History Recap / TheLegendOfKorraS4E8Remembrances

* YouMustBeCold: Asami's excuse for bringing Korra tea. Whatever you say, Asami...

* BreatherEpisode: After 7 episodes filled with wham, this episode is a LighterAndSofter recap episode.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A BreatherEpisode right before the finale wherein the previous seasons are neatly summed up with several events being portrayed utterly incorrectly for laughs? The [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers Ember Island Players]] say 'hello'.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A BreatherEpisode right before the finale wherein the previous seasons are neatly summed up with several events being portrayed utterly incorrectly for laughs? The Ember Island Players say 'hello'.

* OffModel: In the SplitScreenPhoneCall between Vaatu, Zaheer, Amon, and Unalaq, Unalaq inexplicably has two left arms, one being used to call the other three, and the other just sitting there. Also, during the part dealing with the fight between Unavaatu and Spirit!Korra, Bolin's head is pasted over Korra's to make her look like a giant spirit Bolin. Except they made no attempt to hide Korra's body or long hair. [[RuleOfFunny These are certainly deliberate]] and look a lot like GIF-edits where a character's face is pasted over someone else's.

* SelfDeprecation: Mako's entire segment is the creators saying "Yeah, we know we screwed this up."

* BigBadEnsemble: Vaatu, Zaheer and Zombie!Amon team up to fight Bolin, with Mover!Unalaq tagging along despite their attempts to get rid of him.
* BigBadWannabe: Mover!Unalaq, whose attempts to join the aforementioned BigBadEnsemble are happily denied. Unfortunately, he's an "annoyingly clingy person", and accidentally fused with Vaatu for the final battle with Bolin.

* UltimateEvil: Vaatu is acknowledged as the most powerful force of evil in the ''Avatar'' universe.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynacism: As a callback to [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E3TheCoronation The Coronation]] Korra brings up Toph's words to her and wonders if what she does really is pointless. Asami and Tenzin have much more optimistic outlooks about the future. Asami points out that Korra's actions lead to Nonbenders having a voice within Republic City, the reintroduction of Spirits to the world, and the return for the Air Nation showing that the world has improved. Likewise while Tenzin acknowledges that Toph has a point he also points out that Korra herself has changed tremendously since she first came to Republic City and just because there will always be a new enemy for the Avatar to fight doesn't mean she should give up.

* BottleEpisode: Bryan Konietzko [[http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/103173899927/a-few-preemptive-words-about-episode-408 admitted that]] the reason for doing a ClipShow was largely in order to deal with a budget cut, because [[SadisticChoice it was this or fire people.]] The fact that it is one of the funniest episodes of the entire franchise is a testament to how they can turn a bad situation into a good episode.

* AsYouKnow: Korra and Asami recap events they both know and lived through. At least it can justify itself as a therapy session for Korra. Given the series finale one can also see this as Korra's way of opening up emotionally to Asami.

* LampshadeHanging: Mako's act is full of his boss and family telling him how horrible he handled his book 1 and 2 relationships.

** Wu, Tu and Grandma Yin all serve as this to Mako during his act by voicing the fan complains about how poorly he handled the love triangle of books 1 and 2.

* TheAbridgedSeries: Varrick's mover idea in the third act is a hilarious abridged version of the last three seasons and it's made even better by looking exactly like an abridged series on {{YouTube}}.

* TheAbridgedSeries: Varrick's mover idea in the third act is a hilarious abridged version of the last three seasons and its made even better by looking exactly like an abridged series on {{YouTube}}.

* TakeThatUs: Many riffs are made at Book 1 and Book 2's expense.
* UnreliableNarrator: Varrick has an at best skewed idea of how events went down, before he goes completely off the rails.

* AnAesop: Tenzin shows up at the end of the second act to tell Korra that there will always be new conflict despite all her progress in defeating Amon, Vaatu and the Red Lotus, and that the important thing is not to give in to doubt.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A BreatherEpisode right before the finale wherein the previous seasons are neatly summed up with several events being portrayed utterly incorrectly for laughs? The Ember Island Players say 'hello'.
* SuperDeformed: The first and third acts have chibi versions of the characters as talking heads. Korra's act, being more serious, forgoes them.

* AnswerCut: Bolin asks Varrick how Zaheer and Vaatu teamed up. Cue Vaatu answering a call from Zaheer on his phone.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Vaatu is acknowledged as the most powerful force of evil in the ''Avatar'' universe.