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Zaheer is a fictional character in Nickelodeon's animated television series The Legend of Korra (a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender).He serves as the main antagonist of Book Three: Change, and his actions have lingering effects on Avatar Korra and the series' plot in the following book.
As Korra's body becomes weak due to the poison, Zaheer gains the upper hand in the fight. As he is about to asphyxiate Korra, the airbenders create a giant tornado that pulls him the ground. Zaheer is captured and Suyin Beifong metalbends the poison out of Korra. Two weeks later, Korra is in a wheelchair and is being helped around by Asami Sato ...
Zaheer, disgusted with the rise of a tyrant like Kuvira, who stands as the antithesis to the philosophies of the Red Lotus, proposes to help Korra. He assists her in learning to pass beyond the trauma of her past hardships, and helps her step into the Spirit World, where Korra speaks with Raava for the first time in many years.
Korra and Asami succeed in escaping, [30] but Korra is forced to give herself up so Zaheer will not harm the captive airbenders. [31] Zaheer double-crosses Korra, taking her unconscious body with him, [32] poisoning her with mercury so she can enter the Avatar State and be killed in it to end the Avatar Cycle. She breaks free and is able to ...
At night, Zaheer and his team infiltrate Zaofu and capture Korra, but Team Avatar, backed up by Lin, Suyin and a contingent of metalbenders, are able to rescue the avatar, and the assailants retreat. In the subsequent investigation, Korra and her friends discover that Suyin's adviser Aiwei has been aiding Zaheer, but he escapes through a secret ...
While Kuvira initially has the advantage due to Korra having been out of practice for three years following her poisoning, Kuvira is immediately overwhelmed after Korra taps into the Avatar State and is nearly killed, only surviving when Korra has a PTSD-influenced hallucination of Zaheer that forces her out of the Avatar State, allowing Kuvira ...
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Zaheer returned in the season 4 episode "Beyond the Wilds" when Korra confronts Zaheer in his prison cell. Realizing his actions unintentionally created a tyrant, Zaheer helps Korra reconnect with Raava in the face of their common enemy Kuvira. [152] [123] Zaheer was well-received as a morally ambiguous [63] and sympathetic villain. [121]