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27 unusual facts about Avatar


2010: Odyssey Two

During his journey, the Avatar of Bowman travels to Earth, making contact with significant individuals from his human past: He visits his mother and brushes her hair (shortly before she dies), and he appears to his ex-girlfriend on her television screen.

Aang

He is an incarnation of the "Avatar", the spirit of the planet manifested in human form.

Arduin

Created by Hargrave as a tongue-in-cheek tribute, the adventure itself was essentially a quest to gain life-prolonging treasure while avoiding Mazmanian's wandering Avatar, an extremely powerful Lich-like entity who would either attack or help a party on random percentage roll.

Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise

The events of The Promise Part 1 begin immediately after the last episode of the original series, "Avatar Aang", but after a few pages move forward one year later.

Avatar's Abode

The idea to establish a place dedicated to Meher Baba in Queensland grew out of a letter from Meher Baba’s sister and disciple, Mani Irani.

Brea Olinda High School

Though not an alumnus, James Cameron, Director of such blockbuster films as Terminator 2, Avatar and Titanic lived in Brea and drove the lunch truck for BOUSD food services while writing The Abyss

Christian Bouchet

In the original edition of his book Hitler's Priestess Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote that Bouchet has been associated with Nazi mysticism and that, whilst spending a year in India, he met with Savitri Devi to study Kali Yuga and her ideas about Adolf Hitler as an Avatar.

Dasabodhisattuppattikatha

The Dasabodhisattuppattikathā ("Ten Bodhisattva Birth Stories" or "Lives of the Ten Bodhisattvas") is a Pali Buddhist text that deals with the Avatars of ten future Buddhas.

Dave Filoni

He is most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

He has worked on episodes of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Empty Glass

This concept was derived from the work of the Persian poet Hafiz, which Pete Townshend became interested in from his involvement with Avatar, Meher Baba.

Giancarlo Volpe

In 2004, Volpe went on to direct 19 episodes of the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender; he won an Annie award for episode 213, "The Drill".

Gotrek and Felix

The Harbinger of Stromfels (Slayer of the Storm God): An Avatar of the Storm God, Stromfels, the Harbinger is a gigantic creature composed of the lower body of a human and the upper body of a shark.

Hook sword

In the popular animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Earth Kingdom rebel Jet utilizes a pair of hook swords.

Hosur Narasimhaiah

The committee was also involved in a controversy with Sai Krishna of Pandavapura (a tiny village near Mysore), a mini-Avatar and an alleged protégé of Sathya Sai Baba.

Kara Thrace

She experiences a conversation with an Avatar with the appearance of Leoben set in her apartment on Caprica.

Lauren Montgomery

She also worked on Young Justice and provided storyboards for Book 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon. In 2012, Montgomery returned to Nickelodeon and the Avatar franchise, now as the supervising producer and storyboard artist for the sequel series The Legend of Korra.

Patrick Spaziante

Spaziante other works include worked on Mega Man and Transformers for Dreamwave Productions' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the miniseries Muties for Marvel Comics, and Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon Comics, which was based on the television series of the same name.

Silence Day

Man’s inability to live God’s words makes the Avatar’s teaching a mockery.

Skiatook, Oklahoma

Actor Wes Studi of films such as Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo: An American Legend, The New World, and Avatar spent a portion of his childhood years living with his family in Skiatook.

Steve Jameson

Sixteen short stories written by Jameson are accompanied by sound effects, Hollywood music writer Kris Kraft's musical score, voice overs by actresses such as Jane Barry Haynes and Mani Irani, sister of Avatar Meher Baba; with videography by Emmy award-winning television producer Chris Riger.

Super deformed

Americans have used this on several American anime TV shows like 2005's most popular TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender (Super Deformed shorts only).

Tattwabodhini Patrika

The Patrika criticised Avatarism or messiah worship, and ran into long debates with both the Christian missionaries and orthodox sections of Hindu society.

The Treasure of the Ten Avatars

Near the main temple they find some sort of control panel with ten buttons, each featuring a different Hindu Avatar.

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

After proving his or her understanding in each of the virtues, locating several artifacts and finally descending into the dungeon called the Stygian Abyss to gain access to the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, the protagonist becomes an Avatar.

The concept of virtues was inspired by a TV show about the Avatars of Hindu mythology, which described the avatars as having to master sixteen different virtues.

Who Came First

Townshend had already participated with other artists on two previous albums in tribute to his Avatar Meher Baba, Happy Birthday and I Am.


Avatar 2000

The Avatar 2000 was an early and influential long-wheelbase recumbent bicycle designed by David Gordon Wilson.

Clip show

Some examples of shows that have used clip shows in this sense are: Animaniacs, Frasier, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Friends, Thunderbirds, Everybody Loves Raymond, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Cheers, and Avatar: The Last Airbender (though this recap episode had no actual clips).

Devnarayan

The deities invoked are Sharada, Ganesha, Sarasvati, Maccha, Kacchap, Varaha, Narasimha, Vaman, Parashuram, Ram and Krishna Avatars of Vishnu, Bhairunath, Ramdev, Shani, Surya and Chandrama.

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Having enjoyed public and critical acclaim, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is the all-time largest box office ticket seller and highest-grossing film in Brazil, ahead of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands and Avatar, respectively.

Huangshan

James Cameron, director of the 2009 film Avatar, cited Huangshan as one of his influences in designing the fictional world of that film.

Jake Boritt

In 2010 he wrote and produced the "The Gettysburg Story: Battlefield Auto Tour" performed by actor Stephen Lang ('Avatar', 'Gettysburg').

Judy Baldwin

Baldwin worked as a director for Avatar Studios in St. Louis for two years before being encouraged to move to Los Angeles by actor Kevin Kline, also a St. Louis native, who helped secure freelance work for Baldwin upon her arrival.

Kanva Shakha

Some major Achrayas who belong to Kanva Shakha are Sureshvaracharya(Mandana Mishra) who was disciple of Shankaracharya and Madhvacharya founder of Dwaita Siddahanta , great Dattareya avatar of Akkalkot Swami Samarth was born in Kanva Shakha.

Kondha

In a case of life seeking to imitate art, the tribe appealed to James Cameron to help them stop Vedanta, reckoning that the author of the film Avatar, which deals with a similar subject, would understand their plight.

Kurmai

The name of the village is originated by the word kurma which means tortoise as there is a historical and ancient temple called Kurma Varadaraja Swamy temple, where the God is the tortoise avatar(Kurmavataram) of the Lord Mahavishnu.

Lara Bingle

On 18 October 2013, it was confirmed that Bingle had started a new relationship with fellow Australian and Avatar actor Sam Worthington.

Look Effects

Since being founded in 1998, Look Effects has worked on over 100 major motion pictures and television series including Black Swan, Avatar, Captain America, and The Muppets Movie

Luis Bacqué

At the beginning of 2013 he has been the engineer of the Damian Allegretti - Erik Friedlander - Tony Malaby trio album recorded at Avatar Studios.

Mahdi

In Dasam Granth, the Sikh scripture attributed to the tenth Sikh guru Guru Gobind Singh prophesizes the Mahdi (referred to as "Mahdi Meer") to be born for a purpose of defeating Kalki, an avatar of Vishnu.

Mahuri

In a part of the Bhagavata Purana, which is named Sukha Sagar (that is, the Ocean of Bliss), there is a mythical story which states that Brahma felt that the Avatar (incarnation) of Krishna had already taken place on the earth (Prithvi).

Malaudh

The ruling families of Patiala, Nabha, Jind, Faridkot, Bhadaur and Malaudh all descend from the Raja of Jaisalmer Maharawal Jaisal, Yadu Bhatti Rajputs of Chandra Vanshi clan and descendants of Lord Krishna, Avatar of Lord Vishnu.

Mauro Fiore

Other prior films that he worked on before Avatar are Training Day, The Hire: Ticker, Tears of the Sun, Smokin' Aces and The Kingdom.

Michael Dante DiMartino

In a 2010 interview the president of Nickelodeon, Cyma Zarghami, confirmed that Michael Dante DiMartino and Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Bryan Konietzko were developing a new series for the network, called The Legend of Korra.

Michelle Bridges

The company used motion capture to create an avatar of Bridges to appear in the game, which will use the Kinect technology.

Monkey-man of Delhi

Theories on the nature of the Monkey Man ranged from an Avatar of the Hindu god Hanuman, to an Indian version of Bigfoot.

Mugdha Chaphekar

She went to star in the drama serial Mere Ghar Aayi Ek Nanhi Pari on Colors in the main lead for which she had a completely different avatar.she was also the part of the show Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo on SAB TV as Aarti alongside Sumeet Raghavan and Tiku Talsania.

Na'vi language

Frommer also translated into Naʼvi four sets of song lyrics that had been written by Cameron in English, and he helped vocalists with their pronunciation during the recording of James Horner's Avatar score.

Peter Ludlow

It was the unofficial newspaper for the Alphaville server of The Sims Online, where Ludlow used the avatar Urizenus Sklar.

Phoenix King

"The Phoenix King", part 1 of Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle, the series finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender

S-Men

Mzee - A extremely strong and tough humanoid tortoise man who is actually the avatar-host of an African god of destruction (ala Juggernaut).

Siddhashrama

In Valmiki's Ramayana it is said that Viswamitra has his hermitage in Siddhashrama and it was the erstwhile hermitage of Vishnu, when he appeared as the Vamana Avatar.

Species dysphoria

In 2007, Los Angeles artist Micha Cárdenas created Becoming Dragon, a "mixed-reality performance" in which a virtual reality experience was created to allow a person to completely experience life through the eyes of a dragon avatar in the virtual world, Second Life.

Stroker Serpentine

Near the weekend of July 4, 2007, Alderman's company Eros LLC filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Second Life avatar named Volkov Catteno, temporarily named "John Doe" in court documents, for copying and reselling his virtual SexGen beds.

The Alphaville Herald

It was originally a newspaper for the Alphaville virtual city of The Sims Online, where Ludlow used the avatar Urizenus Sklar.

The Mask of Loki

The Mask of Loki (1990) is an epic science fiction/fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny and Thomas T. Thomas, detailing a centuries long struggle between the avatars of Loki and Ahriman.

Tim Webber

He has been the visual effects supervisor in some of the most technically and artistically challenging projects, including, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008), James Cameron's Avatar (2009), and Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans (2010).

To the Devil a Daughter

Verney learns that the order really harbours a group of practicing Satanists who have prepared Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth upon her eighteenth birthday.

Vazirani

Vaziranis are basically Hindu-Sindhis and worship Lord Jhulelal, an Avatar born according to divine message depicted to humans through Bhagvad Gita to protect Hindu-Sindhis.

WeeMee

A WeeMee is an avatar, it can be exported to Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.