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Avatar: The Last Airbender
characters
Here you can read everything about all the
Avatar: The Last Airbender characters. Below you will find
a list of characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The
world of Avatar is filled with a vast array of interesting
characters and strange beasts.
The sections are devided in main, major secondary and minor secondary characaters. |
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Click here to view the Character Sections:
Main Characters
Major Secondary
Characters
Minor Secondary
Characters - Book 1 Water
Minor Secondary
Characters - Book 2 Earth
Minor Secondary
Characters - Book 3 Fire
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Major secondary characters
 Appa
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. The earliest
known stage of Appa's life is when he was a young calf. This is the moment
when he first encounters Aang. It appears Appa's mother was willingly
directing her calves down to the young monks, with whom they will become
companions for life. Not much is explained about the exact nature of
the relationship between the Air Nomads and their flying bison. Aang
came forward and offered an apple to Appa. Almost immediately, the two
became friends and would be together for most of their lives up until
the present day. The fact that their lives are so closely intertwined
has resulted in a sharing of energy between the two, as revealed in "Appa's
Lost Days".
Appa was stuck in suspended animation along with Aang for 100 years
until their discovery by Katara and Sokka. Since then Appa has been
the group's main form of transport in their quest to help Aang master
all the elements, as well as occasionally assisting in battle, such
as against the Shirsu, in "Bato of the Water Tribe". Appa
was a consistent part of the group throughout the series until his
capture by the Sandbenders. |
 Jet
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. Jet uses Twin Tiger-Head Hook Swords as his weapon.
Jet was the teenage leader of a band of Earth Kingdom children called "The
Freedom Fighters." The young vigilante held a deep-seated grudge
against the Fire Nation for an attack headed by the Rough Rhinos that
killed his parents when he was eight. He and his ragtag group spent their
days antagonizing Fire Nation soldiers and emigrants on the outskirts
of their occupied town, living in forest tree-houses. Jet is marked by
his almost pathological hatred of the Fire Nation. To him, all citizens
of the Fire Nation are guilty, regardless of whether they are involved
with the war or not. In some ways he represents what could have happened
to Katara and Sokka after the death of their mother; allowing their hatred
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 Long
Feng
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. As Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se and the head of the
Dai Li, Long Feng is a very influential, charismatic, and power-hungry
individual who has the tendency to pop up out of nowhere. He rose from
humble origins as a son of a Merchant in the Middle Ring of Ba Sing Se,
to become the most feared man in the city.
By appearance, his position grants him a special relationship with the
Earth King, but in reality the Earth King is but a figurehead of Ba Sing
Se's government, and Long Feng truly holds sway over its privatizing
affairs. He utilizes the Dai Li to silence anyone who would disrupt the
common peace, secretly imprisoning them under Lake Laogai and using hypnotic
tactics to subdue them. This effectively keeps the citizens of Ba Sing
Se in blissful ignorance and maintains the illusion that there is no
war. He claims to have preserved the last utopian society left on the
planet by covering up all knowledge of the war, when in fact, the totalitarian
traits of Ba Sing Se's government are marks of dystopia.
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 Mai
Mai is a cold, calm, and reserved young woman, and a longtime friend of
Azula and Ty Lee, with whom she attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls.
She is described by nick.com as a depressed-looking goth teen, seemingly
bored with everything. She is an extremely skilled warrior in the art
of Shuriken-jutsu, her primary weapon being small, fletched darts (called "stilettos" on
nick.com) that are spring-loaded in holsters on her wrists and ankles.
She also employs a wide variety of other throwing weapons with deadly
accuracy and has proven herself capable of besting a powerful bender
despite not being a Firebender herself. |
 Momo
Momo, a Winged Lemur discovered wandering about
the ruined Southern Air Temple, was quickly named and claimed as a pet
by Aang. Aang is very fond of the creature, because he represents the
small hope that other fragments of Air Nomadic culture, even other Air
Nomads, survive somewhere in the world. Momo is an intelligent creature,
but is either incapable or selective of understanding human speech. He
is also a glutton for any available fruit. Momo's behavior is more cat-like
than that of real life lemurs. Momo's wings appear to retract within
the fur of his arms. Momo appears to have four fingers and two additional
ones within the wing membrane that can be seen when he has his wings
extended.
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 Fire
Lord Ozai
Fire Lord Ozai is the ruthless Firebender ruler of the Fire Nation (currently
for six or seven years), younger brother to General Iroh, son to Fire Lord
Azulon and Fire Lady Ilah, and father to Prince Zuko and Princess Azula.
He is also the husband of Princess Ursa. The Fire Lord is leading his country
in a century-long war against the other two nations of the world, the goal
of which is to create a planet-wide empire. The war began when Ozai's grandfather
Fire Lord Sozin utilized the Firebending-enhancing powers of a comet to
launch his first strike, the genocide of the Air Nomads. Now, the war is
in its final stages. By summer's end, Sozin's comet will return, giving
the Fire Nation the power needed to finish the war and conquer all that
oppose him. |
 Avatar
Roku
Avatar Roku was the previous Avatar incarnate, and is thus an aspect of
Aang's self. Born into the Fire Nation in life, Roku is a benign force
in spirit, serving as Aang's advisor and protector throughout the series.
During the episode "Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)", Aang
was able to communicate with Roku by visiting the Fire Temple that Roku
called home 112 years ago. There Roku informed Aang of the impending return
of Sozin's comet. He also described Fire Lord Ozai and the Fire Nation's
ability to harness the comet's energy to finally win the war. Roku also
manifested himself with Aang to defeat a group of Firebenders holding his
friends hostage. He has guided Aang several times since, appearing to Jeong
Jeong to persuade him to teach Aang Firebending, offering critical wisdom
in the ways of the Spirit world during the great siege of the North Pole
in order to defeat the invading Fire Navy and save the Moon Spirit, and
most recently, revealing to Aang the nature of his Avatar State. It is
the duty of the previous Avatar to tutor the next in his/her responsibilities.
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 Suki
Suki is the eldest of the young female village warriors of the Earth Kingdom's
Kyoshi Island, in charge of training the younger warriors. She began
her training when she was only 8 years old. Skilled with war fans as
well as the katana, Suki is a tough fighter and retains feelings for
Sokka.
She and her fellow warriors captured Aang and his friends, and then
accepted them as guests when they learned Aang was the Avatar. When
she defeated the young Sokka in a duel, he was humbled by her skill
and turned to her for instruction. The two bonded over sparring matches,
and, before parting, she kisses Sokka on the cheek. It is discovered
in the episode, "Avatar Day," that she and the other warriors
of Kyoshi have gone off to fight in the war against the Fire Nation.
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 Ty
Lee
Ty Lee is a cheerful and somewhat ditzy young Fire Nation acrobat/gymnast,
the daughter of a nobleman, who grew up at the Fire Nation royal court
and attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls with her friends, Azula and
Mai. Ty Lee is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing a martial
art attacking pressure points on the human body. This was proven when she
was easily able to take down an elite platoon of Earthbenders alone. By
striking a bender's pressure points she is able to disrupt the victim's
chi flow and temporarily remove their ability to bend. According to nick.com,
she can tell people's mood by looking at their aura or feeling their chi.
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 Admiral
Zhao
Admiral Zhao (formerly Captain, then a Commander) was a ruthless, driven
leader in the Fire Navy, and a powerful Firebender. Arrogant and hungry
for power and glory, he was Prince Zuko's rival in the Fire Nation's quest
to capture Aang, the Avatar. He harbored intense feelings of anger towards
Zuko, and it is clear when he is first introduced that they have some history,
though it is never revealed. He is a recurring character throughout Book
One to the point that Sokka can accurately describe Zhao's appearance,
personality ("big sideburns and an even bigger temper"), and
modes of operation to the warriors of the Northern Water Tribe. |
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