#atla comics

I woke up. This was supposed to be a post about Sokka's mischaracterization in "The Promise" but half way through writing it I realized that this abysmal dogshit of a comic deserves to be fully slandered.

Let's start with my biggest issue with "The Promise". Zuko. I can not stress enough how much I dislike Zuko in this comic. The ENTIRE arc of Zuko in ATLA was about realizing his father is a monster who has never loved him. By the end of ATLA he understands what kind of a monster Ozai is. He accepts Iroh as his father and moves on. And in "the promise" they just scrap that. Zuko goes for advice to Ozai, the madman who burned half of his face.

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Ozai throws his usual tantrums about strenght supremacy and Zuko falls for it, which just completely undermines all of his development in ATLA. Get used to this because this comic just loves to do that. Zuko gets assaulted and nearly killed by an assasin who I'm going to slander in just a moment. Instead of imprisoning her, he hears her out like she didn't just try to kill him. He then gets manipulated by her and Ozai into not abandoning Yu Dao. We can argue about that being a good decision, but why the hell doesn't he try to resolve it peacefully? The comic justifies that by saying that Ozai poisoned his mind, which is my main issue. Zuko's arc in ATLA was about getting rid of Ozai's influence from his head, why the hell is he listening to him again 😭? Okay to sum it all up Zuko gets manipulated by a hormonal teenager and his abusive father into nearly starting a war without even talking it through with his friends, physically assaults Katara, attacks Aang, after talking to his friends he STILL nearly starts a war... please tell me I hallucinated this comic. It starts with Zuko asking Aang to kill him if he ever turns into his father and then going to his father to ask for advices in governing, are you shitting me??

My second biggest issue is Kori, the assasin girl. God I hate her. She nearly kills the ruler of her country who reformed the Fire Nation because he wanted them to move back to the homeland. Then, when Aang and Katara are trying to warn the Yu Dao residents that they are in danger and should evacuate she tries to kill them. I have no sympathy for her, I found myself rooting for Ozai more than for her. I wish Zuko made her share her cell with him, since the residents of Yu Dao loved Ozai so much.

My next issue is the mischaracterization of Aang and Katara. They are acting like Katara's actress in the ember island play. Hope! I'm so full of hope! They don't get angry or petty, even at the people who try to kill them. They are constantly curious and open minded which I just don't buy. I like these traits in them, but they are acting irrationally and OOC. When I saw the scene of Katara telling Aang that they may need to live apart for the first time, I didn't realize that she is talking about breaking up. Why? BECAUSE THAT MADE NO SENSE! Only a month later, after reading some Tumblr posts I realized she is talking about going their separate ways. This had no buildup and was just a random mean for the creators to rise the stakes, even if it meant mischaracterizing Katara. Nah but it's totally fine, the girl who saved Aang's life multiple times and was willing to die for him would leave him because of him supporting a different political option 🙃. I am NOT even going to mention the fact that Aang actually promised to kill Zuko, it's such a low hanging fruit that I'm not even touching it. Just no.

Note that my issue with Katara and Aang is that they are being too good and kind towards these people.

Last but not least, we have Sokka. I'll try to be quick with this one. Sokka's character was reseted back to his s1 self, including his hair cut. Sokka in the last episode of ATLA is mature, selfless and brave, yet in the comic he is back to being his immature self. The difference is collosal and it's weird for me that nobody is talking about how dirty this comic did Sokka.

I love knowing that this ship is called toxic by nerds ragebaited over them being moody antagonists in a sexy fan service beach parody episode…. Ya’ll got your breakup in Genes Fanfics and now you’re gonna get unlimited bug comics until reconcillation and you’re gonna like it ❤️‍🔥🖤🐉🪲