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** Amon's plans couldn't realistically be brought to the world-stage--he probably wouldn't even survive the inevitable uprising of depowered benders--but those were never really the stakes the show presented. Amon is a threat in the framework of the story because he endangers Republic City's benders, Korra and her friends, and the last remaining air benders. He had the potential to do catastrophic damage, even if his plans had no long term or global viability.
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** Amon did deserve to die, at least according to the only person whose opinion mattered at the time.
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** He's a hypocrite not just because he's a waterbender, but because he's ''using'' bloodbending in his quest to purge the world of bending, while lying to his followers and the world about his past.
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** ''Also'', Amon's way of overpowering people involves dodging their bending attacks to get close to them, but he has to ''see'' those attacks in order to dodge them. We, the audience, can see the air as it's bent because it's a visual medium, but there's no indication that airbending makes the air visible in-universe.
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** Yes, but why did Amon even go after Korra in the first place? He already said during their meeting on the island that he wouldn't debend Korra as that would create a martyr, but what e
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** Yes, but why did The giant waterspout also could've been subconscious on his part - Katara originally freed Aang from the iceberg he was trapped in due to an argument she was having with Sokka, and considering Amon even go after Korra in the first place? He already said during their meeting on the island that he wouldn't debend Korra as that would was powerful enough to bloodbend without a full moon, his base waterbending could've been strong enough to create a martyr, but what ewaterspout just by him scrambling to the surface. And remember, this wasn't just that he was running out of air - we see him inhaling water before he outs himself. At that point, it was either breach, or drown.
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** Yes, Amon deserved to die. He took the bending away from many innocent people and misled the other Equalists into rallying for his hypocritical cause. Granted, this troper hasn't seen the other villains in the series, but by no means is it just to judge him based only on how evil he was compared to them...Not to mention, it was his brother who brought about his violent death. We can assume he would've been killed or imprisoned for life had he been captured and returned to Republic City, so it was really a foregone conclusion at that point.
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* Rewatching the Legend of Korra, I'm actually very surprised why Amon had the most violent and sudden end out of all of the villains. Looking back, Amon was probably the most moral out of the villains, and actually did little actual evil within the show. Firstly, he is the only villain to actually not have attempted to kill Korra. Unalaq, Zaheer, and Kuvira were all ready to put an end to her, while Amon, even though he LITERALLY HAS THE MOST POWERFUL BENDING OUT OF ALL OF THEM, shows restraint and seeks to take care of her non-lethally, even when she's seconds away from revealing his identity (remember, he could have just crushed all of her internal organs through her blood several times during their final fight but doesn't, even when his own life is in danger. That takes nerves and a moral code of iron). Mako, Lin, and even Korra have violated the no-kill rule, but Amon, in all his time as a villain, never actually kills anyone, only debends them, something which loses it's weight when you find out that the Avatar can restore it (besides the Fire Nation forces, but to be fair, they attacked first and we don't actually see any of them dying onscreen). Compare this to Zaheer who committed regicide, threw an entire kingdom into anarchy, where no doubt dozens, if not hundreds of people lost their lives or had their possessions taken from them, or Kuvira who killed thousands of people with the
Spirit cannon, if not more given that her attack came a week early and people didn't have time to leave. Unless all of the buildings she destroyed in her rampage were conveniently empty. Yet she gets redeemed because of an incredibly lame FreudianExcuse, but nonetheless, even though she went on a genocidal rampage, Korra forgives her because they're similar people. Somehow. Yet Amon, the most peaceful and restrained villain with a better moral code than most heroes, deserves to die.
Spirit cannon, if not more given that her attack came a week early and people didn't have time to leave. Unless all of the buildings she destroyed in her rampage were conveniently empty. Yet she gets redeemed because of an incredibly lame FreudianExcuse, but nonetheless, even though she went on a genocidal rampage, Korra forgives her because they're similar people. Somehow. Yet Amon, the most peaceful and restrained villain with a better moral code than most heroes, deserves to die.
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* Rewatching the Legend of Korra, I'm actually very surprised why Amon had the most violent and sudden end out of all of the villains. Looking back, Amon was probably the most moral out of the villains, and actually did little actual evil within the show. Firstly, he is the only villain to actually not have attempted to kill Korra. Unalaq, Zaheer, and Kuvira were all ready to put an end to her, while Amon, even though he LITERALLY HAS THE MOST POWERFUL BENDING OUT OF ALL OF THEM, shows restraint and seeks to take care of her non-lethally, even when she's seconds away from revealing his identity (remember, he could have just crushed all of her internal organs through her blood several times during their final fight but doesn't, even when his own life is in danger. That takes nerves and a moral code of iron). Mako, Lin, and even Korra have violated the no-kill rule, but Amon, in all his time as a villain, never actually kills anyone, only debends them, something which loses it's weight when you find out that the Avatar can restore it (besides the Fire Nation forces, but to be fair, they attacked first and we don't actually see any of them dying onscreen). Compare this to Zaheer who committed regicide, threw an entire kingdom into anarchy, where no doubt dozens, if not hundreds of people lost their lives or had their possessions taken from them, or Kuvira who killed thousands of people with the
the Spirit cannon, if not more given that her attack came a week early and people didn't have time to leave. Unless all of the buildings she destroyed in her rampage were conveniently empty. Yet she gets redeemed because of an incredibly lame FreudianExcuse, but nonetheless, even though she went on a genocidal rampage, Korra forgives her because they're similar people. Somehow. Yet Amon, the most peaceful and restrained villain with a better moral code than most heroes, deserves to die.
