Putting all that aside, even if that was how he got the title, I find it hard to believe Zuko wouldn't know that. You earn "General" by moving up the ranks, you don't get it because the enemy decided to give you a nickname. No way would the British military would start calling him "General" in meetings. It'd be like if during WWII some British soldier got the nickname "General of the East" by Germans despite not having that rank. Again, it tarnishes and dishonors the title. I also find it unlikely that fire nation people would use a title given to Iroh by the other nations if it conflicted with their use of the title. It doesn't seem as special enough to earn a title that the nation normal reserves for the astoundingly difficult task of finding and killing a dragon. He can do with his mouth what others can do with their fists or feet - yeah, it's cool and intimidating, but it's got limited utility.
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I mean, his fire breath move is cool and all, but not really all that much of a game-changer when it comes to combat. I feel like that'd be unlikely for a nation so steeped in tradition and following rules and "honor" to dilute the tradition behind the name "Dragon" by giving it to someone who hadn't defeated one. She knows about the dragons and that her uncle is the last one to "kill" one but she didn't know fire-breath existed. Azula most likely does know about how they got the title dragon but at the moment she doesn't care to keep talking, which is why she said that she wasn't in the mood for a history lesson. Iroh then taught the fire breath to Zuko at some point and that allowed Zuko to stay warm while in the fire-nation prison, so it's not something that most fire-benders know about.īasically Iroh created the fire breath move and Azula didn't know it existed. This time using an air-bending technique instead of a water-bending one, how he learned an air-bending technique after the genocide of the air nomads I have no idea. Like lightning redirection the fire breath is something that Iroh discovered and created in his travels.
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We know that in Irohs case he did not kill the dragon but learned fire-bending from it, then claimed he killed the last dragon so that no one else will hunt the last 2 down.