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It's a natural world that seems a bit too small, and the main heroes are kids, as fits earlier installments of the [[Mother/Earth Bound|Earth Bound]] series. The hybrid animals are Chimeras. The bending disciplines are what PSI becomes -- PSI Fire and Thunder -> Firebending; PSI Freeze -> Waterbending; Psi Ground -> Earthbending, for example, with PSI Love being the basic power of Energybending. Remember that various Chimeras had PSI as well, which is how humans could relearn it from the animals. And Firebending even comes from dragons! The Spirit World is Magicant. This may suggest that Sozin's comet has something to do with Giygas.

 

*** ... Who is also played by Dante Basco, in case you didn't catch that.

 

* Everyone's Asian, there are various animal species with elemental powers (like the badgermoles and sky bison), and "regular" animals are known of but extremely rare. Give it a couple of thousand years and the high levels of mutation and metamorphosis Pokemon are so famous for, and for the populace to largely forget about the bending teachings, and you'll have the Pokemon world.

** Related theory: Ash is the current "modern-day" Avatar, although nobody is aware of this.

* Or Avatar is the future. Jade Empire is set at the tail end of the transition between spirit bending and element bending mentioned by the Lion Turtle, with elements just beginning to come to the fore. Over the next few hundred years, the Jade Empire conquers the world, its culture washing away all others. However, elemental segregation eventually grows so strong that the Jade Empire splits into four elemental nations.

* ''Warren Peace from [[Sky High]] is descended from Firebenders, possibly even the royal house of the Fire Nation.'' He's not ethnically Asian but speaks at least some Cantonese, his powers seem to work identically to firebending, and he sort of looks like Zuko.

** And that the Loch Ness Monster is really an eelhound.

 

* Mandy has all the deviousness and ambition of her counterpart, but the general lack of subtlety and tact that comes from both being an eleven-year-old child and living in a [[Crapsack World]]. However, when she gets older, starts reading Macchiavelli's ''The Prince'', and learns to rein in that dazzling smile of hers, all that will change...

** Further supported by both being voiced by Grey DeLisle. Everybody who knows the type of roles she plays understands why.

 

== Zuko and Azula are alternate versions of Simon and River Tam from [[Firefly]]. ==

* While not with that specific plot, I could easily see an OVA being made if the film is a success. (Which it likely will be, even if it's crap. Never underestimate the power of a Super Bowl ad.)

 

The movie would be a lot bloodier, Katara would have been the Avatar instead, and Toph would have shown up a movie early to fill his foot fetish quota.

* Okay, with the new series being announced, with the Water Tribesgirl being the new Avatar, one-third of this theory is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].

* By the same token, the Lion-Turtle is Great A'Tuin's son. Or something.

 

 

The Elements are forged at (and one presumes using materials from) places called power spots the Fighting Cliffs in the Earth Kingdom are such a spot.

 

 

 

== Every member of the Fire Nation actually escaped from a musical. Zhao is actually Javert, Zuko is Erik, Juang-Juang (or however you spell it) is Valjean, etc. ==

* They do age, it's just subtle, and not in your face. Katara's hair slowly grows, and in the epsiode "Tales of Ba Sing Se," we see Sokka shaving his thinly growing moustache.

* But Captain Hook's ugly!

 

== The island from Lost is actually a lion turtle. ==

 

== Flying bison are actually a created race, designed to allow a weakly godlike entity to better influence the world. ==

 

Moon, shmoon. He invented it.

* Confirmed by awesome.

** ... [[Invader Zim|I LIKE]] [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|YOU!!]]

 

Think about it; They can generate fire from their hands almost out of nowhere, and Luigi even had the power of lighting in ''Superstar Saga''. Further evidence is, the "Fire Lilies" that appeared in one episode. I really think that's no coincidence, along with the fact that they look a little like the Super Mario World fire flower design.

 

They're basically the same setting, just one is based on Eastern Philosophy and one is based on Western.

 

Both Yue and Light (Raito)'s names are written with the Chinese character for "Moon". Coincidence? Probably, but it's still fun to speculate.

 

 

== There are [[Dungeons and Dragons|duckbunnies]] in the Avatar world. ==

** By severing a land protrusion from a mainland. A "peninsulectomy" if you will. Seems appropriate that it was done by a woman...

 

When the baby Primarchs were scattered around the universe, Kyoshi wound up on the Avatar world, where the Avatar spirit decided that she made a good potential vessel. Whether due to the Emperor losing interest or some supernatural factor blocking his access, Kyoshi spent her entire life on her adopted homeworld. Kyoshi grew up tall, strong, and badass, and lived a long, eventful life as a warrior and leader. Since the Emperor never followed up on her, she has no Space Marine legion, but the Kyoshi Warriors could be seen as a rough equivalent. (Kabuki Marines?)

* And the Emperor couldn't psychically check up on Kyoshi because the Spirit World had seceded from the rest of the Warp because its inhabitants got sick of the grimdark. Since the Warp is a plane of emotion and psychic energy given form, and the Avatar world, for all its troubles, is an ultimately more hopeful and on average less murder-happy place, it makes sense that their corner of the Immaterium would be less mind-searingly hostile. (Although certainly not without its dangers.)

* But there is no Satan/Devil figure in Avatarland. It has largely eastern philosophies, so there's no "Satan" per se. There can be ''demons,'' evil spirits like Koh, but there's no all-encompassing lord of evil. Also, this Troper sees no evidence that the Fullmetal Alchemist and the A:TLA world are the same one.

 

If that's the case, then:

* Airbenders are blue/white.

At some time in the future, Sozin's Comet, which turns out to not be a comet at all, will be pulled into a more stable orbit, and either The Fire Nation will conquer the world and become Timebenders or be stopped from conquering the world and overthrown and replaced by a renegade Fire Nation sect (The first Timebenders) who will eventually move on from the spirtualism the world is currently in, taking their first step toward becoming the Time Lords. It being The Fire Nation both explains why orange is the predominant color in Gallifreyan formal wear (And to a lesser extent their headgear) and partially explains their advanced technology level (Even at the beginning of the war, the Fire Nation had metal ships. And they have friggin' tanks.) The predominance of Timebending in the world will eventually leave other forms of bending forgotten, particularly once [[TARDI Ses]] (The Timebender animal guide) are fully domesticated ([[TARDI Ses]] are stated to be grown rather than built) and tweaked/manipulated/improved/bred to travel in space and travel much longer distances in time. The untended schism is not actually a single place on Gallifrey, but several: some of the most significant temples in the four nations. The Time Lords became what they are from exposure to the untended schism(s). The original Avatar was simply the only (Or, if you want to make things even more confusing, first) person in the world to have parents who had the opportunity to concieve him within one of the temples. His reincarnation is simply a form of regeneration, but because there isn't a TARDIS to assist his regeneration, he's forced to become a baby and retains few memories. The Order of the White Lotus (Or a similar organization) are responsible for moving the new baby-Avatar to the next nation in the cycle. Also, if the avatar world is temporally unstable, it explains some of the travel time discrepencies. And I don't recall it ever being stated the people on the Avatar planet don't have two hearts.

 

Kandrakar has a no-intervention policy unless a world is royally screwing up itself or threathening others. At the start of the War the Fire Nation wasn't too much of a danger due the losses in the Air Nomads genocide (come on, tell me that, when faced with a genocidal army, no Airbender managed to think about sucking air from the enemies' lungs, at least in the attempt to cover for childred being evaquated) and Aang still being around, so Kandrakar didn't choose a set of Guardians to stop the Fire Nation because a strong offensive from the Earth Kingdom or Aang returning on the scene and entering Avatar State upon learning about the genocide would have done the deal (the Water Tribes are not included because the Southern and Swamp ones were too weak and the Northern one was already isolationist).

 

** That or he feared that she'd go mad if left with the Heart. According to Kadma (at least in the comic), the Oracle had been ''late'', not wrong. Coupled with the fact that the Heart must be willingly given, it's probable that Nerissa herself was noticing she was growing too attached to the Heart and allowed him to give it to Cassidy, with both of them not expecting her withdrawal to get her completely mad. Now that I think about it, it's possible that either Kadma or Halinor had warned them it could have happened but hadn't been listened...

 

After all, Xin Jing was specifically called the Nymph of ''Elements'', and all of her appearances shows her surrounded by a blue aura. After she became the Heart and whatever threath prompted the creation of Kandrakar, much knowledge was lost (apparently not even the Oracle knows exactly who created Kandrakar) and the spirits lost their personality, thus explaining the various differences in setting.

* In addition, every Keeper is a potential Guardian of one element, chosen every time following the Avatar Cycle (Water --> Earth --> Fire --> Air --> Water). There ''is'' a similar situation in canon: Cassidy had replaced Nerissa and was the Guardian of Water (at least in the cartoon. The comic never stated her or Halinor's Element), and her successor Will was shown to be a potential Guardian of the Earth (aside the fact that Will is the third most stubborn character in the series after Kadma and Cornelia, both Guardians of the Earth, in one [[It Was All A Dream]] special where Cornelia had quit being a Guardian we see that Will took Cornelia's place as the Guardian of the Earth, with Orube becoming the new Keeper). Will's successor would be a potential Guardian of Fire, while Nerissa was most probably a potential Guardian of Water (when Taranee went on strike and Orube filled in she received no elemental power, working with her training, innate abilities and [[Fridge Logic]] about the Guardians' wings).