Fire Lord Ozai Killed Iroh's Son Lu Ten ☠ Avatar The Last Airbender 

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Only fitting he lost his bending and had the shortest run as firelord 😉

That…actually makes Azulon’s reaction to Ozai’s request of the throne have more sense, instead of him just being a draconian asshole to his own kid.🤔

Azulon at least seemed a functional person, unlike ozai and azula

Lu ten died fighting earthbenders at the height of the 600 day siege

I think ozai killed his father. In the flash back it was stated that fire lord Azulon was in good health. Azulon didn't like the fact that Ozai wanted to take power after the loss of Iroh's son. I think Ozai got greedy in order to take the life of his father so he can become fire Lord.

This is a good theory, but I think it lessens the impact of Lu Ten’s death. By making Ozai responsible, Iroh’s redemption has less weight for he would have had little reason to blame himself and try and change as a person

It makes sense because if ozai had killed iroh, lu ten would immediately become firelord and thus ozai would not be able to touch lu ten at all from then on, plus being the firelord and son of the dragon of the west iroh, lu ten would definitely have a lot of girls spreading those cheeks for him, meaning he would get a child too which would then become the future to the firelord throne. It makes sense for ozai to go for lu ten than iroh as killing iroh son after iroh slready lost a wife and considering how much older iroh already was than ozai, makes sense iroh would not get another wife or another kid, plus he would be depressed and lose the will to fight for the throne, what would be the point, keep in mind this was after a 600 days siege of ba sing se, thats rough, so it makes way more sense for ozai that he had lu ten killed, it wouldnt surprise me that ozai had iroh wife killed as well. Ozai rule as firelord was arguably the most successful wothing the 100 year war period, atleast since sozin, because its under his rule water tribe got beat, ba sing se got captured, avatar was discovered and killed only made it because of spirit water, it would not surprise me if a lot of the things ozai did he already planned before he became firelord, if not for the avatar ozai dogwalks as firelord, so him assasinating is nephew is not surprising to me.

This is how i saw it, before iroh join zuko on his quest for the avatar, and after iroh son died, he had a quest of self reflection, wondering if conquering was the best choice against a nation (death of his son brought this up) he then met the dragons, created the white lotus or join them and went around meeting the members before he saw his nephew burn by his brother,

Azulon should’ve told him he had to kill Azula … Ozai’s precious child for Iroh’s

It is entirely possible, although no one screen confirmation. But I think azulon loved iroh because he was a prodigy and was a proven asset in fire nation culture. I think that is why the disrespect from ozai was so egregious that he was willing to command an unthinkable punishment. I believe ursa discovers the punishment and saves zuko by assassinating azulon and ozai orders the coronation and no one of higher rank could oppose him and iroh never tried to challenge because the trauma of losing his son made him not value the throne or violence anymore. That’s what I think and it does leave room for ozai to initiate the proposal of taking the throne by coordinating Lu tens assassination.

CAUSE HE KNEW ZUKO WHAT?! How you gonna leave us on a cliff hanger like that

Ozai never killed Lu ten. Lu ten died in war he fought valiantly. Ozai always wanted that type of spirit for fire nation kids. He killed his own father though.

Azulon should have ordered Azula death it was clear she was his favorite so it would have been a better punishment.

I wonder if Ozai hired sparky sparky boom man just like Zuko did for Aang

Ozai is technically like Loki, where a second born wants to be the next of the throne

Why wouldn't he just have Iroh Killed instead of doing all this?

Too bad the Netflix adaption couldn’t be this deep

Possible, but likely that Ozai was just taking advantage of the situation.

This video made me realize two things. One is that Zuko displayed basical empathy from a young age and tried to see things from others perspectives, Azula did not. Two is that part of why Ozai favors Azula is probably because they're both the second born and they care more about power then tradition.

Destiny is a funny thing - Iroh

Sad fact: the picture of Lu Ten isn’t actually Lu Ten, its the picture of thr old voice actor of Iroh that passed away.

It is still a theory. But, if not and Iroh finds out. He would wanna go battle Ozai immediately. He would not hesitate to kill him, I guess.

This theory made Iroh's story a bit weak. Lu Ten dying in battle showcase the brutality of war. Iroh himself planned and led the siege of Ba Sing Se, anything that happen to his men is his responsibility. Even if Iroh didn't care at first much about the lives of his men, Lu Ten his own son dying in a battle that Iroh himself is responsible, showcase to him the brutality of war. It will made Iroh's redemption much more impactful. If you added Lu Ten being assassinated by Ozai, the message become more about trust and not on how war is destructive.

Azulon wasn’t a saint by any means, but at least he had redeeming qualities and actually showed sympathy for his kids. He was right to be mad at Ozai

Wow, this is really stupid. For one, Lu Ten died in battle on the frontlines. We don't know the specifics, but I think we can safely assume that it was at the hands of Earth Kingdom soldiers with several Fire Nation soldiers as witnesses. It's also not a stretch whatsoever that Azulon would just be an asshole to his son, much like Ozai was. He was cruel and disconnected, and favored Iroh over Ozai since he was his first born. He also clearly didn't care for Zuko very much. Also, in the end, if Ozai was willing to assassinate someone in order to become firelord, it would have made the most sense to assassinate Azulon and forge his will, which is... exactly what ended up happening.

This actually made me cry when iroh died

Ozai din't kill Lu Ten. He was ambitious, but not a traitor; Lu Ten's death had many witnesses as it was during battle. Ozai only starts considering treason after being rebuked and accepting his father's orders when Ursa talks him into it. Without Ursa, he would not betray the hierarchy.

I like how Azulon was 10 toes down for Iroh

Ozai used Ursa to kill his father too. Zuko's mom poisoned azulon to protect zuko

How to imagine gyro son would have been very skilled so what makes sense that it would take some elite assassins to take him out

And maybe that's how zuko knows about combustion man

Being the “ Rebound “ person sometimes doesn’t end well ..

I actually thought Ozai killed his father rejected the proposal of making him next in line due to Iroh not being able to successfully lead the nation after the death of his son.

Such a dark story for such happy go lucky kids cartoon. Absolute masterpiece

There wouldn't be a last air bender if iroh was firelord

Personally, and this is entirely just a theory with almost no basis, I think Lu Ten was killed during the seige of ba sing se/somehow found his way to the spirit world where Koh killed him. To me this hits Iroh hardest that the seige, the thing he was in charge of, resulted in the death of his child. He then goes on his path of redemption and so on.

I think that Azulon did not mean that Ozai should kill Zuko when he said that “You must know the pain of losing your son.” I think he meant that parental rights of Zuko should go to Iroh. I just don’t think that Azulon would order the death of a child for no other reason than to teach his son a lesson. Especially his own grandson since he does seem to care about his family, even if it is only Iroh.

Also the hell was up with Azulon letting Ozai become firelord.

Wow, I never thought of this but that makes a lot of sense.

Ozai was a illegitimate firelord. Iroh still had more claim to take the throne after Ozai got taken down. He gave Zuko his blessing to take it while he lived a peaceful life in Ba Sing Se selling tea.

That theory only has one thread, and that thread is frayed to hell. All it is is "isn't it strange that..."

Azulon was seen once, and mentioned like 4 times in TLA, yet i like him, it is said that he was a great leader, while being so old he was in good health, and he didn't betray Iroh, even though he just lost his son and The 600 days Siege of Ba Sing Se, even though getting Ozai as fire lord status would be a better way to continue the dynasty.

At least Sozen had some honor for Iroh he knew he was light years better than ozai

I really like this fan theory it makes sense.

Lu Ten died in battle. Ozai wasn't even there

I don't think Ozai would want that kinda smoke with Iroh. He knows his big bro is stronger he doesn't want to be exterminated

Lu-Ten died when he snuck into Ba Sing Se during his father's famous 600 day siege of the city he snucked into the city to get information about the royal palace's location and took guru pathik hostage and got the info from him and after lu-ten released guru pathik the guru ran to the dai li and told them about thus firebender that git info about the palace and the dai li found lu-ten and killed him

MIND BLOWN! 🤯

I swear Azulon said Favoured child not oldest? If so Zuko was never on the block

I thought Ursa poisoned him and got banished instead of Zuko getting killed. There's a good chance Ozai did both, though. He was that power hungry since as you say he had no problem killing Zuko and seemed to genuinely *need* to be Fire Lord.

I hate that they keep botching this show like just watch the damn animation and create the exact same thing like take the script out the damn animation if you need to but for gods sake stop trynna write new bs in it.

Makes sense to me there are tons of times throughout history of vile shit like this happening

"Isn't it strange that someone engaging in battle, a struggle where enormous amounts of people die constantly because that's the whole point of battle, died?" NO, it's not. That's war. And I'm deeply unconvinced Ozai could both kill Lu Ten and hide that fact from Iroh in Iroh's own army, and even LESS convinced that Iroh wouldn't come after Ozai for it on a roaring rampage of revenge. Your logic is lacking, and your conclusions flawed.

This makes perfect sense I agree if this is not true they need to make it true.. bring this up in the Netflix series in season 2

By the way he killed azulon, it does make sense

There needs to be a story arc of evil Iroh, why wasn’t Ozai there leading the attacks

I'm not sure how i feel about this; i think its more powerful that it is Iroh who is responsible for his own son's death by sending him into battle at the 600 day siege. It was the event that turned his life around for the better and ultimately turned him into the kind, wise, wonderful man we all know and love.

Thanks for the insight

Iroh is significantly older than Ozai and Lu Ten also seems significantly older than Zuko so I'm surprised he wasn't married with kids already and that Iroh didn't have any grandkids.

Ozai was always an asshole since the beggining.

I don’t think Ozai killed Lu Ten or even had him killed. He probably just waited patiently to strike. If he was capable of sending assassins on the other side of the world to kill a member of Royalty, he should have been just as capable of disposing of Azulon without needing Ursa. Also, having Ozai kill Lu Ten takes away from the impact that is Iroh’s redemption and character arc. That he felt the pain of losing his son and questioned that if this was what he was doing to the people he was conquering

😊 yeah that is a good theory I made a video on Lu Ten story

This makes a lot of sense-

I think a Zelda film adaptation makes a lot of sense. The franchise was always driven by a strong narrative. Personally, I’d be happy to see a faithful adaptation of The Twilight Princess. The game had a great story to tell. A well realised Midna would be amazing.

Pretty surenit was clear that he's not assasinated. He was ordered to fight in an unwinnable battle.

all about the fire clan 🔥 ♈️♌️♐️

Thats probably why he told Ozai to kill his own son because he thoight he wouldnt do it becaus ehe woukd realize how much it hurts to lose a child. But he wasnt expecting him to actually ty to do it and instead Zukos mom ends up assasinating him and being banished to save Zuko. So no one but Ozai knew that it was eitehr Zuko or the fire lord who was going to die that night

Only way i can see this working is if ozai bribed his company to abandon him in battle or assassinate him using stone shards. I feel like death by earthbender is a bit too blunt to be confused

Leaves from the vine...

It’s funny, though Zuko is fire lord now

We sure have a motive here, and we know that Ozai wouldn’t have hesitated to have Lue-ten assassinated, but we barely have any indication for that happened that can point that out. It’s not that rare or weird that a soldier would die during a battle.

Sozin the death of the Avatar Roku And the end of the Air nomads Auzlon turn the first waterbender into a blood Bender Lu ten: yet he tried to kill his own grandson Ozai: he almost killed zuko leaving a scar And I don't think Iroh wouldn't like that idea He might as well escape the 🔥 nation with zuko and Azula and their mother to get away from the firelord and future firelord from his family and not once either Iroh and ozai talked to each other

This is a lion-turtle-sized stretch. You think if there had been something suspicious about Lu Ten's death that Iroh wouldn't have figured that out?

That is highly unlikely, he died during the siege of Ba Sing Se, which is why Iroh changed dramatically, and why his 600 day attack ended. Iroh lost the will to continue on with his path after losing his only son.

Just to be clear. If the theory is correct, then Ozai killed his nephew through a third party. Let's face it, he wouldn't be able to kill him without suspicion. There might have been a traitor who followed Ozai's orders. In the battlefield, people die all the time, it was the perfect cover.

If this were the case, it completely undermines the core message of the show: That war brings nothing but death and destruction. It would mean that the entire reason Iroh started hating war is a lie

So glad I'm not the only one who thinks this

You have to back up your claim more than "I don't think so." It was stated in the series that Lu Ten died during rhe war. Ozai just got lucky that his brother lost his heir.

Considering Lu Ten dies at the hands of Earth Kingdom Soldiers and even if you wanna argue the Da Li was corrupt they were very anti fire nation until it suited them. This doesn't make much sense in the timeline.

he was willing to kill his own son and his own father in fact he did kill his own father for it

And i also have theory that Iroh use Zuko to avenge Ozai. What a mess..

Azulon really don't care about his grandchildren damn. I wish he would've punished ozai directly

It makes sense Ozai is a monster! Azulon Always love Iroh more than Ozai. And I hope Azulon treating Ozai bad after what he put Zuko.

So Azulon told Ozai to kill his own son Zuko too

WASN'T THAT OBVIOUS

Nah, this is just unnecessary drama. ATLA doesn’t need to be Game of Thrones. The tragedy of a father loosing his only son because he either pushed him to join the military or the son wanted to follow in his General Father’s footsteps is tragic enough. Lu Ten died because of a war Iroh helped further, and that realization changed him as a man. More importantly Iroh didn’t blame the Earth Kingdom, and rather than seek revenge sought self reflection. Ozai being behind the death ruins all of that for unnecessary drama.

Seems too much Sounds like something Azula would do though

Solid theory!

he hates gluten?

Finally, some good fucking fan theory.

Wild theory, but pretty unconvincing and lessens Iroh's story immensely. I don't see how Ozai would be able to arrange Lu Ten's death in Ba Sing Se all the way back from capital city. At least not without being caught easily. Any middlemen would rat him out to Azulon or Iroh for favour from the Firelord and his heir, who can offer far more than a second son. It is pretty telling that Ozai had to rely on Ursa to off Azulon and shows that he didn't have access to assassins of his own. Besides the poignant part of Iroh's backstory is that he himself led his son to his death in battle. His own culpability in the greatest tragedy of his life pushes him to the changes that make him the Iroh we know and love. There is absolutely no narrative reason to involve Ozai in Lu Ten's death.

I also think Ozai blackmailed his wife into killing Azulon by saying that if she didn't then he would be forced to kill Zuko because he was ordered to. Then he framed her for treason and banished her

He died in a battle. Coincidence? I think NOT!

Thought the same

Yeah, this Actually makes sense and to be honest, it wouldn't be beneath them. He's a full on psychopath that has 0 emotional abilities whatsoever It's why his daughter ended up having an a full on emotional mental breakdown towards the end and why his son just had no problem disregarding him.

How would he even go about that? By going to the earth kingdom himself? Sending assasins?

We all know it be truth

He died on the FRONTLINES in Battle. There's literally no way Ozai did anything, it makes sense but he didn't

You should change the title to "I believe" ...