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* EvilIsCool: Agni Army's outfits are, while very obviously evil, so very cool.
* HarsherInHindsight: In ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'', Toph, after learning that Sokka accidentally revealed the first Kuzon's existence to Zuko, says "Katara is going to kill you... I can only imagine what Mai will do to Zuko...". [[spoiler:Mai apparently ends up killing Zuko here]].
* RootingForTheEmpire: We might as well acknowledge right now that Mai and Sho are probably going to get a lot more support from discerning audiences than the main characters will.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: The Agni Army is represented as a wholly evil revolution out to slaughter the current ruling family of the Fire Nation, just ForTheEvulz. However, Fire Lady Katara grew up an enemy in a war that ended just a decade ago, and she's proven herself capable of murdering a person horrifically just by making the right gestures at them. She's also got friends in high places in about every country in the world, and they have not made her stand trial for committing what is an acknowledged war crime in canon. What would stop her from doing any number of unspeakable things to her subjects? Sho has everything he needs to start LaResistance, right there - and it would be perfectly justified for the Fire Nation populace to follow him.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Both the script and art (perhaps the coloration in particular) are notably superior to the original ''HIBY''. Among other things, there is more of an original plot, more worldbuilding, and [[LadyOfWar Azula acts more in character]]. That being said, the typical SoapOpera cliches are still there, the pacing still needs work, and the art is still traced and copy-pasted.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: The old healer woman at the Water Tribe and the angry old man in Bong Sing Sai are cut-and-paste clones of each other, much like most of the background characters. This resulted in at least one reader assuming that they were both men.

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