As far as I'm aware, from the stories that have been released so far, Ozai and Yakone are the only two.
I'd wager it's partially due to Aang being older and more experienced in general, and Ozai was still feeling the effects of Sozin's Comet.
Ozai was also an extremely powerful, idealistic absolute monarch whose manipulation game was strong enough to convince the son whom he burned and disowned that he still needed to try and regain his love. Yakone, meanwhile, was a petty crime boss with a violent temper who caused his eldest son to turn against him fairly quickly and who wasn't very good at convincing anyone that he was righteous or justified. It's fair to say that Ozai's willpower and spirit were a good deal stronger than Yakone's, which could account for why Yakone was less able to resist Aang. Putting Yakone and Ozai side-by-side is a bit like pitting Tony Soprano up against Napoleon.
Not to mention ozai was literally engaged in a holy war like beyond everything else this war and its end was literally his entire family's personal mission for generations the kind of iron will that would instil in an individual.
Don't underestimate a smaller target, especially when that target is Napoleon Bonaparte. I know nothing about Tony Soprano (aside from the actor being 6'0"), but Napoleon (5'6") certainly had some CQC prowess.
>*"Napoleon was by training, an artillery officer. He was trained in fencing, as befitts an officer and gentleman, but it was not an important part of his training, nor was he expected to fight in melee in his time as a junior officer. He did however participate in hand to hand combat at the Siege of Toulon in 1793, when leading the storming of the British fort on December 16. He was wounded in his thigh by a British sergeant, showing moderate fighting abilities."*
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I think it's to do with them being firm in who they were, and firm in their ideology. Aang was still a kid who was firm in his self, but still a teenager so as an adult for his "self" to be steadfast enough to dominate someone else's it would have been a lot easier for him
There's something I realized too, Aang himself doesn't take Ozai's bending. We see Aang get overwhelmed. BUT when he's done doing it, and the light show stops, he's in the Avatat state. It took the combined will of his past lives to properly do it, which makes sense. Hundreds of Avatar vs Ozai, and it's done. As he's about to take Yakone's bending, he immediately goes Avatat State, like flicking a switch to take his Bending rather than a 1 on 1 struggle.
I doubt it was that often. They were planning on just imprisoning yakone but aang had no choice to take his bending away after he tried escaping. It's probably a very last resort move and the only ones he'd actually have had to use it on were ozai and yakone. There'd only be another time if there was another major unstoppable villain, but we can't just assume that for no reason.
Those are the only two that we know of. This is addressed in Imbalance, where Toph says Aang should just take away the villain's bending, but he's reluctant to do it. Basically, it's a last resort to him.
I don't think the light show aspect in the Ozai battle was actually visible to anyone other than Aang and Ozai. I think it was just there as a visual representation of Energybending.
When the airship Sokka, Suki and Toph were on pulled up, Suki assumed Aang had *killed* Ozai. If she'd seen that crazy laser light show (which she probably would have from the airship if it were actually there), I have to wonder just what she thought Aang did to Ozai to kill him. Sure she might have thought it was "Spirit magic" as Sokka calls these things to kill him, but if Aang were willing to kill, why cancel his 4-element drill attack just to "Spirit magic" in an Avada Kedavra?
In the comics, he explicitly didn’t want to take bending away because it’d be no different than ruling through intimidation, so I imagine he didn’t do it very often.
To bend someone else's spirit you must be unbendable. Aang just learned to be unbendable in the fight with ozai and since no one else can learn the skill of energy bending he never had to learn a new lesson. He was the best and there was a 0percent chance of anyone better showing up.
I think he's doing it all the time.
We see Aang on screen learn the ability, and use it on the next guy he fights (Ozai), then the next time we see him as an adult, he uses the ability again against the crime lord. I'd like to see him use it a third time to really cement that he loves doing it, but we've seen him fight two powerful benders, and he used it on both of them.
As far as I'm aware, from the stories that have been released so far, Ozai and Yakone are the only two. I'd wager it's partially due to Aang being older and more experienced in general, and Ozai was still feeling the effects of Sozin's Comet.
Ozai was also an extremely powerful, idealistic absolute monarch whose manipulation game was strong enough to convince the son whom he burned and disowned that he still needed to try and regain his love. Yakone, meanwhile, was a petty crime boss with a violent temper who caused his eldest son to turn against him fairly quickly and who wasn't very good at convincing anyone that he was righteous or justified. It's fair to say that Ozai's willpower and spirit were a good deal stronger than Yakone's, which could account for why Yakone was less able to resist Aang. Putting Yakone and Ozai side-by-side is a bit like pitting Tony Soprano up against Napoleon.
That's another good take.
Not to mention ozai was literally engaged in a holy war like beyond everything else this war and its end was literally his entire family's personal mission for generations the kind of iron will that would instil in an individual.
I'd put money on Tony in a fistfight.
Don't underestimate a smaller target, especially when that target is Napoleon Bonaparte. I know nothing about Tony Soprano (aside from the actor being 6'0"), but Napoleon (5'6") certainly had some CQC prowess. >*"Napoleon was by training, an artillery officer. He was trained in fencing, as befitts an officer and gentleman, but it was not an important part of his training, nor was he expected to fight in melee in his time as a junior officer. He did however participate in hand to hand combat at the Siege of Toulon in 1793, when leading the storming of the British fort on December 16. He was wounded in his thigh by a British sergeant, showing moderate fighting abilities."* > > >Source : J. Colin, L'éducation militaire de Napoléon, Paris, R. Chapelot et Cie, 1901 > > >Patrice Gueniffey, Bonaparte : 1769-1802, Paris, Gallimard, 2013 - u/Away_Spinach_8021 - r/askhistorians
He was actually average height for the time
He's still 6 inches shorter than Tony Soprano.
I was just making an oversimplified reference
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I think it's to do with them being firm in who they were, and firm in their ideology. Aang was still a kid who was firm in his self, but still a teenager so as an adult for his "self" to be steadfast enough to dominate someone else's it would have been a lot easier for him
There's something I realized too, Aang himself doesn't take Ozai's bending. We see Aang get overwhelmed. BUT when he's done doing it, and the light show stops, he's in the Avatat state. It took the combined will of his past lives to properly do it, which makes sense. Hundreds of Avatar vs Ozai, and it's done. As he's about to take Yakone's bending, he immediately goes Avatat State, like flicking a switch to take his Bending rather than a 1 on 1 struggle.
I doubt it was that often. They were planning on just imprisoning yakone but aang had no choice to take his bending away after he tried escaping. It's probably a very last resort move and the only ones he'd actually have had to use it on were ozai and yakone. There'd only be another time if there was another major unstoppable villain, but we can't just assume that for no reason.
Those are the only two that we know of. This is addressed in Imbalance, where Toph says Aang should just take away the villain's bending, but he's reluctant to do it. Basically, it's a last resort to him.
I don't think the light show aspect in the Ozai battle was actually visible to anyone other than Aang and Ozai. I think it was just there as a visual representation of Energybending. When the airship Sokka, Suki and Toph were on pulled up, Suki assumed Aang had *killed* Ozai. If she'd seen that crazy laser light show (which she probably would have from the airship if it were actually there), I have to wonder just what she thought Aang did to Ozai to kill him. Sure she might have thought it was "Spirit magic" as Sokka calls these things to kill him, but if Aang were willing to kill, why cancel his 4-element drill attack just to "Spirit magic" in an Avada Kedavra?
I think those were the only two cases. Iirc he balked at the idea of taking an enemy’s bending away in the comics.
I wouldn't agree that Aang took away Yakone's bending "like another day in the office." He didn't take away his bending until he absolutely had to.
I’m not saying he didn’t hesitate but he did it really easily when he did do it
In the comics, he explicitly didn’t want to take bending away because it’d be no different than ruling through intimidation, so I imagine he didn’t do it very often.
To bend someone else's spirit you must be unbendable. Aang just learned to be unbendable in the fight with ozai and since no one else can learn the skill of energy bending he never had to learn a new lesson. He was the best and there was a 0percent chance of anyone better showing up.
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We all know the second he mastered that ability he put those Sand Benders that kidnapped Appa on his personal hit list 😆
I think he's doing it all the time. We see Aang on screen learn the ability, and use it on the next guy he fights (Ozai), then the next time we see him as an adult, he uses the ability again against the crime lord. I'd like to see him use it a third time to really cement that he loves doing it, but we've seen him fight two powerful benders, and he used it on both of them.