Dr. Olawale Ogunlana@doctorwalesmd
I hate when people do this. Most of our beloved characters in the Avatar Universe are women.
The show gave us Katara. Many of us loved her. I’d even rank her, Azula, and Toph at the same power level to be honest.
The same show gave us Toph. To me, she was the best written female character in the whole ATLA series. A pure badass!
Should we talk about Azula and her squad of Ty Lee and Mai? One of the best villain squads we’ve ever seen on live television.
We have all seen brilliant female characters which we all loved from the Avatar Universe, but I can tell you boldly that Korra is definitely not one of them.
We don’t like Korra because she’s a badly written character. Period.
Korra was supposed to be better than Aang, supposed to be written to be a pure prodigy and badass like Toph but this time around she’s an Avatar, yet she wasn’t. Korra is not even a prodigious bender tbh. She’s just a manipulator of the elements, and that’s sad for a girl who started bending as a baby girl. She didn’t truly master any element, including water lmao 😂..
For her to have had an extremely prodigious Avatar like Aang as a spirit guide, and Aangs own son as a mentor, yet ended up fumbling at every fight and putting herself into situations that could have easily been avoided, was just the worst piece of bad writing we’ve even seen for a character.
It was so bad that even elderly Toph had to mention it that she was the worst Avatar she’s ever seen, and Toph is literally BLIND. Elderly Toph would easily wipe Korra out looking backwards, whether or not Korra was poisoned, and whether Korra enters the Avatar state or not.
Every hate Korra gets, is well deserved. She is the worst thing that happened to the Avatar Universe and honestly the Universe would have been better if she never existed in it. If I had Thanos’ gauntlet, I would happily wipe her whole timeline off the Universe.
Someone who used the Avatar State as cheat code to win race with kids younger than her is someone who we should take seriously? Please shift this thing outta my face abeg.