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* Zuko's great-grandfather is [[spoiler:Avatar Roku -- therefore, via reincarnation, Aang]]... sorta. Technically.
** You could also technically count [[spoiler:Aang]] as [[spoiler:Ursa]]'s grandfather and Azula's great-grandfather, as odd as it sounds.
* Waterbending is the only bending skill that was not learned from an animal. Waterbenders are said to have learned from the moon; in contrast, earthbenders learned from the badger-moles, airbenders learned from the sky bison, and firebenders learned from the dragons. The entire concept is awfully similar to animal-based martial arts in RealLife, made famous by Hong Kong martial arts movies like Creator/JackieChan's ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'' or ''Tiger and Crane Styles'' (best known for being edited into ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'').
* As mentioned on the main page, the bending styles themselves are based on actual Chinese martial arts (waterbending is tai chi, mainstream earthbending is hung gar, firebending is northern Shaolin kung fu, airbending is baguazhang). Exceptions not covered are:
** Toph's own Earthbending style, taught directly by the badger-moles, is actually based on chow gar (southern praying mantis style, to be exact).
** [[spoiler:Metalbending]], based on Xing Yi Quan, which was quite appropriately developed in captivity as well.
** [[spoiler:Bloodbending]], based on Qin Na Shou, which was also quite appropriately a grapple-based technique.
** [[spoiler:Redirecting lightning]] is the only style taken from a ''sword technique'', the obscure tai chi sword discipline, which is appropriate given that Iroh created the technique by watching ''waterbenders''.
*** Even better is that all of the above are unique martial arts styles compared to the respective culture's norms because they are ''all'' unique to a certain character or (in the case of [[spoiler:lightning redirection and bloodbending]]) a very small group.
*** Extra points for [[spoiler: lightning redirection]] being explicitly based on waterbending techniques.
** You can probably catch some differences between Katara and Pakku's waterbending styles since Southern and Northern are legitimate tai chi variants.
* "Katara" means "curse" (both as in "hex" and "swear") in Greek. Of course, this is just a weird coincidence, but it's too odd to not mention. One would suspect that the character was so named because a Katar is a type of Indian dagger, though.
** Because of that, [[CleanDubName Katara's name is changed to Tamara in the Greek dub]].
** WordOfGod stated Katara's name was inspired by the French word "Cataracte," which is synonymous with "Waterfall". On a side note, there is also the Greek word "Katharos," which means "pure" and "Katarassō," which means "to spill."
* Two of the benders shown in the opening titles are actual characters from the show: [[OldMaster Master Pakku]] for [[MakingASplash water]], and [[TheDragon Azula]] for [[PlayingWithFire fire]].
** The earthbender was Toph's original design, which ended up inspiring later characters such as The Boulder, Sud (Roku's earthbending teacher), and the actor playing Toph in "The Ember Island Players."
** 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."
* Toph was originally envisioned as a boy but the writing team thought it'd be funny to make the show's resident BoisterousBruiser a cute little girl. The original characterization they had in mind for him was largely rolled into Bolin in ''Korra''.
* Creator/GregBaldwin, the second Iroh, is a big fan of musical theatre, and would sing along to ''Theatre/PacificOvertures'' on record as a teenager. Who was featured in that show's original cast? None other than the original Iroh himself, Creator/{{Mako}}. By singing along to the recording, Baldwin had been perfecting an imitation of Mako's voice without even realizing it, and this ultimately got him the job as the late actor's successor. See [[https://youtu.be/vhasyOX5ZWA?si=ugZnVK3ZekWY_A-b here]] to watch him tell the full story (timestamp: 30:20).
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* TheAbridgedSeries: "The Ember Island Players" is a sort of meta-example. And for an outside example we have [=GanXingba's=] ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries''.
* ActorExistenceLimbo: After Mako's death, Iroh was relegated to only two silent appearances for the first half of season 3, before Greg Baldwin was introduced as his new voice.
* ActingForTwo:
** Creator/MarkHamill voices both the BigBad Ozai and the Baboon Spirit.
** Creator/JessieFlower voices Meng and Toph Beifong.
** Creator/GreyDelisle voices Azula, Kya, Ta Min, Michi, Actor!Katara as well as the unnamed maid in the penultimate episode... which leads to a scene where Azula banishes herself.
** Creator/MaeWhitman voices Katara, Lu Ten and the Painted Lady.
** Creator/JenniferHale voices Avatar Kyoshi and June.
** In the Russian dub, Aang, Toph and Ty Lee are voiced by the same voice actress. The same applies to Zuko and Jet, along with Azula and Katara.
** In the Brazilian dub, Ettore Zuim voices Ozai in Season 3, Sozin in a flashback, Player!Zuko in the play "The Boy in the Iceberg" and Piandao in his first appearance. Also, Luís Manuel voices Jet, Hahn, Kid Zuko and Jeong-Jeong in his first appearance.
* AdoredByTheNetwork: On the Creator/NicktoonsNetwork, the show was frequently shown every day, had lots of marathons, and even got its own ''Avatar Extras'' event (which would feature pop-up facts and comments written by writers of the series). {{Justified|Trope}}, since reruns on the network have brought in some of the highest viewership numbers in the network's history.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Famed tennis star Serena Williams accepted a bit part on the series as a female prison guard because [[AscendedFangirl she was such a big fan of it.]]
* BeamMeUpScotty:
** "The Avatar always gets the girl" is a quote often attributed to Avatar Roku, when Aang observes that he married the "girl who didn't even know [he was] alive." What Roku ''actually says'' is "When love is real, it finds a way. And being the Avatar doesn't hurt your chances with the ladies, either." He's gotten flak in some fandom circles for the sexist implications of the incorrect quote, even though the correct quote is a gentle joke and he's attempting to encourage Aang, who's both fretting over his crush on Katara and his decision not to give up his attachment to her in order to master the Avatar State. In other fandom circles, it's used as a joke because Korra and Kyoshi ''also'' got the girls.
** "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, the only one who says something close to that line is a nameless Dai Li agent.
* CastIncest: Creator/GreyDeLisle has alluded to this during conventions when she jokingly entertains the idea of her and Dante Basco dating.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: Besides Creator/MarkHamill as Fire Lord Ozai and (initially) Creator/{{Mako}} as General Iroh, we have:
** Creator/RonPerlman as Fire Lord Sozin
** Creator/JasonIsaacs as Admiral Zhao
** Creator/ClancyBrown as Lon Feng
** Wrestling/MickFoley as The Boulder
** Creator/BrianGeorge as Guru Pahtik
** Creator/RobertPatrick as Piandao
** Creator/ReneAuberjonois as The Mechanist and Gan Jin Leader
** Creator/GeorgeTakei as the Prison Ship Warden
** Creator/HectorElizondo as Wan Shi Tong
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Latin America the show is named as "Avatar: La Leyenda De Aang" (Avatar: The Legend Of Aang).
* ConclusionInAnotherMedium: While the series finale wraps up most plot threads, the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Ursa]] remains a mystery. The finale even includes a SequelHook with the angry [[spoiler:Zuko]] demanding [[spoiler:Ozai]] to explain what happened to her, but the scene ends before we hear what his answer is. Several years later, this subplot is finally resolved in the comic book sequel ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch''.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
** [[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'', and Zuko's scar was inflicted by his own father years before.
** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/vp7uo/uncle_irohs_character_bio_on_nickcom_wat/ Iroh's character bio on Nick.com]] shows the actor who plays him in "The Ember Island Players".
* CreatorBacklash: In late June 2021, the creators of the show admitted that "The Great Divide" was the weakest episode of the franchise.
* CreatorsFavorite:
** The Avatar artbook states that Aang is this to the creators, Mike [=DiMartino=] and Bryan Konietzko, with Zuko being a runner-up.
** Mai is this to head writer Aaron Ehasz.
* CreatorsOddball: A network-related example - Nickelodeon is best known for zany, weird, and hyperactive cartoons that focus more on humor than story. This show relies heavily on continuity and is too down to earth for a network that has aired shows like ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''.
* CrossDressingVoices:
** While this was averted in the original version as Aang was voiced by a boy, it was played straight in Russia, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Portugal, and Taiwan.
** Not used in the show itself (12-year-old Aang is voiced by Creator/ZachTylerEisen), but {{Lampshaded}} in the play in "The Ember Island Players", where Aang is played by a (visibly adult) woman (voiced by [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Rachel Dratch]]). This doubles as a reference to ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1954}}'', where the eponymous eternal child is traditionally played by a petite woman rather than a prepubescent boy.
* DawsonCasting: [[AvertedTrope Aversion]]: Aang and Toph [[ChildrenVoicingChildren are voiced by actors of about the correct age.]] The actors who play Katara and Sokka aren't much older than their characters, either.
** Played straight with Suki and Zuko, whose voice actors Jennie Kwan and Dante Basco were in their 30s.
** Played straight in Chile with Aang, whose male voice actor (René Pinochet) was almost 30! Justified that he was born prematurely and his voice hadn't changed much since childhood. Dante Basco, the actor for Zuko, also had a young voice in his late 20s when he did voice work for the show.
* DevelopmentGag:
** 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.
** In ''The Return to Omashu,'' Aang fights Azula and her gang at a construction scaffold, much like where he fought Zuko in the pilot.
* 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/TheMandalorian'' to create the backgrounds with a video game engine.
* DirectedByCastMember:
** Creator/VeroniqueAugereau directed the French dub while also voicing Lo, Li, and Hama.
** The Brazilian dub of Season 1 and 2 was directed by Luís Manuel, who also voiced Jet, Hahn, Kid Zuko and the first voice of Jeong-Jeong. Also Season 3 was directed by Ettore Zuim, who voiced Ozai, Sozin, Player!Zuko and Piandao (first appearance only).
* 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 at one point almost unanimously accepted the term "Avatards". However, some people felt that in referring to the term "retard", fans' use of this label was demeaning to the mentally disabled. The creator of the comics also admitted to regretting the choice of the word in retrospect, and it's fallen out of use since.
* FlipFlopOfGod:
** 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.
** 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 have plans to do 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 and both he and Michael [=DiMartino=] reiterated in an [[https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/8/31/21405084/legend-of-korra-netflix-bryan-konietzko-michael-dimartino-interview-avatar interview]] in August that they had always envisioned it to be a three-season series with a beginning, a middle and an ending and had never even seriously considered a fourth season.
* HypotheticalCasting: The creators wanted somebody who sounded like Creator/JasonIsaacs to play Zhao, as they got the idea for the character from Isaac's character in ''Film/ThePatriot2000'' — but the real Jason Isaacs wound up taking the job instead.
* 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 out less than three months after Mako's passing).
* 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.
** The series was also not available in China legally until the first season was released and even dubbed on Bilibili in April 2023.
* OrphanedReference: In "The King of Omashu", Bumi tells Aang that Momo will 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 Creator/CorradoConforti in Book 1 and by Marco Baroni for the remainder of the series.
** Too many examples to count in the Brazilian dub. The most noticeable:
*** Suki had one different voice per season: Mariana Torres in Season 1 (who later became the voice of Azula), Teline Carvalho in Season 2 and Iara Riça in Season 3.
*** Ozai was voiced by Creator/IsaacBardavid in the first two seasons when his face was out of sight. When he appears in Season 3 and his face is shown, he was voiced by Ettore Zuim.[[note]]It's possible that Bardavid's aging, guttural voice was seen as unfit for Ozai when his face was shown to be fairly young-looking compared to what was expected when he was in the shadows and implied to be closer to Iroh's age.[[/note]]
*** Avatar Roku was first voiced by Isaac Schneider, then Reinaldo Pimenta in Season 3.
*** Master Pakku was voiced by Pietro Mário in Season 1, and later by Ayrton Cardoso when he returns in Season 3. Pietro Mário was also the first voice of King Bumi in Season 1, before being replaced by Miguel Rosenberg.
* TheOtherMarty: Aang himself was a victim of this trope. In the unaired pilot, he was voiced by Creator/MitchelMusso.
* 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.
* PosthumousCredit: Mako's final performances as Uncle Iroh occurred in the last nine episodes of Book Two and in the ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' PC game, both of which were released after he died.
* RealLifeRelative:
** At one point in the German dub, Sokka and Katara are voiced by real-life brother and sister David and Magdalena Turba.
** Haru's mother in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderImprisoned "Imprisoned"]] is voiced by Pat Musick, who's the real-life mother of Katara's voice actress Mae Whitman.
** Creator/DanteBasco voices Prince Zuko. His brother, Derek, voiced Moku in ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheCaveOfTwoLovers The Cave of Two Lovers]]'' and the actor playing Zuko in ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]]''.
** In the Brazilian dub, Mariana Torres voices Azula and her sister Adriana Torres voices Princess Yue in Season 1 (ironically, Mariana also voiced Sokka's other love interest, Suki, in Season 1).
* RecastAsARegular:
** Toph is voiced by Jessie Flower, who first voiced Meng in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFortuneTeller "The Fortune Teller"]].
** In the Brazilian dub, Mariana Torres voiced Suki in her first appearance, by which time the character only appeared once. By next season, she became the official voice of Azula, and Suki was voiced by other dubbers.
* ReclusiveArtist: Zach Tyler Eisen, Aang's voice actor, is one of the only major living voice actors from the show to not attend any fan events since the end of the show. All his verified social media accounts are either closed or private. It is known that he attended Syracuse University and currently works as a photographer for the Conde Nast group (indeed, his name can be seen in the credits for several Vogue interviews) but very little is known aside from that, due to zero fan interactions. Ultimately, he finally resurfaced in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeB2sgZTEG8 2020 interview,]] where he revealed that he mainly stayed out of the spotlight because he just wanted to live a normal life, but still maintains a huge amount of respect for the show.
* ReleaseDateChange: As seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz7EsOua-D4 this promo,]] the show was supposed to premiere in November of 2004. It ended up airing in February of 2005.
* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: The show gained its subtitle a ways into production after the creators learned of the film ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.
* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: The only one in the main cast to be voiced by a different voice actor in flashbacks is Zuko, likely to avoid causing VocalDissonance. This gets subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', however, where these same characters have [[OlderAndWiser aged considerably]] and are voiced by older actors.
* 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 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.
* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Katara's "hair loopies" were opted over overly-long hair because they were easier to animate.
* ShipperOnSet: FanPreferredCouple Zuko/Katara ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Zutara]]) has the support of Zuko's voice actor Creator/DanteBasco, to the point that fans call him the captain of the ship. [[https://rufiozuko.tumblr.com/post/76646187397/promised-i-would-do-something-special-for-zutara The man has even sold Zutara merch online]].
* TechnicalAdvisor: Martial artist Sifu Kisu served as the show's martial arts consultant in order to relate the four bending arts to real-life martial arts, such as Tai chi for waterbending and Hung gar for earthbending, giving them a sense of authenticity.
* ThrowItIn:
** Originally, Sokka was conceived of as being far more stern and grumpy, but Jack [=DeSena's=] improvising and riffing on his lines were so funny that they began to adjust how they wrote him.
** Additionally, in the episode "The Ember Island Players", the entire show was parodied hilariously by a play. The actor parodying Sokka wasn't funny enough and so Sokka tried to fix it by substituting his own jokes with even more hilarious results.
* TrollingCreator: Bryke, from time to time, took quite a few [[TakeThat potshots]] at the Zutara shippers. "[[FandomNod The Ember Island Players]]" episode openly mocked the clichés typically associated with Zutara fanfics. Then there was [[https://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/23328242928/an-oldie-but-goodie-we-made-this-silly-little Book 4: Air]], a video openly mocking how incompatible the two would be as a couple.
* UnisexSeriesGenderedMerchandise: The toy line excluded the female characters, particularly Katara. This is often credited as one of the reasons it never caught on and was discontinued before the second season.
* [[UsefulNotes/{{China}} Useful Notes on China]]:
** "Laogai" is actually a phrase referring to a system of penal labor facilities in Communist China.
** The background music in Earth Kingdom dinner scenes ('The Blind Bandit' and 'City of Walls and Secrets') is an actual traditional Chinese tune called 'Mo Li Hua' or Jasmine Flower.
** From the end of "Avatar Day": fried dough sticks to represent hated historical figures do exist.[[note]]You can see the Landlord bumming some off of Donut early in ''Film/KungFuHustle''.[[/note]] Long story short, EvilChancellor Qin Hui set up the Emperor's most loyal general Yue Fei as a traitor, leading to his execution before the truth was out. The fried dough sticks are always made in pairs to represent Qin ''[[AndYourLittleDogToo and his wife]]''.
** [[spoiler:Energybending]] in the Grand Finale becomes less of an Ass Pull if you're familiar with Chinese martial arts fiction, which commonly used [[spoiler:"the removal of his martial arts" (via crippling nonfatal injury)]] as a FateWorseThanDeath for villains. Another common trope from this genre is having your villain [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity driven insane with his own growing abilities]]... which might explain Azula (or Bumi, but he was always a little odd).
** In a similar vein, [[spoiler:Metalbending]]. Toph is shown using two different martial arts styles for standard (Hung Gar) and her self-developed (Mantis) Earthbending; [[spoiler:Metalbending comes from a ''third'' style, Xing Yi Quan, developed in captivity ''just like Toph's metalbending was''.]]
** And blood-bending is based on Qin Na Shou, an appropriately grapple-based technique.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/AvatarTheLastAirbender Enough for its own page]].
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Creators Michael Dante [=DiMartino=] and Bryan Konietzko make very few con appearances because their fans were stalking them and harassing the voice actors about fan shipping. They reject any invitation to a convention other than the San Diego Comic-Con due to its high security.
* WordOfGod:
** According to a DVD commentary, The Hippo is an {{Expy}} of real-life wrestler Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, and King Hippo from ''VideoGame/PunchOut''.
** The DVD commentary states that Fire Nation Man immigrated from the Si Wong Desert and is a sandbender.
* WordOfSaintPaul:
** Dante Basco has said that Zuko and Katara are soulmates. He believes that Zuko fell for Katara and will always love her, even if they didn't end up together.
** Mae Whitman thinks Katara developed feelings for Zuko but chose not to pursue them because she was afraid of hurting Aang's feelings.
*** She also believes that Katara's first kiss was Jet, not Aang.
** According to Grey [=DeLisle=], [[WordOfGay Azula has a crush on Ty Lee.]]
** Olivia Hack has said that Ty Lee's feelings towards Mai are not strictly platonic.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Piandao is largely based on Sifu Kisu, the series' martial arts consultant.
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