References to Avatar: The Last Airbender in other media.
Comic Books
- Champions (2016): At one point, the team spend some free time watching and discussing the show while watching the episode, "The Cave of Two Lovers".
Fan Works
- Event Horizon: Storm of Magic: Emperor Karl Franz gets his mount to fly by saying "Deathclaw, yip yip!" which is how Aang gets Appa to fly.
- Fairy Without Wings: During the final event of the Grand Magic Games, Mato asks the guilds to not destroy the cabbage carts, a reference to the oft-suffering cabbage cart owner.
- PreCure in a Nutshell: Kaoru Kiryuu's parody name is Korra Killyou.
Live-Action Television
- The Mandalorian: The Season 2 clapperboard has art of Tui and La on it. Dave Filoni's final credit on Avatar: The Last Airbender before joining Star Wars: The Clone Wars was "Siege of the North, Part 2".
- Moon Knight (2022): In episode 2, Steven references the series whilst talking to Arthur Harrow.
Theater
- A Very Potter Musical
- Voldemort's speech before killing Harry is from the finale.
- Ginny tells Harry, "We kissed at the Yule Ball, and, well, I thought we were going to be together forever... but we're not." This is almost identical to what Aang says to Katara in "The Ember Island Players" (though he refers to the invasion of the Fire Nation).
- The scene when Ron and Hermione first kiss is the scene between Aang and Katara before the fire nation invasion where Aang kisses Katara. The dialogue leading up to the kiss is almost identical.
Video Games
- Baldur's Gate III: In the eponymous city, you run into a cabbage merchant who is lamenting how his cart just got ransacked. He even becomes very agitated if your character is a monk
, claiming "your kind have done enough damage as it is". - One of Kharazim's base tints in Heroes of the Storm makes him resemble the older Aang or his son Tenzin.
- The Sims 3: In the Inland Paradise pack there is an item called the Flameo Firepit, the description reading "Flameo, by Hotman."
- Team Fortress 2: The Summer 2023 Update added a cosmetic hat for the Pyro called the Flame Warrior, which resembles the helmets worn by Firebenders.
- Total War: Warhammer III: The starting Legendary Lords for Grand Cathay, Miao Ying and Zhao Ming, mirror Azula and Zuko. The former is the favored child of their father due to being a prodigy, has a cold and aloof demeanor and has Shock and Awe powers. The latter is The Unfavorite who got Reassigned to Antarctica, is associated with the title of "Dragon of the West", and has Playing with Fire powers.
- Undertale: Near the finale of the Pacifist Route, when hearing of Asgore's past marital strife with Toriel, Undyne responds with "That's rough, buddy", referencing Zuko's response to Sokka lamenting Yue.
- World of Warcraft: As with the aforementioned Baldur's Gate III example, another cabbage merchant appears as a obstacle during the quest to pursue Lady Ashvane amidst the streets of Boralus. Players can even hit his cart, causing him to collapse to the ground and bemoan the loss of his cabbages.
Webcomics
- Grrl Power: Sydney and Maxima were both hoping that one of her unknown orbs would give her "Katara"-like powers.
Web Video
- DEATH BATTLE! has pitted Toph against Gaara, Aang against Edward Elric, Zuko against Shoto Todoroki, and Korra against Storm.
- Aang makes a cameo riding Appa in this song of Destripando La Historia.
- Aang appears in an episode of Freshy Kanal's Rap Battle! against Po.
- The Nostalgia Critic has reviewed The Last Airbender.
- RWBY:
- Jaune says he'd like to have a warrior's wolf tail, Sokka's hairstyle.
- The Maidens being the Chosen Ones associated with each of the four seasons and wielding elemental magic can be read as a reference to the Avatar.
- Likewise, the power of Silver Eyes can also be seen as a reference to the Avatar State, though this similarity is superficial.
- An episode of Turtles' ERTLs is titled "The Legend of Cora", as a reference to the The Legend of Korra spin-off.
Western Animation
- Big Mouth: In the Superhero Episode, Jay becomes the first and last "Cumbender".
- The Dragon Prince, co-created by Avatar: The Last Airbender writers Aaron Ehasz and Giancarlo Volpe, has several references to the series:
- In the first episode, Claudia reads a book called "Love Amongst the Dragons", which was the name of the play that Zuko and his family would watch when they were younger, and in which Ursa acted before she was wed to Ozai.
- In Season 3 Episode 4, Callum (who has the same voice actor as Sokka) is entranced by one of the boomerangs on Nyx's staff, saying that it feels strangely familiar. The episode's end credits also show Callum holding Sokka's boomerang.
- The end credits of the next episode show Callum with some cactus juice. He even holds it in the same way Sokka did.
- The Loud House:
- In "Linc Or Swim", Iroh makes a cameo appearance. He is seen in the first community pool, alongside Lou Pickles, Phil Shortman, Ms. Bitters, and Miss Fowl.
- In "Skatey-Cat" from the spinoff The Casagrandes, Nikki, Sameer, and Casey leap over a cabbage stand during their shopping spree, knocking over a few cabbages and causing a nearby employee to shriek, "MY CABBAGES!", just like the cabbage merchant.
- Monkie Kid: In "Minor Scale", MK spins a shrunken version of his staff in the same way and pose Aang airbends to the crowd in "The Warriors of Kyoshi".
- The Owl House: In later episodes, Amity carries some Abomination fluid in a pouch just like Katara's water skin, a deliberate Actor Allusion since both characters are voiced by Mae Whitman.
- Robot Chicken: A sketch from "May Cause Numb Butthole" features Aang and Zuko battling in an Earth Kingdom town as the cabbage merchant watches from afar. After the battle once again disrupts his cabbage cart, the merchant declares he's had enough and begins bending his own cabbages in a series of hilarious attacks on Aang and Zuko.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Tom's battle uniform in the last two episodes of season 3 have a clear Fire Nation inspiration, something made more obvious when he starts Playing with Fire.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which was co-directed by Book 1 episode director Dave Filoni and had some episodes written by Giancarlo Volpe.
- Appo has an arrow facing down on the forehead of his helmet, a reference to the similarly-named Appa.
- One episode has Padmé trying to appeal to another senator named Aang, whose name is pronounced like its real-life version.
- Star Wars Rebels:
- One episode early on has Jason Isaacs's character tracking down Dante Basco's character, though the two never share any scenes.
- Also, not the first time Jason Isaacs served as the Arc Villain for the first season of a Dave Filoni show!
- Possibly unintentional, but Grey DeLisle's character also gets hunted down by the subordinates/colleagues of Jason Isaacs's character.
- Voltron: Legendary Defender is written by Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra writers Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos:
- "Here all are safe and warm." is evocative of "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
- Word of God explained that Lotor's false Heel–Face Turn was meant to make fans think the character would turn out like Zuko.
