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I think it was much more than Nel just being a woman. She looked down on him. She called him 'weak' to his face, said he wasn't a warrior but a beast, she insulted his line of thinking, his logic, his way of life constantly and that set him on fire and aggravated him. He despised her with all his being and did whatever he could so that no one would ever pity him or judge him again. He said as much before he died, that those who just spare his life and walk away from his are brutally insulting him and that's what he hates most. He wants to live for the fight and die facing forward. He lived for a great death and that was repeatedly robbed from him.

Nnoitra had substance, some depth. He was angry at everything, he was vicious, vile, and cruel. He had an inferiority complex which he hid behind bravado and by doing whatever he could, sinking to whatever depths to silence his rivals and opponents.

Compare that to Grimmjow, who simply hated Ichigo for besting him and found him interesting. He's the Zaraki of the Espada. Cool, kinda badass, but one-dimensional and of little substance.