History Characters / TheLegendOfKorraAllies

** Varrick blew up the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center during a peaceful demonstration and says this is okay because he owns the building. While he does indeed have every right to blow up his own property, he did it without warning.

* InfantImmortality: He lampshades this, saying that [[spoiler:it takes more than a fall and a tree to get rid of him.]]

[[folder:General Iroh]]
!!Iroh

* EleventhHourRanger: In the Book One finale. Royalty of the Fire Nation joining Team Avatar just in time for the final showdown? Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

* BlueBlood: A son of the Fire Nation royal family.

* CaptainObvious: He even channels another [[Franchise/StarWars famous officer]] in charge of large fleet.

* DeadGuyJunior: Named after Zuko's uncle, his own great-great uncle. Though his namesake turns out to be [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence not quite dead.]]

** Double Subverted. Varrick convinces the Krew to work with him after Unalaq's occupation of the Southern Water Tribe gets too extreme for either of their tastes, then ends up manipulating them into intensifying the conflict so he can profit off it. However, when he's caught and thrown in prison, he still aids them by giving them his fully-loaded battleship. In Book 3, despite some lingering animosity from Asami and Mako, he gladly aids them in finding the mole in Zaofu.

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* DeadGuyJunior: Named after Zuko's uncle.

* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: His bald head allows him to sense the air perturbations preceding an incoming attack from behind. Beforehand, he was despondent that he learned head-shaving was elective ''after'' having it done to him. After experiencing the benefits firsthand, he then tries to convince other air nomad recruits to go bald as well.

* LoyalAnimalCompanion: After Kai rescued a bunch of the baby bison in "Original Airbenders", one of them takes a shine to him, and Kai dubs the calf "Lefty". After the three year TimeSkip, he's grown to full size and serves as the bison mount for Kai and Opal when on deployment.

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Due to the fall of the Earth Kingdom's royal family, nearly all the royal treasures he would have inherited have been stolen by looters. He doesn't even have a crown for his coronation.

* StickyFingers: He is a magpie for gold and doesn't care about who he hurts to get it.
* StreetUrchin: A status Mako believes makes it unlikely that Kai has an honest interest in rebuilding the Air Nation, or an interest in anything other than himself for that matter.

** Kai is a {{street urchin}}, {{artful dodger}}, and [[{{Greed}} will do anything for money]]. Sounds a lot like [[FiveFingerDiscount Skoochy]], Mako and Bolin's "friend" first seen in Book 1.

* TookALevelInBadass: By the time of "The Ultimatum", he's much braver and more altruistic. By the end of the episode, he is the Northern Air Temple's only hope left.

* TookALevelInKindness: In the episode "In Harm's Way", his harrowing experience in Dai Li captivity and the camaraderie built with his fellow captive airbenders has mellowed him. He is still a magnet for trouble, but for the more light-hearted kind.

* UngratefulBastard: He was adopted after losing his parents, but repaid that by robbing them blind, and then also proceeds to exploit the hospitality of Korra and company. [[spoiler:He loses the ingratitude after running afoul of the Dai Li's conscription/enslavement program for convergence-manifested airbenders.]]

* {{Greed}}: Kai will do anything for money, including betraying the people who saved him.

* BrattyHalfPint: He starts off as a self-centered, ungrateful troublemaker with some serious attitude problems. Mako sees him as nothing more than a nuisance, but the others try to justify Kai's behavior by the fact that he's still just a kid. Fortunitly, getting imprisoned and fighting his way out cures him of this in short order.

* BrattyHalfPint: He's a self-centered, ungrateful troublemaker with some serious attitude problems. Mako sees him as nothing more than a nuisance, but the others try to justify Kai's behaviour by the fact that he's still just a kid.

* ADogNamedDog: Druk in Bhutanese means "Thunder Dragon".

* VagueAge: He’s vaguely older than Korra and the youngest general in the United Forces but his exact age has never been stated. Since he was originally going to be Asami’s love interest and his sister who was cut out of the show due to time constraints was going to be Mako’s, he can’t be that much older than Korra’s friends.

* VagueAge: He’s vaguely older than Korra and the youngest general in the United Forces but his exact age has never been stated.

** The same episode, he estimates the amount of energy said spirit vines give off in terms of Varricks.

[[caption-width-right:191: "Zhu Li, do the thing!!"]]

* BigBadEnsemble: With Vaatu and Unalaq. While Vaatu and Unalaq serve as the {{Big Bad}}s of season 2, Varrick serves as the mid-season ArcVillain in Republic City, with Mako trying to oppose him. Specifically, he is plotting to keep the war going so that he could profit from it.

* LuxuryPrisonSuite: He had a cell in the prison built into this because he felt he would end up in it.

* {{Expy}}: [[http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:1282421#1284157 [=DiMartino=]]] reveals: "He was a little big of [[{{Keet}} Aang,]] a little bit of [[StreetUrchin Wan]] -- we wanted to have an adventurous kid with a slightly shadowy background."

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Kai is a {{street urchin}}, {{artful dodger}}, [[{{Greed}} will do anything for money]], [[ShipTease and is shipped with Jinora]]. Sounds a lot like [[FiveFingerDiscount Skoochy,]] Mako and Bolin's "friend" first seen in Book 1.

* TheFettered: As a general, he is subordinate to the civilian government of the United Republic. He enters the fray in Book One at Tenzin's request on behalf of the rest of the council, who are all imprisoned by Amon, and it's not an accident that he sees most of his action here, after his fleet is destroyed and Tenzin has to flee with his family-- meaning Iroh is answerable to no one and is free to be a swashbuckling action hero. Every subsequent appearance, however, he answers to the risk-adverse President Raiko. It's Raiko who shuts down his co-conspiracy to aid the Southern Water Tribe and orders him not to engage with Kuvira, and it's ''also'' Raiko who orders him to secure the new spirit portal and fire on the Airbenders attempting to hold it for the spirits in [[ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraTurfWars]].

* CharacterDevelopment: Book 2 and 3 has Zhu Li following whatever command Varrick gave her, no matter how ridiculous. However, come Book 4, she gets fed up with his insensitivity and ungratefulness towards her and the actions she's done to only support him. [[spoiler:And even after she was revealed to be a FakeDefector, she stands her ground when he reverts to his old ways.]] In the comics, she begins to assert herself more, letting the others encourage her to run against Raiko for president, and going so far as to intimidate Varrick into giving her a massage when he tries to tell her that giving ''him'' one make ''her'' feel better.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: He was adopted a young boy by a very nice family...and he repays them the kindness by robbing them blind.

* PunchClockVillain: To his chagrin in ''Turf Wars'', as he answers to President Raiko. He is extremely careful not to disobey his orders, though he objects to Raiko directly, warns Korra before he has to implement them, and does the bare minimum of attacking the Air Nation before he asks leave to call it off.

* CharacterDevelopment: Book 2 and 3 has Zhu Li following whatever command Varrick gave her, no matter how ridiculous. However, come Book 4, she gets fed up with his insensitivity and ungratefulness towards her and the actions she's done to only support him. [[spoiler:And even after she was revealed to be a FakeDefector, she stands her ground when he reverts to his old ways.]]

* PunchClockVillain: To his chagrin in ''Turf Wars'', as he answers to President Raiko. He is extremely careful not to disobey his orders, but he also goes out of his way to stay pleasant with Tenzin and Korra, and not overstep his boundaries.