Avatar: The Last Airbender & Korra (SPOILERS)

[trash panda]

I was watching Frasier last night, or...well...I had Frasier on in the background last night and to my surprise I heard Uncle Iroh's voice. Unmistakably: it was Uncle Iroh. So I turned around and looked at the t.v. and watched this guy speak and my mouth was gaping. I was so unsure of myself that I looked it up on IMDB and...yep...it's him.

He comes in at 1:07

 

[Carlie]

If you watch M*A*S*H you'd be surprised with how many recurring characters he played. He was such a great actor, both in voice and live action.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I always get nostalgic when Samurai Jack comes on (or the 2007 Ninja Turtles movie).




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[Ryushikaze]

I always get nostalgic when Samurai Jack comes on (or the 2007 Ninja Turtles movie).

Don't forget the Happy Cat episode of Duck Dodgers (A samurai Jack Parody)

Mako was a hell of an actor.

 

[Carlie]

Btw guys J.K. Simmons won at the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor:

 

[Carlie]

Janet Varney thinks she's actually Korra:

 

[Carlie]

Here's an interview with production manager Sean Gantka:

He talks about Korrasami, production etc. He made a comment saying Asami is Korra's heart which has caused a debate on tumblr (shocking). Because some people who are not fans of the final scene don't think that was portrayed in the series.

 

[Tennyo]

Btw guys J.K. Simmons won at the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor:

Who did he play in Korra?

 

[Shademp]

Simmons played Tenzin. Yup, it surprised me too. In fact it still surprises me.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

What!!? How did you guys not instantly recognize his voice?!




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[Shademp]

I had only seen/heard Simmons before as Jameson in the Spiderman movies. The atmosphere of Tenzin and J. Jonah Jameson are way too different for me to draw similarities in their voices.

 

[Carlie]

Well he's not hamming it up like he usually does with his roles, like with

Spoiler: Cave Johnson

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!"

from Portal 2 and of course J. Jonah Jameson. So maybe that's why some people don't realize it's him.

Spoiler: Here's a list of The Legend of Korra Voice Cast with some funny information

Avatar Korra - Janet Varney (One of the reasons she got the role was because she was a huge fan of ATLA. Also she used to be in a relationship with Chris Hardwick who voiced Adult Sokka)

Asami Sato - Seychelle Gabriel (She was Princess Yue in the movie. Funnily before LoK started Korra got shipped a lot with Yue so in meta way Korra still is being shipped with her.)

Bolin - P.J. Byrne (he's Kenny Sommerfeld (MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED!!!) in Horrible Bosses)

Mako - David Faustino (Bud Bundy from Married... with Children)

Tenzin - J.K. Simmons (One of Lin's fandom names is Spider-Lin and he's J. Jonah Jameson, the fandom had a lot of fun with that one)

Lin Beifong - Mindy Sterling (Frau Farbissina from Austin Powers and Miss Briggs on iCarly)

Young Lin Beifong - Grey DeLisle (Aside from the funny fact that she's Azula, when Lin's character was announced and everyone was asking who the father was, one of the producers made a huge rant about how that wasn't important but ended it saying "Also Lin's dad is Azula. It's complicated." That quickly became a meme so Lin's voiced by her dad.)

Jinora - Kiernan Shipka (She started the meme Bad Joke Kya)

Peema - Maria Bamford

Ikki - Darcy Rose Byrnes (She's a year older than Kiernan Shipka who plays her older sister Jinora)

Meelo - Logan Wells

Adult Toph - Kate Higgins (She played Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in "Batgirl: Year One")

Old Toph - Philece Sampler (Mimi Tachikawa from Digimon)

Old Katara - Eva Marie Saint (She has an Oscar for playing Elia in "On the Waterfront")

Adult Sokka - Chris Hardwick

Adult Aang - D.B. Sweeney

Tarrlok - Dee Bradley Baker (Also Appa, Momo, Nagga, Pabu and Oogi and his daughter Cora Baker voiced young Korra. Her first lines in voice acting were "I'm the Avatar and you gotta deal with it!")

Amon - Steve Blum (Actually played a firebender in Book 3. I met him at Comic Con last year, he's just as awesome in person. I immensely regret forgetting to ask him to tell us an Amon joke.)

Amon's boyfriend Lieutenant - Lance Henriksen (Admiral Hackett in the Mass Effect series. Btw wtf happened to the Lieutenant?)

Spoiler: Voice Cast Part 2

Hiroshi Sato - Daniel Dae Kim (Johnny motherfucking Gat from Saints Row)

Yakone - Clancy Brown (If you don't know who that is, go read his page immediately)

Kya - Lisa Edelstein

Bumi - Richard Riehle

Eska - Aubrey Plaza (She's married to Star Lord in Parks and Recreations. Also she's Puerto Rican.)

Desna - Aaron Himelstein

Tonraq - Carlos Alazraqui (Book 1)/ James Remar (Book 2 onward)

Senna - Alex McKenna (Is actually 8 years younger than Janet Varney who plays her daughter)

Iknik Blackstone Varrick - John Michael Higgins

Zhu Li Moon - Stephanie Sheh (Zhu Li Moon is voiced by Sailor Moon. Also she voices Rohan in the few times that kid appears on screen and makes any sort of sound)

Avatar Aladdin Wan - Steven Yeun (It's Glenn from The Walking Dead)

Raava - April Stewart

Vaatu - Jonathan Adams (He's Martian Manhunter)

Zaheer - Henry Rollings (Serious note: About a day after the Book 3 finale aired he made the extremely poor decision of writing an essay insulting everyone that has committed suicide which was also a few days after his fellow cast member Zelda Williams lost her father Robin Wlliams)

Ming-Hua - Grey DeLisle (Now she's a crazy waterbender)

P'Li - Kristy Wu

Ghazan - Peter Giles

Old Zuko - Bruce Davison (Senator Robert Kelly in X-Men. Technically he also played Mystique)

Suyin Beifong - Anne Heche

Young Suyin Beifong - Jessie Flower (Suyin is voiced by her own mom)

Opal Beifong - Alyson Stoner (There's 2 Batgirls in LoK)

Baatar Sr. - Jim Meskimen

Kai - Skyler Brigmann

Baatar Jr. - Todd Haberkorn

Huan Beifong - James Marsden (For those of you that like FFXIII he's Noel)

Wei and Wing Beifong - Marcus Toji

Fire Lord Izumi - April Steward (Raava turned into a Fire Lord)

Kuvira - Zelda Wlliams (She's named after Zelda from The Legend of Zelda and is in The Legend of Korra. Obviously she's the daughter of Robin Williams which makes both the Book 3 and Book 4 finale a bit awkward to watch when you remember that)

 

[Lex]

Carlie if you need me to throw a bucket of cold water over your head due to the recent korra obsession just lemme know k

 

[Carlie]

As if that's gonna stop me from knowing random facts about voice actors. I'll get over my recent obsession soon. I mean I've been watching a lot of ATLA in the past few days so clearly I'm getting over it .......wait a minute.

 

[Carlie]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned but there's a fan petition going on about bringing the Avatarverse to Netflix.

While unlikely I would love it if this could happen. I've been dying for years to see more stories about the previous Avatars, especially Kyochi and Yangchen. A film could be made post "The Rift" for ATLA and one post finale for LoK (seriously "The Last Airbender cannot be the only movie made from Avatar). Other writers from the team can be in charge of the new stories since Bryke have said they want to move on from Avatar to other projects, they could bring new blood too.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Carlie, how the fuck do you know all that?

Also, was someone reading X-Men movie news when they meant to type "Jason Marsden"?

 

[ForceStealer]

Asami Sato - Seychelle Gabriel

Damn, she looks like Asami. At least in that wikipedia picture.

 

[Tetsujin]

Damn, she looks like Asami.

*expects her to look hot*

*confirms she is hot*

 

[Carlie]

Carlie, how the fuck do you know all that?

Also, was someone reading X-Men movie news when they meant to type "Jason Marsden"?

ATLA is one of my favorite series of all time man. I'm always paying attention to any sort of news.

Damn, she looks like Asami. At least in that wikipedia picture.

*expects her to look hot*

*confirms she is hot*

Yeah some of Asami's facial features were based on Seychelle.

 

[Lex]

That name though

what does she do for a living

sell sea shells on the sea shore

 

[Shademp]

Legend of Korra - Official Family Trees

 

[Carlie]

YouTube recommended me I watch this old gem:

Bryke are such epic, hilarious trolls. I remember how the craziness in the fandom got turned up to eleven over this.

 

[Carlie]

 

[Carlie]

So Nick did this: Top 5 Korrasami Moments.

 

[Carlie]

I'm on my fourth consecutive post and I don't care.

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Spoiler: Avatar Shpping Part 2

Spoiler: Avatar Shpping Part 3

Spoiler: LoK Shpping Book 1

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Spoiler: LoK Shpping Book 3

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