Avatar: The Last Airbender

## Summary

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some regions) is an American animated television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, with Aaron Ehasz as head writer. It aired on Nickelodeon for three seasons, from February 2005 to July 2008.

Avatar is set in an Asiatic-like world in which some people can manipulate one of the four elements, water, earth, fire, or air, with telekinetic variants of the Chinese martial arts known as "bending". The only individual who can bend all four elements, the "Avatar", is responsible for maintaining harmony between the world's four nations, and serves as the bridge between the spirit world and the physical world. The series is centered around the journey of 12-year-old Aang, the current Avatar and last survivor of his nation, the Air Nomads, along with his friends Sokka, Katara, and later Toph, as they strive to end the Fire Nation's war against the other nations of the world.

Avatar: The Last Airbender was the highest-rated animated television series in its demographic at its premiere, an average of 3.1 million viewers watched each new episode. Avatar: The Last Airbender received widespread critical acclaim. As of July 2020, the show has a critics score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews. Max Nicholson of IGN called it a "must-watch" and described it as "one of the greatest animated series of all time". A number of critics have referred to Avatar: The Last Airbender as one of the best animated television series of all time. In 2013, TV Guide included Avatar among the 60 greatest cartoon of all-time list. In 2018, Vanity Fair ranked the series as the 11th-best animated TV show. Avatar was ranked the 36th-best animated series on IndieWire's 2018 list of the "50 Best Animated Series Of All Time".

## Powers of the Verse

Most benders are capable of easily sending people flying and destroy walls and large boulders. The strongest benders are capable of creating gigantic blasts of fire and freeze massive amounts of water. The strongest characters in the verse include the Avatar in Avatar State, which is capable of vaporizing large parts of a mountain, break part of a continent to creat an island, and make vulcanos erupt. Spirits such as Vaatu and Raava are powerful enough to cover the world with darkness and destroy all life on Earth.

This verse features several examples of martial arts and weapon mastery. Benders are capable fo controlling one of the four elements, those being water, earth, fire, and earth, with more skilled benders also being able to control ice, metal, lightning, explosions, lava, or blood. The Avatar is capable of bending energy to grant or take away bending, as well as projecting themselves into the spiritual world.

## Characters

### Team Avatar

* Aang.
* Katara.
* Sokka.
* Suki.
* Toph Beifong.
* Zuko.

### Team Avatar (Korra).

* Korra.
* Asami.
* Bolin.
* Mako.

### Other Avatars

* Roku.
* Kyoshi.

### Waterbenders

* Amon.
* Unalaq.
* Ming-Hua.
* Hama.

### Earthbenders

* King Bumi.
* Lin Beifong.
* Ghazan.
* Suyin Beifong.
* Kuvira.

### Firebenders

* Azula.
* Iroh.
* Ozai.
* Combustion Man.

### Airbenders

* Tenzin.
* Zaheer.

### Nonbenders

* Ty Lee.
* Tokuga.

### Spirits

* Raava.
* Vaatu.