Description[]
Avatar vs. The Legend of Spyro. Season 8 finale. The chosen ones of their worlds who master all the elements and then some.
Introduction[]
Wiz: It's a standard formula that whenever someone is revealed as the Chosen One, destined to save the world, then that brings with them some pretty unique abilities.
Boomstick: And sometimes, that's the power to use every other unique ability everybody else has.
Wiz: Like Aang, the Avatar and Last Airbender.
Boomstick: And Spyro, the Legendary incarnation of the Purple Dragon. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Aang[]
Wiz: The Avatar is a figure of legend in the world, serving as a living link between the Spirit World and the living world.
Boomstick: It's basically their job to make sure that balance is maintained throughout the world, and I say their because there's been a long line of Avatars.
Wiz: You see, whenever the previous Avatar dies, they will reincarnate into a new person living among one of the four nations. And one of the Avatars born to the Air Nomads was the young Aang.
- Background
- Age: Biologically 12
- Height: 4'6
- The 182nd Avatar
- The last surviving Air Nomad
- Reincarnation of Roku, reincarnated into Korra
- Favorite food; Egg Custard Tart
Boomstick: Even before learning he was the Avatar, Aang was already a prodigy Airbender, trained under the tutelage of Monk Gyatso, who was another master Airbender.
Popup: Gyasto was also a friend of the previous Avatar, Roku.
Wiz: Now, most Avatars needed to be a certain age, 16, when they were told of their special nature but at the time of Aang's youth, the world was in deep trouble.
Boomstick: The Fire Nation's various rulers decided it was high-time for them to rule the world and so initiated a decades long war. With the power of the Avatar needed right there and then, Aang was told of his destiny at age 12. And, naturally, wussed out, although being told you were basically a magical child soldier was going to put an ungodly amount of pressure on someone.
Wiz: Yet alone a young boy raised to be a full pacifist. Unable to cope with the weight on his shoulders, Aang took off on his loyal Air Bison Appa until a storm struck them down. This was the moment that Aang's Avatar powers first activated, freezing them both in a block of ice until they were found by Water Tribe siblings Katara and Sokka.
Boomstick: During that time on ice, the rest of the Air Nomads were wiped out by the Fire Nation, leaving Aang as our titular and tragic Last Airbender. But with the help of his newfound friends, he would finally set out to become the Avatar, master of all four elements.
Wiz: Which naturally meant he'd need to learn them all. Fortunately, he already had one under his belt.
Boomstick: You could say it was "Air-tight", because that's what it was; Airbending.
- Bending Abilities
- Airbending
- Wind Scooter
- Firebending
- Lightning redirection
- Waterbending
- Temperature control
- Earthbending
- Seismic Sense
- Energybending
- Avatar State
- Airbending
Wiz: Considered to be the most spiritually freeing of the Bending arts, Airbending enables Aang to manipulate wind and air currents at will.
Boomstick: He can even create himself an orb of concentrated wind known as the Air Scooter, perfect for zipping around. Too bad our most common association with it is it slamming Aang into a stone statue. Yet people still believe he can save the world.
Wiz: Well, he certainly would be able to once he learned the other Elements. Starting with Water, with help from his love interest, the aforementioned Katara.
Boomstick: He can manipulate water around himself to attack with whips or orbs of the stuff and can even lower its temperature, turning into jagged ice. Perfect for offense or straight up freezing his foes.
Wiz: Up next was Earth, taught to him by the Blind Bandit and giver of his most infamous nickname, Toph.
Boomstick: Not only did the training result in the ability to levitate rocks and initiate small earthquakes but he could now utilize Toph's signature ability, the Seismic Sense. Basically sensing vibrations in the ground to paint himself a picture of his surroundings.
Wiz: When it came to finding a Firebending teacher, it proved to be the hardest hurdle. Fortunately, good writing and character development landed Aang a mentor in the form of Fire Prince Zuko. Oh, and from the last two dragons.
Boomstick: And as you can guess, Firebending is all about blasting out scorching hot flames.
Wiz: Oh, there's another aspect to Firebending that few have mastered; lightning redirection.
Boomstick: If Aang ever finds a bolt of the stuff shooting towards him, he'll just redirect it away from himself. Zuko's to thank for that. Just like the other Avatars are to thank for the power of the Avatar State.
Popup: Aang's level of skill in the Elements is in ascending order; Fire, Earth, Water and Air. Also, he cannot use Metalbending or Bloodbending.
Wiz: The Avatar State allows Aang to tap into both the power and skill of all previous Avatars before him, with control of his body shared between him and them.
Boomstick: Considering there were already over 180 previous Avatars, then that's a boatload of experience and power.
Wiz: But even after learning all four primary elements and mastering the Avatar State, Aang still had one more power to be given.
Boomstick: That reminds me; I've gotten the intent of the Fire Nation to simply capture him instead of straight up off him. Not that I condone such things, but if they did, their victory would be assured. After all, the Avatar is only complete once learning all four basic elements and since Aang is the last Airbender, killing him would rendering the next Avatar unable to learn them all. Thus, not a real threat.
Wiz: I guess you have a point there, but don't forget, it was Nickelodeon; I'm pretty sure they were lucky to get away with showing the aftereffects of genocide. Back onto the topic, however, of Energybending, gifted to Aang by the last lion turtle. Energybending is an incredibly unique Bending art to say the least, as it enables Aang to bend the very life-force of a person. Most notable, he can use it to remove other people's Bending and, whilst not shown by himself, to manipulate energy originating from the Spirit World.
Boomstick: No wonder the Fire Nation was so desperate to remove the Avatar from the equation of their invasions. With these powers realized, Aang is a real force to be reckoned with.
- Feats
- Blocked Combustion Man's Bending blasts
- Reacted to Ozai's lightning
- Kicked a massive stone block
- Co-founder of Republic City
- Became a master Airbender at 12
- Manipulated the water around an entire fleet
- Served as a host for the Moon Spirit
- Defeated Zuko, Zhao, Ozai, Yakone
Wiz: Probably came to that conclusion due to knowing of the power of past Avatars.
Boomstick: Some are able to move entire landmasses, like one who sent an entire island flying or another that split one in half. Oh, and let's no forget how Aang's predecessor was able to instigate a volcanic eruption well within the gigaton range.
Wiz: Aside from all this, Aang has plenty of feats under his own robe. He was able to react to Ozai's lightning at Mach 150, carved a massive gourge around a city and once split a mountain in half whilst asleep.
Boomstick: Speaking of mountain splitting, that's what the spirit energy cannon is able to do in the sequel Avatar series. And Aang's reincarnation Korra was able to redirect the same kind of blast with Energybending.
Wiz: In order to have dealt that much damage to the mountain, the spirit cannon would have had to deliver a blast of, at the most, 20 megatons of TNT. And since Korra no longer had the ability to draw on the strength of other Avatars, long story, then that was her own Bending strength right there, and should reasonably mean that Aang can do so himself without the Avatar State.
Boomstick: And always one to try and make friends and allies where he went, it was appropriate that Aang would go on to help found Republic City, a place full of different people living together.
Wiz: Of course, long before that, he needed to first defeat the Fire Lord, managing so after a long journey filled with danger. Speaking of which, Aang has a few choice drawbacks to his character. Namely, that as a pacifist, he will spend most of the time fighting defensively. Also, the Avatar State is pretty much a double-edged sword.
Boomstick: If the current dies whilst it is activated, then the reincarnation cycle of the Avatar will be broken once and for all. So whilst it is powerful, it's also quite risky, but you'd have to be very lucky or very powerful to stand a chance of threating an Avatar State Avatar.
Wiz: Although Aang may have run from his destiny as the Avatar once, he never did so again.
Spyro[]
Wiz: After the classics and before Skylands, there was the legend of a purple dragon, born once every ten generations.
Boomstick: It was there role to decide the fate of the world in each generation they were born into. However, some people didn't want it to come around.
Wiz: Well, you say people, when really, it was an army of evil apes, under the direction of the Dark Master Malefor. Before the egg of the purple dragon could hatch, the Apes launched an attack on the Dragon Temple, with the intent of making a dragon omelet by breaking a few eggs.
Boomstick: Fortunately, Gary Oldman the dragon was able to save the purple dragon's egg, sending it down a river to relative safety.
Wiz: In the depths of the swamp, the egg's hatching was witnessed by a family of dragonflies, who took the youth dragon in as their own, giving him the name Spyro.
- Background
- Age: 15
- Height: 4'
- Legendary purple dragon
- Adopted by dragonflies
- Feels compelled to hit crystals
- Contrary to fan observation, didn't create Skylands
Boomstick: Someone who, somehow, throughout the years living in the swamp with a family who looked literally nothing like him, had no idea that he was adopted. I'm sure it was for the best though, because I'm pretty sure as a reptile, Spyro was meant to eat insects.
Wiz: Well, Spyro would usually do the opposite, stopping his adoptive brother Sparx from getting eaten on occasion. Or the time he nearly got squished by an Ape. Not one to let his brother go the way of the bug, Spyro reacted in a way he never expected; by breathing out a wave of fire.
Boomstick: And somehow, this was the first indication to Spyro that he was adopted.
Wiz: You aren't going to let this go are you?
Boomstick: No I am not. I thought this Spyro was meant to be smarter than his last reincarnation.
Wiz: Boomstick, separate continuities. Well anyway, Spyro set out to find answers for his true heritage, Sparx tagging along for some good old fashioned moral support and comic relief. And fortunately, he didn't need to go far to find answers.
Boomstick: Turns out Gary Oldman the dragon was also living out in the swamp, and once Spyro ran into him, he got brought up to date on his whole magical destiny. Which, for the sake of the world, he had to fulfill, first by getting himself some training in using the elements, and that involved travelling all over to find the Guardians to get educated.
Wiz: Fortunately for him, he had the means to reach them. Mainly, by flying.
- Abilities
- Flight
- Charge
- Melee fighter
- Breaths
- Fire
- Ice
- Earth
- Electricity
- Fury
- Aether
- Dark Aether
- Dark Spyro
- Dark Aether
Boomstick: Which was a definite upgrade over just being able to glide short distances. Oh, and he's also a capable fighter, using his claws, wings and hail in melee attacks. Oh, and of course his head.
Wiz: And from the tutelage of the four guardians, Spyro was able to harness his elemental abilities to their fullest extent. Firstly was Fire, which Spyro could not only spew out in waves but also fire out as explosive fireballs. Or coat himself in to charge forwards with added damage.
Popup: Whilst Spyro was able to obtain the elements on his own in moments of peril, it was through the Guardians' training he was able to develop the additional variations.
Boomstick: Lightning was up next, useful for Spyro to electrocute his foes and send them flying into the air with electric arts. Also coming from this element in spinning around with it surrounding him or shooting out explosive orbs.
Wiz: Ice allows Spyro to shoot out ice shards, spin around as a small flurry or with an ice blade and shoot out a freezing bomb.
Boomstick: And Earth is one of the more unorthodox elements, since it can not only shoot out rocks but also cover Spyro in a spiked boulder but also fight with a green flail. Seriously though, a dragon breathing any other kind of element is kind of weird.
Wiz: Yet the idea of a breathing fire being is a naturally logically thing?
Boomstick: Hmm...touché. And by the way, Spyro can unleash a massive attack called a Fury.
Wiz: A Fire Fury is the process of summoning meteors to rain downwards, Lightning Furies are when he sends out a radius of electricity, Earth Furies shake the very earth with tremors and Ice Furies are storms of razor-sharp icicles.
Boomstick: So Spyro's pretty good at the whole 'using other dragon's elements', thing but purple dragons like him have their own unique element.
Popup: Spyro appears to not longer have access to Dragon Time after the Eternal Night.
Wiz: It is the power to manipulate the very spiritual energy that the universe is comprised of, known official as Aether. With it, Spyro is capable of numerous things. He can levitate items with his mind, remove corruption from a being, turn others to stone and unleash beams of energy that strike with the force of an atom smasher.
Boomstick: That means anything hit by that gets destroyed on a molecular level. But where's their Light Aether, there's also Dark Aether, which can overcome Spyro in moments of extreme anger or negative emotion. This is when Dark Spyro takes control, an agyst brutal split personality of Spyro's, who's little more than a ruthless killing machine.
Wiz: Fortunately, the real Spyro is a noble and compassionate individual, wasting no time in diving head-first into heroics.
- Feats
- Repaired the destroying planet with Aether
- Took hits from the Golem
- Dodged lightning in his battle with Malefor
- Can understand Volteer's intricate speech
- Pushed massive stone statues
- Fought through a pirate arena
- Generated a crystal that withstood a mountain's collapse
- Defeated Cynder, Gaul, Malefor
Boomstick: He's battled all sorts of foes at all manner of locations, from freezing tundra to active volcanic landscapes, single-handedly fighting through entire armies of enemies, like Apes or Grublins.
Wiz: He's also managed to match the strength of the gargantuan Golem when it attempted to pull him towards itself and even took direct strikes from it worth nearly 2 megatons of force.
Boomstick: Spyro's compassion was also able to net him an ally in the former of Cynder, who had four unique elements as well, and even helped him out a whole lot in the final battles against the Dark Master. Who, by the way, was a purple dragon too.
Wiz: Malefor's use of magic was potent enough for him to levitate the entire Dragon Temple up in the air. The amount of kinetic energy behind such a feat is well within the petaton range, according to a DeviantArt calculation.
Boomstick: Spyro also moved in tandem with lightning during the brawl as well, and considering that he breath electricity out, that makes perfect sense.
Wiz: Even after several setbacks in his journey, which included losing his powers twice and getting himself trapped in a crystal for 3 years, Spyro completed his destiny as a purple dragon, using the power of Aether pull the exploding world back together.
Boomstick: If he really isn't an reincarnation or whatever of the other Spyro incarnations, then I suggest they start eating their hearts out.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set and we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
The Battle[]
Setting: Dragon temple training room
Both Aang and Spyro faced each other from different sides of the room, Aang lightly spinning his staff around whilst Spyro flexed his tail and wings.
Aang: You sure you want to practice with me? It could get a bit intense.
Spyro: Well we both use a lot of elements. We can condense several challenges in one.
Aang: Good point. Okay then, whenever you're ready!
He took a stance, his glider staff at the ready as Spyro did the same thing.
FIGHT!
Spyro made the first move, unleashing a wave of fire straight Aang, who slashed his staff downwards and sent out a blade of air that sliced through the attack, making it part harmlessly around the Avatar whilst the wind slice continued to head for the purple dragon. Spyro dodged to the side of the attack with a flap of his wings assisting the endeavor before lowering his head and Charging straight towards Aang. The Avatar responded with another slash of wind, this time one that was flat, so Spyro was able to jump over it mid-Charge. This enabled him to close the distance between him and Aang, forcing the latter to use his staff to block Spyro's charge, putting all his strength into stopping Spyro from moving forwards any further. An outwards push of his staff enabled this and Aang swung it at Spyro's head. The dragon ducked beneath the attack before flipping backwards to attack with his tail, Aang leaning backwards to avoid the sharp point. Once Spyro had landed, he beset Aang with claw swipes, the Air Nomad countering with jabs from his staff. When the dragon slashed with both claws at once, Aang somersaulted over him and landed behind him, and thus Spyro whipped around to unleash a stream of fire, Aang countering at the same instance with a blast of air, resulting in a small but powerful explosion that sent both combatants flying backwards to end up on opposite sides of the room.
Aang: Looks like the term 'challenge' is right!
Spyro: Get ready, 'cause so far, this is nothing!
He unleashed a series fireballs that all sailed straight towards Aang, who swung his staff to generate up a small circuit of wind around himself. The powerful winds blew the fireballs to the side so that they exploded around him harmlessly before sending the small-scale orb of winds around himself straight towards Spyro. As the winds buffeted the dragon and slowly pushed him back, he merely narrowed his eyes and charged forwards in a fiery dash, pushing through the winds and straight towards Aang. Seeing the power of the charge, Aang responded quickly, conjuring up an Air Scooter and zooming on it out of the dojo and into the area overlooking the various realms. The flaming Spyro was still in hot pursuit of him even as he neared the edge but he didn't stop and as soon as reaching it, made the Air Scooter orb expand and explode, launching him up into the air. This left Spyro smashing through the stone railing and down through the air whilst Aang opened up his glider, catching the wind to begin flying. He looked down to watch Spyro plummet downwards.
Aang: Yikes, that's a big drop. I hope he'll-
Spyro cancelled out the fiery dash and unfurled his wings, launching himself up into the sky after Aang.
Aang: Oh, phew. I mean, oh no!
He titled his gliding to the side to avoid Spyro's rapid ascension that would have seen him gored by his horns. Now above Aang, Spyro unleashed a blast of fire which Aang avoided with a burst of wind behind himself to push himself forwards even faster. He turned himself around afterwards and unleashed a massive gust of wind from his mouth, sending Spyro spinning backwards and putting even more distance between him and the Avatar. He shook his head to reorganize his vision before fixing it back on Aang and next unleashing a bolt of electricity that homed straight in towards Aang, who noticed the attack out the corner of his eye. Under pressure to act, Aang dropped downwards, followed by the lightning bolt, and landed on high grassy plains, furling his staff back up and tossing it to the side. The Avatar next whipped around and intercepted the bolt with his pointed fingers and redirecting it through his body to fire it back towards Spyro. The dragon's eyes widened in surprise and he blocked the attack with his wings as a shield, although he still felt the damaging effects of the electricity, shouting out jarringly as he was forced to land. Aang slammed his foot down onto the ground, levitating up a massive boulder before sending it shooting towards Spyro, who was able to overcome the involuntary spasms to unleash an Earth Missile from his maw, blowing the boulder to pieces. The Earth Missile continued onwards towards Aang, who performed an Earthbending pose and sent the missile shooting up harmlessly into the air, letting it fall and explode harmlessly behind himself.
Spyro glowered and started shooting out several different elements; fire, ice and earth in a chaotic attempt to hit Aang. But each and every projectile was bended away by Aang when he wasn't ducking or dodging beneath them, making Earth shots kick up dirt and earth fragments, covert ice into freezing water puddles and sending fireballs to harmlessly smolder as small patches. He eventually retaliated with several blasts of fire from his clenched fists, Spyro strafing around them as he literally returned fire of his own, burning the grass of and leaving craters in the grassy planes around both fighters. Aang then commanded pillars of earth to shoot out the ground around Spyro, boxing him in with them, but the purple dragon cut his way out by spinning around with a blade of ice. Aang attempted to salvage his earth-based move by commanding the pieces of the pillars to fly at Spyro like omnidirectional missiles, and the dragon conjured up a sphere of electricity around himself as a shield, which the pillars blew up against. And from this sphere came out three tendrils of electricity that shot straight towards Aang, who was under no position to redirect them all, so instead conjured up a wall of earth in front of himself. The bolts proved incredibly tough however and the wall started to crumble against the energy, weakening it enough for Spyro to simply charge straight through it.
He collided with Aang, sending him reeling backwards before he was knocked into the air with a flick of the dragon's horns. Spyro leapt up to deliver a series of strikes with his claws and tail before sending him smashing back to earth, grinding back through the ground slightly until he was on the edge of a cliff overlooking a canyon. Aang groaned after the assault whilst Spyro landed. The purple dragon closed his eyes and unleashed from himself a massive Fire Fury, which washed over the Avatar. Aang yelled against the blistering heat as it burned away his upper clothing and put all of his strength into bending the flames around him, forming what he could into a funnel around himself before directing it all back towards Spyro. With the fire now washing over him, Spyro summoned a sphere of earth around himself and charged through the flames. Aang summoned up plates of rock around himself into earth armor, using it to directly halt Spyro's charge, even as the rock surface grinded against the stone palms. Soon, however, Spyro's spinning boulder began to cut into the stone armor and into Aang's palms themselves. Aang gritted his teeth and screwered his eyes shut against the pain, until finally, it became unbearable and triggered the natural response.
When he next opened his eyes, they glowed with the power of the Avatar State. With a simple twitch of his muscles, Aang commanded the earth around Spyro to contract around him, trapping the dragon and stopping the boulder from moving. With a grunt, he hurled the trapped dragon into the canyon and although Spyro was able to break free, he was confronted with a worse sight; Aang swung his arms out and the canyon started to close in around the dragon. Before he could fly out, he had been trapped between the clamping parts of earth. The Avatar State Aang observed the handiwork, but a tremor told him his work was somehow not yet done. Sure enough, purple light shone out through the crack formed from the closed canyon before it was blown open by Dark Spyro, who soared up into the air with a roar.
The darkened dragon glared down at Aang, who hovered into the air and began to create a barrier of elements around himself; fire, air, water and earth. Dark Spyro did something similar, creating a sphere of Aether around himself. With deep echoing yells, the two element manipulators charged forwards and collided, unleashing a massive shockwave that cracked the planes beneath them. This wasn't the only clash, as the two of them dashed around in the air within their elemental orbs and collided again and again, producing more shockwaves that changed the terrain. After the two had been knocked backwards by the umpteenth collision, Aang unleashed massive waves of elements towards Dark Spyro, who simply tanked the attacks with his wings acting as a shield before unleashing a massive beam of Aether, forcing the Avatar to maneuver about in the sky to avoid getting hit, even as the beam sliced the plains in half. As soon as he had dodged the beam, Aang commanded a massive pillar of earth to shoot up from beneath Dark Spyro, hitting him directly in the stomach. It didn't have time to send him flying upwards however, as a cyclone of wind shot down from above and slammed into his back, working with the pillar to trap Dark Spyro as Aang came towards him. The corrupted dragon attempted a blast of Aether, yet Aang bended the energy around himself as he closed the distance and placed his thumb against Dark Spyro's forehead.
The dragon went stiff as he felt his very life force being bended by the Avatar's Energybending, and his Dark Form started to fade, until Spyro was back to normal. The Energybending didn't stop there however and Aang slowly honed in on the elemental energies within Spyro, determined to severe them.
But just before he could, Spyro's mouth opened a tiny fraction and a bolt of electricity surged out to strike Aang directly in the chest. Even in the Avatar State, Aang still screamed in pain before the energy pushed him backwards, and Spyro freed himself from his entrapment. His eyes glowing with Aether, he opened his maw even wider and unleashed a gargantuan blast of the element towards Aang. In a final bid to keep fighting, the Avatar constructed a vortex of all four elements and sent it shooting towards the Aether beam, yet the latter attack's atom-destroying capabilities burned straight through the vortex and continued onwards to Aang, who could only look at the massive beam as it came near.
Aang: Looks like this is the end then...
He closed his eyes and when he opened them again, the Avatar State was off.
Aang: But just for me.
With that, the Aether engulfed him and he was atomized, his whole body vanishing in an instance. Spyro shut off the beam and sighed, filled with exhaustion.
Spyro: Sorry about that...hopefully I'll somehow get the chance to apologize.
KO!
Spyro flies back to the temple whilst Aang's glider staff remains resting on the ground.
Outcome[]
Boomstick: Ah, it's good to see two outstanding guys having a little fun tussle. Until it ends in death that is.
Wiz: All too true I'm afraid.
Boomstick: Yeah. Still, this was a pretty interesting duel to behold and a little complicated to figure out.
Wiz: That's mainly due to the fact that Aang could counter a lot of what Spyro threw at him; specifically, his bending arts enabled for him to manipulate Spyro's various breath attacks. Even his electricity breath could be dealt with thanks to Lightning Redirection.
Boomstick: And one can even make the point that Aang could Energybender Aether, considering that the former is the manipulation of a being's life energy and Aether is sort of that same kind of energy. A bit more complex but the principle's the same.
Wiz: The Avatar and dragon were also fairly deadlocked when it came to speed, thanks to battling opponents with lightning based attacks, like Ozai and the Electricity King. But when compared directly to each other, Spyro had dodged lightning on a lot more occasions than Aang has and not to mention is the only one of the two to actually fight with it. And yes, whilst we have said that Aang could redirect it, Spyro's use of the Electricity breath meant he would have faster means of attacking more often.
Boomstick: Also, Aang would have kind of a tough time hurting Spyro. By himself, or at least with Airbending helping him out, Aang was able to displace a massive stone column with 35 tons of TNT (TheRustyOne) but Spyro took hits well within the megaton range.
Popup: Spyro was able to survive in the world's core. Comparing it's energy output to Earth's means it can likely produce energy worth 37 megatons of TNT, which Spyro can passively withstand.
Wiz: The Avatar State would allow Aang to breach this gap in necessary power however, as there are many instances of past Avatar splitting entire islands or causing volcanic eruptions, yet Spyro's Aether tips it back the other way again.
Boomstick: Yeah, cause that stuff was powerful enough to let Spyro rebuild the entire planet, piece by continent-sized piece. That's a scale the Avatar, State or not, has never really shown.
Popup: Given that the planet-rebuilding epiphany was more a moment of realization than an explicit power-increase, it's highly plausible Spyro can make use of the scale he previously showed.
Wiz: Plus, calculations by myself and others reveal that in order for the Aether to encompass the planet as much as it did, they it would of had to move at sub-relativistic speeds. Even if Aang could bend Aether with Energybending, there's no way he would be able to react in time to something that fast.
Boomstick: And that's if he'd be strong enough to bend it at all. After all, moving massive pieces of the planet is a few pay-grades up from the megaton spirit energy that Korra was able to bend. Even though bending doesn't appear to rely on physical strength, just look at Earthbending champ Toph, it's just overall highly unlikely that Aang could repurpose Aether for himself.
Popup: Whilst Spyro still took damage from Malefor's own Aether attacks, the fact it didn't immediately destroy him means even if Aang redirected Aether back at him, he'd be able to survive a few hits.
Wiz: Aang was a powerful and worthy Avatar with the elemental prowess it entailed, but the power of Aether and more probable advantages in other areas made Spyro the strongest chosen one out of the two.
Boomstick: Still, if we were allowed to, we would have Bent the rules in Aang's favor.
Wiz: The winner is Spyro.
Next Time[]
Season 9's premiere
Will entertain you
With vicious brutality
Trivia[]
- The connection between Aang and Spyro (specifically the Legends continuity) is that they are both chosen ones respective to their universes who are able to manipulate the four elements of their worlds (Air, Water, Earth and Fire, and Fire, Lightning, Ice and Earth, respectively), as well as a supernatural element unique to them (Energy and Aether, respectively). Both have also been spared massacres of their races, can enter a more powerful form in battle (the Avatar State and Dark Spyro, respectively) and have allied with former rivals/enemies (Zuko and Cynder, respectively). Both also have flying animal companions (Appa and Mono, and Sparx, respecrively) and were frozen in time due to their own abilities, which saved them from certain death.
- This battle would have been in 2D
- The original soundtrack for this battle would have been called 'Elements of Legend', referring to Spyro's second series and how both he and Aang can control the elements