Katara (Avatar)

Katara, also known as June Pippinpaddleopsicopolis, Kwa Mai, Sapphire Fire and The Painted Lady, is one of the main characters from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series.
== Charactah Account ==
A compassionate girl who is the last Waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, Katara has accepted the responsibility of looking after her brother Sokka after their mother died and their father left to fight in the war. Despite her many hardships, she never lost faith that the Avatar would one day return to save the world. After finding Aang in the iceberg, Katara acts as the mom of the team while also being Aang's Waterbending teacher and love interest.
Katara is caring and compassionate, and is often marked by a fierce determination to aid others. She stated herself that she would never turn away from people who need her help. Katara was even willing to defend Fire Nation civilians such as when she helped the village of Jang Hui and when she fought Hama, who was from the Southern Water Tribe, to protect the Fire Nation village she was living in. This strong desire often frustrated others, particularly Sokka.
Katara was portrayed as the most mature member of the group, rarely taking part in Sokka and Aang's goofy pranks and Toph's less silly ones, though she did have a sense of humor. Katara was described as being motherly by Toph and Sokka. While the team traveled through the Si Wong Desert, Katara was able to hold the group together in its most desperate moments.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book One: Water
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book Two: Earth
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book Three: Fire
* The Legend of Korra - Book One: Air
* The Legend of Korra - Book Two: Spirits
* The Legend of Korra - Book Four: Balance
=== Comics ===
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book One: Water
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book Two: Earth
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book Three: Fire
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Imbalance
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Katara and the Pirate's Silver
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South Part One
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South Part Two
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South Part Three
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow Part One
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow Part Two
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search
=== Video Games ===
* Avatar: Legends of the Arena
* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - Into the Inferno
* Avatar: The Last Airbender – Quest for Balance
* Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth
* Nicktoons MLB
* The Legend of Korra
== Trivia ==
* The name Katara means "drop, water droplet" in Arabic.
** In the Greek dub, her name is Tamara. This is probably because "katara" means curse in Greek. However, when Nickelodeon translated Sifu Kisu's words about waterbending he mentions her as Katara. Her name was also mentioned as Katara by the White Lotus leader in The Legend of Korra.
** In the unaired pilot, Katara's character was named Kya. The name Kya was later given to her previously unnamed mother. Nickelodeon's legal department vetoed the name when they discovered there was already a video game character named Kya, so they had to change it. Kanna was first proposed to replace Kya, but was later used for the name of her grandmother instead.
** The last character in Katara's name means pull, which is one of the basics of waterbending.
* Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have stated that they think of Katara as the deuteragonist of the series, as well as the "person the story is being told through".
* Katara was originally envisioned as a twelve-year-old girl, but after a suggestion from one of the crew members, she was "aged up".
* Katara inherited her grandmother's looks, as Yagoda suggested.
* Initially, Katara's design had her strands of hair loosely hanging down. The idea for her tied-back hair loopies came from Tin House animation director Yoon Young Ki, making it so that her hair was easier to animate.
* Katara once stated that she hates papayas.
* According to Aunt Wu, Katara will have her third great-grandchild before quietly passing away in her sleep.
* Katara, along with her brother, Sokka, had the longest list of love interests in the show: Jet and Aang both had her eye, and although nothing ever happened, Toph once assumed Katara and Haru "had a secret thing" together. Unlike her brother, she had no love interests from the Water Tribes or the Fire Nation.
* Katara is the only known person to use both healing and bloodbending, which constitutes all known sub-skills of waterbending.
** As such, Katara is the only known bender capable of using all known sub-skills of a given element.
* Katara's quick series of jabs against her master, Pakku, during their fight is the first instance of two benders using hand-to-hand combat in the series.
* Katara is the only person to have participated in all of the water duels featured during the Hundred Year War, battling Pakku, a number of his waterbending students, Aang, and Hama.
* In "The Cave of Two Lovers" with Avatar Extras bonus commentary, it was confirmed that Katara mastered waterbending in the short time that she was at the North Pole, making her the first female student of Master Pakku.
* Katara is one of two people known to have trained two different Avatars, the other being Toph Beifong.
** Katara is also the second known person who trained alongside an Avatar and later taught their successor, the first of which being Gyatso.
* Katara is the only known waterbender to have taught more than one Avatar.
* Katara is one of only two people, aside from the Avatars themselves, to have seen four Avatars in their lifetime, the other being Sokka. She saw Roku and Kyoshi manifest themselves through Aang, knew Aang, and was Avatar Korra's waterbending master.
* Katara was the only member of Team Avatar never to meet Fire Lord Ozai on-screen during the series.
* Katara is the first known waterbender to have given birth to an airbender.
* The way Katara discovered Korra leaving the Southern Water Tribe compound is similar to the way Kannadiscovered Katara and Sokka leaving in "The Avatar Returns". Both times a young person is leaving, somehow involving the Avatar's fate, and both times the elder lets them go.
* Other than in the opening sequence, Katara was the first person to bend in the series.
* Katara narrated the opening sequence, and therefore was the first person to speak in the series.
* Katara was seen or mentioned in every episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender except "Zuko Alone".
* Katara is the only character to appear in both the first and last scenes of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
* Katara appears in every book of the Avatar franchise, save for Book Three: Change.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Katara at Avatar Wiki
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