Avatar The Last Airbender 10 Things You Missed In Bato Of The Water Tribe
Avatar: The Last Airbender – 10 Things You Missed In Bato Of The Water Tribe
Bato of the Water Tribe gives a lot of context to Avatar: The Last Airbender, but some details were probably missed by audiences.
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Although Sokka and Katara are two of the main characters in the Avatar series, there aren’t many instances where viewers are able to see what their life was like in the Southern Water Tribe before meeting Aang. The Book 1 episode, Bato of the Water Tribe, not only gives fans some much-needed backstory about the Southern Water Tribe, but also about Sokka and Katara’s father.
Many aspects of this episode call back to previous stories while also planting the seeds for future references that wouldn’t be seen until the final season. As a Book 1 episode, there are also quite a few mistakes that were overlooked by both editors and viewers alike that can’t be unseen once they are pointed out.
10 The Water Tribe Marks
Following Sokka’s successful ice dodging, each of the members of Team Avatar is given a particular mark to signify their role in the team, but the marks bear more significance than they appear to at first glance.
The Mark of The Wise given to Sokka looks a lot like a simple version of the third eye, which is also tattooed on Combustion Man to focus his combustion bending. Katara’s Mark of the Brave takes the shape of a crescent moon, which ties to her waterbending and its power from the moon.
9 Sokka’s Mark
Shortly after receiving their respective marks from Bato, Aang rejects his Mark of the Trusted, as his prior deception comes to light, and Sokka and Katara are understandably upset with him.
During this argument, Sokka’s mark drastically changes shape from when it was first drawn, morphing from a rounded arc to a jagged, almost triangular shape. When he turns around to walk back into town with Katara and Bato, the mark is magically back to normal as if nothing happened.
8 June And The Bar
After meeting June on board their ship, Zuko and Iroh decide that her talents as a tracker would be useful in tracking down Aang and Team Avatar by using Katara’s stolen necklace. In the bar where they find her, she is in the process of soundly beating a man in an arm-wrestling match who looks a lot like Ryu from Street Fighter.
Even stranger, and a lot easier to miss, is that the woman standing behind her looks almost identical to Jin, the girl who visits Zuko and Iroh’s teahouse nearly every day while they are refugees in Ba Sing Se and who ends up going on a date with Zuko.
7 Appa’s First Fight
Up until this episode, Appa has been more of a gentle giant than the menacing powerhouse he is shown in later episodes, but his fight with Nyla the shirshu is the first time viewers see Appa as anything other than transportation.
During this fight scene, he is shown not only using his immense size to his advantage, but also using his tail for some heavy airbending as well, something he doesn’t do all that much in the series.
6 The Necklace
One of the main plot points in Bato of the Water Tribe is Zuko using the necklace he stole from Katara to track down Aang. This means that, naturally, Katara shouldn’t be shown wearing it until Aang gives it back to her as they are fleeing from Zuko and Iroh.
However, there is a slight animation error in one scene where the sisters discuss how they make perfume, with Katara’s missing necklace being shown around her neck.
5 The False Trail Of The Avatar
During their pursuit of Team Avatar, June, Iroh, and Zuko travel to a handful of villages and towns that they had visited in previous episodes, including Aunt Wu’s in Makapu Village where Katara spent a lot of time. They also stopped the mad old lady in the Taku ruins, where it is revealed that her cat, Miyuki, had been in trouble with the Fire Nation once before.
The problem is that only Aang went to see this woman, as he left Katara and Sokka with Appa and Momo when they were sick during The Blue Spirit, so Nyla shouldn’t have been able to follow Katara’s scent there.
4 June’s Familiar Voice
It’s not uncommon for voice actors to portray multiple different characters in the same series, though Avatar does it significantly less than others, with the exception of a handful of notable characters like Zuko and General Iroh from The Legend of Korra both being voiced by Dante Basco. However, sharp-eared viewers will catch that the bounty hunter June’s voice is somewhat familiar to the series.
Jennifer Hale, the voice of June, is also the voice behind Avatar Kyoshi, Roku’s predecessor who has a handful of episodes centered around her during The Last Airbender, though is most well known for her work as Samus Aren in the Metroid Prime trilogy and Naomi Hunter in the Metal Gear Solid series.
3 The Disappearing Stowaway
At the beginning of the episode, June charges onto Zuko’s ship claiming there is a stowaway on board. After quickly paralyzing him with Nyla’s barbed tongue, she rides off to claim her bounty, apparently taking the stowaway with her.
However, in the scene where Nyla races off of the docks, the stowaway is nowhere to be seen and has apparently disappeared between the deck of the ship and the end of the docks.
2 The Tavern and Aang
Despite being quite an interesting characters, June and her shirshu are only seen two times in the series. In both instances, she is recruited by Zuko to track down Team Avatar using the power of her shirshu’s nose, though under very different circumstances.
The second time she is seen, she seems to treat Nyla with much more respect than she did in her first episode, and is asked by Zuko to track down Aang after he goes missing right before Sozin’s Comet is set to appear.
1 Nyla’s Rarity
In both The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, Nyla is the only shirshu shown in across both series, and seems to be an incredibly rare species.
In The Rise of Kyoshi novel, set hundreds of years before The Last Airbender, shirshu are already hard to come by and very few people have even seen one, although the head of Ba Sing Se University’s zoology department, Shaw, managed to obtain a collection of them.
Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-bato-of-the-water-tribe-details-missed/
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