The Legend of Korra (season 3) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Legend of Korra |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Original network | Nickelodeon (Episodes 1–8) Nick.com (Episodes 9–13) |
| Original release | June 27 – August 22, 2014 |
The Legend of Korra is an animated TV show. Its third season is called Book Three: Change. It was made by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. This season has thirteen episodes, also known as "chapters." All the animation was done by Studio Mir.
The season first aired on Nickelodeon in the U.S. on June 27, 2014. After some episodes were leaked online and TV ratings dropped, Nickelodeon stopped showing it after episode 8. The last five episodes of Book Three were then released online each week on Nickelodeon's website and other digital platforms.
This season mostly takes place in the Earth Kingdom, one of the main nations in the show's world. It also shows that more people are starting to airbend, even if they weren't born into Air Nomad families. The main bad guys in this season are the "Red Lotus." This is a group of dangerous people who want to get rid of all governments. They are led by a new airbender named Zaheer. They want to bring chaos to the world. Some new characters you'll meet include an older Zuko from the original Avatar show. You'll also meet Lin Beifong's sister, Suyin, and her family.
Episodes
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| 27 | 1 | "Chapter One: A Breath of Fresh Air" | Studio Mir | Melchior Zwyer | Tim Hedrick | June 27, 2014 | 201 | 1.50 |
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Two weeks after a big event called Harmonic Convergence, parts of Republic City are covered in spirit vines. Avatar Korra cannot remove them, so President Raiko asks her to leave the city. All over the world, people suddenly start to airbend, including Bumi. Tenzin, Korra, and their friends go on an airship trip. They want to find these new airbenders and invite them to join a new Air Nomad nation. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal named Zaheer (Henry Rollins) escapes from prison. He uses his own new airbending skills to get free.
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| 28 | 2 | "Chapter Two: Rebirth" | Studio Mir | Colin Heck | Joshua Hamilton | June 27, 2014 | 202 | 1.50 |
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Tenzin travels across the Earth Kingdom with Team Avatar and Jinora. He finds that most new airbenders do not want to leave their homes to join the Air Nation. However, they find their first recruit, Kai, a clever young thief. Kai is trying to escape Earth Kingdom guards. Meanwhile, Zaheer frees the earthbender Ghazan (Peter Giles) and the waterbender Ming-Hua (Grey DeLisle) from their prisons. Zaheer seems to want to capture or harm the Avatar. An elderly Zuko (Bruce Davison) travels to the North Pole. This is where the last member of Zaheer's group is being held.
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| 29 | 3 | "Chapter Three: The Earth Queen" | Studio Mir | Ian Graham | Tim Hedrick | June 27, 2014 | 203 | 1.29 |
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Team Avatar arrives in Ba Sing Se to find new airbenders. The Earth Queen, Hou-Ting, gives them a mixed welcome. She believes Avatar Aang tricked her father when he was king. Avatar Korra agrees to help collect taxes for the Queen to get her cooperation. Korra and Asami fight off bandits during this mission. But the Queen says there are no airbenders in the city. Meanwhile, Kai runs off to pickpocket. While looking for him, Mako and Bolin meet their father's family. They learn that the city's secret police, the Dai Li, are capturing new airbenders. Kai is arrested and told he must join the army. At the North Pole, Zuko, the new Northern Water Tribe chiefs Desna and Eska, and Korra's father Tonraq visit Zaheer's last imprisoned friend, P'Li. She is a dangerous firebender.
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| 30 | 4 | "Chapter Four: In Harm's Way" | Studio Mir | Melchior Zwyer | Joshua Hamilton | July 11, 2014 | 204 | 1.19 |
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At the North Pole, Zaheer and his team free P'Li from her ice prison. She is a powerful combustion-bender. In Ba Sing Se, Lin Beifong arrives to warn Avatar Korra about the danger to her life. With Lin's help, Team Avatar frees the airbenders who were forced into the army. After escaping the Dai Li and the Earth Queen's anger, Tenzin takes the airbenders to the Northern Air Temple. Meanwhile, Lin, Korra, and her friends search for more airbenders.
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| 31 | 5 | "Chapter Five: The Metal Clan" | Studio Mir | Colin Heck | Michael Dante DiMartino | July 11, 2014 | 205 | 1.18 |
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Team Avatar arrives in Zaofu, a metal city led by Suyin Beifong (Anne Heche). She is Lin's half-sister and the mother of Opal (Alyson Stoner), a new airbender. Avatar Korra starts training Opal. But Korra cannot convince Lin to fix her relationship with Suyin. In Republic City, Zaheer sneaks into Air Temple Island to find Korra. He escapes after Kya identifies and attacks him.
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| 32 | 6 | "Chapter Six: Old Wounds" | Studio Mir | Ian Graham | Katie Mattila | July 18, 2014 | 206 | 1.28 |
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While Avatar Korra learns metalbending from Suyin, Lin remembers her past. As a young police officer, Suyin hurt her while being arrested. Their mother, Toph, covered it up before sending Suyin away and quitting as police chief. After a big fight, the sisters make up. Meanwhile, Zaheer and his group escape Republic City after a car chase. Zaheer can enter the spirit world and finds out where the Avatar is.
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| 33 | 7 | "Chapter Seven: Original Airbenders" | Studio Mir | Melchior Zwyer | Tim Hedrick | July 18, 2014 | 207 | 1.33 |
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At the Northern Air Temple, Tenzin finds it hard to teach the new airbenders about Air Nomad culture. Bumi suggests a strict training plan, which causes more stress. Jinora and Kai find a group of young sky bison. Poachers then capture them. Jinora asks spirits for help, and they call the other airbenders. The criminals are easily defeated. Tenzin promises to think about giving Jinora her airbending master tattoos.
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| 34 | 8 | "Chapter Eight: The Terror Within" | Studio Mir | Colin Heck | Joshua Hamilton | July 25, 2014 | 208 | 1.08 |
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In Zaofu, Avatar Korra and Bolin continue to learn metalbending. Opal leaves for the Northern Air Temple. At night, Zaheer and his team sneak into Zaofu and capture Korra. But Team Avatar, with Lin, Suyin, and metalbenders, rescue the Avatar. The attackers retreat. During the investigation, Korra and her friends find out that Suyin's helper, Aiwei, was helping Zaheer. Aiwei escapes through a secret tunnel. Later, with Suyin's help, Team Avatar sneaks out of Zaofu to chase the attackers.
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| 35 | 9 | "Chapter Nine: The Stakeout" | Studio Mir | Ian Graham | Michael Dante DiMartino | August 1, 2014 | 209 | N/A |
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Team Avatar follows Aiwei to the Misty Palms Oasis. Avatar Korra enters the Spirit World and finds Aiwei and Zaheer meeting there. Zaheer sends Aiwei into the Fog of Lost Souls. He then explains his secret group, the Red Lotus, to Korra. They are a group that split from the Order of the White Lotus. They want to overthrow governments because they believe chaos is the natural state of the world. While Zaheer talks, his friends get close to Korra's body. Bolin and Mako are defeated. Asami, who is fleeing with Korra's body on Naga, is captured by the Earth Queen's soldiers. The Red Lotus follows them.
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| 36 | 10 | "Chapter Ten: Long Live the Queen" | Studio Mir | Melchior Zwyer | Tim Hedrick | August 8, 2014 | 210 | N/A |
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On an airship to Ba Sing Se, Avatar Korra and Asami escape their cell. They crash-land the airship in the desert. Working with the airship's crew, they escape a huge desert animal and return to the oasis. In Ba Sing Se, the Red Lotus offers to trade Mako and Bolin for Korra to the Earth Queen. After hearing Korra escaped, they attack and defeat the Dai Li. Zaheer uses his airbending to take the Earth Queen's breath away, causing her to die. The Red Lotus destroys part of the city's inner walls, saying the city belongs to the people. Chaos breaks out. Zaheer frees Mako and Bolin and gives them a message for Korra. At the oasis, Asami and Korra meet Tonraq, Zuko, and Lin. They hear about the revolution.
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| 37 | 11 | "Chapter Eleven: The Ultimatum" | Studio Mir | Colin Heck | Joshua Hamilton | August 15, 2014 | 211 | N/A |
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The inner city of Ba Sing Se is looted and burned. Riots and fires spread in the outer city. Mako and Bolin escape with their family to the Misty Palms Oasis. They tell Avatar Korra that Zaheer plans to kill the airbenders at the Northern Air Temple unless she gives herself up. After talking to Iroh in the spirit world, Korra uses the Metal Clan's radio to contact Tenzin. This happens just as the Red Lotus attacks the Temple. Tenzin fights the invaders with his siblings while the other airbenders try to escape. After the defenders are overpowered, the Red Lotus throws Kya and Bumi off the mountain. They then defeat a tired and beaten Tenzin.
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| 38 | 12 | "Chapter Twelve: Enter the Void" | Studio Mir | Ian Graham | Michael Dante DiMartino | August 22, 2014 | 212 | N/A |
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Avatar Korra agrees to give herself up to the Red Lotus to save the airbenders. But as she does, her friends find that Zaheer has already moved the hostages from the temple. Ghazan traps Tenzin, Asami, Mako, and Bolin with lava. He then flees with Ming-Hua. But Korra's friends escape thanks to Bolin's new lavabending skills. Meanwhile, Lin, Suyin, and her metalbenders fight P'Li. Suyin ends the fight by killing P'Li with her own combustion-bending. Zaheer fights Korra and Tonraq. Tonraq is thrown off a cliff but saved by the metalbender captain Kuvira (Zelda Williams). Zaheer escapes with the unconscious Korra using his new ability to fly.
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| 39 | 13 | "Chapter Thirteen: Venom of the Red Lotus" | Studio Mir | Melchior Zwyer | Tim Hedrick & Joshua Hamilton | August 22, 2014 | 213 | N/A |
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The Red Lotus ties up Avatar Korra and poisons her with mercury. They want to push her close to death to make her enter the Avatar State. Then they plan to kill her, which would end the Avatar's rebirth cycle forever. However, an angry Korra defeats her captors and fights Zaheer in the sky. Meanwhile, her friends find and rescue the airbenders. After Mako electrocutes Ming-Hua, he and Bolin barely escape as Ghazan collapses the Red Lotus's hideout on himself. As Korra is about to be overcome by the poison, Jinora leads the airbenders. They pull Zaheer out of the sky with a huge air vortex made from their combined bending. Zaheer is captured, and Suyin metalbends the poison out of Korra. Two weeks later, in Republic City, a weakened Korra, who is in a wheelchair, watches. Tenzin names Jinora an airbending master. He also says that the Air Nomads will now travel the world and help people, following Korra's example.
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Cast and Characters
Main
- Avatar Korra
- Mako
- Bolin
- Lin Beifong
- Tenzin
- Asami Sato
- Jinora
- Kai
Recurring
- Bruce Davison as Fire Lord Zuko
- Logan Wells as Meelo
- Darcy Rose Byrnes as Ikki
- Richard Riehle as Bumi
- Lisa Edelstein as Kya
- John Michael Higgins as Varrick
- Stephanie Sheh as Zhu Li
- Henry Rollins as Zaheer
- Anne Heche as Suyin Beifong
- Grey DeLisle as Ming'hua
- Peter Giles as Ghazan
- Kristy Wu as P'Li
- Alyson Stoner as Opal Beifong
How the Show Was Made
Design and Inspiration
Book Three was the first season of The Legend of Korra to have a full team working on its design. This team was much bigger than the one for seasons 1 and 2.
The design for the waterbender Ming-Hua, who has no arms, was based on Bryan Konietzko's friend, Michi. Opal's hairstyle was inspired by Dolly Haas. The city of Zaofu, where Suyin Beifong lives, was inspired by Lake Louise in Canada. The outside of Lake Laogai, a secret police headquarters, was based on Lake Tahoe.
The sand shark that Avatar Korra and Asami run from in episode 10 looks like a real fish called a sarcastic fringehead. This fish lives in the Pacific Ocean. To save time, the designers reused the look of Zuko and Iroh's old apartment from Avatar: The Last Airbender for Mako and Bolin's family apartment in episode 11. Another idea from the first Avatar show was "becoming wind" as a very high level of airbending. This idea was in the show's original guide.
The idea of holding the Avatar with X-shaped chains, seen in the season finale, was first thought of for a scene where Aang was captured in the first Avatar season. But the TV network didn't allow it then. This time, it was allowed.
Animation and Voice Actors
The main animation studio, Studio Mir, got help from its smaller studio, Studio Reve, for some episodes.
Book Three introduced many new characters who would appear until the end of the series. These included the large Beifong family and Jinora's friend, Kai. Kai was an orphan thief named after writer Josh Hamilton's son. Bryan Konietzko was a bit worried about adding Kai because there were already many characters.
Starting with Book Three, the show became more popular. This meant they could get more famous actors to do voices. Anne Heche tried out and got the part of Suyin Beifong, Lin's sister. Henry Rollins was very interested in voicing Zaheer, the main bad guy of the season. He even called the creators to ask questions about the character.
Story Writing
The season's title, Change, was inspired by an old saying: "the only constant is change." This idea shows how much Korra's world changed after she opened the spirit portals in season 2. It also shows the return of airbending and how Avatar Korra herself changes. The writers thought about showing a flashback of the Red Lotus trying to kidnap Korra when she was a child, but they decided not to include it.
The writers were sometimes worried about having too many scenes where characters just explain things. They thought it might bore the audience. According to Konietzko, Nickelodeon often told them to add "more fighting, more action!" The writers wanted to focus on Avatar Korra and Asami becoming good friends in Book Three.
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:The Legend of Korra (Libro 3) para niños
