atla npcs are built different

Welcome back to more atla content ✨ I know not all of these characters are npcs, the titles are not serious in any way lol

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[Freelix]

You know the show is a banger when any extra character with more than one and a half seconds of screentime seems like they could have their own spinoff show

[battlesheep]

I like how 99% of the fire nation military are just punchclock villains

[MrHalohunter]

ATLA did a great job of making the background characters actually feel like real people with very minimal dialogue

[cherribomb]

"I'm too young to die!!"
"I'm not but I still don't wanna!"

[JosaxJaz]

I genuinely want that guy to have a good birthday :')

[bluebird]

Honestly I love the ATLA background characters.

Not just because they're funny, but because in regards to the fire nation, it's a very ingenious way of not totally dehumanizing them.

[JinxFan]

These side characters and extras could have an entire series dedicated to them, and I'd watch every episode

[JonOtto-ri]

They always felt like a glimpse to characters with a personality and story you simply didn't know. They had their own life going on, their own opinion on the situation.

[filmdude]

I always loved when the NPCs talked. They didn't seem like flat NPCs at all. They all had such distinct personalities, and they all seemed like regular Joes just trying to get through the day, it helped to make the avatar universe feel so much more fleshed out and real.

[patrickzalatoris]

You just feel for the last guy, having to work on his birthday, doing a big genocide mission, even though it's your birthday, then surprised to hear someone on the ship remembered your birthday, only to realize it was just a trap to drop them in the water, so sad for him

[NecessaryNonsense]

I love the fact that all characters were humanized, rather than being mindless enemies

[SkyEcho]

This is one of the MANY reasons Avatar was so good, the background characters were given actual personalities and beliefs. They treated it like the people lived IN the world, rather then just making the characters serve the story needs.

[женямуруев-шг]

I like the fact that fire nation people are not actually evil. They just were by the other side of the war.

[ghostie]

I love how the side characters have just as much personality as the main cast, the only reason they aren’t as “important” is simply because the Gaang never directly interacted with them more than once. They’re still people just living their own lives

[kaitlynwickham]

The prison scene where Aang gets romance advice from tender-hearted criminals is an underrated gem of a scene.

[toolatetothestory]

"I'm too young to die!"
"I'm not but I still don't wanna!"
I could not remember this line but it is gold xD

[RacingSnails]

Avatar side characters are simultaneously the most realistic and hilarious side characters in anything I've ever seen.

[nthdiety]

To be fair, being dumped into the ocean will result in a better birthday than what the other airships go through.

[Smarod]

I love how disappointed the fire nation soldier gets after he is told momo was NOT in fact earth bending

[somedudewatchintv]

Imagine you work at something like the FireNation and you get the unexpected surprise that they value you enough to celebrate your birthday only to realize it was a trap. Such a Rollercoaster of emotions.