Zuko isn't a bad guy,
he's just confused and angry and wondering why his life is so hard.
he sees one hope and clings on to it desperately. He is obsessed with himself, but yet he cares about his uncle.
His quest is hard.


is the 16-year-old exiled prince of the Fire Nation and original antagonist of the series. He is determined, strong willed, and never shows weakness, but once you get to know him, he shows his more sensitive side (mostly in the third season). Due to events in Zuko's past, his father, Fire Lord Ozai, deems him a complete failure and burns his face (leaving him with his trademark scar) and banishes him. The only way for Zuko to regain his honor and return to the Fire Nation is to capture the Avatar. Over time, Zuko struggles to deal with his anger, self-pity, and complex familial relationships. Through out the seasons (except half way through the third season) he struggles with making the right and wrong desicions. Over the course of the series he grows sympathetic to the people his nation has terrorized. He takes on the vigilante identity of "the blue spirit" at the end of season one and beginning of season two. In season three, he defects from the Fire Nation and joins the Avatar and the team in order to teach Aang Firebending and defeat his father. At the end of the series, he is crowned ruler of the Fire Nation. As Fire Lord he makes peace in the world and the Fire Nation is no longer as hated by other nations. For several years Zuko thought his mother had passed away after mysteriously disappearing in the middle of the night. Fire Lord Ozai had actually banished her from the Fire Nation. After Zuko is awarded his ruling, he asks his father, who is now behind bars, where his long lost mother is located. However, the creator of Avatar never identified the location of Zuko's mother, which leaves an unsolved mystery for viewers.Zuko is also clearly going to marry a young noblewoman named Mai.