Top Ten Avatar FanFic Cliché's

Top Ten Avatar FanFic Clichés

By justica347

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender, or anything else important. Ty Lee would have made more than one appearance in the first ten episodes of season three if I did.

Author's Note: I've had a lot of requests for another chapter for my story Time to Choose, but felt it would be a disservice to it to do that. Instead, to placate my readers I offer up this short little piece.


Anyone who has read much Avatar FanFiction has to have notice certain reoccurring themes and ideas. Some of them have become major parts of the fandom, others are… well, just a little scary. So, for your reading pleasure, I present the top ten cliché's for Avatar: The Last Airbender FanFiction.

10. Zutara: Two people with nothing in common falling in love for no real reason.

9. Ty Lee has great insight and spiritual awareness.

8. Ty Lee is a bimbo. This is not mutually exclusive to cliché number 9, though it has become more prevalent than the former as the series has shown more of her character.

7. Iroh is actually Zuko's father. Obviously because he cares for Zuko, Zuko must be his son. This tends to go with the "Iroh was Ursa's actual love" cliché.

6. Toph's parents do not love her. Because they do not let her earthbend, they obviously do not see her as a person.

5. Sokka and Toph are drinking buddies. For some reason when left along for five minutes these two inevitably end up drunk.

4. Azula is a good person inside. Yea, deep, deep, deep, deep inside.

3. Azula is abused by Ozai. Obviously her being evil has nothing to do with her being a sociopath ever since she was a small girl.

2. Sokka and Katara can be paired with anyone, and I mean anyone…Shivers from think of creepy pairings

1. Aang- turns out he is not the Last Airbender.

Well, I hope you see the humor of this little pot shot at the Avatar fandom.