User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-5147109-20131211163958/@comment-14244059-20131211205003

@ Ten Tailed Fox

Who says a human can't stand up to a deity? And Shinigami are hardly deities, they're just human spirits with super powers. And what are Quincy? Humans with super powers.

Also, are you forgetting that a Quincy's main ability is to completely eradicate souls with their attacks? I don't know, but that feels like an advantage against a being that is a soul.

How are the Quincy not believable villains? I think they're damn fine villains; they don't play games and they have had a lot of time (you know, a 1000 years or so?) to build up their strategy and strengths. They've been waiting, watching and studying the Shinigami for that long, working out strategies to defeat them. If the Quincy couldn't put a dent in even the strongest of the Shinigami, I'd be extremely disappointed that 1000 years of planning doesn't mean squat. Yhwach is absolutely ruthless as well as cunning, as are his Stern Ritter and I'm getting a kick out of watching the Shinigami fall like dominoes. A group of boring invincible heroes makes for a boring story.

Not to mention that the Shinigami seem like really crappy warriors. I mean, what kind of experienced warrior explains his trump card's power to the guy he's attacking, especially when he seems to have his opponent on the ropes? And then he turns around and is surprised when his opponent attempts to negate the effect of his Bankai.

I'm not a trained warrior myself, so maybe I've got it all wrong, but I just think it's a really bad idea to give away all the secrets of my powers to the people who are trying to kill me.