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== Draft animals are about to be replaced by motor vehicles and aircraft in a big way. ==
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== Sozin's Comet is actually a rogue star ==
Seriously. Real comets are masses of rock, ice, and gas. They'd power up everybody ''but'' firebenders. But Sozin's Comet, like the sun, jacks up their power to [[Spaceballs|Ludicrous Speed]]. Plus, the glow fills the skies when it shows up, turning the world red, and it's departure looks like a setting sun. Therefore, Sozin's Comet is a Brown or Red Dwarf (the star, not the show) that got captured by the sun's gravitational field, with an orbit that crosses the planet's every 100 years.
* On-screen, the comet ignites when it hits the atmosphere of the planet, so that's why it powers up Firebenders. It's not the greatest explanation, but it's a helluva lot less problematic than having a ''star touch a planet's atmosphere''.
* Maybe it's a matter of perception. They ''think'' that what appears to be a giant fireball in the sky will help their bending, so it does. Following that train of thought, waterbending isn't ''actually'' affected by the moon being out, but people think it does, while their ''minds'' actually make their bending stronger. Same with firebending and the sun. [[Your Mind Makes It Real]], indeed.
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Aang's staff seems to be made of ordinary wood, but we have seen several times that it can break through solid rock or burst rocks that were thrown at Aang. This is rarely a result of Aang's airbending. So how does he do it?
* Obviously it's made of [[Marvel Universe|adamantium]]. The whole "wood" thing, it's just a cover-up.
* So it needs to be made out of something flamable but otherwise completely industructable. Hmm...of course! It's made out of [[Twilight (novel)|Twi-pires!]]
* It can't be made of adamantium, it's a delicate instrument (like Aang). What's flammable, like Aang, and connected to the Avatar? The mummified remains of a previous Air Nomad avatar. Or avatars, considering the area of the wings and the surface area of an average human. It's not like blood-coloured bone [[Fruits Basket|hasn't been confused for wood before]]. Being passed down from and made of previous avatars lets the Avatar channel energy through it with more efficiency, though not necessary. It's likely that the Earth, Water, and Fire nations have their own similar artifacts, that work well with the first element the avatar born in that nation is likely to learn.
** That works up until Kyoshi's fans. What sane person thinks to themselves "a fan is a perfect tool to bend earth with"?
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== Sky Bison are about to go extinct. ==
Appa is the [[Last of His Kind]], isn't he?
* Considering the crazyness of the rest of the world's animals, this could be averted with some [[
* Waterbenders learned from the Moon and Ocean, were all other benders learned from bending animals. Tui and La embodied themselves into physical forms, and Roku's dragon, which is the Fire Bending Animal, is clearly a spirit now as well. Perhaps, when it is safe, air spirits will re-embody and recreate sky-bison.
* Jossed as of Aang's finding the island full of them between his and [[The Legend of Korra|Korra's]] series.
== The world of Avatar: The Last Airbender is the product of a Godlike post-singularity intelligence who, having reshaped the Earth into the form we see on the show, descended into the bodies of the lion-turtles. ==
The Avatar world is designed to create a stable, enduring environment for ''homo sapiens'' to inhabit. Bending is meant to reinforce the socio-cultural aspects of this system and to act as a retardant on industrialization. After all, the Fire Nation's been fighting a world war for a century and they haven't invented anything much better than the same steamer ships they were using at the war's beginning? And, going by the number of statues we saw in "The Southern Air Temple", if the Avatar Spirit has existed for many thousands of years, how have the Four Nations stayed largely coherent? Sure, the Sun Warriors became the Fire Nation, but that's still a one-to-one transition.
The lion-turtle telling Aang about the pre-Avatar era of energybending? That's the lion-turtle explaining the dreamlike powers of a post-singularity civilization to a twelve year old pre-modern monk in as simple as terms as he will understand. Thus energybending is just the cheat codes to the Avatar world's source code. The Spirit World is a repository of other intelligences from this post-singularity civilization.
And consider the lack of high child mortality in the Avatar world compared to real world historical levels, as well as the incredible Olympic-level athleticism that can be found even in common peasants. The humans of Avatar obviously don't match up to what we would consider real world averages of physical strength, durability and speed. Why? Because the human race was edited a bit by the post-singularity intelligence during the re-creation of the Earth in order to minimize unnecessary suffering while not undercutting what would we might consider "basic humanity." The Avatar-humans think, talk, and act like us, but they have stronger and healthier bodies. They are idealized humans.
== The Swamp doesn't actually show people who have been lost. ==
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== The weird animals in the Avatar world are due to evolution taking a different course then on Earth ==
Assuming that Avatar is not set on Earth, animals would evolve differently. Badgermoles share a common ancestor with Earth badgers, sparrowkeets with Earth parakeets, and so on so forth. The seemingly hybrid aspects are the result of [
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