User blog comment:Zwann/Vasto Lordes in the Espada, let's analyze./@comment-1296831-20091018170744

Well there's a few things I see very wrong here.

1. When the Vasto Lorde silhouette was shown, it CLEARLY had horns, horns that looked almost exactly like Ulquiorra's pre-release mask remnant.

2. Starrk is most definitely not a Vasto Lorde, the fact that he was humanoid in appearance isn't enough to fit the criteria. And Tia and Barragan ah, they're really not all that powerful compared to the suggested power of a Vasto Lorde.

3. The entire premise of the Vasto Lorde is that they ARE rather special, the whole aura of mystery around them and the fact that Aizen loses his patience and kills off Tia strongly suggests that he's grown tired of the current Espada and is readying the Vasto Lorde he's undoubtedly found while everyone else has been screwing around.