Yeah the comics are pretty bad for both Korra and ATLA. Zuko in particular seems to get shit on for some reason. This random peasant dude comes out of nowhere and straight up takes Mai from him and starts kissing her right in front of him. Let me reiterate that, some random dude cucks the Fire Lord while he just watches. Even Aang of all people was like "Zuko what the fuck bro?". The original series was fantastic but with every extended piece of media that they revisit the franchise with the worse it gets. Don't even get me started on the Korra comics and the seamless pandering to a certain crowd. Four Elements Trainer is unironically the greatest thing to come out of the series in the last decade.
But that's enough ranting, I don't want to steer this thread off topic. It just sucks when you see a franchise you loved get put through the grinder due to sheer incompetence.
God, yes, Zuko getting almost cucked was so rage inducing, especialy since it's the same Zuko who litteraly just threw a random guy away because he was talking with Mai and being Firelord explicitly didn't calm him down.
Honestly if i had been a fire nation citizen, i would have been pissed that Zuko didn't banish the guy, like the fuck dude ? i'm supposed to obey you and you have power of life and death over me but some guy i was drinking with a week ago can just snoop in and cuck you ? and you do nothing ? you're supposed to represent my fucking country !
Especialy since it basicaly did nothing since they got together again and then broke up again for unrelated reason (and a bulshit one at that, since when did Mai give a shit about secrets or Zuko talking to Ozai ? she litteraly was on the loyalist side until Zuko was almost killed, she never gave a shit either way about the war) and it doesn't seems to be to set up Zuko with another chick like Jin or Azula or whoever the fuck since the fandom is willing to have him fuck anyone.
I feel that Zuko get no respect as a Firelord in general despite the fact that the Firelord is such a 'sacred' figure in the Firenation that no one questioned Ozai mutilating Zuko over opening his mouth without authorisation or the very obvious fact that Zuko could litteraly restart the war with a single word and every other nation would be fucked, especialy since Team Avatar has no heir of the fire nation on their side this time so unless they beat EVERYONE, they aren't winning unlike when they just needed to beat Ozai, just like just beating Kuvira only replaced the chief of her empire.
Yes i'm ranting, i did say there were rage inducing moments.
Also i hate that the comics basicaly made all those shitty fanfic were a rando just show up and steal Mai away / Mai cheat on Zuko valid with that shit move.
