Here are eight Avatar, The Last Airbender references
in the Legend of Korra.
Number Eight: The Cabbage Merchant
My cabbages!
Your gonna pay for this!
Two cabbages, please.
We all remember this poor guy.
It seemed like everywhere Team Avatar went,
it spelled certain disaster for him and his cabbages.
And that bad luck followed his family to the next generation when Cabbage Corp.,
a company founded by the cabbage merchant himself,
was framed for manufacturing weapons for the equalists.
No, not my Cabbage Corp.!
While the discrepancy was eventually cleared up,
Cabbage Corp still must have taken a hit
being the center of all this negative publicity.
Number Seven: Aang's Marbles
It was still early in the series when we saw this trick.
Now, check this out.
[cheering]
So, it gave us a great look
into Aang's fun loving and silly personality.
[laughing]
For a 112 year old, he still has a sense of childlike excitement.
You looked pretty good out there.
Are you kidding? The fish was doing all the work.
In the Legend of Korra, we get a tiny detail that shows us
that Aang never lost his inner child.
Why, you're the Avatar, ain't ya?
Yep, that's me.
I can't believe it!
Ya mind if I take a picture for my wall of Avatars?
I mean, it is a good trick.
Number Six: Namesakes
It's only fitting that many of the beloved characters
of The Legend of Korra are named after beloved characters
and even voice actors from Avatar, The Last Airbender.
Yay, Uncle Bumi's here!
Aang would name his son after his childhood friend, Bumi.
Bumi, you're a mad genius.
[laughing]
And of course, Zuko's grandson would carry the name
of his adored Uncle Iroh.
Tell her we will be arriving in three days time,
and that I look forward to winning back Republic City together.
As you wish, General Iroh.
The character of Mako was named in honor of the iconic voice actor
who played Uncle Iroh in the original series.
♪ Brave soldier boy comes marching home ♪
And one more you might have missed, Aang and Katara's daughter, Kya.
We missed you, Aunt Kya.
Oh, I missed you, too.
Kya was actually the name of Sokka and Katara's mother in the original series
- There's a man in our house! - Kya!
but actually, Kya was also the original name given to Katara
in the unaired pilot episode of the series.
Looking good, Kya.
It won't be long before the Fire Nation
sends their whole fleet after your little boyfriend.
Kya, we don't have time for this.
So in a way, Kya was named after her mother, sort of.
Number Five: Foggy Swamp
Hey, you taking us down for a reason?
Aang, why are we going down?
What?
I didn't even notice.
Are you noticing now?
Is something wrong?
I know this is gonna sound weird, but I think the swamp is calling to me.
Is it telling you where we could get something to eat?
No, I - I think it wants us to land there.
Ah, Foggy Swamp, home to mystic wildlife,
It's the heart of the swamp.
It's been calling us here. I knew it.
swamp monsters,
Ah! Uh!
and some interesting characters.
♪ Set my lines by the riverbed Caught ten fish and I killed 'em dead ♪
♪ Cut 'em and gut 'em And I tossed the heads ♪
♪ In the water To keep them cat-gators fed ♪
But in the Legend of Korra,
it also returns as the home of Toph Beifong.
Na, uh, uh. You want to hug something, go hug a tree.
We're here to work.
Which is fitting because the Foggy Swamp
is where Aang had a vision of Toph before he even met her.
Hello.
Who are you?
[laughing]
Hey, come back!
[laughing]
Maybe Toph is somehow spiritually connected to the swamp itself.
Number Four: General, sorry, Admiral Zhao
Water Tribe can try to resist the inevitable,
but their city will fall today.
Yeah, this guy had issues.
With that kind of baggage,
it's no wonder Zhao ended up wandering the fog of lost souls
by the time Tenzin, Kya and Bumi got there in the Legend of Korra.
The Fog of Lost Souls is a spirit prison for humans.
I read about it in an ancient text.
The fog is actually a spirit that infects your mind
and slowly drives you mad,
imprisoning you in your own darkest memories.
How long can you be trapped in here?
I am Zhao, the Conqueror.
I am the Moon Slayer.
I will capture the Avatar.
I am Zhao, the Conqueror!
I am the Moon Slayer!
I will capture the Avatar!
Hopefully we're not trapped in here as long as that guy.
You! You're him!
The Last Airbender!
Uh! No! Get off me!
You've grown but I will still defeat you!
[grunting]
Come back, Avatar, face me.
I am Zhao, the Conqueror.
I will capture you!
Yikes.
Number Three: Wan Shi Tong
Now obviously this one is hard to miss.
It's a gigantic talking out.
I know you're back there.
But there are some pretty cool references and implications in this encounter.
I could just stay in here forever, reading.
The last human who said that is still here.
So you should know that humans
are no longer allowed in my library. Get out!
I thought anyone could come in if they brought you some new knowledge.
Those are the old rules.
Besides, what is a little girl gonna teach Wan Shi Tong?
He who knows 10,000 things.
First off, this guy is Professor Zei.
I'm Professor Zei, head of Anthropology at Ba Sing Se University.
You should leave the way you came
unless you want to become a stuffed head of Anthropology.
Man, that guy was dedicated to his studies.
And secondly, the policy change he mentions,
I thought anyone could come in if they brought you some new knowledge.
Those are the old rules.
Well, that was a direct result of the actions
of Avatar Aang and his friends.
You betrayed my trust.
From the beginning, you intended to misuse this knowledge for evil purposes.
And now I am going to protect what I love.
Yeah, Wan Shi Tong wasn't pleased with that one.
Number Two: Lavabending
Of course, you remember this terrifying skill
made famous by the notorious Ghazan of the Red Lotus.
But do you remember seeing lavabending in Avatar, The Last Airbender
beside from Avatar Roku on Winter Solstice
when he destroyed the fire temple?
We actually saw Avatar Kyoshi use it to split her peninsula off
from the mainland, creating an island.
On that day, we split from the mainland.
And we even saw Avatar Szeto use it in the vision Roko showed Aang.
So while Ghazan was the first non-Avatar we saw lava bend,
He definitely wasn't the first to do it.
Number One: The Lion Turtles
The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost.
At the end of Avatar, The Last Airbender,
a lion turtle became one of the most important beings
in the Avatar world, guiding Aang to a power
that would ultimately end the 100 year war and change history.
In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements,
but the energy within ourselves.
But it also left us with tons of questions.
What is a lion turtle?
Hey, look at these weird lion turtle things.
Why could it connect with Aang?
And why did it have the ability to unlock new bending powers in people?
I took away your fire bending.
You can't use it to hurt or threaten anyone else ever again.
Those questions were finally answered in The Legend of Korra
when we got to explore the origin of the Avatar.
The lion turtle.
Great guardian of our city.
We are venturing into the Spirit Wilds to bring back food for our people.
Please grant us the power of fire.
The power is yours to keep until your return.
You're first, kid.
May the element of fire protect you against the spirits.
Woo. Uh! Uh!
Since lion turtles were the beings that granted bending powers
to all benders, it makes perfect sense, they will be able to alter Aang's bending.
and that they're old enough
and wise enough to remember energy bending.
Giving us a whole new context to this pivotal scene
in Avatar, The Last Airbender.
But now it leaves us with another question.
Was this lion turtle one of the four that Avatar Wan encountered?
Or is there a fifth lion turtle strictly to represent energy bending?
I think we're going to need another series to answer that one.