Is Bending Genetic? - Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Aang you are called upon to multiple and replenish the air temples.
Hehe
“Pants? Where we’re going, you don’t need... pants.”
-Doc Aang, Back to the Avatar
Oh my gosh yess x’DDD
Let Sparkling water save the air nomads! (air + water)
My crazy theory: The universe exerts a subtle pressure that tries to balance the number of benders of each element. The earth kingdom has the highest population, but the lowest percentage of benders, while the air nomads had the lowest population and the highest percentage of benders, and the fire nation and water tribes fall somewhere in between. Normally, this "pressure" still had to work within the confines of lineage (a direct line to that elements original benders), so there was no way for the universe to create more air benders without any air nomads.
That's why Tenzin (married to a non-bender with no other elements to interfere) had all airbending children (I might be wrong about Rohan, I think it was kind of vague). The lineage rules lined up and the universe was able to exert it's pressure to try and balance out the benders by introducing more airbenders.
Harmonic convergence changed the rules however, as the increase in spiritual energies in the world made it possible for the universe to enforce it's balance more directly. If any of the other bending population were super low at the time, I think it might have possible for seemingly random people to become those types of benders as well. It's just that airbending was the only type that needed that "boost" at the time.
That's exactly what I thought was happening
That makes alot of sense.
The problem with your Tenzin children theory is that Bumi and Kya are not airbenders. If the universe was trying to balance out the number without regards to ratio, then how was Bumi, the first born, and Kya, the second born, both not airbenders. If the eldest was, maybe that could count, and I really like your theory. Just that the Bumi and Kya throw a wrench into everything, from your theory itself to the classically held notion that "Airbenders only birth other Airbenders"
@@kenb2957 then we get the "personality" requirement to be a bender. Bumi's personality, with no intention to offend, deserves no kind of bending. He's somewhere else closer to Sokka's ability on strategy and planning.
Kya gets the same conclusion: her personality fits better with water, also, let's remember that Katara was the last water bender from The southern water tribe.
If I were the universe, I would assume that, being the last air nomad also THE AVATAR, he would have a very higher chance to reproduce and keep air benders alive than Katara would have to keep Southern Water Tribe benders population alive.
I think the rule is this that you said, one of balance between bending population. The harmonic convergence boosted it and the airbending power was “clicked” with a bunch o people. But I think that it would slowly happen, with or without the harmonic convergence. The fact that the right benders are born in their respective nations I think it was just more convenient and made more sense, maybe the proximity with the element in that group of people makes the spiritual/genetic “click” more easy to occur, dunno.
“Honey, why is our baby a fire bender when we are air nomads.”
Fire bender milkman: *Sweats profusely
When the fire nation attacks. :(
Nice.
😂
@@TheDrexxus they stealing our babies
Uh oh
"...resulting in incredibly gifted benders like Azula and Iroh and Ozai."
*Zuko standing teary-eyed in the background* Am I a joke to you?
Hahaha i thought so too, but when you really look at it, Zuko really wasnt a skilled bender at birth. And i think if it wasnt for all his training, he would never have become as good as he is. Especially without Iroh, or his journey with Aang when they learned from dragons.
@@ncheck3000 Sadly, that is true. Zuko is skilled because he had put hard training in his bending. He wasn't naturally talented, compared to Azula who was a prodigy. Zuko never will be as skilled as Azula was at her peak. But that does not mean he isn't one crazy-good bender.
@@c-seoul true. He is a proof that hardwork and determination will payoff in the end LoL
Yes (Zuko) you are
I mean the bending’s strength and power at the time came from anger and hatred, Azula and Ozai were pretty much the angriest at the time.
Zuko couldn’t bend fire that good because of the morals he learned from his’ mother. His 2 moral sides clashed together causing him to bend in a less powerful way. Something similar happened to him when he changed sides to be on team Avatar. He lost his’ source of power, he changed his’ power source from anger and hatred to Breathing and peace of mind.
Iroh learned to switch his’ firebending’s source of energy to breathing, he also was well known for being able to breath fire like a dragon very well. He got his’ bending’s source from his’ breathe and peace. He tried to teach this to zuko. But zuko was too angry to learn this at the time.
"You can't choose what is canon"
Laughs in Star Wars
I know this is a dig on Disney but this also applies to salty Star Wars fans.
Laughs in Mulan II
Laughs in Harry Potter
Soy
The legend of Korra season 2 is to Avatar what TLJ is for Star Wars. Change my mind.
"His loins hold the future of our people" "Where we're going we wont need any pants" is just such a perfect combination and makes me cackle endlessly
I was not prepared to hear that 😂
@@HighMageCallum "You cant just say Legend of Korra aint Canon; it is."
Nah, buddy, i think theres lots of Reasons to diffienciate
it so much that 'non-canoN' is worth arguing about.
I dont take it as Canon and i do have valid reasons for that.
@@loturzelrestaurant nah, only the creators of the show can say if it's canon or not
@@mertensiam3384 Hahaha.
Can confirm cackle level 💯
Accidentally woke up my family at 7 a.m. cackling at this line delivery 😅😂😮😊
My own headcanon/rationalization for random people being bestowed airbending after Harmonic Convergence was that those individuals were the new lifetime for souls lost in Ozai's genocide. Reincarnation is mentioned so much in both ATLA and ALOK, and the idea of souls or connections spanning across lifetimes is a recurring theme. The way I see it, the Air Nomads were indeed wiped out, but the souls of those people went on to new lifetimes, being reborn as new members of the Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, Water Tribe, etc. Eventually, those souls are affected by the Harmonic Convergence to express the bending ability the souls have always carried, just never able to express. This idea ties in with the relationship between spirituality and bending ability.
Coincidence that he released this video the day the Avatar writers announced they had left the production of the live action ATLA? Thanks for making this day easier on us
Is that good news or bad news?
Also, where did you hear this?
@@Electru522 It's definitely bad news. And Mike DiMartino himself made an announcement.
@@Electru522 www.michaeldantedimartino.com/an-open-letter-to-avatar-the-last-airbender-fans/
Could have been posted today because LoK is up on netflix today
Wh-wha-?
I have a head cannon where every time a air nomad makes a non bender they yeet the baby off the cliff
i bet they do that with every baby to see which ones fly
So they're Spartans?
@Caitlin, the airbenders are pacifists and vegetarian so I think your theory's got some holes.
Mine is that every nation can have air benders, so when a baby shows air bending they just come in "yea, that kid belongs to us now 🤷"
naw, all air nomads are air benders, Guru Pathik is not an air nomad... Plus, airbenders are pacifist and vegetarian...
"Where we're going we don't need any pants!" hits differently now
It's funny even in the show, as they land on the island full of beautiful warrior women. Though Aang didn't consciously know that.
@@danieltilson4053 But his past life would have known meaning he may have unconsciously known thus meaning it was no accident.
Triumph263 🌚🌚🌚
"No, fire lord ozai. yOU'RE not wearing pants"
@@emimimimimimimi "MY ROYAL PARTS ARE SHOWING!"
My Theory: What matters is Chi.
Your chi is flavored by actions, environment and mindset. Also from whoever was a parent of you. If you have a big enough chi, or chi flavored a certain way, you can learn to use it for bending. And the more development you go through, the bigger Chi you get. Just so happens you do that through personal growth, mental work and experience with the spiritual, as well as understanding of the spiritual.
So do you think that the lion turtles were giving those people a lot of chi or giving them more flavoring and would you say aang stole a lot of the fire lords chi.
@@CheezyQq Yeah basically: The lion turtles either provided the necessary early boosts of Chi to give people bending, or shaped the Chi to make it amenable to bending. What Aang would have done was either remove Chi, or make it less able to bend. Which theoretically means that Ozai could have gotten around his block on firebending much like we see Korra do so with her other 3 elements after being bloodbended on.
Also, why can Bloodbending fuck up your bending? Cause its literally a person forcing your blood through your veins to move in specific ways, and potentially even forming blood clots in specific places. Blood and Chi had connections in the myths that feature Chi, and quite frankly I think we'd All be traumatized after experiencing something like Bloodbending, which would shape our Chi to be less balanced towards a particular element.
Why can't people learn more than one element? Cause the average human doesn't have enough Chi to hold more than one element inside it. Why can some people seem to control their elements in specialized ways, and some even learn to do so? Their Chi is either strong enough to start becoming multifaceted (if not a dual bender yet) or they are manifesting a particular form of their Element in their Chi. This is also why I think Bolin was able to magmabend: He had the passion of a firebender, but the stubbornness of an earthbender being the foundation of that passion. Plus, his dad was a fire-national, and fire-nationals are obviously predisposed to having more fiery Chi since their benders were around to have kids and therefore shape their kid's Chi, or because they were around to teach the people who needed some instruction to make the jump to a powerful/aligned enough Chi to bend.
That's such a cool theory
@@ShadaOfAllThings Bolin's father was actually not from the Fire Nation.
@@HayatoByakurai okay but he was still descended from fire-nationals wasn't he?
"Now I hope that you can see that all elements have their own strengths and weaknesses... but FIRE is the best."
- Uncle Iroh
Hey, Zuko here
I noticed that Mako and Bolin both inherited one of their parents bending abilities. Like how Mako got fire bending from their mom and Bolin got earth bending from their father. My theory about that is that if two benders that have different bending abilities have a child it raises the chance of that child to have a being ability. The reason I think this is because instead of having genetics, spirituality, etc from one kind of bending the child would have 2. Let's say one of the parents is a fire bender and the other is a water bender, the child would inherit the genetic and spirituality of both elements but is only able to do one because of either personality or one element happens to be more apparent in the childs genes than the other.
Personally, I like the idea that LOK airbenders were descendants of past airbenders, purely because it sounds better than A COSMIC WIZARD DID IT.
(Fantastic 4 style)
That’s been my head canon for a while as well.
It doesn't make sense though, because the Air Nomads were monks, right?
Gagan Umesha if by that you mean that they were celibate, they definitely weren’t. That’s an aspect of real life monks that wasn’t adapted into the Avatar universe. If that were the case, the Airbenders would have died out centuries before the show started at most.
@@skair5425 Yes but they made kids. They were just rise by volective and not by thier patents.
@@matthewleisure6710 I see. I thought they were celibate. How do we know this? I never saw any female monks in the flashbacks, either.
Technically u could interpret the lion turtles just bending the energy within the humans and therefore unlocking their chakras so they could use their genetic element and then locking it again when they came back the humans simply thought they gave it to them while it was actually already within them
I like this theory. Hell, we've seen with tLoK that once someone's bending is taken away, it could be given back as well. What if we could take that a step further and give bending to select non benders that have the Genes and the appropriate personality? I almost said something about Sokka but now that I think about it Idk if he'd have the right personality, but what if?
Punctuation, please.
I support this theory!
Well this is cant be considering it was shown different lion turtles had different elements which is why they yielded different elements to Wan
The lion turtles didnt necessarily know that he was the avatar and they just unlocked the chakra for the element their citizens used
I actually loved the story of the first avatar. It makes perfect sense, someone ho lives in the moment, was a free spirit, sly/cunning like a fox, understood the state of the human world and had empathy. He was a very noble yet grounded character and sometimes simple is charming and vice versa.
I like Wan too ☺️
“you don’t get a choice in what’s canon or not”
Clearly, you have never met enough Star Wars fans who try to outright fight the truth.
Well if Disney can classify all the books as "legends", then why can't I classify the sequel trilogy as "bullshit"?
(only partly sarcastic. I really don't like how the sequels' story came to be.)
Or the Protestants who came before them, and the Catholics who came before them, and the Christians who came before them, and the Jewish who came before them
1SDAN lol Abrahamic religion doesn’t equal Star Wars
@@wt4629 Abrahamic Religions are *the* most famous example of a fanbase disagreeing over the meaning of their texts and whether new books are canon.
Also Islam is an Abrahamic religion too and would fit very well into my original message if it weren't for the fact that I was listing the string of schisms in the Abrahamic fanbase and Islam was kind of more of a branch
Also, Abrahamic may not be the best name for this situation, as I included Judaism specifically because there may or may not have been a Schism between it and Canaanite belief.
@Brennon Beecher Are you talking about Legend of Korra, one or more of the Abrahamic Religions, or all of the above?
EDIT: Then again, in the defense of all but Judaism, there's been some really horrible mistranslations and fan theory that've plagued people's understanding of the works. To the point that the New and Old Testament alike never suggest that Satan is a villain, but rather hints that he's YHWH's most trusted prosecutor.
I think one of the best ways to have an amazing world is always have an explanation, but some of it's never explained. This leaves a mystery while still allowing the writer to know their own rules and regulations on it.
Genes make it more likely, culture makes it more likely, learning a mindset makes it more likely and having a compatible personality (mentally and Spiritually) makes it more likely. It is never certain but it just could be more likely or more powerful if it happens.
And in that case things like the convergence may have been a booster shot that gave those that were just not getting it one more shot at it. But anyone could have it.
I mean, spiritual energy (chi) is clearly a resource that exists inside a persons body and allows them to bend. I can't see why the harmonic convergence helped create new benders as a surge of chi in the world.
Yes
Harmonic convergence *no*
Malpighia emarginata Chi is an eastern concept that says that it is a part of all things. Chi may be a “power source” of bending but not the ability *to bend*.
@@LionlordEbonfire what's the difference
Best explanation. And shows the problem with so many critiques of lore - they deal only in absolutes.
(They are sith.)
Because, just remember: when we wonder about these questions, there’s something left in that gap -
A giant turtle wizard.
A giant turtle wizard who did it.
I actually read the title as "Is Bending Generic?" and wanted to watch the video about that, but oh well
Lmao same
Answer: no
Same 😂
@Magmarok. Are the lion turtles genetic? They look alive but not flesh and blood.
I mean, in a way, it is. Doesn't get more generic than element powers. On the other hand, the intrinsic philosophy and spirituality gives it a new spin that makes it truly unique among the various magic systems in fantasy. So, it's both.
ATLA fans in the comments, I regret to inform you that Bryke has left the production of the live action adaption, Netflix is now taking full control and I couldn’t be any more disappointed
Oh god please god no
Yea... unless Ehasz (sp?) is onboard, it seems like the live action might flop. I hope not for the sake of the show and it's amazing story, but considering the "Night"mare that happened in the cinematic adaptation, whose name shall not be mentioned, I'm not holding my breath.
Good, Korra was Bryke creation without Ehasz and that was a propaganda train wreck.
I thought the Netflix adaptation was being canceled altogether
I view bending as a bit more of a genetic thing, like how it’s passed down through the years. And then the power is amplified by energy from the spiritual aspects. So zaheer could have that recessive gene from a great great great great great great grandparent who was an air nomad, and had the spirituality down, but never had the energy to let him do it. That’s why i think he was so good at airbending right out of the gate. Same thing but opposite with bumi, he had the energy and genes but not the spirituality, where tenzin and kya had all three.
I remember waaay back while the third season of ATLA was airing someone asked how bending was inherited and the answer was "a mix of genetics, spirituality and geographic location" and that it WAS possible for very spiritual people living in the right place to spontaneously gain bending
I think that the epigenetics explanation makes sense, as some people have said. Individuals who grew in different areas would develop bending associated with their surrounding.
1:46 Sad to see that said by the creators. Even without taking the legend of Kora into the equation, I honestly kind of figured that Airbending would eventually come back in some form from either the people living in the Northern air temple and flying about using Gliders, or that group in the comics that were basically air-nomad history nuts who researched air nomad culture and dressed themselves up like them down to the tattoos.
given a few hundred years, one of of those two groups if left to their own devices would surely produce some airbending children, no?
It’s a mystery we may never know.............
I always thought this was going to be the route back for the air nomads. A culture is dead when there are no groups of people that belong to it, sure they could be seen as neo air nomads but how different from the original ones they could be if they had Aang led them? At that point wouldn't they just be air nomads?
@@CoverofWinter even if Aang didn't lead them and the northern air temple people went on their own mechanical method, they were still embracing the culture in some way, even if it was different. i could see a culture focused around flight. even if they don't get 100% bender population, and even if it's not 100% like the old nomads, i could still see it happening.
I would have like that. If the repopulation of air nomads rested heavily on the shoulders of Aang and the air acolytes until eventually there were enough Airbending children to be a sizeable population but likely still a rare ability. The scars of the past stay with us. But it makes for a beautiful story.
It’s sad, but it was obvious the Airbenders would return. Guru Pathik said so, to have balance, four nations are required, and there may be air acolytes but that wasn’t true balance. They were bound to return is some form or way.
It seemed pseudo-genetic for inheritence, but also the benders learned their bending from teachers (ignoring korra) like the mole things for earth bending, while spirituality can amplify already existing bending and that spirituality is mixed in with personality. I don't like how Korra made it so that the powers were just bestowed upon people by what are basically demi-gods.
Edit: there are also the expressions of the elements bended which influence bending abilities like sozin's comet, since with the ying and yang fish they were spirits which influenced the moon which influences the seas, it may be that there is some sort of complicated relationship between spirits and the amplification of bending. Korra even supports this since air benders get powers when the spirit world is connected to the real world.
So basically it came from learning techniques through observations of the world, with that seeming to allow for triggering the expression of genes and the amplification of this process by philosophy/spirituality/personality and maybe spirits/natural phenomena (which I'd like to believe aren't easily separated in the avatar universe).
Edit: There is the exception of the avatar who presumably has all the powers due to the influence of past lives of benders who had different bending abilities. Also maybe because the avatar is like an expression of the world which wants balance and the world has influence over all of the elements.
I imagine it like giving someone paint and a canvas. They don't know what to do with it until someone teaches them, which is how the original benders come in.
@@A._Person exactly its almost as if people forget that if the original benders really taught people how to bend then anyone could bend any element if they found them
You could look at Harmonic Convergence as something more of a Lovecraftian phenomena. The threshold of how low your SAN needed to be to see the spiritual connections in life got higher, and with much more visibly present spiritual creatures flying about, it's a lot easier to grasp the idea of perceiving the spiritual realm.
Korra's addition lets bending actually make sense.
"How did you learn bending?" "I looked at water going in and out with the tides once and now I can control it with karate moves."
as opposed to
"How did you learn bending?" "A giant spirit/god gave me the ability and then I was taught how to use it effectively by a critter that already knew how to use it."
One of these explains why some people can't use bending and it's not the first one.
If you could learn water bending by looking at the fucking tides and doing karate then I promise you, everyone within 50 miles of the ocean would have made a trip to become a bender so they could pick their noses with a water tentacle.
@@benedict6962 It being a spiritual phenomena is a very interesting idea if they continued properly expanded upon what happened (show wise, since didn't read the comics)
I've thought that possibly, there's a certain inherent 'balance' that every nation needs to have, a certain amount of benders of the people group which would lead to a high ratio of airbenders if there were only a few air nomads, and a low ratio of earthbenders if there were a bunch of earth kingdom citizens. The balance was overturned by the genocide and then the harmonic convergence forced new airbenders into existence from other nations due to the low number of air nomads to try and reassert that balance. I agree with the points in the video though.
This goes up 5 minutes after I realize Korra is on Netflix now
@Super Greyflash neither is it on Australia Netflix...
Only American right now
Nobody:
Aang: "Where we're going, you won't need any pants"
I just want them to make a series where we see the transition between getting bending from lion turtles until the "first" benders learned it from spirits, like imagine the second or the third avatar dealing with all of that
Any decendant with a bender in their ancestry has the ability to develop bending skills since the lion turtles gave the ability to do bending to humans. The only issue is if they learn it or not. It's possible but hard to do without extreme dedication. It came easier for the earliest benders because they had creatures connected with the spirit world teach them. The earthbenders had the badgermoles, the firebenders had dragons, the airbenders had flying bison, and the water tribe had the ocean and moon spirits. Each of these creatures can bend. Zaheer was able to teach himself airbending with dedication just by studying. I feel like what type of bender you are isn't entirely up to your nation or blood. The only reason the benders have different abilities is because of the creatures that taught them only knowing that ability. I honestly believe that you could teach yourself multiple bending types if you're spiritually tuned enough and become essentially an Avatar just without the Avatar state and the ability to travel between the spirit world. This would also be a cool inclusion in a future story where someone does this and pretends to be the Avatar.
Short answer: at first it wasn’t genetic, but then it became genetic
I always thought of bending as heriditary spirits. Like the Lionturtles were imparting part of their own spirit on the humans, and that little chunk of a soul now travels down the family line looking for people who fit whatever criteria it has for them to be a bender. It can sometimes split apart to make multiple,, slightly weaker benders, but there is a limit. That's why mixing bloodlines can cause powerful benders like Toph. She has several little soul fragments that were laying dormant in her family until they all met up and said "Yes, this girl would make a great bender" and combined into a more powerful bender ability.
This would also explain all the new airbenders during the convergence. The small pieces of airbender spirit that had been too weak to make benders suddenly got a dose of power. This let them suddenly be able to cause the small changes needed to let them bend. Like trying to light a fire with an empty lighter, then suddenly remembering to refill it.
Of corse, this would also mean that there would be a finite number of possible benders, at least until someone meets a lionturtle again, which could totally happen after Kora left the worlds connected.
"A wizard did it". Pray that a wizard will make the liveaction good too...
It's not looking good. Michael and Bryan left the project.
@@Drawoon I know, but I'm actually happy about that, since they were the only ones that wrote the comics and LoK, and the way they treated the OG characters didn't sit right with me. Plus, some of the best episodes of AtLA were written by the Ehasz couple. All they need, imo, is to hire the latter and we're good. Plus, Bryke were pretty stubborn and fixed on their own ideas, and I doubt that they were open to even minor changes. Let's not forget that the live will be somewhat of a retelling, they said.
Honestly is doesn’t matter if it’s good or not cause it’s a remake of an already phenomenal show so I think i will elect to ignore it entirely
@@cecilabbott6092 I mean, it's your choice:))
@@pyretta_blaze13 every time I heard Ehasz wrote something I was liks "wait but thats the best part!" So yeah if they were to hire Ehasz there is hope yet.
Also I'm confused, the Bryke duo created Avatar but how involved was Ehasz? Was he also one of the original creators or did he add to their creation I'm confused honestly
I wonder if it's possible for someone to be born a non-bender but then be able to unlock their bending ability?
4:59 I like how Toph keeps an opening in her stone armor for her eyes. You know. So she can see.
it was a joke with the animators
A favorite theory of mine is how Yue was supposed to be the next avatar. If Aang was to pass away normally, Yue would have been born at the time of his theoretic death. Yue was to be born with avatar spirit, but since Aang still had Ravaa, Yue was born without a spirit. That is why she needed the moon spirit. The moon spirit replaced the missing avatar spirit. Not sure if you heard this theory or not, but it’s one of my fav!
I’m back after months and your enthusiasm for speaking about avatar and fantasy match mind so well and just makes me smile man, keep up the great work!!
It's always good to surprise me with my favourite franchise in a video about my other favourite franchise.
When you are born into a bender family, roll a d100. Subtract the amount of benders of each type, deviding by two for every generation apart you were from them. Keep that roll in mind. (The avatar has their number at 0, and in the avatar state it is subtracted by the amount of past lives)
As you live, that number stays as is, but you can increase your "bending score" as you live. There are a few ways to do this.
1. Spirituality - For every week you spend with all chakras completely open, add 1 to your score. (This applys only after the age of understanding where you can understand the surrounding world and actively try to connect with your spirit.
2. Learning - For every month you spend under the instuction of a bender with a "bending score" at least twice yours or a scroll showing moves that you can learn (learning moves system later), add 1 to your "bending score." This number is one per day (of dedicated training) for the avatar or 1 per week if learning from the original souce (flying bison, badger moles, etc. dragon's provide an immidiate boost)
3. Age - Add a point for every year old you are divided by 2. This lasts until maturity (somewhere arond 20-24, depending on the person)
Each element should probably have unique rules, but this system works well enough imo.
So with all Air Nomads being benders I always thought it was that any non-benders are just sent away. After all the temples were not designed with non-benders in mind lol.
7:50 OH BOI I MOST DEFINETALY CAN
I used to think that if the Avatar had i child it could either have water , earth , fire or Air bending because he/she can bend all four elements but i guess not
“You can’t just say LoK isn’t canon for you...”
There’s a ridiculous amount of people who are easily influenced and go as far as hating on the show without even watching it due to others hating on it. You’d be surprised how stupid people can be
There's a lot of valid criticism of the show, but there's also some very vocal assholes who are either too nostalgia blind or close minded to give it a chance.
That said, Season 1 of Korra was amazing but I couldn't enjoy anything from 2 onwards because of how horribly 2 screwed over the world building.
Also something something Protestantism.
I was once one of those people, but I gave LoK a second chance, and its not as bad as I remember it to be. Its actually pretty good, its just different from its predecessor.
i watched it all ;w; sadly i didnt like it much and got bored
i still gave it a chance doh :3
Thanks for y’all in the replies who actually gave it a chance. We need more like y’all
I and several people I know actually prefer LoK. I love The Last Airbender as much as anybody, but I just relate much more to the sequel show, Korra is much closer to what I feel I would be as an Avatar, her problems and issues are much closer to mine, and most of all the family dynamics. Zuko and Katara's families portrayals of abuse and loss are truly wonderful, but the “even present and loving parents screw up and mess up their kids creating toxic dynamics that they have to overcome“ thing that LoK has with Aang and Toph's children feels like my own family. Yes it's flawed, every work every is flawed, but to me it's effective in creating an engaging an emotionally effective story, I have Raava tattooed on my back ffs. Sorry for ranting, I just really hate it when I hear that people badmouth Legend of Korra
Don’t forget that it seems too that Dragons, Badger Moles, the moon/ocean, and Sky Bison are told to have been able to teach bending. The common folk believe them to be the ones to originally bestow bending on humanity. Also note that from the Lion Turtles that everyone seems to be able to be gifted with the ability to bend (and possibly multiple elements with the right conditions such as with a massively powerful spirit guiding you). So I’d say it’s basically that anyone can be a bender if the gift is bestowed somehow. However, by the time of Aang people no longer had a way to have their innate ability to bend unlocked and so having a bending parent was the only way known to receive said abilities. Then there is the whole spiritual manipulation stuff the avatar and some water benders can do which are known to be able to lock out people from their bending and restore their lost abilities. In theory the avatar may be strong enough the bestow bending too but bestowing and renewing may be very different, who knows. Long story short, anyone can bend if it’s unlocked in them. Unlocking that is tricky tho and usually only happens at birth when born of bending parents
My new canon is that Henry Wu from Jurassic Park is a Lion Turtle!
3 years late, but listened to the entire outro. Great track!
I wanna see sokka fighting with a sword while water bending
personally i see it as everyone basicly having the ability to bend, but was never actually awakened in some cases
there's been a long hekin time since the days of the old when bending was given.
and all those with that power probably had offsprings, then those probably had bending or did not,. but that power was still there.
those offsprings had others, and soo on for who knows how many tens/ hundreds or thousands of generations to the point in wich everyone has latent bending power
it just wasnt awakened.
I think it’s like a combination your personality,spiritual level, and your genetics combined and decide your bending
9:58 Yea, that's not how genetics work. Identical twins genes aren't actually identical, they're just similar enough that it confuses people.
Apart from mutations after the separation, they should in most cases be genetically identical. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Monozygotic_(identical)_twins
@@pRahvi0 *Shrugs* I took half an hour to look it up on google. Because I recalled finding out about that ages ago and my research came up with that they are in fact not genetically identical. Maybe I was wrong, but I feel like that was enough due diligence for a short TH-cam comment.
They're 100% genetically identical
The air bending lion turtle gave more of Air Nomads the magic. We see that when Wan meets them.
"You can't just say hey, ALoK is not canon for me!"
_How bout I do, anyway?_
Korra is shit, I know. But it is still canon and you must accept it.
@@rhian6459 no
@@rhian6459 it's great tho
@@rhian6459 No just like we don't have to accept the latest three star wars movies as cannon or any of the crap jk rowling spouts on her twitter the fan base and each individual person can determine what they consider cannon yes it doesn't change the official cannon but people can believe whatever they want to be cannon if you want to consider tlok cannon that's fair go ahead but the rest of us can have whatever we want as our head cannon.
Alpha that called an opinion then not deciding what’s canon
More so it’s more akin to the Force from Star Wars where everybody has a connection to the elements but whether or not that connection is strong enough to BEND the elements is a different story
It's like midichlorians... the more you have, the easier it is. But, it's not impossible for say, a droid, to use the force.
I still love Toph and her interpretation of earth bending. It isn't just punching rocks, it is LIFE.
Does everyone notice that Aang's children literally is the trio we all know and love.
Bumi is Sokka
Kya is katara
And
Tenzin is Aang
Tenzin couldn’t be more different from Aang. But that’s just me.
Canons for suckers, head canon is where its really at
While we love and embrace the Avatar franchises, I'd like to say as a representative of the Pacific Rim fandom that we do not accept the Korra season 2 finale in our canon.
Maybe it could be a remote, non canon spin-off, like that evasive "Pacific Rim Uprising" that is rumoured to exist.
I have noticed that the avatar struggles with the element of the previous avatar. The cycle is >Earth; Fire; Air; Water; ...;< Aang struggled with fire, korra struggled with air... Maybe the "primary" element the avatar is born with will be the hardest to learn in the next life.
The fact that it seemed to be almost exclusively Earth Kingdom people acquiring airbending after Harmonic Convergence does make me think some genetic component was involved. If not necessarily survivors of the genocide fleeing into their neighbors and eventually intermarrying with them, then possibly generations prior there had been some mixed families. The one constant in human populations is that as long as two populations are close enough to each, there is going to be mixing. Happened all across modern humans history across every racial, ethnic, and religious line possible.
It feels like everyone is borne with a spiritual thread, their spiritual connection. Some are borne with a thicker thread and some with a smaller thread. Through meditation (as a kid) you can grow this thread and make it stronger. (this is based on Chinese spiritual cultivation). Insights and meditation will help (with the twins, maybe one had a revelation/experience to awaken).
This would mean you can be born with stronger threads, otherwise known as talent. This is what most Earthbenders use.
Next to people with strong threads are people borne with weak threads, that train it through cultivation. This will be a lot of the airbenders
Harmonic convergence probably strengthened everyone's bond, however we only noticed the airbenders as out of the ordinary.
With the lion turtle history. The lionturtle is able to snap and fix these threads, the people's spiritual connection.
elemental affinity is gifted through the lionturtles and afterwards heriditary.
I remember people got angry cause they liked the thought animals taught how to bend. But honestly it still works cause what if they mimick their styles based on how the creatures move like real martial arts are based on sometimes
I love the 1 bender 1 non-bender twins. it makes it all feels so real
Being a long time star wars fan I can attest to the fact that yes you can pick and choose what is cannon and what is not to make it feel gooder. The beginnings episodes are the exact same as midichlorians, or however you spell it. Trust me, it makes things nice good. Just ignore it.
I just started the video, and then I remembered the scene where toph learned earthbending from the badger moles
Which is still possible considering information could have gotten lost for decades
Well, to sum up your video .. it's genetics. In genetics everything's probability. Just because something has a low probability doesn't mean it won't happen. The probability of Aang and Katara having a non-bending child was about 1% since one of them is The Avatar and the other a powerful water bender (including healing and blood bending) . As for Mako and Bolin ... It's the same story .. Just look up an eye color chart and you'll see that there was an almost 50-50 chance. Of course eye color charts are a tad different than bending since there are more options than three and there's the rule that you said yourself, that for example an air bender and water bender can only have an air bender/water bender/ non-bender child. I do agree that there are some spiritual aspects and that it has something to do with the environment you are born and raised, but I'll give it a 10% impact, 20% tops, while recessive genetics taking the rest of it.
I may be wrong, having spent less time within the lore of ATLA than I have Star Wars, but didn't they actually called the technique the lion turtles and Aang used "energy bending"? Amon used blood bending, blocking the ability to bend in benders somehow, and energy bending did the same. the Lion turtles of old may have supercharged the already innate bending in the people verturing out in the wilds and upon their return "dial" that down again, to limit what can be a very destructive ability on the people living on the back of said Lion turtle.
Remember that in the cannon Kyoshi's mother was a air nomad and a air bender
But she separated herself from the nomads and spirituality as a whole, which made her air bending way weaker, to the point that she needed to use fans to help her bend air
This also was happening in Legend Of Korra aswell. Bending was becoming a whole lot less of a practice and expression and more combative. Losing touch with some of the meaningful traditional and spiritual side seems to effect bending drastically, diminishing and dwindling it out. Kuvira is a very big example of a bender that's all progressive and efficient. I would say all thanks to Korra that without the Spirit Portals or the New Air Nation, bending in an alternative future, would gradually die out in a few more generations because of the lack of spirituality and respect afforded to the world. It'll be like The Beginnings all over again...
@@agentbaguette1519 not really. Korra did bend air after her powers were taken. And also she punched not bended. I think the problem with Korra was her patience rather than how she was taught the element. She was natural at earth, fire and water while was struggling with air. The same with Aang he was good at airbending, but was bad at everything else. Also the avatar spirit Raava was stronger in ATLA rather TLOK. And also she didnt like airbending. She even said why need air when she can perfectly control others.
@@tuananhdang7385 I'm addressing the entire magnitude of bending around all the nations. They just seems so...lesser, I might be comparing it to masters like Pakku, Iroh & Bumi but they're masters for good reasons.
With how much the World has advanced with technology at the fore front, bending is losing the purity and power it ones possessed in the Last Airbender, it was a main theme with the comics, The Rift and North & South where the lack of cultural appreciations of spirits, traditions and The world affected both people and spirits alike. Beginnings showed us of how the world was like, Lion Turtles gave people the elements so that they can protect themselves but when people like Wan, Oma & Shu, The Waterbenders that copied the Moon started to try and understand and think about the world around them is when bending started to become something you can be born with.
If a futuristic and sci-fi Avatar series were to exist where technology has out-weighed traditions, spiritual balance and worldly respect than bending would be near to extinction, people won't be born with bending because they aren't taught to think about the world around them, Unalaq a terrible villain that he is raised this issue.
And now, Korra has opened three spirit portals, one smacked on the United Republic of Nations where advancements and progression is most central. The New Air Nation while also facing threats could express and guide other people to understand the importance of respect to the spirits and their own world.
@@agentbaguette1519 my theory was that spirits gave people element bending. Back then in avatar spirits were balanced and gave out bending in their own order.(by race) i mean fire nation would get fire element and the same goes to other elements. But in TLOK the spirits were corrupted?.. And because of that it changed. Then again just my theory.
And yeah, i do agree the world is less spiritual, but it wasnt spiritual in ATLA either. It didnt change honestly. In ATLA you would see iroh and aang spiritual and maybe some others, but not everyone.
@@tuananhdang7385 A majority of Spirits seems to embody The Material World, they are what holds humankind accountable, Kuruk experience the ugly side of it. It would make sense that some spirits also taught humans element bending in the past, in the comics General Old Iron for some reason is very precious of iron. He often "bends?" it so that he is armored. What this could offer is the existence of Agni, Great Spirit of Fire but I don't know how that could be when Ran and Shaw, supposed Great Spirits of Sun & Sky are in existence. It's nice and exciting to think about.
I agree, I kinda...overlooked the whole 100 year war thing that happened...which backs my theory of Progression killing Bending but...I kinda overlooked. The roots of this theory seems to go back to Salai's time as Avatar, then it's just a whole thing snowballing in The Hundred Year War, The United Republic of Nations and everything else.
I think the only reason Tenzin was so uptight and had a non-typical-airbender personality was how he was raised. He grew up knowing he was literally the entire future of airbending, with the weight of destiny and the expectations of his father, the Avatar himself, on his shoulders.
There's a reason the air nomads didn't tell Aang he was the Avatar until he was like 10, and wanted to wait even longer. That kind of knowledge messes with a kid.
His kids certainly embody the spiritual lighthearted prankstery kind of Air Nomad culture that used to exist, so I think he was probably self sacrificing to ensure his children could carry on, in a sense.
@@KingNefiiria Tenzin is the hero of an entire culture. Talk about selfless. History should sing his praises.
Not to be that guy but they told him when he was 12, not too long before he ran away and got froze in the iceberg
Same thing with John Connor's character. It's all one big existential crisis.
Trained since childhood to conduct war, never knowing his father or having a real father figure.
Mother was arrested and he was told it was all a psychotic lie by the world.
10 years old, the system that took his mom away throws him to neglectful foster care. It seems the world doesn't care about him and nor he it.
John finds out his mother was right when the future war comes knocking at his door.
He uses the confidence his mom instilled in him to work with her and his new machine guardian to strike back at the future antagonist.
Mom and son think they stopped the future war. John realizes that his future self left the T-800's chip set to read only to allow young John the chance to learn more about Terminators and continue learning hacking. Future John had memories of the Terminator as a boy (based on two deleted scenes and modified ending).
Both him and his mom want to believe it's over but internally accept that the war was only postponed.
His stockpiles weapons before dying of Leukemia. John falls into an existential crisis, struggling to accept his responsibility to the world and the role he will fill.
Depending on the timeline, they encounter other infiltrators from alternate futures. John doesn't know whether to continue fighting, kill himself, or let the machines kill him.
In the show, they actually tell him earlier than intended though? They tell him when he's 12, but they make a point in the show that he wasn't supposed to know until 16
I think Tenzen is only as uptight as he was ... because he was the only airbending master who had kid students, and tried to hold them to a high standard and being the only person who could instruct the avatar in airbending
Ya I feel Tenzen was only uptight because of the huge burden was place on his shoulders by Aang. So he's been stressed out sents he was a kid.
@@dustinmccollum7196 makes sense since Aang was the last airbender and Tenzen was the only air bending child of Aang
Well... Aang was the only airbending master who had a kid student (Tenzin), and tried to hold him to a high standard and being the only person who could instruct the avatar in airbending. And Aang wasn't uptight.
@@Spherrum There is a difference between holding yourself to your own goals and responsibilities and having them put upon you by a parent.
I mean this is adressed in TLOK, Tenzin feels the burden of the air nomads lineage and he tries really hard to live up to that standard but when he encounters Aang in the spirit world he's like "don't, you're not me" so yeah, and maybe he's uptight cause Katara was a little uptight too, Bumi is the one with Aang's personality haha
They didn’t give Sokka bending cuz that would make him too powerful. He’s already a backbender and a sword master. But if he could actually bend the show would be called The amazing Sokka and his buddy Aang
If he could bend, he wouldn't have bothered to train in swordsmanship to begin with.
@@jp3813 Zuko could bend but still decided to train in swordsmanship but Im not so sure Sokka would do the same considering how he acts but him bending doesn't mean he wouldn't master swordsmanship. And there's his boomerang which he likely still would use the boomerang
@@gekozilla7339 His motivation to learn swordsmanship was based on his jealousy of his teammates' bending. An entire episode was dedicated to it.
@@jp3813 I forgot that I ment that he would still use a sword but be adaquit with it
@@gekozilla7339 Katara didn't need one. Sokka didn't pick a sword until his jealousy in that episode.
"My fellow Americans.." Wait a minute...
American fellas
Tim for President! ...Wait
Somethings not right....
As the great American poet Till Lindemann once said: We're all living in Amerika.
@@syystomu ist wunderbar
Airbending is spiritual
Earthbending is physical
Waterbending is a spiritual action with your physical self
Firebending is a physical action with your spiritual self
Can you explain how it is deferent between Fire and Water?
@@SnailHatan
Iroh literally says as much about firebending early on in the series...
@@SnailHatan Well...Yes. This is fiction after all. What'd you expect? A scientific answer lol?
nice
Earthbending is just as spiritual connection with the earth
*Video Summary* (Is Bending Genetic?):
- Yes, but actually No
- A Wizard did it
- Its Spiritual
- Its Mysterious
- A Turtle Wizard did it
Thank you
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I'd say it's like a test - answer 5 gene questions, answer 5 spirituality questions, answer 5 personality question, 1 gene question has an insta-fail answer, 10% of best scores get the bending (answering why air benders resurfaced, top 10% scores were killed off do it flew towards 81-90% scores).
6th option: its quantum mechcanics affecting it.
I like your answer, but hear me out:
Epigenetics.
Though this field of genetics is still very unfamiliar to us, long story short our body can activate or deactivate certain genes at times.
For example the gene we use to make an enzyme that digests milk as babies gets turned off in some people, who become lactose intolerant, while in others it stays active, these people aren't lactose intolerant.
The odds of this happening are influenced by your heritage, for example if one of you're parents is lactose intolerant you're more likely to also be.
I think bending works much in the same way: Each element has a few genes connected to it and if one or multiple of your ancestors can bend it, it means you're more likely to be able to as well, just like with lactose intolerance. The only difference with lactose intolerance would be that in humans the bending genes would naturally be shut off not on, because babies can't bend all 4 elements. If you're ancestors have a "pre-activated" gene of sorts it might even allow you to bend as soon as you can mentally activate the power, so from when you're a child.
However if you don't have anyone in your family, so you don't have one or a few pre-activated genes, you might still be able to learn to bend, because you're body "just" needs to activate one or multiple of the "bending genes". This might be done via the spiritual element you named, if you're "spiritual enough" more genes get activated and you become stronger. At the same time it also explains why Zuko, Iroh, Ozai and Azula are quite powerfull, they all have a lot of "pre-activated bending genes" thanks to their bloodline.
This might be what happened en masse during harmonic convergence:
Some type of enzyme got spread all over the continents of Avatar, and some people got a gene for airbending activated. This in combination with possible other activated genes would cause them to be able to bend air and this would make a few "random" people air benders.
It even explains the avatar, hear me out:
If these genes really did exist and they'd have to be activated for the bending to take place. Once they're activated they'd also make an inhibiting enzyme, a fancy word for something that stops other genes from working. This is why we never see a 2 or 3 element bender, only a 1 element bender and the avatar. In the case of the avatar it's possible that something big and "magical" like some sort of "will of the world" could activate a final gene that stops all these inhibiting enzymes, allowing the avatar to bend multiple elements at a time, this way causing there to be a single avatar who can bend all elements and "normal" benders who can only bend one.
Now last but not least dragon turtles, how do they fit in here?
The dragon turtles don't do genesplicing, that'd be quite dangerous and might even have a chance of killing people, what they might be doing however is activating the respective genes in the assigned benders until they return to hand back in their powers, at which point the dragon turtle turns them off again. This sounds quite hard to explain, but in reality it's kind of easy: They once again use enzymes. These enzymes would then activate the gene, but once the humans return the turtle gives of, or inserts, like a type of poison, another enzyme that then supresses the gene again. This way turning it on or off.
The earlier mentioned "Avatar gene" might create similiar enzymes to this one that turns off bending powers that can resupress the genes and that'd explain why Aang can take away the bending powers of benders.
So it is in part genetic, however in some cases you'll have to activate other genes and other circumstances could play a big role, even your spirituality. This could also explain how (twin) brothers can have different elements, or even one might have bending powers and another might not. They both have the same "pre-activated" genes, but they activated other "extra" genes causing different bending types
So long story short I agree with your statement:
"Is bending genetical? Well yes, but actually no."
(BTW I have to stop here, because I'm making this up as I go and this thing is already way to long, if you're interested in this send me an e-mail iddo.boomgaard@gmail.com)
Really very interesting it really seems like something that is plausible. But I’d ask then how do you think Amon was able to take away peoples bending? I think the show mentioned something about blood bending having to do with it but I’m curious how you’d think this could possibly be related to epigenetics in some way.
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Interesting question, not sure. It could be because his mental state activated part of the "avatar gene set", namely the part that allows him to take away bending (like the avatar and the dragon turtles) via the enzymes they toss into the air.
The other option is it's a mutation, which makes it so he can (in a similiar way to the avatar and dragon turtles as well), but this sounds like a weak explenation.
Lastly it could be that he takes extremely precise control of water molecules to block the genes that allow bending, which would technically be possible (and also have something to do with blood bending), but sounds very hard. It's also very rare though, so it's possible.
So... midichlorians weren't such a terrible idea for Star Wars after all?
Midichlorians exist in all living creatures in the Star Wars galaxy, but only those with a high M-count are capable of bending the Force.
@@iddoboomgaard353 I think it was explained as Amon using blood bending as a "reverse water healing" to damage the to the point of inoperability the Chi pathways (read nerve conduits) that are necessary for bending. Yes, one could cause serious non-bending nerve damage that way. I wouldn't be surprised if Amon caused paralysis in some of his early victims. As to The Avatar being able to reestablish bending capability with Spirit Bending, part of activating the necessary genes may be establishing the necessary nerve conduits.
Epigenetics is my favorite science. I almost chose it for my career. In the end I still delved into it's study to heal my chronic disease by turning to what ancient people and traditions say about healing. They lived and ate so differently from us. What you eat and your environment do influence your genes for good and for bad. That is why I eat such strange food and now live so bizarrely. Yes spiritual state is healing as well. I learned that the hard way. You can use your mind to accelerate healing or further damage your body from disease.
The return of A Wizard Did It makes me very happy
I always smile and have myself a good laugh whenever it happens
I was quite happy also!
Been way too long lol
Love The Simpsons
"A lion turtle wizard literaly did do it" makes me even more happy
3:44 "Avatar was always religious propaganda"
Avatar IS my religion.
Lmao- same.
@Arigato Senpai avatar is an exception
Arigato Senpai well technically ATLA is Anime.
Jordan Rodriquez what do you mean
@Arigato Senpai avatar is an anime
3:13 I've always figured that all of the 'Air Nomads' were airbenders because they turned out children that couldn't bend. The temples themselves are kind of death traps waiting to happen for children that can't airbend to save themselves from falling to death especially when you consider all of the other kids running about that can throw mini-tornados when they get upset. Its not intentional eugenics but it makes sense from a health and safety point of view to leave non-bending children with the mother if fathered outside the Nomads or given up to a family with more flat living accommodations if the mother was a Nomad. Aang being twelve at the time of his freezing and having only lived in the male temples wouldn't have known about that and thus could be considered an unreliable narrator in that case and Ty Lee, the only other character in AtLA to have grey eyes, coming from the Fire Nation where one of the female temples was located makes sense.
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did I miss something that says the temples were gender seperated?
@@typo1345 oh, it has been stated somewhere that they are, so basically there are 4 airbenders temple where 2 are only were the male airbender lives and 2 are only were female lives
Nah
"Hey let's make an upside down temple?"
"Shouldn't we make our living space accessible for kids born with disabilities (non-benders)?"
"Heck dem kids"
"Where we're going you won't need any pants!"
Ahahahaha omg im dying
Earthbending probably has an interesting spiritual side; toph could project her earthbending sight through interconnected plant networks by her -old- ripened age; imagine the spiritual prodigy the next earth avatar might be. A spirit portal right next door, and theoretically a calm, patient demeanor, if you accept the theory that each avatar has traits that counteract the last one's regrets. Aang's regret of running away from his people translating to korra's headstrong refusal to back down. What is Korra's greatest regret? Letting the avatar cycle/ connection with the past end. It haunts her as she recovers from the metal poison. I think the next Avatar will be a seemingly paradoxically calm, and patient earthbender. Calmness seems unrepresentative of earthbenders, but remember; "Earthbending is about waiting, and listening" (Earth King Bumi)
If a relaxed, calm, patient earth avatar comes about, raised almost adjacent to a spirit portal, who knows what spiritual earthbending he/she/they might invent.
Oh, I really like that theory! Too bad it will probably never happen. However, couldn't you argue that Toph's apparent spiritual abilities are more due to the tree itself? Then again perhaps connecting to it is what counts?
WOW THATS AN AMAZING THEORY ❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Seems weird though that Roku's greatest regret is that he didn't off Sozin when he needed to since he was a friend, and yet the next avatar is a pacifist.
@@ividboy7616 Roku's greatest regret was not being wise enough to see what was happening.
Aang was intuitive from the beginning.
I love that idea
At the end of the day the answer is "bending is a soft magic system"
It was never intended to be quantified and defined in all aspects. It's a nebulous spiritual connection to the primordial aspects of the world.
I always saw it as genetics decides whether you CAN BEND or not, and spirituality/training decides whether you DO DEVELOP that inherent ability or not. That’s why the Avatar can inherently bend every element, but can’t do it until they consciously learn it.
*Likewise, genetic mutations, really far back recessive genes or environmental evolution may grant the exceptions
Like how people can be born with the ability to have diabetes(like me) but only certain food choices can activate it? That's actually a really good way of describing it. Good post OP
I remember when they had the acrobatic girl able to basically shut off bending by like blocking chi in certain points of the body what if genetics determined this in the body whether your chi was capable of flowing correctly or not? Like blood vessels. I could be just remembering this all wrongly however
@@BrullenLive I think she was literally blocking your nerves as well because people couldn’t move right after being chi blocked, and I think that applies to normal people as well, but if not, every bender who was chi blocked couldn’t move correctly or bend, so it could be that chi blocking is not just blocking your bending but nerves(different from permanently closing your chakras, which permanently blocks your bending, chi blocking is temporary)
@@youtubeisstupid1952 You are Diabender Harry
There’s a case to be made that Bolin’s ability to lavabend is due to being an earth bender with a mother from the fire nation.
What about cases for Sand benders? Were they a subgenre of Earthbenders alongside other element?
Any earthbender can bend sand, just as any waterbender can bend ice. It's just one of those things.
Yknow how water can freeze in water bending? I think it’s just the same thing as that but just melting ;/
Vision ? but toph wasn't able to see when in the desert so i doubt she could bend
I don't know if you remember the beach episode, but she made a replica of Ba Sing Se out of sand.
My favorite thing about having only one of the twins bend is that it could also mean that every being has a different spiritual component that's inherently unique even if everything humans can measure they are 99% identical
“Some people equate bad world building to not knowing everything” *flashback to Tim pointing out that guy on twitter who was really upset with the fact that we had no idea why the war in Howl’s Moving Castle was happening and thought that the movie was bad as a result
I mean if he doesn't like that part of the movie, he should just read the book, war is barely in the orginal book.
Pink Buninja Yup.
That's because the movie barely explained anything on what is going own. On one moment they said the Northen Witch has something agaisnt Howl but doesn't get anywhere, and that high witch of sorts seems to have some kind of deal with him but it wasn't explained either, even there is a part where she says that she created the war for teach Howl something...
Being barely based on the book didn't helped either.
@@nidohime6233 The movie didn't explain anything because it didn't matter. It didn't improve the story.
@@andrewp6738 Is not like I've asking to have the same story or the movie isn't enjoable to watch, but it was very confusing none the less.
I always lowkey assumed that, like the monks that the air nomads draw inspiration from, that the air nomads were more of a commune than a tribe - that air nomads would go out into the world and have children with people of other tribes (or potentially other air nomads) and any children able to bend would be brought back to and raised in the temple as an air nomad, while any non bender children erm. Wouldnt be. The gifted are chosen and taken off to be trained, non benders live a normal non bender life as earth or water or fire nation non benders, children of two air benders would maybe be brought up in some separate location but were not properly considered air nomads because air nomads have to be able to bend by definition. This means that air bender children might have been born to non bender parents, since air genes would still be out in the population after the purge, but I assume they were killed if discovered by the fire nation (on the off chance they were the avatar, who *was* still missing), and regardless wouldnt have had any teacher in the ways of the air bender until aang got unfrozen.
This also fits in with the whole thing that they never knew their parents.
there were women air nomads tho
@@xGrifo ..... yeah I know but what does that have to do with this?
@@emeralddarkness it doesn’t make sense for them to go out into the world to procreate when they could yk, do it themselves? air nomads are benders not purely bcs of genetics but bcs of how spiritual they are.
also, there’s a scene showing aang being born inside of an air temple, how would they have known to bring him back based on your theory?
"You don't get a choice in what's canon" - well, there's canon and there's "canon".
I still ban the cursed child from being canon and you can't stop me!
@@laartje24 Me too! I can write an essay about how people constantly overrating the importance of "the canon" and how we DO get a choice whether something is canon or not. Someday I will.
I'm NOT letting Korra/Cursed child/Star wars' sequels/every crappy sequel on Earth ruin my enjoyment of the original.
Captain Fiera still stuff is canon especially when you speak factuality it would be ignoring information
@@captainfiri7619 Well spoken. The story we interpret and enjoy is more important than what is technically cannon.
@@laartje24 Thanks❤
“You can’t say LoK isn’t cannon for you.”
*laughs in Harry Potter*
Are you talking about the Fantastic Beasts movies, the cursed child or Rowlings Twitter?
F_F_F_ All of it
@@f_f_f_8142 Rowling? who's that?
@@dragoncat3499 Movies are not cannon to the books basicaly by definition and so is twitter. As for The Cursed child, I don't know much about it (only that it exists), so I can't say.
Petr Ševčík I consider Harry Potter to have two canons. The first includes books 1-7, the other movies 1-8. The other works are where things get tricky. Fantastic Beasts is canon to the movies by virtue of being one, but it is based of the fact that Newt Scamander wrote the Fantastic Beasts book that is canon to the novels. Therefore, I would expect that Fantastic Beasts and its events are canon to both the books and the movies until otherwise indicated. As for the Cursed Child, it is neither a novel nor a movie, so again I would expect it to be canon to both until otherwise indicated.
Honestly Air benders coming from the harmonic convergence being descendant of airbender from before the genocide is entirely possible as Bumi, Aang's son was one person who got that power, and Avatar Kyoshi is the daughter of an airbender so it's possible others air nomads left the order too
So it's like mutation in X-men? When korra open the spirit world, it activated the gen of Air Bender?
Tim: "A WIZ--"
Me: *is already bobbing my head intensely*
"Tenzin inherited airbending." Understatement of the century. Tenzin was the most skilled badass in either show besides Aang or Toph. The guy nearly won a 4v1 against a semi psychic waterbender, a lavabender, a combustion bender and an airbending protege that combined his element into decades of martial training.
Oh yeah....that fight was pretty epic, I forgot!
No no no 4v1 was too much for him. But 3v1 he would've won.
Tyrrell yeah but he held them off for a long ass time
He would’ve won against Zaheer had he not gotten jumped.
He wasn't even close to winning, what are you talking about? The second that there was more than 1 red lotus member, he was DONE!
"Incredibly gifted benders like Azula, Iroh and Ozai"
*sad zuko noises*
He is the product of an affair
@@jackalzirson2631 no he's not. ursa literally says she was trying to get a reaction out of ozai
@@jackalzirson2631
At the end of the comic, ursa told zuko that whatever she wrote was a lie.
Toph is also a very spiritual earth bender by The Legend of Korra. She taps into the vines which represent the spiritual aspect of the earth.
She also learnt from the badger moles (I think they were called like that)
Ronny Jr nah I know, I referred to bending ways, so maybe learning from them could’ve done something like zuko with dragons,
"You cant just say Legend of Korra aint Canon; it is."
Nah, buddy, i think theres lots of Reasons to diffienciate
it so much that 'non-canoN' is worth arguing about.
I dont take it as Canon and i do have valid reasons for that.
Using a dog for likes?
That is sneaky.
And effective!
That dog is soooooooo cute.
It's the perfect trap! You see it from a mile away, but that only makes you run into it faster.
What happened to Mishka?
@@WanderingWriter she died a number of months ago
I would like add that "hereditary" can also include things like environmental, economic, spiritual, and personality traits too. It could be that the reason bending is passed down through the generations is that you tend to pick up things from your parents, maybe you grew up with cats, you had a parent who smoked, or baked a lot. We pick up these things from our parents. But this isn't the only way to do things, as people are (such as toph) picked up earth bending from nature, and it also makes means that the Kora version isn't entirely incompatible with TLA's more than natural version.
The dragon turtle initially granted the basics of bending through manipulating a person's spiritual energies, but post dragon turtles people had to learn the craft from observing creatures that had these natural abilities. Bending is a spiritual practice, a martial art, and a personal affinity for an element, so all the dragon turtles or harmonic convergence did was amp up those other parts so people could do it more intuitively.
That last quote was just. Perfect. I miss wonder in our media and art. I miss it in our lives. It's such a beautiful thing.
This is from like 19 seconds ago wahhhh?
@@rat-wc7wj she / he has early access
23 hours = 28 mins
...not as beautiful as the snow.
I wonder why you feel this way?
Now we need to breed lions with turtles so we can gain the ability to bend
i'm down for that, i'm studyingt o be a genetic engineer so catch me 5 years down the line with a lion turtle and the abilities of an avatar.
@@coagulatedsalts4711 it needs a brain larger than an entire elephant, at maturity. Large as an underground cavern, larger than a house. Perhaps you should take a side of neuroscience as well.
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 lion turtles are low key gods
@@YOSSARIAN313 yep.
And make it godzilla sized.
"you can't just say legend of Korra isn't Canon"
Watch me
i just like to pretend after aang, there is another avatar who doesnt break the cycle and tried to repopulate the air nomads without the universe simply giving it to random people
Well you said it but it still happened and the show was created by the creators who make the lore of the series..
@@avish878 I choose to ignore that which is inconvenient to my happiness. Namaste 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@avish878 one of the creators, not both.
@@CreeperOnYourHouse with the approval of the other creators