The Secrets of Combustion Bending! | Avatar: The Last Airbender
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I have fallen even deeper to depression now
This got me thinking about Air benders and how a rare few gain the true abilities of flight like their Bison
You forgot 42
I thought you were going to link it into how we don't know much about combustion bending. But Pizza works too
I wonder if a combustion-bending tattoo would glow in the Avatar State.
Yes
Yes
Holy shir I actually really want to see that now.
Where are the artists??? I would love to see it
I would love to see a combustion bending avatar series
How they took out the girl combustion bender in Korra was one of the most hardcore things I have seen in a kids show and I'm surprised they got away with it.
Yeah that was fucking ruthless, still makes me cringe today
Because korra was a teens show on nick, not kids
Don’t forget zaheer killing the queen that was savage too
sometimes the way they censor children's shows make them more gruesome, such as the death of Robin's parents in Batman TAS
They killed sparky sparky boom the same way in ATLA 10:22
Don't let this distract you from the fact that sokka killed combustion man with one of the best boomerang throws in history
not really, combustion man blew himself up. sokka did defeat him but didnt kill him since comsbution man was the one to pull the trigger knwoing what happens if someone hits him in the head
edsel cervantes
That’s still killing him.
@@edselcervantes6229 if you push a man who was planning to throw a grenade and making him drop tha grenade and kill himself.
You still have killed a man with his own grenade.
@@Oscar-j6b but sokka hit him and ran away, combustion had time to ran away and not use his beam thing. the anology would be more of your weapon been jam and if you use it it will explode on your face
Sokka is the only master of Boomerang bending we've seen--and thus a more powerful entity than the Avatar themself!
This is without taking into account the Space Sword, Cactus Juice and that Mushroom we presume is friendly.
Sokka is THE MAN!
Imagine an Avatar that can use every sub bending art. Lava, metal, lightning, sparky sparky booming, flying, healing, and blood bending. That would be broken. I want it
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ravenheart that would be impossible considering it takes years to master one bending art.
@@deviljho4260 Avatar Kyoshi lived for 200 years and 4 elements with 8 sub categories of bending, an avatar who lives as long as her could learn almost all of them except flying as its impossible to learn as the avatar
you'd think as long as some avatar learned one a some point, then the Avatar State would be able to metal/lava/etc. bend everything. I guess tho, we never see a situation where the Avatar State would be better off using one of those instead of the base elements.
@@oi23origin Very true. Sticking to the basics is usually best I suppose. Much like real life martial arts.
I actually a have a theory one the tattoos myself, I think that they’re used as focal points for the technique. Now at first this is very obvious but I’d like to point out that sparky doesn’t blow up upon getting hit, he blows himself up after he loses focus. My idea is that it takes a tremendous amount of focus to perform the technique (after all your literally focusing a condensed stream of air and fire) and that the tattoos are there to help that. Just a few other things also, I’ve noticed that both benders using this style had to face what they want to attack (more evidence on focus being important). Also it’s important to note that we don’t see either bender create an attack anywhere other than the tattoo.
There has to be a purpose, a highly trained dude wouldn't have a tatoo that points at his one weakness for fun
I’ve always wanted a backstory on it. Maybe they’re weaker benders? Maybe it’s a whole family/village that specializes in this technique
Pli is able to curve her combustion bending, she specifically does not need to be looking at whatever she is attacking.
And the odds of getting the tattoo in the exact spot that the laser comes out are pretty slim too.
@@adrianmcbride1666 I assume that's just because she's more skilled than SSBM, the way it's first shown is kind of implying that considering ssbm never did it
Imagine how powerful Combustion Man would be under Sozin's comet
TACTICAL NUKE! INCOMING!
Japan is having ptsd
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Wait, isn't the Fire Nation based, as least partially, on Japan? And Combustion Man is a Fire Nation citizen. So... Japan blowing itself up?
@@EliteWarrior1026 that actually sounds like a sick story, how a fire Nation avatar decides to wipe out the fire Nation by bombing the hell out of ut
@@lucajustluca8257 ok but what if the avatar being an extremely powerful bender used combustion bending
Seeing how Air Nomads can control the temperature of Air and are very spiritually enlightened it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that they could combustion bend.
I'd love to see a video on all the sick techniques that airbenders could use. I mean LoK gave us some, but there's gotta be more.
@@Basil-Spice not to spoil anything but a very wise and noble Airbender have killed 100s of people.
Air nomads can tornado bend try surviving a tornado
Smart
This does seem reasonable. What if combustion benders are not firebenders, but rather airbenders. If you compress air down to a small anough point, it's going to heat up immensly and by releasing that air, you might create an explosion.
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in the episode "the chase", when tai li chi blockes katara in one hand the other hand continues to bend the water until its blocked too. what I'm trying to say here, is that fire bending works in a different way. the breath ignites. the stomach feeds. the muscles direct it out of the body (or in this case the forehead) and the beliefs are pushing the flame out. when zuko is trying to lightning bend he is correct at all stages exept the needed push from his beliefs. because of that, it blows up in his face. when combustion man's chi point of the forehead is blocked, all the stages are opporational, exept the way out. so the fire, to say it simply, makes its way out.
Kinda like how a dragon breathes fire
@@thatonechannel8880 yes. and like a certain goblin in Artemis fowl.
*tylee
@@superbeltman6197 for me it's טאי לי, so sure.
@@nixian_zwaylus "I understood that reference."
My thoughts on the tattoo are that, whether it carries deeper spiritual significance or not, it's used as a focal point for the combustion benders, to help them concentrate on their chakra.
Like in Naruto when Jaraiya draws a swirl on Narutos palm to help him focus on what to do and where
I think it’s a sign of mastery like air bender arrows .
It definitely carries a meaning. Every cartoon that shows someone with a 3rd eye pineal gland with super powers means that they took inspiration from Hinduism or Buddhism.
Dave Bautista should play Combustion Man.
agreed
He did good in man with the iron fists. I can see him succeeding here
That is an excellent casting for that character
he’d be a terrible choice because no one will ever see him on set
WHY IS THE AVATAR!?
Love your videos. As a parent of a 3 year old, the comment about a 4 year old who learns they can create fire with their hands who lives in a house made of wood has broken my immersion in the world of Avatar. Every family in the Fire Nation would be one tantrum away from becoming homeless at any time!
imagining a fire bender baby cry and tiny fire came out from their mouth, or flailing limbs >.
Prob the fire nation knew this and their houses were built out of cement, metal or other non-flammable materials. We did saw their warships being made out of metal...
And assuming the parents themselves are fire benders it reasons that they may be able to stop the flames as their own bending should be stronger and more influential than the child
It helps that benders don't make up the majority of people in that world, with maybe the exception of Air Nomads. (I guess you could get around on bisons and just live as a general monk.) The ability is usually genetic too. As previously stated, a parent would probably be able to control the fire.
But now I curious about earth bending toddlers. You think trying to cross a room with 50 million toys and a bed of Legos is hard? Try doing it after the kid has rearranged the dirt floor.
Kristian Ramlogan
That may not be the case. Katara, for example, is a water bender, but her brother and her parents aren't. Toph's parents also don't seem to be Earth benders. It's not always the case that parents of benders are also benders. If bending is genetic, it's a recessive trait and can skip generations.
When you said shivas third eye represents seeing clearly, made me think about how combustion man died. When he got hit with the boomerang he was disoriented with blurry vision, so he blew himself up. Bc his third eye wasn’t open
The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
Ah *Belgium,* I was going to comment that
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Heyyyyyyyy 42 here
Actually, it's 22.
Alex Plata it’s not. Rewatch the movie or reread the book
"what is the meaning of life, and how do you shoot lasers out of your face?"
These questions are actually one and the same
Lol
I'm just imagining a 4-year-old child getting all huffy at being told not to eat sweets before dinner or something and doing that sigh/whining thing children do, and then blowing up the dinner table.
Azula
@@L0rdOfThePies Hahahaha so true
I think you're forgetting something, something that blew my friends' mind when we discussed specialized benders after a pitch for an avatar campaign I had in mind. What if combustion bending is improper lightning bending perfected? During the episode where Iro teaches Zuko how to lightning bend - or more accurately where Zuko fails to learn the technique - the thing that happens when he is unable to equalize the positive and negative chi inside of him is that his attempt at bending fire results in an explosion. What if combustion benders are those who had the talent to not only do that on purpose, but manipulate the result?
This revelation was made when I complained about how no one in the show actually *bends* lightning, they can produce it but not control it, which was my idea for a specialized bender.
The RP btw was one set in the future, where most of korra is none canon and humanity lost touch with the spirit world to such a degree that due to just how advanced their technology was by the time lead them to forget how to bend, the players - who would not be told this is the world of avatar btw - would go through the world seeking out the old bending teachers - air bison, dragons, badger moles and the moon, not giant lion turtles - in order to relearn and become true Bumi and Toph level masters and stop an avatar that went berserk because, y'know, losing touch with the spirit world.
Because when you really, really look at it, the only people in the entire show you could consider as truly having mastered an element are like, Bumi, Toph and maybe Iro.
Awesome. What system did you use?
@@andrewpenn1145 s'only an idea. I've got enough on my plate as is without having to gm two campaigns
Wait, how could you do a campaign without them knowing it’s the Avatar world, but also give them characters and obvious elements from it?
An interesting thought I had is whether combustion benders use any other type of fire bending. And if they don’t, if that’s because of the requirements for the pure form of combustion bending or if they’ve blocked out or can no longer perform other fire bending.
I also wondered that during the video. Especially when he talked about a vow of silence. It's a really cool idea, and I don't remember Sparky using ordinary fire bending.
Can't remember if the lady from LoK uses regular fire bending. But she also talks...
Maybe it just requires an oath or vow of some significance? Possibly related to symbolically moving beyond whatever shame held you back in the past?
P'li (the combustion bender we see in LoK) is shown to firebend at one point. She splits/deflects a blast of fire that Zuko (or his dragon, I forget) shoots at her
they probably can, but combustion benders seem to prefer long range battles for obvious reasons, so they almost never get into a situation where normal fire is better than blasting.
alexander martinez combustionbending has an absolute range advantage against every other bending bar lightning.
Your right they can only combustion bend.
I thought it was because he had a concussion, similar but a fact worth mentioning
Both times his bending backfired, his chakra had been blocked or otherwise interrupted. In "The Runaway", he took a pebble to the chakra and it blasted him back as the air around him detonated, while in "The Western Air Temple", he had his chakra forcibly blocked by Sokka's boomerang, similar to how Azula's lightning blocked Aang's chakra, resulting in a far more devastating explosion. (and if the explosion didn't kill him, the fall certainly did.)
I used to be an assassin like you. Then I took a pebble to the chakra.
Imagine how hard it would be for Amon to take the bending from a combustion bender having to touch the forehead especially if they were to wear a bandana or headband covering the tattoo.
Me: *sees notification for avatar video by Tim*
Me: *taps tab so fast thinking I’m early*
Me: *sees people commented 9 hours ago*
Me: RUclips EXPLAIN
I'm not RUclips but those 9 hours comment's are from Patreon supporters.
Yeah, like Altria Pendragon Idilfitri said, Tim releases the video for his Patreons early, and then lets us peasants view it a day later.
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Altria Pendragon Idilfitri ah that makes more sense
In my mind, you invoked the image of that Arkansas vine. "AmERikA ExplAIn!!!!!"
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Special bending techniques should have been combinations of 4 core bending abilities, available to those of mixed origin.
Combustion = air + Fire
Lava = Eath + Fire
Blood = Water + Fire (becouse life)
Metal = Just more focused Earth bending
Spirit bending = mistake
We don´t talk about that one...
I don't think bloodbending should be water+fire. It makes sense how it is
That breaks the power system though. I person can’t combine elements unless they’re the avatar. I really don’t get why people actually believe that sub-bending is combination of 2 bending arts. It’s actually impossible.
Edit: LAVABENDING ISNT THE COMBINATION OF FIRE AND EARTH! It’s pure eartbending, nothing else. I know you said it should have been like that but it actually doesn’t make sense given the rules of the series
lava is heated earth, it's still earth it just has a higher temperature and no aspect of fire except for that heat is found
which is like ice is cooled water and steam is heated water, ice is just solid water it's nothing else but water and steam is heated water it's nothing else but gaseous water
so I think that you can generate lava as a firebender but not bend it and a earth bender could bend it and change the temperature of that earth
like how water changes temperature
I'm curious tough, can airbed erst change the temperature of air!
me, myself and I finally someone gets it
My theory for the tattoos has always been that they serve as a sort of focus for the combustionbender. Not in a 'lens' kind of way, but rather as a concrete physical point for them to visualize the energy flowing to. They would probably be applied to help combustionbenders use their abilities consciously rather than reflexively, as well as making it easier to do so.
This could also tie in with mental imagery. Obviously the combustionbender can't see their tattoo while bending, but if they know they have the tattoo, they know what it looks like, they know what they look like with it, and so on, then they should be able to visualize in their mind where their tattoo is and use that mental map to focus their chi.
"trials and errors as a kid" man imagine beating it and you accidentally shoot your arm off. talk about embarrassing
Interesting question. If Aang can take one's bending the same way the lionturtle did, can he also give someone the ability to bend, or change one's bending?
This could be an awesome video :)
He had given someone their bending back. He gave it back to korra in book 2. As for changing someone’s bending, I don’t see why not.
@@ssjraikage7874 but could be give someone with no bending the ability to bend?
Omree Negri yeah, there’s nothing stopping him. He’s essentially a human lion turtle now
Also good to note that the lion turtles are the ones who originally gave the humans bending probably through some form of energy bending of that element; so I see this as a possibility
If he could he should have made air benders
Doesn't it actually say in the show that "combustion man" is from some cult or monastic order? I would assume that confirms it's either religious or requires specialized training to master.
Not in the show. I have my own theory on where combustion bending and a few of the other specialty bending forms come from. Hybrid bending from 2 different element benders having children. If the child gets bending from both parents they are not as powerful in the element as either parent but can combine for a unique power. These are rather rare until after Last Air Bender because intermarriage was uncommon.
Mako only got fire from 1 parent but Bolen got Fire and Earth(earth dominant in his skills) and thus can bend lava. Sand benders are nomadic and likely had some relations with the air tribes learning to simultaneously manipulate earth and air. Combustion benders are copying Roy Mustang from FMA by bending the air to create pockets of air with compressed air/fuel mixtures then setting off a spark. Air benders trying to escape the genocide would have tried to pass themselves off as non benders and blend into the population thus creating hybrids and latent air benders before they were tracked down.
Only the avatar can master all 4 but hybrids can use 2 to varying degrees of success and the avatar can do hybrid bending once they figure out the trick(previous avatar lava bending to form a temple)
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Just saying that sand benders don’t manipulate air at all, just sand in a style similar to air bending. Plus sand bending is very much something all earth benders can do.
no, the only one with access to multiple bending styles is the avatar. Genetics have nothing to do with it. It has a pretty hard and well defined magic system. sand bending is just earth bending, air has nothing to do with it. lava works on the principle as metal bending, he's not doing anything to the fire, he's just manipulating the earth inside the fire.
@stryfetc1 Metal bending is bending the impurities inside the metal though?
@@kpi7757 Yeah, that's the basics.
I don't think Iroh's lesson on the interconnectedness of the elements was really meant to sound vague. I fully believe that the evolution of benders from non-benders was centered around spiritual practice more than some pre-determined "soul type" or genetics. If you grow up knowing only this one type of bending, you're likely only going to try to bend that one type of element. In essence, the people of the avatar world shut their spirits to the possibility of other bending techniques. So what likely happens, is that at a young age, when still highly impressionable and curious, some kids' souls open to a new possibility that unlocks what we would call specialized bending.
So Sparkysparkyboomman just simply unlocked a combination of air/fire bending by having a soul open to the possibility of bending the air around the fire and the fire around the air. (Essentially, he realized there was no spoon and suddenly could explode things with his mind.)
That isn't exactly true, as shown in Season 2 of Legend of Korra. The Lion Turtles used energybending to grant people the ability to bend the four elements. A person only has the capacity to bend one element, which is why Raava had to manually transfer the individual bending abilities to Wan as he used them, and was only able to bend all four when Raava was possessing him, which would burn him out until they permanently fused, making the Avatar half-spirit. Specialized bending comes from gaining deeper insight into the world and the bending arts, like how Toph discovered that she could bend metal through the impurities, due to having the most advanced seismic sense of any earthbender.
@@Janoha17 what TLoK season two? There is no second season in Ba Sing Se
Sparky sparky boom man does have a nice ring too it. Lol
As far as the specialized bending techniques I’ve always thought it had to do with personality. For example the Beijing family is incredibly stoic even compared to other earth benders so metal bending is very natural as not even metal can bend your will, but Bolin is passionate much like a fire bender hence why he lava bends and not metal, the only other lava bender became so enraged at losing he literally killed himself to attempt to get the last laugh. I have reasons for them all but that would just be very long and I think the idea gets across.
I always thought the camp that P’li was saved from had to do with the bending technique. There seems to be many problems with kids getting kidnapped or abandoned in Avatar. Kyoshi, Kuvira, P’Li and probably more. Probably a job that the next avatar or Korra should take care of!
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Or in Iroh's case, a vast ocean
What I loved about combustion man’s first reveal and showcase of his power, the light shows briefly before we hear the sound of it, gave me chills
Is Supreme Lord Mishka not the meaning of my life?
XD
rip mishka
Like Iroh he gave up his mortal body to live in the spirit world.
Dude to soon....
That slow - mo part is one of the most amazing thing i've ever seen
8:18 Yet Katara _Learned_ Bloodbending, so perhaps Yakone's Psychic/Daylight Bloodbending _was_ Genetic. If so, We are lucky for amon's Brother's Final Decision: to end the bloodline there.
CAN WE GET A VIDEO AS TO WHY AANG’S CHAKRA WAS BLOCKED AT HIS DEATH?!?!?!
This!
Wait what ?!
getting murdered leaves you a little scarred
alexander martinez was he murdered ? I always thought that he died of natural age
@@joaovitorfarinabraga690 wait you meant adult aang? pretty sure his chakras were fine
Zuko accidentally created an explosion when he was learning how to lightningbend by Iroh.
Combustion bending is fire benders mimic Airbenders
Lightning bending is when fire benders mimic water benders
Lava bending is when earth benders mimic fire benders
Metal bending is an advanced art
Blood bending is an advanced art
Sand bending is when Earth benders mimic air benders
Mud bending can be done by both Earth and water benders
Spirit bending is when air benders mimic water benders
Water bending making water ice mimics air benders
Water benders making steam mimics fire benders
Flying is an advanced art
Water healing is an advanced art
When the metal benders in LOK used the needles that advanced art
Just food for thought 💭
Billy Da Squid I love this comment. Shows how all the elements are connected to one another just like what Iroh had explained to Zuko :)
sampada pande Yeah this is what I always thought after that episode. It would make sense that just like martial arts in real life some disciplines overlap and blend with each other
Billy Da Squid true! I completely agree!
Only water benders can spirit bend
I would argue that lava bending is earth benders mimicking water benders, not fire benders. There's nothing about their motions that resemble fire bending.
Another thing I noticed about combustion bending is that it seems to come in tandem with being a *giant*
Why anyone would dislike this is incomprehensible. Great video as always
Even if any firebender could theoretically learn combustion-bending, we get a pretty good reason why one would avoid it. Namely, the possibility of blowing oneself up. Combustion man is missing an arm & leg, and was brought down by a pebble and a boomerang. The strongest weapon taken out by the most basic weapons.
I’m curious. If u spend enough time. And practice. Could you learn how to light bend
"He knows too much. Take the shot."
Volt Siano no. Light isn’t even matter. Just because some elements generate light, it doesn’t mean someone could bend it
@@ssjraikage7874 I wouldn't consider energy matter either, yet energy bending exists. And can light be considered energy?
I don't know what "true" light bending would be. But I feel like anything the elements naturally do to light is fair game.
Examples: water benders can shape ice, right? Why not shape it into mirrors and lenses?
I can't see creating a mirror using other styles, but mirages are caused by a sort of lens made of air created by heat. So maybe air/fire benders could do that?
SSJ Raikage except light is actually a state of matter: plasma. The light a star radiates is all that plasma that is made of. A LIGHTsaber cuts clean because is actually plasma. To get plasma you need insane amounts of heat, I would give this “light” sub bending to the fire benders. And if you worry about the insane* amount of heat necessary, consider that lava is the liquid state of a rock, but to get that you also need insane amounts of energy but it was still possible in the avatar world; so I wouldn’t be surprised that a firebender somewhere discovers “light” bending.
The fact that Bolin did a clean shot on that Combustion Bender was so good
Pi lee her tatoo has the sort of waves which is why she can redirect her blast while combution man has more of a prism looking tatoo which is why he has more explosive power
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I always assume the third eye tattoo was actually a point of focus. Heat emanates all throughout the body. The areas with the most nerve endings are the tongue (mouth), hands & feet which is the most prevalent points of fire bending. However maybe having a tattoo made and having a needle constantly poke in a very precise way gives the bender a light, added awareness of that particular area which allows them to focus on the area. At least, that was my idea behind it.
I also assumed that as an assassin, he might have gotten his tongue cut off by one of his enemies.
One sentence Theory Combustion bending is a lost fire sage technique and the tattoo is a indicator of someone's dedication to that mental path
I'm currently watching the whole avatar series starting with ATLA and currently in boiling rocks part 2 I forgotten how good and deep the show is last time I watched the whole series was in 2006 when it was on Nickelodeon and I only watched book 1 and some of 2 in legend of Korra so I have allot to catch up on
You're so lucky you get to experience so much for the first time still :'(
I ended today's marathon in Boiling Rock part 1. Didn't expect to see a comment like this HAHAHA
@@ralfyralf19 hahaha nice
@@Ashv1rk for ATLA is not that new but for book 2 and all of 3 on LOK it is new last time I watched was when Korra opened the Spirit portal
JonJones PokingBag bro isn’t it so good? I just finished rewatching it a few weeks ago and when I watched it as a kid, I was old enough to remember a few particular scenes but young enough that I forgot most of the plot and got to fully experience the show when I rewatched it and it is just incredible
Interesting take on the physiology of wielding fire powers. I've been workshopping my own fantasy 4-element physiology. In that world, fire is an element of the heart. A source of powerful emotions like passion, love, hate, rage. Fire is more than just burning heat and destruction to me. It would be easy to fall into rage-based fire manipulation, but the strongest form of fire's power is love.
The key to life is happiness in your household.
Now say it with a French accent
STOPPPPP XD
You are not Duolingo and you cannot make me say that!
Attention to detail and consistency in TLA: Fire bender takes deep breath and combine it with unlocked Chakra to release a secret technique.
Attention to detail and consistency in TLK: Water punch, Air punch, Earth Punch, Fire Punch.
PREACH.
Tin foiling? More like Tim foiling ;)
Putting on our honorary Tim foil hats as subfuries!
Hey HEY I have a Tim Can at my school that would be OFFENDED BY THIS
I’ve always had a head cannon in which the Combustion benders are descended from Air Nomads an Fire Nation soldiers that didn’t like what was going on and went to save as many as they could. It doesn’t totally fit but I like it.
since we've seen firebenders, earthbenders and waterbenders change the temperature of their elements, can air benders do the same?
me, myself and I yes. Aang has done it. Remember when he was walking around one the North and South Poles with no parka or extra clothing? He was heating the air around him to keep warm. Tenzin said it somewhere in book 1 and the creators have said it in an interview
when did waterbenders change water temperature?
I guess fire heats itself, but has there been cold fire?
and when talking about earth benders, are you implying lavabenders? are we sure they created it and not just kept it?
@@NoNameAtAll2 The closest in my opinion would be when Katara froze Jet in book 1
@@NoNameAtAll2 waterbenders change water to ice which is changing temperature from hot to cold
lavabenders project enormous heat inorder to create earth to lava which is changing cold to hot
firebenders are capable of making their fires hotter and cooler ( which does not mean cold fire, it's just cooler than hotter ones)
@@ssjraikage7874 thanks for informing me
I always thought that Bolin found lava bending easier because he has fire bending blood in him even though he's an earthbender
Lava has nothing to do with fire. Bolin is just rare
can we appreciate that he literally blasts HEATED AIR
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Ah ha! Yes it does say that... But then explain this to me... How did Zuko know his name? Because in the episode *The Western Air Temple* the team figures out that Zuko hired Combustion Man and Zuko replies “Well that’s not his name” so if he doesn’t talk how did Zuko know his name? Even if he didn’t tell Zuko his name he must’ve said it at some point because Zuko had to have known his name from some source!? Right? 🤔
I'd assume it would be from legends as a fire nation assassin, he couldn't exactly contact someone he didn't know the name of.
He probably wrote it as writing is a thing
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In the episode Bitter Work, Zuko tries to create lightning, but instead he creates an explosion, the sound and animation is very similar to the explosions of combustion bending.
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The tattoo seems to symbolize a crossing between the physical and spiritual. The eye reminds me of Vaatu and Raava in a distant way. Although combustion benders use the same breathing techniques, they seem to draw energy from their surroundings rather than from within, then channel it through their body and out a spiritual/physical bridge, such as their third eye. I think this because Aang was always aware of combustion man's attacks and could predict them. When they would inhale, Aang was immediately alarmed each time, and I do think it's because of the ancient spirit within him that's aware of this danger.
During the slow motion clip, where Aang blocks combustion man's blast with airbending, you can see a yin and yang symbol before it explodes, clueing further into an otherly spiritual originator for their bending.
Combustion man also was instinctually the best at tracking the gaang, able to even predict Aang's usually-expert evasion tactics, seemingly able to sense his spiritual presence.
And oddly, neither combustion users have had golden eyes like their firebending counterparts. I do wonder if his eyes being black means he's technically a 'nonbender' by normal standards but that he is able to use the innate spirituality to bend, rather than something inherited in the way that other benders gain abilities. Since P'li's eyes are red, this may relate to the fact that she can both bend fire and use combustion.
You're a liar, we all know the meaning of life, the universe and everything is 42
The Indignant Scot yep
Now, we need to find the question.
Nitpicky correction, 42 is the answer. The meaning stays hidden until you find the question.
That's just what the mice want you to think
my headcanon (pun intended) is that there's some sort of secret academy for Combustion-Benders, almost like the Red Room from Marvel's Black Widow. P'li refers to a place , a place she talks about with pain. this seems to indicate that combustion-bending is taught in a brutal school in some secret location, kinda like Lake Laogai, with teaching methods bordering on torture. as a rite of passage, they earn their tattoos like airbenders, and take a vow of silence. i'd love to see a comic about, either Zuko or Korra, about finding the secret school of combustion-bending.
The tin foil and the graves bit are - funny and disturbing at the same time?
9:35 Only time Combustion Man ever opens his mouth
It makes sense. If you remember how Aang took away Ozai’s firebending, he did it by touching his torso and his forehead. The 2 chi points required for firebending.
I always wondered about Combustion Bending, why there were only two and no obvious explanation explored through side characters of the series. Guess it'll just continue keeping me awake at night (:
that stomach thing that combustion man does first is actually a technique on yoga called a "nauli" the idea is to breathe out entirely and pull your core into to meet your spine. An advanced move that massages your internal organs but also is supposed to push energy up from your centre towards the higher chakras - maybe channelling energy up from the chi centre towards the 3rd eye in order to create the combustion?
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Airbender tattoos also indicated the paths of chi and is awarded to mastery of airbending
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It's not hard to imagine a character who has a mastery over spirit able to change their body, as in literally changing bodies. Either possession or creating empty bodies within the spirit world with or without the help of a spirit entity. Or physically alter their own body with some kind of perk, like imagine a butterfly or moth spirit that gives a technique of making yourself a cocoon to reshape your body.
Avatar doesn't do enough with interesting spirit world connections. Imagine Bending, but then on the other hand other powerful spirits could form pacts to grant different more unique effects.
I was on the fence about balancing my chakras and finding inner peace, but if I can blow shit up with it, I'm in.
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I mean are we not gonna talk about how Sokka's boomerang hit the sparky sparky boom man in the face, and still came back like thor's hammer?
I think the eye tattoo is done for early training reasons. It acts as a physical image they can focus on when first learning. It gives them an idea of where and how they should view this form of bending. It likely also relates to the real world religion as well. It could also be a reminder to the bender of just how dangerous it is. They need to have a clear imagine of what they are doing and that was why Combustion man died the way he did because he lost his clear image, literally.
Just only now realizing that the forehead is probably the worst part of your body to shoot something out of with that much force. It's magic, I know, but now I'm just thinking of their necks breaking every time the shoot a tactical nuke out of their face fast enough to break the sound barrier.
Years later, the Yangchen novels with the Unanimity project give some answers, yet raise more questions.
8:30 I feel like combustion bending would make for poor assassinating.
Assassin's are not necessarily stealthy, the idea that it refers to a ninja-like killer only is a result of pop culture associations, not an actual definition of the word.
A theory on why Bolin can lavabend but not metalbend; metal bending is not, technically, bending another element. It's a matter of control and how fine-tuned an Earthbender's abilities are, which does appear to be a matter of natural aptitude, letting them manipulate small impurities in refined metals.
Lavabending is closer to that quasi-genetic aspect of bending that results in fire nation people only having firebenders or non benders etc. As far as we can tell, lavabending requires control over both heat/fire and earth, so only the Avatar was capable of it.... until Republic city was founded and the nations began mingling. Bolin and Mako are the sons of a Fire Nation man and an Earth Kingdom woman.
Zuko's failed Lightning Bending is very similar in effect to Combustion Bending, but lacking the projection
It felt kinda bad seeing Shivji's symbol being used on an antagonist, especially a mercenary considering his whole deal is to be as far away from people as possible; but it also makes sense as he is also known for giving boons to immensly devoted worshippers who often exploit their newly gained powers for conquest and murder.
From the looks of how he's breathing and contracting his core muscles intensely, similar bodybuilders who can do the vaccum contraction. I hypothesize he's controlling his breathing in a very specific way in tandem with focusing their chi together into one significant attack. However if ever sustaining a head injury can throw off that focus and control if only slightly, but due to the complexity of the technique if there's any negative variables the technique fails.
Also zuko explodes whenever he failed lighting bending. Due to him being unable to rejoin two positive and negitive energies properly. They might be doing something similar but displacing it away from themselves
Imagine an Avatar that learns every bending and power possible in Avatar universe that would be a power house
I had a friend when I was a teenager. We always used to talk about him trying to figure out the meaning of life. Many years after the fact we actually ended up together. He now says the meaning of life for us is each other oh, and now our daughter as well.
The lion turtles gave bending to man to protect them from spirits but when the spirits were locked to the other world, so to was the link to the power of the turtles. Many benders did all they could to become better at bending by spiritually linking to the other world though loss, tragity or some other traumatic event. Commyboi chooses not to speak and has lost both his arm and it leg, this is important for later.
Katara was a bender at a young age but after the loss of her mother she had become more compassionate and caring leading to her mastering healing later on, then under the stress of the blood bender she was so fueld by the potential to lose more of the people she loved unlocked the power to blood bend. (take note of the fact she had like 34 minute of training before she had to cripple an old lady)
This brings me back to commyman, it's assumed that he had gone though traumatic events that lead to his personal discovery (much like all other special bending). This is why the answer to "is special bending heretical" yes *and* no. Personal discovery can't be taught nor born with though you can learn a lot some someone who you spend a lot of time with and in the case of bending, find your own personal discovery though their teaching.
(also assumed that's why the avatar has to train with the best benders for years, so they can find each of the masters discovery and come to his/her own)
my take is that the forehead tattoo is what they receive after mastering the technique, a right of passage sort of thing, just like how the airbenders get their tattoos after mastering a certain level of the ability
Combustion bending is actually in my opinion one of the most difficult forms of sub bending to acquire as it’s also the most precise and obviously the sub bending that possesses arguably the second most destructive power. Not the ability to cause harm but more the ability to well destroy while it’s also quite good at killing as a single direct or even indirect hit would almost always result in death. The only other form of sub bending I would argue that has more would be lava bending because fairly obviously it’s molten rock that’s a few thousand degrees even getting grazed by it will cause pretty serious damage to both people and buildings
You should totally make the video on writing antagonists that are protagonists from the future/alternate reality. Not clones or long lost twins, but protagonists themselves, but with different backstory. This is a strong trope because it shows us what the hero can become if things go wrong
Imagine getting hit by this at point blank range
It’s definitely a mutation, the first guy had prosthetics , indicating he can only combustion bend and trying to use normal form cost him.
Combustion bending is probably used when the a fire bender is truthful, or judge mental, and have extreme focus. Sparky sparky boom man probably doesn't speak so he doesn't lie, or to try to stay focused on his judgment of ones self, to try not to contradict himself. When hit in the head, it messed his frontal lobe of his brain, making it harder for him to focus, on his judgment while his head is throbbing.
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On your theory about air nomads hiding in the earth kingdom during the genocide, I had an idea that perhaps chi blocking was invented by the air nomads to protect themselves while hiding their bending ability. The idea occurred when you mentioned that perhaps Ty Lee was of air nomad descent due to her light weight movements and agility. Since air nomads are highly spiritual, all of them had air bending and who else would likely develop a chi blocking technique if not the people that understands chi like the back of their hands? Plus it's the most harmless fighting technique which adhered to the air nomads' pacifist nature.
A bit far-fetched from the original video but I remembered it on the bit when you explained chi on combustion man near the end.
Who tf is combustion man? That’s sparky sparky boom man
i love how detailed avatar lore is. they really thought out this amazing show.
my favorite bending power, other than waterbending
Imagine combustion lightning bending
One other theory that I kinda like is the idea that the tattoo itself is what enables them to use this ability. Not in a literal sense of course, there is no such thing as straight up magic in Avatar so magic paint that lets you focus your chi into a beam is unlikely. However, maybe the tattoo is there to cover up something else, like a scar. My theory is that combustion benders are created by taking someone with a natural affinity for it (like say, a child who sometimes makes tiny uncontrolled sparks or explosions without any apparent bending) and then performing some kind of surgery that opens of their light chackra enough for them to release all of their chi in a massive focused blast, like the opposite of chi-blocking. Training and mastery of both the fire and light chackra would still be part of it of course but I really like this theory because it potentially explains two things. One, why combustion benders are so rare (it's not a natural ability) and two, why Combustion man apparently can't talk or use regular firebending. If gaining this ability requires you to undergo essentially brain-surgery then it also comes with certain risks, like possibly losing the ability to speak or impairing your firebending. Surgery would have gotten a lot safer after 70 years which might explain why P'li suffers from no side-effects.
Side note: I never liked the name "combustion bending", it's such a mouthful. I hereby suggest that we change this name to the much catchier "Blastbending". It's shorter, rolls right off the tongue and it has alliteration. Upvote to sign the petition and change that terrible, TERRIBLE name.
I feel like it’s something more firebenders can do, but it only naturally comes to some. Maybe the tattoo is a relic from some ancient legend or art of firebending, like how airbending tattoos are a mark of the art of airbending.