Watching as an adult, however, might lead to some kissing confusion when you realize these beloved childhood heroes are actually, you know, children. And then later, watching The Legend of Korra , when you realize some of them go on to make babies with each other … gross. The genocide took place soon after his departure. No birthday celebrations take place among the principle cast of the series, though we can probably tack a year onto each of the characters by the time the show wraps up in Book 3.
Aang is technically , having been encased in ice for a hundred years. His preserved body, however, is still one of a small boy. All of which makes his and Katara's will-they-won't-they romance a little I can't tell you how many people won't even give Avatar a chance because "it's a kid's show.
While Avatar may be marketed toward children, the show deals with very mature themes like warfare, politics, loss, love, betrayal, nationalism, militarism, and countless others. It's one of the few shows made for children that still resonate with kids and adults alike, and the fact that they address such issues without ever losing their Y7 rating is a remarkable achievement.
It may seem juvenile in its first few episodes, but keep in mind it's also because the characters themselves are barely teenagers when the series starts. If you stick with it, you'll be surprised how quickly the characters mature and develop, and how quickly the world grows on you. The bending arts in the Avatar Universe are the ability to bend elements to the user's will.
The elements in Avatar are based on the ancient Greek concept of earth, water, fire, and air, being the four elements that make up all matter.
Logically, there must be four styles of bending for each element, right? Not exactly. There are many sub-styles of bending, such as bending lava, sand, and metal for earthbenders, bloodbending and healing abilities for waterbenders, and lightning generation for firebenders.
But there is a fifth one even more ancient than the other four: energybending, which bends the energy within the human body itself. Only Avatars have this ability. One could easily perceive that Avatar has some pretty black and white morality: the Fire Nation is evil and cruel while all other nations are good and virtuous. While this seems to be true early on, as the series continues, it becomes clear this isn't the case.
When we see citizens of the Fire Nation in the third season, it turns out they're just ordinary folks living their lives and constantly being fed war propaganda. It would be a mistake to say the world of Avatar pushes the belief that some people are "born bad"; it's a consistent message that everyone has the capacity for good and evil.
Zuko's mother and the mystery of what happened to her are central to his development as a character, and many fans were hoping he would meet her at some point in the series. Originally, the writers had intended Zuko and his mother to meet during four-part series finale "Sozin's Comet," but ultimately had to scrap it because there was simply no time or space to make it happen.
Some have claimed that this plot point was left unresolved, but this isn't true. The Avatar graphic novels have continued the story of Zuko trying to locate his mother, Ursa, and locating her is the subject of The Search trilogy.
Though Ursa never appeared in the present timeline of the television series, appearing only in flashbacks, her story was told later via the comics.
Iroh is one of the greatest characters in the Avatar Universe. Overall, he's a generally likable guy, voiced to calm perfection by his late voice actor, Mako Iwamatsu. Few fans would disagree that Iroh is an amazing character that adds a great deal of enjoyment to the show. That being said, like any character and any human being , Iroh has his flaws. It's hinted in flashbacks that he wasn't always the sage-like, angelic uncle we all know and love.
Acting on a vision, he besieged the Earth Kingdom capital of Ba Sing Se for six hundred days, becoming the first person in history to breach its outer wall. He even wrote, "Ba Sing Se is a magnificent city. I hope you all get to see it someday. If we don't burn it to the ground first. But was Aang a weak Avatar? No, no, and no. In fact, Aang was such a powerful Avatar that it was kind of scary. Most Avatars are told of their status at the age of 16, but because of the Hundred Year War, Aang was told at the age of By that time, he had already mastered airbending.
After her initial failure to breach the strong outer wall of Ba Sing Se with the Fire Nation drill , [21] Azula and her team encountered the Kyoshi Warriors led by Suki , who they swiftly defeated and took into custody. Sokka and Toph were arrested while attempting to warn Earth King Kuei against the plot, and Azula sent to a separate dungeon.
Immediately afterward, Long Feng arrived on the scene and commanded the Dai Li to arrest Azula, attempting to double-cross her. Having prepared against a potential counter, Azula instead convinced the Dai Li to pledge loyalty to her.
Realizing that he had been outplayed at his own game, the Grand Secretariat grudgingly surrendered. After taking control of the palace, Azula encountered Zuko in the Upper Ring and managed to convince him to join her in order to redeem his birthright as crown prince. During a battle with the Avatar in the Crystal Catacombs beneath the city, Azula mortally wounded Aang with a lightning strike just after he entered the Avatar State, leaving the Avatar presumed dead forever and the Earth Kingdom capital delivered into the hands of the Fire Nation.
Before leaving the Earth Kingdom capital, she passed her rulership over the city to one Joo Dee , whom she raised to the city's Supreme Bureaucratic Administrator. Back home, both she and her brother were welcomed as war heroes and were greeted by crowds of their people. However, Azula doubted that the Avatar was truly dead and believed that Zuko was hiding something from her. As such, she informed her father that Zuko had killed the Avatar, which would set him up for greater dishonor should he be proven to be alive.
Azula traveled with her friends and Zuko to Ember Island for a brief vacation while the Fire Lord conferred with his advisers in private. Azula took advantage of this opportunity to experience life as a normal person for the very first time, choosing to keep conceal her identity as a princess. The vacation was one of the few moments of her life when Azula opened up and revealed her pain and resentment about her relationship with her mother. Having gained knowledge of the invasion during her infiltration in the Earth Kingdom, Azula warned the Fire Lord in advance, and the royal family evacuated to an underground bunker prior to the invasion.
This distraction allowed the Fire Army to retaliate with full force once their bending was reactivated, bringing the invasion to an end. Later, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee visited the the Boiling Rock , where Zuko had been captured while infiltrating the high-security prison in an attempt to rescue Hakoda. Although it seemed as if Zuko, Sokka, Suki, and Hakoda would fall into the boiling lake during an escape attempt, Mai helped aid their escape. Enraged, Azula confronted her former friend, who confessed that her love for Zuko was greater than her fear for Azula.
At that moment, Azula prepared to attack Mai, but Ty Lee stopped her by blocking her chi. Azula subsequently had both Mai and Ty Lee imprisoned as traitors. During their skirmish, Azula nearly fell to her death after slipping from the airship, but was able to stop her descent by using her hairpin as an anchor in the cliff wall. Despite having failed to eliminate both Zuko and Aang, she smiled as the Avatar and his friends escaped the temple.
Although Azula was astonished to receive the title, her father told her that while she would rule the homeland, he would become Phoenix King and become the supreme ruler of the world. While attempting to cut her hair for the coronation, Azula saw a hallucination of her mother. Azula challenged Zuko to a Comet-Enhanced Agni Kai , to which he agreed, noticing her imbalanced mental state.
During their fight, Azula's attacks were wild, emotional, and reckless, albeit still powerful, while Zuko's attacks were calm and controlled, and eventually, he gained the upper hand. When he began to overpower her, Azula, responding to his challenge to use lightning, directed her attack toward Katara. However, Zuko intercepted her attack and was grievously injured as a result. Seeing herself defeated and usurped as Fire Lord, Azula let out a fiery roar before breaking down, sobbing and screaming.
Azula agreed to help Zuko extract information from Ozai. After her Agni Kai with Zuko and subsequent mental breakdown, Azula's insanity earned her Zuko's pity, and rather than being sent to prison, like their father Ozai was, she was committed to an asylum on a nearby island, where she was continuously monitored. Answering his request for help, Azula said that she needed nothing in return for her assistance, as the mere knowledge of being of service to the Fire Lord would be enough satisfaction.
She also stated that she had been wondering as well what exactly happened to their mother following her disappearance six years earlier. She was placed in an adjoining cell with her father, though they did not speak with each other for half an hour. Zuko observed this and brought them tea in an attempt to make the situation more enjoyable. Azula grabbed hold of the tray with her teeth, however, causing Zuko to fall over.
She angrily accused him of wanting to see her lap up the beverage like an animal since she would have had no other way to drink it while confined in her straitjacket. Her outburst prompted Ty Lee to chi block her, rendering her completely immobile. Due to her poor mental health, Azula questioned the girl as to how "she", referring to Ursa, had managed to break the grasp of fear Azula used to have on her.
Before the situation could escalate any further, Zuko intervened and stated that he had meant no harm and just wanted to ease the conversation with Ozai along. After being placed on her chair again, the chi blocked Azula arrogantly stated that if her brother wanted her and their father to have a dignified conversation, he should leave them alone, which he did.
Azula burned Ursa 's letters, much to Zuko 's shock and horror. When Zuko was taking her back to her old quarters in the palace where she would be staying, he asked her whether or not she had been able to coax the needed information about Ursa's whereabouts from Ozai.
She dodged the question and asked in return whether or not he had ever experienced the sensation of being chi blocked. When Zuko said he had not, she proceeded to meticulously describe the feeling, mentioning that one becomes extremely flexible right before regaining their full control.
To prove her words, she twisted her arm out of her straitjacket and fired a lightning bolt at her brother. In the ensuing skirmish, she managed to free herself entirely and made her way into a nearby building. Via a hidden passageway, she went to one of Ozai's secret chambers, where she retrieved a stack of undelivered letters, which Ursa had written to her hometown.
Before Zuko could take them from her, she burned them, having already read them herself. She concealed one of them, however, as it contained information that suggested Zuko was not actually Ozai's son and thus had no claims to the throne.
Unaware that Ursa wrote down false information because she knew the letter would be intercepted by Ozai, Azula kept it for leverage so she could eventually overthrow Zuko and let her brother believe that all had been destroyed.
In return for knowledge about what had been written in the allegedly burned letter, she requested to be allowed to go with him on his search for their mother. Complying with the request, Zuko released her from the mental institution and allowed her to accompany him, unbound and with dignity.
When she showed herself to Team Avatar, however, she was immediately attacked by Katara. She easily dodged their attacks and proceeded to taunt and insult Sokka. It did not come to a scuffle until the next day when a short struggle ensued between her and Sokka. Azula disarmed him with a small, non-lethal lightning shock after he threatened her with his boomerang. The rest of the team immediately intervened and immobilized her with their bending.
Upon her release, she haughtily stated that if they all just stayed away from her, they would get along perfectly. Azula was unable to cope with the fact that her mother loved her. She traveled with Team Avatar on Appa to Hira'a to find her mother, but her mood was erratic, unpredictable, and characterized by delusions and hallucinations, as she constantly asked Team Avatar how "she" had contacted them, referring to her mother. Upon nearing Hira'a, she attempted to escape by jumping off of Appa.
Aang swooped down and caught her in free fall, but she set his glider afire, causing him to crash to the ground and securing her getaway. She ran away but stopped as she neared a stream and heard her mother's voice coming from the water.
She argued with the reflection, accusing Ursa of desiring to ruin her from the day she was born and heading a conspiracy to strip her of her power, of which she also claimed her mother had been jealous. However, she triumphantly stated that thanks to Ursa's letter, she now had all the proof she needed to take the throne from Zuko.
She thus revealed her own plans to find and kill Ursa herself in order to stop her once and for all. She let out an emotionally toiled scream as the hallucination of her mother confirmed her love for her, prompting Azula to fire a lightning bolt at the mirage, stating the love declaration to be nothing more than Ursa's last treasonous attempt to set her own mind against her.
Azula saved Team Avatar from a moth wasp attack. At that point, Zuko arrived and asked to whom she had been speaking. Reacting aggressively, Azula wanted to strike her brother down but was encased in ice by Katara before she got the chance.
As the waterbender approached her, she accused her of being one of Ursa's co-conspirators. Her rant, however, was interrupted when the wolf spirit appeared and attacked the group. As they were being overpowered by moth wasps coughed up by the spirit, Azula asked Zuko to free her so she could help, convincing him that she could not possibly make things worse for them and stating that if he could not even trust his own family, there was no one left to be trusted.
He melted her icy restraints, and true to her word, she created a large lightning bolt and shot it away from the group, drawing the light-oriented moth wasps and wolf spirit with it. That night, Azula was talking in her sleep and shivering from the cold before Zuko covered her with a blanket: during this time, he found the letter she was hiding and was left stunned by its contents.
The next day, the princess was awoken by another hallucination of Ursa. She was urged by her mother to stop what she was doing, as Ursa believed it was not Azula's destiny to assume the throne. In response, Azula intended to shoot her mother with lightning, but Ursa only pleaded with her more urgently to find her true destiny.
Azula snapped out of her hallucination with Katara's hand in her grip; Sokka prepared his boomerang to strike her, but Katara managed to calm the unstable firebender down. After her outburst, Azula discovered that the letter she had kept was missing and immediately assumed that Zuko had taken it. Her brother was not at camp, however, and Azula threatened Sokka and Katara with fire to force them to tell her where Zuko had gone.
After burning down a few nearby trees and bushes, she stormed off after Zuko. Azula demanded Ursa 's letter back from Zuko , believing it to be her key to the Fire Nation throne. Azula found her brother sitting with Aang at the edge of a cliff discussing the letter questioning his heritage. Frustrated, she shot fire blasts at him, and a duel broke out. While Aang ran back to check up on Sokka and Katara, Azula was grabbed by Zuko and held over the cliff while she accused their mother of tipping him off to the letter's location before learning that he had held it all night.
Zuko requested that they stop their fighting, to which Azula agreed, and they both returned to camp. After the rest of the team put out the fires, the entire group continued their journey to Hira'a.
They reached the border of Hira'a, and the Team Avatar disguised themselves using crimson robes. Azula was the only one who still wore her own outfit. The group arrived just as a performance of Love amongst the Dragons was ending. Azula and Zuko recalled the times they used to see the play and how they acted out the battle scene; Azula bragged she made a better Dragon Emperor, which is why she took up the role between the two.
The play ended, and Azula followed the others. They met the leader of the Hira'a acting troupe, Noren , who offered them information on Ursa in addition to tea and an invitation to his and his wife, Noriko 's, home. Azula and Zuko spoke with the couple's daughter, Kiyi , about her doll. The princess mentioned she used to give her dolls "headcuts" instead of haircuts, offering one for Kiyi's doll, which scared the young girl and caused Zuko to berate his sister.
Afterward, the firebender remarked that she was "tempted to burn the whole place down, but resisted for [Zuko]". The thought drew Katara's ire, causing the two girls to argue. The increasing tensions between Katara and Azula resulted in Zuko declaring that Forgetful Valley would be the last stop for the trip.
Azula saved Sokka from Misu 's plantbending attack. Upon arrival, Azula attempted to make a path by burning parts of the valley, drawing criticism from the rest of the group once more.
When Aang found a flutter bat that brought him to a pond, Azula and the others followed the two there. He just shrugs it off. Because he knows arguing wouldn't get him anywhere because Azula always says that to him.
Sometimes he gets angry at her for calling him Zuzu, sometimes he doesn't. Zuko is inconsistent and irrational. I wouldn't call it a goof yet, 1 years younger could mean anywhere between 1 year to 1 year and 11 months technically. So it's quite possible for Azula to be 14 while Zuko is 16 yet Azula still being technically a year younger.
If the comics say Azula is a year younger then she's a year younger.
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