I don't own Naruto or the Avatar franchise... or even this article. It was written by someone called "rtsRANGEL", and if he sees that I did this and doesn't like it, I will remove it upon his request. Anyway, read, and give me your thoughts.

Introduction

First off I'm not asking or expecting a response from ScrewAttack on this. I understand it's their show and they can do whatever they want right or wrong. I also want to make it known that I have watched both the Avatar and Naruto series and to be honest, I hate the Naruto series. Loved the original but I really didn't like Shipuuden. Just my opinion, but anyways the reason I wanted to do this analysis is because I felt that maybe they didn't research Gaara enough and wanted to inform people of him more properly and in a style similar to how Death Battle has done analysis in the past. This was fun for me so I'm not in any way mad about this. Now, to my analysis.

Some facts:

Gaara has bent more sand than Toph ever has bent Earth at once.

Gaara's sand can move at hypersonic speeds which is a minimum of 3,840mph or 1716m/s which we will use in his calculations.

By the way, more research showed that Gaara's sand is much faster than hypersonic speed. The raikage is said to be as fast as lightning and was even stated by the author of Naruto in the Official Naruto databook. Therefore, since Gaara can block the Raikage's attack when he was trying to kill Sasuke, Gaara's sand is around 224,000 mph. For more proof, Sasuke's attack Kirin is literally summoning lightning. Kirin and Amaterasu are comparable in speed and since Gaara's sand can keep up with Amaterasu and the Raikage, it can be assumed his sand can at the very least match that speed. For the sake of Toph though, we will use Death Battle's speed of hypersonic.

1 cubic foot of sand is 130 kg.

There is no proof that Toph can take control of the sand Gaara is already controlling and vice versa. However playing devil's advocate, I will do a basic analysis assuming she can as Death Battle stated.

Gaara can use sand substitution which teleports him out of his sand shell. This can be done in a faction of a second as seen in the Rock Lee vs Gaara fight.

(Edit 2/9/15) Toph's reactions to Earth based attacks are not perfect. Even if she can sense an attack coming, that does not mean she can react quick enough. See here where a Dai Li agent grabs hold of Toph with a rock hand that's going much slower than Gaara's sand:(A/N: Can't put link in due to block)

(Edit 2/10/15) The death battle stated gold can be metal bent because it contains iron and copper. Iron and copper are both metal alloys! Not Earthly material by Avatar standards such as normal rock and sand. The reason regular iron metal can be metal bent is because of traces of rock and dirt that is inherently mixed in with the alloy and the making of it. Not because it contains iron itself. As such, she wouldn't be able to bend gold similar to how she wouldn't be able to metal bend platinum. Probably why gold bending it is never done in the show as well. As such, even if Toph can stop the sand, the high speed gold particles would continue on its trajectory and go right through Toph.

(Edit: 2/10/15) The Groundbreaking Fact:

This fact is really something that locks the battle in favor of Gaara. Vibrations are closely connected to sound and forces. For example, vibrations in the air caused by Thunder, are said to travel at about 760 mph. However in water, they travel 4 times as fast and on steel they travel 17 times as fast as they do in air. Let's overestimate the time it takes for vibrations to travel across sand and say it is 20 times faster than it does for air.

So:

760 mph * 20 = 15,200 mph

Compared to Gaara's sand speed which is clocked in at least 224,000 mph, Toph would not have felt the attack from Gaara coming.

Scenario One: Devil's Advocate

Okay so let's assume Toph can control Gaara's sand. So when Gaara fires blasts of sand at her, she can stop them by just simply bending them. Let's even assume that she can react fast enough to stop sand coming at 3840 mph. However, Gaara has shown to be able to bend more sand than Toph can so all he has to do is fire enough sand blasts that she can't control all of them. Now for his sand blasts we will underestimate and assume he is only throwing them 1 cubic foot a blast which weighs about 130 kg. To do this, we will calculate the force of impact for about 1 second. Yes I know his force is continuous but for the sake of simplicity and because I am not a physics or math major, we will just say the impact force is 1 second.

F = (2mv)/t (Impact Force)

m = 130kg (1 cubic foot of sand)

t = 1 second

v = 1716 m/s (Slowest in hypersonic speed range)

F = 446160 newtons

446160 newtons = 100300 lbs of force!

Now Toph is not a shinobi like Gaara. In the Avatar universe, human anatomy is comparable to normal humans. It doesn't matter how strong of an attack she can do, she can only take as much damage comparable to a normal human. A simple blast of sand from Gaara would likely knock her out and break several limbs. Furthermore, Gaara may run on chakra (A/N: which he has a shitload of) but Toph also runs on stamina. She can't just fight forever so all Gaara has to do is run away/dodge Toph's attacks while continuously throwing high speed sand blasts in order to win. Even with perfect dodging and defending by Toph, Gaara can outlast her in a long term battle. Remember just simply losing a night of sleep severely affected Toph (Book 2 The Chase).

Scenario Two: Giant Sand Burial:

This scenario is removing Toph's ability to control the sand Gaara is already controlling. So let's go to Gaara's signature finishing attacks, Sand Burial and Giant Sand Burial. In a version of Gaara three years younger than the one featured in the death battle, Gaara had a fight with a ninja called Kimimaro. This ninja could create bone from his body and could actually eject bone while recreating it to use as weapons. Furthermore, he can also change the density of the bone to make it harder than steel. When Gaara used a normal sand burial on Kimimaro, Kimimaro grew a membrane of bone around his body and was for the most part unharmed. However, when Gaara turned it up a notch and used giant sand burial, Kimimaro was nearly killed and only survived because of the power of his curse mark which gave him 10 times the strength he had before. Without his power up though, Kimimaro was done for. As such, Toph's membrane of metal(which is not as strong as steel) would be useless against giant sand burial and she would be crushed to death. Add to the fact that Gaara is way stronger 3 years since this battle and you can see why Gaara would clearly win this engagement.

Scenario Three: Taijutsu

(2/14/15 Edit) His taijutsu or hand to hand combat is by far his worst skill but he is still no pushover. Gaara still has basic ninja training and is comparatively faster than Toph in his own right. He can use the body flicker technique to give his body incredible bursts of speed and can travel long distances on his own in short time spans. In fact, he can jump from tree to tree freely and walk on water and upside down giving him immense agility compared to a normal human. His own physical strength is also impressive as he was able to punch Temari a good distance away even when severely injured during the Chunin exam arc. In a very recent episode of Naruto Shippuuden, episode 399 to be exact, Gaara has been seen training with a Taijutsu specialist to minimize his hand to hand combat weakness. He was capable of defending himself before his living sand could activate and protect him. At the very least, he has the agility, speed, and power of a decent shinobi by the end of the series. With this physical prowess alone, he can easily just beat the crap out of Toph to win. Especially since he can jump high in the air like most ninja. When he is in the air, Toph can't see him at all.

(2/9/15 Edit)Scenario Four: Sealing Tags

So I did even more research and can't believe I forgot but Gaara can use sealing tags in conjunction with his sand coffin. All he needs to do is put a seal around his sand coffin and Toph would be immobilized in a death like trance state. That's really all I have for this victory, it's honestly a really simple one that would be easy for him to do and I can't see how Toph would be able to counter a sealing tag since nothing like that was ever used in Avatar. (A/N: Plus he's got bombs and knives, which would also help in a CQC scenario)

Conclusion

Both fighters are amazing and loved by their entire fanbase. However, Gaara's killing potential is much stronger than Toph's abillity to defend herself. The speed of his sand alone is enough to overwhelm Toph. Yes, she can see where he is at all time and where his attacks are coming from but she does not have the capability to properly react to attacks going hypersonic speeds. There is a good clip in Naruto that comes to mind when people respond saying she could actually stop Gaara's hypersonic attacks: (A/N: Can't have the link on here. It's the Lee/Sasuke fight, where Lee basically says "Just because you can predict my moves doesn't mean you can do anything about it.)

A/N:

I wrote the one-shot rashly after simply reading the video's "Critical Research Failure" bit on TV Tropes. Since then, I have come to the conclusion that they actually made a lot more mistakes than just the one I said. For those of you whom I have traded numerous PMs with discussing this fic, I am not trying to insult you or anything. This is more for the general readers (and to be honest, get a few more reviews). Yes, I have officially bought into the idea that Gaara's sand CAN move at such great speeds along with other things. I will not write any of these scenarios, BTW. Anyway, here it is. If you still disagree, that's fine, and some reviewers like Tails absolution and Pacer287 have provided sound reasoning why they still disagree. This is all my opinion. Kudos to rtsRANGEL for this well put-together analysis.