History WMG / TheLegendOfKorra

Though, in a different way. The first series had several themes of balance. One was with the nations, with the Avatar having to keep the nations in balance, and with Iroh talking about how benders can learn new things by observing other forms of bending. Another with simply a yin-and-yang type of thing with the spirit fish. TheLegendOfKorra will have the theme of balance between nature and spirituality with science and technology.

[[WMG: The red and blue symbolism will carry on into TheLegendOfKorra.]]
In the first series, blue and red were frequently used as symbolism for evil and good, respectively. Blue was coldness, evil, and deception. Red was goodness and honor. It manifested in many ways in the first series: Azula used blue fire, Zuko's dream of the blue dragon with Azula's voice and the red one with Iroh's. Not to mention how Avatar Roku's dragon companion was red, while Sozin's was blue. This red and blue symbolism will carry on into TheLegendOfKorra in some way.
* I agree that blue and red will figure prominently in TheLegendOfKorra, but in the GrandFinale for the original series [[BigBad Ozai]] was depicted with red and Aang with blue. Plus, there's the whole Blue Spirit thing. So I don't think the usage of red and blue will distinguish good and evil, but instead just be used when a major visual contrast needs to be made.

[[WMG: Korra is Tenzin's daughter.]]
She took after her grandmother (in terms of bending (well, at least the first of her bending, anyways)), and her mother could possibly be from a Water Tribe.
* So that would make Aang (wait for it)... [[MyOwnGrampa his own grandfather]].

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* Considering that the Republic City police force mainly uses Metalbending, guns wouldn't be as much of a GameBreaker as you'd think.

* Extrapolating on this. If Avatar Status = The Enterprise then shows 3&4 will not have an avatar in them and show 5 will have an avatar prior to Aang. Show 3 would probably focus on what happens in Republic city after Korra is finished there and moves on. Show 4 would focus on a group of benders and non-benders sent to a parallel dimension (possibly [[CodexAlera Alera]]) and searching for a way back. Show 5 could extrapolate on Roku's backstory and show the events that lead to the eradication of the air nomads in far greater detail. Then several years later the avatar franchise gets a reboot where the fire nation war never happened and Aang is back with a completely different story, possibly with time travel interference involved.

*** Possibly confirmed.

* Okay maybe this is me being a new {{warhammer 40000}} player, where grim darkness is in the tag line, but I think Korra is going to be a bit a bit less happy go luck then Aang. Of course in 40k it always gets worse all the time so maybe I am just applying that logic.
** [[IKnewIt Confirmed]]. As it stands, it seems that this will be to Avatar what Zeta Gundam was to the original MSG.
*** ''Katara will die violently, in front of Korra.'' This will be a darker and edgier sequel, but the beginning previews show a bright, happy Korra, a young athlete in the making, focusing solely on the physical aspect of bending. Katara's death will catapult Korra into her first experience with Aang and the Avatar State, having been overwhelmed with the loss of the woman s[=/=]he loved, and transform her into the young, embittered Batman clone we see later on. Katara's death may force Korra to take her responsibilities more seriously, but [[DeconReconSwitch in doing so, she may also lose her sense of optimism and fun; life skills which her new friends and mentors, Aang included, may have to reteach her.]] On a journey to the Spirit World, Korra may even meet Katara, who will reassure Korra that, though it may be in a different form the next time around, she will always return to her.

* Yeah, on both counts. Got too carried away to worry about simple things like word choice.

** Maybe we'll get a Star Trek size universe and mythology with the Avatarverse.

[[WMG: The soundtrack will change with the times.]]
In Airbender we were listening to more classical with drums and wooden flutes to set the feel of a fantasy/medieval setting. Now, with steampunk we won't have electric guitars, but definitely more metallic industrial rhythm.
** Confirmed, there will be a Roaring 20's feel to the music.
*** Jazz is from the twenties right? And the creators are huge CowboyBebop fans.
** Not sure how it would work with such music, but it ''would'' be nice to have a variation of the original main theme reserved for certain moments so as to avoid interrupting the updated feel.

* Which brings the question: how could the nature/spirituality camp be ''bad'' if the '''Avatar''', the personification of the balance of nature among other things, is backing that camp?
* ...or the conflict could be more complex than a simple black-and-white dichotomy of technology versus nature? Seriously, why do a lot of stuff with technology and some form of magical ability often get shoehorned into ScienceVersusMagic with one having to be definitely "bad?" Neither spiritually or technology was portrayed as completely, irredeemably bad in the original series, so why would Bryke not continue along those lines? The Fire Nation may have made use of SteamPunk to their advantage, but Sokka liked gadgets and the Machinist and Teo were good guys and eventually made tech for the good guys. The Avatar is a force for good, and many spirits are helpful, but spirits were also portrayed as having really nasty sides. Koh the Facestealer being one of the more apparent, but even the more benevolent ones like Wan Shi Tong displayed traits like a simplistic "ANY use of my knowledge for fighting is bad, I kill you!" rage even when said knowledge was taken to use for the benefit of people against a despotic, conquering empire. Not to mention that bending itself could, and was, abused.
** ''Exactly'' my idea. What starts out ''appearing'' as a black-and-white, pretty standard nature-vs-tech conflict gets the twist that there was no ''need'' for there to be any conflict at all. The side that usually gets considered [[BeautyEqualsGoodness good]] by [[AllNaturalSnakeOil default]] in those kinds of stories, nature, turns out to be pointlessly reactionary; whereas the typical [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul default "bad" side]], technology or progress, turns out to be ''not'' inherently evil just by being "unnatural"—or indeed, has just as much right to a place in the scheme of things as the ''rest'' of nature. And in the end, the Avatar finds her role is ''still'' to keep a balance in the world—it's just that the balance point isn't what we thought it would be.

The creators want to keep the show kid friendly and know it would be too much of a GameBreaker in terms of story telling.
* Four words: ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

[[WMG: Republic City was founded after the war]]
It was part of the Fire Nation's reparations to the other nations, a place of former Fire Nation territory that was ceded to the rest. As it wasn't part of any other nation, it became a gathering point for all, growing into the new "center of the world".
* The fact that it was never mentioned or alluded to in ''Airbender'' kind of confirms that. There's no reason it would have been completely absent from the plot if it had existed then.
* Given the fact that the Earth King never returned in ''Airbender'', and the broken-up state the Earth Kingdom was in, it's likely that the Earth Kingdom was reformed as the Earth Republic, and Bah Sing Se rechristened Republic City. The image of Korra itself shows heavy signs of being in the Earth Kingdom.
** Since when did the Earth King "never return?" He didn't return within the life-span of the show, but we never saw if he came back to reclaim his city.
*** There's a comic extra that came out a bit before the third season, which confirmed a lot of things. Such as Zuko and Mai's relationship beginning and the Earth King going off to... [[PutOnABus join the circus with his bear...]]
**** I've never seen that. Got a link? Also, does it say that, after he learns Ba Sing Se has been freed, he decides to stay gone?
** Doesn't look like Ba Sing Se to me. [[http://images.wikia.com/avatar/images/1/16/Avatar_Legend_of_Korra.jpg Here's the shot in high res]]. On the lower right is a lake, harbor, or large river with docks and a long bridge. Ba Sing Se was landlocked. On the other hand, it could have expanded toward Lake Laogai ...
* The comic does exist, but it doesn't say Kuei never returned: it said he wanted to travel his kingdom for a while.
** Kuei does return; in The Promise Part 1, within a year of the war, he's discussing what to do about the Fire Nation colonies with Zuko and Aang.
* Partially confirmed by word of god: Republic City (now renamed to United Republic) was founded after the war by Aang and Zuko. It doesn't say where it is/what territory it's from, though.
* Confirmed by the opening sequence. After the war, the Fire Nation Colonies in the Earth Kingdom were transformed into the multicultural United Republic of Nations, with Republic City as it's capital city.

** Given that the series likes alluding to actual history, it might relate to how prior to Chinese invasion, Tibet was a fairly unfree and questionably situated theocracy. So, if you parallel the benders to that, you have a rule that people tend to think of as legitimate and benevolent, but which in actuality, at least some people would be happy to be free of.
** Considering most of the SteamPunk technology in the Avatar world is powered by bending, and Republic City is a SteamPunk metropolis, it's possible that the entire infrastructure of the city is based around a working class of benders. This of course leaves plenty of room for an oppression/rebellion storyline. Of course, it could be the other way around, and the benders control nearly everything about the city, much like the Dai Li controlled Ba Sing Se.
*** Powered by bending? No they weren't. Most of the SteamPunk were based on designs by the Machinist, who was decidedly not a bender. All the Fire Nation's devices worked on mechanism alone. Fire Nation devices could even be commandeered by non-firebenders, like their war balloons or warships. It was the ''attacks'' which made use of bending, not the SteamPunk itself. The only machine than needed active bending wasn't even SteamPunk at all -- it was the waterbender submarines powered solely by waterbending.

* ... That's ''just'' silly enough to work.

** A ''[[MusicalEpisode musical]]'' on-ice version.
* No way. Fire Lord Zuko would ''never'' allow the play to leave Ember Island, let alone become a "national treasure of the Fire Nation."
** Yeah, but you've seen how many people go to those things, even if just because they're SoBadItsGood. Besides, I'm sure [[FanGirl Toph]] would have a word with her ol' buddy if he tried to cancel it...

* Steam is just evaporated water, so this is pretty likely. Like how "sandbenders" were just earthbenders who had better control of sand than the average earthbender, a steambender would just be a waterbender with better control of steam than the average waterbender.
* That is not a new bending type, they could bend it in the original, it is waterbending.
** Aang and Katara shaped clouds to manipulate the fortuneteller, and Aang harvested a cloud for drinking water.

* All empires and superpowers eventually decline, for one reason or another. By Korra's era, the Fire Nation will no longer be a superpower. Why? Because the newly industrialized Earth Kingdom (and possible Water Tribes) will have a leg up on them when it comes to their infrastructure, being able to apply the best practices learned during the Fire Nation's industrialization to their own countries, as well as producing homegrown innovations in the means of production. The EK and WT also won't be saddled with the legacy of a hundred years of industrial civilization. Over time, this means that other countries will be able to out-compete the Fire Nation when it comes to producing things like textiles, cheap steel, and the other goods of an industrial society. While Zuko and his descendants will attempt to combat their nation's decline, lingering cultural chauvinism will prevent it from adopting 'foreign' ideas. Also, Fire Nation workers simply won't be able to compete with the sheer manpower supply in an industrializing Earth Kingdom; they'll work longer for cheaper because there's ten other Earth Kingdomers in line to take their job.

During the Hundred Year War, the various bending arts became much more focused on practicality over flash. After seventy years of peace, only the old masters practice the wartime styles. Meanwhile, among the general population, bending has started to loosen up. The pro-bending that the Krew will participate in will introduce two different concepts to Korra's bending: the idea of putting on a good show for an audience instead of going straight for the KO, and how mixed groups of benders have come to combat each other. To Korra, who was trained [[spoiler: by the White Lotus, old masters if there ever were,]] this varied style for earth-, water-, and firebending will be a strange concept that she'll need to learn to adapt to. Traditionalist waterbending, for instance, might not put a lot of emphasis on combating earthbenders, let alone how an earthbender and firebender could work together to bring down a waterbender.

The second aspect is that, in Aang's time, Ty Lee's chi-blocking was an extremely unusual fighting style that allowed her to curb-stomp any benders she encountered. In Republic City, however, there's a whole criminal movement trained in it. So in the style of all good arms races, the benders of Republic City have been innovating, adapting their schools to counter chi-blockers. The chi-blockers counter their counters, and the benders do the same... etc. The end result is that there's this whole aspect to bending that Korra's pre-series training hasn't covered because the innovations are taking place on the street level of Republic City, and [[spoiler: her old masters in the White Lotus]] simply aren't experienced in that sort of conflict.

** Let's expand on that further: maybe the bender license thing was introduced as an appeasement to the anti-benders. It sounds like something they'd want-being able to track of every bender in the city. In addition, bending in fights is illegal in certain parts of the city; bending in school gyms or special arenas or non-violent bending (healing with waterbending, building stuff with earthbending, lighting a match with firebending) would be alright but using bending to beat people up, like Korra did, is illegal. Of course, this does more harm than good since the benders are bound to resent it.

Alongside the bender/non-bender divide, there will be a conflict between the United Republic of Nations and the other four countries. Among the older generations, like Chief Bei Fong and Tenzin, the United Republic is a place that can be broken down into "tribes" that fall under the regular Four Nations. They'd see Mako as being a wayward son of the Fire Nation and Bolin as that to the Earth Kingdom. In contrast, the younger generations will simply see Mako and Bolin as citizens of the United Republic, and the fact that they bend is distinguishing in a way that whatever element they bend is not. As a rebellion against the "tribal" framework more traditionalist folks impose on them, Republic City's counterculture will purposefully adopt foreign elements as a way to mock them for being hollow symbols in a 'modern' era. For instance, a firebender might wear his hair in a Water Tribe wolf's tail, or a non-bender might wear clothes cut in the style of the Fire Lord. Some other countercultural types will take it a step further by doing such things as wearing their robes right over left and decorating with intentionally bad feng shui.

In crime-ridden Republic City, organized crime just has too much money at stake when it comes to the big pro-bender championship. So the high-end matches are fixed; sometimes outright, sometimes just for the point spread. Except now that the Avatar is involved with a team aiming for the top, asking the Fire Ferrets to play along nicely isn't really an option, so the squeeze is gonna be put on Bolin or Mako to stay silent and comply with the mob's orders lest the other brother get hurt.

The first series started off with [[TheHero Aang]], [[TheChick Katara]] and [[TheSmartGuy Sokka]]; [[TheBigGuy Toph]] was added in the second season, and [[SixthRanger Zuko]]/[[GuestStarPartyMember Su]][[EleventhHourRanger ki]] popped in by the third season. Since Korra is a CompositeCharacter of Toph, Suki and Katara, Mako is a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for Zuko, and Bolin is a more Aang-like Toph, there's some added credence in assuming that they'll get at least two more members.

[[WMG: Everyone isn't dead...]]
They're just trying to trick us. Considering the insane life expectancies of powerful benders in the series, I find it highly unlikely they died of old age. And it's also even more unlikely such extremely powerful benders died of unnatural causes. There's just no way everyone has died.
* It's also important to note that Aunt Wu predicted Katara would quietly pass away in her sleep. Since Water Benders can heal and therefore would probably have even longer lifespans than other bending races.
* Who's to say they died of old age. There is still infection and blunt trauma they have to deal with.
* One possible explanation why none of Team Aang is around is that they all died together, possibly helping Aang with his final mission. My guess is that the story will state/imply that all of them are dead, but later on there will be a twist revealing that one or two of them are still alive (maybe hiding from whoever killed the rest of the team). Kinda similar to how Leonard Nimoy was used in the Star Trek reboot movie.
** The creators have stated Aang died from spending so much time in the Avatar State.
*** To clarify, they said that the 100 years in an iceberg, which was spent entirely in the Avatar State, reduced Aang's life expectancy significantly.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed. In a leaked clip, Katara is shown to still be alive.]]
** [[spoiler: And in a newly released clip, while saying goodbye to Korra, Katara says that Aang, Sokka and many of her friends are gone, many =/= all. The rest of the Gaang maybe gone, but some characters from the first series may still be alive. Like sexyfine Haru and his mustache ]]

* Given the presence of Tenzin, Aang's son, let's call this one at least partially [[IKnewIt Confirmed]].
* Rumored character Wei Bei could be Wei Bei Fong.
** I got money on Toph and The Duke.

** 7!!

[[WMG: Some of the original voice cast may have small cameos parts.]]
* Confirmed. Dante Basco and Dee Bradley Baker both have roles.

* Possibly {{Jossed}} by WordOfGod:

** Of course, it's still ''possible'' that Aang didn't die naturally.
** I thought it meant that the Avatar is destined to live for a certain amount of time and Aang had spent 100 years of his destined life span in that ice.
** While that may explain Aang's "early" death, the rest of the original cast is supposed to be dead too. The 3 most powerful single-element benders (and a sword master) of that generation didn't make it to their ''mid-eighties''? Even if Aang died peacefully, ''something'' must have happened to the rest of them later.

* Likely {{Jossed}}; rumor is that Korra will already be a master of everything except Air. Which isn't to say that Toph ''wasn't'' Korra's instructor; just that it will be backstory either way.

*** Which is kind of doubtful when you consider how hopeful she sounded in ''The Avatar and the Firelord'' after Aang mentioned Roku's line about friendships transcending lifetimes.

* He would make an awesome badass Grandpa.

* Confirmed.

*** [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes]].

** Flashbacks are your friend.

** Ty Lee will appear as a slightly batty, but badass old lady in Kyoshi Warrior uniform fighting the Equalists. Turns out Amon (or some high-ranking Equalist) was her DeceptiveDisciple, and she's rather pissed that someone is abusing the techniques she taught. [[spoiler: OK, not likely due to the "everyone's dead" thing, but you know that would rock.]]

*** We just might, i like the sound of it.

*** Nice, but probably too prone to misspellings. "Krew" is also pithier.

* Face it, Team Avatar is going to have a ''lot'' of plays, operas, and novels written about them. Heck, by Korra's time there will probably be silent movies about them. But the social movement that will give rise to the violent Equalists didn't come out of nowhere. So who will artists sympathetic to the anti-benders -- or artists simply looking to make a buck off them -- repurpose history for their propaganda purposes? Simple: they'll give the non-benders surrounding Avatar Aang {{Historical Hero Upgrade}}s. Suki will be a feminist-ish figure for Earth Kingdom women, important in a now-industrial society that has men and women sharing roles, with the benefit over Toph that she's a peasant who made good. Sokka is the male non-bender who could hold his own alongside the greatest benders of his generation. Ty Lee can be the "good German" who was Fire Nation but wasn't guilty of her nations crimes. In fact, she turned against her own crown princess, and not merely out of friendships, but, according to writers of a certain political bent, in the name of justice and human decency against bender oppression. (Mai's contribution here is minimized by the Equalists, since she was a 'traitor' who was romantically involved with the Firelord.) Moreover, Ty Lee can be a feel-good figure for the people of Republic City in terms of multiculturalism, as she left her homeland to live abroad amongst foreigners.

Toph developed diabetes in her old age, and, after treating her doctor's dietary rules with the same respect she showed any other rules, ended up needing to get both legs amputated below the knee. What tremorsense Toph still has left is pretty lousy, and she needs a live-in nurse to help take care of her. She spends most of her days alone in her luxury mansion, eating food she hates, listening to pro-bending matches on the radio and daydreaming about the springtime of her life when she was still the champ.

So far, we only know that of Aang's children, Tenzin is the airbender. What better cause for a slow build of rage and resentment towards benders than a child of the Avatar who saved the world, who is ignored by the world JUST because he doesn't have the same magical powers as his parents and younger brother? It would be another very interesting angle on Aang's family and would make for a fun dynamic between Amon and Tenzin.

[[WMG: Aang and Katara's other children names]]
Gyatso and Kya.
* Hmmmm. On one hand, it doens't fit with Tenzin, who isn't named after anyone they know (as far as we know at least). But on the other hand, if those are the names, i'd be willing to consider it a CrowningMomentofHeartwarming... Heartwarming it is!
* Half jossed, half-confirmed. Their names are Bumi and Kya.

Zuko and Mai wanted to name their daughter after the woman who saved Zuko's life and kicked Azula's ass, but, since 'Katara' was too Water Tribe-y for the heir to the throne, they gave the name a Fire Nation twist. Incidentally, this now means Kataang, Maiko, ''and'' Zutara are all canon.

Tenzin is probably an adult at this point; and thus as the last airbender having children is some kind of cosmic demand of him.
* Plus this will allow the creators to ship Aang's reincarnation with Aang's grandson.

* Well, this might be possible. According to a Korean animator for the show, Tenzin has a son.

** Corollary: Korra is a natural waterbender (due to upbringing and because otherwise it would break the cycle), but because of her Fire Nation background, she won't have the typical Avatar problem of not taking well to her opposite element -- she'll have trouble with air and earth, though.

** If it means Korra will use the alias "{{Sappho}} Fire"...

** Pretty much confirmed by this point.
** ''And'' she'll be trained by Aang's son, Tenzin!

[[WMG:Victoria Justice will voice Korra]]
Nickelodeon certainly does love to flaunt their leading ladies, so why not as the voice to one of their most successful franchises?
* Her voice would be pretty good for an action girl.
* Ah, nope. Apparently, Janet Varney will be voicing her. But still. She got a nice voice.
** She does sound like Justice, though.
* Main/LizGillies would have made a fantastic Korra.

* Why do so many people say that every Avatar is supposed to have an animal companion? There's no evidence that either Kyoshi or Kuruk had them, that's far from every!... Sorry, it's just that every site I go to assumes that 'every Avatar has an animal guide' which is a little annoying to me since it's not.
* Note this line from Aang regarding Roku's Dragon

* Re-read my complaint. I wasn't annoyed that the op thought there might be an animal guide, I was annoyed that they said that ''every'' Avatar has an animal guide. The statement "Every Avatar has an animal guide" is a WMG of it's own that I've seen a LOT of people treat as 100% fact even though they don't know that it is. It's that one tiny but significant word that's pissing me off...
* Note: We didn't see Kyoshi nor Kuruk have Animal Guides. Also note: Roku did not have his dragon until later in his life. Last, note that the only reason that Aang had Appa was because ''every Airbender'' got an Air Bison when they were 6 years old as a lifelong companion. It stands to reason that Avatars may all have animal companions of some sort just for being the Avatar, but nowhere is it said that Avatars need Animal Guides.
* I wasn't saying the animal guide idea was 100% fact, just 100% sense. Maybe Korra won't have an animal guide, but it sure would make trekking from the south pole to the middle of the earth kingdom a lot easier.
** She won't be doing any of that, though.
*** She teleports then?
*** [[OlympicSwimmer Or swims?]]
*** Given the prevalence of technology in the world, Zeppelin travel may be quite common.
*** Which isn't something the Avatar spirit could predict, I would think.

* Back to the original WMG, doesn't "anybody" want to give ideas for what new species of hybrid animal we might run into in the series? Evolution has to of taken some toll after over half a century.
* Evolution does not happen in 70 years. Now, I think it will be a polar bear dog.

** * cough* polar bear dog * cough*

[[WMG: In one of Korra's first few fight scenes she will use a waterbending move that involves motioning your hand backwards to freeze some one from behind]]

Katara's Backhanded Freezing move! It'd be great homage.
* Hah! I can see it now. Korra finishes off most of the bad guys, sees one coming up behind her at the corner of her eye, BACKHAND FREEZING MOVE as if he were a minor inconvenience, walk off scene.
* This could probably be pulled off with an earthbending move as well, as an OffhandBackhand Batman/Toph shoutout.
* Heck, Katarra was her Bending teacher, it was probably one of the first things she taught Korra.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed as seen in a leaked clip where Korra runs away from the Metalbender Cops.]]]

We know that the Avatar verse has had an upswing in technology, with cars and motorcycles. Korra will have a steam-powered motorcycle which she uses as her main form of transportation, simply because it'd be really cool. If she has an animal guide, it will be one better suited for muscle then travel, so the motorcycle will be gained partly out of necessity.

** Or a [[strike:dead-blind]] earthbender. ..How about she has a female firebender companion that has conflicts with her? Seems more plausible then a male one.

** No you wouldn't. Have you actually seen the crazier Avatar shipping arguments? It rivals the FanDumb of the Harry Potter shippers. If anything, that'd all just add more fuel to the fire.
*** Not necessaraly. [[Tropers/K9Thefirst1 I]], as a Zutarian, fully support this idea. ''Especially'' if it's mixed with the DatingCatwoman idea from the "Korra = Batman" theory.

** Wouldn't Katara tell her to find an Earthbending and Firebending teacher first? Bad things tend to happen when they bending disciplines are learned out of order, it seems.

[[WMG: Korra has more power, but less control.]]
* In the trailer, Korra's water bending seems less stream-lined and more wavey than usual water bending. She may not have as much finess as the ones we've seen before.
** [[spoiler: Comfirmed via leaked clip:]]
-->[[spoiler: Katara: "She's strong"]]\\
[[spoiler: Nameless White Lotus member: "She lacks resistant."]]

* THANK YOU.
* Giving the new Team Avatar unknown ancestors make sense for another reason. In Season 3, when Aang sees Sozin and Roku's past together, he concluded that "anyone was capable of [[BigGood great good]] and [[BigBad great evil]]". If no-one in the new Team Avatar is related to the old Team Avatar (apart from Korra being Aang's reincarnation), that statement would apply not just to nations but to families. In short, [[BadAss badassery]] is not given to you by [[InTheBlood your parents]]; it's [[TrainingFromHell earned]] by your hard work.

[[WMG: Korra will quit trying to learn airbending for a while.]]

In one of the leaks, [[spoiler:there was a master who scolded Korra and told her that though she had mastered the physical side of bending, she still hadn't grasped the spiritual side of it.]] Even though she's going to Tenzin to try and learn from him along with airbending, even he might not be able to get through to her. Thus it will take destroying an area of the city by accidentally activating the Avatar State to make her realize how important it is.

As she's a spiritual dunderhead, Korra won't be able to connect with the Spirit World until she's had some character growth. Plus the fans will be dying to see this meeting happen, and it's more dramatic to hold off on it for as long as possible. Since the first season was conceived of and developed as a standalone mini-series, Avatar Aang's appearance was likely included near the end of the first season as that was potentially the end of the Avatar franchise prior to the order for a second season.

With pro-bending cash, or odd jobs on side, or some combination of them, the brothers will be trying to help their parents send their younger, third sibling to secondary school and eventually university. As there isn't state funding or student loans in this 1920-esq setting, the money has to come out of the family's pocket. This will also drive the Krew to win the big tournament for its prize money.

Of course, we know Jet and gang already fell to the principle of HeWhoFightsMonsters in ATLA, so by extension it won't be long before the Equalists turn the city into a ShoutOut to Old Communist Russia. The roaring 20s setting does make sense after all.

To contrast from Ozai, at least.

Almost every other ''Avatar'' villain has, so he shouldn't be any different.

Ozai was inactive throughout much of the first series; Amon will be far more hands-on. Ozai was a CompleteMonster that ''tried'' to be a good father; Amon will be a [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]]-esque CompleteMonster, with AlternativeCharacterInterpretation to give him reasons (but not excuses) for his atrocities. Ozai was [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking frighteningly powerful]]; Amon will be [[TheDreaded disturbingly threatening]], outmatching Azula and Combustion Man for ''Avatar's'' default HeroKiller. Ozai was saddled a FateWorseThanDeath and achieved a NearVillainVictory; Amon will suffer through a KarmicDeath or an AndIMustScream scenario. Ozai was manipulative, but only towards three people; Amon will be manipulative towards everyone in the main cast. Ozai attempted genocide; Amon will ''commit'' genocide. Ozai failed in killing a character; Amon will be responsible for several major deaths.

** If those "superior" to you have repeatedly abused their powers and have rubbed their inherent abilities in your face for centuries? Why the hell not? Still, this seems to simplistic. I have a feeling the portrayal will be more nuanced than a simple good guy-bad guy dichotomy.

* B: She raised her children to hate benders.
* Or how about this: Oman IS Azula.

He convinced Zuko to let him help in the search for Ursa, and then used the opportunity to escape. He then fled to Republic City and took advantage of growing anti-bender sentiment to start a revolt. He did this as either [[BatmanGambit a plan]] to get revenge on the Avatar, or as [[GambitRoulette a plan]] to restore his rule. (those last two {{PotHole}}s are interchangeable, btw)

Hotheaded teen on a quest with a bad ass Grandpa as a guide and mentor. Sound familiar?

** Katara's counterpart [[WellIntentionedExtremist will retain her concern for the welfare of others, but she blames benders.]] The most likely candidate for a leader of the group.

The creators have openly stated that they are huge fans of the works of Miyazaki, and this is one of his preferred themes. Possibly another homage to him?

* And how do we ''know'' that he's not a bender?

* Isn't it a bit curious that alone out of the Gaang, his fate is virtually unknown?

* Think about it. Amon sounds similar to Anon (the shortened form of Anonymous) and is an Egyptian word meaning "hidden". Equalists have only been seen wearing a mask, assuming their public identities aren't known. They are working to destabilize the government (which is mostly based around bending and benders). IT MAKES SENSE!

* I semi-support this
* [[Tropers/K9Thefirst1 I]] ''fully'' suport this! And to add more of an edge to Aang's [[SarcasmMode "Peaceful Alternative"]], Bryke could use the oppotunity to add some DeliberateValuesDissonance between the Humans and Spirits over it:
** Energybending from human POV: Meh, not that bad, Ozai diserved it.
** The same from the Spirits: O_O!! [[MoralEventHorizon Did you see that?!]] The Avatar [[RapeAsDrama Raped and]]/[[MurderIsTheBestSolution or MURDERED]] that poor man!!
*** Granted, this probably won't be the case. But still, something always seemed fishy about that Soulbending business to me.

[[WMG: The anti-bending revolt will utilize Ty Lee's techniques.]]
Since she's been shown to be able to temporarily prevent her targets from bending via pressure points. Plus, with her joining the Kyoshi Warriors at the end of ATLA to pass on her techniques, it makes sense that they would become more commonplace.
* Pretty likely, since knowledge of pressure points would be widespread in a world where [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting anyone important is likely to be a badass martial artist.]]
* CONFIRMED

* When you're fighting people that can control the elements, you'll need all the advantage you can get. Taking a cue from the creations of the Mechanist, the anti-benders will construct steam-powered weapons and gadgets, some of which can be handheld (useful for one-on-one fights) and some of which is incorporated into vehicles (like the Fire Nation tanks). This eventually will culminate with a steam-powered PoweredArmor[=/=]MiniMecha, which Korra will have to fight in the finale.
* The BadassNormal is no stranger to the Avatar verse, so this is kind of a no brainer. Expect some of them to take cues from Ty Lee by disabling bending, and for there to be at least one BadassAbnormal.
* The bender is a little more of a stretch, but remember there are at least two characters who saw a form of bending as inherently evil when it wasn't. (Jeong Jeong and Aang, though Aang got over it.) This bender will have similar problems, and crippling self-esteem issues (which is why they would willingly go along with such a thing.) He/She will be a sympethetic villain for obvious reasons, and will attempt to use as little bending as possible during combat. The rest of the movement may not even know he/she's a bender, because it's a closely guarded secret. (If they do know, it's because they made an exception because of his/her usefulness.)

** The man was in his forties by the time he was defeated. ''Korra'' takes place seventy years later; he'd be ''at least'' 110 by the time the new series started. There's no way he's lived that long.

There are two reasons for this: 1) Out of all the four nations, the Air Nomads are easily the weakest. Hell, calling them a nation at this point is very generous. As such, they are a very easy target, at least in theory. 2) Non-benders only come from the other three nations, and all Air Nomads are Airbenders. As such, the Equalists probably aren't too keen on the idea of an entire nation of benders, and will try to snuff that out early. This plan would inevitably fail [[InfantImmortality (seriously, about seventy-five percent of the known Airbenders are children)]] and would primarily serve as a gigantic KickTheDog moment.

[[WMG: Amon will be voiced by TimCurry.]]
There's no logic to this, I just think it'd be funny to see Amon and Korra in a scene together, with Tim Curry doing what he does best and making Korra uncomfortable.
* Nope, SteveBlum.

[[WMG: SteveBlum will be voicing an Equalist.]]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's his voice in the TV spot, which focuses heavily on the Equalists. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9mP-CgkeP4 here]]. If he's not playing Amon, then he'll be playing a pretty important member of the organization. Given that the creators are CowboyBebop fans, this may or may not lead to an ActorAllusion or two.
* Confirmed. Blum's the voice of Amon.

A wealthy, non-bending industrialist like Hiroshi would have the means to fund a criminal organization like the Equalists, and also a good reason to hide his face even from his own men. And why does Hiroshi want to put non-benders in charge of the United Republic? A few reasons. Because he sees the power of science and industry in leveling the playing field between benders and non-benders. Because he's rich and wants to get richer by removing benders as competition to his industry. Mostly though, it's because he wants to leave his daughter Asami a transformed world that recognizes an existing truth -- the United Republic has become its own culture and society, distinct from the other nations that supposedly constitute it, and rejecting benders, who are and always will be tied to their elemental nation, is the only way to prove to the world that their nation is its own creature.

Bumi is mentioned as being 'less uptight' than Tenzin, but it's just another one of the masks that he wears. Furious that he was unable to bend like his siblings, and forced to live in the shadow of his father, he started the Equalist movement as his form of revenge.

[[WMG: Amon is secretly a Bender.]]
And one so recognisable that he has to wear a mask to keep this a secret from his followers. Either he's like Hitler who gushed over the Aryan ideals without fulfilling a single one of them himself, or he wants to wipe out the ''majority'' of the Benders so he can set up a ''real'' Bending dictatorship where the few remaining Benders are so paranoid that they will be willing to follow his rule and control the ordinary population with an iron fist, and uses his anti-Bending followers as mere pawns who can be wiped out once the plan is complete. In the latter interpretation he's trying to play both sides against each other, using his public persona to condemn the Equalists and use them as an example what happens without strong Bender governance, and his secret persona to use these actions as a "proof" that the Benders want to enslave all the non-Benders.

The Cabbage Merchant had a daughter who ended up marring the foaming mouth guy after the end of the series. When The Cabbage Merchant dies the foaming mouth guy takes up his business to make his wife happy. He ends up having a son who inherits the foaming mouth guy's... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment foaming mouth]]. He also takes up the family business. Now whenever Korra and her gang destroy the cabbage cart, the new Cabbage Merchant has a [[FridgeHorror seizure]].

* It's been [[http://www.ugo.com/tv/comic-con-2010-legend-of-korra-interview confirmed]] that the Cabbage Man's "legacy will be present in some form," so probably confirmed.
* ''Related Theory:'' The Cabbage Man's descendant will be a member of the anti-bender revolt, due to the family grudge against the Gaang. The descendant might also be an effective [[BadassNormal fighter]] and major villain.
* Rule of Funny, dude. You can't turn the comic relief into a the evil villain. That would be like saying we have to take all the times cabbage man had bad luck "seriously" and he has a deep complex regarding cabbages and the gaang's presence.
** The "major villain" aspect is admittedly the least likely part. But fair enough.

* In true Batman fasion, she will, in her daytime persona, [[DatingCatwoman fall in love with a higher-up in the anti-Bender movement, without knowing who it is.]]

[[WMG: Zuko's son ,a BadassNormal who will be voiced by Will Friedle, will be the new Blue Spirit, and he will be a recurring character and TheAce.]]

[[WMG: Going along the idea of the above, TENZIN will be voiced by Kevin Conroy.]]
If Tenzin is a middle aged, crotchey JerkAssMentor who believes in TrainingFromHell times [[BeyondTheImpossible a gajillion]], this could work.
* And he will use the "Old Bruce" voice from BatmanBeyond.
* Jossed. He's just [[Film/{{Spiderman}} a guy who]] [[JusticeLeague hates superheros]], but that's not too far off.

[[WMG: Appa will be revealed as a female through a flashback or mentioning]]
The unused idea from the ending was a "YourTomCatIsPregnant" type of deal. If more air bison appear, they should reference it. Now ''how'' did Appa have children? Maybe the air bisons gestation period is just that long or maybe it gave birth sometime offscreen.
* She would still need a man and it is unlikely Appa was pregnant, he did not show any signs of it.
** Appa could have gotten pregnant just before Aang and Appa were trapped in the iceberg. And Appa was pretty big; maybe he's already so huge no one noticed.
** The African Elephant is less massive than a sky bison (Appa is often described as "ten tons", and elephants max out at about that but are usually quite a bit smaller), and has a gestation period of nearly two years. If Appa conceived shortly before Aang disappeared, it could be months or years before anyone noticed.
* Many problems:
** Appa has done fighting, she would think of her kids before fighting.
*** If it was her first litter, she may not have developed maternal protectiveness - the females of some domesticated species will abandon or even kill their first litter because they grew up among humans and don't know how to care for babies of their own species.
** He was said to be a guy in the show.
*** Does anyone know how to accurately sex a sky bison? The YourTomCatIsPregnant trope exists for a reason.
**** Given the implication that the Air Nomads had been breeding and raising air bison for quite some time, one would think they'd have been able to figure that out.
* Some species females can fertilize their own eggs. Who knows what kind of species made Appa?
* Possibly Jossed, or at least rendered unnecessary. Apparently Aang finds a wild herd of sky bison at some point between series. Appa probably mated with one of the wild bison, so there's no need for "female Appa already pregnant" to happen.

* And then Bryke wake up with the worst hangover ever and decide never to chug half-a-keg of beer each ever again. ;P

[[WMG:Aang was The Last Airbender]]
So no one can teach Korra that; two more reincarnations and we'll have the last Avatar, right?
* Jossed. Aang was the Last Airbender during the first series. But now that's he's procreated with Katara and begat Tenzin, who's been stated as Korra's Airbending teacher, then it's safe to say the Airbending's been passed on to the next generation.
* Moreover, Tenzin might not be Aang and Katara's only child, and Tenzin might have children of his own by the time the story begins. There's certainly a possibility for two or more Airbenders in the series. I find it pretty funny that Aang is going to go from The Last Airbender to The First Airbender as the Avatar timeline progresses.
** Confirmed that Tenzin has three kids and all three of them are Airbenders.

* It seems like a must for the next Avatar series.

* Or alternately, Ursa unknowingly caused the anti-bender rebellion.

With industrialization taking place in the Avatar world, it isn't hard to see someone [[SelfMadeMan rise to the top]] through [[ManipulativeBastard deciet]], [[TheChessmaster wicked planning]] [[GambitRoulette skills]], e.t.c. It would also not be hard for that villain to come to hate the Avatar, someone who was born gifted while he/she had to fight tooth an nail. Perhaps this MagnificentBastard will use the [[MugglePower anti-bending revolution]] as his [[UnwittingPawn catspaws]] to try and take out the Avatar.

Take a look at the four Avatars before Aang. Yangchen, Kuruk, and Kyoshi all look to be in their late thirties to early forties. Since Kyoshi lived for over two hundred years, it's unlikely she looked that good when she died. When an Avatar dies, their spirit takes the aged form that they always saw themselves as truly being. Roku chose his appaerance due to his guilt over Sozin, Kuruk chose his form because he was that old when he was to be married (in order to spite Koh) and Yangchen and Kyoshi chose their forms because they just liked looking younger.

** There is evidence that a spirit takes the form of how the character likely thinks of themselves in their head, in the episode with Roku and Sozen's backstory, Aang's spirit is bald and is wearing his clothes from books one and two.
* That would be awesome, but Zach Tyler Eisen is already way older than 12 now.

[[WMG: The Gaang is not actually all dead.]]
They just said that to throw us off the scent. (This is mostly just me in denial, but hey. It could be true.)
* The most likely reason for taking that step is because they don't want the Gaang to take the spotlight from Korra or any other new characters. After all, this is their story, not the Gaang's. Andrea specifically said "that whole generation is dead." It is true, from a certain point of view. While people from Katara's generation are still alive, they're not really at the forefront of society anymore: most the world is run by a newer generation. This lets the spotlight stay on Korra, Tenzin, and new characters, and leaves some room for some of the cast from the old show to return in smaller roles.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed for Katara, at least.]]

[[WMG: Each episode will be half length (12 - 15 minutes in length), and it will end with a one hour special]]
* Obviously {{Jossed}}.

[[WMG:Korra will be pretty]]
* [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110306232848/avatar/images/5/55/KorraFirstLook.jpg Oh-so Confirmed!]]

[[WMG: Korra will encounter [[AllYourPowersCombined Hybrid benders]].]]
Under Aang and Zuko's leadership, the nations start to blend together and mix their cultures. This mixing of cultures spawns benders with traits from more than one nation, allowing them to bend two or more elements. For example a bender raised by a fire nation mother and earth kingdom father would be able to bend fire and earth. Tenzin is the first Hybrid bender but will hide his waterbending ability because only the Avatar is supposed to bend multiple elements. With Republic City being a melting pot of all the world's cultures, it will spawn "false avatars" which have cultural traits of all four nations and bend all four elements, but not with the efficiency that a true avatar can wield them.
* Also, they obviously won't be able to go into Avatar State.
* This was {{Jossed}} by Bryke when the original show came out: Only the Avatar can bend multiple elements. I highly doubt that they'd go and change those rules now.
* While the idea of anyone save the Avatar bending multiple elements has been jossed, there could well be something in the notion of interaction between different cultures allowing for different bending ''styles'' within the separate elements. We've already seen it with Iroh and lightening-redirection. He understood the strengths and weaknesses of all four elements and used one discipline - from the Water Tribes - to his advantage. So, a differing WMG could be that the joint influences of Zuko and Aang (and importantly their associates are from all over the place and of many different backgrounds) have spread in the four nations and their respective bending disciplines to the extent that they are influenced by one another. The possibility and advantages of this can be seen in Aang's experience with multiple elements. For example, it took the control of earth for him to manage restraint over fire, but it was his misunderstanding of its origins which in part prevented him from taking up firebending for some time.
* Don't forget Mako and Bolin. It seems Bryke made the brothers benders of different elements to illustrate that only the Avatar can bend multiple elements.

Republics are characterized by that they don't have a king, right? After the war, the Earth King was missing and presumed dead, so the Dai Li took back control of the Earth Kingdom, but without the King as a figurehead.

* Specifically a new born one, from that egg from 'The Fire-Bending Masters'. Because face it, that'd be awesome.

* Jossed. In a leaked clip, her parents are shown hugging her when she leaves for Republic City.

* Bear with me.

He resented being the Avatar's son and being expected to be a brilliant bender like both his parents. While his older water-bending sister become a politician in Republic City. And his lazy younger brother with three illegitimate kids uses Aang's fading fame to pick up chicks, he just wanted to have simple family down at the south pole.

But the early at the time unknown anti-bending movement kidnaps Tenzin's pregnant wife keeps her alive long enough to have the baby, dumps her dead body at the south pole for Aang and Tenzin to find and keep the baby air-bending girl to raise as their own.

* In addition, the flag of the anti-benders will be Sokka's Boomerang and Space Sword, symbolizing the ultimate weapons of non-bending. Sokka Style combined with Wang Fire Legacy will be the patron saint of non-bending.

* The nations are still around, National Republic is just it's own thing.

Perhaps not every team requires a sponsor, but from what we saw in the released clip, Korra and her team have what appears to be an emblem of half a gear on their uniforms. We know Asami Sato is the daughter to a wealthy industrialist, who is more than likely Hiroshi Sato, so gear emblem = industry = Hiroshi Sato possibly being their sponsor.

[[folder: Confirmed]]

** So what? This series is set seventy years after the original, so Katara would be 84 years old. My Grandmother had ''eleven'' great grandchildren when she was 84 (though one of them was adopted). The third of which was thirteen years old at the time. You really don't need to be in your eighties to have great grandchildren.
** And it's been confirmed by the creators that Tenzin has two older siblings, it's not unreasonable to assume that they're old enough to have Grandkids if the first was born when Aang and Katara were in their twenties. Which also isn't an unreasonable assumption.

*** Given their [[{{Troll}} track record]] don't be surprised.

* [[IKnewIt Confirmed]].
* "Seemingly impossible" to have a female main character in a popular show watched by guys? You do know that a lot of franchises with female main characters are marketed towards guys? ''TombRaider'' and ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' (yes, despite being a magical girl title, it's marketed as seinen) are just two examples off the top of my head.
** Seemingly impossible when not played mostly for fanservice.
** Given the general outcry when a film/series/game/what-have-you is revealed to feature a serious, strong female protagonist, those of us who find it refreshing seem to be relatively few and far between. This editor was entirely surprised to hear Korra was female for exactly this reason.
*** Oh, then in that case, I can see your point. It's just that the original post lacked the clarification and I took it to be in general terms.
*** Yeah, sorry about that. Should have specified female main character as the The Kirk in the power trio or Hero in Five Man Band. Not that I know if there will be any of those, but you get the idea. It's not terribly common to have a bad ass girl at the head of the pack.

* Will the show pass TheBechdelTest? Signs point to yes.

* The promo image shows that Republic City surrounded by mountains with water running through at least a portion of the city. While Ba Sing Se is pretty large, it wasn't situated in a mountainous region nor had a water channel through it. Republic City being Ba Sing Se is unlikely at best.

** You know what, the overall geography looks more than a bit like the scene of Ozai's battle with Aang. That may be a spot picked for a treaty city....

[[WMG: Tenzin is an airbender that doesn't know airbending.]]
All we know is that he's Aang and Katara's son and that Korra is seeking him out for training in airbending. No one ever said he was an airbender let alone an airbending master. My theory is that Aang died before he could teach Tenzin airbending leaving Katara to raise him alone. Without his father there to teach him, Tenzin's natural airbending prowess went to waste. In shame, he [[GenerationXerox ran away from home]] to try and learn on his own but only fell into depression as he was unable to carry out his father's legacy. Now a middle aged [[GRatedDrug cactus juicer]], he and Korra must find another way to learn airbending together.

...because he has serious abandonment issues with his father. As the Avatar, Aang wasn't home much as he tried to heal the world after war. Because of that, Tenzin felt left out as a child and has no tangible memories of his father who died when he was young. His relationship with Korra will help him deal with Aang both as the Avatar and as his father.

* {{Jossed}}: ''Korra'' is apparently full-on SteamPunk, instead of the proto-SteamPunk of ''Airbender''. And it's only 70 years.

He should be in his mid forties at least but knowing this series...Plus a bunch of teenagers with some older guy?
* Tell that to Iroh.
** He was only around Zuko most of the time, not the entire gang and we didn't see him as much as them.
** See the WMG above about the swapping of roles. Maybe he'll only be around Korra teaching her airbending, or maybe he's the Cool Old Guy and pulls it off without looking awkward. The creators have already proved Status Quo is Not God with the gender issue, why not the generation divide?
* You're assuming that Korra will have a "Gaang" of her own. With only a 12-episode mini series, they're going to have to have characters focused on the plot. There will be a number of characters, but I don't see them going the Gaang route again, with so few actual episodes.

* Hmmm... That would make a ''great'' two-part pilot plot!!

Tenzin married young, but his first wife died in childbirth, continuing the franchise's long tradition of absent/dead mothers. Tenzin raised Asami on his own until he met Pema. Once Asami came of age and gained mastery of airbending, she left Republic City to give her father and stepmother the space to live their own lives.

** Says who? All that's been confirmed is that Korra will have to deal with "rampant crime and an anti-bender revolt." The chances are that even without airbending Korra could deal with both of those threats pretty handily (barring character-related obstacles) unless there were benders involved. There were multiple villains in A:TLA, so there will likely be multiple villains in this show, both benders and non-benders. That being said, the chances of a whole "radical sect of Nomads" coming into fruition under Aang's watch, or even in the decade and a half between his death and the time of this show, are very small. Does that mean there definitely won't be ''a'' radical airbender out for revenge? Of course not.

In the beginning only a few non-benders were really considered anti-benders. One of them, the Big Bad, was pretty much a cross between Azula and Karl Marx, who saw Aang and his energy bending powers as a threat to society and as a power he did not deserve. So to alleviate this threat, he drugged the near-geriatric Avatar and killed him brutally with non-bending weapons. The show actually begins on morning the body is found, where a press release explains that Aang was assassinated and reminising on his accomplishments, finishing with a world-wide day of mourning. Any non-bender, anti-bending or not, suddenly become scapegoats for his death, which in turn causes more anti-benders to join due to the persecution. The end result is a world-wide civil war between benders and non-benders which Korra must end. It would also add a touch of irony, since Aang had to maintain peace through fighting, which he did not enjoy, while Korra must avoid engaging either side in conflict, lest the tensions escelate.

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Bumi is mentioned as being 'less uptight' than Tenzin, but it's just another one of the masks that he wears. Furious that he was unable to bend like his siblings, and forced to live in the shadow of his father, he started the Equalist movement as his form of revenge.

The Korra/Tenzin bond will be tested when Korra sides with her master's daughter in a family dispute about what it means to be an Air Nomad in the modern era. Jinora won't want to inherit the temple and simply pass on her people's traditions to her children, nieces, and nephews. She'll want a life of her own, across the bay in that alluring Babylon. Tenzin, meanwhile, will have major angst over the idea that the Air Nomads might still die out despite his and his father's best efforts unless the children keep to the ancient ways. Korra will be torn between her personal feelings to Jinora and to Tenzin.[[/folder]]

[[WMG:''Korra'' will be [[CyberPunk more modern]] than ''Airbender''.]]
''Korra'' takes place 100 years after the original, and the world seems to be evolving steadily when it comes to technology. One hundred years after SteamPunk would be...CyberPunk.
* {{Jossed}}: ''Korra'' is apparently full-on SteamPunk, instead of the proto-SteamPunk of ''Airbender''. And it's only 70 years.

[[WMG: One of the younger cast members will still be alive.]]
Toph, The Duke, Smellerbee, Meng...anyone younger then Katara. Or, given the precedents of Kyoshi (lived to be 230) and Bumi (lived to at least 112)...CoolOldGuy Sokka and CoolOldLady Toph?
* Katara probably is, if Aunt Wu's prediction was correct she'll live until shortly after her third great grandchild is born.
** So what? This series is set seventy years after the original, so Katara would be 84 years old. My Grandmother had ''eleven'' great grandchildren when she was 84 (though one of them was adopted). The third of which was thirteen years old at the time. You really don't need to be in your eighties to have great grandchildren.
** And it's been confirmed by the creators that Tenzin has two older siblings, it's not unreasonable to assume that they're old enough to have Grandkids if the first was born when Aang and Katara were in their twenties. Which also isn't an unreasonable assumption.
* Jossed they are all dead.
* Are we sure on that? this troper would like a source
* It would make sense for the creators to deceive the fans on this anyway, seeing an old character would be far more effective if nobody saw it coming.
* I'm counting on this. Given the fact that a person with much chi lives longer, it only seems logical that some are still alive. If you say Bumi is the average maximum age for a powerful bender, all would probably still be alive, but apparently Aang died fairly young (for an avatar)
** Casting Director Andrea Romano confirmed that the ENTIRE CAST of ''Aang'' died before the start of ''Korra''.
*** Given their [[{{Troll}} track record]] don't be surprised.
*** As I remember the quote she wasn't actually saying that they were dead, she was saying that they might as well be because they would not figure heavily in the plot. chances are good that several (if not all) of them are alive and well and living elsewhere.
*** Confirmed! [[spoiler: Katara lives!]]

[[WMG: Everyone but Aang and Iroh are Alive.]]
So I guess the fact that Gran-Gran and Pakku will be dead goes without saying eh?
* And Jeong Jeong and Bumi and Hakoda and im just gonna stop now
* Jossed they are all dead
** Double jossed [[spoiler: Katara's alive]].

[[WMG:Meelo is the third great-grandchild of Katara that Aunt Wu prophesied about.]]
Of course, this theory operates under the assumption that Aunt Wu's prediction came true. Now, TLK takes place 70 years after TLA. With Korra being around 16, this means that Aang must have died sometime around 54 years after TLA. Katara could have died around then as well, so I'll use 54 years as a benchmark. In TLA, marriageable age has been stated to be around 16. (This is based on Princess Yue being ready to be betrothed at 16.) So for me, it makes sense that people in the Avatar world have children around 20 years old. However, for sake of argument, I'll have Aang and Katara have Tenzin (or some other child, but for argument's sake it will be Tenzin) 10 years after TLA ended. 20 years after that, Tenzin could have his own child (Kid A), and 20 years after that Kid A could have Kid B. For those of you keeping track, we are now 50 years after the end of TLA, and Katara's first great-grandchild has been born. Kid A could technically have two more kids after that, Kid C two years after Kid B, and Meelo 2 years after Kid C. This puts us at 54 years after TLA has ended. With this guess, that makes Meelo slightly older than Korra, and has him ready to train with her under his grandfather Tenzin.
* {{Jossed}} at SDCC 2011: Meelo is actually Tenzin's son.

[[WMG: "Wei Bei" is actually "Wei Bei Fong".]]
* Chief Bei Fong, a character prominent enough that she merited a spot next to Tenzin on the rough draft of the 2011 SDCC's Korra poster, is the mysterious Wei Bei from the VA list released months ago. The "Fong" was left off in order to avoid spoiling the fandom ahead of SDCC 2011. Further, one of the possible characters for "Wei" is 薇, which translates to "rose". This would maintain the Bei Fong tradition of the girls being named after flowers; Wei's grandmother would be Poppy, and Toph's name was sometimes translated in-series as "Supported Lotus."
** It's alrady been confirmed that Chief Bei Fong's first name is "Lin". So possibly jossed?

[[WMG: Wei Bei Fong is both Toph's granddaughter and a non-bender.]]
* Aang and Katara have grandchildren in [=LoK=], why couldn't Toph? And as for the non-bender part, consider this theory. Imagine you're the heir to a famous line of powerful earthbenders, your grandmother was a war hero and your mother is a decorated police officer, only ''you'' can't bend. Lots of angsty possibilities there, especially if she fell in with a bad crowd. And it be something of a deconstruction of the fanbase's idolization of Toph, by showing what it's like to live in the shadow of such badassness.
** Both jossed. It's been confirmed that Chief Bei Fong is Toph's daughter, and according to the Nickelodeon website she is a bender.

[[WMG: Aang's kid somehow is young.]]
He should be in his mid forties at least but knowing this series...Plus a bunch of teenagers with some older guy?
* Tell that to Iroh.
** He was only around Zuko most of the time, not the entire gang and we didn't see him as much as them.
** See the WMG above about the swapping of roles. Maybe he'll only be around Korra teaching her airbending, or maybe he's the Cool Old Guy and pulls it off without looking awkward. The creators have already proved Status Quo is Not God with the gender issue, why not the generation divide?
* You're assuming that Korra will have a "Gaang" of her own. With only a 12-episode mini series, they're going to have to have characters focused on the plot. There will be a number of characters, but I don't see them going the Gaang route again, with so few actual episodes.
** She does have a Gaang, it's herself, Mako, Bolin, Naga (the polar bear dog) and Bolin's fire ferret that has a name which i forgot. Also, the amount of episodes was expanded to 26.
* Seems to be Jossed. JK Simmons doesn't have a little kid voice.
* Definitely Jossed as of SDCC. He has a beard.
** And three children, with a fourth on the way.

[[WMG: Tenzin is hiding out in Republic City because]]
He couldn't handle the pressure of being the Avatar's son. People might have expected him to be brilliant bender like both of his parents but he might not've been that great. He ended up with an inferiority complex and he left. And maybe he'll be a lazy, pretty boy who [[ObfuscatingStupidity acts like a ditz]] so no one will expect too much from him. He'll be very reluctant to train Korra and part of Korra's challenge will boosting his self-esteem enough so he'll drop the act and train her.
* Hmmm... That would make a ''great'' two-part pilot plot!!
* Probably jossed. Tenzin's a grown man with a beard already teaching airbending to his three children.

[[WMG: Tenzin was married to someone else before Pema. Asami is their daughter.]]
Tenzin married young, but his first wife died in childbirth, continuing the franchise's long tradition of absent/dead mothers. Tenzin raised Asami on his own until he met Pema. Once Asami came of age and gained mastery of airbending, she left Republic City to give her father and stepmother the space to live their own lives.
* {{Jossed}}. Asami is the daughter of Hiroshi Sato, the inventor of Satamobiles and a SelfMadeMan.

[[WMG: Tenzin and Lin Bei Fong are PlatonicLifePartners.]]
They knew each other since they were kids, and are pretty close buddies as a result. Maybe they dated when they younger, but it didn't work out.
* {{Jossed}}, at least based on the first episode. They seem to a coldly cooperative relationship, forced by their positions as an ambassador and the police chief.

[[WMG: Avatar Korra is a girl.]]
And thus the creators will pull off the seemingly impossible of having a female main character in a popular show watched by guys.
* [[IKnewIt Confirmed]].
* "Seemingly impossible" to have a female main character in a popular show watched by guys? You do know that a lot of franchises with female main characters are marketed towards guys? ''TombRaider'' and ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' (yes, despite being a magical girl title, it's marketed as seinen) are just two examples off the top of my head.
** Seemingly impossible when not played mostly for fanservice.
** Given the general outcry when a film/series/game/what-have-you is revealed to feature a serious, strong female protagonist, those of us who find it refreshing seem to be relatively few and far between. This editor was entirely surprised to hear Korra was female for exactly this reason.
*** Oh, then in that case, I can see your point. It's just that the original post lacked the clarification and I took it to be in general terms.
*** Yeah, sorry about that. Should have specified female main character as the The Kirk in the power trio or Hero in Five Man Band. Not that I know if there will be any of those, but you get the idea. It's not terribly common to have a bad ass girl at the head of the pack.
*** I don't even remember any general outcries at works of fiction with serious, strong female protagonists. in my experience, they've usually been well-received. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
*** Korra's voice actress is a comedienne by trade, so Korra being super serious is likely {{Jossed}}.
** Avatar always had a strong female fan base, the show will do fine with the male demographic as long we get other strong male characters as well. Also on another note, The Alien series and the Kill Bill movies have strong male fan followings. Also remember Toph is very popular with males for her tough attitude. If there is a female that's strong and kick ass, both genders will have something to enjoy.
*** While there are movies with female leads popular with men, compare them to the amount of such movies with male leads. It's also rare in children's shows. In Nostalgia Chick's video on the SmurfettePrinciple, she pointed out that out of thirty shows Nickelodeon made (at the time of her video) only three of them had female leads. So yeah, it's reasonable to be (pleasantly) surprised on the revelation that Korra is a girl.
* Will the show pass TheBechdelTest? Signs point to yes.

[[WMG: To add up to the discussion above, Korra's appearance will ''deliberately'' '''not''' be {{Fanservice}} (at least to most male viewers' preferences).]]
Just to show that it can be done.
** At least in my opinion Jossed she is an AmazonianBeauty.
** I wouldn't call it ''blatant'' Fanservice, but Korra is a pretty girl with a strong physicality and tough attitude that can certainly be considered attractive... oh my god, I think I'm in love with ''Aang''. HaveIMentionedThatIAmHeterosexualToday?

[[WMG: Korra will use blue fire]]
When questioned about it by one of her peers, she gets a look of terror on her face and mumbles that she really doesn't want to talk about it.
* What?
** I guess this WMG implies it will eventually be revealed she's related to Azula...
** Or better yet, Azula ''taught'' Korra how to firebend and then died right before the series starts. She could have faked a HeelFaceTurn and agreed to teach the new avatar and try to corrupt her in the process. Azula fails and tried to kill Korra instead, only to get killed by Korra in the attempt.
** Even with her apparent attitude problem, I doubt even Korra would intentionally murder someone.....personally, I'd rather the HeelFaceTurn be genuine and not faked, since otherwise Azula is a horribly static character to the very end.
** Heck, even if Azula's face turn in genuine odds are she would lean toward TrainingFromHell.
* {{Jossed}}. The promo video shows her flinging plain ol' red-orange fire about.

[[WMG: Korra will reveal her Avatar-ness to the City in the middle of a Pro Bending match.]]
In the course of the match, Mako and Bolin get taken out. With the odds stacked so heavily against her, she busts out her full repertoire including Firebending and Earthbending in addition to the Waterbending she was using before the Bros got KO'd. And it will be [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome epic]].
* This may or may not end badly for her, however. Having the Avatar on your side during a bending-based sporting event is a pretty unfair advantage, and Korra's team may be disqualified as a result.
* Jossed. She reveals her Avatar status, on a small scale, anyway, during her clash with the Triad members. She officially announces her moving to Republic City and her status as the Avatar in a public press conference. She does participate in Pro-bending matches, but not until the second episode, at least.

[[WMG: The Air Nomads will play an antagonistic role in this series.]]
A radical sect of the Nomads, who still harbor great revenge for the genocide by the Fire Nation, slowly grows into fruition. They'll believe that Aang's "no killing" policy to be pathetic and the reason that the previous generation died out, so they'll use more aggressive methods (air blades, soundbending, cyclones ravaging villages).
* Jossed The villains will be non benders.
** Says who? All that's been confirmed is that Korra will have to deal with "rampant crime and an anti-bender revolt." The chances are that even without airbending Korra could deal with both of those threats pretty handily (barring character-related obstacles) unless there were benders involved. There were multiple villains in A:TLA, so there will likely be multiple villains in this show, both benders and non-benders. That being said, the chances of a whole "radical sect of Nomads" coming into fruition under Aang's watch, or even in the decade and a half between his death and the time of this show, are very small. Does that mean there definitely won't be ''a'' radical airbender out for revenge? Of course not.
*** Unless a sect of air nomads somehow survived the war, this seems very unlikely.

[[WMG: The BigBad is a nonbending descendant of Long Feng, who is voiced by ClancyBrown and is bald.]]
Just so we can have a villain that's both a MythologyGag and ActorAllusion. And his name will be suspiciously similar to Luthor.
* The name, at least, has been jossed - his/her name is Amon.

[[WMG: Similar to the guess above, Aang died young because the big bad assassinated him, and the anti-bending revolt was only flaired up by the event.]]
In the beginning only a few non-benders were really considered anti-benders. One of them, the Big Bad, was pretty much a cross between Azula and Karl Marx, who saw Aang and his energy bending powers as a threat to society and as a power he did not deserve. So to alleviate this threat, he drugged the near-geriatric Avatar and killed him brutally with non-bending weapons. The show actually begins on morning the body is found, where a press release explains that Aang was assassinated and reminising on his accomplishments, finishing with a world-wide day of mourning. Any non-bender, anti-bending or not, suddenly become scapegoats for his death, which in turn causes more anti-benders to join due to the persecution. The end result is a world-wide civil war between benders and non-benders which Korra must end. It would also add a touch of irony, since Aang had to maintain peace through fighting, which he did not enjoy, while Korra must avoid engaging either side in conflict, lest the tensions escelate.
* Jossed - his lifespan was just worn down after being in the iceberg.

[[WMG: Korra will be voiced by Kevin Conroy.]]
The staff got a bunch of Batman jokes immediately after they pitched the series to Nickelodean. They quickly got sick of the whole thing and asked the same man who played the role in BatmanTheAnimatedSeries to audition, hoping that everyone would shut up. It quickly backfired, as Kevin Conroy was so good at the role he was immediately hired. And yes, he will use the Batman voice.
** While [[WTHCastingAgency beyond insane]], I must tip my hat to you at the sheer [[{{Squee}} AWESOME]] this would be!
** See the "Be as Batman" WMG above.
** Jossed, obviously.

[[WMG: ''Korra'' takes place in the new {{Pokemon}} games.]]
A lot of nature vs. technology stuff in both this show and PokemonBlackAndWhite.
* Jossed

[[WMG:Republic City is what happened to the Northern Air Temple.]]
It makes sense that the center of technological development would continue where the Machinist set up shop to begin with. And the landscape certainly is mountainous.
* The Northern Air temple is not near any water.
** But it is near a lot of snow. maybe they artificially heated the mountain to make the place more liveable?
* {{Jossed}}.

[[WMG: Tenzin is an airbender that doesn't know airbending.]]
All we know is that he's Aang and Katara's son and that Korra is seeking him out for training in airbending. No one ever said he was an airbender let alone an airbending master. My theory is that Aang died before he could teach Tenzin airbending leaving Katara to raise him alone. Without his father there to teach him, Tenzin's natural airbending prowess went to waste. In shame, he [[GenerationXerox ran away from home]] to try and learn on his own but only fell into depression as he was unable to carry out his father's legacy. Now a middle aged [[GRatedDrug cactus juicer]], he and Korra must find another way to learn airbending together.

* Jossed. He knew enough to teach his kids. And he's got the master's tats.

[[WMG: Tenzin will be hostile towards Korra...]]
...because he has serious abandonment issues with his father. As the Avatar, Aang wasn't home much as he tried to heal the world after war. Because of that, Tenzin felt left out as a child and has no tangible memories of his father who died when he was young. His relationship with Korra will help him deal with Aang both as the Avatar and as his father.

* Jossed. He's trying his hardest to hold together Republic City, his father's dream, as best he can after Aang died.

[[WMG: This series will have gangsters]]
* Word of God said Republic City would be based on Shanghai (circa 1920s), Hong Kong and Western cities like Manhattan and Chicago. Gangsters could easily take control over the city and profit off the revolution.
** [[IncrediblyLamePun Gaangsters?]]
* It seems highly unlikely since this is still a Nickelodeon show. We'd have ATeamFiring all over the place in such a case.
* With the Comic-Con trailer, we can confirm [[NiceHat fedoras]].
* Kind of confirmed; the leaked material shows Korra in a fight with three bending crooks in fedoras and overcoats. No sign of gang warfare or guns though.
* The first episode establishes that one of Republic City's main struggles (aside from the social class gap between non-benders and benders) is with organized crime. Those three thugs that Korra fights off are members of a Triad.
[[WMG: Going with the above, the show will potentially involve [[{{Baccano}} immortals]].]]

[[WMG: Republic City is a reformed Ba Sing Se]]
After the war King Kuei decides to take a more active role in ruling the Earth Kingdom and decided to make a few changes to how the city was run. One of those changes included allowing the city to become a melting pot. The name was changed because the irony of having a melting pot city with the word "impenetrable" would have caused the universe to implode.
* The promo image shows that Republic City surrounded by mountains with water running through at least a portion of the city. While Ba Sing Se is pretty large, it wasn't situated in a mountainous region nor had a water channel through it. Republic City being Ba Sing Se is unlikely at best.
* A lot of waterbenders and earthbenders can change that relatively easily.
** Yeah, but you know what city is surrounded by mountains? Omashu.
*** And you know what didn't have a water channel going through it? Omashu. In all seriousness the one picture they've shown is a piece of concept art that included an island on a lake with mountains in the distance. Omashu is incredibly isolatated surrounded on all sides by several mountains and a seemingly bottomless crevice.
** You know what, the overall geography looks more than a bit like the scene of Ozai's battle with Aang. That may be a spot picked for a treaty city....
* Jossed: Republic City and the United Republic of Nations of which it is capital are founded in the former Fire Nation Colonies. Republic City is located on the shore of the sea, far from Omashu and Ba Sing Se.

[[WMG: The last portrait of Toph reveals that she aged into a female Bumi.]]
* It's too crazy NOT to happen.
** Please, no. Turning a LittleMissSnarker CuteBruiser into {{Gonk}} would be disastrous, not crazy.
*** I am so glad that i am not the only one to think that it would be great to see Toph be like that. When they first announced the series, I had immediately imagined that Toph could possibly be the type to be like King Bumi: old and somewhat crazy, but incredibly badass (not to mention earthbender) despite their age. I also imagined that she could be the type to be living as a hermit up in a mountainous cave somewhere, where she can practice earthbending to her heart's content, if only just to be played for laughs.
* {{Jossed}}. A portrait of Toph appears in the room in which Lin is interrogating Korra during the first episode. She looks relatively normal.

[[WMG:As of this series, Sokka is still alive and is the Grandmaster of the Order of the White Lotus.]]
* And even if he's not alive - the original cast being dead is Word of God? - then some reference/flashback will be made to him having joined and led the Order at some point, ''finally'' following up on the significance of Piandao giving him the White Lotus piece in 'Sokka's Master'. But I definitely agree with the above WMG that he became a swordmaster; Badass Normal that like Piandao can hold his own amongst benders, no question.
** [[spoiler: Jossed in one of the leaked clips. Sokka's dead.]]

[[WMG:There are other descendants of Aang, but not necessarily Airbenders.]]
So, Aang and Katara have kids, but only Tenzin is an Airbender. For example, lets say they have three kids, one is a waterbender and one a nonbender. They go on to have kids, and some are Airbenders, but by the time of this show, none of them have mastered it or arent old enough to learn it. Meanwhile, one is old enough to learn and is training with Tenzin, my money is on Meelo being him, and is learning with Korra.
* Jossed. WordOfGod has stated that anyone of Air Nomad descent IS an Airbender no matter what. So any and all descendants of Aang will be Airbenders (hence why his son is the Airbending teacher for Korra). So, like the acorn representing how that forest will grow back, Aang is the seed for his race to be reborn.
** Technically, WordOfGod says all ''Air Nomads'' were benders, not all people of Air Nomad descent. This is because bending is mostly spiritual, and the Air Nomads were a ''very'' spiritual people. The creators went out of their way to Joss bending as purely genetic, so if a person of Air Nomad descent was raised without this spirituality, it's unknown whether or not they would be a bender. So it may depend on how Aang and Katara agreed to raise their children.
** WordOfGod says that any children born to Aang and Katara would be Airbenders, Waterbenders or nonbenders.
* May be correct. At SDCC, the creators confirm that Katara and Aang have three children, and that their Airbending son (Tenzin) will teach Korra. Whether this means that they have an Airbending daughter or two could be possible, but it could also be likely that the two other children were either Waterbenders or non-benders.

** The Zuko analogue will be one of the main heroes who will come over to the Equalist cause.

[[WMG: the mayor (or president) of Republic city will be a main charecter.]]