User blog comment:Avolling/The Good Guys Will Not Die (Because Tite Kubo Is A Pushover)/@comment-1904799-20100323021259

I think my point wasn't made entirely clear. I'm not trying to say that Hinamori and Ukitake could reasonably be dead or Harribel alive; they could be, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.

I'm saying that the reason we think these things to be true is because, in the past they have been. Chances really are that Hinamori and Ukitake, mortal wounds notwithstanding, will live, and Harribel is, in all likelihood, dead.

We've translated this incorrectly. Character X, who is alive, is more often a good guy than a bad one, but Character X can just as well be Grimmjow or Tesla or Gatenbainne as it can be Hiyori. The mistake we seem to always make is that Character X must therefore equal Good Guy. And that's just not true. I was merely stating that at some point, Character X is going to be Aizen and the deceased Character Y is going to be Fan-Favorite Protagonist.