Can we consider how many people Toph caused internal bleeding and broken bones?
oh honey they are fully dead
No but Toph was a professional earthbending wrestler with the power to feel the whole human body at once through vibrations with enough accuracy to tell lies. She knows exactly how much pressure the human body can take before important things start breaking or I’ll go buy a hat for the sole purpose of eating it.
oh, sure. she doesn't care though. she's 12 and she's thriving and she loves to murder
We forgetting about that time Katara cut through an air balloon, and sent a bunch of dudes plummeting to their deaths?
She almost cut Azula's face in half too
Casual reminder that this show was absolutely brutal.
Read The Rise of Kyoshi book to have graphic descriptions of people being impaled, burned, crushed, buried, sliced and so on.
Remember that time when Sokka blew up a side of a mountain which was swarming with Fire Nation troops? Or when Aang sank the invasion fleet at the Northern Water Tribe? Or Sokka/Toph/Suki’s “airship slice?” Yeah, the Gaang definitely took lives
And then Aang goes: “Oh I’m a pacifistic I can’t kill Ozai! It goes against everything I stand for.”
I’ve always wanted Zuko just to be like: “But all of you have killed literal tens of thousands of my countrymen and women. Why does my father, the one who burned my face and is going to obliterate another people get to live?”
And fun fact. Zuko, despite all the negative things everyone says he did. Never actually took lives nor did all that pillaging. Any damage that happened was because people instigated fights with him. He always took extra care to disarm and disable when everyone else in the show just straight up tried to murder him any chance they had.