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* [[Celibate Hero]]
* [[The Comically Serious]]: [[Stargate SG-1/Characters|Indeed]].
{{quote| '''Jia''': So, what do you do for fun?<br />
'''Lee''': I don't. }}
* [[Cover-Blowing Superpower]]: His bending, healing, swordsmanship, and royal manners all have the potential to put in him some very uncomfortable situations. Even his [[Ninja]] skills can come into question if he becomes to difficult to read.
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* [[Retired Badass]]: Until the above happens.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: The end of chapter 4. Iroh is making some progress with Zuko, bit by grudging bit, when he thinks "At least we haven't seen the bison". Sure enough, Zuko takes another three steps and finds a familiar clump of white fur, on the ground. The events of ''The Chase'' ensue.
{{quote| '''Iroh's Thoughts''': Spirits, you are ''not'' helping.}}
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: When [[Soul Power|Amaya creates]] [[Doublethink|spirit-masks]] for Zuko and him, they both worry that actually being their aliases would screw with their familial relationship. They get over it.
 
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* [[Ignorant of His Own Ignorance]]: Almost wilfully so, in earlier chapters. Although trying to fix that, with Tao and Toph aiding him, it's slowly going. ''Very'' slowly.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Deconstructed. In the [[Darker and Edgier]] world of Embers, he needs to be corrupted with some realism/lose his faith in the world before he gets eaten alive. Iroh sums it up:
{{quote| And he pictured that kind, young boy, facing the Face-Stealer with the best of intentions, to set right that ancient spirit's wrong.<br />
''...I do not think I will be sleeping well tonight.'' }}
** Although his idealism and faith are also necessary to prevent atrocities; it's a balancing act.
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* [[Stupid Good]]: His blindly following Air Monk doctrine.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Zuko's thoughts reveal this when he is thinking about how Aang ran away from the Southern Air Temple {{spoiler|and, thus, from the Elders' decision to brainwash him}}:
{{quote| Aang might have the attention span of a flutter-hornet on a honey high, but that impulsive decision might just have saved the world.}}
** ''Three times.''
*** {{spoiler|A very dangerous volcano, the one that killed Yangchen, was set to go off when Aang would have been training with the Northern Water Tribe a century ago. He would have tried to stop it, and a less-than-half-trained avatar going up against what killed Yangchen and all her yaoren? His disappearance caused that plan to be put on hold, and the eruption with it, for a full century.}}
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* [[Adorkable]]: Second only to Zuko.
** [[Ascended Fanboy]]: This line says it all:
{{quote| "Does that sword still mean you're a healer?" Kuei blurted out. "Some of the scrolls I have - here, let me show you..."}}
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Most Earth Kings get this. Kuei just got his due to Agents Bon and Quan saying "It'd take a miracle to find spriritually strong women in the middle of a Fire Nation invasion-", and also because the Touzaikaze were impressed with Kuei enough to send their own special women as prospective brides.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: He's got a personal library ''full'' of powerful information yet unknown to the rest of the world, and he's a powerful enough spiritbender to kick ''Wan Shi Tong'' out of the Earth Kingdom.
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* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Banish Wan Shi Tong?]]
** Kuei delivers this sentence in chapter 29 to the fox servant of Wan Shi Tong:
{{quote| "[[Royal We|We]] find you and your master, Wan Shi Tong, have behaved with contempt to us, and to our people! We find that you have done us harm; willfully, pettily, and with full knowledge of our desperation, beset by enemies! We find that you have cast aside the virtues of civilized creatures. And so, we render our judgment! You, your master, and all his servants are hereby banished from our lands. Your master may petition Oma and Shu. Should they decide his punishment is enough, we shall revisit our judgment. Until that day - begone!"}}
* [[Fisher King]]
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Long Feng had it so that the Earth King was seen as a naive, harmless, puppet-king bookworm who needed to be protected. Sure, he's ignorant of many things, including what's been going on within his city. However, he has had years and ''years'' and YEARS of reading the scrolls in his [[Tower of Babel|personal library]], so he knows things the Dai Li and the rest of the cast do not.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]/[[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Has quite a few of these, usually in conjunction with Kuei. How ''does'' one explain the birds and bees to one's king?
** Though not always...
{{quote| '''Quan:''' How's Operation Fainting Maid going?<br />
'''Bon:''' ... I hate you, sir. }}
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: At one point, wondered where there might be appropriately qualified bridal candidates for his king. The next moment... [[Oh Crap|Well.]]
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Agent Quan, after being promoted to royal advisors.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: He and the other Dai Li, for the most part, sacrifice everything they have and everything they could have been to serve their city and their king. That preclusion includes their own happiness, any chance of marriage and family.
{{quote| ''"We give up everything for our city. Can't it give us something back?"''}}
 
 
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* [[Samus Is a Girl|Teruko Is A Girl]]: Many (non-Fire Nation) characters are surprised to hear a woman's voice emerge from the [[Faceless Mooks|skull mask everyone is so familiar with]].
* [[Semper Fi]]: If the above didn't make it clear, the quote below will.
{{quote| "I," Teruko said in a voice that surfaced from the faceplate like magma, "am not a ''girl''. I am not ''woman''. I am not ''missy''. I am not your little sweetheart who cuts up seal meat in the igloo kitchen, iceboy! I, am a ''Fire Navy marine''."}}
 
 
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** [[To Become Human]]
** [[Humanity Is Infectious]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. He hasn't ''quite'' lost the dragon-like presence ''or'' the teeth. His speech mannerisms betray his struggling mastery of words and when Saoluan asks why the Fire Nation has to be filled with homicidal maniacs:
{{quote| '''Shidan''': So you do understand. Good.}}
* [[Natural Weapon]]: his piercingly sharp, rock-hard claws.
* [[Neural Implanting]]
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* [[Warrior Monk]] - She's part of the yamabushi's order, but she's moonlighting as a spy for Shidan.
* [[No Time to Explain]] - Her fear of Avatar Aang the "Temple child" is palpable, and tells Toph why she can't meet Aang:
{{quote| "So long as Monk Aang lives, the Temple lives. The Elders were talking to Monk Gyatso before... before the war. But his apprentice wasn't old enough to find his Way. We aren't to speak of the morning wind until he is."<br />
"His way?" Toph frowned.<br />
"It's... important," Hitomi said carefully. "When you're old enough to ask questions. And think of your own answers." }}
 
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