Mr. Whispers

**Mr Whispers** was a YouTuber whose video was covered on EFAP 33

### Why Korra is a Better Avatar Than Aang

While MauLer himself had not seen either show, with well-known *Korra* detractor E;R making an appearance in EFAP 33, he took the opportunity to show him Mr Whispers' video on the two shows, where Whispers argued that he might even go so far as to say Korra is a better Avatar than Aang. He understood why people disliked Korra, figuring that they had grown up with Aang and learned by seeing the world through his eyes, and Korra was the antithesis of Aang - blunt, aggressive, and headstrong, a description E;R found to be generous. However, he noted that Korra was written to be that way on purpose, as opposed to by accident, and then went into the multitude of traits Aang had that made him compelling, contrasting them with the lack of those traits in Korra, which MauLer found to be a pretty convincing case for Aang being the better character. Whispers explained how those less admirable traits were understandable for someone who spent much of her life feeling isolated, prompting even Rags, who had never seen either show, to recall that Aang himself experienced a great deal of isolation. Mr Whispers also argued that Korra faced more obstacles than Aang, whose status as the Avatar earned him respect from everyone outside of the occasional government authority dismissing him, whereas E;R remembered that a lot of people viewed the Avatar as a traitor for disappearing for a century. Whispers' point was punctuated with a clip of Sokka appealing to Aang being the Avatar to win the favor of an owl spirit, to which E;R corrected that said owl did not concede to them after that. Whispers contrasted this with Korra having to win over the favor of various political leaders, which E;R argued was really only true of Book 3. Another point Whispers made was that Korra's connection with her past lives was severed, leaving her only able to depend on herself and her allies, with E;R recalling that Aang mostly turned to his past lives for moral advice rather than pragmatic, and Korra ends up doing just fine without them. He concluded by explaining that Aang only had to deal with the black and white issue of defeating the evil Fire Lord whereas Korra never faces a dilemma so simple, which E;R found laughable since Aang spent most of the show dealing with the much morally grayer Zuko, and Korra at one point fought the Dark Avatar, a spirit of chaos and evil.

## Quotes

* "He is arguing why Korra's *better*, right?" - MauLer
* "She can throw a car into a building and cause a lot of destruction. Good on you, Korra!"
"That is called *likability*, Wolf"
 - Wolf and MauLer
* "This dilutes the importance of Korra and Naga's relationship"
* "The misconception here is that there's a problem with their difference in sentimentality"
"Oh, he has some, she has none?"
 - Mr Whispers and Rags
* "Korra spends the rest of her life at an unprecedented disadvantage, forced to resolve any obstacle she faces on her own, or with the help of those who are readily available"
"Oh, like Aang"
 - Mr Whispers and Rags
	+ "I like her disadvantage of losing her powers and then gaining them all again" - MauLer
* "What did Amon want? Equality for all! Unalaq? He brought back the spirits! And Zaheer believed in freedom!"
"... I guess"
- Toph and Korra, in Mr Whispers' video
* “Her trials and tribulations far surpassing his”