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| Dev Patel as Prince Zuko |
Honor. Glory. Redemption. HOME.
It's not a surprise that Avatar fans first hit the spotlight to evil Prince Zuko in M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, knowing very well that once-deprived face of Slumdog Dev Patel.
But on the Nick series alone, we've all perceived the one-good-eyed Prince of the Fire Nation as the obsessed, desperate, undying villain of our young airbender Aang. And at some angle, practically led the Avatar series to reproduce into four books.
This is not a new eye-opener concept anymore: villains are/were also victims themselves. They are jailbirds of notorious felons, namely negligent and despicable parents, hereditary and defective genes, and inevitably influential natures.
Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, a rapist, a fugitive and a life-for-six-counts-of-murder convict in my favorite series Prison Break once said, "We are prisoners of our own identities." He never thought how right he was.
Fire. Anger. Grit. HIS FATHER'S LOVE.
These kept him going.
What the rest of us tend to let go are their stories. Until then we can never really say we understand and accept bad and mentally-troubled people unless we've known what they were reallly made of.
At some point, maybe they've also asked themselves. Maybe they still undergo some "confirmation period" whether they are inevitably a big mistake of the world or not. Maybe they've also desperately looked for someone to clarify this madness going on within them.
Maybe they've also wanted someone to save them.
We may never know, because we don't want to.
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