Talk:Earthbending/@comment-4562082-20120520133314/@comment-98.88.138.88-20120521205347

Actually, wood has a material in abundance that has been shown to be very bendable: carbon. Haru and his father bent coal in their episode, and coal is just gigantic lumps of carbon (and hydrogen, but that's not important [at least I don't THINK it is... could be wrong though]).

If it can be done with dead plants in the form of coal, why not with living ones? Why stop there? It seems to me that earthbending can probably emulate bloodbending if they bend the carbon in a person's body.