History Headscratchers / AvatarTheLastAirbenderMiscellaneous

* In The ember Island Players, one scene makes fun of the Fire Nation defeat at the North Pole. Now, we know that a lot of Fire Nation soldiers must have died offscreen (if they weren't killed by the Water Tribe warriors, then they were killed by Koizilla.) and the seige as a whole was a pretty huge defeat for the Fire Nation. The Seige of the North only happened a few months prior to the play's performance. Wouldn't this have fallen under TooSoon and a lot of people complained to the theater company? (While the Fire Nation would have believed they had pretty much won by that point, surely at least one of the families who lost a son or daughter would have been upset.)

** The Order of the White Lotus is all over the place, all it would take would eb one operative somewhere in the prison to get a message out.

** Perhaps the OP isn't familiar with a little place called UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia. As of 2012, it's still an ''absolute monarchy'' without even the pretensions of civilian oversight, where women are forced by law to cover from head to toe in black (making {{Iran}}'s dress code positively liberal in comparison) and people can be executed for ''''sorcery'''' just because a citizen feels ill in their presence. Try going over there and changing the rules of ''that'' tribe, and you'll either be deported, if you're lucky, or beaten to death on the streets by the fanatical religious militia for challenging their 'traditional values'. If anything, the Northern Water Tribe's sexism was far too easily put aside.

*** Lets not forget that Azula can fly, not very well, but she can rocket herself forward with her flames. That should have given her plenty of distance in short time.

* Why was Ozai’s punishment from Azulon to kill his firstborn son specifically? I get the most obvious logic — Iroh lost his firstborn, so Ozai has to do the same — but if Azulon arranged this so that Ozai would understand his brother’s pain, why not have him kill the child he actually cares about to some degree? I don’t see Ozai being too broken up if Zuni has been killed on the battlefield, for example.

* I am slightly bothered by this show's habit of sending extremely mixed messages throughout its run: for example, in "Return to Omashu", the team convinces the rebels to evacuate the city and go for the chance to strike back in the future instead of launching an immediate attack when the odds are stocked against them. But then in "The Boiling Rock", Zuko straight-up tells Sokka that you shouldn't quit at something just because you ''might fail'' and that you ''have to'' try ''every time''. And then in the finale, we have half the cast forgoing honor and valor and going for pragmatic solutions while the other half act as though the most honorable solution is the one to be strived for, regardless of whether there's a more practical solution.

* All right, I know that Aang technically has GrayEyes. But there are just as many shots of him with gray eyes as there are of him with brown, or green, or even blue eyes. What's up with that? Is that what gray eyes look like in RealLife, or does Aang have KaleidoscopeEyes?

* I wasn't quite sure where to put this because it bugs me on so many levels, so here goes: what the hell was going on at the end of "The Chase"? So Azula "surrenders" (and no one sees through it), then she hits Iroh with lightning, who so far was the only person in the series to stand up to her and redirect her lightning, a technique only he knew. When he falls, Aang, Zuko Katara and Toph bend their elements at her(which for Toph really doesn't make much sense). So Azula shields herself with... fire? How does that work? Then the whole WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}} nightmare explodes(?!?), Azula disappears, [[YouFailPhysicsForever and the whole town is on fire]]. So, uh, what part of this makes sense?

** ''no one in the entire Fire Nation colonies or even most of the Fire Nation proper knows how Zuko got his scar'' That is an unsupported assumption. The show never states that ''no one'' knows it. As for why they'd know the story but not recognize him? Stories spread more easily than pictures in a society with a tech level like the Avatar world. You're also comparing the early season -- when Zuko is an exile, but still part of the Fire Nation and the royal family -- to the latter season, when he's a wanted fugitive. In the first instance, the details might not be spread to avoid embarrassment; in the latter, the story will be spread to make it more likely someone can catch him.

* Roku's headpiece. When the volcano starts erupting, and Roku and Ta Min run out of their house, we can see him take it off and leave it on the floor. At the "current" time, the island is deserted and seemingly featureless; everything has been "completely covered in ash", according to Toph, which would verify that it was the eruption that did it. How, then, did Iroh come to possess the item in the first place (much less have the foresight to smuggle it into his cell, which would be a different question entirely)?

** Could be. In the sequel series, Zuko has actually taken to riding a dragon descended from Ran and Shaw.

* In "Zuko Alone," Zuko reveals his identity in a tiny, backwater, landlocked village in the Earth Kingdom, and the townspeople immediately recognize him AND know his backstory. Yet no one in the entire Fire Nation colonies or even most of the Fire Nation proper knows how Zuko got his scar, or recognizes him at all. How in the heck did a little village on the other side of the world end up with that knowledge?

* The reason Aang has to defeat Ozai before the comet arrives is given as: Ozai will use it to end the war with a blow so devastating that even Aang wouldn't be able to restore balance to the world. But what sort of final blow did Ozai have in mind? Burning down the Earth Kingdom was only possible because the Fire Nation had developed airships, which were only created after they found a discarded one after the battle at the Northern Air Temple. What was his plan for before they discovered that?