Line #30 Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E4TheCalling


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Trips together with family are always fun.]]
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4	Tenzin sends his children to find Korra. Korra tries to rid herself of the poison in her body.
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8	!!Tropes:
9	* AnAesop: Experiencing tragedy or failure is devastating, and you can either let it define you for the rest of your life, or you can learn from it.
10	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Meelo's deduction of Toph's identity...which, being Meelo, is bratty. Far from being insulted, Toph's visibly amused.
11	* AffablyEvil: The thinner of the two guards that captured Ikki is very friendly [[LimaSyndrome and quickly becomes legitimately bonded with her]]. It makes one forget that he consciously agreed with the fat one to capture her siblings in order to get out of his post. Then again, he appears to be [[CloudCuckooLander somewhat ditzy]] and it's clear he mostly follows the fat one's lead.
12	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Zigzagged. The Airbabies all find each other annoying, regardless of birth order, but Meelo is especially grating to both his (older) sisters.
13	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
14	* BigDamnHeroes: Downplayed. Jinora and Meelo bust in to save Ikki from the soldiers, but by then she and soldiers had come to an understanding. They weren't really that dangerous anyway. In fact, they were about to let her go, even though it was already shown Ikki could have left any time she wanted.
15	* BrattyHalfPint: Meelo acts out, annoys his sisters, and "farts at inappropriate moments".
16	* ButtMonkey: The [[ThoseTwoGuys two Earth Empire soldiers]] feel left out because Kuvira made them stay at their posts, while she took the rest of her army to Zaofu. They then end up getting knocked out by Jinora and Meelo.
17	* CallBack:
18	** Korra sees visions of her fights against the previous three {{Big Bad}}s.
19	** Toph takes Korra to the Banyan tree, the same one from "The Swamp" which Aang used to find Appa. Here, Korra uses it to find Jinora.
20	** The two guards mention that Kuvira is moving her army to Zaofu, a followup to her warning to Suyin in the previous episode.
21	* ContinuityNod:
22	** The swamp vines pull Pepper into the swamp the same way they pulled Appa to them in "The Swamp" in the first series.
23	** Korra asks Toph about how she taught Aang earthbending, and of how they defeated the Fire Lord. She gets extremely short descriptions of "Bitter Work" and "Sozin's Comet".
24	* DamnedByFaintPraise: Ikki implicitly does this to Meelo when she explains his part in finding Korra towards the end. Meelo doesn't catch on.
25	* ADayInTheLimelight: The Airbabies are the focus of the A-plot.
26	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Meelo throws out the group's food supplies, declaring that they would hunt for their meals. As his sister points out, they're ''vegetarians'' and don't hunt. He also lacks any knowledge on foraging or which wild plants are safe to consume, so the berries he finds and eats just end up making him sick.
27	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When we first see Jinora attempt to divine Korra's location and Ikki is bugging her, we can see a bunch of flying squirrel creatures on a perch in the background. One flies off the edge, drifts to the back of the line, displaces all the others, knocking the one nearest the ledge off. Rinse, repeat.
28	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Meelo says this of a cheek-pinching old woman he and Ikki meet.
29	* LimaSyndrome: The Earth Empire guards wind up sympathizing with their captive, Ikki, and helping her.
30	* TheLoad: Meelo accuses Ikki of being this for not pulling her weight. Meelo comes much closer to playing it straight and particularly when he throws their food out.
31	* MachoDisasterExpedition: Meelo attempts to turn their trip into one by throwing out the pre-packed food and insisting they live off the land. Ikki has to remind him that they're vegetarians, so hunting is out, and the berries he finds turn out to be poisonous. Thankfully, the guards had found the food Meelo had thrown away, which Ikki is able to take back.
32	* OnlySaneMan: Ikki takes on this role. When her siblings and her set off to find Korra, Meelo insists on turning their mission into a Macho Disaster Expedition and Jinora is too focused on trying to sense Korra's presence rather than actually looking for her. When Meelo throws away their food and insists that they go hunting, she reminds him that they don't eat meat. When Jinora and Meelo want to leave the swamp, Meelo was being a bit of a jerk and Jinora couldn't sense Korra here, Ikki insists that they keep looking. Basically, despite calling it a team effort, the air siblings would never had found Korra if it weren't for Ikki.
33	* OutOfFocus: Aside from a token appearance by Tenzin and Pema, the main cast is limited to Korra, Toph, and the Airbabies.
34	* PottyEmergency: Meelo at their first stop was holding it in for an hour.
35	* PunchClockVillain: The two soldiers that capture Ikki relate to her situation with her siblings, and end up pointing her to the swamp, reasoning that Korra would have been spotted if she were anywhere but there.
36	* RedundantRescue: Jinora and Meelo knock out the the guards just when they were about to let Ikki go. Ikki could have escaped anytime herself anyway.
37	* SelfRestraint: The two soldiers tie Ikki up, but did such a terrible job that she can be seen sliding her arm out of the ropes [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]] while they aren't looking. She does it again right in front of them and they don't even comment on it.
38	* ShesBack: Korra manages to bend the remaining poison out of her body herself, restoring her Avatar State and presumably getting her back to fighting form.
39	* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: The thin guard is more preoccupied with the macaroons they found in the river (that Meelo threw away), while the other is hoping to be rewarded by Kuvira for capturing Tenzin's children.
40	* TearsOfJoy: Korra gets them when she sees Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo for the first time in three years.
41	* TookALevelInJerkass: Meelo's ego has gotten quite inflated over the last three years.
42	* TricksterMentor: Toph sends Korra off to fetch some mushrooms, knowing the swamp would show her visions of what's tormenting her. Toph ends up having to talk her through it anyway, but it gets the ball rolling.
43	* VillainHasAPoint: Discussed by Toph; all of Korra's foes have had some kind of legitimate cause, but each bungled it by being too extreme in their methods.
44	* VisualPun: One of the MixAndMatchCritters in this episode is a frog with distinctly bovine horns and ears...a bullfrog.
45	* VomitDiscretionShot: Meelo vomits up some poisonous berries behind a bush.
46	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Poki the lemur vomits up some poisonous berries in full view. [[{{Squick}} Then starts eating his own vomit.]]
47	* WellIntentionedExtremist: As part of VillainHasAPoint; Toph notes that the problem with all of Korra's foes is that they had good ideas, but went too far. She's surprised Korra didn't notice this.
48	* WhenTreesAttack: Just when Jinora is about to give up the search for Korra in the swamp, some vines reach out and drag them down. Ikki takes this as proof that the swamp wants them there.

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