Did Toph serve any purpose in the show other than teaching

To be snarky and cute.

introducing metal bending.

A good interpretation of how children can be uncompromising, selfish cunts.

She helped Sokka and Suki take down a bunch of airships

foot fetish fuel

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>>85803242
Hell yes. She caused a lot of good things to happen, during and after TLAB; >>85803270 and >>85803274
being a few of them.

>>85803284
This

>>85803242
Loli fanservice + feet fetish

And a fun character in general

>>85803242
the show needed cute

>>85803242
Aang used to have to ask questions about the world they lived in because he was out of the loop for a hundred years. Once Aang got used to the world, they needed another character to ask questions in order for the audience to not get lost.Especially on the Day of Black Sun episode, she asks who Haru is in order to jog the memory of the viewer who may have forgotten about him.

She was Katara's foil.

>>85803242
>Did Toph serve any purpose in the show other than teaching Aang earthbending?

Lots of uses.

Several of the major ones have been posted already. The biggest one is the fact that having a new character allows in-character exposition to be used to explain to the viewer what's going on.

She also served as the 'heavy' for the gang. As the story wound up, Aang's gang needed somebody who could throw some serious muscle at problems, so they were relevant, without making the 'Avatar powerup' a tiresome thing. Toph had serious power.

Toph also served as a fun trope-breaker. She was by a wide margin the mightiest of them in terms of 'break shit and wreck face'. But she was not only this tiny little girl, she was blind, to boot. it was fun as hell to see this diminutive, helpless little thing that could dominate pretty much any fight she got involved in.

She also introduced earth benders, helped humanize them, she allowed exposition to the source of the four powers, etc, etc.

Very good character, well written.

>>85803242
What he >>85804330 said

Make this show more watchable.
Whenever she do earthbending,i shit my pants

>>85804262
Their chemistry together was great

>>85804330
>helpless
>dominate any fight

Fuckability

>>85804330

Not to mention the interesting dynamic of both Aang and Toph. Toph is the "wolverine" of the group who does all the badass stuff, yet shes incredibly weak against Aang who can defeat her by just floating slightly in the air.

>>85803242
In LoK she also played the role of beating up Korra (which was enjoyable to watch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zouRX2Tw6Ew

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>>85805249
Really if you were close enough to just lift her off the ground by a foot or so she'd be pretty helpless.

Fighting her in a wooden structure or over water would also swing things in an opponents favor quickly.

It would have been interesting to have her weakness come into play during an important fight actually. they never really did too much with her blindness.

>>85805386
Korra is so lame.

>>85805418
to be kind of fair she was traumatized and mildly poisoned

>>85805418
That goes without saying. She can't be the opposite of lame otherwise the show they wrote wouldn't work as bad as it did.

>>85805387
If you were close enough to do that, then she'd still be able to hit you with earthbending since she'd know where you were as you got close to her. Wooden structure or over water would have worked before she invented metalbending. So long as she has metal on her, she can fling it towards an opponent.

The blindness was ultimately a joke.

>>85805480
the blindness was mainly an excuse to have other characters read things to her (and by extension the audience)

Is it true the writers hated that she became popular?

>>85803242
Characters do not need to serve a purpose at all times. She was a companion and friend.

>>85805457
>to be kind of fair
Mako and Bolin lose their parents and both are capable of great things and don't have PTSD nor flashbacks.
Asami lost her mother and lived with the burden of her father's actions and isn't traumatized.
Kai doesn't have a family but that doesn't let him not be all good-natured like Aladdin.
Aang lost his people and his culture rested on his shoulders but he never put up as much of a "woe is me" act like Korra.
Katara lost her mother but she doesn't let that interfere with her life. She reflects on it and feels hurt yet that's the extent of it.
Sokka is in the same line of thought as Katara except he didn't share that heartache to such a degree.
Zuko went the path of honor to drive him forward rather than feel sorry for himself like Korra.
Toph is blind but more capable than Korra.
Teo, the mechanist's son, can't walk but that didn't stop him from having a positive outlook.
Jet lost his family but gathered together a group of orphans to strike back at the enemy - even if they went about it in a way that was wrong in the eyes of the main characters of AtLA.

Korra's just a whining, weak-willed, passive, cowardly, self-centered, irritating, angry, person who can't do anything for herself and never even tries to think.

>>85805480
They had a few instances were it was a significant handy cap, specifically when she couldn't accurately target people while on sand and in the wood prison. They just never paired these with a legitimate threat. To Toph herself or someone else was already there to pick up the slack so it never felt much like a significant weakness.

So I agree with you that it was pretty irrelevant in the end, but it didn't have to be that way.

>>85805542
I thought they were pretty pleased with her reception, I'm not sure why they'd be unhappy, she's clearly written to be likeable.

>>85803242
Tight pussy.

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>>85805944
Toph is not for sexual.

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>>85805993
This.

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>>85805993
You're right.

MILF Toph is for sexuals

>>85805574
Damn, the Korra hate is real.

>>85806035
but the chin

>>85806294
But the eyes man.
Will you protect those eyes?

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>>85806365
I'd shine a laser pointer between them so it looks like a sniper is aiming at her, and she'd never know.

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>>85803284
this

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Venom bait

>>85806035
This reminds of that Handsome Vampire Hulk picture.

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>>85806457
That's mean :(

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>>85806510
>3DCG Toph
DELET THIS

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>>85806572
How did that even start?

Keeping the group dynamic fresh. There's only so much you can do with just Aang, Katara and Sokka, especially since they were already pretty close at that point, and actual conflicts between them were bound to be more serious. The writers could just have Toph act like the bitch she is and make any scene insantly interesting.

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>>85806844
Okay so how the story goes
Some Anon was posting in Avatar threads with piss poor photoshops of Toph with Brolly from Dragonball Z and in all caps was saying Toph is now Brolly's wife, well /co/ being as it is made it's own photoshops of Toph with Venom saying they are together, drawfags got in on it and now they have two Rule 34 pics

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>>85807032
>only 2 pics

>>85807181
Someone was going to commotion a porn comic
It never came to pass

>>85806063
Damn right it is.

>>85804330
All this, plus the show really needed to have a non-Aang bender in the main cast who wasn't a pretentious stick in the mud about it. Katara, Zuko, and Azula all take their bending super-seriously. Aang doesn't, but his whole arc in season 1 is about needing to get serious and face his destiny, and Sokka, the non-bender of the Gaang, is just comic relief in season 1.

Toph is really, REALLY essential to deflating that sense of self-importance that fantasy epics can get caught in, by never taking herself too seriously despite being the most powerful of the Gaang. Her and Iroh got that cute tea scene together because they're kind of parallels in a way - they both exist to show that bending isn't a discipline that requires you to be a joyless prick, like say, Jedi-ism, and that the god-like power of bending doesn't inherently corrupt; on both sides, there's folk who just want to live their lives, despite having the power to end the war, and in the end are forced to.

>>85803242
Did Sokka serve any purpose in the show other than be a non-bending bitch with a Boomerang?

>>85810658
initially he was the comedy relief and later became the group strategist, from a narrative standpoint he was the normal person who reacted most similarly to how an audience member might imagine themselves reacting

She was also Aang's fucking partner

>>85810994
interestingly the creators confirmed that Toph stealing Aang's staff and bag of nuts in the episode Bitter Work was a deliberate visual innuendo for her emasculating him.

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>>85804589
>Make this show more watchable.

Loved the fact they made fun of her being blind so much. Only other character I remember like that is the wheelchair guy from Ghostbusters.

>>85811059
Did they really? I didn't think mid-2000's Bryke were that blatant.

You mean the one thing she was supposed to do?

>>85803242
She got them past that angry customs lady with her passport.

She gave the melons a leader.

>>85803242
Did yor parrents serve any other purpose than teach you to wipe your ass?

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She was tuff

>>85811716
>heavymetalbender.jpg

>>85803284
This and pedobait. Probably the best girl because of those two things.

Being best

Being absolutely awesome?

Also something something, metal is just refined earth so you can bend it, everything is connected, something something.

>>85805570
No, I gotta disagree here. Characters absolutely have to serve a purpose, otherwise they're just derailing the plot.

>>85803242
Aside from being the best character, you mean?

>>85803284
>>85803636
>>85804015
>>85806510
>>85812117

For fuck's sake. How many times do I have to tell you? Toph is not for sexuals!

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>>85812491
Tell that to Venom

>>85803242
Anal and footjobs

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>>85813288
dubs confirm

If I happened to have the Japanese dub of the first season of this shiw, how many people here would care?

>>85803242
female foil for katara

>>85813767
Nobody cares, faggot.

>>85813767
I would. That sounds pretty cool.

>>85813822

Just trying to figure out a place to upload it to. Considering people outside of Japan can't buy it i would like to share. Working on the other seasons too

>>85813972
Google drive is one option.