The First Trailer for ‘Avatar’ Season 2 Is All About Toph

We’ve been ready for what appears like virtually so long as Aang’s freezing for the return of the live-action The Last Airbender remake, and a part of that wait being so painful is for good cause. 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 parts, in addition to Zuko and Iroh’s rising bond collectively, however Netflix’s first trailer for season 2 places Miya Cech’s version of Toph entrance and middle.

In fact, other than Toph herself narrating the trailer, we get to see a little bit 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 point out her use of sound and vibrations to echolocate her environment.

Thus far, so Toph, however we additionally know the live-action collection will make some modifications 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 more feminine attitude 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 wish 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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