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All the "universal Bleach" stuff stems from one personage, the Soul King, and his supposed ability to "passively prevent the collapse of the Bleach universe" (while weakened) and "his almighty power was used by the Five Noble Families as the foundation for splitting the original Universe into the world of Kishi, the world of Reishi, and Hueco Mundo" (while in his prime).
Now, I don't know about you, but it's kind of absurd to assert that a being who, while in a completely vegetative state, somehow retains the attack power equivalent of blowing up multiple galaxies at once. In the context of the story, it's clear that the Soul King is more of a "cosmic lynchpin" that, once removed, will cause everything to fall apart in a "chain reaction" like fashion, a fashion that is a textbook example of Environmental Destruction. Even the Soul King's profile states in his "3-B" key that "It should be noted that the Soul King in this state has no agency and cannot feasibly attack". How anyone can seriously believe that somehow passively keeping the universe from blowing up, while in a completely vegetative state with no agency, has anything in particular to do with raw power and not some "cosmic lynchpin balance keeper" status, is completely beyond me.
Even the "prime" Soul King's ranking is bullshit, as even aside from the blatantly hyperbolic "power that transcends everything" (which has that extreme "higher-dimensional reiatsu" exaggeration energy), we get his justification being "his almighty power was used by the Five Noble Families as the foundation for splitting the original Universe into the world of Kishi, the world of Reishi, and Hueco Mundo".
Now, I distinctly remember the Soul King being described as doing this with the Almighty ability, which, as we all know, is a hax that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with his raw power, and the whole thing about "Five Noble Families using the Soul King" just bellows "extenuating circumstances". Either way, it's little more than a range feat for Almighty hax, and has nothing to do with the Soul King's raw power. I honestly feel that the Almighty ability was deliberately conflated with the general concept of "almighty power" in the profile to give his "universal" rating more weight than it actually has. And where did that fifth "noble family" come from, because even the Bleach wiki only lists four. This entire "universal Bleach" thing seems to rest upon layer after layer of misinformation.
And I don't know how Hueco Mundo is differentiated from Reishi as a whole, considering that it is the primary abode of Hollows and Arrancar. Are we assuming that Soul Society comprises the totality of Reishi (the "spiritual world") for some reason?
I suggest that we change the tiers of both Soul King's keys to Unknown, and revert Ichigo, Aizen, and Yhwach to whatever "sub-cosmic" levels they were at before. Multi-continent level. Moon level. Planet level. It doesn't matter that much to me.
TL;DR nothing the Soul King does, or is said to have done, or is "used" by anyone to do, scales to anyone's raw power, not even the Soul King himself,
Now, I don't know about you, but it's kind of absurd to assert that a being who, while in a completely vegetative state, somehow retains the attack power equivalent of blowing up multiple galaxies at once. In the context of the story, it's clear that the Soul King is more of a "cosmic lynchpin" that, once removed, will cause everything to fall apart in a "chain reaction" like fashion, a fashion that is a textbook example of Environmental Destruction. Even the Soul King's profile states in his "3-B" key that "It should be noted that the Soul King in this state has no agency and cannot feasibly attack". How anyone can seriously believe that somehow passively keeping the universe from blowing up, while in a completely vegetative state with no agency, has anything in particular to do with raw power and not some "cosmic lynchpin balance keeper" status, is completely beyond me.
Even the "prime" Soul King's ranking is bullshit, as even aside from the blatantly hyperbolic "power that transcends everything" (which has that extreme "higher-dimensional reiatsu" exaggeration energy), we get his justification being "his almighty power was used by the Five Noble Families as the foundation for splitting the original Universe into the world of Kishi, the world of Reishi, and Hueco Mundo".
Now, I distinctly remember the Soul King being described as doing this with the Almighty ability, which, as we all know, is a hax that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with his raw power, and the whole thing about "Five Noble Families using the Soul King" just bellows "extenuating circumstances". Either way, it's little more than a range feat for Almighty hax, and has nothing to do with the Soul King's raw power. I honestly feel that the Almighty ability was deliberately conflated with the general concept of "almighty power" in the profile to give his "universal" rating more weight than it actually has. And where did that fifth "noble family" come from, because even the Bleach wiki only lists four. This entire "universal Bleach" thing seems to rest upon layer after layer of misinformation.
And I don't know how Hueco Mundo is differentiated from Reishi as a whole, considering that it is the primary abode of Hollows and Arrancar. Are we assuming that Soul Society comprises the totality of Reishi (the "spiritual world") for some reason?
I suggest that we change the tiers of both Soul King's keys to Unknown, and revert Ichigo, Aizen, and Yhwach to whatever "sub-cosmic" levels they were at before. Multi-continent level. Moon level. Planet level. It doesn't matter that much to me.
TL;DR nothing the Soul King does, or is said to have done, or is "used" by anyone to do, scales to anyone's raw power, not even the Soul King himself,
