Talk:Amon/@comment-201.27.136.179-20120419230356/@comment-71.163.176.179-20120419235409

Amon is a revolutionary fighting against people in higher positions of power. In this case, it's the bending elite and the policital body of Republic city (run by benders, remember?)

Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Guevara, and Zedong were revolutionaries fighting against people in higher positions of power. In this case, it was rich businessmen, entrepeneurs, clergy, and any politician who wasn't on their side.

Amon's organization, the "Equalists", are fighting on behalf of the lower class and want to bring "equality" by forcefully ridding the world of bending. Notice how the Equalists are willing to use force and terror, similar to how communist revolutionaries used force and terror to coax people to join their cause.

One of the pillars of communism is "equality". Communists fought against people whom they perceived as being better off and more wealthy than others. They also went after people who were gifted or skilled in some way, forcing them to join their cause or be painted as an enemy. Notice how benders are the "gifted" people of the Avatar universe. This makes them natural enemies of the Equalists.

Many communist revolutionaries were painted as criminals or anarchists, so they were forced to go underground and hide their identities. Notice how the Equalists are all masked and operate secretly. We don't even know what Amon's face looks like, and we don't even know what the Lieutenant's real name is. The secrecy is there for a reason. If the Equalists want to succeed, they need to keep their enemies ignorant of their nature and motives.

You noticed how the Equalists fight? They basically fight like ninjas, using stealth, ambush, and guerrilla tactics. This is very similar to the way communist revolutionaries fought. Because communist revolutionaries were usually not as well equipped as their enemies, they had to use guerrilla warfare and took advantage of the element of surprise.

If anything, the Equalists are more like communists. The only Nazi-ish characteristic I noticed from them is their strong hatred towards benders. This is an example of prejudice, something that Nazis were notorious for. Even then, it's not like communists weren't prejudiced or discriminatory in themselves.

Anyways, I applaud Bryke for making the equalists a non-cliche allegorical Nazi villain. We need to see more communist/socialist/egalitarian/collectivist baddies.