Talk:Amon/@comment-199.197.120.45-20120510164718/@comment-4888161-20120510195536

But they couldn't take bending away permanently without also taking their life permanently. While he may be charismatic, a good strategist, and a good leader, Amon is in the position he is in mostly because he is the only one alive (known) with that ability. That is what scares people the most, and also a vital part to the "revolution." Without that, it either dies down or it gets bloody. Really bloody. And the Equalists probably can't win a straight out war against the government without Amon. The Lieutenant is strong, but he is no where near the threat of Amon. Whether killing will be part of Amon's plan in the future or not, many people in the Equalist following are likely against bloodshed. These people don't want to hurt benders, just take their bending away without harming them. While it is likely that there are also more radical people in the movement, most of the following is probably made of more peaceful people who don't do most of the dirty work.

Without Amon's ability, the only way to permanently take a person's bending away is to kill them. Then the people in the movement would have to choose whether or not they'd be willing to deal with the genocide or not. While they would be upset by Amon's death, many people would in the movement would probably not be for that. You would have those who were more radical and would go for it, as well as those who were pushed over the edge by Amon's death when they might normally not go that far. '''But the end game after Amon's death: A large part of the following abandons the movement, and the rest turns into a real revolution (one with lots of violence and killing). Then it's them against the government, and they no longer have Amon so it's unlikely that they could win.'''

At that point, the government can hunt them down like dogs and have it be justified because they are terrorist who are murdering other citizens. Now obviously you wouldn't want it to get to that point because a lot of not needed deaths would happen. The key is to play Amon up as a terrorist and have his death be when he was going after someone to at least make it appear like he was attacking a victim and failure resulted in him being caught and killed in the act.

Do I think it will play out like this in LOK? Absolutely not. But as I said before, taking out Amon wouldn't be a bad way to severely weaken the Equalist movement. Of course it wouldn't be that easy, and you'd have to go about it in a way that painted him as the bad guy and not the victim. But it's a pretty effective measure if you could actually pull it off.