History Series / AvatarTheLastAirbender2024

** [[spoiler: Hahn in the original show was a sexist bully who only saw his betrothed Princess Yue as an accessory to make himself look better and relentlessly antagonized Sokka. In this show, he's a genuinely nice guy whom Yue broke up with due to her greater destiny. While he is clearly still upset about it, he doesn't hold the fact against her, nor does he bully Sokka for being interested in her. He gets a more noble and dignified death than in the animated series as well; standing in the face of certain death against firebenders to defend his chief (as opposed to tossed overboard by Zhao without a second thought afterwards after clumsily botching an assassination attempt).]]

** Original series creators, Michael Dante [=DiMartino=] and Bryan Konietzko were involved in the pre-production phase of the series, and and even wrote the first six episodes.

** Original series creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were involved in the pre-production phase of the series, and and even wrote the first six episodes.

** The other nations draw heavily on East Asian culture and imagery for setting, though some of the iconography is tweaked -- most notably, Omashu is a lot more South Asian-inspired than in the original show, and several of its inhabitants are played by Desi actors.

** [[spoiler: Hahn in the original show was a sexist bully who only saw his betrothed Princess Yue as an accessory to make himself look better and relentlessly antagonized Sokka. In this show, he's a genuinely nice guy whom Yue broke up with due to her greater destiny. While he is clearly still upset about it, he doesn't hold the fact against her, nor does he bully Sokka for being interested in her.]]

** Teo and the Mechanist are met at Omashu instead of the Northern Air Temple.

* ActorAllusion: Katara and Sokka's mother Kya is played by Rainbow Dickerson, who starred in ''Film/{{Beans}}'' as the mother of the titular character, played by Katara's actress Creator/{{Kiawentiio}}.

** While Suki is every bit the ActionGirl she was in the original cartoon, since Sokka is probably the first boy around her age that she's met, she acts like an awkward SmittenTeenageGirl around him, and also expresses a desire to see the world outside of Kyoshi Island, something that she never displayed in the original.

** Sokka's conflict with the Kyoshi Warriors and Suki stems not from sexism but rather from his insecurity in his own combat skills, since his sworn duty was to protect the Southern Water Tribe. In turn Suki grappling him was not her deliberately humiliating him to prove [[YouGoGirl that girls can be just as strong as boys]] as much that she was [[SmittenTeenageGirl smitten with Sokka]] and was trying to show off, only to be confused when Sokka [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter was humiliated by her grappling skills]].

** Aang can fly without his glider in this show, an ability that he never acquired in the original series and would explicitly require him to detach himself spiritually from earthly attachments in that canon.

*** Even the previous Avatar's call out Aang for his mistake, Kyoshi in particular is quite hostile to him and issues orders on what he needs to do next. This is at least in part due to Kyoshi's personality, as Roku is explicitly much more friendly.

** In the original series, Lu Ten died when Zuko was still a little boy, Ursa was still around, and Ozai was not yet Fire Lord. But here, he dies much later, as during his funeral Ozai is already Fire Lord, Ursa is nowhere to be seen, and Zuko is the same age as when he is banished, meaning it occurred shortly before then. This also means Iroh did not have time to journey to the Spirit World, and thus there are no references made to such a thing.

** Katara is still capable of waterbending here, but starts off unable to do more than create ripples in a small pool of water until Aang gives her some advice. Only then is she able to levitate a sphere of water like in the original animated series.

** Haru and Tyro doesn't appear in the show along with the events of "Imprisoned".

** Haru doesn't appear in the show along with the events of "Imprisoned".

** King Bumi in the original series was a goofy CoolOldGuy who only gave Aang the runaround during their first meeting to give him [[TricksterMentor a new perspective]] on how he could face the obstacles in his future. Bumi in this series has become jaded and cynical from the events of the Hundred-Year War, giving Aang a hard time in part because he had legitimate grievances with Aang disappearing at the start of the war.

* AscendedExtra: Of the avatars prior to Aang, in the original series Kuruk did show up once or twice in a non-speaking role, but his character was only really explored in the show's finale; in the live action series he gets a shrine and a scene where he talks with Aang, explaining why he can't do what Roku did in the original, or Kyoshi did in the remake.

** It is very easy to mistake Katara as the older sibling in the original series due to her fiery sense of morality and justice; along her acting as a mother figure towards Sokka; both in taking care of him and putting him in his place when needed. In this version, those traits are much more muted. Her more subdued personality paired with Sokka's arc of becoming a leader has them butt heads in which the viewer is made painfully aware of how she feels being treated like a little girl.

* AdaptationalRomanceDowngrade: The series heavily tones down the romantic interactions between Aang and Katara. There's no LoveAtFirstSight blushing when Aang wakes up (he doesn't even wake up in Katara's arms, but in a tent hours later). The season one episode that focused on their relationship the most "The Fortuneteller", is cut, and the plot of "The Cave of Two Lovers" is reworked to focus on Katara and Sokka's bond as siblings, rather than Katara and Aang's budding romance.

* AdaptationalRomanceDowngrade: Unlike the original series, Aang doesn't develop [[LoveAtFirstSight an immediate crush on Katara when he first sees her]].

** Sokka's conflict with the Kyoshi Warriors and Suki stems less from sexism but rather from his insecurity in his own combat skills, since his sworn duty was to protect the Southern Water Tribe. In turn Suki was not trying to prove [[YouGoGirl that girls can be just as strong as boys]] as much that she was [[SmittenTeenageGirl smitten with Sokka]] and was trying to show off, only to be confused when Sokka [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter was humiliated by her grappling skills]].