Bleach/Tropes S-Z

Tropes for Bleach, S to T:

 * Samurai: There's a very strong theme running through this entire manga, especially with the shinigami who exemplify this trope to varying degrees depending on the character. The most obvious example is Komamura, who lives to serve his captain-commander and whose zanpakutou reflects this honour-bound personality.
 * In the zanpakutou arc filler, Senbonzakura is depicted as a samurai and Komamura's zanpakutou actually is not.
 * Samus Is a Girl: The reaction Ichigo and the gang have to the true identity of Kukaku Shiba. Also, Ichigo's reaction when Yoruichi, formerly known as a black cat with a masculine voice, reveals her true form.
 * Sand Worm: Bawabawa acts as one in desert-like Hueco Mundo.
 * Sarashi: Unsurprisingly seen on a lot of shinigami, including Ichigo, precisely because they're kimono-wearing warriors. Some characters make them an integral part of their powers and abilities, however, such as Ichigo and Soi Fon.
 * Scary Black Man: Recent background information shows that the former 11th Division captain, the guy Kenpachi killed for his position appears to be this.
 * Initially played straight with Zommari Leroux, then promptly subverted when he uses Ressurection.
 * Burned!  High five!
 * Tousen, especially as Tousenfly... *shudders*
 * Also Love Aikawa, in a heroic example.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Multiple characters
 * Scenery Censor: When Wonderweis is first born, there's a convenient shadow covering where it counts.
 * When Yoruichi transforms into a human for the first time there's liberal use of Censor Steam. But when she sits down, Ichigo's freaked out reaction ensures his flailing limbs hide parts of her anatomy that would have very clearly been on display.
 * In in a Filler episode, when Mizuho walks into the bathroom, Ikkaku's so shocked he drops his towel. No matter what panicked position he moves into, there's always a conveniently located item blocking the audience from seeing too much.
 * School Swimsuit: The Beach Episode reveals that Nemu wears one.
 * Scooby Stack: In anime episode 138. While Captain Ukitake is talking to Rukia in the Soul society, his two lieutenants and Orihime Inoue create one while observing them.
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Hanatarou, Ukitake and Kyouraku in the Soul Society arc.
 * Ichigo at the start of the Hueco Mundo arc.
 * Secret Keeper: Renji, Yumichika, Iba, Komamura and Keigo all know Ikkaku has bankai, but his possession of it is still officially a secret. Iba's comment to Ikkaku, however, does suggest it's not as secret as Ikkaku thinks it is since Ikkaku didn't tell Iba he had it - he already knew.
 * Yumichika's true zanpakutou power is something he's only revealed to two people (Hisagi and Charlotte). Given that Charlotte is dead, Hisagi is the only person alive who knows Yumichika's secret.
 * Secret Test: At the beginning of the Bount arc, our heroes are confronted by a trio of mod souls that kidnap them and a number of innocent schoolchildren, apparently as part of some bizarre game with their lives at stake. Later they discover that the mod souls were created by and are under the control of Kisuke Urahara, who is using them to test the main characters' abilities and teach them teamwork.
 * Self-Parody: Episode 287.
 * Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Zigzagged all over the place. The Shinigami usually wear more conservative outfits, but Rangiku has a low-cut cleavage and Nemu wears a miniskirt, and the male Shinigami suffer through Clothing Damage. The more revealing Arrancars (Harribel, Grimmjow, Mila Rose, Lilynette) are some of the more sympathetic ones, though Nelliel wore a pantsuit as an Espada.... only for her garbs to rip apart once she regains her memories as an Espada. Abirama has a Walking Shirtless Scene and Loly has Zettai Ryouiki and Bare Your Midriff, but Aaroniero, Szayelaporro and the traitor trio wear more than those two.
 * Sensor Character: Almost all of the main characters are able to detect the reiatsu of others.
 * Serrated Blade of Pain: Renji's Zanpakutou Zabimaru, a spiked falchion revealed to be a Whip Sword. Later we find out that Hiyori's Kubikiri Orochi takes the form of a gigantic jagged cleaver.
 * Seven Deadly Sins: Evidently, the Espada were originally only going to be seven instead of ten, and Kubo had intended them to each be one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Additionally, there are a series of chapters named after the Sins, each seemingly referring to the characters and their actions (it's a bit vague)
 * 341 - The Envy:
 * 342 - The Greed:
 * 343 - The Gluttony:
 * 344 - The Pride: subverted
 * 345 - The Sloth:
 * 346 - The Wrath:
 * 347 - 352 - The Lust 1 - 6:
 * Ulquiorra's outlook on the subject got an interesting new angle with his poem:

"Aizen: "'How long?' What a funny thing to ask. My Kyouka Suigetsu is 'complete hypnosis'. At any given time, I can control all five senses and cause you to see anything I desire."
 * Shaggy Dog Story: Nel's ultimately anticlimactic fight against Nnoitora and her subsequent disappearance from the storyline, and Pesche and Dondochakka's equally pointless roles in the fight against Szayel Apporo, make their inclusion in the story seem like one of these, especially given their detailed history with both Nnoitora and Szayel.
 * Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Ichigo's fight with Grand Fisher got this. For a more later example, Aizen... if he wanted to.
 * Shinigami: As described throughout this entry.
 * She's Got Legs: Nemu and Lisa, although other women get a look in as well.
 * Shiny Midnight Black: Yumichika, whose hair varies between blue and purple tones.
 * Rukia occasionally has blue tones, but isn't a consistent example of this trope.
 * Shipper on Deck: Orihime went through a period of shipping Rukia and Uryuu together.
 * Momo seems to ship Renji and Rukia,as she urged him to go after her in the human world.
 * Ship Tease: Studio Pierrot loves IchiRuki to the point where they created a lot of material focused on it and removed/toned down a lot of IchiHime and RenRuki material in the process. They did put in one major IchiHime moment in Episode 167 that caused some backlash and also cranked up the UlquiHime Ship Tease in his dying moments. They also cranked up the Ship Tease between Renji and Rukia in a flashback. There are also indications they like the idea of HitsuMatsu, they love YoruSoi and Ikkaku/Yumichika and they've even played with Kenpachi/Byakuya Ship Tease.
 * Shirtless Scene: Yamamoto, Ichigo, Kenpachi, even Mayuri. In fact, so many male characters have had shirtless scenes that it's easier to observe who hasn't - Byakuya and Yumichika. However, even Byakuya has had one in official art, which just leaves Yumichika.
 * Shrine to the Fallen: Isshin Kurosaki keeps a wall-sized poster of his deceased wife and often makes a show of crying to her over his children.
 * Shoo Out the Clowns: Kon and the other Modsouls haven't been seen since the Lost Agent arc.
 * Shoot the Dog: The death of Kaien Shiba
 * Shout-Out: Quite a few, both in the manga (towards Kamen Rider and probably Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure) and some fillers (Neon Genesis Evangelion and Code Geass)
 * Koutotsu could also be a Shout-Out to The Cleaner from Labyrinth.
 * Fist of the North Star when Love quotes "You Are Already Dead" while reading manga.
 * It might be a coincidence, but when Ichigo rescues Rukia from her execution, his cloak makes him look a hell of a lot like Guts.
 * Coyote Starrk with his wolves could be a Shoutout to A Song of Ice and Fire.
 * Harribel is a shark who can fire Ceros. Sadly (or perhaps not), she cannot shoot them from her head.
 * In Episode 354,  bears a striking resemblance to Chun-Li's Stage in [[Street Fighter II Street Fighter II
 * Now we got Vandenreich. Has division named Stern Ritter (Star Knight), taking subjugated enemies into their rank, one of their warrior basically using technique that compress all reiatsu around him into single powerful attack, eiither Tite Kubo is friends with Masaki Tsuzuki, or really, really hate him.
 * Schrodinger's Butterfly: Aizen invokes this trope through his zanpakutou's power, especially during the Fake Karakura Town battle.

Shinji: "That's exactly what I'm asking you... how long you've been using it!"

Aizen: "In that case I shall ask you... How long have you been under the impression that I haven't been using it?""

": Is that all you've got?"
 * Shut UP, Hannibal:
 * And more notably, Ichigo to Ulquiorra.
 * Chapter 417 gets us a rather epic one from, which has lasted to at least 419 (and most likely longer), leading to   turning red and going Clipped-Wing Angel... to the complete non-reaction of  . Never has seeing a Smug Snake get smacked backwards repeatedly been so satisfying.


 * Sideboob: Kuukaku Shiba. When they go into shunkou both Yoruichi and Soi Fon sport this, particularly Yoruichi.
 * Sidekick / Foil: Each lieutenant is one or the other to their captain, and some are a little of both.
 * Sidekick Glass Ceiling
 * Single-Stroke Battle
 * Single-Target Sexuality: Soifon is the embodiment of this trope. She only has eyes for Yoruichi.
 * Sissy Villain: Szayel Apporo Granz, sealed with his dub voice's Noblewoman's Laugh. Also, Luppy, who hit the Viewer Gender Confusion line and kept on running.
 * Sitting on the Roof: Ichigo and his schoolmates have a tendency of retreating to the school roof. Several shinigami also have a tendency to retreat to roofs both in Seireitei and Karakura Town (mainly Hitsugaya and Ikkaku, but also Hinamori, Matsumoto, Kenpachi and even Aizen before he was revealed as a villain).
 * Skilled but Naive: Ichigo has the powers of a powerful shinigami captain, later  But he certainly lacks the years of training and experience the Shinigami have benefited from, and it shows in both his fighting style and in his lack of strategy. That said, Ichigo is not stupid, as his high school grades will testify. He just hasn't got the hang of things yet.
 * Skinship Grope: Multiple examples
 * Slasher Smile: Multiple examples
 * Sleep Cute: The "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" opening.
 * Slipknot Ponytail: Renji, Kenpachi and Byakuya have all experienced this.
 * Smashing Watermelons: During the anime episode 228 Beach Episode.
 * Snap to the Side: Ichigo makes people do this all the time.
 * Sociopathic Hero: Kenpachi and Mayuri are sometimes this and sometimes Heroic Comedic Sociopath.
 * Something Completely Different: There is no battle in Episode 141, but the drama and spare romance more than make up for it, resulting in an usually different episode than most in the show!
 * The New Captain Shusuke Amagai Arc is a sudden change in settings and focus.
 * Sorting Algorithm of Evil:
 * Soul Cutting Blade: Zanpakuto directly translates to "Soul Cutting Sword".
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: Lots of it. You've have a scene like Gin and Hitsugaya about to go at each other with swords, and then roll credits to "Happypeople".
 * Spanner in the Works: showing up in the middle of the Soul Reapers' fight in Karakura Town, with  in tow. Two captains promptly get pounded.
 * Sparkling Stream of Tears: Rukia and Orihime once. Dondochakka Bilstin and Keigo Asano on a regular basis.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Too much. Is it Schiffer or Cifer (turns out it's the latter)? Wonderwyce or Wonderweiss? Et cetera... Meanwhile, Grimmjow's last name is correctly spelled . It doesn't help that Kubo seems to enjoy changing the spelling of the Arrancar's names.
 * All of the Espada have double letters in their names. Why is anyone's guess.
 * A form of Theme Naming?
 * Although there's Neliel Tu Oderschwank.
 * Nope. That changed too. Now it's Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck.
 * One name that comes up more than others is Soi Fon, who people insist on referring to as Soi Fong or Suifeng, which is based on her name's Pinyin romanization when spelled in Chinese characters.
 * Japanese media spells the character's name as Suifeng, but English media calls her Soifon.
 * Spiritual Successor: Bleach owes Yu Yu Hakusho a lot.
 * Spit Take
 * Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Many examples; see the trope page for details.
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The original focus on humans and a single shinigami quickly gave way to a focus on the shinigami and their society. This has been an even bigger problem in the anime where the human characters are often discarded in favor of shinigami and even the main character can struggle for screentime.
 * Standard Evil Organization Squad: The Espada.
 * Starfish Character: Starrk, sort of. Unlike other Arrancar, when he removed his mask instead of his power being sealed in the form of a sword, it was sealed in the form of his Fraccion, Lilynette.
 * The Starscream: Ryou Udagawa during the Bount arc. Another Bount, Sawatari, reveals similar ambitions just before Mayuri kills him. Also, in the manga,, though he never gets the chance to even try.
 * Yes he does.
 * Statuesque Stunner: Some of the female characters who 5'8" or taller include Isane, Harribel, Nel, Mila-Rose, and (just) Rangiku, all beautiful women.
 * Sticks to the Back: Ichigo's sash is remarkable.
 * Stock Ninja Weaponry: Sui Feng uses a bunch of it. Once she uses a volley of kunai in order to pin Ukitake to a tree (It Makes Sense in Context). Furthermore, her Zanpakuto takes the form of a wakizashi when sealed, and a Blade Below the Shoulder weapon when released.
 * The Stoic: Way too many.
 * Special mention goes to Ichigo who briefly becomes in his final fight against Aizen, especially in the anime, a hugely powerful kido is forming around him and he doesn't even blink
 * Stoic Spectacles: Uryu's and his dad's.
 * Story-Breaker Power: Aizen's shikai allows him to perfectly control all five senses of anyone who sees him avtivate it once. This includes the entire cast by this point, save for Ichigo and his friends. By the point the story is at now, Aizen is so physically powerful that he's basically unstoppable, and Kubo has had to put in a blatant Author's Saving Throw to give the heroes even a dim hope of defeating him.
 * Stripperific: Suzumebachi's outfit from the Zanpakuto Unknown Tales arc.
 * Harribel's Resurrecion shows off so much skin that people have begun to wonder just where her Hollow hole could be located without being seen. (Apparently, it's in her WOMB).
 * Yoruichi's outfit while fighting Aizen is pretty revealing and/or basically shows of everything anyway.
 * Stylistic Suck: All of anime episode 298, but especially the movie Squad 6 is making.
 * Sucking-In Lines: How a Cero is charged.
 * Suit-Up of Destiny: Ichigo in the first episode after gaining Soul Reaper powers for the first time..
 * Ishida when he reveals he's going to go to Soul Society with Ichigo to rescue Rukia (lampshaded by having Ichigo question his fashion sense)..
 * And finally, as part of a reveal, this is used to show that  was a Soul Reaper all along.
 * Super-Deformed
 * Super Empowering
 * Supernatural Elite: All residents of Seireitei (lit: "The Court of Pure Souls"). It's where all the privileged souls reside in the afterlife. That includes government officials, Shinigami, nobles, vassals, peacekeeping forces, and others. Every other soul either resides in Rukongai (lit: "Wandering Soul City") or suffers a Fate Worse Than Death elsewhere.
 * Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious
 * Supernatural Sensitivity
 * Superpower Lottery: Soul Reapers have a wide variety of zanpakuto powers, ranging from pitifully lame to gamebreakingly unfair. Shikai example: Ikkaku gets a spear with the special power to separate into three attached sections and Renji gets a sword that stretches. Meanwhile, Ichigo's fires giant energy blasts, Mayuri's induces complete paralysis, and Aizen's traps anyone who sees its release in a nearly perfect, unbreakable illusion. The best part is, they don't even get to decide what their powers do. Soul Reapers get what they're given. And let's not even get started on bankai...
 * Chad and Orihime were born with powers that were locked away in their soul until unlocked by Ichigo's reiatsu and the Hougyoku. Chad was always a physical fighter, who used his strength to protect people after his grandfather taught him, and his powers manifested as mystically empowered arms. Orihime can't stand to see people being hurt and her powers reject harm or anything that will do harm. Chad's limits seem based on his physical might and Orihime's based on what she can conceive of as being possible for her to do.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side: Hollow Ichigo, a distinct personality who while equal in strength to Ichigo is far more skilled, knows all the abilities of Zangetsu innately, and doesn't hold back. Ichigo demonstrates another, more mindless Super-Powered Evil Side after . And it looks awesome.
 * Superpowerful Genetics: The Kurosaki family.
 * Super Speed: In bankai, Ichigo displays this when fighting Byakuya at the end of the Soul Society arc. Byakuya refers to it as "hyperspeed combat".
 * Super Weight: There seems to be an in-universe example with the way Aizen kept evolving and talking of dimensions and breaking barriers. Hollowfication and the Hougyoku are regarded as methods of altering one's natural weight to an artificially induced higher level. During the Deicide mini-arc, Aizen undergoes an artificial increase . It leads to a discussion on the meaning of super weights and who qualifies as what.   See trope page for fandom assessments.
 * Surprisingly Good English: The first closing theme, Life is Like a Boat, features full verses in word-perfect unaccented English, due to the fact that the singer was raised in the US.
 * Also Hazel Fernandes' song, "Number One," which plays during action sequences.
 * The fact that it appears to be a song about dancing rather than fighting may lose it some points, however.
 * Swiss Army Weapon: Zanpakuto and their optional shikai and bankai forms.
 * Sword Beam: Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho and Ichimaru Gin's Shinsou are the most obvious examples, but a lot of the Soul Reapers use these.
 * Sword Fight: This is shonen--the whole flippin' series is essentially one very long and angsty sword fight.
 * Sword Pointing
 * Sword Sparks: Unavoidable, really.
 * Take My Hand: Ichigo to the Arrancar Nel in Hueco Mundo in anime episode 146.
 * Talking Is a Free Action: Oh my goodness, the Kido incantations. Sufficiently skilled practitioners can skip them, but doing so significantly reduces their power. Subverted in the anime-only Bount filler arc, in which Rukia complains that her enemy is too fast and gives her no time to finish her chants.
 * This is taken to ridiculous extremes with Charlotte Cuuhlhourne, whose attacks are sometimes preceded by sixteen-word long names. This becomes particularly jarring in the anime, which has to recycle animation just to give him enough time to shout out the whole name. Admittedly this is definitely lampshading.
 * Subverted and Lampshaded in Chapter
 * Sword Sparks: Unavoidable, really.
 * Take My Hand: Ichigo to the Arrancar Nel in Hueco Mundo in anime episode 146.
 * Talking Is a Free Action: Oh my goodness, the Kido incantations. Sufficiently skilled practitioners can skip them, but doing so significantly reduces their power. Subverted in the anime-only Bount filler arc, in which Rukia complains that her enemy is too fast and gives her no time to finish her chants.
 * This is taken to ridiculous extremes with Charlotte Cuuhlhourne, whose attacks are sometimes preceded by sixteen-word long names. This becomes particularly jarring in the anime, which has to recycle animation just to give him enough time to shout out the whole name. Admittedly this is definitely lampshading.
 * Subverted and Lampshaded in Chapter


 * Hilariously averted in chapter 463 where Kenpachi kills his opponent as he's bragging about his powers.
 * Ichigo averts this in his first encounter with Renji. See Tempting Fate below.
 * Talking to Himself: In the dub, Brianne Siddall voices both Rurichiyo Kasumiohji and her fiancee, Shu Kannogi. Kinky.
 * Talking Weapon: The only one we see in detail is Zangetsu when communicating with Ichigo in Ichigo's inner world. However, it's considered standard that shinigami must learn how to communicate with their zanpakutou and that zanpakutou have thoughts and feelings of their own that they do communicate with their shinigami even though the manga doesn't detail the conversations that occur (only suggesting them and hinting at them). We also see Zabimaru manifest and talk to Renji at one point and Zangetsu once asks if Ichigo can hear Kenpachi's zanpakutou screaming in pain because of how Kenpachi ignores it (Ichigo can). When Lilinette transforms into Stark's weapon, she continues to talk to him, making her an example of this trope as well, at least for a while.
 * Talk to the Fist:  And then the fight IS moved elsewhere.
 * Technicolor Toxin: Let's see...
 * Mayuri Kurotsuchi has Ashisogi Jizo, whose poison is purple in color.
 * Soifon's Suzumebachi leaves dark red spots on the victim, and it's a poison-based weapon.
 * In the anime, when Loly uses her Resurrecion Escolopendra it has a purple aura.
 * Teen Genius: In the manga, the following teen characters have been cited (in-universe) as 'genius': Hitsugaya (who's probably only just old enough to slip over the edge from Child Prodigy to this trope), Gin and Uryuu Ishida. Orihime has been cited (in not so many words) as a Ditzy Genius.
 * Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Ichigo and Uryuu's initial rivalry ends when a Menos Grande appears. This leads to Teeth-Clenched Teamwork against the mountain of hollows they're surrounded by and is the beginning of them becoming Fire-Forged Friends.
 * The Gotei 13 is made up of semi-autonomous divisions. As a result, when captains enter a battlefield together they usually stick to their own fights unless they're close friends. Some of the captains have almost nothing to do with each other and disdain each other at best (loathing each other at worst). Cue the battle with the espada Yammi where Kenpachi and Byakuya find themselves having to team up. The only way their pride can handle it is by turning it into a rivalry to see who can kill Yammi first while pretending he's getting in the way of them trying to kill each other. Strangely enough, they seem a lot more tolerant of each other after that event.
 * Seems to characterize the interaction of some Bounts with their Dolls.
 * Teeth Flying: Cleverly and artistically used as part of the title of chapter 426. Ichigo and Uryu both punch out the big boss of a gang who was after Ichigo, knocking out three of his incisors. The artistic part is where the chapter number appears on the teeth as they fly out. The reason why they were there? Ichigo previously had punched out SEVEN of one of their guy's teeth.
 * Telephone Polearm: Chad's first fight against a Hollow (an invisible one, no less) has him use one to great effect.
 * Tempting Fate: While giving Ichigo a Reason You Suck Speech, Renji mentions how Ichigo couldn't even lay a scratch on a real Soul Reaper. As he says this, Ichigo slashes Renji's chin, then proceeds to taunt Renji about it.
 * Ten Little Murder Victims: In the Bount filler arc in the anime, one of the "games" involves one of the Nakama being replaced with a shapeshifter. The heroes have to figure out who it is before an elapsed time runs out or the modsouls will start playing Kill'Em All with the Muggles.
 * Testosterone Poisoning: Kenpachi...just Kenpachi.
 * The Hero Dies: Subversion with Ichigo. He has come damnably close to death a number of times, but has been saved by Plotkai at literally every turn. A particular example is his battle with.
 * The Not-Secret: Ikkaku's bankai. Hints that it might possibly be an Open Secret have yet to be confirmed.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: A surprising variant:
 * A much earlier example exists with Kenpachi to Ichigo, much to Ichigo's dismay.
 * Kenpachi and Byakuya have a moment of this during their fight with Yammi. The only way they can swallow their pride enough to work together is to play on the idea that Yammi is getting in the way of them trying to kill each other.
 * The Tease: Yoruichi, who loves to torment Ichigo by appearing naked in front of him.
 * The Wonka: When Urahara drops his Obfuscating Insanity and people make it past his Bunny Ears Lawyer image, it's revealed that he's still The Wonka underneath it all. The man's approach to just about everything - but especially training and inventions - is unique.
 * Theme Music Power-Up: "Number One" plays whenever Ichigo is about to kick some serious ass. Hilariously subverted when Ichigo charges at Aizen at the end of the Soul Society arc: the music starts up, Ichigo makes his move... Then his sword is blocked by a single finger, the song abruptly stops, and Ichigo nearly gets cut in half. This is lampshaded in the Karakura Super Heroes episode, in which Don Kanonji declares that the role of Karakura Red (the protagonist) will go to the contestant who is worthy to be the Number One. Naturally, the song starts up when the real hero (the cat spirit) starts fighting.
 * The newest episode has a metal remix of the aforementioned Number One.
 * There Are No Therapists: Where the hell were the therapists when Ichigo, Rukia, Ishida and Orihime all needed them badly in the past? You would think that the Gotei 13, being essentially a military organization, would have some sort of psychological counseling. And being in the human world, there was no excuse for Ichigo, Ishida and Orihime not to have some sort of counseling after their traumatic incidents (Witnessing the bloody deaths of their mother, grandfather and older brother respectively). The only excuses I can think of is that Orihime's family, whatever she had left, either didn't have the money or didn't care enough to make sure she was properly cared for, Ishida probably would have been written off as utterly insane if he had ever gotten in-depth with a psychiatrist concerning his grandfather's death, and Ichigo... I don't have any excuse for Ichigo not seeing a counselor.
 * Hinamori is easily the most traumatized character in the entire series.
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Just, the Sokyoku. Seriously, what?
 * There Was a Door: Grimmjow, in order to get into Orihime's room, blows a hole in the wall. Bonus points because he did so right next to a door... that had already been blown off its hinges.
 * Only in the anime. In the manga, Grimmjow "uses" the door... by blowing it into oblivion. Makes a nice square hole, though.
 * At one point, four different characters enter the same room. Not one of them uses a door. Instead, they burst through the floor, two different walls, and another dimension.
 * Renji, Matsumoto, Ikkaku, and Yumichika all enter Ichigo's room through the roof...and break his ceiling light in the process. Then they get scolded by Hitsugaya for their destructive entrance methods. After all, he had enough sense to climb in through the window.
 * They Call Me Mister Tibbs: Captain Hitsugaya and "Toshiro," as well as Captain Kuchiki when Ichigo calls him "Byakuya."
 * They Would Cut You Up: Mayuri finds a lot of things beneath his interest. That's probably for the best considering anything that does register on his radar will be collected by him and will be cut up and experimented on to find out how it ticks.
 * Third Time's the Charm: Ichigo practices this trope regularly against quite a few of the people he eventually defeats.
 * The Thirty-Six Stratagems: Aizen has used more than half of this list in his plans.
 * This Cannot Be!: Soifon in her fight with Yoruichi. She banked everything on the belief that, having spent a hundred years obsessively training, she would now be able to surpass Yoruichi. When she realizes that she still can't defeat Yoruichi even though Yoruichi's skills have stagnated for a century, she screams this before dissolving in tears and revealing the real reason why she's so angry with Yoruichi.
 * Anime episode 197. Espada #7 Zommari Rureaux while fighting Byakuya Kuchiki.
 * Also,
 * This Is a Drill: Nemu can transform her arm into one.
 * This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Many instances, most notably the Kaien flashback--"If you help him now, what will become of his pride?"
 * This Is Unforgivable!: Multiple examples
 * Those Two Guys: Keigo and Mizuiro. Orihime and Tatsuki seem like this at first.
 * Throat Light: During "The New Captain Shūsuke Amagai" anime arc, several people have this while wielding bakoto blades.
 * Title Drop: The last chapter before  is called "Bleach My Soul."
 * To Be Lawful or Good: Byakuya Kuchiki is hit with this when he must choose between upholding a vow to his parents to protect the law and upholding a vow to his wife to protect her sister (before Rukia became his legally adopted sister she was actually his sister-in-law) as a result of the vows coming into conflict when Rukia is sentenced to execution. In accordance with Confucian values, which place parents higher in status than a wife, he chooses to uphold the vow to his parents and therefore (reluctantly) defends the execution of Rukia.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Mayuri Kurotsuchi
 * Token Yuri Girls: Chizuru's very open infatuation with Orihime.
 * Too Powerful to Live: Aizen is a type 1
 * Took a Level In Badass: A lot of examples, see trope page for detail.
 * Torso with a View: Almost every single Arrancar possesses such a hole, but it tends to vary - Grimmjow has it on his stomach, Harribel has it in her womb, Szayelaporro has it in his crotch...
 * Total Party Kill: Happens when faces.
 * Touched by Vorlons: A human can gain shinigami powers if a shinigami plunges their sword into the human's heart. It doesn't have a very high success rate but can work sometimes.
 * Captains and vice-captains have to wear power-limiters on their reiatsu when in the human world least their power start affecting human souls. This is lampshaded by observations on how Ichigo's extremely powerful, uncontrolled reiatsu (when in shinigami form only) has affected humans around him  to enable Orihime and Sado to unlock to latent powers they possessed from birth but couldn't access without help and to give several classmates the ability to see ghosts and shinigami when they previously couldn't.
 * Aizen uses the Hougyoku to create artificially-boosted Arrancar at levels mock-Arrancar in the past haven't naturally been able to reach.
 * Trailers Always Lie:  barely appears in the actual storyline, yet appears extensively in a few of the openings and other media, giving the reader/viewer the impression that it will be a huge and key part of the continuity.
 * Training From Hell: Urahara puts Ichigo through this in the Soul Society arc; later, during the Bount arc, Ichigo and his friends learn that the Mod Souls' dangerous "games" were actually training exercises devised by Urahara to force them to work together as a team.
 * Tranquil Fury:
 * Ishida personifies this trope as even when he's really pissed, he's still quite calm.
 * Byakuya fits better, particularly when facing Espada #7 Zommari Leroux and seeing he was about to finish off Rukia.
 * Harribel is clearly furious when her beloved fraccion are burned to death in front of her, but she remains quiet and calm as she goes Mama Bear on Hitsugaya.
 * Aizen, after being this pretty much the entire story, finally averts it in 415.
 * As of 417,  And it is awesome.
 * And most recently,  has been in a constant state of this since
 * Transformation Is a Free Action: Though this is actually also subverted a lot, especially in zanpakuto releases. Even a Captain, Kuchiki Byakuya got his release interrupted at least twice--once by Yoruichi, who fast-wraps some kind of magical(?) bandage around his sword, and once by Renji, who simply just pushes Byakuya's sword aside with his own and throwing it out of balance. Grimmjow also gets stopped in two fights, as well--by Tousen and by Ulquiorra, both grabbing his sword right after the release command but before he could call out his zanpakuto's name. And then there's the one in the Arrancar Encyclopedia where he interrupts himself.
 * Transformation Sequence: Espada and fraccion releases are this. Some of the shinigami releases are this as well.
 * Trap Door: two open up under Renji Abarai and Dondochakka Bilstin in anime episode #159.
 * Trapped in the Past: When anyone comes into contact with the Kototsu in the Dangai Precipice World they are thrown out in a greatly different point of time than when they entered. This explains the time discrepancy way back in the Soul Society arc, where they were sent back in time, but thanks to Urahara's tech, it was only a few days instead of a few centuries.
 * Traumatic Haircut: Both Orihime and Charlotte Cuuhlhourne have experienced these.
 * Treasure Chest Cavity: had the Orb of Destruction hidden in their soul.
 * Troubled Backstory Flashback: Most villains get one of these, and only during the fight where they're going to be killed. It's almost as if they're being fattened up with character interest before the writers slaughter them to make tasty, delicious entertainment sausage.
 * True Companions: The word "nakama" pops up multiple times in the Hueco Mundo arc, used by both heroes and villains to describe Ichigo's crew. It's something of a theme for the arc, at least in between all the one-upmanship.
 * Try Not to Die:
 * Tsundere: Nearly every character is a tsundere toward every other one. Phrases like "don't get the wrong idea" or "do what you want, I don't care" are used at least once every five chapters. See Character sheet for more specific examples.
 * Turn the Other Cheek
 * A Twinkle in the Sky: Multiple examples in the Anime episodes.
 * Two Guys and a Girl: Renji, Kira and Momo.
 * Tyke Bomb: Wonderweiss Margera...sort of.
 * Two Guys and a Girl: Renji, Kira and Momo.
 * Tyke Bomb: Wonderweiss Margera...sort of.