Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez

Grimmjow is a tall, powerfully built man crowned with spiky light-blue hair, his matching blue eyes underlined by green markings that echo the eye patterns of big cats. He goes about in a white hakama, a black sash, and a ragged white jacket worn open with the sleeves pushed up, baring a muscular chest. The remnant of his Hollow mask forms a jawbone along the right of his face, his Hollow hole sits on his stomach, and the numeral six is tattooed on his back. A long scar earned in his first clash with Ichigo crosses his torso, a mark he keeps on purpose. After Aizen's downfall he switches to a partly unzipped black shirt with dark trousers and boots, still draping the old Espada jacket over it.

An air of laid-back ease hides a savage, impulsive streak and a temper that snaps in an instant. Grimmjow revels in a fight, grinning or cackling as the violence builds, but he is no simple thug: a feral shrewdness lets him seize any opening an opponent gives. Blunt, sarcastic, and openly disrespectful, he skips every honorific except when Aizen is watching, and clashes readily with Tōsen and Ulquiorra alike. His fixation on Ichigo runs deepest of all, a grudge he nurses by keeping their first battle's scar, yet he holds to a fighter's code, insisting Orihime heal Ichigo so their rematch is fair and even repaying a debt by rescuing her. When a threat endangers everything, he can shelve the rivalry long enough to fight beside the man he means to kill.

Before he was ever an Arrancar, Grimmjow was a panther-like Adjuchas who impressed a band of fellow Menos, led by Shawlong Koufang, into naming him their king in a shared bid to reach Vasto Lorde. When the others admitted defeat, having devoured thousands of Hollows without further growth, Grimmjow scorned them, and Shawlong revealed that only Grimmjow had ever been destined to evolve past their stage. Later, as the Sexta Espada, he defies Ulquiorra by leading his Fracción on an unsanctioned raid of Karakura Town, where a first duel with Ichigo ends with the boy's Getsuga Tenshō carving the scar Grimmjow comes to cherish.

Tōsen drags him home and severs his arm as punishment, but Orihime Inoue later restores it, and Grimmjow reclaims his rank by destroying his replacement Luppi. When Ichigo's group invades Hueco Mundo, he has Orihime heal his rival so the fight can be settled on equal footing, then releases his feline Resurrección, Pantera, and unleashes his fiercest technique, Desgarrón. Ichigo shatters the attack and runs him through, choosing to spare him, only for Nnoitra to strike the fallen Espada down, though Grimmjow survives.

Years on, during the war with the Wandenreich, Grimmjow resurfaces to bisect the revived Quilge Opie and strike an uneasy bargain with Kisuke Urahara. Traveling to the Soul King Palace, he insists to Ichigo that they remain enemies who simply cannot have their rematch if Yhwach wins first. He hunts Askin Nakk Le Vaar through the Wahrwelt, is felled by the Quincy's poison, and after Urahara heals him drives Pantera through Askin's chest, only for the dying Quincy's magnifying gift to bring him to his knees.