tarrlok: what you DON'T know 🩸

#avatar #thelastairbender #atla #lok #legendofkorra

[guava]

God season 1 was still so good cause amon was legit scary and the mystery behind him

[ShanaReviews]

I see what you're saying my friend and i'mma let you finish...BUT

Tarrlok is actually a dark mirror to Zuko.

Both are benders who took a long time to master a specific art in their bending styles.(Zuko, lightning directing/ Tarrlok, Bloodbending)

Both had siblings who were more skilled than them as well as having fathers who praised their sibling and valued them more.

the big difference is that unlike Zuko, who had Iroh to balance him out, Tarrlok had no one, his mother died, his brother ran away, all he had was the abuse and dark aspirations his father gave him until he died, Tarrlok embraced the evil his father tried to instill in him, compared to Zuko who chose to do right and rebel against the darkness his own father tried to seed in him.

Tarrlock is what Zuko would have become had Zuko not had Iroh in his life

[baconatr]

I wonder if Amon could sense people's blood. If he could, he knew he was about to die just then and didn't stop it.

[HalvoDraws]

i find it funny how the writers of atla didnt want to have jet die on screen because they initially thought it wouldve been too dark for the kids watching....but then in korra you have an on screen suicide with these two, zaheer murdering the earth queen by _suffocating_ her, su literally blowing p'li's head off by wrapping her head with metal while she was about to fire an explosion, korra LITERALLY getting tortured on screen, and asami's father getting crushed to death by kuvira's mech

[SubparLoki]

I loved tarlock as a villain, giving him mostly political power but adding in a level of lethality with bloodbending

[tunotonga]

I took their end as a final stop to this blood bending cycle Amon and Yakone has. The next thing I genuinely saw was that Amon would run it back with his potential kids and just wreck the world. He was broken beyond keeping him in the show.

[mokyodai]

I genuinely felt sad at the end of season 1 when he offed the boat. He just met his long lost brother and it feels like he didn’t have a choice, but to do it.

[dejorareason]

They were the first siblings on any cartoon to commit suicide 😢

[Deyone_Jackson]

I'm actually surprised by Ozai's backstory that he didn't had his eyes much on Zuko when he was in a similar situation as himself. Instead of doing the opposite of what Azulon did, Ozai just treated Zuko the same way and even worse. The Netflix version is making it a bit different and shows Ozai still being the way he is but also seeming to actually have more feelings for Zuko and even though they made a lot of stupid mistakes with their version, I do like that concept tho because that other side of him towards Zuko was only hinted in the animated show. It looks like they try to do more with that and I think it's nice.

[MaxWelton]

Amon and Tarrlok also parallel Ozai in another way: they also mastered bending subskills that are used in a dark, personal way. Ozai tried to vaporize his own son—domestic violence—whereas using bloodbending to take bending away can be read as an allegory for sexual violence.

[Galaxy-egfs]

First person to die on screen was a member of Amon's community

[Nolie_CaNolie]

This needs to be the contemporary anthem of New York: song is great, but New York is but a shell of its former self.

[LordOfFliesIV]

Yes i too relate to the part of being a younger simberling

[twowheelunicycle]

I don’t personally see a whole lot of similarity between the two. Ozai wasn’t per se corrupt, he was simply the culmination of generations of indoctrination into the belief that the fire nation was superior. That indoctrination was the source of his motivation to finish the war and bring everyone under his rule. You could say he was corrupted, but he wasn’t truly the source of the corruption, his grandfather was. It simply was perpetuated all the way down the family line to Ozai and had he succeeded it would’ve continued with Azula. Tarrlok was truly corrupt by making illegitimate political moves that went against the system he was supposed to be serving. If anything Ozai’s actions were exactly in line with his nation’s ideological structure and beliefs at the time. He was most certainly evil, but not corrupt. The difference between the two is that evil is a state of nature, and corruption is when someone takes actions that go against their current state of being.

[seven]

Jynxi just doesn’t wanna pay clix 🤣 what a baby

[adamtremblay]

Huh. Never realized they had so much in common.

Speaking if bloodbenders when is Amon vs Katara coming out? Im certain Amon wins, but im curious if u think Katara could overcome weaker bloodbenders in the fam.

[A_Edits]

I was 16 during season 1 of Korra in 2012 and to this day I am surprised Nick let them kill them off in a kid cartoon that's when you realize that it's for teenagers for people who grew up with the original.

[eltonjohntubola]

Katara is now the only canonically alive bloodbender.

[raidenyt]

The death rly caught me so off gaurd, shit was dark but i ultimately loved what it meant for the story

[jacobandrew]

Never heard anyone make siblings a three syllable word before.