Did anyone else want Katara to bloodbend Azula in the finale?

>>93854640
I wanted the series to go a darker route with katara, I wanted it to be like a phase where she falls into bloodbending and the wrong side for a bit, she needed more development.

No, her restraining Azula was sufficient

I wanted her to kill that soldier who killed her mother. I honestly felt that it would have been more in-character for her. She doesn't forgive him by the end and she feels no pity when she talks to Aang.

I know we couldn't have a teenager murder a man in a Nickelodeon cartoon, but it always felt more fitting to me.

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>>93854731
That's what I mean though. She could restrain her the way she did Hama.

>>93854736
>I know we couldn't have a teenager murder a man in a Nickelodeon cartoon
They get away with a ton of stuff. Pic very fucking related.

Really, what I wanted to happen was Aang to rip the comet out of the sky with his god powers

>>93854906
Oh, man, this reminds me of this one time I had a fuckhuge Avatar fanfic planned, and my ultimate plan for Sozin's Comet was for Ozai to use its power so much that he actually started to pull it towards the Earth. So now the comet's about to hit the Avatar Earth, dinosaur extinction style, right? And my plan was for Aang to go into the Avatar State and stop the comet with all of his bending. He'd use airbending to cool the comet down, then use waterbending to cool the comet down some more, then use earthbending to smash the comet into rubble, then finally contain and dissipate its fire with firebending.

>>93854640
I didn't want her at the fight at all. Bad enough she solos Azula several while being useless all the rest of time. She didn't need to be in Zuko's moment.

>>93855076
It's perfectly reasonable for Zuko to bring her along when he didn't think he could beat her by himself at all.

Azula broke the rules of a match she agreed to and made the fight anything goes and Zuko throwing himself to save a person who doesn't even like him solidifed his transition from selfish to selfless person in a move that would make Iroh proud.

That moment made me respect him more and what happened to Azula afterwards was immaterial. Zuko proved himself a goddamn hero.

>>93854736
>I wanted her to kill that soldier who killed her mother.

You realize Katara likely killed her mother, right?

>>93855173
>Katara likely killed her mother
literally what?

>>93855173
not him, what are you talking about?

Fuck me Katara is so gorgeous in that shot

>>93855162
>Zuko throwing himself to save a person who doesn't even like him solidifed his transition from selfish to selfless person in a move that would make Iroh proud.
But he's already done that a bunch of times up until that point, so doing it again is just doing POTTERY for the sake of it.

>>93855162
And loss his only opportunity to win a fight. It would have been better if he came up with some shit to redirect Azula's fire back at her.

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>>93855212
>>93855216

This theory was around when the episode aired, it's insane but when you think about it. It DOES make so sense.

Katara wasn't traveling to kill the soldier because he killed her mother. It's because the soldier witnessed Katara murder her own mother and was so traumatized and messed up in the head, he became the way he was. She tried to get Sokko to join but he thought something was off too, yet never explored why. So she insults him and goes solo to do it Yet when Katara saw this, she realized he was too messed up to tell the truth.

The soldier was simply a scapegoat

>>93855292
He walked away a hero with his head held high and she walked away a disgraced and broken woman. He won and he wanted his sister alive. .

>>93855334
No it doesn't.

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>>93855334

no, but i want her to bloodbend my dick

>>93855334
What motive does she possibly have?

>>93855162
He knew he could beat her because of her mental state

>>93855334
setting aside how retarded this sounds

the dude pretty much admits he killed her, and then even offers his own mom in exchange

>>93855162
>It's perfectly reasonable for Zuko to bring her along when he didn't think he could beat her by himself at all.
He had already fought her to a draw during The Southern Raiders.

He was down to fight her solo again, and would have had Iroh not told him to bring Katara along.

>>93855334
What? That makes no sense. Nothing about what we see in the episode leads to that conclusion.

>>93855162
Nonsense, Zuko was robbed of his moment of triumph because Bryke forgot to give Katara something to do during the finale. It's as stupid a decision as that fucking rock bringing back the Avatar State. Sozin's Comet is a mess.

>>93855377
>>93855388

Kya's mother was going to identity of the last Southern waterbender and when Katara saw this betrayal, she killed her mother. The soldier saw this and it somehow broke him

>>93855397
Right, the mentally ill soldier who is forced to live with someone abusive would make sense. Come on, people.

>>93855419
Rewatch the scene, you can't tell me it doesn't look off

>>93855334
BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY

A CARTOON THEORY

>>93854640
unlike korra, bloodbend only available in special circumstance

Ha in your fucking dreams pal. As if the great Azula would ever be taken down by a lesser girl.

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>>93855571
get fucked faggot

>>93855406
>He had already fought her to a draw during The Southern Raiders.

They got blown up. That's not fighting to a draw. It got interrupted.

> He was down to fight her solo again, and would have had Iroh not told him to bring Katara along.

And Iroh is always right.

>>93855586

Kill yourself, she was under a lot of distress in that fight and was already being worn down by Zuko but cling to your shitty waifu.

>>93855461
There's a good chance you're trolling, but I'd be astounded to learn there are actually people this stupid

>>93855588
>They got blown up. That's not fighting to a draw. It got interrupted.
They were evenly matched up to that point.

>And Iroh is always right.

>she's crazy and she needs to go down
You're right. Iroh IS always right.

>>93855686
>They were evenly matched up to that point.
For like 5 seconds? That's not a draw.

>she's crazy and she needs to go down
You're right. Iroh IS always right.

And Azuls did go down and at no time did anyone but some fans decide that Zuko had to 1v1 and murder his sister or he'd lose face.

The moment she decided she could only win by breaking the rules she lost. And if memory serves, Zuko ASKED Katara to come with him.

>>93855641
She was fucking powered up by the comet you imbecile, and she STILL lost.

Now take her fighting Katara under a full moon. She would, quite literally, be Katara's bitch.

I wouldn't want her to be retconned tho.

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Avatar was a really good. Best Cartoon I've ever seen, and almost every episode is rewatchable. Hilarious, amazing fight choreography, neat powers, good story, great character development, interesting characters, top tier music, fantastic art style... The list goes on on how the show was good and I hope for another cartoon like it in the future.

>>93855808
well no shit nigga, why do you think there's always a thread about it despite it being 10 years old now

not like that has much to do with anything, quality is timeless

>>93855808
I watches the blind bandit the other day, blew me away how good it still was.

>>93855771

Stop making shit up. A clear minded Azula could take down and has taken down anyone.

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>>93855877
Katara was ready to kill Zuko if he stepped out of line. Imagine what she'd do to Azula if she put Aang in danger.

Will you still love your waifu when her neck is at a right angle?

>>93855769
>For like 5 seconds? That's not a draw.
The fight lasted like 2 minutes dawg.

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>>93855808
The trouble with the entire Avatar franchise is that Mike and Bryan have both mentioned idolizing George Lucas, and they have managed to follow him a little too well. ATLA Book 1 is A New Hope: the amazing, bold story unlike anything anyone had seen before, with an explosive finish. Book 2 is The Empire Strikes Back: the deeper cut on this wonderful universe that introduces cool new characters, explores more complex issues, and ends on a compelling downer note. Book 3 is Return Of The Jedi: a mostly-satisfying conclusion to the saga, including an amazing finale, but which nonetheless contains problems and issues that hint at decisions the lead creators made that should have been challenged but weren't.

And then Korra is the prequels. It's the lead creators being given undisputed control over a sequel series, with the result being creative disaster and wasted potential. Korra even has its own equivalent of podracing.

>>93855877
Yeah because when she isn't being crazy she's being shielded by a ton of plot armor.

CRAPPER

>>93855924

Show me one time where she had the balls to kill someone.


>>93855952


I'm not Scrapper but Azula has earned every one of her victories.

>>93856001
Scrapper detected.

Abandon thread

>>93854640
More like Azula went down too easy. I know every series has this problem with recurring villains, if they always get away, putting them down suddenly leaves something missing but still.

Katara should have bloodbend Azula because realistically she couldn't have beat her otherwise. Then when Azula is broken and in pain they could have play muh "if I kill her I will be the same" trope.

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>>93855827
>why do you think there's always a thread
I wonder why

>>93856026
The whole point is that in ATLA you can't bloodbend without a full moon. They would have had to go out of their way to show a full moon during Sozin's Comet if the intent was to have Katara bloodbend Azula. Even so, does the finale take place at night?

>>93855932
Still good though, ATLA. Even with the bullshit at the end, Book 3 is amazing and the finale beats most finales put out today (except maybe ATHF's)

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>>93855932
That and also how the original head writer for the original Avatar was not present to maintain quality control over the writing. Just like how Lucas didn't have anybody to tell him that his ideas were shit.

>>93856080
They could have asspull anything if they wanted to. The point is I think it would have been better for showing Azula is a serious opponent and to show the desperation of Katara.

>>93856260
>They could have asspull anything if they wanted to
They already did to make Azula seem competent 99% of the time.

>>93856270
That is why it was so out of place she was broken in like one or two episodes.

>>93856270
Fuck, the REAL asspull is making Azula still able to make lightning. She's a few steps away from being a drooling lunatic in an asylum, how is she able to lightning bend? Especially because in Book 2 they go out of their way to have Iroh describe what it takes to lightning bend, and he mentions that your spirit needs to be free of turmoil.

>>93856352
this

Azula should have been taken out by her trying to make lighting while she was going insane and it blowing up in her face (literally)

>>93856377
This would have been very fitting to be honest, but I guess that it wouldn't have gone well with the censors or would have been more anticlimactic.

>>93856432
Well I suppose you could have had her try to make lightning, have a huge explosion, and then have nothing remaining when the smoke clears. But I suppose that wouldn't have been consistent with the depictions we'd seen of lightning in the show.

>>93856352
Don't read Smoke and Shadow then.

>>93855932
>Implying Korra isn't the trilogy after Return of the Jedi.

Episode I and III were fun.

>>93856352
Because if your fire is hot enough, plasma can be made.

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>>93856001

>I'm not Scrapper but

CANON

>>93856745

And there's this idiot who has nothing to contribute in life but to push his retarded incest fetishes.

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>>93855588
>literally only lost because Katara was there
>Katara beats Azula alone on Sozin's comet also Azula didn't try to burn off her chains even though several firebenders have done it on normal days

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>TFW now everyone can bloodbend at any given time

>>93854640
I kinda agree. The entire Zuko Vs. Azula fight had incredible intensity and drama, and having Katara use her Bloodbending would have kinda been a show on how desperate they were at that point, not to mention it would have been a great point for Azula to realize the fear of being basically powerless to control her own body, and at the whim of someone else.

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>>93856805
About that...

>>93854692
i like that idea especially since side flipping is great when done right. snape from harry potter flipped twice every movie. maybe she could use it for good somehow but shes aware its a cruel method. the lesson could be "its not what you do but why you do it."

>>93854640
No. If she used it on Azula in the finale it would've just been a 1:1 copy of the scene where she bloodbends Hana.

>>93856805
It was still an extremely rare trait in Korra though.

>>93855334
While an interesting idea, I highly doubt they'd put that kind of thing in a (mature) kid's show.

I'm still passed that now literally everyone can do what was originally Ty Lee's cool secret power. Guess the Kyoshi can't keep secrets.

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So yeah Katara is fascinating and all but what do you guys think about ZukoxToph?

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>>93856952
Amon was the best villain with great points and I'm still butthurt he was just a psychic bloodbender and I'm still mad about the brother thing.

Should've made him an energy bender. Would've loved to see how energy bender worked aside from taking away bending. Could one bend the energy in the air to heat it up and make instant combustions? Or bend the energy in water to remove heat and make it freeze?

Waste of a character.

>>93857385
Ty Lee's power was pretty dumb to begin with.

>here's is the super hardcore unit of elite battle hardened earthbenders
>oh no a rich teenage girl who can't bend

>>93857385
I don't know man. Chi blocking is just numbing the pressure points on the body to stop the flow of chi and stop bending.

The only hard about it is: memorization of the points, getting close enough for close range combat, and successfully being able to use a fighting style that blocks point.

A pick bruiser guy wouldn't be able to pull off Ty Lee's fighting style, but the Kyoshi warriors who are nimble would.

>>93854640
no because full moon rules for bloodbending still existed at that point

its like asking if I wanted Sokka to start waterbending in the finale

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>>93855641
>cling to your shitty waifu
You said it best anon

>>93856782
>retard incest fantasies
>says the convicted child molester who thinks of Azula as the daughter he wants to fuck

End your sad existence Scrappper. Enough kittens have been strangled for your babby cock.

>>93857667
TELL ME ABOUT AMON, WHY DOES HE WEAR THE MASK?

>>93858521
Anon didn't fly so good!

On the subject of Bloodbending, you think making Amon turn out to just be a bloodbender was the best route they could have gone? I think they could have done better than that.

>>93854640
It's stupid that bloodbending people is soooo evil, but kitting them with giant icicles and stuff is apparently fine. Bloodbending people into submission is probably much safer.

>>93858672
turning out*

>>93858677
This. It's a fast, safe way to do nonlethal takedowns. Aang should have been all about it.

Plus it has medical applications. Standard water-healing can't fix internal injuries (see: Jet's death). But bloodbending?

Someone has a large wound? No problem, bloodbending will keep them from bleeding to death. Pneumonia? We’ll bend that fluid right out of your lungs. Heart attacks, strokes, aneurysms, pleurisy… hell, it could probably even be used for completely non-invasive surgery, and applying something like Toph’s seismic sense to bloodbending would be even more effective than an MRI.

>>93854640
I wanted Katara to rape Azula with water tentacles.

>>93859609
water conducts electricity ;^)

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>>93856958
>the lesson could be "its not what you do but why you do it."

That's an extremely shitty lesson that is completely contradictory to everyone in the group. Using excuses to justify amoral actions is just a step away from being a complete sociopath. Aang for damn sure wouldn't tolerate that, and at best everyone one else would either be uncomfortable with her and/or eventually isolate themselves from her.

>>93859727
>Aang for damn sure wouldn't tolerate that
Tolerate what? That she had a way to incapacitate people withotu hurting them at all?

Why is chucking rocks at their chests or hurling icicle spikes better than just forcing them to tie themselves up?

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>>93859742
>That she had a way to incapacitate people withotu hurting them at all?


Did you even watch his damn show? Bloodbending is extremely painful, and is basically senseless torture. They are not incapacitating them, they are slowly killing them. Normal bending is self-defense, and water is very much a defensive style. It has been shown repeatedly that a water-bender can incapacitate people perfectly fine without harming them, so there is no excuse for her to resort to bloodbending in the first place. Even Katara using icicle spears was clearly shown as he going to far, which is why she abandoned the team in order to do it in the first place. To think that Aang would be fine with a worse alternative that does nothing but hurt people is asinine.

>>93859862
Korra isn't canon.

>>93859742
I don't think having your fucking blood manipulated in your body would be any less painful than the other things. If anything it'd probably be worse.

>>93859876
That was also shown in the original show, moron. What, you thought Katara swore bloodbending off forever for the lolz?

>>93859742
Two things. Chucking heavy objects at people is annoyingly treated with animu cartoon logic. Its not terrible till they it was.

Strangely they kept true that fucking with blood flow can be fucking hazardous. Your veins arteries capillaries.... Everything with blood in it wriggling in your body like so many worms pressing against muscle organs and flesh that was never meant to be interacted with by external forces. Not to mention some very real threats of accidental heart attacks, clotting from stopped up blood, strangulation, and possible brainfailure or organ failure depending on where your bending that blood

>>93860034
I mean you can excuse it though, when there's lots of fire benders and earth benders it would be detrimental to the action if fire and rock was as lethal is it is in actuality

But when there is just a couple of bloodbenders it upon up the possibility to show how messed up it is to control someone's bloodflow, just like having an airbender willing to murder like Zaheer allowed them the possibility to show how you can use air bending to cruelly choke someone to death

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reminder

>>93860105
korra is better than TLA in every way

>>93860170
Bloodbending in ATLA:
>extremely rare, could be perform only by most powerful benders during full moon, yeah its THAT hard
Bloodbending in LOK
>HURR DURR I'm so special I could bloodbend any time and check this: I even don't need to move for that so cool
Lightening in ATLA
>really powerful stuff that only masters can perform (Zuko didn't master it at all), if done wrong it can fuck you up, easily can kill people
Lightening in LoK
>every firebender can perform that, but shit couldn't kill a mouse now

FUCK LOK

>>93860240
>Bloodbending in LOK
>HURR DURR I'm so special I could bloodbend any time and check this: I even don't need to move for that so cool
Did they ever explain how Bloodbending can be done with a Full Moon?

I can get behind such a thing if there was some very serious and intensive training going on.
>"How?! How are you able to bloodbend with a Full Moon?!"
>"It took many years of hardship to perfect the technique, but I'd say the results are well worth it."

>>93860383
dude genetics lmao

>>93860383
>"How?! How are you able to bloodbend withOUT a Full Moon?!"
ftfms

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>tfw katara will never bloodbend an erection on you

>>93855387
>>93859609
>>93860592
wtf is wrong with you people

To get back on topic: I feel that Katara bloodbending Azula would have been a good way to show how desperate they were, and provide a little extra bit of character development for Azula. All her life she's been controlling other people through fear.

For Katara to have total control over her body would have shown her how it felt.

>>93860170
The wrongest guy on the internet

>>93860105
Bolin was never popular with girls, at least in the first season. He was consistently a goofball.

>>93855586
I'm just here to say this was some sick shit when I first saw it

>>93856432
You could have had her pushed to the point where she got desperate, then she ties to channel lightning, it courses through her body, and she just collapses into a smoking heap.

If the censors still objected you could play it off as her just pulling enough to knock herself unconscious and have Mai or Ty Lee visit her in prison later.

>>93855162
Zuko was kicking Azulas ass in that fight.

>>93860592
>tfw Katara will never fuck you for days on end, bloodbending your erection back every time she forces another agonizing orgasm out of your exhausted cock

>>93862772
Yes, that's why Azula cheated. She realized she fucked up.

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>>93860105
Wait, this was made after the first book wasn't it?
It really didn't age well considering where it went with Bolin being the character in the show with the most relationships, Mako being willing to sacrifice his own life
Korra energybending to save the life of the villain
And Asami being the funniest as she ended up as the love interest of the main character

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>>93856791
But thats the thing, her wrists were tied up, not her hands. So if Azula wanted to superheat the metal She would have also needed to scorch and permintalty scar her lower back. Which honestly is something shed totally do to try to continue the fight.

Too bad she was literally at the verge of a mental breakdown at the time of the fight. When plot armour drops, it drops hard.

>>93862739
I wish Katara had twisted Azula's arm around at the last moment and blasted her with her own lightning

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>>93857576
Should ahve made him just some conscript that survived and actually believed what the propaganda was saying.

>Rise up! They can bend, we have machine guns! I call it a fair fight!

>>93855387
Beat me to it, damn.

>>93861217
Just imagine the sensation of all those juices wriggling inside your dick as she's making lewd hand gestures in the air while peering coyly into your eyes.

>>93865127
Imagine her binding your wrists with her own sexual fluids.

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>>93855334

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Lets be real though

An honest-to-god social uprising because of benders vs non-benders would have been too much to handle for a Nick cartoon series. That's why Amon turned out as retarded as he did. The writers couldn't have handled the moms complaining about too mature themes in muh children cartoons otherwise.

>>93865384
Was bloodbending meant to be a metaphor for Katara getting her period?

>>93856377
>>93856352
I always interpreted it as lightning could be wielded by those with a decisive spirit. Azula wholeheartedly wanted to kill them, and hence she retained her ability. Zuko was usually confused and trying to find his way, so he couldn't weild it.

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>>93854640
Bloodbending was heavily underused in Korra. Fans completely forgot that the show reiterated that pure mental couldn't be bent. Then they metalbend mercury into Korra.

Not only that but then they metalbend it out of her not once, but a second times years later. It makes no sense that you could metalbend that out of there, even if there was some bullshit about them putting earth into the metal to force it into Korra, there is no way it is still in there years later.

I made much more sense, and wouldn't have been a plothole, to have BLOODBENT the metal out since the mercury was in her body.

It seems like they just wrote the plot hole as an excuse to bring Toph on.

>>93858672
I once idly thought what if Amon was neither a bloodbender nor an energy bender. We see him put on this elaborate terrifying display meant to inspire hatred in the audience and fear in Lightning bolt zolt and the other triad criminals, they had likely been interrogated for hours before hand to out the fear of god in them, making them think losing to Amon and having your bending taken is an inevitability. They are so afraid and certain they'll lose their bending they actually believe it enough to psychologically block it. Every time Amon removes people's bendings (Until Lin's) the bender is absolutely terrified of him and the simple action of him raising his hand. So much of his campaign relies on the fear of Amon as a person. He builts this cult of fear in order to trick people into believing and knowing he can take bending.

Would've been cool. Just a normal non-bender all along.

>>93866563
>they metalbend mercury into Korra.
what the actual fuck? why did Korra shit on everything in AtlA?

>>93867000
Because Bryke are hacks. They basically retconned almost all of the avatar lore. Remember when firebenders were taught by the dragons, earthbenders the badgermoles, airbenders the skybisen, and waterbenders the moon?

Well fuck that, Lion turtles just gave it to them.

>>93866563
it was pretty obvious that they just wanted to bring back toph for fan service, just like Zuko.

>>93867047
Goddamnit, this makes me mad.

>>93866563
The problem is that characters like Toph and Zuko are walking plotholes. It was established day 1 that Katara was the only surviving member of the original group, only to completely throw that out the window by season 3.

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>>93867170
The show has so many plotholes, there is a reason the fans never talk about anything except the Korrasami relationship.

Like, anyone remember Vatu explicitly stating that he made the portals to bring spirits over and fuck over humanity? And how humans had to hide on the backs of lion turtles to survive? And how Won and Raava worked together to defeat him and closed the portals? And how Korra saw all of that? And then how Korra proceeded to fulfill the will of literal manifestation of human hating chaos energy by OPENING THE FUCKING PORTALS?

And then how we saw the world slowly falling to the spreading vines and spirits that no one, not even Korra, could stop? (of course no one blames or questions Korra and just tells everyone to live with this)

Oh and she's the last Avatar, so once she dies no one will be able to fix her decision and the world will eventually become as it was in Won's time and the humans will be pushed to the brink of extinction.

WAY TO FUCKING GO BRYKE

>>93867170
I never liked how the comics had Zuko and Mai break up again

>>93867248
She isn't the last avatar, and it's basically canon that Water avatars fuck up, Air avatars are fucking effective, Earth avatars are fucking evil and fire avatars are just average

>>93867248
>the world will eventually become as it was in Won's time and the humans will be pushed to the brink of extinction.
As if, you know the humans are going to go full third reich on the fucking spirits. Which of course will be an insanely terrible thing to happen. Korra, the last and most terrible avatar ladies and gentlemen

>>93867284
>it's basically canon that Water avatars fuck up, Air avatars are fucking effective, Earth avatars are fucking evil and fire avatars are just average
source or gtfo

>>93867284
well my bad, thought the cycle was broken. At least the next avatar can fix her shit.

Also what the fuck was the point of the portals in the first place? Couldn't the spirits come over into the physical world anyway?

Like what do they do?

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>>93855334
TRUE THEORY WHEN AANG WAS TRAPPED IN ICE HE WENT INTO A COMA AND DREAMT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN ATLA SO IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN THAT'S WHY AANG IS 10 FOREVER AND REAL LIFE ANIMALS STOPPED APPEARING IN THE SHOW TRUE FACTS PEOPLE OTHERWISE HOW WOULD EVERYTHING WORK SO CONVENIENTLY

>>93867320
Still better writing than Korra.

>>93867320
BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY

>>93866705
Probably would work better if you gave him Ty Lee's blocking ability as well. It's theoretically temporary, but once you try it you truly believe it's gone forever, and are too broken to force yourself to keep trying.

>>93867309
>that air nomad avatar before kuruk, yangchen i believe
ushers in fucking 200 something years of prosperity
>kuruk
loses his waifu to the face stealing spirit and lives the shortest life of all avatars
>kyoshi
creates a fucking police state in Ba Sing Se
>Roku
jobs to a volcano surrounded by water and is the cause of the 100 year war
>Aang
learns and almost masters all four elements in the span of a year to end the 100 year war, ushers in era of peace with zuko
>korra
gets jobbed against her first villain, loses her ability to fire-water-earth bend,
lets the avatar spirit be fucking destroyed
is nearly killed by a couple of anarchist
fails to stop a metal reich from taking over the earth kingdom
heck korra didnt even defeat amon, unavatuu, or zaheer
jinor is the reason korra was able to defeat unavatuu and zaheer and amon just pussied away

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>>93863088
>braaaaaaaaaaaaa
I can fucking hear it going off

>>93857491
I usually hate shipping nonsense, but this is one of the few ships I can get behind.

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>>93854640
>best girl literally raping worst girl
fuck yes

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No need for Viagra when you have a blood bender.

>>93868447
Oh god, imagine the things she could do to you.

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I wonder if you can use blood bending to animate a recently dead corpse?

>>93868659
If it still has water, yeah. Humans are just bags of meat and water

>>93868659
Sure, but what would the point be?

>>93869870
Undead army? I mean, sure, they probably can't fight all that well, but at the very least they're meat shields, and their ability to frighten and intimidate would be potent.

>>93869892
Hmm, that's true.

>>93855641
Fuck off Scrapper.

>>93870109
who is Scrapper?

>>93865816
What is this image from?

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>>93867047
>waterbenders were taught by the moon

>be nonbender
>look at night sky
>get waterbending
sweet

>>93867170
>It was established day 1 that Katara was the only surviving member of the original group
No they didn't.

The only people who were explicitly dead were Aang and Sokka.

All Katara said was "all my friends are gone". Seeing as how Katara is a huge bitch, that doesn't exclude Zuko and Toph from being dead.

>>93860240
>bloodbending in LoK
>literally 3 guys who are all dead by the end of the first season

>Lightening in LoK
>literally 6 guys, only two show up outside the first scene and 1 outside more than one episode
>that one guy is a main character
LoK wasn't good, but people get needlessly autistic about things that weren't that big of a deal.

>>93860383
>Did they ever explain how Bloodbending can be done with a Full Moon?
They're just really powerful waterbenders. Theoretically, you could have done it in ATLA without the moon if you were powerful enough. It was just thought the only way to get that power boost was with the full moon.

>>93870388
>be bender but don't know it
>learn to do it from moon
not that hard

>>93870607
That's literally what happened. LoK didn't change that.

>>93870654
>DUDE LION TURTLES LMAO
fuck LoK

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>>93864568
this

>>93867372
AN AANG THEORY

>>93871482
is Korra aang

>>93871323
>build it all up to zuko redirecting lightning
>katara just makes her zap herself
I like it

>>93854941
I'd take it over what we got anon.

>>93870710
Lion Turtles didn't actually teach them how to bend and that's why they made a distinction between what Wan did and what the villagers did. Even the villagers are confused by actual bending.

>want to write a fanfic
>there are so many avatar fanfics no one will ever read mine
;_;

>>93855571
>As if the great Azula
put your trip back on, Fire Lo

>>93856056
you put smellerbee in but no Opal
what is fucking wrong with you

>>93856958
Well he wasn't really flipping. Time and time again, it's "Snape acts like an asshole but he's fighting for the good guys". The only exception is Half-Blood Prince.

>>93871323
I do wonder how Azula would have reacted to bloodbending
Someone so focused on control, perfection and convinced of her own superiority suddenly being forced to dance like a puppet on strings by a lowly commoner
I could see her going completely insane (even moreso than she actually did) if Katara actually prolonged the experience

>>93857491
>>93867712
Realistically, only a blind girl could love a man with the nasty burned up face a real life Zuko would have. Third degree burns with no modern medicine...he would probably look like the Hound from Game of Thrones.

>>93860105
Bolin was comic relief from day one. Mako was kind of a douche from day one. Asami was always a shitty side character existing for romance.

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holy shit there is already a korra hate thread up go there

>>93855334
This is the most retarded shit I've read all year.

>>93873830
>Realistically
the universe of magical benders and spirits

>>93860592
>tfw katara will never pee on your cock then jack you off with pissbending

>>93856352
>>93856377
I was fully expecting this to happen, actually. I remembered Iroh saying that, and I was sure that it was foreshadowing that was finally going to pay off. I was a little disappointed when it didn't happen.

>>93873808
That's one possibility. Who knows, she might even actually start begging.
>"Please! Let me control my body again!" *sob*

>>93854640

I honestly wanted Zuko to kill Azula. Like, in a "I'm sorry I have to do this, but I have to put you out of your misery" way.

Then he turns away from the incinerated corpse and goes "I'm Fire Lord now."

>>93873991
could have even been set up by Zuko, during the fight, constantly twisting the psychological knife

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>>93855334
nigga what

>>93874027
Anon that sounds a little bit villainish. That sounds a little bit like the beginning of "A Better World" from JLU.

>>93854640
I wanted she did let Zuko clean his own shit for once.

>>93873949
I know, I know. Just saying.

>>93874027
Too dark, remember this is a kid's show. We're only discussing it as adults because we saw it as kids.

>>93872619
Yes. Up until she supremely shat the bed.

>>93874252
but katara has to save the day every time to appease the waifufags

>>93854692

> I wanted it to be like a phase where she falls into bloodbending and the wrong side for a bit

Considering she can only use bloodbending once a month, the schedule of their adventure really wouldn't allow for it.

Even when she can use it, it's only for one night, that's not really enough time to be immersed in it.

>>93873830
Are you the same autist who unironically believes the Jin is a prostitute meme?

>>93874636
Hama said it could only be used one night. Even leaving aside LoK, Katara is a far more powerful waterbender than Hama. I think she could do it at least a few nights in a row.

>>93870595

> all my friends are gone

Doesn't she just say "many" or "most"? Also she could just be implying that they aren't in contact any more, which makes sense, since Toph was a hermit and Zuko was basically on the other side of the world dealing with fire lord stuff.

Why don't water benders just bend the water out of a person?

>>93874820
Why don't airbenders just collapse people's lungs? Why don't Jedi just crush people's hearts? Why don't wizards just use guns?

>>93874691

Hama said it can only be used when the moon is full, meaning one night.

Even Korra at least kind of kept with that idea through Amons training thing, in which his dad forced him and his brother to go out and practice bloodbending every month since they were kids. Even taking into account that Amons family ancestry was full of strong blood benders or some shit, it still took them years to be able to do it when practising every month, while Katara presumably stopped using it after the events in ATLA were over.

>>93874820
Hama showed it can be done. She just preferred to control them over killing them.

>>93874857
>>93874820

This is basically the problem LoK brought up when it started using more creative/horrible ways to use bending to kill people, in AtLA it was basically just the tone of the show that wouldn't allow it, they kept it consistent that bending the air out of someones lungs or pulling the water out of someone was just not something anyone would do, ever, but Korra just kind of opened the floodgates so they could get some cool death scenes, not really caring about the fact that now it just makes you wonder why pretty much every bender wouldn't do that.

>>93874939
Bolin is made the world's strongest Earthbender. The power creep is real. if given a mountain he could cause an entire wave of lava on people.
(Note: Lava is just Earth in a heated state and that Earthbenders can create it by accelerating the earth to the point it becomes lava by using the same force they use to lift the Earth and manipulate it.)

Why is the voice acting so good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L9aPyb-IBE

>>93875075
In hindsight it's impressive that the original show managed to mostly avoid power creep, unless you count lightning.

>>93874939
ATLA was pretty inconsistent on the damage of bending.

The Gaang fights firebenders all the time, but the only time anyone ever gets burned is for plot reasons.

They routinely throw rocks at each other, but they're never lethal unless you're Jet.

>>93875075
Toph would fuck Bolin up. Bolin never really beat Ghazan either. He just stalled him until Mako could jump in and help.

>>93875116
>In hindsight it's impressive that the original show managed to mostly avoid power creep, unless you count lightning.
Most of the main cast was overpowered. There's not much more room to grow.

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>>93875167
Toph is a master bender who has the ability to sense the Earth and its movement.

Bolin is an bender who is good at boxing (small rapid attacks) and on his feet. He also started using lava bending for less than a day when he fought Ghazan a master earth bender and lava bender.

Timeskip Bolin who became a journeyman in lava bending and refined his fighting style could go toe-to-toe with Ghazan.

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>>93875167

> ATLA was pretty inconsistent on the damage of bending.

Yeah but it never really crossed the line in terms of how you could use your bending to kill someone, even bloodbending wasn't used to kill someone from the inside, but rather controlling two people to kill each other.

The damage itself wasn't always consistent but the application of bending uses usually was, i.e no one using the very obvious methods with which you could kill someone with bending like they used in LoK.

> Most of the main cast was overpowered.

Eh, in the cases of Aang and Toph, they had been training since childhood, Aang is the avatar, and in Tophs case, she had special instruction from the creatures that created their bending, so for them, being strong isn't really that much of a stretch.

Sokka spent a fair while training with a great swordsman, but even then they didn't make that much use of his abilities so it didn't feel like he was overpowered, and in Zuko's case, he was basically a jobber despite being trained by his uncle, until the point where, like Toph, he gained insight from the original firebenders and raised his skill level.

Katara is the only one I really have fault with, since she didn't really start training properly until the start of the series, but even then, she still trained for a while under probably the best water bending master at the time, as well as the fact that she had ample time to train during their adventures.

>>93860240
>>93860393

>HURR DURR I'm so special
2 guys that are dead wow

>>93875258
man if they went with that design nobody would've thought borra stood a chance and wouldn't be mad when she made out with mako in front of him

>>93875743

Anyone who had seen basically any kind of love triangle story before still knew that Borra had no chance as soon as Mako was introduced.

Honestly all that love triangle crap in Korra was cringeworthy as fuck in its execution.

>>93875743
I would feel even more sorry for Bolin if his original design got cucked by his brother.

I'm mad he didn't fight his brother in the first place since he directly told Mako he liked Korra in that way and Mako went straight asshole on him.

>>93874878
I'm saying that Hama could only do it one night, but Katara is much more powerful and might be able to do it other nights.

>>93875676
>and in Tophs case, she had special instruction from the creatures that created their bending, so for them, being strong isn't really that much of a stretch.
I never bought that too much as a valid explanation.

Spending some time with badgermoles (which tons of earthbenders since they're used as beasts of burden) let's you fight Bumi to a draw? How come waterbenders aren't all super stronk from training with the moon literally every night? There's literally only 2 dragons still in existence, but plenty of firebenders get along fine without them.

>>93876241

What makes you think this?

The only people we've seen who're able to do it on nights other than the full moon are Noatak and Tarrlok, and then, they were only able to because they supposedly come from the strongest line of bloodbenders in history AND trained in it ever since they were children.

Katara was a strong bender but nothing suggests she would be strong enough to continue bloodbending after the full moon is gone.

>>93876307
As of the end of ATLA (I'm not taking Korra as canon for this), Hama and Katara are the only people in the world who know how to bloodbend. Hama could only do it on the full moon, but Katara is much more powerful.

I think the moon would still have to be mostly full, but it does change one night into several.

>>93876284

> Spending some time with badgermoles (which tons of earthbenders since they're used as beasts of burden) let's you fight Bumi to a draw?

Considering she met them as a very young child and had, consciously or otherwise, been using their earthbending technique to 'see' ever since then, yeah, I'd say she's a prodigy for good reason, she has what must be the most unique relationship to her bending style in the series.

> How come waterbenders aren't all super stronk from training with the moon literally every night?

They do get super stronk when there's a full moon, to the point where they're obviously overpowered, but in any other case, I imagine it's because the moon spirit is a lot more sedentary than a living creature would be in terms of interaction.

> There's literally only 2 dragons still in existence, but plenty of firebenders get along fine without them.

Sure, but it's basically proved that if everyone went through the dragon ritual ((and survived)) that their bending would be made stronger, since normally, the power is driven by a) the sun and b) anger/strong willpower

>>93876470

Again, what makes you think this? The moon is the catalyst, not the benders own power.

It seems like you're just making shit up regardless of what we've actually seen in the show.

>>93876490
>been using their earthbending technique to 'see' ever since then
She uses earthbending to see, but people make it out like she's training earthbending 24/7 as a result of it.

>Considering she met them as a very young child
She still is a young child. "Having trained since childhood" doesn't mean much when you're 12. Meanwhile Bumi has literally dozens more years of earthbending experience (the vast majority of it being during a goddamn war), yet Toph still goes toe to toe with him like it's nothing.

>>93856745
sauce?

>>93876778

> She uses earthbending to see, but people make it out like she's training earthbending 24/7 as a result of it.

For her style of earthbending, she basically is.

Her always using her bending to see ties in directly with the way she predicts an enemies movements before they've even completed said movement, and create a counter attack.

> She's still a young child
Training from what looks like 4 years old till she's twelve, in an extremely unique way of earthbending, would mean much, I'd say.

> Bumi has literally dozens more years of earthbending experience

But Toph's training gives her an advantage against basically any other earthbender because of it's origins, as it is, no one we know of has a style like hers, so it's not something you could understand and counter easily, at least when using the same element. Regardless of who she's facing, she's able to wait and counter basically anything coming at her.

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There's an r34 gif for this

>>93877060
>she predicts an enemies movements before they've even completed said movement, and create a counter attack.
>so it's not something you could understand and counter easily
Nigga that's basic fighting strategy 101

>>93877204
You can't just say that and not post sauce or at least details to help us find it

>>93877315

Sure but it's a lot easier when can literally feel what they're going to do before it's even done, especially if you can't even see them.

>>93877339
rule34 anon, search for animated katara images

>>93862866
>dom Katara

hnng

>>93854640
naw

>>93868659
It was fairly easy to do so with living bodies, so I don't see why not as long as they're fresh.

>>93859636
No, you dummy- dissolved electrolytes in water conducts electricity.

>>93854640

You people have completely missed the point of the whole bloodbending thing. It was clearly stated that bloodbending is a perverse and forbidden waterbending technique...and for GOOD reason. Fighting someone who's a threat using the elements to aid you is one thing. Controlling someone's blood is fucking HORRIFYING. Any doctors here? If so, tell these idiots how painful, dangerous/deadly that would be. I can't even imagine, but my best guess is, in reality, moving someone's blood would immediately kill them.

The scene were she actually uses it on her mother's killer was one of the few times a toon series truly made my jaw drop. That scene was quickly going to a very dark place. And I really think Katara wanted to kill him, but wanting is one thing. Actually doing it and having to live with the choice is entirely another (especially for someone so young). Talk to a cop who's had to shoot someone. That shit is forever.

So no, I'm very glad she didn't use it on Azula. I'm glad it wasn't even a temptation no matter how desperate the fight got. Bloodbending is an unbelievably slippery slope where things can spiral out of control very fast.

Jesus, didn't you SEE the witch that trained her? You want Katara to end up like HER? She wasn't even all that upset when she was caught. She was just grateful to have passed on her evil like a fucking Sith