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[[WMG:Going with the gangster theory, the show will potentially involve [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} immortals]].]]

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[[WMG: Harmonic Convergence did not 'create' new Airbenders, it just awakened latent power. In a way, it jump-started the bending potential of non-benders.]]

[[WMG: [[LightIsNotGood Raava is not inherently good]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil Vaatu inherently evil]]]]

[[WMG: There will be a hidden Airbending culture]]

[[WMG: Despite the high technology, guns will ''not''' make an appearance]]

*** Might be confirmed since [[spoiler: the Equalists' HumongousMecha are made of platinum, impractical armor against firearms but purified enough that metalbenders can't affect them. Courtesy of Hiroshi Sato.]]

[[WMG: The Show will have some proto Cyber Punk elements]]

[[WMG: Going with the gangster theory, the show will potentially involve [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} immortals]].]]

[[WMG: The play performed by the Ember Island Players has gone on to become an all-time classic, with the original ending substituted for the actual ending of Aang beating Ozai.]]

[[WMG: A lot of waterbenders will function as doctors.]]

* In episode 7, Tahno mentioned going to several healers after [[spoiler: Amon took his bending away]]. So that could be taken as evidence that waterbenders set up shop for their healing services.

[[WMG: Silent film now exists in the Avatarverse.]]

[[WMG: Pro Bending will become fake]]

[[WMG: One word: Steambenders]]

[[WMG: Rules for Airbenders in Pro Bending]]

* Confirmed. Episode 7 shows that platinum is metal so refined that there are little to no particles of earth left in it to bend. [[spoiler: Hiroshi Sato takes advantage of this by creating Mini Mechas made out of the stuff for the Equalists, specifically to counter the Metalbending Police.]]

** [[spoiler: Confirmed! The Harmonic Convergence ends up making a bunch of new airbenders.]]

[[WMG: The Avatar universe is completely foundamentaly different from ours]]

[[WMG: The Avatar world was born from a post-apocalyptic one--likely the result of nuclear war.]]

[[WMG: The physical world and the spirit world are not on different planes, but rather are two separate planets.]]

[[WMG: Iroh got stuck in the Fog of Lost Souls while searching for his son.]]

[[WMG: The reason why there's new Airbenders popping out.]]

[[WMG: The Earth Kingdom will now change into the Earth Federation.]]
[[spoiler: The Earth Queen's dead without an heir it seems, so once order does reach Ba Sing Se, a new Democratic Republic will take over.]]
** {{Jossed}}, never mind, there's [[spoiler: already an heir named Prince Wu. And he loses his throne to Kuvira, who transforms the kingdom into the Earth Empire, apparently the main antagonists of the final Book.]]

[[WMG: Pro-Bending will be amended to include airbenders.]]

[[WMG: On mixed race bending]]
Since we're in a setting with increasing numbers of individuals with mixed ancestry, this could lead to new hybrid forms of bending. In the most recent episode, we have [[spoiler: Bolin, a mixed Earth/Fire character, discovering his latent lavabending abilities.]] Lavabending seems to blur the line between earth and fire, (and in the first series, we saw firebenders controlling lava). This may well mean that [[spoiler:Mako]] is also a lavabender.

[[WMG: The secret to Lavabending is not Fire, but Water]]

[[WMG: The Earth Kingdom (or at least part of it) will join the United Republic of Nations.]]

[[WMG: Every part of Air Nomad culture becomes apparent when Zaheer's brutality is shown.]]

[[WMG: The next series will take place during the adult life of the next Avatar, and he'll be OutOfFocus.]]

[[WMG: The Avatar-verse won't get realistic guns but will get FamilyFriendlyFirearms.]]

[[WMG: The next Avatar will be an introverted, bookish nerd.]]

[[WMG: Badgermoles hate roaches.]]
[[spoiler: The moment Wu called the Earth Empire soldier a roach, their ears perked up and they promptly circled round and attacked him and his squad.]]

[[WMG: A few million years ago, a giant, platinum-filled asteroid crashed into the planet.]]

It seems to play on the fears of its captives, causing them to relive their worst [[NightmareFuel nightmares and/or memories.]] Kya's worst nightmare somehow involves losing or being abandoned by her family, while Bumi's clearly involves bloodthirsty cannibals. Tenzin is already living [[AdultFear a parent's worst nightmare]], so the Fog settles for his second worst: Failing the rest of the family and the world.

Given the longevity of Avatars and the rapid pace at which technology is advancing in the Avatarverse, by the time Korra's successor is born we'll get either [[RecycledInSpace Avatar in Space]] or [[{{Cyberpunk}} Avapunk]], which would be stretching things a little too far in my opinion. By the time the next Avatar comes around, a huge cataclysm, be it global war or a meteorite impact, will have reduced most of the world to a smoking wasteland and set back technology decades or even centuries. Alternatively, we'll get a {{Prequel}}.

** And eventually he'll get a big dose of RealityEnsues and NotSoAboveItAll. For the first time in the series history he'll square off against a villain who has no interest in dueling him one-on-one, and whose army has a clear line of succession to prevent it from being defeated by his death. This will literally leave the booknerd Avatar with no choice other than to get down in the dirt, and charge at the head of an army of thousands, battling another army of thousands, in a bending free-for-all.

* There will be a guild of Firebenders and Waterbenders who are bound to create and improve steam-based technology. [[MagicTheGathering And their leader will be a red dragon.]]

Hey, taking place in a 20's-esque setting. Although there is the potential of an [[MadeOfWin overload of awesome]].

* This was sort of both joshed and confirmed during the season final. The United Forces ships had cannons that were some kind of "long range firebending" focusers, and WW2 style bombs made an appearance, but nobody had anything resembling a handheld firearm. We will just have to wait for season 2 I guess...

*** It will probably be a silly, campy [[RockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky Horror style]] show.

[[spoiler: The Earth Queen's dead without an heir it seems, so once order does reach Ba Sing Se, a new Democratic Republic will take over.]]
* HOWEVER, as of the finale, Prince Wu has decided to abdicate the throne and suggests a new, democratic system for his nation. So we may yet see an Earth Federation, assuming there's still fiction after this.

{{WMG: The next Avatar will be an introverted, bookish nerd.]]

** {{Jossed}}, never mind, there's [[spoiler: already an heir named Prince Wu.]]

* Interracial marriages and families are a pretty big plot point in the graphic novel series that serves to tell some of the story about what happens between the Hundred Year War and the events of the Legend of Korra. The Fire Nation colonists in the Earth Kingdom, established by Sozin (and discussed when Roku's storyline was outlined), were still there at the end of the Hundred Year War. Zuko and Aang attempted to remove them to keep the nations separate, but eventually concluded that it was impossible to do so. One of the things that stopped them was realizing how integrated the Fire Nation colonists had become in the Earth Kingdom, partially because of a fire-bending would-be assassin who turned out to be part of a mixed marriage. This is pretty clearly canon, as it spurred the creation of both the United Republic and the Air Acolytes. It's difficult to tell from the background events, but it appears that interracial marriages - while perhaps not exactly common - are still not necessarily a surprising or unorthodox thing, like they would have been during the Hundred Year War.