Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 2/05 Avatar Day: Difference between revisions

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Aang, Katara, and Sokka come across an isolated Earth Kingdom village which celebrates something called "Avatar Day". However, upon visiting the village, the team finds that the villagers are of an anti-Avatar sentiment, claiming that Avatar Kyoshi had killed their leader, Chin the Great. Shocked and dismayed by this, Aang resolves to stand trial in Kyoshi's stead, and Sokka and Katara are left to find evidence of the previous Avatar's innocence.

Aang manages to resolve the court issue by channeling the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi. To everyone's surprise, she pleads guilty to the charge of slaying Chin the Great... a megalomaniac conqueror bent on subjugating her people. When it became clear that diplomacy would not solve anything, Avatar Kyoshi separated her people's peninsula from the mainland, creating the "Kyoshi Island" territory seen in the first season, and sending Chin the Great [[Disney Villain Death|plummeting to his doom]]. Deliberations are interrupted by a band of Fire Nation raiders, the "Rough Rhinos," who arrive and start busting up the town; Aang is sentenced to the "community service" of seeing them off. The final scene is of Aang, Katara and Sokka in the center of a no-longer-sarcastic Avatar Day.

 

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The wheel of punishment includes such sentences as mauled by bears, boiled in oil, and community service.

* [[Bubble Pipe]]: Sokka gets one for his Sherlock Holmes impression.

* [[Disorganized Outline Speech]]: Aang's defense.

* [[Eye Scream]]: When the torch carrier throws the torch into the straw Aang's eye. The real Aang winces sympathetically.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: "Imagine if you lost your arrow! Or if Katara lost her...hair loopies!" Come season three...

* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Chin Village's legal system turns out to be this way.

 

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