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Avatar: The Way of Water	comment	All spoilers for Avatar are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 epic Science Fiction adventure film directed by James Cameron and co-written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the long-awaited sequel to 2009's Avatar and the second installment in the namesake franchise.More than a decade after the events of the first film, Jake Sully and Neytiri have founded a family. The forces of the RDA have eventually returned to Pandora, and they now seek to form colonies on the planet on top of quashing the Na'vi resistance by any means necessary — with neutralizing Sully as a threat being their top priority. In order to protect his people from the RDA, Sully cedes power from his tribe and takes Neytiri and their children to the Metkayina, a Na'vi tribe living on the shores of Pandora's oceans, to lead the invaders away from his home. Meanwhile, Colonel Miles Quaritch, now cloned as a recombinant avatar, pursues every lead in an effort to discover and kill Jake.While the Sullies learn the way of life of the Metkayina (also known as "the Way of Water"), one of Jake's children, Lo'ak, develops a companionship with a whale-like creature known as a tulkun, and Kiri, the mysteriously conceived Na'vi mixed child of the late Dr. Grace Augustine, an adoptive child of the Sullys', discovers she has a very strong and extraordinary bond with Eywa, the sentient force of Pandora.Returning cast members include Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, C.C.H. Pounder, Matt Gerald and Sigourney Weaver. Newcomers include Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jack Champion, Jemaine Clement, and CJ Jones. Simon Franglen, who was the co-composer of the first film's Award-Bait Song and did electronic arrangement on its score, now fully replaces the late James Horner as the score's composer.Like the first film, it has been filmed in stereoscopic 3D. Cameron planned sequels to Avatar as far back as the release of the first film back in the 2000s, but he wanted to wait until the special effect technologies to make them would be advanced enough, especially in regards to water effects and underwater Motion Capture, hence the thirteen-year Sequel Gap. The second sequel has been filmed back to back along with this one since September 2017.Dark Horse Comics published a Prequel series Avatar The High Ground that leads directly into the opening of the film.The film was released on December 16, 2022.Previews: Official teaser, full official trailer, Final trailer
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Both Recom Quaritch and Spider make it clear to each other that they don't view each other as father and son. But despite his bravado, Quaritch is unwilling to see Spider killed and gives up his own hostage instead. Spider later reluctantly saves his life but still refuses to go with him, choosing the Sullies as his family.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: because Jake refuses initially to fight the RDA task force that wants him dead, they track his family to his new home among the Sea People and kidnap his children to force him out of hiding.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_14099f40	type	Mammal Monsters Are More Heroic
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_14099f40	comment	Mammal Monsters Are More Heroic: Lo'ak is tricked into fishing in the hunting ground of an akula, a shark-like creature the size of a bus that smashes its way through tens of feet of coral reef to get to him. He's saved by Payakan, a member of the local Sapient Cetacean species the Tulkun, who effortlessly smashes the akula against the reef before helping Lo'ak to the surface. Payakan specifically is considered monstrous by the Metkayina and by other Tulkun because he's willing to use violence where Tulkun usually refuse violence for any reason, but Lo'ak realizes he wouldn't hurt a fly unless the fly hurt him first.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Uturu is a Na'vi tradition stating that any refugee seeking sanctuary must be granted safe harbor. This is reminiscent of the Ubuntu tradition in many African countries.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: While Jake and Neytiri launch a rescue attack to free their children, the kids manage to free themselves from the grip of the Recom soldiers by biting them in the arms.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Averted and played straight once again. The rules from the first film still apply: The atmosphere is deadly dangerous to humans, as is all the other toxic junk. However it's also flipped with the Na'vi and Recombinants this time around. While half-blood Na'vi (like Kiri and Lo'ak) and Recoms (like Quaritch) can tolerate human atmospheres for short periods, it's still much thinner than Pandora's air and is severely lacking in carbon dioxide. While inside human environments, they need to keep "Recom breathers" on them at all times and take several breaths from it every few minutes to supplement their CO2, otherwise they'll begin to experience hypocarbia (much like how humans experience hypoxia from lack of oxygen), which would result in shortness of breath, delirium, compromised motor functions, and eventually start suffocating and go comatose.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Lo'ak narrates the official trailer with "The way of water connects all things, before your birth, and after your death."
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Initially downplayed. Neytiri doesn't like or trust Spider for being Quaritch's son, but at least tolerates him around her family. She comes dangerously close to playing the trope straight near the end of the film by threatening to kill him to make Quaritch release Kiri and as a form of retaliation for Neteyam's death, going as far to say, "A son for a son."
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Giovanni Ribisi makes a very short return as Parker Selfridge in a video Quaritch recorded for his recombinant self. Some familiar animal species from the first movie like the Thanator , Hammerhead Titanothere, and Hexapede appear in the scene where the RDA arrive on Pandora in their gargantuan ships and burn up the entire forest and all the animals close by.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1badfbbb	comment	Played straighter in the other direction, though. Quaritch is a subordinate of General Ardmore, but Sully has far less emotional investment in defeating her than he does in his enmity with Quaritch.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1c4ab836	type	Obligatory Earpiece Touch
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1c4ab836	comment	Obligatory Earpiece Touch: The Na'vi communicate in the field via throat microphones tied around their neck which they activate by touch.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1d18887f	comment	When Neytiri is threatening Spider to get Quaritch to let Kiri go, she claims it would be "a son for a son" after the death of Neteyam. Later once they all escape the sinking ship, Spider chooses to rejoin the Sullies rather than go back to Quaritch, and Jake notes that they have indeed taken a son for a son.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The movie begins and ends with Neytiri singing while Jake explains the songcords Na'vi use to chronicle their lives, at Neteyam's funeral.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: Curiously inverted with Lo'ak and Payakan. As in the classic vein of the trope, Lo'ak helps Payakan by dislodging a rusty harpoon head embedded in his fin. However, this happens after the Tulkun saves Lo'ak's life from a hungry Akula and carries him to the surface. Arguably, considering the sentience of the Tulkun, Lo'ak could in fact be considered the Lion to Payakan's Androcles.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Those new fluid animations aren't just used for water. While the first movie wasn't particularly shy about gore, this film tends to show blood actually spilling from wounds rather than just staining clothes or skin.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Dr. Ian Garvin, a marine biologist, is working with Scoresby hunting Tulkun, but only does so in order to finance his own research. He actually seems amused when Payakan turns the tables on Scoresby.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: When Spider is brought aboard the Sea Dragon, there are several pointed shots of him observing the helmsman operating the ship's main throttle. Sure enough, when the fight against Payakan gives him an opening, he lunges for the throttle levers, slams them to full and smashes them with a fire extinguisher, sending the ship racing into a reef. The Metkayina tell Kiri about the "angel wings"-like organism that can help Na'vi breathe underwater if they make tsaheylu with it. This becomes instrumental for Kiri's rescue of Neytiri and Tuk at the climax.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When Neytiri is threatening Spider to get Quaritch to let Kiri go, she claims it would be "a son for a son" after the death of Neteyam. Later once they all escape the sinking ship, Spider chooses to rejoin the Sullies rather than go back to Quaritch, and Jake notes that they have indeed taken a son for a son. When we are first introduced to the whalers they are debating the Tulkuns' intelligence. Garvin says they are smarter than humans because their brains have more neurons. Scoresby dismisses this by scoffing that he's the one with the harpoon. Later when Payakan is using the harpoon cable to wreck the whaling ship, Garvin snarks "who's got the harpoon now?"
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: Jake, despite being from Earth and presumably being aware of its history and film culture, is unaware that he is co-starring in the extraterrestrial version of Zero Dark Thirty and that hiding will only inspire the humans to pursue him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: Tonowari and Ronal's two eldest children, Aonung and Tsireya, appear to be teenagers, while their mother is currently pregnant with a third child.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: The RDA have learned from their past failures. The forest around their base has been paved down to the dirt and the main compound is surrounded with heavy turrets that can almost certainly kill anything that might dare charge out of cover. No stampede of wild animals is going to force them out this time. Having survived an attack by a whaling party previously, Payakan knows their tactics and is able to avoid attacks that have killed his fellow tulkun, using his hide to deflect weapons fire and ultimately using the harpoon cable that Scoresby uses to finish off the tulkun to bring down his boat and kill him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: During the final confrontation, Quaritch puts a knife to Kiri's throat and demands Jake to let go of his weapon and cuff himself.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Tsireya comments that Lo'ak needs to slow his heartbeat to properly hold his breath, apparently unaware of the physiological effects on a teenage boy of a teenage girl whom he has a crush on rubbing her hand against his chest and stomach. Their respective siblings smirking in the background probably doesn't help to keep him calm, because barely a few seconds later Tsireya says his heartbeat is fast.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Dr. Ian Garvin, the marine biologist who assists Captain Scoresby, was on the same boat as he was when Payakan attacked them, but his body doesn't appear to be visible with the rest of Scoresby's crew.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2a552d44	type	Recurring Element
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2a552d44	comment	Recurring Element: once again Jake (and this time, also, Quaritch) must tame and learn to ride a new mount, symbolizing the conquest of the challenge of the new environment.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2c7a0875	type	Reveling in the New Form
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2c7a0875	comment	Reveling in the New Form: Once the initial shock wears off, Quaritch is quite pleased with his new Avatar body.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: Neteyam reveals he's been shot after a narrow escape from the whaling barge.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: General Frances Ardmore is pretty much just a gender-flipped copy of Quaritch from the first film. Her personality and mannerisms are almost identical. The film itself leans into it with a scene of her casually and callously drinking from a mug of coffee while plotting the heroes' demise, in a very clear throwback to when Quaritch did the same thing in the previous movie.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3033b958	type	Giant Enemy Crab
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3033b958	comment	Giant Enemy Crab: The new division of the RDA focused on marine expeditions, Cetacean Operations, deploy a new variant of traditional motion capture AMP suits, this time clearly modeled after crabs.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: RDA thugs use cattle prods to subdue and menace cuffed, kneeling, helpless neutral villagers.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: After struggling to stay alive from his bullet wound, Neteyam dies when his eyes settle and become motionless.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: As with the first film, Sam Worthington's Australian accent creeps in occasionally, especially when he's shouting.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_37c0711c	type	Betrayal by Offspring
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_37c0711c	comment	Betrayal by Offspring: If Spider counts as a Sully then his rescue of Quaritch, whose stated goal is to kill Jake and the rest of his family counts. His rejection of Quaritch afterwards counts from the other side of the aisle.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_382c7a57	type	Now You Tell Me
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_382c7a57	comment	Now You Tell Me: Spider goads Quaritch into taming an Ikran without cheating by tranquilizing them first. When Quaritch takes the bait and starts wrestling the beast, Spider shouts out that you're supposed to muzzle them, leading Quaritch to reply with the trope as he's trying to pin it down.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: The first film had the Na'vi fighting a mining company's goons, led by the human Colonel Quaritch. In this film, our heroes fight a military invasion headed by Na'vi-bodied super soldiers.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3bc27275	type	Bubblegum Popping
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3bc27275	comment	Bubblegum Popping: Recom Zdinarsk of Quaritch's squad is always seen blowing pink bubbles.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: the Tulkuns' bodies are very well-armored - which doesn't actually save them from being killed, just makes their deaths more drawn-out and painful. The combat advantages of their form are mostly wasted on the Tulkuns, given their pacifist philosophy, and their backstory implies their physical attributes only made their original internecine combat more intense.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3eb9e19f	type	Child of Two Worlds
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3eb9e19f	comment	Child of Two Worlds: Subverted. Jake and Neytiri's children do face discrimination for being the half-breed children of a native Na'vi and an Avatar, and they notably have the traits to prove it; beyond the physical traits Lo'ak and Kiri possess that mark them as part human, they were very clearly raised bilingual with them being as fluent in English as they are in Na'vi, with their English being more casual and informal than the less refined but more formal way of speaking that all other Na'vi who learn English as a rarely used second language use when speaking itnote Using lots of contractions, human slang like "bro" and "cuz", referring to their parents as "mom and dad" over "mother and father" and utilizing human military phonetic alphabet when communicating with Jake in battle, and are overall very close to the remaining allied humans like Norm who assist their tribe - even going so far as to consider Spider a surrogate sibling. That said, they don't feel conflicted about their heritage much; Lo'ak even speaks of Earth as "a star my dad came from" with some level of pride even though the greater majority of humans are hostile to him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Downplayed. The Recombinants begin learning the ways of Na'vi just to get the advantage over them, starting with their language. But none of them feel the urge to switch sides unlike Jake Sully. With Spider as their teacher, they begin taming Ikrans with their bare hands rather than using tranquilizers as they intended, and soon go fully barefoot rather than wearing oversized boots even at human HQ. Quaritch in particular manages to become the Sole Survivor of his squad because he adapted to the Na'vi fighting style the best.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Sully family and the Metkayina succeed in repelling the RDA, saving the ocean clans and the Tulkun whales from further violence and oppression (at least for now). The Sullies also fully earn the acceptance and respect of the Metkayina. However, Jake and Neytiri have lost their eldest son Neteyam. The RDA also maintains a strong, destructive presence on Pandora, with no form of peace or diplomacy between them and the Na'vi in sight, thus a new war has just begun. Lastly, their greatest asset, Quaritch, lives to fight another day and is still out for Jake and Neytiri's blood.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_41a32b6	type	Mystical Pregnancy
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_41a32b6	comment	Mystical Pregnancy: Grace's Avatar somehow became pregnant despite being brain-dead and gave birth to Kiri. Nobody knows who Kiri's father is (or if she even has one) and Kiri happens to have the most spiritual connection to Eywa out of any Na'vi, often spending most of her time embracing the wildlife around her.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In limited screen time Edie Falco quickly leaves her mark as Ardmore, as she tortures and mind rapes Spider for information. Quaritch is sanguine about kidnapping and killing children, although he reaches his limit when it comes to his own child.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_48b515e3	type	"Lion King" Lift
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_48b515e3	comment	"Lion King" Lift: While he doesn't hold his newborn son over a cliff, Jake still raises the newborn Neteyam into the air for his entire tribe to see in a manner very reminiscent of the iconic lift.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Kiri is treated with the same affection by Jake and Neytiri as their biological children, and at the end Spider seems to be officially joining the family, too.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4987746e	type	Ridiculously Fast Construction
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4987746e	comment	Ridiculously Fast Construction: Thanks to new swarm drones, the RDA manages to establish an entire fortress and supply lines inside of a year. There are a few shots of the bots and other machines basically printing out new facilities from raw materials.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Pandora is just as beautiful underwater as it is on land. In addition to the gorgeous-looking forests and mountains carried over from the first film, we see lush seabeds and colorful coral reefs teeming with life, as well as a huge, detailed mangroves where the sea clans have made their home.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4c506837	type	The Snack Is More Interesting
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4c506837	comment	The Snack Is More Interesting: General Ardmore is often casually sipping from a coffee mug even while commanding combat missions, a trait lifted directly from her predecessor, Colonel Quaritch. Several humans in addition to Recom Zdinarsk are seen casually chewing gum during moments of action.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4d657001	type	Blow That Horn
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4d657001	comment	Blow That Horn: A Metkayina Na'vi blows a shellfish horn to signal arrivals at the Metkayina village. First when the Sullys arrive on their Ikrans and later when the Tulkuns return from their migration to visit the Metkayina.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4d8ff753	type	Orc Raised by Elves
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4d8ff753	comment	Orc Raised by Elves: Spider is a human boy who's adopted by the Sullys and lives alongside them like a Na'vi. However, this is deconstructed as the film goes on. Despite his bond with his adopted siblings and his father, Neytiri doesn't really consider Spider one of her own. There is a good reason for this: Spider is actually the son of Colonel Quaritch, the man who destroyed her home, killed her people (including her father), and almost destroyed her entire way of life. When push comes to a shove in the climax, Neytiri doesn't even hesitate to threaten to kill Spider in front of Quaritch to save her daughter's life, as well as to avenge the life of her eldest son who was killed by a stray bullet earlier.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Coming from one of the tulkun, Payakan, in the reveal they are full-fledged sophonts who talk back to the Na'vi as intellectual equals:
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4efce9e6	type	Thematic Sequel Logo Change
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4efce9e6	comment	Thematic Sequel Logo Change: The series logo lettering has changed to an ocean blue to represent the setting shifting to Pandora's seas as opposed to the jungle of the first film.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4f4e43cc	type	Always Second Best
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_4f4e43cc	comment	Always Second Best: Lo'ak feels like he lives in the shadow of his older brother Neteyam, and bears some resentment towards how Neteyam is the perfect son while he's the troublemaker of the family. Part of the reason he bonds with Payakan is from their shared feelings of being outcasts.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_50385f24	type	Immortality Inducer
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_50385f24	comment	Immortality Inducer: The whaling party led by Captain Scoresby hunts tulkuns because of what they carry in their brains: "Amrita", a unique substance that, when consumed, can seemingly stop aging altogether. It's apparently an even more valuable resource than the Unobtainium in the first film, bringing Scoresby many riches when he sells them to buyers. The cloning tech that brought Quaritch and the other dead members of his squad back into the story also confers immortality of a sort.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Lo'ak gets into a fight with Aonung and his posse after the latter insults his sister Kiri and by extension the Sullies as a whole. When he comes to apologize to Aonung later at his father's insistence, Aonung and his friends pretend to accept his apology before tricking Lo'ak to follow them to an Akula's hunting ground and leaving him stranded there, clearly intending to leave Lo'ak for dead.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The movie begins with Jake teaching Neteyam to shoot his first bow, and Neytiri weaving a song cord to mark his birth... and ends with Neytiri finishing the cord to mark his death, and Jake reliving through Eywa the memory of him teaching Neteyam.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5360c039	type	Karmic Transformation
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5360c039	comment	Karmic Transformation: After his conflict with the Na'vi in the last film, Quaritch has been restored to life by the RDA and has become a Na'vi Recombinant Avatar. That said, he actually is appreciative as it grants him increased strength and durability in the hostile Pandora environment.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The film's opening montage is practically made of this; the ending of Avatar was an uplifting one with the RDA being driven off Pandora and peace restored, and Jake permanently joining the Na'vi. In this film we see that the Omaticaya have rebuilt their village, Jake and Neytiri have a bunch of kids and the few humans that remain live peacefully with the Na'vi. It seems like the happiest ending Jake and Neytiri could possibly have. But then the RDA return in full force, destroying a large swaft of the Omaticaya's land again and forcing them to hide out in the mountains, with Jake leading a guerrilla war against the RDA in a desperate attempt to stop them. The pressure of fighting a war and trying to protect the clan negatively affects Jake's relationship with his sons, especially Lo'ak. And things don't get any easier from there.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5571b706	comment	I Work Alone: briefly, during his transition back from Refusing the Call to military leadership of the Na'vi, Jake (upon deducing the RDA is attacking the Tulkuns in order to draw him out) tells the Metkayina not to fight, but to inform him if any Tulkuns are tagged with tracer harpoons, and he will deal with them himself. Almost immediately the children are kidnapped and the Metkayina and Payakan join him in battle.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: The tulkun, who have a cultural taboo against all violence, even in self-defense. The reason Payakan was outcast from the other tulkun is that he broke this rule to attempt to fight off the RDA after they killed his mother, which resulted in all the other tulkun and Na'vi who were willing to join him getting killed.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: The Way of Water is the most anti-whaling film one's likely to watch.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Metkayina live on the islands of Pandora and have several similarities to the Maori, including intricate tattooing, elaborate war dances, whetero (sticking the tongue out as a threat display), and a spiritual relationship with the whale-like Tulkun. It helps that Tonowari is played by Cliff Curtis, a Maori actor.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5a22609e	type	Creator Thumbprint
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: The second human invasion of Pandora begins with innocents caught in a massive fireball and implacable war machines marching out to lay waste to whatever survives in an all but direct shout-out to the last time James Cameron did this. The climax involves the protagonists escaping from a sinking vessel as it floods and swimming long distances while holding their breath.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: It's never revealed who Kiri's biological father is, assuming she even has one, nor how she has such a close connection to Pandora's wildlife or can sense Eywa's presence. The only time she even has a chance to find out via using a Tree of Souls equivalent to commune with Grace, her biological mother, sends her into a seizure before she can learn anything beyond the fact that Grace loves her.. There is also no mention of Spider's biological mother. However, he was born on Pandora rather than being brought from Earth as the stated reason for him being left behind when most of the surviving humans left at the end of the first film is because he was an infant too young at the time to be safely put into cryosleep for the return trip to Earth. However, her identity is revealed in the tie-in comic as Paz Socorro, a Scorpion pilot killed during the assault on the Tree of Souls.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: The Metkayina use these to communicate while underwater which confuses Jake's children due to their unfamiliarity with them. Tsireya agrees to teach them.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5ac40681	type	Are We There Yet?
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5ac40681	comment	Are We There Yet?: Tuk asks Neytiri this as they are flying to the Metkayina village.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Scoresby and his crew may be unrepentant about hunting the Tulkun, but they actively avoid killing any of the Tulkun that live within the Metkayina clan's territory because they know that doing so would inevitably provoke a costly conflict with the Metkayina due to the special bond that the Metkayina have with those Tulkun. Unfortunately for everyone on both sides, provoking the Metkayina clan into a conflict is precisely what Quaritch has in mind in order to draw Jake and Neytiri out of hiding. As in the first film, despite their casual cruelty towards the natives Colonel Quaritch and his marines recognize that actually killing non-aggressive Na'vi (besides their targets Jake and Neytiri) represents a major escalation in hostilities and do avoid crossing that particular line, though partially only because of Spider's protests.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The first half of the movie's end credits feature several shots of underwater Pandora wildlife akin to a nature documentary.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The length of time that has passed in-universe between films is never explicitly stated, but it seems to be around 15-20 years as the human orphan, Spider, is stated to have been an infant during the time frame of the first film and is now in his mid-late teens.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5fd20a82	type	SuicidalPacifist
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_5fd20a82	comment	Suicidal Pacifist: The Tulkun refuse to fight even in self-defense, even to save the lives of their mothers with young calves, even though later events demonstrate they could make whaling...uneconomic, if they chose to fight back, going so far as to ostracize any of their own people who do fight.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Some familiar animal species from the first movie like the Thanator , Hammerhead Titanothere, and Hexapede appear in the scene where the RDA arrive on Pandora in their gargantuan ships and burn up the entire forest and all the animals close by.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_62011b2f	type	Centrifugal Gravity
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_62011b2f	comment	Centrifugal Gravity: The ship that brings the marines to Pandora has rotating sections that generate gravity.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Done twice by Quaritch during the big fight scene. First time, he captures Lo'ak, Tuk and Tsireya and holds them captive on his ship, threatening Jake that he'll kill them if he doesn't come on board. Thankfully Payakan intervenes, allowing the Na'vi to fight back. Done again when he captures Kiri and later Tuk and uses them to taunt Jake and Neytiri to come aboard the ship to face him or he'll have them both killed.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Kiri's special connection to Eywa is not explored in this movie and thus presumably set up to be addressed later. also, Spider's decision to save Quaritch could have been addressed at the end of the film but went undiscussed, but will inevitably come up later. At the end Quaritch promises Jake that he will kill his whole family later on and tells Neytiri he owes her a death. Jake makes his own sequel hook when he says at the end that he's learned hiding is not the solution and he has to take the fight to the RDA.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the beginning, the toy that young Lo'ak and Kiri are fighting over is a model of The Great Leonopteryx. One of the RDA's submarines features Nose Art of a female Na'vi making a provocative pose. If viewed closely, Neteyam is shown clutching his chest underwater, before it's revealed that he's been shot.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_630447d4	type	Tongue-Out Insult
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_630447d4	comment	Tongue-Out Insult: Happens twice. Tuk sticks her tongue out at Lo'ak after he mocks her voice. Later, Kiri sticks out her tongue at Aonung after her brothers come to stop Aonung and his friends from bullying her.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Double subverted with Quaritch. He does have a soft spot for his son, Spider, but he claims he doesn't have any real emotional attachment for him (due to being a copy of Quaritch rather than the real deal) uses the boy to both master the ways of the Na'vi and find Jake Sully. However, when Neytiri shows she's not bluffing on killing Spider after Quaritch holds Kiri hostage, Quaritch immediately falters and gives in to her demands. By the end of the film, Quaritch is saddened by Spider's rejection of him, as if he's now realizing what his vengeance is costing him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Like in the first movie, the Na'vi can fly on the back of Ikrans.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Where nearly all humans killed by Na'vi in the first film were shot with arrows, here we are shown much more hand-to-hand combat. We get to see in intimate detail how terrifying it would be to be hunted by nine-foot humanoids with an expert grasp of guerilla warfare, as Jake and Neytiri carve through human marines to reach their children.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: One night, Jake and Neytiri look up in the sky and see what appears to be a new star. He quickly realizes that it is actually RDA ships decelerating in order to enter Pandora's orbit. Lo'ak nearly drowns and finds himself on what appears to be a rocky shoal. It's actually the armored skin of Payakan, a Tulkun.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6aa64734	type	The Power of Family
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6aa64734	comment	The Power of Family: A recurring theme in the movie is that the Sully family are strongest when they work together, even in the worst of times, with Jake stating: Even Quaritch isn't immune to this; despite his claims to the contrary, he feels a definite attachment to his son, Spider, and by making a degree of effort with him, grows stronger by following some Na'vi traditions. Spider, for his part, hates his father, but still feels an obligation towards him, being unable to allow him to die at the end of the movie.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Spider, the orphaned human who has basically become a Na'vi, is the son of Miles Quaritch. A fact that the cloned Quaritch is rather surprised to learn, considering he believed that his son had been sent back to Earth. It's not a surprise to the other characters, including Spider himself, though; Spider is all too aware of who his biological father is.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Neytiri flies into a BRUTAL one when Neteyam is killed.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6bda9a30	comment	At one point, Lo'ak is tricked by Aonung into following him into the hunting grounds of an Akula (the Russian word for shark, also used with regards to Soviet submarine classes), a ferocious mosasaur-like creature that chases after Lo'ak relentlessly and would've successfully devoured him were it not for the timely rescue of Payakan, the aforementioned Tulkun whale.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: When Quaritch and Scoresby find Jake's kids, Quaritch has to remind Scoresby that Jake's kids are no good to him if they are killed after he fires a depth charge into the water.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6e7a3cd	type	Underground Monkey
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6e7a3cd	comment	Underground Monkey: Aside from being a different clan, the Na'vi of the Metkayina Clan have a few physical differences from mainland Na'vi like the Omatikaya. They have lighter, teal, skin to blend in with the water while swimming, fins that run down their forearms to their pinkies for paddling, and broad and flat tails for propulsion. Metkayina children use the fact that the Omatikaya don't have these adaptations to tease and belittle the Sully children.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Japanese dub: Takayuki Sugo (Quaritch) plays with this thrice: He had previously voiced characters who had previously returned back from the dead, in this case Hashirama Senju, and another villainous one (Yhwach) who, on top of that, death comes very cheap for him, and still is, somewhat, at the very end, at least in Yhwach's case. Likewise, and in a rather retroactive way, as the show in question debuted in 2012, Sugo previously voiced Capt. Juzo Okita, a heroic military officer having to fight a war against another race of blue-skinned aliens, except this time, the roles are inverted here. Yūma Uchida (Spider) had previously voiced Rock Howard, a young hero who loaths his own father, the villain, in this film, Quaritch, compared with the one from the game, Geese Howard, both of them who had Back from the Dead, and he doesn't want to be associated in any way with them. Saori Hayami (Kiri) had previous experience voicing either blue-skinned (Hsien-ko) or spiritually-oriented girls (Yurin L'Ciel). Latin American Spanish dub: José Luis Orozco (Quaritch) has previous experience on voicing a Space Marine before, except the last time, it was Buzz Lightyear, a heroic one. Likewise, he also voiced Lord Voldemort, another villain who persistently wants to kill the main protagonist of the film and his loved ones, as well has he had voiced feline-like characters before. Edie Falco as the smug participant in a criminal resource extraction enterprise who relies on her male partner to do the heavy lifting, but is capable of intimidation if necessary.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: Sort of. Quaritch and his squad have each had their memories and personalities copied into an Avatar Body Backup Drive, which gives them the enhanced physiology of the Na'vi and allows them to fight on equal terms with the natives rather than relying on machines and vehicles as they did in the first movie. This also goes for the RDA as a whole. In the first film, the RDA came in as a simple mining operation, and to the extent they were hostile to the Na'vi, it was only to protect their investment. They came well-armed, but it was primarily a defensive operation. This time, the RDA has come back as a colonization project, with an entire armada of spaceships. They are willing to use their engines as makeshift orbital WMDs, and their entire operation geared toward a permanent presence and pacification of the native population. Humanity has taken the gloves off and we are now barely seeing a small glimpse of the full might of the RDA. One must wonder how Jake Sully and co. is going to counter this now.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Quaritch has a point at the end after Neteyam is killed when he tells Jake that he brought this on himself by hiding in the midst of his children and other neutral civilians, thereby failing to actually protect them and instead subjecting them to the risk of becoming collateral damage or worse.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: After Kiri's seizure, Jake impulsively (if understandably) calls Norm and the other scientists to help revive her, instinctively trusting modern medicine over the natural remedies employed by the Na'vi. Since they have to fly in by gunship, the RDA picks up the suspicious movement and is able to track their location to the archipelago, allowing Quaritch to deduce that Jake is hiding there and kicking off the final act. To rub salt in the wound, the scientists are of virtually no help, failing to revive her and only offering a theory as to why she had the seizure in the first place, while Ronal's treatment succeeds in waking her. Jake's decision to seek sanctuary with the Metkayina merely puts a different community in danger, and he of all people should know Earth military culture well enough to understand that humans will follow high-value insurgent leaders to the ends of the world, and for years if it is necessary to hunt them down. Jake figures this out at the very end of the movie. Quaritch provokes Jake into a final, one on one Knife Fight by promising to kill Jake's whole family if Jake does not kill him. Jake should realize this challenge is Schmuck Bait: given that Earth's cloning tech means killing Quaritch does not solve the problem, as Quaritch can always be re-cloned, whereas Jake dying in the battle would render him unable to protect his family. Even Neytiri grasps this dynamic right away, as she says at the beginning of the movie she will kill Quaritch as many times as necessary - she understands death is not permanent for him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_728e34ab	type	Convenient Cranny
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_728e34ab	comment	Convenient Cranny: The Akula that chases Lo'ak can't get hold of him as he hides inside a coral riff which the sea monster cannot follow into.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_767ef8a0	type	Flying Seafood Special
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_767ef8a0	comment	Flying Seafood Special: The Metkayina ride sea creatures (resembling an Echovenator crossed with a gar and a flying fish) called Skimwings or Tsurak, which are capable of gliding flight, similar to a real-world flying fish.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Even though he hates Quaritch, Spider still saves his life at the end because he can't bring himself to leave his father to die, though he does abandon him as soon as Quaritch recovers and rejoins Jake's family.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_7831b670	type	Gaia's Vengeance
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_7831b670	comment	Gaia's Vengeance: Downplayed compared to the previous film. The Ikran in the Hallelujah Mountains swarm any human craft that spends more than ten minutes in their airspace, which is described as an immune response by Ardmore. The fact that their fortress is surrounded by a completely barren perimeter and defended by heavy gun emplacements further demonstrates that they've learned from the native wildlife overrunning their troops the last time.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After Kiri suffers a seizure while communing with a spirit tree and falls into a coma, Jake contacts Norm and Max to come to the Metkayina village in a desperate attempt to help her. While Kiri recovers (more thanks to Ronal's healing), the RDA take note of Norm and Max's ship, allowing them to narrow down the area where the Sullys are hiding out. When Jake deduces the RDA is attacking Tulkuns in order to draw him out he tells the Metkayina to warn the Tulkuns of the situation. Because Payakan, being outcast, is not going to be included in this warning message the kids go out on their own to warn him, which leads directly to their kidnapping and the final battle.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_809cc5a1	type	Not in Kansas Anymore
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_809cc5a1	comment	After being resurrected, Quaritch begins making the same "not in Kansas" speech that he made in the first film.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: The Recombinants are essentially this, their Avatar bodies' size, strength and speed combined with their training as former human soldiers being a force multiplier against the Na'vi. It's too bad for them that their target is just like them but with far more experience as an Avatar than all of them put together, not to mention the ever so deadly Neytiri whose ferocity and archery skills are still unmatched, and also the Na'vi's Home Field Advantage.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: During the climax, Quaritch holds a knife to Kiri's throat while Neytiri does the same to Spider demanding Quaritch to let go of Kiri. Quaritch eventually complies since Even Evil Has Loved Ones.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_857744e7	type	Chew-Out Fake-Out
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_857744e7	comment	Chew-Out Fake-Out: Jake scolds Lo'ak for getting into a fight with the Chief's son and his friends. Afterwards he asks Neteyam how the other boys look and approves when he hears they look a lot worse than Lo'ak.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The Omaticaya are never seen or mentioned again once the Sullies leave them. Aside from Neytiri's, Jake's ikran Bob and the other ikrans more or less vanish after being taken in by the Metkayina.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_86e17259	type	Alas, Poor Yorick
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_86e17259	comment	Alas, Poor Yorick: Quaritch, now returned as an Avatar, does this pose with his own human skull when finding the remains of his original body.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: when the humans return to wreak havoc amongst Jake's adopted tribe, the Omatikaya, he refuses to fight on their behalf, even abandoning his clan leadership position and leaving with his family to live with the Metkainya.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_87b959c5	type	Tarzan Boy
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_87b959c5	comment	Tarzan Boy: Spider grew up in the jungle (albeit not Raised by Wolves), he's always shirtless with a Loincloth, is something of a Wild Child, adopts a Primal Stance sometimes, and manages to keep up with Na'vis when they swing and run in the canopies of Pandora's forests. And he's the son of a white human who died in the jungle, like Tarzan.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: When Jake relinquishes his position as the chieftain of the Omaticaya to go into hiding with his family, the new chieftain puts a wound on his chest in a public ceremony, symbolically killing him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The Akula that chases Lo'ak would've eaten him if the much bigger and stronger Payakan hadn't intervened.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Despite seemingly being killed at the end of the first movie, Quaritch has returned as a Recombinant Avatar. However, both the original Quaritch (in a video log) and Recom Quaritch state that they're technically not the same person, with Recom Quaritch being a clone who has some of the original's DNA and memories. That said, Recom Quaritch certainly acts like the same person for the most part and is addressed as if he were the same person, so it's a bit ambiguous.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8a27f768	type	Space Whale
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8a27f768	comment	Space Whale: Played with. While the whales in question aren't from Earth, instead of living in the vacuum of space, they live in Pandora's oceans.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Ardmore tortures Spider for information with a device that seems to cause pain via visual sensory overload and which can read any thought he forms in his mind.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8a58bb81	type	Meta Guy
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8a58bb81	comment	Meta Guy: When Scoresby shows Quaritch the vial of Amrita he's extracted from the tulkun, Quaritch exclaims "So that's what this is all about!" — a reaction likely shared by the members of the audience who would have been wondering for the last 15 minutes of screentime why these guys are hunting whales, and why General Ardmore didn't already brief Quaritch about this in advance.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8b6de1eb	type	Airborne Aircraft Carrier
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8b6de1eb	comment	Airborne Aircraft Carrier: A downplayed example crossed with Cool Ship in the Sea Dragon, a ground-effect vehicle able to skim just above the water at high speed and able to deploy submarines, boats, and VTOLs. The front half of the hull is even able to open up for deployment and processing.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The RDA's whalers. They mercilessly hunt the sapient tulkun, specifically go after mothers and babies because they're slower and more defenseless, use depth charges to deafen them, shoot them with harpoons that carry inflatable sacs to slow them down and force them near the surface, shoot them with explosive harpoons, all while chasing them until they drop from exhaustion if the aforementioned harpoons don't kill them first. Several whalers take glee in watching the mother tulkun frantically and futilely try to shield her baby with her own body, and they laugh about how the tulkun never fight back due to their cultural taboo about killing and violence. They then don't even use all of the corpses, only taking the age-halting brain fluid and then leaving the body to rot. Did we mention that the tulkun are just as intelligent as humans and Na'Vi, and that the RDA knows this? Seeing Payakan take his revenge against the whalers is nothing short of cathartic. He drowns several, crushes more, breaches atop the whaling flagship, clotheslines the dinghies with their own harpoon cords, tricks the whalers into shooting at their own boats, and rips an arm off Captain Scoresby during the aforementioned clotheslining. Somehow downplayed, because not everyone in the whalers team is a sadistic asshole, and at start they at least try to reason with Quaritch against hunting in the waters of the Metkayina, because attracting the ire of the tribe is obviously not in the best interest of safety and business. However Quaritch eventually brings them all to their doom with a combination of duress and bribery.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8f34a32e	type	Softer and Slower Cover
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_8f34a32e	comment	Softer and Slower Cover: The teaser starts and ends with a piano version of "I See You".
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_906ee78c	type	Alternate Personality Punishment
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_906ee78c	comment	Alternate Personality Punishment: Averted, as there is functionally no difference between the original Quaritch and the Recombinant, the former having backed up his memories just prior to the final battle in the previous film. His first instinct is getting revenge once he realizes Jake probably killed him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: After hunting Tulkun whales and mocking their pacifistic nature, Captain Scoresby gets killed by Payakan, an outcast Tulkun. Bonus points in that Scoresby loses an arm similar to how Payakan lost a fin to the RDA. The look on Scoresby's face when he realizes Payakan's just used the cord from Scoresby's own harpoon to clothesline the dinghy is priceless.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring: The children of the previous film's main characters are major characters in this film. Neytiri and Jake have three biological children, Neteyam, Lo'ak and Tuktirey, and have also adopted Kiri, the daughter of Grace's Avatar (her biological father, if any, is unknown); Spider, a human boy left behind on Pandora, is also their adopted son in all but name (or at least Jake and the kids view him that way) and he's revealed to be the son of Miles Quaritch. Lo'ak, Kiri and Spider get particularly focused upon, each starring in their own subplot and playing a big role in the overarching story.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Jake and Neytiri's oldest son Neteyam is killed rescuing Spider from Quaritch's goons.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_962e6260	type	You Are Grounded!
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_962e6260	comment	You Are Grounded!: Jake grounds Lo'ak, his middle son, near the beginning for joining the train raid and convincing Neteyam to come along against Jake's orders, getting the latter injured and nearly killed. A rare case where "grounded" refers to both the more common "parent punishing a child" meaning and the original, literal sense of not being allowed to fly, as Jake specifically forbids him from flying for a month — though Spider's capture and the Sullys' subsequent journey by ikran to the home of the Metkayina means that it doesn't actually last that long.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_963d947b	type	It's Personal with the Dragon
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_963d947b	comment	It's Personal with the Dragon: Downplayed. Quaritch develops a slight grudge against Neytiri for being personally responsible for his death, but he likewise remembers that Jake betrayed him and is the primary target regardless. The closest he comes to singling Neytiri out is when the whole family is there and he claims to "owe [her] a death," but makes no active attempt to kill her. Played straighter in the other direction, though. Quaritch is a subordinate of General Ardmore, but Sully has far less emotional investment in defeating her than he does in his enmity with Quaritch.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: General Frances Ardmore is commanding the RDA's military, and she's the one who gives Quaritch the mission to find and kill Jake. That said, Ardmore remains out of action during the film, allowing Quaritch to continue as The Heavy.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: When Spider, Lo'ak, and Kiri enter the lab, Spider feels the need to bring up how unfair it is that the Na'vi teens can breathe oxygen for a few hours while a human like him can only breathe Pandora's air for a few seconds. If he's been living with the Na'vi for years, they would all already know this.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_98c2a8f2	type	Humans Are Cthulhu
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_98c2a8f2	comment	Humans Are Cthulhu: Even more so than the first film. Imagine aliens coming to your world in colossal indescribable metallic rods that shine like artificial stars; once these objects land, their engines prove to be so hot that it vaporises kilometres upon kilometres of land in ways incomprehensible to your kind. Once they have settled down, they immediately began hunting down your whale-friends, drilling holes in their skulls for reasons you do not understand and leaving their corpses to rot.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_99c49c21	type	Villains Blend in Better
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_99c49c21	comment	Villains Blend in Better: Subverted with Quaritch. His Na'vi language skills are described to be that of a 3-year old, and he doesn't bother to hide the fact he's a Recombinant from the RDA, with human clothing and weapons. With that said, Quaritch is a fast learner and he manages to tame an Ikran in one day where Jake had to partake in a ritual that lasted for a month to tame his.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Tulkuns' hides are so thick that emplaced machine guns just ricochet off. The hunters use rocket-propelled harpoons to penetrate them, and even then need they to target weaker points like the underbelly, fins, or mouth.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9a42558d	type	Animal Nemesis
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9a42558d	comment	Animal Nemesis: Inverted. Payakan the Tulkun, a member of an intelligent but non-technological species of Space Whale, has far more reason to be angry with Scoresby the Space Whaler than Scoresby does with him. It's just business for Scoresby, and although he does appear to enjoy the job, it's not indicated whether he even recognizes Payakan specifically.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Ardmore is in charge but doesn't do much of anything beyond her character-establishing scene where she tortures a child.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9c20a410	type	Knife Fight
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9c20a410	comment	Quaritch offers Jake the chance to kill him in a mano a mano Knife Fight to protect the family from his menace but this is a phony offer given that Quaritch can be reproduced if he is killed.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The RDA are dismissive of the Na'vi, only acknowledging them as lesser beings because of their humanoid appearance. The tulkun, which are not humanoid at all and resemble whales more than anything else, get no such regard. RDA hunts them with no remorse, extracting their brain fluid to make an anti-aging drug, and happily take advantage of their intelligence and pacifistic culture to slaughter them.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9c842299	type	Weaponized Exhaust
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9c842299	comment	Weaponized Exhaust: A brutal example. In the first film, the ISV Venture Star dared not to approach the Pandoran atmosphere due to the Roche limit. Their new ships seem to have been upgraded their ships to fly in-atmo now, allowing them to use their anti-matter engines as makeshift planetary blowtorches, completely vaporising what's left of the Omatikaya Clan and forcing the survivors to relocate into the Hallelujah Mountains while at the same time dropping a troop transport to establish a beachhead.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Jake finds Neteyam injured on the ground after the train raid goes awry, he first checks his son's back before carrying him to safety. He also scolds Lo'ak that he almost got his older brother killed. In the third act, Neteyam gets shot, and Jake checks his back only to see that the shot has pierced through his back, meaning the wound is fatal and there's no saving him. Lo'ak later blames himself for Neteyam's death, as Neteyam was only trying to keep him out of harm's way.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Supplementary material for the first movie established that the RDA had a complement of ten ISV Venture Star ships as part of their Earth to Pandora supply chain. When humanity returns in the sequel their massive invasion force is exactly ten ships—they sent their entire fleet for an all-out reclamation of Pandora.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9f679e25	type	Future Copter
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_9f679e25	comment	Future Copter: The RDA uses the Kestrel and Seawasp as more advanced and deadlier successors to the Samson and Scorpion, respectively, from the first film.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Neteyam's last words before he Dies Wide Open are "Dad, I..."
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a23b07cd	type	Ordered Apology
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a23b07cd	comment	Ordered Apology: Jake ordered Lo'ak to apologize to Aonung for starting a fight, even though it was Aonung who instigated the brawl by making fun of Lo'ak's sister. Though it was slightly subverted with Jake's next line. "By the way, you win, right?"
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Neytiri lets out a series of Nos when Neteyam dies.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: In addition to evoking the Avatar program of the first film, Kiri, is born of a human woman without a father, and having power over the lifeforms of Pandora, is pretty much an Avatar of Eywa herself.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: When Jake, Neytiri, Ronal, and Tonowari come across the murdered pod of Tulkuns, the pouring rain and gray sky complement the sad moment.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a9aafffe	type	Yo-Yo Plot Point
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_a9aafffe	comment	Yo Yo Plot Point: Quaritch tries to force Jake to turn himself in by threatening Jake's children four times over the course of the movie. Tuk even lampshades it at one point by crying, "I can't believe I'm tied up again!"
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_aa938aad	type	Remote Body
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_aa938aad	comment	Remote Body: By the time of the film, only Norm uses an Avatar body. Jake's mind has been transferred permanently into his Avatar body by Eywa making him a Na'vi, Dr. Grace Augustine has passed and the Recombinants (including Colonel Quaritch) are autonomous Avatar clones of dead human marines.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Spider reluctantly decides to save the unconscious Quaritch from the watery grave Jake had condemned him to. Once Quaritch comes to, however, Spider makes it very clear that he will not be returning to the RDA with him.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The predatory fish that pursues Lo'ak gives up on an already bleeding prey to go after Lo'ak, breaking through the reef trying to get him and waiting for him to need to surface for breath.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: During the early rescue mission in the forest, Neteyam kills a Recom soldier from behind when the latter is about to shoot Neytiri in the head.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b1c2112	comment	Tracking Device: One way for the Recoms to keep Spider in check is a tracker device they implemented in his face mask which would render any escape attempt futile. Scoresby's crew harpoons tulkun with trackers so they can stay on their tails.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: Several sea creatures can be seen in the movie. The Metkayina ride Plesiosaur-like creatures, the Ilu, and teach to the Sully children to do the same. Lo'ak bonds with a Tulkun Whale, and later hitches a ride on it. At one point, Lo'ak is tricked by Aonung into following him into the hunting grounds of an Akula (the Russian word for shark, also used with regards to Soviet submarine classes), a ferocious mosasaur-like creature that chases after Lo'ak relentlessly and would've successfully devoured him were it not for the timely rescue of Payakan, the aforementioned Tulkun whale.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b229059d	type	Tail Slap
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b229059d	comment	Tail Slap: One of Aonung's friends uses his thick paddle-like tail to hit Lo'ak in the face when a fight breaks out between the group of boys.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: A ritualistic, symbolic version of the trope is invoked in Na'vi tradition. If an Olo'eyktan abdicates, as Jake does, the ceremony involves their successor giving them a shallow cut across the chest, symbolically "killing" them to take their place.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b3dce477	type	Recurring Camera Shot
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b3dce477	comment	Recurring Camera Shot: The eclipse shot shows up when Jake's children are in great danger.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b454d74b	type	Sixth Ranger Traitor
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b454d74b	comment	Sixth Ranger Traitor: Spider is not a Sully, not even a Na'vi, but he pals around with them almost as though he's part of the family. Then he is taken by the human invaders and he collaborates with them, acting as translator and giving Quaritch information on how to tame a mount. In the end it appears he's going to be a full member of the sully family and is even treated as such, but he saves the life of the Sullys' hated enemy, Quaritch, even though this Quaritch is not even his actual sperm donor but just a clone of him, even though this Quaritch has been kidnapping and trying to kill various members of the Sully family and has promised to kill the entire family in future. Likely this action, and his failure to disclose it, will wind up as a Sequel Hook.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: It's subtle, but the word "RESEARCH" is clearly stenciled on the side of the whaling ship - a clear shot at the Japanese whaling fleet that does the same thing to their ships to evade the IWC whaling moratorium via its "research harvesting" loophole. The mount for the harpoon gun also has a Japanese label on it.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b8418cc7	type	MidflightWaterTouching
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b8418cc7	comment	Midflight Water Touching: An interesting variant where Lo'ak on his first ride with Payakan touches the surface of the water from below.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Neytiri has a reduced presence in this film, with her being absent for long stretches in favor of the younger generation's stories. That being said, she still has many important moments. Neytiri's mother Mo'at and the rest of the Omatikaya clan have less screen time than they did in the first movie and do not show up again after the Sully family take their journey past the ocean. In the previous movie, Norm was a major supporting character while Max had a pivotal role. Here, they're limited to brief appearances and a couple of lines each.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Dropped by a frustrated Spider near the end of the film when he finds himself unable to simply leave Quaritch to drown.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bd39588d	type	Desecrating the Dead
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bd39588d	comment	Desecrating the Dead: Downplayed. As part of the plan to lure Jake out, the whalers leave a killed Tulkun alpha cow and her calf to rot in the water. The Metkayina, who are close friends with her pod, are utterly furious and Neteyam only barely manages to talk them down from attacking immediately. While they agree to stand down so that the other Tulkun can escape, the capture of the Sully children and their own puts an end to that plan and they attack the RDA en masse in the subsequent confrontation.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Quaritch gives one to Jake before they fight underwater.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: General Ardmore tries to torture Spider for information on Jake Sully and the Omaticaya, attempting to get him to simply think about their whereabouts so the brain scan can extract it from him. It gets to the point where Quaritch has to stop them before Spider's brain is damaged and they still get nothing, something that he is impressed by. Zigzagged, as it is the threat of being handed back to the torturers which makes Spider agree to ride out with Quaritch, which leads to him collaborating, acting as translator, and developing a bond with Quaritch which leads to him saving Quaritch's life so Quaritch can continue to hunt the Sully family.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: For a non-horror film it has quite a few of these. The Recombinants coming out of the trees to capture Jake's kids. After Lo'ak passes out and nearly drowns, he wakes up on what appears to be a rock, that is until water suddenly bursts out from a blowhole, revealing the "rock" to be a tulkun (essentially a whale). When Tuk surfaces alone in the air pocket of an underwater plant, a submersible is stalking her with tense music, which then stops and she breathes a sigh of relief. Suddenly... Neteyam surfaces next to her!
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c0d106a8	type	Wrecked Weapon
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c0d106a8	comment	Wrecked Weapon: At the end of her rampage, Neytiri realizes that her father Eytukan's bow was shattered in the fighting.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Quaritch and Ardmore, respectively, to Spider.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: "Monkey Boy", Kiri's nickname for Spider, has an element of this, when you consider that the difference between apes and monkeys is that the latter have tails, something that Spider as a human does not have, but Kiri as a Na'vi-Avatar hybrid does.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: When they're being targeted by RDA, the Sullys head for the territory of the Sea Clans, which encompasses thousands of islands of unknown territory. It works temporarily to keep them hidden, with only Jake contacting Norm and Max giving it away.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c59d9a4b	type	Half-Breed Discrimination
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c59d9a4b	comment	Half-Breed Discrimination: Jake and Neytiri's children face some of this; some members of Metkayina refer to them as having "demon blood" and not being "real Na'vi" because at least one of their parents is an Avatar and visibly passed on some human traits to them, to the point Ronal is initially reluctant to let them stay in their village and some of the younger villagers bully them over it. The RDA also derogatively refer to them as half-breeds.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Lo'ak has braids that hang down over his right eye. James Cameron insisted on this as a reference to John Connor's hairstyle from Terminator 2.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Kiri is a Na'vi-Avatar hybrid who was mysteriously born from Grace's brain-dead Avatar and has the most spiritual connection to Eywa and all life in Pandora out of all Na'vi, quickly adapting to the watery environment while Sully's biological children struggle and commanding the wildlife with ease, even subconsciously as the grass moves in sync with her breath as she sleeps.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_cacbab76	type	Wake Up Fighting
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_cacbab76	comment	Wake Up Fighting: A confused Quaritch starts a fight in the operation room after waking up as an Avatar.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: Subverted. During the final battle, Captain Scoresby attempts to fire one of his explosive-tipped harpoons into Payakan's open mouth, but he closes it just in time, and the weapon merely glances off his hide, only to then hit Scoresby's whaling flagship.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_cbf07961	type	Body Backup Drive
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_cbf07961	comment	Sort of. Quaritch and his squad have each had their memories and personalities copied into an Avatar Body Backup Drive, which gives them the enhanced physiology of the Na'vi and allows them to fight on equal terms with the natives rather than relying on machines and vehicles as they did in the first movie.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ccc0d531	type	Settling the Frontier
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ccc0d531	comment	Settling the Frontier: The RDA have returned in full force to Pandora in part because Earth is becoming inhospitable to human life, and the RDA is now tasked with making Pandora a permanent colony for humanity to resettle on.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Zigzagged. On one hand, the renewed conflict between humans and Na'vi results in far less damage and loss of life for either when compared to the first film, with the climactic battle only involving a single whaling ship and maybe a platoon of Na'vi, the latter of which barely take casualties. On the other hand, the Sully family is hit much harder than the last time since an interplanetary ship at the beginning vaporized a large portion of the jungle (fauna included) with a Weaponized Exhaust and because, well, they're a family now instead of just two adult warriors going into battle. Unfortunately for them, this involves the Death of a Child when their eldest is killed in battle.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Scoresby gets his arm severed by the cable of his own harpoon, shortly before his death.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d043100b	type	Nose Art
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d043100b	comment	One of the RDA's submarines features Nose Art of a female Na'vi making a provocative pose.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d162969e	type	Rescue Equipment Attack
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d162969e	comment	Rescue Equipment Attack: In the middle of the battle, Spider seizes the opportunity to sabotage the bad guys' ship. He uses a fire extinguisher to knock out a pilot, then shoves the power lever forward and smashes it with the fire extinguisher so they can't turn it off. Sure enough, this makes the ship crash on the rocks.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Zig-Zagged. Quaritch and the other Recoms don't seem to treat their ikrans noticeably worse than the Na'Vi do theirs (combat with the ikran is a standard part of the iknimaya ritual), but the RDA whaling division is merciless towards the tulkun, going out of their way to draw out the hunt. Notably, the scenes with the ikrans caused a minor uproar in the fandom upon the trailers' release: Quaritch, Spider, and the other Recoms had been edited out of the scene, but their ikrans' militaristic, utilitarian Kevlar saddles had not. The speculative biologists within the fandom all immediately came up with increasingly horrifying theories for how the RDA might have been controlling the ikrans: beating them into submission, shock collars, drugs, controlled starvation, and mind-controlling devices were all thrown around. It was a mild surprise when the ikrans were tamed with a somewhat-accurate iknimaya process instead (barring Quaritch punching his ikran in the face during the combat portion).
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Quaritch offers Jake the chance to kill him in a mano a mano Knife Fight to protect the family from his menace but this is a phony offer given that Quaritch can be reproduced if he is killed. Lo'ak lets the Metkayina bullies lure him out beyond the reef after they suggest they should be asking his brother to come out hunting instead.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Scoresby fires an explosive harpoon at Payakan's open mouth, intending to Feed It a Bomb. Payakan closes his mouth in time, causing the harpoon to glance off his hide and strike the RDA whaling flagship instead. Later, he fires another harpoon at Payakan, who then wraps the cord around one of his echoreceptor horns and clotheslines Scoresby's dinghy, causing Scoresby to be thrown from the boat and killed.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: Na'vi of all ages and sexes are almost completely naked, save for loincloths and in some cases super minimal chest coverings. Humans in avatar bodies tend to wear more, evidently as a cultural value, even as they try to fit in.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d7345a5d	type	Let No Crisis Go to Waste
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d7345a5d	comment	Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Even with Earth becoming unsustainable, this hasn't stopped the RDA from making some extra money on the side by hunting down tulkuns for their "Amrita" to sell to wealthy clients back home.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d935ee2f	type	Innocent Blue Eyes
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_d935ee2f	comment	Innocent Blue Eyes: All Metkayina have these, as opposed to the Supernatural Gold Eyes of the forest Na'vi.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_da32aec9	type	Fake Ultimate Mook
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_da32aec9	comment	Fake Ultimate Mook: Quaritch's Recom marines are much stronger and faster than any human troops and able to operate without support deep in Pandora territory, but in an actual fight against the much more experienced Jake and Neytiri they get taken out almost as quickly as the regular RDA grunts, with only Quaritch able to really hold his own against them in direct combat. Even when fighting aboard the RDA whaling ship where they have more of a home-field advantage and backup from regular RDA troops, the Recoms besides Quaritch get wiped out fairly effortlessly. Only Quaritch himself really gives the heroes a hard time.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_db0bcba6	type	Aesoptinum
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_db0bcba6	comment	Aesoptinum: The new phlebotinum that prompts human economic activity on Pandora is a substance that is used to make an anti-aging drug for humans. It is drilled from the brains of sapient, pacifist whales after they have been tortured to death in front of their young calves (because mothers with calves are easier prey).
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Twice with Jake and Neytiri. Once to save their children from Quaritch's Recom unit in the first act, and then a second time during the climax... this time, to avenge Neteyam's death as well.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Lo'ak and Tsireya, as well as Spider and Kiri, are unusually attached to each other. Nothing seems to come out of this by the end of this movie, however, though there are of course several sequels in the works.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Ney'tiri is shown in flashback, heavily pregnant with her and Jake's daughter while hunting. She's far enough along that she has to change how she holds her bow across her torso because her baby bump is getting in the way. Ronal is the authoritative, no-nonsense co-leader of the Metkayina tribe and is visibly pregnant; during the climatic battle her mate says she should stay behind due to her condition, but she just brandishes a spear and insists she's coming. She demonstrates herself to be a capable fighter.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_dd22df26	type	Hands-On Approach
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_dd22df26	comment	Hands-On Approach: A rather innocent version when Tsireya helps Lo'ak practice slow breathing by touching his chest with her hand which has the opposite effect of making his heart race.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ded22623	type	Combat Compliment
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ded22623	comment	Combat Compliment: For all his nastiness, even Scoresby is not beyond expressing a remark of admiration for the incredible toughness demonstrated by the Tulkun he and his team so viciously murdered.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Unlike the first film, most of the dialogue in this one is in English, which is shown in the prologue to be because Jake Sully became fluent in Na'vi during the Time Skip. As he narrates that the language finally clicked for him, the dialogue shifts from Na'vi to English mid-sentence and stays that way. The language is still used in scenes told from the human characters' perspective and for a few instances of You Are the Translated Foreign Word.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e26465db	type	Backhanded Apology
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e26465db	comment	Backhanded Apology: After Jake tells Lo'ak to go and apologize to Arnook, the chief's son, Lo'ak approaches Arnook with the stealthy line: I'm sorry I hit you. Beat So many time.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The first film was no slouch in the department of remarkable visual effects, but this movie ups the ante in this regard, being even more realistically detailed. This YouTube video details some of the graphical differences. The reflections of Neytiri's eyelashes in her eyes are visible, and hair follicles and skin can be seen on her face. Jake's Avatar skin is far less glossy than it was in the prior film in mid-distance shots. The vines connecting the Hallelujah mountains are lit in brighter settings that show off incredible detail, and there isn't any usage of clouds or fog to cover the distant details. When Ronal uses the Na'vi equivalent of acupuncture to bring Kiri out of her coma, there is a fine peach fuzz visible on Kiri's abdomen.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Spider delivers this to Quaritch after saving the latter from drowning, denouncing him for his cruelty before returning to the Sullies.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Quaritch repeatedly addresses Jake by his old rank of Corporal, making it clear he sees the latter as little more than a deserter.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: Ardmore explains to Quaritch that Earth is dying and the intent is to make Pandora suitable for colonization, so they won't be retreating like last time.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e5bb2929	type	Super Not-Drowning Skills
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e5bb2929	comment	Super Not-Drowning Skills: Na'vi will pass out and eventually die of anoxia if they hold their breath too long, but they don't seem to reflexively inhale water when they run out of oxygen, as humans do. This makes it easy for both Lo'ak and Quaritch to be rescued and recover quickly after they become unconscious underwater.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e662a850	type	Villainous Parental Instinct
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e662a850	comment	Quaritch is sanguine about kidnapping and killing children, although he reaches his limit when it comes to his own child.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e79a02a8	type	VideoWill
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e79a02a8	comment	Video Will: Colonel Quaritch recorded one just before the final battle in the first film, telling his future Recombinant Avatar that it was just in case he got killed, which "isn't gonna happen."
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e8123047	type	Borrowed Biometric Bypass
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_e8123047	comment	Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Part of the reason Quaritch and his squad are revived as Avatars is because it's believed this will allow them to bypass the "immune response" demonstrated by the planet whenever humans move in large groups. Considering they move around in the mountains for extended periods, the theory seems to have panned out.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ea382fea	type	Wait Here
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ea382fea	comment	Wait Here: When Jake and Neytiri move out to rescue their children captured by the Recoms in the forest, his older son Neteyam wants to join but Jake tells him to stay behind. Naturally Neteyam follows them and eventually gets to rescue his mother.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: In case it wasn't blatantly obvious Aonung and his friends are setting Lo'ak up for failure, the shot of them smirking after they send him into the open ocean should do it.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Avatar: The Way of Water / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Time is running out and Quaritch has Jake's kids and a couple of their friends... and then Payakan the tulkun suddenly leaps out of the water to attack the humans just before the kill order is sounded.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_f1029720	comment	Rising Water, Rising Tension: During the climax, the heroes have to traverse a sinking boat and are constantly threatened by drowning.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: We see several nasty agendas this time from the RDA: Bridgehead is now a settlement with the goal of pacifying/exterminating the locals to make way for human colonists. Their very arrival on the planet does terrible harm. Quaritch is seeking revenge for the death of his human self, and thinks nothing of torching a Nav'i village for not knowing Jake's location or taking Jake's kids hostage to draw him out. The whalers hunt the Tulkun for their brain fluid, despite recognizing them as equally intelligent and emotional creatures, because it halts human aging.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Neytiri threatens Spider's life and even cuts him across the chest in the film's climax to make Quaritch release Kiri. No one reprimands her for it afterwards. Even Spider doesn't seem to hold it against her.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Jake is harsh on his sons after they screwed up during the opening train raid. He later reveals to his wife under tears that he thought he lost them.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: Several years since the ending of the first film, Jake and Neytiri raised a family and live their lives in blissful peace, until humanity returns to Pandora with a much larger fleet, with the goal of being here to stay this time instead of just mining for resources. Just their ships landing burned down much of the Omaticayan homeland, forcing Jake, Neytiri, their kids and the tribe to flee into the mountains and wage a guerrila warfare against the humans. Then it gets worse when a certain Colonel comes Back from the Dead in a new Na'vi body and is eager for a payback.
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Avatar: The Way of Water / int_fbe24ca5	comment	Discovering Your Own Dead Body: Quaritch, revived as a Recombinant, scopes the scene of the climactic battle from the first film, eventually finding his downed mech suit and his human self's remains within. After watching the dash cam footage to confirm who killed him, Quaritch takes the time to crush the lifeless skull of his former self before leaving.
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