Talk:Amon/@comment-4521003-20120216231217/@comment-4521003-20120217040922

The last comment was just a possible reaction. People talk, because it is something natural to do as a form of communication. Someone who has enough self-discipline to never speak could be quite creepy, and if done right a silent villain has the potential to be very chill-inducing. Talkative villains are scary in a different way. They're normal. If you think about Azula and Ozai, they weren't really scary once the heros became familiar with them. The threats didn't make Azula and Ozai any scarier, especially when they didn't succeed. The threats made us hate the two, but they weren't scary per say. Whereas a silent villain would reach both the heros and the audience on a deeper psychological level. I think the point in the series when Azula was truly scary was shen she was a mystery, chasing Team Avatar across the countryside. The rest of the time she's just plain evil. Same thing with Ozai: he was scarier when he was a figure with his face shadowed by flames than he was proclaiming his quest to conquer the world. He was still evil, just not as scary. (Yes, Aang was afraid of fighting Ozai, but he was more afraid of failing the world than of Ozai himself.)