Television Avatar: Legend of Korra

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Lolno, Mako would have mentioned that he had a brother whose face got burned off and he never saw again. I really doubt any of Amon's story is even true

 

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Pretty sure it wasn't mentioned if they were or weren't. I'd have to go back and watch that episode again to make sure, though. It's been a couple of years since I've seen that episode.

 

That's correct but given the understanding we have of bending I'm pretty sure if a non-bender mates with a bender, the result will always be a non-bender or the bender's element.

This is because it's possible for somebody to "Carry" the bending gene (i.e. neither of Katara's parents were benders so somebody was carrying it), but I'm pretty sure it would yield to somebody who was actually a bender. I can't think of any examples right now, I don't think we were given any. Haru was the son of a bender and non-bender, but we don't know if his mom was carrying a gene or not. It's doubtful.

Besides

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The idea of Amon being Mako and Bolin's father doesn't make any sense for other reasons, for one Mako said it happened in front of him, which would make the survival of his dad pretty doubtful. Also, Amon wears a mask because his face was burned, Mako would have remembered that. There's the possibility that it's a lie, but still. Also Mako would probably have recognized his voice

 

OR or. What if Amon is actually a bender, but wants to deny it for the hatred he had on those who hurt him?

Hmmmm.... Welp, you got me there.


Sorry, my parents were blasting music downstairs when I watched the episode, so....... No, really. They did.

But anyway, what if he was talking about it from the view of his children. (Mako and Bolin? Not saying they are, but just thinking) His father (him) confronted the firebender. Eh, but yeah.

 

Well it's certainly not the same as the energy bending Aang used on Fire Lord Ozai. I mean that had glowy lights and all that jazz. And if you look closely, the chakras Amon connects to aren't the same as the ones Aang did. If I'm not mistaken, Aang tapped the Heart and Third Eye chakra whereas Amon tapped the Throat and Crown. So it could be a way of blocking chakras and bending, but not energy bending itself? I guess we really can't tell the nature of it yet, but that's my guess. :D

 

If the spirits did speak with Amon then it could be a combination of chi blocking and energy bending. Amon could have found a quicker way to utilize the ability being a chi blocker knowing the human and bender anatomy better.

 

For all we know, Amon could very well be just be the antagonist and no background. I mean, Ozai was the biggest threat of the first Avatar, and we practically nothing on him, except he gave Zuko his scar and was pretty much an airhead, with an ego that was too big for him. And don't forget, even if Jet were still alive, that guy sounds like he's probably in his late 20's or so, and Jet would definately be older than that

 

I suppose they don't want to alienate new fans with characters they don't know. Still it would be nice for us original fans :)

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Also how do people know Zuko retired? I never heard about this.

 

It's in Welcome to Republic City, this game on Nick's website. It's kinda like Pottermore actually. :D
Here:
http://www.nick.com/games/legend-of-korra-welcome-to-republic-city.html

 

ARG! SPOILERS! nooooooooooo

 

Very sorry! I'll spoiler tag it. However there are users before me who posted the same thing, so you might want to ask them about it too.

Also it's been quoted like twice, so there's nowt to be done about that I'm afraid.

 

Er... why is this in the anime section?

Anyways

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So they decided to use the "taking away bending" as the plot device. While I'm curious how Amon learned to do this (I mean Aang learned it from a turtle but come on, he's the avatar) I don't know how I feel about this. I was kinda hoping for a new kind of bending to be introduced by him (ex. like in the first season there was blood bending and metal bending) but maybe there will be later on. Pretty good series so far though, can't wait to see Korra in the avatar state at some point.

 

I am agreement with you

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I really believe that a new form of bending will be introduced from Air bending. I presume no one was really experimental in the Air Nomads time, or Aang was never given the chance to learn an advanced form of airbending. Tenzen or Korra may rediscover some form of it during Korra's training. She is hard headed so maybe there's a chance.

 

What would it be I wonder?

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I suppose a way to insta kill would be to airbend all the air out of someone's lungs. I'd say that was a little dark but then I remember the blood bending. That being said, it's not really a new form of air bending, just a way of airbending I don't think the monks would have used.

 

Well we know a few things about the others that may help decode it...

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For water benders, they had the ability to bend the liquid in our veins (makes me wonder if metal benders can do the same cause of the iron). This involves either the best of water benders, or a freak accident during a full Yue. For Earth we've seen that the deepest understanding of minerals allows you to bend metal, and other cases sand. Fire bending and lightning is just hydrogen heated to plasma state, blue flames, I don't have that explanation. So with airbending it could ve the ability to move fronts forming tornadoes from the high and low fronts coliding. I'm not entirely certain.

 

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but I find it really sweet how they named Mako in this series after Mako, the voice actor for Uncle Iroh who died. That's a company that cares.

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That's an interesting idea. You could form a whole weather front, then leave it alone and it would still make a hurricane or tornado or something. It would be devastating and once you had set up the initial pressure difference you wouldn't even have to be actively bending any more, you could just get the heck out of there and leave devastation in your wake.

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But next level up airbending wouldn't be messing with that established order. We have next level water, earth and firebending, (blood, metal and lightning). Now we just have to figure out how you can next level airbending.

Now timebending, THAT'S an idea. oh the possibilities.

 

hmmmmm

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I think time bending would cause a lot of problems. Lets just leave that dimension alone. its over abused in everything now a days.