The Legend of Korra

Suyin Beifong

Suyin Beifong

Born the youngest daughter of the earthbending legend Toph, Suyin and her older sister Lin grew up with their own talents for earthbending and considerable freedom. Whereas Lin followed in their mother’s footsteps in becoming the police chief of Republic City, Suyin rebelled and became a delinquent. At the age of 12 she lashed out at her sister, scarring Lin’s face and meriting an exile in order to cover up her criminal activity. Suyin travelled the world, traveling with pirates, a circus, and living with sandbenders. Eventually Suyin settled down with the architect Baatar, and together they constructed the city of Zaofu. Suyin expanded her prowess of metalbending to the entire city, establishing a new culture as the Metal Clan where progressive politics and innovation blossomed. In their new home Suyin gave birth to 5 children and adopted the troubled Kuvira. Suyin later reconciled with her sister and mother and became the first metalbending master to the Avatar. When Kuvira rebelled against Suyin and created an authoritarian uprising in the Earth Kingdom Suyin stood against her, and resumed her duties leading Zaofu following Kuvira’s defeat.

Physicals

  • Performs a synchronized routine with her dancing troupe (source) (S3E5)
  • Weaves through several rapid earth projectiles (source) (S3E6)
  • Sprints while floating a large boulder over her head (source) (S3E6)
  • Flips through rapid fire combustion blasts from P’Li to get behind cover (source) (S3E12)
  • Exchanges attacks with Kuvira in close quarters (source) (S4E10)
  • Flung a distance away by Kuvira but gets back up (source) (S4E10)
  • Knocked out against the side of a mech’s arm hurled across a city (source) (S4E13)
  • Leaps out of the way of a flamethrower, bringing Toph with her (source) (RoE)

Bending

  • Descends and ascends on a metal cable quickly and projects stone from the ground to fend off the Red Lotus while they are dazed (source) (S3E8)
  • Ascends the side of a mountain with metal cables (source) (S3E12)
  • Ascends up Laghima’s Peak with her metal cables (source) (S3E12)
  • Sends a cable up to a tree branch and ascends up to it (source) (S4E6)
  • Binds a target with her cable and turns them around in their cot (source) (S4E6)
  • Wraps men up with her cables (source) (RoE)
  • Wraps a mech’s legs and topples it over (source) (RoE)
  • Creates a blade from her bracelet that cuts through a metal cable, causing it to rebound and scar Lin (source) (S3E6)
  • Doffs her armor and wraps it around P’Li’s head mid-shot so the combustion bender kills herself (source) (S3E12)
  • Uses her metal environment to form armor, amplify a jump, and to utilize a staff for defense (source) (S4E10)
  • Helps others surround the Red Lotus with metal panels (source) (S3E8)
  • Curves metal projectiles through the air to pierce Zaheer’s glider (source) (S3E8)
  • Projects one attack from the ground and quickly follows up with another from a meteorite (source) (S3E6)
  • Launches large metal panels in quick succession before dodging more earth projectiles rising from the ground (source) (S3E6)
  • Raises and launches large boulders at P’Li (source) (S3E12)
  • Throws a heavy cargo container at Kuvira in the midst of their duel (source) (S4E10)
  • Raises a stone defense to block rocks from a Red Lotus earthbender (source) (S3E13)
  • Creates a stone wall her sons expand on (source) (S4E10)
  • Creates a ceiling of stone to guard against falling debris (source) (S4E12)
  • Redirects a metal statue thrown at her, crashing it into a metal wall (source) (S3E6)
  • Raises a metal panel as a shield before projecting it as an attack (source) (S3E6)
  • Pulls a metal wall around her as a defense with enough force to uproot a tree and slap Lin a distance away (source) (S3E6)
  • Throws huge boulders hard enough to crumble them and creates stone defenses that stand up to similar boulders (source) (S4E10)
  • Forms meteorite into several shapes after saying it has a unique property that makes it easier to bend (source) (S3E6)
  • Pulls most of the metal poison from Korra’s body but did not get all of it (source) (S3E13 & S4E3)
  • Uses seismic sense to scope out a room before she enters, tunneling into the ground and up through a metal floor (source) (S4E6)
  • Together with Lin and Bolin manages to topple a building over on Kuvira’s mech (source) (S4E12)
  • Pulls apart the innards of a giant mech’s arm, disabling it (source) (S4E13)
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