[quote=Larfleeze]
Wasn't she bending with her shoulders and spine? I don't see how a character overcoming their major disability and still be a formidable fighter is stupid.
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Which given how waterbending form is shown mechanically to work made little sense to me. There's a lot of bending of the elbows and wrists to bend water in the martial form if you remember. It's not "overcoming a disability" that I dislike, it's changing the fundamental mechanics of how bending works to make a villain seem "badass and cool".