Forum:Sōsuke Aizen (Volume 2)

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How can Aizen be defeated
-- Can Ichigo beat Aizen? No. Not without the help of the Vizards and Shinigami. The most interesting part of the combat won't be the fight against Aizen but what the other characters say, feel, and do. Together they will triumph. Thats not really in question IMO.

Which is a shame because Aizen remains supremely uninteresting in himself. He remains a cardboard cut-out of a villain who says and does things because thats what Big Bads do. We know more about his henchmen then we do of Aizen the leader. When Aizen speaks its only to taunt and verbally skewer his opponents. He speaks of hate and power...but nothing is ever really revealed about the man himself. No flashbacks to reveal why Aizen is such a mench. Aizen is just a shadow on the wall. A very poor choice of ultimate villain by the author of the series.

Heh...Gin would be doing us a favor by putting his blade through Aizen's head and taking up the mantle of Big Bad himself. At least Gin is interesting and shows some sigh of humanity under that mocking grin. Great Cthulhu 21:29, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

I actually think it's a good idea by the writers to not give away too much about Aizen. The characters and readers have the same sense that they really don't know anything about Aizen except that he seems to know everything before hand and is really strong, making his weakness hard to detect. If we knew everything his weaknesses would be obvious. I agree though, personally I'm pretty tired of his arrogance and would like Gin to play more of a role. In the end I'm guessing we'll get a few pieces to Aizen's background, probably from the Captain Commander or Urahara as the story progresses. Ihaveaname 20:51, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

No wonder, Yamamoto didn't stop Aizen in TBTP before he left to Hueco Mundo, I don't believe that Kubo would make Genryusai fight Aizen nor Gin. Anyway they won't be able to kill Aizen in a frontal but rather with a tricky move, say, like a reverse shadow for example...Ace of Spade 11:13, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

I would have been really disappointed if Ichigo, solo, had beaten Aizen through pure strength alone. He's been doing too much of that lately, it just isn't a good plot. Too predictable. Fortunately, the intervention of the Shinigami and Vizards looks as though we might get to see some more Shikais and Bankais - I really hope we get to see Shunsui and Jushiro's Bankais particularly, if Jushiro isn't dead. I still think a better way to end this would be for one of Aizen's subordinates to defeat him though, I'd been hoping for Tosen to do it.

What I think will probably happen, though, is all the Shinigami and Vizards are going to weaken Aizen and then Ichigo will Hollowfy and deal the finishing blow. We haven't seen much of Gin lately though, I suspect he'll probably put in an appearance once everybody seems to have forgotten about him. Snappydog 19:04, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

I think Aizen's character revolves around his ability to see the bigger picture. Throughtout the series you see how gaining power leads to being isolated and its safe to assume Aizen had reached that cap way b4 he was introduced in the series. So lets go back to Aizen seeing the bigger picture, think about it in his pov and how his only purpose as a soul reaper is to defeat hollow, just one constant rotation going around in circles. The only answer he was able to come up with was to break free from that circle and become a God and the whole hollowfication thing. His character seems like a very very lonley one and I'm sure his only real tie/relationship is with his Zanpakuto which I beleive is the reason he's so powerful.

Personally I don't think Ichigo can touch Aizen when it comes to strength and exp. The one thing Ichigo has over Aizen is his unconditinal attitude in protecting people to where those ties become his main source of strength. I can imagine someone jumping in to save Ichigo and dies, Ichigo does something crazy to where his resolve becomes his power which leads to Aizen getting caught offguard because he saw how powerful Ichigo became in such a short time keeping his ties close to him, and then Aizen thanking Ichigo as he delievers the final blow and aplogizeing to his old vice captain as he takes his last breath.

This may be confusing at first to most readers but if you try to think of Aizen's character and how he talks to people it'll all make sense. Very hard to find specfic examples to blur out my point but since its a differnt approach overall I can't expect people to understand.

"I can imagine someone jumping in to save Ichigo and dies, Ichigo does something crazy to where his resolve becomes his power which leads to Aizen getting caught offguard..." I actually kind of like this idea. Especially since Aizen went out of his way in the last chapter to mention how no one that went with Ichigo to Hueco Mundo died, so he doesn't have that to fight for. I could see Gin going overboard and taking someone out sending Ichigo over the edge. But for now I like that it's going to be everyone else vs. Aizen.Ihaveaname 17:07, January 19, 2010 (UTC)

-- "Especially since Aizen went out of his way in the last chapter to mention how no one that went with Ichigo to Hueco Mundo died, so he doesn't have that to fight for." And now you just revealed one more possible evidence to Aizen's super-genius: That he might have already deduced that Ichigo's resolve is his true unique source of power by the time of the Soul Society's closing act, and cleverly set things up so that not one of Ichigo's comrades had any real chance to die during their invasion of Las Noches... unless Soul Society actually goes agianst better judgement and abandons them to their doom, which in turn allows Aizen to put the blame squarely on their shoulders and divert Ichigo's rage from him and towards the "true" guilty party. Goddamn it, how can Aizen be so... so... Canon Marty Stu-ish? And yet he's one of my favourite archvillains, next to Sephiroth (FF7) and Vergil (DMC). MarqFJA 22:45, January 22, 2010 (UTC)

Aizen's power is making illusions, so was Muramasa's. Zangetsu allowed Ichigo to counter it by fighting through him and making him keep his eyes cloesd. This is a possible way to beat Aizen, and it being in the anime gives it some credibility, at least. But I'm sure if this was what Tite was planning, he's gonna change it now since the anime already did it.Grimmjow2 21:37, January 27, 2010 (UTC)

Possible flaw in Kyouka Suigetsu's "Complete Hypnosis"?
One thing that's been making me suspicious for a while is this: if his "Complete Hypnosis" is so unbreakable, why didn't he just off Unohana and Isane in Central 46 and be done with it? Even if official battle data stats aren't everything, he managed to easily take down Hitsugaya at 560 vs. 500, and Gin had been evenly matched against the other white-haired Captain - and nearly took his head off at one point - in their one and only confrontation (no Bankai use, though), despite a 20 point disadvantage. Unohana is only 540 vs. Aizen's 560, and the only actual advantage that she has on him is 10 points in Physical Endurance, while lagging behind him in both Defense (10 points) and Mobility (20 points); factor in his "Complete Hypnosis", and the ultimate winner should've been easily clear.

In light of the aforementioned facts, I suspect that there's a fundamental yet hard-to-detect flaw in Kyouka Suigetsu's signature, nearly-broken ability... one that Aizen knows that not only someone with Unohana's experience can discover almost immediately if given the chance, but could also be utilized by anyone once they are informed of it, explaining why he opted to escape rather than risk the miniscule possibility that she might survive his initial attack and uncover his shikai's weakness. MarqFJA 22:45, January 22, 2010 (UTC)