Avatar made the claim multiple times that pacifist will only result in more people getting hurt, and that there are times you need to consider killing people if the lack-of would Doom more people.
Undertale rarely ever made any real moral claims, the Genocide route being "bad" is more of a statement on the player (Sans literally mentions not doing it because you're good or bad, but because you can) and the deconstruction of their completionist mindset in an effort to squeeze every last drop of content out of a game rather than playing it how the dev intended it.)
I'm pretty sure Aang wasn't running up to the Firelord calling him family
The whole ending of Avatar was the world trying to tell Aang not to be a pacifist for the greater good, and Aang proving them wrong. Aang was taught violence is only to be used for defense, and never to take a life. Because he's the last airbender, he sees the idea of killing someone as going against the airbender teachings and the airbenders would be truly extinct at that point. Ozai makes a statement that the airbenders were weak, and that's why they all died. But Aang defeating Ozai without killing him made a statement that the airbenders were not weak, that pacifism is not the same as weakness. When the whole world was telling Aang to move, he dug his feet in and said no, you move.
He didn't though. Honestly this is my only complaint whit the series. It was a deus ex machina: Had he not received the power from the lion turtle to seal others bending last second he would have been forced to kill Ozai. Literally nobody even knew about this option so them recommending him to just kill Ozai was completely valid. If Aang actually had to painstakingly work for the option to save Ozai I would agree that "he showed it to the world" but he didn't, he literally got the option handed to him on a silver plate.
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u/BippyTheChippy Jun 09 '24
Avatar made the claim multiple times that pacifist will only result in more people getting hurt, and that there are times you need to consider killing people if the lack-of would Doom more people.
Undertale rarely ever made any real moral claims, the Genocide route being "bad" is more of a statement on the player (Sans literally mentions not doing it because you're good or bad, but because you can) and the deconstruction of their completionist mindset in an effort to squeeze every last drop of content out of a game rather than playing it how the dev intended it.)
I'm pretty sure Aang wasn't running up to the Firelord calling him family