Avatar: Aang and Korra

Korra was supposed to be a "genius" at bending, but when you compare her feats at her age to aang:

>Korra was 17, she only had 3 of the elements, and wasn't very good with them
>Aang was 12, learned all 4 from different masters, while only knowing air bending at first
>Korra always lost
>Aang saved the world
>Korra destroyed the Avatar system, now any avatar after her will not be able to get help from avatars older than her

Why was korra such a terrible avatar? She had so many advantages over Aang, it's really ridiculous she was so terrible.

I fucking hate how Korra destroyed the Avatar journey.

>Oh you don't have to learn the elements by working hard all the time
>You can just bend 3 elements at the age of 4
>Fuck all that other shit

Fuck

The head writer or whatever he was leaving. The 'having no writers at all' for a portion of the show.

I'd be interested in a redo of Korra's Avatar run, with a solid writing staff and things planned out and characters who aren't so fucking stupid and obnoxious all the fucking time.

Fucking hell. They could've, could have just made Korra a natural firebender in the water tribe, like making fires flare up from tantrums and shit not even actual bending, because holy shit would that give being the avatar away.

Korra wasn't a genius, just a strong bender.
Aang on the other hand, was an airbending prodigy and had at least gotten the hang of the other 3 elements in 9 months.

>Why was korra such a terrible avatar? She had so many advantages over Aang, it's really ridiculous she was so terrible.

It's all based on the opposite of Aang idea they hit her with in the show. You can even do the math.
For every victory Aang had, Korra had a defeat.
For every clever way Aang used bending, Korra wasn't allowed to.
Korra skips the "journey" for 3 out of 4 elements same as how Aang skips "learning" airbending and goes out to learn the other three.
Aang can do things without his support group, Korra can not do ANYTHING without others beside her even if those who are there have no reason to be there and shouldn't be capable of doing what they do in the first place.
Aang brushes off bad things that he encounters and can go from thinking about his culture dying to blushing after Katara. Korra can't deal with things.

And all because the writers didn't plan anything beyond "Team Avatar" and "opposite of Aang."

Yeah, like why not have her actually be a Fire Bender in the Water Tribe at that point in the cycle. Like a series of Avatars have done very little and died early due to supposedly natural causes (Red Lotus) and she's the first one the White Lotus got to. Or have her from the Fire Nation but hidden away in the water tribe (cuz Red Lotus)

>I'd be interested in a redo of Korra's Avatar run, with a solid writing staff and things planned out and characters who aren't so fucking stupid and obnoxious all the fucking time.


Just do like that D&D ATLA parody comic.

Take Screencaps of the show and change the dialogue/characterization and what happens.

Darths&Droids did it with the Prequel Trilogy of Star Wars and it was pretty better than the original in some ways.

>at that point in the cycle
Because then we wouldn't get Aang and Katara's direct children, and their children's children, or Toph's kids and Zuko's kids.

They didn't try and plan a story for Korra, only vague surface level bad fanservice according to their own whims.

>Aang on the other hand, was an airbending prodigy and had at least gotten the hang of the other 3 elements in 9 months.
Whereas Korra had gotten the hang of 3 elements AT 9 months.

Because the cycle has Water next and the killing of babies is too dark for Nickelodeon.

She didn't master firebending until she was 16.

She didn't destroy it. Her teachers were overprotective and brought the bending to her instead of making her travel to find it.

Her being less well traveled was the reason for a lot of her stubbornness and probably why it was so hard for her to learn air bending.

All because the white lotus became an overprotective nanny to the avatar.

She DID ruin the Avatar's journey for 100 of her past lives though

>tfw Korra ruined being the Avatar for the next several generations

So she didn't "master" it until she got an instructor, gotcha.
Whereas Aang had basically the same amount of issues with Firebending as she did with Airbending.

The point is, she was naturally firebending and earthbending from the time she could stand up and do the moves.
Who objectively judges "mastery" anyway? Aang and Katara just seem obnoxiously strong at it, they routinely face people with far more developed technique, who they overcome through brute power and Heroic Fiat.

Is this one complete or ongoing?

All the Avatar past lives ever really provided was a temporary power up and a litany of previous fuck-ups to "learn" from.
It's like having 100 older, equally stupid version of yourself giving you "advice".

Well, it's just weird that they had the element she was next closest to be the most difficult.

It was SIDS bro, well, that's the official story.

It was still fucking cool, also, the only real justification for the Avatar State. Korra shouldn't even be able to use the Avatar state now.

>Whereas Aang had basically the same amount of issues with Firebending as she did with Airbending.

No, no he didn't. Aang didn't want to firebend after he instantly did it and then burned Katara who immediately healed herself when she discovered she could heal using waterbending.

Korra couldn't airbend no matter how adept she became at Tenzin's obstacle course, living with the other airbenders, or getting in touch with her past life through visions which come about due to an Avatar's spirituality that isn't honed yet.

>>tfw Korra ruined being the Avatar for the next several generations
Every Sup Forums thread has someone bring up how bending and spirituality are dead to the next generations and how technology makes bending obsolete and how the world wouldn't care about an Avatar...so why do we also get people saying this? If the past lives weren't lost we'd have the same dilemma that people brought up and, apparently, wanted to happen. That is the world forgetting about the Avatar and not caring anyway.

There are like 3 webcomics that play ATLA like D&D, so I dunno.

Yeah. Korra was an incompetent piece of shit.