Who is mako in avatar

He had three grandchildren. Mako's first cinema role was in the film Never So Few. In , frustrated by the limited roles available to himself and other Asian-American actors, Mako and six others, including James Hong , formed the East West Players theater company, first performing out of a church basement.

The company is one of the earliest Asian-American theater organizations and not only provided a venue for Asian-American actors to train and perform, but nurtured many Asian-American playwrights.

Mako remained artistic director of the company until In , he had a cameo role in Memoirs of a Geisha. His last leading role was in the film Cages , written and directed by Graham Streeter. Mako was among the actors, producers, and directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen , directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian-American men in Hollywood.

Mako died after a brief period of suffering from esophageal cancer. The film's director Kevin Munroe confirmed that Mako had completed his recording before his death.

The finished film was dedicated to Mako. So, when he was older, Mako styled his hair after Iroh's, as pictured. He later went back to his old hairstyle, though. Mako can be cheerful and optimistic at times, as this screenshot suggests, but he can also be quite high-strung and intense, too. Mako is constantly pressuring himself to succeed, since he's the leader of the Fire Ferrets and Bolin's big brother.

His intensity and short temper are rather like Zuko's, since the young Zuko was also under a lot of pressure and didn't react well to humor or unexpected events. Fortunately, Mako isn't on a dead-end quest for "honor.

Mako styled his hair after General Iroh's, but should he also take command of an army like Iroh does? In short, no. Like Sokka before him, Mako shines when he leads a small team, not an army. He fumbled with his efforts to evacuate Republic City, for example. Instead, Mako is well-suited to leading a pro bending team, and he is also good at figuring out team avatar's next move plotting all the steps. He's a good police officer, too, proving that his leaderships skills work best on a small scale.

This is Fire Lord Izumi, and according to initial plans for The Legend of Korra season 4, she was going to have a daughter who could have been Mako's brand-new love interest.

If Mako can't have Korra, how about a Fire Nations princess? Ultimately, there was no room for such a character in the show, and Mako ended up being the only member of team avatar who wasn't in a relationship by the end. Korra and Asami have each other, Bolin has Opal, and Mako is on the dating market.

Fortunately for him, he's got those good looks on his side. Louis Kemner has been a fan of Japanese animation since , when he discovered Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z in elementary school. He's always looking for a wonderful new anime to watch or manga series to read. Returning to the Southern Water Tribe to find it overrun with Northern Water Tribe soldiers, [27] Mako was forced to sit by helplessly as he watched Tonraq and several other Southerners be sentenced to life imprisonment for their attempt to kidnap Unalaq.

Although he cautioned Korra that freeing her father from prison would mean the start of a Water Tribe Civil War , he helped her do it nonetheless.

Upon returning to Republic City, Mako resumed his duties as a police officer and when everyone was quick to blame the Northern Water Tribe for the bombing of the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center , he had his doubts and he started an investigation on his own.

Due to maintaining a more distanced view on the brewing conflict between the Water Tribes , Mako soon found himself having relationship troubles with Korra and after he revealed her plans to ask the United Forces fleet for help behind President Raiko 's back to the president, they broke up. Mako was arrested after Lu and Gang found incriminating evidence in his apartment. Determined to arrest the true culprits of the bombing and help Asami's company the same time, Mako set up a sting operation with the help of the Triple Threat Triad.

However, the gangsters ended up double-crossing them and Asami's warehouse was robbed clean while they were being kept busy. While he consoled her, Mako was surprised when Asami kissed him. After the businessman was arrested for the attempted kidnapping of President Raiko , Mako was released from prison. In an attempt to prevent Unalaq from merging with Vaatu , Mako and Bolin fought him outside the Southern spirit portal. Mako accompanied Korra and the rest of Team Avatar toward the Southern Water Tribe in an attempt to break through the Northern forces guarding the Southern spirit portal and get into the Spirit World.

Together with Asami and Bolin, he served as a decoy, though they were eventually captured. Shortly after Harmonic Convergence, Mako rejoined the Fire Ferrets and took part in a charity championship organized to help rebuild the city following the damages caused by the Unalaq Crisis.

They were ultimately able to win the event by beating the White Falls Wolfbats in the finale. Being reminded of how he used to be, Mako was doubtful about Kai 's sincerity. Although his apartment was in ruins, Mako declined Tenzin's offer to stay at Air Temple Island and resided at the police headquarters instead. As such, he was the first to respond to a call about Daw , a new airbender, roaming the city and broke the news of the resurfacing airbenders to Tenzin.

When initial attempts to persuade some new benders to move to the Northern Air Temple in order to learn the ways of the Air Nomads , Mako reluctantly participated in an "air show" to excite the new benders about their new abilities, which attracted Kai to join them. Mako gave his signature scarf to his grandmother before warmly hugging her.

Not long after the team's arrival in Ba Sing Se , Kai ran away from the group, returning to his thieving ways, which prompted Mako and Bolin to give chase, though Kai managed to get them stranded in the Lower Ring by stealing their money.

Spending the night on the streets, the brothers tried to find their way back to the Upper Ring , though they ended up finding their paternal family instead. When they inquired about new airbenders in the city, Chow and Tu told them there was a rumor that Earth Queen Hou-Ting was retaining them for experimental purposes.

Mako and the others soon decided that they would not leave Ba Sing Se before having freed the airbenders, even though the Queen had ordered them to leave. Eventually discovering that the airbenders were held captive underneath the Earth Queen's Temple , the team infiltrated the building that night. After finding him, they fought off several Dai Li agents and making it to the surface, they spotting Korra and Tenzin coming to them on Oogi.

Safely escaping the city, the airbenders headed for the Northern Air Temple, while Mako joined his friends and Lin to continue the search for other airbenders in Lin's airship.

The group made their way to Zaofu, home to the Metal Clan , where they met Suyin Beifong and her family. Facing the four criminals with Zaofu's guard and the rest of Team Avatar, he managed to surround the foursome, only for Ghazan to separate the groups with a pool of lava. As the Beifong sisters drop down from the ceiling to reach Korra, Mako provided cover fire in order to give Bolin the opportunity to stun P'Li 's combustionbending by hitting her on her third eye with a small pebble.

Despite managing to save Korra, however, they failed to apprehend the group. Bolin and Team Avatar discovered a hidden room behind a bookshelf in Aiwei 's house. The following morning, Mako and the others set out to investigate how the breach in security could have occurred, a search that eventually led them to suspect the city's resident truth seer, Aiwei , as he was the only one who could tell a lie and be believed.

Searching his home, the team discovered a secret room, though before they could investigate, Aiwei returned home and deduced Team Avatar's intentions; he managed to escape the city and nearly blew Team Avatar up in the process. With Suyin's help, however, Mako and the others were given a jeep so they could continue to track Aiwei down outside the city.

Mako and Bolin were subdued by Ming-Hua. With Naga's tracking abilities, the team followed Aiwei's trail to just outside the Misty Palms Oasis. While Korra and Asami searched Aiwei's abandoned vehicle and discovered he was set to meet Zaheer at Xai Bau's Grove , Mako and Bolin investigated the town, finding Aiwei resided at the local inn. Due to Bolin's status as a mover star, they managed to procure a room at the inn from which they could stake out Aiwei's.

When they eventually grew tired of waiting and barged into Aiwei's room, they discovered that he had meditated into the Spirit World. While Korra did the same, Mako and the others looked after her physical body, though when they noticed Ming-Hua and Ghazan had arrived at the inn as well, Asami left with Korra's body while the brothers stalled the two criminals. Despite his best efforts, however, Mako could not fend off Ming-Hua, and the two brothers eventually ended up being captured and loaded onto a truck to Ba Sing Se.

Mako encouraged Bolin to try metalbending them out of prison. Upon arriving at Ba Sing Se, the brothers were gagged and subsequently presented before the Earth Queen, who ordered the Dai Li to send them to the palace dungeon. Mako encouraged his brother to metalbend them out of there, though Bolin failed. They were eventually freed by Zaheer himself, however, as he needed them to relay a message to Korra. With no suitable radio nearby, the group returned to Zaofu to seek solid communication and warn the airbenders of the imminent threat.

Having warned Tenzin and being reinforced with a security detail from Zaofu, Team Avatar set course to the temple as well. Along the way, they decided that Mako, Bolin, and Asami would check on the airbenders who were used as leverage, while Korra gave herself up to Zaheer, although Lin, Suyin, Tonraq, and the security detail would back her up.

Mako, Bolin, and Asami ended up being fooled into believing the airbenders were at the temple, however, which led to them being cornered by Ghazan, who used his lavabending to bring down the entire temple.

With Tenzin's help, the threesome managed to navigate their way to lower parts of the building, though their escape routes were soon blocked by the advancing lava. In a last attempt to save their lives, Bolin discovered that he could lavabend, which bought them all enough time for Kai to save them from their precarious situation.

Reuniting with the others, Mako learned that Korra and the airbenders had been taken to a nearby cave. As a last defense, Mako generated lightning and aimed it at the water connected to Ming-Hua , killing her in the process.

Quickly ambushing the Red Lotus sentries , the group released the airbenders from the chains in which they were held. With Korra still missing, however, Mako and Bolin promptly joined Tonraq to find her, being tipped off to her exact location by Jinora. When they found her, however, she was in the Avatar State due to the effects of her mercury poisoning and battling Zaheer, leaving Mako and Bolin to deal with Ming-Hua and Ghazan, respectively.

Trading blows, Mako eventually managed to kill Ming-Hua by electrocuting her with his lightning. Two weeks later, Mako attended Jinora's airbending master ceremony [47] before joining Asami, Bolin, Tenzin, and Jinora on the ferry dock to say goodbye to Korra, who was set to return to the Southern Water Tribe in order to recover from her physical and mental trauma. Mako was handpicked by Wu to be his personal bodyguard. Following the insurrection of the Red Lotus , Mako was handpicked by Wu to be his personal bodyguard until his coronation as the new Earth King.

When Korra did not show up when she was scheduled to arrive back at Republic City after three years of absence, he was left to wonder where the Avatar could be. During Wu's coronation, Mako was shocked to see Kuvira denounce Wu's authority and dissolve the Earth Kingdom in favor of the Earth Empire under her leadership.

After the ceremony, he was found by Bolin, who tried to sway him to stop being Wu's bodyguard and join him and Kuvira's army instead. Mako opposed Bolin's view of Kuvira, however, not believing that the metalbender was truly helping all the poor people of the empire. Instead, he labeled her to be a dictator taking over the Earth Kingdom by force, which angered Bolin, who blamed him for wasting his time as Wu's glorified butler while he was making history and left.

Moving past the tension, Mako shared a warm hug with Asami and Korra , truly reuniting as a team. The reunion soon became tense among the old friends, when the three years of separation caught up with them. However, when Wu ended up kidnapped , the team rallied together and were reminded of their old adventures. Successfully saving Wu, the team reconciled, and while Asami and Korra returned to Air Temple Island, Mako retreated to the Sato estate with Wu, where they would reside with the rest of Mako's family.

Mako rushed to Korra 's side and supported her after she was blocked out of meditating into the Spirit World due to Zaheer 's memory.

Attending a meeting with the other world leaders, Mako learned of Kuvira's super weapon when Bolin and Varrick returned to the city. After forgiving his brother for their past argument, he explored the Spirit Wilds with Korra after Jinora's spiritual projection called for help. They discovered her soul and those of several others trapped inside a vegetative pod that had transported their souls to the Spirit World.

When Korra failed to meditate into the Spirit World, Mako was surprised to learn that Zaheer's memory was still haunting her, though reassured her that he was there for her, offering his help in any way she needed it.

As such, he accompanied her to Zaheer's prison , where she faced the airbender by herself, hoping it would give her peace of mind. Due to Hiroshi 's sacrifice, Mako was able to make it inside Kuvira 's enormous mecha suit together with Korra , Bolin , Lin , and Suyin. With Kuvira's attack on Republic City imminent, Mako, Korra, Bolin, and Asami decided that they would try to take out the spirit energy cannon.

Much to their shock, however, they learned that the canon was mounted on an enormous mecha suit and had already crossed into United Republic territory. Returning to the city, they reported on Kuvira's progress, and Mako witnessed in shock how Kuvira destroyed the United Forces battleships in a matter of seconds, before blowing up the factory they were all hiding in.

Since Korra refused to let the city fall, Mako joined her and the other benders to distract Kuvira while Asami and Hiroshi, and Varrick and Zhu Li, used a hummingbird mecha suit to cut a hole in Kuvira's suit. Although baffled to see Kuvira crush Hiroshi to death in his hummingbird suit, Mako managed to dive inside the hole together with Suyin, Lin, Bolin, and Korra.

Mako struck the spirit vine -charged power core of Kuvira 's enormous mecha suit with lightning to cause it to explode. Inside, Mako and Bolin headed to the power core of the machine, where they took to battle with the present guards. After overpowering them and with Baatar Jr. When Bolin noted that the only thing he knew about spirit vines was that they easily exploded, Mako ordered him to take all the engineers to safety while he zapped the spirit vine core with his lightning.

Promising to get out as soon as he could, he fired a continuous bolt of lightning, causing the power core to overload and explode. Despite having his arm burned by the strain the lightning put on it, Mako kept up his attack and started to move out.

Before he could escape, however, he was rendered unconscious by the backlash of the spirit core energy though was saved by Bolin, who had returned for him and carried him to the lower parts of the suit to be protected from the devastating explosion of the power core that blasted the suit in half.

Content with how everything turned out, Mako emphasized to Korra that he would always be there for her, no matter the situation. When Mako and Bolin exited the ruined mecha suit, they were shocked to find that the Spirit Wilds had been blasted open and housed a new spirit portal in its center. Realizing Korra and Kuvira were nowhere to be found, Mako and the rest of Team Avatar set out to search the area for the Avatar. When the two women emerged from the portal and a handcuffed Kuvira was escorted away, Mako joined in a group hug to rejoice with Korra, with the rest of Team Avatar soon joining in.

Some time later, Mako attended Varrick and Zhu Li's wedding and learned of Wu's plan to abolish the monarchy in favor of democratically governed individual states.

After the royal left for dance floor, Mako was thanked by Korra for his help with Kuvira, and he told her that he would always follow her into battle, emphasizing that he was there for her and always would be. An injured Mako was easily defeated by Tokuga though saved from further harm by Bolin. In the aftermath of Kuvira's failed invasion, Mako returned to duty as a detective, and was partnered with Bolin after his brother decided to join the police force. His arm injury was treated by Kya, but he could no longer firebend through his injured arm.

The police started to deal with the effects of triad turf wars over land that had been evacuated during the city's invasion, and the brothers made arrests during a conflict between the Triple Threats and the Creeping Crystal Triad. The brothers later traveled to Air Temple Island and welcomed Korra and Asami back from a Spirit World vacation, but their conversation was cut short with Jinora's spirit projection warning them about a conflict breaking out at the portal.

Mako tried to call for backup, but the new spiritual energy was jamming the radio frequencies. After arriving at the portal, Mako attempted to arrest Tokuga, but the triad leader avoided his fire blasts and launched him through the air with hook swords. However, Bolin saved his brother, and Tokuga was later left deformed by an attacking dragon eel spirit.

In the aftermath of the attack, Mako learned that his exes were now dating each other when he saw Korra kiss a wounded Asami. Mako appeared somewhat shocked about the situation, but expressed his support for their relationship.

Mako and Bolin reported to Lin about the confrontation, with Mako adding Korra's theory that the triads had been hired by Wonyong Keum , the property baron who owned the land around the portal.

Lin responded that she would need hard evidence to pursue the theory further, as they could not bring in Keum for questioning due to his powerful connections.