10 Voice Actors In Both Avatar The Last Airbender And The Legend Of Korra

10 Voice Actors In Both Avatar The Last Airbender And The Legend Of Korra

Though Avatar The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra feature different characters, it’s only right that they share a few voice actors.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra are quite different shows. Creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino resisted the easy, tempting path of nostalgic recreation, instead telling new, bolder stories rooted in the same setting. This meant that Korra was much more ambitious than usual franchise follow-ups, and that ambition often paid off.

Despite these differences, there is plenty of overlap between the shows’ crew and casts. Many voice actors from The Last Airbender returned in Korra, whether reprising their original roles or filling new ones.

10 Dee Bradley Baker Voiced The Pets Of Both Teams

Sometimes, vocal performances manifest in ways besides words – Dee Bradley Baker is one of the best in the business at mimicking animal noises. So, in ATLA, he voiced both the pets of Team Avatar: the flying bison Appa and winged lemur Momo. Baker did an excellent job instilling personality in Appa’s heavy bellows and Momo’s monkey-like growls. In TLOK, he once again used these talents to voice Korra’s polar bear dog Naga and Bolin’s fire ferret Pabu.

TLOK Book 1 also gave Baker his first opportunity for a major human part in an Avatar production – specifically, Tarrlok, Republic City Councilman for the Northern Water Tribe and one of the season’s main antagonists. Though a villainous role was casting against type for Baker, he excelled all the same.

9 Kevin Michael Richardson Provided Secondary Voices In Both Series

There are few voice actors with a resume as prolific and a vocal range as wide as Kevin Michael Richardson; if you’ve watched any American cartoon made in the past 20 years, you’ve probably heard his voice before. Though Richardson never had a main role in either Avatar show, he did voice some significant one-off characters in both. His roles in ATLA included Tyro, father of Haru and leader of the captive Earthbenders in “Imprisoned,” and the Lion Turtle who bestows Aang with energybending in finale “Sozin’s Comet.”

In The Legend of Korra, Richardson voices three characters in Book 1’s third chapter, “The Revelation”: Butakha, the manager of the pro-bending league, an Equalist guard who gives Korra & Mako some trouble, and Lightning Bolt Zolt, the Firebending leader of Republic City’s Triple Threat Triad gang. Zolt is the role with the most impact, for he winds up being the first public demonstration of Amon’s ability to remove people’s bending.

8 Daniel Dae Kim Guest-Starred In “The Last Airbender” Then Had A Larger Role In “The Legend Of Korra”

Daniel Dae Kim made his Avatar debut in The Last Airbender Book 2’s premiere, “The Avatar State.” He voiced Fong, an Earth Kingdom General who becomes dangerously obsessed with “helping” Aang unlock the Avatar State so the young Airbender can use it to end the war. Kim returned in The Legend of Korra as Hiroshi Sato, father of Asami, Republic City’s foremost industrialist, and a secret Equalist. Defeated at Book 1’s end, an imprisoned, repentant Sato returned in Book 4, seeking to make amends with his daughter and ultimately sacrificing his life to defeat Kuvira.

7 Clancy Brown Voiced A Villain In Both Series: Long Feng, Then Yakone

Clancy Brown’s menacing baritone means that he’s often cast as villains. Given his skill in this sort of role, the two Avatar series used his talents twice over for separate villainous characters. In ATLA, he voiced Long Feng, duplicitous advisor to the Earth King and head of Ba Sing Se’s secret police, the Dai Li. (Additionally, in a casting that proves Baker wasn’t the only animal impressionist on the cast, Brown also voiced the Earth King’s pet bear, Bosco).

For The Legend of Korra, Brown voiced Yakone, an old enemy of Avatar Aang and one who’d mastered the forbidden technique of Bloodbending to heretofore unseen levels. Yakone was deceased by the time of TLOK Book 1 and so featured only in flashbacks, but his legacy was the season’s driving momentum. For Yakone, Brown also used a harsher tone compared to the snake-like charm of Long Feng.

6 Dante Basco Voiced Prince Zuko Then His Grandson, General Iroh II

One of the most memorable performances in The Last Airbender was Dante Basco as Zuko, the series’ initial antagonist and perennial anti-hero. Though Zuko returned in The Legend of Korra Book 3, his advanced age meant that Basco didn’t reprise the role; instead, Bruce Davison stepped up. However, Basco got a chance to return earlier in the series; throughout TLOK, he voiced General Iroh II, Zuko’s grandson who was named for his great-grand uncle. Iroh II is the spitting image of his grandfather (minus the latter’s trademark scar), so the shared voice actor makes sense.

5 Serena Williams Guest-Starred In Both Series

Professional Tennis star Serena Williams is a fan of Avatar – when the show’s producers became wise to this, they offered her a cameo role in Book 3. Williams appears in the two-part “Day Of The Black Sun” as Ming, a Fire Nation prison guard who befriends the imprisoned Iroh. Iroh advises her to leave work early on the titular day of the eclipse, since that is when he plans to make his escape, and Ming obliges.

Williams returned for another ancillary Fire Nation role in The Legend of Korra Book 2. In two-part episode “Beginnings,” an amnesiac Korra is in the care of the Fire Sages; Williams voices one of said Sages.

4 Greg Baldwin Returned As Iroh In “The Legend Of Korra”

Iroh II briefly returned in The Legend of Korra Book 2 – so did his namesake. It’s revealed that after his passing, Iroh became a permanent resident of the Spirit World. He appears twice in Book 2 (“A New Spiritual Age” and “Darkness Falls”) and once in Book 3 (“The Ultimatum”), each time helping the other characters with the same sage wisdom he so often dispensed in The Last Airbender.

Iroh was voiced in his TLOK appearances by Greg Baldwin, who started voicing the character in ATLA Book 3 after Iroh’s original voice, Makoto “Mako” Iwamatsu, passed away. Though Baldwin has always humbly identified himself as merely Mako’s understudy, Iroh’s continued prominence stands as a testament to the late, great Iwamatsu.

3 Jason Isaacs Reprised His Role As Zhao For A Cameo In “The Legend Of Korra”

Zhao was inspired by Colonel Tavington in The Patriot, played incredibly by Jason Isaacs. When Konietzko and DiMartino requested voice director Andrea Romano cast someone in Isaacs’ mold for Zhao, she got them the man himself. An antagonist throughout Book 1 of The Last Airbender, Zhao is pulled underwater by a vengeful Ocean Spirit after he kills its counterpart, the Moon Spirit.

Zhao was presumed to have drowned, but “Darkness Falls” reveals he suffered a much worse fate. Condemned to “The Fog Of Lost Souls,” Zhao has spent 70+ years wandering aimlessly through the Fog; his mind has deteriorated so that he’s only able to repeat his name and his intent to capture the Avatar. When Tenzin and his siblings are trapped in the Fog themselves, they encounter Zhao, and he mistakes Tenzin for his old quarry.

2 Grey DeLisle-Griffin Voiced Both Azula And Ming-Hua

If a cartoon needs someone to voice a villainess, there’s no better option than Grey DeLisle-Griffin. Her most famous Avatar role is easily Azula; upon the Fire Princess’ proper debut in Book 2, DeLisle-Griffin became and remained of the best performers in the show, always making Azula menacing yet also managing to mine disturbing pathos from the role.

DeLisle-Griffin returned to Avatar in The Legend of Korra. In Book 3, she voiced the armless, Waterbending Ming-Hua, a member of the Red Lotus. DeLisle-Griffin used a raspier voice than she had for Azula, but was still clearly drawing on her prior Avatar experience. She also voiced the young Lin Beifong in the episode “Old Wounds.”

1 Jessie Flower Voiced Toph Beifong Then Her Daughter Suyin

Michaela Jill Murphy joined Avatar in Book 2 under her stage name Jessie Flower; she voiced Toph, the blind, sardonic Earthbending prodigy. Flower brought incredible comedic timing to the role which quickly made Toph a fan-favorite. It’s no surprise that Flower returned in The Legend of Korra, if only briefly; in “Old Wounds,” she voiced a younger version of the second Beifong daughter, Suyin, opposite DeLisle-Griffin as the younger Lin.

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