History Recap / AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEarthKing

* CurbStompBattle: Team Avatar completely decimates the Earth King's entire royal guard.

* NothingCanStopUsNow: Invoked by Sokka.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Provided by the Earth King: "You invade my palace, lay waste to all my guards, break down my fancy door- and you expect me to trust you?!"

-->'''Long Feng:''' "This is nothing more than ... a construction project."
-->'''Katara:''' "Really? Then perhaps you could explain why there's a Fire Nation insignia on your construction project."
-->'''Long Feng:''' "Well it's imported of course. You know you can't trust domestic machinery."

-->'''Aang:''' "Katara, I need to tell you something. I've been wanting to say it for a long time..."
-->'''Katara:''' "What is it, Aang?"
-->'''Aang:''' "Katara? I-"
-->'''Sokka:''' (''giving Aang a noogie'') "Alriiight! Who's ready for a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment men-only man trip!"]]

* WhamShot: The last scene shows that Azula and her friends impersonated the Kyoshi warriors.

* TemptingFate: "Everything will work out perfectly; from now on and forever!"

* BlatantLies: When Long Feng tries to explain the Fire Nation drill

* WhamLine: "We are the Earth King's humble servants."

* {{Expy}}: The Earth King heavily resembles Puyi, the last Emperor of China. Like Kuei, Puyi was made emperor at a very young age and was a puppet emperor during his early childhood and later under the Japanese occupation. Puyi was also trapped for years inside the Forbidden City, similar to how the Earth King never left the palace. The Earth King also wears spectacles, like Puyi did, and clothing based on the Chaofu, ceremonial clothing of the Manchu emperors of the Qing Dynasty.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Zuko's first dream has a red dragon and a blue dragon circling him. Then he hallucinates that he's the Avatar. Both of these come into play later when he is judged by the remaining pair of dragons, one red and with Iroh's voice and one blue and with Azula's voice, and it's revealed that his great grandfather is Avatar Roku, who rode a red dragon, and his other great-grandfather of note, Fire Lord Sozin, rode a blue one.

* TrueCompanions: "Split up? But we just got the family back together!"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Zuko's first dream has a red dragon and a blue dragon circling him. Then he hallucinates that he's the Avatar. Both of these come into play later when [[spoiler: he is judged by the remaining pair of dragons, one red and with Iroh's voice and one blue and with Azula's voice, and it's revealed that his great grandfather is Avatar Roku, who rode a red dragon, and his other great-grandfather of note, Fire Lord Sozin, rode a blue one.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Politically destabilizing Ba Sing Se may have been the right thing to do, but carries dire consequences that are not easily dealt with..

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Politically destabilizing Ba Sing Se may have felt right, but it was a very, very, bad idea.

With the return of Appa completing the team at last, Sokka, encouraged by their new turn of good luck, suggests that they hurry to see the Earth King. Toph and Katara disagree, wanting to cut their losses and get out of Ba Sing Se while luck still seems on their side, but when Aang agrees with Sokka, Katara changes her mind, leaving Toph outvoted. After a massive battle, in which the team fight their way past the palace guards and into the throne room, they finally have their audience with the Earth King, only to find that Long Feng has beat them there. With the chancellor throwing doubt on their story, Team Avatar must convince the King that, not only has Long Feng been at the head of a conspiracy to control Ba Sing Se, but that the world is at war.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Zuko's first dream has a red dragon and a blue dragon circling him. Then he hallucinates that he's the Avatar. Both of these come into play later when [[spoiler: he is judged by the remaining pair of dragons, one red and one blue, and it's revealed that his great grandfather is Avatar Roku.]]

-->'''Sokka:''' (''throwing an arm around Aang's shoulders'') "Alriiight! Who's ready for a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment men-only man trip!"]]

* MuggedForDisguise: The ending reveals this is why Azula, Mai and Ty Lee attacked the Kyoshi Warriors.

-->'''Sokka:''' (''throwing an arm around Aang's shoulders'') "Alriiight! Who's ready for a men-only man trip!"

* AdultChild: Earth King Kuei. YourMileageMayVary.

* {{Nakama}}: "Split up? But we just got the family back together!"

* TemptingFate: "Everything will work out perfectly; from now on and forever!"