Weekend Superheroics, May 12-13
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Posted on: 2012-05-12 24:28 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Tenzin's kids seem to be talented with Air Bending so to make Korra not learn Air Bending, Tenzin and his family would have to be permanently prisoned (not likely) or killed. Of course, there is Air Bending manuals so Korra is not completely screwed. It would be interesting to see if Korra can learn lightning bending and metal bending since the Avatar is supposed to be able to learn all bending.
That brings up something interesting. Air, Earth, Fire, and Water are the basic types of bending. Earth, Fire, and Water have an advanced form of bending that seems to be only possible by highly gifted benders. Earth has Metal. Fire has lightning. Water has blood. I think Swamp Bending is a combination of Earth and Water. Now what would the advanced form of Air Bending be? Vacuum Bending?
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The Foggy Swamp Tribe were just Waterbenders. They manipulated plants by bending the water within them (same concept as Blood Bending, which is just manipulating the water within a person's body). Mud and the like can be bent by either a Waterbender or an Earthbender by manipulating their specific components (Water/Dirt respectively).|
Originally Posted by starphoenix
That brings up something interesting. Air, Earth, Fire, and Water are the basic types of bending. Earth, Fire, and Water have an advanced form of bending that seems to be only possible by highly gifted benders. Earth has Metal. Fire has lightning. Water has blood. I think Swamp Bending is a combination of Earth and Water. Now what would the advanced form of Air Bending be? Vacuum Bending?
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It is interesting that Airbending hasn't been show to have any specific subskill, but then we've seen very few Airbenders, so it's possible that there is one, and none of the living Airbenders actually know how to do it.
One possible subskill I could think of might be "soundbending." Sound is just created by the vibration of particles as a wave moves through it, theoretically an Airbender could compress or expand pockets of air molecules to manipulate such vibrations.
In fact, a quick search of the Avatar Wiki shows that Soundbending is already a Fanon Airbending specialization.
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Ultimately they're just not going to go bumping of Tenzin. He's a main character, and it's still primarily a children's show (even if they did kill a couple people in the original, they were fairly minor).