r/ATLA • u/JustAPerson_YesOrNo "Hello, it's Zuko here" • May 25 '25

Question What ATLA take make you like this?

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Posting here bc mods are (not) mean

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u/Den_Nissen May 26 '25

Roku and Sozin also do smoke bending as well. A bit later in the series, but reinforces that there are other variant and subtype bending styles that aren't just the rigid 4 nations.

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u/WEEEE12345 May 26 '25

AFAICT what Sozin's doing in that scene is redirecting the heat (similar to lighting redirection), not directly bending the smoke. In the animation it looks a bit like he's bending the smoke.

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u/Sryeetsalot May 26 '25

Well roku is the avatar. Very possible it was just air bending

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u/Sharo_colson May 27 '25

The point I was trying to make that no one seems to be focusing on though is that metal bending can’t be a duex Machina because the fundamentals for it and plant bending are virtually the same and we’re established