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A booby trap is a concealed device designed to discourage someone from entering a certain place or committing a certain act. When activated, an obstacle appears in an attempt to hinder or entirely stop that person's progress.
Fire Lion turtle
Around 9,832 BG, a huntsman and his team set up a booby trap that would trap its victim in a net and leave them dangling from a tree. They used this trap to catch Mula, a cat deer. She was, however, freed by Wan later.[1]
Sun Warriors
To protect their treasures and their civilization, the Sun Warriors installed booby traps around the perimeter of their city. A tripwire triggers one of the traps. If an intruder steps on the tripwire, the floor drops away, revealing a deadly bed of sharp, wooden spikes.[2]
Avatar Aang activated one of these traps and barely avoided falling into the bed of spikes with the use of his airbending. Zuko overcame this trap by building up enough momentum to run along the wall around it.[3]
Another trap involves the removal of the sunstone from the pedestal in the central room. This causes a sticky green liquid to gush out and fill the room. The slime can only be removed by aardvark sloths, animals domesticated by the Sun Warriors for this purpose.
Fire Nation
The Fire Nation is known to use booby traps on their ships. Aang set one of these off when he and Katara ventured into a shipwreck, despite Katara's fears that the ship could contain booby traps. Their wandering eventually led Aang to accidentally set off a booby trap, locking them inside the ship and firing a flare that alerted Zuko.[4]
Earth Kingdom
While Bolin and Varrick were wandering through the woods in 174 AG on their way to Republic City, they stepped into a booby trap laid out by Earth Empire fugitives, which caught them inside a net and hoisted them up into a tree.[5]
Trivia
- The traps used by the Sun Warriors resemble those used by the Mayans.