Nickelodeon’s Avatar Had to Add "Last Airbender" to Its Title Because of James Cameron’s Movie

One of the creators of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender, animator Giancarlo Volpe, has recently shared that Nickelodeon Animation Studios initially planned to name the animated series simply "Avatar", however, they were forced to change the name.

As it turns out, despite the story about the last surviving Airbender starting airing back in February 2005, more than four years before James Cameron's Avatar entered the big screens, in 2004, a year before the animated series release, the team found out that Cameron had already owned rights to the title. As a result, the creators of the Avatar Aang story came up with the subtitle "The Last Airbender".

If you're not familiar with the Nickelodeon series, Avatar: The Legend of Aang takes place in a world divided into four nations, with each of them being associated with one of the four elements – water, earth, fire, and air. Some people in each nation have the ability to telekinetically manipulate one of the elements through "bending" techniques, and only one person in this world is able to bend all the elements – this person is called "Avatar".

While "avatar" has a different meaning in Cameron's movie, Volpe drew attention to the fact that the sequel to Avatar is called "The Way of Water" and joked that if the third film has the subtitle "The Firebending Masters", the team that worked on The Last Airbender will "riot."

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