History Characters / AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors

* MyGreatestFailure: In ''The Shadow of Kyoshi'', Yangchen explains [[spoiler:that, despite being the bridge between the humans and spirits, she often came down too much on the side of the humans, telling the spirits to go back to the Spirit World and trust the humans to care for their sacred lands. As more humans broke her promises, this angered and corrupted the spirits. Kuruk's apparent hedonism was a reaction to the fact that he was hunting down these rogue dark spirits Yangchen created and destroying a little bit of his own spirit each time he did so, leading to his early death.]]

** Kyoshi created the Dai Li. [[StateSec We all know how that turned out]].

* CursedWithAwesome: He's an amazing Firebender, but he constantly mourns having control over the most destructive element, to the extent that he rarely uses it unless necessary, and often only defensively. By contrast, he envies Katara's waterbending and healing abilities, to the point that much of his firebending form and style mimics that of waterbending, rather than his native firebending (such as the use of fire walls and waves, and bending them as if they were water).

* PlayingWithFire: Despite considering it CursedWithAwesome, he ''will'' use his Firebending when he has to.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Deconstructed; Yes, the Fire Nation certainly deserves at least ''some'' LaserGuidedKarma for trying to commit genocide against the Southern Water Tribe's waterbenders... but instead of actually trying to directly impair their war efforts and further attempts at genocide through attacking military bases or sabotaging factories, Hama instead targets largely blameless and innocent Fire Nation civilians and "punishes" them by locking them away under a mountain for the rest of their lives.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Pakku held sexist values for most of his life. When he was a teenager, his bigotry caused his fiancée, Kanna, Sokka and Katara's future grandmother, to leave him. After realizing this as an old man, he realizing that his ideas were wrong and starts to see women as equals. He trains Katara in combat waterbending, even though traditionally, female waterbenders are only allowed to use their powers for healing. He even meets up with Kanna again, and after she realizes that he's changed, Kanna marries him, making him the step-grandfather of Sokka and Katara. When we meet him again in ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNorthAndSouth'', he is trying to convince two young girls, Siku and Sura, to let him teach them, but after being told all their lives to pretend that they can't waterbend lest the Fire Nation steal them away, they refuse.

* BaldMystic: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; only the front half of her head is shaved to expose her blue arrow tattoo, while she has flowing brown hair on the back half. Air Nomads have shaved or mostly shaved heads to emphasize their spirituality.

* LadyOfWar: Kyoshi has a very regal and imposing presence due to her physical size, [[TranquilFury calm]] deep [[ContraltoOfDanger voice]], [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery dress]] and ability to ''[[DishingOutDirt earthbend an entire island]]''. Her followers, the Kyoshi Warriors, are {{Badass Normal}}s but all look and act the part.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Avatar Kyoshi has a deeper voice than some of the other female characters to portray her as powerful and dangerous.

* ChildhoodFriend: One of Aang's. One of Aang's flashbacks is them playing around in Omashu.

* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the King of Omashu and one of the most powerful Earthbenders in the world. The only person who comes in spitting distance of him is [[ChildProdigy Toph]], and the jury's out on who is stronger.

* BadassBoast: In addition to what's mention to AppealToForce, Roku is prone to flexing the fact that he is the Avatar, and that challenging him is therefore a bad idea.

* BerserkButton: It seems he hates being called "weak", possibly because he feels he was too soft on [[spoiler: Sozin]]. When Jeong-Jeong says Aang isn't strong enough to learn firebending, he immediately appears, berates Jeong-Jeong, and tells him that he ''will'' teach Aang firebending (though he may have been doing so to make Aang understand that he was trying firebending too soon).

* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: While he was weakened and probably already dying after getting blasted with toxic gases, Roku dies when he is buried by a volcanic eruption after Sozin abandons him to his fate.]]

* AppealToForce: Scares Jeong-Jeong into training Aang, against the other man's better judgement, whatever his reasons for doing so. This was a recurring pattern with him, as demonstrated when he responded to [[spoiler: Sozin's first colonies]] by threatening him, then obliterating half his palace in a brutal CurbStompBattle and informing him that if he steps out of line again, he'll kill him. It's worth pointing out that in the later case, Roku actually sees what he did as the opposite of this trope. As far as he's concerned, he was being soft on his former friend, merely trying to show him humility. In hindsight, he fully believes he should've killed Sozin right there and prevented the entire war and the century of devastation that followed.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: In ''The Rise of Kyoshi'', she's often invoked instead of the more recent Avatar Kuruk as the gold standard of a hardworking, effective Avatar, and described as 'blessed' and 'holy.' As she makes clear, though, this wasn't the whole story and Kuruk did a lot to preserve her reputation.

** When the eclipse began
--->'''Bumi''': Its time [to reclaim my city]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the King of Omashu and one of the most powerful Earthbenders in the world. The only person who comes in spitting distance of him is [[ChildProdigy Toph]], and the jury's out on who is stronger.

* NiceGuy

-->'''King''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Wrong. Choice.]]

-->'''Bumi''': Its time [to reclaim my city]

** She also came across as one towards Toph, as they both learn a new bending technique from the element they used while being caged up (Toph learned metal bending, while Hama learned blood bending) and used it to escape. The main diffeernce was that while Toph used it for self defense, Hama wanted to use it for revenge on the people that tried to kill the people she loved.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesGarrett (original), Andrew Caldwell (original, young), Sergio Schmied and Carlos Carvajal (Latin American Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AndreSogliuzzo (original), Javier Ridríguez and Daniel Seisdedos (Latin American Spanish)

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Quite blatantly Indian, though what culture he comes from in-universe he comes from, as no other character in the show has his overtly Indian cultural markers. Given the fact that he's in the Eastern Air Temple, he's probably from somewhere in the Earth Kingdom.

!!! '''Played by:''' Yvonne Craig (Netflix show)

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aang's firebending accident with Katara came about as the result of Roku manifesting before Jeong-Jeong and strong-arming him into training Aang, thanks to his desperation to get Aang ready to face Ozai. However, this may have been because Aang needed a blunt lesson in the dangers of uncontrolled firebending.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Invoked as part of his lessons. "You thought I was a frail old man but I'm actually the most powerful earth bender you'll ever see."

* OneManArmy: During the eclipse (which only lasted a mere eight minutes), he took back Omashu and chucked out the Fire Nation (for good) ''by himself''. ''After starting in a steel box.'' Even Toph was astounded.