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** The Avatar Extras get into it too. At the end of "The Chase", when the Gaang plus Zuko all attack Azula, it says, "This is the first time we've seen all four elements attacking at once." A beat later, it adds, "...Plus Sokka."
* [[Angrish]]: Sokka's reaction towards Toph waking him up in "Bitter Work." After considering the sleepless marathon he had to go through in the previous episode, his frustration is well justified here. The Avatar Extras note that the writers did have actual dialog for Sokka, but the voice actor improvised the grumbled angrish instead.
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* [[Animation Bump]]: The [[Grand Finale]] has a few shots of a higher quality, though the series itself is already unusually at a higher quality than most Korean studios.
* [[Animesque]]: Asian setting, multi-national cast, art style similar to [[Cowboy Bebop]], face faults, etc.
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* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: "Sorry, we just need to see the Earth King!"
** Katara in "The Puppetmaster" {{spoiler|when Hama manipulates Sokka and Aang into attacking her.}}
* [[Apotheosis]]: Princess Yue sacrifices her life to revive the Moon Spirit since it gave her a portion of its life. When the Moon Spirit was vivified, she became the new Moon Spirit.
* [[Arc Words]]: "I must regain my honor." There are story sequences built around this phrase for Zuko, Aang, and Sokka ("the Boiling Rock")
** "Destiny" is another major theme, seeing as the show is primarily influenced by Eastern Philosophy. It ends up applying to every single character, and together their stories send the message that while you always have a destiny, you are the only one who can choose to follow it.
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* [[Aura Vision]]: Ty Lee has the ability to see other people's auras. Hers is pink and Mai's is gray. No word on the other characters, though.
** Although, this could just be her... ''[[Cloudcuckoolander|unique]]'' way of talking about their moods or personalities.
* [[Averse Adept]]: Aang has this attitude about being the Avatar and having the Avatar State in the first episode. When he goes into the Avatar State he can kick ass, but season two reveals that he has nightmares about the chaos he causes while out of control. He also tells Katara that he didn't reveal to her or Sokka at first that he was the Avatar who went missing a hundred years ago because he never wanted this role. (It's justified when his friends stopped playing with him when he was revealed to be the reincarnation of Roku, and the monks planned to separate him from his mentor and father figure Gyatso, believing that Gyatso would not be able to train Aang sufficiently.) Part of Aang's [[Character Development]] is balancing his will to become the savior the world needs with his desire to stay a kid.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: I believe it goes, {{spoiler|"ALL HAIL FIRE LORD ZUKO!"}}
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: The couples all get their moments.
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* [[Chirping Crickets]]: Sometimes with a cough, but mostly with animal sounds - a duck in "The Fortuneteller", [[It Makes Sense in Context|a defrosting frog]] in "The Blue Spirit" and a badger-toad in "The Western Air Temple", among others.
** Played straight in "Tales of Ba Sing Se" at the end of the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Haiku Rap Battle]].
* [[Chosen Family]]: The Gaang: we have an orphan Airbender that realizes he lost his family a hundred years ago, two Water tribe members that lost their mother while having a father at war, a runaway Earth Kingdom noble that hates her family limiting her, and later on, a Kyoshi Warrior leader with her fellow Warriors imprisoned and separated.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Aang, although the reincarnation system makes it a bit muddled whether he's chosen or just following all his lives.
** Katara was destined to be Aang's waterbending master. She always believed the Avatar would return and she released him from the iceberg. Gran Gran told her that their destinies "are now intertwined."
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* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Subverted. It looks as though Aang learns waterbending faster than Katara (which would at least be justified by being the avatar), but when Katara and Aang get an actual instructor instead of relying on self-teaching and the scroll, Katara masters it even faster than Aang. Furthermore, Aang has trouble with earthbending since that [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|is the counter to air]]. Of course Aang is shown goofing off during the waterbending lessons.
** For the brief moments we view Iroh in his prison cell, you gradually see him transform from a badass sack of lard into a even more badass chissled bodybuilder. This also parallel's Sokka's sword training.
* [[Harsh Life Revelation Aesop]]:
** "The Western Air Temple": As Zuko himself acknowledges, a simple apology for all of his terrible actions won't undo the harm he has caused to others. He has to show that he is sorry, and fails miserably at his first attempt because the Gaang brings up a [[List of Transgressions]]. (It doesn't help that he lets slip that he sent the Combustion Man assassin after the Gaang to make sure the Avatar was dead.) Even when the Gaang lets him join under probation after he helps fight off Combustion Man to call off the assassination, it takes several episodes for him to bond with them and show he truly has changed.
** "The Southern Raiders": Zuko delivers it to Aang when the latter begs Katara not to give into a need for vengeance when Zuko, in an attempt to redeem himself to Katara, offers to help track down her mother's killer. Aang brings up [[He Who Fights Monsters]] using an analogy about a two-headed snake that keeps biting itself and getting poisoned. Zuko says nice moral, but they aren't in Airbending school, rather in the real world. Indeed, Aang acknowledges that Katara needs to find the man who killed her mother for closure, and says he trusts that she will do the right thing. Katara ends up not taking the man's life, but the quest does give her closure over the trauma.
** The [[Series Finale]] deals with Aang's moral quandary as the Gaang, Zuko included, tell him that he has to kill Emperor Ozai, the Firelord, before he burns the Earth Kingdom to the ground. Aang is a [[Technical Pacifist]] who follows [[Thou Shall Not Kill]] teachings; he still has nightmares about the Avatar State going on a rampage in the book one finale when he was out of control. He protests that there has to be another way, pointing out that Ozai is a monster but he is still a human being, one who wasn't born evil. Eventually, his angst leads him to finding a mysterious island where his past selves tell him that no matter what he decides, he cannot hesitate. Aang does find a solution -- to strip Ozai of his bending-- and finds he has to commit wholly to it or he will die in the process.
* [[Heavy Mithril]]: Parodied. When the gang is shopping for weapons, Aang puts on a massive, gaudy suit of armor. [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] and and [[Epic Riff]] are heard.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The series provides two examples of this in Jet and Hama, two individuals whose hatred of the Fire Nation blinded them to the point where they could no longer distinguish between friend and foe. Hama was even worse than Jet, because he at least tried to justify it as [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|doing the right thing]] by making sacrifices, and he did redeem himself [[Redemption Equals Death|in the end]]. Hama was treated so badly that she targeted anyone within reach, mostly civilians. Both of them served as a warning to Sokka and Katara about what they could become if they continued to hold on to their own prejudice and anger.
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