| “ | Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony, then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the avatar, master of all four elements could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he is ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world. | „ |
| ~ Katara |
For detailed information about the series, see the Avatar Wiki.
Summary
Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It centers around Aang, the incarnation of the spirit of the earth (known as the Avatar), and his quest to stop the tyrannical Fire Nation from taking out the other countries- the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, and Air Nomads. Aang's native nation, the Air Nomads, were already wiped out a century ago, hence the title.
In the Avatar universe some people are gifted with abilities to control an element depending on which ethnic group they're born in. The ability is inborn so if you're not gifted from birth you have just received the short end of the stick. Those who get the power are referred to as "benders" of their element. You can only control one element. Earthbenders control rocks and minerals, and in one special case metals. Firebenders control fire and in more advanced stages, lightning, while waterbenders control water in all its physical states and bodily fluids, and can have low level healing powers. Lastly, airbenders control air. Only the Avatar can learn to control all four elements.
The Avatar itself is reincarnated into a new nation every time he's killed i.e if he's killed as a Water Tribesman he is reborn as an Earth Kingdom citizen. The cycle goes Fire-> Air-> Water-> Earth ad infinitum. The only way to permanently kill the Avatar is to kill him/her as he reaches a super state dubbed the "Avatar" state, but it is extremely difficult as all the bending abilities are greatly amplified in that state.
The show afterwards started a sequel series that takes place 70 years after the conclusion of the original called, Avatar: The Legend of Korra.
Power of the Verse
The verse's characters have a decent amount of feats, though most feats aren't physical in nature instead achieved through the characters amplifying their strength, speed and power with their bending. In terms of destructive capacity the verse's low tier benders are Large Building level and well trained benders reach decently into City Block level. More skilled and powerful benders reach the upper bounds of City Block level and even edge into Multi-City Block level territory. Top and God tiers benders sit within the Multi-City Block level to Small Town level range, potentially reaching even Town level. Finally, the lowest showings of Avatar State users (AKA Avatars) are solidly within Town level and stronger showings reaching all the way up to Small Country level. They do also have hax in the form of bloodbending of their opponents, albeit it requires a full moon for a waterbender to perform.
The verse also features several special spirits including the spirits of the Moon and the ocean which can cause huge tidal waves, a killer panda spirit and a spirit that can steal someone's face if they display any emotion in his presence. When a celestial object known as Sozin's Comet passes every hundred years, firebenders gain a significant boost in power. It is believed that it grants firebenders enough power to destroy a continent from a fleet of 20 airships within the course of a day, although they were foiled before they could pull this off, making this claim somewhat dubious.
As far as Legend of Korra goes, after the introduction of Vaatu and Raava, who are likely Continent level via Environmental Destruction at full power, it has arguably surpassed The Last Airbender in terms of power. Kuvira also possessed a robot that could potentially destroy a city.
In addition, there are several chi blockers and Amon who can bloodbend and permanently block off people's bending skills. Metalbending has been further developed by Toph's daughter and her police force, using metal cables to restrain people and fly around the place akin to Spider-Man. There are also bloodbenders that can bend without the requirement of a full moon and very dangerous spirits. Earthbending also gained a new sub skill, called lavabending that allows them to change earth into molten lava, which they can then control. Due to the nature of lava it's very powerful and destructive. The Equalists also possess war mechs.
Calculations
- Kyoshi creates Kyoshi Island - 3.105 Teratons of TNT (Small Country level)
- Yangchen moves clouds - 2.11 Gigatons of TNT (Large Mountain level)
- Szeto's Lavabending induces four volcanic eruptions - 17.9 Megatons of TNT (City level)
- Aang creates a massive trench around a city - 51.428 Kilotons of TNT (Town level)
- Aang raises the sea to put out a fire - 36.778 Kilotons of TNT (Town level)
- Combustion Man Vaporizes a Column of Water - 2.174 Kilotons of TNT (Small Town level)
- Roku diverts some lava - 1.949 Kilotons of TNT (Small Town level)
- Aang cools some lava - 1.3 Kilotons of TNT (Small Town level)
- Toph stops a sinking library - 1.201 Kilotons of TNT (Small Town level)
- Ozai's failed fire blast - 493 Tons of TNT (Multi-City Block level)
- Comet-enhanced Iroh destroys a section of the outer wall of Ba Sing Se - 138.68 Tons of TNT (Multi-City Block level)
- Sandbenders raise some pillars - 87.382 Tons of TNT (City Block level+)
- Aang creates a sand mushroom cloud - 73.513 Tons of TNT (City Block level+)
- Water Tribe Warriors create a large ice structure - 48.67 Tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Water Tribe Warriors freeze a ship - 41.22 Tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Aang and Ozai's fire clash - 35.47 Tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Aang sends large rocks flying - 35.20 Tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Aang destroys a boulder - 28.38 of TNT (City Block level)
- Comet-enhanced Aang's Firebending - 22.2 Tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Comet-enhanced Ozai creates a fire blast - 21.8 tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Comet-enhanced Azula creates a fire blast - 13 Tons of TNT (City Block level)
- Combustion Man destroys rock formations - 9.443 Tons of TNT (Large Building level+)
- Comet-enhanced Firebenders create large first blasts - 5.7 tons of TNT (Large Building level)
- Bolin destroys a runway - 5.3 tons of tnt (Large Building level)
- Azula evaporates water - 3.35 Tons of TNT (Large Building level)
- Azula destroys a rock wall - 3.28 Tons of TNT (Large Building level)
- Zuko and Iroh break boulders - 5.9 megajoules (Wall level) and 0.0497 tons of tnt (Small Building level)
- Aang destroys a rock pillar - 2.1 megajoules (Wall level)
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Characters
Avatars
Firebenders
- Zhao
- Jeong Jeong
- Mongke
- Mung
- Sozin
- General Iroh II
Waterbenders
- Pakku
- Hama
- Tarrlok
- Tonraq
- Tahno
- Desna
- Eska
- Kya
Earthbenders
- Xin Fu
- Master Yu
- The Boulder
- Gow
- General Fong
- Long Feng
- Jargala
- Yun
Airbenders
- Gyatso
- Appa
- Opal
- Kai
- Jinora
Nonbenders
- Hakoda
- Piandao
- Mai
- Jet
- Smellerbee
- Longshot
- June
- Bumi
- Lieutenant
Spirits
- Tui
- La
- Koh the Face Stealer
- Mother of Faces
- Father Glowworm
Others
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