History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers

* BackingAwaySlowly: When the play shows Actor!Katara and Actor!Zuko flirting with each other, the real Katara and Zuko get really uncomfortable and slowly inch away from each other.

* AdaptedOut: In-universe:
** Notably, Zhao isn't mentioned at all throughout the play, with Zuko taking his place during the events of "The Blue Spirit," meaning that Zuko gets attacked by his own secret identity. A tiny doll of Zhao does appear at the end of the first act to be grabbed by Aang-as-enraged-Ocean-Spirit, though.
** Long Feng and his conspiracy also don't appear in the play. While Jet is still brainwashed, it appears to have been the doing of the Earth King or someone loyal to him.
** [[TakeThat Intentionally done]] with the Gan Jin and Zhang tribes as well as the canyon guide from "The Great Divide." And indeed, the entirety of "The Great Divide."
** Jun the bounty hunter from "Bato of the Water Tribe" isn't one of the characters in the play.
** Xin Fu and the Earth Rumble VI wrestlers also don't appear.
** [[TheBusCameBack Returning characters]] who participated in the [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheDayOfBlackSunPart1 failed]] [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheDayOfBlackSunPart2 Fire Nation invasion]] including [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBatoOfTheWaterTribe Bato]], Hakoda, [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderImprisoned Haru]], and [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheNorthernAirTemple Teo]] don't appear in the play either.
** The Rough Rhinos are also no-shows.

* CharacterExaggeration: InUniverse. The play versions of the characters are all exaggerated versions of them, mostly based on their pre-character-development selves. Aang is annoyingly cheerful and childish, Sokka is shallow comic relief and just makes bad jokes about eating [[note]] The real Sokka is more annoyed that the topics never change than anything, to the point that he slips the actor some new bad jokes during intermission [[/note]], Katara is an emotional wreck who keeps launching into speeches about hope, and Zuko has his angst and focus on his honor dialed up to eleven. Toph is rendered as a BoisterousBruiser (played by a muscular man, no less) who does nothing but take down bad guys and make quips, which the real Toph thinks is ''awesome''.

* EasilyForgiven: Player Zuko in the play's third act.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: When Sokka goes to meet his counterpart, who fails to recognize the latter in disguise, he's pretty civil to a "fan with ideas". He also finds Sokka's ideas for one-liners ActuallyPrettyFunny and even incorporates them into his performance. Presumably, the rest of the troupe is like that.

* ShockedSilence: While Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Suki were laughing their heads off at seeing Toph's actor, Zuko just had a look of shock on his face.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Surely, the Gaang couldn't have expected a play about the Avatar's journey to defeat the Fire Nation (especially when it's not completed yet) to end well in favor of them when the play is written by the propaganda-driven nation.

** They also [[MakeMeWannaShout failed to grasp]] Toph's tremor sense. Her being cast as a burly guy, on the other hand, makes perfect sense if you consider that the information came from eyewitness accounts, which in the Earth Kingdom would be mostly people who ''lost'' to Toph's Earthbending. [[IWasBeatenByAGirl Who would be able to admit they were soundly beaten by a 12-year-old blind girl?]]

** He also does this after the play goes into an interval.

** The writer manages to get Zuko's scar on the wrong side, despite him being a public figure in the Fire Nation.

* BareYourMidriff:
** Suki starts with this and stays in her Fire Nation disguise until the last episode.
** Player Ty Lee's costume is accurate to the real Ty Lee's in this respect, though the actress is noticeably pudgier.

* TheBadGuyWins: As it was written by a citizen of the Fire Nation as propaganda, the play ends with the Fire Nation as the victors. PlayedWith in the sense that, InUniverse, this is only the case [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters in the eyes of the main characters]]. The citizens of the Fire Nation consider it a happy ending.

** [[TakeThat Intentionally done]] with the Gan Kendall and Zhang tribes as well as the canyon guide from "The Great Divide." And indeed, the entirety of "The Great Divide."