| NOTE: This page specifically covers the M. Night Shyamalan interpretation of the character as the original Aang and Netflix version are very well-received character that is beloved by the great majority of the fandom. |
Aang is the titular main protagonist of M. Night Shyamalan's infamous 2010 movie, The Last Airbender based on the famous Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
He was played by Noah Ringer.
What Makes Him a Scrappy?[]
- For starters, he was whitewashed for no good reason as they cast a Caucasian actor to take the part of Aang. Not only that, but his name is also mispronounced as "Ong" instead of "Ah-ng" (which would later even spawn an internet meme).
- The original Aang at Book 1 (which the film was based off of) was a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky, optimistic, and naïve child who was more concerned about having fun than training to become the Avatar, something he demonstrates when there is a scene where he is playing with Momo during one of Master Pakku's lessons, and even when he wasn't having fun, it was still comedic and entertaining, such as offering the pirate captain two coins (originally 1) instead of 200 for the waterbending scroll. This often made him come off as funny and cute to the audience, even if it annoyed the other characters. However, Aang was now reduced to a whiny, serious, and moody brat who lost the original's charisma.
- While the original Aang had actually understandable reasons of fleeing the Air Temple after finding out he is the Avatar, as he became an outcast across the Air Nomads due to being seen as overpowered by the other boys and also not being allowed to grow up normally, despite the protests of Aang himself and Monk Gyatso, this one simply fled because as the Avatar he couldn't "have a family". This also contradicts the original series, where Avatars did have a family. Even Aang himself had parents, despite them never being shown on screen. To add insult to injury, he also discovers it a whole year later at 13.
- Noah Ringer's performance is mediocre at best and flat-out bad at worst.
- Many moments of Aang in the original show (such as fusing with the Blue Spirit) was removed and changed from the movie. He also took Katara's place of trying to incite the Earthbenders to rebel against the prison staff.
- This is done to the point that Aang contributes hardly anything to the story, which was now mostly contributed by Sokka and Katara, unlike in the original Book 1, where he contributes a great deal to the overall storyline.
- One could argue that due to time reasons the movie couldn't show everything from Book 1, but from what was left shown Aang's character being derailed.
- In addition, they cut the moments that exactly demonstrates how the Avatar was supposed to be the messiah of the ATLA universe, such as Aang solving a long rivalry between two tribes by making up a story.
External links[]
- Aang on the Avatar Wiki
- Aang on the Heroes Wiki
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