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Katara: Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar?
Aang: Because... I never wanted to be.
Avatar: The Last Airbender or Avatar: The Legend Of Aang and Avatar: The Master of the Elements.
Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko's genius combination of Eastern art and Western writing.
Avatar is the story of 12-year-old Aang and his quest to master the arts of "bending" the four elements, so that he can save the world from Fire Lord Ozai and end the century-long war that he spent trapped in an iceberg. Oh, and just to make things more interesting, he only has until the end of summer to do it!
The show is known for its references to Eastern religion and mythology, and the inclusion of material deemed almost universally "inappropriate" or "too mature" for children's entertainment, such as violent, realistic battles and on-screen deaths, which is likely why the series nabs strong ratings across many different demographics (comedy for the kids, deeper stuff for the adults; fight scenes for the guys and Fanservice for the ladies.) The Season 1 finale is considered an exceptional work of art for its incredibly epic story and execution. As for Season 2, a list of all the tropes and traditions the writers broke or subverted in the finale could be a page all on its own. And the third, and final, season finale? Lets just say the HSQ was through the roof.
The first season is currently being made into a live-action film The Last Airbender, which will be the second Shyamylan film to be inspired by a Nickelodeon show.
In another take-off of LittleKuriboh's parody style, Avatar The Abridged Series by GanXingba has become fairly popular.
Take a look at the character sheet to get to know the characters.
This show provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Ozai, full stop. Arguably Lao Bei Fong as well.
- Adrenaline Makeover: Katara
- Affectionate Parody: The Boulder, a paper-thin parody of pro wrestlers Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Hulk Hogan, and Randy Savage. And he's voiced by another wrestler (and friend of The Rock) Mick Foley.
- "The Boy in the Iceberg," the play that the gang attended based on their adventures, with Character Exaggeration of the traits of all characters.
- The Alcatraz: The Boiling Rock
- All There In The Manual: The main purpose of the Nickelodeon site is to provide supplementary information while not using up valuable air time.
- Amazon Brigade: The Kyoshi Warriors
- Ancient Tradition: The Order of the White Lotus
- And Zoidberg
- Anti Hero/Villain: Prince Zuko
- The Aragorn: Uncle Iroh, when he leads the forces of the Order of the White Lotus to retake Ba Sing Se.
- Arc Words: "I must regain my honor." There are story sequences built around this phrase for Zuko, Aang, and Sokka, in that order.
- Art Evolution
- Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Prince Zuko, especially in the first season; Zhao; Xin Fu, the tournament runner tracking Toph with Master Yu; and to a certain extent Toph herself.
- Ascend To A Higher Plane Of Existence: Princess Yue becomes the Moon Spirit.
- Ass Kicking Pose
- Asspull: Soulbending -- Debatably.
- Audible Sharpness
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Averted Trope: lots of 'em
- Awesome Moment Of Crowning
- Backstory
- Bad Ass Normal
- Badass Grandpa: (Uncle Iroh and everyone in the White Lotus Society.)
- Bar Brawl
- Beach Episode
- Because Destiny Says So
- Berserk Button: Aang is very attached to Appa, and putting Katara in danger is a very good way to have him go Avatar on your ass.
- Beta Couple: Sokka & Suki, Zuko & Mai
- Big Bad: Fire Lord Ozai
- Big No: Zuko pulls off a pretty convincing, non Narm-y one in the finale, when Azula attempts to strike Katara with lightning and he takes the bullet for her.
- Bilingual Bonus: The background text contains a number of Easter Eggs for viewers who know Chinese.
- Bishie Sparkle
- Bizarrchitecture: The Western Air Temples
- The Blank: The victims of Koh the Face Stealer
- Break The Haughty: Zuko, Azula
- Breather Episode:
- "Nightmares and Daydreams", which comes between Katara using Bloodbending, and "The Invasion."
- "The Ember Island Players," the well-lit last episode before the four-episode finale arc.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: Bumi, Sokka, and Ty Lee
- Burn Baby Burn
- Cain And Abel: Ozai and Iroh; Zuko and Azula
- The Caligula: Azula as Fire Lord
- Calling The Old Man Out: Katara to Hakoda, and more significantly, Zuko to Ozai.
- The Caretaker: Iroh
- Catapult Nightmare: Both Aang and Zuko
- Cat Fight
- Cat Smile: Jin, who owns a lot of her popularity thanks to this.
- Character Witness: The old Fire Nation man in the episode "Jet"
- Chase Scene: "The Waterbending Scroll"
- Chekhovs Gun: Schematics for a drilling machine, a prototype war balloon, Katara's amulet of water from the North Pole oasis, Iroh's sandal, the scroll with the Lion Turtles at the Library...
- The Chosen One: Aang
- Clear My Name: "Avatar Day"
- Cliff Hanger: Zuko confronts his father and demands to know where his mother is, but the answer is never displayed on screen for the viewer...hmm...
- Commercial Break Cliffhanger
- Continuity Nod
- Convection Schmonvection
- Cosmic Plaything: Zuko
- Could Have Been Messy
- Creepy Child: Flashback-Azula
- Creepy Twins: Lo and Li, an elderly example.
- Cross Dressing Voices: Not used in the show itself (12 year old Aang is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen), but Lampshaded in the play in The Ember Island Players, where Aang is played by a (visibly adult) woman.
- Crouching Moron Hidden Badass
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming
- Dangerously Genre Savvy: Azula
- Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday: The Avatars are supposed to be told about their identity on their 16th. Aang didn't get that luxury.
- Daydream Surprise: "Nightmares and Daydreams"
- Day In The Life: "Tales of Ba Sing Se"
- A Day In The Limelight: "Zuko Alone," "Appa's Lost Days," "Sokka's Master"
- Defanged Horrors: Koh
- Diagonal Cut
- Disability Superpower: Toph's enhanced senses and Earthbending prowess as a result of her blindness.
- Disturbed Doves
- Doomed Hometown: The Southern Air Temple for Aang. The Northern, Western, and Eastern ones did not fare too well either.
- Downer Ending: Several episodes of season two, most significantly with the season finale.
- Draco In Leather Pants: Zuko, Zhao, Azula and Ozai.
- The Dragon: Princess Azula; she was even portrayed as a blue dragon within a hallucination her brother was experiencing.
- Dramatic Thunder: Second type in "The Storm" and "The Southern Raiders"
- Dramatic Wind
- Dream Within A Dream
- Dream Sequence
- Dressing As The Enemy
- Duel To The Death
- The Dumbledore: Iroh
- Elaborate Underground Base: One situated beneath Lake Laogai, plus a war bunker under the Fire Nation capital.
- Elemental Baggage
- Elemental Powers
- Emotionless Girl: Mai
- Empathy Doll Shot: Subverted
- Enemy Mine: "The Blue Spirit"
- Estrogen Brigade
- Estrogen Brigade Bait: Zuko. Just...Zuko
- Et Tu Brute: Azula starts to lose it after Mai and Ty Lee do their Heel Face Turn.
- Everybody Lives: The series finale, surprisingly.
- Evil Chancellor: Long Feng
- Evil Foreigner: Parodied expertly as part of a pro-wrestling send-up.
- Evil Mentor: Hama
- The Evil Prince: Ozai in backstory.
- The Faceless: Fire Lord Ozai in books 1 and 2
- Fanart: Gotten to the point where some of the directors have set up their own active DeviantArt accounts. The staff has managed to compose an impressive fan art wall◊. One particular fanartist came to be hired as a storyboarder for the show.
- Fan Community Nicknames: Due primarily to one certain "megafan"'s infamous, longrunning satire comic of the Avatar fandom, fans have come to almost unanimously accept the term, "Avatards".
- Fan Nickname
- Fan Service: in full force by Season 3
- Fandom Nod ("The Ember Island Players")
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture - Although each nation has other elements mixed in, the main stylings are derived from:
- Air Nomads: Tibet
- Water Tribe: Inuits
- Earth Kingdom: Qing dynasty China
- Fire Nation: Tang dynasty China/Taisho Japan
- Fantasy World Map: The official Avatar site at nick.com has a the map the world and the best part is the map tells where the Gaang went.
- Fate Worse Than Death: Ozai, and, arguably, also Azula
- Find The Cure: "The Blue Spirit"
- Finger Poke Of Doom: most Earthbenders, but Toph does it best
- First Girl Wins: Three times over.
- Five Man Band
- Aang, The Hero: The Kid Hero, The Messiah (later on), and The Chosen One: as the title implies, the Last Of His Kind.
- Katara, The Lancer: Team Mom, originally The Messiah.
- Sokka, The Smart Guy: "The Idea Guy," also the token Badass Normal who hovers between the Straight Man and an all-out Plucky Comic Relief.
- Toph, The Big Guy: A tiny girl who packs the biggest punch of all the characters with a matching attitude. She is also the Deadpan Snarker, The Ruri, and she packs an impressive Disability Superpower.
- Zuko, Sixth Ranger: Joins the group shortly after his Heel Face Turn (FINALLY!).
- Suki, Guest Star Party Member in the past who permanently joins just in time for the series finale
- The Team Pets: Appa, the flying bison who doubles as the chief mode of transportation; and Momo, the flying lemur.
- Flash Back
- Foe Tossing Charge
- Foreshadowing
- Freudian Excuse: Defintely Zuko and it seems Azula as well
- Fruit Cart: The Cabbage Merchant
- Getting Crap Past The Radar: Let's start with "Nightmares and Daydreams" and "The Southern Raiders"...
- The Gift: Azula and, to a
lesser larger Chuck Norris-level extent, Toph. Subverted with Aang and Katara.
- Girl Of The Week: Jin, for Zuko.
- Glowing Eyes Of Doom: Aang whenever he is in the Avatar State
- Gondor Calls For Aid: "The Invasion"
- Gory Discretion Shot: Zuko's backstory in "The Storm"
- Good Angel Bad Angel: Zuko's uncle and sister in the Season 2 finale; foreshadowed an episode earlier in a dream.
- Good Eyes Evil Eyes: Zuko's scar shows that the writers and character artists are well aware of this trope
- Good Scars Evil Scars: Zuko's facial burn actually covers 2 variations of this trope. When he is evil, it makes him look that much more menacing, but in the episodes where he is good(ish), it makes him look more noble -- it is actually taken as a cue by Song and Jet that he is a fighter against the Fire Nation.
- Government Conspiracy: "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
- Hands On Approach
- Happy Ending:
- The Gaang beats the Fire Lord.
- Everybody who was interested in coupling off does with their preferred romantic interest.
- Happy reunion between Zuko and Uncle.
- But then subverted because, in the end, -nah, seriously, everything's great!
- Hard Work Hardly Works
- Heart Symbol: In "The Boiling Rock". Sokka exhibits it when he realizes Suki is a prisoner there, so his mission with Zuko is not in vain, and he gets his Love Interest back.
- Heel Face Turn: Prince Zuko in the Season 2 finale has just gone through a spiritual metamorphosis and near-death experience, is imprisoned by his sister, bonds with Katara, is cajoled by Iroh -- not for the first time -- to change his ways, and is given every chance in the world to join the good side... and doesn't. He realizes that this was a mistake half a season later and goes through a genuine Heel Face Turn.
- Hes Just Hiding: Jet and Zhao
- Hidden Elf Village: Ba Sing Se
- Hoist By His Own Petard: Zhao
- HSQ: The entirety of the last two episodes.
- Human Popsicle
- Humiliation Conga: Ozai
- I Am Spartacus: "The Headband"
- Ice Cream Koan: Zuko ends up doing one of these when he asks himself, "What would Uncle do?"
Zuko: "Zuko, you must look within yourself to save yourself from your other self. Only then will your true self reveal itself."
- Also from Hue:
"Pants are an illusion, and so is death."
- (This might be unintentional, but there is a company called Hue that makes women's legwear.)
- Zuko does it again in "The Boiling Rock".
Zuko: "Clouds have a light side and a dark side, and a silver lining in the middle. So it's kind of like a silver sandwich. So when life gets you down, just take a bite out of the silver sandwich!"
- I Just Want To Be Normal: Aang... at least comparatively.
- I Knew It
- I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight: Aang to Jet in "Lake Laogai"
- Important Haircut
- The usually shaven-headed Aang grows some hair between Seasons 2 and 3, and later gives himself an Important Haircut when he's about to face off with the Big Bad.
- Also Zuko and Iroh cut off their topknots when they are marked as traitors.
- Important Hair Growing Out, as Zuko's do changed from an exotic, samurai-inspired shaved-with-a-topknot look in season one to a standard Emo Teen mop by the end of Season 2 while his character becomes less and less the villain and more and more three-dimensional (and angsty).
- Happens again in the Season 3 Finale, only it isn't a turn for the better for the character, who's suffering from With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
- Improbable Age
- Indy Ploy: Prince Zuko's efforts to capture the Avatar.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Prince Zuko
- Instant Expert: Katara masters waterbending in a few weeks, an act that normally takes a lifetime. Aang pulls this with water and earth (which he becomes an expert in mere episodes after he's shown unable to earthbend at all), with the caveat that he's learned it all before in past lives. Sokka becomes pretty good with a sword in a single day.
- Internal Homage
- In The Blood: Zuko, revealed by Iroh in Season 3, has inherited his great-grandfather Sozin's "evil" and his great-grandfather Roku's "good": "Evil and good are always at war inside you, Zuko. It is your nature, your legacy."
- I Surrender Suckers: Azula
- It Is Always Spring: Always winter in Season 1; corrected in the following seasons.
- Kangaroo Court: "Avatar Day"
- Karma Houdini: Fire Lord Sozin
- Karmic Death: Admiral Zhao, to avoid an Embarrassing Rescue. Given a rather contemplative ethical Lampshade Hanging in Kyoshi's flashback in the finale.
- Killed Off For Real: Princess Yue, Admiral Zhao, Jet, and Combustion Man.
- Kill Him Already
- King Of All Cosmos: The lion-turtle from the finale, while probably not God, is the oldest, largest, and wisest living thing in the world.
- Koan: Half the things that Iroh says to Zuko, to Zuko's annoyance.
- Also Hue: "Time is an illusion, and so is death."
- Lady Of War: Suki, Mai
- Lemon Wacky Hello: Sokka in the desert episode
- Liar Liar: Azula
- Licked By The Dog: Or rather, the bison
- Limp And Livid: Used as a sign of Azula's progressing insanity.
- Live Action Adaptation: A movie has been announced; the scriptwriter and planned director is M. Night Shyamalan. With the decision not to use animation and the lackluster level of Shyamalan's most recent movies, the news did not intially set well for a majority of the fans. The creators, however, recently have voiced their enthusiastic approval. Though still in its early stages, this comes as an enormous relief to many fans, who feared that the movie would diverge significantly from the storyline and that the co-creators would be left completely out of the creative process.
- Locked In A Room: Subverted: Katara and Zuko get trapped in a cave, but no moral is learned and no loyalties change.
- Locking Mac Gyver In The Store Cupboard
- Love At First Sight: Aang towards Katara; Sokka and Yue
- Loveable Rogue: Prince Zuko in Season 2
- Luke I Am Your Father: Roku, Aang's spiritual predecessor, was Zuko's great grandfather.
- Machiavelli Was Wrong: "I love Zuko more than I fear you."
- Mac Guffin: The frozen frogs in The Blue Spirit were mostly a method to seperate Aang from the group and give the episode a race against time.
- Made Of Iron: Pretty much everyone, to some degree or another; especially when Earthbending gets involved, or after falling 50 feet.
- Magitek: The use of bending as industry and as a proxy for modern technology.
- Magnificent Bastard: Azula
- Mama Bear: Ursa (whose name means "bear"), when we learn that she murdered Azulon, in the backstory.)
- Manchurian Agent
- Manipulative Bastard: Azula
- Market Based Title: Avatar: The Legend of Aang in the UK, where "bender" is derogatory slang for a male homosexual.
- Martial Pacifist: Iroh
- Melee A Trois: the end of "The Chase"
- Memetic Badass: Iroh, Toph, "Wang Fire."
- Metaphorgotten:
Suki: The king of... the guys... who... lose at stuff?
Toph: ...leave the nicknames to us, honey.
- Mexican Stand Off: Also at the end of "The Chase"
- Mind Control Eyes: The Manchurian Agents
- Minion Shipping: Zuko and Mai
- Mix And Match Critters: Started off for fun by Bryan Konietzko, but it wasn't before till the writers caught on. Now he and the character designers are mostly trying to keep up with their crazy ideas. Lampshaded when it was mentioned a certain character wanted to exhibit his bear. The characters who weren't reading the announcement immediately assumed Katara meant some hybrid animal.
- Mood Whiplash
- Mushroom Samba: "Cactus Juice; it'll quench ya."
- Myth Arc
- Mythopoeia
- Never Say Die: Averted with everyone that died before the series started, as well as death threats. On the other hand the fate of the
four three named characters that died during the show was systematically pussyfooted around (though all three were confirmed by Word Of God). They even managed to lampshade the ambiguity without actually saying that the characters died.
- New Age Retro Hippie: the "nomads" the Gaang run into during "The Cave of Two Lovers"
- New Old Flame: Mai
- Nightmare Fuel
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: several Professional Wrestlers in "The Blind Bandit", most obvious "The Boulder"
- No One Could Survive That: Aang's apparent death by lightning in the second season finale
- Also Lampshaded in "The Southern Raiders"
Azula falls off the blimp.
Zuko: She's not gonna make it.
Azula saves herself from falling to her death.
Zuko: ...of course she did.
- Not So Different: Aang and Zuko
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Iroh in "Sokka's Master"; King Bumi pretty much all the time.
- Official Couple: Aang and Katara, Zuko and Mai, Sokka and Suki
- Offing The Offspring
- Old Master: Bumi, Iroh, Pakku, Gyatso, Roku and others.
- Open The Iris: Sokka's Mushroom Samba a la Cactus Juice in "The Desert"
- Opening Narration
Katara: "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. 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. A hundred years passed, and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar -- an airbender named Aang. Although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world."
- Orphaned Punchline: because Zuko can't rememeber how the joke went.
- The Other Darrin: Iroh's voice actor, Mako, died, and was replaced by Greg Baldwin
- Our Ghosts Are Different
- Overprotective Dad: Toph left the Big Fancy House of House Bei Fong for a reason.
- Parental Abandonment: A good number of heroes and bad guys, but especially Zuko.
- Disappeared Dad: All the adult males in Katara and Sokka's entire village, Aang's father-figure, Gyatso. Zuko's father is alive but absent in the important ways, but he has Iroh as a substitute.
- Missing Mom: Katara and Sokka. Zuko and Azula. Yue. Just for starters.
- Perky Female Minion: Ty Lee
- Perpetual Frowner: Zuko, Mai
- Pillar Of Light
- Playing With Fire: Firebenders, obviously.
- And Aang, who thought it was cool at first, until he learned better.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Sokka
- Power Floats: Again, Aang when in the Avatar State.
- Power Glows: Aang when in the Avatar State.
- Power Trio: Azula, Mai and Ty Lee.
- Previously On
- Professional Wrestling: Brilliantly skewered in "The Blind Bandit," complete with Kayfabe.
- Psycho Electro: Azula and Ozai.
- Put On A Bus: The Earth King and his Bear
- Psychotic Smirk: Azula does this a lot, as did Long Feng.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee.
- Rage Against The Reflection: Azula.
- The Rashomon: "The Great Divide"
- Recap Episode: "The Legend So Far" mini-episode, shown right before the penultimate episode of the first season, and narrated by the voice of Spirit Advisor Avatar Roku.
- And "The Boy in the Iceberg".
- Redemption Equals Death: Jet
- Red Oni Blue Oni
- Red Sky Take Warning
- Redundant Researcher: Professor Zei (from "The Library")
- Refuge In Audacity: While most kids on TV Cant Get Away With Nuthin, in the episode "The Runaway", the crew pull a series of schemes that includes Toph pulling a Flopsy on a nobleman. Seriously.
- Refusal Of The Call
- Regent For Life: Long Feng
- Reincarnation
- Retired Badass: Jeong Jeong, Iroh, Piandao.
- The Rival: Prince Zuko
- Royally Screwed Up: The Fire Nation nobility. Full Stop.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Running Gag: Several
- Save The Villain
- Schedule Slip
- Sealed With A Kiss
- Serious Business: Azula's reaction to winning a game of, essentially, beach volleyball in "The Beach":
Azula: Yes, we defeated you for all time! You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation! (pause) Well that was fun.
- Shadow Discretion Shot: Spoofed, with the first appearance of Momo.
- Shallow Female Love Interest: Yue; sort of unavoidable when you die after three episodes.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend
- Shipping: Egads, the shipping rivals Harry Potter...
- Ship Sinking: They sink ships with nukes on this show.
- Ship Tease: And in addition to the nigh-constant ship teasing actually in the show, the creators did up some omake of the most brutal ship tease in the history of the universe.
- Ship To Ship Combat
- Shirtless Scene: Every major male character eventually; one of Zuko's came complete with Disturbed Doves!
- Short Run In Peru
- Shout Out
- Shut Up Kiss: Sokka and Suki in "The Serpent's Pass"; Aang and Katara in "The Invasion"
- Silent Bob: Longshot
- Single Palette Town
- Slave To PR
- Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter: Zuko's rant at the storm in "Bitter Work"
- The Smurfette Principle: Successfully averted -- as acknowledged by the co-creators, the show proves that an action/adventure series doesn't have to necessarily be male-dominated. Now they just need to convince Mattel...
- Snipe Hunt: The terms of Zuko's banishment. Track down someone not seen for 100 years and you can come home again? Riiiight.
- Sorry I Left The BGM On: "The Blue Spirit" and "The Painted Lady".
- Spirit Advisor: Avatar Roku
- Spy Speak
- Steam Punk
- Stepford Smiler - "Welcome to Ba Sing Se!"
- Storming The Castle
- Strange Bedfellows
- Stylistic Suck: In "The Ember Island Players"
- Super Mode: The Avatar State
- Sword Fight: The much looked forward to dual dao sabers vs. twin tiger-head hook sword face-off; overlaps with Evasive Fight Thread Episode.
- Sword Over Head: After Zuko defeats his arch rival, Commander Zhao, in an Agni Kai (one-on-one Firebender duel), Zhao expects Zuko to kill him with a Finishing Move, but to his suprise, Zuko spares him, blasting the ground near his head.
- Sword Lines
- Survival Mantra: "Azula always lies, Azula always lies..."
- Survivor Guilt: Aang
- Take A Third Option: Aang chi-bends Ozai to no longer be capable of firebending rather than kill him or lose to him.
- Taking The Bullet: Zuko to Katara, from Azula.
- Tasty Gold: Trope Namer
- Tear Jerker
- Thats No Moon: The Lion-Turtle Island.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Aang
- Throw It In: Sokka's humor and mannerisms were derived from the improvisations of his comedian voice actor. Used in the show when Sokka tells the actor playing him to make up jokes to use.
- Thunderbolt Iron: Sokka's sword.
- Tonight Someone Kisses
- Totally Radical: Book 3, Episode 2, with in-universe slang.
Sokka: 'Flame-eo?'
- Took A Level In Badass: Sokka in the third season
- Tragic Hero: Jet
- Training Montage
- Training From Hell: For Aang, Earthbending tutelage under Toph.
- Translation Convention
- Twist Ending: Prominent throughout Season 2, in contrast to the usual "ride off happily into the sunset" endings of most episodes in season 1. One episode in which it was played with ironically contained several plot twists at the end. The episode later received an Emmy Nom.
- The Unfavorite: Zuko
- Two Lines No Waiting
- Unpronounceable Alias: "The King of Omashu"
- Unstoppable Rage: The Avatar State
- Villain Episode: "Zuko Alone"
- Villainous Breakdown: Azula
- Walking The Earth: Season 1; overlaps with Stern Chase
- Wall Crawl
- Wangst: Zuko occasionally; Aang more intermittently but more intensely when it strikes.
- Weapon Of Choice
- Well Done Son Guy: Guess who.
- Well Excuse Me Princess: Mai
- Well Intentioned Extremist: Jet
- Wham Episode: "The Crossroads of Destiny"
- What An Idiot: Delectable tea or deadly poison, anyone?
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: Azula seems to think a volley ball-like game called Kuai Ball requires explosions.
- What Would X Do: "What would Uncle do?" is a question Zuko frequently asks himself when trying to do the right thing in season 3.
- Whole Episode Flashback: "The Storm", "Appa's Lost Days", "Zuko Alone", "The Avatar and the Firelord"
- Who Would Want To Watch Us: "The Ember Island Players"
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: A group try to force Aang into the Avatar State. It works, but Aang almost destroys the complex and everyone inside.
- With My Hands Tied
- World Of Cardboard Speech: Zuko's Calling The Old Man Out
- The World Tree
- World Building
- Worthy Opponent: Prince Zuko
- You Cant Go Home Again: Zuko for the first two seasons. Aang... well, check the U.S. title.
- You Dont Want To Catch This: Pentapox.
- Yuppie Couple: The Cabbage Merchant
- Zeppelins From Another World
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