I’ve been rewatching all the old Nickelodeon stuff and something is bothering me. In the legend of Korra, The first season culminates with a standoff between Korra and the season’s big bad, Amon. Ultimately, Amon escapes in a motorboat with his brother Tarrlok, who uses an electric shock glove to ignite the fuel tank and blow them both up.
On the one hand, we have seen characters (including Amon) survive much worse. We never actually see Amon’s fate to know for certain that he died. That probably has to do more with censorship and the limitations of what Nickelodeon would actually show onscreen. That’s not what I’m talking about.
If what we see on screen is exactly as is seems and Amon has died, the only witness is Tarrlok, who is killed with him. To the rest of the world, it would have seemed only that Amon escaped and is hiding in obscurity. However in later seasons, Korra has flashbacks about Amon in which she clearly knows he is dead. Is there any in-universe explanation for how she would possibly know this? Or is it just an error? It seems like a pretty major detail to overlook for a series that doesn’t overlook much.
Nothing official I’m aware of, but you could hand wave it as the explosion was noticed by someone, maybe a flying plane, whatever, and they investigated and found enough debris to assume the passengers didn’t survive. It wasn’t explicitly stated but then again the producers didn’t really know if they were going to get more seasons at the time so it probably wasn’t worth calling out.
Korra has flashbacks about Amon in which she clearly knows he is dead
Are you talking about Venom of the Red Lotus? or Korra Alone?
Unless its something from the B4 clip episode, I can’t even remember any flashback that implies he’s dead.
I mean, Amon also reveals himself to the public and confirms that he’s a bender because after being thrown out of the window he flies up out of the water in a giant water tornado, even though he could’ve just escaped and retained his non bender status to the public.
So I don’t think some things in that show were super thought through.
I think its implied to be an unconscious reaction, not something he meant to do. IIRC there are other instances of reflexive bending in the franchise.
The YouTube channel Overanalyzing Avatar mentioned this too, that Korra should be paranoid and terrified that he might show up at any moment.
