While his technical know-how and clever planning tend to get the job done, Sokka also knows how to throw down.Badass Normal: The only non-bender of his friends (except for Suki), but makes up for it with his brains and swordsmanship.When Katara points out that Aang has contacted spirits regularly (and he was once kidnapped by one and stuck in the spirit world), he dismisses it with "That's Avatar stuff it doesn't count." The second season episode "The Swamp" is one good example, in which he refuses to believe that the swamp called forth spirits. Arbitrary Skepticism: Sokka remains skeptical in a world of magic and spirits, even after his first girlfriend turned into a spirit.Also, when Bato unknowingly helped Sokka (and Katara) return to Aang, it was because they heard a wolf who had been separated by its' pack. His main hairstyle is called "Warrior's Wolftail". He's a cunning planner and wears a wolf helmet briefly during season 3. Amazon Chaser: Sokka seems attracted to Suki in part because she's such an excellent fighter.Not only that, but this would bite Aang's successor Korra later as her uncle Unalaq wanted to unleash Vaatu. Because Zhao tried using Tong's library for evil, this soured his relationship with humans, and when Sokka wanted to use the eclipse to stop the Fire Nation, it made it worse for Tong, which made him sheltered his library for any human to use. The worst that came from discovering the solar esclipse was with Wan Shi Tong.
All for Nothing: Sokka planned the Invasion of the Black Sun as a change of plans instead of Aang learning all the elements, but that didn't turn well as not only Ozai wasn't in the room they were trying to find, but also got some of their allies arrested when the invasion happened (though they were able to rescue some of them before Sozin's Comet arrived and the rest of the troops were released after Ozai's defeat.Still, he prefers to find a mundane way to explain happenings without trying to invoke the mystic until its involvement becomes directly evident. He accepts the bending and the spirits eventually, though he was freaked out when first encountering them. Agent Scully: Despite the fact that he lives in a world with Avatars and spirits and magic bending, he still tries to find a scientific explanation for everything.