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Avatar: The Last Airbender (view source)
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==Setting==
==Setting==
Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in an Asiatic-like world (along with a spirit world), home to humans and hybrid animals). The world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Each nation has people that are "benders", who can use a kind of telekinetic manipulation to control their nation's elemental martial arts.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in an Asiatic-like world (along with a spirit world), home to humans and hybrid animals. The world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Each nation has people that are "benders", who can use a kind of telekinetic manipulation to control their nation's elemental martial arts.
Also in this world is the Avatar, a mediator maintaining harmony between the four nations as well as the human and spirit worlds. When the Avatar dies, their spirit reincarnates into the next Avatar from the next nation, set in an order called the Avatar Cycle: Air Nomads, Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, and Fire Nation. The Avatar is also the only being in this world that can bend all four elements, required to master them all: they start with their home element before going through the other nations in the order of the Avatar Cycle; they usually start at age 16. The Avatar can also use the ability to enter the Avatar State, in which they gain the knowledge and abilities of all past Avatars. Although he/she is at their most powerful, if an Avatar is killed while in the Avatar State, the Cycle would end, and the Avatar would never again appear.
Also in this world is the Avatar, a mediator maintaining harmony between the four nations as well as the human and spirit worlds. When the Avatar dies, their spirit reincarnates into the next Avatar from the next nation, set in an order called the Avatar Cycle: Air Nomads, Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, and Fire Nation. The Avatar is also the only being in this world that can bend all four elements, required to master them all: they start with their home element before going through the other nations in the order of the Avatar Cycle; they usually start at age 16. The Avatar can also use the ability to enter the Avatar State, in which they gain the knowledge and abilities of all past Avatars. Although he/she is at their most powerful, if an Avatar is killed while in the Avatar State, the Cycle would end, and the Avatar would never again appear.
==Story==
==Story==
A hundred years before the start of the series, the Fire Nation goes through a time of rapid industrialization, technological advancement, and shifts in demographics. The ruler of the Fire Nation, Fire Lord Sozin, plans to start a world war to expand his nation's territory, influence, and wealth, but he was stopped by the Fire Nation's Avatar: Roku (who was also his best friend). After Roku's death, the next Avatar was born, an airbender named Aang. Since the new Avatar was a child, Sozin seizes his chance to go on with his militant plans. Because of the threat of this world war, Aang learned about his Avatar earlier than usual, at the age of twelve. But Aang became afraid of his new responsibilities and was worried that he would be separated from his mentor Gyatso, so he ran away from home with his flying bison, Appa. Out at sea, Aang got caught in a storm, entering the Avatar State and sealing himself and Appa in ice near the South Pole for a century.
A hundred years before the start of the series, the Fire Nation went through a time of rapid industrialization, technological advancement, and shifts in demographics. The ruler of the Fire Nation, Fire Lord Sozin, planned to start a world war to expand his nation's territory, influence, and wealth, but he was stopped by the Fire Nation's Avatar: Roku (who was also his best friend). After Roku's death, the next Avatar was born, an airbender named Aang. Since the new Avatar was a child, Sozin seizes his chance to go on with his militant plans. Because of the threat of this world war, Aang learned about his Avatar earlier than usual, at the age of twelve. But Aang became afraid of his new responsibilities and was worried that he would be separated from his mentor Gyatso, so he ran away from home with his flying bison, Appa. Out at sea, Aang got caught in a storm, entering the Avatar State and sealing himself and Appa in ice near the South Pole for a century.
Knowing that the new Avatar was an Air Nomad, Sozin carried out a genocide against the Air Nomads during Sozin's Comet, a comet that came every one hundred years and increased the power of firebenders. With this out of the way, Sozin continued his conquest and war, which lasted for a hundred years.
Knowing that the new Avatar was an Air Nomad, Sozin carried out a genocide against the Air Nomads during Sozin's Comet, a comet that came every one hundred years and increased the power of firebenders. With this out of the way, Sozin continued his conquest and war, which lasted for a hundred years.
A hundred years later, a fourteen-year-old waterbender named Katara and her older brother Sokka finds and revive Aang and Appa, located in the South Pole where they live. Aang learned about the war, and he and the siblings decide to go to the Northern Water Tribe so that he and Katara can learn waterbending together. Pursuing them is Prince Zuko, exiled son of the current Fire Lord, who sees the arrival of the Avatar, and he is joined by his uncle Iroh. Another enemy pursuing them is Admiral Zhao, a Fire Nation admiral who wants to win Ozai's favor and nab himself some glory.
A hundred years later (and at the start of Season 1), a fourteen-year-old waterbender named Katara and her older brother Sokka finds and revive Aang and Appa, located in the South Pole where they live. Aang learned about the war, and he and the siblings decide to go to the Northern Water Tribe so that he and Katara can learn waterbending together. Pursuing them is Prince Zuko, exiled son of the current Fire Lord, who sees the arrival of the Avatar, and he is joined by his uncle Iroh. Another enemy pursuing them is Admiral Zhao, a Fire Nation admiral who wants to win Ozai's favor and nab himself some glory.
One of the first stops is the ruins of the Southern Air Temple, where Aang learned about his people's genocide. When the winter solstice rolls around, Aang meets the spirit of the Avatar before him, Avatar Roku, and comes to term with the duties of the Avatar. They finally reach the Northern Water Tribe, and Aang and Katara learn waterbending from Master Pakku, a stern man whose past is tied with Katara's grandmother. Sokka also falls in love with the chief's daughter, Princess Yue. Soon enough, Zhao and his navy lay siege to the Northern Water Tribe, capturing the mortal forms of the ocean and moon spirits - the first waterbenders. Zhao kills the moon spirit to rob the waterbenders of their power, but Aang joins the ocean spirit in driving off the enemy fleet (during which Zhao is killed), while Yue sacrifices herself to restore the moon spirit back to life. Ozai hears of Iroh's resistance to Zhao and sends his daughter, Azula, to capture his brother and son.
One of the first stops is the ruins of the Southern Air Temple, where Aang learned about his people's genocide. When the winter solstice rolls around, Aang meets the spirit of the Avatar before him, Avatar Roku, and comes to term with the duties of the Avatar. They finally reach the Northern Water Tribe, and Aang and Katara learn waterbending from Master Pakku, a stern man whose past is tied with Katara's grandmother. Sokka also falls in love with the chief's daughter, Princess Yue. Soon enough, Zhao and his navy lay siege to the Northern Water Tribe, capturing the mortal forms of the ocean and moon spirits - the first waterbenders. Zhao kills the moon spirit to rob the waterbenders of their power, but Aang joins the ocean spirit in driving off the enemy fleet (during which Zhao is killed), while Yue sacrifices herself to restore the moon spirit back to life. Ozai hears of Iroh's resistance to Zhao and sends his daughter, Azula, to capture his brother and son.
In season 2, the three friends leave the Northern Water Tribe. Along the way, Aang and Katara continue their waterbending training while looking for an earthbending teacher for the former. The teacher they meet is a twelve-year-old blind girl named Toph Beifong, who wants independence from her upper class protective parents. Pursued by Princess Azula and her own gang, Prince Zuko and Iroh flee to the Earth Kingdom, living as wanderers and later refuges in Ba Sing Se, the Earth Kingdom's capital city. While exploring a library guarded by the owl-like spirit Wan Shi Tong, Aang and his friends learn of a solar eclipse which can dimish the Fire Nation's firebending and win them the war, so they journey to Ba Sing Se to tell the king about their plan. They realize that Earth King Kuei is a puppet king manipulated by his advisor and head of the Dai Li secret police, Long Feng. They expose Long Feng's political schemes, while Azula teams up with him and his Dail Li agents to carry out a coup d'état in Ba Sing Se. Zuko, who had spent time learning to make peace with his identity, ultimately sides with his sister. During a fight in the ancient catacombs under Ba Sing Se, Aang nearly completes the Avatar State only to be nearly killed by Azula, forcing the heroes to flee with help from Iroh. Ba Sing Se is now under the rule of the Fire Nation.
In season 3, Aang finally awakes from a coma to see his friends and allies disguised as Fire Nation soldiers and citizens, preparing to invade the Fire Nation capital during the eclipse. After spending time in the Fire Nation and among its people, they're ready to fight. The invasion succeeds at first, but due to Azula warning Ozai about the eclipse, Aang and his friends cannot find the Fire Lord and thus retreat. Zuko learns about the destruction his father plans to unleash upon the Earth Kingdom during Sozin's Comet, a huge comet that greatly enhances a firebender's power. He regrets choosing his father's tyrannical rule and abandons the Fire Nation to help Aang and teach him firebending. A few days before the comet's arrival, Aang wrestles with the possibility of killing Ozai to end the war, since as a pacifist, he prefers to not kill, and he asks his past lives' spirits for advice. In the meantime, Zuko, Katara, and the others meet up with Iroh, who is leading a secret society called the Order of the White Lotus. Once Sozin's Comet arrives, the White Lotus liberates Ba Sing Se from the Fire Nation's grasp. Zuko and Katara confront Azula the day she is to be crowned the new Fire Lord, while Sokka, Toph, and Suki (Sokka's girlfriend from the Kyoshi Warriors) try to stop the Fire Nation's air fleet. Finally, Aang battles Ozai but is beaten until Ozai accidentally trigger's Aang's final connection to the Avatar State. After a powerful fight, Aang strips Ozai of his firebending powers with a move called "energybending", which can remove a person's bending. Zuko is crowned the new Fire Lord in his father's place, and the remaining three nations decide to work together for peace.
==Main Characters==
==Main Characters==
'''Avatar Aang''' '''(voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen)''' = Aang is the main protagonist of the story as well as the current Avatar. He is the only human survivor of the Air Nomad massacre, waking up from spending a century in an iceberg he created.
'''Katara''' '''(voiced by Mae Whitman)''' = Katara is the deuteragonist of the story and Aang's eventual girlfriend. She aspires to become a powerful waterbender, tagging along with Aang on his quest to the Northern Water Tribe along with her brother.
==References==
==References==
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