History Characters / AvatarTheLastAirbenderGeneralIroh

!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/{{Mako}} Makoto Iwamatsu]] (original), Greg Baldwin (after Mako's death) (original); Mario Santander (Latin American Spanish), Corey Yee (''VideoGame/{{Smite}}''), Creator/MarcCassot (European French), Dov Raizer (Hebrew)

* TrueLifeCompanions: Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya's warm reactions to being reunited with him after forty years show that, unsurprisingly, he was this to Aang and his family.

* OlderThanHeLooks: Physically not much older than he was in the first series, even though he has to be pushing 140 by this point.

* EtTuBrute: He really must have felt disappointed when [[spoiler:Zuko betrays his trust to help capture Ba Sing Se for Azula and Ozai's approval.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: His own niece, even, though it's always in self-defense.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/{{Mako}} Makoto Iwamatsu]] (original), Greg Baldwin (after Mako's death) (original); Mario Santander (Latin American Spanish), Corey Yee (''VideoGame/{{Smite}}''), Creator/MarcCassot (European French)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/{{Mako}} Makoto Iwamatsu]] (original), Greg Baldwin (after Mako's death) (original); Mario Santander (Latin American Spanish), Corey Yee (''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'')

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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: As Crown Prince of the Fire Nation and commander of the Fire Nation's armies, he was Azulon's favored son, hailed as a hero by the Fire Nation at large and highly respected by his soldiers. His abandoning of the Ba Sing Se siege and being passed over as the heir to the throne in favor of Ozai caused him to lose political clout, but he's still well-liked and respected by most of the Fire Nation, even [[HateSink Admiral Zhao]]. Even Ozai and Azula begrudgingly acknowledge some respect for Iroh. He's also respected and even loved by many of his so-called enemies, like Aang, Katara, and Toph, who have zero fear of him despite him being the uncle of their most persistent foe and a great Fire Nation general. He also often commands this from random strangers that he meets and helps along the way.

!!Iroh

!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/{{Mako}} Makoto Iwamatsu]] (original), Greg Baldwin (after Mako's death) (original); Mario Santander (Latin American Spanish)

** During the finale (with the assistence of Sozin's Comet) he rips through an entire Fire Nation tank batellion as if they were toys made of cardboard without breaking a sweat

* TheDreaded: As a Fire Nation general, he struck terror into the hearts of his enemies for his firebending skills and tactical genius. After Lu Ten's death the Fire Nation leadership largely writes him off as a senile has-been but his reputation still precedes him. When Earth Kingdom soldiers capture him they immediately attempt to remove his hands to prevent him from firebending for how dangerous he is.

* AffablyEvil: A mellow, easy-going, CoolOldGuy who loves tea, Pai Sho, and just relaxing. He also just happens to work with Zuko, his TroubledButCute AntiVillain nephew (although Iroh is never seen doing anything particularly ''evil'', and he never really helps Zuko make any major progress toward capturing the Avatar). [[spoiler:Subverted royally when it that turns out he did an off-screen HeelFaceTurn several years ago and, since then, he's never supported the Fire Nation in their quest to TakeOverTheWorld. And he's also a prominent figure of the Order of the White Lotus. Pre-HeelFaceTurn, though, he fit this trope to a T. In one {{flashback}}, he's seen writing a kind letter to his family in the Fire Nation while leading a brutal siege against Ba Sing Se (in the letter, he even casually jokes about the possibility of burning the city to the ground). Later during this siege, his son died, and this seems to have triggered his HeelFaceTurn, possibly because of the uncomfortable realization that this is the kind of emotional trauma that he's been inflicting on Earth Kingdom families for years on end.]]

* FormerlyFit: Used to be a strapping firebender in his youth, but let himself go after his son's death. [[spoiler: Later, he gets it all back after [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums a stint in prison]], though it appears that he regained that weight sometime before he died, as his appearance in ''The Legend of Korra'' indicates.]]

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The nature of his "death" is unclear, but he did state that when his work was done in the material world he chose to let his soul depart and live in the spirit world. In any case, his body is certainly long dead by now.

* FakeUltimateHero: One sympathetic example despite Iroh being a hero in his own right. [[spoiler:He protected the dragons from being extermination by claiming to have killed the last of them himself, something he was lauded in the Fire Nation for.]]

* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:Protected the dragons from being exterminated by pretending to kill the last of them himself.]]

* NiceGuy: With his charming sense of humor, his keen understanding of human nature, and his sweet, jolly personality, is it any wonder that the fandom loves the dear man so much?

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: As Crown Prince of the Fire Nation and commander of the Fire Nation's armies, he was Azulon's favored son, hailed as a hero by the Fire Nation at large and highly respected by his soldiers. His abandoning of the Ba Sing Se siege and being passed over as the heir to the throne in favor of Ozai caused him to lose political clout, but he's still well-liked and respected by most of the Fire Nation, even [[HateSink Admiral Zhao]]. Even Ozai and Azula begrudgingly acknowledge some respect for Iroh.
** He's respected, even loved by many of his so-called enemies, like Aang, Katara, and Toph, who have zero fear of him despite him being the uncle of their most persistent foe and a great Fire Nation general. He also often commands this from random strangers that he meets and helps along the way.

* ActorExistenceFailure: Averted in regards to the role. Mako-''san'' succumbed to esophageal cancer as production on Season 2 was winding down, but luckily, Greg Baldwin took up Iroh's character. Incidentally, Iroh's story in ''The Tales of Ba Sing Se'' concludes with [[InMemoriam a message "in honor of Mako"]] during the scene where he cries before his dead son's portrait.