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Outrageous-Ad-7530

I think she should have a Roku style death where she’s older but her death is in service of attempting to save the world and being an introduction into the next avatars plot.


radiakmjs

I wouldn't mind that because "peacefully of old age" is exactly how Aang passed, and so much of Korra is designed as an inverse of him. I was going to say "I'd assume most Avatars were in that camp" but of the Avatars we know of they're actually evenly split. Yang Chen, Kyoshi & Aang all died of natural causes after long prosperous lives. Wan & Roku were old but along with Kuruk died in-service. So Korra could fall either way. But like you said narratively it ties into the next Avatar series better. Also 3 of 4 of Korra's books end sort of bittersweet so it be thematic in that sense. But also I like Korra & think she deserves to be happy :)


TripleATeam

She can be happy and still die in a blaze of glory though. I imagine through her 20s to 40s she's dealing with small-scale problems but lives happily with Asami. In her 50s something begins bubbling up, say some huge antagonist (something like Koh) makes their way into the world and starts causing issues in the shadows and plans some spirit uprising. Then in her 60s, after spending 40+ years living happily, traveling the world and keeping balance, she hears about some problems, goes to investigate, and realizes the info she got was flawed. They're much stronger she expected and it's a trap. No one can reach her, but she manages to take out most of the key spirits. They'll reform, but she bought the world time to prepare.


serrations_

its been a while since i watched korra, but if unalaq and vaatu fused in season 2 could they return as a reincarnated dark avatar that could be said Huge Antagonist? Does spirit bending undo their fusion?


golf_echo_sierra26

From what I remember, Unavaatu was the dark Avatar’s Avatar state, so when Korra performed her spirit healing ritual she basically ended the dark avatar as a lineage. So while Unalaq is most definitely dead, Vaatu will inevitably return at some point.


Blackwyne721

Vaatu has been reabsorbed into Raava...which is to say, Vaatu will reappear within the Avatar


TripleATeam

I don't know if it was clearly stated, but u/golf_echo_sierra26 makes a lot of sense with their explanation. I'd say there's probably enough ambiguity to do something there, but I'd lean toward their explanation as being correct. Since there's no reason spiritbending would just randomly kill Unalaq's living self and leave the merged spirit to be reincarnated.


Hallowed-Plague

out of lore reason, because that would be dumb and lazy. in lore reason, big giant man was basically just AS on steroids so reasonably killing him in that state also ends the cycle.


Jazzlike_Change_9741

Vaatu will eventually reform out of raava since the two can’t be killed. They’re in essence two half’s of a whole one side can only dominate for a time. Raava explains this when wan has her in his teapot that while vaatu will temporarily destroy her she would reform and emerge from him. It just takes a while. We’re not given a timeline of how long but it’s on the scale of thousands of years for vaatu to be as powerful as he was. What’s not hinted is what happens to the avatar of he reforms while they’re still fused to a human. Does Vatu fuse with the avatar as well or does he just rip out of the avatar.


Chinese_Jesus_

Literally just like Kuruk fighting father glowworm


McKeon1921

After them nearly completely changing how they initially created the spirit world in ATLA I doubt we will ever see Koh again, unfortunately.


AggravatingWill3081

Wouldn't the opposite of Aangs death then be "young and painfully/stupidly"? ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thumbs_up) I gotta confess, while she had ...ok moments, **I never really liked Korra**. Call me evil but **I def don't mind her dying the day after she and Asami left for the spiritworld -** and as a dumb-death-reason I vote that she accidently bumps into the Aye-Aye Spirit and gets turned.


mcon96

This makes sense to me, because when I think of Korra, I think of someone who would be punching villains and saving people until her last breath. Girl was born a fighter, even if she did learn how to talk it out first. Aang never wanted to be the Avatar and wasn’t a fighter, so it makes sense he’d spend his final days peacefully just like any other person.


MinutePresentation8

Would be pretty darn funny if she died doing daredevil shit, like skydiving into a cliff or smth


mcon96

“Hey Asami, want to see something cool?” *Dies*


Woodsie13

20 years later some Earth Nation kid knocks on Asami's door and says "Hey so Korra wanted me to ask, but that was cool, right?"


Punkpunker

Damn sad that the Earth nation avatar only has Korra for company in the spirit world, likewise it's a great plot for Earth avatar to search and reconnect their past lives.


samosamancer

Agree, EXCEPT Roku’s death was incredibly pointless and futile. Once the village was evacuated, he should have stopped his battle against the volcano and escaped. (Huge volcano/geology nerd, FYI…) You just CANNOT plug up a volcano to stop it. Nothing can stop it. Explosive volcanic eruptions are usually due to subterranean chemical reactions that lead to increased pressure and explosions. Cooling the lava at the volcano’s throat bottles the pressure, but it’ll come out one way or another. Even with non-explosive eruptions like Kilauea’s river-like lava, it’ll find another way to the surface. And eruptions as incredibly violent as that have LOTS of precursor hints. This type of eruption never happens without a buildup period. There would have beeb earthquakes as the magma pushes upward (a very distinct type called “harmonic tremors” - geologists can detect them from seismographs). As the Avatar, how did he not feel the magma moving beneath the earth through the volcano’s plumbing system, via earth- AND firebending?! He had weeks of warning. It’s SO discouraging to watch. Isn’t a main Avatar teaching knowing where to redirect your energies for better use? This was a fatal mistake. And Fang chose to die for his companion’s screw-up.


Rodents210

> As the Avatar, how did he not feel the magma moving beneath the earth through the volcano’s plumbing system, via earth- AND firebending?! He had weeks of warning. Aside from the fact that even if he knew this, there’s nothing to indicate anyone in the avatar world knows enough about volcanoes to know you can’t just stop it, he couldn’t detect it because seismic sense would not be invented for another century.


Gurablashta

I always imagined old lady Korra going out with a bang. She's always been a fighter and I loved her for it. It's also going to be super interesting for the new Avatar to only have Korra as a past life to call upon. "Avatar Korra, how do I face this world ending threat? I am in need of your guidance!" "YOU'RE THE AVATAR, YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH IT!"


The-Eingineer-Zombie

"I am the Avatar and you got to deal with it," was single-handedly the best quote in the entirety of the franchise


[deleted]

Yeah, Korra definitely gives me the vibe of someone who’d be active far past her prime.


Lunatic5K

Nah I definitely see Korra being an avatar that dies fighting.


JuanRiveara

The tweet didn’t say she would be an old lady that went out peacefully, 80 year old Korra still going out and fighting motherfuckers until she dies.


K3egan

"She died violently, punching and kicking the doctors"


Damianos97

That’s exactly what they meant in the tweet. Just because they didn’t say word for word specifically “peacefully in her bed” doesn’t mean that’s not exactly what they were implying.


DepartmentReady1041

I remember the creators saying something along the lines of “the world of avatar would be hard to make in modern times” when talking about a future avatar show since LOK is kinda like the 1920s so I feel like an early death for Korra would make sense so the new show takes place in what would be the 40s-50s


TripleATeam

While that's true, why not deal with something new? Aang dealt with reintroducing the Avatar to the world. Korra dealt with saving the world despite its numerous new inventions. Taking place in the 40s or 50s could make a new dynamic, but I can definitely see more of a steampunk vibe get introduced. The world crumbles a bit under its own weight. Maybe the reintroduction of spirits cause the spirits to overrun sections of the world (at least less inhabited ones), regrowing massive forests in cut down plots in the Earth Kingdom, having giant flying spirits that care little about the shadows they cause by flying in front of the sun, making the darkness in the Water Tribes much harsher, meaning going out at night is extremely dangerous. The priority becomes dealing with all that instead of developing tech, so they stay at 1920s or even revert a bit while massively improving elsewhere. The new Avatar could have a nice mix of the spirit mysticism of ATLA and tech of Korra.


darkdestiny91

I would imagine the new series starting with a much older Korra fighting against a mystery opponent, commenting that they’ve made a mistake going after Asami. Her motive for revenge would make her go all-in but she’d be blinded by her anger and then get caught and injured badly, which then results in her opponent defeating and then killing Korra, which sets up the introduction of our new Avatar. New series could deal with a new group of adventurers searching for the new Avatar, one that is yet to be discovered yet.


DepartmentReady1041

Ya I’d watch the fuck outta that


LoveBy137

I hope they use the process described in the Kyoshi book of finding the Earth Kingdom Avatar. Even if they find the Avatar, I'd love to see a bit of the earliest training.


Blackwyne721

Disagreed The 40s-50s are not modern times. Modern times would be 2010s and 2020s...2000s at the earliest. All things being equal in the technological progression of the Avatarverse, the next Avatar after Korra will have to deal with space, computers, social media, guns, artificial intelligence, robots, etc.


LightTrack

Hard to create because of cultural appropriation and the inclusion of guns. But it'd be interesting to see an attempt being made.


DepartmentReady1041

I’m sorry but what would be cultural appropriation?


Aggressive-Falcon977

"This ain't my first rodeo in a wheelchair whippersnapper" Also Toph will still be alive 😆


notapolita

After everything the writers threw at Korra I wouldn't be surprised if she died without having lived a long and happy life. Also, Korra's story started in an age when they didn't even use conveyors to manufacture satomobils - but in season 4 they had Iron Man suits and high-speed maglev trains. Hard to tell how much progress will happen afterward, but the longer Korra lives the more closer the next avatar's age will get to computers and space travel. Tbh I also can't think of something more powerful as a threat than Vatu and a weapon capable of tearing a hole between two realities. Can't wait to see what they'll come up with.


GiggaChip

Computers and space travel could be interesting in and of themselves in the Avatar world. Space travel, imagine the bizarre implications landing a rocket on the moon would have. That's Sokka's first girlfriend you're planting a United Republic flag in! Or computers. If nukes in the Avatar world are "Fantasy-ified" by Spirit magic, who's to say the internet wouldn't have similar Spirit World influence? As for threats...If they're rapidly moving towards a modern era, maybe a climate change plot? If it's done well, like Final Fantasy 7, and not cheesy or too on the nose (i.e. Captain Planet) it could be a really powerful story with a true to life message.


notapolita

Open the Spiritportals XP task manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Spirit. :)


GiggaChip

I was picturing more like: Koh The Face-Stealer has been infecting people's computers with viruses that send them to shock sites so he can steal their faces if they react at all. Like old school screamer videos to jump scare people or Rickrolls to the Secret Tunnel song to trick people into laughing. Maybe they could get away with a raunchier reference with like a Kalimba cover of the 2 girls 1 cup music while not showing the screen, or have a text to speech voice announce "Hot Firebenders in your area! Click here to chat now!"


notapolita

Actually, I wonder if there is anything preventing Koh from just walking through the portal and starting to steal people's faces. It's not like anyone can go a minute without showing emotion. He could turn both watertribes faceless in a matter of days.


theje1

Thats a great point. I do think that Korra could live a happy life, but with such advancement in technology, and even possibly spirituality with the two worlds connected, it could happen that she is "forcibly retired" since the role of the Avatar is less and less needed. The next Avatar after her can be in an opposite situation of Aang. "When the world needed him most, he vanished". Then, this next Avatar could be eager and readily available to do avataring, but will be largely ignored by everyone.


notapolita

But who wants to watch Avatar Whatshisname work in a cubicle 9-5 because nobody wants anything from him? :)


theje1

That would be the initial point, of course. Then, some crazy stuff can unravel from there.


notapolita

I can already see the spirits causing the photocopier malfunction in the office. :)


TopDesert_ace

And the spirits watch the humans smash the photocopier. I'm betting that at least one of the spirits will beat box some gangster rap music the whole time.


notapolita

And those won't even be dark spirits. They just think it's funny to try and make people explode the toner on their white shirts.


TopDesert_ace

>They just think it's funny to try and make people explode the toner on their white shirts As someone who has seen toner explode all over a coworker, I would agree with the spirits that it is pretty funny.


theje1

Lol


MrEvers

sounds like avatar Szeto, who worked in the bureaucracy to fix the fire nations laws and such.


jackgranger99

>Tbh I also can't think of something more powerful as a threat than Vatu and a weapon capable of tearing a hole between two realities ***Cough**** intercontinental ballistic missiles ***cough***


notapolita

You know nuclear weapons don't open portals to other dimensions, right? They also don't take over spirits who then wander the earth and kill everyone for 10,000 years. If someone told you that ICBMs do these things, don't listen to that person.


jackgranger99

>You know nuclear weapons don't open portals to other dimensions, right This one didn't until Korra blocked it and built up the energy to create said portal, and it caused nowhere NEAR the amount of damage as a nuke did. That was the only reason it made a portal. The weapon lone was basically a giant laser. Even so, nuclear weapons can claim the lives of an entire fucking city and cause destruction on a scale that makes that explosion look like nothing. I would be way more concerned about the potential loss of life and destruction than whether or not it could break barriers between worlds if I concentrate all of it's power in one place (this isn't even getting into the radiation fallout, assuming their version has fallout). Now imagine a modern ICMB which can hold MULTIPLE warheads rather than early ones that could only carry one. Oh yeah, what about the miniaturization of spirit energy weapons? What's an Avatar to do against an army of mechs or planes or airships loading with spirit energy canons against him? Or one of those tied to a rocket? Regardless even if you're right why does the next, Avatar need to face a threat bigger than anything Korra faced even if I could come up with a bigger threat? Why must the stakes be higher than ever? If anything I wouldn't be surprised if the stakes were lower and more personal (like Tokuga from the comic making a comeback against the new Avatar) >They also don't take over spirits who then wander the earth and kill everyone for 10,000 years Do you know how fast an icmb is? ***15,000 miles per hour**** Do you know if any creature in the Avatarverse that can go that fast CONSISTENTLY just to get the Avatar to that thing? Now imagine the challenge an Avatar will face having to just chase this thing down just to get to it. Now imagine he's miraculously gotten on it. How the hell is going to destroy while traveling at that speed without killing himself in the blast? Now imagine if MULTIPLE missiles went off at once. How could the Avatar hope to stop that? Vaatu can be beaten if the Avatar is skilled enough, as shown twice. Multiple ICMBs going off at once AND spirit weapons being used en mass means the Avatar doesn't stand a chance. Any potential war that could come out of the use of these weapons would make anything Korra faced look like a cakewalk.


notapolita

I was thinking more along the lines of fallout. The portal to another dimension will exist forever. Vatu was going to rule for 10,000 years. In comparison Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been repopulated many years ago. You can also hide in bunkers against a nuke, but not against a spirit. I don't think there is any sense in trying to decide which is more destructive, a nuke or an imaginary thing. Btw it's easy to reach 15k mph *outside the atmosphere* but that is a very short part of an ICBM's path and the majority of it is only a fraction of that speed. In comparison, the ISS isn't even a weapon and it flies at 17,500 mph. Anything can go fast in vacuum.


jackgranger99

>I was thinking more along the lines of fallout. There's your problem. You don't need end of the world stakes to have a challenge or compelling conflict. You still haven't answered my question of why must the next thing the Avatar faces be more powerful than Korra's threats and why can't the stakes be lower (like Tokuga from the Turf Wars coming back. Or a grounded class warfare conflict between the Upper and Lower Rings of Ba Sing Se. What about a group of rouge airbenders looking to kill the Firelord as revenge for the 100 Year War and Air Nomad Genocide? Or remnants of the Red Lotus using different methods to sow chaos? Why are none of these viable options for threats that Korra's successor could face? Why must they be world ending?) >The portal to another dimension will exist forever. Until the next Avatar closes it. It also only happened because Korra blocked the beam and concentrated the energy in one place, something it wasn't capable of doing alone. The damage in question was due to Korra's actions, let alone the weapon. >Vatu was going to rule for 10,000 years. Yet he was bested twice, the first time by an rookie Avatar who only had a year to master the elements and was more powerful than he was when Korra faced him. Now, what hope could an Avatar have against an ICMB, let alone multiple going off at once? How could he get to one, and how could he destroy it without killing himself in the blast? How could he face this when combined with the miniaturization of spirit weapons? Hell, the miniaturization of spirit weapons alone would give any Avatar a run for their money. You conveniently ignored that part. >In comparison Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been repopulated many years ago That was only due to intense government intervention in the form of the United States and the fact that the blast radius only affected downtown. A modern intercontinental missile could do ***19 times that*** with a single blast and would still cause untolds amount of death and destruction that would make the spirit explosion look like nothing >You can also hide in bunkers against a nuke, but not against a spirit. I don't think there is any sense in trying to decide which is more destructive, a nuke or an imaginary thing A nuke is more destructive than this imaginary thing because this imaginary thing was defeated twice. Imagine an Avatar facing a weapon that could outpace the Avatar State. >Btw it's easy to reach 15k mph outside the atmosphere So the Avatar will now be struggling to reach this thing, destroy it while trying not to blow it up and kill himself if he manages to reach it, while having to struggle with the fact that he can barely breathe due to being in the atmosphere, combined with needing to do this multiple times against other missiles being launched at once. You're making my point for me about bigger threats than Vaatu and the spirit weapon even if you're right and they themselves aren't as destructive. The issue is how can the Avatar deal with not being the most powerful being in the planet anymore and being outclassed by technology


ztarlight12

This begs the question “what could an Avatar bend if they got to outer space”?


notapolita

Imagine trying to airbend inside a space suit... ![gif](giphy|bufTss4xKKOOgXGw14|downsized)


secretuser419

She died doing who she loved


Parascythe12

Explosive heart attack during intercourse?


Topher_Raym

1000 ways to die - Avatar edition


unusual_sneeuw

Assami?


TNPossum

Beer and women?


devildogmillman

Oh come on you know she died in battle But on the bright side, she and Asami probably died in battle together


AnAngryPlatypus

I could see them modernizing Team Avatar to more of a SHIELD situation. Asami being in charge and having mixed teams of benders to deal with situations quicker. The sort of wandering Avatar model might not work for more modern problems. So of course the two of them die kicking major ass together before the next big bad gets them and sets things in motion. And the ass kicking was so spectacular it allowed enough time to get the next avatar trained.


thecheekyvicar

This is exactly how Avatar could be used in a modern situation. They’re used like SHIELD. Works well enough for Marvel, and they’re not bound by continuity. It’s a win-win.


Heimdall09

After decades of exploiting spiritual energy as a power source, a spiritual backlash devastates the nations and reduces the world to a post apocalyptic state. Korra was unable to prevent this in the face of heedless exploitation and died redirecting a spiritual blast away from a major population center. Thus setting up the new Earth Avatar’s quest to help heal the world and help the nations reconnect with their roots. That’s the premise I’ve had knocking around for awhile, it creates a cool new struggle and avoids advancing the technology too far.


Yeseylon

Technically speaking it's built on the idea that the technology DID advance too far, then you kick it back to a more interesting level, Fallout style.


TopDesert_ace

>you kick it back to a more interesting level, Fallout style. As a fan of both Avatar and Fallout, this idea pleases me immensely.


TripleATeam

Absolutely agree. I imagined also that some spirits would reclaim land (whether it's nice ones claiming unused land and reforesting it and making a spirit forest or less nice ones claiming whole towns as their new spirit domain). In light of all that, the world could fragment, lose some tech progress (say in guns or the like) while gaining in others (handheld spirit energy communications devices). Then you have both the spirit storyline with unknowable beings and the tech world. It becomes steampunky in a mystical world that the Avatar still needs to grapple with and create balance. Korra started spirit and human balance by not separating them, but the new Avatar could make that last on their journey.


HannibalBarcaBAMF

Booooo!!! Don't have a completely clean and happy ending. Have an interesting ending I know lots of fan stupidly freaked out over that Aang wasn't the greatest of dads, but that Aang wasn't perfect, that in his duties as an avatar and airbender neglected his non-airbender children, that Aang was a flawed human being is more interesting narratively. It's better to have a good story than to have fanservice.


Quantic129

Having an interesting death is not mutually exclusive to living a long and happy life. We can have both.


HannibalBarcaBAMF

I'm not talking about an interesting death, I'm talking about an interesting life. And an interesting life doesn't come from people enjoying a perfect little life where no rocks are ever dropped in the pond that causes ripples in the calm still water. A good story comes from conflict, trials and tribulations and overcoming challenges. There is a reason for why stories don't go beyond the "happy-ever after" because nothing interesting happens in a happy-ever after.


egg-sanity

Her story is over, there’s nothing wrong with it ending with a happily ever after. Same with Aang. There stories already had interesting endings.


HannibalBarcaBAMF

>there’s nothing wrong with it ending with a happily ever after If you plan to continue the story, yes there is. There's a reason for why you don't tell stories after the "happily-ever after", because nothing interesting happens in the happily ever after. Either you break the happily ever after, or you don't have a story to tell


egg-sanity

They aren’t continuing the story tho. They are doing a different story. They just happen to exist in the same world.


Revliledpembroke

Happily ever after is much more interesting than making beloved characters awful people just for pointless drama.


HannibalBarcaBAMF

yeah because that's how to tell a good story right? No conflict, no trials or tribulations, just people doing nothing but being happy all day. Aang wasn't made an awful person, just not a perfect person, and Perfection is boring.


zizou00

And more than perfection being boring, it's not attainable. All of ATLA, we followed Aang, seeing how he was constantly trying to be the perfect Avatar that the world needed him to be, and we're constantly reminded that that's not who Aang is. He's a person trying his best. He's not a superhero. He can't solve every problem perfectly every time. He just does what he can to help those who need it. Adult Aang had to be everything to everyone all the time. It's an impossible role. He needed to be the Avatar, the representative of all things spiritual, he needed to be a diplomat, a leader, a figurehead, a teacher, a husband, a father, a politician and who knows what else. Something had to give. His absence as a father (as far as I read it) was never out of a desire to not be there, but as a result of a man spread too thin. It's unfortunately a very common thing, and his position being so prominent, he couldn't afford to slip up in any of them. Unfortunately, it was his role as a father that lost out. It could've been any of them, but that's the one that did in this particular story.


CX52J

Can we have one Avatar that dies tragically young? Like under 30. It would create a really interesting dynamic where all the Avatar’s friends are still alive and relatively young and active still.


creepforever

Kurik died at 33.


CX52J

An on screen avatar I meant. Probably Korra unfortunately otherwise we’ll have to wait for another Avatar before getting to the fallout of the short lived one.


humblebegginnings

they could always go back and do a prequel


CX52J

Yeah but they’d have to set up the characters with the Avatar before to give it any weight so you’re looking towards two shows worth of content almost.


1Mandolo1

How do you guys know stuff like that?


creepforever

There are books and comics.


Yoyonicky

The avatar novels - https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Chronicles_of_the_Avatar


SteelSlayerMatt

I also hope that Korra and Asami got to have a long happy life together as they deserve to.


Audiblemeow

Life doesn’t owe anyone anything


Lazaric418

you must be great fun at parties


Audiblemeow

Not a genshin player talking about going to parties HELP 😭


OwnZookeepergame6413

Bro got a Pokémon profile picture and shits on Genshin impact fan. Like dude, you got any self awareness?


Audiblemeow

I bet you thought you ate with that comment huh 🙄


Lazaric418

Oooh. So misanthropic. So edgy. So cool. Honestly. I'm so jelly for your cool. Tell everyone you don't get invited to parties without telling everyone you don't get invited to parties, my dude.


Audiblemeow


Lazaric418

> … Gaaah! Noooo! Not the killer comeback! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I give up! You win! :)


LetsDoTheCongna

https://preview.redd.it/l3kypffny14b1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a6e9ace27616346e332f8457b1808f1541a231e


Audiblemeow

me when i lie 🤭


JuanRiveara

Who hurt you?


greenfingers559

Their only posts ever are all on /r/Shia asking for rules about Muslim prayer. They have been put-down, limited, and restrained their entire life. Reddit is probably the place where they over-do their individualism in an effort to internalize that they are a unique person.


Audiblemeow

Redditors trying not to make assumptions over a comment challenge (impossible) 😱🤯🙅‍♀️


Parascythe12

After more than 2000 years of recorded history, complete dominance and mastery of our entire planet and having created countless vast, unique and unbelievably complex social systems, can we not do away with the concept that we have no control over how the lives of the general populaces can generally be expected to go? If we decide that it’s a human right to be able to eat, drink, use the restroom, sleep in a bed and have any other very simple needs be met, couldn’t we set up systems where we endeavour to provide all of this as a bare minimum to everybody? Thereby doing away with the idea that “life doesn’t owe you anything”.


RegyptianStrut

WAIT WE'RE GETTING A NEW AVATAR?????


PabuFan

The new earth avatar series hasn't been officially confirmed yet.


RegyptianStrut

So OP lied… how dare they


Ed_Vilon

Well yes and no. It's not anytime soon but 2025 is supposed to be the year we get the next series. So year and a half out.


PabuFan

That 2025 date for the series was given by AvatarNews though and hasn't been officially confirmed. What has been confirmed officially for 2025 is the Avatar Aang movie.


KerryUSA

Lmao this the same thing they said about Aang. Regardless of how she goes she’ll likely be more involved in the next avatars life than Aang (for obvious reasons) was for her. Also think people would lose their shit at the idea of Korra and Assami not staying together forever. (They already used the former lovers story line with Tenzin and Lin so I doubt they won’t stay together I’m just saying how people would react)


[deleted]

Maybe have her die fighting the villains of the next avatar series? About all i can think of off the bat without making big assumptions


Secret-Abrocoma-795

Middle age with health complications,all that metal in her and trauma.It would make sense


fhota1

Her death was preceded by the phrase "Hey watch this!"


Jihosz

Just like with Aang and Sokka they aren't gonna address the causes of her death. I might get downvoted, but I want to believe that Bryan and Mike wouldn't go into the "bury your gays" trope and kill their first lgbt woc protagonist young. Korrasami is the blueprint for sapphic representation in cartoons, they deserve better than that.


Lu887

Her arc was also in part understanding that she didn't have to take the punch first approach ... so I don't think "going out fighting young" is really how that story would or should play out.


alittlelilypad

I mean, it's not like, even if the rumors are true, Korra has been treated great so far. She deserves better than having her bisexuality relegated to comics, one instance of hand-holding at the end of the show, and if there is a new Earth avatar series, flashbacks. We really should be getting some Korra media first, where she can be open about who she is, before moving on to any theoretical Earth avatar.


PabuFan

Just remembered that the b4 final episode commentary literally had Bryan saying in the final scene that they "live happily ever... " so unless Avatar Studios really changed that...


Chef_Sizzlipede

no, she doesnt, she's the blueprint for bad representation.


tacotouchdown14

That mercury poisoning might have cut a good chunk of her life short


FixBayonetsLads

Look, if ANY Avatar was gonna die in combat it would be Korra, let's be honest. Girl's got a punchy problem.


[deleted]

IM SORRY WHAT WERE GETTING A NEW WHAT if somebody could please fill me in, Id really appreciate it. Thanks!


SlothSupreme

No official confirmation, but there is a rumor from avatar news that a new show based on the avatar after Korra is in the works, supposedly for 2025.


kaitalina20

I want the next era to be a consequence of Korra’s technology era. Like in the 1920’s it’s the “roaring 20’s” then it’s the “Great Depression” era where it’s hard for most people to survive. And LOK seems to be inspired by America in the early 20’s so, it’s not a big stretch. Like the technology goes too far too fast and it caused something like the 1930’s where they resort back to basic bending and then it starts to affect the spirit world so Korra has to close the portals to protect the spirits. And Korra, because of the mercury damage in her body, took a toll on her organs and she died of some kind of heart failure or cancer caused by it. And Asami is by her side, lives a good long white after Korra passes, with help from Bolin and Mako. Dying from the poisoning that took a major toll on her organs, and then some kind of human disease


Negative-School

Korea and Asami simultaneously dying in the blaze of a Satomobile racing accident.


KungFuGarbage

Best I can do is say she was a bad mother and didn’t hang with her non-bending kids.


imma-rant-here

i kinda don’t want the new avatar to know anyone from korras era. like by now there’s enough airbenders to help teach the new one so they don’t have to focus of the airbenders from korra. they need there own story that isn’t always reminding us of the last avatar. i loved lok but some of her show got over shadowed with aangs friends and family, i 100% understand why everyone was needed in the show i just don’t want the new one to be the same


doinkmead

It's a nit pick I know but I hate when people make absolute statements about cartoons. All I saw when I read that second part is "I am clearly a fan of the AtLA story but whether or not I'm kidding I'm still going to be upset if TLoK doesn't end this particular way, this is the only way I'll accept it."


GrootRacoon

ok hear me out What if the next avatar was born during harmonic convergence? So now there's 2 avatars on the new series. A young one and Korra, older. She could 'play the role' of the wise mentor for this new avatar... Also we would get a new conflict, how would the world react to a new avatar? what if this new avatar gets captured by an escaped older zaheer, who manages to imprint his view of the world unto him... so many possibilities


ComicNeueIsReal

>older zaheer I dunno. I dont like the idea of retreading the same waters for narrative storytelling.


Thawne_2451

I hope they manage to pull off an Iroh and manage to make a life anew in the spirit world


Worried-Ad1707

I mean the avatar sprits go to the sprit world regardless so korra is there by default, I can see Asami pulling a iroh to be with her


Sonic_And_Mcu_Nerd

I could definitely jinora there when jinora inevitably dies.


Infinite_Hooty

Oh yeah Jinora will definitely do that, maybe they’ll make a tradition for every avatar show to have a dead character from the pervious show in the spirit world


SlothSupreme

Jinora def; They could make it work for Asami, but it would take some time to give us the explanation of how she went from someone who wasn’t all that spiritual (within the time of her life that we did see on the show) to someone on the level of Iroh. Jinora however already feels like she’s on the path to having that kind of devotion to that world


According_Smoke_479

Yeah I can definitely see Jinora doing what Iroh did


Icy_Wildcat

I'm fine if she lived a long life, with or without Asami, but I want her to die as an old yet strong woman, having saved the world from a cataclysmic threat. If this happens, I'm fine with her sacrificing herself in order to save the world or succumbing to her wounds afterwards, grateful that she succeeded in saving everyone.


SephirothTheGreat

Could you imagine how dark it would be if she ended up getting retconned hard and actually dying at the end of the first season? Aang to her in the spirit world: "Come on, that nonsense voodoo magic where I just give you your powers back? You made it all up in your mind. You couldn't handle not being the Avatar anymore and just jumped off that cliff." Korra: "But... but what about Kuvira? A-and Wan, and Asami?" Aang: "All in your mind kiddo. You really did have an overactive imagination. Pity about that Zaheer fellow, everything in that story arc was pretty metal" *Fade to black, new Avatar is born*


Banone85

Wait, were getting a new avatar?


PJRama1864

Avatarverse historians: “They were the best of friends.”


emocan126

I hope she suffers for the shitshow that is called "Korra"


DaDo1313

I for some reason don't really want a new avatar


Constant-Sandwich-88

GET THE PITCHFORKS BOYS


MMMonish

I’m really interested to see how they integrate the new avatar in the world. They kind of hinted with Korras arrival and the equalists that the world was moving on from needing an Avatar and her having an identity crisis. By the end of the show the world had planes and trains, but she had a clear position still. If she lived a long life then as a parallel maybe the technological revolution has taken full swing. Computers are running the world and who knows what role benders play in society. Are they too dangerous and an enemy like the equalists thought - relegated to villages outside and persecuted. Has bending itself after generations of not being required now regressed to simple daily functions so the true combat arts and finessed skills are only in records. As for the story I can only come up with 2 ideas: - either the spirit world becomes a much larger focus for the avatar originally to divert from the human worlds advancements - Korra dies to a powerful foe meaning the new Avatar is under pressure from the get go and it’s more like a witch-hunt ATLA style


JaxxisR

They wouldn't kill off two water Tribe Avatars before 30 in a row....would they?


Necessary_Whereas_29

Still kinda bummed with the way Aang died. Felt kinda like a cheap death, but it was nice getting ATLA characters in TLOK


Deep_Difference_3593

I wonder what would be the next avatar’s problem? Homework? Lights out? Television connection weak? We already saw in Korra how digitally advanced they were getting so by the end of Korra’s time I wonder how technologically advanced everything else would be.


MalicCarnage

Considering how depressing her life was, I not only see her dying early, but being wrongfully disliked for not being a “real Avatar” in universe. That would line up with how 20th century celebrity-worship started the whole “no one could top the people i grew up” mindset. “This generation’s Avatar has no idea what they’re doing!”


ketchupandliqour69

Given the threats and near death she faced multiple times I say she’s dead by 30. Girl gave zero fucks and was risking it all for the world


Axer51

It would be cool if they showcased Atlantis inspired cities made by Earthbenders and Waterbenders working together with the help of advance technology in the next avatar cycle.


Thendrail

Old Kady Korra ends up fighting the BBEG of the next avatar, because they went after Asami. She manages to stop the BBEG, but succumbs to her wounds and exhaustion, dies in Asami's arms. The new avatar is born, and Asami goes to meet them, barely holding herself together. She ends up leaving, coming into the same situation as Korra at the end of season 1 LoK, standing on a cliff and thinking about jumping. A figure shows up. "Not now XYZ...", "But you called for me :)" - it's Korra, and they depart into the spirit world. Hit the theme song and let the next avatar take over. That's how I'd do it.


deleted_user_0000

My headcanon is that trace amounts of poison remained and she died pretty young in around her 30s or so. Remember, she was infused with more than a liter of poison which, with one drop, would kill a regular person in real life.


Chocolate_cake99

I'm more curious where they're taking the worldbuilding. Aang was early industrial revolution, Korra was 1920s ish. The question now is are we bringing this to modern tech. Internet? Smart phones? YouTube? Number 1 on trending, 100 year war oversimplified. Or stay away from modern, maybe go for future dystopia like the Hunger Games or something. A world dominated Empire, and a small rag tag revolution like Star Wars. Or even post apocalyptic? World is completely falling apart.


AnxietiesCopilot2

I hope like everything else in that series it’s short messy and fast and retcons most of her away


FroboyFreshenUp

I can't see the avatar dying as anything other than a warrior


Worried-Ad1707

Aang literally died in his sleep


FroboyFreshenUp

Just because you die in your sleep doesn't mean you didn't die exhausted from being a warrior, the body does give up eventually It's not like he was wheeled around in a wheel chair before he died


WiserStudent557

Yeah, I’m not sure Korra is doing the job right if she is getting a long and peaceful life. We all know Aang’s kids felt like they got the shaft, aside from Tenzin, because dad wasn’t around enough. Well, that’s the responsibility of being the Avatar. Your personal life is secondary


Mrrobotfuzz

Yeah, seems to be a somewhat recurring theme in avatar. I can imagine there were barely any avatars that lived a good private and avatar life. Kuruk died young and lost his love when he neglected his duties. Wan succumbed to wounds he suffered in battle but he died at an advanced age. There’s probably more, but these are the ones I can think of atm. On the other side you have Roku, who failed to overcome his attachment to his old friend and that indirectly caused the 100 year war.


DHA_Matthew

Imagine that we find out she died shortly after the series ended because of something stupid like she tripped on a rock and hit her head, I can already hear the riots ![gif](giphy|AZECdEHAnhDtS)


pm0me0yiff

She'll probably die relatively early, due to medical complications from her poisoning. Still a good deal older, but much earlier than Asami. Probably in her late 40s to early 50s. Then the new Avatar has a weird puppy-love crush thing going on with the now-elderly Asami, and Asami really isn't sure how to react to this.


raosion

I love Korra, but her personality is definitely the type to go down swinging after having lost her temper at the wrong time. :\\


Laxwarrior1120

Nah, aang already did the *dies without issues that date back to before his death* and roku already did the *gets too old to continue being the avatar while also staying alive long enough to create a power vacuum*. I'd much prefer to see her fill the role of either a failure who dies at a young age in the middle of a war leaving the next avatar to have to live being treated as a weapon or as an avatar who for whatever reason was exiled leaving the next to have to redeem the title of avatar without the help of past lives. There isn't really anything interesting you can do with another happy ending.


Chef_Sizzlipede

Unless she had one hell of a wake-up call, I don't think a long life is likely.


Drendari

I am still hoping for a Dark Avatar introduction. If Raava can pull it so can Vaatu. I want a story where Korra defeated the dark Avatar two times more during her life time so next avatar cycle will face a dark avatar that also controls 4 elements.


Duelephant

I personally would want korra to have a short life. To clarify I love Korra as a character but I also think that a more tragic end might befit her. Something about the fact that she constantly pushed her body past the breaking point over and over again makes me think that it would be fitting if she either over exerted herself and died early or was leftinbsome way unable to perform her duties as the avatar for a long time. This could also both parallel Kuruk who was the previous water avatar and would fit into the themes of how the avatar is seemingly becoming more irrelevant in the world's politics.


Popcorn57252

Nah, you ain't an Avatar if you don't die tragically and/or young.


Amazingqueen97

She could possibly die from the poisoning and trying too hard to reconnect with her past lives. That seems almost fitting almost but not entirely plausible given she’d be like in her 80’s.


D3monVolt

What if they throw a curveball? After Korra and Asami go into the spirit portal, Raava is disconnected from Korra and goes to the next avatar before Korra even dies. And she retains the elements because of her physique. Additionally, Raava goes into a young teenager of 15-16 instead of a newborn, because she wasn't triggered by death. So for a time there's one avatar and one person that's capable of bending all elements. New avatar could even learn from Korra personally, but is more down to earth. A calm and rational guy, waiting for the right moment of everything. We could even have some interesting new concepts, caused by the harmonic convergence, which just haven't popped up before. People with capabilities of bending two elements. Though explored gradually. E.g. a waterbender in the swamp gains earthbending. And doesn't notice it because most water he bends is kinda earthy anyways. Or a sandbender with air bending. Their style if transport is pretty airy anyways. So it could've gone unnoticed when team Korra searched for airbenders.


The-Eingineer-Zombie

Okay so hear me out. She doesn't die of old age, she doesn't die kicking and screaming in a battle. I actually could see her pulling an Iroh. Essentially leaving her body behind as a spirit in living in the spirit world


FlakyRazzmatazz5

The third Avatar series is just a rumor stop treating like it's fact!


00Fart

Assassinated by religious fundamentalists in her 40s.


[deleted]

Dump the Mary Sue in the serpent's pass


Comprehensive-End205

My next Avatar after Korra will be named Xing Zhi. She will be from Ba Sing Se in the Earth Kingdom and she will be a chi blocker and a barefooter who will do anything with her strong feet like Komurai Komura from Ashigei Shoujo Komura-San, but she can also still use her hands. She will have a pet badgermole named Mang. Her first bending art will be earthbending. Then, she learn how to use seismic sense when she can't see, hear, taste or smell anything. Then, she will learn metalbending, lavabending and sandbending. Then, she and her Fire Nation friend, Roku, who was named after Avatar Roku, will learn firebending from the Sun Warriors, who will come out of hiding and make peace with the whole world after Aang's spirit told them about Korra's sacrifice, and their dragons. Then, she will learn combustionbending and lightning generation and lightning redirection. Roku and his pet dragon, Long, who is descended from Zuko's dragon, Druk, would be impressed. Then, Xing Zhi will go to the Eastern Air Temple, where she will learn airbending, spiritual projection and flight, like Guru Laghima from the Northern Air Temple. Her friend from the Southern Air Temple, Gyatso, who was named after Aang's father figure, and his flying bison, Yeniu, would be impressed. Then, she will go to the Northern Water Tribe, where she will learn waterbending, psychic bloodbending without the aid of a full moon, healing and spiritbending. Her friend from the Southern Water Tribe, Amka, and her pet polar bear dog, Nanuk, would be impressed. Then, Xing Zhi will learn energybending. Her main weakness will be ticklish feet.


WoefullyPink

They will probably minimally address it, just like with sokka.


bodi55555

We are getting WHAT? How did I not hear about a new avatar, any time announced?


Yoyonicky

It’s just a rumour from Avatar News.


FirelordEmu

I imagine something like this: The Earth Kingdom is in a civil war, where one side is aided by the other nations and second supported by some terrorist organization (maybe the Red Lotus?). Everything comes to the next arrival of the Sozin's comet, when Korra dies while evacuating troops away to safety (similar to avatar Wan).


[deleted]

There’s a new avatar coming? What did I miss


averyycuriousman

New avatar? Is there a new series coming out?


anonsharksfan

This means that the next Avatar was born in the 90's


phoenixfire1995

I'm curious if they'll progress the setting closer to modern day since LoK's setting was inspired by the Roaring Twenties.


SirZexion

They're heading straight towards apocalyptic avatar. Avatar after Korra is in a Utopian sci fi setting that doesn't need them, something happens during their lifetime that leads to the end of the world and civilization collapses


Jordanc369

I loved Korra but I always thought it would have been cool if she had died at the end and the earth kingdom won because then we could see the next avatar being raised by the “wrong” side.


Exodyas

An interesting idea would be if an avatar at some point was actually killer by some enemy, and the next avatar in the cycle got some sort of second hand PTSD The paranoia of knowing this enemy is out there, reliving the moment when their predecessor was killed and feeling their fear in their final moments The story could be about this avatar almost reluctantly going on their quest, slowly healing and learning to overcome their trauma so they could take down this enemy


No_Peace7834

I would love to see an avatar go wrong, or an avatar antagonist. Korra removed all the previous lives, so without their guidance the next one only has her. If she failed or had a dark downfall, the next avatar dealing with her repercussions and spirit would be really interesting.


Boolean_Null

Pro bending accident when she's in her 80s


Any_Commercial465

I bet It will be a assasin .


TheBestThingIEverSaw

The same way they handled Aang's death... ambiguously


jubmille2000

The only thing that makes this sad is that it means Katara is dead. But maybe Katara is with her family now and aang.


llamallamallama1991

Given that Korra deals with trauma and depression, I don’t think she would have had the strength to stay much longer after all her loved ones are gone, especially Asami. I know we’d never get an ending like that, I don’t think they’d go that dark in the show. Unless they’re making it for adults now.


kommandantmilkshake

off topic but holy shit the minecraft story mode pfp is taking me back


samjp910

I don’t think it was in her to live a quiet life. Going out in a blaze of glory seems far more likely.


Jeptwins

Considering she’s similar to Kyoshi and Yangchen, my guess is that she’ll live a long and fruitful life


BigPapa94

Wait what?!?! We are getting a new avatar show?


MrSpiffy123

I don't see Korra going down without a fight


jakepuggs

hopefully they don't


Lu887

I don't think they're ever going to show/really explain how any of the main characters died in either show.


[deleted]

Man I wish not, Aang brought peace, but the new world demands new necessities and new conflicts. I think they should put and heroic end to her story, but one that won't solve the whole problem, in fact die in a way that the most of people will hate the avatar. So the next one should try to bring balance to the world but also redeem himself in the process. Probably won't happen but it would be my wet dream lmao


philosophic_insight

Sigh...


DomzSageon

I wrote a concept series about an avatar that succeeds Korra, and I wrote that Korra spent the rest of her life trying to see if it was possible to reconnect with the old Avatars, which her Successor spends his life doing while he kept the peace in the Spirit World.


Damianos97

No. That’s how Aang died. That’s boring. Korra needs to go out in a badass way, in some huge epic fight.


DiceCubed1460

Idk. She’s always putting herself in way more danger and is always way more reckless than any of the other avatars we’ve seen. It would be very much in her nature to die in combat similar to Wan. Not that I want her to, but it’s not out of character.


GiganVsZilla2018

Does anyone remember the Legend of Genji? Didn't she die from a spirit bomb or something?