This Water Bending Ability Is OVERPOWERED | Avatar The Last Airbender Episode 1 Katara vs Hama

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What is blood bending?
So in Avatar we have a forbidden bending ability called bloodbending, and it is easily one of if not the most dangerous powers in the entire Avatar series. It was first discovered by a water bender by the name of hama, she first used this extremely overpowered ability and some elephant rats when imprisoned by the fire nation. She later used it on the guards and broke free. Essentially this ability allows its user to control any living creature including that of human beings. You can then knock out or in some cases even kill people with this power. It was later used by Katara against Hama in order to save Aang and Sokka, Katara would later push to get this sub bending style banned. Stating that it goes against all human rights and is about as evil a thing you can do. Hell this ability even had the power to sever the connection between Avatar Korra and her chi. Resulting in her losing her ability to bend until Avatar Aang used his energy bending to return her bending ability to her. Which does kinda raise the question on why Aang was never imprisoned or banned from removing peoples bending, But those who practiced bloodbending were. Like who really decides which is right and which is wrong?
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[kingcrmzn]

This led me to believe to think earth benders can do something ghoulish I call bone bending. I mean we see toph able to manipulate the minerals left in metal to manipulate it. And bones have all sorts of earth minerals.

[Fenrir_Hellbreed]

A: that's not even remotely the same thing. Bloodbending robs you of your free will and is potentially fatal. Energybending is inherently nonlethal and merely takes a tool/weapon out of your arsenal.

B: it was only usable by the one person in existence with thousands of years of wisdom and experience and the person whose job it is balance the world. If you're getting depowered by the literal Avatar of the spirit of light then odds are you had it coming.

[DarbyDumont]

Aang removed bending only twice (that I know of) and in both cases it was against someone who was too dangerous to be allowed to co to ur their level of power. They had considerable evil intent and history. For the good of everyone else, they had to lose their bending. It’s like a prison sentence. The only one you could truly impose on someone like Firelord Ozai or Yakone.

[RoxasOnSummerVacation]

It's not actually explicit that Hama necessarily discovered Bloodbending, as much as rediscovered it. So it is possible that Bloodbending had been discovered before, and its existence passed down as oral tradition or legend, or even written about.

[bubblegum]

Waterbending is the only element truly limited by imagination, they can bend clouds, plants, people, they could keep poison in their pouches, and bend that poison into the skin, their healing could be expanded we saw katara use a therapy like technique on Jet what if they can use that long range and traumatise their opponents basically nullifying them they can use anything to disable, shock their opponent, not to mention can bend spirits to their will and create a spirit army.

[I_watch_things]

I think the issue was less about cutting off someone's bending and more about how bloodbending can be used to completely control people which also probably puts them through terrible pain

[LordePhantom]

Who is really gonna tell the master of all elements what they should do.

I mean damn no matter how cocky someone is once the Avatar starts speaking in past lives and the eyes glow crying to mommy is not gonna save them

[GODOFAWSOMENESS]

Accessibility and it is used as a punishment not to force people to do things against their will.

[Googeldybunkz]

Ah blood magic, always the most overpowered shit in any fiction.

[anthonysteer]

I imagine it's a case of if you blood bent then you lose your rights to water bending

[Capone_i]

Energie bending can't be forbidden, because its a ability that you can probably only learn as the Avatar.
Because the only one's who knew this was the lionturtles and then later Aang and he passed it to Korra

[mohamedalsadany]

aang didn't blood bend, he energy bend which he was taught by the turtles and used on ozai instead of killing him

[dylatron]

Okay, think about this.

So, in the official fire scroll book from Avatar The Last Airbender, it states that fire-benders can control the heat inside and around them.
SO BASICALLY, (maybe) YOU CAN FIRE-BEND THE HEAT INSIDE SOMEONE ELSES BODY.
AND SCALD THEM FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
Because in the human head alone, it can get up to 40 degrees Celsius (Or 104 degrees Fahrenheit) maximum inside there.
And the entire rest human body can get up to 37 Degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) inside.
Or, since the heat is trapped inside of the human body (or you could force it to be trapped inside), you could technically control that heat as if you were blood-bending someone.
Except much more painful and deadly.
FIRE-BENDERS ARE SO MUCH MORE TERRIFYING.
Correct me if I’m wrong.

[DeeFourCee]

Maybe he was allowed to energy bend…because he was the avatar?

[dylanmiller]

Whenever I see someone list our how "overpowered" blood bending is, I like to remind them that so far we only have ever seen masters and grand masters use it. The only time we saw an amateur use it was katara and she already talked about how she is more powerful than hama, to explain why she can't be controlled. Many of those over powered abilities are not just handed out to blood benders they work on them for years, even with knowledgeable directed instructions. Then it took decades more for Amon to figure out how to take bending with blood bending.

[labmichael]

Because aang only takes bending as a last resort like with ozai as to not take a life and also has his hole family and group to stop him if he turns astray with it

[JAllen]

Because Ang was the avatar. That’s why he was never in prison for taking peoples bending away.😊

[yahboijosh]

It’s like what Iroh said when Zuko asked if he can beat Ozai, to which he responds in someway of that the people would blame him for something else than his original intent, but the Avatar should because people would see it as a way of restoring balance

[conorkr]

Ur ending question sounds smart until u see who the 4 people we saw in charge at the time

[kristjanriismandel]

We must see earth benders use bone bending