Is glassbending possible? EXPLAINED [Avatar The Last Airbender l Legend of Korra]

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[@kaityr9693]

Glass in nature is actually a thing! Lightening sometimes strikes a beach and makes cool looking tubes of glass.

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

And Sand and Glass are both made of Silicon Dioxide or other Silicone based compounds, so in theory is kind of possible because Sand-bending is possible... So at least an Earth-bender like Toph should be able to or at least numerous shards of glass

[@bleddynwolf8463]

i think obsidian and lightning glass bending may be possible but i'm less sure man made glass is bendable

[@boi.9936]

Or obsidian, which is also a type of naturally occurring glass.

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

Yeah lightning glass is a real thing

[@L337f33t]

Fulgerite is what you’re talking about! Neat stuff! It’s sold online for big money for what it is.

[@maxalain9948]

Bruh glass is just cooked sand, and sand is bendable. I don't see why not.

[@gamelofdemenor8228]

But then maybe the rocks are too small?

[@bbrdbr]

sandbenders exist

[@rumlord1967]

Purified

[@exellerupperexe1godofchaos977]

What? You never played minecraft?

[@rumlord1967]

Yeah just forgot

[@armingarcia2189]

Reason #4859 why Kyoshi is a badass, from "The Shadow of Kyoshi" novel published on July 21st, 2020: "The shards of glass in her skin plucked themselves out under the force of her [Kyoshi's] earthbending and balled into a floating clump that dropped to the floor when she switched her focus to a nearby pitcher."

[@dressflounder6719]

Thats what i was going to comment

[@lazuli1086]

DressFlounder doubt it :/

[@abigailfite6383]

She literally glass bent, that’s what that excerpt is saying

[@sakinazafar4155]

@@dressflounder6719 me too

[@oranjethefox8725]

@@lazuli1086 rude

[@andresbarea-torres4131]

It's official now, glassbending is cannon. Kyoshi did it

[@skyline-2818]

Andres Barea-Torres but it was already glass, now magma is only bendable because it is already hot, I think only the avatar would be able to bend sand and then turn it into glass. But they would already have had to master sand bending, fire bending, lava bending (fire bending), magma bending (debatable and earth bending) and earth bending in general. Now it would most likely only have to be one between magma and lava but I think lava seems more practical. The reason spongy the avatar can do this is becuase they would have to use fire bending and sand bending at the same time to be able to make glass, most likely only being able to do these two in the avatar state. Sand melts at 2700-2800F so it would have to be somewhat clumped already and it would have to be dry sand. You would first have to blue fire bend (as it is the only fire form in the element that can reach 2700F) onto dry sand, after you would lift it and form it into a desired shape with earth bending, after you would use water or air bending to cool it down very fast. And then with earth bending if you have the same power Kyoshi had, you can glass bent into somthing/someone.

[@cheek3664]

@@skyline-2818 Imo I don't think you need to be an Avatar to turn sand into glass. I think you just need to copy how waterbenders can turn ice into water or water into mist.

[@skyline-2818]

Shino - hmmm yeah actually your right, skilled water benders can manipulate the form and heat of water into mist so it would only make sense that skilled sand benders can manipulate sand at a higher temperature into glass

[@cheek3664]

@@skyline-2818 I really hope we get an sandbending main character so we might get to see this

[@lonebattledroid4474]

@@cheek3664 maybe but considering how Lavabending is it's own rare sub bending skill I think you have to be a Lavabender to turn Sand to glass

[@triddie9065]

"Glass and Crystal are very similar!" Geology is turning in it's grave

[@marinusjohn7690]

@lcyw20 mr.george geology died back in the 1870s when he was shot by garfield (the cat, not the president)

[@kurr7661]

Ore bending?

[@SuperBatSpider]

When you want to like but you see it already has 69 likes

[@micahlong2073]

@@SuperBatSpider help it get to 420

[@MrCmagik]

yeah I thought the same like... XD

[@MrRage-jg7wl]

We need a third series on an "earth" Avatar who's special skill is glass bending, or a really cool villain.

[@gisar.6539]

Go and check out Avatar: Legend of Genji. He is an earthbender avatar who hails from the sand vending region. Its a really good fan fiction, but they artwork is extremely similar to that of Korra and Aang's drawing style.

[@williamsledge3151]

That would be cool to see for a villain who can do something similar to crystal storm is Terraria

[@KP_Uravity]

I would love to see a series or graphic novel about avatar Kyoshi

[@Iliadic]

And then a fourth for a fire-avatar

[@goigadol1420]

"they called me mr glass"

[@AlternateAlternative]

Wouldn't it have been dope to see earth benders in Ba Sing Se making pottery or vases with earthbending? Reminds me of air benders whipping their fruit pie topping in terms of ingenuity.

[@boi.9936]

Yeah, I see claybending as possible too, because that's naturally occurring, and it is full of sand and silt.

[@johnelmartagbago3764]

_Firebenders:_ I can bend lightning and combustion _Earthbenders:_ I can bend sand, metals, crystals, and lava _Waterbenders:_ I can bend vine, mist, ice, and blood. And on top of that I can heal. _Airbenders:_ *You can what?* EDIT: Didn't expect everybody to take this seriously. 😂😂 I have watched ATLA and LoK before so I do know how powerful the airbenders are.

[@jeandortilus7711]

I mean airbenders are lucky cause they can use it literally everywhere

[@topsyturvy1097]

@@jeandortilus7711 so can firebenders. See zuko in the cooler

[@johnelmartagbago3764]

@@topsyturvy1097 But to be fair, airbenders could take away the air you're breathing from your body and leave you dead in an instant.

[@batatanna]

They can move like nobody else can, negate soundwaves completely, fly and protect themselves from explosions and so. They are literally the most optmied ninjas

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

Can't they also bend various other gasses?

[@Jerepasaurus]

Funny thing to me, when AtLA was still new, and I had friends making fan characters... I came up with a guy that was a glassbender. My instant thought was that "Hm, no one else is doing this. Seems interesting and complex." And I'd decided that he was extremely up tight, detail-oriented, and considered his bending skills to be an entire art form on its own that he refused to teach to others. Absolute dick, but a fun anti-hero type. lol

[@kendellebloodsaw2605]

I love that sooo much. Very creative.

[@jiveequation1865]

Did your friends characters shit on your glass bending? If it was possible why would anyone want to use it for combat? I guess your offense would be ok but your defense would be trash. Most other bending styles would shit on glass bending. You don’t really have to reply I’m just curious.

[@funnyblog100]

I found a form of firebending as scary as bloodbending. Considering lightning is a form of plasma you could probably concentrate it into a beam and create precision lasers. Meaning you could effectively use fire bending to perform brain surgery on someone via lasers that are invisible to the human eye. Cut out the higher brain functions of the frontal cortex and you have an instant lobotomy.

[@matthew5200]

@@funnyblog100 gdamn what happened to your childhood

[@funnyblog100]

@@matthew5200 I just figured that firebending is under used and having a villain that could do what I just described is pretty scary.

[@zanis_summers8284]

I read this as “Grassbending” and I was like... “Yes... Yes they can... Why is thi- Oh...”

[@potato._.1]

Wouldn't that be waterbending tho?

[@GrassLion85]

Same!

[@nejx8711]

HappilyNeverEver Again Asian people: “I don’t get it?”

[@neeborg1]

same

[@trulyidkman]

@@potato._.1 NO. It's waterbending but you have to focus on tiny particles of water that exists in their blood(since the body is 70% water). Also can blood benders make themselves erect just like that or...

[@salalonci7435]

I want a third Avatar show set in the modern day that follows an Earthbending Avatar who is obsessed with chemistry and learns how to bend all kinds of seemingly unbendable materials based on their chemical composition. I want Korra's successor to be Bill Nye the motherfucking Science Guy.

[@crab5482]

gonna watch bill bye beat the hell out of oil companies by bending zoron compositite the thirdite “the worlds on fucking fire” -bill bye the avatar guy

[@DelnorShinobu]

Sounds like Dr. Stone

[@goldenapplesaga5446]

I think that "I want Korra's successor to be Bill Nye the motherf*cking science guy" is the best sentence my eyes have had the pleasure of reading 😂😂😂😂

[@bedrantje]

He unleashes uranium when he enters the avatar state

[@yes-vs6ux]

@@bedrantje LOOLLLL BUT TRU

[@NotUlpoadingAnything]

Air benders can alter the temperature of the air too. That's how Aang doesn't freeze to death when he's visiting the Water Tribes. He's creating a hot pocket of air around himself.

[@mariustan9275]

That would make sense why everybody else is wearing arctic clothes but he's fine.

[@thomaswalsh4552]

I feel like the clear reason that I’ve bending is so common is that 99.9% of water benders live in places that are extremely cold and snowy/icy to the point that they make all their buildings are made of ice and snow. It’s arguable that snow/ice is more common than water

[@mennoltvanalten7260]

For icebending, also notable is that most waterbenders live on the pole. They are by their homeplace as experienced with icebending as they are with waterbending. The first waterbending we see in the series is Katara bending a bit of water to catch a fish. The second is to break apart an iceberg. The diversity is there from the beginning. The swamppeople don't have this advantage, but I don't recall them ever icebending. What do you guys think about this?

[@elenapedrozo2917]

Mennolt van Alten Yes, I think the environment does influence; the swamp tribe bending style is diferent and they rely in the manipulation of the plants.

[@antitheist3206]

The swampbenders also had a natural affinity for plantbending, something Katara wouldn't learn much about until meeting Hama, and then it was more about her learning bloodbending.

[@andrewriker4369]

Mennolt van Alten so going off of that. If a earthbender was in a cave deep down could he glass bend? And the swamp people probably wouldn't bend ice because they have adapted to the swamps not the poles

[@HelloFutureMe]

Really really good point! The creators have confirmed that the ability to bend is associated with (at least in part) your upbringing and environment, so the diversity is there people they have adapted to it. It's curious to wonder what waterbending would have been like if the dominant culture was that of swampbending. That said, we do see swampbenders bend ice in the Day of Black Sun Part 1. ~ Tim

[@andrewriker4369]

Hello Future Me but have we ever seen earth benders not associated with sand or desert environments that sand bend or is it just natural to sand Bend?

[@josheydubs]

So in Shadow of Kyoshi, we see her demonstrate that glassbending is possible when she bends glass from the back of her neck after an encouter with a triad gang in Ba Sing Se.

[@jewel_master2250]

7:32 well no one bended metal before, and then toph was just like "hey, there's rocks in this" *bends metal* ...wack

[@TragicTortellini]

“Hey, there’re rocks in this. ... Wack” Yeah that’s Toph-

[@yaboyroy1963]

legend of korra book 75: rise of the drywall benders

[@beywheelzhater8930]

For using such a forbidden technique, I shall now use waterbending to launch fruit at you at high speeds.

[@hamburgersandwich4273]

The drywall kingdom, Home Depot

[@gibbous_silver]

I’m gonna sandbend in the Waterbending style

[@demonduck1220]

NO THIS TECHNIQUE IS FORBIDDEN, I HEARBY BANISH YOU TO THE SPIRIT REALM OR YOU SHALL RECEIVE JUSTICE IN THE FORM OF MY LIGHTNING

[@beywheelzhater8930]

@@demonduck1220 Your lightning is weak compared to my fruit bending

[@Rimuru__Tempest___]

The avatar: ooh I can use all 4 elements Also the avatar: Wait, there’s more bending?

[@chelyt4807]

It's more of sub-classes of bending

[@Rimuru__Tempest___]

It’s a joke that the avatar has to master all four elements, but to MASTER it means they need all the sub bendings

[@kimjong-un9506]

Ocha Neko why people like u gotta ruin the internet? Like damn. People like you are the reason I keep my country closed I was thinking about diplomatically uniting Korea but I changed my mind.

[@lolnowwhat]

@@kimjong-un9506 damn my guy chill

[@shadowlitten547]

@@chelyt4807 actually there's energy bending that is not a sub-bending

[@halu959986]

"Nobody has done it before" *laughs in Kyoshi* I do like that this was being discussed long before these books appeared though

[@dustinmartinez7096]

I can’t remember seeing a window made of glass in atla i think glass is just not as accessible

[@MrTrombonebandgeek]

I think in the episode where katara acted as a water spirit there was glass on the factory, but i think they went stylically with the fact that there wasnt a need for glass pre industrial age

[@CapCreeperGR_Main]

@Samuel Ndisa are you dumb. You get sand with your shovel and put it in a furnace!! Have you never played minecraft

[@TestTest-nv1dc]

@@CapCreeperGR_Main no, you have to put a wooden hoe in there for fuel

[@Samisgreat-lf2yx]

I think the fire nation battleships have glass on them

[@pixel9106]

Test Test why would you waste a very valuable tool

[@something2424]

waiting for airbenders to be able to fluctuate airwaves and soundbend

[@OBtheamazing]

Blooregard they already do, haven’t you ever heard aang sneeze?

[@gitrob2558]

... meelos farts?

[@firehawk8521]

Angst supersonic speed

[@dakotastein9499]

just like Magma is a Quasi of earth and fire,(as i asume both can potentially bend it) Lightning is often considered Quasi of air and fire i believe it may be physically possible for an air bgender to learn to weild lightning.

[@adrianmiroco6577]

Blooregard they’d make awesome DJs to be sure

[@LuckySketches]

Remember that Iroh only discovered lightning redirection from studying waterbenders. He was still within his element, but the technique was completely different from any form of firebending. It's possible that alternative bending styles are all about thinking outside the box and using techniques vastly different from traditional bending of that element. Perhaps glass has too fluid of a structure for traditional earthbending techniques, and certainly from crystal and metalbending, so a technique more akin to watebending would be required. Perhaps airbenders could manipulate the breath within their bodies to enhance their physical abilities and endurance if they were to focus on their metabolism like firebenders do (looking at some of Aang's acrobatics, he very well might). Also, similarly to how metalbending was taught and passed down, given the arctic climate of the water tribes, it's entirely possible that when icebending was first discovered it was simply so useful that it was taught to the point of being ubiquitous, while it may not actually be inherently easier than plantbending which, although incredibly useful for swamp-dwellers, is basically not even an option in the ice caps. Edit: Upon reading the comments, I'm going to add that if an airbender were to study ripples in water and try to apply it to bending they probably could develop soundbending, and that would be rad as heck.

[@blurryink115]

sound bending sounds hella sick omg,

[@Saedris]

Dual bending could be possible to If enough water condenses it could create plasma, so is plasma bending possible

[@Gusanoman]

@@Saedris Technically, lightningbending is plasmabending.

[@Saedris]

@@Gusanoman true... Stupid me lol

[@ninjabaiano6092]

@@blurryink115 funny that water is the element of change and it created quite a few of those special benders

[@sachikochan988]

The shadow of kiyoshi just confirmed that earthbenders can bend glass :D

[@SailorYue]

It's funny how in the kyoshi comic that we see an Earth bender who absolutely cannot bend sand. Kyoshi was super tall and stocky, pretty much as close to someone with giantism as you can get in the series, and she could not bend small earth. She couldn't do the delicate maneuvers required for sand bending

[@trexawwm9140]

7:25 “Sand is just superheated and supercooled sand”

[@petercrites9311]

Glad someone else noticed

[@ninjiinc.8883]

Wow! Sand is sand!

[@merrybright5732]

Some random guy hmm yes the sand is made of sand

[@LesterPrinsen]

@@ninjiinc.8883 yes... and It's coarse... and rough......... and irritating..................... and it gets everywhere!

[@loganrecord3756]

Sand is small rocks

[@Indigomiko]

Blood Bending is an Avatar rabbit hole. It makes me wonder if there could be such a thing as bone bending. Bone is collagen but 70% of it is actually mineral in nature. Do minerals count as something that could be manipulated by an Earth bender? The crust of the Earth is 90% minerals so I would say yes. Also Fire benders can manipulate lightning. Lightning is pretty much a really strong electrical pulse. Does this mean they could manipulate the electrical impulses in your brain, or muscles? How about air benders bending the air in your lungs? Wow, that question sounds like it shouldn't make sense but it does. My point is, when you start looking at the implications of blood bending, all bending gets pretty dark pretty quick.

[@Indigomiko]

Oo, oo follow up. Water benders can bend blood. They can also pull water out of the air, or nearby plant life. Could it be possible for a water bender to pull all the water out of a human body? I know I'm getting a bit diabolical here but the possibilities!

[@Indigomiko]

Ok also, since in the Avatar world you can blood bend, and perhaps theoretically bone bend, would it be possible to raise an army of undead corpses to do your evil bidding? Obviously I can not be trusted with any bending power.

[@steventaylor1522]

@@Indigomiko I hope you never get bending 😂😂😂 if you do I hope we never become enemies 😂😂😂

[@kayleighkowalski5358]

I would think if they really tried earth benders could definitely bend bone. Toph explained when she first learned metal bending that she figured it out because of the “minerals in the metal.” She saw the minerals with her mind’s eye and bent the metal. So theoretically the same could be done for bone if they sat there for long enough trying (especially if they were taught by badger moles)

[@Dosman0026]

fire benders don't control the lighting the can create it and redirect it (trough there bodies) thats all, I believe. The air in the lungs thing was used in LOK that one dude removed the air out of the earth kingdome queen. I do think that the bone bending could be a real thing and should be explored one day, kinda like blood bending that it is a forbidden/looked down on act of bending.

[@Shythalia]

Fun fact: Lightning can turn sand into glass (sort of, it's just not as clear as man-made glass). It is a very rare occurence.

[@jakemiddleton6501]

Tbh I think lava bending and stuff is less about temperature and more about being strong enough to apply enough pressure to change its state. Therefore you need to have a certain level of strength to bend it .

[@lonebattledroid4474]

I wished they showed that as Ghazan and Bolin don't have to show effort crushing the rock they just do it automatically

[@DrunkenDarkSoul]

KING BUMI MADE GLASSBENDING ILLEGAL! because stepping on glass sucks. KingBumi loves strutting his stuff barefoot so he probably just Shimmied shook and broke the 1st glass factory/benders down 6ft under Omashu. The city originally named after people that would constantly step on glass and shout OH MY SHOE!!

[@Anglesso]

He would step on glass and he would cut the glass

[@HateSonneillon]

@@Anglesso and probably ate it too

[@kennybear519]

I like this fun theory but to debunk the “OH MY SHOE” part of it the great city of Omashu was name after the lovers who were forbidden from each other due to the fact that their villages were at war Oma and Shu

[@dnovaes7099]

"That's why Zuko looks so hot and sexy" Finally someone who understands my crush.

[@peachcampanella]

i thirsted for that boy so bad i wrote fics about it

[@oofi422]

You are not alone, I feel guilt.

[@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735]

BACK OFF HE'S MAI

[@austinsmith538]

Good news everyone! Glass bending was confirmed to be possible in Shadow of Kyoshi! Bad news, it only showed up in one scene briefly.

[@aprameyanaganur2934]

"Sand is just superheated and supercooled sand" -Hello Future Me, 7:27

[@TheDeathmail]

It should be noted that Lightning was more of a rare skill because of how the secrets were kept by the royal family and the fact that a screw up is dangerous rather than it being difficult for being so far... Metal Bending seems to actually be hard for tons of people to do on the other hand... Fire and lightning are just naturally more dangerous among bending arts... dangerous for those around and the user itself... Also, you forget that many earth benders might not even know that glass is sand or they might not even think about bending it since it's so fragile and that kinda goes against the very philosophy of Earth Bending...

[@CaptainWobbs]

Not knowing glass is sand would just be ignorance on their part. Glass exists in the Avatar universe, and it’s not the naturally occurring type, so it stands to reason that (just like reality) the people who made it obviously know how it was made and spread that knowledge, since there’s no real reason for it to be a secret.

[@ninjabaiano6092]

You need a almost psycopath mindset to bend lightning tho

[@danielboudreaux85]

@@ninjabaiano6092 *coughs* Azula

[@salt1069]

@@ninjabaiano6092 did u call mako a psyco >:(

[@WafleEnterprises]

Ninja Baiano But I mean. Iroh was never psychotic even when he was leading the Fire nation armies

[@eclipsetora1226]

Just a random thought, but bloodbending could actually be really helpful in the medical field of Avatar.

[@neoshenlong]

Avatar's wasted opportunities post TLA, no. 2031: A story about Aang and Katara's daughter actually being very proficient at bloodbending. At first Katara absolutely prohibits that she uses it, but while curing someone who was bitten by a poisonous animal, the girl realizes she can bend the poison out of the blood, thus creating a whole new way of doing medicine and healing in Avatar's world.

[@svgarangy80]

I will never see blood-bending the same again.

[@johnmystery1345]

I imagine it would be highly regulated with lots of psychological testing and constant observation of those who could preform it.

[@avereynakama9854]

That would be really cool, actually.

[@shadowclaw7210]

Pretty sure everything used “right way” can be help full some everyday things been used as weapons before giving them new job so I think same about bending example air bending can kill some from inside draining air from lungs.

[@Moneymakingkev]

“That’s why Zuko looks so hot and sexy wait what” U Ain’t Wron-

[@KPopped98]

"Too soon?" It's been 15 years but it's still too soon.

[@trstmeimadctr]

I think that hypothetically, anything and everything in the world of Avatar should be bendable by someone, and by who is arguable, based on how you want to break it down.

[@TrickyTrickyFox]

Mud is a nice example - it's half water, half earth, so both parties are pretty much able to bend it, while in different ways =)

[@grinsekatzedecheshire7754]

Evil toaster of pure EVIL I think bending mud is as difficult as bending sand so not every Earth bender will be able to do it but waterbenders shouldn't have difficulty.

[@jahovah2979]

@@grinsekatzedecheshire7754 im pretty sure all earthbenders can sand bend toph just didn't like sand because her seismic sense didn't work as well

[@grinsekatzedecheshire7754]

@@jahovah2979 Avatar wiki Sandbending is an alternate earthbending style that has been adapted for use in the Si Wong Desert by the people that live there. They move quickly in the desert on specialized wooden sailers that are propelled by bending miniature, localized sandstorms behind their sails. Because sand is sediment which travels in flows, their style resembles air and waterbending more than earthbending. It is implied that most, if not all, earthbenders are capable of easily bending sand, but because of the loose shifty nature of sand it is not an easy transition for the average earthbender. The sandbenders of the desert are especially proficient with it due to their particular habitat.[18]

[@grinsekatzedecheshire7754]

@@jahovah2979 yeah, I should have said it would be hard for them.

[@punishedsteak5150]

Glass is just solidified molten sand. Sand is earth. Case closed.

[@impulsivezx3890]

Sandbending is basic glass bending

[@arpitpatel2781]

Please update the video adding the glass bending from The Shadow of Kyoshi. Since the line from the novel reads, "The shards of glass in her skin plucked themselves out under the force of her earthbending and balled into a floating clump that dropped to the floor when she switched her focus to a nearby pitcher."

[@codeblack9407]

This video didn't age well in the new Avatar kyoshi novel it was confirmed that earthbenders can bend Glass Avatar kyoshi is the only earthbender known to do it

[@arpitpatel2781]

Yes you are right. The specific line within The Shadow of Kyoshi novel reads, "The shards of glass in her skin plucked themselves out under the force of her earthbending and balled into a floating clump that dropped to the floor when she switched her focus to a nearby pitcher."

[@williamdragon9415]

Also we have to remember that water IS the element of Change, whereas earth is the element of stability or "staying the same".

[@taylor_green_9]

William Dragon extremely important point

[@thebravegallade731]

which also ties into the monecular structure: glass doesn't have a solid structure on the monecular level. its more like EXTREAMLY viscous liquid...

[@vladprus4019]

This is perfect explanation why waterbenders can easily change element from liquid to solid and vice-verse, but this is rare ability of earthbending.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

No, because glass is of tier 7 hardness It dont bend, it break

[@feikah8811]

well, I mean, rocks

[@yuxie3048]

This actually feels like it could be a plausible answer. Bending glass may just break it. But I'm no geologist.

[@elpretender1357]

Bending is also like telekinesis, so if you break the glass you can still use the shards as bullets so its not that useless, but in avatar bending is something ment to incorporate in the daily life not for assasination purposes only so that could explain why no one uses it

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

Hardness does not correspond to structural flexibility Steel can be made harder and more flexible then aluminum

[@Deception975]

I guess you've never seen a glass blower, huh? We've seen an example of an earth bender turn rock into lava, in Korra. So, manipulating glass could be done the same way.

[@deartheodoza693]

1:23 Where’s Flight, Seismic Sense, Mudbending, Vinebending, Sweatbending, & Soupbending?

[@lonebattledroid4474]

It's been confirmed in the Kyoshi Novels that yes Glass bending is another Earth sub bending skill.

[@asba6435]

i feel like air is at a disadvantage Fire : Fire + Lightning Water : Water + Blood + Ice Earth : Earth + Metal + Lava Wind : Wind

[@straystars801]

in combat, i don't think so. they can all but deflect just about anything. it was also said that no one knows how to properly fight an airbender - which, i wouldn't exactly know why, but i think it may be because they'd been thought to have gone extinct for a long time, so no one bothered to learn how to anymore - so they seem quite powerful.

[@ryannguyen8379]

They could likely produce sound if the series continued

[@altansirin5830]

Master airbenders can fly. Like Superman it was in the Legend of Korra.

[@JASONAMANO]

Well i think its fair to say every air bender is dead (except of course) so nobody can test out new possibilities

[@eliscore]

Flying, potential sound manipulation, wind blades are confirmed by Aang

[@Gewoon_Georlon]

He just called zuko “hot and sexy”

[@BraydenSBMX]

No homo but...

[@leconcasse6450]

Yes, yes he did

[@ellastudios1575]

Did he stutter 😆

[@TragicTortellini]

Well, he’s not wrong

[@IDragon1930]

One is truth the other is a law of the universe. Take your pick.

[@freddyP300]

Well it’s just been confirmed the answer is yes! You just have to be Avatar Kyoshi levels of strong

[@SpecimenKE]

it's played off as a common thing

[@wolfishpotato6978]

@@SpecimenKE yes played off as such, but unless it's mentioned in comics I haven't read that is the only time in the entire Canon universe that it happens. So _why_ and _how_ is what I want to know

[@matroqueta6825]

"Sand is just heated and supercooled sand" Ah yes, the sand cycle

[@liv0072]

5:53 "That's why Zuko looks so hot and sexy" you are my new favorite person

[@HelloFutureMe]

Haha welcome to the subfury community! Glad you enjoyed it. ~ Tim

[@StevDoesBigJumps]

"The temperature doesn't need to be changed much from water to ice" Don't neglect the amount of energy you need for phase changing materials. Heat capacity is one thing, phase change capacity is a whole other beast. Of course if the water bender finely controls the molecules, they need only slow them to a standstill, which would lead to some funky energy discharges and absorptions with the air around the water.

[@potbem5333]

Wisecrackin' Wiseguy Or you could just squeeze water into solid form

[@StevDoesBigJumps]

@@potbem5333 water expands when frozen, I don't think you can compress it into solid form, even at the bottom of the Mariana trench where the pressure is at over 1000 bars, it's still liquid and mostly the same size. If a water bender could exert such forces, they could do far more than the mere blood bending which is said to require the most power. In fact they would probably be able to atomise people.

[@marcobrace]

Wisecrackin' Wiseguy to change 1 pound of water to ice it only requires 144 btus

[@StevDoesBigJumps]

@@marcobrace Damn, what manner of prehistoric measurements are you using?

[@marcobrace]

StevDoesBigJumps imperial ones?

[@nickarmstrong477]

I'm curious if the Avitar would have an easier time doing alternative bending from the base element because they could incorporate other elements to help like fire to heat up the rock easier or if there's some things that you can only bend if you're an avatar because you have to bend multiple elements at once

[@mariustan9275]

Yeah guess so

[@mariustan9275]

Maybe create plasma by a firebending avatar

[@Itsninjaturtl]

Somehow the thing that distracted me the most at the beginning was flowey in the background

[@user-rh4qd6se9n]

6:40 I am actually fascinated by him talking about atoms and molecules when discussing a show where fire, air, water and earth are the basic elements XD.

[@sylendraws1249]

7:50 Glass is actually naturally occurring. Volcanos can produce volcanic glass, although it is quite different from what most people would think of as glass.

[@natanoj16]

SylenDraws he mentioned that ^^

[@sylendraws1249]

when?

[@davidcremin3837]

SylenDraws obsidian

[@mr.kennedy2294]

SylenDraws Glass is naturally occurring in the form of lightning glass. When lighting strikes on the beach or dessert it can form glass. I don't know how pure it is but glass is very naturally occurring.

[@HelloFutureMe]

You're totally right there are instances of naturally occurring glass like volcanic glass (as I talked about obsidian being a thing), and lightning striking sand is also another good example. ~ Tim

[@567secret]

Tim in 2018: "Nobody has done it before" Learning casually from The Shadow of Kyoshi in 2020: "No problem"

[@ieatbananaskins7926]

I think Bo Linn lava bending did make sense because even though he’s an earth bender he has fire bending blood in him so he would have a better ability to heat the earth he is trying to bend

[@Microme955]

This literally makes no sense

[@Steezealways]

​@@Microme955it makes more sense then literally all of the other ones

[@jamesdevries1218]

I’m Just thinking of how blood bending could be used with healing bending

[@topsyturvy1097]

...Amon

[@johns.7752]

@@topsyturvy1097 Amon taking away people's bending is very interesting, because depending on how exactly it is done could give insight into manipulating bending as a whole. If he just eliminated it from the person's spirit or body, then the Avatar literally gave it back. The Avatar can also take away bending which is the same sense as Amon, so does that mean an even more skilled bloodbender can give bending? And if by "taking" bending he just blocked the ability from being used like what chi blockers can do temporarily, then that means he should be able to unblock it. So then does that mean everyone has an ability to bend, but some just can't unblock it? If so then a skilled bloodbender can unblock anybody's bending, even if they haven't had it before. This could work nicely with the air nation resurgence because it could mean that harmonic convergence simply unblocked all of those people's bending.

[@raineecho4005]

Yes, for example, if someone has a cut or stab wound, you could hold all the blood in and keep it flowing and also probably help it clot. Not to mention you could probably put people under to perform surgeries by cutting off oxygen to the brain for a few seconds

[@lonebattledroid4474]

@@johns.7752 I think the explanation was he would clog up blood where the Chakras were to prevent bending. Though I don't like this as that would cause serious health problems which are never shown (and it was never said within the show) and Korra can just fix blood clots with Energybending?

[@ShaunRF]

"The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same... Even the separation of the four elements is an illusion. If you open your mind, you will see that all the elements are one. Four parts of the same whole." I believe Guru Pathik is telling us that all elements can be bent, and by any bender, or maybe even non-benders.

[@ultimatedragon4281]

I thought something similar to that before. Something like people's ability to bend having it's source on the energy bending... Before the Wan's episodes in the Legend of Korra totally blow it away. If they had kept the lion turtles granting just energy bending AND explained that, as time passed, people started to lean how to use the energy within themselves to bend elements and the limitations were more connected with your personality and connection with the spiritual side (making the Avatar able to bend all four elements BECAUSE of the spiritual side of the Avatar) then it would make some sense. However, somethings would NEED to be different to this work... For instance, take the fact that benders seem to be born with that ability (in the sense that, if you weren't born with bending capabiities, it is a waste of time to try bend), then I am not sure if it could actually work on Avatar's lore as we know it.

[@TheRussell747]

0:45 we learned this (earth benders bending of molten rock) in ATLA, when Avatar Kyoshi comes to confess about the killing of Chin. In the scene showing her splitting off from the mainland to create Kyoshi island, she is seen bending the lava up to fully separate the pieces of land.

[@citrusn]

Well, she’s the avatar, so can we really say it’s earthbending? What if it’s a mix of that and firebending?

[@TheRussell747]

@@citrusn avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Lavabending Them being the avatar doesnt make it a different type of bending. Being the avatar just means they have immense power so things like that tend to be easier for them

[@citrusn]

TheRussell747 yeah I just watched TLOK and found out it’s earthbending. thanks though!

[@coolpersonwithcake98]

you are a massive nerd and I love you, thank you for brightening up my day withboyur videos!

[@nataliaborys1554]

5:54 - There is no turning back. Let's face it, everyone thinks Zuko's sexy, even straight males.

[@skazwolfman8622]

I'm a heterosexual man, and I can confirm this.

[@impulsivezx3890]

Straight male can confirm

[@subscribesbutnovideos]

Fuck no

[@zack8194]

We all thought that when we were twelve

[@NerdOverlord]

Facts!!!!

[@andrewriker4369]

If a water bender is strong enough to blood bend and ice bend could he/she turn another humans blood to ice, instant pro bending win Edit: Like this if you want Tim to do it

[@raptorus7773]

Zippy DaFish that would probably result in several yellow fans, or just banning from the game. So I don't think its an insta-win

[@andrewriker4369]

Raptorus77 true. But you could freeze an arm or leg secretly

[@TickedOffPriest]

That is a scary thought, but possibly an illegal move.

[@andrewriker4369]

TickedOff Priest so was everything the one team did in the tournament

[@animemageqo6741]

Possibly yes

[@akhilm9851]

I like to think as kids with different bending parents are born they'll find new affinities in their own element. Like my headcannon is that Bolin had a talent for lava in part due to the fire bending heritage of energy and heat on top of his dominant earth element

[@supercharged5-39]

im pretty sure another reason icebending was so common in waterbenders was because both water tribes are in a location made mostly of ice, so they would have learned the techniques pretty early on, which is also why the swamp waterbenders don't seem to be able to bend ice or even know that they can.

[@MickeyCuervo36]

For glass, in order for it to be malleable, it would have to be re-heated. Certain metals can be worked cold. Metals are heated and annealed in order to be made more workable, but that's a matter of relaxing the crystaline structure of the metal. For instance, when steel is heated to between 1450-1500°F (788-843°C) it changes from ferrite to austenite, and then when quenched, it changes from austenite to martinsite. Fresh quenched carbon steel is as brittle as glass, and so must be tempered by re-heating (to 400-500F/200-260 C), relaxing the structure a bit to make it more durable. For copper or brass or bronze, when heated and quenched, they get softer, not harder. The way to harden it is by working it, compressing the structure. Overwork it, and it starts to tear, or even crumble. That's all the impurities stacking up and not being held in place any more. Kinda like pressing gravel out of play dough. Now, if you're a bender that can manipulate metal on the particulate level, theoretically you could just arrange the impurities in whatever way you wanted, making it ductile and malleable, or tough and unyielding. whether that act of manipulation generates heat, or if heat is needed beforehand I don't know. You could potentially do the same with glass, but it would be interesting, seeing as how glass doesn't have a cold working state as far as I know. It would likely be like this glowing red taffy substance being manipulated into shape. And if used in combat? That would be some nasty stuff... It has the potential to stuck as it burns, like napalm... Ouch...

[@Meow-meow-Ima-kitty]

My theory is that Earth benders can manipulate the chi in the Earth to generate heat, thus turning it into lava, which means they should be able to turn sand into glass using the same technique, it would just require an intense amount of discipline and focus.

[@potatocheese3559]

That is a lot of text, I was going to read it but just too much

[@NoOne3234]

Lava/glass benders would be like water benders (they can turn liquid water into ice shards) if it weren't so difficult. In some ways, it would be easier to just use the earth impurities in someone's body and make them explode.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

compared to water, I think earth just progresses slower in the terms of bending transmutated materials. I mean, water can easily be bent on pure water, ice, vapour, liquids, mud... while earth took a leap just to bend sand, a bigger leap to bend metals, a massive leap just to bend lava, which is just molten earth, so I can imagine it would take a massive amount of time for earthbenders to consider glass, which is also a very rare element in avatar since we only saw glass in industrial level, with all buildings in modern cities like Republic city still having paper windows. We would not only need earthbenders to study it, but also glass to be more numerous around'em to be considered worth the problem. Plus, there is one thing: would be probably much easier for a "glassbender" to bend pre-existing glass than turn sand into glass in the spot.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

Also, there is the nature of the bender. Waterbenders are imaginative and flow with the easiest path, while earthbenders are grounded in their mindset, though and hard-headed, so they seem to be the more "conservative" benders. The 4 elements can kinda fit inside that political compass with water and airbenders being more liberals while earth and firebenders being more conservative.

[@backonlazer791]

One thing I disagree with is that it would be easier to bend pre-existing glass. Perhaps they could make it move with practice, but since you can't mold cold glass it would probably shatter.

[@livesincanoe9034]

Glass bending would be a combination of sand and lava bending. Glass being melted sand and lava being melted rock.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

well, when I meant "bend pre-existing glass", I was imagining being limited to simply moving it like they move a boulder, not shaping and re-shaping it.

[@cassiusfelix2805]

Ergotth yeah

[@MayOrMayNot06]

So what about water benders being able to bend steam, that’s water, we have only been able to see air benders do that, but water benders should be able to do that

[@caramelc0rn]

Hmmm i swear I've seen someone bend steam/water vapor before. I just can't remember who 🤔

[@ossofMinecraftia]

@@caramelc0rn The old bloodbending woman transformed water vapor in the air into liquid water

[@kirstymiji3895]

@L G u mean hama?

[@batatanna]

They literally bend clouds to hide Appa, this is basically steam

[@ossofMinecraftia]

@@batatanna katara and korra also both bend steam at different points, katara to provide the stolen battleship cover and korra to rescue Tenzin from the Equalists

[@DeLegend27]

7:25 "Sand is just super heated and super cooled sand." -Hello Future Me

[@FreshZCORD]

Is glass really that powerful though?🤔 Edit: YES, glass can hurt you BUT compared to Metal,Lava, and bloodbending or taking the air out of someones lungs its not that great

[@lilpoteto6486]

It would be pretty damn lethal. More painful to the point where bloodbending would feel like a massage lul

[@charterhold1469]

Fresh2000 Imagine flying volleys of glass. I mean air blast counters it, fire bending melts it which isn't perfect, earth blocks it, water makes ice block it. But would be deadly if hit

[@aurorasyreen863]

It would make production very much easier I think... Remember how in LoK thee were power plants powered by lightning benders? I think it's the same here. Imagine how easy making bottles and cups of glass and other likewise stuff would be, if you could bend it into the shape you need it to be... I mean the universe of Avatar is now coming to an age where things like this matter, not sheer defensive or offensive power. An age of technology and production, kapitalism you could even say. So this is a point to look at as well. I don't think though, that bending the cooled down form would be really common, as it shatters way to fast to be good bending material. I think not many would bother trying to bend it once it is cooled down... I mean it would take lots of concentration not to break it, but once you perfected this you can make use of this bending ability while building houses - windows, hehe- and stuff like this. It is more of an economic bending style, then an actually defending or attacking one. Well except if you are using obsidian, 'cause that one is not that easy to break. Ah and with the blocking thing - don't forget that you can attack from behind without someone noticing you and some people in the Avatar universe are nonbenders, so...

[@Milnoh]

Imagine if you can bend beer bottles and throw them to your enemies, once it get empty (you should never waste beer)

[@Jyharri]

Fresh2000 imagine micro shards of glass and spiked cannonballs of it, just waiting to make contact with people (not buildings tho, not as powerful) in attack, glass can be a very powerful, dangerous weapon

[@Saedris]

7:58 Glass naturally occurs in deserts or beaches when lava or a meteor strike collide with the sand

[@elizabethgouverneur2972]

Or extremely rarely lightning

[@Saedris]

@@elizabethgouverneur2972 thats true to

[@noeldev]

also what i would like to point out bolin was a child of both a earth bender and a fire bender, so it could give him a edge in learning lava bending

[@SpecimenKE]

I've just read "shadow of kyoshi" in the first few chapters she gets cut with a glass ended sword on her neck and when she's done with the fight, she just bends it off. so not only is it possible, it seems common almost

[@the_socialphobic_girl]

Maybe we'll see glassbending in a 3rd avatar series where they would be an earthbender according to the avatar cycle.

[@akabitc3021]

*series

[@danielheffernan2038]

I feel like it would be possible for an earth bender(more specifically a lava bender) to create glass from sand through heating it but after its cooled and refined idk if it would still be bendable, no evidence just my thoughts 🤔

[@zyaicob]

Yeah That's what i thought

[@Spongebrain97]

Well since lavabending is shown to be possible despite its high temperature, I'd say glassbending was possible

[@majsuacyuaheaburta353]

I think they'll be able to 'glass bend' if they sand bend while it's being turned into glass. So it'll be more of an easier transition.

[@Lilitha11]

I like how you mention it is an artisan skill. It might just be that it is too time consuming for use in battle. There isn't a lot of glass laying around in the world, so making your own glass shard on the fly from some rock might just not be practical. Like when they crystal bend, they are using crystals that happen to be around, their not making crystal from scratch. In fact, the same is true for metal bending, it wasn't until metal commonly appeared all over before it was practical for combat. I am thinking glass bending is like that. You probably can't make glass on the fly but bending glass that already exists is likely possible. If there ever becomes a large source of glass then glass bending might appear.

[@necrospaci4835]

no obsidian bending?? like wtf

[@irinacd2537]

This is a really cool video, thanks for making it! I think with glass bending it would be interesting to see how the movements required to bend it would change (the way we see that Bolin needs to use more fluid moves akin to waterbending when he's lavabending) because glass is really weirddd, like, you could look at it as a supercooled liquid so maybe the same rule of more fluid movements would apply to bending glass

[@JustTheTrain]

I’m not sure if you’ve made a video on this yet, but I’d love to watch you discuss the logistics of Bumi bending creeping crystal/rock candy. Sure, it may have “rock” in the name, but rock candy is still basically just sugar and dye. Is it because of the crystalline structure of sugar? With this in mind, does that mean earth benders can bend other foods?

[@supercharged5-39]

genomite is apparently a fast growing rock though. maybe it's like salt where it's edible?

[@shakeemsymonds7362]

Probably anything with a similar structure. Saltbending, sugarbending, calcium bending (imagine drinking milk only to get bone bended). There aren't really any other notable minerals we eat in large enough quantities other than iron (3-4 grams).

[@someoneontheinternet4334]

Couldn’t air benders Bend every base element besides fire By picking it up with air

[@AlexAzureOtaku]

possibly manipulate pre ignited fire too by controlling the amount of air that it's fed and it's direction

[@reynamasterofdestinyallran2187]

Welllll there is a lot of oxygen (air)in water sooo therioticaly Aang wouldn't need any water bending training

[@allenoak138]

@@reynamasterofdestinyallran2187 Aang was an air bender not an oxygen bender you cretin

[@rosemary_carll]

You have made me rethink the meaning of life

[@toungebone]

Allen Oak oxygen is a part of air you moron

[@enlightningairieon7294]

60% of the different bending styles come from earth bending. Seems like someone has a favorite element.

[@johnschauer6832]

Or earth is the most broad element and is the easiest to find different styles for.

[@giliansterckx]

Earth: Lava, Metal, Sand Water: Ice, Blood, Plants, Healing, (Spiritbending. We may not like it, but it does exist.) Fire: Lightning, Combustion, Heat Air: (Flight?) Water seems to have the most by my count. Air seems to have none, for obvious reasons.

[@shadowclaw7210]

MyNameIsGuzse well it only element than can live in three states.

[@TheOmaga13]

The reason I think water bending can switch states is because water bending relies on the push and pull of water (as states in the show). There's an idea of movement within the bending itself that ice to water, and water to ice, becomes a part of. It's the fluidity of water that they can bend, rather than changing temperatures. Just a thought. :P Great video!

[@willmako5009]

One very cool thing is the visual possibility: glass is technically a very dense and viscous liquid so the glassbender could manipulate glass "mud", making it look like a bit similar to waterbending with the wave-like appearance only for the glass to fully "solidify" back once the bending is over

[@skyetharsis7136]

on the topic of limits of bending, i wonder, in avatar Wan's time period, could there have been undiscovered lion turtles with other elements?

[@awesomesausome1557]

Only the avatar could bend all the actual elements of which we won't name because there's alot and we need to cut time.on the intro. One day he met someone he didn't like and literally ripped them apart into their base elements, I'd say it looked horrific but it was instantaneous and he basically poofed out of existance

[@ETPangilinan1]

LUCkiswithme I believe each lion specialised an element of their environment according to how that element was needed. But if a lion turtle learned of the possibilities they would try to learn those as well?

[@shiningdawn865]

I literally just got my brother and sister Avatar pendants for their elements. And the people who I ordered the pendants from gave me water as well just to complete the set XD

[@shiningdawn865]

Amazon! but I actually can't find the link anymore :/

[@Golon13]

I think something also relevant is how often the bender interacts with said variations of the element. Ice is all around the water tribes but magma is pretty rare if you're in the earth kingdom.

[@ChaosMongrel]

Azula's fire does not actually burn at a higher temperature than other fire bender's fire. The creators said her fire is blue so it can be distinguished from other bender's fire during fight scenes with multiple fire benders (such as whenever Azula fights Zuko).

[@galdramann2478]

For me this explanation "Platinum is too refined and has no traces of earth anymore." is just something added by the authors to keep a balance in power, to give metal-benders a limitation. Because, if you follow this path and look at all you find in a pile of dirt, you will come to the question: "WHAT is earth? And what's not?" Platinum as well as every other metal, is earth, just like the guru said "a purified form of earth". So, when we come to glass, I think it would be interesting to look at the possible usages. Solid: a brittle club/ball/blade/arrow/hook etc. Liquid: a badass torture device (and possibly a device for creating artistic burning scars^^)

[@thebravegallade731]

I'd calssify earth as silicate(mostly Sio2) and carbonite rocks.

[@potatocheese3559]

Platinum is on the periodic table, iron is too. So why can earth benders bend iron but not platinum

[@Lilitha11]

Someone did mention else where that they might actually be bending carbon. Which is why they can bend carbonite rocks, and iron(if it is something like pig iron which has higher carbon content) but they have more difficulty bending more purified and refined metals and even iron might become impossible to bend if it was pure. They also mentioned how that might be extremely broken, if you can bend anything with carbon in it, including flesh bending people. The system starts breaking down if you look at things like that though. It might be a more 'spiritual' thing, since they live in a spiritual world. It might be that you can bend virtually anything, as long as the spirits grow used to it. So naturally spirits are drawn to natural sources of 'earth' being just the ground, but then as people advance technologically and create more metal things, spirits grow accustomed to viewing metal as earth and over time bending works better for that. So the rules actually change as time goes on. What might be impossible at one time is common later on as humans create more of it.

[@micmac274]

It's based on traditional alchemy where things were split into impure base metals and pure metals, like silver, gold and platinum. Looking at it that way makes sense if you understand what the medieval to renaissance alchemists such as John Dee and Isaac Newton (yes, Newton) believed.

[@OpinionatedLumber]

it also makes no sense since earthbenders can bend mercury which is extremely pure as a liquid

[@lile4life713]

I miss avatar I wish they would bring I️t back

[@panquake5698]

I like how he was a little flowey in the backround

[@froeloe]

What about *bonebending* ? Perhaps a highly proficient earthbending master with incredible mineral detection skills can bonebend.

[@anadoesthings2999]

im seeing lots of comments about how glass bending would be pointless compared to lava and normal earth bending, but you should think circumstantial. if an earth bender is in a room with no earth, but a massive window, they could glass bend that window into sharp cones or even change their shape into swords. the use of most bending techniques are circumstantial.

[@alexhuk7353]

TheGreatGamerGabe glass is harder than ice (obviously depends hon how you make the glass of course). Glass wire is also possible XD

[@HouseLyrander]

I think the biggest issue is that until the Korra era glass windows weren't really a thing in houses, and even when that era did roll around, wooden windows were still very common. The technology, climate, and culture just didn't call for windows that need to be seen through while closed

[@charaktar]

@@alexhuk7353 i think you are onto something here, glass fiber in the avatar means they would be one step closer to high speed internet :D

[@ayaanhussein3045]

can fire benders bend glass no i have a theory lightning benders can make glass but not bend it becauseif they struck the lightning on the sand it would make glass

[@yspy_8057]

Dude.... a sword made of glass??? It is more likely of you getting injured from that than ur opponent, the sword would just splatter into ur face. but the sharp cones, yeah i can see that

[@DanteYewToob]

I'm just curious... would you rather a new Avatar series set after Korra, or Before Aang? (Open question. Feel free to discuss.) Personally, I kinda would rather go back to a more simple time, before Aang. I'd love to see the world before the Fire Nation attack, where Airbenders roam free and have adventures. Where the nations are all relatively friendly. I do want to see what happens after Korra... but I just feel like the world would get too advanced and not as interesting. Korra had the perfect level of advancement for me, just enough technology and bending to remain very interesting. You wanted to learn more about the world and how bending was involved in day to day lives of more modern people. But I really really want to see what the world was like before Aang.. maybe even a Kyoshi series!

[@rosemary_carll]

Before Aang for sure

[@yuxie3048]

A lot of Avatar's world can be traced to actual historic times in Japan and China from the Industrial Revolution to WWII. Going backwards to feudal times would allow you to do a phenomenal series, perhaps using China's Three Kingdoms war for the Earth Kingdom which eventually leads to the newly crowned Earth King converting the Dai Li into a spy network for would be upstart rivals but still calling them a cultural authority to pass under the Avatar's view. Meanwhile the Fire Nation doesn't exist. There's just a bunch of small kingdoms. I could imagine that these kingdoms willingly give slowly more and more power to a single one who controls the strongest fire benders to control the peasant protests caused by lack of food. This story ends by the other lords willingly but begrudgingly crowning the first Fire Lord, who ushers in an era of prosperity by using his resources to build a trade empire across the world's seas. The other nations it's harder to say what to do with since they seem mostly unchanged in AtLA from what they likely were thousands of years ago. Also I don't know what the Avatar's role would be, but the Avatar implicated in the Three Kingdom's War sounds very cool.

[@JudojugsVtuber]

I personally am interested in after korra for a couple reasons. 1. I really wanna see an earthbender born Avatar other than kiyoshi, Aswell as the next fire avatar 2. Korra had some interesting concepts with fusing bending and technology (Mako using lightning bending to help generate power? duuuuuude) 3. I really want to see how the new air nomad society forms. Perhaps we'll get some crazy technologically advanced airbenders with crazy new airbending gadgets

[@blueray2174]

I prefer a prequel, but honestly Avatar is a series that should have ended with the original series (stuff like the promise is extended lore so its fine) some series are better left alone rather than brought back and puppeted around like a corpse. Good. Stories. End.

[@jordanflowers8448]

After korra cause the legend of korra kinda screwed everything up with avatar wan so I’d like the writers to stick to the future before the retcon themselves out of existence lol

[@mudfishnick9768]

The 2nd Kyoshi novel: "Allow me to introduce myself"

[@711Rod]

Kuyoshi bends glass in Shadow of Kyoshi. She pulls shards out of her neck, but that's the only mention of the ability

[@Ashly_3221]

"2200 Degrees for you heathens" has me dying!

[@jayleemittens9858]

Fahrenheit*

[@KickyFut]

Aaaannnd that uncalled for insult deserves a thumbs down! He shouldn't blindly insult his audience, just because they do things differently.

[@skazwolfman8622]

No, Kicky, I'm an American and I totally agree with him. It's really, really stupid and embarrassing that my country isn't on the same page as the rest of the civilized world. "American Pigheadedness" is my most hated cultural stereotype *because it's actually true*

[@KickyFut]

Measurement standards aren't "really, really stupid" (2 reallys? Really?) when talking about temperature. Celsius is only easier when talking about freezing and boiling water. That's it. When dealing with extreme temps, one crazy high number is no different than any other, as long as you are consistent what scale you measure with. (I think scientists are starting to use Kelvin more, anyway) I prefer to use F when dealing with reasonable measures like air and cooking, because it's a much wider span. You, ironically, can be more *accurate* when your scale is bigger. A couple ticks of air temp difference in C is way more significant *inside* than in F. When cooking, more than a 5° diff(which many ovens use as min change value) can make or break your food item. 5°C is a much bigger difference, when cooking! Sorry about the length(Giggity!) of this, but temperature is a hot button(pun intended) to me as consistency is the important thing!

[@skazwolfman8622]

@@KickyFut Thomas Jefferson, one of our own presidents, was one of the men who helped formalize the metric system. We are literally the only first-world country that doesn't use the metric system as standard. This results in unnecessary communication difficulties and makes us look bad when our international neighbors have to translate things for us. It's like we're that one foreign kid in a classroom that refuses to even try to learn the language everyone else is speaking. The metric system just makes more sense in general. Everything is based on orders of ten, instead of twelve inches to a foot and five-thousand-whatever feet to a mile. Seriously, 5280 sounds like a number someone just pulled out of a hat at random and said "yeah, that looks good". Then there's 8 ounces to a cup, but 16 ounces to a pound. Why?! Why do we make things more complicated for ourselves than they need to be? Because we're America and we think we know the best way to do everything, even when literally the entire international community is telling us "bro, you're doing it wrong."

[@HelloFutureMe]

Which is your favourite holiday of the year? Christmas? Saint Patrick's Day? Leif Erikson Day? Let me know down below. I should also probably let you know that I'm away for the next three weeks, BUT I have several videos pre-prepared that I've worked on since like last October to make sure I didn't just vanish for a month. There's some HTTYD, some Avatar, some Elder Scrolls, and some Tolkien. Hope you enjoy at least one of those :) Stay nerdy, ~ Tim

[@sherlockholmes7873]

Hello Future Me Well I`m german but I`m Irish in my heart so probably St. Paddys 🍀🍀

[@brotherzak7]

I don't like anythind, except 7Eleven-Day(FREE SLURPEES+ MY BDAY!)

[@animesandwichpodcast1625]

Avatar day is my favourite :)

[@mike_mundia]

You should do a video about if earthbenders could bloodbend since blood contains iron

[@dildoteabaggens723]

Hello Future Me My birthday it’s a holiday from a school day

[@haloelite439]

I think that in theory a sufficiently skilled lave bender may be able to produce volcanic glass and bend that since it's something they made through their earthbending, but it may be an extension of lava bending rather than its own specialized style

[@closeben]

Actually Iroh was talking about lightning generation. He was teaching that to Zuko but he wasn’t able to do it. It was after that that he taught him redirection, which doesn’t involve the separation of energy and I’d argue is less rare and easier to learn than lightning generation.

[@jadereynolds1204]

I believe that in avatar things have the energy of the four base elements, and is less about the composition of the material in a scientific sense but the way it its energy is percieved and interpreted by the bender. Like how Toph couldnt bend metal until she understood that it was just refined earth. Bending is about understanding and energy, so I think the same would be true of glass.

[@madman7544]

Like king Bumi's situation while he were captured inside metal cage even he was powerful enough to bend metal. But he didn't because he was already strong enough to escape without needing to think about bending metal.

[@dayanarauribasterra5627]

It could be that glassbending is realistically possible but perhaps (as it is glass we’re talking about, and the profession of glassblowing takes years to master) actually being ABLE to glassbend requires an insanely high level of mastery and technique

[@moefo8235]

We seen combustion man could there be a sound bender or thunder bender by controlling the pressure in the air what element would nitrogen be

[@rbdaviesTB3]

What I find interesting about "the limits of bending" is that I initially expected only materials from the Avatar planet itself to be bendable, but on refreshing my memory, Toph has no issue in bending a nickel-iron meteorite, and the Metal Clan specified that such meteorites are very easy to bend and used as training materials. It really begs the question of what bending might look like in a space-age Avatar World... ...which I really hope we see down the road, because what Varrick did in weaponising the spirit vines could be EASILY reapplied as a propulsion system for rocketry - the power density per vine is immense!