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*** Yes, disqualification. It's still an official duel, because it's presented as a challenge explicitly as Agni Kai. That means it's under whatever the Code Duello is in the Fire Nation--and there's nothing to suggest that Agni Kais normally have a method to prevent "accidental" death--it's a duel where you're ''hurling fireballs at each other''. Death is probably an implied, and expected, possibility.
*** If there was any disqualification, it was on Azula's part when she attacked Katara in the first place.
** Katara cannot be Zuko's second. The primary duty of a second is to assume the duel challenge themselves if the primary party is unable to compete on duel day (like, if they fell and broke their leg on the way there or something). Ergo, she can't be his second unless she's potentially eligible to call an Agni Kai challenge herself if need be -- which she isn't, because she's not a Firebender.
 
* 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?
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****** Also, ''someone'' needs to claim the empty throne, and I doubt the Fire Sages would crown Azula, given her being literally foaming at mouth insane.
****** The other Agni Kai we saw showed it was a Man to Man (or to girl) Firebending battle. Anything beyond that is cheating, thus losing. She attacked Katara, the referee or something. That should count as cheating in any kind of honorable duel, which the Agni Kai is.
******* As pointed out above, Katara cannot be Zuko's second (she's not a Firebender, therefore she cannot Agni Kai), which leaves only 'referee' or 'audience' as her potential role. Both of those are protected persons, so attacking them would forfeit an honorable duel.
******* Correct. Katara is either the referee (and thus exempt from attack), a member of the audience (likewise), or Zuko's second (and thus fair game for being dueled ''only'' if Zuko himself is unable to duel). Any way you slice it, Azula broke the Code Duello. Also, we see in the earlier Agni Kai that there actually are rules about how you can attack your opponent and its not just a simple "two man enter, one man leave" -- Zhao attacked Zuko after saying that he yielded and from behind, which is behavior that Iroh (who is totally a legitimate authority on whatever the rules might be) said was utterly dishonorable.
** Anyone who's read [[A Song Of Fire And Ice]] knows "honor" is all well and good as an ideal to strive for, but it's secondary to making the practical decision and ''not'' putting an insane and vicious 14-year-old on the throne. No matter what the rules of Agni Kai are, if the people don't want a paranoid nutbag to arbitrarily banish them, they'll chuck notions of "honor" out the window and support the person who isn't ''rolling around on the ground and screaming like a crazy person''.
* Comets are made of ice. Why would a dirty snowball from space enhance firebending, of all things? Sozin's ''Asteroid'' would make more sense.
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