In the commentary of the unaired pilot episode, co creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino state that Katara's "hair loopies" were intended to hang downward, but were thought too hard to animate and looped backward instead. The character 'Lā' appears in the first season's finale as the name of the Ocean Spirit, while the character 'Kǎ' also appears in Sokka's name. Kǎ (卡) means to check, block, or card Tǎ (塔) means pagoda and Lā (拉) means to pull.
In " Tales of Ba Sing Se", Katara's name was written as 卡 塔 拉. Īccording to the un-aired pilot episode, Katara's name was originally 'Kya', which was later used for her deceased mother. Katara has appeared in other media, such as trading cards, T-shirts, video games and web comics. She later earns the title of Master Waterbender from Master Pakku of the Northern Water Tribe at the age of fourteen. She and her older brother, Sokka, discover an Airbender named Aang, the long-lost Avatar, frozen in an iceberg, and accompany him on his quest to defeat the imperialistic Fire Nation and bring peace to the war-torn world.
Katara is a fourteen-year-old waterbender (i.e., she has the ability to telekinetically control water and ice) at the beginning of the story, she is the only waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe, one of two known communities in which waterbending is practiced. In addition to this, she was played by Nicola Peltz in the 2010 live action film The Last Airbender.
The character, created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, is voiced by Mae Whitman in the original series and Eva Marie Saint in the sequel series. Katara ( Chinese: 卡塔拉 pinyin: Kǎ Tǎlā) is a fictional character in the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Sugar Queen (nicknamed by Toph Beifong in book 2 episode 8) Miss Know-it-All, Queen of the Twigs (Nicknamed by Sokka in book 1 Episode 11) Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra character