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TooDumbToLive: When Azula (who is a better person than in canon but still a cunning and ruthless PragmaticHero) and Commander Zhao visit Kiyoshi Village looking for the Avatar, Zhao tries to destroy their statue of Avatar Kiyoshi, after Azula and Suki had already agreed to SacredHospitality. Azula challenges him to an Agni Kai for this insult to their hosts, and she would have killed him if she hadn't realized Aang was in Kiyoshi Village and was uncomfortable with killing (unbeknownst to Zhao, she wanted to recruit the Avatar to help her depose Ozai, not capture him as Zhao intended). When Azula spares him, he tries the same ISurrenderSuckers trick that he tried on Zuko in canon. Azula doesn't kill him then either, but she does declare him a Man Without Honor, which causes him to be as good as banished from the entirety of the Fire Nation and would have ruined his career in the Navy if he hadn't managed to convince Ozai to keep it on track.

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* TooDumbToLive: When Azula (who is a better person than in canon but still a cunning and ruthless PragmaticHero) and Commander Zhao visit Kiyoshi Village looking for the Avatar, Zhao tries to destroy their statue of Avatar Kiyoshi, after Azula and Suki had already agreed to SacredHospitality. Azula challenges him to an Agni Kai for this insult to their hosts, and she would have killed him if she hadn't realized Aang was in Kiyoshi Village and was uncomfortable with killing (unbeknownst to Zhao, she wanted to recruit the Avatar to help her depose Ozai, not capture him as Zhao intended). When Azula spares him, he tries the same ISurrenderSuckers trick that he tried on Zuko in canon. Azula doesn't kill him then either, but she does declare him a Man Without Honor, which causes him to be as good as banished from the entirety of the Fire Nation and would have ruined his career in the Navy if he hadn't managed to convince Ozai to keep it on track.
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TooDumbToLive: When Azula (who is a better person than in canon but still a cunning and ruthless PragmaticHero) and Commander Zhao visit Kiyoshi Village looking for the Avatar, Zhao tries to destroy their statue of Avatar Kiyoshi, after Azula and Suki had already agreed to SacredHospitality. Azula challenges him to an Agni Kai for this insult to their hosts, and she would have killed him if she hadn't realized Aang was in Kiyoshi Village and was uncomfortable with killing (unbeknownst to Zhao, she wanted to recruit the Avatar to help her depose Ozai, not capture him as Zhao intended). When Azula spares him, he tries the same ISurrenderSuckers trick that he tried on Zuko in canon. Azula doesn't kill him then either, but she does declare him a Man Without Honor, which causes him to be as good as banished from the entirety of the Fire Nation and would have ruined his career in the Navy if he hadn't managed to convince Ozai to keep it on track.

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* DreamRealityCheck: When Katara is sick durring the events of the Blue Spirit she beleaves that Zuko's dragon Druk is a hallucination. Upon sharing her simptoms with Kou, he informs her that the dragon is real.

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* DramaticIrony: When Sokka eavesdrops on Azula telling Aang about Ozai's supposed murder of Zuko, he tries to imagine living under the same roof as a monster who would do such a thing, and he imagines how close Zuko and Azula must have been, each trying to ensure the other was as safe and loved as they could be. Much to Azula's regret, that was not what their relationship was like.
* DreamRealityCheck: When Katara is sick durring during the events of the Blue Spirit she beleaves believes that Zuko's dragon Druk is a hallucination. Upon sharing her simptoms symptoms with Kou, he informs her that the dragon is real.



* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Zhao is this to the rest of the Fire Nation. No one from his subordinates, his compatrites, his superiors, and even complete strangers actualy like or respect him. The only reason that that anyone listens to him is that Ozai supports him.



* PapaWolf:
** When Zhao tries attacking Azula after their Agni Kai ends, Iroh makes it clear that if he ever tries to harm Azula again, he will die for it.
** When Pohuai receives word that Azula named Zhao a Man Without Honor, Mai suggests that Zhao might have tried to sexually assault her. Zuko dismisses that theory, saying that regardless of whether Zhao had Ozai's favor, if he had tried anything like that, Iroh would have killed him.



* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Zhao is this to the rest of the Fire Nation. No one from his subordinates, his compatrites, his superiors, and even complete strangers actualy like or respect him. The only reason that that anyone listens to him is that Ozai supports him.

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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Ozai's brutality has created an oppositional faction within his court, and this faction is only more emboldened when they (wrongly) suspect him of assassinating Zuko.

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Ozai's brutality has created an oppositional faction within his court, and this faction is only more emboldened when they (wrongly) suspect him of assassinating Zuko.Zuko.
** Azula, on the other hand, plays with the trope. Ty Lee is able to get her to understand that while fear can be a useful tool for a ruler, there are times when kindness and benevolence are more appropriate. In a way, a Machiavellian approach to rule is shown to not necessarily be a bad one, if you actually understand Machiavellian philosophy the way Azula does rather than taking Ozai's armchair approach.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While sick and hallucinating, Sokka begins talking to Appa, Momo, and Druk. His responses and conversations with them are supringly acurate. Its not explaing if Sokka is just lucky in his craized ramblings or if there is spiritual shananigans at play.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While sick and hallucinating, Sokka begins talking to Appa, Momo, and Druk. His responses and conversations with them are supringly acurate. surprisingly accurate. Its not explaing if confirmed whether Sokka is just lucky in his craized crazed ramblings or if there is spiritual shananigans shenanigans at play.play.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: After getting an idea of how badly Azula is taking both the supposed deaths of Zuko and Mai and [[AbusiveParents Ozai's terrible parenting]], Iroh becomes determined to give her the support she needs, to help her see through Ozai's propaganda, and to protect her the way he was unable to protect Lu Ten and Zuko.
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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30411063/chapters/74976912 Deadshots]] is a ForWantOfANail fic in which Mai sneaks Zuko out of the fire nation after the Agni Kai and they join the Yuyan archers.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30411063/chapters/74976912 Deadshots]] is a ForWantOfANail WhatIf fic in which Mai sneaks Zuko out of the fire nation after the Agni Kai and they join the Yuyan archers.

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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Ty Lee identifies a disguised Aang as the Avatar, and an Avatar of Air at that, through examining "[[DisguisedInDrag her]]" acrobatic style.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Before Zuko’s Agni Kai, Azula had wanted to be the heir to the throne. After Zuko’s presumed death, she realizes it wasn’t worth losing her brother, a reality only made clearer by [[AbusiveParents Ozai’s awful parenting]].



* IHaveNoDaughter: Ozai is planning to disown Azula because he believes she's plotting against him, and only hasn't yet because no preferable heir has presented himself yet. Finding out about his plans [[HoistByHisOwnPetard is what pushes her to actually start plotting against him.]]

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* IHaveNoDaughter: Ozai is planning to disown Azula because he believes she's plotting against him, and only hasn't yet because no preferable heir has presented himself yet. She had been considering it, but hadn’t been willing to commit to it. Finding out about his plans [[HoistByHisOwnPetard is was what pushes pushed her to actually start plotting against him.the point where she was ready to go through with it.]]
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* IHaveNoDaughter: Ozai is planning to disown Azula because he (correctly) believes she's plotting against him, and only hasn't yet because no preferable heir has presented himself yet.

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* IHaveNoDaughter: Ozai is planning to disown Azula because he (correctly) believes she's plotting against him, and only hasn't yet because no preferable heir has presented himself yet.yet. Finding out about his plans [[HoistByHisOwnPetard is what pushes her to actually start plotting against him.]]
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* IHaveNoDaughter: Ozai is planning to disown Azula because he (correctly) believes she's plotting against him, and only hasn't yet because no preferable heir has presented himself yet.
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* TheSocialExpert: June immediately deduces that Zuko and Mai are rich kids running away from home.

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June immediately deduces that Zuko and Mai are rich kids running away from home.home.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Azula. She's very good at reading people, to the point that she finds it incredibly easy to tell the difference between the identical Ty sisters even when they're trying to impersonate each other, which even their parents can't do. But she fails to understand how Aang's cultural biases differ from hers, which causes Aang to interpret some of her actions differently than she intended.
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* DreamRealityCheck: When Katara is sick durring the events of the Blue Spirit she beleaves that Zuko's dragon Druk is a hallucination. Upon sharing her simptoms with Kou, he informs her that the dragon is real.


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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While sick and hallucinating, Sokka begins talking to Appa, Momo, and Druk. His responses and conversations with them are supringly acurate. Its not explaing if Sokka is just lucky in his craized ramblings or if there is spiritual shananigans at play.

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