Talk:Firebending/@comment-76.24.189.176-20111228112940

I think fire has 4-5 potential things that have been minimally explored. The first is a way to bend fire during an eclipse. They say firebenders get their power from the sun, but I've read sources (don't know how accurate) that say they get it from the earth's core (to a lesser degree) as well. I think it'd be interesting if a firebender could learn how to use their own body heat/ the power of the earth's core to at least do some firebending during an eclipse. The second cool thing is lightning/electricity. Since we do create a minimal electric current naturally within the body, I think that lightning may have more to offer then the slow method of creating a lightning strike and it's redirection counterpart, particularly for a firebender who decides to specialize in the lightning side of it. The third thing is raw heat (without fire) and I think it has more uses then is known. The fourth thing is lava, but it is unknown if only an avatar can do it as it might require multiple bending. The last thing and my personal favorite is a poison firebender. It's not as silly as it may sound. People get smoke poisoning, and maybe someone could harness the poisonous gases fire can give off. Avatar Roku was seen bending poisonous gas when fighting the volcano in the flashback, but it might also be part air as well (we don't know). At the very least, they could harness the power of smoke for smokescreens or to make breathing difficult in tight spaces. Why not some type of poisonous gas, too? Not every firebender could do it, but maybe a specialist in the area could. And they could take it further and their firebending would create poisonous flames as well. It's not that much of a stretch from smoke to poison gas, and then from poison gas to poison flame. The poison flames would probably be green because there are poisonous green flames in real life. Seriously though, they already have other types of fire like hotter blue flames, so why not green poison flames? I think that be sweet.