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GravyEducation
Y'all forgetting the greatest and simplest smackdown from Toph. "You give metal benders a bad name." Would be a lame line if it came from anybody else
orngeturtl
Toph is amazing in so many ways
Lampmonster
"It's so dark in here, I can't see anything!" "Oh, that must be terrible." Or "I see it! Over there!" "Where?! Stop doing that!"
TheDoctorCrankenstein
GuggelPlayer
Well written character is good... shocking! And Toph is feets down best character in the show!
SecretlyASquirrel
FireSolvesProblems
wabitgirl
BACK. BACK INTO THE SWAMP WITH YOU! OUT, OUT OUT!
FireSolvesProblems
Hey if I have to know this shit exists, everybody does.
Grimmrog
The Best part is her reaction to her theater parody. Like she truly is the only character they nailed 100% and she even loves that
wabitgirl
Her face of pure joy when the toph actor SCREAMS, and goes "echolocation" is priceless.
GravyEducation
She's grounded. She don't give a fuck what people think of her. And then to have everyone else be super embarrassed is icing on the cake
Totallyscrewedinaustin
#3 The Boulder Is Conflicted!
haitamimama
Though she be small, she is mighty
ironymus
#6 her feet see perfectly fine. She doesn't need glasses
Colopty
It's called fashion, look it up.
LtGenObvious
#4 Suki has some pretty amazing makeup for it not to smear even a little bit after being submerged.
vorodar
It's supposed to be worn in battle, so it's probably very resilient to smears.
DamnYourePretty
Its not makeup, thats just her face.
DamnYourePretty
Or its oil based like traditional kabuki makeup.
16KTS
#8 Blind jokes. She has them.
MisterLemons
Toph really was *the* best character of that show. Independent yet willing to help, physically impaired yet stronger than everyone, filthy stinking rich yet preferred to be in the dirt, abrasive yet empathetic, simultaneously the quietest AND loudest personality, and after it was all said and done, she was still around to piss off korra.
She was the embodiment of IDGAF and it was the seasoning on the perfection that was that show.
TheFastpaws
That first one is wild with how big the structure was under the sand. She truly was the greatest earthbender of the time.
qtRaven
SofaH3ro
#1 this picture isn't adequate to explain what was going on as this was basically the spire of a multistory university library building
Deadlyfire
Prepared for the downvotes but #9 was definitely a Chuck Norris joke at least 20 years ago… now I feel old
wabitgirl
Well yeah, it's a barody of the chuck norris joke
elucca
It might not help with the oldness but the show is 21 years old. Dunno about the meme but "memegenerator.net" doesn't seem to exist anymore so probably not too new either.
sometimesarobot
#6 I finally learned if Toph was a he or a she. Seen so many of these things but still
TheBlueMuppet
The character was so great, it never mattered.
Targe0
#3 The Boulder is no longer conflicted about fighting a small child.
hotaru251
The Boulder regrets thinking he could beat a smol child.
AnotherOneBitesTheCrust
I miss @TheBOULDER
kriswinters
Go Aang! Avenge the Boulder.
lpooptoomuch
Mick Foley was all 3 of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid.
deevo697
If Toph wore glasses like this, would she wear them or like this?
SonOfLucifer
I need an animation of this... just her ripping up chunks of earth, and pushing them down again...
Or even better. her lying on the ground, shoving her arms into the ground and back out again, both with out moving anything else...
DemonKysho
rockiesmagicnumber
this was OG Iroh actor, ya?
HeyHeyPeoplePlinkettHere
Yes. Mako was a legend.
GravyEducation
Iirc they also used the replacement voice actor (bless that dude, it must be hard having to replace somebody irreplaceable) to come back and voice Aku in the final Samurai Jack season
InnerBushman
Always upvote Iroh!
LicensedAdHominem
One of the coolest war criminals ever
GravyEducation
Lampmonster
God I love Iroh.
VincitQuiSeVincit
lies! Uncle Iroh DID already love her. Uncle Iroh loves everyone. And his words and actions come from this basic stance of compassion and discernment.
Renza0
fuckin Iroh man. its a shame everyone didnt have an Iroh in their life, the world would be an infinitely better place
wabitgirl
Iroh is quite literally peak masculinity. Had his "alpha" phase, understands the fire, drive, and cruelty appeal but rejects it for humanity instead, is never one to stand by and let innocents be harmed, but also understands the need to let people make their own mistakes, is supportive without being pushy, and will always be there to welcome you back when you need to come home. He is EVERYTHING a man should be.
Axelxdisepic
#1 it's earthbending so not directly 1 to 1 put her earthbending is still hella
idiotsonfire
Yeah, earthbending still does require strength, but Toph was absolutely not using physical power to hold up the Library.
idiotsonfire
That was a feat that was only possible for her or an Avatar like Kyoshi though. To be able to hold that much stone in place for that long?
idiotsonfire
That's a hell of a feat, but its nothing to do with physical strength, or she'd be able to duke it out with Luke Cage.
TheUnnamedPoet
#1 - No what really blows one's mind about how strong she is... That's only a single tower of a much much larger building. We can see something like 5% of the total size in that tower. The rest of the library is massive. That she kept it from sinking for as long as she did is nothing short of god like..... and she did this on SAND.
Ivain
Yep, let's also not forget this wasn't just a random building sinking into sand due to lack of foundation, but the realm of a spirit that was actively trying to pull away from the physical world. That adds a whole other dimension to the feat of holding it up long enough for everyone to get out (that wanted to leave, anyhow).
3Davideo
I assumed she was using earthbending to apply that force.
Somnophobe
Earthbending is part of her strength- nobody is suggesting that she was doing that with the power of her muscles. If you’re looking for the team member with the highest physical strength (just muscle) then it would have to be Sokka.. he was able to keep up for the most part with a group of high level benders just with physical strength and skill.
GozerTheGozerian
Was about point out the same, it's a legit tip of the iceberg example of her strength as we're not seeing the full totality of the structure--only a small fraction of it, ie like an iceberg. Toph has some of the craziest feats in the entire show, friggin' little Uber powerhouse.
Grimmrog
Yeah, she would have sunk into that sand as well, so she had to control the sand below her feet to stay solid enough and hold up the entire library, thats some hell uv a bending power
Draygen
I think the most powerful bit is she sees this as a failure on her part because the sand was messing up her earthbending. Then, season 3, we see her stomp her foot and bend an entire sandcastle city. This means that after what she probably saw as her greatest failure, she learned to bend sand without ever telling anyone, because she never wanted to fail like that again. Like, just a quiet callback to her sheer force of will to be the greatest earthbender.
Zalm
"Even you can't bend metal" Toph then proceeds to prove she has no weakness she can't overcome.
Draygen
Exactly. She is pretty overconfident up until the capture of Appa, and afterward worked to make up for it, quietly learning a new style. When faced with another "failure" of being captured when her friends needed her help, she responded with similar mastery, this time creating an entirely new discipline on the spot, but both represent her hubris refocused into discipline.
punderstorm
On top of that, it wasn't just being pulled into the sand, it was being pulled into THE SPIRT REALM, and she still managed to stop it for a bit
ArchMagos
Strongest. Earthbender. Ever.
xeoxion
She stood on the sand the library was sinking into to hold up the library from sinking bro the sand she was standing on.
The proof of the proof is the proof.
All ragging aside ATLA is amazing. Kora was good too. I hear there is a show being made of this older Ang prequel kora series.
And book of earth live action should be out soon.
allenvasher3000
Im surprised in that moment the sand beneath her feet didn't compress in to some sort of stone
thatunpleasantfeeling
She does compress it into stone, if I recall. She has trouble getting a grip, so she twists her ankles in place and the sand hardens into sandstone.
BigFatJuicyMonkies
Nah Korra was terrible.
AwwYEE
I think it started out that way, but redeemed itself in the later parts of the show.
sherlockhooves
Well that's like... your opinion man.
Alozar
ATLA is a solid 8/10 show but god I really couldn't enjoy LoK. 90% of that show is just trying to ride on the coattails of the original by making cheeky references and callbacks while at the same time making weird changes and developments to the lore and world building that make no sense whatsoever. Not to mention a weird lack of cohesion to the plots because it didn't seem like they ever knew if they'd be around another season...
Totallyscrewedinaustin
The villains in LoK are top notch! But yeah, you called the rest of the plot
Alozar
I liked Henry Rollins character, I felt he was an interesting villain, but honestly I can't say I found the others to be that memorable or interesting.
Solski
LoK suffered from poor planning on Nickelodeon's part. The writers were told it'll just be a single season. When they finished season 1 they were told to write just 1 more season. When they finished season 2, they were once again told to write one more season. At that point the writers secretly prepared for 2 more seasons because sure enough after season 3 they were asked to make a final season.
agonarch
They also got the number of episodes cut for the two last seasons and didn't find out until late, so they planned for more introduction time than they actually got both of those seasons (the big penalty really being they didn't get time to develop villains properly, because every one of those mistakes makes that much harder).
Alozar
That might be the case but it's not much of an excuse for the poor "hey remember THIS?" writing that makes up 90% of the content of the show. I really just don't think it's that good, especially compared to its predecessor. As a show it doesn't really try at all to stand on its own legs. There are some ridiculous inconsistencies/retcons in the general world building as well (why can every firebender and their mom suddenly lightning bend? Metalbending is so common they have to powerscale it?)