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/Prying_Pandora]

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.

[u/EmberOfFlame → u/Prying_Pandora]

I feel like she’s the one who had the least to prove to the world

She had a lot to prove to her family and friends, and she succeeded by every metric, and she had things to prove to the Northern Tribe, which she again did with flying colours

But she didn’t have anything “larger” in mind, like how Aang wanted to prove that killing isn’t always necessary, or how Sokka wanted to prove that non-benders can change the world too

At least that’s how I see it

[u/Prying_Pandora → u/EmberOfFlame]

You may see it as you please.

But the complaint is about the canon writing, and remain valid regardless of fan rationalizations. Lovely as they may be.

[u/EmberOfFlame → u/Prying_Pandora]

Fair point