Last Airbender Star Argues Team Avatar Were All Rich, Privileged Kids - Dante basco claims zuko was privileged

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Last Airbender Star Argues Team Avatar Were All Rich, Privileged Kids​

Avatar: The Last Airbender star Dante Basco observes in a podcast that Team Avatar was made up of kids who came from rich and privileged backgrounds.

BY KATHERINE STINSONPUBLISHED 9 HOURS AGO

Avatar: The Last Airbender star, Dante Basco, argues that Team Avatar were all rich and privileged kids. Basco was the voice of Prince Zuko, the exiled Fire Nation prince. Avatar: The Last Airbender continues to be a beloved Nickelodeon animated series even thirteen years after the show ended its three-season run back in 2008. The popular series told the story of Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen), the Avatar and last Airbender, the only person in the world who could bend earth, fire, air, and water and also restore balance to the world after the Fire Nation attacked.




Team Avatar was comprised of Aang, Toph Beifong (Jessie Flower) of the Earth Nation, and Sokka (Jack De Sena) and Katara (Mae Whitman) of the Water Tribe. Prince Zuko would later join Team Avatar in an excellent act of redemption after realizing that his father, Fire Lord Ozai (Mark Hamill), was on the wrong side of history. Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph and Zuko all came from enormously different backgrounds and lifestyles, but together they made a formidable team that ultimately saved the world.


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Basco noted in a recent episode of Nickelodeon's Avatar: Braving The Elements podcast that the members of Team Avatar did come from privileged backgrounds. The actor's statement was making that a negative aspect of Team Avatar, but Basco's observation adds interesting ATLA insight. Read Basco's quote, via comicbook.com, below:

"If you think about it... the OGs, they're actually all rich kids...I mean, Prince Zuko is the prince of the Fire Nation, Toph is Toph Beifong, she's like from the richest family. And then even the Water [Tribe] -- Katara and Sokka... their dad is the chief... they're all refined characters... that they all came together. And then, of course, the Avatar is the Avatar."

Basco's statement is technically correct, although what constitutes privilege in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender is debatable. As Basco notes, Aang technically had the most privilege out of Team Avatar due to his status as the Avatar. However, Aang was still constantly in danger the entire series, with Zuko himself hunting him down in order to restore his honor with his father. Toph's family was extremely wealthy in the Earth Kingdom, but her parents automatically discredited her due to her blindness, failing to realize how powerful she was as an Earth bender.


While Sokka and Katara were the children of the Southern Water Tribe chief, their lives were arguably the most challenging. Zuko was a Fire Nation prince, but his father was abusive and exiled him as a young teenager. So while Basco's statement is accurate and could definitely be debated by Avatar: The Last Airbender fans endlessly, what matters the most (and what Basco noted in the statement above) is that Team Avatar made the decision to help Aang save the world.


Nobody could argue that the life Team Avatar chose for the three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender was easy. However, Aang, Sokka, Katara, Toph and Zuko decided to keep fighting and moving forward. The world certainly was better off not because of the lives they were born into, but the choices they made to make life better for others.

 

[The Old man]

I debated posting this in arts and literature but this seems better since it is an article

 

[The Cunting Death]

I doubt
a) a kid who's entire race was genocided and frozen for 100 years
b) a sister and a brother just barely getting by in one of the coldest parts of the world
EDIT: forgot their father is away and their mom was murdered.
c) A blind girl who isn't allowed to be herself despite being royalty
d) a teenager whose scar is from a dad who barely loves him

Are exactly privileged

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

And Bruce Wayne was a wealthy white male who never had to fight for anything in his life.
Now Batman, there was a man of the people who fought crime every night no matter what.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Holy shit. Its a children's cartoon that ended like a decade plus ago. Let it go.

 

[The Old man]

Holy shit. Its a children's cartoon that ended like a decade plus ago. Let it go.

Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to like too

 

[Zero Day Defense]

>"rich and privileged"
>literally a monk
>had his entire race genocided while he was taking a century-long ice nap after running away because being revealed as an incarnate deity at the ripe age of 12 led to him being isolated from his friends
>gets his soul obliterated a few generations later because his successor is a multifarious failure

 

[The Old man]

>"rich and privileged"
>literally a monk
>had his entire race genocided while he was taking a century-long ice nap after running away because being revealed as an incarnate deity at the ripe age of 12 led to him being isolated from his friends
>gets his soul obliterated a few generations later because his successor is a multifarious failure

"See! This is total PROOF that he is privileged!"

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Now can they explain how Eskimos/waterbenders become Rednecks/Swampbenders? Relocating into a marsh/swamp/hammock is enough to do that? Never could figure that bit out.

 

[Absolutego]

Now can they explain how Eskimos/waterbenders become Rednecks/Swampbenders? Relocating into a marsh/swamp/hammock is enough to do that? Never could figure that bit out.

"We set an episode in a swamp and Bryke thought it'd be funny if we had Waterbending Cajuns to do the comic relief"
It's a children's cartoon, let's not overanalyze things.

 

[Muttnik]

Azula did nothing wrong.

 

[XANA]

The Earth king needs to invite the author to Lake Laogai.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

I thought the privileged one was the one where the bald guy was replaced by the strong powerful woman who figured everything out herself and took a break from saving the world to go play magic frisbees

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

It's a children's cartoon, let's not overanalyze things.

Nooooo I need to sperg out on Reddit about how outraged I am the blu rays don't include the previous episode summaries that were on the broadcast series/DVDs and garner a bazillion updoots. Then make a dumb joke about the Cabbage Merchant for a bazillion more.

Azula did nothing wrong.

I hope the upcoming live action series ends with the human actress in a straitjacket staring out at the audience with crazy eyes like it happened in the cartoon. Misogyny, insensitivity to mental illness and (probably) racism. The salt would likely be amazing.

 

[soy_king]

I doubt
a) a kid who's entire race was genocided and frozen for 100 years
b) a sister and a brother just barely getting by in one of the coldest parts of the world.
c) A blind girl who isn't allowed to be herself despite being royalty
d) a teenager whose scar is from a dad who barely loves him

Are exactly privileged

I think he's mistaking Last Airbender with Legend of Korra.

 

[The handsome tard]

Something tells me that Legend of Korra is better than The Last airbender for him.

Aka he is retarded

 

[Just A Butt]

the movie was better anyway

 

[The Old man]

the movie was better anyway

You just triggered the entirety of r/thelastairbender

 

[Just A Butt]

You just triggered the entirety of r/thelastairbender

good

 

[Blamo]

They can't be privilidged if they are not Whitey, sweetie.