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[@malcolm32]

"Yeah no one besides Azula is willing to kill" **cue the shadow of Kyoshi looming behind Karl** 😂😂😂

[@Wynnie1121]

Those books were absolutely amazing

[@malcolm32]

@@Wynnie1121 I meant the literal shadow of Avatar Kyoshi, but also the book, yes.

[@jackdenihan5333]

11:57 creator/animators of the show literal made her have blue flames for aesthetic reason, so when she fights Zuko the flames are easy to tell apart and makes a better looking scene. Also her name 😂

[@DanielRaez93]

The Dragon Ball intro where Goku fights demons and is released from ice was from non cannon movies.

[@hembloop3072]

Just casually flashing Kiyoshi on the part where no one else wants to kill is pure comedy

[@About9000]

You're probably gonna get this mentioned a ton already, but Tara Strong was the voice of Raven, not Grey. But considering how Raven is usually the opposite of What Tara usually plays, I can see the confusion. She was trying out for the Voice of Starfire but somehow Landed Raven instead XD.

[@namecomingsoon9517]

Airbenders - SkyBison Firebenders - Dragon Earthbenders - BadgerMoles Waterbenders - Moon

[@skynem5721]

That’s right! Would the two Fish count?

[@UltimaAzN]

A little correction on the lightning redirection. Its not a forbidden technique, its a secret one that Iroh learned by studying waterbenders and taught it to Zuko since Zuko's temperament prevented him from using lightning bending at that time. (he would just explode if he tried). It's speculated that no other typical fire bender would try to redirect lightning since its essentially a water bending style technique, and they would look down on any other style of bending, given the nationalist nature of the Fire Nation at the time.

[@3crowsinatrenchcoat]

I saw this show for the first time as a very young teen started me constantly being attracted to toxic women

[@GrabTheSwitchMike]

Never thought about it, but I think I can trace that back to Avatar as well 😮

[@MRTHUNDER.]

same here

[@NightmareZerogbs]

That Kyoshi bit was GOLDEN. And I was more of a Ty Lee teen myself.

[@nielsjensen4185]

The blue fire is explained in the show. In one of the early episodes in s2 Iroh teaches Zuko how to defend himself against the pure fire, fire hotter than any other fire, the blue fire. That she has mastered blue fire, note that her father can only control the common orange one, shows that she's immensely skilled and that he has been suppressing her as there's no other way she would, with her personality, serve him.

[@malcolm32]

Not exactly. That conversation was about **lightning** not blue fire. Originally Iroh intends to teach Zuko how to bend lightning, but later settles on teaching him to redirect it instead when it becomes clear that Zuko, in his current mental and emotional state, is incapable of the more advanced technique. That "pure fire" you're referring to comes from how Iroh describes lightning and how it compares to normal firebending. Direct quote from the episode Bitter Work: "Lightning is a pure expression of Firebending without aggression. It is not fueled by rage or emotion the way other Firebending is. Some call lightning the cold-blooded fire. It is precise and deadly, like Azula. To perform the technique requires peace of mind." That being said, Azula's blue fire IS special in that it burns hotter than the normal orange/red variety, and that is presumably due to a lack of impurity in her flames (that's just a fact of how fire chemistry works), but this is never directly confirmed through any character's statement in the show itself. The creators have also made it clear in interviews/commentary that Azula's flames are not a sign of her mastery so much as a result of her perfectionism. She is an immensely powerful and skilled bender, but the purity of her flames doesn't actually improve their actual potency very much. Not anyone could make blue flames the way she does, but most people wouldn't try anyway because it's not particularly useful. In other words, it's not a sign that she's more skilled than any other master firebender. She just likes the fact that it's perfect and "pure". Basically she's being extra.

[@nielsjensen4185]

@@malcolm32 That's also mentioned in that it's essentially fire-squared. Where it comes from is never explained and if I apply modern knowledge of physics to it what they understand as lightning is plasma. It's super-heated air given a directional flow in the form of lightning since that's a natural phenomenon they would know.

[@Connor-ONeill]

It was also in Zuko's favour that Azula was mid-breakdown when they fought. Zuko even mentioned this to Katara and he would have won the fight by himself if Katara hadn't been there for Azula to shoot lightning at.

[@alearnedman]

Yeah. In that moment, Zuko had her dead to rights. Protecting Katara was the only reason he got taken out of the fight. Though in later comics Azula has pulled it together, and can easily outclass Zuko again.

[@equinoxalchemist]

Five characters that defined my taste in women 1. Kim from Kim Possible 2. Thorne from The Hex Girls 3. Circe from Generator Rex 4. Charmcaster from Ben 10 5. Marceline The Vampire Queen from Adventure Time

[@uk1568]

I watched Atla first time as an adult, and it is one of the best shows I have watched - even without nostalgia glasses

[@monkeyking9863]

what i like about the One piece original opening is that it actually changed every time a new member of the crew came so there was no spoiling who was going to join

[@mcstrategist]

After the first 4 recruits

[@MsRGaymer4170]

28:58 **Laughs in atelier of Witch hat** Imagine a cookbook having lore

[@arlomartinez5442]

I knew y'all would mention Shego from Kim Possible! 😅

[@PoirplePorpoise]

18:08 needs to be an alert gif for your livestreams 😂

[@SelkieGirl]

Because of Avatar, I like dumbass men, and terrifying women. Also, give some credit to Jinx too!

[@wyvernsbreath]

Thorn from the hex girls Scooby-Doo and The witches Ghost, and as always voiced by Jennifer Hale

[@DraggorLecanth]

How dare you?! Raven is voiced by the magnificent Tara Strong, but I totally understand.

[@LunaKnight99]

In the fight with zuko and katara x azula, I feel like they won the fight bc she was unstable and crazy. I don't think zuko needed the double team and in fact I think that katara hindered him got him shot by lightning and stole his win 🤷🏽‍♂️ but thematically it works, it shows Zukos growth as a character as well as it gives him a scar to mirror Aang

[@UltimaAzN]

Katara didnt throw an attack the whole fight until Zuko was taken out. She stood acting as witness since Zuko wanted to challenge his sister to a 1v1 duel.

[@LunaKnight99]

@@UltimaAzN you can do that while not standing in the middle of the arena 😂 it's just a minor gripe lol

[@KyeXGamer]

in regards to naruto, the first season kakashi mentions that hand signs are the traditional way to cast jutsus, but you can do shortcuts at the expense of the power its never mentioned again in the following seasons but you see it done by naruto and sasuke w/ their signature moves I think it was meant to hype up gaara, who at the time used jutsu techniques w/o handsigns(until its revealed that he’s a jinchūriki and moving sand is just the beast’s chakra doing it for him+later in shippuden that his impenetrable defense is his mother’s chakra)

[@TheLastSane1]

Azula is a child and victim of abuse and psychological condition to bring out her worse traits. Azula was only ever praised or given affection when she was cruel or vicious by her father and especially praised if she tormented her brother. This lead her to view cruelty as just something normal and it got her what she wanted so it reinforced the bad behavior. Ozai raised her to be the perfect weapon an emotionless killing machine that only craves for his praise. Her mother noticed her bad behavior when she was little and tried to correct it but Ozai would always undermine it and eventually even her mother became afraid of her viciousness and cruelty but more so because she was being shaped into a monster by her father.

[@SasukeUchiha758]

I actually met her voice actress, Grey DeLisle at a convention a while back. She was actually super nice to talk to, and she also signed a drawing I did :)

[@Aurora_Lightbringer]

Great video as always. Azula is a spooky woman.

[@ecurps1]

Demona - Gargoyles Rogue - X-Men Evolution Abigail - NCIS Rebi - Black Lagoon [I got a thing for traumatized characters that need TLC ]

[@voidcamel5981]

To answer, Skinny sometimes red head tomboy usually with a pony tail that yells alot.

[@Condor_Gaming]

I never had a type growing up (still don't now), but ever since I was just a little dude coming home from school to watch Digimon on the telivision, I've been sooo into Tai. Not because of atraction or anything, but because of the sick-awesome goggles. Now that I've seen some more of both cartoons and anime, they've always been a thing, and they've always been super cool. I had exactly one crush growing up, and they were a real person who shared my birthday and some history, suck a wang playboys!

[@milesmoore7605]

the actual CACKLE at the kyoshi fade in

[@ZeljkoMij-pc4uv]

About the „attack on titan intro“ „ghost animals“ that is basically the power of the beast titan, which can take the form of any animal depending on the user, like wrens brother had a monkey and the next user had a bird, so probably one of the previous users of the beast titan power had dino ranger powers

[@BWtalks]

11:29 I never thought they needed an explanation. Blue flames are hotter than orange and red, so to me it made sense that her internal rage and sociopathy would allow her to easily create the hottest flames possible. She loved the power and pain she could cause others.

[@antwonechols2472]

Zuko's hands were at his waist until the lightning was already halfway to him. Meaning that at least he removed his hands at relative speeds to lightning. In this case, he "dodge" the lightning. If his hands were already up before or as the lightning was being fired. It would be "aim dodging"

[@somedudewatchintv5297]

Ah it was corrected right after Small correction- thunder never comes before lightning. Lightning is supersonic and thunder is the delayed sound of super heated travel through the atmosphere.

[@raymondortiz1748]

Avatar Kyoshi @22:17

[@Cassner]

So the animals in the Beast Titan intro are suppose to be all the previous forms the beast titan has had.

[@RokkiRedd]

Idk if it’s true or not, but I read somewhere that Azula was supposed to kill the guard that accidentally called Zuko and Iroh prisoners after she baited to her ship by telling them that Ozai wanted to see them, instead I think she throws him into the water. Likely got cut due to the whole murder in a kids show not being very family friendly lol

[@hellaboveme500]

My character was Raven, Black fire and Terra . Also Sam from Danny Phantom.

[@kassandramcmahon-winter4122]

ATLA will forver be one of my favourite shows 😍

[@bareakon]

I had a thing for Shego, but what really started me on the path to scary alt girls was Faith from Buffy.

[@namecomingsoon9517]

Tara Strong voices Raven in Teen Titans Maybe you got it mixed up cause Grey also voices Mandy in Grim Adventures and her Mandy voice is close to Tara’s Raven voice

[@_SYDGAMING_]

Android 18 for me. She was so destructive and hot at the same time ad braking vegetas arm too damn that got me

[@watcher314159]

So, I'm going to agree with Karl's broad point that the vs battle community does sometimes struggle to remember to account for aimdodging. It's a real and recognized problem, and Death Battle is notorious for doing research that's, shall we say, shoddier than the size of their platform would ideally imply. Zuko redirecting Azula's lightning is a bad example though. You can literally watch Zuko's arms moving half the distance of Azula's lightning on the very same frames, in exquisite slow-mo. Which works out to almost 20 km/s compared to the average speed of lightning which is 40 km/s. In general, by the way, the way you avoid issues with aimdodging confounding your feats is only using feats where the person explicitly starts dodging after the attack is launched (or where you have other information like the narrator directly stating the timings involved of course). For example in the Star Wars Special Edition DVD cut of A New Hope (the most current canon version of the film), Han starts dodging Greedo's blaster (which he couldn't see hidden under the table) at the moment it's fired, which works out to almost 10% of light speed. Or in Fantastic Four Annual #24 Mr. Fantastic only began to move to intercept some beams that had crossed interstellar distances in seconds when they were a meter from impact, moving over a dozen meters before they could impact, meaning he was moving billions of times light speed as an extreme lowball (there's a bunch of other contextual stuff suggesting infinite speed in that example). And then sometimes it's really ambiguous whether something is aimdodging or not. In One Piece chapter 485 for example, Zoro dodges Kuma's Pad Cannon in a way that on the surface looks like a clear example of moving only after the attack was fired, which would work out to about 4% of light speed due to the distances involved and the projectile being a light speed effect. However, Zoro has had Obervation Haki that allows him to read surface thoughts and determine an opponent's intended action since chapter 51 (and he talks about having awakened that power in chapter 195, and talks again about needing to train it in chapter 213, and in chapter 405 talks about using it to predict attacks; Haki is used way more in early One Piece than most fans realize), and so this creates an ambiguity where it's not clear if what Zoro was seeing was the incoming attack or his prediction of that attack, and thus I disregard the feat despite much of the community using it without issue (well, actually, I don't *entirely* disregard it because Luffy has a similarly fast feat that couldn't have been aimdodging 169 chapters earlier, so 4% of light speed should be well within Zoro's abilities by that point, but it's still at best relegated to being some marginal evidence for some scaling rather than being a valid feat). And don't get me started on using speed to derive power and vice versa, which *never* works. Seriously, just avoid calc stacking in all its forms. And yes, Karl, that means never concerning yourself with whether a given level of speed would imply sonic booms or collateral damage, because the fiction almost never cares about that kind of adherence to physics. For example Kizaru can explicitly kick at light speed in One Piece chapter 508 without the atmosphere undergoing nuclear fusion. And especially don't get me started on using multipliers (the number of people who fail to account for Ke=1/2mv^2 just because DBZ multipliers explicitly don't account for it in that series' specific context (Bleach fanboys are especially bad about this in my experience)...). Again, the vs debate community has a *lot* of issues, and while there are ways to resolve those issues, there are always newbs and scrubs who just don't know yet or refuse to learn or simply make mistakes (hell, I've been guilty of all three at various points).

[@wingsolution]

Asuka Langley sohryu, when Evangelion was on PBS during late 90s early 00s... Also Netflix just released the live action adaptation of One Piece, I’ve only seen the first episode so far, but it is so so good. The eight episode season is available and might be a great opportunity to get into one piece.

[@drgonzoman11]

Fire plus lightning would be a plasma cutter ... neat!

[@jackdenihan5333]

16:54 Zuko one v one her and she was losing and she attacked katara , Zuko blocks it with his body(never made sense he could intercept but she couldn’t dodge) Katara then bodies Azula in 1v1

[@DJBS-YT]

Azula was my 1st love for a antagonist

[@doctorleak5312]

Blood bending still the scariest

[@Demonslayre]

Azula didn't lose to the power of friendship. She lost because zuko recognized and exploited her mental instability

[@TheLastSane1]

Also katara helped him beat her

[@Demonslayre]

@@TheLastSane1 Honestly, I was considering that with the mental instability. A little "haha, bitch, I have friends"

[@EvilDeath66X]

All three of the evil girls in air bender have different things that appealed to me. Tai li is just pure adorable, but physically and personality. Mai, is the intelligent, calm girl that honestly is my favorite thing ever. Azula, well she's just plain hot. Lol

[@willfrank1641]

Blue flames are one of many colours, which is also influenced by her sub bending ability to bend lighting which is extremely rare, also in the show they explain that fire is a gift of life so those that truely master fire do not need a fire source like a torch that you see mounted around all the fire nation ships in the seasons.

[@lazylazerrsp8781]

Marie kanker(blue hair), Raven(teen titan), Toph(atla), Sam(danny phantom), Vicky(fairly oddparents), frankie foster, Roxanne. So...goth, tomboy, or girl next door vibes. In anime of all sorts it was usually the second best girl, but one in particular was Yue Ayase from negima. She was like a mirror version in that she like me fr but genderbent.

[@FloofyOneTorpheus]

Let's not Forget Kree from KND with the "friend's older sister" trope

[@lazylazerrsp8781]

@@FloofyOneTorpheus I wasn't much of a KND fan so all the episodes I saw were out of order or skipped entire arcs. Cree does seem like a match though if I was able to keep up. By the time I had a steady tv connection I was already into anime...which reminds me...Misty!!! She started out annoying but eventually I had an ignorant and inexplicable at the time crush on her haha. It wasn't as obvious as my other faves, but in retrospect I definitely admired her, kind of a love hate type. She was abrasive to Ash, and that made me hate her but every other interaction made her more and more endearing. Then there's megaman and digimon, but it was much more shotgun with these. Some characters faded in and out of THE zone to the point I don't have a specific fave here. Then there's yugioh, tea wasn't a fave but some others def were.

[@FloofyOneTorpheus]

@lazylazerrsp8781 oh don't get me started on Pokémon! Whoever in Pokémon company that's designing all these moms needs a raise

[@lazylazerrsp8781]

@@FloofyOneTorpheus only after growing up...have I developed an appreciation for such a refined palate. Growing up is going from having a crush on Violet in the first Incredibles to having one on Helen in the second...then... there's aunt Cass!!!

[@ccggenius]

Seeing as, as far as I can tell, no one's added her to the pile of cute animated goth girls from our childhoods: Kylie Griffin.

[@Spiral-Mark]

What about the goth girl Rogue from X-men Evolution?

[@BenBeaubrun]

we must all agree raven the one

[@lettersnstuff]

I swear Appa has got to be one of the most successful pieces of character design in the last 50 years, everything about him is weird as hell but it still works

[@AgentGreen13]

I grew up watching The Wonder Years, so yeah

[@carlosvejar3938]

Peggy Bundy is my Jammy Jam.

[@reisetyler]

Staying on topic my toe awakening was korra

[@TheSdm555]

Raven❤

[@shuckLedurkins]

17:55 no one knows it because iron invented it observing other bendings

[@bamacopeland4372]

I never went through a goth girl phase, per se, I always went for the titular characters that were hippies, or free-spirited.

[@reggiewood5164]

The craft definitely had some influences on my "type" that i prefer

[@paytonjones432]

For me, biggest crush was alway Mai. And am so mad that I never picked up that stupid mai tai joke, it's so obvious having heard it

[@prestonlogan3808]

What joke?

[@paytonjones432]

@prestonlogan3808 a mai tai is a drink, and Azula's companions are Mai and Ty, which sounds like mai tai. I'm pretty sure he explains it in the video

[@Iris_and_or_George]

It actually hurts that you haven't seen Avatar! Very dissapointed! 😅 I expect you will have seen it next video (yeah I know it's already been recorded) ❤

[@relicking9207]

I don't know what character informed my type(shorter red-heads), but yeah, Raven was my favourite between her and Starfire, as I just didn't like how up-beat Starfire was, but I preferred Ty Lee to Azula(still do as I find her more interesting), and I don't know why.

[@emperorg9910]

Faith and Buffy were my types.

[@5quirr31]

I believe the aot ghost dinsaurs may relate to the beast titan's previous wielders as each incarnation seemed to inbody a different animal

[@zamzukan]

Kida, from atlantis

[@Voc_spooksauce]

We all love evil gals

[@foolishgenius]

The only reason why anime spoils itself in the openings is because the original media that it was produced in was Manga and the manga has been out for probably years before the anime started

[@WildSeven19]

Probably showing my age, but Faith from Buffy. And basically any female villain from Batman TAS

[@darthcravus]

I didn't find my type with tv/movie I found I like nerdy girls by being friends with as bunch of them married to one of em

[@Swift96]

Lulu from Final Fantasy X

[@Demonslayre]

Oh, let's see.... Kairi, Raven, Azula, Ty Lee, Kim Possible, Riza Hawkeye, Starfire, Topanga, Misty, Eureka, and to a lesser extent Shego.

[@LostRed_Fox]

thank you, its nice to see someone else that likes atla and not rag on korra.

[@B4dr4bbit]

Heh, Azula is firebender Frieza.

[@stumboz5566]

Aeon is my type... Personality is key

[@jbz4788]

Y’know thinking about it I don’t think we see Ozai firebend without the boost from Sozin’s comet so Azula may well have surpassed her dad during the series

[@Nastyn1nja808]

The Muthafuckin Queen!!!!!! Yes she was very shitty but goddamn did she look good doing the damn thang

[@Aedoucan]

Raven/Blackfire/Jynx/Azula/Toph/Shego >.>

[@davidprovan2756]

Sam from danny phantom and Raven from team titans

[@davidprovan2756]

And shgo

[@shawnfickett3734]

Anime fight! Karl has to watch 10 episodes of One Piece, and Lucas has to watch 10 episodes of Avatar. Then come back and honestly rate on a scale of 1-10 how much each of you want to keep watching!

[@shuckLedurkins]

Don’t talk about the movie Lucas, never talk about it

[@krayzie8970]

Black cat from spider-man

[@padraig548]

Utena has spoilers that make no sense. And continue to make no sense. But also are pertinent to the entire series. Its opening and full series are brilliant

[@Ebay772488]

Judy - "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"

[@foolishgenius]

That attack on Titan intro was a fake out😂 it was just making fun of the Trope that all animes spoiled themselves during the intro because those Titans never get shown

[@shuckLedurkins]

I had a crush on her but when I got older I lost it, I still love the character but not how I used too

[@hellaboveme500]

Tophs character assasination in Korra coupled with Korra touching on actual substantive topics and then fumbling them all in favor of durrr good guys are good guys and win so soured it for me. I’m glad others found it good though.

[@M1lomay]

Raven is top tier

[@soranakahara9676]

tuxedo mask and John becker

[@jackdenihan5333]

Goth girls Raven & Shego easy.Sam Manson from Danny phantom,also Ember. Dana Tan Batman beyond also Inque. Rouge from x-man evolution. The hex girls from scooby doo

[@Owlman2577]

22:04 no she isn't. Zuko was winning in their one on one

[@Nastyn1nja808]

I cant believe you didnt Snap accept Karls deal to Watch One piece if you watch Avatar!!!!!!!!!!!

[@blueink-2230]

Imma keep it real with yall, Im attracted to a lot of female villains like Esdeath and Tempest Shadow, or just women who will kick my a$s like Erza

[@wesley2508]

Raven from Teen Titans 100%

[@FloofyOneTorpheus]

I hate that they felt that they HAVE to explain away the "this fictional character is hot" thing. It's a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. What should've been said is "if you believe a fictional character needs protection like they're real, you need more help than the people who like them."

[@Stannard1603]

I think the dinosaur and whale and other animals in the attack on titan opening are basicly showing titans of the past and present, or something like that, I have no damn clue. The show lost me when it started doing fascism and genocide...

[@Shadowstrap]

Azulas blue fire was to distinguish her as the more powerful fire bender and to distinguish her flames from zukos when they fought

[@BlindEye_22]

Is it just me that thought they explained themselves a bit to long on the thing about azula. Making it slowly creepier than if they never mentioned it…