r/ATLA • u/JustAPerson_YesOrNo "Hello, it's Zuko here" • May 25 '25

Question What ATLA take make you like this?

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u/Sarcherre May 26 '25

Aang should have killed Ozai. Like, what? Genuinely can you imagine a worse, less fitting, more hollowed out way of ending the show than Aang sacrifices his entire personality, inheritance, goals, and lessons learned throughout the series, to kill a bad guy at the end of a show for kids? I get the deus ex machina problems, but the solution isn’t murder.

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u/Ainka_VGC May 27 '25

Personally, what I believe is that Aang should have invented the energy bending technique he used to defeat him. Instead of going to the Lion Turtle he should have found Guru Pathik and came up with it while talking to him about his own conflicted spirit. Aang creating this Hail Mary that he is unsure of working would have made that final clash of spirits a lot more meaningful imo and reusing Guru Pathik would have allowed a deserving character more time to shine.

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u/LevelOutlandishness1 May 27 '25

I’m fine with the energy bending ending and your proposed alternative is actually better than the one I have further up in the thread

The show really would have been 100% instead of 98% if they just set it up earlier