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| NOTE: This article is about the 2010 film The Last Airbender version of Ozai. You may be looking for information on his original counterpart. |
| “ | I should bring your sister up here to beat you! | „ |
| ~ Ozai to Zuko. |
Fire Lord Ozai is the overarching antagonist of the 2010 action adventure fantasy film The Last Airbender and its prequel graphic novel The Last Airbender Prequel: Zuko’s Story.
He is the ruler of the Fire Nation who desires to conquer the other nations, and the father of Zuko and Azula.
He was portrayed by Cliff Curtis, who also played Uncle Bully in Once Were Warriors and Claudio Perrini in Collateral Damage.
Personality[]
Ozai retains a lot of his traits in the show, such as being brutal, cruel and having a low tolerance for failure and opposition, crushing out anyone who displays weakness with immense brutality. A vicious imperialist whose tyranny doesn't even exempt his own people, Ozai's psychopathy has him sacrifice any life, be they his own citizens and subjects or that of even his own family for his own gain. An utterly uncaring father towards Zuko that would permanently scar him for his weakness and cast him out to his street as a prequel graphic novel reveals, only giving him ship and men solely so he can get rid of his own brother by having him accompany him on his hunt. Unlike his animated series counterpart, when the Avatar proves to be alive, Ozai will actually see some hope on molding Zuko to be the ruthless heir he envisions him to be that he would spare Zuko even after being informed his potential as a traitor to play on Zuko and Zhao's rivalry and place him on his test, but hen Zuko fails, Ozai immediately goes back to dismissing him as a mere failure once more.
Biography[]
The ruler of the Fire Nation, Ozai neglected his son Zuko and eventually challenged the latter in Agni Kai for speaking out to a general in defense of some of his friends that are going to die in battle. Zuko refused to go against his father, thus Ozai burned Zuko and banished him until the latter can find the Avatar, forcing General Iroh to take care of Zuko ever since. Despite this, Ozai still keeps an eye on Zuko's quest, and dismisses Admiral Zhao's accusation of the boy betraying him.
Throughout the movie, Ozai is seen listening to Zhao's reports or talking with the latter about their "shared destiny" about the destruction of the Ocean and Moon Spirits. While Zhao continuously tries to accuse Zuko of being the Blue Spirit just so Zhao himself can get the Fire Lord's favor, Ozai says that Zhao's suspicions are baseless and that he wouldn't punish Zuko for that alone. After Zhao is killed in the Siege of the North, Ozai orders his daughter Azula to find and capture the Avatar as Sozin's Comet is returning.
It's unknown what happened to him afterwards, as all sequels for the movie have been cancelled and replaced by a live action TV series produced by Netflix.
Quotes[]
| “ | Let's hope, for your sake, my son doesn't find this person first and he turns out to be the Avatar. He would return as a hero and, for all purposes, be your superior. | „ |
| ~ Ozai tells Zhao about what happened if Zuko captures the Avatar first. |
| “ | Our forces in the Northern Water Tribe have failed to take the city. General Zhao was killed in battle and my brother has become a traitor. My son's proven himself a failure. Now, Sozin's Comet is returning in three years. It will give all firebenders the ability of the highest firebenders, the ability to use their own Chi to create fire. That is the day we will win this war and prove the Fire Nation's dominance. Now you must stop the Avatar from mastering earth and fire. You must give us the time to get to that day. Do you accept this unspeakably important task I'm putting in your hands? | „ |
| ~ Ozai's plan to destroy the Avatar before Sozin's Comet arrives. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This version of Ozai has a simple crew cut rather than long hair or a beard as the show version does. However, a family portrait implies that he did have long hair and a beard when he was younger, only to shave it off after he become the Fire Lord.
- Strangely, despite being shown from the beginning, Ozai's face is hidden in some scenes of the movie, implying that he was originally supposed to have his face hidden like his show counterpart only for this to be changed late in production.
- Cliff Curtis would eventually appear in Avatar: The Way of Water, which is a sequel to the unrelated Avatar movie that was originally released in 2009 directed by James Cameron.
External Links[]
- Ozai on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Ozai on the Avatar Wiki
