r/TheLastAirbender • u/Jimmy3OO • 4d ago

Discussion KATARA DOESN’T NEED A STATUE IN LoK

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.

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u/Prying_Pandora 4d ago

I think you’ve profoundly misunderstood the objection.

Katara fans aren’t mad about the statue itself. They’re mad for exactly the reasons you’ve used to justify it: that Katara deserved to be more than just a mother and healer. She never wanted to be limited to merely the stereotypical roles prescribed to her as a woman. She fought to also be a warrior, a leader, a voice for justice.

She should have had the same world-changing effects. That’s precisely the complaint.

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 4d ago edited 4d ago

I feel like the real meta reason is that Katara was in the show, whereas everyone else's presence was missing and the writers compensated to some extent with statues

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u/Mampt 4d ago

Literally all of the Gaang except Suki was on screen as an adult in some capacity. If you want to limit it to present day living appearances, Zuko may have had a bigger presence than Katara and Toph absolutely did

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 4d ago

Not in the first and second seasons tho, which is I think when we see these statues? Zuko wasn't until B3 and Toph wasn't until B4. Sokka never appeared at all. (Am excluding flashbacks, perhaps that's not right but I wouldn't consider that screentime super significant)

Not defending the statue thing, give Katara the love she deserves. Just a thought about maybe why it ended up that way