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* Are the Sun Warriors Aang and Zuko meet in season 3 directly related to the original Sun Warriors, or are they more akin to the Air Acolytes - regular people who took interest in replicating and maintaining the Sun Warrior ways of life?
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** It is possible that the source was a trader or other such visitor who developed some sort of grudge against the Southern Water Tribe in particular and his information was correct only by accident. As Yon Rha doesn't bother to ask Kya to prove that she can waterbend, this would result merely in a terrifying raid, a bit of destruction, and some random person dying (at best). Good revenge if you really wanted to hurt a people.
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** Seeing as it's customary for the Avatar's identity to be revealed when they reach sixteen, it may be a daunting task to find them, but whoever administers the search has plenty of time. And if it came to it, Raava or one of the previous Avatars could always bring out another type of bending or the Avatar State to speed the search along.
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** Even if it did the Air Nomads wouldn't care, the comics have established they saw no difference between types of love and relationships.
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** Yes, Fire Lord is the title no matter who holds it.
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*** During his time at a Fire Nation school, Aang befriends a boy whose skin stone is similar to theirs. It stands to reason that it's not exclusive to Water Tribesmen.
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** The Southern Water Tribe and Foggy Swamp Tribe both seem to be relatively recently founded, which is why they're both so scattered and such. As for the northern tribe...I'm not seeing what you mean by "they don't have much, not counting their city" - what else are you expecting to see? Having a full-fledged city is nothing to scoff at, and they've managed to remain completely safe from the Fire Nation for the past 100 years, a feat even the Earth Kingdom couldn't pull off - Iroh managed to break down the outer wall of Bah Sing Se and only gave up the siege after his son died. We also never see any hints that the northern tribe is struggling to get by or anything, so I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that they're poor.
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* Is it explained how the Fire Nation made it to the Southern Air Temple in the first place? Aang says when they get there that the only way to reach it is on a flying bison.
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* Is it customary for females to still be referred to as "Fire Lord," instead of a gender-based equivalent?
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** 1: They might have been intending to break the reincarnation cycle for good in the long term and keep the Avatar from being of a competent age for a few decades in the short term. 2: They're still suspecting it's an airbender because there hadn't been so much as a single substantiated sighting of the avatar in over 100 years, even during the years when the "new avatar" would've been a child, meaning that the only explanation is that the avatar escaped and has lived to a ripe old age.
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* Is it explained how the Fire Nation made it to the Southern Air Temple in the first place? Aang says when they get there that the only way to reach it is on a flying bison.
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* If the Fire Nation knows that the Avatar, once killed, is always reborn into the next nation in the cycle, then why did they kill all the Air nomads in the first place? And why are they still expecting the Avatar to be a 100-year-old airbender? Shouldn't there have come a point where they started looking for an earthbender instead?
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Noting the absence of female fighters that could bend and what that might indicate for the Avatar world at large
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** Interestingly enough the official policy of the Northern Water Tribe at the time echoes the noticeable absence of named women benders (or at least those trained in combat) in the series. Aside from Avatars Yangchen and Kyoshi, there is only one female airbender shown and named (Sister Liu from Appa's flashback), two female earth benders (Toph and Oma), and Azula was noticeably the first and (up until the middle of the third season) only female firebender. There were no female Earthbenders shown either the Earth Kingdom armies or the Dai Li, and the Fire Nation's only confirmed female soldiers served either in prisons or in law enforcement, as opposed to taking part in any major foreign campaigns or occupations (however, since many soldiers wore masks as a part of their uniform, it would be difficult to ascertain their gender from a glance). The Foggy Swamp Tribe seemed to be the only tribe that had women benders fight alongside male benders. While Katara was right to point out that she should be able to learn how to fight with Waterbending if she wanted to, the baffling expectation throughout much of the world at that time seemed to be that women were expected not to fight, even if they were benders in a time of war. The fact that almost all of the aforementioned female benders were easily equaled or surpassed their male peers are a strong indication that this exception is not grounded in any concrete fact.
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* Doesn't the Fire Nation have a KGB-like organization whose job is to ensure the loyalty of citizens (in this matter, rebel hunting), much like how Star Wars had COMPNOR or the Imperial Security Beureau? If they did, shouldn't they be the ones Team Avatar has to contend with?
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Also the opposite may apply, Pan-Arabism for example consider all Arabs members of one single nation, yet divided among like 12 independent states. The Umma is sometimes call the Muslim nation and is a similar case as the aforementioned. Jews consider themselves one single people, yet they only have one independent State, but very numerous communities around the world. In A:TLA’s world there are only four nations (or races or peoples, as you wish) define by their element, yet nation and government are rarely the same, as in our world.
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**To be honest, is harder to explain why Katara and Soka's skin color is never notice.
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****How was that suggested and by whom?
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**Is China and Taiwan one nation or two? And is Tibet part of the nation known as China or is a different nation? The problem is that we in the West tend to think in nations as synonymous of state (government) or country, but in the East (and the show is strongly Influenced by Eastern culture) nation is more an ethnic term, as for example a Tamil in India may feel that he is part of the Tamil Nation, thus feeling closer to the Tamils in Sri Lanka than to non-Tamil Indians, a Tibetan in Northern India probably feel closer to a Tibetan in Tibet and part of the same nation even when they live in different countries/states and are citizens of different governments. Just make the same analogy to ATLA's world.
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*** This is a world where some people are able to interact with their environment in ways that are absolutely impossible in RealLife and even Aang isn't [[WebVideo/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice the motherfucking Emperor]]. Could be that the Water Tribe blue eyes are not like ''RealLife'' blue eyes at all and offer (near-)complete protection from snow glare. Not only don't we see any of them blinded by it, there is never any complaint made against it and no attempt to avoid it ''at all''.
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*** This is a world where some people are able to interact with their environment in ways that are absolutely impossible in RealLife and even Aang isn't [[WebVideo/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice [[WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice the motherfucking Emperor]]. Could be that the Water Tribe blue eyes are not like ''RealLife'' blue eyes at all and offer (near-)complete protection from snow glare. Not only don't we see any of them blinded by it, there is never any complaint made against it and no attempt to avoid it ''at all''.
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** The Earth Kingdom is most closely based on Imperial China, and they had client states with their own client kings on their periphery. This is pretty standard for ancient empires, actually, since it takes far less resources and effort to just lean on neighbouring polities with your influence than to conquer them by force. You let small kingdoms keep their independence on internal affairs and their customs and titles, as long as they swear fealty to you and pay tribute. This is probably the original relationship of Ba Sing Se and the rest of the Earth Kingdom, but in the present day of the show the Impenetrable City has shut away the outside world and lost interest in governing territories outside its walls, leaving all the polities it used to control to practical independence -- again, something similar happened with the Imperial China in its last days.
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** Earthbenders are useful for coal mining, which is used for the Fire Nation's steam engines. Waterbenders are useful for their healing power--given the otherwise realistic depiction of injuries, waterbending healing would be one of the only possible explanations for why Zuko still has two eyes. But Airbenders? They served no purpose for the Fire Nation, and furthermore, one among their number was the reincarnation of a man who ''threatened their lord and demanded their people leave the colonies that had been set up.'' Honor being what it is to the Fire Nation, Roku's humiliation of his Fire Lord and forcing him to bow to the will of another ''probably'' left a bitter taste in the Fire Nation's mouth, moreso because Roku was Fire Nation himself.
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*** That doesn't really make sense either. The way the Avatar cycle has been shown to work is thus; old Avatar dies, new Avatar is instantly re-incarnated in some random baby. The earth and waterbending [=POWs=] [[CaptainObvious aren't babies]]. Maybe it's because of some sort of cultural tradition or what-not, or maybe they don't execute them ''because'' they're [=POW=]s, like some of the more, eh, ''forgiving'' nations in RealLife. Or maybe they wanted to interrogate them for information, the same way [=POWs=] of, say, the Korean War were interrogated.
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*** That doesn't really make sense either. The way the Avatar cycle has been shown to work is thus; old Avatar dies, new Avatar is instantly re-incarnated in some random baby. The earth and waterbending [=POWs=] [[CaptainObvious aren't babies]].babies. Maybe it's because of some sort of cultural tradition or what-not, or maybe they don't execute them ''because'' they're [=POW=]s, like some of the more, eh, ''forgiving'' nations in RealLife. Or maybe they wanted to interrogate them for information, the same way [=POWs=] of, say, the Korean War were interrogated.
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**** Toph's "gray" eyes always looked more like cataracts to this troper, since you can see the green underneath them. Either way, though, the Gaang were passing themselves off as "from the Earth Nation colonies," and since Toph is, well, [[CaptainObvious actually from the Earth Kingdom]], she could do this the most convincingly, "proper" eye color or not.
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**** Toph's "gray" eyes always looked more like cataracts to this troper, since you can see the green underneath them. Either way, though, the Gaang were passing themselves off as "from the Earth Nation colonies," and since Toph is, well, [[CaptainObvious actually from the Earth Kingdom]], Kingdom, she could do this the most convincingly, "proper" eye color or not.
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*** This is a world where some people are able to interact with their environment in ways that are absolutely impossible in RealLife and even Aang isn't [[IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice the motherfucking Emperor]]. Could be that the Water Tribe blue eyes are not like ''RealLife'' blue eyes at all and offer (near-)complete protection from snow glare. Not only don't we see any of them blinded by it, there is never any complaint made against it and no attempt to avoid it ''at all''.
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*** This is a world where some people are able to interact with their environment in ways that are absolutely impossible in RealLife and even Aang isn't [[IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice [[WebVideo/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice the motherfucking Emperor]]. Could be that the Water Tribe blue eyes are not like ''RealLife'' blue eyes at all and offer (near-)complete protection from snow glare. Not only don't we see any of them blinded by it, there is never any complaint made against it and no attempt to avoid it ''at all''.
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** I always assumed this was ArtisticLicenseBiology for the sake of ElementalEyeColors. While Arctic people in real life have brown eyes, no Water people in ''Avatar'' have them. All of them have blue eyes because WaterIsBlue rather than scientific reasons, I guess. Likewise, the Earth kingdom is populated by East Asians with bright green eyes (not as egregious but still unusual), and the Fire nation people have yellow eyes. I don't know anyone with yellow eyes...
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** I always assumed this was ArtisticLicenseBiology for the sake of ElementalEyeColors. While Arctic people in real life have brown eyes, no Water people in ''Avatar'' have them. All of them have blue eyes because WaterIsBlue rather than scientific reasons, I guess. Likewise, the Earth kingdom is populated by East Asians with bright green eyes (not as egregious but still unusual), and the Fire nation people have yellow eyes. I don't know anyone with yellow eyes... eyes...
*** This is a world where some people are able to interact with their environment in ways that are absolutely impossible in RealLife and even Aang isn't [[IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice the motherfucking Emperor]]. Could be that the Water Tribe blue eyes are not like ''RealLife'' blue eyes at all and offer (near-)complete protection from snow glare. Not only don't we see any of them blinded by it, there is never any complaint made against it and no attempt to avoid it ''at all''.
*** This is a world where some people are able to interact with their environment in ways that are absolutely impossible in RealLife and even Aang isn't [[IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice the motherfucking Emperor]]. Could be that the Water Tribe blue eyes are not like ''RealLife'' blue eyes at all and offer (near-)complete protection from snow glare. Not only don't we see any of them blinded by it, there is never any complaint made against it and no attempt to avoid it ''at all''.
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*** I have to heartily disagree. It seems much more likely for a ban going both ways. Otherwise Katara would have had a ready-made argument for being taught that she could have used without truly insulting anyone. I think Katara would be smart enough to pick up on such a double standard and at least try to argue from that standpoint regardless of whether it would be successful or not. Even if she is a bit hotheaded, Katara has Aang, who would have gladly made a similar argument in her stead if she, for whatever reason, didn't want to make the argument herself.
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** The designs are [[http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/tagged/The-Fire-Nation-is-not-Japan actually closer to Chinese and Thai if anything]].
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** Men are probably ''allowed'' to learn healing, but since it's considered a "womanly" thing, most probably opt not to. While they likely weren't technically BANNED from it, it was in all likelihood discouraged.
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** Because it has a lot of design and visuals that are clearly and in some cases explicitly taken from Japanese art and culture.
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* Why do some people insist that the Fire Nation is ''aesthetically'' Japanese?
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The headscratchers is not about complaining shows, it\'s about asking questions about various cases of Fridge Logic. The writers choosing the Northern Tribe to have sexist qualities it\'s not Fridge Logic, it\'s about worldbuilding and adding interesting conflicts to your story. You could just as well ask why they chose to make the Fire Nation colonialist.
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* What was the point of having the Northern Water Tribe be sexist? To give Katara something to be self-righteous over?
