If there were still any doubt, a pop-up factoid that appeared in a re-airing of "The Ember Island Players" for Nickelodeon's Avatar Extras event stated, "For the record: Jet is dead. Leaving it so Jet did not technically die on screen, cutting around the killing blow and attempting to close the case with Toph's words were the creators' way of coming as close to depicting the death as they actually could. The moment was a compromise, because Nickelodeon was uncomfortable with showing a child's death on screen in a children's program. After discovering Zuko and Iroh are not just refugees, but firebenders, he confronts the two at Iroh’s tea shop But even without his bending, Zuko is not on. RELATED: Aang Is Avatar: The Last Airbender's Luke Skywalker Fans would hope that, if Jet were alive, he would be spending his post-war years doing the things he missed out on. However, his obsession with fighting against the Fire Nation stopped him from being able to pursue romantic endeavors. Confirmation of Jet's death would not come until the creators' commentary on "The Ember Island Players" episode, and the story behind the story was revealed. Jet was a notorious flirt, as fans saw through his interactions with Katara. Sokka remarks it was "very unclear" whether Jet died, providing sly meta commentary on the ambiguity of the character's fate. The Season 3 episode "The Ember Island Players" calls back to his death, as the Gaang watches the theater troupe recreate the scene. That was it for Jet in the course of the show itself, as he's never seen again, and rarely spoken about.
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