Die for Our Ship/Western Animation/Avatar: The Last Airbender: Difference between revisions

A show with a wide cast of characters that openly courted [[Ship Tease]] throughout its history? Naw, that couldn't POSSIBLY''possibly'' spawn anything! Let's just count them down.

** Others assume Avatars must either be [[Celibate Hero|Celibate Heroes]] or else rapidly [[Love Makes You Evil|became villainous]]. Until [[Word of God]] and a ''canon'' episode discredited this idea implicitly, this was one of the primary means of pushing Aang to the side; due to [[All There in the Manual|ancillary material]], it was fiercely contested by [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Kataang]] shippers during the long drought of new TV eps of 2007. Of course, the "celibate" angle has now become [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], as the live-action ''[[The Last Airbender (Film)|The Last Airbender]]'' film actually does portray the idea that Avatars can never have families as a plot-point (namely, it was why Aang fled his responsibility as the Avatar in the film, as opposed to being afraid his life would change for the worse, and that he would be taken away from his mentor/father figure, Gyatso). Certain fans have noted this, and have used it to try and support this angle (despite it being canon to the film, and ''only'' the film), but on the other hand, most fans would rather [[Fanon Discontinuity|ignore the film entirely]].

** Other shippers discounted Aang because he was 12 years old. They usually assigned a [[Like Brother and Sister|big sister/little brother]] type relationship to Aang and Katara, villainizing neither and viewing their relationship as one that they would naturally grow out of as they got older, or claiming that a romance between them would be creepy [[Shotacon]] even though Katara was only ''two years older'' [[Double Standard|(forgetting that Zuko is two years older than Katara)]] than Aang. There's also the camp that claims that because Katara has a maternal personality towards the team, Aang's attraction to her is "[[Oedipus Complex|Oedipal]]"...which makes no sense since Katara is not ''actually'' his mother (biologically or otherwise). Then the [[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|sequel series]] had [[Word of God]] identifying Tenzin as Aang and Katara's ''son'' before it aired, thus confirming that their relationship ''did'' last beyond the "teenage hormones" stage. Needless to say, this simple declaration set the Kataang vs. Zutara wars aflame again.

* [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' '''is already showing signs of this'''. Korra, the [[Action Girl]] lead, has gotten buttloads of [[Ship Tease]] with her [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] companion Mako, who's also a [[Playing Withwith Fire|talented fire bender]] -- the most resentful and rabid Zutara shippers not only latched on these two and claimed that they were "Bryke's apology to Zutara shippers" ([[Insane Troll Logic|. . .]]), but they have started to [http://aquakia.tumblr.com/post/21989944010/legend-of-korra-ep-4 bash the crap out of the local cute girl], [[Spoiled Sweet|Asami Sato]], whom they see as a threat. (Warning: the link contains [[Double Standard|MASSIVE slutshaming and misogynistic language against Asami]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and enough animated gifs to make your browser crash]]). The whole situation is nicely summed up [http://rachellephant.tumblr.com/post/22068261751 here] as well.