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* Why does waterbending have so many special subskills? Earth and Fire have Sandbending and Lightningbending respectively, Toph and Combustion Man are exceptions (which confuses me), also respectively, and Air doesn't seem to have one (also confusing), but water has healing, plantbending, AND bloodbending (or, if you lump the last two together,extracting moisture from something instead of swishing it around inside), also how does Katara pick all the moves up, they're all different martial art styles.

** Because water is life. Incidentally, Katara never learns plantbending and healing is an innate skill which doesn't require any fancy moves.

* The thing about people getting hit by bending attacks. Why aren't victims of firebending attacks completely [[Man On Fire|immolated]]? And why don't victims of water bending attacks at least get water up their nose, but more realistically, sending huge waves of water at somebody could ''drown'' them on dry land. As for Earth bending, I wonder why there aren't more victims of internal bleeding or smashed organs and limbs, as Jet masterfully demonstrated once. Airbending is pretty aboveboard, but it also gives me an idea: In theory, could an airbender generate a vacuum? If so, then it would be simple to shape one around a firebender's head in order to incapacitate them, as firebending is powered by the bender's breath.

** Like in most kung-fu/wuxia movies and series, the laws of physics simply [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|don't work the way they do in real life]] during fight scenes. Also, Avatar is a kids' show where (almost) [[Nobody Can Die]], so even if the writers would have wanted the effects of bending to be more realistic, stuff like firebending immolating someone or waterbending drowning someone could never have been used.

 

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