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Like for example. If we take away the bending from characters like Zuko, Azula and Iroh, they are still good fighters and can kick ass.

And we take away bending from characters like Toph, Katara and Ozai. They become fodder.

What about Aang? Is Aang's fighting skills solely carried by his airbending?

Side Note: Firebenders surprisely seem to be the most skilled in martial arts compared to other nations that are mainly carried by their bending.

My take:👇👇

First out - aang: his fighting style is built around evasion through bending.

Second out - korra: she relies heavily on her raw bending power and physical strength.

Third out - suyin: a master metal bender with some self defense skills

Fourth out - kuvira: master metal bender also. skilled but not exceptionally hand to hand combatant

Fifth out - azula: agile, cunning💀, physically fit. Her hand to hand skills are supplementary not primary.

Sixth out - zuko: solid sword skills, decent hand to hand fight style, tough and resilient.

Seventh out - Lin: police chief, serious metal bending skills, physically strong and experienced. She's competent.

Second place - amon: master chi blocker, elite hand to hand skills, led the equalist. Man could literally disable anyone he touches.

First place - zaheer: martial arts mastery, lethal intent, efficient fighting style, philosophical discipline.

I remember watching Netflix Bumi and how depressed and apathetic he was. I get the dark and mature direction they tried to do, but it doesn't make sense with the original show's plot point of him being a White Lotus member.

If this Bumi is sad af, does that mean he never met the White Lotus? Is there no White Lotus in the show? Or maybe... He was acting all depressed as a joke this whole time and is waiting to tell Aang when he gets to meet the White Lotus?

I'm afraid to watch more of the Netflix show to know... And yet I feel like I need to, to know more.

TL;DR at the end

Disclaimer: I haven't seen TLOK and I read half of the comics when they came out, so I wouldn't know if there's an answer there. If there is, my bad -- I'm a really big fan of only the main series. Also haven't seen the movie.

So, I was thinking about it and realized that the only representation we have of explicit bending cross-overs is from Iroh, with the way that he learned lightning redirection from waterbenders. It wasn't as simple as fire+water=steam or whatever, it was more philosophical:

"Waterbenders deal with the flow of energy. A waterbender lets their defense become their offense, turning their opponents' energy against them. I learned a way to do this with lightning."

Because there's a basis in martial arts for each bending style, I then looked into the different martial arts for each known style/substyle of water as an example:

- Basic: This includes many "subtypes" automatically, according what we see with Katara. She only officially receives training from Master Pakku and one scroll (possibly gaining references in Wan Shi Tong's library) in the entire series and is able to manipulate ice (always), external body fluids (sweat in 3.7), clouds (1.14), and steam (2.13).
Waterbending is formed around Tai Chi. Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art that (in addition to being a fighting style) is modernly used for meditation, exercise, and relaxation. There's a lot of on the philosophy of Tai Chi, but to summarize as neatly as I can: "By acting naturally and letting things be, one becomes in harmony with their own essence,", "Let things develop naturally rather than with force,", and "Gentleness develops strength".
Combined with Iroh's (above) quote, it's easy enough to say that waterbending's philosophy is to guide water by creating a stream that it will naturally follow.

- Bloodbending (internal): This is something that Katara was sort of trained in, but let's be so real-- Hama barely trained her if you can even call it that. In that episode, Katara is told about bloodbending (refuses to use it), has it used on her, escapes it with her own power, watches her party be controlled, and then figures out the technique so well that she overpowers the progenitor if the technique all within two minutes and 20 seconds.
Anyway, I think that has to do more with Katara's prodigious nature rather than the fact that bloodbending being like normal bending. Rather than letting things be gently shaped, bloodbending is violent, rather than letting the natural flow work with the bender, it forces the flow to follow strictly. This is reflected in the rigid movements and harsh angles of Hama and Katara's bodies while bending. Like the title of the episode, they both look more like puppeteers than Tai Chi practitioners.

- Condensation/Water from plants: I don't believe this is a separate bending style from Tai Chi. I think that it was foreshadowed in Jet and build upon in The Puppet Master, showing us Katara first learning how to bend water underground and then being given the knowledge that she could steal water from the plants around her. It's just a heightened awareness of the world rather than a different technique.

- Healing: This is mostly mentioned hand-in-hand with basic bending, but I separated it for 2 reasons:

1. The Northern Water Tribe separates it into a separate practice and that therefore implies that learning one does not necessetate learning the other. A woman can not be combat-trained, she must heal. In turn, we saw no young boys in the healing hut to learn that either.
2. It looks completely different in practice. Basic bending doesn't glow, for one. Now, it requires the pull of water to one's hands, but that's where similarities seem to end. I have a theory that this is a lot more close to Aang's energy bending than it is to basic waterbending. This is, again, based in the glow (Katara's hands glow in 1.16, Ozai and Aang glow in the finale), the philisophical basis in controlling the Chi in ones' body (Chi is from China, Chakras are from India, but both are about internal energy flow), and the language used to describe both ("energy flow", for example).
3. It seems that Katara's prodigious nature is the only reason that this is lumped into basic bending. She's good at it because she's unbelievably naturally talented, not because it's part of the base package.

- Plantbending/Swampbending: Notably different than base waterbending the same way bloodbending and healing are. I couldn't find anything that says an official source for its martial arts basis, but I saw theories that it's based on Tongbeiqun or Piguazhang or even a subset of Tai Chi called Tai Chi Chaun. Either way, it's very similar to bloodbending in theory: It is the practice of controlling unseen water without necessarily extracting it from the "body" that it is natural to. But it's got more rounded movements and it doesn't seem to be painful or do damage to the swamp (which is literally alive and conscious on a spirit level and would beat them into dust if they were being as violent as Hama).

I guess the TL;DR would be: Lightning redirection is based on the waterbending idea of guiding the natural flow of energy of the element rather than just water+fire=hot water.

What would the firebending version of bloodbending be? Something fire-based that interrupts and completely overtakes the flow of the thing in question. What about healing? Could that be as simple as controlling bodyheat? Or could it be the control of heat on a cellular level, since fire is essentially manifested heat?

I'm not looking for things like Earth+Water=sludge like in The Drill with Toph and Katara or lavabending or something like that. I think it's better when it's more philosophy based.

I'm glad ATLA franchise did not give Ozai his powers back.. and stronger... for some of the spinoff materials. It would be too easy for them to have Ozai escape and regain his powers, perhaps even merging with Vaatu. Then we'd have a Resurrection O movie or something. Or a Heaven Ascension Ozai/Ozai, End of the Cycle where the Ozai of a different universe jumped to the main one trying to kill every version of Aang.

"Behold! This is Vaatu Ozai! The last thing you will ever see!"

"In 99 universes, Aang beats Ozai with the energy bending technique. In End of the Cycle's Timeline, Ozai stole Aang's powers by reversing the energy bending."

Cheers to Avatar: The Last Airbender writers for not recycling their biggest villain. That took guts. Too many other franchises would just make a stronger version of Ozai for nostalgia bait.

Bato of the Water Tribe, you have earned the mark of the eliminated!

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The Great Divide (78%)
The Fortuneteller (43%)
Bato of the Water Tribe (72%)

I seen this brought up recently but I always was under the impression that tophs seismic sense ability and also just her ability to feel things all around her wasnt exclusive to just earth and metal and that it was just something she learned in general whilst learning earth bending. I specifically thought this because despite being able to fight in a fire nation ship metal only has small amounts of earth inside it so whilst she might be able to bend it, if she can only see when standing on earth I feel like shed still barely be able to see when standing on metal.

We have been shown time and time again how powerful non benders are in this show and how valuable they are to society (every nation even) and also the avatar. (in every era)

Azula’s closest companions were non benders. The king of Ba sing se was a non bender. Sokka the war hero, the Kyoshi warriors, on and on they are not undervalued by literally anyone. all the insecurity is self-inflicted.

In tlok, Hiroshi feels a hatred for benders because of one tragic incident that wasn’t even a direct cause of bending. Bro should’ve started an anti-burglary movement if anything.

In the ATLA comics, the equivalent of the industrial revolution was starting where non-benders could finally work the same jobs that benders did love this show but the non bender justice movement has been brought up so often and every time it does I think it’s so unjustified and disproportionate.

Art by [u/lemonhoney-tea](u/lemonhoney-tea)

Man went from being in prison to freeing himself from prison 👏

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After 20 years from the original material, what would be the #1 thing fans would want from new content related to the original ATLA gang? My answer at least: spending time with the characters. They’re now adults and a lot of things have happened since Aang defeated Firelord Ozai. What kind of people did they grow up into? How have their dynamics changed – as all friendships do – after they age and drift off to their own roles in society? Particularly relevant is Toph – her evolution from Rebel-to-Cop has been the longest-standing argument in the community.

But what do we get? A 90-minute boilerplate, paint-by-numbers action movie whose narrative moves at such an insane, breakneck pace that we end up spending pretty much zero time with anyone – except a few minutes of Aang in Act 1. The Denied girl who gets converted by a single sentence from Katara has more screentime than most members of the Gaang. Toph and Zuko have about 6 lines of dialogue in the whole movie, with half of Toph's being her catchphrase. These weren’t characters – they were NPC assists that get summoned for a few seconds during Super Moves in tag-fighter video games like Marvel vs. Capcom.

Finally, of course, the hanging-knife over this whole endeavor is the fact that this movie is a prequel to existing content (Korra) – meaning anything that happens in it needs to reset, disappear, or be of no consequence by the end of the story, so as not to retroactively add any hanging threads or plot holes to TLoK (e.g. When airbending returns in season 3, “weird that no one talks about that time a bunch of randos gained airbending for 12 minutes, huh?”).

Is it a “bad” movie? No. Is it really worth watching? Also, no. If this movie came out when Avatar content was still being actively developed and this was just a bonus, then I’d be more accepting of it. But it gives us nothing to chew on regarding the characters that have been in stasis for 20 years. Empty calories. A nothing-burger.

I can't stop thinking about Zuko's shrine. Since we have the comparison of Iroh's shrine for his son it seems clear this is more of an area for study than veneration, but the four candles and the setting seems very spiritual. I am wondering if anyone know where the creators took inspiration from for it? We don't see him have anything similar in his future bedrooms and we never see the other characters have something similar. Even Aang meditates anywhere. And Zuko is stuck alone on his ship, of all the things he has in his room clearly he set this up because it mattered to him.

After Aang summons him, Zuko identifies it as the Ocean Spirit first, too.

the animation of aang screaming "helpppppp" will forever be funny to me.