You can watch a brand new SpongeBob mini theory right now on Patreon for $5: www.patreon.com/alexbale (the theory will eventually be public in the big final spongebob bonus compilation. I'm still working on that video, it's just taking awhile.)
@danielsurvivor13722 ай бұрын
The fact you're gonna make a Theory about Avatar The Last Airbender is a surprise for sure, but a good one. We will watch your career with great interest 🗿
@carlosdiaz-mo2ol2 ай бұрын
Ol
@JoeMQZ2 ай бұрын
Hey Alex, my theory is that the cabbage vendor has an infinite supply of cabbages. 🤯
@FootBallxFootBall692 ай бұрын
Bro i am super hyped to watch because i know its gonna be good
@ivnrvl2 ай бұрын
"Mini theory" and its 9 mins long
@starfiresreign2 ай бұрын
This feels like a rant sokka would come up with at 3am. The cabbage merchant lookin real sus now tho
@countyfacts69202 ай бұрын
Bringing down Ba Sing Se is a stretch, but he definitely brought down Omashu. There's actually no other explanation. And he literally hates all earth kingdom places: "This place is even worse than Omashu" mmhmm.
@scaper82 ай бұрын
Cabbage merchant has been _real_ quiet since this dropped.
@skits22402 ай бұрын
He would honestly
@seid33662 ай бұрын
Suki and Gaang: you know, it *is* strange how much we see him in almost *every* location we've been to
@Hic_Sunt_Leones-o7v2 ай бұрын
Definitely a cactus juice rant if I ever heard one lol.
@santawithaflamethrower27582 ай бұрын
I know he's shown as and called a Cabbage Merchant, but think about it. Have we ever seen him sell his cabbages? He always has a full cart and never sells any of them.
@vincentfadoju85312 ай бұрын
This.
@davidhong19342 ай бұрын
His cabbage carts do tend to explode violently before we can see him sell anything
@santawithaflamethrower27582 ай бұрын
@@davidhong1934 Fair, but even in the afternoon when he should be getting a lot of business, he still has a completely full cart. But it is funny to imagine for every on screen time we see his cabages destroyed there are 100 others off screen and that's why he always has a fresh cart.
@DingleDuck2 ай бұрын
maybe thats just because no one likes him or his cabbages 💀
@santawithaflamethrower27582 ай бұрын
@@DingleDuck Yeah no that also could be the case. I mean would you buy a cabbage after seeing a guy rub his face all over it?
@nathan_t_henry2 ай бұрын
Okay, but the cabbage slug actually blew my flipping mind
@atlasbechard7572 ай бұрын
I love that, according to this, this man is so petty he's willing to throw an entire _kingdom_ under the bus because they don't respect his talent, his cabbages, like he does. It's almost admirable the amount of guts he has
@LeoLau-ip9bv2 ай бұрын
yes
@lilithcreature2 ай бұрын
dang it your right
@Ookami_is_a_wolf2 ай бұрын
I mean, a certain dude started a word war because art school rejected him.
@traviseller81602 ай бұрын
@@Ookami_is_a_wolfYa effectively.
@jackthefrog800852 ай бұрын
Spite is the best motivator
@overanalyzingavatar2 ай бұрын
This is the first I'm hearing of any cabbages in Avatar, very interesting.
@dronix66242 ай бұрын
yeah, out of all of the overanalyzing videoes I've watched, not one mentioned these "cabages"
@musicrocks01382 ай бұрын
I’ve never watched avatar lol
@danielr.2 ай бұрын
Makes total sense though
@jamesbuscarini2 ай бұрын
There is no cabbage in Ba Sing Se
@Toester2 ай бұрын
Yeah i have no idea what this guys talking about, who is this "cabbage merchant"?
@RuefullyUrs2 ай бұрын
This theory goes down a dozen rabbit holes, only to emerge into something shockingly plausible. I'm in awe.
@JoséMendoza-d8jАй бұрын
Earth Bending to make those rabbit holes, air to spread out the dirt and hold it in place as Fire and Water do the rest
@StevenJones85110 күн бұрын
@@JoséMendoza-d8jthat makes Sense a lot
@ADSadachbia10 күн бұрын
If by "awe" you mean: I'm not going to sleep tonight. Then yes. I'm in Awe too
@ivanbluecool2 ай бұрын
Cabbage bending is the strongest avatar style. Fire the sun that helps photosynthesis. Water to drink. Earth to grow in and air to spread the seeds. Truly the avatar state or vegetables
@RedMonkey-ev1qc2 ай бұрын
But we will get to That part later.
@Ccrey_2 ай бұрын
Water also helps grow and also the nutrients in the ground and fresh air…. He’s the avatar
@dowesschule2 ай бұрын
Air for the carbon that it's made of
@fryguy97042 ай бұрын
Robot chicken moment
@cradiculous2 ай бұрын
Only the Cabbatar can master all four
@Danero19192 ай бұрын
This has all the energy of someone who has found the truth and doesn’t want to believe it themselves, but not sharing the truth is tearing them up inside. Absolutely incredible theory.
@multiply982 ай бұрын
The whole show takes place in less than a year. Aang is 111 years old the whole show. I whole heartedly agree that cabbage man is a spy, but he would've been a spy the whole time. There's no 'years of abuse' to make him mad, and Zuko was getting intel from the very beginning. Cabbage man is likely from one of the fire nation colonies and is loyal to the fire nation, but he knows the earth kingdom well, so he's been spying since before Aang showed up.
@CatDragon2922 ай бұрын
Well, there could have been years before the show started. And so he’s been helping the Fire nation before this.
@seelcudoom1Ай бұрын
while specifically to the avatar yes, we can assume similar events with the earth kingdom predate this, its not like their bureaucracy(or the fact it unfairly favors certain people) a new thing, which notably the fire nation while still having nobility obviously, operates mostly meritocratic (one of the closest and most trusted ally to the fire nation heir is a circus performer based purely on her skills)
@gracekim25Ай бұрын
12, 112. That's his actual age
@CT-mf7ll2 ай бұрын
I think if you want to make this theory a little stronger, you can also say that the cabbage merchant is from the swamp and is a water bender. The reason he knows about the tree in the swamp is because that’s where he’s from. He’s able to bend his cabbages because he’s a water bender who’s bending the water inside the cabbages, just like how Hue bends the water inside vines in the swamp. The cabbage merchant even has a similar skin complexion to people from the swamp and a very similar hair color to Hue in particular.
@LeoLau-ip9bv2 ай бұрын
huh
@Waffle_taffy092 ай бұрын
Valid
@bebepastiche91052 ай бұрын
Omg ur right Huu and Canbage guy have very similar color palates
@deodlow1412 ай бұрын
their is also the fact that those episodes in the swamp are mostly centered around pollution and starvation.
@Beberle6752 ай бұрын
He kinda looks like a water bender too ngl
@kaitalit91352 ай бұрын
Bro I was so sceptical but after finishing it i was shocked. HE IS A SPY
@Friezahim2 ай бұрын
HEAVY IS SPY. HEAVY tf2
@Imperials3nateАй бұрын
@@Friezahim "That cabbage Merchant is a spy!"
@FriezahimАй бұрын
@@Imperials3nate that cabbage merchant is spy
@mysteriousgamer2062Ай бұрын
@@Imperials3nateA CABBAGE SPY IN THE BASE!!!
@JiggaBoo_Johnson692 ай бұрын
Cabbage bending can actually be canon believe it or not; in the official short story avatar comics there was a story called "New Recruits", in it Aang and the gang try to recruit new members to help take down the fire nation, Old man Yahshi then brings 4 different benders with unique abilities. There was one bender who could manipulate shadows and there was another who was able to bend cookies, yes actually. Technically since this is an official comic that is canon to the show it is basically confirmed that aside from the 4 elements it is also possible to bend other things as well, so if a literal child can bend chocolate chip cookies then it's pretty safe to say that the merchant cabbage bending isn't so far fetched at all, I'm surprised Alex didn't use this piece of evidence to back up the cabbage bending claim, it would've really help to solidify parts of this theory low-key
@sidelampАй бұрын
That comic is not canon. The characters featured in the comic were created by fans as part of a Nick Magazine contest. The winners would get their character featured in a comic for the magazine. Later on the comic would be collected into a book titled "The Lost Adventures" in which it was placed in a section named "Bonus Stories" and not grouped with other canon comics, making it decidedly non-canon.
@JiggaBoo_Johnson69Ай бұрын
@@sidelamp damn guess I over looked it, would've been an interesting focal point for the theory tho ngl
@TheAangGang2 ай бұрын
The cabbage merchants goes all the way back in Kyoshi’s era. “An overdressed merchant from Omashu haggled with a fire nation procurement officer over cabbage futures…”
@Keram-io8hv2 ай бұрын
So his symbiosis with cabbages made him immortal?
@toxincloud16292 ай бұрын
@@Keram-io8hv probably a generational practice. Or u are right, Kyoshi was a disciple of Lao Ge the immortal and lived for 200+ years herself, and lao ge was a earth bender so we can only wonder
@joe44592 ай бұрын
Or cabbages in the show extend life.😮 Think about it everyone in the avatar show and past books lived 100+ years. Then after the company switched to technology everyone is aging horribly and dying young (relative to the avatar universe).
@KyleGK012 ай бұрын
Where is the source?
@joe44592 ай бұрын
@@KyleGK01 probably the books in rise of kyoshi or dawn of Chen
@ZachWilliams-i5t2 ай бұрын
I have binged Avatar every summer break for over 10 years continuously (still going). No matter how crazy this theory is, it all somehow makes sense. Sokka in Legend of Kora says that he isn’t surprised that people could bloodbend in the day because he knows how benders are always pushing the boundaries to impossible extents, the same logic applies here.
@MagpieMalone2 ай бұрын
Cabbages are mostly water, would it be an offshoot of waterbending?
@ZachWilliams-i5t2 ай бұрын
Probably, if you can bend the water in vines to move them, I’d imagine you could sense things too. If you can bend vines, you could bend cabbages.
@Mark-fo6hz2 ай бұрын
if u are a gamer or like animes/mangas/novel, then it would really make sense for plant blending.. a character or creature controlling plants just make so much sense
@eleemaeli18302 ай бұрын
i'm only at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="20">0:20</a> well cabbage bending is not impossible in the canon of the show, plant bending is a thing, a sub-bending of water that the swamp tribe did learn
@namelessdude2072 ай бұрын
It could also be a form of Spirit-Human Binding/Fusion (Cabbage Spirit -> makes more sense and is easier to make canon) like the Avatar
@eleemaeli18302 ай бұрын
@@namelessdude207 oh god a cabbage spirit i want to see it badly
@eleemaeli18302 ай бұрын
if i think about it Fructus can work as something close to it
@ADSadachbia10 күн бұрын
Please. Let us take into account that we're talking Water Rich plants
@bowserbreaker25152 ай бұрын
This is crazy, but believable. Here's another piece of evidence: In the episode "Imprisoned", Haru saves an old man with Earthbending, but he immediately rats him out to the Fire Nation. It shows that Earth Kingdom folk don't automatically have loyalty. While I don't think that guy was a spy, it does show that anyone can turn on the Earth Kingdom.
@nieselregen42017 күн бұрын
I don’t see how this is related to it. The old fire nation man also helped Sokka when Jet tried to flood the city. Does this mean all fire nation citizens are not loyal? Of course there are some snitches. You find them everywhere in every nation. Avatar takes a lot of time to show you that people are just people and not defined by the actions of their nations. A good example is the episode Painted Lady. And another one is this.
@StevenJones85110 күн бұрын
@@nieselregen420thanks for the information
@ShrekOgrestone2 ай бұрын
No matter how much of a stretch the theory initially seems Alex somehow manages to find seemingly explicit clues to support it. Great theory as always!
@CruzingAroundTheBlock2 ай бұрын
Nice pfp! 😂
@ShrekOgrestone2 ай бұрын
@@CruzingAroundTheBlock Thanks!
@beobabygirl90482 ай бұрын
ikr lol every time 😂
@lamiadominus9972 ай бұрын
This is so real. I almost dismissed the video entirely and passed by it until I saw it was made by Alex, so I decided to give it a shot. As always with him, I'm convinced. 👏
@teleportingpotatoe2 ай бұрын
mike is life. mike is love. @ShrekOgrestone
@-0.0-_0-0_2 ай бұрын
If this theory is true, props to the creators of Avatar, because that would be such a crazy thing to do like in the background just for nobody to end up noticing, except for one dude on the internet
@lyndseystrait15132 ай бұрын
LOL why is this theory so coherent though?! I was expecting the play insight but actually seeing a confirmed cabbage slug in the Ba Sing Se security scene is crazy! Also, if Toph can uniquely bend metal & the swamp people can spy on people through plants, then the cabbage merchant could definitely have cabbage bending! I really liked how Alex referenced both the original Avatar series & the Legend of Kora series. Fun theory!
@DKTH772 ай бұрын
I feel like if Sokka had this wrote down after a sleepless night, dropped the paper, Alex found it and put it into a video
@Frozenlittleshit2 ай бұрын
So he's the muse?
@DrCheda123452 ай бұрын
Yup
@MissNettasWorld2 ай бұрын
👏 👏
@Iveno-Von-Aethervein2 ай бұрын
You neglected to mention the southern water tribe's vine bending, where they bend the water in the vines to make them move. That's one more piece of evidence.
@thatoneguywiththevoice3287 күн бұрын
Not the southern water tribe, the swamp tribe The southern water tribe is the name for the tribes and settlements on the South Pole
@jessesgirl72992 ай бұрын
This is the type of unhinged theories I miss from Game Theory and team. No hate to MatPat he has a special place in my heart but this type of content is why I got into theories in the first place. Mario is a psychopath, peach is dead and now Cabbage Man is a firenation spy! I love it, keep it up man!!
@Januaryof282 ай бұрын
Ness is sans was my favorite
@rickydiscord7671Ай бұрын
I wish you people would stop acting like mat is the only person on youtube making crazy theories. there more people out there you know.
@KateCat420Ай бұрын
@rickydiscord7671 True, but a lot of people grew up watching MattPatt and he's who they think of when they think of theorists. It's not that serious, you don't need to defend anyone.
@rickydiscord7671Ай бұрын
@@KateCat420 ANYONE can make a theory. you don't have to go and think about one person for that. is just a nitpick that most people keep thinking mat's the only one. also is "defend" the word you really using? because that's not what I'm doing. that's what YOU are doing.
@SprayInk-Kreatïv-Nouveau2 ай бұрын
This whole theory is just as if the "My Leg" guy from spongebob were a spy for Plankton to help him conquer the world just because spongebob keeps breaking his leg.
@LordZemosa2 ай бұрын
I want to see this now
@KingdomMayFivePadua2 ай бұрын
sorry to burst your bubble but Fred rechid (my leg guy) gets his leg broken to be treated by a nurse he has a crush on
@mikadotakimura2 ай бұрын
Bro’s cooking 🔥🔥🔥
@ArtemisAYO2 ай бұрын
@@KingdomMayFivePaduawhy not both? 😈
@KingdomMayFivePadua2 ай бұрын
@@ArtemisAYO contradictions
@atlafan73642 ай бұрын
Close enough, welcome back MatPat
@beanieb0b2 ай бұрын
I mean this in the best way possible, but the title and thumbnail remind me EXACTLY of the Theorizer
@nugget67232 ай бұрын
I swear I thought I was the only one thinking that lol
@KikiQueen4972 ай бұрын
Same
@user-fn8xi1jg42 ай бұрын
I know when I saw the teaser I thought it was his
@Moonstriker25142 ай бұрын
When he said "the new logo is a cabbage" that felt like a big twist of a mort theory video
@keanu37822 ай бұрын
At that moment i heard the word "Cabbage-bender", i immediately thought on Robot Chicken
@COOP-m5p2 ай бұрын
I always felt bad for this poor old man. He just wanted to make a living off of his cabbages.
@dabatman51872 ай бұрын
Anarchist sympathizer?
@MegaPatuti2 ай бұрын
Oh don’t be. He’s making an empire later in the comic book
@Amoongussman182 ай бұрын
Tomato
@handsanitizer24572 ай бұрын
And then he gets accused of being a spy smh
@CrustySock1939Ай бұрын
Tbh bubble buddy from SpongeBob was a menace to society
@Nannon-p5g6 күн бұрын
lol
@jennybrown78342 ай бұрын
As theoretically weird as cabbage bending sounds its not the weirdest thing in the avatar universe in the old nick magazine they had a comic where the animators made fan ocs canon for one comic for a contest one of them was a cookie dough bender and one of the others was a shadowbender
@cradiculous2 ай бұрын
Shadowbending sounds like the most generic angst fanfic someone could come up with. Cookie dough bending though... You have my attention.
@jennybrown78342 ай бұрын
@cradiculous the other ocs were a old guy who could talk to animals a kid who could earthbend and had a rock dragon pet last one was a teen girl who could surf with waterbending and had customized weapons
@jennybrown78342 ай бұрын
@@cradiculousand those are just the finalists the honorable mentions where a plant bender with a 6 legged koala a water bender who could surf who was gifted with sea creatures a archer with unusual talents and someone who could tie there shoes with waterbending
@iamgoingtogoof2 ай бұрын
@@jennybrown7834 Behold! My one true skill! *Ties shoelaces with waterbending*
@gaminglegend2 ай бұрын
@@cradiculous Already exists in Naruto lmao
@Balrog-tf3bg2 ай бұрын
This… is actually one of the most compelling avatar theories I’ve seen recently. Good job!
@Zigdog2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1235">20:35</a> he is the leader of the red lotus.
@ZeChickenKIng2 ай бұрын
Oh no!
@ultimategamerdoomdoom74142 ай бұрын
Also at Omashu there was a disguise that Soka (I think) had to use and it was a squid or an octopus and they just said that he was sick and they shrugged it off like it was a normal occurance maybe there had been an outbreak of whatever the slugs or rotten cabbages had and that weakened the forces of omashu this is prolly a stretch but idk
@AlexBaleFilms2 ай бұрын
Yeah I noticed that too! Wasn’t enough to make the video, but it’s interesting for sure.
@danielz61772 ай бұрын
It’s crazy because I love Avatar to absolute death but I never noticed how many times cabbages appear in the background until Alex pointed them out
@flaviamartinez32922 ай бұрын
I like theories like this. Theories were the creators didn't attend to do this but then instead theorists like you get so much evidence and proof just to prove it and I love it. So thank you for another incredible theory.
@alexdoloress21802 ай бұрын
I love the fact that this theory is right but also that it could be more than a simple agent : - this is not cabbage bending because the merchant power must be linked to the spirit world (such as with the swamp or this Guru who wanted to train Aang). The spirit world is the only option with Avatar powers to spy on everyone with cabbages miles away from the bender ( even strong techniques like blood bending can't be used in a long range or period of time, only a strong spiritual connection is required like in Jojo with activation stands) - Regarding all the episodes when the Avatar journey meet the cabbage merchant, he couldn't be a Fire Nation intel before "the Earth Book" so I think that Zuko had just use every intel from the army or even other spies in "the Water Book" to track down Aang (you just have to look for a flying bison) . To proove this, it would be logic for the Fire Nation, after this century of war effort, to create an impressive intelligence web across the world to find the Avatar/ exterminate other benders . On the other hand, they already have the ressources to create such a web, as seen in the show with all the mercenaries or elites soldier detachments (the Explosion Man other the Rhino-lizard riders) - In the Avatar universe, the White Lotus loves to approach every people who are gifted with unique abilities, such as Sokka with his soul of enginner. Saying that the cabbage merchant is a member of the Red Lotus could be explained by the fact that he was already in the White Lotus at the end of The Last Airbender (because if he was a member since the beginning he would have entered Omashu or Basing Se with great ease) . Remember, any talented people can join the White Lotus, even Iroh from the Fire Nation . -There is a disturbing link between the merchant power and cabbage slugs, because at first we would not understand why he had slugs that eat his source of power that is to spy everyone . However, we could also say that these different spy weapons are designed to his modus operandi : these slugs are not here to destroy Earth Nation's food reserves because they are just cabbage slugs, but it's an excellent way to hide the evidences of his actions . Basing Se and Omashu are guarded by Earth Nation soldiers or even Dai Li agents who could discover the truth, so take some slugs and they won't see that the cabbages they bought at the market have face marks like Katara's cabbage ! By the way the merchant could have an impressive power range + no reasons to be worried because this cabbage is in a friendly territory : Fire Nation archipelago 🥸 ! At this point, there is just one missing element : I'm not convinced that the cabbage merchant is anarchist in Legend of Korra : how to be part of the Red Lotus, those terrorists opposed to the Avatar and benders in general, while you are some kind of privileged man with a spiritual power and a famous tech company with capitalist tricks such as programmed obsolescence of your products ? With all these evidences, I come to this dramatic conclusion : The lore about the cabbage merchant tells us a tale about the birth of a MASTERMIND . The cabbage merchant is a man gifted with a strong connection with his production . The problem is, he's born in a world ravaged by war where everyone could be a spy for the Fire Nation . Plus, any farmers will tell you the same thing : in a world like Avatar where you have rice or other cereals, cabbages aren't the first choice for in terms of productivity to feed everyone. But you know how you make way more money than selling cabbages ? Selling well accurate intels, thanks to this spy ability . Just need to hide some slugs to wipe the evidences . At the end of the war, there is a way better business with this power : stealing business plans and technologies from big brains like Sokka or any genius in this industrial era . Creating an influent company and be praised as one of the greatest personalities from the Earth Kingdom ! Just one last problem : getting rid of the Avatar. Not only this person had already put the merchant in several compromissions by destroying his material, not only Aang and Korra are a bridge between the material and spirit world and can discover the secret cabbage connection, but the Avatar is first of all the one responsible for the murder of the merchant precious children 😢 Those poor cabbages need to be avenged ! Destiny is sometimes pretty sweet... after he had infiltrated Basing Se, the merchant heard about Iroh and the White Lotus coup against the Fire Nation occupation. Using this precious information, he betrayed fire benders, knowing that one day, he would create a more influent faction to kill the Avatar. In the Legend of Korra, people have political debates around the utility of the Avatar. The Red Lotus is born, financed with Cabbage Corporation funds and tools of espionnage . On the one hand, the merchant lives on decades of tech fortune . On the other hand he helps any ennemies of the Avatar in the shadows . This was the tragedy of a man, only counting on his incredible power to live a peaceful life with his cabbages . Last time I saw such a character, it was Kira Yoshikage
@Serge22562 ай бұрын
…bro is so sleep deprived he wrote an entire collage essay
@chip24992 ай бұрын
ok the dedication is insane, you are insane, but i applaud you
@StevenJones85118 күн бұрын
NEERD!!!!! But Jones aside nice
@Alchemis2 ай бұрын
the fact that this gag character and similar type gag characters of other shows have enough evidence for huge conspiricy theorys like this that the origonal writers may have never intended is nuts!
@yanniquita2 ай бұрын
this was masterful wtf. Got me soooo hype every step of the way. when I thought it couldn't get any more unhinged (while staying logical?!) it got crazier. thank u for taking me on this ride
@matthewayala9882 ай бұрын
nickelodeon: let's make a man who sells cabbages that get destroyed as a funny gag. alex bale: HES A FIRE NATION SPY WHO CAN CABBAGE BEND TRYING TO DESTROY THE EARTH KINGDOM.
@dzalaiusplayz2 ай бұрын
And kinda succeeds btw
@KaiHung-wv3ul2 ай бұрын
This guy should be an ASOIAF theorist lol
@mattsisoler61254 күн бұрын
We need to bring this to the attention of the creators and see if this is true. It’d be insane if it was.
@Vex-ey6mu2 ай бұрын
I will never look at cabbages the same way again.
@benjaminbaer97122 ай бұрын
Cabbages will never look at you the same way again either.
@MrBrineplays_2 ай бұрын
@@benjaminbaer9712They'll be watching more often now
@LZRvision2 ай бұрын
This has got to be the best Avatar Theory I've ever, ever seen.
@VerbenaRP2 ай бұрын
This man was on his revenge arc after omashu
@grind-v3s2 ай бұрын
Water benders can bend plants so he is a water bender
@zakronthesheep2 ай бұрын
well, not necessarily. toph is an earthbender and she was able to see through plants, which suggests that particular ability isn't connected to any element.
@acrab65272 ай бұрын
In the fortune teller episode Aaang says, "clouds are made of water and air so we can both bend them" and they do. so plants are water and earth.
@jimjohnsung45742 ай бұрын
He just needs to mention Air benders in his manifesto and we've got ourselves the eco terrorist Avatar (working for the Fire Nation, using his water bending to sabotage the Earth kingdom, motivated by Air nomad scripture)
@pigeonflame98852 ай бұрын
He could have gotten cabbage bending from the lionturtles themselves
@scaper82 ай бұрын
@acrab6527 And fire from the sun for photosynthesis and maybe even air for pollination and seed dispersal.
@rikuran70422 ай бұрын
Dude. You should do a part time job as car salesman. At the start I never thought I would actually believe this theory but it just holds (at least for the most part).
@solonec.42852 ай бұрын
You know, actually the Cabbage Man wasn't from the Earth Kingdom, he was originally a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe. In fact, he was one of the waterbenders that were captured by the Fire Nation before with Hama though he was only a small child when he was taken. Unlike Hama and being such a young age, he went the opposite direction as Hama. Instead of taking the path of revenge, he took the path of Stockholm syndrome and joined the Fire Nation. He was sent to live as the child of a Fire Nation vegetable merchant. He took a particular interest in cabbages because they sort of looked like they had faces. The other children like Chan (who grew up to be Admiral Chan's father) and Runan (who grew up to Hide's grandfather) teased him and called him "Cabbage Boy" so he had no friends and was very lonely. After school, he would talk and play with the cabbages and they became his only friends. He was still young so he never got to really develop his waterbending skills and because of the Fire Nation indoctrination, he eventually forgot he came from the Southern Water Tribe or that could waterbend, so later, he was surprised that his best friend Caibbage spoke back to him. Cabbage Boy didn't realize but he had just invented a subset of plant bending: cabbage bending. Unfortunately, his best friend Caibbage was starting to wilt and wither and he was desperate to find a way to save Caibbage. That night during the full moon, Cabbage Boy could hear Caibbage was close to dying so in a desperate attempt, he picked Caibbage up and ran toward the local apothecary. On the way, he bumped into someone and he and Caibbage fell. Cabbage Boy got up and to his surprise, his friend Caibbage was healthy again and all that was left of the stranger was his clothes and dust. Caibbage explained that somehow Cabbage Boy was able to transfer that stranger's youth to Caibbage. While Hama learned to pull the youth out of plants like those fire lilies, causing them to desiccate and die, Cabbage Man learned the opposite: using plants (specifically cabbage) to pull the youth out of people. Eventually, he was able to take it a step further and transfer that youth the cabbage stole and transfer it to himself. That's why he doesn't look so old. As an adult, Cabbage Man wanted to join the army but was rejected because he refused to be separated from his cabbage. Cabbage Man move to the Fire Nation colonies and set up shop there but his stock kept getting ambushed or destroyed by groups of Earth Kingdom rebels, particularly this one group called "the Liberty League" led by Plane and Feelerflea. Cabbage Man was driven mad from all the carnage of cabbage casualties and decided to take revenge on the Earth Kingdom. He used Caibbage to drain the life out of some random Earth Nation cabbage merchant and took his clothes. Caibbage taught Cabbage Man about the infamous cabbage slug and how they could use it to cripple the Earth Nation's agricultural production and economy. Unbeknownst to both the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom, Cabbage Man played a significant role in helping to secure critical gains for the Fire Nation despite their poor leadership under figures like Officer Zhao and that Warden guy voiced by George Takei. Eventually, Cabbage Man found his way to one of the biggest Earth Nation standouts, Omashu... Anyway, from my understanding, the cabbage merchant was intended to be a one-time character but later changed to be a running gag. The only reason he appears again in Book 2 and mentioned in Book 3 and shows up in the live action was because the running gag was popular among fans.
@NotInting2 ай бұрын
Still counts
@1ndiebird2 ай бұрын
Oh my god man
@pkkiller_apathy45682 ай бұрын
A cabbage
@Caffin8tor29 күн бұрын
WTF is this lore dump?
@princeofalbany2 ай бұрын
Just to tell you, the guy we see in Legend of Korra is actually Cai (Cabbage Merchant)'s son, Lau. Cai himself is probably dead by that time considering he already looks aged in ATLA and LOK is 70 years later. On another note, there is a subset of water bending called plant bending, which is exactly what it says on the tin. If Cai was a waterbender, he could have learned plantbending and used that to tap into the cabbage's somehow.
@seanchernov71782 ай бұрын
There are THOSE in Avatar who with Unique capabilities had attained long life spans and sometimes even immortality such as Kyoshi, Bomi with earth technics (they specifically aren't immortals). Yet the most interesting example is Guru Patick who is at least 150 probably thorough Chi or even energy banding. It is possible that the Cabbage man being the supreme red cabbage had attained immortality through his energy connection to cabbages. And as such continues to work in the Shadow among or against other immortals within the spirit/idea realm or the physical one.
@ladyamy12622 ай бұрын
I was skeptical at first but the more I saw the more convinced I become
@ivanbluecool2 ай бұрын
MY CABBAGES
@carlosdiaz-mo2ol2 ай бұрын
My cabbages
@SevenDeadlyPuns2 ай бұрын
My CABBAGES!!
@Randomvaultdweller2 ай бұрын
MY CABBAGES
@TwodotsTwoie2 ай бұрын
MY PEARS.
@DominicHahn-t9z2 ай бұрын
MY GABBAGES
@bamboozledan8 күн бұрын
Watching this channel evolve is a fever dream. I'm loving every second of it.
@Scordeloop2 ай бұрын
I absolutely love how you use your horror film knowledge to make an immensely atmospheric video with great music choices, each one building up more suspense. Awesome video!
@vanyavanilla71082 ай бұрын
Alex is cooking some real cabbage soup in this theory.
@akosmolnar45922 ай бұрын
This just changed my whole childhood
@ysca082 ай бұрын
ALEX IS BACK!!
@SOCKKILLER2 ай бұрын
LETTSSS GOO
@Tiamat-sz5qi2 ай бұрын
I just woke up randomly and see Avatar the last Airbender cabbage theory, I though NEAT... I see Alex Bale on the thing and... I watched the whole thing.
@masscreationbroadcasts2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">9:05</a> This is the point I went "ok...ok, let him cook".
@ADSadachbia10 күн бұрын
He cooked too hard you should stopped him
@spencernaugle2 ай бұрын
Just started the video, but I hope he goes over how the Cabbage merchant breaks the laws of physics as they exist in the Avatar universe. During the 100 Years War, The fastest form of travel that existed on Earth was a flying sky bison. But somehow the Cabbage merchant travels between locations faster than Appa flying in a straight line.
@darkninjafirefox2 ай бұрын
He rolls on the cabbages
@goob123092 ай бұрын
@@darkninjafirefox yeah like in the intro
@Maholix2 ай бұрын
Technically speaking, Aang is shown to be easy to distract and prone to taking side stops. I believe at one point a fire nation general thinks he's tactically evading them, but it shows he was actually just being a spaz. He almost never takes a direct route to anything. So it's entirely plausible that the merchant is beating him to locations that are well traveled through trade routes.
@InsertNam32 ай бұрын
I can’t unsee this….Thank you for your work
@darkorangefire23 күн бұрын
One of the funniest theory videos I’ve seen in a while. Awesome video!
@TheTrueKingofDRAGONS1002 ай бұрын
Mat Pat is gone but Alex Bale is back
@pepper-9742 ай бұрын
The man who can Feel In Role So That we wont starve for theories We need to thank him
@TheTrueKingofDRAGONS1002 ай бұрын
@@pepper-974 yes
@pepper-9742 ай бұрын
@@TheTrueKingofDRAGONS100Hehe you fail to se
@wuttingtonАй бұрын
But when the world needed matpat most he vanished
@havalax4132 ай бұрын
I love that this video is 22 minutes long like an actual episode, and has white book screens, and an intro, ect. Well done, Alex Bale! Great editing!
@ScarabicEnterprises2 ай бұрын
This was incredibly well-edited. I had a great time watching :)
@RogerH_CxP2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="832">13:52</a> Fun Fact: Aang had the vision about Toph in the Swamp, the same Swamp Toph now lives in. Another bonus fun fact: In the episode "The Avatar and the Firelord" Toph says "Do you really think Friendships can transcend lifetimes?". Years later, Toph befriended Korra.
@KairuHakubi2 ай бұрын
how did 180 people thumbs-up this comment. I mean no offense but this is just two very obvious things that we all saw.
@RogerH_CxP2 ай бұрын
@@KairuHakubi not really, though. Not many people know this. Trust me, I've been on many forums and servers over the years to know this. But of course, over the years, it obviously became more well-known to people. Still, a lot of people didn't put two and two together. And since it's still a fun fact, I'm sharing it.
@ivnrvl2 ай бұрын
So that last bit about the mouse, that could be proof of Iroh using MOUSE BENDING but he just isnt advanced enough to understand what the mouse is saying quickly enough and thats why he was caught.
@musicrocks01382 ай бұрын
Mouse bending you mean like mouse traps
@dr.archaeopteryx55122 ай бұрын
Mouse bending would actually definitely be possible via bloodblending. So uh, that's uh, fun.
@donkylefernandez46802 ай бұрын
Not necessarily, we've seen animals respond to human language beyond petty commands. Hell Momo and Appa are a PART of the group. Instead, people themselves who are more connected to the Earth like Iroh, Aang, and Cabbage Man have an innate ability to "speak" to animals, but because of Iroh's guilt and current responsibilities, he wasn't able to properly connect himself at that moment. There's also the bounty hunter lady that had a connection with her "hound" but that seemed more like a order-response relationship
@ricardozk15 күн бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="33">0:33</a> Matt Patt: Hey, that's my thing.
@WittedMystic2 ай бұрын
The fact that he’s not at a million subscribers is insane. Some of the best content on the platform!!!
@funnifunnifunni2 ай бұрын
almost tho
@mysliceofparadise2 ай бұрын
Content is Golden !!
@hassassinator88582 ай бұрын
Bruh he's close
@musicrocks01382 ай бұрын
I know it’s so unfair he’s literally such a good KZbinr
@orthia872 ай бұрын
I agree. It is not fair, he deserves more subscribers and recognition.
@cosmeticincantations79972 ай бұрын
This really is a crack theory, but I'd believe it. The amount of times this person had to witness total cabbage carnage already had me thinking "Damn, how'd you not become some sort of enemy?" but turns out he was? Yeah, sounds about right.
@cosmeticincantations79972 ай бұрын
Also another thing, there's no direct proof of if he's a bender at all, so he could be a waterbender bending cabbageeeessssss......
@squeaktheswan2007Ай бұрын
I love Alex's theories and his short films. Keep it up!
@dabatman51872 ай бұрын
The Cabbage Merchant being an Anarchist leader is not what I expected when I saw the thumbnail
@beetroot47982 ай бұрын
This isn't just convincing, it's *REALLY* convincing. The Cabbage Merchant should be the Firelord. That's just some insane dedication. CABBAGE Lord.
@AchyParts2 ай бұрын
The only being on par with the Melon Lord
@fairytales59382 ай бұрын
I love it when you make something like a plot twist in your theories just like in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1050">17:30</a> I love that man :D
@windowstechsupport35622 ай бұрын
Next theory: MOMO IS A TIME TRAVELER
@auditect9502 ай бұрын
That would explain why he's the only flying lemur in the show.
@emmanuelyahaya-nh9fq2 ай бұрын
@@auditect950 Please watch Legend of Korra there are more and they can fly
@CrispyCris022 ай бұрын
If he's doing Avatar, I need to see a theory about if Suyin really is Sokka and Toph's daughter
@antoniacosta62212 ай бұрын
Come again?
@mr.waffles87392 ай бұрын
There's a theory in the community that Suyin is the daughter of Sokka and Toph that a lot of people made their head cannon (myself included lol)@@antoniacosta6221
@Z3rd1x2 ай бұрын
how… what??? No… Sokka wouldnt do that… would he????
@debater4522 ай бұрын
She isn't she is probably the daughter of a guy from the comics who's name I don't remember
@ImperatorNocturne2 ай бұрын
@@debater452 Lin and Suyin had different dads, it would stand to reason that Lin the older and more responsible is the daughter of the mechanic guy in the comics Imo it would make sense for the more free spirited Suyin to have a more free spirited dad, not saying it´s Sokka though.
@anthonyfaccone3625Ай бұрын
I hadn't heard this before. I didn't take you seriously when you said it would be the most convincing avatar theory, but it ended up being one of the most convincing fan theories i've heard of any show.
@nameistanya2 ай бұрын
i see, a new muse has arrived, and is craving cabbages. i see through you, Alex.
@Scotch75742 ай бұрын
This is definitely Alex's 'Sans is Ness' theory.
@HannibalTorrance2 ай бұрын
Still makes way more sense
@SpaceSkelet0nn2 ай бұрын
i liked the sans is ness theory 😭
@louis70592 ай бұрын
I find it funny how matpat got flamed for that theory because they were just 'easter eggs' but then those same people would use easter eggs for their fnaf theories@SpaceSkelet0nn
@TweedleDeem2 ай бұрын
Naw
@blockedjuser12722 ай бұрын
And the theorizers mort thiery.
@jayamsterdamАй бұрын
Hey Alex! Close to a million subs already! So deserved man, keep it up! ❤
@_itskira_92412 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1208">20:08</a> HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
@matijasostojic42882 ай бұрын
BUT IT MAKES SENSE.
@LollyPopLollyPop2562 ай бұрын
Why do i always get unnerved when I watch Alex Bale. It's not supposed to be scary lmao
@maryamzanana26302 ай бұрын
I think it's the choice of music he uses and the timing of it and how he draws the suspense out.
@jah-melle2 ай бұрын
Same
@DogeMonkey123710 күн бұрын
As a person who loves the cabbag merchant, avatar and alex bale, i see this as an absolute win
@lenski83062 ай бұрын
To be fair, i wouldn't go into cabbage bending because the swamp thing works because everything is connected like with roots and earth and all. However, if we go with the idea that the cabbage merchant is basically putting worms everywhere with its cabbages, maybe the cabbage merchant is connected to some worm spirit. Think of it like a tyrannid hive mind or something like this. And seing how some parasitic insects parasits can spread and take possession of insects or animals like sheeps or cows it could be a very huge threat to the Avatar world. And red lotus being spiritual and all, it could work, a worm spirit giving them info. Maybe a previous avatar basically went against a worm spirit and in revenge said worm spirit could try to go full last of us. In this, the spirit merchant would mostly be a tool ensuring for himself and his family a future at the top of society.
@skyrogue19772 ай бұрын
If he was getting paid for his info, that probably how he started Cabbage Corp in the future.
@Mrryn2 ай бұрын
And it actually goes roundabout when Hiroshi Sato frames the merchant and Cabbage Corp for supplying tech to the Equalists: if the merchant was secretly a cabbage bender, Sato unknowingly assisted with the arrest of one of the benders he despised. And we know "unknowingly" because, if he or the Equalists knew about the merchant, they would have taken him themselves. It's just funny how things work out.
@olegkamen75162 ай бұрын
I love how you call yourself some little dude on KZbin but you gotta be one of the most upcoming and exciting KZbinr out there. Your content is next gen and seriously impressive. Don’t sell yaself short brother
@Ms.Divine20242 ай бұрын
Yas I can't wait. 4 hours left yall.
@Siebsmakes52 ай бұрын
4 minutes! WOO!
@Sideshowbilly2 ай бұрын
My girl friend was very confused with what I was watching when she jjst kept hearing the word “cabbage” said so many times in the span of 6 minutes 🤣
@calistodorrenАй бұрын
You're actually not that far off Alex, "Cabbage bending" is actually plausible, Guru Pathik used energy-bending to show Appa how to find Aang in Ba Sing Se even though there's no record of him being an element bender, nor was he anywhere near the swamp...
@DanielJ_Mart2 ай бұрын
I know this sounds crazy! But….. I think Alex might be onto something.
@Olat672 ай бұрын
I love how years later, i found a theory that's actually good and somewhat hilarious 😂
@Maxfromohio21552 ай бұрын
I’m convinced that Alex works for the studios that makes these animated shows because how else does he find all this stuff
@karlyuchka70042 ай бұрын
Alex got tired of being the SpongeBob guy, he's gonna become the Avatar guy now
@anordinaryfellow69772 ай бұрын
🤣
@WorldWeave2 ай бұрын
This theory is just as chaotic as some of The Theorizer’s theories
@Maieveryday22 ай бұрын
Its the same vibe. 😂
@redwolfarony38942 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="767">12:47</a> A GAME THEORY
@theoschneider60992 ай бұрын
God bless mat
@lunakomlalandleАй бұрын
😂
@CasonFarrell21 күн бұрын
I thought of that too
@Barakon2 ай бұрын
I bet he became a spy because the only 1 who liked his cabbages was the fire lord or even the royal family in general.
@MASRIDER7772 ай бұрын
“There’s a red spy in the base!”
@CharlieStickland-hd9wc2 ай бұрын
'We need to protect the briefcase.'
@MASRIDER7772 ай бұрын
@@CharlieStickland-hd9wc yo a little help here?
@jore57253 күн бұрын
@@MASRIDER777 Medic!!
@napustangwattanakarn453515 күн бұрын
Alex cracking out a laugh for almost every crazy points he makes is so funny.
@SbevenGaming2 ай бұрын
Say the line, cabbage guy. MY CABBAGES!! (Cheering)
@misteranonymous18862 ай бұрын
"Laghima once wrote, Instinct is a lie, told by a fearful body hoping to be wrong. It means, that when you base your expectations only on what you see, you blind yourself, to the possibility, of a new reality" -Zaheer
@aoma373092 ай бұрын
Love your work, Alex. I think with the last SpongeBob movie, “Saving Bikini Bottom,” there are many scenes that confirm many of your theories. For example, the robot theory or Sandy secretly being a spy. Hope to see a video about that.
@TheDeamonscream2 ай бұрын
I’m grabbing my popcorn for this one! Alex only drops banger vids \m/
@windowstechsupport35622 ай бұрын
What if he can communicate with the slugs? It would explain allot, like he could hide one in Kataras cabbage, its kinda like a spy drone for him, they get intel and give that to the merchant
@HeraclesN-fp1bw2 ай бұрын
Cabbage Merchant is voiced by James Sie who also voices Jackie, Shendu, & Chow (Jackie Chan Adventures), Monkey, Viper’s dad, WuKong, & others (Kung Fu Panda series), Wind Dragon & General Kwan (Justice League), Kwan (Danny Phantom), Atom & Dyna-Mite (Batman the Brave & the Bold), Confucius (Time Squad), You Lee & others (Jimmy Neutron), Shoji (The Secret Saturdays), Louie (What’s New Scooby Doo), Penba (Chill Out, Scooby Doo!), & many more
@itffo12402 ай бұрын
Well, I have a whole show to look at and all he sees the cabbages. That’s how you know this man is determined to find the craziest things. It’s amazing how we could put the puzzle pieces together in a show where things go by fast good job, bro.