The hit animated series Avatar: the Last Airbender is back on Netflix, a treat for longtime fans and a great opportunity for newcomers to explore this richly realized world. It's the story of avatar Aang and his quest to restore peace and harmony to the world against the Fire Nation, but he can't do it alone. He's got a team, and on that team is Toph Beifong.

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Toph is an earthbender and a fan favorite, and in the sequel series The Legend of Korra, Aang's granddaughter Jinora becomes one of the most prominent members of a reborn Air Nation. Both Toph and Jinora are historical figures who have done much to aid the avatar's cause, but which of them ought to be named Best Girl of the entire series?

10 Toph: Brave Journey

Both Toph and Jinora have had their fair share of battle, and they have traveled all over the world. But it was Toph who took the bigger risk and sacrificed more to make this journey possible. At first, she lived in opulence as a young noblewoman.

Toph upended her entire life, and all the comforts and security of it all, to travel with avatar Aang and his group into the wild unknown. She even defied her parents to do so, and this required immense courage and resolve. That's commendable.

9 Jinora: Young Master

This is a screenshot from season 4 of The Legend of Korra, and Jinora is barely older than Aang was in the original series. Despite her youth, she already has her official airbender tattoos, and she had undergone the induction ceremony late in season 3.

It's a remarkable accomplishment by any standard, and typically, airbenders receive those mastery tattoos later in life. It takes a lot to become named an airbender master, like Aang and Tenzin, but Jinora has already done it. She's something of a prodigy.

8 Toph: First Metalbender

Toph from Avatar the Last Airbender bending

Now this is how Toph truly left her mark on history. Up until now, it was deemed impossible to bend metal, even for the most skilled earthbenders. Often, the Fire Nation would send captured earthbenders to metal rigs out in the ocean, with no rocks or soil to bend.

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All by herself, Toph realized that metal is refined earth, and she felt its connection to the land. That scene coincided with guru Pathik explaining to Aang that all things are connected, and Toph broke right out of a metal cart as the world's #1 earthbender and first metalbender.

7 Jinora: Spirit Affinity

Jinora

Overall, the airbenders have a strong affinity for spirits, and this was true even in avatar Wan's time. Aang negotiates with spirits whenever he can, and in later generations, Jinora proved her own skill with handling spirits.

She can understand them and befriend them, and she proved one of the few people able to guide Korra into the spirit world as a guide. Tenzin hesitated to let his child take such a risk, but Jinora proved up to the job. Not just anyone could do that, especially at her age.

6 Toph: Great Humor

Avatar Toph

Above all else, Toph is great fun to watch on the screen. She has her vulnerabilities (more on that soon), but she's also funny, in her own way. In her first appearance, she acted tough and witty in an earthbending ring, and she butted heads with Aang at the Beifong estate.

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During the journey, Toph tickled audiences with her trademark humor, often making fun of her own blindness (like pretending to spot Wan Shi Tong's library from afar) and her poor handling of Appa wanted posters in Ba Sing Se.

5 Jinora: Spirit Body

This topic is a continuation of Jinora's spirit affinity. She can communicate easily with those entities, but she can also travel around in a spirit body that can phase through solid walls and objects. That ability is quite useful for scouting and passing on secret messages.

Jinora put this ability to good use in season 3 in particular, to discover where Earth Queen Hou-Ting had set up her airbender training camp with the Dai Li. If it weren't for that, Kai might not have ever been rescued.

4 Toph: Vulnerable

Often, the toughest exteriors hide the most vulnerable interiors, and Toph is no different. Almost the moment she fled from home, she worried that her parents were worried sick, and felt bad about the anguish she was causing them.

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Later, during the famed "Tales of Ba Sing Se" episode, Toph went on a girls' day out with Katara, where she laid bare some of her most pressing inner problems, and Katara supported her like a sister. Even better was when Katara washed away some bullying upper-class girls on Toph's behalf.

3 Jinora: Planning Zaheer's Downfall

During the climax of season 3, Korra was struggling against Zaheer and his use of mercury poison, and the avatar state was in dire peril. All the airbenders had since been freed, but they felt helpless as Korra battled against Zaheer in the sky.

Then, it was Jinora who formulated the perfect plan. She rallied all the trainee airbenders and told them to form a massive air funnel, or tornado, and used it to draw in Zaheer. Despite being capable of true flight, Zaheer was trapped, and this allowed team avatar to capture him for good.

2 Toph: One Last Fight

Older Toph Metalbending

By the time the Earth Empire was in full swing, Toph had long since recused herself from world events, and like Huu before her, she preferred to stay in the Great Swamp and meditate, enjoying how all thing are connected.

Toph emerged for one last fight, and she backed up her two daughters in a fierce metalbending fight against Empire forces and Kuvira herself. In this age, metalbenders are everywhere, but still, none of them can top the founding metalbender.

1 Jinora: Rescued The Bison

During season 3, Jinora made good friends with the thief turned airbender Kai, and both youths sported a small herd of sky bison nearby. They made good friends with those bison, but some poachers soon found them, too.

Although reluctant at first, Jinora helped Kai take on the poachers, and they risked their lives to keep the bison from getting hauled away. True, Jinora and Kai needed the other airbenders to bail them out, but it was a noble and brave move on Jinora and Kai's part.

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