Toph Beifong
| Toph Beifong | |
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| Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra character | |
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| First appearance | "The Swamp" (Aang's vision) "The Blind Bandit" (actual appearance) |
| Last appearance | "Operation Beifong" |
| Created by |
Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko |
| Voiced by |
Jessie Flower (child) Kate Higgins (adult) Philece Sampler (senior) |
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| Aliases | The Blind Bandit The Runaway Chief |
| Gender | Female |
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| Significant other(s) | Kanto (lover; Lin's father) |
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| Nationality | Earth Kingdom |
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| Age | 12 (Avatar: The Last Airbender) 14 (The Promise & The Rift) 86 (The Legend of Korra) |
| Hair color | Black White (as an old woman) |
| Eye color | White (blind) |
Toph Beifong (北方拓芙 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.
Toph is commonly identified as an extremely talented and masterful earthbender. She has the elemental ability to geokinetically/terrakinetically manipulate, reshape and control the solid earth and ground. In the show she is the only child of the wealthy Beifong family, whose symbol is a winged boar. As the show progresses she learns metalbending and sandbending as well. Toph is blind since birth and has extensive earthbending skills, which allow her to sense movements around her using vibrations (mechanoreceptor). She travels along with Aang and his friends as his earthbending teacher.
Toph was initially conceived as a sixteen-year-old boy that was athletic and muscular, designed to be a foil to Sokka. As the series progressed and the time came closer to the introduction of an Earthbender that would join the main characters, 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. Following several long discussions, Konietzko stopped fighting the idea and warmed up to it, after which Toph was made a female and introduced into the series, becoming one of Konietzko's favorite characters. The character's original design was recycled into the appearances of minor characters The Boulder and Sud. Her original design greatly influenced the appearance of Bolin in The Legend of Korra. Her Earth Rumble outfit, the clothing she wears for the majority of Avatar: The Last Airbender, was inspired by European fashion styles.
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