She would just put herself in a suit of metal and wait for any mistake. And if there isn't a point where he lands, she can just outlast him. They'd be at a stalemate at best. At worst he tries to suffocate her and she can burrow out of there and escape.
@@marktwane6195 the most I can imagine is guessing which way they will jump based on the angle of their body before they jumped. He can fly so idk if that can help her. Another way is probably launching pebbles everywhere and hoping one hits lol
@@ChrisAssassin So I iut looked it up and turns out she can only sense the EARTH if it's not connected to the ground. Though, your theories are pretty solid lol
The combustion girl is quite literally the only one he cared about his only form of emotional attachment which means he didn't care about the lava bender and the armless waterbender at all..
Yeah spinning on what var zao quoted it could be that he cared about them before, but when he lost pli he was emotionally struck so he got the courage to detach from everything.
Well yeah. "Let go your earthly tether" means abandoning all earthly attachments, including love. Once P'li died, Zaheer was no longer held down by his emotions and ultimately became empty inside, allowing him to "enter the void" and become wind, basically unlocking the power of flight.
@@NBSGreenBulbasaur They aired season 3 and 4 on the internet first because the series had higher views online than on Television iirc. I think they eventually released the rest on television, but that's just from what I remember and remember hearing.
And he wasn't even in his prime at this point. Despite his natural prowess with airbending, he was still pretty green in combat against a seasoned airbender like Tenzin.
Not powerful, just wise and at peace with himself. He is the perfect airbender except for his lack of fighting experience and desire for violence... But he has no inner turmoil
I don't understand why people are so mad about Zaheer being ridiculously powerful at air bending from the beginning. He obviously studied the doctrine and disciplines for pretty much his entire life before getting bending. And even as a non bender he was considered dangerous enough to be heavily guarded and locked up tighter than pretty much any actual bender we had seen prior to his partners.
Not to mention he was completely at peace with himself. He had nothing to do but think about philosophy and meditate while he was a prisoner so being able to move fluidly and eventually fly is no surprise. He had no choice but to live like an airbender monk
Urbanfour and sumo already said that Individually each of these 4 members of the red lotus could defeat any bender and zaheer was the most dangerous without bending so now he has air bending when he was already fascinated with air bending culture so of and he had some time to himself with no one else in that cage it was atleast a week-a month so he had some time with the skills he already knew so yeah pretty much only the avatar could stop him now and she did
Exactly. Zaheer has lived his entire life by the teaching of airbenders/air nomads basically, he knew everything about their culture and probably used their bending movements in his "normal" fighting. When he got airbending, it was like giving a sword to a martial arts master. Of course he'd do much better than any other person in his shoes.
What bothered me is his ability to fly. It was a skill that no air bender had for thousands of years before him. Aang and Tenzin are supposed to be more powerful (Tenzin proves this when he 1v1’s Zaheer briefly). Yet they still didn’t have the power to fly. In that respect, I kind of see him as a Mary Sue character. Had they fleshed out his study of air bender ways a little more, then I would retract my statement.
Grandmaster Yado well the guru from avatar was trying to teach him something similar but he would not let go of katana like how zaheer finally let go of everything after losing his loved one yea tenzin and aang maybe be stronger with air bending but they did not/will not let go of their loved ones like the guru that zaheer admires, the guru from avatar the last air bender and zaheer
@@ushalweerathunga7081 he is plagued by regret. It is why he renounced his title in the fire nation. His war caused his sons death and his negligence to family meant that ozai was in charge and raised a scarred Zuko and a crazed azula
Zaheer was one of my favorite avatar villains, the way he reacted to pli death and used that to enter the void and fly was breathtaking. I hate that he was just arrested but glad he was redeemed.
He wasn’t redeemed. We all know that Zaheer HATED dictators or any sort of government, so when Korra went to confront him, he realized that for once, their interests aligned. They both wanted to take down Kuvira, that’s why he helped Korra get into the Spirit World.
@@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm2643 You make a good point, but im sure in some way zaheer felt regret for what he did because his actions led to said dictator.
I just realized something. Zaheer losing pli and letting go of his earthly teather mirrors Aang letting go of Katara and going into the Avatar state in LAB. Actually Zaheer mirrors Aang in a lot of ways only darker
Kosta Danicic There’s 3 possibilities here why this person makes absolutely no sense: 1. They are a kid 2. English isn’t their first language 3. They are drunk or high
Yes, Aang would most likely have had flight while mastering the Avatar state like Guru Pathik wanted if he had let go of his emotion and desires (mostly Katara) to completely open the Chakra gates, he would have become a typical Tibetan Buddhist monk, except an Avatar can never let go, because he has his duty to the world.
I honestly think that when Zaheer says “Let go off your earthly tether” I think he’s talking about letting go of his emotions. His love for P’li, his anger to the ones who killed her
Not just that he was also letting go of his life and dreams, ambitions, everything. He later said he didn't think it would work so he was effectively ready to die/committing suicide.
@@barneyrubble4293 He only let go of his earthly tether, meaning anything physical or emotional desire. He still had a full ambition to kill korra and end the avatar cycle.
So for an Airbender to attain the ability to fly, they have to detach themselves from earthly bonds? No love or friendship? Sounds like a serial killer in the making.
that concept exists in yogic practices it is to attend higher plane of existence you must give up on your attachments .. when there is nothing to pull you down you can truly focus and move up.. it is hard to explain for regulars to grasp the idea but demolishing the ego and its connections is hard task.. the idea is to break free and unite with the universe
@@AkaomeNanashi I get you man, I am into meditation and yoga. Some attachments are easy to find but some are hard to spot. Though once you detach yourself, you should have sweetness of emotion, it's truly a life of bliss at that point.
@@caspexx Emotions themselves are an attachment. To say you detached yourself and have achieved emotional bliss is not only a contradiction but an impossibility.
zaheer is a perfect example of how powerful airbenders could really be. most airbenders are peaceful pacifists but Zaheer had no restraints and basically wiped out anyone in his way 💀
Rachet Hoe 3000 the 2nd no not really, Airbender live in the physical world so they are the weakest element, however in the spirit world they are OP. Earthbending is extremely strong in the physical world but useless in the spirit world. If an Airbender were to lose their spirituality their bending would become weakened and it may even be lost.
0 what you said made a lot of sense actually, Avatar kyoshi had an airbending mom but once she lost her spiritual ways she basically lost her bending, But zaheer still stayed in a spiritual state of mind the whole season, he even elevated himself to higher levels like flight which was really cool
@@DatVo-tl2dw No, it wasn't her bending, she was banished from the temples and had snakes tattooed over her arrows, she didn't use her bending for a different reason.
Dude is like science, the nerdy ones of the past were the ones marking the books and formulas to the future same goes to us, and in that millennium one hundred years were lost and only the books remains
Air Nomads: “We finally became enlightened and detached ourselves from the world so our spirit can be free” Zaheer and Laghima: “Hold our earthly tether”
@@vetarlittorf1807 Anything could probably be a tether, even a weak friendship. Air benders never had arrow tattoos up until the binded with the sky bison. The used to have tattoos which slightly resembled Celtic symbols. I think their attachment with the sky bisons both served as some sort of earthly tether and a personal air plane at the same time, so they had no need to to fly anyway. Any slight connection is enough by that standard. This isn’t for fact, it’s just a theory.
Primordial Wow, you’re right. So then aren’t they proof that you can still have earthly attachment AND fly? Appa definitely loved Aang and the others in the Gaang too, Bisons are friends for life to Airbenders so they must qualify as an attachment.
@@beckwilliams2524 bisons probably flew because thats how they adapt to their lifestyle, like how badgermoles use earthbending to navigate through caves
I love it that the two metalbenders attack first even after seeing him fly and then only a few instants later they stop to acknowledge the actual miracle they just witnessed. This moment was so well-thought and epic that it puts Zaheer as one of my all-time most favourite villains.
Since I haven’t seen a comment about it, Zaheers voice actor is the punk rock legend himself, Henry Rollins, from the bands Black Flag and The Rollins band. This is fucking insane to me.
He may be a villain but his expression at 0:05 just breaks my heart....he truly loved that woman..and when the realization truly hits him..you can just...see it
He is basically a « thanos type » villain ( even tho he predates thanos ). He do what he does not because he is evil but because he genuinely believes it needs to be done. And the thing is … on principle he is right . The concept of the Avatar being above everyone by birthright can lead to a lot of abuse , in particular if the avatar can be swayed by a side through deceit .
Zaheer's reaction to the only person he loves death is epic. You can see all the pain in his face and what is more epic is how he immediately gets over it to keep the fight on. Zaheer's mind control is from another planet.
Solitary The movie was fine. For someone using 3 laughing emojis, you seem like an awfully saddened and depressed person to say a genuinely good , at the very least DECENT film is ass...
The idea of an evil airbender is already the coolest idea I can think of for this universe and then they keep him reverent enough to learn ancient rites. Amazing.
Now this begs the question... if Aang were to “let go of his earthly tether” when trying to open his last chakra, would he have been able to fly like this too, instead of airbending a sphere around him?
He wouldn't. When he asked the previous avatars for guidance on how to deal with ozai he met an airbending avatar. They told him that the avatar can never fully let go of worldly attachments since their duty as avatar is to the world
Ok, I know Zaheer is a bad guy and he just kidnapped Korra, but everyone’s reaction to him flying was so funny. They were all like “did that just happen?” Even his own teammates were like that.
Hands down my favorite scene in the entire series. Zaheer is amazing. And in this moment of greatest danger and turmoil he teaches deep into himself and basically gains enlightenment. He literally lets go of everything as he steps backwards, willing to die rather than fail and able to free himself over all the anger and pain he MUST be feeling over the death of his friend and lover. Just absolutely amazing. (His mantra also makes me think of Inception. 'You're waiting for a train...')
This is intriguing because despite his earthly care for P'Li, he still had cares for the world. Why else would he try to pursue his anarchist ideologies? He maintains an attachment to the world-to return it to the natural order of true balance. This is why Zaheer acquiring his ability of flight is sort of inconsistent, was P'Li truly the only worldly attachment that he had to let go of?
Maybe he wanted to change the world to what he believes is better but doesn't really care if he fails or not, on the other side, he actually loved his girl and felt it when she died
@@lcke8380 You provide a good justification, but this would have to beg the concept of what suffices as an earthly care in the Avatar universe, and to what extent? Are earthly cares things that you most truly desire and have a unique affection for, and not necessarily that which are striving for to provide your own idea of balance and stability in the world (in this case, I mean, that was the general motive of the Red Lotus' goals).
I know I'm a week late but to me it seemed that letting go of earthly tethers referred to physically tangible things like a house or a car or a person. P'Ii was the only tangible thing he couldn'tbare to let go. They had a physical relationship and when she died he had nothing binding him to the Earth. His ideals weren't physical things he can touch they are ideas and feeling that don't "weigh" as much.
If Zaheer is actualy the good guy - one with the wind, nature, son of the univerce,... and The Avatar is some sort of evil resistance to this, then he would truly have let go of earthly tethers and have been excecuting the will of the wind.
1:00 Zaheer: Ha, Ha, That's right fools!, now I'm a flying Airbender! You might have seen a Housefly, maybe even a Superfly, and also a donkey fly, but I bet you ain't ever seen an Airbender Fly! Ha, Ha!
I feel like they should have put the different korra books and villains in different places 1.Aman was fine as the first villain since he would've controlled the city at the most. 2.Kuvira shoudlve been the second since she was more or less a continental threat. 3.Zaheer and the Red Lotus could've been in any part of the show since they were an international threat. 4.A better written Uunalog and Vatu could've been a really good final villain since he was a world level threat and connected all the way to the first avatar,He also cut of all past avatars
Yeah I agree but I think its the networks fault that lok didnt have better story. It was supposed to be a minseries but nickelodeon renewed the show every last minute plus cutting the budget etc. I feel like lok could have an overarching plot revolves around Vaatu while he fights those villains per season.
They can't put Zaheer before Vatuu. Harmonic convergence was needed to make more airbenders, so because of this zaheer can't be a problem before Unalaq and Vatuu
One thing that makes this so cool for me is the way he flies. In my eyes it’s like he’s capable of bending (or defying) “gravity” in a way. I really can’t get enough of different sub-bendings.
@@ThePa1riot mission for what? mission of what? directive towards what? entering the void or something is equal to enlightenment, and that isn't enlightenment
xtian That’s the scary part though. That he did attain that level of detachment yet retained his goal. In Buddhism, Enlightenment is not a single achievement status. It is believed one can get to a point of attaining gifts, one of them? Levitation. But that’s not the end state, it’s just a sign you’re on the right track. So Zaheer isn’t totally enlightened in this scene but he took an important step to it. Doesn’t mean he’s there yet which lets him still act as an antagonist.
With attachment comes pain , with pain comes enlightment , with enlightment comes knowledge with knowledge comes wisdom and wisdom opens the door for ascension
"Zaheer does that mean you dont want to destroy society anymore?" Zaheer: WTF no LMAO "But if you want to do it, wouldnt that make it a desire?" Zaheer: **starts falling**
His desire to destroy society is why he can fly, as he seek to grant freedom to all sentient beings in his mind, and that just so happen to require the destruction of society.
Amazing writing..when we first met Zaheer, he spoke about guru Lahimas and his legacy as a flying man..”he was no longer tethered by the world” in other words, every worldly desire, he exempted out his life in order to achieve flight..Zaheer couldn’t do it bc he was in love with a women (worldly desire)..when she died, he had no other worldly connection and thus, unlocked flight.
I’ve always figured other bending types have their own kinda special art, like water state change to ice and blood bending or earth styles metal and lava bending, and I always wondered what the air bending niche would be
@@averyfunk1793 Building off that, I would say spirituality as a whole was their special art. "Letting go of earthly tethers" is just a prime example of that.
I think one that can be discovered one day is : sound bending . With things like sonic boom, echolocation, ultra sonic attacks or even vibrating blades to make them sharper .
I loved Zaheer because he knew what he wanted to do and how to go about it. A non bender that studied the ancient air monks ways to only be blessed by the spiritual convergence and end up as an air bender. His philosophies and temperament are what make a true villain not bad but believable.
My major complaint of _The Legdn of Korra_ season 1 was that it was too short with 12 episodes and neither the characters nor the conflict was developed. Then season three comes along and in 13 episodes develops four absolutely awesome villains, sets up a conflict with high stakes and emotional weight, and gives every character a dignified arc. And on top of that, introduces us to new aspects of the world as well as reintroducing familiar parts from the old show. I guess it's not a question of length it's a question of just doing it right.
I just realized the first time we see this airbending flight was with aang when he got struck by lightning because at that time he let go of all his earthly connections and wasn't floating using a tornado he was just straight up flying
Zaheer is still one of my favorite characters. Besides his political extremism he is incredibly wise and knowledgeable. If he ended up choosing a different path he could have been a great asset to the new air nation
This reminds me of a moment when I was in a Avatar Minecraft World and I was in a less favorable situation I said "let go of your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind" and FLEW AWAY
There’s a foreshadow earlier in this episode or in another one for zaheer finally being able to fly. In that foreshadowing scene, he’s reciting guru laghima’s poem or quotes. When he gets to the earthly tether part, pl’i walks in the room he was reciting guru laghima in and then they told each other they loved one another and kissed which showed that she was his earthly tether. And when she dies, he finally lets go of his earthly tethers and learns to fly.
After the loss of a loved one he understood what it is to be untethered, when you truly to let go of your last attachment through unraveling your past traumas and meditating in Budhism you become enlightened spiritually. The impressive part here is that it happened almost instantly. It looked like as if it finally clicked with him. Such a cool character to be inspired by. I refuse to see Zaheer as a villain, to me he's a true anti-hero.
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zaheer yip yip!
Hahahahahahaha
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Lul
omg I lol'd so hard
😂😂
He lost his girlfriend and went to creative mode
LMAO
Loo
but doesn't it mean that he didn't care for the mission also
There's this saying called Minecraft before Hoes
Channelling grief into art is common
I just realised...
He's the *Worst* ennemy Toph could ever fight against.
Zael Heimricht hence why air and earth bending are opposite
She would just put herself in a suit of metal and wait for any mistake. And if there isn't a point where he lands, she can just outlast him. They'd be at a stalemate at best.
At worst he tries to suffocate her and she can burrow out of there and escape.
There's a way she can still sense things in the air. Not sure how but its explained in the atla DVD set
@@marktwane6195 the most I can imagine is guessing which way they will jump based on the angle of their body before they jumped. He can fly so idk if that can help her.
Another way is probably launching pebbles everywhere and hoping one hits lol
@@ChrisAssassin So I iut looked it up and turns out she can only sense the EARTH if it's not connected to the ground. Though, your theories are pretty solid lol
So his attachment to sparky sparky boom girl was the only thing not allowing him to fly.
The combustion girl is quite literally the only one he cared about his only form of emotional attachment which means he didn't care about the lava bender and the armless waterbender at all..
@@jankoleon3785 A low key diss. Basically an indirect way of saying he doesn't care if his friends live or die.
Yeah spinning on what var zao quoted it could be that he cared about them before, but when he lost pli he was emotionally struck so he got the courage to detach from everything.
@@EmptyMan000 obviously he cares about the Water girl and Lava guy but not as much as he did for combustion girl because she was his partner.
Well yeah. "Let go your earthly tether" means abandoning all earthly attachments, including love. Once P'li died, Zaheer was no longer held down by his emotions and ultimately became empty inside, allowing him to "enter the void" and become wind, basically unlocking the power of flight.
Sokka from ep 1 : you know last time I checked humans can’t fly.
Zaheer: check again.
Obviously, Sokka doesnt know about the mightiness of Guru Laghima
LOL
@@johans3164 oh yeah. no internet due to huge anachronism therefore bye bye air nomad history. sad.
"This is Zaheer, my flying prison bro"
haha nice one but goro lahima could say the same
when you change from survival mode to creative mode in minecraft
Wilasta Kurniawan LMFAOOOO
Lmao must enter the void
Wilasta Kurniawan 😂🤣😂
This fucking comment had me in tears 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌
500th like, nice comment bro
"Did he just... fly?"
"You know, it was really unclear."
Actually, it was crystal clear.
Siamak Gilak
But the effects were decent 🤣
Siamak Gilak r/woosh
@@siamakgilak3475 apparently not clear enough for you to see the joke
It took me a while to realise, but Zaheer was about to commit suicide.
He later said he didn't think it would work.
Legend of Korra didn't play about.
The show literally showed him killing the Earth Queen in a close up frame. Of course it's not playing around.
Caffé Mocca I wonder how they got away with that
Andrew Garfield well they didn’t, nickelodeon stopped airing the other seasons
Weon Weon what do you mean? Where did they come out then? (The other seasons)
@@NBSGreenBulbasaur
They aired season 3 and 4 on the internet first because the series had higher views online than on Television iirc. I think they eventually released the rest on television, but that's just from what I remember and remember hearing.
i only expected him to levitate, i didn't expect him to fly away like superman. zaheer is insanely powerful
And he wasn't even in his prime at this point. Despite his natural prowess with airbending, he was still pretty green in combat against a seasoned airbender like Tenzin.
Not powerful, just wise and at peace with himself. He is the perfect airbender except for his lack of fighting experience and desire for violence... But he has no inner turmoil
@@enterthekyuubi Tenzin was a little more than reasoned, he spent all his childhood with Aang and adult life honing his skills
Chris Assassin he’s still pretty powerful. He was able to hold his own against Tenzin and it took the whole air squad of airbenders to take him down.
@@ChrisAssassin Zaheer has fighting experience but he just relies on his martial art for air bending instead of air bending techniques.
“Let go your earthy tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind. “ - Guru Laghima
Never try this at the edge of a cliff
Have you heard about Guru Laghma?
Rosadi Zuko 😂😂😂😂
@@XDjorgeXDful Guru Laghima is actually based on tao te ching.
I read guru ligma
I don't understand why people are so mad about Zaheer being ridiculously powerful at air bending from the beginning. He obviously studied the doctrine and disciplines for pretty much his entire life before getting bending. And even as a non bender he was considered dangerous enough to be heavily guarded and locked up tighter than pretty much any actual bender we had seen prior to his partners.
Not to mention he was completely at peace with himself. He had nothing to do but think about philosophy and meditate while he was a prisoner so being able to move fluidly and eventually fly is no surprise. He had no choice but to live like an airbender monk
Urbanfour and sumo already said that Individually each of these 4 members of the red lotus could defeat any bender and zaheer was the most dangerous without bending so now he has air bending when he was already fascinated with air bending culture so of and he had some time to himself with no one else in that cage it was atleast a week-a month so he had some time with the skills he already knew so yeah pretty much only the avatar could stop him now and she did
Exactly. Zaheer has lived his entire life by the teaching of airbenders/air nomads basically, he knew everything about their culture and probably used their bending movements in his "normal" fighting. When he got airbending, it was like giving a sword to a martial arts master. Of course he'd do much better than any other person in his shoes.
What bothered me is his ability to fly. It was a skill that no air bender had for thousands of years before him. Aang and Tenzin are supposed to be more powerful (Tenzin proves this when he 1v1’s Zaheer briefly). Yet they still didn’t have the power to fly. In that respect, I kind of see him as a Mary Sue character. Had they fleshed out his study of air bender ways a little more, then I would retract my statement.
Grandmaster Yado well the guru from avatar was trying to teach him something similar but he would not let go of katana like how zaheer finally let go of everything after losing his loved one yea tenzin and aang maybe be stronger with air bending but they did not/will not let go of their loved ones like the guru that zaheer admires, the guru from avatar the last air bender and zaheer
Honestly a airbending villian is fucking genius looking back at it
In a show that ties deeply into eastern religion Zaheer is the only one that managed to attain enlightenment.
I think Guru Pathik had it, too. He just wasn't a bender, so he couldn't fly.
@@angel-kitty-inuyasha i guess, with him its hard to tell cause of all the crazy.
John Work him and Iroh.
@@chandlerwright5460 Iroh cares about Zuko too much to let go, i guess.
@@ushalweerathunga7081 he is plagued by regret. It is why he renounced his title in the fire nation. His war caused his sons death and his negligence to family meant that ozai was in charge and raised a scarred Zuko and a crazed azula
Zaheer was one of my favorite avatar villains, the way he reacted to pli death and used that to enter the void and fly was breathtaking. I hate that he was just arrested but glad he was redeemed.
AndreNitro X1000 *breathtaking* I see what you did there 😂
@@zaidz.4695 im glad someone got that
He wasn’t redeemed. We all know that Zaheer HATED dictators or any sort of government, so when Korra went to confront him, he realized that for once, their interests aligned. They both wanted to take down Kuvira, that’s why he helped Korra get into the Spirit World.
@@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm2643 You make a good point, but im sure in some way zaheer felt regret for what he did because his actions led to said dictator.
@AndreNitro X1000 This is true
I just realized something. Zaheer losing pli and letting go of his earthly teather mirrors Aang letting go of Katara and going into the Avatar state in LAB. Actually Zaheer mirrors Aang in a lot of ways only darker
@@Azafallen What?
Kosta Danicic There’s 3 possibilities here why this person makes absolutely no sense:
1. They are a kid
2. English isn’t their first language
3. They are drunk or high
@@Serennekin 4: they are a Aang and Zuko shipper
Yes, Aang would most likely have had flight while mastering the Avatar state like Guru Pathik wanted if he had let go of his emotion and desires (mostly Katara) to completely open the Chakra gates, he would have become a typical Tibetan Buddhist monk, except an Avatar can never let go, because he has his duty to the world.
@@RedRaikou i think if aang is not an avatar he already fly.. because he already let katata go away.... until you know ⚡⚡⚡
I honestly think that when Zaheer says “Let go off your earthly tether” I think he’s talking about letting go of his emotions. His love for P’li, his anger to the ones who killed her
You think?
THE 202 lmao
Not just that he was also letting go of his life and dreams, ambitions, everything. He later said he didn't think it would work so he was effectively ready to die/committing suicide.
Yeah bro that’s the plot
@@barneyrubble4293 He only let go of his earthly tether, meaning anything physical or emotional desire. He still had a full ambition to kill korra and end the avatar cycle.
So for an Airbender to attain the ability to fly, they have to detach themselves from earthly bonds? No love or friendship? Sounds like a serial killer in the making.
many airbenders detached themselves and remained peaceful
If you detach yourself from earthly bonds, what is there to hate and despise. There is no enjoyment but there is no pain.
that concept exists in yogic practices it is to attend higher plane of existence you must give up on your attachments .. when there is nothing to pull you down you can truly focus and move up.. it is hard to explain for regulars to grasp the idea but demolishing the ego and its connections is hard task.. the idea is to break free and unite with the universe
@@AkaomeNanashi I get you man, I am into meditation and yoga. Some attachments are easy to find but some are hard to spot. Though once you detach yourself, you should have sweetness of emotion, it's truly a life of bliss at that point.
@@caspexx Emotions themselves are an attachment. To say you detached yourself and have achieved emotional bliss is not only a contradiction but an impossibility.
zaheer is a perfect example of how powerful airbenders could really be. most airbenders are peaceful pacifists but Zaheer had no restraints and basically wiped
out anyone in his way 💀
Rachet Hoe 3000 the 2nd no not really, Airbender live in the physical world so they are the weakest element, however in the spirit world they are OP. Earthbending is extremely strong in the physical world but useless in the spirit world.
If an Airbender were to lose their spirituality their bending would become weakened and it may even be lost.
0 what you said made a lot of sense actually, Avatar kyoshi had an airbending mom but once she lost her spiritual ways she basically lost her bending, But zaheer still stayed in a spiritual state of mind the whole season, he even elevated himself to higher levels like flight which was really cool
@@DatVo-tl2dw She lost her tattoos, not her bending
Deadly Silence are u sure? I remember a video explaining how she lost her airbending too
@@DatVo-tl2dw No, it wasn't her bending, she was banished from the temples and had snakes tattooed over her arrows, she didn't use her bending for a different reason.
Benders: NOOOOOO You, as a human being, can't fly!!!!
Zaheer: haha Laghima and me go brrrrr
**Guru Laghima**
I mean in a show where gigantic Sky bison can fly and people have the power to shoot air from their fingertips this was the next logical step..
I get this reference. :)
@@jankoleon3785 well they actually control the air around them
Zaheer: I'm bout to end this whole man's career
Dude bought all the DLC packs and micro transactions, people be airbending for millennium and he be flying in a week
He studied Air Nomad philosophy...
Dude is like science, the nerdy ones of the past were the ones marking the books and formulas to the future same goes to us, and in that millennium one hundred years were lost and only the books remains
He studied the book of *EA: Micro Transactions*
He had no attachments
@Mullerornis thats true but its probably not the only way. its just the only way that has been found so far, sounds like a fair trade tho
Air Nomads: “We finally became enlightened and detached ourselves from the world so our spirit can be free”
Zaheer and Laghima: “Hold our earthly tether”
Windu Waika A Buddhist would tell you flying is only step two of Enlightenment.
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@@ThePa1riot Zaheer is clearly not indian name lol
@@ThePa1riot LOL
LOL
Aang:This is Appa,my flying bison
P'li:This is Zaheer,my flying boyfriend
Lol 😂
She said that in hell 😭
@@user-nx9xf5tv9x there is no heaven or hell, only darkness
P'li : and im dead btw..
LOL
Zaheer: P'Li was the only thing keeping me tethered to the earth.
Ghazan and Ming Hua, his friends of many years: bruh
It is kinda BS a bit
@@PhiloTheGod No it isn't. P'Li was the love of his life, hence she was his tether. Why would his other friends be his tether?
@@vetarlittorf1807 Anything could probably be a tether, even a weak friendship. Air benders never had arrow tattoos up until the binded with the sky bison. The used to have tattoos which slightly resembled Celtic symbols. I think their attachment with the sky bisons both served as some sort of earthly tether and a personal air plane at the same time, so they had no need to to fly anyway. Any slight connection is enough by that standard. This isn’t for fact, it’s just a theory.
Well now we know how the bisons can fly
Primordial Wow, you’re right. So then aren’t they proof that you can still have earthly attachment AND fly? Appa definitely loved Aang and the others in the Gaang too, Bisons are friends for life to Airbenders so they must qualify as an attachment.
@@beckwilliams2524 bisons flew through air bending with their tails. They didn't just fly like zaheer did lol
@@beckwilliams2524 bisons probably flew because thats how they adapt to their lifestyle, like how badgermoles use earthbending to navigate through caves
brutal
@@NikukaiFightOn nope I think Primordial and Beck Williams have a point
I love it that the two metalbenders attack first even after seeing him fly and then only a few instants later they stop to acknowledge the actual miracle they just witnessed. This moment was so well-thought and epic that it puts Zaheer as one of my all-time most favourite villains.
Except it wasn’t well thought out and that the writing regarding zaheer is the worst this fictional universe has ever seen
This is by far the best villian the series ever has
Since I haven’t seen a comment about it, Zaheers voice actor is the punk rock legend himself, Henry Rollins, from the bands Black Flag and The Rollins band. This is fucking insane to me.
Right!? I think he does other voice acting as well.
Definitely felt like the showrunners were fans of his. Every line he said constantly reminded me it was coming from Henry Rollins lol.
That explains why he sounds like an edgy hippy, especially in his very first scene (prison break).
@@CallMeJ. HENRY ROLLINS IS UNIMAGINABLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@tenebrosforsetti.7998 Don't know much how about him, but I will definitely take your word for it!!
He may be a villain but his expression at 0:05 just breaks my heart....he truly loved that woman..and when the realization truly hits him..you can just...see it
They gave him complexity, he wasn't a one dimensional character. I loved that.
He is basically a « thanos type » villain ( even tho he predates thanos ). He do what he does not because he is evil but because he genuinely believes it needs to be done.
And the thing is … on principle he is right .
The concept of the Avatar being above everyone by birthright can lead to a lot of abuse , in particular if the avatar can be swayed by a side through deceit .
@@stormbringer2840Next time say you mean MCU Thanos, had to do A double take when you said that. Because comic Thanos is nothing like that.
@@Hivedragon yeah I know thanos is in love with death .
Zaheer's reaction to the only person he loves death is epic. You can see all the pain in his face and what is more epic is how he immediately gets over it to keep the fight on. Zaheer's mind control is from another planet.
- Oh, they fly now!
- They fly now?
- They fly now.
zolikoff They fly now 😂😂😂 That movie is so ass
Solitary The movie was fine. For someone using 3 laughing emojis, you seem like an awfully saddened and depressed person to say a genuinely good , at the very least DECENT film is ass...
@jibb1es ...Anyway like I said that movie was ass. What would four emojis say about my character? You YT niggas are next level weirdos.
I can confirm and concur the ass-ness of that movie.
@@KekuewaFive damn take a chill pill lmao. As someone who also enjoyed the movie, you should learn about respecting other's opinions
He did 5 stage of grief in a minute
Bargain- He traded his relationship for flight
Acceptance- He fell to his demise (That’s what he was going for)
I love how Zaheer's rage can be noticed in the way he attacks Korra, he stopped bending like an airbender, and more like a fierce firebender
Zaheer is a really great airbender
As so as the wisest airbender ever, Guru Laghima
You thought **Aang** was twinkle toes? *laughs in Zaheer*
* Zaheer doesnt need toes *
Well i caught you at home *giggles*😁-zaheer
When his most loved person die as me, he became one to the wind.
He is ascension
grammar apparently entered the void as well.
@@SirSebGaming You're cool.
@@SirSebGaming i kinda wish i could edit his comment for corrections
@@SirSebGaming 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 lmaoo
@@SirSebGaming LMAOO... Shit..
I love the idea that the antagonist is more alligned with ancient air bending practices and beliefs. It makes his strength and message more real
In a show where the world is based off of a mixture of Eastern religions, having your earnest villain achieve enlightenment is very powerful.
He's flying like it's Dragon Ball Z 😂
Lmfao!
🤣
Bro thinks he's dragon ball character 💀💀💀
I guess he doesn't need a ride.
A mantra I kept saying whenever I had bad days. Keeps me calm and think for the future.
This season of legend of korra was just as good as the Aang's series
yeas
I completely agree. If they would have just kept with this it would have been great
This. I cannot believe I allowed myself to forget how good it was. All because of Avatar Juan and all the soap opera stuff.
Asimobi Emmanuel the one with kuvira was good to up until the ending
@@AtlasAdvice254 No.....it was no where close to Zaheers
He’s one of my favorite LOK characters, he’s fair in the end. Plus flying major flex
The idea of an evil airbender is already the coolest idea I can think of for this universe and then they keep him reverent enough to learn ancient rites. Amazing.
Now this begs the question... if Aang were to “let go of his earthly tether” when trying to open his last chakra, would he have been able to fly like this too, instead of airbending a sphere around him?
He wouldn't. When he asked the previous avatars for guidance on how to deal with ozai he met an airbending avatar. They told him that the avatar can never fully let go of worldly attachments since their duty as avatar is to the world
Pesterdragon11 oh that’s pretty deep
I thought so too, but the Avatar can never truly "let go" of the world around them, like Pesterdragon11 said.
@@Pesterdragon11 but at the end he could still fly.
Agree with pesterdragon but also Aang would never be able to let go of his earthly tethers because of his love for Katara
Ok, I know Zaheer is a bad guy and he just kidnapped Korra, but everyone’s reaction to him flying was so funny. They were all like “did that just happen?” Even his own teammates were like that.
If the flying hadn't worked, I do believe Zaheer was ready to fall to his death, Avatar in hand, when he stepped off that cliff.
-humans can’t fly
Zaheer: Lahigma flying balls
"did he just.... fly?"
"you know it's really clear"
It's over Zaheer....
"Yes. My life has changed this moment. It will not be the same in the next moment. And that's ok."
P'Li: dies
Zaheer: ight imma head out
Best character in the show. This show had great villains
Except Unalaq.
Hands down my favorite scene in the entire series. Zaheer is amazing. And in this moment of greatest danger and turmoil he teaches deep into himself and basically gains enlightenment. He literally lets go of everything as he steps backwards, willing to die rather than fail and able to free himself over all the anger and pain he MUST be feeling over the death of his friend and lover. Just absolutely amazing.
(His mantra also makes me think of Inception. 'You're waiting for a train...')
This is intriguing because despite his earthly care for P'Li, he still had cares for the world. Why else would he try to pursue his anarchist ideologies? He maintains an attachment to the world-to return it to the natural order of true balance. This is why Zaheer acquiring his ability of flight is sort of inconsistent, was P'Li truly the only worldly attachment that he had to let go of?
Maybe he wanted to change the world to what he believes is better but doesn't really care if he fails or not, on the other side, he actually loved his girl and felt it when she died
@@lcke8380 You provide a good justification, but this would have to beg the concept of what suffices as an earthly care in the Avatar universe, and to what extent? Are earthly cares things that you most truly desire and have a unique affection for, and not necessarily that which are striving for to provide your own idea of balance and stability in the world (in this case, I mean, that was the general motive of the Red Lotus' goals).
I know I'm a week late but to me it seemed that letting go of earthly tethers referred to physically tangible things like a house or a car or a person.
P'Ii was the only tangible thing he couldn'tbare to let go. They had a physical relationship and when she died he had nothing binding him to the Earth. His ideals weren't physical things he can touch they are ideas and feeling that don't "weigh" as much.
If Zaheer is actualy the good guy - one with the wind, nature, son of the univerce,... and The Avatar is some sort of evil resistance to this, then he would truly have let go of earthly tethers and have been excecuting the will of the wind.
He said get rid of "earthly" attachments perhaps the attachments of hi that remain are too abstract to be considered "earthly"
“Let go of your earthly...enter the void...empty and become wind”
This scene was way too amazing💯🔥🔥 "Empty and become wind" Zaheer was a legend
1:00 Zaheer: Ha, Ha, That's right fools!, now I'm a flying Airbender! You might have seen a Housefly, maybe even a Superfly, and also a donkey fly, but I bet you ain't ever seen an Airbender Fly! Ha, Ha!
"Let's wait for him to surrender instead of bending ground around his feet in the 10 seconds we stood there"
Dude got balls.
But you didn't?
@@sasha2923 Says Sasha, woman without balls.
@@commanderfarsight2351 😂😂😂
I feel like they should have put the different korra books and villains in different places
1.Aman was fine as the first villain since he would've controlled the city at the most.
2.Kuvira shoudlve been the second since she was more or less a continental threat.
3.Zaheer and the Red Lotus could've been in any part of the show since they were an international threat.
4.A better written Uunalog and Vatu could've been a really good final villain since he was a world level threat and connected all the way to the first avatar,He also cut of all past avatars
Yeah I agree but I think its the networks fault that lok didnt have better story. It was supposed to be a minseries but nickelodeon renewed the show every last minute plus cutting the budget etc. I feel like lok could have an overarching plot revolves around Vaatu while he fights those villains per season.
That wouldve so poetic to end the show right after we just met the first avatar, his story and essentially the beginning of everything
They can't put Zaheer before Vatuu. Harmonic convergence was needed to make more airbenders, so because of this zaheer can't be a problem before Unalaq and Vatuu
Shadowfangs _666 Oh yeah thats right
@@Chorismos Either way this show wasn't about korra becoming the avatar. It was about the avatar becoming human.
I still think this should've been book one
kholod nost' facts
And two and three
@@fluiypj Yes that would be good as well lol
kholod nost'
It’s difficult to create a great show
Agreed, my favorite villian is Amon, and they could have extended him a couple books
One thing that makes this so cool for me is the way he flies. In my eyes it’s like he’s capable of bending (or defying) “gravity” in a way. I really can’t get enough of different sub-bendings.
You took his tall goth dommy mommy. He truly has nothing left to lose
Llew Dais ✌️
Zaheer is hella strong, not only did he fly but he bends air like he’s a master and been air bending for years in a short period of time.
S3 & S4 of Korra were PEAK
0:06 "Aw Hell naaaaAAAAaaaww"
This scene is so epic
Best scene in the whole series.
Who likes Zaheer even though he is the villain (best Villain).
He's a very likeable villain, with good motives too.
dettached from the world yet continued his goal against the avatar
That's always bothered me about this scene.
Well his goal didn’t conflict with that. He truly had no personal desire anymore, just his mission. A directive, not a desire.
@@ThePa1riot mission for what? mission of what? directive towards what?
entering the void or something is equal to enlightenment, and that isn't enlightenment
xtian That’s the scary part though. That he did attain that level of detachment yet retained his goal. In Buddhism, Enlightenment is not a single achievement status. It is believed one can get to a point of attaining gifts, one of them? Levitation. But that’s not the end state, it’s just a sign you’re on the right track.
So Zaheer isn’t totally enlightened in this scene but he took an important step to it. Doesn’t mean he’s there yet which lets him still act as an antagonist.
Even though Zaheer is a villain, the look on his face after P’li dies breaks my heart :-(
With attachment comes pain , with pain comes enlightment , with enlightment comes knowledge with knowledge comes wisdom and wisdom opens the door for ascension
"Zaheer does that mean you dont want to destroy society anymore?"
Zaheer: WTF no LMAO
"But if you want to do it, wouldnt that make it a desire?"
Zaheer: **starts falling**
His desire to destroy society is why he can fly, as he seek to grant freedom to all sentient beings in his mind, and that just so happen to require the destruction of society.
Amazing writing..when we first met Zaheer, he spoke about guru Lahimas and his legacy as a flying man..”he was no longer tethered by the world” in other words, every worldly desire, he exempted out his life in order to achieve flight..Zaheer couldn’t do it bc he was in love with a women (worldly desire)..when she died, he had no other worldly connection and thus, unlocked flight.
Zaheer loses his girlfriend, and in the next moment he goes "inner peace"
Toph : where'd you go?
Zaheer : haven't you heard the wise guru laghima?
I’ve always figured other bending types have their own kinda special art, like water state change to ice and blood bending or earth styles metal and lava bending, and I always wondered what the air bending niche would be
TheAsianSensation entering the void and spirit projection, just like Ghinora (ikki and mielos sister) could do
@@averyfunk1793 Building off that, I would say spirituality as a whole was their special art. "Letting go of earthly tethers" is just a prime example of that.
Fart bending aka meelo
I think one that can be discovered one day is : sound bending . With things like sonic boom, echolocation, ultra sonic attacks or even vibrating blades to make them sharper .
Ironic when you think about it
Aang- knew air but needed to learn every other element
Kora- knew every element but air
It Reminds me of the movie Fight Club! "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
0:41 Zaheer was like " Shit, this is my Last Warning? Lemme just say the two lines Empty and become wind without a break so they don't Catch me."
Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind
-Some Bald Guy
I loved Zaheer because he knew what he wanted to do and how to go about it. A non bender that studied the ancient air monks ways to only be blessed by the spiritual convergence and end up as an air bender. His philosophies and temperament are what make a true villain not bad but believable.
My major complaint of _The Legdn of Korra_ season 1 was that it was too short with 12 episodes and neither the characters nor the conflict was developed. Then season three comes along and in 13 episodes develops four absolutely awesome villains, sets up a conflict with high stakes and emotional weight, and gives every character a dignified arc. And on top of that, introduces us to new aspects of the world as well as reintroducing familiar parts from the old show. I guess it's not a question of length it's a question of just doing it right.
I just realized the first time we see this airbending flight was with aang when he got struck by lightning because at that time he let go of all his earthly connections and wasn't floating using a tornado he was just straight up flying
Severing your earthly tether is a pathway to many abilities some consider unnatural.
Airbending hadn’t had any upgrades, I hoped it would be flight! Such a dope way to attain it☁️🧘♂️☁️
It would be easy to unlock this if you ever caught your girl cheating 🤷🏾♂️
Nah. Pretty sure you have a lot more earthly tethers than just ya girl
@@jakemitchell3599 i hope so
The best air bender ever
period.
This is the natural progression in air bending. Before they would bend air on gliders, here they bend the air around their body’s.
Zaheer is still one of my favorite characters. Besides his political extremism he is incredibly wise and knowledgeable. If he ended up choosing a different path he could have been a great asset to the new air nation
This reminds me of a moment when I was in a Avatar Minecraft World and I was in a less favorable situation I said "let go of your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind" and FLEW AWAY
So simple yet so epic. This is one of my favorite moments in all of anime
Say what you want about this guy, he is probably one of the most powerful Airbenders
Hell, aside from Zaheer (and probably that Guru Laghima), no airbender can do that Superman kind of flying
I just realized his Girlfriend was his last earthly tether. He couldn't have done it without her.. dying
If all airbenders were like this the Fire Lord Sozin wouldn't even think about invading them lol
If all Air Benders were like Zaheer, even better.
There’s a foreshadow earlier in this episode or in another one for zaheer finally being able to fly. In that foreshadowing scene, he’s reciting guru laghima’s poem or quotes. When he gets to the earthly tether part, pl’i walks in the room he was reciting guru laghima in and then they told each other they loved one another and kissed which showed that she was his earthly tether. And when she dies, he finally lets go of his earthly tethers and learns to fly.
After the loss of a loved one he understood what it is to be untethered, when you truly to let go of your last attachment through unraveling your past traumas and meditating in Budhism you become enlightened spiritually. The impressive part here is that it happened almost instantly. It looked like as if it finally clicked with him. Such a cool character to be inspired by. I refuse to see Zaheer as a villain, to me he's a true anti-hero.
0:22 Damn Korra kinda Thicc
I’m sayin. 😂😂😂
Stan ezen 😏😏😏
1:16 aang in spirit world : "that my house goddamn!! Ooh Not again!!"
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This was one of the coolest scenes in the Avatar series
I think this is the only powerful ability that needs a big consequence
It kind of does. How many airbenders can fully dettach like he did?
Not even the avatar is allowed to
ATTACK WHERE HE'S GOING NOT WHERE HE'S AT
THIS ISNT SPACEINVADERS
It's ironic that an "evil" guy was the only one able to unlock the most powerful airbending skill that even airbending master and avatar couldnt.
He had nothing to lose. Thats the point.