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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** Mai is the girly girl to Azula's tomboy. While she puts on a stoic and brooding, snarky front, Mai actually has quite a lot of feminine qualities underneath. She can be quite romantic at times around Zuko and appears to have a fondness for fruit tarts with petals on them. She also hates getting dirty as shown when she refused to enter a slurry pipeline to chase her enemies. Meanwhile, despite having her servants pamper her up sometimes, Azula is otherwise anything but feminine. She is a cruel and ruthless militaristic young girl and warrior of the Fire Nation who as a child rejected dolls and favoured knives. She is incredibly violent, competitive, and powerful. Even when she tries to be [[FemininityFailure more romantic and girly]] and get herself a boyfriend, she messes it up by rambling on crazily about world domination.

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TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mai is the girly girl to Azula's tomboy. While she puts on a stoic and brooding, snarky front, Mai actually has quite a lot of feminine qualities underneath. She can be quite romantic at times around Zuko and appears to have a fondness for fruit tarts with petals on them. She also hates getting dirty as shown when she refused to enter a slurry pipeline to chase her enemies. Meanwhile, despite having her servants pamper her up sometimes, Azula is otherwise anything but feminine. She is a cruel and ruthless militaristic young girl and warrior of the Fire Nation who as a child rejected dolls and favoured knives. She is incredibly violent, competitive, and powerful. Even when she tries to be [[FemininityFailure more romantic and girly]] and get herself a boyfriend, she messes it up by rambling on crazily about world domination.


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* WeaponBasedCharacterisation: The creators have also admitted that they got the idea for giving the Gothy Mai a {{Bottomless Magazine|s}} of stilettos by picturing her sulking in her room, throwing things at the walls in boredom. Also fits her nature as a no-nonsense individual who goes for the most efficient method of doing a job.


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* ElementalMotifs: Fire, befitting his nature as a [[PlayingWithFire firebender]] and being a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] warmonger willing to ''kill the moon'' in his obsession with claiming victory over the Northern Water Tribe.

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* BadassOnPaper: He's one of the Fire Nation's most valuable commanders and quickly rises through the ranks. He also never wins an on-screen fight, and most of his military escapades end in complete failure. Most of his successes are due to his subordinates or leeching off of Zuko's hard work. On the other hand, he does actually successfully capture Aang with the use of the Yu-Yan archers and manages to pull off his utterly insane plan, which succeeds in crippling the Northern Water Tribe and takes a DeusExMachina to undo his scheme.

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* BadassOnPaper: He's one of the Fire Nation's most valuable commanders and quickly rises through the ranks. He also never wins an on-screen fight, fight except when he personally foils an assassination attempt, which might have been effortless on his part but it was against a pathetic opponent, and most of his military escapades end in complete failure. Most of his successes are due to his subordinates or leeching off of Zuko's hard work. On the other hand, he does actually successfully capture Aang with the use of the Yu-Yan archers and manages to pull off his utterly insane plan, which succeeds in crippling the Northern Water Tribe and takes a DeusExMachina to undo his scheme.



* BlindedByRage: He can be smart when calm, but he has a HairTriggerTemper skilled opponents like Aang can and do exploit against him. Once he burns his own ships this way.



* KnightOfCerebus: Not to the same degree as Azula, but he proves to be far more dangerous than Zuko. Zuko is a better fighter than him, but Zhao's position and resources, not to mention him being more competent, make him a bigger threat. In most of his appearances, he actually gets pretty close to capturing Aang or at least makes them work for victory.

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* KnightOfCerebus: Not to the same degree as Azula, but he proves to be far more dangerous than Zuko. Zuko is a better fighter than him, but Zhao's position and resources, not to mention him being more competent, competent as a strategist when not angry and also stronger bending-wise, make him a bigger threat. In most of his appearances, he actually gets pretty close to capturing Aang or at least makes them work for victory. He is also a threat even to spirits.



* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Zhao's age wasn't revealed, but he's still an adult man who starts an intense, personal rivalry with a 16-year-old boy. Not to mention he's trying to imprison a 12-year-old boy. Granted, he does pick a fight with Jeong-Jeong, a full-grown Firebending Master (''his'' former Firebending Master), but he runs from Iroh. Given that this is [[OldMaster Iroh]] and he's ''mad'', this is wise.

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* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Zhao's age wasn't revealed, but he's still an adult man who starts an intense, personal rivalry with a 16-year-old boy. Not to mention he's trying to imprison a 12-year-old boy. Granted, he does pick a fight with Jeong-Jeong, a full-grown Firebending Master (''his'' former Firebending Master), but he runs from Iroh. Given that this is [[OldMaster Iroh]] and he's ''mad'', this is wise.[[KnowWhenToFoldEm wise]].



* SmallRoleBigImpact: Bujing is a very minor character in terms of his role on the show, but Zuko's entire character arc, one of the most famous in television history, never would've happened if he didn't suggest using inexperienced rookie soldiers as cannon fodder. On less of a meta-level, thanks to Zuko's gradual realization as to the atrocities of the Fire Nation due to his exile, Bujing's interaction with Zuko could arguably be said to be the true beginning of the end of Ozai's regime and the war that Sozin began.

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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had he not suggested using soldiers as cannon fodder, Zuko would have never been exiled, which would mean he would not hinder Zhao in Season 1 or learn about the Earth Kingdom in Season 2, thus redeem himself in Season 3.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Bujing is a very minor character in terms of his role on the show, but Zuko's entire character arc, one of the most famous in television history, never would've happened if he Bujing didn't suggest using inexperienced rookie soldiers as cannon fodder. On less of a meta-level, thanks to Zuko's gradual realization as to the atrocities of the Fire Nation due to his exile, Bujing's interaction with Zuko could arguably be said to be the true beginning of the end of Ozai's regime and the war that Sozin began.



* KarmaHoudini: Somehow avoids Azula and Ozai's wrath both for the escape of several important prisoners, and for ordering his guards to cut the line while Azula was on the gondola. According to Mai in the finale, he even got to keep his job with little to no punishment.

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* KarmaHoudini: Somehow avoids Azula and Ozai's wrath both for the escape of several important prisoners, and for ordering his guards to cut the line while Azula was on the gondola. According to Mai in the finale, he even got to keep his job with little to no punishment. Though Azula ''was'' on board with him cutting the line if it meant her escape, and he was willing to sacrifice himself to ensure victory, so Azula might have not blamed him.
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* {{Foil}}: To Ty Lee. Both have known Azula since childhood, and act as the two sidekicks in her mission to hunt down Team Avatar. While Ty Lee is a cheerful and outgoing person who joined Azula because she was terrified of the consequences of not doing so, Mai is impassive and sarcastic, and saw joining Azula as an opportunity to get away from the boring and surpressing life she had been living beforehand. Mai is also the group's OnlySaneWoman to compliment Ty Lee being the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}; she will often roll her eyes and express disdain for whatever antics the others will get up to (even flat-out saying "I'm sorry I can't be as high-strung and crazy as the rest of you" in "The Beach"), while Ty Lee will have her enthusiasm and energy cranked up to eleven and be willing to share whatever strange thought pops into her head.



* OnlySaneWoman: Well, sane in comparison to Azula and Ty Lee, at least. While Mai isn't exactly the most moral person around, she's easily the most mature, normal and mentally stable person on Azula's team. She's much more levelheaded than Ty Lee and isn't the ruthless, homicidal sociopath that Azula is. Whenever she has the opportunity, she is more than content to just sit back and snark at her companions whenever they're being too weird for her to handle. She lampshades her status as the only sane one in "The Beach", where she apologizes for not being able to be "as high-sprung and crazy as the rest of you".

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* OnlySaneWoman: Well, sane in comparison to Azula and Ty Lee, at least. While Mai isn't exactly the most moral person around, she's easily the most mature, normal and mentally stable person on Azula's team. She's much more levelheaded than Ty Lee and isn't the ruthless, homicidal sociopath that Azula is. Whenever she has the opportunity, she is more than content to just sit back and snark at her companions whenever they're being too weird for her to handle. She lampshades her status as the only sane one in "The Beach", where she apologizes for not being able to be "as high-sprung high-strung and crazy as the rest of you".
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** And of course, she is a foil to Mai. Both were friends with Azula as children, and were recruited by her to help her hunt down Team Avatar during their adolescent years. While Mai has an [[AloofDarkHairedGirl aloof]], [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] personality, is the OnlySaneWoman of the group, and joined Azula because she was beyond bored out of her mind with the life she had, Ty Lee is a [[GenkiGirl bubbly]] and [[PerkyFemaleMinion sociable]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who joined Azula out of fear of what would happen if she didn't.
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* NightmareFuel:
** In-universe. Her ability to strip benders of their powers, even temporarily, makes her more terrifying to Katara than the AxCrazy Fire Nation princess who chucks lightning bolts at you. The worst part is she'll smile about it.
** Another in-universe example is in the comics where Ty Lee, after a year free from Azula's grasp, still can't shake her fear of Azula waiting to strike her down.
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* MaybeEverAfter: She and Zuko get back together at the end of the show, only to break up about a year later in the comics. However Creator/GeneLuenYang, who used to write said comics, implied that they are eventually going to get back together (it remains to be seen if this will come true now that he's not writing them). Zuko never once mentions a wife in ''Korra ''. His grandson, Iroh II, only mentions Zuko and his mother, Izumi. Izumi is only in the show for two scenes and only speaks in one of them so it's not like she ever got around to talking about her mom. There are some notable hints, however, that Mai is her mom. The two of them share the same very distinctive jawline, which Mai's mother had as well. "Izumi" translates to "fountain" in Japanese which has meaning to their flashback as kids. Mike and Bryan have also straight-up ignored the question about who her mom is so the jury is still out, but it should be noted that both Mike and Bryan are big fans of the Zuko and Mai relationship.

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* MaybeEverAfter: She and Zuko get back together at the end of the show, only to break up about a year later in the comics. However Creator/GeneLuenYang, who used to write said comics, implied that they are eventually going to get back together (it remains to be seen if this will come true now that he's not writing them). Zuko never once mentions a wife in ''Korra ''.''Korra''. His grandson, Iroh II, only mentions Zuko and his mother, Izumi. Izumi is only in the show for two scenes and only speaks in one of them so it's not like she ever got around to talking about her mom. There are some notable hints, however, that Mai is her mom. The two of them share the same very distinctive jawline, which Mai's mother had as well. "Izumi" translates to "fountain" in Japanese which has meaning to their flashback as kids. Mike and Bryan have also straight-up ignored the question about who her mom is so the jury is still out, but it should be noted that both Mike and Bryan are big fans of the Zuko and Mai relationship.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hitting the tattoo on his forehead causes his powers to go haywire and quite literally blow up in his face. [[spoiler:When Toph did it by accident, it only caused him to misfire, but when Sokka hit him with his boomerang, it outright caused him to blow himself up.]]

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hitting the tattoo on his forehead causes his powers to go haywire and quite literally blow up in his face. [[spoiler:When Toph did it by accident, it only caused him to misfire, but when Sokka hit him with his boomerang, it was implied to be a much harder impact that it outright caused him to blow himself up.]]
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* WomanScorned: Acted like one when Zuko [[spoiler:dumps her via a written note before doing his HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* WomanScorned: Acted like one when Zuko [[spoiler:dumps her via a written note before doing his HeelFaceTurn. Though, in fairness, while being genuinely heartbroken about Zuko breaking up with her, it's doing so via letter (essentially the equivalent of breaking up by text message) Mai takes greater issue with. And ultimately she still chooses Zuko over Azula.]]
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* ArtificialLimbs: According to the writers, Combustion Man blew off his right hand and leg by accident while experimenting with his powers. He has since replaced them with metal prosthetics.

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* ArtificialLimbs: According to the writers, Combustion Man blew off his right hand and leg by accident while experimenting with his powers. He has powers that's why he's since replaced them with metal prosthetics.prosthetics. Unusually, they are rather functional, as Combustion Man can casually shatter ice and claw through stone with his metal arm, and he also once used them as a shield to block Katara's attacks.
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[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph Beifong]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | '''Fire Nation''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

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[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph Beifong]]) Zuko]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] | '''Fire Nation''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]
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** {{Pride}}. [[spoiler:He refuses Zuko's aid out of pride when the Ocean Spirit is dragging him away for killing the Moon Spirit,]] which he in turn also did out of pride.
** [[HairTriggerTemper His temper.]] In the episode ''The Deserter'' Aang deliberately taunts him in order to get him riled up enough to not notice where he is firing his blasts. This ends with his entire detachment being destroyed. [[spoiler:In the Book 1 finale, he impulsively kills the Moon Spirit after setting it back into the oasis seemingly just because he was that infuriated that Iroh tried to stop him.]]

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** {{Pride}}. [[spoiler:He refuses Zuko's aid out of pride when the Ocean Spirit is dragging him away for killing the Moon Spirit,]] Spirit]], which he in turn also did out of purely to satiate his own pride.
** [[HairTriggerTemper His temper.]] temper]]. In the episode ''The Deserter'' Aang deliberately taunts him in order to get him riled up enough to not notice where he is firing his blasts. This ends with his entire detachment being destroyed. [[spoiler:In the Book 1 finale, he impulsively kills the Moon Spirit after setting it back into the oasis seemingly just because he was that infuriated that Iroh tried to stop him.]]

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* VillainousValor: When he says he'd rather jump into the boiling lake than allow prisoners to escape, he ''means'' it. For all the warden's faults as a person, he's clearly no coward.



* VillainousValor: When he says he'd rather jump into the boiling lake than allow prisoners to escape, he ''means'' it. For all the warden's faults as a person, he's clearly no coward.
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* ThemeNaming: Mongke and Ogodei are named after khagans of the Mongol Empire.
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** When she springs her trap for Azula at the start of ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAzulaInTheSpiritTemple'', Ty Lee is determined and ''dead-serious'' about capturing her. By comparison, the version of Ty Lee Azula meets in her visions behaves a lot more traditionally bubbly.
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!!Royal Procession
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* TerminatorImpersonator: Unintentionally or not he counts. Lets see, a FieryStoic who rarely speaks, unceasing in his pursuit and a {{Juggernaut}} that blasts through any obstacles. More then a match for a team of accomplished benders including The Avatar who is essentially a living god. Equipped with prosthetics and finally dies in a fiery explosion, ending his arc.

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* TerminatorImpersonator: Unintentionally or not he counts. Lets see, a FieryStoic who rarely speaks, unceasing in his pursuit and a {{Juggernaut}} [[TheJuggernaut Juggernaut]] that blasts through any obstacles. More then a match for a team of accomplished benders including The Avatar who is essentially a living god. Equipped with prosthetics and finally dies in a fiery explosion, ending his arc.
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* CheeryPink: Is associated with hit pink, and despite being an antagonist, is a cheerful, bubbly, and playful girl.

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* CheeryPink: Is associated with hit hot pink, and despite being an antagonist, is a cheerful, bubbly, and playful girl.
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** While he certainly took pleasure seeing Zuko get disgraced by his own father back in the day, he tells Zuko as early as the third episode that if his father wanted him back, he would have welcomed him back long ago rather than sending him on a SnipeHunt. His father doesn't care about him, and Zhao points out Zuko has the [[AbusiveParents literal scar]] to prove it. Azula even emphasizes his point later on by saying that Ozai would never want Zuko back unless it was to lock him up for doing something completely shameful.

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** While he certainly took pleasure seeing Zuko get disgraced by his own father back in the day, he tells Zuko as early as the third episode that if his father wanted him back, he would have welcomed him back long ago rather than sending him on a SnipeHunt. His father doesn't care about him, and Zhao points out Zuko has the [[AbusiveParents literal scar]] to prove it. The thing is, Zhao ''was'' there when it happened and he ''knew'' why Ozai banished him. Azula even emphasizes his point later on by saying that Ozai would never want Zuko back unless it was to lock him up for doing something completely shameful.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: The most bubbly and silly of her friends, yet her martial skills are such that she alone can take down an entire infantry of earthbenders.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: The most bubbly and silly of her friends, yet her martial skills are such that she alone can take down an entire infantry of earthbenders. Not only that, she can disable a user's bending ability for a while and it has caused the gang to reevaluate their tactics around her so she won't back them into a corner.
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[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph Beifong]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderGeneralIroh General Iroh]]) | '''Fire Nation''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

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[[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTeamAvatar Team Avatar]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Avatar Aang]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph Beifong]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderMentors Mentors]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderGeneralIroh General Iroh]]) | '''Fire Nation''' | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNationRoyalFamily Fire Nation Royal Family]] ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]], [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula ([[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]]) | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderOtherCharacters Other]] | [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderComicCharacters Comics]]]]]]-]

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