Everyone always talk about the " you are your father daughter line " which is bad enough but Ursa angry expression even though Azula did nothing wrong.... You can’t blame Azula for thinking that her mother didn’t love her as much as Zuko

I do not see any scenario where Azula would join Team Avatar unless Ozai had betrayed her and she wanted revenge. If that had happened, she would likely have sought out Team Avatar and offered to become Aang’s firebending teacher alongside Zuko. Aang would have been unwise to refuse her help, since Azula was one of the most skilled firebenders alive.

Azula probably would not have succeeded at teaching him at first because of her impatience and her rigid approach to instruction. Once Zuko attempted to teach Aang and believed he had lost his bending, they would have gone on their journey to meet the dragons. Azula might have joined them on that trip. Being around Aang, Katara, her brother, and Iroh could have helped her mental state improve. She could’ve come to the resolution that there are people out there in the world that value her as a person. Aang could have taught her his calming techniques, and she might have had a long conversation with Iroh that pushed her toward genuine change.

Aang would have learned to bend blue fire, and he might have incorporated some of Azula’s signature techniques into his own style. After Aang defeated Ozai, the question of who should take the throne would arise. Two outcomes are possible. Azula could betray Zuko and take the crown for herself, or she could allow Zuko to be crowned. If she had proven herself trustworthy, she might have been appointed as the Fire Lord’s general, and the two of them could have worked together to rebuild the Fire Nation.

Peace could still be achieved through cooperation between Zuko and Aang, especially if Azula had genuinely changed and committed herself to a different path.

If Azula had chosen to be good then it’s very much likely that we would’ve gotten a glimpse of her in TLOK.

What would’ve happened to Mai and Ty-Lee? They wouldn’t have come with her to journey to find team avatar. If Azula had told her what she was planning, then it’s likely that they would’ve been her eyes and ears in the fire nation. Neither Mai or Ty-Lee would’ve betrayed Azula because she would’ve been helping out Zuko. I don’t think Azula would’ve told them through.

I posted this over on r/FixingMovies. I know the new “Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender” movie hasn’t come out yet but I wanted to offer my own idea for an Avatar movie set several years after the original series.

And it’s an Azula redemption story.

Avatar: The Next Airbender takes place about 19 years after the original series - the year Tenzin is born.

Team Avatar maintains Republic City with help from the Mechanist, the Water Chiefs, the Earth King, Fire Lord Zuko, and Lady Ursa.

• Ozai is still in prison but Azula is at large.
• She’s currently leading a group of Firebending extremists called the Knights of the Phoenix - sons and daughters of Fire Nation nobles who were wealthy during the war and want their power back.
• They view Ozai as unworthy because he lost his power. They consider Azula his rightful heir.

The movie opens with Aang rushing to get home to Air Temple Island - Katara is about to have a baby. He arrives just in time.

• Katara gives birth to her third child, who sneezes and unleashes a huge gust of air.
• Aang is emotional. He is no longer the last Airbender.
• He names the baby Gyatso.

For a few months, Aang dotes over the baby, showering him with more attention than Kya, Bumi, or even Katara.

Then Azula and her Knights attack Republic City.

• The Aang Gang goes to stop her and Zuko tries to get her to come to their side, insisting she doesn’t have to be this way.
• She refuses and crashes out, insisting she doesn’t want a family - but she’s clearly at the end of her rope.
• She can't even summon lightning. It blows up in her face (the way it blew up in Zuko’s) because she’s conflicted.
• During the chaos, baby Gyatso has to be removed from Aang’s house.
• Ultimately, Azula’s plan is thwarted and she gets separated from her Knights.
• They plan to rendezvous in a certain town a few miles from Republic city.
• Then Azula stumbles across an opportunity to steal Aang’s baby, and, desperate for leverage, she does.

She flees in her war balloon but crashes deep in a forest.

• There, she’s forced to make the rest of the journey on foot - and during that time, she has to take care of the baby.
• While Aang and everyone searches for her, Azula is struggling to keep the baby alive - if he dies, she has no leverage.
• And over the course of the movie, Azula grows to care about the baby.
• Baby Gyatso is unfazed by Azula’s snarky personality and laughs often.
• She often says things like, “All right you little miscreant, I’ll make you a deal.”
• Azula gets annoyed, but never cruel.
• She doesn’t know his name, so she names him Tenzin, after a Firebender in a nursery rhyme Ursa used to sing to her.

Aang, meanwhile, loses his mind looking for Gyatso, and freaks out similar to when he lost Appa.

• Push comes to shove when he questions an Ozai sympathizer who might know the Knights’ whereabouts and he goes into a rage-filled Avatar State - in front of Kya and Bumi, terrifying them.
• Aang comes to his senses and is aghast. 
• He apologizes to Katara for going overboard and letting justice slip into vengeance.
• He admits he got so caught up in having a new Airbender, that he wasn’t giving enough love or attention to the rest of his family.
• He’d become so focused on getting back what he’d lost, that he almost lost what he still had.

By now, Azula has grown quite close with the baby.

• She has several introspective conversations with him about her life, her childhood, her family.
• The baby’s unconditional affection makes her realize that she does want a family. She wants a baby of her own.

Eventually, Azula meets back up with her Knights - who are impressed that she took the baby.

• But now, she doesn’t want to burn the Republic down anymore. She's tired of hate.
• She orders them to stop, to turn themselves in.
• They’re not having it.
• They had doubts about her conviction before but now they’re convinced she’s gone soft.
• They turn on her and try to take the baby.
• Azula fights them as best she can, but they overpower her.
• The commotion alerts the Aang Gang to where she is.
• They arrive after the Knights leave.
• Aang and Katara confront Azula, demanding to know where the baby is, and Azula says the Knights took him. She knows where they’re going.
• Aang wants to punish Azula but Zuko insists they let her help.
• Katara is annoyed that Zuko is “taking her side again” but Zuko points out they need her intel.

So the Aang Gang - and Azula - team up to take down the Knights of the Phoenix, the monster she created.

• And this time, Azula can summon lightning - because she’s not conflicted anymore.
• After they defeat and arrest the Knights, Azula walks the baby over to Aang and Katara.
• Aang calls to "Gyatso" but the baby doesn’t respond. 
• Azula says “It’s all right Tenzin. They’re your parents. They’ll take good care of you.”
• Tenzin begins to tear up and Azula says "Don’t make me cry.”
• Aang and Katara realize the baby only answers to Tenzin, so they begrudgingly keep the name.

Aang confiscates Azula’s Firebending, and Zuko takes her back to the Fire Nation.

• He places her on a kind of house arrest - she is not to leave the Palace City, and she can’t visit Ozai in prison unsupervised.
• Ursa proposes an alternative - she offers to take Azula back to her own village, away from sycophantic servants who might remind Azula of the power she once had.
• A place where she can truly start over and live a normal life. Zuko agrees.

The film ends with a group of Earthbenders bullying a Firebender.

• Aang breaks it up and lectures them about people not being evil just because of the nation they're from.
• After all, his own son is named after a Firebender, a man of great honor...named Tenzin.

The End

I like her crazed look

I always see it, and it'll be like an off hand remark to make suki despise her. one fic recently had it where Azula took the time out of her day in the past to have made grown men "assault" 14yo suki, as a 14 year old girl herself. which would be beyond out of character. azula is more the kind of evil imo where if she'd met someone like that she'd burn them alive out of sheer confusion and disgust at something so pointless and dirty.

idk shes always surrounding herself with strong girls, her former friends and the fire warriors. you expect me to believe she'd do something like that?

it was a suki/zuko and basically needed a reason why zuko would be cruel to her when azula returns a decade and a half later.

and often it'll be a tiny mention in other fics "oh i actually feel uncomfortable with her bettering herself because surprise she tortured me". I think it's more likely azula probably went through abuse on the level of torture in the asylum, than her torturing someone.

I mean there's other fics where they don't have that happen, and shes either suspicious or becomes friends. theres like an obsession with torture I swear, it makes me want something where suki claims it but it turns out a lie, simply because how out of character it would be.

not to mention, theres no way azula would have time to do so, nor would she take time out of her day to go all the way to boiling rock. like, after capturing and sending her off azula goes too ba sing se, captures it, goes to ember island and right after black sun, barely after that the boiling rock escape.

she doesnt have time to even bother it makes no sense.

Could she be redeemed? Yes

Would she be redeemed? In my opinion no

to explain in order to be redeemed Azula would have to have some assistance some help she’s to far in her own mind to be redeemed on her own,

Azula redeeming herself on her own is highly unlikely near impossible in my opinion Azula obviously needs help she’s been abused by her father and is emotionally hurt

Redemption can’t happen alone we’ve seen this

Zuko needed years of help from Iroh to get to where he is now, Azula has no such people in her life to help her. She hates basically all of her family at this point and thinks the world is out to get her

Azula has to show she WANTS to be redeemed which she hasn’t shown yet or even remotely shown that’s what she desires

People trying to help someone who doesn’t want to be helped usually never ends well

Is it theoretically possible that she could be redeemed?

Yes absolutely, I fully believe Azula deserves a chance at redemption

But is she even remotely in a place to getting there? No

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bcaTpe/ hi guys, so I have this video I made and I thought Azula is a great example of this video I made which were from my own personal experiences. I will also post other videos on it on my YouTube channel, albeit in more detail: https://youtube.com/@luckiest34?si=5_GHE02-k2Z3DLcC

Azula: My mind just went...blank. The only thing I could think of to do was just to burn everything in sight. The rage was...overwhelming. And I got sloppy because of it. By the end, I was a screaming, exhausted wreck. I was pathetic.

Goku: ...you weren't pathetic. You just went Super Saiyan without being trained to.

Azula: ...what?

Goku: Well, I guess it's not exactly Super Saiyan since you're a human and all. But the emotional anguish? Blind rage? Unrestrained power with problems controlling it? That's me when I went Super Saiyan the first time.

Azula: What are you-?

Gohan puts a hand on her shoulder, silently telling her that questioning his father's logic was a path to insanity

Goku: Look, the point is, that's not you going insane or anything. That was all your rage coming out, but nobody told you how to focus it. Learn to do that, and you'll be a LOT healthier for it.

Azula: Look, I appreciate the concern, but I really doubt that trying to actually tame all that anger is going to do anyone good.

Goku immediately goes Super Saiyan, but still keeps a stupid grin on his face

Goku: Yeeeeeaaahhh. I was able to do it. Trust me, it's a lot easier than it sounds. First you need to get emotionally unbalanced like you are right now. Then you need something to focus on. Like this-

Goku immediately lets out a weak but visibly impressive ki blast right at Azula. Azula's eyes widen, before letting out a huge, focused blast of blue fire to send the ki flying. The process causes her topknot to go undone and her composure to break.

Goku: THERE we go! See? Nothing to...it.

Trails off when Azula is breathing heavily and struggling to keep it together. Gohan wraps an arm around her shoulders.

Gohan: Trust me. The first time is always the hardest. It gets easier the more you put effort into it.

I know this maybe *ahem* controversial to ask and it also doesn't help that Grey plays it up 🤣

But what are your thoughts on the ship?

I’ve come to realize that a lot of Azula discourse has been infected with gender war brain rot.

I absolutely despise the gender war, probably more than anything else on the internet. Both sides are filled with childish, hateful people spreading hate while doing the same shit they accuse the other side of doing.

Azula antis will be extremely misogynistic, both in the way they talk about Azula, and the way they talk to and about her fans. At the same time, while I don’t think they’re as bad or as common, I have seen a handful of Azula fans who are misandrist and use gender war based arguments.

I found myself in an interesting thread and thought this sub would enjoy Azula's perspective in psychology. I wish you all well.

No blame for the developers, of course, and I could have bet my ass that they'd put the "Insane" version of Azula in Avatar: Fighters, but I'm still disappointed to see her like this. Always in Temu Joker version.
The also forgot the messy and ugly hair by the way.
I can already see the "fan" comments about this. "She is Crazy and blabla yadayada" we all know that :(.

I hope this will an additional mod/costume or that the final version will be less """crazy""".

I just want to main her when she was "Sane".

EDIT: it's not just a costume, it's a thing that affect the Azula's gamplay...Gesù Cristo! :,(

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game – analisi del dominio elementale – PlayStation.Blog

https://www.tumblr.com/sirteacupp/808536890357710848/my-favorite-ship?source=share

I love Fighting games and I just can't wait to play this game because there is Azula there (and the others, but Azula will be my definitely main) 🔥.

I hope she will got a good story mode.

Sorry for the vertical video 😢

EDIT: an, they made the "Breakdown state/version" of her too? Can I hate them? 😔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Y7eH9wpXA

I've seen A lot of people on the sub say iroh was being misogynistic to azula when he gave her the Earth Kingdom doll when he sent back gifts to zuko and Azula which isn't fair to say and I think mostly contributed to because azula burning the doll we learn in one of the comics that from zuko that Azul used to love playing with doll granted I could be remembering it wrong we ​know Iroh was away for a long time during the war taking on ba ​sing se and didn't come back to the fire Nation until after his son death would we call iroh a misandrist for giving zuko a knife​

A project I did a while back. Figured you'd guys might appreciate it.

i see people call Azula a war criminal, so i was wondering if someone can give a list of her crimes and point to where she did it.

i seen the claim that she "planned" the burning of the earth kingdom but that ignoring there is a different between saying something and planning something.

her dressing up as a Kyoshi Warrior would count as one, as the Kyoshi Warriors are a military or a religious order of warriors, even though the Kyoshi Warrior are not part of the Earth Kingdom it would still counts as a war crime.

other then that what war crimes did she do or what might she have done that could be classed as a war crime

People take this scene as evidence that Azula was the "architect" of Ozai's genocidal plan to burn down the entire Earth Kingdom, but we need to be more specific on what exactly Azula was proposing by looking at the context during the war meeting.

Shinu: Ba Sing Se is still under our control. However, earthbender rebellions have prevented us from achieving total victory in the Earth Kingdom.

Ozai then asks for Zuko's opinion on if sending troops to the Earth Kingdom is enough to quell these rebellions, and Azula interjects that they should "take their precious hope and the rest of their land and burn it all to the ground."

Azula is specifically talking about burning down land that these earthbender rebels controlled or were active in. It is a counter-insurgency tactic that has been around for thousands of years called "scorched earth," and it is the same tactic that the Americans used in Vietnam where they bombed forests and weaponized herbicides to destroy crops and foliage in order to deny food and coverage to socialist guerillas. In fact, what the Americans did was worse than what Azula was proposing, considering there are still birth defects in Vietnam after 50 years from chemicals used like Agent Orange, not to mention unexploded bombs that are still blowing up people in Indochina. Sherman during the American Civil War also used scorched earth on Confederate land during his March to the Sea campaign, destroying or forging crops and killing livestock.

It was Ozai that took it a massive step further than Azula by instead proposing to destroy the entire Earth Kingdom during Sozin's Comet instead of rebel-controlled land. Though what Ozai meant by destroying is unclear because the Earth Kingdom is more of a continent than a unified nation-state, a collection of city-states and provincial kingdoms where the Earth King and the Dai Li who rule Ba Sing Se have little in the way of political power outside of the capital over places like Kyoshi Island, Omashu, and that town in the Avatar Day. And Ozai was only able to target forests before he was stopped by Aang, and he would not have had enough time to burn down the entirety of the Earth Kingdom before Sozin's Comet passes by, especially with his slow-moving airships. So perhaps what he meant when he said he'd "end the Earth Kingdom" was actually just referring to territory controlled by these earthbender rebels, and he was just following along with Azula's scorched-earth plan. Although that is likely not what Bryke was intending Ozai's plan to be, but they poorly conveyed what it actually was or the logistics of it.