Talk:Amon/@comment-69.105.108.43-20120610024019/@comment-5183006-20120610061705

I have to agree with Woogleworld, everything said seemed to be very conceivable. I don't believe Amon was going to keep the benders indefinitely, only until he had made his statement or found the time to release them. However, I don't think it had anything to do with revealing information of the Equalists whereabouts as the victims are usually unconscious when they are moved to different locations, therefore they would have no idea where the 'hide-out' was actually located.

Also, I don't really think Amon is evil; I think he's relatively young and confused, but in some twisted way he thinks he can find justice for his parents' deaths in the removal of all benders' abilities. Look at it this way, provided everything Amon has said publically is true, he could be just a few years older than Korra, possibly in his twenties. The way I see it, the firebender who killed his parents and scarred his face is the same bender who killed Asami's mother and Mako and Bolin's parents. This would roughly have happened around the same time, and Amon would have had to have been a young boy, though probably older than Mako and Bolin.

Also, aside from the officers, he hadn't taken the bending from anyone who wasn't abusing it; i.e. the Triple Threats, cheating Wolfbats, and Tarlokk. I think, too, that he was going to free Korra as opposed to harming her/removing her bending when she was trapped in the cabin, which would have been impossible without knocking her out given their previous encounters. If he wanted to take Korra's bending, he's been given several occasions where he could have easily done so.