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* Her fight with Azula in "The Crossroads of Destiny."
* Her "[[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her|talk]]" with Zuko at the end of "The Western Air Temple." Look at how far we've come from the beginning of the series, when Katara's waterbending skills were quite poor. Two seasons later, she's standing in front of the man who raided her village and making it clear on no uncertain terms that she will strike him down without mercy if he even thinks about hurting Aang -- and she has the skills to back up that claim, too. It was awesome beyond words.
{{quote| '''Katara:''' You might have everyone else here buying your "transformation", but you and I both know you've struggled with doing the right thing in the past. So let me tell you something right now. You make one step backward, one slip up, give me one reason to think you might hurt Aang and you won't have to worry about your destiny anymore. Because [[I'll Kill You!|I'll make sure your destiny ends, right then and there]]. ''Permanently.''}}
* Breaking out of a (wooden) jail cell with her own sweat, followed by [[Big Damn Heroes|shoving an ice pillar onto Combustion Man's head.]]
* After being instructed in Bloodbending by Hama -- who, by the way, spent more than 50 years perfecting the technique -- Katara uses it on the leader of the Southern Raiders. Also qualifies as High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
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* Also from the season one finale: It may have been a lot more low-key than most Moments of Awesome, but Aang staring down Koh the face-stealer with a completely emotionless expression throughout his [[Nightmare Fuel]] tirade. Especially considering that he's a hyperactive twelve-year-old.
** YMMV, but I thought that when he does get excited was pretty cool. He thinks about it, gets excited, and Koh whips around in like half a second... only to see Aang with his stoic face.
* The way Aang ended the fight against Azula on top of the Drill, underscored by a rather awesome [[Theme Music Power
* In "The Headband", Aang is undercover at a Fire Nation school and defeats the school bully in a fight in which all he does is dodge and side step the bully's attacks (well, he technically used his [[Cherry Tapping|''bum'']] once).
* Also where he performs a dance with Katara -- which in turn evolves into what looks like a very skillfully played Capoeira game -- that leaves his schoolmates staring in awe and Katara [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|panting and sweating in his arms]].
* Fighting Combustion Man in the rock field, where he used Airbending to ''deflect an explosion with one hand'', and then blew straight through a pillar he was sent flying into. Also later, when he covered himself in rocks and used one of the explosions to rocket away and escape.
* In "Nightmares and Daydreams," Aang, after having multiple nightmares about facing Ozai, turns the tables on him. Cue [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] ''and'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]:
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* Her {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes]]}} moment in "The Boiling Rock," {{spoiler|single-handedly dispatching an entire squad of prison guards with her arsenal of knives, thus saving the heroes and their party. "What are you ''doing''?" "[[Deadpan Snarker|Saving the jerk who dumped me]]."}}
* {{spoiler|"[[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|You miscalculated]]. I love Zuko more than I fear you."}} Such an awesome line it pushes {{spoiler|Azula down the road to her [[Villainous Breakdown]]}}.
* Coolly being rather above it all in "The Drill": "She can shoot all the lightning she wants at me -- I am ''not'' going in that [[Buffy
* Grey Delisle once said in an interview that Mai was her favorite character because she has Zuko "[[Accidental Innuendo|totally whipped]]." Case in point: "The Beach," where she puts on a [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]], including a [[Did You Think I Can't Feel]] moment.
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* How about Piandao at the end of the episode "Sokka's Master"? Sokka is fighting for his life against a master swordsman. And Piandao? Piandao is ''critiquing his technique''.
* Tyro (Haru's dad) telling the warden from "Imprisoned" not to worry about drowning because "cowards float."
** We can't forget Haru shortly beforehand: After Katara and the Gaang go through with their plan to give the earthbenders something to bend, her short encouraging speech appears to fail. The warden of the rig berates her failed speech, then walks away... ''only for a small rock to nail him in the head''. Furious, he turns around, to find Haru with a fierce determined expression, earthbending a small circle of rocks. The warden attacks him, [[Papa Wolf|only for this to be the excuse the Earthbenders needed to fight back, and kick their asses.]] [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Nice job fixing it]]
* Not a particular character, but a favorite episode was The Firebending Masters, primarily because of the scene with the dragons. The scene where they show Aang and Zuko the true nature of firebending is just remarkable, and in most kid shows would have heavy-handed or melodramatic and insulting to kids' intelligence. They did it with very little dialogue, allowing the expressions on Zuko and Aang's faces, the imagery, and music speak volumes. Truly a remarkable scene.
** Most shows would have the character witness something supposidly beautiful, and later immediately declare they now know it's true meaning. You see the two dragons dance in harmony, with Zuko and Aang mirroring their movements. Then the two dragons breath in unison creating a fantastic display. The Chief sums it up pretty clearly: firebending is not destruction, but life and creation, and you see this happen.
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* First CMOA of the interquel. Katara takes out five of {{spoiler|Zuko's}} personal guard in less than five seconds. It's like she has a waterbending [http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Quicksilver_Reflex_Booster Quicksilver Reflex Booster].
{{quote| '''Katara''': ''That's it!'' '''''Stop''''' (grabs 20 gal. from fountain) '''''trying''''' (20 gal. flies at two firebenders) '''''to''''' (two firebenders iced at once) '''''set''''' (1 gal. flies from hip flask at two fleeing firebenders) '''''my''''' (two firebenders get their feet frozen to ground) '''''boyfriend''''' (windup) '''''on''''' (firebender receives snowball [[One Hit KO]]) '''''fire!''''' ([[I Hit You You Hit the Ground|snowball hits firebender, firebender hits ground]])}}
** Gah. [[Do We Have This One?]] - [[Punctuated Pounding]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Curb Stomp Battle]]? Even ''[[Physical God|Aang's]]'' impressed because she did it [[Technical Pacifist|without spilling a single drop of blood.]]
{{quote| '''Aang''': ''Whoa.''}}
** Was there any doubt that Katarra would be a [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]?
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