User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 409: Wedges of Black and White, Review and Commentary/@comment-2214433-20141117114746/@comment-4829046-20141119164439

True enough. But those usually offered up at least something prior to the last minute. I won't count Mayuri's Arrancar since they didn't survive but.... Oh and the Fullbringers probably don't count either, but Ginjo and Tsukishima did have some redeemable qualities. Maybe it has to do with slightly better characterization?

In this case, all I got was "We want to live!" and nothing else. There was no back story(except maybe that Lloyd and Royd? thing which I frankly didn't give a rat's ass about), no motivation for their brutality other than "Because his Highness asks". Then again, other cases got a lot more arc-space to be characterized and were not burdened by "Final Arc Syndrome" so makes sense for these lackeys to be considered like this. I know people are attached to some of the Slutritters, but as one that wanted them dead since the very onset, I just see no reason for any of them to survive other than out of admiration for their will to live on. It would be quite tragic in a way since that would mean that the readers literally see the near-extinction of the Quincy outside of flashback. It is just repeating itself, but yeah. This again makes that feeling that they will survive resurface. So that they can reestablish the Quincy with Uryuu's help and this time with a new doctorine that wasn't manipulated by their ultimate creator. And if common speculations hold true and Ichigo becomes Soul King, then that just makes even more sense. O_o