Your underlying physics is a little off, but then again, the advanced forms of the bending arts as portrayed in the Avatar canon customarily have only a nodding acquaintance with the laws of physics anyway. Lightningbending as an advanced form of firebending, for instance, is something that would only occur to an art student, as anyone who ever took introductory physics would know that electricity and fire aren't related in any way that even makes sense on a mystic-martial-arts-woo level. :)

Amazingly, this is not the most egregious abuse of science in the Avatar shows - that honor goes to the fantastically fucked astronomy on display in the first couple episodes of Book 2 of The Legend of Korra, which still gives me a sharp pain just thinking about it. But still. Given the headscratchy way in which the canonical "advanced" bending forms are related to their base elements, laserbending is no crazier than anything they've actually done.

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