Why is Azula's fire blue?

it was said she was a prodagy, for her firebending was stronger than most, the strenghth must make it blue.

It's blue because her fire burns so much hotter than normal fire. But as for the reason why it burns hotter, I don't know. Maybe because of her mental instability and anger.

It has to do with her cold hearted personality.

When she was a child, she burned regular orange fire. She learned the blue fire later, after her mother died. As everyone else has said, she burns blue fire to represent her personality and for her name. It's not like no one else can bend blue fire - the blurbs in Avatar Extras say that Ozai is the best firebender in the world so theoretically he should be able to, too - but I think that one day she learned how to bend blue fire and was so in love with the idea of being special and proving how spectacular she is (and bending hotter fire than everyone else) that she just kind of never went back to regular fire. She's a prodigy, yes, which is why she can bend it in the first place, but I don't think that's why she does it. She does it because she likes it more, and because she feels more of a connection to it. That's my interpretation, anyway.

I'm guessing no one else does it because it's not necessary. Fire's already hot enough to burn a forest down, so why does it need to be hotter?

Just a little note about the colour of flames in real life. The reason that a flame is blue is because it is not burning very much carbon. Not necessarily because it is hotter, hence blue flames coming from burning gases and amber flames from burning objects. Due to this every fire benders flame should be more blue than amber. Also calling her a prodigy does not mean that she is the best fire bender in the world, by definition it means that she has exceptional talent for her age. As for why her flame is blue, i would guess, like a lot of people that it was to define her as a character and to act as an extension of her personality.

idk mabey they just wanted azula to have blue fire to see hes unique or like smart n evil.But really idk

her name derived from the world "blue", and also, they wanted her to stand out since she's the main antagonist in the story

It is cause Azula has a fiery cold intensity.

She is a firebending prodagy (and Azul means blue in Spanish- but she was also named Azula after her grandfather: Azulon)

Solo pocos fuego dobladores tiene fuego azul

Wel i fink dat mayb becoz of her character dat she suppose 2 b evil n all...besides her name says it all...it means blue anyway....

because she is a fire bending Prodigy so her fire is so hot its blue

the reason why azula's fire is blue is becuase her fire burns so much hotter than anyone elses, the reason for that is becuase firebending has to do with anger, and she is so mentally unstable she is so much more angry than any other firebender. i think this was already explained in an episode, matter of"Ember island".She may be good at what she does but that is beuase she feels she has nothing to lose.anyway thats my answer...

well, just imagine how powerful her great-grandfather is.
then it combined by how powerful her father is.

they said that Ozai is the current strongest Fire Bender.

im just geussing k ppl maybe cuaz she uses lighting alot and the lighting is blue and it probly efecs the fire to go blue

Time to troll old posts =3 jk but Azula is more powerful than Ozai. I hate polls about Ozai vs Azula because the fact of the matter is Azula is a prodigy and Ozai isn't. All the members of the Fire Nation royal lineage shown so far is a master at Firebending. It's only natural for Ozai to be able to out-firebend everyone because he is the eldest excluding Iroh but he isn't violence driven. Azula has blue flames and when she gets older she will be more powerful than Ozai ever was during his pinnacle of firebending prowess. However Aang prolly took her bending or some shit. anyways yeah /thread end

Have you ever seen blue flame in real life? Fire is blue when it's really hot. Azula has blue fire to show that she's powerful enough to control that much heat and energy -- blue fire is only a small step below lightning on the danger scale.

its hotter

Due to the hatred she has