History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFortuneTeller

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

* CassandraTruth: The villagers refuse to listen to Sokka warning them about the volcano because he's been telling them that Aunt Wu is wrong.

%%* ChirpingCrickets: Done with a duck.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Meng has a crush on Aang, but he is not interested as he developed a crush on Katara, who in turn is not requiting his feelings...at least, not yet.

* CaptainObvious: Aunt Wu reads Aang's future, and sees an epic battle, a struggle that will determine the fate of the world! ...except Aang (and the audience for that matter) knows that already. [[note]]You know, because he's ''the Avatar.''[[/note]] He was hoping to learn [[SkewedPriorities if he and Katara would ever get together]].

* ChekhovsVolcano: Yes, it does erupt, as per the trope.

* ChirpingCrickets: Done with a duck.

* 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 that the volcano wouldn't erupt, she said - correctly - that the town wouldn't be destroyed. Sokka doesn't take this well.

* CoolOldGal: Aunt Wu. She could easily be scamming everyone by telling them about their futures… except she doesn't even charge them. And when the Gaang has to steal her book to shape the clouds in a matching way so she'll warn the villagers, she's amused and says that the plan was very clever.

''[[caption-width-right:333:Aunt Wu makes her prediction that the village will '''not''' be destroyed by the volcano behind it.]]''

* ContinuityNod: Aang makes Katara a new necklace to replace the one she lost back in “[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderImprisoned Imprisoned]]” (which is currently in Zuko’s possession).

* CoolOldGal: Aunt Wu. She could easily be scamming everyone by telling them their futures… except she doesn't even charge them. And when the Gaang have to steal her book to shape the clouds in a matching way so she'll warn the villagers, she's amused and says that the plan was very clever.

* ExpressiveHair: Meng’s pigtails normally stand up on their own. However, they droop down whenever she’s sad.

* StalkerWithACrush: Meng follows Aang around after crushing on him. She even admits it when she tells him how she knew that he was looking for Aunt Wu’s book.

* CassandraTruth: The villagers refuse to listen to Sokka warning them about the volcano because he's been telling them Aunt Wu is wrong.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: The extreme heat of the lava is not being addressed.
* CoolOldGal: Aunt Wu. She could easily be scamming everyone by telling them their futures… except she doesn't even charge them. And when the Gaang have to steal her book to shape the clouds in a way to warn the villagers, she's amused and says that the plan was very clever.

* 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. Sokka doesn't take this well.

* FortuneTeller: Aunt Wu's occupation. Her methods range from palm-reading, to throwing bones into a fire, observing the clouds, or just reading her customer's face. While Sokka firmly believes she's a fraud, most of her predictions turn out to be true in one way or another.

* 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, who wears shoes, as a non-bender.

* 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''). In fact, she explicitly doesn't even charge for her services.
* NonchalantDodge: The scholar being attacked by the platypus-bear at the beginning is perfectly at ease because Aunt Wu said he'd stay safe on his travels. Implicitly, this means she knew he'd have no trouble dodging the bear's attacks.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Aang asks Sokka for help with wooing a certain someone, with Sokka being more than supportive of his choice. However, Aang is referring to Katara, but Sokka thinks he's crushing on Meng.

** Wu predicts that the village will not be destroyed by the volcano and it takes Aang going to the volcano to get a "panda lily" that shows the volcano is about to erupt. They act to prevent this, so, in the end, the village really was not destroyed.
** One man is told he will be wearing a certain pair of shoes when he meets his true love. So of course, he wears them everyday. Hearing this one drives Sokka nuts.

* StalkerWithACrush: Meng follows Aang around after crushing on him. She even admits it when she tells him how she knew he was looking for Aunt Wu’s book.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Aang comes back from “the bathroom“ with a grin on his face after hearing that Katara is going to marry a powerful bender, Sokka [[MistakenForMasturbating thinks he was doing something else]].

---> '''Sokka:''' [[https://youtu.be/H_zYBbN2FHo?t=140 Then of]] ''[[https://youtu.be/H_zYBbN2FHo?t=140 course]]'' [[[https://youtu.be/H_zYBbN2FHo?t=140 it's gonna come true!]]\\

---> '''Sokka:'''[[https://youtu.be/H_zYBbN2FHo?t=140 Then of ''course'' it's gonna come true!]]\\

--->'''Sokka:''' Then of ''course'' it's going to come true!\\

One particular morning, Aang [[LoveEpiphany comes to a stunning revelation]]: Katara is ''hot''.[[note]]Pun not intended.[[/note]] 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.

!!Tropes:

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Meng has a crush on Aang but he is not interested as he developed a crush on Katara who in turn is not requiting the feelings...at least, not yet.

* ContinuityNod: Aang makes Katara a new necklace to replace the one she lost back in “Imprisoned” (which is currently in Zuko’s possession).

** Also done for Meng towards Aang, who kinda ruined the mood by acting aloof.

** 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".

--> '''Villager''': Can your ''science'' explains why it rains?
--> '''Sokka''': ''YES! Yes, it can!''
* MeaningfulName: Meng can mean "dream", which is one way of predicting the future.
* 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.

-->"If you want to keep her interested, you have to act aloof, like you don't really care one way or the other."
* ScrewDestiny: Wu, despite being a fortune teller, ends the episode telling the Gang to shape their own destinies.

* ShipTease: Katara's prediction does double duty as both this and ShipSinking. It 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.

-->'''Sokka:''' [[SarcasmMode It's going to keep drizzling.]] ''beat'' See?
-->(''The weather instantly clears.'')
-->'''Aang:''' Not everyone has the gift, Sokka.

-->'''Aang''': That cloud kinda looks like a fluffy bunny!
-->'''Villager''': You'd better hope that's not a bunny. The Fluffy Bunny cloud forecasts [[KillerRabbit doom and destruction]].

* CaptainObvious: Aunt Wu reads Aang's future, and sees an epic battle, a struggle that will determine the fate of the world! ...even though Aang (and the audience for that matter) know this already. [[note]]You know, because he's ''the Avatar.''[[/note]] He was hoping to learn [[SkewedPriorities if he and Katara would ever get together]].

* CaptainObvious: Aunt Wu reads Aang's future, and sees an epic battle, a struggle that will determine the fate of the world! ...Aang (and the audience for that matter) know this already. He was hoping to learn [[SkewedPriorities if he and Katara would ever get together]].

* FlowerFromTheMountaintop: Aang decides to pick a panda lily as a sign of affection for Kitara. He finds one at the top of the volcano, which is when he finds out that it's about to erupt.

* 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''). In fact she explicitly doesn't even charge for her services.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Meng has a crush on Aang but he is not interested as he developed a crush on Katara who in turn is not requiting the feelings.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Sokka lives in a world where his sister and best friend control the elements and spirits walk the earth, but he's insistent that fortune telling is impossible.

* BreatherEpisode: A light hearted episode in which the Fire Nation is nowhere to be seen.

--> '''Sokka''': YES! ''Yes it can!''

One particular morning, Aang [[LoveEpiphany 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.

* StalkerWithACrush: Meng follows Aang around after crushing on him. She even admits it.

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

* ContinuityNod: Aang makes Katara a new necklace to replace the one stolen from her in an earlier episode.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: The extreme heat of the lave is not being addressed.

* 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 [[SkewedPriorities if he and Katara would ever get together]].

-->'''Sokka:''' [[SarcasmMode It's going to keep drizzling.]]

** Wu predicts that the village will not be destroyed by the volcano and that's Aang going to the volcano to get a "panda lily" that shows the volcano is about to erupt. They act to prevent this, so, in the end, the village really was not destroyed.

** 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.

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

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