Avatar: The Last Airbender/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

* Aang being {{spoiler|backshot with lightning, falling to the ground below and Katara [[Pieta Plagiarism|cradling his dead body in her arms]]}} in the second season finale. Remains the single most shocking and sadistically cruel moment in the entire series.

** {{spoiler|Zuko betraying Iroh}} during that same episode. I almost gave up hope for the guy.

* Katara's encounter with {{spoiler|Hakoda, where she tells her father that she knew and understood why he left the village,}} yet even ''then'' she couldn't help being angry... and they embrace.

{{quote| Hakoda: ''I would lie awake missing you so much it would ache.''}}

*** He's not just trying to live up to the expectations of 'a man' in the tribe - as of the start of the series, he's the ''only'' "man" left in the village. It's his responsibility to protect the ones who can't protect themselves (which is everyone). The last time a Fire Nation ship came to the village, ''people'' - his '''mother''' - ''died''. Sokka's not desperate because he's trying to prove his manliness, he's desperate because ''he's the village's only line of defense''.

** The whole series manages to put a war into perspective, but what's really tearjerking is any moment involving Hadoka and his children. As much of a warrior he is, he is still a father. He left his children to defend a village, knowing that if anything serious did come their way, his own son and daughter, the last things he has in this world, would be at the forefront of the fighting. Anytime with them together, like in the Awakening and Day of Black Sun, you can visibly tell that while he's proud of Sokka becoming a capable warrior and commander, a part of him is slowly dying seeing his son on the front lines, and he's not able to be there to help Sokka.

* The scene between Iroh and Zuko in "The Siege of the North, part 1" before Zuko leaves to infiltrate the city and capture Aang really brings home how Iroh's love for Zuko is really no less genuine than, say, Katara and Sokka's mom's love for them.

{{quote| Iroh: "I'm sorry, I just nag you because, well, ever since I lost my son..." <br />

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