History Recap / TheLegendOfKorraS4E2KorraAlone

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Even Katara, reputedly the best healer in the world, can't heal Korra right away. Korra's recovery is slow, taking two years to get her moving around again. Even then, she still suffers from mental trauma, seeing visions of her battle with Zaheer and of herself from that battle periodically, which affects her ability to fight seriously.

A look back at what Korra has been up to for the past three years.

* AdultFear: For Senna and Tonraq, seeing their daughter struggling to recover from a traumatic experience.

** Many of the locations Korra visits, including the desert and the swamp, are places the Gaang visited.

** Toph is now living in the swamp where we first saw her in Aang's vision.
** Korra's hallucinations of herself in the Avatar State are similar to Aang's nightmares in "The Avatar State".

** Katara vaguely references the events of "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSouthernAirTemple The Southern Air Temple]]" when telling Korra about the hardships Aang went through after finding out his people were eradicated.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Inverted. We see the reason ''why'' Korra entered the earthbending sparring match. She was following a hallucination of her Avatar State self, who appeared in the ring in place of her opponent.

* RealityEnsues: Even Katara, reputedly the best healer in the world, can't heal Korra right away. Korra's recovery is slow, taking two years to get her moving around again. Even then, she still suffers from mental trauma, seeing visions of her battle with Zaheer and of herself from that battle periodically, which affects her ability to fight seriously.

* WalkingTheEarth: Korra, in an attempt to find some way to reconnect with her Avatar spirit, travels from glaicers to volcanoes and the desert to the Spirit World.

** The airbending trick with the marbles is referenced in a photo of adult Aang.

* {{Trigger}}: After the injuries she sustained in her fight against Zaheer at the end of season 3, Korra clearly has PTSD and risks being paralyzed by flashbacks every time she's placed in a combat situation. Her vision of her creepy Avatar State self, on the other hand, presses her into situations where she'll have to fight, such as the earthbending pit match or directly attacking her.

* ChangedMyJumper: The spirits don't initially recognise Korra because of her new hairstyle. Korra has to tell them she ''is'' the Avatar.

* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Well, ''dog'' in this case; it turns out to be a spirit Korra met while trying to contact Raava in the Tree of Time.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Bolin seems to think letters need to have it.

* ThatCameOutWrong: A dramatic example. Korra's rant about her lacking progress after six months ends with her angrily noting that Katara cannot heal her, which comes off somewhat blame-like even though she didn't mean it to.

* {{Trigger}}: After the injuries she sustained in her fight against Zaheer at the end of season 3, Korra clearly has PTSD and risks being paralyzed by flashbacks every time she's placed in a combat situation. Her vision of her creepy Avatar State self, on the other hand, seems to press her into situations where she'll have to fight, such as the earthbending pit match or directly attacking her.

* WalkingTheEarth: Korra, in an attempt to find some way to reconnect with her Avatar spirit.

* ShipTease: Asami is the only one of her friends Korra writes back to, as she doesn't think Bolin or Mako would understand what she's going through.

* EnemyWithout: A representation of Korra's Avatar State, which may or may not be a hallucination, seems to track Korra down.

* KickTheDog: Korra lashes out at Katara when her recovery continues to drag, insulting her healing abilities. Though she immediately realizes what she's done and apologizes, Katara is visibly hurt and her voice waivers after the outburst.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Korra PTSD and hallucinations do a number on her performance. She loses to her sparring partners when she gets a flashback of Zaheer coming at her, a fight against a couple of thieves later doesn't go much better, and a hallucination of her Avatar State self is superimposed over her earthbending opponent.

** What was subtext in the Book 3 finale is more apparent here: Korra hates being told that she should focus on her recovery while everyone else does her job of maintaining balance in the world. She has to threaten Tenzin for him to finally get the point.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Korra loses to her sparring partners when she gets a flashback of Zaheer coming at her, and a fight against a couple of thieves later doesn't go much better.

** What was subtext in the Book 3 finale is more apparent here: Korra hates being told that she should focus on her recovery while everyone else does her job, and she has to threaten Tenzin for him to finally get the point.

* DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere: Flying dolphins with ornate translucent wings! It doesn't get any better than this.

* EvilDetectingDog: An adorable puppy is able to see Korra's hallucination-self and scare it off. [[spoiler: It's later revealed to be the green translucent leafy spirit that visited her in the Tree of Time.]]

* InnocentlyInsensitive: The fish seller doesn't mean any offense, but doesn't seem to realize that Korra isn't in the right state to be a hero at the moment.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Inverted. We see the reason ''why'' Korra entered the Earthbending sparring match. She was following a hallucination of her Avatar State self, who appeared in the ring in place of her opponent.

** Katara tells Korra to [[Film/KillBill move her big toe]] - which may also be a call out to Franklin D. Roosevelt saying "Once I spent two years in bed trying to move my big toe. After that everything else seems easy."

* EvilDetectingDog: An adorable puppy is able to see Korra's hallucination-self and scare it off. It's later revealed to be the green translucent leafy spirit that visited her in the Tree of Time.

** The leafy spirit first appeared in "A Breath of Fresh Air", following Jinora around, and again at the Misty Palms Oasis in "The Stakeout" and "The Ultimatum". It appears to be a specific breed of spirit, as a pair of them appear the former episode.