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The boyfriend so bad he turned two of his girlfriends gay.

I'm assuming her rash and hotheaded personality allowed her to accidentally start bending earth and fire from a young age. Being the opposite of Aang personality-wise, earth and fire could've naturally came to her the same way water naturally came to Aang.

Ozai is a well-written villain, Unalaq's motivation is more interesting but suffers from poor writing in comparison.

Jinora

I gotta say Aang.

@Integer115 You seem to be under the impression that good vs. evil is as simple as black and white, but it's not. People are complicated and are capable of doing both good and bad without necessarily being fully condemned to either side. What matters is why they do it. Actions are not done outside of context. A good person can do bar things, and vice versa. Again, it's about why they do it. Zuko's motivation has always been love. Iroh's motivation used to be power, but he saw past the lies of the Fire Nation and became motivated to love.

SOKKA THE AVATAR!

@Integer115 What does that have to do with anything? The comics cover a lot of Zuko and Azula's story, including the childhood that they shared.

Zuko experienced severe childhood trauma that shaped him into who he was, and much of his redemption arc in Avatar: The Last Airbender involved recovering from his trauma so he can grow as a person. Being loved by his father meant everything to Zuko, but his father hated him considering him weak, pathetic, and "lucky to be born." When Ozai put Zuko's worldview into question in The Promise (referring to his telling of the story between Zuko, the turtle, and the hawk), Zuko breaks down as his father lashes out at him. Keep in mind that Zuko lost his mother when he was 11, assaulted and banished by his father when he was 13, and forced to deal with trauma recovery when he was 16. Even before all of this, he grew up with an abusive father and a depressed mother.

All Zuko wanted was love, and he lost his only loving parent when be was a child and was forced to live with a single parent who despised him. When we see him first in Avatar: The Last Airbender his only goal is to capture the Avatar because he thinks it's the only way to earn his father's love. This is because his understanding of "love" has been shattered due to his father's oppressive view of love existing through fear, violence, and intimidation. Zuko doesn't want these things, he hates violence and cruelty, but he also wants to be loved. Ultimately, love allows him to truly redeem himself—love for his uncle, love for humanity.

Zuko isn't a bad person, he's a loving individual who was forced to deal with violence and trauma as a child and a young teenager.

Are you forgetting that the comics are canon to the series…?

Zuko is a good person who was manipulated to do bad.

I imagine Korra wouldn’t be alive since a new series would probably follow a new avatar, but I think an old Asami could definitely be around like how an old Katara appears in The Legend of Korra.

As a Muslim, I would love to see some Arab (and also Berber) culture depicted in Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra material.

I suppose it's a possibility, could be an interesting idea to entertain in a fanon story.

I personally don't think that Zuko was ever a bad person. He was indoctrinated into the ideology of Fire Nationalism since he was a young child, and all he ever wanted up until halfway through the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender was to please his father—something that most people can relate to. Was he trying to capture (and later kill) Aang? Yes, but he did for reasons that don't necessarily prove he's evil:

1. To fulfill his "duty" to the Fire Nation, a duty which he had been indoctrinated to fulfill since he was a toddler.

2. To please his father and make him proud.

3. To restore his honor and prove his loyalty to the Fire Nation (which is really just a consequence of the previous two reasons).

With this in mind, he proved himself to be good at heart even before he joined Team Avatar. In the first season, he disguised himself as the Blue Spirit and committed high treason against the Fire Nation to save Aang from Zhao ("The Blue Spirit"). In the second season, he helps Team Avatar fight Azula ("The Chase") and even abandons his hunt for Aang to help Iroh open the Jasmine Dragon ("The Earth King" and "The Guru"). In the third season, he finally comes to the realization that the Fire Nationalist ideology he was indoctrinated into was wrong and confronts his father ("The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse").

In conclusion, Zuko has always been a good person. A good person can do bad things. It's like that episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Heroes on Both Sides." There can be good people on the wrong side, and that is the story of Zuko up until the halfway point of season three. He is not and never has been evil.

I actually think the theory that Amon was trained by Ty Lee is interesting and could be possible.