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Thursday, 2 February 2012

Key Characters Of The Avatar Series

By Owen Mansell


It is almost impossible to come back across a child who is not a fan of Avatar The Last Airbender series. This animated TV collection has caught the creativeness of each child and they completely love the collection and the characters in it. The sequence is about a fictional world where human beings, animals and the supernatural spirits reside together. The human beings dwell in 3 pre-industrialized lands; Earth Kingdom, Water Tribes and Air Nomads. These individuals use their martial arts, native parts and elemental mysticism to fight. The artwork of fighting is known as Earthbending, Waterbenibg and Airbending respectively. And this is where the collection will get its identify from.

An article about Avatar The Last Airbender series is by no means complete without a mention of the key characters in it. The primary protagonist of this animated series is Aang. Aang is the most recent incarnation of Avatar and he is the sprit of the planet and has taken a human form. The series portrays Aang has a hero, albeit reluctant. Two other characters, Katara and Sokka rescue Aang from over hundred years of suspended animation and they teach Aang about the elements of earth, fire and water. When Fire Nation wages a war to gain supremacy over rest of the nations, Aang helps the oppressed.

One other crucial character within the Avatar The Final Airbender sequence is Katara. When Katara's tribe, the Southern Water Tribe was both killed or captured by Southern Raiders, it was solely Katara who managed to survive. Katara mastered the art of waterbending at the tender age of fourteen and after rescuing Aang she taught him the art. Although the series portrays Katara because the den mom of all different key characters, she can also be proven resisting gender discrimination and stereotypes. Katara, is able to heal wounds and she will be able to rework water to ice after which use it to cut solid objects.

Sokka is also one of the very important characters of Avatar The Last Airbender. He is Katara's elder brother and is fifteen years old. He along with Katara rescues Aang from suspended animation. Though Sokka does not have any special bending powers, he uses his martial skills, intellect and courage to overcome obstacles. Though Sokka lives in a magical and mystical world, he strongly believes in science. Sokka is portrayed as a jack-of-all-trades and he uses his knowledge of science to understand the advanced technologies that the Fire Nation uses. Sokka is extremely resourceful and adds the comic quotient to the action driven animated series.

Another very important character in the series is Toph. She is portrayed in the animated series as an Earthbending grandmaster and belongs to the reputed family of Bei Fong of Earth Kingdom. Toph is blind but she has an amazing ability to 'feel' the earth's vibration. Therefore she can vividly understand the presence of trees, the presence of buildings and also the ants' marching some meters away. Her heightened sense allows her to understand the position of a person, his physical build and his distance from her. Other Avatar The Last Airbender characters are Zuko, Appa, Momo and Ozai.




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