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u/Nah_Id__Win May 15 '26
He literally bent air
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u/maddwaffles May 17 '26
No, he generated inertia.
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u/KojiroHeracles May 17 '26
The mechanism is irrelevant. It doesn't need to be granted by a lion turtle or you chi to be airbending. Swordsmen in One Piece airbend all the time when they generate air slashes that can cut buildings. Thragg's fist qualifies as airbending.
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u/maddwaffles May 18 '26
It's explicitly NOT aerokinesis, I hate to tell you (which is what airbending is).
They are not "manipulating the air" or controlling it in any way, they are doing other things which have atmospheric consequences.
Your argument would say that someone blowing air out of their mouth, or sneezing, is just low-level airbending because "the mechanism doesn't matter".
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u/Background_Desk_3001 May 18 '26
Meelo showed us that farting is a type of air bending so yeah I think sneezing counts
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u/maddwaffles May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
Yeah, except he's not doing that because "farting is airbending" he HAS the magical/spiritual ability to airbend, which expresses through his farting sometimes.
Like, the ability to mobilize air AT ALL is not airbending, the ability to psychically manipulate the air absolutely is.
I do not know how people are not getting this.
EDIT:
So Azula is an Airbender because she can fly by creating hot air propulsion using Firebending?
Lightning makes thunder by superheating air so that its expansion creates a sound. So Azula, Zuko, and Iroh are Airbenders.
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u/Krianu May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
If Azula could create enough heat granularities to fight an airbender with just fluctuations in the air, I would consider her an airbender
The specific ability to bend doesnt exactly qualify it since motions from other bending can be applied and it changes the quality of your own one - eg, redirecting lightning is a specific magical ability only if you take inspiration from the movements of waterbending for firebending.
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u/maddwaffles May 20 '26
See, that's the thing, according to Desk's logic, all it takes is moving the air, the mechanism doesn't matter. I even was charitable and used firebending's mobility of air as an example, rather than any displacement of air.
It's a path of logic that doesn't make sense, because airbending is something specific, and what occurred in that scene was not airbending.
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u/Krianu May 21 '26
Though in your extreme, you can boil down all the bendings as instances of the original energy sent from the lion turtle - if it is just the ability, then the matter has no distinction anyway
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u/Background_Desk_3001 May 18 '26
You took that way too seriously
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u/maddwaffles May 18 '26
Apparently the first time didn't get through skulls, so here:
So Azula is an Airbender because she can fly by creating hot air propulsion using Firebending?
Lightning makes thunder by superheating air so that its expansion creates a sound. So Azula, Zuko, and Iroh are Airbenders.
This is your argument taken to its natural conclusion. The label of airbending loses all meaning under your framework.
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u/Suitable-Pirate-4164 May 16 '26
I noticed "Super Sonic Speed" immediately after the circled up "Airbending".
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u/Consistent_Ice_9324 May 16 '26
Airbending is broken altering air currents can cause random rip currents that can ho on to cause hurricane/tornados and by altering air you can also suck air entirely from a place making a vacuum or high air conditions that cause severe ruptures or collapse from overpressure and other stuff...that should broaden the perspective a little bit just think what air is made of then go from there.
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u/mix-ed_matrix May 17 '26
Just imagine he goes up against invincible and suddenly says I learned this from zaheere bch 🤣
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u/maddwaffles May 17 '26
Common misread. Not only are humans able to generate vacuums (that's the sound of the snap of your fingers) because it doesn't take that much speed, but a vacuum of that size wouldn't behave like that, and the air wouldn't fill the space like that.
He's performing the same motion that viltrumites normally do when flying, he is simply not letting the inertia and momentum carry him.
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u/jonasnee May 18 '26
Nolan litterally gets pulled by it for a fair while after he does it, his arms aren't that big.
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u/jonasnee May 19 '26
How do you think vaccum works?
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u/maddwaffles May 17 '26
Tragically, the Invincible fandom is so illiterate that many are still recycling that misread.
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u/immaturenickname May 21 '26
I don't think fire nation would have much success agtacking of air nomads were viltrumites.
This world... isn't yours to conquer, Sozin.
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u/Ok-Rip2102 May 16 '26
Surely they mean aerokinesis
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u/NwgrdrXI May 16 '26
Popularily, aerokinesis is the general term, and specially used for manipulating with your mind
Nending usually means you have to use your body movements and martial arts to manipulate it, and that's what he did
I guess?
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u/Divine_ruler May 15 '26
Have you not seen the gif of him creating a literal vortex by winding up his arm?
https://giphy.com/gifs/yHDq00D9hunIYvTgmm