An aside, they kill people all the time.
Appa alone probably has a triple digit bodycount.
Ang has thrown hundreds off people off mountain sides, walls, roofs, bridges, etc. Yet lil babby doesn't wanna kill the firelord.
Best character in the show is momo, followed by katara, followed by zuko.
The introduction to "the smell of burning flesh" in the path of the fire nation would be common in an R rated Avatar.
Sokka, Toph and Suki killed hundreds, if not thousands of soldiers on those airships. They blew up like 15 fully staffed airships above the sea.
Also Aang in the avatar state annihilated a full fire nation fleet
Also Aang in the avatar state annihilated a full fire nation fleet
You could argue that this was really La, the ocean spirit, and not Aang. Though considering Aang offered up his body as a vessel for the ocean spirit's power, he is at least an accomplice.
I totally forgot about that scene. so goofy that they opened the bomb bay doors and dropped hundreds of men into the sea
There were quite a lot of situations in the show that were PG purely through cartoon physics, not cause the act itself wasn't horrifying.
I mean, blood bending already seemed extremely fucked up
We could crank it up to 11 though, Toph could find out she's able to bend the iron in people's blood and we have a showdown between Toph / a Bloodbender where they explode some poor dude because they're both trying to bend different parts of the dude's blood at the same time.
Toph trapped the earthbending tournament host and her earthbending teacher in a metal box, where they probably died
The ATLA wiki doesn't list episodes for either of them after they were trapped in the metal box. So if you know of a later appearance, maybe consider adding it?
I feel like you could read into air benders being non-violent because their bending is so incredibly over-powered. Like, they could control the air currents and essentially fly, they could pull the air from your lungs and cause you to suffocate, they could control the weather and make tornadoes to wipe out entire civilizations, etc... I feel like in some sort of fanfic or backstory, you could have an air bender of the past realize all the potential for complete domination and instead turns to a philosophy of non-violence and seclusion to keep this from happening.
I guess the same could go for every bender though, so idk :shrug-outta-hecks:
Well, the only based thing that :joker-gaming: level "anarchist" Zaheer does is bend the air out of the earth queen's lungs suffocating her to death so one could start with all of the horrific implications of that kind of airbending.
They were cool but my god the showrunners can't do politics for shit.
TLA: There's one bad guy, he's evil because he's evil. He has a daughter who's also evil because she's crazy.
LOK: Ok, time to tell more mature stories.
Who's the first villain? Communism! Except:
- The equalist movement picks up an enormous amount of steam basically overnight: their problems with benders dominating society are valid and recognized at large
- Its pure Great Man Theory that only the charismatic ideologue is able to lead the movement
- The moment the leader is recognized as lying about being a bender the movement collapses instantly. Guess their issues with how society is structured weren't that valid?
- Special feature: the eccentric self-made capitalist-inventor
Then we get the second villain, environmentalism!
- Except the environmentalist is also a conqueror intending to oppress people
- And he's doing it in order to dominate the world by doing superpowered mass-scale ecoterrorism
- Remember the eccentric capitalist? He's back as a war profiteer and it's played for laughs
Who's the third villain? Anarchists!
- They don't have a cohesive ideology beyond "rulers bad"
- They kill a monarch (cool) and then tell the world's largest civilization to idk figure itself out and peace out
And the last villain? Fascism.
- The fascist is shown to be correct on the details constantly
- Her campaign of brutal conquest is successful at unifying the kingdom the anarchists broke apart
- She builds a superweapon which ends up changing the world for the better
- The war profiteering capitalist has zero problems with helping the fascists until his own life is threatened
- Unlike every other villain in the show, the Avatar shows her active empathy and compassion
I think the showrunners got that terminal :LIB: brain
Haven't read it, but I'm pretty sure there's a comic after the show that rehabilitates Kuvira.
Liberals and rehabilitating fascists. Name a more common duo.
I just read on the wiki that Canada won't resettle Tamil Tigers because they "participated in crimes against humanity" and I started guffawing in "what about the fucking mounties and the Ukrainian SS you toolbags"
In the Kyoshi Duology (read the books they are so so so good) someone is killed by a waterbender freezing the water in his chest cavity, destroying his internal organs. It's pretty brutal, the series in general is way more brutal than the shows.
This happens in like 3 seconds in the last Airbender actually, in the season 1 finale Pakku freezes like 5 fire nation soldiers on the spot. He didn't freeze water around them, he just froze their bodies
I loved the Kyoshi books cuz of all the worldbuilding, the first one ended abruptly and the second one was really dissapointing, but the worldbuilding was great in both.
blinding people with sand but like at ultra high speeds
I saw some horror movie years ago where the bad guy is basically an auto shop Vorhees and kills someone with a sandblaster to the face
earth benders couldn't manipulate the iron or magnesium in blood. It's hard enough to bend metal, and it's usually based on finding the impurities within it. It also is almost always done when the bender is in direct contact with the metal.
Sorry, didn't mean to skeez anyone out, me and a friend were just shooting the shit and realized how lethal bending powers could actually be if it wasn't a kids show.
:volcel-judge: will have to keep an eye on this one. No socialism in the post history.
Metalbenders can't move metal, they move the mineral impurities in metal. It's a big plot point in Korra.
"Scientific bending" is kind of one of the underlying themes with Korra, where fire-benders have learned out to bend lightning en masse and are exploited workers in power generation plants.
i feel like bloodbending and the suffocation that zaheer did are probably it, and they both happened in the show. no one was killed by bloodbending, but you could definitely just stop their heart
