Korra


 * This article is about the character. For the upcoming series, see The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra.

"water"

- I'm the Avatar! You gotta deal with it!

Avatar Korra, hailing from the Southern Water Tribe, was the Avatar immediately succeeding Aang. She was a hotheaded and rebellious teenage girl, as well as a very talented bender, eager to learn. Being the manifestation of the planet in human form, Korra was the only living person who could bend all four elements.

Background
Korra was born in the Southern Water Tribe after the death of Avatar Aang. After she found out her destiny as the new Avatar, her training started in order for her to become a fully realized Avatar.

She appeared to have discovered early in her life she was the Avatar, as she proudly announced it to the Order of the White Lotus when they came to the Southern Water Tribe seeking her after her family claimed she was the Avatar, and performed waterbending, earthbending, and firebending before the Order.

Having already mastered the mentioned elements, Korra only needed to learn and master the art of airbending and gain full control over the Avatar State in order to become a fully realized Avatar.

About seventy years after the end of the War, Korra journeyed to Republic City seeking the tutelage of Tenzin, the son of Avatar Aang and Katara, as her airbending master, and moved in with him and his family on Air Temple Island. When she ran away to Republic City with Naga, her polar bear dog and animal guide, her stubbornness and impatience got in the way of her bending studies. In the city, she met Bolin, who introduced her to his older brother Mako. She later joined thier Pro-bending team called "The Fire Ferrets".

As she went along, honing her bending skills in the arena, facing off with street thugs, Korra learned that being the Avatar came with many dangers and responsibilities. When she encountered a group of chi blockers, led by the mysterious and charismatic Amon, who threatened the city and all the benders in it, Korra vowed to fight the growing anti-bending revolution. However, much to the annoyance of Chief Lin Bei Fong, Korra had the habit of leaving a trail of destruction wherever she went, thus quickly becoming a nuisance to the Chief who wanted her out of the city.

Relatives

 * Unnamed mother and father

Personality
Korra was fiery and pugnacious. Her personality was in many ways the opposite of Avatar Aang. He was a peaceful, diffident, nomadic airbender, whereas Korra was tough, headstrong, and assertive. However, just like Aang, she also has a good sense of humor, with a teenage charm and vulnerability.

Trivia

 * Her name follows a long line of tradition in the polar Water Tribes, where often people include one or two "K"s and have an "UH" sound in their name (Katara, Hakoda, Sokka, Pakku, Kuruk, Kanna, Arnook, etc.)
 * Korra's situation appears to be the opposite of that of Aang; Aang had mastered airbending and had to travel the world to learn the other three elements. Korra has mastered waterbending, earthbending and firebending, and has yet to learn airbending.
 * "Korra" means "from the mountain valley" in Irish, and is also similar in pronunciation to another Irish word "cora", which means "weir". It also means "crust" in Greek, and "grass" in certain Australian Aboriginal dialects and is an Estonian word meaning "procedure".
 * Korra is also the name of a village in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
 * Korra is the first Avatar to hail from the Water Tribes since Kuruk, 489 years ago.
 * The design on Korra's armband is the same as the designs in the show's logo.