Why is Ming-Hua armless?

"She was born without arms" doesn't equal "she was born with the water whips." It just means that her disability was present from birth, and she used waterbending adaptively; the water whips were essentially prostheses.
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Why did Ming-Hua have no arms?

Ming-Hua is a powerful waterbender that notably uses a specialized and unique form of psychic waterbending which allows her to create water-composed appendages in place of arms, which she lacks.
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How does Ming-Hua bend with no arms?

the bending really only comes out of their mouth. they cant do anything fancy with it. just shoot a stream out of their mouth. and the mouth is still something that can be covered (thus disabled, just like limbs).
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Did Ghazan and Ming-Hua like each other?

While on their way, Bolin decided to make up stories about Ghazan and guessed that there was an unspoken attraction between him and Ming-Hua. Ghazan was impressed and said that two of the three stories he made up were correct. Ghazan and Ming-Hua later worked together during the battle at the Northern Air Temple.
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Which tribe is Ming-Hua from?

Ming-Hua is a congenitally armless waterbending master born in the Southern Water Tribe. Her father is from the South, while her mother is from the North.
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Who would win Katara vs Ming-Hua?

Katara wins without a doubt, sure Ming Hua has no arms but clearly that isn't an obstacle for her considering the damage she can do, but lets think about Katara during her time training as a child (during the last year of the war) she learned how to bloodbend, and other sub-bending styles despite never had been trained ...
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Can Ming-Hua Bloodbend?

Ming-Hua was originally conceptualized as a bloodbender, but the creators decided against featuring another bloodbending villain after Amon, making her the only Red Lotus bender not to use a specialized bending technique.
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Was Guru Laghima an avatar?

Laghima was an Air Nomad guru and renowned poet who lived at the Northern Air Temple around 3,829 BG. He discovered the secret to weightlessness, which allowed him to unlock the airbending ability of flight.
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Can benders bend without arms?

Yes, they do, except for rare exceptions, both in The Last Airbender and in The Legend of Korra: Certain benders are able to effectively manipulate their element with very minimum bodily movement, such as only their head.
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What does the name Ming-Hua mean?

ming hua : famous painting... : míng huà | Definition | Mandarin Chinese Pinyin English Dictionary | Yabla Chinese.
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What is the rarest bending in Avatar?

One of the rarest forms of bending featured on the show is Aang's energybending - a unique power that gives the user the ability to bend another person's life energy. Aang uses this ability to defeat Phoneix King Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender's finale.
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Did Toph learn lava bending?

That's right, this means that Toph not only metalbends, but actually also learns lavabending! While this is technically not the first time lavabending has been seen within the franchise, something that is shown in The Legend of Korra, this is canonically the first time it is seen in the known Avatar timeline.
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Can anyone learn all 4 elements?

Only the Avatar can master all four elements. It has nothing to do with the skill, worthiness, lineage, karma, chi or capabilities of an individual.
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What was Kyoshi's first element?

There are instances, however, of an Avatar learning the elements out of order. Kyoshi, having begun with her native earth, trained in firebending with her bodyguard and friend, Rangi, while simultaneously learning waterbending from her friend, Kirima.
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How did Zaheer fly?

During a battle to rescue Korra from the Red Lotus, Zaheer developed the ability of flight through the teachings of Guru Laghima, becoming the first airbender in four thousand years to do so.
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How did Zaheer become an airbender?

Flight. Zaheer developed the ability of flight through the teachings of Guru Laghima, becoming the first airbender in four thousand years to do so.
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Who is the best healer in Avatar?

Sifu Atuat from the Northern Water Tribe was the greatest master healer and doctor of the world by 296 BG, and personally treated the firebending master Hei-Ran after she had been severely poisoned, managing to bring her back from near death.
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Did Zuko become a member of the White Lotus?

There still are claims on TV Tropes that Katara and Zuko are members of the White Lotus in Korra's time, even though there's no real evidence of this within the show itself.
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Is aiwei a traitor?

Aiwei is a major antagonist in Book 3 in The Legend of Korra. Aiwei was Suyin Beifong's trusted second-in-command, and also an emissary and truth seer of Zaofu, however Aiwei was really a terrorist, affiliated with the radical anarchist organization known as the Order of the Red Lotus.
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Can Toph Bend platinum?

The difference between metals isn't just the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in them, is the number of free electrons in them. Platinum doesn't have a lot of connected atoms, that could be why they can't sense or bend it.
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Can anyone Lavabend?

So far from what we've seen a Non-Avatar can't bend multiple completely seperate elemants, only Sub-Elemants (Like Lightning to Fire-Bending or Metal to Earth-Bending) Therefore Lavabending is a sub of Earth-Bending and the only way a person who's not an Earth-Bender can Lavabend if he/she is The Avatar, and Bolin is ...
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Can Toph bend wood?

Like Toph can metalbend, people can metalbend, sandbend, glassbend and paintbend why can't woodbending be possible and how about plantbending why can't a earthbender do that too? Wood and plants are nothing like earth, it's impossible. Wood and plants have water not earth. It was dry so they cant bend it.
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What is the weakest element in Avatar?

Earth is the weakest element in Pro Bending. With water, you have a large ammount (like a small river) right below you. ONce you bring the water up, you can contort it into any shape, and do any move.
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What is the strongest sub bending?

Like flight and healing, metalbending also has great practical usage and can come in handy in everyday life. This is debatably the strongest and most useful bending subskill, but it's outranked by an incredibly overpowered ability in the Avatar universe.
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