Aang held his own, until Lightning came into the fight, at which point he had a mental handicap.
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I suppose the energybending WAS a cop-out (even though Aang didn't want to kill and the writers had to make him win) but you gotta admit that that random rock totally saved Aang's life.
If that random rock wasn't in that random spot and Ozai hadn't randomly knocked Aang against it to the point that his back injury randomly hit it in the exact spot that was blocking his chakra, Aang would have died and the three years would have been an utter waste.
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Airbender is arevenge on Konohoa.uperior sho from most angles except for their superpowers and abilities.
Naruto is all quantity and style while Airbender is all substance and quality.
Regarding the earlier discussion of Sasuke vs Azula, I can agree that Azula is simply born a detestable person. She is about the closest you can get to evil without utterly annd entirely blaming it on her because of her upbringing. She is definitely a worst person than Sasuke and has it easier throughout her life.
That said, she is better by far. Sasuke chooses to be a terrible person. He became a shitty character when he waged revenge on his own village that loves him and has no idea why he is even angry. Then when switching back, he then feels entitled to the title of Hokage but doesn't care what people like Shikamaru, a loyal shinobi to the Hidden leaf thinks.
Azula is evil since birth, as you can tell from whe shen was a young girl. The way I see it, she can't help herself, the way Joker can't help but want to watch the world burn. To me, that makes a far more interesting villain. You can't save them, because this is the real deal. She would have been horrible no matter what, and she loses everything because of it.
Sasuke has several people who love him, INCLUDING his brother and chooses revenge the entire time because he much easier falls under the Uchiha curse than stronger-minded individuals like Itachi.
Also, there is not a single female Naruto that is likeable. Including Temari, while EVERY SINGLE female character in Avatar is a badass in her own way.
Aang is way funnier and more worthy of being a lead role than Naruto is by far. Naruto is annoying, blindly places faith where it shouldn't be and unrealistically wins people over, and is a total brat.
Sakura...I don't even have to complain about her because her existence proves my point.
Kakashi isn't even better than Iroh. He just looks cooler.
I think Sasuke is more comparable to Zuko, and the way the shows are written, Zuko is far more consistent and developed better. The decisions he makes are very reasonable beating torn between his honor or the fact that his family is full of crazies who want him dead at several points throughout the show.
Naruto may have better attacks and techniques but that is a very shallow detail. Nome of the characters display any sort of intelligence as far as I can see. Perhaps in the scope of being a ninja . however very inside the box. In comparison to Sokkas passion for science and engineering and Azula's espionage and psychological warfare, the Naruto characters couldn't hold a candle.
In Avatar we get to see how the war has affected people all over the world like Jet and Harbut in Naruto we get to see how it affects e very unlikeable main characters Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. It's such a poorly written show that I agree more with Madara's, Obito's and Pain's reasoning than Naruto's.
I will, however, give Naruto one or two points for giving me Guy, Rock Lee and Neji. They are all fabulous. Not fantastic because we don't see enough of them unless it's in that gag show but still fabulous.
Avatar does a better job at character development and storytelling, great fights only knock i really have an both it and LOK is i didnt really loike how the final fights ended. Quality series though.
Part 1 naruto id say is better than LOK and the last airbender to me. It was full of suspense,cool ninja and great villians.
Shippuden is kinda meh i feel like kishi lost his way while writing it. Its not bad but it isnt great either
Id have to wait till naruto is fully over before i can say which is the better series tho
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She is insane and evil and brilliant and through a series of events, made to be insecure. She is a great character that doesn't try to offer up excuses as to why she is a bad person, nor does she ever switch sides.
Sasuke will never make Azula look pathetic.
If they were in a room together, she would dissect his life within one look at him and make him cry or lose his temper within the minute. Then she'd make fun of him for being easy to control.
So she is a bad person but because she has insecurities I should feel bad for her and give her a pass for wanting to raze a continent? Admittedly after the Search she is far more likable than her mother now then when I made that statement so yay.
His track record of personal tragedy is better than hers.
Neato but since Sasuke's personality basically consists of "I'm going to kill anyone who makes me mad" then that really would not help Azula at all.
Azula can indeed get under Sasuke's skin and get a rise out of him.
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Because Sasuke's philosophy is "kill people who make me feel bad."
See when people say Sasuke is easily manipulated it is mostly referencing the fact that teh bad guys can get him on their side. Azula has no need for Sasuke nor would Sasuke help someone so much weaker than him with literally nothing to offer.
No, you shouldn't feel bad for he. She, like anyone else, should be held accountable for her actions and judged properly. In the end, she loses her mind, her friends, her sanity, her throne, andthe war that she grew up knowing so well, along with her father. She gets locked up in a mental facility. The moral of this is DON'T BE LIKE AZULA, KIDS.
Sasuke doesn't lose his friends, find out that his brother lovdd him all along, gets...forgiven, and then on top, feels entitled to the position of Hokage. How much self-righteous can you put into one character? Any creator can write whatever tragedy in and the only thing that holds weight will be how the character deals with it. Well, Sasuke proves to everyone how selfish he is time and time again with flying colors, but will still be loved and cherished at the end by his teammates because he had it in him to be "saved."
If anyone were to write Azula like that, it would be completely out of character like a bad fan fiction and cheapen her. Azula, behaving nicely can't even work in a conversation because it is woven into her being to be evil. She exudes bloodlust and hate stemmed from hate, not hurt.
Funny enough, I wouldn't put it past Azula to one up Sasuke. Nagato is shown as more powerful than Itachi, but he outsmarts his every move and wins with the combined effort with Naruto and Killer B. It's not always just about power. She has brought men down to their knees with her words before, like Long Feng, who is certainly a lot less sensitive than Sasuke is. Perhaps not in battle, but she is far more cunning than he could ever hope to be or trust.
Another thing what's awesome about Avatar is when people fight, you don't know who is going to win. In Naruto, they just keep bringing in whoever and saying he is the strongest.
Yes sasuke can kill her but azula can manipulate him with her words and get him to do what she wanted weve seen countless times how easily sasuke is manipulated by words
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"One must be willing to give his life for those he wishes to protect."
And yet that evades the point. If Sasuke is so pathetically easy to manipulate than why did Naruto fail to get through to him? Naruto has nothing to offer Sasuke and that is why Sasuke would not listen to him.
The same applies in any conversation between Sasuke and Azula.
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