| “ | How are you feeling since our split, Raava? I've never been better. When Harmonic Convergence comes, I will destroy you forever. | „ |
| ~ Vaatu |
| “ | The biggest, meanest, scariest kite that ever flew! | „ |
| ~ Varrick detailing how some of us remember Vaatu. |
Vaatu is the overarching antagonist of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.
He is the mighty spirit of destruction and chaos, who seeks to fuse with Unalaq to bring forth the end of the world so he can start a new Draconian Age where he rules the world. Unlike other villains in the series except Unalaq and Hou-Ting, Vaatu is the only without any genuinely good intentions for his evil actions.
He was voiced by Jonathan Adams.
What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?[]
What Do People Like About Him?[]
- He is perceived as a badass enigmatic eldritch horror who makes cool sounds when he flies and can shoot lasers (unlike Raava). He also has a genuinely intimidating presence, unlike Unalaq.
- He can be cunning since he tricked Wan into freeing him so he can commence his evil endeavors.
- He does fill his role of yin and yang in the series reasonably well despite his flat personality.
What Do People Hate About Him?[]
- Unlike many other villains in the series, Vaatu lacks any of the well-intentioned motivations with legitimate points on how flawed the world is that genuinely wants to fix it their way that made them such compelling villains, and is instead a boring, generic, power-hungry, rotten to the core, cartoonishly and purely evil force of nature with nothing else interesting about him, even if it was understandably like that due to being a dark form.
- Although light and darkness cannot exist without one another, and Raava knows this very well, some detractors didn’t like that Vaatu‘a dumb motive of being hell-bent on destroying Raava while failing to take into account that if he destroys her, she'll come back for the aforementioned reasons (which literally happened on-screen) and vice versa.
- His endgame is yet again another generic End of the World scenario in which the stakes feel inflated rather than actually high. A whole lot applies to Vaatu's method of bringing "Ten Thousand years of darkness" is by wrecking whatever he sees in Republic City.
- The biggest disappointment on Vaatu is how he utterly wastes the entire concept of a Dark Avatar. What you expect is Vaatu having the ability to bend all four elements like the Light Avatar upon Unalaq fusing with him and provide a huge battle of all the 4 elements for the fate of the world, or heck, use completely alien elements never before seen in the show that can counter Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. What we get is just instead a spirit possessing a waterbender on steroids as a lame copout, hence bringing forth a painfully generic kaiju battle.
Trivia[]
- He used to be a Scrappy before it was determined a few viewers thought he was somewhat badass compared to Unalaq.
External Links[]
- Vaatu on the Villains Wiki
- Vaatu on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Vaatu on the Avatar Wiki
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