Talk:Amon/@comment-24.22.146.42-20120725015745/@comment-198.166.28.103-20120725055208

It's true, the show doesn't explain very much about Amon's transformation from Noatak to Equalist leader, but some of your other points are just silly:

- According to Amon, after he captured Republic City, he was going to 'Equalize the rest of the world', which gives you a clue as to his long-term goals.

- I think the show assumes he doesn't need to outline why all benders are bad, because it's implied that most of the Equalist supporters already know exactly why, and have experience oppression is their lives. He does say 'the bending elite', and he makes a good point that the police force (metal benders), the council (benders from their respective nations), the entertainers (all pro-benders must be benders), and nearly every powerful person in Republic City, except for the big business magnates, are benders.

- Avatar Aang didn't restore Korra's bending to reward her, he restored it because she was finally able to make the connection to the spirit world, and he was now able to restore her bending where he couldn't before.

- If Amon takes the Avatar's bending, imagine how demoralizing that will be to benders across the world. If Amon beats Korra (supposedly the strongest of benders) then he will make himself out to be nearly invincible.

- While it's true that Amon will lose his trade routes, no other nation has the technology of the United Republic. How could any military really beat bi-planes? Maybe the Fire Nation (and perhaps the Earth Kingdom), but unless the water tribes have suddenly found iron in the midde of the North and South poles, I don't see them as any real threat. Also, I think that the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation have an agreement not to interfere in the affairs of the United Republic, so it'd be politically difficult for them to go to war without Amon attacking first.