Later, he bestows a nugget of capitalist wisdom to Team Avatar, including Asami, who is aching to put Future Industries technology in the hands of buyers. When introducing Korra to Republic City’s President Raiko, he offhandedly reveals to Korra that he was the biggest contributor to both Raiko and his competitor’s campaigns during the election. Mako is about to become the Korra equivalent of a truther.Īll signs point to comic-relief-turned puppetmaster Varrick, the eccentric businessman whose manic behavior reeks of a Keyser Söze act. The plan was enacted by the Agni Kai gang, likely working for someone who will benefit from war. It looks like a Northern Water Tribe act of terrorism, but Mako’s detective work uncovers a more sinister plot.
Korra walks alongside her people because, hey, they’re the good guys! The display of partisanship stokes a raging civic wildfire, culminating in the bombing of the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center. Southerners are peace marching in the streets Northerners scream back on the sidelines. Korra arrives to Republic City looking for aid, only to find a metropolis divided. She’s drowning in a world of politics, her own House of Cards, and motivations are zigzagging every which way. But for the first time, she’s not on the same page as everyone else in her life. Like a humanitarian, Korra is only thinking of protecting the people. The current state of play is pure chaos, with nations preparing for battle and Republic City keeping its nose out of foreign affairs.
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Pinpointing specifics in Legend of Korra’s allegory may not hold up under scrutiny, but anyone who has ever read a newspaper or cracked open a textbook can see broadly stroked American history all over “Peacekeepers.” Gone are the days of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s black and white fight against evil. Army General Stanley McChrystal or another infamous military leader? Or perhaps he’s affiliated with Asami’s version of Academi/Blackwater? And Varrick … our combination of Dick Cheney, the Koch Brothers, and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels?Ī master’s degree in political science from Harvard isn’t required for “Peacekeepers,” though after this week, a new flock of Nickelodeon viewers may be considering it. Is Korra our stand-in for President Obama, a community activist and dreamer driven up the ladder to the most important job in the world? Does that make the conflict in the Southern Water Tribe Syria or Egypt? But wait, is President Raiko actually Bill Clinton circa 1994, in the thick of the Bosnian War? If so, is General Iroh filling in for U.S.