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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aang doesn't kill anyone, though. It's an important part of his character for the entire series.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah. In universe his personal human body count is zero. Out of universe, there's no way the water spirit merging didn't kill hundreds of fire nation sailors, but as far as the story itself is concerned, aang didn't actually kill anyone.

https://screenrant.com/avatar-last-airbender-aang-killed-people-pacifist/

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's pretty well established that he doesn't personally have control of his actions in the avatar state, at least at that point in the story. He doesn't even know how it works. Thats a pretty major plot point. Combine that with him also being merged with the twin spirit of the one that was just killed, and justifying an argument of "but what about all those soldiers" really just falls flat.

I'd say the closest he came to killing of his own volition was when the sandbenders stole Appa... and he still didn't pull the trigger.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

That was the moon spirit channeling through him. Different situation.

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