History Recap / TheLegendOfKorraS2E6TheSting

* AbsenteeActor: This is the first episode in Book 2 where Tenzin and family don't appear.

->''I'm not giving up on you.''

!!Tropes:

* IronicNickname: Two-Toed Ping doesn't only have two toes. He got it because he has two ''extra'' toes and Republic City already had a guy named Twelve-Toe Ping.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are ''two'' people named Ping in Republic City, and both of them have 12 toes.

* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: It turns out that after being lost at sea, Korra coincidentally washed up on an island inhabited by the Fire Sages, the ancient order of priests devoted to the Avatar.

* OutOfFocus: Korra doesn't appear until near the end of the episode.

** Nuktuk himself could be described as Tarzan meets [[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]], noteworthy for both being characters played by Buster Crabbe in the 1930s and '40s.

** When one thinks about it, the Nuktuk films are a semi-heroic version answer to the "Boy in the Iceberg" by the Ember Island Players, especially when one compares Actor!Unalaq to Actor!Ozai.

* DaChief: Lin is now a textbook example, refusing to listen to the one good cop she has.

* EvilAllAlong: Varrick is this or at least Amoral All Along, but his involvement and motives with regards to the Civil War qualifies him as another, yet separate antagonist.

** The "Nuktuk" theme song has some resemblance to ''Series/TheLoneRanger'' while its version of Unalaq resembles [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Ming The Merciless]].
** Nuktuk himself could be described as Tarzan meets [[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]], noteworthy for both being characters played by Buster Crabbe in the 1930's and 40's.

* GrinOfAudacity / PsychoticSmirk: Varrick gives a beautiful combination of these to Mako at the end of the episode.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Varrick wanted in on whatever Mako was up to, but Mako and Asami try to avert this by not giving him any details, but that was just the opening he needed.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: After being double-crossed, Mako pulls one of these on Two Toed Ping threatening to burn his toes off with blowtorch like firebending if he didn't admit the truth.

* OutGambitted: Mako and Asami attempt to act as a decoy to keep the remaining Future Industries stock safe with the Triple Threat Triad as bodyguards. But, unsurprisingly, the Triple Threat double cross them. And it's later revealed that they were paid off no sooner then Mako and Asami had came to them for help. What's more, ''they'' were the distraction while the thieves had raided Future Industries warehouse and made off with the remaining stock.

* [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Avatar]]: Mako's "payment" to the Triple Threats for their help was that he could convince Korra to restore the bending of Shady Shin.

-->'''Fire Sage''': It's alright, Avatar Korra. We're here to help you.\\
'''Korra''': ...Who's Avatar Korra?
* YouAreTooLate: Mako tries to warn Asami not to trust Varrick, but she already gave Varrick controlling interest of Future Industries.

** Nuktuk himself could be described as Tarzan meets [[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]], noteworthy for both being characters played by Buster Crabbe.

** Nuktuk himself could be described as Tarzan meets [[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]].

* ShoutOut: Mover Unalaq's costume is modeled after Ming the Merciless from the original [[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon serials]].

* AbsenteeActor: This is the first episode of the second season that Tenzin and his family don't appear at any moment.