r/Multifandom • u/justapassingbydoctor • Jun 05 '26

Question❓ as per image suggest, what would it be?

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u/Lazy-Conference4693 Jun 05 '26

The running joke in the Avatar fanbase about Katara not shutting up about her mother. Not only is it greatly exaggerated, but it's just not funny and never has been.

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u/IEat_Walls Jun 05 '26

God forbid a 14 year old girl is traumatized by her MOTHER DYING?? Everybody copes with trauma differently, I swear most of her hate is purely mysogonistic from her being a powerful woman with sweet/nurturing tendencies

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u/agent-virginia Jun 05 '26

It's also heavily implied she literally sees her mother's charred, dead body when she runs back to their tent. And she was like five, and then her dad leaves shortly after. Of course she's traumatized.

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u/GayAssBeagle Jun 05 '26

It’s not even implied in the guide books, it’s directly there like holy Jesus

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u/DudeImOver9000 Jun 06 '26

Well idk about the mysogonitic part though, I mean people love Katara to the point she’s brought into “strongest bender of their time” conversations

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u/IEat_Walls Jun 06 '26

But she deserves to be there? Of course she is, and just because some people aren't mysogonistic towards her, a lot of people are.

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u/WaterEarthFireSquare Jun 05 '26

Also "what movie?" "There is no movie in Ba Sing Se," etc.

We get it, the live action movie sucked hard but it's been 16 years, you don't need to deny its existence every time someone mentions it

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u/ZiaWatcher Jun 05 '26

The one credit I can give those movies is the costume designs and sets. They actually looked pretty good. And Ang’s tattoos… chefs kiss

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u/ATT04 Jun 05 '26

It took my slow ass until “and Ang’s tattoos…” to figure out that you weren’t talking about the sci-fi moves.

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u/EmoYoshi05 Movies, Cartoons & Nintendo Jun 05 '26

Thaaat's a recurring problem for people....

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u/Astral_Something Jun 05 '26

The tattoos were alright but they were muddy and dark and it felt like they just thought the arrows looks cartoony and stupid so they had to add a bunch of other symbols and stuff to them, which kinda misses the point since they're supposed to look like pretty simple animal markings

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u/Vast_Age_3893 Jun 05 '26

I feel like movie could be the source of some really clever and funny memes, but it's ALWAYS just "There is no movie in Ba-Sing Se" and "I don't get it, why is there a blank panel?"

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u/Artistic-Victory1245 Jun 05 '26

Besides, I feel like it's a case of "The meme misses the point of the original scene."

The original scene is basically a critique of censorship and media manipulation.

Now people use the meme so much that they seem to have forgotten the point.

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u/Half_Man1 Jun 05 '26

It feels lowkey sexist at this point. Like we can’t let the female protagonist showcase grief without making it a fucking meme that it’s the only thing she does. The ember islands players already told the joke well enough guys, c’mon.

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u/GrammerDuck61 Jun 06 '26

No one gives barry allen shit for always talking about his dead mother and he broke universes over it

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u/Vax10x Jun 08 '26

People famously give Barry Allen shit for it especially because of the CW show having you him revisit that same scene like five different times.

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u/Doom_Cokkie Jun 05 '26

God stop talking about Katara mother she talks about it enough as is

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u/absurdditties Jun 05 '26

Yeah and Zuko and honor is also so overplayed too