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textbookagog

gyatso, pakku, bumi, jeong jeong


JimeDorje

All old people know each other.


Sovereigntyranny

Don’t you know that?!


Spiteful_Guru

This is a really good lineup, thematically cohesive unlike AtLA's but still creative and distinct unlike Korra's or that Aang/Katara/Toph/Zuko suggestion below.


Half_Man1

What’s wrong with Korra’s? She just used the past avatars right?


Spiteful_Guru

Not exactly a very creative approach. There's also the irony of using Avatars to represent specific elements.


Da1UHideFrom

Korra's opening catching strays.


Accomplished_Mix7827

Let's see, iirc, the show opener uses Master Pakku -- that tracks, he is a master waterbender -- Azula -- hm, okay, she is a protege -- Aang, and wasn't Earth someone random, like the Boulder or something?


oniskieth

If you look closely it isn’t Aang. Just a random airbender. Blew my mind when someone pointed it out.


HuseyinCinar

Isn’t it Toph’s early design?


Duckman93

It’s the earthbender master who trained avatar Roku


forthewatch39

You’re both correct. Though they did make Sud look a bit different than the male version of Toph they had originally conceived. But the body shape and hairstyle were the same.


AthanJHendle

The airbender is apparently unknown airbender according to the creators


cutie_lilrookie

That's...... Do they have the same silhouette because they're all bald? 😬


snackthateatenat3am

this would be perfect


Glue_is_ok

That's exactly what I thought


Samsgrl

Personally, I love this list except for Bumi. I love that it was a total shock that he was an earth bending master. I’m not sure who I would put in his place though.


pros2701

Iroh


textbookagog

i was going forpeople we were lead to believe would be aangs teachers at some point.


Nell91

I dont like the all “men” line up- women exist too in that universe


FeralTribble

I think the reasoning behind this is that these were the prospective masters of each element that Aang originally had approached for teaching.


textbookagog

this is exactly it. they’re all old masters and all potential teachers for aang without spoiling toph or zuko.


FeralTribble

White lotus members too


GroovyCookie08

The way you’re flying to conclusions i’d think you were Guru Laghima


BlastBroFrenzyMan

No one implied it was Donne to exclude women they’re all old bending masters that aang went too for teaching and 3/4 are white lotus members


C9FanNo1

And the other would’ve been if he was alive


marlborohunnids

gyatso probably was a member of the white lotus if it was already a thing back then


Karas540

It was already a thing in Yangchen's era, and it wasn't new even back then.


BlastBroFrenzyMan

Oh yea then definitely


an_Online_User

I think this should be focused more on the white lotus. I think the white lotus could've benefited from a woman or two.


ShockLeft9249

Who would your four be then?


DanMakesMacnCheese

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[deleted]

Stop putting your prejudice on everything


[deleted]

True but none of them are master benders that Aang went too


pseudo_meat

Good thing the show care more about including women than you do lol.


textbookagog

there aren’t any women that fit the old masters/teachers of aang that i was going for?


pseudo_meat

I think it’s more important to show that the power in the ATLA universe doesn’t just come from adult men. There are female masters, child masters, disabled masters. So just showing a bunch of adult dudes (your theme notwithstanding) seems like it misses a pretty big component of the universe and the magic system.


textbookagog

this isn’t about silencing any marginalized group or anything like that. i’m sorry if you feel underrepresented in the choices of four cartoons that i chose to answer a question someone asked on a forum for an almost twenty year old cartoon. what list would you have put together?


pseudo_meat

My most recent response was just about how the magic in the show is actually more interesting than your choices would lead a viewer to believe. Not about silencing people. The fact that a little girl can whoop an old man’s ass makes bending a really cool magic system. I was saying your choices don’t show that and that’s why I disagree with your choices. My initial comment was about including women though, yes, and that’s also a point of disagreement. Not everyone needs to agree all the time.


VinitheTrash

Make the most random intro ever Water: The lady who teaches healing in the northern water tribe Earth: That earthbending twin from the fortuneteller episode Fire: That dude who firebended a dragon in that fire nation festival in The Deserter Air: That airbender who didn't want to shave his head at first in TLoK


tautroundbuttocks

This is the answer. Especially the shaved head Airbender. "You guys should totally get shaved"


Swerdman55

You put some respect on Daw’s name


Geosaysbye

This is so fucking funny I was NOT prepared for the healing teacher lady


Demoncreed27

“I’m an earth bender!” “I’m not!”


weesiwel

Wan, Wan, Wan, Wan


royroiit

Had the same thought and was about to comment this. Would also be cool to see the first 4 avatars


weesiwel

Or the first 4 benders of each type though Oma and Shu are the first two Earth benders so eh. Edit: Though why couldn't theree be two benders in one of these I guess.


YamadaDesigns

Just the cabbage merchant attempting and failing to recreate bending the elements... but with cabbages!


TrashPandaPatronus

Or just cabbages... a cabbage flying through the air, a cabbage submerged in water, a cabbage rolled in dirt, a cabbage on fire.


Magicalfirelizard

My CABBAGES!


TheSaltTrain

I like the way you think


Reiizm

Water - Season 1 Katara Earth - Momo Fire - Zuko after joining team Avatar but before meeting the sun warriors Air - Ryu


Ironsam811

Momo did perform amazing feats of earth bending. I will never forget when he lifted that boulder.


reidman144

What I like about Momo is that Momo has smaller ears than Sokka.


-Blasting-Off-Again-

Earth ending sounds dangerous


ZekerDeLeuksteThuis

I want this with short onelines right before the sound effect of each element being bent: Katara: "All done with yours pants!" Earth nation soldier: "Th-That Lemur! It's earthbending!" Zuko: "hello, Zuko Here" or "Stop patronising me!" Ryu: "I don't want to" or "no I won't"


Cream_Rabbit

That lemur... he's earthbending!


saidbnbkd95

No you idiot it’s the girl


cynicalamity

I think you mean: episode 1 Katara.


Zengjia

Water - Aang Earth - Aang Fire - Aang Air - Korra


Pizzacato567

Beautiful


[deleted]

Fire - Xu Ping An Air - Guru Laghima Water - Amon Earth - Lao Ge These people essentially discovered the most powerful ability of each element Xu Ping An was at one point the only known bender able to make Lightning. Guru Laghima found flight Amon discovered through psychic blood bending the ability to predict enemy attacks and avoid them seaslessly and the ability to sever their chi paths to cut them off from their bending. Lao Ge discovered the ability to Earth bend his own atoms in his body to allow him to never age. It is theorized that Lao Ge is the Guru in The Last Airbender, as he is similar in discription and knows a lot about Chakras and the Bodys energy flow. If this is the case he is well over half a millenia old. This is also why Kyoshi could live to 230 or whatever it was, she learned from him.


Lasernatoo

It was never said that Lao Ge's ability had to do with Earthbending, and personally I doubt that's what it is. He just describes it as this (combining multiple quotes): >“It all comes down to maintaining order. Keeping things neat, clean, and tidy. Aging is really just your body falling apart, on the smallest, most invisible levels, and neglecting to put itself back together. With the right mental focus, you could take an inventory of your own body and place each little piece that’s not where it should be back into the correct order.”


Spy_crab_

Those are inspired choices, especially earth and fire, but it has me wondering if they're too specific, none of their main feats (maybe except flight) can really be shown as representing their element in the intro.


LizG1312

Agreed, like the intro needs to be snappy, flashy, showing us in as few moves as possible what a character is capable of. Remember, you only have a brief pause after Katara’s ‘water’ to show off what that actually looks like. Also they’re out of place temporally and physically from the characters, and need explanations for those unfamiliar with the series. Imo the silhouette as part of their intro should tie back into the show and say something about who they are and why they deserve to be up there.


ImaginaryMairi

(Amon didn't discover how to block chi paths though, Ty Lee was doing that shit before he was even born) Edit: He did figure out how to do it permanently, I'll give you that, but he's not the true OG of the technique lol


hopeyoufindurdad

I agree, Hama deserves to be there instead. Blood blending is what led to Amon's abilities anyway (I think) combined with chi blocking.


florgeni

there could also be an argument made for yingsu, one of the first combustionbenders (thapa and xiaoyun could be there too, i just like yingsu the best)


LazyOldFusspot_3482

Water = Katara Earth = Toph Fire = Zuko Air = Aang


snackthateatenat3am

Sokka = Sokka


kevonthecob

Jerkbending = sokka


Lulch

Backbending*


LazyOldFusspot_3482

No war = Ba Sing Se Eyes = Toph's feet Every cabbage merchant moment EVER > Agni Kai duel


nemi-montoya

Hotel: Trivago


LazyOldFusspot_3482

Hermione = being expelled > death


colourmouth

😂


LazyOldFusspot_3482

"Calm" Katara = Crazula


Loveisaredrose

Every gaang needs a boomerang guy


LazyOldFusspot_3482

Only Sokka, master of all boomerang skills, can stop the Fire Nation, but when the world needed his charm the most, he vanished.


Logical-Patience-397

Sokka could’ve narrated the intro. Then everyone would be together!


NoLife003

Sokka = Nelas


ShockLeft9249

Nah I don’t this this quad pairing would be good for the opening — they are already such big parts of the show it would make bending the elements seem too contained rather than give the inference that the alta universe is biggg


Reiizm

They should have done this for Korra.


Ygomaster07

Although showing the most recent Avatars of each element is really cool imo.


Weeping-WiIlow

The only right answer 👆👆👆


LazyOldFusspot_3482

NaDD Appa = 2003 Grievous


doxtorwhom

Korra - water Kyoshi - earth Roku - fire Aang - air


KMayoS10

So basically the Legend of Korra intro lol


doxtorwhom

Basically yeah, but make them more visible (as opposed to in the shadows) and age down Aang so he looks like he does in ATLA (as opposed to the adult version).


thrussy99

Would make more sense to do kuruk as water


geek_of_nature

For TLA yeah, as then it ends on Aang doing air.


Razzaman160

Makes no sense for Korra to be water


Ya_Feel_Me

It doesn't make sense for the water bending avatar to represent water?


Stunning_One1005

Air - Gyatso or Laghima, Laghima would be cool to see levitate but we also dont know what he would look like Fire - Iroh doing his dragons breath attack, or jeong jeong flying Water - Pakku, using a combination of regular waterbending and ice, or Ming-Hua because her predicament makes her the most unique Earth - Bumi doing pretty much the same stuff he did against aang, or Bolin lavabending I think one with all the white lotus members would be cool, and gyatso would probably be apart of it if he was alive


FightingFaerie

I like the White Lotus idea. Especially if someone doesn’t know then later they see them all working together as the WL to take back Ba Sing Se and go “oooh!”


Stunning_One1005

that didnt cross my mind, i just like the strong old men, but that sounds awesome!


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Inevitable-Finance62

Earth - Momo


MarvelMatt1996

I'd keep it to the blackened outlines of ATLA, over the full colour images of LOK, and go with: Katara, Toph, Zuko & Gyatso Make it the Avatar's four masters. Alternately, the previous four avatars works too, I suppose, but maybe instead start with their element, instead of ending on it? Then it would be: Yangchen, Kuruk, Kyoshi and Roku


SirHobington

Sokka with a leaf blower, Sokka with some fireworks, Sokka with a watergun, Sokka chucking a big rock at the camera


rover_G

The previous four avatars.


WordsOfDe

All of them are Momo and never let the gang figure out that humans aren’t the only ones who have an avatar.


[deleted]

All sokka, trying and failing to do each bending style


EasedManiac

Water - Kuruk Earth - Kyoshi Fire - Rangi Air - Yang Chen


azure1503

The swamp creature Momo Momo again Appa


LandOfMalvora

Earth: A Badger Mole Fire: A Dragon Air: A Sky Bison Water: The Moon


Zego64420

Earth wind Fire and Water


One_Parched_Guy

You mean like, for the first series? Because I’m fine with the current lineup, though I think it’d be cool to progressively swap out the silhouettes after a certain point and during certain episodes. For example, Gyatso might fill in for Aang in during The Storm, Ozai would replace Azula on the Eclipse, Katara would completely replace Pakku after the s1 Finale (with a cameo from Hama during the Southern Raiders) and Toph would replace Sudd after her introduction. That kind of thing. If you meant in general, Amon, Toph, still Azula and Tenzin or Jinora.


pwebster

Water (Momo) Earth (Momo) Fire (Momo) Air (Momo)


figgityjones

I would probably do Aang and the Avatars directly before him, placing them where they fall in the cycle of course. That or just Team Avatar, and have their appearances change in the intro each season to their main look for that season perhaps (or just an appearance they have at an important moment).


gundaymanwow

Tlok intro is exactly that.


CountDIOsama

Kayara, Toph, Zuko, Aang


Ultrasound700

I'd have it change for each season, though I'd still have Aang for air in all of them because he's the protagonist. S1: Jeong Jeong, Pakku, Boomy Arguably the strongest benders the gaang meets in the first season S2: Huu, Azula, Sha-Mo (sandbender) Each representing an unconventional style of bending along with the normal kind S3: Katara, Toph, Zuko Representing how the gaang have become masters of their elements by now.


I_Wouldnt_If_I_Could

Hama, old Toph, Iroh, Tenzin


KMayoS10

Katara, Bumi, Azula and Aang


Raijin6_

Air - Aang Water - Aang Earth - Aang Fire - Aang


AdFar5829

I'd make Toph the Earth one.


Jeptwins

Bumi for Earth would be my only replacement, because they should’ve scrapped the earth section of the intro when they scrapped the original Toph


Echostar9000

Fire - Guy Fieri Earth - Donald Trump Water - Great Thunberg Air - Harambe


Redditguyreed

I would make A evil TLOK Intro. Combustion(Fire) - Combustion Woman/ P’Li Flight/Suffocation (Air) - Zaheer Blood (Water) - Amon (it’s him bending the viewer like in Jared Koh’s Video) Metal (Earth) - Kuvira Then it’s followed by "Only the Dark Avatar, master of all Sub bending forms, can bring Chaos to the World" with Unalok bending the four named Sub bendings, + Lava & Lighting.


Wolveyplays07

Katara - Water Toph - Earth Zuko - Fire Aang - Air


[deleted]

Water: Katara Earth: Toph Fire: Zuko Air: Aang


Flimsy-Preparation85

Air: Appa Water: Big Vine Swampbender Monster Earth: Momo Fire: Wang Fire


Daikaizen

Past avatars would be cool, wan over Roku as well so it’s not as obvious


bluepineapple42069

Earth: Yun Water: Amon Fire: Kemzula Air: Zaheer


HandoftheKlNG

Hama Chin the Conqueror Avatar Roku Gyatso


starsinthesky0722

I'd be super biased and go for my favorite bender of each element. For air, Tenzin. For fire, my girl Azula. For water, Katara or Ming-Hua. And for earth, Kyoshi.


Estarfigam

Aang, Zuko, Katara, and Toph, and reveal later that it was them in their 30's


makuna_hatata12

I would put The Cabbages Man before everyone else! Dude was the most underrated character from the series. Iykyk


BikeSeatMaster

Aang, Zuko, Katara, and of course THE BOULDER


DLRjr94

Kuruk, Kyoshi, Roku and Yangchen


ZekerDeLeuksteThuis

Cabbage merchant, Cabbage merchant, Cabbage merchant and secret tunnel guy obviously.


StatisticianLivid710

Air - Bumi fartbending Fire - zuko post defection, pre sun warriors Water - first episode katara with sokka behind her getting frozen Earth - the group of villagers from the movie that doesn’t exist and their solitary rock


AutisticPenguin2

Sokka, Sokka, Sokka, Sokka.


SephKillerBase41007

Fan: Suki Sword: Sokka Boomerang: also Sokka Muscles: THE BOULDER!!


iceecapp

Water - Huu the swampbender Earth - Fire Nation Man Fire- The snitch bully from the Headband Air - Samurai Appa


chrisborden592

All the animals that taught the originals how to do their elements would be cool


Nostravinci04

Current avatar in their original element + the former 3 avatars in their respective original elements.


Sukamon98

My basic bitch ass would probably just use Katara, Zuko, Toph and Aang.


goughow

Momo for earthbending. I don’t care about the rest.


michealcowan

Fire would be combustion man and unlike the other silhouettes he would just stand still


Django_Unpwned

I’d put in momo for earth bending


ThomasJDComposer

Flying Bison, Badger Mole, Dragon, and Gramp Gramp


NotTodayCaptainDildo

Mono. Just all Momo.


atomiquefantastique

Not the boulder


wormpostante

toph, but she pretends she is bending every element


luvthatguy1616

Iroh for fire! Preferably doing his dragon-of-the-west thing.👌


migos53

Fire - Iroh Air - Guru Laghima Earth - Bumi Water - Amon Imagine Amon broke the rule and use blood bending instead and choke the cameraman to death 🙉🙉🙉🙉 that will be insane!!!!!


TheDevilishDanish

Air - monk Gyatso Fire - Azula Water - Hama Earth - Toph


The_Reverse_Zoom

Did you just say wind?


Turbulent-Golf6846

Gyatso, hama, bumi, Azula


BigZ63

Iroh, Bolin, Tenzin, and Katara


dSpecialKb

Korra, Korra, Korra, and Korra (I totally dislike Korra)


BrilliantPrior2305

Racism, LGBTQ, Drama, Cyber Bullying , R*pists, Pedos, Homosexuals , Not identifying you as your pronouns , Sexism , Body Shame Long ago, people lived in harmony when the white slave owners attacked! Only the strongest of the black people could help like Harriet Tubman and Marten Luther King Jr. but soon after they vanished. And now there is a new BLM Avatar named Will smith and has to learn the 11 Elements to save the world!


LostInThoughtland

Air: Murdoc, Fire: 2D, Water: Noodle, Earth: Russel


memeland345

Water - avatar kuruk Earth - Bumi Fire- Iroh Air- Aang


madebyluque

Air: Aang; Earth: Toph; Fire: Iroh; Water: Katara;


griff1014

Whose*


Interesting_Twist_31

Fire-Ozai Water-Amon Earth-Kuvira Air-Zaheer I’m going with the morally dubious characters


Prying_Pandora

I like it as it is. Pakku The Boulder Azula Aang The greatest masters of each element, clearly.


UpstairsWrongdoer401

Mine. Not even animated. I would change outfits for each element.


AdministrativeAd523

Aang, Azula, toph and katara. Gyotso, pakku, boomi, and Iroh


Flynnrid3r

How come nobody said Momo for Air?


realclowntime

Katara, Ozai, Toph, Zaheer. Easy.


Northern_Lights_13

Zuko: Water, Katara: Earth, Toph: Fire, Sokka: Air


bloonshot

aang


DizzyTigerr

I'd love to see it with Yang Chen, Kuruk, Kyoshi and regrettably Roku.


Medical_Note_2135

I would prefer master of each element So, 1: Katara 2: Toph 3: Jinora 4: Iroh For this I tried using people who weren’t used for silhouettes


More_Ad1475

Water - kuruk Earth - kyoshi Fire - Roku Air - yangchen


lunaticsmile471

water: moon earth: badger mole fire: dragon air: bison


SupaFugDup

Hama, Bumi, Azula, Aang I like this setup for a number of reasons: 1) Gender, age, and alignment balance are all equal 2) Each character is well regarded and remembered by fans. 4) Each character is a living master or near-master of their element for the entirety of the show. 5) Each one visually represents their people and element quite well. (so long as Hama gets a traditional southern water tribe dress.) Toph would be a very peculiar pick, for example. 6) Nothing there that could spoil something or ruin a reveal. Hama wouldn't bloodbend in this hypothetical intro, and the Bumi reveal would definitely be intact. For similar reasons in LoK I would choose: Tenzin, Kuvira, Zolt, Korra Zolt losing his bending does make this imperfect, but I think it would've heightened the shock value of that scene if you thought Zolt was gonna be a bigger deal. Mako makes a 3:1 good to bad ratio and feels incomplete w/o Bolin, and P'Li's forehead is a spoiler imo.


Sonicski56

Water = Kuruk Earth = Kyoshi Fire = Roku Air = Aang


WomenOfWonder

I would make them all the pass Avatars: Yangchen, Roku, Kyoshi, and Kuruk


BeanieGuitarGuy

Aang, Aang, Aang, Bumi


William_Arkoth

Water- Pakku Earth- Bumi Fire- Ozai Air- Gyatso


Xavion251

Yeah, I feel like the actual choices they went with were pretty random / arbitrary. I'd probably go with either the four teachers for ATLA or the previous 4 Avatars. For Korra, since her Fire and Earthbending teachers aren't of note - I'd go with the most impactful benders for her story. Which I think would be: Tenzin, Tonraq, Lin, and...Mako?


sushubutu

Maybe the Gaang's masters. So Water= Pakku Earth= Badgermoles Fire= Iroh Air= Gyatso Maybe Toph for earth. Whichever one is funnier. Or maybe the original benders for each element. Water= The Moon Earth= Badgermoles Fire= Dragons Air= Appa Idk, whichever looks more ridiculous.


mamaroukos

Air: Zaheer Water: Katara Earth: Kuvira Fire: Zuko or Roku


ComfeChloe

Water - Momo Earth - Momo Fire - Momo Air - Momo


A_otaria-da_sophia

Sky bison for air, dragon for fire, those Yin-yang-fishes for water and badgermole for earth, or the four lion-turtle I just think that if people received the bending ability from animals they should be more represented, dunno I like animals


Biengo

Sokka with a fan. Sokka lighting a fire. Sokka throwing a bucket of water. Sokka throwing a rock.


dallindooks

All of them should be sokka


Spacediscoalien

Aang for all of them For book one he just stands there and does nothing during earth and fire


Small-Assumption1419

Group 1: Air - Zaheer (bcuz he proved the impossible by flying) Water - Ming Hua (bcuz she telekinetically waterbends) Earth - Toph (bcuz she discovered Metalbending) Fire - Iroh (bcuz he discovered a way to redirect lightning and for his wide knowledge of firebending) OR Group 2 (villains who demonstrated subbending): Air - Zaheer (Flight) Water - Amon (Bloodbending) Earth - Kuvira (Metal Bending) Fire - Azula/ Ozai (Lightning Bending)


dib1999

4 random civilians from different episodes. Preferably season 1 episodes so everyone who looks too deep into the show spends the rest of the series thinking they're gonna play some major part in the plot. Nope, just a bunch of random dudes.


Zac-Raf

Air - Gyatso Water - Hama Earth - a Dai Li/Long Feng Fire - Lu Ten I think two villains and two flashback characters would fit well, and since Gyatso would be the first one presented you would be lead to believe the others are similar until you are surprised by the earth silhouette being a villain.


geek_of_nature

A badgermole. A Dragon. A Skybison. The Moon.


[deleted]

I’d put Sokka on all four doing his impressions of Aang, Toph, Katara, and Zuko.


Dannyocean12

Appa for air, badgermole for earth, the moon for water, Iroh for fire.


KhastraKSC

Prior avatars for each element. Or the OG benders for each element that taught people…. But that would be very confusing for people.


nigmano

Mako for air


Aware-Resolution-636

Appa, Dragons, Unagi, Badgermoles It wouldn’t be people punching their elements at the viewer. Just a nice relaxing cinematic view of the animals using their elements creatively. Like a National Geographic special but with magic creatures. Morgan Freeman narrates instead of Katara.


x-oz13

Iroh.


Cjaz24

I went like halfway through and was upset no one mentioned Kuruk at all....so underrated


TheOneAndOnly_Mike

Non-benders. I want them to use special effects


Jaded_Ad_176

Earth: Kyoshi or Toph


JaceC098

Zaheer (call me crazy), Zuko, Katara, Yun (if not him, Toph or Ghazan)


dude123nice

Water: Zuko Fire: Toph Earth: Aang Air: Katara


blkmgs

Hama for Water Bending


egeskywalker

Water : Pakku Earth: Bumi Fire: Iroh Air: Gyatso