Avatar Did Aang Ever Kill Anyone In The Last Airbender

Avatar: Did Aang Ever Kill Anyone In The Last Airbender?

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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang has a deep commitment to pacifism, but Aang is confirmed to have killed at least one time and possibly more.

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Avatar Did Aang Ever Kill Anyone In The Last Airbender

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of Aang’s defining characteristics is his refusal to kill, but Aang may have gone against his own beliefs and killed on multiple occasions. Aang is a pacifist and often counsels his friends Katara, Sokka, and Toph, encouraging them to seek diplomacy and forgiveness over violence and revenge. In Avatar, season 3, episode 15, “The Southern Raiders,” Team Avatar learns the identity of the Fire Nation soldier who killed Katara and Sokka’s mother. She becomes set on killing the man to avenge her mother, but before Katara leaves, Aang gives her a warning: “Revenge is like a two-headed rat viper. While you watch your enemy go down, you’re being poisoned yourself.” Aang tells Katara he learned this saying from the monks who raised him.

Aang was raised by nomadic, airbending monks at the Southern Air Temple. There, he learned how to form a deep spiritual connection with animals, nature, and the Spirit World. Culturally, the Air Nomads are pacifists who believe in the sanctity of all life and reject violence — they are also vegetarians. Aang took his commitment to these ideals seriously, but he was still human and sometimes acted out of emotion.

Aang became angered to the point of violence several times in Avatar. Aang is incredibly loyal and protective of his friends, and sometimes reacts without thinking if someone he loves is threatened. Notably, Aang doesn’t react violently or angrily when his own life is at stake, with the most climactic example being his battle with Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar season 3, episode 21, “Sozin’s Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang.” Aang refused to kill Ozai and simply took away his bending instead. But despite Aang’s commitment to pacifism and all his talk about forgiveness, there are several instances in Avatar where Aang may have gone against his own beliefs.

Avatar Couldn’t Actually Show Character Deaths

Avatar Did Aang Ever Kill Anyone In The Last Airbender

Aang might have killed both humans and animals, but it’s difficult to say for certain since the show doesn’t actually confirm whether this is true. This is because the show was geared toward children. Avatar: The Last Airbender originally aired on Nickelodeon with a content rating of TV-Y7-FV, meaning that it was a television show meant for children ages seven and up and contained mild fantasy violence. This rating restricted the amount of violence it could depict to bloodless violence and no on-screen deaths.

Showrunners Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino originally came up with the idea of bending so they could depict combat situations without showing anything too graphic for children. In Avatar, characters can be fight by bending fire, water, earth, and air and be injured without bleeding – and blood is one thing that will automatically require a more restrictive content rating, hence there are only three characters who ever bleed in Avatar. Furthermore, Avatar couldn’t depict character deaths in full view of the audience and in a way that made it obvious and clear that the character was, in fact, dead.

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Past deaths were referenced often in Avatar (Katara and Sokka’s mom, Iroh’s son, Azulon, etc.) and Monk Gyatso’s skeleton is plainly shown in Avatar season 1, episode 2, “The Southern Air Temple.” Other deaths were heavily implied (like Combustion Man) and Princess Yue died visibly on camera, but her spirit brought back as the Moon Spirit, though her body disappeared. The other on-screen deaths in Avatar, including Jett and Zhao, were necessarily left ambiguous.

Did Aang Kill Admiral Zhao?

Avatar Did Aang Ever Kill Anyone In The Last Airbender

In Avatar season 1, episode 20, “The Siege of the North: Part 2,” Admiral Zhao attacks the Northern Water Tribe with his fleet and kills the Moon Spirit, Tui. Aang then fuses with the Ocean Spirit to defeat Zhao and his army. While in the Avatar State and fused with the Ocean Spirit, Aang creates a large wave that pushes the Fire Nation navy back out into the open sea. Afterward, Aang detaches from the Ocean Spirit, but the Ocean Spirit isn’t finished defending the Northern Water Tribe. The Ocean Spirit grabs Zhao, who refuses Zuko’s help, and drags him down under the water.

At the time, the implication was that Zhao had died, but it’s revealed in The Legend of Korra that Zhao had been condemned to a fate worse than death: wandering the Fog of Lost Souls in the Spirit World for eternity. Regardless of whether Zhao had died, Aang was no longer fused with the Ocean Spirit at the time, so Aang isn’t directly responsible for Zhao’s fate. However, Aang likely killed several other people while he was still connected to the Ocean Spirit.

Aang May Have Killed Fire Nation Soldiers

Avatar Did Aang Ever Kill Anyone In The Last Airbender

Also in The Siege of the North: Part 2, Aang is aided by the Ocean Spirit and he is in the Avatar State when he cuts through Fire Nation ships – literally slices the top off of one – and washes them out to sea. It’s very unlikely that no Fire Nation soldiers were killed during this scene. Some of them must have been knocked into the freezing water and others might have been fatally wounded by the sudden and forceful movement of the ships.

When Princess Yue sacrifices herself for the Moon Spirit, Aang appears to black out and is returned to shore by the Ocean Spirit. It’s unclear how much control he had over what the Ocean Spirit was doing, but Aang later feels immense guilt and is so traumatized by the event that he has nightmares of the Ocean Spirit and himself in the Avatar State. Still, it’s hard to say that anyone in the battle was explicitly killed by Aang. For one, their deaths were not depicted on screen – and then there’s the argument that Aang wasn’t the one that actually killed them.

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Aang doesn’t always have full control over his actions in the Avatar State and, of course, the Ocean Spirit had a hand in the battle at the Northern Water Tribe. Similar situations occur throughout Avatar where Aang is in the Avatar State and it’s unclear whether he’s actually killed anyone. And even if he did kill, it’s also unclear whether he could reasonably be held responsible for their deaths. There are at least two exceptions, though: In Avatar season 1, episode 17, “The Northern Air Temple,” Aang is definitely not in the Avatar State when he creates an avalanche that sweeps over dozens of Fire Nation soldiers on the mountainside. The force of the avalanche alone would have knocked some of the soldiers down the mountain to their deaths. But the most explicit instance of Aang willfully choosing to kill occurs later in season 2.

Aang Killed A Buzzard Wasp

While Aang never explicitly kills a human on screen, Aang abides by the principle that killing animals is also forbidden – and he does kill at least one animal in an attack motivated by revenge, not self-defense. In Avatar season 2, episode 11, “The Desert,” Aand kills a buzzard wasp. After Appa has been abducted by sandbenders, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Momo are left stranded in the desert. They are attacked by buzzard wasps which are massive creatures, large enough to carry Aang’s flying lemur, Momo, away. Aang, determined not to lose anyone else important to him, pursues the buzzard wasp and manages to rescue Momo without killing the wasp. But, by this point, Aang has become so enraged and grief-stricken at losing Appa (and almost losing Momo) that he continues chasing the wasp and kills it out of revenge. Aang slices the wasp in half with a blast of air, visibly decapitating the wasp, though only its silhouette is shown.

While Aang was devoted to the ideals of diplomacy and non-violence most of the time, he clearly made exceptions in circumstances where the lives of others were in jeopardy and at least once instance where he acted out of anger. Aang likely regretted some of these decisions and they might have fueled his determination to spare every life he possibly could, even Ozai’s. If the show is forced through a lens of realism, Aang definitely took hundreds of lives, but within the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, it’s never confirmed that he actually did.

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