Lin Beifong

Lin Beifong
Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra character
First appearance	"Welcome to Republic City"
Last appearance	"The Last Stand"
Created by	Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko
Voiced by	Mindy Sterling
Information
Full name	Lin Beifong
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Occupation	Police officer
Family	Toph Beifong (mother) Kanto (father, deceased) Suyin Beifong (half-sister) Bataar (brother-in-law) Bataar Jr. (nephew) Huan (nephew) Opal (niece) Wei and Wing (nephews)
Nationality	United Republic of Nations
Age	50 in Book One: Air, 51 in Book Two: Spirits, 54 in Book Four: Balance
Bending Element	Primary: Earthbending Sub-styles: Metalbending
Hair color	Gray
Eye color	Green
Position	Protagonist

Lin Beifong is a major character, voiced by Mindy Sterling, in Nickelodeon's animated television series The Legend of Korra, which aired from 2012 to 2014. The character and the series, a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, were created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.

Creation and conception

Mindy Sterling voices Lin Beifong.

While her mother was known during announcements for the series and established at the start of the series, the identity of her father was not revealed initially.^[1]

Reception

Reviewer David Levesley called Lin one of the series's "standout characters" and one of the show's "many examples of well-written women".^[2] Reviewer Alyssia Rosenberg thought Lin was a "real standout" of the first season for her character arc, feeling it embodied a "small trend" of "female action stars" sacrificing themselves. She compared the scene where Lin lost her bending abilities to Amon to that of a scene in the film Sucker-Punch and praised the soundtrack for being "a powerful representation of the sudden absence that has made Lin much of who she is."^[3] Robert Kuang felt that out of the major characters, Lin remained "the most intriguing", which Kuang attributed to her limited screentime and parentage.^[4] Reviewer Michael Mammano viewed Lin's outburst at her mother during the fourth season as being "emotional" and akin to that of an angry child.^[5] TV.com felt Lin was similar to Varrick, a character introduced later in the show's run, for starting out on "one-note" but later becoming "layered" and wrote that it made sense that Lin would 'finally patch things up with" Toph after ending her estrangement with her sister Suyin.^[6]

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