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is a fictional character and the protagonist of Nickelodeon's animated television series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' (created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko), voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen. Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple. He is an incarnation of the "Avatar", the spirit of light and peace manifested in human form. As the Avatar, Aang controls all four elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. At 12 years old, Aang is the series' reluctant hero, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the imperialist Fire Nation. Aang's character has appeared in other media, such as trading cards,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game )〕 video games, T-shirts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Nickelodeon Shop — Avatar )〕 and web comics. Aang has also been portrayed by Noah Ringer in the feature film ''The Last Airbender'',〔Marnell, Blair. (Airbender' Star Noah Ringer Joins ‘Cowboys And Aliens’ Cast." ) ''MTV''. April 19, 2010. Web. February 14, 2011.〕 and voiced by D.B. Sweeney in the sequel animated series ''The Legend of Korra''. ==Creation and conception== Aang's character was developed from a drawing by Bryan Konietzko, depicting a bald man with an arrowlike design on his head, which the artist developed into a picture of a child with a flying bison. Meanwhile, Michael Dante DiMartino was interested in a documentary about explorers trapped in the South Pole, which he later combined with Konietzko's drawing. The plot they described corresponds with the first and second episodes of ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', where the "water people" (Katara and Sokka) rescue the "air guy" (Aang) while "trapped in a snowy wasteland" (the Southern Water Tribe) with "some fire people () are pressing down on them" (Fire Nation Troops and Zuko).〔〔 The creators of the show intended Aang to be trapped in an iceberg for one thousand years, later to wake inside a futuristic world, wherein he would have a robot named Momo and a dozen bison. The creators lost interest in this theme, and changed it to one hundred years of suspended animation. The robotic Momo became a flying lemur, and the herd of bison was reduced to one.〔 Airbending, the martial art Aang primarily uses in the show, is based on an "internal" Chinese martial art called Baguazhang. This fighting style focuses on circular movements, and does not have many finishing moves; traits meant to represent the unpredictability of air and the peaceful character of Airbenders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Nickelodeon's Official Avatar: The Last Airbender Flash Site )〕 In the episode "Tales of Ba Sing Se", Aang’s name was written as 安昂 (ān áng) in Chinese. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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