After Zuko Got Burned (Deleted Scene)

In Book 1 of Avatar The Last Airbender during The Storm episode we saw how Zuko got his scar and why he got banished but this video answers the big question of what happened afterwards and his early days as a banished prince.

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[BookAir]

Thanks for the shout-out! Loved the video. Just shared it on our community posts too. For anyone saying this is click bait - not so fast!

The prequel manga used content that was left out from the show due to time. That means it’s not that much of a stretch to call it a deleted scene. Despite the manga being forced to be marketing material for the live action movie, the two writers worked on materials for the show and one of them (Dave Roman) even said they used the show characterization!

[anitatobin]

I like having the full back story on Zuko and Iroh. Most of this is implied in the show but giving Iroh a purpose helps navigate the story. The red mask is a cool add to the story.

[madamemotarey]

I was actually a little disappointed that Zuko didn't bring the blue spirit mask from the palace. Ursa had hidden theatre masks from her home at the palace, including the blue spirit mask, and when that was revealed I had always thought that Zuko had taken his mask from Ursa's stash, as if he was bringing a piece of her with him

[youreadthisinyourmindright]

The 41st division crew backstory for the live action is actually good, it makes sense the crew that Zuko prevent from being used as war baits now repurposed to go with him.

[ZekeRaiden]

Frankly, I suspect Iroh's presence on the ship was a perfectly calculated move, either by Azula or (more likely) Ozai. It's clear Ozai doesn't love anyone but himself, but given his cruelty to Zuko, I don't for a moment believe that Ozai would do that as a kindness to his son. Instead, he saw it as killing two birds with one stone. He clears the line of succession (removing both Iroh as a claimant and Zuko as an heir), weakens potential opposition within the court and Fire Sages, and perhaps best of all, gets a shortlist of people to watch closely or even imprison in the presumed-unlikely event that Zuko returned with a captured Avatar. All at the low cost of a single warship and the supplies to keep it fueled and fed. Strategically, it's a brilliant move, so long as you share Ozai's callous contempt for emotion, empathy, and the very concept of learning from failure.

Of course, that's also exactly why it led to Ozai's downfall. He hand-crafted an heir that could legitimately succeed him, who had earned the respect of their people through said heir's own, personal deeds, explicitly _without_ support from Ozai. He put that heir under the direct and constant supervision of one of the kindest and wisest men in the Fire Nation, who had several reasons (personal and political) to guide and teach that heir. And, finally, by forcing that heir to hunt down the one enemy that could truly stop him, he ensured that that enemy was well-prepared to face him AND that his heir was strategically placed at exactly the same time so as to immediately assume power once the Avatar beat him.

Ozai is an absolutely masterful manipulator, if and only if he's dealing with people driven by fear, pride, greed, or wrath. People driven by love, genuine and sincere love, are utterly alien to him, and it is that failing which costs him his crown. Every critical mistake stemmed from that source, yet if he had understood and appreciated the value of love, trust, and kindness, it's extremely unlikely he could have been the cold, ruthless monster he was. His failure was inevitable and yet invisible to him until it fell upon him.

[NATO]

I honestly don’t see an issue with Zuko and Iroh visiting the Fire Sages first. This is because it would make sense that if that was the first place they visited from the banishment, they could have stopped there before officially leaving fire nation territory. The fire nation could have simply looked at it as a “whatever as long as they get out soon” kind of thing. So on their way out, they stop with the fire sages, then they officially leave the fire nation territory to once the cross the blockade, they were to never cross again without the avatar.

[michaelburandt]

Azula gives Zuko a ship:
"We call it the 'Seabitch'. Thought it would be perfect for you."

[BAN]

For a comic to a movie that doesn't exist, this one's fire.

[dekuthedog]

I just watched through Netflix's new live action series. And while the whole show isn't that great, the explanation for how zuko got his crew is one of the best things they did

[ginantsfan]

Love how Azula helped Zuko prepare for his banishment. buy convincing Ozia to let Zuko have a Ship.

[xsovereign]

It’s pretty nice to see the moments of Azula caring about Zuko. Even if they were pitted against each other by Ozai she still cared for him deep down, as did he.

[alexgremlin]

That was a pretty good story. It shows just how desperate Zuko was at his worst and how important Iroh is for Zuko.

[aac]

The blue spirit mask belonged to Zuko’s mother. We learn she was part of a play and that mask belonged to her lover, before she was forced to marry Ozai. She kept the mask in the fire nation capital. I wouldn’t consider this comic exactly cannon

[R.a.i.n.y.m.o.o.n]

Zuko and Uncle Iroh in Netflix live action is reviving my Avatar fangirl era and this time my favorite characters happens to be these two because damnnnn those flashbacks are hitting hard

[chaosjxr]

Hands down the best Zuko-related addition to the 2024 show was the additional backstory here. He spoke out against the sacrifice of new soldiers in the war meeting, and Ozai deemed this inexperienced crew to be just as disposable as the general Zuko spoke out against.

The post-Agni Kai scene got me in the feelings. 😅

[ghostking]

I feel like Iroh may have been "ordered" to join zuko. Meaning iroh subtly manipulated Ozai to ordering him to join the quest. This gives Ozai the idea he has "eyes" in zuko's crew while allowing iroh to care for his nephew by keeping ozai's spys off the ship (and helping his nephew get the ship)

[travisegger]

As much as I love how they did his backstory in the show, I think having that scene of him walking out and banished and everyone just watching him leave… man that is some emotional shit!

[alexbraswell]

I like to think that Iroh still had a small group of soldiers that were loyal to him aswell as a firenation ship. When Zuko was banished Iroh basically took him under his wing and gave him reign of the ship to search for the Avatar. In the episode where Zuko makes amends with the shipcrew, why would they leave the fire nation (potential forever) to serve someone they didnt like. Clearly they were loyal to Iroh, the same person that was pushing Zuko to make amends with them. I do feel this is implied and hinted at in the show as others have said.

[supakku-pc]

There was so many unsolved questions in the animated series…I’m so glad they made comic books that explain everything better

[ZephyrBW]

Zuko has too much heart to be like his father