The Legend of Korra (season 1) | |
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DVD cover art, featuring (from left to right): Mako, Asami, Bolin, and Korra. | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 12 |
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Original network | Nickelodeon |
Original release | April 14 – June 23, 2012 |
Season chronology | |
List of The Legend of Korra episodes |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Animated by | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | 'Welcome to Republic City' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | April 14, 2012 | 101 | 4.55[7] |
Seventy years after the events concluding Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Order of the White Lotus discovers the new Avatar, Korra, in the Southern Water Tribe. By the age of 17, Korra has mastered the elements of water, earth, and fire, but has not yet been able to airbemd. Kept under lock and key by White Lotus for her own protection, she is frustrated by her isolation from the rest of the world she eagerly anticipates completing her training with Master Tenzin, the son of Katara Katara and Aang, and the only airbending master. However Tenzin also serves on the council of the United Republic (a new fifth nation created by Avatar Aang and Firelord Zuko in the period between the two series) and civil unrest in the capitol, Republic City, forces him to postpone her training. Unwilling to live under the strict confines of her life with the White Lotus anymore, Korra absconds from her compound on her massive polarbear-dog Naga and stows away on a vessel bound for Republic City, a bustling and rapidly modernizing capital of world affairs. After a clash with local triads, she is arrested by Lin Beifong, head of Republic City's metalbending police force and the daughter of Toph. Meanwhile, antagonist 'Amon' is identified as the leader of the anti-bender 'Equalist' movement--the movement's numbers are swiftly swelling due to inequities between benders and non-benders and its extremist militant arm is beginning to kidnap benders whose fates are initially unknown. | ||||||||
2 | 2 | 'A Leaf in the Wind' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | April 14, 2012 | 102 | 4.55[7] |
Frustrated by her continued inability to bend air, Korra visits Republic City's pro-bending arena against Tenzin's wishes. There, she befriends Bolin and Mako, two brothers on the 'Fire Ferrets' pro-bending team. Filling in for their absent third member Korra initially suffers due to her inexperience, but wins the match using airbending principles. Tenzin, impressed, allows Korra to stay on the team. | ||||||||
3 | 3 | 'The Revelation' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | April 21, 2012 | 103 | 3.55[8] |
Trying to collect money for their pro-bending fees, Bolin is recruited by the Triple Threat Triads, but they are all abducted by the Equalists. At an Equalist rally, Amon demonstrates his ability to permanently remove the bending powers of the captive gangsters, but Mako and Korra rescue Bolin before Amon can do the same to him. | ||||||||
4 | 4 | 'The Voice in the Night' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | April 28, 2012 | 104 | 4.08[9] |
Republic City Councilman Tarrlok creates a task force to capture Amon, and eventually recruits the reluctant Korra. Mako gains a paramour in Asami Sato, the daughter of industrialist Hiroshi Sato, who sponsors the Fire Ferrets in the competition. After some success on the task force, Korra challenges Amon to a duel. She is ambushed and captured by Equalists, but Amon, not wishing to make her a martyr, does not take away her bending but implies that he will eventually do say. Shortly after, Tenzin finds her, deeply traumatized and terrified as a consequence of the attack. | ||||||||
5 | 5 | 'The Spirit of Competition' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | May 5, 2012 | 105 | 3.78[10] |
Mako courts Hiroshi's daughter, Asami, much to the annoyance of Korra, who spends an evening with Bolin instead. Later, she kisses Mako, upsetting Bolin and the Fire Ferrets' chances in the championship. By the end of the episode, the Fire Ferrets forgive each other and advance to the championship match against the three-time defending champions, the popular and highly arrogant Wolfbats. | ||||||||
6 | 6 | 'And the Winner Is...' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | May 12, 2012 | 106 | 3.88[11] |
Amon threatens to attack the pro-bending arena if the Council does not cancel the championship, but Chief Lin Beifong promises to protect the stadium. The Wolfbats win the match by bribing the referees to ignore foul play. After the match is over, the Equalists, having infiltrated the arena in force, neutralize Chief Beifong's metalbenders using electric gloves, and Amon strips the Wolfbats of their bending abilities before a shocked crowd. Korra and Beifong free themselves and fight the Equalists, but the Equalists escape in an airship and the arena is heavily damaged in the fray. | ||||||||
7 | 7 | 'The Aftermath' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | May 19, 2012 | 107 | 3.45[12] |
Tarrlok calls for Lin Beifong's resignation as chief of police, while Mako and Bolin move into the Sato mansion. While visiting them, Korra overhears implications that Hiroshi Sato is colluding with the Equalists and informs Chief Beifong and Tenzin, who find no evidence. A mysterious source reveals that Sato has a secret factory under his mansion, used to manufacture weapons for the Equalists. When Korra, Tenzin, and Beifong discover the secret factory, they are attacked by Equalists using large combat machines built by Sato. Beifong's metalbending officers are captured and taken to Amon, but Mako, Bolin, and Asami rescue Korra, Tenzin, and Beifong. Beifong decides to resign her post and rescue her officers, while Korra offers Mako, Bolin, and Asami sanctuary on Tenzin's Air Temple Island. | ||||||||
8 | 8 | 'When Extremes Meet' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | June 2, 2012 | 108 | 2.98[13] |
At his inauguration as Beifong's replacement, Police Chief Saikhan vows to support Tarrlok's task force, leading Tenzin and Korra to quarrel with Tarrlok. Korra expresses frustration with her inability to airbend, and Tenzin tells her to obtain help from her past lives. Asami, Mako, Bolin, and Korra form a new 'Team Avatar', patrolling the city and capturing Equalists, to Tarrlok's disapproval. Tarrlok places all non-benders under a curfew, and orders the arrest of a mob who refuses to disperse in obedience of the curfew. Korra tries to free the unarmed civilians, and Tarrlok arrests her friends to stop her. Later that night, she seeks Tarrlok out in private and he proposes to free her friends if she begins to fall in line with his wishes, but finding him to be corrupt, she angrily rebukes him and a bending battle ensues. Korra eventually gets the upper hand in the fight, only to have her fortunes reversed when Tarrlok reveals a dark secret: his a bloodbender, able to manipulate human flesh through the water in the body. Tarrlok easily takes Korra captive using these skills and moves her to a cabin outside Republic City. | ||||||||
9 | 9 | 'Out of the Past' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | June 9, 2012 | 109 | 3.58[14] |
Tarrlok locks Korra in a platinum box in the mountains, publicly claiming that Equalists abducted her. In response, Lin Beifong frees Korra's friends from prison and, with Tenzin's help, infiltrates the Equalist hideout. Confronting Tarrlok in City Hall, a witness exposes Tarrlok's bloodbending powers, which Tarrlok uses to disable the group and escape. Meanwhile, Korra learns from Aang's past that 42 years prior, the mobster Yakone escaped trial by bloodbending the court, whereupon Aang removed his bending powers. Tarrlok confirms that he is Yakone's son, attempting to rule Republic City from a political seat rather than through crime. When Equalists track him back to Korra, his bloodbending proves ineffective against Amon, who takes away his bending. Korra escapes and reunites with Naga, who returns her to her friends. | ||||||||
10 | 10 | 'Turning the Tides' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | June 16, 2012 | 110 | 3.54[15] |
After recovering from her abduction, Korra tells her story, and Tenzin asks Lin to protect his family while he attends the morning's council meeting. Tenzin is attacked at City Hall, and though he defeats his would-be abductors, he learns that the other council members have been captured by Equalists and that the city is under a full-scale attack by Equalists heavily armed with Sato's newest weaponry and military technology. Amon's airships bomb Republic City as Tenzin reaches police headquarters, where he wires the United Forces, the military of the United Republic, for help. Equalist 'mecha-tanks' capture Chief Saikhan and many officers. Korra and her friends rescue Tenzin. Tenzin's wife, Pemma gives birth to her fourth child, Rohan, as Equalist airships arrive at Air Temple Island. Lin Beifong, with the help of Tenzin's other three children, all airbenders, defeats the invaders. Korra goes into hiding and Tenzin flees with his family to preserve the last airbenders. Lin destroys an airship pursuing them, but is captured and refuses to reveal Korra's whereabouts, and is stripped of her bending. Korra's team enters the city sewers and General Iroh, the grandchild of former Firelord Zuko and commander of a fleet of United Forces warships, answers Republic City's plea. | ||||||||
11 | 11 | 'Skeletons in the Closet' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | June 23, 2012 | 111 | 3.68[16] |
Korra and her friends hide in hobo camp underground until Iroh's fleet arrives; but the fleet is promptly disabled by Equalist mines, aircraft, and torpedoes. Korra saves Iroh from drowning, and they regroup with the others. Korra and Mako go in search of Amon, while Iroh, Bolin and Asami sabotage the Equalist airbase to prevent the sinking of a relief fleet under Commander Bumi, Tenzin's older brother. Korra and Mako discover Tarrlok captive in Air Temple Island, and he reveals that Amon is his brother, Noatak - both sons to Yakone, who fled to the North Pole after his escape from Republic City. Meanwhile, the assault on the Equalists' mountain airbase goes poorly when the attackers fall prey to an electric fence. | ||||||||
12 | 12 | 'Endgame' | Studio Mir | Joaquim Dos Santos & Ki Hyun Ryu | Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko | June 23, 2012 | 112 | 3.68[16] |
Bolin, Asami, and Iroh are captured by Hiroshi Sato and the Equalists, but rescued by Naga. While Asami and Bolin fight Hiroshi and his mecha-tanks, Iroh destroys the Equalist bombers. Korra and Mako confront Amon at an Equalist rally, and expose him as a bender. Amon denies it and reveals that he has captured Tenzin and his young family. Korra and Mako free them, but Amon overpowers Mako and Korra, and removes Korra's bending abilities except for her airbending, which she later uses against him. Expelled by her, Amon falls into the sea, and his escape unmasks him publicly as a waterbender. He flees Republic City, along with Tarrlok, who later explodes their boat and themselves. At the South Pole, Katara is unable to heal Korra's severance from water, earth, and fire. As Korra sits weeping at a cliff's edge, Aang's spirit fully restores her spiritual connection and bending abilities and Korra enters the Avatar State to restore Beifong's bending abilities. Everyone watches in awe and amazement with Tenzin addressing her as Avatar Korra. |
Season | Episode number | ||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
Book One – Air | 4.55 | 4.55 | 3.55 | 4.08 | 3.78 | 3.88 | 3.45 | 2.98 | 3.58 | 3.54 | 3.68 | 3.68 | N/A | ||
Book Two – Spirits | 2.60 | 2.60 | 2.19 | 2.38 | 1.10 | 1.95 | 1.73 | 1.73 | 2.47 | 2.22 | 1.87 | 1.87 | 2.09 | 2.09 | |
Book Three – Change | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.29 | 1.19 | 1.18 | 1.28 | 1.33 | 1.08 | N/A |
Author | Dave Marshall (ed.), Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko |
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Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Publication date | 23 July 2013 |
Media type | Hardcover |
ISBN | 978-1616551681 |
The Legend of Korra: Original Music from Book One | |||
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Soundtrack album by | |||
Released | July 16, 2013 | ||
Genre | Soundtrack | ||
Label | Nick Records | ||
Producer | Benjamin Wynn | ||
Avatar series chronology | |||
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No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'Prologue' | 1:18 |
2. | 'Air Tight' (with The Angel City Dixieland Band and Chris Tedesco) | 2:54 |
3. | 'In a Box' | 1:37 |
4. | 'An Impossible Crime' | 2:10 |
5. | 'Being Patient / Beifong's Sacrifice' | 4:19 |
6. | 'Asami and Mako Dine' | 1:10 |
7. | 'On the Lam' | 1:19 |
8. | 'Hittin' on All Sixes' (with The Angel City Dixieland Band and Chris Tedesco) | 2:39 |
9. | 'Good Ol' Days' | 1:40 |
10. | 'Before' | 7:37 |
11. | 'Fresh Air' | 1:05 |
12. | 'Korra Confronts Tarrlok' | 2:59 |
13. | 'Squeaky Rags' (with The Angel City Dixieland Band and Chris Tedesco) | 1:43 |
14. | 'Amon' | 3:02 |
15. | 'Chi Blockers' | 2:18 |
16. | 'A Peaceful Place' | 2:03 |
17. | 'Left My Heart in Republic City' | 2:40 |
18. | 'Firebending Training' | 1:15 |
19. | 'Wheels' | 2:47 |
20. | 'Republic City Under Attack' | 4:02 |
21. | 'Hardboiled... Afraid (Separate Ways)' | 1:20 |
22. | 'War' | 2:04 |
23. | 'Asami and Hiroshi / Korra Airbends' | 4:24 |
24. | 'Greatest Change' | 5:15 |
25. | 'The Legend of Korra End Credits' | 0:30 |
26. | 'The Legend of Korra Main Title' | 0:28 |
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