Toph is 50/50, the White Walkers , Night King and Dragon are big Problems. But it would be so much easier & less of a waste of time if you just agreed this was trivial & let it go. They obviously know better now. Toph Beifong (Chinese: 北方拓芙; pinyin: Běifāng Tuòfú) is a fictional character in Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, voiced by Jessie Flower in the original series and Kate Higgins and Philece Sampler in the sequel series. The Lost Scrolls: Earth, page 93 of The Lost Scrolls Collection. Toph proves herself a steadfast ally to Avatar Aang and eventually Avatar Korra. Similar to Toph detecting the movements of others through her connection with earth, a practitioner learns to detect their opponent's upcoming move by maintaining constant contact between their own arms, hands or wrists, and their foe's arm. The Lost Scrolls: Fire, page 159 of The Lost Scrolls Collection. Toph nearly leaves the group after feuding with Katara over not contributing to the group's teamwork, though rejoins them following a meeting with Iroh and encountering Princess Azula for the first time. Julia Schroeder died causing so much heartbreak and agony to the beloved family. Season 2. Did Suki Die: Theories and Explanations There’s no mention of Suki in ‘The Legend of Korra’ and she doesn’t even appear in any of the flashbacks. Following this, she passes out and has her students assist Aang in his battle against the spirit of Old Iron.[22]. In "Tales of Ba Sing Se", her name is written as 托夫 (Tuō Fū), which is the phonetic transcription based on the official guide for foreign names. "Lake Laogai". This reliance on direct contact with the earth is a figurative Achilles' heel; separating earthbenders from any contact with the earth renders them ineffective. She eventually becomes the first person to develop the ability to "bend" metal as well. Copy link. Season 2. The next time you're giving credit to the benders of Avatar just make to raise a glass to the Gaang's waterbender. The … Oh my God, who the Hell cares, this is from 2014, stop necroposting! They went to extreme measures to protect her, including hiding her existence from the res… It needs to be said that, by the time of Korra's first episode, Sokka has already passed away, meaning he would inherently appear less than his other living friends and sister. Although, she can feel the vibrations of the earth with her hands to some degree, just not nearly as well as with her feet. She finally tells Lin his name is Kanto, but who exactly is he? Nickelodeon. Season 2. Eggers ’s little brother. [6] Despite her handicap, Toph developed special skills by keeping company with the blind 'Badgermoles' that inhabited nearby caves. Though he is said to be the Southern Water Tribe Council Representative he may have left. Reviewer Michael Mammano loved that while Toph "never loses her rough edge, she's always been deftly humanized", feeling her relationships with her daughters would matter to her and thought it was "incredibly refreshing and feminist" that she had two children with different men because nowhere in the narrative was Toph "questioned or shamed for having children out of wedlock", adding: "She has been canonically confirmed as a woman who had a sex life that was on her terms." Eventually, Lin caught Suyin driving the getaway car for her criminal friends after a jewel theft, during which Suyin accidentally scarred the right side of Lin's face. "City of Walls and Secrets". [36] Earthbending is the geokinetic ability to manipulate earth, rock, sand, lava, and metals in all their various forms. [12] Toph successfully begins Aang's training of earthbending and slows the descent of Wan Shi Tong's Library, where the group learns the date of the next Day of Black Sun and inadvertently gains an advantage over the Fire Nation, as it sinks, though fails to prevent Appa from being kidnapped by sandbenders. The guy said it could be anyone you lost from the past or future so it always made me scared she would pass away! Info. Earthbending utilizes neutral jing, which involves waiting and listening for the right moment to act decisively. The character's original design was recycled into the appearances of minor characters The Boulder and Sud. Either Toph divorced again or her dad is Sokka and he lives in the Southern Water Tribe. When Toph is imprisoned in iron, the sadhu Guru Pathik explains to Aang in a parallel scene that metal is refined earth; whereupon Toph locates the iron's impurities and manipulates them to "bend" the metal portion. [23] Her daughters mention in passing to Korra that they are actually half-sisters by two different fathers, but their identities were not revealed, and due to as-yet-unexplained reasons neither of Toph's daughters ever knew their fathers. Because she was blind, her parents had a tutor who taught her only basic earthbending but she learned more advanced earthbending secretly from the badgermoles. Episode 15. Avatar: The Last Airbender. I never said they were all gone. Earthbending involves enduring attacks until the right opportunity to counterattack reveals itself, emphasizes "heavily rooted stances and strong blows that evoke the mass and power of earth", and demands precise stepping footwork to maintain constant contact with the ground. Her design became a subject of difficulty for the staff, who wanted her to return to the size of her twelve-year-old self from the original series despite flashbacks in the earlier part of The Legend of Korra showing her as having grown in height. Toph would pass the skill on to other Earthbenders while founding Republic City's police force of Metalbenders seen on The Legend of Korra , with her two daughters Lin and Suyin also becoming Metalbenders. By grounding herself barefoot, Toph can "see" and "feel" even the most minute seismic vibrations in the earth, be it the presence of trees or the march of ants several meters away, an earthbending technique dubbed the "seismic sense". Toph: I still can't believe that Aang is dead. Toph discovered metalbending. Artists had issues carrying out this design, resulting in multiple takes. [4], Toph was favored by the creators to return in The Legend of Korra after the appearances of both Katara and Zuko, DiMartino writing that it "never quite made sense" for there to be a trip to the swamp, where she was located, during the third season. [6] Terrain that impairs Toph's ability to sense vibrations also hinders her abilities; she has some difficulty with sand, which constantly lacks solidity, preventing her from accurately "feeling" her surroundings. I always knew that Toph was still alive because I had a feeling that she was. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Neither has it been stated that she is alive. I just love how she's this incredibly funny badass all wrapped up in a 12 year old little blind girl. I just happen to come across this old post, which reminded me of how this site declared Toph dead despite it never being actually confirmed, and since no one in this thread seem to point out that Katara never said all of her friends were gone I thought better late than never! Up next. By practicing with a partner in this manner, a practitioner learns to "read" the slight movements of their opponent's arms to detect their next attack and subsequently move accordingly to neutralize it. Toph fought frequently in Earth Rumble, an earthbending lei tai tournament resembling professional wrestling, under the alias "Blind Bandit". Look, I could just ask an admin to close the thread since it's obviously ran its course, they will do that. Toph has acquired an acute sense of hearing, enabling her to recognize people by their voices, discern a person's physical appearance by sound, overhear distant conversations, and sense falsehood via the ind… Toph has acquired an acute sense of hearing, enabling her to recognize people by their voices, discern a person's physical appearance by sound, overhear distant conversations,[26] and sense falsehood via the individual's subtle breathing patterns, heartbeat, and physical reactions. Also I don't think you or anyone should tell people not to post in certain threads no matter how old they are. 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While you may be familiar with Toph's earthbending prowess and sharp wisecracks, there is a lot more to her than meets the eye! Great Toph voice actor, Ana Lucia Menezes is dead, Ana Menezes died at the age of 46, following a courageous battle with stroke, causing so much heartbreak and agony to the beloved family. Toph Beifong is probably the most savage character in all of Avatar: The Last Airbender AND The Legend of Korra. Zuko. Earthbending parallels Five Animals movements (such as the tiger's hard blows and the crane's affinity to landing gracefully). He is a lifelongchildhood friend of Aang shortly before Fire Lord Sozin started the war and in later years he became the king of his hometown called Omashu. He is known for playing Eric Forman in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, Eddie Brock / Venom in Sam Raimi's film Spider-Man 3, Pete Monash in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! Ever since Toph mastered the basics… Toph when she was a little girl. The word 托 (Tuō) also means "to support in one's palm", or "drag" and is the word used for child care,[9] and is also intended to sound like the English word "tough".[10]. All other details concerning this news will be updated upon confirmation. Earthbending is at its strongest when the feet or hand are in direct contact with the ground, enabling earthbenders to transfer their kinetic energies into their bending for fast and powerful moves. But when legend of korra book air episode one came out the episode reveal Katara was STILL ALIVE. After the third event, the health of crabs 1, 2, 3, and 4 She chooses her three students (Penga, The Dark One, and Ho Tun) on the basis of her meteorite bracelet shivering in their presence. When it came to killing off the character Jet in Avatar 's second season, the creators managed to pull off such a feat, but the result was so ambiguous it left some fans scratching their heads. I always thought that Toph was the most likely to survive. Tap to unmute. Thus, there is no indication of whether she is alive. So, is Suki dead? She said MANY, as in not all of her friends were gone, so there was no reason to assume before book four that all of her friends were gone. Her affinity with the earth is further illustrated in that Toph does not know how to swim and expresses an aversion to flying. Dude, what you said has already been pointed out, plus we all know Toph is alive since we've seen her. The concept of neutral jing relates to the philosophy of "sticky hands". If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. If the situation absolutely requires it, she actually knows how to behave in upper-class Earth Kingdom culture much better than Aang's companions do. In the following season, she was meant to serve as a foil to Korra with her "gruff mentoring style" contrasting the reserved Korra. The nobles, the civilians, even her own family, all dead because of the man before her. But it caused both of them to feel that she was ignoring them as their mutual need for her attention caused them to react in different ways: the older and strict Lin following in her mother's footsteps as a Republic City police officer while the free-spirited Suyin rebelled against Toph by hanging with the wrong crowd. Toph learned to bend earth from a pair of badger-moles, the original earthbenders. Being blind, Toph's mechanoreceptorsand other senses are hyper-sensitive. I can't believe he lost to that white haired, ghost kid. However, Toph's dialog indicates that she recognizes Korra because she knew the last Avatar (Aang), rather than from them meeting in the past. And now you're going to argue with me over whether or not you should argue with people over what they said 3 years ago? "Bitter Work". Episode 9. Unyielding. [5], Toph is fiercely independent, direct, belligerent, and practiced in taunting and insulting her opponents[6] and on occasion her friends, particularly Sokka. Toph is an extremely talented and masterful earthbender—i.e., she has the ability to telekinetically manipulate, reshape and control stone and dirt, as well as metal, later on. Toph … Following several long discussions, Konietzko stopped fighting the idea and warmed up to it, after which Toph was made female and introduced into the series, becoming one of Konietzko's favorite characters. Though she may not have had the closest of relations with her parents, they were still her parents, and now they were gone forever. In the avatar episode "the swamp" Aang, sokka, and katara all see people in the swamp. [1] As the series progressed and the time came closer to the introduction of an earthbender that would join the main characters and die later on, head writer Aaron Ehasz introduced the idea of a little girl being able to defeat strong and muscular adult earthbenders, which though found humorous by some of the staff, was initially rejected by Avatar co-creator Bryan Konietzko. Estoesta, Joann, Wahlander, Lisa, Huebner, Andrew, Scheppke, Gary, MacMullan, Lauren, Mattila, Katie, Ridge, Justin, Volpe, Giancarlo (writers) & Spaulding, Ethan (director). Toph may have been more than happy to declare herself the greatest earthbender alive, but sometimes it's the quiet ones you should really pay attention to. Some people think that (since Lin had stopped metalbending at the time) that the could makes the action past not the person making her fate unknown, while others believe that the "could" is describing the person making her deceased. is based around her relationship with Toph. I wrote that she said "my brother, and many of my friends are gone." Toph has been blind since birth, but due to her extensive earthbending skills, she can locate objects and their movements by sensing their vibrations in the earth around her. In the episodes "The Coronation" and "The Calling", she assists Korra by removing the remnant liquid-metal poison placed in her body by the Red Lotus through helping her overcome her fears brought about by her past adversaries. She said MANY of her friends were gone, she never all of them. Thus, Sokka is dead and common consensus states that he died of natural causes and due to old age. Who cares if someone was wrong 3 years ago? Nickelodeon. It has not been stated that Toph is dead as far as I know. She is introduced in the second season of Avatar, and travels with the protagonist Aang as his earthbending teacher. Shopping. Season 2. The series' creators consulted a professional martial artist in the design of the show's fighting style. She was the first person to utilize it and she eventually taught many other people how to… Aang found Toph again at the Beifong Estate and tried to explain why he needed an earthbending teacher, but Toph called for the guards. [24] Due to her own strict upbringing, Toph raised the pair as a single parent with essentially no restrictions. Initially worried her students are not capable of being metalbenders, they surprise her with their victory over Kunyo and his firebending students, renewing her confidence in them[18] and she participates in the battle for Yu Dao. "[39] Toph's character was viewed as being "ruined" due to her poor parenting in the eyes of her daughter Lin in The Legend of Korra. Okay I just saw the two new episodes of the legend of korra and one of the characters said that Toph is traveling around the world to find enlightenment or something. The purpose of sticky hands is to enable the practitioner to predict their opponent's next move. She is usually covered in dirt, or as she calls it, "a healthy coating of earth".[8]. Toph appears in the fourth-season episode "Korra Alone", having made a home in the sacred spirit wilds of the Foggy Swamp where Aang's reincarnation, Korra, encounters her. Throughout Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph is the first earthbender known to bend metal. Konietzko was content with the staff's wishes but wanted her shortened height to come from her having become hunched since then. Specifically, Toph would become the world's first Metalbender, with metal itself being earth in its most pure and enriched state. Episode 14. As she explained to Aang and his companions, she does this intentionally as a rebellion against the principles of refined culture that her aristocratic parents attempted to make her conform to. (September 22, 2006). [35] It is categorized as the most diverse and enduring of the "four bending arts". The key to Earthbending is your stance – you've gotta be steady and strong. way back in 2014. Toph is the only child of the wealthy Bei Fong family of Gaoling. 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