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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

In the case of Avatar there could be a case made that Nickelodeon didn't want their children's cartoon to end with the hero killing someone.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    What with a major theme of the series being aang struggling with the necessity of violence and actively looking for ways to end the war while avoiding it as much as possible.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I mean, aang is a very non-violent and pacifistic person. It makes sense for his character

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Except for when he went into avatar mode and sank all those fire nation ships, based on the number of sailors required to operate one of those ships and the ice cold water temperature he had to have killed at least a hundred of them

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    He’s not Aang when he’s Avatar-mode, he’s like possessed by the cumulative consciousness of all Avatars. Or at least he’s not fully in control and just acts reflexively. He didn’t master this until the end of the series, when he seemingly could maintain avatar-mode in a stable Aang controlled way

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Every time he goes into the avatar state before then it's because he's lost control of himself and is lashing out emotionally. The avatar state is more or less a vehicle to show him at the peak of stress and emotion.

    And the fish one in particular is an "all hope is lost, no avatar has ever failed worse than this" moment combined being straight up possessed by the ocean spirit. We never see him do anything at that level again

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