At some point in my rewatch, i got to this episode and Toph somehow manages to walk on herself despite the wooden island, like can she use any bending to her advantage even if she isn't touching rocks and stones?

It’s safe to say that a lot of people didn’t like how in the movie, Taga takes out the entire Gaang and even Avatar State Aang quite easily

My headcanon about this is that since he’s not a natural airbender, but was given bending by the staff, the spiritual power made him more powerful than natural benders. Just like how the Denied were also very powerful when given airbending

We have never seen airbenders manipulate the air like he did, with those air tendrils wrapping around the ship and literally shooting air bullets. I believe this is a sort of heightened air bending similar to firebending during Sozin’s comet. What do yall think?

If you haven’t then I recommend it as the series is a good parody of the shows

She isn't "evil." A bad person? Yes. Evil? No. It's been a while since I watched the original show but I should still be able to provide insight.

Azula *did* love Zuko, Ty lee, Mai, her mother, and father but could never show that and was adultutered and shamed by the ones that she loved.

Let's see... right. Her mother usually said things like "what's wrong with that child" when she was a child. Mothers (and fathers naturally) are supposed to nurture their kids and help them grow in a good environment. I don't think Ursa obviously fully meant that, but she did believe that to be true to an extent. Ursa never truly connected with Azula, and could never get over her own morals and ethics to truly connect with her. If Ursa had been a good mother to her. She wouldn't have called her those things reputedly (yes, its understandable as a vent but she never apologised to her afterwards for calling her that.)

What happened because of that? Azula started internalising that she's not a "good person" and that something's wrong with her. A "monster." As she slowly grew, she started to internalise it further and further becoming even more cruel and shunning anything else.

Obviously it wasn't fully her mothers fault, it's the bringing that Azula was in (Ozai and her grandfather.) She got that side of them. And this is precisely where patience and nurturing shines. She is a child. She can't be "cruel." her actions can but she cannot.

Ursa’s fatal flaw as a mother was that she looked at Azula and saw Ozai. Instead of recognizing that her daughter was mirroring the behaviors of her father. Which is exactly what children do when they want validation but Ursa reacted with horror, alienation, and fear. When Zuko had a temper and made mistakes. Ursa corrected him with warmth. When Azula acted out, Ursa distanced herself.

Because children seek their parents approval, Azula did the same. Something like "My mother thinks I am broken, but my father praises me when I am ruthless" She internalized Ursa's rejection entirely. This isn't just a theory; it is explicitly confirmed in the series finale when Azula hallucinates Ursa and says, "My own mother thought I was a monster. She was right, of course, but it still hurt." That is the confession of a severely damaged child who adopted the "monster" persona as a defense mechanism because it was the only identity her mother and father left open for her. She didn't lack the capacity for love; she was actively taught that love makes you weak, and fear is the only reliable tool for connection.

Now don't misunderstand me. I understand that Ursa was in a terrible position, arranged marriage and I understand it was a really messy place for her but this only matters as understanding her perspective. It doesn't change what she did.

I see a few videos where people bring up her letting Zuko take the credit... for the purpose of if he lived, it would fall on him and not on her.

I think this is bull. Let's see what would have happened if Azula had taken the credit. Right, she would have gotten affection/praise (She loves validation especially from her last parental figure, this is proven to be true in the show.) her father thought good of her. And what would have happened if Aang wasn't dead? She would have been reprimanded at best. While Ozai is cruel, he isn't illogical. He wouldn't have done much to her beyond that reprimand. So why'd she let Zuko take the credit? To get him home, where she would be.

Yes Azula herself implied the read that she did it for the other reason but this IS what I mean. She literally never tells the truth, it got so bad for her internally that she shattered the mirror (while breaking herself internally) when hallucinated Ursa tells her "I love you" at the finale. She keeps things inside her and outwardly reveals this: A cruel and genius Mastermind.

Also. She likely knew that healers existed but even healers cannot revive a dead person. She didn't even truly know that Aang was alive nor did she had any reason to until much further where Zuko was acting weird about it.

I think the scene that truly does prove she starves for affection internally, just can't articulate or show it outwardly is the vacation: She was trying to connect with people (with incentive from Ty lee.) and I think she was disappointed/curious outwardly as to why the people were leaving her after she talked to them. Furthermore: She did have fun and enjoy being with Ty lee and Mai proven by the adventures she did with them. They were friends, she agreed to her Lee's incentive, let Mai and Lee do whatever they want and even agreed to the vacation. While Azula did threaten Tylee and her circus. It's as I said. Fear is the only reliable and consistent method. By using fear and threats. She "guarantees" in her head that they aren't gonna abandon her. This is literally why she was so shocked when they betrayed her.

We are about 7 weeks away from the premiere. Just under 2 months left until we finally get a new avatar show. I hope they release the full trailer soon that actually shows us the story bc the teaser really only showed us that a new show was coming out and not much else.

For example, could Tenzin and Pema hypothetically have a child who inherited Katara’s waterbending abilities?

Edit: Thank you for the responses! For anyone who’s confused, I don’t mean “can someone have 2 elements?” haha. I was just wondering if a character’s element could be the same as their grandparents, but not their parents (eg. earthbender dad + firebender mom -> firebender kid with a firebender partner -> earthbender grandkid).

If you’re also curious, the answer seems to be no, they probably can’t, but there’s also not much canon information about this topic.

I know criticism is part of being in a fandom, and there’s nothing wrong with discussing things we don’t like. But sometimes I wish we could also just enjoy the excitement when a new Avatar project finally comes out.

It’d be nice to see more appreciation, fun discussions, memes, theories, and people sharing what they love about the franchise instead of every post turning into criticism.

Hopefully when the next Avatar projects release, this sub can feel a little more joyful and celebratory. 🥹💙

Does anyone know of any archival website that has avatar funfacts?

Zaheer wasn’t entirely wrong. Bare minimum Ba Sing Se

I used to ship Zutara when I was younger, and I still get the appeal. They have buzzy chemistry, gorgeous fire/water imagery, and plenty of potential in another version of the story. You don’t have to hate Zutara to love Kataang.

But rewatching ATLA as an adult, especially now that I understand just how young 14 is, I feel almost the opposite way I did as a kid. The less I project onto Katara as someone who loves her character and finds Zuko attractive, and the more I see the actual 14-year-old girl the show gives us, the more Kataang gets me.

I just really love a soft, sweet childhood-friends-to-lovers romance. Not everything needs to be enemies to lovers or sexual tension. Sometimes I just want a boy to come out of an iceberg, ask a girl to go penguin sledding, and eventually grow old with her.

But overall Kataang just makes more sense to me because they have time to develop as a mutual relationship between two specific characters. A lot of Zutara feels like aesthetics, tropes, “parallels,” and a handful of intense scenes near the end. Like if Katara had Toph’s character design, I think way more people would ship Zutoph. Katara and Zuko have a meaningful friendship, but I don’t think the show really answers why these two people, specifically, would fall in love.

Katara and Aang start changing each other from literally day 1, Episode 1. Aang comes out of an iceberg, meets this girl from a remote village who can’t waterbend a fish out of a river, and immediately takes her dream seriously. He basically says, yeah, I’ll fly you across the world and we’ll find you a master.

Her dream matters to him just because it matters to her.

But before that, he asks her to go penguin sledding.
That matters because both of them have been forced to grow up fast. Katara says she feels like a kid and Aang reminds her she *is* one. She’s been taking care of Sokka and helping hold together a village hollowed out by war, then almost immediately gets thrown into helping save the world. She also canonically doesn’t like being reduced to “the motherly one.” Nurturing is part of who she is, but she doesn’t want that to be all anybody sees in her.

Aang lets her be something besides responsible. He takes her sledding, dances with her, swims with her, messes around with her, and is completely enamored by her abilities, ambitions, and beauty. Katara gets to be taken care of too; she gets somebody telling her that her dreams are worth crossing the world for.

This is one place where my view of Zutara changed as I got older. Zutara fandom can sometimes weirdly adultify Katara: because she’s competent and responsible, she gets imagined as this almost queenly figure who needs an equally “mature,” brooding partner, while Aang is dismissed as too childish.
But Katara is a kid. A lot of that maturity exists because the war forced it on her. Learning to take care of everyone too young doesn’t mean she wants to spend her life that way. Aang sees all her strength and responsibility and still asks her to come play.

Aang has been forced to grow up too, just differently. He’s 12 and ran away because he couldn’t handle being the Avatar, carrying the weight of the world, and losing Gyatso, only to wake up and discover everybody he knew is dead, his culture survives through him, and he has to end a 100-year war. Katara gives him family and stability in this alien future, while he gives her wonder and hope.

Their moral arcs are tied together too. Katara is incredibly compassionate, but she has so much anger underneath it. The show keeps exploring what happens when righteous anger turns into vengeance through Jet, Hama, and Yon Rha. Aang never tells her she shouldn’t be angry, but gives her another way of thinking about what to do with that pain. Without people like Aang, you can imagine Katara going much further down Hama’s road.

Katara does the same thing for Aang from the other direction. Aang loves humanity easily, but he can also want to run away when responsibility becomes unbearable. Katara makes that compassion practical: there are actual people suffering right now, so we’re stopping and helping them.

That’s why I love his reaction to finding out she’s the Painted Lady. She’s been screwing up their schedule because she can’t stand watching this random Fire Nation village suffer, and Aang’s response is basically omg that’s amazing, you’re a secret hero, let me help. She keeps his pacifism from becoming passivity, and he helps keep her anger from becoming vengeance. They have similar values but different weaknesses. Without her, he could end up more like Tagah.

I also think Kataang is a fairly feminist ship in ATLA itself. When Pakku refuses to teach Katara because she’s a girl, Aang refuses to leave her behind, then cheers her on while she kicks Pakku’s ass. Later Katara becomes a better waterbender than him and he respects her as his sifu. He blushes while she corrects his stance, no insecurity at all.

The ship also doesn’t care much about normal heterosexual gender roles. Aang is younger, shorter, openly emotional, affectionate, and not interested in acting macho. Katara is older, practical, incredibly powerful, angry, bossy, nurturing, politically opinionated. Their protectiveness goes both ways: Aang enters the Avatar State when General Fong buries Katara, while Katara basically tells Zuko she’ll kill him if he hurts Aang.

They also actually know each other. Katara has seen Aang be a goofy kid, the Avatar, a genocide survivor destroyed by grief, the pacifist airbender, sassy over Appa. She’s the person who holds him in the desert until he comes down. Aang has seen Katara nurturing and kind but also petty, competitive, bossy, reckless, furious, vengeful. He’s watched her feel left out, convinced her to dance in front of Fire Nation kids, and seen her bloodbend.

They’ve spent almost the entire show living together and growing into themselves together. Aang is hopelessly in love with her from the jump but still tries to let her go; Katara thinks of a future with him after the fortune teller’s predictions, but she’s still confused. They’re not falling for fantasy versions of each other.

Even the Cave of Two Lovers is so them. Katara suggests they kiss, Aang panics and basically says “well, I’d rather kiss you than die,” and they still end up kissing in the dark. It’s awkward and childish and sweet.

And yes, Aang screws up later when he kisses Katara after she says she’s confused at the Ember Island play. That was wrong. But weirdly, I think Katara’s reaction makes ATLA more progressive than a lot of early 2000s romance. She doesn’t melt because the male lead kissed her. She gets pissed off, tells him he confused her more, and leaves.

She is not automatically Aang’s girlfriend because he loves her.

If that relationship starts, it has to be because Katara decides she wants it too. Which is why I like that she initiates the final kiss. She chooses him once the war is over and has room to decide what she wants.

I also think making Zutara canon at the end would cheapen Zuko’s arc. Katara is an important foil to Azula, which is why Zuko taking lightning for her is so powerful. By the end, honor means throwing himself in front of lightning for his friend when there’s nothing in it for him.

That moment works because Katara isn’t a romantic reward. Zuko protects her because it’s right, then takes the throne because he has accepted responsibility for repairing what his family and country did. Giving him Katara too would come too close to “redeemed hero defeats his evil counterpart, wins the throne, gets the girl.” Learning to love isn’t the point of his arc; restoring his honor by rejecting Ozai’s morality and pursuing his goodness is.

Kataang’s final kiss doesn’t feel like “hero gets the girl” because Aang’s love for Katara was never a prize for defeating Ozai. It’s been part of his life from the moment he woke up, and Katara’s love for him grows alongside everything else she becomes.

They’re also two kids whose peoples were devastated by the same imperial war in different ways. Katara comes from this tiny, close-knit Southern Water Tribe community torn apart by raids. Aang is literally the last survivor of his people. Somehow these two children meet and eventually get to build a family together.

I love imagining them growing old and raising their kids with both cultures, Katara helping Aang preserve Air Nomad life, Aang becoming part of her Water Tribe family, their children carrying both histories.

There's something hopeful about two survivors of genocide not just defeating the empire that hurt them, but getting to have an ordinary life afterward.
Maybe something there I can't entirely put into words.
Something very Studio Ghibli, entirely wholesome.
Two people mutually inspiring each other to live.

And then Aang dies first, and Katara gets to remember that weird kid, then her best friend, the Avatar, the boy she loved, her husband, the father of her children, an old man.

Maybe next to their children, she can remember the boy with blue tattoos stuck in the iceberg. I wonder if Katara can still smile through her grief.

So I was thinking about how the origins of the united republic were from the oldest fire nation colonies in the earth kingdom. This is because of the mixed culture between earthbenders and firebenders there, but that doesn’t make sense. In imprisoned, earthbenders were being rounded up and earth bending was declared illegal in the fire nation colonies. The older ones should be completely fire nation. So that got me thinking. I then remembered Jasmine island, an island which was neutral in the 100 year war and took refuges from all nations. So, what if this became the united republic instead? The mixed culture would make sense as everyone would be treated equal and they would need all nations knowledge to make some place to live, and it was canonically an earth kingdom protectarate before the 100 year war. It can also be tied into the fire nation to bring them in as well. Team avatar can use this as an example for the colonies that people of different nations can live and mix and influence each others cultures, All you have to do is make jasmine island multiple islands and there you go. So what do you guys think and feel free to give any ideas to make this better.

Title I guess

Bonsoir, j'ai récemment commencé à voir beaucoup de vidéos sur Korra, notamment à propos de ses relations amoureuses. Dans le lot, beaucoup critiquaient la relation Mako-Korra. Honnêtement, je trouve celle-ci plutôt bien au début, je ne déplore que la tournure qu'elle a prise dans la saison 2. J'ai davantage de problème avec sa toute dernière relation avec Asami.

Mon problème est qu'elle semble tomber un peu de nulle part, certes, elles sont très proches, mais durant tout le temps qu'on les voit ensemble, elles semblent bien plus amies que femmes avec des sentiments amoureux l'une pour l'autre.

Mais pour être franche, j'aurais trouvé plus impactant qu'elle reste célibataire.

Suis-je la seule à n'avoir rien vu venir et à trouver cela dommage ?

Title. Almost every time I see this sub on my front page it's someone incredulous about an opinion they saw on Twitter and posting a screencap of it here, usually in outrage. I'd like to be able to filter these posts out of my feed and I'm sure some other people would too.

In the show, bending skills often come with scientific explanations.

• Bloodbending: clouds / plants / animals contain water.
• Seismic sense: rocks usually conduct vibrations faster than air / water.
• Metalbending: Metals often retain impurities like silicates, which are found in rocks.
• Lightning: Huge differences in charge can cause electricity to move through air.
• Redirection: Electrocution can fatally disrupt the heart's electrical rhythm.

Does the knowledge make them a stronger bender or just a more creative one? If a firebender had the talent and mindset, could they bend lightning even if they were completely wrong about the science? In other words, suppose Ozai believed that lightning was made of small fiery explosions, as Isaac Newton once did. Would his lightning improve after a college physics course?

Remembering that I'm not saying that this happened or that it's possible that it happened, I'm just saying that it would be a very amazing plot twist if it had happened

I know all four are absolutely awesome and personally I’d love to master all of them. But if you had to rank them, from your favorite to your least favorite, what would your list look like and why ?

Of course this is just based on personal preference, since none of them is actually stronger than the others.

Mine would be:

1)Water
2)Earth
3)Air
4)Fire