Avatar: The Last Airbender/Trivia


 * The Abridged Series: The Ember Island Players is a sort of meta-example. And for an outside example we have Gan Xingba's Avatar: The Abridged Series.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * Kevin Michael Richardson, aka Jolee Bindo, voices Tyro. Carth Onasi is a scholar, whileHK-47 is Fire Nation War Minister Qin.
 * Kyoshi and June are Bastila Shan and the female Shepard.
 * One of the Earth Kingdom Generals has the same voice as Jin from Lost.
 * Jake Long and Vicky are siblings.
 * Vicky is also Ember Island Actor Katara
 * Katara is The Huntsgirl (not to mention the President's daughter in Independence Day).
 * Her?
 * She's also Ramona's fourth ex, from her sexy phase.
 * And now Amber in Parenthood.
 * Ozai is a basically a slightly more sane and rational version of The Joker played by Mark Hamill. He even sounds like the Joker in Aang's dreams from "Nightmares and Daydreams". One wonders if Hamill realizes the irony of voicing a Complete Monster Evil Overlord who can shoot lightning from his fingertips.
 * His daughter, on the other hand, is vocally related to another not quite sane person - while they usually sound different enough, compare Azula's "favorite Prisoner" speech in Black Sun day to Jeanette's comment how her father "died with a smile on his face".
 * Sokka's Master is the T-1000 as well as Colonel Ryan and Commander Boston Low.
 * Toph's father is played by veteran voice actor Cam Clarke (Kratos, Sky from Jade Empire, Liquid Snake, Max Sterling and Lancer, Leonardo, the 2002 Adam/He-Man etc). Wait, Toph is the daughter of Kratos? That explains so much!
 * Like Toph, Mai's dad is Colonel Campbell. No wonder she's so good at fighting.
 * Tennis champ Serena Williams is Ming, the kind prison guard.
 * The Boulder realizes that he sounds like Mick Foley!
 * Jason Isaacs, aka Lucius Malfoy, is Admiral Zhao.
 * Clancy Brown is Long Feng.
 * One of Jet's pals is Adam Lyon.
 * Jet himself is Beat!
 * An early episode features a Fire Nation prison rig run by George Takei, while The Mechanist is Odo.
 * The leader of the Gan Jin tribe from The Great Divide was Odo, too.
 * Actor Toph is Bender, and Actor Aang is Rachel Dratch.
 * Bumi is actually Kaioshin's ancestor.
 * And Uncle taught Aang airbending.
 * Iroh is a wizard, mind you! A shape-shifting Master of Darkness with GREAT FLAAAMING EYEBROWS!
 * After Mako's death, Iroh developed plasmid technology and provoked a civil war in Rapture.
 * Prince Zuko? Surely you mean RU-FI-OOOOO!
 * The Earth King is Vamp and Static. Unfortunately, he gets shot in the face.
 * He's also more excited than a green snake in a sugar cane field.
 * Scott Menville (Robin, Ma-Ti) is a representative of one of the two tribes looking to cross The Great Divide, as well as one the guys who hit on Ty Lee in The Beach. ** Professor Chang is one of the monks who tells Aang he is the Avatar.
 * Certain viewers may also know Zuko as a gay varsity wrestler.
 * Ty Lee is Rhonda Wellington Lloyd.
 * Slade is responsible for starting the war 100 years ago.
 * And he wants Sokka's Actor as his apprentice.
 * Gran Gran is She-Ra.
 * Huu also found enlightenment in a Whataburger.
 * Sela, the farmer's wife in "Zuko Alone," used to go by Wonder Woman.
 * Xin Fu would like to remind you that all toasters toast toast.
 * Colonel Shinu is Max.
 * Koh moonlights as a radio host in the Capitol Wasteland
 * Recently he has taken up an assassination gig in Skyrim.
 * Wan Shi Tong used to be the head of security for the queen of Genovia. Chances are, he still doesn't like to be called Joey.
 * Hama is Agnes Skinner.
 * In Germany. Zuko sounds exactly like Turk. Azula is Gaz, Sokka is Sam Witwicky, and Ozai is Starscream.
 * In Sweden, Long Feng is Mewtwo. Toph is Chihiro, while Azula is Starfire.
 * In Spain, Toph is Misty.
 * Zuko's Danish actor is Sasuke Uchiha.
 * In Chile and Hungary, Aang is Yang.
 * Here's the Polish dub:
 * Aang is Phineas.
 * Katara is Chester.
 * Sokka is Harry Potter.
 * Azula is Sandy Cheeks.
 * Zuko is Rock Lee.
 * Iroh is Mung Daal.
 * Toph is Carly.
 * The archaeologist in The Library is also a pilot in a galaxy far, far away and a biotic staff lieutenant on board the Normandy.
 * What Could Have Been: Toph was originally conceived as a guy. Variants of her original character model makes a few appearances throughout the series in bit roles, most notably as a bender in the show's opening sequence (Roku's Earthbending teacher) and THE BOULDER!
 * Word of God says that the screechy actor who played her in the play is a Flanderized version of her original character design. Aspects of her original male visual design and characterization were later incorporated into Bolin.


 * Zuko's great-grandfather is ... sorta. Technically.
 * Did we mention Zuko's father is voiced by Mark Hamill? Now tropes are In the Blood?!
 * Waterbending is the only bending skill that was not learned from an animal. Waterbenders are said to have learned from the moon; in contrast, earthbenders learned from the badger-moles, airbenders learned from the sky bison, and firebenders learned from the dragons. The entire concept is awfully similar to animal-based martial arts in Real Life, made famous by Hongkong martial arts movies like Jackie Chan's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow or Tiger and Crane Styles (best known for being edited into Kung Pow.)
 * As mentioned on the main page, the bending styles themselves are based on actual Chinese martial arts (Waterbending is Tai Chi, Earthbending is Hung Gar, Firebending is Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, Airbending is Ba Gua). Exceptions not covered are:
 * Toph's own Earthbending style, taught directly by the badger-moles, is actually based on Southern Mantis style
 * , based on Xing Yi Quan, which quite appropriately was developed in captivity as well
 * , based on Qin Na Shou, which was also quite appropriately a grapple-based technique
 * is the only style taken from a sword technique, the obscure Tai Chi sword discipline
 * even better is that all of the above are unique martial arts styles compared to the respective culture's norms, because they are all unique to a certain character or (in the case of Lightning redirection and Bloodbending) a very small group.
 * You can probably catch some differences between Katara and Pakku's waterbending styles, since Southern and Northern are legitimate Tai Chi variants.
 * "Katara" means "curse" (both as in "hex" and "swear") in Greek. Of course, this is just a weird coincidence, but it is too odd to not mention. One would suspect that the character was so named because a Katara is a kind of Indian dagger, though.
 * A Katar is a type of Indian dagger.
 * Two of the benders shown in the opening titles are actual characters from the show: Master Pakku for water, and Azula for fire.
 * Although the earthbender was Toph's original design, but when her design was changed, that design inspired later characters The Boulder, Sud (Roku's earthbending teacher) and "The Ember Island Players"' Toph (directly taken from that design).
 * Some argue that the airbender in the opening is Monk Gyatso. Others claim it's an older Aang (a theory largely debunked by the confirmed older Aang in the opening to The Legend Of Korra, who looks much different), and still others suggest it might be one of the unamed monks from "The Storm".