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Avatar Aang (Chinese: 安昂; pinyin: Ān Áng) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender (created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko), voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen.

Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple. He is an incarnation of the 'Avatar', the spirit of light and peace manifested in human form. As the Avatar, Aang controls all four elements (fire, water, earth and air) and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. At 12 years old, Aang is the series' reluctant hero, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the imperialistFire Nation.

Aang's character has appeared in other media, such as trading cards,^[1][2]video games,^[3][4]T-shirts,^[5] and web comics.^[6] Aang has also been portrayed by Noah Ringer in the feature film The Last Airbender,^[7] and voiced by D.B. Sweeney in the sequel animated series The Legend of Korra.

• 1Creation and conception
• 2Appearances
  • 2.1Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • 2.2The Legend of Korra
  • 2.3Appearances in other media

Creation and conception[edit]

Aang's character was developed from a drawing by Bryan Konietzko, depicting a bald man with an arrowlike design on his head, which the artist developed into a picture of a child with a flying bison.^[8] Meanwhile, Michael Dante DiMartino was interested in a documentary about explorers trapped in the South Pole, which he later combined with Konietzko's drawing.

There's an air guy along with these water people trapped in a snowy wasteland..and maybe some fire people are pressing down on them..

The plot they described corresponds with the first and second episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, where the 'water people' (Katara and Sokka) rescue the 'air guy' (Aang) while 'trapped in a snowy wasteland' (the Southern Water Tribe) with 'some fire people [that] are pressing down on them' (Fire Nation Troops and Zuko).^[8][9][10] The creators of the show intended Aang to be trapped in an iceberg for one hundred years, later to wake inside a futuristic world, wherein he would have a robot named Momo and a dozen bisons. The creators lost interest in this theme, and changed it to one hundred years of suspended animation. The robotic Momo became a flying lemur, and the herd of bison was reduced to one.^[8]

In the episode 'Tales of Ba Sing Se', Aang’s name was written as 安昂 (ān áng) in Chinese.

Airbending[edit]

Airbending, the martial art Aang primarily uses in the show, is based on an 'internal' Chinese martial art called Baguazhang. This fighting style focuses on circular movements, and does not have many finishing moves; traits meant to represent the unpredictability of air and the peaceful character of Airbenders.^[11]

Personality and characteristics[edit]

Michael Dante DiMartino, the show's co-creator, said:

'We wanted Aang to solve problems and defeat enemies with his wits as well as his powerful abilities'.

According to the show's creators, 'Buddhism and Taoism have been huge inspirations behind the idea for Avatar.'^[13] As shown in 'The King of Omashu'^[14] and 'The Headband',^[15] a notable aspect of Aang's character is his vegetarian diet, which is consistent with Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism.^[13] In the Brahmajala Sutra, a Buddhist code of ethics, vegetarianism is encouraged.^[16] Furthermore, the writers gave Aang a consistent reluctance to fight and an aversion to killing. In 'The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)', Aang encounters an angry spirit destroying a village and kidnapping villagers; but instead of fighting the spirit, Aang negotiates.^[17] He is also depicted showing ethical reluctance in killing Firelord Ozai,^[18] and eventually strips Ozai of his bending instead of murdering him.^[19]

Appearances[edit]

Avatar: The Last Airbender[edit]

Upon death, Avatar Roku was reincarnated and Aang was born, and later raised by Monk Gyatso, a senior monk at the Southern Air Temple and friend of the late Avatar Roku. Even prior to learning he was the Avatar, Aang distinguished himself by becoming one of the youngest Airbending Masters in history by inventing a new technique. As a result of Fire Lord Sozin's increasingly hostile attitude towards the other nations, the senior monks decided to reveal Aang's nature as the Avatar four years before the traditional age (Avatars are usually told of their status once they turn 16) and relocate him to one of the other Air Temples.^[20][21] Learning that he was to be taken from Gyatso caused Aang to flee the monastery on his flying bison, Appa, before being caught by a storm; the life-or-death conditions triggered the Avatar State, encasing the young Avatar and his bison in an air-pocket among icebergs, where he remained suspended for a century. Although Monk Gyatso had snuck in the bed late night to tell Aang that he won’t be relocated to the Eastern Air Temple, it had already been too late. ^[9][21]

Book One: Water[edit]

After one hundred years of suspended animation in an iceberg, twelve-year-old Aang was freed when found by Katara and Sokka, yet unaware of the events that occurred during his rest.^[9] His reawakening catches the attention of Zuko, the banished prince of the Fire Nation, and Aang is forced to leave, with Katara and Sokka accompanying him after they learn that he is the Avatar.^[10] Aang and his new friends visit the Southern Air Temple, where they meet a winged lemur whom Aang later names Momo. It is there that Aang learns that he was in the ice for a whole century, and that the Fire Nation wiped out his people, including Gyatso. After a series of misadventures, Aang meets his previous incarnation, Roku, who informs him that he must master all four bending arts and end the war before the coming of Sozin's Comet at the end of summer.^[22] Upon arriving to the Northern Water Tribe, after a few conflicts, Aang became an apprentice of Waterbending Master Pakku alongside Katara.^[23] After helping the Water Tribe drive off a Fire Nation invasion headed by Admiral Zhao, with Katara as his teacher, Aang and his group journey to the Earth Kingdom to find an Earthbending teacher.^[24]

Book Two: Earth[edit]

In the second season, Aang learns Earthbending from Toph Beifong^[25] after he has a vision of the blind Earthbending prodigy in a swamp telling him to find her.^[26] On their journey, they are chased by Fire Princess Azula and her friends Mai and Ty Lee.^[27] The group learns about the Day of Black Sun in a secret underground library, and they attempt to reveal the information to the Earth King at Ba Sing Se. However, their flying bison, Appa, is captured by Sandbenders. Aang grows upset and angry and confronts the Sandbenders, learning that Appa has been sold. After stopping a Fire Nation drill threatening the safety of Ba Sing Se, they look for Appa only to find themselves dealing with the Dai Li before exposing their leader's deception. The group reunites with Jet helping them find Appa at Dai Li headquarters. They expose the Hundred Year War to the Earth King, who promises to help them invade the Fire Nation. Soon after, Aang meets a guru who attempts to teach Aang to open his seven chakras in order to control the defensive 'Avatar State'; but when Aang perceives Katara in danger, he leaves before the seventh chakra is opened, and thus loses his progress until the seventh is opened.^[28] Though Aang manages to unlock the Seventh Chakra, he is mortally wounded by Azula, yet was saved by Katara before the injury became truly fatal.^[29]

Book Three: Fire[edit]

In the third and final season, Aang is unable to use the Avatar State. Although reluctant with the plan at first, Aang accepts to have everyone think he had died and his remaining allies attack the Fire Nation's capital, but are thwarted by Azula.^[30] However, Zuko has a change of heart, rebels against his father,^[31] and offers to teach Aang Firebending. Aang and Zuko also improve their Firebending powers with the help of their world's last two dragons.^[32] During the finale, finding himself on a strange island, Aang is reluctant to actually kill Fire Lord Ozai, despite his four previous past lives convincing him it is the only way. But upon learning that he was actually on the back of a Lion Turtle, one of four that made the first benders by manipulating humans' chi, Aang receives the Lion Turtles' Energybending ability. With this ability, as he regained his Avatar State, Aang removes Ozai's bending ability, rendering him harmless and ending the Hundred Year War. Later, in the Fire Nation capital, Aang is seen beside Zuko, the new Fire Lord. The series ends with Aang and his friends relaxing at Iroh's tea shop at Ba Sing Se, where Aang and Katara share a kiss.^[19]

Graphic Novel trilogies[edit]

After beginning the Harmony Restoration Movement, an event that was meant to remove Fire Nation remnants from the Earth Kingdom, Aang agrees to end Zuko's life should he go down a path similar to his father, after the latter requests it, being stopped by Katara from entering the Avatar State as he began a later encounter with Zuko^[33] and then tries to mediate protestors and the Yu Dao resistance,^[34] afterward assembling members of a fan club and forming the 'Air Acolytes', a group that he intends to teach the ways of the Air Nomads.^[35] Aang then participated in a search for Zuko's mother Ursa,^[36] successfully finding her and entering the Spirit World to assist in locating the Mother of Faces,^[37] convincing her to grant Rafa a new face.^[38] After a period of entertainment,^[39] Aang is contacted by his former life Yangchen,^[40] who tried contacting him about Old Iron's return.^[41] Aang also has a fight with the Rough Rhinos when they try to oust him from the Eastern Fire Refinery.^[42] Aang then aids in preventing Azula, disguised as the Kemurikage, from stealing any more children.^[43][44]He later returns to the South Pole and reunites with Katara and Sokka during the festival of the rebuilt and newly expanded Southern Water Tribe.

The Legend of Korra[edit]

Some six decades prior to the series, Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko founded the United Republic of Nations, and its capital Republic City. In the following years, Aang married Katara and they have three children: Bumi (named for Aang's old friend), Kya (after Katara's deceased mother), and Tenzin. In his adult years, Aang grew a neatly cropped chinstrap beard, which many statues of Aang's adult form depict him with, including the one in the restored Southern Air Temple. He also founded the Air Acolytes, a sect who eschewed their home cultures in favor of following the Air Nomads' way of life (the comics reveal that the first Air Acolytes were the reorganized Avatar Fan Club). A forty-year-old Aang assisted Toph in arresting Water Tribe crime lord Yakone. As Aang watched the trial where Yakone was convicted of using the rare and illegal technique Bloodbending, Yakone tried to escape Republic City, using his unique abilities to subdue everyone in the court room, thus leaving them unconscious. Able to resist Yakone's Bloodbending through the Avatar State, Aang used his Energybending abilities to put a halt to Yakone's plans.

Being frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years while in the Avatar State drained much of Aang's life energy. While he did not feel the effects for many years, after he entered middle age in his 50s, the strain of this exertion increasingly weighed upon his body. Ultimately, it resulted in Aang dying at the relatively young biological age of 66, in 153 AG. Aang was survived by his wife, Katara, and his three children, but he did not live to see his grandchildren, all of whom would be powerful Airbenders. Prior to his death, Aang tasked the Order of the White Lotus with finding and guiding the new Avatar after him. When Aang died, the Avatar spirit reincarnated into the Southern Water Tribe female Korra. Aang intended for the Order to simply guide and guard Korra, but several mishaps in the aftermath of Aang's death (including a kidnapping attempt by the anarchist Zaheer) and the still-fragile state of relations between the now-Five Nations resulted in Katara and Tenzin sequestering Korra in a compound at the South Pole, bringing teachers to her instead of allowing her to seek out her own.

Book One: Air[edit]

In the sequel series' first season, Avatar Aang's spirit occasionally serves as the spiritual advisor to seventeen-year-old Korra (much like the previous Avatar incarnation, Roku, did for Aang). Initially, Aang is only able to give Korra glimpses of his memory concerning Yakone in relation to her confrontations with his two sons, Amon and Tarrlok, the products of Yakone's Bloodbending vendetta on the Avatar. It is only after she loses her ability to bend that Korra allows herself to listen to her past lives, at which point Aang restores her powers by triggering the Avatar State and teaching her to Energybend.

Book Two: Spirits[edit]

The sequel series' second season reveals that Avatar Aang apparently treated Tenzin as his favorite child, due to his son's Airbender status; Kya and Bumi mentioned to Tenzin that Aang always took Tenzin on vacations with him, but never them. Aang's Air Acolytes also were unaware that Aang had two other children besides Tenzin. Aang himself later appears, along with Roku, Kyoshi and Kuruk, before Korra in a vision and encourages her to learn the origins of Wan (the first Avatar) and Raava. Aang, or possibly a vision of him, later appears in the Spirit World, encouraging Tenzin to move past the enormous legacy of being Aang's son and find his own path. Korra's connection to Aang and the other preceding Avatars is severed when Vaatu extracts and subsequently kills Raava, the divine Avatar Spirit entity within her. Even though Raava is reborn and fused again with Korra, she discovers, to her dismay, that her spiritual connection to Aang and all past Avatars is gone forever.

Appearances in other media[edit]

Games[edit]

Aang's character appeared in the Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game on a multitude of cards.^[1][2] He appeared in the Avatar: The Last Airbender video game as one of the four playable characters.^[45] Two sequels were made: Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth,^[3][46] followed by Avatar: The Last Airbender – Into the Inferno.

Aang also appeared in Escape from the Spirit World, an online video game that can be found on Nickelodeon's official website. The game includes certain plot changes that are not shown in the show. The show's directors, Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, claim the events are canon.^[4]

Films[edit]

Tokyopop has published a films comic (sometimes referred to as cine-manga), in which Aang, being the main character of the show, appears repeatedly.^[6]

In 2010, director M. Night Shyamalan cast 12-year-old Tae Kwon Do practitioner Noah Ringer as Aang in the film adaptation of the series, The Last Airbender.^[47] The casting of a presumed white actor in the role of Aang (as well as a primarily Caucasian cast) in the Asian-influenced Avatar universe triggered negative reactions from some fans, marked by accusations of racism, a letter-writing campaign, and a protest outside of a Philadelphia casting call for movie extras. A counter-movement was spawned in response by other fans who believed the casting was appropriate.^[48][49][50] The casting decisions were also negatively received by several critics, who stated that the original casting call expressed a preference for Caucasian actors over others.^[51] Noah Ringer later identified himself to Entertainment Weekly as an American Indian.^[52]

Critical reception[edit]

In the show's intended demographics, Aang has been received exceptionally. Kendall Lyons stated, 'Aang seems to be the lighthearted kid that you can easily familiarize yourself with', and that he 'seems to bring comfort in the most dangerous or hostile situations.'^[53] There are many similar descriptions about Aang as a childlike character who is 'reckless and excitable'.^[54] Reviews point out that 'as the Avatar, Aang seems unstoppable, but as Aang, he is just another Airbender'; the review states later that the show continues to focus on a more realistic character instead of a perfect one by revealing many character flaws.^[55] In 2016, ScreenRant ranked Aang #15 on its '30 Best Animated TV Characters Of All Time' list.^[56]

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External links[edit]

• Official TV Show Website at Nick.com
• Aang at Nick.com

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It first aired on February 21, 2005, on Nickelodeon with a one-hour series premiere^[1] and concluded its run with a two-hour TV movie on July 19, 2008.^[2] The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise refers to each season as a 'Book', in which each episode is referred to as a 'chapter'. Each 'Book' takes its name from one of the elements that Aang, the protagonist, must master: Water, Earth, and Fire.^[1] The show's first two seasons each consisted of 20 episodes, while the third season had 21. In addition to the three seasons, there were two recap episodes and three 'shorts'. The first recap summarized the first seventeen episodes while the second summarized season two. The first self-parody was released via an online flash game. The second and third were released with the Complete Second Season Box Set DVD.^[3] The entire series has been released on DVD in Region One, Region Two and Region Four.

In the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, there are people who are able to manipulate, or 'bend', the four elements: Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. Along with the four elements, there are four nations that correspond with each element. Not everyone can bend an element, and those that can can only bend one. However, the Avatar is a being able to manipulate all four elements as well as communicate with the spirits. The Avatar is also born into one nation, and after dying, is reincarnated into another nation following the pattern of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. The series takes place 100 years after the Fire Nation declares war against all other nations and has killed off all airbenders in search of finding the Avatar, who has been reincarnated as an airbender named Aang. The Avatar, trapped in ice for 100 years, knows nothing of the war. The series starts with Aang being accidentally freed by Katara, a waterbender. The series then primarily follows the adventures of Aang and his companions, Sokka, Katara, and later Toph and Zuko, as he tries to master all four elements and defeat the Fire Nation. There is also a strong secondary focus on Zuko, the banished and disinherited crown prince of the Fire Nation. Zuko was scarred in a duel with his own father, the current Fire Lord, and is obsessed with trying to capture Aang to regain his father's favor and in doing so restoring his honor.

• 2Episodes
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Series overview[edit]

Episodes[edit]

Book One: Water (2005)[edit]

A pilot episode for the series was made in 2003. It was animated by Tin House, Inc., written by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and directed by Dave Filoni. Mitchel Musso voiced Aang in this pilot but was later replaced by Zach Tyler Eisen when the show began production. In the episode, Sokka and his sister Kya (Katara was named Kya at the time of the pilot) must travel the world to find masters for Aang, who is the Avatar; however, they must evade a critical foe, Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, who wants to capture Aang.

This episode was first publicly released as one of the extras in the NTSC season 1 DVDbox set, which were not available with the previously-released individual volumes. As the PAL box set lacks extras, the episode was not made available on DVD in PAL regions. The episode was released with audio commentary from the creators, which unlike commentary on other episodes in the season is not possible to disable on the DVD set.^[4] On June 14, 2010, the unaired pilot was made available with and without commentary for the first time via the iTunes Store.^[5]

Book Two: Earth (2006)[edit]

Book Three: Fire (2007–08)[edit]

Video releases[edit]

Region 1[edit]

The first Avatar: The Last Airbender DVD set became available on January 31, 2006. The first season had five DVD sets, each containing four episodes. For season two and three, four DVD sets were released, with five episodes on each. The only exception to the release pattern was the last DVD set of season three, which contained a sixth episode. At the end of each season, a box set was released, containing all of the episodes from the season. Each box set contains an additional disc of bonus features not available as an individual disc release like every episode of the series. Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Complete Series DVD box set featuring all 3 books was released in North America on October 6, 2015.^[8] A Blu-ray version of The Complete Series box set was released in the North America on June 5, 2018.^[9]

Region 2[edit]

In the United States, all Season One DVDs were encoded using NTSC. Since this is not compatible in most countries outside North America, Nickelodeon released separate DVDs in regions where the video would be encoded using PAL instead. These releases began on February 19, 2007;^[18] each DVD was released months after the original release. As with the original DVDs, each set contained five episodes on one disc,^{[18][19][20][21][22]} with the exception of The Complete Book One Collection Box Set, which contained all of the twenty episodes in the season on five discs.^[23] In the Netherlands, all episodes came out in a box.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Complete Series DVD box set featuring all 3 books was released in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2012.^[24] A Blu-ray version of The Complete Series box set was released in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2018.^[25]

Region 4[edit]

The following release dates are the Australian release dates, and may or may not represent the release dates for all of region 4.

Footnotes[edit]

1, 2, 3.^ Production code format taken from the commentary for 'Sozin's Comet: The Phoenix King'

References[edit]

• 'Avatar: The Last Airbender Episodes Online'. Nickelodeon. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
• 'Avatar: The Last Airbender — Official DVD site'. Nickelodeon. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
• 'Avatar: The Last Airbender — Official DVD site'. Nickelodeon. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
• 'Season 1'. Avatar: The Last Airbender. IGN. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
• 'Season 2'. Avatar: The Last Airbender. IGN. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
• 'Season 3'. Avatar: The Last Airbender. IGN. Retrieved July 21, 2008.

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