Zuko's Honor
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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 is obsessed with regaining his honor. The images place Zuko in situations where his honor could have been located, but where he eventually won't find it.
Origin
In the series, Zuko is the fallen prince of the Fire Nation. He was banished from his country after unintentionally dishonoring his father by speaking out of turn and refusing a duel. The only way for Zuko to restore his honor was to locate and capture the Avatar, the master of the four elements. Zuko is obsessed with this task, and it is a driving force behind his character.
On July 30th, 2011, Deviantart user DraggingCanoe submitted an image titled "Zuko's Honor." The image is a screenshot from the episode The Ember Island Players, which first aired July 18th, 2008, with the added caption "My Honor!!!"[1].
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On May 16th, 2012, Funnyjunk user SokkaTheWarrior submitted an image titled "Season Long Ass Kicking" (shown below, left) that was 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 account was created and within two years garnered 621 followers.[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 points (96% upvoted) 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 trend taken from Tumblr[6].
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Deviantart – Zuko's Honor
[2] Twitter – Zuko's Honor
[3] Funnyjunk – Season Long Ass Kicking
[5] Reddit – We're just really HONORED to meet you, sir
[6] Buzzfeed – 16 Places Prince Zuko Could Have Found His Honor
Top Comments
Ryumaru Borike
May 21, 2015 at 08:22PM EDT
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May 22, 2015 at 09:49PM EDT