Avatar: The Last Airbender
The fifteenth day of remembrance is a clock time to celebrateAvatar : The Last Airbenderand its climactic finale , as the desperate Aang defeated the dark Fire Lord Ozai . But even fans may not bed that wasn’tactuallythe end for Aang and the mob ’s adventures . And to call it a ' happy end ' is ignoring the real , only - for - adults conclusion of Aang ’s mission .
As many will point out , The Legend of Korracontinues the report of theAvatarworld – but it only begins decade after , after even Aang has passed away . The fib of Aang is told not in spiritedness , but in a series of comics that pick up directly following the television set series . In fact , the first issue in reality picks up in the midst of the final episode . SeeingThe Last Airbender ’s big , speculative villaindefeated for sure fit the formula of a " happily ever after " close . But the show is too chic to let the heroes off that easy . After the licking of a capital wickedness , there is still damage leave to be loosen . And in the six – yes , SIX comic trilogies that follow , Aang ’s responsibleness to maintain peace offers thetrueconclusion of the story . One that the show ’s young fans believably were n’t quick to understand .
The first graphic novel to continue the fib arrives inAvatar : The Last Airbender - The Promise , written by Gene Luen Yang ( New Super - Man , American Born Chinese ) with series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko , and art by Gurihiru . As mentioned above , the story begins during the close of the last sequence of the series , depict the crew celebrating the defeat of the Fire Lord , and and end to one hundred years of tyranny . Together the group decides to help reenact the " Peace Restoration Movement , " to rejuvenate harmony to the globe by having the Fire Nation withdraw from the other realms , and regress to their nation of origin . And that conclusion is where thing commence to get … heavy .
Zuko Asks Aang To Kill Him if He Turns Evil
Having eventually faced his father ’s evil , Zuko asks Aang to make him a hope : that he will agree to kill him , if he ever commence to act like his father . From there , the write up flashes forward a year to expose that Zuko ( now Fire Lord ) is pull in out of the peace accord … leaving Aang to worry that he might have to fulfill the promise he never actually wanted to make . Having not even been able to wipe out Ozai , and learning a whole new skill to spare his life by removing bending tycoon , the thought of having to actuallykill his own friendis as unwelcome as devotee would take over .
Aang lead to a Fire Nation settlement located in the Earth Nation to meet Zuko font to face , and after atypically impressiveAirbenderfight scenebreaks out , Katara defuses the situation . It ’s here that the ' good vs evil ' themes drop away , as Zuko reveals he no longer support the peace accord … because he is no longer certain if it ’s the right thing to do . While Zuko came to the Greenwich Village to force the Fire Nation citizen to disengage , Zuko gain that firebenders and earthbenders are now living together . Despite their ethnicity being tie to the Fire Nation , many of these families have been in the settlement their whole lives . It makes good sense , since a warfare sweep over a century means most Fire Nation colonists were born , raise , and put down roots of their own in the area . It might not have been their home when they first arrived , but the masses sharing the country have made a raw earthly concern of their own .
Aang Faces The Hard Truths of Colonialism
Unfortunately , even this via media and progress is n’t as unproblematic or ' happy ' as it seems , either . The gang walks through the settlement and sees how earthbenders and metalbenders have come together to do thing that could never be done on their own . But the reality of the Fire Nation ’s intrusion means years of war have leave behind the ability of the community unfairly run towards Fire Nation crime syndicate . This leaves the ring , like Zuko , facing a trouble with no easy response . treat improperly , the world persist teetering on the edge of a regenerate war run along the same erstwhile lines .
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If the Fire Nation colonists do n’t leave as predict , revolt could break out and a new war may erupt . But thrust the accord upon colonist would be inequitable to firebenders that know these colonies as their home . Despite being an embodiment of all land and benders in concordance , Avatar Aang is completely uncertain of how peace is ever meant to knead , if the benders do n’t separate back to their own nations . Ironically , makingZuko the more empathetic characteras a result . The team is left to figure out an impossible , but realistic dilemma . On one side , there is freedom people have waited a century to be granted . On the other , a group of equally innocent families that must now be forced from their homes , due to atrocities of their ancestors .
Avatar’s Real Ending Shows… Peace Never Comes
AlthoughThe Last Airbenderdealt with tragedy and sadness , a series market principally to fry is n’t expect to deal with something as painful , political , or unresolvable as the racial , societal , and moral reality of invasion , line of work , and state of war . The Aang gang spent years to free the world from the despotism of Ozai . But now that they are in charge , they must manage with the complicated military issue left behind . Colonization , its burden , and immigration all become major theme of the graphic novels , leaving Aang with decisions to be made that are far less black and white than training and defeating the baddie .
It is now Aang and his treaty of peacefulness that are ripping families apart , whileZuko is the kindly championof the small people tramp down by finesse . Rather than basing a difference on a key source of iniquity , it ’s derives from the result of their own triumph – truly showing why the Avatar is such a necessary , never - end chain of being . Just as ataraxis is always changing and evolve with the times , so too must theAvatar . Perhaps that ’s an terminate viewers are well left to sympathise once they ’re quick .
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