History SelfDemonstrating / TophBeifong

* StaticCharacter: Not that I need any, but compared to everyone else, I don't get a lot of CharacterDevelopment. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the time Aang went missing days before Sozin's Comet arrived. When Sokka proposed we split up into groups to find him, I wanted to go with Zuko, since Aang, Katara and Sokka got to have a life-changing adventure with him [[labelnote:note]] with Aang to learn the true essence of firebending, with Sokka to free his father, and with Katara to find her mother's killer[[/labelnote]], and now it's my turn. You did see me trying to talk to him about my parents, but he wasn't much interested so I dropped it, and no such development is had. Shame.

So, that's pretty much it. And I'll be honest, I got a lot done with Aang and his friends. I held my own in battle, wriggled my toes in the grass (which might have been fur), heck, I even invented metalbending, which no one in the entire world had done. So yeah, I am an invaluable part of Team Avatar, and if it wasn't for Aang, I would've just still been in that house without any freedom, and I wouldn't have had the chance to show the world what I'm made of, and taught Aang one of the most powerful techniques in the world.

* BadassAdorable: On the outside, you usually see a cute little girl. On the inside, you see one of the strongest earthbenders in the world between me and King Bumi, who can earthbend with his face.

* {{Badbutt}}: I am a tiny blind girl who acts like a pro wrestler within the bounds of a kid's show. In fact, the directors said it was hilarious to watch Jessie Flower, an adorable, angel-faced little girl, spout wrestler trash talk during recordings. I cannot blame them. But she is amazing.

* TheBigGal: Yes! Well, not physically, but by personality and by my bending skills. The Ember Island Players' play made fun of this, since an actual big guy played me in the play they made about our adventures.

* BlackMagicianGirl: I'm a twelve-year-old girl and [[DeadpanSnarker snarking goddess]] who deals [[DishingOutDirt mountains]] [[{{Pun}} of damage]] to villains. I also love dealing out a good offensive smackdown using my earthbending.

** Sigh. While I was struggling in the water after Katara's ice bridge broke, I mistook Suki for Sokka and kissed her on the cheek. I've been trying to forget it ever since.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: I have a reason for that. Because I'm blind, my bare feet are the strongest connection I have to the world. Anything that's not solid ground (or even moderate bandaging) dampens my "vision". The animators paid special attention to this; whenever I'm shown asleep, I have my feet out of contact with the ground as the equivalent of [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ed/7c/a2/ed7ca23b411cb496b85bdd4f3ce7fa4e.jpg "closing my eyes."]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: During Aang's earthbending training, I was tough, critical and used methods like "hold still while a large boulder rolls its way towards you".

* TheFace: I'm the youngest member of Team Avatar, and yet I'm the one with the most social savvy, due to being raised by rich socialites. Technically, it should be Aang, since he's the Avatar, but I'm usually the one doing the talking.

* FriendlessBackground: Due to being sheltered from the outside world by my EXTREMELY overprotective parents, I never made a friend before meeting Aang, Katara and Sokka. Me becoming part of Team Avatar was important to me changing for the better. The only friends I had were badgermoles.

** Have a look-see already...[[RunningGag Whoops, wait!]]

* GirlOfMyDreams: A non-romantic example. Aang saw me in a vision before ever having met me. When they do run into me a short time later, Aang is positively convinced that I, and no one else, was destined to be his earthbending teacher. ''And he was absolutely right.''

* LessonsInSophistication: Surprisingly, I do this. I was born into Earth Kingdom High society, so I know how to act like a {{proper lady}}, I just choose not to. I'm able to help clean up Katara for a palace party hosted by the Earth King but I don't even attempt with Sokka and Aang. They're that hopeless. Call it rude if you want.
* LittleMissBadass: I'm only twelve, but I'm one of the most kick-butt characters in the entire series.
* LittleMissConArtist: When Sokka, Aang and I went to town for some fun, we decided to get money by exploiting people's notion that since I'm blind I'm no threat. It ended up blowing up in our face eventually.
* LivingLieDetector: I can do this through my seismic sense, although some characters do get away with lying on some occasions. More specifically, I seem to be unable to detect the falsehoods of sociopathic or pathological liars, who can say the most ludicrous or subtle lie without it having any kind of effect on their physiology for me to pick up on at all, like Azula.
* LonelyRichKid: A fact that I dealt with by joining an underground fighting tournament and mopping the floor with anyone who challenged me.
* MeaningfulName: Played with. In the adventure with the Serpent's Pass, the name on my passport reads 拓芙 "supported lotus", which hardly describes me at all, but matches my parents' view of me being delicate and helpless. Averted in me and Katara's "Girl's day out" where the spelling of my name temporarily changed to 托夫 "entrusted man", before going back to 拓芙 when we met the Earth King.

* NotHyperbole: When I say that I'm the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe I can back that claim up. I'm the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and can earthbend with his face, and I fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, I figured out how to subvert a WeaksauceWeakness of earthbending by figuring out [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]], which no one in history had done before. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra When the new Avatar, Korra, took over,]] this claim ''still'' applies. Even when there's earthbenders like Lin, Ghazan and Kuvira.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While my eyes honestly do not work, I occasionally hide my earthbending-linked tremor sense to play up the appearance of a helpless blind little girl.

* ThePigPen: A mild case. Despite eschewing most sorts of hygiene, especially where my feet are concerned, I don't look it unless attention is drawn to it. I also mention that I [[TooMuchInformation pick my nose a lot]].

* PowerLevels: Mentioned in an interview. According to the creator, I'm the strongest bender in the group (though this obviously doesn't count Aang in the Avatar State). Personally, I consider myself this, next to Aang, Zuko and Katara, since we're all pretty strong benders.

* RecruitedFromTheGutter: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The LonelyRichKid is recruited by the itinerant monk and his two near-penniless sidekicks. However, I very much live ''as if'' I'm in the gutter.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Almost immediately you see the rough wrestler become a well dressed lady in my intro.

** The comics have me being {{ship tease}}d with [[{{Adorkable}} Satoru]], who considers me his hero; needless to say, his praising of me melted the ice.
** [[spoiler:Korra's tale has me revealing Lin's father -- Kanto, who I deemed a "nice man", but our relationship didn't work out for reasons unknown.]]

* StaticCharacter: Compared to the other mains, I don't get a lot of CharacterDevelopment. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the time Aang went missing days before Sozin's Comet arrived. When Sokka proposed we split up into groups to find him, I wanted to go with Zuko, since Aang, Katara and Sokka got to have a CharacterDevelopment adventure with him [[labelnote:note]] with Aang to learn the true essence of firebending, with Sokka to free his father, and with Katara to find her mother's killer[[/labelnote]], and now it's my turn. You did see me trying to talk to him about my parents, but he wasn't much interested so I dropped it, and no such development is had. Shame.
** The adventures after Ozai's defeat, I did attempt to avert this. I learn some humility while teaching metalbending and my ShipTease with Sato gives some insight to my growing interpersonal skills. I probably did it so when Korra met me, I could be seen to develop.
* StreetSmart: Part of why I'm the TeamFace and not Aang: I know how to take advantage of street situations. [[UpToEleven And it's more than just the street.]] At the custom official and for the Earth King's party I was the one doing the talking.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: I kick butt and don't take nothing from nobody, but I do know high society manners and I actually enjoyed my spa day with Katara. Except for the feet part.

* {{Tsundere}}: I show affection for someone by punching their arm. I'm usually at my softest around Sokka but only at certain times, like I missed him but refuse to admit it. Wait...[[OhCrap oh, come on!]]

* TheWatson: Not so much in personality - I actually tend to be the most knowledgeable of Team Avatar (well, next to Aang, who has a hundred years of knowledge behind him, and Sokka, who's TheSmartGuy of the team), who are all [[CountryMouse Country Mice]] - but my blindness means other characters will read stuff (all in Chinese or Japanese characters) ''[[AsYouKnow out loud]]'' to me, and thus, you guys.

** My tremorsense isn't limited to what's in front of me, goes right through cover, and has a range of over a hundred meters, so as long as I'm part of the Gaang, ''no-one can [[InTheBack sneak up on us]].'' I pulled this off for [[spoiler:''twenty-six days,'' (in fact it's how we found the Western Air Temple) but the ''instant'' I got my [[GameBreakingInjury feet burnt]], Combustion Man showed up and started blowing everything to rubble.]]

* YamatoNadeshiko: I can fake it perfectly, as when I show up in a white dress in my parents' home - except I really, ''really'' don't like it. Before leaving home I moonlight that as a pro wrestler, and once I'm free of my parents' supervision and can act the way I want to, I prove to be very crude, aggressive, and unladylike indeed. Remind why exactly you were glad that there was another girl in the group, Katara?

* GirlOfMyDreams: A non-romantic example. Aang saw me in a vision before ever having met me. When they do run into me a short time later, Aang is positively convinced that I, and no-one else, was destined to be his earthbending teacher.

So anyway. [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy]] his own, you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/MojoJojo an evil talking monkey]] his own, and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

My father Lao Beifong later hired the earthbending teacher Master Yu to instruct me. As if I needed any. Under orders from my father, he didn't teach me anything other than beginner's moves, and he didn't know that I already achieved mastery in the art of earthbending. I became such a powerful earthbender that I secretly entered the underground earthbending tournament Earth Rumble VI, and I became known as the Blind Bandit, and won so many battles, I became the champion of Earth Rumble VI more than once. Then one day, it happened. I didn't know it yet, but I was about to finally earn my freedom. It was the day...that I met Aang (or Twinkle-Toes, as I like to call him). It was just a simple day for me; just competing in Earth Rumble VI, keeping other earthbenders from stealing the championship I had worked so hard to earn. In fact, it happened when I took on the Boulder. You should have seen the look on his face when I earthbended him into a leg split! Then Xin Fu made someone from the audience face me in battle. And someone challenged me. It was Aang. I thought it would be easy, just take him out and take the money. But Aang proved to be tougher then I thought. In fact, the fight had gone on for a few seconds, and when I earthbended a boulder at him, he just blew me out of the ring. He beat me. The champion. The big guy. The mass dragon. I spent most of my career defeating the strongest earthbenders in the world in a few seconds, and he just beat me in mere seconds. I felt it was stunning to be beaten, and I just stormed out of the arena. Somehow, Aang and his friends tracked me back to my home. I earthbended them into the air, and I wanted to know who they were. It took a guard summoning, a messed up dinner, and a few seconds of messing with him to understand what was really going on. Later, we got jumped by some of the wrestlers at Earth Rumble VI. I guess they thought I took a dive and split the money with Aang. Although help did come, they only freed me, and they were planning on selling Aang to the Fire Nation. But I fought to free him, ''while my parents were there.'' So, yeah. I showed them what I'm really made of. But they decided to guard me 24 hours a day. After the few hours of hanging with Aang, there was no way I was going back to that. So I ran away. I threw away my money, my riches, everything that I had, so that I could not only leave my parents, who never granted me any real freedom, but to play my part and teach Aang earthbending, which I did as soon as I took the belt back.

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[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy]] his own, you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/MojoJojo an evil talking monkey]] his own, and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

I know that sounds egomaniacal at first, but trust me, I can prove it in about a second. Anyway, how about a little life story? I was born as the only child of the Beifong family from Gaoling. In case you don't know, it's the richest people in Ba Sing Se; heck, probably the whole world, next to the Earth Kingdom rulers and the Fire Nation. I was born blind, so I was sheltered by my parents, who believed me being blind made me fragile and incapable of looking after myself, which was not true at all. They went to extreme measures to protect me, including hiding my entire existence from the rest of the world, which resulted in very few people knowing that my family even had a daughter. My parents expected me to be well-mannered and proper due to their noble status in Earth Kingdom society, something with which I absolutely hated, and it caused me to resent my parents' treatment, and resent my parents in general.

** When we were all arguing due to exhaustion, I was the first to point out that Appa's shedding was the reason why Azula and those girls were able to keep following them and thus why they couldn't sleep, but I admit I took it too far by blaming Appa, though that could also be due to being tired. We were all at each other's throats that day.

'''Me:''' Well it ''sounds'' like a sheet of paper, but I'm guessing you're referring to what's ''on'' the sheet of paper.\\

--->''''Me:''' You're all forgetting one crucial fact: Aang needs a firebending teacher! We can't think of a single person in the world to do the job. Now one shows up on a silver platter, and you won't even think about it!? I'm beginning to wonder who's really the blind one around here.

* NeverLearnedToRead: I have a reason for that. I'm blind in a world [[SchizoTech without what you readers call "Braille"]]. As such, [[DidntThinkThisThrough Sokka's plan to forge a letter from me to help me reconcile with Katara falls flat]]. I don't know what he was thinking.

* NotHyperbole: When I say that I'm the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe I can back that claim up. I'm the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and can earthbend with his face, and I fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, I figured out how to subvert a WeaksauceWeakness of earthbending by figuring out [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]], which no one in history had done before. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra When the new Avatar, Korra, took over, this claim ''still'' applies.]] Even when there's earthbenders like Lin, Ghazan and Kuvira.

* BadassTeacher: I taught Aang Earthbending.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Well, Girl: [[CuteBruiser Yes]], [[DisabilitySuperpower yes]], [[DishingOutDirt and yes]]. I'm a [[PintsizedPowerhouse blind girl]] that [[BoisterousBruiser makes it known that I'm]] the greatest earthbender in the world whenever I get the chance. ''And I've got the skills to prove it.''. I've participated in an [[IncrediblyLamePun underground]] fighting tournament and instantly became its champion, repeatedly got into fights with huge guys with arms larger than I am just to [[CurbstompBattle curbstomp them]] seconds later, created [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]], and I overall embrace this trope. When I found out that the Ember Island Players' play chronicling our adventures was portraying me as a burly man who sees by screaming, I was ecstatic.

* BadassBoast: I called myself "the greatest Earthbender in the world" after I metalbended out of an inescapable cage. My captors were horrified, and rightfully so.

* BizarreAlienSenses: My ability to "see" using Earthbending counts as this, as the closest thing to it in your world could be snakes or elephant's ability to detect low-frequency sounds through the ground.

* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful non-Avatar Earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale I'm able to Sandbend, despite saying that I hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Anakin Skywalker]].

* DisabilitySuperpower: Although blindness isn't really a requisite for an Earthbender to use my method of "seeing", it did lead me to focus my senses to an unprecedented degree, allowing me to see things approaching or beneath me in great detail and leading to my invention of Metalbending.

* GirlOfMyDreams: A non-romantic example. Aang saw me in a vision before ever having met me. When they do run into me a short time later, Aang is positively convinced that I, and no-one else, was destined to be his Earthbending teacher.

* TheNicknamer: I call Aang "Twinkle Toes", as he's ''very'' light on his feet (well, compared to the powerful, deliberate stomps of a master Earthbender like me, anyway)

* NotHyperbole: When I say that I'm the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe I can back that claim up. I'm the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and can earthbend with his face, and I fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, I figured out how to subvert a WeaksauceWeakness of Earthbending by figuring out [[ExtraOreDinary Metalbending]], which no one in history had done before. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra When the new Avatar, Korra, took over, this claim ''still'' applies.]] Even when there's earthbenders like Lin, Ghazan and Kuvira.
* ObfuscatingDisability: While my eyes honestly do not work, I occasionally hide my Earthbending-linked tremor sense to play up the appearance of a helpless blind little girl.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: I'm absolutely tiny being a little over 4 feet tall, but my only non-Avatar rival in Earthbending is King Bumi.

** The adventures after Ozai's defeat, I did attempt to avert this. I learn some humility while teaching Metalbending and my ShipTease with Sato gives some insight to my growing interpersonal skills. I probably did it so when Korra met me, I could be seen to develop.

* TookALevelInBadass: I was already a Master Earthbender when Aang met me. I could take on most any Earthbender, save Bumi, and win easily. How do I become even more awesome? By developing Metalbending, something no one in the history of the world had done before.

* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful non-Avatar Earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale I'm able to Sandbend, despite saying that I hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Anakin Skywalker]].[[note]] Darth Vader: I find your arrogance disturbing.[[/note]]

[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, [[note]]Captain Falcon: Don't forget the FALCONE PUNCH![[/note]] you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning]] his own, [[note]]Cole: I think you mean, "Conduit with the power to control electricity"![[/note]] you give [[SelfDemonstrating/MojoJojo an evil talking monkey]] his own, [[note]]Mojo Jojo: I, Mojo Jojo, am no mere monkey![[/note]] you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy]] his own [[note]]Cartman: Who the fuck are you calling sociopathic?![[/note]], and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

Sigh. Anyway, introduction time. I'm Toph Beifong, one of the many female characters on the hit animated series, ''Avatar: The Last Airbender''. If you don't know what happens in it, I'll tell you. Ahem...it mainly takes place in a world where most of the people have developed the incredible skill of bending, which enables us to combine our fighting styles and spiritual energy together to control the legendary four elements: water, earth, fire, and air. Together many people and benders alike made nations that fit their respective element. They are, in this order; [[MakingASplash the Water Tribe]], [[DishingOutDirt the Earth Kingdom]], [[PlayingWithFire the Fire Nation]], and [[BlowYouAway the Air Nomads]]. A long time ago, all four of these nations lived together in peace and harmony. But sadly everything changed for the worse when the Fire Nation attacked out of nowhere. Only the Avatar, the only one able to master all four of the elements, could take care of them. Unfortunately for all of us, when the world needed him most, he just vanished, without saying goodbye, without any help, and without warning, and we were just left to be sitting ducks. Even worse, a massive war took all the peace and strangled it like it was just a mere throat in the millions of people that we lost fighting it. The biggest casualty has to have been the Air Nomads, since Fire Lord Sozin launched an attack that left the Nomads destroyed. About a hundred years of this war has been going on, and many fear that the Avatar's cycle of reincarnation was broken. But one day, Katara and Sokka, two Water Tribe siblings, found the new Avatar; an airbender, and by extension, the last airbender. The airbender's name is Aang, and while he is an amazing airbender, he has to learn the other elements before he can save the world. Now that you're caught on what the show is about, now it's time to tell you who I am. I'm a young girl who is one of the members of Team Avatar, a group of young heroes that have dedicated their summer, and by extension, their lives, to save the world from the clutches of the evil Fire Nation's rule. I'm Aang's earthbending teacher, as well as the team's only earthbender. Here's a description of who I am in just one little sentence:

[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/MojoJojo an evil talking monkey]] his own, you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy]] his own [[note]]Cartman: What the fuck do you mean, sociopathic?![[/note]], and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/MojoJojo an evil talking monkey]] his own, you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy his own]], and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

Sigh. Anyway, introduction time. I'm Toph Beifong, one of the many female characters on the hit animated series, ''Avatar: The Last Airbender''. If you don't know what happens in it, I'll tell you. Ahem...it mainly takes place in a world where most of the people have developed the incredible skill of bending, which enables us to combine our fighting styles and spiritual energy together to control the legendary four elements: water, earth, fire, and air. Together many people and benders alike made nations that fit their respective element. They are, in this order; [[MakingASplash the Water Tribe]], [[DishingOutDirt the Earth Kingdom]], [[PlayingWithFire the Fire Nation]], and [[BlowYouAway the Air Nomads]]. A long time ago, all four of these nations lived together in peace and harmony. But sadly everything changed for the worse when the Fire Nation attacked out of nowhere. Only the Avatar, the only one able to master all four of the elements, could take care of them. Unfortunately for all of us, when the world needed him most, he just vanished, without saying goodbye, without any help, and without warning, and we were just left to be sitting ducks. Even worse, a massive war took all the peace and strangled it like it was just a mere throat in the millions of people that we lost fighting it. The biggest casualty has to have been the Air Nomads, since Fire Lord Sozin launched an attack that left the Nomads destroyed. About a hundred years of this war has been going on, and many fear that the Avatar's cycle of reincarnation was broken. But one day, Katara and Sokka two Water Tribe siblings found the new Avatar; an airbender, and by extension, the last airbender. The airbender's name is Aang, and while he is an amazing airbender, he has to learn the other elements before he can save the world. Now that you're caught on what the show is about, now it's time to tell you who I am. I'm a young girl who is one of the members of Team Avatar, a group of young heroes that have dedicated their summer, and by extension, their lives, to save the world from the clutches of the evil Fire Nation's rule. I'm Aang's earthbending teacher, as well as the team's only earthbender. Here's a description of who I am in just one little sentence:

* AchillesHeel: I...admit I'm very reliant on my [[DisabilitySuperpower "tremor sense"]] to function. Unfortunately, it's not foolproof, and has a few holes. First, I can't sense anything in water or the air. As such, I can't swim and I'm extremely vulnerable to aerial attacks. Second, standing on anything other than solid earth will affect my "vision," making me weaker or helpless depending on circumstances. When she stands on wood, she had to hold Aang's arm while walking. Finally, taking out my footing or injuring my feet will leave me truly blind until I recover.

** I tried to prove she can put up posters despite my blindness and put them up on the wrong side.

* BrutalHonesty: I'm often brutally honest when criticizing others, especially her friends. In fact, I'm very honest about my opinions on others regardless of status (in this case, the Avatar, Aang) or age (in this case, Iroh).
* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful non-Avatar Earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale I'm able to Sandbend, despite saying that I hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, [[SelfDemonstrating/DarthVader Anakin Skywalker]].

* SadClown: [[DeadpanSnarker I]], next to Zuko, when all is said and done, have more baggage than a cargo ship: I was always treated as a fragile thing by her parents, ran away from home after they said they'd be even more strict about protecting me (even after I showed first-hand that I was already one of the best earthbenders in the world at TWELVE), is legitimately torn over how I must have broken my parents' hearts and made them worry as a result, felt responsible for Appa having been kidnapped, and was actually terribly insecure about my blindness (despite acting like it's a non-issue normally). Outwardly, I seem like a total snark-bender who doesn't really care about anything, save for my friends.

* StreetSmart: Part of why I'm the TeamFace and not Aang: she knows how to take advantage of street situations. [[UpToEleven And it's more than just the street.]] At the custom official and for the Earth King's party I was the one doing the talking.

* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Toph has a case of this, though unlike Zuko, it's more of trying to get her father to accept her for who she is as opposed to trying to please him.

* YamatoNadeshiko: I can fake it perfectly, as when I show up in a white dress in her parents' home - except I really, ''really'' don't like it. Before leaving home I moonlight that as a pro wrestler, and once I'm free of my parents' supervision and can act the way I want to, I prove to be very crude, aggressive, and unladylike indeed. Remind why exactly you were glad that there was another girl in the group, Katara?

** Subverted in Sozin's Comet when Sokka, Suki and I took over a Fire Nation airship:

* MeaningfulName: Played with. In the adventure with the Serpent's Pass, the name on my passport reads 拓芙 "supported lotus", which hardly describes me at all, but matches my parents' view of me being delicate and helpless. Averted in me and Katara's "Girl's day out" where the spelling of my name temporarily changed to 托夫 "entrusted man", before going back to 拓&#33433 that when we met the Earth King.

[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} an old man with the power to create magnetic fields]] his own, you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy his own]], and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You cannot be serious.]] You just can't. You give [[SelfDemonstrating/CaptainFalcon a falcon-themed race car driver]] his own, you give [[SelfDemonstrating/ColeMacGrath a bike courier with the power to control lightning his own]], you even give [[SelfDemonstrating/EricCartman a sociopathic little boy his own]], and yet it took you this much time to give me my own Self-Demonstrating page on TV Tropes?! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

* BadassBoast: I called myself "the greatest Earthbender in the world" after I metalbended out of an inescapable cage, My captors were horrified, and rightfully so.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Well, Girl: [[CuteBruiser Yes]], [[DisabilitySuperpower yes]], [[DishingOutDirt and yes]]. I'm a [[PintsizedPowerhouse blind girl]] that [[BoisterousBruiser makes it known that I'm]] the greatest earthbender in the world whenever O gets the chance. ''And I've got the skills to prove it.''. I've participated in an [[IncrediblyLamePun underground]] fighting tournament and instantly became its champion, repeatedly got into fights with huge guys with arms larger than I am just to [[CurbstompBattle curbstomp them]] seconds later, created [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]], and I overall embrace this trope. When I found out that the Ember Island Players' play chronicling our adventures was portraying me as a burly man who sees by screaming, I was ecstatic.

* BlackComedy: I have absolutely no problem using her blindness for a laugh or two or to make a point.

** Sigh. While I was struggling in the water in "The Serpent's Pass", I mistook Suki for Sokka and kissed her on the cheek. I've been trying to forget it ever since.

* BreakTheHaughty: I admit I was a bit of a BrattyHalfPint and EntitledBastard when I first joined the Gaang. After being told by Zuko's uncle that good friends help one another out, I started to grow out of it, but it wasn't until I failed to protect Appa from being kidnapped that humility really became an important virtue for me.

* BrutalHonesty: I'm often brutally honest when criticizing others, especially her friends. In fact, I'm very honest about her opinions on others regardless of status (in this case, the Avatar, Aang) or age (in this case, Iroh).

* CoolCrown: By "The Promise" I switched out my headband for a green tiara. It reflects my new position as head of the Beifong Metalbending Academy.

** The episode ''The Blind Bandit'' [[EstablishingCharacterMoment has me]] delivering one of these to the group of professional earthbenders in an underground Earthbending tournament, "Earth Rumble VI."
** In "The Earth King", I, along with Team Avatar, easily decimated the palace guards on our way to find the Earth King.

* DisabilitySuperpower: Although blindness isn't really a requisite for an Earthbender to use my method of "seeing", it did lead me to focus my senses to an unprecedented degree, allowing me to see things approaching or beneath me in great detail and leading to my invention of Metalbending]].

* DishingOutDirt: Yes, please.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: I have a reason for that. Because I'm blind, my bare feet are her strongest connection to the world. Anything that's not solid ground (or even moderate bandaging) dampens my "vision". The animators paid special attention to this; whenever I'm shown asleep, I have my feet out of contact with the ground as the equivalent of [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ed/7c/a2/ed7ca23b411cb496b85bdd4f3ce7fa4e.jpg "closing my eyes."]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: During Aang's earthbending training, I was tough, critical and used methods like "hold still while a large boulder rolling towards you".

* ExtraOreDinary: How many times do I have to mention I invented Metalbending?
* TheFace: I'm the youngest and yet I'm the one with the most social savvy, due to being raised by rich socialites. Technically, with his being the Avatar, it should be Aang, but I'm usually the one doing the talking.

** In ''The Rift'', I'm contrasted with Aang. Our upbringings are quite different, as Monk Gyatso believed in letting Aang be a kid, while my parents forced her to learn tradition and propriety. As a result, I start to wonder if Aang's trying to hold onto his past, while Aang wonders if I'm trying too hard to run away from my past.
* FriendlessBackground: Due to being sheltered from the outside world by my EXTREMELY overprotective parents, I never made a friend before meeting Aang. Me becoming part of the group was important to me changing for the better. The only friends I had were badgermoles.

** Have a look-see already...[[RunningGag Whoops wait!]]
* TheGadfly: I love to use my blindness to mess with the rest of the group, such as saying that Sokka's poorly drawn picture of Appa looks just like him, or shouting that I've spotted Wan Shi Tong's Library while the tea, is flying on Appa's back.

[''I put on a big, dopey grin and waves one of my hands back and forth over her eyes'']

* HandicappedBadass: I'm blind but I can "see" by sensing vibrations with my feet.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: A mild case, and it's kept in the background for the most part. It's most evident during "Tales Of Ba Sing Se" and whenever my AchillesHeel is hit.

** I also called out Aang, Katara, and Sokka on letting their personal experiences with Zuko prevent Aang from finding a firebending master quite bluntly, despite me pointing out that he was being sincere to them and he has done some good, like rescuing Appa. This is rather astounding, because I never really cared about these things during her debut, but later on, I see the bigger picture.

* LittleMissConArtist: In "The Runaway", I, along with Sokka and Aang, decide to gain money by exploiting people's notion that since I'm blind she's no threat. It ended up blowing up in our face eventually.
* LivingLieDetector: I can do this through my seismic sense, although some characters do get away with lying on some occasions. More specifically, I seem to be unable to detect the falsehoods of the sociopathic or pathological liars, who can say the most ludicrous or subtle lie without it having any kind of effect on their physiology for me to pick up on at all, like Azula.

* MeaningfulName: Played with. In "The Serpent's Pass", the name on my passport reads 拓芙 "supported lotus", which hardly describes me at all, but matches my parents' view of her being delicate and helpless. Averted in "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" where the spelling of my name temporarily changed to 托夫 "entrusted man", before going back to 拓芙 in "The Earth King".

* NotHyperbole: When I say that I'm the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe I can back that claim up. I'm the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and can earthbend with his face, and I fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, I figured out how to subvert a WeaksauceWeakness of Earthbending by figuring out [[ExtraOreDinary Metalbending]], which no one in history had done before. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra When the new Avatar, Korra, took over, this claim ''still'' applies.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: In the North and South comic, I describe the Beifong Metalbending Academy as "the most prestigious metalbending school in the world". One of my students points out they're the ''only'' school but I saw it as the point since we do something that used to be considered impossible until I learned how to do it.

* PowerLevels: Mentioned in an interview. According to the creator, I'm the strongest bender in the group (though this obviously doesn't count Aang in the Avatar State).

* SadClown: [[DeadpanSnarker I]], when all is said and done, have more baggage than a cargo ship: I was always treated as a fragile thing by her parents, ran away from home after they said they'd be even more strict about protecting me (even after I showed first-hand that I was already one of the best earthbenders in the world at TWELVE), is legitimately torn over how I must have broken my parents' hearts and made them worry as a result, felt responsible for Appa having been kidnapped, and was actually terribly insecure about my blindness (despite acting like it's a non-issue normally). Outwardly, I seem like a total snark-bender who doesn't really care about anything, save for my friends.
* SadisticChoice: I was forced to choose between saving Appa from Sandbenders or saving the rest of the Gaang from a building that was being pulled into the Spirit World. I tried to TakeAThirdOption, but her AchillesHeel was active at the time.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: As a member of a powerful merchant family, I flashed her gold-bordered passport and made up something about "valets" and a "seeing-eye lemur" to get entry passes to Ba Sing Se for myself and the rest of the group from a humorless border official. Unfortunately, it doesn't work as well when I later tried to bluff her way into the Earth King's party without invitations.
* SentIntoHiding: I was this until meeting Aang. My overprotective parents kept her locked inside the grounds of their home (although I was able to sneak out to work as a wrestler).
* SheCleansUpNicely: Almost immediately you see the rough wrestler become a well dressed lady in her intro.

** [[spoiler:The sequel series has me revealing Lin's father -- Kanto, who I deemed a "nice man", but our relationship didn't work out for reasons unknown.]]

* StaticCharacter: Compared to the other mains, I don't get a lot of CharacterDevelopment. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the time Aang went missing days before Sozin's Comet arrived. When Sokka proposed we split up into groups to find him, I wanted to go with Zuko, since Aang, Katara and Sokka got to have a CharacterDevelopment adventure with him [[labelnote:note]] with Aang to learn the true essence of firebending, with Sokka to free his father, and with Katara to find her mother's killer[[/labelnote]], and now it's my turn. You did see me trying to talk to him about my parents, but he isn't much interested so I dropped it, and no such development is had.
** The sequel comics did attempt to avert this. I learn some humility while teaching Metalbending and my ShipTease with Sato gives some insight to her interpersonal skills. Probably done so the Toph from the Legend of Korra can be seen to develop.
* StreetSmart: Part of why she's the TeamFace: she knows how to take advantage of street situations, such as in "The Runaway." [[UpToEleven And it's more than just the street.]] At the custom official and for the Earth King's party she was the one doing the talking.
* TailorMadePrison: In Season 2, she gets trapped in a steel cage, with her captors convinced that she can't escape because she can't bend metal. Turns out that it did help her develop her [[ExtraOreDinary new ability to metalbend.]] However, in Season 3, when she is put in a wooden cage, this time she really can't escape on her own, as wood is not a bendable substance.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She stated that she likes bossing people around.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Katara is a full-blown ActionGirl, but her role as the TeamMom and LadyOfWar fighting tactics mean that she often clashes with Toph's more [[TheLadette laid-back]], OneOfTheGuys mannerisms.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She kicks ass and doesn't take crap from anybody, but she does know high society manners and actually enjoys her spa day with Katara in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]".
* TookALevelInBadass: Toph was already a Master Earthbender when the Gaang found her. She could take on most any Earthbender, save Bumi, and win easily. How does she become even more badass? By developing Metalbending, something no one in the history of the world had done before.
* {{Tsundere}}: She shows affection for someone by punching their arm. She's usually at her softest around Sokka but only at certain times, like she missed him but won't admit it.
* WaifFu: Subverted. It looks like she has superhuman physical strength, but she's really just using earthbending to lift things around her. When using only her own physical strength she's actually quite weak, as shown when trying to lift a large metal mallet.
* TheWatson: Not so much in personality - she actually tends to be the most knowledgeable of the Gaang, who are all [[CountryMouse Country Mice]] - but her blindness means other characters will read stuff (all in Chinese or Japanese characters) ''[[AsYouKnow out loud]]'' to her, and thus, the audience.

** Her tremorsense isn't limited to what's in front of her, goes right through cover, and has a range of over a hundred meters, so as long as she's part of the Gaang, ''no-one can [[InTheBack sneak up on them]].'' They wrote around this for [[spoiler:''twenty-six episodes,'' but the ''instant'' she gets her [[GameBreakingInjury feet burnt]], Combustion Man shows up and starts blowing everything to rubble.]]
** In "The Library", Toph comments that the desert sand puts her at a relative disadvantage, as the looseness of it messes with the vibrations in the ground and blurs her vision. This ends up contributing to her [[spoiler: failure to protect Appa from being caught by the sandbenders. Toph was already struggling to defend Appa because she also had to concentrate on keeping the library from sinking into the ground, but even when Toph tried to attack the sandbenders, her aim would be slightly off due to the shiftiness of the sand. Eventually, Toph realized she had to cut her losses and put all of her effort into holding up the library, sadly allowing for Appa's capture.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: She can fake it perfectly, as when she shows up in a white dress in her parents' home - except she really, ''really'' dislikes it. Before leaving home she moonlights as a pro wrestler, and once she's free of her parents' supervision and can act the way she wants to, she proves to be very crude, aggressive, and unladylike indeed.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: In more serious moments, she refrains from using nicknames.
* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: Toph is the youngest out of all the people to teach Aang bending who is technically older than most of his mentors anyway. Toph however one-ups them by being younger than Aang physically too.

* BoisterousBruiser: "All right! Let's break some rules!" SMASH!
* BreakTheHaughty: I admit I was a bit of a BrattyHalfPint and EntitledBastard when I first joined the Gaang. After being told by Zuko's uncle that good friends help one another out, I started to grow out of it, but it wasn't until I failed to protect Appa from being kidnapped that humility really became a important virtue for me.

* ChildProdigy: I'm one of the youngest benders you get to see, yet I'm already one of the most powerful non-Avatar Earthbenders. Also, I invented metalbending on the fly when I was captured, which was believed to be an impossible skill. And by the finale I'm able to Sandbend, despite saying that she hated sand when we were in the desert. Eat your heart out, Anakin Skywalker.

** In "The Earth King", I, along with Team Avatar, easily decimated the palace guards on their way to find the Earth King.

* DeadpanSnarker: Along with DisabledSnarker. Some of the show's best lines are from me, especially when I'm talking trash to her opponents. For instance:

** I'm sort of this to Mai. Both of us were raised by very fancy families that suppressed them, what with my parents overprotecting me because of my blindness and Mai's parents keeping her well-behaved so she didn't jeopardize her dad's political career. I responded by defying her parents, acting out and really enjoying my earthbending, whereas Mai obeyed them, becoming very insular and apathetic to almost everything.
** In ''The Rift'', I'm contrasted with Aang. Our upbringings are quite different, as Monk Gyatso believed in letting Aang be a kid, while my parents forced her to learn tradition and propriety. As a result, I start to wonder if Aang's trying to hold onto his past, while Aang wonders if I'm trying too hard to run away from me past.
* FriendlessBackground: Due to being sheltered from the outside world by my EXTREMELY overprotective parents, I never made a friend before meeting Aang. My becoming part of the group was important to her character development. The only friends I had were badgermoles.
* ForgotTheDisability: The rest of the Gaang (especially Sokka) tends to forget about her disability, leading to [[DeadpanSnarker many of my legendary one-liners.]]

** In one adventure it happened ''twice'':

* GoodIsNotNice: I may be just as heroic, brave and self-sacrificing as any other member of the Gaang, still is a bit of a jerk who rarely opens up to anybody.
* HandicappedBadass: She's blind but can "see" by sensing vibrations with her feet.
* HasAType: All of her crushes and {{love interest}}s are decent guys.
* HiddenDepths: Toph and Katara's tale in ''The Tales of Ba Sing Se'' makes it clear that for all her claims of not caring what others think of her looks, Toph is actually quite hurt by such rejection.
* HotBlooded: There's a ''reason'' why the Ember Island Players chose to portray her the way they did.
-->"I am not Toph! I am MELON LORD! [[EvilLaugh MUAHAHAHA!]]"
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: A mild case, and it's kept in the background for the most part. It's most evident during "Tales Of Ba Sing Se" and whenever her AchillesHeel is hit.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Iroh, but hey, it's [[CoolOldGuy Iroh]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: As rude as she is, she is right at times:
** When the group were all arguing due to exhaustion, she was the first to point out that Appa's shedding was the reason why Azula and co. were able to keep following them and thus why they couldn't sleep, but she took it too far by blaming Appa (though that could also be due to sleep deprivation).
** She also called out Aang, Katara, and Sokka on letting their personal experiences with Zuko prevent Aang from finding a firebending master quite bluntly, despite her pointing out that he was being sincere to them and he has done some good, like rescuing Appa. This is rather astounding, because she never cared about these things during her debut, but later on, she sees the bigger picture.
--->''''Toph:''' You're all forgetting one crucial fact: Aang needs a firebending teacher! We can't think of a single person in the world to do the job. Now one shows up on a silver platter, and you won't even think about it!? I'm beginning to wonder who's really the blind one around here
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her tough exterior, Toph is not above warming up during intimate moments, as evidenced when she joined in group hugs with Team Avatar and held hands with Aang at the prospect of friendships lasting more than one lifetime.
* TheLadette: The musclebound, belching, spitting hulk that was in the play near the end of the story? That's Toph on the inside.
* LargeHam: A rare little girl variant.

* LessonsInSophistication: Surprisingly, she does this. She was born into Earth Kingdom High society, so she knows how to act like a {{proper lady}}, she just chooses not to. She's able to help clean up Katara for a palace party hosted by the Earth King but she doesn't even attempt with Sokka and Aang. They're that hopeless.
* LittleMissBadass: She's only twelve, but she's one of the most badass characters in the entire series.
* LittleMissConArtist: In "The Runaway", she along with Sokka and Aang decide to gain money by exploiting people's notion that since Toph is blind she's no threat.
* LivingLieDetector: Through her 'vibration sense', although some characters do get away with lying on some occasions. More specifically, she seems unable to detect the falsehoods of the psychopathic or pathological liars, who can say the most ludicrous or subtle lie without it having any kind of effect on their physiology for her to pick up on at all [[spoiler:like Azula]]
* LonelyRichKid: A fact that she dealt with by joining an underground fighting tournament and mopping the floor with anyone who challenged her.
* MeaningfulName: Played with. In "The Serpent's Pass", the name on her passport reads 拓芙 "supported lotus", which hardly describes Toph herself, but matches her parents' view of her being delicate and helpless. Averted in "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" where the spelling of her name temporarily changed to 托夫 "entrusted man", before going back to 拓芙 in "The Earth King".
* MusclesAreMeaningless: In Toph's case, this relates specifically to her earthbending. She is clearly very strong for her size and age, often hurting her teammates, no pushovers themselves, with playful punches. However, situations where she lacks earthbending tend to emphasize her helplessness. This is partly because it takes away the DisabilitySuperpower that allows her to bypass her blindness, but she never demonstrates superior martial arts skills when not aided by her earthbending.
* NeverLearnedToRead: {{Justified|Trope}} by the fact that she's blind in a world [[SchizoTech without Braille]]. As such, [[DidntThinkThisThrough Sokka's plan to forge a letter from Toph to help her reconcile with Katara falls flat]].
* TheNicknamer: Calls Aang "Twinkle Toes", as he's ''very'' light on his feet (well, compared to the powerful, deliberate stomps of a master Earthbender like herself, anyway)
* NoHeroToHisValet: One of Toph's defining characteristics is that she doesn't give Aang special treatment even though he's the Avatar. He may be the student, but she treats him like an equal and friend, to the point where she never fails to vocally criticize Aang to his face when she thinks it's needed.
* NotHyperbole: When she says that she is the greatest earthbender in the world, you better believe she can back that claim up. This is the girl who duelled King Bumi, who literally had a hundred years of experience on him, and she fought him to a draw! At age 12! Even earlier, she figured out how to subvert a WeaksauceWeakness of Earthbending by figuring out [[ExtraOreDinary Metalbending]], which none in history had done before. [[spoiler:In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', this claim ''still'' applies.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: While her eyes honestly do not work, she occasionally hides her Earthbending-linked tremorsense to play up the appearance of a helpless blind little girl.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: In the North and South comic, Toph describes the Beifong Metalbending Academy as "the most prestigious metalbending school in the world". One of her students points out they're the ''only'' school but she sees it as the point since they do something that used to be considered impossible until she learned how to do it.
* ThePigPen: A mild case. Despite eschewing most sorts of hygiene, especially where her feet are concerned, she doesn't look it unless attention is drawn to it. She mentions that she [[TooMuchInformation picks her nose a lot]].
* PintSizedPowerhouse: This girl is absolutely tiny being a little over 4 feet tall, but her only non-Avatar rival in Earthbending is King Bumi.
* PowerLevels: Mentioned in an interview. According to WordOfGod, she's the strongest bender in the Gaang (though this obviously doesn't count Aang in the Avatar State).
* RebelliousPrincess: Not actually royalty but close enough. Toph rebels against her parents because of how they stifle her freedom due to their overprotectiveness.
* RecruitedFromTheGutter: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The LonelyRichKid is recruited by the itinerant monk and his two near-penniless sidekicks. However, Toph very much lives ''as if'' she's in the gutter.

* ReflectionlessUselessEyes: She has these eyes to show she's blind.
* SadClown: [[DeadpanSnarker Toph]], when all is said and done, has more baggage than a cargo ship: she was always treated as a fragile thing by her parents, ran away from home after they said they'd be even more strict about protecting her (even after she showed first-hand that she was already one of the best earthbenders in the world at TWELVE), is legitimately torn over how she must have broken her parents hearts and makes them worry as a result, feels responsible for Appa having been kidnapped, and is actually terribly insecure about her blindness (despite acting like it's a non-issue normally). Outwardly, she seems like a total snark-bender who doesn't really care about anything, save for her friends.
* SadisticChoice: Was forced to choose between saving Appa from Sandbenders or saving the rest of the Gaang from a building that was being pulled into the Spirit World. She tried to TakeAThirdOption, but her AchillesHeel was active at the time.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: As a member of a powerful merchant family, she flashes her gold-bordered passport and makes up something about "valets" and a "seeing-eye lemur" to get entry passes to Ba Sing Se for herself and the rest of the Gaang from a humorless border official. Unfortunately it doesn't work as well when she later tries to bluff her way into the Earth King's party without invitations.
* SentIntoHiding: She was this until meeting Aang. Her overprotective parents kept her locked inside the grounds of their home (although she was able to sneak out to work as a wrestler).
* SheCleansUpNicely: Almost immediately we see the rough wrestler become a well dressed lady in her intro.
* ShelteredAristocrat: She was raised to be this due to her blindness, but over the years she became much less sheltered thanks to figuring out how to leave the grounds in secret and learning how to earthbend.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: All of Toph's love interests happened to be {{nice guy}}s.
** She had a huge crush on [[PluckyComicRelief Sokka]], but dropped it after he and Suki became a couple.
** The comics has her being {{ship tease}}d with [[{{Adorkable}} Satoru]], who considers her a his hero; needless to say, his praising of her melted the ice.
** [[spoiler:The sequel series, has her reveals Lin's father -- Kanto, who she deemed a "nice man", but their relationship didn't work out for reasons unknown.]]
* SourSupporter: Sometimes. She often vocally expresses her doubt in the group's plans, but will help them.
* StaticCharacter: Compared to the other mains, Toph doesn't get a lot of CharacterDevelopment. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the time Aang goes missing days before Sozin's Comet arrive. When Sokka proposes to split up into groups to find him, Toph offers to go with [[spoiler:Prince Zuko]], declaring that Aang, Katara and Sokka got to have a CharacterDevelopment adventure with him [[labelnote:note]] with Aang in '"The Firebending Masters" to learn the true essence of firebending, with Sokka in "The Boiling Rock" to free his father, and with Katara in "The Southern Raiders" to find her mother's killer[[/labelnote]], and now its her turn. We see her trying to talk to him about her mother, but he isn't much interested so she drops it, and no such development is had.
** The sequel comics are attempting to avert this. She learns some humility while teaching Metalbending and her ShipTease with Sato gives some insight to her interpersonal skills. Probably done so the Toph from the Legend of Korra can be seen to develop.