Talk:Airbending/@comment-74.197.149.122-20120624134222/@comment-5160958-20120624175223

this idea that people should be able to control the human body like bloodbending since the body has oxygen, iron, heat, etc has got to stop making rounds...pure metal has been shown to be unbendable, firebending seems to focus more on heat generation than manipulation, and oxygen in blood isnt air since it has been dissolved or otherwise molecularly incorporated for transport...perhaps the air that is in the lungs at the time could be bent, but there wouldnt rly be a point for that other than possibly torture (which simply isnt for a kid's show). the reason why i think bloodbending works is because first, there is unmodified liquid water in the body (focusing on blood here) and blood runs through a network of veins and arteries that run the length of your body like elaborate puppet strings, which can be directly manipulated to move muscles...neither fire, air, nor earth can claim such a physical connection to every muscle in the body. maybe you could brutally kill people (or more likely mildly discomfort them) by manipulating air in the lungs, or heat in the body, or minerals in the body, but you can't control their every action like a puppet.