How did she go from this

How did she go from this...

...to this?

Bloodbending isn't unethical at all. I mean, it's not as bad as setting your enemies on fucking fire or drowning them.

And it's not like you're tearing the blood out of their bodies like Hama did to the flowers and trees.
It's basically just telekinesis.

people do dumb shit when they're angry

Personally I agree with you. It's a nonlethal way to incapacitate people.

But in-universe, Katara was openly horrified at even KNOWING the technique. Then she uses it in cold blood on someone who wasn't endangering her or her friends.

She realized that she was in a war situation and nutted the fuck up.

She accepted her fate

She full-on embraced it. Look at that sly smile.

As much as she didn't want to indulge herself, her thirst for revenge took over. This was such a good character arc.

Agreed. I loved seeing bloodbending come up again. I had thought she would never use it again, but there it was.

>tfw she didn't bloodbend Azula in the finale

>going 10s if not 100s of miles away from your camp to take revenge on a civilian who was not helping the Fire Nation army in any way

>war situation

pick one

>Twf she ruined what was supposed to Zuko's Climactic final fight, Depriving us of the joy of finally seeing Zuko gain the strength to over come his sister who's been kicking his ass since book two.

>Daytime

hmmmm

But Zuko DID overcome his sister. He was clearly beating her.

More importantly, he showed he was not only the better firebender, but the better person when he threw himself in front of the lightning.

Something Azula would never do.

I don't mean the war was in the immediate vicinity but at some point she realized that she needed to do anything within her means to complete her goals whatever they were and deal with the guilt after everything is said and done. He my not be a soldier anymore but at some point she had to have been like "fuck it. imma blood bend the shit out of whatever needs blood bending". He just happened to be the target of her own little personal Mai Lai.

>fuck up your bending on a tiny brain blood vessel
>best case scenario the guy you were restraining turns into a vegetable

bloodbending is fucking dangerous and is a miracle anyone can survive being subject to it

You can do the same thing with any other kind of bending; blunt force from earth or oxygen deprivation from air/water/fire could easily cause permanent brain damage.

>literally shooting fire into faces
>not even burned

Have you ever been lifted into the air by having your blood pulled upwards? Fucking painful.

And what kind of emotional climax was Azula VS Katara?

They didn't have a rivalry, or anything to link them.

Katara is a good character but only when she's not the focus
Y/N?

Exactly what I'm talking about. Katara was completely superfluous to that whe fight, she oils have been with the rest of the gaang taking down the airships.

>More importantly, he showed he was not only the better firebender
Zuko is still not as good a firebender as Azula. The only reason why he was winning is because she was losing her mind at the time. Zuko being a better firebender isn't important to his character arc at all. Joining the gaang and gaining their trust was. The fact that Katara, the one whom he had fought with in the previous two finales is the one to step in and help him is a very powerful, symbolic moment. Also, it is a perfect juxtaposition to Azula who had lost the loyalty of her two closest friends.

She was fucking pissed. The point is to show that she feels so much anger towards the man that killed her mother that she doesn't think twice about using a power that would normally traumatise her.

I wondered this too. She was so fucking distraught at being taught and then tricked into using evil bending and then totally fucking disregarded that in the name of revenge.

Because rape and murder are two different things.

It's like how people hate Jean for mind raping people but they don't complain when she uses violent forces as Pheonix

>rape
wat?

Different writers maybe?

>no full moon in sight
got my noggin joggin

I guess Zuko was really unlucky
Ozai was 100% right about him being a loser

I wanted the comet's ice to empower her waterbending enough to make it possible

Only girls can beat up girls trope

bloodbending is actually one of the least lethal if done smart. cut bloodflow to brain for 10 second. unconsciousness. fight over. tie the dude up and bring to prison. boom.

Uh...Zuko beat his sister by having companions after Azula had squandered all hers.

>If you're too weak and pathetic just gang up on your oponent
Kinda sad moral when I think about it

>dude, learning new abillities to fight the evil and defend myself is bad!
>i'm such a meanie

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>WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?

wasn't there a treaty that those "special" tactics should not be used in war.
Like chemical weapons in real life.

What actually do earth bender bend?
If its minerals they can "blood bend" too

Well earth is mostly silicone oxides i think
So maybe if someone had nace fake titties/ass they coud bend it a bit?

>tit bending
sounds neat

You can pretty much control body parts and boner bending and will people to pay their legs open

It has nothing to do with avenging your mom who got incinerated as her body bubbles and she inhales the flames and burn off her lungs so she can't breathe until she collapse and shuts down her brain as she slowly flows into cinders

She took things her brother said in confidence about their mother to someone else, threw them in his face, and never apologized

Bloodbending is monstrous.

Tou don't understand things, do you?

Hein?

If only Katara was a medical doctor...
btw, can't airbenders do that too?

>Amon simply used Bloodbending to block the part of your brain that allowed you to bend.
>Amon could've just done this without touching someone.

Did you forgot about the fucking trees exploding?

Zuko and Azula's fight was the ultimate character arc climax for Zuko. It showed that the only thing that could give him honor was himself acting honorable. Finding the Avatar, beating Azula, none of that would bring him honor. By sacrificing his life for Katara, he showed that truely his honor had been restored, and by his own actions.

Also I'm glad we've had so many Avatar thread. Truely the GOAT show.

>cut blood flow to the brain

grats you just forced him to have a stroke

You are supposed to forget that comets are made of ice and rock when watching ATLA

Same how firebenders can bend at night but not during an eclipse

>Zuko being a better firebender isn't important to his character arc at all.
Yet, Aang, Toph and Katara get to be the absolute best at their respective elements.

Not that user, but Zuko's was more unique. He had to work so hard to develop his skills against Azula's natural physical talent. Plus he's a prince so it was fucking delicious seeing how everything blows on his face. He had to be humbled. His whole culture is all about being the best so of course it's okay for the minorities to have their own empowering episodes (poor Toph, she needed more, to be honest).

>He had to be humbled
Wasn't that already the purpose of his S2 arc?

Yup yup. But it ties in to his overall arc. It's not about being a better fire bender than Azula. We kinda knew he'll never surpass her abilities since the moment we found out she's a genius since a kid. His climax is finally letting go of all the shallow honor bullshit. When he saved Katara, it's like the most defining moment where the audience sees him as part of the avatar team and not the honor hungry prince with daddy issues anymore

Their definition for the metal element is so arbitrary. It's not even worth worrying about it

>where the audience sees him as part of the avatar team
I thought that was what the field trip saga was for.

Just because it was intentional doesn't mean it wasn't incredibly unsatisfying. I would much rather have seen him grow strong at the end than this hackneyed sacrifice bullshit.

>muh power levels
Just go back to watching DBZ. Stop trying to reduce Zuko and Azula's rivalry down to a fist fight, it's shallow as fuck.

>pretty katara gets no porn
>the manly-ass korra gets tons of it

>Muh Noble Sacrifice is deep storytelling
Perhaps you should back to reading Capeshit.

It was piss, user. But to be fair I totally don't remember what his story was about around the campfire. If it wasn't about honor honor honor honor then you got me

Not even the previous user, but holy shit man, you're missing the points of Zuko's development like a champ.

Zuko' development as a person was already done by that point. Doing That in the finale was a waste of time and of a scenario.

I'm sorry you were dissappointed with your experience, I guess. I thuroughly enjoyed it all till the end

By jumping in to save Katara, Zuko gave proof of the fact that he indeed has the characteristics of the new kind of Fire Lord Iroh envisioned him as. Someone who is willing to make the right choice, to do good, and to place others before him, even if it means making sacrifices, perhaps even the ultimate sacrifice. This is what truly made him honorable, more than anything else.

Going further, having Zuko take over as Fire Lord by simply whopping Azula's ass would also make a moot point out of why she broke down: her inability to accept the ideas of trust, friendship and affection, which are exactly the things that made a team out of the whole Gaang, including Katara and Zuko, defeating her in the end.

It isn't particularly deep. The power of friendship and sacrifice wins over the meanies, but it was done excellently, and would have been so much less if it all came down to a fiery punch-up.

Aang should have been all over it.

Fuck off, Korra has giant tits and a nice body when she isnt all covered up.

>Zuko and Azula's fight was the ultimate character arc climax for Zuko. It showed that the only thing that could give him honor was himself acting honorable. Finding the Avatar, beating Azula, none of that would bring him honor. By sacrificing his life for Katara, he showed that truely his honor had been restored, and by his own actions.
Honestly this.

>Same how firebenders can bend at night but not during an eclipse
this one always got me

Zutara > Kataang. It's not that hard.

I believe you misspelled

Zukaang>Kataang>Zutara

Fair point, Zuko realizing that to have honor you must act honorably does work well. I'm just salty that we Never got the Payoff to ursurper Villian thing Azula was doing.

Women are like that.

Avatar State is superior to Blood Bending or any other type of bending. Learning that shit instead of improving your control over the AS is a waste of time. The Earth Kingdom General was right.

This. Aang and Zuko (in any variation of rule 63 or simply gay) are perfect for each other.

Unlike Korra and Appa 2.0.

True. It's like women always get a pass when they're complete assholes.

Most of the time they do. And even when they don't, more than not they still believe they did nothing wrong.

Say what you want about Bryke, but they wrote some pretty accurate women.

What are the best episodes? I wanna rewatch a little some.

Ember Island Players is of course a must.

it's called character development. this is not a show about an obese jew kid who cries every episode and nothing progresses