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For the other well-known series by the same author, see ''Fanfic/TheWorstPrisoner,'' a ForWantOfANail series diverging from Book One's ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheStorm The Storm.]]''



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For the other well-known series by the same author, see ''Fanfic/TheWorstPrisoner,'' a ForWantOfANail WhatIf series diverging from Book One's ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheStorm The Storm.]]''


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* CannotTellAJoke: Zuko and Suki.
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** The author has one in her author's notes: Bless his[=/=]her cotton socks!
** Katara likes to note that X win(s) at X (forever). Also, that much fun was had by all.

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* %%* CannotTellAJoke: Zuko and Suki.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** The author has one in her author's notes: Bless his[=/=]her cotton socks!
** Katara likes to note that X win(s) at X (forever). Also, that much fun was had by all.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: Katara likes to note that X win(s) at X (forever). Also, that much fun was had by all.
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*** Arguably Mai as well. While she canonically loves Zuko and betrays Azula to protect him, she also [[spoiler: betrays him to help her dad's coup attempts against him in the above-mentioned comics, to the point of endangering Zuko's family and being complicit in assassination attempts on Zuko and them, openly expressing that she has no faith in Zuko to be a good Firelord.]] Here, while Mai is revealed to have been [[spoiler:spying on Zuko for Azula]] prior to his joining up with the Avatar, she also warns Zuko of the plotted coup and tells him everything she knows in order to help him.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: For all they've gone through and all they will have to go through moving forward, the summation epilogue reveals that the Gaang do attain fulfillment in their individual life goals. Aang eventually discovers other unrealized airbenders living among the members of the other nations and is able to restart the Air Nomad culture; he also finds other romantic loves. Sokka and Suki stay together and become important politicians and peacekeepers who oversee the Fire Nation colonies' transition to independence and eventually become the ruling couple of the Southern Water Tribe, widely recognized for their leadership, combative skill, and (for Sokka) his creative genius. Toph gets to have her freedom and adventures while coming to an understanding with her parents and having a home that accepts her with Zuko, Iroh, and Katara in the Fire Nation. Zuko and Katara go on to [[TheyDo get married]], have five children, do an enormous amount of work towards societal and economic reform and global peace initiatives, and become two of the most widely respected monarchs in Fire Nation history, presiding over what becomes considered by historians to be a Golden Age of peace and prosperity in both the Fire Nation and the world.]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: For all they've gone through and all they will have to go through moving forward, the summation epilogue reveals that the Gaang do attain fulfillment in their individual life goals. Aang eventually discovers other unrealized airbenders living among the members of the other nations and is able to restart the Air Nomad culture; he also finds other romantic loves. Sokka and Suki stay together and become important politicians and peacekeepers who oversee the Fire Nation colonies' transition to independence and eventually become the ruling couple of the Southern Water Tribe, widely recognized for their leadership, combative skill, and (for Sokka) his creative genius. Toph gets to have her freedom and adventures while coming to an understanding with her parents and having a home that accepts her with Zuko, Iroh, and Katara in the Fire Nation. Zuko and Katara go on to [[TheyDo get married]], married, have five children, do an enormous amount of work towards societal and economic reform and global peace initiatives, and become two of the most widely respected monarchs in Fire Nation history, presiding over what becomes considered by historians to be a Golden Age of peace and prosperity in both the Fire Nation and the world.]]
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* SuddenMusicalEnding: The Ember Island Player's rendition of ''The Boy in the Iceberg'' inexplicably switches to being a musical in the last act.
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This or these examples of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome seem to violate at least one of these rules, which disqualifies them: No character reactions (characters get angry, don't forgive, don't change their personality instantly, etc.); Too fantastical (depends on the properties of magic, powers, sci-fi tech, monsters, etc.); Not surprising (a character was warned about the outcome, it's used to provide Karma or An Aesop, or it simply follows normal conventions for this genre or medium); Plot happens (the example only describes an event, but not why audiences would expect a different, unrealistic outcome); Not an outcome (a character just explains why something wouldn't work as expected, or something is just an innate aspect of the setting or character that has a logical reason for being present); More of a Deconstruction (the event has major, lasting effects on the plot, make something more realistic, but not completely realistic, or a parody/fanwork applies realistic consequences to the events of a different work); or fits better under a different trope. See the trope's definition for more details. If you believe a removal was a mistake, please bring it up in the cleanup thread.


* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: This is rather common in a fic that deconstructs many parts of canon.
** [[spoiler: When Zuko is hit by lighting, he had to see a real doctor and was comatose for a few days and bedridden for a week afterwards- and it's indicated that even when he's standing after Katara heals him, he's not entirely there.]]
** Aang is competent and trained enough to defeat the Firelord with the use of all four elements and the Avatar State, but he isn't a ''master'' in all four. After all he had less than a year to learn his non-native elements: about seven months learning Water, five or six learning Earth, and only about two learning Fire. Every one of his masters spent years trying to understand and work with the nuances of their individual element, while Aang had very limited time with each to adjust to feeling and manipulating them. As a result, Toph and Zuko actually streamlined the education down to the combative necessities Aang would need to survive, rather than giving him a full and robust education. After Aang defeats the Firelord, his education in bending can afford to become more nuanced and thorough and less rushed and combat-oriented.
** Twice more in ''Jet's Troubling Obsession'', when Zuko tries to show Jin the view of Ba Sing Se, she lacks the fitness and strength that most of the Avatar cast has and had to be assisted by Zuko to get on the roof. This was supposed to compare the cast to normal people.
** Jet's therapy proves counterproductive because he doesn't believe he has a problem.
** Aang may be the Avatar, and that may give him great power, but he's still a ''twelve year old child'' being asked to solve a century-old global political conflict, and a particularly naive child at that. Of course he's not going to manage it perfectly; he's still in the process of learning how to predict and properly consider the consequences of his actions, and naturally making mistakes in the process. This issue is compounded by the fact that it's also difficult for him to see value in others' advice sometimes because he simply hasn't yet reached the point at which he can understand and accept the value in opinions that contradict his own--at least, not without suffering the consequences of not listening first.
** Similarly, Aang's particular brand of InnocentlyInsensitive preachy idealism, insistence that everyone immediately forgive wrongs against them, and denial of the moral nuance involved in justice, healing, and actual forgiveness doesn't mean that the world and those around him actually conform to his standards. By ''Not Stalking Firelord Zuko,'' it just means that Aang's friends don't always inform him of the more morally complicated parts of events they're involved in because they don't want to be preached at.
** Aang's disappearance right before Sozin's Comet doesn't just worry and scare his friends, but deeply shakes their trust in him--especially Katara's, given her history with abandonment issues. The author discusses that they're not certain how much agency Aang had in his disappearance or whether he could or could not have informed his friends somehow that he was okay, but regardless the result was that he left his friends in a terrifying position with no information about what was going on during the most critical high-stakes do-or-die days of the war and didn't seem much concerned over having done so, which would logically have an impact on those relationships.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Suki is quite fond of pulling these.

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