r/whowouldwin • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '14
Featured Character of the Week: Sōsuke Aizen
“It’s very difficult for me to step on an ant without crushing it”
Name: Sosuke Aizen
Series of Origin: Bleach
Team Affiliations: (formerly) Soul Society, (formerly) Las Noches, Himself
Allies: (formerly) The 13th Court Guard Squads, (formerly) All of Hueco Mundo, Kaname Tosen, Gin Ichimaru (later revealed to have betrayed him)
Enemies: Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, Barragan Luiserban, Ichigo Kurosaki, pretty much everyone in the Bleach universe
One of the most powerful beings in Bleach, Sosuke Aizen was the former captain of the 5th squad in the Soul Society, before later betraying all of them and waging war on them with his personal army. He is one of the main antagonists of Bleach and shown to be one of the most dangerous threats to their entire universe. He is cold, calculating, and a natural enemy to both Shinigami and Hollow alike.
Personality: Sosuke Aizen is a polite and soft-spoken intellectual. He is rarely ever shown alarmed or in distress and commonly has entire situations planned out well in advance. He is extremely cold and uncaring, usually taunting his enemies through small talk and conversation. Its been stated multiple times that provocation is his specialty. Aizen completely lacks any sense of compassion or honor, and cares little for almost everything. However, it has been speculated that he feels great solitude for his strength.
Powers and Abilities: Aizen is incredibly powerful. So much so that most of the beings in the Bleach universe fear him. These powers include:
Genius Intellect: One of Aizen’s greatest weapons is his mind. Few beings in the world are smarter than he is. Hes well versed in history and in many topics, and has shown that with preparation, he can defeat beings much stronger than him. This also makes him a Master Manipulator, shown to deceive and manipulate entire armies of people for his own gain.
Immense Strength, Speed and Skill: Aizen is incredibly strong, able to stop extremely powerful (city busting) attacks with his bare hands, and easily slice through yet another city-busters full power. Aizen is incredibly fast, so much so that one cant discern being struck by him until after it has taken place. Aizen can easily dodge point blank attacks and even easily outspeeds Ichigo Kurosaki, who has massively FTE speeds. Aizen has been shown to easily be able to keep up with many incredible swordsman in the Bleach universe. Never has he shown the need to use more than one hand to defeat enemies.
Immense Spirit Power: In the Bleach Universe, their energy is called Spirit Power, and Aizen has a lot of it. Extremely powerful characters have stated that being anywhere near him is overwhelming. He can even, without showing effort, incapacitate and bring people down on their knees with spirit power alone.
Hogyoku: The Hogyoku is an object he placed inside of himself in order to increase his power to levels far beyond anyone in the bleach universe. In addition to this increasing his strength, speed and endurance to incredible levels, he has shown regeneration of such a scale that he will be able to survive being blasted in half. He has also been rendered immortal by this.
Kyoka Suigetsu: One of Aizen’s Trademark abilities, his sword can be used to activate a power he calls Complete Hypnosis. When he activates it, anyone looking at the sword is instantly put under the hypnosis, but they do not know it. Aizen has full control of the user’s 5 senses and even affects spirit sense. The only way to escape this power is to touch the sword before the power activates.
Top Feats:
Caught Ichigo Kurosaki’s Blade With One Finger
Used a Kido that uses enough Gravity to Warp Space/Time
Defeated 4 Captains and 4 Vaizards with relative ease
Has taken several point black, extremely powerful attacks and laughed it off
Has fired an almost mountain busting explosion without showing any significant effort
Other Relevant/Outstanding Feats:
Convinced an entire army of Soul Reapers that their government was operational using Kyoka Suigetsu
Easily adjusted all of his senses when they were all flipped, and fought normally
Used his spirit power to bring one of his subordinates to their knees
And the best part? Aizen has yet to reveal his full power
Recommended Reading: All of Bleach. It’s pretty good for a Shounen and one of my favorites.
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u/GawlKholin Apr 09 '14
Do you have to touch Kyoka Suigetsu before it activates, or does it work to touch it during the illusion?
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Apr 09 '14
He belongs on r/respectthreads. Crazy powerful, yet crazy under rated.
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Apr 10 '14
I think it's also worth mentioning that he disintegrated a non-spiritually-aware person just by touching them. He didn't exert himself in the slightest, just a casual poke and poof, they're gone. This was just with his immense spiritual pressure.
I have a huge list of Aizen feats, if anyone wants it.
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u/Otaku-sama Apr 09 '14
I wonder what it would take to stop this guy? He sounds like the typical untouchable shounen villain, with plenty of plot armor to keep him safe from the efforts of what looks like any in-universe threats, which also appear to be missing.
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Apr 09 '14
Really, what stopped him was his own arrogance. When he obtained the Hogyoku, he became God like he no longer felt the need to be his normal careful self. This allowed him to be sealed away after being defeated by the main character temporarily
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Apr 10 '14
How would he do against goku? Serious question. The hogyoku would eventually give him super saiyan level power, right? He already seems just as fast. In the series he literally transports from one place to another (instant transmission basically)
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Apr 10 '14
Technically Goku wouldn't be able too see or hear Aizen but let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he could. It's unknown is Aizen would have ever reached Super Saiyan levels of strength or durability, but let's just say he can't as to not overpower Aizen.
Aizen could very well beat him. Goku is stupid enough to be caught in the Kyoka Suigetsu and Goku can be knocked out with surprise attacks, proving that his durability relates to his Ki. Aizen could potentially have him use up his Ki fighting a fake version of him and stab him in the back of the head. And we don't even know Aizens Bankai yet
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u/Xarkhan Apr 09 '14
This guy is ridiculous! His powers are so numerous and he has very few shortcomings. If you want a good read about him, and have a lot of time on your hands, I'd recommend the tvtropes article about him. He is one of the most ingenious villains I have come across in fiction and I hope he shows up soon in the upcoming chapters.
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Apr 09 '14
Rule of thumb, touch his blade and hope you have more spiritual power.
What is going to happen: He won't let you touch his blade and he will kill you with his spiritual power alone. (Which he can do to normal humans).
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u/CyberDagger Apr 09 '14
And this is how broken he is. Someone pitted him agains Marisa Kirisame from Touhou not too long ago. Not being too familiar with Bleach, I wasn't entirely aware of the quantifications of his abilities, only that he was ridiculously fast and durable, and could take control of people's senses with his sword. That was enough to know the outcome of the fight (you'd find the unidentifiable remains of what used to be a witch), but taking this info into account, he could probably tank a Master Spark with his face.
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u/mrtangelo Apr 10 '14
One of my favorite villains ever. If he wouldn't have gotten cocky he would have had literally infinite power. I bet at some point he would have gotten superman-tier
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u/GreenTyr Apr 10 '14
I've said before and I'll say it again, Aizen has one of the most OP abilities I have ever seen.
To repeat something I've posted before. "This guy can have full control over ALL your senses. That can make him take on reality warpers and even more powerful beings. Like imagine him fighting over powered Iceman, you think you're freezing him with his -1000* power or whatever, but what's actually happening is you're gouging your eyes out."
Bleach is full of guys who only lose cause of plot armor and bullshit. Such as the guy who basically had control over Entropy, and this new dude who power is literally THE POWER OF IMAGINATION. Anything he imagines, it becomes true.
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u/Wallzo Apr 10 '14
Next week will be u/SamusChief with a CoW on Big Boss/Naked Snake.
Then will be a CoW on the Primal Queen of Blades by u/Elardi.
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u/Aethos Apr 10 '14
Id love to see him pitted against someone illusion based as well.
and since he was inspired by Saga Geminis of Saint Seiya I would love to see what whowouldwin thinks of this matchup
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Apr 10 '14
The way he says the incantation too is badass in itself. Plus that background music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG25BdJ0KQ
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u/Hayn0002 Apr 10 '14
He also messed with Juha Bach's awareness of time, just by looking at him. Whilst being chained up completely.
Just his shikai ability makes him incredibly powerful, not including the rest of his abilities.
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u/PineappleSlices Apr 09 '14
Also worth noting is that he still has a thusfar unnamed bankai with non-defined but presumably completely overpowered capabilities.