The Air nomad genocide - In honor of the frankensteined corpse that is the avatar franchise

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Did the air nomad genocide happen?

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Oilspill Battery

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So you're telling me that the fire nation, somehow invaded all 4 air nomad temples, on all 4 corners of the earth and in a single day using sozin's comet, COMPLETELY wiped out every single one of them leaving no survivors from the self admitted nomadic people with the most mobile and easy to use to run away/escape element that also had flying bison at their disposal that ALSO should have been spread and have pockets all around the world (but for some reason didn't) making them even harder to kill?

But ok that's fine I can stomach that, but your explanation for why air nomads are everywhere now is that the previously completely forgotten about spirit of light had a fight with the previously completely forgotten about spirit of darkness and that somehow randomly created more air nomads out of thin air all over the world (you know, as nomads should be spread in the first place) conveniently undoing the entire genocide in the span of a single day?

And the avatar, the only person that can quantify this story using their past lives CANNOT because CONVENIENTLY that's also the exact time that the avatar lost that ability?

And people actually believe this genocide happened?
 
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You also forgot the completely fine WOODEN DOORS after a supposed inferno.

How anyone can believe such lies about the noble fire nation is beyond me.

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It didn't happen.
It happened but it was only a few temples.
It happened but it was just a part of the ongoing war.
They deserved it.
It will happen again.
 
I always thought using some idiotic New Age hippie bullshit as an explanation for why the airbenders returned was silly. Would've been way more simpler and more coherent just to have it so that air nomad genetics were dormant in certain non-Air-Nomad-individuals and they would occasionally manifest themselves though obviously it would be difficult to detect because said individuals would be untrained and thus mostly not even aware that they can even airbend.

As for the Air Nomad genocide there was a pretty good review of the series on TV Tropes years and years ago which pointed out that the way the whole thing went down is quite literally impossible unless all the airbenders were lobotomized right before the attack.
 
ArthuriusMartyrius said:
I always thought using some idiotic New Age hippie bullshit as an explanation for why the airbenders returned was silly. Would've been way more simpler and more coherent just to have it so that air nomad genetics were dormant in certain non-Air-Nomad-individuals and they would occasionally manifest themselves though obviously it would be difficult to detect because said individuals would be untrained and thus mostly not even aware that they can even airbend.

As for the Air Nomad genocide there was a pretty good review of the series on TV Tropes years and years ago which pointed out that the way the whole thing went down is quite literally impossible unless all the airbenders were lobotomized right before the attack.
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The whole "airbenders magically return" plotline would've been neat if the baddie for that season had more to do with it. Imagine if he tried to make his own air-weeaboo nation based on his interpretations of air nomad teachings instead of just "lmao imma feed the avatar liquid mercury lol ever heard of guru ligma"

Hell, he could've been doing this and finding/generating airbenders before the magic bullshit happened, that would've been some fun conflict. Aang and Tenzin have been gathering acolytes and teaching their ways since the war ended but haven't managed to produce new benders outside the family while this nutjob from some mountain commune shows up with an antagonistic army of them?
 
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Well I don't think all of them died in a single day. Most of them probably did but the ones who could escape probably just died eventually from other causes since it happened like ~400 years before the events of the show. As to why they returned in LOK I have no clue, I never got into that show.
 
I don't think they ever had numbers
Also while on this
Aren't they not meant to even have relationships? Isn't anng confused about his peenor feelings in it?
 
ArthuriusMartyrius said:
I always thought using some idiotic New Age hippie bullshit as an explanation for why the airbenders returned was silly. Would've been way more simpler and more coherent just to have it so that air nomad genetics were dormant in certain non-Air-Nomad-individuals and they would occasionally manifest themselves though obviously it would be difficult to detect because said individuals would be untrained and thus mostly not even aware that they can even airbend.

As for the Air Nomad genocide there was a pretty good review of the series on TV Tropes years and years ago which pointed out that the way the whole thing went down is quite literally impossible unless all the airbenders were lobotomized right before the attack.
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What would have been simplest, most coherent and most consistent solution is that pockets of air nomands survived (because fucking duh) and went into deep cover/hidding in isolated hard to reach locations only revealing themselves after the war was officially 100% completely over out of fear for their lives after being hunted for 100 years with many more refusing to reveal themselves even after that. (Kinda like kung fu panda 3)

Any solution that magically "undoes" the genocide is retarded and undermines the whole point of the series and equally the idea that the fire nation somehow smote the entire air nomad line from the face of the earth is also stupid. Like. They're the air NOMADS. Supposedly they travel all around, and none of them saw the mobilization of the fire nation militaries approaching the temples?

The original series works because it doesn't have to answer this question, but any followup would have to.
 
ArthuriusMartyrius said:
I always thought using some idiotic New Age hippie bullshit as an explanation for why the airbenders returned was silly. Would've been way more simpler and more coherent just to have it so that air nomad genetics were dormant in certain non-Air-Nomad-individuals and they would occasionally manifest themselves though obviously it would be difficult to detect because said individuals would be untrained and thus mostly not even aware that they can even airbend.

As for the Air Nomad genocide there was a pretty good review of the series on TV Tropes years and years ago which pointed out that the way the whole thing went down is quite literally impossible unless all the airbenders were lobotomized right before the attack.
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Obviously the most logical and satisfying explanation would be for Aang to breed every female in the show and for Tenzin to have his own harem.
 
What I really hoped what would have happened for the return of the Airbenders would have been a repeat of the traditional way bending came about (before Korra and Wan ruined it with the bullshit Lion Turtles did everything) and have the art being retaught by Appa to those willing and spirituality able.

To me, there was a sort of theme of benders going back to their roots for bending; what with Zuko learning the uncorrupted fire bending from the dragons, Toph becoming the greatest earth bender ever and figuring out metal bending thanks to her unique teaching from the Badger Moles, and if you stretch it, Katara learning proper Water bending from the teacher with direct access to the spirits Tui and La (the koi spirits).

All these examples of dragons, badger Moles, and the moon spirit are from where it said bending originated (again, before Korra ruined it like everything) so having the last air bison reteach air bending, to me, makes thematically sense.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
What would have been simplest, most coherent and most consistent solution is that pockets of air nomands survived (because fucking duh) and went into deep cover/hidding in isolated hard to reach locations only revealing themselves after the war was officially 100% completely over out of fear for their lives after being hunted for 100 years with many more refusing to reveal themselves even after that. (Kinda like kung fu panda 3)

Any solution that magically "undoes" the genocide is retarded and undermines the whole point of the series and equally the idea that the fire nation somehow smote the entire air nomad line from the face of the earth is also stupid. Like. They're the air NOMADS. Supposedly they travel all around, and none of them saw the mobilization of the fire nation militaries approaching the temples?

The original series works because it doesn't have to answer this question, but any followup would have to.
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If I recall correctly, Aaron Ehasz' proposed ending for Avatar would be for it to end with Aang going off into the sunset to search for any traces of Air Nomad survivors. Which is...fine but it does kinda undercut the entire emotional stakes of airbenders being wiped out to have it end on such a note because it leaves it open-ended. The show was weirdly much stronger for not going down that route and making it clear that the other airbenders were gone forever.

So no, I don't think it would've been the better solution. It would've come off as super-cheap.
Saturnalia-1918 said:
What I really hoped what would have happened for the return of the Airbenders would have been a repeat of the traditional way bending came about (before Korra and Wan ruined it with the bullshit Lion Turtles did everything) and have the art being retaught by Appa to those willing and spirituality able.

To me, there was a sort of theme of benders going back to their roots for bending; what with Zuko learning the uncorrupted fire bending from the dragons, Toph becoming the greatest earth bender ever and figuring out metal bending thanks to her unique teaching from the Badger Moles, and if you stretch it, Katara learning proper Water bending from the teacher with direct access to the spirits Tui and La (the koi spirits).

All these examples of dragons, badger Moles, and the moon spirit are from where it said bending originated (again, before Korra ruined it like everything) so having the last air bison reteach air bending, to me, makes thematically sense.
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That doesn't really work because bending was established as genetic all the way back in the original show. If you don't have the genetic aptitude, you can't do it which is why my idea was for traces of airbending genes to remain and pop up in certain individuals in the future. Benders developed their techniques for bending from watching and observing dragons and the moon and the ocean and so on but if you don't have the airbending aptitude, you're not gonna learn it from fucking Appa no matter how willing.

TenMilesWide said:
The whole "airbenders magically return" plotline would've been neat if the baddie for that season had more to do with it. Imagine if he tried to make his own air-weeaboo nation based on his interpretations of air nomad teachings instead of just "lmao imma feed the avatar liquid mercury lol ever heard of guru ligma"

Hell, he could've been doing this and finding/generating airbenders before the magic bullshit happened, that would've been some fun conflict. Aang and Tenzin have been gathering acolytes and teaching their ways since the war ended but haven't managed to produce new benders outside the family while this nutjob from some mountain commune shows up with an antagonistic army of them?
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Had the same idea actually. Zaheer as some crazy Air Nomad devotee who decides to recreate his own airbending nation but more miliarized and violent would've been a great story but instead we got some goofy bullshit about magic anarchists that are more obsessed with offing the Avatar than doing any anarchist shit.
 
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Saw the title and legit thought they were making ANOTHER last airbender spin-off.

As for the actual topic jet fuel Fire bending can't burn at a high altitude.
 
A Grey Cat said:
Saw the title and legit thought they were making ANOTHER last airbender spin-off.
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They're making another live action series + several more animated movies.
ArthuriusMartyrius said:
Which is...fine but it does kinda undercut the entire emotional stakes of airbenders being wiped out to have it end on such a note because it leaves it open-ended. The show was weirdly much stronger for not going down that route and making it clear that the other airbenders were gone forever.

So no, I don't think it would've been the better solution. It would've come off as super-cheap.
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The issue is that the "evasion" element filled with people nomadic people who can fly being wiped out in like 40 years has the issue of making no sense on its own.
 
As a diplomatic comisary of the Fire Nation...
The Earth Kingdom did it.
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Why nobody of you quoted me, fucking bastards.
I'm gonna apply Agni Kai all of you
 
Two Dollars said:
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Buddhism and sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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The Dalai Lama cited the Indian Buddhist texts of Vasubandhu, Asanga, and Ashvaghosha as his sources concerning what constitutes inappropriate sexual behavior.[54] In 1997 he stated: "Sexual organs were created for reproduction between the male element and the female element — and everything that deviates from that is not acceptable from a Buddhist point of view."
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I wish someone would call the author out on misappropriating Tiberian religion and making it homo friendly.
 
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