She wanted to listen to Zuko, even after he burnt her feet. Rather than enter a fight with the sandbenders, she realized her limits and made the choice of saving the Gaang. Maybe the tales of Ba Sing Se can be stuffed in here since Toph wasn't the one to attack the girls that made fun of her, but eh.
My point was, Korra doesn't really share that many traits with Toph. They're both action girls, yeah, but the very style of Toph's fighting is to react, unlike Korra. Basically, your comparison to Toph isn't what you thought it was.
It is EXTREMELY relevant to everything. Like. It's how Korra fits in her character's core to the tradition vs progression theme in the show. Think of one of the last things in A:TLA, it was said that the Avatar Spirit is born in a human in order for the spirit to be connected with people, in order to always know what the problems in the world were. A simple god figure isn't what the world needed.
Now, Korra is human, yes. But she's not like the previous Avatars, Aang lived for twelve years as an airbender. He learned to think as one, to live as one. Roku did the same for sixteen years, he was a proud fire nation man. Korra was the avatar at the age of six, rather than live as a water tribe girl she lived as the Avatar. Her foundation to how she saw life was unlike any other avatar, she is a new, progressive perhaps kind of Avatar. But that also comes with the disadvantage that she is not a water tribe girl, she isn't thinking like that, Aang was thinking like an air nomad during the series, previous Avatars thought like a person of their nation during their training while also learning of other nations, Korra... was kept in a camp, and now she's in the city.
Korra has been restricted, it doesn't matter that there are also water tribe people by the bucket, she never really was with them, unlike Aang who lived with his people for twelve years.
Plus, these are entirely new problems, this isn't "oh, this guy wants to conquer the world with war. Gotta kick his ass!" like previous Avatars, this is a problem that's brewing from a society that has existed for about 60 years or less.
The point i'm making is: Korra has an entirely new way of thinking and she has no true ties to the culture of her people because she was revealed as the Avatar, as such she doesn't know of lectures or history she cares about to fallback to, that leads to her 'irrational behavior'.
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| edmasterchaos wrote: | | What fights did Aang fail again? |
Have you not seen Avatar: The Last Airbender? Because if you have, then try not to act oblivious to the fights Aang has failed at. Oddly enough you're able to recall upon what you've stated above, but not the failed fights? I'll give you a clue to a really obvious one - he got shot by lightning to his back.
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As i mentioned above, that fight was not so much Aang failing as it was Azula winning. Yes, i know, i sound like a wanna-be intellectual when saying that, but it's true. That wasn't some BS shonen anime fight where a character could be struck in the back by hell's fire but be ok because his power up was untouchable and gave him time to dodge 'faster than the eye can see' This was Aang doing everything right, pulling off some mighty will power and simply being outdone by a perfectly strategic Azula.
Azula lost, but Aang couldn't have defended himself from it.
My point here is that: Aang may have failed a few fights, but not that many. He was a competent fighter.
