I love that in the end, instead of choosing violence like always, she just let them be, saying that they are too foolish for her leadership anyways, and goes on to continue her own path. The old Azula would not have hesitated to punish those who went against her orders. So in a way, she did develop, even if it's just a little bit. Even though she hasn't accepted the truth about herself and figure out what she wants for herself just yet, she still continues to walk her own path, and that's what I like about her.
To those who wanted her to be redeemed in this comic, did you really expect someone like her to be redeemed like that in just one comic, Zuko went through a whole 3 seasons of character growth, since Azula is more messed up it'll would take her much longer to get better mentally
I don't understand why we need every character redeemed. I just want her to go to therapy twice a week and have a support group. Beyond that she could try and conquer the earth kingdom again for all I care.
@vullord666 honestly it's really annoying i think these new fans grew up on steven universe or something cause whenever a villain has the slightest sad background they're like "omg they need a redemption arc" like no some people are bad and deserve what comes to them cause of their actions
It's refreshing to actually see a villain reject a "supernaturally given" redemption for once. If Azula ever gets redeemed then I would want it to be on her own terms and without any spirit fuckery. She needs to come to the conclusion of what she wants to do with her life on her own. Others may influence her in that journey and give her some pointers but I absolutely didn't want to see her get turned by some random spirit she just happens to stumble over once.
Exactly! and she's more mentally messed up so realistically if she were to get redeemed it'd take her much longer than Zuko to get there. You can't redeem someone like Azula in one comic so I'm glad she rejected redemption too
Darth Vader went thru similar supernatural redemption arcs and rejected it but did show signs the light in him was still there before in comics (canon and noncanon). So this is no different, tbh this wasn't really well written. It just feels pointless. It's just Azula being Azula and no sign of character development. The spirit is still alive, and the only "change" is Azula looking for more canon fodder.
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219Exactly I noticed that too since she always takes the chance for revenge. That and some of what the spirit said to her seemed to make her acknowledge the truth a bit.
It depends on how it's written. Spiritual awakenings can be very overwhelming for most people, even for the worse of the worst. Though they have to be in a particular state of mind where one is willing to except it. For example, when your entire world has crumbled around you & you feel unbelievable dispare & anguish, you just want all the pain you're feeling to end. A perfect example of this is in Avatar is when Azula had her mental breakdown & all of her emotions were at their highest after losing to Zuko & Katara. In the bible, Psalms 18:18 states, "When I was at my weakest, my enemies attacked- but the Lord held on to me." This verse means the when we're at our lowest and weakest point, that's when we're able to truly experience the perfection that is His grace; that's when we're able too see the strength and glory of Christ come to fruition in it's greatest form within our lives. In Azula's case, she has to be at her lowest point & be self aware enough to be willing to except any real positive change.
She said it herself. It came out of her mouth: "You weren't there to protect me from dad." She knows her father is trash she just refuses to accept it because of the Ozai brainwash academy she went through. Interesting that her ideal idea of Zuko is the boy that was never got harmed before he got banished, before the family was separated. Also interesting that Ty Lee represents harmony and forgiveness, whereas Mai represents harsh truths and rejection.
Considering how much Ozai mistreated Zuko since he was a young boy, Azula not being able to see that abus3 or enjoying it shows how self-absorved she's always been
@@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851I think she saw it, but was just glad it wasn't her she just didn't realise it touched her too until she was over the edge even notice how she let Zuzu come back home in the ba sing se episode It was a self protecting backup ploy, but she could've just not let him come back if she wanted
@@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851 that's not how abuse sounds and you shouldn't make conclusions with zero knowledge on psychology. When you're a child, even if someone abuses you, you don't always recognize it as such or you're learnt to believe it's all you deserve. She might've seen the abuse but since her father was the only one to "stay" in her life and "be there for her" he was the main caregiver therefore put on pedestal and nothing they do can be wrong. She saw the abuse but believed that's all Zuko deserved because her father said so. She's just taught that way.
This was an amazing start to her redemption arc, she doesnt get magically redeemed but you see progress at the end and points throughout where shes slowly starting to process stuff
@2triedforthis830 It was through Iroh's POV. In the scene, Azula was in front of him, plus he closed his eyes while looking away, so there was no way he could've fully seen her reaction. We already know Iroh sees Azula as a monster too, so thats what he imagined her reaction was like.
@@gsksbdb9988 girl what? It’s literally a memory and that’s totally in character for Azusa to be a little bit happy that the next in line for the crown gets banished and scared. She literally makes fun of him for it.
@@falconeshield she didn't fire heal her as fire can't really heal in Avatar. What it can do is sense the flow of energy chi through a persons body and use heat to relax the muscles and chi flow
Azula does make a small change for the better at the end. Throughout the comic she keeps on telling herself that she'll make them pay but at the end she decides to not do that and let them be.
@@xxvampire101I wouldn’t want her to be full hearted hero and be all buddy buddy with the Gaang, that’s not the Azula we’ve all known and love BUT more an anti-hero who follows her own path.
@@xxvampire101 azula is equally or superior to Katara especially at this age nobody was on azula’s level from the time she was bending but over time I’d say they are equally the same at older ages
even as a child, Azula was shown to have demonstrated some "sociopathic tendencies", even her mom believed that she may be "sick in the head" through pure talent alone, Azula outshined her older brother and shared their father's ambition to take charge Azula was some what responsible for the exile of her mother and the rise of her father to the Fire Lord position after her brother got banished, she presumably became next in line for the throne however, by the time of her coronation, Azula had suffered extreme mental breakdown, she became paranoid and fired all of her followers, she also started to hallucinate about her mom we can see that in her own twisted mind, Azula believed her mom was afraid of her and refused to truly love her
No no no no nononononononononono someone actually asked that question at a convention and Azula’s voice actress *literally* responded with “I would get pregnant”
I thought this was the perfect beginning to at least some form of redemption for Azula. Some people may say nothing happened, but she clearly changed, otherwise she would just have attacked the Fire Warriors at the end, showing she's capable of letting things go. And some people may say Azula doesn't want or need redemption, but in the end, her behaviour is damaging to herself and the people around her, she can't stay as this "perfect villain" without eventually becoming an unstable, mentally broken wreck.
You're right. All the people wanted and Azula villain Forever don't understand this Little detail: the reasons that making her a villain are the same reasons that making her crazy. If She remain the eternal villain, She Will remain with mental troubles, and this is a problem for her powers and abilities, and we see that. A Crazy teenager is not a real problem, she's unbelievable as a villain now, not with her stops to her full power. Anyway, a lot of people have a misconception with the word "redemption", because in its ancient origin, the latin verb "redigere" had a different meaning, and It was "to ransom". So, an Azula's redemption will never be the "becoming a good guy", but the more simple "understand why she's in her condition and stop with this". She would become a grey character with a personal and a confused morality indeed the famous stereotype without morality. Because these are her two only possibilities as a character: or she will change or she will die/return crazy. There aren't other possibilities: the other like that One in Smoke and Shadow, that a lot of fans appreciate, are parodies like Space Balls, good for comedy only.
I love how Azula's story explores a form of redemption, but not the kind that suits her simply because she's too spiritually-troubled. The spirit built her visions on lies and ignorance, which is the way Ozai raised her childhood. Even though it doesn't seem like it, Azula truly despises the way Ozai treated her. She recognizes that the spirit is treating her the exact same way, but with different intentions. Seeing Azula's visions getting twisted is a great way to depict how her current idea of redemption isn't possible. The people in her past wont just turn around and magically praise her. She has to work towards praise and respect and the ending shows that by showing her demeanor softening a little bit. This doesn't mean that she'll fully become a good person, but it shows she's acknowledging her past and taking steps to understand it.
I liked how the writer kept Azula in character. The ending was perfect, I'm glad she didn't become all chummy with her group but I'm also glad she didn't murder them. So some slight character development from the experience. I only wish there was long epic battle between Azula and the spirit that destroys the mountainside. But that's probably just me after watching too much Demon Slayers. 👹👺 Good job with the Motion Comic 😀
hmm i will have to disagree as she changed a bit. In the ending, when she found her camping group, she wasn't angry nor revengeful as compared to Ty Lee/Mai betrayal, she let it go. It seems that the spirit does influence her in someway in acknowledging the 'truths' she chose to ignore.
I love how Azula is the only level-headed character in this. I do like that she rejects this whole spiritual redemption and decides her own path. But honestly, I'm just confused by the Monk spirit in this. How does showing Azula hallucinations of an fake reality help her? I mean Azula's been suffering from hallucinations for the longest, so I doubt she would want more of them.
Honestly this Azula comic was better than I thought it’d be. Of course Azula’s rejected a “supernatural redemption” in the end feels like the right move and in character for someone like Azula. It took Three long and hard Seasons for Zuko to change and become a better person, with guidance from his uncle Iroh of course. But Clearly Azula’s journey is gonna have to be FAR different from Zuko’s. I don’t see her being some full hearted goody goody and be all BFFs with the Gaang lol. I hope she’ll become more anti-hero who skulks around in the darkness.
In my little head, she joins the kiyoshi warriors with her bestie ty Lee. Idk after she goes through her growth arc whenever that comes, she basically hates them all and then joins
@@2triedforthis830 Well Suki accepting Azula even after her growth will be quite a challenge. And like I said I don’t see or want her to end all full goody goody, she could become an anti hero, Chaotic Neutral.
I have feeling she can be goody goody but with some bad habits like hybrid. Like a twist to the story, she will not grow out of old Azula but her new Azula will be there
Even though Azula's still just as arrogant and vengeful as she was, she's actually less unstable mentally than before, which makes her a LOT more dangerous. I'm not sure if she'll get a redemption arc, but for that to happen, she'll need to learn to respect her comrades' wishes, so she doesn't constantly think that they(and others) are betraying her. Considering she sees herself as the rightful heir to the throne, that's going to take a long time, if it's going to happen at all.
Looking at it all. Azula doesn’t get the entire cliche redemption, she doesn’t join her brother and his friends. She may never become a good guy, but she’s not a bad guy anymore. She’s just free. 🆓 That’s what Azula gets. Freedom.
Azula spent her whole life being controlled or told what to do, and her father expected her to be his fire bending weapon, and she never really decides anything for herself. That's why she struggles on Ember Island because for the first time she has nobody telling her what to do, and she is unable to interact with people her age besides the people assigned to her (Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee are all Fire Nation royalty or nobles so they aren't really her friends or family, just people on her same level), and inevitably destroys her relationships with all of them, and she is beginning to exercise her free will, and that's why at the end she kicks out everyone from the palace and fights Zuko and loses, and in the end her punishment was being locked up, but it was just a continuation of what she already experienced. She's not a hero or a very good person, but I feel like her finally being free and having NO expectations or roles for her and just roaming the world with a group she identifies and relates with would be a good way to redeem her and give her a ending; not necessarily a happy or tragic ending, but just peace because she is finally free and is no longer Princess Azula, but just Azula.
Azula is canonically confirmed to have been redeemed at some point thru the cook book released and confirmed cannon where she has an entry describing a tea given to her by mai.
Azula's Fire Warriors, the fire version of the Kyoshi Warriors. In Suki, Alone, Azula taunted Suki about becoming from a leader of a respected group of warriors to a mere prisioner who was all alone. Here, Azula passed from being a respected and feared fire princess to an insane and lonely fugitive abandoned by her own group of warriors.
All the comics with Azula shows her slowly redeeming herself. I think it started with the first one where she met her mom. In the end she dropped the letter where her mom wrote that Zuko isn't Ozai's real son to discredit him as the heir to the fire nation on purpose. Zuko even noted that it's uncharacteristic of Azula to drop it.
I accept this, clearly, she didn't become better under a night. She did kind of started to notice some patterns, even if they trouble her and they still do trigger her. Maybe we will see her becoming better but that need's to be a hell long road to walk, and i'm happy that spirit didn't magically gave her redemption or she suddenly went like "oh, so am i the one with the issue". No, it showed her the truth, it called her out on her lies and at very least, it showed her that that there is a way to live with out taking anger on anything, like she at the end decide to leave those people alone. Will she become better?, that is unknown. If it is a yes, then it will need's to a road for all of us to follow just like Zuko's, if no they well yeah
Azula constantly reminds me of Zira the lioness from The Lion King 2. Like Azula, Zira is known for her cruelty and deceit. She is also unwilling to let go of, and accept, the past. Something that proved to be their undoing. The way Azula refused to rescue Chiyou can be compared to Zira threatening Vitani's life during TLK2's climax. That was what led to their followers deserting them.
This comic was great! Loved it! Folks expecting her to automatically redeem herself after just one experience. Redemption is a long hard road, and it's going to be a long road for Azula. Zukos redemption took three long, hard seasons. Bad choices, and mistakes will be made, but I think she will eventually get there. Despite her dark, nonchalant facade, she's sad and hurting. One thing is clear, she loves her mom, and cares very much about her friends and family. Folks forget, she's still just a child, and will be unlearning a lot of bad things for some time.
This comic kind of makes me sad. Does Azula really want Zuko to have died as children? I don't know, as headcanon, I was convinced she still loves him in some way, that she always did. I mean, why did she want to bring him back home at the end of book 2? I always thought she missed him, but maybe I'm too naive. And she did warn him to be more careful in book 3, so I don't know. Also a bit disappointed that there wasn't more Zuko in this comic. I always felt like he would be such an important person to Azula's redemption, or at least more important than Mai and Ty Lee. It's great to have these femals characters and their friendship shown, but Zuko is her brother, and they went through kinda the same shit as kids. I feel like he would be the only person who could somehow understand her. But what really bugs me is that she seemed so nonchalant in the end. She didn't even think about everything that she'd just witnessed, she didn't get rattled or question her desires. The only thing she did was let her followers live and be happy together. She doesn't know how to be part of this group, and she doesn't know that she showed mercy. She disguises it as being appalled by their weakness. Until she finalls understands her actual feelings and doesn't mold herself into a monster anymore, until she gets up the courage to face her mistakes... With Azula, it's not baby steps. It's microscopic steps. But I'm still happy that there are steps😊 Also, this video was amazing! Thanks so much for sharing the comic, I guess there was a lot of effort that went into the editing🥰
I think the reason why they use mai and ty Lee more than zuko is because he wasn't afraid of her and manipulated for long, but mai and ty Lee have been afraid of her for long so their betrayal was more brutal to her than zuko leaving and joining aang
She is trying to pin the blame on someone for making her life suck. I don’t think she wanted zuko to die truly as kids, but her mind was warped to believe him inferior even then. Instead of blaming her father and grandfather for forcing that situation she is blaming zuko because it is easier than understanding that the person you hero worshiped wasn’t worth it. Zuko was the black sheep so of course it was him and her mother that ruined her life, not ozai, azulon, and her own actions
Guys...what part of Azula is a mean person can't you understand? Sure, she comes from a background that allowed her to be cruel, but that's always been her personality. And in EVERY COMIC that shows or mentions her relationship with Zuko, she wishes he was dead. She even celebrated when he got his scar AND tried to murder him MULTIPLE times, both in the animated series and in the comics. She's NOT a good sister nor a good person. She has LAYERS and a STORY that make her an interesting villain.
I just felt bad for Azula in this. Personally, I feel like she was done dirty in the previous comics. She really got discarded and abandoned here. She has nothing but her name at this point, that's why she keeps clinging to the idea of her being Fire Lord. It's the only thing she has in this world. Zuko threw her into the loony bin that treated her like an animal and did not help her mental state. He released her out a year later just so he could exploit her to find their missing mother. Zuko does nothing but treat her horribly throughout the Search comics. Even in the Smoke comic, Zuko still sees her as an irredeemable person, which is just sad to see. Azula is just as much as a victim as Zuko. Even worse, I would argue. Because she was the golden child. She had no Iroh or Ursa to guide her with good morals, just Ozai. She was raised and indoctrinated to be the perfect manipulative and cruel weapon and was basically neglected by Ursa. (Yes, I know that Ursa's situation was complicated, but I feel like if Ursa and maybe even Iroh tried a bit harder and tried to sway her from Ozai's influence, Azula would be different.) She snapped because of all of the pressure and stresses placed on her at such a young age.
This kinda shows that the one thing that brought her to this mental state in the first place is... She yearned for love and affection, never treated any. So she pushed everyone instead of pulling them closer. All what happened to her is entirely her fault. Yet i kinda feel bad for her. Before the favouritism and Ozai's Parenthood got to her. She was happy, friendly, loved everyone around her. Envy and hatred eventually pushed her away to steps cant be unchanged. I remember my father's quote back to me, "No one was born evil, there's good in all of us, trapped in a small gate waiting to be opened, the key is love. Without it, the gate grows larger and harder to unlock, until its buried deep, no longer seen."
If she continues like this, she will end up like all the villains in her family, defeated, sad and mostly alone, with no one to blame for this but herself, just like her father. The spirit was right, she refuses to accept that she is the villain of the story. I'm very interested in knowing how her story will end, if she will redeem herself or if she will die a villain, like Ozai, Azulon and Sozin. Of all of them the one who was most successful was Sozin, he died of old age as the fire lord, but even so his plan failed in the end, the fire nation did not dominate the world.
Even if Azula didn't get redeemed which was to be expected, she did improve slightly, as at the beginning she swore to get revenge on her Fire Warriors, and in the end she let them go.
I gonna say she needs to be on her own path how Zuko was. It's a real pity she doesn't have an uncle Iroh to support her but I hope she'll figure out alone eventually what to do with her life and possibly find peace.
typical, even going through all that, she refuses to change, and see the errors of her ways, what a child, though Ozai is to blame for her being this way.
It's not just her being childish, going against the fundamental values your entire life is built upon is very difficult, particularly when your only "help" is a giant orange insect.
@@pauljordan0203 Azula's clearly not irredeemable. At the end, Azula chose to let the Fire warriors go, whereas previously she would have likely attacked them. It's not huge, but it is progress.
This is always how I envisioned a “redeemed” Azula would be. Still harsh and cold…but not an outright villain. She’s not the most compassionate but she does gain a sense of respect of those around her and not resorting to violence constantly. I would love to see her as a reluctant ally to Team Avatar in the adult Gaang movie
wow thanks so much usually i mute these types of videos because of my lack of focus but this was different it didn't make my adhd act up and this comic was so good thanks
I am so glad she got another comic about her.......this comic here shows her first step towards redemption,it won't be so simple and quick but she will definitely redeem herself.....it took zuko four years to find himself (it was already three years of his banishment when the show started and the entire three seasons happened in a year) so it will take azula a longer time to get a redemption
A first read might make it feel like she's just doubling down, but she did a number of things that set her on a path forward. She aknowledged that what she wants is not to rule, but to be loved, and she gave up on small scale petty revenge. Maybe accepting that she needs to be forgiven is too much for her for now, but she accepted that what matters to her is for people to care about her and aknowledge the hurt she's been through.
Hey, I just realize imagine if there’s another story that talks about the villain story I hope we get a legend of Korra one where it shows Zaheer 💨 story of how he made the red lotus
@@racerpower6889 OK but you know I still would’ve liked to see an origin of how Zaheer and the gang came to because we saw the villain Azula story in avatar the last Airbender I was hoping we see a villain story for legend of korra Maybe with her Zaheer
@@Emiliodelgado25 I agree. There is a lot to uncover about these origins. The series has so much potential to explore these things, yet they don't. I would love to see a comic. Perhaps the new airbender movie coming in 2025 will reveal the origins of the red lotus.
So did Azula redeem? I mean she is still of the same personality but it seems she at least is done blaming others for who she has become and is clearly willing to let the Fire Warriors go in favor of some new group.
@a.rtomboy6202 Actually the spider watches her and she does let them go it shows a sign to come. That she is changing, she'll never be the same after this experience but this will take time.
I think Zuko and Ursa would try to reach out to Azula between this comics end and Legend of Korra. It would be interesting to see how things are with Azula next time she appears. Especially Azula and Ursa reunion which I 100% happens at some point
@@brokenbridge6316we have to wait for quite some time for new projects to take off from Avatar Studios. I am hoping something related to Azula is among upcoming projects
THANK YOUUU 🥲💗 Azula can't force people to love her or be loyal to her. But that doesn't mean there's no one who will want to. Azula needs to stop obsessing over Zuko and her mom like she finally stopped obsessing over Ozai. These people will never love her, and that's just not something they can help or change. People, even family, simply don't owe you love or even a second thought. Her friends were never her friends of their own volition. Don't wait for an apology you will never get. Just move through life, and naturally, people who wanna be around you will stick by you. If they don't then oh well 👋
Supernatural redemption is one of the laziest forms of redemption imaginable. I want Azula's character to reach its logical conclusion (not necessarily redemption, but more like healing), but it needs to be just as believable as Zuko's
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219 It depends on how it's done but even then some just refuse to change and Azula works best being one of them. It's so difficult for a lot to accept but it's true.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A In the comics at least, Azula has already abandoned a lot of her initial goals. Initially, she wanted to kill Ursa und use her fake letter to dethrone Zuko. But when Zuko tells her that despite everything she is still his sister, she abandons that mission for good. Now, the problem is that even though she very clearly did abandon her mission, she holds this belief that only the weak repent. To her, being weak is the absolute worst thing she can be. And so she comes up with convoluted, downright illogical ways to compensate. She went from wanting to be fire lord herself to wanting to force Zuko to be a cruel fire lord. That to me is one of the weakest goals I've ever heard of. I really think that she just needs a justification to be problematic because not doing anything would make her weak. There is only one way she can begin to heal. And that is if she realizes that changing her ways will actually make her stronger. Will actually allow her to find a group of people who are truly loyal to her and don't just follow her out of fear
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219 It's all true. In the end, she'll never be able to make Zuko like her and even then his moral conscience is too powerful to succumb to being anything like her. Regardless of how Azula is offered atonement or does it, it'll never work if she's forced to accept it. In the end, she believes strong is weak and weak is strong and she'll have to start by dismantling that mentality which means a lot of discomfort and pain which she may never be willing to do.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A For Zuko's redemption, he had to first get the thing he thought he wanted: Being accepted by Ozai. Only after he realized how empty that was did he truly start believing in the things Iroh tried to teach him. Azula on the other hand contrasts Zuko in a really significant manner. Her biggest desire, as revealed in this comic, is to have people admit that they hurt her and apologize for it. Unlike Zuko, this desire is not reachable unless she turns over a new leaf first. Zuko and Iroh and especially Ursa absolutely would acknowledge that they hurt her if she actually swallowed her pride enough to bring it up in a non aggressive way and if she did so without ignoring her own faults, I have little doubt she would get that apology she wants. So Zuko's path is: I want the wrong thing->I obtain the wrong thing->I feel how pointless and wrong the wrong thing is->I change. Azula's is: I want the right thing for the wrong reasons->I have to change to get the right thing->But if I change then I won't get the wrong reasons->I won't change->I keep feeling the consequences of my refusal to change. It's much harder to get an arrow that leads to the "I change" portion. First she has to let go of the wrong reason for wanting the right thing. The wrong reason is the fact that she wants people to apologize to her but has no intention of acknowledging her own faults
This was seems and expanded Azula’s character in the best way! I would never want her to be a full blown hero, but if her “redemption” arc can lead her to being an antihero and being able to let go of things rather than fixate on vengeance, I’m all for it 😁
She is already anti-hero. The goal might be making her somewhat neutral character, she can't become hero because she didn't do anything positive in 100 Years war so people forget that when saying she will be hero.
I never thought I'd say this, but she looks ridiculously pretty in this comic. Especially with her hair down, the surprised expression, face not contorted by hate...if she wasn't such a hateful creature, she'd be a 10/10.
I remember Iracebeth Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland. She just wanted to hear apology from Mirana thats all she wanted to hear at the end. Azula was so lost and just wanted love, comfort and sorry from her family but they also failed her. 😢
Just a reminder to the ones saying her redemption arc starts when she voices why she felt betrayed by her mother: that's a good scene and it makes sense, but let's not forget her whole reasoning involves wishing her mother had allowed Ozai to kill Zuko...which is completely selfish and cruel. Azula doesn't show mercy for Zuko at any moment. Quiet the opposite, in diferent comics (including this one) she blames him for her problems and points out his death as the solution to them. It fits the character, of course, and it makes her still a villain
Whatever it takes and however long for Azula to redeem herself, I just hope she doesn't die for it, unlike many other characters whom have 'sacrificed' themselves to conclude their stories. I would love to see for once if a villain lived to tell about it.
well... we have no idea yet as to what happened to her during the years between Avatar Aang and Avatar Korra we know that she was sent to a psychiatric facility following her failure to be crowned the Fire Lord and losing the throne to Zuko, she was later let out to help search for their mother, but she escaped during the middle of the search and is kind of a fugitive now she tried to stage a coup and undermine Zuko's reign as Fire Lord multiple times, but she obviously didn't succeed, since Zuko remained Fire Lord till he abdicated in favor of passing the throne to his daughter Azula's fate by the time of Avatar Korra is left unknown, it is unlikely she died, so maybe she got re-imprisoned
The story needs continuation. Not sure if many know but this, but this is her last appearance in canon. In Korras time what ultimately happens with Azula is never addressed. And Azula is still young in a comic. Hopefully her story continues in avatar studios in some form.
I know two fanfictions that showed a believable redemption arc for her. In one, she lost her mind during season 2, was saved by Team Avatar, and found a new purpose in life, and in the other, she learned of a greater threat to the world that could destroy them all if she won't help uniting everyone and makes her decision when Zuko saves her from a stray attack from that threat during Sozin's Comet.
Links to FanFiction don't work in TH-cam comments, but I can say their names. The one in which Azula becomes good at the end of season 2 is called Absolute Trust while the one in which she becomes an ally is a crossover with DBZ, but I don't remember its name at the moment. I know it has the word Saiyan in it.
The thing about Azula is, yes she secretly does have a hunger for other people's love, but she's embarrassed by that desire for love so she fixates on power and domination and delusions of righteousness to try to burn that desire out of her. This comic was more or less, "Azula in Wonderland." Yes the "spirit" was lying, yes it was a monster, but most of all: it was just Azula's mind playing tricks on her, the insect thing was just what it manifested into, it wasn't spirit trickery, it was all just a dream which exposed the parts of herself and the world around her she was most genuinely frightened of.
Iwant her to meet Iroh in the next comic and i have a feeling she will.dount even him we will be aboe to completely changer her but perhaps help her find her own path!
I think this comic sets her up to eventually come down the path of anti-hero. I don't think she'll ever be fully good/redeemed, but at least she might become someone who uses her darker inclinations for at least some good reasons even if her tactics/mindset still makes her ultimately antagonistic towards the ATLA protaginists.
I think she'll keep struggling with wanting a normal, happy life on the one hand and on the other wanting power, control and war... In the end she will ask Aang to remove her bending so she can be a normal person not obssessed with power.
I wouldn't mind her being guven a redemption arc, not at all. But what lot of writer's tend to do is that they think that a redemption can last "few epizodes, 30 comic pages or such". Depending of the characther's crimes, it can take less but time does matter, what i really want to see is Azula working out to be a better person, just as Zuko did. It would take her a lot, not just few comic pages and i'm super fucking glad that they didn't give her redemption easy as a pie. We can kinda see that even if she seem's unfazed by the spirit world, it did struck her. We basically seen that in the end, she does see herself as a monster, she does want her brother, her friends to be part of her life and she wants to be praised and loved by her mother too. Her actually stopping herself from taking revenge on those girl's is also a huge step foward, i honestly would love to see her journey. Perhaps, a book which could cover her journey. What also struck me is her need to be around people, or group of people. She really can't handle being alone, she wants to be part of something too.
Long lore (airbender universe's and world's(s')/franchise's version) short, for now: feh. and these some to most in here/out there even Lazily 'try' to wonder (Accuse back/Blindly Barks/Anti(?)-Hater-pointings/etc Etc more like it) why some of us still don't just (none to the offense) ignorantly, naively Love the helghan rebel colonists (for another fitting Example. Heh) like they just so Easily do (and without Thought) in here? 'yeah'. right....
Quick reminder....this is NOT a 3 part series, just one. lol
At least we got the live action next year!
yeaaa atleast i love ur stuff btw zacky
Ahh
What's the name of the last song?
What did you think of it?
No three parts? Booooo, Kuvira got 3 so uselessly why not Azula
I love that in the end, instead of choosing violence like always, she just let them be, saying that they are too foolish for her leadership anyways, and goes on to continue her own path. The old Azula would not have hesitated to punish those who went against her orders. So in a way, she did develop, even if it's just a little bit.
Even though she hasn't accepted the truth about herself and figure out what she wants for herself just yet, she still continues to walk her own path, and that's what I like about her.
Facts
To those who wanted her to be redeemed in this comic, did you really expect someone like her to be redeemed like that in just one comic, Zuko went through a whole 3 seasons of character growth, since Azula is more messed up it'll would take her much longer to get better mentally
@@averagegamer456 at worst.
@averagegamer456 i think anti hero would suit her since i don't see her being a pure goody-goody
Honestly I don’t see azula getting redeemed at all even as a little girl it’s clear she was a psycho from the get go
I don't understand why we need every character redeemed. I just want her to go to therapy twice a week and have a support group. Beyond that she could try and conquer the earth kingdom again for all I care.
@vullord666 honestly it's really annoying i think these new fans grew up on steven universe or something cause whenever a villain has the slightest sad background they're like "omg they need a redemption arc" like no some people are bad and deserve what comes to them cause of their actions
It's refreshing to actually see a villain reject a "supernaturally given" redemption for once. If Azula ever gets redeemed then I would want it to be on her own terms and without any spirit fuckery. She needs to come to the conclusion of what she wants to do with her life on her own. Others may influence her in that journey and give her some pointers but I absolutely didn't want to see her get turned by some random spirit she just happens to stumble over once.
Exactly! and she's more mentally messed up so realistically if she were to get redeemed it'd take her much longer than Zuko to get there.
You can't redeem someone like Azula in one comic so I'm glad she rejected redemption too
Darth Vader went thru similar supernatural redemption arcs and rejected it but did show signs the light in him was still there before in comics (canon and noncanon). So this is no different, tbh this wasn't really well written. It just feels pointless. It's just Azula being Azula and no sign of character development. The spirit is still alive, and the only "change" is Azula looking for more canon fodder.
@@Cloofinder The change is that Azula gave up on taking revenge on her group, despite having the perfect opportunity to do so
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219Exactly I noticed that too since she always takes the chance for revenge. That and some of what the spirit said to her seemed to make her acknowledge the truth a bit.
It depends on how it's written. Spiritual awakenings can be very overwhelming for most people, even for the worse of the worst. Though they have to be in a particular state of mind where one is willing to except it. For example, when your entire world has crumbled around you & you feel unbelievable dispare & anguish, you just want all the pain you're feeling to end. A perfect example of this is in Avatar is when Azula had her mental breakdown & all of her emotions were at their highest after losing to Zuko & Katara. In the bible, Psalms 18:18 states, "When I was at my weakest, my enemies attacked- but the Lord held on to me." This verse means the when we're at our lowest and weakest point, that's when we're able to truly experience the perfection that is His grace; that's when we're able too see the strength and glory of Christ come to fruition in it's greatest form within our lives. In Azula's case, she has to be at her lowest point & be self aware enough to be willing to except any real positive change.
That ending was great. Azula's like: "Okay, there's way too much joy and love down there. Screw this."
yeah, plus and was literally fighting in the mind the whole night... she's still a somewhat master tactician who recognises when she needs a break
Yeah, I like it because she's not really stepping towards redemption or anything yet, but she did let go of taking revenge on her group
She said it herself. It came out of her mouth: "You weren't there to protect me from dad." She knows her father is trash she just refuses to accept it because of the Ozai brainwash academy she went through.
Interesting that her ideal idea of Zuko is the boy that was never got harmed before he got banished, before the family was separated.
Also interesting that Ty Lee represents harmony and forgiveness, whereas Mai represents harsh truths and rejection.
Considering how much Ozai mistreated Zuko since he was a young boy, Azula not being able to see that abus3 or enjoying it shows how self-absorved she's always been
@@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851I think she saw it, but was just glad it wasn't her
she just didn't realise it touched her too until she was over the edge
even notice how she let Zuzu come back home in the ba sing se episode
It was a self protecting backup ploy, but she could've just not let him come back if she wanted
@@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851 that's not how abuse sounds and you shouldn't make conclusions with zero knowledge on psychology. When you're a child, even if someone abuses you, you don't always recognize it as such or you're learnt to believe it's all you deserve. She might've seen the abuse but since her father was the only one to "stay" in her life and "be there for her" he was the main caregiver therefore put on pedestal and nothing they do can be wrong. She saw the abuse but believed that's all Zuko deserved because her father said so. She's just taught that way.
Well, no, that Zuko was what the spirit thought Azula wanted to see...
@@LesMisharable [insert sticker of spongebob looking confused]
This was an amazing start to her redemption arc, she doesnt get magically redeemed but you see progress at the end and points throughout where shes slowly starting to process stuff
22:06-I thought Azula's inner self was a 400ft tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings.
Me too.
Azula always lies
@@ChippiChippiChappaChappaCat even to herself
Ok you're good I admit it.
Finally gave us a story that reminds us Azula is just a teenager
Interesting that Azula imagined Zuko without his scar. Perhaps a small part of her does regret what happened to him
Did you see her smiling when he got burned in that flashback😭 girl was HAPPY
@@2triedforthis830 I said a SMALL bit!
She always call him ZuZu which means I love my big brother
@2triedforthis830 It was through Iroh's POV. In the scene, Azula was in front of him, plus he closed his eyes while looking away, so there was no way he could've fully seen her reaction. We already know Iroh sees Azula as a monster too, so thats what he imagined her reaction was like.
@@gsksbdb9988 girl what? It’s literally a memory and that’s totally in character for Azusa to be a little bit happy that the next in line for the crown gets banished and scared. She literally makes fun of him for it.
the ending is promising, she set off to "make them pay" but decided to spare them.
thats at least a realistic step towards redemption.
I love to think the old lady who fire healed Korra was Azula
@@falconeshield she didn't fire heal her as fire can't really heal in Avatar. What it can do is sense the flow of energy chi through a persons body and use heat to relax the muscles and chi flow
Azula does make a small change for the better at the end.
Throughout the comic she keeps on telling herself that she'll make them pay but at the end she decides to not do that and let them be.
Ppl be underestimating her I fr believe she'll be a katara lvl good one day so I believe in her she's my fav
@@xxvampire101I wouldn’t want her to be full hearted hero and be all buddy buddy with the Gaang, that’s not the Azula we’ve all known and love BUT more an anti-hero who follows her own path.
I want her to be part of team avatar but not all goody goody but still be nice to people
@@xxvampire101 azula is equally or superior to Katara especially at this age nobody was on azula’s level from the time she was bending but over time I’d say they are equally the same at older ages
I'm not talking about bending 💀💀💀💀
Azula is becoming even more humble and more dangerous. I love it.
even as a child, Azula was shown to have demonstrated some "sociopathic tendencies", even her mom believed that she may be "sick in the head"
through pure talent alone, Azula outshined her older brother and shared their father's ambition to take charge
Azula was some what responsible for the exile of her mother and the rise of her father to the Fire Lord position
after her brother got banished, she presumably became next in line for the throne
however, by the time of her coronation, Azula had suffered extreme mental breakdown, she became paranoid and fired all of her followers, she also started to hallucinate about her mom
we can see that in her own twisted mind, Azula believed her mom was afraid of her and refused to truly love her
Azula is not humble 💀
We all know how Azula’s redemption arc is going to end: With a life changing field trip with Zuko. 😌❤️
Been there, done that, didn't work as intended.
No no no no nononononononononono someone actually asked that question at a convention and Azula’s voice actress *literally* responded with “I would get pregnant”
@@charlieb.6172 i was thinking of that.
😂😂😂 this comment is everything!!!
That already happened and she almost killed her mother sooo...maybe a field trip with Zuko just won't do it this time
I thought this was the perfect beginning to at least some form of redemption for Azula.
Some people may say nothing happened, but she clearly changed, otherwise she would just have attacked the Fire Warriors at the end, showing she's capable of letting things go.
And some people may say Azula doesn't want or need redemption, but in the end, her behaviour is damaging to herself and the people around her, she can't stay as this "perfect villain" without eventually becoming an unstable, mentally broken wreck.
You're right.
All the people wanted and Azula villain Forever don't understand this Little detail: the reasons that making her a villain are the same reasons that making her crazy. If She remain the eternal villain, She Will remain with mental troubles, and this is a problem for her powers and abilities, and we see that. A Crazy teenager is not a real problem, she's unbelievable as a villain now, not with her stops to her full power.
Anyway, a lot of people have a misconception with the word "redemption", because in its ancient origin, the latin verb "redigere" had a different meaning, and It was "to ransom". So, an Azula's redemption will never be the "becoming a good guy", but the more simple "understand why she's in her condition and stop with this". She would become a grey character with a personal and a confused morality indeed the famous stereotype without morality. Because these are her two only possibilities as a character: or she will change or she will die/return crazy. There aren't other possibilities: the other like that One in Smoke and Shadow, that a lot of fans appreciate, are parodies like Space Balls, good for comedy only.
I love how Azula's story explores a form of redemption, but not the kind that suits her simply because she's too spiritually-troubled.
The spirit built her visions on lies and ignorance, which is the way Ozai raised her childhood. Even though it doesn't seem like it, Azula truly despises the way Ozai treated her. She recognizes that the spirit is treating her the exact same way, but with different intentions. Seeing Azula's visions getting twisted is a great way to depict how her current idea of redemption isn't possible. The people in her past wont just turn around and magically praise her. She has to work towards praise and respect and the ending shows that by showing her demeanor softening a little bit. This doesn't mean that she'll fully become a good person, but it shows she's acknowledging her past and taking steps to understand it.
I liked how the writer kept Azula in character.
The ending was perfect, I'm glad she didn't become all chummy with her group but I'm also glad she didn't murder them. So some slight character development from the experience.
I only wish there was long epic battle between Azula and the spirit that destroys the mountainside. But that's probably just me after watching too much Demon Slayers. 👹👺
Good job with the Motion Comic 😀
A battle like that was actually depicted in a novel. In the second Avatar Kyoshi novel to be exact and it is glorious. Doesn't involve Azula though.
Azula stays as she normally does..and that's why she is one of my favorite characters from the Avatar universe
Her story is not yet concluded
hmm i will have to disagree as she changed a bit. In the ending, when she found her camping group, she wasn't angry nor revengeful as compared to Ty Lee/Mai betrayal, she let it go. It seems that the spirit does influence her in someway in acknowledging the 'truths' she chose to ignore.
I love seeing Azula getting through the wringer as much as I love her being a badass.
It’s what makes for great characters and character development.
I love how Azula is the only level-headed character in this. I do like that she rejects this whole spiritual redemption and decides her own path. But honestly, I'm just confused by the Monk spirit in this. How does showing Azula hallucinations of an fake reality help her? I mean Azula's been suffering from hallucinations for the longest, so I doubt she would want more of them.
Yea ussually people seek the truth
Honestly this Azula comic was better than I thought it’d be. Of course Azula’s rejected a “supernatural redemption” in the end feels like the right move and in character for someone like Azula.
It took Three long and hard Seasons for Zuko to change and become a better person, with guidance from his uncle Iroh of course.
But Clearly Azula’s journey is gonna have to be FAR different from Zuko’s. I don’t see her being some full hearted goody goody and be all BFFs with the Gaang lol.
I hope she’ll become more anti-hero who skulks around in the darkness.
In my little head, she joins the kiyoshi warriors with her bestie ty Lee. Idk after she goes through her growth arc whenever that comes, she basically hates them all and then joins
@@2triedforthis830 Well Suki accepting Azula even after her growth will be quite a challenge.
And like I said I don’t see or want her to end all full goody goody, she could become an anti hero, Chaotic Neutral.
I have feeling she can be goody goody but with some bad habits like hybrid. Like a twist to the story, she will not grow out of old Azula but her new Azula will be there
The absolute queen, that was a fantastic ending for her story.
It is not the ending. Her story is just beginning!
Queen indeed but not the ending.
We all need more azula comics for sure😢😢
They need to make a series of Azula's redemption. I already know imma be tearbending when she speaks to Iroh
A tv series of her staying in ba sing se
@@michaelwarren875 a tv series of her going through the things that Zuko went through
@@ogy19 would be lit. I don't know why Nick hasn't had this idea yet. Ba sing se for one season and long feng would be the villain
Nah, Iroh doesn't love Azula as much as Zuko lmao
@@enju3588 he does
Even though Azula's still just as arrogant and vengeful as she was, she's actually less unstable mentally than before, which makes her a LOT more dangerous.
I'm not sure if she'll get a redemption arc, but for that to happen, she'll need to learn to respect her comrades' wishes, so she doesn't constantly think that they(and others) are betraying her. Considering she sees herself as the rightful heir to the throne, that's going to take a long time, if it's going to happen at all.
Looking at it all. Azula doesn’t get the entire cliche redemption, she doesn’t join her brother and his friends.
She may never become a good guy, but she’s not a bad guy anymore.
She’s just free. 🆓
That’s what Azula gets. Freedom.
Azula spent her whole life being controlled or told what to do, and her father expected her to be his fire bending weapon, and she never really decides anything for herself. That's why she struggles on Ember Island because for the first time she has nobody telling her what to do, and she is unable to interact with people her age besides the people assigned to her (Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee are all Fire Nation royalty or nobles so they aren't really her friends or family, just people on her same level), and inevitably destroys her relationships with all of them, and she is beginning to exercise her free will, and that's why at the end she kicks out everyone from the palace and fights Zuko and loses, and in the end her punishment was being locked up, but it was just a continuation of what she already experienced.
She's not a hero or a very good person, but I feel like her finally being free and having NO expectations or roles for her and just roaming the world with a group she identifies and relates with would be a good way to redeem her and give her a ending; not necessarily a happy or tragic ending, but just peace because she is finally free and is no longer Princess Azula, but just Azula.
Azula is canonically confirmed to have been redeemed at some point thru the cook book released and confirmed cannon where she has an entry describing a tea given to her by mai.
@@Ouch002 true
Azula's Fire Warriors, the fire version of the Kyoshi Warriors.
In Suki, Alone, Azula taunted Suki about becoming from a leader of a respected group of warriors to a mere prisioner who was all alone.
Here, Azula passed from being a respected and feared fire princess to an insane and lonely fugitive abandoned by her own group of warriors.
All the comics with Azula shows her slowly redeeming herself. I think it started with the first one where she met her mom. In the end she dropped the letter where her mom wrote that Zuko isn't Ozai's real son to discredit him as the heir to the fire nation on purpose. Zuko even noted that it's uncharacteristic of Azula to drop it.
Overall good comic and it has an ending that allows for Azula to used in the new Avatar the last airbender movies
I accept this, clearly, she didn't become better under a night. She did kind of started to notice some patterns, even if they trouble her and they still do trigger her. Maybe we will see her becoming better but that need's to be a hell long road to walk, and i'm happy that spirit didn't magically gave her redemption or she suddenly went like "oh, so am i the one with the issue". No, it showed her the truth, it called her out on her lies and at very least, it showed her that that there is a way to live with out taking anger on anything, like she at the end decide to leave those people alone. Will she become better?, that is unknown. If it is a yes, then it will need's to a road for all of us to follow just like Zuko's, if no they well yeah
The Fire Warriors looking out for each other minus Azula reminds me of the Kyoshi Warriors and how they consider themselves sisters.
Azula constantly reminds me of Zira the lioness from The Lion King 2.
Like Azula, Zira is known for her cruelty and deceit. She is also unwilling to let go of, and accept, the past. Something that proved to be their undoing.
The way Azula refused to rescue Chiyou can be compared to Zira threatening Vitani's life during TLK2's climax. That was what led to their followers deserting them.
This comic was great! Loved it! Folks expecting her to automatically redeem herself after just one experience. Redemption is a long hard road, and it's going to be a long road for Azula. Zukos redemption took three long, hard seasons. Bad choices, and mistakes will be made, but I think she will eventually get there. Despite her dark, nonchalant facade, she's sad and hurting. One thing is clear, she loves her mom, and cares very much about her friends and family. Folks forget, she's still just a child, and will be unlearning a lot of bad things for some time.
This comic kind of makes me sad. Does Azula really want Zuko to have died as children? I don't know, as headcanon, I was convinced she still loves him in some way, that she always did. I mean, why did she want to bring him back home at the end of book 2? I always thought she missed him, but maybe I'm too naive. And she did warn him to be more careful in book 3, so I don't know. Also a bit disappointed that there wasn't more Zuko in this comic. I always felt like he would be such an important person to Azula's redemption, or at least more important than Mai and Ty Lee. It's great to have these femals characters and their friendship shown, but Zuko is her brother, and they went through kinda the same shit as kids. I feel like he would be the only person who could somehow understand her. But what really bugs me is that she seemed so nonchalant in the end. She didn't even think about everything that she'd just witnessed, she didn't get rattled or question her desires. The only thing she did was let her followers live and be happy together. She doesn't know how to be part of this group, and she doesn't know that she showed mercy. She disguises it as being appalled by their weakness. Until she finalls understands her actual feelings and doesn't mold herself into a monster anymore, until she gets up the courage to face her mistakes... With Azula, it's not baby steps. It's microscopic steps. But I'm still happy that there are steps😊 Also, this video was amazing! Thanks so much for sharing the comic, I guess there was a lot of effort that went into the editing🥰
I think the reason why they use mai and ty Lee more than zuko is because he wasn't afraid of her and manipulated for long, but mai and ty Lee have been afraid of her for long so their betrayal was more brutal to her than zuko leaving and joining aang
She is trying to pin the blame on someone for making her life suck. I don’t think she wanted zuko to die truly as kids, but her mind was warped to believe him inferior even then. Instead of blaming her father and grandfather for forcing that situation she is blaming zuko because it is easier than understanding that the person you hero worshiped wasn’t worth it. Zuko was the black sheep so of course it was him and her mother that ruined her life, not ozai, azulon, and her own actions
She just wants someone to blame, in this case it was Zuko. The comic does show that Azula cares about Zuko, in her ideal world he isnt scarred.
Guys...what part of Azula is a mean person can't you understand? Sure, she comes from a background that allowed her to be cruel, but that's always been her personality. And in EVERY COMIC that shows or mentions her relationship with Zuko, she wishes he was dead. She even celebrated when he got his scar AND tried to murder him MULTIPLE times, both in the animated series and in the comics. She's NOT a good sister nor a good person. She has LAYERS and a STORY that make her an interesting villain.
The ending of this comic shows growth in her character. Instead of choosing violence, she walked away.
I just felt bad for Azula in this. Personally, I feel like she was done dirty in the previous comics. She really got discarded and abandoned here. She has nothing but her name at this point, that's why she keeps clinging to the idea of her being Fire Lord. It's the only thing she has in this world. Zuko threw her into the loony bin that treated her like an animal and did not help her mental state. He released her out a year later just so he could exploit her to find their missing mother. Zuko does nothing but treat her horribly throughout the Search comics.
Even in the Smoke comic, Zuko still sees her as an irredeemable person, which is just sad to see. Azula is just as much as a victim as Zuko. Even worse, I would argue. Because she was the golden child. She had no Iroh or Ursa to guide her with good morals, just Ozai. She was raised and indoctrinated to be the perfect manipulative and cruel weapon and was basically neglected by Ursa. (Yes, I know that Ursa's situation was complicated, but I feel like if Ursa and maybe even Iroh tried a bit harder and tried to sway her from Ozai's influence, Azula would be different.) She snapped because of all of the pressure and stresses placed on her at such a young age.
Ty Lee's so cute she's like a female version of aang😊
This kinda shows that the one thing that brought her to this mental state in the first place is... She yearned for love and affection, never treated any. So she pushed everyone instead of pulling them closer. All what happened to her is entirely her fault. Yet i kinda feel bad for her.
Before the favouritism and Ozai's Parenthood got to her. She was happy, friendly, loved everyone around her. Envy and hatred eventually pushed her away to steps cant be unchanged. I remember my father's quote back to me, "No one was born evil, there's good in all of us, trapped in a small gate waiting to be opened, the key is love. Without it, the gate grows larger and harder to unlock, until its buried deep, no longer seen."
It’s not over, she’s on the road to redemption, just a little bit longer
If she continues like this, she will end up like all the villains in her family, defeated, sad and mostly alone, with no one to blame for this but herself, just like her father. The spirit was right, she refuses to accept that she is the villain of the story. I'm very interested in knowing how her story will end, if she will redeem herself or if she will die a villain, like Ozai, Azulon and Sozin. Of all of them the one who was most successful was Sozin, he died of old age as the fire lord, but even so his plan failed in the end, the fire nation did not dominate the world.
Even if Azula didn't get redeemed which was to be expected, she did improve slightly, as at the beginning she swore to get revenge on her Fire Warriors, and in the end she let them go.
6:18 Someone pitched a tent over a tree root? No wonder morale was so low, there's no way they were sleeping well at night!
I gonna say she needs to be on her own path how Zuko was. It's a real pity she doesn't have an uncle Iroh to support her but I hope she'll figure out alone eventually what to do with her life and possibly find peace.
Ty Lee removed her Kyoshi Warrior makeup as she said she would in Sisters, so different indeed
Is it just me or is the description of this video MASSIVE
HOLY I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS DUDE IN A WHILE
This video was extremely well done. Every edit added to the material. Blown away!
dang... she really just went, "nahhh, uh'Im g bro.. you can skiddadle with your redemption arc"
This is INCREDIBLE. Thank you!
typical, even going through all that, she refuses to change, and see the errors of her ways, what a child, though Ozai is to blame for her being this way.
It's not just her being childish, going against the fundamental values your entire life is built upon is very difficult, particularly when your only "help" is a giant orange insect.
@@Tamashikusho at least it was trying to help reflect her actions, right?
@@pauljordan0203 True, but an already difficult task is probably not going to be helped by something that most people would find repulsive.
@@Tamashikusho well that's why people like Azula is considered, irredeemable.
@@pauljordan0203 Azula's clearly not irredeemable. At the end, Azula chose to let the Fire warriors go, whereas previously she would have likely attacked them. It's not huge, but it is progress.
This is always how I envisioned a “redeemed” Azula would be. Still harsh and cold…but not an outright villain. She’s not the most compassionate but she does gain a sense of respect of those around her and not resorting to violence constantly. I would love to see her as a reluctant ally to Team Avatar in the adult Gaang movie
Was NOT expecting King Ohger music for this.
A well done work and effects 👏 👏
wow thanks so much usually i mute these types of videos because of my lack of focus but this was different it didn't make my adhd act up and this comic was so good thanks
Thank you for this my friend Zacky.
I am so glad she got another comic about her.......this comic here shows her first step towards redemption,it won't be so simple and quick but she will definitely redeem herself.....it took zuko four years to find himself (it was already three years of his banishment when the show started and the entire three seasons happened in a year) so it will take azula a longer time to get a redemption
I wish to see Azula will finally redeemed herself and help out Zuko and her old friends out if they’re in danger
Well, she didn't. Like I said "A quest for redemption is a heavy burden for Azula.".
@@johnsantos507The is just the beginiing of Azula's story..
Something like Kuvira's arc is most appropriate, and this feels like it.
Thanks for uploading!
1:58 Oh, Iroh would love her right away and vice versa. 😂
A first read might make it feel like she's just doubling down, but she did a number of things that set her on a path forward. She aknowledged that what she wants is not to rule, but to be loved, and she gave up on small scale petty revenge. Maybe accepting that she needs to be forgiven is too much for her for now, but she accepted that what matters to her is for people to care about her and aknowledge the hurt she's been through.
Hearing King-ohger's opening makes me feel happy to be here
That was incredible, keep it up brother❤
Great. How are those kids going to deal with that sociopathic former princess?
Hey, I just realize imagine if there’s another story that talks about the villain story I hope we get a legend of Korra one where it shows Zaheer 💨 story of how he made the red lotus
zaheer never made the red lotus
@@racerpower6889 he never did then how did that happen again because I know it had something to do with him team me up with korra’s evil Uncle
@@Emiliodelgado25 Basically a member of the white lotus left and established and created the red lotus way before unalaq or zaheer.
@@racerpower6889 OK but you know I still would’ve liked to see an origin of how Zaheer and the gang came to because we saw the villain Azula story in avatar the last Airbender I was hoping we see a villain story for legend of korra Maybe with her Zaheer
@@Emiliodelgado25 I agree. There is a lot to uncover about these origins. The series has so much potential to explore these things, yet they don't. I would love to see a comic. Perhaps the new airbender movie coming in 2025 will reveal the origins of the red lotus.
So did Azula redeem? I mean she is still of the same personality but it seems she at least is done blaming others for who she has become and is clearly willing to let the Fire Warriors go in favor of some new group.
@a.rtomboy6202 Actually the spider watches her and she does let them go it shows a sign to come. That she is changing, she'll never be the same after this experience but this will take time.
I think Zuko and Ursa would try to reach out to Azula between this comics end and Legend of Korra. It would be interesting to see how things are with Azula next time she appears. Especially Azula and Ursa reunion which I 100% happens at some point
I liked this one. Although I wanted Azula to change for the better. Oh well. It had to be her choice in the end.
Her story continue perhaps she will change. Remember how challenging it was for Zuko
@@AndalusianPhilosopher---Yes I remember. If I get the chance I would gladly see how Azula does it. She was always exceedingly intriguing to me.
@@brokenbridge6316we have to wait for quite some time for new projects to take off from Avatar Studios. I am hoping something related to Azula is among upcoming projects
@@AndalusianPhilosopher---That is hardly a surprise. And yes let's hope something Azula related is in their.
She did tho, she didn't punish the fire warriors
THANK YOUUU 🥲💗 Azula can't force people to love her or be loyal to her. But that doesn't mean there's no one who will want to. Azula needs to stop obsessing over Zuko and her mom like she finally stopped obsessing over Ozai. These people will never love her, and that's just not something they can help or change. People, even family, simply don't owe you love or even a second thought. Her friends were never her friends of their own volition. Don't wait for an apology you will never get. Just move through life, and naturally, people who wanna be around you will stick by you. If they don't then oh well 👋
Don't know what the heck you're spouting about, her Mom and Zuko loves Azula.
Not terrible. Azula was handed a chance to change but rejected it. Shows she may never change. It's like with some.
Supernatural redemption is one of the laziest forms of redemption imaginable. I want Azula's character to reach its logical conclusion (not necessarily redemption, but more like healing), but it needs to be just as believable as Zuko's
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219 It depends on how it's done but even then some just refuse to change and Azula works best being one of them. It's so difficult for a lot to accept but it's true.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A In the comics at least, Azula has already abandoned a lot of her initial goals. Initially, she wanted to kill Ursa und use her fake letter to dethrone Zuko. But when Zuko tells her that despite everything she is still his sister, she abandons that mission for good. Now, the problem is that even though she very clearly did abandon her mission, she holds this belief that only the weak repent. To her, being weak is the absolute worst thing she can be. And so she comes up with convoluted, downright illogical ways to compensate. She went from wanting to be fire lord herself to wanting to force Zuko to be a cruel fire lord. That to me is one of the weakest goals I've ever heard of. I really think that she just needs a justification to be problematic because not doing anything would make her weak.
There is only one way she can begin to heal. And that is if she realizes that changing her ways will actually make her stronger. Will actually allow her to find a group of people who are truly loyal to her and don't just follow her out of fear
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219 It's all true. In the end, she'll never be able to make Zuko like her and even then his moral conscience is too powerful to succumb to being anything like her. Regardless of how Azula is offered atonement or does it, it'll never work if she's forced to accept it. In the end, she believes strong is weak and weak is strong and she'll have to start by dismantling that mentality which means a lot of discomfort and pain which she may never be willing to do.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A For Zuko's redemption, he had to first get the thing he thought he wanted: Being accepted by Ozai. Only after he realized how empty that was did he truly start believing in the things Iroh tried to teach him.
Azula on the other hand contrasts Zuko in a really significant manner. Her biggest desire, as revealed in this comic, is to have people admit that they hurt her and apologize for it. Unlike Zuko, this desire is not reachable unless she turns over a new leaf first. Zuko and Iroh and especially Ursa absolutely would acknowledge that they hurt her if she actually swallowed her pride enough to bring it up in a non aggressive way and if she did so without ignoring her own faults, I have little doubt she would get that apology she wants.
So Zuko's path is: I want the wrong thing->I obtain the wrong thing->I feel how pointless and wrong the wrong thing is->I change.
Azula's is: I want the right thing for the wrong reasons->I have to change to get the right thing->But if I change then I won't get the wrong reasons->I won't change->I keep feeling the consequences of my refusal to change.
It's much harder to get an arrow that leads to the "I change" portion. First she has to let go of the wrong reason for wanting the right thing. The wrong reason is the fact that she wants people to apologize to her but has no intention of acknowledging her own faults
This was seems and expanded Azula’s character in the best way! I would never want her to be a full blown hero, but if her “redemption” arc can lead her to being an antihero and being able to let go of things rather than fixate on vengeance, I’m all for it 😁
She is already anti-hero. The goal might be making her somewhat neutral character, she can't become hero because she didn't do anything positive in 100 Years war so people forget that when saying she will be hero.
Spirit: I offer redemption and peace ~
Azula: You can shove it -!! 🔥
Azula pulled out an Illidan Stormrage
"MY DESTINY IS MY OWN!"
I never thought I'd say this, but she looks ridiculously pretty in this comic.
Especially with her hair down, the surprised expression, face not contorted by hate...if she wasn't such a hateful creature, she'd be a 10/10.
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I remember Iracebeth Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland. She just wanted to hear apology from Mirana thats all she wanted to hear at the end. Azula was so lost and just wanted love, comfort and sorry from her family but they also failed her. 😢
I think the best move is to make Azula a anti hero, if she becomes good it just doesn’t sit right in my opinion
Thank you
Azula got that dog in her. Reminds me of the punisher courtroom scene.
Just a reminder to the ones saying her redemption arc starts when she voices why she felt betrayed by her mother: that's a good scene and it makes sense, but let's not forget her whole reasoning involves wishing her mother had allowed Ozai to kill Zuko...which is completely selfish and cruel. Azula doesn't show mercy for Zuko at any moment. Quiet the opposite, in diferent comics (including this one) she blames him for her problems and points out his death as the solution to them. It fits the character, of course, and it makes her still a villain
But her brother betrayed her so why she should show mercy to traitors?
Whatever it takes and however long for Azula to redeem herself, I just hope she doesn't die for it, unlike many other characters whom have 'sacrificed' themselves to conclude their stories. I would love to see for once if a villain lived to tell about it.
I see Azula becoming Chaotic neutral
well... we have no idea yet as to what happened to her during the years between Avatar Aang and Avatar Korra
we know that she was sent to a psychiatric facility following her failure to be crowned the Fire Lord and losing the throne to Zuko, she was later let out to help search for their mother, but she escaped during the middle of the search and is kind of a fugitive now
she tried to stage a coup and undermine Zuko's reign as Fire Lord multiple times, but she obviously didn't succeed, since Zuko remained Fire Lord till he abdicated in favor of passing the throne to his daughter
Azula's fate by the time of Avatar Korra is left unknown, it is unlikely she died, so maybe she got re-imprisoned
Never thought I'd see azula become the box ghost of the fire nation, very sad to see.
How much freaking longer do we have to wait to see her story come full circle
I keep reading this in Grey DeLisle's voice.
The only blue firebender. Badass and cool...
The story needs continuation. Not sure if many know but this, but this is her last appearance in canon. In Korras time what ultimately happens with Azula is never addressed. And Azula is still young in a comic. Hopefully her story continues in avatar studios in some form.
thanks for uploading dis
10:10 the moment she opened that door and saw her family 😭 I cried
I know two fanfictions that showed a believable redemption arc for her.
In one, she lost her mind during season 2, was saved by Team Avatar, and found a new purpose in life, and in the other, she learned of a greater threat to the world that could destroy them all if she won't help uniting everyone and makes her decision when Zuko saves her from a stray attack from that threat during Sozin's Comet.
Those both sound so interesting, can you send the links?
I agree, what are the names of those fics?
Links to FanFiction don't work in TH-cam comments, but I can say their names.
The one in which Azula becomes good at the end of season 2 is called Absolute Trust while the one in which she becomes an ally is a crossover with DBZ, but I don't remember its name at the moment. I know it has the word Saiyan in it.
What was the greater threat?
@@umwha
At first, it was Goku, but later on, it was the Empire from Star Wars.
The thing about Azula is, yes she secretly does have a hunger for other people's love, but she's embarrassed by that desire for love so she fixates on power and domination and delusions of righteousness to try to burn that desire out of her.
This comic was more or less, "Azula in Wonderland." Yes the "spirit" was lying, yes it was a monster, but most of all: it was just Azula's mind playing tricks on her, the insect thing was just what it manifested into, it wasn't spirit trickery, it was all just a dream which exposed the parts of herself and the world around her she was most genuinely frightened of.
Iwant her to meet Iroh in the next comic and i have a feeling she will.dount even him we will be aboe to completely changer her but perhaps help her find her own path!
Yo Azula actually opening up a little to her mother got me tearing up a bit. Wtf
cool opening. i hope you're not afraid of insects *wink*
I think this comic sets her up to eventually come down the path of anti-hero. I don't think she'll ever be fully good/redeemed, but at least she might become someone who uses her darker inclinations for at least some good reasons even if her tactics/mindset still makes her ultimately antagonistic towards the ATLA protaginists.
I think she'll keep struggling with wanting a normal, happy life on the one hand and on the other wanting power, control and war... In the end she will ask Aang to remove her bending so she can be a normal person not obssessed with power.
@@ThatGuy-tx4vmI feel like Azula would rather kill herself than willingly want to remove her bending
ty so much
I wouldn't mind her being guven a redemption arc, not at all. But what lot of writer's tend to do is that they think that a redemption can last "few epizodes, 30 comic pages or such". Depending of the characther's crimes, it can take less but time does matter, what i really want to see is Azula working out to be a better person, just as Zuko did. It would take her a lot, not just few comic pages and i'm super fucking glad that they didn't give her redemption easy as a pie. We can kinda see that even if she seem's unfazed by the spirit world, it did struck her. We basically seen that in the end, she does see herself as a monster, she does want her brother, her friends to be part of her life and she wants to be praised and loved by her mother too. Her actually stopping herself from taking revenge on those girl's is also a huge step foward, i honestly would love to see her journey. Perhaps, a book which could cover her journey. What also struck me is her need to be around people, or group of people. She really can't handle being alone, she wants to be part of something too.
Azula should never be redeemed this is how her character works. Redemption makes no sense for her.
She is Psychotic amd messed up
She is to crazy for remdepaom she is like a yandre
Long lore (airbender universe's and world's(s')/franchise's version) short, for now: feh.
and these some to most in here/out there even Lazily 'try' to wonder (Accuse back/Blindly Barks/Anti(?)-Hater-pointings/etc Etc more like it) why some of us still don't just (none to the offense) ignorantly, naively Love the helghan rebel colonists (for another fitting Example. Heh) like they just so Easily do (and without Thought) in here? 'yeah'. right....
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I love how she went SPLAT!
OMG THE KINGOHGER MUSIC XD