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Now comes the part where I double-cross you.

Dai Li, arrest the Fire Nation Princess.

I don’t care what anyone says, THIS IS THE BEST DIALOGUE IN THE ENTIRE SERIES!! AZULA 👏🏾DID👏🏾THAT👏🏾

A while ago, someone made a good point as to how Azula was from a place of privilege and believes herself to be better than everyone. This scene really shows that, at the same time it has a deeper meaning when it comes to the Fire Nation and their colonization toward the other nations (the earth kingdom , the air nomads, etc..etc..) .

In a way, this scene is supposed to reflect that. Their sheer disregard for established cultures and traditions simply because they believe they were born better. The scary thing is that people like Azula and the rest of the fire nation believe that their colonization is a good thing, and that it is helping these nations. But it is not. In this gifset you have to realize that becuase Azula comes from a place of privilege, she believes that she is entitled to this throne.

And that because Long Fei did not come from a place of privilege, then he is below her and doesn’t deserve something he worked hard for. Albeit he is a shitty and terrible person and I am not excusing him, he is a victim to of colonization. Just as the Dai Li is and the rest of Ba Sing Se.

With this scene, I do think it is important not to take it as a moment of empowerment or see it as a feminist moment because you are praising an entitled girl for exercising her privilege to belittle someone below her. However, you can appreciate the dialogue and the fact that this was written in such a clever way. You can appreciate that Azula is an well written character as well and that this scene speaks volumes of her character and the privilege that she carries with her.

It’s also so evident in the beginning of Season 3 when Aang goes to Fire Nation school that the kids are raised with this idea. They teach that the Fire Nation is helping the Earth Kingdom by colonizing. There’s also the historical revisionism of saying the Air Nomads had a military that the Fire Nation strategically bested rather than that they committed genocide against a peaceful people with no military.

Yes, yes all of this. So putting that into perspective, Azula’s thought process makes more sense and is even more scarier. In addition to that, this has really been drilled into her head since she is the princess.

Another important thing I wanna point out is that she is also wearing traditional earth kingodm clothing from the Kyoshi warriors. Clothing she stole from women that she and her group belittled for their culture and battle clothing.

So essentially we have a privileged imperialist, outright belittling a culture in both action and the clothing she is wearing (which azula wearing the clothing of a kyoshi warrior is CA).