Avatar: The Last Airbender Characters - Other Characters

Other Characters

• The Cabbage Merchant (voiced by James Sie) is a character (who was never directly given a name) that appears occasionally throughout Seasons one and two. His character is used mainly for comic relief. The cabbage merchant was an Earth Kingdom salesman who specialized in selling cabbages. He repeatedly had his cabbages destroyed or damaged (an example of a Running Gag). His ill-fated produce products have met their demise by a multitude of characters, first by the Earth kingdom city of Omashu's import control earthbenders, second by Aang and the Omashu mail delivery service, again by Aang being chased by pirates, next by a platypus-bear at the Ba Sing Se ferry boat center, and lastly again by Aang within the walls of Ba Sing Se when the zoo animal mass release gets out of control and a rabiroo feasts on his supply. A cabbage stand could be seen destroyed in Gaipan in the flood initiated by Jet and his Freedom Fighters, however it was never confirmed to belong to the cabbage merchant. His only speaking parts throughout the series is to shout his catchphrase "My cabbages!". When Aang and his mail delivery service fiasco comes to an end he shouts "Off with their heads, one for each head of cabbage!" during their trial. Again when Aang from the pirates, he shouts "This place is worse than Omashu!", in Ba Sing Se as the rabiroo has lunch, his final speaking part "MY CABB!... Oh forget it." as he throws a head of cabbage over his shoulder exiting the scene. His last appearance was when he was a material source for the fire nation play and he was referred to as "a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage", though he made no actual appearance. Although the cabbage merchant doesn't appear in The Legend of Korra, another man (also voiced by James Sie) runs a company named Cabbage Corps. A statue of the Cabbage Merchant stands in front of the company's main gate.

• Chief Arnook (voiced by Jon Polito) is the chief of the Northern Water Tribe, and father of Princess Yue. In episode "The Siege of the North", he helps to defeat the Fire Nation in their raid of the tribe, but is not seen or mentioned thereafter.

• Princess Yue (voiced by Johanna Braddy in the animated series, and portrayed by Seychelle Gabriel in the live-action film) is the daughter of Chief Arnook of the Northern Water Tribe. When Yue nearly died at birth, her father invoked the Moon Spirit to give her life, which it granted, knowing she would be useful to it thereafter. She first appears in the series as a sixteen-year-old girl engaged to marry the warrior Hahn; but befriends and eventually develops a romantic bond with Sokka. When the Moon Spirit is killed by Fire Admiral Zhao, Yue gives up her mortal existence to become the new Moon Spirit, in which role she re-appears in later episodes. The word Yue (月) means "moon" in Mandarin Chinese.

• Bato (voiced by Richard McGonagle) is a friend of Hakoda. He is first seen in the episode "Bato of the Water Tribe", and later takes part in Sokka's invasion of the Fire Nation; eventually to be imprisoned at its failure, and released in the finale.

• King Bumi (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) is the eccentric, elderly king of Omashu, an Earth Kingdom stronghold. As a child, Bumi was a close friend of Aang. Despite his age and apparent frailty, Bumi is an Earthbending master, himself claiming at one point to be "the most powerful Earthbender you'll ever see". He appears only once in each of the first two seasons and twice in the third season: in Book 1 wherein his character is introduced, in Book 2 when Aang seeks to learn Earthbending from him, and in Book 3 wherein he aids Iroh and others to recapture Ba Sing Se from the Fire Nation and when Zuko and the others go looking for Aang and encounter the White Lotus Society. The word Bumi comes from the Sanskrit 'bhumi' meaning 'earth'.

• Combustion Man (also known as "Sparky Sparky Boom Man"; both of these are labels given to him by Sokka, as his real name is unknown) first appeared in the third season as an assassin hired by Prince Zuko to kill Aang, and served as an antagonist until his apparent death. His chief weapon is a unique method of Firebending allowing him to generate explosions from a third eye painted on his forehead, whereby he terrorizes the Avatar and his friends. He has no speaking parts and shows no mannerism except those suggesting a fierce attachment to his purpose.

• Earth King Kuei (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is the king of the Earth Kingdom. In his first appearance, he is shown to have been tricked by his chancellor, who kept the war with the Fire Nation a secret from him. Upon learning of the war, the king joined forces with the Avatar and arrested his chancellor, eventually leading to the fall of the Earth Kingdom capital of Ba Sing Se. His final appearance is at the beginning of the third season, where it is said that he left to travel the world with his pet bear Boscow.

• Monk Gyatso (voiced by Sab Shimono) was a member of the Council of Elders at the Southern Air Temple. He was Aang's guardian and surrogate father, and is noted for his kindness and sense of humor. Gyatso also had a strong friendship with the previous Avatar, Roku. Gyatso was killed by Firebenders before the beginning of the show, and only appears in flashbacks and dream sequences.

• Hakoda (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) is Katara's and Sokka's father and the leader of the Southern Water Tribe. Much of Sokka's ingenuity and craftiness in the show is attributed to Hakoda's teachings. Hakoda went to fight the Fire Nation before the beginning of the series, reappearing later to lead his son's invasion.

• Haru (voiced by Michael Dow) is an Earthbender that Sokka, Aang, and Katara meet in the first season, and whom they assist freeing his father and other Earthbenders from the Fire Nation. Like many other characters, he appears later in an invasion of the Fire Nation. After the invasion fails, Haru leaves with Aang and his group for the Western Air Temple, but is separated from them during Azula's attack. He is reunited with his father at the end of the finale.

• Tyro (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is an Earthbender and the father of Haru. In "Imprisoned" he and many other Earthbenders escape from a Fire Nation prison thanks to his son, Katara, Aang and Sokka. He later joins the invasion of the Fire Nation with his son, but is captured after the invasion fails. He is seen with Haru at the end of the finale.

• Jeong Jeong (voiced by Keone Young) is one of Aang's firebending teachers; a former admiral of the Fire Nation's navy, who lives in exile with his followers. Though he had once been Zhao's teacher, Zhao quit because he believed Jeong Jeong's teaching methods ineffective. It is later revealed that he is a member of the international Order of the White Lotus, as which he helped reconquer Ba Sing Se in the series finale.

• Long Feng (voiced by Clancy Brown) is the intelligent Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se, head of the Dai Li, and advisor and chancellor to the Earth King. Shortly after his appearance in the show, it becomes apparent that the Earth King is a figurehead of Ba Sing Se's government, with Long Feng holding power. He utilizes the Dai Li, Ba Sing Se's cultural protectors, to silence anyone who is disrupting the peace, secretly imprisoning them and using hypnotic tactics to subdue them. This effectively keeps the citizens of Ba Sing Se in ignorance of the war until Ba Sing Se is captured by the Fire Nation.

• Joo Dee (voiced by Lauren Tom) is a woman in Ba Sing Se, who appears as the protagonists' hostess but later turns out to be one of the Dai Li. She shows little emotion at all and, despite seeming brainwashed, understands the city's situation.

• June (voiced by Jennifer Hale) is a bounty hunter who travels around the Earth Kingdom. She hunts her prey with the help of her mount, a giant beast called a Shirshu, named Nyla, which is totally blind but possesses a heightened sense of smell. June is confident and self-assured, and considered very beautiful, but dangerous. She also possesses impressive physical strength.

• Avatar Kyoshi (voiced by Jennifer Hale) was the incarnation immediately preceding Avatar Roku, 412 years before the start of the series. Kyoshi is described as a gigantic woman, possessing the largest feet of any Avatar, and lived to be 230 years old. Her traditional weapons are golden metal fans which, in addition to her manner of dress and style of fighting, were adopted by the young warrior women of Kyoshi Island, which she detached from the mainland to defy a self-stimulated conqueror.

• Longshot is another member of the Freedom Fighters. He accompanies Jet and Smellerbee to Ba Sing Se. He only says one line in the final episode in which he appears, "Lake Laogai".

• Nyla is a male Shirshu (an immense, musteline-like predator), who served as the mount and companion of the bounty hunter June. Characteristic of his species Nyla's tongue contains neurotoxins that temporarily paralyze a human being. Also like other Shirshu, Nyla has no eyes and "sees" by his powerful scent receptors; a trait utilized by Sokka by tipping perfumes into Nyla's path.

• The Mechanist (voiced by Rene Auberjonois) is a brilliant and eccentric inventor and engineer from the Earth Kingdom who led his people into the mountains to take up residence in the abandoned Northern Air Temple when their village was destroyed by a flood. His ingenious inventions, some inspired by the Airbenders, made his people's lives easier. Because of his scientific approach to the world, he becomes friends with Sokka, and they develop a number of devices together. Unfortunately, his abilities come to the attention of the Fire Nation and he is coerced into developing a number of machines, redeeming himself after he breaks the arrangement and helps Aang repel the Fire Nation when they raid the temple. He later aids the invasion on the Day of the Black Sun with numerous new inventions, including waterbending-powered submarines. When the invasion fails, he is captured and later reunited with his son Teo after the war.

• Teo (voiced by Daniel Samonas) is the Mechanist's son, rendered paraplegic and wheelchair-bound after a flood destroyed their village and killed Teo's mother. To give his son and the villagers a new and happier life, the Mechanist led them into the mountains, where Teo became adept with at flying on a special glider. A kind-hearted, respectful, and honest boy, he soon becomes friends with Aang. After discovering that his father has been reluctantly creating machines for the Fire Nation, Teo aids Aang repelling Fire Nation raiders. He returns during the invasion of the Day of the Black Sun, but is forced to separate from his father when the Avatar's group is forced to surrender. He accompanies Aang to the Western Air Temple and befriends Haru and the Duke before the Avatar's group is forced to flee when Azula attacks the temple. He is reunited with his father after the war.

• Master Pakku (voiced by Victor Brandt) is a Waterbending master and instructor of the North Pole's Northern Water Tribe Waterbending classes. He is dryly sarcastic and very serious about his teachings. He is also stubbornly set in the customs of his culture, as by only teaching Waterbending to male students; but his ways change after identifying Katara as the granddaughter of his runaway fiance' Kanna, whom he later marries when he leaves the North pole to rebuild the Southern Water Tribe.

• Master Piandao (voiced by Robert Patrick) is a swordsmith and master of swordsmanship, based in the Fire Nation, who teaches a foundation of his skills to Sokka. He is later shown assisting the others of the White Lotus in recapturing Ba Sing Se.

• Smellerbee (voiced by Nika Futterman) is a Freedom Fighter. She was first seen in the episode "Jet", wherein she helped destroy a dam. She is later accompanying Jet and Longshot to Ba Sing Se, but leaves Jet after watching him become obsessed with proving that Iroh and Zuko are Firebenders. She and Longshot are not seen after Jet is killed in "Lake Laogai".

• The Duke (voiced by Mitch Holleman in Book 1, and Nick Swoboda in Book 3) is the youngest of the Freedom Fighters. He does not accompany Jet to Ba Sing Se but is later seen with Pipsqueak in the Black Sun invasion force. He goes with Aang to the Western Air Temple after the invasion's failure, and is separated from them after Azula's attack. He is also seen hugging Toph at the end of the finale.

• Pipsqueak (voiced by Sterling Young) is the largest and strongest of the Freedom Fighters, despite his name. He joins the invasion against the Fire Nation and is taken captive when it fails. He is seen again at the end of the finale. He is friends with The Duke.

• Xin Fu (voiced by Marc Graue) was a promoter and host of an earth-bending prizefighting ring who later becomes a bounty hunter, hired by Toph's father to bring her home. He works with Earthbending instructor turned bounty hunter Master Yu to accomplish this. While searching for Toph, he also briefly pursues Zuko and Iroh. He succeeds in capturing Toph in a metal box, but she manages to escape by creating Metalbending and proceeds to seal him and Master Yu inside. Neither of them are shown again after this.

• The Boulder (voiced by Mick Foley) is an earthbender first seen in the episode "The Blind Bandit" as a prizefighter; but who re-appears during the attempt to invade the Fire Nation. He speaks of himself in the third person, and his name is thought a parody of The Rock.

• Big Bad Hippo (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is an opponent of Boulder's in an Earthbending match, and later appears with him in the invasion. He is a tall, heavy man with 4 especially-prominent teeth, and is possibly a parody of King Hippo of the Punch-Out!! franchise.

• Fire Lord Sozin (voiced by Ron Perlman) was the Fire Lord who started the war with the other nations. In a flashback, it is shown that he was once friends with Avatar Roku, but disobeyed his advice against war and later permitted his death. With the Avatar no longer there to maintain balance, Sozin wiped out the Air Nomads using the power of a nearby comet, which was renamed Sozin's Comet in his honour. It is hinted that, in his last moments before death, Sozin regretted his actions.

• Ursa (voiced by Jen Cohn) is the mother of Zuko and Azula and the former wife of Fire Lord Ozai. When Zuko and Azula were still children (before the start of the series), Ozai banished her to an unknown location, and she had never been seen or heard from since. While Ozai's favorite child was Azula, Zuko's sweet and kind nature as a child led him to be Ursa's favorite. At the end of the series, Zuko confronts his father about her location. She is also the granddaughter of Avatar Roku.