Avatar Aang learned to bend the four elements,
defeated the Phoenix King and ended the hundred year war
all before the age of 13.
Now let's dive into his next chapter.
This is the complete timeline of Aang
after Avatar the Last Airbender.
Now that Zuko was crowned as the Fire Lord,
there was a new chance for peace among the Four Nations.
Aang and Katara also finally figured out
what they meant to each other.
And so did Sokka, to his mild frustration.
Team Avatar was able to celebrate
for the first time in a long while that night.
As they watched the fireworks, the mood became somber
when Zuko asked Aang to make him a promise.
If he should ever start to rule like his father Ozai,
Zuko told Aang to end him.
The young Avatar was hesitant but agreed,
hoping they would never be put in that situation.
One year later, however,
after several assassination attempts from Ozai loyalists,
Zuko began to act erratically.
He secluded himself and withdrew his support
to remove Fire Nation colonies from the Earth Kingdom.
Worried, Team Avatar immediately traveled to the city of Yu Dao
to try to talk things out before it came to violence.
Unfortunately, that failed.
The Fire Nation citizens living there were furious,
and fought back to keep their homes.
Aang and Zuko even took shots at each other,
each refusing to back down until Katara stepped in.
The two of them calmed down and decided to meet later
to work out what would hopefully be a peaceful agreement.
Later in Ba Sing Se,
Aang and Katara met with the Earth King,
who uncharacteristically planned to send an entire army
to take back his land.
Failing to convince him otherwise,
Aang and Katara rushed back to Yu Dao.
By the time they arrived,
the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom forces
were already face to face on the battlefield.
Jumping into action, Team Avatar did everything
in their power to slow down the fight.
Aang meanwhile, sought counsel
in the Spirit World with Avatar Roku.
Unable to forget his betrayal at the hands of Fire Lord Sozin,
Roku simply advised his reincarnated self
that a promise is a promise.
Aang, however, refused to accept that.
Ignoring Roku's advice, he realized
that the Four Nations shouldn't be divided
by borders any longer,
and that Zuko had been right all along.
Aang rushed back to talk to Zuko and ended up saving
his friend's life in the Avatar State
after he nearly fell to his death.
When the dust settled, the Earth King was convinced
to allow the Fire Nation colonists to stay.
After Zuko recovered from the battle
he and Aang also quickly patched things up.
While it tested their friendship,
breaking a promise turned out to be
the best thing for both of them.
Zuko vowed to find his lost mother,
and Aang was inspired to form a new group of acolytes
to revive the Air Nomad culture.
Soon after, Aang, Katara and Sokka
joined Zuko to search for his mother, Ursa.
But the clue to her location came at a cost.
Princess Azula would be tagging along this adventure.
The gang reluctantly agreed, and, as expected,
they were barely able to keep up with her bizarre antics.
As they flew to a remote village, Azula jumped
from a deadly height off an airborne Appa.
Aang immediately flew down to save her,
but she shot a blue fire bolt through his glider.
Chaotic as usual, Azula then used her lightning
to save Team Avatar from a giant wolf spirit,
and cautiously, they all traveled the rest of the way.
That night, Team Avatar stayed with two friendly actors
named Noren and Noriko, who told them they might
find answers about Ursa in the nearby Forgetful Valley.
Aang and his friends quickly traveled there
and found the place rife with spiritual energy.
As they walked deeper into the forest,
they met two Water Tribe siblings.
Misu and her masked brother Rafa.
These two were looking for a powerful spirit
known as the Mother of Faces.
Aang offered his help
and meditated into the Spirit World
to convince the ancient Mother of Faces
to grant Rafa and Misu one wish.
Before Aang could get the words out, though,
Azula rushed forward and took the spirit's wish,
demanding to know where Ursa was.
The Mother of Faces revealed
she had helped Ursa start a new life
by giving her a new face and wiping away
all of her old memories.
Ursa was now in fact the woman they met earlier,
Noriko.
Azula took off after her mother
and Zuko and Sokka chased after.
Meanwhile, Aang and Katara
tried to talk the Mother of Faces
into a second wish for Rafa and Misu,
but she became enraged.
The ancient spirit commanded her followers to attack
and while fighting them off,
Aang accidentally blew off Rafa's mask.
What they saw was shocking.
Rafa had no face and Aang immediately knew
this was the work of the spirit Koh,
the Face Stealer.
Learning that Koh was actually the estranged son
of the Mother of Faces,
Aang informed her that he had once spared his life.
Regretful of her son's actions,
the Mother of Faces relented, and gave Rafa back his face.
Back in the village, Zuko prevented
Azula's ambush on Noriko, but not before his sister
revealed to her that she was her daughter.
In the chaos, Azula escaped,
but with the knowledge of her true self,
Ursa ran to the Mother of Faces and convinced her to grant back
her memories and old appearance.
For the first time in almost a decade,
Zuko got to see his mother.
Aang and the rest of Team Avatar
then got to watch a long overdue and happy family reunion.
A few months later, Aang was inspired to revive
Avatar Yangchen's Festival
in a territory that was once Air Nomad land.
When Team Avatar arrived with the air acolytes, however,
they found it polluted by a massive refinery
built over the sacred grounds.
Aang was horrified,
but a brilliant young engineer named Satoru showed up
and made fast friends with Toph.
Satoru offered to show Team Avatar around,
but it got tense quickly.
Aang was not excited when Toph agreed to partner
her metalbending academy with the refinery.
Despite his concern,
Aang and the air acolytes continued to celebrate
Yangchen's Festival and soon Aang was able
to connect with his past life.
But the conversation was cut short by an earthquake.
Aang rushed back to the refinery
and found Katara, Toph, and several other people
trapped in a mine deep underground.
Toph's metalbending students
fortunately arrived just in time
and together with Aang were able to save everyone.
Afterwards, Aang reconnected with Yangchen
and learned the origin of her festival
was to calm an angry spirit named General Old Iron.
At that exact moment, the construction of the refinery
finally awoke the giant spirit who refused to talk
and immediately attacked.
Aang, Toph and her metalbending students
then banded together to defeat General Old Iron
and forced him to retreat.
Even if the festival didn't quite work out,
there was a reason to celebrate once again.
With the support of the air acolytes,
Aang reformed Yangchen's holiday
into the Spirits' Friendship Festival
to preserve Air Nomad traditions while still allowing
the sacred lands to modernize.
Later, while Katara and Sokka traveled to the South Pole,
Aang took a trip to the Fire Nation
to help Zuko handle a new threat:
Dark spirits known as the Kemurikage.
Seeming to be angered, these ancient spirits
were stealing children from homes
all around the capital.
Looking for answers, Aang, Zuko, Mai and her new boyfriend Kei Lo
visited the Dragonbone Catacombs
which held secrets of the Fire Nation's past.
While at the crypt of the first Fire Lord,
Aang contacted a Kemurikage spirit
who told him that their kind
hadn't left the Spirit World in thousands of years.
That meant the kidnappers weren't the Kemurikage at all.
They were human.
The next night, however,
the impostors escalated the situation
by kidnapping Zuko's half sister Kiyi.
Aang and Zuko tried to stop them unsuccessfully,
but in the chase realized their leader
was none other than Azula.
The next day after some investigation,
Aang showed Zuko a secret passageway
which led to a Fire Nation graveyard.
They went through and Azula and her cloaked friends
attacked as soon as they came out the other side,
but Aang and Zuko fought them off.
Hearing the cries of the children,
Aang then ran into a nearby tomb to help,
but was knocked out when the impostors
bent smoke into his lungs.
Fortunately, Mai and Kei Lo were close by to assist.
When Zuko confronted Azula, she insisted that her brother
was more like her than he realized.
And just like she arrived,
Azula vanished in a puff of smoke.
The missing children were soon found
and shortly thereafter Aang stood close by
as Zuko addressed the Fire Nation humbly.
Unlike his father, he vowed to work
to be a better ruler for his people.
As the crowd cheered, Azula watched coldly from a distance
before disappearing once again to plan her next devious scheme.
With the fake Kemurikage dealt with,
Aang got some free time
and traveled to the Southern Water Tribe
to rejoin Katara and Sokka.
Per usual, Aang was immediately thrown into conflict
when a Water Tribe radical named Gilak
tried to overthrow Katara's father as chieftain.
After putting a stop to their attack at a festival,
Team Avatar met with Hakoda
and other Four Nation leaders to form a plan.
Gilak and his forces, however, used the opportunity to attack
and capture Hakoda.
Aang and Katara were able to save him
but Gilak still got away with the Earth King.
The conflict turned into a hostage situation
over a perilous chasm called the Bridge of No Return.
Team Avatar and even Toph's metalbending students
fought side by side once again,
this time assisted by metal armor
to prevent chi-blocking.
Gilak's forces were quickly subdued,
but the radicalist still refused to surrender
and tried to take as many people with him as possible.
Gilak fell to his death right then and there,
but Aang and Katara sprang into action.
After some daring rescues,
Team Avatar welcomed a few new members
to the group that night and Aang finally got a chance
to feast with all his friends.
Nearly two years after the end of the hundred year war,
the small town around Satoru's refinery
had grown into a small city, now called Cranefish Town.
When Aang and Team Avatar came to visit,
they hardly recognized the place.
They also found themselves stuck
in the middle of a bending supremacist movement
when Toph was nearly blown up.
She managed to save herself
with some last-second metalbending,
but Team Avatar knew they needed to intervene.
With some clever disguises
and a sharp-looking wig for Aang,
the gang infiltrated an underground meeting
of the supremacists.
The element of surprise was blown, though,
when Toph lost her patience with their leader, Liling
and a fight broke out.
The gang came out on top
and upon arresting Liling, Toph suggested to Aang
that he take away her bending.
Conflicted, Aang hesitated and Liling escaped.
Desperate, the supremacist leader
then started an uprising against the entire town.
It was a hard battle, but in the end Aang decided
not to take away Liling's bending
to avoid any more tension between benders and non-benders.
A few days later, the citizens of Cranefish Town
were united again in a common goal:
They were going to rebuild their homes together.
Team Avatar decided to settle down in Cranefish Town that day
and would eventually help
in its formation into Republic City.
Over the next few decades, Republic City became
the new state's capital and the home to people
from all over the Four Nations.
During this time, Aang and Katara also got married
and had three kids.
The oldest was Bumi,
named after Aang's childhood friend
then Kya, a waterbender, and their youngest was Tenzin,
who turned out to be the only airbender.
As the last Air Nomad, Aang did his best to preserve
the ways of his culture and tended to isolate Tenzin
spending more time with him than his non-airbending kids.
The favoritism created some distance
between Tenzin, Bumi and Kya,
but ultimately the whole family loved each other a great deal.
At age 40, Aang joined his favorite earthbender,
now chief of police, Toph Beifong,
to arrest a gangster named Yakone.
Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't get involved.
But if what those victims said is true,
we're not dealing with a normal criminal.
Fine, follow me, twinkletoes.
Aang stood by as Toph easily took Yakone into custody,
but they played right into his hand.
After being found guilty,
he revealed that he was a bloodbending master.
Yakone then knocked out the whole courtroom,
including Aang, and just walked out the front door.
The Avatar State kicked in and Aang eventually defeated
the bloodbender by taking away his bending abilities.
But the threats that faced Republic City
were growing by the day.
[sighs]
It's over.
While Aang had been protected by the Avatar State
when he was frozen over a century in an iceberg,
the years began to catch up with his body.
Only in his early sixties, Aang's health was failing
and knowing he had a short amount of time left
Aang tasked the Order of the White Lotus
to search out and protect the next Avatar.
It wasn't long before Aang passed away,
and while his legacy would never be forgotten,
the Avatar Cycle continued on.
Only a few years later, Aang would be revealed
to be reincarnated into a rebellious young woman
named Korra from the Southern Water Tribe.
I'm the Avatar! You gotta deal with it!
At age 17, Korra moved to the bustling streets
of Republic City to learn airbending
with the only living master,
Aang's son Tenzin.
Tenzin's family had also grown to include
several airbending grandchildren
for the late Aang and a now retired Katara.
Together, they all tried to teach Korra,
but it didn't really go to plan.
[grunts]
Don't force your way through!
Dance! Dance like the wind!
Be the leaf.
[grunting]
Unlike Aang, Korra struggled
with the spiritual tenets of airbending
and soon found herself in even deeper trouble
with Amon and the equalist plot against benders.
Plagued by strange visions, Korra eventually realized
Aang was attempting to warn her about the truth of Amon.
He was the gangster Yakone's son and a bloodbender.
It wasn't until after defeating Amon
and fearing she lost her bending entirely
that Korra was finally able
to spiritually connect with Aang.
Not now, Tenzin.
I just want to be left alone.
But you called me here.
Aang.
You have finally connected with your spiritual self.
With all of the past Avatars by his side,
Aang was able to restore Korra's bending.
Aang and the other Avatars continued to aid Korra
in her darkest moments
and even though Aang was no longer
in the physical world,
he didn't stop helping his children either.
When Bumi, Kya and Tenzin traveled to the Spirit World
and got stuck in the Fog of Lost Souls,
a vision of Aang appeared before his youngest son.
You were trying to hold on
to a false perception of yourself.
You are not me.
And you should not be me.
You are Tenzin.
These were just the words Tenzin needed
to finally step out of his father's shadow.
And after gaining back his senses,
he managed to save his siblings
and his daughter Jinora just in time.
And that's everything we know about Aang so far.
As one of the most powerful benders
who brought peace, harmony and changed the Four Nations,
Aang's legacy spans generations and throughout the world.
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Is he the greatest Avatar of all time?
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