All posts by Onomatopoeia

<p>Self-righteous hypocrite, yes. Socio/Psychopath, no. </p>

Are there any other intelligent races of note in the Avatar world? :hmm

This Ms World contest is rigged. Only humans are allowed to enter. Not very inclusive.

<p>As much as I would like to think that Katara would teach someone bloodbending, on account of she was a brazen hypocrite before Legend of Korra's time, I really doubt it. </p><p>Hama figuring it out on her own, There's no reason to believe that Hama is somehow unique when it's more probable that it's just a matter of power and willingness to use it. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>AvatarAero wrote: <p>"No inherent benefit"? Basically, the fact that Aang chose to stick to his beliefs, "reshape his destiny" and defeat one of the most dangerous villains the series ever threw at him without killing him had no benefit? Not only is Ozai rotting in prison, but he has no bending to escape with. He's basically a broken man, shattered by the betrayel of his nephew and brother, and crushed over his loss in the war. Doing that is what makes Aang a bad Avatar? By believing in himself, and at the last moment, forging his own path into the undiscovered legends of energybending?  </p><p>Unnecessary fight recap </p><p>And this is the child that you think was the worst Avatar ever. Because "he valued his own beliefs over the threat that Ozai represented, and instead chose to gamble everything on energybending, which he had learned about like 5 minutes previously and which very nearly killed him". It might have been 20 minutes of onscreen time, buddy, but I guarantee you, it had been at least 10 hours from the time that the Lion Turtle taught him how to energybend, and when he actually used it. The largest gamble was whether his spirit and character was strong enough to overpower Ozai's, and in the end, it was. Not really a gamble, since he knew how to perform it, thanks to the Lion Turtle. And a whole shitload of benefit to outweigh it. </p> </i></div>
<p>To clarify, it had no inherent benefit to anyone other than Aang. </p><p>Fact of the matter is, Aang put his own beliefs above the safety of the entire world. </p><p>10 hours or 20 minutes doesn't matter. Using a technique he learned a day ago, and which he had never used or tested before, he gambled the world on his own ideals, and it came very close to failing. What would have happened if he had failed? Do you imagine Ozai would have just taken the loss lying down? </p><p>It all worked out in the end, but it was unnecessary and selfish thing to do at that time. So yeah, bad avatar. Badvatar. </p>

<p>Guns have been invented, alongside giant ass robots, re: Kuvira. </p>

<p>My assessment of young Katara is not based on her martial abilities. </p><p>Qualifying young Katara as specifically the Katara from Avatar The Last Airbender, one could argue that she didn't get bloodbending illegal and that that could be attributed to old Katara. </p>

<p>Officially all the elements are balanced. </p><p>In practice, waterbending is easily the best in terms of actual displayed scale and power short of firebending, which needs Sozin's Comet to even be in the same league. And that's not even getting into bloodbending. </p>

<p>Characters that surprised me: Katara. I LOATHE young Katara. Old lady Katara is cool though. </p><p>Characters that let me down: Zhu Li for not being a total badass that can solo the Red Lotus with nothing but her two fists the moment Varrick says "Zhu Li, do the thing." ;P </p><p>Actually Suyin for literally all of season 4. </p>

<p>I was actually talking about his refusal to kill Ozai against the advice of several of his past selves, including another airbender, whom he deliberately sought out for their advice, because he valued his own beliefs over the threat that Ozai represented, and instead chose to gamble everything on energybending, which he had learned about like 5 minutes previously and which very nearly killed him. </p><p>It was an unacceptable risk with no inherent benefit, leastwise not that comes immediately to mind. </p>

<p>They ceased to be relevant to the plot so they faded into the background, never to trouble our heroes again. </p>

Waterbenders have a higher occurence of being jerks than Metalbenders do. If they're not ostracized for the actions of Unalaq or Amon then I don't know why Metalbenders would be for Kuvira.

<p>Jinora is an atrociously superfluous character whose entire contribution to the series consists of two actions, one of which came entirely out of left field and one of which was sketchy: her contribution to Vaatu's defeat and her mysterious knowledge that the Red Lotus was using mercury to poison Korra respectively. </p><p>Also, she has poor taste in men. </p><p>However, I wouldn't go so far as to say she sucks. Even a superfluous character can be charming at times. </p>

<p>We know the identities of 7 Avatars. Of those seven Avatars, only one has actively endangered the world for explicitly selfish reasons: Aang. </p>

<p>Toph has a statue because she was the chief of police. Zuko has a statue because he's a city founder. What did Katara ever do in terms of  the city's history? </p>

<p>The first one, though the blog is mine. I thought that was apparent. </p><p>As to the wiki's fact sourcing, Deist Zealot commented on the supposed lack of plausibility and corroboration of the post. I responded by pointing out a similar case in which relevant claims were taken at face value. I don't think that's so random. </p>

<p>Guru Pathik may be an expert on the Avatar State, but he's not the Avatar and isn't all knowing. What he knows may not be all there is to know, but it's more than anyone else in the world knows. At least until Raava. He gave Aang a method to achieve enlightenment that he was aware of. </p><p>Aang finding a different way doesn't make Pathik wrong. </p><p>Not sure how you can blame Pathik for Aang being zapped by Azula... </p><p>As to people you love being more important than cosmic energy, the energy was just a means to an end, that end being the safety of the entire world. </p><p>So are your loved ones more important than the rest of the world to you? Are Aang's loved ones more important than the rest of the world to Aang? </p>

<p>She was being unfair when she expected Bolin to quit working for Kuvira, to quit a paying job where he gets to help people and reunite a fractured kingdom...because her mother told her that that Kuvira was like totes evil and stuff, even though at the time Suyin and even less so Opal had no evidence to support this belief. And when Bolin refused to do what she wanted </p><p>That Suyin's claims were later proven true is irrelevant because at the time she was tilting at windmills because she was butthurt that Kuvira wouldn't kowtow to her demands and that Baatar Jr agreed with Kuvira, the woman that he loved, over her. </p><p>Though I don't actually remember 100% of the season, and looking at the other comments, this might've happened after Kuvira turned out to be evil...I'd have to rewatch the season to be sure. Was this before or after Suyin took the twins to try and assassinate Kuvira after Korra wanted to use diplomacy and refused Suyin's demand that she go all person of mass destruction on Kuvira's army. </p>

<p><i>In this thread: such concepts as "corroboration" and "plausibility" and "repeated, virulent character hate" (seriously: I don't even rag on Zaheer like that) apparently don't count.</i> </p><p>I can name at least two other times on this very wiki where claims are taken as fact despite lacking any evidence or corroboration whatsoever. </p><p>And repeated virulent character hate? What character is being repeatedly and virulently hated on in this thread? Other than my own character, I mean. </p>

<p><i>I really don't want to look at that skull-hurtingly asinine blog again...but I could have sworn they claimed that </i>The Legend of Korra<i> (if not the entire franchise) was "just bad" or something (with no explanation of </i>what<i> they didn't like about it, no less) several times over.  Hence, "antifan."</i> </p><p>It's easy to criticize when you self admittedly have no idea what you're criticizing. No need to worry about such pesky things as honesty or perspective. </p><p>Antifan: Noun: A person who doesn't agree with you. ;p </p><p><i>That Tumblr post </i>wasn't<i> canon</i> </p><p>I can point out at least one other case where an unsourced and unverified tumblr post is treated as canon on this very wiki. It's totally canon. ;) And if it's not I invite you to present a source refuting the claim that Bryan and Mike didn't offically confirm its canonicity. </p><p>P.S. I'm going to give kudos to my own post, for I find it's quite a good one. </p>