Tentacruel Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Theory? I think it's fairly obvious that Amon is energy bending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montez Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Comrade Trollestia' timestamp='1339988414' post='5958497'] Theory? I think it's fairly obvious that Amon is energy bending. [/quote] What the person was talking about is how they energy bend. Amon energy bends only with the light chakra. Aang uses the Air Chakra and the Light Chakra. This brings up the possibility that Amon's way of doing things is not only different, but also reversible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake the Sage Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Montez' timestamp='1339989012' post='5958500'] What the person was talking about is how they energy bend. Amon energy bends only with the light chakra. Aang uses the Air Chakra and the Light Chakra. This brings up the possibility that Amon's way of doing things is not only different, but also reversible. [/quote] Correct [quote name='Vairocana' timestamp='1339988162' post='5958496'] Ok, whoever posted the Amon energybending theory? I f***ing love you and I think you're right. [/quote] You're welcome (^^)b [quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1339987240' post='5958490'] That's actually an interesting thought. That would leave a reasonable explanation as to how to restore everyone's bending. And like your Amon theory, though I think he's someone related to the cast in some way. [/quote] I am not saying he isn't or that he is. In fact while I was doing my research I found a few funny things about our most hated enemy Amon [spoiler=Amon! The Anti-Bender You LOVED to LOATHE!] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/TophCrowd.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/DoNotBend.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/Amon.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/AmonJokes.jpg[/img] [/spoiler] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 ... Amon is my favorite character now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Games Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Jake the Sage' timestamp='1339991960' post='5958515'] [spoiler=Amon! The Anti-Bender You LOVED to LOATHE!] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/TophCrowd.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/DoNotBend.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/Amon.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/AmonJokes.jpg[/img] [/spoiler] [/quote] Scandalous. If Amon is in contact w/ any spirit, it's the face-stealer Someone said something like Amon getting stronger with each unbending he does? What if he is taking their bending for himself? similar to the Pokemon B/W plot. Garner support claiming equality while gathering all the power for himself? Becoming an Artificial Avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake the Sage Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='King of Games' timestamp='1339992907' post='5958525'] If Amon is in contact w/ any spirit, it's the face-stealer Someone said something like Amon getting stronger with each unbending he does? What if he is taking their bending for himself? similar to the Pokemon B/W plot. Garner support claiming equality while gathering all the power for himself? Becoming an Artificial Avatar. [/quote] Again, person would be me. And I believe you are talking about Koh, the Face-Stealer. As far as I am aware he is only capable to stealing people's faces, thus their lives, when they show emotion around him; as was the case when he took a certain Water Tribe Avatar's love interest. So I doubt it would be Koh . . . also it appears he actually has no malice towards humans No, if anyone it has to be a Spirit we've yet to hear about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='King of Games' timestamp='1339992907' post='5958525'] Scandalous. If Amon is in contact w/ any spirit, it's the face-stealer Someone said something like Amon getting stronger with each unbending he does? What if he is taking their bending for himself? similar to the Pokemon B/W plot. Garner support claiming equality while gathering all the power for himself? Becoming an Artificial Avatar. [/quote] I agree. [quote name='Shradow' timestamp='1339291758' post='5954648'] *snaps fingers* Got it, he's a bending absorbing cyborg. [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake the Sage Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Also I think I just figured out how Korra is finally going to be able to go into the Avatar State. As I've already stated, Amon is touching [i]only[/i] the sixth chakra gate [AKA the Gate of Insight]. Since it is blocked by illusion Korra probably unknowingly opened that chakra by recognizing her fear of Amon; and her fear of Amon was probably what blocked it in the first place, if it was blocked to begin with. While Amon still scares her, she is able to face him, and he doesn’t have as great of an effect on her since she knows he is a formidable enemy. While I know that this particular chakra doesn’t deal with fear specifically, I think it’s the actual act of recognizing that fear instead of denying it, that is of important value in this case. Basically what I am saying is that the denial of fearing Amon is the “illusion” that blocks the chakra and recognizing that fear is the “insight” which opens it. Also [spoiler=More Pictures] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/UpNext.jpg[/img] Ill placed Spongebob is very ill placed [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/YoureAmon-ster.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/KorraAsksAdvice.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/Deer.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/HideYoBenders.jpg[/img] [img]http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz255/Jake-the-Sage/Funny/AmonHoax.jpg[/img] [/spoiler] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 PUNS! MY GREATEST WEAKNESS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 OH I GET IT NOW. Amon only uses the Light Chakra because he's not an actual bender and he can't touch the other ones right? Or am I missing something. Also relevant: [spoiler = Huge image] [img]http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/303/032/054.jpg[/img] [/spoiler] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake the Sage Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Comrade Trollestia' timestamp='1339995795' post='5958541'] OH I GET IT NOW. Amon only uses the Light Chakra because he's not an actual bender and he can't touch the other ones right? Or am I missing something? [/quote] No, that is what is being implied. Amon is, as he says himself, a non-bender. I am merely suggesting he is somehow getting aid from a Spirit or was tught by one on how to seal other people's bending away via the sixth chakra gate. I also, however, do not believe it is Koh. Koh doesn't have any personal grudge against any bender, Avatar or not, and if he became human he would have lost his immortality; I personally cannot see Koh giving up his immortality for a cause he probably isn't interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Games Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I only suggested Koh because maybe there isnt a face under Amon's mask. 'cept for the eyes.....!.....yeah, it's not Koh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonk Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I've also noticed that Amon normally touches the amon pressure point when debending people, which is where the spine's beginning (and the Earth Chakra) are located at. He not only blocks the Light Chakra with Illusion, but he also happens to block the Earth Chakra with fear. From what was witnessed, the only people who have not had their Amon touched during debending was Tahno and his teammates. This could be a major reason why people end up depressed after losing their bending, because their hope was absorbed by fear. This also explains why, despite Tahno being a wreck, was hopeful that a cure exists and did everything he can to prevent any more debending incidents (though it isn't much). It was probably because he didn't have the fear of looking into a hopeless situation. Also, to those who say that Amon is using high-level Chi Blocking to debend people: Why don't any other Equalists have the technique? After all, it would be beneficial for Amon to spread that technique among his troops, which would accelerate his goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion X. Denver Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Koloktos' timestamp='1340039564' post='5958728'] Why don't any other Equalists have the technique? After all, it would be beneficial for Amon to spread that technique among his troops, which would accelerate his goal. [/quote] Someone could turn on him and take over the Equalists for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catterjune Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote]Earth benders can't bend without their hands.[/quote] Toph bends with her feet. Bumi bends with his face. Apparently Lin is a worse bender then an 11 year old girl and a 100+ year old man. Okay. We've literally seen Lin bend with her feet before. And she has blades on her arms to cut whatever was tying her hands. And she doesn't have to earthbend to fight back. Resistance in anyway, even just moving her head, would have been better then just lying down and taking it. [quote]it's not a far stretch to believe that chi blockers are A) very physically strong,[/quote] Sure it is. They're just average non-bending citizens of Republic City. Shopkeepers, delivery people, reporters. They're just a ragtag team of people training in the night to form an army. [quote]Watching her helplessly struggle like "a caged animal" would have just been kind of sad to watch[/quote] That would have made it more emotionally better. A tragic end to a character, but she fought the whole way down and never surrendered. I'm mostly still wondering why Amon wasn't phased by bloodbending. I still think he's some part of an incomplete Avatar. He was bloodbent a little, like Aang was in the flashback with Yakone, and then he hit the Avatar State and kept moving. Korra's the other half of the Avatar and presumably, once... something happens in the finale, all the Avatar pieces get collected into Korra. Or Amon. IDC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonk Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1340043665' post='5958758'] Someone could turn on him and take over the Equalists for themselves. [/quote] in all honesty, how would someone be able to ursurp Amon once they "learn the technique"? Because Amon would no longer be unique? Point proven that Amon does use a form of energybending (not the same way like Aang, but the same effect). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Hatcher' timestamp='1340045344' post='5958777'] Sure it is. They're just average non-bending citizens of Republic City. Shopkeepers, delivery people, reporters. They're just a ragtag team of people training in the night to form an army. [/quote] That would be highly unlikely considering they, as I said before, are mutha-effing ninjas. Mastering chi-blocking alone would require intense physical training. You're just making assumptions now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~/Coolio Prime\~ Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Lin's debending was dramatic, but it was completely uncharacteristic of Lin and she definitely should've been bending the whole way through. I just think the writers were absent-minded. Regardless I like this series better than the previous one. I think Amon's story about the firebender is true, though watch that get debunked. I theorize that afterwards he was filled with hatred, but regardless sought equality and serenity within himself(Amon is Eddie Brock). This led him to convene with spirits, and whether it be Koh, some evil Spirit Ozai/Sozin, the corrupted dead moon spirit, a whole new spirit, or a whole assortment of villainous spirits, and they spread the element of energy absorption that comes with energybending. Either that or he's Bumi, bloodbending spiritual psuedo-Avatar airbending Aang's spirit cyborg offspring of Yakone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 [quote name='Comrade Trollestia' timestamp='1340054926' post='5958885'] That would be highly unlikely considering they, as I said before, are mutha-effing ninjas. Mastering chi-blocking alone would require intense physical training. You're just making assumptions now. [/quote]Because regular people can't go through intense physical training. They even had chi-blocking classes in the middle of the night, saying that they're regular people isn't that much of a stretch in the slightest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 [quote name='Agro' timestamp='1340056876' post='5958898'] Because regular people can't go through intense physical training. They even had chi-blocking classes in the middle of the night, saying that they're regular people isn't that much of a stretch in the slightest. [/quote] Being able to hit a pressure point of an opponent with that much precision would require you to be in fairly good shape. It's retarded to say that all non-benders are mooks with no fighting ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Sorry to change the subject but I think it's about time for the title of this thread to be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vairocana Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 [i]Apparently Lin is a worse bender then an 11 year old girl and a 100+ year old man. Okay. We've literally seen Lin bend with her feet before. And she has blades on her arms to cut whatever was tying her hands.[/i] On your knees with your arms held behind you (which, to your other point, not only are they going to be physically in shape, (people with jobs can still be in shape!? what?!) but there are plenty of techniques that don't require a lot of strength to subdue someone). She can't use her legs/feet. She can't use her arms/hands. She doesn't have retractable blades. When she pulled those out, she was literally bending the tops of her gauntlets into sharpened points (ala FMA). She can't do that with her hands held. Metalbending is also a different beast from Earthbending. It looks like it takes a lot more effort, and it is primarily focused within the hands/arms as far as forms go (as opposed to earthbending itself which uses a lot of footwork). All she had around her to work with was metal, I'm unsure how much she'd be able to do with it, even with her arms free. And I like how you're saying that Bumi being 100 is somehow a negative to his technique? He's had a good 40-60 years over Lin to train his bending. And I don't think Amon is truly energybending. I think it's something related, I think it's something that took him years of training and spiritual insight to achieve, but I don't think it's true energybending. It's also not all that effective of a combat technique, and probably incredibly difficult to learn, which is why I'm assuming none of the other equalists know it (that is assuming there isn't a whole spiritual side connected to it that would futher narrow the field of canidates). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Was it her gauntlets that were the blades? I thought she just was bending the whip things into a rigid shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vairocana Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 It looked like the gauntlets to me, but I'd have to go back to be 100% sure. Whatever it was, I [i]am[/i] sure that she metalbent to form it, it isn't just a mechanism on her suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion X. Denver Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 [quote name='Koloktos' timestamp='1340050415' post='5958844'] in all honesty, how would someone be able to ursurp Amon once they "learn the technique"? Because Amon would no longer be unique? Point proven that Amon does use a form of energybending (not the same way like Aang, but the same effect). [/quote] Amon's like an untouchable entity right now that no Equalist would think of double-crossing, especially since they need him for their cause. If others knew it, they could throw a coup and run things their way since they don't [i]need[/i] Amon like they do right now. [quote name='Shradow' timestamp='1340067680' post='5958975'] Sorry to change the subject but I think it's about time for the title of this thread to be changed. [/quote] Yeah, seconded. As for the point of Equalists being regular people or what not, I just want to point out that they've done a good job fighting Team Avatar. I think all of the main characters have had their butts kicked and/or met a good match from an Equalist soldier at least once, compared to TLA where the mains would curbstomp Fire Nation soldiers. You could say the writers are being more realistic this time around, but I think it's also due in part to Equalists being specially trained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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