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 * Why does Chad apparently have Hollows living in his arms?
 * Ichigo (And any other high spirit power beings) subconsciously leaks power. Around some spiritually sensitive people this awakens powers within them. In other words part of them absorbs that leaked power and starts making its own. Now it is stated that there are three types of soul in Bleach, plus, hollow and shinigami and that all creatures have the potential to be either one or in the case of vizard and arancar mixes of two. Ichigo started out as plus, died in the first episode (impaled on a soul reaper through the heart) and became a shingami - he then got hollow powers and became a shinigami/hollow hybrid (Vizard). By this reasoning and internal logic Chad and Orihime are hybrid plus spirits. Orihime is a hybrid plus/shinigami, which is why she channels her powers through her flowers rather than uses them directly - much like a shinigami and their swords or a quincy and their bows. Chad is a hybrid plus/hollow (See Huco Mundo arc of the manga) so he uses his own body as a weapon like they do. His protective arm is basically a localized version of the hollow "Iron skin" ability and their innate ability to channel spirit energy into destructive blasts. The reason Chad became a hollow and Orihime a shinigami is easy, Chad is a violent person who was taught at a young age by his grandfather to be gentle, as a result his right arm is his grandfathers will - power used for defense. When he accepted his nature and awakened his left arm it was used for pure destruction - equal to a cero blast from a hollow. It is also the same colour as a traditional hollow, instead of the inverted (or repressed) design of the right arm. He doesn't have a hollow living inside him, the hollow is him, but his human side is dominant. If Chad were to die without getting these powers, he would most likely have become a hollow. And as Rukia's captain said, Orihime's nature meant that she would definitely had become a shinigami had she lived a normal life/death. Ichigo just awakened these powers before they died.
 * Slight correction: You meant "whole," not plus. Normal spirits are called wholes. A plus isn't a type of spirit at all, but rather a "whole" that's on the verge of becoming a hollow. Really, it's just Wholes, Hollows, and mixes of the two. Shinigami aren't really a separate type, they're just Wholes who've learned to harness they're spirit energy.
 * Obviously it's because he's half-Mexican. Since all hollow-related terminology is in Spanish, we can only assume that Hueco Mondo is somewhere in Mexico, and thus, all Mexicans are hollows. But honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with his grandfather.
 * It's most definitely this. Since he's half-Mexican, he's half hollow, and he just moves that half into his arms to reach an appropriate concentration for activation their power.
 * Alternitavly, it could be that spiritual power manifest differently in human than they do in Shinigami. Ichigo got shinigami powers because his dad was one. Orihime and Chad's power are different because they are human and Chad's powers just resemble the power of the Hollows.
 * He actually says it is more like the Arrancar's...so would this be a human with Arrancar powers? That would actually be pretty different. Don't expect to actually see this explained until the fight in Karakura town ends in 2012 though.
 * It could simply be that, just like Ichigo, Chad is a halfa. We have seen that there is allowed cross breeding between shinigami and humans so who is to say his parent or grandparent or other ancestor was not an Arrancar that attained perfect human qualities? Any more and I would have to go to Wild Mass Guessing though. Would be a cool bit of info to throw in though...
 * So what exactly are Chad's powers? Are they Hollow powers or could they even be more comparable to Arrancar powers? Would he technically be able to learn stuff like Sonido and Cero given enough training?
 * And would this mean that other humans could learn hollow powers? I really really wish Tite Kubo would suddenly realize that there's more to the universe he's created than just watching Soul Reapers and Arrancars fight and talk with each other...
 * Even scarier, what'd happen if Chad died? Would he become a hollow?
 * Chad. My understanding is that his powers are hollowed based in nature and he has shown he is able to beat the Espada privacion. So I would imagine that his powerlevel is pretty near that of an adjucas. So why does he not get a power upgrade level in his fight against Nnotiria and Yammy. To me thet bull ichigo thing would of been better with him not ichigo, that nad it would be a more interesting way to take his character.
 * Is anyone else bothered by the fact that poor Chad's gotten the short end of the stick in these recent arcs? Sure, he beat Gantenbainne with his newly-unlocked technique, but after that he got shanked by Nnoitora and now he's gotten stomped by Yammy, with only a handful of Mooks beaten in the meantime. Sure, Ishida hasn't faired much better, but he atleast has gotten some pretty badassed scenes and got to display a nice range of techniques. Chad's used his cool new technique...once? Twice, maybe?
 * Chad uses La Muerte once and El Directo twice. Renji "Vice Captain Jobber" Abarai had it even worse, as he hasn't even defeated a single opponent since entering Hueco Mundo, apart from using his Shikai to scatter some Exequias. I had hoped Renji and Chad would at least be shown struggling a little like Rukia was, instead of just lying on the ground, defeated. It seems there's little point in him getting healed to fight again if he's going to lose again so quickly.
 * I agree with both of you. You'd think that Chad would be strong enough to at least be standing (Seeing how he was like Ichigo with him getting stronger the longer they were in Hueco Mundo), and Renji has no excuse whatsoever since he learned Bankai. And it's pretty sad when you realize that Renji has more wins over filler villains than ones in canon.
 * What's most annoying of all is that I just know Ichigo's going to win this one at the rate Kubo's been going. Which would put his total Espada defeats to three, OUT OF TEN, such a feat when no other character can even claim a second victory at all. Well, MAYBE Hitsugaya, but that's if you first buy his Harribel being unable to escape that and secondly that Luppi was Espada material at all. And the only one in Ichigo's group who has done so would be Rukia in one of the most head bashing moments in the series. Renji, Chad, and even Ishida weren't even given a chance. Well, unless you decide to count the fallen Espada, which would raise Ichigo's win ratio to four anyway, and Renji's still boned down on bottom.
 * Hold on a sec, how was Rukia's defeat of Aaroniero a Wall Banger?
 * Rukia, an individual at vice captain level at best able to defeat one of the espada, who even the weakest of which require bankai to handle with any sort of assurance of victory? An Espada whose main power, having 30000+ powers to choose from and uses all of none of them, yet still slaughtered her so effectively and only managed to lose because he was stupid enough to raise her up near his weak spot (Which is questionable enough AT BEST) when he could have done anything else, 30000 powers or not, and he would have slaughtered her with ease? How is that NOT a Wall Banger.
 * Man, if you had a problem with Aaroniero's defeat, you'd freaking hate how Tousen was defeated...
 * Rukia's victory was fairly clever if you think about it. She knows Aaroniero has all of Kaien's memories (especially after realizing that he absorbed Kaien's body itself), and also knows that he doesn't know anything about what she's learned after his death (he's surprised by the double incantation, and mentions that he knows of two dances). While getting stabbed by the trident in the middle of her Heroic BSOD wasn't part of the plan, she probably realized that he wouldn't suspect what she was doing if she used Shirafune at close range with her sword broken, and thus overcame her emotional baggage to defeat Aaroniero by knowing Kaien better than he did.
 * The person above me is correct...Rukia didn't outmuscle Habenero, she outsmarted him.
 * It's not that hard to outsmart someone who has 33,650 hollow powers that they could use simultaneously, but decides to only use one of them...
 * I'd hardly even call that outsmarting in the first place, given she, while in a barely conscious state after having a standard flashback to give her the will to continue to fight, just held up her sword and used that last move. That was supremely retarded Plot Induced Stupidity on #9's fault no matter how you look at it, Rukia didn't remotely plan any of that by sheer virtue of how the scene was shaped.
 * That's all also ignoring the question of why Aaroniero's hierro couldn't stop her sword from killing him; even assuming his is the weakest among the espada, you'd think it'd offer some resistance. And I object to how powerful her sword-reforging Shirafune could possibly be as an attack. Certainly, it couldn't reasonably be much, if any, stronger than stabbing with the remaining stub of blade attached to the hilt; but Aaroniero doesn't seem to have any qualms letting her hold that right up to his eyeball. There's also the way he just stands there which she announces her Shirafune attack, without any attempt to dodge or anything... I mean, there's Asspulling a victory, and then there's having your opponent just suddenly commit suicide by Shinigami.
 * Where did luppi come from? If he's the sixth strongest Espada after Grimmjow loses an arm, shouldn't he have been the 7th Espada before then? It's like TK just pulled him out of a certain orifice!
 * Given Wonderwiess was stated to be among the espada in strength, in addition to managing to beat Kensei to say the least and wounding Yamamoto a bit, he's easily among the espada (Bare minimum above #9) and yet was not numbered. I suppose Aizen just takes his sweet time when numbering them, only bothering when there's an open slot or something.
 * How is it that Rukia is able to defeat the ninth espada (albeit almost dying), while Ishida, Renji, Pesshe and Dondochakka were unable to even deal any significant damage Szayel who is only one rank higher? I think that's the real wall-banger.
 * Elemental Rock Paper Scissors. Ice beats Glass Jar. Bacteria parasite IDFK creepy thing beats 'life' (in this case, ghost BPIDFKCT beats ghost 'life'). Mayuri, of course, is a robot zombie IDFK creepy guy. With a baby bankai.
 * Chad's improvement post-timeskip
 * Didn't you see the way Chad kicked the *** of the building that they were in? He defeated the wall, who is a distant cousin of the ground.
 * Do you see how symbolic that is? Chad is always on the ground, especially pre-timeskip.This represents failure. But now after the timeskip Chad is now obliterating walls with ease with his powers. This is obviously Kubo subtly demonstrating Chad's improvement, by having him lay waste to a wall, which is basically the ground, but standing up.