Ship Tease/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* The writers of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' are (not with basis) accused of teasing the incessant Zutara (Zuko/Katara) shippers, as traces of hinting can be found in the ''Avatar''-dedicated Nick Mag issue and within various interviews. Most notably, trailers for the second season teased a hookup between the two - they get [[Locked in A Room]], and [[Deconstruction|they don't go the route most characters go afterwards]] (despite ''her thumb on his mouth''). Followed in the same episode by a thorough and brutal [[Ship Sinking]].

** The four-part finale, in which the ship teasing is as brutally epic as the storyline itself, threw out more bait to the Zutara fans ''than the entire rest of the series combined''. It even includes such classics as {{spoiler|[[She Is Not My Girlfriend]] and [[Taking the Bullet]], only to shoot it all down in flames with two heartfelt love scenes - Aang/Katara and Zuko/Mai - in the very last minutes of the last episode}}. (And they still have time to start a Toph/Zuko [[Ship Tease]].) The amount of ship teasing present in the finale actually confused many casual watchers as to the ending pairings, since {{spoiler|Katara and Aang don't interact except for the start and the very end of the finale.}}