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Description
In the ten thousand years since the Harmonic Convergence immediately before Wan's time, Vaatu had been in conflict with Raava and was restrained by his light counterpart. However, when Wan arrived during their battle, Vaatu seized his opportunity and tricked Wan into separating him from Raava. Free to roam the world, he spread chaos wherever he went, growing stronger and weakening the light in the process.

During his travels around the world, he discovered a hidden village of men atop an airbending lion turtle. His presence transformed the peaceful spirits living there into rageful entities. However, Wan and Raava's intervention prevented him from laying waste to the village. He taunted Raava over growing weaker due to his proliferation of chaos and threatened to destroy her forever during the upcoming Harmonic Convergence, which would take place a year later.

Vaatu battled Wan and Raava for supremacy right before Harmonic Convergence.

Vaatu met with Raava and Wan once more at another conflict between spirits and humans. Vaatu turned the spirits' anger against them, turning them into dark spirits. After the battle was over, Vaatu told Wan that the humans had been slain and that he should enjoy his last days before the end of the world.

As Harmonic Convergence drew near, Vaatu used the Northern spirit portal to travel to the Spirit World where he was set to battle Raava for supremacy. However, it was not the light spirit alone that he faced, as Wan had allied himself with her. Vaatu was challenged by Wan, though he brushed away the threat in the challenge, claiming that no human could stand against him. A battle between the two ensued, during which Vaatu had the upper hand. When he was about to kill Wan, the human merged with Raava, and Wan managed to escape Vaatu for a moment. However, the dark spirit managed to beat his merged opponents down, pinning them to the ground next to the Southern spirit portal at the moment Harmonic Convergence began.

Having lost to a permanently joined Wan and Raava, Vaatu was imprisoned inside the Tree of Time in the Spirit World.

Vaatu looked up at the overlapping of the spirit portals, taking his focus away from Wan, who used that time to merge permanently with Raava by touching one of the portals near him, amplifying his spiritual energy. In the ensuing battle, Vaatu was trapped by Wan in a sphere of air that was surrounded by the four elements. Captured in this elemental cage, he was forced inside the hollow of the Tree of Time where he would remain restrained. With Vaatu's influence neutralized, the spirits he turned dark were able to regain balance within themselves. To ensure Vaatu's imprisonment for eternity, Wan closed both the Northern and Southern spirit portals so no human would ever be able to physically enter the Spirit World again and release Vaatu.

Creating the Dark Avatar
Ten thousand years later, shortly before the next Harmonic Convergence in 171 AG, Vaatu was visited by Unalaq, who tried to free him. After the Water Tribe chief failed to open the Northern spirit portal without the Avatar's help, whom he believed to be dead, Vaatu assured the waterbender that all was not lost yet, as he could sense Raava's presence in the Avatar. The Spirit of Darkness told him that Korra would find him, as she had entered the Spirit World while they were talking.

As Korra opened the Northern spirit portal, the released energy caused Vaatu and the Tree of Time to glow temporarily.

When Korra arrived at the location of Vaatu's imprisonment, intending to close the Southern portal, Vaatu drew the young Avatar to him before she could complete her mission, addressing her as Raava and informing her that, upon the arrival of Harmonic Convergence, he would destroy her for good. As Korra walked away from him undeterred to close the portal, Vaatu suggested that she reconsider if she wanted to save Jinora, who had been captured by Unalaq. When Korra subsequently opened the Northern portal, Vaatu and the tree in which he had been imprisoned began to glow as they were imbued with a rush of built-up spirit energy that had accumulated during the ten thousand years of the portal's closure. As the Avatar was carried away to safety by a dragon bird spirit, Vaatu proclaimed that he would see her once more upon being freed and would finally have his revenge.

When the Harmonic Convergence occurred not long after, Korra failed to close the Southern portal in time before the planets aligned. The resulting influx of spirit energy strengthened Vaatu, allowing him to break free from his millennia-long confinement in the Tree of Time. After taunting Raava about how the inevitability of his escape and the resumption of their ages-old conflict, he tried to merge with Unalaq, but his attempt was thwarted by Korra's firebending. After using her airbending to forcibly eject Unalaq from the Spirit World, she engaged in a solo duel with the Dark Spirit. During the ensuing battle, Vaatu was trapped inside an elemental cage once again, but before he could be locked back inside the hollow of the Tree of Time, Unalaq attacked Korra from behind, freeing Vaatu from her hold. With Korra no longer having the strength to fight back, the Dark Spirit merged his essence with Unalaq's, who promptly used the energy from Harmonic Convergence to make their fusion permanent, becoming the Dark Avatar.

After merging with Unalaq to form the Dark Avatar, Vaatu reached inside Korra to separate Raava from her.

Proclaiming to be the new Avatar who would lead the world in to a new era, they were challenged by Korra, who stated her era to not have been over yet. The two Avatars battled each other in a final duel for supremacy, the resulting fight spilling into the physical world. When locked in a show of strength, Vaatu reached out with a tendril from within Unalaq's throat and extracted Raava out of Korra, ripping their presumed permanent fusion apart and enabling Unalaq to destroy the Light Spirit with a barrage of water attacks, infused with his technique to corrupt a soul. With Raava out of the way and Korra effectively neutralized, the pendulum of balance swung completely in Vaatu's favor, allowing him to physically manifest his features through Unalaq, and the Dark Avatar grew into a massive red giant.[7] Using the spirit lights, the Dark Avatar traveled to Republic City where he demolished the metropolis with spirit vines. In the midst of his triumph, however, Korra's astral projection unexpectedly attacked him; though after she failed to locate Raava's residual light inside of him, the Dark Avatar began to corrupt her spirit with spiritbending. Just as the Dark Avatar proclaimed his triumph once and for all, Jinora's spiritual projection brought Raava back into the world and illuminated the Light Spirit inside of Vaatu's essence, allowing Korra to extract Raava and subsequently spiritbend him, dissipating the Dark Avatar Spirit in a golden light.

Legacy

Vaatu appeared to Korra in one of her hallucinations.

When Korra was administered a poison by the Red Lotus that would make her enter the Avatar State, Vaatu appeared to Korra in one of her hallucinations, having sprung forth from Ming-Hua. He floated up to Korra, telling her that she was too weak to resist the poison and that he was stronger than ever. Emphasizing the futility of her resistance, he urged her to just let go and enter the Avatar State.

Vaatu was later used by Varrick in his story of Bolin, Hero of the World, in which he was described as "the ultimate force of pure spirit evil in the universe; the biggest, meanest, scariest kite that ever flew". He teamed up with Amon, Unalaq, and Zaheer to take out their common nemesis, Bolin, for which he was added to a conference call by Zaheer. Upon being rung by the airbender, Zaheer joked that he was glad to have caught him at home, jabbing at the spirit's imprisonment in the Tree of Time, much to his dismay. After Unalaq entered the conversation as well, Vaatu and his two other companions tried to get rid of the Chief of the North and eventually just hung up on him. Vaatu was freed from his prison inside the tree when Juji's lasers missed Unalaq and struck the dark spirit's prison instead. However, due to Unalaq's proximity, who was described as always having been an "annoyingly, clingy person", the two merged and formed UnaVaatu. In their giant forms, UnaVaatu and Bolin were reported to fight on par and barrage each other with laser beams while stomping around Republic City. Although UnaVaatu nearly managed to corrupt Bolin's soul with spiritbending, he was defeated by the combined power of Bolin and the queen of the fairies and turned into magic dust to be scattered across the sky to give birth to the stars.

Abilities/Skills:
-Purple Energy Beam
-Darkness Shadow Ball
-Void Smash
-Flight
-Physical Strength
-Chest Beam
-Elemental Bending: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Metal, Electric, Nature, Ice and Darkness
-Fire Breath (Element of Fire)
-Tidal Wave (Element of Water)
-Rock Boulder (Element of Earth)
-Twister (Element of Air)
-Metal Claw (Element of Metal)
-Thunderbolt (Element of Metal)
-Vine Whip (Element of Nature)
-Icy Wind (Element of Ice)
-Shadow Ball (Element of Darkness)

Description
In the ten thousand years since the Harmonic Convergence immediately before Wan's time, Vaatu had been in conflict with Raava and was restrained by his light counterpart. However, when Wan arrived during their battle, Vaatu seized his opportunity and tricked Wan into separating him from Raava. Free to roam the world, he spread chaos wherever he went, growing stronger and weakening the light in the process.

During his travels around the world, he discovered a hidden village of men atop an airbending lion turtle. His presence transformed the peaceful spirits living there into rageful entities. However, Wan and Raava's intervention prevented him from laying waste to the village. He taunted Raava over growing weaker due to his proliferation of chaos and threatened to destroy her forever during the upcoming Harmonic Convergence, which would take place a year later.

Vaatu battled Wan and Raava for supremacy right before Harmonic Convergence.

Vaatu met with Raava and Wan once more at another conflict between spirits and humans. Vaatu turned the spirits' anger against them, turning them into dark spirits. After the battle was over, Vaatu told Wan that the humans had been slain and that he should enjoy his last days before the end of the world.

As Harmonic Convergence drew near, Vaatu used the Northern spirit portal to travel to the Spirit World where he was set to battle Raava for supremacy. However, it was not the light spirit alone that he faced, as Wan had allied himself with her. Vaatu was challenged by Wan, though he brushed away the threat in the challenge, claiming that no human could stand against him. A battle between the two ensued, during which Vaatu had the upper hand. When he was about to kill Wan, the human merged with Raava, and Wan managed to escape Vaatu for a moment. However, the dark spirit managed to beat his merged opponents down, pinning them to the ground next to the Southern spirit portal at the moment Harmonic Convergence began.

Having lost to a permanently joined Wan and Raava, Vaatu was imprisoned inside the Tree of Time in the Spirit World.

Vaatu looked up at the overlapping of the spirit portals, taking his focus away from Wan, who used that time to merge permanently with Raava by touching one of the portals near him, amplifying his spiritual energy. In the ensuing battle, Vaatu was trapped by Wan in a sphere of air that was surrounded by the four elements. Captured in this elemental cage, he was forced inside the hollow of the Tree of Time where he would remain restrained. With Vaatu's influence neutralized, the spirits he turned dark were able to regain balance within themselves. To ensure Vaatu's imprisonment for eternity, Wan closed both the Northern and Southern spirit portals so no human would ever be able to physically enter the Spirit World again and release Vaatu.

Creating the Dark Avatar
Ten thousand years later, shortly before the next Harmonic Convergence in 171 AG, Vaatu was visited by Unalaq, who tried to free him. After the Water Tribe chief failed to open the Northern spirit portal without the Avatar's help, whom he believed to be dead, Vaatu assured the waterbender that all was not lost yet, as he could sense Raava's presence in the Avatar. The Spirit of Darkness told him that Korra would find him, as she had entered the Spirit World while they were talking.

As Korra opened the Northern spirit portal, the released energy caused Vaatu and the Tree of Time to glow temporarily.

When Korra arrived at the location of Vaatu's imprisonment, intending to close the Southern portal, Vaatu drew the young Avatar to him before she could complete her mission, addressing her as Raava and informing her that, upon the arrival of Harmonic Convergence, he would destroy her for good. As Korra walked away from him undeterred to close the portal, Vaatu suggested that she reconsider if she wanted to save Jinora, who had been captured by Unalaq. When Korra subsequently opened the Northern portal, Vaatu and the tree in which he had been imprisoned began to glow as they were imbued with a rush of built-up spirit energy that had accumulated during the ten thousand years of the portal's closure. As the Avatar was carried away to safety by a dragon bird spirit, Vaatu proclaimed that he would see her once more upon being freed and would finally have his revenge.

When the Harmonic Convergence occurred not long after, Korra failed to close the Southern portal in time before the planets aligned. The resulting influx of spirit energy strengthened Vaatu, allowing him to break free from his millennia-long confinement in the Tree of Time. After taunting Raava about how the inevitability of his escape and the resumption of their ages-old conflict, he tried to merge with Unalaq, but his attempt was thwarted by Korra's firebending. After using her airbending to forcibly eject Unalaq from the Spirit World, she engaged in a solo duel with the Dark Spirit. During the ensuing battle, Vaatu was trapped inside an elemental cage once again, but before he could be locked back inside the hollow of the Tree of Time, Unalaq attacked Korra from behind, freeing Vaatu from her hold. With Korra no longer having the strength to fight back, the Dark Spirit merged his essence with Unalaq's, who promptly used the energy from Harmonic Convergence to make their fusion permanent, becoming the Dark Avatar.

After merging with Unalaq to form the Dark Avatar, Vaatu reached inside Korra to separate Raava from her.

Proclaiming to be the new Avatar who would lead the world in to a new era, they were challenged by Korra, who stated her era to not have been over yet. The two Avatars battled each other in a final duel for supremacy, the resulting fight spilling into the physical world. When locked in a show of strength, Vaatu reached out with a tendril from within Unalaq's throat and extracted Raava out of Korra, ripping their presumed permanent fusion apart and enabling Unalaq to destroy the Light Spirit with a barrage of water attacks, infused with his technique to corrupt a soul. With Raava out of the way and Korra effectively neutralized, the pendulum of balance swung completely in Vaatu's favor, allowing him to physically manifest his features through Unalaq, and the Dark Avatar grew into a massive red giant.[7] Using the spirit lights, the Dark Avatar traveled to Republic City where he demolished the metropolis with spirit vines. In the midst of his triumph, however, Korra's astral projection unexpectedly attacked him; though after she failed to locate Raava's residual light inside of him, the Dark Avatar began to corrupt her spirit with spiritbending. Just as the Dark Avatar proclaimed his triumph once and for all, Jinora's spiritual projection brought Raava back into the world and illuminated the Light Spirit inside of Vaatu's essence, allowing Korra to extract Raava and subsequently spiritbend him, dissipating the Dark Avatar Spirit in a golden light.

Legacy

Vaatu appeared to Korra in one of her hallucinations.

When Korra was administered a poison by the Red Lotus that would make her enter the Avatar State, Vaatu appeared to Korra in one of her hallucinations, having sprung forth from Ming-Hua. He floated up to Korra, telling her that she was too weak to resist the poison and that he was stronger than ever. Emphasizing the futility of her resistance, he urged her to just let go and enter the Avatar State.

Vaatu was later used by Varrick in his story of Bolin, Hero of the World, in which he was described as "the ultimate force of pure spirit evil in the universe; the biggest, meanest, scariest kite that ever flew". He teamed up with Amon, Unalaq, and Zaheer to take out their common nemesis, Bolin, for which he was added to a conference call by Zaheer. Upon being rung by the airbender, Zaheer joked that he was glad to have caught him at home, jabbing at the spirit's imprisonment in the Tree of Time, much to his dismay. After Unalaq entered the conversation as well, Vaatu and his two other companions tried to get rid of the Chief of the North and eventually just hung up on him. Vaatu was freed from his prison inside the tree when Juji's lasers missed Unalaq and struck the dark spirit's prison instead. However, due to Unalaq's proximity, who was described as always having been an "annoyingly, clingy person", the two merged and formed UnaVaatu. In their giant forms, UnaVaatu and Bolin were reported to fight on par and barrage each other with laser beams while stomping around Republic City. Although UnaVaatu nearly managed to corrupt Bolin's soul with spiritbending, he was defeated by the combined power of Bolin and the queen of the fairies and turned into magic dust to be scattered across the sky to give birth to the stars.

Abilities/Skills:
-Purple Energy Beam
-Darkness Shadow Ball
-Void Smash
-Flight
-Physical Strength
-Chest Beam
-Elemental Bending: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Metal, Electric, Nature, Ice and Darkness
-Fire Breath (Element of Fire)
-Tidal Wave (Element of Water)
-Rock Boulder (Element of Earth)
-Twister (Element of Air)
-Metal Claw (Element of Metal)
-Thunderbolt (Element of Metal)
-Vine Whip (Element of Nature)
-Icy Wind (Element of Ice)
-Shadow Ball (Element of Darkness)