Avatar The Last Airbender

Originally posted by Menetnashté
They were supposed to be Asian, everyone just looks white in anime lol

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
people forget though, that the world of Avatar is just that... the whole world
so just because the cartoon is drawn in Anime form, doesnt mean theyre all Asian
the most Asian of the nations is the Earth Kingdom, theyre most based on countries like China while the Fire Nation takes up most of the western hemisphere, so they could be considered the Americas of the world... i think mhmm

Fire Nation is based on Korea in both culture/gvernment and people (with china thrown in for good measure)

Air Nomads are tibetan

Earth Kingdom is like you said regions of china and other areas around that.

Water tribes are Ainu/Inuit/Aleut

Thats the offical base of the nations/culture/race

Air Nomads were - Indian/Caucasian
Water Tribe - Inuit
Fire Nation - Caucasian
Earth Kingdom - Chinese

Originally posted by marwash22
Air Nomads were - Indian/Caucasian
Water Tribe - Inuit
Fire Nation - Caucasian
Earth Kingdom - Chinese

no they weren't supposed to be white at all, just sometimes the animtion style made them appear white.

But it has been outright stated Fire nation people were meant to be Koreans in both culture and people.

Originally posted by jalek moye
no they weren't supposed to be white at all, just sometimes the animtion style made them appear white

since the Fire Nation is centered around an archipelago of tropical volcanic islands, youd think of them more as Pacific Islanders or something
yes the Air Nomads are based off of the Tibetans, even down to how they determine who is the Avatar once the cycle comes to them
the Water Tribe is obviously Native American in origin especially their worship of the wolf[all the warriors clothes and facepaint is to resemble a wolf]

Originally posted by marwash22
Who, the fire nation? Based on eye shape, the fire nation look like a bunch of white people. In animation, Asian's always have big and round eyes... non Asian's have narrow eyes.

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
also, the innocent have big round eyes and the evil people have narrow eyes

I dunno, is there any factual information about what each faction is supposed to be?

there's developer commentary and whatnot

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
since the Fire Nation is centered around an archipelago of tropical volcanic islands, youd think of them more as Pacific Islanders or something

hmm, interresting mhmm

EDIT-i know that geographically, the Fire Nation is based around Iceland

this was the worst movie i have ever seen, i am embarrassed for the director....damn I didn't know they could make it that bad

^ hyperbole, i hope. It's probably not even MKS's worst movie.

Pretty sure the peoples in the cartoon aren't supposed to be any particular culture and the lands are fictional. Sure it's influenced by Asian themes throughout, but the characters vary, even within tribes.

I was more so stating what they were based on as was told to me, I know they are supposed tbe fictional groups and countries.

Originally posted by Robtard
Pretty sure the peoples in the cartoon aren't supposed to be any particular culture and the lands are fictional. Sure it's influenced by Asian themes throughout, but the characters vary, even within tribes.

Originally posted by NemeBro
The only thing I knew was based on IRL stuff directly was the bending, Firebending was Shaolin Kung-Fu, Earthbending was Hung Gar, Waterbending was Tai Chi, and I cannot remember wtf Airbending was.

air was Ba gua quan.

Tophs was a form of preying mantis even though the other earth benders were hung gar

found out why they changed the pronunciation of some of the names
thats how they pronounce the names in Asian
Aang sounds like Ong
Sokka like Soaka
Iroh like Eeroh

and last night in the episode Seige of the North, the douche who was marrying Yue pronounced Sokka's name as Soaka

I'm going to see this now, hopefully i wont have to send MKS a death threat.

If you go into this movie with no previous knowledge about the characters or the story... it's still pretty bad. 🙁. The visuals were the only saving grace. My niece and nephew who are 11 and 10 even thought it was bad; that's saying a lot considering the 10 year old is entertained by bubble wrap.