Is Korra a Prodigy as an Avatar?
In Avatar: The Last Airbender because of the possibility of war with the Fire Nation Aang was told about his status as the Avatar at the age of 12, 4 years earlier than the traditional age of 16 by revealing the connection between his choice of the 4 toys he selected as a child. Obviously this means at Age 16 an Avatar begin their formal training to master the other 3 elements.
In Avatar: The Legend of Korra the Order of the White Lotus discovered the next Avatar after the death of Aang in the Southern Water Tribe but unlike Aang the discovery wasn't made by the selection of 4 toys, rather Korra, being a pot-belly a 4 Year old water bender demonstrating not only Water Bending but Earth and Fire Bending.
Sure she may haven't mastered Water, Earth or Fire bending but Aang was only Air Bending up until he was 12 (+100 years of him being frozen) until he began to travel with Katara and Sokka. Does this make Korra a prodigy as an Avatar being able to bend other elements at 4 years old?
Best Answer
Depends on how you measure being a prodigy
There are four Avatars that viewers have seen learn the four elements: Wan, Roku, Aang, and Korra. Unfortunately, this gives us a small sample size.
Wan was the first Avatar and didn't become so until later in life. Given that he's the only one who wasn't the Avatar from birth, I don't think it's really fair to compare him to the other Avatars.
As for the remaining Avatars:
- Roku
- Knew he was the Avatar at age 16
- Mastered the elements several years later
- Aang
- Knew he was the Avatar at age 12
- Mastered the elements in about a year (not counting his hundred years in ice)
- Korra
- Knew she was the Avatar at age 4
- Mastered the elements when she was 17
Korra knew that she was the Avatar at the earliest age of these three because she could bend three out of four elements. On the contrary, Aang and Roku were completely unable to bend the other elements when they were told they were the Avatar.
However, Korra also spent far more time training than either Aang or Roku, and she was completely unable to do any sort of Airbending during that time. So it took much longer for her to get to the same end point as the previous two Avatars.
So is Kora a prodigy? I think I'd be more likely to call her an "early bloomer" and Aang the prodigy for mastering all the elements so quickly (and discovering a previously unknown type of bending: energybending).
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Why do people think Korra is stronger than Aang?
Reasons Korra is stronger than Aang Unlike Aang, Korra is shown to be able to break out of a bloodbender's control without going into the Avatar State. While Korra constantly struggled with her spiritual side in The Legend of Korra, she still showed remarkable strength with it.Is Aang a bending prodigy?
Aang isn't just a regular kid; he's a prodigy And he had already completely mastered one of the four elemental styles before entering the ice. Those tattoos all over his body signify his rank as a master of airbending, and in his own time, he was the only child to achieve that rank.How did Korra become Avatar?
With the assistance of Aang's spirit, Korra gained the ability to energybend and, after connecting with her past lives, she gained the capacity to enter the Avatar State at will, marking her transition into a fully realized Avatar.How strong is Korra?
Like Aang, Korra was a very powerful Avatar. She was a great fighter and exhibited talent for bending water, earth, and fire when she was only four years old. It took her a while to pick up airbending and enter the Avatar State, but she mastered both once she understood the spirituality involved.Korra I'm the Avatar
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