Avatar: The Last Airbender

Zuko ’s   transition from a chief baddie toa all important extremity of the Aang gangis a big part of what makesAvatar : The Last Airbenderso special , but Zuko ’s relationship to Aang go much deeper than becoming one of his best and closest admirer . The fact of the matter is , Zuko is Aang ’s great grandson , a revelation Aang is not made aware of untilAvatar : The Last Airbender : The Promise Part 3 .

With its recent addition to the United States ' streaming catalogue , fans both new and old arebingingThe Last Airbenderon Netflixand looking for more –   and fortunately a long slew of vivid novel pluck the series up correctly where the show leaves off . Avatar the Last Airbenderwon The Peabody Award in 2008 specifically for its " multi - dimensional characters , unusually complicated personal relationships for a cartoon serial publication , and a good for you regard for the consequences of warfare , "   which are all   qualities that the comics definitely keep true to . Kicking off the series of pictorial novels isThe Promise , a tarradiddle in whichAang and Zuko are at betting odds yet again , this time with the morals of each heavily in question .

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As the two friends are leave conflict with each other over the portion of the new humans , Aang is left to speculate what he is doing . Aang has made a promise to his booster Zuko , a hope that ultimately he will kill him if he believe Zuko to be turn wickedness again , and at this full stop neither is sure which of them is in the right . When he brings this challenge to his preceding ego Roku , who fare forward in the shape of a force touch , Roku fill Aang in on a niggling secret about his pal Zuko . It is here that Aang learns of the fact that Zuko is actually Roku ’s great - grandson . Since the Avatar cycle is a longsighted line of reincarnation , according to the religion of the Avatar - verse , this technically would make Zuko Aang ’s great - grandson too .

This Book of Revelation that Zuko is really Roku ’s great - grandson ironically has the opposite core   on Aang than he had stand for , but in the death , that is a very salutary thing . While this revelation is not all young toZuko(revealed to him   in the television serial publication ) , the word is never actually revealed to Aang or anyone else in the pack until this point , impart many fans to sometimes glance over this arresting Apocalypse . add this moment to the comicsprovides emotional weight toAang ’s history , and even add together exercising weight to the show , now serve as a mirror to the moment in which the revelation helped Zuko find his track .

The two are later able-bodied to discourse this bloodline , draw together them even nearer together as not only friends , but impostor family . This treatment however speedily shifts care and importance to the next Aang gang adventure in the largerLast Airbenderlore , a interrogation that the series itself left fans to wonder : What exactly happened to Zuko ’s female parent ?

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