Naga is a polar bear dog that came into the possession of AvatarKorra as her companion, animal guide, and main mode of transportation.[2] Despite her frightening appearance, she is described as a "sweetheart"[3] and is regarded as Korra's best friend. Undyingly loyal, she is very protective of Korra and has learned how to use her strength to help Korra out of perilous situations.[4]
At some point, Naga met Korra and became her animal guide. Korra rides Naga like a horse, even into battle, where the animal proves to be quite agile, able to dodge moving cars at high speed and move quickly enough to keep up with them.[2]
Naga later accompanied Korra when the Avatar escaped to Republic City, where the polar bear dog was seen catching fish from the pond in the city's park. As the guard came running telling Korra not to fish, the Avatar escaped on Naga. She later helped Korra evade arrest by the Metalbending Police Force, but she and Korra were eventually captured and sent to Police headquarters.[5]
While attempting to find Bolin, Naga was capable of sustaining a fast pace while chasing an Equalist convoy consisting of a truck and motorcycles. When Korra and Mako had their chi blocked and found themselves surrounded, Naga bit through her bindings, and she and Pabu scared the Equalists away allowing the two to escape.[6]
While Korra and Bolin were enjoying dinner at Narook's Seaweed Noodlery, they were approached by Tahno. He and Korra began trash-talking, and the former tried to provoke the Avatar into a fight. Since the Fire Ferrets would be disqualified of the Pro-bending Tournament if she were to lay a hand on him out of the arena, the Avatar called Naga instead, who intimidated the Wolfbats' waterbender with a loud growl.[7]
When the Fire Ferrets found out that Amon had threatened the United Republic Council to shut down the Pro-bending Arena or face severe consequences, the team rode on Naga to City Hall so they could speak with the council.[8]
Korra and Naga greatly resemble San from Princess Mononoke and her wolf foster-brothers and foster-mother, the wolf goddess Moro, in both posture and physical traits. The creators admitted to having been inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's movie when creating Avatar: The Last Airbender.[9]
Naga was based off the original early concepts of an anthropomorphic polar bear dog traveling with Aang that eventually evolved into Appa.
Naga is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake in Hinduism and Buddhism. Naga can also mean 'go out' in Korean (나가), and "dragon" in Indonesian. In Inuit, it means "no".
Naga is an anagram of Aang.
Naga is the first known polar bear dog to ever be tamed.[4]
While both of the known animals that precede Naga in the position of guide to the Avatar were the animals that their people learned their bending art from, Naga is just a regular animal, though this had to be the case since the Water Tribes learned waterbending from the Moon and Ocean spirits.
The symbol on Naga's chest is the same symbol that Tonraq wears on his chest.
Naga is modeled after the creators' dogs, who are both brothers.[10]
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i know this might be a stupid question to ask but does a polar bear dog have any control over water? i know that the waterbenders learned their art from the moon and ocean spirits but that doesn't mean that the polar bear dogs didn't learn it as well. and i know there are no scenes where naga has control over water but couldn't it be possible for them to at least be able to manipulate it? oh please avatar writers, hear my plea! make naga a polar ber dog who can move the sea!
i hope naga gets something good to do. i mean right now she's just a pack animal. i know appa did that too but appa seemed important i mean he helped the gang in tough spots. naga does NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!
i wish i had naga he is so awesome korra is lucky to have a friend who been there for her along time btw the thing here the awesome part about naga is he is a combination of a poler bear and a dog pretty cool right?
i love that loyal dog companion feel to her. Her dog moments are so good. Her dejected face when told to wait before eating food from a stall in ep 1, her howling at the police siren, chasing a "squirrel" (Pabu, not anything like a squirrel i know) in ep 3 licking Korra's hand after her nightmare in ep 4.
I'd rather listen to "I ship Nabu!" Than "I ship Makorra!", "I Ship Masami!", "I ship Borra!", "Makorra is soooo much better than Masami!", "No it's not!", "What about Borra!", "Ugh, no way!", "Like Totally Yes!"
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