Talk:Amon/@comment-5037090-20120420185035/@comment-4888161-20120421043158

I think Amon is a non-bender. But to be fair, there is certainly the possibility that other currently unknown airbenders exist in this fiction (oxymoronic phrase) of LOK. Now we should generally assume what the creators tell us is true. It usually is. But to be fair, there were times where they clearly said things to mislead us so they could keep/create surprises for us. So there is the possibility that they could do that with airbenders. Whether or not it actually happens is a different story, but it is possible.

Now Amon is a different story. He is confirmed a non-bender, so he can't be an airbender. Even if the creators were simply trying to mislead us, it would ruin the point of having a non-bending Avatar in the first place. We now have a main villain who doesn't just rip his shirt off, flex his muscles, and go "Roar! I'm, the Firelord!" (metaphorically speaking) and overpower everything with firebending to get his way. LOK is not a clone if ATLA, so to change it up we got a villain who uses actually his head instead of trying to overpower everything with bending. So it wouldn't make sense for the creators to be misleading on this one. Amon may or may not have some lineage from airbenders, but he would still be a non-bender regardless.