Talk:Azula/@comment-75.94.60.254-20111106185456/@comment-4629706-20111109005628

Capturing Ba Sing Se, I will give you was an act in which she was doing good for her nation. But you're overlooking one crucial fact: Aang and the Earth Kingdom didn't ever attack the FN for no reason. Azula and the Fire Nation did. If you're dropped into Afghanistan with an AK-47, you'll try to defend yourself. but are you going to go around harming innocent civilians? HELL no. And that's precisely what Azula and the Fire Nation did. Iroh and Zuko weren't threats to the Fire Nation until Book 3. Before that, they had the same goal as Azula did: capture the Avatar. In fact, Iroh was never a threat. All he was was a lazy ass old man who did nothing while Zuko went around trying to capture the Avatar. Now, I will concede that Azula did not have much of a choice but to shoot Zuko (which was on a fluke). In fact, here I’m dropping the charges of shooting Zuko, and altering them into new ones: trying to shoot Katara. Katara was never even involved in that fight. And Azula was ready to kill her. Strategically smart, yes. Morally correct, no. Azula was in an Agni Kai, fighting ZUKO. Morally, she cheated (though I stand by my belief that she did win the battle). Shooting Zuko was justifiable. She was losing a battle which Zuko had started, and she had every right to shoot him. Shooting Katara was not. With Iroh, she was backed into a corner. She looked for an opening and found one. That was, after consideration, necessary. Aang’s death was a part of the capture of Ba Sing Se. But it wouldn’t have exactly been hard to break through that crystal and take him and Katara prisoner. This isn’t something I’ll argue about, because it was part off Ba Sing Se’s fall. But there were alternatives. And no, Azula never laid a finger on Mai. But five seconds later, and she would have. Ever wonder why Ty Lee chi blocked her? Because she was about to kill Mai. Let me ask you something. If someone holds a gun to your head, but the police shoot him first, does it make it any more right that he almost shot you? No. And it doesn’t make it better that Azula nearly shot Mai JUST because she never got a chance.