Forum:Luppi's promotion

I was thinking about why Luppi was promoted straight to sexta Espada, and I came to an answer. Every Espada above number 6 had special abilities/duties. Yammy is supposedly the zeroeth Espada, Aaroniero had the ability to evolve with no limits and he could communicate whatever he is seeing/experiencing to all the arrancar, Szayel Aporro was the top researcher/scientist of Hueco Mundo and Zommari had the power to essentially control people. Perhaps Luppi didn't replace those Espada because of their value, but replaced Grimmjow because he had no special ability or duty. This is and educated guess, but it is still speculation, so you guys can add it to the trivia section if you want to. It's just food for thought. Grimmjow2 17:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Or maybe they just needed a stand-in character that could get killed off with little to no recourse within the rest of the story's world.--Ihaveaname 18:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, i can be wrong and someone can check up on this, but i don't remember seeing any of the other espada above 6 until they enter the castle, also it's know that the science guy wasn't an espada at one point, so maybe he was already 7th and the one counter i'm seeing is we saw yammy as number 10, but maybe he's the 10th created or 10 is a cover for his true nature, but point is we have no reason to believe Luppi wasn't number 7

You mean 6.Saimaroimaru 03:39, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * No, he meant 7. He was saying that there is nothing to say that Luppi was not no.7 before GJ's punishment. He then would have moved up to no.6. This answers why he was weaker than GJ too, because he was originally weaker than GJ anyway. And yes, before the Espada meeting, we only knew the ranks of GJ & Yammi, so nothing rules it out. Also, SAP was kicked out of the Espada at one point (shown in the Nnoitra/Nel flashbacks), so there was room for Luppi. --Yyp 08:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Wait, we know that 9's always been an Espada and has never been kicked out, which makes the demotion idea tricky. I do agree with Grimmjow2's "no specific duty" hypothesis. Luppi's a general combat type, and was able to dish out a lot of damage so is stronger than 7 or 8, but both of them are really too useful. Plus we have some comments on how he thought he should've been an Espada sooner. I think Aizen just had him as sort of a 'reserve Espada', waiting for a slot to open. Kinda similar to Wonderweiss and how he's clearly Espada power but has no number. ZeroSD 04:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Well we know that the number 9 was always in the espada, but we also know he use to be a different rank, so maybe he just kept getting moved down as more was introduce, doesn't really stop Luppi from still being 7th

Didn't we see them all at the table before we saw their numbers? So it's not like there was a face there below 9 that got bumped off. ZeroSD 23:37, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

No we didn't see the table until after Ichigo and group broke into Huecho Mundo. The tabble gathering was done in response to them breaking in. The only espada we saw was Yammy, Batguy, Luppi, Harribel, Starrk, NNorita, and AA, and Grimmjow