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
Hope you like the video!

[@MrHalohunter24]

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

[@battlesheep2552]

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

[@wyvernharries4788]

Bad guy grunts from 9-5 7 days a week. Lmao

[@kylajensen1957]

Evil minions who are just guys doing a job and are the nicest people off the clock is my favorite kind of villain. Like that one Marvel movie where the heroes attacked the villains base and one guy immediately noped out because his paycheck is nowhere near big enough to justify fighting against metahuman superpeople.

[@ALCvideoprofile]

You'd really love Venture Bros

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@wyvernharries4788 no weekends? Damn, Firelord Ozai truely is evil.

[@Freelix2000]

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

[@skitsngigggles]

I would die to see it 😩

[@djw_tekken8490]

​@@skitsngigggles broo nice vid😂😂😂 this show is soo great with this short scenes

[@djw_tekken8490]

​@@skitsngigggles 1:22 thought only 1 avatar could exist at a time this guy a genius Did this too tho at work😂😂😂

[@cherribomb5422]

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

[@chelseal5550]

So true

[@NecessaryNonsense990]

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

[@bluebird1914]

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.

[@Sarah12471]

Yea, the fire nation citizens all feel very alive

[@user-ee3sm6tj6h]

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.

[@mythicspecter2142]

Sonder is really awesome

[@SkyEcho751]

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.

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

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

[@filmdude9970]

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.

[@JosaxJaz]

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

[@janickengelhard4668]

i think his birthday party fell into the water

[@Beebz29]

Maybe next year

[@anthonyramirez9925]

@@janickengelhard4668it’s a pool party now

[@nillabean6041]

Ikr I always feel so bad for him he was so excited 😭

[@coffeecartoons5345]

Pool party

[@subhumanscarlet]

Feel bad for the birthday boy :((((((

[@skitsngigggles]

Me too 🥲

[@MomsAgainstCatboys]

Worst birthday so far...

[@cybercat0564]

he dieded :(

[@sweethysteria8737]

@@cybercat0564noo! He’s ok! They rescued him! They dropped some life boats! I was there!

[@InsertSomenickorsomethingOK]

​@@sweethysteria8737True, I was the sea

[@JinxFan2003]

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

[@bigdexmedia5233]

Same here

[@ghostie165]

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

[@kaitlynwickham6237]

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

[@ninjaknight6715]

Avatar is the only show, where a no name background character feel like they are actually apart of the world, rather then just something to fill up the background.

[@sketchflix6425]

True

[@soraeverblue]

I also love how they did the fire nation soldiers. It's established from the beginning that they are enemies but the creators also showed that the soldiers aren't just mindless soldiers for our heroes to destroy and look badass, the show creators treated the soldiers as regular people too who sometimes don't care that much for their leader's war conquering agenda and just treat their positions as regular jobs

[@nthdiety9487]

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

[@SpagettiSpeltWrong]

"Are you guys gonna come to Omashu with us? 😃" "Nope. 😊" "Okay. 🙂"

[@Swahili14]

😂😂❤

[@RacingSnails64]

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

[@AR1Z0NAcafe]

them and parks and rec side characters

[@user-sk6dx8uz9y]

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

[@venbrou]

That's how it was for most of the Nazis, and now I want to see an ATLA version of the Nuremberg trials.

[@JagoShogun]

I think we can bring up other political factions as a better comparison.@@venbrou

[@T_rk52]

Attack on Titan there is no Evil side

[@tomlxyz]

​@@JagoShogun why tho? The whole point is evil imperial government but the ones fighting are mostly average people. Both did genocide and tried replacing other people with their own

[@JagoShogun]

Hm, figures you're only aware of modern / recent events.@@tomlxyz

[@anawfullotofcups]

“Are you gunna come to omashu with us” “Nope 😊” “Ok” Gets me every time

[@skylercroghan6933]

literally my favorite line in the show, idk why but every time I watch that I'm laughing

[@Smarod]

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

[@gaminator1953]

Huh what?

[@Spencer-vq7se]

Believing theres a birthday celebration during the frontline invasion of worldwide attack is wild

[@HaganeNoGijutsushi]

Troop morale is very important.

[@AndrewAment]

Add an entire season to the fire nation was so original. Not many series or movies show how “the bad guys” had regular lives with regular struggles.

[@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

[@somedudewatchintv5297]

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.

[@Basher.G]

The airship scene is my favorite in the finale I hope they lived

[@AgentIllusion73]

I'll bet they did and the guys in the crashed airships had it worse off. Better birthday present than what the other guys had coming.

[@YuainLucky]

Honestly same

[@VidralliaArchives]

It's Aang's jobs to communicate with the spirits. It's Sokka's job to communicate with the NPCs.

[@JustDevon1]

I always love it when TV shows give personality to random grunts

[@_sargentocoelho_4441]

2:32 Bro the way he lists his qualities and personality before bringing up his status is just so damn cute

[@DrogueNov]

isnt that from Friends Joey

[@TheLandOfDreams]

i forgot how fucking funny this show is, and how much they care about its characters, even the one offs are dripping with personality

[@rickypurdy4995]

Im more amazed the engineering guy said happy birthday to the right guy when they resurfaced lol

[@166godzilla]

Love how the series humanizes especially the fire nation soldiers and citizens with these little scenes. Like they’re just people under a bad government

[@jisungwon2915]

ATLA npcs are my favorite, I literally wanted to know their names, back stories, conversations, and entire lives 😭❤️

[@TheDinoWarrior]

I love how 70% of this is fire nation, how did those goofs do a genocide

[@Fearless-44]

They where feeling a little silly

[@sadlyimcringe6670]

They just did a little bit of trolling

[@gabrielborg520]

The atla equivalent of meth

[@pineapple5175]

100 years does something to a nation

[@ownlydown5933]

Didnt the fire nation do alot of incest cuz they wanted only Firebenders?

[@em_the_lion2040]

Avatar’s fire nation soldiers were what Star Wars Stormtroopers could only dream of becoming.

[@AmonLisa]

I actually felt so bad for that fire nation soldier. He was so genuinely happy it mad me happy. Then he got thrown off the ship.

[@bokunobaka]

I could imagine Iroh keeping track of everyone on his ships birthday and having a cup of tea sent to their room.

[@ImADeity]

He would do that

[@A-Clear_View]

axidetly disliked

[@alternatealt5900]

He would personally visit them for tea.

[@AngryLittleAmericans]

I love how the Fire Lord Soldiers arent bad people. Just regular citizens just following orders

[@jstar3382]

"HE REALLY DOES CARE" he got that armor off fast, thank god

[@michaelwalling6986]

1:43 "Im too young to die" "Im not but i still dont wanna!" Fucking brilliant

[@ashessakura7518]

It’s hysterical and I love it 😂

[@TamTroll]

if i ever get to the point where someone near me says "I'm too young to die!" i hope to god I'll remember to shout out "I'm not! but i still don't wanna!"

[@imperialwarhawk123abc5]

The way soldiers and guards interact and talk to each other and about thigs is very realistic to the military. Like when the two fire nation guys in the airship and were saying their jobs is exactly how interractions would go. "hey I have never seen you" "yeah i work on this." "OOO" *Immediately friends*

[@sheriffbutterball7824]

when the NPC's actually have fun dialogue and are not just cardboard cutouts

[@Fr0st1989]

i like how sokka dropped the airship to a lower altitude so the drop from the bomb bay wouldn't kill the crew lol

[@sousentabasco7711]

Too bad they're nowhere near land, but hey, surprise birthday pool party 🥳

[@billcipher1756]

@@sousentabasco7711 yeah the kind of pool party thats in the sims where there is no exit ladder and everyone just dies

[@kkirschkk]

@@billcipher1756I mean given that even in heavy metal armor there still swimming, I am sure they can be picked up, more so with the fire nation navy being near there due to the invasion [and likely to pick up survivors if a ship is hit]. Basically they have a pretty good chance.

[@marianabonina249]

Can’t believe you forgot that crazy dude on kyoshi island that went batshit crazy for aang’s marble trick

[@dantetejeda1868]

Behind the cabbage salesmam, he's the funniest NPC

[@L.O.752]

Foam guy?

[@hallwayoatmeal]

lol fr he literally foamed at the mouth

[@Tolinar]

Avatar: TLA treated its mooks as true humans, with needs, wishes and private lives. Every cry of "my cabbages!" rung true.

[@joju5849]

What i love about this show is every single character is interesting, no matter who they are. Even side characters who we never see again after one episode feel like an actual character instead of just some NPC

[@hyphurr.rarelypostsifever1220]

“I’m too young to die” “I’m not but I still don’t wanna!” ROLLING

[@Nuhuh-jw7fr]

ATLA made every single character feel like an actual person and I love it

[@URvlogger5098]

I like How Aang wasn't even trapped. He just really needed someone to talk to XD

[@M8OfTheNorth]

Shout out to the soldier who could’ve had an amazing birthday if it wasn’t for the war.

[@ResurrectedElvenMonk]

I always felt bad for that man on his birthday. Not only was his birthday forgotten by his superiors, but he fell into the water alongside the rest of the crew.

[@randomcommenter1812]

That means he got to survive, his life was spared on his birthday.

[@thundereagle4130]

@@randomcommenter1812 Unlike the captain who was unconscious on the bridge when the airship slammed against the other airships.

[@rat2316]

ALSO ATTENTION!!! He fell with other people not alone its good for socialization xd

[@williamgrimm2452]

Managing to keep track of the birthday boy during a free fall into the ocean is impressive

[@killmenowprettyprett]

the birthday boy lost his helmet too

[@thestatic]

Built different.

[@sirhcselwob8911]

the airship crew was lucky to get a surprise birthday pool party given what happened to the rest of the air fleet

[@knuxuki1013]

The humour in this show was peak. Happy birthday to the crew member

[@swanletsecondchannel8533]

the secret tunnel people just saying "nope" and then dipping and you never see them again is hilarious

[@OddyOddity-ob2uv]

Hilarious thing about birthday guy is that his birthday will forever be in the shadow of the Anniversary of The Great Comet. Nobody will bother to remember this guy because they're too busy thinking about the Everything Else in the finale.

[@kaitlynwickham6237]

Maybe all this was going through his head during the invasion, and that's why Sokka's "birthday announcement" made him so happy. ☹️

[@joannamyers1268]

He does have an interesting story to tell for the rest of his life, though.

[@ASquared544]

Man Avatar has some of the best writing just… in general. I don’t think I’ve ever seen side characters and extras this well written anywhere else.

[@Asher_Tye]

I always feel so sorry for that birthday guy. I mean yeah, he's on a genocidal mission to destroy the Earth Kingdom, but it's clear he needed some validation

[@Bms010]

I love how they humanize all the bad guys, like nobody really above anyone else they're all just goofy af .

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

Exept azula, and ozai, they’re just the big bars in the show

[@bobtheball5384]

​@@youthoughtaboutit6946Azula is humanized to an extent

[@ktmal1681]

I know hes fire nation and part of the invasion force buttt.... I feel so bad for the guy who's birthday it was. He was so sweet and happyyyyyyyy.

[@lizaje1495]

Me too. He deserves a happy birthday. Every good fella deserves a happy birthday

[@ResurrectedElvenMonk]

Same here. Though just a minor side character, I wish we could've at least learned his name.

[@wjzav1971]

The prison dudes being chill and supportive towards Aang was the best thing

[@loukitmyname]

I love how these scenes basically humanizes everyone, even the fire nation soldiers.

[@patriciaespuheque1514]

the last clip... that always made me happy cause the birthday guy didn't di3 that day in the crash of ships yk

[@bluelfsuma]

How could you not include a single _"MY CABBAGES!"_ I'm pretty sure that at least one is required for every ATLA compilation.

[@skitsngigggles]

omg you're right I'm sorry 😩

[@307nishchay8]

Cabbage man ain't npc lmao

[@alexs5814]

@@skitsngiggglesNaah, it don't count. Cabbage dude ain't no NPC^^

[@kiratwo4u]

​@@skitsngigggles and the boiling prison's prisoners

[@PTFVBVB]

The scene with Aang getting gassed up by the other prisoners is a favorite of the whole show

[@lionguy4107]

"you could give us some supplies :) and some money :)" sokka is such a great character

[@holliegould3463]

the way i cannot stop myself from breaking into "SECRET TUNNELLLL!! SECRET TUNNELLLLL!!" *every* time i come across a tunnel irl

[@skitsngigggles]

it’s a reflex at this point 😂

[@icantswim8657]

Dont forget the *AND DIE*

[@BrandonKellogg22]

Oh it's a real legend.

[@BlueShellshock]

3:52 -- Ngl, must be pretty rough having your birthday on the day of such a big event. Like hey, dude probably never expected anyone to remotely pay attention to him on that day.

[@gabevandenhoeven4546]

Sokka the Bard taking over the entire airship with an n20 on a charisma check

[@EMD766]

I just feel bad for the last guy.

[@iceninja9x425]

Birthday boy might've gotten dumped in the ocean, but he Got world peace as a gift from the Avatar. So the day the Avatar made stopped the War is the same day as his birthday

[@jadecutter1760]

Also, now every birthday for the rest of his life will be a global rager!

[@nobleradical2158]

Provided he’s still alive.

[@jmd9402]

I always felt bad to the firebender who was dropped into the ocean during his birthday

[@Drehmomentdante]

Imagine it's your birthday and noone remembers it. Then you have the hope that the captain did and all you get is thrown into the middle of the Ocean. Man's having the worst birthday ever

[@markermage]

2:40 I feel it needs to be mentioned that this prison is in a place with an honestly terrible system of justice (they wouldn't even allow the Avatar to have a lawyer). It wouldn't surprise me that they'd lock up a good number of innocent people and that those people might have to put on a tough guy persona to survive alongside more violent criminals.

[@andyrrafaelthebeastemperor8709]

Engine worker #3 falls one hundred meters into deep ocean waters. "Happy birthday." In the most unfazed tone ever. Bro is the definition of stoicism.

[@mememan1546]

I really hope that guy and birthday guy survived

[@HebiHouse]

​@@mememan1546 I'm sure they're fine. They celebrated as soon as they got on land.

[@jakecaffery4063]

That one airship crew member > every other npc

[@TheAutisticBrewer]

1:45 "I'm not but I still don't wanna" goddamn that's good

[@cry0genic784]

My favorite thing about avatar that is humanizes everyone even soldiers.

[@__Zeniii__]

I feel so bad for the birthday guy even though he participated in the murd3rs of kany😭

[@user-uk7ck2pf8s]

Same

[@doejhonny]

You can see the difference between the guy working in the engine room and someone like Zhao. Just because you work at Amazon to pay the bills doesn't mean you like Jeff Bezos or Amazon's terrible...everything.

[@kayreacts4763]

I always quote "I CAN"T BELIEVE THE CAPTAIN REMEMBERED MY BIRTHDAY!! He really does care!" Lololol

[@invisanon]

He was ready to pop off XD

[@SoulO117]

Nobody talks about how soldiers clinking in metal armor are just dropped into the water. Like they’re dead. Happy birthday Shakespeare

[@GammaWolf99]

But they're like, clearly floating afterwards

[@n543576]

Aang in the prison is one of the funniest moments in the show, i love subversion in my shows but my child brain was not ready for Aang to easily get out of the headvice but also the prisoners to give genuine relationship advice.

[@typo1345]

I'm having my friend watch Avatar (he's never seen it) and he was like "Okay but it looks like he can easily get out of that" then Aang proceeded to easily slip out of the stockade and he lost it lmao now I'm waiting for him to see "Over here!" (easily bends the rock cuffs off to wave, then bends them back on)

[@Salrie-Antlerhorn]

Quinn Lee and the Engineer became fast friends upon meeting each other and the engineer was sweet to wish the soldier happy birthday despite being dumped in the water.

[@jemarcusq3942]

One of my favorites is how everyone /swears/ they've heard of pentapox before. "Pentapox? Didn't your cousin Chang die from that?"

[@sweet.p34]

One of the thing I loved most about atla were the background characters having personalities and stories!!

[@derekmann8239]

It’s my headcanon that those FN soldiers abandoned the war efforts to go celebrate that dude’s birthday.

[@Lu_R]

I love this so much Also I don't think they would be able to do anything else after being dropped from that Zeppelin

[@lonelypancake5979]

Headcanon accepted

[@veroxid]

How much you wanna bet the remake won't have *_any_* of this charm after the original creators ditched it due to "creative differences?"

[@sirsneakybeaky]

Didnt they say they were scrubbing saka's sexism out? Despite it being a whole ark of character development for him.

[@veroxid]

@@sirsneakybeaky Originally had a completely different rant, but I just realized a much better point to make. My head-cannon is that the original creators knew that sometime in the future, people will try to remake the Avatar series. So, in response to that - again, personal head-cannon - they decided to use one of their last episodes to pre-imptively mock said remakes. Specifically, I'm referring to that Fire Nation Theatre episode.

[@supakku]

@@veroxidlol

[@dazeen9591]

adaptations always end up being worse

[@veroxid]

​@@dazeen9591 That's a pretty hard take that actually isn't true. Now if you were to say "MODERN adaptations," then that would be true. But so so many "classics" are just remakes and adaptions. For instance, people complain about Disney "only making remakes now a days" forgetting that is exactly how they started: by created adaptations of previous work. That's. . .all they've _ever_ done, really. For instance, probably one of my favorite ones to point out is that the original Lion King was just an adaptation of Hamlet.

[@user-uw2jy1ei8f]

The birthday one at the end is so depressing to me. Imagine going to work today thinking nobody remembered your birthday, and then your captain calls everyone on the ship to celebrate a "Birthday", then you get exited, because your boss DIDN'T forget your birthday, then it turns out it was all a trick and you get dumped into the ocean. I hope he goes home to a loving family who did remember his birthday, and he lives a happy life.

[@Noobie2k7]

I mean nobody will ever forget his birthday ever again though, since it's on the day the 100 year war finally ended. He's set for the rest of his life.

[@ariesdork5283]

1:41 “das good” 💀 2:53 “So there I was and I was like y’know- auUgHhh“ my fav one

[@DrShoesMcGee]

"Das goooood" has become an important part of my vocabulary

[@codysellers4151]

Reminds us that fire nation soldiers are people too.

[@FilipinoNoob69420]

Literally every soldier in fiction and real life

[@mr.boomguy]

@@FilipinoNoob69420 Yup. They just sadly become dehumanized, just another no. on the statistic or worse, fodder. So it's nice to see the individual even within a story

[@Ferdinand_VonAegir]

Man, I just feel bad for the firebender on his birthday.

[@rocketspaceships]

I want to believe that the guy whose birthday it was, did eventually get a sweet cake

[@lynnk58]

He was so happy someone remembered his birthday😭 I’m really hoping he got to celebrate it properly

[@joannamyers1268]

​@@lynnk58I hope so too. It could have been worse, but "I didn't die in a fiery crash today" doesn't make for the best of birthdays.

[@Shovel________________]

2:27 i like how the guards of the place just put that wooden thing on aang, probably took one look at it and just went "yeah that should be fine"

[@respectthefish4992]

the workers on that airship meeting for the first time 🥺😭

[@vonraven947]

its so sad

[@heoniebee9566]

"Well, what was it, a buffalo or a bison?" "I'm...not really sure of the difference, sir."

[@PlebNC]

As funny as it is, it's kinda dark they dumped all those airship guards out at sea, miles from land, in heavy armour or lack of any cold resistant clothing. Those guys absolutely died from drowning or exhaustion.

[@jingles123456789ify]

But Aang and the crew never killed anybody 💀😂

[@lilketchuppacc]

Zuko made it

[@Benzodrewd]

Don’t worry, I’m told that cowards float

[@PlebNC]

@@Benzodrewd Jesus dude, they're conscripted soldiers under a totalitarian regime that either brainwashed them into thinking committing atrocities is noble or were socially ostracised or executed for what would be seen as treason. Punish the officers not the rank and file.

[@PlebNC]

@@lilketchuppacc Zuko has had tougher training than those soldiers and was wearing clothes that are easier to swim in. This is the guy who carried Aang across the North Pole with no supplies and survived. Fire National regular troops are pampered children by comparison.

[@neon-leon-]

The atla fandom is the only one who care about the birthday of a random soldier and I totally understand that, I also wish justice for him ever since I watched that episode when I was a child

[@josephadventure4635]

Anyone else notice the birthday guy’s helmet falls off when the Bomb bay doors open?

[@josephadventure4635]

Thx for the heart :)

[@BlueSoulGamer]

It was his special day, so the animators allowed him to have a face 😂

[@josephadventure4635]

@@BlueSoulGamer lol

[@rimka6593]

The guards are always entertaining and chill when they're just hanging