Talk:Amon/@comment-1533301-20120310014807/@comment-3338975-20120310020833

Somewhat like Hitler's own backstory, then. Possible. . . but then again Equalists could also have started up as a far left-wing group (like the Bolesheviks), and Amon could have had a background that made him very open to their propaganda, and a tough childhood which saw him regard the struggle as even more bitter than they initially saw it, and took over as the "strong man" who would be able to bind them and the oppressed people together despite what he saw as their   weaknesses - like Stalin's backstory. The Equalists could really be seeking either binding the "normal" non-bending majority  of Republic City together as a nation against the "outsider" benders (as the Nazis did with the German nation against those they deemed alien to the nation) and in that way make everyone "equal" in a limited sense (similar to how the Nazi's socialism was limited to keeping capital & power in the hands of Germans), or to overturn the entire system on which Republic City ran in order to set up a utopia in which all would hold property & power equally, to which benders were simply seen as the most likely opposers due to their necessary, conserative-like connection with ancient tradition.