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** As soon as Aang stops evading Zuko's attacks and starts attacking himself, their fight in the latter's quarter ends instantly.
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* SpikesOfVillainy: Aang uses the spikes on a mook's helmet to cut his bonds when he escapes.
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* BathroomControl: While Sokka is coaching several kids about battling, one boy does the PottyDance and starts to say he has to go, but Sokka says he can't do that in a battle.
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** After Zuko orders his men to chase down the Avatar, he notices them tending to their frozen, and immediately allows them to tend to them.
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* CerebusRetcon: Sokka's distrust of Aang and his intensity in schooling a group of small boys like soldiers come across as funny in "The Boy in the Iceberg." Then the Fire Nation ship arrives, revealing just how pitifully outmatched the Southern Water Tribe is compared to just one Fire Nation crew and suddenly Sokka's attitude become a lot more understandable. With all the men from the Tribes away fighting, those little boys of the village really are the Tribe's only form of soldiers.

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* CerebusRetcon: Sokka's distrust of Aang and his intensity in schooling a group of small boys like soldiers come across as funny in "The Boy in the Iceberg." Then the Fire Nation ship arrives, revealing just how pitifully outmatched the Southern Water Tribe is compared to just one Fire Nation crew and suddenly Sokka's attitude become a lot more understandable. crew. With all the men from the Tribes away fighting, Sokka and those little boys of the village really are the Tribe's only form of soldiers.
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* CerebusRetcon: Sokka's distrust of Aang and his intensity in schooling a group of small boys like soldiers come across as funny in "The Boy in the Iceberg." Then the Fire Nation ship arrives, revealing just how pitifully outmatched the Southern Water Tribe is compared to just one Fire Nation crew and suddenly Sokka's attitude become a lot more understandable. Those little boys of the village really are the Tribe's only form of soldiers.

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* CerebusRetcon: Sokka's distrust of Aang and his intensity in schooling a group of small boys like soldiers come across as funny in "The Boy in the Iceberg." Then the Fire Nation ship arrives, revealing just how pitifully outmatched the Southern Water Tribe is compared to just one Fire Nation crew and suddenly Sokka's attitude become a lot more understandable. Those With all the men from the Tribes away fighting, those little boys of the village really are the Tribe's only form of soldiers.
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* CerebusRetcon: Sokka's distrust of Aang and his intensity in schooling a group of small boys like soldiers come across as funny in "The Boy in the Iceberg." Then the Fire Nation ship arrives, revealing just how pitifully outmatched the Southern Water Tribe is compared to just one Fire Nation crew and suddenly Sokka's attitude become a lot more understandable. Those little boys of the village really are the Tribe's only form of soldiers.
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* CallingTheOldWomanOit: Katara is furious at her grandmother for doing nothing to stop Sokka from banishing Aang from the village, ignoring her attempt to comfort her and snapping that now thanks to her she lost her one chance of being a Waterbender before storming off.

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* CallingTheOldWomanOit: CallingTheOldWomanOut: Katara is furious at her grandmother for doing nothing to stop Sokka from banishing Aang from the village, ignoring her attempt to comfort her and snapping that now thanks to her she lost her one chance of being a Waterbender before storming off.
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* CallingTheOldWomanOit: Katara is furious at her grandmother for doing nothing to stop Sokka from banishing Aang from the village, ignoring her attempt to comfort her and snapping that now thanks to her she lost her one chance of being a Waterbender before storming off.


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* GetOut: Sokka orders Aang out of the village after he confesses to having set off the Fire Nation booby trap on the ship.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Gran Gran bids Katara and Sokka goodbye.'']]

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''[[caption-width-right:350:Gran Gran bids Katara and Sokka goodbye.]]''

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* HesNotMyBoyfriend: When Sokka agrees to rescue Aang, Sokka calls Aang Katara’s boyfriend. Katara starts arguing against it until Sokka cuts her off.

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* HesNotMyBoyfriend: When Sokka agrees to rescue Aang, Sokka calls Aang Katara’s Katara's boyfriend. Katara starts arguing against it until Sokka cuts her off.
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* OhCrap: ''Everyone'' reacts this way to seeing Aang enter the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] for the first time.
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** Aang, in the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] demonstrates in less than a minute why the adorable goofy twelve-year-old is feared by the entire Fire Nation.

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** Aang, Aang in the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] demonstrates in less than a minute why the adorable goofy twelve-year-old is feared by the entire Fire Nation.



* IJustWantToBeNormal: Aang's explanation for why he didn't tell Katara and Sokka he was the Avatar.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Aang's explanation for why he didn't tell Katara and Sokka that he was the Avatar.



* RealAfterAll: After the anti-climactic belly-flop last episode, this one shows Appa really can fly.

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* RealAfterAll: After the anti-climactic belly-flop last episode, this one shows that Appa really can fly.
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* TakeMeInstead: Aang asks that if Zuko takes him (Aang) prisoner, he'll leave the village alone. Zuko [[IHaveMyWord does so]].

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* TakeMeInstead: Aang asks that if Zuko takes him (Aang) prisoner, he'll leave the village alone. Zuko [[IHaveMyWord [[IGaveMyWord does so]].

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* DidntWantAnAdventure: Sokka.
-->"I'm just a guy with a boomerang. I didn't ask for all this flying and magic..."



* ImprovisedWeapon: When Aang and Zuko are fighting on the ship, Aang is able to use a wall scroll and Zuko’s futon against him.

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* ImprovisedWeapon: When Aang and Zuko are fighting on the ship, Aang is able to use a wall scroll and Zuko’s Zuko's futon against him.



* SilenceYouFool: One of the firebending {{Mooks}} says this to Aang when he starts talking about being able to beat them.



* ThisMeansWarpaint: Sokka preparing for the confrontation with the Fire Nation troops.

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* TakeMeInstead: Aang asks that if Zuko takes him (Aang) prisoner, he'll leave the village alone. Zuko [[IHaveMyWord does so]].
* ThisMeansWarpaint: Sokka preparing for the confrontation with the Fire Nation troops. It winds up washing off after Zuko kicks him headfirst into the snow.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Zuko fully admits that he underestimated what Aang was capable of after he tore through Zuko's crew to escape.
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** Sokka's hilariously ineffectual (but heartwarmingly brave) attempts to fight off the Fire Nation ship also count. Props to him for seriously going for it, but he's so outmatched that Zuko & Co. don't even bother killing him.

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** Sokka's hilariously ineffectual (but heartwarmingly brave) attempts to fight off the Fire Nation ship also count. Props to him for seriously going for it, but he's so outmatched that Zuko & Co. don't even bother killing him.



* HarmlessFreezing: Perhaps not precisely harmless, but [[spoiler:the way the Fire Nation soldiers on Zuko's ship are frozen would be almost guaranteedly lethal in real life, whereas here, they all survive the experience without permanent damage]].

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* HarmlessFreezing: Perhaps not precisely harmless, but [[spoiler:the the way the Fire Nation soldiers on Zuko's ship are frozen would be almost guaranteedly guaranteed to be lethal in real life, whereas here, they all survive the experience without permanent damage]].damage.



* {{Squee}}: Sokka, despite his prior scepticism and sarcasm, is impressed at Appa being able to fly.

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* {{Squee}}: Sokka, despite his prior scepticism skepticism and sarcasm, is impressed at Appa being able to fly.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Zuko honoring his agreement to spare the Water Tribe village after Aang agrees to go with him shows that there's more to him than meets the eye.

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* HistoryRepeats: A retroactive example. Katara and Aang looking at each other tearfully as the latter is taken prisoner by the Fire Nation mirrors ''exactly'' the last time that Kanna and Hama saw each other.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: When Aang and Zuko are fighting on the ship, Aang is able to use a wall scroll and Zuko’s futon against him.
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* HesNotMyBoyfriend: Katara says this almost word for word regarding Aang, until Sokka cuts her off.

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* HesNotMyBoyfriend: When Sokka agrees to rescue Aang, Sokka calls Aang Katara’s boyfriend. Katara says this almost word for word regarding Aang, starts arguing against it until Sokka cuts her off.

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* CurbStompBattle: Aang, in the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] demonstrates in less than a minute why the adorable goofy twelve-year-old is feared by the entire Fire Nation.

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Aang, in the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] demonstrates in less than a minute why the adorable goofy twelve-year-old is feared by the entire Fire Nation.
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* HistoryRepeats: A retroactive example. Katara and Aang looking at each other tearfully as the latter is taken prisoner by the Fire Nation mirrors ''exactly'' the last time that Kanna and Hama saw each other.

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