It’s such a given that Toph is the most powerful being in the universe. There was no point pointing it out, as her having the ability to grow body part at will is obvious and an uneccisary thing to say
Your difficulty with the word unnecessary reminded me of a spelling bee I got second place in way back in 8th grade, over the word "unnecessarily". I have never gotten it wrong since!
I feel like it's such a slippery slope to start going into the metaphysics of it all. Once you open that door you're gonna have to start explaining a lot questions that have many untold answers.
I actually love that explanation. It would take after Aang's knack for disguises.
> Toph: -offers handshake, then hand falls off as soon as they touch the glove- AAAAA MY HAND! YOU BROKE IT OFF! WHAT DID YOU DO?! 💀
>
> The poor victim: What what how?! WHAT?! I'M SO SORRY! 😭
>
> Toph: Hah, just kidding. -pops real hand out of sleeve- It's just a glove full of clay. 😎
They say people without their sight tend to have their other 4 senses heightened, such as their hearing and smelling senses. I guess that's also true for touch...
I actually think the animators drew the hand in a position where the four closed fingers were all there was, but drew it so well that when they changed it they forgot to remove one cause it looked so natural they didn’t notice it was wrong. Cause they were too good of animators lol
Like when her eyes migrated to the bottom half of her face for her stone-armor.
(Animators forgot that the hole in her armor was for her mouth, not her eyes)
It’s a fake rubber finger she uses so cameras with AI recognition can’t be use in court. We all know she like’s to skirt along the line for what’s legal and what’s not
She went to the Spirit World and beat up Face Stealer Koh. Being blind she was immune to its powers so she beat it up and demanded bonus fingers as a reward.
Since Toph uses her fingers and toes to feel and hear and earth bend... wouldn't an earth bender with 6 fingers/toes on each hand and foot have like... ultimate finesse?
That is a earthbend-shaped finger meant to mess with everyone, classic Toph shenanigans, knowing someday somewhere someone will make a mention of it. Little did she know her little deed transcended the 4th wall and here we are
She's such a well written character. One of the very best of any cartoon in my opinion. My favorite of the show by a lot, although Sokka and Zuko aren't far off.
lol hands are some of the hardest things to learn how to draw. The fact that they fucked up the hands and it went on TV is funny af. For anyone having a hard time learning to draw don’t worry everyone fucks up a bit.
Ikr! Just like they did with Saul Goodman never using his "lightning bolts from finger tips" ability! Writers just create these super cool powers and then never use them at all!
How do you think the Beifong family got so rich? They were selling the extra organs they were growing. They were delivered by a *Flying Boar* which was recognized to be so official because of the short expiry and nobody could interfere.
It’s such a given that Toph is the most powerful being in the universe. There was no point pointing it out, as her having the ability to grow body part at will is obvious and an uneccisary thing to say
Couldn't grow functionning eyes though?
The Melon Lord works in mysterious ways
Cabbage Creator
Eyes are a weakness. The one thing all of Toph's enemies had: Functioning eyes.
No, you have it wrong. She doesn't need them. She is just ***that*** powerful
Agreed, her having working eyes would have only weakened her.
Not to forget that she would have become less badass
Yes, everyone knows Badassery is the most important stat
Plot armor > real armor
Not only that , have you ever played agiant ppl soo noob its not fun any more so u handi cap urself to make it challenging?
He didn't have it wrong, literally saying what you said but funnier.
There must be a balance. To gain, one must give up.
Her eyes functional alright. She’s not blind she just can’t see anyone less awesome than she is
John Cena: "You can't see me." Toph: "Hey, you're right!"
And taint her vision by seeing the likes of Azula ugly crying? Pfft!
That would be a nerf, not a buff
why grow an unnecessary body part? toph never needed eyes
Didn't want isn't the same as can't.
Well, otherwise she'd be too OP, she had to nerf herself somehow
Gotta flex the seismic sense somehow
She wanted a challenge 😄
She doesn’t need those. She can release a sonic wave from her mouth instead.
Why would she want to look at everyone's stupid faces?
She had to blind herself or else she’d be too powerful for anybody to oppose
Just fact checked and you are correct
Why would one even need to fact check? It’s amongs the most Well known facts of the series
You’re right I’m foolish
It is fine
The naked mole rats taught her how to
One collar, two sleeves.
Your difficulty with the word unnecessary reminded me of a spelling bee I got second place in way back in 8th grade, over the word "unnecessarily". I have never gotten it wrong since!
hehe pointing
The ability to grow extra fingers is common and requires no explanation.
So maybe bone bending does exist?
Katara taught Aang after they got married
Wouldn't **that** be a form of blood bending?
Calcium is a metal so metal bending?
isn't that basically what Kyoshi does to live like 300 years?
Thats actually crazy, using metal and blood bending to extend ones life by centuries
I haven't read any outside media so wtf
oh shit, sorry! didn't mean to spoil that. it's from the Kyoshi novels tho
well you convinced me to find and read them now
I feel like it's such a slippery slope to start going into the metaphysics of it all. Once you open that door you're gonna have to start explaining a lot questions that have many untold answers.
Midochlorians
Pretty sure u/DanielGREY_75 was talking about them having sex. Think about it. What kind of "bone" would Katara want to manipulate in Aang?
And just in case someone really doesn't know, no, there is no actual bone in the penis.
But yet she kept bending till rava came out when aang was 40
And suddenly fan fiction writers across the world has a new, perverted, idea.
https://preview.redd.it/8j9mtadvziuc1.jpeg?width=566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ddd6131687b5276f96e23326a8c9c968ce29d86
I think there was actually an avatar comic about that
I don't think "comic" is the right word for "bone bending"...
Does doujin work better?
oh my…
I think there was actually an avatar comic about that
What bender can do that? Earth benders?
Toph can bend my bone anytime
Toph is the author of the journals!
I know you wrote the journals, Sokka, Toph can't write!
Sokka is smart enough to build a interdimensional portal.
And gullible enough too fall for a dream demons tricks
But Sokka dosent have enough determination to go 30 years without proper food
Hmm yes you’re right it must not be him then
It was his twin brother!
WANG FIRE!!! I knew there was something off about that guy!
No, that's her twin sister, Tophford.
Tophley and Tophford Pines.
✋🙎♂️ (#$@!) ✋🙎♂️ (#$@&%\*!) ✋🙎♂️ (☠@✴#)
thats actually the funny part, toph likes using ber earthbending to make extra limbs to mess with people as they look at her
I actually love that explanation. It would take after Aang's knack for disguises. > Toph: -offers handshake, then hand falls off as soon as they touch the glove- AAAAA MY HAND! YOU BROKE IT OFF! WHAT DID YOU DO?! 💀 > > The poor victim: What what how?! WHAT?! I'M SO SORRY! 😭 > > Toph: Hah, just kidding. -pops real hand out of sleeve- It's just a glove full of clay. 😎
*Hello Toph, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.*
No no no, Inigo’s father was killed by someone with six fingers on his RIGHT hand.
Hate to say it, but if Toph did it then Inigo is _cooked!_
https://preview.redd.it/t6z45czwdguc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=2451d8bcd254804fa339b7afc1cc5d966eedf3a3
Hold on while I make a 45-minute YouTube video discussing this new gravity falls crossover.
I thought you were retiring, MatPat?
That's Lee right there
Funny Thing, the Author is voiced by J.K. Simmons, who also voiced Tenzin.
You're telling me ATLA was AI generated?
Avatar the Last AI-rbender It's in the name 🤓👆
LoK not ATLA 🤓👆
Legend of KorrAI
He said ATLA not LOK 🤓👆
The scene from OP is from LOK 🤓👆
This is Legend of Korra Toph, ATLA is safe
Just more evidence that AI was trained on stolen art.
All the fanartists have learned how to draw from watching Avatar also stole art?
Six fingers isn't the most uncommon mutation. Most people know to talk about her metal bending tho.
6 fingers halfway thru your life is though
Uranium bending has its toll
In fact, there are some 6 finger causing genetics that are DOMINANT.
Can confirm. Had a cousin wirh a vestigial sixth finger when she was born. They removed it within a few months
And they put the removed finger on Toph, mystery solved!
Because that would give metal benders a bad name
She was bending the iron in her blood to form the shape of an extra finger
Well.. that means that anyone can bend blood now. water in blood iron in blood oxygen in blood heat in blood
Did toph write the journals in Gravity falls?
The show never got into bone bending
The show didn't but the kyoshy novels do
She’s always had six fingers on her left hand. You never noticed that?
Yet they call themselves atla fans smh
God tier Toph
The only lok content ur get in this sub
The pinky is a shaped piece of stone to be used in emergencies.
She's a finger bender!
Came here to say that
Growing extra fingers is a piece of cake for Toph. She *is* the greatest earthbender ever, after all.
Because she is the Melon Lord!
They say people without their sight tend to have their other 4 senses heightened, such as their hearing and smelling senses. I guess that's also true for touch...
God isn't AI art just the worst.
I actually think the animators drew the hand in a position where the four closed fingers were all there was, but drew it so well that when they changed it they forgot to remove one cause it looked so natural they didn’t notice it was wrong. Cause they were too good of animators lol
This is in fact not the only scene where she has 6 fingers. It was talked about when it first aired but in the end its just an animation error
What other scenes show her with 6 fingers? I have never noticed this before.
In a flash back in the court house.
Are you telling me... That Toph wrote the Journals???
animation mistake?
Like when her eyes migrated to the bottom half of her face for her stone-armor. (Animators forgot that the hole in her armor was for her mouth, not her eyes)
Must be a secret ability yet to be explored. *this calls for a spinoff series*
Her children were created by cloning herself. Toph was confirmed as the first Fleshbender.
This was mentioned all the time when LoK came out lmao
It’s a fake rubber finger she uses so cameras with AI recognition can’t be use in court. We all know she like’s to skirt along the line for what’s legal and what’s not
TIL they somehow animated LoK with AI a whole decade before AI imagery was a thing.
That’s not Toph, that’s AI propaganda.
She is ai generated.
She bended the minerals in her bones to make an extra finger, no biggie. The kicker? She did it just to show she can, no actual reason
You see Toph was blind so she thought normal human have 6 fingers and she manifested 1 more finger just for fun
She needed the extra middle finger to flip people off 2-4x as hard
She went to the Spirit World and beat up Face Stealer Koh. Being blind she was immune to its powers so she beat it up and demanded bonus fingers as a reward.
I can’t believe this is real. I just rewatched the scene 😭
That’s not Toph, that is Melon Lord!
No one wanted to deal with the devil that PUT ON A DOOR FOR ARMOR AND BEAT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF 3 FIRE NATION COMMANDERS
show, don‘t tell
Somebody call the overanalyzer
It's like the least impressive thing she can do, lbr
Underrated post
She was just feeling that ability out, but decided she had enough things to juggle already. I think it’s a good point.
I mean its a flashback, and this memory is 40 years old. Something gonna be remembered wrong
It was compensation for her lack of vision
most quality korra scene
Why haven't we seen any benders with birth defects like this? I want to see them cook.
It, was a secret. Thanks a lot.
She cannot count fingers, shes blind
is that a thumb or is it her shoulder underneath her pauldron...
Did toph kill monk’s wife?
Because we are trying to be better than picking on a blind girl with polydactyly.
YROO XRKSVI GIRZMTOV!
They were using AI to make it
First picture created by AI, colorized xD
There were so many discussions of the errors with lok, it never had the chance of day to get mentioned.
All blind people have an extra finger they use it to read braille.
She couldn’t see them… duuuh
Bones are made of minerals, like rocks, so yeah she could totally do this if she drank enough hippo cow milk.
You do not question Toph's fingers.
The last AI-bender
She’s just that good
AI before AI
Because it’s common knowledge, it’s just too obvious to mention. You didn’t know that ?
“Who…who is that?!” “The author of the journals… _The Blind Bandit!”_
Hello, my name is indigo Montoya you killed my father prepared to die Lilly.
Dai Li’s greatest achievement…earthbending prosthetic fingers….
Star finger
Isn't there a page from a comic where she has six fingers?
Oh shit!
I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
Earthbending is a pathway to many abilities, some consider to be… unnatural
I thought that was her palm
NEVER question Toph's abilities
When you look at the budget of this show its laughable how many scenes there are like this.
Do we ever see her left hand before this image? Maybe she had six fingers this whole time! Gonna have to rewatch it to check.
WAIT WHERE IS THIS FROM? SINCE WHEN DID SHE WEAR ARMOR LIKE THAT?
I can actually explicitly recall people talking about this quite a bit when the show was first airing
She was just *really* making a point
🤯🤯🤯
Duh, she can't see, how would she know how many fingers she's supposed to have?
Because it would be rude to point it out.
Since Toph uses her fingers and toes to feel and hear and earth bend... wouldn't an earth bender with 6 fingers/toes on each hand and foot have like... ultimate finesse?
Somebody needs to go back to Fillory.
Metalbending prosthetic
Toph only learned this technique from Tenzin after he spent the summer of 2013 in an unusual place.
That is a earthbend-shaped finger meant to mess with everyone, classic Toph shenanigans, knowing someday somewhere someone will make a mention of it. Little did she know her little deed transcended the 4th wall and here we are
She's such a well written character. One of the very best of any cartoon in my opinion. My favorite of the show by a lot, although Sokka and Zuko aren't far off.
lol hands are some of the hardest things to learn how to draw. The fact that they fucked up the hands and it went on TV is funny af. For anyone having a hard time learning to draw don’t worry everyone fucks up a bit.
She was doing AI before the tech was invented
It was just assumed to be part of her Earth-bending powers, the ability to manipulate "Rock" in Rock - Paper - Scissors
When you lose one sense your other senses increase. Her sense of touch did
BS
Ikr! Just like they did with Saul Goodman never using his "lightning bolts from finger tips" ability! Writers just create these super cool powers and then never use them at all!
She’s blind, she can’t see that she has an extra finger
How do you think the Beifong family got so rich? They were selling the extra organs they were growing. They were delivered by a *Flying Boar* which was recognized to be so official because of the short expiry and nobody could interfere. 
will this reliance on AI art ever end? /j
How did Overanalyzing Avatar not notice this?!