i like how Zaheer seems to strategize the order he frees his friends in, seeming to know who would be easiest to free and who he'd need help with(Ming Hua was necessary to free P'Li, but to get Ming Hua he'd need Ghazan's help which is why he frees him first) also notice how the Red Lotus theme seems to build in intensity each time a member is freed
@@Scp-4419 air bending fighting focuses on lightweight and mobility, maybe later on he was strong enough to fight off multiple benders while carrying a barrel, but it's definitely easier if he can have a earthbender there to carry to barrel of water
What’s truly scary about Zaheer is that despite originally being born a non bender he was locked up far from civilization, on a mountain, guarded by five benders. That goes to show how dangerous he really is.
He actually used the Airbending martial art as a regular Non-Bending fighting style before the Harmonic Convergence or whatever. The movements and attacks of Airbending was based off the actual Chinese martial art Bajiquan.
@@mranima748 so does bread . Yet apparently as long as it is not refined sugar or honey it does not really damage or rot your teeth and you can clean them with water and salt or sand . It is why people didn’t need tooth paste prior to the discovery of America ( and the explosion of refined sugar consumption) and had great teeth .
I'm gonna say it. A self made airbender with a clearly big brain, A water bender without arms, some dude forming lava from rocks, a female version of ATLA combustion man but with more power. This is the one of the scariest group that any animated series has to offer
Zaheer really showed how terrifying an evil Airbender can be. I wonder if airbenders went through a violent time in their past sort of like the fire nation and decided to go back to the ways of peace and nomadic life because of it
I think thats the beautiful thing about the air nomads, although they have guidelines, like not eating meat, they're still very accepting people, arguably their biggest blindsight might've been how determined they were to send the avatar- Aang- to do his destined work/training, barring Gyatso, the elders had all decided to just send him off without the consideration of his feelings, regardless of how selfish it might be.
I imagine the Air Nomads must have gone through a violent time. I don't think it would have been wars of conquest. BUT I could see ideological wars. Buddhism has had violent times (which is roughly what Air Nomads seem to be based on. Indonesia in particular) So I could see some debates over texts becoming rather heated.
You can’t deny they’re all gifted benders. The earth bender turns rocks into lava. The armless girl makes arms by constantly bending water on her torso and then makes that a weapon/tool. She like her predecessor makes explosions with her mind but with more precision. And that guy bend air like he’s been doing it his whole life instead of five minutes
Pli nd Ming Hua are both powerful as Ozai. But Korra was able to throw simply kicks of airbending while in chain to take down Pli and Korra was also able to stop ice spear from Ming Hua (through fire breath) and smashed her so badly with boulders within seconds only. Let's not forget that Korra is as strong as Aang. It just so happned that this four powerful benders are not easy to beat
Zaheer was likely a keen martial artist before. The Air powers made him feel light as a feather hopping around and throwing gusts of wind. It was an easy transition to use Air for him. Because of his sharp mind, he's able to even develop Air to its highest levels. Flight and Spirit world.
P’Li has less combustion power but she can manipulate it and bend to target. Previous combustion benders are multiple times more explosive but only at straight direction
This puts into perspective how amazingly skilled Tenzin is. He was pretty much holding his own against all these people who had to get imprisoned like this
Zaheer's imprisonment of the guards seemed to me at first cruel, until I remembered that the earth bender can get them out as soon as he wakes. Zheer was still evil though
I think the white lotus thought of the idea of an earthbender getting him out from the outer sides of the mountain, so they covered the cell with a non-bendable earth. But it's just my theory
@@dorkfish1275 I'm talking about earth benders being able to bust him out. I think it was a purified metal so they could not sense traces of earth, and that is still a pretty long minute
0:46 I really like how even though Zaheer is up against the wall and there should be nothing for him to be able to grapple them with and at this point they think he's still an non-bender, they're still on guard. Really makes you wonder how Zaheer got imprisoned where he did.
because he could not do anything with out the bending, but since zaheer is very smart and talented, he just needed air and he was able to 1v3 guards who literally are paid to keep getting better and guard people
@@AdityaPalange Now that i see it, he didn't even need the keys to open the door, just a heavy object or body to airbend against it hard enough for it to forcibly open up, he doesn't use the key until locking them up
Two generational waterbending prodigies, a water bending master, firelord Zuko, a dragon and a bunch of white lotus guards and they made them all look like amateurs. That's when we knew these guys were THE threat of the series.
Tbf, this was Old Man Zuko in his late 80s fighting at night time in a freezing cold temperature. Terrible condition to be in as a firebender decades past his prime. Prime Zuko during his 30s-50s (whenever it was) probably would’ve smoked Ghazan.
Unfortunately, the Red Lotus being strictly or rigidly based on the perspective of Guru Laghima is what led to the power vaccum in the Earth Kingdom, leading to the rise of Kuvira the Great Uniter.
these Prison breaks are amazing, their giving me Tai Lung vibes and it is astonishing seeing how terrifyingly powerful they are during these Prison escapes.
Ming-Hua and P’li’s bending abilities are some of my favorites in the entire series. I love when “disabled” benders are stronger because of it. Similar to Toph’s blindness.
It's kinda like Daredevil. They don't have the abilities of normal people so they compensate for what they don't have and find out that they have more potential than they thought possible
I don't really prefer the combusting ability of p'li tough, sure it can be dead accurate, but can be dangerous to you to you too. i like waterbending ability like ming hua
Pli nd Ming Hua are both powerful as Ozai. But Korra was able to throw simply kicks of airbending while in chain to take down Pli and Korra was also able to stop ice spear from Ming Hua (through fire breath) and smashed her so badly with boulders within seconds only. Let's not forget that Korra is as strong as Aang. It just so happned that this four powerful benders are not easy to beat
Fun fact: Ghazan's lavabending uses the martial arts form called bajiquan. It's a fighting style that uses explosive elbow and knee strikes. You'll notice it when you look at his body as he's lavabending.
Not really. Assuming the next series happens some 80-100 years later, it’s gonna be an Earthbender in roughly present time. There’s so much they can explore without retreading old ground. Korra could already feel her importance as the Avatar fading. Imagine 100 years later with more modern weaponry and more complex world governments? They’ve done equalists, now they could do some sort of bender supremacists to parallel the real world rise of fascism. Or they could go the other way. Some war breaks out and all benders, even the Avatar, begin to feel powerless against modern weaponry that doesn’t rely on them.
5:24 Ming-hua is kiterslly INSANE. Fought 2 TWIN earth-style using water benders that turned WATER INTO ICE GLACIERS and she SWUNG on them like TARAZAN, trapped them in ice, TURNED INTO AN ICE DRILL and dug STRAIGHT INTO THE GROUND People sleep on Korra cause it’s not Aang, but man the creators REALLY innovated in the combat and how it was used
I like how Zaheer uses airbending as an extension of his deadly martial arts prowess. He mastered several different forms and that makes him use airbending in an altogether different and unique way.
Its similar to how Azula fought at her best. She used her balance and stance to coordinate her aggression instead of using the bending first. They both bend with extreme offensive efficiency.
Just the fact they weren't afraid to go agaisnt some of the strongest benders in the last rescue and even made joke out of them really tells you how strong Red Lotus was.
I love how some guards are metal bending Zaheer's cell, and when he locks them in, he forgets that fact and tells them they will be locked for 3 weeks lol.
depending to what scale he can turn rock into lava, also it does seem that once hes not "harnessing" the magma anymore it quickly cools off back to rock, which also makes sense because even molten magma is so dense, unless its at an extremely high temperature, it really does become so thick it looks solid but its more like a thick gel. so its not like he could melt a big lava pool and let it flow.
@@mranima748What’s crazy is that the Fire Nation needed a giant metal drill to break through the walls of Ba Sing Se. All Ghazan needed was like less than a minute then he’ll single-handedly take down the walls and make Ba Sing Se seem lime Na Sing Se!
“When you base your expectations on what you see, you bind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality” i cannot begin to tell you how mind blowing this quote is🤯
Honestly the concept of an elite squad of 4 powerful bending masters of each elements working as one is just scary , each one with different stregth and cover for others weakness . Just these 4 people alone can either sent the whole world to chaos or restore order if needed . Heck , the white lotus should seek out benders with special talents , taught them out to form such squad , an Avatar probably isn't even needed to keep the world's balance .
6:37Kinda funny how they went through all of that effort to keep P'li away from heat..but then Zuko comes along with his dragon.. 🔥 🐲 Awesome scenes though..excellent way to introduce us to the new villians!
The saddest thing is that none of this would have happened if the characters had been a little smarter and eliminated the Red Lotus members after they caught them. Such a mess wouldn't happen if someone dropped the pacifism which is useless in this particular case..
They were protecting Korra following instructions from Aang the pacifist. They should find a bloodbender who can take away bending so criminal benders can be imprisoned far more easily.
to be fair who would have tought that you can get bending…quite literally from nothing? You can blame pacifism, the true is that Zaheer is the most creative man ever lived
as the person before me said, no one could have foreseen a non-bender to just become a bender. They were actually smart in the way the benders were locked up, depriving them of their element. It worked for 13 years which is pretty solid considering how powerful they are.
Actually, the real pity is that nobody on Korra's team learned to chi-block. That would have stopped the Red Lotus more easily than engaging them in bending combat.
I really wish they had known from the start that they would get 4 seasons, let these guys be the new Ozai, the multi season threat, then Kuvira after the way they did
Zaheer: you have 3 weeks until next shift. Me: did you forget there was earthbender you threw into the prison? He can prison break easily with breaking the wall
Soil and rock are not as resilient as metal, it would be hard to break through. That prison cell is made of thick steel on all sides. Just because he's an earth bender, it doesn't mean he can metal bend.
@@joshuadickey7221cells likely made of platinum including the floor inside, otherwise metal benders or even earth benders could bust him out. also if he will be able to bend the earth outside depends if the hatch closed later or not.
I don't know if I'd rather face Amon: an evil bloodbender, Unalaq and Vaatu: a dark avatar, The red lotus: a quartet of unique and powerful benders, or Kuvira: an evil metal bender with a weapon capable of destroying entire cities at a time
@@KevRMA2000 That's debatable because all unalaq could do was water bend, It's not like he was a legit avatar (master of all elements) The red lotus could do crazy things (lava bending, flying, suffocation, waterbend without arms, combustion bending), And I believe kuvira's weapon could have beat the "dark avatar"
Before being imprisoned, Zaheer was already a talented martial artist. When he was imprisoned, I noticed his cell had enough space to work out in, so it's obvious he kept in shape. His knowledge of airbending philosophy probably came from his jailers being "civilized" and being given texts by the peaceful airbenders to study while incarcerated. When the convergence happened, and Zaheer became a bender, he likely combined his knowledge of fighting with the knowledge from his readings to craft his air bending style, which is quite different than traditional air bending. Shows the reason why he was the Red Lotus leader even when he wasn't a bender.
The red lotus were so cool they definitely should have been more than a season long enemy. The dumb earth kingdom lady was no threat at all compared to them.
I'm still amazed how Kora's Dad and Zaheer went toe to toe before and Kora's Dad was able to defeat him. I know he wasn't a bender before but judging from his prison, how officials treat him, and the fact the he's the leader of these remarkable benders, he is already a monster without powers.
they understimated him because he was the one non bender out of them, and they didnt know about the phenomenon of normal people getting air bending powers from the harmonic conversion, and maybe they did but did not fathom the possibility that zaheer could have possibly been one of the "choosen" by the spirits.
Reminder,old and retired Zuko could still fire bend in this extremely cold area,albeit very small and reddish flames and was heavily depowered Pli needed the warmth of Zukos dragon. This proves that Old Zuko is more powerful than Pli and that he lost to Ghazan only due to the extreme cold. Both at the Fire Nation and Old Zuko would be well above her. Also he technically fought Ghazan for 3 minutes,most of it was offscreen. So Old Zuko isnt weak,he is immensely powerful. Nearly matching Ghazan while seemingly at barely a quarter of his normal power going by the size of his flames. And while he was downed he got up after 10 seconds
As far as they knew Zaheer couldn't bend or hit them with anything but the guards besides the one talking to him and handing him his food all had their guns out
Idk if the fans of this show (especially the younger ones, myself pushing just about 30 lol) know that the LEGEND Zaheer is voiced by the real life ABSOLUTE LEGEND Henry Rollins. I couldn’t figure out where I knew that voice from, and lo and behold I figured out it was only the vocalist of the monumental punk band Black Flag I have a tattoo of on my left arm 😂
The fact that Zaheer lead a group of mega powerful benders and was able to challenge them and any bender that was before he unlocked airbending Truth is I’m also amazed that despite not being able to bend for 13 years that the other 3 weren’t rusty
Zaheer is cool and all but when you think about how he left his prison. He left an earth bender in there with them. They won't need to ration anything.
Well. Zaheer's priority was escaping. Not unnecessarily torturing people. You see that in the way he handles the civilians after the Ba Sing Se liberation too. He is not making some great display of power.
What I find most unbelievable is the fact that the guard acted like it was the 1st time Zaheer'd mentioned Guru Laghima. In 13 years with the infatuation Zaheer has on the guy? Don't buy it for a second.
The guard shifts are constantly changing, so there's a posibility that the guards where new to Zaheer and that's why he was also able to take advantage of them.
but consider that in 13 years hes never had a reason to talk about the guy until now suddenly becoming a bender gave him the idea to start up the plan again right so it mightve changed his mood on a lot of things
Imagine if this time vs Aang's team so its Aang vs Zaheer Ghazan vs Toph Zuko vs P-li and Ming Hua vs Katara in there strongest form and no holds barred who would win?
The boys prison seem feel comfortable i think. Meanwhile the girls prison feel like real prison, imagine ming hua sit in the metal in the center of volcano. And p'li must feel freezing every single second
All of them have been locked up, not bending for 10 years and when they get out they just start bending again like its nothing. Also, Ghazan just fights Zuko like its nothing.
Best season of TLOK in my opinion. I’ve been showing my partner the show and she usually only likes to watch one or two episodes in a sitting, but we watched the first six episodes together all in a row. The stakes this season feel insane but you don’t even really understand what they are until the end of the penultimate episode. The pacing is incredible at capturing the tone and there’s so many interesting characters with really interesting development for the protagonists. Probably my favorite season in the whole Avatar franchise, although it’s apples and oranges comparing it to ATLA.
I like how each of their prisons, except Zaheer's are similar to prisons from ATLA. - Ghazan's prison is similar to the rig, from Imprisoned where Katara went to save Haru, his father and other earthbenders, since it's in the middle of water , cutting off any sources to earth. And the wooden cell he's in is similar to the one Katara and Toph were thrown in from The Runaway. - Ming-Hua's prison is similar to one of the fire nation prisons Hama from the Puppetmaster was put in after being captured from the Southern water tribe. - P'li's prison is similar to the coolers from the Boiling Rock.
Increible como Ming Hua se hizo rapidamente con Eska y Desna 🤯🤯 Los brazos de agua le ayudaron mucho, calculo que ni a Katara le hubiera resultado tan facil
Su incapacidad la llevo a desarrollar una habilidad al extremo, a diferencia de otros maestros para ella no era una arte poder usar esa tecnica sino su estilo de vida.
Bending is an expression of martial arts (generally). Makes sense that the master martial artist who's studied airbender culture for years can use it to enhance his abilities.
1:50 I'm pretty sure they're not gonna have a hard time escaping that cell. They could just melt the cage with firebending or force it open with earthbenging.
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i like how Zaheer seems to strategize the order he frees his friends in, seeming to know who would be easiest to free and who he'd need help with(Ming Hua was necessary to free P'Li, but to get Ming Hua he'd need Ghazan's help which is why he frees him first) also notice how the Red Lotus theme seems to build in intensity each time a member is freed
I didnt notice the music until reading this comment
Or he can free ming hua first?
Wow that's great! But have you ever read the poetry of the great air bending Guru Laghima?
I won't lie I didn't know that
@@Scp-4419 air bending fighting focuses on lightweight and mobility, maybe later on he was strong enough to fight off multiple benders while carrying a barrel, but it's definitely easier if he can have a earthbender there to carry to barrel of water
I like that detail at 1:26 how the earthbender is the only one to stay on his feet while the others get knocked down
And then he just stood there and watched for a whole two seconds
With him and the fire bender getting locked on that cage, I think that they probably survived or didn't stay for too long inside.
I thought you meant he was standing BECAUSE he was an airbender
The attention to detail in avatar, especially in korra, is astounding
Ya he just got knocked down only once. Nice detail.
What’s truly scary about Zaheer is that despite originally being born a non bender he was locked up far from civilization, on a mountain, guarded by five benders. That goes to show how dangerous he really is.
Dude must've had crazy close combat skills
And the fact that he was so spiritual and a fan of Guru Laghima made airbending second nature to him.
He actually used the Airbending martial art as a regular Non-Bending fighting style before the Harmonic Convergence or whatever. The movements and attacks of Airbending was based off the actual Chinese martial art Bajiquan.
@@TheRedMan77 so basically he studied martial arts and Airbending only amplified his skills
@@cade.s Exactly.
Ghazan: _"Really? Right now?"_
Dude, it's been thirteen years since these two seen each other. Just let them have their moment.
Ghazaz is the sokka of they're group! 😂
And both have not yet brushed their teeth
@@PSy84 they didn’t eat sugar for 13 years . Water and salt suffice .
@@stormbringer2840 rice has a bit of sugar tho
@@mranima748 so does bread . Yet apparently as long as it is not refined sugar or honey it does not really damage or rot your teeth and you can clean them with water and salt or sand .
It is why people didn’t need tooth paste prior to the discovery of America ( and the explosion of refined sugar consumption) and had great teeth .
“When you base your expectations only on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality.”
Indeed.
That’s how I feel when people stereotype me😂
@@MLMBgamingwhat stereotype? Just out of curiosity
💯 Speaking of today’s media….
I'm gonna say it. A self made airbender with a clearly big brain, A water bender without arms, some dude forming lava from rocks, a female version of ATLA combustion man but with more power.
This is the one of the scariest group that any animated series has to offer
COmbustion man? you mean Sparky Sparky Boom Man
"That dude" was an earthbender who had the especially rare ability of lavabending. He was a master of both traditional earthbending and lavabending.
Sparky Sparky Boom Girl
personally i always felt that in the show in general there is room for magneto from the xman . Just not sure how exactly .
Shes actually has less power but more control
Zaheer really showed how terrifying an evil Airbender can be. I wonder if airbenders went through a violent time in their past sort of like the fire nation and decided to go back to the ways of peace and nomadic life because of it
You'd find Jesa-Avatar Kyoshi's mother-very interesting then! Not evil, but very...unbalanced.
I think thats the beautiful thing about the air nomads, although they have guidelines, like not eating meat, they're still very accepting people, arguably their biggest blindsight might've been how determined they were to send the avatar- Aang- to do his destined work/training, barring Gyatso, the elders had all decided to just send him off without the consideration of his feelings, regardless of how selfish it might be.
Being free mind can be labeled as evil
After all their philosophy persuit the greater truth which is beyond mortal minds and morals.
I imagine the Air Nomads must have gone through a violent time. I don't think it would have been wars of conquest. BUT I could see ideological wars. Buddhism has had violent times (which is roughly what Air Nomads seem to be based on. Indonesia in particular) So I could see some debates over texts becoming rather heated.
A bit like if the Air Benders produced a warlord like Genghis Khan.
You can’t deny they’re all gifted benders. The earth bender turns rocks into lava. The armless girl makes arms by constantly bending water on her torso and then makes that a weapon/tool. She like her predecessor makes explosions with her mind but with more precision. And that guy bend air like he’s been doing it his whole life instead of five minutes
Well, he probably did fight like an airbender before. Now he just added the actual bending.
We’ll look at all bending it is based on martial arts movement
Pli nd Ming Hua are both powerful as Ozai. But Korra was able to throw simply kicks of airbending while in chain to take down Pli and Korra was also able to stop ice spear from Ming Hua (through fire breath) and smashed her so badly with boulders within seconds only. Let's not forget that Korra is as strong as Aang. It just so happned that this four powerful benders are not easy to beat
Zaheer was likely a keen martial artist before. The Air powers made him feel light as a feather hopping around and throwing gusts of wind. It was an easy transition to use Air for him. Because of his sharp mind, he's able to even develop Air to its highest levels. Flight and Spirit world.
P’Li has less combustion power but she can manipulate it and bend to target. Previous combustion benders are multiple times more explosive but only at straight direction
This puts into perspective how amazingly skilled Tenzin is. He was pretty much holding his own against all these people who had to get imprisoned like this
Notice in book 3 , they were defeated in the backwards order where they were freed. First P'li, then Ming-Hua then Ghazan then Zaheer.
Whoooooa trippy
An Zaheer was the only survivor
@@pavloszimbrakos4410 I'm somewhat sad about that, they were just so cool
0:03 I love how the doors split open like a Z, as if it's for Zaheer
Epic ❤
Or Zurg.
Guru Laghima: *exists*
Zaheer: He is literally me!
He just like me fr 😭😭
Ligma ball.
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Zaheer's imprisonment of the guards seemed to me at first cruel, until I remembered that the earth bender can get them out as soon as he wakes. Zheer was still evil though
I think the white lotus thought of the idea of an earthbender getting him out from the outer sides of the mountain, so they covered the cell with a non-bendable earth. But it's just my theory
@@Requiem_PenguinThe firebenders can melt the metal
@@Nohea66 that requires alot of it, also Im pretty sure it was a purifed metal that they used
@@dorkfish1275 I'm talking about earth benders being able to bust him out. I think it was a purified metal so they could not sense traces of earth, and that is still a pretty long minute
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Why bend the metal ? ... The Earth Bender can just bend the ground under the cell and break through the metal door ...
0:46 I really like how even though Zaheer is up against the wall and there should be nothing for him to be able to grapple them with and at this point they think he's still an non-bender, they're still on guard. Really makes you wonder how Zaheer got imprisoned where he did.
but why they brought keys with them ?
but I do think that zaheer can use thin air slashes to cut metal bar's slowly .....
because he could not do anything with out the bending, but since zaheer is very smart and talented, he just needed air and he was able to 1v3 guards who literally are paid to keep getting better and guard people
@@BringerOfDeath12Zuko literally said any one of them could individually take down ANY bender, so Zaheer was beyond nasty BEFORE airbending
@@AdityaPalange Now that i see it, he didn't even need the keys to open the door, just a heavy object or body to airbend against it hard enough for it to forcibly open up, he doesn't use the key until locking them up
Two generational waterbending prodigies, a water bending master, firelord Zuko, a dragon and a bunch of white lotus guards and they made them all look like amateurs. That's when we knew these guys were THE threat of the series.
Zuko is too old but they nerf lots of people in Legend of Korra
And all it took was metal bending and lightning bending to take out two of them.
Tbf, this was Old Man Zuko in his late 80s fighting at night time in a freezing cold temperature. Terrible condition to be in as a firebender decades past his prime.
Prime Zuko during his 30s-50s (whenever it was) probably would’ve smoked Ghazan.
Zaheer shows the importance of understanding in order to master bending techniques despite being a newcomer to the bending.
Unfortunately, the Red Lotus being strictly or rigidly based on the perspective of Guru Laghima is what led to the power vaccum in the Earth Kingdom, leading to the rise of Kuvira the Great Uniter.
these Prison breaks are amazing, their giving me Tai Lung vibes and it is astonishing seeing how terrifyingly powerful they are during these Prison escapes.
especially ming hua
What if the guard was like, "Yeah! Guru Lahima, I love that guy!"
Didnt know the guard was chill like that
Cool guard
"Then this is gonna hurt me a lot more than I expected"
Ming-Hua and P’li’s bending abilities are some of my favorites in the entire series.
I love when “disabled” benders are stronger because of it. Similar to Toph’s blindness.
I can see Ming-Hua, but how is P’li disabled?
@@chaosspirit4317 I worded that incorrectly. P’li isn’t disabled, I just really like her ability.
It's kinda like Daredevil. They don't have the abilities of normal people so they compensate for what they don't have and find out that they have more potential than they thought possible
I don't really prefer the combusting ability of p'li tough, sure it can be dead accurate, but can be dangerous to you to you too. i like waterbending ability like ming hua
Pli nd Ming Hua are both powerful as Ozai. But Korra was able to throw simply kicks of airbending while in chain to take down Pli and Korra was also able to stop ice spear from Ming Hua (through fire breath) and smashed her so badly with boulders within seconds only. Let's not forget that Korra is as strong as Aang. It just so happned that this four powerful benders are not easy to beat
Fun fact: Ghazan's lavabending uses the martial arts form called bajiquan. It's a fighting style that uses explosive elbow and knee strikes. You'll notice it when you look at his body as he's lavabending.
We need the red lotus story arc again..
Yees!!
A prequel of their first reign of terror.
Not really. Assuming the next series happens some 80-100 years later, it’s gonna be an Earthbender in roughly present time. There’s so much they can explore without retreading old ground. Korra could already feel her importance as the Avatar fading. Imagine 100 years later with more modern weaponry and more complex world governments?
They’ve done equalists, now they could do some sort of bender supremacists to parallel the real world rise of fascism. Or they could go the other way. Some war breaks out and all benders, even the Avatar, begin to feel powerless against modern weaponry that doesn’t rely on them.
5:24 Ming-hua is kiterslly INSANE. Fought 2 TWIN earth-style using water benders that turned WATER INTO ICE GLACIERS and she SWUNG on them like TARAZAN, trapped them in ice, TURNED INTO AN ICE DRILL and dug STRAIGHT INTO THE GROUND
People sleep on Korra cause it’s not Aang, but man the creators REALLY innovated in the combat and how it was used
The bending that they do is so different yet impeccably touches on each of them as ppl so much i love it!🧘🏻
I like how Zaheer uses airbending as an extension of his deadly martial arts prowess. He mastered several different forms and that makes him use airbending in an altogether different and unique way.
Its similar to how Azula fought at her best. She used her balance and stance to coordinate her aggression instead of using the bending first. They both bend with extreme offensive efficiency.
Just the fact they weren't afraid to go agaisnt some of the strongest benders in the last rescue and even made joke out of them really tells you how strong Red Lotus was.
This dude made a blizzard just to see his girl….i need to get on my game!
True love right there ❤️
And ghazan was definitly not driving fast enough for him XD
I went through a blizzard to see mine once. If that's not love, I don't know what is
Zaheer: “No matter where you are in the world I’ll find you”
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I love how some guards are metal bending Zaheer's cell, and when he locks them in, he forgets that fact and tells them they will be locked for 3 weeks lol.
He was probably just making fun of the situation. I'm pretty sure he realized the earth bender would get them out
Nobody is going to talk about Ghazan? Yisus, you can destroy entire cities with Lavabending, the earthbending is the best.
depending to what scale he can turn rock into lava, also it does seem that once hes not "harnessing" the magma anymore it quickly cools off back to rock, which also makes sense because even molten magma is so dense, unless its at an extremely high temperature, it really does become so thick it looks solid but its more like a thick gel. so its not like he could melt a big lava pool and let it flow.
@@unkindled6410 he uses lava to destroy the walls of Ba sing se
@@mranima748 yeah i had forgotten that scrne, also how he basically covered most of the air temple in magma and it seemed to just keep flowing.
@@mranima748What’s crazy is that the Fire Nation needed a giant metal drill to break through the walls of Ba Sing Se. All Ghazan needed was like less than a minute then he’ll single-handedly take down the walls and make Ba Sing Se seem lime Na Sing Se!
“When you base your expectations on what you see, you bind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality” i cannot begin to tell you how mind blowing this quote is🤯
Honestly the concept of an elite squad of 4 powerful bending masters of each elements working as one is just scary , each one with different stregth and cover for others weakness . Just these 4 people alone can either sent the whole world to chaos or restore order if needed . Heck , the white lotus should seek out benders with special talents , taught them out to form such squad , an Avatar probably isn't even needed to keep the world's balance .
6:37Kinda funny how they went through all of that effort to keep P'li away from heat..but then Zuko comes along with his dragon..
🔥 🐲
Awesome scenes though..excellent way to introduce us to the new villians!
Nah that’s just Zuko’s dragon
Zuko is fighting with Ghazan
If she is out already, with that protection off, it doesn’t matter i think
5:24 those moves are soo clean!!
A random person: Hello
Zaheer: * inhales * *GURU LAGHIMA-*
The saddest thing is that none of this would have happened if the characters had been a little smarter and eliminated the Red Lotus members after they caught them. Such a mess wouldn't happen if someone dropped the pacifism which is useless in this particular case..
cuz human rights exist 💀
They were protecting Korra following instructions from Aang the pacifist.
They should find a bloodbender who can take away bending so criminal benders can be imprisoned far more easily.
to be fair
who would have tought that you can get bending…quite literally from nothing?
You can blame pacifism, the true is that Zaheer is the most creative man ever lived
as the person before me said, no one could have foreseen a non-bender to just become a bender. They were actually smart in the way the benders were locked up, depriving them of their element. It worked for 13 years which is pretty solid considering how powerful they are.
Actually, the real pity is that nobody on Korra's team learned to chi-block.
That would have stopped the Red Lotus more easily than engaging them in bending combat.
Zaheer is underrated. I love his character, prob the best villain in LOK
The best by far if you ask me
It's him by a lot, then Amon, then unaloq,
I put it as Amon > Kuvira > Zaheer >> Unaloq
How is he underrated? He's been a fan favorite for ages. He's one of the reasons Season 3 of Korra was considered the best.
He even became a meme!
@@clayvision Amon is definitely the second best, but kuvira is way batter than unaloq.
All showing their power. They were great antagonists.
I really wish they had known from the start that they would get 4 seasons, let these guys be the new Ozai, the multi season threat, then Kuvira after the way they did
Oh man. That would have been so cool.
They don't have to ration that bowl of rice, they have an earthbender that can easily break them out lol
When he wakes up and gets over his concussion!!
6:00 that’s actually really creative, to use the fact that water expands after being frozen and break the door like that
Zaheer: you have 3 weeks until next shift.
Me: did you forget there was earthbender you threw into the prison? He can prison break easily with breaking the wall
But they wouldn’t be able to leave because he took their vehicle.
Soil and rock are not as resilient as metal, it would be hard to break through. That prison cell is made of thick steel on all sides. Just because he's an earth bender, it doesn't mean he can metal bend.
At least I have the hope that they all lived....
@@joshuadickey7221 just bend the floor outside the cell, i'm sure it's made of rocks, or the firebender could melt the metal door
@@joshuadickey7221cells likely made of platinum including the floor inside, otherwise metal benders or even earth benders could bust him out.
also if he will be able to bend the earth outside depends if the hatch closed later or not.
I don't know if I'd rather face Amon: an evil bloodbender, Unalaq and Vaatu: a dark avatar, The red lotus: a quartet of unique and powerful benders, or Kuvira: an evil metal bender with a weapon capable of destroying entire cities at a time
Ikr
All are more dangerous than Ozai ever was
@@subscorpion9560 very true, i think Yakone was the most dangerous enemy Aang faced
Unalaq being a Dark Avatar is of course the most difficult challenge
@@KevRMA2000 That's debatable because all unalaq could do was water bend, It's not like he was a legit avatar (master of all elements) The red lotus could do crazy things (lava bending, flying, suffocation, waterbend without arms, combustion bending), And I believe kuvira's weapon could have beat the "dark avatar"
Before being imprisoned, Zaheer was already a talented martial artist. When he was imprisoned, I noticed his cell had enough space to work out in, so it's obvious he kept in shape. His knowledge of airbending philosophy probably came from his jailers being "civilized" and being given texts by the peaceful airbenders to study while incarcerated. When the convergence happened, and Zaheer became a bender, he likely combined his knowledge of fighting with the knowledge from his readings to craft his air bending style, which is quite different than traditional air bending.
Shows the reason why he was the Red Lotus leader even when he wasn't a bender.
Ming hua is so sick lol
They were the best thing about entire show
The red lotus were so cool they definitely should have been more than a season long enemy. The dumb earth kingdom lady was no threat at all compared to them.
Am I the only one thinking the ponytail and the guard outfit kinda suited him?
I thought it fit him well too. Tbh he looked kinda bad 😭😭😭yes I’m pathetic I know
Yes! I thought it looked pretty cool and bada**
Yeah I wasn't a fan of him going bald but it made sense since Airbender are usually bald.
I'm still amazed how Kora's Dad and Zaheer went toe to toe before and Kora's Dad was able to defeat him. I know he wasn't a bender before but judging from his prison, how officials treat him, and the fact the he's the leader of these remarkable benders, he is already a monster without powers.
If the guards had just given the food and closed the door, none of this would've happened.
they understimated him because he was the one non bender out of them, and they didnt know about the phenomenon of normal people getting air bending powers from the harmonic conversion, and maybe they did but did not fathom the possibility that zaheer could have possibly been one of the "choosen" by the spirits.
Zaheer: "Have you ever heard of-"
Guard: "No" *shuts door*
Zaheer: "F#$%"
7:24 for bad guys that's sweet
"Really? Right now?"
Air is the element of freedom for 1 reason
I find it impressive, that these are all 1 prisoner, custom prisons guarded by 5-10 guys each
Reminder,old and retired Zuko could still fire bend in this extremely cold area,albeit very small and reddish flames and was heavily depowered
Pli needed the warmth of Zukos dragon.
This proves that Old Zuko is more powerful than Pli and that he lost to Ghazan only due to the extreme cold.
Both at the Fire Nation and Old Zuko would be well above her.
Also he technically fought Ghazan for 3 minutes,most of it was offscreen.
So Old Zuko isnt weak,he is immensely powerful.
Nearly matching Ghazan while seemingly at barely a quarter of his normal power going by the size of his flames.
And while he was downed he got up after 10 seconds
I just love their friendship...its true
True 🔥👌👍
The way Zaheer daps Ghazan is so hood yall wouldnt understand.
I thought I was the only one that was thinking like this bro!
It was funny when Ghazan was uncomfortable when P'Li and Zaheer were smooching.
1:55 they are benders. I’m sure they can figure out how to break a metal gate
Clearly they don’t
We need the Earth Bending Avatar now. Imagine the top tier villains theyre going to write.
Zaheer was one of my favorite villains in the legend of Korra. Though he was bad. I like his knowledge of air bending history.
Zaheer should've been the main antagonist of the whole series
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Excellent prisons cells of the red lotus.
As far as they knew Zaheer couldn't bend or hit them with anything but the guards besides the one talking to him and handing him his food all had their guns out
1:49 Zaheer. My guy. Your prison was not built to hold earth benders.
Combustion vs dragon was the coolest thing since Combustion Man himself. Easily my favorite bending
Idk if the fans of this show (especially the younger ones, myself pushing just about 30 lol) know that the LEGEND Zaheer is voiced by the real life ABSOLUTE LEGEND Henry Rollins. I couldn’t figure out where I knew that voice from, and lo and behold I figured out it was only the vocalist of the monumental punk band Black Flag I have a tattoo of on my left arm 😂
The fact that Zaheer lead a group of mega powerful benders and was able to challenge them and any bender that was before he unlocked airbending
Truth is I’m also amazed that despite not being able to bend for 13 years that the other 3 weren’t rusty
This season was far and away the best. These characters were so cool and interesting!
Zaheer is cool and all but when you think about how he left his prison. He left an earth bender in there with them. They won't need to ration anything.
earthbender, not metalbender
still, hes pretty generous
Well. Zaheer's priority was escaping. Not unnecessarily torturing people. You see that in the way he handles the civilians after the Ba Sing Se liberation too. He is not making some great display of power.
@@3takoyakisthat earthbender opened Zaheer's first door with his bending
Korra really has grown on me
Red Lotus was something else 😈
Zaheer was literally the most broken villain in legend of Korra! He’s just so stronger!
How he unlocked flight was p’lis death!
Zaheer and P'li i respect for tall and short couple
What I find most unbelievable is the fact that the guard acted like it was the 1st time Zaheer'd mentioned Guru Laghima.
In 13 years with the infatuation Zaheer has on the guy? Don't buy it for a second.
The guard shifts are constantly changing, so there's a posibility that the guards where new to Zaheer and that's why he was also able to take advantage of them.
He is locked up for 13 years. Of course the guards change
but consider that in 13 years hes never had a reason to talk about the guy until now
suddenly becoming a bender gave him the idea to start up the plan again right so it mightve changed his mood on a lot of things
Imagine if this time vs Aang's team
so its Aang vs Zaheer
Ghazan vs Toph
Zuko vs P-li
and Ming Hua vs Katara
in there strongest form and no holds barred who would win?
I think it’d go like this:
Aang beats Zaheer (high diff)
Toph beats Ghazan (mid diff)
P’li beats Zuko (high diff)
Ming Hua beats Katara (mid diff)
@@kovalaI think your forgetting the fact can Ghazan can literally Lavabend
Sokka knocks them all out with a well thrown boomerang
@@O.G.M.A Metalbending Toph has something Ghazan can't counter as well
@@kovalakatara would beat Ming hua what are you talking about?
The boys prison seem feel comfortable i think. Meanwhile the girls prison feel like real prison, imagine ming hua sit in the metal in the center of volcano. And p'li must feel freezing every single second
Ig because there more powerful so more dangerous
All of them have been locked up, not bending for 10 years and when they get out they just start bending again like its nothing. Also, Ghazan just fights Zuko like its nothing.
Best season of TLOK in my opinion. I’ve been showing my partner the show and she usually only likes to watch one or two episodes in a sitting, but we watched the first six episodes together all in a row. The stakes this season feel insane but you don’t even really understand what they are until the end of the penultimate episode. The pacing is incredible at capturing the tone and there’s so many interesting characters with really interesting development for the protagonists. Probably my favorite season in the whole Avatar franchise, although it’s apples and oranges comparing it to ATLA.
He is lucky toph wasn’t guarding any of those prisoners
Until he bends up into the air
@qbgrindddd the issue is her blindness soo her hearing needs to be accurate and sharp to locate his location
Toph is at a clear disadvantage against airbenders and she was 80+ at that time
Her weakness is air bender😅
the dragons on ming hua’s prison are a nice touch
I love the friendly banter the Red Lotus throw among each other.
I like how each of their prisons, except Zaheer's are similar to prisons from ATLA.
- Ghazan's prison is similar to the rig, from Imprisoned where Katara went to save Haru, his father and other earthbenders, since it's in the middle of water , cutting off any sources to earth. And the wooden cell he's in is similar to the one Katara and Toph were thrown in from The Runaway.
- Ming-Hua's prison is similar to one of the fire nation prisons Hama from the Puppetmaster was put in after being captured from the Southern water tribe.
- P'li's prison is similar to the coolers from the Boiling Rock.
The Red Lotus- The Akatsuki of Avatar verse.
2:38 He's so excited.
you would too if you spent 13 years on a cell with literally nothing happening and then you see some action happening outside.
They are all so awesome
Coolest group of antagonist on Avatar.
Squad Goals if I’ve ever seen one 😂
even the bad guys got humor and character. haha
Increible como Ming Hua se hizo rapidamente con Eska y Desna 🤯🤯 Los brazos de agua le ayudaron mucho, calculo que ni a Katara le hubiera resultado tan facil
Su incapacidad la llevo a desarrollar una habilidad al extremo, a diferencia de otros maestros para ella no era una arte poder usar esa tecnica sino su estilo de vida.
Amon vs red lotus = Amon win of course
Amon vs kuvira = Amon win of course
Fr
It didn’t bother anyone that he was an airbender for all of 10 mins but came out like a juggernaut??🤣😂
He's a genius and extremely adaptable.
He trained himself in airbending
Bending is an expression of martial arts (generally). Makes sense that the master martial artist who's studied airbender culture for years can use it to enhance his abilities.
Zaheer with the beard and hair was great, but blad horrible...
Edit, well not horrible, the hair and beard is better
The Legend of Korra has really went to deep on demonstrating the true extent and power of each elements are, it’s definitely amazing
Zaheer is the best Legend of Korra villain ever!
“The intense cold keeps her from firebending.” as the guard two feet away from her firebends.
P'Li rely mostly on her combustionbending which needs their third eye tattoo unblocked
It’s so different seeing Airbending being used offensively as opposed to the usual Air Nomad teachings
Its really convenient that Zaheer got air bending so that the Red Lotus can all have a member with each element
Zaheer locked those guys up knowing they're benders. They could easily destroy that gate 😂
Really right know lol 😂😆😝!
1:50 I'm pretty sure they're not gonna have a hard time escaping that cell. They could just melt the cage with firebending or force it open with earthbenging.
Just realized for Ming hua the guards were firebenders and for ghazan the guards were waterbenders