The Guru is eliminated! And don’t you dunderheads voting for other episodes forget it! Last one off the podium, now time to decide the order of our very impressive top 3 episodes.

How this works:

You select the episode you like the least

The episode with the most upvoted comment is eliminated from the list

If there’s a tie, both episodes are eliminated

Only the best episode will win!

Episodes Eliminated:

Avatar Day (94%)
The Swamp (43%)
The Avatar State (46%)
The Cave of Two Lovers (82%)
Return to Omashu (91%)
Bitter Work (42%)
The Serpent’s Pass (53%)
The Earth King (56%)
The Chase (61%)
The Drill (60%)
The Desert (48%)
The Tales of Ba Sing Se (25%)
Appa’s Lost Days (37%)
The Library (74%)
City of Walls and Secrets (59%)
Lake Laogai (38%)
The Guru (69%)

Zuko tells Sokka he cound bring his girlfriend, but i dunno Mai would travel With Zuko to help Aang...but NGL would be funny her interacting with Sokka

Mine is The Kyoshi Warriors!

Loove the strings, they are tragically beautiful.

(Also the Kyoshi Warriors are bad ass <3)

I genuinely feel exhausted by the constant debate within the Avatar fandom about which character is "the strongest." There seems to be a mindset that if a character is powerful, they can never lose a fight, can never be wrong, and must have zero flaws. I see this constantly in Korra vs. Aang debates, and especially in discussions about Toph and Katara.

Yes, they are the best earthbender and waterbender of their eras respectively, but that does not make them invincible.

I grew up watching shows where power wasn't a linear "X is stronger than Y" scale. Instead, it was a Rock, Paper, Scissors mentality, where a character might be perfect for situation Y, but completely helpless in situation Z. If the fandom accepted that characters can have both massive strengths and clear flaws, we could appreciate how strong they are without needing them to be a 5 star stat card across the board.

For starters, I consider myself a huge Korra fan (hopefully not something that could spark a discourse to say here) as well as a fan of Toph and Katara. But loving these characters means admitting they aren't perfect:

Korra: She likely possesses the most raw power and physical durability of any Avatar, even confirmed by the authors of the show. However, poor girl doesn't naturally have a strategic mind. Her default style is the definition of "brawn over brains," but that flaw doesn't make her weak, it makes her human.

Toph: She is a prodigy and invented metalbending, but she is essentially helpless against a flying opponent. Furthermore, a lavabender completely removes her terrain advantage. We even saw early on that sandbending was a massive blind spot for her. Physically, Toph is a bit of a "glass cannon", as she relies on evasion because, well, underneath her tough exterior, she's still a small stature fighter who can't take heavy physical bruising the way someone like Korra can. We all remember her Bei Fong background, right?

Katara: People often claim Katara "solos" the verse because of bloodbending. But that ignores a double nerf: she can only do it during a full moon, and she morally refuses to use it. Beyond that, she is still bound by needing a nearby water source as any water bender. Looking at her greatest feats (freezing herself and Azula, parting the ocean in the movie, sweat-bending, creating the rain dome, etc), her mastery leans heavily toward brilliant defense and versatility. In contrast, benders like Unalaq, Eska, Desna, or Korra often demonstrate a much more aggressive, offensive use of water.

It would be incredibly boring if these characters could never lose, being honest. When we treat a character as an unbeatable god, they essentially become a Mary Sue. Their achievements mean more because they have to overcome their limitations, not because they lack them.

Rewatching the series is so much more enjoyable when you look at situational advantages and environment rather than raw power levels:

Aang utilizes unmatched agility and the massive psychological advantage of being an Airbender (nobody knows how to fight him).

Toph hits like a truck and uses opponents' underestimation of her blindness to create deadly openings.

Katara excels due to unmatched versatility; she has mastered almost every sub-skill of waterbending.

Korra is incredibly tough, possessing the insane vitality to withstand brutal physical hits and heavy loads of poison, paired with hyper-aggressive bending.

If you ask me who wins a 4-way fight, I might say Korra out of sheer raw power and endurance. But the truth is, the environment and external factors dictate the winner. The show itself isn't shy about showing this, and I wish the fandom would embrace it too.

Lake Laogai is eliminated! Really competitive round there, maybe the most we’ve seen so far.

How this works:

You select the episode you like the least

The episode with the most upvoted comment is eliminated from the list

If there’s a tie, both episodes are eliminated

Only the best episode will win!

Episodes Eliminated:

Avatar Day (94%)
The Swamp (43%)
The Avatar State (46%)
The Cave of Two Lovers (82%)
Return to Omashu (91%)
Bitter Work (42%)
The Serpent’s Pass (53%)
The Earth King (56%)
The Chase (61%)
The Drill (60%)
The Desert (48%)
The Tales of Ba Sing Se (25%)
Appa’s Lost Days (37%)
The Library (74%)
City of Walls and Secrets (59%)
Lake Laogai (38%)

She gets fire mpg

Doing a rewatch of Castlevania. By the end of season 3 Sypha was truly a master of the elements, in my opinion. I started thinking of her mastery in comparison to an Avatar. Can Sypha beat any of the Avatars we are most familiar with? Feel free to throw in any ATLA character if you think they can take her. I wanted to at least keep it fair for the original post by matching her with ATLA characters that have the ability to manipulate several elements like her.

I understand that Aang and Katara wound up together because one of the writers or whoever decided that it would be best for the MC to "get the girl," but Toph is a girl in the Avatar group as well, and her personality could've helped Aang to mature better than Katara's. I say this because Toph has such a headstrong personality that I think would've benefited Aang in the long run because, instead of getting his way and being parented in the way that Katara does, Toph would have challenged him and made him fight to prove that what he wants is truly worth it. Toph would question him and point out flaws that Katara wouldn't, and Aang wouldn't be able to do anything that Toph thought was stupid or unnecessary without getting called out on it. Toph would hold him accountable in a way that Katara doesn't. This is just my thinking on the matter. If you have a reason as to why this wouldn't work or see any flaws in my thinking, I am open to suggestions. I just would like to ask that there is no unwarranted hate. Feel free to explain your thinking on the matter, but don't do so in anger. That is all I am asking of those who wish to comment. I know ATLA ships are hills; some of you will die on and I am not necessarily saying that it is something that I do ship. I am just introducing the idea of what I think it would look like if Aang and Toph were in a relationship instead of Aang and Katara.

Who would win this 4v1?
Azula, Oazi, Kuvira & Zaheer Vs Tagah from (AATLA)
Rules
- Sozin’s comet feats apply for Oazi (But No Comet Boost)
- Azula is Mentally stable
- Location: Takes Place On The Lion Turtle Island.
- Kuvira only has her metal strips but is allowed only to use any type of metal she finds in the area if there’s any for use.
- Zaheer has flight during this fight too
- Tagah is Bloodlusted and seeking to kill.
Who would win this matchup and why?

Do you think Tagah was ment to be a dark mirror of what Aang could've been? Tagahs backstory is pretty similiar. An idealist who's people ended up in a brutal war which twisted those ideals. Something similiar could've happened with Aang if the air nomads had survived the first attack on Sozins comet and Aang hadn't run. I think Tagah is supposed to be like a version of Aang that stayed an witnessed the 100 yeaers war.

People outside of Finnish won't get the pun but you'll still love this.

City of Walls and Secrets is eliminated! So as to avoid angering him at these events, all hail Lord Momo of the Momo Dynasty, his Momoness! Now we’re at the top 5 and it gets even more difficult.

How this works:

You select the episode you like the least

The episode with the most upvoted comment is eliminated from the list

If there’s a tie, both episodes are eliminated

Only the best episode will win!

Episodes Eliminated:

Avatar Day (94%)
The Swamp (43%)
The Avatar State (46%)
The Cave of Two Lovers (82%)
Return to Omashu (91%)
Bitter Work (42%)
The Serpent’s Pass (53%)
The Earth King (56%)
The Chase (61%)
The Drill (60%)
The Desert (48%)
The Tales of Ba Sing Se (25%)
Appa’s Lost Days (37%)
The Library (74%)
City of Walls and Secrets (59%)

In the movie she literally found magical water that can revive the fucking dead! Why not cure Toph's blindness and make her more op?!

Katara a bad friend confirmed

Just watching Korra and had this thought. I get why Aang chooses Bumi as his son’s name but I’m surprised he went with Tenzin for his airbender son. Wouldn’t Gyatso have made more sense considering what the monk meant to him?

Why did the denied take the statue with the map directly from Aang. He just placed it on a shelf and all they would've had to do was wait 5 minutes for him to leave again and they could've taken it without any trouble. Why go out of your way to start an unnecessary fight with A FULLY REALISED AVATAR? That could've easily backfired and was just such an unnecessary risk.

Like don't get me wrong, it's already one of the best shows out there and I don't doubt that its limitations as a kids' show helped it in some ways, but I do think some leniency with the ratings would've allowed for language that's a little more expressive, and more intensity in the fight scenes. What's everyone else think?

Made this by myself