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* When Sokka, Toph, and Suki infiltrate one of the Fire Nation airships, Toph uses metal armor to protect herself from the firebending. Shouldn't she have been badly burned since metal is a good heat conductor?
** I think benders can control over the temperature of the element they're bending on some level. That would also explain waterbenders' ability to switch between ice/water and Azula's ability to switch between blue/orange fire as well.
** 1: She kicked down a door ([http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep60/ep60-149.png a pretty thick one, I might add]{{Dead link}}) to make that armor. 2: She was hit by [http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep60/ep60-162.png one fireball]{{Dead link}} that lasted a second or two. Even comet-powered, that wouldn't do much. If that doesn't satisfy you, just file it under [[Convection, Schmonvection]] and [[Rule of Cool]].
*** You're also not taking into account that that metal was on a Fire Nation airship. If the ship is powered by firebenders, it would stand to reason that the metal, which, as mentioned above, was very thick, would be designed to absorb minimal heat.
* In the finale, couldn't Katara just have bloodbended Azula into submission instead of running around the palace until she found a chain? Even if she has objections to bloodbending, she's been shown using it when she really has to, or is really pissed off, such as against Hama and the retired Southern Raider captain.
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** She ''didn't'' care about them. Azula is all about controlling every aspect of her life. She trusted that Mai and Ty Lee could be ''controlled'', not that they were her friends. She knew that Mai didn't like her, and expected Mai to do treacherous things. Mai betrayed her for Zuko's sake, and Ty Lee proved that she'd side with Mai over Azula any day (in Azula's head, anyway). Second, she's about perfection. In her first episode, she redoes a kata that was executed purposely, because one of her hairs was out of place (See also: Katara slicing her hair in the Season 2 Finale, and then Azula butchering her own hair in Season 3 finale). She strives to ''be'' perfect, by any means necessary. That's her [[Fatal Flaw]]. After Mai and Ty Lee betrayed her, she suddenly finds Zuko able to fight her to a standstill in every encounter they had, and then ''defeat her'' in the end. Third, [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Azula Loves Her Mama]]. And she always thought that her mother liked Zuko more than her. And as of ''The Boiling Rock,'' She ''knows'' that Mai likes Zuko over her. That opened up the mommy wound from the [[Beach Episode]]. So she connects all of this in her mind: ''Zuko's the reason I lost control over Mai, as well as the reason that mommy left me. Now Zuko is better than me, where did I go wrong, now my hair's not listening to me I can't trust anyone OMGBLARG!''
*** ...I still don't get it. Going by your line of reasoning, the cause of all her problems and imperfections is Zuko, so shouldn't she just want to kill him even more (thus ridding her of imperfection)? I fail to see how "Zuko is the cause of my problems" translates into "everyone is untrustworthy, randomly banish innocent people". Shouldn't it be "I will torture him to death while laughing" instead?
*** She ''did'' want to kill him even more. In The Southern Raiders, she shows up in an airship ready to celebrate becoming an only child, and announcing her intentions in the hammiest way imaginable. Bonus: her facial expressions [http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep56/ep56-263.png during]{{Dead link}} [http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep56/ep56-267.png that]{{Dead link}} [http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep56/ep56-286.png fight]{{Dead link}} are much more animated than her [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep21/ep21-1311.png usual]{{Dead link}} [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep21/ep21-1254.png blank]{{Dead link}} [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep21/ep21-1256.png slate]{{Dead link}}. She's becoming unhinged already. And the fact that she pulls her hairpin out in the end continues with the hair metaphor mentioned earlier. Besides, it's ''not'' all about Zuko. Azula's a human being (even though she thinks she's a monster) and she's striving after perfection. She fell hard, and since she never failed before, she doesn't know how to pick herself up, so she naturally blames Zuko, who was just connected enough to her many issues that they all came crashing down on her at once. Zuko was sort of a catalyst for all this, not the cause in and of itself.
** This troper thinks that, in addition to the aforementioned Zuko issues, it may have had something to do with Ozai's becoming the Phoenix King. With him in charge of the entire world, the position of Fire Lord is now kind of defunct...a governor, if you will, at best. It's not unreasonable to assume that she had wanted to be Fire Lord her whole life, and when she finally gets it, it doesn't really "count" anymore? Seems like that would push her just a little bit closer to the edge.
*** This troper thinks that you're on the right track, but there's more to it than that. Azula is [[Daddy's Little Villain]] through and through; she's dedicated her life to pleasing her father. Her [[Mommy Issues]] were all created because she acted sociopathically amoral and without love ''because Ozai taught her too'', and she had how he treated Zuko as a contrast. And just when she thinks she's proved herself to him once and for all, that she's done ''everything'' right, he tells her that she can't come with him to the final battle, because she has to stay at home and basically be a governor. She's sacrificed everything for this man who doesn't seem to care about her much at all.
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