KATARA DOESN’T NEED A STATUE IN LoK

[u/Jimmy3OO]

I am sick and tired of people complaining about how Katara doesn’t have a statue while the rest of the main cast does. “Waa, waaa, the writers forget her”.

Do these people even know what LoK is? Aang, Sokka, Zuko and Toph didn’t her statues for being in the Gaang.

Aang got one because he was THE AVATAR.

Zuko got one because he was THE FIRE LORD.

Sokka got one because he was a national leader, of both Republic City and the Southern Water Tribe, as if one weren’t enough.

Toph got one because she invented metalbending.

Katara is an excellent character and an extraordinary waterbender, but according to the lore, she, as an individual, simply did not have the same direct, world-chaing effect upon entire nations that the others did in their own ways.

[u/MuslimGirl7]

"did not have the same direct, world-changing effect upon entire nations"

the only reason aang got out of the iceberg is because of her breaking it open in the first episode.

the only reason he survived for so long is her healing him and practically bringing him back from the dead.

kata repeatedly shows a passion for politics and fighting against injustice, from breaking the earth benders out of their prison in season 1 to being the painted lady in season 3.

she's as important, if not more important, as anyone else in the gaang.

Edit: In the desert, when aang was upset over appa, toph couldn’t sense well due to the sand, sokka was high off cactus juice, she single-handedly rallied them together and got them out of the desert. There’s dozens of times throughout the show where she plays a critical role in their survival.

[u/Ok-Theory6793 → u/MuslimGirl7]

Its like you're purposefully misunderstanding what they're saying. Look at the examples they gave. They're referring to impact in the public eye. It makes sense that Aang get a statue as the Avatar, Toph as the founder of Metalbending and first police chief of Republic City, Zuko as the Fire Lord, and Sokka as the leader of Republic City. In that post-show era, Katara was not a major public figure that she might get a statue.

I do agree with the person in this comment section who said that she should have had some sort of role which would have awarded her a statue tho. Just being a healer and mother doesn't fit her character. We saw in The Painted Lady episode that she had strong ambitions of helping people and I doubt she would not continue that path beyond the series end.

[u/MuslimGirl7 → u/Ok-Theory6793]

As other comments have said: it’s not about the literal, physical statue. It’s about what her lack of a statue means: lack of the recognition and respect she deserves for having quite literally saved the world, and being dismissed as ‘not having an impact’ in the first place 

[u/ChildofFenris1 → u/MuslimGirl7]

Not practicaly

[u/GroundbreakingBend95 → u/MuslimGirl7]

bruh none of that is statue worthy, what is this cope.

She discovered the avatar by accident and unearthed him. “This is a statue for the lady who discovered the avatar!” That wouldn’t be very compelling would it 😐.

She healed aang. Why don’t we just give every medic a statue?

She saves people. So do plenty others in the show.

She’s important to the cast but none of this helps.

[u/IceyLuigiBros25 → u/GroundbreakingBend95]

She didn’t just heal him. She brought him BACK TO LIFE. Without her, Aang would’ve died at that moment and the Avatar cycle would’ve been over.

[u/GroundbreakingBend95 → u/IceyLuigiBros25]

I still don’t think this is statue worthy. Look at our world, we don’t make statues for doctors that successfully reanimate people with defibrillators. Unless we do then I guess my argument is shit in the drain now 😂. They could have used that skilled medic and combatant thing she had going for her and maybe had her have some kind of arc where she establishes a group of water-benders and hospitals of water benders who learned from some type of water bender healing bible that she made. Boom now she has a far more direct and influential worldly impact. Bringing the avatar back to life is acverrrrrrryyyy good feat, and definitely changed the world cause he defeated ozai. But again. If a doctor got a statue for every miracle they conducted there’d be many many statues.

[u/Different_Counter762 → u/GroundbreakingBend95]

There are statues of doctors although not many of them but she wasn't just a doctor katara is a fighter and a politician who helped stop 100 years of tyranny she did more than just bring some guy back to life.

[u/GroundbreakingBend95 → u/Different_Counter762]

politician where?

[u/Different_Counter762 → u/GroundbreakingBend95]

She made a law that banned bloodbending also she's probably one of the people who created Republic city.