized that her entourage actually left her behind, she loudly voices her disapproval while carrying a red tint on her cheeks.
Unblockable Attack: Her explosions don't come from her Reishi, but whatever the Reishi touches, so attempting to block the Reishi with something will simply result in the shield blowing up in the opponent's face.
Underboobs: It's not the most noticeable thing about her Clothing Damage in the manga, but it happens when her clothes are destroyed when she loses to Komamura. Having her explosions forced back into her body either destroyed her bra, or she never wore one to begin with. While she's in a pile of rubble, the reader can see the bottom curve of her left boob completely exposed. The only thing covering the more naughty bits is her speech bubble.
Uncertain Doom: She "survived" the war by being a zombie and thus not technically alive and is confirmed to still be with the surviving Bambies after the fact. But whether or not Bambietta is eventually restored to her old self is up in the air.
Unskilled, but Strong: Out of the female Sternritter, Bambietta is the only one to never display a named move nor use Sklaverai to enhance her Vollstandig. However, her ability is just so destructive and devastating she doesn’t need special attacks to crush her enemies. The sheer power of her explosions make her difficult for anyone to fight, letting her take Shinji easily, but once Komamura shows up with the power to tank her attacks, she has no other means of fighting back, and is taken out in a single hit from his bankai.
Villainous Breakdown: As she loses control of her rematch with Komamura and realizes that she's fighting an immortal, very pissed-off veteran warrior whose power is specifically immune to her own and who hates her entire faction for what they've done to the Gotei 13, her mental self-discipline begins to break down as well, manifesting in numerous (and increasingly more visceral) Oh, Crap! moments.
Villainous BSoD: While fighting Arrancar, Bambietta remembers her fight with Komamura which greatly accelerates her fear of dying and causes her to shut down, unable to even move.
Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: According to Askin, Bambietta told him once that he should simply strangle his enemies once they are down instead of waiting for them to die. Askin didn't like that suggestion.
Worf Had the Flu: Bambietta's abilities and applications thereof suffer greatly following her reanimation. While it's implied she still has most, if not all, of her powers, as a zombie she's nowhere near as swift or clever about using them. As Mayuri deduces, killing her and then converting her into a zombie slowed down her reaction time significantly. Notably, she's nearly beaten by Ikkaku and Yumichika working together, and Charlotte manages to toss her around without issue without using Resurreccíon, all three being characters an alive Bambietta would have no issue taking out on her own.

F - Äs Nödt

Äs Nödt

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^Vollständig

"True fear is without reason. It is not an emotion, but an instinct. True fear occurs without reason, without bounds. It is like a swarm of insects crawling up the body. We cannot escape from our instincts."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed spikes

Vollständig: Tatar Foras

Schrift: F - The Fear

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (JP), Elijah Ungvary (EN)

Sternritter "F" of "The Fear" (stated by the author), who uses levitating spikes to subdue his opponents before massacring them. An intimidating force, he uses words as a weapon to reinforce his ability to disparage his opponents in the worst possible way.

He can manifest his Heilig Pfeils as hovering thorns capable of conveying his power. The Fear manifests as a black liquid capable of seeping through any material, and locks his opponents into their own worst memories until they die of fright. His Vollständig, Tatar Foras, transforms him into an abomination worthy of Lovecraftian lore, and fittingly amplifies his fear-based powers. Anybody looking into Äs Nödt's eyes will be instantly stuck into a nightmare and, as he's capable of surrounding his opponents with thousands of eyes, they're almost impossible to avoid.

Alas, Poor Villain: During Äs Nödt's final moments, a flashback reveals that before he met Yhwach, he was but an ill bedridden man, barely able to breathe and fearfully awaiting his death while simultaneously proclaiming how he hates living like that. When Rukia finally slays him with her Bankai, his last thoughts are filled with this old fear.
Antagonist Abilities: Äs Nödt is able to induce paralyzing degrees of fear in his opponents, which leaves them unable to fight back and can easily traumatize them for life. Even people who have dedicated themselves to a life of selfless combat and self-sacrifice are not immune because even they have something they fear. This allows Äs Nödt to curbstomp even powerful opponents like Byakuya.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: When he suddenly and inexplicably jump-rushed Yamamoto, it quickly ended badly for him. Lucky for him, Bazz-B spared him a fiery death.
Ax-Crazy: He acts with an aloof behavior, but underneath is an arrogant sadist. His second appearance, fighting against Rukia, has him repeatedly ranting about how he wants the now-returned Bankai he stole back, declaring it as his own. He also takes delight in his ability to induce fear in his foes, laughing menacingly while doing so.
Black Eyes of Evil: His eyes are shapeless pools of nothingness. Occasionally, the white of an eye can be seen, but all it does is make the blackness of the eyes look even creepier.
Body Horror: On top of having a lipless face, he bears a Wandenreich emblem right beneath his left eyeball, and his Vollständig has stitches running down the front of his body, making it hard to distinguish his clothes from his actual skin, much like Ulquiorra's first Resurreccion. Once Byakuya makes his comeback and negates his Vollständig powers with just Senbonzakura's Shikai, Äs' stitched body splits apart to create a giant version of himself, with the original body becoming a husk hung around the giant's mouth.
Break Them by Talking: Äs tends to go on long tangents about the concept of primal fear in the middle of his fights. It's not for the sake of bragging, though; the talking gives his power time to take effect just in case his target isn't immediately overwhelmed. Byakuya experiences this firsthand.
Clipped-Wing Angel: When he transforms into his giant form, he doesn't get to do anything before Rukia kills him with her Bankai.
The Coats Are Off: Takes off his coat right before engaging Rukia in a fight.
Creepy Monotone: He usually speaks in a low monotone to enphasize his creepiness and how he's characterized by fear.
Curb-Stomp Battle: After inducing limitless fear in Byakuya, he uses the opportunity to deliver a very effective speech on fear and then proceeds to utterly thrash the captain with his own Bankai.
Custom Uniform: Äs Nödt's significantly differs from the other Sternritter, as it is longer and has more buttons than usual.
Deadly Gaze: In Vollständig, his Fear ability is amplified to the point he can induce fear just through eye contact.
Emotion Bomb: His Reishi thorns inject his opponents with The Fear, and in fact kill them from the overwhelming frenzy of terror they're whipped into. Not even the calm and collected Byakuya was immune.
Evil Sounds Deep: His dialogue is written with an extremely thick font, giving off a vibe that's as creepy as everything else about him. His voice in the anime follows suit, emphasizing the absolute horror he embodies.
Facial Horror: He doesn't have lips underneath his mask, exposing his teeth and gums.
Fate Worse than Death: He threatens to inflict one on Byakuya after the latter No Sells his Vollständig abilities with just his Shikai.
Flechette Storm: He gives Senbonzakura a vicious edge that had never before been seen in the story. And used it to make a rag doll out of Byakuya, as a final assault after having mentally wrecked one of the most level-headed captains in the story.
Flies Equals Evil: The horrifying nature of the Fear is often symbolized through flies or moths.
Holy Halo: His Vollstandig sports not only the one on his head, but also two on his back, where his wings would be.
I Was Quite a Looker: Despite being sickly and on his deathbed, we see in a flashback that Äs Nödt used to be a normal-looking guy with lips and eyebrows before Yhwach came to him to give him power.
Kill It with Ice: How Rukia initially takes him by surprise, forcing him to activate his Vollständig. Then again when her Bankai finally kills him.
Lean and Mean: While not to the same extent as NaNaNa, he's still quite emaciated, to the point that we can see the outlines of his ribs when he is in Vollständig form.
Literally Shattered Lives: How he is killed. His giant form is frozen and shattered by Rukia's Bankai.
Logical Weakness: His fear-inducing abilities rely on causing the users senses to go out of whack with irrational fear. As Rukia demonstrates when she fights him, if said person either lacks emotions for some reason, or is technically dead, the ability cannot work.
Madness Mantra:
- Gives a fairly disturbing one upon meeting Rukia after Byakuya regains his Bankai.
Äs Nödt: I am... Lonely... Lonely... Lonely. Lonely. Lonely. I'm really lonely. Where is... my Senbonzakura?
- Once Byakuya gains the upper hand against his Vollstandig, he starts hysterically ranting "I won't kill you!" over and over before promising him a Fate Worse than Death.
Mind Rape: Äs Nödt's ability to induce fear can make the target go through incredibly unpleasant hallucinations.
- When fighting him, Byakuya attempts to encourage himself by envisioning Rukia's smiling face to remind himself of what he is fighting for, but Äs causes Byakuya to instead see Rukia's face melting and falling apart, allowing Äs the chance to demolish him with his own Bankai.
- When fighting Rukia, he causes her to see his fear toxin — envisioned as black ooze with hand-shaped tendrils — busting out of her eyes and mouth, flowing down her naked body until it's completely covered. While she withstands this by freezing herself, his Vollständig overwhelms her and causes her to have the same hallucination of flies crawling all over her body as Byakuya.
Monstrous Humanoid: Vollständig dehumanises his appearance◊. His face becomes deformed, almost skeletal, and blood flows from his pupilless eyes. The upper half of his body is naked and heavily emphasizes his ribcage. Cancerous-looking flesh bursts from his torso before receding into a stitched scar that travels from his throat right down his torso and down the robe that covers his body. His naked upper body and the flowing robe covering the lower half of his body appear to be a single unit as if the robe is made from his very skin. The Quincy halo surrounding his head like a crown of thorns serves to make him look particularly unholy.
Mortality Phobia: As his final monologue reveals, Äs Nödt is deeply afraid of death, though he initially denied this. He furthermore assumes that this is the case for everyone and basis his Fear ability on this. Byakuya later speculates that his final transformation is a representation of Äs Nödt's fear.
Nightmare Face: He has no lips under his mask, leaving his teeth on full display. It gets worse when he activates his Vollständig, his eyes rolling back and dripping with Tears of Blood.
Not Quite Dead: Rukia appears to win her fight with him by freezing him to absolute zero. Thinking she's won the fight, she brings herself out of her Shikai power; however, he manages to break out of the ice and enters Vollständig to regain the advantage in battle.
One-Winged Angel: By rolling back his left eye, he activates his Quincy: Vollständig. His Vollständig, Tatar Foras, gives him Facial Markings, an emaciated upper body, and stitches running down his front. Taken one step further in the following chapter by transforming into a giant, grotesquely deformed version of himself.
Primal Fear: The point of Äs Nödt's power isn't about fear you can rationalize. It's about fear that goes to the very core of what it means to be alive. It's the kind of fear that runs solely on instinct and, as a result, it cannot be rationalized and therefore cannot be fought. In short, he weaponizes fear into an Emotion Bomb that instantly "nukes" the victim. Äs Nödt was impressed by how well Byakuya resisted it, and even Byakuya succumbed.
Religious Bruiser: Äs Nödt is a Captain-level fighter and one of the few religious people in Bleach. He used to think a lot about the afterlife in the past and the possibility and fear of ending in Hell after death is one of his core motivations.
Spikes of Villainy: His mask has a row of vertically aligned spikes. They appear to be where his arrows are fired from. Later appearances has him wear gauntlets that also sport some.
Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Downplayed. He's not a ghost, but Äs Nödt himself fits the general appearance associated with one - including the generally white appearances, the long hair, the rather feminine face, and is one of the most disturbing characters in the series. His grotesque giant One-Winged Angel form is even evocative of Oiwa from Yotsuya Kaidan.
Suddenly Shouting: In the anime, he loses it after Rukia thinks she's made him feel fear with her Shikai.
The only thing I fear... is being REBUKED BY HIS MAJESTY!
Supernatural Fear Inducer: His Schrift is called 'The Fear'. It allows him to induce intense fear into his enemies' hearts. He uses it by manifesting his power as a black liquid in his Reishi thorns, which inject The Fear into anyone who is struck by them. Once injected, the victim will experience deep-seated fear towards Äs, start to doubt themselves, stop thinking rationally and start panicing, and suffer hallucinations of their worst fear. The Fear is so potent that it will weaker targets to die from the overwhelming fear, but more strong-willed targets such as Byakuya are more resistant, though Äs believes that all will succumb to it eventually. In his Vollständig, The Fear is amplified to the point that he only needs to rely on eye contact for it to take effect.
Tears of Blood: After activating his Vollständig, trails of blood start running down his eyes.
The Unsmile: He makes a spectacular one upon stealing Byakuya's Bankai. And again when he fights Rukia.
This Cannot Be!: He reacts with calm disbelief when Rukia claims that she can No-Sell "Fear", since "Fear" goes beyond reason and strikes at the core of all living things. Rukia reveals that she technically isn't alive at the moment thanks to her Shikai's power.
Token Religious Teammate: Äs is implied to be either Christian or Catholic, as shown by the German copy of the Holy Bible on his bedside, along with his lamentations on whether he will end up in Heaven or Hell. He also has a few religious motifs; he’s often seen striking a Jesus pose, and his Vollständig form resembles that of a biblically accurate angel, right down to the halo of thorns and multiple eyes. His long speeches on the nature of fear are also reminiscent of a preacher holding a sermon.
Troll: Äs has a rather twisted sense of humor. He mocks Byakuya's evisceration from his own Bankai by asking if his previous impaling of Byakuya has caused the captain to lose weight.
Unblockable Attack:
- His Fear thorns can pass through any obstacle, even a wall of ice. The only defense is to dodge them or to be immune.
- His Vollständig, Tartar Foras, induces fear via the optic nerves, so the only defense is to never look upon him.
Unusual Eyebrows: In addition to his creepy eyes, he has absolutely no eyebrows at all.
Villainous Breakdown: He completely loses his temper and threatens to inflict Byakuya with a Fate Worse than Death instead of merely killing him when Byakuya defeats Tartar Foras with only his Shikai instead of his Bankai.
The Walls Have Eyes: Part of his Vollständig's ability, to assure he can induce fear into his opponent through eye contact.
"What Do They Fear?" Episode: It's revealed that, above all else, he dreads the idea of being punished by Yhwach, which inevitably means getting killed by him given the latter's attitude and plan.

G - Liltotto Lamperd

Liltotto Lamperd

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"Leftover sweets and sprays of blood are two different things, you bitch."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed bow

Vollständig: Gagael

Schrift: G - The Glutton

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN)

Sternritter "G" of "The Glutton". A short and skinny young girl with blonde hair. Liltotto is a Sternritter with an insatiable appetite, usually for sweets, but she has no issue with chowing down on people as well. Despite her youthful appearance, she has no qualms about blurting out profanity at her comrades.

She has the power to stretch and expand her mouth to bite through anything; if she eats somebody possessing a peculiar power, she will be able to use it once her unfortunate lunch has been digested. She has a jagged bow that creates a shape reminiscent of a toothy grin. Her Vollständig, named Gagael in the anime, gives her toothy wings and allows her to fire large reishi jaws.

Adaptational Seriousness: In the manga, Liltotto is initially cheerful and always smiling, her deadpan personality only established after facing Ichigo. In the anime, she is stoic and serious from the start.
All for Nothing: Liltotto, Giselle and Bazz-B form an Enemy Mine with the Shinigami when Yhwach's Auswahlen makes them realize how little he values them. Bazz-B is cut down by Haschwalth, but the latter's consequent actions imply that the fight slightly wavered Haschwalth's allegiance toward their Emperor. The two girls? Defeated off-panel, accomplishing nothing more than briefly disturbing Yhwach's nap. Liltotto can only express frustration at their failure to so much as put a scratch on him before collapsing.
All There in the Manual: The Bleach novels explain what happened to Liltotto after her fight with Yhwach and elaborate on her abilities and relationship with the other Sternritter.
All Your Powers Combined: Liltotto is able to use the ability of everyone and everything her stomach digested, and can also combine them to create new abilities.
Audience Surrogate: Following the end of the war Liltotto exiled herself alongside Giselle and Bambietta, and often voices the same things about the two as the audience thinks.
Be Careful What You Wish For: She thinks it would be more entertaining if Pepe joined the fight, even though Meninas finds him disgusting. Once Pepe does get involved, he brainwashes Meninas into sucker-punching Liltotto.
Big Eater: Liltotto is usually seen munching on sweets and Bambietta implies she can't remotely get enough of them. When it's suggested she would be given anything she wishes for if she beats Ichigo, her thoughts are of food. Her power takes this to another level as she begins chowing down on every opponent she finds.
Cannibalism Superpower: Her Schrift allows her to use the ability of anything her stomach digests.
Characterization Marches On: She's introduced with an incredibly cheerful expression (albeit with some profanities) that doesn't quite mesh with the Deadpan Snarker seen later on.
Charm Person: Thanks to eating Pepe, Liltotto can use the Love and make everyone she hits fall in love with her. However, she finds this power disgusting and refuses to use it.
Combat Pragmatist: She reveals that she and her group attacked Kenpachi specifically because he wore himself out fighting Gremmy. She and Giselle take out the Red Shirts while Candice and Meninas take on Zaraki. When Ichigo shows up, she tries to tag-team him with the other three, but eventually leaves the fighting to Candice. She later tells everybody not to waste time and just use their Vollständig right away.
Commissar Cap: She has a white cap with a black peak and the Wandenreich symbol at the center.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Tries to invoke this with the rest of the Sternritter when she notes that any Soul Reaper that is not a "Special War Power" should just be swept aside quickly and activates Vollständig.
Dark Action Girl: Of the Sternritter who fought post-Royal Realm Byakuya, only she and Meninas are capable of holding their own against him. She later goes on to defeat a Pepe-controlled Meninas with only minor injuries and kills Pepe herself. She likes to blurt out profanity and demean her enemies after eating them, which is also how she killed Pepe.
Deadpan Snarker: She doesn't think much of Ichigo's Dynamic Entry, pretty much agreeing with Meninas' suggestion that he botched it. She's also prone to making snarky remarks towards her fellow Bambies.
Death Glare: She gives a good one to Pepe after he mind-controlled Meninas into punching her in the face. Then she eats him.
Enemy Mine:
- She and the surviving Sternritter temporarily ally with Soul Society after Yhwach betrays and tries to kill them.
- In Bleach: Cannot Fear Your Own World she takes Giselle and Bambietta to rescue the Jagdarmee still fighting in Hueco Mundo, and battles Loly, Menoly, Rudbornn, Grimmjow, Nelliel, and Harribel. When Hikone crashes the party, however, she leads the other Quincy in allying with the Arrancar against him — to Giselle's confusion, as they'd just been trying to kill each other.
Entertainingly Wrong: When she wakes up in the new Wandenreich HQ, Liltotto believes that Haschwalth wants to interrogate her. While a sound conclusion, she couldn't be more wrong. Both Haschwalth and Yhwach are dead and she was in the HQ because Haschwalth ordered her evacuation.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- She is not a big fan of Bambietta's tendency to kill men whenever she is upset.
- While she does let Giselle kill Bambietta, and never comments on it when she reunites with Giselle in the cave (just before the Auswahlen occurs), in the light novels, she makes her disgust over Giselle's zombification abilities clear.
Hammerspace: Liltotto constantly pulls out a new piece of food to eat throughout the entire war even though her uniform doesn't offer the space to store the food.
Heart Beat-Down: She can shoot love beams after she devoured Pepe.
Hidden Depths:
- She actually completely disagrees with the idea of Blind Obedience to a Physical God who has no loyalty to their creations. In her mind, a leader who abandons their followers at the drop of a hat is not a leader worthy of following. Instead, she becomes The Leader of the Sternritter remnants in the novels, doing everything she can to make sure they all survive, even if it means teaming up with Arrancar.
- The light novels expand more on her mindset. Liltotto actually struggles with expressing her appreciation and genuine care for her comrades, particularly the other female Sternritter, and she only shows her compassion towards Gremmy when nobody else can see her interacting with him (because they never willingly approached him the way she did). She doesn't comment publicly on Giselle's Zombie power, but she is personally disgusted by it, privately criticizes Giselle's treatment of Bambietta, and refuses to let Giselle zombify anybody else, including the Jagdarmee in Hueco Mundo. She even sees Giselle as a friend in spite of herself, something Giselle herself explicitly calls out, something even Liltotto can't deny anymore.
Hyperactive Metabolism: Liltotto notes that she isn't at full strength because she hasn't eaten much (relatively speaking) yet.
Hypocritical Humor: She chastises Bazz-B for losing against Haschwalth, but then quickly notes the irony as she and Giselle didn't fare much better against Yhwach.
Jerkass: She's deliberately rude to everyone she talks to. While she does spare Meninas from death despite being controlled by Pepe and saves Giselle from outright death from Yhwach's Auswählen, she had no problem letting Bambietta die to become Giselle's zombie, even when she was begging for mercy and it was within Liltotto's power to save her by stopping Giselle.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Liltotto may be rude and pragmatic, but she deeply cares for her comrades, be they former or current. She saved the remnants of the Jagdarmee from the Arrancar and Giselle and feels truly indebted to Haschwalth's aide for helping her. Not that she would ever admit that.
I'm a Humanitarian: Liltotto's Schrift is 'The Glutton'. She is able to consume and ingest matter . Her mouth can stretch and expand to bite people in half, then swallow them effortlessly. She eats a bunch of Soul Reapers, although she admits they don't taste good. She also devours Pepe, in an act of revenge for his actions against her and Meninas.
The Immune: Her stomach is so powerful that she can't be affected by poison. Even the fundamental weakness of Quincy against Hollow Reiatsu is no exception to that. It's implied that if she were at full power, she would not be harmed by Hollow Poisoning at all.
Instant Expert: Thanks to The Glutton Liltotto can immediately master every ability she absorbs.
I Owe You My Life: Liltotto feels indebted to Haschwalth's aide because she saved her. Her leaving the Wandenreich and saving the remnants of the Jagarmee is partly because she wants to protect her savior from Giselle and express her gratitude.
Kid with the Leash: Following the defeat of Yhwach, Liltotto has to keep an eye on Giselle as she is perhaps the only one who prevents her from unleashing a zombie apocalypse.
The Leader: In the post-war novels, Liltotto is the most rational and logical thinking Sternritter left, so the survivors basically just follow her lead even if there is Snark-to-Snark Combat.
Little Miss Badass: Liltotto is one of the youngest participants in the blood war, but also one of the strongest. Out of the five Sternritter who attacked Byakuya, Liltotto was the only one alongside Meninas not to fall. After Pepe mind controlled Meninas, Liltotto was able to defeat Meninas rather quickly without any visible injuries and managed to keep her alive. Pepe's initial target for defeating the competition was even Liltotto. This is despite her own Schrift being a weak one and rather unsuited for non-lethal attacks. Later, Kubo confirms via Klub Outside, that Liltotto is the strongest "Bambie", at least in regards to having the best fighting skills and Blut expertise out of all female Stern Ritters.
Luminescent Blush: When Giselle tells her that Liltotto actually likes her and calls her cute, Liltotto's only response is to remain stoic and blush.
Made of Iron: Despite taking a hulked-out punch right to the face from Meninas, who may very well be the physically-strongest Bleach character, Liltotto not only survives but her confrontation with Pepe afterwards shows she was able to subdue her comrade with minimal further injuries.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After surviving Yhwach's Auswählen, Liltotto makes the decision to help out the Soul Reapers if it means she can get into close enough proximity to Yhwach to avenge his attempt to abandon and kill her.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In addition to being able to distort and expand her mouth, when using her powers her teeth transform into shark-like fangs.
"No. Just… No" Reaction: When Giselle suggests zombifying Ichigo, Liltotto just tells her to cut it out.
Not Quite Dead: Thought she died against Yhwach? Turns out she survived, albeit only thanks to Haschwalth's aide.
Not So Stoic: She's calm and collected most of the time, even in tough situations, but Yhwach's betrayal makes her shocked, desperate and furious.
Oh, Crap!: Lets this reaction out once she discovers that the Sternritter left behind by Yhwach will end up as food for the Auswählen.
Only Friend: Can't Fear Your Own World reveals that Liltotto was this for Gremmy, as she's the only Sternritter who was willing to go out of their way to talk to him without being terrified. She even goes as far as to say that Yhwach imprisoning him is cruel. Gremmy, for his part, seemed to reciprocate this kinship, as he was willing to use his near-godlike power to simply create snacks for her and had no issues engaging her in conversation despite his unstable nature. Needless to say, Liltotto is less than pleased about Tokinada using his remains to create Hikone.
Only Sane Man: No matter which group she teams up with, Liltotto has the honor of being the only normal one. Among the female Sternritter, Meninas is The Brute, Candice has a Hair-Trigger Temper, Bambietta is Psychopathic Womanchild, and Giselle is genuinely Ax-Crazy, on top of Giselle and Bambietta having an especially fucked up dynamic in particular. Liltotto later teams up with Bazz-B, who is hell-bent on revenge and Giselle, who is... Giselle. After the war, she teams up with Bambietta, who suffers from PTSD, and Giselle again. Comments from the novels imply that she may be this even to the entire Sternritter army, as she doesn't exhibit Undying Loyalty and actually sees that your leader trying to kill and abandon you, is not something to be okay with.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Yhwach using the Auswählen prompts Liltotto to break her monotone and stoic persona and react with rage and despair.
Parasol Parachute: Liltotto's arrival on the battlefield consists of gently floating down via an opened umbrella while eating from a jar of sweets.
Pay Evil unto Evil: Kills Pepe, but considering how much of a jackass the man was, it was more than deserved.
Pet the Dog:
- When Yhwach enacts The Purge on the Wandenreich, and she sees beams of light engulfing her fellow Quincies, Liltotto immediately throws her body in the line of fire and physically shoves Giselle into the cave, narrowly avoiding an Auswahlen beam and directly saving Giselle's life.
- Related to above, when she sees other Quincies dying to the Auswahlen, she's fucking enraged. Yhwach's betrayal is the reason she finally chooses to defect.
- On a smaller note, she could have chosen to kill Meninas after Pepe brainwashed her, but instead she spares Meninas who then goes on to help a wounded Candice. She claims it was to prevent more losses on their side, but her actions right after (e.g. saving Giselle) show that she just didn't want her comrades to die and her loyalty is to them, not to the empire.
- In the novels, she completely disagrees with Gremmy's imprisonment, finding it needlessly cruel to jail someone for the possibility of being a danger to others. She takes it upon herself to visit Gremmy, talk to him like normal, treat him like a normal person, willingly becoming Gremmy's Only Friend. Once she learns what happened to Gremmy, she is genuinely upset.
- The light novels also make clear Liltotto actually does care a great deal over her fellow female Sternritter, including Bambietta, and when Bambietta's PTSD kicks in and she begs for help, Liltotto actually does help, even if she does grumble about it.
Picky People Eater: Played With. Liltotto eats people indiscriminately in combat for pragmatic reasons, but it seems that a person's personality greatly affects the taste. Pepe and the nameless Shinigami tasted disgusting. Ruddbon's Calaveras had no taste and parts of Loly's Resureccion tasted "unnecessarily spicy" but still good.
Poison Is Corrosive: The poison she produces from digesting Loly's Resurrección is able to melt everything it touches away.
Poisonous Person: After digesting parts of Loly's Resurrección, Liltotto gains the ability to produce poison.
Poisoned Weapon: She likewise is able to coat her arrows with said poison.
Possession Implies Mastery: The Glutton has the secondary ability to allow Liltotto to instinctively understand and master every ability it absorbs.
Power Perversion Potential: Defied. Liltotto is disgusted by Pepe's Schrift and does not want to abuse it like he did.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Gives one to Pepe right before eating him.
"... Dude, you damn well tried to kill us all. At the very least, you gotta... take responsibility, y'know?"
Rage Against the Heavens: What she screams to Yhwach after his outright callous treatment of the Sternritters still fighting on his behalf below the Soul Palace. Afterwards, she, Bazz-B, and Gissele ally with the Soul Reapers to take him down.
"What the... What the hell is the meaning of this... Your Majesty... Just what... JUST WHAT WERE WE TO YOU??!!"
Rain of Arrows: She is the only Quincy despite Uryu who displayed the ability Licht Regen. In the novels Liltotto combines this ability with the poison she absorbed from Loly to basically create a rain of acid.
Regenerating Mana: Everything she devours with her Schrift allows Liltotto to recover Reiryoku.
Required Secondary Powers: The ability of The Glutton to use any power Liltotto absorbs would be rather useless, if it doesn't allow the user to understand how it works, which it thankfully does.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Don't let her young appearance fool you. Liltotto is a potty-mouth.
The Stoic: Zig-zagged in the manga, in which she begins as a Perpetual Smiler, only to develop her stoic persona later on. Played straight in the anime, where she is monotone and serious from her introduction. Unlike her quirkier mates, Lilotto displays little emotion, keeping calm even in rougher situations, such as Ichigo turning out to be stronger than reported in the Daten, and when she confronts Pepe after he betrays her and Meninas. The only thing that makes Liltotto react emotionally is Yhwach's betrayal.
The Strategist: Apparently serves this position among the female Sternritters. She's the only one who appears to really care for any sort of true strategy, keeps her cool when Candice is losing it, lacks the physical strength of Meninas or Giselle's unique fighting abilities, and overall is the one who appears to prefer fighting in a group rather than separately against stronger enemies.
The Super Ego: Of the remaining female Sternritter. She is much more rational than Giselle or Bambietta.
Team Killer: She ate Pepe alive for trying to kill her and Meninas.
This Is Gonna Suck: When she realizes Meninas has been mind-controlled by Pepe and is powering up to attack her, she responds with a grim "Aw shit..." before being decked across the face.
Token Good Teammate: She's one of the very few Sternritter who isn't either a psychopath, amoral, or vicious, only having a foul mouth and a disturbing power. Fittingly, she becomes the nominal leader of the Quincy survivors after the war ends, as she's the most stable, moral, and reasonable of all of them.
Tranquil Fury: She's surprisingly calm when she encounters Pepe again, plainly telling him he needs to take responsibility for his actions... all while slowly changing her mouth to its giant fangs in preparation for eating him.
Troll: Bambietta accused Liltotto of sneaking the group away from her behind her back just to screw with her.
Tsundere: Liltotto claims that Giselle should leave her alone, but actually wants her around. When she saved the remnants of the Jagdarmee in Hueco Mundo, she claimed that it was only so that they would not get in her way, when it was actually gratitude and compassion. Giselle lampshades it both times and calls her out on her true emotions.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: After Bambietta's loss against Komamura, Liltotto and the other female Sternritter gather around her. As Giselle is about to kill Bambietta, Candice and Meninas are quite unnerved about what is about to happen, Liltotto just stares away, with a bored expression, while eating an ice-stick, as if nothing unusual would happen.
Vitriolic Best Buds: She constantly bickers with the other female Sternritter and insults them, but at the end of the day, they are true companions and Liltotto would do everything to ensure their safety.
Villainous Glutton: While she is more of a jerk than evil, she has no problems devouring Shinigami and notes that no matter how much she eats, she is still hungry.
Was It All a Lie?: She asks Yhwach what they were to him after he decides to sacrifice the Sternritter left behind in Seireitei for the Auswählen.
Whip Sword: One of her Vollständig techniques revealed in the anime is Spife, in which she unfurls one of her teeth-like bracelets to use as a bladed whip.

H - Bazzard Black

Bazzard "Bazz-B" Black

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^Vollständig

"If you've got no problem with some dude coming out of nowhere and taking what ought to be yours, then I'll go and take it for myself!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed crossbow

Vollständig: Unnamed

Schrift: H - The Heat

Voiced by: Yuki Ono (JP), Xander Mobus (EN)

Sternritter "H" of "The Heat". A passionate man with a fierce temper and a cocky attitude, he's not afraid to speak his mind, even to those with established authority.

He primarily fights through various forms of the "Burner Finger" technique, by focusing spirit particles and energy around him as flames. He also possesses a Quincy Cross that manifests as a pistol-crossbow.

Adaptation Dye-Job: In the digital colored scans, his hair is portrayed as pink. However, the cover of chapter 640 gives him bright red hair instead.
An Arm and a Leg: When he attempts to use Burner Finger 4 on Haschwalth, his right arm gets chopped off with the attack still active.
Animal Motifs: He is often compared to a bird of prey and slightly resembles one. He is even named after the buzzard, a bird of prey.
All for Nothing: Bazz-B vowed that he and Haschwalth would become the strongest Quincies. When his family was killed by Yhwach, he vowed to avenge them. He is defeated by Haschwalth without ever having succeeded in either avenging his family or becoming the strongest Quincy.
Apologetic Attacker: He takes out four of the top seats of the Third Division brutally. Then he pulls off his hood and apologizes, stating his orders are to kill them all.
Berserk Button: Talk shit about him all you want, but do not insult his mohawk. He almost thought he found a kindred spirit in Renji since he found his eyebrows to be awesome, until the latter made fun of his hair.
Best Served Cold: Yhwach burned down his home and killed his family. He trained to become strong enough to earn Yhwach's trust so that he could eventually get close enough to Yhwach to kill him.
Birds of a Feather: He gets along with Renji pretty well, not surprisingly, since they are both rebellious, hot-headed punks with a backstory of a friend leaving them.
Blue Blood: Bazz-B used to be the son of Quincy nobles, which alongside his talent made him believe to be a prodigy.
Calling Your Attacks: One of the few Quincies who do that, not that he has to worry about it backfiring.
Character Development: Most notably in his behavior around Yhwach. Bazz-B initially joined the Wandenreich in order to kill him to avenge his family. But come present time and his plans had changed. When the Wandenreich invaded for the first time, he even admitted that he was just following orders. While he has no problems speaking against Yhwach or questioning his decisions, it is quite a far cry from his desire to kill him 1000 years ago. Bazz-B was genuinely surprised that Yhwach would perform the Auswählen upon the Sternritter. When he decides to kill Yhwach out of revenge, it is not for what he did to his family, but for performing the Auswählen and killing the Sternritter. Something happened during the first war 1000 years ago that made Bazz-B abandon his plans and become more loyal. And while they didn't exactly repair their friendship, Bazz-B was rather civil with Haschwalth and called him Jugo again.
The Coats Are Off: He takes off his coat after it is ruined by Hitsugaya. Once it's off his back, while he indicates that he's not going to go all out, he becomes significantly more dangerous and the fight takes a very grim turn as a result.
Curb-Stomp Battle: In less than a minute, he demolishes Kira's torso and arm, slams Katakura and Gori's heads to the ground, and cuts Togakushi down after appearing behind him.
Deadpan Snarker: Bazz-B is quite sarcastic. He tells Captain Hitsugaya that he believes the two of them would be a "good match" because his fire will melt his ice. He gets a kick out of addressing how Cang Du lost to Hitsugaya after saying he was gonna beat the kid.
Delinquent Hair: Bazz-B keeps his red hair in a long mohawk, adding to his skinhead-like look. After the first attack on Seireitei, his Mohawk was damaged and is now more unkempt and slightly damaged.
Did You Actually Believe...?: When Yhwach chooses Haschwalth over Bazz-B, Haschwalth suggests Yhwach's chosen the wrong child. Yhwach asks Bazz-B if he really believed that his powers were swelling through personal talent and "genius". Yhwach claims that Bazz-B is impotent, his power boosted solely because Haschwalth gave him power.
"You, the red-haired boy over there, tell me... I'm sure you felt your own powers swelling daily, just by being in this young man's presence. Did you... really believe this was due to your own prowess and abilities? You ought to be kneeling before this kind soul... this prodigy who fostered and nurtured the impotent you.
Enemy Mine: When Renji and Rukia get angry at Uryu for joining the Wandenreich, he admits the Sternritter are angry too and offers to help them kill him. Renji and Rukia aren't impressed. Later, he, along with the other survivors of Yhwach's Auswählen, agrees to a temporary alliance with the Soul Reapers in order to kill their former Emperor.
Evil Counterpart: While evil is a stretch, Bazz-B's relationship and backstory with Yhwach and Haschwalth mirrors the one Renji has with Rukia and Byakuya. Bazz-B is what Renji could have been, if Rukia were adopted by someone like Aizen instead of Byakuya. They even have rather similar personalities and tastes in fashion - or rather, Bazz-B thought they did until Renji pushed his Berserk Button.
Fiery Redhead: Technically Fiery Pinkhead, but he still checks all the boxes: Warm-colored hair, fire-based abilities, fierce temper, and a Hot-Blooded disposition.
Finger Poke of Doom: He uses fire-based attacks by pointing fingers at the enemy; the number of fingers he uses determines both the type of technique and the strength of his attack. Burner Finger 1 shoots a single beam of flame from his index finger. Burner Finger 2 performs a searing slash attack with his index and middle finger. Burner Finger 3 summons lava from his index, middle and ring fingers that can reduce men to bones in seconds. Burner Finger 4 uses everything but his thumb to create a giant flaming sword. Burning Full Fingers uses all five fingers to create a massive tornado of fire that incinerates everything in his path.
Finishing Stomp: He killed a downed Soul Reaper by crushing his skull under his boot.
Flaming Sword: Pointing all of his fingers except his thumb forward, Bazz-B generates Burner Finger 4, a large sword out of fire with an elongated crossguard attached to his hand, which creates a massive explosion when swung. It also proves sharp enough to slice through buildings with ease.
Foreshadowing: When Rukia and Renji find out that Uryuu was with Yhwach, Bazz-B asks if they don't like that their friend became an enemy. This would foreshadow Bazz-B's own relationship with Haschwalth later.
Friendly Enemy: While fighting Renji and Rukia he apparently got chummy enough with them that they are on a first-name basis afterwards. Renji was notably worried about him when Bazz-B got hit by the Auswählen. When he and the left behind Sternritter team up with the Shinigami they again interact with Renji and Rukia the most.
Graceful Loser: After his defeat against Haschwalth he admits that losing against him doesn't feel as bad as he thought.
Green-Eyed Monster: One of the reasons for his fallout with Haschwalth was Bazz-B's inability to accept that Haschwalth was chosen into Yhwach's inner circle instead of him and that Haschwalth was the true prodigy.
Heel–Face Turn: He joins the Soul Reapers up to the Royal Palace in order to defeat Yhwach, but only up to getting there in the first place. Once he, Liltotto, and Giselle are there, they quickly break off to attack Yhwach and Haschwalth on their own.
Hot-Blooded: Bazz-B is a hot-headed, harsh young man. He's not afraid to speak out against something troubling him, even if it defies authority to do so. He's normally quite calm, but when his temper's taken a hit, he'll turn very emotional, and it damn-near got him killed several times over.
House Fire: Thanks to Yhwach, Bazz-B had the pleasure of watching his family and residence burn.
Irony: His entire life is haunted by a series of these. As a child he was hailed as a genius, while Haschwalth was seen as talentless. Many years later it turns out that Haschwalth is a special Quincy with the ability to give powers, while Bazz-B's progress was only thanks to Haschwalth. Bazz-B's entire life was ruined through a fire. His Schrift would later end up fire-based. Haschwalth would eventually betray Bazz-B for Yhwach and become his right-hand man, something Bazz-B originally planned for himself. When he decides to fight Haschwalth in Wahrwelt, Haschwalth would defeat him with the very swordsman skills he learned and improved so hard for Bazz-B's sake. After Cang Du was defeated by Hitsugaya, Bazz-B would taunt him, that, even though Cang Du insisted on taking the fight, he still lost. What were Liltotto's words after Bazz-B lost against Haschwalth?
I Shall Taunt You: Chastises Cang Du for losing to Hitsugaya after he insisted on being the one to fight him.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Hitsugaya's new attack is used to pierce through Bazz-B's body and flatten him into a wall. Bazz-B makes a big show of how it only succeeds in ruining his coat.
Jerkass: Bazz-B isn't exactly the friendliest or nicest guy around. He's a Hot-Blooded individual who regularly picks fights with his own comrades, is openly violent at numerous points, and in battle against the Soul Reapers is a ruthless, and oftentimes cruel and taunting individual. He is also willing to shoot his own allies down if it means he can get ahead in the game.
Just Following Orders: He states the reason he's killing Soul Reapers is that the order he received was to kill them all.
Kill Steal: He claims his motive for shooting down Candice and her group is because a latecomer to battle has the right to steal their prey for himself. However, he complained about Cang Du doing this to him and isn't pleased when other Sternritter turn this logic on him.
Leeroy Jenkins: His response to Haschwalth not being chosen as the Emperor's successor is to angrily storm towards Yhwach's throne room without much of a second thought. Haschwalth stops him... only for Bazz-B to (attempt to) lash out at him after figuring that Haschwalth was too submissive to Yhwach.
Magma Man: By pointing three of his fingers, Bazz-B creates Burner Finger 3 which upgrades The Heat from a fire stream to lava that can melt anything.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After surviving Yhwach's Auswählen, Bazz-B makes the decision to help out the Soul Reapers if it means he can get into close enough proximity to Yhwach to avenge his attempt to abandon and kill him.
Moral Myopia: Yhwach ordered the Bankai-stealers to fight their original Soul Reaper opponents. Bazz-B defies this order to take on Hitsugaya before Cang Du can find him and criticizes Cang Du for stealing the fight right back when he later arrives. Later, Bazz-B attempts to Kill Steal Ichigo from Candice and her group, claiming it's a right any latecomer to battle is allowed to have. He's annoyed again when other Sternritter promptly arrive and pull that logic on him.
Not Quite Dead:
- Hitsugaya believes he's won the fight when he impales Bazz-B with ice and so do all the watching shinigami who cheer his victory. However, Bazz-B's special cloak deflects most of the blow. Once he gets out of the rubble, the fight's back on.
- When Yhwach hits a Quincy directly with the Light of Auswählen, that Quincy dies immediately. Bazz-B is hit directly with the Light. He somehow survives, losing only his Vollständig.
Oh, Crap!: Several throughout the series:
- When he couldn't melt Hitsugaya's thin ice and was then pierced by it.
- When Gremmy decides to cut loose and drop a freaking asteroid on all of Seireitei. Combined with a hysterical Dude, Not Funny! Though to Bazz-B's credit, everyone was freaking out when they saw it - even Haschwalth rushed off several Soldat to protect Yhwach from it.
- When he's engulfed by Yhwach's Auswählen.
- During the flashback when he runs into Yhwach himself, where planned on killing him by sneaking into the army ranks and making himself strong enough to fight him. The meeting happened too soon.
Older Than They Look: Despite looking to be a young adult, Bazz-B's flashback about him and Haschwalth's life indicate it was prior to the Yhwach's first invasion of Soul Society, making him significantly older than his appearance would suggest.
Only Known by Their Nickname: He introduces himself via his nickname and that's the only appellation anyone ever uses when referring to him. His name is actually Buzzard Black, and the only time it ever gets used is when Haschwalth yells at Bazz-B to try and make him stop fighting him.
Parental Abandonment: He lost his parents at a young age thanks to Yhwach.
Playing with Fire: Bazz-B's Schrift is called 'The Heat'. By manipulating the Reishi in the air, he can generate flames from his hands to throw fire at his opponents. It is also how he was able to prevent himself, Äs Nödt and NaNaNa from getting roasted by Yamamoto's Shikai. Considering how powerful Yamamoto and Ryukin Jakka are, this display of ability is very impressive. Bazz-B claims his flames are hot enough to melt Hitsugya's ice, and can manipulate his flames to slash through the ice, which he does to easily beat Hitsugya.
Secretly Selfish: In his backstory, despite declaring that he and Haschwalth would work together to kill Yhwach, Bazz-B was ultimately determined to make sure that he and only him, would be the one to end Yhwach's life. When Haschwalth was determined to be the successor (a position he didn't even want at the time), he tried to get Yhwach to choose Bazz-B instead, but throughout the revelations that followed, Bazz-B just shot Haschwalth a long, continuous Death Glare whilst lying prone on the ground.
Spectacular Spinning: His Burning Full Fingers fires beams from all five fingers which twirl into a massive tornado of fire.
Stock Shōnen Hero: As a kid Bazz-B thought and behaved like a typical Shonen protagonist, wanting to become the "Strongest Quincy" around. In a twist, however, Bazz-B would grow up to become an antagonist, thanks to Yhwach destroying his life by killing his parents and burning his home, and ultimately devote his life more towards revenge, and later on, the cause of ending the Soul Reapers. His personality and circumstances can ultimately be seen as a bit of a deconstruction of the concept, clarified in Secretly Selfish, along with the fact that he is nowhere near the leagues of power or intelligence required to be part of the Schutzstaffel.
The Quincy Punk: Bazz-B dresses like a punk and is a rather violent and anti-authoritarian individual. Bonus points for being a Quincy, making him a literal Quincy Punker.
To Be a Master: As a child he made it his goal to be the strongest Quincy ever together with Haschwalth. He remembers this as he collapses after his fight with Haschwalth.
Rage Against the Heavens: Bazz-B's family was burned by Yhwach when he was young. Ever since, he harbored a desire of vengeance for the Quincy Emperor. Yhwach is the son of a Transcendent Being and is worshiped as a god by the Quincy. He joined his personal guard, the Sternritter, with strict purpose of getting close enough to Yhwach to kill him. Sometime between his joining the Wandenreich and the start of the series, Bazz-B seemed to have let go of his desire for revenge and become loyal to Yhwach. However this feeling of loyalty would only be temporary as his hatred would be reignited. When he's hit by Yhwach's Auswählen he calls out to the Quincy King demanding an explanation for his betrayal. He, Gissele and Liltotto join up with the Soul Reapers in order to kill Yhwach, who has killed and replaced his father as the Soul King.
Team Killer: He shoots down Candice and her group so he can take the credit for killing their opponents. Nevertheless, they all get right back up anyway, and Liltotto chides him for thinking Burner Finger 1 (even a Vollständig-enhanced one) is enough to even slow them down. Later, he used the same attack on NaNaNa.
Tragic Dream: His goal to become the strongest Quincy ever becomes a representation of his broken friendship with Haschwalth. As Haschwalth leaves him defeated, Bazz-B can only remember the dream they never achieved.
We Used to Be Friends: Bazz-B and Haschwalth met as young children in the forest. When their families were destroyed, they lived and trained together for five years until they met Yhwach. At that point, Yhwach deliberately interfered with their bond, favouring Haschwalth and dismissing Bazz-B. When Bazz-B and Haschwalth fight, Bazz-B's words and thoughts are focused entirely on how their friendship has fallen apart.

I - Cang Du

Cang Du

"The ones who lived together should die together. That's my style."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed wrist-claws

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: I - The Iron

Voiced by: Ryo Kuratomi (JP), Landon McDonald (EN)

Sternritter "I" of "The Iron". He initially seems stoic, but is very talkative when he gets going. He's not pantheistic, and thus doesn't believe that Bankai have souls or wills of their own.

His Quincy cross manifests as a pair of wrist-mounted claws. His ability allows him to harden his skin like iron, making him very difficult to damage.

Arbitrary Skepticism: Even though it's hardly the most fantastical element of the world he lives in, Cang Du does not believe that Zanpakuto have souls, and goes so far as to say he doesn't believe in pantheism.
Chrome Champion: His Schrift allows him to make his skin metallic to resist damage.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers an off-screen one to Rangiku Matsumoto, he found her wandering and managed to stab her just around her collarbone area and throws her next to Hitsugaya.
Defiant to the End: Unlike BG9's pleas on the principle of still being useful, Cang Du takes his execution rather gracefully, loudly declaring that he would rather die at the hands of Yhwach than Haschwalth. The Iron blocks Haschwalth from piercing him... the first time. Once Haschwalth bypasses it, Cang Du doesn't react quite as well as he did initially.
Dirty Coward: An implied example. During the second invasion, he only arrives to fight Hitsugaya after Bazz-B had basically won the fight, and he right away uses Yhwach's orders to get Bazz to back down when Bazz pushes back. What makes this stick out is that he was clearly strong enough to fight Hitsugaya already, and he easily defeated Rangiku off-screen, yet only gets involved when Bazz is about to finish off Hitsugaya. Combined with how he basically uses the fight against Hitsugaya to wax about his views, it is implied that Cang didn't want to face Hitsugaya, and was fine letting someone else do it. Notably, after he loses Daiguren Hyorinmaru, he basically has a Villainous Breakdown and struggles to fight back, reinforcing the idea.
Discard and Draw: Lost the ability to use Vollständig when he stole Hitsugaya's Bankai, but regains use of it after the Bankai is returned.
Face Death with Dignity: He was ready to killed by Yhwach and accepted his demise without a comment. Until Haschwalth tried to kill him that is.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: A small vertical scar across his lip is one of his most distinguishing features.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Haschwalth slices the right half of his body (but not his head) when Yhwach puts him up for death row upon losing to Hitsugaya.
Hammerspace: We have no idea how he managed to bust out a full-bodied Rangiku from his cloak.
Hoist by His Own Petard: When he uses Daiguren Hyorinmaru for the second time, he spends the time to monologue about his philosophies instead of killing Hitsugaya immediately, thereby leading to Urahara's Hollowfication pills to transfer Daiguren Hyourinmaru back to its rightful owner.
Honor Before Reason: He had a chance to kill Hitsugaya and Matsumoto, but he admits that he's reluctant to do so because he doesn't like the idea of using Hyorinmaru against its original owner. This coming from a man who doesn't believe Hyorinmaru has a soul.
An Ice Person: The Sternritters have a medallion that allows them steal a Soul Reaper's Bankai. The one he stole was Hitsugaya's Bankai, Daiguren Hyorinmaru, which gives him control over ice.
In the Hood: Wears a hood that masks his features until Chapter 505.
Not Quite Dead: Thought he died when Hitsugaya froze him? Nope, he survived thanks to his Vollständig.
Not So Stoic: He has a shocked and panicked expression on his face when Haschwalth uses his Schrift to bypass his own during his execution.
Off with His Head!: Executed this way by Haschwalth.
Oh, Crap!: When Hitsugaya fully regains his Bankai and freezes him into an enormous cross of ice. And then during his execution, he has another one when Haschwalth uses his Schrift to bypass Cang Du’s own Schrift.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Bazz-B. He's calm, quiet and obedient, contrasting Bazz-B's more gun-ho personality.
Super-Toughness: Cang's Schrift is called 'The Iron'. The Iron hardens his skin to such an extent that it makes it very difficult for even powerful swords to cut him. However, Haschwalth bypasses this with a power that's designed to redress the balance.
The Stoic: He is a man of few words and rarely talks. Notably, he's the only Sternritter who doesn't show any visible reaction when Uryu is appointed Yhwach's successor when the Sternritter talked about the arrival of Uryu, his only contribution to the discussion was silence.
Talking Is a Free Action: A rare case where this works against him. When he decides to speak to Hitsugaya, he wastes so much time conducting a monologue about his philosophies that it leads to him getting affected by Urahara's Hollowfied Bankai strategy.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: An inversion, as he would rather die by Yhwach's hands than be killed by anyone else.
Together in Death: He comments that he believes those who have bonds in life should die together, even if he has to drag partners he's defeated in separate locations back to the same location before killing them. Cue him dropping an unconscious and wounded Matsumoto next to Hitsugaya.
Undying Loyalty: He is so loyal to Yhwach that he has no problems to be killed by him. Being killed by Haschwalth on the other hand...
Wolverine Claws: Using his Quincy abilities to absorb and utilize Reishi, Cang can generate a pair of four-clawed gauntlets on his wrists. Pushing them together creates a snake-shaped aura, but he didn't get a chance to use it before he was beaten.

J - Quilge Opie

Quilge Opie

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^Vollständig

"Each time I witness my victims struggling in vain, the same thought occurs to me anew: 'Can the death of the weak be so truly a wretched sight?' It hurts to watch. Hurry up and die."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed saber

Vollständig: Biskiel

Schrift: J - The Jail

Voiced by: Kōichi Yamadera (JP), Xander Mobus (EN)

Sternritter "J" of "The Jail". The nasty Executive Hunting Captain of the first "Jagdarmee" division, he is tasked with capturing and subjugating Arrancars into the Wandenreich. Just prior to the invasion, Emperor Yhwach himself entrusted Opie to stall Ichigo and keep him from returning to the Soul Society. Long story short, he pretty much succeeded.

As "the Jail", his forte is in creating Reishi cages capable of holding anything within them save for other Quincies. His Quincy cross manifests as an ornate military saber which can be used as a normal sword or fire arrows from the blade. His Vollständig is named Biskiel.

Adaptational Nice Guy: Unlike in the manga, Quilge doesn't execute his own men in the anime (though he still doesn't lift a finger to help them fight the Tres Bestia, either), and when he thinks that his subordinates treated Loly and Menoly too roughly, he tells them to cut it out.
Amazing Technicolor Population: In the digital colored scans, after absorbing Ayon with his Sklaverei, his normal skin tone acquires an almost pale blue pigmentation, making him more unnerving.
Ax-Crazy: Even among the other Sternritter, Quilge is particularly deranged. He is cruel and violent, killing Arrancars for little to no reason. He's sent to Hueco Mundo to recruit Arrancar, but instead spends his time murdering them in gruesome ways.
Arrancar: Will... will I live if I say that I will join you right away?
Opie: [kills the Arrancar] OOK! That's not how it works! You will have to undergo an admission test! And this test is what will give you the chance to apply! Anyone that didn't understand what I just explained will end like this! [stabs another Arrancar] Like this. Like this. [stabs two more]
Subordinate A: Is the captain really going to collect any Arrancars?
Opie: [still stabbing in the background] You're gonna diiieee!
Subordinate B: Of course he's not.
Bad Boss: Quilge is violently deranged, killing people at the drop of a hat. These homicidal tendencies even extend to the Quincies under his command. When one of his underlings tried to run away as the unit was slaughtered by three fraccions, he butchered the guy. His callousness was enough to silence Apacci, Sung-Sun and Mila Rose (who never had to deal with that from Harribel).
Berserk Button: The notion that the Wandenreich fear Bankai (or anything at all) seems to be this for him, given his reaction to Ichigo implying it.
Blade Below the Shoulder: After fusing with Ayon, his Reishi Sword becomes a pata-esque blade-gauntlet that encases his arm up to the elbow. Even before this, when in Vollstandig his sword’s hilt appears to grow to envelop his hand, though it’s hard to see due to his tendency to obscure his sword-arm with his wings.
Blood Knight: Quilge is one of the most bloodthirsty of the Sternritter, and enjoys fighting against a challenging enemy. His enthusiastic praise of Apacci, Sung-Sun and Mila Rose for demolishing his soldiers shows that he also tries to encourage the attitude in friend and foe alike.
Body Horror: When he is in Vollstandig, Quilge has an ability called Sklaverei. It allows him to use the Reishi absorbing ability of all Quincies to its logical extreme. He is able to completely enslave Reishi and steal it away from others. It also gives him the physical traits of whoever he absorbed. After absorbing Ayon, his left arm swells up, his teeth protrude such his face looks like a skull, and Ayon's eyes become attached to his Vollständig's wings. He doesn't like it either, complaining that he's been "tainted with evil".
Cool Shades: Very cool - they even have a radio built into them to communicate with Silbern. Considering Hueco Mundo is always in perpetual nightfall, also counts as Sunglasses at Night.
Determinator: He will not stop until he completes his instructions. He catches a Zanpakuto bare-handed after it decapitated two of his subordinates, demolishes three lieutenant-level Fraccions at the same time, negates a point-blank Getsuga Tensho, tanks a beatdown from Ayon, and survives a shot from Urahara's Benihime. Even Yhwach delivers praise to his abilities.
Disproportionate Retribution: Quilge is a mentally deranged individual who will react violently over the smallest of reasons. He stabs right through an Arrancar, killing him instantly, just for asking to join the Wandenreich without waiting his turn. He also blows off one of his men's head for retreating from Harribel's Fraccion.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: Quilge is the Executive Hunting Captain of the First Jadgarmee, and is tasked with forcibly recruiting Arrancar into the Wandenreich. His way of recruiting Arrancar involves continuously stabbing them to death until someone decides to fight.
Evil Brit: The dub provides him with a mostly British accent to portray his snootiness.
Even Evil Has Standards: Though he is merciless with the Arrancar he disapproves of, when he thinks his subordinates (who were attacked by the Tres Bestias) killed Loly and Menoly (who approved his recruitment test and were deemed worthy to serve the Wandenreich) he appears to be slightly mad.
Evil Is Hammy: Especially in the anime (thanks to the voice acting provided by Kōichi Yamadera), Quilge sounds more bombastic and grandiloquent when he gives his speeches.
Exotic Eye Designs: When powered up from absorbing Ayon into himself, his eyes transform to look like the eyeballs are covered by gaol bars.
Faux Affably Evil: In the Japanese version, he talks in polite speech when addressing his opponents and talking about the horrible things he plans to do.
Flunky Boss: At the beginning of his encounter with Ichigo, Opie summons three of his soldiers◊ to take him on. All three are beaten easily.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Though in a much different way than Szayelaporro. He wears small, round, tinted glasses, and is a nasty, ruthless Sternritter.
Foreshadowing: When Opie absorbed Ayon, he said "I didn't want to use it if possible, for it corrupts my holy wings". Several dozen chapters later, we find out that Quincies can actually get poisoned, or corrupted, by Hollow energy, hence why they hunt Hollows.
Half the Man He Used to Be: He's finally stopped after being sliced vertically by Grimmjow.
Holy Halo: His One-Winged Angel gives him one. He lost it shortly thereafter - thanks to Ichigo figuring out it was his weak spot - along with some of the traces of Ayon that he gained when he absorbed it.
Implacable Man: This man will not die! Even after Urahara blows a hole in his chest and assumes him dead, he persists in keeping Ichigo from leaving Hueco Mundo. It took getting sliced vertically in half to finally take him down.
The Jailer: His Schrift, "The Jail", allows him to construct prisons made from Reishi that can forcibly close gateways between dimensions and imprison opponents. Once they are trapped, their presence is sealed off from the outside, their Reiatsu can not be detected, and they will not be able to be heard from the other side. The strength of these cages is such that not even a point-blank, Bankai-enhanced Getsuga Tenshō from Ichigo was able to break it, and they will continue to exist even if Quilge dies. Ichigo does eventually manage to break it, but this is because he is part-Quincy and even then it took him a spectacular amount of effort to do it. Yhwach later explains that the Jail was never meant to be used on other Quincys, which is why Ichigo was able to eventually break free.
Jerkass: Even among the Sternritter, Quilge is barbaric, nasty, arrogant, and dangerously homicidal. If an Arrancar wants to join the Wandenreich, he wants them to kneel down and lick his boots, but when they actually try to join peacefully, he butchers them anyway. When one of the few survivors suggests retreating, Opie kills him immediately. The guy definitely follows Yhwach's example.
Kick Them While They Are Down: He ordered his subordinates to beat up two Numeros after they were already unconscious.
Knight Templar: Quilge views Arrancar as filthy, sinful creatures. He sees himself as a righteous man enacting justice by brutally slaughtering the Arrancar. His Quincy: Vollstandig, Biskiel, is aptly translated as the "Justice of God".
Large Ham: The thing that sets Quilge apart from his Emperor, whose example of outlandish cruelty he otherwise follows to the letter, is that Yhwach is merciless and to the point with his brutality whereas Quilge plays up and enjoys every single second of it. Xander Mobus specifically plays him as a bombastic, grandiose Evil Brit to deliver this trope to its very hilt.
Lovecraftian Superpower: Quilge has an ability called Sklaverei, which enslaves Reishi. He is able to use this to completely absorb the essence of a spiritual being, while taking their physical traits in the process. He rips the flesh from Ayon and absorbs it into himself, giving him enhanced strength and a monstrous appearance.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: In the English dub, Xander Mobus gives a performance very reminiscent of Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob.
No-Sell: A fairly clever example. He can't seal Ichigo's Bankai, so he has no way of intimidating Ichigo (or Urahara) in the same way he did to his previous enemies.
Not Quite Dead: Though Urahara shoots him with a blast from Benihime when his guard was down, Quilge uses Ransōtengai to force his body to continue moving so he can trap Ichigo with the Jail, and wound Orihime, Chad, and Urahara. Urahara even semi-lampshades this issue by commenting that he should have known better.
Not So Stoic: He slowly but surely begins to lose his cool as Ichigo's Bankai allows him to gain an edge against Quilge, culminating in him angrily denying Ichigo's claim that the Wandenreich's repeated attempts to steal his Bankai prove that Quincies fear Bankai.
Oh, Crap!: He wasn't expecting that shot from Urahara, nor was he expecting the subsequent explosion that sliced him in half.
One-Winged Angel: He introduces the Vollständig form, explaining that it removes the drawbacks of the Letzt Stil that had previously cost Uryu his powers. His own Vollständig becomes much more monstrous after he absorbs Ayon, which he complains has tainted has wings with evil.
People Puppets: Manages to force himself back to his feet by using Ransoutengai, much like Ishida did against Mayuri, right after Urahara blasts a hole through his chest.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the Captain of the Jagdarmee, a special unit of dedicated Arrancar hunters, he's the strongest soldier in that group - topped off by the fact that he's a Sternritter, and consistently hyped as one of their top fighters just below Yhwach’s Praetorian Guard and Number Two without a complete Story-Breaker Power. Throughout his appearances, he manages to subjugate the remnants of Las Noches, fight evenly with Ichigo and even successfully trap him in one of his cages long enough for Yhwach to raze the Soul Society, take out Ayon (and even absorb it), and damn nearly kills Urahara, Chad and Orihime. Even Yhwach delivers nothing but praise for his abilities, and expresses slight disbelief at reports of his demise.
Secret-Keeper: Most of the Sternritter have no idea who Uryu Ishida is and know nothing about the Ishida family at all. Opie is one of the few confirmed to possess confidential information about both Soken and Uryu. As Soken has been dead for years and Opie still felt the need to clarify which Ishida had been firing arrows around Ichigo, it's implied he knows about Ryuken as well.
Secret Test of Character: An incredibly dark version. He tells captured Hollows and Arrancar that if they submit to him and swear loyalty, he will allow them into the Wandenreich's forces... but kills them if they actually do so. The only ones he really allows to join are the ones with the courage to fight back and the power to put up a decent struggle in doing so.
Serial Escalation: Goes from No Selling a point-blank Getsuga Tensho, to assimilating Ayon into himself.
Slasher Smile: Sports a permanent one after absorbing Ayon. It's borderline Nightmare Face material.
Slouch of Villainy: In his first appearance, he sits on a large chair and rests his chin on his fingers.
Smug Snake: Subverted. He's definitely egotistical and highly arrogant, but he's still a very competent and threatening villain.
Take That!: Based on what he'd seen of the Arrancars, namely Menoly and Loly, he concluded Aizen's choice of subordinates was quite poor.
Undying Loyalty: He's absolutely loyal to Yhwach and the Wandenreich, and will faithfully follow the orders given to him even when he's grievously wounded or if his own life is in peril. Unlike a number of Sternritters who seem to express fear of Yhwach when near death, Quilge instead seems more upset that he isn't able to fulfill his master's requests once it becomes clear he can't steal Tensa Zangetsu.
Villain Respect: In spite of his less than stellar opinion of Arrancars, after seeing the Tres Bestias easily defeating his subordinates, he ends up impressed enough with their strength to offer them join the Wandenreich if they surrender instead of trying to kill them on the spot.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Quilge Opie is the first truly challenging enemy confronted in the Thousand Year Blood War Arc. He gives Ichigo a difficult fight, and is the first Sternritter to display all of the Quincy abilities that will soon make the coming fights more dire than they've ever been before.
Walking Wasteland: Quilge's mastery of Sklaverei allows him to effectively become this, slowly killing people just by standing near them as he absorbs their Reishi. Ichigo quickly puts a stop to it by destroying his halo, after which Quilge commends him for working that out and having the balls to go for it.
We Can Rule Together: Impressed with the power of the Tres Bestias after they defeat his men, he offers them to join the Wandenreich if they surrender, even mentioning that they can keep serving Harribel while working for Yhwach. The Arrancar girls naturally turn down his offer and proceed to fight him, forcing Opie to crush them.
Weak, but Skilled: Compared to many other Sternritters, Quilge lacks the same flat-out overpowered and weird powers that many of them possess, with his only truly unique ability, The Jail, letting him trap people in a difficult-to-escape cage of sorts. Despite this, he's skilled at basically every known Quincy technique, which lets him keep up with Ichigo despite Ichigo having the clear advantage. It says a lot about his skill and versatility that he manages to surprise Urahara of all people and only goes down after literally being cut in half. Kubo later clarified on his website that Quilge was effectively an instructor for the Sternritters, explaining why he's so skilled in various areas.

K - BG9

BG9

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"Life? I had none to begin with."

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Unnamed minigun

Vollständig: Unknown

Schrift: K

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (JP), Aaron LaPlante (EN)

Sternritter "K", masked by a boney helmet. BG9 is calm, rational and generally talks in a calculating, computer-like way, and generally resembles a machine as a result. If he calculates that it'll help him in an interrogation, he will resort to violence and psychological torture.

His Quincy cross manifests as a hefty minigun.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Despite claiming that he has no life, he pleads for Yhwach and Haschwalth not to execute him, pointing out how there's no need to execute soldiers who survived their losses.
Ambiguous Robots: It's not clear if he's a cyborg or entirely robotic.
Awesomeness by Analysis: His brain seems to function like a super-computer. He's nothing but analytical and academic, complete with scientific deductions on psychology and references to various numbers when discussing, say, number of questions asked, family generations, mile radius or Reiatsu percentage. This comes to a head when he sees Sui-Feng's Shunko; just by seeing it in action, he's able to calculate the perfect way to counter it — stabbing her in the wrist.
BFG: Whips one out very quickly when fighting Omaeda. It resembled an enormous, arm-length, ten-barreled minigun, emblazoned with the Wandenreich emblem and made up of the same wires that the rest of his body has. It's broken by Sui-Feng before he can even use it.
Combat Tentacles: He's able to produce long, thin, tendril-like appendages as required, shrouding the armor underneath his cloak. These are powerful enough to destroy concrete walls, skewer unsuspecting people and disembowel his victims if he removes them after impalement.
Cool Helmet: He has a vaguely skeletal knight-like helmet with two slits on both sides that hint at a single, glowing eye somewhere inside. Even when he strips down, he doesn't remove the helmet, creating the image of a tank loaded for war due to him being a helmet sitting atop an entire armory. After being hit by Jakuho Raikoben, the helmet partially smashes revealing only blackness within.
Cyber Cyclops: Sui-Feng determines from his mechanical appearance and his claim of never being alive at all that he's actually a robot, and he appears to only have one eye.
Deadpan Snarker: He snarks about the lack of family resemblance between Omaeda and his sister, and contemplates the possibility that Omaeda's silence is due to the linguistic part of his brain disengaging from the shock of seeing his sister impaled.
Dirty Coward: BG9 is a ruthless individual who is willing to go to extreme measures to get what he wants. Even threatening a young girl's life to interrogate her big brother. However, he himself is deeply afraid of death, as shown when he begs for his life when he is about to be executed, giving a paltry excuse to spare his life. This is averted in the anime, where he calmly accepts his death (or at the very least is not given time to beg, given that he still winces at Cang Du's beheading).
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: BG9 interrogates Omaeda for information on Soifon via psychological torture once verbal interrogation fails, ignoring Omaeda claims that he would've spilled the beans by now. He skewers Mareyo through the gut and holds her in the air, casually describing the detail of how she'll die if he allows her to bleed out. He also makes it clear that if Omaeda isn't cooperating by the time his sister is dead, there are three more family members within easy reach that he can start making examples of.
Face Death with Dignity: The anime version of the sentencing does not have him emote, even as he dies shortly after Cang Du.
Glowing Eyes of Doom: Flashes one brightly lit eye after getting pummeled by Sui-Feng. It also seems to be his only eye.
Glowing Mechanical Eyes: He has one single mechanical eye behind the helmet. At one point, a stream of white can be seen coming from it, which could be anything from light to ooze of some kind.
Hoist by His Own Petard: His audio sensors reduced their strength because of the nearby explosions, so he was unable to gain any warning that his stolen Bankai had returned to its rightful owner until she hit him with it.
I Can Still Fight!: His rationalization of why Haschwalth shouldn't execute him for surviving based on pure luck.
Instant Armor: When he tries to attack Sui-Feng with a tendril, she grabs it, pulls it back, lifts him from the ground and throws him onto another building. As he gets up, his coat is gone, almost randomly replaced by a set of armor with so many stud-like missile launchers all over his limbs, waist and shoulders. He still has those tendrils, though.
More Dakka: His Spirit Weapon is a big-ass ten-barreled gatling gun and Sui-Feng's mini-nuke rocket launcher in his weaponry for God's sake! As if it wasn't enough, he's got Combat Tentacles and can call forth an armor filled with mini-missile launchers! This dude does not play around.
Mysterious Past: How exactly an apparent robot/cyborg became a Quincy is never explained. Noticeably, he shares the same fate as Robert Accutrone for never having the name and power of his Schrift revealed.
No Face Under the Mask: Other than that glowing orb, all that we can see under his helmet is a black speck of nothing.
Not So Stoic: He appears to feel genuine shock when he loses his stolen Bankai and sees it's about to be used against him. And again when he and Cang Du are brought before Yhwach for judgement (except in the anime, in which he remains stoic even as he is executed).
Off with His Head!: His ultimate fate in the anime.
Person of Mass Destruction: This dude is packing ballistic missiles all over his body, on top of functioning at the level of all other Sternritter. He is literally a walking armory.
Riddle for the Ages: What the 'K' stands for is never revealed.
Rule of Three: He's willing to repeat a question three times before he changes "the format of the question," which means he'll resort to violence and psychological torture.
The Stoic: He's so calm, composed and rational-minded that he comes across as robotic at times. Even when his face gets hit by a spiked boulder, his only response was that he had two questions to ask of the person who hit him. Hell, even then, his only concern (as shown by the two questions) was not the boulder; it was that Omaeda still would not say where Soifon was. Talk about stone-faced. Subverted when he is about to be executed and starts panicking, only in the manga - the anime has him accept his fate.
Would Hurt a Child: When he calculated that it was "necessary" to get Omaeda to talk, he impaled poor Mareyo as an attempt to make Omaeda reveal where his Captain is. Omaeda takes the blow for her in the anime, however.

L - Pepe Waccabrada

Pepe Waccabrada

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^Vollständig

Species: Quincy

Weapon: The love stick Beshanul and unnamed bow

Vollständig: Gudoero

Schrift: L - The Love

Voiced by: Ryu Yamaguchi (JP), Zeno Robinson (EN)

Sternritter L of "The Love", who usually uses a flying saucer for transportation. He carries around a staff with wings and an eyeball and is capable of controlling others by making them love him, men and women alike. His Vollständig, Gudoero, transforms him into a form similar to Cupid, which enhances his Love abilities and lets him form heart constructs like ropes. His Quincy bow, drawn from his mouth, follows the Cupid theme.

Adaptational Badass: In the anime Kensei defeats him using his Tekken Tachikaze rather than completely bare handed, making Pepe look like a more competent adversary on account of being taken out by a Bankai.
Antagonist Abilities: His Mind Control power makes anyone love him, allowing his enemies to take each other out for him, or to turn an enemy immediately into a friend. Basically, other people do the fighting for him. It works on anything with a heart; he can even control a Zanpakuto and make it attack its wielder.
Asshole Victim: Gets Eaten Alive by Liltotto in retribution for using his power to turn Meninas against her. Considering he's a repulsive Dirty Coward and Team Killer who will even turn his fellow Sternritter against each other just so he can have all the glory, he more than had it coming.
Bald of Evil: His head is devoid of any hair and he's one of the most scummy and nefarious of the Sternritters.
Beard of Evil: He's got a long, long white beard. It's just shy of Yamamoto's in terms of size.
Big Brother Is Watching: He uses his staff to spy on Haschwalth and Bazz-B's conversation. He also hangs out with Askin, watching Gremmy's battle with Kenpachi.
Did Not See That Coming: After the fight with Giselle is over with, he tries to take control of one of Mayuri's zombies, gloating that his power works on Giselle's zombies. He gets beaten up anyway, and Mayuri explains that his zombies can't be affected like hers can.
Dirty Coward: He acts high and mighty when the situation is in his favor, but when Liltotto confronts him to make him pay for using Meninas against her after Kensei pummels him, he pathetically and comically begs for his life before being chomped down by her.
Eaten Alive: He is cornered by Liltotto and attempts to beg for his life. Liltotto points out how he previously used his Schrift on her comrades and tried to kill them. She then uses her power to consume him.
Enemy Civil War: He's not averse to starting fights amongst other Wandenreich members to claim all the glory for himself, taking over Meninas and making her attack Liltotto.
Everyone Has Standards: Not him, but about him. Whenever Pepe gets brought up, be it Shinigami or Quincy, characters voice their disgust over him and his abilities. Even being Mayuri's zombie slave is seen as preferable than being Pepe's love doll.
Fan Disservice: His Vollständig strips away all of his clothing save for his shoes and a speedo. Because he's a Fat Bastard, this isn't exactly a good thing.
Fat Bastard: He is heavily obese, and travels seated on a floating disc. His power involves turning friends and allies against each other; Askin himself called him a "monster" and Meninas finds him gross.
Faux Affably Evil: He's cheerful, but he doesn't hide how much he loves hurting people.
Fallen Cupid: Going with his love-based ability, his Vollstandig gives him the imagery of Cupid with his putto-like appearance and heart-shaped arrow. However, instead of a chubby heavenly winged child who uses his power to create genuine love between people, Pepe is an obese grotesque adult who uses his love to turn others into his slaves and force them to do the dirty work for him, representing the ugliest and toxic side of love and ending up as a twisted parody of the figure.
For the Evulz: Pepe takes a bit of sadistic enjoyment in using his power to cause mayhem. He laughs with glee when uses Jidanbo to destroy the R&D Institute. He'll use his power on anyone, even his own teammates, and make them attack each other for him own amusement.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Calling him a friend would be probably the biggest stretch of the year! All Sternritters hate him.
Hate Sink: Pepe is a repugnant asshole who doesn't give a damn about who he hurts, including his allies. Liltotto murdering him was more than well-deserved.
Hated by All: No one likes Pepe for how gross he is. His death sheds little tears.
Giggling Villain: Most of his first few appearances involved him bellowing out his Signature Laugh.
Glass Cannon: His abilities are powerful enough to give even Byakuya trouble, but his defensive capabilities are highly lacking. If anyone is immune to his power, he has no way to fight them or protect himself from their attacks. Kensei is able to easily incapacitate him as a result.
Glory Hound: Cheerfully remarks it hasn't crossed his mind that he'll get all the glory if he kills everyone else, including all his own comrades who are present.
Heart Beatdown: The evil, male, squicky version. All of his attacks are heart-themed, and it even extends to his speech bubbles.
Jerkass: He's a rude guy who attacks even his own comrades For the Evulz.
Laser-Guided Karma: After pitting his fellow Sternritter against one another, Pepe experiences a Humiliation Conga that includes Byakuya resisting The Love, Mayuri suddenly ambushing him, Meninas and Hisagi (both of which were mind-controlled into Love Dolls) losing to superior opponents, and Pepe himself suffering through a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Kensei. His final fate is to be devoured by Liltotto, the Sternritter whom he tried to control with The Love and had Meninas punch out For the Evulz. It was a well-earned fate.
Laughably Evil: In the anime he speaks in an exaggerated, smarmy way and his fight is played in a much more comedic light, coming across as an amusing opponent compared to the more serious Robert whom Byakuya faced previously.
Love Freak: Just look at his quote above. He even goes into a lengthy speech about why love is the center of conflict and allows one to overcome all obstacles in pursuit of a goal and why he absolutely adores it as a result.
Magic Staff: He carries with him a caduceus-like staff with the appearance of a winged eye called Beshanul (or Love Staff). The center of Beshanul's eye is where Pepe's Quincy Cross is located, making it his Spirit Weapon.
Mind-Control Device: Wields a large staff with an eye on it, which causes people to fall in love with him and fight their comrades over him.
Motor Mouth: After spending only a brief conversation with Askin (his first set of dialogue ever), he devolves into a person that just won't ever stop talking when he's faced by Byakuya.
Narcissist: He embodies the worst aspects of love as a concept, in that he wants everyone to love himself and forces them to attack their comrades for his personal glory. When he sees that there are beings unable to feel his love, he is shocked. He's also a coward at heart, as he begs Liltotto to spare him despite previously having her partner attack her. Liltotto is having none of it.
Not So Stoic: Turns from a laid back and mysterious Giggling Villain into a raving nutjob screaming how pure he is and how amazing his love is. It's quite jarring.
Oh, Crap!: He gets two in Chapter 596; the first when he sees that his power doesn't affect Mayuri's zombies, and the second when he sees Liltotto exude a cold stare at him after he's beaten down by said zombie.
Polyamory: Kind of, in a sick sort of way. He forces people to belong to him with his 'love' and likes stealing as many peoples' hearts as he can.
Powers Do the Fighting: He lets others or his Vollständig fight on his behalf. When someone gets past those, he loses quickly.
Putto: Possibly the concept of his Vollständig form. Unfortunately, he’s an obese adult.
Say It with Hearts: His sentences are usually written like this, to emphasize his powers and overall theme.
Signature Laugh: His presence can be revealed just from the "Geh, geh, geh" that floats into a panel.
Squishy Wizard: The Love is a powerful Schrift that makes anyone touched by the heart-shaped projectiles Pepe summons to fall in love with him to the point of absolute obedience and even fighting beyond one's limits for Pepe's sake. It shows even able to control Zanpakutos as they have a soul, with the only limitation of what The Love can control being souless objects such as rubble or clothes. However, despite the power of his ability, Pepe completely sucks at melee, being easily bested by Kensei in a physical brawl without him even using his Tachikaze to fight.
Sunglasses at Night: He constantly wears a pair of sunglasses obscuring his eyes, even when he's indoors and lurking in shadowy corners. He discards them for his Vollständig.
Team Killer: Pepe is a dishonest man who use his power of love against his own Quincy comrades and have them attack each other. Right after he takes control of Hisagi and makes him attack Byakuya, he suddenly takes control of Meninas and makes her punch Liltotto out. Liltotto returns the favor a few chapters later.
Villains Want Mercy: Beneath his narcissism, Pepe is a coward at heart. Despite trying to brainwash Liltotto and ambushing her with a lovestruck Meninas, Pepe still has the gall to expect she'll go easy on him and futilely shouts for forgiveness as she eats him whole.

M - Gerard Valkyrie (Ṧ)

Gerard Valkyrie

^Vollständig

"At what point did I say this would be a one-on-one fight? In a fair duel, not even a miracle would allow you to defeat me! Come at me together!"

Species: Quincy

Weapon: Hoffnung (shortsword) / Unnamed buckler shield

Vollständig: Aschetonig

Schrift: M - The Miracle

Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (JP), Dave B. Mitchell (EN)

Sternritter "M" of "The Miracle" and one of Yhwach's elite Sternritter the "Schutzstaffel" guard. A large, boisterous man who resembles a Nordic warrior of old. He wears an ornate helmet and cape, and he first appears in the Royal Realm. According to Askin, he is rumored to be the heart of the Soul King.

As the "Miracle", he can absorb any damage inflicted on him, and grow in size, strength and speed proportionate to the damage inflicted (the more powerful the attack, the bigger he gets). In battle, he wields Hoffnung ("Hope"), a double-edged sword normally sheathed within a small buckler shield, able to reflect tenfold any damage it receives. His Vollständig is named Aschetonig, which grants him a pair of large feathery wings, a new helmet and shield, and modifies his sword so that it can fire energy beams.

Achilles' Heel:
- Being the incarnated heart of the Soul King, he possessed his unbelievable abilities right from the start - not because of being granted them by Yhwach. Nevertheless, he still allowed Yhwach to bestow a Schrift upon him in a symbolic capacity - which ended up being what did him in, as having Yhwach's Schrift is precisely what allows him to carry out his Auswählen.
- The Quincy cross found inside his body when cut in half by Kenpachi was later confirmed by Kubo to be the core of his being, meaning destroying it would have killed him. Sadly for the heroes, Gerard's monstrous powers prevent them from getting the chance to do so again.
Adaptational Early Appearance: In the anime, he's present at Uryu's inauguration as Yhwach's successor, unlike the manga, where he debuted more than a year after the corresponding chapter was released.
Adaptive Ability: One of the abilities of his Schrift, 'The Miracle', is to draw power from physical damage. The more damage he takes, the stronger he gets. Getting a beatdown from several opponents allows him to grow into a gigantic size, getting his arm cut off only causes a stronger one to regenerate in its place, and getting bisected from head to toe strengthens his entire body considerably.
Affably Evil: He's fairly laid-back compared to his fellow Sternritter, and acts fairly nice to his comrades - albeit he's slightly a bit of a dick to Askin, the newest member of the Schutzstaffel, and treats him much the same way an employer might treat an intern. In battle, he's also quite sportsman-like. He and Kenpachi bond a bit over their shared love of combat.
Ambiguously Human: Though he is initially presented as a Quincy, the fact that when he is cut in half a Quincy cross can be seen where his body was split, and seemingly reforms around, calls into question if Gerard is even a living being. Given that he is rumored to be the heart of the Soul King, it is entirely possible that Gerard is closer to some kind creation like Gremmy is, or possibly one created through Yhwach giving him a Schrift when he was just the heart of the Soul King, given that he only is beaten when Yhwach has no more use for him. Kubo later confirmed that had Kenpachi been strong enough to destroy the cross, Gerard would have been killed, seemingly confirming that he wasn't a living being like other people within his organization.
Antagonist Abilities: His Schrift is an Adaptive Ability which allows him to get stronger for every time he receives physical damage. The more damage he takes, the more powerful, larger, and faster he gets. Most abilities are thus useless against him, because damage only contributes to his power growth. Even fatal damage or maiming his body doesn't work, because he always reforms Better Than New. He also has no Necessary Drawback from this; his speed, durability, and other physical attributes all increase at the same rate. Both Toshiro and Byakuya categorize his ability as something which "defies reason" because of this. The protagonists never find a way to defeat him, and he instead has his power and life stripped away by Yhwach.
Attack Backfire: Gerard's Spirit Weapon is a sword called Hoffnung. If Hoffnung is damaged in any way, the attacker takes damage. The only way not to is to parry it in such a way that the sword isn't chipped, or freeze it to negate the ability.
Badass Boast: After Renji tries to hold him off by himself, he prevents the other Captains and Lieutenants from walking past just by flaring his cape. He advises the Soul Reapers to attack as a group because no miracles will protect someone who attacks him one-on-one. After The Miracle is in full effect, he boasts himself to be the "greatest, fastest, and strongest" of the Quincy while beating down Kenpachi Zaraki, who is wielding his Shikai and has removed his eyepatch.
Beyond the Impossible: Weaponized. The nature of his Schrift, 'The Miracle' allows Gerard to overcome impossible odds and go beyond the realms of reason. When Hitsugaya overhears what The Miracle can do, he can only conclude that logic does not apply to Gerard's abilities.
BFS: His sword, Hoffnung, is moderately sized in his base form, but when The Miracle is activated, it grows into the size of skyscrapers and becomes durable enough to endure a slash from Nozarashi, which was strong enough to completely obliterate a meteor.
Birds of a Feather: Gerard and Kenpachi get along surprisingly well, even though both are trying to kill each other. They both are brutes who enjoy a good fight above everything. When Hitsugaya tries to intervene in the fight, Kenpachi and Gerard push him aside and shout that this is their fight. Hitsugaya promptly lampshades that the two are like a match made in heaven.
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: He states that his abilities are tied to the "hopes and desires of the masses". Thus, if he gets severely wounded, his strength, size and speed increase due to the masses' "fears". His sword is nigh-indestructible because it represents the masses' "hopes".
Cool Mask: He wears a mask modeled after Nordic warriors, shaped in the form of a winged helmet that covers the upper half of his face.
Cool Sword: His sword is kept sheathed in his shield, where only the hilt and a star at the centre of its quillon is visible. When unsheathed, the sword is black and the quillon slopes forward, forming the shape of an inverted 'V'.
Dynamic Entry: As Shinji's group approaches the palace, they're stopped by the sudden appearance of Gerard. He travels a great distance so fast that his landing causes a huge explosion.
Foreshadowing: In his anime-exclusive fight with Shutara, she attempts to kill him by stabbing him directly in the heart — however, Gerard's heart glows and her needle is stopped before it can pierce him at all, and Gerard boasts that a small needle can't kill his heart. This hints at the later reveal that he is a vessel for the Soul King's heart.
Giant Equals Invincible: Attacks that injured him in his normal size do not even scratch him once he's grown big enough. Those that do simply make him even stronger.
A God Am I: To a degree. The power he gains from being damaged causes him to grow into a giant. Gerard boasts several times that he is now "God-sized". Since he is supposedly the heart of the transcendent Soul King, his claim is in a way correct.
Good Thing You Can Heal: A secondary aspect of The Miracle is that all injuries he sustains heal completely once converted into power. Even cutting him to pieces does no good, as the pieces simply grow back stronger than before.
Half the Man He Used to Be: He is cleaved vertically in half by Zaraki's Bankai. However, his Quincy cross drags the two halves back together and he comes back stronger than ever.
I Am the Noun: Unlike most Sternitter he calls his holy form not his Vollständig. Instead he says that he is Aschetonig, his Vollständig.
Invincible Villain: For all intents and purposes, Gerard is unbeatable, since the whole point of his power is saving himself while growing stronger whenever he is on the brink of death. This is further proven by the fact that no Soul Reaper actually manages to defeat him. It takes a literal Deus ex Machina in the form of his own Soul King-powered boss Yhwach to eliminate him from the story. Kubo had to later state that because Kenpachi couldn't break his Quincy cross, Gerard couldn't die, making it clear that even with an actual weakness, the raw power of a Bankai powered Kenpachi simply couldn't have given them victory against the heart of the Soul King.
Large Ham: Once he's turned into a giant as a result of his Miracle's power, he shows little restraint as to how he looks down on the Soul Reapers he fights. They nearly get blown off their feet from his sheer volume.
Leeroy Jenkins: Unlike the three other Elite Guards, who lean on the analytical side of things, Gerard blindly charges forward against the Squad Zero member they're facing. This tactic surprisingly lands a solid hit on Shutara, though she's revealed to be an illusion. He does it again versus Nimaiya, but the latter fells him in one hit.
Lightning Bruiser: When he is transformed into a giant by The Miracle, he is strong enough to destroy buildings like cardboard, fast enough to catch some of the fastest Thirteen Court Guard Squads captains with an attack, and isn't hurt by attacks that harmed him before.
Limit Break: His Schrift, 'The Miracle', is able to absorb damage that becomes converted into a massive size, strength, speed, and defense boost.
Literally Shattered Lives: A combination attack from Hitsugaya and Byakuya shatters him to pieces, but he just reforms and reaches his One-Winged Angel form.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He carries a round Viking-style shield, complete with central metal boss, which also acts as a sheath for his sword. It is also strong enough to deflect a slash from Kenpachi.
Make My Monster Grow: One of the abilities granted by his Schrift "The Miracle" is this. He can take any damage he withstands and convert it into growing in size. He grows into a giant after being hurt by Renji, Shinji, and Byakuya.
Meaningful Name: His surname, Valkyrie, at first seems a little odd given that Valkyries are exclusively female while Gerard is obviously male. However, it becomes quite a bit more fitting once you realize that it foreshadows Gerard's true power of constant rebirth. Valkyries in Norse mythology carry fallen warriors into Valhalla, where the chosen warriors constantly fight each other to death, at which point they simply revive to do battle again. Gerard is living by the rules of Valhalla, where he can fight to the fullest without the incovenience of death. It also mirrors how the fallen Schutzstaffel were "chosen" by Yhwach to revive and do battle once more.
Not So Invincible After All: His power is called "The Miracle". It allows him to regenerate from anything, always returning stronger than before and with no apparent upper limit to this ability. Every means of incapitation fails, and not even the Royal Guard or a fully-powered Kenpachi can stop him. Kubo would later clarify that, had Kenpachi been strong enough, he could have killed Gerard when he cut him in half, as the Quincy cross found in-between his split body seemingly was the core holding him, but because Kenpachi wasn't strong enough to do so, Gerard survive. He is only stopped by Yhwach stripping his powers, which allows him to finally be killed; Yhwach is implied to only be able to do that because they're both pieces of the same Soul King.
One-Winged Angel: Much like his comrade Lille, Gerard has a second form beyond his original Vollständig form that transforms him into a Godlike being after having his entire physical being destroyed and reformed.
Our Giants Are Bigger: One of the abilities of The Miracle is to draw power from damage. Every time he is injured, he converts that injury into a power-up that makes him faster, stronger, and more durable than before. This includes making him grow in size. When he gets injured enough, he grows into a giant. Interestingly, Gerard himself states that he instead grows to the size of a God. Gerard is the heart of the Soul King and previous statements about the Soul King speculate if he indeed was a God and a giant, implying that Gods are giants.
Pieces of God: Gerard is revealed to be the animate heart of the Soul King. Therefore, he possesses immeasurable spiritual power. His Schrift is called 'The Miracle', which allows him to perform miracles on himself, most notably to convert every attack dealt to him into a power-up to make himself bigger, and harder to kill. This makes him almost impossible to defeat, as he is able to overwhelm three of the strongest Captains of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads, including Kenpachi, who immediately takes off his eyepatch and releases his Shikai from the start as he knows that Gerard is too powerful to hold back against. In the end, the protagonists never do get the chance to kill him, as Yhwach does the deed for them.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: He proves himself to be part of the Schutzstaffel when taking down Lieutenants, Visoreds, Captains who have all ganged up against him. He then overpowers Hitsugaya, Byakuya and Kenpachi when the trio work together, even though Hitsugaya goes all-out, Byakuya is using ambush tactics, and Kenpachi is wielding his Shikai and has removed his eyepatch. It took nothing short of Yhwach himself killing him to finally stop him.
Schmuck Bait: He goads two Captains and their lieutenants into ganging up on him, mocking their ability to beat him. They all trounce him so thoroughly that it seems anti-climactic. Wisely, the two captains grow suspicious and tell their lieutenants to just finish the guy off. However, they all quickly learn that it's too late: attacking him all together was exactly what he wanted, because his Schrift's power is to absorb damage and convert it into size and strength.
Slasher Smile: Sports a nice one complete with Glowing Eyes of Doom after encouraging every one of the remaining Shinigami to come at him all at once.
Square-Cube Law: The Miracle uniquely allows him to defy this, as it increases his size, strength and speed accordingly, so much that it actually makes him even faster, overwhelming Byakuya, Hitsugaya and Kenpachi, even at their full powers.
Story-Breaker Power: Gerard is more or less unstoppable, as The Miracle gives him the ability to turn all damage into his strength. His ability kicks in even from injuries that he could not possibly have been alive to consciously activate, like having his head cut into ribbons by Byakuya. Even when his ability was supposedly frozen by Hitsugaya's upgraded Bankai, he still manages to reform from having his body shattered. Additionally, he even has the power to materialize and wield metaphysical concepts, for instance his sword Hoffnung which is forged from the hopes of the people. Meaning attacking the sword will reflect all damage to oneself. It's quite telling that he was only stopped by having his powers (and his life) outright taken away from him by Yhwach.
Stripped to the Bone: As happened with Robert, he is reduced to a skeleton by Yhwach's Auswählen.
Too Awesome to Use: His sword Hoffnung is only reserved for the toughest opponents as its abilities would be too cruel and unfair to use on weaker opponents.
Walking Shirtless Scene: He dresses like a Viking cartoon caricature, with bagging trousers, boots, a cape and a winged helmet-mask. He even has the shield. However, he does not wear a scrap of clothing above his waist. His cape has to be strapped to his shoulders as a result.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Yhwach kills him and the other remaining Sternritter after successfully stealing Ichigo's powers, as he doesn't need their help any longer.

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Jugram "Jugo" Haschwalth

Pernida Parnkgjas

Askin Nakk Le Vaar

Bambietta Basterbine

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Liltotto Lamperd

Bazzard "Bazz-B" Black

Cang Du

Quilge Opie

BG9

Pepe Waccabrada

Gerard Valkyrie

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