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** At first glance, Wan Shi Tong's "little men in boxes" line sounds like a silly thing you'd hear in TheRoaringTwenties or so. But remember who gave him that information: [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel A bunch of foxes]].

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** At first glance, Wan Shi Tong's "little men in boxes" line sounds like a silly thing you'd hear in TheRoaringTwenties or so. But remember who gave him that information: [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel A a bunch of foxes]].foxes. So, literal Fox News.
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* SpitTrailKiss: [[spoiler: Bolin and Eska share one in episode 13.]]

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* SpitTrailKiss: [[spoiler: Bolin and Eska share one in episode 13.13 of season 2.]]
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* SnowballingThreat:
** Vaatu does this over the course of "Beginnings" as he feeds on more and more chaos in the world, while simultaneously weakening Raava.
** The Red Lotus early escape sequences play out like this, as each additional member makes them harder to stop.
** Kuvira is a political variant of this. Every military state she acquires expands her resources and manpower further, which she then leverages to take her next target.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: No one ever explains just what Vaatu's "ten thousand years of darkness" actually entails. All that can be known is that humans will be annihilated, and Vaatu will reshape the world in his name.

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* TakeOurWordForIt: No one ever explains just what Vaatu's "ten thousand years of darkness" actually entails. All that can be known is that humans will be annihilated, and Vaatu will reshape the world in his name.name, and you can bet that it's as bad as it sounds.
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* TeensAreShort: Averted. Korra is as tall as most other adult women, Mako is very tall indeed, Bolin is still within a reasonable adult height even though he's shorter than his brother, and Asami is slightly taller than Bolin. It's part of the ArtEvolution from the original series, which played this trope straight.
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No longer a teope
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* WhipItGood:
** The Metalbender Police use retractable metal whips on their wrists to restrain criminals and move about the city.
** Some Equalist mooks use whips to snag their opponent's arms, pulling them off balance and preventing them from bending.
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* SameContentDifferentRating: * Zigzagged. The show was originally given a TV-Y7-FV rating for its American broadcast on Nickelodeon. When the show started streaming on Netflix in 2020, the rating was bumped up to TV-PG, with its sole content descriptor being "suicide", no doubt thanks to [[spoiler:the murder-suicide of Tarrlok and Amon/Noatak]] at the end of Book One, despite the content of the show being the same as when it was airing on TV. However, a couple of months after the show's addition to Netflix, the rating was bumped back down to a TV-Y7 rating (for fantasy violence).

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* SameContentDifferentRating: * Zigzagged. The show was originally given a TV-Y7-FV rating for its American broadcast on Nickelodeon. When the show started streaming on Netflix in 2020, the rating was bumped up to TV-PG, with its sole content descriptor being "suicide", no doubt thanks to [[spoiler:the murder-suicide of Tarrlok and Amon/Noatak]] at the end of Book One, despite the content of the show being the same as when it was airing on TV. However, a couple of months after the show's addition to Netflix, the rating was bumped back down to a TV-Y7 rating (for fantasy violence).
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** ''Any'' woman in the Beifong family. Lin is the no-nonsense police chief of Republic City, Suyin is the leader of the Metal Clan, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking with all the incredibly badass metal/earthbending skill that entails]], and Opal, Suyin's daughter, becomes an airbender and grows into this trope. And of course, the family matriarch, Toph.

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** ''Any'' woman in the Beifong family. Lin is the no-nonsense police chief of Republic City, Suyin is the leader of the Metal Clan, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking [[RankScalesWithAsskicking with all the incredibly badass metal/earthbending skill that entails]], and Opal, Suyin's daughter, becomes an airbender and grows into this trope. And of course, the family matriarch, Toph.
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typo fix.


* TheWarlord: In the fourth season, Kuivra starts out as a military commander tasked with establishing order over the territory of the Earth Kingdom, who then decides out that she'd just rather take all this military might at her disposal for herself from then on. There's a deviation from the implied standard in that she's a Visionary Villain rather than simply out for her own personal gain.

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* TheWarlord: In the fourth season, Kuivra Kuvira starts out as a military commander tasked with establishing order over the territory of the Earth Kingdom, who then decides out that she'd just rather take all this military might at her disposal for herself from then on. There's a deviation from the implied standard in that she's a Visionary Villain rather than simply out for her own personal gain.
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* TheWarlord: In the fourth season, Kuivra starts out as a military commander tasked with establishing order over the territory of the Earth Kingdom, who then decides out that she'd just rather take all this military might at her disposal for herself from then on. There's a deviation from the implied standard in that she's a Visionary Villain rather than simply out for her own personal gain.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The show is no stranger to physical comedy, and Korra's personality makes her as good a target as anyone for it. For example, an airbending test early in the series tasks her with weaving between series of quickly-spinning wooden planks, counter to the physical bending she's more adept at. The first couple scenes featuring the test boil down to Korra getting comically slapped around by the planks.

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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: {{Slapstick}}: The show is no stranger to physical comedy, and Korra's personality makes her as good a target as anyone for it. For example, an airbending test early in the series tasks her with weaving between series of quickly-spinning wooden planks, counter to the physical bending she's more adept at. The first couple scenes featuring the test boil down to Korra getting comically slapped around by the planks.

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