Is it possible to blood bend

He is a well known adversary of Professor X and has the ability to bend metal. Hey, maybe Toph is his great great great great great great great great grandmother. That would be one heck of a twist wouldn't it even if it was just for shits and giggles. Anyways though, Magneto once graced the pages of a well known story line where he literally ripped the adamantium from Logan code name Wolverine's body. Adamanatium in the Marvel Universe is the purest and strongest metal known to man only second to Vibranium.

If Magneto has the ability to literally rip metal from bone through the flesh of an individual whose to say Toph couldn't do the same? The process would probably require a lot of focus on her part as well as vigorous training that resembles Hama's during her stay in a fire nation prison, but it could be done.

It is known that the human body holds several minerals within itself. Minerals such as Copper, Zinc, and Iron just to name a few can be found throughout our systems, all of which were probably used to develop metal during Toph's lifespan in the world of Avatar including both The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra.

But is there enough of these metals in the human body for a metal bender, such as Toph, to have the ability to utilize them? Well according to the Iron Disorders Institute , the average male have four grams of Iron in their body while the average female has about three point five grams while children of both sexes have about three grams or less. These grams are distributed through the body in hemoglobin, tissues, muscles, plasma, and guess what, blood proteins.

Now to be fair, that isn't exactly a lot to work with, but Toph is no stranger to utilizing trace elements of rock and metal to bend to her will. When first faced with the sand benders, Toph exclaimed that she couldn't control the material well and her seismic sense was too fuzzy to make out objects around her.

After this defeat as the show progressed into the third season , Toph spoke about the fact that she had been practicing her sand bending.

During her detainment, she realized that all life contains water and proceeded to develop the knowledge and skills of the art by practicing on elephant rats , later employing the technique on her guards to escape. The forms and styles used by bloodbenders resemble how a puppeteer controls a marionette. Whereas waterbending uses flowing motions with the arms, bloodbending seems to require a more rigid and abrupt form of movement, further highlighting how different it is from the primary waterbending forms and its other sub-skill, healing.

Due to its extreme nature, only a handful of waterbenders have demonstrated the ability to bloodbend. The technique is deemed to be a dark art and is rarely used in combat by most waterbenders. The complexity and sophistication required to perform the art usually only allows for its use during a full moon, when a waterbender's power is at its absolute peak.

Only Yakone , Tarrlok , and Amon have shown the ability of performing the art without the aid of the full moon. Being naturally talented and having trained vigorously, Yakone and Amon were capable of bloodbending without using their arms, also known as psychic bloodbending.

Bloodbending is infrequently applied to daily activities. After being captured during one of the Fire Nation raids aimed at weakening the Southern Water Tribe , Hama, along with her fellow waterbenders, was sent to a maximum security prison in the Fire Nation designed specifically to hold benders of her kind. There, the guards were cautious of providing prisoners with any form of bendable substance that they could utilize in making a reprisal, going so far as to chain the limbs of the prisoners before they were allowed to drink and using "cruel retribution" at any sign of resistance.

Despite the helplessness she faced while imprisoned, Hama was able to feel the enrichment provided to her by the full moon. She began to devise a plan that would lead to her escape and eventually realized that the elephant rats constantly scurrying around the bottom of her cage were filled with bendable water. Hama developed bloodbending in a Fire Nation prison by subduing an elephant rat.

Upon the arrival of the next full moon, Hama attempted to take hold of the fluids within one of the creatures and succeeded, successfully performing bloodbending for the first time.

In the following months, enhanced by the full moon, she continued to develop the technique, mastering it to a point at which she could effectively control the movement of an entire horde of rats. During the next full moon, Hama used bloodbending to control a passing guard, forcing him to open her cage and allow her to escape. Hama walked free for the first time in many years and eventually settled in a village near the outskirts of the Fire Nation archipelago.

While imprisoned, Hama developed a deep hatred for the Fire Nation, and she vowed to take revenge at every instance possible. She created a makeshift prison underneath a mountain and formulated a plan where she would control unsuspecting Fire Nation villagers and lead them to the prison during a full moon. She used this technique and eventually imprisoned the owner of a quaint little inn. Hama became the inn's proprietor and was able to repress accusations of being the one responsible for the disappearances by disguising herself as a sweet old innkeeper.

During one of those nights, she planned to imprison an old man, Ding. The plan was initially successful, and Ding felt helpless as he was "possessed" by an unknown force. He was slowly led to the top of the mountain, but before he could be imprisoned inside a cave, the sun began to rise, and the power that Hama held over him quickly faded. Regaining control over his body, Ding sprinted away from the scene; he remained the only villager to ever avoid being captured by the bloodbender.

However, Hama overheard them telling horror stories and deduced from Katara's story about Nini that they were from the Southern Water Tribe and offered the group a place in her inn. Upon discovering an old whale tooth comb in Hama's attic, she revealed herself to be a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe and proposed to teach Katara some original Southern Tribe waterbending techniques, so that she could pass on the knowledge of the Southern customs before her death, to which Katara happily agreed.

Hama demonstrated to Katara how there is water inside all living beings. Katara spent the next day learning various techniques from Hama, such as bending moisture from the air and water from within plants, including fire lilies , when no bodies of water were present. Hama told Katara that she would teach her the ultimate waterbending technique at night, during the full moon, when their powers were at their peak. Katara was hesitant, claiming that villagers had been disappearing during the full moon, though Hama seemed unaffected, stating that two master waterbenders under a full moon had nothing to worry about.

That night, Hama took Katara to the forest where she explained her imprisonment and discovery of bloodbending. Katara was horrified and refused to learn the art when Hama urged her. This angered Hama, who used bloodbending to control Katara. The young waterbender pleaded for mercy, but Hama refused to release her.

Feeling the power of the moon enforce her waterbending as well, Katara honed her energy and broke free, stating that her own bending was more powerful than Hama's.

This is just one of many interesting questions about the nature of bloodbending. Amon is exceptionally talented at bloodbending and is by far the most powerful bloodbender seen in The Legend of Korra or Avatar: The Last Airbender.

This means that, when he faces off with other bloodbenders, like his brother Tarrlok, he is actually too powerful for them to control since his skills outweigh their own. Katara is considered the most skilled and revered healer in the world by the beginning of The Legend of Korra.

She is also a bloodbender, as seen in The Last Airbender , though this is a skill she refuses to use. As with most kinds of bending, most bloodbenders need to perform certain body movements in order to bend the blood.

But Amon is able to use psychic bloodbending, which allows him to bend without any motions. Also, that would literally give the victim so much high blood pressure that the vessels would probably rip open, causing massive bleeding, internally and externally. And airbending can't fix nor prevent that.

Bloodbenders move a person by bending only the victims blood, right? They bend the water in a person, such as the water that surrounds nearly every cell in the body.

Like the water that permeates the muscles, and the proteins responsible for contracting those muscles. And, I don't think airbenders bend oxygen molecules, they bend atmospheric gas.