Trope Talk: Last Of Their Kind
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Published 2024-02-23
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All Comments (21)
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"I swear I've watched shows other than Avatar" don't worry Red, we know; you've also watched ReBoot!
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That trope of "The villain acted preemptively to prevent a prophecy of their demise but only ended up fulfilling the prophecy by doing that" could be it's whole own video damn lmao
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Sozin: killing the air nomads was easy. Barely an inconvenience The dead Fire Nation soldiers surrounding Monk Gyatsu:
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"My dad just told me I'm adopted!" "Your dad, the goose... that must be quite the shock."
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The understated visual gag of "Mysterious Artwork Unlike Any Seen on Earth" is a delightful call-back.
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Red couldn't convince blue to do a third detailed Diatribe about Superman and is settling for trope talk
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God, i never realized that Aamg's no kill rule wasnt just a personal creed, but one of the last connections to his culture. That show is damn near perfect
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Tigger, weirdly enough, is also a good example of “last of their kind”. There’s literally a whole movie about his desire to find things like him, and he fabricates what other tiggers might be like as a means of coping. Going so far as to leave his friends behind and go looking for his family DURING A BLIZZARD. But in the end it’s his friends that find him, bring him home, and make him realize that even though he’s “the only one”, that it doesn’t mean he’s without a family.
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The point red makes about previous air avatars having the freedom to loose their air bender culture because there were others of their kind to preserve it while Aang can't is something i never got before and the realization makes his actions emotionally hit harder
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I actually do love how the trope videos are like “this is a very interesting trope that happens often in media, this is how it tends to play out, and this is what we can get from it…. AND THIS IS HOW AVATAR MASTERFULLY DID IT!”
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I love the fact that whenever someone talks about Kung Fu Panda, there is a moment of realization, either from the person themself or the one listening, that this trilogy was surprisingly deep.
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Superman being the "Last Son of Krypton" is still true because of the justification that he's technically the last Kryptonian male born on the planet before it exploded. Hence "Last Son of Krypton" not "Last Kryptonian". Anyone born after him, including his son, can never erase him being the last son.
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This gave me a whole new perspective on Season 3 of A:TLA. Aang spends a lot of specifically season 3 giving up pieces of his culture (burning his glider, covering up his tattoo, growing his hair), which shows that he understands that there comes a time to sacrifice to do what needs to be done. His pacifism is quite literally the last thing from his culture that he has not had to compromise on in some way, which is (part of) why he clings on to it so hard
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I love how this episode is basically just 2 mini detail diatribes about Kung Fu Panda and Avatar with some framework in between to tie them together
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Aang: “a core belief of the air nomads is that we never kill” Gyatso’s body surrounded by dozens of dead fire benders: “yeah about that aang…”
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I love how Knuckles the Echidna has remained as a last of his kind for 30 years and they can't add any other echidnas due to legal reasons so he's stuck that way even if they didn't want to
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"Characters don't need to be completely unique from all characters ever, they just need to be distinct from each other within their story" is the kind of god tier eye opener I come to this channel for <3
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"They can't protect him from the horror, the horror has already happened" (20:03) Is actually chilling oh my gosh
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I also really like how Aang having to find a different way to end the war ties into practically the first lesson he was taught as avatar in the show from Bumi. He had to look at things from a different perspective, and find a different way to accomplish his goal. His journey into becoming the avatar really did come full circle.
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It must have been a profound emotional moment for Aang the day he realized one of his children was an airbender. For the first time since he was a child, he was no longer alone. While we never saw that in the show, we can see a glimpse of it in Tenzin once he realized that Harmonic Convergence had brought a new group of airbenders into existence, and suddenly he and his children were no longer the only ones.
