Why Ozai Is a Great Villain
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2023
- Hello there, another video from yours truly! This time I`ll be covering what makes Ozai a great villain?!
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It’s said how mark hamill is mainly known as Luke and Joker, he was amazing as Ozai
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And the joker in the Arkham games
After generations of Fire Lords failed to find it, now the universe delivers this video to me as an act of providence.
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Writers often want their main antagonist to challenge their protagonist in every way possible. Aang is a very moral character and considerate of others, so his main villain must challenge that by being the most evil character possible.
Ozai perfectly challenges Aang's no-killing rule by being the most irredeemable villain imaginable. And everything about their final dual expresses how irredeemable Ozai is. Their dialogue shows his pride and lust for power, his offensive fighting style shows his lack of conviction beating up a kid. Even his face when Aang is redirecting his lightning: going from scared he is about ready to die to an evil smirk at his opportunity to kill his weakened opponent, -his opponent weakened because he spared his life. Ozai is the most irredeemable villain and is completely undeserving of life. This is how the ultimate antagonist can perfectly challenge a protagonist like Aang.
i also like how ozai iis given his worst ending, with the humiliation of being one of the least powerful people in the nation right after nearly conquering his opponent
nice observation sometimes we need antagonists who are unreedemable
@@humanzombieninja exactly, cuz they force the main character to question their good morals and make to tough decisions
Mark Hamill was the perfect casting choice to Ozai.
100%! It’s insane how well Mark voices villains
Ozai is so underrated it’s unbelievable.
P.S
All hail the algorithm.
In all honesty, I like Ozai over Azula in terms of power and prowess.
Sure the blue fire is great, but his jet propulsion is stronger, plus he can bend two lightning whips
Actually, it's not two, he shoots only one. He just does it so fast it looks like he does two
I really don't like when people just dismiss Ozai because he doesn't have enough complexity as a character, when he really doesn't need to be. He has grown up in an environment where everybody told hime he was destined to greatness, born in what they told him is the greatest nation in the world. He is a dictator born in a dictatorship, there's nothing unrealistical about a king who wants to conquer the world because he belives his nation has the right to rule, many people in our history acted like him.
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@@humanzombieninja agreed
"Ozai clearly left a major mark on Zuko's life"
Was that a pun?
Possibly
Well it was definitely on the mark.
@@NotoriousShot Too soon man
I can’t believe Doctor Han from The good doctor is going to be Ozai for live action. I AM AN AVATAR FIRELORD OZAI.
Before that, he was the general who tried to force Aang into the Avatar State in season 2 of the original series, and he was Asami's father in the Legend of Korra. So, he has the distinguished honor of being in all three shows.
Can we alpreciate how FUCKING PSYCHOTIC AZULON IS? his grandson dies, his son iroh is in shambles, ozai suggests being firelord because he has children, AND AZULON'S RESPONSE IS TO MAKE HIS SON KILL HIS OTHER GRANDSON. AND OZAI SAYS YES. WHAT THE FUCK
He cares about iroh and is disgusted by hearing that just because Iroh retired from the siege of Ba Sing Se Ozai wants to be the successor. Thinking that this was a betrayal Azulon’s horrible punishment of Ozai was for him to kill his own son. And he actually feels the tragedy Iroh is going trough so he also sees Ozai’s indifrence and so quick to talks of succession as very disrespectful so yeah this why Azulon asked Ozai to commit this act still very horrible tho.Hope this gives you a bigger understanding
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The fact is that Azulon said Iroh had suffered enough, but he didn't realize he was actually punishing Iroh, instead of Ozai. Iroh was always very close to Zuko, as shown in the flashback from "The Beach", in which we see an image of Iroh playing with baby Zuko while Lu Ten builds a sandcastle. Iroh did say that he thought of Zuko as his own ever since his son died, but I think he always saw Zuko as a son and those feelings just increased after losing his actual son. So, imagine Iroh coming home, expecting to be reunited with Zuko and then discovering that his father ordered his death. That would have only added on to the tragedy that he was experiencing.
@@Blunderman-rl1hc did azulón know that nope he thought iroh was just as heartless as him
Firelord Sozin is ultimately the villain that started it all leaving avatar Roku to die while launching his assault on the world. Starting with the Air nomads because he was aware of the avatar cycle. Ozai is simply the current Firelord during ATLAB. Ozai is an egomaniac carrying the dreams of his predecessors only because he killed his father & Iroh didn’t want much of anything after leaving the Siege of Ba Sing Se. Ultimately the only people he was the worst villain to were his children, both which have a breakdown from the way he raised them, & their mother. Anng’s primary conflict in the entire series is with himself. That’s why he ran away multiple times.
This is why I prefer Ozai to the Korra villains. His overall precense in the story, while not physically there most of the time, is still felt by his actions through characters such as Zuko and Azula. And narritively he serves the same role as Palpatine in Star Wars.
I just realized that we only see Ozai’s full power during his fight with Aang. We see 1. That he burned Zuko’s face in the Agni Kai, establishing that he is a fire bender, and 2. That he can use lightning when he tried to kill Zuko. We don’t see the full extend of his fighting and firebending ability until his fight with Aang.
Usually when a villain is introduced, they make a large show of power, like Thanos defeating Thor in the beginning of Infinity War. When Ozai was introduced, we are only give three facts; Ozai is bad, a comet will make him stronger, and he will use the comet to kill everyone.
So biggest building block to Ozai as Aang’s opponent was how much of an evil and heartless person he was.
Fun fact, Aang kills hundreds of people in the course of the series.
Any episode of the show will have Aang sending a regular person flying into the air or crushed by some rock or theown into the water.
The drill probably have 20-40 people working inside of it. Have you seen the side of that thing? Only 3 people escaped before it crushed everyone else when it collapsed.
Also Book Water finale when Aang singlehandledly killed all of the Fire Nation Navy...
I guess the poor and foot soldiers don't count as people for air nomads.
Aang lacks empathy like really badly
Best way to describe Ozai is he's the result of several years of war and how it shaped the Fire Nation. He is described through Azula, Zuko, Iroh, Ursa, Azulon, Zhao and the entire Fire Nation. It's more about how he interacted and shaped/manipulated others that described him. Something you don't see with any villain or maybe I didn't see it and saw it through Ozai.
I think one of the issues with Korra is they tried so hard to make villains recurring. Whilst it slightly worked for Zaheer, and they tried to make it work for Kuvira, the villains didn't have that same threat level as Ozai (maybe Amon until his mask was off). I think they needed to use villains a bit more carefully as Avatar had
But ozai wasn’t even a good villain he was just a means
@@ce666isa3not a good villain? Dude burned his son, manipulated his daughter, banished his wife, killed his father. And was about to commit genocide until aang stopped him.
@@hassanabdullah2425 I only wish he was more involved in Book 3, he showed up in six episodes max. I wish we could have seen him interacting with Zuko and Azula more once they returned to the Fire Nation, Zuko talked about getting along with his father but we never saw scenes of that except for the first episode.
@@MrMoleHole but that would have ruined his intimidation factor.
@@hassanabdullah2425 I don't think it would, I think it would make him even scarier knowing what he's done and is capable of while also seeing him on a human level
Simple villains can be fun and entertaining but can be menacing, threatening, and not annoying. Take Aku for an example; him and Samurai Jack are complete opposites but they do have a similar goal, to kill each other and protect their futures. Where Jack has to kill him and go back to the past to prevent him from taking away his family’s future but he decides to do this without being like Aku, cold and heartless, and decides to help others and put others needs before his own. That’s his greatest strength but greatest flaw. But Aku is willing to do whatever it takes to kill him
Also, big Jack Horner :)
Ozai reminds of Emperor Valkorion, especially how they both treated their kids.
I did a few reimaginings for Ozai that involve him being the one behind the 100-year war.
1: Ozai, Azulon and Sozin become combined into one basically, for I imagine Ozai being the one who betrays Roku, wipes out the air nomads and begins the war. Unlike Sozin, Ozai lives through the whole 100 year-war and all of the atrocities, experiences, and firebending levels of the three warmongering fire lords will all belong to Ozai only. The comet is renamed Ozai's comet and it arrives by the end of Fall. Iroh and Ursa are rewritten to be biological siblings. Aang uses energybending to purify Ozai's chakras and restore his internal balance. Roku takes Ozai to the spirit world to find eternal peace and balance.
2: The second half of season 2 of legend of Korra is moved over into Aang's saga and harmonic convergence arrives by the end of Fall. With enough foreshadowing and build-up throughout the series so it don't feel like it's forced like it was in Korra. Ozai and Vaatu are the same person and only needs HC to regain his dark power/status that he lost when Iroh's mother Ilah, helped him escape. Vaatu is also the one who directly manipulated Sozin into waging his war using the cosmic energy from the tree of time and during one of the solstices to plant dreams of ambitions. In the season 3 finale, during Sozin's comet, instead of Ozaatu confronting Aang, he confronts the lion turtle. He slays it by absorbing its soul, gaining all of its attributes and abilities, and through them he obtains the elements in the opposite order of Aang. Aang uses spiritbending on Ozaatu, Raava, and himself to have Raava become the avatar spirit of light/peace and darkness/chaos at the same time, aka, the avatar spirit of balance itself.
3: Combination of both but with Ozai's comet returning by the end of summer like originally.
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Meh.
Wait this only has 10 k views??? This is perfect
Thanos: "I do, You no the only one with cursed of knowledge." Also Thanos: "I dont even know who you are" yeah.
Ozai if like original trilogy Palpatine, pure evil with zero redeeming qualities, but every scene they are in is fun to watch and very enjoyable, and end up being a great villain because of that.
Okay video essay 101: it shouldn't take half of the runtime to get to your main topic.
Having said that you put quite a lot of work into research and editing and it shows
Ozai is Zuko if he snapped and had no Iroh.
Thanks for this great video 😊
After reading the Comics I begin to get Palpatine vibes from Ozai he used his position of Power to pull stings, manipluate and rise higher even after losing his bending he still remains cunning and Manipulative.
I loved how Ozai was basically so cruel that his worst actions couldn't even be shown directly onscreen. He also gets overlooked by a majority of the fanbase who think that he was only as fearsome as he was during the times he was shown fighting due to the comet and that many fans consider Azula to be stronger than him. Ozai was feared above all other villains in the original series for a reason. He was a ferocious fighter with unparalleled control over his element - eat me Iroh worshipers - a master tactician, a top-tier athlete, and utterly ruthless in the way he wielded his powers. His reputation goes beyond simply being the Fire Lord. His reign was only about five or six years long. That's not nearly enough time for him to garner the reputation he has by the time of the series. That means he's been ripping through one enemy after another basically his whole life at a level that makes the whole world bow down in fear of his very name.
yeah alot of poeple dont take into account that Ozai actually abused BOTH his children...
Zuko may have gotten the broad end of the beating stick in the more litteral sense....
but his grooming and manipulation of Azula,in fostering and encouraging her worst traits held by her insecurities shows a deep psychological hold he had on her.
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Recognising the background music didn't really make me proud.
"Ozai clearly left a major mark on Zuko's life"
Really thought you were gonna say 'face' there. 😅
We need a villain that is a dark type and immune to psychic and not scared of ghosts. That Dark is Fear, They are to be feared.
The main problem I have with the Joker in The Dark Knight is that Heath Ledger didn’t get the ‘Clown Prince of Crime’ aspect of the character right like Mark Hamill’s Joker from the DC Animated Universe (Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Batman Beyond) did. The movie only focused on Joker being a force of chaos and nothing more.
Ozai was simply following the course taken by his own royal ancestors who vowed to extinguish the Avatar Cycle by exterminating the least threatening group (the Air Nation) and then building from that genocide. The White Lotus Society was formed in secret to try and check the Fire Nation’s power as they believed the Avatar line was extinct and were mostly successful unto Ozai ascended the throne. In the backstory. It is revealed that the previous avatar who was born of the Fire Nation had a romantic conflict between himself and the Fire Lord of his time which culminated in vow he made to render the Avatars extinct. Ozai thus feels he is not only fulfilling his nation’s destiny but avenging his ancestor who was humbled by the Avatar. Ang successfully made contact with this spiritual ancestor via an ancient shrine before the Fire Army could destroy it and thus set him at an advantage as to how to gain mastery.
Nice video! I love ATLA
The best villains are those who genuinely believes their motives are for the better
Why Ozai is the greatest villain, why Iroh is the greatest character, why Aang is the greatest hero, why Azula is such a great penultimate villain it's all in Avatar the Last Airbender. A masterpiece.
Was that some cod4 background music I heard
We needed Ozai to go against Kuvira
I love it when they talk about the villain but he is never there. It encapsulates how much influence he has on the world without showing him. Sephiroth was laid out like this in FF7 as well. It makes the villain appear more like a mythological character IN a mythological world.
Also…Mark Hamill. Amazing voice acting
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Ozai is a one-dimensional, pure evil villain done right. He doesn't have as rich a history or depth as Old EU Darth Sidious/Palpatine, President Corlianus Snow (Hunger Games), nor Dragonball's Frieza. But they developed him well-enough via the impact and influence he has on characters ala Zuko and Azula's abuse and Jet's PTSD-induced, hyper-racism. Not to mention, building him up like an ominous, demonic threat like Sauron only to reveal him as a textbook narcopathic mortal, was a good translatioon of an abuse victim psychologically overcoming their fear of an abuser and ripping out said abuser's teeth till they're lower than an amoeba. Not to mention his scarce screen time is preferable to listening to him rant his ash off how being a dick to everyone makes him a boss like a One Piece villain.
I respect author's dive into other examples, although i don't agree that thanos has any good writing for himself. But intro is way too long, half of the video is about something else, i think it would be better if it was smaller
Ozai is meant to serve as a living, breathing thematic element and not so much a human being.
No hate, but in a 12 min video that I at least, believe to be able The last air bender, you only start talking about it in the 6th min onwards 😅
Ozai was not a good villain at all if you ask me. In my opinion, he was the single most poorly written villain I have ever seen. For 90% of my viewing experience for the show, I forgot he even existed, and I absolutely hated how his introduction randomly tried to make you feel sympathy for Azula out of nowhere at the end of the show. Plus, why does the script treat him as if he is responsible for starting the war and killing off the Air Nomads? I personally believe they should have merged the characters of Ozai and Sozin into one and made the Firelord that Aang must face the same one that wiped out his people. That would have made his decision to spare him even more powerful and not have been a stretch due to the fact that the most powerful benders live long lives. Also, I would have made the Firelord the primary antagonist throughout the show instead of Azula.
ozai is great villain why u want see him all the time for he is the end game like real live
@@rogerdan8831 I explained that the audience already hated Azula as a character and loved her as a villain, and she was randomly shoved aside and ruined out of nowhere in favor of Ozai.
To me Ozai was terrible father to both of his Two children Azula and Zuko and Terrible uncle to Lu Ten as well cruel man.
Avatar fans on their way to justify bad writing:
How is Landa pure evil? Your Analysis of his character is so superficial and dimwitted I should have closed the video right there, Aldo Raine is the actual psychopathic murderer who enjoys killing for its own sake.
Spent almost half the video talking about stuff that is not what I clicked this video to watch.. fast forward!