20 Avatar Mysteries That Need Explaining
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It’s been 16 years, and yet fans around the world are still theorizing about the Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of KorraTV shows, but also their comic books and novels. And with the fresh and exciting launch of Nickelodeon’s Avatar Studios, we are about to get even more to talk about for at least a decade or two. The beauty of theory is not always to find answers, but to imagine potential events or even what if scenarios. While The Legend of Korra have answered some of the burning questions we had about what happened after Aang’s victory over Fire Lord Ozai, and after Zuko’s coronation, it also left us with a lot of questions. There’s a huge time gap between the two series, and while the comic books are slowly filling that gap, it’s still far away form answering all of our burning questions. It’s true that we all want to know more about what happened after the Avatar series, but what about what happened before it? The Rise of Kyoshi and The Shadow of Kyoshigives a look at Kyoshi’s life, but we still don’t know how the Order of the White Lotus was born or how Iroh and Bumi became members.
In today’s video I’ll discuss important questions like: is cabbagebending possible? Would Korra kick Aang’s butt in a fight? Why is Mai so grumpy all the time? Alright enough goofing around, here’s 20 Avatar mysteries that need explaining.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:39 What Travels from One Host to Another
01:23 Iroh’s Little Secret
02:04 Royals Without the Tabloids
02:51 Lin and Su’s Dad
03:34 Water Pressure
04:17 The Meteorite Sword
04:55 Wrong Flying Fireball
05:45 Avatar: The Last Lion Turtle
06:25 Small Tribe Avatar
07:19 Zuko + Mai
08:02 How Are the Animals Bending?
08:53 Where’s Bosco?
09:35 The Seven or Eight Nations
10:31 A Wild Azula Appears
11:26 The Rare Non-Bender Air Nomad
12:17 Ursa
13:06 Healing Water
13:49 The White Lotus Not Explained
14:28 Aang Kills
15:08 The Cabbage Merchant’s Identity
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Can waterbenders bend bones, techincally there is minerals in bones and water so water benders could bone bend , so in total - after more 100 years waterbender will be overpowered
Yes sir it's not Over
Us
how about we NEVER call ozai "fire daddy" ever again
great idea.
But I love my fire daddy
@@kadmandu2768 But fire daddy doesn't like water 😔
@@fireskul6613 NO GOD. NO GOD PLS NO. NOO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@TaMarvio2129 Fire daddy is god, don't resist
I didn’t come up with this but I agree that cabbage man might be part of the white lotus as a non bender and his job was to keep an eye on the gaang as they traveled, because it seems a bit odd that they always find each other from omashu, ba sing se and other places.
That’s actually a pretty good theory. Really explains why cabbage man is always there
and how did he live so long? he was already old in atla but he's alive in lok
edit: i know it's his son now, thanks for everyone that told me
but remember in Omashu he wanted them beheaded for destroying his cabbages or something
I think “my cabbages” is a code
@@usedtissuepaper42 but he’s also the one that brought them to king bumi on the first place
I'd actually like a Iroh spin-off. It could dive into his perspective of the growing evilness of Ozai since even if Iroh wasn't perfect before his son's death, he was still compassionate and not ruthless. It could also focus on his experience after the loss of his son, Lu Ten.
"Brave soldier boy comes marching home".
Think we should explore the lead up and events of him loosing Lu Ten then have the ability to see him change into the legend we see in ATLA
@@benjaminbicknell6834 That's kinda included in what I put.
“The Order of the White Lotus”
@@vaderllama Yeah.
Iroh wasn't called dragon of the west because he killed a dragon, but for his ability to breathe fire. He "demonstrated" it to Azula in an episode.
he didnt kill the dragon, he said he did publicly although he let it live in return of awesome dragon fire powers, lol
It was probably both
All fire benders can breathe fire. The 'demomstration' was just a distraction. The title 'Dragon' was given for 'killing' the last dragon.
I like to think he got the nickname from the tea, then when he "killed" the dragon it gave a double meaning.
No he's called dragon of the west bc he was the first to brake is ba sing se
A mini comic about Sokka and Toph trying to find the space sword would be SO good
Toph was stated to have found it for him
Accelerator (Toaru) break the peace and cause havoc in Avatar's world as Vector bending, it's illegal in Avatar-verse so now he became criminal.
I know
Toph would've filled her space with sokka's sword
And then they should find out the meteor was a gift from Yue
I understand why mai is always grumpy. It’s actually hard being an only child for a long time and then your parents wouldn’t like you to have some fun and then suddenly gives all the love to the second child, wouldn’t you feel grumpy too?
It might have to do with the traditional "I-need-a-male-heir" syndrom, that she got neglected by her parents (and especially her father).
She’s always been grumpy.... Her parents forced her to be quite and complicit. Holding up all of those feelings can make people grumpy.
@@galdramann2478 She's the oldest so they most likely placed all responsibilities onto her as she will be the next heir. Her parents wanted her to be quite and complacent as well so there is also a chance they raised her like that so she could be married off.
@@galdramann2478 That’s good reason to explain Mai’s family have no male heir, until she had little brother. I feel pity for Mai because she just wants to be independent, and have fun.
They pretty much explain it in the beach episode
Roku’s dragon was referred to as “Roku’s [the avatar’s] spirit guide, like appa is to me[aang]”. Whose to say that these are not spirits AND animals? Perhaps they started as spirits and chose to forego their immortal forms to become a natural part of the world so that they could aid benders and avatars along their journey?
Aang chose Appa before they realised he was the Avatar.
@@kyranlidua8678 they knew Aang was the avatar since he was a baby they just didn't tell him til he was older
This idea is the base premise of Twi and La, yes? I think that's why Zhao was able to kill the moon spirit.
What about naga
Wow. I never even realized that Jett was a sacrifice, not just an unfortunate death. I wonder how conscious Katara was of this… I mean, she did almost use the spirit water on Zuko’s scar, and would have if Aang and Iroh didn’t barge in…
it wouldnt be surprising if she was conscious of it, but then the same can be said if she wasnt.
It's probably just a plot hole for making up drama
@@aronhelios1734 Its because she didn't love him :)
@@420Xingso you’re just easily surprised by everything?
Iroh spin off show NEEDS to happen for sure
I've always wondered what happened when he visited the Spirit World.
Wouldn't be the same though cause they couldn't have Mako to voice act him
@@CJTower. biiiiig facts. But if we like as long as the story is good (like ATLA) I’ll be able to get past it and just enjoy
@@3_Michael_ true but idk it makes me feel sad watching iroh when I know the real iroh is dead
Iroh is the best waifu ngl
Umm
Preeeetty much.
I am also getting recommendations
You watch demon slayer to
@@kimmydayo581 What is Demon slayer?
Yup started watching it again too. Masterpiece.
14:49 Aang didn’t kill any fire nation soldier as long as we know. What he did kill was the giant wasp in the desert, which broke the air nomads “all life is sacred” rule/norm. But of course, we can see this situation as Aang reaching the bottom of his life, feeling an enormous pain because of loosing Appa, his last attachment to his culture, and of course, his best friend ever
He didn't intentionally kill any fire nation solider. Hes probably killed dozens of fire nation(and also earth kingdom) troops not even counting the North Pole. You could argue accidents wouldn't violate Aangs rule though and he's not oblivious to this. He seemed most concerned with pre meditating the Fire Lords death as opposed to the Fire Lord dying. And that's the issue with the wasp too, he made the choice to kill it before doing so.
Bruh he overturned multiple Fire Nation vessels by flipping them with a tsunami in the middle of the south pole...
So you didn’t watch the show did you? lol
In _The Legend of Korra,_ Toph mentions one of her husbands'/boyfriends' names was Canto. Mentioned once, and never again, but we do know his name. The other one, we don't know. Could be Satoru, but we don't know.
The legend of iroh would be a massive hit
Imagine him learning firebending from the dragons
I think it should be called the Epic of Iroh.
Not anymore.
We Want It! Kidnap the CEO of Nickelodeon and make sure they won't get to see the light of day unless that happens!
if bison can airbend, then Aang was certianly not the last airbender
Appa erasure
It's pretty obvious what they mean by that... cmon
r/wooosh (kinda)
*human airbender
And those other sky bisons too
12:59 Loosing her memory wasn’t a “problem”. That’s what she was looking for. The face spirit realized that she was broken, amd that she wanted to forget her abusive relationship. The spirit could just gave her a new face, but it helped her beyond that
I think its a problem since it also made her forget about her children. I think it ould have been cool if some memories would stay
for the "How are the animals bending" mystery, they say somewhere (I don't remember which character or which show) that Badger Moles are the "original earthbenders". It is possible the dragons and sky bison have something similar going on. They might have somehow shared their bending with the Lion Turtles and that's how it spread
It was in ATLA and it was by Toph when Zuko couldn't firebend as he wasn't as angry. They had to go to the original source (The dragons) to learn how to firebend w/o rage.
@@hollowsongs3504 aang also mentions that for the air nomads the flying bisons are the original air benders
@@hollowsongs3504 and in the episode about the love maze
Everyone asking about that but nobody asking why there isn't an original water bending animal. Korra had a polar bear dog as her "animal guide" although it was more like a therapy dog for her bad relationship script. I wonder if earth bending avatars get badger moles as their animal guides
@@enigma5195i thought water has the fish/moon
"Iroh spinoff"? never before have I realized how much I needed something more upon hearing It.
The father of Lin beifong is actually a man named Kanto it was revealed in the legend of korra when Bolin asks toph who Lin's father was so toph said,"It was a man named Kanto he was a pretty nice man but things didn't work out between us" so the main mystery is the father of suyin beifong.
Suyins dad might have been revealed in a new comic, he could be a lava bender who went to tophs metal bending academy and he looks exactly like opal (only speculation of course)
Sokka
@Depressed Avatar Caid yup definitely I agree with your theory
I’ve got an inkling that it’s satoru simply because he has similar hair to suyin
There is a thing called lying.
Technically, Korra started a second generation of Avatars, as she released the spirits, and created a new Raava. As a bonus, she is related to the son, grandchildren, wife of the Avatar. Don’t forget the chief of the Northern Water Tribe either
People don’t understand this enough lmao it was hinted that this will happen every generation. But people swear korra “erased the avatars”
@Adrian Todd but it makes sense to have happened. You guys just like tiptoeing around every change that lok made instead of trying to understand and embrace it
@Adrian Todd I think you’re being idealistic. The same fight is gonna happen again eventually and raava needs to be replenished
@Adrian Todd my guy you’re speaking like you wrote the show LOL
A big theory for me was that Iroh and his son went to the sun warrior’s temple, probably to teach him about a culture of fire-bending and their ancient techniques, only to both discover the dragons with the dance.
I seriously hope that the next avatar series comes out because I dont know how many time I've watched a.t.l.a and l.o.k, Its uncountable .
I been watching both since June n I'm still watching them 😂😂😂
Here is what I do
.watch avatar the last air bender
.then rewatched all of my favorite episodes
.Then watch legend of Korra backwards
.And watch avatar lifetimes and mystery
@@samanthamendoza8548 I watched both so many times that I did watch A.T.L.A.B the whole season then watched the whole season of L.f.K then I did watch one episode of korra then go to anag back and forth till I fished both
@@samanthamendoza8548 am gonna keep watching it till the new series comes out
same here🥲
The reason why the comet makes the fire people op is actually explained - it‘s because they can use it‘s kinetic energy to become a lot stronger
Or that they absorb the flames within it or something
If you making that questions why don't you questions why They have More power with sun and water benders with moon
@@oniricfantasy6687 with water its a spiritual thing and with fire i think the sun makes their chi/chakra stronger
or bc its a anime
@@Kuroun3d its not an anime
For the Sozin's comet thing, you said that comets are typically composed of ice and dust, but it is very possible that Sozin's comet is a sungrazer, a comet that tends to endure a massive temperature swing when passing close to the sun, which would therefore ,at the time of the comet, it would be millions of degrees. This I believe makes the whole thing make sense
Even the surface of the sun is just a few thousand degrees, not "millions"
@@nemou4985 Yes the photosphere is approximately 5800 degrees Kelvin, but the corona which is the outer atmosphere reaches to about 2 million degrees kelvin.
@@MontyBleikerwhat? Think about it for a second, a ball of ice cannot reach millions of degrees. It would become a cloud of gas long before reaching even 0.01% of that temperature. Considering comets still exist, no, they do not get hot.
@@Distant_View Okay, I have no idea where you pulled that "millions of degrees" statistic, it would probably reach somewhere between 2000 to 4000 degrees kelvin. Also, I don't know how much physics you can comprehend, but a comet can reach that temperature and still stay intact, because think about it, THEY EXIST. If that blatant fact wasn't enough to tell you that maybe there is a flaw in your logic, then let me explain it to you. A sungrazer passes close to the sun, which causes high temperature on the SURFACE. Which means it doesn't cease to exist, but instead it creates a massive ion tail, and gradually gets smaller. Sozin's comet appears to very large relative to other comet, so, like other large sungrazers, it could survive several passes of it's perigee with the Sun.
As far as the comet goes, I always go with the “not our universe, not our astrophysics” mindset. These people can move elements with their minds so I don’t find it that weird if their comets aren’t made of ice and dust like ours are.
Edit: in some of the earlier books, it is confirmed that all air nomads are born benders. This means that luckily no air nomads will be stuck on any towers lol
But how could they be born . Doesn't apply to other civilizations
@@Krankenwagen571 just how they decided the universe would work
Wouldn't really be surprised if the whole "What happened to Azula" thing was that she just faded away and lived a civilian life, like her mother. And that's where we get Asami or Bolin and Mako.
@@stormy4821 I meant after that, if she she survived. Like what was the end result for her character.
feels kinda forced to me to stich all the stories together after the fact.
not every LoK character should be connected to an Atla character. makes the world feel smaller IMO
Tbh it kind of make sense like it was said that Mako and Bolin's mother was a firebender and that is probably why Mako has lightning bending
Do you by any chance like kotlc, or is Fitz your actual name?
@@theweebqueen2847 Hadn't heard of KOTLC until now, but Fitz isn't my real name. Fitz Simmons is a reference to Agents Of SHIELD
Ursa didn't lose some of her memories due to switching faces but because she asked to
Yes she did the mother of faces told her that her old life would be erased
@@arriibacon531 i think that was OP's point. The mother of faces can 'just' change your face and leave your memories intact, OR she can change your memories. Ursa chose both, which is imo understandable but still idk how Zuko could forgive her for that so easily. Like - not gonna lie, it'd bother me big time to know my mom chose to forget me.
@@ingusch3783 i know man and also she got a new man and a child
@@SikhoGuwa honestly, I don't think that's a big problem. Their dad was a grade A wet lettuce, so I'd assume any child would be happy to see their mom find a new, better spouse. Little half-siblings can be annoying, but also nothing too dramatic. Just the part about choosing to forget your two other children... like, yikesss Ursa we get ut you didn't like their dad, but that's a bit too much imo.
@@ingusch3783 She had good reason to though. She wanted to forget because Ozai said if she ever returned or contacted Zuko he’d kill Zuko. She knew it’d be too hard to stay away if she remembered so she chose to forget
In 'The beach' episode Mai revealed that she had always been controlled and taught by her parents to not be so expressive and reserved. This led to her seeming so uninterested and gloomy.
We need more Uncle Iroh and his Leaves from the vine
I...I'm not crying
RIP to my homie Bosco dawg 🐻😢💔
may he R.I.P forever
Rest In Peace bosco
What!? He dead!?
@@STANKONIA24 ofc duhhhh it’s a new generation
@@cloudymuffins7708 Nigga shut up.
I would explain all of the mystery but then it would not be fun !
Edit : WE WANT THAT IROH SPIN OFF SHOW ! I DON’T CARE IF I AM A AVATAR CHARACTER I WANT A IROH SPIN OFF SHOW !
If they don't make the iroh spinoff we raid.
@AvatarCaid Son of Akako,Bro Lord Hot,Ash what dose ? Mean
@@amariewheatley2906 YES!
I am scared the show could not live up to our image of Iroh. I rather not have a show then a dissapointing show.
@@simonbolhuis4441 IT WILL TRUST ME I WILL GET THE SPIRT OF IROH TO DIRECT IT ! ALL IN FAVOR OF AN IROH SPIN OF SHIW SAY YES ! YES
Wasn’t it explained that it was sort of a rite of passage for firebenders to seek dragons and kill them to prove they were superior? Iroh on his journey to slay a dragon said he killed the last one so no one would come looking for dragons. It’s not a mystery how he found them I thought since he would just go where everyone else before him went to go look for dragons. Am I missing something?
I believe you are completely correct
10:44 never calling him fire daddy ever again
What about how there are more flying bison in LOK
It’s explained that there was an island with a secret flock of sky bison I think.
There was a small heard hidden for over 100 years
Ya....
The fire sages raised a herd in secret
@@izthistle6196 that would make a lot of sense
I have one more interesting theory: If Iroh is the dragon of the west, is there a dragon of the east/north/south
Its a good question, but I think the title ,,dragon of the west" comes from the location of the fire nation in the world of avatar. The fire nation is located in the west -> dragon of the west
@@tydez9931 Yeah, I thought of that too, but still, it is a bit weird
still though, there is a bit of a mystery about what happened to the other people with the title of dragon.
@@tydez9931 i mean just because there's a dragon of the west doesn't mean it needs all the other directions lol, wanna add dragon of the northwest ?:)
@@tydez9931 yup that's true
Prior to the digital age, royalty would go unrecognized as long as they were not wearing crowns, traveling in specific types of fancy wagons, etc.
The people on Ember Island probably had no idea what Zuko and Azula looked like. The Ember Island play made it clear that they knew Zuko had a scar; and they probably saw pictures of him when the Fir Nation hang up wanted posters, back when he was rocking the pony tail.
They had probably seen paintings of the royal family at some point.
Historically, paintings of royal people make them look more attractive than they actually are (and are not true to appearance).
They would have been hard to recognize.
So another big question for me is this...If the spirit of Avatar Aang can teach Kora how the bend energy, why can't the past Avatars teach the new Avatar bending of the elements?
Maybe cause it's another life and the new avatar has to deal with new people. And I don't think that their past lives can demonstrate it to them. They can only talk to them and seek advice but their past lives can't move like a bender. And of course, they can't bend cause it's only their spirit, no physical body.
@@maxzinmoon4289 Talk to Roku then, when he help Aang to escape from Fire Nation after they both met.
Maybe each avatar needs to discover energy bending for themselves
The guy in the video:
“water has to be a high pressure to cut through something”
The Grand Canyon: “Am I joke to you??”
He actually said "water could only cut through metal at a very high pressure point"
The Grand Canyon is not made out of metal
The grand canyon isn't metal
It was implied that Kataras sprit water isn’t what saved Aang from Azulas lightening. It was the strong connection Aang had to Katara is what saved him.
nah, or else they wouldnt have showed katara nearly using the water on zuko. cuz in that moment we want her to. but later on when aang dies, were thankful she didnt use the water on zuko or else aang wouldnt have been saved. the water was very important.
@@MELTEDBUHTTER It had to be more than just the water though. The guru said that Aang had to let go of Katara to master the Avatar state but he leaves his training bc he doesn’t want to. He starts to let his feelings for Katara go as he enters the Avatar State in the fight in Book 2 but is shot by Azulas lightning. After Katara revives him the camera pans to her face just like when she saved him from the iceberg. Azula severed Aangs connection to the Avatar state and took him out. He only regains this during his fight with Ozai. In Book 3, Katara says all she did was use the spirit water but also says she’s not sure exactly what she did. Her connection to Aangs helped him regain consciousness just like at the beginning of Book 1
Bs they literally say it was the spirit water that revived him
I reckon that Katara's water whip thing cutting through metal thing could be possible, because, due to the fact that pressure = force/area, the force of the whip could be very high, it not just being a limp line of water as clearly demonstrated throughout the series, with the area of the whip being extremely low, therefore exerting a humongous force onto a tiny area, which would probably be able to cut through metal.
I've always been curious about how the elements are connected. Couldn't air bending technically control every other form of bending simply because of their makeup?
The Guru says straight up that the division of the elements is an illusion.
A true master wouldn't need Rava to bend all for elements.
There is no spoon.
Explain?
@@danieldomen2057I think he means since air is in fire water and earth airbenders could control them
İf you think about it waterbenders can heat up water which can lead up to fire or at least heat water is everywhere and it can literally boiled and become airlike and if you try to bend steam you are kinda airbending and you can use water to cut through rocks or even lift rocks of sort so even if you cant bend like toph you can do it to some extend same goes for earth they can lava bend meaning they can play with heat as well if you think about it there is too much to explore and i think because water is a flexible element and its everywhere thats why we see the most powerful benders from watert tribe and most evil ones sometimes as well like amon
Look to nature and that will give you your answers
The Northern Air Temple solved the issue of non-airbenders being able to live in those environments using technology im sure Sokka knows how to help lol
Poor sokka he missed his girl friend so much he made a sword with stuff from outer space to Remind him of his girlfriend
Sokka Meteorite Sword ( _tried_ ) bending
Yue sent that meteorite from space for Sokka.
Micah John that’s a great theory I believe it
I didn't think every Air nomad child was automatically an an Airbender. I thought the ones who were under the teaching of the monks were the ones who had bending and we just didn't see the other people.
It's funny because this would make Bumi the first air nomad non bender in history at least for most of his life.
There probably were air benders not amongst the monks who didn't adhere to their training. Maybe they were more stringent and kept the more advanced techniques to students in the temples?
14:30 pretty sure Aang just decided that because he didnt see dead bodies, he didnt kill anyone. like when he and Zuko are escaping the prison, aang force pushes soldiers down a pretty high wall from the top, and he just pretends none of them died.
What would have happened if these mysteries were answered in both Avatar the last Airbender and the Legend of Korra?
I never understood how Iroh got that dragon lie off without proof tbh.
If you don't see anymore flying in the sky I'd say that's proof enough
He was the crown prince.
He was originally gonna be the next fire lord, I’m pretty sure people would trust the next fire lord
he also was a fire bending master, known for being the only one that (without the avatar state) could possibly defeat ozai, his power and his status could get the lie off
@@SKROGY Yeah, probably.
my favorite theoretical sub-bending would have to be the thought of an Earth bender controlling shards of glass.
This is confirmed as being possible in the Kyoshi novels!
Shit imagine glass bending in legend of korra. Ain’t nobody gonna stand a chance in republic city
I heard a fan theory that Sokka and Toph have one of Toph's kids, so having them both have an adventure searching for the space sword could expand on this theory...
Likely, Iroh came to the Sun Warrior temple because he, like Zuko, lost his firebending. The only traumatic event that we know of is Iroh losing his son, so Iroh likely lost his fire when his son died, then traveled to the sun warrior temple, only to undergo the trial and eventually completed it. That’s probably what started him on the path to his own redemption, as well as the beginning of him observing other bending techniques to implement into Firebending like he did with Lightning Redirection.
I want a 5 episode miniseries about the Cabbage Merchant.
Who doesn’t
Its very much needed
I think he’s a member of the white lotus and the reason he’s always there is is because his task is to keep an eye on the gaang and “my cabbages” is a code. He got the gaang into trouble to with the police is to introduce them to King Bumi. This is why there is a statue of him in republic city outside cabbage corp.
Maybe Sozin's Comet has some kind of dense hot core inside it or maybe it isn't even a comet, maybe it's just something else and everyone just thinks it's a comet
When he asks about iroh and the dragons the lighting redirect skill was from water bending and he studied all the elements so on his travel he probably found them.
"Why is Mai so grumpy all the time?". Stop >:( They already explained in the the beach. My poor bby Mai ):
Mai Mai. /cries bcs shes a precious precious underrated baby/
Did they?
@@azearaazymoto461 she was forced to be the perfect child. while others might cope with that expectation by overachieving, mai decided to internalise all of it and pretended to care about nothing. it's more of context clues that takes little work
I originally thought the Giant Lion Turtles were spirits, not living beings.
I like to think they are the gods of the avatar world. Because Raava called the air lion turtle "Ancient One" indicating that the lion turtles are older than her. Raava and Vaatu seem to be the oldest spirits because they represent the two primal forces of good and evil. The world of avatar seems to work on the concept of yin and yang: for everything that exists, there needs to be an opposite counterpart. For example: you have the material world, but as an opposite you have the spiritual world. Every object and phenomenon in the physical world has a spiritual counterpart in the spirit world. I believe that the seperation of Raava and Vaatu made the creation of the two worlds and the spirits possible. Because spirits also have a light side and a dark side inside them.
But I don't think that Raava and Vaatu created the two worlds, because it is said by Vaatu that he was the one who broke the barrier between the two worlds. Why would he need to break a barrier between the material and spirit world if he and Raava created them? That's why I think that it was the lion turtles who created the two worlds and as a result Raava and Vaatu. Because the avatar duoverse seems to rely on duality, I think that the lion turtles seperated Yin and Yang which created the two worlds. The spiritual world represents Yin (light) because it seems to be a world of balance, harmony, enlightenment and the creatures that live there have eternal life, while the physical world represents Yang (darkness) because it is a world of hardships, creation and destruction, chaos and the creatures that live in there can die (which is proven by the fact that when the Moon and Ocean spirits came to the physical world they became mortal and could die, demonstrated by Zhao who litterally killed the moon spirit. And the avatar is also the physical incarnation of Raava on earth who can die, but reincarnates because Raava's avatar spirit cannot).
And by splitting up Yin and Yang, the lion turtles as a result created Raava and Vaatu who are the spiritual representatives of these primal forces. There existence was what made the creation of other forms of life in the duoverse possible. Raava's light was what created the other spirits in the spiritual world and what created the galaxies, planets and life forms in the physical world. While Vaatu's darkness created the dark side of all spirits and what causes organisms in the physical world to die and what causes the destruction of pretty much everything in the physical world, because nothing lasts forever.
Because of this the lion turtles were not gods like we know them from mythology who directly created the world we inhabit, but rather primordial gods who represented primal forces that layed the foundation for later, smaller gods (in this case spirits) to create the world as we know it today. This is similar to the creation story of Greek mythology where you have three generations of gods: the primordial gods, the Titans and the Olympians. The primordial gods represent the primal forces of the universe that were responsible for its first creation. First there was Chaos (nothingness, emptiness and disorder) who was followed up by Kosmos (order) which started the creation of the universe. From order came Gaia (earth) and her son Uranus (heaven/sky) with whom she had a child named Kronos (time). It was foretold that Uranos would be killed and overthrown by his son Kronos, which indeed happened, and after killing his father Kronos set up the rule of the Titans. The Titans ruled over the universe for some time which was said to be a golden age, in which they again lay the foundation for more creation, but the world was still far from how we know it today. Than at last came the rule of the Olympians after it was prophesised that Kronos would also be overthrown by one of his children. To which he responded by eating all of his children, except Zeus who managed to get away because his mother tricked Kronos in eating a stone instead which he thought was his son. After Zeus had grown up he killed his father and freed his brothers and sisters from Kronos' belly. After this a war broke out between the Titans and the Olympians which the Olympians won. The Olympians than created the world as we know it today and created all the animals and the humans that inhabit it.
So in a similar fashion, I think the lion turtles created the two worlds as blank slates and the smaller gods Raava and Vaatu, and later all the other spirits, are what created the world of avatar as we know it. And just like Greek gods I mentioned above, the lion turtles seem to represent the primordial powers of the avatar duoverse (earth, water, fire, air and energy). In this case, I believe that the energy lion turtle (the one Aang met) is the supreme god who split Yin and Yang and the other elements are smaller gods who represented the core elements of the avatar duoverse. Or it could also be that the elemental lion turtles are different representations and aspects of the energy lion turtle, just like how in some versions of Hinduism it is believed that all the gods in the pantheon are actually all just different versions or aspects of one almighty god named Brahman. Or it could also be that they are the energy lion turtle's children. If they are indeed smaller gods and if they are indeed killed off by the humans, this would explain why the more powerful energy lion turtle is still alive. Or maybe, the physical world made the other lion turtles mortal, including the energy lion turtle, just as it made the moon and ocean spirit mortal.
@@silvanvanderhorst7366 Stop calling Vaatu and Raava the spirits of good and evil. Evil is not an opposite of anything. Evil is a perversion of good not an opposite. If anything Raava should represent Order not Goodness. Order is the opposite of Chaos which represents Vaatu.
Thinking of Evil as the opposite of good is literal Heresy as stated by many many Popes!
And anyway the writers have clearly said in several interviews that the Lion turtles are living beings that were hunted to near extinction b/c of humans, not spirits.
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You're seriously applying Christian theology to the Avatar universe?!
@@avishevin1976 It doesn't matter! Saying Good and Evil are natural opposites is an simplification of the matter. The statement still stands that Evil is never the opposite of anything but a Perversion.
I've always wondered one thing: when exactly is the next Avatar assigned? Like, is it immediately at the point of birth of the next/point of death of the previous (which I think occur simultaneously) or of it predetermined before delivery or perhaps at conception? If it's predetermined, what would happen with identical twins?
Sokka didn't lose his boomerang saving fire nation soldiers from falling to their death. He used it to take them down so they couldn't attack him and Toph who were sitting ducks at the time.
1 theory that I’ve always considered is when harmonic convergence happened, the decedents of air benders were given the power of air bending. I believe not all air benders were killed when Sozin ambushed the air nation
One can hope that some hid 🥲
@Anthony Moffitt
Avatar the last Airbender? Nah, Avatar the 56th Airbender
I can get on this since the air benders were nomads meaning they were constantly moving around. I think Sozin only went to the air temples to kill all the benders so theres a very good chance that there were still air benders that lived and went into hiding when they heard the news they were being targeted. Ive heard a theory that Ty Lee is a descendent of air nomads.
@Maggie Rivers idk why but I really like the theory about Ty Lee
Not all were killed outright some escaped, until they fell into fire nation trap's and faded out.
Since the old saying goes “ashes to ashes , dust to dust” , I wonder could an earth bender control someone body like a puppet? 🤔
metal bending? maybe?
Probably bend the calcium in a person's body to control their movements?🤷🏾
We do have iron inside of us
Maybe the people on strange addictions chewin on brick
You mean bone bending?
For the whole thing with Sozin's Comet, I think you forget about the spiritual aspect of the series. The moon - and, by extension, the sun - are spirits or, at the very least, affect spirits. It isn't the sun or the comet themselves giving Firebenders their power. It is the spirits.
My heart literally broke when you said Bosco was served as a meal🥺
LMAOOO!!! When he said "after trying to impress her Fire Daddy" I hollered!!! 🤣🤣✋
15:43 Well, Iroh said that with lightning generation, Firebenders can't really control it after it's released, but, then, for all we know, someone skilled enough in the art actually COULD, and, from there, affecting another's nervous system? I've actually thought about that one, myself.
My theory is that the reason the comet powers up fire benders because the fire/heat that the comet emits when it comes in earths atmosphere can act as a 2nd sun. So it would essentially double their bending abilities.
Except that comets don't enter the Earth's atmosphere and don't emit light or heat. When they get close enough to the sun they begin to melt and emit gas and dust. All this extra material forms the tail and causes it to become much brighter because they have more area to reflect the light from the sun.
Which one of these mysteries do you think is the best and we want to see an answer to so badly?
Either Iroh spirit stuff, or cabbage man
I want an answer to a mystery that is not even in the video. In fact, I have never heard anyone talk about this mystery before.
@@callmeandoru2627 so what is it
@@callmeandoru2627 what is it
@@callmeandoru2627 Don't tell anyone
Here’s how I think the avatar cycle works:
When the avatar is reborn, Ravva merges with the new avatar. We already know this. The avatar is able to learn all the elements because the ability was stored in Ravva, and being merged with her is what makes you the avatar. When an avatar goes into the avatar state they truly merge with Ravva, giving them all the memories, knowledge, and experience of the past avatars, making them even more powerful along with the power of Ravva, this meaning that the farther into the future you are, the more powerful the avatar state is (yay!) I think it woudl be cool if one time Ravva split her spirit in 2 and created twin avatars.
Except Korra breaks the cycle and can still bend all four elements and can go into the Avatar state while being unable to access previous Avatars
Fire Benders can’t actually control lightning/electricity, they can only generate it and point it in a direction, as Iroh said, that once you separate the energies, you do not control the lightning, you are simply it’s humble guide
The only mystery i desperately want solved is what happened to Azula after the kurikagi comic. We need more Azula stories. I want to see that redemption arc.
I actually thought about firebenders doing some type of mind control with bending the electrical pulses through ones nervous system. I only came across this idea because I was thinking 3 bending types can manipulate the body in some type of way. Water- blood bending, air- some type of oxygen bending, & earth- bone bending. That leaves one final thing of will left to control...the mind.
I came to this conclusion only after thinking about Steven Universe's the Diamond Authority and all their different abilities. They all controlled an aspect of a gems being. When put together they controll their whole body their whole will. Same thing goes with bending all the elements are within us. Coincidentally enough just like white diamond being the final and ultimate key to controlling one; their mind...the fire benders seem to also be that final puzzle piece to also controlling the mind through electrical signals or at the very least influence it.
Now imagine a seemingly unstoppable bender and the only way to beat that person is to have all four element benders bend the different parts of the very person's being which leads to full and dare I say complete control. You gotta admit I'm on to something here or at least it's an interesting theory.
Bone bending? 🤨 how are bones earth?
I like it but wth is bone bending
@@lewismcdonald2826 the bone matrix have a inorganic component made of hidroxiapatite, so if earth benders can control minerals, as in metal bending were they bend the mineral impurities within the metal, they can have some kind of control over the bones.
I don't know if it is canon because I didn't read the comics.
Honestly bloodbending covers bone bending basically, it would cover "taking the breath out of people" if the series wasn't a kid's show.. y'know what i mean..? BlOOd beNDING??)) ok, anyway i feel like blood bending could theoretically change the brain as it controls blood but idk
@@elmaderaso the body’s full of minerals not just the bones so by that logic the whole body could be bent using that argument. Weak sauce
The reason Sozin’s Comet makes the firebenders so powerful is the fact that fire is energy that extends from the body and becomes fire and the comet gives off tones of energy so when the energy become fire there’s more energy therefore more fire
I don't know why he ignored the fact that something traveling at a high rate of speed and entering out atmosphere generates heat and energy and eventually catches on fire
0:27 technically you could since cabbage contains a lot of water
IT IS I
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THE NOBLE CABBAGEBENDER
PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM
PEASANT CABBAGE MERCHANT
Zuko: my uncle
Everybody: *our uncle*
I just can't stop thinking of all the enjoyment I had when seeing Turtle-Duck it was just the cutest thing and I WANT AN IROH SPIN OFF SHOW
Zaheer and P'Li - I really enjoyed there romance and would like a side story with them as well as the mystery of the other two members of the Lotus, where Boolin was given a vague answer to question he asked the male member.
It makes sense that the water could cut through metal, after all, it is 2 benders holding it together, forcing it through the metal.
It was completely brute force
I always thought that they froze the water for a second as it sliced through. 🤔
I'm betting art of the Fire Nation royal family was for safety sakes done in a slightly caricature manner with the sitting Firelord being done in "4K" clarity. Azula was closest to redemption in "The Search", but it never stuck. Unaliving another by blade is way different than by bullet, Aang probably doesn't know he unalived anyone since he hasn't seen their lights fade.
I think the "no killing" is Aang will, but since he got many other avatar memories, I believe sometime he just absorb those memories unconsciously that's why Aang is shaken and can't decide whether he lives as air nomad or avatar, and I think that the reason his avatar mode kinda unstable
I figure these are the most brutal ways benders can kill
Earth: Bending the Iron in the blood (Maybe even super heat it like lava bending)
Water: Bending the blood of the body
Air: Suffocation
Fire: Can literally almost always burn and even just be torturous but I actually think the explosive bending is the way to go
Actually for fire, the most brutal would be if a fire bender figured out a way channel a lightning technique directly into an opponent’s nervous system like ATLA cruciatus curse in my opinion.
I think it's been implied that they can only bend significant amounts of metal and I don't think there's enough metal in a human body for that kind of control
A earthbender just has to stomp on the ground and a whole under the other person appears and he falls into it and the earthbender closes it immediately and the person is buried alive in a tight dark place with no way out
Actually for the 17th mystery, the identity of Lin’s father was revealed in The Legend of Korra. Toph revealed that he was a guy named Kanto, we just don’t know what he looks like.
I WOULD KILL for an Iroh spinoff, he was my favorite character in the series. He had one of the most tragic backstories, he was a deeply flawed character that u could relate with, n he was one of the most powerful benders there is.
9:45 A possible explanation is that the Earth Kingdom is a feudal state like the Holy Roman Empire (I mean, the King is a figure of respect and all that and you have to pay him a tax, but the rulers of the "provinces" can create all the laws they need and they want and can do basically whatever they want)
The way I view the reincarnation of the Avatar and the past lives is a bit like a two way road, when Roku died part of him reincarnated into Aang while the other part of Roku remained as his memories and knowledge
i think of it as ravas spirt quickly goes into another body after it leaves the mothers womb and the past avatars are in the spirt world or in a vestige world
@@asimhussain8716 True.
@@asimhussain8716 itsalot more complicated though since ruko in alta was in the spirt world meaning he has his own spirt
@@asimhussain8716 No it's common sense! Raava is the only thing that transfer over if the any avatar soul was transfer over they will all be Wan but no that's not how it work only their avatar spirit/raava transfer over which is why the AVATAR has access to the past lives because it's just raava memories dude stop being dumb why you think Korra can't remember nothing when she lose the past lives?? If the Avatar soul did transfer in her too??
@@thealienspirit8911 nah he's wrong
I just watched the short about the first avatar. Rava saying "All of your lifetimes" suggest that everyone in the Avatar world is reincarnated and that the only reason the Avatar keeps the memories is because of the spirit of light.
*Raava
Question 1: i dont think so, since each avatar seems to take a lesson/regret from the previous avatar (example: Kuruk was too carefree and the next avatar, Kyoshi became a very strict person)
Question 2: i think Iroh got there after his son died so thats why he was alone (he was probably just travelling to find a reason to live after losing his son)
Question 6: i would like to see them make a storyline in the comic where someone found the sword and they need to get it back
Some fans would love to see an Avatar anthology series, because (among other things) it would answer stuff like this.
I've always seen the reincarnation as more of remnants of past avatars that reside inside the spirit whose name I can't spell. It's not them entirely but peices of their souls with all the memories used to connect the current avatar with it's past versions. It's so the spirit, the past, have a constant direct connection which leads to a stronger avatar state and increased wisdom that borders on instinct while in the avatar state
I have issue with some of the “theories “ stated in this video.
19) Iroh, taking on an ancient firebending right of passage alone is not far fetched.
18) Azula mentioned this in the episode.
17) The comics aren’t the highest writing of the series.
16) you really want animators to draw frame by frame water droplets?
15) There is picture documentation of adult Sokka carrying a sword.
14) the comet flew so close to the atmosphere it parted clouds, that’s enough for a second sun for firebending.
13) the lion turtles left the world, “so long and thanks for all the fish”.
12) prove Genji is cannon.
11) Mai and Zuko, it is what it is.
10) normal animals in fantasy is boring, animals that could pass for Pokémon are awesome.
8) home is home.
7) Azula had a hand in killing Bolin and Mako’s parents? Seems a stretch.
6) sense the original lion turtle for the air people could fly giving the people air powers was essential, or air-acolytes.
5) You just summarized the search.
4) Chekhov’s gun macguffin only for finally.
2) The firelords airship was forced down, not destroyed.
1) you want a backstory for a joke character?
"Normal animals in fantasy is bpring, animals that could pass for Pokémon are cool"
-This guy
@@davidloh3147 digging the appreciation that’s more then a thumbs up.
It's literally a duos dance Iroh would have had to do. It's a little weird.
@@aaronflanary271 the challenge is as thus; fight a fire breathing dragon one on one, Mano e drago. You win your skills surpass an original bender of fire, you lose your dragon chow. This is an all or nothing, live or die, MANS challenge. If someone watched and had the audacity to intervene on his death the defeated has to live in shame that they were not good enough to win but also had to be bailed out as a child by there nanny.
they get theyre power from the sun SPIRIT do they not? like how the water benders get theres from the moon spirit so by that logic could it be that the comet also has its own spirit that powers the fire benders aswell as the sun
When cbr said grab ur drink my drink is already finish bruh
We’ve never seen a fire bender bend electricity at low voltages, and for that matter, at low powers. Also, we’ve seen that lightning bending is an extremely rare skill that even Zuko can’t domain. I don’t think mind control could or should be on the table.
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I don't think lightning bending is that rare since there are factories with lightning benders on them in TLOK. Zuko couldn't do it due to his emotional state in ATLA so maybe he is able to do it in TLOK but we may never know.
@@AdroNier Well, maybe, but even in Aang's time there were very few fire benders who could do it and in Kyoshi's time it was a myth. I believe TLOK abuses on rare skills and offers them to everybody, like blood bending, metal bending and lightning bending.
Limited series idea.
NAME:“The hunt for the Meteorite sword”
DESC: Sokka and Toph embark on a wild trip to find Sokka’s sword, lost in the final battle of the 100 year war.
SUMMARY: Sokka and Toph search for Sokka’s lost sword whilst facing unchanged firebenders and other new and dangerous foes in the 1 season show released as a sort of sample for what avatar studios will be doing with the avatar universe
Oooh I like that
I think number 18 is quite simple and it's the same reason why Aang and the group can get around easily enough even though everybody's heard of them. The technology of that world is far worse than what we have. In order to make your face known you would need someone to purposefully sit there drawing you. If you want a super accurate representation of you you would need to sit there for hours on end in one spot in front of an artist. Not only that but there wouldn't be much of a printing press that can make pictures, meaning every copy of every picture would need to be hand drawn or painted. It would be somewhat viable maybe to get that rough figure drawn on a poster of some sort but large scale painting production? That would take a lot of manhours.
They would have their own handful of pictures of themselves around the palace but they wouldn't be handing those out en masse to the people of their nation.
didn't the gaang use a printer to make wanted posters for Appa??
They do have seals and stuff tho
I think the firebenders got a boost of energy from the comet by channeling the heat it created
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People I don’t think legend of genji is happening or will ever be canon
it’s never gonna be canon because it’s a fan made series
@@emiliaa8732 the new harry potter book about voldemorts daughter was also fanmade but it was made canon by the creator of harry potter. So anything can happen bro
@@kc_h7h i don’t think bryke is interested in the legend of genji 💀💀
Sozins comet literally skims the upper atmosphere that is why fire bending is empowered. It’s a nearly apocalyptic event and it happens repeatedly without breaking up. It must have a very interesting orbit.
“I know know you shouldn’t cry over spilt tea but it’s just so sad” 😂😂😂
I didn’t know it’s been 16 years like wow 😳
I'm curious about the relation between Vaatu's beam and combustion bending having same origin? Also, the spiritual energy beam being sub skills of firebending? 🤔
i read a bit about this in a wiki and apparently it is psychic bending (meaning they don't have to do the movements to bend and can just do it with their minds) which is possible for all bending types, but requires a lot of determination and a very strong will. Bumi was shown to be able to earth bend even tho his whole body was incased in stone. the combustion benders are fire bending with their minds. tarlok the blood bender could blood bend with his mind and outside of the full moon. also fire benders are the only benders who can produce their element. (unless you count sweat for water bending lol)
Nice vid👍. I do want to know more about Iroh! As for the airnomads and non benders, I have a theory. What if everyone is capable of bending but some can't right away because they lack the spiritual connection. Since the airnomads learn to connect to the spirits from a young age and learn real airbending after, all airnomads can bend. The other elements have a lesser connection with the spirits and don't have a cultural dependence on the spirit world. In legend of Korra and the story of avatar Wan all the people leaving the lion turtle cities got bending...
04:55 eh this argument is like saying earthbenders should be able to flesh bend because flesh is predominately made of carbon and so is coal which we see bended. yeah, scientifically it doesn't make sense, but bending is far more spiritual than scientific.