History Headscratchers / TheLegendOfKorraTeamAvatar

*** Yeah, that makes sense, just came off as weird given her reaction in season one.

[[folder: Korra is REALLY BAD at learning the correct lessons from previous seasons]]
* She either forgets the lesson, or learns it wrong. Book 1, she was supposed to have learned that there are some problems she can't punch through (which ended up being a problem she can punch through, but we'll ignore that for now), and she also got manipulated by a Northern Tribe leader into doing exactly what he wants in the name of "it's your job, Avatar." In Book 2, she forgets the last time she got manipulated by a Northern Tribe leader, and Unaloq got her to do exactly what he wanted to further his plans. Book 3 she manages to get better and consults with other people before deciding on a course of action. But then Book 4 rolls around and apparently she's falling for the old "I really just want peace, even though I got my entire army parked here ready to enforce peace through superior firepower at any moment, do your job Avatar and talk to the opposition and convince them to not resist because your job is to maintain peace even if peace only ever helps me" trick again. What do you call it when the main character learns lessons and just consistently applies them wrong?

* It's definitely odd that the series doesn't explore this more. Korra trying to suborn the Republic City military for her own purposes is a [[SevenDaysInMay big NO]] in a democracy, and Asami happily jumping into war profiteering doesn't seem to have registered as a "Hey, wait a minute, I'm getting rich off selling Korra's tribespeople weapons". I mean, is Team Avatar supposed to be the ''good'' guys or what?

** They did have good intentions for keeping Korra there. In season 3 we learn a group of VERY POWERFUL criminals (including Magma Man(the earthbender), Armless waterwhip lady, Mr. Badass nonbender, and Combustion girl!) tried to kidnap toddler!Korra for unknown reasons. Seems like a good reason to me. (But at the time it seemed weird to this tropette too)

* At the next Harmonic Convergence, Vaatu will be reborn out of Raava -- just like how Raava was reborn out of Unavaatu in this one. Killing one of these spirits is only temporary, but if killed, they will stay dead until the next Harmonic Convergence. So the descendants of Korra's generation have ten thousand more years to spare.

** Actually, it ''does'' come down to Ravva and Vaatu's strength. Unalaq was only one human, but Vaatu was explicitly the most powerful of the two spirits when he was sealed; there is no indication this (radically) changed before/during the finale. Korra was a human with Raava's considerably-weaker strength, plus all the power and skill of the numerous ''human'' Avatars (Raava being the half-spirit aspect for ''all of them''). The power gap between [[WeakButSkilled Korra+Raava]] and [[StrongButUnskilled Unalaq+Vaatu]] was practically nonexistent in this case, so it makes sense they were even imo, in all aspects until Vaatu ripped Raava out of Korra.

** It's not about Vaatu's strength vs. Raava's. (And neither was Korra exactly decisively winning if you consider how close she came to being crushed in ice). Korra should have had the bending skills, experience and power of all her hundreds of past lives at her disposal and there's no way that Unalaq even with Vaatu's power could have matched that. In the end, the actual fight was more like a "Wan vs Unalaq" (now that would have been a pretty matched fight) and not "Korra vs Unalaq". Logically speaking, had the fight been more like an "Aang vs Ozai" CurbStompBattle, NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, (until a desperate Vaatu somehow found an opening to pull Raava out), it would have been more convincing.

* In "Light in the Dark", Korra manages to defeat [[FusionDance Unavaatu]] by using the spirit control technique Unalaq showed her to destroy Vaatu. However, in Beginnings, Raava said the the two great spirits co-exist and if one of them gets destroyed, he or she will be reborn inside the other. So, eventually, some Avatar, maybe even Korra, will bring Vaatu back to life. But what does that mean? Will that Avatar be evil? Will all the Avatars until Vaatu's rebirth [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope be more likely to do evil]]?

[[folder: What does the death of Vaatu mean for the Avatar?]]
* In "Light in the Dark", Korra manages to defeat [[FusionDance Unavaatu]] by using the spirit control technique Unalaq showed her to destroy Vaatu. However, in Beginnings, Raava said the the two great spirits co-exist and if one of them gets destroyed, he or she will be reborn inside the other. So, eventually, some Avatar, maybe even Korra, will bring Vaatu back to life. But what does that mean? Will that Avatar be evil? Will all the Avatars until Vaatu's rebirth be more likely to do evil?
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* In "Light in the Dark", Korra manages to defeat [[FusionDance Unavaatu]] by using the spirit control technique Unalaq showed her to destroy Vaatu. However, in Beginnings, Raava said the the two great spirits co-exist and if one of them gets destroyed, he or she will be reborn inside the other. So, eventually, some Avatar, maybe even Korra, will bring Vaatu back to life. But what does that mean? Will that Avatar be evil? Will all the Avatars until Vaatu's rebirth be more prone to do evil?