History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFortuneTeller

[[caption-width-right:333:The village will ''not'' be destroyed by the volcano this year!]]

-->"Man, sometimes I forget what a powerful bender that kid is."

One particular morning, Aang comes to a stunning revelation: Katara is hot. This revelation becomes even stronger when they meet a renowned fortune teller and he overhears part of her fortune "You are going to marry a powerful bender.", but is dismayed when his fortune contains only a tiny (fake) counterpart love prediction. Meanwhile, Sokka tries to convince the locals that Aunt Wu's predictions are either false or can be explained by science. When Aang comes to him for advice, Sokka misinterprets it to mean he likes a local girl (See AbhorrentAdmirer in tropes section) and tells Aang to be aloof. This doesn't work, so Aang instead tries a rare flower that only grows on an active volcano. When the group discover that the volcano's ready to blow, they have to convince the whole town that Aunt Wu was wrong and band together to avert the catastrophe.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Aunt Wu's assistant, Meng, for Aang... sort of. He lets her down way gently after he figures out what's going on.

* BishieSparkle:
** Aang sees Katara in this way with the sun shining down on her.
** This is also done for Meng towards Aang, who kinda ruined the mood by acting aloof.

* CaptainObvious: Aunt Wu reads Aang's future, and sees an epic battle, a struggle that will determine the fate of the world! ... Aang just looks unimpressed. He was hoping to learn if he and Katara would ever get together.

* CrushFilter: Applied to Katara when she asks Aang how she looks with her new necklace on. Also used with Meng when first seeing Aang.

* NonchalantDodge: The scholar being attacked by the platypus-bear at the beginning.

* StalkerWithACrush: Meng towards Aang. She even admits it.

* VaguenessIsComing: Wu predicts "a great battle between the forces of good and evil" for Aang but does not elaborate. Subverted in that Aang knows full well what she's referring to, as it's what they've been preparing for the entire series thus far.

* CrushFilter: Applied to Katara when she asks Aang how she looks with her new necklace on.

* NoAntagonist: The only danger comes from the volcano. In many stories like this Aunt Wu would be a malicious conwoman, but there's no indication given that she doesn't believe in her own abilities (although she does admit to reshaping predictions so as to be more palatable for the people who receive them, and she's clearly making stuff up when Katara starts asking her questions about ''everything'')

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Aunt Wu's assistant, Meng, for Aang . . . sort of. He lets her down way gently after he figures out what's going on.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Wu predicts that the village will not be destroyed by the volcano and it is because the Gang does not believe her that they check it out anyway. It is going to erupt but because of their actions the village is not destroyed.

* MoodWhiplash: At the very end, Meng and Katara seem to come to an understand, the Gaang leaves, and suddenly Meng is glaring.

* LoveEpiphany: This is the first episode where Aang shows a clear attraction to Katara. Similarly, Katara gets a whiff of one when Sokka says the page quote above after Aang saves the town, which has her recalling her fortune of marrying "a powerful bender".

* VaguenessIsComing: Wu predicts "a great battle between the forces of good and evil" for Aang but does not elaborate.

* BishieSparkle: Aang sees Katara in this way with the sun shining down on her.

* ChekhovsVolcano

* ScrewDestiny: One of the themes of the episode.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The premise of this episode.
* ShipTease[=/=]ShipSinking: Katara's prediction disqualifies any non-benders (Jet) for her canon ship while promoting the two main ships (Aang/Zuko), although it mostly promotes Kataang.
** It could also have included Haru, whom the team already met ("Imprisoned") as an impressive self-taught Earth-Bender.

* VaguenessIsComing: Wu predicts "a great battle between the forces of good and evil" for Aang but does not elaborate.

* VaguenessIsComing: Wu predicts "a great battle between the forces of good and evil" for Aand but does not elaborate.

* FromTheMouthOfBabes: Meng does not have a good opinion of Katara, nor does she take the fact that Aang likes her more very well.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Aunt Wu's assistant for Aang . . . sort of. He lets her down way gently after he figures out what's going on.

* ExactWords: Aunt Wu predicts that the town won't be destroyed by a volcano this year. After the group discovers that the volcano is about to blow, and they only just barely manage to divert all the lava and smoke, Sokka explains that Aunt Wu was wrong. The townsman they met at the beginning of the episode points out that she was right: She never said the volcano wouldn't erupt, she said, correctly, the town wouldn't be destroyed.

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Poi and Ping are identical, save for the fact Poi goes barefoot to be closer to the earth, which identifies him as an earthbender and his brother Ping as a non-bender.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Lampshaded. The fortuneteller's town has normal. non-hybrid ducks, and Sokka is shown to be baffled by them, since most of the animals in the Avatar world are of the mix-and-match variety.

* ExactWords: Aunt Wu predicts that the town won't be destroyed by a volcano this year. After the group discovers that the volcano is about to blow, and they only just barely manage to divert all the lava and smoke, Sokka explains that Aunt Wu was wrong. The fortuneteller points out that she was right: She never said the volcano wouldn't erupt, she said, correctly, the town wouldn't be destroyed.

One particular morning, Aang comes to a stunning revelation: Katara is hot. This revelation becomes even stronger when they meet a renowned fortune teller and he overhears part of her fortune "You are going to marry a powerful bender.", but is dismayed when his fortune contains only a tiny (fake) counterpart love prediction. Meanwhile, Sokka tries to convince the locals that Aunt Wu's predictions are either false or can be explained by science. When Aang comes to him for advice, Sokka misinterprates it to mean he likes a local girl (See AbhorrentAdmirer in tropes section) and tells Aang to be aloof. This doesn't work, so Aang instead tries a rare flower that only grows on an active volcano. When the group discover that the volcano's ready to blow, they have to convince the whole town that Aunt Wu was wrong and band together to avert the catastrophe.

* NoAntagonist

* EarlyBirdCameo: Of the actor variety. Mike and Bryan were so impressed with Jessie Flower's performance as Meng that they gave her the role of Toph next season.

-->'''Villager''': You'd better hope that's not a bunny. The Fluffy Bunny cloud forecasts[[KillerRabbit doom and destruction]].

-->'''Villager''': You'd better hope that's not a bunny. The Fluffy Bunny cloud predicts [[KillerRabbit doom and destruction]].