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* FakeFirstKiss: Though it's ambiguous whether they actually kissed or not.
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* InvoluntaryGroupSplit: A cave-in causes Aang and Katara to be separated from Sokka, leaving Sokka with the hippie musicians.
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* TentativeLight

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* TentativeLightTentativeLight: When Aang and Katara are separated from the others, their torch is burning down to nothing.

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* FacePalm: The answer to Katara's question to Sokka, "Why is your forehead all red?"
* {{Facepalm}}: Sokka, when the nomads try to beat the cursed labyrinth with a love song.

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* FacePalm: {{Facepalm}}:
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The answer to Katara's question to Sokka, "Why is your forehead all red?"
* {{Facepalm}}: ** Sokka, when the nomads try to beat the cursed labyrinth with a love song.
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-->"Love is brightest in the dark."

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-->"Love ->''"Love is brightest in the dark."
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* AllMythsAreTrue: The old story about a SecretPassage through the mountains turns out to be true. It was a "true legend" after all.
* BatScare: The bats give the group a good scare.



* CommonalityConnection: Song shows her scar to Suko to show him that she understands his pain.
* ComplimentBackfire: Aang accidentally does this to Katara:
-->'''Aang:''' What? I'm saying I'd rather kiss you than die. That's a compliment!



* DamnedByFaintPraise: Aang accidentally does this to Katara:
-->'''Aang:''' What? I'm saying I'd rather kiss you than die. That's a compliment!



* {{Facepalm}}: Sokka, when the nomads try to beat the cursed labyrinth with a love song.



* ForebodingFleeingFlock: One scene has the bats fleeing from the badgermoles.
* GameFace: Downplayed with Iroh turning around to show his swollen face. Zuko freaks out nonetheless.



* HandsOnApproach: Katara uses this to teach Aang the Octopus Form.
* HeldGaze: Happens between Katara and Aang in the cave as they look at each other and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the lights go out since "love is brightest in the dark"]].

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* HandsOnApproach: Early on, Aang gets a CrushBlush when Katara uses this stands behind him to teach Aang show him the Octopus Form.
* HeldGaze: Happens between Katara and Aang in the cave as they look at each other and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar [[KissingDiscretionShot the lights go out since "love is brightest in the dark"]].



* MobileMaze: When the group winds where they started, Sokka concludes that the cave walls must have shifted. The real reason turns out to be the [[MixAndMatchCritters badgermoles]].
* MoodWhiplash: The lighthearted moment when Sokka wants to present the city of Omashu to his friends quickly turns into a bleak one when they see the city under Fire Nation control.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: Sokka and the nomads manage to tame the hostile badgermoles with a tune.



* NewAgeRetroHippie: The nomads
* OnlySaneMan: Sokka

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* NewAgeRetroHippie: The nomads
nomads.
* OnlySaneMan: SokkaSokka amongst the group of hippie nomads.
* OvenLogic: When it's established that the torches last [[TentativeLight two hours each]], one of the nomad girls lights five of them saying they are now good for 10 hours.



* ThePowerOfLove

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* ThePowerOfLoveThePowerOfLove: The torches only last that long.
* QuizzicalTilt: The badgermole tilts its head in surprise when Sokka accidentally hits a string of the guitar. Apparently, the animals are music lovers.



* ShipTease: Read the title

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* ShipTease: Read the titletitle.



* StarCrossedLovers: Oma and Shu

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* StarCrossedLovers: Oma and ShuShu, complete with FeudingFamilies.
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* BrokenAesop: "We let love lead the way." "Really? We let huge, ferocious beasts lead ''our'' way."

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* BrokenAesop: PlayedForLaughs. "We let love lead the way." "Really? We let huge, ferocious beasts lead ''our'' way."
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* TonightSomeoneKisses: subverted. Aang and Katara lean in as their candle goes out... at which point the cave's luminescent crystals kick in and the camera pans back down to them, leaving us unsure whether they did or not. (Mae Whitman [[WordOfSaintPaul said they did]], though.)

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* TonightSomeoneKisses: subverted.Subverted. Aang and Katara lean in as their candle goes out... at which point the cave's luminescent crystals kick in and the camera pans back down to them, the two, leaving us unsure whether they did or not. (Mae Whitman [[WordOfSaintPaul said they did]], though.)



* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the Gaang make it to Omashu...only to discover the city under Fire Nation control.

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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the Gaang make it to Omashu... only to discover the city under Fire Nation control.
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* LuminescentBlush: Aang and Katara multiple times each throughout the episode, fueling the ShipTease.
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* DivingSave: Aang does this to get Katara out of the way of falling rubble.
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* BigNo: When Sokka finds he's trapped in a cave with a bunch of hippies

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* BigNo: When Sokka finds he's trapped in a cave with a bunch of hippiesthe nomads.
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* ShoutOut: To BobDylan of all people.

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* ShoutOut: To BobDylan Music/BobDylan of all people.

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* BigEater: Zuko refuses Song's offer of dinner, but then Iroh is tempted by the mention of roast duck.



* ContinuityNod: The eye-patch wearing Fire Nation commander from "Jet" shows up again.

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
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The eye-patch wearing Fire Nation commander from "Jet" shows up again.again.
** Iroh shows a fondness for roast duck, as he did all the way back in the first episode.
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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which [[CallingTheOldManOut he throws at his father's face]] during his eventual HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which [[CallingTheOldManOut he throws at his father's face]] during his eventual HeelFaceTurn.]]people.
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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which [[CallingTheOldManOut he throws at his father's face]] when he goes through a HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which [[CallingTheOldManOut he throws at his father's face]] when he goes through a during his eventual HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which he throws at his fathers face when he goes through a HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which [[CallingTheOldManOut he throws at his fathers face father's face]] when he goes through a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: This seems to be the first time Zuko realizes how much Fire Nation's war has hurt innocent people, a fact [[spoiler:which he throws at his fathers face when he goes through a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The A story is the Gaang making their way through the cave, the B story is Zuko and Iroh befriending Song and her mother. No interaction.
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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Variation--after one of the two lovers of the cave died in the war, and the surviving woman used her earthbending to end the hostilities, the people built a new city in their honor which they named after their names put together, the very city the Gaang was trying to reach: Omashu.

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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Variation--after An in-universe example- after one of the two lovers of the cave died in the war, and the surviving woman used her earthbending to end the hostilities, the people built a new city in their honor which they named after their names put together, the very city the Gaang was trying to reach: Omashu.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Zuko gets off to an early start here.


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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Aang accidentally does this to Katara:
-->'''Aang:''' What? I'm saying I'd rather kiss you than die. That's a compliment!

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* BrokenAesop: "We let love lead the way." "Really? We used huge, ferocious beasts to lead our way."

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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: When Katara asks Chong if the Cave of Two Lovers is real or a legend, he answers that it's a real legend.
* BrokenAesop: "We let love lead the way." "Really? We used let huge, ferocious beasts to lead our ''our'' way."
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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, the Gaang make it to Omashu...only to discover the city under Fire Nation control.
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The tunnels, they are a\'changin\'

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* ShoutOut: To BobDylan of all people.
-->'''Chong:''' The tunnels, they're a'changin'!
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** [[WordOfSaintPaul According to Mae Whitman]] (the actress who plays Katara), they did. Also note that the same music that plays when the lights go out plays when they kiss in the [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart4AvatarAang series finale]].

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** [[WordOfSaintPaul According to Mae Whitman]] (the actress who plays Katara), they did. Also note that the same music that plays when the lights go out plays when they kiss in the [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart4AvatarAang series finale]].
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Yes, it is, metaphorically.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: PlayedForLaughs: when Iroh accidentally poisons himself, he and Zuko have a choice between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation for getting help. If they are discovered, the Earth Kingdom will kill them, but the Fire Nation will give them to Azula. They choose the Earth Kingdom.
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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Variation--the two lovers of the cave ended up building a city together which they named after their names put together, the very city the Gaang was trying to reach: Omashu.

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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Variation--the Variation--after one of the two lovers of the cave ended up building died in the war, and the surviving woman used her earthbending to end the hostilities, the people built a new city together in their honor which they named after their names put together, the very city the Gaang was trying to reach: Omashu.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: When Iroh accidentally poisons himself, he and Zuko have a choice between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation for getting help. If they are discovered, the Earth Kingdom will kill them, but the Fire Nation will give them to Azula. They choose the Earth Kingdom.
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-->(camera pans to show [[spoiler:Omashu, under Fire Nation control]])

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-->(camera pans to show [[spoiler:Omashu, Omashu, under Fire Nation control]])control)
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[CheechAndChong Chong]].

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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[CheechAndChong [[Creator/CheechAndChong Chong]].

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