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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: After months in Hueco Mundo, {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole]] Hisagi}}.He takes things for granted that he would have been horrified before, and has been killing at Aizen's orders so long that it no longer even causes him much soul-searching. While he doesn't ''like'' Hueco Mundo or his supposed allies, his efforts to preserve his cover and keep himself alive are gradually turning him into what he's pretending to be. On a much lighter note, Kon- after posing as Ichigo for a similar amount of time- finds himself thinking of Karin and Yuzu as ''his'' little sisters.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Ikkaku apparently ''really'' dislikes being called "taichou". His response the first time it came up, some time before the fic began, was apparently memorable enough to prevent a reoccurance.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Inoue Sora, to Orihime. To the point that had [[La Résistance]] not included him on the Hueco Mundo mission, he would probably have tried to sneak in anyway to rescue his little sister. Subverted in that he is not able to do much more for her than offer emotional support- he's barely out of the Academy and by far the weakest member of the group. (They anticipated he would be more or less [[The Load]], but brought him anyway because they needed someone who Orihime knew well enough to tell if she was on the edge of a [[Freak
** There's also Kensei to Mashiro, especially when it comes to her relationship with Kon. Kon himself also qualifies, looking out for Karin and Yuzu and in a recent chapter thinking of them as ''his'' little sisters.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]] / [[The Cavalry]]: Soi Fong {{spoiler|and Hachi}} arriving in the nick of time to help Ukitake and Isane {{spoiler|fight the Barragan fragment}}.
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* [[Fusion Dance]]: The [[Fate Worse Than Death|hollowfication process]] Aizen has been using on captured shinigami fuses them with their zanpakutous, among other unpleasant things.
* [[Gen Fic]]: While there is a bit of sex and romance in this fic, it's very much in the background- except for Gin's feelings for Rangiku, which are played as scary and creepy rather than romantic.
* [[Go Out
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]:
* [[Glomp]]: Lisa's way of greeting Nanao, who she hadn't seen for a hundred years.
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* [[Hope Spot]]: After killing several clone!Nemu, Grimmjow, Hanatarou, and Hisagi {{spoiler|with Kazeshini piloting}} venture into Mayuri's labs. There they discover {{spoiler|the original Kurotsuchi Nemu}}- who had been given up for dead in-story and out. She's in bad shape, but they hope Orihime can heal her. She explains otherwise: {{spoiler|her zanpakutou has been severed and her soul is being drained into her clones... which would remain even if Orihime tried to reject the damage.}} She [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|asks them to kill her]]. Reluctantly, {{spoiler|Kazeshini}} agrees. The kicker? If he hadn't hesitated quite so long, {{spoiler|Tatsuki}} would probably not have been killed.
** Far earlier in the fic, [[La Résistance]] discovers that at least two Captains are alive and need to be rescued from Los Noches. {{spoiler|And have been Hollowfied into [[Tortured Abomination|Tortured Abominations.]] After that reveal, Kira and Hitsugaya [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|still manage to recognize Hinamori]]. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|And promptly die.]] The Los Noches group has had a good run so far, even running into a non-Hollowfied Byakuya. [[Go Mad From the Isolation|He's not]] [[Death Seeker|all there.]] [[Tortured Abomination|Neither is Renji.]]}} [[Trauma Conga Line|All of these combined]] can make a [[Schmuck Bait|second read]] [[Beyond the Impossible|even more painful]] [[Tear Jerker|than the first.]]
* [[How Many Fingers?]]: Asked of Orihime {{spoiler|after she rejects Ichigo's hollow}}.
{{quote| “Lots and lots,” Orihime said. She kept on trying to add two and two together and getting the wrong answer. “But it’s very pretty,” she added, in case she’d hurt Ise’s feelings.}}
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Nanao describes Aizen as "Something of a control obsessive. The sort of person who has to have everything exactly as planned, precisely as organized, every detail under there control..." And then wonders why Ayasegawa is staring at her.
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* [[Irony]]: [[La Résistance]] are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[Combat Pragmatist|Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* [[It's Personal]]: The fight against {{spoiler|the Barragan fragment}} contains both a subversion and an example. {{spoiler|Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade".}}
* [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: {{spoiler|Hisagi}} [[You Just Had to Say It|says it aloud]] right after [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]] - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "[[What Would X Do]]" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* [[I Will Find You]]: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[It's Personal|This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] or an actual traitor).
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* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku {{spoiler|and Yumichika}} are able to resist the urge, due to [[Character Development]].
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is {{spoiler|Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them}} and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into [[The Load]]. {{spoiler|Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.}}
* [[Light'Em Up]]: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
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* [[Miles to Go Before I Sleep]]: Ukitake. He has considered a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] twice- first against {{spoiler|Gin}} and later against {{spoiler|the Barragan fragment}}- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* [[Mission Control]]: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* [[Mistreatment
* [[Morality Pet]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of [[Villainous Breakdown]], and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Kaede, [[The Medic]] of the recon squad.
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* [[War Is Hell]]: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in [[Heroic Sacrifices]], but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[Handicapped Badass|Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[Break the Cutie|Orihime]], [[Miles to Go Before I Sleep|Ukitake,]] {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole]] Hisagi}} and many others who've lost friends or [[Dirty Business|done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* [[What Would X Do]]: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[I Want Grandkids|wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* [[Wham! Line]]: Many of the reveals of {{spoiler|the Hollowfied shinigami}} come under this.
{{quote| ''He'd found {{spoiler|Hitsugaya-taichou}}, but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''<br />
{{spoiler|'''Byakuya:'''}} ''It seems you are all fools and blind. {{spoiler|Renji.}}'' }}
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Aizen and Gin just LOVE this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[The Dog Bites Back|backfires]].
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