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*SPOILERS* How did Toph do that?

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    thatother1dude

    [1]Dec 1, 2006
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    I couldn't tell whether Toph bended metal by using the small impurities left in the iron, or bending the metal itself.
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    DarkAngel101

    [2]Dec 1, 2006
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    thatother1dude wrote:
    I couldn't tell whether Toph bended metal by using the small impurities left in the iron, or bending the metal itself.

    I think Toph bended the impurities in the metal.
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    ZukoFan

    [3]Dec 1, 2006
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    DarkAngel101 wrote:
    thatother1dude wrote:
    I couldn't tell whether Toph bended metal by using the small impurities left in the iron, or bending the metal itself.

    I think Toph bended the impurities in the metal.


    She felt the earth that is in the metal and used that to bend it.
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    RedDragonMaster

    [4]Dec 1, 2006
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    Well as the guru pointed out metal is just a processed form of earth (kind of how lightning and fire are one in the same) so it could be possible to bend it.
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    rjx21

    [5]Dec 1, 2006
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    yup, she realized this without anybody teaching her unlike aang who was told by the guru...

    *This then moved onto the next scene involving toph trying to escape, which is a great juxtoposition of how she did it...

    Toph is right, she's the best earthbender out there
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    thatother1dude

    [6]Dec 1, 2006
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    This is confusing as Pathik said Metal is just an unfamiliar form of earth but Toph's view and the website seem to indicate that she bended the very small amounts of non-metal substances.
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    mblizzow

    [7]Dec 1, 2006
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    well i think she recognized the earth and maniplulated it and everything around it to bend the metal.
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    rjx21

    [8]Dec 1, 2006
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    This is the same thing as:

    lightning >>> fire

    ice >>> water, plants

    metal >>> earth

    air >>> ummm air (as of right now they have nothing so they are nothing, except the advantage that air is everywhere.)
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    thatother1dude

    [9]Dec 1, 2006
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    Toph's perception of the wall showed the impurities as specks in the metal, but the impurities would be dissolved into the metal (this may have been purely a visual aid as she may have sensed them by their different rates of vibration).
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    NoNameLetdown

    [10]Dec 1, 2006
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    Ive always wondered about metal bending, since iron and granite both are from the earth
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    MCMLXVI

    [11]Dec 2, 2006
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    thatother1dude wrote:
    Toph's perception of the wall showed the impurities as specks in the metal, but the impurities would be dissolved into the metal (this may have been purely a visual aid as she may have sensed them by their different rates of vibration).
    That is a good guess.
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    thefolenangel

    [12]Dec 2, 2006
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    Hello where metal come from ? Earth ?
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    MCMLXVI

    [14]Dec 2, 2006
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    thefolenangel wrote:
    Hello where metal come from? Earth?
    MCMLXVI wrote:
    Earthbenders only seem to be able to bend minerals (nonmetal and metal {i.e. topaz is made from aluminum silicate}, inorganic and organic) and nonmetals like carbon and silicon. I haven't been able to figure out if they could bend metal oxides (besides sand, like rust). Toph was probably looking for silicates, sulfates, and/or phosphates in the steel, which she, presumably, would have been able to displace.
    Uh oh! Sand is not a metal oxide; silicon is a nonmetal.
    Edited on 12/02/2006 3:49am
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    dumbTVnut

    [15]Dec 2, 2006
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    She did it the same way she does everything else: pixie dust. Metals are mined and sure they are purified like crystals are, and earth benders can bend crystals with ease but not metals??? Look the writers can break their own laws its not up to us to question it.
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    Libra_no_saint

    [16]Dec 2, 2006
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    there's a whole group of elements called the alkali EARTH metals ^^U
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    Xiaolincrzy

    [17]Dec 2, 2006
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    Impurities my left foot. She is THE GREATEST EARTHBENDER IN THE WORLD!!! She's amazing!!!
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    confucioussayhi

    [18]Dec 2, 2006
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    dumbTVnut wrote:
    She did it the same way she does everything else: pixie dust. Metals are mined and sure they are purified like crystals are, and earth benders can bend crystals with ease but not metals??? Look the writers can break their own laws its not up to us to question it.
    Hear, hear!
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    Eman5805

    [19]Dec 2, 2006
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    Why do people keep saying that he isn't bending metal iself just the stuff inside the metal is made of? uh...then she's bending metal...it's not a new element or anything...but it IS Metalbending...
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    Ix_Ixnay

    [20]Dec 2, 2006
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    Alright, here's what we know: Apparently earthbenders aren't able to bend metal. In "Imprisoned" the fire benders took all of them to a metal ship in the ocean, so they couldn't bend anything.

    I agree in the fact that metal comes from the earth, so why shouldn't they be able to bend it?!? It may be that they just aren't powerful enough to bend the metal.

    I think she was able to bend the door because she has unnatural bending abilities, and was just strong enough.

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