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It's like complex math. at one point being able to do it was so amazing you could become a royal advisor, now though we teach better math than they could imagine in highschool ao (in theory) anyone can use it.
Azula casts lightning despite being on a full clinical psychotic slip in her last Agni Kai with Zuko, so I don't think "inner peace" actually means "a soul and mind without troubles". To me it's more of a "Despite my troubles, I know who I am and what my place in the world is" kind of "inner peace". Mako might have had relationship troubles, but he never had a complete lost of identity and self like Zuko's whole thing about: "I have to find the Avatar to restore my honor, except I'm not sure if it's my honor or my dad's love that I want... or maybe it's actually a confirmation of my place in the world that I want? Could it be my place as prince and future firelord that I want? But then again, I don't really know what I even want with the throne in the first place other than I want it because I'm supposed to be there? But what if I wanted something different for myself instead? But I have no idea what that could even be? Wait, do I even care about this helping the fire nation win this war in the first place? What am I doing with my life?"
@@ThatOtherAndrew this was talked about before, Iroh teaches lightning by splitting the yin and yang, Azula uses lightning directly from herself, being her rage (which is significantly weaker, but still lethal). also, just a note, fire bending isn't specifically fire, fire is just a result, the fire tribe can bend the essence of energy, or life force, directing that creates red/blue fire and lightning depending on the intensity/intent I like to think about Maurice from big mouth then I think of Azula.. "Rage Rage F***ing Rage!"
I think Azula's fire colour is just one of those things the lore doesn't really want to go into, cause it was made mostly to give her an added uniqueness and intimidation factor as the premiere villain of the series. Prodigies are rare, but rarely are they so rare that you only see one of their kind across two whole series of prodigies. I mean, even the dragons could make different colours of flames, but the one colour they didn't make was blue.
I always assumed the royal family/elites gatekept how to lightening bend and when Zuko came to power he taught it and made the ability common knowledge.
Wouldn't really make any sense for Zuko to up and decide, "You know what? I should make this super dangerous technique with massive potential for abuse available to the general public."
I picture it like the expansion of education. With the ancient Greeks, only scholars knew and were taught mathematics. As society has advanced, teaching of these specialised skills has become more widespread through the more accessible education systems put in place. Same could be said of lightning bending, with the added caveat that the royal family had exclusive access to this knowledge before Zuko took charge.
I see your intent, and do applaud the meaning behind that statement, however I feel a need to add a quick note. People have always received an education, for thousands of years even. The main difference is it was usually determined as children what someone would be, if you were expected to become a blacksmith you got an education in that. The same with baking, farming, being a guard, etc. They narrowed it down from the beginning. Now a days, the intention behind education is to let our kids get a wide scope, see where their interests lie and narrow it down themselves, though doesn't always happen that way. I do think your statement is still true though, don't get me wrong. Higher education was very much always gatekept where as now it's supposed to be available for anyone, and we're supposed to have the right to choose what we want to learn which sometimes works.
@lo l It's Formal enough, given that Fire nation have schools opened for all citizens. Which is apparent with the arc where Aang could go to school for free. The issue is with the rules enforced in original avatar series. Lighting is a gift, by gift it means people like Azula can do it but not people like Zuko. In short, you cannot teach everyone to become Einstein or Tesla, if you ever ever find a way to create more Einstein or Tesla, let me know cause you deserve nobel price for that.
@lo l How about this, if you look solely at Korra, it's a good show on itself. lets leave it at that. If in terms of connectivity between Korra and Aang, there's no way on Earth you could logically argue that the two world follow the same rules. Also, In no where did it exclusively stated that Lightning bending is taught only to the royal family. However there are episodes which alludes to free global education for Fire nation citizen. So I am not sure why Korra peddle the idea that everyone can now lightning bend. Also, you don't get the title of dragon by having subpar knowledge of fire bending. Iroh was always smart and kind so if the knowledge of lightning bend is exclusive to royals, Iroh would have found a way to teach it to his loyalist, which may I remind you, Iroh is the rightful heir to the throne so having a powerful bunch of loyalist is the key to securing your throne. The theory that Iroh was wrong in his theory suggest that Iroh didn't experiment teaching lightning to his loyalist before concluding his theory is extremely out of character. In addition it also suggest Iroh to be haughty which is never the case. Iroh was always kind and generous as a leader, he just managed to convince himself that everyone else who can't firebend are lesser people and need 'guidance' but the central core of his personality is still very far away from that of Ozai. Korra broke so many rules and precedence set in Aang that you gotta be kidding yourself that they didn't. One of the other biggest rule breaking is this, Roku could not teach Aang how to bend. Aang taught Korra how to energy bend and restored Korra's bending. That is the biggest biggest plot armor. Instead of just energy bend, why not just teach Korra everything. Also, remember when Korra became Ultraman? Well if Korra without avatar state could do that, why not everyone else? Also, lets not forget that Korra was spiritually inept up till the point of harmonic convergence. Isn't it all too convenient to just go untraman when you need to. Also, Ravaa and Vatuu are ancient spirits with wisdom and knowledge beyond comprehension. And during harmonic convergence, their power could only increase and not decrease yet Ultraman Korra managed to defeat Vatuu in her non-avatar state. Holy cow, if only a million years old spirit could foresee it, oh wait the spirits can't because they don't have plot armor. Finally, the sole reason why there's no probending in Aang era is because the bending powers can only be called upon through forms and specific movements. Which the masters had over the years compiled into bending styles. So to just point your hand and go kapow is in itself the biggest violation of the rules set in the original avatar series. Also, just because there are styles to help you use bending does not mean that everyone can bend or everyone has the same bending prowess. Sokka could never ever bend even if he know every single style the avatar universe could offer. Lastly, the real question is this. If first generation of benders were gifted by lion turtle and subsequent generations inherited it from their parents, how on earth did harmonic convergence results in air bending? either the world is broken or the writers are broken. Everything in Korra is only awesome if you stop connecting it to last airbender. Just enjoy both and keep them separate. View them as multi-verse instead of the same universe and you will feel happier
@lo l Please follow the lore completely. It doesn't balance anything out, it just enhances spiritual energy. If it balances everything out then Vatuu will hate Harmonic Convergence cause his power will be halfed such that Raava power will match his. On both occasion, Vaatu had gathered more power than Raava. The point I want to push across is that Korra-verse is Korra-verse. Stop trying to tie it with the last airbender because there is not much continuity in terms of world building. It's like the current Star Wars cinematic that is kinda broken or Harry potter's cursed child broadway show. Korra is good in itself so lets stop trying to break it's magic by forcing a connection between korra and LOA.
@lo l The soldiers bend in a similar way, according to the Northern Shao Lin martial art style. It is not point and kawpow. The specially gifted peeps who bend using their forehead had to also gather 'energy' by deep-breathing. There is always a method before you can bend. Even Toph, who self taught herself uses the praying mantis style. Korra is Korra and Leged of Aang is legend of Aang. Let's just follow the rules that each world had for their own world. The core writers for LOA are not on the team of Korra. Their only connection is remnants of LOA crew along with funding from the same network. Also, for ultraman korra, people like to connect to when Aang trains under the indian guru. It is different, Aang was always spiritual while Korra was not. So to suddenly become ultraman is at best, applicable only within the Korra-verse. Lumping with LOA-verse will results in conflict between two worlds!!!!
I always thought that the reason why so few could Lightning bend during Aangs era was that the fire nation fueled their bending by rage. To precisely control the lightning you need focus. Rage is a very explosive emotion which is why Zuko exploded on his first try. Only select few Fire Benders can remain calm despite fueling their fire in this way. Namely Ozai and Azula. Iroh on the other hand discovered the dragons and learned from them. No longer needing Anger to fuel his fire, if he ever did so in the first place. My theroy was that around Korras age, anger to fuel fire bending was replaced by Zuko's and Aangs version of fire bending. Taught by the dragons originally and then by them. This method was far more emotionally stable and allowed more people to remain calm enough while bending to produce lightning. Even if not at the same power perhaps as Azula and Ozai. With more people capable of learning the skill, it makes sense for someone to try and use it industrially.
Also the Kyoshi novels went into this. The books seem to imply that the first lightning bender was a pirate that the Earth Kingdom imprisoned. The earth kingdom didn’t execute him because the fire nation crown wanted to study him and see if they could reverse-engineer the skill.
"It was a skill so rare that some thought it a folktale or a secret that had been lost to the ages." This is a quote from the book. It seems to me that people kept re-discovering it, but no one bothered sharing it and it was lost to history over and over again. It probably wasn't until Zuko became Firelord and started sharing, that the technique became widely known.
@@theirishviking9278 He was alive, but I don't want to spoil the whole thing. Kyoshi met the guy in person, the source of knowledge the royal family used was kept imprisoned for years in the earth kingdom. They were supposed to execute him, but the fire nation kept him alive and a secret to gain a huge advantage over all other firebenders. All of it was because in that time, and in most of that nation's history, the Fire lord and his family was not the central power, instead, being a constant struggle between clans (descendants of the fire clans that inhabited the fire islands, that is a story explored in Smoke And Shadow). The royal family needed a fearsome and secret power to keep their upper hand over all other clans, and lightning was just perfect.
Yep, and dear lord do more people need to read those books. I try to shill for them wherever I can because they are just hands down the best Avatar media available.
He is still the Earth King of the Earth Kingdom, so called because of its Earth Benders. But also, to be fair, that was pretty much his reaction to everything ;)
You don't have to be a bender to be a great leader. Sokka and Hakoda being examples of this. No one knows if the first earth king was the best earth bender, but I believe that perhaps they were just an amazing leader who always led earth benders to victory.
When Iroh said only a few could lightning bend, he wasn't talking genetics, he was talking difficulty. So few could do it because it is a very advanced technique.
I always thought that this including metal bending took a generation of practice and study for it to become easily teachable and practiced when the people were at peace. Kinda like how we slowly evolved our understanding of science and refined our techniques in modern martial arts and physical exercises. Cant wait to watch your video tho.
I like that perspective on martial arts. I didn't think about it until now how powerful an understanding of anatomy and macrobiology is when you are wrecking someone's ish. It's like enhanced targeting systems
Well I feel the same but it was suppose to be like that because in Avatar the last airbender when they see all the avatar statues there was one left which was for aang so it was either foreshadowing or just a coincidence idk but I still don't like that they restarted the avatar circle
@@noah-fc3lx Season 2 in Legend of Korra, whackiness ensures, a lot of which, is essentially nonsense. Anyway, they attempt to explain the origin of the Avatars which are essentially less cool versions of the Ying and Yang Koi fish spirits from ATLA, called Vaatu and Raava. Raava, the white rectangle spirit, is of course the good one. Threw some stupidity, Raava is separated from Korra which causes her to lose every connection to every past avatar permanently. Bye bye Aang, dead forever.
When do you think the next avatar will be alive the earth one will it be the 1990 in the avatar world cause Korea takes place in 1920 well a very advanced 1920 so the 90 makes senescence if it 70 years later or early 2000 actually if korra died in 2000 we would problem go too around 2016 or 2017
@@TXMusicalNerd lightning redirection is considered a different style, so a person who can lightningbend can't redirect lightning without knowing it beforehand.
Regardless of whether it’s a different style or technique, it is still manipulating lightning through bending. Toph uses a different style/technique (praying mantis Kung fu) than other earthbenders, but it’s still earthbending.
It’s - “Oh I don’t think so” very important addition of a word. Also I would’ve gone with Mace- since his Lightsaber redirects lighting- saying “This Party’s Over”
@@trickysmithy9154 Sorry to be that guy- but Obi Wan didn’t reflect the lightning. His lightsaber absorbed it. Rewatch the scene if you want. Until Rey in episode 9, Mace was the only Jedi who used a saber to reflect lightning. ruclips.net/video/HA2i8RyrhBU/видео.html Here’s the link, fast forward to 2:05
lightning bending was a royal family secret for generations. When zuko became fire lord, he likely revealed the secret to everyone. lightning bending isnt like bloodbending where only a few waterbenders or can do it.
@@radstaz2029 That it's not really more unique or harder to learn than lightningbending, sure Bolin had trouble with metalbending but Zuko apparently never learned lightningbending in his whole life.
Technically, lightning bending was first introduced in the season 1 episode _The Storm_ when Iroh redirects the lightning strike from hitting the boat. I also have a feeling that any firebender could bend lightning, but only powerful and talented ones can make it so powerful. Which would mean that while Lightning Bending is more common, each of those individual benders aren't as powerful as Azula, Iroh, or Ozai.
My guess is it simply became more commonplace since people weren’t. You know. Hating fire benders. It’s also performed in irregular ways, and irregular bending styles became more common with the mingling of styles. Now that we have a peace, it was probably easier for Fire benders to pull off. Now with the whole industrial revolution too, after one person figured it out plenty more would- just like how metal bending became super common.
I have a theory about Princess Yue. Yue's character is based upon her willingness to sacrifice her own desires in favor of her people she is willing to sacrifice her free choice of spouse by marrying an assigned fiance to help her people; she's willing to sacrifice her love for Sokka by marrying said fiance to help her people and she willingly sacrifices her life to help the world by becoming the Moon Spirit. However, I think there's more to it: I think, with that last sacrifice, she still sacrificed her choice in spouse, because I believe, by becoming the Moon Spirit, she automatically married La, the Ocean Spirit. Here's why: Although never to my knowledge specifically said, it is heavily implied that Tui and La are married: they both decided to leave the Spirit World together; their areas of power are tied together with balance; they are in a constant relationship of balancing each other out and fueling each other strengths, and they are the embodyments of Yin and Yang (basically everything I just said combined + man and woman). Since Yue replaces Tui in this Yin Yang relationship, I believe she's automatically replaced her as La's wife, thereby marrying "a guy she doesn't even know that well" to help her people. So, to help her people, Yue still ended up marrying an arranged marriage.
Before i watch the video: I think Lightning bending became so common is because the former royal family wanted to keep the skill to their own, to stay in power. so they could keep their power. When Zuko became firelord, he learned more people how to bend lightning (well he couldnt himself (probably) so he let people do it)
I have a beginning of a theory: In His early years, iroh doesn't Seem so nice. In Episode 20 of season 1, AtlA, Zhao mentiones, that iroh Took a Voyage to the spiritworld. Then, in Episode 10, season 2 of LoK, iroh mentiones the teapot of wan, which still contains a bit of light in IT, when you Drink tea from it. Could it ne, that Raava changed iroh in some way or Something? Sorry for the Bad English, not my native language bla bla...
Lava bending, please do a video taking about what happened to Vatu, in the second season of kora he just disappear, but it is told that Vatu can not die, will it be a real dark avatar?
My biggest question is, who the heck wrote the play towards the end of the series? Like whoever it was new a lot about Team Avatar, they knew enough that we probably met them at some point
You wanna know the real reason? As with everything in korra, the rules of the world were secondary. "Does it look cool? -Yes! Ok then lets do it and screw everything else!" Same with the new Star Wars!
Wrong. What he said made perfect sense. There was a need for it. Notice that metal bending was unique but Toth taught it to her daughter who taught it to the whole police force.
Keep in mind the era of Aang(both while he was in the iceberg and when he got out) had some of 5he greatest benders of all time it would make sense to believe that people would study their bending styles and build upon them making the styles more accessible. Although like with azula a level head tons of talent as well as practice goes a long way.
The avatar state is all the spirits of an avatars past lives, channeling their power through the current avatar. Aang is super spiritual and has a close connection at least with Roku but most likely all their past lives as he also summons spirits of Kuruk, Yang Chen, and Kiyoshi, while Kora is not very spiritual, at least at the beginning of her arc, and by the time she would be truly open to something like that Unolach had destroyed the imprints of the past avatars so her connection was only to Rava.
Favorite sub-style of Bending: DEFINITELY Bloodbending. Made Hama into an absolutely terrifying character and also did a great job of showing Katara's progression as both a Bender and a person
umm actually we see lightning bending in season 1 done by iroh during the episode the storm (i know it's lightning redirection but it still bends lightning). just as an aside a lot of simmilar things can be said about metal bending except for the fact that toph imediatly wanted to share it just not to the wrong ppl
@@LIAuNXeNON sure but creating lighting is significantly different than redirecting, redirection is taking another lightning and yknow redirecting it, there's no its internal redirection while lightning bending is you know producing lighning. It kinda subjective if their the same or not, i believe intent is the main difference of the two kinda like blood bending and healing, I saw a theory that water bending is regenerating the cells by making them move faster, cells travel through blood hence it could technically be considered blood bending, but the main difference is intent. I know I'm thinking way too much into it but I love this show and I love thinking how bending works especially sub bending becuase their is such a mysteries aspect
How does high tier bending go down to "Joe" level? Well, it's simple. 1) Don't invite a guy who made Aang, It's world, story, text, magic system. 2) Give all power to two imbeciles who are responsible for nothing In the previous installment. 3) Let them ruin all of the previous careful and concrete worldbuilding with "cause it looks cool" 4)..... 5)Profit?
If there's a dozen firebenders can produce lightning in Zuko's rule(assuming he undid Sozin's use of anger in firebending) in the first years, more can be produced in 2-4 generations and we know that not every firebender in Korra's era are capable of combative lightning bending.
I have a question about Avatar and I wonder if anyone has any thoughts... I posted this on a different video so if you see the same thing somewhere it was still me, I am just curious to hear other peoples thoughts. In Avatar do benders have a "range" with their bending. I am not a super-fan of the series so maybe this has been answered somewhere but I have never heard of it. I am most specifically talking about earth bending but I suppose water bending could be included as well. Here is my dilemma... Toph often times earth bends things that are already mid air. The most obvious example that comes to my head right away is when she earth bends the small pebble back under the cup when she is playing the shell game. This means that an earth bender can bend something that they are not physically in contact with through other earth. So could an earth bender theoretically bend a piece of the moon down toward themselves? If not, why? What is the range? Perhaps the range differs depending on the strength of the bender, similar to how heavy of an object can be bent? Another, less extreme example would be if a bender is swimming in the middle of a lake. Could they just bring the earth up from the bottom of the lake giving them a surface to stand on? (my immediate guess is no because Toph doesn't do this when she is in this situation but I don't understand why not). Basically these examples should, at least in my mind, follow all of the established rules of the world but I am curious to hear other thoughts.
In the case of Earth bending it requires you have a strong and sturdy stance in order to manipulate the Earth so being able to bend without proper footing (in water) wouldn't be possible unless you are an extremely powerful bending. As for range yes there is a range. What it is idk but there is still an obvious one. With stronger benders able to act on larger amount of elements from farther away.
well as a soft magic system, while it has some stablished rules, they arent absolute, which means they can be more or less permissive according to the plot needs. However you can see how benders "strenght" works out, using your explample, watch toph's learning curve to metal bend. She at first was only able to handle metal by touching it and imprinting lots of force on it, but as she becomes more proficient she can do it without any contact of sorts and more quickly, being able to bend far away objects without too much trouble. The limits of the bender/bending relies on the bender itself, how train it is and how much and how efficient is with its chi, so while its plausible for an extremly proficient earth bender to make the moon crash into the earth, the likehood of someone having that power and training its pretty much impossible. Also Avatar bending is based on the elemental vision from ancient china, so if a "element" doesnt fit on that vision of the element then it cannot be bend, for example, you dont directly bend metal; you bend the impurities on it and thus the more pure its the metal/alloy the harder its to bend, thats why platinium cant be metal bend as its pretty much pure while steel is pretty much free range as its literally earth + iron; if you check the elements from china both metal and earth are different elements but they have an interaction between them so you can "bend" metal but not directly.
@@kehindehopkins6933 If I remember correctly Kyoshi moved the island with air bending right? She disconnected it with earth bending but I think the island for the most part just drifted away after she got it going with air bending. I may be remembering wrong though
You have to also consider that the reason the royal family is so powerful is that their family was innately gifted and thus had the ability to seize control of the kingdom through their bending prowess centuries ago. Azula and Azulon didn’t just work hard; they were defined as “prodigies”. Fire bending is definitely strong in their family.
There's another video that implies Ozai married Ursa simply for the fact that her grandfather was Roku. That way Ozai's children will have the strength of his bloodline and that of The Avatar. And turns out, he was right!
There's another video that implies Ozai married Ursa simply for the fact that her grandfather was Roku. That way Ozai's children will have the strength of his bloodline and that of The Avatar. And turns out, he was right!
The way Iroh describes the process I always figured Zuko couldn't do it yet because he wasn't sure who he was and it would make his chi impossible to separate. thats probably part of what makes it so dangerous, that you have to be so confident and you can't waiver for a second or you could hurt yourself.
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I feel like its a skill that gets more common over time. Like reading for example. It was once considered very special, and now basically everyone can do it
I can fully imagine after the war, there were firebenders who either learned about the existence of lightning bending or learning about how to learn it and saying the exact same thing that Aang said about Monk Gyasto's airsurfing, "I can't believe I never thought to try that!!!!" I know that that If I were a firebender and I learned that lightning bending were I think I'd bust my chops to try and learn it.
Also imagine all the medical uses of blood bending? Like Katara only saw the horror side, she never saw the medical side... it could help with bloodflow, internal and external bleeding, battle wounds, childbirth, periods probably.... medicine would have advanced so much but nooo, blood = bad
Bruh, Mako's trademark in probending, other than "Mr. Hat Trick", is being cool under fire. The announcer himself applauded him for it in his first appearance and I think it pretty much sums up most of what he (Mako) does. I mean, sure, Mako's been traumatized, parentified himself to raise Bolin, and screwed up his romantic relationships, but he never actually lost it or went through some sort of personal crisis because of it. He's probably the only one in Korra's Team Avatar to never go through some sort of inner turmoil: Korra with her identity as the Avatar, Asami with her dad and her company, Bolin with what he actually wants to do with his life. Dude just pretty much went: earn money probending, get a stable job as a cop, and do good enough to become a detective. The closest inner turmoil we got from him is with relationships with Korra and Asami. Personally, he solved it himself by saying "I need to go by without a woman in my life". It was how the *others* would react that he is worried about like: How would either of his exes act around him if he sticks around their friend group? Which Korra and Asami pretty much solved by making fun of him for *making* it awkward. Dude is so internally chill and unfazed, that even the audience think he's stoic. Even in combat, he's usually the first one to act when the others around him are already panicking or are too shocked to move.
I’m just mad because it was said to be a skill that had to be honed and was very rare. Doesn’t make sense that everyone can do it in Korra. Actually I don’t like Korra anyway.
70 years ago (same time difference) having any knowledge about coding would have been an invention worth being written down in history, it wasn't even invented at that time, now millions can Stop random hating haters y'all need to understand time gaps
@@juska4235 umm not really. In the last air bender they say it was something that took for a person to well have full control over his emotions and mind. Then they treat it as if anyone can control their emotions and mind. Coding is a skill you can learn how a days thanks to technology and a couple other factors. But lightning bending is well they treated it as something only true masters can use, but now some random person can learn about it and get a job in an electrical power plant. I don’t hate korra, but I do find the decision quiet dumb and for you to compare something that takes years of training and mastering your emotions now to be something a common person being capable of doing isn’t really a reasonable transition.
Lightning bending pales in comparison to lava bending. I mean how cool would it be to just start forming literal fire power (or well molten power), just like a slightly more effective fire bending, and still create literal lava which can be made from any combination of stones, big and small.
@@gunchar06 Excuse you, fire and _water?_ That doesn't make any sense. It's definitely Fire and Earth right? Fire and Water would be steam or something
@@ronswanson7371 Yeah I get what they thought but it's not viscosity bending hahaha Katara didn't bend blood cause it was sufficiently goopy 😂 Otherwise non avatar ice bending wouldn't make any sense. Yo OP collab w/ me 'n' -Ron- everyone else on the combos Water + Fire = Steam w/ Acid as Mastery Earth + Water= Mud w/ Geological Tsunami as Mastery Air + Earth= Dust -Sand?- Fire + Air= Explosion -Plasma?- -Heat?- -Energy?- Water + Air= Cloud w/ Weather as Mastery -Bubble?- -Steam 2 nonElectric Bugaloo?- Earth + Fire= Lava w/ Glass as Mastery
I personally think that this theory is incorrect. when Iroh says "select few" i think he is talking about there being a scarcity, not that it is restricted to the royal family. i think that there were only a few thousand in the world that could out of the whole firebender population. with the widespread of its teachings, the people who had the potential to lightning bend could do it. i just think that during the 100 year war the technique was only taught to the royal family.
@@ssu7653 no he's saying that it's still a rare skill (like blood bending) and the few people that had the potential to lightning bend now had the knowledge to as it was now wide spread after zuko was fire lord
I think a lot of benders were capable of metal bending but never put in effort because it was thought of as impossible. On the flip side, lightning bending was known as being entirely possible and people still never picked it up.
Cultural mixing. And still, not everyone can bend it. Iroh’s statement still stands. Only a select few firebenders can bend it. It’s just that a cluster of those select few are in one place.
@@chumuheha eeeeehhh....yes and no. The US president is the Commander in Chief of the military, but is always considered a "civilian" so they are not actually a "member of the military".
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It's like complex math. at one point being able to do it was so amazing you could become a royal advisor, now though we teach better math than they could imagine in highschool ao (in theory) anyone can use it.
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Iroh: To harness lightning, one must achieve inner peace ☮
Mako: lightning and relationship issues go brrr⚡
I mean to be fair azula was doing it while having a mental breakdown
Azula at the end of book 3: YOU SURE BOUT DAT
Azula casts lightning despite being on a full clinical psychotic slip in her last Agni Kai with Zuko, so I don't think "inner peace" actually means "a soul and mind without troubles". To me it's more of a "Despite my troubles, I know who I am and what my place in the world is" kind of "inner peace".
Mako might have had relationship troubles, but he never had a complete lost of identity and self like Zuko's whole thing about: "I have to find the Avatar to restore my honor, except I'm not sure if it's my honor or my dad's love that I want... or maybe it's actually a confirmation of my place in the world that I want? Could it be my place as prince and future firelord that I want? But then again, I don't really know what I even want with the throne in the first place other than I want it because I'm supposed to be there? But what if I wanted something different for myself instead? But I have no idea what that could even be? Wait, do I even care about this helping the fire nation win this war in the first place? What am I doing with my life?"
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@@ThatOtherAndrew this was talked about before, Iroh teaches lightning by splitting the yin and yang, Azula uses lightning directly from herself, being her rage (which is significantly weaker, but still lethal).
also, just a note, fire bending isn't specifically fire, fire is just a result, the fire tribe can bend the essence of energy, or life force, directing that creates red/blue fire and lightning depending on the intensity/intent
I like to think about Maurice from big mouth then I think of Azula.. "Rage Rage F***ing Rage!"
One of the things that still marks Azula’s power is her blue fire, even with lighting bending becoming more common, no other bender produced blue fire
@lo l azula is also shown to be a child prodigy, so that probably has to do with it.
Their emotions fuel their fire just like how they use rage. Her rage plus her mental health being unstable probably resulted in her fire being hotter
I think Azula's fire colour is just one of those things the lore doesn't really want to go into, cause it was made mostly to give her an added uniqueness and intimidation factor as the premiere villain of the series. Prodigies are rare, but rarely are they so rare that you only see one of their kind across two whole series of prodigies. I mean, even the dragons could make different colours of flames, but the one colour they didn't make was blue.
@@msartist1767 i think it has to do with azula's emotions and her emotions are stronget than any firebender and oazi
@@vindifference they made rainbow blue probably merged with pink to make the purple and if you look closely you can see a little blue
I always assumed the royal family/elites gatekept how to lightening bend and when Zuko came to power he taught it and made the ability common knowledge.
That’s what I thought too
Well, Iroh would be the one teaching cause Zuko himself hasnt learned it. He only knows redirection
Wouldn't really make any sense for Zuko to up and decide, "You know what? I should make this super dangerous technique with massive potential for abuse available to the general public."
@@thegreatfusili4673 kinda agree but like J said it made sense as it could be used to power things and help the economy
I picture it like the expansion of education. With the ancient Greeks, only scholars knew and were taught mathematics. As society has advanced, teaching of these specialised skills has become more widespread through the more accessible education systems put in place. Same could be said of lightning bending, with the added caveat that the royal family had exclusive access to this knowledge before Zuko took charge.
This is basically how hundreds of years ago, only a select few received education, while today, for the most part, education is a given thing
I see your intent, and do applaud the meaning behind that statement, however I feel a need to add a quick note. People have always received an education, for thousands of years even. The main difference is it was usually determined as children what someone would be, if you were expected to become a blacksmith you got an education in that. The same with baking, farming, being a guard, etc. They narrowed it down from the beginning. Now a days, the intention behind education is to let our kids get a wide scope, see where their interests lie and narrow it down themselves, though doesn't always happen that way.
I do think your statement is still true though, don't get me wrong. Higher education was very much always gatekept where as now it's supposed to be available for anyone, and we're supposed to have the right to choose what we want to learn which sometimes works.
@lo l It's Formal enough, given that Fire nation have schools opened for all citizens. Which is apparent with the arc where Aang could go to school for free.
The issue is with the rules enforced in original avatar series. Lighting is a gift, by gift it means people like Azula can do it but not people like Zuko. In short, you cannot teach everyone to become Einstein or Tesla, if you ever ever find a way to create more Einstein or Tesla, let me know cause you deserve nobel price for that.
@lo l How about this, if you look solely at Korra, it's a good show on itself. lets leave it at that. If in terms of connectivity between Korra and Aang, there's no way on Earth you could logically argue that the two world follow the same rules.
Also, In no where did it exclusively stated that Lightning bending is taught only to the royal family. However there are episodes which alludes to free global education for Fire nation citizen. So I am not sure why Korra peddle the idea that everyone can now lightning bend.
Also, you don't get the title of dragon by having subpar knowledge of fire bending.
Iroh was always smart and kind so if the knowledge of lightning bend is exclusive to royals, Iroh would have found a way to teach it to his loyalist, which may I remind you, Iroh is the rightful heir to the throne so having a powerful bunch of loyalist is the key to securing your throne. The theory that Iroh was wrong in his theory suggest that Iroh didn't experiment teaching lightning to his loyalist before concluding his theory is extremely out of character. In addition it also suggest Iroh to be haughty which is never the case. Iroh was always kind and generous as a leader, he just managed to convince himself that everyone else who can't firebend are lesser people and need 'guidance' but the central core of his personality is still very far away from that of Ozai.
Korra broke so many rules and precedence set in Aang that you gotta be kidding yourself that they didn't.
One of the other biggest rule breaking is this, Roku could not teach Aang how to bend. Aang taught Korra how to energy bend and restored Korra's bending. That is the biggest biggest plot armor. Instead of just energy bend, why not just teach Korra everything.
Also, remember when Korra became Ultraman? Well if Korra without avatar state could do that, why not everyone else? Also, lets not forget that Korra was spiritually inept up till the point of harmonic convergence. Isn't it all too convenient to just go untraman when you need to.
Also, Ravaa and Vatuu are ancient spirits with wisdom and knowledge beyond comprehension. And during harmonic convergence, their power could only increase and not decrease yet Ultraman Korra managed to defeat Vatuu in her non-avatar state. Holy cow, if only a million years old spirit could foresee it, oh wait the spirits can't because they don't have plot armor.
Finally, the sole reason why there's no probending in Aang era is because the bending powers can only be called upon through forms and specific movements. Which the masters had over the years compiled into bending styles. So to just point your hand and go kapow is in itself the biggest violation of the rules set in the original avatar series. Also, just because there are styles to help you use bending does not mean that everyone can bend or everyone has the same bending prowess. Sokka could never ever bend even if he know every single style the avatar universe could offer.
Lastly, the real question is this. If first generation of benders were gifted by lion turtle and subsequent generations inherited it from their parents, how on earth did harmonic convergence results in air bending? either the world is broken or the writers are broken.
Everything in Korra is only awesome if you stop connecting it to last airbender. Just enjoy both and keep them separate. View them as multi-verse instead of the same universe and you will feel happier
@lo l Please follow the lore completely. It doesn't balance anything out, it just enhances spiritual energy. If it balances everything out then Vatuu will hate Harmonic Convergence cause his power will be halfed such that Raava power will match his. On both occasion, Vaatu had gathered more power than Raava.
The point I want to push across is that Korra-verse is Korra-verse. Stop trying to tie it with the last airbender because there is not much continuity in terms of world building. It's like the current Star Wars cinematic that is kinda broken or Harry potter's cursed child broadway show.
Korra is good in itself so lets stop trying to break it's magic by forcing a connection between korra and LOA.
@lo l The soldiers bend in a similar way, according to the Northern Shao Lin martial art style. It is not point and kawpow. The specially gifted peeps who bend using their forehead had to also gather 'energy' by deep-breathing. There is always a method before you can bend.
Even Toph, who self taught herself uses the praying mantis style.
Korra is Korra and Leged of Aang is legend of Aang. Let's just follow the rules that each world had for their own world. The core writers for LOA are not on the team of Korra. Their only connection is remnants of LOA crew along with funding from the same network.
Also, for ultraman korra, people like to connect to when Aang trains under the indian guru. It is different, Aang was always spiritual while Korra was not. So to suddenly become ultraman is at best, applicable only within the Korra-verse. Lumping with LOA-verse will results in conflict between two worlds!!!!
Gotta love Avatar, a “kids show” with plots based around economic division.
Dont forget genocide and imperialism, it really is a great kids show lol.
@@peadrianlastname don’t forget the moral complexities of getting revenge of your mother’s murderer
@@TheLoserface45 Also the emotional complexities of breaking free of brainwashing and propaganda. (And the horrific outcomes when you do not.)
And mental illness! Which is one of the reasons I love the show
I wholeheartedly agree, This show is really one of The best kid’s shows in the past 2 decades
I always thought that the reason why so few could Lightning bend during Aangs era was that the fire nation fueled their bending by rage. To precisely control the lightning you need focus. Rage is a very explosive emotion which is why Zuko exploded on his first try. Only select few Fire Benders can remain calm despite fueling their fire in this way. Namely Ozai and Azula. Iroh on the other hand discovered the dragons and learned from them. No longer needing Anger to fuel his fire, if he ever did so in the first place. My theroy was that around Korras age, anger to fuel fire bending was replaced by Zuko's and Aangs version of fire bending. Taught by the dragons originally and then by them. This method was far more emotionally stable and allowed more people to remain calm enough while bending to produce lightning. Even if not at the same power perhaps as Azula and Ozai. With more people capable of learning the skill, it makes sense for someone to try and use it industrially.
Exactly what I thought!
makes sense
I would say that's a perfect mechanical compliment to the geopolitical/socioeconomic reasonings J discussed. Nice in-universe logic!
Wow this comment deserves way more like
This comment would get more likes if people didnt get scared of comments that are more then 3 sentences
Also the Kyoshi novels went into this. The books seem to imply that the first lightning bender was a pirate that the Earth Kingdom imprisoned. The earth kingdom didn’t execute him because the fire nation crown wanted to study him and see if they could reverse-engineer the skill.
"It was a skill so rare that some thought it a folktale or a secret that had been lost to the ages."
This is a quote from the book. It seems to me that people kept re-discovering it, but no one bothered sharing it and it was lost to history over and over again. It probably wasn't until Zuko became Firelord and started sharing, that the technique became widely known.
wait so was he alive during Kyoshi's time or was this a history lesson for her?
@@theirishviking9278 He was alive, but I don't want to spoil the whole thing. Kyoshi met the guy in person, the source of knowledge the royal family used was kept imprisoned for years in the earth kingdom. They were supposed to execute him, but the fire nation kept him alive and a secret to gain a huge advantage over all other firebenders.
All of it was because in that time, and in most of that nation's history, the Fire lord and his family was not the central power, instead, being a constant struggle between clans (descendants of the fire clans that inhabited the fire islands, that is a story explored in Smoke And Shadow). The royal family needed a fearsome and secret power to keep their upper hand over all other clans, and lightning was just perfect.
Yep, and dear lord do more people need to read those books. I try to shill for them wherever I can because they are just hands down the best Avatar media available.
@@dareios1551 I'd say it was publicized a bit prior to that since Firelord Ozi was such a big name and an extremely skilled lightning bender
“Which leads to more factories, more jobs, more families and more factories and more people”... *SOCIETY!*
Weather update: there's lightning!
coming soon to a dank river valley near you
You could make a religion out of this
No don’t
You can really tell when this video came back into recommendations agains.
Ozai: shoots lightning at Zuko
Zuko: *UNO Reverse Card*
Lol
Stolen comment
Cloud: shoots lightening near Zuko
Zuko: Cries
@@lile4life713 ? No it's not, it's the only one I see that's like this in the comments section
@@wdwfanatic1394 could be from a different video and have 20k likes
There is a reason that the first thing Voldemort does when he gets the Elder Wand... Is to shoot lightening into the air. It's freaking awesome.
WHOOSH
🤣🤣🤣
AY YOU SPOILED IT
You know who was a fire bender
Iroh was the first shown to bend it in season 1, to prevent a lightning strike from hitting the boat he and Zuko was on
He was redirecting it, which is different. Zuko and Aang can both redirect lightning but they can’t create it.
@@rebekahcalabro7064 I'm pretty sure aang can but only in the avatar state
Rebekah Calabro Zuko most likely learned to do it after the series. He doesn’t have the problem of bending through anger.
Flameo hotmans
FLAMEO!
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Flameo comrade
Flameo, hotman.
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"The identity of the nation is derived from bending"
the non-bending earth king - 👁👄👁
He is still the Earth King of the Earth Kingdom, so called because of its Earth Benders. But also, to be fair, that was pretty much his reaction to everything ;)
Surrounded by elite Dai Lee agents, put in place by an Earth bending avatar.
Why are every Earth Kingdom's royal families not benders?
The Earth King, The Earth Queen, his daughter and Prince Wu are not benders.
You don't have to be a bender to be a great leader. Sokka and Hakoda being examples of this.
No one knows if the first earth king was the best earth bender, but I believe that perhaps they were just an amazing leader who always led earth benders to victory.
👁️ 👁️
👅
Jay: *says that fire is literally energy*
Me: *cries in plasma*
Where the freak is the lion turtle for plasma bending? I'd like a word
Also the superfluid lion turtle
It’s just a chemical reaction from oxygen turning to carbon dioxide
@@davidbakke9293 I mean that’s a massive oversimplification but ok
When Iroh said only a few could lightning bend, he wasn't talking genetics, he was talking difficulty. So few could do it because it is a very advanced technique.
I always thought that this including metal bending took a generation of practice and study for it to become easily teachable and practiced when the people were at peace.
Kinda like how we slowly evolved our understanding of science and refined our techniques in modern martial arts and physical exercises. Cant wait to watch your video tho.
I like that perspective on martial arts. I didn't think about it until now how powerful an understanding of anatomy and macrobiology is when you are wrecking someone's ish. It's like enhanced targeting systems
An “Also, also” without being followed up by an “Actually, actually?” I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Ik exactly how I feel sad.
Also also actually actually mad
I am the 60th person to agree with that sentiment
I have a love hate relationship with Korra. The fact that they chose to restart the avatar cycle still makes me mad.
what do you mean? That they made another series? Another avatar was going to come...
@@noah-fc3lx have you watched the entire legend of korra series?
Well I feel the same but it was suppose to be like that because in Avatar the last airbender when they see all the avatar statues there was one left which was for aang so it was either foreshadowing or just a coincidence idk but I still don't like that they restarted the avatar circle
@@noah-fc3lx Season 2 in Legend of Korra, whackiness ensures, a lot of which, is essentially nonsense. Anyway, they attempt to explain the origin of the Avatars which are essentially less cool versions of the Ying and Yang Koi fish spirits from ATLA, called Vaatu and Raava. Raava, the white rectangle spirit, is of course the good one. Threw some stupidity, Raava is separated from Korra which causes her to lose every connection to every past avatar permanently. Bye bye Aang, dead forever.
When do you think the next avatar will be alive the earth one will it be the 1990 in the avatar world cause Korea takes place in 1920 well a very advanced 1920 so the 90 makes senescence if it 70 years later or early 2000 actually if korra died in 2000 we would problem go too around 2016 or 2017
Why Is Lightning Bending So Common In Korra?: Stonks
The actual right answer
First use is totally false. Iroh used lightning redirection to protect the ship in the season one episode “The Storm”
But that was redirection, not the production of lightning. Different techniques.
It may be a different technique but it’s still bending lightning....
@@TXMusicalNerd lightning redirection is considered a different style, so a person who can lightningbend can't redirect lightning without knowing it beforehand.
Look at when Zuko is unable to lightning bend but he redirects his fathers.
Regardless of whether it’s a different style or technique, it is still manipulating lightning through bending.
Toph uses a different style/technique (praying mantis Kung fu) than other earthbenders, but it’s still earthbending.
"Here's the thing about tyrants: they are ALWAYS afraid of the people they are suppressing."
@@tastyroadkill6516 Just thought it was interesting, something to think about...
Fear never crossed in my mind when gen I enjoyed torturing my younger siblings. Jus sayin
@@WOLF7356 It definitely makes a kind of poetic sense
@@tastyroadkill6516 Do you not have a REALLY present and dangerous example happening in front of your eyes or do you not pay attention to the US?
Very true
Azula: **fires lightning**
Obi-wan with a lightsaber: I don't think so.
Luke and Zuko watching them fight be like:
👁👄👁
It’s - “Oh I don’t think so” very important addition of a word.
Also I would’ve gone with Mace- since his Lightsaber redirects lighting- saying “This Party’s Over”
@@solvemproblerstudios5889 he was quoting when he reflected count dookus lighting in Clones
Meanwhile mark hamill being both a jedi and fire lord
@@trickysmithy9154 Sorry to be that guy- but Obi Wan didn’t reflect the lightning. His lightsaber absorbed it. Rewatch the scene if you want. Until Rey in episode 9, Mace was the only Jedi who used a saber to reflect lightning.
ruclips.net/video/HA2i8RyrhBU/видео.html
Here’s the link, fast forward to 2:05
7:43 A Dumbledore quote in an Avatar video. What is this, a crossover episode?
ᴮᵘᵗ ᴵ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵏ ʸᵒᵘ ᵐᵉᵃⁿᵗ ᵒᵖᵖʳᵉˢˢᶦᵒⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ⁿᵒᵗ ˢᵘᵖᵖʳᵉˢˢᶦᵒⁿ
what no iroh is a much better bender than ozai! this is blasphemy
He's also smart enough not to show it off in a way that might imply he's a threat to Ozai - so public perception still holds.
I love Iroh but Ozai is the strongest fire bender in the series
The creators have stated Ozai is the most powerful firebender in the world.
@@chumuheha now he's noone
No Ozai is the better bender, the creators literally said so. Iroh is second
lightning bending was a royal family secret for generations. When zuko became fire lord, he likely revealed the secret to everyone. lightning bending isnt like bloodbending where only a few waterbenders or can do it.
The last part is more than obviously nonsense, there are for a very good reason far more metal than lightningbenders in TLOK.
@@gunchar06 ? what are you talking about, the video or my comment?
@@radstaz2029 The last part of your comment.
@@gunchar06 then whats the good reason for more metalbenders?
@@radstaz2029 That it's not really more unique or harder to learn than lightningbending, sure Bolin had trouble with metalbending but Zuko apparently never learned lightningbending in his whole life.
Technically, lightning bending was first introduced in the season 1 episode _The Storm_ when Iroh redirects the lightning strike from hitting the boat.
I also have a feeling that any firebender could bend lightning, but only powerful and talented ones can make it so powerful. Which would mean that while Lightning Bending is more common, each of those individual benders aren't as powerful as Azula, Iroh, or Ozai.
My guess is it simply became more commonplace since people weren’t. You know. Hating fire benders. It’s also performed in irregular ways, and irregular bending styles became more common with the mingling of styles. Now that we have a peace, it was probably easier for Fire benders to pull off. Now with the whole industrial revolution too, after one person figured it out plenty more would- just like how metal bending became super common.
Plus it was literally kept a secret and only the royal family knew it. Zuko and Iroh let the secret out
@@kehindehopkins6933 Iroh's the last person who would think that making lightning bending common knowledge would be a good idea.
@@thegreatfusili4673 it’s legit unlimited energy, I don’t think so. Besides Iroh sees the beauty in fire bending, he’s met the dragons
Fun fact :
Back in kyoshi's time there was only one lightning bender in the entire world and he wasn't a royal but a convict.
I have a theory about Princess Yue.
Yue's character is based upon her willingness to sacrifice her own desires in favor of her people she is willing to sacrifice her free choice of spouse by marrying an assigned fiance to help her people; she's willing to sacrifice her love for Sokka by marrying said fiance to help her people and she willingly sacrifices her life to help the world by becoming the Moon Spirit.
However, I think there's more to it: I think, with that last sacrifice, she still sacrificed her choice in spouse, because I believe, by becoming the Moon Spirit, she automatically married La, the Ocean Spirit.
Here's why:
Although never to my knowledge specifically said, it is heavily implied that Tui and La are married: they both decided to leave the Spirit World together; their areas of power are tied together with balance; they are in a constant relationship of balancing each other out and fueling each other strengths, and they are the embodyments of Yin and Yang (basically everything I just said combined + man and woman).
Since Yue replaces Tui in this Yin Yang relationship, I believe she's automatically replaced her as La's wife, thereby marrying "a guy she doesn't even know that well" to help her people.
So, to help her people, Yue still ended up marrying an arranged marriage.
Before i watch the video:
I think Lightning bending became so common is because the former royal family wanted to keep the skill to their own, to stay in power. so they could keep their power. When Zuko became firelord, he learned more people how to bend lightning (well he couldnt himself (probably) so he let people do it)
Because i believe everyone can bend any subbending if you train enough/well enough
I have a beginning of a theory:
In His early years, iroh doesn't Seem so nice. In Episode 20 of season 1, AtlA, Zhao mentiones, that iroh Took a Voyage to the spiritworld. Then, in Episode 10, season 2 of LoK, iroh mentiones the teapot of wan, which still contains a bit of light in IT, when you Drink tea from it. Could it ne, that Raava changed iroh in some way or Something?
Sorry for the Bad English, not my native language bla bla...
that's actually an interesting idea
@@OdgeBodge thx
@@willfly9946 there's no bad english in this, i dont know why people say that.
I Would rather not think it was because of raava. Screw korra
Lava bending, please do a video taking about what happened to Vatu, in the second season of kora he just disappear, but it is told that Vatu can not die, will it be a real dark avatar?
Hmm
And oh my god she killed him😂😂
My biggest question is, who the heck wrote the play towards the end of the series? Like whoever it was new a lot about Team Avatar, they knew enough that we probably met them at some point
It said that they took knowledge from the cabbage guy, war Prisoners, witness, etc
You wanna know the real reason?
As with everything in korra, the rules of the world were secondary.
"Does it look cool? -Yes!
Ok then lets do it and screw everything else!"
Same with the new Star Wars!
There is no korra or star wars sequels in ba sing se
Wrong. What he said made perfect sense. There was a need for it. Notice that metal bending was unique but Toth taught it to her daughter who taught it to the whole police force.
lol you are just bitter
@@RLucas3000 just because you can explain away the rule of cool, doesn't mean it never happened
Iroh: To harness lightning, one must achieve inner peace ☮
Mako: Watch me go on this emotional rollercoaster bouncing between two lesbians! ⚡
Who are the lesbians?
@@Debloxer168 korra and asami
@@Debloxer168 Korra and Asami
Bi?? 🙃
I thought they were bi...
Keep in mind the era of Aang(both while he was in the iceberg and when he got out) had some of 5he greatest benders of all time it would make sense to believe that people would study their bending styles and build upon them making the styles more accessible. Although like with azula a level head tons of talent as well as practice goes a long way.
So now why is aangs avatar state so op but korras is uh going faster on a wind ball?
hers is also OP,
Her eyes don't stay glowing like aangs
The avatar state is all the spirits of an avatars past lives, channeling their power through the current avatar. Aang is super spiritual and has a close connection at least with Roku but most likely all their past lives as he also summons spirits of Kuruk, Yang Chen, and Kiyoshi, while Kora is not very spiritual, at least at the beginning of her arc, and by the time she would be truly open to something like that Unolach had destroyed the imprints of the past avatars so her connection was only to Rava.
@@yukonyeti6296 that's because she has control over it. Aang doesn't have that.
@@peadrianlastname true, but Korra was still one of the best benders, even if she only had Raava
Ok avatar is a “kids show” with the most people who watch it being teenagers/young adults rewatching the classic
Avatar > your favorite show
As if.
"Season ending bending" is definitely one of your best lines 👌 👏 🙌 as a kid I thought that was the coolest thing ever... I still do
Thats cool the legend of korra is still trash tho
👍
Its good
Favorite sub-style of Bending: DEFINITELY Bloodbending. Made Hama into an absolutely terrifying character and also did a great job of showing Katara's progression as both a Bender and a person
If I could bend any element in the Avatar universe it would be:
THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think you already have that power🤣
umm actually we see lightning bending in season 1 done by iroh during the episode the storm (i know it's lightning redirection but it still bends lightning). just as an aside a lot of simmilar things can be said about metal bending except for the fact that toph imediatly wanted to share it just not to the wrong ppl
no that’s lightning redirection it’s different
@@moppersIsTheDawg yes and no it is different in it's application But not the base or resault
@@LIAuNXeNON sure but creating lighting is significantly different than redirecting, redirection is taking another lightning and yknow redirecting it, there's no its internal redirection while lightning bending is you know producing lighning. It kinda subjective if their the same or not, i believe intent is the main difference of the two kinda like blood bending and healing, I saw a theory that water bending is regenerating the cells by making them move faster, cells travel through blood hence it could technically be considered blood bending, but the main difference is intent. I know I'm thinking way too much into it but I love this show and I love thinking how bending works especially sub bending becuase their is such a mysteries aspect
Litterally just got the discord notification
*but eventually push will come to shove, you're gonna have to enter the avatar state and- OH GOD SHE KILLED HIM*
I love SuperCarlin Brothers!
Thanks!
@@SuperCarlinBrothers 😀
Clicked once I saw it. Love that they started talking about avatar
Because The legend of Korra had a LOT of lazy writing. Sorry about it guys
Well, you're not wrong
nope
I'd still be a waterbender.
Ima firebender
Cool, I was thinking about this for a bit... also, second😅
No
The factory shows that electric bending needs to be a thing for the 1920s to become as technologically superior
I have never clicked on a video so fast
I haven’t watched an SCB video in a while why did NOBODY TELL ME THEY DO ATLA AND LOK THEORIES NOW WHAT
Welcome back hotman!
Can you do any collabs?
really, really, really bad writing.
IMMMA ABOUT TI FINISH AVATAR!
WOW JUST WOW! THIS SHOW IS FIRE!
It really is
You two are amazing
How does high tier bending go down to "Joe" level? Well, it's simple.
1) Don't invite a guy who made Aang, It's world, story, text, magic system.
2) Give all power to two imbeciles who are responsible for nothing In the previous installment.
3) Let them ruin all of the previous careful and concrete worldbuilding with "cause it looks cool"
4).....
5)Profit?
If there's a dozen firebenders can produce lightning in Zuko's rule(assuming he undid Sozin's use of anger in firebending) in the first years, more can be produced in 2-4 generations and we know that not every firebender in Korra's era are capable of combative lightning bending.
I have a question about Avatar and I wonder if anyone has any thoughts... I posted this on a different video so if you see the same thing somewhere it was still me, I am just curious to hear other peoples thoughts.
In Avatar do benders have a "range" with their bending. I am not a super-fan of the series so maybe this has been answered somewhere but I have never heard of it. I am most specifically talking about earth bending but I suppose water bending could be included as well. Here is my dilemma...
Toph often times earth bends things that are already mid air. The most obvious example that comes to my head right away is when she earth bends the small pebble back under the cup when she is playing the shell game. This means that an earth bender can bend something that they are not physically in contact with through other earth. So could an earth bender theoretically bend a piece of the moon down toward themselves? If not, why? What is the range? Perhaps the range differs depending on the strength of the bender, similar to how heavy of an object can be bent? Another, less extreme example would be if a bender is swimming in the middle of a lake. Could they just bring the earth up from the bottom of the lake giving them a surface to stand on? (my immediate guess is no because Toph doesn't do this when she is in this situation but I don't understand why not). Basically these examples should, at least in my mind, follow all of the established rules of the world but I am curious to hear other thoughts.
In the case of Earth bending it requires you have a strong and sturdy stance in order to manipulate the Earth so being able to bend without proper footing (in water) wouldn't be possible unless you are an extremely powerful bending. As for range yes there is a range. What it is idk but there is still an obvious one. With stronger benders able to act on larger amount of elements from farther away.
well as a soft magic system, while it has some stablished rules, they arent absolute, which means they can be more or less permissive according to the plot needs. However you can see how benders "strenght" works out, using your explample, watch toph's learning curve to metal bend. She at first was only able to handle metal by touching it and imprinting lots of force on it, but as she becomes more proficient she can do it without any contact of sorts and more quickly, being able to bend far away objects without too much trouble. The limits of the bender/bending relies on the bender itself, how train it is and how much and how efficient is with its chi, so while its plausible for an extremly proficient earth bender to make the moon crash into the earth, the likehood of someone having that power and training its pretty much impossible. Also Avatar bending is based on the elemental vision from ancient china, so if a "element" doesnt fit on that vision of the element then it cannot be bend, for example, you dont directly bend metal; you bend the impurities on it and thus the more pure its the metal/alloy the harder its to bend, thats why platinium cant be metal bend as its pretty much pure while steel is pretty much free range as its literally earth + iron; if you check the elements from china both metal and earth are different elements but they have an interaction between them so you can "bend" metal but not directly.
It depends how good a bender you are. Avatar Kyoshi bent an entire island
@@kehindehopkins6933 If I remember correctly Kyoshi moved the island with air bending right? She disconnected it with earth bending but I think the island for the most part just drifted away after she got it going with air bending. I may be remembering wrong though
I clicked faster than azulas lightning
You have to also consider that the reason the royal family is so powerful is that their family was innately gifted and thus had the ability to seize control of the kingdom through their bending prowess centuries ago. Azula and Azulon didn’t just work hard; they were defined as “prodigies”. Fire bending is definitely strong in their family.
There's another video that implies Ozai married Ursa simply for the fact that her grandfather was Roku. That way Ozai's children will have the strength of his bloodline and that of The Avatar. And turns out, he was right!
There's another video that implies Ozai married Ursa simply for the fact that her grandfather was Roku. That way Ozai's children will have the strength of his bloodline and that of The Avatar. And turns out, he was right!
@@MelodicQuest I think that’s canon.
Azula would destroy them all!
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I want to be a lightning bender
Lighting bend
The way Iroh describes the process I always figured Zuko couldn't do it yet because he wasn't sure who he was and it would make his chi impossible to separate. thats probably part of what makes it so dangerous, that you have to be so confident and you can't waiver for a second or you could hurt yourself.
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Confident, most people just type a letter and edit it later to be quicker
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Because the creators had drunk goggles on
Naw it’s bc it was a secret and they let the secret out. Zuko would be a pretty bad leader if he kept the secret of unlimited energy
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I feel like its a skill that gets more common over time. Like reading for example. It was once considered very special, and now basically everyone can do it
It's like any martial art, some choose to keep it to themselves then eventually it was distributed to others
What is your favorite style of sub-bending!?
wow was I the first like on this ?? (Bloodbending or energybending)
Sparky sparky boom boom man
Lavabending.
Metalbending!
Flying or energy bending
Lightning is my favorite thing to bend
thanks for sharing Kim!
Combustion
I thought your your favourite thing to bend was your people’s will to you
I would have guessed blood bending
Face it your the new avatar
Lightningbending became so common because it’s so cool. Simple as that.
I can fully imagine after the war, there were firebenders who either learned about the existence of lightning bending or learning about how to learn it and saying the exact same thing that Aang said about Monk Gyasto's airsurfing, "I can't believe I never thought to try that!!!!"
I know that that If I were a firebender and I learned that lightning bending were I think I'd bust my chops to try and learn it.
I'l say Blood bending will be more prominent than Lightning bending if Katara did not outlaw it.
I think only gifted water benders have the ability
Yeah, thanks katara
@@xdelirioux only gifted benders could do it without the full moon. Katara needed the full moon to do it, Amon and his family didnt.
Also imagine all the medical uses of blood bending? Like Katara only saw the horror side, she never saw the medical side... it could help with bloodflow, internal and external bleeding, battle wounds, childbirth, periods probably.... medicine would have advanced so much but nooo, blood = bad
@@yonicorn1641 Really good point. I didn’t have to be a villain. Could’ve been a medic.
honestly, they missed the opportunity to say "Unlimited Power"
Not the place, wasn't enough sand
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Why is nobody talking about this-
I don’t know, it was quite funny
Do a J vs Ben Avatar the Last Airbender quiz please
ATLA: what!?!?!? Did you just lightning/metal bend
LOK: oh cool, you can lighting/metal bend
its lok not tlok
Iroh: “To bend lightning requires peace of mind.”
Mako, the one person with LESS peace of mind than Zuko, EVER: “Let me stop you right there.”
I just think of Azula in her last fight after she had lost her mind.
@@carbumb4229 Well once you have it you don’t lose it.
Bruh, Mako's trademark in probending, other than "Mr. Hat Trick", is being cool under fire. The announcer himself applauded him for it in his first appearance and I think it pretty much sums up most of what he (Mako) does.
I mean, sure, Mako's been traumatized, parentified himself to raise Bolin, and screwed up his romantic relationships, but he never actually lost it or went through some sort of personal crisis because of it. He's probably the only one in Korra's Team Avatar to never go through some sort of inner turmoil: Korra with her identity as the Avatar, Asami with her dad and her company, Bolin with what he actually wants to do with his life.
Dude just pretty much went: earn money probending, get a stable job as a cop, and do good enough to become a detective.
The closest inner turmoil we got from him is with relationships with Korra and Asami. Personally, he solved it himself by saying "I need to go by without a woman in my life". It was how the *others* would react that he is worried about like: How would either of his exes act around him if he sticks around their friend group? Which Korra and Asami pretty much solved by making fun of him for *making* it awkward.
Dude is so internally chill and unfazed, that even the audience think he's stoic.
Even in combat, he's usually the first one to act when the others around him are already panicking or are too shocked to move.
@@alexalson645 Zuko kept a cool head against a Azula. Still no lightning.
Except maybe kyoshi
I’m just mad because it was said to be a skill that had to be honed and was very rare. Doesn’t make sense that everyone can do it in Korra. Actually I don’t like Korra anyway.
Saaaame
70 years ago (same time difference) having any knowledge about coding would have been an invention worth being written down in history, it wasn't even invented at that time, now millions can
Stop random hating haters y'all need to understand time gaps
Yeah, can we just say that Legend of Korra sucks? Sorry, to those who like it. I just see no point in trying to justify those kind of mistakes. 🤷♀️
@@juska4235 umm not really. In the last air bender they say it was something that took for a person to well have full control over his emotions and mind. Then they treat it as if anyone can control their emotions and mind. Coding is a skill you can learn how a days thanks to technology and a couple other factors. But lightning bending is well they treated it as something only true masters can use, but now some random person can learn about it and get a job in an electrical power plant.
I don’t hate korra, but I do find the decision quiet dumb and for you to compare something that takes years of training and mastering your emotions now to be something a common person being capable of doing isn’t really a reasonable transition.
@@mounibj4586 also coding can be learnt quickly online while lightning bending is more like being a black belt in karate
I kinda just assumed that zuko taught it to others like toph taught metalbending
Lightning bending pales in comparison to lava bending. I mean how cool would it be to just start forming literal fire power (or well molten power), just like a slightly more effective fire bending, and still create literal lava which can be made from any combination of stones, big and small.
Lava is just a hybrid of fire-and waterbending that is straight up less effective than either, and it's slow as a snail in comparison to lightning.
@@gunchar06 Excuse you, fire and _water?_ That doesn't make any sense. It's definitely Fire and Earth right? Fire and Water would be steam or something
@@MasterCrander I think they meant in terms of viscosity
@@ronswanson7371 Yeah I get what they thought but it's not viscosity bending hahaha Katara didn't bend blood cause it was sufficiently goopy 😂
Otherwise non avatar ice bending wouldn't make any sense.
Yo OP collab w/ me 'n' -Ron- everyone else on the combos
Water + Fire = Steam w/ Acid as Mastery
Earth + Water= Mud w/ Geological Tsunami as Mastery
Air + Earth= Dust -Sand?-
Fire + Air= Explosion -Plasma?- -Heat?- -Energy?-
Water + Air= Cloud w/ Weather as Mastery -Bubble?- -Steam 2 nonElectric Bugaloo?-
Earth + Fire= Lava w/ Glass as Mastery
@@MasterCrander Also ya their parents were fire and earth benders.
I personally think that this theory is incorrect. when Iroh says "select few" i think he is talking about there being a scarcity, not that it is restricted to the royal family. i think that there were only a few thousand in the world that could out of the whole firebender population. with the widespread of its teachings, the people who had the potential to lightning bend could do it. i just think that during the 100 year war the technique was only taught to the royal family.
you should be running this show
Isnt that more or less the theory?
The ability to learn it was not that rare, the training for it was...
@@ssu7653 no he's saying that it's still a rare skill (like blood bending) and the few people that had the potential to lightning bend now had the knowledge to as it was now wide spread after zuko was fire lord
Crystal bending is my favorite subbending type. They did it and don't even acknowledge that it was kind of unusual.
True, the Dai Li seemed quite good at it
Same Crystal benders rule!!!
I don't remember this one lol
@@peteryanes9339 Crossroads of Destiny
That’s because crystals aren’t that common
Last time I was this early zuko had normal face
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I thought the diversity of metal benders was a pretty obvious statement to the newer prevalence of 'rarer' skills in the generation past.
I think a lot of benders were capable of metal bending but never put in effort because it was thought of as impossible. On the flip side, lightning bending was known as being entirely possible and people still never picked it up.
Iroh: Only a select few firebenders can separate these energies.
Mako (along with the rest of the powerpeople): I’m gonna stop you right there.
Cultural mixing. And still, not everyone can bend it. Iroh’s statement still stands. Only a select few firebenders can bend it. It’s just that a cluster of those select few are in one place.
Honestly it was a really cool thing but now they just made it not cool in lok
It was still cool. Especially Lightning Bolt Zolt
@@kehindehopkins6933 Dude...
@Dakota M-A Lightning Bolt Zolt and the word cool should never get used in the same sentence.
Yes! This was the reason I kinda didn't like korra as much
Same Korra as an apart show I like it
But yeah as a sister series for me it kinda ruins the lore idk
Like the easy lighting
Don’t forget blood bending during the day 🤦♂️
@@Starkill3r306 That was interesting, but they wasted it anyway by just killing Amon.
@@Starkill3r306 but that was only a specific family. It makes sense that there are stronger water bender naturally
Bc of this small detail you don’t like an entire show? I agree it was a flaw but overall despite its flaws I think LoK is still a good show
To answer the "Best soldier becomes leader" question, wasn't Dwight Eisenhower a top ranked general in WWII?
yep. He was like the general.
Technically all US presidents are the top ranked member of the military.
Also check out King Albert the Knight King of Belgium
@@chumuheha eeeeehhh....yes and no. The US president is the Commander in Chief of the military, but is always considered a "civilian" so they are not actually a "member of the military".
A top strategist is not the same as a top soldier. I doubt he scored highest on shooting skill or hand to hand combat or anything.
Let's be honest here, magma bending is the coolest