During the eclipse on the Day of Black Sun , Ozai evacuated the Capital City [25] in preparation for the invasion and hid in a heavily guarded underground bunker. Zuko showed up and demanded permission to speak to his father. Ozai granted his request, amused that Zuko chose the eclipse to confront him. Zuko revealed that Azula shot down the Avatar and that she claimed he did it because the Avatar was in fact still alive. Ozai was infuriated and attempted to attack Zuko, but stopped when Zuko pulled out his dual dao swords against his father's disabled firebending.
Zuko told him that he was done trying to earn his love, knowing that the very man who banished him and scarred him was not worthy of his love.
Ozai said that it was to teach him respect, but Zuko denied this, saying it was cruel and wrong. Having had to learn everything on his own, Zuko now realized that the Fire Nation was unfit to rule the world and needed to return to harmony with the other nations. Ozai laughed at this declaration, remarking that Iroh had gotten through to him.
Zuko went on to say that he would free his uncle from jail and help the Avatar defeat Ozai, prompting him to declare Zuko a full-blown traitor. Zuko refused to fight Ozai because he knew that fighting the Fire Lord was the Avatar's destiny, not his.
Ozai, however, distracted Zuko by offering to tell him what really happened to his mother. Ozai directed a blast of lightning at Zuko , unaware of his son's ability to redirect it.
Ozai revealed to Zuko that his father, Fire Lord Azulon, had indeed commanded Ozai to kill him, and that he would have done it had Zuko's mother not found out and interfered. She had proposed a plan to have Ozai spare Zuko's life by giving the throne over to Ozai through Azulon's downfall. However, Ursa "committed vicious, treasonous things that night" and was not killed, but banished as a result, making Zuko realize that she may still be alive. Ozai decided that "banishment [was] far too merciful a penalty for treason" and, sensing the eclipse outside had ended, tried to kill Zuko with a powerful display of lightning generation.
However, he was not aware that Iroh had taught Zuko his ability to redirect lightning , which Zuko used to send the bolt right back at Ozai, slamming him against the wall and leaving him to seethe in anger as Zuko fled the Fire Nation to join the Avatar.
Ozai crowned himself as the Phoenix King. When he reached the Earth Kingdom, he began his attack but was quickly repelled by Avatar Aang, who destroyed his airship. Ozai prepared to battle with the Avatar for control of the world, declaring that the universe had delivered Aang to him "as an act of providence", while his father, grandfather, and son had all failed to capture the Avatar.
While his life was spared by Aang , Ozai lost his firebending through the Avatar 's use of energybending. For much of the battle, Ozai had an advantage due to the power of Sozin's Comet enhancing his already powerful firebending.
Aang was at a great disadvantage due to his unwillingness to harm or kill the Fire Lord. Eventually, Ozai overwhelmed and cornered Aang, whom he proceeded to mock for having such a peaceful nature and for being the last of his race. Determined to finish off the Avatar, Ozai accidentally unblocked Aang's seventh and final chakra , prompting him to enter the Avatar State. While in this state, Aang easily gained the upper hand. Using a combination of all four bending arts, Aang went on the offensive.
Though he tried to defend himself, Ozai quickly realized he no longer had the upper hand, and was forced into a fighting retreat. Eventually, Aang caught up with him and pinned him down before preparing to deliver the final blow.
Before it could be delivered, Aang regained control and voluntarily left the Avatar State, still not willing to kill Ozai to win. Instead, Aang used an ancient type of bending power, energybending, to strip Ozai of his firebending forever, ending the fight peacefully without any casualties. Who Don't Win? Upon his defeat, Ozai was left to ponder his actions in prison.
Zuko later visited him, saying that his banishment set him on the right path, and that Ozai could use his time in prison to reflect on his actions, let go of his pride, and allow remorse to show him the path that Zuko spoke of.
Fire Lord Zuko promptly demanded that Ozai state Ursa's whereabouts, [12] but he did not answer this question. Instead, he taunted Zuko about the stresses a Fire Lord could face while in office, and he expected Zuko to return soon to seek his help. However, some revisionists actively sought to reinstate Ozai as Fire Lord, including the "New Ozai Society", [28] though ultimately, these attempts failed.
Ozai told Zuko of his belief that Kuei would strike Yu Dao , and that his son should defend the colony ferociously. A year after the Hundred Year War, Ozai's prediction proved correct as Zuko returned to him seeking advice on how to rule the Fire Nation and still be able to sleep peacefully. When Zuko did not understand why his father told him the story, Ozai simply dismissed the Fire Lord and ordered him to come back the next day with more tea.
When Zuko returned with more tea, Ozai explained to him that the lesson to be learned from the memory was that there was no wrong or right in the world, as whatever the Fire Lord decided to do, was right by definition. When Zuko refused to see this and was set on going through with the peace talks with the Earth King, Ozai predicted that they would fail as the previously weak Earth King would be set on showing the world that he could be a strong and decisive ruler by leading his armies to the gates of Yu Dao.
Zuko rejected Ozai's predictions again, which led the former firebender to the conclusion that Zuko trusted the Avatar more than he trusted himself. Sickened by this display of weakness from his own son, he demanded that Zuko leave his presence. After the solution of the Yu Dao crisis and the collapse of the Harmony Restoration Movement, Zuko again began his pursuit of information about Ursa's whereabouts. Because of Ozai's uncooperative behavior in this regard, Zuko requested help from his sister.
Subsequently, Azula was placed in adjoining cells with her father, though they did not speak with each other for half an hour. When Zuko noticed that, he came to bring them tea, in an attempt to make the situation more enjoyable. Azula grabbed hold of the tray with her teeth, however, and subsequently made Zuko fall over.
This scene caused Ozai to grin satisfied, but nevertheless, he remained silent. After a short struggle, Azula told her brother that she wanted her and their father to have a dignified conversation in private. To Ozai's surprise, Zuko gave in to this request. During their following conversation, Ozai told his daughter of his past with Ursa and her letters from Ikem, information that could serve as an opportunity for Azula to take the throne from Zuko.
Ozai was confronted by Ursa shortly after her return to the Fire Nation Capital. Ozai was later visited by Ursa in his prison during the latter's visit to the Fire Nation Capital. Having heard of her arrival, Ozai confidently assured her that she was making a mistake by returning to the capital. Raising his voice in anger, he vowed to hurt her and everyone she loved. His threat left her unfazed, however, as she simply retorted that she could finally truly see him: While he tried to be "big", he had a small heart and no room for love for anyone, including himself.
Taken aback at her words, Ozai sputtered as she turned and walked away, demanding to her back that she turn around and grovel before him, but Ursa ignored him as she left the outer cell. As it had contributed to the end of the Harmony Restoration Movement, [1] Ozai's advice to Zuko also indirectly contributed to the formation of the United Republic of Nations.
By AG, it was more widely known that Ozai had poisoned his father Azulon. Ozai was easily angered, domineering, and insatiably power-hungry. He exhibited these traits from an early age, and Iroh noted that they stemmed from a deep-seated pathological psychology.
According to him, Ozai lacked empathy, [13] was "not the understanding type", [4] and did never regret, forgive, or change his mind about anything. As such, he possessed little to no empathy and rarely showed any interest in the feelings of others. This behavior was strongly influenced by his obsession with control and in order to achieve total control over the Fire Nation, Ozai was even willing to sacrifice his own family.
Confronting Ursa about a false letter she wrote claiming Zuko was Ikem's son after she suspected Ozai had intercepted all her letters home, she declared her hope that their son would never turn out like Ozai. Ozai in turn proclaimed that he would from then on treat Zuko cruelly as if he was not his son, all just to spite Ursa. As a result, Ozai supported the idea of sacrificing new recruits to defeat a powerful Earth Kingdom battalion so he could get closer to controlling Ba Sing Se. When Zuko defied and escaped him, Ozai seethed with rage.
Nevertheless, in his younger years, Ozai showed limited care and compassion for his own family. Despite their strained relationship, Ozai and Iroh were closer while they were still in school, though the latter distanced himself from his brother when he realized that he had a "heart of ice". He believed skill and accomplishment determined worth, which allowed the naturally cunning and talented Azula to rise to the position of his favorite child, while he ignored or psychologically abused Zuko.
He had no qualms about making Zuko's life miserable just to get back at Ursa for snapping at him that she wished that Zuko was Ikem's son, rather than his. When Zuko was thirteen, Ozai burned his face and banished him from his country, simply because Zuko spoke out of turn during a war meeting, [35] an action for which he never showed any remorse [18] and merely claimed it to have been a lesson in respect. However, despite his behavior toward his children, Ozai appeared to be remarkably forgiving of failure for certain people, such as War Minister Qin [9] [36] [37] and Zhao, who retained their positions and, in Zhao's case, was repeatedly promoted, [20] despite repeated failures and bungles.
Nonetheless, he saw his subordinates as expendable and replaceable, having no tolerance for those who failed to impress him, such as Kunyo or Vachir. By the time Ozai crowned himself Phoenix King, he began to exhibit extreme megalomania, claiming to own the Earth and to "have all the power in the world".
Although still domineering, Ozai became more logical and calm after losing his bending. After being stripped of both his bending and his throne, Ozai apparently still retained his domineering personality, as he casually lectured Fire Lord Zuko when he came to visit Ozai in jail.
However, he would develop a calmer, more logical attitude toward life as he thought that Aang's belief of maintaining the four separate nations would only halt progress. This is apparently true as Yu Dao, a city that combined the effort from citizens of both the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom, grew from a small village to a very developed area. Even so, Ozai actually had the shortest Fire Lord rule ever. He only rule for five years. By comparison, both Ozai's grandfather, Sozin, and his father, Azulon, ruled 78 and 75 years respectively.
Despite only having ruled for half a decade, Ozai was still one of the most progressive leaders of the Fire Nation. He catalyzed the Fire Nation's industrial age and even improved their economy, basically making them the most powerful country in the world of Avatar. During his sovereignty, and under his vision, the Fire Nation's military progressed the most especially with tanks, boats, airships, and other metal war machinery.
In that regard, their technological advancements also extended beyond their military. With the might of the Fire Nation and their new technological war machines, Ozai painted the world map red. The might of the Fire Nation became too much for any nation to stand and even the once impregnable Ba Sing Se was conquered through trickery and spycraft. It was something even Iroh couldn't do. Of course, it did help that Ozai already had the hard work of his father and grandfather as a headstart.
Under his leadership, the Fire Nation managed to extend their violent influence to 90 percent of the world in Avatar. Without a doubt, Ozai is one of the most popular Fire Lords ever. Many of his fellow Fire Nation people agreed with him and helped spread his ideals and vision for the world.
So, when his impending Hundred Year war victory was abruptly cut short by the Avatar, those who were loyal to him didn't give up. Indeed, after Zuko took over as the Fire Lord, Ozai's loyalists rebelled and wanted him back on the throne-- even without his bending powers. Oddly enough, it was Zuko's supposed father-in-law who instigated this rebellion: Ukano, Mai's father.
The group even renamed themselves New Ozai Society. They did fail but the fact that Ozai still had influence even after his defeat and imprisonment is scary. Avatar: The Last Airbender has always painted Ozai as a ruthless and calculating authoritarian but it turns out he wasn't past redemption. During the continuation of the events of the show as seen in the comic book, The Promise , Ursa, Zuko's mom and former wife of Ozai reunited with the defeated Fire Lord.
It wasn't a heartfelt reunion, though; Ozai never really loved her anyway, but Ursa still managed to knock some conscience into Ozai's noggin using some piercing words which were long overdue. Something about being a terrible human being and a bad family man. Hate Sink : All his atrocities aside, he is characterized by being abusive towards his family. He constantly derided his son Zuko for not living up to his expectations, and ultimately became responsible for the loss of a mother figure in his life, and it hit its zenith when he burned and scarred Zuko in an Agni Kai and then banished him just for disrespecting him and speaking out because of a strategy that involved using novice troops as fodder.
Ozai's cruelty is what highlights Zuko's sympathy even more, being the source of all the misery he has been through. Even his sociopathic daughter and Dragon Princess Azula looks sympathetic compared to him, especially once it's made clear toward the end of the series that he deliberately molded her into what she is today through years of psychological abuse, leaving her woefully unprepared to cope when confronted with the reality that all he instilled in her was wrong.
Hoist by His Own Petard : Subverted both times. He is nearly killed by his own lightning after Zuko, and later Aang successfully redirects it. He only survives because Zuko intends to have the Avatar finish the job, and Aang is unwilling to redirect it back at Ozai. How the Mighty Have Fallen : After Sozin's Comet leaves the atmosphere, Ozai went from the feared and powerful Phoenix King to being the butt of the jokes after losing his firebending.
He is then thrown into the same prison cell where his brother used to be held, dressed in rags and completely miserable at his predicament. When Ursa returns and confronts her former husband, she realizes that without his dominating powers, Ozai is just a pathetic wretch who couldn't even love himself, let alone his family. Humiliation Conga : Stripped of every bit of power, mocked by teenagers, and left living on the mercy of the son he abused. Continued in the comic series where Ursa tells him exactly what a hateful, egotistical, insecure little man he is.
Hypocrite : Ozai despises treason and will use it to justify banishing people he doesn't like or putting a bounty on their heads. This is despite the fact that Ozai secretly committed treason against his own father by putting poison provided by Ursa into his father's drink and seizing the throne from Iroh, the rightful heir.
Inferiority Superiority Complex : He was The Un-Favourite to his Evil Overlord and emotionally distant father, Azulon, who possibly was an abusive father with him , compared to his older brother, the talented and powerful "Dragon of the West" General Iroh. It's less clear than with Azula what Ozai felt about this relationship, but it's not difficult to see the similarities in their cases, their personalities, and their temperaments.
He is so bitter about not receiving as much respect as his brother that he demands perfection from his own children and punishes perceived weakness or insubordination in his eldest son with extraordinary brutality; when he promotes himself from Fire Lord to Phoenix King and plans to exterminate the Earth Kingdom he essentially acts like a Psychopathic Manchild revelling in childish fantasies of power and greatness, but he was so obsessed with the two mostly because of his insecurities.
Irony : Despite it being implied he was The Un-Favourite to his father Azulon, Ozai is the son who is most like his father, both being Abusive Parents and the most powerful benders in the world. And both, despite being strong leaders, don't care for the people of their nation, being more interested in taking over the world. The only thing differencing the two is that Azulon at the very least, cares for Iroh and to a lesser extent, Lu Ten, whilst any care Ozai seems to have for anybody who isn't him is completely fake.
Although he is the world's strongest firebender and with a disdain towards the weak, Ozai is remarkably weak in other fields of physical strength. He's never known to be a frontline general like his brother and father, and he can be forced into submission by his sword-proficient son when firebending is temporarily unavailable, while his daughter could easily fend off other benders without her firebending. Amusingly, natural selection usually weeds out the specimens unable to adapt in new situations more so than the "weak," making Ozai's permanent loss of firebending even more poetic.
It Only Works Once : Ozai's lightningbending is far more deadlier than Azula's, being much hotter and generated within a fraction of a second. However, he stops using it when he sees that Aang knows how to redirect it, realizing that there's a good possibility of being struck his own lightning.
It's All About Me : He's a total egomaniac who only cared for his own personal glory, casually casting off his entire family for more power.
You see at that moment that Azula was just as bad of a victim of parental abuse as Zuko and Ozai never saw her as more than a tool to help him gain power. Karma Houdini Warranty : After all those years of oppression, tyranny, and abuse towards his family, Aang finally gives him what was coming to him in the Grand Finale. Kick the Dog : Let's see. Why does Zuko have that scar again? There's also that moment in his final battle with Aang when he mocks him and his people, the other Airbenders, telling them that they deserved their extinction for being weak.
Kick the Son of a Bitch : He poisons Azulon in his sleep to become the new Fire Lord just before he was about carry out his order to murder his youngest son.
However he only did so because Ursa offered him the throne to save their son's life not because he cared for him. Kill It with Fire : Aside from the obvious, his master plan is to use Sozin's Comet to greatly enhance firebending everywhere. A more literal example comes later in the series; the final battle is kicked off when he begins to personally burn down swathes of the Earth Kingdom.
Knight of Cerebus : Again, much like his daughter, he's a dead serious and frighteningly competent villain. Lack of Empathy : Ozai's only goal in life is to be the most powerful man in the world, so he casually tosses aside his father, his brother, his wife, his son, and eventually his prized daughter in the pursuit of ever greater power.
This is even lampshaded by Iroh in the first episode of Book 2. When Azula arrives and tells Zuko that Ozai feels remorseful about banishing him, Iroh knew immediately something was up which is proven because he knows his brother well enough that him and regret do NOT mix.
Large and in Charge : He outsizes a lot of his subordinates. Laser-Guided Karma : Zuko was banished when Ozai challenged him to a duel and the prince refused to fight.
When the boy makes his Heel Realization , he challenges his father instead but still refuses to fight, allowing that to be Aang's destiny.
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