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It's simple, really. Sometime after the end of Korra's adventure, a new power source of energy was discovered that rendered bending of the elements worthless, the power of Mantra. Taking their old bending powered machines and enhancing them with mantra the people of the avatar world advanced to new heights the world had never seen before.Because bending was no longer needed, the benders decided to utilize mantra instead, and via genetic manipulation, became the first demigods, and thus, the Shinkoku Trastrium Civilization came to be. Any former non benders stayed regular humans, and eventually developed their own language to distinguish themselves from the former benders, that while still could be understood between the demigods and regular humans, it is untillegible to us veiwers.
Now what happened to the avatar spirit, you may ask? Simple. Because the world advanced way to quickly, pollution and overpopulation plagued the formerly unified world, and the Demigods did exactly what The Equalist anti bending group of The Legend of Korra feared, and that was have regular humans be lower class citizens under the Demigod's rule. With The Golden Spider/Chakratarvin irritating and making the avatar spirit angry and full of rage at the demigods for ruining the balance it tried to keep together so much, the spirit twisted into Gohma Vlitra, and thus caused the first war of creation between the gohma and the Demi-gods.
So now, instead of keeping the world in balance, the former Avatar now turned into Gohma waged war for thousands, if not millions of years, thus the Avatar never being able to reincarnate ever again. It was now up to the demi-gods to take back their world from the Gohma.
- Going along with this, perhaps the Avatar was created in the first place by Chakravartin, the spinner of life and mantra. He used the image of the Avatar as his personal agent of enlightenment and prosperity, with a bit of his power through the extended control of the four elements. However, the Avatar proved to flawed in each recent reincarnation (letting loved ones die; Roku failing to stop Sozin and forcing the mantle onto his descendant Aang, a preteen at the time; Korra's initial lack of control and discipline) that Chakravartin, as the Golden Spider, decided to end the Avatar's reign through subtle manipulation and create a new heir and ruler to the world; not only in his own image, but one who has rising amongst mortals and gained power on their own, without a predestined duty to bring balance to the world. He even admits as much to Asura at the final episode that "Gaea must be led by one of its own", implying that mindset. Destroying Vlitra, the previous 'guardian' of the world, would be the ultimate test.
- Korra is so Red it's not even funny. Maybe Red/Blue/Green given her powers as the Avatar.
- Korra would be Red/Blue. Earth and Fire are Red, Air and Water are Blue.
- Depends. Green has wind spells, and on Avatarverse, Air is more associated with spirituality, which is Green.
- Korra herself is probably mono-Red, with the Avatar Spirit separately being either WUBRG, or a non-artifact colorless entity like the Eldrazi.
- With what we've seen recently, Earthbending is White (Nahiri and the Kor of Zendikar would definitely fit in in the Earth Kingdom), Firebending is Red, of course, and Waterbending and Airbending are both Blue, due to Blue's purview of Sea and Sky.
- Mako is ironically White/Blue
- Bolin seems Green/Red
- The airbenders as a whole gravitate towards White and/or Green, with Tenzin being whiter than most.
- Lin Beifong is the epitome of White bitchery.
- And White's self-sacrifice. She's an impressive microcosm of the color, in her own way.
- Amon is probably White/Black if not pure White. His Lieutenant seems Blue, so it'd be fun if he were White/Black.
- Currently I'm leaning towards a White/Red interpretation. It suits his nature as a rebel and puts him in contrast with Tarrlok. Besides, MTG's Creative thinks V is W/R, and Amon is a V expy.
- Given how manipulative Amon (and V, for that matter) is, there's gotta be Blue somewhere in there.
- Blue =/= manipulation, it's just the colour that makes the most use of it. White, Black, Red and even Green have had it's master manipulators.
- The reveal of his true heritage suggests Blue/Black for Amon, he just casts Quickchange a lot.
- Heritage goes against Blue's ideology, though.
- White/Black is most likely, as Amon really does believe in his goals of Equality.
- Currently I'm leaning towards a White/Red interpretation. It suits his nature as a rebel and puts him in contrast with Tarrlok. Besides, MTG's Creative thinks V is W/R, and Amon is a V expy.
- Skoochy is Black in the "not evil, but still opportunistic" way.
- Tarrlok is either Black/White or Black/Blue, depending on how one interprets his motivations.
- Unalaq is either White/Black, Green/Black, or Green/Black/White. He is clearly power hungry and has moral goals, it's just a matter of whereas his moral goals are more in line with White's ehtics or Green's traditionalism.
- Screw that, he is mono-Green, with methods more common of Blue/Black, but that nonetheless don't shift his alignment significantly. He probably got Green/Black after becoming fused with Vaatu, though.
- Vaatu and Raava could be five-colored, but have a strong claim to non-artifact colorless by way predating anything that might serve as a comparison.
- The Red Lotus as a whole is, well, Red-aligned, since their goal is to bring about anarchy in order to free the world from opressive governments. Zaheer seems either Green/Red or White/Red, Ming-Hua Black/Red (given how psychotic and sadistic she is), and both Ghazan and P'li show Red tendencies (a laid back disposition and intense passion, respectively), though we'll probably need more screetime to see how they are otherwise.
- Varrick is Red/Blue. I don't think he could be pegged as anything else.
- Kuvira is so White/Blue that Augustin IV is looking at her from behind the grave and high-fiving, as is King Brago.
Haruhi saw Avatar The Last Airbender, and thought it would be pretty snazzy to be an avatar, and her unconsciously omnipotent reality-warping head brainfarted the Korraverse into in existence, where:
- Korra is Haruhi,
- Mako is Kyon,
- Bolin is Koizumi,
and so on.
- Only problem I can see with this is that the show is virtually hated in Japan (it has something to do with their portrayal of Asian culture).
- [citation needed] for that. Actually, Bryan Konietzko (Avatar co-creator) on his tumblr said "that Books 1 & 2 of Avatar were officially dubbed in Japanese, but then the Nick Japan network was closed and they were never broadcast," and that knknknk was a Japanese Avatar fan."So it seems that at least one person in Japan has seen Avatar. That’s a start!"
- To be fair, this show, like a lot of Western animations, is not as popular in Asia in general given that fewer people have seen it or even heard of it. Most are, however, more familiar with the live-action movie, and we all know how well that went out. With that said, there is still devoted Asian fanbase for the show, cuz face it, ATLA is pretty good in terms of a Western animation as portrayal of Asian culture. You try something like Jackie Chan's Adventure and quite a lot of other shows that have this cliche portray of an overly stuffed stereotype token Asian episode, ATLA was really a welcoming fresh air.
- [citation needed] for that. Actually, Bryan Konietzko (Avatar co-creator) on his tumblr said "that Books 1 & 2 of Avatar were officially dubbed in Japanese, but then the Nick Japan network was closed and they were never broadcast," and that knknknk was a Japanese Avatar fan.
- Alternatively, Varrick is Haruhi. And Pabu is Mikuru. You all know why.
Amon is voiced by Steve Blum and has blueprints for a Giant Mecha. Also, Rodger Smith is obviously Batman/Bruce Wayne, just like Amon and Mako are. Finally, Mako and Zolt have a very similar appearance to Rodger. Coincidence?
...Most likely.
Roger DOES like wearing disguises and being a sociopath.
They have similar names.
...it's actually a non-bender with a flame-thrower.
- And The Lieutenant was the person he made a contract with. That is how he survived all those injuries from falling from the Pro-bending stadium roof to being shocked; he's immortal. Does that mean his real name is A.A.?
- ... Amon Amarth?
- And The Lieutenant was the person he made a contract with. That is how he survived all those injuries from falling from the Pro-bending stadium roof to being shocked; he's immortal. Does that mean his real name is A.A.?
- Alternatively, it was 'Love Amongst the Dragons.'
Mako and Asami will break up somewhere in season two and the rest of the time he and Korra will be Twice Shy. Mako and Korra will finally confess their love and get together a few episodes before the final battle and they will share a night of passion before the battle. In said battle, Mako will be killed in saving Bolin or someone and Korra tries her best to save him but fails, leaving her heartbroken. After Mako's funeral, Bolin and Asami get together and Korra is found to be pregnant with Mako's child.
A time skip of about seven or eight years will reveal that RC has achieved the dream Aang had for it. It is a peaceful place and the streets are safe and gang-free. Amon, Tarrlok, the Equalists and that annoying protester are all gone, benders and non-benders are friends again and Bolin and Asami have married and had kids. Korra, who is still living at Air Temple Island with Tenzin and his family, never married, remaining faithful to Mako even after his death. She has not only lived up to Aang's legacy as the Avatar, but she also the proud mother of opposite-gender-twins who look and act just like their respective parents (A feisty waterbending daughter who looks like Korra and a calm firebending son who looks like Mako) and spend the better part of their time bickering. The boy cherishes his red scarf just as his father did.
This is only here because it is unlikely to happen on the show seeing how young Korra still is. If anyone would like to make this into a fic, they have my permission.
- So if Korra = Madoka and Amon = Kyubey, who are the other characters?
- Lin = Kyouko(for the anti-hero bits) or Mami in a Iron Lady Lady of War sort of way, especially being the first main hero to get de-bended (bonus points both of their falls involved damage to their head in some way), Asami = Sayaka or Homura former having a Start of Darkness and the latter being a Weak, but Skilled fighter and unsure on Mako or Bolin since they're guys.
- Alternate theory: they will be reborn as 2 small animals (like, jay-anoles or something) that shall frequently appear in the background. They will be quite content.
Hasook was pissed off at Mako for insulting him all the time. Every time he messed up he became the worst person in the world. Mako never treated Bolin like that because they were brothers. Mako protected Bolin and never blamed him. Everything was Hasook's fault. He felt like a third wheel with Mako and Bolin being so close and him just being "the Waterbender." Sure, Hasook isn't the best Waterbender in the world, but he'd appreciate just a little respect from Mako. This hit its breaking point when we last see him in "A Leaf In The Wind." Pissed off, Hasook left and never planned to come back. He left looking for a way to get revenge. Koh the Face Stealer, being the jerk he is, saw this and offered him power. Power to rewrite reality to his liking. Hasook, being very emotional at the time, took him up on the offer.
He attained this power right around the time of "The Revelation", and Hasook planned to make them suffer. His first target was Bolin. Mr. I Can Do No Wrong. He made Mako start being rude to him. Rude in a way that he never was before. Mako became snappy and dismissive of Bolin. He made sure Bolin was kidnapped. Seeing him freak out in front of Amon made Hasook happy. He then decided to make Mako a huge jerk by having him suddenly develop feelings for the girl Bolin liked while still dating Asami. Mako and Korra kissed and made Bolin suffer more than Hasook had ever seen. This was when he started ignoring Bolin. Bolin became merely window dressing at this point. Now Hasook toyed with Mako's feelings. He made his feelings for Korra drive his actions. He made him rude to Korra, giving her an ultimatum and lacking any reasoning for his arguments. He used Hiroshi Sato being an Equalist to his advantage. He made Hiroshi reveal himself to everyone. He made sure Mako was there and that his girlfriend lost everything. He didn't really have anything against Asami, so he didn't really bother with her. She ended up saving everyone.
Everyone except the police.
Hasook didn't mind. He didn't want anyone to really get debended. After he was satisfied he would just make everything better. After that Hasook got everyone arrested and then made Tarrlok reveal his true nature. But then Korra got kidnapped. Hasook tried to stop this, but realized that things were starting to get a little difficult to control. He didn't want anything truly bad to happen to Korra, so he had Korra suddenly discover Yakone's story, and made sure people discovered Tarrlok's lies and then had Amon pop up to debend Tarrlok. It was justice, right? During this time, he tried to make it easier for the Krew to find Korra, but something strange happened. Everything heaped onto Mako. Mako became the only one to show any real emotion in the situation. Hasook found that he couldn't stop it. His control over his powers were slipping.
They found Korra, and Mako disregarded everything for her. Hasook started to freak out. He wanted to stop Mako but he couldn't. It had gone too far. Mako became of force all his own. Hasook had to watch Asami be hurt by Mako denying all of the things that he caused. Mako was obsessed with Korra. When Amon took over Republic City, Hasook made sure that General Iroh got the message. When the fleet was attacked, Hasook ensured General Iroh's survival, and at a loss of what to do, sat back and watched Mako degrade. Hasook tried to have Mako apologize to Asami, but all he could do was make Mako give an ambiguous statement. When Korra and Mako found Tarrlok, Hasook tried to explain Amon, but he couldn't think of anything. He made up some story about Amon being Yakone's son. He tried to explain things, but all he could think of was how bad it would be if Amon was a Bloodbender. Then Amon was a Bloodbender. Hasook was horrified. Being a Waterbender, Hasook feared Bloodbending more than any other kind of bending. When Amon had debended Korra and was about to debend Mako, Hasook gave Mako a boost so that he could break the rules on Lightning Bending and hit Amon. But Amon wasn't so easy to stop. Hasook had to pull out all the stops to get Korra to Airbend, and made Amon reveal himself as a Waterbender. Amon escaped and went to Tarrlok. Hasook took his chance to get them both out at sea and then made Tarrlok kill both himself and Amon.
Seeing how much he hurt Korra, Hasook tried to help by unlocking her spiritual side and giving her her bending back as well as giving everyone else their bending back. But Mako came out and kissed Korra. Hasook was ashamed. He made so many people suffer just to get revenge. He realized that Bolin really didn't deserve what he got. He dragged Asami through the dirt just to get to Mako, and Mako became unstoppable. He couldn't make everything better. He had lost total control of his powers. It took everything to give Korra Energybending. Now Hasook is stuck in the Spirit World, unable to leave. Koh is amused, and everything is so much worse than he ever anticipated.
- Or, Azula is secretly a man. "The Beach" proves nothing. We've all seen those screencaps of James in a bikini...
Credit to Archereon for the idea [lol]
Wan Shi Tong will try to turn her away. After all the humans just going to abuse his knowledge again! She'll manage to convince him to stay and offer new medias to store knowledge on records and record players, silent films, etc
The owl spirit will be impressed by her devotion to knowledge, and as the years pass Jinora will drop by the library during her travels and catch up with him.
The knowledge spirit and the airbender would bond over their love of learning,and Jinora would want others to have access to the library.
Saddened by the fact he'll outlive mortal friend. He'll see that her wish comes true in a way that can still protect the library and share it at the same. So together they create a global network where people share and save information and communicate with each other.
- Avatars Gone Wild, for the parents.
- Mai/Jinora=Daria Morgendorffer
- Ty Lee/Ikki=Quinn Morgendorffer
- Meelo=Beavis Sherman
- Rohan=Buford Sherman, or as everyone calls him, Butt-head
- Prosthetic limbs. You mean, like the kind Combustion Man had?
- Considering how many waterbenders are colossal jerks in this series, this may not be that far off.
At the very least, something like it will appear as a poster in the background.
Either Korra or the next Avatar will take note of the Hays Code, and deliver some epic, well-deserved jabs at Moral Guardians and Nickelodeon.
Of course, that begs the question of where the third Raver is. Unalaq himself? Varrick? Zhu Li?
These masks, when soaked in blood, would give their wearers an alternate form of waterbending. This technique, though limited in its uses, was immensely powerful, allowing its user to weaponize their own bodily fluids, freeze the water vapor around them, and even live thousands of years longer than a normal human. But the technique was also very dangerous, as it was so potent that the user required the blood of others for sustenance, and they shared the Pillar Men's weakness to sunlight, but instead of turning them to stone, exposure to the sun would kill them. This specific group of waterbenders would later become known as vampires. When Avatar Wan sealed off the gate to the spirit world, the Pillar Men, who had a strong connection to the spirits, turned to stone indefinitely.
Thousands of years later, a few decades after the end of the Hundred Year War, the mask found its way into a part of the world that remained separate from the four nations and was unaffected by the war; a little continent called Europe, which consisted almost entirely of non-benders. An English man named Dio Brando donned the mask and became a vampire with the intention of taking over the world, but was quickly defeated by his stepbrother, Jonathan Joestar, who harnessed the power of the sun using an ancient form of firebending known as the Ripple.
Some time after the next Harmonic Convergence, the last four remaining Pillar Men had awakened from their ten-thousand-year sleep; Santana the Waterbender, Esidisi the Firebender, Wham the Airbender, and Kars the Earthbender. They were soon defeated by Jonathan Joestar's grandson, Joseph Joestar.
Over the next several decades, bending began to disappear, and spirits found their way back into the human world, becoming one with the humans. They had learned to join with humans without harming them, and these new spirits became known as Stands. During this time, the great-granddaughter of Avatar Aang, who lived in a district of Republic City known as Morioh, married into the Kishibe family and had a son, who she named after her father. Rohan Kishibe would grow up to be a famous manga artist.
Yes, this whole elaborate theory was a setup for a name similarity joke.
- Partially confirmed. Spirits do indeed coexist with humans as of the Book 2 finale, and Korra deciding to keep the spirit portals open would certainly give the Pillar Men a reason to reawaken.
- We got some form of this. Halfway through the 3rd Book, the entire series moved from Friday nights to online distribution.
- Zhu Li is his companion, naturally.
- His TARDIS is Ping-Ping.
- So is Varrick the Master?
- Couldn't be. He does occasionally help people with little to no return value, and he seems to genuinely care about those he considers his friends or closest allies. Even his desire to take over Asami's company wasn't out of spite toward her, and he maintained his business relationship with her, even after she was bankrupt and he could have bought her out completely with just a few carefully selected words. He's manic like the Master was in his last incarnation, but not malevolent. If he is a Time Lord we've met before, I'd say he's more likely to be Drax.
It's also why he didn't react when Tonraq tried to appeal to his humanity by way of his kids, he had no idea who "Eska" and "Desna" were.
Her mother was an employee of Varrick's and died in childbirth. Foreseeing that having an illegitimate daughter would cause succession issues with any other children he might have down the road but not being completely without a conscience, Varrick ensured that she was brought up by loving foster parents, paid for her education, and ensured that she would have a job where he could keep close watch on her.
Crazy, I know, but David Faustino does both Bud AND Mako, and imagine if Mako is actually one of Bud's alternate egos that were actually successful, and he was kept that way!
And before you call me crazy, keep in mind that most of the Book 3 screenshots seen so far have the characters undressed.
Hence the title. Book 3: Change of clothes.
- Varrick will be filming their wacky hijinks, because Naked People Are Funny (PG, of course, although you could probably recut it as a sex comedy if you felt the need).
We do know that Amon-the-Dark-Voice has a thing for Let's You and Him Fight, and stirring up trouble to divide the Avatar world between benders and non-benders to make it easier to invade is right up his alley. Not to mention, he does his best work through intermediaries who lie like rugs about their intentions and identities until The Reveal.
The only flaw being, what possible reason would a Physical God have to take out such a minor world? (Maybe Raava foiled his plan one time, somehow. Or... for fun?)
- Ghazan is Toph's son and Lin's brother.
- Well, since it's been revealed that Lin has a half-sister and that neither girls knew their fathers, who's to say this is as unlikely as it first seems?
- Ming-Hua is Hama's great-grandaughter.
- P'Li is Iroh's great-granddaughter.
- This, at least, is just plain Jossed. There is no indication that Iroh had any living descendants, and there would have been a difficult succession crisis if he had.
- Plus, based on the pictures of her, she looks more like Azula's descendant.
- Zaheer is...drumroll please...Sokka's son!
- Was Aang drunk when this happened?
- Yes, very. Much alcohol was involved, and all parties agreed that they would never speak of these nights to anyone.
- It's a long story, but it involved cactus juice, Zuko's lesser known illiteracy, and Sokka pranking Zuko into believing he still had to restore some of his honor.
- Representatives from the Big Ten Kingdom will consequentially lose every big game played.
- This troper may or may not be a student of a school from a similar conference. Also, he may or may not have been motivated by this weeks performance of said conference.
- Asami will get a mohawk, Mako and Bolin will grow their hair and beards out like ZZ Top, and Tenzin will grow an afro.
- Or maybe they will all just grow mullets.
- Partially confirmed! They all look good, though.
- Did those two actors even shared a scene on Mad Men?
- They have all these crazy bending styles so why not paper like in Read or Die?
- It seems to be a very popular prediction.
- Anyone willing to count how many estimates were incorrect?
- She's going around, taking over bits of the world (kind of like the aforementioned President is beginning to do). Also, it seems likely that a cult of personality will begin to develop around her, much like it has with Mr. Putin.
- On top of that, she tries to force people into her thrall under the pretense of "protecting" them, and constantly denies that she's doing anything wrong, even when directly confronted by other world leaders. Zaofu might as well be Avatar-verse Crimea.
- And now she wants to invade Republic City too, on the grounds that it was historically Earth Kingdom (now Empire) land— pretty much the same rationale Putin and his supporters have for wanting to re-absorb the former Soviet republics.
- On top of that, she tries to force people into her thrall under the pretense of "protecting" them, and constantly denies that she's doing anything wrong, even when directly confronted by other world leaders. Zaofu might as well be Avatar-verse Crimea.
- Kuivra has such a powerful influence over people, that she can make people misspell her relatively simple name of Kuveera. It is commonly seen that Kuivara has her name mistakenly printed across message boards, online reviews, and many other forms of discussion. Qivereh would be deeply insulted, if it weren't part of her plan.
- Kuvira will move the superweapon to a hidden location, of which Korra will find, but at the cost of Mako's life after staying behind to protect a spirit vine bomb. After a night of passionate romance with Asami (who accidentally spilled blue ink all over herself), Korra and the team will raid Kuvira's stronghold, and Korra will convince Kuvira that she is indoctrinated. Kuvira will thank Korra before killing herself with a sharpened metal band.
- And by their standards, he's a fairly tame and lucid one.
- ...after of which, Korra will beat him up and use the Tesseract herself. This will allow Korra to enter the Marvel Filmverse and become an Avenger. She will be then able to help Skye learn how to control her new earth powers.
- Of course, this will also inevitably lead to shipping between the two. And Asami. And Kuvira. And so on.
- Armed only with grenades.
- This is the true reason why Asami didn't want to go back to the dance floor with Korra. Also, Mako doesn't dance because he only knows the Carlton.
- In the commentary for Book 4, Bryan stated that doing such would be like a life sentence, due to the high demands of the work. Sounds like he's onto something...
- Claiming that she's unable to contribute to the final battle is her way of reinforcing An Aesop of "Stop leaving it up to the older generation" (imagine how short the fight against the Colossus would have been if she'd been there). After all, Bumi was past 100 and still kicking ass, there's no reason Toph couldn't be just as, if not more, capable than a kid. And even if she did have back problems, she could easily bend the calcium back into shape.
And they will be known as the Riders of Rohan. Their main job: saving people right at the nick of time.
- He will come back as Mad Stan.
- Spirit World and spirits here have many similarities with Fade and spirits/demons of Thedas, such as:
- Both Fade and Spirit World being eldritch locations with little to no regard to the laws of physics or common sense, being shaped or twisted by people's emotions.
- Both were cut off from the real world in the setting backstory by the Guile Hero attempting to use it as a can to seal some evil in and therefore not accessible physically, but some people can get there as spirits while dreaming/meditating.
- Likewise, form of spirits in both settings depend on the emotions of people around them (being around negative emotions turns the spirits in Avatar into dark spirits, and being fed on negative emotions corrupts Dragon Age spirits into demons).
- On the other hand, spirits can possess humans and grant them special powers (e.g. the Avatar itself or Wynne in Dragon Age) and/or severely disfigure them.