a critique of aizen

I remember being in awe of Aizen the villain. He seemed so unlike the traditional Disney villains whom I had thitherto revered. Even though he was powerful beyond imagination, what made him truly frightening was his cold, imperturbable manner. In all the little skirmishes he had had up until the final battle, his opponent was invariably blinded by anger and hatred; and one could tell from the contrast in their deportment who would win, even if one were not aware of Aizen's superior strength and power. Toward the end, however, we began to see that Aizen never was the perfect villain we had imagined him to be. The way he proclaimed himself a god, the way he sat on that high throne in Hueco Mundo, the way he constantly spoke of his transcendence, all pointed to a sort of vaingloriousness that couldn't but spell his doom. In fact, it was Ichigo who clearly had the emotional upper hand in the final battle, though this could very well have been wrought of his knowledge that he was being assisted by Higher Powers (viz. Kubo). In his final exchange with Urahara, Aizen was reduced to a common revolutionary (in the manner of Oliver Cromwell). Nevertheless he did for a short while fill all of us following his activities with the hope that a truly great villain had been born.