History Trivia / AvatarTheLastAirbender

** Creator/RonPearlman as Fire Lord Sozin
** Creator JasonIsaacs as Admiral Zhao
** Creator/ClacyBrown as Lon Feng

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: This show was consistently bringing Nickelodeon some of their highest ratings in spite of the fact that its premiere slot frequently changed, had a hit-or-miss amount of advertising, and went on hiatus constantly, most infamously having a nine-month gap between seasons two and three, followed by a seven-month gap in the middle of the third season. If you missed an episode and didn't have Nicktoons Network or have the show on DVD, you were basically out of luck, since the show rarely (if ever) got reruns, as Nickelodeon considered the continuity-heavy plot as being very unsuited for reruns on the main network. Ironically, the series is still treated much better when compared to other Nicktoons that were screwed over before and since, such as its notoriously mistreated sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. The show also never had its final episodes dumped to the Nicktoons channel, something happening to several fellow Nicktoons at the time.

** In the Italian dub, Sokka is voiced by Corrado Conforti in Book 1 and by Marco Baroni for the remainder of the series.

* InMemoriam: Iroh's original voice actor Mako was given a dedication to his memory both in the episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe The Tales of Ba Sing Se]]" (which originally aired about two months after Mako passed away) and the ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' PC game (which came less than three months after Mako's passing).

* PosthumousCredit: Mako's final performances as Uncle Iroh occurred in the second half of Book Two and in the ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' PC game, both of which were released after he died.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Two of the main villains -- Fire Lord Ozai and Long Feng -- are [[Creator/MarkHamill the Joker]] and [[Creator/ClancyBrown Lex Luthor]] from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse.

** "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" is almost always quoted as "''There is'' no war in Ba Sing Se," without the contraction. The original line is "There's no war in Ba Sing Se. There is no war within the walls." Additionally, the line is primarily affiliated with Joo Dee, when in actuality, it's a nameless Dai Li agent who says it.

** "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" is almost always quoted as "''There is'' no war in Ba Sing Se," without the contraction. The original line is "There's no war in Ba Sing Se. There is no war within the walls."

* ImageSource:
** ForgotTheDisability
** HealItWithWater
** IceMagicIsWater
** IWasQuiteALooker
** ScarsAreForever
** ScaryImpracticalArmor
** ThunderboltIron
** WiseOldFolkFacade
** [[VillainousBreakdown/WesternAnimation Villainous Breakdown, Western Animation]]

* QuoteSource:
** BifurcatedWeapon
** BornUnlucky
** CampfireCharacterExploration
** DishingOutDirt
** ElementalNation
** [[{{Facepalm}} Facepalm]]
** [[{{Fanon}} Fanon]]
** HorseOfADifferentColor
** JustAKid
** LikeASonToMe
** [[{{Magibabble}} Magibabble]]
** OrphanedPunchline
** TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
** SiblingRivalry
** TheSmartGuy
** VillainBallMagnet
** YourCostumeNeedsWork

** [[http://www.musogato.com/avatar/icons/ecard-zhao1.jpg Commander Zhao's e-trading card released during the first season premiere]] claimed he was the one who gave Zuko his scar. [[http://www.musogato.com/avatar/icons/ecard-zhao.jpg This was later corrected,]] but the card still says that "Zhao was too wily for the young Zuko then, but will he come to regret sparing the Prince's life?" In reality, Zuko won the Agni Kai (Firebender duel) and spared ''Zhao''.

** In ''The Waterbending Scroll,'' Momo gets into a scrape with the pirate's pet Iguana Parrot. This is a possible reference to the unaired pilot episode, where Zuko had a pet hawk that attacked Momo.

** Originally, Sozin was implied to have been relatively young when he started the war and ruled for the first 70 years of it before dying, his son Azulon was said to have ruled the next 23 years before dying and passing the title to Ozai for the past 6-7 years before the present. Things got strange during the third season when it revealed that Sozin was actually Avatar Roku's age and began the war at 82. WordofGod {{Hand Wave}}d this by stating that Sozin ruled for 20 years after he started the war, Azulon was born the year the war started and ruled the next 75 years of the war, and Ozai, in turn, ruled for the last 5 years of the war.

* OrphanedReference: In ''The King of Omashu,'' Bumi tells Aang that Momo would be important to his journey. This was possibly meant to be a foreshadowing of a planned plot point of Momo being the reincarnation of Monk Gyatso.

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* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph Beifong]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderGeneralIroh General Iroh]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]]
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]

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** [[BizarroEpisode/WesternAnimation Bizarro Episode]] (WesternAnimation subpage)
** BlowYouAway
** [[BreathWeapon/WesternAnimation Breath Weapon]], for the WesternAnimation subpage.
** BurningTheFlag

** CoolHelmet (lower right)
** CubCuesProtectiveParent
** DieForOurShip (fan-art)
** ElementalArmor
** ElementalPowers
** EverythingMakesAMushroom
** ExhaustedEyeBags
** FanPreferredCouple (fan-art)
** FollowTheWhiteRabbit
** GoodTamingEvilTaming
** HandsplayInTheater
** HermitGuru
** HowTheMightyHaveFallen
** InASingleBound
** InMemoriam
** IWasQuiteALooker
** KidHeroAllGrownUp (top picture)
** LegendaryInTheSequel (top picture)
** LiveActionAdaptation (top half)
** LimpAndLivid
** MysticalWhiteHair (fan-art)
** PoseOfSupplication
** PsychoticSmirk
** RaceLift (left row)
** ScarsAreForever (top)
** ScaryImpracticalArmor
** ShipSinking (fan-art)
** ShipToShipCombat (fan-art)
** SlashFic (fan-art)
** SlipknotPonytail
** StunnedSilence
** SuperpoweredMooks
** SwordLimbo
** SymbolicBlood
** TeamPet
** ThunderboltIron
** WatchingTheSunset
** WaterIsBlue
** WhatTheFuAreYouDoing
** WiseOldFolkFacade
** YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry
* MissingTrailerScene: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz7EsOua-D4 2004 Promo Trailer]] completely consisted of footage from the unaired pilot episode.
* NewbieBoom: Experienced a huge fandom boost after it was added to Netflix in May 2020. It was #1 on trending for weeks on end.
* NoExportForYou: The series, despite being heavily influenced by Eastern mythology, done in an {{Animesque}} visual style, and possessing a more anime-like MythArc instead of the typical episodic nature of most WesternAnimation, was never successfully released in Japan in the time of its airing. The first two seasons of the original series were dubbed ''and advertised'', but [[ScrewedByTheNetwork never released]]. A proper dub for season three and legal sales in Japan wouldn't appear until nearly a decade later when the show was made available on Amazon Creator/PrimeVideo Japan.
* OrphanedReference: In ''The King of Omashu,'' Bumi tells Aang that Momo would be important to his journey. This was possibly meant to be a foreshadowing of a planned plot point of Momo being the reincarnation of Monk Gyatso.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Iroh was voiced by Mako Iwamatsu in the first two seasons, but his death caused Greg Baldwin to voice him in season 3.
** Mayuko Gomi voiced Azula in the Japanese dub of Book 2. In Book 3, Creator/MayumiShintani replaces her.
** In the Italian dub, Sokka is voiced by Corrado Conforti in Book 1 and by Marco Baroni for the remainder of the series.
* TheOtherMarty: Aang himself was a victim of this trope, in the unaired pilot, he was voiced by [[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Montana's]] Mitchel Musso.
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: It's frequently said that Japan hated the series because the Fire Nation's imperialism rang too close to home. It's complicated why the series wasn't received much in Japan, but that's not one of the reasons. The series was canceled after Book 2 because Japan's Nickelodeon channel failed, not because of the series' popularity. Book 3 was later dubbed years later by Amazon Video.
* QuoteSource:
** BifurcatedWeapon
** BornUnlucky
** CampfireCharacterExploration

** Some argue that the Airbender in the opening is [[CoolOldGuy Monk Gyatso]]. Others claim it's an older Aang (a theory largely debunked by older Aang's appearance in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', who looks much different), and still, others suggest it might be one of the unnamed monks from "The Storm."

* FanCommunityNicknames: Due primarily to one certain [[http://isaia.deviantart.com/ "megafan"'s]] infamous, long-running satire [[http://isaia.deviantart.com/art/It-s-Avatarded-If-part-7-39867827?qo=10&q=by%3Aisaia&qh=boost%3Apopular+-in%3Ascraps comic]] of the Avatar fandom, fans have come to almost unanimously accept the term "Avatards". Some people feel that in referring to the term "retard", fans' use of this label is demeaning to the mentally disabled. The creator of the comics has also openly admitted to regretting the choice of the word in retrospect. It's rarely used nowadays.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: This show was consistently bringing Nickelodeon some of their highest ratings in spite of the fact that its premiere slot frequently changed, had a hit-or-miss amount of advertising, and went on hiatus constantly, most infamously having a nine-month gap between seasons two and three, followed by a seven-month gap in the middle of the third season. If you missed an episode and didn't have Nicktoons Network or have the show on DVD, you were basically out of luck, since the show rarely (if ever) got reruns, as Nickelodeon considered the continuity-heavy plot as being very unsuited for reruns on the main network. Ironically, the series is still treated much better when compared to other Nicktoons that were screwed over before and since, such as it's notoriously mistreated sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. The show also never had its final episodes dumped to the Nicktoons channel, something happening to several fellow Nicktoons at the time.

* DevelopmentHell: The Netflix LiveActionAdaptation series will go over three years between its announcement and production. It was green-lit in September 2018 and was steadily worked on for a year. Right around the planned February 2020 start of production in Hawaii, the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic stopped it in its tracks since they had planned to film extensively on location, causing their travel to be severely limited. That summer Mike and Bryan left the project because of CreativeDifferences. A new showrunner was hired later that year. The cast was announced in the summer of 2021. Instead of delaying the show further to film on location, the decision was made to shoot on a sound stage in Vancouver and make use of the same technology made famous by ''Series/TheMandolorian'' to create the backgrounds with a video game engine.

* DevelopmentHell: The Netflix LiveActionAdaptation series will go over three years between its announcement and production. It was green-lit in September 2018 and was steadily worked on for a year. Right around the planned February 2020 start of production in Hawaii, the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic stopped it in its tracks since they had planned to film extensively on location, causing their travel to be severely limited. That summer Mike and Bryan left the project because of CreativeDifferences. A new showrunner was hired later that year. The cast was announced in the summer of 2021 Netflix is still sticking by a November production but this may still change depending on the pandemic.

* In the Italian dub, Sokka is voiced by Corrado Conforti in Book 1 and by Marco Baroni for the remainder of the series.

** Creator/DanteBasco voices Prince Zuko. His brother, Derek, voiced Moku in ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheCaveOfTwoLovers The Cave of Two Lovers]]''.

** On whether or not there were plans for a fourth season with head writer Aaron Ehasz stating on his Twitter account in early 2019 that he and Bryke did in fact had plans to do as such (though there were rumors in the fandom ''since 2010'' that Ehasz had wanted a Book Four), while co-creator Bryan Konietzko [[https://kkachi95.tumblr.com/post/615764162973515776/bryans-post-about-the-rumored-4th-season-of-atla stated]] on his Instagram account in April 2020 that he always envisioned it to be a three-season series with a beginning, a middle and an ending. It's possible that CreativeDifferences were at play. See WhatCouldHaveBeen below.