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Episode 1 - Aang
- Sozin sets an Earth Kingdom soldier on fire. The show is kind enough to show the soldier on fire, screaming in agony, and then his charred corpse falling to the ground before the screen cuts away.
- The attack on the Southern Air Temple was thankfully not shown in the original show due to its target audience being children, but here? Thanks to having a higher age rating (a TV-14), the genocide is shown in all its full horror, akin to the bloodbath that was Order 66, and the way it plays out is eerily familiar. The Air Nomads were taken entirely off-guard as countless Monks are grilled and burned left and right, many dropping dead either from a single hit with a fatal burn wound, some falling to the ground as a smoldering corpse, and one even ends up trapped in their own tornado as its set ablaze, burning them to nothing but ashes. It all culminates in Sozin killing Gyatso, and then going after the children who the Airbending master was trying to protect, not unlike Anakin killing the Jedi younglings.
- Aang finds Gyatso's corpse. Bad enough, but then he enters the Avatar State out of sheer grief and nearly kills Sokka and Katara just from his presence. He clearly doesn't even notice that the building is falling apart and they're in serious danger.
Episode 3 - Omashu
- Ozai setting fire to the Fire Nation rebels that Azula lured to him while Azula revels in watching those people burn to death, mixed with a hint of insecurity and envy that she isn’t capable of such power yet.
Episode 4 - Into the Dark
- Although it turns into an Awesome moment for Katara as she is able to fend him off and encase him in ice, Jet trying to downright kill Katara for stopping his plan of bombing both Sai the Mechanist (as well as Teo) and King Bumi.
Episode 5 - Spirited Away
- Koh the Face Stealer makes his live action debut in this episode, and as expected, he is absolutely terrifying. Rather than simply being a malevolent spirit who steals faces, in this incarnation Koh is depicted as a cunning and predatory monster who torments his victims with their worst memories before taking them to his lair and cocooning them. When it comes time for him to feed, he appears to steal his victim's face by literally devouring it, leaving only a skeletal husk behind as their soul is apparently lost forever.
- Kya’s death in this adaptation. Unlike the original series, we get to see Kya being killed by a Fire Nation soldier. What makes the scene even worse is that not only was Katara there when she saw her mother’s death, she unintentionally caused it by trying to Waterbend to protect her mother. No wonder Katara struggles to Waterbend in this series.
Episode 6 - Masks
- The way Ozai scars Zuko in this version is worse. In the cartoon, Ozai simply burns Zuko from a distance. But here Ozai burns Zuko's face point blank after pinning him down, effectivly branding Zuko, all because Zuko was unwilling to hurt him.
Episode 8 - Legends
- The changed circumstances regarding Yue's decision to sacrifice herself to restore the Moon Spirit. Yue states that Aang has been claimed by the Ocean Spirit to create the gigantic koi monster, who will roam and threaten the seas forever in search of its dead partner. So while the original merely has the implied threat of ecological catastrophe with the death of the Moon Spirit, in here, the world will be destroyed by the Ocean Spirit unless the Moon is restored.
