Zidaneski
Yue
I will win in the end.
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Post by Zidaneski on Apr 26, 2012 18:44:44 GMT -5
What is lethal in this show is hard to define. Sure in reality if someone hurled a 300 pound rock at me I would be dead but recall the blind bandit episode when the earthbending student hurls a rock at Aang at full strength. Aang just looked like he was pushed and nothing more. Other episodes also show that the durability of people is a lot stronger than in reality because if everything was realistic you wouldn't be able to have an entertaining show.
I would liken a beginning bender to be as dangerous as a kid in our world with a stick. Yes its dangerous to be swinging sticks around but you'd have to try pretty hard to kill someone with a stick or have some evil motive to even cause lasting injury to someone.
Firebending as we all seem to agree is a different case altogether since it is pretty safe to say fire is just as dangerous in the Avtar world as it is in our world.
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dirtyyasuki
Iroh
Take it to the limit... then break it.
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Apr 27, 2012 12:27:11 GMT -5
I would liken a beginning bender to be as dangerous as a kid in our world with a stick. Yes its dangerous to be swinging sticks around but you'd have to try pretty hard to kill someone with a stick or have some evil motive to even cause lasting injury to someone. You have some fine points especially where the physics and realism of the Avatar's world is concerned. But as far as the dangers of using a stick goes, it is pretty dangerous in the real world. (read: Arnis/Eskrima) You can kill someone with a stick though as you said they would have to try really hard or be lucky but I believe that would only be the case if they were untrained. A master of stick fighting can either kill you quickly with one well-placed blow or cripple you a dozen ways then kill you with one blow. It's a choice between dying quickly or dying horribly. Up until the 80's this martial art was well-known for it's bloody duels which often resulted in the deaths of one practitioner all to prove who was the deadliest with a simple stick or two. Almost no one ever went to jail for killing someone in those duels because both practitioners had a gentleman's agreement that the survivor would be immune to retribution from the loser's family. Nevermind the story of a 50 year old ex-con who was a master of the art and while under the influence was reported to have maimed, crippled, and killed an armed thug who tried to mug him. With his bare hands. Long story short, in my country a kid playing and threatening a full-grown man with a stick is annoying but you'd still treat them with caution. A kid who looks like they know how to kick someone's Equus asinus or at the very least their kneecaps with a stick is not to be taken lightly or you could end up walking with a limp for the rest of your life if you're lucky.
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Post by Nashk Tategami on Apr 27, 2012 13:14:19 GMT -5
Not to mention aang is the avatar, and thus automatically protected by plot armor. Ozai didn't even scratch him, let along a rock.
Also most of the time, the rocks, the flames, the freezing, all happens to other benders.
When bending is done to non benders, unless they have some sort of martial art training, its almost never played for laughs and people get hurt.
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