The Avatar State: Cheat Code or Curse - Avatar the Last Airbender

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  • @ColonialSun-mg6tq
    @ColonialSun-mg6tq 4 місяці тому +151

    Aang glowing up is always the biggest mic drop in the series

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому +18

      You always knew bro was cooking (except book 2 I guess 😬)

  • @KrillionBeats
    @KrillionBeats 4 місяці тому +132

    Aang going into the avatar state when the sandbenders took appa was peak it was my favorite scene in season 2

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому +25

      IF THEY DON'T ADAPT THAT IN THE LIVE ACTION VERSION I WILL MALD FOR THE REST OF DAYS

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 4 місяці тому

      @@Koroto They are not going to. They don't want the children to be angry

  • @MsColorada
    @MsColorada 4 місяці тому +67

    Also, purple is associated with the 7th chakra, the one representing your spirituality

  • @firecrakcer001
    @firecrakcer001 4 місяці тому +46

    Aang using air, especially during the Gyatso scene, I think doubles as him wanting to push everyone away. When the avatar state is activated as a defense mechanism, Aang uses is closest element. He's simultaneously closing himself off, relying on his closest spiritual comfort (air bending), and pushing everything away. This is something really common for people in pain. They push people away, close themselves off, and go to the closest thing that makes them feel safe or comfortable.

  • @jello7380
    @jello7380 4 місяці тому +96

    The idea of Aang's avatar state going into overdrive witnessing Gyatso is pretty moving. Death is insurmountable so no level of strength would conquer it, but that doesn't mean this child, who's never dealt with death in this manner, won't try.

    • @VeguldenZilverling
      @VeguldenZilverling 4 місяці тому

      According to the Christian myth, death has been conquered. Not saying this because I want to evangelize you, but perhaps you should look into it.

    • @jello7380
      @jello7380 4 місяці тому +8

      @@VeguldenZilverling You know whether or not you were looking to evangelize me, it's actually not relevant to the topic at hand, there is no evidence that the Christian belief system existed in the Avatar universe, so in Aang's world death is permanent, and Avatar state or no Avatar state, nothing he could do could bring back his loved one.

    • @VeguldenZilverling
      @VeguldenZilverling 4 місяці тому

      @jello7380 sure, but the Avatar universe doesn't exist in some vacuum. This is demonstrable as approximating fact if you consider that ATLA's world building is supported by inspiration of real life cultures. I do concede that those are eastern, but Christianity is not an exempt reality in the East, and hasn't been that for quite some time now.
      My point is, I think, to consider the ecosystem in which this fantasy/imaginative story partakes through the writers who come up with the story -- a story told through people of our world.

  • @provokator3870
    @provokator3870 4 місяці тому +35

    the last use of the avatar state is always satisfying to see, i think the coldest scenes are, when its used like that

  • @talhajawed848
    @talhajawed848 3 місяці тому +6

    I personally see the avatar state as anger, again, circling back to that "leash your demons, not tame them" quote. For me, the avatar state is anger and hatred and while they can cause destruction, they are also absolutely necessary to drive you to do the right things

  • @Breadstickwicks
    @Breadstickwicks 4 місяці тому +30

    Would have loved to see more of the avater state used for a strictly knowledge situation without bending. Like " Anybody know where the secret bending tree of life is" like spiritual gps, certain mentalities or something😂

    • @-katokin-7064
      @-katokin-7064 4 місяці тому +4

      That was kinda the point of asking past lives what to do with ozai, but seeing more stuff like that is cool. It's featured a little bit more in the books.

    • @Frizzleman
      @Frizzleman 3 місяці тому +2

      We kind of see that in legend of Korra with jinora and her astral projection

    • @NeyamRye
      @NeyamRye 2 місяці тому +1

      True

  • @rashkavar
    @rashkavar 4 місяці тому +7

    Personally I see the avatar state as something of a visualization of/metaphor for fury. Fury can be many things: an uncontrolled destructive force, a focused and directed wrath against a transgressor, and the internal drive and passion that fuels people who accomplish extraordinary goals. I've felt two of these (and very much hope I never find myself channelng the third).
    The uncontrolled and destructive rage is a terrible feeling. It's a base and instinctive response to a threat, and can be useful in the limited circumstance of an actual attack against one's person...but it also doesn't care who gets hurt in the process, and that includes the person feeling that rage. It tears you up inside, and just makes you more vulnerable afterwards. I think that's why people with this kind of anger issue can be so self centred - the pain they cause themselves blinds them to the pain they cause others. (That doesn't justify it, and it definitely doesn't mean those who are hurt by it have any obligation to be caring and understanding, it's just an observation.) (My experience with this was limited to lashing out against bullies in grade school, and led to me having some counseling that helped me suppress that sort of anger so that it can be worked over internally and then discussed rationally and civilly if needed. Anger management lessons definitely help...though I also benefitted from getting them as a kid when my mind was more malleable.) In the Avatar State analogy, this is the undirected defensive fury, sometimes lashing out against an oncoming threat, other times just lashing out in search of an enemy to fight.
    The passionate drive, conversely, is a powerful thing. It lets you get through trials you thought would break you, and pushes you to accomplish incredible things in the face of adversity. It's still not exactly pleasant - it's a kind of passion that tends to be inspired by dire emergencies or intolerable injustices - but it's a useful tool. In the Avatar State analogy, this is the fully realized Avatar at the end, defeating Ozai and quelling the fires of war.
    The one I've not experienced, and hope neer to, is the vendetta, the hatred and wrath against one who has wronged you and the desire to see them and all they love burned to ash. This is both the spirit/Avatar kaiju scene destroying the Fire Nation fleet and the scene with Aang against the sandbenders. There's enough control to accomplish objectives, finding Appa, not destroying the entire city despite that being easily doable, but...that control is on a knife's edge.
    There's probably more to this metaphor to analyze, but I'm out of ideas for the moment.

  • @IsaiahWayne2104
    @IsaiahWayne2104 4 місяці тому +23

    "No fair! Tou can't use the Avatar State to win!" *- Ikki*

    • @TheTwilitHero
      @TheTwilitHero 3 місяці тому +1

      That scene annoyed me so much. Like, they prided themselves on NOT using the avatar state as a cheap power up move in the first series.

  • @rashkavar
    @rashkavar 4 місяці тому +3

    Physics quibble: some purple exists, some does not. Purple is...not really a very precise term, and covers both stuff like the indigo-violet part of the rainbow (a specific wavelength section distinct from blue) and also fuscia, the mix of red and blue but not green pigment that is not a wavelength band but rather a specific combination of two separate bands. (Also it's incorrect to say doesn't exist, that's kinda like saying water doesn't exist because it's hydrogen and oxygen mixed together. Sometimes a thing is an emergent property from combining two smaller discrete things, that doesn't make them not exist. Though I'll definitely grant that the emergent property of being fuscia is definitely far less consequential than the emergent property of being water, and is primarily confined to the effects it has on certain EM detection instruments such as eyes.)

  • @exequielgaleano9947
    @exequielgaleano9947 4 місяці тому +2

    For me, not only Avatar is great, but also your analyzing of it!!! Just watching this video gave me new perspective with lots of nuance while still reminding me different aspects of why I loved the story in the first place (through my own perspective reached by simply watching it). So many thanks to you for developing your skills and putting your work out there!!! 😁
    (And, of course, indeed lots of thanks for the people that support you and gives everybody else more of your great content!!!)

  • @MarcusTwichel
    @MarcusTwichel 4 місяці тому +3

    Your channel is incredible and you’ve helped me see things in this show I’ve spent years thinking about. Thanks for that ❤ can’t wait for the fire bending video!!

  • @matneptune
    @matneptune 4 місяці тому +24

    15:54 ok this annoyed me a bit, because different creatures can see MORE colors than humans can. "Purple not existing" is kind of a dumb statement (NOT on YOUR part, by the scientists who claim so) because we can prove that purple exists because of flowers and periwinkles (the shellfish) have that pigment in them. That's where that dye color came from. If we look at an actual rainbow, purple is there. The red and blue are on opposite ends of the rainbow so they can't mix together and give the "illusion" of purple. It's there. And I don't claim to know much about chakras, but I do know that the purple that represents the avatar state in that episode is Nirvana, total enlightenment, hence why Aang needed to let go of his earthly attachments to achieve control of avatar state. To achieve Nirvana is exactly that. The purple represents the cosmos and everything beyond because it's beautiful, and such a rare color in nature.
    Also, I don't remember who made the video or the title, but one guy basically said that Aang didn't need to learn firebending to do the energybending which is WRONG. If he hadn't found that inner peace with fire, his spirit wouldn't have been strong enough to overtake Ozai's. In the show, Ozai represents the fire of the Fire Nation in every evil way. He's terrifying. If Aang was still scared of fire or firebending, he wouldn't have been able to stand his ground against Ozai spiritually. I just had to get that out there because of the whole Tame Your Demons section of the video reminded me of that.

  • @Jonioy
    @Jonioy 4 місяці тому +2

    small detail unrelated to the video, at 11:47, you can see Katara sleeping farther down in the hammock, but Aang is farther up almost at the angle he sleeps on Appa. just noticed it and thought it was interesting.

  • @hannahegerfunny
    @hannahegerfunny 4 місяці тому +2

    The use of purple comes in fact because the 7th chakra is known by that color. All the chakras in the guru episode are in the same color as they are known for in real life.

  • @officialshinky
    @officialshinky 4 місяці тому +1

    the crystal catacombs being this cross-universe location is really funny lmao

  • @TurtleGod2
    @TurtleGod2 3 місяці тому +2

    When Aang was going apeshit in the air temple, he destroyed everything but also protected Gyatso

  • @VeguldenZilverling
    @VeguldenZilverling 4 місяці тому

    To be honest, in your last video on Hama, I was not completely sure whether you saw power as to be balanced by necessity by the individual and not say an institution. But this video is really, really good. Your analysis seems well informed by the story, and I think I learned. You're doing great work Koroto.

  • @dexio4122
    @dexio4122 4 місяці тому +1

    I always loved the southern airtempel episode, but when I watched it the last time I had to fight off tears so hard when Aang found Gyatsos remains. In this situation I don't think Aang was actually angry. I think he was just incredibly hurt and confused. It was this moment where he realized (or at least everything starts to click) that there really is a war, that fire benders actually found the air tempels. These horrible and overwhelming emotions that went through his (only 12 year old!!!) mind...
    And thinking about how you discribed his Avatar state in this scene just made it... even more brutal for me... Aang is in such agonizing emotional pain that is Avatar spirit jumps into fight and survive mode. But there is nothing to fight. There is no target he needs to be protected from. He can't be protected from what he is feeling now.
    And the thing that actually brings him back, brings him down to earth again, are the loving voices from Katara and Sokka, telling him that they will be there for him. I honestly could start crying again, just from writing this... (insert how avatar so good clip here)

  • @willdawson8460
    @willdawson8460 Місяць тому

    Crazy bro pulled out the arsonist lullaby reference, my favorite show and one of my favorite songs? Dope

  • @Brony22
    @Brony22 Місяць тому

    One thing i would like to point out if you don't. is how the season 2 premier with general fong could basically be seen as the voice of the viewers after all the stuff from season 1 finale. i love the show did this as the first episode for season 2 because its basically in a way "addressing" what people could be saying/thinking.

  • @marvinandremutesasira5944
    @marvinandremutesasira5944 4 місяці тому +1

    The rage in the avatar state makes me think it's Vaatu not Rava in control

  • @larryshipper8070
    @larryshipper8070 4 місяці тому

    ❤❤👏🏻👏🏻 LOVED this and YAYYY, can't wait for the upcoming videos!!! Thanks for sharing your great work 🤩

  • @AtenSol12
    @AtenSol12 4 місяці тому

    I will forever love multi voice effects on characters. I got lucky with DB doing it with fused characters. I quite enjoy that element of the avatar state for both aang and korra.

  • @oddnybsgarage
    @oddnybsgarage 4 місяці тому

    Lemmino's music is always appreciated

  • @crystallight808
    @crystallight808 3 місяці тому

    19:17 as a lover of arsonist lullaby that was an amazing reference❤

  • @mrpitman5496
    @mrpitman5496 4 місяці тому +1

    When you make the fire bending video please take into account that there must be 2 people to correctly do the dance of the dragons. We know one was Iroh, personally think it was Jong Jong. That is why Roku thought he could teach Anng he did not use anger to control his fire bending he had to keep the leaf from burning up to fast.

  • @The_Glazer
    @The_Glazer 4 місяці тому

    Now i need a video comparing the avatar state philosophy between aang and korra.

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому

      Basically just Daniel and Johnny from Karate Kid/Cobra Kai 😂😂

  • @xyannail4678
    @xyannail4678 4 місяці тому +1

    Here before you changed the thumbnail with Aang using fire bending.

  • @jeremyolivares2021
    @jeremyolivares2021 27 днів тому

    Also something that kinda happens that no one talks about is that the avatar now has five elements, air, water, earth, fire, and energy

  • @SpammytheHedgehog
    @SpammytheHedgehog 4 місяці тому +6

    Aang was about to let go of his con ection with Katara until Azula shot him.

    • @RealRepublicOfNiger
      @RealRepublicOfNiger 4 місяці тому +5

      I’m pretty sure he did let go of her, THEN he got shot.

    • @dawidfigas11
      @dawidfigas11 3 місяці тому

      Guru says that he locked his chakra and can't go into avatar state at all, until the finale where we see aang going to the avatar state meaning that he had to open the 7th chakra.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 2 місяці тому

      yes it was the actual lighting shot that blocked it after it and the nudge of that rock when the was fighting Ozay it got unblocked again.

  • @Neon_Piano7900
    @Neon_Piano7900 4 місяці тому +4

    Ain’t no way I’m actually here on time

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому +1

      A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to. 😄

  • @GapnRs
    @GapnRs 4 місяці тому

    That OSRS meme has layers IYKYK

  • @RealRepublicOfNiger
    @RealRepublicOfNiger 4 місяці тому

    Wake up, Koroto just uploaded.

  • @ethinwhite3454
    @ethinwhite3454 4 місяці тому

    One thing that's I've always wondered is, theoretically could an avatar learn bending from the other avatars in the avatar state? Like draw on it to learn. Instead of travelling and learning from masters they draw on their past lives to learn bending?
    Just a thought.

    • @monerb7185
      @monerb7185 4 місяці тому

      i assume thats technically how szeto kyoshi and roku can lava bend they just all copied that info from each other i dont think its a smart move for them to do cuz 1 mastering the avatar state to get to that point is like the last thing an avatar does and having a good control over the 4 elements would help with that and 2 bending is constantly evolving so the avatars not allowing their bending to evolve with the rest of the world would not be very smart for combat and just in everyday use of bending

  • @gentwhoisoverit6992
    @gentwhoisoverit6992 3 місяці тому

    This video gave me chills like damn

  • @kurokukageyama990
    @kurokukageyama990 3 місяці тому

    When Aang speaks in the avatar state and you hear that second deep voice speak with him it made the avatar state even better.
    I think since Aang is a boy and well sounds like a boy, and Raava being genderless but having a more ethereal feminine voice they are combined and more gravitas is added to make it sound deeper and show just how powerful it is.

  • @Chase-v6f
    @Chase-v6f 4 місяці тому

    Terraria mentioned 🙏🏾

  • @aj5332
    @aj5332 4 місяці тому

    16:00 that’s actually fuchsia

  • @allanchon1361
    @allanchon1361 4 місяці тому +7

    Ngl it bums me out that we have to consider the avatar/spirit lore introduced in korra as canon. I much prefer the bending myths (earthbending learned from badger moles, fire from dragons etc) and amoral spirits shown in TLA. It felt like writers were phoning it in for korra's spirit world depictions

  • @astrology_2
    @astrology_2 4 місяці тому

    18:03 YES

  • @adammitchell3364
    @adammitchell3364 3 місяці тому

    I'm looking to do some editing with avatar stuff but I can't find clips anywhere online. Whereabouts do you get the clips for your videos?

  • @deandredukes95
    @deandredukes95 4 місяці тому

    The moment the glow shows up, immediately turn yourself in

  • @generalgungus
    @generalgungus 4 місяці тому +3

    The avatar state in The Last Airbender was so damn good, every time Aang went into it i got chills and just felt that overwhelming power but in The Legend of Korra its so lame it just doesn't feel like some insane cosmic power it just feels like Korra ate a Mario power up. I hope that in the next Avatar project it feels closer to what the original one was like.

  • @astrology_2
    @astrology_2 4 місяці тому

    I was just watching the last episode of season 3 lol

  • @SonofCurlyLox
    @SonofCurlyLox 4 місяці тому

    But if he hasn’t mastered that ability can he use different elements if not harnessing the specific sprint of that avatar?

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 2 місяці тому

      I think that he could in a way. However it not that he as the human would be in control. He more or less grands his former selves to use there ability in there combined name.
      I do think as it shows in the series that being in the Avatar state for the human is very exhausting. as he more or less faints do to the enormes energy used. when he calms down.

  • @wham_sandwitch
    @wham_sandwitch 4 місяці тому

    What did the old title mean?
    it was The GENIUS of the Kiss-Curse Avatar State

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому +1

      OY! How do you know my old titles! 👀🗿
      If you mean "kiss-curse" - it's a common thing in RPGs and game design to describe things as kiss-curse, as in, it gives you some sort of buff/benefit/powerup, but also has a significant drawback/weakness/requirement.
      The way Avatar handles that is really cool, but I realized a ton of people probably don't know what the term even means which makes the title pointless 😄

    • @wham_sandwitch
      @wham_sandwitch 4 місяці тому

      @@Koroto i'm a good little boy who hits the bell
      the notifications tell all 👁👄👁

    • @wham_sandwitch
      @wham_sandwitch 4 місяці тому

      also, yeah
      i'm definitely part of the 90% who doesn't know that haha

  • @848
    @848 29 днів тому

    finding out you don't hold your mic with your foot has destroyed my reality

  • @ungamer6241
    @ungamer6241 4 місяці тому

    Kiss curse ?

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому +1

      Title still hasn't changed, knew a lot of people wouldn't know the term 😭
      It's a common thing in RPGs and game design to describe things as kiss-curse, as in, it gives you some sort of buff/benefit/powerup, but also has a significant drawback/weakness/requirement.

    • @ungamer6241
      @ungamer6241 4 місяці тому

      @@Koroto i see

  • @trinstonmichaels7062
    @trinstonmichaels7062 4 місяці тому +2

    Avatar the last airbender is just too deep for my smooth brain to understand.
    Anyway I'm going to consume so brainrot now.

  • @taironmartins2783
    @taironmartins2783 4 місяці тому

    Let’s hope there isn’t a follow up series that uses the avatar state as a gracefully as a moose on ice

  • @bahhhhumbug9804
    @bahhhhumbug9804 3 місяці тому

    you lost me at rava

  • @Noname0039
    @Noname0039 4 місяці тому

    You should change the title it feels clickbait like. I've come here to listen about fire bending just like in previous about earth one, and instead got rambling about state with a snippet of fire.

  • @natedawg1007
    @natedawg1007 4 місяці тому +1

    Something to listen to at work :)

  • @kis756
    @kis756 4 місяці тому +1

    Please less camera, bring back stick figures

    • @merentori
      @merentori 4 місяці тому +1

      At least on the aot videos, he started doing that because of copyright

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому +3

      Stick dudes aren't going anywhere (as seen in this entire video 😅). But yeah, as the other comment pointed out, it's just an extra layer of safety against copyright. I still script and edit etc in the same exact way I normally would, I just record some bits of the video in a different room. 😄

    • @kis756
      @kis756 4 місяці тому

      Fair enough

  • @dontworry4945
    @dontworry4945 4 місяці тому

    Bro i wish raava didn't exist.

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  4 місяці тому

      Same 😭
      Easily the worst part of Korra imo was demystifying the cycle (I have a video on that 👀)