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[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (7 children)

The show directly addressed this with blood bending, maybe not as viscerally as I've seen online but it definitely did. Like if water benders can build enormous ice walls they're definitely the most dangerous benders in Avatar. They could absolutely rip a person's soft tissues off their bones if they tried. It's just seen as so morally wrong that few benders even think about it. Like how we generally view mutilating a body in our societies or other strong taboos.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Earth benders can do the same with the iron in blood

Air benders can blow up your lungs

Firebenders can remove the heat from your body or boil your blood

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The iron quantity in blood is actually very low. And when the thing is made up entirely out of iron, then also the benders can be as free with them as they are with earth

Here's my alternate suggestion BONE BENDING. Bones are just huge chunks of mineral so must be free game.

[–] owl@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

"Bone Bending" sounds like a euphemism for something else...

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