Line #7 WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender


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6	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine The legend of the Avatar begins... whether he likes it or not.]]''[[note]] Clockwise from front: [[MessianicArchetype Avatar]] [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Aang]] [[LastOfHisKind the]] [[BlowYouAway airbender]], [[TheHeart Katara]] the [[MakingASplash waterbender]], [[AntiVillain Prince Zuko]] the [[PlayingWithFire firebender]], [[PintSizedPowerhouse Toph Beifong]] the [[DishingOutDirt earthbender]], and [[TheSmartGuy Sokka]] TheTeamNormal. [[/note]]]]
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8	->''Water. Earth. Fire. Air.\
9	Long ago, the Four Nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished.\
10	A hundred years passed, and my brother and I discovered the '''new''' Avatar, an Airbender named Aang, and although his Airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.\
11	But I believe Aang can save the world.''
12	-->-- '''Katara''', opening narration
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18	''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' is a Franchise/{{Nicktoon\|s}} that ran from 2005-2008 on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} created by Creator/BryanKonietzko and Creator/MichaelDanteDiMartino. It is the first series in an [[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender eponymous franchise]] which takes place in a ConstructedWorld divided into four nations: [[EskimoLand the Water Tribes]], the Earth Kingdom, [[TheEmpire the Fire Nation]], and [[PerfectPacifistPeople the Air Nomads]]. Each nation has developed a spiritual art form to manipulate ("Bend") their namesake element, but only the Avatar -- a great hero who is reincarnated into a different nation each generation -- is capable of mastering all four elements. The Avatar's role is to serve as a peacekeeper and protector for all four nations, as well as bridging and balancing the physical and spiritual worlds. One hundred years ago, in an attempt to prevent the Avatar from interfering in their war of conquest, the Fire Nation exterminated the Air Nomads. Unbeknownst to them, however, the reincarnated Avatar had sealed himself into an iceberg, where he was later discovered by two siblings from the Southern Water Tribe.
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20	The show's story centers around [[TheHero Aang]], the biologically 12- ([[HumanPopsicle chronologically 112-]]) year-old incarnation of the current Avatar, and the eponymous [[LastOfHisKind Last Airbender]]. He must master the four Bending arts so that he can save the world from [[EvilOverlord Fire Lord Ozai]] and end [[EarthIsABattlefield the century-long war]], a war which he accidentally avoided, spending a hundred years [[HumanPopsicle trapped in an iceberg]] after [[RefusalOfTheCall running away from his sudden heavy responsibility as the Avatar]]. Ozai's plans for [[TakeOvertheWorld domination]] are on a specific timetable, though, meaning that Aang [[RaceAgainstTheClock has until the end of summer to stop them]].
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22	Aang has thankfully found himself in good company with teenage Waterbender Katara and her brother [[TheTeamNormal Sokka]], the two who freed Aang from the iceberg. As the trio works to save the four nations with the company of Aang's lemur and flying bison, they gain many more allies; take a look at the [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbender Character Sheet]] to get to know more about the cast.
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24	Due to the sheer number of trope examples, they have been divided into their own alphabetized pages. There is also a largely-complete recap page available [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbender for those who want to see what all the fuss is about]].
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26	[[FountainOfMemes There is also]] [[Memes/AvatarTheLastAirbender an entire page of memes]].
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28	!!For the SpinOff media including the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' sequel, see [[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender here]].
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30	[[index]]
31	!!''General tropes applying to the original series:''
32	* AvatarTheLastAirbender/TropesAToH
33	* AvatarTheLastAirbender/TropesIToP
34	* AvatarTheLastAirbender/TropesQToZ
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36	!!''Trope subpages:''
37	* [[BigBad/AvatarTheLastAirbender Big Bad]]
38	* [[ChekhovsGun/AvatarTheLastAirbender Chekhovs Gun]]
39	* [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype/AvatarTheLastAirbender Deconstructed Character Archetype]]
40	* [[Foil/AvatarTheLastAirbender Foil]]
41	* [[Foreshadowing/AvatarTheLastAirbender Foreshadowing]]
42	* [[HiddenDepths/AvatarTheLastAirbender Hidden Depths]]
43	* [[RedOniBlueOni/AvatarTheLastAirbender Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
44	* [[RunningGag/AvatarTheLastAirbender Running Gag]]
45	* [[ShipTease/AvatarTheLastAirbender Ship Tease]]
46	* [[ShownTheirWork/AvatarTheLastAirbender Shown Their Work]]
47	* [[WhamEpisode/AvatarTheLastAirbender Wham Episode]]
48	[[/index]]
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