Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise: Difference between revisions

* [[Eighties Hair]]: Early preview images showed Zuko sporting a sort of mullet. The ensuing negative fan reaction led to Zuko being redesigned.

* [[Action Girl]]: Kori.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Like every Fire Lord, Zuko.

** Ozai implies that the Fire Lord ''has'' to be a badass in order to deal with the job - and that he thinks Zuko's not up to the task.

** All remaining Freedom Fighters, including the long-vanished Sneers who makes his first appearance since ''Jet'', return with Smellerbee as their new boss.

** Earth King Kuei, who seems to have gotten back in the political game pretty quickly after Ozai's defeat.

* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]: Zuko, once again, has to deal with it.

* [[Cooldown Hug]]: Katara continues to pull Aang out of the Avatar State when she feels he's gone too far.

** The conflict between the Fire Nation colonists (and Zuko) who do not want to lose their homes and the people who want to remove them (the Gaang, Earth Kingdom) from land conquered during the war.

** A smaller-scale example is Aang and Zuko's philosophical divide over Yu Dao's social order. While Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation citizens live and work together in the colony, Fire Nation citizens are still firmly on top of the social ladder. Aang takes issue with this oppressive inequality but Zuko, while admitting things aren't perfect, feels that such inequality is an acceptable price to pay because everyone is better off than they would be otherwise be.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Zuko pulls out of the Harmony Restoration Movement without notifying his friends, presumably acting quickly so no more of his citizens would have to be taken from their homes against their will, and justifies this as being the right thing to do by his people. See below for how this almost leads to [[Poor Communication Kills]]. This later comes back to bite him in the butt with the Earth King. Having broken one treaty without so much as a warning, Kuei sees no point in negotiating with Zuko again after he's proven himself to be untrustworthy.

* [[I Am Not Left Handed]]: Kori and her mother are Earthbenders, a fact the former doesn't reveal until long after Zuko has taken her prisoner and then uses to easily escape her bonds.

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Katara and Aang are now a full-blown couple and deeply in love... to the annoyance of their friends, who find it difficult to put up with the [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|cuddles and pet names]].

* [[The Reveal]]: Zuko's final conversation with his father Ozai (which was cut off halfway after Zuko asked where his mother was) is shown in full here.

* [[Rival Dojos]]: The Bei Fong Metalbending Academy and Master Kunyo's firebending school stage a duel over the property rights to a training dojo. {{spoiler|The metalbenders win}}.

* [[Saved By Canon]]: Almost all the main characters -- save Mai and Suki, [[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|whose futures]] are currently unknown -- have to survive long enough so they can have their [[Spin Offspring]] and/or found the United Republic of Nations.