At the start of the series, she meets Bolin and Mako after arriving in Republic City, where she first experiences independence after living a secluded life of training, led by the Order of the White Lotus.

The series' final scene, indicating the beginning of a romantic relationship between Korra and Asami Sato, was unprecedented in its LGBTQ representation in western children's television.

[4] Korra moves to Republic City to go after him following a brief encounter with Katara, being taken in by Tenzin and meeting both Mako and Bolin before joining their pro-bending team.

[11] During her training, Korra has to mend fences between both factions of the Water Tribe and after learning that her father had nothing to do with an attempted kidnapping of Unalaq,[12] she participates in freeing him.

[14] She was left without her memory,[15] learning the origins of Wan, the first Avatar,[16][17] and entering the Spirit World to prevent Vaatu's escape with the aid of Jinora.

Korra escapes but is unable to bring Jinora with her, returning to the physical world[19] where she makes plans to counter Unalaq,[20] engaging him in battle where she is not only bested, but has her connections to her past lives disconnected with the destruction of the Light Spirit.

[25] She traveled to Zaofu next, meeting Suyin Beifong,[26] who taught her metalbending,[27] nearly being kidnapped after, by Zaheer, Ghazan, P'Li and Ming-Hua though she is saved by her allies.

She breaks free and is able to combat Zaheer while battling the poison, though succumbs to it before Suyin attempts to bend it out of her, Korra being left in a fragile emotional state and being confined to a wheelchair as well.

[37] Initially planning to reach a peace agreement with Kuvira,[38] Korra duels her and loses her advantage when being haunted once more, being saved by Jinora and Opal.

The art was announced to be sold as an exclusive print for The Legend of Korra / Avatar: The Last Airbender Tribute Exhibition at Gallery Nucleus with its proceeds donated by Konietzko to an LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline.

[65] The creators felt the second season was built around Korra becoming more in-tuned with her spiritual side, reinforcing their belief that a giant spirit version of herself would be the "ultimate manifestation".

[66] DiMartino wrote that Korra's lack of usage of the Avatar State during the third season was purposefully done to show her connection with Raava as being full-fledged, her developed understanding that type of power should be reserved for the "most extreme circumstances.

As development of the last two seasons went on and Korra and Asami's friendship progressed, "the more the idea of a romance between them organically blossomed for [the creators]," and so the show started hinting at the possibility of such a relationship.

[70] In the pilot (2012) episode "Welcome to Republic City", Korra is introduced as a teenager wearing Fire Nation attire over her traditional Water Tribe garb.

Varney stated that she loved the character, describing her as being "complicated" while reasoning that this was due to her age and responsibilities, and summarized her experience voicing Korra as having been "such a privilege to be a part of".

Responding to being questioned about negative reception for the series in general, Varney admitted to preferring to live in a world of "unicorns and rainbows" and only pay attention to the positive feedback she received since she believed she would not "do a better job on the show if my feelings are crushed by someone who's just angry at me for no reason.

"[79] During a panel at MCM London Comic Con with Zuko's voice actor, Dante Basco in 2022, amidst racial tensions in the United States, Varney, who is caucasian, confirmed that she will no longer be reprising Korra in the future after a decade of voicing the character in the years since the show's conclusion and expressed hope that a woman of color would assume the role.

[80] The actress's final time voicing Korra was in the racing title, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway that fall.

The waterbender Korra, on the other hand, had little difficulty with firebending and earthbending but had considerable trouble with airbending, a situation noted to be spiritual and not elemental.

Her best friend and animal guide is a polar bear-dog named Naga, whose strength helps Korra out of many dangerous situations.

Korra is unusual amongst her past lives in that she is technically royalty: her father Tonraq was in line to be the chief of the Northern Water Tribe before being banished and relocating to the South.

Korra's character develops and matures during episodes 11 through 12 of the first season when she is confronted with detachment from her main three bending skills, leaving her only with airbending, which she had unlocked to save Mako from Amon.

But ultimately, once able to let go of the pain she went through and realizing the significance to her past suffering, Korra returns to her usual self while becoming a more kind, mature, compassionate, levelheaded, thoughtful and intelligent (and a bit more sarcastic) person from her ordeals.

Her physical strength and stamina makes her capable of swimming across large bodies of water for days, or lift and throw significantly larger opponents.

Her dexterity and balance allows her to skillfully dodge a large barrage of projectiles and easily leap across long distances and over high obstacles from a stationary position.

At the start of the series, Korra is proficient in water, earth and fire, but struggles with airbending due to the difficulties of embracing her spiritual side.

She also tends to use firebending when she is angered or acts with hostility towards an opponent, as she demonstrated when threatening the Red Lotus when expressing outrage to Zaheer for attempting to murder her father.

Her duties as Avatar and her personal feelings towards people did come into play with the restoring power, as she did not grant bending abilities back to individuals with backgrounds in crime.

Due to some residual traces of mercury in her body and mental pain after Zaheer poisoned her, Korra temporarily lost the ability to contact Raava and was unable to enter the Spirit World for three years, but regained these spiritual powers in the last season.

"[110] In 2018, io9 ranked the series finale's reveal of Korra and Asami's relationship #55 on its list of "The 100 Most Important Pop Culture Moments of the Last 10 Years".