Talk:Aang/@comment-5120500-20120524011221/@comment-192.189.128.12-20120527165913

You all forgot that each avatar's personality is completely opposite from the previous one, just watch the episode when aang was at the lion turtle seeking wisdom from his previous self. Avatar Yangchen was fearsome since she was so focused on her duty as the Avatar that never hesitated to perform her job to keep balance. Kuruk lacked the discipline to perform his role trait that cost him dearly so Kyoshi whas more disciplined and fearsome to do what ever it took to stop possible threats to the world (Kuruk didn't) even if she had to threat her own king to keep balance, then Roku tried hard to be more calmed, stable and reasonable (As kyoshi was more ruthless) but we all know that it backfired so Sozin could betray him and start the war; Aang was more spiritual but was unsure about his own capacities because it was too young when he discovered he was the Avatar (As Roku said, it was his fault to burden Aang with such huge responsability); finally for Korra is hard to see the 'spiritual' side from the bending arts and see the physical side as the key to fight (Aang always tried to avoid direct conflict trait somehow limited him until the fight with ozai).

So as you can see each Avatar tries to amend his previous life faults which in some cases can prove difficult to progress as a fully realized Avatar.