The show directly addressed this with blood bending, maybe not as viscerally as I’ve seen online but it definitely did. Like if water benders can build enormous ice walls they’re definitely the most dangerous benders in Avatar. They could absolutely rip a person’s soft tissues off their bones if they tried. It’s just seen as so morally wrong that few benders even think about it. Like how we generally view mutilating a body in our societies or other strong taboos.
The iron quantity in blood is actually very low. And when the thing is made up entirely out of iron, then also the benders can be as free with them as they are with earth
Here’s my alternate suggestion BONE BENDING. Bones are just huge chunks of mineral so must be free game.
The iron in blood is in hemoglobin, the stuff you need to exchange oxygen. Suddenly ripping all of that out wouldn’t necessarily cause a lot of physical trauma. But the person will now immediately asphyxiate while feeling everything as they struggle to breath with no relief.
Which makes no sense considering there’s a war going on. The fire nation goes around burning ppl alive. The last thing I would care about is the moral high road when my opponent genocided a bunch of monks.
Also reminds me of the lactokinetic in Misfits. He appeared harmless, but if you had consumed any dairy products that were still in your body, he could kill you instantly.
Reminds me of when someone made the same observation in Avatar: the Last Airbender about waterbenders.
(Except in that one, the observation wasn’t from online comedians - it was a fridge horror episode in the show)
The show directly addressed this with blood bending, maybe not as viscerally as I’ve seen online but it definitely did. Like if water benders can build enormous ice walls they’re definitely the most dangerous benders in Avatar. They could absolutely rip a person’s soft tissues off their bones if they tried. It’s just seen as so morally wrong that few benders even think about it. Like how we generally view mutilating a body in our societies or other strong taboos.
Earth benders can do the same with the iron in blood
Air benders can blow up your lungs
Firebenders can remove the heat from your body or boil your blood
The iron quantity in blood is actually very low. And when the thing is made up entirely out of iron, then also the benders can be as free with them as they are with earth
Here’s my alternate suggestion BONE BENDING. Bones are just huge chunks of mineral so must be free game.
The iron in blood is in hemoglobin, the stuff you need to exchange oxygen. Suddenly ripping all of that out wouldn’t necessarily cause a lot of physical trauma. But the person will now immediately asphyxiate while feeling everything as they struggle to breath with no relief.
“Bone Bending” sounds like a euphemism for something else…
No one ever said it had good writing
Which makes no sense considering there’s a war going on. The fire nation goes around burning ppl alive. The last thing I would care about is the moral high road when my opponent genocided a bunch of monks.
Geneva suggestion
Also reminds me of the lactokinetic in Misfits. He appeared harmless, but if you had consumed any dairy products that were still in your body, he could kill you instantly.
Book spoiler; go read the books. Bending has less of the kid friendly filter
The Rise of Kyoshi is a masterpiece.