Avatar: The Last Airbender star Dante Basco said Team Avatar was made up of some privileged individuals.

On the latest episode of Nickelodeon's Avatar: Braving the Elements podcast, Basco made the rather bold claim that the main characters were all quite privileged -- but his theory doesn't quite hold up. "If you think about it... the OGs, they're actually all rich kids," Basco said. "I mean, Prince Zuko is the prince of the Fire Nation, Toph is Toph Beifong, she's like from the richest family. And then even the Water [Tribe] -- Katara and Sokka... their dad is the chief... they're all refined characters... that they all came together. And then, of course, the Avatar is the Avatar."

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While Basco, who voiced Prince Zuko on the original series, is certainly right about his character and Toph, both people who grew up with sizable wealth, it's harder to say that about the others.

Though privilege is multifaceted and Katara, Sokka, and Aang all had certain advantages in their world, it's hardly fair to claim they're rich. Katara and Sokka may have been the children of the chief, but their village was tiny and isolated. Their father, and most of the village, also left when they were quite young after they were attacked by the Fire Nation. When we meet the two in the present, it's clear they're not living a life of means. What's more, they are clearly outsiders in the wider world, which is predominantly made up of people from the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation. Even in the more affluent Northern Water Tribe, they're treated as lower-class outcasts.

Aang, meanwhile, may have been the Avatar, but as a monk, he was definitionally not rich. Being the Avatar also made him an outcast amongst his people in the past, and in the present, it's a secret that puts a price on his head. That said, Basco isn't wrong that the Avatar is a vaunted position in society, and all of the characters certainly go on to success and acclaim after beating the Fire Lord.

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Without knowing exactly the politics of the world, as it isn't a pure analog of our own, it's difficult to really assess how privileged the members were as kids. Toph, for instance, was from a wealthy family, but she was also blind, and her parents and many others treated her as less than due to her disability. What Basco seems to be touching on, however, is that all of the characters come from certain positions of isolation that put them on a different level than the various working-class people they often met along the way.

Source: Avatar: Braving the Elements