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| 4 | !!Princess Azula (阿祖拉) |
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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"My own mother thought I was a monster... She was right, of course, but it still hurt."'']] |
| 11 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/GreyDeLisle (original), Creator/MeganShipman (''VideoGame/{{Smite}}''), Creator/SuzieYeung (''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl2''), Yannina Quiroz ([[UsefulNotes/SpanishAccentsAndDialects Latin American Spanish]]), Rona Beckerman (Hebrew), Yvonne Greitzke (German), Creator/DomitillaDAmico (Italian), Monika Pikuła (Polish), Mariana Torres (Brazilian Portuguese) |
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| 13 | Zuko's younger sister and princess of the Fire Nation. As a Firebending prodigy, her father Ozai favored her over Zuko, though the two had an opposite relationship to their mother Ursa. Azula uses her position and power to torment Zuko and anyone else in her way. A skilled tactician, [[ManipulativeBitch master manipulator]], and brilliant fighter, she's easily one of the Gaang's deadliest foes. She describes herself as "a people person," but she really is only skilled in manipulating people through fear. Normal interaction eludes and bewilders her more often than not. |
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| 19 | * AdaptiveAbility: Not to an extent that a tactic won't work twice against her, but true to her studious nature, Azula is a quick learner on the battlefield and will likely be better prepared against her foes during different situations. Two instances in the comics are in [[spoiler:''The Search'' when she learns how to make her body much more flexible to work around Chi Blocking]] and [[spoiler:''Smoke and Shadow'' reveals that she too has mastered the ability to redirect lightning as well]]. |
| 20 | * AlasPoorVillain: Azula is brutal and manipulative – and is only fourteen, with a long history of parental abuse, grooming, and learned violence-for-violence type behavior. Usually she's such a competent [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] that you forget to feel sorry for her, [[spoiler:and then she spends the whole series finale going steadily crazier and crazier, with her FreudianExcuse coming to the surface as she starts hallucinating her mother being near and becomes paralyzingly desperate for her father's validation. She finally snaps after she loses to Katara, and the last shot of her in the series is her screaming and sobbing uncontrollably, with Zuko and Katara themselves looking upset that nobody ever tried to help her.]] |
| 21 | * AloofBigSister: InvertedTrope. She is the younger sibling but plenty aloof. [[spoiler:As of ''The Search'', it's played straight to Kiyi]]. |
| 22 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: Azula is pretty, dark-haired, aloof, and imposing. |
| 23 | * AlphaBitch: Her recruitment of Mai and Ty Lee is analogous to a school clique; school friends whom she promises a good time to (for Mai) and peer pressure/threats for Ty Lee. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, as we learn of her inner insecurities which began to take their toll, and after Mai and Ty Lee betray her, she starts to gradually lose her mind.]] |
| 24 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: She was always superior to Zuko when they were growing up, even though he was the older sibling. Her firebending was much stronger than his and unlike him she can produce lightning. In most of their fights she overpowers him and forces him to flee. This starts to become subverted near the end of the series once [[spoiler:Zuko becomes more self assured and learns the true nature of firebending and Azula starts losing her composure and grows [[VillainousBreakdown increasingly insane]].]] In "The Southern Raiders", Zuko duels her evenly for several minutes and the match ends in a draw, with both parties emerging unscathed. [[spoiler:And in the finale when they battle in an Agni Kai for the throne her breakdown gets the better of her and Zuko stays one step ahead of her the whole fight. She is forced to cheat by trying to shoot Katara with Lightning and Zuko injures himself trying to redirect it.]] It's played straight once more in the post-series comics during the ''Smoke and Shadow'' trilogy where once Azula has gotten over her psychological hangups, she [[spoiler:grows much stronger by Zuko's own admission and defeats him in a dagger-to-dagger duel towards the end of the story]]. |
| 25 | * AmbiguousInnocence: |
| 26 | ** While Azula is a villain and commits villainous acts, her treatment of turtleducks as a child and Suki as her prisoner are ambiguous. Zuko demonstrates how he thinks Azula "feeds" turtleducks by throwing a whole loaf of bread at one, and Azula implies she broke Suki's spirit to taunt Sokka into attacking her. While a later scene shows turteducks swimming away as she approaches the pond, we never see her actually interacting with them. Zuko's demonstration can be discerned as him trying to get Azula into trouble with their mother, while his surprise at the mother turtleduck attacking him could also mean that the way he threw the bread was more violent than what Azula supposedly did. As for Suki, she is shown to be unharmed and unbroken while imprisoned, meaning Azula was likely bluffing. |
| 27 | ** How much of Azula's behavior could be construed as outright sadism and sociopathy or as something more akin to a BloodKnight, a result of Ozai and the Fire Nation culture's conditioning to value strength and victory, considering the number of soldiers who do commit petty acts of sadism in comparison to her PragmaticVillainy. |
| 28 | * AmbiguousSituation: As of ''Smoke and Shadow'', her mental state is a bit unclear. Outwardly, she's a lot more stable than she has been since Ozai dismissed her, and even Zuko thinks she seems to be getting better. But even if she's given up on killing her brother, she's still dedicated to manipulating him and hasn't managed to develop a functioning moral compass. |
| 29 | * AnimalMotifs: Was born in the [[SnakesAreSinister Year of the Snake]], befitting someone who is such a cunning, ruthless, and adaptable schemer. |
| 30 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She enjoys annoying Zuko by calling him "Zuzu." She's also not above climbing a mountain just to ruin his dates with Mai. |
| 31 | * AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Azula's true motive for "helping" with the search for Ursa in ''The Search'' is so that she can ''[[SelfMadeOrphan kill]]'' her mother.]] |
| 32 | * ArcVillain: Essentially takes the role as the main antagonist of Book Two, due to Zhao's downfall at the end of Book One. She relentlessly hunts down her brother and uncle, and eventually Team Avatar. Even in the Ba Sing Se plot with [[EvilChancellor Long Feng]] intending to be the arc's villain, Azula disguises herself as a Kyoshi Warrior to infiltrate the capital and usurp the throne, and even turns Long Feng's Dai Li agents against him, [[PretenderDiss marking herself as a bigger threat than Long Feng could ever achieve]]. |
| 33 | * ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: In Book 3, she starts wearing [[DarkIsEvil black Fire Nation armour]] [[spoiler:while a post HeelFaceTurn Zuko shifts to wearing robes for the rest of the series]]. |
| 34 | ** By Book Three, she's demoted as TheDragon since her father is firmly the true BigBad of the series. |
| 35 | * ArrogantKungFuGirl: Azula tells Zuko when they are children that he will never catch up in terms of firebending skill. That being said, she is still one of the most powerful and skilled fighters in the series, and she is called a prodigy by Ozai, who is implied to be ''the'' most powerful firebender at the time. |
| 36 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: She's very good at calculating and evaluating situations and foes and using it to her advantage. For example it takes her a very short time in Ba Sing Se to understand the importance and potential use of the Dai Li, and of them still being loyal to Long Feng despite his recent arrest, and to formulate a plan to take control of them and Ba Sing Se. Also she was able of learning how to redirect lightning after regaining some sanity, just based on her witnessing Zuko's use of it during their Agni Kai. |
| 37 | * AxCrazy: Completely psychotic towards the end, but she was never really mentally healthy to begin with. Even Iroh says she's crazy and dissuades Zuko from thinking otherwise just because she is his sister. Azula's aggressiveness was evident already in her EarlyBirdCameo in "The Storm", where she is seen smiling gleefully, one fist raised in victory, as her brother's face ''burns''. Then it's lampshaded by the episode "Zuko Alone" and some of the comics. An elementary-aged Azula is seen burning her brother, flowers, and dolls, finds hurting her friends amusing, teases her brother about their mother's disappearance and their grandfather's ''death,'' mocks their uncle for retreating once his son dies, seems to find the idea of Earth Kingdom soldiers "burning to a crisp in minutes" amusing, teases her brother about their father ''killing'' him, enjoys watching her brother fail and be viciously berated by their father...the list goes on. |
| 38 | * BadassBookworm: An excellent strategist, ManipulativeBitch, and an elite Firebender child prodigy all rolled into one. |
| 39 | * BadBoss: One of her first moments in the series is threatening to kill the captain of her ship for refusing to sail through dangerous tides. There's the also fact that she intimidates her friends Mai and Ty Lee into working for her [[spoiler:(which ultimately comes back to bite her when they perform a HeelFaceTurn)]]. |
| 40 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Leaves her midriff exposed in ''The Beach'', albeit her behaviour better matches that of an AlphaBitch. |
| 41 | * TheBaroness: Ruthless, {{manipulative|bitch}}, and possessing skills that nearly equal the BigBad's, Azula seems to be a fairly even mix between both types of Baroness, making her one of the most complicated villains ever to appear in a children's television show. |
| 42 | * BatmanGambit: |
| 43 | ** As a strategist, this is both her greatest ploy and her greatest weakness. So long as the pieces act according to how she wants them to (through coercion or intimidation), she can topple a city in less than 48 hours. Just watch her actions in Ba Sing Se for proof; she played the Dai Li like fiddles. They ''could'' have betrayed her but by then they were too into her mind games. |
| 44 | ** She lethally wounded the Avatar, but when she later suspects Zuko is lying to her about him actually being dead, she gave the credit to Zuko just in case. She knew this would work because Zuko's task was doing just that and he wouldn't refuse the credit. It backfires on her when Zuko ''does'' disclaim the credit and is the one to reveal to their father that the Avatar is most likely still alive. The very next time we see Azula and Ozai together, Ozai is distancing himself from her. |
| 45 | ** If the pieces however, decide to uphold their personal beliefs and standards like [[spoiler:Mai and Ty Lee did]], Azula has to be ready on the fly with another plan or else she finds herself in some huge trouble. |
| 46 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She strives to eventually become the Fire Lord, which drives her ambition, perfectionism and cruelty. [[spoiler:In the finale she's named Fire Lord by Ozai...only for Ozai to crown himself Phoenix King over the entire world, making the role of Fire Lord a ceremonial title. This contributes to her severe VillainousBreakdown in the ending after she mentally snaps.]] |
| 47 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Ty Lee's Beauty and Mai's Brawn, being the leader of the group, a Firebending prodigy, and an excellent tactician and strategist. |
| 48 | * BeautyIsBad: She's beautiful, regal, and vicious. |
| 49 | * BeingEvilSucks: All the evil things she's done to impress her abusive father came back to haunt her BIG TIME. |
| 50 | * BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:Azula pretends to be cold and uncaring like her father was to mask the pain of being shunned by her mother. Come the final episode, Azula reveals herself as a very lonely child looking to be loved and and have friends she can trust. When she watches Katara revive Zuko, she once again gets to see he get the one thing she feels she never can have, and fully breaks.]] |
| 51 | * BigBad: She's TheHeavy of Book 2, leading the invasion of Ba Sing Se. [[spoiler:With her father defeated she becomes a full DragonAscendant in ''The Search'' and ''Smoke and Shadow'' comic trilogies, hunting down her mother in the former and acting as the mastermind behind the fake Kemurikage, the New Ozai Society, and the child kidnappings in the latter.]] |
| 52 | * BigEgoHiddenDepths: Azula is haughty, cruel and outright violent. However, it is due of being a ChildProdigy whose early-staged sociopathy was encouraged by her [[AbusiveDad abusive]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] father, who only thought of her as his own personal weapon. Even as a child, her mother's favoritism of Zuko and the fact she thought she was a monster [[IAmAMonster (according to Azula)]], shows that she's a fragile and deeply insecure girl deep down, and all of her actions are due to her [[WellDoneDaughterGal trying make her father proud]] and [[IJustWantToBeLoved get the love she lacked from her mother]]. [[spoiler:When he betrays her in the finale, she undergoes a saddening VillainousBreakdown]]. |
| 53 | * BigSisterBully: {{Inverted|Trope}}. She is the little sister who sadistically and psychologically bullies her more kindhearted big brother. |
| 54 | * BitchAlert: Her first full episode at the beginning of Book Two revels in her malicious, delicious, world-class bitchiness. Her introduction has her threaten to harm or kill the captain of her ship ''and'' her "friend" Ty Lee, all while dripping poisoned honey from her lips. One wonders if perhaps 'Azula' translates to 'Bitch Alert'... |
| 55 | * BlatantLies: During "The Headband", Azula travels up the side of a mountain to where Zuko and Mai are having a little snuggle time to tell Mai Ty Lee is having trouble untangling her braids. Yeah. Mai is aware of how blatant the lie is, given she shoots Azula a DeathGlare as she's leaving, she just doesn't call it. |
| 56 | ** She tells Toph one, just to demonstrate how good she is at hiding the physiological signs of lying that Toph is [[LivingLieDetector normally very talented at picking up on]]. |
| 57 | ---> '''Azula''': I am a 400 ft tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings. |
| 58 | ---> '''Toph''': Okay you're good, I admit it. |
| 59 | * BloodKnight: Has shades of this; Azula revels in a good challenge either on the battlefield or in the court, and is often seen smirking when she gains the upper hand. |
| 60 | * BoundAndGagged: Not gagged, but she is ''literally'' defeated by being tied up. |
| 61 | * BrattyHalfPint: Even as a child, Azula was known to be cruel, manipulative, and downright disturbing. |
| 62 | * BreakTheCutie: Even when she is AxCrazy, Azula qualifies for this especially after her MommyIssues are revealed. She may not look like it at all considering how calm she is throughout the series, she's only ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook fourteen]]'' years old. She only wanted to be loved by her parents and friends, and after she realizes that it's not true, she begins to sob, up to the point Zuko and ''Katara'' aren't happy after defeating her. |
| 63 | * BreakTheHaughty: She suffers a rather magnificent [[spoiler:(read "psychotic")]] break. In the finale episode, Ozai [[spoiler:names her Fire Lord like she wanted- but then crowns himself Phoenix King, basically making her a puppet ruler.]] She begins [[spoiler:losing her mind, seeing visions of her MissingMom, chopping off hanks of her hair, banishing almost all of her servants at random, and eventually challenges Zuko to ''Agni Kai'', a firebending duel. She loses (eventually being defeated and captured by Katara), snaps completely, and it is later revealed that she is now in an asylum.]] |
| 64 | * BrokenAce: Though she doesn't really bother with the good publicity part of VillainWithGoodPublicity, she still fits. She's beautiful, extraordinarily talented and extremely intelligent, even if she ''is'' DaddysLittleVillain, but most of her exterior aloofness and obsession with power stems from being desperate to ignore how AxCrazy she is thanks to her thinking/knowing that her mother didn't love her, at least not as much as she loved Zuko. She has some serious issues with perfectionism, thanks to her desperation to win her father's favor and get attention from at least ''one'' of her parents. Same inside, same overcompensation, different shell. In ''The Search'', she starts hallucinating visions of her mother regularly, and her only goal at this point (and the reason she went along with Zuko in the first place) is to find and kill Ursa. By the end of Part 3, [[spoiler:she might potentially be on the road to recovery. She had an easy chance to kill Ursa (who didn't know she was Ursa at the time...ItMakesSenseInContext) but Zuko was able to talk her down and she left on her own accord]]. Now, if she finds out what Ursa actually did to lead them to that point...she might snap again, potentially justified in doing so. |
| 65 | * BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Her VillainousBreakdown demonstrates that she's been broken for a while, but tried to hold it back until a significant enough strike: Mai and Ty Lee's betrayal, compounded by her father's decision to leave her behind while he exacts ''her'' plan.]] |
| 66 | * BrokenTears: [[spoiler:She does this at the end of her VillainousBreakdown, spitting blue fire and thrashing around in the chains Katara put her in, before breaking down into sobbing, desperate tears. Katara and Zuko can barely watch.]] |
| 67 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Similar to her brother and uncle, bending or no-bending, she is a fearsome fighter who can hold her own very well against her foes even without her bending. |
| 68 | * CainAndAbel: The Cain To Zuko's Abel because of her AxCrazy. This is highlighted after [[spoiler:his HeelFaceTurn]]. On one of the occasions where she outright attempts to kill him, she shouts, "I'm about to celebrate becoming an only child!" |
| 69 | * TheCaligula: Already unstable following [[spoiler:the [[HeelFaceTurn betrayal]] of [[EtTuBrute Mai and Ty Lee]]]] at the Boiling Rock, she falls quickly into paranoia and fits of rage after [[spoiler:Ozai promotes her to Fire Lord]], banishing servants and guardsmen from the country in droves and hallucinating about [[spoiler:her MissingMom, Princess Ursa]]. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:[[EvilOverlord Ozai]] made himself the [[AGodAmI Phoenix King]] when he crowned her, effectively making her position as Fire Lord meaningless. So while she would rule the Fire Nation, Ozai would rule ''the world''.]] |
| 70 | * CerebusRetcon: In "The Beach", Azula fails in spectacular ways to socialize normally like other kids. However, [[spoiler:the defection of Zuko and the betrayal of Mai and Ty Lee]] is a massive blow to her beliefs and philosophies she was trained into believing in despite the normal ways she "converses" through fear and manipulation, which begins her [[spoiler:SanitySlippage into a VillainousBreakdown]]. Suddenly, you look back at this episode and realize that her inability to socialize messed her up far heavier than implied. |
| 71 | * CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: By the time of the Smoke and Shadow trilogy, not only is she a lot more mentally stable, but she has also reevaluated where her mentality has gotten her up to this point:]] |
| 72 | ** [[spoiler: She is no longer dependent on her father's approval, having abandoned all loyalty to him and using her intentions of freeing him merely as a facade in order to manipulate and keep the trust of the Ozai Loyalists.]] |
| 73 | ** [[spoiler: In addition, she allowed herself to open up more to others than ever before rather than trying to gain obedience through fear and intimidation, describing her new comrades as "sisters" and openly telling Zuko of her schemes. By the end of the trilogy, her allies are still with her compared to Mai and Ty Lee who eventually turned against her.]] |
| 74 | ** [[spoiler: Although still somewhat unhinged and obsessed with controlling others, Azula realized that she could rule through Zuko and thereby share the burden of being Fire Lord with him; this contrasts against her original approach for trying to gain absolute power which eventually led to her breakdown, this results in Azula overcoming multiple insecurities she has and feeling freer than ever before.]] |
| 75 | ** [[spoiler: By extension, her opinion of Zuko has also improved to some extent: Although still cruel and conniving, she insists that he has the abilities to be "strong" like herself and apparently wants to rule as Fire Lord alongside him in the shadows. Observing Zuko's public apology to the citizenry, Azula remained smug, confident that he would eventually come around to her way of thinking.]] |
| 76 | * ChekhovsGunman: In the flashback showing how Zuko got his scar, she can be seen in the crowd near Iroh and Zhao looking disturbingly pleased. Also, during Katara's opening narration, Azula is the firebender. |
| 77 | * TheChessmaster: At only 14 years old, she comes up with a plan that, within 48 hours, successfully conquers a city that had remained standing for a century. |
| 78 | * ChildhoodFriends: With Mai and Ty Lee. They pulled pranks in a flashback and there's a casual line about finishing school. |
| 79 | * ChildProdigy: A firebending master and tactical genius before she was a teenager. Her father brags that she is this to her grandfather. She later becomes a TeenGenius. |
| 80 | * ChildSoldier: Though she doesn't quite fit the mold of one, Azula was trained and groomed from the age of nine to be a powerful warrior and strategist. At the age of fourteen she was sent out into enemy territory to capture her traitorous brother and uncle, fought enemy combatants [[spoiler:and later enacted a coup to take said territory, as well as act as a decoy for her father on the Day of Black Sun]]. While her love of battle and victory makes her less sympathetic than the archetype usually warrants, this upbringing ends up severely stunting her social skills, and the worldview of fear and control leaves her with a deep self loathing which eventually breaks her. |
| 81 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Every time Azula forms an alliance with someone, she betrays them. She did this to Long Feng, then later, [[spoiler:Team Avatar]]. |
| 82 | %%zce* ClassicVillain: Representing Ambition and Pride. Just like her father. |
| 83 | * ColorMotifs: Blue - her uniquely-colored flames represent her prodigious power [[note]] blue fire burns hotter than orange fire [[/note]] and her cold, calculating personality. [[MeaningfulName Her name is also derived from "Azul," the Spanish word for "Blue."]] |
| 84 | * CombatAestheticist: To Azula, warfare is just another form of art for her to study, and perfect. |
| 85 | * CombatPragmatist: One of the traits that makes Azula so dangerous. She shot Iroh when she noticed he was distracted by Aang, she had no qualms about blasting Aang in mid-transformation sequence, and she took advantage of Katara's presence during the final Agni Kai with Zuko. |
| 86 | * TheComicallySerious: In ''The Beach'' where she brings the same intensity to a volleyball game as combat. |
| 87 | * CompressedHair: Looking at the picture on this page, you'd assume reasonably short hair. Once that topknot comes undone, she has hair stemming to her waist. One would think she compresses the rest in her armor, but she doesn't! |
| 88 | * ConspiracyTheorist: In ''The Search'', she's only (barely) able to function after her VillainousBreakdown in the series finale by blaming everything wrong with her life on an imaginary conspiracy orchestrated by her mother Ursa. This easily goes past InsaneTrollLogic as she clearly assumes that everyone is answering to Ursa. |
| 89 | * ConsummateLiar: She lies to everyone about everything and is good enough to say she's "a four-hundred foot tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings" and be immune to [[DisabilitySuperpower Toph's]] LivingLieDetector abilities. The most spectacular is when she managed to infiltrate Ba Sing Se and conquer the city in a few days (something which the Fire Nation had been trying and failing to do for 100 years) using nothing but lies and manipulations. Unfortunately, she couldn't successfully lie to ''herself'', [[spoiler:which resulted in her VillainousBreakdown.]] |
| 90 | * ContemplativeBoss: Azula is often shown looking out at the distance while speaking to her soldiers. |
| 91 | * ControlFreak: Basically, she sees the world as a game and the people around her as the pieces in it; she manipulates them and she expect them to behave accordingly. Ultimately, her biggest weakness is that she can't handle ''not'' being in control of everything. [[spoiler:When Mai and Ty Lee, the people she thought she had the most control over, turn against her, the shell cracks off the nut, and her until then relatively subdued madness comes to the forefront and turns into full-blown paranoia, leading her to banish, well, ''everyone'' around her for imagined slights and plots against her. Finally, when there's no one around for her to control, she loses it and enters her VillainousBreakdown.]] |
| 92 | * TheCorrupter: She uses her manipulation to [[spoiler:pull Zuko away from his HeelFaceTurn despite Iroh's attempts to pull him the other way.]] |
| 93 | * CreepyChild: A 9-year-old Azula in a flashback episode displays these traits, doing things such as burning a doll (a gift from her uncle), mocking her uncle's sorrow about his son's death, and hoping for his death as well as her grandfather's so her father can get on the throne. Her mother speaks for everyone when she wonders "What is wrong with that child?" Creepier than all of that together is her display of love for her brother: |
| 94 | -->'''Azula:''' ''(singsong voice)'' Dad's gonna kill you! ''(normal voice)'' [[CryingWolf Really, he is…]] |
| 95 | * TheCreon: She expresses a desire to be this to Zuko in ''Smoke and Shadow'', leading him to where advisors to previous Fire Lords are entombed to finish their discussion and fight. She's decided that it ''is'' Zuko's destiny to be Fire Lord, and ''her'' destiny is to be his number two, and help shape him into the Fire Lord she wanted to be. |
| 96 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Azula seems like TheAce since she's a Firebending prodigy and a master strategist, but her upbringing only fostered her talents for combat and violence. She struggles to forge meaningful relationships (Ty Lee seems to be her only genuine friend) and is unable to understand how to motivate people with tools other than fear. |
| 97 | * CryingWolf: When she was about 8 year old, she warned Zuko that Ozai is going to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]]. Zuko refused to believe her because she [[MadnessMantra "always lies"]], but [[spoiler:finds out in "The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse" that she ''wasn't'' lying about it; Ozai ''was'' going to kill Zuko to get the throne. Later still, he finds out their mother intervened and killed her father-in-law with an undetectable poison.]] Also played with; Azula knows Zuko does not trust her. More often than not, Azula tells Zuko ''the truth'' when it's a hard truth he doesn't want to belive, and he tells himself she always lies as a coping mechanism. |
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| 100 | * DaddysGirl: Favored by her father. For her abilities and talent; nothing more. When Azula realized this near the end of the series, she was devastated. |
| 101 | * DaddysLittleVillain: She's Ozai's daughter, almost as cruel as him and looking forward to taking his title for herself. |
| 102 | * DarkActionGirl: She's a powerful, brutal, and vicious fighter. |
| 103 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Azula has severe MommyIssues and was raised by her abusive father to be a {{Tykebomb}}. |
| 104 | * DarkIsEvil: Come Book 3, she starts wearing dark coloured armour and remains the deathly competent and vicious ManipulativeBitch and firebending master she always was. |
| 105 | * ADayInTheLimelight: After [[spoiler:years of being an antagonist (or an on-and-off anti-hero at ''best'') throughout the entire ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' franchise, she takes center stage as the titular protagonist in the graphic novel, ''Azula in the Spirit Temple'']]. |
| 106 | * DayOfTheJackboot: [[spoiler:Attempts to invoke this in ''Smoke and Shadow'' where her actions are intended to make Zuko into the Fire Lord she always wanted to be, ruling through fear and intimidation rather than peace.]] |
| 107 | * DeadGuyJunior: She's named after her paternal grandfather, Fire Lord Azul''on''. |
| 108 | * DeadpanSnarker: It's something she's fond of doing, which may be because of just how emotionally detached she typically is. Still has this attitude in ''The Search'' whenever she's in a more sedated state of mind. |
| 109 | * DeclarationOfPersonalIndependence: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Azula is very proud of herself and her capabilities. A part of the reason that she attaches to Ozai so much is that she wants to feel validated and appreciated for all she can do. [[spoiler:Played Straight after the war. She made it clear to Zuko she cares very little for causes, even her own father’s]]. |
| 110 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Azula deconstructs TheSociopath, FauxAffablyEvil, and CardCarryingVillain. In "The Beach" where she honestly tries not to be evil, the normally super-competent Azula's [[NoSocialSkills utterly clueless how to act]] and drives away a guy she was interested in when she lapses into [[AxCrazy her normal personality]]. It's PlayedForLaughs then, but it later revealed she has serious issues [[IAmAMonster with being viewed as such]] but [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraced it]] because she knew of no other way to get approval. Once [[MachiavelliWasWrong that stops working and alienates everyone she cares about]], she's too far gone to change, [[SanitySlippage gradually breaks]], and end up [[AlasPoorVillain one of the most tragic characters in the series]]. |
| 111 | * DeliberatelyCuteChild: When she was about 8 year old, she'd put on an angelic smile, contrasting with her TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior such as burning a doll her uncle sent her as a gift and cheerfully telling her brother in a sing-song voice that their father was going to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him]]. |
| 112 | * {{Determinator}}: While she lacks her brother's singleminded devotion to his goals, her focus and determination in combat are undeniable. Her focus is so intense that she can lightningbend, a technique that requires clarity of mind, [[spoiler:in the middle of a ''[[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]'']]. |
| 113 | %%zce* DiabolusExMachina: She occasionally seems to know things she should have no way of knowing. |
| 114 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: At the end of Book 2, [[spoiler:while Aang is rising into the air in the Avatar State after finally unlocking the final chakra, she shot down Aang with a bolt of lightning straight to the back, which nearly killed him (dying in the Avatar State would break the cycle of reincarnation).]] |
| 115 | * DidntSeeThatComing: Azula "miscalculated" one thing, possibly in her life: [[spoiler:[[EvilCannotComprehendGood Mai's loyalty to Zuko]].]] |
| 116 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Azula, for all her intellect, never rubs two brain cells together and wonders why treading the path of the "monster" means she can't have any friends with her or that anybody would respect her for it. Unlike her brother, she never introspects on this, and it begins to create an inescapable conflict in her mind, which leads to her breakdown by series' end. |
| 117 | * TheDragon: To Ozai as his favored child and heir, who takes over the hunt for the Avatar after her brother's continued failures and Zhao's defeat. |
| 118 | * DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:To some extent in ''The Search'', when her father is imprisoned and she becomes the main antagonist of the story]]. [[spoiler:Fully achieved in ''Smoke and Shadow''. She’s completely struck out on her own, isn’t looking for daddy’s approval anymore and doesn’t even plan to release him from jail]]. |
| 119 | * TheDreaded: Being a Machiavellian-style tactical genius, she deliberately goes out of her way to solidify this image of herself, believing in manipulation through fear and might. For much of the series, it works spectacularly, with even her [[RetiredBadass Uncle Iroh]] showing fear at the idea of being in her clutches, and leading to her turning an entire GovernmentConspiracy group against their leader through sheer intimidation and force of personality alone. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, it stops working when Mai's love for Zuko, and Ty Lee's friendship with Mai, become stronger than their fear of her.]] |
| 120 | -->'''Zuko''': If the Earth Kingdom discovers us, they'll have us killed.\ |
| 121 | '''Iroh''': But if the Fire Nation discovers us, we'll be turned over to Azula.\ |
| 122 | ''*beat*''\ |
| 123 | '''Zuko''': Earth Kingdom it is. |
| 124 | * DrivenByEnvy: [[WordOfGod Bryan]] has stated that her jealousy for Zuko, as well as her repressed emotions, drove her to become evil. |
| 125 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: [[spoiler:Her VillainousBreakdown was partly brought about by Azula receiving this from her father. "You can't treat me like this. You can't treat me like Zuko!"]] |
| 126 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Twice: |
| 127 | ** She is the firebender that appears in the opening sequence. |
| 128 | ** In "The Storm", during the flashback scene depicting Zuko's confrontation with his father, a young Azula stands near Iroh along with Zhao. Her identity isn't revealed until the season finale eight episodes later, [[spoiler:but her sadism is already apparent as she watches her brother get abused and banished.]] |
| 129 | * ElementalMotifs: Fire, though she is unique amongst [[PlayingWithFire Firebenders]] thanks to her [[TechnicolorFire blue flames]], which reflect both her status as a Firebending prodigy as well as her cold, calculative nature. |
| 130 | * EmbodimentOfVice: Domination, being a ControlFreak who cannot stand not being on top of things or people doing anything other than what she expects them to, whether through direct orders or manipulation (which she [[ManipulativeBitch is]] ''[[ManipulativeBitch very]]'' [[ManipulativeBitch good at]]). [[spoiler:Mai openly defying her by saving Zuko's life sets off her first VillainousBreakdown]]. |
| 131 | * EnemyWithin: {{Downplayed|Trope}}: ''The Search'' was more prominent of this trope; but the comics and later adventures involving Azula show the Gaang less at war with Azula personally (though Sokka doesn't trust her one bit) and more of dealing with whatever scheme/plan her half-insane brain came up with. To Zuko, this is his greatest opponent before he can truly reconnect with Azula. Until he can ease her pain and she can get help for her mental health issues; any attempt he makes to better their relationship will be undone by her paranoia. |
| 132 | * EnfantTerrible: When she was about 8 year old, she skillfully combined an [[DeliberatelyCuteChild angelic smile]] with TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior (read: smirking at her grandfather's funeral and telling her brother that their father is going to kill him, the latter of which was sadly true). |
| 133 | -->'''Azula:''' My own mother thought I was a monster. She was right, of course, but it still hurt. |
| 134 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: During her coup of Ba Sing Se, Azula gets a chance to command the Dai Li and despite the fact that they are earthbenders, she loves their killer instinct, which she describes as "so firebender," and gladly steals control of them from Long Feng completely and retains her command over them well through Book 3. |
| 135 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Three of them. Firstly in the backstory sequence in "The Storm", before the audience knows her identity, when she is seen reacting with sadistic glee when her father burns her brother's face. Secondly, her first scene with dialogue, in "The Avatar State", where she threatens to invoke YouHaveFailedMe on her ship's captain just because he wanted to wait for favourable tides before entering harbour. Thirdly, her firebending practice scene, wherein she successfully performs [[ShockAndAwe lightning-bending]], being one of only three people who can do so, almost perfectly, with just one hair out of place. Azula gets angry and says that "almost perfect isn't good enough!" [[spoiler:Later, when she had her first really big failure (Mai and Ty Lee's betrayal), she totally loses it, and her VillainousBreakdown is characterized by an ImportantHaircut and her hair becoming messy.]] |
| 136 | * EtTuBrute: In "The Boiling Rock: Part 2", [[spoiler:her spiral down into [[VillainousBreakdown complete insanity]] starts when Mai and Ty Lee betray her]]. Then "Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King" has [[spoiler:Ozai, the last person she trusts, essentially abandoning her so he can achieve world domination alone. Her breakdown complete, she no longer cares about anyone or anything and simply does as she wishes]]. |
| 137 | * EvenBadWomenLoveTheirMamas: |
| 138 | ** She's just as much as a WellDoneDaughterGirl as Zuko is a WellDoneSonGuy. This very trope highlights the ultimate difference between Ozai and Azula: Azula ''thinks'' she can be like her father and emulates him, his cruelty, and his philosophies...but ''never realizes why his ideas work for him and not her''. Ozai's mentality only works because he has no friends, no love for his family at all (not even Azula) and thus, no problems eradicating people at the blink of an eye or dealing with a traitor in his ranks. Betrayal means nothing but a swift death for the traitor. Azula, however, cannot stomach betrayal at all and becomes unhinged quickly at being betrayed by anyone. In turn, this leads her to a life of paranoia, constantly thinking there's a knife to her back or an arrow aimed at her head. Azula's (admittedly twisted) love for her brother and (at the time) trust in her friends makes her a complete contradiction to what she professed she wants. |
| 139 | ** A ''very'' twisted example of this trope. A prominent antagonist has a VillainousBreakdown in the GrandFinale, hallucinating a vision of her MissingMom. Mommy issues are exposed, leading to a VillainousBreakdown. |
| 140 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 141 | ** She might genuinely love Ty Lee and Mai, though her feelings are twisted due to [[AbusiveDad Ozai's]] teachings. There's also the situation with her mother; it's possible that she seeks her love but between the constant neglect by Ursa (from her perspective, though we learn in ''The Search'' why Azula couldn't be doted on like Zuko) and the notion that Azula realizes her own cruelty streak, she simply doesn't understand how Ursa can love someone like her, or anyone for that matter. Azula has no problems when being feared, even by subordinates. But, when she feels that fear towards her turn to raw hate (doubly so by friends and family), she expresses concern that she's the problem and tries to convince herself that it's not the case. Thankfully; Zuko does state in ''The Search'' that no matter how bad and messed up their family is, he'll never turn his back on her. |
| 142 | ** [[WordOfGod Aaron Ehasz says]] that Azula truly does love Zuko, possibly more than she does anyone else in the series, save Ozai (not that we ever see it); but it's also matched with an intense jealousy of Zuko because he got their mother's attention. |
| 143 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 144 | ** Quickly recants her statement when she makes Ty Lee cry. But then, [[ConsummateLiar given that it's Azula]], it might just be an act. |
| 145 | ** While Azula is as ruthless as her father and a self-styled monster, she's never killed her subordinates in the series. In fact, even at her craziest, she simply banishes instead of killing. |
| 146 | ** She also doesn't kill those who she has beaten and captured, sparing the lives of the Kyoshi warriors and of Katara after Ty Lee chi-blocked her in the Earth King's palace. In addition, aside from her shooting Aang with lightning while he was entering the Avatar state, her coup in Ba Sing Se was bloodless with no military or civilian casualty. |
| 147 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: This is one of Azula's {{Fatal Flaw}}s: |
| 148 | ** Being the resident [[ManipulativeBitch "people person"]] and [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]], she finds herself completely bewildered when [[spoiler:her {{sidekick}}, Mai, risks her life to help the {{Turncoat}} Zuko escape TheAlcatraz]]. This moment of her inability to comprehend that love can trump self-preservation and loyalty born of intimidation has limits, flying in the face of her philosophy that "fear is the only reliable way" to control people, is actually the first step down the road towards her epic VillainousBreakdown. However, she's at least able to learn from this mistake and apply it to her strategy in the GrandFinale (while she was in the middle of said breakdown no less). |
| 149 | --->'''Azula:''' [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove The thing I don't understand is]] ''[[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove why]]''. Why would you do it? [[YouHaveFailedMe You know the consequences.]]\ |
| 150 | [[spoiler:'''Mai:''' I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do. You miscalculated. [[ThePowerOfLove I love Zuko]] more [[MachiavelliWasWrong than I fear you]].]]\ |
| 151 | [[spoiler:'''Azula:''' No, ''you'' miscalculated! You should have feared me ''more''!]] |
| 152 | ** In "The Beach", Mai, Ty Lee, Zuko, and Azula all take turns confessing their problems and helping each other talk through their issues. When it's over, Zuko and Mai have reconciled over an argument they had and Ty Lee feels cleansed. Azula compliments them on their great "acting", treating the entire thing like it was a show. It's obvious she's using sarcasm as a defense mechanism. |
| 153 | ** The comics have this continue for her. In ''The Search'', Azula can't fathom why her mother would want her because of her long-standing cruel streak. ''Smoke and Shadow'' plays with this differently in that [[spoiler:she thinks like she did in the old ways, that of fear and terror being the only way to rule; yet hasn't pursued revenge against the friends that betrayed her or her brother who claimed the throne (going as far to say she supports him...in her own twisted way of support)]]. |
| 154 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 155 | ** There are numerous parallels between [[TeamMom Katara]] and Azula: roughly the same [[ImprobableAge age]], they are both the daughters of leaders with leadership skills of their own, both [[TheGift powerful and talented]] prodigies with their elements, both at least occasionally overbearing control freaks and possessed of a dangerous temper when provoked. On opposite lines of the RedOniBlueOni divide they may be, but taking into account their fathers' personalities/influences they are far more alike than one may think. |
| 156 | ** Azula also serves as an Evil Counterpart to both Zuko and Iroh. As Zuko's, she shows what he could have been if he really did have everything he ''thinks'' that he wants ([[TheChessmaster plus the ruthless, strategic way she manipulates people]]). As Iroh's, [[TheCorrupter she tries to steer Zuko down the wrong path rather than the right one.]] This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a dream sequence Zuko has, in which he is being consulted by a red dragon and a blue dragon on which path to take in life, good or evil. The red dragon, who advocates good, has Iroh's voice, while the blue, who advocates evil, has Azula's. This situation comes true in Season Two's finale, in which Zuko [[spoiler:chooses Azula's way]], only to regret it. |
| 157 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Usually the jokes she makes at Zuko's expense. |
| 158 | * EvilIsBurningHot: Sympathetic traits aside, she's second only to her father in terms of being the evilest character on the show, and she's a master [[PlayingWithFire Firebender]] too. |
| 159 | * EvilIsHammy: |
| 160 | ** "The Beach". |
| 161 | --->'''Azula:''' "[[SeriousBusiness We have DEFEATED you for ALL TIME]]! [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating You will NEVER rise from the ASHES of your SHAME and HUMILIATION!]] {{beat}} Well, that was fun."\ |
| 162 | "Together, you and I will be the [[BattleCouple strongest couple]] in the entire world! We will [[TakeOverTheWorld DOMINATE THE EARTH]]!" |
| 163 | ** "The Southern Raiders" as well: |
| 164 | --->'''Zuko''': What are you doing here, Azula?\ |
| 165 | '''Azula''': Isn't it obvious?! [[ImpliedDeathThreat I'm about to celebrate becoming an only child!]] |
| 166 | * EvilNiece: To Uncle Iroh. While he's her brother's MoralityPet, Azula dismisses his existence and sees him as a shame and failure to the Fire Nation, and is dead set on capturing him or killing him when she has the chance. |
| 167 | * EvilPlan: Azula is fond of using plans to achieve her ends. Many of them are [[BatmanGambit based on what her mark is invested in and would reliably do]]. |
| 168 | * TheEvilPrincess: [[spoiler:Since being given the throne by her father and losing an Agni Kai for the throne did not fare well for her, Azula plots to kill her mother and incriminate Zuko as illegitimate to take the throne.]] |
| 169 | * ExhaustedEyeBags: In the second to last episode, when she's banishing people left and right, she's rocking a pair of these. In the comics, these appear with her wide eyes and shrunken irises to indicate the "lunatic" part of her personality is emerging. |
| 170 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: This happens to Azula in season 3, [[spoiler:the haircut is self-inflicted, and it gets worse with a disheveling during her climactic battle.]] |
| 171 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A sweet and innocent-looking girl that hides a cunning, manipulative, self-proclaimed monster within. She gets it from her father. |
| 172 | * FallenPrincess: She started out as a beautiful and talented princess who drove herself to become [[DaddysLittleVillain the most perfect daughter]] that an EvilOverlord could wish for. She was the AlphaBitch of a GirlPosse who basically served as her QuirkyMinibossSquad; together, they were capable of conquering an enemy city that had eluded the Fire Nation's best generals, including her own uncle, thanks to her brilliant strategic mind. Yet, she had NoSocialSkills, so she literally could not act normally around anyone, not even her family or her friends. In the end, even the GirlPosse did not want to be around her, and she went into a tragic and terrifying [[VillainousBreakdown downward spiral]] that left her institutionalized in a mental asylum, straitjacket and all. Unlike other examples, she averts the point of the trope. She doesn't try to bond with Team Avatar and constantly seeks her own goals and ambitions and still carries herself around with a haughty attitude. |
| 173 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 174 | ** Her belief that people can be controlled through fear alone proved to be a mistake, as did her trust in the few people whose approval she seemed to want. [[spoiler:Her mother was worried about her, which she perceived as not loving her while Ty Lee and Mai only feared her, and turn on her when she threatens those they care about. Finally, her father only considered her a tool, which was the last straw in setting off her VillainousBreakdown]]. |
| 175 | ** The weaker her sanity is, the less grasp she has on firebending basics in the interest of going for the kill. The final Agni Kai was the perfect example of this. When squaring off against Zuko, she went full out on offensive while Zuko stuck to the basics and regulated his breathing. As a consequence, Azula was near exhausted and low on power because she was gasping for Air while Zuko had plenty more to give. |
| 176 | ** Azula gives 100% to each and every aspect of her life. All the time. This ends up making her normal or relatively positive traits to take on a more sinister outcome. Take her ControlFreak nature. While everybody likes to have some control in their lives, Azula takes it too far and ends up trying to maintain her control through controlling and manipulating others; which ends up making her hard to deal with. |
| 177 | ** Azula is very good at coming up with plans where she can predict everything. She's far less good at modifying those plans when an unexpected factor shows, or improvising. All of Azula's defeats are from surprises, like the Gaang showing up in "The Chase", the Gaang showing up in "The Drill", [[spoiler: and she is ultimately defeated by Katara coming up with an IndyPloy when they fight.]] |
| 178 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She is perfectly capable of acting polite as a manipulation tactic, with the keyword being "acting", giving a far more sinister edge to almost everything she says. This actually is shown off as both an advantage and a crippling flaw, as outside of situations where she needs to play her opponents like puppets, [[NoSocialSkills she is utterly clueless as to how to act]]. |
| 179 | * FemmeFatalons: She has long fingernails, though she later cuts them. She also uses the slashing motion in combat in her first episode, giving Zuko three nice straight scars. |
| 180 | * FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Very much so. Azula's mother is a kind, soft-hearted, nurturing, and caring lady, in stark contrast to Azula's ruthless, brutal, aggressive, and sometimes downright psychotic nature. |
| 181 | * FieryStoic: Azula, who is also a firebender, is a subversion. Unlike Zuko (who is more emotional), she initially appears calm and methodical, but later becomes more unstable and temperamental following her SanitySlippage. |
| 182 | * TheFightingNarcissist: She takes as much {{pride}} in her appearance as in her fighting style. |
| 183 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 184 | ** Upon her introduction, she's one for Zuko because she embodies what he wishes he could be: a masterfully skilled Firebender who has their father's approval. Come the end of Season 3, the siblings still mirror each other, but in different ways than before. [[spoiler:Zuko decides to let go of seeking his father's approval, rejects the Fire Nation's TakeOverTheWorld policy, and finds new friends by joining Team Avatar. As a result, he becomes a much more mentally-healthy individual and a more powerful firebender to boot. Azula, on the other hand, continues to embrace her drives, only for her posse to finally get fed up with and abandon her, while her father all but discards her in spite of her loyalty to him. As a result, she goes ''utterly'' insane, representing what Zuko would've become if he didn't have Iroh to guide or trust in him.]] |
| 185 | ** She's also one to Katara: they're both 14-year old bending prodigies who lost their mothers at a young age, but the different environments in which they were raised put them on very different paths. Azula is the princess of the most dangerous country on the planet, while Katara is the chief's daughter of the most backwater kingdom on the planet. Azula sees people as nothing more than tools used to further her goals, Katara is an AllLovingHero. Their relationships with their families also highlight this: Azula obsessively seeks her emotionally-abusive father's approval and views her brother Zuko as, at best, another pawn to manipulate. Katara on the other hand, has her ups-and-downs with both her father and her brother, but it's clear that they love each other. Fittingly, Azula and Katara's final battles in the series are against each other. |
| 186 | ** To Suki, as both of them are leaders of a group of female warriors, but Suki cares for her fellow Kyoshi Warriors and sees them as her sisters and want to help people and later Fire Lord Zuko. While Azula only sees her Fire Warriors as disposable, not caring when one of them is captured by Ty Lee and the royal guards and also uses them to desestabilize the Fire Nation and overthrow her brother. |
| 187 | * ForceAndFinesse: Zuko is the force to her finesse, being physically powerful, emotionally driven, which drives his attacks, and keeping up with Aang mostly through [[{{Determinator}} doggedly tracking his every move]], whereas she favours a more precise, agility based fighting style while manipulating everyone and everything around her to her advantage in and out of a fight. Their positions switch by the series finale, with her SanitySlippage causing her to go for large scale attacks that leave her wiped while his [[CharacterDevelopment new perspective]] has him calmly deflect everything she throws at him. |
| 188 | * ForTheEvulz: She just enjoys messing with people and especially Zuko. If she can do something, she'll go the extra mile to [[KickTheDog screw with somebody]] while doing it. |
| 189 | -->'''Zuko''': Why'd you do it?\ |
| 190 | '''Azula''': [[ButForMeItWasTuesday You're going to have to be a little more specific.]] |
| 191 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[TheChessmaster Choleric]]. She’s sharp-tongued, assertive, intelligent, fiery (literally), bitter and resentful. |
| 192 | * FragileSpeedster: She seems to fall under this as well. She's usually too quick for Team Avatar, but on the few occasions they manage to land a blow, she gets knocked back pretty hard. |
| 193 | * FreudianExcuse: Dear god, Azula's upbringing could've been the centerpiece of many a behavioral psychiatrist's carriers. |
| 194 | ** A sincere belief her mother never loved her and considered her a monster, combined with a father who was a psychotic, {{manipulative|bastard}}, emotionally {{abusive|dad}} monster who encouraged her to be a monster so she'd be more useful to him that way. In the end, she's shown to be deeply insecure about anyone loving her. [[WordOfGod Bryan]] also has stated that growing up in a royal family of a nation seeking to TakeOverTheWorld worsened her problems. |
| 195 | ** Her parents' abusive relationship also didn't help. As a child, Azula showed that she inherited some of Ozai's sadistic tendencies early, which made her a favorite in Ozai's eyes, whereas Ursa tried to discipline her for those same tendencies. This left her with the constant pull and push of one parent who tried to make her ''more'' sadistic and one parent who had a functioning moral compass. This more or less led to her having a desire for positive relationships while also having no idea how to accomplish that. |
| 196 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite having clear psychological issues stemming from a lack of family love in Season 3, Azula isn't let off the hook for her actions. Mai and Ty Lee easily turn on her despite hearing her FreudianExcuse at Ember Island because they do not really see her as a friend in need, and Uncle Iroh flat out states she's crazy and needs to go down. This all reaches to a pinnacle in ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAzulaInTheSpiritTemple Azula in the Spirit Temple]]'' where the dream spirit declares Azula to be [[YouMonster a monster]] not because of how others have treated her, but because of [[NeverMyFault her refusal to accept responsibility]] or [[RedemptionRejection seek redemption]]. |
| 197 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: It becomes clear that neither Mai or Ty Lee actually ''like'' Azula all that much, but simply follow her out of fear. However, it turns out [[spoiler:both of them have principles that outweigh their fear of Azula, causing them both to turn on her]]. Which for Azula... hurt her harder than she really thought it would have. |
| 198 | * TheGadfly: Whenever her ploys aren't steeped in fear; she's this. Azula loves to break balls. |
| 199 | * GambitRoulette: Her plan to take over the Earth Kingdom is essentially this. The basic idea of it is taking over the Dai Li, and to do that she has Mai and Ty Lee openly talk about being from Fire Nation, which leads to them capturing her, and she's taken to Long Feng, and he strikes a deal with her where they help each other since she has the Earth King's trust since Azula is disguised as a Kyoshi Warrior, and she's allowed to take control of the Dai Li, and leads them for just long enough to get their loyalty. This could backfire in so many ways, like the Dai Li could capture her without trying to start a deal so she, Ty Lee and Mai would be imprisoned with no way to escape, they could start a deal but she wouldn't be allowed to lead them, or she could be allowed to lead them but the Dai Li could ultimately choose to not side with her. Essentially her entire plan relied completely on taking over the Dai Li, with a bunch of ways to fail, and there were no backups at all. |
| 200 | * GamerChick: Yes, [[http://www.mangaeden.com/en-manga/avatar-the-last-airbender---the-lost-adventures/18/2/ really]]. |
| 201 | -->'''Azula''': A princess has to lay a firm iron fist upon her subjects, after all. |
| 202 | * TheGift: The primary reason she was [[DaddysGirl favored by her father so much]]. Azula’s gift with firebending was evident in her earliest childhood, to the point of completing advanced forms by the time she was eight, mastering the element itself before she was a teenager, and perfecting lightning by the time she was fourteen. She also developed blue fire at some point in her childhood — marking the only other instance of colored fire in the history of firebenders, barring her older brother Zuko, who would briefly produce colorful fire in order to rescue his mother and half-sister Kiyi, and the dragons themselves. |
| 203 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Played straight during her short reign as Fire Lord. {{Justified|Trope}} by her being in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown, but it's not like she was a nice person to begin with either. She was the fourth in a BigScrewedUpFamily, and her (male) predecessors were all evil too. |
| 204 | * GoGetterGirl: She is a good example of why this is a bad thing to be if you grow up in an environment that fosters inhumanity, cut-throat competition, and sheer unbridled ''ruthlessness''. Not only does meeting people's expectations in this case mean being an abominable human being, but [[spoiler:the need to throw friendship, love, and morality itself aside in the name of obedience and ambition is enough to cause mental instability at the first hint of a true setback]]. |
| 205 | * GrapesOfLuxury: During the GrandFinale, she gives this a try while initially enjoying her new power but it soon becomes apparent that she has been brought up to conquer, not to rule... |
| 206 | * GreenEyedMonster: |
| 207 | ** In the "Beach" episode, she admits that she's jealous of Ty Lee's ability to naturally attract guys. Considering that she has NoSocialSkills ([[ManipulativeBitch or at least no POSITIVE ones]]), it's understandable why she has a hard time getting guys to warm up to her. |
| 208 | ** It's never said because she won't admit it, but WordOfGod said that she's also very jealous of Zuko. Makes sense when you think about it. Azula may have had her father's attention, but Zuko got what mattered in life compared to her. Zuko got their mother's love (''The Search'' reveals exactly why she couldn't dote on Azula more though), Iroh's love (this one she doesn't care about much), [[spoiler:Mai's love and trust]], and friends that would watch his back like family would. Then; [[spoiler:The one thing she thought she had, her father's love, was proven false when Ozai essentially kicked her back to the Fire Nation when he went on his plan.]] With everything she lost, the only thing she had left was her Fire Lord title, then Zuko shows up with Katara and takes that too. Azula worked hard for what she wanted, but it still didn't matter because Zuko managed to get and take everything from her. |
| 209 | * GuestFighter: She was added to ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' in 2021 as a skin for [[Myth/PacificMythology Pele]]. |
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| 212 | * HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to set her off, especially during her VillainousBreakdown. |
| 213 | * {{Hallucinations}}: She hallucinates that her mother is talking to her just before the final Agni Kai. As [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200422072136/https://the-firenation-gellary.tumblr.com/post/172830744503/comics-criticism-azulas-portrayal?is_related_post=1 this analysis]] points out, what the hallucinations tell her are inconsistent. In the series, Ursa tells Azula that she feels confused about using fear to control people (that Azula shows guilt about) and doesn't talk or mentioned anything about the throne at all. In the comics, she only tells Azula day and night that the throne is Zuko’s and she should just move on. By ''Smoke and Shadow'', the hallucinations stopped by her accord when she adopted her new plan and focus. |
| 214 | * HardHead: Getting hit in the head by Sokka's boomerange in ''The Search'' only staggers her for a moment. She is so unaffected by it that she doesn't even glance his way after it happens. |
| 215 | * HarmfulToMinors: She was only eleven when she witnessed Zuko suffering torture at their father's hands. Not like she cared. |
| 216 | * HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:She lately has turned to fancy herself as a sort of adviser to Zuko; by which she means to turn Zuko into a ruler that will rule with Fear. Zuko easily brushes off her attempts. While she is still working towards negative ends, we can however see that her "rule through fear" mentality is more of years of damage and teaching through her father (which in RealLife takes YEARS of therapy to undo); and for what it's worth, Azula has regained some degree of sanity and has even begun to care for her half-sister. She's not going to be what she was when we first saw her and she's certainly not all there in the head yet, but for now she's improving herself.]] |
| 217 | * TheHeavy: In Book 2 and most of Book 3 she's the one driving the plot through her confrontations with Aang and Zuko, as Ozai himself is an OrcusOnHisThrone up until the GrandFinale. Even when her father takes a bigger hand in the conflict, Azula remains a very serious threat and arguably the Gaang's most persistent foe in the series. |
| 218 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She begins one at the end of ''The Search'' due to Zuko's brotherly love for her: giving up her goal of killing her mother or taking the throne from him and instead runs off to find a new objective in life...or has she?]] |
| 219 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:While [[BackFromTheDead he got better]], Azula still killed Avatar Aang. Not leaving him for dead like Sozin did, but ''directly'' killing him. This made her, for a time, the one who completely exterminated the Air Nomads.]] |
| 220 | * HeroWithAnFInGood: She is the [[spoiler:prime antagonist of ''Smoke and Shadow''. She orchestrates a plot to kidnap a bunch of children around the fire nation and later reveals herself to be a central figure of the New Ozai rebellion...so she can make Zuko a more decisive Fire Lord and to drain the finances of the revolution group. The fact that her plan needed massive child abduction and treason mixed with Azula's revealed motives can paint this. Ultimately a really extreme case of "Girl's heart is somewhat in the right place, but god only knows where the brain is."]] |
| 221 | * HerOwnWorstEnemy: Why can't therapy work on Azula? She truly cannot believe, understand or fathom why anybody could love her or stand her despite her cruel streak. Even when told otherwise, her psychosis will not let her believe in it or accept any help from anybody. |
| 222 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 223 | ** She's acting like an emotionless, detached villainess all through the series up til the very end, then the pressure of [[spoiler:being crowned Fire Lord]] gets to her. She finally shows some character depth during "The Beach" and eventually starts [[spoiler:undergoing a VillainousBreakdown near the end when she realizes she doesn't have as much control as she thought, which was her way of covering for her emotional insecurities and previous assertion that she did want her mother's love but didn't feel she deserved it.]] |
| 224 | ** Though the martial arts should be a giveaway and it's PlayedForLaughs in the volleyball game; Azula's exceptionally gifted in sports as well. |
| 225 | ** [[spoiler:The context of the hallucinations combined with how badly she takes betrayal such as Mai and Ty Lee's, or when she thought Zuko was angry with her at the beach could heavily imply that despite her tough exterior, Azula may be harboring some massive guilt and remorse about how she acted in the past; but her ego and pride won't allow her to ever apologize for it.]] |
| 226 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Her BatmanGambit in giving Zuko credit for supposedly killing the Avatar backfires badly on her. Her plan was to have Zuko claim credit for something she reasonably assumed he would do, knowing that if Aang were alive he would be the one to face the consequences of lying. Zuko ends up disclaiming the credit and reveals to Ozai that Aang is still alive. This causes Ozai to start distancing himself from Azula, weakening her already fragile mental state and contributing to her VillainousBreakdown in the finale. |
| 227 | * HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Her [[SanitySlippage mind]] was [[VillainousBreakdown slowly broken]] over the course of a series of betrayals. First her brother, then her two closest "friends", and then finally her father's seeming ostracism. Indeed, the second betrayal was the worst, as Mai absolutely ''crushed'' her entire worldview with a single sentence: "[[ThePowerOfLove I love Zuko]] more [[MachiavelliWasWrong than I fear you]]". At last, when she had struck down her brother in a climactic duel, when she finally had the chance to punish her brother and restore some shred of order to her now chaotic world, she was defeated and humiliated. And who defeated one of the greatest Firebenders? Not a seasoned master of a bending art, who had studied for decades. Not by the Avatar himself. Not by a [[LittleMissBadass 12-year-old]] "Greatest Earthbender in the World." Not even by her own brother, whom she'd just struck down [[CombatPragmatist by cheating]]. But by a Southern Water Tribe ''peasant'', who not a year earlier could barely bend a puddle of water. ''On the day of Sozin's Comet'' no less, when her firebending was magnified a hundred fold. In the end, she was hogtied to a grating with chains, soaking wet and left to flail around impotently.]] |
| 228 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Zigzagged in regards to her and Ozai. |
| 229 | ** Azula is [[TheChessmaster far more active]] than him and has more field experience as a result. She can consistently assess her own ability to handle a situation and act accordingly, whereas Ozai's overconfidence in his bending pushed him to fight [[PhysicalGod the Avatar]] by himself and to use lightning even though he should have been able to infer Aang could redirect it, which would have gotten him killed if it wasn't for [[MartialPacifist Aang's values]]. Azula, on the other hand, fought him with several allies and waited for an opening to try and strike him with lightning [[spoiler:effectively killing him and the Avatar's spirit itself if Katara hadn't been able to heal him.]] Azula is also not entirely dependent on her Firebending to kick ass, whereas Ozai is. |
| 230 | ** On the other hand, Ozai's Firebending is repeatedly shown to be significantly stronger than hers (due to experience) and while Azula may be a more competent field operative, the GrandFinale shows she isn't ''nearly'' as qualified to be an EvilOverlord compared to her father. |
| 231 | * IAmAMonster: During "The Beach", she wistfully admits that her own mother thought that she was a monster before quickly perking up and saying that "She was right, of course, but it still hurt." While this is at first played off as a CardCarryingVillain-esque joke, it later turns out that [[AbusiveDad Fire Lord Ozai's upbringing]] has basically turned her into a mental and emotional wreck of insecurities and self-loathing. Furthermore, the abuse left her broken after Zuko and Katara defeated her to the point where in ''The Search'', she self-identifies as a monster because she falsely believes that's what her mother saw her as. Also worth noting is that unlike other examples on this page, when she identifies herself as a monster, she just angers herself. Nobody else in the universe thinks of her as an outright monster. |
| 232 | * IAmWhatIAm: The Quote at the top about her acceptance that she is a "monster". InUniverse it's discussed. |
| 233 | * IControlMyMinionsThrough: She has several: |
| 234 | ** She made a point that she uses fear to maintain loyalty in both her minions and her friends Mai and Ty Lee. [[spoiler:This eventually leads to Mai abandoning her to protect Zuko out of love, and Ty Lee following suit to protect Mai. The realization that her friends didn't actually trust her and ultimately abandoned her is one of the factors that lead to her ultimate VillainousBreakdown.]] |
| 235 | ** She's the daughter of the Fire Lord (and fighting his war with his armies), who, in turn, has an UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans philosophy he may or may not really believe himself, and the Fire Nation propaganda is indoctrinated into the citizens early on. |
| 236 | --->'''Azula:''' ''(to her EliteMooks)'' If I sense any disloyalty, any hesitation, any weakness at all, I will snuff it out.\ |
| 237 | '''Azula:''' ''(to a hallucination of her mother)'' Trust is for fools. Fear is the only reliable way.\ |
| 238 | '''Azula:''' ''(to Mai)'' No, you miscalculated! You should have feared me more! |
| 239 | ** She explicitly points out how Birthright gives her the edge over [[TheChessmaster Long Feng]] in her BreakingSpeech to him: |
| 240 | --->'''Azula:''' It's because [[EliteMooks they]] haven't made up their minds. They're waiting to see how this is going to end. [[EyesNeverLie I can see your whole history in your eyes]]. [[SelfMadeMan You were born with nothing. So you had to struggle]], [[TheChessmaster and connive,]] and claw your way to power, but true power, the divine right to rule, is something you're born with. The fact is they don't know which one of us is going to be sitting on that throne and which one is going to be bowing down. [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow But I know and you know.]] ''(sits on the throne)'' Well? |
| 241 | * IgnoredEpiphany: During "The Beach", she has one just before Zuko does, where each member of the group is sharing some hidden aspect of themselves and their flaws. Hers is how she resented how their mother, Ursa, lavished attention on Zuko, and her perception that Ursa considered her a monster. After realizing she can't interact with other teens in a regular setting, her final course of action is to shrug it off with "She was right, of course, but it still hurt!" and give people more reason to believe the worst in her since she believes the worst to be the best. This epiphany came back with a vengeance in the GrandFinale, alongside a VillainousBreakdown. |
| 242 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: Despite all her talk and cruelty, Azula is ultimately a young girl who wants to be loved and trusted [[note]] at least by those she considers worthy of such feelings [[/note]]. Unfortunately, since she never found those feelings with her mother while her father took a shine to her for her prodigious firebending skills, she put all her energy into earning his approval, turning herself into the exact same kind of monster that he is and leaving herself unable to relate to others except through fear and manipulation. [[spoiler:Fittingly, what finally causes her to break down sobbing is a friendly embrace between Zuko and Katara, coupled with the realization that despite her brother being considered a disappointment throughout their lives, he has what she never has.]] |
| 243 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Azula doesn't really know how to make friends. The closest she has is Mai and Ty Lee, both of whom follow her out of fear [[spoiler:and ultimately turn their backs on her.]] This is a massive dent in her psyche and is a serious problem to a person who literally cannot fathom any other way to socialize. |
| 244 | * ImplacableWoman: [[TheDragon Princess Azula]] is this in her first few episodes of Book 2, [[WakeUpCallBoss establishing herself as a threat unlike any the heroes faced before]]. No matter what the heroes try, barely anything they do really slows her down. In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheChase "The Chase"]], it takes all four of them, plus her brother, Zuko, and uncle, Iroh, for her to finally KnowWhenToFoldEm and retreat. Afterward, they adjust to her ability, though she remains a massive threat for the rest of the series. |
| 245 | * ImportantHaircut: In the GrandFinale, after [[spoiler:banishing every single one of her servants as the new Fire Lord, Azula tries and fails miserably to fix her hair, having apparently never done it on her own before. Not only is the resulting hairdo extremely disheveled (her topknot is basically falling apart), but in a moment of [[VillainousBreakdown stress-induced rage at her own incompetence]], she clumsily hacks off her bangs, leaving her hair a [[MadnessMakeover tangled, uneven mess]], [[SanitySlippage much like her own sanity]]]]. |
| 246 | * ImprobableAge: While all of the main characters are complete masters who are leagues better than people double their age, Azula stands out as being more talented initially than all of them, as well as being drawn as if she's 18, rather than a mere ''fourteen''. Then again, it could be the makeup. Without makeup on, Azula does look more like her age. |
| 247 | * InelegantBlubbering: Her last appearance is this overlapping with BrokenTears. At first, there was incoherent, furious screaming, but within seconds, it devolved into sobbing. |
| 248 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She's constantly striving to be [[ThePerfectionist the absolute best]] at what she does (especially if it means being better than Zuko) and refuses to settle for less, and uses {{manipulati|ve bitch}}on and strong-arm tactics to ascertain worship from her peers. She also feels that she's Ursa's [[TheUnfavourite failure]], thoroughly depends on her father's "love", and tends to put down those she secretly envies like [[DudeMagnet Ty Lee]]. By the season finale, [[spoiler:her friends have left her and her father has made it clear that he's only using her. [[FromBadToWorse It doesn't end well]]]]. |
| 249 | * InformedAttractiveness: When Ty Lee calls Azula "the most beautiful, smartest, perfect girl in the world", Azula treats this as an "AsYouKnow". Explainable in that Ty Lee has a history of [[ProfessionalButtKisser Azula fangirling]] (as well as living in perpetual fear of Azula's wrath), and Azula herself is just a tad egotistical. |
| 250 | * InkSuitActor: She looks a lot like a younger Creator/GreyDeLisle, down to her hair colour and lipstick. |
| 251 | * {{Irony}}: In the penultimate episode of Book 2, the Earth King recaps recent events to the 'Kyoshi Warriors' (really Azula, Mai and Ty Lee in disguise), and Azula remarks "It's terrible thing when you can't trust the people closest to you". She says this to mock the Earth King, but in another season's time, [[spoiler:Azula herself will be given a little taste of betrayal from her closest 'friends' in "The Boiling Rock", and she does not take it well.]] |
| 252 | * InsanityImmunity: Turns out it's [[NoSell pretty hard]] for a LivingLieDetector like Toph to pick up signs of stress from someone as nigh-sociopathic as Azula, who lies without a second thought. |
| 253 | * ISurrenderSuckers: In "The Chase", [[spoiler:when she is cornered by Team Avatar, Zuko and Iroh, she pretends to surrender, then sneak attacks Iroh and escapes.]] |
| 254 | * ItsAllAboutMe: When things start to fall apart, she goes nuts. [[DaddysGirl She does have some desire to prove herself to Ozai]] although Ozai [[AbusiveDad couldn't care less]]. Though it is implied that part of the reason she goes nuts is that she realized her friends actually meant something to her and cannot deal with the realization that their betrayal indicates that ''she'' was unworthy of their ''trust''. Her rant to her mother in ''The Search: Part 3'' can be summed up as "My life sucks and it's all your fault and you never gave a damn about me." |
| 255 | * {{Jerkass}}: The biggest one in the series aside from her father (who's where she gets it from, after all). She's an arrogant, deceitful, sadistic manipulator who will commit cruel and ruthless acts in order to win the war and her father's favor. |
| 256 | * KickChick: Favours kicks even more than most firebenders, having sufficient power behind them to deflect an [[DIshingOutDirt earthbending]] attack from Aang. |
| 257 | * KickedUpstairs: Her father rewards her for her loyal service by naming her the new Fire Lord... moments before he makes the position irrelevant by crowning himself Phoenix King. Azula knows exactly what's happening to her and doesn't take it well ("You can't treat me like [[TheUnfavourite Zuko]]!") and it's one of the contributing factors to her VillainousBreakdown. |
| 258 | * KickTheDog: Exaggerated as she spends an entire episode doing so. The entirety of Zuko Alone. |
| 259 | * KnightOfCerebus: When she made her first ''proper'' appearance in Book 2, she brought in a level of villain competence that hadn't been seen before. [[WakeUpCallBoss Not even the Gaang was fully prepared to deal with her at that point]], leading to Book 2 ending with [[TheBadGuyWins a crushing defeat for the heroes]] and their DarkestHour in the entire series. |
| 260 | * LackOfEmpathy: Subverted in "The Beach", where she apologizes to Ty Lee after insulting her. She also comforted Zuko when she found him at their family's old beach house. |
| 261 | * LadyMacBeth: [[spoiler:Her new goal in life. She realizes as of ''Smoke and Shadow'' that she's not meant for the direct role of Fire Lord, but has no qualms trying to meld Zuko into her mold and ideal of what a proper Fire Lord should be. However, it does bear note that in the same novel that she came to this idealization once the other voice in her head was silenced; so it can easily be seen as replacing one psychosis for another.]] |
| 262 | * LadyOfWar: The aloof and imposing princess of the Fire Nation who uses an agile and precise style of firebending, and has the composed peace of mind to generate lightning. {{Inverted|Trope}} when she [[spoiler:loses her sanity near the end, becoming a maniacal nut who firebends in an uncontrolled and wild manner]]. |
| 263 | * LargeHam: Normally averted by the soft spoken Azula. However, Azula gets progressively louder and bombastic starting in the "Southern Raiders" episode. What the Gaang doesn't realize is that this is a massive tip-off that Azula's not acting like her normal self. In fact, whenever Azula starts acting like this, it's almost like a cry for help that her sanity is breaking. |
| 264 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Karma served in the fact that the [[ManipulativeBitch master manipulator]] who spent two seasons playing mind games ultimately [[VillainousBreakdown suffered a mental breakdown]] set off by the specific reason of ''not'' being able to manipulate effectively. Azula says trust is for fools, and while it took three seasons for Zuko and Katara to trust each other, it's the trust in each other as friends that also overcame Azula]]. Making it even more [[PerfectlyCromulentWord karmarific]], it counts as HoistByHerOwnPetard. [[spoiler:If Azula hadn't set Mai and Zuko up on that date, then Zuko would have stayed in the Earth Kingdom, which would means no Firebending teacher for Aang and no HeelFaceTurn for Mai, Ty Lee, or perhaps even Zuko -- no betrayal by her friends, no SanitySlippage.]] |
| 265 | * LaughingMad: [[spoiler:In her final fight with Katara, she indulges in two cackling fits while charging up lightning bolts.]] |
| 266 | * {{Leitmotif}}: She has two. |
| 267 | ** Her appearances, particularly when she's about to go on the offensive, are often signaled with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIanHWbmKiQ an eerie tritone chime]].[[note]]Fittingly for her, a tritone is often known as ''diabolus in musica'', Latin for "the devil in music".[[/note]] At a few points in the BeachEpisode, it becomes a friendlier tinkling chime instead, and on rare occasion, it becomes deeper like an enormous bell for when she's ''really'' going to wreck someone's day. |
| 268 | ** The other is an [[https://youtu.be/hibCUpImCL8?t=43 unsettling piano motif]] offset by chimes and eerie vocals. It usually plays when she's fighting, but it also underscores Zuko's impression of Azula in "The Western Air Temple." |
| 269 | * LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Katara and Azula, respectively. Katara is the [[TheHeart gentle]] and [[NiceGirl kindhearted caretaker]] of her group, representing the wife archetype of TheThreeFacesOfEve. Meanwhile Azula is more of the seductress archetype, [[TheSocialExpert being great at manipulating people]], [[GoGetterGirl valuing perfection]], and [[AloofDarkHairedGirl maintaining an aura of grace and poise]]. |
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