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The Last Airbender’ Spin-Off Officially Returns With Brand-New Release

Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s next installment is just a few months away, and to prepare fans for the franchise’s return, a spin-off whose previous episode aired last year has officially returned with a new surprise release. This spin-off retold the original story through a new animation format, and this latest installment brought things back to the very start. Avatar: The Last Airbender first aired on Nickelodeon in 2005 and told the story of Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen), a 12-year-old Airbender who’s also the Avatar, someone who can control all four elements — water, earth, fire, and air. This young boy woke up in an iceberg where he had been frozen for 100 years, and now it’s up to him to not only master all four elements, but also stop the 100-Year War led by the Fire Nation.

​​​​​​​Avatar: Chibi Minis is a series of animated shorts that retells key moments from Avatar: The Last Airbender, but in a cuter chibi art style. According to CBR, the series was first announced in 2025 and promised a 10-episode run, but it released only a few episodes before entering a hiatus. Now, the series has returned with a new episode following one of the most important moments in the Avatar TV series.

Over on the Avatar Legends YouTube channel, the episode titled “The ‘True’ Story of Meeting Aang” retells the story of when Katara and Sokka found Aang in the iceberg in the South Pole and Prince Zuko’s first attempt to capture the Avatar. The 3-minute episode features notable moments from the TV show, like the otter penguin race, Katara’s waterbending during her fight with her brother that broke the iceberg, and the trio’s first encounter with — and escape from — Zuko, though this cuter adaptation makes some changes. The previous episode of Avatar: Chibi Minis was titled “Aang’s Fiery Escape!”, was released on October 27, 2025, and it retold the time Zuko first captured Aang in the South Pole, but escaped the Fire Nation ship.































































Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

🎭Ethan Hunt

01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





03

You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





04

The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





05

How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





06

Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





07

Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





08

What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





09

Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





10

It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

The ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Franchise Continues

Since its release, Avatar: The Last Airbender has been highly praised, earning a perfect 100% critics score and a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The series also spawned a sequel called Avatar: The Legend of Korra, a Netflix live-action adaptation, and an animated feature titled Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender. This October, Avatar Studios will release a new installment in the franchise called Avatar: Seven Havens, which introduces a new Avatar, Pavi (Saheli Khan), a young Earthbender, and is set in a world where the Avatar is seen as a threat by both Humans and Spirits.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is available to stream on Netflix and Paramount+. Avatar: Seven Havens will be released on Paramount+ on October 9, 2026. Stay tuned at Collider for more updates.​​​​​​​

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Release Date

2005 – 2008-00-00

Network

Nickelodeon

Showrunner

Michael Dante DiMartino

Directors

Giancarlo Volpe, Ethan Spaulding, Lauren MacMullan, Dave Filoni, Joaquim Dos Santos, Anthony Lioi

Writers

Tim Hedrick, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz, Joshua Hamilton, James Eagan, Joann Estoesta, Nick Malis, May Chan, Katie Mattila


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