Why Azula is the Greatest Villain of All Time [Avatar: The Last Airbender]

Shoutouts to the birds that refused to shut up when I was recoding this video lol. And also, an even bigger shoutout to the voice actress for Azula, Grey DeLise, who I forgot to mention, but she did an absolutely amazing job with the character.

You know what I liked about Azula’s downfall is that once her friends betrayed her insecurities starts to show and it gets worse.

That one hair out of place was her true downfall

It is really sad that Azula was raised by Osai while Zuko was raised by Iroh. One was being shaped into a tool for her father's gain, and the other was being set free from the conditioning and abuse from his childhood. In the end, Azula did not know how to be her own person. She was also being abused by her father just in a different way, not knowing what she was going to do. While Zuko had Iroh as a real mentor, and this allowed him to shape his own destiny and overcome his past experiences.

Azula's genuinely one of the best antagonists in all of media. I finished watching the show earlier this year, and good news! It's still one of the best things to ever come out of television

i love how we keep waiting for her downfall and anticipating her defeat to be super climactic and satisfying, and when she's finally defeated, it's devistating. that's what this kind of perfectionism leads to, not victory, but utter and complete defeat and emptiness

I'm fine with azula going nuts but wish she had more time to explore it and more scenes that show her slowly falling off until she gets to the fire lord situation. We do see she has that fear of becoming zuko in their father's eyes and the insecurities of her mother hated her which she jokes about but knows she liked zuko more. Her losing her friends. Her father's right hand position. Losing to zuko in their fights more and such all came very quickly and needed more room.

Her and her brother are some of the greatest characters. Truly!

Avatar: Creates the greatest villain in any cartoon. Netflix: Lets just take everything that made Azula that made her a truly terrifying force of nature both in intelligence and physical prowess and JUST... NOT do that.

Azula is the perfect foil to zuko, and I love that the final Agni Kai is almost a reflection of that. Zuko is fighting who he would have become, and when he loses, once again, the people that care about him bring him back. Zuko’s story wouldn’t have its perfect conclusion without Azula.

56:04 this fight is act supposed to be a tragedy, not just for Azula, but for Zuko too. Cause these two are basically siblings and they’re just kids. The war affected them greatly.

what I think makes Azula so interesting is theres an idea she's never really irredeemable, except for the fact she doesn't want to be redeemed. If like Zuko she'd decided to not follow Ozai, she could've been great, and the only thing stopping that is herself.

I may have seen some Azula discussions before, but from you Sir, it is a true pleasure.

Zuko and Azula’s contrast is critical. Iroh and Ozai were their respective mentors, and obviously shows you why they ended up the way they did. Zuko wrestled with so much inner turmoil because he was raised by Ozai, and then Iroh was there and only showed him love and care. This shaped Zuko, and they grew to care for each other deeply. Ozai also raised Azula but she stuck by him. She never was instilled that love and care. So she had no idea there were people in the world who truly loved her for who she is. That’s why she snapped.

I find it interesting that zuko called katara a peasant during the finale of book 1 and azula called katara a peasant on the final episode I think that was done on purpose to symbolize that azula has fallen from Grace big time and she now knows what it feels like to be zuko

I'll never get tired of Azula analysis videos, there's so much to look at, and all of it is so interesting every time.

A thing I want to point out its how Azula works in her complexity because the way his father is such a narcisist, people often say how Ozai is a bad villain but he enabled so much and still works amaizingly, of course Azula is the face of the enemy but Ozai does serve it's purpouse a lot more than people give him credit for.

Really did a good job of pointing out to me how being a perfectionist just leads to hating yourself more than anyone else ever will 'cept for the part where I'm just a common motivationless shmuck and not some noble-blooded self-lifter

Relationships built on fear never last, SMH.

I have mixed feelings about the comic's portrayal of Azula. I just do not think they fully captured how she was in the show.