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Avatar: The Last Airbender character
Katara
Nationality	Water Tribe (Southern Tribe)
Notable Aliases	The Painted Lady (alter ego), Kua Mei, Sapphire Fire
Gender	Female
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Blue
Age	14
First appearance	"The Boy in the Iceberg"
Voiced by	Mae Whitman

Katara is a fictional character voiced by Mae Whitman in the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Fourteen-year-old Katara is a Waterbending master from the South Pole's Southern Water Tribe who, along with her older brother, Sokka, discovers Aang, the long-lost Avatar, and accompanies him on his quest to defeat the Fire Nation and bring peace to the war-torn nations. Image File history File links Katara. ... Water Tribe Avatar Temple Northern Water Tribe armory The Water Tribe is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... Water Tribe Avatar Temple Northern Water Tribe armory The Water Tribe is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes The Boy in the Iceberg is the first half of the two-part series premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which first aired on February 21, 2005 on Nickelodeon. ... Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American television and voice actress. ... A fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that is created from ones imagination or from an adaption of an existing entity. ... Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American television and voice actress. ... This article is about the TV channel. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Waterbender is a collective term for an order of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... For other uses, see South Pole (disambiguation). ... Water Tribe Avatar Temple Northern Water Tribe armory The Water Tribe is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... Sokka is a fictional character voiced by Jack DeSena in the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeons animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... The Fire Nation is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ...

Creation and conception

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According to the unaired pilot episode included on the Avatar Complete Book 1 Collection DVD set, Katara's name was originally Kya, but was changed before the start of the series proper.^[1] In "The Tales of Ba Sing Se," Katara's name was written as 卡 塔 拉. Kǎ (卡) means to check, block, or card; Tǎ (塔) means pagoda; and Lā (拉) means to pull. The character Lā is the same La as the Ocean Spirit's name from the season one's finale, while the character for Kǎ also appears in Sokka's name.^[2] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Tales of Ba Sing Se The Tales of Ba Sing Se is an episode from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which airs on Nickelodeon. ... Myanmars Shwedagon Pagoda is one of the most recognizable and revered pagodas in the Buddhist World A pagoda at Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia For other uses, see Pagoda (disambiguation). ...

In the commentary of the unaired pilot episode, co creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino state that Katara's "hair loopies" used to hang down but was changed because the animators said it would be too hard to animate and suggested that they'd be looped back rather than beaded locks.^[1] Avatar: The Last Airbender (known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in the UK, Brazil and India) is an American animated television series airing on Nickelodeon since February 21, 2005; recently it has also become available on iTunes. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

Katara also is the owner of her grandmother's betrothal necklace. Her grandmother handed it down to Katara's mother, who handed it down to Katara. The necklace is a blue choker, with the water tribe insignia carved on the only hanging ornament.

Plot Overview

Katara grew up as the mature, motherly figure of her family and tribe. When Katara was eight years old, her mother was killed in a Fire Nation raid. (More information about her mother's death is heard to be later revealed in the upcoming 16th chapter episode: Southern Raiders, from Book 3: Fire, in July 2008.) The Fire Nation is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ...

Though her interests lie in developing her waterbending skills, she resigns herself to cooking and cleaning duties while her brother, Sokka, trained to become a warrior. At twelve, Katara's father, Hakoda, and the other tribesmen journey to the Earth Kingdom to participate in the war effort against the Fire Nation. This leaves her, alongside her brother and grandmother, Kana ("Gran Gran"), to look after the tribe.^[3] Waterbending is a mystical martial art featured within the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... Earth Kingdom Avatar Temple. ...

The events of Avatar: The Last Airbender begin two years following this, during a spearfishing expedition, when Katara and Sokka find Aang in suspended animation inside an iceberg. Katara frees him and comes to discover that Aang is the Avatar. With a common goal of mastering waterbending, Katara, along with her brother, joins Aang in the journey to the Northern Water Tribe to find a waterbending master to teach them.^[4] Upon arrival, Master Pakku refuses her apprenticeship, because she is female.^[5] However, after noticing an engagement gift he gave to Katara's grandmother half a century ago, he agrees to teach her.^[5] Katara advances so quickly in her art during their stay in the Northern Water Tribe that Pakku formally deems her capable enough to be Aang's waterbending teacher. ^[6] // Spearfisherman hunting dog-tooth tuna in the Ryu-Kyu Islands Dutch fishermen using tridents in the 17th century Night spear fishing, Amazon basin, Peru. ... This article is about suspended animation in a medical context. ... For other uses, see Iceberg (disambiguation). ... Water Tribe Avatar Temple Northern Water Tribe armory The Water Tribe is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ...

The second season opens with Katara leaving the North Pole, and receiving water from the Spirit Oasis.^[7] Katara then journeys with Aang to the Earth Kingdom for him to learn earthbending.^[7] While at an Earth Kingdom stronghold, General Fong places Katara’s life in danger in an attempt to get Aang to enter the Avatar State.^[7] After Toph joins the group to teach Aang, Katara and Toph often end up in fights and dissagreements. While in Ba Sing Se, Aang is mortally wounded, but Katara is able to save his life using the water from the Spirit Oasis.^[8] Earth Kingdom Avatar Temple. ... Earthbending is a mystical martial art featured within the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. ... Earth Kingdom Avatar Temple. ... A stronghold is a strongly fortified defensive structure. ... For the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode of similar name, see The Avatar State. ...

While on the ship that the group obtains to get to the Fire Nation in the third season, they are attacked by another Fire Nation ship that discovered their false identity, Katara aids in their escape.^[9] While in a village burdened by the Fire Nation's pollution; Katara surreptitiously disguises herself as the river spirit, The Painted Lady, in order to help the village.^[10] While staying with an old woman the group meets in the woods, they find one of the last Southern Waterbenders before Katara, Hama. Hama was kidnapped and thrown in a Fire Nation prison. Hama discovers a new kind of waterbending while in the prison. She tries to teach Katara the techniques of the Southern Water Tribe. Hama reveals that she can bend human blood in a technique called bloodbending. When Katara refuses to learn this technique, Hama bloodbends Aang and Sokka forcing Katara to use bloodbending herself to save her friends.^[11] Katara isn't seen doing very much in the next 3 episodes other then helping heal her father after he's wounded. In "The Western Air Temple", when Zuko offers to join it is Katara who makes the first move to attack him and send him off. At the end of the episode Katara makes a threat to Zuko that if she so much as thinks he's going to hurt Aang, she will end Zuko's life.

Personality

Katara is a study in contrasts. On one hand, she is mature and kind,^[12] Katara is the one who took on the motherly roles in her tribe after her mother died. She also swears never to leave people who she cares for in their time of need and cares for people she trusts. ^[4] As the last remaining waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe in the show, Katara reveals in the first episode of the show that her fondest dream is to become a waterbending master.^[4] In some episodes, such as "Imprisoned," Katara asserts herself to persuade people to do what she thinks is right.^[13] However, with the features described, Katara is sometimes described as being jealous to the point of stealing and lying, and overly idealistic in her constant attempts to change a society that she does not like, as well as bossy and controlling.^[14] She's also very sensitive, easily angered over real or perceived insults. In addition, there are occasions, such as in the very beginning of the first episode, when her temper lets out; her outbursts are accompanied by involuntary, augmented waterbending that she does not realize she is doing.^[4] She also expresses strong contempt and distrust to those who have betrayed her.^[15]

Abilities

Katara's abilities have greatly improved since the very first episode. At the outset, she at best waterbended by luck. She had little control over her waterbending and often needed someone else to help her defeat an opponent. However as time went on, thanks to first studying a waterbending scroll, then studying under Master Pakku, her waterbending rapidly improved, to the point that she became considered a Waterbending Master.

Katara can use water to cut through objects, can summon waves of varying sizes and can freeze water (and whatever is in the water) with little effort. Katara once used the water from her own sweat to break herself out of a wooden jail-cell. She has learned from an older Southern Water Tribe Waterbender to take water from the air to use and take water from the plants around her (in the 8th Chapter of the third season called 'The Puppetmaster'). As stated earlier, she also has learned to manipulate people through a rare form of waterbending called "bloodbending". She also has a special ability to heal individuals, at one point using this ability to heal Aang at the end of season two. Katara's one possible weakness is that she tends to avoid non-bending, hand-to-hand combat, though this is debatable.

Character reception

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Being another protagonist of the show, Katara also receives a lot of attention from reviewers. She is described as "Smart, capable [she] is almost a generic anime heroine".^[16] In addition to these features, she also is "kind, brave, and passionate."^[12] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...

Katara is very motherly (some ways more then others) and protective. Her subconscious desire to be 100% correct 100% of the time often makes her judge things a little too quickly. Though Katara is kind and sorta selfless she does not find it easy to forgive people whom have hurt her and her friends in the past.

Katara is not one to shy away from a fight though she doesn't usually seek conflict. Katara is very brave and caring, putting herself in harms way for another at times.

Appearances in other media

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Katara's character has appeared in both THQ's video game for the show, which are Avatar: The Last Airbender (video game)^[17] and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth.^[18][19] Like Aang, Katara also appears on some Avatar T-shirts sold by Nick,^[20] as well as in Tokyopop's films comic (sometimes referred to as cine-manga).^[21] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... THQ Inc. ... For the music movie, see Tokyo Pop. ... The cover of a Di Gi Charat films comic Films comics ) are a variant of Japanese manga which are available in manga style books and digitally as e-books, occasionally called e-manga. ...

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