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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy:
** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
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Misuse. It\'s Genre Savvy, not just \"savvy\".
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* GenreSavvy: The guard at the gate thinks to look under a cart that's going inside.
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-->'''Zhao:''' [[GenreSavvy Uh... no.]]
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-->'''Zhao:''' [[GenreSavvy Uh... no.]]
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* [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene Action Episode, Quiet Drama Scene]]: See MoodWhiplash below.
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** BroughtDownToBadass: The Blue Spirit is actually Zuko, who just isn't using his firebending to avoid revealing his identity.
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* ContinuityNod: Iroh playing the tsungi horn in front of the jewelled monkey statue, both bought in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll The Waterbending Scroll]].
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Iroh playing the tsungi horn in front of the jewelled monkey statue, both bought in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll The Waterbending Scroll]].
** Iroh playing the tsungi horn in front of the jewelled monkey statue, both bought in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll The Waterbending Scroll]].
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* EnemyMine
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* FindTheCure
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* GrandFauxnale: WordOfGod says that Nick wanted this to be the last episode, but they kept going.
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* GrandFauxnale: WordOfGod says that Nick wanted this to be the last episode, but they kept going.
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* ShoutOut: Several to ''PrincessMononoke'', [[spoiler: including a masked intruder entering a fort, fighting it's inhabitants and shot down and unmasked by a projectile straight to the face (a bullet in the film, an arrow in this episode). The shots in which San and Zuko are unmasked are even similar]].
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Zuko's tsungi horn theme first appears here.
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* WalkingSpoiler: It's next to impossible to refer to the episode or the Blue Spirit himself without mentioning Zuko.
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* WalkingSpoiler: It's next to impossible to refer to the episode or the Blue Spirit himself without mentioning Zuko.Zuko.
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* ArrowCam: When the Blue Spirit is struck down by the Yu Yan archer.
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* SplittingTheArrow: While the Yu-Yan Archers are shown at a firing range, one of them splits an arrow, then splits that arrow, and finally the third arrow in succession, so each is embeded in the other.
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* SplittingTheArrow: While the Yu-Yan Archers are shown at a firing range, one of them splits an arrow, then splits that arrow, and finally the third arrow in succession, so each is embeded embedded in the other.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy:
** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
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** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
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** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
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** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit. Spirit.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
** Zhao doesn't want Aang killed because the Avatar would simply resurrect and the Fire Nation would have to hunt him down all over again.
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--->'''Aang''': You're insane, aren't you?
--->'''Herbalist''': That's riiiiiiight.
--->'''Herbalist''': That's riiiiiiight.
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* ColdSniper: The Yu-Yan Archers.
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* ColdSniper: The Yu-Yan Archers.Archers: always silent, unfazed by pressure and emotion, with [[ImprobableAimingSkills legendary accuracy]] and extremely effective.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: See MoodWhiplash below.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene Action Episode, Quiet Drama Scene]]: See MoodWhiplash below.
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Quickly disappearing, Aang finally returns to Katara and Sokka with the medicine. Despite this and his escape, he seems melancholy.
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Quickly disappearing, Aang finally returns to Katara and Sokka with the medicine. Despite this and his escape, he seems melancholy.
melancholic and sad.
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* EliteMooks: The Yu Yan archers. They take down ''the Avatar'' with ridiculous ease.
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* EliteMooks: The Yu Yan Yu-Yan archers. They take down ''the Avatar'' with ridiculous ease.
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* ThatsAnOrder: Zhao gets to do this when a messenger hawk arrives just after Colonel Shinu has denied his request to use the Yu Yan Archers.
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* ThatsAnOrder: Zhao gets to do this when a messenger hawk arrives just after Colonel Shinu has denied his request to use the Yu Yan Yu-Yan Archers.
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* ShoutOut: Several to ''PrincessMononoke'', including a masked intruder entering a fort, fighting it's inhabitants and shot down and unmasked by a projectile straight to the face (a bullet in the film, an arrow in this episode). The shots in which San and Zuko are unmasked are even similar.
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* ShoutOut: Several to ''PrincessMononoke'', [[spoiler: including a masked intruder entering a fort, fighting it's inhabitants and shot down and unmasked by a projectile straight to the face (a bullet in the film, an arrow in this episode). The shots in which San and Zuko are unmasked are even similar.similar]].
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: See MoodWhiplash below.
* BittersweetEnding: Aang is rescued from Zhao and both Sokka and Katara get better but Aang's attempt to connect with Zuko and maybe even forge a friendship fails.
--> '''Sokka:''' Aang, how was your trip? Did you make any new friends?
--> '''Aang:''' No, I don't think I did.
--> '''Sokka:''' Aang, how was your trip? Did you make any new friends?
--> '''Aang:''' No, I don't think I did.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Zuko's illness makes him more than a little loopy
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* CloudCuckoolander: Zuko's Sokka's illness makes him more than a little loopyloopy.
** The herbalist counts as well.
** The herbalist counts as well.
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* ContinuityNod: Iroh playing the tsungi horn in front of the jewelled monkey statue, both bought in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll The Waterbending Scroll]]
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* ContinuityNod: Iroh playing the tsungi horn in front of the jewelled monkey statue, both bought in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll The Waterbending Scroll]]Scroll]].
** Both Sokka and Katara get sick after surviving [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheStorm the storm]].
** Both Sokka and Katara get sick after surviving [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheStorm the storm]].
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The atmospheric background music as Zuko returns to his ship turns out to be Uncle Iroh playing the tsungi horn.
* MoodWhiplash: After a very intense, full of action escape, we have a very quiet, melancholic and even sad scene with Aang reminiscing after a long gone friend he had, wondering if Zuko and him could've been friends in different circumstances.
* MoodWhiplash: After a very intense, full of action escape, we have a very quiet, melancholic and even sad scene with Aang reminiscing after a long gone friend he had, wondering if Zuko and him could've been friends in different circumstances.
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* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: The atmospheric background music as Zuko returns to his ship turns out to be Uncle Iroh playing the tsungi horn.
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* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: ShoutOut: Several to ''PrincessMononoke'', including a masked intruder entering a fort, fighting it's inhabitants and shot down and unmasked by a projectile straight to the face (a bullet in the film, an arrow in this episode). The atmospheric background music as shots in which San and Zuko returns to his ship turns out to be Uncle Iroh playing the tsungi horn.are unmasked are even similar.
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-->'''Zhao:''' [[GenreSavvy Uh... no.]]
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* CloudCuckoolander: Zuko's illness makes him more than a little loopy
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* GenreSavvy: The guard at the gate thinks to look under a cart that's going inside.
** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
* IAteWhat: As their feverish delusions clear up, Sokka and Katara realize they're chewing on dethawing live frogs.
** The guards at Aang's door hear one of their own being neutralized. They go to investigate... leaving one at the door. When they're both taken out, the last one instantly tries to sound the alarm instead of fighting the Spirit.
* IAteWhat: As their feverish delusions clear up, Sokka and Katara realize they're chewing on dethawing live frogs.
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* {{Ninja}}: The Blue Spirit.
* UndersideRide: How Zuko gets close to the fortress, getting inside the cart when the underside is checked.
* UndersideRide: How Zuko gets close to the fortress, getting inside the cart when the underside is checked.
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* TemptingFate: As a guard in a small lookout reads Aang's WantedPoster, he notes that the Avatar can create tornadoes and run faster than the wind. The other guard dismisses it as Fire Lord propaganda, right before seeing Aang zipping by a la Road Runner, knocking down the lookout.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Zhao receives word of his promotion to Admiral just as he's trying to recruit the Yu-Yan Archers, allowing him to make his request an order. How lucky can a guy get?
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Zhao receives word of his promotion to Admiral just as he's trying to recruit the Yu-Yan Archers, allowing him to make his request an order. How lucky can a guy get?get? Played with though, as there's no established reason why the original commanding officer of the archers should have outranked Zhao. The writers could have given Zhao the authority from the beginning, simply by making the original CO someone lower ranked than Zhao. They created a contrived problem, and moments later presented a contrived solution.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Zhao receives word of his promotion to Admiral just as he's trying to recruit the Yu Yin archers, allowing him to make his request an order. How lucky can a guy get?
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Zhao receives word of his promotion to Admiral just as he's trying to recruit the Yu Yin archers, Yu-Yan Archers, allowing him to make his request an order. How lucky can a guy get?
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Zhao receives word of his promotion to Admiral just as he's trying to recruit the Yu Yin archers, allowing him to make his request an order. How lucky can a guy get?
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-->'''Aang:''' You're insane, aren't you?
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-->'''Aang:''' [[YoureInsane You're insane, insane]], aren't you?
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* SaveTheVillain: Aang rescues an unconscious Zuko from Zhao's soldiers.
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Seeing the sniper, Aang moves quickly; the arrow hits, knocking the mask off, and revealing the spirit's face. [[spoiler: It's Zuko, who freed Aang because he couldn't risk Zhao capturing his only way to return home. Fearful and uncertain, Aang decides that he can't leave the prince to be captured, and takes him away.]]
[[spoiler:Hours later, Zuko awakes in a swamp. Aang sits not far away, talking about how he loved visiting the Fire Nation when he was a kid, and how one of his best friends was from there. He wonders if they could be friends too.]]
[[spoiler: In response, Zuko throws a fire ball at him.]]
[[spoiler:Hours later, Zuko awakes in a swamp. Aang sits not far away, talking about how he loved visiting the Fire Nation when he was a kid, and how one of his best friends was from there. He wonders if they could be friends too.]]
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Seeing the sniper, Aang moves quickly; the arrow hits, knocking the mask off, and revealing the spirit's face. [[spoiler: It's Zuko, who freed Aang because he couldn't risk Zhao capturing his only way to return home. Fearful and uncertain, Aang decides that he can't leave the prince to be captured, and takes him away.]]
[[spoiler:Hoursaway.
Hours later, Zuko awakes in a swamp. Aang sits not far away, talking about how he loved visiting the Fire Nation when he was a kid, and how one of his best friends was from there. He wonders if they could be friendstoo.]]
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* BackToBackBadasses: Aang and the Blue Spirit [[spoiler: aka Zuko]]
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* BackToBackBadasses: Aang and the Blue Spirit [[spoiler: aka Zuko]]Zuko.
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** [[spoiler:BroughtDownToBadass]]: The Blue Spirit is actually [[spoiler: Zuko, who just isn't using his firebending to avoid revealing his identity.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Aang hoped that [[spoiler:Zuko]] would have become this. [[SubvertedTrope It didn't quite work that way]].
* BecomingTheMask: Aang hoped that [[spoiler:Zuko]] would have become this. [[SubvertedTrope It didn't quite work that way]].
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** [[spoiler:BroughtDownToBadass]]: BroughtDownToBadass: The Blue Spirit is actually [[spoiler: Zuko, who just isn't using his firebending to avoid revealing his identity.]]
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* [[spoiler: VillainousRescue: Zuko kidnaps Aang from Zhao.]]
Zhao.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's next to impossible to refer to the episode or the Blue Spirit himself without mentioning[[spoiler:Zuko]].Zuko.
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* CombatPragmatist: When Aang and the Blue Spirit are cornered, Zhao gives the order to his men to leave the avatar alive. Cue the Blue Spirit immediately holding his swords up to Aang's throat, effectively taking him hostage.
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* ThatsAnOrder: Zhao gets to do this when a messenger hawk arrives just after Colonel Shinu has denied his request to use the Yu Yan Archers.
-->'''Zhao:''' News from Fire Lord Ozai... It appears I've been promoted to Admiral. My request is now an ''order''.
-->'''Zhao:''' News from Fire Lord Ozai... It appears I've been promoted to Admiral. My request is now an ''order''.
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-->'''Zhao:''' Uh... no.no.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's next to impossible to refer to the episode or the Blue Spirit himself without mentioning [[spoiler:Zuko]].
* WalkingSpoiler: It's next to impossible to refer to the episode or the Blue Spirit himself without mentioning [[spoiler:Zuko]].