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Ok, so, you know how Aang can apparently take away someone's ability to bend?
Did anyone else think that maybe he can also give someone who can't bend the ability to bend?

Maybe he could use it to restore the Airbenders. Gather up a group of people who are willing to devote their lives to learning the ways of the Air Nomads, give them Airbending, and raise them as a new generation of Airbenders.

I think it would be a cool way to bring back the Airbenders, and it would make sense too.

What do you guys think?

Well, like I said, first he would have to find a group of people willing to devote themselves to the strict lives of an Airbender.

Like, maybe first they would have to devote them selves to the culture of the Air Nomads, and only if they proved themselves as someone who can follow the path of an Airbender, would Aang give them Airbending.

*shrugs* I mean, it's the idea that makes the most sense when you think about how Aang could restore the Airbenders. Sure, there's the whole "have babies with Katara" theory, but there would be no guarantee that the babies would be Airbenders.

It's one of those Occam's razor deals. The easiest solution is the best. It seems like the easiest, quickest, and safest way Aang could restore the Airbenders. With the baby method, even if all the babies Katara and Aang had were Airbenders, unless Katara had a dozen babies, there would probably only be two or three more Airbenders. If something were to happen to them, the Airbenders would be screwed. With the glowy "I give you Airbending" method, he can theoretically train a lot of people to be Airbenders in a much shorter amount of time.

But you do bring up a good point.
From the way Aang used it, it didn't seem like the creators were implying Aang would use it to restore the Airbenders. It was one of those deus ex machina powers that gets used, and then never really mentioned again.

I guess it's all up to the creators. I think it would be kind of neat.

I think the more likely theory is the whole Appa thing. There are only 2 dragons left, but there are still firebenders. Same with the badger moles, no one learns from them anymore, but they could.

Aha. Deus ex machina.

"Hey Medea. You wanna go for a ride?"

"Sure Helios!"

Oh pop culture references, how I adore thee.

I'm not sure if it actually is possible. It's a nice idea, but doesn't the potential have to be there in the first place? And it's still risky; someone might come along who's even more stubborn than Aang, and then where would the world be?

I think they might do that in th 2010 movie....

Even though Aang can take away someone's bending I don't think that means that he can create bending abilities in someone who didn't have any to begin with. After all the world of Avatar is all about balance and that just dosent have balance.

That would be cool.