Episode
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The King of Omashu
Overview
Aang's abilities as an airbender are challenged by a strange king.
Details
- Series
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2005-03-18
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The King of Omashu is Episode 5 in Book One: Water of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It aired on 2005-03-18. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 4: The Warriors of Kyoshi
The gang arrives at Kyoshi Island and are captured by some Kyoshi warriors. When Aang reveals that he is the avatar, news quickly spreads out, eventually reaching Zuko, who then goes to Kyoshi Island to capture him.
Episode 6: Imprisoned
In a nearby Earth Village, the gang meets a teenage earthbender named Haru. This village lives in fear of the Fire Nation, for soldiers there capture any earthbenders they can find. After Haru is captured for earthbending, Katara is compelled to rescue him.
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Episode 3: The Southern Air Temple
Aang is excited about going home for the first time in one hundred years, but he is shocked to find out that the temple is deserted. Aang tells Sokka and Katara about his childhood as they explore the temple, but they soon discover something that Aang never expected. Meanwhile, Zuko must make repairs to his ship and the only way he can do it is to dock his ship at his rival's naval base.
Episode 7: The Spirit World: Winter Solstice (1)
Aang and friends visit a village being terrorized by an angry spirit. Iroh is captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers.
Episode 2: The Avatar Returns
Katara and Sokka discover that Aang is the long-lost Avatar and must rescue him when a firebending prince named Zuko kidnaps him.
Episode 8: Avatar Roku: Winter Solstice (2)
To contact the spirit of the previous Avatar, Aang must reach a temple in the Fire Nation before the sun sets on the following day. There he will learn what he must do to restore balance to the world. Zuko must defy his banishment to follow Aang.
Episode 1: The Boy in the Iceberg
Two teenage siblings (Sokka and Katara) living in the South Pole discover a very strange boy (Aang), along with his pet flying bison Appa, in an iceberg. But can they trust him when he accidentally draws the war to their village's doorstep?
Episode 9: The Waterbending Scroll
After Katara attempts to teach Aang waterbending, but realizes that he is learning it much faster than she is, she is desperate to improve her abilities. When Katara inadvertently stumbles across a waterbending scroll that can help improve her abilities at a pirate’s store, she decides to steal it, realizing that she couldn’t hope to afford it.
Episode 10: Jet
While traveling towards the North Pole, the group almost gets captured by the Fire Nation. However, when a charismatic young man and his band of rebels attack the Fire Nation camp and rescue them, they learn that they are trying to resist the Fire Nation’s motives to expand their territory. Katara and Aang really enjoy their time with the band of rebels, but Sokka soon discovers that they aren’t as noble as meets the eye.
Episode 11: The Great Divide
While on their way to the North Pole, Aang and his friends arrive at a giant canyon where two groups of refugees are bickering over who should get to go across. Aang decides to walk across with the two groups to ensure they don’t fight one another. However, he soon learns that the two tribes have been feuding for one hundred years and they both believe their actions are justified. But when the predators inside the canyon start to come out, Aang is stuck trying to defend both tribes from each other and the vicious wildlife.
Episode 12: The Storm
Sokka accepts a job for a fisherman who is looking for someone to help him out with his fishing. After the fisherman finds out Aang is the Avatar, Aang runs away in response to the fisherman's hostile reaction. When Katara finds Aang, he begins to reveal his life before he was frozen in the iceberg. Meanwhile, after Zuko gets into a fight with his crew, Iroh tells them about Zuko's complicated past, attempting to make both sides understand each other.
Episode 13: The Blue Spirit
While Aang, Katara and Sokka are traveling, Sokka gets a fever. Katara and Aang try to help Sokka, when Katara also catches the fever. It's up to Aang to go up on his own to save his two friends. But before he can get the medicine he is captured by the newly promoted Admiral Zhao and put in Zhao's fortress.