Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃 This was a really tough list to make, and to be honest I'm still not set on it... let me know which abilities you think are the most terrifying in the series and how you'd change my list too, I'd love to know!
Happy Halloween Tommy. And I still think respira is like the number one most terrifying ability. Soi Fon, was not the best choice to face that dude. But she did still win. I digress.
I think the book of the end could possibly beat Aizen kanzen saimin because it can also enter the swords past as well. Possibly having the sword believing that he once touch the sword before the the release. Just a suggestion.
I think Aizen's shikai is the most frightening. Perfect hypnosis. Complete loss of a piece of reality. Chilling. Edit: I sent that at the beginning of watching this, during Kyoraku's showcase. Now I'm mid-#1. 🙌🍻
For real. The thought of him mentally screaming in agony for centuries as the sword slowly and inexorably pierces him and he begs for death is just messed up.
Barragan's senescence ability could have been a great asset during the Thousand Year blood War. It would be rather difficult for the Quincy to use their schrifts or other abilities while their bodies are disintegrating from Rapid aging
Ichibei's anti-resurrection shrine is hands-down one of my favorite attacks/ abilities in all of fiction... the buildup, the chant, the implications, the fact that he can steal nights from the future, Kubo fucking cooked with this one...
Barragan's sure put the fear of death in Soifon, a ruthless assassin who deals it nonchalantly. Suddenly she felt what her targets likely felt as she approached them, ready to end them with a smirk on her face. Yamamoto's really shows what a pure beast he was and sheer incalculable amount of victims he left in his wake be they guilty or innocent. Those that alter senses and change perceptions are among the most terrifying and dangerous.
One that I feel could be argued for at least an honourable mention is an ability that isn't technically horrifying in and of itself, but in how it can be applied. Healing Kido. Captain Unohana uses it on both herself and her opponent simply to extend the fight, locking them in a cycle of death and rebirth entirely at her whims. that is HORRIFIC when you really think about it. Imagine what could be done with healing magic in the wrong hands. Torture and abuse that only ends when they WANT it to end. Nasty.
Zaraki Kenpachi is so terrifying that Kubo, himself, had to constantly find ways to get rid of him that NO ONE else in the story had to face. Zaraki's plot armor was him losing and being without JUST to make him less of a problem
I mean, that's kinda on Kubo for making Kenpachi too powerful. If you can't find a way to deal with a character other than reverse plot armor then you shouldn't have made that character too powerful. Kubo even doubled down on this by making Unohana sacrifice herself so Kenpachi can access his true power, his beyond captain level power he had when he was just a child 🤦♂️.
@@herpderp5727 We're not arguing that, if anything, we agree. Honestly, we don't see anything wrong with making him that powerful. If Kubo wants to write it that way, he's made millions of dollars circulate because of it, and he has the right to do so. As fans of Zaraki Kenpachi, that's what makes him so terrifying. There are things in our REALITY that we can't explain and often is crazier than fiction. Sometimes the most frightening things seem so simple to avoid, and yet, they still happen. A LOT. The man fought TWO aspects of the Soul King and wasn't even at a SNIFF of his most powerful form. NO Hakuda training, NO Kido training, ONE day of Zanjutsu with Yamamoto, NO Hoho training. That's horrifying!
I would definitely put Izuru’s sword ability on the list,after being hit by the sword and being weighed down just knowing that he’s about to put that sword under your neck and decapitate you and you can’t do anything to stop it is pretty horrifying.
Obviously it isn’t in the manga, but Hisagi’s Bankai is kinda scary to me. You may be stronger than him off the bat, but when he activates Fushi no Kojyo your power is going to be split and then start to be sapped over time til you can barely move. You can’t win by killing him, the chains pull him back together, so you’re stuck fighting until you run out of power and are left lying on the ground, waiting for someone to finish you off. Maybe not scary to most people, but definitely a bit frightening to think about for me.
I can't agree that Kyōraku's Bankai is terrifying. It makes me really sad, especially when his zanpakuto talks him into dying. And since bankai reflects the character’s inner world and the zanpakuto is essentially the owner himself, then dying is what he really wants(
Love this list, although I wish Orihime's powers had been mentioned. I know, biased lol I suppose it's because she never uses it in a terrifying way. But consider... she can undo anything. What if she never stopped "healing" a wound? What if she just kept going until the person was dead? She could undo time. She SHOULD HAVE been able to undo what Ywach did to Ichigo's zanpakutou, but Kubo was like "lol what if I bring back Tsukushima instead of letting Orihime use her powers" and I'm still salty. Her powers literally "trespass on God's territory" according to Aizen, and I trust his word (funnily enough). I think she has terrifying potential.
Can't believe you didn't put Guenael Lee on this list. His Vanishing Point abilities are quite op and scary. They give him invisibility, intangibility and imperceptibility. The only way to detect and defeat him is thru animal instincts.
In one sense it's horrible but if you think about the criteria it's supposed to be "how scary is this for the person going up against it?" Which, in the case of Vanishing Point, isn't much at all. You just forget Guanael is there and die.
I mean...he lost to a kid. He doesn't even possess any weapon. He's the definition of all bark, no bite or barely any bite. On paper he sounds broken. That's it.
The most terrifying part about barragan's senescence is that we dont know if theres an actual counter to it, like every ability in bleach has a sort of soft or hard counter to it like aizen's kyokasuigetsu being nullified when you tocuh his blade or the allmighty being susceptible to kyokasuigetsu but for the senescence, we dont know what is its counter at al even after an entire arc and come and gone which is fitting for an ability that symbolizes death
Seeing Mayuri's Bankai first time gave me chills... That deformed baby body and scream with the blades and poison. I remember it's fight Vs Sawatari in the Bounto Arc.
Antithesis to me is terrifying. Not being able to do anything to Uryu, as he will reverse it onto you, or between any other objects, is mind-boggling... It doesn't look scary, but it most certainly feels like that.
Antithesis is indeed a fascinating and potentially terrifying ability in the world of Bleach. Uryu Ishida's Antithesis ability allows him to reverse any two events that have occurred, essentially swapping the cause and effect. While it may not have a visually intimidating appearance, the concept is deeply unsettling and powerful.
I'd personally switch the first and second spots. Sure, Aizen's ability to control his victim's perception of reality is terrifying, but it just doesn't equal the level of messed-up F'ery that Tsukishima's "Book of the End" can inflict. At least with Aizen, your mind, and your friends' and family's minds, are left intact. They are still themselves when under Aizen's absolute hypnosis. The Lost Agent arc showed us that that was not the case with Tsukishima, which makes it all the more messed up.
@@Plazumah That's fair. Aizen never used kanzen saimin to truly inflict as much mental anguish as possible, the way Tsukishima did in Lost Agent, so his abilities weren't really used to their full potential throughout the series.
Here’s the difference Tsukushima - Requires a cut to activate Aizen- ONE SINGLE glance at his sword and for lack of better words, your life is over, you’re dead, gone, unless he decides to turn it off Just like yuha”s almighty, kyoka suigetsu is a concept in reality itself.
Indeed. Him altering everyone's perceptions and putting himself into your history for his own ends is a truly unnerving and the fact that it dramatically affected Ichigo makes it truly terrifying.
I personally think book of the end is just too traumatizing to not be no.1. Aizen's hypnosis might be extremely frightening, but having everyone you know turn against you of their own free will is just crazy.
Personally, Katen Kyoukotsu Karamatsu Shinjuu is definitely up there. It must be absolutely horrofying to have all those things happen to you seemingly without reason or ability to be blocked or evaded.
One thing I’ve always found so interesting is Aizen never uses Kyoka Suigetsu to its most fucked up possibilities. Imagine someone hypnotized into feeling insects eating them alive from the inside out or triggering such messed up hallucinations that it’s mentally scarring or leading to heart failure from fear and delusion or never believing in reality again. It’s sort of horrifying to think of the “what ifs”
I’m a few hours late but just wanted to say happy Halloween Tom and thank you for all the good work you put into your videos. It’s been a good year for all of us Bleach fans.
"7 second ago". Holy shit, this is the first time I see "seconds". This gonna be good. I can guess two of them, but not sure if they'll be in the top 3 or not.
I thought Yumichika’s Shikai ability might make the list. After seemingly defeating him and inflicting wounds that seem perhaps Mortal he activates it, sapping you off your life energy and leaving you helpless to watch as your life energy serves to heal him, leaving you entirely in his mercy.
Good list once again and i love how you went into detail about how scary kyokasuigetsu actually is but what's truly terrifying is, as we all know a bankai is basically the basic abilities of a sword pushed to the limit/some new evolution and getting the apex of that ability so my question is this. Given all that we've seen of kyokasuigetsu and its feats and how terrifying it is it really makes me wonder, what the hell is aizens bankai actually like??!! How could kyokasuigetsu possibly get worse than what we've already seen??!!
The most terrifying ability in Bleach is Gizelle’s control over Bambi. Such a strong ability the creators of TYBW anime decided to showcase it over extra content.
24:46 I'd rather say, that it's a shame that Barragan existed in the Fake Karakura Arc, as the lowers Espadas in Hueco Mundo actually were shown rather well(except for Aaroniero, and even then he was more than undefeateble from the Rukia's standpoint)
As someone who actually lives the real life Book of the End that happens to Ichigo. I doubt Ichigo ever could recover, as someone who happen to around same age, it literally changes the entire course of your life after. Sucks.
Kyoka Suigetsu is, by far, my favorite ability in all of bleach. From my understanding of all the aspects of it, if Aizen still had access to it during the TYBW, even Yhabach couldn't have broken through with the Almighty, because he would only be able to see what Aizen would want him to see.
Auschwählen should have been an honorable mention because imagine what it's like being any community of Quincy for at least the past millennium. You're living in hiding, preserving the Quincy bloodline as best you can, getting picked off by Hollows and Shinigami all the while. That's hard enough, but you're also living with the knowledge that when Ywach wakes up, he will just steal away the power and lives of the "unworthy", potentially including you or your loved ones. Heck, we've indirectly seen in the source material how the fear of Ywach's selection was the driving force behind many of the Stërnritters' actions.
A very good video. ^^ I still like the comparisons between Aizen's and Shinji's Shikai since the former controls the first five senses and the latter controls the five next senses :P
You make an excellent point lol. Soi Fon, the captain of the 2nd Division in the Gotei 13 and a highly skilled and composed shinigami, being so alarmed that she calls for help from Omaeda in the presence of Tsukishima speaks to the sheer terror and unpredictability of his "Book of the End" ability. When a character as formidable as Soi Fon is visibly shaken by a power, it underscores the fear-inducing nature of that ability.
That hundreds/thousands of years per second potion got me to the core. Imagine if he took an hour to torture him, that would be between hundreds of thousands to MILLIONS of years of torture….. so messed up
I 💯 agree with no. 1, there's nothing more terrifying than an ability that makes you question your own reality itself. And even if you did realize what's actually happening to you, there's literally nothing you can do about it. Not only that but Aizen can literally fashion his ability to replicate that of any ability that you can think of, to some degree. If he wanted to, he can replicate As Nodt's fear, he can replicate Tousen's bankai, he can replicate literally almost anything because he has control over your senses. And while these are just merely illusions, to the victim they are made to believe that it's real. And that's why it's so terrifying.
Happy Halloween Also when quilge use sklav reí I always wondered if would it be terrifying if any living beings absorb in to a Quincy would they be still conscious
@@ImperialImplant I feel that one piece darkness comes from reflection on our real world. I don't think Bleach did anything which felt as awful as learning the past of Kuma and circumstances of Bonney's birth. Or the history of the Boa siblings. The reality of the smile fruits. Bleach has more world ending threats and conventionally evil people. But they're all too far fetched to feel as dark as some of the evil in one piece
Great video! I personally was surprised to see no Unohana bankai on this list. To me an amazingly scary woman wielding a blood whip is terrifying lol. Not sure what number I would put it but yea being soaked in a pool of blood and then being attacked by blood? would be so scary.
I know that it's not the topic, nor anyone is going to read this, but I just had a theory in my head about the upcoming cour 3 of Bleach TYBW, so kinda *spoiler alert*, most likely. What if after Yhwach unlocks his Allmighty, he actually reverts the effect of Senjumaru's Bankai and alter the future of battle between Squad 0 and the Elite Sternritters, so we get back to the manga variant of fight, making both canon? It's messy, but I hope anyone reading gets the idea.
Not sure where I would place it on this list, but I would personally add Tres Bestia and Ayon. Probably the most memorable showings from a fraccion out of the entire Hueco Mundo Arc and that scene when he finally opens his eyes, bone chilling. I'm a little glad Ayon got a small feature in Quilge's ranking.
My opinion: 1 almighty 2 hogioko and miracle 3 visionary 4 ichibei 5 antithesis 6 balance 7 senjumaru banKai 8 kyouraku banKAi and Yamamoto bankai 9 askin and pernida 10 book of the end and aizen zanpakto 11 adult toshiro and urahara bankai .
Lille's final form in general deserves at least an honorable mention imo, although i can understand if you excluded him because it's more of a collective of everything than just 1 ability
The craziest thing about the super human drug is that its now in the new younger hachigo Nemu. And to think Mayuri takes her into fights as well i pity the enemy who focuses on her thinking she is a helpless little kid.
The superhuman drug is the scariest to me imagine being on a terrible drug trip for a thousand years begging for it to be over begging for death and nothing can be done that’s literally a LIVING HELL
21:41 at last gremmy and his visionary are getting credit can you imagine a villain who can just drown you into a sea of insects by just his mere thought this is the most terrifying ability of all as it can do literally anything that the user's imagination can reach
I also love the fact that there was one person we know of that is completely immune to Aizen's ability... Tousen the blind man who Aizen genuinely used Tousens grievences, the underhanded nature of the Soul Society, the death of his best friend to Aizen's advantage to convince Tousen into following him until his demise. In a 1v1 Aizen still has far more spiritual pressure, superior intelligent, fighting skills and kido skills to completely outclass Tousen however it is hilarious to me that Tousens greatest weakness was his strength against the man that helped him gain everything even his sight at the end of his life.
The balance was scary to me as you can be confident that you’ll win if you’re stronger than Haschwalth but as soon as you get the upper hand and see those giant scales you know you’re doomed, although I think it being scary is applicable only if you know what the ability does like the sternritter do. It drains all hope from Cang Du when he sees the scales whereas he was not scared at all beforehand. The ability of Gremmy’s little old thing he imagined was pretty creepy too, erasing itself from your memory at will, but I guess that would fall under the visionary umbrella.
Mayuri could have been on multiple entries on this list. His zanpakto made up of one of the failed nemu clones. The Paralyzing aspect of his shika and the implications of that being used by a mad scientist you laying there paralyzed while he is experimenting on you and able to feel everything. His Espada fight was listed, but his hitsuguya fight could also be listed: not just for the fact he gave him a drug that put his mind into a time loop that eventually caused hitsuguya's brain to short circuit, but as Mayuri stated: when did he have the opportunity to administer the drug in the first place? While hitsuguya was a zombie, or while he was alive and a regular ally, how many days, weeks, months, years ago did he administer the medication without hitsuguya knowing, who else has he given one of his experimental drugs to?
#12 The irony is interesting. The quincy were attacked in part because they destroyed hollow souls - removing them from the soul cycle. So he is doing to Yhwach, what the Quincy do to Hollow souls. #11 Mayuri is the master of "Fate worse than death". #8 The guy kinda looks like early AI art. Like something was trying to draw a human, but utterly failed. Same with As-Nodt. #4 It is basically "Allmight, light". It's only weakness was it's user. And that was by design. #2 Definitely a good number 2. #1 It is not entirely flawless. It has one weakness: High level Reiatsu sensing. Both Unohana and Yamamoto were able to overcome it on that angle. I also find it interesting that the two sense/illusion Zanpaktou seemingly have weakness to being touched. Kanames Bankai was suspended while Kenpachi held his hilt. While you can stop Kyoka Suigetsu by touching the blade with your hand, before it is activated.
I would love an video ranking all Capitains with feats by power. (Both past arcs and present arcs) it would be a great counterpoint to the Sternhitter you did
if we are talking about power then the quincies outnumber them massively and the high tier ones have the most broken hax in the series. Espada get murdered badly
i feel like perhaps the balance should've been an honourable mention. the fact that any good thing in your life could be the death of you surviving a situation yet still doomed your ability to fight and thrive will punish you two-fold. i think cang du best showed us how scary it is.
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 Barragan, like many other characters bleach, was wasted. Imagine how devastating his ability would have been in the TYBW. BUT there’s still hope!! (For those who have read the new chapter u know what I mean😏)
cmon man why is almighty so low? 😅 did you even see the dread and anguish on ichigo's face when his bankai, his trump card, was so effortlessly snapped in half like a twig by Yhwach? also *fear itself* is only 7th???
What makes Aizen's ability even more terrifying than someone like Grammy's is the difference in intellectual capability between the two. Aizen's concept for manipulation and imagination is near infinite as shown in the manga and show. It is a terrifying ability on its own but coupled with Aizen's mind it becomes truly the most horrifying thing to experience in all of Bleach and maybe all of anime. Also, I feel like the superhuman drug wouldve been ranked ALOT higher if it was an actual ability. I feel like that's the only reason it's so low because I can't think of anything (except maybe Kyoka Suigetsu or Book of the End) that is worse than falling prey to that drug.
for a while when ywach revealed his cheaty power of cheating, i thought he was going to use it to remove the effects of Kyouka Suigetsu from himself, just like he decided to to NOT be affected by Ichibei's power over names (which i thought was even more powerful than Aizen's hypnosis). I'm also surprised you didn't put The Almighty higher on the list. The ability to erase any future you don't like the results of with no downside or drawback or cooldown, infinitely repeatable forever looked to me like the most teerifying EVER.
Imagine you're being hypnotized by Aizen while everyone else around you is technically both against you and maybe not actually your closest friends and family by using Book Of The End.
No surprise that Aizen superfan MrTommo would list Kanzen Saimin as the most terrifying Bleach ability lol. But in all seriousness, the terror of dealing with Kyouka Suigetsu is well demonstrated by the actions of Aizen's treacherous lieutenant, Gin. Gin feigned loyalty to Aizen and served him perfectly for 100 years in order to get close enough to kill him, but I've heard a lot of people complain that he waited too long and wonder why he didn't take any number of other perfect moments to kill Aizen while he was in his confidence, and there are two reasons. The first is that his other objective was getting his hands on Rangiku's lost portion of soul to return it to her, and it seems clear that opportunity only came once he realized Aizen had integrated his completed Hogyoku into himself. The second reason is the important one in the context of this video, of course. Gin knew that Aizen's Kanzen Saimin could be active on him at any time, at any moment, and so he NEVER felt safe making his attempt. He himself claimed that Aizen's sheer strength and power were more frightening, but even so, he believed his own power was enough to completely overcome Aizen and kill him if he could only take him by surprise, but 100 years he couldn't guarantee that. Gin could NEVER KNOW if Aizen was messing with him or not. Kill him in his sleep? But what if he wasn't really sleeping? What if he WAS sleeping, but was somehow using his power to make him seem somewhere else? Aizen's ability to repaint the world is so all-encompassing, everyone around who really understands his power realizes they are living in the Matrix, reality itself a question that can't be answered. He had to wait for years...and years...and years...resisting every temptation, every apparent weakness, every possibility of action, until the one moment when Aizen clearly had his guard down and Gin could absolutely guarantee that he knew he wasn't under Kyouka Suigetsu's spell by laying casual hold of the sword. Even then, since he had just come from knocking out Rangiku, I always got the sense that even this attempt was desperation because Rangiku had forced his hand; if she hadn't shown up, he probably would have continued waiting, allowing Aizen to create the Ouken just so he could find a more perfect moment, but since Rangiku would have been sacrificed for it now, he was out of time to wait. It's a more 'casual' terrifying, in a way, than many of the more visceral abilities from earlier in the list, but I won't actually complain about it being #1, because it truly is terrifying to think that you can't act against him because at each and every moment you could be being manipulated into doing something else, something self-destructive or actively harmful to your closest friends and loved ones, simply because he changes the whole world, or at least your perception of it, with his impenetrable illusions.
I wholeheartedly think that Tsukishima’s Book of the End is Kubo taking the concept of a self-insert character and twisting it into something terrifying. Imagine living your normal life and then suddenly you’re a stranger to everyone you ever knew and everything you ever accomplished is instead credited to some random nobody because they decided they wanted your life for themselves.
Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃 This was a really tough list to make, and to be honest I'm still not set on it... let me know which abilities you think are the most terrifying in the series and how you'd change my list too, I'd love to know!
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween Tommy. And I still think respira is like the number one most terrifying ability. Soi Fon, was not the best choice to face that dude. But she did still win. I digress.
I think the book of the end could possibly beat Aizen kanzen saimin because it can also enter the swords past as well. Possibly having the sword believing that he once touch the sword before the the release. Just a suggestion.
do the most graceful or beautiful abilities next
I think Aizen's shikai is the most frightening. Perfect hypnosis. Complete loss of a piece of reality. Chilling.
Edit: I sent that at the beginning of watching this, during Kyoraku's showcase. Now I'm mid-#1. 🙌🍻
Even if it’s not technically an ability I’m glad you included the superhuman drug. That was the most horrifying way to die I’ve ever seen
For real. The thought of him mentally screaming in agony for centuries as the sword slowly and inexorably pierces him and he begs for death is just messed up.
Agreed. That's such a nightmarish way to go out...
Barragan's senescence ability could have been a great asset during the Thousand Year blood War. It would be rather difficult for the Quincy to use their schrifts or other abilities while their bodies are disintegrating from Rapid aging
It would rip apart pernida
Barragan is so wasted
@@MrHacks-lo1xnno, Pernida is stronger
Definitely Would’ve Helped Against The Soul Kings Reatsu When It Came Crashing Down To The Soul Society
Considering Yhwach is powerless at night, Barragan's abilities seem like an autowin prior to Almighty
Ichibei's anti-resurrection shrine is hands-down one of my favorite attacks/ abilities in all of fiction... the buildup, the chant, the implications, the fact that he can steal nights from the future, Kubo fucking cooked with this one...
Cant wait to see it in action in the next season. Hopefully they expand a little on this ability.
Askin's Death Dealing definitely deserves a spot on the list for how it can turn things vital for life into a deadly poison with ease.
Barragan's sure put the fear of death in Soifon, a ruthless assassin who deals it nonchalantly. Suddenly she felt what her targets likely felt as she approached them, ready to end them with a smirk on her face. Yamamoto's really shows what a pure beast he was and sheer incalculable amount of victims he left in his wake be they guilty or innocent. Those that alter senses and change perceptions are among the most terrifying and dangerous.
Honorable mention is Kira’s shikai just because being forced down knowing you are about to be executed has got to be scary
Yeah it’s terrifying but sadly he can’t use it cause enemy’s are too strong
Unohanna healing me just because she likes killing me would send me over the edge😭😭😭
One that I feel could be argued for at least an honourable mention is an ability that isn't technically horrifying in and of itself, but in how it can be applied. Healing Kido. Captain Unohana uses it on both herself and her opponent simply to extend the fight, locking them in a cycle of death and rebirth entirely at her whims. that is HORRIFIC when you really think about it. Imagine what could be done with healing magic in the wrong hands. Torture and abuse that only ends when they WANT it to end. Nasty.
Zaraki Kenpachi is so terrifying that Kubo, himself, had to constantly find ways to get rid of him that NO ONE else in the story had to face. Zaraki's plot armor was him losing and being without JUST to make him less of a problem
I mean, that's kinda on Kubo for making Kenpachi too powerful. If you can't find a way to deal with a character other than reverse plot armor then you shouldn't have made that character too powerful. Kubo even doubled down on this by making Unohana sacrifice herself so Kenpachi can access his true power, his beyond captain level power he had when he was just a child 🤦♂️.
@@herpderp5727 We're not arguing that, if anything, we agree. Honestly, we don't see anything wrong with making him that powerful. If Kubo wants to write it that way, he's made millions of dollars circulate because of it, and he has the right to do so. As fans of Zaraki Kenpachi, that's what makes him so terrifying. There are things in our REALITY that we can't explain and often is crazier than fiction. Sometimes the most frightening things seem so simple to avoid, and yet, they still happen. A LOT. The man fought TWO aspects of the Soul King and wasn't even at a SNIFF of his most powerful form. NO Hakuda training, NO Kido training, ONE day of Zanjutsu with Yamamoto, NO Hoho training. That's horrifying!
I would definitely put Izuru’s sword ability on the list,after being hit by the sword and being weighed down just knowing that he’s about to put that sword under your neck and decapitate you and you can’t do anything to stop it is pretty horrifying.
potential with no results
Wabisuke is super cracked man
Obviously it isn’t in the manga, but Hisagi’s Bankai is kinda scary to me. You may be stronger than him off the bat, but when he activates Fushi no Kojyo your power is going to be split and then start to be sapped over time til you can barely move. You can’t win by killing him, the chains pull him back together, so you’re stuck fighting until you run out of power and are left lying on the ground, waiting for someone to finish you off. Maybe not scary to most people, but definitely a bit frightening to think about for me.
I can't agree that Kyōraku's Bankai is terrifying. It makes me really sad, especially when his zanpakuto talks him into dying. And since bankai reflects the character’s inner world and the zanpakuto is essentially the owner himself, then dying is what he really wants(
It's terrifying from his opponent/target's POV. That's basically what this list is about.
Wow Deep Analyse you all are so greattt at analyzing
@@zero_x98yeah you both are correct
Love this list, although I wish Orihime's powers had been mentioned. I know, biased lol I suppose it's because she never uses it in a terrifying way. But consider... she can undo anything. What if she never stopped "healing" a wound? What if she just kept going until the person was dead? She could undo time. She SHOULD HAVE been able to undo what Ywach did to Ichigo's zanpakutou, but Kubo was like "lol what if I bring back Tsukushima instead of letting Orihime use her powers" and I'm still salty. Her powers literally "trespass on God's territory" according to Aizen, and I trust his word (funnily enough). I think she has terrifying potential.
Can't believe you didn't put Guenael Lee on this list. His Vanishing Point abilities are quite op and scary. They give him invisibility, intangibility and imperceptibility. The only way to detect and defeat him is thru animal instincts.
In one sense it's horrible but if you think about the criteria it's supposed to be "how scary is this for the person going up against it?" Which, in the case of Vanishing Point, isn't much at all. You just forget Guanael is there and die.
@@thegoodiemen5963 But that's only if he wants you to forget.
I mean...he lost to a kid. He doesn't even possess any weapon. He's the definition of all bark, no bite or barely any bite. On paper he sounds broken. That's it.
Mans is pretty weak.
To be fair, he was merely imagined into existence by the Visionary, so if anything his powers are more just a subset of Gremmy's.
The most terrifying part about barragan's senescence is that we dont know if theres an actual counter to it, like every ability in bleach has a sort of soft or hard counter to it like aizen's kyokasuigetsu being nullified when you tocuh his blade or the allmighty being susceptible to kyokasuigetsu but for the senescence, we dont know what is its counter at al even after an entire arc and come and gone which is fitting for an ability that symbolizes death
Seeing Mayuri's Bankai first time gave me chills... That deformed baby body and scream with the blades and poison. I remember it's fight Vs Sawatari in the Bounto Arc.
Tite Kubo is so creative when it comes to Creating Powers for his characters there's nobody that does it better.
Creative but he leaves them useless due to lack of use and writing his self in holes he can’t get out of
One of the worst writers in shonen history
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Antithesis to me is terrifying. Not being able to do anything to Uryu, as he will reverse it onto you, or between any other objects, is mind-boggling...
It doesn't look scary, but it most certainly feels like that.
I think it goes beyond that, imagine if he crushes a stone next to you and reversed the effect with your body
@@oghaze9318 Yeah, I know, isn't that what I said? 😂
I agree with you.
Antithesis is indeed a fascinating and potentially terrifying ability in the world of Bleach. Uryu Ishida's Antithesis ability allows him to reverse any two events that have occurred, essentially swapping the cause and effect. While it may not have a visually intimidating appearance, the concept is deeply unsettling and powerful.
Giselle and Pepe will always be the scariest imo. Mind control abilities in the hands of depraved creeps is the definition of horror.
I'd personally switch the first and second spots. Sure, Aizen's ability to control his victim's perception of reality is terrifying, but it just doesn't equal the level of messed-up F'ery that Tsukishima's "Book of the End" can inflict. At least with Aizen, your mind, and your friends' and family's minds, are left intact. They are still themselves when under Aizen's absolute hypnosis. The Lost Agent arc showed us that that was not the case with Tsukishima, which makes it all the more messed up.
But kyoka suigetsu could technically make your friends or family see things that would affect how they perceive you
It's a question of the difference between illusions and reality warping. At the level of Kanzen Saimin, I think that difference collapses.
Aizen could have used his ability to do much worse, personally I think the abilities are interchangeable in rank.
@@Plazumah That's fair. Aizen never used kanzen saimin to truly inflict as much mental anguish as possible, the way Tsukishima did in Lost Agent, so his abilities weren't really used to their full potential throughout the series.
Here’s the difference
Tsukushima - Requires a cut to activate
Aizen- ONE SINGLE glance at his sword and for lack of better words, your life is over, you’re dead, gone, unless he decides to turn it off
Just like yuha”s almighty, kyoka suigetsu is a concept in reality itself.
Tsukishima is definitely the scariest for me
Indeed. Him altering everyone's perceptions and putting himself into your history for his own ends is a truly unnerving and the fact that it dramatically affected Ichigo makes it truly terrifying.
What, uncle tsukishima is such a great guy though. He helped me find my dog one time when she ran away
@@manuelacosta9463 Perceptions? Dude's outright altering the past.
Yes but he’s weak
I personally think book of the end is just too traumatizing to not be no.1. Aizen's hypnosis might be extremely frightening, but having everyone you know turn against you of their own free will is just crazy.
Respira was one of the genuinely most shocking moments in Bleach. I remember reading it for the first time and being wide eyed
Personally, Katen Kyoukotsu Karamatsu Shinjuu is definitely up there. It must be absolutely horrofying to have all those things happen to you seemingly without reason or ability to be blocked or evaded.
And the only chance of possibly surviving it is to just be divine. NBD
@@Suto_Ko Is that ai generated?
One thing I’ve always found so interesting is Aizen never uses Kyoka Suigetsu to its most fucked up possibilities. Imagine someone hypnotized into feeling insects eating them alive from the inside out or triggering such messed up hallucinations that it’s mentally scarring or leading to heart failure from fear and delusion or never believing in reality again.
It’s sort of horrifying to think of the “what ifs”
It’s already horrifying the way he use it this things to insects belongs to as nodt Aizen is more horrifying then that
I’m a few hours late but just wanted to say happy Halloween Tom and thank you for all the good work you put into your videos. It’s been a good year for all of us Bleach fans.
"7 second ago". Holy shit, this is the first time I see "seconds".
This gonna be good. I can guess two of them, but not sure if they'll be in the top 3 or not.
I thought Yumichika’s Shikai ability might make the list. After seemingly defeating him and inflicting wounds that seem perhaps Mortal he activates it, sapping you off your life energy and leaving you helpless to watch as your life energy serves to heal him, leaving you entirely in his mercy.
Good list once again and i love how you went into detail about how scary kyokasuigetsu actually is but what's truly terrifying is, as we all know a bankai is basically the basic abilities of a sword pushed to the limit/some new evolution and getting the apex of that ability so my question is this. Given all that we've seen of kyokasuigetsu and its feats and how terrifying it is it really makes me wonder, what the hell is aizens bankai actually like??!! How could kyokasuigetsu possibly get worse than what we've already seen??!!
The most terrifying ability in Bleach is Gizelle’s control over Bambi. Such a strong ability the creators of TYBW anime decided to showcase it over extra content.
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24:46 I'd rather say, that it's a shame that Barragan existed in the Fake Karakura Arc, as the lowers Espadas in Hueco Mundo actually were shown rather well(except for Aaroniero, and even then he was more than undefeateble from the Rukia's standpoint)
As someone who actually lives the real life Book of the End that happens to Ichigo.
I doubt Ichigo ever could recover, as someone who happen to around same age, it literally changes the entire course of your life after.
Sucks.
Kyoka Suigetsu is, by far, my favorite ability in all of bleach. From my understanding of all the aspects of it, if Aizen still had access to it during the TYBW, even Yhabach couldn't have broken through with the Almighty, because he would only be able to see what Aizen would want him to see.
he did have access to it
Auschwählen should have been an honorable mention because imagine what it's like being any community of Quincy for at least the past millennium. You're living in hiding, preserving the Quincy bloodline as best you can, getting picked off by Hollows and Shinigami all the while. That's hard enough, but you're also living with the knowledge that when Ywach wakes up, he will just steal away the power and lives of the "unworthy", potentially including you or your loved ones. Heck, we've indirectly seen in the source material how the fear of Ywach's selection was the driving force behind many of the Stërnritters' actions.
Barragan, Ichibae, Yamamoto, Askin, Jugram, Aizen, Ywach
A very good video. ^^
I still like the comparisons between Aizen's and Shinji's Shikai since the former controls the first five senses and the latter controls the five next senses :P
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I never noticed the bones sticking out of Yoruichi's arm until this. That's really raw
Why would anyone be scared of Uncle Tsukishima? Other than that, you know an ability is scary when Soi Fon is shouting for Omaeda's help.
Indeed. Tsukishima has been a good friend and mentor to me for many years now.
@@mdj2061 He's been my best friend for years now.
You make an excellent point lol. Soi Fon, the captain of the 2nd Division in the Gotei 13 and a highly skilled and composed shinigami, being so alarmed that she calls for help from Omaeda in the presence of Tsukishima speaks to the sheer terror and unpredictability of his "Book of the End" ability. When a character as formidable as Soi Fon is visibly shaken by a power, it underscores the fear-inducing nature of that ability.
This is a fun seasonal video idea, Tommo!
That hundreds/thousands of years per second potion got me to the core. Imagine if he took an hour to torture him, that would be between hundreds of thousands to MILLIONS of years of torture….. so messed up
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I 💯 agree with no. 1, there's nothing more terrifying than an ability that makes you question your own reality itself. And even if you did realize what's actually happening to you, there's literally nothing you can do about it.
Not only that but Aizen can literally fashion his ability to replicate that of any ability that you can think of, to some degree. If he wanted to, he can replicate As Nodt's fear, he can replicate Tousen's bankai, he can replicate literally almost anything because he has control over your senses. And while these are just merely illusions, to the victim they are made to believe that it's real. And that's why it's so terrifying.
Kenpachi Kuruyashikis abilities should be on the list. His shikai and bankai are terrifying
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I remember Shunsui panicking when Tokinada used Kyouka Suigetsu, got shivers reading it
Imagine yhwach using every Quincy powers combined with the Almighty OMG he'd be ultra broken
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Also when quilge use sklav reí I always wondered if would it be terrifying if any living beings absorb in to a Quincy would they be still conscious
“All Black in the word belongs to me”- The Ancient Monk charged with protecting the current state of the three realms.
Book of the end is basically the Almighty in reverse 😂
Hey, Mr. Tom, do a video with dead Espanda that could have help in the thousand year blood war
Bleach managed to be the darkest out of big 3
Totally agree
I feel in terms of imagery I'd agree, but I feel that One Piece touches on darker subject matter when it comes to the big 3
@@Mooinator3000 Bleach has much more sinister themes and undertones
@@ImperialImplant I feel that one piece darkness comes from reflection on our real world. I don't think Bleach did anything which felt as awful as learning the past of Kuma and circumstances of Bonney's birth. Or the history of the Boa siblings. The reality of the smile fruits.
Bleach has more world ending threats and conventionally evil people. But they're all too far fetched to feel as dark as some of the evil in one piece
Great video! I personally was surprised to see no Unohana bankai on this list. To me an amazingly scary woman wielding a blood whip is terrifying lol. Not sure what number I would put it but yea being soaked in a pool of blood and then being attacked by blood? would be so scary.
I found “M” to be pretty terrifying
Gerard was a unkillable monster that when you finally think was put down, gets up bigger and stronger than before
So Tousen had the first Domain Expansion? Check!
I know that it's not the topic, nor anyone is going to read this, but I just had a theory in my head about the upcoming cour 3 of Bleach TYBW, so kinda *spoiler alert*, most likely. What if after Yhwach unlocks his Allmighty, he actually reverts the effect of Senjumaru's Bankai and alter the future of battle between Squad 0 and the Elite Sternritters, so we get back to the manga variant of fight, making both canon? It's messy, but I hope anyone reading gets the idea.
You know it's truly frightening when even a being that can see all futures and can change the future at will is able to fall prey to Aizen's ability
Not sure where I would place it on this list, but I would personally add Tres Bestia and Ayon. Probably the most memorable showings from a fraccion out of the entire Hueco Mundo Arc and that scene when he finally opens his eyes, bone chilling. I'm a little glad Ayon got a small feature in Quilge's ranking.
😂 bambies a simple splash of her her are you sure he is her😂😂
My opinion: 1 almighty 2 hogioko and miracle 3 visionary 4 ichibei 5 antithesis 6 balance 7 senjumaru banKai 8 kyouraku banKAi and Yamamoto bankai 9 askin and pernida 10 book of the end and aizen zanpakto 11 adult toshiro and urahara bankai .
Lille's final form in general deserves at least an honorable mention imo, although i can understand if you excluded him because it's more of a collective of everything than just 1 ability
I think in the anime giselle mentions the more spiritual pressure the more blood it takes abd she was getting low
The craziest thing about the super human drug is that its now in the new younger hachigo Nemu. And to think Mayuri takes her into fights as well i pity the enemy who focuses on her thinking she is a helpless little kid.
The superhuman drug is the scariest to me imagine being on a terrible drug trip for a thousand years begging for it to be over begging for death and nothing can be done that’s literally a LIVING HELL
Hooooly Tommo looked fineee on that brushed-up hair hahaha
Aizens' ability comming in first on this list was all a part of his plan.
Tom is getting fit!
As nodt and Grammy working together would be a crazy combo.😮
I think a really underrated part of Pernida's character is how it speaks, constantly learning in his speech is really creepy to me
Thanks for giving props to Barragan!!! He so slept on.
If I was paralyzed and then saw giant golden baby caterpillar with blades running at me I’d be pretty terrified
21:41
at last gremmy and his visionary are getting credit
can you imagine a villain who can just drown you into a sea of insects by just his mere thought this is the most terrifying ability of all as it can do literally anything that the user's imagination can reach
I also love the fact that there was one person we know of that is completely immune to Aizen's ability... Tousen the blind man who Aizen genuinely used Tousens grievences, the underhanded nature of the Soul Society, the death of his best friend to Aizen's advantage to convince Tousen into following him until his demise. In a 1v1 Aizen still has far more spiritual pressure, superior intelligent, fighting skills and kido skills to completely outclass Tousen however it is hilarious to me that Tousens greatest weakness was his strength against the man that helped him gain everything even his sight at the end of his life.
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What a perfect upload to conclude a great spooky season.
The balance was scary to me as you can be confident that you’ll win if you’re stronger than Haschwalth but as soon as you get the upper hand and see those giant scales you know you’re doomed, although I think it being scary is applicable only if you know what the ability does like the sternritter do. It drains all hope from Cang Du when he sees the scales whereas he was not scared at all beforehand. The ability of Gremmy’s little old thing he imagined was pretty creepy too, erasing itself from your memory at will, but I guess that would fall under the visionary umbrella.
I think shinji's shikai and bankai deserves at least an honourable mention and unohana and urahara bankai as well
Haven't watched the video yet, but for me the most terrifying is by far the drug used on Szayel Aporro Granz. Reading it sent chills down my spine.
Mayuri could have been on multiple entries on this list. His zanpakto made up of one of the failed nemu clones. The Paralyzing aspect of his shika and the implications of that being used by a mad scientist you laying there paralyzed while he is experimenting on you and able to feel everything. His Espada fight was listed, but his hitsuguya fight could also be listed: not just for the fact he gave him a drug that put his mind into a time loop that eventually caused hitsuguya's brain to short circuit, but as Mayuri stated: when did he have the opportunity to administer the drug in the first place? While hitsuguya was a zombie, or while he was alive and a regular ally, how many days, weeks, months, years ago did he administer the medication without hitsuguya knowing, who else has he given one of his experimental drugs to?
Highly interesting video
The Wind and The Compulsory seem pretty terrifying in terms of pain if you get hit with it. Same with Baraggan’s respira.
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14:38 I feel like this is because ayon is a construct, not an actual soul, so his reishi composition is likely less dense
#12 The irony is interesting. The quincy were attacked in part because they destroyed hollow souls - removing them from the soul cycle.
So he is doing to Yhwach, what the Quincy do to Hollow souls.
#11 Mayuri is the master of "Fate worse than death".
#8 The guy kinda looks like early AI art. Like something was trying to draw a human, but utterly failed. Same with As-Nodt.
#4 It is basically "Allmight, light".
It's only weakness was it's user. And that was by design.
#2 Definitely a good number 2.
#1 It is not entirely flawless. It has one weakness: High level Reiatsu sensing.
Both Unohana and Yamamoto were able to overcome it on that angle.
I also find it interesting that the two sense/illusion Zanpaktou seemingly have weakness to being touched. Kanames Bankai was suspended while Kenpachi held his hilt. While you can stop Kyoka Suigetsu by touching the blade with your hand, before it is activated.
I would love an video ranking all Capitains with feats by power. (Both past arcs and present arcs) it would be a great counterpoint to the Sternhitter you did
Please make a video on the espada vs quinces
Hi he has one on As Nodt vs Ulquiorra that's pretty dang good 🤗
if we are talking about power then the quincies outnumber them massively and the high tier ones have the most broken hax in the series. Espada get murdered badly
@@bepo1702 someone like king 👑 Barragan will be trouble for the quinces
@@blkmagi am sure Ulquiorra will win
@@daniel02017 depends who
Gremmy can imagine having any ability. That’s true terror!
I KNEW you were gonna put Aizen at number 1😂😂😂
i feel like perhaps the balance should've been an honourable mention. the fact that any good thing in your life could be the death of you surviving a situation yet still doomed your ability to fight and thrive will punish you two-fold. i think cang du best showed us how scary it is.
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Barragan, like many other characters bleach, was wasted. Imagine how devastating his ability would have been in the TYBW. BUT there’s still hope!! (For those who have read the new chapter u know what I mean😏)
cmon man why is almighty so low? 😅 did you even see the dread and anguish on ichigo's face when his bankai, his trump card, was so effortlessly snapped in half like a twig by Yhwach? also *fear itself* is only 7th???
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Both Aizen and Tsukishima use "psychological warfare" in battle thanks to their abilities
They like to play mind games on others
Will you do an anime equivalent soon?
What makes Aizen's ability even more terrifying than someone like Grammy's is the difference in intellectual capability between the two. Aizen's concept for manipulation and imagination is near infinite as shown in the manga and show. It is a terrifying ability on its own but coupled with Aizen's mind it becomes truly the most horrifying thing to experience in all of Bleach and maybe all of anime.
Also, I feel like the superhuman drug wouldve been ranked ALOT higher if it was an actual ability. I feel like that's the only reason it's so low because I can't think of anything (except maybe Kyoka Suigetsu or Book of the End) that is worse than falling prey to that drug.
for a while when ywach revealed his cheaty power of cheating, i thought he was going to use it to remove the effects of Kyouka Suigetsu from himself, just like he decided to to NOT be affected by Ichibei's power over names (which i thought was even more powerful than Aizen's hypnosis). I'm also surprised you didn't put The Almighty higher on the list. The ability to erase any future you don't like the results of with no downside or drawback or cooldown, infinitely repeatable forever looked to me like the most teerifying EVER.
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Imagine you're being hypnotized by Aizen while everyone else around you is technically both against you and maybe not actually your closest friends and family by using Book Of The End.
No surprise that Aizen superfan MrTommo would list Kanzen Saimin as the most terrifying Bleach ability lol.
But in all seriousness, the terror of dealing with Kyouka Suigetsu is well demonstrated by the actions of Aizen's treacherous lieutenant, Gin. Gin feigned loyalty to Aizen and served him perfectly for 100 years in order to get close enough to kill him, but I've heard a lot of people complain that he waited too long and wonder why he didn't take any number of other perfect moments to kill Aizen while he was in his confidence, and there are two reasons. The first is that his other objective was getting his hands on Rangiku's lost portion of soul to return it to her, and it seems clear that opportunity only came once he realized Aizen had integrated his completed Hogyoku into himself.
The second reason is the important one in the context of this video, of course. Gin knew that Aizen's Kanzen Saimin could be active on him at any time, at any moment, and so he NEVER felt safe making his attempt. He himself claimed that Aizen's sheer strength and power were more frightening, but even so, he believed his own power was enough to completely overcome Aizen and kill him if he could only take him by surprise, but 100 years he couldn't guarantee that. Gin could NEVER KNOW if Aizen was messing with him or not. Kill him in his sleep? But what if he wasn't really sleeping? What if he WAS sleeping, but was somehow using his power to make him seem somewhere else? Aizen's ability to repaint the world is so all-encompassing, everyone around who really understands his power realizes they are living in the Matrix, reality itself a question that can't be answered. He had to wait for years...and years...and years...resisting every temptation, every apparent weakness, every possibility of action, until the one moment when Aizen clearly had his guard down and Gin could absolutely guarantee that he knew he wasn't under Kyouka Suigetsu's spell by laying casual hold of the sword. Even then, since he had just come from knocking out Rangiku, I always got the sense that even this attempt was desperation because Rangiku had forced his hand; if she hadn't shown up, he probably would have continued waiting, allowing Aizen to create the Ouken just so he could find a more perfect moment, but since Rangiku would have been sacrificed for it now, he was out of time to wait.
It's a more 'casual' terrifying, in a way, than many of the more visceral abilities from earlier in the list, but I won't actually complain about it being #1, because it truly is terrifying to think that you can't act against him because at each and every moment you could be being manipulated into doing something else, something self-destructive or actively harmful to your closest friends and loved ones, simply because he changes the whole world, or at least your perception of it, with his impenetrable illusions.
I wholeheartedly think that Tsukishima’s Book of the End is Kubo taking the concept of a self-insert character and twisting it into something terrifying. Imagine living your normal life and then suddenly you’re a stranger to everyone you ever knew and everything you ever accomplished is instead credited to some random nobody because they decided they wanted your life for themselves.