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[Airbender] The legend of Korra: I am the solution.
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Amon is (zombie) Jet.
Oh, I agree if the other team wins the coin toss, but I think the more likely occurrence is that the Fire Ferrets will win the toss and Korra will convince the brothers to trust her. That's got much deeper character ramifications.
His origins make sense even for a "de-bend all benders" movement; he's simply taking his ideals too far and targeting innocents as well as the guilty. This is something which many fanatics end up doing.
What I love about Amon is exactly that; he hasn't done Doctor Evil shit yet. I'm sure he'll get up to it, but right now, he really hasn't done anything that distasteful.
Whose powers were also amplified a hundred fold, who had mastery of the other elements, and the experience/power of a thousand other benders all combined within him.
Really, it's a wonder Ozai lasted as long as he did.
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Ozai seemed to be a better Firebender than Azula IMO. She'd have made Aang work for a win, but not as much as Ozai did.
Koh the Face Stealer, anyone?
That might be where he learned how to pseudo energy-bend.
It was stressed by Iroh that it's not just a matter of skill to create lightning, but emotion and spiritual balance. And again as to the rarity, look at the only people in the world (at the time) capable of training others in an exceedingly dangerous technique. Two are narcissistic sociopaths and the third worked under them until only shortly before their end. There wasn't exactly an abundance of teachers.
And this is just outstanding. The amount of detail put in to this series is outstanding.
He has eyes, victims of Koh don't have anything.
Not back then. 70 years is a long time to share those techniques with many students and then they're share it with others etc.
Sure. Which is why it doesn't bug me that it's far more commonplace now. Lightning bending wasn't rare because of sheer difficulty. It was monopolization of knowledge and training along with it being exceedingly dangerous to self teach.
If I were a betting man, I'd bet that there is some other force at work that will cause Korra and friends to form a wary alliance with the Equalists.
Maybe having his face burned off allowed him to survive his encounter with Koh and make a deal with him. Maybe he's Koh's mortal avatar, a sort of anti-Avatar.
Obviously, there is no compelling evidence, but I strongly associate the combination of spirit world and no face with Koh.
I just want to post this as physical evidence, in case my conjecture should be proven correct later this year.
A villain can still be a villain despite having beliefs or goals that are sympathetic to the audience. That's what makes Magneto such a great character.
That's certainly possible.
Fact: Meelo has participated in the wanton destruction of bender training equipment.
Fact: You never see Amon and Meelo in the same place together.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Or maybe Koh isn't involved at all and dude just wears a mask.
Batman is a villain?
In fairness, I know that I personally have actually argued that to no end.
But I do hope that Amon continues to be sympathetic throughout the series as well as the central antagonist.
Continues?
My bet is that there's more than one Amon. Not necessarily, like, evil twins or anything, but if you're wearing a friggin' mask all the time anyway, all you need to be is a good mimic.
I find his methods extreme but I don't blame him in the slightest for his discontent.
hmm, I suppose it's possible that all the equalist stuff could be done by the end of the first season and then the second season would be something else entirely...
..or maybe the season finale is a total downer ending ala The Crossroads of Destiny (Book 2 finale).
Compare, say, a champion mixed martial artist with someone from SEAL Team 6. Sure, on the street the SEAL might be able to kill the MMA champion inside of five seconds with his bare hands, but if you put him in a cage and he has to abide by the rules of MMA he's probably gonna lose badly or get DQ'd.
Yeah, she's the Avatar; she's also "that girl who sucks at probending and the only thing she can really do well is dodge".
Same here, but I haven't seen anything so far to prove he's a character that isn't a straight up villain yet. It's to early to tell IMO. His origin story is just a story until it's revealed exactly what happened. Random Equalists, like the guy Korra beat up for information, have my sympathy though. YMMV.
Yeah, I don't get this whole "take the antagonist at his word" thing. I mean, it's one thing for the antagonist to be revealed to be sympathetic later on (Zuko). It's quite another for the antagonist to give a sob story from day one that turns out to be true.
Also, Korra really isn't helping the cause by beating up on people. She really needs an airbender sidekick to calm her down.
Except tie breaker allows for grappling.
I'm sticking with zombie Jet. He made a deal with Koh to come back to life and is now anti-all bending. (I am only like 9% serious)
He's an energy bender, and his fake eye lids are made of energy.
So, the skin of his eyelids is a strange color, or he's got some crazy clever trick to convince people he's blinking (false eyes and levers and stuff). Oh, and sonar.
Pretty crazy either way.
Or, you know, face paint.
Looking at Tenzin's children Jinora (the elder daughter) has brownish-red eyes, while Ikki and Meelo have pale grey.
I don't really remember eye color being used much in TLA, but this looks like the different nations have dominant eye colors, which is kind of cool.