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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The novelization had a lot less cut from it and was said to be far superior in comparison.
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: [[Role Reprisal|Aang and Zuko]]'s Polish dubbers returned for the movie as their regular characters.
* [[Badass Decay]]:
** Zuko. He goes from the angsty but determined powerhouse in Season 1 and turns into a whiny, [[Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]] type. His [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] from Season 1, defeating rival Admiral Zhao and proving his worth as a Firebender, is instead given to a handful of random Waterbenders. And unlike Zuko, {{spoiler|they KILL Zhao}}.
** The Fire Nation in general. Not only are its soldiers somewhat wimpy ("It really hurt!"), [[Smug Snake|Zhao]] finds more time relying on the Fire Lord ([[Memetic Mutation|and the scroll from the great library]]) rather than be ambitious and power-hungry, '''[[Big Bad|Fire]] [[Complete Monster|Lord]] [[The Sociopath|Ozai]]''' is not as menacing as his animated counterpart.
*** Firebenders can only manipulate pre-existing flames. Sozin's Comet, which previously allowed firebenders to wipe out entire civilizations in a day, now apparently only makes all firebenders roughly equivalent to a normal, non cometed firebender in the series.
** While not a Badass until the end of Season 1, Katara underwent this via Chickification.
*** Katara more closely resembles the [[Flanderized]] [[Love Freak]] that the show itself parodied in "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book
*** The fact that she seemed five minutes away from Tear bending at any moment.. really didn't help matters any.
** Sokka in particular is much closer to his [[What Could Have Been|initial idea]] of being a wannabe macho-man twat as opposed to a clever funny guy, and doesn't crack any jokes throughout the film, or even much of a smile. Sokka's fans were equally unamused.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Fire Lord Ozai, like always. Like in the cartoon, he burned and banished his son for speaking out of term. If that weren't enough, in the Novelization, {{spoiler|'''HE''' was the one who ordered Zhao to blow up Zuko's ship and make it look like an accident}}.
* [[Dull Surprise]]:
** Aang in particular.
** Katara: At least Aang shows ''some'' emotion for about 2 seconds in the Water Tribe. Katara, however, is (to quote a fan review) "like the secret love child of [[Keanu Reeves]], [[Kristen Stewart]], and a brick wall."
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* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Everyone who isn't a part of the Fire Nation suffers from this. Unlike the series, Firebenders (who aren't masters) need an available source of fire in order to bend it. This is all well and good, except none of the other characters ever think to ''put them out!'' Granted, some of the fire sources are fairly large, but nothing that couldn't be doused with a little effort. Taken to truly ridiculous extremes in the Earthbender camp when several Firebenders are literally bending from a single source they could not conceivably protect. Someone ''does'' give the order to douse the flames when the alarm bells sound... but apparently, they never got around to it, because all of the fires are still going during the battle.
** Then there's what happens during the Siege of the North. In the ''planning stage'' the Water Tribe said that they needed to douse all of the torches in the city. Fire Nation comes, ''THE TORCHES ARE STILL LIT.'' Granted it would have made a moot point because of all the flaming boulders the Fire Nation was tossing in, but really?
* [[Ship Tease]]: The ending of the Oasis fight was significantly more... Zutara-ish.
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: There is one scene at the beginning where Sokka is splashed with water and then is immediately dry. Also, it's an arctic area and you can't see anyone's breath.
** Also, the waterbending is sometimes not even animated.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HB8u3p3o4M SLOW MOVING JELLY!]
*** Hell, every CG waterbending scene in this film look like something from before ''[[The Abyss]]''.
** The firebending is pretty much nothing but poorly composited live-action fire elements with some CG that even the film version of ''[[Spawn]]'' would reject.
** What makes this even sadder is that [[Industrial Light and Magic]] were the ones behind the special effects. You know, the guys that did ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', ''[[The Terminator|Terminator 2]]'' and ''[[Jurassic Park]]''?
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* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: Shaun Toub and Dev Petel, though at least the latter was somewhat close to the original character portrayal.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Appa's face in the movie, from what's been seen in the trailers and [[Merchandise-Driven|tie-in toys]]. Samples [http://screenrant.com/the-last-airbender-toys-kofi-44634/ here].
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: [[media:castingchars.jpg|This]] explains most of the commotion. See: [[Unfortunate Implications/Film|Unfortunate Implications: Film]].
** [[Fan Nickname|Racebending]], as horrible as it was, seemed to drown out the heavy sexist tone in the film, too.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Here's an interesting bit of trivia: Nickelodeon was apparently so confident in Shyamalan, [[Protection From Editors|that they gave him full creative control over the film,]] while giving the creators of the TV show none to speak of. Needless to say, it didn't pan out very well. It's like none of them had even ''heard'' of the guy and his career.
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