Overanalyzing Avatar Comics: The Return of a Past Avatar! - The Rift Part 1

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This blows my.. toes! Not my mind.

I think Toph probably literally walked through the fence

Toph's flashbacks should have been thought bubbles with pitch black pages

i hate what in these comic books and later in Korra. air nomads have to constantly change / abandon their ways in the way of a changing world... Imagine if you said the same thing to the native americans or how about if you said the same thing to the jews, it probably wouldn't sound very nice. and you were sure to raise an eyebrow. now we talk about a group of people who were genocided except for one person and yet for some reason it is constantly said that he just needs to let go and give up, and that change and development is 100% better than trying to save a dying culture. Imagine your own culture or group of people in the same situation, well, some change has to happen, all cultures change, but everything has its limits. + in this imaginary world, spirits are really real and can sow terrible destruction if nature is corrupted, so the idea of ​​the industrial revolution and modern consumer culture in the world of Avatar gives me chills.

My biggest issue with the forklift, is that there is zero reason for a forklift to be invented. In a world where earthbending is wildly abundant, and there are earthbenders working in that very factory, earth bins lifted by earthbenders just make much more sense

The refinery could be gathering radium, a radioactive and radioluminescent element that was once commonly used in glow-in-the-dark paints and varnishes. By itself though, radium is a silvery-white and only glows very weakly, (which is why it was mixed with copper-doped zinc sulfide,) and would likely react to the nitrogen in the air as soon as it is unearthed, turning a more blackish color. Additionally, radium isn't mined on it's own. It's extracted from uranium ores, or sometimes thorium ores, which would mean that the refinery would be just throwing away the surrounding uranium, and additionally, would have somehow had to have discovered radium and it's uses first, before uranium.
So mayyyybe it's a cartoonish rendition of radium? But more likely it's a cartoonish rendition of (insert harmful and possibly radioactive element here,) which feels sort of lazy to me, given how fleshed out the Avatar universe is otherwise.
I should also mention that I am about as far from an expert on this as one can get; I only know this from having the casual knowledge of, "glow in the dark paint used to be radium," and doing a bunch of google searching from there.

As for the engine, the external combustion engine (i.e. steam power) was invented either in 1672 or in ancient Greece, depending on who you ask. The internal combustion engine was invented around 1860. That's a pretty big leap to make in a few years.

I would call it the elemental refinery and there are no airbenders in the refinery because aang is stil the only airbender

Is Sokka Forklift certified?!?!?!

Toph was really annoying in these comics

I think the whole forklift thing is clunky because it doesn't fit in the timeline of avatar. I get it that they were on the verge of industrial revolution. But all of that takes the course of 50 years. You can't go from steam engines to combustion engines within a year or two. Its polarizing, and takes away from the mysticism of the show. in fact I think this is exactly the reason I don't like Korra as a show. The writers really wanted to show steam punk and all of the mysticism and spirituality of the show gets put in the background. Disappointing really, just like all these comics so far. At least the characters are not acting not like themselves too much.

I remember there are more confirmed answers but I vote on Satoru and Sokka, Toph's two baby daddies.

Headcannon theory: Karara's waterbending feats are so unpredictable because of the moon being so inconsistent1!11!

In Korra, the engines are like 1920s and 1930s era engines. That forklift is a modern day engine. That's the real issue I take with it. If they'd done some kind of very early internal combustion engine setup like the car in RDR1 then it wouldn't be so bad. It just makes the engines seen like 4 decades later in Korra feel like a step back in tech when they got this

I enjoy your enthusiasm, but you've sorta fallen into a habit where you're really shouting into the mic, and you're delivering every single sentence with the same cadence over and over. Not ripping on you, I'm just saying maybe fix that

huh, toph has green eyes here instead of gray ones

The forklift is weird because it has absolutely no reason to exist. Does it have an alternator? A battery? Spark plugs? The tanks were fine because they were propelled Flintstone style. They were all man powered. The flamethrowers inside were soldiers, and if I had to guess, I'd bet they're just a steam system internally to drive it, since they could control the power with their own fire bending. No wires, no spark plugs, no complicated internal combustion engines. Just a basic enclosed steam system.

The forklift is lazy, they could have made a steampunk design like for every other mashine

I agree. It just makesme sad when they immediately start going toward more realistic and modern technology, probably cause we see it from Aang's side.

the increase of characters wearing glasses could be another representation of the world moving towards innovation, technology and logic and its distance from tradition and spirituality as higher levels of distribution probably made glasses more widely available, whereas before it was only something that upper class individuals like academics and royalty could access. very small point but its overanalyzing for a reason

I find it interesting that Aang the breezy airbender is the one who wants to hold onto traditions of the past, and toph the headstrong earthbender is the one focus on progress and freedom to do whatever. I like the contrast between them in this story since they're playing against their archetypes.

Yangchen: “*”

Aang: “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN”

Toph could probably hear the kids outside

Man you had me laughing so hard when you brought up all the safety violations! As an EHS professional, I feel validated lol.

You are a cool and good

Aang clearly meant zuko when talking about crushes being blinding

I do like the detail about aang saying "thats just how its done" and ut triggering toph, and then she gets sensory overload from the music and sounds because shes triggered

The forklift in avatar and the VCR in naruto are cursed objects 🤣

I like how your thing with the end is that most things about people aren't exclusively positive like "Unlocked the ability for 4 wheel drive while on foot, and it's just terrifying to look at"

I think the existence of more advanced technology after the war makes sense, since now the fire nation is sharing their technology- making it available for more people to invent things and fix problems.

I mean, the fire nation had reciprocating steam engines. An internal combustion engine shares like 80% to 90% of its parts with a reciprocating steam engine. They both have Crankshafts, rods, pistons, cylinders, and engine blocks. You could modify a steam engine to run on gas.

Making a promise to take away Zuko's bending would be a better idea than Aang promising to straight up kill him period. Like, I can see how a sleep-deprived, troubled and stressed Zuko might have asked this of Aang, it just fits with his black-and-white no-nuance attitude from earlier in the show which is probably what he'd fall back to when confused and under so much stress. But for Aang to even entertain the idea is ridiculous.
Not sure about the exact reasons to explain his conflict to take Zuko's bending away, but it could work. I think just sticking to a dilemma between Zuko actively asking for Aang to interfere and Aang feeling like he should not be exerting such a power over anyone even if they are asking for it because that would be irreversibly taking away an aspect of a person's freedom which clashes directly with air nomad philosophy.
Overall, there could have been a lot of ways of writing this better than it was written.
More thoughts on how this could have been written.
Taking away someone's bending is a much more serious offense and takes away a fundamental part of a person that Zuko doesn't seem to understand. Then Aang may still be having doubts (and maybe even a tinge of shame for what he did to Ozai) and Zuko just sees it as a betrayal of their friendship in some way - can be an interesting perspective as well since she show does explore how the gaang is hesitant to trust Zuko but never the other way around and Zuko in his stresses state and chatting with Ozai may be especially vulnerable to these thoughts. Maybe Zuko can get a feeling that he was only needed to win the war but now once the war is over he is more of a problem: a failed firelord and and yet a leader of the nation that the rest of the world can probably do better off without. Hell, you can even bring Azula into this paranoia stuff and explore their sibling dynamics. And you can definitely still weave the theme with the old Roku vs Sozin conflict as that is also a story of friendship and betrayal.
I really wrote an entire essay here, wow.

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To those that are saying "The forklift feels out of place", while this may be true it is a small price to pay for Sokka to achieve forklift certification.

Honestly i feel like the show really needed to have a reason to show why earthbenders couldnt just bend anything by making it dusty, or why water benders cant just bend anything if it’s moist, and they really needed to show whether water/earth benders could fly by bending a rock or ice beneath their feet like some kind of half life glitch.
Maybe with the dust/moist thing they COULD, but they might just have to learn earthbending styles to earthbend moist rocks and vice versa

Did people really say the ice flying wasn’t broken? Jesus Christ, people, really?

Sokka with boomerang is powerful enough, but Sokka with Forklift Certification!?

The world would end.

Yes

Aren't forklifts electric usually?
(The small ones)

Interesting note about Satoru and his magic combustion engine forklift. If you drop the ru his name is Sato, so maybe he’s the father of Mr. Sato the inventor of the Satomobile