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.

 

[WhoIsSutterKane]

Hey Rufio, nothing says privileged like being a paid actor since you were a teenager.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Hey Rufio, nothing says privileged like being a paid actor since you were a teenager.

I was just about to say. Doesn't he come from a big acting family?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Was Dante always a faggot or did he get tainted by the Homestuck fandom?

 

[Just A Butt]

what the fuck is homestuck?

 

[Synthetic Smug]

It's the sort of reductionist thinking that turns every story into some combination of stamp collecting and a temperance track. Actors are useless.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

what the fuck is homestuck?

Your life is better for not knowing.

 

[Kane Lives]

This is why you never ask an actor for their opinions in things. Their only place is to act, not to opine on matters that they literally have no knowledge in.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

what the fuck is homestuck?

Oh you sweet summer child

 

[Chan the Wizard]

It’s a children’s cartoon set in a fictional world.

 

[The Old man]

It’s a children’s cartoon set in a fictional world.

It's apparently Citizen Kane to these people

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

His logic was probably something like Zuko was a prince and even when he got exiled he still got his own ship, men, budget, and prestigious General/Tea afficionado uncle to come with him and help out. And then the journalist made sure to put privileged in the title to get a few extra clicks and shat out an article and called it a day.

It's a fucking avatar article in 2021. Someone wanted to take an early weekend.

 

[FFinfo]

I mean in the sense that they need a story and the entire series isn’t about some dirt farmers in the rural Earth Kingdom then yes they’re privileged. Zuko was an abused prince and still despite being clearly a victim of abuse was outfitted with a ship, crew, etc.
Aang’s people were killed yes but he is also innately a metaphysical linchpin of the setting.
Toph is socioeconomically privileged even if she’s emotionally neglected.
Sokka and Katara are the most normal folks, but the most important part is:
It doesn’t matter, nobody cares, the show is 15 years old, etc etc

 

[Iron Jaguar]

What would Uncle Iroh have to say about this?

 

[Zero Day Defense]

I mean in the sense that they need a story and the entire series isn’t about some dirt farmers in the rural Earth Kingdom then yes they’re privileged. Zuko was an abused prince and still despite being clearly a victim of abuse was outfitted with a ship, crew, etc.
Aang’s people were killed yes but he is also innately a metaphysical linchpin of the setting.
Toph is socioeconomically privileged even if she’s emotionally neglected.
Sokka and Katara are the most normal folks, but the most important part is:
It doesn’t matter, nobody cares, the show is 15 years old, etc etc

I mean, everyone has privilege.

And then the living having privilege over the dead, but you wonder if the dead also have privilege over the living.

 

[FFinfo]

you wonder if the dead also have privilege over the living.

In these trying times? The living.

 

[Stoneheart]

Zuko was an abused prince and still despite being clearly a victim of abuse was outfitted with a ship, crew, etc.

Yeah because he was forced to serve in the army because of his birth. beeing a Prince is not a Priviledge, its a duty.

Aang’s people were killed yes but he is also innately a metaphysical linchpin of the setting.

He is a Plotdevice and not a real character,,,,

Toph is socioeconomically privileged even if she’s emotionally neglected.

She runs away from home because she is forced to do to much shit and not given any love. also the earth kingdom is commie china...

Sokka and Katara are the most normal folks

they have the most priviledge, beeing born to a tribal chief has all the good parts from beeing born into the ruler family but no drawbacks.



Why dont americans understand that beeing royalty is not as fun as in a disney movie?

 

[FFinfo]

Why dont americans understand that beeing royalty is not as fun as in a disney movie?

Because ATLA is an American product and the royal family in the series consists of:

• A retired man who spent an unknown amount of time traveling the world and is a member of the setting's Illuminati/Freemasons/etc
• A genocidal tyrant who has canonically never faced hardship and killed his father to become king with no remorse.
• A sociopathic teenage prodigy that never operated within a position of public service ever.
• A teenage boy who served in the military (as the commander of his own ship) while under the tutelage of said retired man.
• A teenage girl who dies before having to take on any royal responsibilities and becomes a moon god

 

[teriyakiburns]

Then make a dumb joke about the Cabbage Merchant for a bazillion more.

"My privilege!"

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

the movie was better anyway

If there's a category for really cool trailers of actually shitty movies it is this movie (teaser trailer) vs. The Last Jedi (teaser trailer), in the final analysis. And I'm not sure who ultimately wins. Probably The Last Jedi simply due to John Williams, but some sort of silk purse made out of a sow's ear award should be given to the editors of both trailers at any rate.

 

[The Old man]

Azula did nothing wrong.

reminds me of this lol