Avatar: The Last Airbender personality types

I have rewatched Avatar: The Last Airbender more times than I will admit in public, and the cabbage merchant still gets me every time. Nickelodeon aired it for three seasons, from 2005 to 2008. On paper it is a kids’ cartoon about bending the elements. In practice it is a war story with jokes.

Here is the setup. Aang, a twelve-year-old airbender, wakes up after a hundred years frozen in an iceberg and learns the Fire Nation has been winning a century-long war. He travels with Katara and Sokka from the Water Tribe, then Toph, a blind earthbender who ran away from home, and finally Zuko, the exiled prince who spent a whole season chasing him.

That last part is the reason this page exists. Zuko’s turn is slow, messy and earned, and it shows how a person can change without becoming someone else. Every profile here tries to answer that same question about its character. They cover all three seasons and the finale, so there are spoilers on every card. Start with the quiz if you want a clean slate.