Avatar: The Last Airbender/WMG/Science of The Avatar World: Difference between revisions

The Fire Nation's tanks and military airships had do have been made somewhere. All those factories just ''can't'' close down- on top of all the returning occupation troops, the result will be mass unemployment. The quickest way forward is to develop civilian vehicles and create demand for them.

* They can start with selling a fully-enclosed cargo van to a certain cabbage merchant...

 

== The Avatar planet has a lower gravity than our planet. ==

 

== Sozin's Comet is actually a rogue star ==

* 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.

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.

* 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"?

* Considering the crazyness of the rest of the world's animals, this could be averted with some [[Hot Skitty-On-Wailord Action]]!

* 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.

 

== 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. ==