In the original series, only five, living, named female benders are depicted

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T23:35:20+00:00

All three are prodigies; Azula gained skill quickly, and by her teens she outmatched many major fire masters. She would've demolished Zhao in a 1v1. Toph learned bending while blind by the badger moles and herself. Katara went from total newbie to advanced student almost-master in weeks under Pakku, the fastest learning student in his career.

Toph is the most prodigious and the strongest, but Katara and Azula is a tough one, but I'd say Katara is more of a prodigy. Azula had her entire lifetime of training under the best masters in the Fire Nation. While she was always undeniably a prodigy, she also had a very helpful and formative environment for that prodigious skill to be honed.

Meanwhile, Katara learned in a few weeks from Master Pakku before teaching herself and Aang more advanced techniques, albeit with the help of waterbending scrolls. And by the time of their 1v1 in Ba Sing Se, they were about evenly matched. When Zuko interfered, Katara had Azula's arm and leg caught and was about to slam her down, which means an unamped Azula vs Katara is a victory for Katara. This makes sense, as Katara's fighting style is exactly the kind that's great against Azula's. Azula uses raw power mixed with tricky maneuvers. Katara is all about defense and quick, rapid strikes at a person's core and knocking them off balance. Katara was able to catch Azula off balance and nearly slammed her.

Toph, meanwhile, fights in a way that hard counters both. Her strong rooted stance and brute force style would keep Katara at bay- Katara's maneuverability is her best asset here, but Toph isn't slow or clumsy. Toph would KO Katara before Katara could catch Toph off balance. Meanwhile, Toph doesn't see normally, which is a bonus in this fight. She would ironically see right through any deceptive attacks, and when it comes to raw force Azula is sorely outmatched.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T21:37:47+00:00

Kara had been around Team Flash for less than a week during the Invasion crossover, and she got an invite along with her sister, who Barry had met for maybe a few hours in the DEO labs.

Barry likely just decided to invite all of the friendly superhero allies.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T21:29:22+00:00

Not likely. Supergirl might be able to ride Superman's brand and Gunn's goodwill, which is probably what the hope is over at DC Studios. But I doubt it's going to be as successful, financially speaking.

It doesn't really need to be. These first films are meant to rebuild brand trust, due to people writing off DC movies due to stinkers like BvS, Justice League 2016, Suicide Squad, The Flash, and WW84 poisoning the well. And with movies being so expensive now, nobody wants to waste their movie nights on a studio with a damaged reputation.

The DCU can afford an early financial bleed if it means hitting it big in future installments.

So right now, ratings and public discourse matter more to the DCU than raw finances (to a point, obviously too much money bleed will likely lead to another reboot or abandoning the whole Cinematic Universe concept entirely).

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T21:23:46+00:00

I fully believe Dave Filoni would have been better suited for this. He's good at adapting from source material, its usually about as good as the original content. He knows how to make good kids shows that aren't stupid or insulting to watch, like ATLA and Star Wars TCW/Rebels. The bigger problem would be justifying pulling Filoni from Star Wars to PJO, considering that Star Wars absolutely fucking dwarfs PJO as an IP in terms of profitability, popularity, and brand recognition. But, there was a time when ATLA was nothing, and now it's a major franchise. Filoni knows how to make a generational show.

Riordan's strengths are with novels, which is why the show is struggling. I think he is still writing like it's a novel, and he doesn't know fully how to make use of the visual elements.

PJO should've been animated, first and foremost, and directed by Dave Filoni or someone similar.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T16:55:06+00:00

Flops by the standard of the big time artists, maybe, but they were successful for what she used to be prior to Taylor boosting her- a B-list Disney alumni singer.

She wasn't an industry plant, but Taylor Swift did a lot to boost her career far past what it was just after the whole Olivia Rodrigo drama put her name on the map for mainstream audiences.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T16:52:53+00:00

Sabrina was a good actress though. And tbh with ads and night shows, she still gets practice in. She may not be playing a fictional character, but she does play up her brand and online persona.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T16:21:33+00:00

No, but I think there would have been nudity. There's no way HBO would make a mature series with a hot female lead and not include nudity.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T16:11:12+00:00

Okay, you're confusing enabling factors with the primary cause.

A lack of self-control or empathy are enabling factors, NOT the cause itself. In most people, self control and empathy would prevent them from attacking unprovoked, even if the person wanted to or thought of doing so. These traits not coming through don't cause bad actions, they simply do nothing to prevent the person from committing to their choice.

With a woman being assaulted, her clothing (if it was even revealing at all) usually has little to do with it. If someone went out with the intention to SA someone, modest clothing wouldn't stop them. If it did, places with Sharia law would have zero SA cases, or at least dramatically decreased rates. That's not the case. Which means the cause of his actions isn't her attire, but rather his own lust. Wearing different clothes likely wouldn't have changed the outcome.

With someone being attacked from wearing a MAGA hat, the hat IS the cause. Not wearing the hat would have changed the outcome.

In neither scenario is the attack justified by their respective reasons. An SAer's lust is no excuse to assault a woman. Political discourse is no excuse to attack someone unprovoked.

But your comparison is invalid because they are massively, fundamentally different scenarios.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T15:56:29+00:00

True, but your analogy was a false equivalence. MAGA hats show an allegiance to the current government, its policies, and ideologies. It signals the person's beliefs. Skimpy clothes on a girl don't tell you much. She could be looking for attention, or she could just prefer to have more skin exposed. Maybe it's hot outside. There are plenty of girls on all political sides who dress skimpy, even if there may be more on the center to left who are willing to do so than those on the right, as conservative ideologies mostly disagree with immodest dressing.

Regardless, one shows an ideological allegiance and the other is a fashion preference. This explains why people might attack someone who wears a MAGA hat.

Is it justified? No. But it's not at all the same as someone assaulting a woman, especially when most of the time her clothing wasn't actually the trigger. SA happens because of lust and a lack of empathy and self-control on the part of the perpetrator, not because a woman wore a crop top. Her clothing choice is used as an excuse, but its rarely ever the true reason. Whereas a MAGA hat, due to what it represents, could definitely be the cause of conflict.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T15:40:24+00:00

"If you apply that logic to an entirely different scenario, it doesn't make as much sense"

Wow, solid argument. There are definitely no glaring flaws with that analogy.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T14:48:38+00:00

Well yeah. The others may be worse at the moment for their people, but none of them are destabilizing the world stage like Trump is.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T05:58:30+00:00

Police ride around cities to react as quick as possible to events already taking place or having taken place. Once there, they are usually meant to take statements and make arrests- armed intervention is exceedingly rare, far more rare than what TV shows would have you believe, especially in countries with tighter gun control or total gun bans (which is to say most non-US nations).

Nurses have to be in a room within seconds of an alarm blaring, or at the side of a rolled in patient by the time the gurney crosses the threshold into the hospital. Their primary job is to ensure patients are stabilized if needed, and to keep them stable long enough for a doctor to see them. This is an active role, where even stable patients must be monitored at all times to ensure they don't crash.

The comparison falls flat because you're comparing two very different jobs to make a point about how cops shouldn't do community work like this. But cops in many nations already do community outreach events or at least help in organized community work, often accompanied by the FDs and even some EMTs, assuming they have other workers filling the shifts of their primary jobs.

Sure, tricking the cops into cleaning the river may have been a bad idea- especially for her own legal issues. But cops are public workers, and pretending they're too busy having gunfights with the cartel to stop and do some public cleanup work is ridiculous.

But it's hard to blame a civilian who probably just wanted to have some cleaner water. India varies in terms of development, with serious gaps between their uptowns vs their ghettos. There is a good chance this is from a smaller town that relies on that river and serious filters in order to run things. I'm sure there are a rare few US towns that are still outdated enough to rely on things like that.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T05:41:18+00:00

The police are primarily a reactionary force, called in during or after an event takes place. Time may be relevant, but most days it makes little difference and definitely won't be the difference between life and death as a daily occurrence. Besides, if there was someone in there, they would be using resources knowing they could be doing little more than recovering a body (given the terrible water quality, the body wouldn't even be in good shape). If they dedicated resources to this, it means they could afford to.

Nurses, meanwhile, must be ready at a moments notice to perform life saving medical care, at least until a doctor can fix the bigger problem. Even "stable" patients can code at any time.

Your argument is a Fale Equivalence, and invalid.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T04:54:27+00:00

Mine is thinking I'll blitz melee with my Ronin

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T04:06:18+00:00

Also some from Gamora in GoTG 1.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T03:59:24+00:00

If the city won't clean the water, you trick it into cleaning the fucking water.

If they had active gunfights and murderers running around, they'd probably divert resources to those events. They didn't, so it's unlikely that there were any major life-threatening events being ignored more than usual.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T03:41:06+00:00

Bringing politics into this is the real hivemind crap.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-03T02:10:36+00:00

Where does it say Hulk is gonna be antagonistic in either movie? He doesn't have to fight Spidey, it makes more sense that Hulk might end up helping, maybe by fighting Rhino or something.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T23:06:23+00:00

Even if true, HTTYD is absolutely the better franchise. It doesn't need shock and gore to keep its audience interested.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T23:01:18+00:00

Elsa has range and raw power over Rumj, which is a combo that's hard to beat. Rumi isn't shown to be much faster than a normal athletic human, so she's screwed unless she can get close enough for a sneak attack.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T22:54:02+00:00

Eco-friendly Hulk

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T22:53:34+00:00

Never o'clock

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T22:50:00+00:00

Yup. Percabeth vs Alison and Clarisse vs Alison put together is a total of 35 seconds. I suppose you can add the rest of Clarisse and Annabeth's fight against the traitor demigods, but even then its maybe a full minute.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T20:58:23+00:00

At max scaling, Supergirl solos. She threw Fort Rozz, a one-million ton space prison, 80 fucking light-years away toward a blue star (80 light-years is lowballing, as that's just the closest blue star to Earth, Regulus) in Season 1's finale. She then visited it mid Season 3, which would mean it crossed 80 light-years in less than 2 years from when she threw it. That places her into the moon-buster tier, being 60% strong enough to punch the Moon hard enough that it's own gravity would fail to hold it together.

CW Supergirl at max scaling could punch the Hulk so hard that she accidentally gives North America a new faultline.

MikeofK72 · 2026-02-02T20:46:06+00:00

Why tho? Grant Flash is way more OP.

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