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Wall Bangers in Bleach include:

• Two words for the most common source of Bleach's wallbangers: Sosuke Aizen. Everything about Aizen makes you want to ask how contrived things can get.
  • Why does he even bother having Mooks when he's just going to backstab them for being "weak" if he thinks a fight is taking too long? Why has he let the Soul Society forces even get a Hope Spot? He could have pulled that trick he did with Hinamori over and over until everyone was too paranoid to even move; failing that, he could have used the only guy in the group who presents a threat as his scapegoat/designated victim. Seriously, if he had gotten all his people to gang up on Ichigo, then Ichigo would have had problems. You can't even say he does it For the Evulz; it would have been crueler (to everyone except Hitsugaya, that is) to let them know just a little too late that they're beating down their only hope. Hollywood Tactics at its worst.
    • Most of the mooks were the results of his experiments. He wanted to see how powerful his creations are. Just a few extra spins of the Gambit Roulette wheel. It was also a good opportunity to get rid of Barragan's faction.
    • Also, to be fair, Sosuke Aizen is not as perfect as many people would have you believe. With things like this, it's clear that Aizen is mostly just looking to satiate his own massive ego. He tends to try and stay cool and calculating, but he's actually much more petty and egotistical the reputation he's formed would imply.
• There's disease in the afterlife. DISEASE. IN. THE. AFTERLIFE.
  • And the magical ghosts can somehow have kids.
  • The afterlife's bodies are more or less the same as human bodies. This shoots down that what Rukia said about Shinigami bodies being really nothing but plasma, but at this point it would be a worse Wallbanger if she was right... It's a cycle. The Soul Society isn't the final stage. They'll die and become humans once again later on... Deciding that the shinigami world, and not the human one, is the afterlife is basically for convenience.
    • The original plan of having Shinigami just be ectoplasmic bags of blood plasma would also sort of explain the ludicrous amounts of High-Pressure Blood and Overdrawn At the Blood Bank. Of course they're losing a lot of blood if there's not a whole lot else to their anatomy.
• Everyone's already dead, but they can die in the afterlife. OF THIRST. If they have power, OF HUNGER TOO. This makes for the worst afterlife ever. And then they get to reincarnate to do it all over again.
  • In addition to the dying of hunger/thirst and diseases, Soul Society also has a confusingly large number of people living in poverty, resembling at best medieval peasants and at worst ragged drifters. Yeah, you read that right. The afterlife, the place everybody wishes to go to (even though at the same time nobody wants to die), has poverty, the state everybody wishes to avoid. It seems like Soul Society is secretly just the World of the Living with the serial numbers filed off.
• The afterlife is run by whoever has the biggest sword. Everyone takes their orders from a room full of Obstructive Bureaucrats isolated from the rest of society whose word is absolute no matter how Lawful Stupid it is. Okay, there are horrifying monsters that love to snack on ghosts; but couldn't they have a squad or two devoted to re-uniting recently deceased souls with their family and loved ones? Or at least set up some basic infrastructure up to a post-19th century level?
  • There are only about 5,000-10,000 Soul Reapers. They would barely be able to handle Japan, let alone the whole world.
  • There's also a bit of confusion as to just how old the Soul Society is. In recent chapters, Rukia mentions that Soul Society is a million years old. How is this even possible? Humanity as we are today has only existed for 200000 years, a fifth of that time. Were Soul Society fighting and made up of monkeys and cavemen back then?
• Ishida Uryu is fairly intelligent, right? Out of the three running around after the mod-souls that kidnapped Orihime and Sado, he was the one who figured out their game even though he no longer has his powers, as pointed out by Urahara. And throughout the Bount episodes afterwards, he was hung up on getting Kariya after watching him kill Yoshino. So, why, when he had the chance to end things, does he suddenly get a brain fart and fire the arrow he made absorbing the overflow of reiatsu from Rantao...into the air? Kariya's still trying to recover from her attack. All he needs is one shot. And she's overflowing with power which he can absorb to save her life. Sure, the artifact thing he's using is going to break, but all he needed was that one shot. So he absorbs the excess reiatsu to save Rantao and...fires it into the air. Not Kariya. The AIR.
• In the Zanpakutou arc, Komamura fights his zanpakutou in the first episode and gets owned -- he's knocked unconscious. A few days later, he's still out but being treated at the 4th division first aid station. He spends most of the arc in a coma, since we never see him after that until the end of 253, the second to last episode of the filler arc. He's never done anything important in the fillers (unless slaying the Gillians and helping seal the garganta in the zanpakuto count), unless it's getting owned.
• Wildly inconsistent aging. Rukia is meant to be hundreds of years old; but in a Flash Back, she and Renji aged from children to adults in 10 years. If they age like normal humans, then they should look much older. And if being a Soul Reaper stops you from aging, then why did Gin, a child Soul reaper, become an adult? Even taking into account that Gin's been at it longer, there's no logic to what ages characters simply "stop" at, other than plot convenience.
  • This really makes things weird with the Turn Back the Pendulum Arc. 100 years before the series. Byakuya is a teen, and hasn't even met his wife, or her sister, Rukia, who may not even be dead yet...even though, when first introduced, Rukia said she'd lived "10 of your [Ichigo's] lifetimes." Which would make her 150 (If she meant Ichigo's lived-life) to 800 (Average Human Lifetime). Yeah...100 years doesn't really work for the flashbacks...
  • Rukia's age can make sense if you assume that she's around 150, you could say that "Shinigami years" are about 10 human years, as in ten times longer. It would place Rukia at around 15 proportionately (albeit a rather short and young-looking 15-year-old). If we are to assume that "Shinigami puberty" happens at a strangely humanlike pace (around 4-6 years) it would explain how they aged from children to teens in within ten years. It still basically comes down to plot convenience, as proportionately their process to becoming teenagers would otherwise take up to 60 years. The only issue with this is that it would make Yamamoto look damn near immortal. He was shown to look basically the same 2000 years ago when the 13 were formed and is the only leader they've ever had, which would mean that he may have been around since the beginning of time itself.
  • Everything that happens seems to imply that what age they hit certain thresholds of development is more or less random. When we look at the Turn Back The Pendulum arc, Gin Ichimaru and Nanao Ise are both children, Gin looking about 8-11 and Nanao could probably be seen as being as young as 5, meanwhile Hiyori looks to be about 10-13. When we hit present day, Gin and Nanao are both adults who look like they could pass for any age from their late teens to early thirties, but Hiyori looks to have only aged maybe four years.
• When Harribel releases, she cuts Hitsugaya in half -- but it is later found to be only an ice clone. The anime, unlike the manga, shows no blood. While this solves the problem of how an ice clone can bleed, Harribel was still completely fooled.
• Bleach's final filler arc, The Invading Army arc, started off good, but went downhill faster than any of the previous filler arcs, and has actually upsurped the Bount Arc's position as the Bleach's worst filler arc. One of the biggest reasons for this? NOZOMI!! KUJO!!
  • It Got Worse in Episode 332. After having her Zanpakuto, and then Shikai, for a short time, once she's absorbed everyone's attacks, she's able to single-handedly defeat the Reigai Komamura, who was in BANKAI at the time, AND Reigai KENPACHI. Both of them PWNED the long-term serving Shinigami Captains in a previous episode and were said to be stronger than before due to the removal of their Purple Braclets.
  • Yamamoto is taken down twice this arc. He's supposed to be the strongest of the Gotei 13, but gets taken down like it was nothing. Nozomi can apparently fight better than him! This arc is bent on making the Gotei 13 look like a complete joke! We haven't seen the captains since the remaining ones were defeated with Yoruichi in episode 329! Past that, Nozomi is the only one who has done anything.
  • Dear lord, Kageroza Inaba. Aizen is in pushover territory compared to him. Quick examples? When he's cornered, Kageroza's Zanpakuto is revealed to have the power of teleportation and duplication, and he's then moments later able to resurrect the beaten Reigai. Even after that, after Ichigo uses the last of his Reiatsu to launch Getsuga Tensho at him, it's moments later revealed that he had a cloning ability, which one can't help wondering why he didn't use before. He's also able to absorb Ichigo, Nozomi and YAMAMOTO'S attacks all simultaneously which is powerful enough to one-shot Yamamoto, defeating Yamamoto alone is something even Aizen was aware he couldn't do - which is why he brought Wonderweiss into play. Oh, and did I mention? Urahara's plan to break into Soul Society and help get Ichigo's powers back, which was so incredibly slick it was like Urahara's tactics back in the Turn Back the Pendulum arc? He was Genre Savvy enough to catch on and sabotage it.
  • The Reigai, stronger and more agressive copies of the Gotei 13 shinigami. They were interesting at first, that is, until they kept getting resurrected, then they just become annoying as hell. Then it's revealed that the purple bracelets they were wearing were Power Limiters. They die again, and are resurrected even more powerful then they already were with the braclets removed. How strong? The reigai Ikkaku is able to seriously injure Komamura, allowing the reigai Komamura to gain the upper hand. The reigai of a third seat, can seriously injure a CAPTAIN!
  • The arc's ending is one as well, the reigai all sacrifice themselves to stop Yushima from blowing up soul society. Nozomi is able to seriously weaken Yushima by forcing him to break his soul chain. WHAT A COP-OUT! The only good thing about the ending is that Nozomi dies.
• After the events of the Zanpakuto Rebellion arc nobody thought to question Byakuya on his actions? He decided to effectively kill his sister's zanpakuto Shirayuki (with no knowledge that she could be repaired), helped Muramasa find Koga, never bothered to inform anyone in Soul Society of his double agent status or even what Muramasa's true objective was and did this apparently just he could kill Koga because of his 'honor'. How did this man make captain? Even with his powers he seems like one of the worst people to lead soldiers in a crisis.
• The Reveal of the Lost Substitute Shinigami arc: Jushiro Ukitake is the MASTERMIND of the arc. Are you serious Kubo?
  • However, it's pretty clear that the person who reveals this is carrying a grudge that would bias his view and make him an unreliable source of information. It's also heavily implied that he doesn't really know the full story himself. It may not even matter for now, as Ichigo's attitude toward this news doesn't really get much more intense than apathy.

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