History Trivia / TheLegendOfKorra

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: While [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender its prequel]] was far from the best treated show on the network, this series takes the cake as one of the very worst examples of this trope in the history of the network.

* IKnewIt:
** '''Book 1: Air'''
*** "The Revelation": Amon can take away people's bending. [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Admittedly, some of the trailers hinted at this]].
*** "And The Winner Is...": Lin was the third person in Tenzin and Pema's LoveTriangle.
*** "The Aftermath": One of the Satos is working with the Equalists. It was a long time theory. Also, mechas. Super bonus points for those who saw the blueprints way back in episode 1.
*** "Out Of The Past": Tarrlok is Yakone's son, and Amon has a means of protecting himself from bloodbending.
*** "Skeletons In The Closet": Tarrlok is Amon's brother--his younger brother. Tumblr went on fire for that one. And Amon is a bender--and a bloodbender.
*** In fact, pretty much every major plot point was successfully predicted. The only one that wasn't was the joke prediction that the parent-murdering firebender is a waterbending SerialKiller named A. Firebender.
** '''Book Two: Spirits'''
*** Combined with HilariousInHindsight is that ''Avatar''/''Naruto'' crossover fics were common due do the fact that the designs weren't horribly dissimilar. Cue Studio Pierrot, Naruto's animation studio, animating for Book 2 of ''Korra''.
*** "Civil Wars: Part 2": Did anyone tell you that Uncle Unalaq is evil? [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic No? Because they didn't have to!]] Yet, that was only the tip of the iceberg.
*** "The Sting": Many people were not the least bit surprised that Varrick turned out to be a CorruptCorporateExecutive who staged the attacks on his own vessels so he could buy out Future Industries.
*** "Harmonic Convergence": Unalaq reveals his master plan, to become the Dark Avatar by merging with Vaatu like Wan did with Raava. Lots of people saw that coming a mile off, but most dismissed it because it was so ridiculous. Joke's on them, eh? The giant battle between Korra and Unalaq was also unexpected.
** '''Book 3: Change'''
*** "In Harm's Way": When P'Li mentioned she had been locked up for thirteen years, some fans did the math and theorized that the Red Lotus were imprisoned for attempting to attack/kidnap Korra when she had just been revealed as the Avatar. They were bang on the money.
*** "Long Live The Queen": As soon as Zaheer was introduced, the fandom just ''knew'' he'd get to show off what airbending could do if it weren't in the hands of a pacifist. The most horrifying possibility is that [[spoiler:they could suck the air out of somebody's lungs]]. Come episode 10, ''Zaheer proved them right.''
*** "Enter The Void": After a season of failing to metalbend, many fans began to speculate that Bolin would [[spoiler:instead be revealed to be capable of lavabending.]] This got confirmed in this episode.
** '''Book 4: Balance'''
*** "Korra Alone": Numerous predictions abounded about the nature of [[spoiler: Toph's reappearance]] - those that were proved right were [[spoiler: 1) she would be a CliffHanger right at the end of her first episode 2) Korra would meet her in the Foggy Swamp, where Aang first "met" her 3) Toph would make a joke about her blindness - "It's good to ''see'' you again." 4) Toph would call Korra "Twinkle-Toes".]]
*** Likewise, many fans believed that Aang would still be doing his "marble trick" as an adult. Then in this episode, a proud seafood-seller shows off his picture of Aang performing the same trick with two sushi rolls!
*** A few months before Book 4 aired, Jeremy Zuckerman posted [[https://soundcloud.com/jeremy-zuckerman/legend-of-korra-a-cue-from-a-scene-from-an-episode-from-a-season "a cue from a scene from an episode from a season."]] Some fans managed to correctly predict that this was from the scene [[spoiler: where Korra gets her ImportantHaircut.]]
*** "Operation Beifong": many fans guessed that [[spoiler: Zhu Li was faking her loyalty to Kuvira in order to sabotage her plans]].
*** In the first episode this season, astute viewers caught onto [[spoiler: Kuvira's mostly filled in map having slots occupied by the location of the United Republic, and guessed that she would try to conquer it as well as the Earth Empire.]] The ending to "Operation Beifong" confirms it.
*** When fans saw the title "Kuvira's Gambit", many of them reasoned that she would, as the title implies, sacrifice something willingly for her victory. [[spoiler: Many fans guessed she would sacrifice her fiancé, Baatar Jr. And they were right.]]
*** Many viewers had [[spoiler: Hiroshi Sato]] pegged as dead as soon as his first appearance this season [[spoiler: since his capture and defeat at the end of Book 1]].

* TheWikiRule: [[http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki Avatar Wiki.]]

* CreatorBlacklash: If "Remembrances" is anything to go by, how Unalaq and by extension Book 2 turned out were this to Bryke.

* OldShame: If "Remembrances" is anything to go by, how Unalaq and by extension Book 2 turned out were this to Bryke.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Despite Book 2 being a heavily contested season for fans of the show, with it often being cited as the series SophomoreSlump, Bryke and Janey Varney have stated in interviews and audio commentaries that it was their favorite season to work on.

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!!Tropes with their own pages:
* ScrewedByTheNetwork/TheLegendOfKorra
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* {{ScrewedByTheNetwork}}/TheLegendOfKorra

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Albanian dub: Creator/AnisaDervishi (Korra) and Creator/MegiMysliu (Ikki) have also worked together on [[WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool sev]][[WesternAnimation/BarbieAndHerSistersInAPonyTale er]][[WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessAdventure al]] Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/BarbieVideoGameHero mov]][[WesternAnimation/BarbieStarLightAdventure ies]], ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'', ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''WesternAnimation/OverTheMoon'', ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'', ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'', ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', and ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower''.

* TalkingToHimself: In the Russian dub, Korra & Meelo are voiced by the same voice actress. Same applies to Asami, Ikki and Jinora.
** Dee Bradley Baker voices Nagaa, Pabu, Tarrlok, and many more

* NamesTheSame: There's a real person named Hiroshi Sato; a retired Japanese football player.

** On October 23, Mike and Bryan had a Q & A chat on Website/TheOtherWiki that answered some questions about the show.

** On October 23, Mike and Bryan had a Q & A chat on Wiki/TheOtherWiki that answered some questions about the show.

* OldShame: If "Remembrances" is anything to go by, how Unalaq and by extension Book 2 [[IdiotPlot turned out]] were this to Bryke.

** Book 1 was originally meant to just be a single season because that was all they were given, only for Nick to last minute allow more seasons, at a point where they couldn't really adjust their story to naturally work with it. This lead to Book 1 feeling resolved, and why the rest of the series felt less refined for some viewers.

* TroubledProduction: The show had a rather hard time coming out the gate, due to quite a bit of ExecutiveMeddling. Originally, the show was just going to be a 12 episodes long self-contained show, but in mid-production Nickelodeon expanded the scope of the series to two 12 episode seasons, and eventually further expanded that into 56 episodes over four seasons. As the series was more or less intended to be just a mini series, this resulted in much of the story having to be shuffled around and rewritten on the fly.

* NoDubForYou: In stark contrast with its prequel, the show never got a Japanese dub, as only a subbed version exists.

* FanNickname:
** ''Brolin'' for Bolin. Even more appropriate now that we know about his lady-killing ways.
** ''Mama!Mako'' is becoming quite popular on account of Mako's doting and protective ways.
** ''Sparkly Sparkly Bush Man'' for the park-dwelling vagabond Korra meets in the first episode (after Sokka's temporary name for Combustion Man of the original series). Secondary sources later revealed his real name as Gommu.
** ''Korralition'' or ''Krew'' for the new iteration of Team Avatar, as their in-universe team name, the Fire Ferrets, wasn't known to the fandom until early March 2012.
** ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Lin]]'' for Lin Beifong after her actions in Episode 6.
*** Many of the characters have earned themselves superhero themed nicknames. Lin has also been dubbed "[[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Lin]]" for the way she puts on her armor, and "[[Franchise/WonderWoman Wonder Lin]]" both for being amazing and the fan theory that Toph created her via earthbending. General Iroh has earned the nickname "Iroh Man" after the finale, and Mako has been dubbed "Batmako" for his similarities to Batman in episode 3.
** [[VideoGame/BioShock Big Daddies]] for the [[spoiler: mecha tanks]] introduced in episode 7, especially due to the diving suit inspiration.
** [[TropeMobile Korramobile]] for the Satomobile the Krew rides in when hunting Equalists in Episode 8 is somewhat popular given all the Franchise/{{Batman}} undertones.
** "Honora" for Zuko's daughter (the current firelord) before WordOfGod revealed her name is Izumi. These days the nickname has been passed down to her daughter whose existence has been confirmed via WordOfGod without any elaboration.
*** "Zutara" was also sometimes used too.
** "Iroh II" for General Iroh, as is standard procedure for {{Legacy Character}}s.
** "Airbabies" for Tenzin and Pema's children.
** [[spoiler:"Amonoatak"]] for [[spoiler:Amon/Noatak]].
** Amonymous for Amon, given his similar appearance to Anonymous.
** "Cloudbabies" for Aang and Katara's children.
** The Bloodbending Brothers for [[spoiler: Amon/Noatak and Tarrlok.]]
** [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Hinata]] for Eska (back before her name was revealed), due to her resemblance towards the previously mentioned character, along with a facial expression that looks very ShrinkingViolet-ish.
*** Another common fan nickname for her is "Kirima."
*** Some called her "Mai 2.0" due to her similarities with the character from the original series.
*** She ''looks'' like a cross between [[Anime/LastExile Dio and Delphine.]] Down to the eye markings!
** The "Innocent Spirit" for the cute dark spirit that Bumi II manages to pacify using his flute in "Darkness Falls".
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafarvatar]] or Avatar Jafar for the [[http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Unnamed_fire_Avatar unnamed Fire Avatar ]]. ''Literature/TheShadowOfKyoshi'' reveals his name is Szeto, and he's a very well-respected figure in the Fire Nation, honored with a yearly festival due to being a BadassBureaucrat who diligently and fairly led the country out of years of famine and natural disasters.
** Kai has already acquired the rather unfortunate nickname of "Shitstain", on account of him being an arrogant little twerp.
** Unalaq is often referred to as "The Diabolical but Incredibly Boring and Unpopular Sorcerer From the North".
** Before her name was revealed, a common nickname for Ming-Hua was "Lady Crazy-eyes".
*** A better nickname for her now would be, "Ms. No-Limbs.
** Suyin's artistic son, Huan, has gained the moniker "Music/{{Skrillex}}" from some fans, because they share some similiarities in appearance.
** Before they were revealed as the Red Lotus, Zaheer, P'Li, Ming-Hua and Ghazan were known—on this wik—as the Irregular Benders. Other names included the "[[Film/TheExpendables Exbendables]]," the "Four-Nation Army," the "Doomsday Squad," and the "anti-Team Avatar."
*** P'Li in particular was called either the Combustion Woman or Sparky Sparky Boom Ma'am, as a reference to the man from the first series also capable of such a power.
** An [[https://i.imgur.com/yi7ZIKr.jpg unnamed, rotund Air Nomad Avatar]] has come to be known as Avatar Boof-Poof, The Last Cakebender.
** Opal is known as "adoropal" given her awkward and cute nature.
** Prince Wu earned the nickname Prince Wuzko for his [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco-like]] mannerisms and attitude.
** Lin and Mako are referred to as Momboss and Detectiveson on account of their mother/son and work relationship.
** "The Thing"[[note]](a reference to Varrick's CatchPhrase "Do the thing!", but not to be confused with [[WartimeWedding his and Zhu Li's "thing" in the same episode]])[[/note]] for the last scene in the GrandFinale episode of Book Four [[HoYay and]] [[JustFriends its]] [[TeasingCreator multiple]] [[OfficialCouple interpretations]].
*** A few days after its release, [[WordOfGod the creators confirmed the last interpretation was the correct one]].
** [[BadassFamily The Baefongs]] for Toph Beifong's offspring.
** Satobot for Asami. More specifically, what many FanFiction writers write as Korra's AffectionateNickname for Asami.
** "The Bob Squad" for [[TheHero Korra]], [[BreakoutCharacter Jinora]], and [[TheCutie Opal]] in Book 4.