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For theories about other subjects, see [[The Legend of Korra
== There will be a hidden Airbending culture ==
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* Although there is argument for both sides, I doubt it. Having guns would continue the creator's habit of introducing nuanced, mature subjects. It would also be consistent with the probable theme of technological advancement. Lastly, it is a good way to even the odds between benders and common non-benders, although low-level earthbenders would obviously have it easier than low-level airbenders. That said, guns would be more difficult to pull off. American cartoons are bound to certain expectations, far more so than Japanese ones. I seriously doubt we'd see anyone killed or crippled onscreen by gunfire. Because of that, it would be very easy for the gun-wielding bad guys to degenerate into [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]], which would make them nonthreatening. As much as I would like to see it, I don't think the creators would risk that when, in the original, there were several threatening nonbenders, although admittedly they were in the top three percent.
** One thing you have to remember is the style of gun that they would have had are very very very inaccurate. They were really only effective with massed soldiers and very short distances. It really wasn't until the late 1700's that very accurate guns cam, even then it took trained marksmen to be accurate over a dozen yards.
** Now that the show is actually out (I assume this guess was made before it aired), the setting has turned out to be a lot more 20's-like than was initially believed; considering the level of technology we've seen, something like a revolver or even a Tommy gun wouldn't seem too out of place.
== Despite the high technology, guns will ''not''' make an appearance ==
The creators want to keep the show kid friendly and know it would be too much of a [[Game Breaker]] in terms of story telling.
* Four words: ''[[Batman:
* Considering that the Republic City police force mainly uses Metalbending, guns wouldn't be as much of a [[Game Breaker]] as you'd think.
* Indeed, guns may not appear in any significant capacity, because any Metalbender could crush them into pieces of junk metal without effort. And since they make the bulk of the police force, any criminal relying on a firearm would be apprehended in a flash.
** Indeed, that may be ''why'' metalbenders are the police, and would account for why there aren't any guns. Even if they existed, if your weapon is easily destroyed by the police, chi-blocking techniques would be much more effective and therefore the weapon of choice for non-benders.
*** Might be confirmed since {{spoiler|the Equalists' [[Humongous Mecha]] are made of platinum, impractical armor against firearms but purified enough that metalbenders can't affect them. Courtesy of Hiroshi Sato.}}
** What does [[Batman:
== The Show will have some proto Cyber Punk elements ==
== Going with the gangster theory, the show will potentially involve [[Baccano
Hey, taking place in a 20's-esque setting. Although there is the potential of an [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive|overload of awesome]].
== The play performed by the Ember Island Players has gone on to become an all-time classic, with the original ending substituted for the actual ending of Aang beating Ozai. ==
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** A ''[[Musical Episode|musical]]'' on-ice version.
* No way. Fire Lord Zuko would ''never'' allow the play to leave Ember Island, let alone become a "national treasure of the Fire Nation."
** Yeah, but you've seen how many people go to those things, even if just because they're [[So Bad
** The troupe could have easily changed the show in order to look better in the eyes of their ruler. In Shakespearean times, playwrights sucked up to the royalty through their scripts all the time.
*** Given, however unless Zuko bans it or sets the playwrights on fire they may not realize how irritated he is over the whole thing. I can see him and/or Mai ''trying'' to set the record straight via official histories and memoirs if they have the time but....
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* That is not a new bending type, they could bend it in the original, it is waterbending.
** Aang and Katara shaped clouds to manipulate the fortuneteller, and Aang harvested a cloud for drinking water.
*** But maybe they could be airbenders...
** Katara ''specifically'' created steam as a cover on the ship at the beginning of the third season and Korra had no problem doing this in "The Revelation." It was already established in the original series that Waterbenders can bend ''all'' states of water though like [[Shock and Awe|powering plants with lightning generation]] it still could/has applications in an urban setting.
* If this is the case, I would be happy if there was one Steambender voiced by Richard Horvitz...
** I will second this if it's a Raz expy.
* There will be a guild of Firebenders and Waterbenders who are bound to create and improve steam-based technology. [[Magic:
== Iroh's Jasmine Dragon will be the new Starbucks. ==
Wouldn't it be funny to see people walking around Republic City drinking tea from Jasmine Dragon labeled paper cups?
* I support this
** ...I would buy from Irohbucks... (As long as
== The Fire Nation will be a rustbelt and declining power. ==
* All empires and superpowers eventually decline, for one reason or another. By Korra's era, the Fire Nation will no longer be a superpower. Why? Because the newly industrialized Earth Kingdom (and possible Water Tribes) will have a leg up on them when it comes to their infrastructure, being able to apply the best practices learned during the Fire Nation's industrialization to their own countries, as well as producing homegrown innovations in the means of production. The EK and WT also won't be saddled with the legacy of a hundred years of industrial civilization. Over time, this means that other countries will be able to out-compete the Fire Nation when it comes to producing things like textiles, cheap steel, and the other goods of an industrial society. While Zuko and his descendants will attempt to combat their nation's decline, lingering cultural chauvinism will prevent it from adopting 'foreign' ideas. Also, Fire Nation workers simply won't be able to compete with the sheer manpower supply in an industrializing Earth Kingdom; they'll work longer for cheaper because there's ten other Earth Kingdomers in line to take their job.
** This seems probable. The end of the war is most likely going to hit the Fire Nation hard, what with the reparations and recessions that accompany the end of war economies. While it's possible that they can bounce back from this (compare Japan after World War 2 to Japan today), they will have lost several of their advantages, as you said. Also, from what we've heard of the interquel comics, we know that there's another major Fire Nation conflict bad enough for Aang to get involved. Depending on what that conflict is (say, a [[Civil War]] against Zuko by Ozai sympathizers), that's most likely going to compound their problems.
*** I could see this being the case if the Fire Nation was still [[The Empire]], but seeing as it was Zuko and Aang that ''started'' [[The Republic]], this seems a lot less likely. The proliferation of Steampunk technology would have been a collaboration of the FN and the Mechanist's group, at least for the first few years. By the time time the EK could compete with them again, there would no more EK or FN, just the Republic. As for reparations, the leaders of all the nations were at that point on good terms with the Gaang, and seeing as Fire Lord Zuko was a member, I really don't see them going all Treaty of Versailles on the FN's Germany.
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== We will see the rise of new spirits. ==
There are already forest and nature spirits, and so machine and city spirits will arise, the city spirits' rapid expansion will clash with the nature spirits, forcing Korra to become more spiritual to mediate a compromise, meanwhile machine spirits will arise and will be prayed to similarly to the Adeptus Mechnaicus in [[Warhammer
* I kinda want to marry this idea.
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With the end of color-coded clothing, and the intermixing of peoples meaning eye/skin color aren't even useful as a rough indicator in Republic City of someone's elemental background, benders will start wearing tokens to show their alignment. This will take two forms. First, something like a colored scarf (''a la'' Mako's neck one and Bolin's waist one). Second, it might be a piece of jewelry, like a sun or moon necklace. But whatever the case, it'll be something worn on top of a regular outfit.
* May be a coincidence, but of the the three bender thugs Korra fights in the trailer and leaked footage two wear an article of clothing with their bending colors (the firebender and the earthbender) while the waterbender doesn't. It may be more of a status symbol than a legal thing, though I wouldn't doubt that benders have to be licensed to bend within city limits like having a driver's license. Korra may have to get three licenses for the bending arts she has mastered. with comic results.
** Let's expand on that further: maybe the bender license thing was introduced as an appeasement to the anti-benders. It sounds like something they'd want-being able to track of every bender in the city. In addition, bending in fights is illegal in certain parts of the city; bending in school gyms or special arenas or non-violent bending (healing with waterbending, building stuff with earthbending, lighting a match with firebending) would be alright but using bending to beat people up, like Korra did, is illegal. Of course, this does more harm than good since the benders are bound to resent it.
== There will be a countercultural element in the United Republic that mocks the traditional cultures of the Four Nations. ==
Alongside the bender/non-bender divide, there will be a conflict between the United Republic of Nations and the other four countries. Among the older generations, like Chief Beifong and Tenzin, the United Republic is a place that can be broken down into "tribes" that fall under the regular Four Nations. They'd see Mako as being a wayward son of the Fire Nation and Bolin as that to the Earth Kingdom. In contrast, the younger generations will simply see Mako and Bolin as citizens of the United Republic, and the fact that they bend is distinguishing in a way that whatever element they bend is not. As a rebellion against the "tribal" framework more traditionalist folks impose on them, Republic City's counterculture will purposefully adopt foreign elements as a way to mock them for being hollow symbols in a 'modern' era. For instance, a firebender might wear his hair in a Water Tribe wolf's tail, or a non-bender might wear clothes cut in the style of the Fire Lord. Some other countercultural types will take it a step further by doing such things as wearing their robes right over left and decorating with intentionally bad feng shui.
== The United Republic of Nations has begun taking the Avatar's job. ==
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== The pro-bending championship is fixed. ==
In crime-ridden Republic City, organized crime just has too much money at stake when it comes to the big pro-bender championship. So the high-end matches are fixed; sometimes outright, sometimes just for the point spread. Except now that the Avatar is involved with a team aiming for the top, asking the Fire Ferrets to play along nicely isn't really an option, so the squeeze is gonna be put on Bolin or Mako to stay silent and comply with the mob's orders lest the other brother get hurt.
* Well, {{spoiler|the Wolf Bats were allowed to get way with blatant cheating in episode 6. It's quite possible. However no-one's threatened the Fire Ferrets}}...yet.
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== Mixed marriages are not as common as we've been led to believe. ==
Tenzin, the son of a Air Nomad father and a Water Tribeswoman mother, married a woman of an unknown ethnicity and [[Sibling Yin
* We aren't even sure that Mako and Bolin are the product of a mixed marriage, they could just as easily be half-brothers.
** "Half-brothers" means they still share a mother or share a father, which would still make one of them biracial. I think the word you are looking for is step-brothers. And I disagree because its [[The Law of Conservation of Detail|too much detail for such a trivial point]], unless its going to be plot-relevant. Also, Bolin and Mako's biracial heritage represents the cosmopolitan nature of the city. Why make that detail, then erase it later?
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== The gangs of the city stem from varying post-war attitudes. ==
We've got the Agni Kais, the Red Monsoons, and the Triple Threat Triad. To go in reverse order, the Triple Threats are (as we know) made up of allied earth, water, and fire benders. Clearly, then, the founding firebender didn't have any issues with fraternizing with people from other nations, and would have likely been considered a sympathizer by the Fire Nation during the war. The Red Monsoons is a step away, being allies of water and fire benders. The founders, for some reason, didn't like earthbenders. The one with the biggest red flag are the Agni Kais. Just from their name, it's pretty obvious that they're some sort of Fire Nation nationalist or supremacist group.
The other gangs, then, would be varying mixes of earthbenders and waterbenders.
== The Equalists will create their own monster. ==
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== Alternatively, the advanced version will be Vacuumbending ==
Basically, the ability to create vacuums, which can be used to pull air into a concentrated form to be shot out(air bullets, or even air blades), and it could be used defensively by sucking in attacks thrown by other Benders. It could also be used to suffocate people by creating a vacuum field around the victim which sucks the air away.
== The Airbender population will not be replenished solely by Tenzin and his family. ==
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== Benders will adopt Equalist weapons. ==
''Everyone'' can have the power of a chi-blocker in the palm of their hand... including benders. Imagine waterbenders electrifying their water whips, or metalbenders with a shootable tazer built into a glove. Not to mention dual-wielders like Zuko who will combine their bending and their shock glove to have varied short- and long-range attacks.
== It is illegal to bloodbend in Republic City. ==
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== Republic City is facing an [[Evil Versus Evil]] Scenario ==
As of Episode 8, we have [[The Good, the Bad,
== There will be sky pirates. ==
We've seen that zeppelins are fairly common in and around Republic City. It's probable at least one got into the hands of some less-than-honorable people, who now go gallivanting around the world stealing whatever they want and escape in their zeppelin. As an added bonus, the [[Steampunk]] crew will be a mixture of water and fire benders.
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