r/ATLA • u/JustAPerson_YesOrNo "Hello, it's Zuko here" • May 25 '25

Question What ATLA take make you like this?

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u/Rats_For_Dinner May 26 '25

technically LoK but still. People who hate on Korra because she’s either too cocky or because she’s too good at what she does. It’s part of the lore that the next Avatar is stronger and more powerful than the last. It makes sense that Korra would be a better than average bender because she’s A) the Avatar and B) she’s Aangs successor.

She goes through a good ark imo and her struggles with Airbending work because it’s also lore that the next Avatar will have trouble bending the previous Avatars element. Like Aang struggled with Fire Bending because Roku was from the Fire Nation. So, the next Avatar after Korra will be an Earth Bender and struggle with Water Bending.

I just feel like all the hate against her is unwarranted and kinda shows that you weren’t paying attention to the show

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u/Lem0nCupcake May 27 '25

I don’t think the “struggle with previous element” thing is true. Roku canonically struggled with water.

Aang struggled with Fire because he blocked it after his first fire bending practice (which came easy to him) ended up hurting Katara and he swore to never firebend again. But the element he had a hard time picking up was actually earth. It took a life or death situation for Sokka for Aang to get into an earthbender mindset.

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u/Rats_For_Dinner May 27 '25

i suppose. i thought it was canon at least, though i could be wrong. but i thought that’s what Korra struggled so much with Air Bending, because aang was an air bender??

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u/Lem0nCupcake May 27 '25

They always just struggle with the element most in opposition to their own personality.

Roku was rigid and stubborn, and had a hard time with the back-and-forth fluidity of water (in the books he initially struggled with air too). Earth was easiest to pick up after Fire.

Aang is impulsive, fluid, and carefree, “going where ever with the wind”. That made water easy, and fire DANGEROUS (letting fire go carelessly is a danger to others). Earth required him staying put and getting grounded, so he had a hard time.

Korra is all about direct hits and brute strength, which can mesh with Water, Earth, Fire but not with Air’s ever-changing circling around nature. Supposedly it is also the “most spiritual” of the elements, which from e1 was her “weakness”.