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** Iroh also fails to properly communicate with the Gaang. Not only his intentions and plans with them, which now makes him suspicious as he took the throne, but he never stopped to spell out to them how they were massively insulting Zuko, on a regular basis, while he was the Fire Lord. Including how bragging about stealing Ozai's fire bending could kill the treaty.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Most pronounced with Iroh, who is frankly terrible at being open with what he's doing and why. Most noticeably, he doesn't properly explain beforehand why he challenged Zuko to an Agni Kai so the whole thing is seen as Iroh deliberately playing his family against each other so he can take the throne, rather than only doing so temporarily out of concern for Zuko's health. Even afterwards, Iroh merely apologizes without explaining he was worried Zuko would work himself to death.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Most pronounced with Iroh, who Iroh is honestly the worst at this in the entire series, as he is very rarely open about what he is doing, and why.
** He, and a noticeable faction of the Fire Nation military, want Iroh to be Zuko’s regent, which would definitely smooth things over. Especially since while Zuko is an incredibly (and surprisingly) popular gifted Fire Lord, but is still too young, and franklyterrible at working himself to death. This also would have reassured the Avatar and his companions about the Fire Nation’s intentions, and thus leave everybody satisfied. However Iroh basically just springs the idea on Zuko, and the fact that he has not said anything beforehand about his personal politics, means his nephew does not feel he can trust him with such an important position.
--->"I don't need a regent," he frowned.
--->Not when Uncle kept beingopen with ''quiet'' while the Avatar's group talked. Not when Zuko didn't know what he's he thought about the colonies or the war. Zuko knew he wasn't doing the best job, but he wasn't going to roll over and why. Most noticeably, give up what power he had unless someone ''better'' for the nation came along.
** The situation only worsens, when after becoming the regent is no longer an option, Iroh doesn't properly explain beforehand why he challenged Zuko to an AgniKai Kai, so the whole thing is seen as Iroh the Dragon of the West deliberately playing his family against each other so he can take the throne, rather than only doing so temporarily out of concern for Zuko's health. Even afterwards, Iroh merely apologizes without explaining that he was worried Zuko would work himself to death.death. This destroys Zuko’s trust in him, and undermines everything for the peace process.
** He, and a noticeable faction of the Fire Nation military, want Iroh to be Zuko’s regent, which would definitely smooth things over. Especially since while Zuko is an incredibly (and surprisingly) popular gifted Fire Lord, but is still too young, and frankly
--->"I don't need a regent," he frowned.
--->Not when Uncle kept being
** The situation only worsens, when after becoming the regent is no longer an option, Iroh doesn't properly explain beforehand why he challenged Zuko to an Agni
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* KnifeKnut: Feeling bored during her imprisonment, Mai turns a large number of spoons into shanks which she can throw with precision.
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* WhatTheHellHero?:
** Gives a serious one to Aang, when he discovers the Avatar ripped out Ozai's fire bending. While Zuko has lost basically any love he ever had for his 'father,' even he is horrified for what is according to Fire Benders basically blasphemy by tearing out a part of the man's soul.
** Zuko being on the receiving end of a more comical one, where even Azula feels he should have done better than breaking up with Mai by a letter. [[Spoiler: Mai and Ty Lee are not impressed either.]]
** Gives a serious one to Aang, when he discovers the Avatar ripped out Ozai's fire bending. While Zuko has lost basically any love he ever had for his 'father,' even he is horrified for what is according to Fire Benders basically blasphemy by tearing out a part of the man's soul.
** Zuko being on the receiving end of a more comical one, where even Azula feels he should have done better than breaking up with Mai by a letter. [[Spoiler: Mai and Ty Lee are not impressed either.]]
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!! Mai
* KnifeKnut: Feeling bored during her imprisonment, Mai turns a large number of spoons into shanks which she can throw with precision.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Mai and Ty Lee think Zuko would make a great hostage as he is Iroh's heir, instead Zuko is on the run.
* SpottingTheThread: While she fails to put all the clues together in time, Mai does note how Zuko says "Iroh," instead of "Fire Lord Iroh" or even "Uncle."
!! Ty Lee
* BadAssNormal: Not just one herself, but believes fellow [[BadAssNormal Bad Ass Normals]] should stick together, which is a big part in how her and Mai's friendship with Suki picks up.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Mai and Ty Lee think Zuko would make a great hostage as he is Iroh's heir, instead Zuko is on the run.
* KnifeKnut: Feeling bored during her imprisonment, Mai turns a large number of spoons into shanks which she can throw with precision.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Mai and Ty Lee think Zuko would make a great hostage as he is Iroh's heir, instead Zuko is on the run.
* SpottingTheThread: While she fails to put all the clues together in time, Mai does note how Zuko says "Iroh," instead of "Fire Lord Iroh" or even "Uncle."
!! Ty Lee
* BadAssNormal: Not just one herself, but believes fellow [[BadAssNormal Bad Ass Normals]] should stick together, which is a big part in how her and Mai's friendship with Suki picks up.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Mai and Ty Lee think Zuko would make a great hostage as he is Iroh's heir, instead Zuko is on the run.
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Being a product of [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Azulon's court,]] Iroh believes that it is both necessary and respectful of servants to fear their Fire Lord. He is aghast that the servants' informality and open affection toward Zuko, seeing as a major disrespect toward a young ruler. The servants' fear of Iroh after his coup against Zuko is seen as a return to proper order. Which would have worked...hadn't the servants experienced hope and kindness during Zuko's short reign. Iroh being a return to form just moves them to hatred and outright rebellion.
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Being a product of [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt Azulon's court,]] Iroh believes that it is both necessary and respectful of servants to fear their Fire Lord. He is aghast that the servants' informality and open affection toward Zuko, seeing as a major disrespect toward a young ruler. The servants' fear of Iroh after his coup against Zuko is seen as a return to proper order. Which would have worked...hadn't the servants experienced hope and kindness during Zuko's short reign. Iroh being a return to form just moves them to hatred and outright rebellion.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By publicly allying himself with the Avatar and overthrowing Zuko, Iroh has destroyed the last hope for peace in the wake of Sozin's war. Now the Fire Nation is getting ready to tear itself apart in civil war, which will only exacerbate the rest of the world's chaos.
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* MilesToGoBeforeICanSleep: As Zuko's internal narrative puts it:
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* MilesToGoBeforeICanSleep: As Zuko's internal narrative puts it:
--> They'll overthrow him when they're good and ready, put him back in his cell where he can get some real sleep or execute him and then he won't be tired anymore. Until then, he'll just keep… being Fire Lord. And he'll put everything he has into it, because he doesn't know how to do anything less.
--> They'll overthrow him when they're good and ready, put him back in his cell where he can get some real sleep or execute him and then he won't be tired anymore. Until then, he'll just keep… being Fire Lord. And he'll put everything he has into it, because he doesn't know how to do anything less.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: As mentioned below, Katara takes Fire Lord Zuko's refusal to release enemy leaders (which her father is one) as a personal slight. It never occurs to her that Zuko ''doesn't know'' that her father is one of the imprisoned war leaders, and hence doesn't realize why this is important to her.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Azula believes that Iroh was playing TheLongGame to have revenge on Ozai. Since Iroh knew he couldn't beat Ozai, but he trained Zuko. He took Zuko from his father and from Azula and played the caring uncle. Iroh then had Aang take out Ozai while Zuko took the position as Fire Lord. And then Iroh [[CurbStompBattle broke]] [[DespairEventHorizon him,]] [[ForTheEvulz just because he could.]] [[RevengeByProxy Because he's Iroh's son]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Zuko outlived his usefulness.]] While Azula is wrong and Iroh geniunely loves Zuko, Zuko is so shaken that he doesn't know what to believe.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Azula believes that Iroh was playing TheLongGame to have revenge on Ozai. Since Iroh knew he couldn't beat Ozai, but he trained Zuko. He took Zuko from his father and from Azula and played the caring uncle. Iroh then had Aang take out Ozai while Zuko took the position as Fire Lord. And then Iroh [[CurbStompBattle broke]] [[DespairEventHorizon him,]] [[ForTheEvulz just because he could.]] [[RevengeByProxy Because he's Iroh's Ozai's son]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Zuko outlived his usefulness.]] While Azula is wrong and Iroh geniunely loves Zuko, Zuko is so shaken that he doesn't know what to believe.
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** Zuko pointedly asks how many guards were killed when Iroh tried to force Azula into an asylum. When Iroh tells him how his son's death that he finally realized how the war hurt the world and the Fire Nation. Zuko wonders why Iroh wasn't moved by the deaths of the many soldiers under his command.
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** Zuko pointedly asks how many guards were killed when Iroh tried to force Azula into an asylum. When Iroh tells him how his son's death that he made him finally realized realize how the war hurt the world and the Fire Nation. Zuko wonders why Iroh wasn't moved by the deaths of the many soldiers under his command.
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* IllBoy: Zuko's poor health threaten his life and his reign as Fire Lord. Zuko ends up developing heart arrhythmia due to being constantly attacked with lightning by Azula. Not helping him was his poor conditions in his TailorMadePrison where he lacked sunlight, movement and just enough food and water for him not to die. Add his poor sleeping habits and lack of rest makes a perfect storm of poor health that leads to Zuko suffering a thankfully non-fatal heart attack. Iroh was able to use Zuko's poor health to overthrown him as Fire Lord.
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* FatalFlaw: Iroh is used to being right all the time. While he has been morally and ethically correct, his lack of consideration to other people's consideration and lack of knowledge of the current situation leads him to making things worse.
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* NotSoDifferent: As much as Iroh like to think himself otherwise, he can be as entitled as the rest of his family as seen with his lack of consideration towards the servants. The Agni Kai gives Iroh rather unflattering but striking parallels to Ozai.
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* PuppetKing: Due to Iroh's rule as a Grandmaster of the White Lotus Society and being the Avatar's firebending teacher, Zuko and the Fire Nation fear that Iroh will be pushing the White Lotus' agenda instead of the good of the nation.
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* JerkassHasAPoint:
** He rips into Iroh for not pressing his claim against Ozai, but he's right that everyone would have spared a lot of pain if he did.
** Fujio directly undermines Zuko's rule by making a backroom deal with Iroh to force Zuko to take a regent or overthrown. But he does so because Zuko is working himself to death trying to hold the nation and is legally too young to actually be in power.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: All he wanted was for an actual adult to take care of a very politically voltile situation and for a child to stop being worked to death. How would he know it would trigger a civil war?
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** He rips into Iroh for not pressing his claim against Ozai, but he's right that everyone would have spared a lot of pain if he did.
** Fujio directly undermines Zuko's rule by making a backroom deal with Iroh to force Zuko to take a regent or overthrown. But he does so because Zuko is working himself to death trying to hold the nation and is legally too young to actually be in power.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: All he wanted was for an actual adult to take care of a very politically voltile situation and for a child to stop being worked to death. How would he know it would trigger a civil war?
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* * NiceToTheWaiter: Due to his upbringing, Iroh averts this by treating servants as furniture or pawns and enforces strict adherence to social hierarchy and formality in spite of being a kind person otherwise.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Despite Sokka's jovial personality, Sokka averts this when he gets the servants' bad side in his frequent badmouthing of Zuko and casual disregard towards them. Despite their enmity, the servants are forced to be nice to him when Iroh comes into power.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Similarly, the Gaang constantly shoot down Zuko's proposals but almost never tell him why, such as Katara and Sokka being outraged that he's keeping enemy leaders as political prisoners but not telling him their father is one such prisoner. Or Sokka arguing against the Fire Nation "owning" the waters around their territories because it's not a concept he understands.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Similarly, the The Gaang constantly shoot down Zuko's proposals but almost never tell him why, such as Katara and Sokka being outraged that he's keeping enemy leaders as political prisoners but not telling him their father is one such prisoner. Or Sokka arguing against the Fire Nation "owning" the waters around their territories because it's not a concept he understands.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Sokka gets the servants' bad side in his frequent badmouthing of Zuko and casual disregard towards them. Despite their enmity, the servants are forced to be nice to him when Iroh comes into power.
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* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko forms fire daggers when he learns of Ozai's fate. It's the first and last time he firebends before his PsychosomaticPowerOutage causes him to lose his bending completely.
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* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko forms fire daggers when he learns of Ozai's fate. It's the first and last time he firebends before his PsychosomaticPowerOutage PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage causes him to lose his bending completely.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Due to his upbringing, Iroh tends to treat servants as furniture or pawns and enforces strict adherence to social hierarchy and formality.
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* ReluctantRuler: ''Iroh'' would have be happy to sit back and remain an elder advisor to his nephew if it were not for Zuko's refusal to take care of his precarious health.
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* ReluctantRuler: ''Iroh'' Iroh would have be happy to sit back and remain an elder advisor to his nephew if it were not for Zuko's refusal to take care of his precarious health.
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* StoppedCaring: After all he went through, Zuko decides to stop giving a damn over the fate since he's no longer in charge and clearly no one wants him in charge.
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* StoppedCaring: After all he went through, Zuko decides to stop giving a damn over the fate of the Fire Nation since he's no longer in charge and clearly no one wants him in charge.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Azula sees the servants as mice figuratively and literally in her delusions.
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* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko forms fire daggers when he learns of Ozai's fate. [[spoiler: It's the first and last time he firebends before his PsychosomaticPowerOutage causes him to lose his bending completely.]]
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* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko forms fire daggers when he learns of Ozai's fate. [[spoiler: It's the first and last time he firebends before his PsychosomaticPowerOutage causes him to lose his bending completely.]]
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* PlayAlongPrisoner: Azula stays in Amigara asylum that Iroh forced her in because she had no where to go and all her family and friends abandoned her for all she knew. [[spoiler: Seeing Zuko attempting to break her out moved Azula to finally escape.]]
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* PlayAlongPrisoner: Azula stays in Amigara asylum that Iroh forced her in because she had no where to go and all her family and friends abandoned her for all she knew. [[spoiler: Seeing Zuko attempting to break her out moved Azula to finally escape.]]
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* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: In desperate attempt to save Zuko's life after the pressure from being Fire Lord stress Zuko's frail health to the point of a heart attack, Iroh challenges Zuko an Agni Kai for the throne. Due to Zuko's popularity for being the only kind Fire Lord within living memory and Zuko's effectiveness as a ruler, it ignites a civil war.]]
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* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: In desperate attempt to save Zuko's life after the pressure from being Fire Lord stress Zuko's frail health to the point of a heart attack, Iroh challenges Zuko an Agni Kai for the throne. Due to Zuko's popularity for being the only kind Fire Lord within living memory and Zuko's effectiveness as a ruler, it ignites a civil war.]]
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** Iroh has a poor reputation withing the Fire Nation for being a traitor, which only worsens when [[spoiler:he dethrones Zuko and the latter accidentally implies Iroh will kill him for disagreeing with the new regime]].
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* HopeBringer: Zuko is the first kind Fire Lord within living memory and willing to work himself to the bone trying to fix their nation after Fire Lord Ozai's defeat. With all the freedoms Zuko was willing to give citizens, trying to convert the nation to a peacetime economy and prevent the other nations from tearing them apart. The citizens love Zuko. [[spoiler: So when Iroh inadvertently crushed their hopes by overthrowing Zuko. They don't get mad. They rebel.]]
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* HopeBringer: Zuko is the first kind Fire Lord within living memory and willing to work himself to the bone trying to fix their nation after Fire Lord Ozai's defeat. With all the freedoms Zuko was willing to give citizens, trying to convert the nation to a peacetime economy and prevent the other nations from tearing them apart. The citizens love Zuko. [[spoiler: So when Iroh inadvertently crushed their hopes by overthrowing Zuko. They don't get mad. They rebel.]]rebel.
* ImportantHaircut: As Fire Lord, Zuko had his hair in a top knot. Zuko was going to cut his hair to reflect his self-exile but decides against it and leave his hair in a ponytail.
* ImportantHaircut: As Fire Lord, Zuko had his hair in a top knot. Zuko was going to cut his hair to reflect his self-exile but decides against it and leave his hair in a ponytail.
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* StoppedCaring: After all he went through, Zuko decides to stop giving a damn over the fate since he's no longer in charge and clearly no one wants him in charge.
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The palace staff ''adore'' Zuko and are extremely protective of him. He doesn't seem to realize their coddling and very hands on and relaxed attitudes isn't insubordination but a sign of real love and respect rather than the fear induced loyalty his father and sister got.
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* JustGotOutOfJail: The story begins when Zuko is released from his TailorMadPrison by his own guards.
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* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: With Zuko being captured before he could join the Gaang in his post-eclipse HeelFaceTurn, Zuko is barely able to bend due to losing his anger that fueled it. Then Iroh challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai to dethrone him. Faced with his beloved uncle betraying him and forcing to relive the worst memory of his life causes Zuko to lose his firebending completely.
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* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: With Zuko being captured before he could join the Gaang in his post-eclipse HeelFaceTurn, Zuko is barely able to bend due to losing his anger that fueled it. Then Iroh challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai to dethrone him. Faced with his beloved uncle betraying him and forcing to relive the worst memory of his life causes Zuko to lose his firebending completely.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Zuko is ''really'' bad at being good and has no clue what his actions in Chapter 18 started.
--> "Sokka was starting to be a little afraid that not only was he right about Zuko's evil mastermind abilities, but that they were ''completely unintentional.''"
* {{Workaholic}}: Zuko doesn't know how to do things in halves. The palace staff are desperate to get him to rest anyway they can before he kills himself from overworking.
--> "Sokka was starting to be a little afraid that not only was he right about Zuko's evil mastermind abilities, but that they were ''completely unintentional.''"
* {{Workaholic}}: Zuko doesn't know how to do things in halves. The palace staff are desperate to get him to rest anyway they can before he kills himself from overworking.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Azula sees the servants as mice figuratively and literally in her delusions.
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* YouCanKeepHer: Sokka attempts to intimidate Zuko by bragging how they have imprisoned Ozai. Zuko is more concerned on how they are imprisoning Ozai to make sure he's stays ''imprisoned.'' Sokka's later attempt at ransoming Ozai also falls flat.
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* NotMeThisTime: Iroh's reputation as TheChessmaster works against him after he usurps Zuko. Azula believes it was a long-term revenge plan on Ozai and many people are starting to believe her. After Zuko's public denouncement of him, it sinks any chance of Iroh reigning in the angry populace.
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* NotMeThisTime: Iroh's reputation as TheChessmaster works against him him after he usurps Zuko. Azula believes it was a long-term revenge plan on Ozai and many people are starting to believe her. After Zuko's public denouncement of him, it sinks any chance of Iroh reigning in the angry populace.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Iroh wins the Agni Kai and becomes Fire Lord in Zuko's place. Iroh loses his relationship with Zuko, the trust of the Gaang and the faith of the palace and the nation. Worst of all, he's stuck in the position he never wanted.
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* PyrrhicVictory: PyrrhicVictory: Iroh wins the Agni Kai and becomes Fire Lord in Zuko's place. Iroh loses his relationship with Zuko, the trust of the Gaang and the faith of the palace and the nation. Worst of all, he's stuck in the position he never wanted.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: After overthrowing Zuko as Fire Lord, Iroh mentions how things have returned to normal regarding the servants, not realizing things changed because the servants adored Zuko and think Iroh is just as much a tyrant as Ozai and Azulon.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: SelectiveObliviousness: After overthrowing Zuko as Fire Lord, Iroh mentions how things have returned to normal regarding the servants, not realizing things changed because the servants adored Zuko and think Iroh is just as much a tyrant as Ozai and Azulon.Azulon.
* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: In desperate attempt to save Zuko's life after the pressure from being Fire Lord stress Zuko's frail health to the point of a heart attack, Iroh challenges Zuko an Agni Kai for the throne. Due to Zuko's popularity for being the only kind Fire Lord within living memory and Zuko's effectiveness as a ruler, it ignites a civil war.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Everybody rips into Iroh. ''Everybody.''
** Fire Sage Fujio implictly rebuked Iroh for not pressing his claim against Ozai to begin with in spite of the shady way Azulon died.
** Many of the servants vocally chastised Iroh for not doing anything to help his nephew.
** Azula and Zuko each call out Iroh for dethroning Zuko.
** Zuko rips into Iroh for actively committing treason while traveling with Zuko, something that'd have gotten everyone on the ship executed, and for keeping secrets that left Zuko feeling hopeless and trapped when Iroh knew of another path he could have taken.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook:
** The servants and guards are horrified when Iroh commands them to act as bait for Azula. The servants [[BotheringByTheBook drag their feet on helping him]] while the several [[RedShirt guards]] died in the crossfire in the ensuing fight.
** Zuko pointedly asks how many guards were killed when Iroh tried to force Azula into an asylum. When Iroh tells him how his son's death that he finally realized how the war hurt the world and the Fire Nation. Zuko wonders why Iroh wasn't moved by the deaths of the many soldiers under his command.
* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: In desperate attempt to save Zuko's life after the pressure from being Fire Lord stress Zuko's frail health to the point of a heart attack, Iroh challenges Zuko an Agni Kai for the throne. Due to Zuko's popularity for being the only kind Fire Lord within living memory and Zuko's effectiveness as a ruler, it ignites a civil war.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Everybody rips into Iroh. ''Everybody.''
** Fire Sage Fujio implictly rebuked Iroh for not pressing his claim against Ozai to begin with in spite of the shady way Azulon died.
** Many of the servants vocally chastised Iroh for not doing anything to help his nephew.
** Azula and Zuko each call out Iroh for dethroning Zuko.
** Zuko rips into Iroh for actively committing treason while traveling with Zuko, something that'd have gotten everyone on the ship executed, and for keeping secrets that left Zuko feeling hopeless and trapped when Iroh knew of another path he could have taken.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook:
** The servants and guards are horrified when Iroh commands them to act as bait for Azula. The servants [[BotheringByTheBook drag their feet on helping him]] while the several [[RedShirt guards]] died in the crossfire in the ensuing fight.
** Zuko pointedly asks how many guards were killed when Iroh tried to force Azula into an asylum. When Iroh tells him how his son's death that he finally realized how the war hurt the world and the Fire Nation. Zuko wonders why Iroh wasn't moved by the deaths of the many soldiers under his command.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Iroh defeats Zuko in the very one-sided Agni Kai, all the servants who called out Iroh leave [[InventedInvalid "to visit their sick relatives"]] in fear of Iroh executing them.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Both Toph and Zuko are frustrated with Aang's refusal to kill Ozai when Aang had inadvertently killed many Mooks in battle and drowned thousands of soldiers in the Siege of the North.
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* ReflexiveResponse: ReflexiveResponse: Katara pops the cork on her waterskin when she's nervous which does not help negotiations.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Toph calls out Katara for both giving Zuko minor heart attacks by figeting with her waterskin and for refusing to heal him while he's having a major heart attack.
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* ThickerThanWater: While their relationship is ''deeply'' flawed from a lifetime of abuse, Zuko and Azula love each other dearly and would go to great lengths for one another.
* TraumaButton: After being traumatized by Iroh, both Zuko and Azula develop distastes for tea.
* TraumaButton: After being traumatized by Iroh, both Zuko and Azula develop distastes for tea.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Zuko is loved among his palace servants and his counsel for being kind and forgiving in spite of his hot temper and firebrand personality. Zuko ends up going personally to the clerks' office so he can thank the Head Clerk for making graphs for the projected trade research in a week's time. Despite being displeased at his servants' informality towards him, he allows it to continue.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When Zuko is released from prison after his father's defeat and his sister's insanity to ascend as Fire Lord, he tries his very best to keep the nation from falling apart. Zuko works to transition the economy from war to peace, negotiate a peace treaty with reparations and tries to protect his nation's best interests. It get abused by Azula, belittled by the Gaang, works him to near death and betrayed by his uncle.
* NoSell: Unlike everyone else, Zuko easily ignores Toph's SlasherSmile, citing that Azula "had more teeth in her smiles at two than Toph did at twelve".
* NoSocialSkills: Zuko's people skill were sub-par to begin with, then he got shut up in an isolated cell for months.
* NotUsedToFreedom: Having spent several months in an isolated, small, pitch black cell really messed with Zuko's head. Zuko figures that he will go back to jail eventually and content with working himself to death in the assurance that he can rest when he's re-imprisoned. Once forced out of position as Fire Lord, Zuko has no idea what to do with his newfound freetime.
* ObliviousToLove: A platonic variant, Zuko doesn't understand that his servants' casual affection and treatment of him is out of genuine concern and adoration of him.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Zuko manages to hurt Iroh with a remark after all the hurt Iroh inflicted on him:
--> '''Zuko''': You said you [[LikeASonToMe thought of me as your son.]]
--> '''Iroh''': [[SincerityMode I do, Zuko.]]
-->'''Zuko''': Thank you for the lesson, [[NotSoDifferent ''father.'']]
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: With Zuko being captured before he could join the Gaang in his post-eclipse HeelFaceTurn, Zuko is barely able to bend due to losing his anger that fueled it. Then Iroh challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai to dethrone him. Faced with his beloved uncle betraying him and forcing to relive the worst memory of his life causes Zuko to lose his firebending completely.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Zuko is the first Fire Lord in decades to openly care about his people and their safety over personal ambitions. He actively engages with his staff in the palace, working with and listening to them to find the best ways to help the nation recover.
* ReluctantRuler: Zuko doesn't want to be Fire Lord, and doesn't believe anyone else does either. He's just going to keep doing his job until he literally can't. When presented with being named Crown Prince after Iroh takes over, he realizes he doesn't care about being in charge anymore.
* RedundantRescue:
** Zuko's a victim of this twice:
*** He ends up being captured when he attempts to break Iroh out of jail only to find that Iroh already escaped.
*** When he goes to break Azula out of her mental asylum, Azula had already loosened the window. She didn't want to escape since she had nowhere to go. At this point Zuko bemoans he fact that no one he attempts to rescue actually needs him to escape.
* RejectedApology: After the Agni Kai and ousting Zuko from the position of Fire Lord, Iroh gets on his knees and begs for Zuko's forgiveness. Zuko doesn't remotely forgive Iroh for undermining him, undoing his efforts as Fire Lord and making him relive his worst trauma. He doesn't even think that Iroh is being sincere.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Zuko turns his back on Iroh and walks away when he refuses to reinstated as Crown Prince after Iroh usurped him.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Zuko thinks his servants are insubordinate because they detest him when they're actually trying to make him rest because they adore Zuko and can tell he's literally working himself to death.
* SeriouslyScruffy: Zuko lets his self-care go as he's too busy rebuilding his nation. The only reason he isn't worse is due to the efforts of his servants.
* ShutUpKirk: When Zuko calls out Iroh for never informing him that he worked for the White Lotus, Iroh tries to insist Zuko was still too obsessed with pleasing his father, only for Zuko to retort that he was obsessed because he thought he had no other options.
* SpareToTheThrone: Zuko, having been TheUnfavorite his entire life and only crowned because of Azula's breakdown views himself as “the nation's fallback heir”.
* TakeAThirdOption: Zuko could do nothing and watch Iroh ruin the Fire Nation. Or he could try to fix things as Iroh's heir while always fearing Iroh's wrath. Zuko then realizes he has a third option: he could do ''nothing.'' Nothing meaning AbdicateTheThrone.
* TaughtByExperience: Zuko knows more about the world outside the Fire Nation than any of his soldiers or his generals due to having spent years traveling the world searching for the Avatar, including knowing about towns that aren't on the official maps and which technically enemy ports would look the other way if Fire Nation ships were onloading troops rather than offloading.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Zuko believes that everyone in the palace hates him and plans to either kill or overthrow him once the country stabilizes. In spite of the servants' adoration of him and everyone's clear worry that Zuko will work himself to death. Zuko doesn't count as TheParanoiac because he doesn't care whether he lives or dies and only cares about keeping the Fire Nation from falling apart.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When Zuko is released from prison after his father's defeat and his sister's insanity to ascend as Fire Lord, he tries his very best to keep the nation from falling apart. Zuko works to transition the economy from war to peace, negotiate a peace treaty with reparations and tries to protect his nation's best interests. It get abused by Azula, belittled by the Gaang, works him to near death and betrayed by his uncle.
* NoSell: Unlike everyone else, Zuko easily ignores Toph's SlasherSmile, citing that Azula "had more teeth in her smiles at two than Toph did at twelve".
* NoSocialSkills: Zuko's people skill were sub-par to begin with, then he got shut up in an isolated cell for months.
* NotUsedToFreedom: Having spent several months in an isolated, small, pitch black cell really messed with Zuko's head. Zuko figures that he will go back to jail eventually and content with working himself to death in the assurance that he can rest when he's re-imprisoned. Once forced out of position as Fire Lord, Zuko has no idea what to do with his newfound freetime.
* ObliviousToLove: A platonic variant, Zuko doesn't understand that his servants' casual affection and treatment of him is out of genuine concern and adoration of him.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Zuko manages to hurt Iroh with a remark after all the hurt Iroh inflicted on him:
--> '''Zuko''': You said you [[LikeASonToMe thought of me as your son.]]
--> '''Iroh''': [[SincerityMode I do, Zuko.]]
-->'''Zuko''': Thank you for the lesson, [[NotSoDifferent ''father.'']]
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: With Zuko being captured before he could join the Gaang in his post-eclipse HeelFaceTurn, Zuko is barely able to bend due to losing his anger that fueled it. Then Iroh challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai to dethrone him. Faced with his beloved uncle betraying him and forcing to relive the worst memory of his life causes Zuko to lose his firebending completely.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Zuko is the first Fire Lord in decades to openly care about his people and their safety over personal ambitions. He actively engages with his staff in the palace, working with and listening to them to find the best ways to help the nation recover.
* ReluctantRuler: Zuko doesn't want to be Fire Lord, and doesn't believe anyone else does either. He's just going to keep doing his job until he literally can't. When presented with being named Crown Prince after Iroh takes over, he realizes he doesn't care about being in charge anymore.
* RedundantRescue:
** Zuko's a victim of this twice:
*** He ends up being captured when he attempts to break Iroh out of jail only to find that Iroh already escaped.
*** When he goes to break Azula out of her mental asylum, Azula had already loosened the window. She didn't want to escape since she had nowhere to go. At this point Zuko bemoans he fact that no one he attempts to rescue actually needs him to escape.
* RejectedApology: After the Agni Kai and ousting Zuko from the position of Fire Lord, Iroh gets on his knees and begs for Zuko's forgiveness. Zuko doesn't remotely forgive Iroh for undermining him, undoing his efforts as Fire Lord and making him relive his worst trauma. He doesn't even think that Iroh is being sincere.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Zuko turns his back on Iroh and walks away when he refuses to reinstated as Crown Prince after Iroh usurped him.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Zuko thinks his servants are insubordinate because they detest him when they're actually trying to make him rest because they adore Zuko and can tell he's literally working himself to death.
* SeriouslyScruffy: Zuko lets his self-care go as he's too busy rebuilding his nation. The only reason he isn't worse is due to the efforts of his servants.
* ShutUpKirk: When Zuko calls out Iroh for never informing him that he worked for the White Lotus, Iroh tries to insist Zuko was still too obsessed with pleasing his father, only for Zuko to retort that he was obsessed because he thought he had no other options.
* SpareToTheThrone: Zuko, having been TheUnfavorite his entire life and only crowned because of Azula's breakdown views himself as “the nation's fallback heir”.
* TakeAThirdOption: Zuko could do nothing and watch Iroh ruin the Fire Nation. Or he could try to fix things as Iroh's heir while always fearing Iroh's wrath. Zuko then realizes he has a third option: he could do ''nothing.'' Nothing meaning AbdicateTheThrone.
* TaughtByExperience: Zuko knows more about the world outside the Fire Nation than any of his soldiers or his generals due to having spent years traveling the world searching for the Avatar, including knowing about towns that aren't on the official maps and which technically enemy ports would look the other way if Fire Nation ships were onloading troops rather than offloading.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Zuko believes that everyone in the palace hates him and plans to either kill or overthrow him once the country stabilizes. In spite of the servants' adoration of him and everyone's clear worry that Zuko will work himself to death. Zuko doesn't count as TheParanoiac because he doesn't care whether he lives or dies and only cares about keeping the Fire Nation from falling apart.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Azula sees the servants as mice figuratively and literally in her delusions.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Azula stays in Amigara asylum that Iroh forced her in because she had no where to go and all her family and friends abandoned her for all she knew. [[spoiler: Seeing Zuko attempting to break her out moved Azula to finally escape.]]
* SanitySlippage: Azula starts to actively hallucinate in the story's midpoint and perceives the world through her hallucinations.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Azula begins to perceive people as animals with herself and her family as dragons as her hallucinations get stronger.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Azula stays in Amigara asylum that Iroh forced her in because she had no where to go and all her family and friends abandoned her for all she knew. [[spoiler: Seeing Zuko attempting to break her out moved Azula to finally escape.]]
* SanitySlippage: Azula starts to actively hallucinate in the story's midpoint and perceives the world through her hallucinations.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Azula begins to perceive people as animals with herself and her family as dragons as her hallucinations get stronger.
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* NominalImportance: Toph mentally comments on Aang's insistence on finding an pacifist way to take down Ozai being a result of this. She also notes the hypocrisy of him not seeming to care about all the foot soldiers the rest of the Gaang ''were'' killing during the battle, just Ozai, because he could put a name and history to his face. Toph herself feels knowing about Ozai only lessened his right to live.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Due to his upbringing, Iroh tends to treat servants as furniture or pawns and enforces strict adherence to social hierarchy and formality.
* NotMeThisTime: Iroh's reputation as TheChessmaster works against him after he usurps Zuko. Azula believes it was a long-term revenge plan on Ozai and many people are starting to believe her. After Zuko's public denouncement of him, it sinks any chance of Iroh reigning in the angry populace.
* ParentalBetrayal: What makes the Agni Kai hurt so bad. Zuko loves Iroh for being the only person since his mother to love him unconditionally and even realized his own wrongs in his previous betrayal of Iroh in Ba Sing Se. Zuko welcomes back Iroh in open arms. And Iroh forces Zuko to relive the worst moment of his life.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Most pronounced with Iroh, who is frankly terrible at being open with what he's doing and why. Most noticeably, he doesn't properly explain beforehand why he challenged Zuko to an Agni Kai so the whole thing is seen as Iroh deliberately playing his family against each other so he can take the throne, rather than only doing so temporarily out of concern for Zuko's health. Even afterwards, Iroh merely apologizes without explaining he was worried Zuko would work himself to death.
* PyrrhicVictory: Iroh wins the Agni Kai and becomes Fire Lord in Zuko's place. Iroh loses his relationship with Zuko, the trust of the Gaang and the faith of the palace and the nation. Worst of all, he's stuck in the position he never wanted.
* NotMeThisTime: Iroh's reputation as TheChessmaster works against him after he usurps Zuko. Azula believes it was a long-term revenge plan on Ozai and many people are starting to believe her. After Zuko's public denouncement of him, it sinks any chance of Iroh reigning in the angry populace.
* ParentalBetrayal: What makes the Agni Kai hurt so bad. Zuko loves Iroh for being the only person since his mother to love him unconditionally and even realized his own wrongs in his previous betrayal of Iroh in Ba Sing Se. Zuko welcomes back Iroh in open arms. And Iroh forces Zuko to relive the worst moment of his life.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Most pronounced with Iroh, who is frankly terrible at being open with what he's doing and why. Most noticeably, he doesn't properly explain beforehand why he challenged Zuko to an Agni Kai so the whole thing is seen as Iroh deliberately playing his family against each other so he can take the throne, rather than only doing so temporarily out of concern for Zuko's health. Even afterwards, Iroh merely apologizes without explaining he was worried Zuko would work himself to death.
* PyrrhicVictory: Iroh wins the Agni Kai and becomes Fire Lord in Zuko's place. Iroh loses his relationship with Zuko, the trust of the Gaang and the faith of the palace and the nation. Worst of all, he's stuck in the position he never wanted.
* ReluctantRuler: ''Iroh'' would have be happy to sit back and remain an elder advisor to his nephew if it were not for Zuko's refusal to take care of his precarious health.
* SelectiveObliviousness: After overthrowing Zuko as Fire Lord, Iroh mentions how things have returned to normal regarding the servants, not realizing things changed because the servants adored Zuko and think Iroh is just as much a tyrant as Ozai and Azulon.
* SelectiveObliviousness: After overthrowing Zuko as Fire Lord, Iroh mentions how things have returned to normal regarding the servants, not realizing things changed because the servants adored Zuko and think Iroh is just as much a tyrant as Ozai and Azulon.
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* CowardlyLion: She is terrified of Azula and Iroh as the rest of the servants are. In spite of that, she risks everything to warn Azula to protect her from Iroh.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Iroh's plan to subdue Azula to get her into a mental hospital would have gone off without a hitch, had Lady Huian not warned her ahead of time.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When everyone is terrified of Iroh and quickly submitting to Iroh's rule, Lady Huian risks her life to undermine him. Despite Azula's infamy of her disregard of servants, Lady Huian risks everything to warn Azula that Zuko was overthrown and Iroh was planning to forcibly institutionalize her. Even Azula was impressed by her bravery, calling her a "lion-ferret."
* SpannerInTheWorks: Iroh's plan to subdue Azula to get her into a mental hospital would have gone off without a hitch, had Lady Huian not warned her ahead of time.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When everyone is terrified of Iroh and quickly submitting to Iroh's rule, Lady Huian risks her life to undermine him. Despite Azula's infamy of her disregard of servants, Lady Huian risks everything to warn Azula that Zuko was overthrown and Iroh was planning to forcibly institutionalize her. Even Azula was impressed by her bravery, calling her a "lion-ferret."
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Similarly, the Gaang constantly shoot down Zuko's proposals but almost never tell him why, such as Katara and Sokka being outraged that he's keeping enemy leaders as political prisoners but not telling him their father is one such prisoner. Or Sokka arguing against the Fire Nation "owning" the waters around their territories because it's not a concept he understands.
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* NothingIsScarier: InUniverse regarding Aang being able to take [[{{Depower}} away people's bending.]] Many of the palace servants [[GossipEvolution and later the entire country]] have no idea how Aang's energybending works and unsure whether Aang needs to touch people to take away bending. Due to the Fire Nation's spiritual importance on firebending, they see it as Aang ripping out part of people's souls regardless. With public knowledge that the Avatar supported Iroh's usurpation of the popular Fire Lord Zuko, Aang's terrifying regardless. What little they know of the Avatar further demonizes him.
* PersonaNonGrata: Zuko attempts to ban Aang from the Fire Nation until Aang understands the magnitude of taking away Ozai's bending [[FateWorseThanDeath actually means to firebenders.]]
* PersonaNonGrata: Zuko attempts to ban Aang from the Fire Nation until Aang understands the magnitude of taking away Ozai's bending [[FateWorseThanDeath actually means to firebenders.]]
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* PsychologicalProjection: Katara deeply loves her father and wants his safe return. Thus she is repulsed that Zuko doesn't want [[AbusiveParents his father back]] and [[YouCanKeepHer would let the Earth Kingdom continue imprison Ozai]] to prevent a power struggle. Katara uses this to justify her already negative view of him. She later takes Zuko's refusal to release enemy leaders (which her father is one) as a personal slight rather than the national security concern it actually is.
* ReflexiveResponse: Katara pops the cork on her waterskin when she's nervous which does not help negotiations.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: When Zuko has a heart-attack in the middle of the reparations, Katara initially tries to refuse to help him. Toph attempts to non-verbally call Katara out by socking her in the arm, Katara freezes her own feet to the ground. Had not Iroh made her, Katara would have been content to watch Zuko die.
* ReflexiveResponse: Katara pops the cork on her waterskin when she's nervous which does not help negotiations.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: When Zuko has a heart-attack in the middle of the reparations, Katara initially tries to refuse to help him. Toph attempts to non-verbally call Katara out by socking her in the arm, Katara freezes her own feet to the ground. Had not Iroh made her, Katara would have been content to watch Zuko die.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Sokka gets the servants' bad side in his frequent badmouthing of Zuko and casual disregard towards them. Despite their enmity, the servants are forced to be nice to him when Iroh comes into power.
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* OnlySaneMan: Toph is the only one to understand how stressed and psychologically damaged Zuko is, along with being the only member of the Gaang to not shoot down all his proposals without explanation.
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* CurbStompBattle: CurbStompBattle: Zuko vs Iroh while Zuko is having a heart attack. The fight was short.
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* CurbStompCushion: Zuko had no chance of winning the Agni Kai against Iroh but props goes to him for doing so despite a literal heart attack and suffering a PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Zuko spent most of the prologue being mocked by the Gaang, undermined by Iroh and later outright ousted from power. During his coronation as Crown Prince he publicly calls them all out, warns his people against them and walks away while accidentally inciting a civil war.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Zuko spent most of the prologue being mocked by the Gaang, undermined by Iroh and later outright ousted from power. During his coronation as Crown Prince he publicly calls them all out, warns his people against them and walks away while accidentally inciting a civil war.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Zuko's has no sense of self worth or preservation. He considers it a fact of life that he's only Fire Lord until the council has no more use for him and apparently made peace with the notion that “no more use” may very well mean his death at someone's hands or a lifetime back in his prison cell if he doesn't work himself to death first. He doesn't care. His council, Uncle, and servants on the other hand, care quite a bit when he admits this out loud.
* HollywoodHeartAttack: Zuko starts feeling pain in his arm during a botched reparations meeting. After completely horrified with the Gaang with the revelation of [[FateWorseThanDeath Ozai's]] [[DePower fate]], Zuko starts feeling cold then hot as he suffers a heart attack. Zuko survives the heart attack when Katara heals him after the Agni Kai.
* HopeBringer: Zuko is the first kind Fire Lord within living memory and willing to work himself to the bone trying to fix their nation after Fire Lord Ozai's defeat. With all the freedoms Zuko was willing to give citizens, trying to convert the nation to a peacetime economy and prevent the other nations from tearing them apart. The citizens love Zuko. [[spoiler: So when Iroh inadvertently crushed their hopes by overthrowing Zuko. They don't get mad. They rebel.]]
* InnocentInaccurate: Zuko has no idea that "visiting sick relatives" means someone fled the capital for disagreeing with the regime. After many servants flee after Iroh's ascension as Fire Lord, Zuko believes there's a epidemic ravaging the countryside. He sincerely wishes his servants' relatives well.
* TheInsomniac: Zuko rarely sleeps as he's so busy keeping his country from falling apart that he frequently works through the night.
* JustGotOutOfJail: The story begins when Zuko is released from his TailorMadPrison by his own guards.
* LaughingMad: Zuko after the Agni Kai. People find the laugh rather creepy.
* LickedByTheDog: Appa loves Zuko, who in turn develops a habit of napping with him by the turtleduck pond.
* LiteralMetaphor: Zuko's arrhythmia makes any heart metaphor painfully literal.
--> ''Zuko's heart skipped a beat. In… kind of a literal way.''
* LiteralMinded: Zuko doesn't really DO rhetorical. Or double meanings for that matter.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Azula shoots lightning at Zuko constantly, which has resulted in him having lightning-induced arrhythmia and all the heart problems that come with the condition. Zuko doesn't care, he has things to do.
* ManInTheIronMask: Zuko was thrown in a dark, small jail when he was captured after his post-eclipse HeelFaceTurn. Ozai had Zuko jailed instead executed with the implication that he wanted Zuko to waste away and die in jail. [[EvilIsPetty And to be able to gloat to Zuko's face.]] Ty Lee and Mai attempted to break Zuko out of jail but failed. Ultimately it was Zuko's jailers who release him to take throne. Zuko was the only royal left after Ozai's defeat and capture by the Avatar and Azula going insane.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Zuko would be the first to admit the serious wrongs the Fire Nation committed against the world. That said, as Fire Lord, he will do everything to protect his people’s best interests to prevent them from getting screwed over.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After publicly calling out Iroh, Zuko tells him that he plans to visit his sick relatives. By which he means Azula, who was locked away in asylum. Everyone else believes that Zuko was using the publicly accepted code for "I've pissed off the ruler, I need to get the hell outta here." Which destroys any credibility Iroh had left and kicks off a civil war.
* HollywoodHeartAttack: Zuko starts feeling pain in his arm during a botched reparations meeting. After completely horrified with the Gaang with the revelation of [[FateWorseThanDeath Ozai's]] [[DePower fate]], Zuko starts feeling cold then hot as he suffers a heart attack. Zuko survives the heart attack when Katara heals him after the Agni Kai.
* HopeBringer: Zuko is the first kind Fire Lord within living memory and willing to work himself to the bone trying to fix their nation after Fire Lord Ozai's defeat. With all the freedoms Zuko was willing to give citizens, trying to convert the nation to a peacetime economy and prevent the other nations from tearing them apart. The citizens love Zuko. [[spoiler: So when Iroh inadvertently crushed their hopes by overthrowing Zuko. They don't get mad. They rebel.]]
* InnocentInaccurate: Zuko has no idea that "visiting sick relatives" means someone fled the capital for disagreeing with the regime. After many servants flee after Iroh's ascension as Fire Lord, Zuko believes there's a epidemic ravaging the countryside. He sincerely wishes his servants' relatives well.
* TheInsomniac: Zuko rarely sleeps as he's so busy keeping his country from falling apart that he frequently works through the night.
* JustGotOutOfJail: The story begins when Zuko is released from his TailorMadPrison by his own guards.
* LaughingMad: Zuko after the Agni Kai. People find the laugh rather creepy.
* LickedByTheDog: Appa loves Zuko, who in turn develops a habit of napping with him by the turtleduck pond.
* LiteralMetaphor: Zuko's arrhythmia makes any heart metaphor painfully literal.
--> ''Zuko's heart skipped a beat. In… kind of a literal way.''
* LiteralMinded: Zuko doesn't really DO rhetorical. Or double meanings for that matter.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Azula shoots lightning at Zuko constantly, which has resulted in him having lightning-induced arrhythmia and all the heart problems that come with the condition. Zuko doesn't care, he has things to do.
* ManInTheIronMask: Zuko was thrown in a dark, small jail when he was captured after his post-eclipse HeelFaceTurn. Ozai had Zuko jailed instead executed with the implication that he wanted Zuko to waste away and die in jail. [[EvilIsPetty And to be able to gloat to Zuko's face.]] Ty Lee and Mai attempted to break Zuko out of jail but failed. Ultimately it was Zuko's jailers who release him to take throne. Zuko was the only royal left after Ozai's defeat and capture by the Avatar and Azula going insane.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Zuko would be the first to admit the serious wrongs the Fire Nation committed against the world. That said, as Fire Lord, he will do everything to protect his people’s best interests to prevent them from getting screwed over.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After publicly calling out Iroh, Zuko tells him that he plans to visit his sick relatives. By which he means Azula, who was locked away in asylum. Everyone else believes that Zuko was using the publicly accepted code for "I've pissed off the ruler, I need to get the hell outta here." Which destroys any credibility Iroh had left and kicks off a civil war.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Azula still has her VillainousBreakdown resulting from Mai and Ty Lee's betrayal, the key difference being that instead of covering an escape, they were instead caught trying to break Zuko out of prison.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The Gaang believed putting Iroh on the throne would be great. And then it happened.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The Gaang believed believed putting Iroh on the throne would be great. And then it happened.happened.
* HolierThanThou: Iroh's FatalFlaw is that he considers himself wiser and more moral than everyone else and believes that its in their better interests to do what he wants without considering other people's feelings. While originally RightlySelfRighteous compared to Zuko, the new complicated political reality means he makes rather dangerous mistakes.
* HonorBeforeReason: There are rules about what you can and cannot do to the Fire Lord. So when Iroh is faced with his nephew having a literal heart attack in front of him and refusing treatment instead of just say holding him down and forcing Katara to heal him Iroh instead ''challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai'' so he has the political power to order him to rest. Which leaves him with a living nephew who now cannot trust him and an entire palace of people who resent him.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Being a product of [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Azulon's court,]] Iroh believes that it is both necessary and respectful of servants to fear their Fire Lord. He is aghast that the servants' informality and open affection toward Zuko, seeing as a major disrespect toward a young ruler. The servants' fear of Iroh after his coup against Zuko is seen as a return to proper order. Which would have worked...hadn't the servants experienced hope and kindness during Zuko's short reign. Iroh being a return to form just moves them to hatred and outright rebellion.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:Congratulations Iroh, you finally got your nephew to rest. He now cannot trust you and you've gained the ire of the entire palace who view you as a pro-Avatar traitor, to say nothing of what the potential resulting rumors will do to your attempts to rule.
* HolierThanThou: Iroh's FatalFlaw is that he considers himself wiser and more moral than everyone else and believes that its in their better interests to do what he wants without considering other people's feelings. While originally RightlySelfRighteous compared to Zuko, the new complicated political reality means he makes rather dangerous mistakes.
* HonorBeforeReason: There are rules about what you can and cannot do to the Fire Lord. So when Iroh is faced with his nephew having a literal heart attack in front of him and refusing treatment instead of just say holding him down and forcing Katara to heal him Iroh instead ''challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai'' so he has the political power to order him to rest. Which leaves him with a living nephew who now cannot trust him and an entire palace of people who resent him.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Being a product of [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Azulon's court,]] Iroh believes that it is both necessary and respectful of servants to fear their Fire Lord. He is aghast that the servants' informality and open affection toward Zuko, seeing as a major disrespect toward a young ruler. The servants' fear of Iroh after his coup against Zuko is seen as a return to proper order. Which would have worked...hadn't the servants experienced hope and kindness during Zuko's short reign. Iroh being a return to form just moves them to hatred and outright rebellion.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:Congratulations Iroh, you finally got your nephew to rest. He now cannot trust you and you've gained the ire of the entire palace who view you as a pro-Avatar traitor, to say nothing of what the potential resulting rumors will do to your attempts to rule.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: The Gaang have no idea about the horrors Zuko has gone through since the eclipse, making a number of their actions come across as exceedingly cruel.
** Being blind, Toph is one of the only people able to forget that Ozai burnt half of Zuko's face off, and takes a few minutes to understand why Zuko's heart rate spiked when she made a crack about spicy food burning her face off. She does realize her mistake and tells him he can make as many blind jokes about her as he wants in return for any burn ones she makes.
** Aang is very confused as to why his choice of sparing Ozai by taking his bending instead utterly horrifies Zuko and his court.
** Katara has a habit of popping her waterskin's cork when nervous, and thinks no one can hear it when she does so under the table. Zuko has an immediate flight response towards the sound and excellent hearing. Toph eventually has to point out Katara's been giving him mild heart attacks since they arrived.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Gaang constantly shoot down Zuko's various proposal and attempted concessions without letting either side explains themselves. Now the Earth Kingdom is not getting any relief, the war prisoners still aren't free and they undermined any chance of Iroh ruling peacefully.
** Being blind, Toph is one of the only people able to forget that Ozai burnt half of Zuko's face off, and takes a few minutes to understand why Zuko's heart rate spiked when she made a crack about spicy food burning her face off. She does realize her mistake and tells him he can make as many blind jokes about her as he wants in return for any burn ones she makes.
** Aang is very confused as to why his choice of sparing Ozai by taking his bending instead utterly horrifies Zuko and his court.
** Katara has a habit of popping her waterskin's cork when nervous, and thinks no one can hear it when she does so under the table. Zuko has an immediate flight response towards the sound and excellent hearing. Toph eventually has to point out Katara's been giving him mild heart attacks since they arrived.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Gaang constantly shoot down Zuko's various proposal and attempted concessions without letting either side explains themselves. Now the Earth Kingdom is not getting any relief, the war prisoners still aren't free and they undermined any chance of Iroh ruling peacefully.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Aang was already a boogeyman to the Fire Nation. Taking away Ozai's bending and helping depose the popular Zuko in favor of [[TheQuisling Iroh]] [[NotHelpingYourCase doesn't help improve his image.]]
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* JerkassRealization: Toph has a moment when she learns just how bad Zuko's burn scar is and remembers that she made a joke about burning her face off.
* LivingLieDetector: Toph. Especially notable here because her bending allows her to get a much more accurate view of Zuko's psyche, which makes her super protective in her own way.
* LivingLieDetector: Toph. Especially notable here because her bending allows her to get a much more accurate view of Zuko's psyche, which makes her super protective in her own way.
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* CurbStompBattle: Zuko vs Iroh while Zuko is having a heart attack. The fight was short.
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* CurbStompBattle: CurbStompBattle: Zuko vs Iroh while Zuko is having a heart attack. The fight was short.
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* CurbStompCushion: Zuko had no chance of winning the Agni Kai against Iroh but props goes to him for doing so despite a literal heart attack and suffering a PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage.
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* CurbStompCushion: CurbStompCushion: Zuko had no chance of winning the Agni Kai against Iroh but props goes to him for doing so despite a literal heart attack and suffering a PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Zuko spent most of the prologue being mocked by the Gaang, undermined by Iroh and later outright ousted from power. During his coronation as Crown Prince he publicly calls them all out, warns his people against them and walks away while accidentally inciting a civil war.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Zuko spent most of the prologue being mocked by the Gaang, undermined by Iroh and later outright ousted from power. During his coronation as Crown Prince he publicly calls them all out, warns his people against them and walks away while accidentally inciting a civil war.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The Gaang believed putting Iroh on the throne would be great. And then it happened.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The Gaang believed believed putting Iroh on the throne would be great. And then it happened.happened.
* TheQuisling: Zuko and the Fire Nation consider Iroh a traitor for pushing the political agenda of the White Lotus and the Avatar without consideration of the real damage it would inflict.
* TheQuisling: Zuko and the Fire Nation consider Iroh a traitor for pushing the political agenda of the White Lotus and the Avatar without consideration of the real damage it would inflict.
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* DivineRightOfKings: The Fire Lord is considered the Will of the Sun God Agni on earth.
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** Zuko has a terrible reputation outside the Fire Nation with the rest of the world only seeing him as the next Fire Lord, with Earth Kingdom generals outright refusing to read the letters he sends regarding a ceasefire.
** Iroh has a poor reputation withing the Fire Nation for being a traitor, which only worsens when [[spoiler:he dethrones Zuko and the latter accidentally implies Iroh will kill him for disagreeing with the new regime]].
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** Zuko has a terrible reputation outside the Fire Nation with the rest of the world only seeing him as the next Fire Lord, with Earth Kingdom generals outright refusing to read the letters he sends regarding a ceasefire.
** Iroh has a poor reputation withing the Fire Nation for being a traitor, which only worsens when [[spoiler:he dethrones Zuko and the latter accidentally implies Iroh will kill him for disagreeing with the new regime]].
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* CurbStompBattle: Zuko vs Iroh while Zuko is having a heart attack. The fight was short.
-->'' Uncle took him down gentle as an owl-cat scuffing her kitten.''
* CurbStompCushion: Zuko had no chance of winning the Agni Kai against Iroh but props goes to him for doing so despite a literal heart attack and suffering a PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage.
* CutenessOverload: Sokka can't handle the site of Zuko napping on Appa while covered in turtleducks, or has he calls it "Zuko-and-Fluffy-Animals Cuteness Overload Happy Funtime Hour."
* DeathSeeker: Zuko is passively suicidal after his imprisonment, not caring whether he lives or dies as long as the Fire Nation remains in tact.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Zuko is certain that his council and the Fire Nation military will get depose him and have Zuko either executed, re-imprisoned or exiled once the situation stabilizes. He is determined to best Fire Lord he can be despite that.
* DespairEventHorizon: Zuko crosses it when Iroh challenges Zuko for the throne after his horror over Ozai's fate causes Zuko to have a heart attack. Having to relieve his worst memory at the hands of the only adult he unconditionally trusted during his most physically vulnerable breaks Zuko. After having all his efforts to bring peace rebuffed and his ParentalSubstitute betray him, Zuko finally gives up. After the Agni Kai Zuko [[MoodSwinger bounces]] between LaughingMad, apathetic depression and passively suicidal.
* TheDogBitesBack: Zuko spent most of the prologue being mocked by the Gaang, undermined by Iroh and later outright ousted from power. During his coronation as Crown Prince he publicly calls them all out, warns his people against them and walks away while accidentally inciting a civil war.
* DysfunctionJunction: Zuko's most healthy relationship is his acquaintanceship with Toph. Zuko and Toph respect each other's skill with Toph currently the only person in his life with these three characteristics: honest, polite and not mentally unstable.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Zuko has these throughout his reign as Fire Lord due his constant overworking and lack of sleep.
* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko forms fire daggers when he learns of Ozai's fate. [[spoiler: It's the first and last time he firebends before his PsychosomaticPowerOutage causes him to lose his bending completely.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zuko is the Responsible Sibling who buckles down to rule their nation and take care of her. While Azula cracked on her first day after her friends refused to continue to take her abuse. She throws tantrums by setting things on fire and attacking Zuko with lightning. Which Azula did so frequently that Zuko developed electrocution-based health problems.
* GrewASpine: After his DespairEventHorizon rendering all Zuko's efforts to fix the nation pointless, Zuko regains some of his fire by calling out Iroh. Sokka laments Zuko gaining his "moral backbone" when its incredibly inconvenient for the Gaang.
* HeartTrauma: Zuko develops electricity-induced arrhythmia due to having to tank Azula's lightning attacks. His weakening firebending barely allows him to redirect lightning, not being able to protect himself. His arrhythmia combined with his poor condition due to his imprisionment, poor sleep habits, poor eating habits and terrible lifestyle altogether lead to it Zuko endangering his life in critical moments.
-->'' Uncle took him down gentle as an owl-cat scuffing her kitten.''
* CurbStompCushion: Zuko had no chance of winning the Agni Kai against Iroh but props goes to him for doing so despite a literal heart attack and suffering a PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage.
* CutenessOverload: Sokka can't handle the site of Zuko napping on Appa while covered in turtleducks, or has he calls it "Zuko-and-Fluffy-Animals Cuteness Overload Happy Funtime Hour."
* DeathSeeker: Zuko is passively suicidal after his imprisonment, not caring whether he lives or dies as long as the Fire Nation remains in tact.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Zuko is certain that his council and the Fire Nation military will get depose him and have Zuko either executed, re-imprisoned or exiled once the situation stabilizes. He is determined to best Fire Lord he can be despite that.
* DespairEventHorizon: Zuko crosses it when Iroh challenges Zuko for the throne after his horror over Ozai's fate causes Zuko to have a heart attack. Having to relieve his worst memory at the hands of the only adult he unconditionally trusted during his most physically vulnerable breaks Zuko. After having all his efforts to bring peace rebuffed and his ParentalSubstitute betray him, Zuko finally gives up. After the Agni Kai Zuko [[MoodSwinger bounces]] between LaughingMad, apathetic depression and passively suicidal.
* TheDogBitesBack: Zuko spent most of the prologue being mocked by the Gaang, undermined by Iroh and later outright ousted from power. During his coronation as Crown Prince he publicly calls them all out, warns his people against them and walks away while accidentally inciting a civil war.
* DysfunctionJunction: Zuko's most healthy relationship is his acquaintanceship with Toph. Zuko and Toph respect each other's skill with Toph currently the only person in his life with these three characteristics: honest, polite and not mentally unstable.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Zuko has these throughout his reign as Fire Lord due his constant overworking and lack of sleep.
* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko forms fire daggers when he learns of Ozai's fate. [[spoiler: It's the first and last time he firebends before his PsychosomaticPowerOutage causes him to lose his bending completely.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zuko is the Responsible Sibling who buckles down to rule their nation and take care of her. While Azula cracked on her first day after her friends refused to continue to take her abuse. She throws tantrums by setting things on fire and attacking Zuko with lightning. Which Azula did so frequently that Zuko developed electrocution-based health problems.
* GrewASpine: After his DespairEventHorizon rendering all Zuko's efforts to fix the nation pointless, Zuko regains some of his fire by calling out Iroh. Sokka laments Zuko gaining his "moral backbone" when its incredibly inconvenient for the Gaang.
* HeartTrauma: Zuko develops electricity-induced arrhythmia due to having to tank Azula's lightning attacks. His weakening firebending barely allows him to redirect lightning, not being able to protect himself. His arrhythmia combined with his poor condition due to his imprisionment, poor sleep habits, poor eating habits and terrible lifestyle altogether lead to it Zuko endangering his life in critical moments.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Azula promises to reconsider her stance on fraticide if Zuko ever calls her "Lala" in public.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Azula believes that Iroh was playing TheLongGame to have revenge on Ozai. Since Iroh knew he couldn't beat Ozai, but he trained Zuko. He took Zuko from his father and from Azula and played the caring uncle. Iroh then had Aang take out Ozai while Zuko took the position as Fire Lord. And then Iroh [[CurbStompBattle broke]] [[DespairEventHorizon him,]] [[ForTheEvulz just because he could.]] [[RevengeByProxy Because he's Iroh's son]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Zuko outlived his usefulness.]] While Azula is wrong and Iroh geniunely loves Zuko, Zuko is so shaken that he doesn't know what to believe.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Azula may be ruthless but she's not wasteful. She considers Zuko's banishment a waste of his loyalty and Zuko notes she never kills unless absolutely necessary, as her conquest of Ba Sing Se was the most bloodless in the entire war.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Azula sees herself as the Responsible sibling having to look after Zuko, her naive and trusting Foolish Sibling. She is far from it.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Azula believes that Iroh was playing TheLongGame to have revenge on Ozai. Since Iroh knew he couldn't beat Ozai, but he trained Zuko. He took Zuko from his father and from Azula and played the caring uncle. Iroh then had Aang take out Ozai while Zuko took the position as Fire Lord. And then Iroh [[CurbStompBattle broke]] [[DespairEventHorizon him,]] [[ForTheEvulz just because he could.]] [[RevengeByProxy Because he's Iroh's son]] and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Zuko outlived his usefulness.]] While Azula is wrong and Iroh geniunely loves Zuko, Zuko is so shaken that he doesn't know what to believe.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Azula may be ruthless but she's not wasteful. She considers Zuko's banishment a waste of his loyalty and Zuko notes she never kills unless absolutely necessary, as her conquest of Ba Sing Se was the most bloodless in the entire war.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Azula sees herself as the Responsible sibling having to look after Zuko, her naive and trusting Foolish Sibling. She is far from it.
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* TheGhost: Ozai is never present but the weight of his actions and his imprisonment is felt by everyone.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Iroh completely misses the subtext behind why the palace staff are so relaxed around Zuko but completely formal with him.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Iroh is still Zuko's wonderful kindhearted retired Uncle with a love of tea, but he is also still the Dragon of the West, an extremely skilled General and tactician, and grew up in Azulon's court, with all the views on how to rule that comes with such an upbringing.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The Gaang believed putting Iroh on the throne would be great. And then it happened.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Iroh is still Zuko's wonderful kindhearted retired Uncle with a love of tea, but he is also still the Dragon of the West, an extremely skilled General and tactician, and grew up in Azulon's court, with all the views on how to rule that comes with such an upbringing.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The Gaang believed putting Iroh on the throne would be great. And then it happened.
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* TheDogBitesBack: When the servants realize that Iroh intends to use them as bait to sedate the homicidal Azula, they let Lady Huian deliver the food. Who immediately warns Azula of Iroh's plans which allows Azula to fight back.
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* GoThroughMe: Captain Izumi throws herself in front of an unconscious Azula to protect her from Aang in fear that Aang would take her bending. Aang is horrified that someone sees him as a monster for trying what Aang believed was a nonviolent solution.
* GrewASpine: After the devastating Agni Kai, Izumi tries to take a stand to protect the royal family. Keyword being try.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Izumi is horrified that she proved Zuko's low expectations of her right and didn't lift a finger to help the promising young ruler when Zuko needed someone.
* GrewASpine: After the devastating Agni Kai, Izumi tries to take a stand to protect the royal family. Keyword being try.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Izumi is horrified that she proved Zuko's low expectations of her right and didn't lift a finger to help the promising young ruler when Zuko needed someone.
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* CultureClash: None of the Gaang, Sokka in particular, understand how horrific the idea of having their bending removed is to firebenders. They consider firebending a gift from the sun god and part of their soul, making its removal a FateWorseThanDeath while the Gaang sees it as a way to make sure Ozai won't be a threat again.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Iroh told the Gaang about Zuko's traumatic Agni Kai in an attempt to humanize a despised enemy. Sokka belatedly realizes after Zuko gives an ArmorPiercingResponse that it didn't actually work as they still couldn't empathize with him.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Iroh told the Gaang about Zuko's traumatic Agni Kai in an attempt to humanize a despised enemy. Sokka belatedly realizes after Zuko gives an ArmorPiercingResponse that it didn't actually work as they still couldn't empathize with him.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Zuko has no idea what Sokka's actual name is and is too embarrassed to ask since they've been fighting against each other for a while now. After listening in on Toph and Sokka's conversation, Zuko ends up calling Sokka "Ambassador Snoozles" when trying to address him.
* CultureClash: A recurring theme with him as he's also a NaiveNewcomer as the the original Gaang are, but of the PowerTrio he's the only one willing to admit that he doesn't know things as opposed to assuming like Aang and Katara.
** One of the more minor examples is that Zuko and his council are furious at the idea of someone invading their territorial waters while Sokka doesn't understand how someone could rule an ocean or why they'd want to but understands the idea of different tribes having their own fishing grounds.
** None of the Gaang, Sokka in particular, understand how horrific the idea of having their bending removed is to firebenders. Being a nonbender, Sokka is smug that someone as fearsome as Ozai being BroughtDownToNormal and is rather offended that firebenders would rather be dead than live as a nonbender.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Having Toph call him Snoozles was bad enough for Sokka. But Zuko calls him "Ambassador Snoozles" because he didn't know Sokka's name was humiliating.
* CultureClash: A recurring theme with him as he's also a NaiveNewcomer as the the original Gaang are, but of the PowerTrio he's the only one willing to admit that he doesn't know things as opposed to assuming like Aang and Katara.
** One of the more minor examples is that Zuko and his council are furious at the idea of someone invading their territorial waters while Sokka doesn't understand how someone could rule an ocean or why they'd want to but understands the idea of different tribes having their own fishing grounds.
** None of the Gaang, Sokka in particular, understand how horrific the idea of having their bending removed is to firebenders. Being a nonbender, Sokka is smug that someone as fearsome as Ozai being BroughtDownToNormal and is rather offended that firebenders would rather be dead than live as a nonbender.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Having Toph call him Snoozles was bad enough for Sokka. But Zuko calls him "Ambassador Snoozles" because he didn't know Sokka's name was humiliating.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Zuko believes this is the case with the palace staff due to their perceived “insubordination.” [[spoiler: Iroh, however, starts off with low approval when he returns, which only proceeds to tank completely when he dethrones Zuko.]]
* RoyallyScrewedUp: While already present in the series even Iroh and Zuko come to blows when it comes it ruling the nation. While Zuko had Azula locked in a royal suite after her psychotic breakdown and Azula electrocuted Zuko for fun, Iroh and Zuko's relationship falls apart spectacularly over the story.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: While already present in the series even Iroh and Zuko come to blows when it comes it ruling the nation. While Zuko had Azula locked in a royal suite after her psychotic breakdown and Azula electrocuted Zuko for fun, Iroh and Zuko's relationship falls apart spectacularly over the story.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Zuko believes this is the case with the palace staff due to their perceived “insubordination.” [[spoiler: Iroh, however, starts off with low approval when he returns, which only proceeds to tank completely when he dethrones Zuko.]]
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*RoyallyScrewedUp: BreakTheCutie: Zuko and Azula come pre-broken into the story from various psychological breakdowns. Things, unfortunately, get worse for both before they get better.
* CainAndAbel: Surprisingly averted by Azula and Zuko to their own shock. Azula admits that she never wanted Zuko dead and Zuko returns the sentiment.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: While already present in the series even Iroh and Zuko come to blows when it comes it ruling the nation. While Zuko had Azula locked in a royal suite after her psychotic breakdown and Azula electrocuted Zuko for fun, Iroh and Zuko's relationship falls apart spectacularly over the story.
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* CainAndAbel: Surprisingly averted by Azula and Zuko to their own shock. Azula admits that she never wanted Zuko dead and Zuko returns the sentiment.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: While already present in the series even Iroh and Zuko come to blows when it comes it ruling the nation. While Zuko had Azula locked in a royal suite after her psychotic breakdown and Azula electrocuted Zuko for fun, Iroh and Zuko's relationship falls apart spectacularly over the story.
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* BatmanGambit: Knowing Iroh would do anything to have Zuko forgive him, Zuko has his coronation as Crown Prince scheduled as soon as possible. Iroh wanted to delay the coronation for Zuko's frail health, but he insisted. Which was Zuko's ploy to get a public audience to rip Iroh a new one.
* BewareTheHonestOnes: Sokka notes that Zuko's manipulations are dangerous because he's too honest and does it unintentionally. Which makes Zuko difficult to predict.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Zuko refuses being Crown Prince at the ceremony, he follows the declaration by publicly ripping into Iroh's choices of siding with the White Lotuses view on how to handle the Fire Nation and the damage that will occur by doing so.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: The weight of inheriting the throne while trying to end the war without the Fire Nation being gutted in retaliation is slowly crushing Zuko.
* BewareTheHonestOnes: Sokka notes that Zuko's manipulations are dangerous because he's too honest and does it unintentionally. Which makes Zuko difficult to predict.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Zuko refuses being Crown Prince at the ceremony, he follows the declaration by publicly ripping into Iroh's choices of siding with the White Lotuses view on how to handle the Fire Nation and the damage that will occur by doing so.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: The weight of inheriting the throne while trying to end the war without the Fire Nation being gutted in retaliation is slowly crushing Zuko.
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** Zuko unconditionally welcomes Iroh back into the Fire Nation with open arms, understands why Iroh doesn't trust him and lets Iroh go through the palace un-monitored. Iroh repays this by making backroom deals with the Fire Sages to gain their approval to make himself Zuko's regent or take the throne himself. Iroh destroys whatever trust Zuko had by challenging him to an Agni Kai and taking the throne.
** After having Iroh as Aang's firebending teacher and knowing of his wisdom, the Gaang (except Toph) thought it would be a great idea to have Iroh as Fire Lord. Seeing the less-than-peaceful transition in power in seeing Zuko broken and the nation hating Iroh has the Gaang lose faith in him.
* TheChessmaster: Iroh. He wasn't a highly decorated General for nothing. He quickly reintegrates himself with the Fire Sages and the military elite when Zuko welcomes him back. It backfires when he dethrones Zuko. His manipulations cause the palace and Zuko to lose utter faith in him. Which results in Zuko turning his back on him and a civil war. Made worse by many interpreting Iroh's actions as playing TheLongGame to remove all potential threats to his power by turning his family against each other.
* CruelToBeKind: Zuko continues to refuse to listen to Iroh due to Iroh never taking responsibility as a prince even when Zuko is having a literal heart attack. Which results in Iroh challenging Zuko to Agni Kai to oust Zuko as Fire Lord. While Iroh saves Zuko's life, having to re-live the worst memory of his life emotionally destroys Zuko. Zuko's relationship with Iroh is destroyed and ruins Iroh's credibility as Fire Lord.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** All Zuko's servants and counselors wanted was for Zuko to stop overworking himself. Which happens when Iroh takes the throne from Zuko by force.
** Fire Sage Fujio understandably wanted an adult in charge of the Fire Nation and for the nation's only hope to not work himself to death before reaching adulthood. He makes clear to Iroh that the Fire Sages support him whether he becomes Zuko's regent or take the throne himself. Which results in Zuko abdicating the throne and unintentionally triggering a civil war much to his horror.
* BotheringByTheBook: Under Zuko, all of his servants rush to help him with everything regardless of his attempts to do things for himself. Under Firelord Iroh, the servants don't help Iroh until they're forced to, such as not opening doors until he's already waiting in front of them.
* BystanderSyndrome: Zuko makes note of how no one in the Fire Nation who had the political sway to resist seems to have made any actual effort to protest the war despite the real harm it was doing to the nation.
** All Zuko's servants and counselors wanted was for Zuko to stop overworking himself. Which happens when Iroh takes the throne from Zuko by force.
** Fire Sage Fujio understandably wanted an adult in charge of the Fire Nation and for the nation's only hope to not work himself to death before reaching adulthood. He makes clear to Iroh that the Fire Sages support him whether he becomes Zuko's regent or take the throne himself. Which results in Zuko abdicating the throne and unintentionally triggering a civil war much to his horror.
* BotheringByTheBook: Under Zuko, all of his servants rush to help him with everything regardless of his attempts to do things for himself. Under Firelord Iroh, the servants don't help Iroh until they're forced to, such as not opening doors until he's already waiting in front of them.
* BystanderSyndrome: Zuko makes note of how no one in the Fire Nation who had the political sway to resist seems to have made any actual effort to protest the war despite the real harm it was doing to the nation.
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* BrutalHonesty: The recipient of it. Zuko tells Captain Izumi that he doesn't trust her to be loyal to him. Izumi is offended but later realizes that he was right.
* BystanderSyndrome: While offended at Zuko's blunt analysis of her, Captain Izumi doesn't do anything to stop the Agni Kai or help Zuko until it's too late. She's horrified with herself.
* BrutalHonesty: The recipient of it. Zuko tells Captain Izumi that he doesn't trust her to be loyal to him. Izumi is offended but later realizes that he was right.
* BystanderSyndrome: While offended at Zuko's blunt analysis of her, Captain Izumi doesn't do anything to stop the Agni Kai or help Zuko until it's too late. She's horrified with herself.
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* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler: during the botched Crown Prince coronation, Toph was the only person who realized where Zuko actually meant and where he was actually going. She deliberately decided to stay out of it and made sure Sokka didn't realize it until Zuko made his escape.]]
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* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler: during AccompliceByInaction: During the botched Crown Prince coronation, Toph was the only person who realized where Zuko actually meant and where he was actually going. She deliberately decided to stay out of it and made sure Sokka didn't realize it until Zuko made his escape.]]
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Zuko believes this is the case with the palace staff due to their perceived “insubordination.” [[spoiler: Iroh, however, starts off with low approval when he returns, which only proceeds to tank completely when he dethrones Zuko.]]
* RoyallyScrewedUp: While already present in the series even Iroh and Zuko come to blows when it comes it ruling the nation. While Zuko had Azula locked in a royal suite after her psychotic breakdown and Azula electrocuted Zuko for fun, Iroh and Zuko's relationship falls apart spectacularly over the story.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: While already present in the series even Iroh and Zuko come to blows when it comes it ruling the nation. While Zuko had Azula locked in a royal suite after her psychotic breakdown and Azula electrocuted Zuko for fun, Iroh and Zuko's relationship falls apart spectacularly over the story.
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* AffectionateNickname: Just as Azula calls her brother Zuzu, Zuko is revealed to similarly call her Lala.
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* AbusiveParents: He wouldn't be Ozai if he wasn't an abusive dick to his kids.
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