History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderBatoOfTheWaterTribe

* LiarRevealed: Aang is given a map that could lead his only two friends to their father, who has been off to war since they were kids. As a dedicated monk, Aang can barely handle keeping up the lie, and eventually just admits it after Bato compliments him on his character. Aang's friends are outraged and decide to go find their father even though they previously planned on sticking with Aang no matter what. Aang wins them back by the end of the episode after they all fight for their lives together against a trio of villains who want Aang dead. It also helps that Aang managed to steal back one of their family heirlooms from one of the villains.

* BystanderSyndrome: Iroh does nothing to help Zuko or June fight Aang. [[spoiler: It foreshadows that Iroh actually made a HeelFaceTurn years ago and has no intention of letting the Fire Nation capture the Avatar.]]

* LogicalWeakness: The perfume to the shirshu. After Katara doses it in the various perfumes, it’s unable to see clearly and blindly strikes at people.

* BetrayalByInaction: Downplayed, but Iroh does nothing to help Zuko or June fight Aang. [[spoiler: It foreshadows that Iroh actually long ago made a HeelFaceTurn and has no intention of letting the Fire Nation capture the Avatar.]]

->''"Being a man is knowing where you're needed the most, and for you right now that's here protecting your sister."''

While our heroes continue on their journey, they happen by an old friend of Katara and Sokka's; Bato, a Southern Water Tribe Warrior, who has been separated from the rest of the fighters. However, he should be receiving word of Chief Hakoda, the water-tribe siblings' father, any day now, and Bato promises to take them with him. However, as the reunion continues, Aang finds himself feeling ignored and forgotten, fearing that he's losing his new found family. Meanwhile, Zuko recruits a bounty-hunter named June whose Shirshu can track by smell, and using Katara's necklace he begins to narrow in on his prey.

!!Tropes:

* BigDamnHeroes: Aang and Appa a few moments later each fly in ready to kick some major ass.

* BlatantLies: June saying she's short on cash, while gathering in winnings, immediately followed by shouting "drinks on me!"

* HeroicResolve: Appa, willing himself to get up after being paralyzed. Ultimately it took ''several'' doses of the shirshu's poison before he finally proved unable to move period, whereas everyone else dropped after the first.

* LiarRevealed: Aang is given a map that could lead his two only friends to their father, who has been off to war since they were kids. As a dedicated monk, Aang can barely handle keeping up the lie, and eventually just admits it after Bato compliments him on his character. Aang's friends are outraged and decide to go find their father even though they previously planned on sticking with Aang no matter what. Aang wins them back by the end of the episode after they all fight for their lives together against a trio of villains who want Aang dead. It also helps that Aang managed to steal back one of their family heirlooms from one of the villains.

* NoodleIncident: Several of Bato and Sokka and Katara's father's adventures are mentioned but not elaborated on. Also, apparently Miyuki, the herbalist's cat from "The Blue Spirit," once got in trouble with the Fire Nation...
* NotSoDifferent: Sokka is livid when he learns that Aang nearly denied him and Katara the chance to meet their dad. But after Bato so aptly mentions how it felt to be left behind by his "pack", Sokka realizes his missing his father isn't too different from Aang missing him and Katara.

* ShipTease: Katara kisses Aang on the cheek for the first time for getting her necklace back.

* ShoutOut: The guy June arm-wrestles looks a lot like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Ryu_TvC.png a certain]] ''Franchise/StreetFighter''.

* ImpairmentShot: After being doused in perfume, the shirshu's "vision" turns into nothing but ribbons of colors.

* LogicalWeakness: The perfume to the shirshu.

* TheParalyzer: The shirshu.

* PoorCommunicationKills: The plot in the second half of the episode could have been avoided if the Gaang actually communicated that Sokka and Katara plan to continue to help Aang master the other bending arts until they learn that Aang lied to them.

* HeroicResolve: Appa, willing himself to get up after being paralyzed.

-->"Being a man is knowing where you're needed the most, and for you right now that's here protecting your sister."

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging

* WhipItGood: June ''and'' the shirshu.

* ShoutOut: The guy June arm-wrestles looks a lot like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/Ryu-tatsunoko.jpg/225px-Ryu-tatsunoko.jpg a certain]] ''Franchise/StreetFighter''.

* DarkActionGirl: June.

* OneSidedArmWrestling: When Zuko and Iroh find June, she's in a pub arm-wrestling a much bigger, burly MSN. Guess who wins.

* OneSidedArmWrestling

* JerkassBall: Aang's decision to hide the trail to Sokka and Katara's father did not go over well with them.

* ChekhovsGunman: June and the shirshu.

* RiteOfPassage: Bato gives the three kids a challenge to sail a ship through a field of rocks without his help, as a warm-climate variation on the Water Tribe's traditional "ice-doging."

* ChivalrousPervert‎[=/=]DirtyOldMan: Iroh.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: While not a prophecy per se, Aang's fear that Katara and Sokka will leave him if they are given their father's map becomes this. It drives him to hide it from them, and their reaction to his treachery once he admits to it ''is'' to leave him.
* ShipTease: Katara kisses Aang on the cheek for the first time (and not the last, obviously) for getting her necklace back.