Nickelodeon has released the first look at the upcoming animated series “Avatar: Seven Havens,” the sequel series to the popular shows “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra.”

The artwork was revealed at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, where “Avatar” celebrated its 20th anniversary.

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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you're an earth bender and you lost a leg, wouldn't you be able to bend yourself a prosthetic made of earth? One that could actually articulate, unlike a peg-leg.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Probably easier to metal bend one. At least it won't fall apart when you stop concentrating.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Perhaps, but not every earth bender is a metal bender

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know, Korra seemed to make it pretty common place.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Korra featured both the Republic City police, founded by the first ever metal bender and a place where metal benders are preferred, and later a city full of metal benders. It looks like there's a lot of metal benders because they showed us all the metal benders.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah but given how Toph's metal bending school is portrayed in the comics, it seems to take an effort for earth benders to become metal benders. Which a teenager or adult would probably manage to do better than a child.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it'd require constant focus that a kid her age probably isn't capable of consistently. Maybe after a lot of training she won't need the prosthetic

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah.

    I think that's gonna be a huge thing. This is 'Avatar' through the lens of a really young kid, and I suspect she won't be 'conspicuously mature' like the Gaang. But we'll have the perspective of older mentors, too, kinda like Tenzin.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Calling crystal-benders right now.

    Don't pick that phone up before it rings, cuz I'm fucking calling it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Wait, is this the new avatar in the foreground? Are we* getting a disabled avatar? Hell yeah!!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That background character is definitely Airbender coded

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    the artwork style is feeling very Moebius

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In these worlds that we love i always think it would be cool to get a spinoff from the perspective of normies, too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    An anthology series where each episode, or portion of an episode, is just a small personal story set in the a avatar universe should be take nice and fun. Think "The Tales of Ba Sing Se", but about ground level events of citizens of different nations and times, focusing on a new, usually unrelated character in each episode. It would be a great way to world build without needing an avatar to be around all the time. It wouldn't have to be exclusively about non-benders, but should always be about people doing good.

    Just simple stuff like: A sheep-monkey herder in the outskirts of the Earth kingdom defending her flock from hunting rat-wolves. Then she rescues a newborn sheep-monkey that gets washed away in a river during the attack. It ends with her sitting vigilant on a grassy hill, the newborn asleep on her lap, it's mother napping at her side, and surrounded by the rest of her flock also sleeping, secure under her watchful eye.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    I love the giant monkey cat. She rides it around like Naga in a leaked animatic.

    I also have a theory (not just on appearance but a leaked casting call) that she's of Guru Pathik's heritage, perhaps Eastern Earth Kingdom? Pre Cataclysm, the coast should be tropical and typhoon-prone, aka an east asian feel. Not sure where this city is though... maybe the climate changed, or maybe it's somewhere else.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The only thing I can't make out is what kind of era it takes place in.

    Aang was set in Feudal Japan, Korra was in the industrial revolution.

    I'd love for them to go back to feudal times, but I know that wouldn't make sense.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's post-apocalyptic, from some kind of spiritual disaster.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I am 100% pumped to see where this goes. I don't care if they do what they always do with 99% of the villains and completely cop out on their ideals at the end, I just wanna see post apocalyptic Avatar.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I’m surprised they are able to use the Avatar name again. They had to drop it for Korra due to James Cameron.

    I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements. It would solve some of the story roadblocks of them having to find reasons why they can’t just go into the avatar state all the time. Would have been cool if the avatar state only worked when both of them are next to each other.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    They only dropped the Avatar title in the US. Everywhere else, it was Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Might wind up with the same thing here. James Cameron also might only have the rights to the Avatar name for movies and not television.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements.

    spoilerIt does. Allegedly they are seperated, one is 'picked,' wealthy and trained with a more Korra-like personality, the other is poor and 'lost' with a more Aang-like personality. But we don't know much beyond that.

    I really liked this too, but someone talked me out of this idea for a fic, actually. The reasoning being that this is the Earth Avatar Cycle, so it would be almost canon breaking for one to not have earthbending. They wouldn't go through the stages of learning each element, it would kinda throw out the "four elements" synergy and fights and lore. They reminded me that the trope of twins being very close and "two parts of a whole" actually irritates many RL twins (hence's Ty Lee's character).

    So my take is twins that each have four elements, but inclinations to two each, as well as yin yang kind of personality conflicts.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Oof, I'm not really feeling the art style, seems a little cluttered. I get that it needs to adapt to the contemporary landscape of animation though I was hoping they stayed with the more grounded look of the previous series. I'll still watch, hoping the story is really good.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's just concept art. The show's style will be different, see the original LoK promo:

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    Or the early sketches for characters: https://old.reddit.com/r/legendofkorra/comments/j9vw8j/korra_book_1_concepts/

    That said, I love this promo. The full res version looks much better, if you havent' seen it: https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Aurora_Press1_06_04_25_Horizontal-1.jpg

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean, I don't hate it and I appreciate the references it's pulling from. This particular image is just doing too much for me; and I get it, it's introducing us to a whole bunch of new info and is concept art; but I wish it was more subtle. Just my personal taste, no biggie. I have a lot of love for the stories of this universe, I watched when the og show debuted and I'm aware that the new stuff is not gonna cater completely to me, regardless I'll be seated.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looks good but not hand drawn, sadly.

    Also, the shrinkflation hits hard this time. That's half the total runtime of the previous shows.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Looks good but not hand drawn, sadly.

    Hm? I'd bet it's drawn by one of the co-creators. Check out their Tumblrs, they draw stuff like this all the time for fun.

    Here is the full press image (recommend opening it in a tab, it's big):

    https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Aurora_Press1_06_04_25_Horizontal-1.jpg

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh wow, this looks great. Can't wait to watch it!

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