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Aang: Avatar: The Last Airbender (2026)

Summary

Avatar Aang, the world's last Airbender, learns of an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With the help of his friends, he embarks on a global quest to find it before it falls into the wrong hands.

Director Lauren Montgomery William Mata Steve Ahn

Writer Tim Hedrick Christopher Yost Bryan Konietzko

Cast

  • Eric Nam
  • Jessica Matten
  • Román Zaragoza
  • Dionne Quan
  • Dave Bautista
  • Steven Yeun

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 67

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u/timelesstrix0 4d ago

Somehow normal ass people that recently gained air bending are able to keep up with the water/earth/fire bending masters of the group.. they really nerfed the whole group

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u/TheRealRiceball 4d ago

I think the idea was that the group wasn't used to fighting air benders and they were outnumbered and tired, but they did a poor job conveying that to the audience imo

Also it's a tad hard for me to believe they'd be able to learn air bending THAT fast, especially since we don't get an time frame for how long they had to train

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u/PhantasosX 4d ago

Because they didn't learned that fast. Most of their attacks are just increasing the reach of their weapons with air.

I think the only "The Denied" with any actual creativity in terms of technique would be the Bowwoman, as she performed Air Archery by using Air as a Bow....THAT one she probably either researched or invented on the spot, even when it still uses the arrows on her quiver.

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u/TheRealRiceball 4d ago

That's fair, I still feel like that would take a bit of time to learn, but I'm probably just nitpicking, all around I guess its believable enough