History Characters / AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula

* CombatPragmatist: Has no qualms about blasting someone in mid-transformation sequence.

'''Azula''': Isn't it obvious?! I'm about to celebrate becoming an only child!

* BrokenAce: Though she doesn't really bother with the good publicity part of VillainWithGoodPublicity, she still fits. She's a 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.

** Additionally, while Ozai may be the BigBad, Azula is the one to [[TheHeavy do all his dirty work]]. This is exemplified when she became the first and only villain who managed to [[spoiler:''kill Aang'' (though he [[IGotBetter got better]]).]] And although she and Zuko are pretty much equal firebenders just before the finale (in no small part due to her VillainousBreakdown), she was his superior for the majority of the show.

* PrimAndProperBun: She always has a topknot secured with a Fire Nation comb. She's the stern and perfectionist princess of the Fire Nation. [[spoiler:It falls out when she goes insane, with the result of her looking deranged]]

** Additionally, while Ozai may be the BigBad, Azula is the one to [[TheHeavy do all his dirty work]]. This is exemplified when she became the first and only villain who managed to [[spoiler:''kill Aang'' (though he recovered).]] And although she and Zuko are pretty much equal firebenders just before the finale (in no small part due to her VillainousBreakdown), she was his superior for the majority of the show.

--->'''Azula:''' ''(singsong voice)'' Dad's gonna kill you! ''(normal voice)'' [[CryingWolf Really, he is…]]

* 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 tangled, uneven mess, [[SanitySlippage much like her own sanity]]]].

** She tells Toph one, just to demonstrate how good she is at hiding the physological signs of lying that she's normally very talented at picking up on.
---> '''Azula''': I am a 400 ft tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings
---> '''Toph''': Okay you're good, I admit it

** There's also Azula's tomboy to Mai's girly girl. While she puts on a stoic and brooding, snarky front, Mai actually has quite a lot of feminine qualities underneath. She can be quite romantic at times around Zuko and appears to have a fondness for fruit tarts with petals on them. She also hates getting dirty as shown when she refused to enter a slurry pipeline to chase her enemies. Meanwhile, despite having her servants pamper her up sometimes, Azula is otherwise anything but feminine. She is a cruel and ruthless militaristic young girl and warrior of the Fire Nation who as a child rejected dolls and favoured knives. She is incredibly violent, competitive, and powerful. Even when she tries to be [[FemininityFailure more romantic and girly]] and get herself a boyfriend, she messes it up by rambling on crazily about world domination.

* WastedBeauty: She is indeed very beautiful and regarded as such in the series, but her [[ControlFreak negative]] [[LackOfEmpathy qualities]] constantly drive others away from her to the point where at the end of the series she believes she has no one left on her side that she can trust anymore.

* WastedBeauty: She indeed very beautiful and regarded as such in the series, but her [[ControlFreak negative]] [[LackOfEmpathy qualities]] constantly drive others away from her to the point where at the end of the series she believes she has no one left on her side that she can trust anymore.

** Azula is very good at coming up with manipulative 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 in "The Chase", the Gaang showing up in "The Drill", [[spoiler: and Katara coming up with an IndyPloy when they fight.]]

* FatalFlaw: 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]]. 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.

** 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. Their relationships with their families highlight this [[note]] 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 the family does love each other. [[/note]], as does their final battle in the series being against each other.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/GreyDeLisle (original), Yannina Quiroz ([[UsefulNotes/SpanishAccentsAndDialects Latin American Spanish]]), Creator/MeganShipman (''VideoGame/{{Smite}}''), Rona Beckerman (Hebrew)

* MsFanservice: She struts around in a WalkingSwimsuitScene during the BeachEpisode.

* ChildByRape: Like Zuko, Azula is [[ImpliedTrope almost certainly]] the result of their father's MaritalRapeLicense, due to Ozai's DomesticAbuse habits and ControlFreak behavior.

* PatrioticFervor: Averted. Over time, [[spoiler:love for her own nation just deteriorated, especially after her father left her to become Fire Lord. She made it clear in ''Smoke and Shadow'' her vengeance is not out of loyalty to a flag or country. Azula has not interest in restoring her father to bring back the Fire Nation’s GloryDays or to serve the Fire Nation’s current regime]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Long Feng manipulates the Earth King, controls Ba Sing Se from the shadows, holds Appa prisoner, brainwashes [[spoiler:and kills Jet]], and then collaborates with Azula to throw a coup d'état. When Azula [[spoiler:turns on him and crushes his spirits with TheReasonYouSuckSpeech]], for once audiences can ''support'' what she's doing, regardless of how cruel she is, just because Long Feng getting his comeuppance is a much-desired event by this point.

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: She's this in "The Southern Raiders". In spite of her sudden invasion of the Western Air Temple and brief scuffle with Zuko kicking off the episode, she doesn't appear beyond the first five minutes and has nothing to do with the episode's primary conflict. [[spoiler:Her appearance does, however, hint her gradual descent into madness come the finale.]]

* 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]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: After [[spoiler:years of being an antagonist (or an on-and-off anti-hero at ''best'') throughout the entire ''Franchise/Avatar:TheLastAirbender'' franchise, she is set to take center stage as the titular protagonist in the upcoming graphic novel, ''Azula in the Spirit Temple'']].

* ADayInTheLimelight: After [[spoiler:years of being an antagonist (or an on-and-off anti-hero at ''best'') throughout the entire ''Franchise/Avatar'' franchise, she takes center stage as the titular protagonist in the upcoming graphic novel, ''Azula in the Spirit Temple.'']]

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/GreyDeLisle (original), Yannina Quiroz ([[UsefulNotes/SpanishAccentsAndDialects Latin American Spanish]]), Creator/MeganShipman (''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'')