Talk:Amon/@comment-5007565-20120501161431/@comment-5069635-20120501180618

@ 3rd Anon Jet died by earthbending. It would be little to no effort to animate them as deadly, without introducing gore into it.

Besides, being burned alive is less horrifying than drowning or being crushed? I don't think so. (M. Night's end for Zhao was perfectly bloodless- but imo none the less bloodcurdling- and that was a kid's movie.) Bloodbending is not required to show that waterbenders can be antagonistic. Tarrlok is an example of that.

And as for the issue with Mako's parents, in which no scene is required, he could simply say that earthbenders or waterbending killed his parents. Simple. If flashbacks were needed for character development later on, there could simply be cutaways, as they would do for any type of implied violence.

This is not what's keeping them from making firebenders "bad guys." In fact, I bet they had Amon play to this stereotype intentionally, because firebenders probably have a bad rap among the populace. It's just like some people argue that blacks are naturally more violent. Amon is playing off that fear, (and collective memory of the war).