Zhao (Netflix)

Admiral Zhao is one of the two secondary antagonists on the first season of 2024 Netflix adventure fantasy series , which is based on Book One: Water of the Nickelodeon 2005-2008 . 
He is a ruthless and dishonorable Fire Nation naval officer who serves Fire Lord Ozai. When his master decides that the Avatar Aang poses a threat to his world-conquering plans, Zhao takes the opportunity to beat the disgraced Prince Zuko out in the pursuit for the Avatar in favour of his own goals.
He was portrayed by . 
==Personality==
Zhao failed his training trials at least three times until he became an Admiral. Since then he became ruthless, bloodthirsty, and arrogant who did whatever he could to expand tyranny. He took the opportunity to do whatever he can to boost his rank and status in the Fire Nation when Zuko and Iroh visited him. Though the two men claimed they needed maps of the area looking for a migration of squid, Zhao knew they were letting on more than they knew. After gaining information from Lieutenant Jee (who was often mentally abused by Zuko) that Zuko actually found the Avatar, Zhao realized if he captured Aang then he would gain all of the glory. The former commander is unlike Zuko: dishonorable, selfish, and lacks some of the princes morals. Despite initially agreeing to with with Zuko, Zhao secretly plotted against the young prince behind his back by conspiring his lieutenant and his sister Princess Azula. This made him a pathological liar and master manipulator who didn't reveal his true colors to Zuko and Iroh until "Masks." In "The North," he tricked Lieutenant Jee into getting Zuko to get on a lifeboat that was doused in blasting jelly. 
He is boastful and arrogant man, who pride himself too let the Avatar know that he was captured by himself. Due to his ambitious and power hungry nature, Zhao secretly plotted to one day overthrow Ozai and killing the Moon Spirit, clearly not caring about the casualties. He claimed to Iroh that he wasn't going to kill both the spirits because that would have killed the Waterbenders and removed their bending because he wasn't a monster. However his claim that he will kill them Moon spirit to deprive benders of their waterbending made it worse because without their bending, there would be more casualties in the siege of the North. Zhao is also a cowardly individual, having run away with he saw a Kyoshi-possessed Aang take out most of his army and from the Spirit Oasis as he watched Iroh unleash his fury on his men after Zhao killed the Moon Spirit. Despite his planning and hidden agenda, Zhao clearly underestimated Prince Zuko, General Iroh, Princess Yue and Avatar Aang, all individuals who made his plans fail and led to his downfall. 
==Appearance==
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==Powers and Abilities==
*Firebending
*Strategic leadership
*Fighting skills
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Zhao is more ruthless than he was in the original cartoon series.
*Zhao used his firebending to kill Tui in the original cartoon, but here, his weapon is a knife, akin to how his Shyamalan counterpart killed her.
**The Netflix TV series also claims that Kuruk made this knife to fight dark spirits.
*He is partly responsible for Princess Yue's sacrifice because Zhao's killing of the Moon Spirit led Yue to revive Tui with her life force. The world nearly lost Aang's when he merged with La until Yue's sacrifice reversed it.
==Gallery==
=== Omashu ===
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=== The North ===
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