• Deadend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    I like how in Avatar it’s basically random on who gets it, also it’s a checkbox. There aren’t people who are just STRONGER at bending in a “they have the pure blood.”

    Toph is a strong bender but it’s shown to be due to hard work. Aang is kind of mid as a bender, but can use all 4 and no one has fought an airbender in living memory so that’s his advantage.

    Also bending is cool, but not all powerful, you can still get punched.

    • StuporTrooper [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Aang is kind of mid as a bender,

      Aang was a prodigy as an Airbender, he became a master at the age of twelve and invented new techniques. He was mid at the other 3 because he hadn’t had time to practice.

      But I do agree with your overall point. Animes are usually good on this trope because they love the idea of training super hard. That has it’s own tropes of bootstrapping, but I love how in the DBZ verse you can just do martial arts hard enough and learn to fly.

    • Theblarglereflargle [any]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Sokka and Suki are regularly shown to be the strongest and smartest of the gang and they are just normal peeps with a boomerang and a tsudnere they stan.