Zuko's Honor

Editor’s Note: Entry contains spoilers from the show

About

Zuko’s Honor is a series of images and posts that pokes fun at the character Zuko from the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender who has gained a reputation for being obsess in regaining his honor.

Origin

In The series, Zuko is the fallen prince of the Fire Nation. He was banished from his country due to him unintentionally dishonoring his father by speaking out of turn and refusing to duel him. The only way for him to restore his honor was to locate and capture the Avatar, the master of the four elements. Because of this, Zuko is very obsessive in reclaiming his honor which has become his main driving force.

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On July 30th, 2011, Deviantart user DraggingCanoe submitted an image titled “Zuko’s Honor” which is a screenshot taken from the episode The Ember Island Players with the added caption “My Honor!!!”^[1].

On May 16th, 2012, Funnyjunk user SokkaTheWarrior submitted an image titled “Season Long Ass Kicking” (shown below, left) which is described as hitting Zuko “right in the honor”. The post gathered more than 68.000 views and 1.960 upvotes in 3 years^[3]. On June, 2012, the Zuko’s Honor twitter page was created and has gathered 621 followers within 2 years^[2]. On July 15th, 2012, Funnyjunk user brenduhhhh submitted an image titled “honor” (shown below, right) which gained over 43.000 views and 934 upvotes in 2 years^[4].

On February 27th, 2013, Youtuber KamikazeKodiak uploaded a video that counts down the number of times the word “honor” was used throughout the series (shown below, left) which gained over 150.000 views in 2 years. On July 24th, 2013, Youtuber WhiteFlame uploaded a video that counts the number of times Zuko used the word “honor” (shown below, right). In total, the word “honor” was used 16 times by Zuko, more than any other character in the series.

On August 17th, 2014, redditor MKotter posted a video titled “We’re just really HONORED to meet you, sir” on /r/TheLastAirbender which gained 2.080 point (96% upvote) and 81 comments in 9 months^[5]. On April 13th, 2015 Buzzfeed submitted an article titled “16 Places Prince Zuko Could Have Found His Honor” which compiles 16 examples of the fad taken from tumblr^[6].