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Never has there been a more reviled cartoon adaptation than the live-action version of Avatar: the Last Airbender. The film takes a great Nickeloden cartoon, drags it through the mud, then stomps on Aang's head for good measure. There are many, many reasons the movie is bad, but the focus here is on how specific elements of the Avatar show were mishandled in the movie.

Overall, there are about a million ways The Last Airbender movie screwed up Avatar, and now many of them are compiled in one handy list. Obviously, the film became a big example of Hollywood's tendency to whitewash casting, since the good guys are turned into Caucasians.

This list isn't about that, though. This is about all the other things that annoyed Avatar fans throughout the film. So check out this list to relive the worst things about The Last Airbender movie, and learn what exactly M. Night Shyamalan and his team of filmmakers got wrong about the classic cartoon. Short Answer? Everything.

Out of all the stupid changes in the movie, this one might be the most groan-worthy. For whatever reason, M. Night Shyamalan decided to give the other benders slightly more advantage by removing the firebenders ability to create fire. Instead, they can only manipulate existing flames.

This is a drastic change from the cartoon that also means the movie has to bend over backwards making sure fire is always available. In almost every scene with a firebender, whether it's on a ship or in the middle of the Arctic tundra, there's a working fire pit somewhere in the background. It's a an inexplicable change that makes the villains so much less imposing that you wonder how they took over the world in the first place.

In one of the standout episodes of season one, Aang is captured by the evil General Zhao, then rescued by a mysterious figure known as the Blue Spirit. In a cool twist, this turns out to be Zuko, simply saving the Avatar from Zhao so he could capture Aang himself later. After Zuko gets knocked out, he wakes up to find Aang talking to him. Aang tells him about how one of his best friends used to be from the Fire Nation and he asks Zuko if maybe they met before the war, could they be friends?

It's a beautiful scene that hints that maybe the two enemies could be friends if they weren't burdened by their duties. It also sets the stage for the friendship they form in season three. In the movie, Aang sees that it's Zuko under the mask, and then just runs away without a word.

A lot of fans probably walked into the theater wondering, 'How could they possibly do justice to the giant Spirit Monster that Aang turns into at the end of season one?' The answer: by not even trying. In one of the movie's biggest disappointments, the finale is changed almost entirely into something lackluster and anti-climatic. Instead of Aang tapping into his Avatar State to completely wipe out the Fire Nation's army and save the Northern Water Tribe, he instead makes a gigantic wave which causes every single Fire Nation ship to just turn around and go home. It's stupid, and even though it plays into the theme that the Avatar needs to inspire hope and not kill bad guys, it robs the movie of a proper finale.

And here's the thing: having Aang turn into the monster to destroy the Fire Nation doesn't make him a killer. It instead highlights how much the Avatar is capable of and what Aang needs to do in order to harness that power. It is also super cool. But forget all that, because here's a big wave.

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In the cartoon, the Fire Lord is a mysterious presence. He's like the Emperor in Star Wars. His shadowy figure doesn't have a big impact early on, but his menacing presence is felt throughout the first season. In the live-action version, he's briefly played by Cliff Curtis, who is a great actor, but unfortunately the role allows him to be about as intimidating as Mickey Mouse.

The Fire Lord is supposed to be the biggest bad in the whole series, but revealing him as just 'some dude' with a quick appearance so early, the film denies him any mystery, effectively cutting him off at the knees.