The Legend of Korra/Recap/B1/E01 Welcome to Republic City: Difference between revisions

 

* [[Age Cut]]: Four-year-old Korra affects an intense expression as she [[Playing With Fire|Firebends]] directly into the camera, obscuring the scene with a burst of flame, which seventeen-year-old Korra then disperses, wearing a matching expression.

{{quote| '''Tenzin:''' *as his son gums his head* ''Yes,'' Ikki. As I've been telling you for the last fifteen minutes, We are. ''Finally.'' Here.}}

* [[Arrested for Heroism]]: Sure, she may have beat up the thugs, but she also destroyed three shops, a street, and disrupted traffic all over the city.

* [[Big Entrance]]: Korra when she first meets the members of the White Lotus.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Tenzin and his family live on [http://www.lastairbenderfans.com/cutenews/data/upimages/air-temple-island.jpg Air Temple Island], a sanctuary on an island in the city's bay.

{{quote| '''Hobo''': Took me a while to procure a bush that beauteous. [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eg3hhREq1r1nmpao1_500.gif *bush sparkles*]}}

* [[Building Swing]]: The Republic City Police perform this to debark from their patrol zeppelin, via metalbending [[Retractable Weapon]] [[Variable Length Chain|cables]] dispensed from [[Grappling Hook Pistol|wrist-mountings]] on their uniforms.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Korra absolutely spanks the Triple Threat Triad members.

* [[Destructive Savior]]: Korra ends up destroying more property than the gang members she caught. Pointed out by the Metalbending Police when they try to arrest her.

* [[Effortless Amazonian Lift]]: While hugging Tenzin, Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo, Korra manages to effortlessly lift them off the ground. Not individually -- ''all at once.''

* [[Electric Slide]]: The metal-bending police use this to easily chase criminals on the run.

* [[Eye Am Watching You]]: Captain Bei Fong gives this to Korra, index and pinky pointed to her eyes, then Korra. Korra gives one heck of a stink face before throwing the gesture right back to the Captain.

* [[Fandom Nod]]:

'''Katara:''' "Well, Jinora, it's an incredible tale-"<br />

'''Ikki:''' "[[Trolling Creator|Gran Gran, you look old. How old ARE you? Why is it so cold in the South Pole? Can we sit around a fire and play games and make snowmen? And then could you make the snowman move with waterbending and chase us? Wouldn't that be fuuuun?]]"<br />

* [[Lame Comeback]]: Korra is not that good with the verbal wit.

{{quote| '''Protestor:''' Benders like this girl only use their power to oppress us!<br />

'''Protestor:''' That didn't even make sense! }}

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: See [[Fandom Nod]] above.

* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: See [[Fandom Nod]] above. As Katara begins her story, dramatic music starts in the background, only for it to abruptly stop when Ikki interrupts.

* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Our heroine doesn't quite fit into the big city.

* [[Not Helping Your Case]]: With a small side order of [[Unwitting Pawn]]. When Korra tries to argue against the Equalist protestor, he easily manipulates her confrontational attitude to make her look like the bad guy. Not that it took much manipulation on his part.

* [[Our Founder]]: Republic City has a massive, [[Big Applesauce|Statue Of Liberty-esque]] monument to Aang, one of the city's co-founders.

** Toph has a statue seemingly made of ''gold'' at Police Headquarters.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: While not overly [[Good Is Not Nice|friendly]], the metal benders in Republic City come across this way. When Korra starts a street fight with a gang, they promptly arrest the thugs, but also arrest Korra for "destruction of private and city property, not to mention evading arrest."

* [[Roaring Twenties]]: The technology, speech mannerisms and culture is evocative of the real-life 1920's.

* [[Small Secluded World]]: Upon learning that Korra was the Avatar, the Order of the White Lotus set up a large compound in the Southern Water Tribe for her to live in, to fulfill the promise they made to Aang to protect his reincarnation. There, Korra underwent her Avatar training, under constant watch from the Order. She was allowed to leave, but only with supervision and as long as she did not go outside the South Pole. Korra ended up running away in order to get to Republic City.

* [[Steampunk]]: Seems to have been an influence on the work, particularly the aesthetic. However, the source of power for the technology does not appear to be steam or [[Clock Punk|clockwork]].