Toph Beifong is the blind earthbending master
who trained the Avatar, invented metal bending
and helped to defeat the firelord
all before the age of thirteen.
Now let's dive into her next chapter.
This is a complete timeline of Toph
after the Hundred Year War.
Luckily for the four nations,
the reign of Ozai's the Phoenix King was brief.
Oh, sorry, didn't mean to offend you,
Phoenix King of getting his butt whooped.
After a long and hard-fought journey,
Team Avatar finally had a little R and R.
Well, I think you all look perfect.
[laughing]
It was only a short time later, though,
that Toph noticed something strange
when she walked around in public.
Her space metal bracelet would move around certain people.
Eventually Toph figured out
these people were tapping into a rare,
and previously unknown ability.
They were metal benders.
Excited at the prospect of teaching
a whole new bending form,
Toph recruited her first three students to
the Beifong Metalbending Academy.
Ho Tun, Penga and the Dark One.
One day while training, the students noticed a commotion
at the nearby city of Yu Dao.
Toph told them to get back to work,
but stopped herself when she heard the sound of
Appa flying overhead.
If Team Avatar was nearby, there was likely something wrong
so Toph took the fast route
and earth launched herself into the sky.
After a happy reunion,
Toph learned Aang was on his way to Yu Dao
to ease tensions between the recently crowned
Fire Lord Zuko and the Harmony Restoration Movement.
Even though it was Earth Kingdom land,
many Fire Nation's citizens still called it home,
and they were willing to fight to stay there.
Unfortunately, they did just that.
Aang and Zuko even came to blows,
each refusing to back down until Katara stepped in.
The two of them calmed down and agreed
to meet later with the Earth King.
Hopefully, it would be peaceful.
In the meantime, Toph returned to her school
to check on her students,
but found the three of them kicked to the curb.
A gang of firebending students
and their master had taken over her school,
claiming it was their dojo first.
Toph tried to kick them out,
but the fight was destroying the building in the process.
Luckily, they decided on a compromise
with a rematch in three days for control of the academy,
The firebenders versus Ho Tun, Penga and the Dark One.
The odds didn't look good.
It was, however, the perfect time
for substitute instructor Sokka
to step in and inspire the students
to hone their skills together as Team Beifong.
They struggled at first, but soon enough,
Toph's students started to believe in themselves,
and they bent their way to victory.
The Metalbending Academy was finally back
to its rightful owner and Toph couldn't have been more proud.
Shortly after when Aang and Zuko met again,
it went the opposite of peaceful,
and a full on battle broke out.
At one point, Top and Suki found themselves pinned down
by Fire Nation soldiers.
They were nearly overwhelmed until a new and improved
Team Beifong stepped in and turned the fight in their favor.
At the battle's conclusion, Aang trust in himself
to avoid hurting Zuko and even saved his life
in the Avatar state after he nearly fell to his death.
In the end, the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation
colonists learned how to live together in harmony,
and many more promising students
began to enroll at Toph's Academy.
About a year later,
Toph joined Aang on a trip to a festival
honoring Avatar Yangchen.
The air acolyte ceremonies
reminded Toph of her strict upbringing,
and for the most part, she refused to participate.
When Team Avatar made it to
the new industrial city of Cranefish Town, however,
Toph's spirits were lifted.
Even through her usual rock hard exterior,
Touh couldn't hide an obvious crush
on a brilliant young engineer named Satoru.
The two quickly hit it off and formed a partnership.
Toph's students would provide their metalbending skills,
and Satoru's company would sponsor a new building
for her school.
The deal was, of course, too good to be true.
As Toph walked further in the refinery,
she discovered her father, Lao Beifong,
was a co-owner.
The two had been estranged since Toph ran away from home,
and Lao refused to admit that he was her father.
He even threw her off the property.
Toph nevertheless was determined to make ammends.
She returned to the refinery to confront her father
and also tried to let him know his mining operation was unsafe.
Toph took him down to show him herself,
but the mine ended up collapsing on top of them.
It was a close call, but Toph was of course, strong enough
to hold the weight and Lao finally saw his daughter
for the hero she was.
Toph's students arrived to save the day
once again and understandably,
their teacher collapsed from total exhaustion afterwards.
It wasn't long though before an angry spirit
named General Old Iron awoke and started
to attack the refinery.
Quickly recovering, Toph and her students jumped in the fight.
Together, they banded with Team Avatar
and sent the spirit on its way.
There was a reason to celebrate in Yu Dao once again.
And with the support of her father,
Toph and Satoru helped to turn Earth and Fire Refinery
into a bustling new business.
In just a few months, Toph's metalbending academy
was thriving, with upgraded facilities
and a whole new class of students.
Ho Tun, Penga and the Dark One were also now good enough
metalbenders that they taught all the beginners on their own.
The school had basically begun to run itself,
and Toph was bored out of her mind.
Sokka and Suki arrived one day to visit the school
and to break up the monotony, they took her to a concert,
and it was with everyone's favorite traveling band,
Chong and Trustfully In Love.
♪ Secret tunnel ♪
Understandably, Toph bailed on the show.
As she walked back to her school enjoying the quiet,
Toph felt something new with her seismic sense.
It was an unfamiliar type of bending,
and it brought her to an underground battle
in an abandoned warehouse.
Reminded of her days as the Blind Bandit,
Toph was totally enthralled.
There was a fighter in the ring named Son
who wasn't a fire bender, but could seemingly
melt the earth below his feet.
He was a lava bender.
The only problem was that Son hadn't learned to control it.
In a later battle, Son was nearly down for the count
when he shocked the entire crowd,
sprang a wall of lava toward his opponent.
No one had ever seen anything like it before,
and as the building began to topple, everyone fled.
Fortunately, Team Beifong was close by to save the day again.
Son tried to run away in the chaos,
but Toph easily caught up to him.
The idea of innovating a whole new form of earthbending
reinvigorated Toph's passion,
and by the next day she had a new student
and lavabending was permanently added to the curriculum.
Now the Toph's academy ran like clockwork,
she was able to get away from time to time
to act as a representative for Earth and Fire Industries.
One of her first assignments brought her back
with Team Avatar and into business
with the Southern Water Tribe.
Sokka and Katara were thrilled to see her again,
and it was just in time before a new threat arrived.
A radical Southern Water Tribe warrior named Gilok
was leading an uprising spearheaded by giant drills.
Team Avatar easily held Gilok's forces back,
but the conflict evolved into a hostage situation
at the Bridge of No Return.
Team Beifong jumped in action once again,
this time assisted by Sokka's invented battle strategy.
Metal armor to prevent chi blocking.
With his army defeated, Gilok still refused to surrender
and tried to take his many people with him as possible.
He fell to his death right then and there,
but Aang and Katara sprang into action.
After some daring rescues,
Team Avatar welcomed a few new members
to the group that night and remained safe, sound
and ready to feast another day.
Almost two years after the Hundred Year War,
the small town around Earth and Fire Refinery
had rapidly expanded into a small city
called Cranefish Town.
When Team Avatar came to visit,
they hardly recognized the place.
They also found themselves stuck in the middle of
a bending supremacist movement when Toph was nearly
blown up in an attack.
She managed to save herself
was some quick metalbending and later,
with some clever disguises, Toph helped to infiltrate
an underground meeting of the supremacists.
The element of surprise was blown
when Toph lost her patience with their leader, Liling,
and a fight broke out.
Toph launched a barrage of rocks toward Liling,
but as caught off guard by the sheer power of her daughter,
Yaling's counterattack.
For the first time, Toph was battling
a young earthbender who could go toe to toe against her.
While their fight ended in a draw,
when Yaling met Toph at their final battle,
she was determined to win.
With every blow, Yaling got more fierce
and Toph had to adapt her bending style to keep up.
She discovered he could effectively bend
metal cables as a weapon, nearly getting the upper hand.
Yaling had studied Toph's fighting techniques, however,
and used her own earthbending forms against her.
Toph was down for the count and Yaling was prepared
to end it right there.
Fortunately, Toph was better at making friends,
and knew not to underestimate nonbender,
especially one with a boomerang.
A few days later, benders and nonbenders
were united again in a common goal.
They were going to rebuild their home together.
Team Avatar decided to settle down in Cranefish Town that day
and would eventually help in its formation into Republic City.
As Toph grew up, she later took charge
of the city's law enforcement and started an elite
metalbending police force to help keep
the growing population safe.
Toph became chief of police,
but shortly into a career, she met a man named Kanto,
with whom she had a daughter named Lin.
While Toph and Kanto didn't last as a couple,
Toph would end up giving birth to another daughter name Suyin.
Needless to say,
Toph was confident as a single parent
and gave her daughter's much more freedom
than she ever got.
At age 40, while leading the arrest
of a gangster named Yakone,
Toph ran into her favorite airbender.
But if what those victims said is true,
we're not dealing with a normal criminal.
Fine. Follow me, Twinkle Toes.
Toph initially brushed off Aang's concerns
and easily took Yakone into custody.
Right after he was found guilty, however,
the gangster revealed that he was a blood bending master.
He forced Toph to uncuff him and tossed her away
like a rag doll to make his escape
Aang eventually defeated the bloodbender,
but the threats that faced Republic City
were growing by the day.
About a decade later, we would learn
that Toph's daughters inherited her mastery of earthbending.
Lin followed her mother's footsteps
and became a full fledged Republic City police officer.
One day on patrol, she caught her sister, Suyin,
participating in a gang robbery
Su?
When Toph found out Lin arrested Suyin,
she brought the siblings into her office alone.
And what were you thinking?
You two have put me in an impossible position.
It would have been a massive scandal if Republic City
found out their police chief had a daughter in prison,
So Toph did the only thing she could and destroyed
Lin's police report and sent her rebellious daughter
to live with her grandparents.
Suyin would later travel the world,
eventually founding the metal city of Zaofu,
and reconciled with Toph after she retired.
Lin actually ended up taking her old job as police chief,
but the two were unable to resolve their differences
before Toph left Republic City in search of enlightenment.
Many years passed until Toph was seen again,
this time, by the next Avatar, Korra.
I can't believe it.
Toph was the first person to notice that the reason
Korra was feeling weak was that she still had remnants
of metal poison in her body from when the Red Lotus attacked her.
Are you trying to tell me you can't feel
metal in your own body?
You really are the worst Avatar ever.
Toph tried to heal her, but knew the only way
to help Korra was to allow her to save herself.
Release the fear.
After being led through a painful vision,
Korra metalbent the remaining poison out by herself
and found the strength to fight again.
Well done, Korra.
Toph only got a short break before she learned her daughter
Suyin and her family had been captured in Zaofu.
The former chief of police then made a long overdue reunion
with her daughter Lin to launch a full scale rescue mission.
Uh, hey, Chief.
Hey, Chief.
After some close calls, the Beifong family escaped
and Toph using a massive seismic wave
managed to stay Lin, Suyin,
and her grandsons from Kuvira's forces
at the last possible moment.
You give metalbender a bad name!
When they got to safety, Toph told Lin
how proud she was to be her mother,
and the two finally reconciled.
Three months after Kuvira surrendered,
Toph was relaxing back in her swamp when she was visited
by Korra and Earth King Wu, who asked her to run
for governor against a dictator.
Toph initially refused, but per her usual track record,
she ended up fighting side by side with three generations
of Beifongs to take down another radical army.
After the fight, Earth King Wu tried to convince Toph
to stay around as governor, but she refused.
Sticking to her ideals,
Toph went back to retirement in the swamp, simply stating
that the predators there were more honest than in politics.
From a blind bandit, a teacher to two Avatars,
a war hero and matriarch of the entire Beifong family,
Toph's legacy span generations and throughout the world.
But what do you think?
Is she the greatest earthbender of all time?
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