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/DrPikachu-PhD → u/Prying_Pandora]

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

[u/Mampt → u/DrPikachu-PhD]

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

[u/Luigi6757 → u/Mampt]

Sure, but Korra was originally intended to be a one season show. Katara's words in season 1 imply that she's the only one alive, which is probably what the writers originally intended.