Avatar: The Last Airbender cosplayer smolders as scarred Zuko Instagram, @angryroni \/ Nickelodeon[jwplayer MDxzN19r]Fire Lord Zuko is hot-headed and a little insecure about his scar. A cosplayer, \u2018angryroni,\u2019 has brought Zuko into 2020 with a moody, lustrous look that rocks his iconic scar proudly. When you first meet Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, he is a hot-headed, dishonored antagonist who wants nothing more than to earn his father\u2019s praise. By the end, he has grown and learned to value himself. Had he mastered makeup as gracefully as angryroni, maybe he would have valued his pensive look and statement scar a little sooner. Avatar is back in the limelight this year, especially now with Netflix upping the series\u2019 quality to HD. The cartoon classic is fine art, practically untouchable and communally adored\u2014to the extent that it\u2019s honestly impressive the M. Night Shyamalan-directed live-action film even got to 5 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Unlike Shyamalan\u2019s historic failure, angryroni chose to lean into Zuko\u2019s signature characteristics instead of pushing away from them in some misguided effort to achieve realism. Like the stark colorful contrasts of the animated series, angryroni uses makeup to accentuate the Fire Lord\u2019s vibrant eyes and captivating scar. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBq41AjDtxN\/ Highlighting the obvious attention to detail for Zuko\u2019s face, achieved with contrasting makeup, angryroni frames the look with a wig that is perfectly raggedy\u2014suiting the moppy hairstyle that embodied the character\u2019s tumultuous internal development. The failure of Shyamalan\u2019s effort can\u2019t solely be placed on his shoulders, just as Zuko can\u2019t be entirely faulted for being a jerk for much of the series. It\u2019s hard to be a quality person when your dad is evil and, similarly, it\u2019s hard to make a great reboot of a series that is already such an infallible icon. But Shyamalan tried and we were left with a tattered Zuko, devoid of his signature, glowing honey eyes or aesthetically dominant scar. No matter how true to his personality the actor, Dev Patel, could be, this Zuko incarnation proves why angryroni\u2019s is such a success. The best Fire Lord look is one that brings out the character\u2019s muted heat, reflecting his internal passion and struggle with a heated palette juxtaposed against muted expressions. What angryroni does here is distinct and, ultimately, superior. Instead of shying away from Zuko\u2019s look, he amplifies it. The burgundy outfit, lined with shining gold, is excellent\u2014but it\u2019s the exaggerated facial features, rather than expressions, that make this a captivating cosplay. Funnily enough, even the poorly lip-synced Tik Toks of songs and dialogue feel like Zuko too. A moody teenager dealing with emotional development? Of course he\u2019d be dropping pensive videos with a dangling earring in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Avatar: The Last Airbender cosplayer smolders as scarred Zuko Instagram, @angryroni \/ Nickelodeon[jwplayer MDxzN19r]Fire Lord Zuko is hot-headed and a little insecure about his scar. A cosplayer, \u2018angryroni,\u2019 has brought Zuko into 2020 with a moody, lustrous look that rocks his iconic scar proudly. When you first meet Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}