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* When Toph tells Aang, "You da man, Twinkletoes!", she flashes the [[View Askewniverse|Buddy Christ sign]] at him. It's a little difficult to make out, since she's aiming right at the camera and not slightly to the side, but it's there; she's pointing with the right hand and holding a thumbs-up close to her body with her left.
* The Sandbenders, bandage-wrapped desert nomads, look like [[Star Wars|the Tusken Raiders of Tattooine]]. Possibly a double shoutout, because not only did the Sandbenders' appearance call to mind the Tusken Raiders (sand people, sandbenders... huh.), but the way they were shown in their first named appearance (where the archaeologist shoos them away from Appa outside the ice spring fruit bar) is very similar to the treatment of Jawas.
* Toph calls Ba Sing Se the [[The Simpsons (animation)|Worst. City. EVER!]]
* In the finale, Toph calls Sokka "[[The Flash|Captain Boomerang]]".
* Also from the finale, Phoenix King Ozai says, "It's time for this world to end in fire," sounding very similar to part of a the Robert Frost poem [http://www.bartleby.com/155/2.html "Fire and Ice"].
* The "Love and Peace" line in the finale is a [[Shout-Out]] to Vash the Stampede, who used the line "Love and Peace" frequently in ''[[Trigun]]''. All {{spoiler|Zuko}} lacked was the "Peace Sign" hand gesture.
* All of the shoutouts and affectionate parodies of [[Professional Wrestling]] in the Earth Rumble crew.
* The creators stated that they were also fans of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', and decided to have the forest where Aang and Ozai fight named after the series currency, Wulongs. Then there's Sokka's [[Mushroom Samba|Cactus Tango]].
* Wan Shi Tong, the Knowledge Spirit who looks like a giant barn owl. When he walks with his back turned, he looks almost exactly like the character No-Face in the Hayao Miyazaki movie "Spirited Away".
* The shout out to Miyazaki's works happens again when Aang successfully defends the Northern Water Tribe from a Fire Nation siege by having the Ocean Spirit merges with him, becoming a giant, glowing aqueous creature that is an obvious shoutout to [http://alvingalvan.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/a-spirit-realm-wonderland-a-wolf-girl-and-a-moving-castle/ the Forest Spirit's night form]{{Dead link}} in "Princess Mononoke". The concept of a human trying to kill a nature spirit also comes from the movie.
* The scene in Wan Shi Tong he stalks Katara through the library is very reminiscent of a similar scene in a [[Jurassic Park|well known movie that also featured "raptors"]].
* Katara parting the waters in "The Serpent's Pass" doubles as a shout out to both ''[[The Bible]]'' and ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]''. The latter only because of the serpent's silhouette showing the waters in the same manner that a shark's did in the movie.
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* Iroh tells Zuko he needs to ask himself the "big questions": [[Babylon 5|"Who are you?" and "What do you want?"]]
* When the unagi rises out of the water and is seen in profile, it's quite reminiscent of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Unit 01]].
* When Katara, disguised as the Painted Lady, begins approaching Fire Nation soldiers a child says "She's com-ing!" in the exact same tone as the line [[Poltergeist (film series)||"They're he-re!"]]
* Toph calls Aang "Twinkle-toes" during Earthbending training. [[R. Lee Ermey]] used this as an insult against the new recruits in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', and Toph's use of "Twinkle-toes" fits her [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] attitude.
* Right after Aang saves Sokka and the fisherman in "The Storm", a massive wave sweeps up their boat in a manner similar to ''[[The Perfect Storm]]''.
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