r/AvatarMemes • u/Western_Echo2522 • May 22 '25

When Aang Kills

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Not saying I don’t love Aang btw. I do, I’m just mentioning something I noticed on another rewatch. That Vulture-Wasp definitely fell in two different pieces. It kinda felt like Aang’s Mace Windu v. Jango Fett moment, and I think it makes him feel more human, because he was enraged for a justifiable reason, his oldest living friend having just been kidnapped and missing, and another friend was being taken too. It was the heat of the moment. I don’t think it takes away from his character at all, I actually think it adds to it a lot. I did, however, want to point it out, because I feel like it’s easy to miss

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u/lacmlopes May 22 '25

He didn't cut in half

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u/Firespark7 Airbender 💨 May 22 '25

But he definitely killed it

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u/lacmlopes May 22 '25

I don't think anyone can say this.

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u/Firespark7 Airbender 💨 May 22 '25

Let's say for the sake of argument that he didn't 100% certainly kill it.

It was still not "out of necessary defense", so his holier than thou attitude in book 3 is still ridiculous.

Also: in book 3, he blows away a fly with a concentrated gust out of boredom. Not 100% centainly a kill, but deginitely harm and in his beliefs an attack.

Aang's holier than thou stance in the finale is ridiculous, always has been.

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u/FinlandIsForever May 22 '25

There is the difference though that those are bugs, not sapient humans. If I kill a cockroach that’s running around my house, does that automatically equate to me wanting to slaughter a man on the street? Imagine the cockroach is 100x the size and steals your dog; does killing the cockroach (assuming he did kill it) out of defence and vengeance for taking the dog put me on par with a murderer? Of course not

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u/Firespark7 Airbender 💨 May 23 '25

"The monks taught me all life is sacred, even that of the tiniest spiderfly caught in its own web" - Aang defending his holier than thou attitude

"I've only ever used violence for necessary defence" - Aang explaining his holier than thou attitude

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u/Eggsalad_cookies May 23 '25

You missed the line where he said, “and certainly to never take a life”