Something that strikes me about the "villains" in LoK is that with the exception of Unalaq her villains have more and more of a valid point over the supposed "good guys". Amon while wildly misguided in his approach did have a fair point about the imbalance between benders and non-benders, Zaheer while an anarchist had even more of a fair argument that the Earth Kingdom queen was corrupt and needed to be taken out, and finally, Kuvira had so much of a point in what she was doing that the writers had to MAKE her go full Hitler in order justify her being the villain at all...despite her actions being in response to the world government brazenly trying to install a puppet monarch over the nation she had spent years fighting to pull back from the brink, only to see them try to take it BACK into a monarchy which got them into the mess in the first place...and lets not even get started on her mentor abdicating responsibility in helping rebuild the nation, putting Kuvira in a moral position in which she felt she had to do SOMETHING

Zaheer was my favorite character because although a villain he made great points, he was skilled, achieved what no one else did since Lahima (to fly would be a dream come true for me btw) and then he even helped Korra not only enter the Spirit World but also get over of what he himself did to her and he doesn't even hold a grudge over losing. PS: Ghazan was also pretty cool

That fight between Tenzin and The Red Lotus will always be always one of the best fights in the Avatar universe

Anyone else here want to see a mini series about the Red Lotus Gang? It would be a good way to flesh them out more and would be cool to see more of them in general.

This isn’t like history more like a recap of what happened I was hoping to like get actual history on the red lotus history such as their past how they came to be how they met how they how they discovered their unique bending how the girl lost her arms y’know lore

Amon was the best villain in LoK. He introduced a different kind of fear in the series and was the perfect boogeyman for Korra since she values her bending ability a lot. Only reason Zahir was the one that gave her PTSD is that he was the closest to killing her.

Zaheer's attachment to P'Li Was his last earthly tether.

Imagine if korra was trained by the red lotus, strongest avatar ever I'd say

If LOK had more time to write, the Red Lotus secret organization would have been an awesome overarching plot of the seasons. Would have been awesome seeing all the connections and foreshadows, each villain being a member of the red lotus until it came down to the final four who had only survived because they were imprisoned the entire time.

If they didn't have different beliefs, the Red Lotus would have been great friends and teachers for Korra. I think if they did manage to kidnap and raise her, they'd genuinely care for her like a daughter or little sister instead of just using her.

Zaheer is the greatest villain in the entire franchise, and one of the best villains in science fiction/fantasy. His ideology was wrong, but he really believed in it, and did not violate his own code just for plot convenience.

The idea of an evil airbender is already pretty cool and then it's made even cooler that he's still reverent enough to learn sacred rites

The Red Lotus are my favorite Villains! I could watch or read a whole series about them! Ghazan is my second favorite Avatar character! Ming Hua was my second favorite of the group. Ghazan, Ming Hua, Zaheer and P'li were all so unique! I'd love to know WAY more about their lives before capture! The bits of info we got fascinated me and left me begging for more! I liked the hints of romance between Ghazan and Ming Hua. The love P'li and Zaheer shared was very interesting too!

I heard a rumor that originally these guys were responsible for killing Sooka. Which means he died protecting Korra

Why did they look so cute when they were children ;-;

I like how all of the villains are more interesting than the main character

Amon and Zaheer were both right when you think about it. In a world with benders and non-benders there will always be a class difference. The Avatar knows how to bend energy to grant or remove bending from people but won't share the knowledge in the modern age leading to people either being born in the cool benders club or no and being stuck that way for life. Then you find out the spirit world being split from the material world and people(aside from the Avatar) losing the power to bend energy and having to be born benders was the choice of the first Avatar. Ending the cycle is the only course that allows the rest of humanity to move forward

I love the lok villians, but my favourite has gotta be ming hua mainly based on her design, the idea of her being a very powerful waterbender despite not having arms is very badass, its one of the reasons toph was my favourite in the last airbender, she was super powerful despite being blind and she turned what most would consider a weakness into an advantage, cool as fuck

To me, the Red Lotus is the coolest thing to ever happen in the Avatar world

PArt of the reason why Zaheer was so perfectly done in the series was because od Henry Rollins' wonderful job as a voice actor. If I'm not mistaken, he's an anarchist in real life, and through his views and political activism he really did understood the character of Zaheer and managed to put all of his intensity and passion into the character. I'm so glad they chose Henry for that roll and that we got to experience such and amazing season in Korra.

Fun part for Zaheer. You can quote him saying 'the red lotus would be your elemental masters'. Zaheer was going to be her master of Air. He didnt ass pull all the powers. He knew them from the start he just didnt have air bending just the forms and spirit powers. Korra had many faults but people who said this was an ass pull just didnt pay atention.

I would have loved to see a what if of if the red lotus was successful in the kidnapping of little Korra. Just think of how different the world we know would be

Korra series has many flaws. But the villains specially Amon and Red Lotus were awesome.

Would actually love to see the fight with Zuko, Sokka, Tonraq, and Tenzin vs the Red Lotus gang!

The thumbnail reawakens some emotions seeing the red lotus so young I remember my dayz watching this so much season 3 is my favorite

Pov: you thought he was gonna tell us the past of Zaheer, P'li, Ghazan and Ming-yua.

Ok but if zaheer could enter the spirit world why didn’t he consult iroh? I mean iroh was just as much a diplomat between spirits and humans as the avatar if not more.

Zehir is my favorite caracter of all the "bad guys". I think he could be a really good/helpfull person and i really understand his motivations! Its only really unfortunately he made a bad choise by trying to kill all te leaders...

Toph and Ming Hua, now that's 2 characters whose disability doesn't stop them from being complete badasses

Man I thought we were gonna get new information about the Red Lotus, not a recap of Season 3.

The order of the red lotus could actually be a way of introducing a subplot into Both ATLA and LOK that would be in my opinion immensely intriguing. I however heavily dislike the origins of the group simply bc it lacks depth, and it starts with Xia Bau. Ok so he’s a defect from the OWL but that’s it? Yet Zaheer had an obsession with Guru Lahima…but Xia Bau has a grove dedicated to him in the spirit world…hmmm here’s my theory and while it may be a little far fetched hear me out: Xia Bau isnt the true originator of the red lotus. Guru Lahima is. When wan visited the air nomads on the back of their flying turtle, they asked rava why she was without vatuu, something the air benders knew as they are in contact with the spirits more than any other nation. It could very well be possible that the air nomads didn’t totally agree with wan becoming the avatar and what’s more closing the spirit portals. This could have caused a splintering in the teachings of the air nation over time, while you have the air nation that established their loyalty to the avatar you can also have those in the air nation that would have seen it as hypocritical to their teaching to attach their loyalty, and it could have been that loyalty that caused them to FORGET how to fly…until LAHIMA, whose views and teachings weren’t widely accepted by the air nation bc of the anarchy it would intimately cause…in the air nation FIRST. Too many avatars and too many invents proceeding the 100 year war that give the Red lotus to form right under the nose of the white lotus. It’s just my honest opinion that the red lotus forming AFTER gives it little to feed off and completely contradicts itself when the leader of the group is the student of an airbending anarchist who existed AGES before this group was even formed. I truly hope that Guru Lahima gets his own story…but what would be crazy is if he somehow gets mention in the new Yang Chen novel.

These guys deserved two seasons

The thumbnail of this video is so adorable Especially ming hua ,she looks so precious

I personally never understood why they decided to kill The Avatar completely. Doing so wouldn’t cause chaos, instead, it probably would’ve united the world against them and their ideals. I think it would’ve simply been better if they stuck to their original and plan and just killed Korra, then kidnapped the next reincarnation of the Avatar.

The air bending zaheer used on the earth queen should be called breathbending

Korra was at her best in S3, from what we've seen in S1 she learned how to airbend, ok, S2 she was a giant spiritual battle suit, okay, S4 she was getting her ass kicked by kuvira but it worked out in the end, okay, Although she almost got finished by zaheer, she made real difficult and it was a close fight, she lost her edge cuz she lost her cool giving zaheer an opening to almost get the job done. S3 Korra was so scary, even Korra was traumatized, Damn

Honestly, I think the Red Lotus were the best LoK villains because they were enjoyable in the same way Ozai's Angels were in the original series: they felt human at some points.

I think the reason why the Red Lotus didn't kill Tenzin when they had him surrounded was because Zaheer genuinely respected him.

I feel like zaheer was the best villain in the series because the series respected his character, he had his point of view, beliefs, skills and never seemed to be out of character, even if he's a villain, it's never really treated like the kind of villain that you MUST despise or love, it manages to make him, somehow, respectable and with respectable I dont mean he shouldn't be in prison, I mean that you cant really critique that much his beliefs

Zaheer had an amazing design when he was locked up with the rags and long hair. I'm thinking the real reason they penned in the shaving was so they didn't have to animate all that hair in those fights haha

Best season of the show.😍 those characters were so cool. 🤩Funny thing is the combustion bending which is at the same time so powerful and so weak😅

The red lotus deserve its own series.

I’m down to see the “pre lotus kids” prequel to LOK - they all have a rough time, find each other, be there for each other and after a tragic loss of the 5th friend to an unjust ruler, Zaheer changes. After the mourning of their friend, become the Red Lotus. Because as radical as the Red Lotus, no one showed cowardice, they died facing their foes, there was no real terrorism or lying. Also that Thumbnail is very wholesome and got my interest

Man Zaheer was already ahead of the tall queens gang. Gotta respect him for that.

Red lotus will always be my favorite villans in legend of korra. All members are strong and Zaheers point of view wasent completly wrong. Zaheer is a godd airbender and very spiritual he helpt korra in season 4. Ming hua is a very intressting waterbender she dont let her disability get in the way and she is very creative with her waterarms. Gazhan is a poverfull lavabender who gave uss a intressting presentation on how lavabending can be used. Pli is a comboster women who have a very intressting backstory and a very intresting love story with zaheer.

Zaheer was the best avatar villain in the entire universe. He was like the Thanos of the avatar universe in that we wasn’t just trying to be more powerful or to rule everything, but just to make the tough choice to do what he sees as the right thing, even if the right thing is horrible. Plus he’s a highly skilled, intelligent, well educated, well spoken strategist.. a joy to watch on screen.

If it wasn't for the conflict, Ghazan and Bolin would be absolute besties! They are an underrated duo and I'd love to see more of their interactions.

I love heart this entire video is just information we already know from the show and that he didn’t add any new information from comics and stuff

Wow that thumbnail... I never thought I'd be blessed to see a cute Ming-Hua, but here we are!

The pan away during Tenzin’s beat down conveyed more brutality than any actual animation could have ever done. So well done by the story board

Amon still my fav antagonist in TLoK

they weren’t such awful ideas they just took it too far. anarchy doesn’t mean complete and absolute every-person-for-themselves and you can free the spirit world without freeing vaatu.

I loved Su this season because up to this point the good guys never really fought to kill. But then we met Su and literally fought to kill in every battle she was in, she killed like 5 people that season.

The red lotus were the best written villains in the series.

The Red Lotus I think are the most intriguing opponents the Avatar ever faced. But not quite my favorite. No. That honor belongs to Fire Lord Ozai. Mark Hamill voiced him to perfection.

Good video, lots of info, but I was hoping for more than a recap of korra season 3

Season 3 is the only season of LOK I enjoyed

No arms lady was terrifying.

The Legend of Korra villains are awesome. Don’t understand why use them all for 1 avatar. Amon, and Zaheer could easily have at-least 3 seasons for their own. I think they could’ve lasted more.

I liked the red lotus and would love to see them come back. I also really liked the Dai Li.

"Everyone thinks they're the Hero of their own story." - Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2.

This is good. The pace of speech by Narator is perfect. Voice is good. Unlike most pathetic KZfaqrs with bad voice and intonation. Editing is also very good. Keep up the amazing work.

These guys where the anti team avatar, and did the job better than the actual anti avatar.

But fr. As for me, I would really want to see series about avatar raised by Red lotus. Just imagine. Not avatar saving the world, but the world tries to save avatar as a concept

Where did you get the thumbnail picture of the Red Lotus masters as teenagers?

That thumbnail felt like watching kid Ozai in that picture all over again.

I had a cool theory, imagine if Zaheer returned in the Earth avatar series, but in the Spirit world, and he taught the avatar his knowledge of airbending. Maybe the avatar would travel to Laghimas Peak and meditate into the spirit world in order to contact him.

Ming hua is adorable in the thumbnail

I really wish they fleshed out the anarchist ideology more fairly. With all villains, it kind of seemed like they became caricatures of their original ideologies, just so the viewer is blatantly aware that they are the bad guy.

"After failing to capture 5 year old Korra." Sounds like such a powerful team.

Someone please give zaheer his air bender tattoos please....what a master !!

The Red Lotus are like the Akatsuki in Naruto, they’re both terrorist group that hunt for the Avatar (for the Akatsuki it’s Jinchuriki or tailed beast), they both believe in peace in a different way, and they both have terrifying powers (though I think the Red Lotus are less terrifying then let’s say Hidan and Kakuzu who are part of the Akatsuki)

1:32 the perfect dap up 🔥 🔥

Wow, what a cute thumbnail. i hope the guys on it don't end up dying horribly :)

I thought when you said the history I thought you would’ve been speaking about them before the events of Korra

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No lie they look so chill in the thumbnail. Even if they did pass away, I wanted to know if the had any successors like siblings or junior students. I remember when Bolin was a joking around with the 2 red lotus members and 1 of his guesses was that the lava dude was raised by his sister. It'd be interesting if he was and that she was a member too. I'd love to see more lava bending and how it has advanced with time. Maybe there is a PYROCLASTIC FLOW bender, that would be so OP. It would literally take multiple skilled metal benders just to take out one. Cause the other elements can't actually combat it...well at least not individually.

I’d love to see some sort of spin off comic or something about the Red Lotus main villain’s adventures and backstories when they were younger!!

Yes... never been a fan of the convenient plot where someone who spent 13 years in a small cage, randomly wins the _Airbending Lottery_ and instantly become so skilled to outmatch people who trained their Bending for years.

I never knew Pali Menghua and Gazan died but after watching this it makes sense.

Where'd that picture in the thumbnail come from? It's really good!

Thanks for explaining basically the last season... I expected way more...

“Tonrack” 💀

The fight between Zahir and Korra and the air benders is pretty sweet.

It’s how unluaq , zaheer and kuvira are connected in a way because of harmonic convergence zaheer got his airbending powers going on to kill the queen causing kuvira to become a dictator in the earth kingdom

When you need someone to fix your sink you call a plumber, when you need your electricity you call an electrician AND WHEN YOU NEED TO OVERTHROW A BRUTAL TYRANT YOU CALL AN ANARCHIST!!!

Imagine if red lotus trianed korra... imagine a combustion bending avatar...imagine combustion bending while in avatar state

I would love to see a spinoff series with the red lotus as the protagonists.

It's been interesting to read the commentaries about how the "villains" have a valid point in their worldview in Avatar lore over the "good guys" who supported the worldview of the Avatar existing to keep balance in their world. It's just arrogance and hypocrisy to side with anarchy and cruelty that the Red Lotus believes the world would be better off destroying the Avatar legacy. Balance of the world is the mission of the Avatar after Wan's mistake in freeing Vaatu from battling Raava causing this nearly eternal battle of Light versus Dark. Wan felt guilty that he "failed" during his lifetime as the Avatar to bring balance but Raava reminded him they would be together through all the future AVatars as there will always be hope for peace. Each Avatar will have their lifetimes and different challenges to encounter as the Red Lotus is Korra's challenge. Kenji will have his own challenges as well.

Zaheer and fire lord ozai are the best antagonist

I like this darker side of the Avatar universe💯

Nah man, that thumbnail is too too wholesome😂😂

Honestly the only Red Lotus Member that was actually a threat was Gazan.Tenzin Knew how to suffocate the others cos his dad knew the abilities to suffocation. And if Toph were there Ming Hua would stand no chance. The beifong sisters could have used their metal bending to kill Gazan by tying his hands and Kya most probably doesnt know advanced bloodbending but must atleast know a little. Her mom was a bloodbending master.

Pretty impressive that Ming Hua can drive

I wish to see the red lotus in the next series

What value did Zaheer bring to the red lotus prior to getting air bending…? I know he saved P’li, but first of all *HOW* and second of all, what else could he have done without any special abilities???

I would like to see zaheer vs ghazan and pli 's mingua

ghazan: ''guess he doesnt need a ride"

Beautiful story!

If kora opened the bridge for spirits to come back to the world so what else does the red lotus want to happen?