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Toph becoming a cop was always a little weird to me, but i can totally see it now.

This chapter really starts to build up her police chief persona. The detective work and manipulation of criminals and wanting to arrest Yahling

Wow that ending is crazy. Aang suddenly realizes “Oh yeah, I am the sole owner and dispenser of a type of punishment the world has never seen before.” He hasn’t contemplated the ethical questions that go with that at all. What level of crime justifies losing your bending? Does his role as the Avatar give him the right to dispense this punishment at will? Even if it does, is that morally acceptable? And how close to Ozai-level evil does someone have to be to deserve it? Deep questions that blow all the other comics’ dilemmas out of the water. Awesome.

I do really like that it’s implied Ty Lee tought the rest of the Kyoshi warriors chi blocking. Makes perfect sense, and I’m glad they didn’t dumb it down and outright say it.

Oh I REALLY like the idea of Aang getting called to do the thing again when it was single-handedly the biggest morally ambiguous thing short of murder he's ever done. Consequences!

I think something else that helps make sense why Toph would feel this way is how she was always treated as someone "incomplete" due to her blindness. People treated her differently because she was unable to do something most of the population was able to achieve even despite showing great skill otherwise. Because of this experience, Toph understands that no person is superior to another; even if there are people who can't do what others can.

I never read the comics, but I love the idea of just taking her bending away to make her the group she is attacking.

I like how this comic is is set to send the conflict of LOK season one into motion, or at least show the seeds of it. Can’t wait for part three!

Sokka after stealing the hat along with avatar kioshi merch kept it in zigzag bag until transferring it to the bag with matching belt. Later he kept it on him during the events of the library just in case. When team avatar arrived at ba sing se he kept his on a stand overlooking his bed remembering to grab it when hastily leaving the city. He had it on him until the invasion where he had it in underneath his helmet. At the air temple sokka kept his hat under his pillow so it was in reach during Azusa’s attack. After that fearing his hats safety he gave it to the white lotus retrieving it after the shows finally. Sokka over many years then proceeded to never be more than a moments notice away from his hat through forklifts and angry southern Eskimos. Finally at the beginning of the comic sokka once more takes out the hat to do some classic sokkaing

I mean I get what you're saying about the Aang disguise. But while yes Avatar does subtly have anime references within it like the different Aang costumes in his dreams. In the episode "Balto of the water tribe" there was a character that was arm wrestling June that straight up was Ryu from street fighter. White gi, red headband and spiky brown hair. So while yes Avatar does do their references subtly most of the time. Sometime they just do them on the nose.

We know Aang does use his power to remove Yakone's bending in the future too but it seems like it's a last resort thing for him

So far all these Comics boil down to one thing... Toph is a beast no matter which media she's in.

This has honestly been one of the better comics we've had in a while. Good mind games from Toph, which is not something we typically see from our mostly hit hard first, ask questions while hitting. Good fanservice with Sokka and paying homage to past episodes. And what an ending, when I watched the end of ATLA I was a bit disappointed with the energy bending technique, but looking at people who's entire lives revolve around this crucial ability, it's like chopping off someone's leg and forcing them to still walk.

6:43 Huge appreciation for the accuracy here in this scene that likely goes entirely unrecognised by most ppl watchin this; except those who for some reason have a special interest in steam trains or boilers What you see in front of Satoru here is exactly what you wud see if a boiler exploded. The mess of pipes is bcuz they heat the steam to power the engines by sendin it thru those pipes and lettin it warm up inside the boiler If the boiler however becomes too hot and the water lvl in it gets too low, the pipes can become exposed to the air and explode out exactly like this. Givin you the horrifyin scene of smth like a train engine with a hundred metal pipes stickin out from it as if smth otherworldy has happened there And why wud Satoru's boiler have ran out of water? Bcuz the firebenders firebended it to boil away the water inside, until it exploded. Whether they intended to do that or were just tryin to melt it, who can say Im just rly impressed by the fact that they actually wanted to make it look like a boiler exploded, instd of just goin with smth more expected like melted wreckage or otherwise what someone wud expect of explodin machinery if they dont have a detailed understandin of how a boiler works

Ru's storyline has touched me more than most others in the comics. The little barbs from her family, the sheer injustice of it all, compounded with the very real and justified feeling of powerlessness that non-benders understandably feel... it was a brilliant descision by the Avatar team to make bending non-ubiquitous. It's an eternal source of conflict and drama that can never truly be resolved and it beautifully mirrors the systemic injustices of our real world.

I love how this comic shows how Toph has learned from all of the gang adventures while also showing that Yaling is a lot more inexperienced and gullible since she didn’t travel across the world fighting in several battles like Toph did

Godsdaaaaaamn I like hyper-competent social interrogation Toph. That was *masterful* XD And "All the avatar can do is lock me up" had me instantly go "oh honey noooo, he can do a loooot worse that that. He can give you your worst nightmare come to life". Glad Toph and I are on the same page, even if she's a little quicker on the draw than me. I wouldn't escalate to that just yet, but I'd keep that threat on deck for sure.

Toph Finally got her comic. Good for her. Took the show runners long enough

About the redhead at 13:25, I would argue that Suki's hair is at least auburn. Even if it's brown, it's definitely a red-tinted brown. So I don't think the world having redheads is impossible. Probably just uber-rare, like the 2% irl

I think the red-haired guy is actually brown haired but his fire bending made the lighting around his hair red-ish, you can see his brown hair alongside the highlighted red Otherwise, another good video man! Best wishes!

Toph kicked an absurd amount of ass in this chapter. She's ready to fucking MURDER people.

Love at 12:45 how she tells Aang to pick a side and then splits the party. With Sokka and Suki on one side and Aang and Katara on the other. Adding some imagery to the benders vs non-bender conflict.

9:12 I knew that haircut looked familiar. I'd never seen Cowboy Bebop, but I'd definitely seen the fight scene with the mop. Aang looks just like him.

This is a great foundation for my head cannon that Toph is only the founder of a Police force because the Gaang instated her as Chief of police so that she wouldn't get in trouble for vigilantism, since they couldn't stop her from pummeling criminals. Strikes me as a Sokka plan

Ngl, this sounded like the most interesting comic chapter so far lol. Like most of them listening to the plot it was a little shaky here or there, but here giving toph a ton to do while showing her interesting character view is just great.

16:14 Yeah, in the show Toph makes some disparaging jokes against Sokka that show she had some prejudice against non-benders. However, she was a good when she was in the show. I like to think that as she grew up, her mindset changed, especially after having very capable non-benders around.

"Aang is like: _sigh_ this really is the next storyline, huh?" 😆Aang was really gunning for that typical whodunnit mystery.

It's 54 years but this is finally here

"Make an example out of her, take her bending away.." that is an awesome cliffhanger lol

two months since part 1, im on my kneeeeeeeeees. I love this content please keep it comin

I can't exactly say I agree with you on the fact that Aang is dressed up like Spike. If anything, it's just the hair-style, and you've pointed out a ton of times references that are that simple and small. I'd never even thought about how devastating the prospect of taking away someone's bending permanently would be for the Avatar to do. At most, I thought it just seemed like a shoehorned callback when he did it in a flashback in Korra. Of course, it was a central plotline in season 1 of Korra, and they kind of imply that Korra was a bit picky on who she gives her bending back to. Still, I never thought about how an Avatar could abuse such power. This honestly makes me believe in the mystical fourth season that never was just a little bit more. This is a concept that would have tied his no-killing policy together very nicely, since it's sort of a lite version of that. If one crime is heinous enough to warrant taking a life (or bending) then where do you draw the line? can one person even be trusted to draw the line fairly? Should one person even have that kind of power over other people? The Avatar has always been more powerful than any other human, but they've never had the ability to aggress upon humans exclusively in such a way before. There's no defense if the Avatar decides to take away your bending aside from just not letting him touch you, and having a strong enough spirit to be unbendable. I was thinking that little fact alone would make it a risky enough move to never try it again, but given that Aang is a monk, and he's already beaten the most single-mindedly evil man in the world, I'd say he'd only really have some competition against Zaheer maybe.

dude where were you? good to know you still alive lol. anyways toph suggesting to take her bending away is a genius move for this comic it totaly makes sense given that the lady hates non benders poetic justice so sweet hahhaha toph rules goddammit

13:18: Young Bumi probably had red hair. It's a little hard to tell, since there's an orange filter over the flashback, but it looks a bit too light to just be brown with an orange filter over it. It actually looks a lot like that. Cover this guy's outfit, take the art style into account, & it looks like a vaguely reddish brown. Also, I'm sure there was some form of dye before Varrick.

I get the bit with Aang looking like Spike and the breakdown totally makes sense to me but I thought he looked like Wan the first avatar

5:02 "It all fell right into your laps and it still somehow flew over your heads. WHat are you doing backflips??" - Did he make this line up? Seems like something he would make up. I'd wager a like on it.

13:18 I always thought kid Bumi had red hair, but it’s not easy to tell with the flashback colour palette that you see it in

You know its a great day when overanalizing avatar uploads

9:45 He isn’t dressed like Spike at all. Aside from the hair that’s very similar, nothing else would have given me the impression that he was. I read the comic a few times already and I never thought it was nothing more than that

14:00 suki should have been stupidly OP in that fight considering she could straight up disable every bender there and it is highly unlikely any of them have encountered a chi blocker to know how to avoid it.

Are we not gonna talk about Sokka going as Wang Fire to get into the rally?

7:48 Toph bringing out the nonchalant final boss pose

"Well, if we're fighting we might as well win." This line is amazing. I appreciate you. xD

13:28 I mean he seems to be a firebender which is heavily based on Japanese culture rather than Chinese. There is a small percentage of Japanese that do have natural red hair, so it's not super crazy to see it in Avatar.

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These comics are unexpectedly really good! I might give them i try!

ofc toph would jump to that. i doubt it happens but it's a pretty heavy thing to leave us with

The red hair thing was definitely just supposed to be lighting from the fire

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Aang saying both factories blowing up at the same time could be a coincidence like okay aang didn't know you were a factory doctor And Toph being okay with non benders doing things she can't like see

If you are nothing without your bending, then you shouldn't have it.

"give toph the arrow tattoos" that is all

Toph used to look down on non-benders, judging by the comments she used to make about and to Sokka in book 2. I guess her experiences in the series caused some character growth there.

The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what one does with the gift of life that defines who they are. paraphrased from Mewtwo, and also Toph probably

Toph asking Aang to Energy-Bend to take someone's Bending away is a great cliffhanger.

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I dunno, to me the "Spike costume" is subtle. I wouldn't have even associated it with Cowboy Bebop if you hadn't mentioned anything.

That ending caught me completely off guard.

that backflips quote is absolutely beautiful lmao. 5:00 Edit: I've been trained classically and contemporaneously... Fuckin 10/10 man.

You’re sounding healthy man. Hope all is good

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Hey man hope youre doing good i was worried slightly but OUR HOPE IS RESTORED

That will never not be a stupid conflict. "Benders are superior to non-benders," whilst their eternally reincarnating _deity_ disagrees. Big ol' sarcastic 'okay', whatcha gonna do? Out live him so the next him can defeat you? Kill him permanently? Good luck; Azula was a pretty special situational case. At least with the Hundred Year War Sozin had the man-power to attempt to eradicate the Avatar by genociding another group of benders; something directly against this lady's movement and pretty much every version of this conflict. Toph's final line is very reminiscent of Amon's whole deal prior the uncreative twist.

I've only ever read Imbalance pt.1 and for the LONGEST time, I thought Lling was Ming-Hua from Legend of Korra. Just before she lost her arms. Writing that down sounds really stupid but I think it would have been cool anyways.

I love it every time you say "I FUCK WITH THIS ENERGY". It's just so cheesy but catchy and works purely on the merits of you being you, OA.

Aangs hair is exactly like Spike's but his outfit is nothihg like Spike's it seems like they were trying to be more subtle with it, it's just that hair is very distinctive.

Fantastic video (I hope the next one doesn’t take as long to come out though), and I really love Toph's badass characterization! Toph once said, when she was still an early member of Team Avatar, that Sokka didn't count in battle because he wasn't a bender. The Toph of this comic, after all she went through with her friends in the show, would definitely never say that.

The upload schedule makes me cry :(

i like how what happand in this chapter probably had indirect influence on amons ideology in korra

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Dude I just got done watching Cowboy Bebop today and you said Aang’s disguise makes him look like Spike. I am so aware of the reference 🤙

10:07 shoulda had this rant when there were Ultra Man masks in the background of the festival in the first part of North and South lol

Part 1 was pretty good, so this better be awesome!

I'm so bloody glad I became a patron

Aang becomes a politician in the beginning. "the benders are destroying the property of the non-benders? if the benders just had more power, they could fix this". How many times have we seen that from congress, lol.

In Nightmares and Daydreams, Aang is dressed as Sun Wu Kong, which is the Chinese (original) pronunciation of Son Goku

I am happy that you did that vid but I have got a list of UKpostsrs I need content from and yours was in red underlined

Had to go back and watch part 1 to remember what was happening.

Thanks for posting the rest of imbalance! im really enjoying these thanks for all your hard work, these are so fun to watch

Been waiting 2 months for this upload lol

It’s fine for Aang to not learn metalbending, but from a story stand point it makes no sense. Aang is the only other confirmed person who can do “seismic-sense” which is expressly how metalbending was invented.

I need to remind you that Team Avatar took down the ENTIRE Earth King's castle while Aang was three fourths way through his training in minutes, but can't take down a bunch of politicians lol.

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"Liling, rather than fighting directly, once again bends the room to her side. Just like she was doing in the rally and just like she did in the council meeting." I refuse to believe this line wasn't an intentional pun.

Oh shit he's back!

Keep it up brother, look forward to your content always 🎉

Laling wearing purple shows how wealthy she is, same with king bumi and princess yuie

"Nice Slim" *catgator growls*

I haven't read this comic before but I would definitely speculate that Aang doesn't want to p!an Bending God by taking people's bending away. Of course Toon would be in major disagreement in this saying that it's the easiest solution for them to take. Of course if Aang made it a habit of taking sides and taking powers away people would read the avatar and not respect him as much as her like. While his powers are for like he's really meant to be a diplomat rather than a ruler. I can't wait to see the result, this was the one comic I guess I didn't know existed or something. Either way great analysis and I can't wait for the next one.

Once these comic lines finish can you do the Kyoshi and Yangchen books?

Hell yeah! We have more

heck yeah new video

I could be wrong but i believe when liling fixes the statue at 3:19 its because she turns the edges unto lava and bends then together idk how she doesnt get burnt but this is the only explanation that really makes sense

Damn where have you been??? I’ve been waiting so long…. God bless

I'd like to offer a counter to the Aang dressed as Spike point and say that I thought it was funny and that it's really not that deep. Also it wouldn't even be the first time we've seen a direct reference to something (there was the man in a bar arm wrestling with June in Book 3 who was basically Ryu from Street Fighter).

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There are more hat episodes than bloodbending episodes.

I would like to say that Toph doing investigation and interrogation in this comic and being so good at it is probably why she becomes a cop right? She can also sense when people lie

been a while still great

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