The Legend of Korra almost didn't get made becuase Nickelodeon was worried about a show with a female lead character!

The Legend of Korra almost didn't get made becuase Nickelodeon was worried about a show with a female lead character!

M. Night Shyamalan became hated by anime fans worldwide when he created the film The Last Airbender - because almost everybody thought that it sucked.

This box office flop of a film looked like the end for the popular anime cartoon, Avatar. Just a little reminder: We're talking about the anime cartoon Avatar, not the James Cameron film that was essentially Pocahontas but with blue people.

It wasn't until Nickelodeon launched the sequel show "The Legend of Korra" that fans began to feel relieved that the franchise was continuing. However, Nickelodeon was, at first, reluctant to make a sequel show starring a female action hero!

During test screenings, the show was played for a small group of young boys, which is the demographic for the show.

Nickelodeon thought that the boys would neglect to care about a female character as the action hero - when the reverse happened. The children didn't care that Korra was a female - they just thought "she was awesome"!

It just goes to show you that children don't care about gender roles - so why do we?

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