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Untitled[]

plz add a metal bending catergory for editing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.175.61.62 (talkcontribs). This note was added on 04:11, January 23, 2012 (UTC).

Sorry, can't do that. Metalbending is a form of Earthbending. This page is for the five base bending arts only. The 888th Avatar (Talk) 02:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Airbending image[]

I want to know if it is posible to change the image of Airbending. Dcasawang1 17:34, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Suggest an image. The 888th Avatar (Talk) 09:06, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Image:Air blast. Dcasawang1 14:05, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Show it here. The 888th Avatar (Talk) 21:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not fond if that image, it's too dark. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:02, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

What[]

What gives you the ability to bend. do you choose to be one?--Lightning Shenron 08:31, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Please ask these type of questions at this forum. The 888th Avatar (Talk) 08:35, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Sub-Skills[]

Why were the sub-skills of Bloodbending and Seismic Sense removed as sub-skills? They aren't the same thing as normal bending (one is moving a body, not just water, and the other is a sense that doesn't move anything), but both require a bending capability to perform. The same could be said about healing, lightning, and metalbending. Why remove them? Tophvision 23:10, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't think so. That is explained in its respective bending arts pages. Dcasawang1 - Talk 23:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I know, but I just think they should be mentioned on this general page. They're not just specific techniques, but different abilities entirely.Tophvision 23:21, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Bloodbending and seismic sense aren't different enough from their root bending arts to be a sub skill, they're more specialized. Healing, lightning and metalbending, they go beyond the normal boundaries of their root arts. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

But that's my point- controlling the human body and detecting seismic vibrations do go beyond normal boundaries of bending, at least no less than the other subskills. Bloodbending and seismic sense are hardly normal abilities. Tophvision 00:42, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

They are within the limits. Bloodbending is waterbending in the human body, certainly advanced, but not as far from Waterbending as healing, it's achieved through waterbending, but it's not quite waterbending, same for seismic sense. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:45, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

At the very least, have Seismic Sense instead of metalbending as Earthbending's sub-skill. Metalbending and bloodbending just use the hard-to-affect amounts of earth and water in metal and the human body to move them, respectively. Healing, lightning, and seismic sense do things entirely separate and different than what bending normally does. Tophvision 00:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Blood Bending is to Water Bending what Lightening Bending is to Fire Bending. If you include lightening, you should include blood. They play Blood Bending off as bending the essence of life. In fact, considering the relationship between Fire and Water Bending, the correlation makes even more sense. It should be on the board.

Read the above. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:29, June 16, 2010 (UTC)

other bending styles[]

please note that ice and steam are sub-skills of water bending, as is sand for earth bending, or perhaps it's own category.

  • Ice and steam were never mentioned as separate styles from basic Waterbending. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 14:59, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Earthbending season[]

In the paragraph, the fact that spring is the season is unnecessarily mentioned twice. When I deleted one of the duplicates, it was reverted for being unconstructive. However, there is no purpose for it being repeated, as it is not referencing anything else, it is simply the same fact stated twice with no connection to anything else, once in the middle and once at the end. I feel at least one of the duplicates should be removed to improve flow. 216.99.60.15 04:15, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

Bending Arts/Disciplines?[]

I think bending arts should be changed to bending disciplines. i'm almost entirely sure that they are not referred to as arts, but are on occasion, as disciplines. not a big matter, but for the sake of accuracy... Jordan.dowding (talkcontribs) 04:49, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

http://www.nick.com/shows/avatar/characters/katara.html

^ The official site refers to Katara practicing the art of Waterbending.

"...and it shows that you are committed to the sacred art of Firebending."

^ Quoted from The Firebending Masters.

PakkuSig copy рrofile · tаlk 05:02, November 2, 2010 (UTC)


fair enough. Jordan.dowding (talkcontribs) 09:35, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

Shadow Bending[]

Analay in the comics is presented as a shadowbender. Maybe this could be added as trivia? It's never mentioned outside of this one comic, but the comic is still canon as far as I'm aware. Adragondil (wallcontribs) 21:13, February 10, 2015 (UTC)

The comic and its information is not considered canon. Those were all characters made up for a fan contest. PSUAvatar14 Want to have a word? Katarasprite1Ty Lee KW 21:19, February 10, 2015 (UTC)

Much Confusion[]

In the original show they said that humans learned bending from the moon, badgermoles, dragons, and sky bisons, and before that they energybended, but the Legend of Korra says they were given the abilities to bend by lion turtles and doesn't show any energybending in the Wan flashbacks. Is this a discrepency? If not, can someone explain it? ^Vitiate^ (wallcontribs) 00:39, February 25, 2015 (UTC)

The lion turtle's quote can be interpreted as "we, the lion turtles". The ability to manipulate elements was given by the lion turtles, but as we saw with huntsmen, they weren't used as extensions of themselves as bending is used today, because they had to return the power. It took permanent acquisition of the power, and influence by those other sources, for bending to become what it is. Besides, between Wan's time and Korra's time, ten millennia passed, history is bound to have gaps. Society doesn't know much about how society was ten thousand years ago. Things get lost, forgotten, and distorted. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:21, February 25, 2015 (UTC)
Also, remember Tenzin's comment in the episode Original Airbenders - he himself calls sky bison "the original airbenders" (hence the title of the episode).
This to me suggests two things:
1. The story of the lion turtles and their ability to grant bending may not be common knowledge. To the best of my recollection, only Aang and Wan are ever shown interacting directly with a lion turtle, though they may have turned up  or been mentioned in small ways otherwise, I can't recall. As for Korra herself, her only exposure to the story is through her viewing of Wan's memories while immersed in spirit water in Book 1.
2. The very existence of badgermoles, dragons, and sky bison means that other creatures besides lion turtles evolved the ability to bend the elements over time, and suggests that cultures formed later around these bending arts and the creatures that embodied them. Waterbending is the exception, but given the moon's known impact on waterbending abilities, it suggests a similar mythology/culture springing up to the Air Nation's description of sky bison as "the original airbenders", or the similar titles conferred upon the other two animals, Dragons and badgermoles.
RosenDrache (wallcontribs) 04:22, March 27, 2015 (UTC)

Spirtbending[]

does spiritbending counts as a new form of bending (being able to perform by spiritual guides) or does it is an specialization of any other way of bending (as, maybe, energybending), i mean, Unalaq was able to use spirits as far as we know, even on his article mention this:

Healing infused with spiritual energy and knowledge, which involves converting the energy within spirits

So, this is a new bending technic. at least to mention it on this page as a reference or paste it on its subsequent article.  Khian toshiya (wallcontribs) 16:54, April 7, 2015 (UTC)

It has been stated in, I believe, the second artbook to be a variation of healing, which in turn is a specialized technique of waterbending. Thus, this is not a new bending art on its own. PSUAvatar14 Want to have a word? Katarasprite1Ty Lee KW 16:58, April 7, 2015 (UTC)

Changing 'genetics' to 'heredity'[]

The section labeled "Inheritance" has a lot of information regarding children appearing to inherit bending from one or both of their parents. Conversely, there are instances of children developing bending ability when neither parent was a bender (i.e. Katara), or else having non-bending children from two bender parents (i.e. Bumi). From here, the section devolves into a discussion of genetics, how bending would therefore need to be attached to recessive genes and so on. There is one serious problem with this section: there is crystal-clear evidence in TLA that it is entirely untrue. In "The Fortuneteller", we see two brothers - obviously identical twins - where one was an Earthbender and the other was not. Aside from VERY small genetic mutations, identical twins have exactly identical DNA. There is a possibility of having different mitochondrial RNA, but this is the genetic code of the person's mitochondria, not the person. Therefore, unless bending is somehow tied to one of these very small genetic mutations - which are themselves abnormalities - then bending is not tied to a person's genetic code. However, there are sufficient examples in the series that the possibility of becoming a bender IS hereditary, as the line of Fire Lords has shown the propensity of producing some of the strongest Firebenders on the planet. In short: heredity - YES; genetics - NO. Second major problem with the second paragraph: THERE ARE NO REFERENCES FOR THIS INFORMATION. Whoever wrote the second paragraph in this section did so without citing one piece of source info to back it up. Meanwhile, two pieces of source information have been cited for this discussion topic alone, one of which directly contradicts what is stated in the article without source. All discussion of genetics and how it relates to being a bender need to be removed in favor of the aforementioned fact that bending is NOT directly tied to genetics, and the entire body of the paragraph needs to be changed to be about "heredity" or else removed entirely. KenoSarawa (Talk|Contribs) 19:21, April 9, 2015 (UTC)

Gif for the Bendings (And for the other scenes too) :)[]

I was navigating the Wiki, and I had a thought: we could insert GIF file showcasing better the fantastic animation-movement of the Avatar series::)

Thanks for reading. What do you think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JiunoLujo (wallcontribs) 18:43, 18 February 2024

No. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 19:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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