We’ve been ready for what looks like nearly so long as Aang’s freezing for the return of the live-action The Final Airbender remake, and a part of that wait being so painful is for good purpose. Season two of the present is bringing us one of many animated collection’ most beloved characters within the type of Toph Beifong: so it’s no shock our first have a look at it actually makes her the star.
Yeah, positive, we additionally get glimpses of Aang and the remainder of the gang as they proceed on their quest to coach the younger airbender in mastery of the opposite components, in addition to Zuko and Iroh’s rising bond collectively, however Netflix’s first trailer for season 2 places Miya Cech’s model of Toph entrance and heart.
In fact, apart from Toph herself narrating the trailer, we get to see just a little of how the present will deal with her earthbending abilities, however we additionally get to see how the present goes to method her blindness, taking a desaturated, thrumming impact to indicate her use of sound and vibrations to echolocate her environment.
To this point, so Toph, however we additionally know the live-action collection will make some adjustments to the character to make her much less of the tomboy she was within the animated present, with Cech beforehand telling press that her Toph will play in a extra female perspective as compared, telling The Direct earlier this yr that “I wished to work into a really humanizing area for her as a result of she was [originally] a cartoon.”
In fact, the animated collection wasn’t unafraid of displaying off that aspect of Toph both—acknowledging her occasional want to need to do female issues was a part of her rising bond with Katara—but it surely’ll be attention-grabbing to see simply how the live-action present interprets that, as a lot because it’s attention-grabbing to see how she’ll fling rocks and navigate the world round her.
The live-action Avatar: The Final Airbender returns to Netflix a while in 2026.
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