History WMG / TheLegendOfKorra

* But Amon is evil, so he's obviously Owlman

* Amon is a Badass Normal that watched his parents die and swore revenge. He uses fear to control and get advantages over his enemies, and his biggest ally/side-kick is another Badass Normal that uses duel Escrima Sticks and acrobatics in combat (a la Nightwing).

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]].

[[WMG: Proving that being a ChewToy is InTheBlood, the Cabbage Man's descendant will experience the exact same luck as his/her ancestor.]]
Doesn't matter what he/she decides to sell -- it ''will'' get completely thrashed. Most likely in the presence of the heroes.
* 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.
** Alternatively, the Cabbage Man's descendant WILL be anti-bender due to a family grudge against the Gaang...[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain but will be a minor nuisance at best]] [[SmallNameBigEgo and only THINKS he's a major villain]].
*** Maybe he starts as an anti-bender but Korra ends up saving him/his merchandise and change his ways.
** Confirmed, kind of. He was set up as an equalist by [[spoiler: Hiroshi.]] He even got to shout his own version of the catchphrase.

[[WMG: The clock shop that we see get destroyed in the trailer will be this version of the cabbage guy's cart.]]
* MY CLOCKS!!!
** Jossed [[spoiler: MY CABBAGE CORP!!!]]

[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant was the man who gave Sato his loan.]]
The Cabbage Corp. vehicles were Sato's gift to his benefactor.
* Most likely {{Jossed}}. They are direct competitors with each other, and Sato deviced the first mass-manufactured automobile, while the Cabbage Corp is producing more affordable knock-offs.

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One of the members of the Cabbage family will invent the first proto-computer.

* Thanks to "When Extremes Meet" we can now all say "QUICK! To the [[Thememobile Korramobile!"]]

Being the only decedent of an airbender, let alone two powerful benders, who isnt a bender you can tell the universe lokes to screw with him

* Most likely {{Jossed}}. They are direct competitors with each other, and Sato deviced the first mass-manufactured automobile, while the Cabbage Corp is producing more affordable knock-offs.

* Refer to the "Korra will be as Batman" WMG

** And now in The Revelation, [[spoiler: she said she will now fight the Equalists from outside the power of the law. If that does not make her Batman, I don't know what does]]

** Confirmed, kind of. He was set up as an equalist by [[spoiler: Hiroshi.]]

* 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.

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The Cabbage Corp. vehicles were Sato's gift to his benefactor.

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[[WMG: Amon will be a martyr, and Korra will run away, just like Aang.]]
Amon didn't take away Korra's bending back in The Voice In The Night because he doesn't want Korra to be a martyr, because it would damage his cause greatly. But what if he, in an ironic twist, sacrifice him self and made himself a martyr? It's certainly something someone like him will do. It would be the perfect end for the first season. What other way to end it except having the whole world against you?

We may even see Korra run away from Republic City, even if there's still people who trusts her. My guess she'll go to the southern water tribe and go to Katara. It will bring the series to a full circle, but everyone wants a happy ending, right?

[[WMG: Amon doesn't actually have the ability to permanently take bending away.]]
No one's actually seen the long-term effects of Amon's chi-blocking. For all we know, he just temporarily takes bending away and the gang members at the demonstration were killed soon afterwards. The result is a city full of benders who fear the Equalists.
* It's entirely possible. When Aang utilized Spiritbending in the series finale of TLA, he pressed upon two specific chakra on Ozai's body: his heart and his head. The heart chakra deals with love and is blocked by one's guilt. In accessing Ozai's spirit through that chakra, Aang could have made him feel guilt from the hurt he and his forefathers put upon the world with their war(this could be why Ozai seems to be brooding the whole time afterward). This act then sealed Ozai's Air chakra, while Aang's simultaneous sealing of his Thought chakra ultimately removed his ability to bend through actual manipulation of Ozai's soul. As for Amon, his method of bending removal involves him deliberately(seen with how he methodically turns Zolt around to access his neck) paralyzing his opponent through a pressure point strike and then simply sealing their Thought chakra. The difference here is that Amon's method merely ''blocks'' bending, meaning that such attacks could be healed if Korra ever learns Spiritbending herself, while Aang's method outright ''removes'' one's ability to bend.

[[WMG: Amon and Tarrlok are working together.]]
* Episode 4: Korra sets out for Memorial Island with Tarrlok informing Tenzin, after she's left, that he had airships of Metalbenders sitting above the island ready to strike if anything went wrong. Korra's later captured, dragged off, puts up a bit of a fight, but is ultimately restrained and scared out of her wits by Amon's ability to end her so easily. And he gets more than enough time to monologue at length about how he's going to save his defeat of her for later and then use her defeat to ultimately break benders as a whole. Where was the SWAT team this whole time? The only time we see any of Korra's allies afterward is when she's knocked out, for some period of time, and Tenzin runs in to find her unconscious. And even then, he's not accompanied by Metalbenders or Tarrlok. So what gives? Either Tarrlok held back those metalbenders to allow Amon to strike at Korra without harrassment, or he lied to Tenzin(cloudly night, after all, and we never saw those airships) in order to keep Tenzin from following her over and possibly interfering with Amon. This would fit perfectly with Tarrlok's personality: He worked with the leader of the Anti-Benders in order to give himself more and more power(after all, he's now leading an almost SS-esque hit squad loyal only to him) to the point where he, ultimately, will become Dictator of Republic City.
** And he likely enticed Amon with the deal by making sure he would get him Tenzin and his children, the only four (aside from Korra and the maybe the unborn child) people who can airbend, in exchange to make sure he can get more power. Knowing Tarllock, he would be delighted getting rid of his rivals.
*** It's also likely that Tarrlok thinks that he's the ManBehindTheMan, with Amon as his [[TheDragon dragon]]. Later in the series, however, Amon will off Tarrlok and take complete control of Republic City. This could then prompt the Krew to have to travel to other nations(that way we get to see the development of the Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, and Northern Water Tribe) in an effort to raise an army to take Republic City back.
** Episode 6 makes this even more likely. He's the first to give in when Chief Beifong insists that the pro bending finals take place, and he gives in way to easily for someone who was truly against it. He seems thrilled when she says she'll take full responsibility for the safety of the attendees, as if he knows she'll fail and thus lose support among the cityfolk. And sure enough, the Equalists show up prepared to fight metalbenders.
** And honestly, Korra proved back in episode 3 that it's not that hard to find Amon if you want to, so surely Tarrlok would have been able to catch him if he were applying himself.
*** It's also possible that the Equalist base they raided in episode 4 was based on information given by Amon, who was willing to sacrifice a few followers to improve Tarrlok's image.

[[WMG: Tarrlok will seize control of Republic City.]]
Whether he is really working with Amon or not, Tarrlok will eventually see his chance to stage a coup and seize control of Republic City from the Council, blaming everything on the Equalists. Subsequent seasons will have Korra and her friends trying to fight both Tarrlok and the Equalists.

[[WMG: The statue of Aang will get blown up at some point.]]
Most likely during the DarkestHour before the season/series finale.
** Possible that Korra's DestructiveSaviour tendencies will play in that destroying a good portion of Republic City and restoring it from scratch might be what they need too. Perhaps Aang's rebuilt statue will include one for Korra too.
** That statue is the size of a Skyscraper. It would take something ''huge'' to blow it up. Any ideas?
*** A FreezeFrameBonus in the first episode implies Amon is working on a giant steampunk robot.

[[WMG: Something about the series will go unanswered by the end.]]
Hey, at the end of the day Mike and Brian are sitting on one Hell of a cash cow, and if they can keep it going through suspense and a rabid fanbase more power to them. Besides, we all want to see that Mad-Max style earthbender series, right? They have plenty of unanswered questions aren't necessary to the plot to choose from already:
* Who's Lin's Daddy
* Who killed Mako&Bolin's parents?
* What happened to Hasook?
* How did Korra tame Naga?
* Who gave Sato his once-in-a-lifetime loan?
* Who the Hell is Yakone?
* How is Amon taking away people's ability to bend?
* AND WHY DOES TARRLOK SMELL LIKE A LADY? WE DEMAND ANSWERS!


[[WMG: Tahno will have his bending taken away by Amon...]]
Then he will go through a HeroicBSOD (Or Villanous?) and then join Korra's Krew.
* Partially confirmed. Tahno is shown to lose his bending.
* Confirmed as of And The Winner Is...

[[WMG: The show will run four seasons]]
The book names will be Air, Metal, Blood, and Spirit, each chronicling a style of bending Korra has yet to learn.
* Jossed since Mike & Bryan made it clear they're only doing two seasons.
** Not just yet...there's that option to renew.
* Metal and blood are specific forms of earth and water bending respectively. They don't count as separate styles. This leaves Air and Spirit, which is exactly as long as the show has been confirmed to continue.

[[WMG: Amon will be Korra's energybending master.]]
* Unlikely unless future episodes go to great lengths to establish Amon as an AntiVillain, and justify why [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption]] [[AvertedTrope Doesn't]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Equal Death]] for him.
* If Aang learned how to energybend thanks to touching his Anahata and Ajna, shouldn't Amon or any other teacher be dismissed after the first class? Then again, since the Anahata is near Korra's boobs, maybe it will tke longer to learn, lest he look like a perv.
** Just speculating but maybe energy bending is has less to do with just knowing wheere to touch than being one the right spiritual level. Maybe since Aang, who as an airbender would already have been very spiritual, was the avatar, he possessed the ability to get to the right state spiritually to energybend. It remains to be seen how actually spiritual Amon is, but maybe he could have get there, too, and if he didn't, then that would just be more proof that his enegrybending is fake.

[[WMG: Amon will somehow momentarily cut off '''everyone's bending'''.]]
It's not impossible. The original series' season finale already established that a mere human can cause much damage to the world. Zhao killed '''the moon.''' I mean, everyone certainly can live without bending, it won't be great, but they'll eventually accept it in time. We did great without bending abilities. But the moon? I don't think there's anyway the world could have withstand such thing. Furthermore, Zhao could have killed '''the ocean''' (but even Zhao realized how crazy that is.)

[[WMG: Team Avatar will fight the Metalbender Cops in order to protect the Equalists.]]
Our heroes will come to learn that not every Equalists is an Amon-level creep, just like there were good people fighting under Ozai's banner. Afterward there will come a point where Chief Beifong's officers will attempt to crack down on the Equalists, and their overly wide net is going to round up some people who don't deserve to be arrested. Korra will attempt to stand up to this injustice, at first non-violently, having learned from her first run-in with the law, but after something bad happens -- the cops get too rough, someone throws a punch, whatever -- the situation will escalate. At that point Korra will jump in and forcibly defend the Equalists, but end up at the center of a battle royale where extremists on ''both'' sides try to attack her. It'll be a special moment in Republic City's history: bender and non-bender band together to take on the Big 'A'. It'll also earn Korra some street cred with the Equalist rank-and-file.
* I was setting an episode to record and the description talked about Korra getting pulled into a '''violent''' scheme to get rid of the Equalists.

[[WMG: The mayor (or president) of Republic city will be a main character.]]
Only instead of being predictably evil or corrupt he'll be on Korra's side in wanting the anti-bending revolt to die down. He'll either be comically ineffective at all but passing laws or [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a tough military man who deeply cares about his city]], or maybe both. Is it too late to guess Meelo will be his son?
* Meelo has already been confirmed to be Tenzin's son.
* Considering 1920s China really did have a president who was so corrupt and incompetent he triggered a Communist revolution, it's not really farfetched at all to have Republic City's leader (or her) turn out to be a PresidentEvil. It's too early to tell, but Lin Beifong's metalbending force could ''easily'' be far more dictatorial and oppressive than it appears. Clearly, the city isn't doing so well, what with all the homelessness.
** If the requirement for employment as an officer of the law is that you ''must'' be a metalbender, that's an institutionalized FantasticCasteSystem right there, unintended consequence or not.
** We've seen plenty of policemen who aren't the metalbending cops. Those appear do the the equivalent of a SWAT team.

[[WMG: Tensions in the United Republic Council will come to a head, and directly stem from issues of representation]]
The Council is a NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering that will soon become AHouseDivided, perhaps even to the point of BloodOnTheDebateFloor. Lets see what complaints we could theoretically level at the Five-Person Council, the sort of issues they and those they serve might snipe about behind closed doors. At least three of the Council Members are Benders, once again marginalizing a majority nonbender populace and stoking Equalist suspicions of a FantasticCasteSystem. The Four Nations are represented, but what about Republic City as an entitity unto itself? Tenzin has too much influence as head of a micronation only four (soon-to-be-five) people strong, plus some acolytes. Though the Council represents ''four'' nations, the Water Tribes exert undue influence by insisting on two-person representation when the much more heterogenous, (and inferentially populous) Earth Kingdom should receive extra consideration. Wait just a moment, gentlemen, ladies, what is our representative system? Proportional or equal?(*Insert gavel banging here*)
** Five seats on the council with representation based on the nations, so both water tribes get a seat. It's really extremely [[WhatTheHellHero undemocratic]]
*** Republic City was never billed as a democracy though. So accusations of "undemocratic" practices aren't all that relevant.

[[WMG: A Bender with Equalist parents will be introduced.]]
This character (who will come later and be part of the main cast) grew up with Equalist parents and was always forced to repress their abilities. The parents were always upset at having a bender child and the other anti-benders treated them poorly for it. The character will be upset and make a failed attempt at killing Korra to prove that they're loyal to the Equalist cause. Korra will eventually tell them that being a bender is part of who you are and you shouldn't lie to yourself or hate yourself. This sets the character on the right path, while still being doubtful, and spends the rest of the series trying to accept themself. By the finale they will have not only accepted but embraced their bending abilities.
* YouCantFightFate as an {{Aesop}} in a [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop children's show?]]
** More like Be True To Yourself And Don't Let People Tell You What You Are. A pretty common aesop for children (HarryPotter and the Dursleys for example).
*** Or it could be a person who disapproves of the way non-benders are treated and happens to be a bender themselves, or maybe just a BoomerangBigot.


[[WMG: There will be a battle/chase on a motorcycle]]
Why? Because it would be [[RuleOfCool AWESOME]], that's why! I mean who doesn't want to see '''bending on motorcycles?!'''
* I...[[CrazyAwesome wow]]. This...needs to happen. It just...it just ''does''.
* [[PureAwesomeness I support this theory.]] ''So much.''
* [[YugiohTheAbridgedSeries BENDING ON MOTORCYCLES!!!]]
** It'd be weird if they didn't do that.
* Confirmed.
** And it was amazing. I wonder, are they called Satocycles? Did we ever hear them refer to them as "motorcycles"?
[[WMG: There will be a [[BlackLagoon particular band of pirates/smugglers]] hanging around Republic City consisting of:]]
* A massive, dark-skinned, middle aged soldier with a shaven head.
* A scrawny little gearhead
* A female [[TattooedCrook tattooed]] BadassNormal with paired dao and a visible AxeCrazy streak.
* A mild mannered guy who looks and acts like a petty clerk from Ba Sing Se.

[[WMG: Korra and her Krew will spend a day in [[HighSchoolAU High School]].]]
Just so that the show can poke fun at all the fanfiction out there that transplant the Gaang into school. The school play will also resemble the Ember Island Players.
* Alternatively, either Mako or Bolin will be students at United Republic High School (or something along those lines) -- Korra is sixteen, school-aged, and the brothers don't seem too much older than her. While she's training with Tenzin, they will be in class [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld anxiously watching the clock and tearing out to meet Korra as soon as the bell rings]]. Also, Mako will constantly complain that fighting the Equalists takes away from his [[ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow study time]] and Bolin will have [[InstantFanClub groupies]].
* Not so sure about this. Bolin is 19, and Mako is ''older''. They could probably be in University though.
* Wait, where did you get this? I never heard Mako and Bolin's ages confirmed...
* Confirmed as of yesterday on Nick's website, Mako is 18 while Bolin is 16.

[[WMG: The new Team Avatar will watch a black-and-white silent film adaptation of "The Boy in the Iceberg." ]]
It will be the perfect way for the creators to ridicule the live-action movie.
-->'''Bolin:''' Why are they dancing? Real bending doesn't look like that! And how do you keep Earthbenders prisoner with all that ''earth'' under them? Why is..
-->'''Mako:''' Bolin. '''Shut up'''.

[[WMG: One of the main characters will die.]]
The series is said to be DarkerAndEdgier after all, and while the Last Airbender killed off recurring characters they never axed a lead. My money's one of the Bending Brothers. Killing either Bolin or Mako would send the remaining brother into either a HeroicBSOD or a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, shake up the status quo with characters like Tenzin and Asami, and could be a serious KickTheDog moment for the anti-benders in terms of their popularity within the Republic. Besides, what better way to send Korra into her Avatar State than killing her best friend/boyfriend in front of her eyes?
** The Welcome to Republic City game had this rather...ominous thing to say for the Mako/Bolin description: "either would willingly sacrifice their live for the other". So that's more evidence for this theory.

[[WMG:There will be a FiveManBand by the end]]
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.
** It's possible at least one of those two will be a BadassNormal who either knows chi-blocking either from being an ex-Equalist or through other means. Sokka was an amazing non-bender in the previous series, so why not have someone who can give Equalists and other enemies a run for their money in the Krew?
** I think we're going to have a SixthRanger who has had/will have their bending removed. Personal headcanon is that s/he was a waterbender, preferably not Southern Tribe because we have Korra representing that, maybe Swampbender? Reasoning behind this is that if many benders lose their powers, at least some will want to get back at Amon. Hopefully s/he learns to be BadassNormal, maybe wih the help of the above non-bender.
**** Could be Tahno, then, who will undergo a HeelFaceTurn, join the Krew, and be something of a DefrostingIceQueen.
* Bolin struck me more as a Earthbending Sokka.
[[WMG: The FinalBattle will be an apocalyptic battle against a CosmicHorror...and it will be awesome!]]
Because the FinalBattle in TLA was an apocalyptic battle against an EvilOverlord. Only one way to go from there.
* Working with the chi-powered mech theory below, it could be a giant war machine instead that rampages through Republic City like a {{Kaiju}} and is driven by Amon.
** And Kora goes [[GodModeSue Avatar State]] to take him on. Or...
* Alternatively, Amon's Energy Bending will backfire somehow, just as it almost did with Aang and the fire lord, resulting in him becoming this EldritchAbomination.
** Is it really a backfire ... or completely intentional from the very beginning?

[[WMG: Korra is unsuccessful, and there's a shocker ending.]]
Korra works incredibly hard to master airbending and the avatar state leading up to a huge battle with the Equalists on the scale of Aang's battle against Ozai, but when she goes into the Avatar state - BOOM. Someone kills her with a gun, a bomb, or some other sort of man-made weapon that even bending can't adequately counter. The Avatar cycle is broken, and the Equalists take power, somehow, leading to bending eventually dying out, and humans becoming much more focused on industrializing instead. And then... it becomes the world as we know it today.
* Going further (and preventing this from being a TOTAL downer ending) many years later a young earthbender is told about the old Avatar cycle by his [[TheMentor master]], an old Earthbender who's gone into hiding since Korra's time. He tells the young earthbender that the world is dying as a result of the death of the cycle and somehow it must be restored. He then tells the boy (Or girl, it doesn't really matter at this point) about a [[MythologyGag mysterious lion-turtle]] who may know how to restore the cycle that's been spotted in the waters outside of Republic City and reluctantly asks his pupil to go find it. Thus begins a new series about an earth-bending Avatar focusing on how bending originated and how the cycle of the avatar began.
** And for added fun, the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep previously-unnamed master]] tells his pupil that if by chance he/she ever finds avatar Korra, to tell her that [[TheReveal Bolin]] [[CallBack says]] [[TearJerker hi.]]

[[WMG: This series will have a downer ending or bittersweet ending to set up a third series]]
Just think about it: this show will be what, 26 episodes across two seasons? Why so short? Because this show is only really setting up for the "real" sequel to the original which will cover another major war worst than the first between the benders and the "normals". Remember, that it has been confirmed that the Avatar world is going through a Jazz Age/Depression era analogue. Does anyone remember when those things happened in our world? Ding ding ding ding ding! That's right: between WWI and WWII. My guess, this series will end on a sour note, with Korra failing to succeed in her mission. The anti-bender sentiment will grow and spark an all out revolution throughout the United Republic and thus the entire Avatar World will go through something akin to a mixture of WWI, WWII, the Russian Revolution, and the Chinese Civil War.

[[WMG: DOWNER ENDING!]]
Korra will undergo a slow FaceHeelTurn, her powers will increase anti-bender sentiment, and once she goes into the avatar state, she'll be killed by a descendant of the cabbage man in a MiniMecha [[MacrossMissileMassacre in a hail of missiles]]. AntiMagic will be discovered, and weaponized, and the elitist benders, fearing extinction will [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope initiate a police state.]] Muggles will devolve into [[TheMorlocks Morlocks]], and all will not be well.
* And then Bryke wake up with the worst hangover ever and decide never to chug half-a-keg of beer each ever again. ;P
** Half a keg? Pssh...[[ImmuneToDrugs lightweight]].

[[WMG: The series will end with a growing multiple front movement towards [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting democratizing the Bending arts]]]]
Three forces, the pro-bending league, Tenzin's family and his acolytes, and what remains of the genuinely progressive arm of the Equalists will begin teaching not only bender culture, but bending forms to non benders. The pro-benders will see monetary potential in new non-bender athletic leagues that both open up entertainment avenues and get low-income kids off the streets and into their gyms. The Equalists will like the utility of these...these "martial arts" both for self defense (Turns out, with some disciplines, if you make a bending form rapidly and accurately enough with your bare fists and it connects, it can really hurt somebody! Go figure!) and exercise, and Tenzin will, after some nudging from his family, the Avatar and his associates, begin letting his acolytes have a go at the training gates, if he hasn't been at least teaching them meditation already. After all, having just a handful of Airbenders puts the nations out of balance, and the forms should be spread even if the innate capacity is lacking. Even the Spirit World might decide that Tenzin's line simply isn't enough to revitalize the Air Nation into counterbalancing the other three, so eventually, sufficiently dedicated, culturally reverant nonbender Air Novices will be stunned to find they can make the gates spin, all on their own...possibly after having vivid dreams about Sky Bison, a Lion Turtle or an Airbender man who wants to teach them a neat trick where you make a marble spin in midair.

[[WMG: The Air Acolytes will eventually give birth to airbenders]]
WordOfGod says that the reason all the Air Nomads were airbenders was because their way of life was so spiritual. The acolytes are dedicated to recreating their culture, even if they can't bend the element. So after some generations of reliving the old ways, they will start having airbender children.

[[WMG: Asami is a chi-blocker.]]
Cause why not?
* Adding to this: she's the chi-blocker that fights Korra in Episode 3, who seems to have a female appearance.

[[WMG: Part of Asami's role in the group is to provide additional transportation.]]
She gives the group a CoolCar so everyone doesn't have to rely on Naga for getting around.

[[WMG: Korra will take off Amon's mask while they're fighting]]
In "The Voice in the Night" she'll unmask Amon mid-battle. It would make really bad NightmareFuel, especially if Amon's face [[spoiler: really is disfigured because of a firebender]]
* Or it will turn out that all those theories about Koh being responsible for Amon losing his face were right...

[[WMG: The Gaang statues around Republic City are a secret defense mechanism.]]
We've seen three so far - Aang's, Toph's and Zuko's. Statues that large are almost certainly made from metal rather than stone. And what is the City police force known for controlling? [[HumongousMecha That's right...]]
* Combining this with the designs for a humongous mecha present in a FreezeFrameBonus [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m3rh5z0B1qb59nf.png here]], an important episode, perhaps even the finale, will have an Equalist HumongousMecha threatening an important part of the city (but avoid harming civilians). The animated statues will attempt to hold it off, but it's too powerful and can only be stopped by Korra entering the Avatar state, forming a {{Kaiju}}-like monster like in the episode "The Siege of the North". She'll have difficulty triggering it, either because she's Chi-blocked or perhaps even energy-bended, or just because the Avatar state is difficult to trigger. However, once she's entered that state, she's not in full control of her actions, so she causes excessive damage to the city while battling the Equalist mecha. The Equalists are defeated temporarily, but Amon will escape, and Korra will have caused enough damage that the Equalists actually gain popular support, perhaps even taking control of the city. Korra may be exiled, setting the stage for a second season where she learns energybending, or if she was energy-bended herself, she may be {{Depower}}ed permanently and search for a way to regain her powers. If the latter is the case, the lack of an existing Avatar may cause an unbalance in the world, allowing spirits to cross over into the physical world, with Amon revealed to be Koh's agent, and the final battle will be between Korra and Koh/Amon.
* Perhaps Korra can spiritually link to one of the statues (most likely Aang's) and we can have something similar to Koizilla, except with a giant statue.

[[WMG: The Spirit(s) helping Amon want Amon to destroy the United Republic, in order to stop a possible Tower of Babel scenario.]]

[[WMG: The series finale.]]
It turns out Amon is Korra's true father, the waterbenders he grew up with were just foster parents. The reason Korra wasn't told this was because Amon had been corrupted by Ozai. Ozai taught Amon energybending, which he had learned by osmosis when Aang used it on him. It turns out Ozai is still alive, and Amon is his {{dragon}}. Ozai wants to rid the world of bending, because if he can't do it anymore, why should anyone else? So he uses Amon and the Equalists as a tool to achieve this. At some point in the series, during a heated fight between the two, Korra learns the truth from Amon, who tells her he is her father. This obviously leaves Korra confused and conflicted. In the series finale Korra faces Ozai and Amon, and she tries appeal to his father's better nature, but Amon appears to be untouched by her pleas. Ozai and Amon defeat Korra in a battle, and Ozai is about to energybend Korra's powers away, when all of a sudden Amon interrupts the process, saving his daughter. This interruption causes Ozai's energybending to backfire, killing him and mortally damaging Amon. Just before he dies, Amon asks Korra to remove his mask, so she will finally see the real face of her father. Amon then dies in peace.

Oh, and Mark Hamill will obviously return to play Ozai.

[[WMG: Koh taught Amon Energybending]]
So Koh who showed up one time for five minutes in the Season 1 Finale, and brought up again in webcomics will return. He told Aang they would meet again, but this could easily mean in the next reincarnation. Besides what spirt besides Wa Shi Tong wants to get back at the Avatar? Wa Shi Tong is cool and knows 10,000 definately including Energybending but I am going to focus on Koh. Koh is mad that the last Water Tribe Avatar Kuruk wants to kill him, so who will have to take up his mantle the next Water Tribe Avatar Korra, which will be really hard due to the loss of bending in the Spirit world. But i think somehow Amon found his way into the Spirit World and was taught energybending by Koh, what is Koh's modus operandi, stealing faces! Man behind mask is so lying about the firebenders burning his face five bucks!!! Its to gather sympathy and to blame a familiar enemy firebenders. So Amon once showed emotion in front of Koh who took his face or it was the price to learn energybending. And about how he can operate in real life, i don"t know about breathing and eating, but he just be fighting blind like Toph, hell he could just be an earthbender whose whole Equalist movement is facade to gather power. And we have only seen Amon's eyes on posters and not when he shows up, and even on the posters they look like sequins that are part of a inner layer of the mask. And thats how you wild mass guess.

[[WMG: Korra will use the Avatar State.]]
With ''disastrous results'' and massive colateral damage to Republic City.


[[WMG: Mako will use his past to undermine Amon.]]
Mako is a firebender who lost his parents to firebending. His bending allowed nim to earn a decent living and ''survive'' along with Bolin. He's realized that it wasn't the bending itself that was evil and that it's no different than a sword in someone's hands, and will make this clear to the anti-bending activists and supporters.

[[WMG: The series' plot and Korra's CharacterDevelopment will deal with the unlocking of chakras.]]
The resolution of Korra's apparent lack of spirituality will undoubtedly be one of the key plot elements, but interwoven with her overall development will be many of the same difficulties Aang faced. Throughout the show, Korra is going to be faced with situations which generate those negative emotions which block the chakras. Let's run down the list: her fear of Amon and his abilities will prevent her earth chakra from functioning; her guilt for putting her friends in jeopardy will block her water chakra; her shame over not living up to everyone's expectations will block her fire chakra; she will grieve for the loss of one of her friends, sealing her air chakra; she will lie during the inevitable relationship struggle, thus blocking her sound chakra; she will have to dispel the illusion surrounding Amon and his abilities to unlock her light chakra; and the thought chakra will be her biggest hurdle, much as it was for Aang.

These are, of course, only guesses, but similar situations could easily arise over the course of the show's run, and Korra's tackling of these issues in her life will cause her to grow as a person, and will ultimately allow her to fulfill her destiny as the Avatar.
* "The Voice in the Night" dealt specifically with Korra's fear, and we learned in "The Guru" that fear is what blocks the first chakra. So that's one bit of indirect evidence in favor of this WMG.

[[WMG: Asami will turn out to be some kind of FemmeFatale or even evil.]]
Just look at her, it's like someone was going by the FemmeFatale looks checklist. And she seems suspicious somehow.

[[WMG: Yakone was...]]
* ...an evil bending supremicist.
* ...an AntiVillain who made friends with Tenzin before his defeat.
* ...an early Anti-Bender.
* ...Amon's father.

[[WMG: In Order to defeat Amon...]]
* Korra will have to master fighting without bending. If Amon turns out to be a master chi-blocking fighter besides a DiabolicalMastermind, then he is a master at dodging ranged attacks, which most bending is based on. And what better way to out-perforr the villain than the heroine defeating him on his own specialty? Besides, the show already borrows a lot from martial arts movies, this would be an even more direct homage.

[[WMG: Tarrlok is...]]
Related to Hahn.
* Hopefully this means that he too will end up getting thrown off a boat.

[[WMG: Mako and Amon's stories are congruent and one of them is a lie]]
* Amon is the villain and may well be an unreliable narrator, Mako's story has been done time and time again and seems oddly vague as though he intentionally left a part out to conceal something; both stories cannot be true for the sake of having an interesting plot. The two accounts also have the same factor of a rampaging firebender and may well be part of the same story, again in the name of a good plot.
** Not necessarily. Sometimes, the interesting thing is the difference in how both the Hero and Villain dealt with the same situation. On the other hand, you may have a point, and the truth of the matter could be (see next WMG)...

[[WMG: Amon is a bender]]
* Specifically, he's the firebender who killed Mako's parents. He came to feel immense guilt over what he had done, and blamed it on his bending, then from there came to see all bending as evil.

[[WMG: Who says Energybending can only take away bending?]]
* Korra will enter the Avatar State in her final battle with Amon and, perhaps by accessing some of Aang's memories, use energybending to give him bending powers- probably firebending. What would destroy a man who so fervently hates bending more than becoming that which he hates the most. It's also a nice bit of karmic justice, and as much of a psychological mind rape as his mind games with Korra. He will probably echo the "what have you done to me?" line upon discovering his new abilities, just for a nice bit of synchronicity.

[[WMG: Korra will have her first spiritual encounter with Avatar Aang very soon and he will assist her in conquering her fear of Amon.]]
The ending of ''Voices In The Night'' sort of foreshadows that Korra will encounter Aang's spirit soon. Not only does her vision show Aang, but as Tenzin rushes to help her, she even mistakes him for Aang and whispers his name. It seems that her encounter with Amon has left Korra with her predecessor on her mind, perhaps wondering how the great peacemaker Avatar Aang would have dealt with Amon and the Equalists, and this will result in a dream sequence where she meets Aang in the spirit world so he can help her deal with her fear of Amon; after all, he went through a similar situation himself in ''Nightmares and Daydreams'' with his fear of confronting Ozai. He'd probably pass on a few words of wisdom about that which will help Korra start to learn how to deal with her fear of Amon.
* In the Winner is, Korra has another vision of Aang, Toph and possibly Yakone.

[[WMG: There will be a flash-forward episode to the return of Sozin's Comet ]]
Although I think it's unlikely, it would be interesting to see how its arrival would affect the world when there is no war.

[[WMG: Tahno will join the Gaang/Krew in a future episode.]]
The way I figure it, when Amon [[spoiler: invades the Championship tournament]], he will attempt to take Tahno's bending away and Korra will begrudgingly rescue him. If the leaked episode title [[spoiler: Tahno's Love Triad]] is legit, it will have something to do with him thanking her somehow.

[[WMG: An Airbender will join the Krew]]
Similarities between the original Gaang and the Krew have been drawn, such as there being an initial trio (Aang, Katara, Sokka to Korra, Mako, Bolin) and having Benders of all nations present. Currently, the only Airbenders are Tenzin and his children, with no one in Korra's age group represented (excluding herself). However, a young man or woman from an isolated village will come to Republic City hoping to learn Earthbending. He/she is not very good, and the Krew will soon realize that he/she is actually Airbending dirt and that one of his/her parents was the child of an Air Nomad who went into hiding. This will allow Korra to have a peer in Airbending who is equal in ability to her (instead of a master or a young child) and more hope that the Air Nomad culture is still growing strong.

[[WMG: After ''The Legend of Korra'' is over, there will be a spinoff set in the early days of the Republic City.]]
It will star the adult Gaang and their children, and revolve around their conflict with Yakone. Come on, who doesn't want to see teenaged Tenzin and Lin, among others, or what members of the Gaang are like, all grown up?

[[WMG: The Pro-Bending Arena (or at least its loft) will be destroyed]]
The episode "And The Winner Is..." seems set to feature an attack on the arena by Amon. Due either to the fight getting out of hand, or the Equalists' use of explosives, at least part of the arena will be destroyed. With no where else to go Mako and Bolin will be invited to live on Air Temple Island, partially for their own protection.
* In the trailer we do see a giant ball of flame engulfing what could be the brothers' loft.
* If the tournament is over, there isn't any reason story wise to keep Bolin and Mako connected to the arena. Living on the island would allow for new interactions between characters.
[[WMG: Yakone and whatever he did will end up having some actual relevance to the plot]]
* All the flashbacks of the adult Gaang look as though they were getting ready for something big,like Yakone, and said flashbacks must be relevant to something.
[[WMG: The unknown guy in the second flashback (who seems to be the cause of whatever is severely pissing off Aang) is not Yakone... its [[spoiler:Ozai]]]]

A lot of people seem to think that the Flashbacks deal with Yakone, and that he is in some way integral to the back-story due to his description of having once posed a serious threat to republic city and having once fought Aang. However, there seems to be something a little... off about this.

In the flashbacks Aang looks pissed, seriously pissed, pissed enough to go into the Avatar state (as seen in the second flashback) which would mean that if it was Yakone the flashback was pertaining to, he would have had to do something [[MoralEventHorizon reeeaaaally bad]]. However, when Tarlok mentions Yakone, Tenzin only seems irritated that Tarlok compared himself to Aang, which seems odd if Yakone had indeed done something bad enough to make [[TechnicalPacifist Aang]] go apeshit on him.

In my opinion, the reference to Yakone was either irrelevant, a Chekov's gun, or a red herring to distract the fanbase from speculating who the guy in the flashbacks is.

Firstly, take a close look at the ages of the Characters in the flashback, Aang and Toph both seem to be in their 30s/early 40s at most, whereas the guy most people seem to think is Yakone is grey haired and markedly older. Which would have made him a full adult during the original series.

Secondly take a look at his face, specifically the eyes, the eyebrows, the nose, the mouth, and the jaw

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2j63cs0&s=6

...and compare them to a certain other character, who would have been a full adult in the original series, and would more than anyone would press Aang's [[BerserkButton Berserk Button]]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ozai&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1DVCJ_enGB435GB436&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=EQWvT8u-JozZ8QOQkdydCQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1537&bih=951

Notice any similarities?

The man in the flashbacks is in fact our old friend Ozai, who from the looks of it is in some kind of trial proceedings (war crimes maybe?) and who clearly was able to cause some major nastiness seeing how Aang was so angered by it, and how flashes of these events echoed in Korra's mind.

This would explain multiple things, it would explain why Sokka looks so worried in the first flashback and why Aang was so extremely pissed off in both, it would tie up a loose end with Ozai and what happened to him, it may offer elaboration as to the effects of energybending, and it may even explain why Zuko gave up his position of Firelord to wander the earth. Whatever Ozai did may well have helped start the equalist movement, either indirectly (via some atrocity using benders) or directly in order to spite Aang.

It may also serve as a reference to a certain [[{{Joker}} "other" character]] who was also [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries voiced]] by [[MarkHamill Mark Hamill]] and the [[ReturnOfTheJoker sinister effect]] he had on the [[BatmanBeyond Follow Up Series]] despite having "died" before that series.

[[folder: CanonFodder and {{Call Back}}s]]

[[WMG: The Blue Spirit will return]]
Someone new adopts the persona of the Blue Spirit, possibly to play both sides of the Bending Revolution, or to act as a neutral party in the revolution. Perhaps even multiple people using the Blue Spirit, all working together in Republic City.
* In the original, it did sort of symbolize Zuko's rebellion. I could totally see it being used as a symbol of the non-bender rebellion, or maybe of an elite, ninja-like task force.
** Alternatively, it will be used by someone who needs to hide their identity at points...you know, like a bender in a city rampant with anti-bender sentiments? Maybe ''Korra'' will be the Blue Spirit. (see the "Batman" guesses below).

[[WMG: We'll finally find out what happened to Zuko's Mom.]]
If only in passing.
* It seems like a must for the next Avatar series.
* Or, we'll find out little details, [[NothingIsScarier but never find out EXACTLY what happened]]...
* Or alternately, Ursa unknowingly caused the anti-bender rebellion.
** I know it sounds crazy (because it is) but stay with me for a second. Many fans believe Ursa was exiled to the Earth Kingdom. In exile, she meets some non-bender kid that she helps out, a kid who saw his/her parents murdered by firebenders and thought all firebenders were evil. However, like the village in [[DownerEnding Zuko Alone]], s/he will be tormented by earthbenders. ''But then'', s/he meets Ursa, gets to know her, and after a long time, finds out that she's Fire Nation. After a [[HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath HBSOD]], s/he was come to the conclusion that being a bender, regardless of which element, made you evil and that the Fire Nation started the War solely because their evil firebending Fire Lord was crazy, because he was [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment firebender]] and that the only true way to have peace would be to kick all the benders out of position of power. That kid grows up to be Amon. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Poor Ursa will never know that befriending a little orphan would cause so much trouble.]]
* Ikki! [[FandomNod Why did]] you ''[[TrollingCreator do that]]''? Gran-Gran was [[TheUnreveal gonna tell us]] the story!
* It seems likely that Ozai didn't have Ursa killed, and that after the events of the first series Zuko went on a quest to find her. Before she is interrupted by Ikki, Katara says that the ultimate fate of Ursa is "an incredible tale". She wouldn't probably use such an expression if Zuko had merely found out Ozai had indeed executed Ursa after she killed Azulon. And the word "incredible" implies that Zuko didn't just find Ursa in some Fire Nation prison after he became the Fire Lord, but that something more extraordinary happened before he was reunited with her.
** I can imagine that something like this would happen:
--> '''Katara''': Well Jinora, it's an incredible tale --
--> '''Jinora''': Really?
--> '''Katara''': Nothing happened at all. (Smiles)

[[WMG: Sozin's Comet will return 30 years earlier than expected.]]
The comet came a little too close during the last approach and was pulled out of its orbit by the planet's gravity. The new trajectory will bring the comet back into alignment in 70 years instead of 100 years and nobody will see it coming. With no prepared plans to exploit the comet's bonus to firebending absolute chaos will ensue as firebenders compete for dominance.

[[WMG: Tom Tom will make an appearance]]
You remember Tom Tom right? No? You know, Mai's little brother?
* Tom Tom is the grown mayor of Republic City who is close to retiring. He will still have an obsession with flying lemurs.

[[WMG: Tom Tom and Hope will be married and have a grand kid Korra's age]]
Because [[PairtheSpares pairing two baby characters]] from two different nations years later and tying them into the story again is exactly the sort of thing Mike and Bryan would do.
* I'll take it further: Mako and Bolin are Tom Tom and Hope's sons.
** Or their grandsons. Either way, it's perfect.

[[WMG: Sokka's Sword will be a legendary artifact.]]
Made from a rare material? Check. Forged by the greatest swordsmith in the world? Check. Belonged to one of the heroes that saved the world? Check. There will be legends about that weapon, it may even become a status symbol at some warrior's order.
* That sword is durable enough to cut through metal without noticeably dulling, so who's to say it won't still be in that forest 70 years later.
** Perhaps stuck in a stone...
** [[OhCrap And the Villain finds it.]]

[[WMG:The tsungi horn is the Avatar version of a Trumpet.]]
We'll get awesome jazz music and a continuity nod all in one!

[[WMG: There will be a dragon in the series.]]
Specifically a new born one, from that egg from 'The Fire-Bending Masters'. Because face it, that'd be awesome.
* And it will be purple.
* The egg will be found by Korra late in season one, and just for the Hell of it [[HarryPotter she'll set it on fire]]. [[GameofThrones Turns out this is exactly what's needed to hatch dragon eggs.]]

[[WMG: Someone will say "Are you two so busy fighting that you cannot see your own ship has set sail?"]]
Iroh did say it should be a proverb

[[WMG: Airbending will finally have its own spin-off]]
Because Earth(metalbending), water(bloodbending), and fire(lightning-bending) had their own but not air.
* [[PowerOfTheStorm Stormbending]]? (Aang would appreciate the irony, I'm sure)
* I recall someone here saying it's sucking the air completely out of one's lungs, an instant death. Which in my perspective, is much, MUCH, scarier than being taken your bending away.

[[WMG: Metal cages used to contain Earthbenders in the old series will be a museum relic.]]
Unless the practice of metalbending is strictly secured by only police units, it would be safe to say that the cages occasionally used to snag earthbenders and hold them are obsolete. Even then, it's likely the latter would be true and be used as a callback since there should be some museum in Republic City.

[[WMG: "Yuan" notes have pictures of the Gaang on them.]]
Similar to how the USA puts Presidents (and [[BenjaminFranklin historically significant people]]) on the money. Additionally, they're colored orange, red, blue and green for the respective person, like HongKong does for it's different denominations.
* One concept for the Avatar Yuan has Aang on the front. So yes.

[[folder: Avatar Metaphysics and Reincarnation]]

[[WMG: Gyatso, Iroh, and Tenzin are the same person, reincarnated]]
Basically, using the speculation that in this universe a friendship can span beyond lifetimes:
One of those "friends" of the Avatar is always a CoolOldGuy mentor figure rather than a peer.
Gyatso was "it" before the cycle was [[HumanPopsicle interrupted]].
A few generations later this spirit still hadn't kicked the mentoring habit, so Iroh took this role with his son, then later Zuko, and starting around the season 2 finale, Aang.
Iroh could have died around the same time that Tenzin was born...
* Possibly Jossed, Momo was supposed to be Gyatso reincarnation, the episode wasn't made.
* Iroh is fire and would reincarnate into Tenzin, who is air. This matches the avatar cycle. That means there must be two Cool Old Guys somewhere between Gyatso and Iroh that never got old enough to be Cool Old Guys.
** Aang was in ice for a hundred years, they probably just lived til about middle age and then died when the universe realized there still wasn't an Avatar around for them to be Cool Old Guys to.
*** There's a problem with eh avatar-cycle parallel. Gyatso should have died 100 years before the start of the main series during the genocide. At the start of the series Iroh was what, seventy? If Iroh is Gyatso's reincarnation there must have been another between them who only lived to be about 30. If there were two of them at least one must have died during childhood. Its possible, but it kills the CoolOldGuy deal and does lend itself to some FridgeHorror.
** Cool Old Guy Earth=Bumi,Cool Old Guy Water=Pakku.

[[WMG: When an Avatar dies, their SpiritAdvisor takes the form that they most identify with.]]
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 appearance 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.
Of course, the main reason for this guess is so it'll be plausible when Korra talks to Aang for the first time, and Aang looks and sounds the same as he did in the first series. (Don't worry, you'll still get to see old Aang in flashbacks.)
* Alternatively, Kyoshi looks that way cause it was when she accomplished the most (put down a rebellion, stopped Chin, etc.).
** 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 Sozin'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.
** In the opener it looks as though Aang is a bearded early-middle aged man. This is probably when he was feeling his happiest, with a nice big family and a ShiningCity growing as he watched.
** Alternatively, Aang could have taken the form when he was in his late teenage years for whatever reason (Maybe he first established Republic City when he was 18?). That way Zach Tyler Eisen can reprise his role as an older Aang.


[[WMG:The Show will Finally Explain how People become Benders]]
The original show was really vague on how exactly people become benders. The Legend of Korra will have to explain how the Air Nomads were repopulated and the Southern Water tribe of benders. It'll probably have to do with energybending, finally justifying its awful [[AssPull asspulliness]].
* Explaining Bending will be a bad idea; it would be like the Midi-Chlorians from the Star Wars prequels.

[[WMG: The Avatar cycle goes Male Female]]
But not through each incarnation, through each element. So Aang male Air, last Air Avatar female Yangchen. Korra female, last Water Avatar male Kuruk.
* Except that the unnamed Fire Nation Avatar before Roku was male.
** What if the Fire Nation Avatar before Roku WAS female and just looked really manly/hid it? The character is unnamed and I don't recall hearing their voice or even getting a good look at their face.
*** This is essetially jossed with Roku and Aang: Male[=/=]Male. Every now and again, an avatar has a previous incarnation of the same sex. There may be a pattern including these "Gender cold boots", but what it is has not quite been established.
*** Read the OP's entire WMG again, including the parts outside the header. "Through each element," as in: the last water avatar was male, the current water avatar is female, the next water avatar will be male. Aang and Roku do not break this pattern as they are not the same element.

[[WMG: People other than the Avatar can reincarnate, but don't have to follow the cycle.]]
Mako and Bolin are the reincarnations of Zuko and Sokka, respectively.
* [[spoiler: Partially Jossed. Zuko is confirmed to be alive in retirement from being Fire Lord.]]

[[WMG: The Avatar cycle follows the FourTemperamentEnsemble, with two twists.]]
The traditional correspondance is Air=Sanguine, Water=Phlegmatic, Earth=Melancholic and Fire=Choleric. But it is subverted here, running the opposite cycle than the Elemental Nations' one. Instead, the cycle goes Phlegmatic-Sanguine-Choleric-Melancholic, but with another twist: each time we pass from a Fire Nation Avatar to an Air Nomad, the cycle skips one temperament.
* This gives: Phlegmatic Airbender (Yangchen), Sanguine Waterbender (Kuruk), Choleric Earthbender (Kyoshi), Melancholic Firebender (Roku), -New cycle: Sanguine Airbender (Aang) and Choleric Waterbender (Korra).
** In addition, note that Avatars from the same nation follow the same pattern. Naturally, this means that the aforementioned Avatars were, for example, preceded by a Choleric Firebender, and that Korra should normally be followed by a Melancholic Earthbender.

[[WMG: The United Republic is the nation of Energy]]
When Aang removed Ozai's powers, he brought back Energybending into the world - a fifth form of bending, previously unknown and/or dormant. Later, he and Zuko created the United Republic - in essence, a fifth nation. Where previously there were four nations and four corresponding forms of bending, now there are five of each. Amon's new Energybending powers are just the tip of the iceberg. This also means that in order to become a fully realized Avatar, Korra will have to master Energybending as well.

[[WMG: Bloodbenders are as commonplace as benders of lightning and metal]]
Hama said that bloodbending could only be used during a Full Moon, but she may simply have been mistaken. First, what if she just wasn't that powerful of a waterbender? She figured out a new technique, certainly, but Katara owned her at bloodbending on the first try. Second, what if Hama was convinced that blood could only be bent during a Full Moon without experimenting further? A more powerful waterbender might be able to do it on the nights around a Full Moon. And third, what about scale? Hama was one woman, using bloodbending for a single purpose of vengeance. No experimentation, no other bloodbenders to push the art forward in new ways. Compare Toph and metalbending. During the first series, Toph could only metalbend in a very brute manner. During the new series, metalbenders are just a bottomless bag of tricks. Which isn't to undermine either woman's genius at their art, but a single person can't come up with every possible innovation.
* Bloodbending could be very useful in medical treatment, especially surgery. Perhaps there's a bloodbending hospital in Republic City with a statue of Katara in front?
** What if waterbender healing is actually basically blood (and other body fluids) bending on an unconscious level, and Hama simply discovered how to use it differently?

[[WMG: The Avatar cannot have his or her bending taken away.]]
The Avatar is totally defined by her ability to bend. Said ability cannot be taken away because it would ''completely'' upset the balance of the universe, so the Avatar is immune to this because spirits protect her.

[[WMG: Getting rid of the Avatar spirit would have drastic spiritual consequences.]]
The Avatar serves as the connection between the spirit world and the mortal world. Getting rid of the Avatar spirit by killing the Avatar while s/he's in the Avatar State, or taking away the Avatar's bending, will have drastic spiritual consequences, possibly in the form of cutting off the mortal world from the spirit world.

[[WMG: The Avatar is reincarnated into a place that has had an effect on the previous Avatar.]]
Avatar Roku learned airbending at the Southern Air Temple, where he found a best friend in Monk Gyatso. Aang was either born there, or left by his parents to train there. Aang himself was discovered by Katara and Sokka of the Southern Water tribe, and the people of that tribe were the first ones he met after a hundred years. He even went on to marry Katara. Korra was born into the Southern Water tribe, so it's possible that the Avatar spirit seeks out a place that was important in its past life.
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[[folder: The Gaang]]

[[WMG: Katara will not die in this series either]]
Remember the fortune teller? She predicted that Katara would die when her great grand-daughter was born. Unless book 2 takes place several years after Book 1, Katara most likely will not die.
* Katara could be like Obi-Wan of the Star Wars saga, TheConstant. Someone that is connected to both of the series, and present in both as well, while being a major character in it. Obi-Wan in the prequels is probably the main character, while in the next trilogy he took a step back and became some sort of extra. If something happened to Tenzin by the end of season one, Katara could replace his position. Katara, being one of the two (we know of) that is in the previous series and the current one, is most likely not to die.

[[WMG: ''Korra'' will give us the future of the Avatar cast.]]
Who ended up with whom, what happened to the world, Zuko's mom, post-epilogue related stuff, Toph's parents, [[strike:Ty Lee's]] Azula's future...Also, some of the cast will be descendants of the first series's cast.
* 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 Beifong.
** I got money on Toph and The Duke.
** I got money on them too.
** Thirded.
** Forth... ed.
** Five-ded? From now on, let's just say "5!" "6!"
** Okay then. 6!
** 7!!
** Possibly confirmed: Beifong, Toph's daughter, is a character.
** If the dad is The Duke, it would explain why she has her mother's last name.
*** Though she may have taken it since the Beifongs are a prominent family.

[[WMG: The Original Gaang Will Have Little If Any Mention.]]
The writers won't cater to the expectant fans and they won't try to milk the first series like some sort of cash cow. They will focus on the new characters and make the story about them, not about the Gaang. Sure there will definitely be mentions of people from the earlier show -- they ended a century-long war, there is absolutely no way they will be forgotten -- but Legend of Korra will still be about Korra and her Krew, not Aang and his Gaang.
* We are ''not'' calling it that.
** We just might, i like the sound of it.
** What about the Korralition?
** Nice, but probably too prone to misspellings. "Krew" is also pithier.

[[WMG: The Gaang are/were the senior members of the White Lotus.]]
Aang or Zuko was the Grand Lotus after Iroh, and Katara, Sokka, Toph and (maybe) Suki had the same ranks as Pakku, Jeong Jeong, Bumi, and Piandao.
* [[spoiler:Confirmed with Katara, holy cow.]]
** [[spoiler: Semi-jossed with Sokka, as he's confirmed dead, though it's possible he was previously a member.]]

[[WMG: How the Gaang died.]]
Given the 100+ lifespans we've seen before, I highly doubt everyone died of natural causes. Here's how I think everyone died.
* Toph: Circumstances conspired to place her on a ship at sea without any waterbenders on board, which sunk taking Toph with it.
** Given that she founded the police force, she might have died doing her job, or perhaps her daughter was involved?
** A recent theory seems to be that Toph was killed by the man who threatened peace 42 years ago, which is the reason why Lin dislikes the Avatar; because Aang couldn't save her mother.
* Sokka: Got too close to the Unagi after moving in with Suki on Kyoshi Island.
* Katara: Poisoned by one of Aang's enemies.
** This one is jossed, Katara is confirmed to be alive.
* Aang: Gets revenge for Katara's death, then dies of grief over her.
** Also jossed, as Katara outlived him.
* Zuko: Assassinated by his second son's wife.
** Jossed, The Welcome To Republic City game confirms that Zuko is still alive.
** I like the Sokka one
** I second the opinion of the above troper. I can seriously see that happening, sadly.
[[WMG: Katara will die during the series, likely in a season finale.]]
* the purpase of having most of the Gaang be dead seems to be PassingTheTorch for the new generation. Katara seemed to sadly accept that, which is why I give her the life expecency of at least a season. But seriously, she looks ancient. She won't survive the series.
** And then we'll get a TogetherInDeath scene with Aang and Katara. [[TearJerker Tears will ensue.]]
** I hate to support a theory that's really heartrending, but it does make sense, and not only would it make room for the above, but it'd be a great place to have a gathering of all her kids, and a few others who would be most likely to see her off; like an elderly Zuko, even perhaps also an appearance by Chief Lin- if only in respect and honor for her own mother. Finally culminating in that TogetherInDeath moment...dammit...it's almost too damn sad.
** You know what would make it even worse/better? If they played "The Avatar's Love", Aang and Katara's love theme, when they're reunited.
[[WMG: Azula broke out of prison (or wherever they were keeping her after she went insane) and killed everyone from the first series in a fit of madness before killing herself]]
Because there is no way EVERYONE from the original cast could have died unless some serious shit went down. Especially since Bumi lived to be over 100 years old.
* Now [[DroppedABridgeOnHim wouldn't that be a bridge-dropping?]]

[[WMG: The Equalists caused the death of at least most of the Gaang.]]
Most of the Gaang are benders, and pretty famous ones at that. They would be the movements first targets. Suki and Sokka were also targeted because they were friends with bender, or they died protecting their friends. Some of the Gaang may have died because of other reasons, but mostly its the Anti-Benders fault.

[[WMG: The main cast of the previous series died heroically while taking down a four hundred foot tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings.]]
It makes sense.
* Would make a great homage to Azula but would piss off everyone
** It's the way they would have wanted to go.
*** Well, minus the platypus.

[[WMG:Sokka will have gone on an epic quest to get his Space Sword back]]
And then become the greatest swordsman in the world, and taught it to many of his fellow Southern Water Tribespeople.

[[WMG: Sokka will be a sword master like Piandao.]]
He'll have his own idiosyncratic (and comedic -- this ''is'' Sokka) way of "testing" students if they're truly ready to learn. Like Piandao, he'll also be a senior member of the Order of the White Lotus.
* He would make an awesome badass Grandpa.
* {{Jossed}}: Katara explicitly mentions in the first episode that Sokka has already died.
** There's always {{flashback}}s to consider, he could have still ''been'' all these things, and we'll hear or see it from those who knew him.

[[WMG: Azula/Sokka happened after the war, and was key to the founding of the Equalist movement.]]
In short, Azula's mental health improves significantly, caused by(or leading to) a HeelFaceTurn. In an attempt to make up for her past actions, she helps with the founding of the United Republic, becoming romantically entangled with Sokka in the process. Suki doesn't like this one bit, obviously, causing the founding of the Equalists.
* Really, I just like the irony of a CrackPairing that happens offscreen being vital to the premise, while the Kataang/Zutara debate that dominated the fandom is reduced to trivia.
* Also, it might explain why Ty Lee trained Amon, if she lost both of her potential love interests to each other.

[[WMG: Iroh is still alive, and doesn't look like he's aged at all.]]
Probably not, but I would be very happy if this was true. It'd be even better if he was also breeding dragons (to try to keep them from going extinct.)

[[WMG: Zuko will be this series' Iroh.]]
I could already see him teaching Korra about the balance between the four elements, just like what Iroh taught to Zuko in an episode. Bitter Work, maybe?
* Now that we know Zuko's alive, I want this to happen!!
* He'll even ''look'' like Iroh and inherit his obsession with tea, plus he'll hit on Pema and Chief Beifong to show he's become a DirtyOldMan like his uncle was. He ''won't'' hit on Korra because even [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Perverted Ex-Firelords Have Standards]]. Korra will be extremely offended by this and Tenzin will be exasperated as usual.

[[WMG: King Bumi will still be alive in this series]]
Avatar Kyoshi lived to be 230 years old; who's to say Bumi isn't alive and well at the age 182 as of Legend of Korra? Also of note, if you check his age on ThatOtherWiki it doesn't say that he's deceased as of Korra, while it does say so for the rest of the Gaang. It could be a simple oversight, but then again it may not be.
* I suspect that if he is still alive, he is using his power in the White Lotus to sabotage the anti-bender revolts. Perhaps he will at some point utterly destroy important infrastructure as a continuity nod.

[[WMG: Aang didn't die of old age.]]
All it takes is some simple math to reach this conclusion. A:TLK takes place 70 years after the first series, and Korra looks to be about 16 judging by the concept art. Therefore, Aang died when he was about 66 (12+ 54). Considering powerful benders like Iroh, Bumi, Pakku, and most Avatars live to be much older than this, it isn't much of a leap to assume that Aang died, not of old age, but instead in a manner very similarly to how Roku did: he was either murdered or left for dead, possibly by someone he trusted. Assuming this is true, the principal question concerning Aang's death isn't "How did he die?" but rather "Who killed him?"
* Possibly {{Jossed}} by WordOfGod:
-->'''Bryan Konietzko''': You gotta keep in mind that [Aang] was frozen in a state of suspended animation for 100 years, so he kind of burned up some of his extra Avatar time.
** 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.
*** And now there is a large anti-bender sentiment. These things probably aren't unrelated.
** Not to mention that some Avatars have lived much longer than a hundred years. Kyoshi, no matter how you slice it, lived for over two hundred years or more. It would make sense if Aang died young by Avatar world standards (i.e. eighty or eighty five), but even if you allow the maximum among of time for Aang to be alive (i.e. Korra told she is the Avatar at twelve and then going through a "cram-tastic bending session" like Aang), the maximum time Aang could have been around is about seventy-five years.
** And you also have Zuko's unusual death to take into account. WordOfGod is that Sozin lived to be over one hundred, in part due to the power of the comet. Zuko was around during the comet, and yet he would have lived to be ninety one at the maximum (and that's if he keeled over the day the new series started).
*** Why assume that Zuko is dead with no evidence? He could still be an elderly Firelord for all we know.
*** Maybe chi is somehow leaving the world due to the anti-bending sentiment? All benders would suddenly become short lived.
*** That really doesn't make sense. Benders are supposed to be unusually spiritual people and possess powers for this reason, so why would they be affected by the feelings of unspiritual people?
*** Zuko's supposed death might not be all that "unusual." He got electrocuted pretty badly during his fight against Azula. It's quite possible that the injury took years off of his life-span... especially because the scarring was in a bad location and could've plagued and pained him for the rest of his life.
** Last couple of points are [[LyingCreator jossed]]. Zuko is confirmed to still be alive.

[[WMG: Katara and Toph will be still be alive and the dual grandmasters of the White Lotus.]]
And Katara will have an EyepatchOfPower because it would be awesome.
* And Toph will have two eye-patches because she finds it hilarious.
* Half jossed, half confirmed. Katara is alive, though it's unclear if she's a member of the White Lotus. While not directly stated, Toph is heavily implied to be dead.

[[WMG:An 82 year old Toph will teach earth bending to Korra]]
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.
* I tend to think that Toph was the one to teach her, I doubt there's a better earthbender in the world and Toph would certainly have the financial/political pull to make it happen if she wanted it to. only reason I can see for her not to teach Korra is if its too painful for her to be around the reincarnation of her friend.
** 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.
** Alternatively, ''Korra'' might have refused Toph's wish to be her earthbending teacher. Perhaps because she already had someone else committed to her, or because she's trying to avoid living in Aang's shadow whenever possible. Following up arguably the most important and influential Avatar in modern history has to be tough.

[[WMG: Toph was a Grade-A MamaBear.]]
First of all, it gives a nice contrast to her parents. Second of all, Chief Beifong has some fairly large scars on her cheek. No matter how she got them, it's hard to imagine that the person responsible got off without a bunch of rocks in their face.

[[WMG: Toph still lives, but she's totally blind now due to diabetes.]]
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 tremor-sense 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.
* Well, I've got my daily dose of depression today, thank you very much.

[[WMG: While she helped train them, Toph was never officially a member of the police force.]]
Unless she mellowed out from old age, becoming a police officer seems out of character for Toph. Too authoritarian. While she might have helped out in the event of a major emergency, she was never officially a member of the force.
* I agree. Either that, or when Toph ran the metalbending cops, it was a little less strict and obsessive about order in the city than it is under Lin Beifong's command. I can see Toph agreeing to try to control rampant, ugly crime in the city while kicking the ass of the offenders, but not to go as authoritarian as Lin did.
** My theory is that when Toph was running things, Republic City wasn't the great capital that it is now. It was kind of a frontier town, and Toph was running things like a sheriff rather than a big-city police chief, with her apprentices as deputies. That's something Toph would be a natural at.

[[WMG: Ty Lee will or will not reappear]]
Will Not: She is a minor character, arguably the least important of the main characters
Will: Could be a chance for more screen time
seems like she would live long
techniques could be used by antibenders.
* Confirmed.
** That she will or will not appear?
*** [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes]].
**** [[Series/DoctorWho Dammit, River!]]
* Ty Lee won't be in it, everyone in the original is dead.
** Flashbacks are your friend.
** Identical granddaughter, perhaps? Hopefully?
** Seven identical granddaughters.
** Seven identical daughters each having seven identical daughters resulting in forty-nine identical Ty Lee granddaughters. Why? [[RuleOfCool Cause they can.]]
*** NO! You miscalculate! Ty Lee is one of seven in the first place, so if we assume each of them had seven identical daughters who each also had seven identical daughters, that's somewhere like 343 identical Ty Lees. This must be where the entirety of the non-bender fighting force comes from.
*** My God! A Ty Lee army. 343 Ty Lee fighters commanded by their 49 Ty Lee parents, so 392 Ty Lees so far. Unless they reach the Great-Granddaughter Generation (it could happen), adding ''another'' 2,401 Ty Lees. If that happens HEAD FOR THE HILLS!!! The Ty Lees Are Taking Over The World!
**** I for one welcome our pink overlords.
*** Hopefully the 1 out of 2,401 Ty Lees will try to be different from the rest, resulting in a Ty Lee that helps the Avatar stop the impending horde of Ty Lee's. And in order to be different, this Ty Lee will be the [[TheStraightMan Straight Woman]] instead of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
*** Ty Lee herself tried to be different, which would mean 1/7 of the 2,401 Ty Lees would be unique.
** 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.]]
*** Partially jossed. Chi-blocking is hardly a unique skill, but in the original the only one shown to use it was Ty Lee. Apparently it's a very ancient art, probably developed by non-benders in order to fight off their naturally more powerful opponents.
[[WMG: Ty Lee, Sokka, and Suki will all receive a major in-universe HistoricalHeroUpgrade... by the Equalists.]]
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 -- re-purpose 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.
** Not to mention that the Equalists employ chi-blocking skills not dissimilar to Ty Lee's in order to fight benders. They had to learn them from somewhere.
*** Probably not from her, the skill is very old and very difficult, but there were people who trained it in secret.
[[WMG: [[MemeticBadass Wang Fire]] will become a major icon of the Equalists]]
Going through some old bureaucratic paperwork, Fire Lord Zuko will find mention of a [[http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Private_Fire Private Wang Fire who died heroically fighting against earthbenders and waterbenders]]. Knowing full well that "Wang Fire" is just Sokka's alter ego (perhaps hearing of the events from the Gaang himself), Zuko will expunge "Pvt. Fire's" name and "deeds" from the records, as he technically never existed. However, as Fire's sergeant said, "his memory lives on," and the bearded Sokka's "final battle" will grow upon the years into an epic tragedy, with Wang Fire fighting heroically against a vast army of Earth- and Waterbenders until his inevitable demise. The anti-benders will note this and seize on Zuko's erasure of Fire from the records, claiming it to be Benders jealously hiding the fact that non-benders can be just as BadAss - or even more so - then those who bend the elements.
* 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.

[[WMG:Zuko LIVES!!]]
Okay, c'mon, DanteBasco said he was playing a character the audience "would not expect," who is related to Zuko in some way. Who's to say that character isn't Zuko himself? Sure, it'd probably take some work to get Basco's boyish voice to sound like an old man's, but stranger things have happened. And even if Basco isn't playing Zuko, he could be playing a descendant of Zuko's who works closely with the Fire Lord, giving him an opening onto the show.
* And...well, [[spoiler: Katara]] is alive. Why not have a DecemberDecemberRomance to finally appease the Zutarians?
* Confirmed. Zuko is currently retired from his post as Fire Lord and travels the world as an ambassador.

[[WMG: The compound wasn't Aang's idea.]]
While Aang knew that something had to be done to keep an Avatar from going missing like he did, he only realized it near the end of his life and he didn't have enough time to come up with a specific plan. So he basically told the White Lotus to handle things for him. When he finally meets Korra as her SpiritAdvisor, he'll explain what happened, but apologize to her nonetheless.

[[WMG:Zuko will have a cameo]]
Now that we know he's alive, he'll have a very short just-passing-through appearance, possibly as a BigDamnHeroes moment. My wish is for Zuko to intervene in a fight with the Lieutenant, grabbing an electrified kali stick and redirecting the charge into the Lieutenant's face. Then he can teach Korra how to redirect lightning off-screen, if she hasn't learned that yet.
* "Retired and traveling the world as an ambassador" is just code for "can show up at any time."

[[WMG:Hiroshi Sato was sponsored by a member of the Gaang.]]
Probably Sokka. He was having his shoes shined and was doing small talk with this boy who started to gush about his dream of making motor transport reality for everybody. Needless to say, Sokka would be incredibly exited over such a technological achievement, and cough up the cash for the prototype on the spot.

[[WMG:Yakone killed Sokka]]
Look carefully at that vision flashback which shows the grown-up Gaang in "The Voice in the Night" - Aang looks ''furious'', which is not at all typical for him. Something ''really'' bad must have happened to get him that pissed off. Something like one of his friends being killed. We know it can't be Katara or Zuko since they're still alive. My bet is it was Sokka, who was specifically confirmed in the first episode as having died. We see Sokka in the flashback too, with a very serious - pained? - expression on his face. And the Yakone incident is apparently still a sensitive subject with Tenzin 42 years later. My guess is that Yakone was a rogue bender (perhaps even a bending supremacist) and Sokka's death at his hands had something to do with the start of the Equalists - if even a skilled and experienced warrior like Sokka can be cut down, what non-bender is safe? Perhaps the Equalist movement even started with Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors, who are already established as having learned chi-blocking from Ty Lee.
* Agreed. Something drastic had to have happened to make Aang that angry, and harming his friends could be one of those things. Of course, Toph could also have been killed, but right now Sokka seems like the more reasonable option, considering how he's confirmed as dead.

[[WMG:At least some people from the first series took up pro-bending]]
Zuko and/or Katara could almost certainly get into a sport like pro-bending. It seems even more like something that would appeal to Toph, but she would be disadvantaged because she couldn't see any of the flying elements. It would be in-character for Haru, Bumi, or anyone from the Earthbending tournement (especially The Boulder) to be their third man. Hell, they might have even invented the game.

[[WMG:Sokka started the equalist movement]]
He didn't have any harm intended when he started the movement. He just wanted equality in the workplace and in quality of living between benders and non-benders. Unfortunately many of his followers bore deep resentment towards benders and tainted his idealistic campaign to something more hateful and radical.

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[[folder: The Gaang's Descendants]]

[[WMG: Lin Beifong ended up becoming Tenzin's UnluckyChildhoodFriend when Pema turned their relationship into a love triangle. She really loathes the avatar because Aang had some role in influencing Tenzin to marry Pema.]]
As of Episode 5, Pema does confirm that she spoke up because she didn't want Tenzin to be with another woman. Now who could that be? Just take a look Tenzin and Lin's behavior towards each other - there's an unnatural amount of tension. They are 51 and 50 respectively which is highly suggestive. WordOfGod has it that the two had quite some FoeYay while children. Did it develop into a romance, which failed?

And just why is Lin acting like an absolute {{Jerkass}} to Korra, right from the very beginning? Is it just an extension of her rage against everyone in Tenzin's family? Maybe Aang influenced Tenzin to marry Pema (who's a non-bender) to maximise the chances of him fathering airbender children in hopes of reviving the Air Nomads (it makes sense seeing the way genetics work in TLOK). Cue a heartbroken Lin bearing a permanent grudge against the Avatar - all that anger is now directed towards Korra. It isn't too hard to guess that Lin's most probably unmarried. It also explains part of her very tough and stoic attitude - a love failure can make you very bitter.
* '''Confirmed''' as of Episode 6.
* [[NotSoStoic Corollary]] - Lin is a type I {{Tsundere}}.
* And did she attempt suicide? At the very least slash her face in anger? I mean two almost identical scars running parallel on one side of her face seems very unlikely to be caused by random accidents. Oh dear, oh dear.
* ''And,'' this would completely play into the whole "Everyone is Batman" theme going on in this show. Think about it for a minute: a [[HotBlooded young hothead]] [[LegacyCharacter takes over the role]] of a legendary hero, who used to work closely with the [[TheCommissionerGordon police chief]] of a major metropolis. This police chief had a daughter, who became the police chief herself in time, does ''not'' approve of the young hothead becoming a LegacyCharacter, ''and'' [[DryDockedShip used to have a relationship]] with the hothead's [[TheMentor mentor]]. This mentor is a CoolOldGuy and BadassGrandpa who is NotSoAboveItAll. With these character dynamics in mind, [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender ATLA]] would be to [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra LOK]] as BatmanTheAnimatedSeries is to BatmanBeyond. [[DryDockedShip Lin/Tenzin]] is now, officially, just too damn awesome NOT to have happened.

[[WMG:Toph's Baby Daddy/Boyfriend/Husband]]
Teo?\\
The Duke? \\
Haru? \\
Random guy with whom she had a fling? \\
* Probably Ohev, a book-only character who used to work at the Beifong estate and fell in love with Toph.
* No no. It was totally just some random tax accountant she first met in her twenties and they fell for each other, mystifying their friends. Toph married a {{Muggle}}.
* Alternately: There isn't one, she's adopted.
* That has nothing, at all, to do with anything in this post. And no, she's not adopted.
** Of course she's not. She's the picture of Poppy Beifong, Toph's mother.

[[WMG: Lin Beifong got her scars from early attempts at adapting metal cables as a weapon]]
It's confirmed she developed the technology. If you know just what kind of damage a metal cable under tension is capable of, it's not surprising what a momentary lack of control could cause.

[[WMG: Toph never married; Lin was born out of wedlock]]
It's entirely fitting for the character, really. Out of all the Gaang, Toph would be my bet for "least likely to get married" (and not just because she's one of the few characters not explicitly paired up by the end), but I imagine she'd also be pretty open to one-night stands or short relationships. It also explains why Lin took her mother's last name.
''Alternate Theory'': Toph reproduced by parthenogenesis

[[WMG:Chief Lin Beifong did not get along with Toph.]]
I could see it happening - a strained relationship between the parent and child... Beifong family tradition, perhaps? Lin's attitude just seems in so many ways different from Toph's... Although they do have certain similarities. I feel like they've had their fair share of disagreements as mother and daughter though. Maybe, at one point in the series, Lin will stare up at that giant statue of her mother located at police HQ.. And some kind of scene will occur. Perhaps involving Tenzin.
* It may have stemmed from Toph's relationship with her father. Her mother was happy to see her home and safe, but her father's still upset at Toph for running away and blamed the Gaang for encouraging her. And he STILL won't admit that Toph can take care of herself and attempted to have her confined in their home with more guards watching her every move. This makes her even more rebellious and would escape her house a couple times before being returned. When Toph's daughter Lin is born, he raised her to follow tradition which he failed with Toph. That includes raising Lin to hate the Avatar and other benders.

[[WMG: Chief Lin Beifong is actually Toph's ''adopted'' daughter]]
This troper can't really picture Toph settling down with anyone for long enough to have a daughter. Plus, it could help make a point about non-bender oppression: Toph could have specifically sought out a baby who showed strong earthbending potential, so she could raise another metalbender. It seems like something that could become a common trend - if you bend an element, wouldn't you want a kid with potential to bend the same thing?
* Even though this is a kid's show, thus one-night-stands are usually frowned upon as a method of producing children, I'd have to point out that it's kinda silly to say that in the 20-30 years between ATLA's end and when Lin would have been born, it would be ''impossible'' for Toph to marry someone. Most of the most badass people in history still had families at home.

[[WMG: Lin Beifong's FATHER died during childbirth]]
It makes it a moot point as to who he was. It says enough on its own
* [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I didn't know fathers could give birth, let alone die from it.]]

[[WMG: Lin's "Father" is [[HasTwoMommies Azula]]!]]

[[WMG: Lin arrested Aang at least once while he was still alive.]]
Avatars don't seem to impress her much. And besides, breaking all those cabbage carts had to catch up with Aang at some point.
* Unlikely. Aang ''founded'' the Republic.
* I support this. More than once Aang has let himself be arrested to prove he respects justice. I could see him doing property damage and going to court like any other citizen to pay his fines.

[[WMG: Wei Beifong is Chief Beifong's daughter 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.

[[WMG: Lin Beifong doesn't like Korra because she blames the Avatar for her mother's death]]
* We know there was some unpleasantness involving someone named Yukon. Maybe Toph died and Lin believes Aang could have saved her.

[[WMG: We will meet Firelord Wang Fire]]
He's Zuko's son or grandson, and hates the name, but it was given to him by his HonoraryUncle Sokka.
* There will be much snickering, I bet.
* Either that, or we just found out how Sokka died.
** Can I just say I love this fandom?

[[WMG: We will meet Firelord Zutara]]
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.
* This...is too awesome to happen. Sadly.

[[WMG: Zuko's Great-grandson will be the Blue Spirit]]
He will be a sort of robin hood figure and Korra will meet him while he's stealing from her. He's either been disowned or sent by his Grandfather on a journey like he was. May or may not be a fire bender.
* Alternatively, KORRA will be the new Blue Spirit.

[[WMG: There will be a circus troupe ran by Ty Lee's daughter.]]
Because of course.

[[WMG:We will meet either Teo or one of his descendants...]]
And he will be a [[ShoutOut knock-off]] of [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Dr. Weird]]. Why? [[RuleOfCool ...Why not?]]
* Teo: Gentlemen ({{Beat}}) and female Avatar, BEHOLD!
** Teo's descendants will build the world's first air plane. Somehow, Korra will end up hijacking it to save the day... and crash it into a cabbage stand.

[[WMG: At least one of the Gaang's descendants is on the United Republic Council alongside Tenzin.]]
Sokka, being the next Water Chief, probably has a son on the council. What I am wondering the most about is who is representing the Northern Water Tribe. Yue was an only child. Who did the icy crown succeed to?

[[WMG: Aang's elder children, Kya and Bumi, are Equalists]]
Of Aang's three children, only Tenzin was an airbender. Therefor Aang might have favored him more and caused the other two to become jealous and hate all bending.
* Possibly Jossed. Aang and Katara's oldest daughter, Kya, is a waterbender. Bumi, the middle child, is the only non-bender however.

[[WMG: One of Aang's non-bending children will turn out to be Amon.]]
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.
* Not to mention Amon and ''Korra''.
** Aang and Katara's oldest daughter, Kya, has been confirmed to be a waterbender. This leaves Bumi as the only non-bender of the family...
** Supported by the fact that Amon is a Energybender. Perhaps Bumi inherited the most powerful skill of all.
*** Might be jossed, Bumi has dark skin, whereas Amon has light skin, judging by what we see of his hands.

[[WMG:Aang's son Bumi will be introduced as a slimpy antagonist.]]
[[http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Bumi_%28non-bender%29 Look at the guy.]] He looks pretty shifty and untrustworthy. He'll probably appear like an Equalist sympathizer who doesn't get along with his siblings, and Korra will catch him doing some shady deals with them, but no-one will believe her. In the end she'll confront him personally...and find out that he belongs to Chief Beifong's secret police and has been trying to catch Amon for months when she blows his cover. Seriously, remember who this guy is named after, and what first impression ''he'' gave??

[[WMG: Amon is Lin's father.]]
With all the wild speculation as to each of their identities...it would be bizarrely appropriate.

[[WMG: Bumi ISN'T Amon [[RedHerringMole but the team believes he is.]]]]
* He would admit that he was [[MuggleBornOfMages jealous]] that his siblings can bend but he can't at first and/or feared of being [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent rejected by his parents]]. But a revealed that his family accepted and still loved him the way he is. It can be an {{Expy}} for a child who's coming out of the closet.

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[[folder: Tenzin and Family]]



[[WMG: Tenzin will be able to see Aang in [[SpiritAdvisor Spirit Advisor]] mode along with Korra.]]
Well, he is Aang's son, and to see his dead father again would set up some interesting plot points...possibly.
* There's a precedent from the original series: during Roku's first appearance, Iroh was able to see his spirit dragon.
** But Iroh and Roku have no blood relation...
*** True. The point is that, canonically, people who aren't the Avatar can still see the spirits of past Avatars (and their companion animals) under certain circumstances.
*** Also, about the blood relation thing, you don't know that. Roku and Iroh are both Fire Nation nobility. There ''could be'' some family relation.
*** Actually, they are, by marriage; in the Avatar and the Fire Lord, Iroh revealed that Roku was Zuko's great-grandfather, on Ursa's side... Hence the wording "blood relation".
** This troper was under the impression that Iroh could see Fang because he had been to the Spirit World. It's implied that people who visit gain the ability to see spirits.
* In ''The Deserter'', Jeong Jeong is able to see Avatar Roku, despite having no apparent connection by relation or having visited the Spirit World, so it's possible.

[[WMG:Tenzin will be able to bend dreams/memories.]]
I recently watched a marathon of the series with a friend of mine and occasionally gave hints at who Tenzin was (The correct answer at the time was "Aang and Katara's son"). However, my friend has a tendency of missing the point and somehow came up with this conclusion:
Friend:I bet Tenzin can control dreams and memories.
Me:All of life is a memory, eventually (What I'm really thinking: Well,he's definitely head of SOMEONE'S dreams).
But now that I give it some thought, I like the idea. I have no idea how it would work or why; I just think it's kinda awesome.

[[WMG: In his youth, Tenzin formed a PowerTrio with his siblings similar to that of Aang, Katara, and Sokka.]]
Tenzin was Aang's counterpart, obviously.
* Even better, he was Sokka's counterpart. Sure, he's wise and calm now but... TENZIN STYLE!

[[WMG: Tenzin is Zuko's godchild]]
Or whatever their non-religious equivalent is..Or possibly, he's friends with Zuko and Mai's children.
* The inverse is likely as well. Which means we could well have Fire Lord Katara on the throne by Korra's day.
** Huh? Succession doesn't work that way. How would Katara have been the Fire Lord when she's not a member of the Fire Nation Imperial family? Unless, of course, you mean Zuko and Mai's child and heir to the throne was named Katara.
*** Exactly.

[[WMG: Tenzin will have had a romantic relationship with Zuko and Mai's daughter.]]
Just to drive the shippers insane. Because Mike and Bryan are like that.
* I support this theory.
** I do too.
*** I don't even ''care'' about shipping and this would please me.
* Kya or Bumi having relations with Zuko's daughter (or any other possible children) would also achieve the same effect.

[[WMG: Tenzin has had run-ins with Amon and the Equalists before.]]
A few of the trailers have him say things like "Amon is more dangerous then ever". This implies that Tenzin remembers a time when the Equalists weren't quite as dangerous. In his younger years, Tenzin encountered Amon and his group, and got to see Amon's StartOfDarkness.
* Related theory: Pema is an ex-Equalist. However, she left the group when she realized that they were becoming too radical.
* Tenzin and Amon were best friends and Pema their mutual friend/LoveTriangle object of affection. Tenzin supported Amon's belief in non-bender empowerment because he believed it supported balance in Republic City until Amon really got radical. Pema was in the movement until Amon tried to assassinate Tenzin and rejected him.

[[WMG: Tenzin will be Korra's ParentalSubstitute]]
after her parents freaked out and abandoned her as a baby when they found she was the Avatar.
* Jossed. In a leaked clip, her parents are shown hugging her when she leaves for Republic City.
-->Korra's Mother: We love you so much.
** He is sort of her guardian as well as a teacher. God knows Korra certainly acts like a BrattyTeenageDaughter to him at times.
** ''Alternate Theory:'' After Korra was discovered, when Tenzin was still childless, he secretly and briefly hoped for just such a scenario, but his understanding that this was not to be helped him realize his frustrated familial impulses, and he went seeking a family of his own in earnest while cultivating an [[HonoraryUncle avuncular]] relationship with Korra.

[[WMG: Pema is Ty Lee's daughter.]]
Because their daughter looks way too much like Ty Lee for it to be coincidence, even wearing the same outfit! Plus, it has been noted that Tenzin's wife is a non-bender, just like Ty Lee.
* And there always was that WMG from AtLA that said Ty Lee was descended from Air Nomads...

[[WMG: Pema is the daughter of the Foaming Mouth Guy.]]
There will only be a reference to this fact once, very briefly. One of Tenzin and Pema's kids will get very excited over something, and begin foaming at the mouth and then faint, prompting Tenzin to turn to his wife and say, "He/She gets that from your side of the family."

[[WMG: Pema will be forced to evaluate her views on bending as Amon gains more power.]]
Although she clearly loves her family, she expresses disdain at the thought of another bending child in the pilot and wants one that is "normal" like her. As Amon's anti-bending revolution sets into motion, she'll start to question her definition of "normal" and ultimately accept the possibility of having another bending child.

Before she comes to this conclusion, however, a rift of sorts may form between her and Tenzin. Pema will be used to give an average person's perspective into the Equalist movement -- a non-bender who can understand their viewpoints, but who also has loved ones who bend. She may point out that Amon -does- have some valid points despite his extremism, which will undoubtedly piss off Tenzin. By the end, though, they'll reconcile and grow from the experience.
* Related to the above: Pema will become a target for the Equalists' ire as a non-bender in a mixed marriage (having three airbender kids, with a possible fourth on the way does not help her case either). Considering Tenzin's status in the city, Pema is a class traitor ''and'' a "race" traitor.

[[WMG: Tenzin's children are 1/4th everything.]]
To add to the aforementioned "Pema is Ty Lee's daughter" idea, Pema is Ty Lee's daughter via a man she married from Kyoshi Island. So Tenzin is half Air Nomad and half Water Tribe. Pema is half Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom. Therefore their four children are a quarter everything. In other words, the poster children for the United Republic of Nations.

[[WMG: Tenzin's eldest daughter, Jinora, either is or will become a BadassBookworm.]]
We've been told that she's a [[CuteBookworm bookworm]], and I've heard that Jinora means "essence of victory" in Sanskrit. Which leads me to believe that BadassBookworm, KnowledgeIsPower, or both will be in effect for her
* [[DoctorWho Books! The best weapons in the world!]]

[[WMG: Tenzin has been an uncle/great uncle long before he became a parent.]]
Guessing how old both Kya and Bumi is, it won't be surprising to learn that they both may have teen to adult aged children and young grandchildren by now.

[[WMG: Jinora will become a full airbending master at some point in the series, but won't want to shave her head and take the arrow tattoo.]]
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.

[[WMG: Jinora will develop a crush on Mako]]
BirdsOfAFeather anyone?
* She does say he's cute in a new clip. Possible rivalry with Korra now that Makorra is confirmed?

[[WMG: The gender of Tenzin and Pema’s 4th child]]
Take your bets!
* Male ''and'' female. Which is to say...

[[WMG: Pema will have twins.]]
Just when they thought they had their hands full enough with kids... BAM!

[[WMG: Pema's fourth child will be a waterbender.]]
From a view that bending abilities might be genetic, Katara's waterbending ability may have passed Tenzin's generation and gone to her grandchildren.
* Tenzin's older sister Kya is already confirmed to be a Waterbender, so while the unborn child's abilities are in the air, waterbending did not skip a generation in Aang's family.
** That, and Pema herself is stated as being a non-bender from one of the water tribes

[[WMG: Tenzin's family will be captured and held hostage by the Equalists.]]
You know the whole "IHaveYourWife" trope, and since it's up to Tenzin to help repopulate the Airbenders (who are not only mostly pacifists but also children at this point), that makes his family a bigger target for hostage situations. In any case, he'd either be forced to betray/kill/capture Korra or his family dies.
* I agree with kidnapping as well as it being a major arc in the season, but only Pema will get kidnapped and while she is in labour with her child. When the child is born Tenzin will have to sacrifice his bending to save his wife and child before Korra can finish learning Airbending. With him being "{{Depower}}ed", this frustrates Korra to the point where she activates the Avatar State out of rage due to fact as she can no longer become a "true Avatar" with the only Airbending master gone. With her going rampant throughout Republic City this activates the trigger that the Equalists needed to show the true dangers of bending. Which in turn starts a full blown war between the Equalists and Benders.

[[WMG:Tenzin and his family will be harassed and threatened by a cultural supremacist group, led primarily by waterbenders.]]
Since Avatar tends to reference real life, Tenzin would essentially be a mulatto; and quite a few waterbenders, mostly the ones from the north, would feel slighted by Katara choosing someone from another nation over them and form a hate group against mixed-race children. But is the son of the Avatar gonna put up with that?Like hell he is! At least one episode would feature a protest, maybe even a sit-in of sorts. It could be a fantastic homage to the civil rights movement, if executed right.
* Not too likely, casual racism doesn't seem to exist in this world. Consider how the Dai Li accepted Azula as their leader, and the Gaang experienced no discrimination while traveling in the Fire Nation. Not to mention no one in the Fire Nation even noticed that only Toph has the physical characteristics of an Earth Kingdom national. Sure Hama, and Jet had issues, but they had considerable wrongs done to them. More neutral parties are incredibly PC.
* Agreed. The Fire Nation mainly believed themselves to be superior due to their technological advancements and wealth, but that's about it. No one seemed to really care about physical differences in the Avatar world, especially since it's been shown that even within one nation, there's actually quite a lot of genetic diversity. Not everyone in the Fire Nation is pale-skinned and golden-eyed, just look at Pian Dao and Ty Lee. The only reason the Air Nomads and Water Tribes were more or less homogeneous is because one was comprised of Nomads and the other was extremely isolated.

[[WMG: Tenzin will, at some point, pretend to be Amon to teach Korra a lesson]]
With Korra continuing to be reckless in regards to challenging Amon and the Equalists, Tenzin will decide that the only way for Korra to realize how unprepared she is is by fighting her himself. He will dress like Amon, ambush her, and duel her without using any Airbending, highlighting how even a non-Bender could take down the Avatar if properly trained. This will finally convince Korra to practice patience in her training rather than continuing to seek Amon out before she's ready.
* [[spoiler:Form the looks of things, Korra does not need to be taught a lesson about the danger Amon poses.]]

[[WMG: Jinora will receive a flying bison]]
After Ikki continually begs for one, Tenzin will give in...and let Jinora get one, since she's the oldest and most responsible of the Airbending siblings. This will allow her to help out with Korra, Mako, and Bolin as their eyes in the sky during their adventures.
* Aang and his friends were six when they received their flying bison.

[[WMG: The Equalists will try to turn Tenzin's kids against him.]]
The Equalists will try to use the fact that it's up to Tenzin to repopulate the Air Nomads to convince them that their father doesn't genuinely love them. They say things like "Daddy doesn't really love you, he only 'loves' you so he can continue his people", along with fabricating the situation to make them believe the lies. That would be the biggest blow to Tenzin, who would have to go out of his way to prove he loves them.

[[WMG: Tenzin knows who Amon is.]]
Or at least suspects. Take a look at his reaction at the end of "The Revelation," when Korra tells him what she saw. The look on his face could be interpreted as "That's impossible!" or "Uh-oh..." He knows of someone who could potentially permanently take away bending.

[[WMG: Tenzin and Lin Beifong are [[DryDockedShip ex-lovers]].]]
The two of them might have seen a lot of each other growing up, since their parents were good friends. They started a romance when they were younger, and stubbornly tried to make it work even though their personalities didn't really mesh. Finally, Pema confessed her love for Tenzin, Tenzin realized he loved Pema in return, and he broke up with Lin, who [[{{Understatement}} probably wasn't too happy about that development]]. It could explain why she has such a cold attitude toward him...
* Confirmed (see above WMG entry with note on episode 6)

[[WMG: Jinora was born following some military victory and named in commemoration of that victory.]]
* Here's the theory: Aang's death led to an opportunistic war by someone trying to take advantage of the Avatar's absence (possibly the Earth Kingdom trying to reclaim the United Republic, which it views as it's rightful territory) Tenzin and Pema both fought in the war and it's how they met. Jinora was born either near the end or shortly after and her name (apparently means "Glorious Victory" in Sanskrit) is in commemoration.

[[WMG: Jinora admires Azula.]]
* We know she's a history buff. Who wouldn't want to shake the hand of the MagnificentBitch who conquered Ba Sing Se with only two handmaids?

[[WMG: Tenzin was born on Air Temple Island]]
* Following some of the ideas about Bending being derived from both culture and genetics, Tenzin (and his own children) have all been born and raised in Republic City, the closest substitute to an Air Temple. Kya and Bumi look more Water Tribe because they were born in the Southern Water Tribe, where Katara wanted to be with familiar faces while starting motherhood. But by the time Tenzin was conceived, Republic City was safe/stable enough that Katara was comfortable giving birth there.

[[WMG: Tenzin will at some point be forced to display just how skilled the current lone master of Airbending really is]]
* He seems to be far more ...controlled...than his father, but it's not unreasonable to expect that before Korra gets to display any decent airbending, something might force Tenzin to show how much of a badass he is on his own terms (and not just as the son of an Avatar). It'd be really great moment for Korra to gain some real respect for the one element she seems to have the least understanding of.

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[[folder: Korra]]

[[WMG: Korra will undergo a [[FaceHeelTurn Face Heel Turn]]]].
* Some elaboration/conjecture: Korra has been very clearly established as an antithesis of Aang. Whereas Aang understood his position as the Avatar, he was relatively reluctant to shoulder it and, at least initially, regarded the duties as a burden. Of course, he later forgoes this attitude as his character develops and he takes the roll very serious. Korra is essentially the exact opposite: she immediately embraced the position. Which is where the potential problem is. She jumped into it without apparently truly understanding what her responsibilities really are. She's much quicker to doll out vigilante justice than actually mediate conflicts and maintain balance. Ultimately, likely after some jarring event, she will realize her shortcomings and either finally understand her responsibilities and handle the job of the Avatar with a greater deal of responsibility, or become despaired and continue her aggressive tendencies in the misguided belief that they can truly help her restore balance. Perhaps said jarring event could be something that makes her sympathetic to the Equalists (like continued atrocities by the Triple Threat Triad), causing her to believe that it is by putting herself on their side that she could restore balance. Queue potential corruption by Amon, whom she may begin to see as a replacement mentor to Tenzin after her frustration with his teachings reaches a boiling point. By the end of the series, we could see a climactic battle between her and one of her former friends who will try to either guide her back to the right path, or take her out before she can cause any further damage.

** And yes, I know that this probably sounds like the story of another [[ChosenOne hero]] from another [[StarWars story]]. But to this troper, Korra has been demonstrating very Anakin Skywalker-like tendencies (hot headedness, a well-meaning and sincere desire to help others but without the proper discipline to try to do so properly, etc.). This is just conjecture and since this is airing on a kid's network there is a status quo that has to be maintained as far as happy endings go, but the moment this troper hears Korra utter anything along the lines of "I want more", all bets are in.

[[WMG: Korra is related at least one person from the Gaang]]
* Korra will be Zuko's niece
** Lady Ursa disappeared and ran to the Southern Water Tribe, so that the Fire Nation couldn't find her, because after they wiped out the benders, they didn't really watch the poles too much. She married a Water Tribe man, and had (a) child(ren). Korra is her granddaughter.
** 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.
*** Korra DOES firebend quite a bit in the trailer. And I don't think we've seen her earthbend once.
* Korra will be related to Sokka and Suki, most likely their granddaughter
** Because it would be wonderfully ironic to have the new Avatar be related to the {{Badass Normal}}s of the old series.
*** It might just be. At one point during one of the [[http://dongbufeng.net/site1/content/view/1205/188/ here newly released clips]], Korra makes a face that looks a great deal like Sokka's infamous pouts. She also seems to like meat a lot.
** If it means Korra will use the alias "{{Creator/Sappho}} Fire"...
** I came up with this long ago \in a website faraway * cough* tv.com* cough* also
** Wouldn't that make Tenzin (or his son) related to Korra?! Or are they gonna throw us a curve-ball and have another character be part of the "cheesy teen romance..."
*** Well, there ''is'' that mysterious new Fire Nation character that DanteBasco's playing...
** Actually makes some sense. She's half CloudCuckooLander half BunnyEarsLawyer and rarely is serious, but also [[HotAmazon gets the job done in combat pretty damn well]]. Complete goof-off? Check for Sokka. More efficient ass-kicker than 90% of the men? Check for Suki. Genius in combat? Check for both of the above. Now if only she's inherited [[FetishFuel her suspected grandmother's proficiency with ropes...]]
** Korra is Sokka's ancestor. This is possible because she is a Time Lord, obviously.
** Korra will be descended from Bato.
*** Because being descended from a main character is lazy.
** Korra is descended from the kid in Sokka's warrior class who needed to use the bathroom. This is why it's her default excuse.

[[WMG: Neither Korra nor any of her companions are descended from the original Gaang.]]
Admittedly, this theory is drawn less from actual evidence and more from the wishes of this particular Troper. But as far as the... what are we calling them? The Krew? The Korralition? As far as they go, it would make for better storytelling if none of them are related to the Gaang aside from Korra being Aang's reincarnation. Having them all related to Gaang members implies that awesome is hereditary, and that other families can't produce a protagonist. In addition, it detracts from their own accomplishments. If Mako and Bolin are descended from, say, Azula, the fandom will inevitably make that a defining characteristic for the brothers. Giving them unknown ancestors allows the viewer to better appreciate characters for the actual personality traits that make them appreciable. Of course, it's still awesome to see characters like Tenzin and Chief Beifong, since this gives us a better idea of what the Gaang did post-ATLA, but the main characters should be known for themselves.
* 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 is feeling the weight of Aang's legacy.]]
From what we know about Korra she has already mastered earthbending and firebending by the time the series starts. Or at least she's very competent with them. However, she's sixteen, the usual age when Avatars learn of their status, and it took Roku a couple years to get that far. This is because Aang left gigantic shoes to fill. Aang mastered the elements and Avatar State in less then a full year, ending a century-long war in the process, while he was still technically twelve. Aang is most likely going to go down in history as one of most influential and greatest Avatars ever. Because of this, Korra was expected by her tribe to live up to Aang and become his equal, if not better then he was. This caused them to tell her of her Avatarness years before they was supposed to, pressuring her to get started mastering the elements as quickly as possible. (Though they may have had justification for this, especially if the anti-bending movement is a huge threat.) Regardless, Korra will feel some resentment over this. This may result in her bonding with Tenzin, if he has similar problems.
* Given that its been at least 250 years since an Avatar was revealed at the correct age, and the people supposed to remember this stuff were likely wiped out, the people may have forgotten they're supposed to wait until the Avatar is 16. For all we know Korra could have been told the moment she could comprehend it. At least Korra's Avatar State is guaranteed to be better than Aang's (since she has one more Avatar to draw power from).
** Kyoshi lived for 230 years, and the protocols survived. Besides, the Southern Water Tribe had a couple decades to rebuild with help from the very spiritual Northern Tribe. And on the off chance they didn't know, Aang (who had a very unfun time when he was told early) probably would've made sure to tell them.
** Mostly jossed. Korra has known she was the Avatar since age 4 (and JumpedAtTheCall) and by the start of series (note that she's 17, not 16) she's mastered all of the elements other than Airbending. And Korra in general doesn't seem to have any angst about being the Avatar other than the fact that she has trouble with Airbending. If anything SHE pressures her mentors to train her as soon as possible, while they'd rather take things slowly.
** ''Alternate Theory:'' The weight of Aang's history will now come to bear on Korra, now that the threat of the Equalist movement has been driven home. She'll feel increased pressure to live up to his legacy from all quarters, already having been pressured by Tarrlok and dismissed by Lin Beifong. She may even consider briefly bolting from Republic City for temporary respite from the demands of the council and the press, echoing Aang's running away in "The Storm" and providing evidence that, despite being his ShadowArchetype, they're really NotSoDifferent.

[[WMG: Aang will be Korra's SpiritAdvisor]]
... Just like Roku was Aang's. It just makes perfect sense.
** Pretty much confirmed by this point.
** ''And'' she'll be trained by Aang's son, Tenzin!

[[WMG: Korra won't meet Aang until near the end of the first season.]]
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.
* Korra won't meet Aang until she ''dies'' (temporarily) making a HeroicSacrifice to save the city. He'll help her back to life and encourage her that she'll be an even greater Avatar than he was. Oh, and tell her to get Tenzin to lighten up a bit.

[[WMG: Korra will suffer from HeroicBSOD after discovering the Avatar State]]
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.
* The clip where she's crying into Tenzin's chest has a lot of destruction in the background. Maybe...

[[WMG: Korra will witness Katara's violent death, and suffer a HeroicBSOD]]
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.]]
* OR Korra will lose control in the avatar state and kill Katara herself.

[[WMG: Korra will meet Koh the Face Stealer.]]
He did said to Aang that "[[{{foreshadowing}} [they''ll] meet again]]".
* They did! It was an interquel between seasons 2 and 3 on the official site. His role there was minor though.
* New idea: Korra has ''already'' met Koh the Face Stealer. And lost. I mean, look at that dramatic publicity shot. Do you see a face? I don't see a face.
** Who could [[HartmanHips possibly be looking]] for a [[ShesGotLegs face?]]
*** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Koh.]]

[[WMG: Korra will meet Iroh in the Spirit World]]
Most likely, Iroh will be dead in The Legend of Korra. But when Korra first enters the Spirit World, she won't just meet Aang, she'll meet Iroh as well. Why? Because Iroh has been to the Spirit World and has the ability to see spirits. He'll probably be chilling there and offer Korra a cup of tea.
* It'd be even better if they got into a conversation and she told him about her friends, Mako and Bolin, and Iroh remarks that he [[MythologyGag likes Mako's name.]]

[[WMG: Korra will have "[[LesYay accidental]]" Bisexual tendencies.]]
* [[AndTheFandomRejoiced No!]]
** [[EveryoneisBi IMPOSSIBLE!]]
** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Why would you even think such a thing?]]
* Why the "accidental"?
** GettingCrapPastTheRadar would be the only way.
* Not in a Nickelodeon show, she won't.
** [[SarcasmMode Right]], because '''no''' Nickelodeon shows have HoYay or LesYay subtext, [[{{iCarly}} ever]]...
*** [[SarcasmMode Yeah ''especially'' not between Azula and Ty Lee!]]
* Hell, they could even use RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Korra having a close female friend that she admires for being feminine and pretty, a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]] that doubles as a DistressedDamsel and a PluckyGirl to Korra's {{Tomboy}}. Korra likes Mako and Bolin and is definitely going to be OneOfTheBoys, but will only show her tender side towards her girl friend. Considering the sudden popularity of [[http://miss-goodness.deviantart.com/art/LoK-Korra-s-Rant-207352917?q=boost%3Apopular%20Yue%2FKorra&qo=4 Yue/Korra]] on Deviant Art, it could be the Asami character voiced by Movie!Yue's actor Seychelle Gabriel as the creators are well-aware of the fandom's shipping and one of [[http://rufftoon.deviantart.com/ them]] is a Deviant-turned-PromotedFanboy. To the casual viewer it will appear that Korra has no LoveInterest in the series, but the fans and Tropers will know better... [[YuriFanboy what are you looking at]]? And the creators will deny everything.
** I think Asami Sato would make a great girly girl to Korra's tomboy.
* Asami will be the "refined" one of the pair and Korra will admire that in a girl-crush sort of way. Mako and Bolin will have to endure Korra gushing about how "elegant" Asami is during their pro-bending practices.

[[WMG: Korra will have a motorcycle.]]
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.
* Probably jossed. The trailer shows her riding on Naga, her polar bear dog, to get from place to place.
** Additionally if Korra has a motorcycle, she will at some point jump off in the air and perform [[KamenRider a Rider Kick]].]]
Because why the hell not.

[[WMG: Korra will attempt to end the Equalist revolt peacefully...and fail.]]
Partly because the Equalists, due to the nature of their revolt, can't see Korra as a neutral party. Also, from what we've heard so far, Korra [[BloodKnight doesn't seem to be an ideal diplomat.]]
* It seems more likely that she won't try for a peaceful solution at all. That's what AANG would do, and the creators have specifically stated her to be Aang's opposite in a lot of ways, to the point where writing her scenes caused them to exclaim that Aang would never take her course of action.
** Or, alternatively: Korra will try to end the Equalist revolt with force...and fail, and then she'll have to learn Old Aang's ways.

[[WMG: Korra will use Energybending to give some non-benders bending to help stop the Equalists.]]
* They could even be given Airbending, killing two birds with one stone.

[[WMG: Korra will bring Bending to the masses.]]
It's been mentioned before that people in this universe learned how to bend by observing nature. This series' conflict is an anti-bending revolution. As she becomes more spiritually aware over the course of the series she will come to sympathize with the idea behind the Anti-bending movement and begin trying to reach out to them. Keeping with the series' overall theme that everything is connected Korra will learn that even the difference between benders and non-benders is illusory. This series will end with Korra discovering a way to teach bending to mundane citizens. This will set up the next series, where the Earthbending Avatar will have to deal with the implications of a world where everyone has superpowers.

[[WMG: Korra will love meat which disgusts Tenzin's family, who are all vegetarians.]]
Considering she'll be spending lots of time with Tenzin's family, some of her habits may no endear her to them. The Water Tribes probably depend on hunting with very little vegetation (sea prunes) and Korra will enjoy a good roast, though probably not to Sokka's level of obsession. Cue fun times when Korra fixes a meal for her foster family consisting of choice meats that she meticulously prepared and at the dinner table, well, you know. She'll invite Bolin and Mako over to finish the meal while they laugh about it.
* The meat-loving part seems to be confirmed. As to what Tenzin and his family think, well...it's probably not going to be as bad (or funny) as what [[FutureMeScaresMe Aang's ghost thinks]].

[[WMG: Korra will sneak meat and world goods to Tenzin's children.]]
[[WordOfGod According to the creators]], one of the show's central themes will be Modernity VS Tradition. What better way to show that generational struggle then to have Tenzin's children buck the rules for how they're supposed to behave? And Korra, not being the spiritual sort, won't think anything of slipping Jinora some beef jerky.

[[WMG: Korra will be a ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend]]
A BloodKnight in love? Bad guys beware.
* Screw the bad guys, what about other girls?! See the guess about Korra and relationships after the Avatar State = Fear idea.

[[WMG: There is something wrong with Korra's status as the avatar]]
Now, in the last airbender, it was quite clear that it was natural for the avatar to have problems with the element on the opposing side of the spectrum. For Aang it was earth. For Roku it was water. But Korra does not seem to have any problems using fire at all, having problems with air instead. It's possible that it's a simple personality mis-match, bit that doesn't really appear the case. Yes, she is impatient and has trouble going with a movement rather than blocking it, but neither of those are exclusive to air-bending. Going with a movement rather than blocking it is also a basis for waterbending, which she is good at, while patience is necessary to master any of the bending disciplines. It is more than just that though. Aang never suspected he was the avatar before he was told. Yes, he was good at airbending, but he couldn't use any of the other elements without being taught them first. Korra, meanwhile, is already capable of bending fire and earth at age 5. She has learned how to use them despite living at the south pole, where fire and earth-benders are probably rather rare (it being cold and there being little earth, after all) and, even then, having no reason to even try and study them before. As a final note, Aang died before Korra was born. Yet it took the white lotus 5 years to discover that she was born, despite the ritual used to search for an avatar does not really require a minimum age. And with only three tribes to perform the test on, she somehow went unfound? Was she never tested for some reason, or did she do the test and not appear as the avatar? All in all, there seems to be something really off about her avatar powers.
* Keep in mind that by Aang's death at 65, post establishment of the multi-cultural Republic of Nations, emigration would have become ''much'' more common, (as we see with Republic City) so its not merely a matter of traipsing around the two Poles and Foggy Swamp, but a ''worldwide'' search for a waterbender avatar, and its difficult to keep a census when once-isolated peoples become mobile. Not to mention you'd have lots of false alarms with Water Tribe members assuming their special baby must be the avatar because a rock totally moved that one time, or a candle guttered when he burped. That's totally bending right?
* Except that is not how one is supposed to test for the avatar. Both Roku and Aang were selected by choosing the correct artifacts as toddlers (much like the Dali lama in real life). The test doesn't take that long, and is easy to perform. If Korra had been born outside the water tribes, it would have been logical for her to only be discovered later, but she was born right at the expected location. If this doesn't work, they would probably have to resort to rumors and guesswork, but doing the test with the most concentrated portions of waterbending populace first would still be a first step.
** What do you mean its not the way? You would first have to confirm the child is a ''bender'' before relic testing, otherwise its a massive waste of time and resources. Aang's selection would have been logistically simpler, as in his time, all nomads were benders, and all children were taken to one of four temples eventually, so that's bringing the test subject to you ''and'' you can test infants en masse. But benders of other ethnicities must ''manifest'' the talent (toddlerhood seems likely), and reports must be passed through word of mouth. Since the four toys have to be schlepped to each purported waterbender child, and the search radius has become ''global'', I'm surprised it took ''only'' four years. Records of exact times and dates of birth are not common outside of the first-world countries or urban centers, and weren't even a given in America's 1920's and 30's once you got into great rural swaths of the country where home births were common. Hundreds of thousands of people are born every day in our world...how many Water Tribe members were born on the day Aang died, much less children who would be confirmed as benders? How many people who assumed their child was born on the right day have unwittingly made a false claim because they were a few hours early or late?
** You must remember that this is not a modern civilization, but a pseudo historic one that has only recently started developing technology. The population should be much, much lower, with most of that population in the fire nation and earth kingdom. The water tribes are small. A large city, a few guys on boats and a small town respectively(though the latter two have probably grown a bit). Even a population of 1,5 million would be seriously stretching it. That's probably around a eighty births per day. Take a period of a week for parents to fudge results, and there would be 560 children to test. It would take a bit of testing, yeah, but even then it shouldn't take more than a year. Anyways, even forgetting this point: How the hell did Korra learn earth and fire bending at age five to the degree that she did? Plus, how did she learn them in a short enough amount of time after one another to know them before the white lotus arrived?
** Remember the Water Tribes were small and barely thriving ''seventy years ago.'' That's more than enough time for a few post-war mini-baby booms (The soldiers came home...got busy, made peacetime babies and had as natives literally the best healers on the planet to limit pregnancy complications) successful population reconstruction programs (United Republic Citizens: Would you like to see new places and meet new people? Consider moving to the Poles today!) and ambassadorial efforts (Well howdy 'cuz! Welcome ta foggy swamp! Y'all look a little ''wilted,'' have some sweet tea) You say they've just barely started developing, but we're seeing the analog of a post-WWI population boom by the time of Korra's birth, and the automobile as standard in the bleeding-edge urban center by her teens. Also, Aang was apparently the youngest Airbender to receive his master's tats ever, so Korra comes from genius stock, as it were.
** As an extra note, Korra uses surprisingly little waterbendering, seemingly preferring firebending, which would normally be the opposite and she only recently learned
* Actually, I have a theory on this. The Avatar is basically the representation of the benders in the Avatar-verse. Therefore, the bending of the Avatar is dependant on the balance of elements. The element that the Avatar should be able to use best is dependant on which element has more benders and is thriving, which WAS in sync with the Avatar cycle before Aang got himself frozen. Hence Korra's lack of skill at Airbending; there are currently 4 Airbenders in the whole world.

[[WMG: When Korra wins prize money in the pro-bending tournament, Tenzin will take it to repay his costs in paying for the damage she caused in the first episode]]
If it is her idea or not I don't know.

[[WMG: The relationship between Korra and Lin will progress similarly to that of Aang and Toph.]]
After all, in Toph's first couple of episodes, she spent quite a bit of it arguing and squabbling with Aang. After initially clashing, Lin and Korra will becoming FireForgedFriends ([[VitriolicBestBuds even if they don't admit it]]).
* As of the Winner is...., they seem to have a decent relationship at the end of the episode.

[[WMG: Korra is a VillainProtagonist]]
The Equalist Movement began as just that: a movement simply seeking equality between the benders and the non-benders, who are often treated as second class citizens. The benders, who typically hold the positions of power in the Avatar world, overreact and attempt to end the dissent with force, turning the movement violent. The Equalists show that they are more than capable of giving the Powers That Be a run for their money, and so the latter bring in Korra as their Iron Heel to stamp out what began as a peaceful, legitimate protest of inequality. Essentially, Korra could either be a (perhaps unwitting: She may simply be too young to know about the earlier actions of the benders that lead to the current situation) pawn of the benders who want nothing more than to maintain their own power, or she could even be in on it herself. This could also explain Amon's wearing a mask: His face was destroyed during the initial violent crackdown on his movement.

[[WMG: Korra learned firebending from the School of Zuko]]
She uses an awesome looking breakdance move in the line art animation. This could be a call back to the moves Zuko often employed when fighting. (It was unique to Zuko as a [[shoutout]] to DanteBasco's real life dance skills.)
* This implies that Korra either learned her firebending from the royal family (tradition! Dante Basco's still unknown character!) or that the Fire Nation has incorporated its Lord's moves.
** This in turn implies that either the Fire Family is still peaceful or at least has redeemed itself so that even a Southern Water Tribe girl feels comfortable approaching them or that Zuko was a transformative and culturally influential Fire Lord. Either of these would make this trooper very gleeful.
** I always assumed the Fire Sages taught the Avatar in the normal scheme of things, but maybe after the war the Royal Family decided to take on the responsibility to foster good relations with the Avatar... and maybe Zuko wanted to see his friend again, no matter what how different he looked.
*** [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming That just... man...]]

[[WMG: We'll see seeing a lot of FootFocus of Korra.]]
[[FetishFuel And why not?]] Maybe at some point, she'll [[DoesNotLikeShoes forgo any foot wear]]. Which makes it even easier to earthbend. She'll even remain barefoot in her Southern Tribe home.

[[WMG: Korra's first time in the Avatar State will cause her to be grounded/exiled to Air Temple Island, and it will be crucial to her training.]]
We all know that avatars who enter the Avatar State causes mass destruction when they can't control it, and when Korra unintentionally enters it the first time, this will cause a number of issues: enraging the Equalists and helping their cause, cause massive protests with the public for the destruction to a good portion of the city and property (as well as learning she is just too dangerous), and will get her restricted to Air Temple Island. This will cause trouble for her as she can't do anything but watch the politics and city spiral out of control, but provides opportunity to cool down and focus solely on her airbending until the end of the series where she breaks the law after becoming a realized avatar. Chief Beifong wanted her out of this city because she read about her mother's adventures (written by someone else), especially where Aang was just plain terrifying in the state.

[[WMG: Whereas Aang entered in the Avatar State through anger and rage, Korra will enter in the Avatar State through fear]]
The Avatar will enter in the Avatar State from emotional distress. Aang often gained emotional distress through anger/rage and entered in the Avatar State, but emotional distress could be different for Korra. Since the Legend of Korra seems to focus so much on fear according to the trailers and TV Spots, Korra could uncontrollably enter in the Avatar State because she freaks out from it.
* ...I ''love'' it! Somebody write that!

[[WMG: Korra will have trouble with romantic relationships.]]
A natural progression from the ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend guess above. The girl has been raised in near total isolation at the bottom of the planet for all of her life, and is just now experiencing the world and society at large. Her only exposure to normal social interaction has mostly been with the Order of the White Lotus, Katara, Tenzin and his family. Other teens her own age are going to be a total mystery for her, and as her only exposure to courtship has been through stories from Katara and whichever members of the Gaang were still around, she'll have troubles with manuvering romantically, something teens have issues to begin with. And let's not get started on when sex gets involved. Korra could possably be surprisingly vulnerable in that area. Feel free to list some potential pot-holes she'll come across. And any Drama or Lulz that would ensue from that.

[[WMG: Korra knows bloodbending.]]
Katara was her waterbending teacher, after all. It isn't too much of a stretch to think that, in her old age, Katara would have come to terms with what Hama did to her. And, she would be teaching the skill to someone she can, presumably, trust pretty well.
* ''Alternate theory: In fear of her life, Korra will be '''desperate''' to learn bloodbending from Katara.'' Its clear in-series that Korra doesn't know bloodbending, but oh, how appealing it would be to use its {{People Puppet|s}}ry to keep the chi-blockers, and more importantly, ''Amon'' from touching her and her friends. Once Korra remembers Katara's skill, or hears of it from Tenzin or Jinora (what with her love of reading the Gaang's adventures) she'll come begging to Katara to give her an easy, potentially lethal way to ''literally'' stop Amon in his tracks.

[[WMG: Korra's first meeting with Aang won't go over well.]]
Korra has been shown to be anything but a spiritual person, and likely only knows about spirits and meeting her past lives in the abstract. Therefore, when she finally "gets" meditation and crosses the Spirit World-Physical World barrier and meets Aang, she is going to ''freak''. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And it will be the most hilarious thing in the show to date.]]

[[WMG: Korra's waterbending in the intro will be cleaner and more precise to reflect her character development in the series.]]
Korra's waterbending in the introduction of the show is rather messy and unrefined, reflecting her current nature. As the series progresses, the waterbending shown will be more precise and refined over time as she is closer to mastering airbending and the spiritual half of her nature in general. By the time this happens, her bending will be just like Paku's from the original.

[[WMG: Korra isn't the avatar]]
Her father is half Earth Nation half Water Tribe, her mother is half Fire Nation half Water Tribe. Korra has some sort of mutation allowing her to bend all three, Explaining why she cant air bent at all! Somewhere in the Foggy Swamp the real Avatar is blissfully unaware.
** But how would it explain the [[spoiler: flashbacks she gets after Amon knocks her out]]?

[[WMG: Korra's time spent in the Avatar State will be far and few in between]]
Sort as an addendum to all the other speculations about her and the Avatar State; since she's the Anti-Aang, whereas Aang tapped into the state relatively frequently (heck, he spent 100 uninterrupted years in it), Korra on the other hand even after she does get by her initial spiritual hangups most likely won't be accessing the Avatar State anywhere near as much (save perhaps, as also surmised above, her fear gets the better of her).

[[WMG: Korra 'looking for the bathroom' will become a running gag]]
She will never be believed, especially when she is desperate to find one for legitimate reasons.
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[[folder: Mako and Bolin]]

[[WMG: They are the offspring of King Bumi and Azula]]
Oh, yeah. So, basically, King Bumi rescued Azula from prison and they fell desperately in love. Wow... this theory sounded funnier and less perverted in my mind.

[[WMG: Katara will be implied to be a YaoiFangirl for them]]

[[WMG: Bolin and Mako are Ursa's grandchildren...]]
When she was banished, Ursa probably hid out in the Earth Kingdom somewhere. Eventually, she remarried an Earthbender man. They had at least one child who relocated to the United Republic, who later had Bolin and Mako, an earthbender and firebender, respectively.

[[WMG: Similar to above, Mako and Bolin are somehow related to Zuko.]]
Mako looks similar to Zuko. Bolin and Mako's names follow a small trend from the royal family. S"O"zin, "O"zai, Ir"O"h, Zuk"O", B"O"lin, Mak"O". They all have the OH sound. And before anyone just says it's a tribute to Mako(the voice actor), Two Birds, One Stone. Zuko, the grandson of Roku(again, a hard OH), Traveled with the Avatar. Now, perhaps, HIS grandsons travel with the next Avatar.
* IT'S A TWIST! 8D
** Mako's not just a Zuko {{Expy}}, it's InTheBlood. The brothers may not even know they're related to the royal family until something happens to reveal it.
* Also more to the point: It cannot be more glaringly obvious that the ''Avatar'' 'verse takes cues from various Asian cultures, and ''The Legend of Korra'' does not deviate from this whatsoever. It was actually common for feudal lords and the like to preserve their bloodlines by siring children with commoners and keeping them unaware of their lineage until the time comes that a propper heir doesn't seem to exist. And, correct me if I'm wrong because I'm too lazy to find a high-quality image of him right now, doesn't Mako have the Fire Nation Royal Family's trademark EyesOFGold?

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin are Azula's grandsons.]]
Azula recovered from her insanity some time after the War ended, and traveled the Earth Kingdom as TheAtoner during the turbulent days between her father's defeat and the founding of Republic City. There, she met Haru, fell in love with him and his smexy mustache, and married him. At least one child and one in-law later, here come Mako and Bolin. Maybe they have a firebender father/uncle/cousin who is voiced by DanteBasco.
* Or maybe she married King Kuei being a Princess and everything. (Don't look at me like that...)
** I now ship this.
** He fell for her when she held a fire-knife to him during her takeover of his kingdom. Kuei thought that was [[IncrediblyLamePun hot]].
** Writing fanfic now...

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin are Lu Ten grandsons, Iroh's great-grandsons.]]
Inheriting both Iroh's open-mindedness and his charisma, Lu Ten had a secret romance with an Earth Kingdom girl. Being a member of the Royal family, directly in line for the throne, his combat abilities would be comparable to Ozai, Iroh, Zuko and Azula. Also, being a prince, he was probably kept way from the most dangerous fighting. The reason he was killed was because he was unfocused and emotionally conflicted, torn between his duty and his feelings. With Lu Ten dead, and either pregnant or having given birth to a child fathered by "the enemy," the mother would have been pressured into leaving her home, with her child. The mother and child would have been homeless, until eventually moving to Republic City, somewhere they could finally be accepted. While till very poor, possibly still homeless, Lu Ten's child was still able to have a family, Mako and Bolin. This would explain Mako's very impressive firebending abilities, being able to win 3v1, assuming bending proficiency is inheritable. It would also make a connection between Mako and the man he is named after, Iroh's voice actor. It would also make quite an interesting backstory, making these street rats directly related to royalty, as well as creating a connection to the previous series.
* Unlikely. It's doubtful Ozai would have described Iroh's line as dead if he had grandchildren. It's implied from that conversation that Lu Ten was Iroh's only child and that he died childless.

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin will have a family name.]]
Republic City is densely populated enough that single names wouldn't be sufficient to organize society, surnames will have been adopted by the general populace.

[[WMG: The brothers will have a younger sibling that they're working to put through school.]]
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.
* Not quite as likely now, with the revelation that Mako and Bolin grew up as [[StreetUrchin Street Urchins]]. No parents around to have another younger sibling to take care of. They grew up supporting each other, though, if that counts for anything.

[[WMG: Amon is Mako and Bolin's older brother.]]
When their parent(s) dropped them off at the orphanage, Mako and Bolin were separated from their older brother because they were benders. Due to the special needs of young benders, they get segregated from the non-bender orphans. Can't have them setting the bed sheets on fire and whatnot. A heartbroken Amon (not his name) came to resent his brothers when they were adopted and he wasn't, because their new parents only wanted benders. While Mako and Bolin ran away from this couple for whatever reason, Amon had escaped the orphanage and joined a non-bender gang that trains him in chi-blocking. So the episode titled "The Skeleton in the Closet"? That skeleton is in Mako and Bolin's closet, and it's their brother Amon. Although Korra either won't find out about this until much later, or will learn it but agree to keep it quiet to protect Mako and Bolin's reputation.
* Wow, I want this to be true. Maybe all the details won't play out that way, but Amon being related to Mako and Bolin would be a great revelation.
* Alternatively, Amon is Mako and Bolin's older brother, except he never knew that they were benders. During "The Revelation", Amon claimed that [[spoiler: his father had been killed by a Fire Bender, along with the rest of his family]]. Earlier in the same episode, Mako [[spoiler: revealed that his parents were killed by a Fire Bending mugger]]. The stories are similar enough that, looking at the ages of the parties involved, might account for the minor inconsistencies. It will eventually be revealed that [[spoiler: Mako was able to save himself and Bolin from the Fire Bender by Firebending for the first time, but Amon thought they perished with their parents in the attack since he believed no one in the family could bend.]] Perhaps he even recognized Bolin at the rally, leading him to later seek out his only remaining family and eventually pull a Heel Face Turn.

[[WMG: Mako won't believe in the traditional Fire Nation concept of honor. Bolin, however, will.]]
Stemming from the multicultural angle of the show, Mako's personal belief won't lie up entirely with what we've come to expect from a traditional firebender. Growing up in a republican society rather than a feudal one, and among people of many cultures, Mako won't put any stock in the notion of honor. Instead Bolin will, as a way to tie himself to whichever parent of theirs is ethnically Fire. This division between the brothers, and their respective beliefs, will catch them flak from the more traditionally minded members of their native elements: Mako for not measuring up to what a "real" man should be, Bolin for acting like he's Fire Nation.

[[WMG: Mako will be Bi.]]
And thus YaoiFangirl Korra will have a very satisfying relationship with her BF indeed.

[[WMG: Mako will apply the technique of bending lightning in new ways.]]
From what we've seen, Republic City is a sizable metropolis, and with the series being set in 20's of the Avatar 'verse, it's not a stretch to imagine that there are electric lights and other such devices present within the city. At some point, either via his own merits or by being taught by someone else, our party's resident firebender will gain the ability to influence electric technology with his bending. This could have numerous applications; halting the current in a wire shuts down an electric machine, sending a jolt of power through a device overloads (and explodes) it, stopping and starting the flow of current in lights is used for signaling purposes, etc. Such a skill would invariably prove useful to the party, and would just be cool as hell.
* Confirmed, sort of, in "The Revelation." Mako and other Firebenders use lightning-generation abilities to help run a power plant.

[[WMG: Mako is Koh.]]
Only thing I have going for this is the pronunciation of Mako's name, Ma-'''koh'''. I'm aware of the MeaningfulName, but nothing says that honoring {{Mako}} has to be the only meaning. It's been a full Avatar Cycle since Kuruk tried to kill Koh, so maybe he doesn't care about that anymore. Mako could be Koh's temporary human form, and through a friendship with Korra he can be certain ''this'' Water Tribe Avatar won't be as lazy as Kuruk.

[[WMG: ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Bolin]]'' will end up joining the Equalists]]
* It's already been [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil spoiled]] that [[spoiler: Bolin will be kidnapped by the Equalists]] Maybe it's a ploy to lure Mako and Korra, and Once they arrive Bolin will use some Chi-blocking attacks to beat the living shit out of them. Mako...[[FreakOut Will]] ''[[HeroicBSOD Not]]'' [[LaughingMad take]] [[DespairEventHorizon this]] [[EtTuBrute well.]]
** There's a little problem: Bolin is an Earthbender. The Equalists, as you may recall, have a dim view on the Benders.

[[WMG: Bolin will use Pabu to flirt with girls.]]
Bolin is a ladies man, and who can resist a RidiculouslyCuteCritter like Pabu?

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin were Triad enforcers]]
When looking for Bolin in the latest online clip Mako's first instinct is to check the Triad headquarters. He knows where those headquarters are and he seems unusually familiar with Triad protocol. This troper thinks that Mako and Bolin used to work as muscle, perhaps even high-ranking muscle, for the Triple Threats and used the money they earned there as a stepping stone to becoming pro-benders. That might also be why the fabulous bending brothers are such a dominant team. They earned those bending skills by fighting for their lives in the back alleys of Republic City.
* Jossed.. they ran numbers (did accounting).
** Actually, it seems running numbers seems to mean something [[http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/post/21536874625/running-numbers-when-mako-says-they-were-running#note-container a little different]] than accounting.

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin are Zuko and Mai's grandchildren]]
Mai and Zuko's child was a firebender, who maried an earthbender, and they they had two sons. Mako looks a lot like Zuko.
* If Mako and Bolin were the grandchildren of the Fire Lord, wouldn't the Fire Nation royal family have taken them into care after their parents were killed, instead of letting them grow up as orphans on the street? Also, Mako's story of his family getting killed by a firebender implies that neither of his parents was one.
** How would being killed by a firebender indicate that neither one was a firebender?
*** If one of the parents was a firebender, s/he would have probably tried to fight the other firebender, and Mako would have probably mentioned this in his story.
**** Perhaps they were pacifists? Or they were adopted and he didn't know. Or his mother wasn't exactly faithful. Or maybe the father did try to fight but was just an electrical worker and didn't have the actual fighting skill necessary to beat a street thug. But, at any rate, saying a firebender killed his parents is important to the story because it's how they died but whether they could bend or not is irrelevant because it did them no good and Mako clearly didn't want to spend too much time reliving the entire ordeal.
** Perhaps Mako and Bolin (or maybe just Mako) was the result of infidelity on the part of their mother and Zuko and Mai's son. If the mother didn't tell Zuko's son that her son (or sons) were his, he wouldn't have known to take them in after they were orphaned.
** First of all, Any special royal services either Zuko or his daughter would be able to prvide Mako and Bolin woukd be rendered meeaningless after the formation of The United Republic. Secondly, I came up with this theory based almost entiuerly on the fact that Mako and Juko look strikingly similar. I don't think that's a cooncidence.
*** The existence of the Republic doesn't mean the Fire Nation has ceased to exist. It's still there, and presumably the Fire Lord still is a powerful and influential leader. And even if he/she wasn't, had Zuko or his daughter learned that their grandchildren/nephews had become orphans, surely he or she would've taken Mako and Bolin to live with them instead of leaving them on the streets. As for Mako looking like Zuko, many comic book and animation artists simply like to use similar character models. For example, Tahno looks kinda like Jet, and Asami looks like June, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are related.

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin are actually waterbenders. Also Mako is actually Amon and Bolin is the true avatar]]
There is no such person as "Amon". Just some poor random guy Mako takes complete and utter control over as a puppet for his firebender-hating agenda, using his extremely advanced bloodbending. Think about it: exact same back-story, except with an additional "scarring" in "Amon"'s case as a convenient way to just grab any ol Joe off the street and sticking a mask on him without arousing suspicion. As for Mako's "firebending", all he's doing is imitating firebending forms and super-heating water vapor to incandescence using his insanely powerful waterbending to look like he's a firebender, thus deflecting any suspicion that he's the mastermind behind "Amon" through bloodbending. Bolin knows all of this, but he plays along because he's FUCKING TERRIFIED of Mako and his beyond-Azula levels of crazy nastiness. Also Bolin is the real avatar. Korra can bend three elements because a lionturtle secretly visited her at birth and used spiritbending to give her the ability to earth- and firebend, just to troll people. This explains why she has such trouble airbending: because she CAN'T. Bolin is a waterbending avatar. He just doesn't know it because everyone already thinks Korra's the avatar. He just thinks he's an earthbender because, for some weird reason, he only ever bends the water in the hydrated silica in the crystal structures of rocks.

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin's parents were both earthbenders.]]
Or, at least Bolin's were. Mako and Bolin's father wasn't really Mako's biological father because their mother had an affair with a firebender, resulting in Mako's conception, but it was broken off at some point before Bolin was conceived and her husband was oblivious because Mako hadn't begun to bend yet (or if he did, he kept a secret, perhaps because his mother asked him to). Mako's biological father may or may not have been Zuko's son.

[[WMG: At some point, Mako and Bolin will move in with Tenzin's family.]]
Somehow, they will lose their home at the arena, and will have no place to stay. Korra will volunteer the Air Temple Island without consulting anyone. Bolin will be thrilled, Mako will be uncomfortable but relieved. The kids will absolutely adore Bolin, as will Pema, because Bolin is an awesome older brother/playmate/live-in babysitter. Tenzin will be apprehensive, yet resigned. He will proceed to flip out when one of the girls (Korra, Jinora, Ikki, or even Pema) inevitably develops a crush on one of the boys.

The White Lotus Guards and Air Acolytes will be endlessly amused.

* Episode 6 previews show that the arena might be closed. Maybe this happens in the aftermath?

[[WMG: Mako and Bolin are not actually blood-related.]]

[[WMG: The death of Mako and Bolin's parents]]

I've got a couple thoughts concerning the nature in which they died and the intent behind their deaths. Keep in mind, part of this theory resulted from drawing comparisons between Mako and Bolin's parents and [[{{Batman}} the Waynes]], which is integral.

One has to wonder if Mako witnessed his parents getting burned to death or getting electrocuted to death. Lightning bending has become a mundane skill, evidenced by Mako and many other firebenders who use it to power generators for work. It would take less time to take down a target with lightning, especially if said targets are benders--one of which, a firebender. Mako and Bolin's parents would have fought back the moment they saw they were in danger. Getting killed by electrocution is faster and less noticeable, as getting killed by fire would mean that the fight was drawn out, leading to possible witnesses and at the most the police being notified. In either case, the couple slipped up in trying to defend each other and the boys, ending in their deaths.

Of course, Mako and Bolin's parents may have been snuck up on, having no chance to fight back. Either way, Mako would have witnessed his parents die a horrible way (and God forbid Bolin witnessing it too, who was even younger at the time).

But what if this wasn't just your usual mugging with a desperate firebender looking for a way to make a quick yuan? What if, like in some versions of the death of the Waynes, that mugging was just a disguise for murder? Or what if it was just that--murder--and Mako never realized it?

A murder seems likely, as a mugging ending up in murder unintentionally seems improbable, at least not in the conventional sense. Any form of resistance would have resulted in a scuffle, and with bending involved it would have gathered too much attention unless dealt with swiftly, as stated above.

We don't know enough to know if the perpetrator was ever caught, or if Mako didn't tell Korra the entire truth if he knew more than he let on. What I do know is, for two benders to be killed by a firebender without much of a fight in a mugging is much more unlikely than it being intentional, planned out murder. In my eyes, their deaths has become a great mystery I hope the show explores. One has to wonder exactly who they were and if there was any reason behind their deaths beyond it just being another unfortunate casualty in Republic City. Were they just a couple who ended up as unfortunate casualties marking the corruption and crime in Republic City? Or were they people of significance intentionally sought out to be killed?

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[[folder: {{Asami and Hiroshi Sato}}]]

[[WMG: Asami is working for Amon.]]

The person who gave the loan to Hiroshi was a man working for Amon. After seeing to it that his investment has paid off, Amon sends his men to demand Hiroshi to funnel money to help him fund his forces (picture the inventor and the son with the glider in that air temple). Unfortunately, Hiroshi is not home, but his wife is there. Amon's men threaten the mother, but she refuses to give in because she knows that Hiroshi would not want the hard-earned money her husband has worked so hard for to be used for an organization such as this. Amon's men ruthlessly kill her. Meanwhile, Asami has been watching this whole scene from her hiding place. She rushes out and begs the men not to hurt her father the same way. She tells them she would do anything to keep him safe. So she unwillingly becomes part of Amon's organization. She funnels money to them pretending it is from her extravagant spending and she trains under the watch of the organization. Years pass and now Asami is one of his elite. She is also one of his most loyal because of the consequences she would face if she wasn't. Her meeting with Mako is planned. Amon wants her to become close with the Avatar and[=/=]or her friends. Either turn her friends against her or manipulate her or both. She lives with this guilt while she does all this manipulation. Eventually, Korra and the Krew find out and help her. She is free of her guilt and apologizes profusely. The Krew forgive her and have a kick-ass non-bender join them.

[[WMG: Asami looks like Lust because...]]
Someone's evil. Either Asami, 'cause that's obvious, or Mike and Bryan, because seriously, you can't trust that girl when all you're thinking of is poor [[FullmetalAlchemist Havoc]]...
** Seconded. As utterly unfair as it is to compare Asami to another 'verse's villain on looks alone, the unintended similarities are so striking for this troper that Asami rings alarm-bells in spite of evidence she's genuinely nice and not, say, evil and planning stab Mako once she loses interest.
** Jossed - The creators have noted it to be a coincidence, but they ''have'' however embraced the similarities between the two. See the ShoutOut entry on the main page. The link to Bryan's tumblr fills out the details.

[[WMG: Asami is gonna be a DoubleAgent for the Krew]]
Seeing how her profile says she's very skilled in self-defense and driving, she can help blend in with the Equalists and gather info on Amon's plans for Korra.

[[WMG: Asami is related to June on her mothers side]]
It may just be me but the two look very slimier

[[WMG: Hiroshi Sato knew Sokka.]]
Specifically, Sokka was the one who gave him the loan that helped Hiroshi's satomoblies take off. After all, we know Sokka has a thing for gadgets and inventions and might have even seen a bit of himself in Hiroshi.

[[WMG: An alternate Asami is an Equalist theory.]]
Basically, this troper thinks at this point that an Equalist Asami is more interesting than a non-Equalist Asami, so let's take this premise and see where we can go with it.
* Given that the setting is TheRoaringTwenties, it makes sense that the Equalists represents the radical political parties that popped up during that period. Asami will be the equivalent of the young, intelligent and idealistic person who would join and become active in these movements.
* On the other hand, she may or may not have a personal reason to join as well (since everyone is Batman, it's possible a bender killed her MissingMom).
* It's entirely possible she would keep her identity as an Equalist hidden from her father (this troper thinks he seems honest).
* The reason she's romancing Mako is as a MataHari ploy to spy on the Avatar and her companions.
* She'll may also turn out to be a chi-blocker, possibly even one of the chi-blockers that fought Korra and Mako from Episode 3 (making her a ChekhovsGunman, and a retroactive major threat).
* Viewers will compare her to Azula (bonus points if she says she's a people person), though unlike Azula she will be a genuine WellIntentionedExtremist and therefore a more sympathetic.
* Also, she may decide to pull a HeelFaceTurn if Amon turns out to be too much of an Extremist or is actually manipulating the Equalists for his own ends.

[[WMG: Asami ''won't'' be a double crosser of any kind, but ''will'' be mistaken for one]]
If only because everyone seems to think that Mike and Bryan will play her character out straight by the fact that she ''looks'' like the classic FemmeFatale. I'd like to think the two will throw us all for a loop and take her in a different direction. Perhaps she'll ''seem'' like a double agent or someone with a very specific and hidden agenda...but in turn, she never was and really meant for the best. Hell...it might even come to bite her in the ass in the long term and kick the bucket for it, leading to all kinds of potential possibilities for Mako's character to develop forward into (hell, Korra too even). At the very least, her being a FemmeFatale just seems too much the obvious route.

[[WMG: Asami having an ulterior motive?]]
This troper predicts that she only wants the fame of being a probender's lover, and will ditch Mako when he voluntarily leaves probending to help Korra with the Equalists or the Fire Ferrets will lose by a major margin in the finals. Once Mako has no tie to probending, she'll move on to a 'better' probender. Just a theory, but does anyone care to add their two cents?

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[[folder: {{Love Dodecahedron}}s]]

[[WMG: Mako will spurn Korra's unwanted advances.]]

Sure, she kisses him. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything A body like that, a face like his,]] that TroubledButCute demeanor? [[FanPreferredCouple What young waterbender girl wouldn't want a boy like that?]] But does he want her back? Maybe he will, in the future... but imagine that someone you consider as a buddy, or a rival, suddenly up and kissed you... his rejection, and Korra's reaction to it, might be Mike and Bryan's commentary on that particular section of the fandom that didn't get what they wanted, and couldn't understand why. There will be heavy metacommentary from Korra, [[AudienceSurrogate herself a slightly spoiled, sheltered, immature young lady, used to getting what she wants, unaware of how the real world works, and heavily influenced by media cliches and her own romantic fantasies]]: ''"We were supposed to end up together! We made the perfect couple! All the gossip magazines said so!"'' However, unlike [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]], the pairing, and the pain of rejection, will ''not'' be played for laughs for long.
* Korra doesn't seem like an AudienceSurrogate. Though...it ''would'' be an interesting callback to the main series if Korra was simultaneously awkward and aggressive about romance, like Aang was.

[[WMG: Korra will have a non-bending love interest.]]
A mechanic perhaps?

[[WMG: Korra will be similar to Katara, and her love interest will be related to Zuko/a firebender]]
Korra won't be an expy of Katara, but will be similar enough that when her love interest is a firebender, or even related to Zuko, all the Zutara shippers will be able to latch onto them instead.
** 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.
* It would solve the shipping wars
** 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 necessarily. [[Tropers/K9Thefirst1 I]], as a Zutarian, fully support this idea. ''Especially'' if it's mixed with the DatingCatwoman idea from the "Korra = Batman" theory.
**** This fellow Zutarian troper seconds the above idea, especially since she is a HUGE fan of shows including DatingCatwoman.
***** This Zutarian also supports the idea and would even forgive such BS as the [[AssPull Lion Turtle]] if it were implemented. Also, oddly enough, this Zutarian's also seen Kataang shippers latch onto this idea despite many loathing Zutara in any way, shape or form, if that tells you how interesting it is.
*** Sorry, but I've seen way too many idiotic flame wars that sprung from Tenzin being definitely Aang and Katara's son (not to mention the vindictive Zutara really happened and Tenzin was from a one night stand/really a spawn of Zutara Aang just thinks is his son! "theories") to think that even pseudo-Zutara will magically "solve" the shipping wars.
**** It also undercuts the claims that Zutara was not driven primarily by thematics (fire + water = balance) and/or aesthetics (they so hot).
**** Personally, that's exactly why I shipped Zutara, but then shipping has never been srs bisns for me.
** Eh? Why copy-and-paste from one generation to the next? It'd be predictable, necessarily repetitive on some (if not all) levels. The end of the series gave so much to play with in terms of character/Nation interaction. Retreading Fire/Water and significant ancestors like that would waste such opportunity and come across as cheap, no matter what fandom or subplots it would satisfy. Not sure why Zutarans would even appreciate that, because it looks like it'd be an insult - 'ha, it didn't work out with the originals, so here are some second-hand versions'.

[[WMG: Korra will not end up in a love triangle with Mako and Bolin. ]]
Bryke have said that TLOK is going to have "cheesy teen romance", and it's pretty much a given that the main characters are therefore going to be dragged into drama. However, the currently fandom-accepted theory is that there is going to be a love triangle between the Krew. This is not going to happen. Bryke have proven themselves to be major trolls when it comes to shipping. It seems rather... unlike them to hint at a love triangle and then introduce Korra's companions as a pair of brothers when they KNOW this fandom is going to start the shipping immediately, as many fans have. (Despite, y'know, not knowing a damn thing about the characters. Come on, people.) Having Korra choose between the brothers seems too obvious for such master shipper trolls. My money's on the cheesy romance being between Korra and a character with a more minor role, or ONE of the brothers at most.
* Alternatively, if the relationship is between Korra and Mako, it will NOT be some kind of Zutara expy. Bryke are good at writing realistic relationships between like characters (Katara and Aang are both idealists who want to help people, Sokka and Suki bonded through warrior training and are both good leaders, Mai and Zuko can understand each other's parental issues and emo outlook...) IF Korra and Mako fall in love, it will be because they enjoy spending time with each other and can connect on more levels then "fire + water = awesome" or "omg we're both hot let's make out." Bryke isn't going to slap a steambaby on them to placate fans who think they owe the fandom "a real love story this time."
** Actually, Mako kind of pings my gaydar.
** First WMG is {{Jossed}}. Korra has a crush on Mako while Bolin is very interested in Korra.

[[WMG: The love triangle will not be between Mako/Korra/Bolin but...]]
Actually, maybe not the most prevalent love triangle will between the three of them. The big love triangle that will be going down will end up being Korra/Mako/Asami. Asami is a non-bender who would find herself falling for Mako in whatever situation that she ends up in with the show. Korra [[spoiler: as it seems to be implied in the previews]] has a thing for Mako which originally starts from an admiration for his pro-bending prowess and grows into more. This could be an interesting look into the psyche of each character, especially Korra. This could potentially heighten her disdain for the Equalists (she's supposed to be restoring peace between benders and non-benders so this counterproductive thought process could be a huge storyline) and it's a situation that she can't solve with her physical abilities of being the Avatar. Granted, there's probably more important things for her to do, but this would be fascinating.
* Or, at the very least it's a love Diamond with two triangles consisting of Bolin/Korra/Mako and Korra/Mako/Asami....I think that would make it Bolin/Korra/Mako/Asami.
** Diamond Confirmed! Bolin likes Korra, Korra likes Mako, so does Asami, and Mako likes both girls. To sum up, Mako two, Bolin friend zoned.

[[WMG: Bolin, with his woman-wooing ways, will see Asami Sato as the ultimate prize.]]
Shippers, Start your engines!
* Nah, Mako will get with Asami. Why would a brooding, TroubledButCute firebender get with a rich, non bender (who probably gets bored)? Why do Mike and Bryan do anything?[[TrollingCreator To troll the Zutarians.]] You know it.
** Signs are pointing towards Makorra being the direction things will go. Bolin puts on the fangirl charmer routine on Korra and it falls flat in "Leaf in The Wind". And later in that episode, Korra gets star-struck by Mako pulling off his hat trick. Next up, Korra trying to impress Mako and Mako playing it aloof (not evidence on its own, but in context it could be). And then the "long gaze across the bay at the air temple/arena" between them at the end makes it even more apparent (I just know that's gotta be a trope... what would it be?)
** [[ShipTease They're lulling you into a false sense of Shipping security.]]
** I'm not so sure about that at this point. It's clear Mako see's Korra as a valued friend and teammate, but there's also hints that she has a crush on him. To wit: Her defensive reaction to Jinora's and Ikki's teasing when Mako came to visit, her jealous reaction when she learned he was with Asami, and her concerned reaction when she learned he was hit by a motorcycle. Mako may be Asami now, but I don't think we've seen the last of Korrako.
*** Not to mention their ShesNotMyGirlfriend/HesNotMyBoyfriend moment in "The Revelation", where they wake up leaning on each other and have a textbook reaction.
*** They were as blatantly obvious at declaring the shipping intent as they were with Aang and Katara in "The Fortuneteller". Their creator trolling has been just as blatantly obvious, and this didn't seem like it at all.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vXPupzRcygg#t=20s Watch this trailer]], pay attention to the flashing images after 0:20, and reconsider your scepticism.
** Seen it. After long deliberation and reflecting on the previous page image for ShipTease, I have this to say. [[AvatarTheAbridgedSeries Scepticism. Scepticism. Scepticism.]]

[[WMG: Mako and Korra will start dating, but will break up before the end of Season 1.]]
Because Bryke are like "You want a waterbender and a firebender to have a steamy romance? Sure. Here you go. One pseudo-Zutara romance. Only it'll end messily, they'll both come to think of their fling as a mistake, and then they'll both end up dating other people."
* Hey guys, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXPupzRcygg look what I found.]]
** That doesn't confirm or Joss anything yet.

[[WMG: Asami and Korra will get together]]
[[YuriFanboy No reason, really.]] People ''are'' already shipping them, though.

[[WMG: Korra will have vague unacknowledged romantic tension with a morally ambiguous but sympathetic firebender]]
Which will then be brutally [[ShipSinking ship-sunk]] when he turns out to be engaged to his childhood sweetheart, a girl in disguise (not that this would bother [[YuriFan some of the fandom]]), secretly her half-brother, or otherwise unsuitable. Because Bryke like trolling the shippers just that much.
* Heck, they've already started shipping Makorra. After mercilessly ShipTease, I'm willing to bet that the ship will sink like a ''stone.''

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Amon]]

[[WMG: Amon wants to use energy bending to become the avatar]]
Energy Bending can do that, and it explains why he didn't just take her powers away.
He couldn't do it there, because he has to take away everyone's bending so he is the only bender first.

[[WMG: Amon is AANG.]]

The flashback Korra had at the end of the fourth episode clearly shows that the grown-up Aang was having some sort of a disagreement with the city. Maybe the ruling elite really do favour benders; and he faked his death and started the Equalist movement to restore balance to the world. It fits; ''that's'' why Korra can't master airbending and that's also why Aang hasn't appeared to her as a Spirit Guide, like Roku did for him. Amon has the same build as you'd expect from an adult Aang, and, if you watch his fight closely you'll see that even his FIGHTING STYLE is strikingly similar to what we've seen from Aang in the original series. Amon is '''AANG!'''
* This makes perfect sense! Minus the fact that if Aang was dead there wouldn't be a new avatar...
** Maybe Aang knew enough to pass on the Avatar Spirit itself to maintain the cycle. That way he could work on a non-bender revolution while his duties as Avatar would be taken over by another. Come on, look at his fight with Lightning bolt Zolt - the way he does the sidestepping with the hand movements - how many times have we seen Aang do that against Zuko? Also remember Amon is only targeting criminals; and we've already seen that taking away a criminal-bender's powers instead of killing him is a solution Aang favours...
** Additionally, there is the possibility that Aang somehow energybended himself. While this would logically remove himself of his bending, it might also pass on the Avatar state to someone else. Plus, energybending seems so far removed from normal bending it might not be able to affect itself. This would allow Aang to truly fake his death, while allowing for the passing of the Avatar state. Alternatively, this is an unaffected side affect. Perhaps he WANTED to stop the Avatar state from continuing.

[[WMG: Amon is the murderer of Mako and Bolin's parents]]

A mere toady in the triple threat triad, hungry for advancement, Amon eventually decided that the best way to end up on top of an organization like that was simply to build one of his own and destroy the other... and what better to build sympathy than a sob story?

[[WMG: Amon is Lin Beifong]]

Amon's motives, stopping crime in Republic City, match hers, and [[spoiler: She may have used her metalbending to cause blood clots in the members of the Triad, or advanced chi-blocking techniques to cause paralysis]]. Her motives may mirror those of Avatar Kyoshi (setting up an all powerful police-force) because she resented what she saw as Avatar Aang's passive approach to justice. She also may resent her mother's boisterous, freewheeling approach to life and bending (Her own mother was a lawbreaker! Disgusting!) Whether Lin got them through an accident or through other means, a small part of Amon's story may be true... Lin does have those tiny scars...
''Alternately, Amon is a loose cannon cop who didn't play by the rules.'' He decided to go rogue, preferring vigilanteism than working with the system.

[[WMG: Amon will know how to bend all four elements or know how to energybend]]
It'll turn out he is an dependent from the time before the avatar.
* Not likely, given both the show's already established mythology and the primary purpose of his/her organization.
** Its possible that Amon is a bender, but impossible that he can bend more than one element, and improbable that he can energybend,
** ''Partially [[spoiler:Confirmed'']] as of "The Revelation" Amon makes a large show of explaining his past and background, [[spoiler: capping it off by energy-bending]]

[[WMG: Amon will eventually be revealed in the season 1 or 2 finale as a new and rival Avatar]]
Due to the events of the past 170 years with the near extermination of one of the four nations, the brutal 100 year war, the (temporary) death of the moon, the whole energybending thing, and now Technology and industry spreading, as well as knowledge and awareness of the spirit world slowly vanishing, the Spirit world is thrown into utter chaos and anarchy, and due to the Avatar being the "spirit of the planet" and innately linked with the spirit world, this role is somehow split. In this confusion a new avatar is created by the spirits in a desperate attempt to bring back order, only for him to decide to bring this order by eliminating the spirit world altogether, starting with the benders.
* Hey, Aang ''did'' die for a short time during [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheCrossroadsOfDestiny "The Crossroads of Destiny,"]] and it was only by the extraordinary luck of having a healer on hand with a rare vile of Spirit Water that he was revived. Maybe [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the second Avatar is the Kendra to Aang's Buffy.]] Only instead of being able to tap into phenomenal cosmic power, the Second Avatar can only access the knowledge of their past lives. So Amon can't bend at all, ''but'' he knows, say, all the tessenjutsu that Kyoshi knew. Multiply that by a few hundred lifetimes and Amon is simply, by inborn skill and archived knowledge, the single greatest non-bending fighter on the planet. And Korra? She gets the unrivaled bending power but no access to her past lives. That's why she's such a spiritual dunderhead; that aspect of the Avatar Spirit, the whole of which had been damaged by Azula's killing strike, split off following Aang's final death to form the Second Avatar. So to continue the Buffy analogy, [[{{Fray}} Amon is the Harth to Korra's Fray]].
** That would indeed help explain why she states she has such trouble with the spiritual side of the Avatar thing. Furthermore, I am going to guess right now that Koh has something to do with this
** ''Related Theory:'' Aang's "death" at the end of Book 2 messed with the avatar cycle and at that time another person was born with the potential to bend all four elements. Although given the circumstanced surrounding his birth, he doesn't have access to the avatar state or the spirits of past Avatars. Training and amassing forces in secret for 70 years, Amon plans to eliminate the competition before taking over the world.
** There's only one Avatar spirit, and since Aang was killed in the Avatar State, the spirit would've died with him. When Katara revived Aang, she revived the Avatar Spirit as well.
** Jossed. The Avatar Cycle was repaired while Aang was unconcious and recovering from Azula's headshot, detailed in the online game: Aang meets some of his previous incarnations for the first time (Yangchen and Kuruk) and reacquaints himself with Yue and Koh, and there is only one Avatar.
** Not so fast kids! This has been ''partially confirmed'' on a remarkably metatextual level. Amon wants to ''[[InvokedTrope set himself up]]'' as a DarkMessiah and self-styled saviour of the {{Muggle}} classes, a deliberate Anti-Avatar. [[spoiler: Then there's that apparant energy bending.]]

[[WMG: Amon [[spoiler: Faked Energybending]] During the Rally]]
In "The Revelation" [[spoiler: what Amon does is clearly supposed to invoke energybending...except there's a lack of flashing lights. He's probably using some high-level chi-blocking or even some unknown form of normal bending to suppress bending abilities. Amon's showmanship and chosen one spiel bears resemblance to that of a faith healer...]] The Revelation was just a way of sowing fear while he prepares his ''real'' plan...
** Energybending is a battle of wills. Perhaps he wants Korra to learn Energybending and use it on him so that he can use his willpower to destroy the Avatar spirit without knowing any Bending at all.
* ''Related: Amon's entire OriginStory [[UnreliableNarrator as told by him ]] is a calculated lie.'' Born a young man of humble ubringing... just like Sokka! Oppressed by benders... just like Aang! Unjustly attacked and scarred... just like Zuko! Chosen by the gods... just like Korra! A new Avatar, for a new age? Bull. Amon's got a hidden agenda, and part of that agenda involves a carefully crafted false identity and [[spoiler: Chi-blocking faux energybending... until, that is, he is able to eliminate or conrol the one person who can actually energybend... ]]
* The story is very likely to be a partial or a complete lie, considering that it follows the fabricated lifestory of almost every self-styled dictator in the 20th century, but that doesn't mean that [[spoiler: the energybending itself is a lie. It's visually all but identical to Aang's, minus the flashy effects since we don't see the act from the viewpoint of either Amon or his victims, and literally nobody but Ozai himself witnessed Aang's deed in ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender The Last Airbender]]''.]] Not all spirits are nice, and one might well have granted Amon power for its own reasons.
* [[http://masterarrowhead.tumblr.com/post/21546778935/hawkfeather-atla-annotated-energybending-a This tumblr post]] explains one theory as to how he's doing it and why it might not be real.
* Which may explain his actions when he [[spoiler:didn't take Korra's bending away. Maybe he knew he really couldn't, or maybe he can, just not to the Avatar, and so he settled for psychologically destroying her instead, which would remove her as a threat without exposing himself as a fraud.]]
** His whole speech about [[spoiler:taking away her bending making her a martyr]] is clearly bunk; surely he's already got a ZeroPercentApprovalRating among benders and bender-supporters. If anything, it'd just make everyone more afraid of and subservient to him, which seems to be exactly what he wants...so why didn't he do it? [[spoiler:Even if he can Spirit-bend, attempting it on the Avatar is probably pretty dangerous; Aang nearly killed himself trying to de-bend the Fire Lord. But the secret-Vulcan-Death-Grip chi-block technique seems more probable, what with his hand-wavy explanation of how he supposedly got this power.]]
*** Yeah, he's already the bad guy to benders, but if he takes away the bending of someone who isn't out extorting hardworking businessmen, then he might lose ''a lot'' of support from the people who casually support him or only kind of agree with him. And then there's the fact that he probably wants to make ''all'' non-benders support his anti-bending cause and taking bending away from the avatar would definitely not win him any new support. She would be a martyr because it's not all black and white and not everyone's firmly on one team or another.
*** But Amon sees the situation as black-and-white, even though it isn't. He wants to remove the powers of ''all'' benders, not just criminals, because he thinks bending powers are inherently unfair and evil (and also because he's kind of an egomaniac); he made this intention pretty clear at the rally, so he's not trying to make anyone think he's just a vigilante hunting down benders who abuse their powers. It may be true that [[spoiler:stealing the Avatar's powers]] would drive this point home a little better, but it would also prove his power beyond any doubt, remove a potentially serious threat, and probably convince a lot of non-benders to join his cause to avoid ending up on the losing side.

[[WMG: Amon made a DealWithTheDevil.]]
He claims that the spirits granted him [[spoiler:the power of Energybending.]] The power actually came from some malevolent spirit who made a pact with Amon to destroy the balance between the living world and the spirit world so badly so that the barriers would break and it could break through. In the final battle this spirit will possess Among, making him go OneWingedAngel on Korra. And this spirit is...Koh of course.
* Worse when you consider the waterbender avatar before Korra isn't on good terms with Koh, and he did say to Aang they would meet again.
* Furthermore, Koh's whole schtick is taking away people's faces... Makes the mask all the more creepy.
** On an even more subtextual level, Amon's defining character trait is his apparent ability to [[spoiler:deprive benders of their bending]]. This has very similar parallels to what Koh does; remove your identity, the thing that makes you who you are. The idea that Koh and Amon are in cahoots is a frightening thought indeed.

[[WMG: Amon's mask covers up a face he acquired in the SpiritWorld...''Aang's'']]
Amon's "revelation" came from Koh the Face Stealer, patron saint of MalevolentMaskedMen, who managed to finally get Aang in his clutches once Aang passed away. (And probably tried, with Kuruk, to rescue Kuruk's wife Ummi from Koh's clutches) Koh elected to [[DealWithTheDevil gift]] Amon with [[spoiler:the skill inherent in Aang's captured soul. ''chi-bending'',]] because no matter the incarnation, he hates the Avatar. This is why Korra finds airbending so difficult. Her immediate airbender incarnation, Aang, is cut off from her, and being forcibly channeled via Koh's mediumship into Amon.

[[WMG: Who Amon is doesn't matter]]
I'm guessing that the writers will took the same direction as V for Vendetta. Amon is a symbol, and nothing more. There could even be more than one Amon. Just like in the actual V for Vendetta (minor spoilers), [[spoiler: they probably going to explain about his skills, powers (like energybending and chi-blocking), and his recent past, just like how they explained how V is so strong and agile physically. ]] We are going to know a little about Amon, but it won't be much of a shock and more like: "ooh, yeah that makes sense." The man behind the mask doesn't matter, he's just a symbol. He has no secret motive, he has a face that no one will recognize, while he might given a few lies, his character remain the same.

Furthermore, it could be that the whole "face disfigured by a firebender" is just a writers and producers' trick. They can avoid showing his face for character-building reasons (the face doesn't matter), while avoiding the wrath of the fans by saying "We're trying to keep the rating."

[[WMG: There is a spiritual connection between Amon and Korra]]
Whether it's all related to the Avatar spirit or not, there will be some sort of spiritual connection between Amon and Korra.


[[WMG: Amon's identity will be willfully obfuscated by SteveBlum being CastAsAMask]]
And the audible difference of his SecretIdentity's voice artist will be lampshaded as a result of careful practice disguising his voice, which puts many of the supposedly less plausible theories below back in play. In addition, Blum will perform tertiary characters and crowd walla-walla both for utility and in a calculated effort to defeat our attempts to [[NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize Narrow It Down To The Guy We Recognize]].

[[WMG:Amon is descended from Sokka and Suki.]]
Sokka and Suki are the only non-benders of Team Avatar, with Suki as late add-on who nonetheless saved Sokka and Toph during the final battle. It is entirely likely that their contributions to the final battle was ignored in favour of Aang's fight with Ozai and Zuko and Katara's fight with Azula. We also know that Ty Lee ended up joining the Kyoshi Warriors after teaching them her chi-blocking techniques. Amon's minions, and possibly Oman himself, fight using that very technique. It adds up.
* Which raises the possibility that Amon is Tenzin's first or second cousin. Scary.

[[WMG: Amon is the son of a Kyoshi Warrior.]]
That's how the Equalists learned chi-blocking: his mom taught him, and he taught them. The "everyone wears masks" thing is a carryover from the Kyoshi Warrior's facepaint.

[[WMG: Amon is a descendant of Ursa.]]
We're all wondering what happened to Zuko's mom. Is Amon the living answer to that question? Ursa was, likelier than not, alive at the time of Zuko's infamous line of questioning. Maybe she started another family, or was pregnant by Ozai at the time of her exile, and her son, grandson, or great-grandson learned of her noble fire nation lineage, becomimg determined to return the fire nation to sovereignity and bear the title of Phoenix King by any means necessary, whether bender or not. The symbol on his mask is, after all, a rising sun...

[[WMG: Amon is Azula's descendant]]
So far, the character voiced by DanteBasco hasn't been revealed, and WordOfGod said that he has a connection to Zuko. My guess is that either:
* A: It would be implied that Azula was raped during her mental care.
** There is no way that would even be implied.
* B: She raised her children to hate benders.
* Or how about this: Amon IS Azula.

[[WMG: Amon is a later descendant of Ozai.]]
After having his bending powers taken away and being thrown into prison, Ozai either escaped or had a love affair with a female prison guard. (or possibly both) He sired a third child, Amon, who grew up believing that both firebending power and a royal life were taken away from him by the Avatar. As such, he vowed to get rid of not only the Avatar, but all benders in general, as revenge.

[[WMG: Amon is [[HijackedByGanon Ozai]]!]]
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)
* Why would Zuko have ''ever'' done something as stupid as letting his father out of prison for even a moment?
* Unlikely seeing as he would be a hundred something years old by then, and the only characters to have that kind of longevity are earthbenders like King Bumi and Avatar Kyoshi
** It has been stated by the creators (IIRC of course) that the long living is because of their chi power, not their nationality.
*** If that's the case, Ozai surely wouldn't have lived that long since Aang took away his bending and (I assume) his chi power with it (since, ya know, bending comes from chi).
**** Or maybe Aang simply sealed off his chi so that it couldn't be used for bending. Giving him an even more unnatural lifespan instead.
**** Guru Pathik wasn't a bender, but he was still able to live for over 100 years using whatever method. This is the Avatar universe we're talking about, anything can be possible.
* All that doesn't leave out the possibility of Ozai being the guy who ''started'' the Anti-Bender sentiments that would eventually give rise to the Equalizers. ESPECIALLY considering that Ozai would probably have found some way to continue to use his martial art skills(while he couldn't bend fire, he could still use his fighting skills), being Ty Lee's chi-blocking attacks that would later go on to become a bane upon all benders.
* That's why Amon hides behind a mask, the creators don't want anyone (including the viewers) knowing it's him.
* Just saw the trailer and their voices are clearly the same. Take that as you will.
** While similar in timbre, (and this is likely intentional) SteveBlum and MarkHamill are different people.
** ''Alternate Theory'': In the Avatar universe, a lot can happen. Ozai escaped from prison and disappeared, after many years was presumed dead and people stopped looking. He discovered some way to keep himself young and live for a long time. (possibly forever) He started to spread anti-bender philosophy under the new name "Amon". He decided that if he can't be powerful, no one should and thus wants everyone to turn against the benders. If everyone is against benders they will be against the Avatar, the most powerful one, and will do anything Ozai/Amon tells them if he says it's in the name of getting rid of benders.
*** 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.
*** That's why the WMG theory SAYS he found a way to keep himself young and live longer. This is the Avatar universe. There's chakras and controlling the elements, it wouldn't be surprising if there was some spiritual method to stretch out the lifespan. Remember, Guru Pathik was friends with Monk Gyatso, who died about 100 years ago in the story universe.

[[WMG:Amon is a LegacyCharacter]]
To contrast from Ozai, at least.

[[WMG:Amon will be the EvilCounterpart to Ozai]]
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.
* This doesn't make Amon the EvilCounterpart of Ozai, but EvilerThanThou.
** [[BeyondTheImpossible How can anybody be more eviler than Ozai?]]

[[WMG: Amon is Earth King Kuei]]
He's the most prominent non-bender, in terms of royalty. After having his throne usurped by benders, he's probably pretty sick of them. He may even have founded Republic City on the notion of being a place where benders were not accepted.
* yeah, cause actually ruling his kingdom is such a bad idea.
* He was also ''rescued'' by benders, remember? Trusting his bear's "keen animal instincts" besides, he's quite the ReasonableAuthorityFigure. He doesn't seem the kind to be involved in a FantasticRacism movement.
* And how do we ''know'' that he's not a bender?

[[WMG: Amon is Tom Tom, Mai's Brother.]]
This would explain the lack of bending, since Mai's family doesn't bend. He would be about 72, so he'd still be active enough to fight for being sort of old.

[[WMG: Amon is Baby Hope from The Serpent's Pass.]]
Or she'll appear somewhere else. There's nothing to back this up, I just think it'd be kind of awesome.
* Knowing Bryke's love of the ChekhovsGun and ContinuityNod, her showing up is definitely not outside the realm of possibility. And some minor character who was considered good, or at least neutral, in ATLA being the BigBad in Korra also seems to fit with their sense of storytelling.
* If I recall, there was a bit of fandom backlash over her name. Bryke have shown themselves to be pretty in-tune with what the fans don't like, as evidenced by the reference to "The Great Divide" in "The Ember Island Players", so this troper doubts Hope will play a major role. It's certainly possible we might see a minor character implied to be her, however.

[[WMG: Amon is Lee from Zuko Alone]]
That little kid who gave him the knife back when he found out Zuko's real identity? Being lied to and let down like that has made him bitter and now he's grown up into Amon! Also, his town was being bullied by that one earthbender. No wonder he now hates them so much. Benders never did anything good in his life.

[[WMG: Amon was a pupil of Aang]]
Following the war, Aang possibly took in students to teach them the ways of peace he followed so that they could rebuild the world as he had envisioned when he was gone. Amon was his most promising student and a close ally. Amon, a non-bender, learned everything Aang had to teach him and wanted to be Aang's successor to lead the new world. However, Amon was hit by a one-two punch:
* First, Aang favored his own son, Tenzin, over Amon, because Tenzin could airbend
* Second, Aang set up benders in positions of power over no-benders to develop the new world.
* Third, Aang made it clear that his successor would only be the new avatar, not anyone else, and especially not a non-bender.
Amon became increasingly bitter and resentful about this, and the bitterness turned to a hatred of benders in general. As Amon saw the rising corruption among benders and Aang's own complacency, he began to plan. He paid attention to Aang's abilities as a bender and read numerous books that Aang had written on bending. Through tireless study and patience, Amon learned the most secret art of all: energybending, the only power that everyone is capable of using. After learning all he could from Aang, he will brutally try to kill him, using Aang's weakened constitution due to the iceberg event against him, and will even try to use his new found powers to destroy the Avatar forever and stop the cycle of reincarnation. However, Amon, not being an Avatar and incapable of using the powers as effectively, failed. Aang dies anyway due to his shortened lifespan, and Korra was the result. Angered, Amon went on a rampage and possibly killed Toph, Sokka, Suki, Mai, Ty-Lee and assassinated Zuko, destroying the biggest threats to him (he more than likely would have trained under them and knew them personally if he knew Aang). Katara disappeared and went into hiding after Aang's death. Despite the setbacks, Amon used the deaths of the old Gaang and the chaos that caused to found the non-bender movement, using the connections he had acquired under Aang to do this, and set about to create his own perfect vision of the "new world".
** Partially ''CONFIRMED AND DEBUNKED''. Amon is an energybender (or appears to be), but he did not kill Zuko, who is still alive. That said, most of this remains unconfirmed.

[[WMG: Amon murdered Aang, which is why everyone is so scared of letting Korra near Republic City]]
Building on my above guess, I guess that Aang was assassinated by Amon, and this is known by Tenzin, the Order of the White Lotus, and by Chief Beifong. Aang likely knew he was being hunted by Amon at some point before his death, and tasked the Order into protecting the next Avatar when he died (which was mentioned by one of them in the first episode) before he went to find Amon. This is why Korra is kept almost imprisoned in a fort at the south pole, why Chief Beifong is so furious to find out she is in Republic city, and why Tenzin tries to prevent her from staying. The only reason Tenzin does not relocate to the South Pole is not because he is needed in the city, but because he wishes to avenge his father.

[[WMG: Amon's MoralEventHorizon will have to do with bending children]]
Its physically impossible to take bending away from people who aren't even born yet. Thus, when the next generation of bender's are born, Amon's true motives will come to light. And it'll all start with Tenzin's kids, Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo. All benders-AIRBENDERS at a young age, Amon'll kidnap them and will order that his men to keep Korra, Mako, Bolin, and Tenzin away while he...does his dirty work. They manage to arrive..in time to save Jinora. Ikki and Meelo are now scarred since Amon took away their gift. And thus, that'll solidify Amon as a CompleteMonster.
* Oh crap this actually seems likely given the darker direction the show seems to be heading. Plus attempting to exterminate an entire bender faction this way would definitely fit into his plan to screw over the avatar cycle as well as benders

[[WMG: Amon is Bumi, Aang's other Son.]]
* 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.
** This has my vote - Bumi was the only non-bender of that family. Worse - his father was the Avatar, his mother an incredibly famous master waterbender, his elder sister Kya followed their mother as another master waterbender, and his younger brother is a master airbender revitalizing that nearly wiped-out group. Seriously, he could very easily be extremely resentful for being the "non-bender" in such a well-known family.
*** While his official picture looks rather shifty, I'm more inclined to believe that he will be introduced as a blatantly villainous character, only to be revealed to be perfectly reasonable and friendly at the end of the episode. Remember who he was named after?
*** [[spoiler: Also, who better to learn Energy Bending from than dear old Dad, the expert, who taught it to him as a way to make up for not being as talented as his siblings?]]
*** On the other hand, there are a lot of people who say that Amon's [[spoiler: energy bending]] is a fares he's using to get more support. [[http://masterarrowhead.tumblr.com/post/21546778935/hawkfeather-atla-annotated-energybending-a I direct you to this tumblr post for more evidence on that theory.]]
*** And another vote for this theory after looking at Amon's hands, particularly in the profile pic on this page. His hands are pretty dark compared to someone like Tenzin, maybe about the same tone as Korra. Tenzin's brother Bumi has dark skin as well.

[[WMG: Amon is Bumi (or Kya's) son.]]
Due to him [[spoiler: using energybending]] and the fact that no one had done that aside from [[spoiler: Aang]] and [[spoiler: energybending might be Air's secondary skill as metalbending is to Earth and bloodbending is to Water]] this seems to be a rather solid guess. [[spoiler: Also, as others have pointed out, he moves like an Airbender when fighting Lightning Bolt.]]

[[WMG: Amon is Aang and Katara's fourth child.]]
* Related to the above. One Aang and Katara's children, in addition to Kya, Bumi and Tenzin, was a non-bender. He/she still felt all the pressures of living as the only non-bending child of the Avatar and his master waterbending wife, plus having three siblings as benders and eventually left home, never to be heard from again. All the resentment he/she had for his/her family lead him/her to create the anti-Bender movement. Katara has since stopped talking about this child as the memory of his/her leaving is still too painful. Aang and Katara did try to search for him/her, but the more they tried, the more resistance they felt from him/her and eventually decided to hope he/she would return on his/her own.
** Except that Bumi has been confirmed already to be a non-Bender. The unmentioned, hypothetical fourth child wouldn't have been the only non-Bender of the family as you suggest.
** Perhaps Aang and Katara had another non-Bender child? It would set up for a nice comparison: Bumi, the child who was proud of his non-bending and the mystery child who resented it. Either way, it's really disheartening to imagine the leader of the Equalist movement is not only Aang's child, but named after his best friend. But considering the series is supposed to be a lot darker...

[[WMG: Amon is Mako and Bolin's father]]
Amon was already prejudiced against benders, and he couldn't stand the idea of having two benders for children, so he abandoned them.
* Mako ''knows'' this because he'll recognize his father's voice; Bolin was too young to remember when he abandoned them and their mother. Oh, boy, does he remember. Amon will become Mako's BerserkButton and he try to take him out whenever he gets the chance. To top it off, Amon will have an adopted non-bender child he trained as his successor and that will cause even more problems.
* My theory is that Amon is Mako and Bolin's father, but he doesn't know they're still alive. In "The Revelation", Amon and Mako both describe an incident where a firebender killed their family. That was the same incident, and both Amon and Mako & Bolin did actually survive (so only their mother, and possibly other unmentioned family members, died), but for some reason the boys thought the father had died, and vice versa. Mako doesn't recognize Amon's voice in "The Revelation", maybe because it's been so many years since he heard it, or maybe because the burns Amon received to his face and the mask he wears change his voice. However, at some point Amon will realize Mako and Bolin are his kids (he didn't seem to recognize Bolin when he saw him in "The Revelation", but this is probably because he last saw Bolin as a kid, and because he thinks Bolin is dead), and this will lead to a LukeIAmYourFather scene. It's even possible Amon will undergo a Darth Vader style HeelFaceTurn... Amon probably didn't know Mako and Bolin were benders before their "death" (they were too young to show any bender potential), but once he realizes his sons grew up to be benders and yet they're still decent people, he can't hate benders anymore with the same vigour he used to.
** Kind of jossed? Amon describes himself as a young boy when this incident occurs, and also specifically mentions that his ''father'' dies, then mentions his family. It's a bit more plausible to think they might all be brothers instead, but even then a few details don't match up, like Mako and Bolin both being benders when Amon said he came from a non-bending family.

[[WMG: Amon is Hiroshi Sato]]
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.
* I approve of this theory.
* This theory is not supported by provided imagery or voice list of the characters. Steve Blum and Daniel Dae Kim sound nothing alike, and also, Amon certainly doesn't look tubby like Mr. Sato.
* Furthermore, Asami likes pro-bending. It would be kinda weird for his own daughter to be into that if he is an Equalist, unless she's going to matches behind his back.
* ''Alternate Theory: Hiroshi Sato either is now, or will eventually become a major financial backer or publicizer of the Equalist movement.'' Like Henry Ford's historical backing of infamous antisemitic periodical ''The Dearborn Independent'' Sato will likewise foment anti-bender sentiment and promote the Equalist cause through side-projects, either without Asami's knowledge (wishing to [[DontTellMama shield her]] from the ideological war he's waging), or convert to the cause over time, prompting a deep, public rift between father and daughter, and culminating with one disowning the other. Sato may justify his actions through a deep denial of the Equalists' violent proclivities, or justify the Equalists violent acts as reactions to bender oppression. Either way he'll become an UnwittingPawn.
* ''Second alt theory'': Sato was originally part of the Equalist movement earlier on, but then discovered that the group isn't about elevating nonbenders to the status equal to benders, but tearing benders down. Being a bootstrappy guy himself, he found the group's turn to be antithetical to his beliefs and left.
* ''Really crazy alt theory'': Amon is ''Asami'' Sato. Her mother was killed by benders when she was very young, so she plays the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob heiress who loves pro bending, has a CrashIntoHello with Mako to get close to someone who's close to the Avatar, and disguises her voice when she puts on the mask. Hey, Amon is DangerouslyGenreSavvy, so who knows if he's actually averting VillainsNeverLie.

[[WMG:Amon wears a mask because he [[TheFaceless has no face]].]]
He lost it to Koh somehow.
* Logically, wouldn't he starve to death? Or suffocate?
** That monkey outside the cave seemed fine.
*** That monkey outside the cave was in the Spirit World. The fate of Avatar Kuruk's wife clearly implied that people whose faces are stolen by Koh will die, hence how she was taken from Kuruk.
*** Koh stole Iroh's face and Iroh survived it. The implication behind Koh isn't that he's a malevolent spirit, he's an manifestation of the depersonalizing nature of enlightenment.
*** Woah, woah, woah. What?! When did Koh steal Iroh's face?
*** Before the show began. Iroh talks about how he had an encounter with the spirits that changed his life, and one of the faces Koh shows is a young Iroh. On the avatar wiki, it is the face on the bottom right row with the black mustache and hair. That's young Iroh.
*** The above theory is {{fanon}}. The only confirmation we had from the stagnant Nick.com site is he was a Fire Nation Soldier. Ummi, Kuruk's wife, whose face Koh stole, is treated as though she ''herself'' remains in Koh's custody when Aang tells Avatar Kuruk "He still has her" in the canonical motion comic "Escape from the Spirit World." Kuruk then presumably runs off to metaphysically retrieve her soul in some fashion.

[[WMG: Amon is Koh the Facestealer]]
* Which may explain why all the Equalists wear masks.

[[WMG: Amon is V]]
Running off the other theories floating through here, this makes the most sense.

[[WMG: Amon is DoctorDoom.]]
Look at the mask and hood. The big revelation of the series will be that it's set in the MarvelUniverse, and Benders are actually Mutants!
* And Tenzin is Reed Richards!

[[WMG: Amon is Lelouch vi Britannia]]

[[WMG: The fandom will not hesitate to [[DracoInLeatherPants put Amon in leather pants]]]]
Hell, you could argue that half the WMGs here are doing that already.

[[WMG: Amon's mask covers up a horribly burned face.]]
He was injured as a child, a young adult, or otherwise: this could explain his fondness for masks and his hatred of benders.
* [[MythologyGag He got the scars from a waterbender.]]
* ''Confirmed'' in Amon's own words in "The Revelation"....but the man could be lying...

[[WMG: [[SamusIsAGirl Amon is female]] ]]
It doesn't have a confirmed voice actor (yet), to joss it.
* Now that we know Amon has the manliest voice known to humankind, AKA that of SteveBlum, this is proven false.
* [[VocalDissonance We can only hope.]]

[[WMG: Amon is an AntiVillain]]
Because we already had a CompleteMonster BigBad.

[[WMG:Amon will cross the MoralEventHorizon]]
Whatever it'll be, it'll cement him as an [[BeyondTheImpossible even worse monster than Ozai]].
* Maybe it'll [[EvenEvilHasStandards put off]] a lot of his followers too, and maybe even prompt a HeelFaceTurn in Lieutenant.

[[WMG:Amon will be a HeroKiller]]
Almost every other ''Avatar'' villain has, so he shouldn't be any different.

[[WMG: Amon is secretly a Bender, or a public supporter of them.]]
And one so recognizable that he has to wear a mask to keep this a secret from his followers. When we see Amon, even when he's hiding in a private place and surrounded only by the Equalists, (and his Lieutenant) he still wears his mask. 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.
* ''Related Theory:'' Amon is [[http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Paratia/ThisGuyRightHere.png this guy. This guy, right here.]] He looks to be an important figure; a noble or industrialist, maybe?
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} Nooooope.]] That's Tahno, an effeminate male pro-bender. An image of him was revealed during the Korra Nation Pai Sho game that went on while the 100K likes were still going.
** That doesn't really exclude him from consideration, does it?
*** I would put money on Tahno being a don of the Triple Threat Triad.
*** It also appears that Tahno and Amon appeared in a trailer together at the same time, so that might rule it out as well.
* Alternate theory: Amon is a bender, which is how he can energybend, but is merely using the equalist movement to further his own goals.

[[WMG: Amon is a Bender DefectorFromDecadence who has seen the seedier side of bender culture and wants to destroy it.]]
In this world, benders more than likely make up some kind of aristocracy, and more than likely make up the majority of the business magnates, politicians, royals, police, and military. Amon is a high ranking, but younger member of this aristocratic class who sees the injustices that currently afflict the modern four nations and wants to change the status quo. Realizing that changing it from the inside is impossible, he founds the Anti-Bender Revolt with his wealth and influence, and is drawing both bender elite and non-benders to his side.

[[WMG: Amon is Hasook.]]
Tying into the 'Amon is a Bender' therory, he left the fire ferrets not because he argued with Mako, but because he didn't want Korra (who he knew he would one day have to fight) to learn anything about him. If you need anymore proof, just look at both of their eyes. They both have that dead, soulless gaze.

[[WMG:Amon was a child of two bending parents but he himself [[MuggleBornOfMages couldn't bend.]]]]
Best FreudianExcuse for the BigBad is to have his parents reject or even outright abandon him. This made Amon bitter and resentful towards all benders.
* Just like [[HarryPotter Filch]]!

[[WMG: Amon had a bending sibling but could not bend himself.]]
Similar to the above theory. Amon had a Bender sibling who got all the praise from his parents and grew up [[SiblingRivalry resenting him or her]].
* Just like [[HarryPotter Petunia]]!

[[WMG: Amon will be "interested" in Korra.]]
* Just because...
** [[FoeYay Interested?]]
*** Well if the fans are to be believed, he's already ''[[MemeticMolester interested]]'' in a few people.

[[WMG: Amon will attempt to [[WeCanRuleTogether get Korra on his side.]]]]
History has demonstrated more then once that if you want to change the world, having the Avatar on your side is a good idea. Exhibit A: Kyoshi dealing with the Earth Kingdom revolts (OK, granted that was more like Kyoshi finding a middle ground, but still). Exhibit B: The Fire Nation getting beaten by Aang. As a result, FoeYay between Korra and Amon will be inevitable.
* Expanding on this WMG, the Equalists want all people to be just that, equal, and not have the privilege of "bending". This also prevents a retrace of Ozai's genocidal plan to eliminate all the other nations, simply replacing "Ozai" with "Amon" and "the other nations" with "benders". This is why they utilize Ty Lee's chi-blocking techniques in their fighting: it takes away a bender's abilities and puts them on equal footing with the foe that the bender was fighting. However, this technique is not permanent and once the bender's chi channels are unblocked, he/she can use their bending again. Only the Avatar, specifically Aang, has been recorded to truly and permanently take away a person's bending. It's been stated in the leaked promotional material that Korra struggles with the spiritual side of bending, even though she excels at the physical part. Amon will play on this weakness of hers and get her to question her beliefs, and [[StrawmanHasAPoint make some fair arguments]] to trick her into thinking that his viewpoint is correct, hoping that she will make a HeelFaceTurn and use Energybending to take away benders' abilities the whole world over.

[[WMG: Amon will use Korra to be rid of bending forever]]
Specifically, Amon will permit Korra to complete her realization as the Avatar, and for her to learn energybending by some means. At which point he will use her as a living weapon by some means, forcing her to produce a mass energybending field on a global scale to wipe bending out forever. Korra overcoming this will symbolize her mastering the spiritual side of bending.

[[WMG:Amon's long term goal is...]]
To create the world's first nuclear bomb, or something extremely similar in power. He's an evil genius who believes all benders think they're above non-benders. So, he wants to prove he can be more powerful than any bender...which is why he's trying to create the bomb. This also would explain why Aang died young--the villain tricked him into going into a small space, and set off a large explosion that killed him. It was a prototype he's trying to make more powerful.
* Aang died young because of his decreased lifespan, thanks to his time in the iceberg.

[[WMG:[[ManipulativeBastard Amon's just using the Equalist Movement for his own ends]]]]
His plan to rid the world of benders (either through genocide or legal means) is a front to allow himself to take it over unopposed. This will be revealed and he will reveal himself to either be an extremely powerful Bender himself or have some secret weapon he was planning to unleash once he's succeeded.
* Why hello there [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Ghetsis]]!

[[WMG: Amon uses benders as a political scapegoat.]]
Basically, he found some way to convince large groups of non-benders that benders were the source for a lot of their problems. By giving the people a common enemy, it's easier for him to get them to gather under his power and command. He may not really harbor any hatred toward benders, and may even be a bender himself, but he took discrimination against benders that already existed and used it to his advantage.

[[WMG: The Equalists take orders from Amon, and Amon takes orders from... Chief Beifong.]]
Amon is a fake persona, a plant, concocted by Lin Beifong to co-opt rising anti-bender sentiments and discredit the whole movement through violent acts.

[[WMG: Amon and his lieutenant will be expies of Lenin and Trotsky respectively.]]
Amon will be a cynical and ruthless, but ultimately [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] BigBad who rallies support from the genuinely oppressed by offering them what the elite are unwilling to, but is ultimately interested [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans in power above all else]]. He will be [[MagnificentBastard a political mastermind]] and just [[EvilIsCool cool]] enough to avoid CompleteMonster territory while also making enough [[StrawmanHasAPoint genuinely good political points]] to inspire tons of [[DracoInLeatherPants pantsification.]] The lieutenant will be a genuinely idealistic WellIntentionedExtremist AntiVillain who carries his idealism to the point of fanaticism believing ends justify the means. Will be a tactical and strategic genius but not as good at playing internal politics. In the second season they will be joined by a paranoid, brutal and AxeCrazy Stalin expy who at first seems useful to them but ultimately takes power and destroys them in an EnemyCivilWar to become the true BigBad.
** Possible, but more likely he's an expy of Mao (hell, their names are similar enough already). He's a savvy and charismatic leader dedicated to bringing equality to the downtrodden masses who may or may not go completely off the rails and/or drop his facade, depending on how cynical the show gets. On the other hand, Lin Beifong is the Chiang Kai-Shek figure, the nationalist military leader who keeps the peace with an iron fist, who may or may not be a fascist and who lets the Triads operate with impunity, again, depending on how cynical the show gets. Lin's efforts to exterminate the Equalist movement whilst ignoring their legitimate grievances (as well as her possible massive corruption) will send the legitimate Equalist sentiment spiraling out of control into full-blown revolution.
[[WMG: Amon was Ty Lee's son and he was raised and trained by Azula after she was murdered]]
She trained him for vengeance, schooling him in the art of being a cutthroat, ruthless mastermind to take down those who killed his family, honing the chi-blocking abilities of his mother, possibly with the help of Kyoshi warriors. However, when Amon discovered that his guardian and teacher was not only formerly the most powerful firebender in existence and responsible for having trained others in how to bend lightning (proliferating its knowledge throughout the world) but was additionally connected to why Ty Lee was killed - the firebender who attacked him was a bitter supporter of Ozai going after the easiest defector to track down and kill - he turned on Azula and killed her. [[NotQuiteDead Or so he thinks.]]
[[WMG: Amon's face is completely unharmed.]]
During the Revelation, Amon claims to have been disfigured by the Firebender that took his family's lives. Of course, this is an outright lie used to garner sympathy and to increase the hatred for benders. By wearing the mask and not removing it to prove the statement true, it will be used as a reveal later that a large chunk of his supposed backstory is false.

[[WMG: Amon is the son of a farmer like he claims.]]
More specifically, a certain [[spoiler: [[LethalJokeCharacter surprisingly knowledgeable cabbage]]]] farmer. WordOfGod said [[spoiler:we would see a descendant of the Cabbage Merchant in this series]]. Years of being pushed around by benders during the war and reconstruction have made him and his family resentful to all benders, an endless source of grief to their simple farming lifestyle.
* As nice as it would be to have that to tie into the old series, it's still oddly funny to think that such a character that was centered on comedic relief would produce such a creepy and dangerous antagonist. If he goes into his fathers crops and SteveBlum manages to drop the word "cabbages" I'll probably lose it and just laugh.

[[WMG: Amon runs on [[ILied lies]], and the entire Revelation was staged.]]
In the original Avatar series, most of the villains tried to succeed by using force. Amon contrasts that by purely messing with people's brains to get his way. Amon captured Bolin because he knew it would draw in Korra, as it's already been heavily publicised in Republic City that they're on a Pro-Bending team together. Without letting Bolin in on anything, Amon paid the bending criminals to pretend that they were in the same situation as Bolin. Then Amon "demonstrated" his energybending in front of Korra on the criminals, intentionally putting Bolin last in line so Korra wouldn't stop the thing until she saw his "power". In reality, he has no power. But since Korra thinks he does, he will no longer be targeted head-on by any benders. Why wouldn't an anti-bender want to take advantage of the concept of energybending? It's a bender's worst enemy. And since The Avatar is the only one who formerly grasped energybending, the prospect of someone else doing it would probably get to Korra's head. He probably made up his backstory to get sympathy as well. Ever notice how similar it was to Mako's backstory? Amon builds himself up by claiming he is not only powerful, but sensible. Eventually, when he is actually confronted by Korra one-on-one with nowhere to run, [[VillainousBreakdown he'll be exposed for the lying little weakling he is]], full with his mask flying off to reveal a totally unharmed face.
* [[http://masterarrowhead.tumblr.com/post/21546778935/hawkfeather-atla-annotated-energybending-a More evidence to support this.]] The Internet is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

[[WMG: Amon's story is at least 90% true.]]
While he might be wrong on a couple things, due to being blinded by his FantasticRacism and/or his aspirations of messiah-ness, Amon is not actively trying to lie about his past or the nature of his powers.

OK, I admit that this is mostly due to personal preference. I understand the appeal of the "Amon is lying to gain followers" idea, and if you support it, then all power to you. However, I personally believe that Amon's story gives him character depth and makes him a good villain with a bunch of interesting possible routes for him. In my mind, turning him into a liar just wastes a great deal of potential and turns Amon into a kung-fu evil televangelist. Which is less interesting then it sounds.

[[WMG:Amon is an Airbender.]]
It is possible a small number of Airbenders survived the Fire Nation genocide and hid themselves away, and Amon could have been descended from them. He's hiding what he is for his own nefarious reasons, whether he hates bending or not. Also, it would be pretty sweet to have an evil Airbender on the show.
* '''Warning''': Possible massive spoiler. [[spoiler:So I'm not sure if [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m31ycrMiRL1qm60dio1_1280.jpg this]] is real or not, but given we don't know how this scene will play out or what's happening here, it could be a case of TrollingCreator.]]
** The character in that pic looks remarkably like an older version of [[spoiler:Tenzin]]. Now, which character would have [[spoiler:airbender tattoos]] and look like an older [[spoiler:Tenzin]], but [[spoiler:his father]]? Even the nose shape and the eye colour match [[spoiler:those of Aang]]. The pic could be a fake, or it could be real one that depicts a dream or fantasy sequence instead of actual events, but if it's neither of those, we're in for the mother of all plot twists.
* Or he could be a time traveling Meelo or even Pema's and Tenzin's 4th child from the futrue.
* Or, if that [[spoiler: really is Aang, he took the mask OFF of someone or was giving it to someone, rather than himself. Just because he is holding it doesn't mean that it's his. For all we know, the mask was, for instance, a gift to someone who would become Amon- at the time it was given to him, the mask wasn't sinister at all.]]
* Or, my personal headcanon, using flashback, [[spoiler:Aang was using the mask to act as himself rather than the Avatar. Look how the people treat Korra - constant pressure, paranoia over safety and high expectations -[[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne being the Avatar kinda sucks]]. He got the idea from Zuko and the Blue Spirit.]] Amon started using this identity because, with someone else already having used it, it was known and trusted more than if he'd start up something as himself.

[[WMG: Amon doesn't make bending powers disappear, rather, he absorbs them.]]
He took scattered anti-bending sentiment that already existed and created a movement. He makes it appear that he can make bending powers disappear so his followers will bring him benders he can depower. However, what he's ''really'' doing is absorbing the bending powers and taking them for himself. He hopes to absorb so much bending power that he will become ridiculously powerful. He still believes in his own cause, but sees himself as an enforcer, that he can have bending powers because he won't (in his eyes) abuse them for his own gain. So he doesn't see himself as a hypocrite. He hopes to accumulate enough bending power to take over the nation, and then the world.

[[WMG: Amon is "Protester", the angry guy with the megaphone.]]
What better disguise than a whimpy ButtMonkey?

[[WMG: Amon was given Energybending by Aang]]
Lets be perfectly honest here, Aang may have had shades of [[IdiotHero heroic idiocy]], but he probably realized at some point that Airbenders would not be able to reestablish themselves purely through the . . . efforts . . . of him and his direct descendants. Energybending can ''take away'' one's bending ability, so it may very well be able to ''give'' a nonbender bending abilities. Theory: Aang initially tried to resurrect the Air nomads by finding people of a compatible mentality and gifting them the potential for Airbending. Amon was initially one of his students and one of the most promising. So promising, in fact, that before Tenzin proved himself as a capable Airbending master, Aang gifted Amon the ability to spiritbend, so that he could continue recruiting airbenders in the event of Aang's death. However, they perhaps had a severe falling-out (possibly fueled by Tenzin coming into his own, and Aang beginning to favor him rather than Amon) and Amon struck out on his own. There is some possible support for this in episode 3; when Katara reports to Tenzin about Amon taking away someone's bending, he hesitates and gives the classic "shifty eyes" look before saying that only the Avatar was capable of such a thing.

[[WMG: Amon was a disciple of Aang's, and Aang taught him energybending so he could act a safety valve against powerful benders.]]
In the end of "The Revelation", Tenzin clearly states that previously only the Avatar has been able to energybend. So, if we are to accept that Amon's energybending is the real deal and not fakery, who else could've taught him that but Aang himself? Based on his experience in the war against Fire Nation, Aang realized that powerful benders could do tremendous damage to the world. Also, he suspected that even the Avatar could possibly go corrupt abuse his/her power. So he decided that there should be a force in the world that could counter power-hungry benders. He sought out a non-bender disciple who he knew was wary of benders, and trained him to energybend, so that this disciple could stop any powerful bender, possibly even the next Avatar, from abusing his powers. This disciple was Amon. However, Aang didn't realize the extent of hatred Amon has for benders, or that he might use what he has learned to actively fight against ''all'' benders, not just the corrupt ones.

This WMG can also be combined with the WMG that Amon is Bumi, Aang's non-bender son. In that case Aang taught Bumi energybending for aforementioned reasons, but he didn't realize Bumi had begun to resent and envy all benders, having grown up as a non-bender in the most famous bender family of them all. In that case Amon's story of his family getting killed by a firebender is obviously a lie Bumi concoted to gain sympathy from the other Equalists.
* It's unlikely that Amon is Bumi. Bumi has dark skin, and as we can tell from his hands, Amon has light skin.

[[WMG: Amon isn't actually human]]
In reality, Amon is a spirit from the spirit world. It may explain his energybending, and the reason he wants to take away the benders powers is simply because he doesn't want them meddling in the spirit world any longer.

[[WMG:Amon is a descendant of Cabbage Guy]]
Get ready, this is a long one. Alright, in the episode "The Revelation" Amon states that his face was burned and his family killed when his father was unable to pay his debts. This implies that he came from a poor family. What i see is Cabbage guy never really recovering from having his harvests destroyed multiple times, his already failing cabbage business was barely enough to make ends meet, so when the Gaang and their pursuers continually destroy his pitiful harvest it's really bad news for the elderly man trying to feed his family. So, some years later, the old man's son has taken over the farm, he does not share his father's passion for cabbages so he is even less successful at raising crops, quickly spiraling into the depths of poverty, he takes out a loan from the Triple Threat Triad. Someway or another the money is squandered and he is unable to make due on his payments, the Triad sends out a squad to take the money by force. But there'snothing to take. So, what's a new and not yet respected gang to do when they risk losing credibility, they have to send a message, somehow let everyone know they aren't to be messed with. So they torch the place, burn it to the ground and kill the farmer and his family. making them a force to be reckoned with. What they didn't know, was that the farmers son survived, the grandson of Cabbage guy, witnessing a group of three benders destroy his home and family. His name is Amon, and he will destroy all benders.

[[WMG: Amon is Tarrlok]]
He's trying to create unrest to further his own political ambitions to become the sole leader of the United Republic of Nations with Korra as his UnwittingPawn and be the end of Book Two, he'll have [[TheBadGuyWins taken over the council]] and start working on his next goal: turning himself into the Avatar using MadScience and {{Magitek}}. Korra and her Krew will have to go on the run and gather allies from the Four Nations to fight him.
* Seemingly {{jossed}} by "The Voice in the Night". Tarrlok has the brown skin and blue eyes of the Water Tribe, whereas Amon is shown to have the yellow eyes and light skin common to Fire Nationers. Of course there's still the possibility that Tarrlok is a MasterOfDisguise...
** I'm guessing that wasn't Amon. Why didn't he want to take her bending away? He couldn't. Only Tarrlok could, and he had to be waiting on the shore for Korra so they send another guy in a mask. "Amon" didn't spare her to save the fight for later, he spared her because he couldn't take away her bending and killing her wouldn't be useful because Korra is useful to Tarrlok (she's a polarizing force and he obviously has big plans for her). He also "begged her not to do it"... not because it would endanger her, but because it could expose him too early.
*** But in the scene in episode 3 where Amon ''does'' take bending away from benders, he has the same eye and skin colour as in episode 4. So it couldn't have been Tarrlok then, either.

[[WMG: Amon really [[MemeticMutation can't tell a joke even if he tried.]]]]
He really can't.

[[WMG: Amon is Aang's EvilTwin.]]
Aang actually had an identical twin brother, but for whatever reason, maybe because of Air Nomad traditions, the two were separated at an early age, so Aang never found out about him. When Avatar Roku died, the Avatar spirit entered the womb of Aang's mother, but it was confused at first, because there were two kids with the same DNA. The spirit chose Aang, but Amon, Aang's twin, received some residual Avatar energy as well. This energy explains why Amon has managed to live for almost 200 years, and why he can energybend. Now, when Amon says a firebender killed his family, he's twisting the truth a bit, because he can't reveal to the Equalists that he's an airbender. But the truth is even more horrible: Amon witnessed his entire civilization being destroyed by firebenders. That's why he hates benders so much, and feels that they are behind every atrocity in the history of the Avatar world. Now, it's possible Amon's face was indeed burned by a firebender during the attack against Air Nomads, but the main reason he hides it is because he can't let the Equalists see his Air Nomad tattoos. It's also possible his face wasn't burned, and he hides it also because people would recognize he looks exactly like the former Avatar.

[[WMG: Amon is Tenzin.]]
If the theory that Amon's energy bending is a fares, then he would have to learned to Energy Bend from Aang directly. That would leave either Aang's two remaining children or Tenzin. I believe his reason behind this is when Amon claims he wants to bring balance to world, what he really means is that he wants to even the population of ALL benders. Even after 75 years the Airbender population seems confined on a small island. When you watched Amon dodge, it wasn't simply side stepping, it looked similar to an Airbender maneuvering, only with less pivoting and spinning but skillfull none the less. Also at the end of "The Revelation" he acted kind of suspcious and shifty-eyed when Korra shared her fear of Amon's ability to energy bend.
* In "A Voice in the Night", sometime after Korra and Amon's one-sided showdown, Tenzin got fed up waiting on the shore with Tarrlok and went out to the island, where he found Korra just as she was waking up. Believable enough, but one could also see it this way: Amon knocked Korra out, dismissed his chi-blockers, made his way over to some secluded spot on the other side of the (rather tiny) island, quickly changed clothes, and ran back around as Tenzin to "check on" Korra.

[[WMG:Amon was chosen by Aang as a means of keeping the balance in Republic City.]]
Aang taught Amon energybending as a last resort in case the benders of Republic City became too corrupt. He seemed to be the correct choice, but was eventually wronged by some bending gang like the Triads and decided to use the power Aang gave him to make sure he would never be wronged again.

[[WMG: The firebender who attacked Amon's family was Mako and Bolin's father.]]
Note that Bolin was the only person [[spoiler: chosen to get his bending taken away]] who wasn't a criminal...
* Bolin was present in a Triad meeting. Amon would have no reason to assume him anything but a Triad enforcer.

[[WMG: There is more than one "Amon".]]
When your main identifying feature is a mask, it's no great feat to be in many places at once. "Amon" is actually a CollectiveIdentity of two or more people who need each other's influence to build up the Equalist movement into a real political force, but both their methods and motivations are divergent. Only one Amon is capable of Energybending, and is the top dog compared to the other(s), and it was a different Amon who encountered Korra on the Memorial Island; after all, putting the only Energybender in the group to such great risk of falling into a trap, if Korra had been remotely devious enough for such deception, would have been incredibly poor planning. Hence why he had to present an excuse as to why he wouldn't strip his most dangerous enemy of her Bending then and there.

I'm inclined to believe that Tarlakk is one of the Amons, and uses his authority to take down small fish in the organization, convincing the rest of the reality of the Bending threat while simultaneously giving the general populance an impression that everything is under control, but his goals clearly can't involve Bending equality; the Energybending Amon is much more dangerous and driven to this goal.
* This could be, but in all of Amon's appearances so far we've seen that he has the yellowish eyes and fair skin of a Fire Nationer, which would seem to rule out Tarrlok, Bumi, and some of the other suspects, due to them having a different eye and/or skin colour. (Unless, of course, the Avatar world has some equivalent to our coloured contact lenses and body paint.) So far, the only important character with the same eye and skin colour that we've met is Hiroshi Sato.
* So, Amon is Anon(ymous)? Mind = blown.

[[WMG: The firebender who killed Mako's and Bolin's father is...]]
A. the firebender who allegedly killed Amon's parents.
B. Lightning Bolt Zolt or someone directly related to him, like a son or brother or something.
C. ...if we want to suspend the willing disbelief, Zuko. But much less likely.
Note that none of these are particularly exclusionary.

[[WMG: Amon is Sokka]]
Sokka has been been known to be resentful of benders (see Sokka's Master in Book 3), and is one of only a few people who witnessed Aang energybend. He is "confirmed" dead, but Sokka is certainly intelligent enough to figure out how to fake his death. It might also give an extra reason as to why he doesn't immediately go after Korra. It also explains why he lets the other Equalists do most of the heavy lifting, because running around doing a lot of fighting isn't a great idea when you're eighty or so.
* The confrontation with Amon triggered Avatar-flashbacks in Korra. One of this flashbacks include Sokka.
* Sokka and Amon have huge interests in futuristic superweapons. Sokka in submarines, Amon in Mechas
* Sokka had Through Ty Lee and the Kyoshi-warriors access to the teaching of chi-blocking.
** Sokka is a very good strategist by the end of the original series--consider how far he would have developed that skill over time.

[[WMG: Amon is [[TransformersPrime Starscream]]]]
I don't know how he got to this world, or how he got to human size (maybe the Benders are just giants compared to Earthlings), but Amon is really Starscream. His "energy bending" is actually "energon bending" and he is actually harvesting the energon-rich power from humans to survive on his own since cutting ties with Megatron. The clincher, however, is the voice: listen to Amon and Starscream and tell me that there's no [[SteveBlum connection]] between the two!


[[WMG: The Spirit(s) helping Amon]]
General guessing thread.
* Koh
** The most probable. He has a precedent for dicking around with Avatars.
* Wan-Shi-Tong
** Unlikely. He couldn't give a flying feather about the mundane world and all its caprices.
* Yue
** Also unlikely. She is now mantling a central spiritual figure for Waterbending. Why would she want to dispense with her disciples? She's not a vindicative sort like that either.
* The spirit of the land/nature of Republic City, now overrun by technology - think Hei-Bei.

[[WMG: Amon is a Bloodbender and a chi-blocker]]
Those two abilities combined allow him to [[spoiler: fake Energybending]]. Or he has a Bloodbender helping him behind the scenes (perhaps Tarrlok) and can only chi-block himself.

[[WMG: The Spirits didn't tell Amon how to de-bend to tear down the Benders, but as a convoluted method to BreakTheHaughty Korra and get her on track.]]
This would not be the first time that a Spirit entity has given an Avatar a swift kick in the ass to get them back on track; Koh the Face Stealer swiped the face of Kuruk's bride as punishment for his laissez-faire attitude towards his Avatar duties. And Amon will find out and be completely pissed that he's just a CosmicPlaything.

[[WMG: Amon is the Anti-Avatar who knows the element Wu.]]
Korra is the avatar, so if Amon is the series' big bad, it would make sense. So say there was the traditional (I want to say Taoist) elements of China, with Nothingness: Wu. There is a pentagram analogy used to describe this and in the middle is energy bending, the Wu is accessed by the anti-avatar every so oftern, when he/she is renincarnated. Amon is the only a-avatar to unlock this as most do not know of thir existence. The Wu will force the end of the world because of the Artifical Enlightenment caused by Chi-less world of non-benders. The AAs aren't necessarily bad, they just seek to end pain.

[[WMG: Amon will not be related to anyone, and will look like a normal man under the mask.]]
It would be a very effective commentary on everyone having equal capacity for good or for evil. And if Korra manages to learn Airbending and blow Amon's disguise away, she can show people the truth--no scars, no divine mission, simply one man with an obsessive vision and the ability to persuade followers. Which is how so many real revolutions got started.

[[WMG: Amon's spiritbending is different because he is not a bender]]
Aang touches two chakras while taking away someone's bending: Light, which signifies that all is one, including the elements, and Air, since he is an airbender. So the reason why Amon uses a different style to take away people's bending, is merely that he only has to touch the light chakra. Also, consider this: When Aang and Ozai matched spirits, we could see the glow for both of their native elements. The reason there is no glow for Amon's spiritbending is because he simply has no bending element to display. This could also mean that it is actually much simpler for non-benders to learn spiritbending (meaning Amon could teach it to his followers), since there is no way for a bender to resist.

[[WMG: Amon is related to Yakone, who has something to do with how Amon is now.]]
Yakone was a man who was mentioned to be a huge threat to Republic City before Aang stepped in and took care of him, but it hasn't been said what he exactly did. Yakone could have been one of the first Equalists who, instead of chi-blocking, held rallies and demanded non-benders to have equality to benders. The Benders on top see him as a threat as his followers become uncontrollable. Soon after his followers do something that nearly destroys Republic City, Yakone is held accountable and executed by Aang. His son, who had looked up to his father and was now the target of benders and non-benders who wanted nothing to do with him, disappears. Years later, Amon appears and promises to bring the benders down, saving the Avatar, who killed his father, for last.

[[WMG: Amon is Tenzin's old lover before Pema.]]
Because that would be hilariously unexpected.
** Alternatively, Amon could be the illegitimate child of Tenzin and his old lover, and Tenzin's lover never told him that they had a son. It would explain how Amon can energybend (he's somehow inherited the ability from his grandfather Aang). The parental abandonment issues would also give him a FreudianExcuse for resenting Benders, sort of like how Voldemort hates Muggles because his Muggle dad abandoned him. The mask hides his strong resemblance to Tenzin and/or Aang.
** Jossed, It was Lin Bein Fong.
[[WMG: Amon's Energy Bending will be his downfall]]
It's said that if one tries to Energy Bend someone else's life energy, their spirit must be unbendable, or they'll be destroyed. At present, Amon is totally sure of his own ideals and motivations, thus he's able to Energy Bend. In the end, Korra or someone will give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, making him undergo a VillainousBreakdown and second guess his own ideals. He'll try to Energy Bend Korra, but his spirit is no longer unbendable, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard causing it to backfire and destroy him]].

[[WMG: When Amon attempts to de-bend Korra, her spiritual training will have advanced to the point where she is Unbendable, and Amon fails to de-bend her.]]
And will possibly get to see the consequences of failing to de-bend someone properly.

[[WMG: At some point, Amon will take over Shiro Shinobi's role as announcer on the PreviouslyOn segments.]]
Based soley on his tendency to hijack radio broadcasts.
** Possibly Episode 7 because Shiro was knocked out the episode prior?

[[WMG: Amon (directly or indirectly) bribed the referee to let the Wolf Bats blatantly cheat in the Pro Bending final.]]
Because breaking in on a fairly-won match wouldn't give him nearly as much propaganda for his speech. He's clearly not above dirty tricks to achieve his ends.

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[[folder: The Equalists]]

[[WMG: The Equalists originated from the Freedom Fighters of Jet's old gang. Amon is probably Smellerbee]]
Let's look at this possibility - we know the colonies will be turned into a new nation (or at least a new independent city) which won't be completely accepted by the Freedom Fighters and a lot of others (Just go read the Promise). Add to this they would be unhappy at the discrimination issues in the colonies based on bender status. So someone comes up with the idea that the whole art of bending is what led to all this mess and the solution is to stop people's bending. Oh yeah, and that's the point where they'd go fully against the Avatar as well. 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.

[[WMG: The Equalists started with the Kyoshi Warriors.]]
Since Ty-Lee joined them, she probably taught them her chi-blocking techniques. Some of the warriors would grow to resent their lack of power compared to benders both in combat and in social terms. These warriors would break away and become the Equalists. While the Kyoshi Warriors were all female, the Equalists would likely recruit any nonbender that supported the cause.

[[WMG: The rise of the Equalists is [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Aang's fault.]]]]
Having discovered the ability to depower benders, Aang decides to use it on every bender that threatens peace (Azula+ followers). Some of the depowered benders come to the conclusion that if they can't bend, no one deserves to bend. They start to spread anti-bending propaganda within the non-bending population to turn the people against the benders. The people Aang depowered will end up leading the anti-bending revolt (as {{Badass}} [[BadassNormal Normal]] [[BadassGrandpa Grandpas]]) with the goal of killing every bender that still lives.
* I semi-support this
* [[Tropers/K9Thefirst1 I]] ''fully'' support this! And to add more of an edge to Aang's [[SarcasmMode "Peaceful Alternative"]], Bryke could use the opportunity to add some DeliberateValuesDissonance between the Humans and Spirits over it:
** Energybending from human POV: Meh, not that bad, Ozai deserved 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 Energybending business to me.
*** Actually, that could be why the Spirits, assuming Amon was telling the truth, taught Amon, a nonbender and NOT the Avatar(who, according to the extras, is the only person capable of such a feat), the ability to energybend. Bear with me: Spiritbending was apparently the means of attack and defense prior to the elements and the Avatar("In the Era ''before'' the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within each other."), and the Avatar, seemingly, was instituted by the Spirits to probably enable the bending of the Elements, in the process also removing most people's(aside from the Avatar, who is probably capable of the feat because of their deep-seated connection to the spirit world and the world at large) ability to bend energy. Spiritbending/Energybending/Soulbending then became something of the Avatar universe's DangerousForbiddenTechnique, and thus when the Lion Turtle taught Aang Energybending and Aang used it against Ozai, the Spirits witnessed this event and were ''outraged'', at least some of them. And, thus, they hatched a plan to remove bending as a whole from the world as punishment, so they taught Amon energybending as a means of doing just that. Why, you ask? The spirits ''fear'' energybending, which could conceivably be used in the Spirit World, where the earthbound Elements are irrelevant and without substance, and they fear an Avatar capable of using energybending because of their simultaneous connection to the Spirit World AND the Mortal World, while a mortal man like Amon is no real threat to them, spiritbending or no.
* One other thing to point out is that this draws a nice parallel between the two series. The conflict in ATLA could have been stopped before it started if Roku had simply killed Sozin when he could have. Having the conflict in ATLK be caused by Aang's refusal to kill anyone would be perfectly ironic.
** Maybe that's a general pattern: one Avatar deals with the problem his predecessor has created, but in the process creates a ''new'' problem for his successor.
*** That is possible. Take Avatar Kyoshi. She dealt with Chin the Conqueror pretty early on in her life; it's possible that Chin was someone who had thwarted the previous Avatar. Or perhaps the last Avatar didn't see Chin coming.
* '''OR''' When news gets out that Aang ended the war by removing Ozai's firebending, people get the idea that bending was the cause of the war, therefore, bending is bad.

[[WMG: The Equalist Movement is Republic City's fault]]
The four (seven counting foggy swamp, sun warriors and Omashu) nations are all centred around a specific element and live with it, with some people learning the art of bending. The anti-bending movement is unlikely to have started in either fire-, earth- or water nation because in the first two there is a ridiculous amount of benders, making sure everyone grew up alongside benders, and in the last benders don't seem to be privileged (both the northern and southern tribes were lead by non-benders). Republic city however is not aligned with any element, so there is a chance it is impossible for benders to be born there in the first place. What would be a better breeding ground for anti-bending sentiment than a nation that has little first-hand experience with benders, instead only hearing about them as foreign supersoldiers. You could even take this further. The amount of benders in the world has decreased due to republic city. There are supposed to be 4 nations, 4 elements, 4 seasons. But suddenly there are 5 nations, disturbing the connection with the spirit world. The amount of bender births as drastically decreased, with some among the already living losing all their power as a result (no chi-enhanced live for the Gaang). Bending could even fracture the border between the spirit world further, allowing creatures like Koh to enter the world at will. What is a better situation to create anti-bending sentiment than a few super-powered individuals incidentally summoning monsters?
* Sorry, I don't buy it. The Giant Lion Turtle as much as said that there was a different balance in the past. The world does not hinge on there being 4 nations, 4 elements. After all, for a hundred years, there were only 3 nations. And even now, 70 years later, there couldn't be more than a few hundred Airbenders. So it's rather hard to say that the Air Nomads have returned. The world did not collapse into anarchy, with spirits coming out of the woodwork or screwing up bender births or other such eventualities.

[[WMG: The Equalists are the Avater-Verse's [[DirtyCommunists communists]] ]]
C'mon: it's the roaring twenties and you have people declaring that they want everyone equal.

[[WMG: The Equalists are not just a political faction, or social movement, but a cult]]
And they worship/revere Koh the Facestealer, hence the masks. Amon, their charismatic leader, is his agent in the material world. After all, he did say that he and the Avatar would meet again. Alternatively, they are dedicated to the idea of bringing about a unity of the peoples of the world (and so oppose bending for its inherently divisive nature), possibly also in a [[AssimilationPlot spiritual sense]], to take the world back to the good ol' days before the Avatar.
* Technically, Koh met Aang again in "Escape from the Spirit World", which is considered canon.

[[WMG: The Equalists will have some spiritual or religious issues against benders.]]
In the show, bending was always shown to have deep spiritual connections. The Equalists will have something against the spirituality connected with bending, maybe the result of having alternate religious or spiritual beliefs.

[[WMG: [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters The Equalists are the good guys]] ]]
It's in their name, they want equality. They will probably be supported by civilians.
* It's not good-guy-ish if you achieve equality by [[TallPoppySyndrome tearing down those superior to you]].
** That is a pretty big YMMV right there.
** 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.
*** Or it could be...
* Just because they have a benevolent sounding name doesn't mean they can't be all out evil. For example, North Korea, one of the most oppressive and tyrannical regimes in the world, is officially called the '''[[BlatantLies Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]'''.

[[WMG: The majority of the Equalists are pacifists and genuinely want peace between benders and non-benders.]]
I doubt with their name they want to get rid of bending, when they're called Equalists. The Equalists are possibly in par with the RealLife {{Expy}} of the Civil Rights Movement with peaceful protests and non-violent demonstrations. The ones Korra and her friends are facing are a small number of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment radical fanatic extremists.]]

[[WMG: The Equalists are {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s]]
Considering that technology-wise the setting is supposed to be a bit closer to the earlier decades of the 20th century, benders could be seen by non-benders as oppressors. Not in a brutally dictatorial fashion but in more the manner that allowed to the exploitation of workers, suppression of unions and imposing of moral codes by the elite and influential portions of society. Benders, in this case, could serve as an analogue representing the upper crust of society who are mostly deaf to the plight of the lower classes (non-benders) who live among crime and, most likely, poverty. The fact it's labeled as an anti-bending "revolt" would certainly seem to indicate that benders, perhaps, maintain a better standing in society and thus the anti-benders (and their leader) engage in a desperate attempt to change society for the better and bring about a better sense of equality between benders and non-benders. And as the series is said to be a little darker and more mature than the previous one, a group of "villains" fighting to enact social change would offer more shades of gray and fit that tone.
* Possibly the leader IS a bender himself, but either is hiding it because of shame/some hidden agenda, or shunned the ability after seeing something terrible done with it.
* Heck, when you consider that the benders' special abilities would probably give them an economic advantage over nonbenders (for example, metalbending would be incredibly useful for construction work), it's not improbable that they would become economic scapegoats; it's certainly not uncommon in the real world for a disproportionately successful minority group to be disliked by the majority. Add in the fact that leadership and law enforcement in the Avatar world seem to traditionally comprise primarily of benders, and you've got yourself a social powder keg.
* Pretty much {{Confirmed}} at this point. Korra's encounter with a homeless man, and to a lesser extent, her run-in with an Equalist recruiter, in the first episode establishes that there is a severe social gap in Republic City, between the benders and non-benders. The Extremist in WellIntentionedExtremist is guaranteed based on both Amon's demeanor and certain actions that appear to be occurring in the trailers.

[[WMG: The Equalists will use a combination of steam-powered weapons, [[BadassNormal badass normals,]] and ''maybe'' one bender.]]
* 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 sympathetic 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.)
** An airbender would seem logical then. Enhanced agility and speed without visual effects. Maybe a descendant of a survivor of the air nomad massacre, or Aang's second child.
** OR Aang's TykeBomb grandchild.
** The idea of an anti-bending/bender group does seem inspired by the non-canonical character "Lian, The Maker" from the first licensed game for the original TV series. And creating an army of steampunk element-bending robots was basically her primary plan for destroying all benders...
*** Then in some other time and space, I bet Lian is laughing her butt off over the fact that her plan is being realized all these years later, and that even the Avatar is in danger from it! Talk about having the last laugh...

[[WMG: If the Equalists use steam-powered weapons, (as many have guessed), their first real plot will be kidnapping Waterbenders.]]
Really, they're the biggest threat to their greatest weapon.

[[WMG: The Equalists will use steam powered mecha.]]
Because that is awesome
* I FULLY SUPPORT THIS!
** The first licensed game for AvatarTheLastAirbender, [[TheTroubleWithLicensedGames while not very good]], did actually have a character who was making steampunk robots that could mimic the ElementalPowers of bending. She was even creating them with the express purpose to tearing down all benders, as well.
* More to the point, look at what was seen in th background of Amon's little meeting place: [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m3rh5z0B1qb59nf.png Blueprints for something suspiciously robot-like.]]

[[WMG: The Equalist will use Chi-Powered Mechs]]
They found a way to steal chi from benders to power their Mecha Fighting machines. Stealing waterbending & firebending
aka steam power or Lightning bending aka proto-[[CyberPunk CyberPunk]] mechas.
* Doesn't everyone have chi? If so then just use volunteers and get generic energy to power the mechs.
* Well, they're trying to get rid of the bending "menace" so why not get rid of bending power while making your war machine?
* Yeah because having the enemy power your machines can't possibly go wrong...
* An alternate power source could be some sort of GreenRocks native the Avatar world, maybe the same kind that powers the electricity in Republic City. The Equalists will be trying to secure as much of it as they can with Team Avatar and the police getting in their way.
* The first licensed game for AvatarTheLastAirbender did have a chi-powered mech, the Ultimation, that was able to use the energy from a Waterbender, Earthbender and Firebender to mimic the effects of all three at once.

[[WMG: the Equalists. will exploit Pro-Bending's image as a recruiting tool]]
There's some pretty blatant UnfortunateImplications to Pro-Bending. Namely, that non-benders by their nature can't compete in it, which conveys the hidden message to the masses that only benders are worthy of celebration and praise. Even if non-benders have their own fighting league, it won't be as popular as Pro-Bending. The Equalists will use the lingering resentment this inspires in young people to recruit them to their cause.

[[WMG: the Equalists orchestrated the Pro-bending matches.]]
It essentially marks the benders as easy targets for the Equalists to kill off, and the staff behind the Pro-bending matches are completely unaware of this.

[[WMG: The Equalists kidnapped Hasook]]
He didn't abandon the Fire Ferrets just because he and Mako had been arguing, but because he's currently being held captive, and is in legitimate trouble.
* ''Alternate Theory:'' Hasook was ''murdered'' by the Equalists. Because their fighters need to practice on something. Who better than bending pros?

[[WMG: The Equalist Movement will escalate to a bender genocide on the level of the Holocaust.]]
As in hunting down benders and executing them/sending them to concentration camps. Some of the dialogue in the trailers is a bit...disturbing. "No bender is safe!" "I'm saving you for last." "The world doesn't need you anymore." Plus, there's Korra's [[HeroicBSOD implied breakdown]]. ...They probably ''won't'' go so far as to have actual death camps, but I still get that vibe.
* [[ItGotWorse And a main character nearly gets killed because of this.]]
** [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees Bolin?]]

[[WMG: The Equalists will attempt to kill off Tenzin's family in order to wipe out Airbending.]]
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: The Equalists will feature PsychoRangers versions of the original Gaang]]
Hotheaded teen on a quest with a bad ass Grandpa as a guide and mentor. Sound familiar?
To make this go even further the antagonists of the series, Antibenders/new freedom fighters, will be the counterparts to the Gaang, starting with two or three recurring troublemakers then adding members as the series goes on.
* To take [[PsychoRangers this idea further]]:
** Aang's counterpart will be happy-go-lucky in a Joker-type way. He'll be constantly carefree, but also sociopathic and disconnected from the worries of others.
** Sokka's counterpart will be sarcastic and laid-back like he is, but in a sort of "I don't care" way. Similar to Mai.
** 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.
** Toph's counterpart will come in later in the season, and will be a huge man like the original design for her (and Ember Island version) was.
** Momo and Appa will have counterparts that will be more sinister in design.
** At the end of the series, Korra will have to seek this group's help.
* To elaborate on this further (because we can) and offer an alternative:
** The Aang analogue will be a ScrewySquirrel character who, like TheJoker, will do horrible things for a good laugh. He, like the above example, will be a sociopath, but in a homicidal way.
** Sokka's counterpart will be the DeadpanSnarker and the SmartGuy of the group, but he doesn't care for the Equalist cause and is only a hired gun
** The Katara of the group will be more like Harley Quinn: she will be in love with the Aang character and give the group a feminine voice, but she will be possessive (a dark parallel to Katara's MamaBear tendencies) and jealously "protect" her teammates by horribly maiming anyone who opposes them, and, to top it all off, she will be sensual as opposed to loving.
** Toph's counterpart will actually be female and disabled in someway, but unlike Toph, will selfishly use her (dis)ability to get her way, and lead her targets into a false sense of security. Unlike Toph she will be refined and educated, and enjoy taking advantage of her high social status
** Suki's analogue will be the only one loyal to the Equalist cause. She will be assertive like Suki, and will attempt to keep the others in line but will lack Suki's compassion, and she will also be ruthless and uncaring about the needs of others, only the mission at hand. However, she takes Suki's vengeful streak to the edge, and will never let grudges go.
** The Zuko analogue will be one of the main heroes who will come over to the Equalist cause. If he is not, he will be a handsome classic, "brooding" character, much like Zuko. Unlike Zuko, he will be a sadist who gained his sadism from his father. He will be blazingly handsome, and will lack any physical scars, unlike Zuko. However, his mental scars will be greater than Zuko's, and he will take his rage out on others.
** The Ty Lee counterpart will be a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass that flanderizes Ty Lee's own ditzyness, but who is actually the most experienced anti-bender fighter in the group. She'll be a [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathic womanchild]] in contrast to Ty Lee's perkiness.
** Mai's counterpart...will be a ninja. Because [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninja's are cool]]. She will be silent and stoic, but a ruthless [[TheChessmaster chess master]] in opposition to Mai's original personality. She will be the one closest to Amon personally and the only one completely aware of his plans and will manipulate the rest of her team, and the new Team Avatar to her will. She would be based on actual historical kunoichi (alluring seductresses and assassins) instead of the popular myth.
** The Momo character will be small and cute (like Jack the Monkey from PiratesOfTheCaribbean) but also mischievous and a thief.
** The Appa analogue...will be a CoolCar.
** All of these characters may or may not be redeemed when its all said and done.

[[WMG: The Equalists' True Purpose is to Fight Koh the Facestealer]]
* Which may explain why all the Equalists wear masks.

[[WMG: The Equalists are all really ugly]]
* Which may explain why all the Equalists wear masks.

[[WMG: In terms of methodology, Amon is basically an evil Batman, while the Equalists are a kid-friendly and fantastical version of FightClub.]]

[[WMG: The Equalists are Anonymous in the distant past]]
* 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 support this.
* Hey, guys, [[http://booter-freak.deviantart.com/#/d4w7e4h look what I found.]]

[[WMG: The Equalists are being led by [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Sparks.]] ]]
The Mechanist was only the first in the line of many newly born Sparks that have advanced the Avatar World's technology a thousandfold. Many benders don't appreciate this though, feeling threatened due to this new power and it's replacement of the old ways. They soon attempt to crack down on the Sparks, but this just makes the conflict escalate into the revolt mentioned in the synopsis.

[[WMG: The Equalists wear masks in order to honor Amon.]]
It fits with Amon's status as a DarkMessiah. "Our savior Amon cannot show his face. To honor him, we will sacrifice our faces as we enter his service."

[[WMG: The Equalist movement is a direct result of the technological advancement.]]
In the first series, a LOT of stuff was heavily dependent on benders. War, transportation, and various types of technology were controlled and powered by benders. As technology advanced, there was less and less need for benders. As a result, bender crime became more common because it was a power they could easily use to take advantage of non-benders. The Equalists see benders as people that are no longer needed, people who have power that doesn't help the world and can only be used to hurt. To the Equalists, there is no longer any reason these people need to have any power, and that it only places them above the non-benders. Amon directly says there's no place for benders in the world, indicating this belief.
* This exact same WMG has already been added here months ago, see above.

[[WMG: Amon or another prominent Equalist will be [[YouAreWhatYouHate a bender]].]]
* Corallary: Amon ''was'' a bender, until he met Aang.

[[WMG: Once Amon is defeated, the Equalists will either become [[HeelFaceTurn a reformed group]] dedicated to peacefully resolving bender and non-bender conflicts, or they devolve from {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s into {{Complete Monster}}s.]]
Since the Equalists are heavily based around Amon's cult of personality, once he is removed from the equation, they will be forced to redefine themselves. Either they'll team up with Korra and the gang in order to help combat an even larger threat, or they become even more vicious and violent in order to avenge the defeat of their leader.

[[WMG: Most of the metal benders are loyal to the equalists]]
Look at episode 6. The metal benders did a sweep of the stadium, yet no one reported the massive numbers of equilist flags. Amon enters through the main arena entrance, but since the arena can only be entered from the bridge, he needed to already be there (and have a deal with the sweeping team) or be smuggled in later (which means he needs to fight past guards, which would surely create a lot of noise). Finally, the equalist zeppelin manages to take out five metalbender zeppelins, but doesn't appear to have any weaponry. Since even a single metalbender could do massive damage to the equalist zeppelin, the metalbender zeppelins were probably infiltrated and destroyed from the inside.
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[[folder: Other Villains]]

[[WMG: Wan Shi Tong will return]]
Stuck beneath the sands, Wan Shi Tong will eventually go neurotic, since his only form of entertainment was destroyed. He will proceed to rape, kill and assimilate the scholar and the foxes, and he will break free from his prison by shooting into the sky like a deranged goose. He will then go on a rampage and assimilate everything in his path until he becomes a giant mutant owl abomination and a third level Kaiju. Republic City will have to deal with Avatarverse's Rodan.

[[WMG: Azula will make an appearance as a sane, kind old woman...and then promptly try to usurp Zuko's throne.]]
Because old habits die hard and Azula will take the first chance she gets to try and become the Fire Lord, capping off a years long plan that begun when Aang was killed by the BigBad.
* Er, Zuko is dead. Azula likely is too......This is highly doubtful.
** ^Yeah, because WMG has to be plausable....
** Zuko isn't dead. Though he's not the Fire Lord anymore, his daughter is.

[[WMG: The Triads will be the main villains of the second season.]]
After the fall (or reformation) of Amon the next season of LoK will feature the triads as the main villains and taking down their operations as the conflict of the season. It will go deeper into the nature of each of various triads that we've been introduced to, with each triad mirroring a modern gang. These criminal syndicates will each be headed by a powerful bender who will act as a psycho rangers expy of one of the members of the Gaang from the last series.

* The Agni-Kais will be an analogue for modern day skinheads and domestic terrorists. They will be a Fire Nation supremacist group that specializes in smuggling and protection rackets. Their members will dress in streamlined versions of the Fire Nation military uniform from the last series and will practice in secret compounds and camps set up in Republic City's industrial district. They will retain the Fire Nations' Social Darwinism and will induct members through a beat-in where only the strongest are accepted.
** They'll be led by the Zuko expy, a disgraced Fire Nation general who was scarred when he and his forces tried to resist Zuko's reforms. Like Zuko he will be obsessed with both his honor and the restoration of the Fire Nation to it's former glory. He will also claim that he is loyal to the Fire Nation and that the current Fire Lord must be defeated to bring it back to prominence. He will also know how to redirect lightning and will use this against both Korra and Mako.

* The Red Monsoons will be an analogue for street gangs like MS-13 and the Latin Kings. A dangerous gang of Water Tribe youths who grew up poor or came from difficult households. Each member will know Bloodbending thanks to their leader. They will specialize in human trafficking and prostitution (although the references to the latter will be heavily downplayed). They will also make an effort to recruit street urchins, promising them protection and a surrogate family. They will operate out of Republic City's slums.
** The Monsoons will be led by the Katara expy. Like Katara she also lost her parents at a young age and was forced to take on a lot of responsibility but where Katara was merely bossy the Monsoon leader will be controlling. She will insist that she is the gangs mother and will be extremely creepy around her own "kids" and other orphans (like Mako and Bolin). She will also be a powerful waterbender who was able to discover bloodbending on her own. She'll use it to threaten or punish anyone who refuses to join or tries to leave her "family".

* A new Earthbending triad will be introduced who will serve as an analogue for biker gangs. They'll specialize in drug-running and bootlegging and will have no particular base of operations, instead opting to frequent the various bars around republic city. They will also use Earthbending to assist in their escapes by making ramps during car chases or digging and closing off tunnels in the mountains. They will be strongly opposed to the Metalbending police force and authority in general. Both their members and their leader will insist that rules only get in the way.
** Their leader will be a Badass Biker Toph expy. Like Toph she grew up in a controlling family, in this case a family of police officers, and struggled to assert her independence. Unlike Toph, she will rail against all forms of authority and insist that anarchy is the only way to go. She will only care about her own personal freedom and will be shown casually damaging property and injuring shop owners. She will also be a Metalbender, thanks to upbringing in a family of cops.

* The Triple Threats will reemerge under new management as an expy for large scale organized crime. They will be the largest and strongest of the various triads thanks to their policy of acceptance. They still accept members from every ethnicity but now insist that those members downplay their individual nationalities for the sake of the gang. The Triple Threats deal in high level illegal activities, everything from money laundering to the numbers game. Their goal is the unification of the other gangs under the Triple Threat banner and they will be based near Central Station to facilitate easy access to benders of every nation.
** The new leader of the Triple Threats will be an Aang expy. Like Aang he is also cheerful, friendly and determined to foster peace between the opposing elements. However he tries to do this by forcing those benders to assimilate into his gang. He will be a water bender but his style of bending will be radically different from the Katara expy. He will use an extremely hybridized style that borrows from all of the bending disciplines, for instance using earth bending stances to better control ice. He will also be covered in Maori style tatoos as a callback to Aang.

Expect a lot of dark echoes to the Gaang in their lines. For instance the Katara expy might tell one of her cronies "We're your family now" while Bloodbending him into her arms.

[[WMG: Due to the "technologization" of the Avatar world, and a disregard to spirituality that grows each day with the anti-bender movement, the spirits will be more hostile against humans. (Koh might be a prime villain this time around.) ]]
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?

[[WMG: The Triple Threat Triad is lead by or was founded by a former Fire Nation Officer.]]
When Zuko took the throne and changed the Fire Nation's ideals towards equality, not everyone was happy with the decision. Before this the Fire Nation were the strongest people in the world, top of the food chain. Now the banished honorless prince is tearing down all they've built up over the last hundred years. One officer will have resigned in disgust, and fall into the shadows to plot how to usurp power back to the Fire Nation from the underground. Years later with Republic City being built up, the small crime gang would start recruiting Earth and Waterbenders, because there are those all over the world who seek power. Fast forward to the present day, and this small group is now an Organized Criminal syndicate with ties and power in every city in the world. So while the Triple Threat Triad may be lead by a mix of powers, at its heart, it would be the Fire Nation returning to superiority and power. The trio Korra met on her first day were simply new recruits or bottom of the rung. The senior members or higher ups will present more of a challenge.

[[WMG: One of the villains will be a young CorruptCorporateExecutive MagnificentBastard with a [[GreenEyedMonster grudge]] against the Avatar.]]
With industrialization taking place in the Avatar world, it isn't hard to see someone [[SelfMadeMan rise to the top]] through [[ManipulativeBastard deceit]], [[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.
* And this person will be voiced by Clancy Brown.
* Or possibly (s)he'll start the movement because the benders (especially the Avatar) insist on non-polluting forms of technology and/or conscientious clean-up/disposal of industrial waste, which is far less profitable than just ignoring the environment altogether. Corollary, he'll blame the Avatar/benders for the inevitable Spirit attacks.

[[WMG: A [[EvilCounterpart dark mirror]] of the Foamy Mouth Guy will appear as a recurring villain.]]
But instead of a [[PluckyComicRelief goofy]] [[HarmlessVillain screw-up]], he will instead be a [[KnightTemplar fanatic]] [[TheBerserker berserker]] who is taken over by an UnstoppableRage anytime he ''thinks'' he's seen the Avatar. [[MemeticMutation The fandom will not let these similarities slip by.]]

[[WMG: The firebender that killed Mako and Bolin's parents as well as Amon's family is the same person.]]
Because wouldn't it be awesome to have an episode where Mako and Amon grudgingly team up to take down the one guy that ruined both their lives?
* ''Alternate Theory'': Everything above holds true...with the addition that Amon was a ''SelfMadeOrphan.''

[[WMG: One of the future antagonists will be a Bending evangelist.]]
Opposite Amon's plan to get rid of Benders, this character will view the inability to bend as symptom of spiritual sickness and will aspire to turn everyone into a bender (or just be a con-artist).

[[WMG:The Red Monsoons are a Bloodbending gang.]]
The street urchin Mako paid to tell where his brother was mentioned a number of Triad names, including the Red Monsoons. Monsoon is rain, which hints towards Waterbenders, but ''Red'' Monsoon? They've developed a way to tear blood right out of their opponents bodies. Ofcourse this being a kids' show, this threat is only alluded to, not actually shown. But their leader can actually control people too, during the full moon.

[[WMG: The Red Monsoons and the Agni-Kais are enemy gangs, and an analogue to the Crips and the Bloods]]
The Red Monsoons will mostly be bloodbenders, dress in red and hostilly attack any firebender they find in their territory. Agni-Kais will specialize in lightning bending/blue fire, dress in blue and will attempt to subdue any waterbender they meet. Korra will wind up in Agni-Kai territory and/or Mako will be caught by the Monsoons, and of course [[BlatantLies hilarity]] [[HilarityEnsues ensues.]]
[[WMG: The Triple Threat Triads and the other bending gangs mentioned are heavily involved in the distribution of cactus juice.]]
The turf war that Skoochy mentioned in the third episode was going down because of it.

[[WMG: The previous threat to Republic City 42 years ago is a ChekhovsGun.]]
The council was mentioning a slight incident in the city where someone named Yukon was big enough of a threat that Aang had to deal with him personally. Possible that he is either TheManBehindTheMan for [[BigBad Amon]] or will be Season 2's BigBad that wants revenge and shows that he was the one who is behind Aang and one or more Gaang member deaths. For added flavor, Amon will suffer TheWorfEffect when [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains introducing Yukon as alive and kicking]].

[[WMG: Lightning Bolt Zolt is an ancestor of Mako and Bolin.]]
The same style of UnusualEyebrows can't be too common now can it? Maybe he is their grandfather, and one of his children (Mako and Bolin's father) did not want to follow their life of crime, so he put a hit out on the family, and the "mugging" angle was a cover.

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[[folder: The Cabbage Merchant]]

[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant in the new series will also be the foaming mouth guy.]]
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]].

[[WMG: Proving that being a ChewToy is InTheBlood, the Cabbage Man's descendant will experience the exact same luck as his/her ancestor.]]
Doesn't matter what he/she decides to sell -- it ''will'' get completely thrashed. Most likely in the presence of the heroes.
* 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.
** Alternatively, the Cabbage Man's descendant WILL be anti-bender due to a family grudge against the Gaang...[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain but will be a minor nuisance at best]] [[SmallNameBigEgo and only THINKS he's a major villain]].
*** Maybe he starts as an anti-bender but Korra ends up saving him/his merchandise and change his ways.

[[WMG: "Cabbages guy" will have a reincarnation]]
Preferably female and younger. She will appear in one episode, or maybe a few, as a ditzy successor to a cabbage shop who is having troubles adapting and living up to her families expectations.
* Or she'll actually be good at her job and be bummed out because having your cabbages ruined several times had become a family tradition.
** Or maybe she'll even be cabbage bender. Because nothing screams RuleofFunny like a background character her cabbages being seemingly ruined and then flying back into her cart like nothing happened.
* There's a funny entry in CAPSLOCK_ATLA about a "Cabbage Madame", who runs a garden-themed brothel. That's not going to happen on a Nickelodeon show, but I think it'd be hilarious.
** ...I am too scared to even think about how a cabbage-themed brothel would work.

[[WMG: The cabbage merchant will be the one who started the whole anti bending group.]]
The cabbage merchant after suffering again and again from the actions of even the "good benders" gets disgusted and realizes that the only way cabbage merchants' cabbages will be safe is by ending bending.
* but it wasn't always benders that destroyed them, don't forget the Customs Officer at Ba Sing Se.
** The Equalists will also be against bureaucrats. It's not as prominent as the anti-bending, but it's there.

[[WMG: The Cabbage Vender's ancestor will come back as a good guy.]]
Except he will retain his Buttmonkey status and basically be treated as badly as Bakura was in Yu-Gi-Oh abridged.

[[WMG: ''Korra herself'' is the Cabbage Guy's descendant.]]
Eternally conflicted between her Avatar duties and her cabbage-selling family. Angst will ensue upon destruction of cabbages.

[[WMG: The cabbage merchant's luck turned around after the war ended, and he is now the richest old man in Republic City.]]
He will have made his fortune exporting cabbages to the Fire Nation and North Pole, where they are used in exotic foreign dishes. After a lifetime of successful cabbage selling, he retired in Republic City and now considers joining the White Lotus Society.
*Well, Nick.com DID reveal that a corporation called Cabbage Corp made their own Cabbage Cars. Founded by the Cabbage Merchant maybe?
[[WMG: The cabbage man's descendant lives [[SaturdayNightLive in a van down by the river.]]]]

[[WMG: The clock shop that we see get destroyed in the trailer will be this version of the cabbage guy's cart.]]
* MY CLOCKS!!!

[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant's legacy will take the form of a Starbucks-like cabbage franchise.]]
It was started by the Cabbage Merchant's illustrious descendants, eager to make a profit from their ancestor's secret formula for the perfect cabbage. True to form, practically OncePerEpisode , Korra will somehow damage one of the many shops in the franchise.

[[WMG: [[BigBad Amon]] will be the descendant of Cabbage Guy.]]
He seeks revenge upon all benders for the (multiple) loss(es) of his ancestor's cabbage cart(s), which ultimately led to his financial ruin and his family's StartOfDarkness.
* Amon claims to be the child a farmer. Where do cabbages come from again?

[[WMG: Tenzin and the Cabbage Merchant's descendent will have a VitriolicBestBuds-type of relationship]]
It will involve Aang trying to make peace with the Cabbage Merchant after the trouble they've caused him during the war. However, Tenzin will steadily grow to find the child of the CM increasingly annoying. Years later, in Republic City, the Cabbage Merchant's child will become a successful lemon merchant while Tenzin has trouble living up to his father's legacy (that or was forced into hiding because of the anti-bender faction). The lemon merchant then does whatever he/she can to cheer up their childhood pal... by giving Tenzin lemons. Korra will happen upon the poor unfortunate moment where Tenzin will snap because [[Videogame/{{Portal2}} "I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these?"]]. He will then proceed to force Korra into making the lemons explode with firebending--to the point where it becomes a technique.
If the friendship is Type A, the lemon merchant will remain oblivious to the malice and just think Tenzin is confused.
If the friendship is Type B, however, the lemon merchant is secretly avenging his father and is gleeful at the absolute irritation it causes for Tenzin.

[[WMG: Bumi when introduced will take on the role of the Cabbage merchent]]
Being the only decedent of an airbender, let alone two powerful benders, who isnt a bender you can tell the universe lokes to screw with him

[[WMG: The Cabbage Merchant was the man who gave Sato his loan.]]
The Cabbage Corp. vehicles were Sato's gift to his benefactor.
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[[folder: Everyone is Batman]]

[[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: Korra is a {{Ninja}}]]
A guy can dream can't he.
* Refer to the "Korra will be as Batman" WMG

[[WMG: Korra will become something even more awesome than Batman]]
She will become [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_42/ BAT WARTHOG MAN]]!. It's the best two-animal combo (and thus, in the Avatarverse, it must exist).


[[WMG: [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Everyone]] is {{Batman}}]]
* And by everyone, we '''mean''' '''[[Characters/TheLegendOfKorra EVERYONE'''.]]
** In all seriousness, the Batman parallels are flying hard and fast, and we are only three episodes in. At last count, we have three Batman parallels: Korra learns that her vigilante justice may be what the city ''deserves'', but it sure as hell not what it ''needs,'' Mako witnessed his parents being mugged and murdered by a firebender at the tender age of eight, and Amon invokes the archetype of the mysterious masked man here to save the populace from it's superstitious and cowardly criminal empire of benders.
** Aaand, Amon has a deformed face and is fostering dissent and anarchy, a la the Joker..."Hello, ''beautiful''. Y'wanna know how I got my scars?"

[[WMG: ''Korra'' takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'']]
[[http://wsash.net/fandom/the-legend-of-korra-avatar-meets-batman-beyond/ Here]]'s some of the parallels between this series and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Namely, the large time gap between the two SequelSeries, the new hero gets an older mentor.

[[WMG: Mako will lose his firebending.]]
He will actually become Batman.

[[WMG: At least one of the writers is a Batman fan]]
And they're throwing in references left and right. They're also a ''really'' big BatmanBeyond fan. Evidence:
* Mako's backstory is Batman's, minus the wealth
* In Episode 6, the Wolf-Bats pose like Terry from the BatmanBeyond opening
* Lin Beifong is very much like Barbara Gordon, as the second generation police chief of a crime-ridden city who doesn't look too kindly on the new hero [[spoiler:in part because of a failed relationship with the hero's mentor.]]
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[[folder: The Setting]]

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

Just like the Sun Warriors in AvatarTheLastAirbender, the will be a tribe of ancient airbenders hidden. They will be called the Sky Barbarians, they will be based off the Mongols, they will have canadian accents (there's waterbending rednecks, so why not?), and they will have been plotting world domination for decades.

They will invade Republic City at some point. They will be the polar opposite of the Air Nomads, preffering violence over everything else and using all dangerous airbending techniques like tornados, hurricanes, choking people, venemous-gas/fart bending, soundbending and lightbending.

As it turns out, Korra will have a dillema. To save the world, she'd have to commit genocide.

[[WMG: The invention of guns will appear]]
* Mostly it'll be flintlock pistols, rifles, muskets, and blunderbass, in order to give power to non-benders. The heroes will all be gunhaters naturally.
** Possible. There was gunpowder in the original series, as well as some prototypical cannons in the third season. Guns would be a natural development from those.
** Who says they should hate guns? Benders may not use guns because they don't NEED guns! I always kind of liked to picture a hard-core Sokka with a shotgun (of the blunderbuss variety.) Maybe the normals of this season will pack heat!
*** They could hate guns because of corrupt militias that use guns to massacre civilians or benders. Arrows, swords, and other such weaponry (and bending too) require training and discipline, and thus much time and money to create armies with. Mass-produced guns mean instant armies of whoever happens to be on hand. Anti-bender revolts could get bloody.
*** That's a silly generalization. You mass distribute guns -- especially older, primitive guns -- without any training or discipline and you end up blowing yourself up. Just because guns are not as flashy as non-firearm weaponry doesn't mean there's no training or discipline involved. By that logic they should also hate spears or javelins since they are also easily mass produced, required relatively less training compared to swords, and far outranged swords. And, you forget that corrupt militias have already been using bending and other non-firearms to oppress people (remember that episode with Zuko defending the town) for far longer. Lastly, guns = instant armies may be true now because of modern industry and guns like the Kalashnikov, but any guns likely to be developed in this time will be like the older arquebuses. Not to mention the need to manufacture gunpowder and ammo. And given that any gun industry would be in its infancy given that there wasn't one before, they're still at least years away from any sort of large-scale mass production, much less "instant armies".
** Gun might have existed in the Gaang's time. The tech we see during the Gaang's time implies they had to have had the possibility of such weapons. They might have just not been that pronounced for various reasons. Namely like those stated above, the guns of Gaang's time were too unstable for mass use and the high bender count in armies would look down on such weaponry. The Anti-Bender mentality mixed with more advanced and stabler weapons could very well allow for the anti-bender forces to take up guns or refine gun related tech into guns to equalize the common man against the "magical" benders.
* Although there is argument for both sides, I doubt it. Having guns would continue the creator's habit of introducing nuanced, mature subjects. It would also be consistent with the probable theme of technological advancement. Lastly, it is a good way to even the odds between benders and common non-benders, although low-level earthbenders would obviously have it easier than low-level airbenders. That said, guns would be more difficult to pull off. American cartoons are bound to certain expectations, far more so than Japanese ones. I seriously doubt we'd see anyone killed or crippled onscreen by gunfire. Because of that, it would be very easy for the gun-wielding bad guys to degenerate into ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy, which would make them nonthreatening. As much as I would like to see it, I don't think the creators would risk that when, in the original, there were several threatening nonbenders, although admittedly they were in the top three percent.
** One thing you have to remember is the style of gun that they would have had are very very very inaccurate. They were really only effective with massed soldiers and very short distances. It really wasn't until the late 1700's that very accurate guns cam, even then it took trained marksmen to be accurate over a dozen yards.

[[WMG: Despite the high technology, guns will ''not''' make an appearance]]
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''.
* Considering that the Republic City police force mainly uses Metalbending, guns wouldn't be as much of a GameBreaker as you'd think.
* Indeed, guns may not appear in any significant capacity, because any Metalbender could crush them into pieces of junk metal without effort. And since they make the bulk of the police force, any criminal relying on a firearm would be apprehended in a flash.
** Indeed, that may be ''why'' metalbenders are the police, and would account for why there aren't any guns. Even if they existed, if your weapon is easily destroyed by the police, chi-blocking techniques would be much more effective and therefore the weapon of choice for non-benders.

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

[[WMG: Going with the gangster theory, the show will potentially involve [[{{Baccano}} immortals]].]]
Hey, taking place in a 20's-esque setting. Although there is the potential of an [[MadeOfWin overload of awesome]].

[[WMG: The play performed by the Ember Island Players has gone on to become an all-time classic, with the original ending substituted for the actual ending of Aang beating Ozai.]]
It's a national treasure of the Fire Nation and is performed all around the world.
* ... That's ''just'' silly enough to work.
* Is there an on-ice version? A few waterbenders and a bunch of ice skates here and there and you're all set.
** 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...
** The troupe could have easily changed the show in order to look better in the eyes of their ruler. In Shakespearean times, playwrights sucked up to the royalty through their scripts all the time.
*** Given, however unless Zuko bans it or sets the playwrights on fire they may not realize how irritated he is over the whole thing. I can see him and/or Mai ''trying'' to set the record straight via official histories and memoirs if they have the time but....
*** It will probably be a silly, campy [[RockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky Horror style]] show.

[[WMG: A lot of waterbenders will function as doctors.]]
And boy, they will cost much. Also, imagine what kind of sickness they could cure if they're using actual medicine instead of water. It worked so well and fast with regular water! They will certainly cost a lot. Maybe Katara opened up a medical school when she was younger?

[[WMG: Silent film now exists in the Avatarverse.]]
Well, this is apparently set in their equivalent to the twenties, so why not?
* And "The Boy In The Iceberg" with a RevisedEnding, will be the most popular picture. Korra and Tenzin will each either love it or hate it.
* Or fall over laughing at the absurdity.

[[WMG: One word: Steambenders]]
Hey, cultural melting-pot city, fantastic, almost unimaginable technological progress...perfect setup for the formation of a new form of bending. A special subform at the very least, or an entirely new "hybrid" discipline at [[YourMileageMayVary most/worst]]. Plus, goggles. Gotta have the brass goggles.
* 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.
*** But maybe they could be airbenders...
* If this is the case, I would be happy if there was one Steambender voiced by Richard Horvitz...
** I will second this if it's a Raz expy.
* There will be a guild of Firebenders and Waterbenders who are bound to create and improve steam-based technology. [[MagicTheGathering And their leader will be a red dragon.]]

[[WMG: Iroh's Jasmine Dragon will be the new Starbucks.]]
Wouldn't it be funny to see people walking around Republic City drinking tea from Jasmine Dragon labeled paper cups?
* I support this
** ...I would buy from Irohbucks... (As long as [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Irohbucks_7573.jpg this]] is the logo.)

[[WMG: The Fire Nation will be a rustbelt and declining power.]]
* 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.
** This seems probable. The end of the war is most likely going to hit the Fire Nation hard, what with the reparations and recessions that accompany the end of war economies. While it's possible that they can bounce back from this (compare Japan after World War 2 to Japan today), they will have lost several of their advantages, as you said. Also, from what we've heard of the interquel comics, we know that there's another major Fire Nation conflict bad enough for Aang to get involved. Depending on what that conflict is (say, a CivilWar against Zuko by Ozai sympathizers), that's most likely going to compound their problems.
*** I could see this being the case if the Fire Nation was still TheEmpire, but seeing as it was Zuko and Aang that ''started'' TheRepublic, this seems a lot less likely. The proliferation of Steampunk technology would have been a collaboration of the FN and the Mechanist's group, at least for the first few years. By the time time the EK could compete with them again, there would no more EK or FN, just the Republic. As for reparations, the leaders of all the nations were at that point on good terms with the Gaang, and seeing as Fire Lord Zuko was a member, I really don't see them going all Treaty of Versailles on the FN's Germany.

[[WMG: Agni Kai will be illegal in Republic City. It will also be seen by many as an anachronism.]]
Historically, as societies become less feudal and the rule of law becomes more important, judicial combat declines and is eventually outlawed. The agni kai will be treated the same way in Republic City. The popular perception of it will be less "means to avenge wounded honor" and more "excuse for vigilante brutality". They'll still occasionally be fought, mind you, but they'll be relegated to the shadows, like street racing is.
* ''Of course'' Mako is eventually going to be challenged to one, because it'll be a good way to milk drama about multicultural families and to illustrate to Korra (and the viewers) how cultural customs are different in Republic City compared to, say, the Fire Nation with how firebenders are expected to behave.

[[WMG: We will see the rise of new spirits.]]
There are already forest and nature spirits, and so machine and city spirits will arise, the city spirits' rapid expansion will clash with the nature spirits, forcing Korra to become more spiritual to mediate a compromise, meanwhile machine spirits will arise and will be prayed to similarly to the Adeptus Mechnaicus in {{Warhammer 40000}} as well as delivering fortune to those who properly maintain their machines.
* I kinda want to marry this idea.

[[WMG: Benders in Republic City will be expected by custom or law to wearing something identifying themselves and their element.]]
With the end of color-coded clothing, and the intermixing of peoples meaning eye/skin color aren't even useful as a rough indicator in Republic City of someone's elemental background, benders will start wearing tokens to show their alignment. This will take two forms. First, something like a colored scarf (''a la'' Mako's neck one and Bolin's waist one). Second, it might be a piece of jewelry, like a sun or moon necklace. But whatever the case, it'll be something worn on top of a regular outfit.
* May be a coincidence, but of the the three bender thugs Korra fights in the trailer and leaked footage two wear an article of clothing with their bending colors (the firebender and the earthbender) while the waterbender doesn't. It may be more of a status symbol than a legal thing, though I wouldn't doubt that benders have to be licensed to bend within city limits like having a driver's license. Korra may have to get three licenses for the bending arts she has mastered. with comic results.
** 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.

[[WMG: There will be a countercultural element in the United Republic that mocks the traditional cultures of the Four Nations.]]
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 Beifong 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.

[[WMG: The United Republic of Nations has begun taking the Avatar's job.]]
The Fire Nation started the war during a period when the Avatar was too young and too inexperienced to stop them. As a result, the Republic was given special diplomatic and military powers so that they could act in the Avatar's stead while an Avatar is growing up and training. In keeping with the RomanticismVersusEnlightenment themes of the series, some of them are starting to wonder if the Avatar is now superfluous.
* This very much seems like it's going to be the case. Avatar Korra as a figure doesn't receive nearly the same amount of regard as Aang did, at least in the first episode.

[[WMG: Pacifism will be a popular global philosophy.]]
Pacifism, once the domain of the Air Nomads, will have become a popular global philosophy owing to Aang's energybending of Ozai and his general behavior in ending the Hundred Years' War. However, the Avatar-verse's definition pacifism will be a bit different from [[ActualPacifist what we think of it]], as the go-to model will be Aang. So it'll be more of a militant or [[TechnicalPacifist technical pacifism]]. Which isn't to say you won't have different ideological flavors. Killing will always be right out, but there will be disagreements about how far to take non-lethal injuries in a fight. Some will see energybending as an endorsement [[CruelMercy to cripple or maim (but not kill!) opponents]] to ensure they are no longer a threat. Others will see violence as [[MartialPacifist only necessary in combat or training for combat]], meaning some pacifists will protest against Pro-Bending as idealizing violence. Others will even view Aang's militant pacifism as an unhappy yet necessary concession to the dystopic state of the world at the time of his defrosting, but, now that the Hundred Years' War is long over and the world is largely peaceful, believe that [[ActualPacifist strict pacifism]] should be practiced lest people slide down that slippery slope of justifying violence with technical pacifism.

[[WMG: The pro-bending championship is fixed.]]
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.

[[WMG: The Boulder is one of the pioneers of pro-bending]]
** Wow, just seeing that title prompted me to read it out loud in The Boulder-voice.

[[WMG: The Southern Water Tribe primarily uses a barter system.]]
Hence, why Korra thought she could still get by in Republic City and tries to purchase food without having any money, the logic being that there were plenty of [[ProBonoBarter favors she could trade]], being the Avatar.

[[WMG: Mixed marriages are not as common as we've been led to believe.]]
Tenzin, the son of a Air Nomad father and a Water Tribeswoman mother, married a woman of an unknown ethnicity and [[SiblingYinYang Mako and Bolin]] are brothers of mixed heritage. But just because the war is over doesn't mean everyone's all buddy-buddy now. Outside United Republic, mixed marriages are still rare and [[ParentalMarriageVeto frowned upon]]
* We aren't even sure that Mako and Bolin are the product of a mixed marriage, they could just as easily be half-brothers.
** "Half-brothers" means they still share a mother or share a father, which would still make one of them biracial. I think the word you are looking for is step-brothers. And I disagree because its [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail too much detail for such a trivial point]], unless its going to be plot-relevant. Also, Bolin and Mako's biracial heritage represents the cosmopolitan nature of the city. Why make that detail, then erase it later?

[[WMG: There will be new forms of Bending due to Aang's Energybending]]
He'll eventually give Ozai's bending to a bender of a different element after being pressured into an experiment. After a huge success wherein the two forms of bending combine (think lavabending if it's an Earthbender for example) instead of being controlled separately (because only the Avatar can do that), other Benders line up to have their powers mixed and matched. Eventually hundreds of Bending forms are spawned and taught around the world, even to nonbenders who are training to receive the ability to bend from Aang (cause you know, he can do that with Energybending). If this happens it'll probably be an attempt at recovering from the [very well done] AssPull that is Energybending, but I'll be damned if it won't be awesome all the same.

[[WMG: The glowy light show that Aang pulled off with Energybending? That's just what it looks like from the perspective of the bender and their target.]]
Witnesses just see it without the light show, akin to what Amon did.

[[WMG: The gangs of the city stem from varying post-war attitudes.]]
We've got the Agni Kais, the Red Monsoons, and the Triple Threat Triad. To go in reverse order, the Triple Threats are (as we know) made up of allied earth, water, and fire benders. Clearly, then, the founding firebender didn't have any issues with fraternizing with people from other nations, and would have likely been considered a sympathizer by the Fire Nation during the war. The Red Monsoons is a step away, being allies of water and fire benders. The founders, for some reason, didn't like earthbenders. The one with the biggest red flag are the Agni Kais. Just from their name, it's pretty obvious that they're some sort of Fire Nation nationalist or supremacist group.

The other gangs, then, would be varying mixes of earthbenders and waterbenders.

[[WMG: The Equalists will create their own monster.]]
Ok, there was speculation above that this series is just a set-up for another series that will parallel WWII. However, there's one problem with that: The Equalists seem to represent Communism (an extreme version of "equality" that leaves no room for accomplishment through natural talent), and we weren't fighting Communists in WWII, we were fighting Nazis...but wait! Prior to Hitler's rise, there was a strong Communist presence in Germany...in fact, many people voted for Hitler who otherwise wouldn't have been, because they thought he was better than Communism! In the same way, the Equalists will lead to the rise of a faction dedicated to the extermination of all non-Benders, forcing the sequel series (of which Korra will still be the star, there's no way they'd have time for her to die, and the next Avatar to grow up) to fight a war both for freedom, and for the very survival of non-Benders.

[[WMG: The 36 Levels of Airbending will finally get explained or shown in full]]
Unlike the other bending arts, Airbending specifically had a series of trials one had to undergo to affirm their mastery. Aang being the brilliant little punk he was, was so good his invention of his signature Air Scooter promoted him to Master one tier early; marking him as the youngest official 'Master' level Airbender in history- and coincidentally, relieves the need to display his native training and focus on the training of the following Arts. Perhaps during Korra's ongoing lessons with Tenzin we will finally see what it is that these 36 Levels are, and what was the last step Aang didn't have to do. Heck, it'd be really cool to see her do as her predecessor and make a distinct technique all her own.

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[[folder: Series Meta and Themes]]

[[WMG: Avatar: The Legend of Korra is the the start of an expanded universe and mythology similar to Star Trek.]]
Similar to Star Trek, this spinoff takes place after a long period of time (literally next generation). If this show becomes is successful there may be more Avatar shows in the future, possibly a prequel (Like Enterprise). Which makes Korra the Captain Picard of the Avatarverse. Also they are both owned by Paramount.
* 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.
** Well Legend of Korra may sorta be a mix of Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Since its rumored Korra would mostly stay in Republican City.
*** Possibly confirmed.
---> “We have a lot of ideas for the ‘Avatar’ universe and who knows? We could be tapping into them for years to come,” Konietzko says. [[http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/08/the-last-airbender-legend-of-korra-the-creators-speak/]]
* Or it could be an expanded verse/mythos like Series/DoctorWho. Think about it: a character who is sort of the same person, but reincarnated (regenerated?) into another nation. This person travels with people (companions?) and tries to keep the world in balance. [[TheNthDoctor Every new Avatar will be like every new Doctor]], with new friends and companions being picked up along the way. Let's face it, guys -- we could have this franchise going on for 50+ years if the writers play their cards right.

[[WMG: This will be darker and edgier then Last Airbender]]
* 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.

[[WMG: There will be more four seasons of Avatar world in total]]
Aang, Korra, Earthbending dude, Firebending gal.
In each one the technology will increase accordingly, until the last season will be in Cyberpunk and the big bad will be an earthbender who can 'cyberbend' components in a computer with metalbending and so control the world.
After that season, I dunno if Avatar world will continue to exist, or the Avatar and bending powers will cease to exist with such technology and the world will be Avatarless and modern like our own.
* I think you mean series and the airbenders are back.
* Yeah, on both counts. Got too carried away to worry about simple things like word choice.
* It would be a miracle if they hadn't jumped the shark by then.
** Maybe we'll get a Star Trek size universe and mythology with the Avatarverse.
* I'm sorry, but I started bashing my head into my desk at "cyberbend". Control the components how? By making them break or something?
* How about this; the 'Airbender' series took place at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution (mid-1800's). The 'Waterbender' series will take place in the 'Roaring Twenties/Great Depression' era (early-1900's). Perhaps the 'Earthbender' series will take place during a 'Cold War'-style era. Whereas before, the Fire Nation was the dominant military power, by this point, all the nations are extremely powerful, mutually-assured destruction is a very real possibility and a war is brewing that could wipe out everyone. Perhaps the 'Earthbender' series will include JamesBond-esqe Spy-Thriller influences? And finally, going by this trend, the 'Firebender' series will happen at the dawn of the space age. And since the Avatar is tied to the Planet, then moving into space would provide some very interesting philosophical dilemmas for the protagonist. And it could provide a pretty awesome finale to the franchise.
** Close, but the Earthbender is more likely to take place in the present or the recent past to accommodate Korra NOT dying at 40.
* Another alternative. The 'Earthbender' series takes place in modern 21st century setting with corresponding tech levels, dealing with corporate takeover replacing classical balance. 'Firebender' series takes place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the 22nd century]] with [[StarTrekEnterprise humanity beginning its exploration into deep space]], dealing with how humanity and the Avatar expands into other worlds learning alien forms of bending, possibly meeting Alien Avatars. And for good measure we get another 'Airbender' series in [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration the 24th century]], where TheFederation exists and the Avatar transcends into a spirit of The Galaxy instead of [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet just the Earth]].
* Or how about this? Not all of the future series have to continue going forward in time, with technology being more advanced accordingly. Suppose the series with the plausible earthbending Avatar took place far in the past, like in ancient times? At least a couple generations before Aang popped up. Now that'd be really interesting too. We could see the ancestors of the Gaang, even.
* The world of Avatar won't necessarily advance culturally or technologically at the same pace as our own. Without the post-Industrial or post-War population booms there could still be plenty of time for culture mirrors.
* People, people! You're missing the obvious alternative for the Earth Kingdom's Avatar. Sure, we could go the Present Day, Near Future, or Cyberpunk routes. But what's the fun in that when we can just destroy civilization and follow [[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind the sort of story]] that can come afterward? Heck, you could skip straight to the Fire Nation's Avatar trying to determine what went wrong during his past live's tenure, why he or she only reincarnated decades AfterTheEnd instead of right after the bombs fell.
* I want to throw it in there that the result of a somewhat archaic fantasy world gaining advanced technology would likely be a society somewhat similar to that of FinalFantasyXIII or FinalFantasyXII.

[[WMG:All subsequent series' in the Avatarverse will exhibit a kind of PunkPunk.]]
Last Airbender had a Proto-SteamPunk, and Legend of Korra will have Steam Punk proper. The Earth Avatar after Korra will be set with DieselPunk, Fire with [[RaygunGothic Atom Punk]], the next Air Avatar will be beset with CyberPunk, the next Water Avatar with PostCyberPunk, and the Earth after that will have BioPunk.

[[WMG: A major theme of the series will be a struggle between science/progress and nature/spirituality...]]
Possible [[TwistEnding twist]]: the nature/spirituality camp will turn out to be the ''bad guy,'' or at least misguided. As in the "how do you bring [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/StarWars 'balance' to The Force]] by wiping out one side of it?" fan question.
* 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.
*** Given how the BigBad is an anti-bending guy, his faction might rely on technology to get on equal footing while fighting benders. Seeing as how this is one of the premises, this idea makes sense.

[[WMG: This series will also feature a theme of "balance".]]
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. ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' in some way.
* I agree that blue and red will figure prominently in ''WesternAnimation/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: The writers will find inspiration from JimButcher's CodexAlera and make their own CaptainErsatz of the [[{{Starcraft}} Zerg]].]]
The anti-bending revolt will leave the world in chaos and vulnerable to invasion from outside forces. A version of the Zerg will take advantage of this opportunity to invade and seize half of the world before anyone realizes what's going on. Korra will use the Zerg/Vord/Expy as an excuse to unite the world and then battle the Overmind/Queen herself.

[[WMG: There will be at least one pot-shot taken at ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' movie]]
How could they resist?
* Guy- "I liked Ong better"
* Korra- "It's Aang!"
* I have a feeling that Asami will be the one who'll give these potshots. C'mon, if she ''doesn't'' reference [[MemeticMutation the beliefs line]], it'll suck.
* The airbending-training device in "A Leaf in the Wind" with the spinning panels doesn't appear in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', but it did appear in the film. Korra destroys the device at the end out of frustration.

[[WMG: The writers will actually take examples from this page and make them official.]]
They're very good at [[FandomNod Fandom Nods]] and are GenreSavvy enough to possibly be tropers. In other words, Bryan, [[BigBrotherIsWatching we know you're reading this.]]
* Lets just pray they don't make '''All''' of the examples canon. We can't have everyone screaming IKnewIt and creating [[ContinuitySnarl Continuity Snarls]] everywhere.

[[WMG: DanteBasco will voice...]]
This is just a general guessing area. You have a guess, put it here.
* [[Film/{{Hook}} Rufio]].
** RU! FI! OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
* Flashback!Zuko.
** {{Jossed}} in an recent interview. He isn't voicing Zuko, BUT he's in multiple episodes.
* TENZIN
* Tenzin's son!
* Zuko's descendant.
* Zuko...AS A TIME TRAVELER!
* Meelo!
* A crazy guy in the anti-bender movement who likes stealing shoes.
* Cabbage guy's descendant!
** This troper laughed way too hard at the two above, just because I loved it so much.
* Absurdly youthful non-flashback Zuko!
* The BigBad
* Mako and Bolin's father, who is also Zuko's second son.
* [[{{Foil}} A hyperactive Equalist who's self-confident to the point of hubris.]]
* A friend Korra makes that encourages her to [[HomeStuck "DO THE AIRBENDY THING"]] either in the final battle or right before she airbends for the first time.

[[WMG: The leaked screenshots and clips were done by the creators/producers of the show.]]
In December 2011, some anonymous person got ahold of the first episode and posted some clips and screenshots online. My WMG is that someone involved with the production of the show did it to hype things up.
* [[AndTheFandomRejoiced And it worked.]]

[[WMG: The next Earthbender will be a metalbender.]]
Logically, the three after that will each be born to one of the elemental subdivisions.

[[WMG: Fans introduced to the series in reverse might not be able to really appreciate Aang during his time as Avatar.]]
More often than not, straightforward badasses in fiction get far more love and are almost always more popular than those who well...aren't. Aang was a devout MartialPacifist (as per the ways of his people of course) and actively went out of his way to make sure direct confrontation was the last option; not to mention being quite young for the situation he was dealt and having little time to master his other three elements in proper (unlike his successor, he's clearly a master of his native Air Bending). Hopefully even after watching his successor kick all kinds of ass and look good doing it, those who go back to watch his series can still see just what made Aang unique and awesome in his own right.

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[[folder: IKnewIt]]

[[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: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 aren’t 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.
** Confirmed with a new character sheet that's been released - Tenzin has a older sister, Kya, that's a Waterbender, and an older brother, Bumi, that's a nonbender. They don't appear in the first two episodes, however.

[[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 AndreaRomano 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!]]
*** Double Confirmed! [[spoiler: Zuko lives!]]

[[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 UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest? Signs point to yes.
** At the very least the first episode did pass the test, in a rather epic way.

[[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: 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.

[[WMG:Eva Marie Saint will play the voice of either an older Toph or Katara.]]
Because why else would they hire one of the greatest senior citizen actors in history for one of the best shows in history if not for a touching callback.
* Confirmed.

[[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.
[[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 ]]
* [[spoiler:According to site material, Zuko is also alive and kicking, travelling around the world as a peace ambassador.]]

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

[[WMG: Aang and Katara's other children names]]
Gyatso and Kya.
* Hmmmm. On one hand, it doesn’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.
* And Tenzin's name can be taken as a [[GeniusBonus tribute]] to Monk Gyatso, as Gyatso was named after the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

[[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, Katara 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.]]]

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

[[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

[[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.

[[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. AndreaRomano 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.
* Confirmed for Katara and Zuko, at least.

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

[[WMG: Pro-bending and the Equalist threat have resulted in new bending forms.]]
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.

To put it in tl;dr terms: Korra was trained to fight the last war, not the war she'll face against the Equalists.
* This seems to be Confirmed in the second episode where [[spoiler: Korra is amazed at moves Mako and Bolin use during their match and claims she never saw anything like it while being trained by her teachers in the White Lotus. Her training session with Bolin suggests she's quick on the uptake]].

[[WMG: Wei Bei is an Earthbender]]
Just hedging a guess, seeing as the first part of the name means 'towering strength' or something of the sort in Chinese. And the allusion to the Beifongs can't be a coincidence. So call the I knew it if this true.
* Glad to know I am not the only one to make the connection to the Beifongs.
* For the last time, Toph's daughter is *Lin*. If anything, Wei Bei's name was released as a RedHerring.
* ''Lin'' is an Earthbender, so call this confirmed.

[[WMG: Katara taught Korra waterbending.]]
After Aang's death, Katara returned home to the Southern Water Tribe to teach Aang's reincarnation. This will lead to much [[{{Wangst}} Aangst]] on Katara's part as she is once again teaching the Avatar Waterbending. She will [[StarWars do an Obi-Wan]] and die as Korra's training is complete, telling her to go to the Republic City to find Tenzin.
** 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.
*** Of course not. Korra is born to the Water Tribes, so her learning ''starts'' from Waterbending, before moving on to Earthbending and Firebending. For her, the Airbending comes last.
* Confirmed in the newest leaked footage. She doesn't seem to mind teaching her reincarnated husband and cares a lot for Korra.

[[WMG: Korra will quit trying to learn airbending for a while.]]
She has always excelled at the other elements, and she has a hard time with the spiritual aspect of bending (proof from the leaked clip), and airbending is all about being spiritual. After trying and trying but not being able to even conjure up a light breeze, she'll throw a tantrum and decide she doesn't need airbending. Then she will be defeated in battle by Amon, suck up her pride and finally master airbending.
* Somewhat confirmed. Korra did say in the second episode during her argument with Tenzin that she didn't need airbending, but she quickly saw the error of her ways and apologized.

[[WMG: Tenzin will be a member of the White Lotus Society]]
Tenzin will be in his fifties, most likely. This is a little bit young for the members of the White Lotus society, but he is the Avatar's son, and he is likely a master of his craft if he is sought out by the new Avatar.
* Master or not (probably yes), he's the only known practitioner of his craft. You take what you can get. Katara wasn't the best waterbending teacher in Season 1, but Aang still learned from her when she was the only waterbender available.
** Confirmed, for all intents and purposes, given his relationship with the elders and his ability to station a guard of White Lotus members at his temple, who act on his orders.

[[WMG: The Equalists sprang from enough people finally getting sick of benders in positions of authority as much as from any bender-hating prejudice.]]
Benders have held positions of authority in the two largest empires on the Avatar world (the Earth Kingdom was under a police state run by the Dai Li and all of the positions of power shown in the Fire nation were held by firebenders), and the people may have held simmering resentment for benders lording it over them due to having special abilities. This is similar to the many revolutions in real life which eventually led to the end of feudalistic nobility, and in those cases the nobility held power based ultimately on only ''abstract'' concepts. The benders actually 'have'' special powers to enforce their authority, which would likely encourage even more resentment from people -- especially if said benders are despotic about it. Even benders not in positions of high authority have been known to bully the powerless (like that Earthbender Zuko protected that town from). It would be perfectly understandable for resentment fostered by the aforementioned to spill over into open revolt.
** 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.
*** You forget that neither the northern water tribe nor Ba sing se could even open the gates without the use of benders, not to mention Omashu's delivery system.
*** So? That still doesn't mean ''all'' the technology was powered by bending, as we clearly saw several non-benders using technology (The Mechanist's machines and his people's gliders being among the more prominent. And if society has developed enough to be full-on SteamPunk ''and'' there's a sizable anti-bender faction, it clearly implies that the technology is now even more available and usable to nonbenders than it was previously.
** My take on this theory: the anti-bender movement is a valid response to the social changes that have taken place in the world of Avatar. In AvatarTheLastAirbender we saw that the various societies were dependent on benders when it comes to their defense, infrastructure, etc. However, in 70 years various steam-based technologies (developed by The Mechanist and other scientists like him) have replaced the need for bending power, and therefore benders aren't needed anymore to make society run smoothly. This loss of social status has made benders bitter, so now they're constantly abusing their powers, demanding that "regular" people (i.e. non-benders) treat them like superior beings. In the authoritarian age of ATLA, where the rule of king was a fact of life, this might've been accepted, but in the 70 years that have passed democratic movements have emerged in the world of Avatar. That ATLK's central location is called ''Republic'' City is an obvious proof of this change. The anti-bender faction is a part of this larger democratic movement; their argument is that true equality is never possible while benders have such power over people as they do. At first Korra remains skeptical of the movement, but by the end of the series she becomes disgusted by the benders' abuse of power and realizes they indeed stand in way of democracy, so she uses energybending to remove bending from ''everyone'' in the world. Thus the world of Avatar takes a big step towards true egalitarianism.
*** I was completely agreeing with your theory until the part about taking away bending from everyone. First how would she do that? Second why would she do that? Bending is an integral part of the world's culture. Just because some [[JerkAss Jerkasses]] misuse their talent doesn't justify taking away the core of almost every single human's beings. That's like taking away everyone's legs because someone made fun of a paralyzed kid. Plus energybending is a risky and time consuming experience and as Ozai proved, it is not a toy.

[[WMG: Any ideas on Korra's animal guide? Every Avatar is supposed to have one]]
I'm thinking some sort of water/land/hybrid thing. Platypus bears anyone?
* 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
"So, he's your animal guide, just like Appa is to me"
This kind of implies that animal guides are, if not compulsory, common for Avatars to have. It makes sense, how else are you supposed to travel the world, enforcing peace and justice throughout if you don't have a big monster to bus you around? Imagine Aang's adventures completely on foot. As for Kyoshi and other Avatars, the animal guide may just not have been shown in their montages for whatever reason.
* 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...
** You're kind of a cranky troper, aren't you?
* 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.
*** It's not like she's going to be traveling like the Gaang did. The show's grounded in Republic City. She probably has some bending enhanced parkour.
* 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.
* The avatar isn't guaranteed to have an animal guide. Rather, there is an animal associated with each nation, except for the water tribe. Fire Nation had dragons, Earth Nation had Badger Moles, Air Nomads had Sky Bison. Instead of an animal, the Water Tribe had the moon. So Korra won't have an animal guider per se, although she might have a smaller pet, something along the lines of Momo.
** * cough* polar bear dog * cough*
* DeeBradleyBaker has confirmed he will be voicing "Korra's animal." So we definitely know she'll have one, though ExactWords means it might not be an animal guide.
* One of the creators of the show has expressed interest in using a polar bear dog. He wanted to put it in the first series, but was unable to. But he thinks he may be able to work it into this series...
* She's confirmed to have a polar bear dog.

[[WMG: The first part of the first episode, based on the leaked material.]]
Spoilering this on the off chance I'm right/because it has leaked information.

[[spoiler: The episode opens one snowy night with the three White Lotus masters from the leaks traveling to the Southern Water Tribe after receiving an urgent message about the new Avatar, currently around five years old. We don't hear what the message is, but at least one of the masters (I'm guessing the short one with the beard who stands in the middle) is extremely scornful about it, claiming it an impossibility. When the three of them reach Korra's house, they are astonished to find her ''earthbending'', despite not knowing she is the Avatar. They decide that there is no longer any point in keeping her identity a secret, and that she might as well begin training before her experimentation gets out of hand. One of them will drop a line about how she must be unusually gifted even for an Avatar, prompting her parents to smile proudly at each other... but the cynical master will mutter that he doesn't like this at all. Flash forward twelve or so years to Korra battling the other firebender as her final firebending test, and the setup of her character as someone overeager, confidant, easily bored, and just a little conceited because she's known she was the Avatar for as long as she could remember. A running theme through the series will be Korra learning not to approach bending as a purely physical competition, and ignoring her deep-seated desire to be the best at everything in favor of doing the Avatar's duty and helping others.]]
* [[spoiler: A new (not leaked) clip confirms the first part of that theory, at least.]]
* As of the release of the first episode, most of this prediction was accurate.

[[WMG: General speculation about Korra's character.]]
Given the tiny bits we know about her and some of the more sane-sounding theories on this page, I predict Korra will be:
* Sort of TroubledButCute, possibly from a broken home and/or a runaway.
** Partially correct. She's a runaway, but from stifling guardians. She's also not very troubled about her life or life in general.
* Tough, badass, doesn't take shit from anyone
** Mostly correct. She's tough. She's badass. She doesn't take shit from ''most'' people, but she's willing to obey Tenzin when he first attempts to send her back to the South Pole after she's made her case to him.
* A scrappy fighter
** Nope. She's not scrappy-looking at all. While her technical skills are quite good, she mostly relies on sheer brute force to win the day.
* Major flaw: pride. Has difficulty being taught and being told that she's wrong.
** So far, this looks to be wrong. Korra ''does'' have strong opinions and the will to pursue her goals, but she's as easy-going as Aang was and reacts to criticism with reasonable (if not always the best thought-out) counterpoints.
* Adventurous, thrill-seeking, tends to get in trouble.
** Correct. Although her adventurism is less about thrill-seeking than just reacting to having been secreted away by the White Lotus in the countryside for years.
* Not very "girly."
** That would be an understatement. She's about 10 times more macho and headstrong than Aang.
* Most of this is accurate. Though as far as we can see, she's not troubled, yet, anyway.

[[WMG: Korra will study airbending alongside Tenzin's son.]]
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.
** No, just just no, hear how wrong that sounds; a boy dating the reincarnation of his own grandpa.
*** Never saw what was so wrong with that. They're not the same person, and they're not physically related (as far as we know). All the claims of reincarnation being equatable to relation always struck me as very [=WallBangery=]. And besides that, it's only ever cited in ShipToShipCombat situations, so it's more of a weapon than an opinion.
*** Avatar reincarnation doesn't exactly work like that. Each Avatar's individual spirit is unique, it's only the Avatar Spirit that is reincarnated each time. Think of it like the Avatar having two spirits - their own "soul" and the "Avatar Spirit". So although she has access to Aang's spirit via the Avatar Spirit, she is not technically Aang's reincarnation in the sense the word is usually used.
**** Well, it is redundant to ship a water tribe character with an Air Nomad character. Also, notice when Aang and Kyoshi are on trial, he uses words like "me" and "I" and is tried as if he was Kyoshi. They also share the same spirit.
* Well, this might be possible. According to a Korean animator for the show, Tenzin has a son.
** Where did you hear this and where can I read about it?
* My money is on Meelo being that kid.
** Confirmed as of SDCC 2011.
* Don't forget, Aunt Wu predicted that Katara would pass away in her sleep quietly after having her third great grandchild.
** I seriously do not remember this. Can you point me toward which part of the episode that is?
*** Aunt Wu was also trying to get rid of Katara because of her obsession with hearing Wu's predictions when she said that, so it's questionable in accuracy.

[[WMG: Meelo is Tenzin's son.]]
He looks like a member of the Water Tribe. And Tenzin does have a Water Tribe mother...
** Confirmed as of SDCC 2011.

[[WMG:Korra will be from the Southern Water Tribe]]
Master Pakku will start a new generation of Waterbenders in the Southern Tribe, one of whose descendants will be Korra. Having her come from the Northern tribe would be too easy, and it would explain what happened to the Southern tribe, which leads me to my next conclusion...
* Confirmed.

[[WMG: We we see interracial children other than Tenzin]]
Because one of the strong themes of the series, particularly in the third, was how all four could work together, exemplified in the Order of the White Lotus. So, it might not (and [[Anvilicious perhaps]] shouldn't) play a big part but it would be appropriate continuity and establish the post-war world for there to be couples from different nations. Frankly this troper is surprised it didn't turn up in the original series, particularly in the third season when we found out what the Fire Nation was like on the inside (and how massive the Earth Kingdom is). (Or did it, excluding the main cast?). And in recognition of shipping wars, we'll see a 'familiar' Fire Nation/Water Tribe couple, who will be minor characters.
* Confirmed. Korra alongside of an earthbender and a firebender, who are brothers.

[[WMG: The remnants of the four nations and their politics will still have a role to play.]]
And the Fire Nation [[TheAtoner is by far the least aggressive, most open-minded of them all.]]
* The nations are still around, National Republic is just it's own thing.
** Partially Confirmed. All the nations are represented on the council

[[WMG: One of the Equalists goals will be learning how to Energybend.]]
Because 1) energybending is a concept that really needs to be fleshed out, and 2) on paper, it sounds like a perfect way to level the playing field between benders and non-benders. Inevitably, at least one member will learn how to use it, becoming a very dangerous opponent. Said member will likely have a ridiculous amount of willpower, allowing them to avoid the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique dangers]] of Energybending.
* Confirmed, Amon already knows how to Energybend and he's thus been established as VERY dangerous because of it.

[[WMG: The Equalists will have an Energybender]]
Mostly because it would be awesome to have the two face each other, and for Korra to face theft of the Avatar State as a possible consequence to defeat.
* Confirmed, Amon is apparently an Energybender since he can take bending powers away.

[[WMG: The bending arts will have evolved since The Last Airbender]]
No one said that '''only''' the technology changed since the last series. Toph had already discovered metalbending and likely taught it to other people and it could have spread throughout the earthbending population. In response to the sudden advantage this would give the Earth Kingdom, the other nations would expand their own bending arts to maintain balance.
The Water Tribe may rediscover bloodbending and weaponise with animals instead of people (using it on people would quickly become taboo). Sure Katara would never teach it to anyone, but once word that it's possible gets out ''someone'' with questionable character is likely to figure it out and teach other questionable characters how to do it. Perhaps with 50+ years of refining the practice the waterbenders may find a way around the need for a full moon to use bloodbending.
The Fire Nation already has access to lightning, which based on Iroh's description of the technique (separating positive & negative energy then letting it crash back together for lighting) sounds like manipulating magnetism to achieve the effect, which makes sense since lightning is electricity and electricity is just another form of magnetism. Figuring out how to adapt the lightning technique to generate magnetic fields would be the perfect countermeasure to metalbending. It would be like having an army of realistic [[XMen Magnetos]].
To top it off, Korra will have already learned all three advanced bending arts (metalbending, bloodbending, magnetobending) and will use them all at one point or another to deal with the antibending revolt.
* I want this to be true so badly... Except I think that magnetobending won't be possible, just doesn't seem likely.
* Okay fair enough. How about ''Explosion''bending instead of Magnetobending? Similar to what Explosionman did only without the third eye thing and any firebender could do it. Firebender makes a contained "explosion" in their hand and throws it, which then explodes either on contact or when firebender wants it to explode. Size of explosion may vary on firebender's power and what the firebender wants blown up.
* The already prevalent forms would be more likely to have spread, like sandbending, plantbending or lavabending.
* Confirmed. Metalbending has been taught to other people, there's even an entire police force of metalbenders. Lightningbending has become more commonplace, we see far more firebenders who can do it, and apparently there are enough lightningbenders to where the power plants can hire and pay groups of them to shoot lightning into a generator.

[[WMG: Pro Bending involves people/companies sponsoring the teams, and Hiroshi Sato sponsors the Fire Ferrets.]]
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. At his pro bending fan daughter Asami's insistence, Hiroshi Sato becomes a corporate sponsor for the Fire Ferrets.
* Confirmed in the episode "A Voice In The Night". He sponsors them.

[[WMG: To quote the internet "Bolin will get Friendzoned. Hard." ]]
* I mean, Korra was impressed with Korra 'after' seeing him kicking ass in the ring. Bolin is nice, but he's nowhere near as badass as Korra herself, and that's probably a prerequisite for Korra to be interested in him. He'll probably still chase Korra, because the whole HotAmazon schtick is like a GrandPrize for a Casanova, but before the series ends the dreaded "I like you but not in that way" will hit the earthbender in face.
** Confirmed in "The Spirit of Competition."

[[WMG: The "other" that Pema mentioned in "The Spirit of Competition" whom she thought was wrong for Tenzin is Lin Beifong.]]
* [[FridgeBrilliance It makes]] [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend so much]] [[HarsherinHindsight sense.]]
** Confirmed

[[WMG: Tenzin and Lin Beifong have a history.]]
A romantic history, to be precise. Look at the tension in their first scene together. (It could be that they were simply friends who had a falling-out, but where's the fun in that?)
* Pema ''did'' mention in episode 5 that Tenzin was in love with someone else before she confessed her love...
* Confirmed! as of Episode 6, when questioned by Korra; Tenzin admits to the two of them having been a couple, although according to him one that had been slowly drifting apart. He also notes here that Lin and his father got along quite well.
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[[folder: Jossed]]

[[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 isolated 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.
** But that statue of Toph is not from her older years, but maybe in her mid-20s to mid-30s. It gives no clue of what she looked like as an old lady.

[[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.
** Jossed in episode one. Sokka's dead.

[[WMG: Korra is the granddaughter of Tom Tom and Baby Hope.]]
After growing up Tom Tom became the Fire Nation ambassador to Ba Sing Se, where he meets Hope and they fall in love. They have children and one of them travels to the Southern Water Tribe and [[GoingNative goes native]]. He/She marries Sokka's son/daughter and raises the kids as water tribe. The avatar spirit says "close enough" when reincarnating and becomes their child, despite the mixed heritage. Coincidentally this allows Korra to master water, earth, and fire bending with ease but will make air bending next to impossible.
* No, both of her parents were pretty much southern Water Tribe; no evidence of either of them being of that mixed union.

[[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:''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: 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 I'm just gonna stop now
* Jossed they are all dead
** Double jossed [[spoiler: Katara's alive]].
** Forget that, this is jossed by the fact that it's stated as hyperbole with the expectation that ''everyone'' but the two mentioned were alive: [[spoiler:Sokka is dead, and likely many of the others, as they are not mentioned or seen with the exception of Toph, who is referred to in a way that sounds like she has already passed, and Zuko, who was mentioned on the Welcome to Republic City site as being a retired Firelord as well as a travelling ambassador for peace.]]

[[WMG: Korra is not the true Avatar, and there's a reason why]]
What I mean is that she has all the powers of the Avatar (being able to bend all four elements), but for some mysterious reason (that we'll probably learn as the series progresses) she's still not the true/pure Avatar in the sense of being the spiritual bridge between the Spirit World and the Physical World as well as other spiritual traits the Avatar has. This can also mean that Korra has never connected with any spirits, or possibly has never experienced being in the Avatar State. As minor evidence, in the first episode it shows Korra as a little girl with incredible power for her age, and the White Lotus stated that Korra is too focused on the physical side and not the spiritual side. The entire situation, if true, could prove to be a huge part of the story of the series and expand on it. Thus, Korra's true goal in the series is to actually become the Avatar.
* What the-? {{Jossed}} by virtue of the Avatar being the only living human being able to bend all four elements. She is the Avatar; however, like Aang in the first series, she is not a fully-realized Avatar. There's a difference between the two. For Aang, it was the fact that he didn't have mastery over the elements. For Korra, it's her lack of spirituality that also prevents her from Airbending.
--> '''White Lotus Member''': The Avatar must master both.
** Don't Joss this just yet. This is something more than just becoming a realized Avatar or following the Avatar world logic. What I'm trying to say is that some sort of event occurred around or before the time the series started that completely prevents Korra from ever connecting to the spiritual side. She's not just an unrealized Avatar, she's not the Avatar at all (but still has the physical powers of the Avatar), and there's a reason why. This WMG could slightly be pointed towards the WMG above that stated something is wrong about Korra's status as the Avatar.
** There's also the fact that the last Avatar we have to compare her to is Aang, who was one of the most spiritual Avatars for a long time, as he was an Air Nomad and lived a highly spiritual life. Of course he connects to that side easily, even compared to his Airbending predecessor Yangchen, he put his spirituality as his first priority when it came to making harder decisions. Korra takes a different route, the more ''physical'' route. Whereas Aang would rather avoid conflict altogether or find a reasonably peaceful settlement, Korra would punch and kick the conflict to the curb. The Last Airbender (and Legend of Korra, it seems) show that while these are both options for a solution to the problem at hand, they're not perfect and failproof, and both Aang and Korra have to deal with antagonists who won't [[IncrediblyLamePun bend]] to their normal methods for settling conflict. Not sure what is meant by Korra not being the "true Avatar" and that the path to becoming the true Avatar means learning to connect to her spirituality, because in the end that sounds a lot like Korra becoming a ''fully-realized'' Avatar. One does not just become the Avatar; the kid is born with it and learns to take on that role once again in this next life.
* Here's a possible reason: after Azula killed Aang but before Katara revived him, a Water Tribe baby was born who had the ''spiritual'' aspects of the Avatar but not the ''bending'' aspects. He/she was never discovered, perhaps because no one believed they had a connection to the Avatar Spirit since they could not bend anything other than water (or perhaps anything at all), and is supposed to find Korra, as guided by Aang and the other past Avatars, to rectify the situation.
** Perhaps in a style similar to Yue giving up her life so the Moon Spirit could live.
** Alternatively, this baby grows up to be Amon. He's bitter because he has the spiritual aspects of the Avatar but could never bend. (See Amon theories)

[[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 Beifong".]]
* Chief Beifong, 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 ?, which translates to "rose". This would maintain the Beifong 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 already been confirmed that Chief Beifong's first name is "Lin". So possibly jossed?

[[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.
** Definitely jossed. He's an authority figure and counsel man in Republic City, struggling to keep its order after it has fallen out of balance.

[[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 Satomobiles and a SelfMadeMan.
** He did have a love interest before Pema, though, so the first part of this might still be true. Somehow.

[[WMG: Tenzin and Lin Beifong 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 have a coldly cooperative relationship, forced by their positions as an ambassador and the police chief.

[[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.
** Funnily enough, this sort of happens in the second episode anyways, probably because she was dressed in all of the Pro-Bending gear, so no one in the audience could tell who she was until she ended up using earthbending after playing as a waterbender. Mako and Bolin also were unaware of her identity until she nearly spelt it out for them. Looks like not everyone reads the papers.

[[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.
* Violent revolt like what the Equalists will be doing is so antithetical to the Air Nomad philosophy, it would be jossed on that point alone.

[[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.
* And he's voiced by SteveBlum.

[[WMG: Similar to the guess above, Aang died young because the big bad assassinated him, and the anti-bending revolt was only flared 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 reminiscing 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 escalate.
* 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 Nickelodeon. 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: Aang and Katara's other children names]]
Gyatso and Kya.
* Hmmmm. On one hand, it doesn’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!
** Well, I have a theory that Gyatso was only a last name and his full name was Tenzin Gyatso, cause where else would the name Tenzin come from? He would most likely name ONE of his sons after Gyatso, wouldn't he?
* Half jossed, half-confirmed. Their names are Bumi and Kya.

[[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.

[[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: Going along the idea of the above, TENZIN will be voiced by Kevin Conroy.]]
If Tenzin is a middle aged, crotchety 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.

[[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.

[[WMG: Avatar Korra will be as Batman.]]
Because of the anti-bending sentiment in Republic City, Korra and Tenzin will have to hide their bending, or at least restrict it to certain districts in the city. Thus, Korra will have to don a mask and fight crime by night. Her identity as Avatar will be a closely-guarded secret.
* In true Batman fashion, she will, in her daytime persona, [[DatingCatwoman fall in love with a higher-up in the anti-Bender movement, without knowing who it is.]]
* Right premise, different [[BatmanBeyond continuity]]. Tenzin will be the original one trying to clean up Republic City...but he's so old he can't do it alone...still doesn't stop him from being a BadassGrandpa.
* {{Jossed}}. Everyone knows she's the Avatar, though she does seem to go undercover in civilian clothes at one of Amon's rallies.

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

[[WMG: Amon is Jet or a descendant of Jet]]
First of all, I know that WordOfGod has said that Jet is dead. But given that they said that before ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' was announced, they might RetCon it. According to the comic that takes place in between shows, Smellerbee and Longshot survived the collapse of Lake Laogai, and they wouldn't leave their leader behind. Jet was brainwashed by the Dai-Li, and due to this along with being hit in the head by a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] rock, his hatred of firebenders may have been extended to a hatred of benders in general.
Given the fact that it's unlikely that Jet would still be alive, it could be Jet's son. If he did survive the collapse, [[LikeFatherLikeSon he could have raised the boy to hate benders]]. Given [[WordOfGod Jet's probable death in the collapse]] along with his TheCasanova tendencies, he could have fathered a child before his death, and the mother [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy raised the boy in his fathers image]]
* [[{{Squick}} it could have been Smellerbee.]]
* WordOfGod [http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/04/10/gene-yang-avatar-airbender-comic-korra/ confirms] that Jet did indeed die in Lake Laogai.

[[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.

[[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]].
* [[{{Jossed}} No.]]

[[WMG: Two of the three people visiting Korra when she is a child are related to the Gaang.]]
As seen in a couple of the pictures [[http://www.hypable.com/avatar-korra/2011/12/04/another-avatar-legend-of-korra-leak-18-stills-reveal-important-plot-points/ here]], two men and a woman go to see if Korra is the next avatar. The man with glasses looks an awful lot like Tenzin's early [[http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6082/6063807245_83e4359d51.jpg design]], and he looks even more like that when he is older; I speculate he is Tenzin's brother. The chick could possibly be Tenzin's sister or Sokka and Suki's daughter since she looks like an older Water Tribe version of Suki... and I got nothing on the short, fat guy; maybe he's Sokka and Suki's son.
* They seem a little ''old'' to be Gaang descendants, though. Tenzin and Chief Beifong appear a lot younger than the three as-yet-nameless White Lotus members. And [[spoiler: would they really call Katara "Master Katara" if they were related to her?]]
** Tenzin looks pretty old, too. Maybe Aang and Katara had kids at a young age. And maybe that old short guy isn't Katara's son.
* Jossed because of [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/Aaron123/AInews/Nick/avatar_s3/Korra_CharaSheet.jpg this]] recently released character chart.

[[WMG: Korra will quit trying to learn airbending for a while.]]
She has always excelled at the other elements, and she has a hard time with the spiritual aspect of bending (proof from the leaked clip), and airbending is all about being spiritual. After trying and trying but not being able to even conjure up a light breeze, she'll throw a tantrum and decide she doesn't need airbending. Then she will be defeated in battle by Amon, suck up her pride and finally master airbending.
* Somewhat confirmed, somewhat jossed. Korra did say she didn't need airbending in the middle of an argument with Tenzin, but she apologized by the end of the episode and is back to learning airbending.

[[WMG: Korra will not end up in a love triangle with Mako and Bolin. ]]
Bryke have said that TLOK is going to have "cheesy teen romance", and it's pretty much a given that the main characters are therefore going to be dragged into drama. However, the currently fandom-accepted theory is that there is going to be a love triangle between the Krew. This is not going to happen. Bryke have proven themselves to be major trolls when it comes to shipping. It seems rather... unlike them to hint at a love triangle and then introduce Korra's companions as a pair of brothers when they KNOW this fandom is going to start the shipping immediately, as many fans have. (Despite, y'know, not knowing a damn thing about the characters. Come on, people.) Having Korra choose between the brothers seems too obvious for such master shipper trolls. My money's on the cheesy romance being between Korra and a character with a more minor role, or ONE of the brothers at most.
* Alternatively, if the relationship is between Korra and Mako, it will NOT be some kind of Zutara expy. Bryke are good at writing realistic relationships between like characters (Katara and Aang are both idealists who want to help people, Sokka and Suki bonded through warrior training and are both good leaders, Mai and Zuko can understand each other's parental issues and emo outlook...) IF Korra and Mako fall in love, it will be because they enjoy spending time with each other and can connect on more levels then "fire + water = awesome" or "omg we're both hot let's make out." Bryke isn't going to slap a steambaby on them to placate fans who think they owe the fandom "a real love story this time."
** Actually, Mako kind of pings my gaydar.
** First WMG is {{Jossed}}. Korra has a crush on Mako while Bolin is very interested in Korra. In fact, episode five is dedicated to focusing on this love triangle and the strain it puts on the Fire Ferrets as a team. Bryke has no mercy for the shippers, let's leave it at that...

[[WMG: Sokka is Amon]]
* Isn't it a bit curious that alone out of the Gaang, his fate is virtually unknown?
** Actually, aren't the fates of MOST of the Gaang a mystery? By that logic, Amon could be any one of them.
* [[WordOfGod Katara]] confirmed Sokka dead in the very first episode.

[[WMG: Amon will be voiced by DanteBasco.]]
He is in fact the Zuko-related character Basco referred to. Why else would Amon's VA not be listed? Since Basco already partially spilled the beans, confirming that Basco is in fact Amon would ''spoil too much''.
* Basco implied that his role is pretty minor, though. Amon is shaping up to be a major character.
* Also, SteveBlum says hi.

[[WMG: Bending will be extremely rare in Republic City.]]
And not just because of the anti-bending sentiments. Because the cultures are mixed and possibly diluted by each other, benders wont align themselves with an element at an early age. This would significantly decrease the amount of benders within the city.
* As an alternate theory, the mixing of the different benders in one city could cause children to be able to bend elements different from the ones their parents bend, since they are exposed to the other cultures and bending forms. Some sources state that WordOfGod says that the ability to bend is genetic, but WHICH element the person bends is based on spirituality.
* Jossed. Bending is quite common in Republic City - it's even a popular pro-sport.

[[WMG: Korra is a badass loner who wants little to do with Tenzin]]
Especially if he's older then her.
* Jossed. She's chompin' at the bit to start her Airbending training.
** She also seems to view Tenzin as an HonoraryUncle of sorts. Which doesn't stop her from bugging him.

[[WMG: Korra will be faceless.]]
Koh did say they would meet again, and we haven't seen her face (if there is one), so who's to say she isn't faceless?
* [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110306232848/avatar/images/5/55/KorraFirstLook.jpg Jossed]]

[[WMG: Reformed!Azula will teach Korra firebending.]]
I read this theory somewhere on DeviantArt. You have to admit... it'd be awesome. Her teaching style would be Toph-ish.
* See "Korra will use blue fire" theory above. Still awesome though.
** Jossed. Looks like her instructor was nobody special

[[WMG:Republic City is a Sign that the Earth Kingdom has Fallen]]
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.
* Or he was just an incompetent ruler kept in power by the avatar, and whose subjects rebelled the minute Aang died.
** Jossed by the interim comic explaining how the Republic came into being.

[[WMG: Korra has a non-bending twin sister who will take over the anti-bending revolt.]]
Just to make the situation more personal.
* Or at least a non-bending relative of some sort.
** No Siblings, so Jossed

[[WMG:Tenzin will be a bitter, hard-ass, cigar smoking, 50-something old man because.]]
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.
Years later Tenzin grudgingly trains Korra and later bonds. When they encounter the anti-bender's secret weapon,The dubbed “Artificial Avatar,” a steam-punk cyborg air-bending woman who kills people by stealing the air from lungs.
Now Tenzin is torn between helping his substitute daughter Korra defeat the anti-bending movement by stopping their greatest weapon or save his violent corrupted first daughter from destroying herself.
I know it's too dark for a kids show, it's just a idea.
* ...What...the...'''fuck'''.
* Sorry to burst your bubble but there isn't even a slightest chance that this can happen ever.
** Are you kidding me? That sounds... Maybe it's just my dark sense of the world, but I would watch that. That sounds ''amazing!'' Way too dark for a kid's show, yes, but Wooo! That sounds like a perfect anime story. Make it. Please. GRAAAHHHH! It"s '''amazingly dark and really scary but WOW!!'''
** You want to write a story about it, please be my guest.
* We already know that manipulating things inside a persons body is extremely difficult. Other wise waterbenders would be the uncontested rulers of the world (Oh dear the rabble are revolting again, would you be a dear and rip/freeze/boil the fluid in any parts of their body?). So at the very least, the anti-bender is going to need another tactic.
* This story concept is awesome. As much as like Tenzin's characterization as it is, I seriously like this.
** Jossed. Tenzin is a family man, a little strict but not a cigar-smoking, eye-patch wearing badass with a dead wife to avenge.

[[WMG: Tenzin knows the airbending moves, but that doesn't make him an ''actual'' airbender.]]
You can learn the physical moves, but that doesn't mean you can shoot out wind.
* Jossed.

[[WMG: To go along with the top: Korra will be the daughter of an interracial couple]]
Reading that last line of a "'familiar' Fire Nation/Water Tribe couple", Korra's parents will be as such, and not just a person from the Fire Nation and the other from the Water Tribe. They will actually be benders, and the decision to live at either the Southern Water Tribe or the Fire Nation fell on "the element Korra shows signs of bending". Which makes sense, as Korra will need to learn how to bend said element (though the Southern Tribe was picked over the Northern Tribe because it was either the home of the waterbending parent or it was a place of preference since Katara came from there, and Katara may still be alive and living there to be Korra's waterbending teacher.)
This WMG can work as a reason for Korra being a fully realized Avatar (remember, all she needs to learn is Air). At first she'll think that, with a firebending dad (or mom) she can bend fire and water (as a little kid she can be misinformed in that way). Her friends would tell her that she's talking crazy, so she'll try to prove it by messing with a fire pit. She ends up accidentally making the fire so big, at first gleeful that she can firebend, but lacking the control to actually maintain it she almost burns a house down. It alerts the whole tribe as they move to put it out. Korra would be scrutinized by her friends at first, and their worried parents as well, and she would think of herself as a freak because bending more than one element would be unnatural. Her parents would also be accused for having an unnatural bender for a child, which leads to the tribe elders (or whoever reveals the identity of the Avatar in the Southern Tribe) that Korra is the next Avatar. While a bit earlier than planned, it would be because it was bad form to keep Korra under the delusion that she is different and a 'freak'. To prevent a similar incident Korra is taught firebending simultaneously with waterbending by her firebending parent. Skill and a fast learning ability will then lead her to learn Earth before she set out to learn Air (note that I am aware this is out of the usual order, though it may be due to the paranoia that Korra might accidentally set fire to something else if she doesn't at least learn control. If anything her firebending dad/mom could teach her how to control it, and she goes to the Fire Nation to learn how to bend effectively from one of the best. Insert the Zuko descendant[=/=]DanteBasco character [=WMGs=] here.)
* [[spoiler: Jossed. As show in the leaks of Episode 1, Korra's parents are pretty definitely both Water Tribe. However, it ''could'' be a North-South mixed marriage.]]

[[WMG:Until Aang changed things, interracial marriages and unions were illegal.]]
Which is why there were no canon, interracial children in [[AvatarTheLastAirbender A:TLA]]. Then Aang fell in love with Katara, and convinced the world to change this law so that they could be together, explaining the sudden abundance of interracial kids in A:TLOK.
* I'm not really sure about that. People from the water tribe lived in very secluded areas, air nomads were extinct, and people from the earth kingdom probably wouldn't be in the mood to marry fire nation soldiers. So, I'd say it was not quite illegal but rather something that simply wouldn't have happened. On the other hand, though, the Gaang got away with claiming they were from the colonies, which implies that in such places, interracial relationships did occur. Perhaps it was also common before the war, with the possible exclusion of the secluded water tribes. But I wouldn't be sure about that either, given the existence of the swamp benders.
* [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} in the first volume of the canonical ''Comicbook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePromise''. Interracial marriage aren't illegal in the Fire Nation colonies, and children from such marriages existed. Kori, for instance, was an earthbender who identified as a Fire Nation citizen through her father's lineage.]]
* Just the same, there doesn't seem to be an "abundance" of interracial couples throughout the world, only in the main setting, the United Republic of Nations with its capitol Republic City. There is obviously a mix of people of all nationalities living together and there happen to be many couples whose members are from different nations. It just seems like there's an abundance because Korra is centered in this setting, so we're going to see lots of characters of mixed marriage and mixed heritage.

[[WMG: The "MY CABBAGES" guy's successor will be...]]
A "MY RADISHES!" guy. Why? Because 'cabbages' and 'radishes' sound similar, that's why!
* The character will wear a bandana, have a radish wheelbarrow, and double as a villain in the night. Duh.
* [[ASongOfIceAndFire Davos Seaworth]]
** Jossed by new information from the Republic City game stating "(...)Cabbage Corp created the cabbage car, a lower cost compact car." So no radishes.

[[WMG: There will be no love triangle, but everyone will THINK there is.]]
For example (not necessarily the actual pairings): Mako likes Korra, but thinks she likes Bolin. Korra likes Mako, but thinks he likes Asami. Bolin likes Asami, but thinks she likes Mako. Asami like's Bolin, but thinks he likes Korra.

Then it will all come out in the most [[CrowningMomentofFunny hilarious way possible.....in the middle of a battle.]]
* I think Mako looking at Asami [[http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3291e7IZ11r2xvcto1_1280.jpg like this]] points to him liking her, but this is an interesting idea.
** Like I said, not necessarily these pairings, but the scenario would be hilarious.
* Jossed


[[WMG: There will be no love interests in the series]]
I can't see any romance happening, plus why would it? I see strong friendships, but that's it. Maybe a passing romance that ends in a [[ItGotWorse bad way]], or unrequited feelings, but nothing much.
* It's been mentioned that teen {{LoveTriangle}}s are apparently AuthorAppeal, and we know from the last series that they are fond of [[ShipTease screwing around with the shippers]] so... I don't know. There will probably be some romance, but who knows if it will go anywhere.
* I think this qualifies as Jossed by now.

[[WMG: The Pro-Bending tournament will never be completed...]]
...Because at some point the Equalists will attack it.
* That sounds plausible to me. From some of the trailers, it looks like Amon and his cronies attack the pro-bending arena, Tahno is captured (how?), and Lin Beifong saves the day. And then, because their rival is captured or de-bended, they decide to post-pone the tournament until Korra defeats Amon.
** It's also possible that this attack forces Korra to put pro-bending to the side as she realizes she needs to spend more time taking care of Amon.
** Jossed. While Amon ''does'' attack the pro-bending arena, [[spoiler:it's immediately after the championship is concluded.]]

[[WMG: The "Amon scares the crap out of Korra" scene goes a little something like this.]]
Near the end of the third episode, Korra has successfully stopped Amon's scheme for the day. Back on Air Temple Island, she's given congratulations by Tenzin and his kids (maybe Tenzin berates her a little bit for any property damage or general rule breaking she commmited, but it's ultimately congratulatory) and they leave the scene. Korra spends a beat or two feeling proud of herself, when Equalists capture her and drag her to a secluded area on the island. Amon disables her with chi-blocking and threatens her, taunting her about the titular revelation and maybe revealing that the whole scheme was a XanatosGambit on his part. Before he can do anything more to Korra, Tenzin and some White Lotus guards arrive, forcing the Equalists to retreat. Korra freaks out and starts crying, leading Tenzin to comfort her and restate just how dangerous the Equalists are. It ultimately ends on a hopeful note, as Korra promises to take down Amon.
* Jossed.

[[WMG: "The Spirit Of Competition" involves a literal Spirit of Competition.]]
He (or she, gender really doesn't matter) is a humorous BoisterousBruiser character obsessed with sports, and gets involved with the Fire Ferrets due to the upcoming pro-bending tournament. S/he'd serve two purposes: first, provide a much-needed breather after two pretty dark and heavy Equalist episodes, and help move along the pro-bending and "spirits helping Amon" subplots. Like say, at the end of the episode, Korra asks him/her about any possible connection Amon could have to the Spirit World, and the Spirit will say something like, "First I've heard of it. Tell you what, I'll ask around and see if I can find anything."
** Jossed.


[[WMG: Mako and Asami are already dating at the start of the series.]]
When Korra makes her move on Mako, she'll be shocked when he confesses to already having a girlfriend. They keep their relationship secret for a couple reasons. Asami is the scion to a major industrialist fortune, Mako is a rising sports star, and the press would never leave them alone if they caught wind of their relationship. Furthermore, they're both very private people who lead public lives, and compartmentalizing comes easily to them.
* ''Related Theory'': The trailer scene with Korra bawling into Tenzin's chest might have more to do with her heart getting stomped on by Mako than any sense of peril (In the trailer, Tenzin's "It's okay to be scared" seems as overdubbed as Korra's post gate destruction "whoops")
** Both theories are [[Jossed.]] While Korra is shocked about Mako and Asami's relationship in "A Voice in the Night", Mako and Asami weren't dating for long and Korra doesn't cry over it.
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[[folder: Just For Fun]]

[[WMG: The future of The [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra verse]] is The world of AsurasWrath.]]
It's simple, really. Sometime after the end of Korra's adventure, a new power source of energy was discovered that rendered bending of the elements worthless, the power of Mantra. Taking their old bending powered machines and enhancing them with mantra the people of the avatar world advanced to new heights the world had never seen before.

Because bending was no longer needed, the benders decided to utilize mantra instead, and via genetic manipulation, became the first demigods, and thus, the Shinkoku Trastrium Civilization came to be. Any former non benders stayed regular humans, and eventually developed their own language to distinguish themselves from the former benders, that while still could be understood between the demigods and regular humans, it is untillegible to us veiwers.

Now what happened to the avatar spirit, you may ask? Simple. Because the world advanced way to quickly, pollution and overpopulation plagued the formerly unified world, and the Demigods did exactly what The Equalist anti bending group of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' feared, and that was have regular humans be lower class citizens under the Demigod's rule. With [[spoiler: The Golden Spider[=/=][[GodIsEvil Chakratarvin]]]] irritating and making the avatar spirit angry and full of rage at the demigods for ruining the balance it tried to keep together so much, the spirit twisted into Gohma Vlitra, and thus caused the first war of creation between the gohma and the Demi-gods.

So now, instead of keeping the world in balance, the former Avatar now turned into Gohma waged war for thousands, if not millions of years, thus the Avatar never being able to reincarnate ever again. It was now up to the demi-gods to take back their world from the Gohma.

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

[[WMG: The obligatory ''MagicTheGathering'' WMG]]

* Korra is so Red it's not even funny. Maybe Red/Blue/Green given her powers as the Avatar.
** Korra would be Red/Blue. Earth and Fire are Red, Air and Water are Blue.
** Depends. Green has wind spells, and on Avatarverse, Air is more associated with spirituality, which is Green.
* Mako is ironically White/Blue
* Bolin seems Green/Red
* The airbenders as a whole gravitate towards White and/or Green, with Tenzin being whiter than most.
* Lin Beifong is the epitome of White bitchery.
* Amon is probably White/Black if not pure White. His Lieutenant seems Blue, so it'd be fun if he were White/Black.
* Skoochy is Black in the "[[DarkIsNotEvil not evil]], but still opportunistic" way.

[[WMG: Shiro Shinobi the CombatCommentator is a FourthWallObservor]]
He knows that he's in a television show, and has either read the script or been told what is going to happen, and so has taken on the job of narrating the PreviouslyOn segments.

[[WMG: Obligatory Haruhi Suzumiya WMG ]]

Haruhi saw AvatarTheLastAirbender, and thought it would be pretty snazzy to be an avatar, and her unconsciously omnipotent reality-warping head brainfarted the Korraverse into in existence, where:
* Korra is Haruhi,
* Mako is Kyon,
* Bolin is Koizumi,

and so on.

[[WMG: [[CarMeetsHouse A Car will be used to crash into the Equalists' headquarters]].]]
Come on, using a car to crash into it would be awesome, and I'd assume the Equalists/Chi Blockers have little defenses against a speeding vehicle.

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