Vaatu

Destroy Raava and forever break the connection to the past Avatars (both succeeded).
Plunge the Earth into 10,000 years of darkness and to recreate it and begin a new Draconian Age in which he rules (failed).

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

He was supposed to be a badass eldritch entity but instead comes across as an angry kite with a paper-thin personality.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

Some viewers think he actually is badass.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Devilish Archetype

**Vaatu** is the overarching antagonist of *Avatar: The Last Airbender* and *The Legend of Korra*.

He is the mighty spirit of destruction and chaos, who seeks to fuse with Unalaq to bring forth the end of the world so he can start a new Draconian Age where he rules the world. Unlike other villains in the series except Unalaq and Hou-Ting, Vaatu is the only without any genuinely good intentions for his evil actions.

He was voiced by Jonathan Adams.

## What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?

### What Do People Like About the Character?

* He is perceived as a badass eldritch horror who makes cool sounds when he flies and can shoot lasers (unlike Raava). He also has a genuinely intimidating presence, unlike Unalaq.
* He can be cunning since he tricked Wan into freeing him so he can commence his evil endeavors.
* He does fill his role of *yin and yang* in the series reasonably well despite his flat personality.

### What Do People Dislike About the Character?

* Unlike many other villains in the series, Vaatu lacks any of the well-intentioned motivations with legitimate points on how flawed the world is that genuinely wants to fix it their way that made them such compelling villains, and is instead a boring, generic, power-hungry, rotten to the core, cartoonishly and purely evil tyrant with nothing else interesting about him.
* When Wan frees him, the first thing he does is attack a village of innocent airbenders, to which Wan correctly calls him out that they've done nothing to Vaatu. And when Raava turns up, he runs away like a coward. In fact, he only fights her when he's literally a giant which says a lot about how brave he is.
* It's his fault that Avatar Wan closed the spirit portals. It's also his fault that the Avatar Cycle is completely screwed up. (There goes our childhoods.)
* Although light and darkness cannot exist without one another, and Raava knows this full well, Vaatu is hell-bent on destroying her once and for all. Even if he destroys her, she'll come back (which literally happened on-screen) and vice versa. Vaatu clearly didn't get the memo.
* He spent ten thousand years imprisoned, only to be free for two minutes before Korra beat him senseless before Unalaq has to save him at the last second.
* His endgame is yet again another generic End of the World scenario in which the stakes feel inflated rather than actually high. A whole lot applies to Vaatu's method of bringing "Ten Thousand years of darkness" is by wrecking whatever he sees in Republic City.
* The biggest disappointment on Vaatu is how he utterly wastes the entire concept of a Dark Avatar. What you expect is Vaatu having the ability to bend all four elements like the Light Avatar upon Unalaq fusing with him and provide a huge battle of all the 4 elements for the fate of the world, or heck, use completely alien elements never before seen in the show that can counter Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. What we get is just instead a spirit possessing a waterbender on steroids as a lame copout, hence bringing forth a painfully generic kaiju battle.
* While one could argue the spirits have different morality than the humans, such as with Koh the Face Stealer in his moral grayness, this doesn't change anything about Vaatu as the weird spirit's entire so-called ideology is that we were put on this earth to kill one another, and despises Raava for making sure humans are acknowledging that there's more to life than just indulging murderous instincts twenty-four-seven, hence cementing his despicability.

## External Links

* Vaatu on the Villains Wiki
* Vaatu on the Near Pure Evil Wiki
* Vaatu on the Avatar Wiki

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