Was he based?

Chi blocking is useless shit though. If you can punch someone, you could have just hit them with a weapon instead.

what the fuck even was his real motivation? his father wanted him to retake power of the city but then he hated and ran away rom his father, so why did he retake the city? what the fuck was his brother's motivation for murder suicide, they escaped and corrupt politician man never really gave a shit about honor before?

The boat scene just felt like the writers needed a neat and tidy way of getting rid of Amon, so they decided to do it in a shocking way cause why not? Which is annoying cause reformed bloodbending bros would have been cool as recurring characters.

yes he was very cool and I actually sort of agreed - I mean the only people on the council were benders. Honestly, they were sort of negligent and if you really wanted to squash a resistance you would of just put a non bender on the council? Or do what they did in the end anyways by having an election for a single leader?

>Benders held all the political power. Benders held the economic power. Benders literally controlled the world.
The earth king wasn't a Bender, Sokka wasn't a bender, and Asami's adoptive father wasn't a bender. All major political and economic figures.
Really the only benders we see abusing their power are renegade street gangs and mafia types.
Besides that there weren't any benders abusing their power or oppressing non-benders. hell Asami's father turned out to be an equalist while he was one of the richest and most powerful people in Republic City.
If anyone was getting oppressed it was the benders getting shit pay for competing in very popular bending tournaments and in the comics we see benders working menial jobs where they have to use their bending all day for shit pay and in bad conditions.
The Equalists were just there for the sake of conflict.

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3 characters out of all the Avatar characters isn't that impressive, especially when non-benders are apparently supposed to make up the majority of the world. Plus the earth king inherited his position. Feels like it makes perfect sense that people born with cool powers would, well, have power over those who aren't.

Those are just examples. It's never implied benders have more significant political power than non-benders, especially not in republic city.

>They should have ended season 1 with waterdaddyissuesboi blowing up and then the equalists inner circles saying shit like “there must always be an Amon”

Goddamn that is good, why couldn't you have written the script?

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I can't imagine giving an opinion on avatar when you haven't read the comics.
You're wrong on all fronts

What would he even DO? Literally no one else learned how to inhibit bending.

>You're wrong on all fronts
Please explain.
Honestly it seems to me that the show is just shit and has a bad story but Korrafags can't cope with reality.

Also what this user said is also correct.
So even if his motivation made sense it would be blown out of the water since in the end it turned out he was just a water bending psychopath with daddy issues manipulating non-benders to do his will. So really it was the equalists all along who were abusing non benders. Not the benders.

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>Benders could absolutely enslave non-benders as a servant class if they wanted.
Not unless they could secure the numbers advantage because the kingdom with the largest population of people overall has the lowest number of benders. And the population with the highest amount were pacifists by culture. Maybe in the original series this would be easier because technology favors the people who can make fire, throw rocks, drown you over farming implements. But once you up the tech tree suddenly being a bender isn't as special when guns are becoming a possible form of opposition and giant mechs are a thing for some reason.

It's still true that benders can enforce local rule when effectively and that's why bending mafia's were a good catalyst for the "legitimate" aspect of Amon's crusade and Even AtlA showed how benders could force a population to do what they want. Even how benders can usurp power from rulers as was the case in Ba Sing Sei multiple times. So there is merit to the idea that benders could have made a bid for global rule but then you have to factor in how the 4 nations weren't a unified front. You'd just have a repeat of firebenders trying to run everything, air benders being out of the loop, earth benders fighting themselves and the fire nation, and the water tribe fucking off to the ice caps.

I hate all of the LOK villains so much, holy fuck if I have to read a whole fucking paragraph to understand your villain's point then its a piece of shit villain

Bryke are the stupidest most overrated hacks in the history of writers

all they had to do was make him actually think bending is evil, have his inner circle know that he is a waterbender and choose to drown instead of saving himself so that he doesnt reveal his identity

What if there was some sort of trade off to being a bender? Some tiny advantage that non-benders have? What if spirits got along better with non-benders or something?

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I remember that this interactions made alot of girls wanting basically a Zutara 2.0 with him

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I don't think there could be one that makes sense without it being forced power system faggotry. The only real drawback should be the untrained/disrespectful who don't actually understand their power are usually destined to suffer a backfire in some form. However that ceases to be a genuine issue when you just fucking train until you suffer a major "hoist by my own petard" moment that rarely happens in the show.
Even in Korra Non-benders were shown to have social, political, and financial clout. Being a bender didn't really stop you from being poor or exploited, and the TWO richest men in the city were nonbenders.
Also enslaving nonbenders or vice versa has the issue in which they're extremely common and not tied to a specific cause like ethnicity, caste, decision, or income. A pair of benders can have a nonbender and vice versa.

>Those are just examples
Yes. That's what you do in an argument. Provide examples that prove your point.

kek

Amon really did believe in his cause and hated his bending. His problem is that he couldn't get out of his dad's shadow and still took over Republic City, but he did it was a force of good under his own belief.

Imagine if he was still Yakone's son, and all the bloodbending shit was a red herring.

Amon got hyper bullied being the non bender kid and mastered his own chi so hard he overcame it and mastered chi blocking.