Avatar: The Last Airbender/Characters/Team Avatar: Difference between revisions

* [[Break the Cutie]]

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: With the exception of Earthbending, learning the elements came fairly easy to Aang. However, he suffered from a lack of focus and discipline, thanks to his easygoing and childlike nature.

* [[Cheerful Child]]

* [[Child Mage]]: Mixed with [[Kung Fu Kid]] of course.

** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Earthbending, though this is actually a skill he found difficult to learn. Being an Airbender, his style is all about misdirection and dodging, whereas Earthbending... isn't.

** [[Making a Splash]]/[[An Ice Person]]: Waterbending. He was able to pick up basic moves very quickly, making Katara quite jealous.

** {{spoiler|[[Pure Energy]][/][[Soul Power]]: Energybending.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Energybending. Could also be argued as an [[Ass Pull]].}}

* [[Reincarnation]]: Of the spirit of the planet and Roku.

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: {{spoiler|Suffers a permanent scar on his back from being shot with lightning by Azula. He also has one on the sole of his left foot, where the lightning left his body.}}

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Frequently in Season 3. Aang has a perfectly good shirt he could be wearing... he just chooses not to.

* [[Simple Staff]]: His [[Weapon of Choice]]. When he has to improvise with a spear he even breaks off the head.

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Showed interest in Katara and ONLY Katara from the moment he met her.

* [[Super Mode]]: The Avatar State.

** [[Heroic Safe Mode]]: The [[Super Mode|Avatar State]] isn't evil, but it's not necessarily good either. It's main concerns are Aang's survival, his rage and sorrow, and maintaining balance. Aang morals and innocent bystanders are secondary considerations, at best.

* [[Warrior Monk]]

* [[Weapon Twirling]]: A [[Justified]] version, since he uses his staff to create wind attacks (or defenses) this way.

'''Katara:''' ''If only we knew...'' }}

* [[The Heart]]

{{quote| "...then you won't have to worry about your 'destiny' anymore, because I'll make sure your destiny ends. Right then and there. ''Permanently.''" }}

* [[Instant Expert]]: Katara goes from being so poor at waterbending that she accidently freezes her brother to being one of the top notch waterbenders in the world (ahead of fellow [[Instant Expert]] Aang) in one season. She did this in under 4 months<ref>The episode before she finds The Waterbending scroll, which first lets her learn waterbending, is the winter solstice - December. By episode 8 of season 2, we learn it's spring, meaning anywhere between Mars and early June, though it seems closer to the early spring, and the summer solstice is not before season 3. Eitherway Katara is declared a master long before that season 2 episode.</ref>, while Waterbending is described as something that can take years to master.

* [[Tsundere]]: She acts as a Type B (deredere). Oddly enough she acts like a typical type A to Zuko (hatred followed by <s>love</s> friendship) but he's not her love interest. Its downplayed in the third season when her real love interest, Aang, wants to start a relationship.

* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: If you try to hurt Aang, she'll do whatever it takes to stop you. If she even thinks you might hurt Aang, that's enough to get you a menacing death threat.

* {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Mother]]}}

* [[Badass Normal]]/[[Badass Bookworm]]: A talented and clever swordsman with an knack for ingenuity in both inventions and battle plans.

* [[Battle Boomerang]]

*** {{spoiler|It DOES always come back!!}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't insult or hurt his girlfriends. The Suki one is particularly strong, as he ''knew'' {{spoiler|Azula}} was trying to provoke him, and fell for it anyway.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: If something unpleasant happens to anyone, odds are it's happening to Sokka. Also, his first girlfriend {{spoiler|turned into the moon, but that particular instance makes him more of the Woobie.}}

{{quote| '''Zuko:''' That's rough, buddy.}}

* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: One of his main weapons is a club {{spoiler|until he replaces it with a sword}}.

* [[The Chew Toy]]

* [[Important Haircut]]: Grows his hair out in Season 3. Seems to be a trend with the Avatar boys, isn't it?

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[It's All My Fault]]: {{spoiler|His emotions caused the Gaang to miss their opportunity to confront [[Evil Overlord|Ozai]] during the Day of the Black Sun. It also results in most of the rebels being imprisoned by the Fire Nation.}}

* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Sokka is typically the most resistant when it comes to helping every Character of the Week with their problems, as he views it as a distraction from their main mission. He's also the most cynical in a group of idealists.

* [[Large Ham]], [[Memetic Badass]], [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: WANG FIRE!

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Like Zuko, both in and out of universe, but on a smaller scale.

* [[Noodle People|Noodle Person]]: He's quite tall and not at all bulky.

* [[Playing Pictionary]]: He does this several times.

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]

'''Sokka:''' So I'm the ''only'' one who can [[Deadpan Snarker|ever come up with a plan]]? That's a lot of pressure. }}

* [[The Spock]]: To [[The Hero|Aang's]] [[The Kirk|Kirk]] and [[The Chick|Katara's]] [[The McCoy|McCoy]].

* [[Straw Vulcan]]: When they're trying to help people he's cast in this light, but subverted in "The Fortuneteller"

* [[Team Dad]]: Despite being the [[Plucky Comic Relief]], Sokka functions as this in Katara-centric episodes. Normally Aang is the one wanting to pursue a [[Sidequest]] and Katara is trying to keep them on track. When it's her turn, Sokka turns into the [[Straight Man]].

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Arrogant Kung Fu Chick]]

* '''[[Badass]]''': Probably the biggest example in the series, tied with Azula.

** [[Badass Boast]]: After discovering {{spoiler|Metalbending}}:

{{quote| '''Toph''': I am the greatest earthbender '''IN THE WORLD!'''}}

* [[Blood Knight]]: She loves fighting.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: "All right! Let's break some rules!" SMASH!

* [[Bokukko]]: Again, in the Japanese Dub.

* [[Child Prodigy]]: One of the youngest benders we see, yet she is already one of the most powerful non-Avatar Earthbenders. Also {{spoiler|invented Metalbending on the fly while captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale she was able to Sandbend, despite saying that she hated sand in season 2}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Although blindness isn't a requisite for an Earthbender to use her method of "seeing," it did lead her to focus her earth senses to an unprecendented degree, allowing her to perceive things approaching or beneath her in great detail and leading in turn to her invention of Metalbending.

* [[Disabled Snarker]]

* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: A mild case, and it's kept in the background for the most part. It's most evident during "Tales Of Ba Sing Se" and whenever her [[Achilles Heel]] is hit.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With Iroh, but hey, it's [[Cool Old Guy|Iroh]].

* [[The Ladette]]: The musclebound, belching, spitting hulk that was in the play near the end of the story? That's Toph on the inside.

* [[Little Miss Con Artist]]: In "The Runaway".

== Prince Zuko ==

* [[He's Back]]

* [[Horse of a Different Color]]

* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Originally a bison mixed with a manatee, although the bison part mostly took over in development.

** Possibly unintended, but its hard to ignore beaver parallels with the way he uses his tail.