Talk:Amon/@comment-4963341-20120406202514

One of the things I find really interesting is that Amon is essentially a villain that is in fact the most difficult for someone like Korra to face. Lets face it, even from the first two episodes, its clear that Korra has all the subtlety and tact of a bulldozer, and that is pretty much how she tries to approach issues; head on and just steamroll over it or through it. Her airbending training demonstrates this perfectly, and multiple times characters have mentioned how Korra is very physically focused, and even her interest in pro-bending is focus on the physical.

Amon, unfortunately, is not a villain who can, or indeed SHOULD, be taken down with physical force. If Korra, as she is, takes on Amon and defeats him, even brings down the equalist movement in RC, all she'll have done is fan the flames of revolution by making him a martyr for his cause. The scene in episode 1 is an excellent example of this, where the man on the soapbox making speaches about the equalist movement knew exactly what to do to turn public opinion against her by goading her into admiting that she would love to knock him off his platform with waterbending. She took the bait hook line and sinker, at which point he then turned to the audience and said "See, see?! This is exactly why benders are terrible!"

I can see Amon doing this on a much larger scale, which may in fact be one of the things leading to Korra's breakdown that we see in some of the trailers. Not only does Amon scare her personally, but she can't even strike out at him the way she normally would, which is pretty much how she solves most of her problems, but if she did that, she would make Amon right.

This will be a great way to showcase Korra's spiritual growth, which is probably the focus of season 1, as she will be required to end Amon's revolution not with physical force, but through something less violent and physical. She will need to expose him and the equalist movement for what it is before she can even THINK of just taking them down with brute force.

Or, maybe I'm overthinking this, and we'll just have a big awesome battle between Amon and Korra, and Korra will just bend him upside down and inside out. Who knows.