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She was never used as a vehicule for fanservice so this doesn't count


* MsFanservice: Downplayed example. Suyin is a very beautiful woman with smoldering bright green eyes, soft peach lips, a sometimes more [[TheTease playful attitude]] and is in [[AmazonianBeauty terrific shape]].
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** ''[[ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraRuinsOfTheEmpire Ruins of the Empire]]'' has her refusing to forgive Kuvira on the basis that she hasn't taken responsibility for her crimes. Yet Suyin has a history of not owning up to her old mistakes - her criminal past being the main example - and in the present day she happily partnered up with Varrick, a man who almost cheated Asami out of Future Industries and tried to manipulate the United Republic into joining a war solely for the sake of his own profit, crimes for which he's never shown any kind of remorse.

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** ''[[ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraRuinsOfTheEmpire Ruins of the Empire]]'' has her refusing to forgive Kuvira on the basis that she hasn't taken responsibility for her crimes. Yet Suyin has a history of not owning up to her old mistakes - her criminal past being the main example - and in the present day she happily partnered up with Varrick, a man who almost cheated Asami out of Future Industries and tried to manipulate the United Republic into joining a war solely for the sake of his own profit, crimes for which he's never shown any kind of remorse. To her credit, at the end of the story, when Kuvira pleads guilty and takes responsibility for her actions after helping with the current crisis, Suyin not only forgives Kuvira but had her live in her city under house arrest to reform her. Suyin even admitted that she wondered if she was the cause of Kuvira's actions, to which Kuvira assured Suyin that she was responsible for her own actions.
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* HiddenDepths: Surprisingly, childhood hidden depths that are not-so-sweet, giving it a rare twist. In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraRuinsOfTheEmpire'', [[spoiler:it's revealed that she once rejected Kuvira as a sister despite Suyin attempting to integrate her into the family, calling her a stray dog at the end.]] While she's clearly grown up since then, it adds a different kind of depth to her overall NiceGirl character.

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* HiddenDepths: Surprisingly, childhood hidden depths that are not-so-sweet, giving it a rare twist. In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraRuinsOfTheEmpire'', [[spoiler:it's [[spoiler: it's revealed that she once rejected Kuvira as a sister despite Suyin attempting to integrate her into the family, calling her a stray dog at the end.]] While she's clearly grown up since then, end. However, it adds a different kind should be noted that Opo did not reject Kuvira out of depth jealousy or spite; Opal was angry that Kuvira destroyed a toy they both wanted to play with because Opal still wanted to play with it because it was still her overall NiceGirl character.turn, and Opal was angry that her mother was justifying Kuvira actions instead of punishing her; finally, Opal said that Kuvira was not her sister and compared her to a stray dog in private and did not mean for Kuvira to hear her.]] This implies that while Opal always had a strained relationship with Kuvira, it's mainly because of her character flaw of not taking responsibility for her actions; it should be noted that once Kuvira pleaded guilty and took responsibility for her actions, Opal was the first person to forgive her.

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* WhipItGood: Uses whiplike metal cables, like the rest of the force. Heck, her mother invented the technique.



* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Suyin is the carefree DanceBattler matriarch Girly Girl, to Lin as the hardcore WhipItGood police chief Tomboy.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Suyin is the carefree DanceBattler matriarch Girly Girl, to Lin as the hardcore WhipItGood whip-wielding police chief Tomboy.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Since Lin Beifong is an ActionGirl and is the chief of Republic City's Metal Bending Police, she has a much deeper, and more commanding voice than the rest of the female cast to emphasize her position of power. Also justified due to her being middle-aged.



* ContraltoOfDanger: When angry her voice becomes as deep as her sister's.
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* ExtraOreDinary: In addition to earthbending, she has considerable skill in metalbending.

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* DamselInDistress: Ming-Hua holds her at icicle-point in "The Ultimatum" to get the rest of the airbenders to stand down.



* DistressedDamsel: Ming-Hua holds her at icicle-point in "The Ultimatum" to get the rest of the airbenders to stand down.
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* VibrationManipulation: Lin first displays her ability to sense vibrations through the earth in the "The Aftermath", an ability that she learned from her mother, Toph.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: When first introduced in book 3, Suyin pronounces his name as "HUGH-on". When he returns in book 4, Korra simply pronounces it "juan".
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed example. While Baatar isn't hideous, he's rather average looking, especially compared to his smokin' hot SilverFox wife.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Along with growing much kinder, more selfless, and responsible, she's certainly grown significantly more powerful and skilled in Earthbending and Metalbending as an adult. It's likely she either trained herself or Toph when she stayed in Zaofu helped refine her skills. In terms of combat skill, while in her youth, the only reason she could scar Lin was because she caught her completely off-guard with her reaction, in the present, she delivers a CurbStompBattle upon a weakened Lin. Leaving aside Lin's weakened state, whenever they work together, they are constantly shown to be comparable to one another and able to synchronize effectively.
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[[caption-width-right:180:{{Lineage|ComesFromTheFather}} [[AvertedTrope does NOT]] come from the father in ''this'' family.]]

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[[caption-width-right:180:{{Lineage|ComesFromTheFather}} does [[AvertedTrope does NOT]] come from the father in ''this'' family.]]
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Episode 6 shows that there's a VERY good reason she's the head of the Metalbending Police.

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Episode 6 shows that there's a VERY good reason she's the head of the Metalbending Police.
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* CastingGag: As a teenager, she's voiced by [[Creator/JessieFlower her mother's actress from the original series]].
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--->'''Meelo:''' That lady is my hero.
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* ForceAndFinesse: The force to Suyin's finesse, best exemplified in their duel. Lin [[Series/CobraKai strikes first, strikes hard, and shows no mercy.]] Her strikes are quick, powerful, and head-on. In many ways, she typifies earthbending's philosophy of taking things directly. This serves her well as a police chief, but when she comes up against Suyin, whose style of bending incorporates waterbending's adaptability and earthbending's acrobatics and indirection, she is easily bested.


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* ForceAndFinesse: The finesse to Lin's force, best exemplified in their duel. While Lin prefers a direct, powerful approach to earthbending, not unlike earthbenders other than her mother in the original series, Suyin clearly has a much more flexible and indirect way of fighting. Where Lin attempts to attack head-on, Suyin will often counter Lin's attacks and then hit her from different angles. And while Lin typically attacks using typical earthbending stances with some firebending incorporated, Suyin almost exclusively bends using waterbending redirection and airbending sweeps, spins, and acrobatics.
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* MsFanservice: Downplayed example. Suyin is a very beautiful woman with smoldering bright green eyes, soft peach lips, is [[AmazonianBeauty in terrific shape]] and a sometimes more [[TheTease playful attitude]].

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* MsFanservice: Downplayed example. Suyin is a very beautiful woman with smoldering bright green eyes, soft peach lips, is [[AmazonianBeauty in terrific shape]] and a sometimes more [[TheTease playful attitude]]. attitude]] and is in [[AmazonianBeauty terrific shape]].
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* MsFanservice: Downplayed example. Suyin is a very beautiful woman with smoldering bright green eyes, soft peach lips and is [[AmazonianBeauty in terrific shape]].

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* MsFanservice: Downplayed example. Suyin is a very beautiful woman with smoldering bright green eyes, soft peach lips and lips, is [[AmazonianBeauty in terrific shape]].shape]] and a sometimes more [[TheTease playful attitude]].

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* FairCop: If you can look past Lin's [[PerpetualFrowner intense scowling]] she's actually very pretty, even [[SilverFox at her age]].



* SilverFox: Not to Suyin's level, but still present.



* HotTeacher: To Korra, Kuvira and many others.



* MoralityChain: She can be considered this for Kuvira, who was a loyal and heroic soldier while she served under Suyin. It's after they split ways that Kuvira started to walk down a very dark path. Becomes this again in ''Ruins of the Empire'', when she convinces Kuvira to spare Commander Guan's life

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* MoralityChain: She can be considered this for Kuvira, who was a loyal and heroic soldier while she served under Suyin. It's after they split ways that Kuvira started to walk down a very dark path. Becomes this again in ''Ruins of the Empire'', when she convinces Kuvira to spare Commander Guan's lifelife.
* MsFanservice: Downplayed example. Suyin is a very beautiful woman with smoldering bright green eyes, soft peach lips and is [[AmazonianBeauty in terrific shape]].
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* AmazonianBeauty: Downplayed example. Broad shoulders and muscular arms don't in any way detract from what a lovely woman she is.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Subverted. If anything Suyin's gotten ''hotter'' [[SilverFox with age]], starting out already pretty cute as a teenager before growing up into an ashen haired sexpot.
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* GrumpyBear: Lin seems to be a cranky person all the time.
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* SilverFox: Gracefully aged to quite the grey haired bombshell.

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* SilverFox: Gracefully aged to into quite the grey haired bombshell.
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* SilverFox: Gracefully aged to quite the grey haired bombshell.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As a child [[spoiler:Opal was overly harsh in rejecting Kuvira, but she was right to tell Suyin that she was making a mistake by allowing Kuvira to use her abandonment issues to escape punishment for misbehaving.]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Anne Heche, Creator/JessieFlower (teenager)

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Anne Heche, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/JessieFlower (teenager)

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* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: She's just as stubborn as her mother, but coming from that is a sense of right and wrong, which leads her to resign as Chief of Police in order to track down her captured men outside the law. She also knows her mother's seismic sense technique, though it appears to be an active rather than passive power. If Book 2 is anything to go by, Lin inherited Toph's snarker quality. The first line she says in Book 2 was "congratulating" Korra on starting a war.

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* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: She's just as stubborn as her mother, but coming from that is a sense of right and wrong, which leads her to resign as Chief of Police in order to track down her captured men outside the law. She also knows her mother's seismic sense technique, though it appears to be an active rather than passive power. If Book 2 is anything to go by, Lin inherited Toph's snarker quality. The first line she says in Book 2 was "congratulating" Korra on starting a war. Even when mother and daughter reunite in the show, having both been (and still are, for Lin) police chiefs, they share this brief greeting.
-->'''Lin''': Uh... hey, chief.
-->'''Toph''': Hey, chief.



* SiblingTeam:
** With Suyin versus P'Li.
** Also when sabotaging the Colossus in the finale.

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* SiblingTeam:
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SiblingTeam: Lin teams up with Suyin versus P'Li.
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to fight against P'Li near the end of Book 3, and the two also fight together against Kuvira's forces in Book 4, and when sabotaging the Colossus in the finale.finale.



* SiblingTeam: With Lin versus P'Li.

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* SiblingTeam: With She teams up with Lin versus P'Li.against P'Li near the end of Book 3, and fights alongside her against Kuvira and her forces in Book 4.
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** [[spoiler: Goes through this again in the ''Ruins of the Empire'' comic, learning to forgive Kuvira and accept her as part of her family--something she was unable to do as a child.]]

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