After her second death, Tanya is once again reincarnated into a world at war. With destiny forcing her down the path of military service once again, Tanya must protect her new homeland from the threats that would seek to destroy it: the stubborn Earth Kingdom, conniving Water Tribes, and most of all that dangerous madman The Avatar. For the glory of the Fire Nation and the Fire Lord!
A crossover fic between Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Saga of Tanya the Evil.
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Tropes include:
- The Ace: Admiral Tanya is this to the Fire Nation army as a prodigy fire-bender and military leader, obviously. Princess Azula is also this, too.
- Action Girl: Tanya, Katara, Toph, Princess Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai are these.
- Adaptation Expansion: Avatar: The Last Airbender never gave a reason why Zhao was promoted to Admiral, whereas in this fic, it was for his forces clearing out a particularly troublesome Earth Kingdom fortress, with Tanya included helping him.
- Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed with Long Feng. Canonically, it was never clarified what exactly his long-term plans against the Fire Nation were aside from "keep the Earth King from realizing there was even a war going on", making him seem outright defeatist in nature when he was willing to turn away Team Avatar and their plan for an invasion during the solar eclipse. Here, it's clarified that Long Feng's hopes are to exhaust the Fire Nation war machine against the Earth Kingdom's defenses to the point an Earth Kingdom counterattack would be able to oust them from the continent. Of course, he would then want to have the Earth Kingdom become the aggressors and Take Over the World, all in the name of "liberating" it from the Fire Nation, making him no different from them.
- Always Someone Better: Princess Azula's hatred for Tanya due to being upstaged at a festival duel that resulted in a tie. And it all goes downhill from thereon, as Tanya manages to get perfect grades at the academy, earn an illustrious military career, and become one of the Fire Nation's top Admirals through conquering the Northern Water Tribe all before her 15th Birthday.
- Armor-Piercing Response: When they meet for the second time, Aang and Tanya take turns trading these.
- Aang is shocked when Tanya responds to his suggestion the Fire Nation simply surrender to finally end the war with her own suggestion that the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdom surrender. If all that matters is the war ending, then it shouldn't matter who surrenders. Tanya also lectures him that conquest is inevitable until all the nations of the world are united under a single banner.
- On the other hand, Tanya can't formulate a reply when Aang points out that the Fire Nation winning would mean there'd be no one who could keep Ozai from doing anything he wanted. While Tanya believes in Ozai, she admits his successors might be tyrants. Aang's suggestion that no one would have to suffer if everyone just put their weapons down and talked rattles her so much that she can't finish him off when they fight later.
- Ax-Crazy:
- Tanya is definitely considered less than sane in the eyes of both her friends and foes alike.
- The reincarnated Mary Sioux is still as insane with hatred for Tanya as she was in her previous life. So much so, that Long Feng has to put her through a lengthy processes of brainwashing just to have any hope of managing her. And she’s still able to temporarily break free of her programming, when her thoughts spiral into anything related to Tanya.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: Sokka gets around the palace in the conquered Omashu by pretending to be a guard who lost his pass. Since Tanya just seriously changed the patrol routes and assignments, everyone just shrugs it off, citing half the garrison is in the same boat. The only one to be suspicious of him is a racist guard who's disgusted that he's "part Water Tribe".
- Berserk Button: Tanya has her usual three:
- Boring, but Practical: Tanya has her fleet continue a slow bombardment of Agna Qel'a even after the army withdraws for the night. Even though the damage done is minor and almost instantly repaired, it forces the Water Tribe's benders to stay up all night fixing the damage and keeps the rest of the city up out of fear they'll be hit by one of the projectiles. In contrast, Tanya's forces only need six men per ship kept awake to continue the bombardment, meaning they'll be well rested when facing their exhausted opponents the next day.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: It's revealed that Long Feng managed to find Mary Sioux and is in the process of turning her into another one of his Joo Dees as a part of Project: BERSERKER, in order to use her to defeat Tanya.
- Broken Pedestal: Admiral Zhao becomes this to Tanya when he executes the Sun Sages; viewing her commander as no different than Captain Ahab who will lead The Fire Nation into disaster if he remains in the chain of command. The following chapter, Tanya killed Zhao, pitting the blame of his death on Aang and took over his position as Fleet Admiral and leads a successful conquest of the Northern Water Tribe.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: After meeting with Katara in Omashu, Tanya learns that her beef with her is because she had killed Master Pakku. But Tanya has no clue who Pakku even is.Katara: I was trained by Master Pakku himself.Tanya: Am I supposed to know who that is?Katara: You should. You killed him.
- Can't Catch Up: Princess Azula feels this way, where she is constantly getting upstaged and matched pace-for-pace by Tanya: from intentionally letting their bout end in a tie, to getting high marks at the Royal Academy, earning a name for herself as Zhao's personal "The Devil Of The South Sea", To delivering the defeat of the Northern Water Tribe and earning herself an Admiralty because of it. Azula had tried countless times to make Tanya bend the knee and submit to her personal authority like she had with Mai and Ty Lee; but every attempt at Blackmail or sabotage is immediately undermined by Tanya (completely unintentionally) and catapults her into more higher positions of power and prestige within The Fire Nation as one of its National Heroes. By the time Azula first encounters Avatar Aang within Omashu and introduces herself as the Fire Nation's Crown Princess, Aang asks if she's also working for Tanya.
- Child Prodigy: Tanya and Princess Azula are considered these at fire-bending, although its a little complicated with Tanya's case, due to having two lifetime's worth of experience beforehand.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Avatar Roku at the Fire Temple dishes this out to all of Zhao's troops as per canon. Tanya's presence barely makes a difference as it takes everything she has just to deflect his attack and she still can't do much more than run once Zhao calls the retreat.
- When Bumi casually frees himself from his metal coffin in Omashu, a panicked Tanya barely has time to get out a threat before he sends her flying with a single attack so hard she nearly breaks her neck on impact with the ground and spends the rest of Bumi's Hold the Line for the resistance struggling to just stay conscious from her concussion, rather than take part in trying to apprehend him.
- Death by Adaptation: Jeong Jeong, Admiral Zhao, Chief Arnook, Master Pakku, and (possibly) Bumi: all but the last of which are killed by Tanya's hands.
- Death by a Thousand Cuts:
- While attending the Royal Fire Academy during the same time as the Siege of Ba Sing Se, Tanya's proposal on how she would conquer the city followed this Trope strategy.
Tanya: As General Iroh's siege of Ba Sing Se was the talk of the nation at the time their teacher had posed a hypothetical scenario to the class about how they would go about breaching the legendary walls. Most of the class had offered uninspired answers: siege towers, underground tunnels, or even firing soldiers over the wall via catapults. But when it was Tanya's turn the little blonde girl had launched into a twenty minute pitch on not just how to breach the walls, but also claim and hold the entire outer section of the city. She advocated sending raiding parties out across the surrounding lands to burn every village in the province to the ground: notably not killing anyone, but giving the survivors the barest amount of supplies necessary for them to make the journey to Ba Sing Se. By flooding the city with refugees, she reasoned, Ba Sing Se's government would be incapable of properly handling the logistics needed to provide them all with food and shelter, leading to a growing sense of discontentment as the city clogged up with people and more refugees turned to crime in order to survive. If an uprising didn't naturally occur within the six weeks, spies could be snuck in amongst the refugees with orders to burn the food stores. Once the uprising began many soldiers posted on the outer walls would have to be pulled back to help deal with it, leaving the wall undermanned for a mass incursion via siege ladders.- One of Tanya's methods for taking out enemy ships involves her raining down a ludicrous number of tiny fireballs. None of them do much damage, but they're painful and force enemy troops to take cover.
- Demoted to Extra: Princess Azula has become this; where thanks to Tanya's meteoric rise to power, Azula's attempts at maintaining her authority as the Crown Princess of the Fire Nation are being overshadowed, all of Azula's attempts to make Tanya bend-the-knee like she had done with Mai and Ty Lee don't on for Tanya as she goes from an aspiringly-talented Fire Nation Soldier, to becoming a part of the Fire Nation's Admiralty following her conquest of the North Pole. By the time Azula meets Aang in Omashu; the Avatar had constantly been on the backfoot whenever Tanya had entered the battle that the first thing that came to the Avatar's mind was if Azula was another one of Tanya's subordinates.
- Disappointed in You: Ozai all but says this to Azula when she ties with Tanya in the tournament finals instead of beating her. He admits to himself never thought he had to say that to his daughter until that day.
- Discard and Draw: After being reborn into the Avatar World, Tanya lost her magic abilities, but instead gains Firebending which she uses to great effect in battle.
- The Dreaded:
- Tanya, natch, as Zhao's "Devil Of The South Seas". After conquering The Northern Water Tribe, she becomes Admiral Tanya, "The Devil of The North". This is especially true for Team Avatar, all of whom have nightmares relating to Tanya after the Siege of the North.
- And then there's Ozai and Azula.
- Entertainingly Wrong:
- Avatar Roku tells Aang about the existence of a Spirit trying to invade their world and that it has an agent in the physical world that they don't know about; which Team Avatar assumes has to be Tanya. In truth, Tanya is a mere Cosmic Plaything that is absolutely pissed off with "Being X"; whom reincarnated Mary Sioux: his real Agent to kill off Tanya once Tanya successfully destroys The Avatar.
- In typical Tanya fashion, Tanya frequently misunderstands how people feel about others. She assumes Azula is her best friend, Ozai is a just and noble ruler and caring father, Zuko is in love with her, and that Mai is afraid of Zuko. Mai at one point tries to correct her on the first and last misunderstandings but gets interrupted.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Tanya, having grown dissatisfied with her superior Admiral Zhao and his death threats has him killed; pinning Avatar Aang as his murderer and taking command of the Fire Nation Fleet Zhao had assembled to conquer the Northern Water Tribe herself. After learning the truth, Princess Azula tried to use it as leverage to make Tanya bend-the-knee to her; only for the newly-promoted Admiral Tanya (completely oblivious to her threats) to publicly announce that she'll rename the conquered Northern Water Tribe Capital after Zhao, invariably pissing Azula off even more with Tanya's meteoric rise to power.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Tanya is shocked by Zhao telling Zuko his father doesn't love him, noting its a cruel thing to say.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Tanya simply can't understand why Zuko would put his personal honor over securing victory over the Northern Tribe and killing the Avatar that would guarantee the end of his exile by releasing the fish spirits.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: On the night of the full moon during Tanya's siege of the North Pole, Pakku ponders how bizarre her actions are, including obviously flying high in the sky like a beacon but not attacking. It's only as he remarks that it was almost as though she were taunting them that he realizes the Northern Water Tribe army is charging into a trap.
- Eye Twitch: Azula does this Aang says he thinks she works for Tanya instead of the other way around.
- False Friend: Deep down, Ty Lee fears that Azula, Mai and Tanya are this to her.
- Flying Firepower: Its noted that few Firebenders like Tanya can be this.
- Four-Star Badass: Tanya becomes an Admiral following the conquest of the Northern Water Tribe.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Like in her previous life as an Imperial Mage, Tanya becomes this in the Avatar World: going from a simple Fire Nation orphan to becoming the Fire Nation Admiral that successfully conquered the Northern Water Tribe.
- Giving Radio to the Romans: Tanya managed to introduce coffee to the Fire Nation, having found a colony that produced Coffee beans. Iroh thinks coffee is pure evil when he tasted it.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Azula is this to Tanya and her accomplishments.
- The Heavy: Tanya is this for the Fire Nation to Aang and his friends.
- Hero Antagonist: Aang and his friends are this to Tanya and the Fire Nation.
- Hero Killer: By the end of Book I, Tanya managed to kill both Jeong Jeong and Master Pakku of the White Lotus, along with Chief Arnook of the Northern Water Tribe. "Being X" is also taking the steps necessary to have Tanya kill off The Avatar in order for him to destroy the Spirits and install himself as the Avatar World's God.
- Horrible Judge of Character:
- Tanya genuinely believes that both Fire Lord Ozai and Princess Azula are Reasonable Authority Figures that are acting Necessarily Evil in order to maintain order within the Fire Nation during the Hundred-Year War, with Azula being her friend after tying in the tournament. When in reality they are extremely petty Despots who indulge in copious amounts of Dog-Kicking, and Princess Azula wants to humiliate Tanya for daring to think she is Azula's equal.
- Jeong Jeong initially believes Tanya is a young, naive child that’s been led astray by the Fire Nation and his former apprentice Zhao. Tanya uses this misconception to lure the ex-Admiral close enough to deliver a debilitating wound to the stomach. It allows her to fight him evenly enough, that she’s able to kill him.
- Humble Goal: True to Tanya's beliefs as a Capitalist and as a reincarnated Salaryman, she confides in Zuko that if she was offered any other choice of profession besides signing up for the Fire Nation's Army and leading forces into battle in order for her to prosper in this world, she would become a Merchant.Tanya: "It would be a much more efficient use of human resources to run an organization that aims to make and sell useful products to the world, rather than throw people against enemy spears. And with all the colonies we've created, the opportunities for a new, golden era of businesses is limitless! If you think my military strategies are good, just wait and see my marketing strategies! I'd be the richest woman in the world within a decade!"
- Humiliation Conga: Despite all the success Tanya achieves in every other goal, catching the Avatar turns into a long string of failures in Tanya’s otherwise perfect record. She gets so frustrated with the GAang slipping out from her gasp every time she seems to have the Avatar captured, that when she encounters them in Omashu, she’s convinced their success has to be due to the Avatar receiving help from either the spirits or Being X.
- Internal Reformist: Also true to Tanya's beliefs; especially in-regards to her meteoric rise to power as a Fire Nation Admiral, where she plans to levy her new position within the Fire Nation in order to make sure that acts of cruelty and despotism wouldn't plague The Fire Nation and its colonies, along with getting rid of drafting all of the Nations' Benders into the Fire Nation War Machine as the only means of civilians actually getting a voice in politics.
- I Shall Taunt You:
- Tanya likes to make herself a big obvious target so enemies waste time attacking her and allow her troops to get into position.
- Used again at the Siege of the North Pole. Part of Tanya's plan involves baiting the Water Tribe to committing a reckless assault, including using herself as bait, just before removing their bending under the moon.
- I Will Only Slow You Down: While fleeing from Agna Qel'a, Yue injures her ankle, forcing Sokka to carry her. As he's already falling behind the other warriors, Yue demands he leave her behind, saying Aang needs him more than she does. Sokka reluctantly sets her down and flees with tears of regret. It helps that, as a princess, she's liable to be made a political prisoner rather than executed.
- Irony: Zuko repeatedly lampshades how frequently he runs into the Avatar whenever he's not looking for him or even actively avoiding him. Worse, the times he's in the best position to capture the Avatar are when he can't for one reason or another.
- Klingon Promotion: Of a sort. After losing her faith in Zhao's leadership skills due to his Glory Hound tendencies, and having come to the conclusion that her career will never be able to advance further than being Zhao's personal attack dog: Tanya kills Zhao in order to take control over the Fire Nation Fleet he's been building up as part of the planned Invasion of the Northern Water Tribe; taking on the roll of "Acting Admiral". After having conquered the North Pole and returning to The Fire Nation, Tanya is actively promoted to the rank of Admiral; and all knowledge pertaining to her having been the one to kill Zhao is swept under the proverbial rug after she publicly renames the Northern Water Tribe's former capital city after him.
- Let's You and Him Fight: "Being X" tricks Tanya into thinking that The Avatar is his newest Pawn to try and instill Belief into Tanya. When in-truth, "Being X" wants to usurp The Avatar since Aang is the only being capable of destroying him, and Tanya's singular-hatred of him will enable her to figure out a means of permanently breaking The Avatar Cycle and allowing his own rise to power.
- Logical Weakness:
- Tanya is an extremely powerful Firebender, but her small size means stronger opponents can easily throw her around the battlefield.
- Almost a century after they've all been killed, basically no one remembers how to fight Airbenders, who have an extreme focus on mobility. By that same token, Aang has little idea how to fight someone who's just at home in the air as himself.
- Toph needing her seismic sense in order to perceive her surroundings, means she’s completely blind to anyone who can avoid touching the ground, like Tanya.
- Lost Lenore: After getting concussed, Ty Lee asks if Tanya recognized her.Tanya: Visha?
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Northern Water Tribe army when they realize they've suddenly lost their bending after being tricked into charging across an open field, leaving them completely exposed to the Fire Nation army.
- Master-Apprentice Chain: Jeong Jeong thinks this is the case with his former student Zhao taking on Tanya, only to learn from the young girl that she wasn't his student at all.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Tanya to Zuko, Mai, Ty Lee, and Azula: who all think she is actually a complete and utter sociopath due to her cold and logical way of speaking and acting; talking about soldiers and civilians as "Human Resources" and the "Efficiency" of her proposed method to conquer Ba Sing Se while in school.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Oddly-enough "Being X" is this. Compared to the previous two worlds where Tanya and "Being X" dwelt, where he existed as the manager of the cycle of Reincarnation and could give out blessings to those faithful to him and command them as he saw fit. However in the Avatar World; it is home to spirits much more powerful than he is who can manifest in the physical world completely, and are united in keeping "Being X"'s influence contained, with The Avatar as the one being capable of truly killing him. "Being X" manipulates Tanya into thinking that Avatar Aang was his newest agent he had created to try killing her; knowing that Tanya's recklessness and anger will push her to destroy The Avatar.
- Not Quite Flight: Tanya achieves this through using Firebending similar to her role as an Aerial Mage in her previous life. This also thanks to her small size.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Iroh admits to Tanya that she reminds him of himself when he was young, if he had "chosen the wrong path". It's what causes him to spare her life when he has her dead to rights.
- Not So Similar: Aang initially believes he and Tanya are similar given that they both hate war. But where Aang believes everyone should lay down their weapons and just talk, Tanya thinks the only true solution is for the war to be won as swiftly as possible (preferably her side), no matter the cost.
- Oblivious to Hatred: Tanya doesn't catch on that Azula despises her for thinking they can be equals and sees her as a genuine friend.
- One-Man Army: Tanya can wipe out whole bender armies all by herself.
- Only Sane Man: Mai sees herself as this between Tanya, Azula and Ty Lee.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Azula the Fire Nation Princess is constantly overshadowed by the meteoric rise of Tanya "The Devil Of The North": from a Firebending Orphan that managed to humiliate her in their duel when they were 5 years old by having their public match end in a Tie when Tanya could've chosen to win, to earning excellent grades within the Royal Fire Academy in the fields of Warfare and Economics, to eventually becoming a War Hero that conquered the Northern Water Tribe when she was only 14-years old: becoming the youngest Admiral of the Fire Nation. Hell, at this point Azula has already become this for Team Avatar within Omashu; who had been dealing with a losing streak ever since Tanya came into the picture that when Aang first meets her, he thinks that Azula is working underneath Tanya.
- The Paranoiac: Thanks to her experience with Being X, Tanya is utterly convinced that, as the agent of his world’s spirits, the Avatar has enough cosmic backing that the universe will bend over backwards to have everything go the Avatar’s way if given even the slightest chance. By the time she encounters the G Aang in Omashu, she takes control of the local garrisons and has them implement every counter she can think of. However, such changes in the soldier’s normal duties creates enough chaos that Sokka, wearing a Fire Nation uniform, is able to infiltrate the local palace by simply claiming he forgot his pass. It works because half the garrison has done the same thing.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Tanya is a small girl and a very powerful Firebender.
- Politically Correct Villain: One of the Fire Nation palace guards in Omashu lectures his coworker over "judging people based on their skin tones", citing that regardless of his beliefs of "the Fire Nation remaining pure", there's going to be people of mixed heritage in the colonies. Tanya is also this.
- The Power of Legacy: After having taken the Northern Water Tribe's Capital City, Tanya renames it as "The City of Zhao" in honour of her former superior Admiral Zhao. And to silence the few rumors spreading throughout the Fire Nation that Tanya had actually killed him.Nobody would believe that Tanya could be Zhao's real murderer after word of that speech got out. The right to rename captured cities was afforded to generals as a way of recognising their achievements, and to date had only been used to rename somewhere after the general themself in a vain attempt to immortalize their own name, or after whatever wealthy lord the general was hoping to impress. It had never been used to honour the memory of a fallen soldier before, and you could bet that the ignorant masses would lap it up when they heard. When stories were told of Tanya's victory, Zhao would now forever be cast as the wise and kindly mentor who led her to greatness. And that same wave of goodwill would strangle the rumours of the truth in their crib.
- Pragmatic Villainy: It's obviously going to be Tanya, the absolute master of Pragmatism, in contrast to some of her fellow soldiers and colleagues.
- Rank Up: Tanya officially becomes an Admiral after she successfully captures the North.
- Reincarnate in Another World: Much like the first time, Tanya is now instead reincarnated into the Fire Nation. It's also revealed that "Being X" managed to reincarnate Mary Sioux into the Earth Kingdom, too.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Amidst all the lies that Princess Azula tells about Zuko's conduct leading to and during his Agni Kai, the one that pings as false was that he surrendered to his father immediately out of cowardice rather than a simple desire to avoid fighting with his own family. In that same vein, she knew Zuko had been scarred, and she saw it as necessary based on the rules of Agni Kai and the comments (as paraphrased by Azula) that led to the challenge, but seeing the severity of Zuko's scar was one of the first things to actually make her doubt Ozai's acumen as a good leader.
- Shout-Out: "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Tanya rightfully calls this out on Aang.Tanya: We may both desire peace, but your methods for achieving it are rooted in foolish idealism. Mine follows the path of logic.
- Slasher Smile: Tanya does this a lot without realising it. When Zuko first met Tanya, his first thought was that she had the smile of a literal demon.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Princess Azula has become this for Team Avatar; whom had been fighting a Hopeless War against Tanya all this time that when Aang first met Azula and heard that she was Zuko's younger sister, the first thing that popped into his head was ask if she was working for Tanya too.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Due to the Moon Spirit not being killed, Princess Yue is instead taken as a political prisoner by The Fire Nation.
- The Starscream: Princess Azula is this towards Tanya; trying and ultimately failing at humiliating the Admiral's meteoric rise to power. Not that Tanya's aware of this.
- Teen Genius: Princess Azula, naturally, is this.
- Token Good Teammate: Arguably Tanya herself is this for The Fire Nation; since she prides herself on efficiency over using Card-Carrying Villain tactics or Stupid Evil actions like her superiors do when it comes to conducting warfare and the treatment of both her subordinates and Prisoners of War, though this is often overshadowed by her Wake-Up Call Boss nature. Ty Lee could also count.
- Tragic Villain: How Zuko views Tanya after hearing she wanted to be a merchant but had to join the military due to being a firebender. That she seems much more sane while talking about her dream forces him to wonder how many other Tanyas there were in the world, forced into a certain lifestyle because they didn't have any choice. He vows to himself that when he becomes Fire Lord he'll do away with the conscription laws.
- Tranquil Fury: Tanya becomes this after Appa throws her into some bushes.
- Uncertain Doom: Bumi brings down an entire cave to allow Aang and his friends to escape in a seeming Heroic Sacrifice. However, no one finds his body, leaving it possible that he managed to survive and get away in the chaos.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Despite scoring major victory for the Fire Nation by taking over the North, Ozai still chews out Tanya for letting the Avatar escape from her grasp and bringing Zuko in on her plans, calling her mission a failure.
- Unknown Rival: For a large part, Azula is this towards Tanya; who Tanya genuinely thinks that Azula is her friend and is looking out for her best interests. When in-reality Azula is bitter at constantly being upstaged by the Lowly-Peasant-turned-War Hero whom she wants to sabotage and bring to heel.
- Unseen Evil: BEING X, whom has invaded the Spirit World and reincarnated Mary Sioux into The Earth Kingdom; hoping to usurp The Spirits and install himself as the God of the Avatar World.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Tanya's reincarnation into the Avatar World opened a hole in the Spirit Realm that "Being X" followed her through; which he is planning on usurping the Spirits in order to install himself as the new singular God of the Avatar World. Along with "Being X" reincarnating his servant Mary Sioux into the Earth Kingdom to kill off Tanya once she's destroyed The Avatar for him.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Implied. Jeong-Jeong's death didn't make Zhao feel as happy as he thought it would.
- Villain Has a Point: Zuko notes that this is Tanya's specialty.
- Villain Protagonist: Tanya is this, obviously, as she's on the Fire Nation's side.
- Villainous Breakdown: Tanya goes through this after Zuko releases the Ocean and Moon Spirit and refuses to go along with executing the Avatar, almost ruining her plans to take over the North.
- Visionary Villain: Unlike the other leaders of the Fire Nation who want to Take Over the World, Tanya genuinely thinks that The Fire Nation's path to establishing an empire is the natural course that the world should take in order to create a lasting peace between all Nations. And that while Tanya despises the fact that The Hundred-Year War happened in the first place when she would have used Diplomacy and Economics to achieve a similar result, the fact that civilians in the Fire Nation have no voice on the matter unless they are within the Army; with all Firebenders being drafted into the service. Because of this, Tanya had to willingly sign up instead of being drafted in order to work within the system to swiftly ascend the military ranks; where at the war's end she'll be in a much better position to take the steps necessary to make sure that the imminent concerns raised between the First-Class and Second-Class Citizens in that new Empire is addressed and properly resolved to prevent future bloodshed in order for everyone to create that society together. Sokka and Aang have to struggle to find ways to disagree with her, along with inspiring Zuko to try taking her words to heart should he become Fire Lord and do away with the conscription laws that cause "Diamonds-In-The-Rough" like Tanya to pointlessly throw their lives and futures away for the sake of the Fire Nation's War Machine.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Tanya is naturally one for both Team Avatar and the whole world at large, since she is a Hyper-Competent Soldier working for the Fire Nation; who doesn't subscribe to the trappings of her contemporaries, like Ozai, Zhao, Zuko, Azula, and Long Feng. The only things that matter to her are Logic and Reason, which means that she's not going to perform any acts of needless cruelty, but that she'll also not hold herself back.
- We Have Reserves: After breaching the outer wall of Agna Qel'a, the Fire Nation army begins an unusually slow advance that sees hundreds of their soldiers dead for every Water Tribe soldier killed. Its subverted when it turns out all the bodies are actually soldiers who died on other battlefields and are being used as decoys, plus some still living soldiers carefully hidden among them for when Tanya's trap is sprung.
- You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Not Firebending, but political powers in the case of how Tanya feels about Jeong-Jeong; a Fire Nation Admiral who instead of sticking with the Fire Nation to become an Internal Reformist by utilizing his position, he just leaves the Fire Nation as a deserter, allowing for people like Zhao to come into power.Tanya: True courage would have been trying to convince others to share your path with you, even if they hated you for it. You could have done more to end this war as an Admiral than you can hiding in a forest.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: "Being X"s new plan is to Kill and Replace the Spirits in order to install himself as the Avatar Worlds' new God, and has pitted Tanya and The Avatar against one another in the hopes that Tanya will defeat Aang for them. At which point, "Being X" will release the now-reincarnated Mary Sioux on Tanya to kill her.
- You Monster!: Katara calls Tanya evil for not even bothering to remember the name of Pakku, her Waterbender Master, whom Tanya had murdered not too long ago in the North.
- You Shall Not Pass!:
- Pakku holds off the entire invading Fire Nation army long enough for the rest of the Northern Water Tribe's warriors to escape the city, helped by the fact he's a master waterbender under the full moon inside a city made entirely of ice and water. It still costs him his life at Admiral Tanya's hands.
- Bumi likewise holds off the Fire Nation within Omashu so the rebellion and the Gaang can escape before he brings down the entire cave on himself and any Fire Nation soldier who can't escape in time.
