Talk:Energybending/@comment-75.109.226.112-20120421180117/@comment-76.232.195.8-20120421211145

The Lion Turtle said your spirit had to be unbendable, 'unbendable' is not synonymous with 'pure', whether we talking about pure good or pure evil. The way I see it, unbendable means you have to have a strong, unwavering spirit, which I can guess Amon has. I doubt the creators are basing it off a law of martial arts, there were plenty of times when Azula kicked Aang's ass. The martial arts aspect is placed in the styles of bending, not necesarily story techniques.

Think about the era before the Avatar, when people energy bended, do you think giant rays of light shot from their eyes and mouth and the reality around them distorted to an assult of different colors? Did that happen every single time someone energy bended? If it did, energy bending would be very tedious. We do not know Amon's age. He could have learned energy bending and refined it to be simple and easy to use over a period of time, hence why there wasn't a barage of light when he took away that Triple Threat Triad gangster's bending.

From what we know, only Aang and the Lion Turtle knew energy bending, but there were other beings before the era of the Avatar. Remember when Zuko lost his drive to firebend. They went searching for the Sun Warriors as it was a common belief that all the dragons were exinct. Turns out, they find dragons! Amon could have found a being that taught him energy bending other than the Lion Turtle.

Lastly, the Lion Turtle said before the era of the Avatar, people bent the energy within themselves. People. I think Tenzin was wrong to say energy bending was only a gift to the Avatar, since it was established that people used it before the Avatar ever even came into existence.

Amon could be energy bending or he could just be super chi blocking. I just think there is plenty of enough room in the contuity of the story for him to actually be an energy bender. It would be terrifying for Korra to have to face him and it would be a great plot technique. Just keep an open mind. One thing we can all agree on was that episode was amazing!