Martial Art Forms Used in Avatar the Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar The Last Airbender logo.svg
As well known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang
Genre Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Comedy-drama
Created past Michael Dante DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko
Written by Michael Dante DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko
Aaron Ehasz
Tim Hedrick
Directed by Lauren MacMullan
Dave Filoni
Giancarlo Volpe
Ethan Spaulding
Joaquim Dos Santos
Voices of Zach Tyler Eisen
Mae Whitman
Jack DeSena
Jessie Flower
Dante Basco
Grey DeLisle
Mark Hamill
Mako (Seasons i & 2)
Greg Baldwin (Season 3)
Dee Bradley Bakery
Composer(s) Jeremy Zuckerman
Benjamin Wynn
Country of origin United States
Original language(southward) English
No. of seasons iii
No. of episodes 61 (list of episodes)
Product
Executive producer(s) Michael Dante DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko
Aaron Ehasz (co-executive producer)
Running time 24 minutes
Release
Original network Nickelodeon
Picture format NTSC 4:3 (480i)
Original release February 21, 2005 (2005-02-21) –
July 19, 2008 (2008-07-xix)
Chronology
Followed by Avatar: The Last Airbender (comics)
The Legend of Korra
Other websites
Website

Avatar: The Terminal Airbender, also known as Avatar: The Fable of Aang in some places, is an American blithe television receiver serial. Information technology was shown on Nickelodeon and lasted for 3 seasons. The pilot episode, The Boy in the Iceberg, was outset shown on February 21, 2005, and the last episode, Sozin's Comet, was offset shown on July xix, 2008. The series was created by Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, and the caput author for the series was Aaron Ehasz.

The testify is about a world where people can command, or "bend," one of the four elements—h2o, earth, fire, or air. The primary character is Aang, who is the Avatar. This means he tin curve all iv elements. In the show, Aang and his friends Katara, Sokka, and later Toph Beifong must save the earth past defeating Fire Lord Ozai, who is the ruler of the Fire Nation. Aang and his friends want to end a war between the Fire Nation and the other nations that has lasted for one hundred years. At the same fourth dimension, Zuko, who used to exist the prince of the Fire Nation, tries to capture Aang and defeat him. The show is based on different parts of Asian culture. The moves that the characters make when they bend are based on different styles of martial arts, such as kung fu and tai chi, and the art manner of the show is similar to the fashion of Japanese anime.

Avatar: The Terminal Airbender received high ratings when it aired, which means that many people watched it. Its highest rating was five.vi 1000000 people watching it. The prove was made for 6- to 11-yr-olds, simply even people who were not 6 to eleven watched and liked it.[ane] [2] Critics also like the evidence. They call back its characters, art, music, and writing are all very proficient. In addition, Avatar: The Terminal Airbender talks about difficult things that children'due south shows do non talk almost oft. These include war, genocide, imperialism, and complimentary will. The evidence has won many awards. Information technology has won five Annie Awards, a Genesis Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Kids' Choice Award, and a Peabody Honour. Many people think Avatar: The Concluding Airbender is 1 of the best animated series of all time.[3]

There is a franchise of things related to Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ane of these is an animated sequel series, The Legend of Korra, that tells what happens lxx years after the events of the first show. The Legend of Korra premiered in 2012 and concluded in 2014.[4] There are also two prequel novels, a live-action pic, and a series of comics, which are all the same being made. In July 2018, the complete series was released on Blu-ray. This was to celebrate the ten-twelvemonth anniversary of the catastrophe of the show. The testify was released on Netflix in the United States and Canada in May 2020. It was likewise released on Paramount+ in June 2020 and on Amazon Prime Video in January 2021. A alive activity version is currently beingness made by Netflix.

Episodes [modify | alter source]

Avatar: The Last Airbender takes place in a world that is home to humans, fantastic animals, and spirits. The world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation. Each nation bases its social club on the chemical element (h2o, globe, fire, or air) that is in its proper noun. Some people who live in each nation have the power to magically control and utilize, or "bend," the chemical element of that nation. Those people are chosen "benders." They tin can use their powers of bending to fight. The way that the show portrays the fighting style from each nation is based on a martial art from existent life. For example, "waterbenders" (people who tin magically control and employ water) have a fighting style that is based on tai chi chuan from existent life. Earthbending is mostly based on Hung Ga kung fu. Firebending is like Northern Shaolin kung fu. And Airbending is similar to baguazhang.[5] Each nation is also connected to a season: autumn for the Air Nomads, wintertime for the Water Tribe, leap for the Globe Kingdom and summer for the Burn Nation.[6]

In the earth that Avatar: The Concluding Airbender shows, in that location is ever only one person alive who can bend all four elements. That person is called the "Avatar." When i Avatar dies, he or she is reincarnated, or born over again in another body. The Avatar'south adjacent body always belongs to the side by side nation in the Avatar Cycle. The bicycle always goes in this order: water, earth, fire, air. Then it starts over again with h2o. The Avatar must larn how to curve the elements in the same order. He or she begins by learning how to bend the chemical element of the country where they were born. Then he or she learns the next three elements in order. Normally, information technology is a challenge for the Avatar to larn how to curve the element that is the opposite of their first, or "native," element. For instance, the main character of the show, Aang, was built-in to Air Nomads, and so air was the first chemical element he learned to curve. The "opposite" element to air is earth, so for Aang, it was hard to learn earthbending. This is because Earthbending focuses on steadiness and facing your opponent direct. This is different from airbending, which focuses on getting to your opponents in many different ways and changing your style quickly if it is necessary.[7]

One special power that the Avatar has is called the "Avatar State." When an Avatar goes into the Avatar State, he or she gains all of the knowledge and abilities that all of the past Avatars have had. The Avatar Land is a defence machinery. An Avatar goes into this state automatically. Nonetheless, if he or she practices for a very long time, he or she tin control when they become into the Avatar State and what they do while they are in it. [8] If an Avatar is killed in the Avatar Country, then the Avatar Wheel will be broken. Then there will be no more than Avatars.[9] Through the years, there have been many Avatars. They go on all of the four nations peaceful.[ten] Another special power that the Avatar has is being able to go into the Spirit World. He or she can link the physical world to the Spirit World. In this mode, he or she can solve bug that regular benders cannot.[11]

Flavour Ane (Volume One: H2o) [modify | change source]

One hundred years before the story begins, a twelve-year-old Airbender named Aang learns that he is the new Avatar. He is not happy when he learns this, because he knows that beingness the Avatar is a big responsibility, and he does not think he is prepare for it. He is likewise scared of having to get out his mentor, Monk Gyatso, whom he loves very much. Aang flees from home on his animal guide, a flying bison named Appa. But they fly into a big storm and crash into the ocean, and Aang goes into the Avatar State and freezes himself and Appa within an iceberg. They are frozen in a state of suspended animation—they cannot movement, grow older, or die. While this is happening, the Fire Nation is offset a state of war against the other three nations. Fire Lord Sozin, the leader of the Fire Nation, knows that the new Avatar is an Air Nomad (because of the Avatar Cycle's pattern), so he kills all of the Air Nomads in a genocide. This is considering he wants to make sure that the Avatar, who is very powerful, will not be able to defeat the Fire Nation in the state of war. The Burn Nation army is able to kill all of the Air Nomads because a comet called "Sozin's Comet" made their bending much more than powerful. But because the actual Avatar, Aang, is frozen in an iceberg, he is not killed. He is the only Airbender to survive the attack. For 1 hundred years, everybody in the world believes that the Avatar does non be anymore.

A hundred years later, Katara and Sokka, two siblings who live in the Southern H2o Tribe, free Aang and Appa from the iceberg. Katara is the only waterbender in her minor tribe. She has taught herself how to bend. Her older brother, Sokka, cannot curve, but he is a warrior. Katara, Sokka, and Aang travel to the Northern Water Tribe so Aang and Katara can learn waterbending from a master. Aang does non know most the war or the genocide of the Air Nomads. While on their journeying, they visit the Southern Air Temple, where Aang used to alive. There, Aang discovers that the Burn down Nation destroyed the Air Nomads. He likewise meets his Avatar guide, Avatar Roku, who is the Avatar who came before Aang. Roku tells Aang that he must learn to bend all four elements by the summer solstice. This is because Sozin's Comet will return on that twenty-four hour period, and information technology volition make the firebenders' angle very powerful. If Aang does not defeat the current Fire Lord, Ozai, by the summer solstice, and so the Fire Nation will take over the world and no ane will be able to terminate them anymore.

While Katara, Sokka, and Aang travel to the Northern Water Tribe, they are constantly chased by Prince Zuko. Zuko is the son of the electric current Fire Lord, Ozai, but Ozai banished him from the Burn down Nation three years before the story starts. Zuko can only return to the Burn Nation and become back his laurels if he captures the Avatar. He travels with his uncle Iroh, nicknamed "Dragon of the Due west", a legendary Burn down Nation general and the older brother of Ozai. Zuko and another Burn down Nation military officer, Admiral Zhao, compete to capture the Avatar. At the end of the season, Admiral Zhao leads the Burn Nation navy in attacking the Northern Water Tribe. During the attack, Zhao as well kills the Moon Spirit. But Aang and his friends assist fight back confronting this set on, and Yue, the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, sacrifices herself (in other words, she decides to die) and then she tin become the new Moon Spirit. In the terminate, Aang and his friends win the battle.

Season Two (Book Two: Earth) [change | modify source]

After leaving the North Pole, Aang continues to acquire and primary waterbending with Katara. Aang, Katara, and Sokka await for someone who can teach Aang how to earthbend. They soon meet Toph Bei Fong, a young daughter who is one of the best earthbenders in the world. She is bullheaded, but knows how to "meet" (or sense her environs) through earthbending and past feeling vibrations, or pocket-sized shakes, in the world. She teaches Aang to practise the same.

Meanwhile, Zuko and Iroh are now fugitives from the Fire Nation. They escape to Ba Sing Se, the capital letter metropolis of the Earth Kingdom, where they try to get-go new lives. Zuko, with the assistance of his uncle, tries to accept the difficult events he has gone through in his life, and he learns to not exist and so focused on capturing the Avatar. Aang and his friends (who are sometimes called "Team Avatar") larn near a solar eclipse that volition happen in the future. When the eclipse happens, all firebenders will lose their bending for a short fourth dimension. And then Team Avatar makes plans to invade the Burn Nation on that mean solar day. This is when Aang plans to defeat Fire Lord Ozai.

While Team Avatar travels to Ba Sing Se then they tin can tell the Earth Male monarch about the eclipse, Zuko's younger sister Azula and her two friends Mai and Ty Lee endeavor to capture them. Finally, the iii of them capture the Kyoshi Warriors (friends of Team Avatar) and pretend to exist them, and then that they can invade Ba Sing Se. Azula persuades an elite group of Earthbenders chosen the Dai Li to instigate a insurrection d'état, allowing the Burn Nation to capture Ba Sing Se. At the end of the flavor, when Team Avatar is fighting against Azula and her allies, Zuko sides with Azula, who promises to restore his honor. When Aang enters the Avatar State, Azula shoots him with lightning. It hurts him very desperately, and he almost dies. Katara brings Aang back to life with spirit water that she got from the N Pole in the previous flavor. But Aang's seventh chakra is blocked, and he cannot enter the Avatar Country.

Season Three (Book Iii: Burn) [modify | change source]

Aang awakens to notice the grouping disguised as Fire Nation soldiers heading West on a Fire Nation transport, while Zuko has been restored to his position as crown prince. Sokka has planned a minor-scale invasion of the Burn Nation to capture the Fire Lord'due south palace and defeat Fire Lord Ozai, taking advantage of the solar eclipse. The invasion volition be staged by a ragtag group of benders and warriors who Aang has helped forth his journey. Initially the invasion proceeds as planned, but Aang fails to find the Fire Lord before the eclipse ends, because Azula knew nearly the invasion. The invasion ultimately fails, and only Aang and his closest friends are able to escape. Zuko, in a alter of heart, decides to defy his father and join the Avatar. Zuko catches up with Aang at the Western Air Temple and offers to teach Aang Firebending. After some reluctance from Katara and Sokka, Squad Avatar allows Zuko to join the grouping. In the serial finale, Aang defeats Fire Lord Ozai past taking away his ability to firebend. With Ozai defeated, the war chop-chop ends. Zuko is crowned the new Fire Lord and, with the aid of the Avatar and his friends, begins rebuilding the four nations. The series ends as Aang and Katara buss in front of the sunset.

Characters [change | change source]

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Aang[13] [14] (Zach Tyler Eisen[12]) is a 12 year old. He is the most important character in the series. He was frozen in ice with his flying bison, Appa, for 100 years. He was institute by a young Waterbender named Katara. Now he is the Avatar, the chief of four dissimilar powers: water, earth, burn and air. Aang is a hero, merely he doesn't desire to be a hero. He is trying to brand the world good again.[15]

Katara[16] [17] (Mae Whitman[12]) is 14 years old. She is a Waterbender. This means she tin can motility water by moving her trunk. She is in the Southern Water Tribe. Katara has a brother. His proper name is Sokka. They find Aang in a big brawl of ice. He had been frozen for 100 years. Katara and Sokka go with Aang on an adventure to kill the evil Lord. His is chosen Fire Lord Ozai. She is his first teacher for water.<refgroup="Notes">Katara can do bloodbending. This ways she can movement peoples' bodies by "bending" their blood. She doesn't like to practice this.

Sokka[18] [nineteen] (Jack DeSena[12]) is 15 years sometime. He is a warrior. He is also Katara's blood brother. He lives in the Southern Water Tribe. He goes with Aang on his take a chance to kill the evil Burn down Lord. He is very funny, then he says he is "meat-loving" and "sarcastic".[xx] Sokka is different from his friends. He cannot "bend" anything, he is a fighter and a thinker. He has lots of good ideas and weapons. He has a boomerang and a sword he made from a meteorite. Michael Dante DiMartino, who fabricated the TV show, said that Sokka could take been a Waterbender, but he never learned how to exercise information technology.

Toph [21] [22] (Jessie Flower[23]) is 12 years onetime. She is blind. She is an Earthbender. Her family is rich, merely she doesn't like money. She is very strong and she likes to fight.[Notes 1] When she meets Aang and his friends she thinks they are strange. She wants to help them, then she goes with them on their adventure. She is Aang's instructor for Earthbending. She is blind, but she can still meet things. Toph "sees" with her feet. She feels the earth move a footling bit. Then she knows what is happening. Toph is the virtually powerful Earthbender ever.[24]

Zuko[25] [26] (Dante Basco[12]) is 16 years old. He is the son of the evil Fire Lord, so he is a prince. In Flavor 1 he is the most important bad guy. Zuko's life was hard. Something happened and now his begetter doesn't similar him.[27] Zuko wants to take hold of the Avatar because he thinks his father would like that. Zuko does not like himself, he is angry, and his family is crazy. In the show Zuko learns how to be squeamish. He wears a blue mask to hibernate himself and so he saves people. In season 3, he leaves the Fire Lord. He goes to Aang and becomes his friend. He becomes a Firebending teacher for Aang. At the end, he is the new Fire Lord.

Azula[28] [29] (Grey DeLisle) is a bad princess. She is a Firebender. She is Zuko's younger sister. She is an important bad guy in the show. Azula is very good at Firebending. It is piece of cake for her to do it. She tin make lightning. She is very mean to her friends Mai and Ty Lee. She uses fire to scare them. The Burn down Lord likes her more than Zuko.[30] [31]

Iroh[32] [33] (Mako in flavor i and two, Greg Baldwin in flavor iii[Notes ii]) used to be a general for the Fire Lord. He tin make fire in his nose and mouth, then they call him the Dragon of the West. He is Prince Zuko'due south uncle and teacher. The Burn down lord is Iroh'southward brother. Iroh is older than the Fire Lord. He should be the Lord, only the Fire Lord lied, then that he could be the Lord.[34] People recall Iroh is nice, kind, and happy. He does silly things so people call back he is not strong or smart. But Iroh is very smart and strong. Iroh has a secret grouping of friends. They are strong and good at fighting. The friends are chosen The Guild of the White Lotus. In the concluding episode they fight the Fire Nation. They win and the world becomes a expert place. Iroh is special considering he learned how to practice Firebending from Dragons.

Other characters [modify | change source]

Name Voiced by Clarification
Appa[35] [36] Dee Bradley Baker Aang's flying bison
Momo[37] Dee Bradley Baker Aang'south lemur
Mai[38] [39] Cricket Leigh Zuko'southward girlfriend
Ty Lee[40] [41] Olivia Hack Mai's friend
Suki[42] [43] Jennie Kwan Sokka'south girlfriend, the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors
Hakoda[44] [45] André Sogliuzzo Sokka and Katara'southward father, the chief of the Southern Water Tribe

Pocket-size Characters [modify | change source]

Roku

Ta Min

Rina

Zinzuk

Ursa is Zuko'southward mother.

Ozai is Zuko's father.

Azulon

Ilah

Sozin

Noren

Tom Tom is Mai's blood brother.

Ukano is Mai's male parent.

Michi is Mai'due south mother.

Kya is Katara and Sokka's mother.

Kanna is Katara and Sokka's grandmother.

Lao is Toph's father.

Poppy is Toph's mother.

Production [modify | change source]

Avatar: The Final Airbender was co-created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California. Animation work was done past the Korean animation studio DR Movie. According to Bryan Konietzko, the program was conceived in the spring of 2001 when he took an old sketch of a balding, middle-aged man and re-imagined the grapheme equally a child.[46] Konietzko drew the character herding bison in the heaven, and showed the sketch to Mike DiMartino. At the time, DiMartino was studying a documentary near explorers trapped in the South Pole.

Konietzko described their early development of the concept:

" We idea, "At that place'southward an air guy along with these water people trapped in a snowy wasteland... and possibly some fire people are pressing down on them..." "

The co-creators successfully pitched the thought to Nickelodeon VP and executive producer Eric Coleman only two weeks later.[47]

The show was first revealed to the public in a teaser reel at Comic-Con 2004,[48] and started show the episodes from 21 February 2005. In the United States, first ii episodes of the series were shown together in a one-hr premiere event. A second xx-episode season ran from 17 March 2006 through one December.[49] A third and last season, beginning September 21, 2007, featured 20-one episodes rather than the usual twenty.[50] The concluding four episodes were packaged as a two-hour moving-picture show.

Cultural influences [change | change source]

Avatar is notable for borrowing extensively from Asian fine art and mythology to create its universe. The show's character designs are heavily influenced past anime also as Chinese art and history, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism,[51] and Yoga.[52] Traditional Due east Asian calligraphy styles are used for about all the writing in the show. For each example of calligraphy, an appropriate style is used, ranging from seal script (more archaic) to clerical script.[53] The show employed a cultural consultant, Edwin Zane, and calligrapher Siu-Leung Lee as consultants for the show'due south cultural influences.[52] [54]

The choreographed martial art bending moves were profoundly affected past Asian cinema.[46] In an interview, Bryan revealed that, "Mike and I were really interested in other epic 'Legends & Lore' backdrop, like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, but we knew that we wanted to accept a different arroyo to that type of genre. Our love for Japanese anime, Hong Kong activity and kung fu cinema, yoga, and Eastern philosophies led u.s.a. to the initial inspiration for Avatar."[55]

All music and audio used in the serial was washed by Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn, who course "The Rails Team". They made apply of a wide range of different instruments (such as the guzheng, pipa and duduk) to etch a groundwork music that fits into the globe.[56]

Avatar [change | change source]

The term "Avatar" comes from the language of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of India. The give-and-take Avatāra, (Sanskrit: अवतार ), which means "descent"; its roots are ava means "down," and tri means "to pass." In the Hindu scriptures, avatara signifies the descent of Divinity into mankind. One who attains marriage with Spirit and so returns to earth to assistance humanity is chosen an avatar. The Chinese characters that appear at the height of the show'southward championship menu mean "the divine medium who has descended upon the mortal globe."[53]

When Aang was immature, he unknowingly revealed that he was the Avatar when he chose four toys out of thousands, each of which were the childhood toys of the previous Avatars. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a similar exam for reincarnations of a Tulku Lama. In Magic and Mystery in Tibet, Alexandra David-Neel writes that "a number of objects such as rosaries, ritualistic implements, books, tea-cups, etc., are placed together, and the child must choice out those which belonged to the late tulku, thus showing that he recognizes the things which were theirs in their previous life."[57] Each successor is expected to evidence signs of continuity with the previous Avatar, such equally existence born within a week of the death.

Elements and fighting styles [change | change source]

Avatar draws on the four classical elements common to many ancient philosophies for its angle arts: Water, Globe, Burn and Air. Although each has its own variation, most ancient philosophies incorporate these 4 elements in some style. Examples include the classical Hindu, Buddhist, and Greek elemental traditions. In the show's opening, each element is accompanied by two Chinese characters: an ancient Chinese seal script character on the left representing the element being shown and a modern Chinese character on the correct describing some feature of the element. The character 水 (pinyin: shui), which stands for h2o, is shown with 善 (pinyin: shan), which ways benevolence and adaptivity. The character 土 (pinyin: tu), which stands for earth, is shown with 強 (pinyin: qiang), which means for force and stability. The graphic symbol 火 (pinyin: huo), which stands for fire, is shown with 烈 (pinyin: lie), which means intensity and passion. Finally, the grapheme 气 (pinyin: qi), which stands for air, is shown with 和 (pinyin: he), which means peace and harmony.[58]

In addition to the use of four classical elements in the series, the fighting styles associated with each element are all taken from different styles of Chinese martial arts. The series employed Sifu Kisu of the Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Association as a martial arts consultant.[59] Each fighting mode was chosen to stand for the element it projected. Tai Chi was used for "Waterbending" in the series, and information technology focuses on alignment, body construction, breath, and visualization. Hung Gar was used for "Earthbending" in the serial, and was chosen for its firmly rooted stances and powerful strikes to present the solid nature of globe. Northern Shaolin, which uses strong arm and leg movements was used for "Firebending". And Ba Gua, which uses dynamic circular movements and quick directional changes, was used for "Airbending".[10] [60] [61] The only exception to these styles is Toph, who can be seen practicing a Chu Gar Southern Praying Mantis style.[62]

Awards [change | change source]

Nielsen ratings [change | modify source]

When the show first was shown it was rated the best animated television receiver serial in its demographic;[63] new episodes averaged three.i one thousand thousand viewers each.[63] A one-hour special showing of "The Surreptitious of the Burn down Nation" which was shown on fifteen September 2006, consisting of "The Serpent's Pass" and "The Drill", gathered an audience of 5.1 million viewers. According to the Nielsen Media Research, the special was the best performing cable television show airing in that week.[64] In 2007, Avatar was syndicated to more than 105 countries worldwide, and was one of Nickelodeon'south acme rated programs. The series was ranked kickoff on Nickelodeon in Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Belgium, and Colombia.[65]

The series finale, Sozin'southward Comet: The Final Battle, received the highest ratings of the series. Its xix July 2008 premiere averaged 5.6 million viewers, 95% more than viewers than Nickelodeon had received in mid-July 2007.[66] During the week of 14 July, it ranked every bit the most-viewed plan for the under-14 demographic.[67] [68] Sozin'southward Comet also appeared on iTunes' top ten listing of best-selling goggle box episodes during that same week.[69] Sozin'southward Comet 's popularity affected online media too; "Rise of the Phoenix King", a Nick.com online game based on Sozin's Comet, generated almost 815,000 game plays inside iii days.[70]

Other awards [change | alter source]

Awards/Category Result
2005 Pulcinella Awards: [71]
Best Action/Adventure TV Series Won
Best TV Series Won
33rd Annie Awards: [72]
Best Animated Television Product Nominated
Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production (for the 16th episode of showtime season The Deserter) Won
Writing for an Animated Telly Production (for the 14th episode of first season The Fortuneteller) Nominated
34th Annie Awards: [73]
Grapheme Animation in a Television Product (for the 6th episode of 2d season The Bullheaded Bandit) Won
Directing in an Animated Television receiver Production (for the 13th episode of second season The Drill) Won
36th Annie Awards: [74]
Best Animated Idiot box Production for Children Won
Directing in an Animated Goggle box Production (Joaquim Dos Santos for the 20th episode of the thirt season Into the Inferno) Won
2007 Genesis Awards:
Outstanding Children'due south Programming (for the 16th episode of 2d season Appa'southward Lost Days) Won
Primetime Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Animated Program (for the 14th episode of second season Urban center of Walls and Secrets) Nominated
Individual Achievement Laurels (Sang-Jin Kim for the 17th episode of second season Lake Laogai) Won
Nickelodeon Child'southward Choice Awards 2008:
Favorite Drawing[75] Won
Annecy 2008:
Tv series (Joaquim Dos Santos for the 11th episode of tertiary flavour The Mean solar day of Blackness Lord's day Function ii: The Eclipse)[76] Nominated
56th Aureate Reel Awards:
All-time Sound Editing in a Television Animation (for the 21th episode of 3rd season Avatar Aang)[77] Nominated
2008 Peabody Awards:
"Unusually circuitous characters and healthy respect for the consequences of warfare"[78] Won

Other media [change | modify source]

Literature [change | change source]

Nighttime Equus caballus Comics released an art book titled Avatar: The Terminal Airbender — The Fine art of the Animated Series, on 2 June 2010 which contains 184 pages of the original art and creation behind the Avatar blithe series.[79]

Promotion and merchandising [alter | change source]

Avatar's success has led to some promotional advertising with third-political party companies, such every bit Burger King and Upper Deck Amusement. Avatar-themed roller coasters at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America and one formerly at Kings Island also appeared. During the show's runtime, Nickelodeon published ii special issues of Nick Magazine Presents dedicated entirely to the evidence. Various members of the Avatar staff and cast appeared at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International convention, while Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko appeared 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,[80] a cine-manga, and three video games, every bit well as an MMO.[81]

The Mattel-produced action figure toy line generated some controversy with its exclusion of any female characters.[82] Mattel came to release information stating that they have taken account of Katara's increased role inside the program, and that she would exist included in the figure array for a mid 2007 release.[83] The figure ultimately went unreleased, however, every bit the entire line was canceled before she could exist produced.

Nickelodeon executives have since released optimistic plans for upcoming marketing strategies in regards to Avatar. Nickelodeon President Cyma Zarghami openly stated his belief that the franchise "could become their Harry Potter".[84] They expect consumers to spend about $121 million in 2007, ascent to $254 one thousand thousand past 2009.[84] The marketing plans are to be coincided with the release of the first live-activity movie based on the series in 2010, which will be the first movie in a trilogy.[84]

Video games [change | modify source]

In the serial of Avatar: The Last Airbender based a video game trilogy:

  • Avatar: The Terminal Airbender, based on the first flavour of Avatar: The Concluding Airbender
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth, based on the 2nd season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender - Into the Inferno, based on the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Avatar: Legends of the Loonshit, a video game for Microsoft Windows, was launched on 25 September 2008 by Nickelodeon.[85] Each user is able to create their own character, choose a nation, and to collaborate with others across the globe.[85] [86] [87]

Picture show adaptation [modify | change source]

In the series of Avatar: The Last Airbender based the trilogy The Final Airbender:

  • The Concluding Airbender, which was released on ane July 2010 (based on the first flavor of Avatar: The Terminal Airbender)
  • The Last Airbender 2, which was ready to be released in 2012 (based on the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender). In that location is no further announcement.
  • The Last Airbender 3, which was set to be released in 2014 (based on the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender). There is no farther announcement.

Listing of actors [change | modify source]

Actors Role
Noah Ringer[88] Aang
Jackson Rathbone[88] Sokka
Nicola Peltz[88] Katara
Dev Patel[89] Ζuko
Shaun Toub Iroh
Cliff Curtis Ozai
Summer Bishil Azula

Avatar: The Fable of Korra [modify | change source]

A serial based on Avatar: The Last Airbender is currently in development at Nickelodeon and due for release in 2011.[90] [91] Information technology will exist created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender.[92] [93] [94] The show, tentatively titled Avatar: The Fable of Korra,[95] will be a twelve-episode mini series that takes place in the same universe,[90] [96] seventy years after the defeat of Burn Lord Ozai.[97] The development period and release dates were announced at the annual Comic-Con in San Diego on 22 July 2010.[98]

The serial will focus on Korra, a teenage female protagonist and current incarnation of the Avatar, who, co-ordinate to the president of Nickelodeon, volition exist "hotheaded, contained, and ready to take on the earth".[xc] She has already mastered the elements of H2o, Earth, and Burn down, but needs to principal Air. The character was partly inspired by Avatar Kyoshi of the original series, whom the creators say was very pop amid fans.[99] In order to avoid repetition of Aang'due south adventures, the creators wanted to root the show in one identify, called Commonwealth Metropolis.[99] A concept drawing of the city, released with the announcement of the series, shows the city's design as inspired past Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, Hong Kong, Manhattan, and Vancouver.[99] In the show, Korra will have to learn Airbending from master Tenzin, son of Avatar Aang and Katara,[99] and contend with an anti-bender revolution taking place in the city.[100]

While non targeting a different demographic than Avatar: The Concluding Airbender,[99] Michael and Bryan have stated that the testify won't encompass more mature subject material necessarily, just different mature subjects, "It won't exist another war, but a different sort of conflict."[101] The creators also explained that at that place would be some "cheesy teen romance" for the main character, Korra.[101] At the 2010 Comic-Con, information technology was revealed that the creators will continue to work with Joaquim Dos Santos and Ryuki Hung on the animation and design of the show.[101] The creators also confirmed that they will directly write all twelve episodes, explaining that as a mini-series, episode fillers volition be omitted, allowing for a "really tight" and "cool" story.[101] In tardily July, Jeremy Zuckerman, composer of the original series, was confirmed to exist returning to score The Legend of Korra.[102]

Alive activeness remake [change | alter source]

A live action remake is in the works for Netflix.[103] Production and filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia on Nov 16, 2021, and will concluding until May 2022.[104]

Notes [change | modify source]

  1. We run into her the first time in Flavor 2second season - Blind Brigand
  2. Because of Mako's death

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Other websites [alter | change source]

  • Official website
  • Fandom has a wiki on this subject area: Avatar Wiki
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender on IMDb

In English [change | change source]

  • The page of the series in the official site of Nickelodeon
  • All the episodes Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
    • All the episodes of first flavour Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Motorcar
    • All the episodes of second season Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Motorcar
    • All the episodes of third flavour Archived 2010-06-26 at the Wayback Automobile
  • Avatar wiki

In Russian [change | change source]

  • Cтраничка мультсериала на сайте канала 2х2.
  • Русскоязычный информационный портал
  • Книги и манга «Повелитель стихий». Официальный сайт Archived 2010-07-05 at the Wayback Automobile

In French [change | change source]

  • La série sur Planète Jeunesse Archived 2008-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
  • Communauté francophone de la série Archived 2020-12-27 at the Wayback Machine

In German [modify | change source]

  • Offizielles deutsches Webportal von Nick Archived 2010-xi-23 at the Wayback Machine
  • Beschreibung auf www.fernsehserien.de

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