Toph Beifong (Chinese: 北方拓芙; pinyin: Běifāng Tuòfú) is a fictional character in Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, and is part of the Avatar: The Last Airbender world. She is voiced by Michaela Jill Murphy in the original series and Kate Higgins as an adult and Philece Sampler as an elder in the sequel series. She is portrayed by Miyako in the second season of the live-action television series adaptation. Toph is recognized as a prodigy of earthbending, which is the ability to telekinetically manipulate, reshape, and control stone, sand, dirt, and, later, metal. Because she was born blind, and her parents believed that her condition limited her capacity to learn and use the skill safely, they had a tutor teach her only basic earthbending. Unbeknownst to her family, she once ran away from home when she was younger, and had learned advanced earthbending from the badgermoles (fictional blind creatures that naturally earthbend), including the ability to use her earthbending to scan the environment around her, essentially allowing her to “see” the world and eliminating the challenges her blindness presents. She eventually becomes
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