The Final Avatar The Last Airbender Iceberg Explained 

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@@pyeitme508 ???

cabbage merchant is an unwitting important informant of the white lotus, and they fund his business a way to use him to infiltrate and trade via cabbage spy techniques, and he became a chain of busineses to fully become a front for the white lotus spy activities.

i disagree that gyatso sucks the air out of the firebender. that method is too slow. i think he did the opposite, rupturing their lungs with high pressure air.

There are 2 weird theories I remember hearing. One saying all composting benders are reincarnations of the same person who merged with a spirit and one who says that Avatars have the face of the loved ones for the Avatar right before them. By the way amazing video. My favorit of the ones you showed is the one who said that Sky Bisons have human intelligens. My least favorit is the one about the twin Avatars.

That is a very good point.

Even just a normal cause/effect, passing of power thing. I mean you see it with presidents (or other country leaders). Leader one messes up the economy -> Leader 2 tries to fix it but ends up ruining international relationships -> Leader 3 has to try and repair those relations but neglects another area; and so on and so on. It’s not destiny or purpose, it’s just normal progression

Yeah I agree. I heard this and just said, "ok....so avatars regularly fix shit that is wrong?"

I kind of see it as that the problems are too large and complex for the Avatar to actually fix all at once, so no matter what the Avatar accomplishes... It's like that stage act with the spinning plates on poles, and there are too many poles, and the plates too heavy, for the Avatar to get everything spinning nicely at once, much less keep them going. It is for this and other reasons that I expected the resolution of LoK to be that either Korra would end up Vessel to both Raava and Vaatu (thereby giving her a power boost and/or restoring balance), or that Asami would become a (non-evil) Dark Avatar, who would work together with the Light Avatar, allowing them to get a better handle on everything.

So that means....the next avatar will reconnect with the past lives :)

There is always the possibility that tooth just never told him. Or that they agreed it’s best she didn’t know and silks stayed in her life. Who knows.

@@edwardmorris6634 Tooth, the food bender!

@@georgecataloni4720 lol my bad. Damn autocorrect

@@Benn1to First of all, there's no need to make it racial. Second, Sokka's dad was around. Sokka felt loved, respected his father while he was gone, and got to be with him in the end. Katara was the one that was hurt by his absence, but she got better.

@@riceball1093 Although Toph as a parent wanted her kids to have a free life meaning she wouldn't have to boss them around because Toph didn't wanna be like her parents like being very very strict, and because of that her kids wanted to have attention from their own mother because they felt her distancing from her own family (Correct me if I'm wrong but thats what I know or at least assume)

Haha omg that's hilarious

its just a coincidence bro "lei" could just be some random pinyin syllable that means smth even though it is pronounced the same as "lay" does not mean it got "layed"

@@telamont12mc It's Hawaiian, not Chinese.

@@telamont12mc Also, you seem to be struggling with the concept of a pun.

not a coincidence bro it is a pun@@telamont12mc

Agni kai for lu and lei was perfection 😂

This is always exactly what I thought

Agreed. That was my head-canon, too.

Bumi was Jasmin in Aladdin. Just checking out the city in disguise.

I never thought over much of who young Bumi was, but I assumed his character informed his rule. He was a good person in his heart of hearts, an unapologetic jokester but a nice guy. I find it hard to believe he ruled by conquest. I feel if he was not already in line to rule, then probably he ruled because the people asked him to. If people need leadership and someone displays the talents and ideas that will help them, they will follow that someone traditions be damned.

That's what I always assumed too, but I like this idea of Bumi taking the throne much better. And thinking about it now, he wasn't exactly dressed as a royal was he? He looked very much like a scraggly commoner. And Aang never asks if the King knows/knew Bumi, which does suggest that Bumi wasn't connected or a royal. So there's definitely a lot of space for the idea that Bumi wasn't a royal. Imo Bumi as a revolutionary actually makes sense--it adds to how impactful his character is, how larger than life his impact was, etc. And he did seem well acquainted with how to take a city...and with all his talk of patience, it makes you wonder what he'd waited for before, when was the last time he'd found the right moment to strike. I kinda love this theory now.

That’s true but aang really doesn’t seem the type especially with how normally unwavering he is about it

aang said to avatar yangchen that he was a vegetarian

@@CluelessCarter yes, all aur nomads are vegetarian. Eating meat occasionally when it's inconvenient otherwise wouldn't change that for them. It's in Dawn of Yangchen, she says so to put others at ease.

Yangchen states that it is taught at the western air temple that eating meat is okay if it’s all that’s available for sharing, but aang is from the southern temple which may not have engaged in this teaching. I think it was a teaching specific to the western temple bc yangchen specifies it that way (otherwise she would’ve just said it’s something air nomads believe but she specifically says it’s something the western temple believes)

It would make a lot of sense in a world where food takes a lot more effort to produce. Also, wasting food would be a much bigger no-no in times like that.

thats so cool

I thought the same thing. I've always thought thay her and aang looked alike and this would be a cool way of explaining why

There’s a couple other characters that look a lot like Aang too. The girl with the braids on the fortuneteller episode and the dusty boy in the painted lady episode come to mind. Very round faces and bigger than average eyes. Also maybe The Duke from Jett’s crew?

@@DropIt56also that Tai Lee and Aang are the only people with gray eyes (if I remember correctly) while the majority of fire nation civilians have yellow eyes, it would be a cool detail for Tai Lee to have ancestry with Air Nomads

Maybe not because before sozin the fire nation was self contained and flourishing (the avatar and the firelord) maybe Sozin wasn't taught that philosophy about the Avatar. Also that projects the idea that the fire nation was always evil which is subjectively false.

@@jonathangamboa8605 I don’t think it means that the Fire Nation was evil all along, just that some resentments built up over time. And they the Fire Lords may have felt this more, being the group that would see themselves as the possible beneficiaries of having an Avatar. It’s probably more a Fire Lord thing until Sozin starts the war, he probably stokes resentments on purpose.

I see your point that makes more sense.

In the Kyoshi’s novel, it is revealed that the previous Fire Avatar DID kind of work for the Fire Nation and the Fire Lord to bring the conflicting factions together. Sozin probably presumed it would be like this again.

"Mom says its *my* turn to have an Avatar"

Which was the sacrifice required to forge lightbringer more proof that Zuko is Azor Ahai

That's rough, buddy

Their weeding votes where "I hope u don't turn in to the moon." "I wont, buddy"

It was azula

@@Nuh-uh187 It's entirely possible that Ozai groomed Azula because of his obsession with breeding superior firebenders

Theres a lot of people out there with basicly 0 comprehension of physics.

Same.

​@@robertharris6092we've simply have been lucky to be born in a place where we could go to school.

I always thought he was bending the smoke, although thinking about it now, that would probably be airbending or earthbending.

Can we please talk about how he put a whole different series in this, that’s js like comparing Elmo in it and saying it’s js a shittier adaptation to the avatar the Airbender

He showed up in flash backs only and episode recaps... but his only speaking line was at the end of Chapter One. They did some pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing in that episode when flashing over the faces of those who would be lost to the water tribe... I was hoping for more of Koh myself because let's face it... he's creepy scary and his voice actor was spot on. (And I realized I did an unintentional pun there! lol)

Kinda like Sokka and Katara?

this would fit so well in a comic

@@zie233 In a way, I'd see it more like Sozin and Roku. They grew up like brothers and even shared a birthday, just like twins.

it would be funny and interesting having then switch places specially for diplomatic stuff

Id rather it be the Avatar has a twin who is really good at their element but, in fact better than the Avatar at that particular one, however is always overshadowed.

wow, yeah, that makes sense, I also see nothing wrong in stoning your daughter/sister for having fallen in love with someone you do not approve of. Law says she is your property after all and you can do with it as you like. How can something that is not explicitly forbidden by law be anything but rightful?

I meant even if the did we have no reason he believe he broke them He was just doing a p by the books siege

Ahhh I love this absurd line of thinking, especially when applied to Star Wars characters lol. Like they (not just the Empire, some Jedi actions actually count) sure as hell are breaking *something* even if it's not explicitly named. "Good taste" maybe?

"It ain't a warcrime if It ain't wartime" -Sun Tzu

Pretty sure he is highly wanted in the earth kingdom thou till the end of the series.The earthbenders kidnapping him really hate him.

Good catch! I like that one. Would you think then maybe that korra would live a long life? Not really the same as kuruk, but aang seemed to have died young, even though he "lived" for 100+ years. Now that I wrote it, maybe she'll pass away younger, since aang "lived" as long as kyoshi almost. Idk. Fun to think about

That's a nice thought, but it's confirmed in the book that she just decided to live longer. She discovered that through bending, she could essentially recreate the very fiber of her being, her D N A over and over to counter the natural cycle of our cells. If you think about it, Kyoshi is just as much to blame for the loss of the Air Nomads as Roku. Perhaps more so. If she hadn't lived so long, Roku wouldn't have been born during the same time as Sozin. Much less share a birthday or friendship. Kyoshi wouldn't have had such a deep connection to him, been able to do what needed to be done. Too many people give Roku so much flack but forget that Kyoshi herself tried talking Yun down before and during their fight. I wonder then what kind of advice she'd give Roku regarding the situation.

@@TheRibottoStudiosI don’t think it’s reasonable to blame people for things that happen after they die and that they had no way of knowing would happen.

It's just a high-level earthbending technique. Bumi used it too, since he was the same age as Aang

@@TheRibottoStudiosYou can’t really blame someone for something that happened after they died…

The bending in the original was so much more powerful than in korra. Korras bending was so weak

​@@Jackson-qi4rwWhat is this clown talking about?

Uh… you’re saying during war time soldiers wouldn’t have time to… train?

@@tanner201x8 Soldiers would have time to train, but how many armies are active when looking at the show? Omashu, Ba Sing Se, that one army camp where the avatar state episode happened, and Kyoshi are the only ones I can think of outside of the fire nation. Plus, basic training for an army grunt wouldn't be the same as the type of development that would take place when bending is explored as an artform during peacetime.

@@xenasBS I just don’t agree, sorry. Feel like Bryke made up this excuse to not seem as incompetent as they are when it comes to Korra

The same happened to Zuko after he joined Team Avatar. His firebending became severely weakened because he lost sight of his inner fire which orignally was hunting Aang

Nah, I think it’s made pretty clear that air bending is the only power directly tied to cultural/religious adherence

I don’t see how

@Bonnabell they said her mother struggled, not Kyoshi herself?

Wait, Kyoshi's mom was an Airbender?

They're probably such empty-headed and carefree animals that they don't have any "worldly connections" to let go of in the first place

Playing devil’s advocate, as I mostly agree with this theory, but it does leave one snag: The bison that live with the nomads absolutely have “earthly tethers” in the form of their partnered nomad. This bond very well recognized, as one of the nuns told Aang “Choose well, a sky bison is a companion for life!” and we see how distressed Appa is when separated from Aang (in brutal, heart-wrenching detail) I’m willing to look past that and say bison just circumvent the rule of “no earthly tethers” somehow, but yeah. Not exactly a perfect fit.

I like that. If you go by that logic, couldn't dragons shoot lightning?

@@clintonjefferson6494 A dragon should be able to lightning bend in Avatar. The moon should also be able to blood bend. Badger moles should be able to metal and lava bend. Airbison flying with attachments is peak airbending.

@@starkid910 Air Bison Start unattached and adapt to having connections. Even then they namely partner with kindred spirits, so Airbenders are far less of an attachment than normal people.

Not only that, but if he somehow created a vacuum inside that room, firebending would be impossible. Fire needs oxygen to fuel it so it would make sense why there's no singe marks on his body

That has to be.

MY CABBAGES!

My Cabbages!!

So that's why the airship broke, because the cabbage spirit lives on inside the cabbage corp

@@antokarman2064 Yes, obviously.

cabbage man killed aang

It makes sense. I also think that as a reward for acknowledging the spirits, Iroh's spirit was allowed to rest in the spirit.

the only problem i see with this is that in the tales of ba sing se, iroh says "if only i could have helped you" right before the 3 am depression hits, which wouldn't add up if iroh could have actually prevented it, and chose not to for his country.

It seems a bit too short

You know that this fits well with sokka and aang's decision to not retreat during the day of the black sun, not retreating eventually lead to failure

Your headcanon is wrong lol

Timestamp please

I‘ve always know that Avatar is great, but this video opened my eyes to more subtext. Your observation is even another one. I don‘t get this Easter egg thing in e.g. Marvel movies. But observations like this cherry pit scene make me feel so satisfied.

During Aangs time every air nomad was an airbender so no Ty Lee has no connection to air nomads at all, the only reason for this is literally the fact her face looks like Aangs.

I also think her having air nomad heritage would be interesting because she’s an incredible acrobat and spent most of her career ‘flying’ through the air

It reminds me of how cultures can become “novelties” (for lack of a better word) such as Japonisme in 19th century France that influenced art and culture immensely. The people of France at that time knew the origins of the art and clothing and materials, but follow the generations long enough and the cultural ancestry can be lost. Now think of this in the context of a colonial or imperial invasion, and the products, techniques, knowledge may survive to be integrated, but the spirituality that grew these cultural touchstones are forgotten or actively discarded. Obviously, there are a lot of examples of both cultural evolutions throughout history, Japonisme is just one I happen to be familiar with and have experienced that spiritual disconnect. (I love the Impressionist & Post-Impressionist movements and am fascinated by Japanese art and culture, but didn’t know for years that they were inherently linked.) Anyway, I find it fascinating that even if Ty Lee isn’t a descendant of the Air Nomads, she may have a cultural heritage that was heavily influenced by elements of them.

It Also means that the convergence gave her air BENDING abilities!!!🤯🤯🤯

@@chocomojo9552 She's probably dead by then

This is such a good theory and i wouldve loved to see it

He also eventually helps Korra get into the spirit world

I missed it...but yeah, now it's so obvious

How did he lose his airbending though?

@@2u29wjiowk2iswj He didn't

Ozai was on that Mishima shit, legit nearly went full Heihachi only with somehow *less* good intent

Tekken referenc?

why did he thought that exactly?

The short: Ursa thought Ozai was reading her letters to her hometown sweetheart, and so put something in the letter that would be so shocking Ozai would show his hand- that she was pregnant with her sweetheart's child, not Ozai's. Ozai was reading her letters, and was extremely pissed, and even after confronting Ursa for the truth, he takes it out on Zuko.

Blue flame signifies proper control as well. It means it's burning "pure" and no excess carbon etc is getting away, a more efficient burn.

Possible Red Oni and Blue Oni symbolism?

@@bruhincarnate5431 I don't know, I only know the directors wanted a main clash along with to show the strength of the fire. It also could be a reference to the dragons as there's a blue dragon that up until the sun masters episode was azula in zuko's dream. So that could have something to do with it. I just know they chose blue to show a contrast and to show how much pure hatred she had.

Soooo basically what he said in the video

“yea i think your friend just said that genius. and since u cant see i should tell you im rolling my eyes”. like he literally made a joke about ur first point and said all the rest with his other points

Aha fair I didn't really think that much about the term but fair

@@HelloFutureMe I'm at 1:12:27 and I have a similar issue with "Aang is a Murderer" too I guess... of course the Aang-OceanSpirit fusion killed a bunch of fire nation invaders, but those were invaders and it was self-defense (also Aang wasn't himself there but whatever). Same at the Northern Air Temple and other Fire Nation attacks, those were invaders and it was self-defense. (This might fall under suspension-of-disbelief but I do believe there were no people there at the factory when they destroyed it). The only time I can think of where Aang, as himself, killed anything and it wasn't self-defense, was when he probably killed a Buzzard-Wasp in the Desert that was just trying to fly away and escape. But... I don't think of that as murder because that Buzzard-Wasp wasn't a person. So similarly to Gyatso, I'd be willing to say Aang might have killed but it wasn't murder.

And it might killing himself in the process. As last stand.

@@AlexKnauth Aang has definitely delivered lethal blows unnecessarily before tho tbh. Most cases were self defense, some were just unnecessary

@@zeallust8542 The only one that seems wholly unnecessary to me (not defense) is the one on the Buzzard-Wasp which was just trying to fly away. What other ones do you think?

Zuko and Azula both seem to have a significant amount of non-bending combat training, given how well Azula held up against Aang, Toph and Sokka during the Eclipse. Sure, she had Dai Li agents, but she still did pretty damn well. Also, when they were kids, we see Zuko play fighting with the knife Iroh gave him, and we see Azula humiliate Zuko multiple times by being the better firebender. I think Zuko sought out more training because he was desperate to be better than Azula at *something,* but was too ashamed to admit it. Although the assassin idea does have some interesting merit given that neither Ozai or Azula (or Zhao) had already used Combustion Man as a tool in the hunt for the Avatar or the war. You'd think they wouldn't want that weapon to go to waste. So how is it that Zuko was the only one who seemed to know about him?

@@wafflingmean4477 i feel like that gives additional merit to the theory as it suggests that zuko has some connections allowing him to find assassins/ bounty hunters like combustion man Just saying though the skills line up remarkably well, I also do not think azula has really any non bending training, it’s just that bending being a martial art imparts a certain level of nonbending martial skill

Everyone in the capital city is well-trained...remember Azula, Ty and Mai attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls. I assume Zuko attended the boys academy. In the Kyoshi novels they tell us that the curriculum includes everything from combat/weapons to politics and diplomacy, the customs of every nation.

@@wafflingmean4477 Yeah, a Combustion Bender doing his own thing is interesting and odd in the Fire Nation where the military would've showered him in honor for joining them. So yeah, probably just a Bounty-Hunter or League of Assassins sort of thing, or he just keeps a low profile and so it takes a sneaky guy like Zuko and those who know how to keep quiet in order to pill him for a contract. Maybe the Fire Nation DID have him help military options at some point but he was merely a Mercenary for tougher battles. Not sure why not keep him but... well actually, with his abilities, best not to anger him.

Iroh (?) gave Zuko a dagger as a gift. Was he in on his sister-in-law's plan to assassinate Azulon??

Okay ngl, I completely misread the quote and thought Tenzin was talking with Fire Lord Izumi for some reason because of "your father, Lord Zuko." Then I saw Korra mentioned and for a split second had the thought of a massive, completely nonsensical twist...that Korra is the daughter of Zuko 😅

@@Mrryn Probably doesn't help that I didn't set the scene. I just gave a quote and an episode.

Also, I always thought "CHIEF Sokka" meant he took over the Southern Water Tribe at some point...

@@Sephiroth144 It makes sense

I reckon Sokka died in that final showdown where the core group of the Red Lotus were captured.

I remember seeing it explained as he used up a lot of his 'avatar time' in the iceberg

like the iceberg didn't like freeze time for Aang in more like just stopped him from aging so it would make sense for him to die at 160 years old.

The avatar state is incredibly powerful though, and probably did some damage being stuck in it for 100 years. The older he got, the less his body was able to compensate

I am under the impression that the monks knew Aang was the avatar ever since he was able to play toys because of that one scene where he had chosen the same toys that the previous avatars played with. With that logic, my head cannon is the nomads wanted aang to meet the leaders and royalties (and their kids lol) wherever they traveled to because they thought that’s what the avatar should do even if they’re unaware. That’s how Aang meet Bumi.

Yes it was used. but not for a main character. that would have been problematic.

For real! I was rolling my eyes hard at that part

I’m confused how an another IP can have rights over a name? Lmao

"iroh was a war criminal, he killed people and conquered nations" - Being a general and fighting a war is not a war crime. There is no evidence of Iroh committing or condoning war crimes. A war crime is something like pretending to be the enemy by wearing their colors/flag/insignia. (Geneva Convention, Article 39(2) 1997 Additional Protocol I) -- You know, like Sokka does in the Mechanist's war balloon. Chemical warfare is also a crime. (1925 Geneva Protocol) -- You know, like when Sokaa and the Mechanist dump chemicals out of their war balloon onto the enemy.

@@Andlekin no way you’re defending fire nation rn 💀💀 okay, maybe i can give you that “war criminal” is incorrect by modern political application as per the geneva convention, but iroh was not in the right whatsoever. yes, he was a hero to the fire nation. the dragon of the west, the only one to get close to penetrating ba sing se before Aang’s return as the avatar. all are exceptional merits if you’re thinking in terms of him being a fire nation general. but the simple fact is- the fire nation is the oppressor. they’re the aggressor, the ones who started the war over greed and a lust for power. the fundamentals of fire nation are inherently corrupt and immoral when compared to the ethics of the rest of the A:TLA world. though unconfirmed, it goes without saying that iroh probably commanded his armies to pillage and/or burn earth kingdom villages for supplies and information, he may have even had a hand in some of the first raids on the southern water tribe, as was usual with war before this modern era of the UN or NATO. the fire nation system at the time iroh was a war general would have been focused on oppressing uprisings and chipping away at major earth kingdom cities left after the first years of the war. (Omashu, Ba Sing Se, etc.) which means that anyone who had any information on these cities, or any villages that they found on the way, would have been taken under fire nation control as iroh pressed his armies further into the earth kingdom. quite literally- if not a war criminal by modern standards, iroh was most certainly responsible for an uncountable amount of deaths during his time as general, as well as colonizing an unknown amount of villages under the oppressive regime that the fire nation army had become. what i was saying in the original post was that all of this is fuel for the man he becomes later. he knows he was wrong, he knows he shouldn’t have pride for his nation because of what he’s done. it’s why he chooses pacifism in every scenario unless Zuko is in direct trouble. him having this history of being the very thing he now despises is what makes him wise. it’s what makes him a good mentor to Zuko. if he had just been some guy- never in line for the throne, never a general, nothing- then his wisdom would feel unearned. unwarranted. but the fact that he had this life of a very successful general and threw it away when he realized he was wrong (only by losing his son, by the way), makes him one of the most well-rounded and empathetic characters in media (to me at least).

@@EMMCNEELY Bruh. Not you going on a whole ass rant over nothing. They were just saying there is no evidence Iroh was a war criminal. They never said he was a good person for participating in the war. They never said the Fire Nation was in the right. All they said was that Iroh was not a war criminal, which is true.

@@en4833 bro i’m just having fun let me cook 😭😭

fam @@en4833

Or perhaps their parents wanted to pretend they’d had two avatars, so the children were forced to always be together, with the true avatar performing bending for the both of them. And the twins having a complicated relationship with their parents because of it, wanting to love them but also detesting them for putting so much pressure on them to keep up a rouse they hardly benefit from.

I think the "each one bends 2" thing could be amazing if it had a good writer

If, say, the twins were in a royal family it would be cool. The Avatar as Avatar and the non bending twin automatic heir to throne. It would equalise them but create an unholy dynamic for everyone else I'd like to see.

i thought by "twin avatars" it meant one was raava and the other vaatu, but they i remembered that that kinda already happend lol.

Thats basically Hercules story, he has a twin brother but he dosnt have godly blood in him, SO is a normal dude

I really wouldn’t say zuko ended the war to be fair. Maybe the actual paperwork of ending a war but aang stopped the fire nation

I like to believe that. It also gives extra agency to why his daughter (or was it granddaughter?) chose to opt out of that signicant political decision in LOK on behalf of the Fire Nation. She seemed to have a deep understanding of her nation's history and past consequences, which I reckon was personally passed down to her from Zuko himself.

@@K11NNGG Counterpoint- Aang stopped the Fire LORD, but someone ordered the Fire Nation military to cease hostilities... and I'mma guess that was Zuko.

@@Sephiroth144 Correct. Most soldiers would comply due to loyalty to the Royal Family and the threat of the new Fire Lord + Avatar coming for you if you didn't. It is also likely that regular grunts would feel pity/respect for Zuko, knowing he earned his scar thanks to intervening in a meeting that would have sent hundreds of soldiers to their deaths. Finally, he kept up with, and even surpassed, the legendary Azula. Everyone would know that Zuko isn't a pushover and challenging him directly would lead to a perfect case of FAFO.

SO TRUE ACTUALLY I LOVE THAT

Interesting…

I agree. It's funny you put fix in quotations, because in my opinion the spirits being plopped in the middle of human civilization or humans in the spirit world isn't the same as teaching them how to be respectful and understanding of them. If I had an opportunity to write that kind of story, I would argue Aang or Korra could've taught them their heritages, histories, and old bending philosophies by starting academies or temples.

​@@ThreadBareHope1234 While that's a nice idea, I don't see it being realistic. We see a loss of culture and heritage in the series, like when we see the Fire Nation children don't even know their cultural dances anymore, and while Aang knew some of those dances you can't expect a twelve year old to remember all the culture that was lost during the 100 year war just because he was a nomad. The sad truth is, it might be impossible to open an academy as you suggest because there may be no one alive who knows enough to teach these things. Some things, when lost, are lost forever.

@@vannalaws1692 I’d argue Aang tried to do that with the air nomads, and that was certainly his biggest achievement. Preventing his people from being totally forgotten was a bigger ask than even helping put together the United Republic. I would say that, to some degree, he succeeded. I can’t speak much on Korra, though, since her story isn’t entirely done yet nor have I seen it all.

@@GuiSmith Aang definitely tried to preserve his people's culture, but I think his success in doing so is not directly stated. I could be wrong because I haven't finished the comics yet, but I think he was only partly successful. I also think there's a difference between Aang preserving his own culture as best as he is able and Aang being able to preserve all the cultural heritage that was lost over the 100 year war. I think he was capable of restoring some cultural relics, like Fire Nation dances, but I think it's impossible to restore everything that was lost since the war began.

@@ThreadBareHope1234 The spirit portal was an accident she never meant for it to happen and after that, she was kinda more focused on making sure her Girlfriend and eventual Wife was happy and taken care of and you know caring about her Mentel State which is Kinda Important

This has been a pet theory of mine for ages! Neatly ties in "Azula always lies" with Ozai's ambition for the throne and faking a will to get Iroh out of the line of succession.

Plus, Azulon told Ozai off for not having sympathy with his brother's loss and the loss of his grandchild. Indicating that he actually valued his grandchildren so killing another one of them would be kind of a faulty conclusion wouldn't it?

I read a fanfic once where they actually played this out. Lots of Fire Nation court intrigue, with Zuko being Zuko and having basically no idea what's going on, it was pretty great.

@@aquiamorgan2416 What's the fic? Do you have a link? I neeeeed!

@@aquiamorgan2416 show da link

Sounds about right for someone so unhinged (good)

This is perfection

I think he's the son of the previous king considering his seeming legal immunity as a child, doing something for fun that aang immediately gets arrested for.

am i crazy or is it "pit" instead of pip? Im confused

@@yveltalsea Maybe it is pit, but I just said "pip" because he said it. But then he and I could both be wrong, so idk.

I'd continue this theory by the thing I noticed that these girls servants actually look very similar to her but more, like, innocent or something

​@@yveltalsea technically, it is pit, but linguistically, a pip is basically anything small and roundish. Orange seeds are commonly referred to as pips, as are the dots on dice, so referring to a cherry seed as a pip is not incorrect, just unusual.

Wow interesting take I like this a lot

And then you have yangchen just killing anyone that questioned her or tryed to start shit.

​@@robertharris6092yep and yet she's revered as one of the best avatars and Kuruk was shamed for doing nothing in the mortal realm (despite the fact he had to patch up things in the spirit world specifically because of Yangchen's neglect of it)

This is hella late but it makes sense to me, since it's been so long it's been honed the same way that mental bending has been to where it's far more common place. I do wish they commented on it more in korra tho it makes it a lil jarring when it does happen

mai and izumi have such a stark resemblance it’s impossible they aren’t and besides at the end of smoke and shadow mai and zuko clearly still like each other

They broke up

that was the idea, but the creator of the comics confirmed later that they got back together 3 years after@@megastarwarsrocks99

There was way more than ten skeletons in that room.

Also Gyatso could most likely started the white lotus by first initiating Bumi after Aangs disappearance

Another thing to point out is the high ranking officials in the White Lotus each represent not only the four nations, but also the bending spectrum. Pakku is a waterbender from the Northern half of the Water Nation, Bumi is a earthbender from the Earth Nation, Iroh and Jeong Jeong are firebenders from the Fire Nation, and Piandao is a nonbending master swordsman from the Fire Nation. It’ll make sense that prior to the genocide there was a high ranking member of the WL that was an airbender, and that airbender was Gyatso. If three of the four types of bending were represented, why would air be excluded prior to the genocide?

@@Slender_Man_186 yeah, but not all Fire Nation Soldiers were Firebenders, so I doubt all of them were

that is actually an extremely cool idea with a LOT of potential. i would love to see that be developed into something.

So what was her thought process? That the meteor would start a fire, and the Gaang would go to put it out, at which point Sokka would feel useless, which would lead to them going shopping to cheer him up, which would lead to him finding a sword he thought looked cool, which would lead to the shop keeper mention its Piandao's sword and mention where he lives and that he's a sword master, which would lead to Katara suggesting Sokka go learn from him, which would lead to Sokka creating his own sword, at which point he would go back to the meteor to get the material? I don't know, it seems highly unlikely she would be able to predict all of that. Not to mention the only thing connecting the meteor and Yue is that they're both from space. We don't even know if she has the power to influence meteors.

@@en4833 you sound like sheldon. I heard the laugh track play after I read every sentence

@@uncroppedsoop What an intelligent rebuttal. You're right. I can't believe I never thought of it like that. You must be such a genius. P.S.: If you can't tell, this is sarcasm.

⁠@@en4833okay i don’t think that’s the point of the theory I think Yue just sent the meteorite to try and help the Gaang in some sort of way

@@dumflame Ok, help how. Because the meteor only helped to highlight Sokka's insecurities.

that scene in Seinfeld "are you crying?" "the ["the moment he was no longer the last air bender"] really got to me"

But imagine how that would make his other two (older) kids feel? lol. I guess their births were a non-event. Thats why bumi and kya have that resentment towards Tenzin when they're older

Aang when Tenzin was born: 😭 his two older kids: 🗿🗿

Source?

@@katz9853 The source is that it's a fucking joke we made up, the prophesied prince is from Game of Thrones.

Daenerys Game of Thrones vibes

How do you propagate one last dragon tho?

@@CyanideOwl Cloning, of course. At the rate the technology's going, I'm sure that'll happen by the next Avatar or two. The dragon will probably be alive by then.

Zuko is basically a Targaryen? Sweet

i love that theory! i'm gonna make it may head-canon now

It helps it's a serialized show with worldbending so you actually can formulate theories. What SpongeBob theories are there that fit in universe?

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 have you heard about skin theory

@cmalol Yes but even the guy making it seemed aware it was silly

I always thought this too, especially about Iroh. In Bitter Work, we get Iroh teaching Zuko about how the four nations and the four elements are one and everything is connected and all this "Avatar stuff", but then he says "[Azula's] crazy and she needs to go down." Ozai groomed and manipulated Azula into cruelty and hunger for power so it's no wonder she turned out the way she did, and Iroh only cares about Zuko. Real nice. Very compassion, much empathy.

Oof. Soggy cabbage rotting away from the inside out.

Brillant

He's the most powerful water bender of all time who has lived for thousands of years but he only really cares about his cabbage business and that's why he didn't interfere with the 100 year war This is canon now and I reject anybody else saying otherwise

Kyoshi didn't have any in the Kyoshi novels

@@hassanalkhalaf1115 avatars weren't born with their animal guides they found the animal guides during their avatarship or were granted them by way of culture. I.e. appa and fang for Aang and Roku. Or the animal guides were found through the avatar's deeds, like Avatar Wans Cat deer. Kyoshi's animal guide is believed to be the fox that assisted her at the end of the novels. Personally I don't believe that, rather I like to think that she simply hadn't found her guide yet.

Still a better ship than Kataang

this whole comment was stupid and makes 0 sense. and also its still a better ship than kataang.

@@automatic5 I’m genuinely curious, why do people think the Katara and Zuko ship is better? I’m not asking this as a Aang and Katara shipper, I don’t care for the romance in Avatar/Korra, I’m just genuinely curious. Is it narrative reasons, or is it just for fun?

@@thatoneguy5343 I don't ship people, but it's better bc Aang had ugly kids in Legend of Korra. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

@@thatoneguy5343 for me it's mostly because katara does like 99% of the emotional work on the relationship with aang . She behave a lot like a mother with a lot of people, but she cover aang a lot . The few time she was angry, aang try to make the peacemaker by dissming what katara said or feel( like at the northern water tribe when she was rightfully angry at paku, aang said " she didn't mean that " when she 100% meant it or when he compare his lost of appa (even if really important, its a pet) to the loss of katara's mom. Or just when he compare the trauma of his people being genocided . He had katara to help with his trauma.( She was there for sokka, taking their mother place ( he said so basically season 3 in the episode they joke about katara behaving like a mom, i don't have the name right now ).) It's something that don't happen with zuko. She can be honest and direct with him . ( he even do a little co-parenting like the time sokka when in appa's mouth ). When she his mad at him, he can see the unresolved trauma , and know that it can help her to work throught it, whatever it means for her . And also because i'm a big lover of enemies to lover trope with a little bit of angst in it . And it's rare to have on that go with theme of a non romantic serie ( forgiveness, balance, or the idea here that the separation of the tribe are an illusion , wich mean that with the zutara, it would be a great step in that direction) that more of narratives reason . I won't go more into it here, but there is a great video about it that can explain it fully ( but it's a two hour video ). She also made a video explaining why would some people ship kataang, when other would ship more zutara . it's half an hour : Zutara and Kataang - Exploring the A:TLA ships i also found a tumblr thread that explain the zutara ship . it's quit similar, but there is a few more things in it - and some angry comment.

I never read or followed any GoT or Song of Fire and Ice stuff, so he had me going for a bit like “Did I miss a lore dump somewhere?” And then laughed at myself when he explained the meme

I was so ready for something crazy at the bottom of the iceberg, but I couldn't have predicted that, I was sure it's a joke building up to the actual thing, but damn he got us XD

Zhao is promoted to Admiral before his death at the North Pole, and Jeong Jeong was a leading General before he defected. We might not see that many examples of firebending nobles and military leaders, but they are there. I mean think about the concept of the Agni Kai. This isn't just some way for commoners or rank and file soldiers to settle disputes. It's almost a sacred ritual, and it's revered enough by the Fire Nation to settle issues of royal succession. But it's not just practiced by the royal family. Zuko fights Zhao in an Agni Kai, and he thought he was going to Agni Kai the General he spoke out against in his father's war meeting, which means that General was also a firebender. Plus if you think about it, Nobility in the Fire Nation probably means you're descended from some pretty prominent firebenders, even if you're not one yourself. Historically, nobility has correlated with the power and wealth you were able to bring to bear in your regent's name, in this case the Fire Lord. That means that at one point, the noble families of the Fire Nation had to be able to subjugate and bring order to their domains. In all likelihood, the people able to do this would have been powerful and skilled benders, or otherwise exceptional Warriors.

@@optimisticnihilist3417, Those examples are both within the military.

@@JakeConrad666 the examples I gave are high ranking military officers, who would be present at court, along with the nobility. Assuming they weren't themselves highborn. As for the nobility themselves, I explained why it's likely they would be largely descended from, if not comprised of powerful fire benders.

i need more hints that zuko might have anemia to support this theory

@@JakeConrad666 I mean the fire nation is a military state… High ranking military officials will correlate with nobility

The creators had Aang die relatively young because everyone, including me and probably you, enjoyed seeing Katara, Toph and Zuko in Korra. If Aang lived to a ripe old age, the others would all be dead by the time the show started. Being the Avatar means being in mortal danger all the time---of course some of them die early-ish.

@@orlkorrect They killed off Sokka too. They sort of understood the characters from the original show but mostly they didn't know how to write the characters in or even understood the characters, they were just used as props.

the writers for the legend of korra are the same writers who wrote the original series

It could also be that they were originally a small isolated community of Earthbenders who were joined by Airbender when the war came, as refugies. And they learned to bend earth the way Airbenders bend their own element, this would add to the "There is so much to learn from the other elements" spiel.

You read Embers, huh?

@@optimisticnihilist3417 Actually, I haven't.

@@tsukiche5939 While there is still that connection to the airbenders, which is the core of the idea, the style and life style seems far more air, than earth.

@@RyuuKageDesu you should give it a look. Going by your comment above, I think you might enjoy it. It's ATLA fan fiction by an author called Vathara. The worldbuilding is just incredible. It builds on the established Avatar lore in ways that thematically fit the world perfectly. For instance there are a few air nomad offshoots in the other nations, who split off from the air nomads before they were technically the air nomads as we know them. They basically live secretly among the other people's of the world because after Sozin's genocide, nobody is admitting to being an airbender. One such people are a desert nomad tribe of both sandbenders and airbenders, hiding from the rest of the world. The spirit world and the way spirits interact with humans is also done amazingly. That's actually only a minor plot point in the grand scheme of things but it's absolutely worth a read.

Blue flames use less oxygen so it shows how perfect her fire is

Clearly all of you never looked into space and stars. Simply the hottest biggest stars 🌟 are blue color. Our sun is considered a yellow/orange star surprisingly the coolest smallest stars are Red.

@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 You sound like Trump lmao

My only issue with this explanation is why Ozai's weren't also blue then. Like, if Azula is such a master she can easily generate hotter fire, then why can her father, the most powerful firebender in the world, not do the same?

@@BillytheCorgi He's more aggressive over precise

Embers is ..... special, but I like a lot of the political and cultural ideas it brings up. Just a lot of shit mixed in with the good stuff.

Embers is probably the best fanfic I've ever read. I love it and the ideas it brings up