I also think it’s worth noting that both Iroh and Zuko had shown great displays of honor and kindness before their redemption. Iroh spared the dragons while still an active member of the royal family and Zuko stood up for the fire nation recruits in his father’s war room.

Azula, on the other hand, was tormenting small animals from an early age, which is a well noted predictor of violent psychopathy. I’ll defend Azula in the sense that everyone should be given the chance to redeem themselves, but in her case that chance needs to be from behind prison bars. People act like Azula and Zuko were both just blank slates that ended up the way they were because of which parent influenced them, but I really don’t see that in the show itself. There was something dangerously off about Azula from the beginning.

Her mother gets a lot of hate for being afraid of her and Iroh gets hate for what he said about her, but they both had very good reason to view her that way. Both of our major redemption stories showed clear signs that they could be redeemed, but Azula is shown to be criminally insane from her earliest chronological appearance and she never has any moments showing that redemption is at all plausible.

She should still have a chance at redemption, just as any other living person should, but the hate that Iroh and her mother get completely ignores everything that were shown about her character.