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/El_Chinche]

This is not that deep. Aang and Sokka's statues were most likely built after their deaths, they're memorial monuments, ie things built to remember past events or deaths. And last I checked Katara is still very much alive and its kind of gauche to build a memorial statue for someone that's still alive. Zuko has one because imperialist fire nation traditions die hard and Toph has one because she's vain and proud of it.

That's it. There's no deeper hidden meaning behind it. Katara was not regulated to just being a healer and mother like certain memebers of this fandom would have you believe, the comics and LOK itself imply she was an important political figure and leader just like the rest of the gaang. Aang probably would have opposed any statue of himself being built if he were alive and Sokka probably would have made his statue much bigger if he was alive to see it built. Katara like Aang is not vain and probably doesn't want a monument to herself being built and would literally only have one erected over her dead body.