>>114798815The Dark Avatar was the best concept in the series, including both the Korra and Aang sagas. It created a unique parallel for the Avatar concept in general, with actual tension since all no other antagonist seems half as impressive. I mean, just look:
>Ozai, a Firebender vs the Avatar, a Bender of all elements>Amon, a Waterbender that admittedly sealed most of the Avatar's arts, but then jobs to a single element in Airbending anyways. He was at best a glorified chiblocker, or a slightly powered up version of a one-off character from's Aang's series>Zaheer, a total asspull villain who gets his powers from literally out of thin air. Spends his whole life reading up on Airbender philosophy, then conveniently and magically gets Airbender power gift-wrapped to him out of the blue. So unearned, which goes against the theme of the series, and is probably the lowest point of Korra right alongside the Wan backstory, which has the same problem of Wan just being handed powers to him to be better than everyone>Zelda (I don't even remember her actual name, just her actress). Again, just an Earthbender, made even less impressive with how Metalbending became mainstream so it's not like she's even a special Earthbender or anything. Her powers were so lackluster she had to use a weapon to make up for how weak her bending skills would be against the AvatarUnalaq though, he actually works for and earns his powers. He is a perfect foil to Korra, relying on his spiritual strength and cunning acting to get accomplish his goals, which in turn causes Korra to look into her spiritual heritage and undergo a major turning point in growing into her Avatar role. Not to mention that unlike, say, Amon, Unalaq actually gets time throughout the whole season to develop, and Korra defated him using a technique that Unalaq himself taught her was kino moment of poetic irony and retribution, with Korra actually earning that moment instead of being saved by an asspull