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* [[Action Girl]]: More often than not, any A and B character who has two X chromosomes is an action girl.
* [[Action Girl]]: More often than not, any A and B character who has two X chromosomes is an action girl.
* [[Actor Allusion]]:
* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** The 'four elements' wizard in the first episode of Book 2: Earth is based directly on Akiro, Mako's early role in the movie [[Conan the Barbarian]].
** The 'four elements' wizard in the first episode of Book 2: Earth is based directly on Akiro, Mako's early role in the movie ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''.
** When Piandao tells Sokka to think of the sword as "a part of your own body", it may come to the mind of certain viewers that his voice actor, Robert Patrick, has also played a character in [[Terminator]] who actually has swords as a part of his body.
** When Piandao tells Sokka to think of the sword as "a part of your own body", it may come to the mind of certain viewers that his voice actor, Robert Patrick, has also played a character in [[Terminator]] who actually has swords as a part of his body.
** In the episode Ember Island Players, Actor Zuko is voiced by the older brother of Dante Basco, the voice of the real Zuko.
** In the episode Ember Island Players, Actor Zuko is voiced by the older brother of Dante Basco, the voice of the real Zuko.
* [[Adaptational Personality Adjustment]]: Discussed in-universe when the Gaang sees "The Ember Island Players". Aang complains that the bald woman portraying him shows a mischievous Avatar that can't resist playing jokes on his friends. Katara becomes prone to tears, Sokka is obsessed with food, Iroh is a [[Lazy Bum]] and so forth. Zuko, despite his protests to the contrary, is probably the ''most'' accurate in the Ember Island show, as he is dark and brooding and goes, "How can you say that?!" dramatically. Katara smirks when the actor proves her point.
* [[Adaptational Weakling]]: happens in-universe during "The Boy in the Iceberg," the play that the Ember Island Players perform that the Gaang watch incognito. Ember Island-Aang goes from a cheerful badass to a mischievous "bald woman" in Toph's words, Katara becomes an [[Inelegant Blubbering]] [[Soapbox Sadie]] that goes on about hope, Sokka loses his leader skills in favor of an obsession with food, Iroh is a [[Lazy Bum]] who wants to lie around and eat cake, and Zuko becomes a whining teenager who gets his ass kicked by the Blue Spirit. (Funnily enough, Zuko in-universe ''is'' the Blue Spirit who actually teamed up with Aang to break the latter out of General Zhao's custody, leading to a hilarious [[Reaction Shot]] when they see the Ember Island reenactment). Suki and Toph are the only ones who avoid this, owing to Suki not having any onscreen lines that we see, and Toph being reimagined as a giant male wrestler that uses echolocation to see and earthbend. The end of the episode deconstructs this, however; owing to the playwright's sources -- the Cabbage Merchant-- and the audience -- a brainwashed Fire Nation that believes in the rights to colonize the world-- the Gaang realizes that they're not being seen as the heroes but as the villains. The play also ends with Azula killing Zuko and Ozai killing Aang, and the audience ''cheers'' about children being murdered onscreen as well as siblings fighting to the death.
* [[Adaptational Weakling]]: happens in-universe during "The Boy in the Iceberg," the play that the Ember Island Players perform that the Gaang watch incognito. Ember Island-Aang goes from a cheerful badass to a mischievous "bald woman" in Toph's words, Katara becomes an [[Inelegant Blubbering]] [[Soapbox Sadie]] that goes on about hope, Sokka loses his leader skills in favor of an obsession with food, Iroh is a [[Lazy Bum]] who wants to lie around and eat cake, and Zuko becomes a whining teenager who gets his ass kicked by the Blue Spirit. (Funnily enough, Zuko in-universe ''is'' the Blue Spirit who actually teamed up with Aang to break the latter out of General Zhao's custody, leading to a hilarious [[Reaction Shot]] when they see the Ember Island reenactment). Suki and Toph are the only ones who avoid this, owing to Suki not having any onscreen lines that we see, and Toph being reimagined as a giant male wrestler that uses echolocation to see and earthbend. The end of the episode deconstructs this, however; owing to the playwright's sources -- the Cabbage Merchant-- and the audience -- a brainwashed Fire Nation that believes in the rights to colonize the world-- the Gaang realizes that they're not being seen as the heroes but as the villains. The play also ends with Azula killing Zuko and Ozai killing Aang, and the audience ''cheers'' about children being murdered onscreen as well as siblings fighting to the death.
* [[Adjective Animal Alehouse]]: Iroh's tea shop, The Jasmine Dragon.
* [[Adjective Animal Alehouse]]: Iroh's tea shop, The Jasmine Dragon.
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