Avatar: The Legend of Korra

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The series is a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. The series takes place 70 years after the original when technology has advanced to that of around the 1920s on Earth. In it, some people have the ability known as "bending" by which they control and manipulate either water, earth, fire, or air. One bender, known as the "Avatar" and described as the "physical embodiment of the world's spirit", has the power to bend all four elements and is responsible for maintaining both the balance of nature and peace between the world's four great nations. Korra, the protagonist of the new series, is the next incarnation of the Avatar after Aang of the original series.

Set seventy years after the defeat of Phoenix King Ozai and Princess Azula in the four-part finale of the original show, creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko follow Korra as she learns the art of airbending, having mastered the other three elements, while facing an anti-bender revolution by a group known as the Equalists.

Korra overlooking Republic City

The series focuses on Korra, a teenage girl from the Southern Water Tribe and the current incarnation of the Avatar, who, according to the president of Nickelodeon, is "hotheaded, independent, and ready to take on the world". She has already mastered the arts of waterbending, earthbending, and firebending but has yet to master airbending, which she must learn from Tenzin—the youngest child of Aang and Katara. The character was partly inspired by Avatar Kyoshi of the original series, who the creators say was well-liked among fans.

To avoid repetition of Aang's adventures, the show is set in a single place called Republic City, a metropolis inhabited by benders and non-benders of all nations and founded by Aang and Zuko after the 100-year war in the original series. The city's police force practices the art of metalbending—a subset of earthbending—and is led by the daughter of Toph Beifong, who discovered the art in Avatar: The Last Airbender. The city's most popular sport is called pro-bending, which involves a team of benders aiming to knock another team of benders out of an arena using each's own bending skill.

The conflict of the first season centers upon a group of anti-benders, called the Equalists, who use chi-blocking to subdue their enemies. 

Characters

Mako - Korra - Bolin

• Korra (Janet Varney) is the main protagonist of the series and the next Avatar, following Aang. She is a 17-year-old from the Southern Water Tribe, described as a "headstrong and rebellious girl". She has already mastered waterbending, earthbending, and firebending, but must learn airbending under the tutelage of Tenzin.
• Mako (David Faustino) is a firebender and one of Korra's friends. He is described as "dark and brooding", having grown up on the streets with his younger brother Bolin, but he participates in pro-bending tournaments in the hopes of winning the big jackpot. He is named after the late Mako Iwamatsu, who provided the voice of Iroh in the original series.
• Bolin (P.J. Byrne) is another of Korra's friends, an earthbender, and Mako's younger brother. In contrast to Mako, Bolin is often lighthearted and humorous. He also participates in pro-bending, the most popular sport in Republic City, in the hopes of escaping life on the streets. Bolin was described as "always having a lady on his arm".
• Tenzin (J. K. Simmons) is Korra's airbending master. He is the youngest child of Aang and Katara, and the only one who is an airbender. He has three children who are all airbenders, and a fourth one on the way. He lives on Air Temple Island, a sanctuary Aang built after the century-long war and where Korra stays during her airbending training.
• Amon (Steve Blum) is a mysterious masked man who leads "the Equalists", an anti-bending organization which uses chi-blocking skills to subdue their foes. He states in "The Revelation" that his face was severely scarred by a firebending mobster who extorted and eventually murdered his family, which is why he formed the Equalist Movement. He has also demonstrated the ability to completely remove a person's bending, a power it was previously thought that only Aang had mastered. He is the main antagonist of the series.
• The Lieutenant (Lance Henriksen) is Amon's second-in-command. He is an intense, disciplined fighter who augments his amazing skills with two electrified kali sticks.
• Chief Lin Beifong (Mindy Sterling) is Toph Beifong's daughter and head of the Republic City police force. The police use metalbending to subdue criminals, taught to them by Toph herself. Unlike other characters, Lin feels Korra is a threat to Republic City and tries her best to contain the Avatar's often destructive fights.
• Hiroshi Sato (Daniel Dae Kim) is a barrel-chested businessman with a big personality. His family lineage extends back to the first Fire Nation colonists. He initially grew up poor, but developed and mass-produced the "satomobile", the Republic City equivalent of the Model-T. He is also the father of Asami Sato.
• Asami Sato (Seychelle Gabriel) is a young non-bender and daughter of Hiroshi Sato. Asami has lived a life of luxury, but despite this, her fancy clothes, and polite manners, she also can be tough. She is an expert driver and isn't afraid to mix it up on the racetrack. Asami has also had the best self-defense training money can buy and is also a big fan of pro-bending and goes to every match.
• Jinora (Kiernan Shipka) is Tenzin's eldest daughter, an airbender, and an avid reader.
• Ikki (Darcy Rose Byrnes) is Tenzin's youngest daughter, second child, and described as "fun, crazy, and a fast talker". Ikki is also an airbender.
• Meelo (Logan Wells) is Tenzin's only son and the youngest of his three children. Like his sisters, Meelo is an airbender.
• Pema (Maria Bamford) is Tenzin's wife, a non-bender, and the mother of Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo. At the start of the series, she is pregnant with their fourth child, who she hopes will be a non-bender like her. To Pema's dismay, the children's grandmother Katara senses another airbender.
• Naga (Dee Bradley Baker) is Korra's female polar-bear-like dog and animal guide. The polar-bear dog was created during the early stages of Avatar: The Last Airbender but was not included in the original series.
• Pabu (Dee Bradley Baker) is Bolin's fire ferret (a black-footed red panda ferret). He is mischievous and assists Bolin in pranks on Mako.
• Katara (Eva Marie Saint), now an elderly woman, is one of the few surviving characters of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Korra's waterbending master.
• Captain Saikhan (Richard Epcar) is the captain of the Metalbender Corps working in Republic City under Chief Lin Beifong.

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