Bolin's rank in Kuvira's Army

AvatarAang7·10/4/2014 in Netflix series

I've been looking at Bolin's position in the infobox, and it says officer. This seems a little stiff to me. Let's face it: He's only twenty, uneducated, and while a talented earthbender, he's no sophiticated metalbender, but can uses the brute force of lavabending.

The insignia on his arm doesn't translate directly into a rank of the US military, but it is very close to the insignia of corporal. This is the symbol used by, among others, the UK and Dutch military. (And in neither corporal is considered an officer.)

What do you think? Should tis be changed?

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Bolinistheman·10/4/2014

Regal lionturtle wrote:
Other things to consider: on the one hand, Bolin's uniform doesn't have the same silver trim as Kuvira, Baatar, or even their guards. On the other, he is part of Kuvira's council. It could be that he doesn't have a very high rank in the Metal Clan army (as a metalbender, this should be no surprise), but is of greater value as a non-military advisor, like Varrick appears to be.

This may not be the case, we have not gotten our answer in whether he achieved metalbending in the 3 years so we can not really know yet. But to even be a part of her army or the metal clan, I would think you HAD to know metalbending as an earthbender.

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0zai·10/4/2014

We saw the basic members of the army in the trailer and they dont look like Bolin. He looks like an officer. I mean he is on her council

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0zai·10/4/2014

1:47 in the trailer, we see the regular members armor

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Warmachine375·10/4/2014

In the trailer, I noticed groups of mecha tanks struggling to move forward due to massive barrage of wind. Was it the airbenders opposing them?

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Bolinistheman·10/4/2014

0zai wrote:
We saw the basic members of the army in the trailer and they dont look like Bolin. He looks like an officer. I mean he is on her council

But do you think it has anything to do with his possible lack of metalbending?

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Warmachine375·10/4/2014

Bolinistheman wrote:

0zai wrote:
We saw the basic members of the army in the trailer and they dont look like Bolin. He looks like an officer. I mean he is on her council

But do you think it has anything to do with his possible lack of metalbending?

At least he compensated with lavabending. unless Bolin managed to teach soldiers in Kuvira's army lavabending it's be awesome!

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Bolinistheman·10/4/2014

Well of course... his lavabending will definitely be useful.... but I guess I have a personal hope he learned metalbending as well. He would be the first metalbending lavabender.

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Azeula·7/12/2018

Yall Hows life

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Neo Bahamut·7/12/2018

Well, since you necroposted this thread for some reason, I decided to look into this, & apparently the page has since had the "officer" declaration removed, with confirmation added that Bolin was a corporal.

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Genso~No·7/12/2018

Neo Bahamut wrote:
Well, since you necroposted this thread for some reason, I decided to look into this, & apparently the page has since had the "officer" declaration removed, with confirmation added that Bolin was a corporal.

Is "necroposting" reviving a thread that's already been "dead."? That's what I assumed

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What do you think?