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== Amon ==

[[File:Amon_5948.jpg|frame| "I am the solution."]]

The leader of the Equalists and the primary antagonist of the first season. A man shrouded in mystery, Amon seeks to rid the world of benders and usher in a new era of equality. He seeks to destroy Korra, whose presence in Republic City threatens his anti-bender agenda.

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* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|III]]. Wanting equality and to help lower class citizens isn't bad... but doing so by trying to eradicate bending is extreme. Also, as of "And The Winner Is", so far Amon has only {{spoiler|[[De-Power|removed bending from]]}} benders who intentionally hurt others with their abilities... but his rhetoric suggests that he's just building up steam (and probably support) and is planning to eradicate bending worldwide. He has also told Korra to her face (while his men held her down) that the only reason she still has her bending is that he is saving her for later.

** For all purposes, he does appear to have a moral code. It's just that he is pragmatic enough to take more amoral or even outright immoral actions to see his plans come to fruition.

** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Ensemble]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. It appeared that he would be this with Tarrlok in the eighth episode of the first season, but upon their meeting at the end of episode 9, Amon resists [[Big Bad Wannabe|Tarrlok]]'s bloodbending and de-bends him. Which leaves Amon as the only, and rightful [[Big Bad]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Villains]]}}: {{spoiler|Rescues Korra from Tarrlok, though he didn't plan on letting her go free after taking down Tarrlok.}}

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Uses ambushes, greater numbers, weapons the opposition has no defense against, and psychological warfare to lead the equalists to victory.

* [[Culture Police]]: Desires to end pro-bending as means to end "bending worship".

** He lets Korra escape the Revelation because she'd be the "perfect messenger" about what just transpired; letting Benders hear it from the Avatar herself that he has the power to take away bending.

** When answering Korra's gauntlet throw-down on Aang's Memorial Island, {{spoiler|he doesn't come alone. He has chi-blockers [[Zerg Rush|dog pile]] Korra first, then says he won't unbend her because he'd just create a martyr.}}

** {{spoiler|He also took the extremely dangerous Tarrlok off guard and in a position were Tarrlok had no water at his disposal to bend. With his bloodbending useless, Tarrlok was forced to fight Amon hand to hand, something Amon is exceptionally skilled at, instead of being able to fight back with his extremely powerful bending.}}

* [[Dark Messiah]]: He's set himself up as a Messiah figure to the Equalist movement, and his ultimate goal is to replace the Avatar as the world's savior.

* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Beneath his ruse of being a revolutionary, he seems to be this.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: The cargo bay of his [[Cool Airship|zeppelin]] being filled with flame by Korra [[Unflinching Walk|doesn't even break his stride]]. {{spoiler|He doesn't seem fazed by Tarrlok's bloodbending, and while he's affected he is able to push through and maintain his composure without faltering.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: His ideals parallel the development of Communism and Fascism, which rose to compete against the fledgling democracies of the early 20th century.

* [[The Dreaded]]: He terrifies Korra to the point that she breaks down into tears after one confrontation with him, and his encounter with Bolin left the earthbender with nightmares for at least a week.

** He hates bending and almost everything associated with it, but made it a point to call out the Wolfbats' cheating in the pro-bending match before taking it over. Not as a bending team, but for being dishonest people in general.

** [[Combat Pragmatist|He may use ambushes and surprise attacks to disable people when it's tactically necessary,]] but he won't actually de-bend someone without giving them a chance to defend themselves in single combat, or close-to-even odds.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: What else would you expect from [[Steve Blum]]? Evil's as deep as the ocean.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: He has amber eyes, which is interesting in regards to his [[Unreliable Expositor|(possibly exaggerated)]] back-story.

* [[The Faceless]]: [[Unreliable Expositor|Supposedly]] due to [[Facial Horror]].

* [[Facial Horror]]: The stated reason for his mask. He [[Unreliable Expositor|claims]] to have gotten the scars from the same Firebender that killed his family.

** To Korra. If he really is {{spoiler|an energybender, then he's essentially the anti-Avatar}}. He's also styling himself in the same vein as an Avatar, claiming to be a savior sent by the spirits.

** His back-story (if he can be believed about it) is very similar to Mako and Bolin's. They all had parents killed by a firebender. But while the brothers eventually learned to live with their loss, he took it in a completely [[Fantastic Racism|different direction.]]

** In a meta sense, he's a foil to Ozai in the same sense that Korra is to Aang. Whereas Ozai was a power-hungry conqueror, Amon is a partisan revolutionary. Ozai was as close to a complete monster as a character can be in a child-friendly cartoon, whereas Amon is arguably an anti-villain. Ozai was {{spoiler|defeated with energybending}} and Amon {{spoiler|is an energybender himself, possibly}}.

* [[Glorious Leader]]

* [[Gold and White Are Divine]]: An unusual case in that said colour pattern is confined to his mask.

** White is the color of death in Asian cultures, which fits well with the symbolism often attributed to the [[White Mask of Doom]]. Red and gold are generally considered positive colors in Chinese culture, making their use [[Light Is Not Good|ironic]] in this case.

** The gold on his mask can also be seen as green. Another [http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/post/19671786341/amons-mask-analyzed-through-beijing-opera analysis] through that lens holds that the white symbolizes cunning, treachery, and craftiness, the green is violence and lack of self-restraint, and the red dot is both spirituality and the mocking of it.

* [[Hero-Killer]]: Spiritually if not literally. {{spoiler|Anyone he can lay his hands on is effectively neutralized since they can no longer bend. His first confrontation with Korra also implies that he plans to kill her after taking away her bending, though that may have been poor use of the phrase "untimely demise" as a metaphor.}}

* [[I Am the Noun]]: When confronting {{spoiler|Tarrlok}}.

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Tarrlok'''}}: "What... what are you?"

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Though Amon invokes certain heavenly archetypes with his [[Gold and White Are Divine|white and gold]] sun mask, Egyptian sun god name, golden eyes, and [[Messianic Archetype|possible mystical connections]], he's still the leader of a private military force with a cultist agenda.

** Besides his {{spoiler|possible energybending, which is the purest form of bending}}, he can also resist {{spoiler|bloodbending}}, which is considered the "darkest" type of bending, invoking [[Pure Is Not Good]].

** To start, it's the name of an Egyptian god and a [[Ars Goetia|demon]].

** The word or root "Amen" means "what is hidden", "what is not seen", "what cannot be seen" and the like.

** [http://masterarrowhead.tumblr.com/post/21546778935/hawkfeather-atla-annotated-energybending-a Amon is also the name of an acupuncture point on the back of the neck.] Amon was shown pressing onto that point as well as the forehead.

** A fan [http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/post/21979689321/amon-is-the-answer-interesting-choice-of translated his name written in Chinese characters]. 阿蒙. ‘cover; ignorant; suffer’.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: {{spoiler|Strips criminal benders of their bending, then attacks the Wolfbats after they cheated to win the Pro-Bending tournament.}}

** Later on, {{spoiler|he hunts down Tarrlok and strips him of his bending. Considering that Tarrlok was a [[Manipulative Bastard]] who [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|employed despotic tactics to terrorize anyone who wasn't a bender]], [[I Have Your Wife|arrested Korra's friends in an attempt to blackmail her into re-joining his task force]], and locked her up where no one would be able to find her, this was a pretty clear dose of [[Laser-Guided Karma]].}}

* [[Power Nullifier]]: {{spoiler|He has the ability to strip people of their bending forever. It's heavily implied that he's an energybender.}}

* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]:

** Get challenged to a one-on-one duel? No [[Mooks]] for either side? {{spoiler|So you've made yourself defenseless. Perfect. Meet my platoon of chi-blockers.}}

** At last, I have my most dangerous opponent [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|at my mercy]]. {{spoiler|See ya round kid. [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|The international public outcry wouldn't be worth it right now.]] But don't worry! I'm going to save you for last, letting you watch all you love and care for be destroyed before I take you out. Toodle-oo!}}

* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|Why Don't You Just Shoot Her?]]: He makes it clear that he could have easily taken away Korra's bending when he ambushed her. He also makes it clear that doing so would have made her into a martyr, which is why Korra will be the last to lose her bending, and then she will die.

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: He knocks Korra unconscious when he ambushes her. And he plans to kill her.

 

 

== The Lieutenant ==

[[File:Screen_Shot_2012-04-29_at_11_40_21_AM_7512.png|frame|"You benders need to understand... there's no place in this world for you anymore."]]

{{quote|Voiced by Lance Henriksen}}

 

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Being voiced by Lance Henriksen, this is a given. That man could inhale multiple canisters of helium and he would still sound like he had more than one puberty.

* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: He has a Fu Manchu moustache.

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: He wields a pair of electrified kali sticks, because his opponents are metalbending cops, and electricity works pretty well on all benders. The fact that an industrialized city like Republic City has conductive metal ''everywhere'' doesn't hurt, either.

 

 

== The Chi-blockers ==

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== The Protester ==

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* [[No Name Given]]