Benioff and Weiss Adapt Legend of Korra
What if GoT showrunners (D&D) were given the chance to adapt the Legend of Korra as a live-action show?
Korra is made more empowered by continually fighting people, which is the only way D&D show her character development. Instead of confronting Amon with Mako, she goes off with Iroh II to fight Hiroshi’s fleet. To get new airbenders to join the Nation, she challenges them all to duels. In her Korra Alone segment she saves a town from bandits.
After the events of Book 3, Korra never actually loses her ability to walk, nor does she have any supernatural visions or is shown struggling with PTSD. On occasion she makes remarks about how her “fighting feels slower” so we remember she’s apparently recovering, but she’s the victor in every battle despite that.
Every spirit is cut except Raava and Vaatu. There’s still the Spirit World, and Korra still opens the portals, but other than the airbending coming post Harmonic Convergence, nothing changes.
There’s no Wan flashbacks. Korra still goes to the Fire Nation to get help, but she has to sneak in because they all want revenge on Aang for reducing their borders (except the Fire Lord who is the one reasonable person). A hilarious fight ensues between Korra and some locals. Izumi refuses to help so Korra just goes back. Later, Raiko tells her Avatar Wan’s backstory.
Mako is the ultimate woobie. Everything with the love triangle that occurs happens only because Korra and Asami are being catty with each other.
He’s also an unquestionable hero with no flaws. Mako ends up confronting Amon alone because he is so threatening to the Equalist, but he wins. His lightning bending kills Amon in the process.
Bolin gets killed off by Ghazan, but then Mako distracts him with a clever witticism and kills both him and Ming-Hua in one shot. Bolin never learns lavabending. It didn’t affect the end-game.
Asami is given airbending post Harmonic Convergence to make her more interesting, and she decides to get revenge on her father. She is given a side-quest during the events of B3 to kill him, and she enlists the help of Iroh II. He ends up raping her, but it is never talked about, and the two of them continue the mission as if it didn’t happen. When asked about it, D&D reply “the sex became consensual by the end.”
Lin and Suyin are combined (but still named Lin). She’s a mom who left her kids to go be a Tough Cop and she walks around attacking people rather than talking out her problems.
Iroh II is always announcing who he is. He’ll walk into a scene and go “I am Iroh II! I fight for the United Republic!” They wanted to make him unique, so instead of being a firebender, he’s a sandbender.
When Opal first meets Bolin and goes “just kidding!” she pops out her tits, to demonstrate what an empowered woman she is.
Once Bolin dies, Opal immediately rushes into Mako’s arms. They end up together and any fight they have is clearly all her fault
Bumi and Kya don’t impact the end-game, so they’re cut. Aang was the perfect father and Tenzin has no internalized guilt.
Tenzin disappears for the entirety of Book 3’s events. When asked why, D&D tell us “he’s just training the airbenders, which is going to take quite some time and isn’t particularly cinematic.”
There’s only one Water Tribe. Eska and Desna are replaced with Wing and Wei. They’re still Lin’s sons, but we meet them in Book 2 to give us “buy-in” to Zaofu. They still fight alongside Unalaq, but randomly switch sides later on. It doesn’t influence the fighting at all.
Tonraq sounds too similar to “Tarrlok” so they changed his name to “Teapot.”
Senna is cut. Pema takes on her role by staying behind after Tenzin is sent off and getting implicated in the Civil War. Once she is found innocent, Pema warps back to the Air Temple with her family
Kuvira is established as the villain earlier by helping the Red Lotus sneak into Zaofu. But she still needs to be given her Uniter role, so she sexually manipulates Raiko.
Kuvira doesn’t bring her troops to Zaofu. The story is streamlined so that she just shows up one day with Mega Maid in Republic City.
Baatar Jr. is aged down ten years for comedic purposes. He and Kuvira still have a sexual relationship, but he thinks he’s really lucky so it’s funny.
Zaheer is turned into a problematic fave. He makes really compelling points all the time. The Earth Queen ends up trying to have him murdered, so he has to kill her in self-defense. He still gets taken down, but it’s really sad when he does.
The Yakone backstory is cut: Amon was dumped by a firebender who Tarrlok later dated.
An invented character named Tompkins takes on Bumi’s role in Book 2. He’s a small child from the Water Tribe that Tenzin passes some fruit to at the feast. He disappears from the screen, but then when everyone tries to get into the Spirit Portal he shows up again with a flute to save the day.
Tompkins then proceeds to travel with the Krew throughout the rest of the journey (it would make sense, right? I mean where else would he go?) and he ends up being the one to kidnap Baatar Jr. just before the final fight.
Varrick never apologizes to Zhu Li or shows that he cares about her in anyway. She never confronts him about his behavior. She still loves him and they still get married.
Grandma Yin’s role is expanded and she’s made sassy. There’s no need for two sassy old women, so Toph is cut. Grandma Yin services Mako’s plotline better, so that’s why she was included. She travels with the Krew and makes homophobic remarks once Korrasami starts, but it’s funny when she does it, because she’s sassy.
Korrasami begins earlier in the narrative to be more progressive. Korra and Asami spend their entire time from then until the end talking about their sexualities and making jokes about who wears the pants in the relationship. But don’t worry; Kuvira makes homophobic remarks so that we know how progressive it is.
Korra kills Kuvira in the end, to give it more of a punch. Afterwards she flexes and goes “I think I’ve fully healed now.”
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