Katara mastered waterbending, trained the Avatar,
and helped end The Hundred Year War
all before the age of 15.
Let's dive in to what happened to Katara after the war.
Let's do this.
Once Fire Lord Ozai was defeated,
Zuko was crowned the new Fire Lord.
Katara, Aang, Sokka and Toph gathered at Iroh's tea shop,
the Jasmine Dragon, to kick start their celebration.
It was there that Katara and Aang finally solidified
their relationship, mildly annoying Sokka
in the process.
Under the reign of the Fire Nation,
several colonies had been established
in the Earth Kingdom. Aang, the Earth King
and Fire Lord Zuko committed to restoring harmony
in the world by returning the land
back to the Earth Nation and its people.
They called their agenda the Harmony Restoration Movement.
The Earth King planned a big party
to commemorate their partnership,
and Team Avatar finally got to celebrate
for the first time in a while.
Unexpectedly one year later, Zuko withdrew his support
from the Harmony Restoration Movement.
After visiting Yu Dao, one of the last
and oldest Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom,
Fire Lord Zuko had changed his mind
about eliminating the Fire Nation colonies.
Surprised by his betrayal, Katara, Aang, Sokka
and Toph traveled to Yu Dao to intervene.
When they arrived, they saw the town had been barricaded
and rowdy protesters gathered outside.
Aang and Katara hopped over the gate into the town
and were immediately attacked by Fire Nation soldiers.
Aang maintained he just wanted to talk to Zuko
but the soldiers attacked regardless,
causing Katara to intervene.
Let's just say she wasn't amused
by the guards attempt to set Aang on fire.
Katara kept attacking until Zuko forcefully
tried to restrain her.
This enraged Aang and he instantly attacked Zuko
and demanded he let Katara go.
Aang entered the Avatar State determined to stop Zuko.
But Katara managed to calm him down
by reminding him that entering the Avatar State
in such an emotional way would cause him to lose control.
After Aang begrudgingly agreed to talk to Zuko about Yu Dao,
Zuko showed them how the town was different
from the other colonies.
Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom people
in this town had been living together for generations.
Even so, Aang was convinced that harmony required
all four nations to be separate, but Katara remained uncertain.
She suggested the Fire Nation colony,
Yu Dao, might be an exception.
Despite Aang and Zuko's opinion
on what should happen to the town,
Katara believed that the Earth King
needed to be involved in whatever happened next.
She and Aang set off to Ba Sing Se to meet him
and to try to arrange a meeting with Zuko.
The couple failed to talk the Earth King
out of launching an attack on the Fire Nation.
The king's surprisingly ordered his general to enforce harmony
in Yu Dao and send soldiers toward the colony.
With all the makings of another war
between nations falling into place,
Katara and Aang rushed back to Yu Dao
to help evacuate the town. War was looming.
Aang couldn't let go of the idea that the Four Nations
must be separated to be balanced,
at least until Katara reminded him
that the Four Nations themselves were an illusion.
Katara couldn't help but see her and Aang's future reflected
in the mixed nation families of Yu Dao.
"If the Four Nations have to be separate,
what will that mean for us?", she asked.
The Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom soldiers
were ready to fight,
and Team Avatar jumped into action.
Katara made her way up to the Earth King's war balloon
to convince him he was fighting
his own nation and his own people.
She urged the king to just visit Yu Dao
and see how his people lived peacefully
with the Fire Nation citizens. Katara knew that the Earth King
would change his mind about attacking Yu Dao
if he just met the people
his decisions were directly affecting.
With the help of Katara, the Earth King
left the war balloon and stepped foot
in Yu Dao for the first time.
Aang eventually came to the same conclusion
as Zuko and Katara and persuaded the Earth King to view Yu Dao
as not just a colony, but a whole new kind of world.
After seeing Yu Dao firsthand,
the king recognized that Katara and Aang were right.
He agreed to let the Fire Nation citizens
remain in Yu Dao and called off his army.
Sometime after, Katara, Aang and Sokka were invited
to help Zuko search for his mother, Ursa.
Katara was shocked to find out
Zuko's sister, Azula would be joining them.
At first, believing she had escaped.
Throughout the search for Ursa,
Katara had to help restrain Azula many times.
The group eventually ventured into Forgetful Valley,
where they encountered a spirit named the Mother of Faces.
She told them that she had given Zuko's mother a new face
and erased her memory of the past.
After a bit of a struggle, the spirit agreed
to return Ursa's old face
and restore her memories of the past.
Katara, Aang and Sokka stayed in the Fire Nation
for a few weeks before departing to give Zuko and his mother
their much needed time for family bonding.
Later on, Team Avatar returned to Yu Dao
for a banquet in celebration of the town's new government.
Katara found Aang meditating outside the banquet,
trying to connect with his past life,
Avatar Yangchen.
Through his visions, Aang was reminded
of Yangchen's festival, an Air Nomad tradition.
The next day, Katara, Aang, Sokka and Toph set off
to replicate the festival and recreate the celebration
that had not been done in over 100 years.
However, the festivities were cut short
when the group discovered an industrial factory built
on the Air Nation's sacred land.
When they ventured into the town,
Katara saw two of her old friends
from the Southern Water Tribe.
They worked at the Earthen Fire Refinery
that was now built there.
The group were shocked and surprised
at the scale of the factory,
and they hopped a fence to get a closer look.
Luckily, a kind engineer named Satoru
offered to give the gang a tour of the factory.
Katara marveled at how multiple types of benders
worked together in an assembly line.
But when she was shown an assembly line
that utilized machinery instead of bending,
she was disappointed.
She believed the bending assembly line
was much more elegant.
In Yu Dao, Katara saw her first glimpse
of how industrialization can affect a society
and how these changes
can threaten the traditions of the past.
Aang and Katara believed something nefarious
must be happening at the factory to cause all of the pollution
in the river nearby.
They refused to leave the factory,
and the owner sent the Rough Rhinos
after Team Avatar for trespassing.
During the confrontation, Katara and Sokka discovered
the entrance to a secret iron ore mining cave.
After some investigating,
they realized that the underground mining
was the cause of the pollution.
Suddenly there was an earthquake and the unstable mine caved in.
But luckily, Toph and her metalbending students
were present to prevent any serious casualties.
But now, there was an even bigger issue.
All of the pollution and mining had angered an ancient spirit,
General Old Iron,
and he was about to destroy the town.
General Old Iron attacked the city, but Team Avatar
and Toph's metalbending students defeated the spirit
and forced him to retreat. Aang struggled to accept that
the once familiar sacred land had changed so much.
Katara helped Aang understand that despite
all the technological advancements
that were happening all around them,
spirituality and tradition still had a place in the world.
Although Yangchen's festival hadn't gone as planned,
the gang still got to celebrate. Aang reformed the holiday
and founded the Spirits' Friendship Festival.
The celebration was created to preserve Air Nomad traditions
while still allowing the sacred lands to modernize.
After spending some time in the Earth Kingdom,
Katara and Sokka decided to visit their home
in the Southern Water tribe
for the first time since leaving to help Aang.
When they arrived, Katara and Sokka
were shocked to discover that their small village
was now a city with grand buildings,
a factory and restaurants.
Even so, the two happily reunited
with their family as the town's people fawned
over the arrival of local celebrities.
When the siblings asked about their father, Hakoda,
Katara was surprised to find out he was now head chieftain
of the entire Southern Water Tribe.
He had an entire building as his office.
Once inside, Katara and Sokka were introduced
to Malina and Maliq, siblings from the Northern Water Tribe,
who were managing the Southern Reconstruction Project.
Malina showed Katara the plans for an even more opulent palace
that was to become her father's new office
and she was shocked. She believed
it was way too fancy and extravagant.
While Sokka was in favor of the modernization
of their home, Katara was conflicted.
These changes reminded her
of how technology changed Yu Dao.
Later that night, a thief robbed and injured Malina at dinner.
Katara and Sokka sprung into action
and pursued the criminals.
They were eventually led to an abandoned ship,
where they discovered a secret hideout.
Once inside the ship, they encountered the Gilak,
an extremist who believed the Northern Water Tribe's influence
was destroying the traditions of the South.
He believed the reconstruction project
was a betrayal of the Southern Water Tribe culture.
Gilak ordered his supporters to capture Katara and Sokka,
but they managed to escape.
Despite disagreeing with his actions,
Katara couldn't help but agree with Gilak about one thing.
In her eyes, the South was starting to look
like a cheap imitation of the North.
Later on, Team Avatar was reunited.
Aang traveled to the South to meet up with Katara,
and Toph arrived to oversee
a potential business deal with Malina and Maliq.
Fire Lord Zuko and the Earth King
even showed up to help
with the Southern Reconstruction Project.
Pakku, now her step grandfather,
introduced Katara to the two new waterbenders
in the Southern Water Tribe who refused to waterbend.
She and Aang attempted to train them,
but they wouldn't bend.
Of course, it wasn't long
until the gang got into trouble again.
At a festival, Gilak's followers attacked in protest
of the Southern Reconstruction Project
and Katara witnessed her dad get stabbed by Gilak.
Katara managed to heal her father with waterbending,
but Gilak did not yield.
His supporters kidnapped the Earth King
and took him hostage.
With the help of metal chain mail suits
to prevent chi blocking,
the gang defeated Gilak at the Bridge of No Return.
Gilak refused to accept defeat
and tried to take everyone down with him.
This backfired and Gilak fell into the chasm.
Aang and Katara's quick bending helped save the others
from meeting the same fate as Gilak.
A while later, Katara and Sokka visited their mother's grave.
Katara earnestly admitted that she expected
everything would be as it was supposed to be
when she returned home. But she realized
that was not possible because things would never be
as they were supposed to be without her mother present.
At her mother's grave, Katara explained
to the young waterbenders that her mother died to protect
the waterbending traditions of the Southern Water Tribe,
and that they should honor her legacy
by learning the skill.
The two agreed and showed off their talents
in an artistic display of waterbending.
Two years after the end of the war,
Katara, Toph, Aang and Sokka went to visit the small town
surrounding Earthen Fire Refinery.
They were shocked to see it had grown into a large city
that was now known as Cranefish Town.
The city had expanded so much,
the gang barely even recognized it.
Later that night, Katara, Aang, Sokka
and Toph were awakened when benders attacked
the refinery causing it to explode.
Toph only managed to survive,
thanks to some quick metalbending.
But now the gang found themselves
in the middle of a turf war
fueled by a bender supremacy movement.
Katara and the rest of the team launched an investigation
to nab the perpetrators behind the refinery explosion.
After recognizing the footsteps of the criminals,
Toph suspected a businesswoman, named Liling and her daughters.
The team disguised themselves
and attended a secret bending supremacist rally
to gain further evidence.
When Toph lost her temper, their cover was blown
and a fight ensued, resulting in Liling being captured.
When Toph suggested Aang take away Liling's bending,
Katara vehemently disagreed.
She reminded Toph that Aang had only taken
one person's bending away and that that person
was a threat to the entire world.
Katara believed that removing a person's bending
was no different than removing a part of them.
Aang, loyal to his Air Nomad roots,
was committed to a nonviolent solution.
Katara reminded him that taking away
someone's bending may seem nonviolent,
but in actuality, it is violent to destroy a piece
of someone's identity.
While Aang contemplated what to do, Liling escaped.
Katara, Aang, Sokka, Suki and Toph prepared to stand off
against Liling and her supporters.
Another fight ensued and Liling was captured.
Enraged Aang entered the Avatar State
and was prepared to take Liling's bending away.
That is until Katara stepped in
to remind him to consider the reason behind his decision.
She claimed that the easiest solution
might not always be the correct one.
Ultimately, Katara's influence saved Liling's bending
and she was taken into custody
by Cranefish Town's newly created police force.
Aang and Katara felt that the issues
in Cranefish Town were far from resolved
and decided to stay.
Their leadership and influence would help it
to eventually become Republic City.
In the years that followed,
Katara and Aang got married and had three children;
Bumi, a nonbender,
who was named for Aang's friend, King Bumi;
Kya, a waterbender who was named
after Katara's mother;
and Tenzin was an airbender like his father, Aang.
Spending 100 years frozen in an iceberg drained much
of Aang's life energy. He felt his body breaking down
and sensed his life was coming to an end.
Before his death, he tasked the White Lotus
with the duty of finding and training the next Avatar.
At the young age of 66, Aang passed away,
and the Avatar Cycle continued.
Aang was reincarnated into Korra.
I'm the Avatar! You gotta deal with it!
And so Katara became a waterbending teacher
to yet another Avatar.
During one of Katara and Korra's early training sessions,
Katara explained that waterbending
was all about slow and calm movements.
Korra disregarded this
and eagerly copied the elder's movements,
resulting in Katara being buried in a large pile of snow.
When Korra's mother apologized, Katara was in a bash
and claimed she had faced far more dangerous waterbenders.
And a young Avatar testing out strength
was nothing to apologize for.
One day when a young Korra went missing,
Katara joined her parents to search for her.
They found Korra safe with a polar bear pup
that the Avatar wanted to keep.
Korra's parents were hesitant,
but Katara convinced them to let Korra keep Naga,
noting that all past Avatars had an animal guide.
Katara continued to be a mentor to Korra
throughout her journey as Avatar.
Relax, I'm a healer.
I learned from Katara, the best there is.
No, no, no, no. Ooh. That's the stuff.
Korra became a skilled healer under Katara's instruction,
and Katara continued to supervise all aspects
of her training
and proclaimed Korra was ready to continue
her training with airbending.
She's strong.
Do you believe she's ready, Master Katara?
Yes.
Katara was confident in her son, Tenzin's abilities
and believed Korra would be able to learn from him.
Later, when Korra's airbending training was delayed,
Katara caught her sneaking out at night
to travel to Republic City.
I have to leave.
I have to find my own path as the Avatar.
I know you do.
Katara gave Korra her blessing to leave.
By this point, Katara became a grandmother.
Tenzin and Pema had four children of their own,
who all turned out to be airbenders
like their father and grandfather.
Hello, Mother.
I can't tell you how happy I am to see you.
Please help me.
[laughing]
Unhand me, strange woman.
That's your grandmother, Meelo.
It's so good to see all of you.
Katara was not only a trusted mentor to Korra,
but also a world renowned healer.
When Amon took Korra's bending away,
Katara was entrusted with the task of healing her.
I've tried everything in my power,
but I cannot restore Korra's bending.
When Jinora's spiritless body was brought to Katara to heal...
You're the only one who can help her now, Mom.
...she laid her in a pool of water to assess the situation
with her waterbending and helped maintain
Jinora's health so that her spirit
would have a place to return to.
After Korra was poisoned by the Red Lotus,
she sought out Katara to help her heal the damage
that it caused.
I'm tired, Katara. I'm so tired.
Korra, I know you feel alone right now,
but you're not the first Avatar
who's had to overcome great suffering.
Can you imagine how much pain Aang felt when he learned
that his entire culture was taken from him?
But he never let it destroy his spirit.
He chose to find meaning in his suffering
and eventually found peace.
Katara helped guide the young Avatar
to take her first step since being poisoned
and continued to help her heal over the next two years.
Katara's legacy spans generations.
She helped take down Fire Lord Ozai.
She trained not one but two Avatars,
and she became a world renowned healer.
She fought to have bloodbending outlawed in the United Republic,
revived the ancient art
of Southern Water Tribe waterbending,
and helped Aang rebuild the Air Nation.
After all, without Katara,
Aang might have never been freed from the iceberg.
And the Avatar Universe as we know it,
would cease to exist.
But what do you think?
Is Katara the best waterbender in the Avatar Universe?
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