To me it’s just proof that Sozin ultimately had the last laugh, the original airbender culture is truly gone forever even if airbenders themselves are still around
2026-10-18 20:23:05
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Aton_o_Fun :
a singular episode disproves most of the criticism the show gets, since we are shown other nations amd how some cultures simply became niche to one
2026-10-24 04:36:44
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TheLunar☭Raven :
You’re definitely right but it’s still wild to the Zaheer Special that casually.
2026-10-18 19:01:54
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Shane :
Well we also have to account that not every new Air Bender became a Air Nomad. A handful did reboot the Air Nomads but who knows how many Air Benders there actually are. We have to acknowledge that being a Air Bender ≠ Air Nomad. We do see a Air Nomad in this show its a woman that has the Tattoo and all which means Air Nomads are still kicking its just not all Air Benders are Air Nomads.
2026-10-23 19:19:42
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ItsTorbek :
Avatar really was truly lightening in a bottle. It’s an accident it was as successful as it was.
2026-10-19 00:39:44
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Snakes :
It’s literally the same thing as a headlock, he didn’t hold it for that long
2026-10-19 12:38:39
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Lizandro Flores :
the new element symbols arent actually the "new element symbols" they are what the Ellora military uses to identify the element their soldiers bend, the opening still has the symbols we all know and love
2026-10-19 04:37:09
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Bradley Parker :
"he must be related to zaheer" - everyone
bruh....literally any Airbender can do this. yangchen did so much worse
2026-10-18 19:27:06
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Jared Noonan :
I saw it and as soon as he dropped him I thought oh it’s just like a sleeper hold or something but the Zaheer ptsd did hit for a second
2026-10-18 21:07:39
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Sommi :
I think the reason why the reaction to this is "Karthik is evil" id bcz the only time we saw this particular technique be used was with Zaheer. Some people are even calling it " Void bending" as if its a sub element of air. To me it just shows that the era of Air benders being pacifist nomads is long over. Just bcz we have Air benders doesn't mean we have the old airbender culture. I mean im sure some of it is alive somewhere in some form but the original one is gone.
2026-10-18 23:34:32
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Livinginconstantagony :
Can’t wait to see how the other Havens work because the symbols might just be for this specific Haven, but I wonder how other Haven’s cultures and concepts and imagery will different from this one because according to some panels we’re gonna see a Airbender with Airbender tattoos in a different Haven
2026-10-18 19:56:13
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Nomad :
Theres the symbols, there’s the reduction of non-benders to helpless/harmless civilians, so much of this show’s worldbuilding rn is to show how far the world has changed from when we last saw it in LoK.
2026-10-18 20:55:04
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Drago🖤 :
But they quite literally didn’t come from that tho. The airbending nomads were already dead and the last remaining family of born and raised nomads attempted to impart those life long teachings onto fully developed, culturally different people. That was never happening.
2026-10-18 23:54:59
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GigiFabulous 🍉🇵🇸 :
They also don't know that an Avatar invented that technique afaik. It was Yang-chen.
2026-10-19 06:50:37
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|| ✧🕯️ℭ𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔩𝔢 • • • ✵。⋆┈╯ :
YEAH! THE CULTURE IS LOST AND SOMEHOW HE KNEW HOW TO DO IT! If you're going to take the air out of someone's lungs, you would just take it out. He did the SAME EXACT technique Zaheer did! The only way for him to know it is if he's in the red lotus
2026-10-19 20:48:21
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xmcwilson :
ATLA to TLOK is like 70 or so years. TLOK to Seven Havens is two hundred years
2026-10-18 19:49:40
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Bella Hamann :
Dare I say this whole emphasis on cultural erasure is why the show’s comparatively more rudimentary animation style was chosen in the first place. There’s no way it was unintentional
2026-10-19 13:10:43
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LiAuN XeNON :
air nomads also weren't always the pacifists. have we learned nothing from the aangs movie? there may have been a direct subsection that was more pacifist then the rest but as a general rule of thumb bending is just bending
2026-10-19 07:21:07
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squiddy miku :
the heavens are an even more extreme version of the segregation that there was before as their basically forbidden from interacting and benders are taken away from family and general population to work for the government under their control and how few there are they are basically being told "be a tool or die" a darker show would probably depict a genocide imo
2026-10-19 03:59:47
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Halimtype :
it proves he is a bad guy😭😭
2026-10-20 16:01:04
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Angela Stemmler :
nah I think he specifically knows the origin of airbenders
think of the hidden room
2026-10-20 16:14:11
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Kolani :
It proves what we’ve always known, air benders are the strongest, zaheer using that move to kill was kinda lame cuz it took a long wind up but masters could clearly do it instantly
2026-10-21 19:23:56
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PixieAuLune :
Its more concerning/Suspicious he knows what energy bending is
2026-10-19 06:42:11
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🇵🇸🇵🇸Emma Wit🍉🍉 :
in my eyes, it's them seeing bending more as a weapon than a discipline. Karthik is a military commander, he's going to do whatever he needs to complete his mission, even if it's morally questionable.
2026-10-19 13:42:25
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