Line #121 WMG/TheLegendOfKorra


1	!WMG for ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. Now split in the following sections:
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4	[[index]]
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6	* WMG/KorraPlotGeneral
7	** WMG/KorraPlotBook1
8	** WMG/KorraPlotBook2
9	** WMG/KorraPlotBook3
10	** WMG/KorraPlotBook4
11	* WMG/KorraAfterSeriesEvents
12	* WMG/KorraCanonFodderAndCallBacks
13	* WMG/KorraAvatarMetaphysicsAndReincarnation
14	* WMG/KorraTheGaang
15	* WMG/KorraTheGaangsDescendants
16	* WMG/KorraTenzinAndFamily
17	* WMG/KorraKorraHerself
18	* WMG/KorraMakoAndBolin
19	* WMG/KorraAsamiAndHiroshiSato
20	* WMG/KorraLoveDodecahedrons
21	* WMG/KorraAmon
22	* WMG/KorraTheEqualistsAndOtherVillains
23	* WMG/KorraTheSetting
24	* WMG/KorraIKnewIt
25	* WMG/KorraJossed
26	* WMG/KorraJustForFun
27	[[/index]]
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29	[[foldercontrol]]
30
31	[[folder: The Cabbage Merchant]]
32
33	[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant in the new series will also be the foaming mouth guy.]]
34	The Cabbage Merchant had a daughter who ended up marring the foaming mouth guy after the end of the series. When The Cabbage Merchant dies the foaming mouth guy takes up his business to make his wife happy. He ends up having a son who inherits the foaming mouth guy's... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment foaming mouth]]. He also takes up the family business. Now whenever Korra and her gang destroy the cabbage cart, the new Cabbage Merchant has a [[FridgeHorror seizure]].
35	[[WMG: "Cabbages guy" will have a reincarnation]]
36	Preferably female and younger. She will appear in one episode, or maybe a few, as a ditzy successor to a cabbage shop who is having troubles adapting and living up to her families expectations.
37	* Or she'll actually be good at her job and be bummed out because having your cabbages ruined several times had become a family tradition.
38	** Or maybe she'll even be cabbage bender. Because nothing screams RuleofFunny like a background character her cabbages being seemingly ruined and then flying back into her cart like nothing happened.
39	* There's a funny entry in CAPSLOCK_ATLA about a "Cabbage Madame", who runs a garden-themed brothel. That's not going to happen on a Nickelodeon show, but I think it'd be hilarious.
40	** ...I am too scared to even think about how a cabbage-themed brothel would work.
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42	[[WMG: The cabbage merchant will be the one who started the whole anti bending group.]]
43	The cabbage merchant after suffering again and again from the actions of even the "good benders" gets disgusted and realizes that the only way cabbage merchants' cabbages will be safe is by ending bending.
44	* but it wasn't always benders that destroyed them, don't forget the Customs Officer at Ba Sing Se.
45	** The Equalists will also be against bureaucrats. It's not as prominent as the anti-bending, but it's there.
46
47	[[WMG: The Cabbage Vender's ancestor will come back as a good guy.]]
48	Except he will retain his Buttmonkey status and basically be treated as badly as Bakura was in Yu-Gi-Oh abridged.
49
50	[[WMG: ''Korra herself'' is the Cabbage Guy's descendant.]]
51	Eternally conflicted between her Avatar duties and her cabbage-selling family. Angst will ensue upon destruction of cabbages.
52
53	[[WMG: The cabbage merchant's luck turned around after the war ended, and he is now the richest old man in Republic City.]]
54	He will have made his fortune exporting cabbages to the Fire Nation and North Pole, where they are used in exotic foreign dishes. After a lifetime of successful cabbage selling, he retired in Republic City and now considers joining the White Lotus Society.
55	*Well, Nick.com DID reveal that a corporation called Cabbage Corp made their own Cabbage Cars. Founded by the Cabbage Merchant maybe?
56	[[WMG: The cabbage man's descendant lives [[Series/SaturdayNightLive in a van down by the river.]]]]
57
58	[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant's legacy will take the form of a Starbucks-like cabbage franchise.]]
59	It was started by the Cabbage Merchant's illustrious descendants, eager to make a profit from their ancestor's secret formula for the perfect cabbage. True to form, practically OncePerEpisode , Korra will somehow damage one of the many shops in the franchise.
60	** Jossed. They're a tech/industrial company like Sato's future industries.
61
62	[[WMG: [[BigBad Amon]] will be the descendant of Cabbage Guy.]]
63	He seeks revenge upon all benders for the (multiple) loss(es) of his ancestor's cabbage cart(s), which ultimately led to his financial ruin and his family's StartOfDarkness.
64	* Amon claims to be the child a farmer. Where do cabbages come from again?
65
66	[[WMG: Tenzin and the Cabbage Merchant's descendent will have a VitriolicBestBuds-type of relationship]]
67	It will involve Aang trying to make peace with the Cabbage Merchant after the trouble they've caused him during the war. However, Tenzin will steadily grow to find the child of the CM increasingly annoying. Years later, in Republic City, the Cabbage Merchant's child will become a successful lemon merchant while Tenzin has trouble living up to his father's legacy (that or was forced into hiding because of the anti-bender faction). The lemon merchant then does whatever he/she can to cheer up their childhood pal... by giving Tenzin lemons. Korra will happen upon the poor unfortunate moment where Tenzin will snap because [[Videogame/Portal2 "I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these?"]]. He will then proceed to force Korra into making the lemons explode with firebending--to the point where it becomes a technique.
68	If the friendship is Type A, the lemon merchant will remain oblivious to the malice and just think Tenzin is confused.
69	If the friendship is Type B, however, the lemon merchant is secretly avenging his father and is gleeful at the absolute irritation it causes for Tenzin.
70	** Jossed. Tenzin and Lin arrest the poor guy.
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72	[[WMG: Bumi when introduced will take on the role of the Cabbage merchent]]
73	Being the only decedent of an airbender, let alone two powerful benders, who isnt a bender you can tell the universe loves to screw with him
74	** Jossed. Cabbage Guy's descendant did.
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76	[[WMG: Cabbage Corp will become a MegaCorp now that [[spoiler: Hiroshi Sato's been outed as an Equalist]]]] and in revenge against the Equalists for setting him him/the Krew actually ''saving'' [[GiveTheDogABone his corp/a cabbage cart that's an heirloom,]] he gives them a brand new car... [[MyNewGiftIsLame that's shapped like cabbage or is actually beautiful, but a lemon.]]
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78	[[WMG: This world's Cabbage is our world's Babbage.]]
79	One of the members of the Cabbage family, or at the very least an employee of Cabbage Corp, will invent the first proto-computer.
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81	[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant is a time-traveling Avatar from the future.]]
82	The Avatar after Korra wants to reunite with all of the first cycle's incarnations of the Avatar, so he uses a Cabbage Corp invention that looks suspiciously like a [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture DeLorean]] to travel to a time before Harmonic Convergence where he could do some "simultaneous Avatar State" thing that might bridge the gap. Unfortunately, he ends up sometime that Aang is in the iceberg and so takes up cabbage merchantry (in honor of the future corporation) to spend his time, since the [=CabbaLorean=] broke down. He tries to be where he vaguely remembers legends of the Gaang going to, but he never gets the opportunity to initiate a simultaneous Avatar State. He even tried to lure Aang in with the play, telling the playwright the legends he remembered/what he experienced to make it more recognizable, but he was imprisoned for using the wrong type of bending in the Fire Nation the night before the Gaang went to the show, and he wasn't released until after Zuko became Firelord. He eventually gave up his quest when he realized ''he'' was the founder of Cabbage Corp, and that everything was a StableTimeLoop.
83	* Hi, original poster here, there's more to this story than I realized. Sometime while the Cabbage Avatar is making tons of money, he visits the Banyan-grove tree. Because there's a lot of spiritual energy there and time is an illusion, he accidentally time travels yet again, this time to the siege of Ba Sing Se. Here he meets Lu Ten, who is trying to hide from Earth Kingdom soldiers after the rest of his squad dies in a surprise attack. Lu Ten, seeing the Cabbage Avatar pop out of nowhere, instinctively earth-bends for the first time; Lu Ten is an Avatar too. While the Cabbage Avatar shows that he's able to bend multiple elements as well, noting that there are currently three Avatars in existence right now, yet another person drives up in a nice looking [=CabbaLorean=]: Ikki III, great-great granddaughter of Aang, and ''also'' an Avatar. She sticks the two other Avatars into the car and takes them back in time further in order to talk without fear of being attacked, this being shortly before Lu Ten's birth. The Cabbage Avatar, upon exiting the car, however, accidentally trips on a cabbage, and dies (and will shortly reincarnate into Lu Ten). Ikki III explains to Lu Ten know how they can accomplish the thing that the Cabbage Avatar originally went back in time to do: take advantage of known events and ensure that ''Unalaq'' is born the Avatar after Ikki III. The two bounce around the timeline in their [=CabbaLorean=], ensuring that people will rediscover Harmonic Convergence (it ''has'' been 10,000 years after all) until they reach the time shortly before Unalaq is born. Ikki III dies, leaving Lu Ten alone to wait for her to reincarnate into Unalaq. As soon as Lu Ten can get the baby Unalaq alone, he removes the child's ability to bend anything but water (having learned energybending through his past life connection to Korra). Lu Ten then jumps forward in time to shortly before Ikki III's birth and dies, and his spirit ''finally'' reunites with Iroh. Ikki III grows up, often wondering what happened to the unknown Fire Avatar before her (and what happened to the Cabbage Avatar), but is mostly concerned with the world problems of her time. When she gets her hands on a newer version of the [=CabbaLorean=] than what the Cabbage Avatar used, Unalaq appears out of nowhere, having just accidentally jumped forward in time from after immediately after his battle with Korra. During that battle, Korra's past lives didn't disappear, they transferred to Unalaq. He had figured out what was going on and played his part in the known portions of the timeline, and is a now good guy, especially now that he's been purified of Vaatu's influence. Ikki III restores Unalaq's ability to bend all the elements and goes back in time to the siege of Ba Sing Se. Unalaq serves the world from the time Ikki III goes back in time to his death and all of the Avatars after him have full access to all the Avatars back to Wan.
84	[[/folder]]
85
86	[[folder: Everyone is Batman]]
87
88	[[WMG: No one is Batman.. but Bolin is the [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Fearless Ferret]]]]
89	* Naturally, Pabu is Wonder Weasel.
90
91	[[WMG: Zuko's son, a BadassNormal who will be voiced by Will Friedle, will be the new Blue Spirit, and he will be a recurring character and TheAce.]]
92	* And Zuko will be his mentor, who will be voiced by Kevin Conroy.
93	* {{Jossed}}. It's still not yet revealed whether he's Zuko's son or grandson, but General Iroh is voiced by Creator/DanteBasco, and as a general of the Republic's forces, it's a pretty safe bet he'll quickly be proven the most powerful Firebender in the series so far.
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95	[[WMG: Korra is a {{Ninja}}]]
96	A guy can dream can't he.
97	* Refer to the "Korra will be as Batman" WMG
98	* Alas, Korra is almost the exact opposite of any {{Ninja}} tropes.
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100	[[WMG: Korra will become something even more awesome than Batman]]
101	She will become [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_42/ BAT WARTHOG MAN]]!. It's the best two-animal combo (and thus, in the Avatarverse, it must exist).
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103
104	[[WMG: [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Everyone]] is Franchise/{{Batman}}]]
105	* And by everyone, we '''mean''' '''[[Characters/TheLegendOfKorra EVERYONE'''.]]
106	** In all seriousness, the Batman parallels are flying hard and fast, and we are only three episodes in. At last count, we have three Batman parallels: Korra learns that her vigilante justice may be what the city ''deserves'', but it sure as hell not what it ''needs,'' Mako witnessed his parents being mugged and murdered by a firebender at the tender age of eight, and Amon invokes the archetype of the mysterious masked man here to save the populace from it's superstitious and cowardly criminal empire of benders.
107	** Aaand, Amon has a deformed face and is fostering dissent and anarchy, a la the Joker..."Hello, ''beautiful''. Y'wanna know how I got my scars?"
108
109	[[WMG: ''Korra'' takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'']]
110	[[http://wsash.net/fandom/the-legend-of-korra-avatar-meets-batman-beyond/ Here]]'s some of the parallels between this series and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Namely, the large time gap between the two SequelSeries, the new hero gets an older mentor.
111	** OH, LOOK AT THAT! A new antagonist has appeared in Book 3 voiced by none other than ''Music/HenryRollins'', a.k.a. Mad Stan, and he and his posse of convicts are gunning for Korra!
112
113	[[WMG: Mako will lose his firebending.]]
114	He will actually become Batman.
115
116	[[WMG: At least one of the writers is a Batman fan]]
117	And they're throwing in references left and right. They're also a ''really'' big WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond fan. Evidence:
118	* Mako's backstory is Batman's, minus the wealth
119	* In Episode 6, the Wolf-Bats pose like Terry from the WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond opening
120	* Lin Beifong is very much like Barbara Gordon, as the second generation police chief of a crime-ridden city who doesn't look too kindly on the new hero [[spoiler:in part because of a failed relationship with the hero's mentor.]]
121	** And now in The Aftermath, [[spoiler: she said she will now fight the Equalists from outside the power of the law. If that does not make her Batman, I don't know what does]]
122	*** Sounds more like ComicBook/ThePunisher to me
123	* Thanks to "When Extremes Meet" we can now all say "QUICK! To the [[TropeMobile Korramobile!"]]
124	** The matter of the new Chief quite clearly - willingly or otherwise - working for Tarrlok has the feel of Batman to it; a police force dominated by corrupt officials.
125	* Episode 9 is titled "Out of the Past," a name it shares with one of the most popular episodes of WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond.
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127	[[WMG: Everyone is a creation of Creator/AlanMoore]]
128	* Amon is Ozymandias and V's child.
129	* Korra is the second Silk Specter.
130	** Or the daughter of Halo Jones and Promethea.
131	* Asami is Toybox from Top 10.
132	* Lin is the child of Alice from Lost Girls and Irma Geddon from Top 10.
133	* Tenzin is Inspector Abberline from From Hell.
134	* Tarrlok is Sir William Gull from From Hell.
135	* Mako is Greyshirt from Tomorrow Stories.
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137	[[WMG: Amon is Batman]]
138	Amon is a Badass Normal that watched his parents die and swore revenge. He uses fear to control and get advantages over his enemies, and his biggest ally/side-kick is another Badass Normal that uses duel Escrima Sticks and acrobatics in combat (a la Nightwing).
139	* But Amon is evil, so he's obviously Owlman.
140	** Alternatively, Amon is [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Slade]].
141	** Many people consider Batman insane, and the same can be said about Amon. They are both hyper-passionate about their individual causes.
142	[[WMG: Debunked]]
143	Obviously everyone is not Batman, because Lin Beifong is clearly Spider-Man.
144
145	[[WMG: No one alive is Batman]]
146	Because Sokka was Batman!
147	* NO Sokka is WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck
148	** I am the Terror that flaps in the night
149	** I am the boomerang that will always return to strike you down
150	** I am [[MyNameIsIndigoMontoya Darkwing Duck]]
151	*** It's not WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck. It's Darkwing Turtle-Duck, duh!
152	* Alternatively, Sokka has a son [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond by means of a strange Energy-bending secret project by the White Lotus Society]] who is Batman.
153
154	[[WMG: Amon is Bane from The Dark Knight Rises]]
155	Seriously think of the similarities.
156	* When he had the chance to take away her bending he didn't. Basically he said, "Her punishment must be more severe." He said he would take away everybody elses bending in the city first, then he would take hers. Pretty similar to what Bane told Batman in the movie. And when Tarrlok asks Amon what he is he replies, "The solution". Pretty much the same as 'Gotham's Reckoning.' [[spoiler:Not to mention him basically destroying an arena of a popular sport and holding the city ransom]] I know the movie was basically in development the same time as the show and vice versa but come on. The similarities are just uncanny.
157
158	[[WMG: The Blue Spirit reappears as Batman]]
159	Given everything the average non-bender in Republic City seems to take, not least Tarrlok trying to round up a bunch of them due to guilt by assosciation, even the non-benders that weren't pro-equalist probably feel betrayed by the authorities, given that every policeman in the City is, by definition, a powerful bender, and every council member is as well. Therefore, it's likely that one (or several) young non-benders decided they needed to protect their own and, inspired by the legendary non-bender rebel (since Zuko's hardly likely to tell everyone it was him) the Blue Spirit, decided to protect his people and the non-bender neighbourhoods we've seen. He'll likely be a seriously BadassNormal vigilante who dislikes benders and, when he inevitably meets Team Avatar, will probably tell them ThisIsMySide and to leave him alone. He may get better and join the team, or may just be forced to work with them sometimes when their aims overlap.
160	* If we're lucky it might turn out that he's part (or the leader of) a whole team of Blue Spirits, each with their own unique weapon and mask design, possibly expies of Jet and the Freedom Fighters, or the Gaang themselves, e.g. an Aang expy with a staff, a Zuko expy DualWielding knives, a Katara expy with a whip, etc.
161	** Almost certainly won't happen but tell me you don't want to see that
162
163	[[WMG: Varrick isn't Batman... he's Iron Man, or will be]]
164	Eccentric, mustached millionaire based on Howard Hughes? Check. Involved in conflict (Hughes was a defense contractor)? Check. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets captured by the Northern Tribe and be forced to create weapons for them while gravely injured, only to build a suit of PoweredArmor for him to escape.
165	* Bonus points if the suit can shoot fire and can fly based on how Iroh flew in Book 1.
166	** Which eccentric, power-armour villains are out there, because it turns out Varrick's a total bastard.
167	** I guess that would make him Lex Luthor.
168	* As of Book 4, he's semi-heroic, he's built suits of PoweredArmor, and he's being forced to make weapons by a villian. So... confirmed?
169
170	[[WMG: Zaheer is Bane/Mad Stan]]
171	Visionary radical who throws down regimes and assassinates world leaders and is voiced by Henry Rollins. Enough said.
172	* Mad Stan is both less [[DissonantSerenity serene]] and less scary. [[spoiler:And can't ''fly''.]]
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174	[[/folder]]
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