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* BrickJoke: Bolin convinced Mako to join the trip by humorously making up a scenario where they happen to meet their grandmother and he'd have to break her heart by telling her Mako didn't come. Hilariously enough, once they meet their family in Ba Sing Se, they DO actually meet their grandmother... who then asks where their parents are. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Then they have to break her heart by telling her they're dead.]]

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* BrickJoke: Bolin convinced Mako to join the trip by humorously making up a scenario where they happen to meet their grandmother and he'd have to break her heart by telling her Mako didn't come. Hilariously enough, once they meet their family in Ba Sing Se, they DO actually meet their grandmother... who then asks where their parents are. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Then they have to break her heart by telling her they're dead.]]
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* YouGotSpunk: The leader of the biker gang tells Korra and Asami, "We love gals with spirit."
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* BrickJoke: Bolin convinced Mako to join the trip by humorously making up a scenario where they happen to meet their grandmother and he'd have to break her heart by telling her Mako didn't come. Hilariously enough, once they meet their family in Ba Sing Se, they DO actually meet their grandmother... who then asks where their parents are. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Then they have to break her heart by telling her they're dead.]]

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* {{Foil}}: Kai, of Aang. This episode shows Kai using his airbending to rob rich people blind, while Aang always used his powers to protect others.



* MoodWhiplash: Bolin and Mako reuniting with their family takes a sour turn when it turns out the others have no idea what happened to their parents--the brothers are forced to reveal that their parents are dead (they were killed when they were little kids).

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* MoodWhiplash: Bolin and Mako reuniting with their family takes a sour turn when it turns out the others have no idea what happened to their parents--the parents -- the brothers are forced to reveal that their parents are dead (they were killed when they were little kids).

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* ContinuityNod: The apartment complex where Mako and Bolin's family lives is in fact [[http://avatarparallels.tumblr.com/post/90183717613/mako-and-bolins-family-live-in-the-same-apartment the very same place where Zuko and Iroh briefly lived while they were hiding out in Ba Sing Se]]

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The apartment complex where Mako and Bolin's family lives is in fact [[http://avatarparallels.tumblr.com/post/90183717613/mako-and-bolins-family-live-in-the-same-apartment the very same place where Zuko and Iroh briefly lived while they were hiding out in Ba Sing Se]]Se]].
** The Earth Queen claims that there are no airbenders in Ba Sing Se. This is reminiscent to the claim that [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderCityOfWallsAndSecrets "there is no war in Ba Sing Se"]], repeated several times when Aang and his friends visit Ba Sing Se in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. In both cases the Dai Li are covering the real truth, which of course is the opposite to these claims.
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* MoodWhiplash: Bolin and Mako reuniting with their family takes a sour turn when it turns out the others have no idea what happened to their parents.
* PartingWordsRegret: San had a fight with his parents the last time he saw them.

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* MoodWhiplash: Bolin and Mako reuniting with their family takes a sour turn when it turns out the others have no idea what happened to their parents.
parents--the brothers are forced to reveal that their parents are dead (they were killed when they were little kids).
* PartingWordsRegret: San had apparently got into a huge fight with his parents the last time he saw them.dad before leaving Ba Sing Se.

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* FemmeFatalons: The Earth Queen has a very fancy and doubtless expensive (but still remarkably [[FashionVictimVillain tacky]]) set. Part of the emulation of real-life historic Chinese culture: aristocrats typically grew their nails rather long.
* FetchQuest: While Mako and Bolin are stuck in Ba Sing Se's outer ring, Korra and Asami are tasked to bring some taxes from a vault in a town south of the city by the Earth Queen so that she will give them information about Airbenders. They of course run into trouble.



* FetchQuest: While Mako and Bolin are stuck in Ba Sing Se's outer ring, Korra and Asami are tasked to bring some taxes from a vault in a town south of the city by the Earth Queen so that she will give them information about Airbenders. They of course run into trouble.
* FemmeFatalons: The Earth Queen has a very fancy and doubtless expensive (but still remarkably [[FashionVictimVillain tacky]]) set. Part of the emulation of real-life historic Chinese culture: aristocrats typically grew their nails rather long.
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* FemmeFatalons: The Earth Queen has a very fancy and doubtless expensive (but still remarkably [[FashionVictimVillain tacky]]) set. Part of the emulation of real-life historic chinese culture: aristocrats typically grew their nails rather long.

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* FemmeFatalons: The Earth Queen has a very fancy and doubtless expensive (but still remarkably [[FashionVictimVillain tacky]]) set. Part of the emulation of real-life historic chinese Chinese culture: aristocrats typically grew their nails rather long.
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** Mako and Bolin discuss doing this to a fruit vendor, but after discovering its all rotten and getting in an argument with the stalls keeper over whether or not the fruit is even worth stealing, they don't.

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** Mako and Bolin discuss doing this to a fruit vendor, but after discovering its it's all rotten and getting in an argument with the stalls stall's keeper over whether or not the fruit is even worth stealing, they don't.
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* FemmeFatalons: The Earth Queen has a very fancy and doubtless expensive (but still remarkably [[FashionVictimVillain tacky]]) set.

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* FemmeFatalons: The Earth Queen has a very fancy and doubtless expensive (but still remarkably [[FashionVictimVillain tacky]]) set. Part of the emulation of real-life historic chinese culture: aristocrats typically grew their nails rather long.
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* FakingEngineTrouble: After the Earth Queen dismisses Team Avatar, Asami says they can't leave just yet since the airship had a malfunction in one of its engines, and won't be flight worthy until the morning. This gives them the night to search for Kai, who had been forcibly recruited for the Earth Queen's army.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Mako and Bolin plan to steal fruit from a random fruit seller, who just happens to be a cousin of theirs that they've never met before.
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* FakingEngineTrouble: After the Earth Queen dismisses Team Avatar, Asami says they can't leave just yet since the airship had a malfunction in one of its engines, and won't be flight worthy until the morning. This gives them the night to search for Kai, who had been forcibly recruited for the Earth Queen's army.
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[[caption-width-right:350:She can be... demanding.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:She can be...be quite... demanding.]]
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* YouGotSpunk: The leader of the biker gang tells Korra and Asami, "We love gals with spirit."



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* CrossReferencedTitles: To "The Earth King" in the parent show.
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* RedshirtArmy: The Royal Guards are far less competent than the Dai Li. Korra is quick to voice her reluctance towards having them as escorts.

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* RedshirtArmy: The Royal Guards are far less competent than the Dai Li. Korra is quick to voice her reluctance towards having them as escorts. She's proven right when the guards run at the first sign of trouble.
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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Korra's dad has one with Eska, Desna and Zuko when it comes up that he's the only person in the elevator who never tried to kill the Avatar.

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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Korra's dad Tonraq has one with Eska, Desna and Zuko when it comes up that he's the only person in the elevator who never tried to kill the Avatar.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Kai ends up getting captured by the Dai Li after screwing everyone over.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Kai ends up getting captured by the Dai Li after screwing everyone over. Technically though, they didn't arrest him for pick-pocketing or stealing, they captured him only on the basis of him being another airbender for the Queen's airbending regiment.

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