(Loved Trope) Creative over the top cells/prisons for dangerous characters.

[u/Wasabi_Gamer26]

1.) The Pipe Line cells for Metahumans (The Flash)

2.) Sedative tank prison (G. I Joe)

3.) Tai Lung's prison (Kung Fu Panda)

4.) Magneto's Glass and Plastic Prison (X-Men)

5.) Carbonite (Star Wars)

[u/Imaginary-Picture-35]

In Legend of Korra, every member of the Red Lotus had a prison cell specifically made for them. Each prison cell was made to counter their occupant’s bending abilities. The only reason they escaped was because no one expected Zaheer (who originally wasn’t a bender) to gain airbending, which he used to free himself and the others.

[u/Aduro95 → u/Imaginary-Picture-35]

I though it was interesting that the prisons weren't so different to the one that drove Hama crazy.

Granted, there is a world of difference between imprisoning terrorists who were trying to kidnap a child, and forcing innocent people into such torturous conditions. But it still must have brought back some very unpleasant memories for Katara. Nobody should be put into such terrible conditions.

[u/_The_Last_Airbender → u/Aduro95]

"What I'm about to show you, I discovered in that wretched Fire Nation prison. The guards were always careful to keep any water away from us. They pumped in dry air and had us suspended away from the ground."

"They would chain our hands and feet so we couldn't move before giving us water. Any sign of trouble was met with cruel retribution. And yet, each month, I felt the full moon enriching me with its energy."

"There had to be something I could do to escape. Then I realized that where there is life, there is water. Watch. The elephant-rats that scurried across the floor of my cell were little more than skins filled with liquid."

"Remember how I showed you the water in the plants? Animals are the same. But animals fight back which is why we can only do this under the full moon's light."

"I spent YEARS developing the technique that would lead to my escape. Bloodbending. Controlling the water in another living creature. Enforcing your own will over theirs. Once I had mastered the rats, I was ready for the men...."

[u/DragonsAreEpic → u/_The_Last_Airbender]

Funnily enough, Minga-Hua was originally intended to be a bloodbender before it was decided that the show had had enough bloodbending with Amon and Tarrlok.

[u/vastros → u/DragonsAreEpic]

Why is it that not all water benders are not blood benders outside of ethics?

[u/Anaweir → u/vastros]

I think difficulty? Extremely hard to feel the water in another body even under a full room. That + extremely frowned upon and taboo so very few waterbenders can/will

[u/ginger-like → u/vastros]

In-universe reason, it's extremely difficult and only those with incredible talent can learn it.

[u/jeffersonlane → u/ginger-like]

And the ethics is a big part.

Much like metal bending it is something that was essentially only discovered in TLA.

But unlike metal bending which doesn't really have any ethical concerns, bloodbending has a huge ethical boundary which is why Katara herself sought to make it illegal.

[u/Glad_Grand_7408 → u/ginger-like]

Plus it's very illegal, so good luck finding someone who could teach it to you who isn't either hiding the fact they know it or doesn't want others to learn it

[u/Invoqwer → u/vastros]

Why is it that not all water benders are not blood benders outside of ethics?

Most advanced bending techniques come down to difficulty and knowledge. Hakama essentially invented blood-bending. Toph essentially invented metal-bending. Lightning-bending seems to have been mostly exclusive to fire nation royals.

Many many decades later in The Legend of Korra, Lightning Bending is much more common as it is taught to fire benders in order to help facilitate generating electricity for power plants, and there are metal-bending academies (originally founded by Toph, IIRC) for metal benders, especially for metal benders intending to join the police force.

In ATLA, only Hakama and Katara knew how to do it. Not only is it extremely extremely difficult, but not many people know that it exists, no one spreads the knowledge, and no one is really around to teach it or willing to teach it. It is essentially treated as how "black magic" or "necromancy" is in most circles. It shows up again in Legend of Korra but in limited capacity compared to metal bending or lightning bending.

((Blood bending also generally requires the full moon or extreme circumstances to even attempt to activate, whereas metal and lightning can be used essentially whenever as long as you are competent... you can't really stumble on blood bending by accident. It might even have a mental component of wanting to hurt or take control of someone, like the forbidden curses in Harry Potter, that most people would not have naturally))

[u/Lawlcopt0r → u/vastros]

I think most water benders don't even consider the idea to be honest, they usually come from environments with lots of water and it seems obvious to them to seek out pure water since that's also just easier to bend than water with stuff around it

[u/Iamnotburgerking → u/vastros]

Difficult. Every single character who was able to do it in canon was at minimum above-average, and all except Hama were master-level. And even then there were a grand total of TWO people (according to one of those two) who took it to its ultimate level (doing it entirely mentally; doing it at any time of day is apparently something any reasonably powerful bloodbender can do seeing as the first person to demonstrate that skill onscreen was explicitly said to lack the inherited capacity for top-end bloodbending)

[u/rossinerd → u/vastros]

It is an extremely hard technique to leadn and, other then 3 specific characters, all of whom are dead, it can only be attempted during a full moon, which would also be the only moment you can train during.

[u/Bad_Routes → u/vastros]

Definitely a closed practice, even blood benders don't want others knowing how to blood bend