Momo from Avatar: The Last Airbender Originally had different names and designs. In the show, Momo is a flying lemur who joins Team Avatar in Season 1, Episode 3, “The Temple of the South Air”. Aang, Katara, Soka, and Appa visit Nanqi Temple to help Aang reconnect with the Qi nomads, and Momo appears as the group explores. Hungry Sokka started chasing Momo, and Aang also chased after Momo while trying to befriend him. During the chase, Aang came across the remains of his friend and mentor Monk Gyatso, distraught and inadvertently entering an incarnation. After Katara calmed him down and things settled down, Aang told Momo and his flying bison, Appa, “We’re all that’s left of this place.”
But Appa and Momo don’t just share their natural habitat with the Air Nomads—Appa and Momo’s designs were inspired by two characters from the same movie. Appa is partly based on Catbus from my neighbor chinchilla And Momo is influenced by Totoro’s own personality. Momo is primarily a cross between a lemur, a bat, and Bryan Konietzko’s childhood cat “Buddy,” but Konietzko wanted to bring out Momo’s cuteness as much as possible, so he went for traits. exaggeration of chinchillas for inspiration. However, Momo’s early designs did not look like chinchillas, cats, lemurs or bats.
in the book Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Art of the Animated SeriesKonietzko explains that Momo started out as “a little cyborg, a Cyclops monkey”, which might fit the steampunk world. Avatar: The Legend of Korrabut not too much the last airbendingMomo was formerly Momo-3, a mischievous cyborg monkey, the remnant of an ancient industrialized civilization. When the world Avatar Modified to be less futuristic, the show’s creators decided that — instead of getting rid of the Fluffy character entirely — they could redesign Fluffy to fit the pre-tech world they’re in. established Avatar.
Momo-3 wields a staff with an arrow on its head, which becomes Aang’s tattoo of a blue arrow and a flying staff. Momo-3 then becomes Momo, a flying lemur with large and pointed ears, a long tail, and retractable wings. At one point, the creators thought that Momo was the reincarnation of the monk Gyatso, but that idea was dropped. Because they thought that Aang, Appa and Momo couldn’t be frozen together in the iceberg, the creators decided to let Aang find Momo at Nanqi Temple. In the show, Momo was named after stealing a peach from Sokka, and Aang called the flying lemur “Momo”—the Japanese word for “peach”. Since that time, Momo has been part of their family.
As Team Avatar’s side animal, Momo is sometimes a team asset, but usually he’s not a comedian. Flying lemurs often perform some hysterical antics, whether it’s stuffing him with fruit so he can’t get through the vent anymore, or bringing the wrong thing to Katara after Katara begs him for water. many times). Momo also develops a close friendship with Appa, the two spend a lot of time together and seem to communicate with each other. But most importantly, transparent Avatar: The Last Airbender, Momo is the symbol of Aang’s hope. When Aang learned that he was indeed the last Airbender, he found hope in the bond he shared with Appa and Momo.