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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender logo
Genre Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Running time Approximately 22 minutes, 36 seconds
Creator(s) Michael Dante DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko
Starring Zach Tyler Eisen
Mae Whitman
Jack DeSena
Jessie Flower
Dante Basco
Mako
Dee Bradley Baker
Grey DeLisle
Crawford Wilson
Olivia Hack
Cricket Leigh
Clancy Brown
Mark Hamill
Jason Isaacs
Country of origin Flag of United States United States
Original channel Nickelodeon
Original run February 21, 2005–Present
No. of episodes 40 aired of 60 in production[1]
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Avatar: The Last Airbender (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in several countries), an American animated television series, currently airs on the television network Nickelodeon. Set in an Asian-influenced world of martial arts and elemental magic, the series follows the adventures of the successor to a long line of Avatars, Aang, and his friends Katara, Sokka, and Toph (who appears later in the show), along with their animal companions, Appa and Momo, in their quest to save the world from the ruthless Fire Nation, while avoiding capture from Fire Nation pursuers including Prince Zuko and Princess Azula.

Originally slated to start November of 2004, Avatar: The Last Airbender debuted on TV February 21, 2005 and is available on DVD or for download at the iTunes Store and the XBOX Marketplace. The show was co-created and is executively produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. With consistently high ratings in the Nicktoons lineup, even outside of its intended 6-to-11-year-old demographic, Avatar: The Last Airbender is popular with both audiences and critics,[2] garnering 4.4 million viewers on its best rated showing.[3]

The series' success prompted Nickelodeon to order a second season,[4] and now a third season has been announced to begin airing in 2007.[1] Notable merchandise based on the series include six DVD sets of episodes, six-inch scale action figures, a video game, stuffed animals distributed by Paramount Parks, and two Lego sets.[5]

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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[edit] Overview

[edit] Creation

Avatar: The Last Airbender is co-created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California. Like most animated series in recent times, it is animated in South Korea. While the series was originally set to air at some point in November of 2004, the first episode premiered on February 21, 2005. Airing of new episodes occur Friday at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time, while airing of reruns occur on weekday evenings. After Avatar's first season finished airing, Nickelodeon promptly ordered a second twenty-episode season that aired on March 17, 2006.[4] A third season is now expected in 2007.

[edit] Premise

A map of the four nations
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A map of the four nations

A fantasy world on a planet that is home to humans, fantastic animals, and supernatural spirits is where Avatar: The Last Airbender takes place. Human civilization is divided into three pre-industrialized nations, the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, and the Air Nomads, and one industrialized nation, the Fire Nation, capable of manufacturing various kinds of machines. Within each nation, an order of men and women called "Benders" have an ability to manipulate their native element. These bending arts combine a certain style of martial arts and elemental mysticism. The bending types are waterbending, earthbending, firebending, and airbending.[6]

In each generation, one Bender is capable of bending all four elements; this is the Avatar, the Spirit of the Planet manifested in human form. When the Avatar dies, he or she is reincarnated into an unborn baby native in the next nation in the Avatar Cycle. Beginning with the mastering of his native element, the Avatar learns to bend all four elements in the order of the cycle, which parallels the seasons: winter for water, spring for earth, summer for fire, and autumn for air.[7] Learning to bend the element opposite of one's native element is extremely difficult because of opposing fighting styles and doctrines.[8]

The Avatar possesses a unique power that resides within him, called the Avatar State. It is a defense mechanism that empowers the Avatar with the skills and knowledge of all the past Avatars. When the Avatar enters this state, his eyes and mouth begin to glow. The glow is the combination of all the Avatar's previous incarnations focusing their energy through his body. However, if the Avatar is killed in the Avatar State, then the reincarnation cycle will be broken and the Avatar will cease to exist.[9]

Throughout the ages, countless incarnations of the Avatar have served to keep the four nations in harmony and maintain world order.[6] The Avatar also serves as the bridge between the physical world and the Spirit World, home of the world's disembodied spirits.[10]

[edit] Plot Synopsis

A century prior to the series' opening, Aang, a 12-year-old Airbender of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, learned from the monks that he was the Avatar. Usually, the Avatar is told of his or her true identity after turning sixteen. However, the monks feared that a war between the four nations was on the horizon and that the Avatar would soon be needed to help maintain balance and restore order. Shortly thereafter, the monks decided that Aang would be separated from his guardian, Monk Gyatso and sent to the Eastern Air Temple to finish his training.

Confused, frightened, and overwhelmed by recent events and his new responsibilities as the Avatar, Aang fled from his home on his flying bison, Appa. While traveling over frigid southern ocean waters, a sudden storm caused Appa to plunge deep into the sea. In the Avatar State, Aang used airbending to protect Appa and himself by creating an air bubble around them. However, the air bubble quickly froze into a sphere of ice, forcing them both into a state of suspended animation.[7]

When the series opens one hundred years later, the Fire Nation is on the brink of victory in its imperialist war. The Water Tribes are in crisis — the Southern Water Tribe's warriors have gone off to war, leaving their home defenseless, and the Northern Water Tribe, though largely intact, is continually on the defensive.[11] The vast Earth Kingdom is now the only true barrier to the Fire Nation's domination, but as the Fire Nation continues to encroach on its borders and conquer its territories, hopes of victory grow bleaker with each passing year.

Two teenage siblings from the Southern Water Tribe — Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka — discover and free Aang and Appa from the iceberg. Aang soon discovers to his horror that, during his absence, a war had started. The very year he vanished, Fire Lord Sozin took advantage of both the Avatar's absence and the firebending-enhancing powers of a powerful comet to launch a war on the other nations.[12] To Aang's shock and disbelief, the Fire Nation's opening gambit had been a genocidal assault on the Air Nomads. The Air Temples were stormed and the Airbenders were slaughtered in an effort to break the Avatar Cycle, leaving him as the last known Airbender in existence.[7]

As the Avatar, Aang's duty is to restore harmony and peace to the four nations. Along with his newly discovered friends Katara and Sokka, his flying bison Appa and his winged lemur Momo, and later the blind Earthbender Toph, Aang travels the world to master all four elements, while evading capture by Prince Zuko and Princess Azula.

Although it takes years of discipline and training to master any one element, Aang must master them all and defeat Fire Lord Ozai by summer's end, when the return of Sozin's Comet will give the Firebenders enough power to win the war. If these events come to pass, not even the Avatar will be able to restore balance to the world.[12]

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes

As of December 1, 2006, 40 episodes and 2 seasons have aired. The show calls each season a "book", and each episode a "chapter".

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

One of the Avatar series' strong points is character development and depth. All the main characters are portrayed as "marvelously flawed human beings" and the series especially shone in terms of characterization in its initial season with its main antagonists.[13]

Aang (Mitchel Musso in the unaired pilot, Zach Tyler Eisen onwards) - The fun-loving, 12-year-old (plus 100 years spent in suspended animation) titular character of the series and the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. As the Avatar, Aang must master all four elements to bring peace to the world. This burden was dropped on his shoulders early in life and eventually led to his being frozen in suspended animation for one hundred years until awakened by Katara and Sokka.

He loves to travel the world and is always eager to learn new things. However, Aang is truly saddened by the loss of his people and is concerned about his newfound duty. But his sorrow is replaced by his deep love for Katara and his friendship with Toph and Sokka. At times, he is somewhat naïve of the world and others' true feelings, as he is too preoccupied with the events occurring around him to notice what is really going on.

Katara (Mae Whitman) - The 14-year-old, sole remaining Waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe who, along with her brother Sokka, discovers Aang. She and Sokka accompany him on his quest to defeat the Fire Lord and bring peace to the war-torn nations. She is a very gifted Waterbender who, by season two, achieves her dream by becoming a master Waterbender.

Katara is mature, loving, and responsible. Always looking out for the well-being of others, she is a leader when the situation calls for her to lead. However, she can be overbearing and always thinks her way is the right way, never relenting on her views, even when they are disproved. Despite Katara's kind nature, she has a temper which, when combined with her impressive Waterbending skills and idealistic views, can be quite destructive. After the passing of their mother at the hands of the Fire Nation, Katara took on a motherly role over her older brother Sokka, and later, Aang. Katara is an idealist, trying to right wrongs and help those that have lost hope. But her kind and controlling nature makes her rather blind to others true feelings and what they really want, rather than what she wants.

Sokka (Jack DeSena) - A 15-year-old warrior of the Southern Water Tribe who, with his sister Katara, accompanies Aang on his quest to defeat the Fire Lord. Unlike his three companions, Sokka cannot bend an element. He constantly struggles to deal with his lack of mystical power in a world ruled by Benders. However, the series frequently grants him opportunities to demonstrate his true gift: inventiveness.

Sokka describes himself as "meat-loving" and "sarcastic." He takes great pride in his mental and physical strength, though it is often overshadowed by others' ability to bend. He is extremely clever, relying on science where the mystical and martial arts elude him, though his silly and immature manner often causes others to underestimate his intelligence and makes him the comic relief of the group. Sokka is very flirtatious and has gained the interest/affection of several female characters throughout the series. At the start of the series he was a male chauvinist, but after witnessing the strength of women like Suki and his own sister, his prejudice has slowly waned.

Toph Bei Fong (Jessie Flower) - A 12-year-old, blind Earthbender who leaves her wealthy lifestyle and home to join Aang on his quest in season two. Her parents are incredibly overprotective, leading her to rebel and fight in underground tournaments. Her popularity as "The Blind Bandit" attracts a hopeful Aang who, at that time, was looking for an Earthbender to teach him. Though blind, Toph has been shown to be a very exceptional Earthbender, possessing abilities unique only to her, such as bending metal.

Toph has largely lived alone all her life, which makes her somewhat selfish, sarcastic, and at times, arrogant. She is also a loner who is not afraid to speak her mind and be bluntly truthful. She does not take pleasure in being mean; however, she has been sheltered from the world her entire life, never having a friend until she joined the group. Thus, her social skills are lacking.

Toph's attitude towards her blindness shifts between humor and indirect bitterness. She is not angry or sad because of her lack of sight but is instead very proud of herself. Many times, she questions the kind actions of others towards her as being due to the perception that it makes her weak (as is the attitude adopted by her family). On other occasions, she jokes about her blindness when her companions forget about it in heated situations.

Zuko (Dante Basco) - The exiled 16-year-old prince of the Fire Nation who is obsessed with capturing the Avatar in his quest to restore his honor and to redeem himself in the eyes of his father, Fire Lord Ozai. After being branded a traitor at the beginning of Book Two, he begins to change from a spoiled prince to an outcast who begins to pity and bond with the same people his nation terrorized. Zuko, while not as skilled a Firebender as his sister, has other, more powerful skills, specifically in the superior use of twin broadswords and hand-to-hand combat.

Zuko is hard, militant, and very obsessive in his quest to capture Aang in the first season. He often acts coldly but has revealed himself to be a very caring character as well - a trait which usually is exhibited best in the presence of his Uncle Iroh. Zuko's appearance is well-known with the scar on his face marked by his own father, which received during the Agni Kai that also led to his exile two years prior.

Towards the end of Book Two, Zuko appears to have truly changed as a person, but his desire to restore his honor and place as prince of the Fire Nation wins out, and he betrays Iroh, choosing instead to ally himself with Azula in her conquest of Ba Sing Se. However, he is not without remorse for betraying his uncle.

Azula (Grey DeLisle) - The 14-year-old princess of the Fire Nation, Zuko's younger sister, Iroh's niece, and Fire Lord Ozai's favorite child. Azula has been especially cruel all her life. Her mind is set on war and power; she manipulates and even tortures others, including her brother.

Azula is a prodigy, which combined with her sadistic personality makes her an extremely gifted and dangerous Firebender, capable of using hotter blue flames and even lightning abilities possessed only by a select few Firebenders. Azula is uncaring and possibly sociopathic, willing to manipulate others, to the extent that she will put their lives in danger to get what she wants, and almost never gets her own hands dirty in the process. She sees others as expendable, and intimidates her lackeys and all those she uses. At times, Azula acts kind and caring, but only to further her own interests.

Iroh (Mako) - A retired Fire Nation general and Prince Zuko's uncle, who is also branded a traitor in Book Two. Iroh is the older brother of Fire Lord Ozai and was the original heir to the throne of the Fire Nation. Iroh is an immensely powerful Firebender of the highest order who accompanies his nephew in his quest to capture the Avatar. He looks upon Zuko as a son more than as a nephew, especially after the loss of his only son, Lu Ten. He is as pained by his nephew's past as Zuko is and hates that his nephew must suffer as he does. On the surface Iroh is a cheerful and kind old man whose hobbies include drinking tea, playing Pai Sho, and singing.

Much older and more experienced than any of the other main characters, Iroh chooses to take a less active role in the affairs, acting as more of a tutor and guide to Zuko and sometimes even the other characters. Especially in Book Two, Iroh is shown to take pleasure in helping others and to prefer a more passive approach to problems; he also displays great humility. The series reveals that he has crossed into the spirit world at least once before, that he shows great sympathy and respect for the role of all elements in the world, and the he has admitted to studying the disciplines of other nations.

Beneath Iroh's kindly appearance is a cunning and resourceful master of Firebending who can rival the Fire Nation's best. Though usually friendly, in times of danger Iroh can become incredibly angry and truly dangerous, scaring even the cocky Admiral Zhao into submission.

Mako, the voice actor who portrayed Iroh, died on July 21, 2006. While guest-starring at the Pacific Media Expo on October 28, 2006 the creators confirmed that another voice actor has indeed been selected, although no names were mentioned as for who it is.

[edit] Major secondary characters

Main article: List of Avatar: The Last Airbender major secondary characters
  • Appa (Dee Bradley Baker) - Aang's flying bison who serves as the group's main form of transportation around the world. He was stuck in suspended animation with Aang for 100 years and shares a very strong bond with him. He possesses the ability to fly and can use his tail to create powerful gusts of air.
  • Jet (Crawford Wilson) - A charismatic teen who holds a deep grudge against the Fire Nation. He was the leader of the Freedom Fighters, who spent their days antagonizing Fire Nation soldiers. Later, he decided to start a new life in Ba Sing Se. After trying to prove that Zuko and Iroh are from the Fire Nation, he was arrested and brainwashed by the Dai Li. While helping Aang and his friends find Appa, he was injured or possibly killed by Long Feng. Jet uses Twin Tiger-Head Hook Swords as his weapon.
  • Long Feng (Clancy Brown) - The intelligent and cunning Grand Secretarian of Ba Sing Se, head of the Dai Li, and advisor to the Earth King. In reality, the Earth King is merely a figurehead of Ba Sing Se's government, so it is actually Long Feng who holds real power. He and the Dai Li use hypnotism to silence talk of war and thus keep Ba Sing Se a peaceful, ordered utopia. Later, his conspiracy was revealed and he was put in jail. The Dai Li remained loyal to him until an attempted doublecross backfired on him.
  • Mai (Cricket Leigh) - An impassive, bored, nearly emotionless young woman who, along with Ty Lee, accompanies Princess Azula on her quest to capture Zuko, Iroh, and the Avatar. Mai specializes in throwing weapons, which she conceals in many parts of her clothing.
  • Fire Lord Ozai (Mark Hamill) - The ruthless ruler of the Fire Nation, father of Zuko and Azula, and younger brother of Iroh. He is leading his country in a century-long war against the other three nations to create an empire and is waiting for the arrival of Sozin's Comet so that the Fire Nation can utilize its firebending-enhancing powers to win the war.
  • Avatar Roku (James Garrett) - The Avatar before Aang, who was born to the Fire Nation. Throughout the series, Avatar Roku appears as a spirit to help Aang fulfill his duties as the Avatar.
  • Suki (Jennie Kwan) - The leader of the young female warriors of Kyoshi Island, she is a tough fighter and staunch ally of Aang, Katara, and Sokka. Suki has a close relationship with Sokka. She and the Kyoshi Warriors were defeated in battle by Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee; their current fate is unknown.
  • Admiral Zhao (Jason Isaacs) - A hot-tempered Fire Nation admiral in pursuit of the Avatar and Zuko's principal rival throughout Book One. Zhao dies in the final chapter of Book One.

[edit] Minor secondary characters

Main article: List of Avatar: The Last Airbender minor secondary characters

[edit] Creatures and animals

Main article: List of Avatar: The Last Airbender creatures

[edit] Guest stars

Main article: List of guest voices on Avatar: The Last Airbender

[edit] Influences

[edit] Cultural references

Avatar is notable for borrowing extensively from Asian art and mythology to create a fully realized fictional universe. Apart from its anime-inspired character designs, Avatar also draws on a mix of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Tibetan philosophy, religion, language, clothing, martial arts, and culture. In addition, the show's Water Tribe is heavily influenced by Inuit culture. Explicitly stated influences include Chinese art and history, anime, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism,[14] and Yoga.[15] The production staff employs a cultural consultant, Edwin Zane, to review scripts.

[edit] Avatar

The term "Avatar" comes from the Sanskrit word Avatāra, which means "descent." In Hindu mythology, gods often manifest themselves into Avatars to restore balance on earth after a period of great evil. The Chinese characters appearing above the word "Avatar" in the show's opening mean "the divine medium who has descended upon the mortal world."[16]

[edit] Reincarnation

When Aang was a child, he unknowingly revealed that he was the Avatar when he chose four toys out of thousands. These four toys were the same ones that past Avatars had chosen for generations when they were children, revealing that Aang was the reincarnation of the Avatar. This same test is used by Tibetan Buddhist monks when a reincarnated Dalai Lama is expected. Visions of the monks reveal who the Dalai Lama is, and this test finalizes that he is, indeed, the reincarnation.

The successor is expected to show signs of continuity with the previous Avatar, such as being born within a week of the death.[17]

[edit] Elements

Avatar draws on four classical elements for its bending arts: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Although each has its own variation, every classical philosophy except Chinese Taoism incorporates these four elements in some way. They are commonly used as the basis of elemental magic in modern fiction. In the show’s opening, each element is accompanied by a representative Chinese character of the element, along with a corresponding attribute:

Water is associated with “image:kind.jpg” (Chinese: 善; pinyin: shàn), which means “benevolent” or “adaptive”.[18]

Earth is associated with “image:stength.jpg” (Traditional Chinese: 強; Simplified Chinese: 强; pinyin: qiáng), which means “strength”.[18]

Fire is associated with “image:intense.jpg” (Chinese: 烈; pinyin: liè), which means “intense” or “ferocious”.[18]

Air is associated with “image:peaceful.jpg” (Chinese: 和; pinyin: hé), which means “peaceful”.[18]

Despite the fact that Wood and Metal are not pure bending elements in the Avatar world, the recent incorporations of “plantbending” (seen in “The Swamp”) and “metalbending” (seen in “The Guru”) respectively emulate these two other elements presented in the five elements of classical Taoism.

[edit] Calligraphy

An example of Chinese calligraphy.
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An example of Chinese calligraphy.

Chinese characters done in traditional East Asian calligraphy styles is used for nearly all the writing that appears in Avatar. For each instance of calligraphy, an appropriate style is used, ranging from the Seal script (more archaic) to the Clerical script.[16] The show employs calligrapher Siu-Leung Lee as a consultant and translator.

[edit] Fighting styles

The fighting choreography of Avatar draws from martial arts, and the fighting styles and weaponry are based on Chinese martial arts, with each bending art corresponding to a certain real-world style or styles. The creators use Tai Chi for waterbending, Hung Gar for earthbending (although Toph employs Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu), Northern Shaolin for firebending, and Ba Gua for airbending.[6] The show employs Sifu Kisu of the Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Association as a martial arts consultant.[19]

Each fighting style was chosen to represent the element it projected:

  • Tai Chi creates flowing, fluid movements to represent water.
  • Hung Gar was chosen for its firmly rooted stances to represent solid earth.
  • Northern Shaolin uses fast and swift strikes to mimic the power of fire.
  • Ba Gua's soft, circular movements were chosen to represent air/wind.

The ability to bend appears to stem from spirituality. As stated by the creators, all Air Nomads are benders because of their increased spirituality compared to other nations. Civilization reduces spirituality and thus every nation has a different percentage of benders.[20]

[edit] Anime style

While Avatar is not considered an anime because of its primarily American style and writing, one review has commented that "Avatar blurs the line between anime and (US) domestic cartoons until it becomes irrelevant."[21]

[edit] Avatar and Hayao Miyazaki

Avatar creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino confirmed a particular anime influence in a magazine interview:

"The best anime balances great action sequences with humor and emotion, something we try to do on Avatar. We love all the films of Hayao Miyazaki, especially Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. Both movies deal with spirituality and the environment in an entertaining way. Also, there's a lot of great animation."[22]

The episode, "The Spirit World" and the two-part first season finale "Siege of the North" are good examples of this influence, as the former prominently features a corrupted forest spirit attacking a human settlement as a direct result of the destruction of its forest home, while the latter involves the main protagonists trying to prevent the murder of a nature spirit by an ambitious mortal, all of which are also featured in Princess Mononoke.

Similarly, the character Wan Shi Tong from "The Library" bears a strong visual similarity to No Face from Spirited Away, while the form Aang took in the season one finale after becoming one with the Ocean Spirit bears an even stronger resemblance to Shishigami's "Didarabocchi" ("the Nightwalker") form in Princess Mononoke. According to an interview with the artists involved in creating Avatar, Appa's design was based on the Catbus in My Neighbor Totoro, due to the peculiar task of creating a mammal with six legs.[23]

[edit] Nominations and awards

Avatar won two Pulcinella Awards in 2005 for "Best Action/Adventure Series" and "Best Series of the Year."[24] It received 2005 Annie Award nominations for "Best Animated Television Production" and "Best Writing in an Animated Television Production" (The Fortuneteller), and won "Best Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production" (The Deserter).[25] For 2006, two Avatar crew members are nominated: Yu Jae Myung for "Character Animation in a Television Production" (The Blind Bandit) and Giancarlo Volpe for "Directing in an Animated Television Production" (The Drill).[26]

[edit] Media information

Main article: Avatar: The Last Airbender media information

[edit] Broadcast History

The show was first revealed to the public in a teaser reel at Comic-Con 2004.[27] It was scheduled to air on Nickelodeon on November 29 of that year, but was delayed until February 21, 2005. The first two episodes of the series were shown together in a one-hour premiere event at 7 pm EST in the United States.

In subsequent months, Avatar: The Last Airbender aired in various nations outside the US, beginning with Australia. By the end of the year, the show had also aired in Canada, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Brazil, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. In 2006, the show premiered in Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, and Japan. It has aired under various titles in its various broadcasting areas.

[edit] Promotion and Merchandising

Avatar's success has led to promotions with Burger King and Upper Deck Entertainment, an Avatar-themed roller coaster, and a special issue of Nick Mag Presents dedicated entirely to the show. Various members of the Avatar staff and cast appeared at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International convention, while co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko appeared as guests of honor with Martial Arts Consultant Sifu Kisu at the Pacific Media Expo on October 28, 2006. Avatar also has its own line of t-shirts, LEGO playsets, toys, a trading card game, a popular cine-manga, and a video game.


[edit] References

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  13. ^ Ace The Bathound (2006-10-28). Toon Zone Description and Review on Season 1 DVD. Toon Zone. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
  14. ^ Interview With The Creators. NickSplat.com (2005-10-12). Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
  15. ^ Mark Lasswell (2005-08-25). Article On Avatar: The Last Airbender. NY Times. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
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  19. ^ The National Shaolin Information Resource. The Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Association. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
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  22. ^ "In Their Elements". (September 2006) Nick Mag Presents, p. 6
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  24. ^ Ryan Ball (2005-05-03). Cartoons On The Bay Picks Winners. Animation Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
  25. ^ 33rd Annual Annie Awards Winners and Nominess. Annie Awards. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
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  27. ^ Avatar: The Last Airbender Sneak Peak. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.

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