This article is about the heroine from the original series. For the Netflix version of the character, see Katara (Netflix).
- “Aang, I know you're upset. and I know how hard it is to lose the people you love. I went through the same thing when I lost my mom. Monk Gyatso and the other airbenders may be gone, but you still have a family. Sokka and I we're your family now!”
- ―Katara to Aang
Katara is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Zuko) of the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender and a supporting character in the sequel series The Legend of Korra. She is the younger sister of Sokka, one of the best friends and love interest of Aang, the best friend of Toph Beifong, the granddaughter of Kanna, the step-granddaughter of Pakku, and the youngest child and only daughter of Kya and Hakoda.
She was a member of Team Avatar and a young female Waterbender who was born and raised in the Southern Water Tribe with her brother, who were raised with by her grandmother. She lost her mother when she was a child.
In the sequel series, Katara and Aang married and had three children: Bumi (who they named after her husband's best friend), Kya (who they named after her mother), and Tenzin. She is also a grandmother herself to Jinora, Ikki, Meeko, and Rohan. She filled in a grandmotherly role with Korra, who Katara trained in waterbending.
In Avatar: The Last Airbender, she is voiced by Mae Whitman, who voices Shanti from The Jungle Book 2, April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 series), Tinker Bell from Disney's Tinkerbell franchise, Agent Xero from The Modifyers, Heather from DreamWorks Dragons series, Plaxum from Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Amity Blight from The Owl House.
History[]
Katara was born in 84 AG to Chief Hakoda of the southern water tribe and his wife kaya. She had one sibling an older brother named Sokka. They were primarily raised by their grandmother, who brought them up on stories of the Avatar. Unlike her brother, Katara still believed that the Avatar cycle was not broken despite the next avatar not being born. As a young healer, Katara learned how to deliver babies, both humans and animals and received a necklace from Kya, who was one given it by Kanna.
However, peace in Wolf Cove would not last, for Fire Lord Azulon charged the Fire Nation to raid Wolf Cove and dispose of the last remaining waterbender in the tribe. On the day of the southern Raiders' attack on Wolf Cove Katara was playing with her brother in a snowball fight until a mix of ash and snow showered on the village. Katara left to find her mother and came across Yon Rha confronting Kya. Her mother sacrificed herself to protect Katara by claiming she was the last Waterbender. Katara then ran to find her father, Hakoda, and warned him about her mother's situation. When they arrived at the igloo, Yon Rha was already gone, but not before he had killed Kya.
Katara assumed a leadership role in her mother's absence as the matriarch of the chieftain's family and had no friends her age other than the boys and girls who were significantly younger than her.
Sometime after Kya's death, setting it two years before the series, Hakoda and Bato decided to join the war against the Fire Nation.
Later that night, Sokka held Katara close as they watched the ships disappear beyond the horizon and into the night. This left them under the care of his mother. The departure of Chief Hakoda to engage in warfare significantly affected both Katara and Sokka. Even though she had her grandmother to raise and love her and Sokka, Katara grew resentful of Hakoda for just leaving them.
Personality[]
Katara is a kind, caring, and selfless young woman. She is determined to learn waterbending and successfully protect Aang. Katara believes in him and knows he can save the world. She also wears a necklace that belonged to her mother and her grandmother and was crafted by Pakku.
However, Katara is a feminist, who hates sexism, as seen when she yells at her brother for saying that girls can't do what boys can do. She also got angry at Pakku for his arrogance and sexism because he wouldn't allow woman to fight.
Physical Appearance[]
Katara has long-brown hair that is kept in a braid and her two hair loopiess are miniature braids, tucked behind her ears. Her loopies are held by two small white bindings However, her hair was briefly down when she fought Pakku. She wears short light blue dress with darker blue, knee-lengthen dress robe draped over it. The dress robes are split on the side so she has better movements for her waterbending. Her dress and dark blue pants are held together by dark brown belt, brown fur boots and brown purse. Her dress's flaps are buttoned onto her shoulder and dark blue, white wavy patterns accented in her collar and her overdress' short-sleeved hems. She wears a dark blue choker with the white metal that has the Water Tribe's insignia on the front.
Due to the harsh, cold temperatures Katara and her people live in, she often wears a blue winter coat over her dress
- Age: 14 later 15[1]
Powers and abilities[]
- Waterbending: At the start of the series, she struggles to control and manipulate water due to being inexperienced. After meeting Aang, and several journeys, Katara manage to master waterbending at the end of her journey. She usually did this when she was fighting in combat. At the Western Air Temple, she rained ice spikes onto Combustion Man. While tracking down her mother's killer, Katara used the enhanced power of the full moon to nearly take down a whole Fire Nation ship of the Southern Raiders single-handedly. During her encounter with Yon Rha, she created a large wide dome of water by gathering rain drops and created ice spikes from it, nearly killing him. Katara's prowess was formidable enough to fight against such prodigious master benders like Azula. Finally, during Sozin's Comet, she froze herself and Azula into a block of solid ice, thawed the center of it, and chained Azula to a water grate. In her old age, Katara still has grips on her water powers, teaching them to her husband's reincarnation, Korra.
- Snowbending: As snow is a form of water, Katara is able to manipulate it. When she and her brother were fishing, she grew angry. Snow and ice moved around, getting Aang and Appa inside.
- Icebending: As ice is a form of water, Katara can What control or manipulate it. When she and her brother were fishing, she grew angry. As this happened, Katara cracked the iceberg, which collapsed behind them. However, the iceberg had Aang and Appa inside, waking him from his 100-year sleep.
- Bloodbending: Katara has the ability totake hold of and manipulate fluids within an organism's body. She was first introduced to this terrible power when she and her friends encountered Hama, an elderly Waterbender who wanted revenge on the Fire Nation. It is only at it's strongest during a full moon. Katara had to use it on Hama, to sever her bloodbending ability she was using on Katara's brother and their friends. When she grew angry at her mother's killer, Katara used bloodbending on him in a fit of rage. Because of it's terrible effect on people, Katara hates using disability. By the time she was a grown woman, she made it one of her goals to make bloodbending illegal in the Fire Nation, The Earth Kingdom and the Water Tribes. She was successful at this.
Relationships[]
Reason: No info
Gallery[]
Variants[]
- Katara (The Last Airbender), the 2010 incarnation
- Katara (Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender), the 2024 live-action remake
Trivia[]
- Katara is known to have seen four Avatars in her life time: Avatar Aang, Avatar Kyoshi, Avatar Roku and Avatar Korra.
- Katara wears her hair in a braid for the first two seasons and the first one and a half episode of Season 3 before letting her hair down in "The Headband."
- Zutara (Zuko and Katara) was considered to be canon before the writers settled on making Kataang endgame.
- Katara served as the main protagonist of Katara and the Pirates Silver and the North and South trilogy.
References[]
- ↑ Zuko and Aang's meeting in "The Avatar Returns" took place roughly about a year before Zuko's coronation. This is confirmed in Sozin's Comet when Zuko tells Aang:“I can't believe a year ago my purpose in life was hunting you down. And now...” since he was confirmed to be 14 at the beginning of the series, Katara is q15 at the end of the series
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