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best earthbender in the world: toph uses earthbending to counter powerful magic used by a spirit from another dimension

I firmly believe this is the GREATEST and most extensive display of Earthbending we have ever witnessed.

Depending how you see this scene, Toph is either resisting the interdimensional pull of a vortex Wan Shi Tong opened to transport this MASSIVE building or she is SINGLE-HANDEDLY holding the entire thing up from one of its SMALLEST TURRETS

Can you even fathom?

Literally no greater amount of Earth has ever been manipulated so solidly by an Earthbender on screen. Toph is holding the ENTIRE EDIFICE SECURELY IN PLACE WHILE ONLY TOUCHING THE TINIEST TIP OF IT. WHAT A POWERHOUSE!!!!

and that was with her not knowing how to properly ground herself in sand

um so also…I just realized how long she holds this thing in place????

not only is it long enough for Katara to escape Wan Shi Tong and play hide and seek with him

but also Sokka has enough time to run all the way back to the planetarium and chECK EVERY SINGLE DATE IN THE SEVERAL MONTHS BETWEEN THEN AND SOZIN’S COMET!?!?!?!?!

That’s like at least 60 or so days…and they give this little cutscene montage to show you how long it takes…

Toph is just up there effectively supporting the weight of a goddamn city???? from a tiny pillar of solid rock that she created in a sea of sand…FOR LIKE 20 MAYBE 30 MIN????

what OP bullshit is this…please recognize the Original Beifong like damn

largest amount of any element bent at once, no powerups necessary, and she holds that shit for half an hour?

And then the sandbenders come to kidnap Appa, which because sand, she can only sorta kinda ‘see’. So she can’t even give a good account of what happened after the fact, which has got to be fucking awful for a crap ton of reasons. This girl can hear people lying because of the increase in their heartbeat (because it vibrates their body enough that she can fucking hear it through the ground, I think) But because of the sand everything goes fuzzy and she can’t ‘see’ for shit.

And she’s like, what 12-13-ish at the time. Like seriously, it’s freaking ridiculous.

Literally the only comparable feat I can possibly think of is that time that Kyoshi moved that whole Island, separating it from the mainland. And…. she was the fucking Avatar (I don’t actually remember if she had to go into the avatar state to do that but I think she did)

Like look, Bumi bending shit with his face is pretty awesome. But Toph holding this entire fucking building up…. geeze.

Also…. when she’s older, in LoK, she lives in that swamp where she can basically ‘see’ like everything! The earth bending awesome that let’s her map out her environment, that let’s her hear people’s heart’s speed up when they lie, that let’s her find little particles of earth in metal…. expanded to the point where she can ‘see’ what’s going on like half a fucking continent away.

I love her so much.

(also I think the likely scenario is that the building is getting dragged through an
interdimensional 

vortex, given that in LoK the library ends up in the spirit world so *shrug*)

– Leon

Toph is what I wanted to be growing up