Why Is Azula’s Fire Blue? (Avatar Answers)

Why Is Azula’s Fire Blue? (Avatar Answers)

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Princess Azula from the Fire Nation is a recurring fan-favorite, but not so much celebrated in her own world. There’s no way around accepting the fact that she is one of the, perhaps the most, deadly person alive, in Aang’s time at least. Every appearance of hers is marked with not only an eerie background music just reserved for her, but she also exceeds sheer dominance over anybody who is in the same room as her, effortlessly pushing them into her shadow. While her persona is surely interesting on its own, one of her most striking features is her firebending which distinguishes itself from that of others. How so? Well, one only needs to take a quick look at any of the scenes she’s seen firebending to notice that the color of her fire is blue instead of the typical yellow-orange and white.

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[TheAmagiYT]

What questions would you like to see answered in our next video?

[jasongotcello]

The fact that Azula can generate lightning even in her unstable state is pretty frightening

[blushingralseiuwu]

Well, blue is a refined flame, and she is a perfectionist.

[bobhondacivic]

Short answer: shes just built different

[Logplank]

One thing I found interesting in sozin's comet is that normally azula's fire turns to normal orange when burning something, but her fire in the palace is already burning and not just getting shot out, but is still staying blue

[brayandannunzio]

What bothers me is she’s literally the only character in both series that has blue fire but it’s never explained

[platanero]

"Why is Azula's fire blue?"

Because Azul is blue in Spanish. That concludes my TED Talk.

[thatonenoob]

Blue Fire is also a nice characterization. Blue Fire, unlike normal fire, is not wild and is very concentrated. Blue fire is always upright and straight, which is why Azula's fire turns back into orange after some time. But after she loses her sanity, she stops focusing so much and just tries to make it as hot as possible.

[stateoftheavatar]

We also should note that "azul" means blue in Spanish, and her name is Azula.

[Mendrawza]

My theory is that the animators were like, "Bro, wouldn't it be cool if the antagonist had blue fire?" To which another animator replied, "Dude, that'd be sick!"

[Sophitell]

Why is everyone acting so surprised .. it’s not like her name is Roja

[allenrhea]

Azula also fire bends differently than other firebenders. She bends from her fingertips while others bend while making a fist. Using her fingertips probably allows her to concentrate more energy into a smaller point, which would allow her to make her flames hotter. In the flashback, she is seen fire bending the traditional way. Just my guess.

[mrnobed]

Salt makes fire blue that means she is salty

[Enigmaad]

My theory is she was a firebending prodigy who is able to attain the perfect combustion needed for fire. Take a stove for example. When their is improper combustion of gas and oxygen the flame is orange / yellow. When proper combustion occurs the flame is blue and hotter.

[brandonj]

Well this was answer was solved a long time ago actually haha. Nickelodeon had an avatar special when avatar first aired called avatar extras, where for each episode, they would add text bubbles that revealed fun facts about each episode. For azula's scene, they said that azula's fire is blue simply because it's hotter lol, and that having blue colors would contrast with zuko's so it would look better in fights

[LoadingNPC]

I love how insane they made her look when she lost control. Much respect to the animation team.

[leysonmose]

This is my favorite theory

Her flame represents perfect flame combustion into the combustion products.

Her problem is perfectionism. That's also her character flaw, and her downfall. This means that there is zero soot in her flame, zero offgassing of combustion by-products, zero carbon monoxide... just perfection. Just like she was raised. (Ever notice how her flame turns orange when it catches fire on other materials?)

Zuko, on the other hand, represents imperfection. It suits his character well. Rage and impatience makes his flame orange.

[shivangiranjan]

The fact that Azula at her worst is a match for Zuko at his best.

[coolman]

I had always figured that Azula is such a perfectionist that she pushed herself to make her fire even better than anyone else's. Blue firebending is no doubt extremely rare and would be a huge mark of pride. Azula had insane standards she had to live up to and if anyone pushed themselves to the most insane limits to make her fire burn hotter than anyone else's (including top tier masters like Roku, Iroh, and Ozai) it would be Azula.

[MegaJesseman]

I loved that they made Azula completely lose her mind near the end. It was such good plot development. Azula always tried to be this ba soulless monster like her father but in reality, she loved her friends and Zuko. When both her best friends and Zuko betrayed her, she was deeply hurt and it drove her into insanity, because she didn't feel like she could trust anyone after that.