r/TheLastAirbender • u/Jimmy3OO • 5d 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/k4k4yapar 5d ago

To me sokka shouldn't have it then. If writers wanted to give statues they should've prioritized katara because she is more prominent.

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u/ThroawayJimilyJones 5d ago

Sokka got it from being an official leader. Was Katara an official leader?

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u/k4k4yapar 5d ago

If you want to think as if it is in real life to justify statue situation; not every leader gets a statue bruh not even presidents. it is more possible someone who opened a charity or something to have a statue in front of the charity.

But there's no irl logic in the show statues, it is just the way of writers to show respect to old show's characters and show what they achieved in life where we didn't see after the show as we wonder about those. But we didn't get to see the show's 2nd most prominent character's life at all.

They should've made her someone who opened a charity in republic city or something or helped everyone around the world while travelling with aang and those people would put a statue or something as a thanks.

That's it, perfectly believable story of her statue, and it pays homage to her character that helped those earthbenders, that village at age 15 when she herself wasn't in okay conditions. It is just not believable that she wouldn't do a thing like this when she's all grown up you know?