History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePuppetmaster

* {{Foreshadowing}}: While snooping around Hama's house, the Gaang find a bunch of Fire Nation puppets in a closet. [[spoiler:Foreshadowing both the captured Fire Nation citizens found later and Hama's ability to Bloodbend people.]]

* DollsAreCreepy: When the Gaang finds the Fire Nation puppets, they're a little freaked out. Aang even voices how creepy it looks.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: While snooping around Hama's house, they find a bunch of Fire Nation puppets. [[spoiler:Foreshadowing both the captured Fire Nation citizens found later and Hama's ability to Bloodbend people.]]

* TheJailer: Hama

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillainy: Sorta with Hama. She was captured by the Fire Nation, trying to defend her home. Her companions were captured and so was she eventually. She spent the next few months locked in a prison cell and was bound during water breaks. One night, she had a startling revelation: all people and animals are mostly composed of water. She began perfecting her new technique on rats and then moved onto the guards. She managed to escape from her cell, but she stayed in the Fire Nation and rounded up citizens, Bloodbending them to the mountain and locking them up. While her reason behind this is understandable, she forced Katara to learn this ability in order to save Aang. While being dragged away and while Katara was crying, Hama laughed evilly at her success.

* EvilCounterpart: Hama is one for Katara.

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil
* CallingYourAttacks: a rare JustifiedTrope in that neither Sokka nor Aang actually ''want'' to hit Katara.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hama falls prey to this.

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Subverted with Hama

* PeoplePuppets / ThePowerOfBlood: Bloodbending.

* CallBack: Quite a few!

* CallingYourAttacks: a rare JustifiedTrope in that neither Sokka nor Aang actually ''want'' to hit Katara.

* TheBadGuyWins: Hama may be defeated, the villagers freed, but she's passed down Bloodbending to Katara, and that's what she ''really'' cares about.

* DieOrFly: Semi-straight example - Katara has to either learn bloodbending or watch as Hama uses it to make Sokka kill Aang.

* OwlBeDamned: As if to hammer home the whole Halloween episode theme, there's a shot of a cat-owl in a tree.

Still traveling through the Fire Nation in disguise, our heroes take shelter in a forest for the night; however, a kindly old woman discovers them, as she knows of the mysterious disappearances in the woods, and doesn't want anything to happen to the young group. Something seems decidedly odd about the lady (Hama), however, and the Gang begins to investigate- and Hama's dark secret is revealed. She's from the Southern Water Tribe.

She explains how she was a little girl when the war was relatively young, and she spent her early life in the Southern Water tribe as a warrior. The Fire Nation had been fearful of the Avatar's rebirth into the Water Tribes, however, so one by one they captured the Water Benders, taking them away, leaving them in horrible Prisoner Of War camps, with virtually no water to bend or space to move. Hama broke out years ago, and has spent the rest of her life trying to forget her painful imprisonment.

Gleeful at having met water benders from the same tribe, Hama and Katara immediately bond, and Hama accepts to teach Katara, as she knows how dangerous is can be for a Waterbender in strange lands. She has a variety of skills to share - the ability to form water out of vapour, or suck it out of plants.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Katara figured out on her own that Hama was the one causing the disappearances and overpowers Hama's bloodbending with her own skills and power. But Aang and Sokka don't know this and think they have to save her from Hama - and unlike Katara, they can't resist the bloodbending. Que Hama using them as puppets and Katara needing to use bloodbending to save them.

* CallBack: Hama mentions that ocean kumquats taste a lot like sea prunes when they're stewed long enough. Aang immediately cringes, remembering how he hated sea prunes so much in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBatoOfTheWaterTribe Bato of the Water Tribe]]".

* CallBack: Hama mentions that ocean kumquats taste a lot like sea prunes when they're stewed long enough. Aang immediately cringes, remembering how he hated sea prunes so much in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBatosOfTheWaterTribe Batos of the Water Tribe]]".

-->"[[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours My bending is more powerful than yours, Hama. Your technique is useless on me!]]"

* PeoplePuppets/ThePowerOfBlood: Bloodbending.

* MarionetteMaster: Hama during the full moon.

-->"My bending is more powerful than yours, Hama. Your technique is useless on me!"

* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: See quote at the top of the page.

* OwlBeDamned: As if to hammer home the whole Halloween episode theme, there's a shot of (presumably) an owl-fox in a tree.