> My face.

>>77621
>LEGEND OF KORRA

>>77626
Well, the next Avatar is a waterbender.

I was also just assuming it would also be human... Crap! Mike and Bryan's association with M. Night has infected them with "Tweest" !?!?

Let me just say right now that yeah right I'll believe it when I see it. But if it's true, I hope it's set centuries after/before TLA or in a completely different setting. Cause messing with or adding to the original canon will cause a fanwank supernova and I don't want them to make gaang jr an impossibility with canon.

>>77623

>mine

Awesooome!

*fa-shwing pose!*

I've been crossing my fingers that any new series would centre around the next Avatar decades down the line, and that it would be a Water Tribe girl. 'Korra' sounds very promising.

Also noticed, it ties very neatly with the last series' 'international' title used in the UK and elsewhere (Avatar: The Legend of Aang). It gives the franchise a lot of scope for renewal, since every few years they could introduce a new Avatar with the subtitle 'The Legend of {insert name here}.'

Also, how confident are we that this is a new full series? I guess they wouldn't go to the trouble of changing the subtitle if it's just a special, and it makes more sense considering it's been exactly five years since the last series premiered, tying into the old five-year franchise cycle for introducing new and rebooted franchises to a fresh batch of viewers.

I'm hoping Bryke will use the experience of the last series to iron out all the creases and avoid old mistakes, now they know how to 'do' epic television. This is exciting. I'm excited. Aren't you excited?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korra

>Korra is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Reaction A: Goddamnit, a spinoff, we worked so hard and left so many things open in the original series, we never found out what happened to Ursa or what the other characters went off to do, why c-

Reaction B: OH SHIT OH FUCK OH CUNTS MORE AVATAR MY ECSTATIC-METER IS OFF THE SCALE AND SLIGHTLY OFF THE CHAIN.

Did not expect to wake up with such a huge knowledge-bomb being dropped on me. GO INTERNET

Filing for trademark on a title doesn't mean anything.

The trademark for "Alice" belonged to Fox for American McGee's adaptation. How did that turn out?

>AVATAR: LEGEND OF KORRA

To be ironically named Avatar: The Last Firebender in the UK.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3488781/
From a child actor/VA's twitter:

>DJSauceda: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3488781/ Going to Audition for Avatar the Legend of Korra on nickeloden voice of Meelo wish me luck

>(12 May 2010 9:37 AM, PDT )

>AVATAR: LEGEND OF KORRA

Awesome and fascinating. Obviously a new hero or place.

Now to obsessively catalogue each crumb of information so I can start writing shipping and alternate universe fan-fics again.

Like I'm the only one who thought that

>>77645
On a related note, by which I mean if you remove one of the R's and make it Kora.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora

>Kora (instrument), a stringed musical instrument of West African origin
>Kora (pilgrimage), a type of pilgrimage in the Buddhist tradition
>Kora (tribe), another name for the Banjara, a tribe of central India
>Kora (sword), a type of sword from Nepal
>Persephone, a Greek goddess also called Core or Cora

Conclsion: The series will either be set in Tibet, Africa, India, or Greece.
I kid I kid

I love this new pic.

But yeah. I'm looking forward to this. I just hope the title stays like that internationally. It got rather confusing explaining shite to people across the pond.

...Still. Glad they're going forward with it. As long as I'm in Ireland when they premiere it, all will be good.
...I love them Irish dubs.

Awesome, but I still want loose ends tied up from the old show.

>>77661

Catarata in Spanish is "waterfall." I recall reading that's where they derived it from.

>>77664
...I thought it was "Cascada."

>>77677
And Cadance

>>77664

It's the same word and meaning in portuguese.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:n5l60c.2.1
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:n5l60c.3.2
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:n5l60c.3.3

>IC 028. US 022 023 038 050. G & S: GAMES AND PLAYTHINGS, NAMELY, CARD GAMES, PLAYING CARDS, DARTS, DOLLS; ACTION FIGURES AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF; STAND ALONE VIDEO GAME MACHINES UTILIZING CD ROM'S, STAND ALONE VIDEO GAME MACHINES, STAND ALONE AUDIO OUTPUT GAME MACHINES, AND BOARD GAMES; SPORTING ARTICLES, NAMELY, GOLF CLUBS, BASEBALLS, FOOTBALLS, PADDLE BALLS, BASEBALL BATS; DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS TREES

FUCK YEAR GOLF CLUBS AND CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS :3

Oh man, I hope lightning can strike twice. If this could be as good as the original....shiiiiit.

>>77697
Think about it...
...it could even be better.

>>77700

SHHHHH DON'T JINX IT

>>77700
>>77703

TOO LATE, NOW IT'S BEAST MACHINES.

They should have Tyzula just to see how the parents react.

>>77689
I keep getting an error every time I try to view these. ;_;

>>77707
RUN FOR YOUR WIVES, IT'S A LESBIAN!

Hopes for the best...

>>77704
NOOOOO-Hey wait, I enjoyed that series!

>>77707
I'd laugh if they had subtle hints/jokes about it

>>77689
Could you hand me the Aang iron?

>>77647
This. Exactly this. I'm so emotionally attached to the existing characters that the idea of new ones makes me feel... somewhat dirty.

>>77713

if they did, i'd rather it be not-so-subtle because i always figured azula telling mai that ty lee needed help untangling her braid was a subtle joke about it.

>>77653

> To be ironically named Avatar: The Last Firebender in the UK.

The Last Firebender, you say?

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4586900/1/Avatar_Last_Firebender

But, on a more serious note, if Korra is the next avatar, there's no way she (I'm assuming the gender here) could be a Kataang spawn. The next avatar is born right after/soon after (weeks, I think I heard somewhere) the last one dies. So, unless they do something silly and make her one of their (great?) grandchildren, they SHOULD be unrelated.

Ooh, and if this is in the future, I'd love to see how the Air Nomads are coming back. This should hopefully involve lots of Kataang spawning (lol), but I don't think they're going to be able to have anything like the old Air Nomad culture at all. There's just no way to have that kind of society, especially since any new airbenders are going to have significant Water Tribe, and likely other nation as well, ancestry for a very long time to come. Perhaps they'll truly take up their title of being nomads and not have any real home like the temples for a good many generations. Then it would be pretty common to see some in any town you might go to.

I'm really mostly wondering right now if it will be simply the next avatar which, given their long lifespans, will be on the order of one to a few hundred years in the future, OR if it will be some distant future avatar perhaps as far as one to several full avatar cycles in the future.

I highly doubt they'll be going backwards in time for this series, unless it's WAY back to around (or perhaps about?) the first avatar, like the times the Lion Turtle spoke of. THAT in itself would be very interesting.

>>77721
> involve lots of Kataang spawning
Ahem, see pic.

But yeah, I hope the Air benders are back in some way or another either as Nomads or maybe even a small settlement somewhere.

>>77721
Bending doesn't have anything to do with Ancestry or Genetics. They've gone to lengths to stress that. It's a more spiritual matter.

Part of the reason why benders gain their talents is by lifestyle, it's why virtually all the air nomads were Air Benders, because they lived an ascetic lifestyle.

>>77731
I thought spirituality determined if you were a bender or not at all while genetics/ethnicity/nationality decided which element you could use.

>>77731
> The proof for a genetic factor is in the Sozin's Comet book interview.

Sadly it wasn't in the show, so it's all invalid at the end of the day.

I wonder if Nicktoons Network having a series of several Avatar marathons in the next couple of weeks is because of this or just the movie.

>>77736
I think Nicktoons has always had Avatar marathons at regular intervals. I'm watching it now, and if it were for the movie I'd be expecting some movie advertising with it.

Bending's at least partially genetic. Something I read once said that if Aang and Katara would have kids, their child would be an Airbender, a Waterbender, or neither, so your ancestry and nationality go towards bending just a little. That said, there are cases like the twins in Aung Wu's village, where one twin was a bender and the other was not. At the same time, the people in the Northern Air Temple had only been there for a few years, at least since Teo lost the ability to walk in the flood that destroyed his village. Maybe the Mechanist and his people weren't Airbenders, but maybe after a while, they might start giving birth to them if they keep the whole Spirit of Air thing up for a generation or three.

Most avatars learn the other elements when they're older right? Like young adult-ish? The only reason why Aang didn't was because of the impending war.

Is it too crazy to hope that this Avatar will be older than Aang when he started learning? Yeah, I'm guessing it is, but I shall still hope :c

Also... what would be the BIG BAD in this series? Please not be one element trying to take over the world again, I'm tired of that. And it would be totally redundant after the last series. I think Korra's quest to find an Airbending master would be interesting.

Maybe the new airbenders really are nomads, only rumors really that the new gaang (Korralition? oh god, lol), and they have to stay that way because of Fire Nation supremacists that are so stuck in the old ways they've taken it upon themselves to hunt the nomads down...?

>>77740

It's me. I will be the big bad of this series.

>>77743
>>77742
You're both wrong. It's this guy.

>>77740
>new big bad

Well, if this series isn't going to be set during a war like the original was it will probably less along national lines and could be someone who's trying to keep their shenanigans a secret.

>>77722

What? As I assumed correctly, and as shown by:
>>77731
>>77732
>>77735
>>777382

Bending ability is a combination of genetic potential and spiritual catalyst. Accordingly, basically ALL airbenders in the future will need to be at least distantly related to Aang, which would happen best if he at least has a decent number of children, not necessarily *count count count* 14 kids. Unless, as >>77738 Sharkman pointed out, the new residents of the NAT begin to slowly acquire the needed "airbendery-ness" over many generations. After all, I'm imagining that something similar happened at the "beginning of time" when each of the bending arts were discovered.

So, two happy thoughts, to me at least. One is that Korra is the next avatar after Aang, or at least one before the cycle returns to air (possibly fire?), and must track down the flighty actually nomadic airbenders to learn Air. Fire would be nice since the need to go traveling to find them immediately since air is next after fire, would be a decent excuse to go roamin', and possibly get quest hooked.

Two would be that this is one or more full avatar cycles in the future, and either Korra still needs to go find the airbenders, or she is able to go to the now (ironically) more firmly rooted possibly now airbending settlement at the Norther Air Temple, and we get to see their new awesome combination airbending/natural gas/steam powered society on a mountain. Yay for steam punk airbenders!

You guys are forgetting something...

Air bisons and dragons--they're virtually extinct, unless a few herds managed to find a place to hide (beyond the 2 dragons we get to see) over the last century.

Without the original teachers, things get a little harder. The Fire Nation managed to train a few generations through a flawed methodology that may have very well kept benders from reaching their full potential, but without the real masters to observe, any training will tend to degrade over the years.

What if there's no bending at all in the new series, excepting for any bending Korra could do in Avatar State?

>>77754

I would be a sad puppy. It's dramatically a worthwhile angle, but eh, it robs the show of a lot of its visual and action-oriented appeal.

>>77760
>They were filthy traitors
Traitors to who?

>>77764

Their village got hit by a fucking flood, they had nowhere to go and if the Mechanist hadn't gone along with War Master Qin at the time (I stress that it was just him, by the way,) the Fire Nation would have just burned it to the ground, it's not like they didn't know the location of the temple, or that they were there.

And in the end, the things they were able to pull off at all were possible because of him, so I think being the facilitator of one of the Earth Kingdom's boldest offenses against the Fire Nation makes up for designing a few things.

>>77769

He also designed the submarines/troop transports, and tanks that made the invasion possible at all, which might be counted as the best innovation for the Water Tribes and Earth Kingdom. If it wasn't for cunning and sheer, balls-out, luck Azula had with her infiltration, it presumably would have won the war.

>>77769 >>77760
You're kind of disgusting.

>>77780

Jet, go back to being dead bed.

No, seriously, The Mechanist isn't a man with nothing to lose, he isn't Yinsen. most normal people wouldn't get their son, and only family, along with any friend, aquaintace and stranger from their town killed, all for the sake of nationalism. Anybody who would is a sociopath or extremist, anybody who says the Mechanist should have knows nothing of (and cares nothing for) human nature.

That, or you're a dictator.

(Edit: Corrected a few lines.)

From what we know so far:

-It could be a sequel or a prequel. So Korra may be a waterbender or not.
-It will be set in a different timeline or maybe in a different world.
-There's a character named Meelo who is a child.
-The main character is named Korra but we don't know if it's a boy or a girl.

Do we know next to nothing about it.

It could be a sci-fi thing where benders bend gravity, electricity, magnetism and light or whatever. With Chinese-inspired spaceships as in Outlaw Star. Or it could be a totally canon prequel set centuries before Aang so Airbenders are still there. This new show could be anything. So I'll refrain from getting my hopes any high and making any conjectures until any solid information is revealed.

>>77791

I would actually love it to be a prequel. And weirdly, I'd also love to see an airbending villain. Because when you think about it, airbenders can do some scary shit.

>>77794
>Air-bending villain
THIS. I would love that SO much. We already know the other three elements can have evil benders who do bad things, but the Air Nomads are always depicted as the poor little nomads all peace-loving and boo on fire nation for destroying them because they only wanted to live in harmony~

I want a master bender who has deflected from the air nomad norm.

I've often thought about this. They could literally suck the air out of your lungs and collapse them internally.

Still, a waterbending villain could probably do the most disgusting/horrific things to a human body. The blood-bending we saw in the series was super-tame. They could make your heart freeze and burst, among other things.

...Come to think of it, it's a damn good thing the Water Tribes didn't want to take over the world, because they totally could have. In a realistic, non-kiddy version of the series, the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom would be as severe disadvantages when it comes to warfare, for the simple fact that earth and fire do not exist naturally in a human body.

A master bender like Pakku or Katara could wipe out an entire army just by sucking the blood out of them.

>>77800
Way ot give them abilities they specifically don't have in canon, dumbass.

It's likely something to do with chi/chakras and the like that they cannot affect the water in a persons body except when using blood bending which requires being boosted by the moon.

>>77801 Who pissed in your cornflakes?

>>77800
>...Come to think of it, it's a damn good thing the Water Tribes didn't want to take over the world, because they totally could have. In a realistic, non-kiddy version of the series, the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom would be as severe disadvantages when it comes to warfare, for the simple fact that earth and fire do not exist naturally in a human body.

>A master bender like Pakku or Katara could wipe out an entire army just by sucking the blood out of them.

I'm sort of doubtful that it would make them that much stronger, considering that bending water in someone's else body is apparently much harder than bending water elsewhere. Katara never even removed water from more than one tree at once and both her and Hama needed the full moon to control the water in people's bodies. That seems needlessly complicated compared to quickly encasing someone in a block of ice, slashing them open with a super-sharp water blade, or impaling them with an icicle.

For that matter the whole "suck the air out of you lungs" thing probably wouldn't be especially effective given how close you needed to be to use it. Benders can't just control their elemental no matter where it is, whatever their doing needs to be close enough or big enough to associate with their own body movements. If it didn't work that way firebenders could just make anyone they see burst into flames instantly (maybe even from the inside out) instead of needing to launch fire as a projectile.

>>77803

There's not an obvious means of auto-igniting people. Cases of so-called spontaneous human combustion require VERY specific circumstances for it to work.

I don't think they're viable techniques for the average bender, but there's the possibility that a master bender could find a way. Also, there's quite a bit of air pressure keeping our lungs all puffy.

And even if the auto-kills are not viable, well, we've only scratched the surface of airbending. Tornados, hurricanes, maybe soundbending, explosive waves of super-compressed air, etc.

Perhaps the airbending villain could be some sort of fanatic about the 'balance', somewhat reminiscent of what could've happened if Aang had started killing people, without actually BEING Aang.

>>77760
>>77769
>>77780
Oh hai thar, Long Feng O'Dai Li.

>>77794
>>77798
Not fond of the whole idea, personally. I guess it could be interesting, but meh. At least it's not as bad as all the idiots suggesting an evil Avatar. I just want to see more Airbenders in general since we saw so little of them in the show, besides Aang.

>>77744
Hm....

Breast Fire/Breast Burn/Fire Blaster= Firebending from your chest.
Rust Hurricane/Great Typhoon/Rust Tornado= Airbending just hydrogen, bringing on embrittlement?
Photon Beam= Pure chi from the eyes?
Rocket Punch/Atomic Punch/Turbo Smasher Punch= The Dai Li's gloves. 'nuff said.
Jet Scrander= Propeller-driven glider
Scramble Dash= Folding backpack glider
God Scrander= Metal glider that transforms around user into a fist.

Korra is a continent on the other side of the world which is based on Dark Ages/Late Roman europe.

>>78220

That would be lame.

>>78221
You would be lame.

Also vikings

So let me get this straight. You can fly from the north pole to the south pole but you're missing an entire continent?

They should just go the final fantasy route and say "Lol! Parallel world!"

Make three seasons, get three more reboot movies.

>>78231
Why must you crush my ideas with logic?

Anyone else wonder what Airbenders could do with sub elements. Earthbending had Metalbending, Waterbending had Bloodbending and Firebending had Lightningbending. But I don't remember Airbending having any sub element.

>>78311

Soundbending?

>>78315
Voice throwing?

>>78330

Sound is essentially waves through air, I don't see why an airbender couldn't control that. Do stuff like Banshee's sonic scream, or nullify sound in a certain area.

>>78311
Vacuumbending?

>>78315

From DongbuFeng.net

"Jake here, with some news that I would say will be pretty big in the Avatar universe.

I can exclusively confirm there is a new series in development at Nickelodeon that involves the Avatar world. My source says the series takes place 100 years in the future, but did not specify if it was an actual series, or perhaps a miniseries.

"Avatar: The Last Airbender" creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are, of course, creating and producing the new series. No word on how much of the original Avatar staff will return, but I know the crew will not be back in its entirety.

Is it "Legend of Korra"? Your guess is as good as mine, as I wasn't able to confirm that. So, we'll have to wait on details from that."

The only new thing I got from this is the 100 years in the future thing.

>>79044

FFFF DON'T KNOW IF WANT

I'm not totally ready to let go of the characters we traveled with, but I also trust Bryke.

>>78541

Aww, I like that character design. Kind of a shame it was just on a spinoff cardgame.

>>79044
But.... a hundred years? That means Aang could still be alive!

>>79045
>>79054
I really, really, really don't want to let go of the characters either. But I can't see it happening any other way. Firstly, The Gaang's epic story is over. However much we desperately want more of them, it would feel like a retread. Furthermore I'm not sure I'd trust anyone, even Bryke, to come up with anything that can threaten Aang now without breaking the setting. Secondly, Nickelodeon is a kids channel, so they're going to demand a kid hero. Any continuance of the Gaangs story would have to increasingly focus on politics and dynastic succession, so unless Nickelodeon decides to sell the property to, say, the BBC, we'll have to make do with continuance fan-fic until someone has the good sense to authorize a novelisation. Or a spin-off; I, Zuko anyone?

>>79044

Excellent news! Like I said above, I was hoping for a timeskip spinoff, and it looks like the creators are doing their best to keep the Avatar concept fresh. It allows us to become newly acquainted with a unique cast of characters without the old series overshadowing them, giving them room to breath and become their own entity.

Besides, if we want to see the old characters in a mentor role, as the first series proved 100 years is no obstacle. Imagine Sokka taking up the same role as Bumi. He'd fit like a glove and you'd know it.

Bending's at least partially genetic. Something I read once said that if Aang and Katara would have kids, their child would be an Airbender, a Waterbender, or neither, so your ancestry and nationality go towards bending just a little. That said, there are cases like the twins in Aung Wu's village, where one twin was a bender and the other was not. At the same time, the people in the Northern Air Temple had only been there for a few years, at least since Teo lost the ability to walk in the flood that destroyed his village. Maybe the Mechanist and his people weren't Airbenders, but maybe after a while, they might start giving birth to them if they keep the whole Spirit of Air thing up for a generation or three.

>>79054
unless he's back stabbed by a friend again.
I never trusted Toph.

>>79044
>100 years in the future

Hang on. A full century after the fire nation successfully harnessed the power of steam locomotion and dirigible aviation? Not to mention the mechanist's success with pilotable kites and submersibles?

You have to wonder what the technology level is going to be like. Yes Im hoping for a steampunk cartoon, but I don't dare say it too loudly

>>79161

Personally, I m hoping the tech level will be the same or perhaps even slightly reversed, as then I can be proven right about the Avatar needing to die, and be content with that.

>>79161

Then I will for you STEAMPUNK AVATAR FOR THE WIN!! Who says technology is incompatable with the whole Bending/Spirits thing? It is the polluting and warmongering that is more unbalancing than any application of something.

Yes, the Mechanist's settlement at the NAT could well be the core of the Airbenders by that point.

>>79161
Except didn't the creators confirm that Zuko had all of that technology destroyed in a good-will gesture to the rest of the world?

inb4 why is the Avatar considered good again argument...

>>79179
It wasn't the creators. The idea of having all the air ships destroyed as peace gesture comes from Johanne Mate's non-canon fan story "Zhao of the Water Tribe" which can be found on her deviant art account.
rufftoon.deviantart.com

>>79180
Can't see that working too well. The plans and concepts are probably too well spread.

>>79450
the Ideas are already out there. and once progress has started it's very hard to stop.

This is going to be Beast Machines to ATLA's Beast Wars.

>>79649
And you're basing that on...

>>79653

Gut instinct.

"You're both wrong. It's this guy.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8709415#post8709415

This person is basically interpreting the copyright registration saying "featuring animation" to mean this is going to be live action. I don't know how accurate is, can someone who knows more about copyright weigh their opinion in?

>>79983
>A prop designer, which is not something I'd generally think an animated show would need,
I wouldn't trust this guy's interpretation after this line.

>>79983
Bitches don't know 'bout my rotoscoping.