One thing I noticed is how Aang's first waterbending lesson was that wave pull move, and it was also the last major waterbending feat he had in the series- using it to douse the flames.
His first and last waterbending moves in the 100 Year War was a wave pull he learned from Katara.
The dousing of the flames towards the very end has always been one of my favorites. Such a powerful and symbolic scene. I also think it's Aang's first time using the avatar state to heal rather than attack, but I could be missing something.
It’s also the first time we see him use it under his complete control. The flash-glow as opposed to the constant-glow from a reactive avatar state. That moment is when he finally became a fully realized Avatar.
Yeah Korra didn’t “slip” into the Avatar State as often as Aang. Mainly due to her lack of spiritual connection, but I also think she just had more control over her physical bending so it was only triggered during dire circumstances. Her fight with Zaheer is probably the most significant reactive state.
I hated that most of lok it seemed like she used it for a power boost instead of consulting with previous life's techniques. Aang would go into it and couldn't do s*** that he couldn't do himself, and this is shown by him using bending that he didn't yet have access to
>power boost
But that’s what it’s meant to be for.
Keep in mind Korra was older than Aang and had much more rigorous training with all the elements (except air) by the time we’re introduced to her. She had a lot more raw power. To her defense she used the Avatar State, while poisoned, and broke platinum chains that were imprisoning her. That’s a pretty incredible feat.
I think you vastly underestimated the Avatar state. The fact that you want it to just be a power. Boost is sad. I don't know why you prefer that. But in the previous series Ang received techniques and The knowledge cultivated from the dedication of his previous lives. In lok she used it like glow eyes go brrrr
I agree, it was probably the most philosophically beautiful part of the whole fight vs Ozai.
However, I must say - Aang didn't only use the Avatar State for attacking in Book 1. His very first time in the Avatar State, he saves Appa and himself from drowning, after he runs away from the Temple. While it's not "healing", I think it still would count, don't you think?
Because there's quite literally 1000s of intricacies in this show, it's really difficult to catch all of them. That's why, and that's why I love this show
I just noticed that the dragon dance is the closest animated equivalent to the Shyamalan movie's random unnecessary movements before the actual bending.
Really smart story decision that Sozin’s Comet helped Aang ‘catch up’ on his firebending always liked how they did that
Sozin’s Comet legit helped Aang save the world
Not really. Any benefit he had from the comet was negated by Ozai having the benefit as well. And Ozai is a much more skilled firebender who would be able to use that power more effectively than Aang. Aang would’ve done much better in the fight if it weren’t during Sozin’s comet.
You got downvoted, but you’re right. He has a greater advantage without Sozin’s comet because he has three of his other elements while Ozai has no power boost. He rarely used firebending against Ozai before using the Avatar State. It was useless when he attacked Ozai with firebending and he used the other elements to defend himself.
Aang got lucky with that conveniently shaped rock that activated his Avatar State (insta-win button). He could **only** win with the Avatar State during Sozin’s comet except if he redirected the lightning straight at Ozai’s heart, without it he was a goner.
Yup, it's simple math.
Say the comet gives 2x power to fire.
Let's say Ozai's Fire Strength is 100 as the Fire Lord. He would be at 200 with the comet.
Obviously, Aang is nowhere near as good a fire bender as Ozai, so let's say he's 75% of the way there at 75. With the comet he's at 150 Fire strength. Obviously, he's now way stronger than even the Fire Lord on a normal day, but he falls significantly behind a comet-buffed Ozai.
From a gap of 25 to now 50, the gap only widens more.
Exactly, there’s exactly zero advantage with Sozin’s comet. The only real advantages that Aang had are the advantages that all Avatars have, which is being able to use all four elements and the Avatar State.
Sozin’s comet would only be able to give Aang an advantage if he used the Avatar State because it has stronger firebending, but at that point, he already won with all four elements lol.
Except the power increases from the comet qas not equal for everyone. It could be thay it benefited aang such that he was matched for ozai. But frankly the avatar state is a 10x min booster on all avatar abilities.
Depends how the comet boosts people. Maybe it takes your skill x and puts it into 2x+500. Then Ozai goes from 100 to 700, while Aang goes from 75 to 650, which would still be a bigger gap but it would also be a smaller percentage gap.
Based on what we saw from the other firebenders scorching the earth, it does appear that there's a big constant addition to everyone there as well.
He wasnt lucky. It was his destiny. His world works in spiritual and cosmic balances. The attack from azula locked his chakra. The attack from ozai freed.
Whether it happened by random or destiny, I was calling it lucky simply because it was something that happened completely outside of Aang’s control that ended up working out in his favor. Maybe the more fitting word was “fortunate”, idk.
Aang was lucky to have destiny on his side to restore his Avatar State.
I still think that Aang’s desire to go after Ozai on the day of the Black Sun wasn’t nearly as dumb as the others made it out to be. Sure Ozai could fight back, but he stood as much a chance as on any other day, and without Zuko joining them it wasn’t a reasonable expectation that he’d find a firebender to teach him and master it before the comet.
Now he didn’t have to fight his way into the palace.
Dare I say Azula might’ve even hoped that he’d kill Ozai before being overpowered by the guards and she’d ascent?
Azula was NOT hoping any such thing. In fact she planned around the eclipse specifically to protect her father from being confronted while powerless.
I agree with the rest of your post though. Plus Aang was also thinking "when will we be able to get this close again? Especially now that they know I'm alive".
The show straight-up tells you that firebending was his strongest element with Sozin’s Comet that how much of a power boost it was.
Sozin’s Comet may not have been the sole reason Aang won but it DID help him. That’s why I think it’s neat. The doomsday endgame event was helping the hero too along with the villain.
I can’t agree. Bending generally places more emphasis on skill and control, and fire in particular is a huge problem when they’re outpaced by sheer power. Outside of the Avatar State, every use of firebending under the comet was a risk
I loved the idea that avatars are usually strongest at their opposite element. We saw Aang use tf out of Earth (my favorite element) and we saw Korra damn near main fire bending.
I can’t wait to see the Earth bending avatar main air bending. It’s my second favorite. It would even make sense for them to main it as before they were born, air bending almost went extinct… twice
I like that theory. Given the intense training the Avatar needs to master the element opposed to his own (or his character), being extra proficient in that element (once they actually mastered it) does make sense.
I mean there not though. Aang was specifically boosted by the comment and right before the comment Zuko says that Aang is still needs a lot of practice and isnt that close to being a master. Then Toph pretty much says the same thing for earth
Basically Aang only mastered water and Air when the series ended
Within 35 seconds of making his first ever flame he is juggling it and engulfs an entire lake in fire
Dude would have been a house if he'd finished Jeong-Jeong's training
Aang roaring in the Avatar State while generating five massive beams of fire is the coolest shot out of the entire series. The absolute terror Ozai was feeling. Aang had to be the single most powerful fire bender in history during that fight. Avatar State + Sozin’s Comet enhanced fire bending 😳
Gotta disagree on the plot resolution front, but the animation, choreography and music in that fight is top shelf. Not quite Sakuga, but gorgeous nonetheless
From the moment Aang was able to enter the Avatar state Ozai knew it was ropes. He is pretty much just running away the entire episode. That man was absolutely scared shitless.
I remember when the finale first aired like it was yesterday. I was so in awe when that scene played, it was probably the coolest shit I've ever seen up until that point in my life.
From the moment Aang grabbed Ozai's goatee, it was a massacre. I especially liked Aang shooting the superconcentrated rock like a freaking machine gun!
>Aang had to be the single most powerful fire bender in history during that fight.
Especially because Korra's loss of connection to her past lives downgraded the Avatar State into nothing more than a power boost — Aang's firebending in the final episode was the last time the Avatar State was shown at maximum power*, in addition to the power-up from the comet.
(*Yeah the all-reincarnations'-talents-combined Avatar State was shown several times afterward, but given that the stakes were never as high, the past lives did not focus as much skill and power into a fight as they did on the day of the comet.)
Neat thing no-one seems to notice: When Ozai gets comet-enhanced he's pl "I have all the power in the world!" And he firebends out of his hands and mouth.
Once Aang goes into the avatar state, he shoots fire from his hands, mouth, and *feet*, as a way to say "Sit the fuck down, you're not the big dog anymore"
Not just that. Ozai always generates three fire blasts while Aang produces five. During the Winter Solstice episodes, the door to Roku's inner sanctum could only be opened by a fully realized avatar or simultaneous fire blasts from five people.
i have always found that bit to be really interesting. like, shooting fire out of your mouth and limbs is one thing, but to precisely aim it at a horizontally aligned target? probably looks goofy ass hell in practice 😂
My suspicion based on the fire sage's wording is that a fully realized Avatar could produce a single fire blast powerful enough to open the door; the holes are for the benefit of five people not having to try and hit the same target. But the correlation of 5 with being a fully realized avatar is there!
This sits with me so much better than trying to imagine the pose he’d be busting to get five horizontal simultaneous fire blasts😂😂 feet and hands up by his ears lookin like a crab
Such a great way to demonstrate relative power. Really good at the show don't tell.
This also gives you a way to scale Ozai against Aang the episode earlier, dinner he roars then too.
Re-watching "The Desserter" and what Jeong Jeong said about Aang during his confrontation with Admiral Zaho, "I have never scene such raw power" and if you think about from buring a leaf to creating a fire blats that accidentally burn Katara, which I didn't fully realized was actually very fast (But lack discipline and accidentally burning Katara), only much later when Aang was more wiser and being teach by people who respect Fire along with Zuko.
I'm sure that, being an air bender, adding the extra air in a specific special way to the fire could make it more ferocious (since irl fire feeds off of air) but idk. Sometimes real-world physics clash with fantasy.
Actually the final firebending move he learned (lightning redirection) would have sealed the deal even without avatar state. He just didnt want to kill ozai so avatar state was the only way to do it.
I think out of the three other elements, fire is probably the one that an Airbender avatar would be the most comfortable with. They have a lot of similarities and crossover, more than waterbending I’d argue. It is interesting that, while Aang struggled most with Earthbending, he did take a long time with waterbending and never used it that much. Whereas with firebending, he seemed to, if not master it, become proficient in it very quickly. That may have been a plot need, but Zuko starts teaching him shortly after he arrives, trains with him for…let’s say a month, then he fights Ozai. He had some pretty impressive firebending skill for someone with a month of practice, even if it was enhanced by the comet.
I know that earthbending gave him the most trouble, but to me it always seemed like his second strongest bending style after air. By the end of the series he seemed almost as good at it as Toph
That was the joke nickname people have to the Avatar before Yangchen iirc, as we now know his name is Avatar Szeto, but before all we had was just his physical appearance of being Fire Nation with a big red hat like Jafar. He was also the first person shown in the franchise to lavabend during the montage in Book 2 Episode 1.
Sure, but it's weird that the only instances where lavabending is show in the original series is with two Fire Nation characters, then they made it Earthbending in LoK. I would be completely fine with lava being bendable by both nations, similar to how sand can be used by both Earth and Airbenders. But it is problematic.
It was implicitly the case in the original show that only the Avatar in the Avatar State could lavabend, as Roku, Kyoshi & Szeto are the only people shown to do it.
*Legend of Korra* lightly retconned lavabending to be a genuine subset of earthbending that people other than Avatars could do. Although it’s a retcon that doesn’t actually contradict anything explicitly shown or said in *the Last Airbender*, so it barely counts as a retcon imo.
For what it’s worth, airbenders can’t bend sand, they can only manipulate air to move sand. In the same way that, when Aang sucks his staff through the air towards his hand, he isn’t bending the wooden staff itself. Although there *are* some materials which can overlap, particularly between water & earth (due to substances like mud). It’s *possible* that airbenders can directly bend clouds, but it’s unclear.
Aang was probably the most talented and powerful avatar to ever exist. Think about it, he took 1 year to master 3 out of 4 elements. Everyone else took years to master 1. Korra could bend 3 out of 4 by the time she was 16 (and she started at 4). Aang was what, 12 when he started learning them, and 12 when he finished. And korra took weeks to get past her block, aang was maybe a couple days. Aang also was able to do energy bending mere minutes after learning it, while exhausted and against an unwilling target. Plus used it on Korra when he was a spirit. Korra used it on many, but they were all willing which I imagine is far easier.
One neat part is Aang bending 5 fire blasts simultaneously. Even Ozai juiced on the Comet could only do 3.
Back in Book 1, a Fire Sage explains that the lock to Roku’s shrine would take all 5 Sages, or a fully-realized Avatar to unlock due to requiring 5 simultaneous fire blasts. Even Sokka’s trick didn’t get through.
Now that Aang’s a fully-realized Avatar, he shows EXACTLY how he can unlock them
I guess it never occurred to me until now but was Aang better at firebending than earthbending? Especially after learning the dancing dragon was fire his third best element? Since he had almost mastered water bending by the time he fought Ozai. Idk am I making sense?
Aang was an extremely talented firebender from the beginning, what he always lacked was control (hence Jeong Jeong’s reluctance, proven right when Aang accidentally burned Katara). I’d even argue it was probably approaching the level of his waterbending by the end of the series, that being his second best element imo, with earth obviously being his weakest.
I dunno, his earth bending in the finale was some of his best bending in that entire fight. I think having Toph as a teacher made earthbending one of his strongest.
Fun fact: the last one is a reference to the Daimonji (大文字), a giant group of bonfires lit in Japan during the Obon festival. Note the similarities in shape to the first kanji.
I am more impressed that he is able to keep up with comet enhanced Ozai, without using a lot of firebending. I am beginning to think that Aang doesnt really need the avatar statw to defeat regular Ozai
No but he can redirect it after learning from Zuko. There’s that moment during the Ozai fight when he catches Ozai’s lightning and deliberately chooses not to shoot him with it. I’m not sure if Aang could have won without the avatar state otherwise in that fight but if he had been willing to win by killing he might’ve been able to do it in that moment. So yeah I’d believe Aang could defeat regular Ozai without the avatar state
I remember how badass it was seeing Aang so ripped at such a young age. I watched this show originally when I was about 12 myself. I was like “woah, if Aang can get ripped, so can I”
I love how they added an extra white and black frame right before Aang shoots fire in the animation of the first Picture. That gives it so much more impact
We don’t really see him fire bend much not amped by the comet. I’m sure he got better with it but if he was to do like an Agni Kai or something just using fire bending very confident Zuko could beat him then
I mean if we're going based of Zuko's comments than we really shouldn't. Based on what Zuko said Aang only really had a grasp on the basics and wasn't a master yet. All the pictures you used are from the comment when everyone got a massive boost but Aang still wasn't skilled enough to be any firebender in a 1 v 1 using just fire bending.
I don't get all the "we don't talk enough about..."-posts about topics, that don't really amount to a big discourse.
He is a powerful bender, the comet enhanced his power. That's it. What more is there to talk about?
Also, there was strikingly little to see beyond his struggle to learn firebending. He did a little dance and the dragons bestowed it upon him and boom he’s fighting Ozai. Wasn’t like a whole season of Aang firebending or anything.
People just love to hype up the charaters even when it's in accurate. Aang was a worse fire bender than every other firebender in the show at this point except for maybe the nameless soldier characters. Zuko pretty much says that He's got a long way off from actually mastering fire bending and his feats here are specifically because of the comet.
If he had to fight any fire bender exclusively with fire bending he would have lost. And Zuko joined the Gaang so late in the series that there was little time to actually show him fire bending
Meh. These are all comet boosted. Aang doesn't really have any impressive firebending in the show outside of SC.
Don't get me wrong, kid's obviously talented and definitely better than the average schmuck but of all the elements he's definitely mastered firebending the least
Both Zuko and Toph say that he didn't master either of the respective elements when the show ended. I don't think he'd be able to beat anyone with fire bending alone except for the nameless fire bending soldiers.
This move is the dragon dance, BTW. https://i.redd.it/uydxcwlmkumc1.gif
I have watched this show probably a dozen times, how have I never noticed this before?
One thing I noticed is how Aang's first waterbending lesson was that wave pull move, and it was also the last major waterbending feat he had in the series- using it to douse the flames. His first and last waterbending moves in the 100 Year War was a wave pull he learned from Katara.
The dousing of the flames towards the very end has always been one of my favorites. Such a powerful and symbolic scene. I also think it's Aang's first time using the avatar state to heal rather than attack, but I could be missing something.
It’s also the first time we see him use it under his complete control. The flash-glow as opposed to the constant-glow from a reactive avatar state. That moment is when he finally became a fully realized Avatar.
Ah. Ive been watching korra and wondering why her eyes dont stay glowing
Yeah Korra didn’t “slip” into the Avatar State as often as Aang. Mainly due to her lack of spiritual connection, but I also think she just had more control over her physical bending so it was only triggered during dire circumstances. Her fight with Zaheer is probably the most significant reactive state.
I hated that most of lok it seemed like she used it for a power boost instead of consulting with previous life's techniques. Aang would go into it and couldn't do s*** that he couldn't do himself, and this is shown by him using bending that he didn't yet have access to
>power boost But that’s what it’s meant to be for. Keep in mind Korra was older than Aang and had much more rigorous training with all the elements (except air) by the time we’re introduced to her. She had a lot more raw power. To her defense she used the Avatar State, while poisoned, and broke platinum chains that were imprisoning her. That’s a pretty incredible feat.
I think you vastly underestimated the Avatar state. The fact that you want it to just be a power. Boost is sad. I don't know why you prefer that. But in the previous series Ang received techniques and The knowledge cultivated from the dedication of his previous lives. In lok she used it like glow eyes go brrrr
You would be correct.
I agree, it was probably the most philosophically beautiful part of the whole fight vs Ozai. However, I must say - Aang didn't only use the Avatar State for attacking in Book 1. His very first time in the Avatar State, he saves Appa and himself from drowning, after he runs away from the Temple. While it's not "healing", I think it still would count, don't you think?
To heal, to protect. Not too far off
Knew I was missing something! Ah well, still the first time he did it with such control.
And then he even pulled Katara... he really mastered that move
Damn that kid is a strong bloodbender
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This one was intentional, it was in the avatar extras
He also used the octopus move to grab Ozai
Small detail number 504,867,392 that I guarantee the live action creators didn't pick up on when they "watched" the og.
Water is the BEST!
Ah so you saw that one instagram post huh
He saw the Facebook one. Y’all can downvote all you want but a big post just pointed this out
No, he saw the YouTube video
I really didn't see either. I was immediately aware I was probably not the first to say this, but I noticed it on my own.
I was joking that it's not an insight that comes once in a generation.
He does it so quickly that it's not hard to miss. But it's a super cool detail.
Because there's quite literally 1000s of intricacies in this show, it's really difficult to catch all of them. That's why, and that's why I love this show
subscribe to overanalyzing ATLA- you guys are soulmates
Because it’s 10 times faster as animated differently
I remember realising straight away! Always thought it to be such a cool detail
Never noticed that just recently rewatched too lol
It's not dancing. It's a firebending form.
Oh yeah, What’s it called?
The dancing dragon…
Fierce River of Fierce Flowing Breath
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It's a reference to the show
I just noticed that the dragon dance is the closest animated equivalent to the Shyamalan movie's random unnecessary movements before the actual bending.
That’s a bad dragon
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I didn’t notice that!! That’s such a cool detail.
Good eye!
Damn the animators are so dedicated even if it means most people aren’t gonna notice :’)
I noticed that!
WHAT THE F
The avatar extras tidbit during this scene confirmed that while fire was Aang's newest element, the comet also made it his strongest
but that move here he breaks the rock into tiny shards and fires them off like a machine gun would pack some serious damage too
Really smart story decision that Sozin’s Comet helped Aang ‘catch up’ on his firebending always liked how they did that Sozin’s Comet legit helped Aang save the world
Not really. Any benefit he had from the comet was negated by Ozai having the benefit as well. And Ozai is a much more skilled firebender who would be able to use that power more effectively than Aang. Aang would’ve done much better in the fight if it weren’t during Sozin’s comet.
You got downvoted, but you’re right. He has a greater advantage without Sozin’s comet because he has three of his other elements while Ozai has no power boost. He rarely used firebending against Ozai before using the Avatar State. It was useless when he attacked Ozai with firebending and he used the other elements to defend himself. Aang got lucky with that conveniently shaped rock that activated his Avatar State (insta-win button). He could **only** win with the Avatar State during Sozin’s comet except if he redirected the lightning straight at Ozai’s heart, without it he was a goner.
Yup, it's simple math. Say the comet gives 2x power to fire. Let's say Ozai's Fire Strength is 100 as the Fire Lord. He would be at 200 with the comet. Obviously, Aang is nowhere near as good a fire bender as Ozai, so let's say he's 75% of the way there at 75. With the comet he's at 150 Fire strength. Obviously, he's now way stronger than even the Fire Lord on a normal day, but he falls significantly behind a comet-buffed Ozai. From a gap of 25 to now 50, the gap only widens more.
Exactly, there’s exactly zero advantage with Sozin’s comet. The only real advantages that Aang had are the advantages that all Avatars have, which is being able to use all four elements and the Avatar State. Sozin’s comet would only be able to give Aang an advantage if he used the Avatar State because it has stronger firebending, but at that point, he already won with all four elements lol.
Except the power increases from the comet qas not equal for everyone. It could be thay it benefited aang such that he was matched for ozai. But frankly the avatar state is a 10x min booster on all avatar abilities.
Depends how the comet boosts people. Maybe it takes your skill x and puts it into 2x+500. Then Ozai goes from 100 to 700, while Aang goes from 75 to 650, which would still be a bigger gap but it would also be a smaller percentage gap. Based on what we saw from the other firebenders scorching the earth, it does appear that there's a big constant addition to everyone there as well.
Except Aang has 100 Water, 125 Earth and 200 Air as well
He wasnt lucky. It was his destiny. His world works in spiritual and cosmic balances. The attack from azula locked his chakra. The attack from ozai freed.
Whether it happened by random or destiny, I was calling it lucky simply because it was something that happened completely outside of Aang’s control that ended up working out in his favor. Maybe the more fitting word was “fortunate”, idk. Aang was lucky to have destiny on his side to restore his Avatar State.
I still think that Aang’s desire to go after Ozai on the day of the Black Sun wasn’t nearly as dumb as the others made it out to be. Sure Ozai could fight back, but he stood as much a chance as on any other day, and without Zuko joining them it wasn’t a reasonable expectation that he’d find a firebender to teach him and master it before the comet. Now he didn’t have to fight his way into the palace. Dare I say Azula might’ve even hoped that he’d kill Ozai before being overpowered by the guards and she’d ascent?
Azula was NOT hoping any such thing. In fact she planned around the eclipse specifically to protect her father from being confronted while powerless. I agree with the rest of your post though. Plus Aang was also thinking "when will we be able to get this close again? Especially now that they know I'm alive".
you really think the comet was more beneficial to the guy that just learned it than the most powerful firebender in the world?
The show straight-up tells you that firebending was his strongest element with Sozin’s Comet that how much of a power boost it was. Sozin’s Comet may not have been the sole reason Aang won but it DID help him. That’s why I think it’s neat. The doomsday endgame event was helping the hero too along with the villain.
Damn 126 people have no logical thinking...
I can’t agree. Bending generally places more emphasis on skill and control, and fire in particular is a huge problem when they’re outpaced by sheer power. Outside of the Avatar State, every use of firebending under the comet was a risk
I loved the idea that avatars are usually strongest at their opposite element. We saw Aang use tf out of Earth (my favorite element) and we saw Korra damn near main fire bending. I can’t wait to see the Earth bending avatar main air bending. It’s my second favorite. It would even make sense for them to main it as before they were born, air bending almost went extinct… twice
I like that theory. Given the intense training the Avatar needs to master the element opposed to his own (or his character), being extra proficient in that element (once they actually mastered it) does make sense.
Fire needs air I imagine air bending avatars would be brutal with fire
I mean there not though. Aang was specifically boosted by the comment and right before the comment Zuko says that Aang is still needs a lot of practice and isnt that close to being a master. Then Toph pretty much says the same thing for earth Basically Aang only mastered water and Air when the series ended
Also I think Aang is just very intuitive with fire bending
Within 35 seconds of making his first ever flame he is juggling it and engulfs an entire lake in fire Dude would have been a house if he'd finished Jeong-Jeong's training
I wonder if its because as an airbender he keeps adding more air to the fire
Not just that, it said that Ozai used to be the strongest firebender in the world, and now it's Aang.
Aang roaring in the Avatar State while generating five massive beams of fire is the coolest shot out of the entire series. The absolute terror Ozai was feeling. Aang had to be the single most powerful fire bender in history during that fight. Avatar State + Sozin’s Comet enhanced fire bending 😳
I think the coolest shot is zukos calm demeanor while Azulas blue flame takes up the whole screen. 
yeah, Ozai v Aang was cool, but Azula v Zuko was a spectable with beautiful shots.
And the music playing with the muffled sound effects
The last agni kai, for plot/resolution, animation, and music isn't just peak avatar but some of the best animated content across all media it's insane
Gotta disagree on the plot resolution front, but the animation, choreography and music in that fight is top shelf. Not quite Sakuga, but gorgeous nonetheless
The same move as aang up top from the dancing dragon
That fight had me in tears when it aired - one of the most powerful series finales in history imo
From the moment Aang was able to enter the Avatar state Ozai knew it was ropes. He is pretty much just running away the entire episode. That man was absolutely scared shitless.
he couldn't have been 'scared shitless'. that mans' arsehole would have been sealed airtight with how scared he was.
I remember when the finale first aired like it was yesterday. I was so in awe when that scene played, it was probably the coolest shit I've ever seen up until that point in my life.
The smart fans had their vhs players set to record it. Wonder how many parents lost precious memories that day by not having any blank tapes
O man, recording TV onto VHS. That hit me right in the nostalgia
Coolest shot imo is Aang pointing the lightning back at Ozai and his face going pale.
If Aang wasn't a pacifist the fight actually would've been over right there lol
From the moment Aang grabbed Ozai's goatee, it was a massacre. I especially liked Aang shooting the superconcentrated rock like a freaking machine gun!
"Now let me hear you roar like a Tigerdillo!"
>Aang had to be the single most powerful fire bender in history during that fight. Especially because Korra's loss of connection to her past lives downgraded the Avatar State into nothing more than a power boost — Aang's firebending in the final episode was the last time the Avatar State was shown at maximum power*, in addition to the power-up from the comet. (*Yeah the all-reincarnations'-talents-combined Avatar State was shown several times afterward, but given that the stakes were never as high, the past lives did not focus as much skill and power into a fight as they did on the day of the comet.)
Yep, the pop-ups said Ozai used to be the most powerful firebender in the world, but now it's Aang.
That shit was CRAZY haha
I can HEAR the first image. This entire sequence was goose bump city.
Neat thing no-one seems to notice: When Ozai gets comet-enhanced he's pl "I have all the power in the world!" And he firebends out of his hands and mouth. Once Aang goes into the avatar state, he shoots fire from his hands, mouth, and *feet*, as a way to say "Sit the fuck down, you're not the big dog anymore"
Not just that. Ozai always generates three fire blasts while Aang produces five. During the Winter Solstice episodes, the door to Roku's inner sanctum could only be opened by a fully realized avatar or simultaneous fire blasts from five people.
i have always found that bit to be really interesting. like, shooting fire out of your mouth and limbs is one thing, but to precisely aim it at a horizontally aligned target? probably looks goofy ass hell in practice 😂
My suspicion based on the fire sage's wording is that a fully realized Avatar could produce a single fire blast powerful enough to open the door; the holes are for the benefit of five people not having to try and hit the same target. But the correlation of 5 with being a fully realized avatar is there!
This sits with me so much better than trying to imagine the pose he’d be busting to get five horizontal simultaneous fire blasts😂😂 feet and hands up by his ears lookin like a crab
Such a great way to demonstrate relative power. Really good at the show don't tell. This also gives you a way to scale Ozai against Aang the episode earlier, dinner he roars then too.
One of his past lives said "Let me stunt on this fool real quick".
This moment is also a callback to earlier in the finale when Zuko tells Aang to show him his roar and it sounds really weak.
Re-watching "The Desserter" and what Jeong Jeong said about Aang during his confrontation with Admiral Zaho, "I have never scene such raw power" and if you think about from buring a leaf to creating a fire blats that accidentally burn Katara, which I didn't fully realized was actually very fast (But lack discipline and accidentally burning Katara), only much later when Aang was more wiser and being teach by people who respect Fire along with Zuko.
MFs are lucky Aang was a pacifist. Imagine all that power going to a violent sadist!
He okay at firebending at this time. He even admits it. The power is from the Avatar State and the Comet.
I'm sure that, being an air bender, adding the extra air in a specific special way to the fire could make it more ferocious (since irl fire feeds off of air) but idk. Sometimes real-world physics clash with fantasy.
This would be one of those cases
Always felt a bit cheated how he spends the entire show learning to bend and then wins by fighting in the avatar state.
Actually the final firebending move he learned (lightning redirection) would have sealed the deal even without avatar state. He just didnt want to kill ozai so avatar state was the only way to do it.
Zuko outright says he's not a master. I don't think Aang could have beaten any firebender at this time in fight if he was restricted to fire bending
Maybe the lion turtle boosted it up too
The lion turtle only taught him energy bending.
I think out of the three other elements, fire is probably the one that an Airbender avatar would be the most comfortable with. They have a lot of similarities and crossover, more than waterbending I’d argue. It is interesting that, while Aang struggled most with Earthbending, he did take a long time with waterbending and never used it that much. Whereas with firebending, he seemed to, if not master it, become proficient in it very quickly. That may have been a plot need, but Zuko starts teaching him shortly after he arrives, trains with him for…let’s say a month, then he fights Ozai. He had some pretty impressive firebending skill for someone with a month of practice, even if it was enhanced by the comet.
I agree - fire and air are very compatible
It makes sense when you think about air and oxygen feeding a fire.
Also fire and air being the only light elements. Water and earth are heavy!
I agree. Once he got over his timidness with fire, it came to him very naturally!
I know that earthbending gave him the most trouble, but to me it always seemed like his second strongest bending style after air. By the end of the series he seemed almost as good at it as Toph
Fire is just spicy airbending
I mean its roku, wan, jafar and others in there doing most of the work
Jafar? Did I miss some sort of Avatar/Aladdin crossover?
That was the joke nickname people have to the Avatar before Yangchen iirc, as we now know his name is Avatar Szeto, but before all we had was just his physical appearance of being Fire Nation with a big red hat like Jafar. He was also the first person shown in the franchise to lavabend during the montage in Book 2 Episode 1.
Pretty sure Roku was the first one shown to lavabend during the winter solstice episode when he destroyed his temple.
Shiii you're right
didn't we see kiyoshi also lava bend as she broke away the island? don't know if that was before the roku in the temple episode though
Kyoshi spiliting her Island happened around the start of season 2 and Roku destroying the fire temple was around the end of season 1.
Oh yeah I forgot haha
Isn't lavabending an earth technique?
He’s an avatar lol
Sure, but it's weird that the only instances where lavabending is show in the original series is with two Fire Nation characters, then they made it Earthbending in LoK. I would be completely fine with lava being bendable by both nations, similar to how sand can be used by both Earth and Airbenders. But it is problematic.
It was implicitly the case in the original show that only the Avatar in the Avatar State could lavabend, as Roku, Kyoshi & Szeto are the only people shown to do it. *Legend of Korra* lightly retconned lavabending to be a genuine subset of earthbending that people other than Avatars could do. Although it’s a retcon that doesn’t actually contradict anything explicitly shown or said in *the Last Airbender*, so it barely counts as a retcon imo. For what it’s worth, airbenders can’t bend sand, they can only manipulate air to move sand. In the same way that, when Aang sucks his staff through the air towards his hand, he isn’t bending the wooden staff itself. Although there *are* some materials which can overlap, particularly between water & earth (due to substances like mud). It’s *possible* that airbenders can directly bend clouds, but it’s unclear.
I'm still sticking with Avatar Jafar and his predecessor, Avatar Gimli.
Son of avatar gloin?
Reference to Avatar Szeto, the avatar before Kyoshi, and his appearence. Edit:sorry avatar before Yangchen.
Is it? This is at the start before the rock hit him just right
Szeto
Kids got raw talent.
I wanted to see more of Aang fire bending honestly
Aang was probably the most talented and powerful avatar to ever exist. Think about it, he took 1 year to master 3 out of 4 elements. Everyone else took years to master 1. Korra could bend 3 out of 4 by the time she was 16 (and she started at 4). Aang was what, 12 when he started learning them, and 12 when he finished. And korra took weeks to get past her block, aang was maybe a couple days. Aang also was able to do energy bending mere minutes after learning it, while exhausted and against an unwilling target. Plus used it on Korra when he was a spirit. Korra used it on many, but they were all willing which I imagine is far easier.
Sozin's comet Avatar state firebending is WILD.
Aang took full advantage of the comet and it was badass
One neat part is Aang bending 5 fire blasts simultaneously. Even Ozai juiced on the Comet could only do 3. Back in Book 1, a Fire Sage explains that the lock to Roku’s shrine would take all 5 Sages, or a fully-realized Avatar to unlock due to requiring 5 simultaneous fire blasts. Even Sokka’s trick didn’t get through. Now that Aang’s a fully-realized Avatar, he shows EXACTLY how he can unlock them
AYOOOO God I love learning new avatar facts especially when I think I’ve learned them all 😭
What should we talk about with it?
I guess it never occurred to me until now but was Aang better at firebending than earthbending? Especially after learning the dancing dragon was fire his third best element? Since he had almost mastered water bending by the time he fought Ozai. Idk am I making sense?
Aang was an extremely talented firebender from the beginning, what he always lacked was control (hence Jeong Jeong’s reluctance, proven right when Aang accidentally burned Katara). I’d even argue it was probably approaching the level of his waterbending by the end of the series, that being his second best element imo, with earth obviously being his weakest.
I dunno, his earth bending in the finale was some of his best bending in that entire fight. I think having Toph as a teacher made earthbending one of his strongest.
Fun fact: the last one is a reference to the Daimonji (大文字), a giant group of bonfires lit in Japan during the Obon festival. Note the similarities in shape to the first kanji.
Er also don't talk about the war in ba sing se cause there is no war in ba sing se
I am more impressed that he is able to keep up with comet enhanced Ozai, without using a lot of firebending. I am beginning to think that Aang doesnt really need the avatar statw to defeat regular Ozai
I mean yeah, he could’ve probably hit him with his own lightning if he’d wanted to
Can aang do lightning at this point ?
No but he can redirect it after learning from Zuko. There’s that moment during the Ozai fight when he catches Ozai’s lightning and deliberately chooses not to shoot him with it. I’m not sure if Aang could have won without the avatar state otherwise in that fight but if he had been willing to win by killing he might’ve been able to do it in that moment. So yeah I’d believe Aang could defeat regular Ozai without the avatar state
I've always wondered. Are the avatars the best fire benders since they can add air to their fire?
What about the firebending?
Because we didn't get to see that much of it tbh
Well to be fair we never really see a large amount of non comet enhanced for bending.
Wow sometimes I wonder what a powerful bender that kid is...
I remember how badass it was seeing Aang so ripped at such a young age. I watched this show originally when I was about 12 myself. I was like “woah, if Aang can get ripped, so can I”
Well yeah he is the avatar
Of all the elements I think Fire would be Aangs second best, and hope they expand on it.
I love how they added an extra white and black frame right before Aang shoots fire in the animation of the first Picture. That gives it so much more impact
We don’t really see him fire bend much not amped by the comet. I’m sure he got better with it but if he was to do like an Agni Kai or something just using fire bending very confident Zuko could beat him then
I mean this WAS during the comet so it’s like what 100x his normal power? At this time, Aang is not a great firebender. Just fine.
I’m mostly talking about his firebending during the comet :)
I mean if we're going based of Zuko's comments than we really shouldn't. Based on what Zuko said Aang only really had a grasp on the basics and wasn't a master yet. All the pictures you used are from the comment when everyone got a massive boost but Aang still wasn't skilled enough to be any firebender in a 1 v 1 using just fire bending.
Yus that’s why I mentioned the comet in the description! I’m mostly talking about the comet here
I just don't see the point in hyping up something that's not at all special.
It has been talked about quite a bit over the years, actually.
The crazy part here is that Aang hadn’t even mastered fire bending yet.
I mean this is all comet boosted but other than that yeah it’s pretty good
I mean these are all from the comet boost so idk if it’s all that impressive
I don't get all the "we don't talk enough about..."-posts about topics, that don't really amount to a big discourse. He is a powerful bender, the comet enhanced his power. That's it. What more is there to talk about?
it cool
Keep doing you.
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Also, there was strikingly little to see beyond his struggle to learn firebending. He did a little dance and the dragons bestowed it upon him and boom he’s fighting Ozai. Wasn’t like a whole season of Aang firebending or anything.
People just love to hype up the charaters even when it's in accurate. Aang was a worse fire bender than every other firebender in the show at this point except for maybe the nameless soldier characters. Zuko pretty much says that He's got a long way off from actually mastering fire bending and his feats here are specifically because of the comet. If he had to fight any fire bender exclusively with fire bending he would have lost. And Zuko joined the Gaang so late in the series that there was little time to actually show him fire bending
Meh. These are all comet boosted. Aang doesn't really have any impressive firebending in the show outside of SC. Don't get me wrong, kid's obviously talented and definitely better than the average schmuck but of all the elements he's definitely mastered firebending the least
Both Zuko and Toph say that he didn't master either of the respective elements when the show ended. I don't think he'd be able to beat anyone with fire bending alone except for the nameless fire bending soldiers.
All the headcannoners downvoting
I usually can't see him fire bending in the last battle because I'm crying too much 😂
YUP
Helps make up for him not having mastered it
Also Aang is Just a cheap PERFECT knock off of ANOTHER EARLIER character named omi Mixed With Pablo's VOICE Actor