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[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph Beifong]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation Fire Nation]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | '''The Ember Island Players''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

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[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation Fire Nation]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | '''The Ember Island Players''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

* HeroicBuild: he is ''very''ripped.

* DeathByAdaptation: He gets killed in battle by Azula. The real Zuko manages to live [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra well into his mid-late eighties]].

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Player Katara's wardrobe has a low neckline and a leg slit. The real Katara didn't start wearing skin-baring clothes until she went to the Fire Nation.

* DemotedToExtra: The real Mai was a major character and Zuko's love interest. Player Mai only appears in one scene.

* DemotedToExtra: Only appears in one scene near the beginning, although the real Suki played a much bigger role, being Sokka's love interest and participating in the attack on Ozai's airships.

[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation Fire Nation]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | '''The Ember Island Players''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation Fire Nation]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | '''The Ember Island Players''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation Fire Nation]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] | '''The Ember Island Players''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

The Ember Island Players are an ensemble of actors performing at the theater on Ember Island, the vacation home of the Fire Nation nobility. They are [[StarvingArtist underpaid]] [[LargeHam hams]] who dazzle the audiences with impressive special effects and wild costumes. Two of their plays are known: ''[[ShowWithinAShow Love Amongst the Dragons]]'' and ''The Boy in the Iceberg''. Ursa, a former member of the Hira's Acting Troupe, used to take Zuko and Azula to ''Love Amongst the Dragons'', [[NoodleIncident but Zuko thinks the Players "butchered" it]].

* FamousLastWords: "Noooo!"

* FamousLastWords: '''''HONOR!'''''

* FamousLastWords: "And yes, I did have pickled fish...."

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. When playing Sokka, he behaves like a happy-go-lucky moron. His real personality, on the hand, is somewhat cynical and he’s initially dismissive of the real Sokka’s suggestions. However, he finds himself impressed by Sokka’s material and quickly warms up to him, even incorporating them into his performance.

* AnimeHair: Her OdangoHair is exaggerated to the point where she can stick knives in it.

* CombatHaircomb: Parodied. She stuffs her knives in her OdangoHair!

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] When playing Sokka, he behaves like a happy-go-lucky moron. His real personality, on the hand, is somewhat cynical and he’s initially dismissive of the real Sokka’s suggestions. However, he finds himself impressed by Sokka’s material and quickly warms up to him, even incorporating them into his performance.

* CrosscastRole: Just like Player Aang.

[[quoteright:200:''"My heart is so full of hope, that it's making me tearbend!"'']]

* OdangoHair: Her hairstyle exaggerates the real Mai's OdangoHair, making it look more like Mickey Mouse ears than anything.

Player Zuko is more accurate than other Players, but Real Zuko considers Player Zuko too stiff and dour, and Player Zuko's scar is on the wrong side. Player Zuko is even more obsessed than the real Zuko with honor and capturing the Avatar, and shouts "honor!" more than he says anything else. He flirts with Player Katara. In Act III, he is killed by Player Azula for his betrayal of the Fire Nation.

* AnimeHair: It looks like a giant bow.

[[caption-width-right:185:''"No! It is you who are going down! You see, you are too late! The comet is already here, and I'm unstoppable!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:217:(Normal)(Normal)''"Don't cry, baby! Jet will wipe out that nasty town for ''you''!''"]]

-->''"The Avatar is no more!"''

-->''"I'm the Avatar, silly, here to spread joy and fun!"''

-->''"My heart is so full of hope, that it's making me tearbend!"''

-->''"All I want is a full feeling in my stomach! I'm starving!"''

-->''"My name's Toph, because that sounds like Tough and that's just what I am!"''

-->''"I don't have time to stuff my face! I must capture the Avatar to regain my honor!"''

-->''"Choose treachery! It's more fun!"''

-->''"No! It is you who are going down! You see, you are too late! The comet is already here, and I'm unstoppable!"''

-->''"Riddles and challenges must you face, if you are ever to leave this place."''

--> ''"I am the Blue Spirit, the scourge of the Fire Nation, here to save the Avatar!"''

A mysterious anti-fire nation figure in a ''gigantic'' blue oni mask who appears to save the avatar from Zuko.

[[caption-width-right:217:Normal]]

[[caption-width-right:200:Brainwashed]]
-->(Normal)''"Don't cry, baby! Jet will wipe out that nasty town for ''you''!''"
-->(Brainwashed)''"Must...serve...Earth King! Must...destroy! [starts babbling]"''

-->''"Goodbye, Sokka! I have important moon duties to take care of! And yes, I did have pickled fish."''

* DracoInLeatherPants: InUniverse. Even outside of the play's status as propaganda, she seems to lack most of Azula's psychopathic tendencies, for example not shooting Iroh during the re-enactment of "The Chase".
** She's also way more mentally stable than the real Azula. She keeps it together during the play's finale, as opposed to the real deal, who was in the middle of a ''spectacular'' VillainousBreakdown at that point.

* ActionGirl: She's a knife master and one of Azula's elite henchmen.

%%* {{Ninja}}

* CriticalResearchFailure: Subverted. The writers did correctly get that Toph uses another sense to compensate for blindness... They just got the details laughably wrong. The real Toph uses seismic sense, not echolocation like this play depicts.

* SuppressedMammaries: Averted. No action was taken to hide her breasts, and they're pretty obvious.

* EightiesHair: Has ridiculously overgrown hair in the second act.

[[caption-width-right:217:Brainwashed]]

-->(Brainwashed)''"Must...serve...Earth King! Must...destroy![starts babbling]"''

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: "Hey, look, Zuko! It's your ''honor!''"

* CriticalResearchFailure: The writers somehow got his scar on the wrong side.

* HonorBeforeReason