What happens if you remove a hollows mask

There is no doubt that becoming an arrancar with Aizen's help allows a hollow to regain its human intellect and get some great powers too, but that can't change the fact that hollows are forever cursed to be seen as evil. As Nnoitora put it, there is no salvation for hollows, even if they turn into arrancars.

Zommari Rureaux , meanwhile, cursed Byakuya for trying to strike him down just because of what he was. He demands to know: who gave Soul Reapers the right to slay hollows and arrancars at will? Every arrancar under Aizen's command has a unique number, and in the case of the Espadas, those numbers are tattooed onto their bodies with black ink.

Starrk is 1, Grimmjow is 6, Aaroniero is 9, and so on. Meanwhile, what about the lesser arrancar that Aizen commands, like Loly and Menoly? All of them have numbers too, as large as 77, but these numbers are tough to figure out without the help of official Bleach guidebooks.

Now one may wonder just how those numbers go in Aizen's army. The Soul Reapers have a distinct uniform: black robes, white fabric belt, straw sandals, white tabi socks.

These uniforms are consistent, and the Captains wear white haori robes over them. But the arrancars get more creative. They wear inverted colors, such as white outfits with black belts and socks, but the outfits don't all look the same. Ulquiorra's has coattails and a high collar, while Zommari's has a Chinese theme and Barragan looks like a Viking warlord. A few arrancar don't have visible eyeballs, based on the location of their mask remains or their hollow hole.

As pictured, Nnoitora has his hollow hole where his left eye would be, and Loly and Menoly each have a hollow mask eye socket where an eyeball would be. But their eyes can re-appear, too.

Findorr Calius had a mask piece that covered his eyes, until he broke off a piece and exposed an eye. Ulquiorra was perfect. He delivered as an arrancar and his fixation was good. Grimmjow was just a dude with a grudge.

Perfect my ass, the dude had no personality, was boring as watching paint dry and the only real hint of character he gets comes right before he dies in a pathetic attempt to make me give a damn. It failed. Grimmjow actually has a personality and is entertaining to read.

Not to mention Grimmjow's fight with Ichigo was a legitimate, back and forth, highlight of the series while Ulquiorra's fight was as boring as he was. As I do not disagree completely with you on regard towards Ulquiorra's personality. He was semented as a final boss in the arc from the begining. Grimmjow was thrown in there as a obstacle and his place can be filled by Fisher even better.

Yes but Ulquiorra's complete lack of personality means that he could easily be replaced by basically anyone in his role. Grand Fisher is the guy who killed Ichigo's mother, it would be much more appropriate to have him as the final battle at least for the Hueco Mundo section , as opposed to a mere obstacle.

He would make more sense in Ulquiorra's role than in Grimmjow's. Not necessarily as Ulquiorra was there to make Origins grow as a character. Also let's be honest. Grimmjow amounted to nothing. I think you mean Orihime and he didn't, Orihime didn't receive any note-worthy growth from that arc. Certainly nothing that would be worth keeping Ulquiorra around for in favor of much better characters. Wonderweiss is the only Arrancar that could even be argued to have mattered in the grand scheme of things and even that is debatable since it's clear the Hougyoku would have allowed Aizen to solo the Gotei 13 regardless.

The difference is that Grimmjow is actually entertaining and gives one of the best fights in the series, Ulquiorra achieves neither of these things so I would rather lose him than Grimmjow. Technically it did. Orihimime got enough resolve from then on to get stronger to be able to fight alongside Ichigo and not just be the healer.

Arrancar didn't amount to anything. I mean obviously, it only took all Captains aside from Komamura, Shinji, Unohana and Yamamoto where it left them all so weakened Aizen only needed to cut each of them once and they were left out of the fight.

Grimmjow didn't give any great fight. Ichigo and him were barely close, so close that Ichigo slashed him around for most of the fight, stopped his attack and overpowered his strongest attack. Don't derail the thread! Soranushi The One Who Is. So a Hollow who overcomes those emotions that led them into being unable to move on is a hollow that can break their mask and be reborn as a New existence similar to the one they lost.

A lot of it gets metaphorical, since Ulquiorra had most of his hollow body ripped off by an external source, but at the same time his Nihilistic sense of self opened up to new things when he felt happiness for the first time after experiencing the void. Like Shinigami, Arrancar have a multitude of combat skills and abilities, some of which are similar to those of the former, and some of which are variations on ordinary Hollow powers.

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