The Life of Amon (Noatak): Was He Good or Bad? (Avatar the Last Airbender Explained)

[@moonlightingjam]

Amon and Tarrlok's story is so tragic and sad. They both wanted to escape their father's shadow so badly they ended up becoming just like him.

[@epicfan1598]

Nah they weren't nearly as bad as their father I wouldn't even say he was a "villain" exactly. Especially since both of them thought they were doing the right thing

[@what-uu3zn]

@Pxer not as cruel as killing them, guess what yakone did

[@chiefcleve1834]

Pxer Amon never killed lieutenant, he just blood bender him and tossed him aside saying you’ve served me well lieutenant

[@chiefcleve1834]

Pxer where did the creators say that?.....can you post the link to what you’re speaking of, because I just rewatched the episode and I also read on avatar wikia it says “Amon thanked him for his service, before tossing the Lieutenant into a pile of wooden planks, knocking him unconscious”. So could you please post the link to those words from the creators that you speak of

[@dn_walk3r161]

@@chiefcleve1834 They did confirm it I'll see if I can find a link

[@LapisGoBlue]

U can't lie, he made our jaw drop a lot in the show lol

[@pabloescobar7109]

Dam right my favourite part is whe he removed Lightning Bolt Zolt bending From lightining ; to fire; to NOTHING

[@pabloescobar7109]

@Ashlee Rameyyour not alone i thought therly were related to hama in some way but no evidence despite Yakone saying therebthe most powerful bloodbenders. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@kurumauchiha153]

Where can I read about the stuff that happened after the Avatar shows?

[@brobroant6205]

LapisGoBlue too bad he didn’t get more time on the show

[@kurumauchiha153]

XxPH03N1xX Edwards yo thanks so much :)

[@ırmakksener]

amon: my father was a horrible father. zuko: that's rough buddy.

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

to be fair yakone wasnt even close to being as bad as ozai from what we’ve seen he only ever yelled at them and ozai in the comics said “every time i touch him” or something implying every time he hit him and ozai burned zuko’s face as well

[@josephnacario81]

Thats rough buddy

[@jayrabelo3443]

Em Watson Zuko going on: he’s a fucking maniac trying to kill the avatar and with out barely anybody knowing he named himself fucking king of the world

[@jayrabelo3443]

I came up wit this on the Top of my head

[@ırmakksener]

@@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032 agree, ozai burned my boy's face and he was his own son! i hate him forever- still in love with zuko

[@violetraven8323]

You can say one thing for certain about Korra, there antagonists are complex, sympathetic people. Ozai fulfilled his purpose as a challenge to the empathetic and wise Aang. Whose character centers around seeing the good in others so someone of unadulterated evil would best confront his morals and his mentality. Korra is a woman whose proven to be very much naive and confrontationally decisive by the start. However it is those very antagonists who have reasonings and valid ethical points that challenge her the most. She has to drop her guard, and her pride, to better understand her role as a Uniter. She has to put herself in the shoes of others and learn even from extremists to better the world. Amon, Kuvira, Zaheer, and even Tarlok challenge her time and time again on her identity, her morality, and her fighting spirit. And that’s why I like the show. Thank you for reading.

[@arthuredington6171]

I respect your opinion but Korra is a mary sue. And the villains were wasted on her. Look up the Legend of Whorra to see why I think this way

[@violetraven8323]

Gay Wolf Season 1 isn’t the best I’ll admit, and she is Mary Sue by that point. But the writers fix that problem in the season right after it and that flaw of the show was mostly because the creators were unaware of wether they would be receiving more seasons. So I partly agree but that’s an issue addressed and resolved right after the fact. Ex:She released spirits into the world and air-bending returned, however Zaheer got air-bending powers which allowed him to break out of prison and reform his group. So she most certainly faces consequences for her actions.

[@da-vidcargill4975]

@@arthuredington6171 you sound stupid, mary sues dont get their ass handed to them many times or get the avator cycle messed up

[@BBRRTT98]

All the villains are really shallow representations of various ideologies, with the exception of Kuvira who’s just Ozai but as a metal bender. Zaheer is an anarchist and anyone who isn’t a 14 year old or just a complete moron understands why anarchism is never viable or conducive for a functional society. Amon is a vaguely communist revolutionary who just touts crap about equality without a clear goal.

[@arthuredington6171]

@@BBRRTT98 And Tarluk could have been great but they made him a generic evil brother

[@BossuJmek2k18]

Amon's dearh is one of the most emotional deaths in avatar. ( to be fair tough, it is a kids show so not that many deaths ) I personally loved Amon as a villain, and i am sorry that he had to share the screen time with the petty love triangle the writers prepared for season 1

[@marvindekss7003]

The weird thing about the show that there is brutal deathes (like noatak, tarlock, minghua, ghazan, p'li) but not a korrasami kiss

[@LunaBari]

*death

[@RosiePuppy-eo5fs]

@@marvindekss7003for real!

[@carloterzian5809]

Amon is actually my favorite villain in The Legend of Korra

[@jendersonmohammed443]

My favourite villain is Unalaq then Amon.

[@markborishnikoff5485]

I agree, i like Amon.

[@drpumpkinpie]

My favourite is Zaheer

[@channyvu9798]

Carlo Terzian honestly they wasted such a good complex villain

[@mattos443]

I prefer Zaheer honestly

[@Eric_Nguyen.]

I'm surprised we haven't seen "The Life of Sokka" yet. Will we ever get a video about Sokka? It's been so long and Sokka is an.... Interesting character that has been left in the dust for a long time.

[@donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495]

Hehehe

[@thewitchfindergeneral4015]

tlok really didn’t give us much more about Sokkas life

[@liamargolis8837]

What about the line Amon says to Mako of “it is almost a shame to take the bending of someone so talented”? I’m just wondering what you think of that line. Also- I saw Amon’s crying at the end as sadness and reflection looking back at what he had become. And what about whether at the end Amon was trying to restart his mission somewhere else (equalist weapons still in the car) or truly escaping?

[@StopJerkingOff]

Amon always scared me more than ozai did. I mean he shook off makos lightening point blank like it was nothing when it was pretty much implied that if aang had redirected his lightining towards ozai it would had killed him. Not to mention he took down many elite benders with out bending at all.

[@thatoneguy5343]

I think the reason they said in the original that Aang would’ve killed Ozai had he decided to redirect his lightning towards him was Sozin’s Comet amplified Ozai’s firebending including his lightning, so a comet powered lightning bolt would’ve definitely killed Ozai. Mako shot Amon with regular lightning, which Amon can survive.

[@chelseastar12]

Damn. Daddy issues really runs hard in Avatar. I just feel so bad for these brothers. 💔

[@DiegoLopez-zd9mq]

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[@controllagary5661]

Book Reviewest love the Percy Jackson series, this would be amazing!💜

[@MovieFlame]

Book Reviewest coming soon

[@isabellesia4234]

Great idea! I really love Percy Jackson 💙

[@claudiasarabia5955]

@@MovieFlame yes yes yes ❤😍

[@theyeetgangohyeahyeah2053]

Yeah!!! Percy Jackson!!!!

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

Amons is my favorite major antagonist in the avatar universe! He’s extremely threatening yet you also have a good understanding of his goals and themes. His power and even his army being a good inverse to the avatar and other bending protagonists. He wasn’t right but he certainly had some points! I don’t know if its true, but i’ve heard amon is both a deadly pressure point in one langiage, and also means equal or maybe zero in another.

[@idiot3412]

I prefer kuvira

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

Kcuf Jake Paul eh she’s ok. An impressive bender with a lot of charisma and strategic know how but she could use more compelling origins, and I REALLY don’t like the mechs the earth empire use. She just sort of a feels like a really odd final boss after the other three major antagonists have been dealt with.

[@climbingamountain86]

Amon also means the demon of wrath in some other language (demons are deceivers), which explains his major tools to maintain or start his revolution which were theft (stealing people's natural bending away), deception (deceive benders into thinking bending is evil when in fact it's not, because nature has managed to find balance with non-benders coexisting with benders which means everyone is already equal, and to deceive them about his actual identity) and sowing anger and wrath (make non-benders slowly believe that bending is evil by stating historical events of wars beginning with bending, publically justifying his theft by starting with taking the bending of criminal benders and slowly advancing to normal benders through sowing anger). This nickname, Amon, perfectly fits Noatak and no wonder why he had picked it as an alias.

[@ungasis3301]

For me, it would been better if Amon was the last villain of the series.. this guy is so OP

[@All-ze9cl]

Personally i don't see him as a bad person, just a person that did bad things. And It's possible to not be evil but do things that are questionable. He had a clear motive and a understandable reason why, he just went about it all wrong. There are tons of villains in Avatar that are villains but not bad people. Amon, Ty Lee, Mai, the mechanist, freedom fighters. He was blinded by the negatives of bending and took it too far. Honestly makes a better villain

[@pabloescobar7109]

I found Amon to be very complicated and Complex And to to be honest i never found him as a villian.Despite being a bender himself he just wanted equality for all. Yes he did it in a very Debateable or Violent way you have to admitt he wasnt truely Evil but wanted peace... Can i hear your Thoughts please comment below

[@chiefcleve1834]

I wouldn’t really look at it as equality, because he was a bender himself and wanted to take everyone else’s bending, that’s being a hypocrite. In my opinion, zaheer was the one who I never really saw as a villain, he wanted freedom from the tyrannical rule of leaders

[@Supreme_Goldfish]

I think Amon was the only realistic to achieve equality for non-benders. If he couldn't take away people's bending, his only other option would be to kill all benders, and their children. If Amon really was a non-bender, he would become a genocidal maniac like the Nazis. Amon is the lesser evil, he's the only way to get equality without murdering every bender in the world. I think he was right, but with him gone, there may never be true equality for non-benders without mass murder. I don't know about you, but Amon and Equalism might get me to write some fan fiction, because of how right he is.

[@rzxwm10]

He would be a hypocrite if he didn't surrender his own bending once he sealed everyone else's. He is a fraud, though, because he claimed to not be a bender.

[@climbingamountain86]

I think Amon was deluded and a deceiver. People are born with bending so by stealing it, Amon is battling with nature itself, and that pretty much makes him evil. At the beginning, when he was 14. I believe he truly wanted equality back then but now he's just using equality as an excuse. However, in the end he got humbled when Korra destroyed his revolution. Amon had dug a pit into his own downfall and when the truth was revealed, everything he had worked on fell because of himself. That also means he humbled himself and he reunited with lost character traits but that's just my own assumption. He saw himself for who he truly is, someone who's capable of losing (before it was revealed that he saw himself as someone more powerful when he said to Mako "Impressive. No one has gotten the better of me like that.") and that made his original self show when he wanted him and his brother to live a new life once again. He was redeemed in the end. Amon also means the demon of wrath in some language (demons are deceivers), which explains his major tools to maintain or start his revolution which were theft (stealing people's natural bending away), deception (deceive benders into thinking bending is evil when in fact it's not, because nature has managed to find balance with non-benders coexisting with benders which means everyone is already equal, and to deceive them about his actual identity) and sowing anger and wrath (make non-benders slowly believe that bending is evil by stating historical events of wars beginning with bending, publically justifying his theft by starting with taking the bending of criminal benders and slowly advancing to normal benders through sowing anger). This nickname, Amon, perfectly fits Noatak and no wonder why he had picked it as an alias. In my opinion, Zaheer was someone who was truly misunderstood, and he simply didn't fit in this world therefore he was seen as a villain (even though he started becoming a villain at some point, eventually when he was jailed he had the opportunity to continue his quest for true freedom and spirituality and that's a gain for him.) Amon is my favorite. He truly had a good start, and the core character traits that he has are fairness and humility which are what actually shaped him. He used to be humble and grounded when he was young, that's why he didn't let his father's compliments get to him, which is also what made him succeed in many areas. Personally, I don't believe his father shaped him because when he lost all his prideful work, he got humbled and reunited with his brother and his core character traits. However, Yakone had still shame in him, because only through shame somebody changes his whole identity even as to make plastic surgery. Which is also why Yakone's emotions of revenge resurfaced once again. When he started a family, they already existed but were simply buried. Noatak, however, only wanted to escape with his brother in the end, he had already won over the shame through humility. (Just like Uncle Iroh had once said "True humility is the only antidote to shame".) So Noatak got redeemed.

[@eon001]

I wish Amon really did have the "spirits" ( Vaatu ?) teach him the chi blocking technique. I think it would have been a good way to connect to the Unalaq story.

[@alifz2223]

The brothers make "start over again a new life" seems equivalent to "end our life together".

[@aedr04]

Thanks for reminding me why this was the best lok season... or at least, why amon, and his tragic story/ motive, was by far the best villain of the series

[@Actuallyfactually]

As Obi Wan once said “You’ve became the very thing you swore to destroy”

[@vortexxee]

We need more avatar

[@thapuiivangchhia1776]

More avatar Amon😩😩😭😭😭😭

[@MarauderPeter21]

Don't know why the young version of Noatak looks like a mix of Jet and Sokka physically, while Tarrlok looks like a mix of Sokka and Bolin jajajaajajaja, But really Noatak/Amon's life is so interesting

[@heheh9945]

Wait how can Yakone blood bend Tarlok if he didn’t have his bending

[@Chiwicho]

I was wondering the same

[@thesupersonicmaniacs7976]

I was about to comment that. I was confused when he said that

[@Bayuuk]

Steven Pillco I don’t believe Yakone was actually trying to, he was just very hostile towards tarlok.

[@matthewrosette2170]

He wasnt going too, he knew tarlok wasn’t gonna blood bend his own father because he’s weak inside he even said it himself saying it felt awful. So if anything tarlok was gonna let yakone beat the living crap out of him.

[@leafyeaveeey]

MovieFlame made a comment correcting this, you just have to find it

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

You can take away people's bending through bloodbending? Awesome.

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

Wyndell Lee It’s not a skill everyone can just learn though.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Well kind of bit not exactly. Bloodbenders can technically block the chi. So take Ty lees chi blocking and combine it with bloodbening. It is not know how long it lasts but it does block the Bending.

[@kristinejoycambarijan1071]

Amon story is so very sad, they just forced by they father that's why noatak grew up liked that.. 😭 they both are talented

[@brookenam1148]

I love your vids so much and I really appreciate the amount of research and care you put into them :). Hope your having a great day 👍

[@nicholasmamisashvili5023]

I’d be really interested in a video like this on Zaheer

[@MovieFlame]

Coming soon

[@arthuredington6171]

Zaheer had a great va but he was an idiot

[@theyeetgangohyeahyeah2053]

Gay Wolf true, he was a great bender, but for me he was insane

[@arthuredington6171]

@@theyeetgangohyeahyeah2053 as all anarchists should be

[@arthuredington6171]

@@theyeetgangohyeahyeah2053 Alos I was talking about his Voice actor

[@e.d.w1217]

He is DEFINITELY good. We are just seeing it from the avatars perspective. In a different story he could have been the hero and people would love that show and would think that nothing is wrong with it. His intentions are perfectly good, and he is even not that violent. He just wants equality and he’s fighting for it.

[@thetaleco4977]

I ve been saying that for years, had he not done that the republic city would never have a non bender president, even the non benders being the majority of people

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

EXACTLY.

[@sunkist1309]

It’s still the oppression of a group of people

[@oliviamia5018]

True, but he seriously needs a reality check with his methods

[@thanos7459]

Your insane

[@tiffanypersaud3518]

Thanks for this. When I saw their beginnings and their end, I loved this show even more. And credit to a well put together and deep video.

[@maranathaaaaaaa]

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I feel like this definitely applied to Amon’s mentality. He thought he was doing the best for Republic City when, in fact, he was causing more harm than good. I still liked him as a character; he was very complex and interesting to me.

[@christymitchell4763]

To be honest I wanted Amon/Noatak around longer. Like I had hoped he b like the Zuko character in Korra’s journey. Him and Tarrlok together

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

What if Tarlok went with Noatak during that winter?

[@SupportGamin2024]

the same thing would've played out I think but they would both be trying to take over republic city.

[@aaronm5875]

Love how his name sounds like no attack. Safe to say he didnt stick by that

[@saucysebron8246]

I loved Amon for some reason when I was younger and now that I’m rewatching The Legend of Korra, I still do

[@lizafootfor5471]

I have to admit the villains in season 1 were the most interesting and the best part.

[@hopetomaszewski3145]

🎉Congratulations on 1 million 🎉

[@runtergerutscht4401]

Amon is actually a good character, it's a shame the show fails to bring all this accross

[@satchels6451]

guys, i just started LOK and finished book 1... i came to youtube wanting to see what others had to say about their death.... so sad..

[@lukastace3154]

The most tragic story in the entire ATLA universe in my opinion

[@AtlasAdvice254]

He was the culmination of: “one often meets their destiny on the road they take to avoid it.”

[@__Lopps]

what’s funny is amon is wrong. in a real world with no bending, people are just bad and some good. bending doesn’t matter. just human nature.

[@user-zb7fm6hj2g]

Imo, Amon was a good person. He was scarred by his horrible father and everything he did was to try to improve the world in his vision. Amon wasn’t like Ozai in the sense that he was taking over the sake of power. Also in his last moments, he did kind of change

[@desppp_]

*”You became the very thing you swore to destroy”*

[@oni4111]

I wish we could've seen more of amon I really loved this character and I wish they didn't kill him off rest in paradise amon

[@Aurielle137]

Aang:I just took firelord ozai's bending! Amon: Hold my cactus juice

[@spedman56]

You mis interpreted Amons death. Those weren’t tears or joy, there was clearly sadness in his eyes no real happiness in his emotions. He knew what Tarlok was doing and he accepted there fate. He was sad that both of there lives had turned out this way. He cried because he knew they both deserve this and he let his death happen.

[@markborishnikoff5485]

Amon is the best part of Legend of Korra.

[@aaro-qw2zx]

Amon is one of my favourite characters

[@tyke2829]

Amon was such a great villain with an even scarier ideal. So sad he went out the way he did. But I guess LoK was rushed because they didn’t know if the show would continue on so that’s why the killed him off so fast and that’s why Korra just randomly got with Mako in the last minute

[@bigtoechambers9431]

Incredible video

[@s-link9400]

Amon is a good villian, but facts like that we don't know how he got the idea of becoming Amon, Where he went after running away or how he uses blood bending to take away bending makes it difficult to understand his story.

[@alex01ftw15]

For some reason i just got a ad of fire lord zuke into the spirit world and meeting uncle iroh and it was sad as hell and now i am crying

[@ForteRaffie]

i really don't know but for me what he did will always make him a villain. However he's the kind of villain that i like because he has a good side.

[@espino_productions6838]

Amon's current occupation is being a Squid Game host

[@wrapperJoeBob]

I’ve been rewatching Harry Potter, and You should make a life of Dobby. Or how the movies shipped Harry and hermione while the books tried to show incompatible they were

[@fullmetalroyal1216]

You're doing the lord's work posting these videos and feeding our addiction for when the new one comes out

[@muhammadmunawwar7351]

I hope the life of Zuko is coming soon

[@jameswest6232]

I have to disagree with calling Amon "Good" or "kind-hearted". He and what made him into the fanatical revolutionist he became are both complex, interesting, and even sympathetic. I put him in much the same category as Snape: not a saint (he attacked and victimized innocent people) nor is he really a devil (he truly thought he was doing the right thing and removing what he believed was the source of evil in the world).

[@XxFlamexX14]

No one is born bad, it's just whatever around them that makes them the villain they are. Parents, "friends", ect

[@tetrahedronal2829]

I think when Tarlok bloodbended Amon he bloodbended his own blood to resist Tarlok

[@sparkles4387]

Theory: How Noatak (Amon) used bloodbending to take people's bending, so every bender has blood in there insides but, there is one particular stream of blood that helps the bender moves the movement of there element. Amon takes away most of the blood so they can't bend, the reason why no one can't feel the blood loss is because bloodbenders makes the blood feel untouched when it really has been touched. Amon takes more precision in his father's shape than Tarrlok so, he has the side of when anyone tries to bloodbend his side of his bending can't be touched. Even by the Avatar, however the avatar's stream of blood that connects the spiritual energy, has a lot of blood due to the fact they bend every element, bloodbenders can take most of there spiritual blood away. But, there spiritual energy helps them to restore there bending to the lost of the blood.

[@shakia1229]

Do you think that Amon wanted to be the only bender left? He's my favorite villain after Zaheer, but he seems a little hypocritical. Do you believe that Amon wanted to be the most powerful?

[@rashadd2615]

Amon was my inspiration for my character in Skyrim when I discovered the Dragon Priest mask.

[@fresh_avocado]

Can you post the "Every Fantastic Beast Explained" early??

[@yukua5823]

Maybe amon bloodbended himself to force his body to move when tarlock tried to bloodbend him

[@Hummingbirdzah]

This vid made me absolutely want to rewatch Korea season1

[@lukastace3154]

Love your pfp.

[@micahbell7840]

As a Non-Bender. I'm with him.

[@shrub2146]

This just feels so sad. People can relate to him in different ways.

[@mg9397]

Quick question to anyone that can answer : How come Yakone and his sons could bloodbend and without the full moon ? Was it ever explained ? Are they somehow related to the old bloodbender lady that faced Katara in the original series ? She was suppose to be the very first one if I'm not mistaken but even she could only do it during the full moon

[@megumisdivinedogs]

Amon was the only villain that had a goal, purpose, backstory, and overall good character depth. Unalaaq was an unnecessary villain, i agree we did get Avatar Wan's story, but we should've gotten that WITHOUT A villain, and Zaheer and Kuvira in my opinion were really bad.

[@DCUEmp_prinzy]

Why because both zaheer and kuvira didn't die all villains except unalaq in LoK had motives that wasn't just power driven, unalaq wanted the spirits cuz he wanted power, zaheer wanted freedom from monarchy, to kill all world leaders because he felt the monarchy was what was wrong in their world which he kinda was right, he used Sozin as an example and I could agree and understand and he felt the avatar was one of those ppl who will oppose that vision so he wanted to end her so that vision could exist, kuvira was born out of zaheer's own actions wanting to unite her nation at any cost even if it meant manipulating and threatening some to unite her nation, her goal was understandable if not bolin would not have signed up for that. All legend of korra antagonists had a clear visions of what they wanted

[@ArcRogerr]

Zaheer and Kuvira felt like the most coherent villains, if nothing else. While I wouldn't say Unalaq was unnecessary per se, he was certainly underwhelming. He was hardly a character at all and kinda just ended up a mustache-twirling flunky for Vaatu halfway through the season. Any agency he had as a character disappeared, rendering him more or less a plot device in service of Vaatu. Then there's Amon who's honestly... a bit of a mixed bag for me. I really enjoyed him as a villain... up until the Noatak reveal. I think it would have been far more interesting and compelling if the writers had simply kept him a genuine non-bender. Instead he just turned out to be a power-hungry hypocrite with a backstory that only raises more questions than it answers. The character had so much potential that I feel was wasted.

[@sammonaghan593]

Please do game of thrones based videos! So many great characters can be explored/ explained. Keep up the good work 😁

[@libragamer787]

I always saw Noatak/Amon as a tragic villain

[@MrShabamon]

His cause was Noble (Bringing an end to Bending) but his Crimes were inexcusable

[@timothyskudi6728]

I always enjoy your videos

[@JF098]

The time transcending question of whether or not the ends justify the means.

[@Thommytwoguns]

Like the new YT channel logo

[@roguebritgravy1]

What's the music you used in the background. Great vid. A really complex character. Honestly my one complaint with the series is that it feels a little rushed at times

[@Sophie-st1xd]

have y'all heard the conspiracy that Noatak was crying bc since he's such a good bloodbender that he felt the blood in Tarrlok move to unscrew the fuel lid and put on the glove to kill him?? Just me, ok, sorry if this ruined your day

[@thedude8457]

Damn

[@scorchingb0nes]

no he was just happy he was finally free

[@Sophie-st1xd]

@@scorchingb0nes its just a conspiracy

[@radioactivesupersavage5743]

Finally early for one of these

[@jackmitchelles2646]

So much potential wasted

[@mahdiabderraouf5795]

You need power to make a change, is this so hard to fathom?

[@pharaoh9391]

Ironically it was his bending that made him suffer so a bender wants to rid the world of bending the one thing that caused his pain the thing his father loved most about Amon was his skill

[@toria7242]

Noatak’s storyline with his brother is so tragic. The boat scene was so impactful and haunting. I didn’t interpret Noatak not knowing about his brother’s decision to blow up the boat though. He’s a blood bender so he can sense his movement. I thought his tears were more of acceptance over what his brother was about to do. Their souls needed to rest.

[@dierichtigelisa4627]

thought so too

[@NightmareXXOO]

Thought this too.

[@popularpenguin2023]

I bet my brother a dollar that this is what Amon felt

[@master-of-many-fandoms2020]

One of the lessons regarding Amon is: Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster

[@chiefcleve1834]

Umm no, his tears were of reuniting with his brother. Being a blood bender doesn’t mean you can sense movements, it means you can manipulate a person’s blood.

[@edra3118]

Fun Fact: Ming-Hua, the armless waterbender from the Red Lotus was inspired by a joke the writers made about Amon, "What if Amon survived the explosion but became armless and had to water bend without his arms"

[@hz7739]

Ed Ra nice😂😂😂

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

lol

[@milanadmitrovic2357]

Woooow

[@ellentham6714]

Wait there is a red lotus I haven't watch LOK yet I have only watched avatar bc it's better I think I have only heard of white lotjs

[@edra3118]

@@ellentham6714 You are missing out Lok is awesome

[@master-of-many-fandoms2020]

In my lifetime, I’ve learned one truth: every villain is the hero of their story.

[@oni4111]

Damn that's facts

[@roumaissakarroum344]

Yeah, you're right about that

[@oni4111]

For example ultron he thinks that saving the earth is to kill all living beings

[@oni4111]

@@samdude1526 yeah every villain thinks that they are doing good

[@roberttwomey2011]

Yea Bin Laden

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

I'm surprised no one considered Amon a bender, since he could take people's bending away.

[@jendersonmohammed443]

Energy bending

[@SupportGamin2024]

@@coolperson9482 wish that story he told was the real one,I still have mixed feels about the reveal of him being a bender,still a great Villain.

[@austinhayden9207]

Wyndell Lee isn’t that blood bending?

[@SellavinAtoms]

That's the beauty of it they never said that he was a bender out loud, it's not hard to look for something especially when you don't know anything about it .

[@fuzzulica2932]

@@jendersonmohammed443 It was Blood bending blocking the Chi path not energy bending as far as i know

[@cjlewis9228]

Amon’s intentions of equality were good, but his methods were destructive. He unwittingly became just like his father- a tyrant willing to do anything to accomplish his goal. In the end, he only did more harm to Republic City

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

If you want something you should be willing to do anything for it, nothing would change if he didn’t take the city by force.

[@monabohamad2242]

@@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032 I guess maybe that sometimes is either what creates a villain maybe an Antagonist or it gives you enemies

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

Pxer How else can he remove bending from the world?

[@amysteriousdisease7168]

@@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032 why would he remove bending from the world? That's not his right. Bending is something given to people by nature. He wanted everyone to be equal,but equality isn't always a good thing. If 75% of the world was blind, would it then be okay to make the other 25% blind so they could all be "equal"? No. Benders had superior skills given to them by nature, and that was okay. Complete equality to the point of taking away other people's special abilities is not equality. It's oppressive and bland.

[@carfleeze5275]

How was he tyrannical, he never killed or impeded freedom

[@SellavinAtoms]

When it comes to legend of Korra I think they've got off to a very good start making Amon be the main bad guy in the first season.

[@arthuredington6171]

Yeah but later in the season they fucked his characterization up. Making him a bender didn't add anything, it actually took away the most interesting thing about him, Korra was a good bender but not very spiritual , meanwhile Amon at the beginning wasn't a bender but he was very spiritual, so much so he could take away one's bender. See total opposites. Then they make him a bender and they're not opposites anymore. It's very disappointing

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

Gay Wolf dude amons story was all very obviously bs “firebenders gave me a scar and took my family oh also spirits gave me cool powers”

[@mynameisunknown2771]

@@arthuredington6171 if he wasn't a bender he couldn't take away the bendings jeez so many dumb people

[@nathalieduverna6963]

The producers screwed up a great show. ATLA was beautiful LOK is a good show it just has too many holes because too many people wanted their own way

[@cookiesandmilk686]

@@arthuredington6171 no his storyline was sad they didn't mess it up at all it made perfect sense

[@gailshafer4200]

That sounds like Fire Lord Ozai with Zuku and Azula.

[@cfinsieboi1205]

It’s Zuko but your right he does sound like them

[@piyushnagawat24]

Very true....

[@jensentertainment9481]

Yeah kinda

[@rmkyt7022]

Very true

[@gailshafer4200]

I mean that Ozai praised Azula for being a prodigy and belittled Zuko for not being a prodigy like his younger sister.

[@adeleaslan8182]

Noatak is actually like a azula, the prodigy, better than their other siblings, but instead of being proud of that and constantly wanting that affection, he wanted his brother to feel happy and important

[@ruparavi6409]

Amon is azula if she cared for zuko

[@climbingamountain86]

​@@ruparavi6409And if at the start she wanted everyone to be treated fairly and equally

[@Sakurasan2023]

Yep

[@chiefcleve1834]

But by Amons logic, even if he took everyone’s bending away, wouldn’t a future generation of benders be born? He can take away bending individually, but he can’t really stop the cycle of benders being born

[@SA-xt1gd]

Maybe he would of intended to create a secret society of blood bending equalists that woul carry on his technique later they would have kids and then make their own philosophy called the blood lotus.

[@marilainedictan4851]

@@chameleon3465 good name

[@kendrickfan1018]

in the show he planned to breed out bending from humans by making it illegal, so even if the next generation were benders they wouldn't know because nobody could teach them, and they wouldnt use it cause bending teachings would be wiped from history they would not have any way to know how to bend and even if they somehow found out like a group of people Amon would just take their bending

[@chiefcleve1834]

Kfc Donalds actually no, bending teachings wouldn’t have to be wiped out from history. Just because someone lost their bending doesn’t mean they can’t teach it to the younger generation. Look at how amon learnt his bending. He learnt from his father yakone whom aang took his bending away. Yakone lost his bending but was still able to teach it to his kids. Furthermore remember the original benders were still in existence, badgermoles, flying bisons etc. they were the original benders and humans originally learnt bending from those animals

[@chiefcleve1834]

Kfc Donalds and also you’re saying even if the younger generation found out how to bend, amon would just take their bending away. Not necessarily, because what if a bender grew to become powerful enough to take out amon and stop his regime. Especially if a water bender is born and learns to bloodbend better than amon

[@ld4206]

The way Amon's father favored him over his brother is kinda like how Ozai liked Azula instead of Zuko.

[@alpha5664]

Except Azula didn't do it for Zuko

[@ld4206]

@@alpha5664 Yeah but their father still showed favoritism.

[@quizzlybear]

@@alpha5664 didn't do what?

[@ragdoll9460]

Legend of Korra honestly has some of my favorite bad guys in tv show/ movie history. Each villain has good intentions but all went way to far. And it has made Korra grow as a character so much. Amon wanted equality, Unalaq wanted the spirits back, Zaheer wanted freedom, and Kuvira wanted the Earth kingdom united. I loved how all four of these villains sometimes made us wonder if their goals were really for the best or not. Loved this series hope that they’ll someday make another avatar spin off.

[@edra3118]

So much more developed unlike Ozai who is evil just to be evil

[@Daddy-Saxon]

@@edra3118 you weren't suppose to now much about him in a direct way. The whole last Airbender series which I in my opinion think is superior to tlok, had you not even see ozai till the last season. They had indirect ways of showing him as evil. Like for example azula. Its made obvious she wants to please her father showing she is almost just like him. Even roku, talking about him and his friendship with sozin and sozin's goals. Put the idea they are now Ozai's goal. Finally when you see him its not as epic. You had inderect ways of knowing he was evil. Which was the intention. The story was the heros preparing for a fight vs someone they and we know little about, instead of a villain being fleshed out in the regular way. He is fleshed out, with character development. Especially in stories told from characters. Example being zuko's scar. This gives you a good idea early on what his father is like. You knew everything about him before you knew it.

[@brandonlyon730]

@@edra3118Unalaq was probably more shallow then Ozai. He claims to be spiritual, but other then bragging how better spirits are to humans we hardly see him act spiritual at all. His ambition seems to be for selfish reasons and we never find out why he is this way. Why is he more spiritual then his brother? Why is view on the spirits so personal? Why did he see to himself to ally with basically the avatar equivalent of the devil? None are actually explained. It comes off as telling but not showing anything. At least with Ozai we can see how fire nation culture had shaped him into the monster he became, we literally get nothing out of Unalaq or how different the north pole was under his rule. Unalaq is honestly worst then Ozai in my opinion.

[@sharifahaddawiyah4863]

Ed Ra true Ozai character was classic villain that we know. He wants power and respect. Something that almost villain from others show or movie we know. But for korra seasons each villain have good reasons but they take that as different path. Something that I like so much from TLOK. We learn that everyone have bad and good side it’s just how we choose it

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

Rodger W. do you know what communism is? because amon is not a communist.

[@kinfaili357]

Amon shows fake scar* Zuko has joined the chat*

[@xenon9717]

ARE YOU MOCKING ME AND MY CHILDHOOD?!?!

[@immagical7036]

*“HONER”* Zuko has destroyed the chat

[@princetbz1102]

​@@xenon9717 "That's rough buddy

[@alysej1370]

Thanos: I used the stones to destroy the stones Amon:I used the bending to destroy the bending

[@dragonwings8610]

lol

[@nathancarabajal8271]

Well done. Amon was an excellent villain in Legend of Korra. You gave much more on him in a way the show couldn't do.

[@ryanstaiger1712]

Definitely felt bad for him once we learned about his past. A good contrast to Ozai who was just a monster, Amon’s bitterness and hatred made sense and he was definitely one of the most terrifying villains since blood bending was always seen as the most taboo and darkest version of all the bendings

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

If he died remorseful, maybe the writers shouldn't have just killed him off.

[@madiii3279]

EXACTLY i choose to believe he lived

[@noddlesaddict9908]

I feel Amon is one of those people who takes equality too far

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

Too far? You have to take things too far if you want to make a change the council isn’t going to listen to him if he tries to reason the only way to do it is violence.

[@noddlesaddict9908]

@@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032 I am not said that what Amon is wrong, but I believe that you do not need to take people bender to create equality

[@quizzlybear]

Actually the great thing about LOK is that all the villains in theory have valid points and ideals. They were all just done to the extreme and executed destructively. Amon wanted equality among benders and non-benders. Unalaq wanted to bring back the spirits into the world once again. Zaheer wanted freedom from oppressive governments and horrible world leaders. Kuvira wanted to unite the Earth Kingdom.

[@stratosm3154]

@@quizzlybear Honestly all the villains in LoK are very well written

[@Elricsedric]

Not really there was just wayy to much inequality in there world.

[@Zinervawyrm]

If you ask me, Amon is the perfect example of an anti-villain. And I really wished that the writers kept him around for the later seasons. I would have loved him become a "Enemy of my enemy" type character who sometimes helps team avatar just because. He was basically right when he said bending caused nothing but trouble. Korra's uncle, Zahir, and Kuvira all used their bending in some way to gain power or reign terror. Meanwhile Amon was using his bending to "equalize" everyone by taking away if not blocking people's bending for mostly good. I do think he believed in his cause and probably saw his own abilities as a "cursed" gift.

[@hasansabahgaminganimemovie7679]

It would be better if the equalists didnt dissapear but they wouldv still exist in other seasons of the show.

[@climbingamountain86]

No, I think Amon at some point lost himself in the process and his original cause of "equality" because he used his bending to take people's bending away. That's a difficult thing to do, to believe bending is evil and use it throughout the years to take others' bending away, that ought to make Amon see himself as more powerful in the process. But even though Amon is my favourite, I think that Zaheer was the one who didn't want power because he was an anarchist. I believe Zaheer was misunderstood and that he didn't belong in this world and therefore he is seen as a villain (even though he later started becoming a villain, he eventually got humbled as well and continued his journey to absolute spirituality and freedom in his prison cell, which was a gain for him). Amon, or maybe Noatak, got humbled too. At the start he was battling with nature itself because people are born with bending so by taking it away and considering it evil, he had simply deluded himself and deceived non-benders. He sought anger and wrath in them and began stealing criminals' bending away to publically justify his theft. Deception and sowing anger were Amon's main tools for his revolution as he also used them for his made up story about the firebender killing his family. But later in the end, as Uncle Iroh had once said "True humility is the only antidote to shame", Noatak humbled himself after realising his entire work was lost, and he reunited with his original character traits and desires, which was to leave with his younger brother who he loved most and begin a new life. He got redeemed.

[@piedathemokona]

Yakone using them as revenge must have made Noatak wish he was a non-bender, which is why he hates bending… He wants to take everyone else’s bending but he can’t take his own.

[@arthuredington6171]

Highly doubtful. He hated his father but I doubt he hated his bending. More likely he took over Republic city to prove to his father he was better than him

[@piedathemokona]

@@arthuredington6171 I see. But like the act of bloodbending is so evil, that's why he probably wanted it gone

[@arthuredington6171]

@@piedathemokona he wouldn't use it if he wanted it gone

[@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032]

Gay Wolf There’s a scene clarifying that Amon isn’t doing it just for power. “I think Amon truly believes bending is the root of all evil.”-Tarrlok.

[@epicfan1598]

@@arthuredington6171 Tarrlock literally said that he believed his brother genuinely thought bending was bad for the world. This probably stems from his experience with his father as a kid