Yeah, not showing an Avatar metalbend in the Avatar State was a real missed opportunity by Bryke. @Argie Vivero _Do you recall the moment when the chain wrapped_ _around Zaheer's ankle?_ All that means is that Korra simply lassoed the chain around his ankle. That's not metalbending; that's straight-up lassoing skill.
@@minh9545 Korra would, obviously, have no knowledge from a previous Avatar to draw upon for metalbending since no other Avatar has done it before her. The raw _power_ of her metalbending, however, would be greatly enhanced by her Avatar State, since she still retained the power of the Avatar State after re-fusing with Raava.
Korra is probably the most gifted Avatar that we’ve known. Korra manage to bend 3 elements when she was just 4 and she was able to learn different sub-elements.
Just noticed something: 2:52 when Toph helped Korra get the mercury out of her body, she was using water bending motions; probably because mercury is liquid. Actually, there are alot of scenes where characters use bending styles, that arent "meant" for the element they bend. For instance: Katara fighting Hama, when she noticed that Hama would just move the water back at her, the slammed her hand against it and broke the water stream coming at her. Or when Aang learned to bend earth; he just shot a stream of air at the animal attacking Sokka, with a move that looked like earth bending (Toph even said, that he learned to stand his ground and can now earth bend). These subtle hints are what makes these shows great!
When Katara fought Hama, traditional waterbending wouldn't cut it as it was redirect after redirect, with each pass only getting progressively stronger. Katara used a rigid earthbender stance to stop the redirecting, before using a similar move to knock her off her feet. Icebending being a solid is as close to earth as a waterbender can get, while metalbending is as close to water as an earthbender can get.
1:53 I read someone else say “this is how they see the world: Kuvira bent the liquid metal (likely mercury) as metal. It’s rigid, and unforgiving. Korra broke it like water (the element of change) because she understands the world is willing to change if it is properly guided”. Amazing stuff
Seemed pretty liquid when Kuvira bent it into a stream at Korra, and her movements were much more fluid than typical earth bending. I don’t really see the rigidity in that. Korra stopped the mercury like Katara did with Hama, but surely the more water bender thing to do would be to simple redirect it rather than stop it first. Korra somehow shattered the metal by hitting Kuvira with it too, so that’s something. Probably those iron rich meteorites rather than liquid mercury.
That definitely wasn't mercury, since they changed its state between solid and liquid through the fight. Edit: after taking a look again, I agree with the comment above me that those are definitely meteorites. They have the same look as those from season 3.
@@yakone1379 the same way that waterbenders can turn water to ice with their bending, then other benders can change the state of their elements too - such as magma bending. why would it be different with mercury? (even if it wasnt mercury) plus, there aren't many metals that are liquid at lower temperatures (mercury being the only one which can be liquid naturally at room temp) but there are a few which would've stayed a liquid at body temperature
@@pemo2676 First off, Mercury has a shiny, silvery appearance. The metal we saw in this fight was dark, like a dull gray or black, and even when shining in light it didn't look silvery. Mercury is poisonous. Why would Kuvira choose to use a poisonous metal as a component for her mech? And given that it stays liquid at room temperature, how would it stay as a solid when part of those control mechanisms? That metal was one of those meteorites from Zaofu. It has the same appearance, and makes the most sense. Su states to Korra that the meteorites have a special property making them easier to bend, thus easier to turn into a liquid like state. And we see Kuvira playing with those meteorites after conquering Zaofu, meaning she had access to them and was probably planning to use them.
I think Korra is going to be a pretty helpful guide for her successor if the new avatar can talk to her. /She has seen&fought with metal benders,blood benders,combustion benders,spiritbenders,lava benders,water benders,air benders and spirits. /she dealt with ptsd,depression,physical disability. /She trained 14 years to learn 3/4 of the elements. /She helped building the air nation. /She had to face the public scrutiny. /she knows the origins of the Avatar. /In just 4 years,she faces 4 different antogonists with different views and she learns from them. /She opened the spirit portals,the new avatar also can seek guidance from there. /She gets along great with kids /She knows healing,also she can spiritbend,energybend,metalbend. /She knows what is like being poisoned and how to get rid of that. /She knows spirit world very well. And also she is terrible at dating
Ikr. I'm honestly surprised cuz when there are scenes of Lok, half the comments would be from people that hate or dislike the show but surprisingly there are only few people like that here (or maybe I just haven't scrolled down more)
@Elliepopcorn I've watched both and from my experience I enjoyed The Last Airbender more. I have watched the show atleast 5 times and it is amazing every single time. It has such a charm and everything about the show is perfect. I've also watched Korra and I must say it is also interesting, but different and not in a bad way. Overall, I just don't think Korra is as good for a few reasons, but hating on it is in my opinion ignorant.
@Elliepopcorn Well I watched both during lockdown for the first time with my brother and we both really disliked LOK. It’s poorly written, filled with egregious and unapologetic retconning, it’s characters are static, boring and in some cases straight up unlikable and I don’t think it would get nearly as much recognition if it hadn’t been piggybacking off of ATLA. And IT IS IN NO WAY MORE MATURE THAN ATLA. Meelo bends his farts for fucks sake, God that’s embarrassing.
@@samuelabbottchannel nothing was retconned and it honestly is more mature, Korra contemplates suicide, tarloq kills himself and Amon, Zaheer kills the earth queen on screen, ming hua dies via electrocution, ghazan commits suicide, p'lies head explodes, Korra is chained, given a least a gallon of mercury, the amount in question is said to be enough to kill a whale, the poison gives her severe hallucinations and literally almost kills her, she's stuck in a wheelchair for 6 months, and she battles ptsd and depression for the next 3yrs WITH residual traces of mercury within her system, and Korra and asami are the first same sex couple in animation as well.
@@elijahbutcher9522 The established rules were retconned hard in the season 2 Beginnings episodes. Roku explicitly tells Aang that the power of the Avatar State comes from his last lives in ATLA and he makes not a single mention of Vaatu or Raava. He definitely knows about them because he tells Korra that she has to find them in her hallucination/dream thingy, so how do you explain that? The origins of bending have shifted from learning from nature like in ATLA. The fire-benders from the dragons, the earth-benders from the badger-moles etc. Now the Lion-turtle jut ‘gives’ people there bending powers to survive in the spirit wilds! Yeah that’s really cool, it means people don’t have to earn their bending at all like degenerate Avatar Wan who fucks everything up, murders serveral people and still just asks for his bending from the lion turtles. What a great role model. Keep in mind that in ATLA, the lion turtle tells Aang that ‘in the era before the Avatar we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves’ but in the two Beginnings episodes people bend air and fire, not energy so there’s another problem. The ability to manipulate lightning was something very few people could do and took an immense amount of skill and concentration but now everyone can do it? Yeah things change in 70 years but why the established foundations of learning such a unique power? In addition to things changing in 70 years, the new futuristic setting just makes no sense to me. Technology doesn’t develop that quickly from what was effectively the fantasy equivalent of feudal Asia in ATLA. Yeah they had warships at the end but they’re all destroyed so how in 70 years are cars and eventually a stupid robot with a laser canon invented? But I suppose people will scrounge some explanation for that and that’s really personal preference. Now on to Korra being ‘more mature’ as you say. I would mostly disagree. A lot of Korra’s dark themes are just imposed by fans. It’s never explicitly said she was going to kill herself at the end of season one, people have supposed this and it makes it more depressing and adult but whether the writers really intended for this to be the perceived effect, you can’t ever say for sure. Now, surprise, I actually really like the mercury thing with Korra and her visions of herself or PTSD whatever you want to call it. I thought it was great character development and surprisingly smart. This level of writing I wish was used for the new ‘team avatar’ who were worst thing for me about the show for me. They are painfully boring and static to watch, they’re just so uninteresting besides from Korra, contrasting Aang’s team completely. About the other ‘dark’ happenings, I don’t really see how that makes it mature. It’s rather inelegant and in ATLA, the Orwellian Ba Sing Se, Azula’s mental breakdown, the genocide of the air nomads are all far more nuanced and effective ways of making a perceived ‘kid’s show’ more mature. Killing someone by electrocution or sucking the air out of someone are shocking I guess, but that tone isn’t maintained at all. I present to you again: ‘Meelo’s fartbending.’ Along with the really quite poor writing of Korra, it makes for quite an immature show imo. And Asami and Korra were ‘confirmed’ to be gay by the writers on theirTumblr after the show aired and there were basically no hints of it at all until S4. Even then you would have to look extremely hard to find them. Say what you want about it but nobody had to take to Reddit to write essays on why Aang and Katara was a thing. And no it’s not more nuanced and realistic and mature. I’m 21 and no relationship I’ve ever been in or seen has even remotely resembled Korrasami because they basically had no relationship in the first place.
Kuvira vs Korra fight, you can clearly see both of them are using waterbending techniques, deflect and turns one's attack against the other. Its probably bc the metal was a liquid metal.
So nice seeing her learn metalbending. Even cooler that she was the first Avatar to learn it. Metalbending the poison out of her body was such a meaningful scene. Toph encouraged her to rid herself of the mercury that put her through years of pain by using her amazing skill and she did it! I love Korra so much💙
@@S713Nshe could poison with mercury like the red lotus did, but it would be a tie because Korra wouldn't be able to withstand Goku's power as much in his avatar state. Even if Goku would also end up dying from poisoning
Seeing Korra struggle with Kuvira at first in their first round is intriguing to see that even if the poison is fully gone from her system, she still is weakened tactically and physically, but in their second round, she gotten a lot better fighting her inside of her mech. That’s makes her so badass, improving so much in round 2 than round 1. Her season 4 look is super gorgeous, with her short hair and new outfit, that’s my all time favorite in my eyes. I imagine seeing her use metal bending like a certain mutant would, but that’ll be too dark to see in a kids show. The moment she picked up on the skill quickly gives me Jedi vibes, particularly Anakin and Luke, during their lightsaber/force ability training, they mastered the Jedi arts very quickly.
Actually, I can see a difference between how she fought kuvira in the 1st round and how she fights after that. Her movements were too slow and predictable but when she rescues the new earth king she fights more proficiently, would be because in the first fight with kuvira the rest of the poison was recently removed? Or a plot convenience?
@@AirbenderHawk well I didn't say Korra wasn't better in the rematch, what I said is that she fights different in the first match and her posterior fights before she overcomes her fear. It's really clear that she improves in her second fight
Korra doesn't improve just like that.. even after removing the last remnant of mercury from her system, she was weakened because she couldn't access the spiritual power; she was still traumatized from her experience with Zaheer, and thus was slow and unsure of herself. Only after she broke through that barrier with Zaheer's help, did she finally regain her power.
Not really the same person. Aangs personality and Korras are very different and their methods are different. Reincarnation does not mean they are the same person but they are the same spirit
@@brandondallaire I don't understand the unfair comparison that doesn't even make sense. Always the criticism over Korra, the hate she gets is just too much. Maybe those who loved Aang would be more compassionate about her if they see them as Avatar, the same soul.
Someone on a now-blocked RUclips Korra video actually tried to downplay Korra's metalbending skill, even after I pointed out that Korra was able to tag Kuvira with some surprise metalbending moves (which Suyin, who _taught_ Korra, was unable to do) and that she bent the mercury out of her own body that Su missed. The more I look back at that discussion, the more I'm convinced that the dude was trolling.
Probably. If they're not bitching about the characters they're bitching about how the show "ruined" the lore of Avatar. Like all the advancement in tech, like we're to believe that everyone on the planet would just FORGET about all the fucking vehicles they literally just created in the last year alone. They'd just STOP using them or improving on them for reconstruction. People are idiots.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A Exactly. And as I mentioned, we SAW that development happen in real time with them inventing new weapons of war and transportation. That stuff isn't just going to go away. When you invent a truck you're not gonna go back to an ostrich horse and buggy.
i bet any of the avatars were unique .. i would very much like a series with kyoshi, the first female wind avatar (forgot her name) or a deeper series with roku ... OR the next avatar being rather a anti hero or even villain (due to Vaatu having been freed and for story reasons only temporarily being "killed"/destroyed) maybe in a timeperiod were bending has become rare ...
Thank you for this. I hate when people say she is a Mary Sue, like, she has been through so much and earned her power. I also used to think that until I looked deeper into the story
Imagine ever thinking she was a Mary Sue lol. I feel like people nowadays don’t know the real definition and just throw the label on female characters they don’t like. Good on you bro for you character development tho!! That’s what we love to see :)
@@sia6045 Thank you. I think there are much more qualified women characters out there for this title. Someone recently accused me for writing a Gary Stu protagonist in my Avatar fanfiction even though the story literally starts with him making a mistake that allows the Fire Nation to dominate the world and his quest is to fix his own mess.
I like how Korra's approach to metalbending reflects her native element. While Toph sought out the impurities in the metal, Korra traced all the changes the nickel and iron in the meteorite had gone through before morphing it into a liquid-looking shape. Changes in matter can be traced. Waterbenders learn early on how to trace and then trigger those changes.
Honestly, I just love the swamp plot. Korra saying Suyin took the poison out and Toph saying her daughters never learned metalbending that well... They're two of the best in the world and they're still getting roasted.
She probably tried but we can't forget that earth was Aang's opposite element. He was a proficient earth bender eventually but it was the element he had the hardest time to master (with Fire his issue was his fear to hurt others) and after mastering regular earth bending, he didn't really feel the need to master metal.
2:08 Korra looks like she’s in a traditional earthbending stance, which makes sense, seeing as Metalbending is a subset of Earth. Nice attention to detail.
She was also trained at a young age to do traditional bending rather than modern style since the elders were the ones who taught her. But yes, I love the attention the creators and animators make.
you cant know if she second we know kyoshi was bi but no one knows previous avatars and in the other hand maybe even aang was bi he wasnt need to announce it because he had so much beautiful relationship with katara
For people wondering why she didn't learn metal bending since season 1 I think this is the reason. Her traditional teachers were to blame for that. It's like Rangi doesn't want Kyoshi learning water bending without learning airbending first. The thing is they don't have an air bender teacher at the time so they improvised. That's the reason probably. Tradition first before anything. Learn the basics first in order. Even Kyoshi don't agree with that with her 16 years discovered being the Avatar too late but well we all know she can't say no to Rangi.
@King Creedo its true that the Avatar can learn the sub elements if they had the mentality and affinity. Though bloodbending is too out of character considering the harmful effects on the user's mental state, flight is out of question since the Avatar's duty is tied to the world.
@@vanessachowjiaying4423 I don't think it's out of question. Remember aang and the guru back in season 2? He didn't give up on katara so he couldn't master avatar state at that time. What if he did and then learned how to fly too?
Not gonna lie, I didn't love LoK like ATLA but Korra would have beat Aang if they went toe to toe at the same age. Her bending is way more diverse, she bends metal like a water bender or an earthbender, she does airbending like firebending, etc. The variations in her style is much greater than any Avatar before her.
@@nanayaw357 100% Aang was a better world figure, mediator, and global symbol. In general being the Avatar is more than being the most powerful being in the world.
Just so you guys know, I don’t think Korra is a better Avatar. I’m just saying that she accomplished things that Aang couldn’t even imagine. But Aang was more connected to his spiritual side, and was more responsible. While Korra was stronger, already controlled 3 elements by the age of 4. They were both amazing and I enjoyed both shows equally.
Angry ATLA fans: " I don't like Korra. She's too bossy and selfish." Also angry ATLA fans: "We stan Toph" Edit: To some idiot in the comments: Never did I say Toph was bad because of her personality. I love Toph in fact. But blaming Korra for doing the same thing. *(Which by the way was only in seasons 1 and 2 because of Korra's character growth)* is really dumb.
Or when Korra gets angry and frustrated: people hate her and call ungrateful selfish person. When Zuko gets angry and frustrated: Awww Zuko cute or I feel bad for Zuko. Not many people realize Korra is similar to Toph and Zuko. Toph became a rebel because her parents hardly allowed her to do things on her own. With Korra she was locked up in compound and couldn't make friends or see anyone but her teachers. She fought and trained every day, and was told she has the most important job to the world. Which is why she builds herself up as being the avatar is her identity. Later on she learn thats not the case. She slowly becomes a rebel, fighting against rules that was set for her. I think Katara sees that in Korra and allows her to be free from the White lotus. Both Korra and Zuko had to go on similar path to become better person and find their own identity. Another cool fact about Korra. She literally does what all past lives told Aang before facing Ozai.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 I believe Korra's story is very similar to Uncle Iroh. Both begin as narrow-minded individuals but, due to a personal tragedy, grow and change their world-views.
If they do that they'll probably hate Kurruk more since he got Korra's early teenage rebellious stage all his life. 😅😅😅 People just hate something they see themselves in. 😂
1:41 WOW, I can't believe I never noticed it before! So remember reading that Republic City took inspiration from New York, Hong King and even from here; Sweet Home Chicago . . . But I've been so bummed out that I never noticed anything in Republic City that screams "This was inspired from Chicago". 1:41 HELLO! RIGHT THERE!!!! :D The raised subway, just like our Loop in Downtown :D Fun fact, the train fight between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus was filmed here in Chicago :D
When people can make water/ice blades to slice through metal, fire balls to burn down houses, giant rocks, and tornadoes, I think a broken lock is pretty low on the priority list. Actually, given how many benders there are, I find it kind of weird now how people in this universe aren't in a constant state of paranoia.
@@davidhong1934 Not really. It takes a skilled waterbender to generate enough power to break through a door, or they'd need a lot of water, so any water they carry around wont cut it. A firebender would most likely accidentally burn down the house. Earth bender might be able to throw some rocks at the door, but then again, a nonbender can do that too. Airbender might be literally able to blow the house down. Breaking the lock is the stealthiest and most unnoticeable way of breaking in.
I already like how she is also writing a journal for the next avatar in case he would had trouble with spiritually like korra had in the beginning. She honestly the only avatar (we know of) that is thinking ahead for the next avatar in line already at a young age (21). I love her character development.
@@skeleboi8507 Oh yeah I thought you were confused with the bending in Korra if your confused its basically the exact same they just got better at bending it
There are a lot of theories talking about how They bend cilice, and that's why platinum is off limits, but at the end this world is not that scientific.
Imagine if Kyoshi had been the greatest avatar in History with her bending all the main elements and after that Lightning,Lava, metal,flight,blood,ice, energy, spirit bending then she learned like some insanely crazy platonic plates bending like bending the plates of the earth at her will obviously not easily but with some force
If the avatar is too perfect, then it would feel like there's no use of having allies with different abilities around, would make the story feel boring..since what the Avatar's allies could do, the avatar could do it as well, and do it even better. Would make the story seems cheap and lack depth.
@@RusyaidiDzulkifli no but I’m thinking or an alternate timeline like what if all the spirits merge with all humans and that perfect avatar has to be made to stop the war against all avatars
@@AmazingSpider-Man right but I believe there might be another way sort of like a Saiyan since they use anger or sadness or just plain training no emotions yk?
@@AmazingSpider-Man actually the avatars are capable of that, Guru Pathik was teaching Aang to master the avatar state, and also to achieve the ability of flight, they had to let go of their earthly desire, for Zaheer it was P'li, for Aang it was Katara..in Ba sing Se before he got struck by lightning, he was floating off the ground when he entered the avatar state, and there was no powerful wind around him to keep him up like how he entered the avatar state at the temple, the desert, or at general fung's fortress.
I feel like a lot of people don’t realize Korras strongest feature is will power and strength. She resisted blood bending from Amon while Aang had to go avatar mode
Korra has a very unique mastery of bending. Her skills advanced faster than any Avatar before her, with the exception of airbending due to her bad habit of rushing everything, and she learned bending skills other Avatars had never even heard of.
I think the reason she struggled with air-bending and spiritually was not only because it was opposite to her personality but because air is the element of freedom and since she was 4 she never had freedom. No freedom of choice, no freedom in being a kid, no freedom to be Korra and nost just the Avatar. When Korra lost the ability to bend her other elements she thought that she is no longer the Avatar which lifted the heavy weight of her shoulder without her knowing and caused her to finally be able to bend air. Then cliff scene where she thought about d wording herself as she felt like a failed avatar and that if she died the next avatar would be able to bend all again. (the white lotus really f+cked up her childhood because a 17 year old girl thinking like this is not normal) But in the end couldn't do it made AANG appear because as he said when we are at the lowest point (Korra thinking of sui+de) we are open to the greatest change and it opened her to her spiritually.
Korra was such a treat, she showed us how FLUID an Avatar could be, Aang was so special because he was the last Airbender AND the Avatar, but he always favored air. Korra favors whatever is needed in the moment. To see her learn metalbending, healing and other sub-sets was so cool because we knew she cared about those skills.
One of her best metal bending moments isn't here, Korra breaking her platinum chains in her fight against the red lotus, no other metal bender is capable of getting even a reaction from platinum and Korra was out there breaking it
It’s fitting for Korra to metal bend right off the bat because if she struggled to learn air bending the most then that means at her core Korra is an Earthbender 🪨
Korra's fight with Kuvira was so awesome and not only for the great visuals. Both of them not willing to give up no matter how bad things were looking. The only thing that stopped Kuvira was her body no having any strength left
Its crazy how strong Korra actually is. At just such a young age bending already fire, earth, and water, mastering the four elements isnt easy, and it takes years of practice and perfection as one firebender said. Her prowess and style in fighting, as well as being to learn and deflect, making strong impacts, reading her surroundings and using their defence as offense shows how much development in her skills and character throughout the series. And I have always admired that. She's strong, fast, agile, fierce and determined and if anything a very quick learner. AND the first metal bending avatar. I also find Korra and Aang very similar to eachother. Both always determined. Both have great power. And both similar emotionally. And Korra learned alot already of her spiritual side at a young age. I have always loved how the producers and writers direct her story, not only through the way they fight but their personality eventually developing that makes it a great watch. I really wish there was another season of Legend of Korra! (also very bad at dating)
Baby Korra was never bad at dating, that was Mako. Not to mention if we are talking about relationships then let’s talk about how Aang neglected Kya and Bumi, just so he could teach Tenzin stuff.
And people really think Aang would win in a fight against her.. come on, fighting is the one thing she outright outclasses Aang at with no questions asked.
The whole point of the show is that she's the opposite of Aang. She starts off being a goated fighter and has to learn to be a good diplomat while Aang had the diplomacy down in season 1 but had to train to beat Ozai.
@@BlackLynx4607a i think the fact that she was beaten so many times was a good choice,since every time gang was beaten in ATLA, he goes in Avatar state and solve everything ,and he struggles with his final boss, one of the strongest Fire Benders. And they did it better in LOK, u can see that in S1 she fight with a crazy blood bender,but she couldn't use the Avatar state at this time. S2 she literally fought the strongest dark entity in the Avatar universe and even her Avatar state wasnt enough to beat the "Anti-Avatar" In S3 she used it but almost died and ended the Avatar cycle for this, so it makes sense she didn't used it that much in S4, cuz now she is much more responsible and learned to do things by herself,without the Avatar state.
Korra has more power, by far. Also she is more versatile but only in means of using different elements fighting styles - for instance she would airbend with firebend techniques. Aang on the other hand was more strategic, didn't use as much pure power but he was more agile and strategic. Both have its ups and downs.
Man I miss Korra so much, look dat gorgeous fluid animation, there is nothing like Avatar and Korra when it comes to animated beautiful and fantastic fluid fights.
i like this arc bc it shows that despite being a naturally talented bender, korra still worked hard and learn the foundations. This is like day 2 of knowing metal bending, and she was able to rip apart a solid metal wall bc she went back to the basics of earth bending. She is very grounded and forceful with her motions, that horse stance would've made toph proud
Tbh LoK didn't do bending as much justice as it should. The animation is great don't get me wrong but bending just turned into punches and kicks. Most of the true bending disappeared.
@@tylerthompson7329 You need to rewatch the show all over again. Or either your’e blind. Literally multiple different types of martial arts are shown in this one clip alone lol. Nothing “disappeared” just evolved.
@@sia6045 uh pro bending? Won straight up punching and learning how to fire bend? The original martial arts were lost in korra, maybe you need to start paying attention. Tenzen was right to say pro bending was a mockery of bending because it was. It went from traditional classic chinese martial arts to modern mixed. It lost how bending was an art form and turned it into just fighting.
@@tylerthompson7329 "It's just punching and kick" 0:43 0:50 1:50. You really don't know you're stuff pro bending is boxing/mma which is still martial arts. Wan literally learns the dragon dance technique and proper martial arts.
@@kei7540 Really? Did he now? I'm sorry I thought a lion turtle fingered his forehead and suddenly he could bend. And bending was based on traditional chinese martial arts passed down for centuries not mixed martial arts. Pro-bending broke what AtLA spent it's entire series to create. Where bending took time and was learned in specific motions. What did Korra do as the Avatar? Oh yeah abuse her power and mock air bending.
I like the metal benders bending style. It seems similar to earth bending through the strong stances and powerful hits on each movement but more precise in a way. Korra moves exactly the way I'd move if I was trying to earth bend stray pieces of gravel spread out in grass.
Even though I love Aang, he is my first love in Avatar, Nostalgia will not stop me from telling the truth. Korra is better Avatar than my boy Aang. I'm so sorry.
@@jelaniherbert8904 _Flying armbar good luck_ More like a frankensteiner. And to answer the thread's main question, metalbending is based on Chu Gar with some modern military techniques tossed in, according to the Avatar Wiki.
This last time, Korra has gained thousands of followers around the world, I hope that the creators take into account the affection that the public has for her, and thus publish more comics :)
I absolutely LOVE Avatar but I find it hard to believe that Toph ”invented” metal bending. Like NOBODY else before her ever even bent a piece of metal? Unless they explain that she really didn’t and I haven’t seen it
Well the reason Toph was even able to to discover metal bending is because she was blind. She uses vibrations in the earth and senses things, like earth, around her. The only reason she was able to bend the metal was because she sensed and felt the earth minerals in the metal. So it makes sense that she was the first to metal bend, because the only other earth benders that would have to sense earth to move it would be the blind badger moles, and I’m 100% sure they didn’t metal bend
@@lenalouwho4100 I agree! people before Toph probably didn't realize that there are certain metals they can bend because there are earthly impurities in them. Toph has seismic sense and thus, can detect the earth within the metal which helped her bend it.
@@lenalouwho4100 In retrospect, it's sort of silly to call metalbending if you're just bending the same earth inside the metal. Like if you were a water bender, and there was a water pipe, if you bent the water inside, which caused the metal to change shape, you wouldn't call that metalbending. The only real difference is the impurities are smaller in size. They never really learn to bend actual metal hence why they could create a counter with low-impurity metals. If they said metal came from ore and ore was therefore a type of earth, like how sandbending was different but just a more difficult and different type of earth, that would've made more sense as actually bending metal.
Yay, Korra is the first metalbending Avatar! :D Korra, don't you want to tell all your past lives about how you're the first metalbending Avatar? . . . :3
I'm still mad at Bolin and Mako for messing up on their 1 job. Keep him outside of the spirit portal she was kicking Vaatuu's behind and only needed 15 more seconds. Throw some lightning at that WATER Bender...no...I let it go. Although without her past lives, she was able to fix a lot. Defeating vaatuu, restoring the spirits, putting the worlds back together, bringing back the air nation. I mean the whole point of the Avatar is to fix the mistakes of the Avatar...and that's pretty much done.
I love see Korra use metal bending in the avatar state tbh. Imagine her creating bullets and going full Magneto on her opponent lol.
Might as well respect Korra if you don't wanna get shot in a creative way by her lol
@Argie Vivero The chain was platinum, she used her strength to pull Zaheer.
Yeah, not showing an Avatar metalbend in the Avatar State was a real missed opportunity by Bryke.
@Argie Vivero _Do you recall the moment when the chain wrapped_ _around Zaheer's ankle?_
All that means is that Korra simply lassoed the chain around his ankle. That's not metalbending; that's straight-up lassoing skill.
@@Deined no avatar has ever bent metal before so i think it would stay the same due to having no power-up by the other avatars.
@@minh9545 Korra would, obviously, have no knowledge from a previous Avatar to draw upon for metalbending since no other Avatar has done it before her. The raw _power_ of her metalbending, however, would be greatly enhanced by her Avatar State, since she still retained the power of the Avatar State after re-fusing with Raava.
I sometimes forget how badass Korra’s fighting style is. She’s so aggressive and fluid.
I do like that about Korra's fights. She fights how I would if I had these powers lol
Born to kick ass. Forced to fill in paperwork.
she always be a punch bag. worst avatar
She fights like an MMA fighter, for better or for worse, I wonder if future avatars will incorporate new things with guns possibly being on the table
@@333dae I hope so too. Seeing how Bending became more modernized was one of my favorite parts of TLOK.
Korra is probably the most gifted Avatar that we’ve known. Korra manage to bend 3 elements when she was just 4 and she was able to learn different sub-elements.
I’m erasing my memories from this comment because I didn’t need to see this about her being the greatest avatar
@Axroy Roblox 100% f a c t s
And still, she is weaker than Aang
@@marcoantunes1813 um no?
@@marcoantunes1813 i disagree
Just noticed something: 2:52 when Toph helped Korra get the mercury out of her body, she was using water bending motions; probably because mercury is liquid.
Actually, there are alot of scenes where characters use bending styles, that arent "meant" for the element they bend.
For instance: Katara fighting Hama, when she noticed that Hama would just move the water back at her, the slammed her hand against it and broke the water stream coming at her. Or when Aang learned to bend earth; he just shot a stream of air at the animal attacking Sokka, with a move that looked like earth bending (Toph even said, that he learned to stand his ground and can now earth bend).
These subtle hints are what makes these shows great!
Yes as metalbending is different from earthbending. I'm not sure what martial arts it's based on though.
In Zuko vs Azula, Zuko uses an earthbendong move with fire. Eska and Desna also one used an earthbending move with ice.
Also, Kya bends water like air
Unalaq, Eska, Desna, and Tonraq all seem to “eartbend” with ice.
When Katara fought Hama, traditional waterbending wouldn't cut it as it was redirect after redirect, with each pass only getting progressively stronger. Katara used a rigid earthbender stance to stop the redirecting, before using a similar move to knock her off her feet.
Icebending being a solid is as close to earth as a waterbender can get, while metalbending is as close to water as an earthbender can get.
1:53 I read someone else say “this is how they see the world: Kuvira bent the liquid metal (likely mercury) as metal. It’s rigid, and unforgiving. Korra broke it like water (the element of change) because she understands the world is willing to change if it is properly guided”. Amazing stuff
Seemed pretty liquid when Kuvira bent it into a stream at Korra, and her movements were much more fluid than typical earth bending. I don’t really see the rigidity in that. Korra stopped the mercury like Katara did with Hama, but surely the more water bender thing to do would be to simple redirect it rather than stop it first.
Korra somehow shattered the metal by hitting Kuvira with it too, so that’s something. Probably those iron rich meteorites rather than liquid mercury.
That definitely wasn't mercury, since they changed its state between solid and liquid through the fight.
Edit: after taking a look again, I agree with the comment above me that those are definitely meteorites. They have the same look as those from season 3.
@omniscient xt the hell? No it doesn’t idiot
@@yakone1379 the same way that waterbenders can turn water to ice with their bending, then other benders can change the state of their elements too - such as magma bending. why would it be different with mercury? (even if it wasnt mercury)
plus, there aren't many metals that are liquid at lower temperatures (mercury being the only one which can be liquid naturally at room temp) but there are a few which would've stayed a liquid at body temperature
@@pemo2676
First off, Mercury has a shiny, silvery appearance. The metal we saw in this fight was dark, like a dull gray or black, and even when shining in light it didn't look silvery.
Mercury is poisonous. Why would Kuvira choose to use a poisonous metal as a component for her mech? And given that it stays liquid at room temperature, how would it stay as a solid when part of those control mechanisms?
That metal was one of those meteorites from Zaofu. It has the same appearance, and makes the most sense. Su states to Korra that the meteorites have a special property making them easier to bend, thus easier to turn into a liquid like state. And we see Kuvira playing with those meteorites after conquering Zaofu, meaning she had access to them and was probably planning to use them.
Korra vs kuvira was a epic fight scene
It was almost as good as suyin and kuvira
Yep, EPIC
Ikr
Just wished it lasted longer
What fight the second one for sure was a epic fight
The scene where Korra bends the last little bits of mercury still gets me emotional even after not seeing the scene in years
Sameeeee
Yes!!
and when she tears seeing jenora get her tattoo
@@brhsmaait wasn’t because of that
I think Korra is going to be a pretty helpful guide for her successor if the new avatar can talk to her.
/She has seen&fought with metal benders,blood benders,combustion benders,spiritbenders,lava benders,water benders,air benders and spirits.
/she dealt with ptsd,depression,physical disability.
/She trained 14 years to learn 3/4 of the elements.
/She helped building the air nation.
/She had to face the public scrutiny.
/she knows the origins of the Avatar.
/In just 4 years,she faces 4 different antogonists with different views and she learns from them.
/She opened the spirit portals,the new avatar also can seek guidance from there.
/She gets along great with kids
/She knows healing,also she can spiritbend,energybend,metalbend.
/She knows what is like being poisoned and how to get rid of that.
/She knows spirit world very well.
And also she is terrible at dating
I wish that every toxic ATLA fan realize that
I agree with everything u just said
Well said.
And she knows what is right and what is wrong, no matter if it's good thing or a bad thing
Queen
I love that most of the comments here are not as toxic as the others. Love for both Aang and Korra!
Ikr. I'm honestly surprised cuz when there are scenes of Lok, half the comments would be from people that hate or dislike the show but surprisingly there are only few people like that here (or maybe I just haven't scrolled down more)
@Elliepopcorn I've watched both and from my experience I enjoyed The Last Airbender more. I have watched the show atleast 5 times and it is amazing every single time. It has such a charm and everything about the show is perfect. I've also watched Korra and I must say it is also interesting, but different and not in a bad way. Overall, I just don't think Korra is as good for a few reasons, but hating on it is in my opinion ignorant.
@Elliepopcorn Well I watched both during lockdown for the first time with my brother and we both really disliked LOK. It’s poorly written, filled with egregious and unapologetic retconning, it’s characters are static, boring and in some cases straight up unlikable and I don’t think it would get nearly as much recognition if it hadn’t been piggybacking off of ATLA. And IT IS IN NO WAY MORE MATURE THAN ATLA. Meelo bends his farts for fucks sake, God that’s embarrassing.
@@samuelabbottchannel nothing was retconned and it honestly is more mature, Korra contemplates suicide, tarloq kills himself and Amon, Zaheer kills the earth queen on screen, ming hua dies via electrocution, ghazan commits suicide, p'lies head explodes, Korra is chained, given a least a gallon of mercury, the amount in question is said to be enough to kill a whale, the poison gives her severe hallucinations and literally almost kills her, she's stuck in a wheelchair for 6 months, and she battles ptsd and depression for the next 3yrs WITH residual traces of mercury within her system, and Korra and asami are the first same sex couple in animation as well.
@@elijahbutcher9522 The established rules were retconned hard in the season 2 Beginnings episodes. Roku explicitly tells Aang that the power of the Avatar State comes from his last lives in ATLA and he makes not a single mention of Vaatu or Raava. He definitely knows about them because he tells Korra that she has to find them in her hallucination/dream thingy, so how do you explain that?
The origins of bending have shifted from learning from nature like in ATLA. The fire-benders from the dragons, the earth-benders from the badger-moles etc. Now the Lion-turtle jut ‘gives’ people there bending powers to survive in the spirit wilds! Yeah that’s really cool, it means people don’t have to earn their bending at all like degenerate Avatar Wan who fucks everything up, murders serveral people and still just asks for his bending from the lion turtles. What a great role model.
Keep in mind that in ATLA, the lion turtle tells Aang that ‘in the era before the Avatar we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves’ but in the two Beginnings episodes people bend air and fire, not energy so there’s another problem.
The ability to manipulate lightning was something very few people could do and took an immense amount of skill and concentration but now everyone can do it? Yeah things change in 70 years but why the established foundations of learning such a unique power?
In addition to things changing in 70 years, the new futuristic setting just makes no sense to me. Technology doesn’t develop that quickly from what was effectively the fantasy equivalent of feudal Asia in ATLA. Yeah they had warships at the end but they’re all destroyed so how in 70 years are cars and eventually a stupid robot with a laser canon invented? But I suppose people will scrounge some explanation for that and that’s really personal preference.
Now on to Korra being ‘more mature’ as you say. I would mostly disagree. A lot of Korra’s dark themes are just imposed by fans. It’s never explicitly said she was going to kill herself at the end of season one, people have supposed this and it makes it more depressing and adult but whether the writers really intended for this to be the perceived effect, you can’t ever say for sure.
Now, surprise, I actually really like the mercury thing with Korra and her visions of herself or PTSD whatever you want to call it. I thought it was great character development and surprisingly smart. This level of writing I wish was used for the new ‘team avatar’ who were worst thing for me about the show for me. They are painfully boring and static to watch, they’re just so uninteresting besides from Korra, contrasting Aang’s team completely.
About the other ‘dark’ happenings, I don’t really see how that makes it mature. It’s rather inelegant and in ATLA, the Orwellian Ba Sing Se, Azula’s mental breakdown, the genocide of the air nomads are all far more nuanced and effective ways of making a perceived ‘kid’s show’ more mature. Killing someone by electrocution or sucking the air out of someone are shocking I guess, but that tone isn’t maintained at all. I present to you again: ‘Meelo’s fartbending.’ Along with the really quite poor writing of Korra, it makes for quite an immature show imo.
And Asami and Korra were ‘confirmed’ to be gay by the writers on theirTumblr after the show aired and there were basically no hints of it at all until S4. Even then you would have to look extremely hard to find them. Say what you want about it but nobody had to take to Reddit to write essays on why Aang and Katara was a thing. And no it’s not more nuanced and realistic and mature. I’m 21 and no relationship I’ve ever been in or seen has even remotely resembled Korrasami because they basically had no relationship in the first place.
Kuvira vs Korra fight, you can clearly see both of them are using waterbending techniques, deflect and turns one's attack against the other. Its probably bc the metal was a liquid metal.
ruclips.net/video/wtbcaWnybzs/видео.html
Especially 1:53 mirroring the Katara v Hanna (puppet master)
So nice seeing her learn metalbending. Even cooler that she was the first Avatar to learn it. Metalbending the poison out of her body was such a meaningful scene. Toph encouraged her to rid herself of the mercury that put her through years of pain by using her amazing skill and she did it! I love Korra so much💙
Same❤
But can she beat goku tho
@@S713Nshe could poison with mercury like the red lotus did, but it would be a tie because Korra wouldn't be able to withstand Goku's power as much in his avatar state.
Even if Goku would also end up dying from poisoning
Korra: *being the badass she is everytime, everywhere*
Me: *simping over Bolin, trying to find precious boi in every scene*
Why am i like this 🤣
I assure you it's perfectly normal lol
Bolin is damn cute. Just so damn cute.
~a guy
@@notanargle918 It honestly is 🤣
@@killuazoldyck6452 Same. Oh my god
Hyea Bolin is 👌
Seeing Korra struggle with Kuvira at first in their first round is intriguing to see that even if the poison is fully gone from her system, she still is weakened tactically and physically, but in their second round, she gotten a lot better fighting her inside of her mech. That’s makes her so badass, improving so much in round 2 than round 1. Her season 4 look is super gorgeous, with her short hair and new outfit, that’s my all time favorite in my eyes. I imagine seeing her use metal bending like a certain mutant would, but that’ll be too dark to see in a kids show.
The moment she picked up on the skill quickly gives me Jedi vibes, particularly Anakin and Luke, during their lightsaber/force ability training, they mastered the Jedi arts very quickly.
Actually, I can see a difference between how she fought kuvira in the 1st round and how she fights after that. Her movements were too slow and predictable but when she rescues the new earth king she fights more proficiently, would be because in the first fight with kuvira the rest of the poison was recently removed? Or a plot convenience?
@@jhoanschavezdiaz3480 I think the proficiency has indeed improved on the second round in her mech is the ideal logic for sure :).
@@AirbenderHawk well I didn't say Korra wasn't better in the rematch, what I said is that she fights different in the first match and her posterior fights before she overcomes her fear. It's really clear that she improves in her second fight
@@jhoanschavezdiaz3480 ahh I see. Sorry if I didn’t see that in the first reply lol. Great catch though.
Korra doesn't improve just like that.. even after removing the last remnant of mercury from her system, she was weakened because she couldn't access the spiritual power; she was still traumatized from her experience with Zaheer, and thus was slow and unsure of herself. Only after she broke through that barrier with Zaheer's help, did she finally regain her power.
I don't know why aftwr all these years people still compare Aang and Korra as in a competicion when they are literally the SAME PERSON
Not really the same person.
Aangs personality and Korras are very different and their methods are different. Reincarnation does not mean they are the same person but they are the same spirit
Hm.. no? Aang is Aang. Korra is Korra. What do you not understand?
@@brandondallaire I don't understand the unfair comparison that doesn't even make sense. Always the criticism over Korra, the hate she gets is just too much. Maybe those who loved Aang would be more compassionate about her if they see them as Avatar, the same soul.
@@primolla4609 What are you talking about? What comparison? I simply said that no, they are different persons, which is a fact.
@@primolla4609 Not like that's got anything going for her anymore after she destroyed her connection with him and the rest of the past avatars 😐
Someone on a now-blocked RUclips Korra video actually tried to downplay Korra's metalbending skill, even after I pointed out that Korra was able to tag Kuvira with some surprise metalbending moves (which Suyin, who _taught_ Korra, was unable to do) and that she bent the mercury out of her own body that Su missed.
The more I look back at that discussion, the more I'm convinced that the dude was trolling.
Probably. If they're not bitching about the characters they're bitching about how the show "ruined" the lore of Avatar. Like all the advancement in tech, like we're to believe that everyone on the planet would just FORGET about all the fucking vehicles they literally just created in the last year alone. They'd just STOP using them or improving on them for reconstruction. People are idiots.
@@Igarappappa Yep, he was _exactly_ one of _those_ dudes. I think he even labeled himself a "Korra hater" on another site.
@@Deined Like I said "IDIOT".
@@Igarappappa It's ones who hate how the world progress I won't take seriously. No matter what, progress will happen.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A Exactly. And as I mentioned, we SAW that development happen in real time with them inventing new weapons of war and transportation. That stuff isn't just going to go away. When you invent a truck you're not gonna go back to an ostrich horse and buggy.
LOK absolutely DOMINATED with the action scenes
Can't we just all agree that Korra and Aang has their own uniqueness.
Yes
That was the point, they were designed to be a stark contrast to eachother.
i bet any of the avatars were unique ..
i would very much like a series with kyoshi, the first female wind avatar (forgot her name) or a deeper series with roku ... OR the next avatar being rather a anti hero or even villain (due to Vaatu having been freed and for story reasons only temporarily being "killed"/destroyed) maybe in a timeperiod were bending has become rare ...
I love both shows and I don't understand the people who say that Korra is bad.
Well I liked Ang, if korra was designed to be opposite of Aang. It means I don't like her
Me 3 years ago: That Mary Sue sucks!
Me now: Cool, good for her, she learned something new.
Character development!
Thank you for this. I hate when people say she is a Mary Sue, like, she has been through so much and earned her power. I also used to think that until I looked deeper into the story
ikr
Same except I still find her to be slightly more irritating than katara
Imagine ever thinking she was a Mary Sue lol. I feel like people nowadays don’t know the real definition and just throw the label on female characters they don’t like.
Good on you bro for you character development tho!! That’s what we love to see :)
@@sia6045
Thank you.
I think there are much more qualified women characters out there for this title.
Someone recently accused me for writing a Gary Stu protagonist in my Avatar fanfiction even though the story literally starts with him making a mistake that allows the Fire Nation to dominate the world and his quest is to fix his own mess.
I like how Korra's approach to metalbending reflects her native element. While Toph sought out the impurities in the metal, Korra traced all the changes the nickel and iron in the meteorite had gone through before morphing it into a liquid-looking shape. Changes in matter can be traced. Waterbenders learn early on how to trace and then trigger those changes.
1:50 They're "waterbending" the metal and I am totally here for it! t's great to see the overlap of how you treat one element working with another.
Honestly, I just love the swamp plot. Korra saying Suyin took the poison out and Toph saying her daughters never learned metalbending that well... They're two of the best in the world and they're still getting roasted.
Aang is pretty great and I will always love his story to death.... but Korra really gets put through the ringer throughout the course of her series!
Aang is pretty bad
@@jadenchamoun6785; Movie version doesn't count
No aang is perrrty bad aang is overrated
@@jadenchamoun6785; Kinda rude, but okay
@@jadenchamoun6785perrrty lmao learn to spell correctly dumbass
1:49 airbending pull/grab! It looks really cool
Wait, Korra is the first metal bending avatar? Didn't Toph teach Aang how to metal bend?
Aang couldn't metal bend. Toph tried to teach him but he couldn't.
Toph explains you need affinity to be able to bend metal. Not every earth bender can bend metal.
She probably tried but we can't forget that earth was Aang's opposite element. He was a proficient earth bender eventually but it was the element he had the hardest time to master (with Fire his issue was his fear to hurt others) and after mastering regular earth bending, he didn't really feel the need to master metal.
She said she did, but he didn’t have the natural talent for it. Earth is his naturally weakest element, so it’s not surprising he didn’t pick it up.
But y'all come on Aang had freaking Seismic sense while korra doesn't
"I'm not going up there" 2:39
*....famous last words*
lol Korra's face.
2:08
Korra looks like she’s in a traditional earthbending stance, which makes sense, seeing as Metalbending is a subset of Earth. Nice attention to detail.
She was also trained at a young age to do traditional bending rather than modern style since the elders were the ones who taught her. But yes, I love the attention the creators and animators make.
@@halfknight2310
Same.
Korra may be a water bender, but she’s as aggressive as an earth bender.
korra metalbending the poison out of her is so emotional. great vid !!
*"Congratulations, you are the second bisexual avatar"*
The first one is Kyoshi right? She loves a girl from fire nation if i'm not wrong
@@ri.valdo24 yes
you cant know if she second we know kyoshi was bi but no one knows previous avatars and in the other hand maybe even aang was bi he wasnt need to announce it because he had so much beautiful relationship with katara
@@youtubehesab7763 WOW WOW SLOWDOWN, SIR!!!
Well, at least for now as far as we know she's the second bisexual avatar after kyoshi. Maybe next they'll update it LOL
Korra's MMA skills & raw physical strength don't get enough mention 😌
For people wondering why she didn't learn metal bending since season 1 I think this is the reason. Her traditional teachers were to blame for that. It's like Rangi doesn't want Kyoshi learning water bending without learning airbending first. The thing is they don't have an air bender teacher at the time so they improvised. That's the reason probably. Tradition first before anything. Learn the basics first in order. Even Kyoshi don't agree with that with her 16 years discovered being the Avatar too late but well we all know she can't say no to Rangi.
I have to admit bending does look amazing on Korra
So the avatar can do lightnig blood and metal ounliy if they master it
The avatar can master all types of bending even the sub disciplines
@King Creedo its true that the Avatar can learn the sub elements if they had the mentality and affinity. Though bloodbending is too out of character considering the harmful effects on the user's mental state, flight is out of question since the Avatar's duty is tied to the world.
@@vanessachowjiaying4423 not for nothing I think 🩸 blending would had been up Korra’s alley.😁
@@vanessachowjiaying4423 say that to kyoshi!
@@vanessachowjiaying4423 I don't think it's out of question. Remember aang and the guru back in season 2? He didn't give up on katara so he couldn't master avatar state at that time. What if he did and then learned how to fly too?
Not gonna lie, I didn't love LoK like ATLA but Korra would have beat Aang if they went toe to toe at the same age. Her bending is way more diverse, she bends metal like a water bender or an earthbender, she does airbending like firebending, etc. The variations in her style is much greater than any Avatar before her.
True but Aang was a better avatar
@@nanayaw357
Actually Korra accomplished more in her lifetime but they were BOTH great avatars.
Yea Korra was a fine avatar but Aang was better
@@nanayaw357 100% Aang was a better world figure, mediator, and global symbol. In general being the Avatar is more than being the most powerful being in the world.
Just so you guys know, I don’t think Korra is a better Avatar. I’m just saying that she accomplished things that Aang couldn’t even imagine. But Aang was more connected to his spiritual side, and was more responsible. While Korra was stronger, already controlled 3 elements by the age of 4. They were both amazing and I enjoyed both shows equally.
Angry ATLA fans: " I don't like Korra. She's too bossy and selfish."
Also angry ATLA fans: "We stan Toph"
Edit: To some idiot in the comments:
Never did I say Toph was bad because of her personality.
I love Toph in fact. But blaming Korra for doing the same thing. *(Which by the way was only in seasons 1 and 2 because of Korra's character growth)* is really dumb.
Yeah, some people hate the show for one reason;
It's not Airbender.
Or when Korra gets angry and frustrated: people hate her and call ungrateful selfish person.
When Zuko gets angry and frustrated: Awww Zuko cute or I feel bad for Zuko.
Not many people realize Korra is similar to Toph and Zuko. Toph became a rebel because her parents hardly allowed her to do things on her own. With Korra she was locked up in compound and couldn't make friends or see anyone but her teachers. She fought and trained every day, and was told she has the most important job to the world. Which is why she builds herself up as being the avatar is her identity. Later on she learn thats not the case. She slowly becomes a rebel, fighting against rules that was set for her. I think Katara sees that in Korra and allows her to be free from the White lotus.
Both Korra and Zuko had to go on similar path to become better person and find their own identity.
Another cool fact about Korra. She literally does what all past lives told Aang before facing Ozai.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 i completely agree with you. I don't know why some people are so bias jeez
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 I believe Korra's story is very similar to Uncle Iroh.
Both begin as narrow-minded individuals but, due to a personal tragedy, grow and change their world-views.
If they do that they'll probably hate Kurruk more since he got Korra's early teenage rebellious stage all his life. 😅😅😅 People just hate something they see themselves in. 😂
Damn i need to rewatch this series asap
1:41 WOW, I can't believe I never noticed it before! So remember reading that Republic City took inspiration from New York, Hong King and even from here; Sweet Home Chicago . . . But I've been so bummed out that I never noticed anything in Republic City that screams "This was inspired from Chicago".
1:41 HELLO! RIGHT THERE!!!! :D The raised subway, just like our Loop in Downtown :D Fun fact, the train fight between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus was filmed here in Chicago :D
Could also be New York I think
The train tracks above and the shops on the side were most likely inspired from Brooklyn, where many chinese people live. I go around that area often
1:51 that move was so water bender. I just love it.
Gotta admire her fast learning capability too
I am the biggest fan of Korra and personally believe that she was the strongest avatar.
The only avatar to energy bend!!
@@Jdgalan916 Untrue, Aang used his ability to energy bend to take away Ozai's bending.
@@Jdgalan916aang literally taught Korra how to energy bend wymmm
@@Jranthony04 And the lion turtle taught it to AANG haha Like without teachers both would be f+cked.
I love korra so much, seriously, this woman is PERFECT
Her pulling out the metal from her body is an extremely powerful scene
0:24 Asami was like "omg! Korra is hot!"
That scene of Korra v Wei was so cool
0:47 jesus, now i see why they said this show has become too dangerous in it's final seasons..
the sound of the thing.. i could almost fill it hitting me Lol
The animation is just superb. The fight with Kovera where they liquefy and then solidify the metal...chefs kiss
People: korra best avatar
Others: no, Aang and kyoshi are
Me: no, we all got opinions, respect em, both are good
That one guy: no Wan was best avatar obviously
Imagine thieves who can metal bend
No use locking your house
When people can make water/ice blades to slice through metal, fire balls to burn down houses, giant rocks, and tornadoes, I think a broken lock is pretty low on the priority list.
Actually, given how many benders there are, I find it kind of weird now how people in this universe aren't in a constant state of paranoia.
@@davidhong1934 you forgot s1 of Korra?
@@davidhong1934 Not really. It takes a skilled waterbender to generate enough power to break through a door, or they'd need a lot of water, so any water they carry around wont cut it. A firebender would most likely accidentally burn down the house. Earth bender might be able to throw some rocks at the door, but then again, a nonbender can do that too. Airbender might be literally able to blow the house down. Breaking the lock is the stealthiest and most unnoticeable way of breaking in.
I think a good earthbender could probably break in by tunneling through the floor.
Korra is so talented, she is mastered many sub-elements bending like iron, healing water, spirit bending
She's gonna be a good mentor in many ways for her successor, she's been through a lot of things.
I already like how she is also writing a journal for the next avatar in case he would had trouble with spiritually like korra had in the beginning. She honestly the only avatar (we know of) that is thinking ahead for the next avatar in line already at a young age (21). I love her character development.
Remember when toph explained that the reason why she can metal bend was cause she can bend the rock still within the metal and not the metal itself?
A lot of metal elements have impurities that can be manipulated.
Yeah what's your point
@@Ethan-rl5kv I dont know thought it was cool
@@skeleboi8507 Oh yeah I thought you were confused with the bending in Korra if your confused its basically the exact same they just got better at bending it
There are a lot of theories talking about how They bend cilice, and that's why platinum is off limits, but at the end this world is not that scientific.
Imagine if Kyoshi had been the greatest avatar in History with her bending all the main elements and after that Lightning,Lava, metal,flight,blood,ice, energy, spirit bending then she learned like some insanely crazy platonic plates bending like bending the plates of the earth at her will obviously not easily but with some force
If the avatar is too perfect, then it would feel like there's no use of having allies with different abilities around, would make the story feel boring..since what the Avatar's allies could do, the avatar could do it as well, and do it even better. Would make the story seems cheap and lack depth.
@@RusyaidiDzulkifli no but I’m thinking or an alternate timeline like what if all the spirits merge with all humans and that perfect avatar has to be made to stop the war against all avatars
I would like that, but for Korra, not Kyoshi.
By the way, I think flight is the only sub-skill an avatar cannot learn, given what it requires.
@@AmazingSpider-Man right but I believe there might be another way sort of like a Saiyan since they use anger or sadness or just plain training no emotions yk?
@@AmazingSpider-Man actually the avatars are capable of that, Guru Pathik was teaching Aang to master the avatar state, and also to achieve the ability of flight, they had to let go of their earthly desire, for Zaheer it was P'li, for Aang it was Katara..in Ba sing Se before he got struck by lightning, he was floating off the ground when he entered the avatar state, and there was no powerful wind around him to keep him up like how he entered the avatar state at the temple, the desert, or at general fung's fortress.
I feel like a lot of people don’t realize Korras strongest feature is will power and strength. She resisted blood bending from Amon while Aang had to go avatar mode
Korra has a very unique mastery of bending. Her skills advanced faster than any Avatar before her, with the exception of airbending due to her bad habit of rushing everything, and she learned bending skills other Avatars had never even heard of.
I think the reason she struggled with air-bending and spiritually was not only because it was opposite to her personality but because air is the element of freedom and since she was 4 she never had freedom. No freedom of choice, no freedom in being a kid, no freedom to be Korra and nost just the Avatar.
When Korra lost the ability to bend her other elements she thought that she is no longer the Avatar which lifted the heavy weight of her shoulder without her knowing and caused her to finally be able to bend air.
Then cliff scene where she thought about d wording herself as she felt like a failed avatar and that if she died the next avatar would be able to bend all again. (the white lotus really f+cked up her childhood because a 17 year old girl thinking like this is not normal) But in the end couldn't do it made AANG appear because as he said when we are at the lowest point (Korra thinking of sui+de) we are open to the greatest change and it opened her to her spiritually.
1:52 I like how she redirects it as if it’s water
Korra is the first avatar to even do metal bending, a sub-element of earth bending
Korra was such a treat, she showed us how FLUID an Avatar could be, Aang was so special because he was the last Airbender AND the Avatar, but he always favored air. Korra favors whatever is needed in the moment. To see her learn metalbending, healing and other sub-sets was so cool because we knew she cared about those skills.
Nobody can tell me korra isnt one of the most powerful avatars to date
One of her best metal bending moments isn't here, Korra breaking her platinum chains in her fight against the red lotus, no other metal bender is capable of getting even a reaction from platinum and Korra was out there breaking it
That wasn’t metal bending. She was in the avatar state. Brute force broke the chains.
It’s fitting for Korra to metal bend right off the bat because if she struggled to learn air bending the most then that means at her core Korra is an Earthbender 🪨
Korra is quite powerful, she can metal bend, energy and spirit bend too.
Korra's fight with Kuvira was so awesome and not only for the great visuals. Both of them not willing to give up no matter how bad things were looking.
The only thing that stopped Kuvira was her body no having any strength left
Korra is actually a super boss avatar
I don't understand why Korra receives so much hate... She is such a strong, resilient character.
Its crazy how strong Korra actually is. At just such a young age bending already fire, earth, and water, mastering the four elements isnt easy, and it takes years of practice and perfection as one firebender said. Her prowess and style in fighting, as well as being to learn and deflect, making strong impacts, reading her surroundings and using their defence as offense shows how much development in her skills and character throughout the series. And I have always admired that. She's strong, fast, agile, fierce and determined and if anything a very quick learner. AND the first metal bending avatar. I also find Korra and Aang very similar to eachother. Both always determined. Both have great power. And both similar emotionally. And Korra learned alot already of her spiritual side at a young age. I have always loved how the producers and writers direct her story, not only through the way they fight but their personality eventually developing that makes it a great watch. I really wish there was another season of Legend of Korra!
(also very bad at dating)
Baby Korra was never bad at dating, that was Mako. Not to mention if we are talking about relationships then let’s talk about how Aang neglected Kya and Bumi, just so he could teach Tenzin stuff.
Mako literally doesn’t know what he’s missing out on
And people really think Aang would win in a fight against her.. come on, fighting is the one thing she outright outclasses Aang at with no questions asked.
The whole point of the show is that she's the opposite of Aang. She starts off being a goated fighter and has to learn to be a good diplomat while Aang had the diplomacy down in season 1 but had to train to beat Ozai.
This proves that Korra is really strong avatar
She's crazy powerful. Wish the writers didn't have her get her ass whooped so many times.
@@BlackLynx4607a i think the fact that she was beaten so many times was a good choice,since every time gang was beaten in ATLA, he goes in Avatar state and solve everything ,and he struggles with his final boss, one of the strongest Fire Benders.
And they did it better in LOK, u can see that in S1 she fight with a crazy blood bender,but she couldn't use the Avatar state at this time.
S2 she literally fought the strongest dark entity in the Avatar universe and even her Avatar state wasnt enough to beat the "Anti-Avatar"
In S3 she used it but almost died and ended the Avatar cycle for this, so it makes sense she didn't used it that much in S4, cuz now she is much more responsible and learned to do things by herself,without the Avatar state.
@@yoshietoo Responsible is a bit of a stretch
@@BlackLynx4607a she had stronger enemies
The only avatar in history who learned how to metal bend
Yup. And more, after her.
opinion: Aang had more raw power, but Korra had more versatility. Both of them had impeccable technique.
It's the other way around Korra was strong and more aggressive. Aang was more creative and more strategic.
I think it's the other way around.
Korra has more power, by far. Also she is more versatile but only in means of using different elements fighting styles - for instance she would airbend with firebend techniques. Aang on the other hand was more strategic, didn't use as much pure power but he was more agile and strategic. Both have its ups and downs.
@@filipduda8588 and both could probably kick ozai’s ass in a 1 v 1
Man I miss Korra so much, look dat gorgeous fluid animation, there is nothing like Avatar and Korra when it comes to animated beautiful and fantastic fluid fights.
i like this arc bc it shows that despite being a naturally talented bender, korra still worked hard and learn the foundations. This is like day 2 of knowing metal bending, and she was able to rip apart a solid metal wall bc she went back to the basics of earth bending. She is very grounded and forceful with her motions, that horse stance would've made toph proud
0:59 Door bending, yea that’ll hold em!
Korra metal bending looks so friggn cool. And her s04 hair and clothers are soo dope
Korra in avatar state using metal bending: *GUN TIME*
Just love metal benders using water bending movements, it's not just her doing it that way
The animation in this show is pure quality of art and martial arts
Tbh LoK didn't do bending as much justice as it should. The animation is great don't get me wrong but bending just turned into punches and kicks. Most of the true bending disappeared.
@@tylerthompson7329 You need to rewatch the show all over again. Or either your’e blind. Literally multiple different types of martial arts are shown in this one clip alone lol. Nothing “disappeared” just evolved.
@@sia6045 uh pro bending? Won straight up punching and learning how to fire bend? The original martial arts were lost in korra, maybe you need to start paying attention. Tenzen was right to say pro bending was a mockery of bending because it was. It went from traditional classic chinese martial arts to modern mixed. It lost how bending was an art form and turned it into just fighting.
@@tylerthompson7329 "It's just punching and kick" 0:43 0:50 1:50. You really don't know you're stuff pro bending is boxing/mma which is still martial arts. Wan literally learns the dragon dance technique and proper martial arts.
@@kei7540 Really? Did he now? I'm sorry I thought a lion turtle fingered his forehead and suddenly he could bend. And bending was based on traditional chinese martial arts passed down for centuries not mixed martial arts. Pro-bending broke what AtLA spent it's entire series to create. Where bending took time and was learned in specific motions. What did Korra do as the Avatar? Oh yeah abuse her power and mock air bending.
korra is the first metalbending and spiritbending avatar
Korra is the best Avatar for me.
Same here
Look I don't wanna be that person but she looks so hot when she metalbends.
don't worry, i think we're all that person
it's okay, i'm a ✨heterosexual✨ girl and i agree. 😌💅
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People keep comparing Aang and Korra knowing that they would never actually fight and Aang would be proud of how much Korra has matured over time.
Aang would never fight Korra bc he would get low diffed.
I like the metal benders bending style. It seems similar to earth bending through the strong stances and powerful hits on each movement but more precise in a way. Korra moves exactly the way I'd move if I was trying to earth bend stray pieces of gravel spread out in grass.
Watching the stealth mode of Bumi and Tenzin was great, no emotion just going in doing what they have to do.
Tenzin wearing jumpsuit still got me🤧
Even though I love Aang, he is my first love in Avatar, Nostalgia will not stop me from telling the truth. Korra is better Avatar than my boy Aang. I'm so sorry.
Its so funny that in the fact jinora is taller than topH~
I dont know but every time korra does her metal bending it is soooo smooth like a combination of water and earth stance
1:53 best animation moment in my opinion
Does anyone know what martial art is metalbending based on?
Also: 2:26 HOLY SHIT I WANNA LEARN THAT-
Flying armbar good luck
I think metal bending is just a mix of different types of bending. I has water, earth, and sometimes airbending moves.
@@jelaniherbert8904 Thanks bro
@@somethingnew8871 I tried searching it up once
@@jelaniherbert8904 _Flying armbar good luck_
More like a frankensteiner.
And to answer the thread's main question, metalbending is based on Chu Gar with some modern military techniques tossed in, according to the Avatar Wiki.
This last time, Korra has gained thousands of followers around the world, I hope that the creators take into account the affection that the public has for her, and thus publish more comics :)
Actually a new Korra comic trilogy is in development
She is so amazing.
The legend of Korra Is the best of Nickelodeon
just wanted to comment a thank you. this video got me to finally finish the series after getting stuck on book 1 twice :)
I miss Avatar and the Legend of Korra.....
Korra metal bends just like toph
I absolutely LOVE Avatar but I find it hard to believe that Toph ”invented” metal bending. Like NOBODY else before her ever even bent a piece of metal? Unless they explain that she really didn’t and I haven’t seen it
Well the reason Toph was even able to to discover metal bending is because she was blind. She uses vibrations in the earth and senses things, like earth, around her. The only reason she was able to bend the metal was because she sensed and felt the earth minerals in the metal. So it makes sense that she was the first to metal bend, because the only other earth benders that would have to sense earth to move it would be the blind badger moles, and I’m 100% sure they didn’t metal bend
@@lenalouwho4100 I agree! people before Toph probably didn't realize that there are certain metals they can bend because there are earthly impurities in them. Toph has seismic sense and thus, can detect the earth within the metal which helped her bend it.
@@lenalouwho4100 In retrospect, it's sort of silly to call metalbending if you're just bending the same earth inside the metal. Like if you were a water bender, and there was a water pipe, if you bent the water inside, which caused the metal to change shape, you wouldn't call that metalbending. The only real difference is the impurities are smaller in size. They never really learn to bend actual metal hence why they could create a counter with low-impurity metals. If they said metal came from ore and ore was therefore a type of earth, like how sandbending was different but just a more difficult and different type of earth, that would've made more sense as actually bending metal.
I bet there was some random earthbender guy who could metal bend but never shared it with anyone and kept it a secret
@@VYDEOS2 Sounds like something good old Wan Shi Tong would do 🧐
2:04 Korra carrying on the tradition of ditching the glider staff kek
Wow the legend of korra ia amazing. Korra and Aang all my faforite. Will not comparing, both amazing work.
Yay, Korra is the first metalbending Avatar! :D
Korra, don't you want to tell all your past lives about how you're the first metalbending Avatar? . . . :3
The past lives are gone😭Forever💔
How salty must you be
I'm still mad at Bolin and Mako for messing up on their 1 job. Keep him outside of the spirit portal she was kicking Vaatuu's behind and only needed 15 more seconds. Throw some lightning at that WATER Bender...no...I let it go. Although without her past lives, she was able to fix a lot. Defeating vaatuu, restoring the spirits, putting the worlds back together, bringing back the air nation. I mean the whole point of the Avatar is to fix the mistakes of the Avatar...and that's pretty much done.
@Vanix the past lives are gone but the next avatar will have korra to call upon
@@stanfisher5938 their not totally gone
korra deserves to have another season