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Aang and his fighting philosophies...

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    DecadentSpectre

    [1]Oct 20, 2006
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    I'm sure this has been mentioned before (I just don't know where) but does it annoy anyone that Aang can *never* really go on a proper offensive when fighting, I get that he doesn't want to harm living things but in a war you have to fight or youll die.

    With all his skill he is an able fighter but the question is for how long are we going to have to watch fights where Aang does nothing but evade an attack rather than taking the initiative ? He fared very poorly with Azula (even though he "wins" each time) but only due to his refusal to go on the offensive.

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    tc2r

    [2]Oct 20, 2006
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    DecadentSpectre wrote:
    I'm sure this has been mentioned before (I just don't know where) but does it annoy anyone that Aang can *never* really go on a proper offensive when fighting, I get that he doesn't want to harm living things but in a war you have to fight or youll die.

    With all his skill he is an able fighter but the question is for how long are we going to have to watch fights where Aang does nothing but evade an attack rather than taking the initiative ? He fared very poorly with Azula (even though he "wins" each time) but only due to his refusal to go on the offensive.

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    The airnomad way is one of peace, for him to kill someone would be completely against everything he's been taught/is. He could go on the offensive more when fighting and just disable the enemy. What bothers me is why you are annoyed at the fact that he doesn't "kill" people / attack everyone he see's? It isn't so much a refusal as much as it is the air nomad's "programming". As when he goes into the avatar state and loses all concious control, he does go on "the offensive". but yeah, his teaching go along the line of " The best way to win a fight is to not be in it."/ "there are only losers in wars".
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    zachman9393

    [3]Oct 20, 2006
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    I agree.?? But, rmember, he has to abandon his morals when he meets up with Ozai.?? And, I'm pretty sure, with all the suffering Ozai has caused, that Aang won't be held back by his values for too long in the "final battle".
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    Moviemaster2222

    [4]Oct 20, 2006
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    Air nomads are all essentially monks, they are trained to be peace loving and wise.

    Air bending in general isn't really an offensive style of fighting like eath or fire bending, it is more of a counter/defensive style of fighting. Knowing that Aang by nature and training will rarely ever go on the defensive. It's just the way he was brought up.
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    orangewhoit

    [5]Oct 20, 2006
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    We actually learn this in "Bitter Work". That since aang like everyone else said is an airbender. Airbenders are pacifist they don't really believe in using their bending for offensive purposes. Also as stated by Katara in "Bitter Work" she explain why the avatar cycle and the way he has to learning his bending disiplines. Its easier for airbenders to learn waterbending because they also use their bending mainly for defensive purposes, then they learn earthbending which is slighty more offensive by still used alot for defensive purposes. Then finally fire because it is the most offensive of all the disiplines. Its just not in aang nature for him to go all out and kill everyone in his sight.
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    Murraymuzz

    [6]Oct 20, 2006
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    orangewhoit wrote:
    We actually learn this in "Bitter Work". That since aang like everyone else said is an airbender. Airbenders are pacifist they don't really believe in using their bending for offensive purposes. Also as stated by Katara in "Bitter Work" she explain why the avatar cycle and the way he has to learning his bending disiplines. Its easier for airbenders to learn waterbending because they also use their bending mainly for defensive purposes, then they learn earthbending which is slighty more offensive by still used alot for defensive purposes. Then finally fire because it is the most offensive of all the disiplines. Its just not in aang nature for him to go all out and kill everyone in his sight.


    Actually Katara stated that earth would be harder to learn because it was his natural opposite. so i think learning fire would be easier than learning earth.
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    tc2r

    [7]Oct 20, 2006
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    Murraymuzz wrote:
    orangewhoit wrote:
    We actually learn this in "Bitter Work". That since aang like everyone else said is an airbender. Airbenders are pacifist they don't really believe in using their bending for offensive purposes. Also as stated by Katara in "Bitter Work" she explain why the avatar cycle and the way he has to learning his bending disiplines. Its easier for airbenders to learn waterbending because they also use their bending mainly for defensive purposes, then they learn earthbending which is slighty more offensive by still used alot for defensive purposes. Then finally fire because it is the most offensive of all the disiplines. Its just not in aang nature for him to go all out and kill everyone in his sight.


    Actually Katara stated that earth would be harder to learn because it was his natural opposite. so i think learning fire would be easier than learning earth.


    yeah but that was in two different contexts, Earth requires you to stand firm and take what comes at you, Air requires you to be "twinkle toes" and agile, throw a stone at an earthbender and he stands there, throw one at an airbender and he jumps over it.
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    Murraymuzz

    [8]Oct 20, 2006
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    Whats your point?
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    UGamer08

    [9]Oct 20, 2006
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    Pretty much. I mean pure and simple, if its not one's nature to do something, he's probably gonna at least try to??avoid having??to do so. I mean the whole point of that scene in The Desert was to display how out of character he was acting. So uh, ...yeah.
    Edited on 10/20/2006 9:52am
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