![]() ![]() Only avoided killing his own son when his wife offered to carry out a palace coup on his behalf to save Zuko Ozai accepted that order and fully intended to kill Zuko instead of doing anything to protect his son Tried to unseat Iroh as the heir after Lu Ten's death, failed and was ordered to execute Zuko as punishment Ozai is just all round bad, he not only kept the war going like the other two but he also: Add to that that we see that the Fire Nation was industrialising and clearly had parallels to Japan after the Meji Restoration and we can infer that the Fire Nation likely required access to raw materials like its historical counterpart and we can at least see valid realpolitik reasoning behind the decision to go to war. Sozin might have started the war and in doing so committed the Air Nomad Genocide, but that was one part of a much wider war which in its totality probably dwarfed the number of deaths and suffering caused in the Genocide many times over simply because there weren't many Air Nomads (I don't think it's any more evil to kill or persecute any given number of civilians from one ethnic group over another, it's all equally bad). In the raids on the Southern Water Tribe his forces did show a degree of restraint in trying to capture rather than kill their opponents. From least bad to worst.Īzulaon inherited a war and just continued it, we don't have any evidence to point to any particularly bad things things he did. I'd written up a pretty detailed reasoning reasoning on my comparison of all three of them, but my browser crashed so I'll just summarise. ![]()
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