Jet from atla is so funny bc like, he's fighting zuko and taunting him being like "bet you wanna use some fire instead of those swords, dont u fireboy" which is a funny thing to say to a guy who is clearly very eager to fight using swords
Not once: Katara freezing him from the neck down to a tree after he betrayed her, Sokka & Aang's goodwill;
Not twice: Abandoning Smellerbee & Longshot in Ba Sing Se only about a day & a half into their refuge;
Not thrice: Attacking Iroh without clear cut evidence (he saw him & his tea, nothing is stated on paper);
Not four times: Attacking Zuko & trying to get him to firebend. Which Zuko was never going to do in his presence, grasschewer ain't his sister. As well as Jet never having seen Zuko firebend in his life. For all he knew, Zuko could've just been a swordsman;
But five times: Trying to attack the Dai Li. Resulting in him getting handcuffed WITH ROCKS, arrested, eventually brainwashed & ultimately killed (or as Sokka said: it was unclear). Smellerbee & Longshot can only sadly watch on to their friend's fate
He should have thought things through in his plans. He could've been a real threat to Zuko & Iroh, much like Azula & made them sweat a little. But alas, he is too hotheated to be anything like her calculated self
For all his faults, I still miss Jet a lot. He was the first person ever to take care of me, and just like Aang, he wanted to change the world for the better. I think his heart was always in the right place, even if it sometimes took a few detours. When we were able to catch small boars near our treetop hideouts outside of Gaipan, Jet taught me how to roast them over a spit until they were pleasantly crackly outside yet still soft inside. I miss those celebrations a lot, so I keep perfecting my boar-making skills as a small way of remembering him and our whole crew.
-THE DUKE
Like, say what you want about him, but the care he extended towards all these kids that were orphaned in terrible ways, just like him is impressive.
I'm not surprised he was so fixated on hindering the fire nation army. He's carrying not just his own trauma, but also that of the like.. 50+..? (Idk there were a lot of them in those treetops) other children whose stories he undoubtedly was told.
And stopping the Fire Nation, even at the cost of innocent lives, would, in Jet's young eyes, save many children from the fate of those he's had to take under his wing.
So what if the Dai Li took a look at 'Lee' saw the very golden eyes and black hair and went; "Huh, that sure doesn't looke like someone from the earth kingdom, does it?" and decide to imprison him. Iroh goes free, since he has less of the identifying features (grey hair, brown-ish eyes).
Iroh lets it happen, as breaking Zuko out of prison is more feasible than fighting a whole team of Dai Li agents in broad day light.
Meanwhile the two idiots get trapped together, while Iroh figures out a plan to get them free. Iroh runs into the Gaang and they team up to rescue Zuko and Appa.
What the two guys get up to in prison... let's leave it up for free interpretation. Maybe they fight (highly likely), maybe they get their frustrations out in other ways. Who knows. Either way, Zuko keeps up the lie about being 'Lee'.
Eventually they are freed. Zuko almost bursts a blood vessel seeing the Avatar, Jet freaks out about Mushi firebending a whole lot to get them out.
Jet, screaming: "I told you he was a firebender!"
Zuko: "I know he's a firebender!" * trying to fight off Dai Li*
"And so am I!" 🔥🔥🔥
Jet: "You lied to me?! Again?" 😱💀😡
I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.
The thing is jet would try to like get behind zuko to flirtily show him how to do something (that zuko knows how to do already) and zuko would be like if you fucking take another step closer to me I will kill you so hard. Do you understand