Talk:Azula/@comment-69.181.22.236-20130618011406/@comment-3338975-20130620170442

The creators also stated that he took part in other, off-screen battles, but that they wanted to focus the show on the journey of the child and teenage main characters (which would be more immediately appealing to their main audience, anyways). As for Azula, she was basically just the tool of Ozai throughout the entire series: hunting down Zuko and Iroh on his orders, acting as the eyes of the Royal Family by watching over the drill project to make sure it ran smoothly, etc. She failed in the latter job, and thus apparently decided to go back to tracking the Avatar & hoping to crosspaths with Zuko and Iroh again (the former an imperative for the whole Fire Nation, the latter a task Ozai had already assigned to her), and by sheer dumb luck happened to run into the Kyoshi Warrior shortly before Team Avatar had Long Feng arrested. Yes, she took advantage of that situation in a crafty manner so that she could hand the city over to her father, but doubtless if he had been so lucky he would have been able to do likewise, given how he's been able to twist Zuko around his little finger in The Promise and was able to bribe Azula into doing what he wanted in the finale. She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, while her father was off leading the war in other arenas; however, it would be rather interesting to know what exactly those battles consisted of.