Avatar:The Last Airbender
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This article may not have a place in this wiki. See Avatar Wiki: Votes for Deletion for voting. Avatar: The Last Airbender (known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some countries) is a show on Nickelodeon. It tells the story of the four main characters, Aang, Katara, Sokka and Toph Bei Fong. They are trying to train Aang in earthbending, waterbending, and firebending. Prince Zuko was first trying to capture Aang, the Avatar, to regain his honor. Now he has had a change of heart and has joined Aang in his quest to restore balance to the world.
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[edit] Chapters
[edit] Book One: Water
- The Boy in the Iceberg
- The Avatar Returns
- The Southern Air Temple
- The Warriors of Kyoshi
- The King of Omashu
- Imprisoned
- Winter Solstice Part 1: The Spirit World
- Winter Solstice Part 2: Avatar Roku
- The Waterbending Scroll
- Jet
- The Great Divide
- The Storm
- The Blue Spirit
- The Fortuneteller
- Bato of the Water Tribe
- The Deserter
- The Northern Air Temple
- The Waterbending Master
- The Siege of the North, Part 1
- The Siege of the North, Part 2
[edit] Book Two: Earth
- The Avatar State
- The Cave of Two Lovers
- Return to Omashu
- The Swamp
- Avatar Day
- The Blind Bandit
- Zuko Alone
- The Chase
- Bitter Work
- The Library
- The Desert
- The Serpent's Pass
- The Drill
- City of Walls and Secrets
- Tales of Ba Sing Se
- Appa's Lost Days
- Lake Laogai
- The Earth King
- The Guru
- The Crossroads of Destiny
[edit] Book Three: Fire
- The Awakening
- The Headband
- The Painted Lady
- Sokka's Master
- The Beach
- The Avatar and the Fire Lord
- The Runaway
- The Puppetmaster
- Nightmares And Daydreams
- The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion
- The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse
- The Western Air Temple
- The Firebending Masters
- The Boiling Rock, Part 1
- The Boiling Rock, Part 2
- The Southern Raiders
- The Ember Island Players
- Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King
- Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters
- Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into The Inferno
- Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang
Volume 4 of Book 3: Fire is scheduled for release July 29, 2008.
http://news.tvonmedia.com/tvom_news_by_show/Avatar-the-Last-Airbender-Book-3-Fire-Volume-4.shtml
[edit] Misc episodes
- The Legend So Far
- Jump on
[edit] Information
- Episodes: 61
- First aired: February 2005
- Run time: 22 min
- Most recent episode: Sozin's Comet
- Original Air Date - July 19th
- Next episode: No longer, end of series
[edit] Core cast / Main characters
[edit] Extra cast
- Admiral Zhao †
- Aunt Wu
- Avatar Kyoshi †
- Avatar Roku †
- Chit Sang
- Combustion Man †
- Fire Lord Azulon †
- Fire Lord Ozai
- Fire Lord Sozin †
- Gran Gran
- Guru Pathik
- Jet †
- June
- Jeong Jeong
- Long Feng
- Mai
- Master Pakku
- Monk Gyatso †
- Suki
- Princess Ursa
- Princess Yue † (Now the Moon Spirit)
- Teo
- Ty Lee
[edit] Locations
- Ba Sing Se
- Omashu
- Kyoshi Island
- The Great Divide
- Southern Water Tribe
- Northern Water Tribe
- The Southern Air Temple
- The Northern Air Temple
- The Eastern Air Temple
- The Western Air Temple
- Zuko's ship
- Fire Nation Capital
- Crescent Island
- Abandoned Earth Kingdom City
[edit] Technologies / Other stuff
- Creeping crystal
- Fire Nation warships
- Omashu mail delivery system
- Fire Nation Tank
- Fire Nation catapults
- Fire Nation war ballons
- Fire Nation Airship
[edit] Bending arts
[edit] Fighting styles
One final Asiatic influence is found in the show's action choreography. The fighting choreography draws from martial arts films, and the fighting styles and weaponry are based upon Chinese martial arts, with each bending art corresponding to a certain real-world style or styles. The creators use Tai Chi for waterbending, Hung Gar for earthbending (for the most part -- although the Earthbender Toph employs Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu), Northern Shaolin for firebending, and Ba Gua for airbending. The show employs Sifu Kisu of the Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Association as a martial arts consultant.
Each different fighting style is unique in its own way. A good way to compare the four styles is that
Airbenders evade the attack. (Negative Jing)
Waterbenders redirect the attack. (A Degree Between Negative and Neutral Jing)
Earthbenders intercept the attack, endure it and wait for the right moment to strike. (Neutral Jing)
Firebenders preempt the attack with their own. (Positive Jing)
This, however, is only a generalization, and circumstances may cause this pattern to vary. Also, it appears that the ability to bend comes from both genetics and spirituality. This is hinted in the series when twin brothers in the episode "The Fortuneteller" announced that only one of them is an Earthbender while the other is not. This can also be seen with Sokka who ridicules all forms of bending and magic; who is the brother to Katara, a Waterbender, but he himself is not.
