Azula

Make Zuko become like their father and her as a tyrannical Fire Lord (abandoned).
Use reverse psychology on Zuko so that he will continue to not be like their father and herself (succeeded; though up to interpretation).

### Worst Actions

Temporarily murdering Aang while he is in the Avatar state and nearly ending the Avatar cycle.
Suggesting to Ozai to burn down the Earth Kingdom and attempting to personally join the operation as his chief lieutenant.
Attempting to kill Katara dishonourably in an Agni Kai when she wasn't even part of the duel.

### Kill Count

1 (later undone)
Billions (attempted)

### Crimes

Attempted mass murder
Attempted genocide
Attempted nigh-omnicide
Fraud
Kidnapping
Theft
Terrorism
Torture
Animal cruelty
Attempted fratricide
Abuse of power
Treason
Child murder (undone)
Aiding and abetting
Unlawful imprisonment
Psychological abuse
Crimes against humanity
Vandalism
Corruption
Endangerment
Usurpation

### Type of AB

Manipulative Control Freak

**Azula** is one of the main antagonists of the *Avatar* franchise, serving as the central antagonist of *Avatar: The Last Airbender* before returning as the main antagonist of its midquel/sequel comic series.

She is the highly strategic and ruthlessly obsessed daughter of Ozai, serving as his best general and strategist during the 100 Year War and mimic his behavior to earn her love. Upon being discarded as a pawn by Ozai and driven to insanity, Azula returns upon allying with Zuko to find their lost mother before becoming the leader of the Kemurikage.

She was voiced by Grey DeLisle.

## His Brilliance and Evil Rankings

### What Makes Her Amazing?

* She has a pretty tragic background. She was born to a family in which she was unable to experience love due to her abusive father. Seeing how badly he treats her older brother, Zuko, Azula strove to be a perfectionist to gain the love of her father, however in doing so, she ends up being neglected by her mother, who was tending Zuko after his harsh treatment of Ozai, which took a great strain on her, and is just a sad product of how terrible of a parent Ozai is.
* She has an incredibly snarky and sarcastic attitude to her that makes her a joy to watch, providing some very savage yet entertaining insults.
* She is a masterfully skilled firebender, having been a prodigy from such a young age and it shows as she is a very precise fighter and hard to defeat.
* Using fear and intimidation, she rallies up soldiers to follow her command and support from her 2 only friends, Mai and Ty Lee for her mission.
* She tricked both Zuko and Iroh into thinking that Ozai wants them to return to the Fire Nation and lied to them that he did this because "family is important" to have them both imprisoned under Ozai's orders. Unlike Zuko who believed her lies, Iroh is the one who's aware of her deception but still goes along with him. Even after her deception was revealed, she proceed to take extreme measures like attacking them.
* She uncovers Aang's deception to lead them off course and has everyone split up to cover more ground.
* She surrenders to stage her escape.
* She does what the entire Fire Nation tried to for the past century even despite using armies, advanced weaponry, and drills, infiltrating Ba Sing Se by disguising herself, Mai, and Ty Lee as Kyoshi Warriors, deceiving the entire Team Avatar and Earth King Kuei.
* She reveals her nature to the Dai Li to strike a deal with them to conquer Ba Sing Se, and through sheer charisma, she ends up usurping control over the Dai Li from Long Feng and thwarts his entire attempt to backstab her completely, forcing him to bow down in front of Azula and accept his defeat.
	+ Just from his eyes, Azula deduces his entire background too.
* She ends the entire second season having used the Dai Li to overthrow the Earth King and conquering Ba Sing Se, having even come close to killing Avatar Aang in his Avatar State and ending the Avatar Cycle.
* She manipulates Zuko to her side and helps her defeat the Avatar.
* She lied to Ozai that Zuko's the one who took down the Avatar in order to restore his honor, which led him to believed her and congratulate Zuko for this. After Zuko reveals the truth of the Avatar's fate, her blame would fall onto him instead.
* She deduces Zuko's visits to Iroh, warning him out of genuine concern to be careful as he could be suspected of treachery since Iroh is considered a traitor to the Fire Nation.
* She thwarts the entire invasion during the information, having prepared for this encounter by moving Ozai to another room as she fights the Avatar to distract him till the Eclipse ends, foiling the resistance's entire attempt to end the war.
* To get to the gondola where Sokka, Zuko, Suki, Hadoka and Chit Sang are, she uses the handcuff and puts in on the cable while uses firebending to get to them.
* Seeing the guards are cutting down the gondola cable under the Warden's orders, she became aware that Sokka, Zuko, Suki, Hadoka and Chit Sang are going to fall onto the boiling lake to death and decides to leave them to their near demise.
* She managed to track down Sokka, Zuko, Suki, Hadoka and Chit Sang to the Western Air Temple to attack the Team Avatar.
* Even when becoming more paranoid and suffering a breakdown, she is still an extremely tough opponent to beat.
* In her return in *The Search* trilogy, she allies with Zuko to find her mother for her own goals, extracting information from Ozai on where to find her. She even saves the heroes from their enemies sometimes.
* She burns many of her mother's letters as a distraction to hide one away, which contains info on Zuko not really being Ozai's son in a plot to usurp him. Using the burnt letters, she gives away the information she read to join the search unbounded.
* She deduces who her mother's new identity is, Noriko.
* She spares her mother out of her care for Zuko, escaping.
* In the *Smoke and Shadow* trilogy, she impressively recovers from her villainous breakdown, for the most part as signs of her unstableness still remains, becoming much less paranoid, much less aggressive, her schizophrenic hallucination and voices in her head were silenced, regains the demeanor she had at the beginning of the series, having accepted her destiny is not to be on the throne and that it is Zuko's, and that Kiyi is related to her by blood, and finding her own destiny, discards any loyalty to Ozai, and isn't as prone to snapping anymore.
* Her own destiny in question was to make Zuko a ruthless Fire Lord no different from Ozai and her that rules through fear, and with this, she uses Ukano and his desire to restore Ozai to the throne to initiate attacks on him, orchestrating the kidnappings of multiple children and starts a riot to force Zuko into taking the other hand and taking extreme measures to quell the chaos, effectively winning.
	+ In order to do this, she disguises herself as the Kemurikage and breaks out some acquaintances from the mental institution to form her strike team, rallying them to her command and leaving any trace on them all being actually humans.
	+ She also knows when not to release the children when everyone is turning against Zuko, as their release would then end up leading everyone to her lair.
* She lulls Zuko into redirecting lightning at her so that she could learn the technique, and by their second encounter, redirects lightning back at him, showing Zuko the trick won't work against her anymore.
* At the end of the story, she either sarcastically or genuinely compliments her brother's apology speech to the Fire Nation before getting away scot-free from her crimes.
* While initially a pawn for Ozai, upon being disposed of by becoming the Fire Lord, Azula becomes an independent threat from him, having even used a secret society wanting Ozai back on the throne in which their goals weren't even part of the picture.

### What Makes Her Heinous?

* She conquers Omashu and Ba Sing Se in their respective entireties, bringing them directly under the oppressive rule of the Fire Nation.
* She convinced Zuko to betray Team Avatar and Iroh as well on her behalf and almost killing Aang while he's in the Avatar State, almost ending the Avatar cycle.
* It was her idea to Ozai on burning the entire Earth Kingdom and incinerating all its citizens, which consists of most of humanity and overall makes up most of the world that is also an act of nigh-omnicide. When Ozai incorporates this to his evil plan, she made an attempt to partake in the Earth kingdom genocide.
* During an Agni Kai, she launches deadly lightning at Katara despite not being part of the fight, forcing Zuko to risk his life and nearly die to save her.
* She attempts to kill her mother when finding out her new identity.
* She kidnaps multiple children to cause chaos.

## Trivia

* For some time, she was considered Near Pure Evil before the issues of her being too sympathetic and failing the heinous standards were brought up that got her cut, which lead her to be considered as a Villainous Benchmark. However, eventually, while it was agreed she is far too sympathetic to count, counterarguments on the genocide against the Earth kingdom being her sole idea and having attempted to personally participate as Ozai's lieutenant when incorporated into Ozai's plan were made against her failing the heinous standards and Azula was eventually approved as Inconsistently Heinous.
	+ As the creators said themselves, Azula was never intended to be PE or NPE, therefore the script of beach episode and last episodes of season 3 were partially written as they are for the wish of the creators to show the audience that Azula can be a good person.
* She is the only villain from the *Avatar* franchise to count as an Amazing Baddie.
* According to the new comic, it's stated that Azula may have chance of redemption, rather this will happen or not, it is possible that this that new changes to her status, giving how much the comic will center around her internal conflicts.

## External Links

* Azula on the Villains Wiki
* Azula on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
* Azula on the *Avatar* Wiki