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* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Zuko, when he's not [[Large Ham|yelling or being his general angry self]].

* [[Large Ham]]: The Fire nation seems to be a [[World of Ham]]. Seemingly to contrast the [[Dull Surprise]] people from the Water nation.

* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: While filming the movie, [[M Night Shyamalan]] claimed that it was going to be his greatest work. All those Razzie Awards beg to differ.

* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: While filming the movie, [[M. Night Shyamalan]] claimed that it was going to be his greatest work. All those Razzie Awards beg to differ.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Before the movie had even come out, early test screening reviews mentioned a scene that has turned the phrase "punching the fish" [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/063/7/3/PUNCH_A_FISH_IN_THE_FACE_by_Booter_Freak.png into a meme]<ref> He actually stabs it with a knife.</ref>. Other gems include the pebble dance (the most notorious example of the [[Flynning]] mentioned above <ref>Six earthbenders. Four seconds of ''kata''. One rock, slightly larger than a human head.</ref>), Kat-tackle (Katara pushing over a random guard and then just standing there), Zhao constantly mentioning the secret library, Ozai's glowing ass (from a screenshot in which the source of light appears to be Ozai's rear end), Yue's [[Department of Redundancy Department|line about believing in beliefs]], and her penis hair (how it looks like when viewed from the [http://i747.photobucket.com/albums/xx111/aangthony/wtf-tla/101.jpg back].)

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5J7inpYSoE AANG! JUST ONCE!]

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* [[Mis Blamed]]: Everyone still insists that M. Night is completely at fault with the movie's short comings when [[Executive Meddling]] forced him to cut 25 minutes from the movie due to being too cheap to pay for 3D effects.

** Though the blame has been shifted back to M. Night after the deleted scenes were revealed to be...less than stellar, potentially worse than what got left in. People blaming M. Night now also say that the studio only cut it down to its short runtime because the longer version was worse.

** Also, M. Night wrote the entire screenplay with next to ''no'' input from Brian, Mike, Ehasz, or any other writer from the series, who were dragged away from the project by their upcoming ''[[~~The Legend of Korra (Animation)|~~The Legend of Korra]]''.

** Also, M. Night wrote the entire screenplay with next to ''no'' input from Brian, Mike, Ehasz, or any other writer from the series, who were dragged away from the project by their upcoming ''[[The Legend of Korra]]''.

* [[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?

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*** 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]]''?

** 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]]''?

* [[Tainted By the Preview]]: Part of the fanbase of the [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|source cartoon]] already declared the movie a lost cause before the first trailers came out. [[M Night Shyamalan]] did not prove them wrong.

* [[Tainted by the Preview]]: Part of the fanbase of the [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|source cartoon]] already declared the movie a lost cause before the first trailers came out. [[M. Night Shyamalan]] did not prove them wrong.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Long before the movie was anything more than a casting list and a few trailers, fans were complaining about changes to the source material. One of the biggest examples from the movie once it finally came out was the pronunciation changes, which Shyamalan deliberately included to make the character names sound closer to their "correct" Asian pronunciations than the Americanized pronunciations from the cartoon. Fans were not pleased.

** And they weren't pleased because A. "Ah-vatar" doesn't exist because Sanskrit (the language that the word Avatar comes from) doesn't have a stressed "Ah" sound in it and B. the changes in pronunciation were arbitrary and downright stupid (where in the bloody hell do you get "Ki" from the word "Kai"?)

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** [[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.

* [[WTH Casting Agency]]: [[The Daily Show|Aasif Mandvi]] as Zhao?

* [[WTH? Casting Agency]]: [[The Daily Show|Aasif Mandvi]] as Zhao?

** White kids Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, and Noah Ringer as the dark-skinned, Inuit-based Katara and Sokka and the Tibetan based Aang. [[Unfortunate Implications|Surrounded by Asian extras and fighting dark-skinned bad guys.]]