The Promise is an extension of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and it takes place about a year after the television series ended. A quick recap for those of you that didn’t catch the show:
- In this world, there are people who can manipulate the elements through use of their mental prowess, and specific martial arts forms. Not everyone can do this. It seems to be genetic, so if you’re not one of these “benders,” you’re out of luck. No learning it later in life.
- The nations of the world are split up into groups depending on what elements they can bend.
- The Avatar is an… entity (I’ll leave personal theories out of this…) that is reborn into different nations. He or She is able to bend all the elements, and speak with spirits. Basically, the Buddha.
- The story begins with the current Avatar dying, and the new Avatar being born (not really, but the chronology of the narrative sees this as important).
- The new Avatar, Aang, is our protagonist. He runs away from his responsibilities and ends up frozen in an ice berg.
- Time skip 100 years into the future.
- The Fire Nation has started a war with the rest of the world, because screw those guys. It’s been going on all 100 years Aang missed.
- Aang makes friends and has adventures while mastering all the elements. His final team is: Aang (Avatar), Katara (Water Bending Teacher), Toph (Earth Bending Teacher), Zuko (Fire Bending Teacher), and Sokka (The Idea and Sarcasm Guy).
- Aang eventually confronts the Fire Lord (Zuko’s father), defeats him, seals his bending (because Avatars can do that, apparently), and the day is saved.
He’s kind of a boss.
Pick up with “The Promise.” At this point, Zuko has assumed leadership of the Fire Nation after his father was dethroned and the world is getting its business back together. Now, the first two installments of the comic have been out for a while, so we know that the plot revolves around removing Fire Nation colonies that were established in the Earth Kingdom during the war.
This comic actually does a lot for some characters, and not much for others. Sokka is still Sokka, and Katara is basically still Katara. Toph sees a bit of development as we get some insight into her feelings about having created a new form of bending (Metal Bending, because Toph is a god damned boss) and the responsibility she has to teach it to others. That’s primarily “The Promise: Part 2” though.
She will always be awesome. Always.
In Part 3, we see a lot about how Zuko is struggling with “doing right by his people” who have grown up and lived in the Earth Kingdom their whole lives, but are still Fire Nation citizens. How he feels about “doing what his father would have done.”
As we can see from the end of Part 2, he’s not having the easiest time ruling.
It’s really a great look at one of my favorite characters from the series. Zuko was always one of the more complicated characters as the “reformed villain.” But now he’s the “reformed villain that may not actually be all that formed.” It’s a really awesome read if you’re the fan of the series, and especially if you’re a fan of Zuko.
Aang has kinda just been Aang with his idealism and panic at the thought of confrontation. He’s still cool, but he’s not really much different yet. There is another series after this one entitled “The Search”, which hopefully will see some development in Aang, but it really promises to be Zuko centric again. Which is a good thing in my eyes.
Dude’s got some majesty too him. Giving him page time is never a bad idea.
This entire series, both of them actually, (Promise and Search) being mainly focused on Zuko’s development makes me wish that they’d do the same thing for the other characters. I could always do with some more Toph or Sokka. With the release of The Legend of Korra sequal series, and the fact that it being 70 years in the future gives us some insight into where all the original cast end up, there are large opportunities to dive into each character. We know they all end up pretty different, and do a lot of things. We’ve seen it in Korra. I just hope they make more of these comics and show it to us.
Seriously, who wouldn’t want that?
Im sure you had fun writing this article eh?
My interest has been perked
I want to change the little icon/avatar thing that shows while on here, how do i do that?
You do that here: http://thegamefanatics.com/community/profile/
I’d like to make an avatar for the yahoo ID that my wife and I both use. All the tools I can find only allow you to build either a male or female. Yes I know we could just upload a picture of the two of us, but that would take away the fun of making an avatar.
How do I get my avatar to show up when asking and answering Yahoo questions?
so you know when you first got your yahoo account you had a exclimation mark as an avatar. Well why is every one’s avatar different colour?
if its random then why?
As in uploading my own image or using one from elsewhere on the internet–the way most websites let you set your avatar.
this Books sucks…
If Aang is the last Airbender, how would the Avatar cycle continue after the next firebender Avatar. And if he is the last Airbender, he can’t have full Air nomad children because Katara is a waterbender, so how would that work?
I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
Well I have seen every single aavatar episode including th movie! :] It was stupendous! But I have a couple of questions:
1. When Katara & Sokka first discover the avatar how old is he; 12 or 9?
2. How old is prince Zuko when he first sees the avatar? & how long has Zuko been banished since he’s seen the avatar?
3. How long does it take for the Avatar to learn all the elements?
I am playing yahoo fantasy football this year. The only avatars you are allowed to chose are about 15 different helmet types. You can also chose custom avatar, but that only allows you to create an avatar using yahoos tools.
Is there anyway I can upload my own avatar?
Thanks for any advice!
Sometimes a few my contact avatars are visible but faded yet they seem to be offline. At other times the same avatar is not visible at all.What does this mean?
I was wondering how to change my avatar color? I saw people on here with different avatar colors and 1 person even had their avatar changing all the different colors. How do you do that? And how do you put an avatar photo up of the little faces?
I created an avatar and saved the changes, but my avatar doesn’t appear in my yahoo answers picture box. As of now I have the gray-out person.
Now my classic yahoo mail has added the avatar from my profile, along with a new ‘Today’ section below. How do I go back to the original classic yahoo mail? It is not related to unchecking the ‘enable connections’ function on the ‘general settings’ page. That is already unchecked.
I want to change the avatar on my Deviantart and my Yahoo but I don’t know exactally how. Help? I want to change my Yahoo avatar to one of my own personal pics instead of the cartoon.
Ok so a lot of people on here have these cartoon character people as their avatar. How do you change your avatar to that?
I am upset that the production of Avatar the last air bender is canceled. I know they are making a new avatar. Avatar the legend of Korra, but It won’t be as good as the original Avatar. That is why I want to send a letter to the writers, and try to influence them to keep the old avatar going. So does anyone know how I can send a letter to them?
I have uploaded a picture I want to use as my Yahoo avatar. For some reason it does not show up, it still shows up as the default avatar. I uploaded it months ago, someone give me a step by step answer please! Thanks in advance.
And here’s another one: Do you think the Avatar 3 (to be released in 2015) will outgrossed Avatar and Avatar 2.
The avatar that i wanna post is on my computer, so what button do i push on personalitycafe to post my picture up as a avatar?
I wanted to change my avatar/photo but the only option I see is the upload an image button. Is there a way to change it to just a regular avatar like other people do? I don’t want to upload an photo of my self on yahoo. Please let me know thanks.
I already went and made a cartoon avatar but every time I try to go to update or change photo on Y!A it lets me click and save the cartoon avatar I’m wanting to use but doesn’t display it. Help
I’ve done this like 3 times already in the past 3 weeks
@ Octavia, I’ve done exactly like you said in the past and it still doesn’t show the cartoon avatar. It only shows up when I view my pulse. Could it have anything to do with privacy settings?
I have 74 secret avatars but don’t know how to choose one, every time I look myself up on neopets search all i see is the nast yellow plain, basic neopets avatar icon. Please tell me how to choose one?
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Sorry this is not a religious question, but i am trying to make an avatar, how do i change it back into a girl.
In Avatar, Aang got killed in the avatar state by Azula and then the past avatars started to dissapear. But at the battle with the Fire Lord, Aang hit some rock and the avatar state came back. So does that mean that there will be more avatars or not? I’m really confused.
I want to change my avatar to a picture of me.
How do I save my avatar (full body version that you create in yahoo avatars) to my hard drive?
So I can use the image in the full body form. I want to change the image I currently have. I know how make the full body show up in Yahoo Answers, but I don’t know how to save the full body avatar to my hard drive. Thanks so much for your help.
Please Help!
Can You Change Your Yahoo Answers avatar to a kid or so others can see your avatars full body?
Thanks!
I went an saw this movie and was shocked i heard ppl sayin it was hoorible and i have to say i think Avatar was argubly one of the best movies of the year i think it was a perfect way to cap off 2009!!!!
its not a question but feel free to leave comments on what you thought if you saw it
As you can see, my avatar is a blue exclamation point. My favorite color is red and I would like it to be red instead of blue. I searched on google images, but I couldn’t find a red exclamation avatar. Can you paste a link to one or something so I can save it and choose it as my avatar please?
I keep designing Avatars,but when I try to return to my profile I sometimes lose them.How do I return from “designing Avatar” page to “My Profile” without losing the design? Thanks in advance!
Also instead a close up of my avatar’s face how do i get a farther away image?
I have checked the option to show my avatar in my profile settings but it doesn’t work.
I’m trying to create (or maybe buy) a good avatar costume of Neytiri. Are there any suggestions or ideas of what should I use to make this costume or maybe where can I buy it?
For example I have the props: Duke Nukem’s Freeze Ray and MW2 Riot Shield and my avatar holds the Freeze Ray in his right hand and the Riot Shield in his left hand. Surely he can have both active at the same time?! Just wondering because I haven’t found a way to have 2 props on at one time yet.
I have linked my twitter account to yahoo but my twitter avatar is not appearing in change picture option. Do I have to wait? How long?
I don’t want the cartoon avatar to show. In it’s place I want a jpg pic.
I pre-orderd call of duty black ops yesterday (Hardened Edition) and i dont know how to get my space man avatar. Does anybody know how I can get it?
I made a cute avatar and saved her, but my image still shows up as an exclamation point! How do I make my avatar take the place of the exclamation point?
It’s just has a stupid exclamation mark with a purple background. The avatar I have chosen has the Astro Boy cartoon character. Yahoo, wake up!
Avatar word looks like a sanskrit/hindi word but how come it is being used by an englih movie. What does the word Avatar mean in the movie?
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I’ve seen some avatars with white hair and even though my hair is jet black and I really have no reason for wanting white hair, I want it anyway. And I can’t find it on the Avatar site. Can someone tell me how to get white hair?
I feel stupid, I’ve already made an avatar and saved it, but I have no idea how to get it to show up on here. I’ve read other questions on the same topic, but they don’t help. I know most people on here have an avatar, so can you help me?
They were shown when Jake first turned into an avatar.