How would you fix him?

How would you fix him?

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Remove entirely, season 1 was so boring i almost dropped the entire show

Give him a motive.

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He had a pretty good one before the twist.

no plot twist, his crusade was legit for a villain right from the start.

He had one but it wasnt deep then TWEEST

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Easy. Just Get rid of the "fake backstory" shit and the false scars. There's no reason for it to exist. Especially when they later imply that Amon really DID believe in his cause despite the Scooby Doo angle of S1 end. Same character, same childhood, disillusioned with bending thanks to his dad's dickery. Came to republic city a young naive vigilante who hated bending, tried to stick it to the crime bosses, but he was was overwhelmed by numbers and got his ass mutilated. Realized that in order to achieve victory he needed the people on his side. Trained up to become Amon and did. As he got the backing of the people, his bitterness and nature+nurture power-hungry sickness corrupted his message and inner circle starts doubting him.

The rest of it goes down pretty much the same. People turn their back on him after discovering he's a bender, brother sees him as too sick to help, boom.

Make him an overarching anti-hero/anti-villain throughout the series. His message about the disparity of non-benders isnt forgotten and swept under the rug. He isnt a bender, being a charismatic strategic genius who can chi-block is enough.

He sides with neither the heroes, RC government/monarchy/red lotus because they're all run by benders. It'll be interesting seeing multiple antagonist at once with their own agendas.

>he actually did get his powers from the spirits, though its not what it seems and it was some evil spirit like Ko the face stealer who has their own agenda.
>actually believes in his cause, and the show actually takes some time to show some of the legitimate grievances that non benders have
>doesnt die after season one, sticks around in the background pulling strings and influencing events throughout season 2 and 3, to be the final boss of season 4
>themes like how spirits and humans interact or what it really means to be the bridge between worlds permeate his presence in the show as Korra struggles with her own lack of spiritual ability and general immaturity
>as the series goes on Amon gains and loses followers but his convictions are unwavering, and if the situation calls for it he will even ally himself with Korra to further his goals whether she likes it or not

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It bothered me that even though he had his own motives for starting the revolution group, him simply being a bender, takes away the message that had to be addressed. It's like all the nonbenders said "the leader of our non-bender equality group was a bender all along? Well, my rights can go fuck themselves then".

Him being a waterbender along with the moonless, psychic bloodbending that can imitate energybending is bullshit and a copout. He didnt need the edge/scars either, just a disillusioned non-bender in a bender focused society.

He could be more of a logical threat to korra, eho challenges her philosophy and is more strategic because he has to rely on his wits than the fire power he doesn't have.

Make him a standup comedian.

Make him an energybender.

I have one very easy fix that’ll improve the character drastically; just don’t give him a back story, don’t even show his face

Yeah, sometimes less is more. Knowing more about him makes him less threatening.

literally just have him tell the truth. that's it. having the big stupid twist just confuses the plot and character and makes no sense. it comes off as the writers thinking they're much smarter than they are when all they're doing is making their story worse. not to mention, having a character more spiritually mature than korra makes for a much stronger antagonist since she would have to mature spiritually herself in order to match him, meaning that her two conflicts are intertwined and not simply simultaneously occurring coincidences.

Legitimize his movement and show more non-benders being discriminated against or even brutalized by benders. #NonBendersLivesMatter

I also like the idea of amon looming as an overarching threat after his first defeat be an outlaw type like zuko in season 2 who's on no one's side and has his own motives in the background. An evil spirit, legit giving him energy bending type powers does sound neat though

Him being an overarching type is more reserved for if the series confirmed more than 1 season at a time. Than have an asspull where he simply dies murder-suicide.

He's genuine.
Rewrite the first season to explore more the dynamic of bending and nonbending relations.
He has some points, but ultimately he's scapegoating benders.
I hate probending so much.
Extend the Equalist controlled city portions to see what that's actually like.

Remove the dumb plot twist and let him keep his motives, keep him a skilled non bender that somehow found a way to steal bending.

As said, being a water bender all along with psychic moonless bloodbending that can imitate energybending is bullshit and a copout.

Having the antagonist bring up a good point then trying to sweep that plot point under the rug because he lied about 1 thing is stupid.

i guess i should have clarified that his originally stated backstory should be the truth, not that he should outright tell people he's a waterbender. just make him an energybender who was given power by a vengeful spirit, that's fine. it's not like it breaks the lore the way psychic bloodbending does.

>So anyway, what's the deal with airship fireflakes?

>Amon revealed to have given unaloq the knowledge/motive to open the spirit world portals for his own ends
>Amon being on the Red Lotus's shit list thus forcing a temporary alliance between him and Korra
>Amon being the one to harvest the spirit vines and weaponize them, as the ultimate means of bridging the power gap between benders and non-benders.

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You could also disappear Amon for the entirety of season two, maybe one or two super minor hints, until the last episode. Where after unaloq is defeated and in custody it's revealed someone breaks in and depowers him and his guards

...so turn Amon into Korra's version of Danzo from naruto, where everything wrong is cartoonishly his fault all along?

I like the idea of two antagonist from different factions joining forces. Amon just wants equality, red lotus wants chaos, they could look past their differences if it means killing korra's ass for good.

Dick him down.

you could pretty easily write it as a cohesive plan:

Amon is a non-bender upset about the inequality> He researches ways to bridge that gap>learns about the spirit world>manages to find a way into the spirit world>learns how to take away someone's bending, learns about the spirit vines and how much power they have>From there just make sure to add foreshadowing building up to Amon's final plan being to use the vines to power weapons that non-benders can easily use.

Why does he need special powers? Why can't he just be a Ty Lee style chi blocker taken to it's absolute extreme?

Also just stick to the bender vs non bender revolution for the entire series. That alone has enough content and juicy potential to last you without literally going retarded and creating a nega-avatar. Make it so that the rise in technology has closed the power gap between benders and non-benders and the raise questions on the need for benders as well as the avatar in society. Discuss the balance necessary between tradition and progress and really hammer in the Korra needs to learn diplomacy rather than utilize raw skill. There is literally so much you can do with that concept and to just throw it all away on a "it was a scooby doo villain" the entire time fucking sucks.

Amon establishes an ethno-state for non-benders and technology. This deals a serious blow to bending world-wide and makes Korra question what it means to be the Avatar as we enter into Season 2 with Spirits.

Amon and Korra team up to fight Red Lotus in Season 3 and Season 4 instead of them getting off screen'd..

I kept rolling my eyes at every endgame antagonist in korra. Going from the anti-christ avatar who battle by transforming into giants, the edgy airbender who suffocates his enemies via air bending and flies like a character out of DBZ, then the fucking Gundam robot, steampunk suits were a stretch but a giant fucking gundam armed with a spirit laser just turned the series into pure comefy

>Gundam robot
>steampunk suits
You pleb. Those were clearly diesel-punk (in fact the entire first season was very diesel-punk) and the robot was a gleaming metal, smooth-jointed atomic-age alien robot, not an intricate, horned high-color-contrast Gundam (which, granted, still clashed very much with the diesel-punk).

>instead of them getting off screen'd..

Bryke: But remember how 3 of the red lotus died so brutally(even though we cut away from it)? Dont you like that? Isn't it so much more darker than that kiddy shit in ATLA? Please praise us!!

I find it a little jarring how Mako just zapped the water bitch to death like nothing abd just sighed in relief, kinda funny.

Yeah, with enough foreshadowing they could make him look like this grand chessmaster being the cause of everyones motivation without it being to contrived. I just thinking hkw funny it'd be endgame if Amon said "That's right, bitch. It was me all along."